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Ask HN: Would you pay $25 a day for dinner, laundry, and cleaning?
My company, The Happy Home Company, is considering rolling out a service that takes care of each night's dinner, weekly house cleaning, and all of your laundry, and doing it for $25 a day.

Does this sound crazy, or interesting?

Update: If you'd like to try this for free for a week, and live in the Bay Area, send me an email at doug (at) thehappyhome.co
I just read an awesome experince on HeyLets that instantly made me want to try! Best app!
You should be able to sell videos on YouTube
That's fine, you can say no offense and then just say I don't know what I'm talking about, but I've used this all too often. The point of airbase-ng is to do all the things I described. You can read about what it's capable of here:

http://www.aircrack-ng.org/doku.php?id=airbase-ng

MAC address, password, none of that matters. Interference? You operate on a different channel.

Jasager is the other utility I forgot about that solves all the WPA problems.

You don't have to believe me, but I can tell you that I've done this, without fail, and have no reason to lie.
I thought it was going to be about illiteracy.
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I think he has a point. Do we really need this specific technology from the future to prevent Heartbleed? No, because we have ASan and other things like that.
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> The error is meaningless to the user (else they'd fix the problem instead of asking for your help), so it's no shock that sending the meaningless text to you is not the first thing that comes to mind.

That's a good point, and implies that the better the error message, the dumber the support requests you'll get about it because they're the only ones left.
It would be great to have stats on the applicants as well. It would be good to know whether to bother applying given various info (single founder, no customers yet, sector, etc).
But then consider the implementation path to fixing the problem for a minority linguistic group being deliberately repressed by their government--It would require blood. If there is some alternate process to work with the UC directly, that could be better but it puts the UC in the position of judging a linguistic group's claims for legitimacy.

I agree that this refutes claims that the UC was negligent, but we can still say that they failed to be particularly assiduous in this case.

Side question: does anyone know the story that led to http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U13A0.pdf ?

EDIT: subjunctive
Not my argument. I'm saying that social norms have failed and to hold them up as some infallible moral authority of how we should conduct ourselves is absurb. I will not let Generation Helicopter Parent dictate what emotions are acceptable and which ones aren't... especially since they themselves have ZERO experience with emotional nuance and leadership.

You go treat people like robots for administrative ease and CYA legalisms, and I'll go treat people like complex humans capable of handling their own lives. Let's see who gets to the top first.
From the wpa_supplicant.conf man page:

scan_ssid
SSID scan technique; 0 (default) or 1. Technique 0 scans for the
SSID using	a broadcast Probe Request frame	while 1	uses a
directed Probe Request frame. Access points that cloak them-
selves by not broadcasting	their SSID require technique 1,	but
beware that this scheme can cause scanning	to take	longer to com-
plete.
I've heard this theory applied to traffic, but not parking.

Because no, it isn't impossible. I've never had a problem finding parking when there's a parking garage nearby. E.g. 5th and mission. Just go to the top open floor, and there's always several spaces waiting for you.

It's just street parking that is difficult. Which makes sense because if you think about it, streets don't provide much parking. Maybe 1 car per shop.
I'm in the midst of learning Scala, and I assure you I'm motivated to learn it.

However, at first pass, it appears to include all the worst aspects of Perl, Python, etc. The one thing I hate is when a language has multiple ways to do things, and you have to memorize them because it's not obvious. This is why I despise Perl with all my heart.

For example, the whole "class.function(x)" being equivalent to "class function x" annoys the hell out of me. Having _ as a overloaded magic symbol is another perlism that also annoys me. It either means the implied array member in a function OR it is used to tell the compile that you're passing in a function to a variable. I hate this. Why bother using the same magic symbol? There are a ton of other things about Scala like this that I hate because it's non-obvious and things you just have to memorize.

That said, I'm still motivated to learn it and understand Scala, but I'm worried I'm wasting my time.
As a side note: it was Stallman's birthday yesterday, who turned 61 himself.
I…I…I never even thought of using CMD+F in the terminal. It just never occurred to me. CTRL+R, sure. But not CMD+F. ~Two decades of scrolling back through hundreds of lines looking for a single piece of output. Well now don't I feel like an idiot.
> Coworkers don't need a license, because it's not illegal to make a pass at a coworker.

I never said anything about legality. Ethics should not strictly be a reflection of laws, laws should be a reflection of ethics. Using laws as the only things that guide your ethical decisions works fine if you want to be a major asshole to people, but not if you want to exist in a healthy community.

> "Hitting on" is a crude way to describe buying a gift. Is love now banned at work?

This isn't about "love" being "banned" at work or anything, this is about what constitutes appropriate behavior. You should try to not make things uncomfortable for others. The immediate personal cost you incur when you work to make a group of people less uncomfortable is tiny compared to the costs that they have to deal with from society handing them a raw deal, and it can help a lot.
That's OK, I was utterly curious
So you want to build the next Uber app
I was thinking of quite a lot of the just-before-the-Internet academic software released under a permissive license, which splintered into a thousand fragments.

And Keith Packard frequently regretted X11 being under a permissive license, given how much company forked work the home project never saw code from.

It is easier to give back now, this does help.
Just for full disclosure, I wasn't close to Fes-Mike, but we lived in the same dorm (New House, I was New House 3, he was Spanish House 2 floors above my room), but we crossed paths a number of times in the halls and he always made time to wave and greet me. I was/am friends with people who were close to him, and the devastation they experienced when we all learned what happened was unforgettable. And to cap it off, some friends and I had to talk a classmate out of committing suicide a little while later.

Overall I enjoyed my experience at MIT, but there were a few soul crushing moments in my time.
I believe robotcookies is responding to the original title before a mod changed it. I used the original article's title, which was just "Please please please". I have learned to not change titles from the original in my submissions, but I suppose it's not a universal rule.
Your Hispanic founder graphic seems to be missing the flagpole!
MIT students are objectively better than those graduating from other institutions. The institution is prestigious in the field, highly selective in its admissions, and maintains a diverse and challenging curriculum.

If you are trying to recruit the best of the best, it makes sense to recruit there. But you will have stiff competition from everyone else seeking the same. You're probably also looking at CalTech, Stanford, Berkeley, and Princeton with the same eyeball. And sama is saying that some of those companies that set out to recruit the very best and most prestigious graduates are not always the very best companies to work for. That's it. If you graduate from MIT, you don't have to work for Apple, Google, Facebook, or any other company that anyone has actually heard of.

I came from the middle of the bell curve, and my first job was working for a start-up. I didn't need sama's advice, because I was just looking for the first thing I could find, rather than the first thing that would not spoil the purity of my perfect, pre-planned resume. That's why he was aiming at those busy beavers in Boston. He's just saying that people might be happier if they chased after the rainbow unicorn farts rather than prestige.

I have worked closely with graduates of Alabama, Auburn, and Alabama A&M, including the smaller satellite campuses. Those are not "cow colleges". Their graduates are not bumpkins. They are overly religious and entirely too enthusiastic about football, in my opinion, but they still know how to do the work. They also know how to chase their dreams, even when afforded fewer opportunities to do so.

Recognize that "bumpkin" and "cow college" are derogatory or dismissive terms, you may have used them without thinking about why you shouldn't, and that you may need to reflect on that a bit.
It is normal
(from the FB thread, just now)

Bjorn Lynne Hi all. As an update to this situation, I am happy to say that the Universal Music Group claim on my video has now been released.

I have not had any communication with/from UMG, but what seems to have done the trick is that I used the "appeal" process at YouTube after I was told that my original dispute had been rejected by UMG. Going through the "appeal" at YouTube is a pretty scary process, because YouTube uses some very strong language to warn you that you may face legal action and/or your YouTube account may be shut down. I did it nevertheless, I was that hell bent on getting UMG to stop monetizing my music and claiming ownership of it.

After a couple of days, I received notification from YouTube that the UMG claim against my video had been released. I think that the "appeal" process is the only thing that UMG takes seriously, because the way it works is that, if they still want to uphold their claim on the music, they have to issue a legal DMCA takedown notice and provide legal argumentation as to why they own the rights to that video/music. Obviously they could not do that, because the music was composed by me, and it was very easy for me to prove that. So it appears that, when they saw the appeal, they released their claim.

I'm still angry with UMG over their handling of this. First of all, they used non-exclusive stock music (which in this case happened to be composed by me) in a product and then entered that product into Content-ID at YouTube. This is explicitly against YouTube's Content-ID policy, which clearly states that in order to use Content-ID, you must fully own the content exclusively. Which they didn't. Admittedly, anybody can make a mistake like that, and I wouldn't have made a noise about it, if they had then released their claim when I disputed it and explained the situation. But they didn't. They waited the FULL 30 days that they are allowed in which to respond, and then they upheld their claim. That's when I got angry.

I don't know if UMG ever even looked at the dispute. Quite possibly, it is their policy to always allow the full 30 days to pass, and then uphold their claim, no matter what, knowing full well that the "appeal" process is so scary. In my opinion, this is speculative and legally questionable. Right now, they are probably monetizing hundreds of thousands of videos that contain audio that doesn't belong to them at all, deliberately and knowingly. It's the second time they've done this exact thing with my music (first, with my track "Mystical Pyramids" and then with "Kingdom of the Persians"). And, as one guy commented on this thread, these are the same guys crying so loudly about people copying their music.

Thanks for all your comments, shares and support in this matter! Much appreciated!

All the best,
- Bjorn Lynne
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Didn't Notch tried that with Bethesda over the right to the word "scrolls"? I mean, he tried to try, because AFAIR Bethesda refused the Quake 3 match he proposed to resolve the issue.

And I somewhat agree with your sentiment. Today's process in the US is a huge resource wasting machine that serves only one group - lawyers.

http://www.themarysue.com/mojang-bethesda-settle-scrolls/
I would say each of those are easily transformable to be attractive for females while still remaining relevant for males - perhaps beer pong, Mario Kart, and trivia?
Isn't this sort of scenario the reason the LGPL exists? That way one can use the library in proprietary projects if needed, but any modifications to the library itself must still be open sourced, under the same license.
Sorry, could you elaborate on how "parklets" are a privatization of public resources? They seem to me like simply another use by the public. The article even mentions that a study found that not all the people using these mini parks are spending money at local businesses.
The Indian government recognizes 22 languages, not 2. The government has a department dedicated to their support: http://tdil.mit.gov.in Why isn't someone asking that department WTF has it been doing?

Added later: and there's also CDAC http://cdac.in/index.aspx?id=mlingual which has been at it since 1988.
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The Pros/Cons of Cloud Computing
Nor is it unreasonable to "unify" Latin, Greek and Cyrilic:

Cyrillic ПФ vs Greek ΠΦ

Cyrillic АВ vs Latin AB

Obviously using ω for w (as he does) is stupid, but his reducto-ad-absurdum is not particularly absurd.
> Actually, the argument is "She slept with someone else, so why shouldn't I be allowed to see if she's interested in sleeping with me?"

Finding out if she's interested in sleeping with you is a privileged relationship. You don't just find that out from random coworkers. The "privileged relationship" I was referring to was one where you get to find that sort of thing out, not one where you automatically get to sleep with them.
https://en.wikipedia.orgwiki/List_of_scientists_opposing_the.... ‘Dishearteningly poorly informed bunch’, are they?
Driving Mr. Albert: A Trip Across America with Einstein (1997)
Nice and useful. Starred the repo.
Thank you - that's really helpful.
Who would fight on UMG's behalf? They have enough money to bring any MMA fighter on as staff. Even if you restricted their pool of fighters to employees that they had before the duel was proposed, they have enough employees that they could probably still find somebody that could kick your ass.
Simply put, for good authentication you want a token which is secret and easily changed.

Biometric data are not secret (face, fingerprints, voice) nor can be changed.

That means they are easy to forge and hard to revoke when compromised, and at most they can be useful as identification, like your email, and not as password.

I wonder why none thought of biometric identification with an hardware token which plays a one time tone outside audible spectrum. That would be incredibly convenient for users and still quite resilient. Just throw in side channel auth like phone message for unknown position or devices and of you go.
> Even today, I am forced to do this when writing my own name. My name is not only a common Indian name, but one of the top 1,000 names in the United States as well. But the final letter has still not been given its own Unicode character, so I have to use a substitute.

Not as descriptive as it could be, but this article isn't about him.
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As a professional software engineer I can confirm that many of our rank have some sort of blind spot when it comes to error messages.

Many time someone has commented "I don't know why this build is failing!", and a quick search for "Error" in the build log reveals the exact cause.

My current pet peeve is an error message that reads "This application requires <dependency A>. <Dependency A> can be installed from <url>". If I had $1 for every time someone said "I don't know how to fix this".
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> Having _ as a overloaded magic symbol is another perlism that also annoys me. It either means the implied array member in a function OR it is used to tell the compile that you're passing in a function to a variable. I hate this.

I have no idea what you are talking about.
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I just love this quote:

'Asked if it hurts the roach, he says, "I don't think so. I haven't heard any complaints from them." '

I'm sure he's part joking, but some part of me is pretty concerned by the lack of empathy in that statement.
I think the numbers are somewhat disputed. The People's Linguistic Survey of India says there are at least 780, with ~220 having died out in the last half century.[1] The Anthropological Survey of India reported 325 languages.[2]

The discrepancies are made particularly tricky because of the somewhat ambiguous distinction between languages and dialects.

[1] http://blogs.reuters.com/india/2013/09/07/india-speaks-780-l...

[2] http://books.google.com/books?id=VjGdDo75UssC&pg=PA145
In my case, both the startups were "sold" off to another larger holding. I personally, did not get anything worthwhile in a serious dollar amount so I chose not to exercise my options. Really, after the dilution your employee stock options are miniscule. And savvy startup CFOs will give employees small quantities of options not large.

EDIT: Yes, and these were not traditional Silicon Valley startups, they were NYC/Finance area startups. The original founders were not developers (your "bros"), they were finance guys!
> That doesn't mean you have to support every particular choice about how it is wielded

I never wrote you have to support how it's wielded but that it is wielded. Your freedom of speech analogy doesn't apply to what I wrote.

I agree with your last point, but I think that's exactly the job of lawmakers. Once you've found an abuse of the law, you refine the law. You don't just throw your hands up and say "well the pros outweigh the cons." Legislation isn't futile. In this specific case, copyright law has only grown more powerful without any significant negative feedback.

All I'm saying is, if you feel there is something wrong with the GPL, well it's not the only instance of copyright abuse and maybe you should focus on copyright law itself, not the GPL.
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It's like typing ` + o to get "ò", isn't it? You can argue that ò is actually an o with that tilde, while that character is not ত + ্ + an invisible joining character, but that's an input method thing, and there is a ৎ character after all.
Combining characters are not just used for Bengali though. E.g. umlauted letters in European languages can also be expressed using combining characters, and implementations need to deal with those when sorting.
In the US, once you pay an initial retainer, a layer will sometimes work on a contingency basis - meaning they get one third of the final settlement.
Given that UMG is a rich target, and the claim seems very strong, you might find someone like that to drive it.
Even if you do, it will be slow, agonizing, and ultimately less than it should be when you win.
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>> "This is probably due to a shortage of parking spots."

Yes, that's the point. This is called modal shift and it is how you incentivize people to stop driving.
Posting that was worth the down votes.
Wait, "ত + ্ + ‍ = ‍ৎ" is nothing like "\ + / + \ + / = W".

The Bengali script is (mostly) an abugida. Ie, consonants have an inherent vowel (/ɔ/ in the case of Bengali), which can be overriden with a diacritic representing a different vowel. To write /t/ in Bengali, you combine the character for /tɔ/, "ত", with the "vowel silencing diacritic" to remove the /ɔ/, " ্". As it happens, for "ত", the addition of the diacritic changes the shape considerably more than it usually does, but it's a perfectly legitimate to suggest the resulting character is still a composition of the other two (for a more typical composition, see "ঢ	"+" ্" = "ঢ্").

As it happens, the same character ("ৎ") is also used for /tjɔ/ as in the "tya" of "aditya". Which suggests having a dedicated code point for the character could make sense. But Unicode isn't being completely nutso here.
Furthermore, actual medical training greatly favors rote memorization and application of standard operating procedures. As a computational biologist, I spend a fair amount of time thinking about probabilities and medically related topics. Over the years, I have had several frustrating conversations with doctors who refuse to consider priors or stats from well respected meta-analyses (e.g. by Cochrane reviews). But, who can blame them? Doctors have little time to think in the current system.
What are the four $1B+ companies?

I can think of AirBnB, Dropbox, Stripe, ...
Ah, OK, I stand corrected. Your error in saying '8th Century' confused suggested you were saying 'as it's 8th and not 9th century.

In Scandinavia is it considered that the Viking age and mediaeval period don't overlap at all? Is there a specific event that marks the start of the mediaeval period - you mentioned Christianisation, perhaps the arrival of an evangelist (aka saint)?

Of course the ring could be C8 - I wonder if they can date it with reference to the comparison of the composition with coins with a known date [though I guess that only gives an upper bound as the silver used in the coins could have been mined much earlier].
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I don't like this formulation. You can't take away any freedoms of something that is released freely. The only thing GPL guarantees is that derivatives are also free.

Also if you speak about "a piece of software" as in one piece of software, then the GPL doesn't maximize the freedoms.

What the GPL does, is set a few (people from the BSD crowd would say restricted) freedoms and try to spread them as far as possible by making people license their own source code they wrote under GPL if they want to work with a GPL licensed codebase.
> The only freedom the GPL does not provide is the freedom to take these freedoms away from future users.

And that's the crux there. It's not always malicious (I want to make a proprietary extension and sell it), sometimes it's a fact of the environment (I have to link this against a proprietary library in order to deploy to this hardware). Some will say "find a new environment that isn't developer-hostile", and others will say "find code that doesn't impose those restrictions." It's not black-and-white.

I have the greatest respect for RMS and the FSF. I compromise on my freedom as a developer all the time; I know that. But thanks to the ideals that RMS puts forth, I know that I'm compromising. I know what the risks are to using BSD instead of GPL, and so I weigh those risks.
Did Bloomberg just discover preferred shares and liquidation preferences? Or is this meant for a lay audience? I'm not sure how many of Bloomberg's readers would find this surprising or newsworthy.
no equity %. The savvy CFOs will not tell you what your percentage equity actually is. this allows the CEO/top brass to dilute the pool by issuing millions of options before the sale of the company to a buyer. Since I didnt work for a startup that went IPO, $ haul was 0. i didn't exercise the options, they felt useless compared to the effort I put in.

EDIT: also as a traditional employee (in my case developer), you will not be aware that your company is being readied for sale to another before it actually happens. Only, if you're a very tiny company like 10 folks maybe you can know. Otherwise a startup that grows from 10 to 100 or more, then forget it.

To clarify I was an early employee after a funding round and not before. Those who are employees before any funding round are basically "founders" and can get some sort of decent payout.