skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have been told by multiple cabbies in different cities that most personal revenue ("salary") they make is eliminated by absurd cc processing fees.

A recent driver in a SoCal city told me that his processing rates were 20-30%, and he was only allowed to use that service by the terms of his cab lease from the medallion owner. (They obviously operated the cc processing service as well.)

Shouldn't blunt your frustration, but I wanted to repeat what I've heard from traditional taxi drivers -- they're sometimes better off not driving you than driving you and collecting payment by cc.
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> No one bothered to ask me what made me unique or interesting

To me, it seems like Google's hiring process as a huge company (at least for the vast majority of positions) is explicitly looking for interchangeable people, so regardless of what they advertise, their process is not one that holds "uniqueness" as a plus. This is also evidenced by the "hiring committees" they are proud of and talk about a lot outside the company, which will inevitably reduce the variance of new hires.

P.S. that might not be a bad thing for a big company of that size; I'm not holding this against them, but as a prospective employee, one should definitely consider this.
That may or may not be true, but it's not the substance. The point was that FNs resent being caricatured into something they aren't. They are normal human beings capable of the same things (good and horrible) as any other human being, as an individual and society.
quality of life for the average American is worse than many places in Western Europe, in Japan, SK, etc.

Yet the number of folks who want to come to the US is unending, including folks from Western Europe, SK and Japan.
Rule? It sounds like a law to me:

"15. Can I operate a jammer in the U.S.?
No. It is a violation of federal law to operate jammers in the United States, except for authorized, official use by the U.S. government."

http://transition.fcc.gov/eb/jammerenforcement/jamfaq.pdf
I know nothing about this particular topic, but my first reaction was to find this statement highly suspect and at best full of exaggeration:
"The historical nucleus of the Metropolitan Police is the force organized by Henry Fielding, in the 1750s, when the Wild scandal was still on everyone's minds"

30 years is a long time. Is Iran-Contra still on everyone's minds when it comes to discussions over geopolitics? I suppose it's still a factor.
As both an author and a software engineer I have to object to your thought that software engineers do not have a voice in what they write. My programming voice is every bit as strong as my writing voice, stronger even for I've been an engineer longer. I control variable and function names, the way the code looks on the screen, the way that it reads. If you think software writers have no voice you just haven't found yours yet.
By this logic,
'The argument isn't "Instagram is publishing people's locations," it's "People are allowing lots of services, Instagram among them, to publish their location, and it's harder to participate in modern society while reliably opting out of all of them."'

shouldn't only people who would opt-out of a phonebook listing be concerned? I would definitely not be in that group, but am concerned with the modern situation. I see the automated and large scale compilation and cross-referencing of these data as the dangerous part.
And it's so much worse than that because not only did the CEO work Christmas Eve, not only did they publicly name who was there (and therefore who wasn't), they used it as an advertisement about why you'd want to work there! It's just unspeakably warped; it is like the "Free Stress Test" that the Scientologists offer on the street: it's a way for those who wish to join a cult to self-identify.

In contrast, a quote I ran across today[1] about Fairchild Semiconductor, a startup that actually did the change world:

Most of the founders were married, busy starting their families and raising small children in addition to all the time and effort they were spending building Fairchild ... I am struck by what a remarkable time it was and what innovative opportunities.

Somehow, I don't think the same will ever be written of Homejoy...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traitorous_eight
Yeah, so what? That's only a contradiction to the preceding statement if all of the following are true:

1) All those people are average where they are coming from.

2) All those peopke are coming to America expecting to end up as average Americans.

3) All those people have an accurate understanding of the economic conditions they are coming from and those experienced by the average American.

Otherwise, it's a complete non-sequitur.
Merry Christmas to HN
Hello HN,

I become active Hacker news at the start of year, its been incredible journey so far. I have learn so many things from computer science to psychology to economics etc. Thanks for all the contribution and best of luck for future. Happy Holidays.
If you are using shot, use a slug and it would be fine.
Good on Google and Microsoft for standing up for what's right.
Yes, it does. But that iframe is dynamically invoked by JavaScript executing in the parent page. The user can't easily see that the popup is more secure than the background page.
I work on enterprise software, and I can tell you that Linux is very big in the enterprise space - it's not just a hacker thing. For example, IBM makes it available on all their server platforms, even their largest mainframes.

And from reading the comments on HN for a few years, I know that there are others here who work on enterprise software.

"I stumbled upon infoq.com recently and realised I didn't understand half of the jargon..."

The jargon is an ever-changing spew of new names created by marketing people for the same old shit. I've worked in enterprise for my whole career and I don't even understand most of the jargon on my employer's web site.
It's like they say, if you owe the bank $10,000 dollars, the bank owns you. If you owe the bank $10,000,000,000 dollars, you own the bank.
> Although your travel experience may make you a more interesting person, that isn't altogether the point of the interview

Maybe it is a mistake that it's not a point in the interview? In fact, I'd care a lot about the personality of a person I will be working with in the future.

I understand that in the "cattle hiring" model where you hire people and then assign a team, this is irrelevant, but I personally consider this a huge weakness of cattle hiring.
I feel exactly the same way. I can't stand it. It's not as if it takes noticeably more effort to press shift.

Furthermore, typing like that will actually take extra effort on mobile devices which automatically capitalize after periods. It's displeasing typography that does not parse well. It is like a constant distraction in every sentence that deflects my attention away from the author's message.
I didn't think of it at the time, but when my son and I went to see the film in imax over the weekend, I felt the need to excuse myself in the first few minutes to get a drink of water. I felt uneasy and my eyes kinda watered, but I eventually got used to it and was okay. I thought that I was feeling some type of way because the 3d never really "works" for me. I guess the frame rate had something to do with it.
Something easily in excess of 90% of applicants at Google can't program computers in any reasonably productive way. The interview process is designed to find out whether you've ever seen a computer (the HR phone screen), whether you've ever programmed one (the next phone screen), and whether you'd be able to productively contribute to a huge and complex code base (the on-site).

Asking about all the stamps in your passport would be a waste of everyone's time. If you get hired we can all chat about it at lunch. Otherwise nobody cares. Anyway at a company with tens of thousands of engineers there's already a bunch of people exhibiting every one of your "unique" characteristics.
I imagine that, for the foreseeable future, bots will be treated like minors. Their creators will be largely responsible for their actions and contracts with the bot/minor are really contracts with the legal guardian.
I would like a source please
In my lab we're using a 128 channel biosemi hardware[0] and we wish the cheaper commercial head sets could come even close to what we're using. We've played/hacked the emotiv/muse and they're both crap (from a muscle contribution to the signal perspective)… even with the signal we are getting from the 128 leads (plus 4 facial), we still feel like our hands are tied behind our backs because its not like we're measuring the neurons directly, but maybe we'll get somewhere.

And then there's the headset that needs people to be a still as possible… so overall I think we're still years out for anything good that's cheaper commercially (at least something that the research will back from non muscle contribution standpoint). I'm interested in openbci, which I think will drive the prices down in the long run (along with projects like open ephys). Maybe one of these days we'll convince our PI to let us open source something to one of these projects since we're definitely relying on it (liblsl, libboost…) lol.

I think something using nano-electrode arrays[1] will probably be the best for having confidence in the signal and less likely to damage the brain. I was talking to Graham Yelton over at sandia about their project to try to get a pulse on where we are:

"Originally the nano-electrode array project targeted traces of dissolved lead and arsenic species in drinking water. Since then we have used modified versions of the array platform for impedance and capacitance studies of biofilm formation and vapor-phase detection, respectively. We have also applied the concept for thermo-electric nano-wires arrays, thermo-interface templates, and electrochromics (micro-pixilation). Steve’s group has deep expertise and focuses on biosensing, beyond my limited bio sensor knowledge."

I would love to see that work combined with the nano mechanical systems work going on at MIT[2], a la deep brain nano neural stimulation (tdcs? meh). Who knows, maybe people are working on it now, but sometimes trying to figure out whats going on where is another problem in itself…

[0] http://www.biosemi.com/

[1] http://www.sandia.gov/mstc/MsensorSensorMsystems/technical-i...

[2] http://meche.mit.edu/research/micronano/
Congrats! Good luck!

Re crippling anxiety - I highly recommend improv classes.
Marriott are jackasses and I hope they go out of business, but I'm not sure I want the FCC to be policing this issue. The "jamming" doesn't entail actual radio jamming; they're just sending a deauth packet. Unless I very much misunderstand, the problem has been solved if your personal WAP supports protected management frames.
You can easily implement e-voting without letting anyone prove that they voted a certain way. This leads to concerns about rigged elections, but those same concerns are present with traditional voting.

At the other extreme, you may be able to construct a crypto-system where someone can prove that there vote was incorrectly counted without being able to prove how they voted. The downside to this approach is that it is likely that would likely involve a fair amount of technical knowledge to verify that the "receipt" you get from voting corresponds to the vote you intended to case.

A middle ground would be to allow people to detect when their vote is mis-counted, but be unable to prove it. This can be easily accomplished by giving every voter a random ID at the time of voting, and then publicly posting the ID/Vote pairs.
We are getting within spitting distance of a revolution here.

The convergence of stem-cell research, gene therapy, bio-printing, cybernetics, prosthetics and AI may make the concept of human seem somewhat antiquated rather rapidly.

Also, as an extra bonus, it will probably confuse the shit out of all but the most creative of racists.
> Monsters University took an average of 29 hours to render

Wow, when I was doing CGI work in the mid-90s our budget was generally 20 minutes per frame. The highest quality work we did was around 1 hour per frame, and this was for TV adverts and idents -- still, we didn't have Pixar's budgets to play with.
In a market where a taxi medallion costs $520,000, I think concerns that Uber is screwing over cab drivers are a little misplaced.
Here is a graph, unfortunately not cumulative, which would it make easier to read:
http://ncusar.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/US_energy_...

Solid economic growth in the 70ies, then a big dip around 1980, a smaller around 1988, then solid growth in the 90ies until around 2004. Then decline. I would trust this model much more than any government announced GDP growth.

Reminds a little bit to Sow jet Russia. They had a tractor manufacturing plant with state given output increases they had to match. They were not able to fulfill the quota but since output (like many other things) were measured in "tons of tractors produced" the solution to the problem was easy. While they did not produce more tractors, the tractors became heavier and heavier every year...
In this case I am the only American to voluntarily move to a radioactive fallout zone in Japan immediately after the Tohoku earthquake where I studied computer science at Japan's only school dedicated exclusively to the field. So while it is nice to hear how Google does their text-to-speech from a young employee, I do understand Markov models and Mel frequency coefficients well enough and have done my own interesting research working in a CS lab setting. I could care less if they hired me, I thought it was rude that I traveled 10,000 miles around the world and survived to be shoved out the door.

This was also coming after resigning from another company where I was treated terribly after moving from Chicago to southern California.

And that's really beyond the point. Fog Creek Software in New York City does an excellent job of treating their employees well, both interviewing and starting, and maybe that's something only offered by smaller companies, but I think an interviewee for a software job should be treated with a little bit more personal respect.
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"In 2014, much like 2014, we saw America only solidify its economic dominance http://greyenlightenment.com/?p=1556"

Elberto34, of all the clowns you are the funniest one. ;-)
This is actually a pretty rudimentary use of Instagram's location features. On Friday I am releasing a site where you can monitor specific physical addresses for Instagram posts and get alerts in realtime - regardless of who posts them. Right now I am working on some pre-built feeds for celebrity homes (see inside celebrity holiday parties etc), major concerts and sports events, and news events (protests in New York etc).

Because Instagram geotags by default, it poses some really interesting privacy challenges and tradeoffs. If you are privacy sensitive, shutoff Instagram's access to your location.
20 Years of Impulse Tracker, Part 4 – full source code
maybe he is channeling e.e. cummings :)
He was waiting to use a conference room and misheard me.
This was my experience at Google as well. I was there a little over five years. There were times when I was completely in love with my team and my project and I was working until 3AM and feeling great about what I was getting done. There were times when I was burnt out or dealing with personal/medical issues and not contributing nearly that much. I can't complain about how I was treated in either circumstance.

Beyond my own experience, I had multiple teammates who had long commutes and family commitments and made a rigid practice of leaving before five every single day. As far as I know, none of them were ever given any trouble about it. Maybe they weren't promoted as fast as if they'd burned the midnight oil, but that seems like a fair trade.
If they're accessing personal wifi devices without the authorization of the owner of said device, doesn't that qualify as a breach of the CFAA?
The fact that you mention taking off at 2:30 on a Friday to celebrate your anniversary as an example of your privilege or freedom at work proves the author's point.

That point has more to do with our inherent freedom to live self directing lives than arguing that hard work isn't a good thing. It's more an indictment against the whole employee lifestyle than your admittedly superior company.

To reiterate my point, you feel like it's worth mentioning that you were allowed to stop making BigCorp money for two and a half hours to celebrate one of the more important events in your life.
UberX recently became available: https://www.uber.com/cities/philadelphia

I've taken several in center city!
(unsurprisingly, a much better experience than CC cabs...)
Have you thought about reaching out to them and asking what happened?
In the several startups I've worked at / with, the technical debates were not an input to whether or not the company would succeed.

A culture where everyone worked to the maximum of their ability and where the sum was greater than the parts, those places tended to do pretty well.
Not really a good thing, as they depreciate in value
There is a bot called WallStreet that is never to blame for anything it does, which really is much more fascinating.
which would be very apt for a piece about Borges.
Fair point, I was being pernickety. I was not meaning it in terms of the Europeans being less moral, just that the Europeans had more effective tools for bison slaughter and when it got competitive, well, the results speak for themselves. - http://webs.anokaramsey.edu/waite/environmental/untitled.jpg
And there you've experienced the best that Large Enterprise life has to offer for worker bees.

Working for an employer is inherently dehumanizing. You are considered a resource of the company, not a unique individual. The larger the company, the stronger this effect.
Yes, if it's a laptop (DIY will always be better for PCs). But until I see it, I won't believe that you or anyone can pull it off at a price that's competitive (or equal) to a Macbook Pro/Air.

Apple's laptop line is actually quite competitive. The keyboard (layout), trackpad (quality/design), integration of hardware and software (battery life + feel), and overall build quality are what sets Apple apart from the competition. I have yet to buy an Apple product, but I also haven't replaced my laptop in over 3 years. Every time I think of doing so, I go through the same exercise:

1. Eliminate laptops with idiotic layouts (I'm one of those people that type with the right shift key). This first step already cuts out the majority of low cost laptops.

2. Filter by battery life. Suddenly Apple pricing isn't looking that bad.

3. Filter by specs - screen, etc. Now you are left with laptops that are all in the same (or higher!) price range as Apple.

And this is all before taking into account other factors like Linux compatibility. By time I get the list down to models that are competitive with Apple, the price is almost always equal or higher. And usually, none work 100% perfectly with Linux. So I end up buying nothing.

If you could pull off such a piece of hardware, where the hardware is designed to fit the distro's look and feel (a very underrated pro for Apple products in my opinion), at a competitive price, I'd be first in line to buy one.
Definitely an interesting channel. Most any topic is fair game for discussion, and the channel pretty much never sleeps. Bear in mind that freedom of speech swings both ways:

"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it."
Awesome work! Do any classic DOS demos work like Second Reality?
> For the record, I don't think you need to have gone to university to be an engineer.

Actually I beg to differ on this. Engineers are supposed to understand both theory and practice. Your engineering course at university teaches you how to think and not just how to complete a task. Being able to think about a problem and solve it using experience and scientific knowledge is what differentiates a construction site foreman from an engineer with equal years of experience.
From Ruby Rogues 184 RR

"JESSICA: Alright. So, I am going to echo one of Greg’s picks because it was on my list but for a different reason. ‘Seeing like a State’ is an amazing book. And I think it’s drastically changed the way I look at software, not for the same reason as Greg talked about but because it shows why what we do is hard. ‘Seeing like a State’ talks about all the subtleties of human systems and human interactions at the local context level. It talks about all the improvisation that everyone does on a day-to-day basis and how in real human communities, we’re constantly changing the system to adjust to a slightly different reality, to corner cases we hadn’t seen before but now we have. It’s shifting and it’s not well-defined. And suddenly it makes complete sense that the hardest part of software is figuring out what we want to do. That’s it. It’s a great book."

http://www.amazon.com/Seeing-like-State-Certain-Condition/dp...
I don't see any theoretical difference. Provided our sampling rate is sufficiently high, merging together "snapshot" images should give exactly the same effect as motion blur.

Though in practice it would be difficult to render more than a few snapshot frames between the display's refreshes, and with a low sampling rate there would be noticeable errors, particularly if you take a screenshot of a fast-moving object.
Other than working at an enterprise-type company, getting exposure through watching videos might help. And remember - the best definition of enterprise software that I've ever heard is: enterprise software is when the person buying the software almost is never the one who uses it.

https://www.oracle.com/javaone/sessions/index.html

Based on your brief posting, you might be interested in more CIO-style matters.

http://www.cioinsight.com/ciovideos/

Really, I personally believe the more exposure you have to fields outside of your profession (at least the one you are in for now), the better mental model of the world you want to be part of you produce.

I used to work in enterprise software so I can say for sure that it its own unique bubble, just like startups.

In fact, read this book:

http://www.amazon.com/Seeing-like-State-Certain-Condition/dp...
The whole "culture fit" concept is a direct result of corporate hubris. When a company mentions "culture", I don't walk, I run for my sanity.
Also, it doesn't consider the typical scam in the Bitcoin world where someone builds up immense positive reputation points and then goes off riding into the sunset with a single haul.

Not to mention that selling the data (or keeping ones own copy of it) a sparingly number extra times along the way is also a possibility.
It's not surprising to me that Cisco would weigh in in favor of this being allowed, since managing "rogue" APs is one of the features they advertise on some of their enterprise stuff.
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I understand the individual words in your post but have no idea what you're actually trying to say. Have you thought about running for congress?
Sorry, don't have one. Wasn't trying to convince you of my perspective, or change your mind. If you're genuinely curious, I'd encourage you to talk with the next few taxi drivers you interact with, and ask them about it.