skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its funny that a C++ expert / brain surgeon struggles so much with Windows 8
I suspect battery life will probably be more an issue than filling one of these up.

But, IMO your looking at it the wrong way as your not their target market. This is for HD video not camera's.

Still, the goal is not to fill the tings to capacity it's a cost / benefit trade-off is 500$ (800$ - 300$ for a 256 GB SD card) worth being able to take more than 256GB worth of pictures. And in that case it might be worth it simply to reduce the risk of missing a great shot. Even if they rarely want to go though 3,000 pictures looking for the best ones. There is utility in basically never running out of space. Plus a few applications where you might actually fill a 256GB card.
Show HN: Firebasic – Input a JSON file, get static Firebase-compatible output
Most likely, not very.

Do you honestly think someone who wants to steal a computer will use their own access card?
I agree. Planescape: Torment was the best RPG ever. I still get chills thinking about it.
I've said it before, I'll say it again: if H1-B was actually about skills, the state would auction off the visas to those firms bidding the highest salary offers, and rake in the resulting payroll and income taxes.
I'm confused. Are you trying to assert that if homejoy did not exist, these workers would be receiving higher wages and would not need government services?

Or perhaps that if the government services you describe (e.g., free money if you don't work) did not exist, workers would have a stronger bargaining position to request higher rates from homejoy?

Could you clarify your counterfactual?
As a software contractor I also get interviewed and pass basically a normal engineering test/interview process. I don't consider myself an employee of any of my clients.
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Having used Import.io it's great to see how they are making it better.

Anyone else used any other similar tools?
I guess for some families it depends a lot on how long they have been hungry, having to put off everything etc.

Not having money must be worse than beeing alone a few months?
Fairly sure grandparent meant children who were also brought here illegally
Painkiller trailer, for anyone else interested:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jwF5oQx_p0
Don't forget that even if you have a stellar implementation and great service, you may not be able to secure financing for marketing/lawyers/etc. or other "gate-keepers" that would enable financing ... thus there's the "who you know / who you can influence" aspect. I guess that's kind of my issue when I see people talk about how great a free-market is, when the reality is that our "free"-market has numerous levels and types of gatekeepers which prevent those "genetically"-strong startups/companies from disrupting. Hmm, my explanation on that was absurdly bad, I apologize, but hopefully you kinda get what I'm saying, hehe.
That's true, IF passengers are interested in sharing a ride with two other passengers (and if they're interested in trading cost savings for the delays involved in that).

I kind of doubt that there will ever be a day when rides have an average of 3 passengers. Figure that if your base fare is $20, the first person you share with saves you $10 (or maybe $9 or something if you have to shore up the profits of the hailing app). Second person you share with saves you... $3. Third person saves you $2.

The returns to the passengers for additional passengers falls off fast, and the costs to the passengers (in terms of time, of discomfort, etc.) are linear or even more than linear. So probably not three passengers.

But two passengers is possible and would make for a real network effect... if ultimately there's enough demand for shared rides at all. There might be! Hard to say.
Yep, check out camlistore (http://camlistore.org/). It can be quickly described as a big database at which you throw all your content, along with a JSON containing any attributes you want. These attributes are indexed and then searchable.
Nobody is complaining these people worked 4 hours a day, clocked out and left.

The problem is they worked 4 hours a day, lied about getting stuff done, then claimed they worked 10 hours every day to get overtime.
You could have a small JS snippet on the page (served from your own domain) that checks the hash of the JS loaded from a CDN before running it.
Richard Stallman himself did that:

http://www.bostonmagazine.com/2008/04/the-shaggy-god/

(the story about the access cards is right at the top)
Ask HN: Are ERP's overpriced databases?
I have some limited exposure to SAP, which is an ERP. From my experience SAP is nothing but a database with a GUI. I haven't seen how SAP can do anything that any database (mysql, postgre) with a webframework (django, rails, etc.) couldn't do. Am I missing something here? I don't see why anyone would go with these vastly expensive ERP systems rather than hiring a few programers and using something like django or rails. ERP's seem like outdated over-priced nightmares to me.
Scale and perks will drive that 5% up, I imagine. Sure, Joe Average can buy a Tesla Model A (for automatic, obviously) and have it operate as a AI-Uber Driver, but Uber can buy a fleet of thousands, allowing them better pricing, better access to charging stations, better data about which rides are most valuable and where to position their cars. With a bit better margins comes things like bottled water in the cars. This differentiates them further, etc.
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Maybe browsers should ship with these libraries so nobody's relying on every single random website to be impenetrable.
It doesnt have to any more - Linux supports special icmp sockets see https://lwn.net/Articles/420799/
Here: https://github.com/theonion/comcastifyjs/pull/5
Why do you believe group (b) is growing? Is the number of people who are disabled and unable to clean a home or do any other useful work increasing?
Both your comment and OPs comment have no place. The article itself is a newly published guide to Rust. OPs comment derailed the entire thread- perhaps 2/3 of the discussion is in response. Ideally, if this comment merited discussion, it would be submitted as its own thread (where it would quickly go nowhere). After all, the assertion, fn is a stupid name, is a bikeshed- a triviality offering a safe opinion for everyone. Rust isn't going to change the token. Please refrain from bikeshedding in the future.
Stallman already does this in a way: http://www.bostonmagazine.com/2008/04/the-shaggy-god/
> they unanimously replied that they love it

If I were an employee, I'd say that too. Especially given that they are rated by the clients. If you were badmouthing your own employer, the chances of you getting a 5-star rating are significantly lower.
I'm well aware. I was referring to public charging infrastructure using wireless charging. This is almost non-existent due to the lack of compatible vehicles today. I understand that some electric buses are already using wireless charging in major trials.
I wonder if you should just bump into 4th version so people don't think it goes with Rails 3.
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The problem is that the current "solution" is to cache based on the URL, which breaks if the URL is not accessible, as in this instance.

The suggestion solves that issue by using hashes of the files, so it doesn't matter if they are loaded from a remote/CDN URL or from the same server, they will be considered cached by the browser (and loaded from cache) regardless once the hash matches.
This really hits the spot for me. Super pleasant. I could sit here for an hour.
Nesting is an issue though, at least for some use cases.
This is really great. I always wished something like this existed when I was going through CS undergrad (and grad, for that matter). Have you tried reaching out to any CS professors to tell them about it? You might also spread the word by telling some "coding interview" blogs about it.
Uh. What? Did you intend to reply to someone else?
I work on an internal analytics framework at Twitter.

Twitter doesn't use Haskell. The most Haskell I've done there is to write an internal tool in Haskell (A shell-based interface to HDFS). Everybody here knows that it's my mission to introduce Haskell more at Twitter and I have two long plays to do so (Morte is part of one of them).

You would think that it would be easier to introduce Haskell at a Scala-based company because of the strong similarities between the functional half of Scala and Haskell, but it's actually quite the opposite: the marginal benefit of switching to Haskell is smaller so it's harder to make the case to adopt Haskell. This is why you see Haskell take hold more easily in companies programming primarily in languages far-removed from Haskell (like PHP or Python) because then the marginal benefit of switching is much higher.
That's a good rule of thumb, but the IRS itself points out there's no hard and fast rule and that it takes them at least 6 months to make a determination in any individual case.
There are equally small lower power options. Presumably cost was the reason to choose such an old chip.
My first impressions are really positive. I'll give it a whirl ! Thanks for making and sharing this!
What we can learn from Anne Geddes’s style of photography?
https://github.com/theonion/comcastifyjs/pull/5
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This might explain layoffs at king of all patent trolls IV: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-08-19/intellectual...
I couldn't agree more. Someone that does this well is Bill Gross from Idealab. With so little time in life it's better to share it forward to see things come to life. Ideas that are never executed are useless.
No problem, and thanks :D

If you have any questions there is almost always someone on our HipChat support room - http://www.hipchat.com/gvREostp6
This is good advice. All the frameworks are good.
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Maybe the person before me took the laptop and I didn't notice? Or maybe the person before that? If a laptop is reported missing, there is no definite proof that the person who entered previous to the one who noticed that the laptop missing took it. Correlation does not equal causation.
Thank you! That's how I feel too. It's especially fun watching it at different times of day - seeing videos from sunrise and morning commutes on the other side of the world!
Surely they want to take the money now and use that to fund being first to market with the self-driving vehicles. Then they retain the customers but drop the drivers and build a new lake in which to swim in their money.

They can ride the transition period then at least before any serious challenger can take the market.

In theory .. I don't see them lasting long enough to meet the new tech before they implode.
You'll have IBM and many others throwing a fit when their licensing deals are invalidated indiscriminately.
Just do it. We pay $65 a week to have our place cleaned by a Polish woman and she does a great job. She's super nice, does a great job, and is reliable. We have a 2-bed 2-bath, and it takes her round about two hours. So HomeJoy is diappointing you at $25 per hour. Go to Care.com, write a bullet point list of what you want done each week (we have some every other week stuff like inside the fridge, etc). Wait til you have 10 or so answers, respond to 2-3 that seem good, and go buy them coffee. Pick one. Never worry about it again.
I can't rely directly to yummyfajitas, but here is a NYT article that summarizes the issue[1]:

"“They may be able to paint someone’s shed this week,” says Dr. Standing, a professor of developmental studies at the University of London. “But they don’t know what will happen next week.”

He views peer marketplaces as part of a larger global phenomenon, in which labor brokers encourage people to work on contingency without basic employment benefits or protections. The companies essentially channel one-off tasks to the fastest taker or lowest bidder, he says, pitting workers against one another in a kind of labor elimination match.

The flexible timetables of project work are a trade-off for regular employment income and benefits. Retailers, restaurant chains and other employers may require more rigid work schedules than piecemeal gigs, or, worse, keep their workers guessing from week to week about which hours they will work. But many of those employers also offer workers benefits like disability pay or commuter discounts.

Uber, Lyft and TaskRabbit, for instance, do not regard the workers who provide services to their users as employees. The companies say they are simply arenas, like eBays for gigs. They require their service providers to work as independent contractors and, as such, the workers don’t qualify for employee benefits like health insurance, payroll deductions for Social Security or unemployment benefits."

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/17/technology/in-the-sharing-...
Startups create strong incentives to implement a simple solution to a severe problem.

"incentives" - because the founders can get rich if they succeed.

"implement" - because customers don't care about theoretical work, they care about solving the problem.

"simple solution" - because founders can't afford to design a complicated one.

"severe problem" - because the problem has to be bad enough for even a very simple solution to be worth paying for.

Now, to answer your question directly, why is there hope for startups even in highly technical fields where academia is slow and expensive? Because when people are laser-focused on solving specific problems like this, they occasionally make leaps of insight, either in terms of reframing problems to make them easier, applying newly available technology, or just thinking of a new idea on their own. Smart people can pick up skills surprisingly quickly when they're focused on solving problems.

Also, the incentives are strong enough that they can sometimes convince these skilled academics to quit/supplement their academic jobs with startup work.
If you're willing to redefine fitness like that, then any economic system is by definition "survival of the fittest."
While I completely agree with your point about the focus of the complaint, I also want to throw in a note that managing civilian government employees, especially when it comes to discipline, enforcement, or changing long-standing agreements, can be extremely difficult and fraught with all sorts of regulations and loopholes that are not present in the private sector.

Providing telework to government is important for efficiency, quality of life, and other reasons. That said, if the culture has not determined how to recognize quality work in a way that allows remote workers to be valued properly and/or disciplined properly perhaps the approach needs to be rethought.
That reminds me of Joe Armstrong's talk—the best place to introduce new technology is in a company which is already experiencing technology failure. At that point, the pain is clear and options to resolve it command power and premium.
I would expect that, the same way staffing services do (staffing services also offer an out for this, with a fee to the employer in the contract), their agreement with both the customer and the contractor/employee prohibits either from contracting with the other outside of Homejoy once they've been matched through Homejoy.

Not sure how they enforce it, though.
Most of the internet is interfaces over databases, or "CRUD apps" because they Create, Read, Update, Delete from a database.

People choose to use existing ones instead of making their own because it's usually a lot faster and cheaper.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Create,_read,_update_and_delete...
That's a great observation. I agree, though I felt like the people I talked to were more effusive than they would have been out of obligation. (That is, they could've said, "It's nice." instead of gushing for 5 minutes.)
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It's also somewhat in opposition to the robotics goal...
It's hard for me to even imagine how a self-driving car could manage somewhere like large swaths of Manhattan where a certain amount of, umm, aggression is needed to make any forward progress. Though it will likely happen some day (probably multiple decades from now).

As it is, I'd even settle for voice control on my phone that could reliably understand me.
You should. I was under the apparently mistaken impression that people who get into YC at least have a functioning demo, and generally have users already. So when my friend and I were applying, we limited ourselves to ideas for which we could create a semi-functional demo in the few weeks before the application deadline. We ended up getting rejected because of the idea that we chose, and rightly so, but I wonder what ideas we would have come up with if we had not felt so time constrained. (I am glad that we were rejected because I don't think that we were ready to start a company yet, but I am curious anyway.)

[Edited for clarity.]
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It read to me like a puff piece done to prop up the H1-B issue and keep it alive. A lot of New York based, WSJ-friendly companies use H1-B workers because they're cheap, so even though it's a political non-starter, tripling the number of H1-B's is still a priority for them.
>If you're going to hire someone to do it, asking them what their preference is might be better than saying, "We're going to use x."

YES! This. I wouldn't worry so much about which framework is the "best". They are all good. I would say it is more important to find a programer(s) that you "click" with.
Chrome forcing the user to re-approve the extension when it tries to access more data is a feature, not something to work around. That alone is reason enough for me to say "thanks, but no thanks"
I don't know what games you're thinking of. I'm referring to things like Last of Us or the story-mode in Call of Duty. Extremely immersive theme-park rides, but not games.
I don't understand why Node-RED hasn't blown up on HN yet. Its ridiculous how powerful it is for connecting hardware, web APIs, websockets, HTTP Servers, twitter, push notifications, shell scripts, you name it. Additionally, it runs on PC, Mac, Beaglebone Black, Raspberry Pi, and Arduino.

For instance, I'm working on a flow that passes a hardcoded Google Maps url to page2image.com, gets back a screen shot, runs a python script to analyze the image for the traffic level, and makes a determination based upon a predefined threshold. If there is high traffic, a pushbullet notification is sent to my phone. If there is low traffic, a text message is sent to my phone. I have each notification set to a different sound. On my Android, I'm using Tasker to sense when I enter a gps radius, and then send a message through no-ip to my beaglebone running Node-RED to kick off the whole process.

The end result should be that during my morning commute, when I'm approaching a particularly congested area, I'll get one of two sounds on my phone. One sound indicates that I should take the main road, and the other sound indicates that I should take side roads.
I think this will be the way storage goes in the future. With the introduction of memristor-based storage which is both non-volatile and as fast as DRAM and cheaper to produce than mechanical drives, the need to distinguish between 'in memory' and 'on disk' becomes a great deal less important. The distinction which becomes important then is 'what is the user likely to need next'.
I read something from the System Shock developers about them finding out about BSP after Doom was released. They'd spent the whole time culling levels to try and fit into memory, never considered recursively chopping it up.
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1. It is primarily economics (though politics is always involved when it comes to money).

2. I understand that the IT market has grown immensely over the last 20 years, needing more people, it is not a zero-sum game, however:

3. If the job market was allowed to be free within the US, compensation would go way up, due to actual (not imaginary) labor shortage

4. More young people would be lured to pursue all things STEM/IT

5. The market would find its equilibrium

We apparently have a shortage of CEOs, judging by their salaries exploding. Do we have an H1-B program for CEOs?
Best guess: Uber/Lyft can't demand exclusivity from their drivers without crossing a line clearly delineated by the IRS. Doing so would be considered an "inappropriate degree of control" and the drivers would no longer be considered independent contractors, but instead employees. Neither Uber nor Lyft would want that. Penalizing drivers that don't accept a high percentage of rides offered them is Uber's attempt to demand exclusivity without demanding it.
And of course this one: http://xkcd.com/221/
We already have the tools to deliver software continuously and reliably. They are called containers and virtual machines. The problem as usual is not with the technology. If you look back we had SmallTalk virtual machines some time ago that you could pause, ship over the network, and pick up where you left off.

Reading is not the issue as well because most code is terrible and it doesn't matter how easy you make it to read the code I'm still going to waste my time reading it. So I'd say that the problem again lies elsewhere. Few people have the aesthetic sense to write elegant code. It doesn't matter how many tools and abstractions you throw at the problem there are still going to be people writing terrible code.

Writing and reading code or doing anything else with it is in many ways like art. It is also like science and craft and a bunch of other things that require creativity. Even with the accessibility of paints and all the accompanying technology we still don't have the likes of Michaelangelo and Picasso being any more prevalent than they were around the time those guys were alive. Literature is another good example. We teach everyone to read and write but it doesn't matter how much money or technology you throw at it (ebooks, libraries, etc.) we still don't have any more great writers than we did a century ago.

This is not a technology problem. It is a culture and human problem for which you are not likely to find a technical solution.
The only reason to phrase your question the way you did is to increase the FUD surrounding car services like Uber and Lyft. The same question could be asked of any person in any profession.

Regardless, the answer to your question is the first result when you search Google for "Uber liability coverage":

> Uber holds a commercial insurance policy with $1 million of coverage per incident. Drivers’ liability to third parties is covered from the moment a driver accepts a trip to its conclusion. This policy is expressly primary to any personal auto coverage (However it will not take precedence over any commercial auto insurance for the vehicle). We have provided a $1 million liability policy since commencing ridesharing in early 2013.

http://blog.uber.com/ridesharinginsurance
I don't see how there's any network effect to be had. Consider food delivery. I use both seamless and delivery.com. Seamless is a little better and has a wider network of restaurants. But I have 0 lockin and will frequently switch to delivery.com for any exclusive restaurants they have. I have an account on grubhub too although I use it rarely. There's nothing tying to me to any of them. No friend list, no thousands of photos. Just my recent orders which are of limited value. Taxi service is the same. The second that Lyft has lower rates or a close car, everyone will switch in a second. Or flock to option 3 the second it has any advantage.
As someone who is very familiar with testing from a JavaScript perspective yet is just getting started with rails, I have to really applaud the testing approach in the latest draft edition. It is very well done as well as a marvelous introduction.
People with STEM degrees who don't have jobs are stupid.

That is probably the dumbest assertion I've ever read on HN.