skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not merely interesting, but troubling.

In my opinion, local police should focus on local law enforcement - investigating crimes and serving as a deterrent by being visible in the places where crime is most likely to occur.

Cities where it makes sense should have tactical teams for responding to dangerous incidents. Ongoing armed robberies, hostage situations, etc. Riots - and any situation I can think of where an armored vehicle is an appropriate response - should probably be handled by the state.

If we must have police, then they should be a part of the community, acting as public servants instead of enforcers. If we must have a government with a monopoly on violence, then we should strive to employ that violence as sparingly as possible. Instead, we've taken it to the point that every small town in America feels they must have the resources at hand to quell a rebellion - and when those resources are present and people train with them, then they are apt to use them on their fellow citizens.
This has nothing to do with taxes. This is the German government thinking it's their responsibility to protect me from myself. It's arrogant and obnoxious. If I want to get into an Uber knowing I'm not getting any money if I get hurt, it's my prerogative.
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I don't see why a country should accept any lowest common denominator of regulation for local taxis. Something that literally only affects the area in that country. If I need to get from the Berlin Aiport to the city centre then it doesn't matter what kind of cab service NY or SF has. They only cabs available there are going to be cabs and rides the Berlin or German government allows to operate.
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The timeout was unlikely to be 3ms. A 100hz clock would give you a timeout of 10ms. Also, the timeout needs to cover the distance in both directions. Half of 10ms is 5ms, which is just about enough for a 60% of c transmission to go 500 miles.
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There's a way to eliminate the reuse problem as well. If you make the services event-based and only let them speak to each other through messages then a service can never use another service. Services only listen and dispatch, no interservice request/reply calls.
There's no search on the homepage. Coming to your site, I decided to find out about Prague. I had to scroll down to the tiny and dim 'more trips' before I landed on a page with search.

Then I found out the search is, bluntly put, absolute crap. I typed in 'Italy': nothing. I typed in 'My Weekend in Italy', the name of the first item: nothing. I typed in 'Argentina' and got 'National Congress of Argentina'.

If you're trying to build a site about going cool places, I'd recommend making it possible for me to FIND those cool places.
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Ah - how are you tracking that there's text entered? If it helped I pasted it in and it didn't seem to un-disable for me

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> If one person works late then other people have to match them

or risk being seen as working less hard as that person.

You missed a pretty important bit.
If there is a higher demand for workers during certain hours, shouldn't the workers be paid higher for those hours?

Seems like a fair trade off? If you want ala carte hours, you should pay ala carte prices.

Only way I can think to do it though is by regulating time software... something like "if you use flexible hours, you must comply to these regulations" where in they specify custom pricing.
Free markets suffer from negative externalities / tragedy of the commons, cartels, monopolies, race to the bottom, etc...
Ask HN: What is my list of 48 awesome NEW startup resources missing?
Hi HN! I'm trying to make a collection of the best NEW startup resources in one easy-to-access spot for everyone. So far I've got 48 which you can see here: http://dailytekk.com/2014/08/13/48-new-startup-resources/?hvid=5Dsbua

But I know there are more out there. It's nearly impossible for one person to find them all.

What are your suggestions?
Keith Chen has done some research about the effect of language on economic behavior. He also did a TED talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/keith_chen_could_your_language_aff...

What can economists learn from linguists? Behavioral economist Keith Chen introduces a fascinating pattern from his research: that languages without a concept for the future — "It rain tomorrow," instead of "It will rain tomorrow" — correlate strongly with high savings rates.

It seems like the lack of a future tense in one's language could make it easier for a person to identify with their "future self" (as the article terms it).
Minimum wages also contribute to this: when you remove flexibility from one parameter of a gigantic system in dynamic tension, it can be partially clawed back elsewhere.

So if the mix "lower wages but consistent (and often overstaffed) schedules" is prohibited by the wage law, you may instead get the mix "slightly higher wages but hours aggressively trimmed and rearranged".
It's true that Uber follows a liberal interpretation of existing regulations and this gives rise to legitimate concerns about fairness of its competition with the incumbents. Nevertheless, the new model does offer some benefits over the old way of doing things. The two that come to mind first:

Utilization of resources. As a society we have a lot of cars. It seems reasonable to increase their utilization instead of setting aside a dedicated pool for taxi services.

Regulatory upgrade. The existing regulations and licensing regimes were meant to increase safety and quality of service, but did that at the cost of reduced competition, increased prices and granting disproportionate privileges to the incumbents. Some of the same very goals like trust, safety and quality have now been achieved by Uber and the like without the same costs thanks to the reputation and review systems long employed in the internet. This is clearly desirable.

I wish Uber engaged in more German-style consensus-seeking with the authorities, regulators and the incumbents instead of going for an all-out war. Change is clearly overdue in the taxi services, but the way it happens is just as important.
You're not the only one; there are a great many people who have the same opinion. Not that you aren't entitled to your opinions, and this one in particular, but the fact is the particular opinion you've expressed is filled with assumptions and implicit assertions that aren't justified by any empirical data or analytical thought.
"Sorting it out requires predicting ~20 years of social and technology changes, which is a pretty high bar."

No. Finishing your degree before you have a child is not a high bar. It's common sense.
Are they including web traffic?

"The Tata Global Network(TGN) has Trans-Atlantic and Trans-Pacific data transfer capacity of one terabit per second."
http://www.formula1.com/news/headlines/2012/2/13043.html (Two years old)
This doesnt really follow. There is no incentive for the business to pay more just because.
I think the only "-ism" in the end is tribalism. People seek to identify with a group that sets them apart from "the rest", and allows them to think of the world in an antagonistic way.

Whether that group is based on gender, race, or some other visible characteristic is immaterial. The result is always that each group works to suppress those outside that group, consciously and unconsciously.

I'm beginning the believe that mankind is wired in such a way where this is the primary social expression of our competitive drive. While the current situation at any given time is created by social circumstances, the overall nature of our social actions as a species seems to be pretty much the same.
Sure.

So what? That something is legal for you to do independently does not mean it is allowed by the Google Play terms.
Looks like an interesting article, bookmarked to read it later.
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Thanks lukasm, I will be looking at improving the on-boarding of users very soon. I agree that an empty profile isn't the most enticing sight for a new user.
I've written simple scheduling software. The only consideration taken by this scheduling software were worker preferences: management doesn't care who covers the shifts, just that they're covered. So it took into account "fairness", day of week preferences, scheduled holidays, et cetera.

By those measures, the software does a lot better than humans. However, there's something to be said about the predictability of the old human schedules. The humans generally just figured out a 2 week schedule and repeated it; filling in holes created by scheduling conflicts with those workers they knew were usually eager to pick up more work.

IOW, you may previously have worked every 2nd Tuesday. If you couldn't work on a particular Tuesday, you just didn't work. Now you're much more likely to get a solid 2 shifts a month (presuming that's what you asked for), most will be on days you marked as preferred, some days may be on some you marked as available and none on days you marked as not available.

Now obviously I could have added a metric to guide the system towards more 'regular' schedules. But it would still compensate for those other considerations, and would still look somewhat random. It's usually pretty easy to tell the difference between a computer-generated and a human-generated schedule, and many people still prefer the human generated ones, even if it is less 'fair' by almost any measure.

Given how crazy a schedule generated solely by worker preferences is, I shudder to consider schedules driven solely by management preference...
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Somebody who wants to drive around without insurance calling others arrogant and obnoxious. You couldn't make it up.
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In other countries it is compulsory.
I'm curious why a simple CD player boombox wouldn't have been sufficient in this situation.

We have one with just four buttons (play/pause, stop, forward/next-track, rewind/prev-track) plus a volume knob. You can tell which button is which pretty easily based on their position.

It would be fairly easy to switch CDs and control the boombox without the use of sight.

I guess you could argue that by digitizing the CDs, it saves the person from having to change them out themselves ... but it also limits selection. (For instance, my local library has a wide assortment of CDs, but it would be a hassle if I had to rip each of them before I could listen to them.)

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By the way, anybody who's interested in building stuff that's accessible to the blind, you might be interested in the work of T.V. Raman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._V._Raman), a Google engineer who himself is blind.

Check out this NYTimes article from a few years ago that tells a bit about his amazing story:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/04/business/04blind.html?_r=0
"the particular opinion you've expressed is filled with assumptions and implicit assertions that aren't justified by any empirical data or analytical thought."

Do you mind explaining what you mean in particular? It sounds rather vague.
Yes, this is a true statement. It is also pretty irrelevant to the issue at hand.
How does the 80/20 rule apply in starting a business?
thanks chrisseaton for pointing out that bug i will add it straight to the list... should be an easy one to fix
Well, I meant how the OP included the word "groups" in their comment and then you focused on historical incidents that involved groups of armed assailants in your comment arguing that citizens are more likely to help police than to shoot at them. That's why I pointed out the recent incidents where citizens shot police, without worrying about whether the citizens were a group.

Perhaps there are similar very recent incidents where armed citizens assisted police? A similar search effort doesn't lead me to any.
I edited my comment about 2 seconds after I posted it, saying that it would probably require regulation.
No, this is the german population that requires that if your uber driver crashes into a bicycle rider (me) on the road, that I get paid for my injury. It's not about you, it's not arrogant that I want to be compensated if I get hurt and it's certainly not obnoxious.
I only realized it when I first started taking Ritalin and it decreased my appetite to the point where I was having only one meal a day.

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/12/this-is-yo...
I do accept Many Worlds, that's why Borne probabilities make no sense :-/
No, we're on the same page. My point is that you should never receive most of those email in the first place. If they don't get sent (because there is a functional email culture in the workplace) then there's no need for dysfunctional policy to remedy the issue.
Being lost is pretty much normal at your age. You've only just (what, 3 years ago?) finished college. You haven't yet experienced enough of the world to know what you want to do for the next 10 or so years.

Take the day job, save money, travel, enjoy life, meet people. You don't have to set such enormous expectations for yourself - you'll always end up disappointed in what you do (like you are now).

Find something you like enough to do as a hobby, and grow it into something more. And go easy on yourself.
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Maybe because there is nothing wrong with our old tricks that you seem to think are "archaic."

Maybe I hate phones?

Maybe I am too busy to chat with you, not like I would want to anyway.

>grumpy people like to deal in email! and we like it and we don't care for your hipster secret sharing app or Facebook

Actually we just think your edgy teens that need to grow up.

Stop trying to fix email. This is so annoying, because it is not broken. Email is perfect bliss, and technology has not advanced one particle iota further after it's invention. A truly perfect invention that suits everyone's needs.
hi yitchelle, the search feature needs to be improved. One big problem with search eature is that it can only be so useful to he user if there is not much content to display in the results. That is the reason i left if off the homepage to begin with. Once we have more content im sure a nice big search bar will find its way on to the homepage :)
Exactly this, the company is not caring about their employees.

As some say, "the companies that have a union are the ones that deserve it"

Still, with the massive unemployment, it's hard to push for things like this.
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Children aren't always intentional, and birth control isn't cheap, especially for someone who works near-minimum wage jobs. Add to that the general lessening of availability of birth control due to conservative influences in the United States, and you get an environment in which birth control is hard to effectively use—especially if you're on an erratic schedule, which this woman is.
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"Finishing your degree" in no way guarantees employment.
This article and the one on "House Elf Bias" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8177292) reinforce each other. What magic had to happen to create that 40 hour schedule? What does the world look like to Gavin, the 4 year old son in the scheduling story?
I will assume being a suffering procrastinator, but wanna add something. Sometimes procrastinating feels like the 'creative high', except it's obviously twisted. I will jump into playing music because I suddenly have an 'idea'. Or will delve into a programming language for the same reason.

It's like a parallel choreography of desires ending being counter productive.

Fight it. (I wish I was taught courage patience and application earlier)
The main reason for not using CDs was that it would have been very likely for him to lose the position where he stopped listening.
Relevant Calvin & Hobbes:
http://web.mit.edu/manoli/mood/www/calvin-full.html
> Schools — K-12 plus colleges and universities — aren’t turning out enough skilled workers. “I have jobs,” said one Texas entrepreneur. “I just don’t have the talent to fill them.”

Whenever I read this, I just interpret it as, "I have jobs, I just don't want to pay for the talent to fill them"

Pay well enough, and the talent will find you. It's much easier to just hold out and complain about a "talent shortage" however.
Access and funding for reproductive health care and education have been cut severely by many U.S. state legislatures in the past several years. See, for example: https://www.aclu.org/blog/tag/war-women
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Some people will never get the opportunity to have a stable environment... through no fault of their own. Does that mean they should never have the opportunity to be parents?
Thanks for the interesting lens! It made me read the scheduling article (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8177262) in a new way.
As a traveller and occasional blogger, I like the design a lot. It feels functional and not as blatantly "social" as other sites in this vein. For my trips, I already use Google Maps to create maps with all the places I've been or want to visit in a new city[1]. I'd be very interested in using your site to create personalized maps in this vein: descriptions, photos, and comments would make my maps a lot more interesting. However, in order to do this, I'd need to be able to use different types of pins categorize my places, since having several dozen photo pins in one place would be too confusing. It would also be very useful to have a mobile app, as I use these maps on the go.

[1]: https://mapsengine.google.com/map/edit?mid=zU8tVyO_sZdE.kj9h...
I'd imagine this would be much less funny without the cloud-to-butt extension, so please everyone else go get it.

"Searching my butt just got a whole lot easier"
You don't know this exists. A Kickstarter alternative and a conflict of interest
Alright, I am biased. This is the definition of conflict of interest. I work on Growth at Tilt. Maybe I am just bad at my job, I am just surprised that so many devs / hackers are choosing Kickstarter, Indiegogo, Fundify etc. when it comes to crowdfunding.

Open Tilt is freaking amazing... Soylent, Lytro, Navdy, Whistle, Dick's Sports, Chubbies...

It's Open Source... I mean... really! Yes, really. If you are a hacker, and you are, isn't this exactly what you want. Full control, full transparency. I know I do. (https://github.com/crowdtilt/crowdtiltopen/)

Lowest fees in the business. You are only paying the credit card processing fees, (~2.5%). Kickstarter and the like can take like 5-10%.

Can you host it on your own server? Yup.

Can you customize it out the wazoo? Yup.

Is it written in an esoteric language? Nope. Ruby.

Oh and the team behind it is freaking amazing too. Some of the smartest and nicest people I have ever worked with.

There must be a catch right? The reviews must suck right? Nope. They are stellar. - http://goo.gl/r3yItp

This is not a stunt, not a growth tactic. This is a great gift to the hacker community.

I know that Indiegogo and Kickstarter have the network effect. I get that, they are huge and you are hoping that your campaign will get picked up and featured, but that's like winning the lottery. Why not take matter into your own hands. I know your products are good enough. Also Tilt's team looks at all of the Open Tilt campaigns too and if they are incredibly awesome, no doubt Tilt will try to help you make it successful.

Anyway, more of a rant and should probably be a blog post. I just had one of those moments where I am reading the website of a company that I work for and I am like... damn this is good.
Ah but degrees don't guarantee you stable employment. Perhaps child-bearing should be limited to people with at least $100k in the bank to cover emergencies, plus a STEM degree? Maybe a savings account and a STEM degree and N years of experience, to make sure they aren't one of those people with a CS degree who can't code?

Alternately, here is a good way of ensuring a minimum level of economic stability for everyone: a social safety net. Used successfully by countries ranging from Germany to Singapore to Sweden! I think there is some cultural difference in how to perceive kids as a starting point, though. Here (Denmark) such programs are particularly popular when aimed at parents, because parents are seen as performing a service for society, in raising the next generation. That feels to many people like something that is not only the parents' responsibility to support financially, since the kids will become the next generation of the country's citizens, not only the next generation of their specific family.
In the US, the Library of Congress National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped provides a great deal of information explaining the services they provide for free as well as various commercial offerings available on their website: http://www.loc.gov/nls/reference/factsheets/readingdisabilit...
There is overhead on jobs. Unless performing the most simple mind numbing factory assembly line work, 2 x 20hrs << 1 x 40 hrs. There's also double the time wasted on commutes.

Then there coordination overhead in the family - even if the two parents work 20 hours each, it's unlikely that it's exactly divided so one is always home. Child care costs a lot of money. Eating out costs money.

But the most important reason: People still want careers and a career on half the working time takes in extremely simple terms at least twice as long.
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thanks Mister_Snuggles for pointing that one out. I have never seen what you described and will be sure to try to reproduce it asap.
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I find WoT based solutions to be much less trustable overall.
Although this article discusses the actual collection and transmission of data, what I find more interesting is how efficiently the vast amount of data is being used in the decision making process for vehicle setup and race strategy. (I strongly believe that data has no value until it is used for analysis and decision making.)

Data coming from the vehicle sensors and other sources are concurrently being used for analysis (by both hundreds of engineers and a wide range of "algorithms") as well as input to simulation models. The results from the simulations means that even more data is being generated even when the vehicle isn't running.

Within minutes, using the data, the different engineering groups (typically responsible for a sub-system, ie. engine, tires, aerodynamics) arrive at conclusions which then the vehicle's race/performance engineers are using to enhance the setup of the vehicle. The results of changes are then fed back to the engineers, and evaluating if the analysis and predictions are correct is a big part of the post-event work.

I honestly can't think of any other industry that carries out this kind of analysis of highly non-linear systems at this scale and speed. The only other industry that I can think of is finance?

Disclosure: I work in motorsports
Reading all your responses in this thread, it's clear that you want URLs to sites you can go look at rather than descriptions of times when this has been useful to individuals. You can find lots of examples of things built using data binding at the angularjs[0] and ember[1] showcase sites. A particularly well-known example of a nice application that relies heavily on data binding is discourse[2].

[0]: https://builtwith.angularjs.org/
[1]: http://emberjs.com/ember-users/
[2]: http://www.discourse.org/

Some people prefer to do things your way, but lots of us really do like this sort of data binding and find it to be very useful.
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Not OP, but not every business is a startup. Freelancing or building a consultancy might give you freedom without a 90% failure rate.
+1. en → en translation file is common practice.