skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I dunno... given the perpetual problems with Flash, the password leaks, etc., I wouldn't hold up Adobe as a paragon of excellence.
If they hired you and determined in 2 weeks you were a bad fit that proves they are shitty at selecting employees.

If I were you I would do a couple of things before I beat myself up - if you experience this kind of thing at your next job then perhaps I'd worry, but 2 weeks at one company? (1) - Do a little research on the company (glassdoor tends to be negative but still worth looking into, google the company and see what other people's experience has been). (2) - Do some freelance work and see what the feedback is from who you do work for.

What feedback did you get in the 2 weeks you were there?
TestMDM – A simple MDM platform to help test iOS 7 enterprise apps
Crazed Ferrets in a Berkeley Shower – 2014 edition
They're not referring to a drivers license here, which would be eminently sane. They're referring to taxi licenses, which are artificially restricted.

40-1-193. (a) No transportation referral service provider subject to this part shall contract with, utilize, or refer individuals or entities to limousine carriers or taxi services that are not properly licensed by the state or a political subdivision of this state, are not properly insured under state or local law, or which use drivers that are not properly licensed under state and local law to carry passengers for hire.
Has anyone thought of quitting before, but didn't give up?
I like some kinds of advice. I am a very recent founder who knows very little about a lot of things. But sure, there are two types of advice that annoys me, for one I learned to have patience for the other I learned to ignore.

I learned to be patient with who knows absolutly nothing about my business, my sector, my technology or startups in general. Friends of friends and relatives in general. It is good to have patience because most of time they give you ridiculous ideas (because they know nothing of your business), but every few times you realize you got a very interesting idea, something that you would never thought, precisely because they have a completely different background and experiences.

But the type of advice I learned to ignore are the ones from "experts". Such as the case of the OP. They are usually founders and mentors, both experienced and newbies. The problem is that they think they know what is your problem, and they know what would be the solution. And worst, usually the solution comes with a lecture about how you suck on doing something you obviously should be doing, ie, following a famous advice from a famous person: "get out of the building", "do something people want", recently the "do things that don't scale".

TL;DR If the advice comes from some random person and starts with "What if.." or "Have you tried...", be patient, you will hear a lot of nonsense, but sometimes it will pay off.
But if the advice comes from someone who think they are better than you on what you are doing, and starts with "You are not doing X right.." or "you must do <famous advice> more", forget it, it is BS.
Rather than installing Ruby 2.1 from source using rbenv, it is also possible to install Ruby 2.1 using APT, by using the Brightbox PPA: https://launchpad.net/~brightbox/+archive/ruby-ng
The Phusion Passenger APT packages are compatible with the Brightbox Ruby packages.
Did you find anyone? I guess there are not that many people willing to rent their glasses in NYC
I too was surprised at Uber's tone. I mean, requiring commercial drivers to have a commercial insurance policy and ensuring that the measured rates are accurate as measured by a neutral 3rd party are only things that could help differentiate Uber's service. Plus, unless they have posted per-mile or per-hour livery rates, Uber's pitch as a private, centrally dispatched livery/transport service should make their pricing manipulations okay.

I actually almost hope this passes?
For me, this signifies how much the mobile gaming interface sucks. Touch sucks when it comes to games. Only simple things like flicking a bird and solving puzzles[1] are enjoyable without a physical controller - for most people.

Also, this is basically a download and delete app. Are there any stats on that?

[1] candy crush, sudoku, dots, words with friends, even angry birds is a strategy more so than a skill and could be called a puzzle
If you'd like to let him know what you think about this, be sure to check him out on twitter @timarmstrongaol

https://twitter.com/timarmstrongaol
What do you mean?

The entire REASON we're outraged is because we REALIZE it was nothing more than political! If that is a technique they teach... all I can say is that it doesn't work very well here on HN. Benefit cuts for political action has lost A LOT of support around the tech industry today.
I've come to believe that there are moments, for me, where I have accidentally attained some sort of threshold of knowledge where despite never measuring up to a task before, I revisit it for the 10th time, and this time, for some reason, I'm able to start making progress.

I'd keep reading, but also, just do some dead simple tutorials in whatever space you are interested in. Codecademy was a great motivator for me, because though I had read a ton, I hadn't managed to really accomplishing anything on my own. With their hand-holding I was suddenly genuinely understanding concepts that had been very fuzzy to me up to that point.

http://codecademy.com

Give it a shot :) Good luck!
Apparently the national numbers aren't as bad as I thought, closer to 9%. I've edited my post upthread.

Related to the topic of Obamacare, cost inflation has actually slowed down the last few years. So that makes basically everyone complaining about Obamacare costs a big fat liar.

Here's a conservative blog for a source:
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/353475/slowdown-health-...
What would you recommend? I don't drink a lot of wine so I tend to just buy $14ish bottles of American Pinot Noir or Reislings.
> Nothing you say changes this point - if you make it easy for 80 year olds to get through security, 80 year olds will be the ones with bombs.

The whole point of my comment is to refute this idea, so I guess I'm in trouble. Let me try to phrase things differently.

For every person in the world, there is a cost to recruit them into your organization as an attacker, which I postulate is low for young Arab men and high for Laotian grandmothers (and also high for 80-year-olds generally). Call this cost function COST(x).

There is also a likelihood that if they attempt an attack, they will succeed. Call this EFFECTIVENESS(x).

I can only interpret "if you make it easy for 80 year olds to get through security, 80 year olds will be the ones with bombs. Whether by recruiting, coercion, or anything" as saying that a terrorist group sending an attacker t will strictly try to maximize EFFECTIVENESS(t). But that's wrong. A terrorist group sending an attacker t will try to maximize EFFECTIVENESS(t)/COST(t).

Imagine some categories like so:

Age Sex Ethnicity EFFECTIVENESS COST
19 M Syrian 10% $20,000
80 M Egyptian 60% $150,000
80 F Laotian 80% $250,000

Obviously, it's easier for the 80-year-old Laotian female to get through security (or they're just generally more competent, or whatever). But it's cheaper (80% of the cost), and more effective (25% more expected successes), to send 10 19-year-old Syrian men. So, in a world where these numbers were accurate, we'd expect to see terrorist organizations using young Arab men to make their attacks even though they're eight times less likely to clear security than 80-year-old Laotian women. That means the correct thing to do with extra security is to completely ignore the high success rates of 80-year-olds and try to drive the effectiveness of Arab teens even lower.

> your argument about recruiting rates, while possibly correct, is, well, irrelevant :)

I'm not making an argument about recruiting rates; point me to where I mentioned the concept. I'm making an argument about recruiting costs. Doesn't matter why the cost is what it is, or whether your attackers are there voluntarily.
Agreed, but they also should make us examine the regulation of taxi services more skeptically.
If this such a risk, Why hasn't this happened yet? Corporate phones all have remote kill switches, and are high value targets of harassment.
Why not? That's clearly the point, and that's why it's relevant to this community. I suppose it should probably be in the passive voice, but that's a nit.
To prop the price up would require buying not selling BTC, so how much BTC you currently hold doesn't matter so much as how much USD you can pump in to keep the price up.

As for how well that would go, well the UK government tried something similar once:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Wednesday
Report: IBM to peddle its chip wing
actually according to dewey:

From their forum: "As nearly 270,000 of you now use hubiC, we have been able to confirm our technical decisions and this volume has enabled us to further optimise our infrastructure and its performances. Result: we're now able to lower our prices again, and this time we're aiming for nothing less than a million users!"
Is the national review less biased?

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/353475/slowdown-health-...
Thanks, beat me to it. Which leads me to ask, were IBM near bankrupt before roaring back?
Hi, my name is Ben and I just filled out my first 'traditional' performance review ever. I guess the company's trying to act mature or something. I feel like sharing..

The whole form was full of buzzwords, felt moronic and - useless. You were supposed to judge yourself in various ways, with arbitrary scales and that thing was full of vague descriptions that could've just as easily been part of a horoscope. Or .. a fortune cookie.

I'm tempted to send an update to my performance review and link to this article, maybe we can drop this 'tradition' after one (miserable) attempt? Or .. I post it on our Yammer. God, we're a hip company..
My first experience with AI was playing against a chess computer in the 1980's and losing. I was young, didn't understand computers, and wasn't a very good chess player, but after I kept losing I had this eerie feeling about the machine, like it was an actual sentient being. I've been aware of the power of anthropomorphism ever since and noticed the readiness for humans to do ascribe feelings and thoughts to things that don't actually have them. The computer is the medium and tool for capturing the intelligence and data of the programmers behind it, so I think the right question is asking if Watson is self-aware. There is no evidence to support that and it is doubtful it will happen any time soon, but that's almost irrelevant. The combination of the user, the computer, the programmers behind them and the world's data working together is a new kind of intelligence and is almost frightening in it's power.
The article that this one refers to is behind a paywall at http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7451e31a-8f90-11e3-9cb0-00144feab7...
I dont know why everything about OVH 's graphics and design all seems to have a distinct lack of taste. In other words they are ugly.

Now back to topic.
How much is it in USD then? Since it paid in Euro and includes VAT by default. What if i dont need to pay VAT?
No, bitcoin depends on there being a majority of honest (or whatever you want to call it) miners.
Show HN: Share business logic between iOS, Android and Web
Don't forget batteries. They're very valuable to thieves too. Maybe the killswitch can make them explode.
Reminded me of NextGenHacker101's Tracer-T instructional video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXmv8quf_xM
I would love to see some further investigation into this. My initial thought is that if it's shown likely, someone needs to make a little utility that just loads speedtest.net every minute or so in the background.
Yes. They've helped us find that: no, once we have a reputation economy, we don't need the government to tell us who we can safely get in a car with.
You've obviously never tried to hail an Uber from a dodgy neighborhood in Boston then. It takes me twice as long to get picked up where I live, versus my girlfriend, and I generally have to go through a driver switch or two.
"We're from the government, and we're here to help."
Unfortunately I've noticed a major obstacle to getting nearby hardware talking to each other: WPA.

Seriously, why prevent people from using a network? If you're relying on WPA for security then you shouldn't be connecting to the Internet in the first place. The most common thing I hear when guests see that my WiFi is open is that people will 'steal the bandwidth', as if the local exchange will magically run faster if there are enough residences connected to it! Also, given the monopoly position of phone provider, getting everyone to throw more money at them for the privilege of having multiple overlapping, mutually-exclusive networks is not a good plan.
I bought apple at 21. Sold right after the split. Ugh.
One last one to end them all.
How I hacked Github again
It is a bit distracting to place a theoretical problem in an unnecessarily morbid context. We don't have to be dark to be cool. How about a "cheerleader coordination problem" or the "Sing Happy Birthday problem"?
Huh. Can anyone think of why this isn't going to totally dominate the videoconference space in a few years? Cheaper + works better == huge win, no?
Google has offices in Paris.
MtGox is one of the biggest and most well known. As I understand each exchange basically sets there own price - but if one exchange lowers there buy price (they buy bitcoins for less dollars) then the others can do too?

This is great for MtGox, all buy transactions pending just lost a $100 of the cost to fulfil. Surely then they wait for the bottom, initiate all transactions possible.

Price rises and they can take in more dollars per bitcoin sold, speculating, that may be all that enables them to actually deposit the amounts on the transactions they "fulfilled" in order to make the price bounce.

Crazy business.
You can also just set dataset[0] on the raw element:

document.getElementById('myProgrecss').dataset.progrecss = '<PERCENT>';

[0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLElement...
The actual scientists, who aren't bigots, have concluded that trans women have no testosterone advantage. After a year or two, a trans woman on testosterone blockers and estrogen (or surgery and estrogen) has the musculature of a woman. Bone mass doesn't change, but that's a disadvantage - more weight to lug around. This is why the olympics and other sporting bodies allow trans women to compete as women.
Yes, but the taxi companies aren't arguing that their regulations should be relaxed. They are arguing that they should apply to more people -- especially these new services like Uber that are doing well.
I think you're talking about market depth? You would have to buy enough to exhaust the people who are willing to sell cheaply, before you could start buying at a higher price. http://bitcoincharts.com/markets/mtgoxUSD_depth.html This graph shows how many bitcoins you would have to buy/sell (on this exchange) to get to a given price.
Networks do not have the same physics/geometry as the vacuum of space, latency cannot be assumed to be 0.
> No matter how core it is to your religion, you may not injure or kill me.

Well, you should respect my religion or at least be sensitive about it (if you want to have some dialog). When I come to your country, I won't make a fuss seeing gays kiss. When you come to my country, do not go protesting the fact there no gays kissing in public.

> Maybe some day we'll be perfectly accepting of sex in public, but I feel you are trying to conflate different arguments.

It's the same thing. Having sex in public is not dangerous to anyone, it's someone's natural function. It is simply in the Western culture, when done in public, it produces a cultural shock. Kissing gays produce a similar shock in Russia.

> this talk of corrupting youth is archaic garbage.

Is the prohibition to have sex in public archaic garbage? How about smoking marijuana? I accept that it may be ok for Dutch people and it may not be ok in US. I also have my own views on that, but I am not imposing them on these countries.

> Sure, your culture loves it, but that's because it has some growing up to do.

You are suggesting my culture is inferior to yours, and you are allowed to teach me about that. How nice is that? My feeling is that it's not just your view, it's a common view in the West, and that's the main problem in the West vs. Russia dialog.
The company isn't a church or a charity or an example of excellent morality. It is for profit. There are places to work that offer no benefits mind you. Somewhere along the lines people ought to realize that their negative reactions from this stem from two things: Going from more to less bothers people. Someone who has more than others taking more those with nothing also, bothers people. If employees (those two babies by proxy) are costing the company more (big assumption if that is the case), it makes a lot of sense to adjust employee related costs to compensate for such events, as opposed to re-appropriating the money from somewhere else despite what your sense of morality dictates.

I find it equally hilarious that everyone blames the 'singling out' as the criminal act here. Singling out only works if the mob (other AOL employees) actually target those two women, and how fucked up would that be? Are you really going to ignore the employees moral responsibilities to not target women with children in need but call out only the CEO?

French revolution mentality.
You are correct. It is completely unreasonable to ask Uber to license there drivers like all of the other transportation services.
isn't this actually veiled advice-giving, i.e. "don't give advice" ?
All phones have a builtin kill switch. You need to compel the phone company to turn it off. But then there are ham radios. This is how things were done in Egypt... Look at how that turned out.
I find chruby (https://github.com/postmodern/chruby) to be a much nicer alternative to rbenv nowadays.
6 isn't really measurable as a number.

Blockchain doesn't have info for 1,2,3,4 or 5.
Ask HN: which are the "Good Parts" of JavaScript?
Some days ago I read "JavaScript, The Good Parts" from Crockford, and at the end I felt like the language has very few good parts. I know which elements of the language must be avoided, so it is very clear to me what are the bad parts. However, I just cannot identify too many good ones.

That is why I would like to know which parts of JavaScript are the ones you like most.
I have an idea, how about the government stay the hell away from my smartphone and let the free market decide what smartphones are theft-safe and which are not?

This is why computer science should be a required subject going forward, only individuals good at programming will be able to resist the tendrils, malware, viruses and government backdoor trojans trying to get inside us and instruct us what actions to perform today to fill other mens pockets with wealth whom we don't even know or care about.
Hey woogley,

Thanks for that :) I was actually unaware of that method and I prefer that style if I'm honest.

Thanks!
Annual Performance Reviews is one of the reasons why I chose to be a consultant. Really. I always have a smile on my face when my boss announces the dreaded annual review time in a meeting and then looks at me and goes "Not you of course". Love the feeling that I don't have to worry about that crap.

You may not like Adobe for many reasons but this move is definitely worth a welcome. It is high time companies stop this madness of "annual performance reviews" which really does not mean much.

""The aim is to give people information when they need it rather than months after teachable moments have passed,"

Exactly. You just cannot sit down one fine day (read: end of the year) and discuss the performance for the entire year. Just does not work for human beings like that. We are good and bad on different days. Some days, we are ultra productive, some we just slack off. I would rather have my team/manager talk to me more often about what I am doing right when it actually happens. Same with what I did not do well at the time when it happened. This gives me the opportunity to learn quickly.

The end of year discussion in reality is more like "I do not really know the details of what you did exactly but I know you were ok for the most part. Here is a couple of things you can change, blah blah. You get a satisfactory rating blah. " That's for most of us. A few unlucky ones get the shorter end of the stick "We have to fire the bottom 5% and we thought you are one of those. Not much specifics specially compared to co-workers"

I want real metrics and feedback to be incorporated in my review. Not the end of year survey sent to a few people I choose who will mostly say good things about me (hopefully). By real feedback, I mean the email that my customer sent saying "You saved my life today. You are awesome". This email should be filed/shared with my manager who will then know the background of why the customer said so. stuff like that is real feedback.

The biggest problem I see with performance reviews is the fact that there is no way to compare my work with my co-workers in terms of effectiveness, customer satisfaction and quality delivery. I m not saying that it should become a competition of who is better but there must be a way to tell me that someone else did a better job at xyz while I was really good at abc.

"It also bolsters accountability because managers have far more responsibility for setting employee compensation than under the old system"

This. A 1000 times. It is sickening to hear the same old argument from your direct manager that "sorry if I could, I would give you a better raise. But my hands are tied because I am told so". One huge reason why I quit working fulltime and became a consultant. You pay me what we agreed and I live with it. When my contract rolls, I might ask for a raise and if you decline, it is my choice to stay or move on. Either way, no one is forced into anything.

Couple of others useful links with details on this:

[0] http://www.hreonline.com/HRE/view/story.jhtml?id=534355695&

[1] https://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/tag/performance-review
Hailo takes the strategy of working with existing licensed taxis so presumably they would be ok?
I've just realised that the idiom 'checking boxes' might be foreign to you. In this case, the 'boxes' are squares on a piece of paper, and 'checking' them refers to filling them with a tick-mark.

I managed to avoid using the term in my comment as I'm from the UK and it's definitely a US thing.
so here in my hand I have a $100 bill. How do I turn it into Dogecoin??
Tell us more about your #1 stories.
What you describe is already the world we live in. The comforts of digital feudalism vs. the freedom (and danger) of being a techno-ronin is gradually converging towards a serious civil rights issue.

In a different political climate, anti-trust legislation would be warranted (Apple deserves it more than Microsoft ever did), but these days, lobbyists have regulatory capture down to an exact science. The open source crowd (and I don't mean Google; they merely shift their evil server-side) needs to continue competing with with the fiefdoms on user experience, because that's what's going to sway real users and influence the market, not lofty ambitions about freedom.
Yeah - those are indeed pretty weak complaints.

Becoming anti-privacy, pro-DRM, and against net neutrality are much more significant betrayals.

The reason Apple doesn't get such a backlash is that they haven't represented themselves as morally superior. Everyone knows Steve Jobs was a ruthless businessman, and that Apple is not a philanthropic organization.
Once there's a device kill switch in place, it will be available for anyone with a court order. Think RIAA, MPAA... organizations that support DRM must love this idea.