skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This will only work if gigs are well paid and allow you to pay for expenses during the off periods.

In theory this is great and already happens in the IT sector of some countries.

In practice I suspect that as years go by the salaries will go lower as the gig-economy becomes standard.

But by then there will be another problem too: robotics.

In the end the solution will have to include a basic salary for everyone. Those who work get something extra.
They probably disproportionately go after individuals, it is much easier to force an individual into a plea bargain situation where they get a positive result, than it is to go against a multi billion dollar corporation who can continue making money while defending a legal case.
So, for such an impact, you would almost certainly need the strongest bouncing lander ever produced. However, Pluto's escape velocity only is about 1/10th the speed of NH.

This means that if that first bounce upon impact would result in even 10% of the initial velocity, it will literally bounce out of the system and back towards the sun.
Uber drivers who are unhappy probably leave uber more often than if they were happy.

Therefore any random driver is more likely to enjoy uber instead of disliking uber.
> undefined behavior in C/C++ is that it simplifies the compiler’s job, making it possible to generate very efficient code in certain situations.

I've been growing more skeptical of this claim over time. First, more evidence would be nice instead of "some loops". What is a program (not a benchmark) that has an observable performance difference when compiled with and without -fwrap?

Second, it seems counter productive. The word is now out that if you use signed ints, the compiler is going to fuck you over. So now everybody is (or should be) using unsigned ints, and whatever optimization the compiler was performing, now it can't. A lot of grief for no progress.
There is a big moral hazard issue here as well. When you are working for minimum wage to rent the cheapest apartment in town why not become 'homeless' and get a house for free. I have no doubt that if you could eliminate the frauds from the system it would be cheaper, but I don't think you could.
Sorry to burst your bubble but this was known years ago. The information is not from this mission.

Google for "pluto atmosphere collapse" and set the date range to before Aug 2013.
Really appreciate the level of detail of this blog post. Thank you!
Actually, the SEC has many sophisticated tools. and on events like this, greater attention is received. I utmost assure you from personal knowledge, they will find you and they are most certainly not a joke. Billion dollar companies and individuals have nothing to do with it, they have no immunity or some secret hiding place. More often the bigger guys raise flags much quicker and are easier to investigate. (Usually larger amounts of money)
For this day, they can feel good, but this is a signal that Page is facing the fact that the search advertising business may have hit the limits of growth or even be in jeopardy well before they've managed to develop another business.

If they were confident about continued revenue growth they wouldn't be feverishly worrying about the stock price.

They've shot themselves in the foot by reactively deflating other businesses they are afraid of to protect their cash cows rather than creating enough new value to replace it themselves.
I knew a guy who leased a nice car. Every couple of years he changed it. Sometimes he liked to run a Porsche, once he had some kind of Audi. One summer he got a hankering for a convertible.

Anyway, the point of this is twofold; firstly, he leased luxury cars because he really liked them but knew he'd want to swap models a lot, and to protect himself against the day he knew was coming that he would need to just stop (which happened when he got a mortgage; lease cancelled, outgoings on a car dropped to zero - ironically, given that the house he bought cost a cool million in a London suburb, I suspect he actually could easily just buy a luxury car, but he prefers to dump the money into the mortgage). The second part of the point here is that you're ignorant, unimaginative and small-minded.
Your comment does not deserve a down vote.
The article says it is trading 3% higher overall. That's not an insignificant gain off the back of fake news.
The link to the privacy policy just links to the promotion webseite. Do you plan on selling footage to news organizations?
My experience was exactly the same. The record button on the camera app is small and hard to hit if you're running/your hands are shaky. Also if you touch the screen while recording it changes the focus and you could also accidentally end the recording. All these could have serious implications during an emergency.

That's why for Witness I made sure you could touch anywhere on the screen while recording and it would be almost impossible to do any damage. So you can conceal your phone while your fingers rest on the screen.
> "We have quickly become the market leader in San Francisco."

This is an odd statement since I know there are at least two direct competitors who are far larger.
> This weapon is to be used against Japan between now and August 10th. I have told the Sec. of War, Mr. Stimson, to use it so that military objectives and soldiers and sailors are the target and not women and children.

I find this very ironic ..
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Yeah, I'm not sure if they're read only without a jumper or software writeable without any protection
I would say the biggest indentured worker class is the chicken farmer these days... mainly subject to the will of Tyson overlords.
Let us go on a journey of imagination across the vast distances of space...

...completely ruin it with scrolling...

...and stop at 20 light-minutes from Earth.
I rate the following "skills" as dubious...

-SEO : No actual control over outcomes, basing results on third party platforms subject to arbitrary change.

-SEM : No actual control over outcomes, basing results on third party platforms subject to arbitrary change.

-Social Advertising : No actual control over outcomes, basing results on third party platforms subject to arbitrary change.

-Analytics : Statistics usually skewed in favor of only the most brainless users, that do not understand how to block scripts or manage their cookies and sessions.

-Email/Push Notifications : Spam.

This kind of stuff is fluff and busy-work at best.

I'm sure there are plenty of graphs charting direct relationships between "x" and "y", in the land of "more is always better", but how many people does anyone know who's decision making has ever directly turned on one of these bullet points?
I tried not to make any judgement about the changes, just to analyze the motive. It has always been a Sisyphean struggle to sell ads on Reddit -- in large part because the content is so unpredictable. Whatever access they can provide for a brand to connect with a target demographic has to be weighed against the cost of being embroiled in controversy for advertising alongside the content that shows up on Reddit.
Thanks for the list, it's a little surprising to see WordPress and Drupal doing so well. I'm afraid I've been underestimating both of them. I also didn't realize the popularity difference between Rails and Django was that large.

My heart isn't set on subcontracting, it just looks like a good way to go if I can make it work. In the past I've found that good jobs come through contacts and I was hoping that through freelancing I'd meet people. Plus Denver is changing so fast I barely recognize it some days, if I can freelance or work remotely I keep the option of relocating.

I love the name of your company, it's very poetic. I really like the homepage too, the text effects and zooming are nice touches. Unfortunately it wrecks my poor little computer, it acts like it might have a memory leak? Even so, I'm a big fan of whoever is taking care of your aesthetics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AltyhmrIFgo
This second group will be the ones the SEC look into first.
This really needed to happen to help push the physical web forward. Beacons by the suppliers have just been too expensive. Last year at Full Frontal Conf, Scott Jenson said URIBeacons would cost 'a fiver'...but the cheapest I've ever seen has been $15 each (and that's in bulk).

Really glad to see this! Hopefully soon I'll be able to buy dozens of these on the cheap for a serious project.
"...whereas flash gave us one platform that technically works on everything..."

Unless you count iOS, Android, BSD, Solaris, QNX, Debian etc.
I don't know how unusual Vermont is in this regard. Many of the states on the East Coast have old roadways on their maps. Southern New Jersey's Pine Barrens are a case in point, as is the Delaware Water Gap area in the state's Northwest.
> But Reddit wasn't attacking corporatocracy or actual censorship.

Are you sure? I frankly saw much more of this than the other. I, of course, have a bias, but I think people were focused on censorship.

And you're right. Reddit doesn't owe anyone free speech. But with all due respect, that's the product that they developed. Crowdsourced content aggregation is a useful service, but it's one that is entirely dependent on having "free speech".

If corporations or government can shape the dialogue on a website like reddit, it fundamentally undermines the purpose of having a service that aggregates upvotes.

Reddit can control and censor all they want. But it will take them from having a unique product and niche to being another viral editorial board in a sea of crappy viral editorial boards.

People have the right to free speech. People have the right to be offended by things. And people have a right to leave a service when it stops existing as it once did.
well, sometimes you can actually put those bits into the padding, but often you can not.

This is how many of the simpler malloc implementations, which do not directly mmap, work.

So, remember, if you want to malloc 20 ints, don’t do 20 times malloc(sizeof(int)), do malloc(20*sizeof(int)) and treat them as int[].
The people who buy at an artificially and temporarily high price, mainly.
It was trading around that level before the fraudulent article.
You would put something else in orbit and have high bandwidth communication to it and relay from there.
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1. A well-liked/respected employee is abruptly fired.
2. In most businesses, the CEO does all the firings (or is responsible).
3. I liked the fired employee, I thought she did a great job, therefore I am angry at the CEO.

Are you saying you need to be a crazy/malicious person to follow the above logic? Are all the 250K people who signed the petition crazy or malicious?
I think you underestimate how powerful the rating system is on the behavior of the people who serve you on a day to day basis is.

It's quite possible that Uber drivers do not want to give you any reason to give a negative rating, including being open about their actual feelings about the economic arrangements that govern their relationship to you.
That isn't an option. You valuation goes up when you have traction and they buy at the new price...
I think the answer to that question depends on your perspective, when you ask, who you ask, and the specific context upon which you are asking. If you asked a horny bisexual caveman 7000 years ago, he might prefer spending time with you in person and in the moment to being on Facetime with you. If you ask someone now, they’d probably prefer Facetiming a horny bisexual caveman rather than spending time with him in person. I think its mostly relative, but personally I think the taste of the magic we consume makes us require more magic to attain general satisfaction, and in that sense it is addictive and reduces joy in things like being present in the moment, since we have the means to solve our problems with more magic in any given moment.
That isn't necessarily true. It isn't uncommon for stocks to exist that are traded on local exchanges that equal a set number of shares on a foreign exchanges. They vary by market, but they are called ADRs in the US. It is doubtful that any of these exist for a stock like Twitter, but it would be an easy way to benefit from American stocks without having an American brokerage account.
What is a "fraud"?

The simple way to solve this is to offer housing free to all comers, but make it less attractive than existing options.
I think this goes without saying, but absolutely not. Data will never be available to anyone in any way, shape or form, except people chosen by you. I am adding this to the website now.
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This it not the TYPE of job, but by INDUSTRY it appears from looking at the LED (Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics) description.

The difference is incredibly important. Have 500 workers including janitorial, secretarial, programmers, and executives at a high-tech company and they are all reported as high-tech workers regardless if the highest tech they touch is a floor waxer. Or have some IT people at a hotel and they are classified as hospitality.

I never like these industry classifications because they aren't actually very helpful in looking at employent statistics except in aggregate.
If they're going to make a full page take-over-the-scroll type of experience, why wouldn't they do this from the bottom going up? I was distracted by the "upside-downness" of it the whole time.
I was there last summer, and felt exactly the same as you. Truly remarkable, the impression left upon me.
IANAL, but although you're based in Germany, there are important legal constraints for running a "raffle" in the United States. (e.g. http://www.rafflefaq.com/united-states-raffle-laws/ )

You can't do it arbitrarily, especially for one that's online with a nontransparent winning process.
From later in the article:

"Mr. Page said he looks to Berkshire Hathaway Inc., the insurance-focused conglomerate run by billionaire Warren Buffett, as a model for how to run a large, complex company, [...] "

I recall hearing a guest on the a16z podcast say something along the lines of 'high-growth tech companies eventually become big boring banks,' but I can't remember who said it. Is there a notable quote to this effect?
Resourceful people should be able to find people relatively close to them that could kick in $5-50k x 3-10. You don't need to have a wealthy family or circle of friends.

The potential to sacrifice relationships is the complete wrong way to look at it. Investing is not only opportunistic, it can help someone realize a dream.

Correct, if these are your first thoughts, you are going to struggle mightily as a founder.
Thank you for pointing that out. It was interesting reading.

I was hoping that someone in this community would know someone in indegogo responsible enough to say wait a minute, this is not plausible. I took a look at indegogo's terms of service and found only this:

"If the Campaign is claiming to do the impossible or it's just plain phony, don't post it. "

Which is pretty weak.

But I suppose the old saw that 'a fool and his money are soon parted' still applies in the crowdfunding world...

And here's a -real- battery powered CPAP machine, taking a laptop-type lithium ion battery:

http://www.cpap.com/productpage/Hoffman-Laboratories-Breathe...
And I thought testing in CI was slow.
(Just a note: His math is off.)

You also have to account for the dilation caused by the force of launch itself.

But then you have to subtract the dilation of Earth.

> There would also be a correction due to it being farther out of the Sun's gravity well

Because it is in free-fall relative to the Sun there is no Solar gravitational dilation.
> I've been growing more skeptical of this claim over time. First, more evidence would be nice instead of "some loops". What is a program (not a benchmark) that has an observable performance difference when compiled with and without -fwrap?

Google brings up this old message. It seems to affect the SPEC2000 suite fairly badly. SPEC2000 mostly measures real applications, such as gzip, and is not a series of microbenchmarks.

http://www.archivum.info/autoconf-patches@gnu.org/2007-01/00...
We are referring to being larger in the San Francisco market, not overall larger as a company.
Benjamen Walker recently released a 3 part podcast called _Instaserfs_ examining the sharing economy. It's worth a listen: https://toe.prx.org/2015/06/instaserfs-i-of-iii/
Though it's hands down my favorite language... JavaScript's position is hardly surprising given that many applications have a web front end component, and often the JS outweighs the backend language used.

I really like JS/Node.js but imho if there's more than 2-3 files in a language other than JS, the repository's language credit should probably go to that other language.

That said, go JS!!! node/io.js forever!

(P.S. I know that node/io.js are reconciling)
I thought it was very interesting recently when FM Zarif, who seems very wise and pragmatic, discussed the nuclear negotiations as a form of diplomatic jihad, presumably to reassure the religious/political factions that that government had not gone 'soft'. As other people said, we have similar factions here in the USA.

I am curious, is awareness of Persian history a regular part of Iranian cultural life? I mean in day-to-day conversation, not just in school or a museum. Anti-Iranian people in the USA often denounce the country because it is an Islamic republic, but every Iranian person I've ever meet seems very proud of their Persian heritage and history, parallel to their religious heritage.

I'm European (living in the USA) and Iran seems culturally much closer to Europe/USA than a country like Saudi Arabia. It seems like religion is very strict in Saudia Arabia because it is the only thing that holds the country together, whereas Iranian people had a strong national identity before Islam existed. Is this accurate?
Unionization of skilled workers..?
> It can eliminate entry-level positions and worsen unemployment, which seriously damages one's ability to improve his career later.

> It also impacts youths and retirees, neither of whom are working as their primary means of support

These are old canards.

The law already has adequate provision for limiting laws to the 21-65 age bracket, for probationary periods of employment, and for discounting wages based on value provided by the employer (example: students pay tuition for education, of which a large component is actually labor).
They work without electricity.
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> No, it is much much harder. Especially the survival part

Please elaborate. What is dangerous about a braking burn? Sure, it's harder (because you need to carry that fuel), but not impossible in principle.

> Sure, it adds a lot of complications as well, but it is a very good way of slowing your craft enough for other braking systems to work (like rockets, parachutes, etc)

I'm sorry, when do rockets not work?
I went to Hiroshima about 15 years ago with my ex-wife when we toured Japan (she is Japanese).

I was struck by a few details I'd never heard before growing up in the US:

1) The center of the detonation was a hospital. It's unlikely they tried to hit the hospital, but the fact remains it was 'ground zero'.

2) A good portion of the hospital's metal frame was still standing and was a focal point of a monument; grass was growing and generally speaking it didn't match up with what I expected to see as 'ground zero' (aka a crater, nothing growing, nothing standing).

3) No active US President has ever visited Hiroshima or the museum there dedicated to the atomic bombings; Carter visited after he was no longer president.

If you have a chance to visit Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum it's well worth a visit. Quite humbling.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshima_Peace_Memorial_Museu...
Unfortunately, HN's poor integrated usability WRT comment notification will make this unlikely to ever be seen by the vast majority of those who viewed this post.

I only found it because I do a HN search for Perl stories and comments ordered by date every few days, to see if anything interesting was mentioned. But, you have an account now, so next time this drops on HN, you should jump on ASAP. People here love getting specific in-depth answers for their sometimes very involved questions. ;)
I think AdultFriendFinder was a big one, back in mid 2000's. Funny enough owned by a Christian dude.
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2-3 resourceful founders should be able to find 3-15 people to kick in $5-50k each. A friend could be a former boss, a customer, the owner of the local coffee shop, a mentor, a classmate, a teacher, whatever. Don't start quoting average incomes and such. This is not about average. If you really want to talk about average, the average coffee shop, pet store, hair salon, restaurant, raises $150k.
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They don't; that's HTML5 video.
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Without a doubt, the classic BIOS needed improvement, but we didn't need this. The situation reminds me of IPv6, which is also grossly over-engineered.
Right — that's how I interpreted it. There are still two companies that are larger in San Francisco.
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Most discussions about radiation safety seem to concentrate on being exposed to emissive radiation sources. In small doses and in exceptional situations where you walk away from the source, it does indeed seem low risk.

I'm no expert, but I've seen much less discussion and safety study about radiation exposure via intake and biological binding. The pathway of concern there would where dust or other particles of a radioactive substance are spread in an environment, then concentrated via natural means: erosion or biological (e.g. predators taking in prey); then exposed to humans. In that context, even a small amount of bound material may be continuously emitting where one is always getting a dose.

We actually take advantage of this pathway for short-lived isotopes for medical procedures, but obviously longer lived isotopes are more dangerous. Most safety in radiation discussions seem to measure the emissive strength, and declare things safe while ignoring the accumulation side of things. I think it's actually a much more difficult risk to characterize and to perform experiment with for obvious reasons..
Privately-issued preloaded Drachma cards?
So they would start shorting it once it starts to rise? I thought perhaps someone holding the shares would start to sell at maybe 5% and then buy back in on the way down. But with shorting I guess you don't need the capital outlay of owning the shares in the first place.
One thing that bothers me is that charts/apps like this have to use logarithmic scale due to obvious reasons, but log scale is just not very effective for most people to comprehend on an intuitive level.

In the last section each pixel is 1,000,000km, and the first section each pixel represents 1 meter, but experience wise it doesn't make the last section feel that much bigger, and I still have to keep looking at the numbers on the bottom to actually perceive the correct scale.
Well, Google's top line has been shrinking in recent quarters, in order to maintain their profit margins and propel their (recently waning) stock, cutting cost is the only real option. PPC accounts for ~90%+ of their business despite their inroads in mobile; it's really incredible how Android has yielded virtually nothing for Google. If anything the mobile shift has come as a detriment since mobile ads have lower conversions.

I suspect if cost cutting doesn't help pad the bottom line after the top line adjustments investors will start pressuring them to do something with their massive market share...which in the end could come as a detriment to their presence.