skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gilding the lily a bit there, aren't we? I've worked in half a dozen start-ups, and a few owner-started small businesses before that, and none of them had a founder that lived on zero pay for years (excluding the founder who came from an 'old money' family), and none of them worked 7/12+. Long hours, sure. Work on weekends, sure. Work 12+ hours every day as a normal way of life? Pull the other one.

Just because you can find the occasional person that does this, doesn't mean that they're a typical example.
re: "We needed to quickly figure out if we were building a product that people loved and thought was worth paying for."

http://i.imgur.com/F6lz4WA.jpg

(purchased)
Pity.

This modern day exploitation should end. Uber's huge profits are because they exploit people for labor. Ban it already.
It's simply not true that DMCA claims are covered by penalty of perjury, at least not in the way that nearly everybody thinks.

The only part that is covered by penalty of perjury is that the person making the claim is, or is authorised by, the copyright holder.

This means that you commit perjury if you issue an otherwise legitimate DMCA claim for a work that is not yours, but you don't if you submit a completely false claim for a work that is.

That part of the DMCA is just smoke a mirrors, designed to make the censorship regime look like it's fair and balanced.
I shall stick with fay
https://github.com/faylang/fay/wiki
and the like.
What, a fair wage? Clearly that's un-American.
Agreed. It's such a horrible business practice and so easy to work around. Just copy and paste the title into google and click the link. Not sure why they bother. It is developing bad will.
In other news, McDonalds is not a burger shop anymore because I just order the icecream.
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> P.S. I didn't mean for my comment to ride this high on the thread, by virtue of being a response.

As long as you're actually responding to the comment you're replying to (which you were), rather than just responding to a top comment with an unrelated comment to make yours more prominent, then I don't see how that could be taken as a bad thing. By necessity, comments are tree-structured; it'd be too confusing otherwise.
>save our planet

more like save ourselves
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Yes, once Uber takes the crown they will behave ethically, operate within the confines of the law and re-classify their drivers as employees with full benefits. They also won't even consider dropping them as soon as self-driving car technology matures. /s
I wonder which of the dozens of scripts on that page looks up and inserts the youtube embed from godknowswhere

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoHbGVJItMQ
I'm not sure I understand from either post.

Or rather, I think your perspective is better handled by a language which supports monads than one without. If I want a new execution context in Haskell—it's a mere ADT, if I don't think it's useful I use something else.

My point is that everything imperative lives in a monad. If you want, you can choose to be explicit about it which opens new freedoms. Or, if you don't, you can just use the ambient one in languages which have those. Sometimes people realize great things by picking new monads. If it's convenient enough you can do it every other line to great effect.

Ambient monads can be a little annoying though since when they exist you cannot "get outside of them" which will reduce your flexibility.
>On the plus side, they have an incentive to ensure that promising startups do raise follow-up funding (rather than go out of business), it avoids some of their misaligned incentives relative to the rest of the investment community, and they have an incentive to keep helping their investments later in life.

YC already has incentive to do this; their post-dilution stake in wildly successful companies still shakes out as being far from trivial.

That said, it would certainly be fair to say that these changes probably do serve to strengthen existing incentives.
> I can say what I mean with types

This is one of those things that is perhaps true in theory, but often falls short in practice. Static type systems tend to require (more or less frequent) additional incantations, but may not be sufficiently-express, even with those incantations, to express the desired intent.

(Or, the required complexity of the incantations may be a greater cognitive workload than actually writing the functional code.)

> You don't have to do this in languages like Haskell either.

Most static languages -- particularly, the ones with the strongest standard libraries and ecosystems that are likely to support whatever it is you are doing -- aren't like Haskell.
I make a point of asking Uber and Lyft drivers how they like it. Lyft drivers universally love it. Uber drivers are less enthusiastic on the whole, but they have generally said it's better than working as a cab driver. I've since stopped using Uber since it's hard to feel comfortable about their business practices, but they're still better than the taxi monopolies and I'm happy to see them pursuing the fight and clearing the way for kindler, gentler services along the same lines.

I am generally inclined to think that people should be free to make their own decisions about their lives. Whatever you may think about the risk/benefit tradeoff, it seems clear to me that drivers in Seattle who have the choice choose to drive for Uber, Lyft, or a private for-hire service rather than put up with the traditional cab dispatcher. I can make guesses at why that might be, overall, but I am certainly not going to tell them that they are making the wrong choice.
The article doesn't call anything ride-sharing. The HN title did, but that broke the site guidelines (unless it was Vox who changed theirs).
Love it. We've been using it in production since the beta.
Ok. I'll try to describe my point of view as detailed as I can - you shall know I'm not an Anglo-saxon, but a Pole. So, coming to the real question:

Looking at women and science - I know some great woman that were succesful in science. I can note one. I don't know if she would be pleased, so I'll refer to her only with name. So, her name is Zosia. She is going to represent Poland at International Olympiad of Astronomy and Astrophysics. She is also a very timid person. And what I want to say - I really like working with her. Not to say I'm an astronome (cause I'm not), but every single piece of work in class is really enyoing. And only because of her traits of charactere and knowledge. What was that example for? To point out that working in science with women is not really different that work with men who are on some intellectual level that I can accept.

I must say, that women in technology are a rare fration of the spectrum (at least in Poland). Since I'm 17, I have not really worked in a real environment full of various people. However, what I can thing of this affair is that being to work well is working without looking at gender of co-workers.

Maybe, if you'd like to ask me some others questions, I could answer. I really like issues from cognitive theory, formal logic and pure Maths.

Cheers! And I hope you can believe I'm a human being!
> People still rather print/screen capture/write an email/annotate PDF versions, about changes in websites rather than use an annotation tool on the page it seems.

The reason seems fairly obvious - printing/screen capture/PDFs are off-line. Permanent and under user's control. Internet based annotations are inherently unstable - one way today, different tomorrow, completely gone next week. I always found the concept a great thing for sharing thoughts with people, but a terrible one for personal notes.
More raw bandwidth will certainly help such applications. Yet, the latency is more important. Remember that sites are using CDN's because even a few seconds of delay causes much of the modern Internet to just leave the site. Voice, video, stock trading, chat, online gaming... all latency sensitive.

Solving the latency problem without hurting security could be one phrasing of my original comment. Until it's solved, all the bandwidth in the world isn't going to make the anonymity schemes competitive. It will help A LOT to speed up tools such as Tor. But, it won't be competition for non-anonymous stuff until it's within their performance range.

Note: More symmetrical, fiber-to-the-home projects will certainly help. Projects like below will help us get there.

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/this-rural-community-is-bui...
I didn't get to see which issue was linked before the original poster deleted their comments, but in the original comment they mentioned the Dining Philosophers chapter from the book which cannot exhibit the leak from that issue because it doesn't define any destructors (let alone define any potentially-panicking destructors, let alone attempt to catch any panics, all of which would be required to observe such a leak).
Yeah, exactly. The other way to see it is to note that `Nothing(null)` is a perfectly reasonable Javascript expression which ought to mean something different from `null` alone. If that cannot be true then you don't actually have parametricity.
I would also like to point out amongst Muslims there is a concept of multiple Qira'aat(readings) where there are multiple dialects in which the Quran is read. These readings may differ by a couple of letters for a specific word every so often. This was the reason the Quran was compiled into one form during the time of 'Uthmaan, to prevent confusion amongst the common Muslims.

Nevertheless these "readings" did not die, but rather continue to thrive to this day. This allows for a broader range of meanings, so it is not something avoided by Muslims rather accepted openly as a part of what they believe was revealed.
A lot of doubt here in the comments but I think this is a real problem that people pay money for every day to get a worse result from Odesk etc.

Quality, strict timescales, integrated product management for clients - cash flow positive early on, maybe equity options for Gigster(s) - sounds like it could work if the execution is water tight.

Only worry I can think of is it's hard to make a clean product out of it when every job is vastly different and can get messy/out of scope.
So, this is something I've been thinking about recently: do you gain much by using Protocol Buffers (et al) for a client-side web application's communication with a server? Having JSON/XMLHttpRequest in the browser by default is such a boon that it'd have to be a lot better as a serialisation format for it to be worth it, but that might actually be the case?
Was on the "Check it out" list for IOS. Guess I can cross it off as Im sure IOS support will go first then the entire product later to the great google product graveyard.

http://www.wordstream.com/articles/retired-google-projects
Yay taxi cartel!
Not really, defeating the cap was much more important to Uber than the data access.
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really? Any way you slice it, End_of_Human_Race = 7000000000 DEATHS. Even if they're replaced with an equal, or massively greater number of machines, it's damn hard to justify. Death is literally the worst thing ever. 7 billion stories ending too soon, never to resume. It would take you 200 years just to count to 7 Billion. It's times like these where people really need to learn their cognitive biases (in this case, Scope Insensitivity. Here, [this might help](http://www.7billionworld.com/))

While we disagree on the plausibility of the "end of the world aint so bad" approach to convincing a human to let it out, I'm glad you seem to have embraced the idea that AI boxing is HARD if not impossible. Cheers!
It depends on the state, but in many places taxi drivers are not employees either; they are independent sole proprietorships who rent the taxi medallion from its owner. Uber is not perfect but is an improvement over the status quo for both drivers and riders. Once it "takes the crown", we can work on the next step in improving transit.
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This is neat. Dumb question, but one I think a lot of your clients will have: how easy is it to drop one of these sets into Bootstrap and have them work the same way Glyphicons do?
There's an element of randomness in the generated samples. It does what it predicts a human would do. If it thinks there is a 1% chance a human would do move the cursor up, then it will have a 1% chance of doing that as well.

Since the net can't really be 100% sure of anything, it leaves itself a little uncertainty in case the human does something crazy. So sometimes the result will seem to be a little random than real writing because of it's uncertainty.

The bias parameter tries to fix this by biasing it's output towards more probable sequences.

I don't know what data it's using - it's quite possible it's corrupted by people drawing randomly or something.
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Okay? And the data access was clearly more important to NYC than the cap. If you really think NYC can't step up at a moment's notice and drop the hammer, you're awfully optimistic. I mean, it's in the press release that the cap is not off the table.

Unfortunately, this world cannot have win-wins, so I've got to find someone to hate in this situation!
The Travis Kalanick biopic:

"A bro stands athwart history, yelling cant stop wont stop."

https://twitter.com/Broethius/status/595971600358449152
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How will the commissioned icon marketplace be structured? I love the idea, but have had negative experiences with services like fiverr and freelancer.
I'm pretty sure they're planning to throw VC money at the problem until it goes away ("it" being either the problem or the money).
AB testing, and a corpus of previous advertisements, and a DNN could probably replace advertising creatives.
"None of Our revelations do We abrogate or cause to be forgotten, but We substitute something better or similar: knowest thou not that Allah hath power over all things?"

Given the context, and the concept of abrogation itself, doesn't the quran pretty much says about itself that it was changed. And this verse itself is inconsistent since it both says it was changed and not changed.

And of course one can easily find examples of changes. And if you want to laugh about the whole thing :

"Wahadi says that this verse was sent down because the associators said, "Do you not see Muhammad, how he commands
his people to do something, then forbids them to do it and commands them to do its opposite? Today he says one thing and
tomorrow he changes his mind regarding it. The Qur'an is no more than the words of Muhammad, which he utters from
himself. It is composed of words which contradict one another." Thus says Wahidi, God sent down verse 101 of al-Nahl
(Q. 16), and this verse (Wahidi, p. 32: see also Zamakhshari, I. p. 303). Tabari interprets abrogation
(naskh) broadly as "what we [that is, God] abrogate regarding the precept of a verse which we change, or for
which we substitute another, so that what is lawful may become unlawful and what is unlawful may become lawful;
what is permitted may become prohibited and what is prohibited may become permitted. This however, can only be
done with regard to commands and prohibitions... but as for reports or narratives, they can neither be abrogated
nor can they abrogate" (Tabari, II, pp. 471-472; see also Shawkani, I, pp. 125-126)."

Confused little god you have there, no ?
Well, there was Novell NetWare some time before Windows for Workgroups arrived. Of course the crushing of NetWare was a major campaign in Microsoft's war for dominance over personal computing.
> iterating through values

I don't think you can iterate thought the values in an array and in a dict in e.g. python with the exactly same syntax.

> just passing it along

In languages with global type inference (e.g. OCaml) you would not have written the type in the code in the first place, so changing the type of an argument that you just pass through, would not require any changes in the code.

But yes, in Haskell people are in the habit of writing the type signatures, even though the compiler does not require them, so in this case edits are needed.
I gotta be able to respect the guy in the mirror, too. But there's a bit more I can do.
Sorry for the loose use of language. Everything that follows the colon after "I believe to be a fact", until the end of that paragraph, is the content of what I believe, including the statememt "It's just a fact." I believe that it's a fact.

Anecdotal evidence: I've interacted with dozens of other people who call themselves web developers over the years, and most of them (outside of Silicon Valley) have never used PostgreSQL, nor any advanced features of SQL in any other RDBMS.

Objective evidence: the large market share of WordPress, Drupal, and other content management systems that don't use any advanced database features; as well as the large market share of frameworks such as Rails, Django, and Laravel that encourage developers to stick with the ORM and not care about advanced database features.
For me, if you had to write even a single line of a Turing complete language to a file (so shell scripts yes, but one-time shell commands no) to install WP, that would count as development. Otherwise, it's just installation. Note: I have never installed WP.

Do people really consider ./configure && make && make install and its equivalents to be development now?
clickable - http://radc.am/group-selfie
Very interesting question.
Cross-posting on Reddit comes to my mind. We can see Reddit as one big tree where the root node is Reddit. Directly connected are all subreddits, which again act as trees to connect all starting posts in one subreddit. Real cross-posts could be modeled with a graph, where one post belongs to multiple subreddits.
Why don't you let the drivers make the decision for themselves.
Ask some black friends of yours, particularly less privileged ones. Do that even if you're black yourself.
Never heard of epubcfi but yes, if they came up with a way to highlight specific portions of a text, then yep, that would do it.

Regarding using google as a lookup service for something as fundamental as this.. No. It's important for the health of the Internet that we not do that. See https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-nottingham-stakeholder-rig... . :)
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Just as it's much easier to get traction behind an idea with a proof of concept, it's much easier to change the law when you've demonstrated an obviously better solution.

A company should never act unethically. That does not make all laws worthy of respect. Just have a very detailed understanding of the consequences.
This seems like a non-sequitur. The business model was made illegal by people who were voted into office to make business models like these illegal.

Uber isn't wrong to push the letter of the law, but no one should be surprised that it will take a little bit of time for the law to adapt to this. Uber's vicious and cavalier attitude towards law in general is really disgraceful.

This seems like a classic "ends justify the means" type of scenario, and I'm generally skeptical of these.
I am going to assume that the sarcasm refers to the absurd arrogance in implying that only and all product managers in silicon valley, california, usa are good.

Overall, I really like the idea, but the language of the site and of the people answering on this thread is really ringing alarm bells in my head.
They haven't defeated the cap yet. According to the article, there will be no cap while a four-month study proceeds, and a cap may still be imposed, depending on the conclusions of the study:

The city will conduct a four-month study on the effect of Uber and other for-hire vehicle operators on the city’s traffic and environment.

While the study is being conducted, de Blasio won't seek to cap the number of new vehicles Uber or other car services can put on the road. But de Blasio administration officials say a cap is still a possibility in the future.
Works almost exactly the same way. Fonticons also has all the extra features Font Awesome has -- larger sizes, icons in lists, flipped, rotated, animated. And you can pare that CSS down to be just what you need, too. Speed, speed, speed.
I assume you mean "hearsay" ("information that was heard by one person about another"), rather than "heresy" ("A doctrine held by a member of a religion at variance with established religious beliefs")? Use of the latter term by accident might be a little unfortunate given the nature of the topic :)

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hearsay
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/heresy
> re-classify their drivers as employees with full benefits

In what way is this an ethical concern? Many other businesses work with contractors. Considering that drivers compete with each other, work hours of their choice, and supply their own equipment, what exactly makes them employees?
There was un-coördinated public outreach, too. It may be unmerited graciousness, but a council member and a senior City administrator each told me, on separate occasions, that I swung their position on the bill.

New Yorkers have shit to do and places to go. I'm fine with paying for a congestion charge. But it needs to be fairly applied across traffic. Engaging regulators and - in a balanced and sensible way - poking them in their flabby spots, when warranted, is a well-tread feature of democracy. If you care about something, reach out to your local representatives.

Disclaimer: I don't work, nor ever have worked, for Uber. Neither do I hold a position in their stock, et cetera. I am a frequent rider. I've had many severely upsetting experiences with yellow cabs.
But seriously, if this actually comes to pass, HEVC is dead in the water. No matter how terrific the gains may be, usage terms this egregious will drive a lot of adoption for Daala or VP9's successor.
Ask HN: What to do about a fake cofounder/employee?
We hired an independent contractor a few months back and fired him. In his contract it clearly stipulates he wasn't an employee, owner, etc. He has no equity interest in the company. He is now claiming on Linkedin he was a cofounder. I fear that this might be a negative signal to future investors by associating us with him.

Thinking about talking to a lawyer on this. Before I do was wondering if anyone had suggestions/similar stories? Any way I can get Linkedin to remove his 'title'?

I am realizing anyone can claim anything on Linkedin.
Nice. Mechanical turks might be a cheaper option at the creativity level I see in many Fortune 500 companies' advertisements (see IBM's boardroom ads).
As far as I know every Uber driver chooses to be one. Also, to be an Uber driver you have to own a relatively new car... I couldn't even drive for Uber because my car is too cheap. These people are not helpless.
This sounds analogous to poker.

Buying in later rounds if you think it is worth the investment, and spending money on 'signalling' - i.e. money spent to not reveal what you are really thinking.

(This is just an observation. I am not implying that this strategy is like gambling or anything like that)
Its harder -- or, perhaps more accurately, "less of an apparently viable course of action" -- if you have experience, first- or second-hand, which indicates that failure to submit to even superficially non-mandatory requests of a police officer has a non-negligible likelihood of resulting in escalation with potentially serious personal consequences.

I suspect that part of eevilspock's basis for the statement was a belief (which I would think is justified) that these experiences are substantially correlated with race.