skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live on on the south shore Long Island in the suburbs of NYC. My community is a fairly dense, walkable community, but most jobs are located in office parks in the burbs or a commuter rail ride away in the city (or possibly Brooklyn/Queens).

After seeing the same cars every morning drive the same stretches of highway for a while, I thought I'd have a brilliant idea. Create a website where people can post their commutes to possibly look for people to share with. The site would have been free to use (it would be a portfolio piece but I wouldn't turn down a donation here or there) and wouldn't encourage or prohibit any financial exchange between users.

Turns out NYS already has a site for that:

http://www.511ny.org/rideshare/

So I guess if the site exists and no one is using it (and I didn't know about it until I started thinking about attempting to make my own) the issue is publicity. So I posted flyers around town, at the commuter rail station, at the farmers' market.

I'm not sure if there was an uptick in rideshares, but you're right, Michael (of Portland?). Here's something that's been done for a while, for free, with the state even trying to encourage it. Most cars are still empty.

If Lyft can, but offering a financial incentive, get this to take off, maybe it is an improvement. I think it's possible that:

free ride sharing > monetized ride sharing > no ride sharing

Maybe there's some pitfalls I haven't thought of though ...
The last point is especially salient. Except there's no "if." Major firms are already doing this (and not talking about it).
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You're right. The focus should be on ensuring men and women have equal opportunities, but the only way to measure that is by measuring participation. And from the disparity in participation, this either means that women have less opportunities than men or that women don't like tech as much and thus are willing to drop out at higher rates. I personally think it's some combination of both.
We also give food and shelter to guests for free, but restaurants and hotels are still a thing. People do favors for people, and employment is still a thing. People look after each others' kids, but daycare is still a thing.

You probably know fewer than 200 people. Sometimes you can't ask any of them for a favor. Sometimes you don't want to impose on your friends. Sometimes someone would happily do something for you in exchange for some amount of money, and you'll both be better off.

The sharing economy expands the pool of people you can ask to do things for you; is also expands the pool of people who are willing to give you money for doing things. It does not replace friendship and socialability.
Even if each town had an oracle database squirreled away ( which they don't ) That still would not even come close to just the wordpress deployments (60 Million).
If you want to scale your system horizontally in 30 mins, you probably don't need to do it. It is fun in tutorials, but when you are dealing with tera(peta)bytes of data, you probably need to be more cautious.
Go at CoreOS (Go Birthday Bash Series)
It's not powered internally. You apply it to a surface and power it like you would a normal LED.
When I was a kid I used to have a councilor that had Tourette's Syndrome, he was one of the nicest people and really helpful and good at his job. However every now and then he would have an attack a spitoff nearly the same vitriol F$%# N%^$#er, C$%k S%#$er etc.. after a few seconds he would recover and apologize. There really are mental illnesses out there that will make you say and do things that you don't actually believe when you're not under it's influence.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourette_syndrome
get involved in some interesting open source community, and more specifically in a popular project.

this will do two things - one, it will let you write code that keeps you engaged, without needing to come up with ideas for something to write from scratch, and two, working on a large and active project with multiple contributors, mailing list, irc channel, etc. will be helpful with social skills (at least as far as interacting with other developers goes) and might even act as a form of networking (i've seen several job posts made directly to community mailing lists, especially if the job is for a non-mainstream language or framework).

if you can list some of the things you've found fun or exciting to work with in the past, we can help make more specific suggestions of areas to explore.
Even if that happens, Lyft is recieving revenue they wouldn't have otherwise. i.e. it may decrease the potential revenue from this use case but not the profitability.
There are a lot, and I would recommend reading through this page... the basics on Epiphany (and the same can be said about most others) is the fact that we designed from the start to have a very high memory/IO bandwidth (both on and off chip), stuck to RISC, and focused on floating point (one of the few architectures in this area being fully IEEE compliant with this high of a performance per watt ratio).
I agree with you; this needs to be a FOSS application, with a "parasite free" network of peer-to-peer nodes to connect users.
I'd like to think my bar is pretty normal, but I admit my friends and acquantances are late 20s/early 30s, live in Lisbon, and have pretty frequent interactions with foreigners.

For example, though, I'd consider you fluent, based on your comment.
Allow me to play doubles advocate here for a moment. For all intensive purposes I think you are wrong. In an age where false morals are a diamond dozen, true virtues are a blessing in the skies. We often put our false morality on a petal stool like a bunch of pre-Madonnas, but you all seem to be taking something very valuable for granite. So I ask of you to mustard up all the strength you can because it is a doggy dog world out there. Although there is some merit to what you are saying it seems like you have a huge ship on your shoulder. In your argument you seem to throw everything in but the kids Nsync, and even though you are having a feel day with this I am here to bring you back into reality. I have a sick sense when it comes to these types of things. It is almost spooky, because I cannot turn a blonde eye to these glaring flaws in your rhetoric. I have zero taller ants when it comes to people spouting out hate in the name of moral righteousness. You just need to remember what comes around is all around, and when supply and command fails you will be the first to go.

Make my words, when you get down to brass stacks it doesn't take rocket appliances to get two birds stoned at once. It's clear who makes the pants in this relationship, and sometimes you just have to swallow your prize and accept the facts. You might have to come to this conclusion through denial and error but I swear on my mother's mating name that when you put the petal to the medal you will pass with flying carpets like it’s a peach of cake.
It might do that wildly inefficient thing...

Or, you might do something where you have a list of pointers, and you point at a different value instead of mutating an existing value.

I haven't dug into the details of how immutable data structures can be made to work efficiently, but part of the charm is that in many cases you don't mutate the array at all. What I mean is, there are certain behaviors around mutation that programmers do because they can.

When you take away the ability to mutate data, you design differently and without side effects. All of a sudden testing becomes easier, faster, cheaper for large parts of your codebase. You have simpler solutions that are potentially easier to reason about because the complex (and sometimes elegant) solutions aren't so readily available.

A few talks that are around this style of thinking:

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/boundaries

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpkDN78P884

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tq5SQ4W3gRI

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy

Boundaries are good, values are good, simple things that work together are good. The more we can take the good parts and form them together into a cohesive language/framework/platform, the better our software will be.
We wouldn't be getting better without having all these shity ideas.
<<
POST / HTTP/1.1
Host: ig-game.appspot.com
...

>>
HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
Alternate-Protocol: 443:quic,p=0.02
Cache-Control: no-cache
Content-Length: 0
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 21:32:12 GMT
Server: Google Frontend
Set-Cookie: session=(snip); Path=/; HttpOnly
X-Firefox-Spdy: 3.1

Nope. Might be geo-locked or something.
Against Acceleration
Looks like a more flexible (and wireless) version of Griffin's PowerMate[1]. The last hardware I crowdfunded is still mired in delays, but I like this idea enough to try it again.

A couple of questions, if you don't mind:

* Roughly how heavy is it? For physical objects like knobs, I like a bit of heft. Not as big a deal here as in a SpaceNavigator where it's pushing back instead of spinning freely, but I'm curious.

* Specs mention a 4 month battery life. Is that a AAA where I can use a rechargeable, or some sort of button cell? Or not yet finalized?

* How does software support work? I see it has smooth brush size control in Photoshop, but can I expect it to work that well in less common software like Leonardo or Mischief? Or will it have to be bound to keyboard shortcuts that change things in large steps like the square brackets in Photoshop?

Thanks!

[1] http://store.griffintechnology.com/powermate
I think this entrepreneur should be given a little bit more credit than your post suggests:

1) He is willing to share his experiences which I think is brave and should be applauded.

2) He is obviously learning hard won lessons which I think are the best kind. I certainly learnt more from my business failures than successes.

3) Based on his HN comments he seems to have had two successes out of 12 tries (assuming 10 failures mentioned in the blog plus the 2 other tries that are still alive). I think this isn't too bad.

4) He has a location disadvantage. Sure you can argue that the Internet levels the playing field but I don't quite buy it. I don't know for sure but I suspect that Latvia's tech start-up community is nascent compared to other geographic locations. I argue that start-up culture and knowledge are highly valuable and while the Internet can help to transmit this I believe that, "being there is everything".

If I would throw in my two cents in I would kindly suggest to this entrepreneur to:

1. Keep going and maintain momentum

2. Build up a network and start finding complementary team members, and

3. Focus on hard/valuable problems.
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So, I'm purposefully posting this way down in the comment chain because it's not ready and I don't want it to get too much attention, but I've recently written a whitepaper for a potential distributed application platform. It's still very rough, but I would really appreciate it if somebody could provide feedback. The people that I've shown it to so far either haven't had the expertise to review it or weren't interested in reading the paper.

http://chroem.net/VAPUR.pdf
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It is also on the blackboard at the end (around 0:57), and possibly on some other places.
Google "sponsoring" them in exchange of putting an IP address in their trailer is something I would absolutely see them do.
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Great vision and execution. I would love for their search field to be instant (ie. no return keypress required), would improve discoverability/serendipity.
To anyone brandishing the word 'racist' here, can you point us to any instance where what Terry wrote was not merely a rambling screed with the n-word in it, but actually racist thought. Because to me, those are different things - the former likely an excusable symptom, and the latter, y'know, actual racism.

Maybe you think it's the same. Maybe you're enforcing your zero-tolerance policy. If so, we disagree. To me it looks like a huge assumption, possibly more offensive than Terry's rants.
Since mice also have it, it's being awake rather than sapient self-awareness.

\tangent I increasingly incline to Dennet's view, even though it seems simplistic, that we have models of the world, of other people, and of ourselves. And that self-model is self-awareness.
Haha right as Turing says "Are you paying attention too." Pretty clever. I don't think this is purely a movie advert though. The Imitation Game relation explains how they expected people to get the non number base/regex clue.
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Maybe it did not came across because I am not a native speaker. I meant something along the lines what PG is pointing out in the "Why startups condense in America" essay:

"The problem in more traditional places like Europe [...] is the attitude they reflect: that an employee is a kind of servant, whom the employer has a duty to protect. It used to be that way in America too. In 1970 you were still supposed to get a job with a big company, for whom ideally you'd work your whole career. In return the company would take care of you: they'd try not to fire you, cover your medical expenses, and support you in old age.

Gradually employment has been shedding such paternalistic overtones and becoming simply an economic exchange. But the importance of the new model is not just that it makes it easier for startups to grow. More important, I think, is that it it makes it easier for people to start startups."

A major manager of T-Mobile in Germany was in the news when he pointed out what PG is talking about. "Generation Y" in Germany prefers to work for BMW until they retire instead of starting something on their own. According to this manager, Germany is stagnating. We're neither cheaper than China nor more innovative than the US, because young people don't and don't have to take risks. (http://huffingtonpost.de/2014/08/11/thomas-sattelberger-gene...)
I agree that Redmine can be a bit hard to maintain at times which is why we created Planio[1] in case anyone's interested. (shameless plug ;-) )

[1] https://plan.io/redmine-hosting/
> A great example is refactoring. Say you hired a dev and he delivered a product that worked but is written terribly (already a question there, how do you gauge that in terms of 'results'?). Now you hire a second dev to clean it up and make it maintainable. How do you evaluate when he has delivered the 'results'?

Easy. Lines of code.

The first developer did an awesome jobs, many lines of code were written. The second one is a lousy hack, he earned about $50 (not $50k).

This is ridiculous of course, but it does show how even bad measurements are preferred over non-measurement.
and why not show off Tron suits? Considering the price of light tapes this might be appealing if its cheap enough to fiddle with.

I would like to see it on clothing, particularly bicycle and motorcycle gear. Might be awesome for safety persons too (first responders)
Your .1 mm^2 was without memory, right? I don't know the exact numbers, but to be fair, the ratio does become somewhat closer when you discount the area on the A7 used for memory: http://www.arm.com/images/Single_Cortex-A7_core_layout_image...
> I'm willing to move almost anywhere for an embedded development position

There's the problem. There just aren't that many people looking for embedded software developers. The companies complaining about a shortage are mostly building web & mobile software—if you were willing to consider that field, I'm sure more opportunities would open up.
Because it overwhelms them (anyone that needs help) with pity and condescension. If they need help they'll either ask or find a way to telegraph it to those around them. If you're one of those people then it's OK to offer help. It is not OK for society at large to offer help that way, because it ends up being counterproductive - we end up collectively helping everyone and we're all that much poorer for it.
This is a great point. In some circles we would refer to this as commoditization (clichéd but effective). It seems to be a consequence of continued profit-seeking outside established and competitive marketplaces.
There's only one constant answer and that's not that hard to get from the references just on the page itself. Shoo.
Not recent at all; Wikipedia says it started in the DC area in 1975, and I definitely remember people using it when I was a kid, which would have been early '90s. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slugging
Well Benedict asked to pay close attention :D
It would be neat if a sufficient number of upvotes could cause a comment from a hellbanned account to show up as normal. I guess this could be gamed to circumvent bans, but in Terry's case it could lead to his informative/worthwhile comments being visible to more people.
Look at the response body, the 403 i got had a nice html error message attached.
Poll: Node.js module file name convention
I've been interested in Node.js's file naming convention for modules with two words. When using require() to include files in your projects, what convention do you abide by? Because you can't use hyphen within a variable name doesn't it seem a little silly? Should the variable name match the module file name? Node.js seams to abide by using the underscore. What do you prefer and why?
Camel Case(childProcess.js)
Underscore (child_process.js)
Hyphen (child-process.js)
This is great - we are building our notification strategy right now. What would your top benchmarks be? Like the three most polished experiences and strategies with notifications? (We're in digital content distribution fyi). Thanks!
How do you plan to let people know that you have a better product if you don't link to it somehow?
Question -- why does your campaign involve "EMV" & FCC certification? Do you mean CE?!
You could say that about any obsessive-compulsive behavior. Why do gambling addicts go into casinos or spend their entire paycheck on lottery tickets? Why do some people repeatedly engage in high-risk sexual behavior or make hundreds of telephone calls in a day? Couldn't they 'choose to' do otherwise, or to stop their problematic activity?

Well, no they can't. If you're in the grip of compulsion you can dislike what you're doing, know it's a terrible idea, be fully aware of the negative consequences, but nonetheless be unable to help yourself, in the same way that it's hard for a passenger in a car to exert much control over a dangerous driver. If volition were such a reliable mechanistic thing then we'd have little need for psychiatric hospitals - psychiatrists could just tell mentally ill people what they were doing wrong and call them cured.
and who couldn't understand why x = 7 + 2 when x already was 10

That's a classic example for why functional programming can be a more intuitive paradigm than imperative programming.
So, will this work in Sweden? The Google Play page says nothing about geographical restrictions, but it speaks about "DMV checks" which I have no idea what it is.

Seems Americans sometimes forget that the internet is a global network.
Your salary is now seed funding for your next startup ;)
its a lesson U.S. bookstores can learn from. Not evolve to convenient stores, but offer other services.

The cafe is a major influence on which bookstore I go to.
Maybe it will work the other way. Go for the cafe stay for the books!
Just about all Americans exhibit some racism, although most of it manifests itself in the form of less-obvious, but still insidious, biases and so on, rather than calling people the n-word on Hacker News.
Going over 50 cm of Twinax is great and all, but that's the ideal environment. When you guys put 16 of these things on a board, routing that PCB and getting good signal integrity is not going to be fun, even after you throw in pre-emphasis and so on.
same. claimed i had errors, checked multiple times, did not work.

if this is a recruiting tool, they should make sure they code it properly. unless part of the game is to debug it ... but i do enough of that already at work, so screw it.
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Cool rant. Pity not being able to spell YOU'RE makes you look a bit of a retard.
No distinction (childprocess.js)
>You'll find thousands of quantity surveyors, radiologists, retail managers, cleaners, etc who are entirely dispassionate about what they do for a living yet they still do brilliant work because they do it for the money rather than the love. And that's perfectly alright. //

We're not talking about taking a job here, we're talking about choosing a subject for further education, for an undergrad degree. I went to pains to say that passion wasn't a requirement, not even for taking a Uni course; but I'm going to assume passionate engagement with a subject is a top reason for taking a Uni course and that those who do a course not solely because of an anticipated job are more likely to complete. No stats for that sorry.

If you're just wanting a job in IT purely to have a job then why bother with university?

I know 2 cleaners - one does it for work, solely to get money to live; the other is passionate about it and chooses to do it in preference to other things (she's a qualified teacher!). Neither of them chose to spend 3 years of their life studying it though. Also if you're choosing a Uni course based on expected earnings levels of graduates of that course then you need to factor in the necessity of completion of the course, wouldn't it be far more sensible then to do something you have even a little experience in? If you've got the maths grades to get on a CompSci course then you're better surely with sticking with maths or economics and targeting the expected earnings of an accountant or actuary, ForEx trader or something?

>"entirely dispassionate about what they do for a living yet they still do brilliant work" //

Brilliant? Like they win awards for their work, they've been promoted to the tops of their fields? Brilliant. I can believe "good enough", even "better than average" quite easily.

[I'm not motivated by money, so I do find it hard to believe that people would devote their life to something _on_purpose_ that they have no passion towards.]
I thought this was going to be a story about Ingress.
Author makes some decent points, but I'll respectfully disagree.

For the "increment a thing" case, you could CRUD and create an "interaction request", which is digested later to later do exactly what was requested. This avoids breaking the REST principle at all--you simply treat the high-level semantic operations as their own objects. Now, whether or not this makes your API and design bloated is a different question; that said, it does fit nicely with REST.

Most of their other points have a similar rebuttal: problem is not using REST, but instead using it at the wrong level.
I got to admit, for a second I thought this was another meme that I did not know about. I need to trust in myself more.