skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's vary unlikly the IRS would qualify them as 1099 independent.

As I understand it, they often set their own hours, supply their own equipment, control how they do their job, and rent space in which to do it from the establishment in which they do it, which provides services like centralized collection and distribution of customer payments.

I'd like to see the argument as to why, using the actual criteria used to define contractor vs. employee relations, they wouldn't be classed as contractors.
You made the Godwin leap that the GP avoided, and putting words in another's mouth like that is an unfortunate way of polarizing discussion.

They shouldn't fly an airplane over their jurisdiction without an express specific intent (e.g., hot criminal pursuit of an individual or individuals) because "gathering intelligence" is not their purpose. Are they in a warzone? Are their taxpaying funders now somehow their subjugated and subservient peoples? Why patrol the area as such?

"Intelligence" appears nowhere in the Public Laws of Baltimore that set out the Police Department's purpose (starting on pg. 73 of the PDF linked below).

http://archive.baltimorecity.gov/Portals/0/Charter%20and%20C...
I actually do T,W,Th or last 3 days of the week.

It helps with my clients to do their other work in the start of the week.
TripleByte, like many other people and companies, refers to "software engineers" as if they are a monolithic group. Is this another case where there is an implicit "web and mobile" attached to "engineer", or is the process really flexible enough for engineers of all skillsets?
It's the ACLU. I imagine they're more circumspect than Infowars. If they're concerned, there's good reason to be concerned.
I consider vim as a tarpit because it accelerates writing text without syntactic recognition. That is, it may inhibit reception of a better programming tool by being just too well designed for what it is used for.

I have personally invested my time in the subject before with varying success. I'd like to see, study and try out your editor, perhaps even to contribute into it.
It's actually not primarily based on complicated mathematical assumptions, but on the simulation and also empirical data about MR!=MC in the real world. That was his primary motivation to study this problem. See Steve Keen's book Debunking Economics if you want a bit more details.

Even if you would have an endless stream of market entrants, you would also need some companies to exit, otherwise everybody would get smaller and smaller piece of the pie. In the real world, those who come will usually set the price just below the current market value. If you think about it, it's nothing else than the Keen's model with just companies being renamed endlessly (after they make one step).

But go ahead and try to simulate it, and add more realism. I think you will find very similar result (that is, profit maximizing strategy will never be to compete on price). Except for the price wars, which (in my opinion) always happen only temporarily when the big company wants to drive smaller companies out of the market entirely to get more market share as a result (just like real wars). But you need to have inelastic demand for that, otherwise I doubt it can be considered a viable strategy.
The idea is to include the very people who's exploitation the article describes in the conversation.
Not just satellite mounted cameras but thermal imagers that can see bodies as they move around inside houses.
MBTI has always struck me as something akin to Astrology for the triple-digit IQ set.
Because the venn diagram of "obnoxious adverts" and "adverts" is nearly a perfect circle.
You actually think it's possible to perform police activity as outlined in the Public Laws of Baltimore without executing intelligence operations?

How would you know when Bad Things are happening? Are you recommending they exclusively perform reactive services?
>Manicures will end up costing $20 instead of $10, and workers will be able to live like people and not animals.

Are you accounting for the loss of customers that doubling the prices would cause?
Or did the radar find the men, while trapped in the rubble by the men's heartbeats?
Actually this is a really good talking point that's often the start of many interesting "discussions":

Namely, what happens when you're done with the test-code-repeat cycle for a system under test and you want to make it more architecturally sound / OO / etc.

You typically might end up doing a refactor in which you extract classes from the original system under test and colocating common functionality into new class(es).

In this way you still have the same coverage as before... But you're actually testing multiple classes as a unit.

Some folks would argue you need to split the tests out. Otherwise would say "the coverage is there, what's the point?".

Unless I need to do something, I'm not going to do it.

In playing with pitest, it looks like the refactorings might introduce some fuzzing that needs to be considered in the original (and refactored) SUT depending on how much conditional logic you're moving around.

Arghh. There goes my evening. Will be playing with this after work now :)
A lot of those guys happily accept bookings made in advance (not just airport rides, but proms, wine tours, weddings, etc.), so the idea of them getting dressed up, driving to an airport and simply waiting for on-demand ride might not resonate.

Blacklane, Limos.com, Wingz all allow for pre-arranged airport transportation, hours and days ahead. I don't know why it's not an Uber option yet.
Just want to echo the dead comment:

ossreality 6 minutes ago [dead]

lol, what are you talking about, this isn't mouse-enabled?
If you started doing cocaine, the first month may also be highly productive. All drug habits start out good. Hopefully it's sustainable and not too unhealthy.
i'm not sure that having to provide PII to make a review is a good idea. Maybe if yelp is able to provide a kind of "reviewer's score" based on the reviewer's online activity then people will be more likely to trust reviews for being genuine.
This is awesome. I wonder if any of this was Emacs inspired. A very common UX in Emacs is to list things in a buffer and directly manipulate the items to execute commands. For example, in dir-mode, you can select multiple files and rename them, or mark several files for deletion and execute it.

It really is a fantastic way to bring an interactive interface into a text-based world. This looks like a cool way to bring it to the terminal.
Any reinvention today would probably be authored either by a single large company or a committee consisting of representatives of large companies. The first option would produce a spec that addresses some specific pressing needs within the organization and provides vague architectural lip service for everything else. The second option would produce an ever-evolving compromise that's never actually finished.

The reason why we have the web today is that it was invented mostly by an unknown European scientist who just wanted to experiment with some hypertext stuff using the text APIs on his shiny new NeXT computer. No pressure, no money, no committees.

Before Berners-Lee, others tried for decades to make rich networked hypertext happen. It wasn't for a lack of rich sponsors; for example Autodesk poured money into the (in)famous Xanadu during the late '80s, but it was just too ambitious.

World Wide Web didn't have those ambitions. Reinventing it is a process that would only get initiated by a Xanadu-style overarching ambition, and it wouldn't work this time either.
that's very noble. but you sound like you're a white guy who has good intentions but very loose grasp of how things work in reality. maybe i'm wrong, but that's just my feeling.
Hey, founder here. Yes, we totally agree that things other than technical ability matter. Some of these things (productivity, ability to work on a team, communication ability) we think we can evaluate. Others (company culture) we can't. As you say, however, getting better at identifying good engineers (outside of any company's specific requirements) is valuable.
What nonsense. Those who go about questioning everything and figuring shit out for themselves do figure out the situation: Random humanities degrees don't pay but neither is there even good prospects in valuable careers like teaching. The level of social mobility in this society is as low as it has ever been, everything is winner-take-all economics, there's tons of corruption and monopolies and oligopolies, and we're facing serious problems in our financial world, the environment, and basic natural resources.

If you actually step back and look at the situation, there is NO correlation between generating value and gaining personal wealth. In our society, the people who provide the most important values, farmers, nurses, teachers, garbage collectors, construction workers… they all struggle. The richest people extract value rather than provide it: day-traders, advertisers, corporate bureaucrats…

Yes, many people are indeed making poor choices. But that is not the heart of what is going on. In fact, it's more accurate to blame people like you for the problems because the very act of blaming people for poor choices in college majors is itself distracting from addressing the real problems.
I hear the Mafia is struggling to improve their relevance in a progressively technological world.

They would be perfect for each other. The things Yelp could teach the Mob about extortion and protection rackets... Oh, and computers, too. I hear they're also good at that.

(can you tell I boycott Yelp? what was your first clue?
In this particular case it's a privilege that this article has no direct relevance to your (or my) life and it's good to be reminded of that.
They host pretty much everything -- Maps, Gmail, Search, etc. Highly suggest reading the Wired link below as it talks about this in detail [1], but if you want a more technical look, check out the Youtube video [2], or the Borg paper [3]. One really interesting development, is that Mesos + Marathon + Chronos + Docker, puts a very similar system into the hands of your average IT team today [4].

[1] http://www.wired.com/2013/03/google-borg-twitter-mesos/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZFMlO98Jkc

[3] https://research.google.com/pubs/archive/43438.pdf

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZNGST2vIds
I read the whole article and didn't see any figures on how much they make in tips - only that tips were "meager" and "frequently skimmed".

Given that these women aren't doing this for love, I have to imagine that having a steady clientele allows them to beat minimum wage. But the article makes it hard to tell.
Before UberX launch they used to be big believers into licensing, etc. But Lyft's growth spooked them into launching UberX http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/01/uber-opens-up-platform-to-n... which kinda dragged the entire company into this antagonistic realm.
Sure they can. Drones can be had for very cheap nowadays.

And again, what you do in public is available for anyone who cares to look.
Founder here. We wrote some more here about our thinking behind what we want to do: http://blog.triplebyte.com/announcing-triplebyte

Our plan is to continually experiment with new ways to measure technical ability, that aren't as adversarial as most standard practices today. We'd love to hear any ideas for more experiments we could run.
Being selective doesn't really imply that the selection uses proper filters.
> So if the airplane surveillance is being used to collect and act on data that would normally require a warrant, then "jurisdiction" is not sufficient.

Very true, I agree.

However, I don't see any reason why this would be taking place given what we currently know. Arial surveillance has the distinct advantage of safely observing a public area under their jurisdiction.

So yes, they shouldn't avoid warrants by way of arial surveillence (e.g. peeping into back yards), but it's (practically speaking) useful to cover a lot of ground (the same ground they'd already cover) quickly.
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Swiss National Bank bought $37 billion in US shares, including $1.1B in AAPL
That’s true, but the risks are significantly diminished. As they say, your business model is your destiny, and if have a good business model...
I was under the impression that GUTs were _always_ gory messes.
My suggestion would be to work on uploading brains to digital substrate (starting with the Open Worm project and working up from there) on the grounds that interplanetary settlement would be dramatically less difficult for solid-state minds. Sadly, that's probably not the sort of suggestion they're looking for.
"Watches tell the world about us, about what we find important and I am not sure my life is aligned with what the Apple Watch says about me."

That sounds like a joke from a bad sitcom. The writer used to be a circus clown, after all. That whole site is a running joke. See his other articles, such as "How I have been missing my commute". He seems to be satirizing the mindset of people who think that the Apple Watch is important.
I've seen 5 star reviews with LOOKS COOL IM GOING NEXT MONTH, like, WTF?
It's almost as if I could only enter the makerspace as a janitor
While you are correct that the actual runtime speed in theory should be able to be achieved with the JIT, there are other advantages to officially supporting asm.js. One of the main things is ahead-of-time (AOT) compilation which compiles the asm.js code directly to assembly immediately after it's parsed. This gives you predictability (you literally get warnings in the console if it couldn't compile), which is really big for comprehending performance.
While that would certainly stop Eddie down the street from posting 0 or 1 star reviews about my restaurant, you'd never be able to tell that he's started flooding the site with 2 star reviews to dilute me down from 3.7 stars to 3.4 so that his 3.5 star restaurant gets more foot traffic than I do.
185 ns is worse than function call overhead in Python (about 100 ns on this machine)
As a surprising aside, I found that homeowner's insurance in Hawaii covers "destruction of house due to lava" but not "destruction of the entire area around house, but not house due to lava".

There are people who have no roads, water, sewer or electric because their house was turned into an island by lava flows - and they have no recourse to do anything with their property (that they sometimes cannot even get to any more).
Reviews across the Internet have a problem of all averaging out to 3.5-4.5 stars. There needs to be some serious innovation in review/recommendation engines for user submitted reviews to be valuable to other users.
I wrote about this a couple of weeks ago here. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9467649

Public social networks are really starting to feel the squeeze from wall street as people are getting tired of giving social companies large multiples on the promise of massive revenues that are only a few quarters away.

By the looks of the intra day chart, people are excited about this news. Not really sure who would make a good acquirere however....
You're not the CTO of your company, so give yourself a different title.

how do I "manage" that individual if they don't respect the work I've done as a programmer?

By giving yourself a position that you can live up to.

Do you need a board-level technical person? If you do, you've already said you're not qualified to be it. Do you NOT need a board-level technical person? Have the them report to whatever your not-CTO role is.
> People choose vi because of modal editing, not because they are ignorant of the Emacs feature set.

Exactly this. I had used Emacs for many, many years and finally decided to give Vim a go... and never looked back. Emacs is very powerful, and while the Elisp infrastructure has distinct advantages over Vimscript, the compositional richness of Vim's editing model is amazing. I don't have to drop to scripting because Vim gives me the power I need more quickly and easily.
> The Apple watch is a reverse iPod, it is beautiful but not obviously more useful. When the first iPod appeared on apple.com in 2001 it was a completely new thing. It looked strange and people didn’t get it at first, but it was something I grokked almost immediately. Driving around the midwest in the 90s usually began with figuring out what I wanted to listen to before hand. My friends were good at this, they had huge books of CDs that we would swap out and listen to straight through; I ended up leaving a single Blur CD in the stereo for months. But with an iPod I could shuffle all of the music I had all the time. The device itself was kind of dorky and white, but what it did was amazing. I had been a apple fan for years at that point, but the iPod turned me into an apple fanboi.

I haven't bought the Watch but this describes my feelings as a consumer pretty well...so many people are afraid of looking like CmdrTaco on the iPod launch [1] that they don't want to doubt Apple...but the iPod, iPhone, and iPad launches were completely different...yes, you could doubt (like CmdrTaco did) that the products were worth the price, but they all aimed at ubiquitous use cases established by precedent (e.g. the Walkman vs the iPod). But with the Watch, Apple is taking a preexisting use-case -- basically, telling time and being an ornament of status -- and trying to turn it into a completely new usecase/need in our lives. If they struggle/fail, it's not so much out of incompetence or poor design as it is trying to win a not-worth-winning battle. I frankly hope it doesn't succeed here (and I say that as someone who currently owns 6 active Apple devices/machines) as I think the phone is enough of a portable notification hub/interruption in our lives.

[1] http://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/apple-releases-ip...
Mercury poisoning has been known for some time, however people in the general public knowing or caring about mercury poisoning is a pretty recent phenomenon.
Good point. But the sandbox attribute is around 90% [1] of browsers. The number of browsers which don't support it and don't run javascript may be too low to make supporting them practical, but YMMV.

[1] http://caniuse.com/#feat=iframe-sandbox
Unstated assumption: that these "intelligence operations" are both legally permitted, and that even if they are, that they prevent enough crime to justify their existence.

Not sure either of those things are true.
Your statement is ironic considering the school's purported reason for taking in his application.
Docker (Microsoft)
It's really exciting to watch the progress being made on this project!
This device can also be used to further the American Police State. I am a Targeted Individual and a victim of Gang Stalking [1]. And, I suspect that this technology was used by an upstairs neighbor to track me around the apartment and electronically harass me using a microwave device.

He would use a pulsed RF/microwave device (a Directed Energy Weapon [2]) to irradiate me as I moved around my apartment and also while I slept. Whenever I disabled WiFi, cell phones, etc. and moved slowly, he would stomp heavily/loudly on the floor, relocate me within seconds and the irradiation would resume. I bought an EMF meter to attempt to detect evidence of the harassment but could detect nothing. I have read that these DEWs can range up to 95 GHz, way beyond the capabilities of my device. As a result of his efforts, I now have electromagnetic hypersensitivity and my data-only iPhone delivers small stings to my fingertips.

Initially, I thought that the neighbor was using the loud stomping to generate a sonar/like wave that he could use to locate me within the apartment. Some researchers at the University of Washington described detecting gestures within a home using WiFi signals [3] and I thought sound waves might be used to achieve a similar effect.

For the uninitiated, this blurb describes the Stasi tactic called Gang Stalking (otherwise known as Organized Stalking): "Organized stalking methods were used extensively by communist East Germany’s Stasi (state police) as a means of maintaining political control over its citizens. The Stasi referred to the tactics as “Zersetzung” (German for “decomposition” or “corrosion” – a reference to the intended psychological, social, and financial effects upon the victim).

Although they are illegal in the U.S., the same covert tactics are quietly used by America’s local and federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies to suppress dissent, silence whistle-blowers, and get revenge against persons who have angered someone with connections to the public and private agencies involved.

Illegal counterintelligence operations have been perpetrated against Americans by urban police departments in the U.S. since the late 1800s. Traditionally, the groups of mostly-undercover police officers involved are called “red squads,” although the modern official term is “Law Enforcement Intelligence Units (LEIUs).”

The most well-documented example of such operations was the FBI’s infamous Cointelpro (Counter-Intelligence Programs) under the direction of J. Edgar Hoover."

No, I didn't do anything to "deserve" this treatment.

[1] http://fightgangstalking.com/what-is-gang-stalking/
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directed-energy_weapon
[3] http://www.washington.edu/news/2013/06/04/wi-fi-signals-enab...
I don't know if that's the case in US or Western Europe, but that's exactly what iPhone does here in Eastern Europe.

It's a "hey look at me, I'm rich" signal more than anything. Most people can't afford it, given that there are no carrier subsidies in Europe and current generation iPhone costs between two and four monthly wages, depending on which part of Eastern Europe you are in. It can also fall and break at any moment, making it rather risky thing to own - you can't just have to afford it once, you have to afford it repeatedly.

I guess Apple learned it's lesson here and is now trying to do the same in the US with different device.
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Thanks. That perfectly describes how I feel about programming.
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I want less things emulated via Javascript and more stuff done directly via native code. Everything that is built on top of HTML/JS/CSS is basically a hack that is trying to emulate much better native platforms and it sucks. Why advocate to stay there? Let's go in the other direction in my opinion.
> It is very unlikely the IRS would qualify them as 1099 independent.

How come? The setup with most hair cutting salons is that you "rent" a station from the owner, and then arrange your own clientele and participate in some kind of rotation of walk-in customers.

Most non-corporate hair cutting places don't have any employees (and the need for higher-level client management led to startups like StyleSeat).

I believe the set-up is similar with non-corporate professional massage therapists as well - the "table space" is rented out, the therapist is then responsible for booking clients.
Anything the BPD is doing to circumvent warrants is obviously bad and needs to stop. I'm not arguing they should be allowed to do any of that stuff.

What I am saying is there's nothing inherently wrong with arial surveillance, to the point where everyone who works for companies offering such services is "evil".