skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a huge fan of Amazon in general (as a customer), I still find it difficult to believe they released a hobbled Android phone that is AT&T exclusive and starts at $650 into a world where the $350 fully unlocked Nexus 5 already existed for almost 8 months prior to their release.

I'm just really seriously confused by what they were thinking here.

It is almost like seeing one of those "fail" videos where a kid piledrives his friend off the roof into the backyard and both kids end up badly injured -- of course that was the end result, there was no reasonably plausible path from the starting point to any sort of non-failure ending.
You can (and should) complain directly, either to EEOC or, in California, to DFEH --- you can do that online at:

http://www.dfeh.ca.gov/

Is there more than one person concerned about the pay gap? Can you get more than one person to file a complaint?
The argument against "nothing to hide" is this:

1. So you agree with every single law there is, and every single prohibition against any activity or posession of anything?

2. Even if you don't violate any law or prohibition yourself, but your best friend or a family member is investigated for such a thing, you're willing to open up everything to help provide evidence to throw that friend under the proverbial bus, in the name of conformity to the state?

3. Are you okay with doing away with wiretap laws and search warrants?

4. Are you okay with any citizen being arrested and given "truth serum" drugs so they truthfully divulge everything they believe to be true on any topic? If they have nothing to hide, why should anyone object?
Honestly, Venmo just works better for me at this point.
I think it’s a stretch to call a tool like npm, which currently offers 90,000+ packages, a “small, bespoke, use-case-specific” solution. I’m also fairly sure most people publishing their code via npm’s index aren’t spending “thousands of hours” resolving conflicts with other packages by hand; certainly no-one is manually checking over 4 billion pairwise combinations of those packages to make sure they don’t conflict.

And yet npm remains a useful tool, and mostly it does what it should do: download a bunch of files and stick them somewhere on my disk. The same could be said for gem, pip, Bower, and no doubt many other similar tools. They just all do it a bit differently, which leads to a huge amount of duplicated effort for both the writers/maintainers and the users of these packages.

I’m not arguing for magic or for orders of magnitude more work to be done. I’m just arguing for the work that is mostly being done already to be co-ordinated and consolidated through standardisation. To some extent I’m also arguing for operating systems that include robust tools to navigate the modern software landscape as standard, mainly because installing things with tools like apt has an unfortunate way of assuming there should be one global copy of everything, which is frequently not the case for either development libraries or end user software on modern systems, and because if the OS doesn’t provide good universal package management tools then someone else will immediately invent new tools to fill the gaps and now we are back to having overlapping tools and redundancy again.
I give Amazon the benefit of the doubt, but I still don't understand their reasoning behind this whole undertaking.
I'm not very technical in the knowledge needed to setup sandstorm, I've looked all over for a guide that works for me but I've come up empty. I've tried about 5 or 6 different ways to get things going and I've struck out. Are there any resources out there for extreme beginners or anybody who is willing to help a very interested person out? I'd love to write a guide using the experience of learning from scratch, I've never installed anything like this before and I'm sure I'm not the only one missing out!
Scanning through the comments, it looks like most of the naysaying was downvoted and the comments about how it's neat floated to the top, including yours.
There is an enormous threshold effect once you hit the "elite" level of colleges, because it's where many industries heavily recruit. It's relatively easy to sleepwalk from Harvard into a career in finance or consulting, very difficult from even a very good state school. "Qualification" has nothing to do with it.

That isn't true across all industries, of course.
I've recently seen the phone advertised with a year of free 'Prime' membership (aka a $100 value). Not really very compelling, however if they gave you a year of Prime and also that none of your Prime Video or Prime Audio streaming counted against your Data cap, that would be an interesting proposition. Frankly I was kind of surprised they didn't just lead with that.
Snapchat raises money from KPCB at a $10B Valuation
> Is Uber trying to shut down Lyft, through a variety of tactics?

But not through cancelled rides, right? I don't understand how Uber trying to recruit drivers is any different from any tech company trying to recruit me.
Conspiracy to commit fraud and disrupt business strikes me as eligible for a RICO prosecution.
Those are different things. Unless you think the anti-privacy technology will enter our thoughts or something, you may "try hard," meaning to deceive those around you, this is not the same thing as "if you want to be a charitable person, start giving to charities and you will become charitable" or whatever. The parent is just noting the obvious that you will not be fundamentally turning people into ethical people or whatever, they will simply try to find ways to exploit the system.
COBRA is not a great answer. The better your benefits were on the job, the worse a deal COBRA will be for you; you'll be paying the employer's costs as well as your own. COBRA also has a time limit, which isn't a great property for an insurance plan.

As I understand it, you can in fact file a special enrollment with HEALTHCARE.GOV if you've recently lost your insurance. That's probably going to be a much better option.

Consider signing up for a "bronze" plan --- the cheapest available with a provider network you like --- and setting up an HSA. High-deductible insurance and an HSA is probably always a better deal than premium insurance: you take the money you'd plow into higher premiums and stick it in the HSA, which rolls over year over year. If you don't, say, lose your appendix this year, you get free money.
So there are 2 major problems with that definition.

1) It's factually untrue. Currencies have both the value of their materials and the art imposed on them. Now it is true, that the primary driver of their price is not that "inherent" value. The primary driver of their price is that they work as stores for value, as a medium of exchange, and that they are fundamentally tied to the governance regime they are associated with. But there are lots of commodities that have the same characteristics. Gold's price is much more dependent on people's perception of it as a value store than on it's usefulness as an input to industrial production or as an artistic element and energy credits are commodities existent only within the governance regime that created them.

2) Even if you don't buy that loosened definition of commodity in general, in the context of an exchange currencies are universally considered commodities because they have several important characteristics 1) there are both spot & derivative markets for them 2) They are completely fungible, dollars made in Philly are identical to ones made in San Fran 3) It is easy (trivial even) to create standardized contracts around their delivery.
Right. Most libertarians would agree that courts play a vital role in enforcing rules/laws that govern across specific areas relating to contracts - specifically the areas of duress and coercion.
Some would say the puke part is part of the cleansing, more spiritual than physical. Comparing shrooms to alcohol is very unfair. One is a spiritual plant, one is poison.
Have you had a look at the Square Commerce API? If Android is not a hard requirement, there is an iOS SDK:

https://connect.squareup.com/docs/api#commerce-api-overview
Is it fair for George Clooney to hit on your girlfriend? Yeah, let the best man win! But it's still kind of a dick move.

Regardless of whether you agree w/ tactics, the attitude and behavior leaves a bad taste.
If you want to work for an elite company, you don't had a hands unless you go to one of their chosen schools. Lying is always a violation of your employment contract, so probably not the best course of action.

The real ripoff is mid tier private schools.
How Northeastern University Gamed the College Rankings
Can't comment on mescalin though, only tried cb, shrooms and hbw in the trippy part of the spectrum...
Yeah, i have asked myself this, and have repeatedly tried it. Somehow it usually doesn't work out as well. With gems it's still a bit too easy to dig into a gem and fiddle with it to get something done quickly when in a hurry breaking the encapsulation. Maybe there are other reasons as well.

Also, with a big org I like having the ability to use different languages and technologies in some small services. Is functional programming all the rage? Well we can experiment with it on this little service need to build without much risk.

Another thing I like is that other teams can leverage my micro service regardless of the languages we are using. With libraries, everyone has to use the same language.
Firefox OS is a developer's best friend
This isn't really true; scientists also praised Einstein for his deep mathematical intuition. His work on Brownian motion and general relativity was new and difficult mathematics (GR still is). GR is also startling for the mind-bending fundamental intuitions behind it. He asked mathematicians for help hammering out details, but 1) everyone does this and 2) mathematical rigor and abstraction wasn't nearly as well-established back then as it is now, and was difficult to grasp for many physicists and even mathematicians. For example it was several years before Minkowski established the connection between special relativity and the "shape" of spacetime, giving rigor to Einstein's intuition--but doing so is nowdays an easy exercise in undergraduate mathematics.
Objective qualifications are not the primary filter. The biggest advantages are from a higher level of networking, your fellow students are generally from a higher income bracket, have better connections, etc. Similarly the best paying firms tend to focus on the more prestigious universities as well.

All of this leads to a situation where wealthy parents have the education and means to ensure that their children have the advantages to give them a better chance of going the more selective universities, adding another level of systemic injustice based on wealth.
What is that used for?
There's a more modern Android backing it but you still can't install the Play store so you're restricted to Amazon's much smaller appstore.
> Question for the Americans: Does it really matter if you go to an "elite" college or a regular one?

One of the best engineers I know went to DeVry, which is definitely on the lower tier of schools. And I know a few great programmers that don't even technically have engineering degrees.

That being said, if I had to roll the dice I'd put my money on an MIT, Berkeley, or Caltech grad any day. The minimum standards, your peer group, and your opportunities are much better at an elite school. There are crappy grads from 'elite' schools, but the odds of this are a lot lower. And if you have a lot of talent, you're going to get noticed at the elite schools and have a much easier time finding a way to use your talent than at a lower-tier school.
Short answer, no. Employment and wage statistics suggest that simply completing a 4 year course at an accredited school is sufficient to put you into the much smaller unemployment pool. Additionally major has a bigger impact that 'eliteness.'

That said, we were at the College recruiting fair this past spring helping out and one of the problems is that kids from disadvantaged familys do not even apply when they might be successful on the reasoning "Well if I got in, I couldn't afford it so why waste my time?"

We suggested to the representatives from Princeton, Ohio Wesleyn, USC. Stanford, and Brown (and any people we could talk to) that they make visible ways to apply without paying any fees for these kids. We have to make it at least a no-risk proposition for them to apply, in order to get them into the system in the first place. On the proactive side one of the parents was reaching out to the Bill and Melinda Gates trust to see about an application scholarship fund (basically fronting the application cost).
As a fast thinker, everything you say here makes sense to me, especially about quickly pruning dead ends. I admire my slow-thinker friends for not doing that, and I've always considered slowing my thinking to be a top career goal.

As for whether it's a developed vs innate quality, I don't remember ever thinking differently and being trained to think the way I do because of my environment. I would agree that in our system fast thinkers are rewarded more, but that doesn't mean that our system develops fast thinkers at the expense of slow thinkers, or that its any less innate. It just means that slow thinkers have more difficulty being recognized earlier (hence "late bloomer" or missing the "precocious" label.
I am saying that valuing a company at a value $10B or $100B it's not outrageous in any way. You said you cannot take seriously any VC that values a company above $10B implying that no company can go above $10B or that they are somehow insane to think that could happen.

This is simply no outrageous in any way and it was likely a very competed investment - I do think that Snapchat can achieve a value much larger than $10B or even $20B. Outrageous I would say is $1 trillion.
I would actually bet on Julia before Clojure as the next big data science language.
I still remember that episode, and as far as I can remember, it's the only time I've seen the crew "abort" one of their challenges like that (in part of the show, you see them frantically erasing the decoration with coca cola, etc. after being chased by locals).

edit: found the clip: http://youtu.be/pKcJ-0bAHB4?t=6m
Australian taxi services are close to being a monopoly.
My honest assessment, (having worked for a company that supplies parts and SW to Lab126 [1] in the past) is that the hardware design and specs were nailed down quite some time ago, but they took so long to execute and launch that the world they launched into was vastly different from the one they had targeting against when they first started designing the phone and coming up with the battle plans.

[1] Lab126 is Amazon's hardware arm that makes these phones.
They tried to recruit me before I drove for Uber? I do now, but I "gave" the recruiting bonus to my friend who was a dual driver and not the smarmy recruiter.
So I have several responses to that.

- Lots and lots of large systems are decomposed across different languages based on the advantages they have. Some parts of the system may be extremely latency sensitive and therefore can't afford GC based languages, other parts may need to interact with existing enterprise systems and therefore are best written in Java or the .NET stack. A very common split is amongst quantitative developers who prefer languages like python vs other developers that prefer something else. So basically yes, there are times that I've worked on systems that were designed from the ground up to use different languages (or should have been). That said, of course you want to make sure you aren't adding complexity for it's own sake and a unified language is usually better.

- A very common use of service architectures is not green field development. It is in migrating from legacy systems or augmenting them. Lots of large web based systems were originally written as monoliths on the LAMP stack or as Perl/CGI. As they grow it becomes obvious that scaling will require different technology choices, but it is almost always a mistake to do a full rewrite. In those cases, language agnosticism can be a real boon as you can ramp up in languages that are more popular at the time of need (or in languages that allow you to attract good developers).
EDIT: jamii seems to understand that we are working with very different definitions of dimensionality.

My (and I suspect most readers') understanding of dimensionality is as follows. If I have a graph with x and y axes with six RGB-colored points on it, that does not make it a 30-dimensional graph. It's two dimensional because there are two independent variables in the 5-tuple relation that graph is representing.

Number of particles and number of dependent attributes do not affect dimensionality.
I don't think that "being one" (and don't get me started on how someone can consider themselves as part of a group labeled as "Indians, Arabs and a few other Middle Eastern cultures") gives someone enough information to make sweeping statements about whole groups of people. Even if you're right 60% of the time (good enough for your typical stereotype), you're wrong 40% of the time and that's important.

Does me being a male give me enough data points to make generalizations about men? I'm married and I know quite a few women, should I offer my viewpoints on them as useful information?

Anyway, it's all probably a moot point. As I understand, the OP mentioned that the negotiators were discussing the costs of the female applicant (e.g. student loans, etc.) while I think hcho was describing the negotiator describing their own costs (e.g. I can't pay you more because my costs are too high).
Those are the rides that are cross-correlated with known recruiters. The actual figures could be more. I know for a time in February I would get tons of suspicious pings, and my friend who was a dual driver said, "oh, that's Uber fucking with you"
On September 27, 1960, using the ideas of Noyce and Hoerni, a group of Jay Last's at Fairchild Semiconductor created the first operational semiconductor IC.

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

I'd guess it's because 1957 was a few years too early for ICs, which is where the real shrinkage came from. More powerful computers require more switches, and without ICs that takes more space (and power & cooling).
They had both the mustache and the uber logo. He said he never had anyone complain or refuse to ride because of that.

I had never thought of that before then.
It's coming, and the community is already doing a lot of cool things around UI components and with the parts of the UI API that are starting to emerge. For one example check out the UI Harness being built over at Respondly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jscINbvWoDg&list=UU3fBiJrFFM...
I love the design of the demo stuff, but I really hate that I have to click-and-drag to go to the next bullet / click one of those little dot things. If I was swiping naturally with my finger on a touch-enabled device, sure, but I'm just going to hunch that most customers wouldn't be viewing analytics like that.

Are we forgetting what a good 'ol >next and <previous can do?
http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/extra-top-gear-in-alabama/

http://transmission.blogs.topgear.com/2009/10/05/richard-the...

They seem to be pretty serious when claiming that it wasn't fake. They've admitted in the past when their sketches are faked, with absolutely no qualms about it. It seems odd that they would specifically claim that this one was definitely not fake.

I don't doubt that they dramatised the footage to make it seem like it was a lot more scary than perhaps the actual events were. But that doesn't mean the events didn't happen.

Anyway, judging by the responses, I can see this is a bit of a touchy subject so I'm going to take a pass on this thread from now on. No judgement on right/wrong, just going to bed ;)
where did you get that expectation from?
SSH key based message encryption tool
That's not all. Let's say that software developer would have produced $200k in value for Lyft. But that 200k could hire two more software developers! By induction, Uber has cost Lyft an infinite amount of money.
Launching missiles and drones is the whole point of the new destroyer platforms.
I don't think it's complicated, they see a lot of money in media sales and want to have a set of devices where they are the more visible provider.

A few hundred million dollars developing hardware is a rounding error on their current media revenues (which I realize sounds a bit ridiculous, but there it is).
Given their history, I think many of us would wager that the OS will be out of date within 1-2 years, even if they are up to date as of launch.
If there is anything I have learned from working at a large enterprise shop, it's that bad decisions made early on, once found to be such, are next to impossible to change. People would rather try to "muscle" through it (throw $$, people, hardware, wellness efforts), rather than discuss a new design. I imagine it's always about 2x worse in a government shop, and another 2x worse for defense gigs.
Why would you need to filter an internal IP as a destination IP, routing should handle that.

I understand filtering the source address as internal IP because that could be malicious spoofing of internal host (and destination can't legitimately reply.)
It's not just that "hyperlapse" is a pre-existing word (despite my spell-check underlining it right now), but that "hyperlapse" is exactly what this app does.

Microsoft did not invent hyperlapse last week. They showed off a method of producing a hyperlapse. Instagram now has another method of producing a hyperlapse.

Here's a video that, coincidentally, was also published last week about shooing a hyperlapse with a DSLR.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcylVx2ex78
Most people here only see $ unfortunately.
The logical representation of data files is the same on any mainstream OS, wherever they come from (network, file system, device I/O, pipe, etc).
I don't live anywhere near a startup "area", but has anyone actually seen an internet cafe that isn't locked with over protective software?
The lack of unlocking really surprised me. We bought one for testing that some of our mobile software would run on it, so we got the no-contract version. Even if you pay full retail price, it's still locked to AT&T. That's just blatant foot-shooting. If someone's going to pay you full price, it shouldn't be locked.

(And yes we tried getting Amazon to give us the unlock code. They said their contract with AT&T didn't allow it.)
In my experience pretty much any hotel or hostel will print them if you ask nicely, or at least point you in the direction of someone who will cheaply. I paid €1 to print 5 pages at an Internet cafe in Italy a couple of months ago.
The article takes up this very idea and dismisses it because it leaks info about private networks.
Wash U alum here. I agree: unacceptable.

I believe Wash U uses the term "need-aware." It aggressively recruits based on "merit" at the cost of socioeconomic diversity. While I was attending, Wash U had the most National Merit Finalists, largely because those students get at bare minimum a $2k/yr scholarship for showing up.[1]

On the one hand, this has resulted in a significant increase in the standardized test performance of its student body [2]--and that has probably resulted in higher rankings overall. On the other hand, there's a simulated environment quality to being around people who are all so similarly well off. For example, every student from a 150k+ income family thinks of his/herself as middle class. Not much perspective.

[1] http://www.nationalmerit.org/annual_report.pdf

[2] http://www.businessinsider.com/colleges-with-the-highest-sat...
Do you really "take up atheism" or do you just not go to church, etc? I don't feel like I've taken it up, it's just not something I worry about or act on.

Rest of your point stands, obviously.
Buying things on amazon
Do they teach you to read the full article before commenting at Sococo?