skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The actual product is arguably the "pizza" much more so than the "driving" evidenced by the fact that customers themselves will sometimes drive to Papa John's or Dominoes to pick up their own pizzas. In that framework, the standard would be for the pizza driver to also provide his own pizza dough, pepperoni, and baking ovens. If the pizza companies eventually figure out how to use flying drones to drop off pizzas and eliminate drivers, I'm sure the customers would be fine with it. The customers weren't really "buying the driver"; they were buying the pizza with the convenience of delivery.

With Uber/Lift, the "driving" itself is 100% the product.

And why does the discussion continue to be "one bullet point" at a time instead of a combination of factors?

If parents provide all the equipment & materials for the babysitter (infant formula, diapers, toys, Walt Disney DVDs, etc) along with the premises to do the work (the parents' home), does that make babysitter an employee?

If a dog owner provides the leash, the pet treats, and the back yard for the pet sitter to walk and exercise the dog, should the pet sitter be classified as "employee"?

Is it one factor or a combination of factors?
Yes assess, and now like here in Spain, adoption
It's also interesting how the stocks of UBS, Barclays and RBS immediately rose despite a hefty $5.8 billion in fines. Which in practice aren't actually paid by the banks, it's the shareholders, taxpayers (through bailouts) and customers (through higher fees) who end up paying for this.
There seem to be quite a few people who use a BlackBerry for work or BBM, and an iPhone or Android for everything else. These people should have a pretty understanding of both platforms - they're just probably not tech bloggers :)
In case you were wondering how they pulled this off at 35:

The author retired from his CPA job at KPMG to live the life of world travel and financial freedom. When he retired in 1984 he was making in excess of $125,000 a year. The concept works best where you have a high priced personal residence in a hot real estate market. The premise is that you sell your high priced house and your status car. Then you take the proceeds and invest it in a SAFE, CONSERVATIVE investment living off the interest and never touch the principle. You move to a lower priced area, either in the US or outside.

(from http://www.amazon.com/Cashing-American-Dream-Paul-Terhorst/d...)

Although that leaves it unclear how you got the high-priced house in the first place, much less the status car (why buy one if you're going to sell it anyway?). And the "safe, conservative" investment was cash deposits at a bank paying 8%/year, but good luck finding that these days...
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Very glad to see this result, was worried I'd have to burn my passport if the result was "No".
I am constantly surprised at how well Stallman manages to cut through to to the issues, in a way approachable to the layperson, given that he himself is an arch-nerd with famously low empathy. I think it must stem from clarity of thought.
But doesn't the gender pay gap come from choosing lower-paying jobs rather than explicit discrimination? The first one makes more sense to me, not just because there's a US government case study on it, but because if it were an act of discrimination, every boss would have to be in on it a la Nash Equilibrium. Otherwise women would be the only hires, economically, because they'd be the cheapest source of labor.
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Copenhagen does something like that in most of the city, but rather than a citizenship requirement, there is just an owner-occupancy requirement. Apartments with an owner-occupancy requirement have to be purchased by a natural person who registers it as their legal residence, so investors aren't able to compete for these kinds of properties.
Whenever the NSA deliberately lets people and companies in the USA continue to use a broken system for "secure" communications or transactions, they are putting all of them at risk instead of helping protect them -- in direct contradiction with the NSA's official charter.

Many other nations have the financial and technical ability to perform the same attacks, and the inclination to do so. And soon, other entities will, too.
anyone know if it uses warp?

https://code.facebook.com/posts/476987592402291/under-the-ho...
I don't know anything specific about zapcc but based on the numbers here:

http://www.zapcc.com/case-studies/compiling-boost/

even their first compilation (the one you still need to perform when using ccache) is twice as fast as GCC.

In any case, I think the primary audience for this is people using clang, not GCC.
The really big (obvious) missing comparison here is with clang's pre-compiled headers code, and also using ccache.

I'm tempted (as they are providing no evidence otherwise) that this is snake-oil -- they are just calling stuff which already exists in clang, maybe with a bit of ccache on top. I'll be happy to be proved wrong.
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Agreed. I pray they do not.
nice and simple tool :D GJ
I buy my own notepads and pens that I use in my job. Does that mean I'm an independent contractor? Half the employee devs I work with use their own laptops out of preference.
There's a reason they have the nickname Crappy Tire, eh?
Not jail, no... but I do expect the CEO to act to prevent (or at least try to prevent) it in the future, or else some consequence should absolutely hit the CEO.
From another article[1]:

> By entering through a router in Dulles, Va., and installing a back door for access, he intercepted DTRA e-mail, 19 user names and passwords of employees, including 10 on military computers.

If the security issue was found internally, you can just patch it, do a cursory check to see if there is evidence of intrusion, and go on your way. When you find the security issue as a result of being hacked, now you not only have to patch to flaw but also investigate what was compromised, but may have been modified, etc. That would entail taking down all of the potentially affected systems for evaluation, which means a big hit to productive work while the investigation is underway.

[1] http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=119423
>disrupt these banks.

What makes you think that the people involved in the disruption of the banks won't partake in the same shenanigans? Do you think "bankers" are inherently evil, while their replacements will be inherently good? The Bitcoin world says otherwise. "Tech people" are stealing people's money left and right.

>If the banks are "too big to jail/fail" then maybe we should make them smaller...

Sure, and then we'll let all the pseudo-government-controlled banks in say, China, or even Canada do all the large-scale banking business globally.

The business of banking is vastly larger than cheqing accounts and ridiculous ATM fees that people like us deal with day to day and complain about. That's why the industry is heavily regulated, and why the banks are so large, and why the local credit union in Podunk isn't underwriting the Facebook IPO. It's also why some SV startup isn't going to ride in and up-end the industry without itself becoming some financial behemoth that needs to be regulated.
Because plans like this have worked out so well in the past. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_insurance_in_the_United...
We let our children inherit the world because we want them to be happy. Not so with machines designed to carry out industrial tasks.
Or, in other words, they abused the trust their clients had to get their money.

Sounds like fraud, but if some administrative body decided fraud was legal, that really makes it so... And don't look at that small book governing your nation laws, it's irrelevant anyway.
> and choose whether to accept each ride request.

No, not if they're on the clock. Too many rejections and they get shown the door. In any case, this particular activity is rife in the taxi industries, with taxi drivers often refusing to pick up crappy fares.
It's not interesting. 6B is much less than a year of profit for all the companies involved, and now with uncertainty cleared, they are now cash cows in the eyes of more people, hence the rise in prices.

Also, the "paid by ..." is a very-very interesting topic. Due to their sheer size and market share, they set the price for banking services. They don't even need to collude, but since there are not too many global banking conglomerates, they naturally have a sort of cooperation and competition, which basically leads to similar prices. (Though a bit different price structure, but that's irrelevant for a sizeable enough basket of financial products and sample of consumers.)

So, it's quite impossible to force them to eat the fines, because for that you'd need a bank that wasn't on in this "market optimalization", but is large enough to absorb/caputre the market share if the culprits rise prices. But there doesn't seem to be. (And local smaller banks are already doing as good as they could to charm customers away from the big ones, so it's unlikely that they'll help keeping prices down.)

However, if it's shareholders, that's not a problem. They should exercise some responsibility when voting with their money. And while we're at that, the same goes for taxpayers and customers too.
The PID loop may even have potential in the development of wealth-backed currencies: https://github.com/pjkundert/ownercredit.

Imagine a currency that supports the creation of 'K' units of currency upon the presentation of any form of wealth with a market-determined price, and then uses a PID loop to automatically adjusts 'K' to guarantee no inflation or deflation.

Perhaps a path toward the removal of "Usury" as the foundation of the monetary system?

Experimenting with these concepts required a robust Python PID loop implementation, which was (surprisingly) difficult to find. A useful Python PID implementation is available in ownercredit.pid (get it with: pip install ownercredit).
I don't think that is human nature. I think that is a societal problem, and not even a universal one.
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I don't think "they" and "several hundred years" go together in a coherent sentence. What are we talking about here, the Borg collective?
When I read stuff like this

>EU pushes 40% quota for women on boards [1]

My jaw just like ... drops. Just image the OUTRAGE that would be caused if the headline was this

>EU pushes 50% quota for women in coal mines

I am all for equality, but just handing everything to women on a silver platter, and making rash decisions because they are a different gender is just stupid policy making imo.

>"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure." (Goodhart's Law) [2]

[1] http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/65f494e6-f5e7-11e1-a6c2-00144...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
Can I have some kind of forum in Github?
Do you know of any horror stories from the then iPhone team that you can link to about how Jobs pushed too hard?
If there was ever a perfect plan to widen the gap between rich and poor, this is it. I predict this will bring about a future of unionized renters, followed by home-trust-busting efforts as it becomes clear how much potential for the abuse of the poor is waiting behind this new financial structure.
If that crime was implicit in a direct order of Obama, why not? If someone creates a climate of "do whatever it takes" they should be held at least partially and possibly fully liable. At least that seems like good morale to me.
Well pray harder so!

I'm usually sceptical about patriotism but am very proud of Irish people today.

Tiocfaidh ar grá!
Taxi arrangement service.

They don't actually taxi you.
So, Jonathan James was indicted and accepted a plea bargain in 2000 for 6 months house arrest and two years of probation. He then committed suicide 8 years later. How can you rationally come to the conclusion that his death is the prosecutor's fault?
Yeah, it's a great plan.. If you're a CEO. This would not lead to women being paid more, but everyone being paid less and having less negotiation-power when looking for another job or promotion.
This seems like it would leave a company with two options:

1. Losing employees who are better than others (i.e. deserve and want a larger salary) at the same job

2. Create a new role for every minute difference in skill level to allow better employees to earn more than their peers.

Neither of those seems to be too terribly good. I think making all salaries public-by-default and using that as a basis for negotiation would be far better for equal pay as everyone would know what they were capable of earning by looking at what their peers are payed.

IMO banning salary negotiations is just a move to save money; we can't pay you more because we don't discriminate against women.
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Unlicensed taxi service, with the pros and cons that implies.
They mention in the article that they moved from cash deposits to stocks:
"At the time, bank CDs paid around 8 percent. Ah, yesteryear.

“We had to change our investment strategy. Instead of living off our interest, we switched to buying stocks,” says Paul. “We cash in from time to time just before our next trip.”"
There are things you can do to help harmonise pay between men and women. Giving men equal paternity leave to women for example.

I'm not a big believer in quotas as I think it can cause companies to choose people of a lesser skill set just because of their sex. That's not to say there aren't competent female engineers, managers etc. there are, it's just that, there's not enough of them and we need to be taking steps to encourage women into these industries.
Why is this topic being surfaced now by the Washington Post? Ellen made this decision over a month ago.
Prayer can't stop the future.

Edit: I see the homophobic downvote-brigade are out in force.
If he would have pushed himself harder, had tried to imagine the future and bring it into being a year or two earlier instead of sitting on his ass milking the cash cow, maybe the pressure would not have been necessary.
> avoid paying benefits

Did you ever consider that maybe these contractors value a flexible work schedule more than company benefits? I assume if they become employees they will lose whatever contractor benefits they had, including the flexible work schedule. I guess what I'm saying is, you're only talking about this from one perspective. I know that as a contractor, I value my flexible hours more than I do the typical benefits packages at companies. It allows me time to care for my grandmother and take her to appointments.
They should take out student loans ..
> Such policies do come with some risk. A ban on negotiations leaves a lot of power in the hands of employers, who may not be making equal salary offers to men and women in the first place.

But the article doesn't mention how Reddit is planning to tackle that problem. So I remain vary about whether this is just a way to empower the employers, while getting some nice PR to boot.

> In an effort to encourage equity and trust, a growing number of companies reveal the salaries of all their employees, sometimes even posting them online.

Somehow, it seems like this way to "empower the employees" also makes them more exposed, which is not a form of empowerment. Sure it makes them more informed, but not being able to choose to disclose their salaries or not is not a form of empowerment.
Gay couples could already adopt. There was something weird like only one of them having legal rights, or that might have been in the case of surrogacy, but now they count as a legally married couple that should be resolved.
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I don't understand how it is legal to sell the securities bundled without also having to reveal the specs/details of each individual loan?
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"Higher"-level execs shouldn't be automatically held responsible for decisions they didn't make. Punish the manager(s) or employee(s) or exec(s) who held power and made the bad decision. Those execs don't really own or control the company anyway, for such large, post-IPO companies. That's like punishing the mayor for a crime someone committed on the street.
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Most jurisdictions have heavy, hardcore regulatory protection for rental tenants. AirBnB and Uber only exist because they're temporarily able to dodge regulation and it is already starting to catch up to them.
Happens all of the time, many people only monitor the front page so discussion doesn't start until they've read those articles.
Maybe if you are Google you have enough inertia that you can afford to bypass talent than wants more than you are willing to offer. Others will just lose in competition for skilled workers.

People will go where they can negotiate a better deal. The market will make this strategy self-limiting.
Valid point. I did miss the installed backdoor. But I disagree about the "cursory check" - at the point of finding a vulnerability on a production system, one must assume compromise and be exhaustive. And that means it's costly, regardless of who found it first.
Very great day for the Irish people, not straight and gay. Some numbers I have heard so far: Dublin is around 70% yes. Heard 95% turnouts in some places in the city. Think I have only heard of one constitution as a no. Most are at least 51% yes, and mostly over 60. Very happy days!
> ...responsibility is to pay market rate...

That might be their corporate responsibility, but they also have a social responsibility in that the conduct of their business should not overly burden the public. The link I referenced was meant to point out that when minimum wage doesn't cover the cost of living, those workers end up relying on public assistance to make up the difference.

> ...whether raising the minimum wage would reduce job opportunities. Probably it would...

A study from 1992 on the effect of a minimum wage hike along the NJ/PA border found that there was not a significant impact from raising min wage. [1] The study has been alternately challenged and confirmed since then by other studies, but we will be getting a lot of new data from the recent increases to $15/hr in major metro areas of the US in recent months.

As for "should we", it all depends on whether you think corporations or government should be responsible for providing a living wage. Many folks point out the minimum wage is primarily intended for young people, but it's not being used that way anymore. And, in fact, other places have adapted without terrible consequences. Australia, for instance, has a juvenile minimum wage around $6.60/hr (USD), which doubles for adults.

> Are stock buy backs a good idea? ...down to what...is the best use of the shareholders money.

The point here is that McDonalds is making mutually exclusive arguments. On the one hand, they say they don't have the money to raise wages. On the other hand, they have so much money that they can initiate stock buybacks. The status quo requires public assistance to cover the wage gap between minimum wage and living wage, so until McDonalds picks up that tab both workers and taxpayers are being affected.

I have nothing against stock buybacks, but it seems hypocritical in this case given the circumstances.

[1] http://www.nber.org/papers/w4509
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_wage_law#Australia
Good for Ireland. I'm proud of you!
The AAA rating for the senior tranches was perfectly correct assuming the risk of the underlying mortgages was properly estimated.

The bulk of the buyers of the AAA tranches were other banks, and the reason was satisfying requirements for capital reserves. If bank A and B both have portfolios of mortgages worth $1B, they are treated as having $1B of risky assets and do not satisfy capitalization requirements. If they securitize the portfolios and sell each other a $700M senior tranch (while holding the equity tranches themselves), bank A and B are both considered to have $700M in cash-like reserves.

This does reduce the risk caused by regional house price decreases which is why regulators wanted banks to do it. (No one, including regulators, expected a national/global drop in real estate values.)

Also, the idea that the mispricing was intentional is silly. The issuing banks mostly held onto the equity tranches and suffered as a result - not the actions one would take if you knew things would tank.
No, read the Medium article again; the clients always had the option to specify "best execution" or their own trading strategy, but for simplicity and lowest broker fees chose to transact at the 4pm price.

The clients (which are also large financial entities) are generally not screaming about fraud, they're just getting a deal that isn't as good as they thought.
>the couple uses Washington state (where Paul’s brother lives) as their address for U.S. residential purposes because there’s no state income tax.

>Plus our benefits are grandfathered in if Congress screws around with Social Security.

>"But at least now, when we go to the United States, we have coverage and if we get sick, we won’t be devastated financially.”

Not sure how I feel about people taking advantage of safety net, while doing whatever they can to avoid contributing.
I have read most of Functional Programming in Scala. It is a very good and well thought out book. I understand FP concepts way more now. The books has practice exercises you can do as you read through the it and solutions are in a Github repo if you want to compare your solutions.
The type of privacy-conscious users/organizations who go to such a length in blocking these domains will also do the update manually or via their own internal update processes.

I'm not sure what most people do will have any relevance to the point I was trying to make.
So, Apple had the ability to leverage AT&T's weakness to deliver a phone focused what consumers actually wanted, access to the internet. Blackberry in response, is pressured by the other carriers to focus on delivering a hard to execute "better" touch experience, as if that meant anything to anybody. Apple in the meantime, works on delivering mobile apps. I guess the takeaway is if others are focusing on the real needs of consumers, that's what has to be on your roadmap, not the whims of powerful channel partners.
For creating a game, is Java or C++ better?
Me and a friend what to team up and program together.

The problem is I primarily know Java, he C++. Note we're both still newbies - better than somebody who's just taken a programming course - but still far away from being experienced programmers.

Our current plan is to first program a 2d game together, and then we'll see what we feel like doing next (I personally think it would be cool to take a loot at some open source engines).

So the question is, what are the pros and cons of each language considering the circumstances I just described?
Unrelated, but are you WilfredR on disquis?
http://www.npr.org/2015/05/23/408927009/senate-blocks-patrio...
"Many people in the equal-pay debate argue that inferior negotiating skills are at the root of the gender pay gap."

Has not been my experience in pay matters and how is this different than the idea that women are not well suited to programming or math? Women are poor negotiators?