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>>1. The cleaners were not professionals. It felt like they were just recruiting anyone who wanted a job. You could really feel this with the lack of passion from the cleaners and the severe lack of quality cleaning. Most of the people complained and were quite rude sometimes. Cleaning is very much a skill as much as it is manual labor.

Yep. That's what happens when you run a service business and you accept investor money: the constant pressure to grow leads you to sacrifice quality -- which leads to your downfall in the long run.
I don't think the replies meant "passionate" as in "man I am so STOKED to clean your apartment, brah!" What they meant was "cares enough to do a good job."
"Data from New Horizons will continue to fuel discovery for years to come.”

why will it take years?
I believe that the cleaners were not supposed to be allowed to give out their number to be contacted directly. If they did so and Homejoy found out, they could be kicked out of Homejoy. That said, it would not surprise me in the least if a great many cleaners did it anyway.
Some of the main benefits of unions are now rights that cannot be taken away. More things are laws that will be hard to change, even if Unions were to suddenly disappear. OSHA rules, workers comp, etc, will not go away easily. Unions have bloated and stagnated in their bargaining power, though, and I do think collective bargaining would work much better with smaller, more nimble groups and better, more modern methods of communication.
> I can see the author's point of view, but this is a rare case (for me personally) that I am not in support of more government oversight.

This seems to be a trend, when people know about a certain field well, they are against the government oversight of it. The issue of course is that people are usually intimately familiar with maybe ONE field, but get an opinion on everything, and thus are very cautious of all the things they don't know anything about.

Software people understand the problems with "making encryption illegal", regular people don't and are more willing to hear the high level "safety issues" of letting hackers hide their information.

You are well aware of the issues with these devices, most people aren't and are more willing to hear the high level "safety issues" of letting any ol' device get into the hands of consumers.

Scientists know about all the potential benefits of stem cell research, most people without biology degrees are more willing to hear the high level "safety issues" of the frankenstein stories we're sold.
My favorite is in some Latin American cultures where if you have the name A B C, then B is the last name (father's B) while C is the secondary last name (mother's B). Many who move to the US take up A B as their naming structure due to so many Americans treating B as the middle name.

It makes me want to design all websites to have a single name field with 'Name as you want it to appear' (and a legal full name field if needed within the given domain). I've heard global addresses are even harder to account for.
The success of Uber, Airbnb, Ebay, Amazon underwhelms his argument. Information technology, and really the internet, have worked around traditional anti-capitalistic forces like taxes and regulation very effectively.
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Obviously not, because the OP enumerated passion and quality separately.

You could really feel this with the lack of passion from the cleaners and
the severe lack of quality cleaning
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You are comparing apples to potatoes. Every city has cleaning and janitorial service companies (I worked for one in high school). Obviously that model works. We pay our housekeeper $60/week and she's amazing.

What doesn't work is selling a service–cleaning or otherwise–for $20 when you have to pay the contractor $50 and a CAC of $12 (spitballing BTW).

At least Groupon shared the deal price with the restaurant and had some built-in virality.

At least Uber doesn't have to deal with drivers trying to end-around the marketplace and go directly at customers.
Wow, please tell me this is a fictional company. This reads like a caricature of everything wrong with the Silicon Valley tech scene.
Netflix is huge. No offense, but I doubt they'd have to do much "catching up" with the userbase. Most of your subscribers are probably already Netflix subscribers and would be happy to cut their monthly expenditures by unsubscribing from your service once Netflix offers the same content. Your play would be original content and/or exclusive licensing that makes it so Netflix can't easily duplicate your service, at least not without years of waiting for licensing contracts to expire. This is the same dilemma Netflix faced as content producers started to ask why they can't just cut Netflix out, and Netflix solved it with compelling original content.

It seems part of your argument is that your content is so niche, Netflix would rather spend licensing money on content that has broader appeal, which is fine, except that its totally dependent on Netflix not changing its strategy, and that's a bad basis for a sustainable business.
You could look at the Constitution and Bill of Rights of the USA as an attempt at getting the manual right once and for all. Unfortunately it seems the manual that survives is the one that best guarantees its own survival. Fancy how that works.
I guess the larger question is how do drivers respond when their rates get dropped after a market is mature. I imagine the answer is different depending on the market.
Good question, I can't tell. node-inspector's docs are much better too.
They probably also factor in that cars driven with "Ludicrous" acceleration may have statistical higher warranty claims.
I suspect that a lot of them might not be native English speakers (e.g. OP's username suggests that he is from India, where a lot of people speak English, but it is relatively few people's native tongue).
How do you see the API as messy and complex? It is just `run()` and `DOM.get(selector, eventType)`.
great question I asked myself every day

This is how I dealt with this question :
The racism question is at heart of the building of Afrostream.

You need some contexts here. As I say (a lot) : We are French. French Television and movies are basically, how could I say that in a politically correct way, : white.

(disclaimer : my father is a black man with indian origin, from the Island of the Reunion, in the Indian Ocean, my mother is white from Brittany in France, I was born in Brittany)

We have not a lot of black heroes in our French movies. Correction : we have zero (except Omar Sy). We don't deal well with race in France, in a sense that we can't say we have an established racism, but a lot of small discriminations.

Tonjé and I are media guys. Tonjé wrote scenario, produce shows, directed a theater. The problem we see is that we don't have positive heroes. Basically : why could we not have a black James Bond ?

Our answer is Afrostream : to represent African descents in a positive way, in all their diversities (because, yes, black culture does not exist).

South African movies are definitely in our radar. I loved "Zulu" movie (I am sort of movie geek too),
We will look at Egyptian movies too, because, why not.

We intend to have all of the diversities of the culture from African descents. African American movies are popular and will be on Afrostream. Nollywood, the movies from Nigeria, will be there too. We did and will do a big work of curation to unite the best of the African Diaspora. Because our goals are not just to show some movies on your smartphone, but to make learn about some culturees which are sometimes just ignored today.
We just started with what we know more : West indies diaspora, West African Diaspora (Tonjé has some origins from Cameroon), African American movies (because, hey, who doesn't watch a good american movie in the world. that's our pop culture everywhere)
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They're very similar, 2.8 vs 2.9 is not that big of a deal. The GT-R NISMO is perhaps even faster but again, fairly similar. Regardless these are expensive cars (>$100k) with impressive performance no doubt. It's worth pointing out that the Tesla P85D is not the only 100k car with that performance available.
Problem A: good cleaners bypass your service, using you as a cheap referral service.

Problem B: paying cleaners as contractors is legally problematic.

The solution to both those problems is the same: hire your cleaners as employees. Then you can prevent them from free-lancing on the side in a competitive business. In states where a non-compete isn't enforceable (like California), I believe that you can still enforce it while they are employed by you.
Finland went one step further and that fee on blank media is now directly forked off the government's budget. As a result, I'll be paying for personal copies even if I never bought the original product nor any blank media.
> It takes longer for people to learn up to the frontier of science

(1) It takes much less time to teach something, than was spent to figure things out the first time.

(2) When teaching improves, the essential points of a topic can be taught in less time, then what was spent when the topic was new. Then a topic is new, usually it is first taught following the lines and chronology on how it was discovered. Later improved teaching can figure out ways to get free of the chronology of the original story, and just teach the plain fact.

While Darwin's finches are still sometimes mentioned when teaching evolution, the whole story of measuring all kinds of properties of those birds in different islands, and presenting this data, and what can we deduct from it, is rarely presented. We just jump to the main point: species adapt and evolve.

Arguable, teaching physics still almost everyplace follows the historical chronology: mechanics, electromagnetism, quantum mechanics, which usually pushes quantum mechanics to the 3rd year in a university. The mathematical machinery of quantum mechanics however shouldn't take two full years to master, so maybe there could be a route to proceed quantum mechanics faster, not trying to cover all of classical physics first.

(3) I assume the success of future researchers is party build upon that they had access to good teachers, or good textbooks, which made it possible for them to quickly absorb the present state of knowledge. But there are voices complaining that producing good teaching material is not incentivized in the present academic system.
The term "double opt-in" is commonly used by spammers to suggest that this requirement is somehow onerous rather than basic due diligence. Filling in an email address in a form is not an opt-in, as anyone can do that with anyone else's email address. It's necessary to confirm that whoever did so actually owns the email address before you can consider it an opt-in of any kind.

Unsubscribe links are commonly used by disreputable spammers as a way of confirming that the address really exists, so relying on the "List-Unsubscribe" header is not always a good idea.

Yes, some people mark transactional emails as spam. However, far more spammers think their mails were justified when they're not. Your "newsletter" may very well be spam, no matter how much you think it's covered by someone's existing tenuously related relationship to some company you bought a pile of email addresses from.
> Why can the USA and Russia and the others have nuclear weapons but not Iran? There is no justification for that.

Most non-proliferation activists, Obama included, have the stated goal of a "world without nuclear weapons", in which the US and Russia also bring their stockpiles down to zero. Superpowers are already wealthy enough to win wars by conventional means, and they have the most to lose from rogue nuclear strikes, so they have strong incentives to work in this direction.

That said the fact of the matter is that the US and Russia do have large nuclear stockpiles, and don't like each other very much, so coordinating simultaneous arms reductions is a tricky game-theoretic dance. Hopefully we'll get there, but it may take a long time. While that progresses, preventing new nuclear powers from springing up is an equally important part of the nonproliferation agenda.

> If you don't want them to have nuclear weapons provide them incentives.

That's exactly what the sanctions regime against Iran has been: a set of incentives engineered so that giving up nukes is in their best interest.
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Exactly. Tools to be used in a proxy-war with little thought on long-term consequences.
The numerical accuracy and calculations needed for getting the spacecraft so close to Pluto must be pretty awesome. Does anyone know what the precision is on calculations like these?

Also, anyone know why the spacecraft has to do a flyby, as opposed to, say, going into orbit around Pluto? Is it because the fuel involved in slowing down the spacecraft would be forbiddingly heavy?
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They are gathering a lot of data but their transmission speeds back to Earth are very slow. They are also including a lot of redundancy in their transmission from what I understand, since there is a several year window to transmit so they might as well use it.
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Glibly, subgroups of humans called "the government" institutionalize procedures for the treatment of other humans. Without going into which groups of people are represented by these governments, which is a very important discussion in its own right, the species has its own voice. That's not the case with octopuses or lab rats or what have you.
For one thing the data is sent back very slowly. Estimates are that it will take New Horizons roughly 16 months to send it all back.

Then you have to sort through and analyze it and use it to verify predictions formulate new hypotheses and so on. The data will still be impacting scientific progress for years after we get it all and sort through it.
Go to Switzerland or Japan. Especially in the former, dirt anywhere is a national disgrace. The road crews take serious pride in the condition of the roads, for example.
Attention to detail is important here. One definition of an "intelligent" system is one that does not appear "unintelligent".

One big issue for me is that I know very little about some movies and I don't want to offer an opinion about it.
So apparently, it's a cloud only service -- you have to upload all images to Microsoft to use it.

Also to be able to use the service you have to apply as a business and be approved manually.

This would have been more useful as a software that runs directly on your server and checks at the time of upload (or to run against existing local user-content) instead of requiring re-uploads of the content to their cloud, not to mention the privacy implications.

Another puzzling thing is that they say MS doesn't retain the images and that they're converting the content to hashes immediately and comparing against known abuse hashes. Wouldn't it be more efficient for everyone if the hash were generated locally and only the hash sent up to their cloud?
What are the other cars in the price range that can do these 0-60 and 1/4 miles times? Genuinely curious- I didnt think there were many even within .5 seconds of it (most start at 3.5 0-60's)
Those above cities are, I believe, post rate drops. Also other leaked numbers have said Uber continues to grow. My guess is driver happiness doesn't impact Uber's business much; our economy seems to generate enough desperate people that they have a nearly never ending stream of people willing to drive for $5/hour (a reasonable estimate of an UberX driver's true net comp.)
That is hardly an Uber problem. In fact, professional cab drivers are famous for dangerous driving. Example: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/taxi-driver-in...
> This. Very much. There was one guy that came into my apartment, and he was in the valuables room. Not much of a peep had gone by in 30 mins, so I checked in and I heard a drop of the jewelry box. He said he was just cleaning around and that an earring was missing and he was looking for it. I didn't say much because I was thinking in my mind what's he doing with an earring in the first place. I walk out the room and he says something like, "here it is, its put back". Its hard to describe in words, but the atmosphere was very uncomfortable at that point.

If you are letting strangers in your house, you lock up valuables they can walk out with. For someone who uses his HN profile to state he takes security seriously...you don't seem to take basic security measures.

Having any kind of employee [or contractor] is as much removing the easiest and most typical temptations as it is hiring the right person.

Jewelry boxes, cash, credit cards, etc. should have been locked up and out of sight.
Besides the time it'll take to actually receive at the probe's low bandwidth, it'll take a lot of time for people to study and interpret.
If you can do this as a $10k update "safely" with a computer-controlled pyro fuse, I wonder what you could do by hacking the firmware and replacing it with a piece of busbar. 2 seconds?
Oh jeez. Never mind my sibling comment - this sucker seems hellaciously sophisticated, far more so than I was imagining. An active fuse that carries 1.5kA that's the size of a finger? I've seen fuses wider than my wrist blam for less.
These people are funding more R&D from Tesla so they can develop their next gen affordable electric car.
You can keep arguing the semantics which sound great on a discussion forum, but it really has no bearing when it comes to the law. Intent matters, and he was found guilty of accessing a computer with authorization. You wouldn't be found guilty of such if you stumbled upon such system by accident and then turned around and left it along.

Comments here keep clinging to some black/white technical reason to decide this case due to willful ignorance, or hope that it can be true, but really it isn't like that at all.
So, the solution is to be Merry Maids. Which is great (and, you know, exists already), but not exactly the kind of disruptive model that attracts VC money.
These aren't codebases but 1-100 LOC solutions to 700+ programming tasks:

Perl 5: http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Category:Perl

Perl 6: http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Category:Perl_6
Adding to that, it will take time to develop models that can explain these unexpected features! Even with all the data in hand, it may take a number of years of intense study and perhaps simulation to make a convincing case for any single explanation.
there's browser extensions that you can block certain sites for a period of time(to go off from the pomodoro technique)
> ...you can bet your ass she did it passionately...

Hmm. I would be more comfortable with "professionally". Frankly, I think that's the far better word to use here. In your comment, you even go on to doubt that almost anyone would have a "passion" for cleaning.

Professionals do an excellent job where an excellent job is required. Passion is not a factor in the quality of the work.
I was hoping for something longer but was not dissappointed.
I'm not even mad. They found a way to give enterprise an opt-out, and force everyone else to stay updated. I see this as a good way to make sure that the worst web users (those on IE and never updating due to negligence) are finally getting the latest version of their browser. That's all I really care about and wished for the past decade to happen. The one bummer is that it probably won't ship with any rate-limiting or scheduled timing of update downloads. Maybe it will be possible to pause the download? I don't have Windows 10, so school me if needed.
Node inspector has a lot of problems. Buggy as shit. And it's time consuming to use the -brk param to make ur app stop on the first line and then attach node inspector, and then switch back to having it not stop on line 1 when testing ongoing calls. That's why it is important what this guy built to automatically attach itself, even if all the other node inspector bugs still exist. It's particularly hard to find ur files in node inspector and with it refreshing ur always losing where u were, which is also a problem with chrome dev tools but to a lesser extent. I'm generally extremely surprised that node inspector is so shitty. Literally no node developers must debug server side code with a debugger. That's complete idiocy, ie resolving to just log calls throughout ur code. It's a statement of the lack of observability developers are willing to put up with because they know no better. I use node inspector constantly, but it's absolutely retarded how much bullshit I have to sift through. I have to reopen the files I'm working either every single time, drilling deep through file structures, if I don't already have a breakpoint on a file. It doesn't remember what files and folders were open.
This ought to be called "experimental" medical devices for some probationary period pending large scale studies, and people ought to be able to buy and use them being informed that there is potentially some additional risk. A similar thing exists for general aviation aircraft for the same reasons.
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String theory often gets ragged on for not having any direct practical applications, which is certainly true. However, some of the mathematics developed by string theory is key in theoretical work in fields where theory and experiment have a much tighter bond. For example, topological quantum field theory[1] has found widespread important applications in quantum information, and it was pioneered by none other than Witten himself. This isn't just on the theory side; experimentalists are looking at topological states of matter for a variety of applications, including quantum computing.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topological_quantum_field_theo...
I skimmed it in a hurry at first. A re-read shows you have a good point. Editing the post to reflect that and simply add background.