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I think the only way the web could remain mostly-JS apps, is if the benefits of writing mostly-JS apps would outweigh the benefits of writing, well, not-mostly-JS apps.

And I'm not sure if that's gonna be true.

For example, I'm sitting here, arguing for an open and readable web, and yet I can't wait for a rust-to-asm.js workflow to get stable enough so that I can move the perf-critical parts of my app to rust (you know, the part that could be learned from and hacked on by another developer).
Hey, these children are working in factories of their own volition! What's the problem?
Yeah, but welcome to Hacker News.
This is more like the idiot purge. These execs are well known for being the worst of the lot inside Microsoft.

Frankly, Eric Rudder should promptly write a book about how to maintain a VP position at a bigcorp without actually doing anything for a decade.
Much of this is no longer true because, as I understand it, it didn't really scale.
Doesn't the UPOV contribute legally to the "vendor lock-in"?
So if an office position has flex time you're an independent contractor?

You're wrong about the vehicle condition part and "how you work" is questionable (you have limits on how many fares you can refuse, for instance).
Software is a Service
You can read the description below the chart, they rolled the requires warrant column into another column. A company must do both things to get a star.
The price of helium in bulk went way up two years ago. Airship Ventures, Silicon Valley's tourist Zeppelin NT, had to shut down and sell their ship.
I've never bothered. Hotmail or Yahoo email addresses were embarrassing back in the day, but I guess the hype around Gmail changed that 10 years ago. I've never felt awkward putting a gmail address on a business card.
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Minio is about minimalist design, take a look at the blog post to get an idea https://medium.com/@minio/minio-no-knobs-to-turn-no-button-t...

At this early stage of the project it is hard to explain why another approach is necessary.
Yes, and so have livery services.
If a group planned ahead they could give out some secondary kind of key. Gmail gives out these really long codes I can use to login should I not have the authenticator app.
From working at an Openstack startup for a while, I can say that customers definitely prefer the S3 API since it works with their existing tools. That being said, they are largely compatible until you get into the authorization models, and the fact that S3 is globally namespaced, whereas Swift scopes names to tenants.
Not-so-guilty pleasure: Viewing cat videos boosts energy and positive emotions
> the fact that "OMG initscripts are so verbose with so much boilerplate; my unit files are so much better" is a commonly-cited reason for people to prefer systemd over other init systems, never mind that said reasoning is plainly false

Indeed, I agree with that. The only advantage is that the restricted syntax of unit files is more suitable for error checking rather than having the shell complain more or less randomly, but compactness is not an intrinsic advantage of it.

That said, not every distribution standardized on such kind of helpers (ie. Debian), so in those cases compactness was one of the benefits of switching to systemd (not exclusive to it).
> Why forcibly stop people consensually partaking in an activity?

There wouldn't be an issue here if there wasn't a dispute between the parties involved in the activity.
The rise of 'scientism' - until a few years ago I considered myself a 'science type' (excuse the phrase), immersed in logic all my life.

Recently the depth of negative influence, corrupt findings, blind faith and religious-style zeal within the scientific community and pseudo scientific communities (like Reddit) has become absurd and embarrassing.

Science is a method, not a conclusion. I hope it becomes 'open', and fast.
This would be a way better article if they kept the "ZOMG WE ARE SO AWESOME" and "WOW, WE INVENTED IT ALL" tone out..
This is old news that was discussed extensively when it occurred: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9653389
The simple fact is that mathematics is derived from nature first by observation of countable entities and then a process of abstraction from those observations. The natural numbers don't merely correspond to countable things - countable things are the original source of the much more abstract idea of "natural numbers". Whether or not any further baste actions are a useful tool for measuring and describing the physical world is an entirely separate question from the nature and source of mathematics as a field of study.

It would probably be best to do away with the term "mathematical truth" altogether. It's confusing and sloppy. Mathematics has no separate truth from the physical world - it's just a field of epistemological methods.
Vestas to step up tests of its giant offshore turbine (world's most powerful)
Craft Beer or Crafted Attack?
Do you have any sense of historical perspective at all? The idea of labor regulation didn't just appear out of thin air; it arose in response to widespread exploitation. And the idea of a "moderate Libertarian candidate" strikes me as an oxymoron.
It's like you're trying to say that something obviously good may have a downside. The important point is that Uber and its drivers are partners in a mutually beneficial relationship. If everybody starts contracting out services from each other, and we're all in business together, then nobody will be sitting on top of a pyramid supported by the state. How can that possibly go wrong?
Port of Long Beach: May Was Busiest Month Since 2007
I made a very succinct summary here: http://espadrine.github.io/New-In-A-Spec/es2015/

There is also this, slightly more in-depth: git.io/es6features
Donut - is a distributed erasure coded backend format, designed specifically for immutable data.

We call it "do not delete" in short donut.

https://github.com/minio/minio/tree/master/pkg/storage/donut

It is currently experimental, but a distributed version is a work in progress.
Fascinating! RentHop operates in an industry where almost everyone is an independent contractor on 1099: real estate agents.

1.) Agents are mandated to use their company logo and brokerage info in all ads, both by NYC law and by the company. Some companies have strict dress code requirements when meeting clients.

2.) The brokerage firm definitely controls the tools used, from internal databases to marketing syndication tools to in-house CRM systems.

3.) The brokerage firm has vicarious liability over the actions of their agents (also mandated by NYC law). For that reason the brokerage firm has a huge incentive to vet their employees.

4.) Agents generally have very little discretion if any on the commission charged. The brokerage firm sets commission policies and any deviations must be approved by the managing broker or associate broker.

5.) I highly disagree with the court ruling here [edit: administrative ruling?]; my understanding is Uber drivers are free to turn off the Uber app and operate without the source of leads generated, and that certainly impacts PNL (if that's not the case, agents still can't simply ignore leads forever without getting fired). Uber doesn't mandate when or where the work is done. Same with agents, the brokerages generally can't impact when or where the work is done, with the exception of some mandatory company wide meetings. Firms tend to provide desk space and equipment.

6.) An agent hired by a brokerage firm may not "subcontract" by having a friend show up in his place and conduct the work, even if the friend is a licensed real estate agent -- the brokerage, assuming vicarious liability for the actions of all their agents, would not allow it. This is different from an overworked agent asking a colleague to take over clients, both are still agents of the brokerage.
Maidan, Caliphate, and Code: Theorizing Power and Resistance in the 21st Century
Right. He3 fusion is harder to do than DT-DT fusion, which we can't yet make work for power production anyway. DT-DT fusion produces somewhat more radioactive waste products, but less than fission.

It's possible, after all, to make He3 by making tritium and waiting 12 years.
A big problem with GMOs is that they facilitate the use of massive amounts of pesticides.
Hey! Steven here :)

Chief of Staff in my particular case was mainly everything an Executive Assistant does (administrative work, research, gatekeeper, etc) plus anything else that came up that I could help out with.
As mentioned elsewhere on this thread, you'd use Swift (and other object storage systems) to store larger pieces of unstructured binary data (eg. images/videos/backups). The easiest way to do that in Cassandra without rolling a whole bunch of new code for yourself would be to store these things as gigantic rows in Cassandra, which isn't where it performs well. Typically object storage systems also come with a whole lot of features such as being able to control who views your files, the ability to upload files in piecemeal fashion, etc.
> This ruling will postpone a public discussion on the role of employer-based insurance and benefits.

Of the many factors preventing that I think this ruling is a pretty minor one.
This is a good overview in my opinion: https://babeljs.io/docs/learn-es2015/
Very nice idea. I'm really glad that someone is brave enough to do something like this. The only risk I see with this, is that you might cause price increase for ads, if you will have substantial amount of users, which will make your service more expensive.
Good Luck!
Except they weren't so strong on software and platforms. Their programmers had mostly worked on feature phones, and Symbian was made by an external company at the time.

The first reaction to the iPhone was to buy Symbian in 2008, which in retrospect is so wrong that's surprising, but the vast majority of people at all level (people in the street, geeks, executives) didn't understand the real change that iPhone was bringing until maybe 2009-2010.

Then Nokia tried to fix the software problem buying Qt. That ended up as being a mistake as well. Qt was built on the idea that you can create a UI framework that unifies all platforms; that was realistic when the support OS were all desktop and thus similar in main concepts and interaction patterns; Qt also nominally ran on embedded at the time, but the experience was suboptimal at best. So Nokia drank the idea that adding "another backend" to Qt was the solution, also because developers loved Qt. But of course it's not that easy. It took them 2-3 years to come up with a new codebase that could handle the new interaction patterns (QML) and that's a geological era in smartphones. At that point, they still didn't have a complete working solution for a qt iPhone killer, and Elop had to cut the chord. That day, the fate of Nokia was already written.
This is one of the better overviews of HFT I have come across. It hits on all the points I consider to be important (having worked in HFT for over six years); especially the Techno-Leviathan, trader psyche, and the perception of constant "war". I interviewed at Ronin once, and at the time I was super impressed by the beauty of their offices. Reading this helped me realize what a fucking circus it really is.

One facet which always fascinated me was the dispersion of trading ideas, including the code behind algorithms and any sort of research. Successful ideas are constantly being updated, adapted, and often times stolen. Traders are generally hired for the trading strategies they have been exposed to and the potential value within. There are very few individuals who create new and successful ideas. The rest are just copying what they have been exposed to and hoping that it sticks when they throw it all the wall, which eventually runs each successful idea into the ground as the value being captured disappears quickly.

Either way, it was a great school for learning how to program and use statistics effectively.

As my interviewer at Ronin told me after a I failed the interview (we both knew it): "This is all a game, you just need to learn the rules"
I saw this exact demonstration (PB&J) in I think 5th or 6th grade. Which would have been 1995/1996. This was before I had any interest in software. But I do remember that, in fact I was thinking about it when reading earlier comments in this thread! So maybe it stuck with me and helped in some way.
The first questions which I look for on objects stores are how it approaches data integrity – things I'd like to see on the homepage:

1. Does it have the S3/Swift/etc. semantics that you will always get the bits first stored or an error but never a corrupt or truncated file?

2. Does it have the S3 and (IIRC) Swift feature that allows you to provide an expected hash so data corrupted in transit will be detected and an error will be returned instead of storing the object?

3. How does it verify data integrity? Only on access, background scrubs, via API request, etc.

4. Which strong hashes are used for all of the above? Are they configurable / selectable so e.g. if I wanted something strong than S3's Content-MD5 header for uploads can I use SHA-256 instead?

5. The classic easy-to-ask, hard-to-answer one: what level of testing backs up all of the previous answers?
Completely different. Uber drivers don't even have to work...ever!

Vehicles can be 10 or 15 years old which includes some 90% of all vehicles. That's hardly "controlling condition". And, OK, lights and seat belts have to work.

There actually aren't any hard limits on how many fares you can refuse but refusing fares is like a contractor turning in lousy work.
None of those are required or even recommended to succeed.

If you want to develop websites - sure. But there are many other kinds of development work.
Awesome, never heard of their work.
I was a Production Manager at a Medical Device company here in the Bay area previously for almost 3 years. Wanted a change of scenery so I started helping Garry out.

From there, I started helping out with events and tech/ops at YC and joined the team to help out internally, officially (Tara and co have been doing so much already)! All I've got to say is I came for the experience, and stayed for the community.
The Big Box Afterlife
A mandate imposed on contract relations by law (even if echoed by company policy) is often different in considering the employee/contractor distinction than what not imposed by law.

Additionally, New York law is not California law, and 1099 vs W-2 distinction is a federal tax law distinction, which is distinct from California, New York, or even federal labor law employee/contractor distinctions (though some of the factors that are relevant may be similar between those different sources of law.)

> I highly disagree with the court ruling here

There is no court ruling, its an administrative ruling that is being appealed to a court.
Personally I'm enjoying playing with Skylable SX server (and its libres3 s3 interface) - I'll be honest, I never really gave Swift enough of a chance. I've yet to get my head round it quickly enough so far. Found this one while researching other things

"Skylable was founded in 2012 by Tomasz Kojm, Luca Gibelli, Edwin Török and Alberto Wu, best known for their success with ClamAV, the leading GPL anti-virus for UNIX running on millions of servers and protecting billions of users."

http://www.skylable.com/products/sx/

"With SX Cluster you aggregate the disk space available on multiple servers and merge it into a single storage system. The cluster makes sure that your data is always replicated over multiple nodes (the exact number of copies is defined by the sysadmin) and synchronized. Additionally Sx has built-in support for deduplication, client-side encryption, on-the-fly compression and much more"

Very responsive in their IRC channel on Freenode too. I know I sound like a walking advert reading this comment back but I have no affiliation other than end user
Goodbye Sourceforge
It's even more confusing if you have to figure out if you're calling a method or referencing a variable.

The code could be assigning a new variable from a method return value, or just from an existing variable.
That's common in TV ads.

One month show ads, one month off,
or 15 days on, 15 days off.
Corporate Accelerator database
Uber and Lyft are operating a model that clearly works for customers. And yet they rightly face legal issues.

Well, the same applies to child-labour sweatshops that make shoes...
I am confident full ES6 support will be really solid by March 2017. However, the community is moving incredibly fast, some companies are already using ES7 / ES2016 features!

In perspective, transpilers aren't so bad, especially Babel, who's differentiating feature from the start was readable output code.

Today, if targeting modern browsers you can use Maps and Sets. With polyfills[1] you can use the new Array functions, Promises, Symbols, full JS collections, iterators, etc.

[1] https://github.com/zloirock/core-js
The argument around congestion is not only that of taxis on the roads, but also taxis waiting outside taxi stands.

Where I live / walk (Atlanta), it's not uncommon for every taxi that passes me on my walk to honk or to stalk me seeing if I will hail it.

At hotels near me, taxis will often back up the parking circle, street, and taxi spots waiting for a fare.
It's still early though, right? I mean, they might have some dominance now (I wouldn't call 46% in major markets a monopoly), but let's see how things shake out in a few years.

> Uber is arguably the #1 regulatory power in the U.S. personal transportation sector.

I would reserve the phrase "regulatory power" to government. I think you're using it here for the hyperbolic value.
I suppose it saves typing, but I don't really mind doing site:news.ycombinator.com on Google.
High Tech: each H1B Visa employee saves a company 40k
http://qz.com/256586/the-inside-story-of-how-netflix-came-to...
Economic optimality, in this case, is merely one of any number of quantifiable measures you can use to define what is decent vs terrible.
How does the place of birth of people working jobs (that they are good at) change what you call decent or terrible - what is your measure?
The pricing, yes, although Lyft explicitly supports tipping and Sidecar actually enables differentiated pricing. Vehicles can be 10 or mor years old which is the vast majority of vehicles on the road (i.e., hardly "control"). And, yes, lights and seat belts must work (that's hardly control). They exert literally zero control over when you work. If you're going to open up the app and start declining fares, that's equivalent to a contractor turning in shoddy work.
It also makes experiments to understand gene and regulatory element functions a whole lot easier.
Do these contain lead? I wonder if this is good for export.

Additionally, this looks like a plastic film. Don't most plastics break down with exposure to the sun. I wonder what the service life would be.

Not trying to be negative. I would really love cheap solar panels.
A cultural solution, to me, sounds like the ultimate goal. But I observe that culture usually arises from the constraints that a society lives with.

I think many people would gladly opt-in to adopt the standard you proposed, but perhaps commercial projects won't have the incentives to do so.
The Rooney Rule isn't a preference. It's a way to ensure that classes of applicants who have been systematically excluded from consideration are being considered at some reasonable rate. It does nothing to make a hiring process any less merit-based; quite the opposite, in fact.
Thanks. I hadn't yet arrived at the greedy lock portion when I posted the above, but I finished the article soon after and absolutely loved it. The other thing worth noting is that while it sounds like there was some regional bias toward Fred Buns at your store, they should have different combinations of dials/letters on some of their locks. Also, also, some should be reconfigurable, which leads me to the challenge:

Optimal combination of dials in the circumstance that the dials can be rearranged.

& Don't sweat dial/tumbler, dial is more specific anyway, tumbler is the generic word.
Or better yet, use jspm with Babel and use ES6 modules for everything.

https://github.com/jspm/jspm-cli

https://github.com/systemjs/systemjs
If it's sold on the internet, it will be available for bitcoin only, and maybe only via the darkweb.
Why can't the "other app" just fake a Dropbox-looking display that says "Sorry, service unavailable. Click here to try again." while it does malicious stuff in the background? And then pass to the real Dropbox once it's finished being malicious?
In theory you use less. Roundup Ready is supposed to use lower quantities of weedkiller but do so earlier in the growing season when everything is more vulnerable to it (thus making a resistant crop useful).

It's not a great sales slogan: "Roundup Ready - increases costs by increasing the amount of spraying you can do".
I am doing this right now, but it is only temporary to pay down some debts. I have no life but am just floating in a sea of work.

Also, finding freelance work is not easy. After searching for 2.5 years, I finally found a gig.
Judging by what I see in London, I'd say in most cases it's mostly law/tax evasion scheme that's beneficial for both sides.
Fitbit Offers a Rarity for Tech IPOs: Profit
The Pope Is About to Weigh in on Climate Change. Not Everyone Is Happy
A big minus -1 to sourceforge's rep!
I've seen this an an outgrowth of the file storage world:

1. Flat data model – i.e. no directories, just a single globally-unique identifier
2. Much larger sizes than many key:value stores are designed to handle, typically bounded only by physical storage
3. Updates are complete and atomic: you don't have to support all of the crazy permutations like streaming writes from a file handle which could be kept open for years, dealing with simultaneous writes, etc. which make life interesting for filesystem implementers
4. None of the more complicated filesystem behaviour like locking, alternate data streams, etc. which add so many edge cases
>From your link the contiguous US would appear to be represented at ~ 1.7 times larger scale than the continent of Africa, on average.

Look at this chart in particular: http://i.stack.imgur.com/Y9ilC.png
1.7 larger is nowhere to be found. The very north of continental US compared to equator is below 1.5. If you consider that Africa extends north and south of equator and US south of 45th, the magnification is much smaller. Moreover consider that we're comparing areas instead of lengths, so visually the extent of magnification is even less apparent. You keep repeating the word "massive distortion", but it simply doesn't apply to the latitudes of continental US. This is very easy to check if you have a globe and a Mercator map. And yet the myth persists...

>People are trying to discourage it because it is a distortion that is only really of use to people navigating the sea in boats using paper charts.

That is patently false. Mercator has many very useful properties, such as local conformality which is why Google Maps and other maps providers use it. It is, in fact, the only cylindrical map projection with local conformality. Which is very useful for generating map tiles.