skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Uber doesn't do the discriminating. Anyone who drives for uber technically is an Independent Contractor. I.E. They run their own business... separate but in partnership with Uber.

They can refuse based on Destination, but not anything that is forbidden by Law. Such as Race, Sexual Orientation, Religion, Handicap, etc... There was a notice to Uber drivers sent from Uber, stating that any driver that gets complaints about not accepting customers that have a service animal, they will end their partnership with that driver.

I agree, the Market can't fix anything, even in a Libertarian world, there is Government. But they should only be there to define the rules of the Game, not control the moves everyone decides to make.

I do agree, just the market would have not made everything all peachy, you do need to set some rules. But its just the limit and overreach of those rules is up for some debate.

KBI background checks, when Uber already does their own. (In a state that is VERY VERY VERY well armed) A State that doesn't support Gay Marriage, that up till 2006 had laws stating black people couldn't live in certain cities. (seriously...)

Just remember... its Governments that ban Gay Marriage, not markets, Governments decide who can and cannot vote, not markets.
> Syntax extensions are not for trivial rewriting, that's the purpose of macros. Syntax extensions are for doing things like expanding a regex into a finite state machine at compile-time.

Nim provides templates and macros for that. Templates are for rewriting while macros can create arbitrary AST nodes.

http://blog.ldlework.com/2015/05/01/a-cursory-look-at-meta-p...
What's that 325k in take home base pay?
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Hezbollah is fascinating group of psychos, and worth studying as like the Facebook of terrorism startups. Laugh at my simile, but I have seen these nuts from a distance for a while, like others, and getting to know Lebanese people and their stories of these wackos does not bode well for anyone who does not like them too much.

They run their own secret cellphone network. It is so important to them, when Sunni-aligned, anti-Shia intelligence services shut it down, Hezbollah blocked the road to the airport for a week with armed militias. This messed up travel plans for some co-workers. They made a video game about the Israeli war in 2006 (not a single person will by it for me, since I want to inspect it for malware and other fun goodies), and the proudly admit they invented the IED, slughtly before the Iraq War, and with showmanship destroyed very powerful Israeli (not American bought, the Israeli-built ones, forget the name) which were previously a pebble in their tactical shoes. These are not the stereotyped cave-dwelling terrorists. These are educated nutbag technocrats who put a crazy amount of detail into their operations. And the racial hate of the Israeli Army cannot surpress them. So you know they are willing to throw down for a fight.

These tiny anecdotes I compile show a dangerous pattern of very sophisticated loons who believe their own agenda. If you read around, they say will say they are sticking around to fight the Israelis bc they are a true enemy and the Lebanese Armed Forces are cuckolded by Western influences to not engage. Now, you will notice there has been no discussion of disarmament or rhetoric about the stage where they vanquish them, and have to allow the State of Lebanon to function less like the state of Lebanon (see that capitalization joke I did there? Lebanon is not a failed state, but an awesome place where this bullshit drags everyone and everything down). They are a self-justifying state within a state and they a lot of influence that cannot be curtailed.

Current Western counter-terrorist need to study people like this in depth, becuase ISIS and newer groups of the Sunni persuasion clearly are edging towards this new level of hyper-organized, society within society operations that no one has successfully stopped yet. Good help us when ISIS a-holes learn to Node (allow a joke, no one has a sense of humor anymore).

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/islamic-state-file...

And if anti-Hezbollah Lebanese, of which I know many, cannot stop them on their own turf to save their own people from sideways bigots (I do not want to get into wholesale, but needless to say all these groups repulse me), USG and friends in Iraq and Syria are utterly fucked.

As I said, we need to leave yesterday.
interesting how even medium's beautiful layout system can be misused as such to a typography layout abomination
Interesting, I was thinking something like OpenBTS but if internet access in Lebanon is really that slow then I guess not.
> I think most of us here studied econ as a minor in University.

Wait, what? I've never met a single person who did. Am I the outlier, or are you?
Sad day :( Any way to recover playlists? There were a lot of amazing songs I'd discovered through their radio feature, but didn't write down elsewhere.
In the early 1980s I was hired as the Manager of Micro-Development at Lockheed Martin because I wanted too much money to work as a programmer. In these days the section I was in had no PCs so I brought my old luggable (not really portable) IBM PC/XT from home. I worked as a programmer for the large part and I was happy doing development work with two or three other programmers, but when PCs became ubiquitous I had a whole department and I spent much of time managing personnel issues and not coding.
I switched the coding from COBOL to VB4 and Oracle and then Java, and produced hundreds of thousands of lines of code for a Document Management System that I wrote from scratch.
At one point, when the Director was promoted to another department and the VP was fired, I was acting VP of the entire development group. Luckily this only lasted a month before they hired a new VP.
All of the systems that I wrote (including the original EZPass system for reviewing toll violations) reached maturity and my job was managing small improvements and bug fixes and nothing new or original. It was programming hell.
By the time I left, a new department had been formed to set up some the Web apps that would eventually replace the systems that I wrote, but I was left to maintain the old system.
Basically I worked myself out of job. I was doing precious little coding managing people that were bored and unhappy. Younger and more ambitious people were getting the next big thing. In 2000-2001 people were hiring anyone that could spell programmer for big bucks. After 10 years I was glad to move to IBM where I hoped I would be appreciated.
I have been a programmer acting as a team lead since then, but I never again want to be in the position where people call me in the morning to give me lame excuses as to why they can't come to work that day.
Sure, but you have several things working against you. Integrated graphics aren't gonna be great for even non-VR applications if they're graphically demanding. And you're running 1) a laptop, and 2) a Macbook so you've got something that is much more geared toward lower power usage and (in the case of most Apple notebooks) thinness and lightness so those power tradeoffs may be more pronounced.

Honestly, I'm impressed you've been able to do a whole lot with it at all. I've got a fairly decent laptop (i7, 16GB RAM, and a mediocre nVidia 760m GPU) and it's still been underwhelming when I hooked the Rift up to it.

Desktop will be much more power for the buck this early in the game. Portable will catch up but you sacrifice some bang for the buck when you get something more optimized for portability and battery life.
Chart one, DJIA, adjusted for inflation:

http://home.earthlink.net/~intelligentbear/dj-lt-infl.gif

When you take inflation into account, it doesn't look nearly so interesting.
I wasn't aware you could get vanilla windows install media for OEM license keys. Does this work with older windows versions as well? I have a Windows 7 Laptop that I would love to do this with,
I recall working for a Lebanease company in London whist the Civil war was on even getting a phone line to connect was a lottery.

When we did mange to get one the Directors PA used to keep the line open so that every one who needed to talk to head office could use the line.
You're right that Foxconn is a powerful company too, and they do have their own rates/contracts in place with logistics companies. And for any big company with a complex supply chain like Apple, there is probably a mix of different INCOTERMS happening. That said, in my experience the general industry trend is for the importer to try to gradually and strategically extend their control over their supply chain further toward the origin over time. When a buyer signs up a brand new vendor they may buy CIF or even DDP at first, but as the buyer/seller relationship matures they will tend to move toward FOB or even EXW terms. So I'd be really surprised if Apple weren't taking ownership of most of their products at the origin side, at this point. Also, with air freight the inventory carrying costs from transit time are not nearly as great of a factor as with ocean freight, so the impact on cashflow is minimal.
You might also want to take a look at less's input preprocessor, which could be used to automatically colorize source.
No script defeats a lot of paywalls btw
I think it is quote from Gibson.
Typescript, material design, organogram and more in webix 2.3 springtime renewal
We need to get back to normal interest rates asap. The whole situation has become absurd, every single asset class is ridiculous. Force policymakers to make real changes that boost global growth, not simply lazy monetary policy. When the wealthy stop getting so rich by frothy asset prices, they'll clamor for it too.

In this case I'm not too worried about public equities, it seems to be everything else right now.
Saw that one. Lots of good shows to follow up on. Thanks, and I should have done that long ago.

The biggest barriers for me are:

1. Time / relevance and the investment to figure that out. It helps to know the intent of the newsletter too. Some people are adding value to products and services with relevant commentary. That's a good thing, but only when I'm into the product or service. Others are sharing insights and perspective, sort of blogging via newsletter. Like those too.

And I'm search driven, so I'll land on one, and read the relevant bits, and sometimes subscribe. On that note, full content delivered to gmail sometimes is worth it. I've searched my mail, and found very relevant things in there, often long after they were published. Maybe there is something exploitable there.

2. Use of time. I can listen and do lots of things.

3. Interestingly, I would absolutely love a newsletter of news letters, where snippets that are relevant to me are presented in a dead simple mobile friendly read it quick format, or are presented as audio reviews of some sort.

The barrier here is good content that I don't know is good. Selling it to me in an easy to consume form would be kind of like a mentor who presses us to do or read something. Once in a while, I find one, and realize I should have been following it, and then binge on it to get caught up.

I would pay for this one. Having some service, or even persons or person who knows me enough to push and select high relevance things is worth a lot.

4. Speaking more specifically to #1, size matters. Popular ones seem to balloon up, and I'll tune out. To me, a short, but very potent newsletter can be just one item, but it's really worth it. I prefer this to a big one where a few gems are hidden among a lot of other things.
For the OSX and Windows versions, the SDK package actually includes both development tools (headers, etc) and the runtime; the only reason to offer a package which leaves out the development stuff, is to make the download smaller, which seems unimportant.

You can get a sense of where the Linux support currently stands by looking at share.oculus.com, where third-party developers can submit their games and demos, and you can filter the list by which operating systems they support.
Hm, I thought the OEM license keys were not usable to install a retail version of Windows. Has it changed, or have I been wrong all along?
I would note that reactionary investment allocation is generally relatively extremely expensive (due to transaction costs) for retail investors, and Fed statements aren't exactly under the radar.

Long, markets-wide, diversified positions tend to work out best for retail investors. Switching from heavy positions in one asset class to heavy positions in another tends to benefit investment firms, without reliably lowering investor risk. It's hard to guess where the market is going, and the transaction costs of frequent position changes, even at institutional investor rates, can quickly outstrip gains of a correct guess.
I actually wanted to use the Datastore API for my app. A lot of stuff was happening on the client side so it would have been a perfect match. Now I will probably manage the user's data on the server using RethinkDB.
We had the same problem with our sites along with Bob Cringely :-

http://www.cringely.com/2013/12/10/sisters-quilter-google-mu...
Lots of folks talking about people retrying searches, or doing unneeded searches instead of typing the URL, etc. However, this already happens a lot on desktop computers (especially the later). It may be true that these things happens more often on mobile than on desktop, but this is hardly why mobile is superseding desktop.

First, I run a lot of searches on my phone because it is more practical. "Where is restaurant X?" "What time will Y event start?". Even at home, I won't go to the laptop to make this search, specially if I'm discussing something with my wife.

In the same manner, add to this to a lot of vanity searches, like when I'm discussing something with someone and I get my phone to find out some fact. "How old is the president?" "How much does an airplane weight?". I surely do a lot more of these researches on mobile, most of them I wouldn't do in a desktop, just because It wouldn't make any sense to stop conversation to search a desktop, while the phone is there, waiting for me.

Second, and probably more important, is that lots of people now have their mobile phone, or tablet, as their primary computer. My wife don't open her laptop except for writing long documents or academic work.

Like with cameras, the best computer is the one which is with you right now, and laziness to get up often beats the efficiency of my laptop even when I'm at home. Most people is using IM all the time, and the phone is with them while they're at it, and don't even consider looking for a desktop.

So, I think these two factors are adding up pretty quickly: people are using more mobile than desktop and people with mobiles tend to use search much more. If this is happening faster from expected, or not, as the article implies, it's mere statistics.
His is the CTO. That is not a coder monkey position, yes he probably codes and supervises a lot but he's C-level and that means executive decision making.
Y Combinator Demo Day 2013: Still Looking for the Next Airbnb or Dropbox
With thinkpad acpi modules you can write scripts to automate this. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Tp_smapi
This particular article was discussing user-to-user sharing, which generally happens through the user interface between authenticated users interacting with the live Sandstorm server. Since all the actual work happens inside the Sandstorm server, there isn't much need for Macaroons.

App-to-app sharing is a different matter. We are working on allowing an app to receive a capability to access another app, and it should of course be able to delegate that capability to other apps. (Delegation is even more important between apps than it is between users, because we want to be able to write small, modular apps that work together rather than monolithic apps.)

At this level, Sandstorm sharing is based on Cap'n-Proto-style capabilities. Cap'n Proto has concepts similar to macaroons but takes a different approach in that we prefer that all sharing must happen "live" so that the server can keep track of who has what.

When you have an open Cap'n Proto RPC connection and have received a capability (object reference) over that connection, that's called a "live ref". Cap'n Proto allows live refs to be passed from machine to machine (delegated) in RPC messages. But if the connection dies, all live refs are lost. So, to keep it long term, you want to convert it to a "study ref", which is a byte string you can save to disk.

A sturdy ref, however, can only be restored to a live ref by the same entity who saved it, where "entity" is some course-grained authenticatable identity. The idea here is that if a hacker manages to obtain a raw copy of your database, you don't want to have to revoke every sturdy ref contained therein. A course authentication component prevents them from doing anything with any of those tokens.

Macaroons are also a byte string that grant access to a resource, with a format that allows you to attenuate the capability offline. That is, if I have a macaroon allowing read-write access to a document, I can create a new macaroon that gives only read access, and then pass that to someone else, all without consulting the document's server.

For Sandstorm, we actually don't quite want that, because we want the document owner to be able to see how their document has been shared. So, to share a sturdy ref, we require you to restore it to a live ref and delegate that. The recipient can save a new sturdy ref tied to them.
Wait really? I'd say that I could very clearly say that the gaps in utility between some experiences are much larger than the gaps in utility between others. I'd rather bang my shin than stub my toe, but the gap between those is much smaller than the gap between a toe stub and being tortured to death. I can't give you precise numbers for all of that. But I couldn't give you the numbers involved in throwing a baseball either, yet my brain can still somehow compute the air resistance and everything else to give me the correct angle I should throw at. Just because you don't know a number doesn't mean you aren't subconsciously using it.
The DJIA is essentially useless [1]. We should look at the SP500 instead, or the Nasdaq, or... anything that's at least somewhat representative of the state of the US stockmarket.

[1] http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2014/04/18/why-the-dow...
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Well, this is second-hand. I never did anything beyond quick cafe internet access. But I cannot find the joke ISP page that used to exist. But even the BBC has articles dating to 2011 about this.

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-15266851

Even Egypt (EGYPT!) has had better stories than this, largely based to the early 2000's Zaki technocrat regime, so there is a great deal of resentment at how these telco regimes have fucked it up.
I have a Yoga Y 510 p. Windows barked at me after a few weeks of installing Windows 8.1 from scratch. It said I should get the latest version of the power utility from Lenovo. The power utility lets me spin up the fan which apparently can help get rid of dust. It also lets me select battery health mode as opposed to battery performance mode. When in battery health mode, the power supply does not charge the battery beyond about 60% and will not start charging before the power gets drained to about below 40%.

As far as I know, the power utility is the only thing I installed from Lenovo. The graphics drivers from nVidia came directly through Windows Update.

Should I be concerned? Should I uninstall the power management tools?
Difficult Conversations and DevOps
I'm 53. I still program full time (embedded C++, but I may be moving into Android soon - like, this year). I've spent most of my career in embedded systems, which is kind of a different environment from most of programming.

My last two jobs, I've told them straight up in the interview that my career goal is to never be a manager. Both times I got hired anyway.

On my current job, I had to write the central piece that tied all the other pieces together in six months. There wasn't time for a learning curve. Experience is a big advantage in that kind of situation; I had 24 years, and it helped.
My understanding that law in particular has gone from being a pretty solid career path, especially for liberal arts majors who want some structure to get started in the workplace, to one that's relatively bleak for many who don't go to a Tier 1 school (or excel at a Tier 2), land a job of a big city firm, and either make partner or land a good corporate law job.
Chart reading is stupid. You could cut that chart off before any of the tech bubble starts and you would be able to say the same thing over and over about the market being in an 'exceptional period'.

1990 - reaching all-time highs, 'exceptional period'

1991 - reaching all-time highs, 'exceptional period'

1992 - reaching all-time highs, 'exceptional period'

1993 - reaching all-time highs, 'exceptional period'

1994 - reaching all-time highs, 'exceptional period'

1995 - reaching all-time highs, 'exceptional period'

>I think there's just too much money sloshing around right now.

Why? Are you the tastemaker in how much money supply there should be? We have inflation numbers to help dictate that. If inflation isn't above its target, then there isn't too much supply.
Ah, I see. Well, it wasn't meant like this.

It was meant as a pejorative label for him stating

there are millions of better examples for this context

without providing one valid example.
Thanks for sharing. It's important to be correctly informed.
5 things to consider when hiring a developer
It's definitely an emulation layer. The original game was written in 6809 assembly language along with talking to custom hardware, some of it in an ASIC as well as an Analog Devices DSP for sound playback.

There's a branch of MAME called PinMAME that emulates this hardware, and that's what Planetary showed in their demonstrations.
I don't know why understanding my viewpoint is difficult. Earning interest isn't some sort of exotic memory of the ancient past. You could get 4.75% 5-year CDs as recently as 2008.

Why 2008? "Safe" assets earn nothing because the US has printed trillions of dollars to shore up bank balance sheets at low/no cost to the banks. Large, "too big to fail" banks and large corporate entities are awash in cash. Smaller business entities have a hard time getting access to capital.

Meanwhile, we've tightened controls on physical money to the point where people with straightforward business models like salons, laundromats and retail are one jump bank compliance offer away from some sort of interaction with law enforcement.
Teespring is another successful company in that batch (W13).
I have to say, I resisted trying slack for a long time, but once I did I was really impressed. It's value was immediately obvious, as I see it as "A nicely skinned IRC client with lots of useful bots included and easy to configure, with good mobile clients." That's an easy sell for someone like me.

It's actually influenced my thoughts on how I want to structure one of my own projects. The actually useful free version that as you start using more of the advanced features (but not specific ones) starts costing seems like a good model to get people in and using your product while also incentivizing users to become customers.
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