skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wasn't aware Cortana was ever a human name.

I find "Jason" hilarious because I have multiple coworkers with that name... I wonder how often they turn their heads whenever someone talks about JSON. Fortunately, where I live, almost everybody pronounces JSON with stress on the second syllable (jase-ON / [d͡ʒɛɪs'ɒn] or [d͡ʒɛɪ'sɒn]) so it's not quite a homophone. I have a friend who works for a company where people actually do pronounce JSON like "Jason", and he's ranted to me so many times about how the way his coworkers pronounce things is weird (he's also ranted about how they pronounce "epoch" like "epic").

And at least Siri isn't used much in the Anglosphere... I still feel sorry for people in Nordic countries who can't use that name anymore, but I honestly didn't even know it was a human name until after the Apple product came out.

Oh, and my cousin has a kid named Alexis. Somehow, I have a feeling that they will never ever get an Amazon Echo. It would be too awkward if Alexa pipes up whenever she's trying to talk to her kid.
I get a 429 response sometimes?
An example of how little UX can matter:

Facebook ran an experiment where they intentionally crashed their Android app to discover the threshold at which users would give up and go away. But someone familiar with the experiment said: “The company wasn’t able to reach the threshold. People never stopped coming back”.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jan/05/facebook-...
Well your ethics should shift considerably. Retributive justice is morally repugnant for someone who does not believe in absolute free will.
I think a lot of labor situations are different (not just low vs high wage). With Uber, one of the defining characteristics is that there are (basically) only two employers (Uber and Lyft). If there were hundreds of equivalent employers, the employer doesn't have the same control over the wage. When labor has few or one option, unions can certainly provide a counter-balance to the power that employers have.

However, Uber also provides an easy way to view consumer price increases due to wage increases. I know that Uber has moved to more of a fixed-price model now, but let's pretend that Uber still had a per-mile/minute model. Uber charges $X per mile and $Y per minute and Uber takes 20% giving 80% to the driver. At that point, the absolute most that a union could increase driver wages without increasing consumer prices is 25%. If Uber was charging $1 and drivers were getting $0.80, if the union wanted a 50% raise Uber couldn't still charge $1 because drivers would be taking $1.20.

I think the network effects of Uber and Lyft make it hard for labor to have power in those situations. However, given that Uber's gross margin is a percentage of receipts, it's easy to see how it would push prices higher. I'm not saying it's not a worthwhile trade-off, but it's hard to argue that Uber drivers getting paid 25% more wouldn't cause fares to increase.
I remember a Howard Stern interview (back in 2005-6?) with Paul McCartney where Howard asked if Paul was making his new wife sign a pre-nup. He wasn't. His response was "A pre-nup for someone who's worth half a billion dollars doesn't make sense. You'll live fine on a quarter billion dollars. It's the guy who's only worth $80k that should be getting a pre-nup."

I definitely put off marriage (I'm on the youngest side of Gen-X) because I saw how my parents' divorce ruined my father's finances and caused a lot of strife.
Good to know. I am amazed by the history of openjdk and how it's slowly become the mainline of what people use. Does OpenJDK come with all that mission control (I think that might have a new name?) stuff or is that the primary reason people buy Java from Oracle at this point?
It's a lot easier to create innovative technologies than innovative social and political structures.
>Note that that's true for Java .class files as well.

Yes. There was a free third-party Java decompiler called JAD some year ago, for example.
San Francisco:

1.) Traffic

- The traffic congestion levels are bad, it's normal to encounter traffic jams all the way to Santa Rosa or Sacramento.

- Uber and Lyft, while convenient it's getting to an excessive level.

2.) Attitude

- People in general have more anxiety and aggression than they used to. I think it's related to how unaffordable everything has become, everyone is "trying to make it" and few can.

- Compromise, there's a lack of compromise in The City. There's the "I'm from here so I do things my way", to "This city could be more efficient and my way makes more sense". Overall there is an abundance of negativity and not much compromise on both sides.

4.) Culture

- Older generations are still in the area but they're quickly leaving. Local manufacturing businesses are selling off and the older generations are going away. South San Francisco is being transformed at an accelerated rate. I expect the Trump Tariffs to increase this rate (know small business owners already impacted by them).

- Young people in The City have different backgrounds, beliefs, and appearances but their primary focus is usually money and "trying to make it". Related to housing issues and lack of compromise.

5.) Homelessness

- I've always respected San Francisco for being a safe haven for people unable to adjust to a "normal" society. It's been a hub for rebellion, change, and misfits. As prices rise and the rebellious culture erodes we've seen an increase in homelessness and drug addiction. No surprise, it's hard to transition to "hyper-capitalistic" San Francisco. Most people making six figures have a hard time living here.

5.) Lack of emergency awareness

- The City is going to be in a lot of trouble during the next big earthquake. Do you know where your neighborhood meeting points are in case of an emergency? Gas shut off? Have emergency food provisions and water? There are less than 70 fire engines in this city. When you call 911 no one is going to respond when the "Big One" hits.

There are problems but they can be solved, I think the biggest issue is lack community discussion and compromise.
"Many poorer and less educated Americans are opting not to get married at all. . . . Marriage is becoming a more durable, but far more exclusive, institution."

How is it exclusive if it is by choice?
Explain this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18057649
I think the biggest challenge for France in regard to startup is that society is hierarchical. I think many of the other concerns stem from that. Hierarchies makes society about ranking, which kills startup since startups are essentially about climbing the class ladder as a company (from small business to fortune 500). Pretty much all startup "hubs" are either "new world" were there weren't necessarily a lot of established players already and/or relatively egalitarian.
Thanks! What I'd like to know more specifically is if there are some ready-made components already packing a lot of these functionalities without needing too much custom logic, or you need to roll out your own from low-level ones?
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It's not really true. Many of us are living "in the closet". Indeed, some of the staunch virtue signalers are just pretending in order to fit in.
I see, it's yet another marketing campaign by Big Shit.
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I don't know, but anecdotally, it seems like people don't feel they have to get married as much.

As for marrying younger... I met my wife at 14, married at 21, and had our first daughter at 25. We're 34 now and have two girls, and see no reason why we'd ever split. We're happy. I honestly don't think age has nearly as much to do with it as maturity and mindset.
> The reason I hesitate to dismiss the AA view is that it strikes me as quite possible that, for a subset of addicts, any kind of hope of moderation can be disastrous.

This, absolutely this. And since it is impossible to know in advance if moderation is possible for a given person, AA optimizes for the worst case scenario and assumes that no one can handle moderation, which has the greatest likelihood of success for all who use this strategy.
A doctor friend was telling me the other day that he doesn't know of an instance, in contrast to the nurses' unions.
The UK. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Medical_Association

Here's them going on strike the other year: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/aug/31/bma-announce...
Hacker news exists off of facebook. The fact that this “network” of users exists should be a testiment that communities can develop off of facebook.
> I do not buy the increase consumer price or laissez-faire arguments

Ignorance is bliss I guess?

The economic research of the effects of unions on consumer pricing is well established. That you choose to willfully disbelieve the economic research in that area unfortunately does not make it less valid.
This made national news a while ago: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/10/business/doctors-unionize...

(written before their contract was ratified)
Good thing Uber isn’t the only employer, or even the only rideshare option.
Re Toronto:

- getting in, getting out, and how much farther "out," means. (sprawl)

- post-globalization: chains and franchise businesses make most of it like being stranded in an airport. There are a lot of great niches, but they are rarer and further afield in the sprawl.

- petty crime: bike theft and car break-ins are normal to the point of going unreported.

- street parking: the city is predatory with parking tickets. Mayor shifted enforcement to maintain traffic flow, which was right, but council is addicted to fines.

- local media: they just aren't very good. Its like nobody's asked if newspapers are dying because they are just bad.

- commitment to park maintenance: garbage is common.

- politics: polarized, mainly due to the quality of discourse taught in institutions.

- lots of crappy art: it's a bit of a cringe fest.
Here you go: vTcl -- just like Visual Basic 3.0.

Also, you get to use Tcl instead of Visual Basic, so even better !

http://vtcl.sourceforge.net/
fn arbitration() {
return rulingFor(billing.client);
}

Bam, can I get my cut?
Just because I love arguing about free will, and because I feel like a lot of the time people are not all talking about the same thing when they say "free will", would some of you be willing to tell me what you think "free will" means?

Please say what you sincerely think free will means, and try not to give me strawman or devil's advocate positions on what you think your opponents think it means, if you would be so kind.
I suspect this is a pattern when it comes to spying and internet surveillance now. Don't expect the NSA's activities would be in accordance to many human rights laws, and likely similar for other 'Five Eyes' countries and countries trying to snoop on internet traffic in general.

The issue is that there seems to be no organisation with the power to enforce said rules on the countries/governments/organisations doing this.
The argument here isn't about wages, though: it's about using collective power to ensure that workers don't get pushed into bullshit arbitration when the company does something awful.

(Not that uber would ever do anything awful, of course.)
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The arbitration agreement is a "forced arbitration" agreement. It's a small difference but it matters. The law enforced the validity of the contract, the contract forces the arbitration outside of a court of law.
Ok, as "a member of the tech elite", I still have no interest in joining this after reading the features and description, and have little understanding of what it is exactly (sure it's "decentralized" and "private", but even if I cared / believed it could deliver on these promises, these points have little meaning UX wise -- what the heck is it going to look like / use like on my phone?).

I'm mainly making the point that their landing page has done a pretty bad job of explaining and selling the product.
I use the same line of thought, but without any modeling. Suppose you could go back in time to a major decision in your life and make it over. But you arrive at that same point in time, with all of the same information you had, no new information about the future, with all of the same hormonal and biochemistry etc. Is there any way you could have chosen differently than what you did? I don't see how. Unless you want to introduce randomness, but that's also not choice.
He was 35, and it was peak of cycle/just before the dot com crash.
If Nvidia is adding workarounds in their drivers for crappy game code, how did those games work before Nvidia added the workaround for their crappy code? :)
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If you have not already watched it, Watch "Active Measures" about the Manafort/Putin/Trump money laundering ties...

The reason I mention this here is that the former President of Estonia is interviewed in the documentary a bit.

I was wondering why would they be interviewing the President of Estonia regarding the Russian Mafia/Manafort/Trump laundering -- Welp - this is why.
Ask YC: How much equity/participation should I ask for in a spinoff?
(Throwaway account for obvious reasons)

I work for an IT services company. They wanted to build a product similar to something I built at a previous company, and brought me in as an employee to run the effort. I have worn every hat for the last 2 years: product manager, architect, devops, recruiting, marketing, sales. We have achieved product/market fit (though still pre-revenue) and we're considering spinning the product off into its own company at some point in the near future, and possibly seek outside investment to grow aggressively.

Now is my moment of maximum leverage--without me their ability to execute on growing the product would be extremely hamstrung, if not impossible. They've spent >$1m on my salary and that of the team over the past 2 years, at a slightly-below-market rate, and I haven't taken the bonus I initially negotiated.

Lawyers I talk to all say completely different things, from 5% to 75% share, equity at a zero valuation, options (or absolutely NOT options), profit/sale proceeds participation above a valuation cap, phantom stock, or just increased cash comp based on growth targets. It's conceivable they might not ever spin it off, and if they do they have no conception if it will be LLC, S-corp, C-corp, etc.

Beyond paying the bills the owners have been minimally involved. One could argue because it's my ideas, and my execution, that it's just like they were an angel investor in my hypothetical company. I've certainly treated it as if it were my product, my company, and spending prudently. (my email signature says co-founder, since to the outside world that's what I am.) On the other hand, on paper I am indeed an ordinary employee.

I have a kid and live in the Bay Area so taking a big pay cut in exchange for equity is not really an option, so my risk profile is a bit lower than your average 20-something founder.

What on earth should I ask for?

Many thanks! (also anyone know a good lawyer representing founders?)
They have a professional association which performs some of the same responsibilities as a union, but its not 1:1
I am not sure if it's true or not but I have anecdotally heard from a local car dealer that exported large volumes of compliance EVs to EU telling me that Mercedes actually owns the lithium battery in the Smart fortwo eletric drive as a purchaser you are "leasing" the lithium ion battery. So the actually cost of the vehicle is more like upper bound of 30k, close to 40k range, far exceeding the MSRP.
Can you give an example of dog behavior that does this? I'm curious.
There is nothing preventing a workplace from negotiating a unionized employment contract with a more limited scope such as you describe. I share your desire for something less rigid than the (very real!) unions which match the stereotype you describe.

Though I would like some intermediate restrictions on the ability of an employer to summarily fire an employee for no good reason, short of extreme difficulty. Like, maybe some advance notice or severance payment in the absence of misconduct - the unemployment insurance regime is often severely inadequate, and gaps in employment make it harder to obtain subsequent jobs.

Plus some chance to refute allegations of underperformance makes sense - it can be real underperformance or it can be a cover for discrimination, both happen.
I agree, I can't stand SF weather but love South Bay weather. Every time I have to do the drive to SF for some concert I whine about it :)
Finance and markets are not the same thing though.
Those who signed it are suing Uber, so clearly they've decided for themselves their relationship is problematic.
The two can go together. The gig economy, social media, crowdsourcing, open source are just some examples of social and technological innovation happening together. No one’s just bothered to apply it to unionization, yet.
As other commentators have said, this donation will definitely invite accusations of virtue signaling. What Amazon needs to do is pay (not donate!) its employees better but that's also stating the obvious.

What intrigues me more is that each era's barons find certain causes more appealing than others. Carnegie gave a lot of money to public libraries at a time when the printed word was expanding its reach. It's not surprising that Wikipedia is a favorite amongst tech tycoons along with education.
> you thereby increase its momentum

You don't increase its momentum. You increase the uncertainty in the momentum. So if initially position was 5 +- 3 and momentum was 10 +- 2, then afterwards, you might know that position is 6 +- 1, and momentum is 10 +- 4.

The rest of your train of thought doesn't follow after this refutation.
A union exists to tell the business owner how to run their business by force. The threat is a strike, or worse (damaging equipment and reputation).

The reasons to allow a non-owner, non-governmental power like a union to force the business to change can make sense and pull at your heart strings. I would prefer, if we are to encourage unions, that it stays about safety and let the free market sort the rest out. People can always find new jobs.
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I think they are referring to people excluding potential partners due to their lack of money or education. But I agree, their writing insinuates the institution itself is discriminating.
Many employed doctors are in a union in Germany.
It’s really a shame; Apple has produced a number of tools (XCode.appp, Server.app, Install macOS.app) that demonstrate how you’re supposed to handle the placement of support files like this. Delete any of those apps, and their entire footprint on the system is gone.

There’s also things like Garage Band’s downloaded instrument files, which do stick around... but only because other apps (e.g. Logic) can also use them.
Well, their woes can't possibly be publicized any more widely, and 99.999% of the people who would read the news about such a lawsuit would have no use of the software, so I'm not sure the Streisand effect has any real meaning here.
It's a college thing mostly. You'll find a lot of your tech hubs near colleges with decent tech programs.
I don't think you have spent much time in the other Valley: The Central Valley. Cold winters and hot summers...
Winter avg highs are in the 50s (F), and summer avg high are >100°.
> Thus if intelligence is a factor at all in survival (and it seems like it should be) your ancestors may not have had a choice but to select for intelligent.

And this explains the large collection of (in our understanding) not-terribly-intelligent creatures on the planet how?

Not trying to be snarky, just pointing out that intelligence is just one of many paths, and it's very hard to have strong conclusion about how something so rare fares in evolution, and if the tend will maximize or if it pays off to be "just a little" intelligent, just like it pays to be "just a little" able to swim.
Unless you use G Suite.
It's hard enough to get people to use signal...
Handy, I recently gave up on trying to find a truffle box with vue already setup so I used the most basic box to start. I found the the existing ones seem to get out of date quickly. Is there anything in this package above and beyond Truffle with Vue?
Idk, most of the more memorable I have attended were maybe a few grand. Mostly for the venue and bar, with friends and family helping out. The impersonal 100k affairs are embarrasing to attend pesrsonally. I have friends still eatig ramen, living in debt, and fighting bitterly over finances thanks to a 'dream wedding' that a majority of their actual friends couldn't even afford to attend. To call it depressing is to undersell the effect in my eyes.
Please notice that I was very careful to talk about the perception of free will, and not free will itself.
It does. Any .NET language.
Speed until you max out your social security benefit is a crazy incentive.
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I created an account last week, but I haven't used it yet.
OpenJDK 11 does contain FlightRecorder and it‘s free.
Or a simple loft bed: https://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/categories/departments/be...
CBP Faces Challenges Implementing Biometric Capability to Track Air Passengers [pdf]
Please don't be a jerk on HN, even if another comment seems a bit pedantic.

Separately: there was nothing wrong with gnulinux's comment. It was obviously posted for the pleasure of sharing information, and didn't put down either the GP or Shazam.
I agree that this isn't a monopsony situation. The reason that "agency" is meaningless has more to do with the power imbalance of the individual relative to any large corp -- there doesn't need to be only one option for the negotiation to be a farce.
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There is no reason to expect their procedures are legal, this thread is an example of government procedure shown to be illegal.
There's no real option to working as an Uber driver?

Edit: I'm sorry, the parent comment was predicted on applying "there is no alternative" to the situation "whether you contract for Uber". That doesn't make sense, and I'd appreciate an answer besides a downvote. It seems like a fair question.
My advice?

Don't have a relatively cheap wedding.
Have a _cheap_ wedding.

(Do not waste two years of your life making money that you blow on 6 hours of rituals.)

Our wedding cost less than $1000 (near Philadelphia, so HCOL area), and is described by friends as "beautiful" and "one of my all-time favorites."
Milton Friedman famously put forth an argument against minimum wage in his TV series Free to Choose:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-BGi4NIFww
this. I was just about to write that the tutorial should be shown to every Electron developer.
Yeah, I think there's a difference between having high standards and just being an asshole.
Zuckerberg wanted power, not money, that's the difference. Only a fool turns down a billion dollars. That's live the rest of your life doing whatever the hell you want money. Holding out for more billions won't change that.
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Adding outline.com before the actual URL works oo : https://www.outline.com/www.wsj.com/articles/chinas-giant-ma...
Agree. It's just about respect. If you respect your users, it's clearly evident. Google doesn't.
This is really amazing. Did any other cities do this in the 20th century as a way to assess properties or keep a record of construction within a municipality?