skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Minimum wage is 10.24 in SF, and rising. On top of that:

* there will be refunds (grubhub gives a lot of refunds for bad food)

* they will need insurance (remember airbnb?)

* there will be legal challenges - like Uber, this kind of startup walks a fine line - if you employ 50 maids, you would usually have to provide workers comp at least, and maids seem more prone to file a claim than lots of professions

* there needs to be a margin for pathjoy

I believe you can possibly scale 20/hour maid service in parts of the country, but in the Bay, it will be at a loss or the price will rise. I really don't see how the math works any other way.

Grubhub's strategy was to raise delivery fees after they got traction, and it wouldn't surprise me if thats what pathjoy does. They will need to differentiate on something other than price though.
I disagree that needing to learn something is counter productive. They are simply extra capabilities, and you don't need to use them if you don't want to. I've been using visual studio for a few years now an I still out of the blue find an extra capability that makes me have to hit less buttons, or not having to touch the mouse.

Little things like jumping to a function with pressing a button, or finding all things that are referencing a function\class\etc are extremely useful, but certainly not necessary. Then things like intellisense are a godsend.

That being said, a lot of my time is spent out of visual studio, but with Sublime Text which add's a lot of things that simply make me have to type less, and focus more on the actual task at hand.
Horace's rule for distinguishing between an app and a service works only in the simplest cases. It ignores things like Facebook Connect or "Connect with Twitter". It also ignores pure-advertising based experiences such as American Idol. The American Idol app on iOS does not require you to enter a pw/username.

Also, both app and service tend to imply one-to-one relationships.

In reality the 'new world' is composed of 'apps' that are client front-ends to back-end services that are actually composed of multiple services from 3rd parties that pull content from multiple sources and are made available via multiple channels and represent and re-enforce one or more brands.

These are some of the reasons why I decided to use a different term than either app or service: Experience.

An end-to-end user experience is a cohesive combination of devices,people, brands, channels, services, and content that improves over time.

Or, more succinctly, Experience equals stuff over time (exp = stuff/time).

Oh, how I love this line:

"The lowly app coupled with cloud-based services[1] is the termite that is set to eat the foundations of the largest of the industries still standing."

The computing industry has been defined as a series of stair steps, each comprising a radical disruption, with consummate growth in the size of the industry, the profits, and advancement of technology. Mainframes → Minis → PCs → GUI → Web → Mobile.

What's next? I assert it is Experiences.

http://ceklog.kindel.com/2012/04/02/experience-stuff-time/
This is great. These frameworks usually have a .css and a .min.css file.

I would love to see one that has a .verbose.css where all possible attributes or properties are listed and commented out in the brackets for that element.
As a reference or resource to grab a chunk from for your own .css file.
And I wrote the forward to the book on it :-)
> The author is wrong, and I'm sorry for that, but it's very unlikely that his son would have ever been a contributing member of society. Schizophrenia is a severe mental disease that cannot be treated like a 'special need.'

I have met very many people with a diagnosis of schizophrenia. Some of those people were drug users (or had been drug users); some of those people were "forensic" patients and were being held in secure hospitals; some of those people were in the community, on medication, with full time work.

Schizophrenia is a complex illness that expresses in a wide range of behaviours, and a broad depth of severities of behaviours. One person may hear a few voices, but be able to cope well with those voices, while another people may hear more voices which are very threatening and hard to cope with.

Please, I understand what you're saying. (Some people with schizophrenia are very ill, and will need extensive support just to avoid homelessness) but I find your comment a bit stigmatising. Many people with schizophrenia do work; not all of them work full time paid employment but it's certainly possible for someone with a diagnosis of schizophrenia to lead a full and productive life.
It's been my experience that it is a lot easier to ask for a paper trail on craigslist from prospective sellers than it is on the street from some boiler-room type operation.
In its default configuration, MySQL doesn't support MVCC. It's the InnoDB storage engine that does, and you have to (know you need to) go out of your way to get it.

Just saying.
Looks great.
How is using mutation events for async better than `setTimeout(fn, 0)` ?
1. He's quoting, actually.

2. The article agrees with him.
gq rewraps the current selection.
I don't honestly have a response to this, thus far my comments have been based upon opinion, do you have a link to Sublime Text? I feel the only way to truly decide will be for me to install it and try it myself for a week and then attempt to decide fairly which I prefer.
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Henry Moore used to live over his studio. Whenever the noise of his chisel stopped, his wife would call down and ask why he had stopped working.
There's a very large difference between stated goals and desired goals, the goals you mentioned are all stated goals.

If you tried to abolish intellectual property the main opposition wouldn't be parties whose main motivation would be a genuine concern that you'd be de-incentivizing invention for the benefit of society, but rather parties who have a vested interest in the current system for their own benefit.
One of the major problems that I've seen first hand with mental illness is that the diagnosis is so subjective and often times relies on accounts of the patient and family. If you have family who don't know what to look for or the patient doesn't know how to explain it or is under the duress of the illness at the time, you run the chance of misdiagnosis.

This happened to me. My senior year of high school I had a "breakdown" of sorts. I was suspended from school until I saw a mental health professional. After the first visit, I was diagnosed with Bipolar disorder and given meds to treat it. After awhile, the diagnosis changed to Schizo-affective disorder and more drugs were added to help. Finally, I was diagnosed with epilepsy and told that the mental health diagnosis were wrong since epilepsy can cause both depression and hallucinations if untreated.

I shared my story for a few reasons. One the brain is complex and there can be many factors that causes symptoms. If mental health professionals can't get it right, there is no way to expect teachers or school administrators to get it right. I was lucky and had phenomenal insurance at the time that I went through that ordeal. Because of that, I was able to get tests and scans that I know others wouldn't not be able to afford. I fortunate enough to have a parent who could afford for me to get a SPECT scan which is (or was) considered cutting edge and would not be covered under insurance. That was what helped the neuro-psychiatrist realize that I have epilepsy and not a mental illness. Many people can't afford these things. Had I not had that scan, I would still probably be taking 20 pills a day and having to wake up early to take Adderall so that I'm able to physically wake up in time to be functional and the worst part is, that would be all for naught. It wouldn't help me since I don't have any problems.

There is so much wrong with the mental health system (at least in the US) that it really makes me sad. You start at the education level (such as the article talks about) but then when you move to insurance, so much isn't covered that it becomes either pay out of pocket or just let the individual suffer.
Not so much...the fatalism here is not unwarrented.

If I give a pauper a million dollars, they are no longer a pauper--foolish noveau riche, perhaps, but not a pauper.

If I repeal laws pertaining to various things, drugs for example, a great many criminals cease to be so.

Mental illness, unfortunately, tends to stay with the person.

:(
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My state provides extensive education and training to some people, so they can become doctors.

My state provides hospitals and funding for treatment.

Imagine a person with full thickness burns to 75% of their body - "Why are ppl so apt to think that state employees are miracle workers?" - because they've been educated, trained, and provisioned to provide the help that other people need.
Even if it's just that, that's greatly helpful, at least to me. I'm still not past the traditional page-loading model when thinking of how to go back and forth between routes.
With the additional ability to add specific functionality when moving between various states without a bunch of conditional checks.
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The graphs on pg. 5 are interesting...
I know he agrees with the quote.
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That's a good point. I still find the omission amusing.
The suite I used for this project has a primary suite and a series of extensions that I personally thought was a very good articulation of the currently accepted API, even such as it is.

Currently, only RSVP and Q pass the entire suite.
At least the majority if your remarks are patent dishonesty (pun intended). If you want, pick out what you think is the most honest and relevant of your remarks and I'll respond to that one, but I'm not going to get into a tit-for-tat with someone of your ilk.
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I think you should keep going. In my opinion any materials that make it easier for beginners to get started on programming are a net benefit to society. Over the coming years I think there is going to be a divide between those that can program and those that can't as technology continues to be an ever increasing part of our lives. I am in full support of anything that helps break down the barrier to jumping in and getting started.

Great start and I look forward to seeing the finished version. Keep us updated on your progress.
Python has a wrapper for matlab-style graphs called matplotlib, if you are interested in something else.
Thanks, I appreciate your reply!

Regarding the American prison system: Doing some light searching, I've come up with dozens of articles detailing prisoner abuse in the UK (for instance: http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/jan2004/pris-j15.shtml). Frankly, I think a lot of the issues with American prisons are common in such institutions. Prison in America is no treat (just like it isn't in most nations), but I think the comparison to North Korea or any other 3rd world nation is kind of laughable to me (100% personal opinion).

I don't get the "distract attention from their incompetence". I know that the public is beginning to become keen to the idea of network security breaches as problems of national defense, and even just aware to the idea of computer security threats in general, but this really wasn't that big of a story here in the US. If they prosecuted this man right now, nobody but hardcore techies would really be paying attention. We're focused on other issues in America right now (see: election 2012) and they're taking up all the oxygen in the room.

It's not like the US military and this case of hacking have made the US military the butt of all jokes. In fact, the only articles about penetration of government servers that get real ink are related to: China, Anonymous/Lulzsec/Antisec/*sec and Iran.

Furthermore, the US military doesn't need to motivate anyone in this hacking case. The prosecutes for the government don't need to be leaned on, they are dogged enough in their own right.

My thought for why this thing is confusing to me:

I just feel like I am missing something here. A man who had full knowledge that the actions they were executing were serious crimes, left aggressive messages of a political nature on the servers he trespassed on, is some kind of cult hero? Why? What did he do? Is it because his antagonistic stance against US foreign policy matches with the politics of the IT community? Is it because there is great sympathy in the IT community for people who fall somewhere on the Autism spectrum?

His crime attacked the United States. Why -shouldn't- he be extradited? If an American circumvented security measures against servers on Downing Street and deleted information, would the US not extradite him for prosecution in the UK?

I don't know... every time the United States wants to extradite a hacker the only impetus can be pure Machiavellian evil?

Isn't it possible, or even likely, that someone committed a crime and the prosecutors want that person punished? Because it's the law? And because that is what happens when you commit a crime?
Economically speaking, I'm fairly certain finding a wife is more expensive than a $8/hr freelancer though.
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How big is this market? Do you have a clear value proposition which will show bands (who are probably strapped for cash) how spending money on the jackets (which look like an interesting concept), is going to translate to more sales?

What are the margins like on this kind of business?
How much will it cost to acquire a customer?
Who are your competitors?

I would say in terms of direct response the biggest thing missing is you don't have a pic of a sample jacket.

Also something 90% of people forget. Give a stronger reason why someone should opt in to your beta?

Maybe put a quote (social proof) under the sign up form?

I'd also think about split testing the color and wording of that beta sign up button. It subconsciously remind me of the FB open graph login and some people don't like signing up that way (some do - so ABT...Always Be Testing)

good luck
Even then it wouldn't be correct. MATLAB is most often used in lab/academic settings where licenses are bought in bulk. Even students get a discount.
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This is only partially true, as Emacs still has very nonstandard default key bindings. I feel that if Emacs developers enabled more standard bindings by default (i.e. cua-mode, C-o for opening files, C-s for saving, etc), Emacs could win _a lot_ of new users, because, well, it wouldn't be much different than gedit in terms of basic usage. Traditional key bindings could be enabled by a single line in ~/.emacs .
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I'm picking up what you're putting down, but I was thinking more placeholders vs. mixins. Although I guess placeholders would avoid this code bloat too, and they can be used as selectors.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_American_internment
What on earth are you talking about? "Someone of my ilk?" Every single thing I said is 100% accurate. You just clearly didn't read your own post.
I really do understand your dissatisfaction, as I've felt the same way before about Blizzard games, but I actually feel like this is a game where always-online makes sense.

I've played SimCity since the last time there were no numbers on the box, and the best changes have always been the ones that fundamentally alter the gameplay, rather than add asked-for features like diagonal roads. SC 2012 may add plenty of those (curved roads!), but its real change is making multiplayer integral – playing in a live economy with other players. If it's executed right, opening it up to play solo on a plane should be as desirable as doing the same with Team Fortress 2.

As long as the multiplayer remains in service of gameplay (and not the quagmire of wall-posting "social gaming"), I'm really looking forward to this game.
It still irks me that people can tout off success as though it's guaranteed for small experiments such as this without even considering elements such as the Hawthorne effect - 'changed behaviour during the course of a study may be related to the special social situation and social treatment they received'
Thanks for the help. I see now you can get the URL by using the source browser then clicking 'checkout' to get the svn checkout URL.

I just wanted to check out the source, but setting up an Ubuntu VM to isolate gclient and that other nonsense was way too much work.
Enabling push API for universal interface with humans as endpoints - email.
Agreed. Without the IDE, there is no reason not to use Python.
Not just the ecosystem. A reliable company behind it.

Remember the PlaysForSure fiasco.

I could invest lots of money on surface digital content, and lose every cent of that content if suddenly surface is not the market leader and MS wants to steer in another direction.
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This naming may come from fact that some libraries for easing creation of programmed graphics and audiovisual displays are called "creative coding" / "creative programming" libs. It's a phrase that has been around for few years.

EDIT:

From the top of my head,

- http://libcinder.org/ - "Cinder is a community-developed, free and open source library for professional-quality creative coding in C++."

- http://www.openframeworks.cc/ - "openFrameworks is an open source C++ toolkit for creative coding."
He's not quoting the article; he's quoting The Princess Bride (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093779/quotes).
I agree. Text slicing and column-mode editing are the bees' knees. Being able to use it effectively is similar to being able to leverage multiple layers in an image editor: you won't want to go without it when it's the Right Tool.

In Eclipse, control-shift-a will toggle it, and in Komodo you can just use alt-shift to select in a column. (I like Eclipse's mode toggle better, frankly.) It exists in several other editors, of course -- I think Sublime Text 2's demo reel includes it.
Master of Orion 3 tried to "SimCity Manager" approach: the result was one of the least enjoyable games of all time.
In the UK we have something called the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health.

They provide evidence based advice. They've provided some advice about getting people with mental health problems who are claiming incapacity benefits off benefits and back into work.

The traditional response is a long slow curve; don't rush anything; work is stressful; start with a bit of part time voluntary work; build that up; there aren't enough jobs around anyway and no-ones going to employ mentally ill people and the stress of rejection is harmful. They also used to have a stock of low grade jobs (shelf filling at supermarkets) so when people turned up they'd get kludged into whatever was available.

The evidence shows that many people actually want to be much more active. We now have strong anti-discrimination laws. And "place then train" (get someone a job that they want, then support them to keep that job) is much more effective. If someone is a good employee an employer probably wants to keep them on, and if there's funding available to make reasonable adjustments then letting them know is good.

Here's a list of the Sainsbury Centre publications

(http://www.centreformentalhealth.org.uk/publications/publica...)
He's not quoting the article. He's mis-quoting the film The Princess Bride:

Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.
Depends on what else you're getting out of the arrangement.
For scripting I recommend these books:
1) Words that Sell
2) Cashvertizing

I have produced opt in rates north of 51% and actual front end sales conversion rates of 5% percent using those resources to help with building a script
Okay... maybe I should hire someone to do the same when I go on HN and post comments like this one ;o).
http://grove.io ?
Physicists crack another piece of the glass puzzle
I suspect this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2892050

One of the problems with downvoting new people - if they go negative, they're automatically hellbanned.
It's easier to convince yourself to disable that than to face the pressure of others.
However, there's a huge leap in productivity between having an editor whose keybinds you know (and can use without a mouse), and one which you have extended with extensive macros. That's like the difference between an out-of-the-box Emacs and SLIME.

Your Vim setup is awesome, but for a newbie to vim like me, it'll take a long time before I'm more productive using it -- not only would I need to internalize the keybinds and text processing tools, but I would also then have to start adding custom scripts and stuff, in order to do other things. (run unit tests, evaluate a block of code in an interpreter, etc)
It can be treated if you're in the lucky few who happen to have medication work for them and are able to tolerate the side effects (glad I fall into this category). Treatment's by no means guaranteed to work.
I think sleep research is one of the most interesting areas. We still have no clear explanation as to why we sleep, or what purpose sleep serves. The best we can do right now is list the problems that arise if we don't sleep.
Which is a shame because Master of Orion 2 was amazing.
You are lucky. When I tried that there was no Ubuntu, only RH and SuSe, and of course, Slackware. Nothing like OpenOffice or KOffice either.

My mom did not like LaTeX and went back to MS Word.
Show HN: Horizon, a calendar app with weather tailored to your events.
It's a tie between two strange books.

Alfred Bester's _The Stars My Destination_: It's deeply flawed, wackily 1950s, has ridiculous tech, and is one of the most entertaining books I have read.

Stanislaw Lem's _Solaris_: Strange, dry, bordering on boring, breaks every single law about overusing exposition I can think of...and somehow turns that into a riveting meditation on the nature of guilt and consciousness.
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Is your target audience absolute beginners to programming or experienced programmers who want to learn Rails?

One thing I Have never seen is a "why" you should learn Rails and what you can do with it. What kind of web apps can I build? What can I do with it? Why would I want to?

Personally, I don't go for the informal tone, but it wasn't over the top and many books tend to go that way so no problem.

I like that it seems you won't be preaching about side technologies like git or tdd. It is an added difficulty when people add extra complications to a book, especially an intro level book. My personal opinion, don't go preachy on formatting or style either, just use well written examples for people to learn from and they will pick up your style.
Hey guys, I am the creator of Horizon. Horizon strives to be the most intuitive and easy to use iPhone calendar app ever made. It provides the weather at the time and location of every event in your calendar. The app is not quite ready yet, I'm estimating about 3 months until launch. You can sign up to be notified of its release by following the link, and if you refer 10 people you'll get a free copy when it comes out! If anybody is interested in beta testing, please email me at kyle.rosenbluth@gmail.com
I'm surprised none of the top-comments has mentioned that this causes problems for startups legitimately trying to hire the best people they can find globally.

On of the many things USCIS doesn't understand about young (pre series-A) startups is that the compensation is often a mix of equity and a below market salary that is bumped up significantly upon raising money.

My lawyer tells me that H-1B denials have been piling up in the last few months. Perhaps it is the USCIS response to practices like the one described in the article.
Only so much an intern can do in a summer, I suppose.