skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think I would say any of those groups act better than others.

As a driver, cyclist & pedestrian in London I second this. Some cyclists are dangerous jerks. Some car drivers are dangerous jerks. Some pedestrians have their heads in their phones and cause a danger to everyone. Rather than ranting about it, I'd prefer each user group to just be more aware of the others & take a bit of care.

That and make all London taxi drivers cycle everywhere for a month to see how they like it ;-)
Thanks for the feedback.

We're aware of that and we're working on it. The first goal is to create a well-tested and stable platform which we can improve over time with a help of feedback like yours. We do not expect people to start moving their critical services onto our NS servers.

Thanks again!
In general, the low-productivity employment sector will be made less efficient, because of lack of price information. For example, suppose the minimum wage is $7/hr, and the market wage for hotel cleaning is $5/hr while the market wage for cooking is $6/hr. A worker who could do either should, in a free market, choose cooking, because it is more valued (hence the higher wage). But a minimum wage hides this information. So if the worker choose cleaning, the economy will be $1/hour poorer than it would otherwise have been.

In this particular scenario, do you believe that a person chooses between cleaning (an unskilled job) to cooking (a skilled job) based on the wage that is paid?

Either the person is unskilled; then they have no choice. Or they have the skill to be a cook; then they presumably have the skill because they like being a cook, and will certainly prefer to do that over cleaning even if both are paid the same (in fact, they will probably prefer cooking even if it were slightly higher paid; wages only start coming into consideration when the difference is larger).

Now you might argue that people will be deterred from even learning to become a cook in the situation you have outlined. That is doubtful, because again, price plays a much smaller role than you might think. But even if it were the case, the wages of cooks would eventually rise above the minimum wage if demand for cooks is high enough.

It is a mistake to assume that there is always a God-given market price that is the "right" price for goods to have. The development of prices is always a negotiation within society. In the case of the minimum wage, society says that labour should have at least a certain price, because that is the morally right thing (and also avoids certain externalities that opponents of the minimum wage like to ignore). If society agrees on that, then minimum wage is efficient by definition.
good thing cash is running out of time.
Happy to help, Antonio.

It's a shame we couldn't have another section like we have for "jobs", but just for crowdsourced stuff like this. It's something I think a lot of people would like participating in, but, like jobs, it probably needs to go in its own category (for the same reasons.)
Ask HN: Should I join this startup?
I've been contracting with a very young startup for a few months and they have asked me to join full-time. There are 3 founders, 2 are business and one is a designer. I developed their entire product and went through a well known accelerator program with them. They are trying to raise a seed round and are currently self funded. The offer is 3 points of equity and about 1/2 market rate salary.

The founders are young, with no prior startup experience. I'm a bit older and (in my opinion) have a very good track record working with both large fortune 500's and startups. They have a great product concept that I believe in and enjoy working on. However, I have issues with the makeup of the team and the offer. I'm currently leaning towards telling them no thanks, but would really appreciate getting others opinions.
> Another perspective is that a startup is a search for a viable business model

Sure, and I personally have nothing against you trying to do that. It's a tough market to get into, no doubt, and any new business is going to have its share of stumbles in the early days.

On the other hand, that doesn't change the fact that it would be dangerous/irresponsible for the executives at most organisations to rely on your service for something as fundamental as accepting payments until you've got over those stumbles and you are clearly a viable partner for the long term. Nor does it change the fact that one way or another, you're clearly still stumbling at this point, even if you're stumbling with style! :-)

As the saying goes, it's not personal, it's just business. To me (as someone who runs businesses himself and would love to outsource all the payment hassles for just about all of them) I can't see the case for relying on a start-up at this stage of development for this sort of service. If your prospective client is already well-established, they can afford to do anything your start-up can do in-house to keep the costs down and get exactly the solution they want, so the reward for outsourcing isn't high. If your prospective customer is running a start-up themselves and looking to outsource, they could be betting their entire business on the abilities of other people outside their control (i.e., your team), which is a tough call to make without at least obvious financial backing and a proven track record behind you, so the risk for them is high.

I wish you luck in your quest to find that viable model. Perhaps you can bring enough similarly entrepreneurial folks along with you for now to reach the point where you do offer higher rewards with lower risks, at which point I'm guessing you've made it.
Speak up in what way? Flag them down and scold them on the street? That's not a wise thing to do.
Because governments are infested by rampant corruption and can't be trusted to hold their own ranks to account.
A few of my own thoughts:

1. ALWAYS start on time. If people miss the daily or show up late, that should shame them in to getting there on time. (This is true of all meeting, not just standups, in my opinion).

2. With geographically disparate teams, the leader should establish up front an order for when locations speak in the standup. (ie: San Francisco, then London, then Mars). The leader should always kick things off, and then should specifically identify which person goes next, next, etc.

3. No lurkers at all. If you're there, you do your daily. Even if you say "I didn't do anything yesterday, and probably nothing today... no blockers", at least then we know. And nobody is wondering who the f* you are.

4. Most dailies should have follow-up meetings / conversations come out of them. If there are none, then either you are talking about too much stuff in the daily, or nothing interesting is happening on your project.
One thought would be that the federal government shouldn't be able to own copyright to things, so once these are accessed, they don't have any intellectual property reasoning to not distribute them. In my mind, what the government owns is owned by all, and what the government knows should be known by all, because when the government speaks (in these cables) it speaks for us all.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_status_of_work_by_the...

Additionally, I feel that in general you shouldn't say something that you can't bear being repeated by others. Every child learns this. Yet, the government feels they can wheel and deal, and talk about other countries behind the backs of others and feel that the knowledge will never come out.
I didn't vote for 'em!
Different views of inequality
Note that my comment was not for drivers vs. bikers but rather bikers vs. pedestrians.
"Different pools, explicit tagging of 'long-lived' or 'cache value' or some such during allocation?"

The idea that immediately came to my mind is that given that the site is probably load-balanced, the best thing to do would be to take the site out of the load balancer while the big GC runs, then put it back in. I wonder if there's some way to hook that GC event. So, "pools", but at a higher level.
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I've heard that the hardware design guys have it pretty rough, while the software side has it (relatively) easy.
I agree with all the point EXCEPT one; I like using random order when it comes time to do the daily. I feel that a regular order, while expected, causes certain voices to dominate the conversation, others to enter or leave when expected, and overtime can make the whole thing feel stale.
Of course he was.

The whole story about how he was into drugs and crime and turned his life around and worked his way up from the bottom, maybe that happened and maybe it didn't- but the story about how he's just a simple mook from Circumstances was calculated to gain sympathy and shift the blame away from himself.

>Well, at least he was honest. He wasn't trying to deceive me, and he really thought he could do it, he explained. No hard feelings.

And it worked!
Large parts of Europe have free university education and free medical care.
The comic actually had a mouseover punch line about people like you:

> To anyone who understands information theory and security and is in an infuriating argument with someone who does not (possibly involving mixed case), I sincerely apologize.

You are the "someone who does not".

Please do the calculations described in the comic and tell us what your results are.
Assange himself does a reasonably good job of explaining his point of view in http://cryptome.org/0002/ja-conspiracies.pdf
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When someone who was really awesome leaves, takes five great people with them right when you've hit a rough patch, you will regret the hubris in writing something like this.

Every company gets contacted by recruiters to the point where you finding it novel to write about makes you look like an amateur.
Or, one could argue that this is the length of time it took him to kick out Amelio and get himself back in the top spot.

If in a hypothetical world where Jobs couldn't get himself back into the CEO spot, then perhaps he would not have stayed on for an extended period of time.

Of course, this is all pure speculation
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I was watching some police documentary show a long time ago - and it was either the FBI or the police that needed a murder suspect's DNA - they brought him in for questioning, and asked him for a sample, and he declined. They had pretty compelling circumstantial evidence, so what they did was follow him around for 2 or 3 weeks to all of the public places he went, looking to get a left-behind hair, a swab of spit, a used soda can, food, any sample of his DNA they could use to test it against the murder scene evidence. This guy knows this is going on, and is playing cat and mouse with them, covering all of this DNA tracks - being careful to not leave anything for them.

He eventually absent-mindedly spits on the sidewalk and they dab it up with cotton swabs, run the tests, and get the match, and arrest him. My point is, if somebody wants your DNA, even if you spend your entire day methodically covering your tracks because you're a murderer and you know it will send you to jail for life, you will eventually leave a trace somewhere. It's just the nature of our biology - it isn't the case that your DNA is a secret, and your body is a vault, and submitting this test is giving away that secret.

In the case of submitting it here, I cannot imagine that any government agency that has the need for your DNA for some particular reason would think this was the best way to get it.

(Hope this didn't serve to just make you more paranoid...)
Still waiting on newer 13-inch MBPs with NVIDIAs / ATIs

Those are probably never going to come; there physically isn't room.
The main problem is that you have to trust the person who minted the coin not to extract the value of the coin while it is in circulation. Eventually it should leave circulation, be converted back to virtual, and transferred to a safe address that minter doesn't have access to.

So, the thing that it is printed on should be really cheap, like card stock or just paper. It shouldn't be considered currency, but more like a check. People accept a check on the assumption it won't bounce because they know the person who signed the check to them.

When you get one, it should be off the person who wrote the check, and you should cash it immediately (transfer it to an address you trust).

I could see keeping a few business cards in my real wallet with public and private keys on them with empty addresses. I can load them on demand from my cell phone, and write the amount and sign them when I hand them to someone. This way I can give them money without them needing a digital device handy. I could even do this in advance in a few denominations for completely offline access, but it would still require the trust of two individuals on the same level as writing them a check.

In this case, obscuring the private key would be pointless since both people would have access to it.

Here is a good resource for printing address:
https://www.bitaddress.org
It has QR codes on it, so you can use the Android app to scan the pub key and transfer money to it. The addresses are generated client side with your browser, so they should be safe from snooping.
> By the way, a 2880×1800 15" panel merely (well …) has 230 PPI. Apple couldn’t even call it a Retina display.

Whether a display is "retina" or not depends upon how far the display is from your eyes. I could definitely see Apple stretch a 230 PPI display to be "retina" by arguing that you sit further from your laptop than your smartphone. I haven't done the math, so this is all speculation.

I wonder what the graphics performance on a laptop with a 2880x1880 display would be. Intel's integrated GPUs are the only sane option while on battery and they notoriously slow.
Daycare for grownups? Are you fucking kidding me? You have never known any kind of privation in your life, have you? The kind of privation where there is no goddamn food available--not now, not tomorrow, not next week?

It wouldn't be daycare, it would be the preservation of your life.

Now, I agree with the idea of cutting back working hours for everyone, and possibly even subsidizing a large of chunk of an completely unemployed population, but your comfortable assertion that taking a boring job as your only means of survival is bad is really ignorant.
> he doesn't practice what he preaches.

He preaches government transparency. He's not a government. So how can he practice what he preaches? The same happens every day with journalists who fight for media transparency. Should they also be transparent with every aspect of their lives? Of course not. And you suggest he should be transparent with his sources. If you seriously believe that, you're clearly not in favour of this movement.
Couldn't understand why you are referring to my comment as "biased", I was trying to portray how bikers are seen from the viewpoint of the non-avid-biker pedestrians. Do you think my points were wrong or made-up? If so, it would be more useful to comment on those aspects.
I find it interesting to understand where the blindspots are.

For example, mosquitos, flys, rats and mice were predicted to be exterminated. So did the scourge of these pests simply get mitigated to the point where further investment in their extermination was unwarranted?

Completely missed airplanes (to be expected, the Wright Brothers had yet to fly) but air-ships as flying fortresses? Not connecting their train imagery with their military history. (if you have high mobility slow moving 'forts' are not effective)

The population number was over and the life expectancy under (330M US pop in 2000, vs 350 - 500M predicted), life expectancy prediction of 50 yrs vs 72 years. That is an interesting combination to get wrong but the blind spot was that people would voluntarily have fewer children.

Amusing that everyone was supposed to vote themselves into the US. Can you imagine the chaos if Mexico elected to join the US and applied for statehood? Wow.

So its clearly harder to predict political change, easier to extrapolate technological curves, and somewhere between the two lies emergent technolgy/attitudes.
Exactly, a thousand times this. We don't go around wishing there were no sidewalks just because pedestrians jaywalk, do we?

When I see a cyclist run a stop sign in front of me (and I always watch for this to happen), I think to myself: "if that was a pedestrian, they wouldn't have even had to stop at all, and would have taken a lot longer to cross leaving me waiting longer... so why be annoyed?"

But perhaps I can say this more easily because I both drive and cycle in a busy downtown area.

God forbid any of these picky, sensitive, rage-filled drivers drive in a country where not even cars follow simple rules like "staying in the lane"...
Provided that the goals are:

1) Exposing corrupt politicians.
2) Stop politicians from screwing millions of people over and over again.

And the downsides are:
1) Some politician loses his/her reputation, and the people of his/her country know who he/she really is.
2) Some frictions between countries, for example when an embassador is just a mean for creating a corporations' lobby.

I'd say yes, the means are well justified in this case. Truth can never be a bad thing.
Well, even Google (with its great working environment) has issues keeping personnel from acquisitions.
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I'm not a psychologist and I really, really hate what I'm about to do, but I'm going to do it anyway because I believe it may possibly help you. Feel free to take it or leave it, it's just a voice on the internet after all.

First, I find it annoying that you're being downvoted here. You're being honest and sincere and that should be commended even if I don't agree with you.

To the point however: From reading your comments, it seems to me that there is something about your children (well, two of them at least) that you really, really don't like. My guess would be that this isn't because they are so different from you, but rather that they are exhibiting qualities that are very similar to qualities about yourself that you detest. I could be way off, but you might do well to explore this aspect on your own, if only to discount it.

You seem to think that what you're feeling is positive to them. I can assure you that it isn't. I can also assure you that they feel it too.
As with C++, structs in C# can have private members. The big difference between structs and classes, though, is that structs are value types. This means that, for example, function local usage of struct instances can forego allocating them on the heap and instead allocate them in the program's activation records (stack frames).

Because of the semantic differnces you can't just go switching all your classes to structs and realize a significant performance difference. Code like this:

class Foo
{
int bar;
}

public static void Func(Foo[] arrayOfFoos)
{
Foo f = arrayOfFoos[0];
f.bar = 10;
}

will break in subtle ways because you are no longer manipulating the heap allocated instance via a reference but rather a copy that was allocated local to the function.

Arrays of structs also have better cache locality which can improve performance on number crunching workloads and can also make it easier to exchange data between managed code and native code through a P/Invoke interface.
The unlimited point-to-point mobility provided by a car allows people to optimize their routines almost down to the second, so losing 30 seconds behind a cyclist can make the difference between being on time and being late. Though this can be disputed, I would argue that aggressively minimizing time spent in transportation (and thus maximizing time spent at work or leisure) is beneficial to the economy and society.
thank you.

//bot chooses randomly// that was the easy decision to make. Need to look further for any better decision making strategy.
He's talking about the debt of banks and nations.

"So when we deal with Goldman Sachs or when we deal with banks and when we deal with Europe I think you can break the world into two parts, there`s the debtor-developed world which has reached its debt limits and is going through a deleveraging."
I think it would help to know what your project is about. I'm inherently opposed to the logos with clouds in them - seems like they're just capitalizing on buzzwords, while making you sound like a hosting provider of some kind.
If the fob is issued by the company that runs the server, the company can put keys into the fob before they mail it to you. No CAs needed.
I fear that he's not actually trolling.
You can pay your loans off but still increase your debt by taking out new loans. In the case of most governments, this is usually how they pay off the old loans.
Bike lanes only work if they are physically separate from the road. Otherwise, they are covered with debris swept off the main road surface, populated by double-parked delivery trucks and cars,or a random hazard of opening car doors and cyclists who are too stupid to obey the rules of the road (e.g., riding the wrong direction).
I stand by my original post. People can blow it out of proportion all they want, but I was speaking truthfully. I'll be sure to send my bosses a link to it so they can fire me over the great shame it brings them.
Does testing from the swab kits match you up with anyone in need of bone marrow? I have a coworker with leukemia too and I'm sure many others here know of similar situations and it'd be great to have a resource that works for everyone. Posting individual stories doesn't scale very well.
I think the better question would be is why do 100% of the diplomatic cables need to be classified? The real mystery is why millions of people in the government and military have access to these documents but they are "classified". Makes no sense...

Our government has increasingly classified or made secret more and more documents in recent years and... The more the government tries to hide things the more the people become less trusting of said government.
While this possible using the profiling interfaces, it's not really much simpler IMO.

What happens if more than 1 server needs to GC at the same time (or overlapping times)? You definitely don't want to pull everything out of rotation, so you'll need some coordination, and how do you determine how many servers are allowed to be pulled out? We know we can limp along on about 1/3 of our servers, but it's not a stellar end user experience; at some point you're not solving the problem, you're spreading the pain.

There are some minor annoyance this would introduce too.

We use "server in/out of rotation" as an at a glance "things are getting ill" check, if a web server has been pulled (due to slow responses to requests) it's almost invariably something that needs fixing right now. We'd lose that if pulling servers out of rotation was normal operating procedure.

This would also be a royal pain in terms of local and dev tier testing, since you've basically made the load balancer and frequent GCs a pre-requisite for thorough testing.

Of course, this remains one of the options when dealing with GC stalls; just think what Marc went with here made more sense.
For very narrow values of "wide". FWIW, you're linking to Assanges own assertion that it's a smear campaign.

If this was a smear campaign orchestrated by the top echelons of the US intelligence/military complex, they would have done it better. If they're out there twisting arms and making up charges, why not make it a proper rape, not this "well, strictly he should have known she didn't really approve even though she didn't say anything at the time"-business.
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