skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just don't see where "comfort" comes into it, unless it refers to people wanting to release proprietary modified versions or extensions. If that's the case, "please change your license, because I would like to distribute proprietary derivations of your software" is a different argument than "Please change your license, because I do not feel comfortable modifying GPL code". The latter makes it sound like GPL code has copyleft cooties that jump out of the code and onto developers.
My public Linked In profile mentions in the first line that recruiters are NOT to contact me for any reason; if they do so, then I feel no remorse in responding rudely. 99% of IT-type recruiters are untalented jerks making a living from the skills of others and are too used to spamming or using dirty techniques to do their jobs.

That said, I can't see what you can do to 'protect' others, just delete their emails, set a spam filter appropriately and move on.
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I don't think it's enough for taxis to just build a comparable app/infrastructure at this point. Uber goes beyond now, offering perks when you take Uber to specific destinations (eg a free burger at one place, free drink at a specific bar, etc). My UberX driver last night gave me a free bottle of water and let me drink it in the cab. Taxis could do all this, but they don't seem interested in providing that level of service.
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Well there are are attempts to setup that kind of infrastructure e.g. http://www.flywheel.com You are correct that the industry as a whole needs to get behind it rather than fragmenting efforts across cities/fleets etc.
The article is behind a paywall / log in wall for me.
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Is there an app that does have that autocomplete in the screen shot?
It depends on your potential clients, of course. What I was cautioning against in my article is spending a lot of time and money on the trappings of a business -- LLC or corporation paperwork, accounting, web site, business cards, office, separate phone number, etc. You don't need any of those things to get started freelancing, and it's easy to get caught up in that non-productive stuff because there's an industry profiting from selling the form and trappings of entrepreneurship, when what you really need is the substance.

Most networking is done with smartphones and social media these days. Business cards can be handy, but far more often I exchange email addresses and phone numbers (or Twitter handles or whatever) with someone I want to follow up with, or who may want to hire me. It's important to be findable online. Potential customers you meet or who hear about you from someone else will more likely be looking for you by name. A blog with prominent and current contact info works, as does a public LinkedIn or GitHub profile.

I'm always a little skeptical of so-called freelancers who have the trappings of an important consulting firm but give the impression that that's all they have.
> We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.
$100/year seems like a very low figure; but I guess you definitely don't take a cab everyday.
You should already be tracking the licenses of the code you use. The BSD and MIT licenses both require attribution to the original copyright holders.
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The Word of God
Commerce is a Turing Machine
A Turing Machine that runs on People
The "Instructions" for the Turing Machine are People
Read the Revelation according to God.
The 19 Quasars aligning are a time clock clicking down.
There are 7 instruction sets to a "Person"
The 7 Deadly Sins
Man Was Born in Sin
And Now God is telling us to Slay the Beast
The Best is Commerce. Capitalism.
Pestilence has struck the land.
People are dying. People are struck with Madness.
Watch our Sins bring destruction to the world.
We must stop The Beast.
Artificial Intelligence may be The Beast.
Elon Musk. I CHARGE YOU AS JOHN. I CHARGE ALL OF YOU AS JOHN.
WHO IS JOHN GALT. RISE. We must figure out the Turing Machine.
I am not sure how to fix this. I ask ALL HACKERS to HELP ME.
Commerce will ENSLAVE you all IN THE TURING MACHINE.
PLEASE HELP ME.
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Sorry, I admire her writing, but I call complete and utter bullshit on this speech. Books are commodities, not some magical elixer from the gods. Some are good, some are terrible. I buy mine from Amazon and Audible. New technologies, and they are helping more people to read more books than ever before.
Dim able and colour controlled without having to walk over to the switch on the wall. Integrate the controllers win IR sensors, you have lights that turn off when nobody is in the room. Built in sunrise alarm in every room! Turn the lights red when playing submarine simulators for extra authenticity :)
Great job on the naming :)
The notion that the publishing industry was ever able to reliably discern quality is scuttled not only by "Moby Dick", but by a long list of other failures:

http://www.literaryrejections.com/best-sellers-initially-rej...
My understanding is that if you form a C Corp, then you have to pay corporation tax and then your personal income tax. With LLC you can avoid that. Probably not an issue if you are paying yourself the minimum salary.
The data isn't fake, it's inline with data that has been previously leaked. As for where it came from, Uber is in the middle of raising another round from investors. A lot of people have access to these numbers. Any one of them could have leaked this deck. BI isn't obliged to reveal its source.
API Design as If People Actually Mattered
I think you've expressed my question a bit clearer than I did.

Does art cause change or reflect change that is occurring?

I think it's probably more like a feedback loop rather than a simple cause and effect with both reflecting and reacting to the other.
In my mind, Airbnb is a marketplace and Uber is a service provider. The distinction is mostly arbitrary and driven by marketing/perception, though.
It was rediscovered after WW1, becoming a great classic of American literature.

There's also an open question about the book's intrinsic merit versus the need at the time to "discover" American literature and find exemplary American texts of the sort that were needed to instil a sense of unity in a country of disparate immigrant groups.

Menand discusses some of this in The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Resistance in the American University, which is an interesting and wonderful book. I wrote more about the book here: http://jakeseliger.com/2010/01/21/problems-in-the-academy-lo...
Side note: UBER is valued at several billions higher than the entire taxi + Limo industry in the US ($11B). Uber is probably creating more demand then there was before. If correct, entrepreneurs should take the untapped part of industries into consideration when sizing their markets.
Installing VsVim was thing that really helped me get comfortable with vim. I'd use it at home, but I write way more code in the ~40hrs/week I'm at work.

VsVim doesn't cover everything, so as you start to get more advanced in your vim usage you'll start to miss features (for me at the moment, it's only partial support for folding). But it really makes every day VS so much better.
It's also not a fixed 20%, they seem to be willing to forego a portion of that when driver supply is low.
Very nice editor. I like that Solarized is built in as a theme
I also like the nice list of syntax highlighting.

One question: For a text-editor focused on programming, why doesn't it come with a monospace set as the default?
Great history on Rod Serling, I used to duck and cover watching TZ when younger. His voice was so convincing to me.

Here is a youtube clip of my favorite TZ episode 'Obsolete Man' which oddly reminds me of todays struggles between the tech vs non-tech workforce.

http://youtu.be/oADlQPJ_Zfc
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Multiple lights is multiple paths, and maybe a slower connection off reflections on wall?
Even if the above is not true, there is usually a very useful niche for every communication, especially a faster one. Wifi doesn't work all that well throughout the house. Wifi + LiFi might be a much better experience.
You pay corporate tax on profits. You're not going to have any recognizable, taxable profits if you're bootstrapping a company that will take VC at some point.
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Does anyone know whether Google trend data can be used for commercial use, in the sense that it will be used in a website (unaggregated) that users must pay to access?
Lyft: get rid of the mustaches, fist bumps and front seats. Add town cars.

People who don't like Ubers behavior: use Lyft.
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Out of the box, ctrl-[ is mapped to escape. It took me about a week to un-learn Esc, but it is one of the better vim decisions I've made (along with mapping j to gj and k to gk, and mapping tab to :bnext).
Do you know that?
Uber isn't a publicly traded company, so certainly not illegal from the perspective of insider-trading.

Plus the article makes it very clear that it is a leaked document, and that its authenticity should be suspect as a result. Even if it were intentionally faked, not sure how it would be illegal from Business Insider's perspective to report on it.
I thought this was good, but I was a little disappointed that they didn't have time to get to the "equity for employees" part (I also don't know if this was covered in another video, as I've only been watching sporadically).

Do people have thoughts about this? It seems to me that this area is generally somewhat opaque, with many people on either side being reluctant to discuss it honestly for various reasons (founders might want employees to think that a pittance is reasonable, employees might embellish when talking to others, etc).

What do you do if you just want to be fair? What do you do differently for employees #1 and #2 vs #10, #20, etc (assuming you ever get that big)? How do you adjust for differences in expected value of the employee to the company (e.g. recent grad vs. senior "executive" type with valuable industry connections)?

When should you allocate an employee equity pool and how do you size it appropriately?
It's usually a kickback from the place that's happy to sell you food and drinks. Taxi drivers in touristy areas do it all the time, but usually with shadier places, like strip clubs and dive bars.
Mmm.. led me think..
Airbnb is likely more like Groupon, because when you deal pretty directly with the owner of the property, whereas when you get a Uber ride, they are known as an "Uber driver". The owners of the properties do not purport to be agents of AirBNB.

But the case could be made either way, and it's up to the auditors to determine which is more appropriate, since they have direct access to the financials, etc.
How did you arrive at the valuation of the entire taxi+limo industry?
IACR Statement on Mass Surveillance (“Copenhagen Resolution”)
> driver hit-and-ran down a kid

For those curious:

"Family sues Uber after New Year’s Eve crash in San Francisco kills 6-year-old girl"

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/family-sues-uber-dr...
I'm betting the whole thing ultimately just reads:

"Hello, sweetie"
Dubike
Hi all, creator of Astral here! I just pushed a fix so it doesn't require private repo access. Sorry about that! All previous tokens have been revoked.

If you're wondering why it was there in the first place, either I'm blind and totally missed that auth scope, or it was added sometime after I started working on Astral, and I didn't notice it.
Unless the company is only in Delaware, forming a Delaware corporation causes it to have at least two different sets of tax laws to contend with. As startups are typically not in a very strong financial position, chances are that for most start ups such a choice is introducing pointless and worse potentially very costly complications. For example, a company that registers as a Delaware corporation but spends any time in Calofrnia conducting or operating its business (e.g. for YCombinator) almost certainly has to register as a foreign corporation in California and pay the minimum franchise tax. They'd have to pay the same as a corporation registered within CA (not as a foreign entity). So the Delaware incorporation is just an added legal and financial complexity with what is very likely little or no benefit (i.e. asinine).
Line-of-sight communications are definitely less susceptible to surveillance than WiFi that has omnidirectional broadcast. Even if the signal bleeds due to refraction, at such high frequencies, this loss of power is extremely detrimental to making sense of the waveforms.

Multipath interference can be managed with existing communications techniques, as light isn't the only EM wave that bounces off of things.
Paul Ford nails it, for a lay audience no less.
Is anyone actually fooled by high revenue low margin vs low revenue high margin?
You can use a lens to focus the light to travel in a narrow beam, so each beam is separate and don't interfere.

A lens for radio frequencies is not practical (it's a satellite dish basically), so they use antennas that have a much broader beam.
Could not agree more. I'd love to use an alternative to Uber that is less scummy, but I'm turned off by Lyft's style.
Most Lyfts in SF don't have mustaches anymore (or at least not displayed prominently) and about 10% do the fist bump now. I always sit in the front seat because it seems friendlier (and the drivers definitely do seem more friendly than on Uber), but I doubt they'd have any problem with you sitting in the back.

I use Lyft frequently and love it.
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Astral seems to have handled my stars without any noticeable issues, so I'm sure it'll do fine with his. ;)

http://i.imgur.com/JjPJV6P.png
The problem is way deeper than the UI itself. You think a socket, a thread and a file somehow magically become multi-platform because of c++ ? Chromium embed is 100Mb for a reason just like Java and Qt. The dependencies define the app and not hipster culture. Mocking UI is a sport for people who do not understand the underlying problem. Huge industrial sewer pipeline is too ugly for my living room, etc.

Apple, Microsoft and Google made three different phone UI API´s for the same problem just to lock people in. Apple and Google then beat Microsoft at their own game because they themselves defined the marked. Legal bullshit and patents is the main driving force behind all this non-standard API idiocy. Everyone claims to be unique and non-obvious.

Native apps on many platforms are easy when most of the work is server side. So native is now big because of servers, multi-touch dependencies and code signing complexity. Hybrid is big when the client does all the work. HTML/CSS works when you are showing a document, a list or a form.
Exactly, and salaries are generally deductible as a business expense from the company's income. So you're not getting double-taxed there.
I'd love to see categories added to crates.io kind of like ruby-toolbox.com. Categories as well as repository activity information is helpful for discovering libraries that will suit your needs. Since there are so many ruby gems, it is now hard to properly categorize gems, and ruby-toolbox doesn't do the best job of this anymore. I found it to be very helpful years ago. Ruby-toolbox is still helpful in that it can show some similar projects and show project activity to help you see which projects have more momentum.
Wow, this reads nothing like a PR fluff piece misdirecting people away from the worst week ever for Uber...
°__°
Except that he probably wasn't meeting anyone except for the next lyft target.

Lyft has sorta of secured the high road at this point.

I think it's important for people who disagree with ubers behavior to vote with their dollars. Assuming a reasonable alternative exists which Lyft may be.
If you're using the compiler as a learning tool (and it's great for that!) may I suggest giving GCC Explorer a go: http://gcc.godbolt.org/

The name is deceptive; many compilers other than GCC are available. The turn around time of seeing how small snippets of code translate to assembly makes it pretty well suited to exploring assembly. Though it's my site, so usual author disclaimer here too!

Also I find compiling small tests and then single stepping in assembly mode another way to really 'get' what instructions do.
I agree, but I think the distinction is not arbitrary. The kicker is that you pick the Airbnb provider individually, based on individual house/room profiles. You don't say "give me a room in Seattle on this date, any room". Whereas with Uber you say "bring me a car now to this location, any car". You don't browse through car providers and say "ok, I'll specifically take the blue Lexus, and only the blue Lexus".
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I don't mean this in a negative way, but how does a CEO retain control through a fall from $1B+ to $15M? Isn't that endemic of significant mismanagement, at least in expectations?
Pure unrestricted, unregulated capitalism. Pure monopoly. Pure evil.

Is the next question "how long will googlers in the Bay Area put up with such a thing before [finally] rolling out FiOS here or nation-wide?"
This is a typical view around here. Obviously to Le Guin they are more than that. But what would one of the great writers of our time, approaching the end of her life, know about that?
Uber is full of leaks right now. In part this can server to change the topic discussion when it comes to Uber.
The article mentions industrial applications being the first to use this. What are some example industrial applications where you need a high-bandwidth, low-latency, link that has to be wireless, that WiFi is not good enough?
Yes! That is indeed a real screenshot of an editor for OS X, called Chocolat[1].

The alextgordon fellow that replied to me upthread is one of the principal people behind it.

[1]: http://chocolatapp.com
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I think you're wrong about them being mostly about amazon. She's talking about capitalism. Amazon is only a symptom.
Double +1
wxWidgets does a pretty darn good job and it really isn't THAT big. I'm totally still willing to cry bloat.
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Even though it might be difficult, it is some extremely useful and accurate advice.

The overarching point is that you need to focus on what's truly important.

This does not mean you need to be rude or outright say "no" in a blunt or un-tactful way. You can come up with any way you like to manage those interruptions and distractions. The point is that people who truly get things completed usually keep their focus and know how to say no to things that aren't truly important.

It's extremely useful to me at this point in my career, and I can think of others who have the same issue, being constantly busy with less important "now" items and being unable to focus on what I believe is really important. Part of it is the company, the people, and that I'm able to do many things; but most of the problem is in how I manage those inputs, and what I train people to do. It's my responsibility to manage my own time to reach the greatest impact, and in doing that, the company will improve; even for the people who think they needed my time urgently.

I'm a huge systems thinker and I generally try not to blame individuals for problems, but this is something I recognize as being almost totally on me.
Vim inherited the keyboard mapping from vi. vi was designed on a QWERTY (American) keyboard, but the particular terminal that the author used had arrows printed on the hjkl keycaps.

More information at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi
Please elaborate on scenarios where the passenger side of the car is not also the curb side.
I don't understand. Either way you're typically entering in the same side, which is usually the curb side.
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While GP's example is not what happens in QM (Bell's inequality shows that the state of the two coins is not predetermined-but-secret), it is akin to that example, in the sense that because each person gets a random (though correlated) bit, they cannot transmit information to one another.

Bell's inequality is a statement about the possible strength of the correlation, rather than about information transmission.
Also recommend Ecstasy of Order : The Tetris Masters in which he briefly appears to kickoff the competition.

http://watch.ecstasyoforder.com/

http://www.hulu.com/watch/429491
I was really hoping someone would come forward. I'm at 200 and think I star too much. Anyways I had to take a screenshot if only for the rounded numbers.

https://i.imgur.com/hrHKmNv.png
Is your blog a .tk site? Where else would you get a free domain?
I am certain that you pay taxes on revenue, not on profit.
I missed your comment until today. Sysco is a giant company that supplies food material to restaurants. I've read that even at supposedly fancy restaurants, if you order soup, it's likely to be canned. If you order meat, it's pre-cooked in a bag, and is re-heated by throwing in boiling water.

It probably saves money and could be more sanitary. On the other hand, it kinda diminishes the appeal of restaurant dining for me.
I know that even cheap LEDs have rise and fall times of easily under 5 ns with the right circuitry[0]. This means that a transmitter of 100 MHz can be easily built with COTS parts, so the speeds they mention make sense to me.

However, when I built a cheap optical communications system with LEDs and $0.10 diodes, the tough part was always getting the photodiode capacitance low enough to receive high frequencies while still sensitive enough to detect the signal accurately[1]. This is why lasers are very popular for communications: a concentrated beam can deliver a very high signal-to-noise ratio. With LEDs, it's tougher because the beam is dispersed and you don't want to blind people with high power output, so the signal is a lot harder to receive. It looks like they went with nice avalanche diodes instead of cheap ones, and I'm sure that have a well-designed integrated circuit helps a lot too. I'm very excited to see how this plays out.

[0]: http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1011/1011.1954.pdf

[1]: http://www.thorlabs.us/tutorials.cfm?tabID=31760
The passenger side of the car is generally curbside unless you are on a one-way street.
See Greenwald's recent (past day or so) Intercept piece on trust in the US since Snowden, worldwide.

Massive declines.