skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think ride sharing companies like Uber are a bit different though because the dispatch system (the element of coordination and availability) is critical for that type of service.

This is different from cleaning because people don't need down-to-the-minute availability.
Homejoy had to find a way to lock their cleaners into ongoing agreements to prevent them from bypassing them.

I agree that it's natural with these services for consumers to want to 'bypass' the middleman if possible.

Unfortunately, under capitalism, creating value and capturing it are two very different things. There are a lot of business ideas which have potential to create amazing value for society, but these businesses will not be able to exist because they are not capable of capturing that value.
Until this mission (and perhaps even now) we did not/do not have enough information about the atmosphere of Pluto to design the parachute.
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Now that's a bit extreme. A lot of engineers would consider the company as nothing but "It's just a job as I'll jump ship as soon as some better gig comes along", and that's totally fair .

You hire someone because there's work to be done. You would develop professional, working and possibly personal relationships as you work together for some time. That has nothing to do with the common hiring practices. For the records, I always asked for the cap table when negotiating an offer and I understand that founders are reluctant to share.
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If the OP is here...

"Kind of memorizing actually" -> "Kind of mesmerizing actually" ?
When it's trivial to re-subscribe if you want to, I'd prefer that they do include a one-click unsubscribe. I'll deal with anyone who maliciously unsubscribes me from a mailing list that I want to be subscribed to, and this will highlight who my "good" friends are anyway.
> It seems that once $NICHE-stream demonstrates sufficient demand, Netflix can simply license the same content and provide customers with a superset of the content that $NICHE-stream provides.

I would not be so quick to discount the difficulty of building a large number of commercial relationships in the long tail of African production. The mere time investment and tedium of dealing with producers who are not used to distribution channels beyond their local habits is a barrier to entry - and hence a valid strategic positioning.
The Gmail team recently launched[0] PostMaster tools[1]. I'm not sure if everyone has access, but maybe it would help?

[0] http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-mail-you-want-not-...

[1] https://postmaster.google.com/
Oh... my... God...
It is not that I like Jekyll, but that GitHub pages supports it -- and compiles its sites on every deploy --, so it works well.
occam, as well.

They're not entirely wrong, though. Actor model and CSP are in their infancy w.r.t. mainstream usage, even though they seem to be working really well.

Then Erlang/OTP gives you all sorts of other perks besides concurrency.
Why the discrepancy? Just that most images on the sites aren't jpgs? (What else supports exif, tiff?)
Even better, there's already a sensor to let it know the driver's side door has been opened.. that should give it a head start.
This is very useful to prototype the frontend of applications. Thanks man!
That's really interesting--thanks for sharing those insights.

Zynga is in a hits-based industry, so having a reliable recurring revenue from a b2b SaaS product could enable them more flexibility with their approach on the gaming side from a pricing an user acquisition standpoint. But of course I'm speculating without any hard numbers. Sounds like people much more informed than I am have decided it is not a valid opportunity, and given how far it is from their core business, I can easily see why.

Thanks again.
Hey there Matteo, thanks for taking questions from the crowd.

I'm somewhat of a sleep technology enthusiast, mostly because I've always had trouble sleeping (and getting reliable metrics on my sleep). I created a web site called http://sleepyti.me a few years ago to help me wake up refreshed -- which works pretty well -- and that's what led me to this question.

Does your "sleep cycle" technology detect movement to wake the user up (similar to my Jawbone UP's "smart alarm,") or does it actually calculate the cycles based on time asleep? Or something else entirely?

I'm not sure if one method is better than the other (heart-rate and/or REM detection would really be best), but I'm interested in the approach you guys took.

Thanks in advance, and awesome work on your product!
That's surprising considering how heavily marketed they were. I think everyone assumed that they were going to be a success.
True, but the spam filter could certainly learn to weight private mail servers as Ham on a per-user basis. Perhaps the learning algorithm can't generalize the feature to new unseen private make servers. However, Google certainly has the engineers who can add that functionality, they just need to properly manage them to get it done.
How Orwellian to have "safety employees".

Only fair to hear it straight from the horse's mouth:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/04/16/t...
Just FYI, most spam does not even reach your spam folder.
The obvious parallel are modifiers in other language.

For example, umlauts in German can be considered as the regular letters A, O and U with diacritics[0]. In the same way, if the Turkish dotless upper case I was encoded as a separate letter from Capital Latin Letter I, Turkish ı could receive a "dot above" modifier to become i and Turkish I could receive the same modifier to become İ.

[0]: I'm German, so I'm aware that it's a bit more complex than that, but although we have separate "letters" for Ä, Ö and Ü, they're really just AE, OE and UE ligatures, respectively. You could argue that they're not because replacing them with the non-ligature version changes meaning but thanks to modern technology (and historical domain name restrictions) most Germans can deal with that kind of ambiguity just fine. Besides, the diaeresis in German umlauts is actually a vestigial lower case "e" (as can be seen in old manuscripts).
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thanks much for the explanation. I will try bluebird.
OK so give me all your personal info to put on a public webpage that says "by CFAA using this info is a crime" and since intent and law are the absolute arbiters of justice no harm should come to you right?
Event-driven with formally designated actors and protocols between actors is pretty old. '90s at least. An old tool, ObjecTime, deferred decisions about which actors went on what threads until the very last thing. Default was that they were round robin, run-to-completion.

It took some measure of work to do so , but people ran ObjecTime code on bare metal.

Pannini looks very nice.
I could've told you whether a coup was likely to increase or worsen stability: always default on the latter if imperialism is the motive. Likewise, financing dictators' wars or religious nutjob's training in beating superpowers. Either this group you mentioned is incompetent or nobody listened to them. I'm going with the latter since many of the documents warn of high risk of blowback.
You just completely ignored the question you replied to.
... which actually has a ligature of its own, making it more similar to German umlauts (give or take a few hundred years of degrading handwriting shorthands).
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She was involved in a lot more speaking engagements than any of her other on-demand counterparts though.
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Vagrant + Ansible for most things. I have used Docker to rebuild some of my environments, and there's a lot of promise, but some hard issues (especially w/r/t more complicated applications with multiple dependencies) that I'm still hoping to make less-hard before switching more to a container-based workflow.

One of my main day-to-day Vagrant configs is encapsulated in Drupal VM (http://www.drupalvm.com/).
You are correct, it was a badly written explanation of why they don't change gears.
All of the conventional ones use lots of power electronics to chop it up into a nice sine wave.
Curiously, having to email <mailinglist>-unsubscribe@server.com to unsubscribe from a mailling list is, to me, preferable to having to login to a website in order to unsubscribe from the same mailing list.

I think it's because I'm beginning to resent the idea of every website and its dog requiring that I have a user account before I'm allowed to even browse the content.
The crap they show in the back of NYC taxis does seem to fit the bill (short 2-3 min videos, changes fairly regularly, though heavily mixed with advertisements). It is crap, but I imagine once there are driverless cars, the format will gather interest from more creative sources.
"Check your spam folder" is now a default instruction for automated email notifications.

Luckily it's pretty easy to scan the folder for valuable messages.

However, having to do that is clearly not ideal.

Had a wedding RSVP get flagged as spam.
I didn't think you were being snide, nor did I intent to be. Really don't understand the downvoting behaviour around here.
It sure is. It even originated here on Hacker news.

http://www.byrnehobart.com/blog/why-are-middlebrow-dismissal...
The bigger issue is that people with negative reactions are more likely to downvote than those willing to upvote on touchy subjects. That creates an imbalance and everyone has to be careful not to upset the hypersensitive SJWs as a result. The same human tendency accounts for the imbalance in online reviews.
If they're mostly patches and pull requests, why doesn't this guy just whitelist those email addresses and domains?
I think we knew there was an atmosphere on pluto before this, but I was more thinking about a new mission.
That is not, for sure, a territory we have yet explored, (becasue there is a LOT of contents to explore in other countries first, and we have more a West Africa background), but yes we will look for Egyptian movies in the future.
I don't think so. Remember, this is the same crowd who constantly is bombarded with recruiter spam seeking people who are "passionate" about development.
Which is illegal in the US[1] (and I believe EU, as well), and hence deserves to be reported as spam.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4496688
With the exception of the Leaf, all those fully electric cars seem more like tests or prototypes than serious attempts to win the market. Nissan is anything but passive when it comes to fully electric cars, but all the other major car makers are being, in my opinion, overly cautious.
I'm infuriated by the systems that are totally locked down when the car is in motion, even when the car _knows_ that there is a person in the passenger seat (it yells until I put on my seatbelt).

If I'm the passenger, I should be able to tinker with the infotainment system as I like, without restriction (especially when my dad is the driver and I want to enable bluetooth audio to play music from my phone - my dad drives a newish Outback, great car from a driving perspective, crappy from the infotainment system perspective).
As long as your door is unlocked, do I have permission to enter your home? An unlocked door is essentially a 200 response when I try to open it.

Better yet - your door is open already. Do I have permission to waltz right in?
I love the idea here, and the market. I've tried a lot of the current products from other vendors, and haven't been completely happy, mainly due to mechanical issues (Beddit falls off my bed, Im not going to wear a wristband, and Zeo, my favorite, with the EEG, is out of business...)

I think it's still waiting for the 'iPod' -- hopefully this is it.
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Sure, but I shouldn't have to do that. (That's a criticism of Google, not your good advice.)
Even worse is when the backup camera is linked to the entertainment system. You start the car, put it into reverse and then have to wait for the system to come on. It sucks especially in a parking lot where you have to pay extra attention to cars creeping up when you are trying to get out.
If that was the question, then these companies would be lobbying to get rid of those regulations. Far too many of them see their ignoring of regulations to be a competitive edge.
> It's not possible to know what would have happened if Mossadegh was left alone by the US. It seems to me that the article hinted at conservative elements taking over regardless

Sure, but there's a difference for the US between "conservative elements taking over" in Iran and "conservative elements taking over buoyed on a wave of anti-US feeling directly resulting from the US imposition of an unpopular, brutal regime" in Iran.
That's a different than "this isn't very impressive because I think these achievements should be happening faster."
Seems like they took inspiration from the branding on the Chromebook Pixel LS (Ludicrous Speed)--the 16GB RAM, i7 one that I'm lucky enough to have ;-)

Fun fact: most cars today run about 20 separate operating systems. My guess is Tesla is fairly above average. Anyone have a figure on this?
Yeah, such profiles can certainly be used for skin rendering. I know that SPI used the method you mentioned on a few movies. There will be visible flaws though. The skin and especially the lips will look too waxy when using gaussians or bicubics. Weta Digital used Quantized Diffusion on Promotheus for this reason [1]. Pixar has an upcoming talk on a simple, yet highly accurate BSSRDF profile this SIGGRAPH, so let's hope the folks at Blender will implement that in Cycles.

[1] http://www.fxguide.com/featured/prometheus-rebuilding-hallow...
Is this their website?:
http://faradaymotorworks.com/home

It looks pretty...nondescript (and ugly but that's subjective I guess).
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Ask HN: Salaries in/around the Netherlands, (Windows) drivers developers?
Hello,

I'm currently developing windows drivers(1) for a company in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. I've been there for 11 months now, 5 months as an intern (as part of my HBO studies), and for the past 5 months I've been there part time (20hr/wk, except for the current month - 40/wk average), working on the same project ever since the start of my internship. Long story short, I'm currently their primary experienced windows drivers dev (they've had minor forays in the past).

I'm at the point where I can begin the final part of my study (the graduation internship), but I'd like to stick with the company for awhile until the conclusion of the (reasonably large) project. My main problem at the moment is that my salary is basically the minimum wage in the country for my age (23), which doesn't seem normal for what I'm doing.

Given my situation(2), can I reasonably expect to negotiate a higher salary (and in what range)? Also, for future reference, how does this field (kernel/low-level development in general) tend to pay around here in general?

Other than that, I like both the project's team and what I'm working on, especially since the project involves a wide range of technologies that must work together (== HUGE potential for learning), and the fact that I'm given relatively large chunks of the project to work on - from research to spec to design to code (almost no micromanagement).

(1) WDM/KDFM both (mainly KMDF, where possible), PCI-e, DMA, custom & some port-miniport models
(2) bachelor student - not sure how much weight this carries in the region.
I should have said "(nearly) everyone reading on Hacker News wants..."

He's complaining to the choir (of sorts) while disparaging the very real progress we are making because it isn't as good as it could have possibly been if reality were different.
I thought he meant that he doesn't want an infotainment system in his car until we have self-driving cars.
The scenario above assumes that one member of the trifecta defects and votes with the activists. Looking at the numbers [1], I was wrong in remembering that Eric Schmidt (46M votes) + all class A shares (280M votes) could outvote the founders (460M votes total). But the scenario still holds if Sergey is the defector - it'd have to be him (230M votes) + 160M Class A shares (roughly 60% of the company) against Larry + Eric. Pretty unlikely scenario, but conceivable, particularly as the founders get older and their interests diverge.

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckjones/2014/04/02/google-sto...
The problem with this apart from the cost is that all the other big email servers are more likely to mark your email as spam if it comes out of google apps :(
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Not just journalists are hindered by this. We've made several FOIA requests as preparation for grant applications (mostly SBIR's). Generally we haven't gotten anything back and where we have it was 6-12 months late and not useful anymore.
This is an amazing video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCcxwieuDH0

A colorblind person tries these glasses on without knowing what they are. :-)
It's not debatable; there are plenty of companies that do it already.
Come to think of it, if they're going to have a "Never send it to Spam" flag in filter config, shouldn't it default to TRUE? If you're taking the trouble to set up a filter, it's probably because you are interested in those messages.
That comparison is confounded by the fact that most people, at least in the United States, get their driver's permit and license at a fairly young age, and don't have driving experience before that. A fair comparison would be between licensed and unlicensed drivers with the same amount of experience, but that's pretty hard to come by.
Given that the usage of isomorphic is perfectly correct (it's using the biological, not mathematical, definition) I don't know how you'd do that...
The biggest hole is simply that -- according to the typical story -- startups pay equity because it's cheaper than cash. They fundraise when they need more cash. If they could afford to throw a portion of the cash at employees, they theoretically would have been doing that already.
> The reason Latin Capital Letter A is distinct from Cyrillic Capital Letter A and Greek Capital Letter Alpha but not English Capital Letter A or French Capital Letter A is that the latter two are actually the same thing whereas the first two are not.

You say this, but you give no argument at all. What makes English A and French A the same thing in a way that English A and Cyrillic A aren't? From a Unicode perspective (at least, from the perspective that Unicode takes with respect to Chinese characters -- 青 and 靑 are different code points despite being the same character), "Cyrillic Capital Letter A" and "Cyrillic Handwritten Capital Letter A" would be different code points, since they look nothing alike (disclaimer: I don't know that in the particular case of A the printed form and the handwritten form look nothing alike, but I do know that in general the handwritten form of a cyrillic character may not resemble the printed form. Feel free to substitute some other letter where I say A).

> but French and English -- e.g. in citations or quotes -- shouldn't be distinguished that way, except for punctuation

Why not?

I have seen advocacy for using the distinction that Unicode already makes (!) between a fancily curved apostrophe that is part of the spelling of a word, and the same glyph, but used to end a quotation. This is stupid. You'd need to train everyone in the world (well, the relevant part of the world) to input the same thing differently depending on how they're using it. Even if you made the effort, it will never happen reliably -- people have enough trouble spelling words differently depending on how those words are used.

Finally, my original point about Chinese writing didn't refer to Unicode at all. Spoken Chinese is encoded into characters using a system that makes heavy reference to semantics. This is a terrible idea, and as a result Chinese speakers are severely retarded in the development of their ability to read. The claim I'm making is that mission-creeping Unicode to encode semantics rather than glyphs (much as written Chinese encodes semantics more than it encodes sound) is similarly a bad idea. The goal of Unicode is to represent writing, not meaning.
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No, it's not. This is their website: http://faradayfuture.com/
Saying "twice the car/half the car", like they're pints and quarts, doesn't really make sense, though.

The Nissan Leaf is intended to be a city (or at least "close in suburb") car. With my 10 mile/20 minute commute, in a city with horrible public transportation, makes the Leaf ideal. Especially since I can afford a Leaf, a Model S not so much.
There are also some great animations on how a 4-stroke engine works from animagraffs.com;

http://animagraffs.com/how-a-car-engine-works/
I'll give you a link and let you guess:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/intercal/
Some time ago I would have liked this a lot and started using it right away. It seems to bring at the same time JS freedom and componentizationability (nice word), like, for example, http://aurajs.com/.

But since people invented React and virtual-dom I don't want to use these anymore.
So the different functional units (this has a specific meaning in hardware design) are 32 wide and indeed if the instructions to be executed can utilize all 6 of them at the same time the smx will operate on 192 values but that wont be the case if you only need to executed a large number of double precision floating point operations.
> Seems like they took inspiration from the branding on the Chromebook Pixel LS (Ludicrous Speed)

More likely, both Google and Tesla took inspiration from the movie Spaceballs.
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One thing not mentioned in the link are some performance improvement details.

For example the yes command (generally useful for generating repetitive text):

$ yes-old | pv > /dev/null ^C
... 55.8MiB/s ...
$ yes-new | pv > /dev/null ^C
... 3.44GiB/s ...

Details on that fairly simple change are at http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h...

It's interesting there are so many potential improvements in such widely used tools.
For example we also more than doubled the speed of wc -l (by avoiding function call overhead):

$ yes | pv | wc-old -l ^C
... 230MiB/s ...
$ yes | pv | wc-new -l ^C
... 558MiB/s ...

For completeness, we now generate an infinite stream of integers more efficiently too:

$ seq-old inf | pv > /dev/null ^C
... 13.3MiB/s ...
$ seq-new inf | pv > /dev/null ^C
... 497MiB/s ...

p.s. I would have used the new `dd status=progress` feature rather than pv above, though pv gives more accurate values due to its use of splice(2). Something to consider for a future version of coreutils
Rather than looking at it from a purely business perspective, I think that HomeJoy accomplished a lot in its tenure. It set an industry standard and a format that I'm sure will stick for a long time. It made huge strides in quality control and tackled a lot of the problems in the industry, if not completely solving them. You can only hope that Google keeps that spirit alive, and having met her, I have only amazing things from the impression that Adora Cheung left on me. I'm sure whatever she chooses to do next, she'll do it well.