skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These days it isn't as big a deal, but back then until about 2010 the more expensive machine really made a huge difference. In a time where most people were still running pentium 4s, we had quad core machines to develop on. Compiling was 4x faster than the average computer sold.

These days a 3 year old computer really doesn't make that much difference.
My opinion is that this test is useless at the least and dangerous at the most. It provides information that in almost the totality of the cases no one can correctly interpretate and transform in actionable health advice. Not scientists, not doctors, much less consumers.

But it is sold as a cutting edge scientific resource that will improve your life. It wont. Not even increasing the chance that you might avoid something somehow, that's the fallacy.

For our level of knowledge regarding causality in biology and genetics, I believe this test is as good as buying your astrological map.
Because they are often started by a small group (usually just one) of people who are passionate about the subject enough to work on it in their spare time, so they have stronger personal involvement. That provides the drive, but also the side-effect of personal drama when things go wrong.

Larger institutions usually setup protections against just that kind of drama, but often with the side-effect of reducing motivation.
Thinking of taking venture capital? Don’t (2005)
Our source for that was this post: https://quizlet.com/blog/quizlet-cloud-spanner (SQL Dialect)

Maybe that's no longer the case?
You could automate out half of feedback by automating a comment that says "add more tests"

Even if you added tons of tests, you'll get add more tests. It almost makes more sense to write tests and hold them, so you can respond with them.
That would never occur to me - I'm more interested on what would change in political views if more people used LSD. Fear-driven politics have been central to many changes in the past years. Maybe LSD could have spared us.
How does the AWS credit work? This, for me, is the biggest selling point of the whole shabang.
- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop
- HEADLINE: GUI usable for office workers, migrated from other operating systems (you know the one)
- DESCRIPTION: quite a few years ago I installed Ubuntu 10.04 for some small office workers starting their business. All requirements were internet access, email, work with office documents (printing and scanning) and PDFs. It took less time than I expected for them to adapt to Ubuntu. But when Unity became default, I migrated them to Linux Mint, just because of more familiar user interface.
I hope Ubuntu 18.04 brings back classic UI option with stability and device support.
> And even more offensive.

Seems like we get the same vibes from each other; I have to point out though that I'm actually trying to be civil here. I honestly can't see where you are getting various of your implications from - I can't agree with half of what you state I'm implying here. Intended offensive statements would look different than that one.

So be it - we most likely both have more productive things to do. Maybe we'll have a more constructive discussion on something else someday.
It's pretty much there in the letter.

Leah had exclusive control of libreboot. Leah is transgender. The FSF fired someone who happened to be transgender. Leah accused the FSF of doing it because they were transgender. Leah pulled libreboot out of the FSF, burned various bridges by calling people names and retained exclusive control of libreboot, making statements in the project's name.

Apparently she changed her mind and libreboot has transitioned into a more democratic project and she's sorry for what she did and cites personal issues which the letter spells out as gender dysphoria and substance abuse.

A quick googling shows that both the FSF and Leah have mostly refrained from naming names when talking about who got fired but Leah explicitly called out individual members of the FSF (which she apologises for in the letter, indicating she no longer thinks her accusations hold any water). There are also various posts from libreboot contributors complaining about Leah having effectively locked them out of the project and apparently the entire ordeal didn't exactly result in quality software releases (which is to be expected).

tl;dr: maintainer with exclusive access has personal problems, lashes out against FSF, takes project hostage, works personal problems out over the next six months, hands control over project to the other contributors and repents.
The fact that reason was able to take hold and get things back on track actually gives me more hope for this project.

Hopefully this be a lesson to others as well.
If we were in the same room right now, I'd give you, Evan, and Michael all a big hug. We'd all feel awkward afterwards. It would be worth it.

But seriously, thanks for giving it some consideration. Fingers crossed.
Compared to the current situation, where you have to study for a month to answer "Cracking the coding interview" questions, yes, this would be a much better scenario.
I am not sure. In Turkish, for instance:

bakimliliastiramadiklarimizdanmisiniz?

It's a single word. It means: Are you one of those people who we tried to convert to take care of themselves better but failed to do so?

The language proposed reminds me in some ways to Turkish :)
You're going to do all your development work on this Pentium 4 with 1GB running Visual Basic 6 and Windows XP, with a single 19" monitor. Via RDP.
You do raise an interesting point: would there be any value in emulating (some of) the subjective effects of a psychedelic to 'increase' blinding. Perhaps have all study participants wear VR headsets piping in video from their surroundings, then randomly assign a 'trippy' filter across groups so that some of the placebo group might (mistakenly) think that they were tripping?
We incorporated using Stripe Atlas during the beta.

If anyone has any questions, feel free to ask. Would be happy to provide another perspective on incorporation.
Dunno! Would encourage SSB users to post the request to https://github.com/keybase/keybase-issues/issues/518.
> end up in public purview, sometimes not even among the workers in a company

I agree. The exact same thing happens on closed corporate projects, it just happens behind closed doors. You're right - sometimes a co-founder gets pushed out for political reasons, and even within the company most people don't know what the whole story is.
It's an obvious reference to Genesis 22:17.
Thanks. We changed the URL from https://www.ft.com/content/c5a5eb26-ab85-39c7-9dcf-2bf825c2f....
Amazing feat for the PICO-8 :)

I wonder why sometimes the view is blurred, and sometimes it's sharp (looks like some post-processing on the image)?
> I strongly disagree with this. Everyone with more than 2 users in their organization can benefit from AD/LDAP support, if it is easy to set up and administer.

You will always need a server. And aside from QNAP NASes (which aren't cheap) there are no "set it up and it runs" options which are free and easy to maintain.

Cheapest option, hardware wise, would be a RPi but it will melt when you try to use it as a filer. Next option is a PC, which adds at the minimum 200W of 24/7 power requirement, not exactly cheap given today's electricity prices.

Software-wise you have the option of MS Small Business Server which clocks in at 200€ but definitely requires a PC plus someone who can set it up, and a Linux variant with Samba which is free but definitely requires someone skilled.

Then there comes the maintenance - with Windows there shouldn't be a problem with regular updates, but with Linux... not so much.

The maintenance and the energy consumption of a server is what keeps small businesses off AD.
The US embargo of Japan wasn't a blockade and wasn't really an aggressive move. It was a move to not participate in unchecked expansion of Japan by brutal means. Not giving into the whims of monsters isn't provoking them in the slightest.
> Usenet back then was spam free and you could usually end up talking to the creators of whatever you're discussing. I rather miss it.

I still use usenet! It's not quite what it used to be, but you should check it out.
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Lyft Said to Raise $500M in New Round of Funding
I don't know what any contracts say, or may have said in the past, but the Uber website makes it clear that drivers are paid a pretty fixed rate based on time and distance. I'm sure there's some extra details around the high demand times and all that, but there's no mention of getting paid a fixed %.

https://www.uber.com/info/how-much-do-drivers-with-uber-make...
The minus the Uber Fee sprinkled all over that page makes it marketing.
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HBM is ECC by default, so that distinction is slowly vanishing.
Spent a whopping $300 each to max out the RAM (16GB) and get an SSD for each of the 3 developers we had. Improved their productivity so much. It previously took almost 2 minutes just to open a project.
Of course gold is not magical, I don't clam it is.

The coin form is just for exchange, gold itself is the base money.

> The IOU, if not attached to a specific name, is just as good and exchange medium as that coin.

This is where you are wrong. Exchanging a IOU of a third party increases the trust relationship to a third party. That is useful to do, and that's why banking exists, but it is not inherent or required.

> Even better perhaps because the value is not in the material itself, but in what it can be exchanged for.

Yes. But again. It is still bound to the base money. Look into how historical note issuing banking system work, there are great resources on this. The banks exchange the gold when they get other notes. Then they further abstract and establish clearing houses that do multiparty exchange.

Note here that the relationship always grow complex and more trust is involved, but it is all based on the soundness of the underlying base system.

The IOUs, banking and all are simple not required for something to be money.
Back in the days there were backroom deals to get Adobe on Apple platform. Steve would meet with Adobe executives and trade them cash and offshore stock (untraceable, of course) so that they would port to Apple. All the development for Apple was fully funded for Adobe. In case it isn't obvious, Adobe could choose to support only Windows and do just fine - eliminating development and support costs for the Apple platform. Thus, bribing the rich and greedy became the effective technique.
Lyft could at least expand into Canada, but it looks like even there Uber is running into regulatory issues. They've been wise to let Kalanick's crew run headlong and act as the guinea pigs for the differences in local laws and market conditions around the world.
"Oh Amygdala, Oh Amygdala... Have mercy on the poor bastard!"
Yeah, you are right. My bad.

I would probably think not due to KYC, etc.
Anybody knows cheaper alternatives to Luminati/large scale proxy pools?
Need access to a large network of IPs for large-scale scrapping (hundreds of millions of pages per month). Do you know any cheaper alternatives to Luminati.io?
Each message includes a signature by its author of its content, so it can't be falsified (unless the author's key is compromised)
Reminds me of an EconTalk podcast on epidemiology.
http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2015/11/robert_aronowit.htm...
I fear there'd have to be some sort of deal-with-the-devil thing to make that happen. Is getting subscription based desktop software into the Linux ecosystem a good precedent to set? Maybe there are already examples of it but certainly not at the Adobe CS scale. I think Ubuntu could better serve the community by paying talented developers to work on an alternative.
No, in terms of Return on Investment, it just isn't worth it for me.

Noone cares if a large query takes 10 seconds or 11 seconds with ActiveRecord enough to blow developer time on it.
Kubos Raises $1.65M to Expand Satellite Software Platform
Distributed count(distinct) with HyperLogLog on Postgres
Jason Seifer has Died
You get points for taking his background into account, but don't forget, Joel was an advocate (and AFAICT, real practitioner) of other "tools" like comfy chairs, big monitors, and quiet workspaces: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/09/07/a-field-guide-to-d...
Uber drivers get paid based on time and mileage. What the passenger pays is irrelevant. So the only thing that would matter is if the driver's tachometer and clock don't match up with Uber's.
The confusing part is, if the war was ended indecisively then how is that going to prevent future wars? Brush fire wars plagued Europe for centuries until WWII came about and everybody realized that war was too dangerous to toy with anymore.

The people might have been different, but I don't see how an indecisive WWI prevents another border skirmish from getting out of hand 20 years later. Maybe it would have been better for the Jews, but even that's iffy given the generally hostile attitudes of continental Europeans to Jews and Gypsies.
Very cool, well done!
Yeah, I've read that post, and I have no idea where it gives the impression that we don't support interactive transactions. What paragraph are you looking at?

Could you be referring to the fact that we make you do writes via a mutation API rather than DML? Obviously that has no impact on interactivity...
I got myself tested years ago with 23andMe and you do indeed get ancestry reports. I also get 'pings' every so often from likely distant relatives (3rd-5th cousins if anything).

One lady had been adopted as an infant and was desperately seeking any sort of relative who could tell her something about her origins. I told her what I knew about the families I am descended from but man did I feel bad for her. We were likely distantly related and I'm not sure my info helped, but that would be a pretty remarkable upside to genetic testing for people who want answers.
>Do you use source control?

>Do new candidates write code during their interview?

The author suggests removing these two rules because they're ubiquitous, that everyone does them.

I hate to inform the author, but he's sadly mistaken. There are plenty of companies still out there that aren't doing these things, especially with interviews. Also, I think the ubiquity of them is a reason to include them, because it helps draw attention to those companies that are deficient in some way.
Well a lot of it is supply and demand plus a little for elective procedures. Orthopedics is so high because there aren't enough doctors. These days all elderly get hip and knee replacements. In the past, they would have just used a wheelchair. Add to that all the sports injuries when chronic over training has 12 year olds getting MCL and rotator cuff surgeries.

Also, if you look at Pediatrics and Family Medicine, one could argue that 99% of what they do should be done by CPRN or other highly trained nurses. We don't need MDs to look in a kids ear for three seconds to diagnose an ear infection and prescribe an anti-biotic. This is also one of the things we should be doing to help remove cost from our health care system. MDs in this setting should be at a 10x1 ratio and be there for difficult cases and to oversee.
I've started avoiding any thread on Reddit where LSD comes up.

People talk about taking a milligram of it and walking around the city enjoying fractals while their friend repeats the phrase "I see Candyland" for 12 hours straight, and their other friend thought he was a chicken and started flapping his arms, "bok bok bok!" And everyone in the comments laughs and says "yeah, isn't acid crazy?"

With defenses like "drugs affect everyone differently!" or "acid is known to cause insanity, albeit rarely!" invoked whenever you roll your eyes.

Too cringeworthy for me. Starting to see it on HN now as well.
Protect themselves from what? Uber is under no obligation to charge you any amount based off of route, zone, etc. They can charge you whatever they see fit and pay their drivers whatever they see fit. If you don't like the charge, don't take the Uber! If the driver doesn't like the fare, don't accept it!

In case you haven't noticed this is how ALL middle men make money. They charge more to the end user than they pay for a product.

Even your contracting example makes sense. You pay for a deliverable. Does it matter that it costs them less to get it to you and pocket the difference? Nope. That principle is the backbone of all commerce. You charge more than it costs you to deliver.
I'm the only person in my family that owns a desktop myself, but my group of friends is mostly a bunch of desktop users since one of our primary use cases is PC gaming (although mine is also a workstation for software development and some light video editing).

Regardless of their quality, you can get a basic no-frills laptop for $400 and be able to carry it with you - or you can spend that much on an equally no-frills (though still arguably better specification-wise) desktop and have it stuck wherever you put it. More people tend to favor the portability, they can have it at the kitchen table or in front of the TV - some people don't even own a proper computer and rely entirely on smartphones and/or tablets.

Desktop computing outside of the workplace is increasingly a niche, one that isn't going away as long as PC gaming remains but to argue it's not shrinking is delusional.
I don't know but I'll ping sandslash for you.
No pricing information for the self-hosted version. Gonna pass on this. Why even bother reading shitloads of text for something I can't try?
Your freedom to spread filth is precisely equal to my freedom not to repeat it.

Also, please remember that the American First Amendment limits Government speech restrictions. Private communities and individuals can make any rules they want about social acceptable speech.
Have you seen https://github.com/blog/2247-improving-collaboration-with-fo... ?
Maybe, but then the resulting peace treaty would likely have been non-punitive, and then the Nazis and Hitler would never have happened, along with WWII.
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Minority Areas Pay More for Car Insurance Than White Areas with the Same Risk
There should be an app where different services (Uber/Lyft/Gett/Via/Arro (which is Yellow Cabs) bid on a ride and the lowest bid gets the ride. That would help to fix this problem.

In NYC I had noticed that Uber was charging as much as Yellow Cab for some of the trips and I was surprised about their algorithm. Now I understand why.
16gb of RAM minimum is important. SSD hard drives as well. A big monitor or multiple ones if you're into that thing. Ergonomic mice/keyboards if you need them.
Sorry for the loss. Honestly.

I for one however had a really strong dislike for the alt-tab behaviour as well as the shared menu.
They can and they did - they pushed the update to Nexus and Pixel devices.
Of course it's marketing. The website is obviously not a legally binding contract. The point is that it's not in any way described as being an fixed percentage of what the passenger pays. That's just not the payment mechanism at all. Of course, the devil is in the details, but it would really surprise me if Uber's contract had a completely different compensation model than the website.
I think that the other contributors actually held out long enough to let her come to her senses speaks for the project. They seem to be invested enough to actually spend six months seeing the project be dragged through the mud and still come back and work with her.
> That WWI and it's peace settlement were a major contributing factor to WWII seems pretty clearly established as well.

Sure, but WW2 could very well have started in 1931 or 1953 (just random years) instead, for other reasons. For example, the USSR would have been a much more powerful nation in the 40s and 50s if it wasn't decimated by WW2. And with no presence of US forces in Europe, what would have stopped its expansion but war? Add in communist China and you have the makings for an even more deadly war.
Gregg Pollack, the other half of the "Rails vs." videos, has a tribute page to him:https://www.greggpollack.com/remembering-jason-seifer/

I remember meeting Jason many times at conferences. Always jovial, always encouraging, and always very funny. You will be missed.
Again, LLC is a great fit if you have a profitable business and want profits can be paid as tax efficiently as possible to you and your other founders. You'll never need investors, you'll be able to borrow money because of your great cash flows, etc. And once in a while one grows to the moon while staying private and never go public.

But for most startups, you can't know if you'll need to raise funding. And funding isn't just VCs. It's angels. It's friends and family. It's even crowd-funding now that you can crowdfund equity. And maybe you even get the opportunity to go public and want to be the most public market friendly cap structure.

I have a friend whose e-commerce startup just broke over $100k per month in revenue. He's an LLC, but he's starting to realize that he doesn't have enough positive cash flow to pay for the equipment needed to lower his product costs, so now he's thinking of finding investors. And he needs a simple, easy to create equity program with vesting for key employees. And since he has no plans to be profitable soon, he's moving to a C corp.

A C-Corp is $500. It's not expensive and is the most flexible foundation to build a startup business on.

I'm also biased against LLCs because a problem endemic with LLCs which isn't necessary a fault of LLCs is that it's so easy to just start and go. I see founders who never consider vesting as a requirement. Four founders start an LLC and agree to each getting 25% equity split. Then one quits after a month and the remaining three have a big liability issue if they try to squeeze the quitter out.

A C corp usually leads to a professional cap structure where founders are forced to think through these issues a little better.
This is a nice statement to hear. I have had some IRC conversations with some of the involved people, and the whole affair was rather unpleasant.

I hope things really are quieting down, and I'm really excited over the possibility of disabling ME. Being unable to get rid of hardware backdoors is essentially why I haven't bought a new laptop in ten years. Remarkably, my ten-year old Inspiron 1420 dellbuntu still works great, and it's delightful to be able to still buy parts for it, but I'm starting to feel the desire for newer hardware.
Why mechanical Turks? How about A.I./ML tools?

Have you heard of https://imagga.com/
Mturk sometimes has a bit of latency from issued HITs to cascade through the system, but you can issue anticipatory tasks to counteract this latency.

The more $$ you offer, the less time it will take someone to take it on.

Combining these two concepts, bundle dozens of tasks into a single HIT, and score based on completion and promptness. You're going to have to build your own rating software, but this is very possible to do. Just be up front that promptness counts; most of the time it doesn't.
I'd love to see one tailored a little more to web development.

Also I never understood asking this question:

> Do new candidates write code during their interview?

If you're there for an interview, you're about to find out first hand.
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