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This article looks at supply side but ignores the demand side benefits to the sharing economy model. It works from an assumption that someone else other than the business offering a service and the contractor willing to work it knows best.

Boiled down - full time jobs good, contract jobs bad. Reasoning? We talked to this guy who has a cute kid he is struggling to protect. We also talked to a regulator who gets ink for saying it is awful, just awful.

If contract is undesirable then apply for work at a traditional cleaning service. He now has the experience through HomeJoy, seems doable.

Should he be making what the coders and web devs who built HomeJoy make? No. He doesn't have those skills yet.

Society owes him:

1. The opportunity to learn the skills to compete in our economy. (With our education system, I fear he's not received what he is owed here...and if so, injustice.)

2. A free market to "find your wage" or "start your own" based on the extent to which you can build things others want.

This guy is a hard worker. Software is eating the world and changing the rules. When that happens, many opportunities and new niches are created. I hope that the regulators realize this and let it continue. I hope that this guy finds a profitable place in the changes.
Unemployment was lower when slavery was the order of the day. That doesn't mean it was a good approach.
Ok, put that on the list then
There is another reason: employment status and the resulting side-effects.

If you lock in a driver, you start to look like an employer with employees. This creates enormous payroll tax responsibility, workers comp insurance and other headaches for Uber/Lyft.

I would bet that Uber/Lyft have burned a metric crapton of lawyer and accountant brains in an effort to be on the "safe" side of the independent contractor vs employee fight. They're not going to screw that up.
The bicycle already exists, but I read that section assuming ideas related to it like:

- bike/scooter/... share programs

- new designs for bikes to improve safety, could work with the existing market

- while you're at it, new additions to other forms of transportation etc. to improve safety too.. even if a lot of it is policy, but even things like self-driving cars fall into this category

- new designs for bikes to improve ease of use. I don't ride bikes because I have never found any seat and any amount of cushioning that isn't immediately painful, while bikes that accommodate that (like recumbent bikes) are typically not as portable

Some of this is outside the scope of YC or it's definitely something else like policy, but just a thought. I especially like the idea of improving rideshare programs, and that is very doable. I was going to try out SF's program but there's no bikes near me since the company behind the rideshare program went out of business. :(
"What comes after programming languages?"

Maybe somewhere in the direction Meteor and Light Table are heading?
Hmm... No photo sharing apps? SnapChat for X?
Little is worse in code land than a compiler that plays games, and bad games at that. This just reinforces my feeling that Rust is a toy and not for real work. A cute little dungeon when my (potentially critical) application just crashed is the opposite of humorous, it could be deadly. Compilers are serious business. Write games with them if you choose but understand that failure at the compiler/runtime level can have serious consequences for real people.

It reeks of immaturity.
but the overhead for I/O is much higher

Hardware virtualized I/O is a thing now as well, and in that case as well the overhead has shrunk to marginal. Add external storage (iSCSI), and things get much more complex.

Much of the argument about virtualization is about ten years+ old. It once represented a significant additional overhead, but that simply isn't true at all now.
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>Currently, industrial production of hydrogen relies overwhelmingly on fossil fuels to power the electrolysis process.

Currently 95+% of hydrogen is produced from natural gas via steam reformation (releasing just as much CO2 and fugitive methane as burning it), which also uses lots of heat (read: coal). With such an enormous factual inaccuracy, it's hard to take the rest of the article seriously.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_reforming
What I found interesting was a quote from his previous post: http://notch.net/2014/06/literally-worse-than-ea/

Mojang does not exist to make as much money as possible for the owners. As the majority shareholder, I’d know. Every time a big money making deal comes up that would make a lot of money, it’s of course very tempting, but at the end of the day we choose to do what either makes the most sense for our products, or the things that seem like fun for us at Mojang.

This seems to be in conflict with the whole "selling Mojang to M$ for two gigabucks" thing.
Right, it might be worth it for a certain market at these prices, especially if internet service/smartphones aren't available.

If they can just get those SMS costs down it would be much easier to scale.
Good question - LA is indeed a challenging town for recruiting engineers. A few thoughts:

1. Meetups; i.e. if it's a Ruby shop, you could sponsor, participate, or simply attend Ruby meetups. Creating awareness of your company and meeting people/making a positive impression could only help spread the word.

2. Industry events; i.e., a founder of an EdTech start-up could meet some helpful contacts or even directly connect with engineers passionate about your specific field of work/product/mission.

3. Your existing network: mentors, accelerator partners, CS professors, old colleagues on LinkedIn, etc. It never hurts to ask :)

3. Unique perks; first one that comes to mind is potential for remote work. Given the adventure (read: nightmare) that is LA traffic, this could draw lots of attention. I understand it's difficult as a small start-up, as cohesiveness and face time is important, but even one to two days/week (or the potential for more once the employee's established) could set you apart.

FWIW: I run a tech recruiting agency with a distributed team around the country - LA is one of our cities. Feel free to shoot me a message if you have any Q's or if you're curious about using a recruiter: [redacted].

Good luck!
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2200 subscribers = $1.1M monthly revenue. Not bad considering the costs don't grow that much with additional subscribers. Some for serving the content on request, but I imagine the ingestion and storage is the big ticket item.

I wonder how long they archive for?
What an amazingly vague website.

Is this a self-help book club for women? A women-only urban transportation service? No clue.
Bizspark will also give you $60,000 worth of Azure credit. You have to get in touch with them and they interview you. Not exactly sure what their criteria are, but I'm part-time at a place that got the $60K Azure and it's been really helpful.
Several experimental systems have proposed replacing the traditional file system with what they call a "single level store": you have data structures in memory, then the OS saves them and restores them as needed from disk storage - but there are no traditional files on the disk, and the users don't interact with the disk storage at all - they just interact with the data while it is in memory. In this scheme, the disk storage is something like the pagefile in a conventional OS, but that's all there is - there are no conventional files.

An interesting single-level store was discussed by Robert Strandh in his 2004 proposal for a Lisp operating system, Gracle. I can't find the original paper on the web anymore but some pertinent excerpts are in https://github.com/jon-jacky/Piety/blob/master/doc/gracle_ex.... Strandh referenced another experimental OS with a single-level store called EROS. I see he has a more recent LispOS at https://github.com/robert-strandh/LispOS.
DOOM was really easy to understand: "If it moves, shoot it. If it doesn't move, shoot it anyway."
The email states that file-based copy operations were used in favor of dd due to suspected block errors. Two questions come to mind:

1. I've not used dd on failing media, so I'm not sure of the behavior. Will it plow through a file with block-read failures or halt?

2. There's the ddrescue utility, which is specifically intended for reading from nonreliable storage. Seems that this could have offered another means for addressing Rasmus's problem. It can also fill in additional data on multiple runs across media, such that more complete restores might be achieved.
https://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html
Seconded on antetype. It's the right tool for the job. Resizing layouts in photoshop is a nightmare.
This is how free market capitalism is supposed to work - where mobility (switching services) is low to non-existent and so then users can migrate en mass to the ecosystem that is governed better or more in their favour.
Not disagreeing with you, but plan9 went the other way, huh? Rather than 'no files', "everything is a file!"
Just continuing the practice of hollowing everything out, making everything a little cheaper and a little worse at a time. Turning employees into contractors, etc.

Fast food is too expensive for this person. That doesn't strike me as an awesome situation.
Are you saying that everyone in the country hates their job, is barely scraping by, and only does it because they have no other choice?
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That's the main issue, textbooks are not the ideal form of learning for some subjects.

Studies have shown that text is not the ideal format for novices to learn a subject for the first time.

I'm a co-founder at https://www.clutchprep.com and that's what we're tackling. Students go to 300+ student classrooms, don't learn much and then have to rely on a $250 textbook to teach themselves (doesn't work well for most). It's a broken system.

Edit: fixed the link
alternate experience:

I've been a Homejoy customer for over a year. My wife and I have had the same cleaner for nearly all the appointments. We are very happy with the work she does.

For me, the killer application of Homejoy is in the scheduling and billing. Other local cleaning companies that had staff did not have the same web-based scheduling and payment tools.
I think you're absolutely right. But the penultimate step is worth highlighting separately, the way the right lemma can render a proof obvious. Especially given how difficult a proposition this penultimate step is. It's like saying you want a better algorithm for multiplication when you use roman numerals.

So I'll stand by my statement that the RFS's phrasing is -- not wrong, but rather -- misguided as stated. Or maybe "misleading" would be better, but that carries connotations of malice.
Painkiller is based along similar lines but retains Doom's darker demonic palette whereas Serious Sam is very light-hearted and colorful. A number of people have mentioned that it is essentially what Doom 3 would have been if ID hadn't changed the series' genre to horror rather than staying an action shooter.
Homejoy in Dallas charges $35 hour unless you agree to 2 or more cleanings a month then it is $25.

They give you the option to rebook the same cleaner but it is weird. We changed it to clean every week and our person did not show up. then we change it to like clean once a month and they did.

The receipt gives you the cleaners address and name
I would like to see a entrepreneur visa in the US rather more H1-B. The main thing going for the US is that no other country is really stepping up. (YC, please open a branch in another country!)
Uh, coal and natural gas are both fossil fuels.

Edit: As long as we're using wikipedia links for citation, here's the one on fossil fuels. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil_fuel
Well, I'm glad SCOTUS seems to be doing something right. So much of their decisions seem to be on the side of entrenched/powered/moneyed interests, whether its the dismantling of the Voting Rights Act and campaign finance reform, or the granting of increasing rights to corporations (like Hobby Lobby).
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"Regular use" is defined as you being able to hail one to take you at least 30 miles for ~$50, from either a mobile or webapp.

If anyone can buy a self-driving vehicle, Uber and Lyft are aberrations, as anyone (even FedEx and UPS) could provide self-driving vehicle livery services. Its no longer a marketplace business; its a fleet management business (and both UPS and FedEx are extremely capable at managing capital expenditures, fleet operations, and system capacity).
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I think the triviality and inadequacy are overstatements for the following two reasons: it's rare to have undetected errors in normally operating hardware that simultaneously go undetected by Btrfs. If this doesn't go far enough, then I'm challenged how to characterize the vast majority of the world's data on NTFS, HFS+, ext234, and XFS as being anything but fragile and tenuous, which would be an overstatement. What is going far enough? It's a use case question rather than something absolutely determinable. For a general purpose filesystem, I think CRC-32C is adequate, although it will be nice when there's choice for another algorithm to meet other use case requirements.

Yes, it won't send writable snapshots.
e.g. ERROR: /mnt/root is not read-only.
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Another way to accomplish the same goal(abi stability) is to use cppcomponents (www.github.com/jbandela/cppcomponents/), which is a c++11 library that does this internally while presenting you with a high-level interface where you can use all your favorite standard types (string,vector,tuple,etc) and have them work even across different compilers and standard libraries.

If interested, take a look at my slides are at https://github.com/boostcon/cppnow_presentations_2014/blob/m...

and my C++Now talk at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4iFJuNBx7U&list=UU5e__RG9K3c...
Per the article, 32 days.
This was a big reason why I disliked Chromebooks using different firmware. Why do you think firmware standards exist in the first place?
Looking at it from a public cloud perspective, I doubt we'll ever be able to use SR-IOV. By the time a particular function has been driven into hardware there are new functions we need that aren't in hardware, like sophisticated overlay networking.
They already have wireless charging for electric vehicles:

http://www.pluglesspower.com/

While high-capacity electric vehicles like a Tesla wouldn't be able to wirelessly charge, it should be trivial to build a physical dock they can connect to with no human intervention (similar to how SpaceX designed the DragonEye mating connector for autonomous mating to the ISS).
Doom 64 ran at 320x240. :D
The sprites are higher res so it looks better when scaled up close, but in the end no different than plain old DOS doom.
> Docker restricts the container to a single process only.

> When it comes to applications for a LAMP container you would need to build 3 containers that consume services from each other, a PHP container, an Apache container and a MySQL container.

Huh??
Glad to see how the courts are taking this up. Maybe they will torch the laser pen pointer annoying cats patent too!
Canon 5D Mk III has both SDXC and CF slots that you can duplicate as you shoot.
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This is an oft-repeated meme but I don't see it ever substantiated.

Disregarding the fact that the "driver in a car" model is never going to be the most efficient means of transporting things (as opposed to people), we're ignoring the fact that the "Uber for X" formula already has many players.

Instacart, Seamless, GrubHub, Google Shopping Express, Postmates, every product category already has an "Uber". In fact every product category already has several "Ubers".

Uber won't have a first-mover advantage in any of them, and a lot of them thrive on having logistics options that aren't "dude in a sedan/SUV", and have built substantial hard-to-clone infrastructure on that front.

Uber has a lot of momentum, and a lot of hard-to-clone systems built around freelancer drivers, but IMO others are ahead in applying logistics to other things. This is like saying "Toyota can leverage their engineering expertise and totally own aerospace!" ... without acknowledging the existence of Boeing and Airbus.
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anybody knows what are those URLs, in the DBInfo section area? like..

http://82.146.32.239/dc/

http://109.120.177.166/dcoin/

they all are nginx, saying 403/404.
or, my first thought, why isn't that gradient implemented as code or a vector image?
All I'm saying is that you can't isolate the parts of your lives from one another because you, as a person, are always the common denominator. If some part of your life has an impact on you (physically, emotionally, whatever) that impact is going to be carried with you into all the other parts of your life.

Are you saying that's a tautology or an absurd claim?
Uber drivers make a lot more and most aren't full-time. I workout with a guy that loves it. For him it's just extra cash, and it's extra serious cash.
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It's a transportation service like uber except it's all female drivers for female customers.

It's trying to tap the market of women who feel uncomfortable getting into a cab with a male driver.
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One big difference is that cab drivers have a perverse incentive to drive their whole 12 hour shift, since they pay a flat fee for the car for their shift that they need to earn back in with cab rides. No shock that their driving is terrible after 10+ hours on the road.
Lyft and Uber drivers seem to have a lot more flexibility in choosing their hours and probably don't have this issue.
The site is down for maintenance as well, not great timing to be on the front page of hacker news. I have no idea what SheTaxi is given the copy.
>Basically, in 2014 computer usage more closely mirrors the workflow of an author (revisions, publishing, etc), rather than an employee filling up a file cabinet for internal use (thank to the facebook and the like)

How did you come to this conclusion about patterns of usage? I'd think the typical user/consumer would more likely have 1000 mp3 files rather than 1000 personally authored Microsoft Word documents (or Photoshop PSD files, etc.)

What about another common usage such as digital camera photos? The digital camera (or iPhone) has jpg "files". How would the user mentally translate the "files" living on a FAT32 flash card and copy them to your "Library Items" storage system? Do they keep 2 mental models of storage paradigms in their head? If your proposal includes a driver/wrapper for hiding the FAT32 file inside the concept of "library item", it seems like you're just renaming "files" to "library items". It's more a shift in terminology rather than shift in paradigm as a sibling comment already noted.

The filesystems in an operating system (NTFS, ext3, etc) are already implemented as special purpose databases. The "rows" are file id entries and they each point to the "blobs" which are the file contents. Whatever you propose to build has to reimplement this underlying "database" as well. Whether you call the rows of that database "files" or "library items" or "objects" or "documents", it isn't going to revolutionize the approach.
In how many metro areas, though? Surely also a huge factor in "regular use".
Some companies that serve as middlemen seem pretty resilient. For example, ebay and craigslist.
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That's the way the market is moving, but that doesn't mean we have to like it or accept it. Society is not some race to the bottom to be the last person to starve to death in the gutter. A lot of hard-won labor victories (overtime, breaks, termination rights, FMLA, etc) are being lost here and we don't have to accept it. I know regulation and unionization are dirty words here, but they are some of the very few weapons to fight this trend.
How do you get that from:

At SheTaxi, we believe in:

opening your mind,
honoring your spirit,
caring for your body,
nurturing yourself,
being real and authentic.
We’re here to fuel your inner drive.
SaaSaaS? ...which of course leads to the general form, S(aaS)^n.
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> Then you end up with Mestizo, which somewhat maps to the word Nigger here in the US.

This is absolutely false. Mestizo is a normal and accepted term both in the US and throughout latin america. It is not considered an insult anywhere, unlike Mulatto. What else would you call us mixed people?

> Not good enough to be native, and not 'pure blood'.

Again wrong, most racism south of the US border is towards the indigenous. Mestizos see themselves as superior, since we are both european and native. While the aristocracy may look pure european the majority of latin american countries are mestizo and is a big source of pride and identity.
The problem is that most things hosted by Google resolve to ghs.google.com.

Given that China blocks sites that it doesn't like by simple dns then all Google hosted content is blocked.

And of course Google blocks sites hosted from being seen in places like North Korea, Iran, Cuba, Syria, etc. due to the way that Google enforces U.S. sanctions. Google is not alone on this.
Can you do the math for me of every user on the internet times every program downloaded?
It's time for Congress to do their bit and suspend assumed patent validity for this broad class of patents. Its clear the review process was yielding vast quantities of invalid patents. Making the courts invalidate them one-by-one is crazy. Classifying them all as assumed-invalid would send a very clear message to the patent office that it seriously fouled up and needs to straighten up in evaluations, and also let patent trolls know that their payday is over. Proving validity puts the technical burden on the patent troll, which in almost all cases would be nearly insurmountable, since virtually all these patents would likely be recognized by juries as obvious and invalid.
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They are fossil fuels, but extracting hydrogen from natural gas does not use electrolysis. So the article is factually incorrect, yes?
>The company has more than 2,200 subscribers, including the White House, 100 members of Congress, the Department of Defense, as well as big news organizations like Bloomberg, Reuters, ABC, and the Associated Press.

Yeah I don't think they were ever in any real danger. This isn't something average joe consumers like us use, this is something big corps, media companies, and politicians use.
Suppose I find a good cleaner. Without an ordinary job contract, they lose nothing from striking a deal to do my house again, without the middleman. Has this issue arisen?
OP said "I went for a file-level copy because then I'd know which files contained the bad blocks". When you copy the block device with ddrescue (dd doesn't have logic to work around the bad sectors and the only sensible action for it is thus to stop, but don't take my word for it), the result will just have zeroes in the places where bad blocks were, and, assuming the filesystem structure is good enough (you should run fsck on it), will give you files with zones of zeroes. But you won't know which files without either comparing them to a backup (which you won't have by definition if you're trying to recover) or with a program that verifies every file's structure (which won't exist for the general case). Whereas cp will issue error messages with the path of the file in question. So the OP's decision makes sense.