skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>What doesn't work is to pretend that laws don't exist, and pissing off regulators

That actually seems to have worked OK to a large extent for the likes of Uber and Airbnb. If they had complied with every existing regulation out there they never would have got off the ground. Whereas going ahead and just launching it is hard for regulators to stop the whole thing if it has wide spread adoption and is popular.
Nope.

Essentially all languages allow manual seeding: almost none specify guarantees with regard to RNG behavior. I'm pretty sure this is because determinism of a given process important (everyone who does simulation needs that), but locking into potentially bad RNGs for the language or library itself, in fact specifying them, is a really bad idea.
Joey Hess (of git-annex fame, and HN user) lives in quite similar setting.

To have an idea of this home habits, have a look at the notes written for caretakers of his home while he is away:
https://joeyh.name/blog/entry/notes_for_a_caretaker/
Cabify - Madrid, Spain [INTERN] Senior Ruby / Javascript Developer

CABIFY (www.cabify.com) aims to replace company fleets and personal cars in cities, creating a reliable marketplace for safe, convenient and efficient transportation

Cabify has operations in Spain, Perú, México and Chile. More on the way.

Currently we are looking for a Senior Ruby/Javascript developer

Desired skills: Ruby, Javascript, Node.js, Coffeescript, CouchDB, Backbone.js, HTML5 & CSS3, Ruby on Rails, Rubymotion

Compensation full time:

$40K – $70K Salary
0.0% – 0.5% Equity
I dunno, it might easily be a working strategy. Changing the law is basically the New Guy against any entrenched interests (taxi lobbies or whatever) plus Momentum -- either of which makes a formidable foe. The two in concert? Ow.

People who use some Uber service and appreciate it are more likely to speak out to their leaders asking why the law is preventing this useful thing that they have seen, used, and appreciated. Does this help more than it annoys the people who would change things?
> that should create market demand for smarter devices/mobile browsers, better development tools and modern standards etc., right?

Web standards are not really about efficiency of rendering, and never will be. Hence 'cloud rendering' in Opera Mini. The minimum system requirements to browse the web are only going to increase.

http://www.w3.org/TR/html-design-principles/#priority-of-con...
What a gem. The reference list seems to tell a story all by itself.
What systems do you work on where bash isn't around, but ksh is?

If you're referring to Linux as "certain modern platform", I was using bash on Solaris 1.x 20+ years ago. (Granted, back then I had to compile it myself which may not be an option for many.)
The Politics of Calling in Sick
If there's an infinite model of some first-order logical system, then there's a model of the same logical system of any infinite cardinality. [1]

Thus, there exists countable model of reals, as well as models of greater-than-continuum cardinalities.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%B6wenheim%E2%80%93Skolem_t...
Semantics3 (YC W13) is looking for an API infrastructure engineer in Bangalore
I do exactly that, using keepassX. Single use, complex passwords that I change every two months, stored in a shared encrypted database.

What exactly is hard about it?
Depends a bit if you are talking Uber (the luxury service) or UberX (the cheap one). In London I'd say UberX is about 30% less than black cabs. Uber proper is more expensive.
Quantifying Cab Sharing
"Attributes are stupid" is also Maven's approach, but this results in unnecessarily verbose XML files.
Yeah, math! I like this explanation. I'm not a mathematician, but I was reading about the reals, the hyperreals, the surreals on Wikipedia last week, and the Dedekind cut [1] just seemed like a mind-blowingly simple way to look a things. I think I was taught in school how to construct the reals by Cauchy's proof. Constructing the reals used to seem like some magic trick back in the day. :)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dedekind_cut
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surreal_number
You're right; although it may slow down the installation of a new browser... ;-)
Trolling does not have to be deliberate to be effective.

Lutusp makes very good points about the awful state of science reporting; about the very poor quality of a lot of research; about the lack of scientific rigour in some areas.

But the rest of it is kook-like noise that refuses to address the actual thing being discussed.
> It would make more Taxi companies to go out of business

Ignoring the rest of the debate, there's nothing that says that the current taxi companies should always be around. Competition means companies go out of business too. Sometimes things change and what was once an optimal number of taxi companies is now too many.

One of the nice things about some countries in Europe is that there are systems in place to protect workers when that happens. That's as it should be: protect the people, but not the company. Italy gets this completely backward in a lot of cases - they'll try and keep a company afloat to "protect jobs", and it just makes things worse and worse.
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I have to say I admire your courage in writing this. I've been put in a not dissimilar situation in the recent past. I said nothing. I'm hoping one day the situation will resolve itself, but I doubt it, and I suffered a lot for it. Thankfully I'm out of immediate danger now.

I hope this leads to a positive conclusion for you, as I have a lot of respect for the difficulty of startup life, but none for those who behave dishonestly rather than face the consequences of their actions.
Practical SQL by exercises
Does anyone know where can I read the referenced studies? I'd be interested if they looked at Evidence Based Scheduling / Monte Carlo simulation: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/10/26.html

Edit:

One of the authors of the references has several articles available here:

https://www.simula.no/people/magnej/bibliography

but not the one referenced, although there are several newer articles.
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I've also been living in Shenzhen for a while (~5 years, in Luohu/Futian/Longhua districts). Contact info in profile if anyone wants to get in touch. I've met a few HNers here and it's always nice to meet new ones as the overwhelming majority of expats here are in the trading/logistics/english teaching business.
I've worked with plenty of "good programmers" who absolutely need a structure and process in order to feel comfortable turning on their machines in the morning. Some people need to feel like they have approval to do anything, and would never suggest a new framework or toolset ever. Most would recoil in horror at someone doing anything different from the Process. I'd argue these developers can do really good work in certain teams, but they need some hand holding.
Location: Greensboro, NC

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: HTML/CSS, familiar with JS, various CMS and CRM systems

Resume: http://goo.gl/859l5i

Email: kcutrer@gmail.com

-----

I've been working in the product group (directly with the product manager) for a SaaS product for three years. The company was recently acquired, and I'm interested in expanding my skillset through a product development role with a smaller team.
There has been a fairly big swing back towards "programming is a team sport" since then.

My memories of the 80s and 90s was that programming was something frequently done in a suburban, or sometimes even rural, setting. Since then, there's been a move towards seeing technology as an urban phenomenon (and a resurgence of urbanism in general). I do wonder if these trends are related.
Is coding the new literacy
Reminds me of living on the ground floor next to a planty area in Malta. I was killing around 18 mosquitoes every evening, and discovered they fly through keyholes. Next flat was on the third floor.
The small tribe I ran with then found Turbo Pascal wanting and there was some issue with Modula-2, like it was bytecode-interpreted.

I don't regret learning 'C'. We had our own safety standards.
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> People must enter into contracts of their own free will.

That requires a degree of abundance (so people can refuse to enter contracts) that makes competition obsolete.
As is, people are required to enter into contracts else they perish.
Absolutely. I certainly wouldn't recommend it.

What's interesting is that doctors I spoke with at the time could neither explain my violent reactions to fat nor the obvious results of cutting out fat entirely from my diet (maybe 3-5g total across an entire day, but usually less than 1). They also couldn't explain why I could suddenly eat fat again after about a year and a half.
My Software engineering Prof. Once wrote, those agile methods were first used by highly skilled teams that knew what they wanted. There has never been any evidence for them to be a silver bullet.

Big planning slows down experienced engineers, but can help the unskilled quite well...
Free yourself from inbox tyranny on vacation
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Seems disingenuous to not mention MUDs at all, the first of which had been running for a decade at that point. Yes, they added graphics, apparently, but I was playing Neverwinter on AOL a year later in 1991 with graphics as well, and quests that worked fine for any number of players, and GM led events and contests that did as well.

The MUD I was on had GM led quests and stories and adventures for every single new region that opened as well. So the huge problem they ran into of an event only working for one user just sounds like some thing they blew out of proportion to write what they wanted to write, or they were just ignorant of what everyone else was doing at the time.
I understand the requirement for drivers to be licensed for what they're doing (accepting fares, just like how UberBlack drivers are required to be licensed hire car operators), but that's not what I was talking about.
Sure, many programming jobs don't involve any algorithm design. But the most interesting programming jobs tend to involve algorithm design.
Living in Frankfurt, I still see Uber Pop Drivers in the Uber App. Doesn't know what that means tho.
What about the taxi driver driving around with an empty car looking for passengers? Couldn't that count as a surplus?
I feel sorry for you, I really do!

Not knowing the details of your contract I can't say for sure, but with the recent changes in employment law in Portugal, I think legally (not ethically) they maybe in the right. I can put you in contact with a lawyer that specialises in this kind of situations, but honestly, for 1.5 months salary, it isn't probably worth it for you (justice system in PT is very very slow, though they do tend to stick with the employee in these situations, even when the law isn't on their side).

If you don't mind me asking, what made you move from Sweden to Portugal to work at this startup? Was it Portugal that attracted you? Knowing the salaries and economic situation of the country, specially compared to Sweden, it confuses me a bit why you would do it, but if it is Portugal as a country that interests you, shoot me an email, I maybe able to help you out.

Best of luck
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Notably for mobile users roaming in the EU, this problem has already been solved by the European Parliament:

Under the wide-ranging telecoms reforms, the cost of making a call
or downloading internet data in another EU country will be the same
as at home.

The change is due to take effect from 15 December next year. It still
requires approval from EU governments.

In recent years the EU has legislated to lower the costs, so telecoms
operators have been forced to cap their fees.

The package was adopted by 534 votes to 25.

Source: MEPs vote to scrap mobile roaming fees in Europe
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-26866966

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/news-room/content/2014...
I like this a lot. Your points about getting your hands just dirty enough resonates with me. Yes, I happen to know how to do things with jQuery till everything is a (really) complicated mess (aka a single page app). If I don't have to write jQ and JS code myself at the beginning, I probably won't succumb to featuritis and can concentrate on the bigger picture, like testing how content and interactions could work.

Now somebody just needs to support for CSS. I wan't to say:

* a boxy thing roughly the size of 25% of browser window
* a list of things with random paragraphs
* a draggable
* a receptacle for draggable things
* when this receptacle receives this draggable this happens
* this is a top bar, this is a sidebar and they should stay put
* this is content area, all to other things go there

Yes, I know I can just use Bootstrap or whatnot, but then I'm down the rabbit hole tweaking this and that, because I have a direct control of everything, yet a measure of nothing.
I don´t know in France, but in Spain unemployment benefits have quite a few catches:

- You must be fired (if you just walk out you are not entitled).

- There is an absolute cap, regardless of your previous salary (little more than 1000 EUR)

- You "earn" days of unemployment as you work (one day for each 3/4 days of work, I don´t remember exactly) up to two years.

I can´t say I disagree with any of those: in the end, it´s supposed to be a temporary support while you find a new job, not paid vacations.
What’s wrong with OCaml?
Lenovo blatantly puts it out there that Android L will be called “Lollipop”
Also take a light-hearted jibe at Apple's Sep 9th event
Growth hacks for your mobile apps
That's fantastic, thank you. I've been using TinyPNG.com - will give this a go :-)
Uber's problem: we have no "taxi lobbies" in Germany.

Taxi companies exist on a county level in Germany, Uber is global. That's also reflected in cash and revenue and will at some point reflect in lobbying capability.

If anyone in this game is a bully, it's Uber.
Earlier the barrier was the high price of a computer.

Today the barrier is that you have to specialize you more.

But on the other side you have more tools, more ressources (the internet), more help, more tutorials, ....
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When to Ship It, When to Kill It
Practical skills are certainly seen as seperate from design. It is amazing how many engineers can't even use AutoCAD! What this article is saying is that in Shenzhen people with practical skills can also be creative.
I'm sure there are two sides to every story, but you can guarantee that if they did this to you they'll do it to someone else. I'm consistently amazed by people and companies who operate without integrity. I think about Paul Graham talking about startup founder factors as people who break the rules. I'm fairly certain this is not what he's talking about.
keepassX seems to be a local application: how do you use it on mobile, or when you're not at home?

Also: if the database gets corrupted, you lose access to all services; if you have backups then it's a little less safe; if the main password for the database is strong you may forget it (or need to write it down somewhere outside the system); if it's not strong it's not safe.
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Explaining functional programming to 8 year olds (2010)
After one month of insanity and abuse I was called to a Friday afternoon meeting with the founders. They told me that they felt that we had a difference in style and that they didn't want me to work there anymore. Just like that, no further explanation.

A bit curd perhaps, but following the rest of the story I suppose it makes sense? This sounds very much like a culture misfit to me.

(To be clear: I am not passing any judgement on the handling of the matter here. Or on who to blame on the misfitting)
This is one of the many reasons why I try to avoid using proprietary software. Such a situation would have never arisen if you were running a GNU/Linux-based system.
Thanks for the details!

> 4. A carb-restricted diet left me hungry, as in "I need to go out and hunt something now" hungry. Even after months of focused effort.

Did you try to get your body into a ketogenic state? Because as I understood it, there is a 2 week adaption period you have to go through. Did you experience that? Is it possible that you were still eating too much carb to get into ketogenesis?
37 old Java professional from Sweden spends all of his savings in two months? You have 5 kids or something?
In the US, commercial free speech has less protection under the First Amendment than noncommerical speech. Eg, Nike v. Kasky established that in California commercial free speech is (at least currently) subordinate to false advertising laws, in that information in Nike press releases is not immediately protected under the First Amendment.

In reading your posting, it appears that you have merged two meanings of "business." The first use is "legal for businesses to lie" as different from "every other people." This implies that you are talking about a specific legal entity, eg, a limited liability corporation, as something different than a human being.

The second is '"Business" is just a common name for people', which implies that don't see a business as anything other than a non-empty set of human beings.

You should be more clear about what you mean, but in this case it doesn't make a difference. The courts haven't made a distinction between a corporation and a human being making the commercial speech, so the point is moot.

See http://hstlj.org/articles/a-brief-history-of-the-commercial-... for a brief history of commercial speech doctrine which is relatively readable. (Most of the ones I came across were much denser reading.)

You should note that the lesser protection of commercial speech includes the ability of government to prohibit the advertisement of illegal transactions, even if there is no misrepresentation. Eg, it is illegal to advertise cigarettes to children, even though it is legal for you, under free speech, to carry a sign saying "children should smoke Virginia Slims". The distinction is the goal - is it to sell a product, or an expression of your political, religious, or other beliefs? Should this go to court, the court would look at various factors, like if you're being paid to carry the sign.

Similarly, and to get away from a vice-related topic, it's illegal to sell your vote or to offer to buy or sell votes (see http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/net_election... ), but if you were at an oil industry protest with a sign saying "I'll sell my vote to ExxonMobil for $6 million" (that being the amount they spent on lobbying last year), then that's clearly political speech.
What this article boils down to is two things: 1) Computers used to have a built-in language that would be immediately available, and 2) that language had a REPL.

If you wanted to get the same experience in any REPL without line numbers (and with Lambdas), you could say:

mainprog = lambda{some lines of code};
exec mainprog;

instead of:

10 line 1 of code
20 line 2 of code
RUN

In the case of BASIC, prefixing a line number is a shortcut for saying "variable LINE-XX = lambda{some code}". Now we just need to get computers to come up with a standardized REPL readily available at boot time. Maybe if web browsers started to default to having a Javascript console prominently displayed at all times.
My version numbers live in setup.py, which I can get within the code by the following:

import pkg_resources
version = pkg_resources.require("my_package_name")[0].version

So a version bump means editing a single file.
A really big problem for startups lies in attracting high quality coding talent. There aren't many experienced developers who're in a position to take the necessary risk joining a startup and working for a reduced income for a while. Consequently any startup that screws over a developer isn't just hurting their own rep, but they're damaging the chance of success of every other startup by reducing the size of the talent pool.

Whether or not Unbabel did something wrong here is a matter of speculation without more details, but there's still a lesson in it for every startup founder - developers are necessary and important to your success so being nice (especially if the relationship isn't going well) is a Good Idea.
Maybe they can use this to fix the creepy "negative knees" of honda's asimo robot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42J46bZIH9k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6_IQ56hiuQ

By the way, since Asimo can do 9km/h, how is 4km/h the fastest?
The download is certainly bigger for OSX Mavericks (5.3gb) vs iOS7 (750mb). OSX seems a lot more open in terms of understanding what's going on though.
> you don't need special licenses or laws to enforce that. Just have a law that says "you must have insurance valid for the kind of driving you do"

Licenses provide the proper checks and balances proving that the driver has complied with their legal requirements. The license is typically shown somewhere in the taxi, so the fare can see that they are covered if anything bad were to happen.

That's of course assuming the fare knows about this, which for foreigners isn't always the case.
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Its both - competition and regulation. If one company does not follow them, but others do, then you have a distortion of competition. The difficulty is in to tell whether Uber is operating like a Taxi company or not. They certainly operate on a different model than the usual Taxi business. So that's why Uber ignored the laws until someone cried foul.

Btw. I think the business is regulated fairly. The income is not. Most difficulties are with the concessions and the natural oligopols around them.
Your reply was helpful and insightful. Thanks you.
Has someone looked at the scope of the German law?

http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/pbefg/__1.html

>Diesem Gesetz unterliegen nicht Beförderungen 1. mit Personenkraftwagen, wenn diese unentgeltlich sind oder das Gesamtentgelt die Betriebskosten der Fahrt nicht übersteigt;

=> As long as the total fare is below the actual costs the law is not applicable.

It seems if Uber operates at a loss they are fine. ;-)
A problem can be that you will find out about an event too late (it's already in progress).

Great suggestion from @lidiaC about seeing if your friends are there.
Hey, I am one of the devs @ Moveline. If anyone has questions about company, the stack, or how we develop, feel free to email me (chris.winberry(at)moveline.com).
That is still till the end of 2015, so the problem isn't really solved, it will be solved in 15 months and 13 days (normally).

But it will probably be delayed (telecom lobby)
It's been a while, but I seem to remember that this is actually how I was thought calculus...
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Do they really discourage the stock browser in many Android 2.x devices? I have one, and I don't see anything, anyway I can't update it neither.
Really odd. It's always seemed to me that "like", "um", and "uh" were often used as filler words to 'distance' yourself from the thing being discussed.

This seems even further in that direction - instead of distancing the author, it removes him entirely from the discussion.
Powershell is available on every Server install since 2008 R2. At this point it can be considered standard on every non-ancient Windows box, similar to assuming bash vs sh for example.
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