skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's tough to convince people (in Europe) to wear helmets without a surrounding culture of jokes about killing vulnerable road users. Maybe if they really want to sell helmets in Europe they need to import American drivers.
Ask HN: Can “on-demand” marketplace workers be independent contractors legally?
I've been researching the on-demand marketplaces like Uber, Lyft, DoorDash etc… All of them claim that the people preforming the service are independent contractors. As you guys may be familiar, there is a class action lawsuit against Uber and Lyft from service providers that say they were not independent contractors but they were employees. Talking to a relative who used to work at the IRS and specialized in these types of disputes has pointed out some of the key things that many business get wrong.

1. "Who is paying the service provider". If you collect the payment from the customer and the service provider gets paid by you then you could be in trouble. As far as I can tell, almost all of popular merchant accounts people are using seem to charge the customer, take their transaction fee, then "transfer" the money to the service provider. In that scenario, who paid the service provider? It feels like the business did, not the customer. The only one that I see which might work is the Paypal Adaptive Payment system as they let you direct the payment directly to the service provider and then the service provider pays the transaction fee.

2. "Are you telling them how to do the work". I know that Uber and Lyft both have rules that the drivers need (are recommended) to follow. Telling the Uber black car service to provide a water bottle etc… could be a problem. I don't think DoorDash does this but what if they wanted to their drivers to wear a DoorDash t-shirt, would that be a problem?

There are other factors that are considered but it seems like these two are the biggest.

More info on the laws: http://www.taxes.ca.gov/iCorE.bus.shtml

It is my opinion that the current laws need to adapt so that this entire new genre of business can operate legally. I'm curious what fellow entrepreneurs on this site have learned on this subject.
The protections are practical and necessary, someone complaining that the example gets overused and abused in random arguments isn't really relevant to this discussion.
If you want a free colour picker for OS X, it comes with one included ("DigitalColor Meter").
Isn't this because the affluent and educated have the time to read about it on the internet and in books? If you don't have the time to read the material, you no choice but to trust your doctor's recommendations.
Actually I take back my comment about the photoshopping diminishing the piece. After reading a comment on the reddit thread complaining about the perspective being off, I can see that by 'shopping it they've given it a somewhat unreal feeling, almost a little Escher-like. Probably why I like it.
Why is this even being discussed? It's only an implementation optimization, no change to the language interface. I don't recall such a fuss around compressed pointers. This is so much better than the number of software stacks that introduce ByteString types specifically for this benefit. If String just did this when it could, then it could just be knowingly used in place of each roll your own.
Off-topic, but: yes!
One of my big annoyances with autocorrect is it auto-uncorrecting "its" to "it's", "well" to "we'll", etc. Not sure what algorithm is used, but it seems to be fairly horrible (BTW - I'm on a Moto X now and used to have an iPhone; I've seen it in both).

The only way to do this would be to wait until enough of the sentence has been written to get context. Failing that, though...I just don't want it to touch those words at all.
I was i his show in Brazil, I think it was back in 2010.

Between songs, a young woman shoulted: "I love you B.B."

He looked at her and said: "I love you too, honey."
If you have ever watched CNBC or Bloomberg I am sure you have been whenever an analyst talks about a stock a disclosure screen pops indicating whether the analyst, their family or their firm have an financial stake in the company.

It would be interesting to see that especially for very senior former government officials who often clock themselves in their former agencies and not as board members of x,y, and z. There is certainly more credibility as been former 4 star general than a board member of a government contractor.

Now having spent some time earlier in my life working around the DC establishment I know that being a general is now basically a political position even though it is accorded the same respect that generals garnered 70 years ago. So I just expect that former senior government officials are now trading on their connections to government...since that is the most valuable asset to have. And this goes for everything, not just the military and intelligence agencies. When there is as much money as there is in Washington being connected to the people who hand it out is extremely valuable.
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Possibly. The author does himself/herself a disservice knocking down some really low-hanging fruits and almost cult-like points. I stumbled across the original posting actually and thought it deserved a mild chuckle at best.
You seem to be emphasizing _hammer_ as a means to trivialize it. Did I read that right? If someone were attacking me with a hammer, I would interpret that as a deadly threat.
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The medical exemption exists because giving them the vaccine increases risk (to the recipient). It's not a choice regarding acceptable risk; it's consistently choosing the least risky option.
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What other nation or private entity has come up with a visionary idea in space industry? Let me remind you he first thought about sending a life capsule to Mars on a former ballistic missile. Isn't that visionary enough ya?

And how about Tesla?
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"The science is clear: Vaccines are safe and efficacious."

Nothing is 100% safe. So when they say something like this, it's pretty scary. I don't think it's causing autism, but some people do have ill effects due to vaccines.
The one in which people get vaccinated.
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But the top prize is one million miles, which would get you lifetime status. Delta and United don't (yet) have spend requirements for lifetime status, AFAIK.

Conferring lifetime status isn't necessarily even that expensive to the airline--you only get the benefits after you give the airline your money for tickets. It also creates an incentives to buy tickets on one particular airline, even when they might be slightly more expensive (which is the whole purpose of frequent flier CRM programs).
the mac on my desk is a sad reminder that apple explores it's user to the end. i wanted osx and ios emulator and would pay for it. but i was also forced to buy an extra inefficient x86 machine to be able to run it locally.

so all i have is safari (for web dev on ios, which also was removed from the win version), xcode ios emulator (don't think I've ever used the other parts of xcode), and the vnc server thing.
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This is a project I created in my spare time to practice implementing various HTML5 features such as canvas element, web workers, touch events, etc. I also use the experimental asm.js for performance enhancement, which works best in Firefox, for now.

This draws beautiful fractals, such as the Mandelbrot fractal.
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Total forest cover is a crude statistic. Primary forests in Asia, where the majority of biodiversity resides, continue to be felled at alarming rates.
While impressive, after watching his videos it becomes apparent it's a vulnerability in that one particular model of lock. Not quite as impressive.
It depends a lot on what you're doing — if you're hitting fast-paths (esp. if you're dealing with out-of-tree nodes) it's entirely possible to end up with the JS/C++ trampoline being a significant part of the bottleneck, for much the same reasons as why Array.prototype.reduce can in several implementations.
If I'm not mistaken, the derivation of the black-body radiation energy distribution does not use special relativity at all, only statistical mechanics and quantum mechanics. How can it be used to explain special relativity?
It really does not matter. In a free democracy there should be no surveillance of innocents. The sole feeling of being watched alone changes people (someone help me with the citation here).
These have been around for a few years, I remember seeing a video of the "helmet" inflating. Here's the one I could find, which is a lot more annoying than the one I recall: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tDy4InLcXU
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I don't know why I'm challenging you on this, but the expected value is -2m times the probability of your contract being worth $200m in the first place. At best, that's 1 in a thousand, thus making the expected value at best $2000, making the $5000 a waste, per your logic.
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But it will. The journal contains connections, just like facebook, between every miner, buyer, and seller ever. If you make a new wallet and transfer your coins there, it's recorded. If you buy some on the street for cash from some guy, it's recorded. You don't always know the details, but you always know the connection.

Cash, laundering, shell corps; they have none of these properties.
It's about time we stop giving religious beliefs any special treatment at all compared to actual measurable evidence (e.g. inhumanely killing animals, mutilating/indoctrinating children, etc.).
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It's a problem of fairness. Satoshi released Bitcoin publicly and only then began mining coins, just like everyone else was potentially able to do. It's hard to begrudge him from using his own invention, after all! Whereas pre-mined cryptocurrencies make others feel cheated.
I was once trying to match a colour from a logo in a PDF. Using the included 'DigitalColor Meter' that ships with Mac OS X.

When displayed on the Macbook Pro screen it registered as one colour. On my Dell monitor it registered as something slightly different. When I used that the colour in CSS, the colour rendered differently to the original image, and DigitalColor Meter reported that there were different values between different browsers (Chrome and Safari) and different screens.

And none of these visually matched the colour of the original image on either monitor.

Not sure if it was gamma adjustment, colour calibration, drivers, graphics cards... in the end I gave up and did the best I could.

I'm not sure why you'd want to buy a utility that replicates already built-in software, but one great value-add point would be to disentangle all of this nonsense.
>No need for chase schemes and cash briefcases.

Moving that many Bitcoins in cash would be hard:

1. who would pay USD for them,

2. putting them for sale on an exchange would crash the market,

3. and when everyone found out that Bitcoins were stolen from Satoshi, I suspect the Bitcoin community would rally together to hunt the person down, while blacklisting the transactions to make them unspendable (also to prevent a crash of the Bitcoin market).

All of this is silly though, anyone with that many Bitcoin should protect them with muiltisig[0] and make one of the parties to the multisig their attorney. Failing that Satoshi could just secret share his private key[1]. Certainly people unfamiliar with the details of Bitcoin may not take such precautions but Satoshi is not a member of that set.

Never underestimate human stupidity, but a rational criminal has much better risk-rewards ratio to choose them. A discussion of how Satoshi can and probably does protect his or her Bitcoin should reduce the risks of such a crime.

[0]: http://www.coindesk.com/year-multisig-so-far/

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_sharing
> genetically diverse place

On a relative basis, no it isn't.
I've been working in technology for almost 30 years. I've seen racists, misogynists, homophobes, transphobes; bigots of every shape, size, and color. To think of any community as wholly privileged and safe from ignorance is arrogance. Even people within the LGBTQ community have hateful or degrading points of view. You are not separate from this, we're all part of this, and right now your using your voice to say there's no problem. Your experiences are not the experiences of others.
How do they detect the need to unfold?

Also, I'm wondering about a full-body version for motor riders.
Is there anything that is not abstract about their patent? The Alice ruling sure makes defending pure software patents harder.
Look at what it cost US Marines to take away Japanese held islands.

And what if it was going to take half a million American casualties? And it still would've killed lots and lots of Japanese civilians and soldiers. Far more than 100,000 Japanese would've died.

Have you read anything about any of the campaigns by US Marines? Not accusing you of ignorance or anything. Just wondering if you know some history.
But share buy backs are not a guaranteed gain and you don't have to spend millions to an IB to do the buy back.

As someone said (back in the 20's) where are the investors yachts :-)
Perhaps amusing would have been a better choice of words.
Individual welfare at least supports the more vulnerable and less well-off elements of our society. Large defense contractors have revenues in the billions of dollars, high level managers are likely millionaires, and they employ an entire army of upper-middle class workers.

The defense sector is mostly about providing welfare to the already rich and privileged.
Enforcable because they have the guns
I really doubt Dana and Woodman were thinking about it at the time, but this is a kind of a nice way to structure an equity compensation contract with early employees or investors.

Instead of saying "I want x% of the company's shares," employees are probably better off looking at the most powerful person at the company and saying "I want y% of everything he makes."
Permanent, site-wide shadowbans are not intended for use outside of spam/bot countermeasures and are not policy against users, especially for a nasty one off, no matter who against.

That they are happening to users at all is evidence of either an unreported change in internal policy or high level vigilante modding. And as users, there is no way to find out how many are affected by this.

Another issue exists where after a person discovers their shadowban, they request its removal and are denied -- because there was no note left for why they were banned. What if it were placed by a Reddit mod and not a sub mod? How could anyone make a reasonable appeal in that case?

Their opaqueness is why shadowbans are effective, but mods treating user appeals like gag orders with top secret clearances is not in the spirit of their duties. After a user discovers their shadowban, it's no longer effective, so there is no reason not to disclose information to them about it during their appeal.

Opening the appeals process so users can see for themselves why they were banned, reversing appeals against noteless bans without contest, limiting the duration of all bans not made against spam/bots, a system of blind review, and increasing mod accountability would all serve to strengthen users' ability to stay active on the site without compromising the intended function of the shadowban.
Give an example. The fiat currencies that people actually save in have a direct lineage from gold, or are linked to such a currency by monetary policy. Tax value alone has never given a new currency stable value.
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I was probably still under the influence of the very nice article about SpaceX's birth.
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It would be nice if the title would say what the next wave actually is. The next wave of spying, of IT attacks, of found documents that make us unhappy to read?

"But you find out immediately after you click the link" is not an acceptable argument. We have this website exactly to not click all the links on the internet to find out what they contain.
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"We're sorry but this site is not accessible from the UK as it is part of our international service and is not funded by the licence fee."

Bizarrely UK users ie. those who have to pay for the BBC have to use a cloak to access this content. At least the charter is up this year. Hopefully all the BBC will be 'not funded by the license fee' soon.
Worldwide, more than 25% of road traffic deaths are pedestrians and bicyclists. Improved active safety, like head protection, collision warning, and automatic audible and visual warning for drivers are badly needed. And cars should be required to have autonomous braking that looks for bicyclists and pedestrians ahead and in the "right hook" zone.
True but we arn't allowed to hit people with sticks sigh
I found this extraordinarily helpful:

http://www2.physics.umd.edu/~yakovenk/teaching/Lorentz.pdf

The Lorentz transform allows you to calculate exactly how time/distance differ between two reference frames.

The above link derives the transform from first principles - assuming only spatial symmetry and the invariance of the speed of light in different reference frames. There are other derivations, but I found this one the most straightforward.
That is a good list. In addition for like courses grouped together: http://coursebuffet.com/sub/computer-science
> No one buys game currencies to hold.

This is actually not true. But I'm not going to get into it since you don't think BitCoin's political alignments are relevant, and you are talking down to me at the same time.
Permitting a small number of exemptions does not compromise hive immunity. Permitting a large number of exceptions does. The article states an objective example of where hive immunity was compromised due to a lack of vaccination. So there is sound scientific reasoning for disallowing religious exemption for public health reasons.

In terms of priorities, it seems reasonable for medical exceptions (eg. "this child is allergic to the vaccination so is more likely to die if it is administered") to come before religious ones ("my child won't suffer from an increased risk of harm [than other children receiving the vaccination] but I don't want the vaccine to be administered").

It might even be reasonable to permit a small quota of religious objections, so that the total number of exceptions does not compromise hive immunity. But then how would it be decided which children would not be permitted in this group?

The other option would be to simply ban children not vaccinated for religious reasons from the ability to spread disease by excluding them from schools. This seems to be the proposition made already though:

> "I am concerned about opportunities for equal education," because unvaccinated kindergarteners would require home schooling, Bates said.
How lecturing is the opposite of how we learn
So, from the patent it looks like they patented TCP Keepalives which were documented in section 4.2.3.6 of RFC1122 from 1989...

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1122#page-101

Edit:

Reading further, the patent is construed to cover anything IP based.

I also noted that RFC1122 is not referenced anywhere in the patent, despite extensive references to other RFCs.

Also, is it normal to have patents granted 11 years after filing in Europe? I know in the US we have changed the laws several times to discourage and eliminate submarine patents.
I love how greenmail was rebranded to "activist investing". For those of you who don't know, greenmail is basically going to a company and saying: "Hey, I can convince your investors you suck and should be replaced, or you can pay me to go away." That's also activist investing (but activists are good right?)

Yet to be fair, if some random guy can convince shareholders that the board needs to be replaced, the board may be screwing up. Maybe those are the ones most likely to pay someone to settle down.
D3 has nested selections that let you handle cases like this. The data for a single element can be an array, and if that element is a div (HTML) or g (SVG) you can do another join and bind those data to its children. More info: http://bost.ocks.org/mike/nest/

To "substitute the objects with new ones", do another join, pass a key function as the second argument if necessary, and use the enter/update/exit pattern.
To me, it's Disneyland meets Aleksey Vayner's "Impossible Is Nothing" video CV meets "her knees are too sharp" (the ridiculous laundry list of requirements).

I think that it's real.

That said, the part about "explicit lyrics" made me laugh. Programmers like for things (at least, code and documentation) to be explicit (in the original, non-euphemistic, correct meaning of the word) and generally have no use for the implicit use of "explicit" to mean "vulgar".
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Regarding the second point. Suppose someone went in your house and rummaged around looking at everything. Would you feel violated? Would it be better if you didn't know?

Or took naked pictures of you without you knowing about it?

Another example: what if someone stole something from you that you didn't need?

Some things matter even if they don't cause concrete harm.
Did that paperwork not describe the work to be done and the payment to be made in exchange?
Which in turn feeds the orange jumpsuit industry.
There are sensors in the device. They're activated by a battery that starts when you put the thing on and clip the zipper. You have to charge the battery every 3 weeks or so. I've got one and have been using it for a month. So far I didn't fall, and the stuff hasn't been triggered by any of my jumps on and off the sidewalk. It's much more comfortable than a standard helmet. It's very expensive though.
Science has been growing a strange ego-stroking pop culture faction of late, and it's fairly worrying. It's certainly not an attitude that's actually going to improve anything. All it does is serve to create deeper divides that are even harder to bridge. People just dig in their heels.

I'm sure it's emotionally satisfying for people in some way, but I've come to a place where such an attitude significantly lowers my opinion of the person wielding it.
I was going to say exactly this. Does anybody with a good understanding of monitor colors know why this happens & possibly how to deal with it?