skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The $9.5/hour or $10.9/hour figure mentioned in the OP compensates for the time/distance traveled to pickup point, including your drive to pick up your first passenger. That was the figure I was referring to. You get misleading results if you compare a gross income from a minimum wage job to a net income from Uber.
I would have expected that there were so many old off-contract iPhones floating around these days that they would have pretty much have destroyed the market for new iPods for the kids. I personally have two of them (plus an ancient 40GB iPod pre-classic). One I actually use for various purposes but the other would be a fine kid's iPod. Still, I guess there is enough demand for the scenario you describe.
"you know it when you see it"

This is exactly what officials said when they were banning porn due to it being "offensive".

The problem I have is that many communities use this to stifle free speech and push a narrative rather than actually help the community.

For example, if I say I dislike gay marriage in a discussion, will this be considered 'offensive'? How about if I say I don't like Christians?

I will be waiting to see which types of speech they deem offensive and which types they don't.

The real reason they are doing this is because advertisers won't go near it.
I sometimes wonder if this form over function is a bad idea? Wouldn't the average consumer like a product that was easily serviceable? I have an old Toshiba Satellite Pro s25-S607. It big(17" and I don't care about the weight), but it has been basically running 5 hrs/day for more than a decade. It does gave three fans, but they are quiet.
I can work on it!

I think the first company that builds a laptop that's easy to work on, and can guarantee supply parts for, at least 7 years, might be able to win over guys like me--who want consistancy? I want to turn it on, and do work. I don't need the fastest chip. I do want to be able to work on the devise myself. I am older, but never understood this weight thing--make it out of metal(Aluminum is fine. Use the case to disperse the heat--great! I don't care, as long as I can take out the screws, and put them back in, and they don't strip.) I have seen so many products start out great, but get too fancy. So fancy, they don't work? And can't be repaired, reasonable priced, because of the Fancyness? (Don't get me wrong, I'm still a fanboy, but they are loosing me with every new upgrade, and model.)
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yes, but there is a special place in my heart for it, even though it is horrible and I never use it. But like a lot of other people it was one of the first high level languages that we got exposed to, so I guess it is sort of like the first girl you kissed, you never forget her but you did not marry her :)
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> The compensating factor here would that Uber drivers are not compensated for the time/distance traveled to pickup point.

The $9.5/hour or $10.9/hour figure mentioned in the OP compensates for the time/distance traveled to pickup point, including your drive to pick up your first passenger. That was the figure I was referring to. You get misleading results if you compare a gross income from a minimum wage job to a net income from Uber.

> That is on par with other minimum wage jobs.

I asked a friend working a minimum wage job and she said she got benefits including insurance. Maybe she's an outlier?
I have a few iTouches here for testing, kept at various iOS versions. Much cheaper than buying iPhones. Will probably pick up a new 6G soon, since the 5Gs are getting a bit long in the tooth, and no telling what iOS 9 will do to it.

I'm glad (and actually somewhat surprised) that Apple updated the line, rather than axing it. iPod Touch sales must be minuscule compared to iPhones.
"flew relief aid missions into Russia in the 70's and 80's" does not compute. Soviet Union had a whole branch of military dedicated to anti-aircraft warfare, meant to stop such things.

But yuh, the civilian maps were terrible - as the article describes.
This is an excellent course no matter which language you prefer:

https://class.coursera.org/neuralnets-2012-001/lecture
I appreciate your use of the term "streets ahead", I wish it were more popular in the States.
There may both be some cognitive dissonance and a difference between open government data (funded with tax money) and closed company data (funded with revenues).
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Nowadays you can get that easily in flash (e.g., 128 GB microSDXCs for 80 USD), so an MP3 player with a slot and exFAT support?
I have the same problem on my 2012 15" MBP (not retina) I don't remember when it started but only this year
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>For example, if I say I dislike gay marriage in a discussion, will this be considered 'offensive'? How about if I say I don't like Christians?

Because that's totally comparable to /r/coontown, which is what we're actually talking about here.

I note spez's change of tune over the years: https://np.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/6m87a/can_we_ban...

It's almost as if the "free speech means no moderation" ideology was only developed as an excuse to justify not spending money and effort on developing usable moderation tools!
Especially since it was posted in a thread about SourceForge.
Excellent, thank you! This really shows how to turn C into OO.
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You can, however, count both depreciation and the delta between the car you would otherwise have and the car that Uber requires you to drive to be eligible.
I use Apollo + most of my music library on my 64GB sd card in my s4. I have 105GB of music total, so I just put my most played stuff on my phone. I push update it from Clementine.
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> It's a shame there's no standout replacement. Sure, you need to spend longer curating your music collection,

There's not even that much curating needed with modern storage capacity. SD cards are cheap, large, and so the only limit is how long I wait for FLACs to transcode down to AACs.

> Plus it always lets you access all your music, regardless of reception, data, record company politics

Exactly. I can't fathom why people are so in love with relying on so many unreliable parts to listen to music.
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Functional reactive programming is not usually incremental, while self adjusting computations are not usually reactive, which is why there isn't much overlap between the concepts. Of course, you are free to mix concepts from both as you need to.
You know the title of the Reddit post was "Sourceforge is down due to storage problems, no ETA", right?
Usually, the answer is that companies would rather offer severance or settle than go into discovery if they fire someone for legal, bullshit reasons.

Companies don't want their reasons for firing people in the public. If they said they fired her for performance, she could subpoena not only her own performance history (Google has secret "calibration scores" that are not shared with the employee) but the ratings of others in the company and any HR actions taken toward them-- in order to find out if people were evaluated consistently.

No company wants its HR data in discovery, because almost every company has dirt. They'll usually settle.
The best iPod was discontinued immediately. It's square with a screen on it, this one:

http://www.zdnet.com/i/story/61/18/017591/zdnet-ipod-nano-si...

Giant clip dominates the back, just large enough of a screen to choose or control music, and just enough space to store way more than I need.

I travel a lot, it's great to have a separate music device. I can listen to music and not have to worry where my phone is. I can clip it onto my clothes while I'm falling asleep in a hostel or whatever. Actually I clip it to my clothes all the time.

I don't understand why it wasn't more popular. I still use it.

I also don't understand why anyone wants to use their phone as a music player. The idea of that sounds needlessly awkward and they'll fill their device's HD up with largely useless music.
I didn't. He is talking about the footprint of the fuel (electricity vs gasoline). The report addresses that as well. It looks at OVERALL footprint of the three different types, and includes upfront cost (i.e. production which includes battery) and on-going.

Larger battery means a much larger up-front carbon footprint. Unfortunately on an on-going basis due to profile of electricity production in US you are burning a ton of coal [1] to generate that electricity. Coal is far, far worse than gas in the carbon impact as well as extraction footprint.

Because of the much larger initial hole you've dug (due to a very, very large battery) you're not going to crawl your way out of this deficit for a long time.

The logical solution is to minimize the battery to a degree that it would cover most weekday commutes (which isn't 300 some-odd miles). You would have a much smaller, optimized, gas based generator to recharge that battery for the odd time the person needs the longer range.

It gives you the best of both worlds. You would get far greater savings. This is the reason why other manufacturers are making hybrids or if they do make pure EV it has a much smaller battery than Tesla.

[1] http://www.mapawatt.com/2010/11/29/where-does-us-electricity...
The only piece of software I really miss on OpenBSD is the Android SDK, other than that it has everything I use and it works great. So once again I want to tell everyone reading this, if you haven't tried it and if your hardware is supported I invite you to give OpenBSD a spin.
Why don't people get it? They are ipods. Besides the ipod touch, they are bought to play music.

If I would use my phone to play music the battery would be dead by noon.

If it rains while im on a run, I only risk 120€ not 500-900€.

Not to mention that an ipod is WAY lighter (12.5-31g) compared to a smartphone (130g). Which makes it less iritating when you carry it in your pocket.
It's a thinly diguised reference to EMC, the storage company.
Indeed, thanks!

One quick question:

Aside of the docs, any suggestions for learning on further Celluloid & Ruby /actor based patterns?
I also love my classic (actually and iPod Video). Bought in 2004, the battery has long since died and it lives permanently on its dock. I sincerely wish I could either replace the battery or the whole device with a 200gb beast in the same form factor. I know I could get one used, but the difficulty of servicing them makes that less attractive.
I'm guessing EMC
Come on, read Extremely Massive Corporation again, and try to think of an Extremely Massive Corporation which happens to deal in computer storage systems.
It isn't even a matter that it's "easiest". There are decades of painstakingly debugged and proven Fortran libraries that simply don't exist in other languages even if the researchers wanted to use them. Recreating them isn't generally a priority.
It's EMC. World's largest supplier of shitty storage hardware.
What's common to both is that they are not passive, and that neither believes in a myth of "fairness" that promises them rewards simply for their work ethic. What rich and poor have in common -- and the middle class often misses -- is a keen understanding that the system isn't fair and isn't designed to be fair.

You nailed it.
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FreeBSD has a lot more energy and community going for it, improving things, that makes it a better bet in the long run.

In the security area, for instance, there are very good things coming from the TrustedBSD and HardenedBSD branch, getting ported back to FreeBSD.

http://www.trustedbsd.org/

http://hardenedbsd.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeBSD#Security
Negative correlation between NASDAQ and number of unicorns founded in the corresponding year seems really interesting. Any deep thoughts on this ?

> The best times to start a unicorn company could be a) post the launch of a watershed new tech platform; and b) during a prolonged public market downturn. Without many great jobs available, the reduced opportunity cost and related hardship may spawn great innovation and grit.
No I like sports. It's just boring when team USA wins again because they are always so dominant. Winning once in 21 years makes us the underdog.

Getting really annoyed is silly. I try not to be easily offended by hackernews comments.
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> It's a shame there's no standout replacement.

I felt the same way for a very long time, and still have both an iPod Video and Classic to prove it, but what's done it for me is a data plan way bigger than I need and iTunes Match. Obviously that fails to meet one very specific requirement - offline availability - but I do keep a decent subset synced to my iPhone for offline listening, which itself is pretty rare. If anything, I prefer the iPhone's interface for finding stuff deep in my library since I can just type out the name of a track or ask Siri to play it.
Inconveniently, juries (and judges in non-criminal cases) do, in fact, make something legal or illegal by changing their minds. It is the function of a jury to decide questions of fact, because determining absolute objective truth in a courtroom scenario (from a scientific sense of the word) is often functionally impossible. So you're left with the situation where the plaintiff and defendant provide evidence that their respective versions of the truth are the objective reality, and the jury's subjective opinion of their case determines what the law agrees upon as objective.

This interface between objective and subjective is the "magic" of the legal system. If you can argue in a court of law, successfully enough to convince a jury (or judge, depending on the criminal / civil nature of the case), that, say for instance, a corporation is a person in the same sense as an individual human being, then as far as the law is concerned it is now an objective truth that corporations are people.
Neuroscientifically, we already know that the brain does contain multiple parallel streams of processing. "You" is a combination-symbol for all of them, plus the body.
Sometimes when I'm programming a really interesting problem (no the regular nodejs/express crap) I literally become wired.
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I wanted to experiment with Google's PHP AppEngine runtime and am using the awesome PHP-GDS [1] library as an API to the Google DataStore.

Feedback and ideas for how to take this further would be appreciated :)

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Technically, buying them - they were 'acquired' by the mentioned map making companies. TBF said state secrets kinda fell through when the USSR fell apart.
Some coops have experimented with this but kept 51% to remain a coop but it didn't work out for poptel.

http://www.andrewbibby.com/socialenterprise/poptel.html
The author mentioned that performing basic research indirectly has benefits. People can be inspired and motivated by the idea of photographing Pluto or colonizing Mars and develop the incremental technologies needed to get there with a determination that they might not have if they had been hired to perform more mundane basic research.
The government should set up free bupenorpine centers. This generic drug should be made easily available to addicts. I am so tired of hearing about heroin death stories. We can debate what's the best treatment, or why people do drugs. The government should pay doctors to administer this drug to addicts. A years supply? If it's lost, or stolen they will be forced to go to treatment centers? Oh, yea--one more time; the drug should be offered free of charge, and addicts shouldn't have to jump through hoops in order to get it. You can get the dose down to 1-2 mg/day without feeling much discomfort. (Right now the government makes doctors take a class in order to prescribe it. Doctor's can only gave 100 patients. Most Doctors--will drag the patient in for office visits--why? For money of course? Plus, they are ticked off they needed to take that reduculios class on this drug.(I can't imagine, even the D- graduate, having a hard time grasping the mechanism, and dosage of this drug? It's just not a complicated drug? Especially in small dosages?

Sorry, about the rant; just tired if hearing about deaths from heroin! Especially, when I know their are addicts that want help.
>However, I'm not talking about qualia[1]. Qualia, a materialist would say, is an illusion. But, again, going by the author's definition, I'm not sure we can say whether rabbits or flies experience qualia, and qualia is sort of a hard to thing to reason about from the outside of the head. For me, the question of qualia is a much more interesting argument against materialism.

Nobody says qualia are an illusion, in the sense of not really existing. People just say, "Qualia are not metaphysically spooky and immaterial; they're things your brain makes."
Also adds Powerline symbols, which is great. Some of the patched ones don't work well. I'll try this new one alongside Input Mono which is my current monospace font of choice.
> The attitude that a company's payroll data is a company's privileged information, and the general public has no right to it?

Let me phrase it differently. I think people should have the right to count their money in public. So you should be able to say, publicly, "I am getting this amount of money from this guy".

So while you see this as an infringement of "rights of company to have private information", I see it as infringement of "individual rights to count money publicly". We have different valuations of these rights and that's why we disagree.

> But I am not an employee. Your strawman argument is irrelevant.

I think it comes down on whether or not you believe that you benefit from other people having information you already have or not.

> "Free speech" does not apply here, since it's a company's private information

Yeah, according to laws. The big question is if such arrangement is beneficial for the public. I don't think so, and we apparently disagree here.
Porting that much of Darwin does seem insane if the goal is just to have launchd. Is there more to it than that?
The Nanos from the mid-2000s were pretty solid. I think I still have an 4GB one somewhere that worked the last time I looked.

Perfect for taking to the gym or hiking. An updated version with the same specs would probably be too cheap to produce now, with Flash so dramatically cheaper. Could you build one for $20?
Coal has a reasonable enough energy density to be used as aircraft fuel. The reason it isn't, and liquid fuels are used instead, is that solid fuels require very laborous processing and complex systems to produce the kind of even continuous combustion that liquid fuels can do with just a pump.

In peacetime, with oil as cheap as it is on the world market, it would never make sense to produce a coal-powered aircraft. At war, with no oil imports coming in, and in desperate need of operable aircraft, the investment of processing coal into even granules to burn in a ramjet might.
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The freak approach is often touted as an effective black ops approach to doing innovative things in a BigCorp.
Obv. if you've found something that works for you then great, but if you're wondering about popularity then honestly your position sounds pretty unusual.

> I can listen to music and not have to worry where my phone is.

If there's ever a time at which my phone isn't in my pocket, I'm worried already. Especially when travelling.

> The idea of that sounds needlessly awkward

Awkward how? My phone already has a bigger, nicer touchscreen than an affordable dedicated media player would. Honestly general-purpose computers are very good at these things - just like years ago when I first got Winamp and it was easier to use than a physical stereo.

> you'd fill your device's HD.

My phone has a 64gb microSD card. Half of that is 20 days' continuous listening. It's really not an issue.
I had one of those, they were awesome. I still have it in a drawer somewhere, but unfortunately the connection to the screen broke (the screen is just white, all the time) and estimations to fix it cost more than buying a completely new device, so in the drawer it stays.
ADA.
> made by an Extremely Massive Corporation who until now you've generally respected.

As usual, one's respect for BigCompany is inversely correlated to one's use of their products.
Finally tested it out. Yes, it does fall back to polling :)
The drone only travelled a mile, but it is still interesting. The article did not mention if the drone was flying autonomously or by remote control.
I had a manager who worked for Netflix, and looked into a position with them after leaving his group, asking him roughly this question.

Unsatisfyingly, his answer was, it depends on who you work for. They have a "Freedom and Performance" culture that I'm sure you have seen a slideshow PDF for, and my old manager said that to some people this means, "Get your shit done and work when / wherever you want", to others it means, "Categorically you must work 80 hours a week". Since he was of the former school, I got the impression he worked for someone from the latter school.

I didn't get an offer, so it was an easy choice. ;)
We've explored the solar system. We now know what all the planets look like in some detail. There's no life anywhere off Earth. Not even bacteria. Venus is too hot, Mars is too airless, and everything else is worse. The most worthless real estate on Earth is more habitable than the best real estate off-planet.

As the Economist points out, the final frontier, Pluto, was reached this week.
Am I the only one who's bugged that the favicon for a site called "birch tree" is an evergreen/spruce/fir tree?
I love my iPod classic, I had my first one for six years before it died and I immediately went out and bought another. I really hope this one lasts. The main reason I don't like streaming is because a) I have to use my phone storage instead of a dedicated music device and b) we have really shitty data plans in Australia, with exhorbitant prices for minimal GBs. I don't want to use up my entire plan just from streaming music when I have a perfectly good music player that does one job and does it well.
> I also don't understand why anyone wants to use their phone as a music player. The idea of that sounds needlessly awkward and they'll fill their device's HD up with largely useless music.

You can't run something like Spotify on it without a cell receiver, at which point you've pretty much got a phone.
Interesting. I'm talking about when the "don't talk about salary" rule was passed. His reply is a link to an article about when the Labor Relations board was established and I got downvoted?
Err...minor nit...since Alphard was never implemented, it's not really a competitor. Couple of pretty interesting papers came of it tho.
I once (briefly) tried to collaborate with someone who would not use `else if` statements, and used braces always even if they were optional.

if (foo) {
<whatever>
} else {
if (bar) {
<whatever>
} else {
if (baz) {
<whatever>
} else {
if (spam) {
<whatever>
} else {
...
<etc>
}
}
}
}

It didn't end well.

He also wouldn't use break or continue or multiple returns.

As this article says, it led to really really annoying-to-read code.