skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The drivers are the ones who get hosed in the current situation, being legally compelled to offer their services at sub-market rates.

You're a programmer. What about the people who do not have the means to hire you to write code for them. Should you be required to offer your services for $8/hour? Should the rate for programmers be fixed at $25/hour?

Economics is the study of the allocation of scarce resources. Our policy choices are a reflection of those decisions. I'm open to a debate on capitalism as a concept - I certainly think it has its pluses and minuses - I don't consider myself a laissez-faire capitalist by any stretch of the imagination. But at some point every decision is a decision that has consequences - we're allocating scarce resources, which means that we're balancing diverse interests in some way.

If you believe that "hiring a vehicle" means "depriving someone else of a cab that they are entitled to" and thus has a cost to society, another policy choice would be to tax cab transactions and then distributing the proceeds evenly across the population.
Forget Drones: Sphero Will Deliver Your Packages With Amazon Ground
The bigger problem is customers opinion of the company and service. Great you got my business when I was over a barrel but I'll probably use someone else the other 99 times. Amazon keeps its pricing low for a reason. cutting fees during emegencies is how you build customer loyalty.
This is an interesting practice, thanks for sharing. I'm really curious about different sorts of hybrid approaches being used in the wild.

I'd be curious to hear how the day-to-day schedule ends up working out between developers, since the review process is synchronous in this case.
Requesting Asylum, Snowden Offers to Help Brazil With N.S.A. Inquiry
IBM Watson opens API in 2014
Just like auction houses - it's a winner takes all. The biggest exchange has the hughest volume and lowest spread.

As for competitors lowering their fees - one can onlly do it as long as it has funding to do so.

Here you can witness a perfect example of a free market economy leading to a suboptimal situation. And an example of usefullness of antitrust laws.
Interesting to see go moving up there.

Curious - any reason why you guys don't have ASP.NET tests in Windows with SQL Server? I fiddled with the filters and found none.

Update: Never mind. I see it now. You don't have Windows tests on EC2.
Lots of black money in their market cannot be easily/quickly cashed out now anyway.

The fees were about to come. The timing is a bit puzzling but really it's been a while already since the announcements (in BTC time-scale a few weeks is a lot of time).
Congratulations on a good run. I was fortunate to meet Kalvin, Randy, and Suelyn near the beginning of Ridejoy, just after they were funded, and I thought it was a great service.

It's a shame that the planets didn't align this time for them, but they're all wildly talented and creative individuals who are certain to go on to greater successes.

Thanks for providing the wrap-up at the end of the journey. These kind of stories are very inspirational as well.
Well, you start with your own education. Then, when you are confident that you are capable, you start with educating others.

How that works? Go there. Simply, go to the most impoverished place in the world that you can stand, and teach what you know.

This isn't so hard as it sounds, but for some reason is also (at the same time) one of the most difficult things in all the world for humankind to do.

Same as it ever was.
That's absolutely more fair than the poor getting screwed no matter what.
IBM Watson Cognitive Mobile Apps
The problem with roads is congestion.

It would make more sense to create new roads, but limit their use to coaches and HGVs. This would reduce congestion on existing roads, and provide more point-to-point capacity. Trains are great if you want to travel between places on a fast main-line but most journeys are more complicated than that.
For Startups: Building for the Enterprise 101
It's a huge accusation. Not one I'd make lightly.

At first I was furious about it, that I'd wasted so much time into comments that would almost always float to the bottom (when I used to have a ~50% top comment rate, that went to zero). Now I'm more flattered by it: it means that PG is trying to censor what I say-- that my comments are important enough to merit a personal rankban.

I also have good reasons to believe that PG is making the decision because he's been pressured by others in the VC world. I don't know that they specifically mentioned me (or even know who I am, for that matter) but he's definitely been told to "do something" about the formerly prominent anti-VC posts that tend to do well here (excluding rankban).
Microsoft Exec to take over Healthcare.gov
3 years of probation for a single graffiti tag? Talk about proportions here.
Show HN: Forking Consumer Product Designs
Hi Everyone,

We've been working on a new way to stop "Zombie shopping" by building a social-commerce platform where anyone can create a personalized product via "Remixing" aka forking, copyrighted art & design.

http://JuicyCanvas.com/Go

I would love your thoughts.

Thanks,

Deb | co-founder
Or maybe /dev/random ?
In the U.S., we have 'at-will employment' laws. So, unless you're caught stealing, engaging in racial or sexual discrimination or harassment, doing drugs, or committing some felonious criminal offense (though even then those last two cases it is still arguable), you can be fired without just cause and without warning, and any court will dismiss any standing claims against the employer. Thus, if you're told you're not a 'culture fit', that's actually more than most companies need to tell you when they boot you out the door.
This guy hit the ball into orbit, and he's not just talking about TED. He's talking about the entire "scene."

-- From the article:

T and Technology

T - E - D. I’ll go through them each quickly.

So first Technology...

We hear that not only is change accelerating but that the pace of change is accelerating as well.
While this is true of computational carrying-capacity at a planetary level, at the same time --and in fact the two are connected-- we are also in a moment of cultural de-acceleration.

We invest our energy in futuristic information technologies, including our cars, but drive them home to kitsch architecture copied from the 18th century. The future on offer is one in which everything changes, so long as everything stays the same. We'll have Google Glass, but still also business casual.

This timidity is our path to the future? No, this is incredibly conservative, and there is no reason to think that more Gigaflops will inoculate us.

Because, if a problem is in fact endemic to a system, then the exponential effects of Moore’s Law also serve to amplify what’s broken. It is more computation along the wrong curve, and I don't it is necessarily a triumph of reason.

Part of my work explores deep technocultural shifts, from post-humanism to the post-anthropocene, but TED’s version has too much faith in technology, and not nearly enough commitment to technology. It is placebo technoradicalism, toying with risk so as to re-affirm the comfortable.

So our machines get smarter and we get stupider. But it doesn’t have to be like that. Both can be much more intelligent. Another futurism is possible.
I wonder how this works for people who have stayed up for multiple days at a time. I know of people who have underwent sleep deprivation studies for over several days. The current record, I think, is 2 weeks. Personally, I have stayed up 3 nights in a row once to study for a chemistry exam. I've had great mental clarity and focus during the entire time. Yes, it was harder to do than fully rested. But, I have often found that I do better under pressure anyways.

By the way, I also ended up getting the highest score on the exam and in the class. It was a brutal chemistry course. Only two of us got A's, and the other guy got an A-.
I worked at StreetEasy for 3 years (helping lead the dev team and writing lots of code) when it was a fast growing startup and we didn't work a 4 day week, but we worked normal business hours (9-5,10-6'ish) and never ever worked weekends - unless you felt like working on some code. One of the co-founders there had the opinion that we were in it for the long haul, not for the sprint, so why burn out early. This seemed to work out well [1].

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-08-19/zillow-paying-50-mi...
That's why node modules generally don't throw exceptions, but rather pass them as the first argument to the callback.

I think you can catch async errors if you call the throw method on the generator.

http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:generators#me...
An unrelated note to the author: Please contemplate adding an RSS/Atom feed so that your blog may be easily followed.
police brutality

Yup. Just because we're not talking about shared grandmothers in villages doesn't mean we're more sophisticated. The brutal kill-the-infidel groups can form anywhere scared people with low self esteem get grouped together. "If I hurt these people, others will think highly of me!" Except here, the weak low self esteem people have electricity, chemicals, and guns instead of sticks and stones.
Startup’s turned 7.3M lbs of CO2 emissions into income for the world's poorest.
Couldn't it be that early Teds harvested low hanging fruit? By that I mean a backlog of 20 years worth of under exposed idea people? Once you've done Frans de Waal (etc.) you can't just go find another.
Sorry for a content-free post, but I just want to say thanks for roots; it changed my workflow in a lot of positive ways.
Why do they sat that rubber hosing is legal in UK? Did I miss something?
I highly doubt it, the Czech Republic signed the Berne Convention along with the rest of Europe.
Because I just bought it for no real reason.
From title I thought they moved into funeral services.
You feeling ancient thinking back about Pak, lharc, arj and bimodem makes me feel really ancient. I remember dialing the BBS on the phone and then sticking the handset in the acoustic coupler of my Novation CAT which was connected to the LNW System Expansion attached to my TRS-80 Model 1.
The only people who get to play are the ones the government lets use the track. Even if they would let you play you need a lot of money up front.

Effectively closed market, high cost of entry, the gov demands money from them for the privilege so has an incentive to not bring prices down.... And if you choose not to use it the gov gets you again on fuel tax.

I suspect whatever the underlying economics were it would be expensive. It's essentially a monopoly with a, from an end user standpoint, perverse incentive structure.
You are right about the macro/micro point. That occurred to me during the writing of that post, but I decided to leave it in there because I was wrong and I did not want to confuse anyone else interested in the discussion.

You are correct, obviously, that wealth is created by people doing things that satisfy demand. For the purposes of our discussion, wealth is measured in dollars. Let's say there are two people on earth. One has 100 dollars, the other has 0 dollars. The person with zero dollars creates some widget that the dude with 100 dollars wants and charges the other guy 80 dollars for it. Guy 1 now has 20 dollars and guy 2 now has 80 dollars. Guy 2 created his wealth (his 80 dollars) by doing/building/whatever something that guy 1 wanted. Am I thinking about this too simply? How is it possible that wealth (measured in dollars) is introduced into an economy without it coming from another participant in the market?
I use an $80 standing desk with a $20 anti-fatigue mat.
Since it's sort of on topic can someone tell me why "=>" is better than "." for assigning or access properties / methods? Brendan seems to want to head this direction and I'm not too excited about it.
My language isn't entirely confined to reality all the time. Sometimes there's crosstalk in inadvertent ways.

Sorry for any hurts.
Well how about central planning vs free market? Logically, the former must win as more efficient per your own argument, and yet in the long run free market wins.
Woops. Meant that as "a few hours daily all month long, then a long long sleep once a month".
Unfortunately the explanations aren't left as code comments, so they may be lost.

One ting nice about code review is that the code must stand on its own to pass. That means that it's likely to be understandable a year from now.
I used to work in a lab. I discovered napping with my head on the microscope. I had to work on positioning just right but it was fantastic for the 2pm doldrums.
BT is more than just the ex GPO business they where moving into the big international business in a big way.

Ironically abroad BT is often seen as the fast new innovative disrupting company when compared to incumbent telcos.
> You can't profit off of "80% chance of moving strongly up or down at this specific time"

Sure you can, you buy a set of options which pay off if it moves high or low enough. The reason you can't, in practice, profit is that such opportunities will tend to have already been priced into the cost of those options. But not because there's no such thing as a strategy to profit off of volatility!
Not sure what's in your link, in any case here's a Youtube version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQd-0YXqmR0
I would choose /dev/urandom. But you might as well be writing to /dev/null.

Edit: beat by 3 minutes and a stale cached page.
Is there a drive that does the opposite? A drive that converts intermittent rotary motion to continuous rotation? I never studied this sort of thing in school, unfortunately.
In order to clarify a few points in our setup, we've added this scheme to the protocol description page [0],[1].

We are indeed using well-known older algorithms, created in the days when bandwidth and processing power were both a much rarer commodity. This has valuable side-effects for modern-day mobile development, provided one takes care of the known drawbacks.

The weakspots of the said algorithms are also well-known, and have been exploited for decades. We used these algorithms in such a combination that, to our best knowledge, prevents any known attack from possibly succeeding. Although we’d be grateful to see any evidence of the contrary (so far absent from this thread) and update our system accordingly.

While other ways of achieving the same cryptographic goals, undoubtedly, exist, we feel that the present solution is both robust and also sucсeeds at our secondary task of beating unencrypted messengers in terms of delivery time and stability.

[0] ­­– https://core.telegram.org/img/mtproto_encryption.png
[1] - http://core.telegram.org/mtproto/description
There are two kinds of accidental racisms. The kind where the speaker means what he says, but does not identify it as being wrong. The second is where the speaker mis-speaks and doesn't actually mean to convey what the readers see as racist. I believe this is a case of the second.
True that now Dart wants to be standardized (see http://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/12/14/2047248/google...) and Dartium, we see Google's pushing it pretty hard!

Maybe it takes the horsepower of Google to replace a language as widespread as JS.
PHP related:

Sensio Labs (Symfony) announced a $7 million investment yesterday:

https://sensiolabs.com/en/a_propos/communique_de_presse_fund...

More here:

http://fabien.potencier.org/article/71/sensiolabs-raises-5-m...
"We work a 4-day week a̶n̶d̶ because we just raised $4.75m." I'd love to work a 0-day week on Other People's Money. Not sure I'd write an insufferably smug post bragging about it if I did.
[edit] Just noticed that this is a two-year old blog post and the first comment on it refers to "smug HN trolling" so more fool me.
This is true, they are better than Jersey Shore.

I have noticed that the local PBS station runs a bunch of program in the evenings that are very much like TED talks. Most of them are doctors talking about health and nutrition.

If you look at TED as a new form of TV channel that runs on Internet TV (rather than broadcast TV), then it makes more sense.
I cannot find Flask in the list. Any specific reason?
Motivation for veterans
OP here. Happy to answer any questions on the process, the auction or the closing.

And thanks for submitting, akcreek!
The people that "love the government", are the lobbysist and political donors. They are the ones that receive the benefit of from this tax dodge, from the cash left over.

Make sense now?
Tesco (experimental) Product Finder
Shopping at Tesco this Christmas? The Tesco R&D Team give you access to Tesco Product Finder, an experimental web-based application designed to work on any modern mobile smartphone. You can find any UK Tesco branch then, if we have product location info for that branch, locate the shelf of a grocery product you search for.
Connect your phone to the Tesco wifi in-store and follow this link to our experimental product finder application. Can be used out with stores too. Do read terms & conditions before using. Service run on best endeavours basis only. May be slow if under heavy use. If you want to try it in a desktop browser, use a narrow browser window.
I'd love to see how many lines of code each test required, but it's probably impossible to do in a fair way

edit: I meant in the chart, at a glance
$63.7M invested in food tech media startups in Nov
This assumes that everyone has equal access to distribution in the app/play store, which is not the case.

Most apps grow organically at first, and at that stage, swift iteration is critical.

Also, there's a difference between shipping buggy software and quickly testing new features.
I've wondered... if the price of a BTC differs from one currency/exchange to the next, what stops you from buying at the cheap and selling at the expensive one?
The Stena Line ferry to Holland is also superb, it can be very cheap, or you can get a "captain class" cabin that was actually bigger than my flat...
Gotcha.. that makes sense.. even a link to an apk w/ screen shots though or a QR code would be much preferred. Having a box to enter my phone # makes me think I'm going to get spammed and I immediately click off.
Regarding symfony2 at the bottom - I submitted a simple pull request to try and fix some issues with the setup, but it's been sitting and sitting there...

https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/pull/650
What do "income gaps" produce? If my neighbor makes $10 million a year and I make $100,000, how does that affect my life?

Many of the "poor" in our country are obese. That should tell you something. They aren't that poor. They have houses, cars, food, and clothing. Poor people can go to college for free (Pell Grant), eat for free (EBT), have housing for free (HUD), and get a check to pay for other living expenses (welfare). We have proven that providing all of these things to people with no strings attached does not lift them to a higher plane.

How will it help to take another billion dollars from a family who knows how to manage money and give it to a bunch of families who don't?
Butter chicken at Birla
I know 90%+ of the HN crowd sides, with good reason, against Elsevier, but I’d like us to not use the word “war” unless there is mutual, systematic murder between enemies.

War is a terrible thing. We shouldn’t water down our only real word for it by applying it too loosely.
I believe the tests are open-sourced on GitHub.
The side without minds just going along with their tribal affiliations for the glory of their own actions.

Wait, that doesn't clear anything up.

Also see: UK football hooliganism, SF/LA sports riots, SF/Berkeley injustice riots, and YC circles making rich well known people richer and weller knowner.
"Works best in Chrome"

Microsoft tried this with ActiveX. Deja-vu, all over again. http://technologizer.com/2010/09/16/the-unwelcome-return-of-...

In Google's words: "The goal of the Dash (Dart) effort is ultimately to replace JavaScript as the lingua franca of Web development on the open Web platform"

I will never support Google's walled garden. Dart is a pathogen.
[Ridejoy] I've also used CL rideshare, and many of our users did too. CL rideshare works great for the people who keep using it (by definition). It doesn't work so well for most people-- if you feel especially vulnerable (are you male?), or if you want to share a ride without having to spend tons of time on coordination, ahead of time and day of (CL: ~50 back-and-forth SMS, Ridejoy: a few screens).

I love Couchsurfing-- and it "works fine"-- but I was also glad to see Airbnb succeed.
Only if you're under the impression Mr. Internet Tough-guy would actually do it.
That's (probably) another topic, but it seems that FP is the new sexy :D
People like TED. TED is sooooo OVER.
- Hipster Professor

http://youtu.be/UOXsmNhvPEU
Yes and no. Working in an office, but I go to the gym 3 times a week, 2 hours each time. I also take public transportation to go to work which require me about one hour of walk daily.

I also spend all that not sleeping time with friends in bars and clubs.

I never needed much sleep. My mother had to ground me because I wouldn't sleep or wouldn't stay in bed. After a while I would simply get tired of laying still not sleeping and I would read books or watch tv.

I used to be a sleep walker as a young child too...
An Affordable, Adaptable, Resilient, Robust Robotic Hand
I'm pretty sure I was talking about how much I liked TED last month on HN. Now, suddenly, I'm re-evaluating whether or not I actually enjoyed those talks or if I just thought I enjoyed them.
> The real problem is the core NodeJS libraries aren't promise compliant.

This isn't a problem at all in practice.

To say that node core is not "promise compliant" gives people the idea that there is something that prevents them from using promises in node. In reality, most promise libraries have a "denodeify" function that will convert any function that expects a node-style callback into one that returns a promise instead.

var fs = require('fs');
var rsvp = require('rsvp');

// Create a version of fs.readFile that returns
// a promise instead of expecting a callback.
var readFile = rsvp.denodeify(fs.readFile);

readFile('/etc/passwd', 'utf8').then(function (contents) {
// do something with the file contents
}, function (error) {
// handle the error
});

It is similarly easy to convert functions that expect other types of callbacks (read: not node-style callbacks where the first argument is always an error) to functions that return promises using deferreds.
Dell Starts to Craft an API Integration Strategy
Well-said.

My point was more on shipping new features quickly, not shipping buggy software. It's up to your engineering process to ship solid software. The Play Store just enables your product team to figure out product/market fit ASAP.
By the way, did you guys consider package delivery, instead of just people? I did a b-school project on that concept, ie RideJoy but for package delivery. My test route was going to be I-95.

Old beta site:

http://web.archive.org/web/20100505134839/http://www.meshipu...
I doubt he'd actually punch someone in the face, it's a bit of bravado to make a point: a lot of the "company culture" doesn't have anything to do with making the business work and more to do with people's personal preferences.
> It gives me the impression that it's probably not worth reading

Would you be willing to expand on this impression? I've worked with a number of charities who have suffered various minor website attacks, and blocking Tor (only for non-activist sites, of course) is a common mitigatory technique.
https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks
Except in the UK, 80p of every pound you spend on petrol is tax. The road system is very well funded.
Learning Linux makes you a better programmer? That's what I'm talking about in a nutshell. "Learning GNU/Linux" doesn't make one a better programmer. I'm not even sure how that's supposed to work...you know that there are really good programmers that use other platforms, right?