skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any type of business that based on being intermediary between buyer and seller run the risk of "losing" customers. This holds especially true with service business. I ran a nationwide lead generation service which basically matches POS/Payment processing companies with retail/restaurant business which was purely performance based. No initiation fee, no monthly fees to enroll with only 5% commission on the closed leads. And guess what; even if i sent the business tens of leads (averaging $7000 value with at least 40% profit) per month they resorted to either not pay or simply became incredibly sloppy on follow ups so i required to be in the loop. I may have not bring in any additional value to acquirer of the service, but for the service provider i was offering them a qualified business opportunity which they would not otherwise obtained.
Do you have an unlimited number of stooges? Such a facade can only be kept up for so long.
Even then, it's not hard to backtrack a block or two and keep your chain going. It's really not even a game at that point, I can just drag randomly and get crazy high scores.
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The only situation where it's nice to have a known driver is when you are scheduling a ride in advance, i.e. to the airport or something. In those cases, I frequently call a day ahead to a driver I know.
Is there any chance Bluebird will become the standard in the future? Not sure if it makes sense to use a nonstandard approach, but would love to be convinced otherwise.
They could try, but in the Afrostream case, could they catch up with the community we build. I mean, we have 72k facebook page fans, and a lot of their bought a one year subscription because they are ignored about their movie needs in first case. I am the first fans of my fans too.

Let's face it : Netflix could do that, but they have one year to catch up, fight is on
Sure. And the bug should also be fixed.

Pretty much everyone here is changing the subject, so to speak, which I find telling in itself.
Sorry to hear this guys. Know you guys worked hard on this. Best of luck
Way too low. Say No.
I, uh, don't even know what you're trying to say there. Is that some form of agreement or a claim that it's nonsense? If it's the latter, well, it's not. Security attacks against some of these old protocols were demonstrated. The blacklist, as I understand it, may be a bit larger than it needs to be because conservatively a few more things were blocked than were demonstrated, but there were demonstrations.
I reckon running out of money -- money which is also needed to employ those who process the refunds.
It covers #1 and #2, eg -

"The same shah whom Washington was now trying to shun had been lifted to power in a 1953 coup engineered by the CIA and the British, displacing the elected Prime Minister, Mohammad Mossadegh, who had had the temerity to nationalise the Iranian oil industry. "
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I remember seeing this long back. Did he (or anyone else) make progress on this?
Milton Bradley made a very popular mass-market version of the paper game using a plastic gameboard and ships that has been a longtime bestseller: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2425/battleship
More than anything else, I'm surprised to see that anyone still cares about CDs and DVDs.
That's really just another way of advocating practice.
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I think it's very unlikely that we will see in psychology or economics any kind of progress like what we saw in physics. In physics anything new that we learn doesn't change the experiments at all, that is we can't ignore physical laws just because we are aware of them.

But in psychology or economics as soon as you learn something new, that new knowledge is going to be a new variable to account for, for example as soon as you are made aware of the Bystander effect[1] it is trivial to avoid it, but you can't really predict what will come out of it. You can as well find ways to game any economic prediction by being aware of it, I guess you can find stable models that sort of work until something like the 2008 financial crisis happens and they don't anymore.

So either the investigators stay out of the economy/society or they will mess with their own results by making them public.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bystander_effect
OK. But there are many, many aspects of our own language which don't really make sense. And that would go for pretty much all of them except I guess Esperanto.
> It's more like HBO.

Except that it airs orders-of-magnitude more content than HBO from a variety of sources. It's something between cable and a channel.

It's not HBO, it's Netflix.
> the lack of passion from the cleaners

I doubt cleaning other people's shit is anyone's passion.
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Uber is different than Homejoy.

You would use the same house cleaning professional over and over again but you will likely never ride with the same Uber driver again. This means that the Homejoy house cleaner can bypass Homejoy but the Uber drivers/users can't do without it.
MPs must understand this and be treating us like children.
isn't it racist to clump Egyptian, south african, etc culture in the same genre just because of a continent or skin colour?

also, will it feature "zulu (1964)"? Or are we going to have random values besides the continent-culture-clumping thing?
From your "a year on" article:

"Getting backlinks

There are still hardly any backlinks to the site and I don't really know how to boost this efficiently. I was thinking about licensing the content under Creative Commons as I've noticed a couple of sites just copy and pasting my articles in without even a link back."

Did you try contacting the sites and ask them to provide a backlink? Seems like a very reasonable request that most would comply with.
The labor force participation rate is at its lowest level in 40 years. When companies like Homejoy come in and make it easy for people to pick up gig work, they are making real and substantial contributions to human welfare.
Hey Thomas!

While a bit off topic, I was really happy to see this sort of comment from you. I'd love to buy you a coffee or beer in Chicago sometime.
Yes, but that doesn't mean you should exactly seek out the advice of those who haven't conquered the failures and reached the end of the road of "success". Everyone has their own wisdom to offer, but I would agree with the parent, there's more notable persons to learn from and I personally feel most comfortable with someone who has BOTH failed & succeeded.
Yes. Especially in a game where you are dependent on raising capital, you always need to have an air of confidence about you.
Not to mention that lifespans get longer!
aren't maintaining the invariant Yes, it’s just the starting point for a really simple example.

If you know ahead of time what the price is going to do (even probabilistically) then you can make money.
Exactly, you pick a model and make money ‘if’ reality fits that model. However, fast dumb models can make lots of money and complexity adds risks.

Anyway, many people get stuck with the idea you need the smartest people in the room while ignoring how much it costs to have the ‘smartest people’ in the room. Arguably, many companies are simply doing this to attract investors not because it maximizes returns as managing money is a great way to make money.
dear god, who still uses XSL/T?
In Germany, we just pay a fee on new media (SSDs, thumbdrives, phones, HDDs, blank CDs and DVDs, etc) which is given to the record companies and shared between the content creators.
Just as much as I doubt checking me out in a check-out line is anyone's idea of "passion", but it's still rude and unprofessional to not show me courtesy. You don't get a moral blank-check just because you don't like your job.
People can take pride in all sorts of work.
It isn't even up for debate among anyone with in depth rendering knowledge. Cycles is free. That's the extent of its advantage. Renderman is faster, far more flexible, has true layered shaders, handles volumetrics, lots of geometry types, displacement, ptex textures, has better integrators, AOVs, a shading language, a detailed API, light path expressions... There are probably twice as many things I can't think of at the moment.
I have about 700 DVDs and CDs. All ripped. None of it shared anywhere.

I'm now severely tempted to stop buying and start pirating, seeing as I'll be a criminal either way.
Pandas does this, and I think it works well, even if it's not entirely transparent in the source.
The measure of free speech isn't what you do say, but what you can say.
The poster I am responding to is clearly referring to "skilled labor" in the colloquial sense, as in a worker for whom adequate performance requires more skill than a lay-person.
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The entire point of the deal, politically speaking, is to dismantle Iran's nuclear program in a way that allows Rouhani and the Iranian moderates to save face to their own people by maintaining the apparent shell of a nuclear program. So they get to claim, "we still have centrifuges, we still do nuclear research", and those claims are literally true but substantively false. In fact they're only keeping a small number of very old centrifuges that are carefully monitored, the equipment necessary to make new centrifuges is locked down with constant inspections, future imports of such equipment are highly restricted, extraction of their natural uranium deposits is carefully monitored, along with many other measures designed to make it impossible to move towards a bomb.

Ernest Moniz, the US energy secretary who helped negotiate the deal, is a nuclear physicist. US national labs employ many of the world's top nuclear experts, who consulted on the deal. When they, and most of the rest of the world's experts on nuclear physics and nuclear policy, say this is a good deal (http://www.vox.com/2015/4/2/8337347/iran-deal-good), I'm inclined to think it has some merit. Could it be flawed? Sure. But you need a better argument than "OMG it lets them keep some centrifuges".
How are smartphones not Personal Computers? Less than 1% of the code and hardware on an iPhone is cellular phone.

They meet anyone's definition of a personal computer. You can draw a straight line from the first Macintosh to the iPhone. The fact that they evolved out of the phone form-factor and are called "smartphones" may be confusing but it's also irrelevant.
The story and message was almost same in all those lectures. So, i doubt she put lot of time just preparing for it and moreover it was her story that she was telling, so even less preparation is required.

For people working in christmas, its a good break to have. And i doubt those hours spent otherwise on the startup can could have changed the outcome.
I like having a physical copy of things I really like and want to keep long term. More-so for movies, where the alternative has typically been DRM infested, than for music. But everything gets ripped the instant I get it into my house.
There is a qualitative difference between this and other on-demand services such as Uber in that you will never see the "here is my phone number" phenomenon in Uber.
For Home Depot and Lowes, lead generation for contractors is just a way for them to sell more building materials that need installation. They don't care if you call the contractor directly for your next installation job, as long as the materials come from them.

That model does not work for HomeJoy.
Seems likely Amazon (and Apple, etc) are the targets of this.

If they remove that feature and it causes 5% fewer CD tracks being ripped to mp3, then a few more music execs will get to look smug while clicking their associates through a ghoulish powerpoint next year.
This is great supplemental data, much appreciated!
Yeah, I think that's part of the general cost breakdown here: something like house cleaning is already very competitive so there's a pretty narrow range where you can convince workers to give you a cut without pricing the service out of consideration. Successful attempts to do that rely on high volume, which is completely incompatible with the kind of things you mention or even basic customer service and quality review.
Sourceforge “temporarily in static offline mode.”
I'm amazed just to think that I can rotate a 3D image of Pluto, so far away. And to think this image was taken so recently. I'm really living in the future.
Yes. Someone else linked it earlier in the comments, so here you go.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8794956
Isn't it true though, that in the case of Venezuela, international assets became an excellent leverage point?

For example, Exxon getting court orders to try to have $12 billion in Venezuelan assets frozen in 2008. If I recall, Exxon in its case only received 10% of what it asked for in compensation though.
Of particular interest in this case, a cable company owns it's own infrastructure to transmit programming. A streaming video service over the public internet does not. Previous attempts to get the same ruling have failed on this difference.
One of the things you're paying for is for the service provider to "act as if".
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Guns aside I think the idea of personal sovereignty is an interesting one. It a concept that is almost completely lacking in the UK. We wrongly believe that people bodies and property are policed by social values and politeness. The greatest crime is not attacking someone's rights but breaking a taboo. This is very different to the American concept of individual liberty where people are actually allowed to be rude!
I'm not particularly convinced. The make_unique example given could be implemented in a similar manner with existing C++ features, and it would not require yet another complexity-inducing feature into C++:

#include <memory>
#include <type_traits>
#include <utility>

template<bool Cond>
struct static_if_impl {
template<typename F1, typename F2, typename...Args>
decltype(auto) operator()(F1 f1, F2, Args&&...args) const {
return f1(std::forward<Args>(args)...);
}
};

template<>
struct static_if_impl<false> {
template<typename F1, typename F2, typename...Args>
decltype(auto) operator()(F1, F2 f2, Args&&...args) const {
return f2(std::forward<Args>(args)...);
}
};

template<bool Cond>
constexpr static_if_impl<Cond> static_if{};

template <class T, class... Args>
std::unique_ptr<T> make_unique(Args&&... args) {
return static_if<std::is_constructible<T, Args...>{}>([](auto&&...args) {
return unique_ptr<T>(new T(std::forward<Args>(args)...));
}, [](auto&&...args) {
return unique_ptr<T>(new T{std::forward<Args>(args)...});
}, std::forward<Args>(args)...);
}
AirBnB goes to a lot of lengths to make sure you at least have to book through them the first time. They filter out phone numbers and email addresses in messaging, even if you try and get clever (like spelling out phone numbers).
An easy solution is to use a password manager.
Unless you can join Google or Facebook, I would say startup.

Here are some good reasons to go with a startup ( If its in your powers, CHOOSE.)

1. Startups are more fun. Like the other commenters said, in just 1 year you will learn quite a lot more in a startup than you would in an enterprise company.

2. If you are joining an Enterprise, you are mostly working on code that is already built by someone else - you have to adapt to that - adjust to that. This is not in itself a bad thing - but my belief is that when you do things from scratch - you learn a lot more. As a freshman - out of college - your main aim should be learning - not money.

3. Startups have the advantage of being a possible rocketship. You never know. If you happen to get on one - you will be set for life. You dont have any remote possibility of doing that in an already established company.

4. I am overly generalizing here - but in a larger company - you will have to deal with a lot of bureaucracy and politics. Its an unavoidable thing when more than a few humans come together. This is detrimental to your growth. It wont allow you to move fast and break things.. which is something you should constantly do as a freshman.

5. Again generalizing, startups are more tech focused ( assuming you are a techie ) and enterprises are more management focused. If you join a startup that is a rocketship, you will most likely learn both tech and management at the same time. If the startup you joined dies, go join another one.
All 3 were covered (though no mention of chemical weapons).
So prove the intent. Prove what was going on inside his head. Prove that he didn't merely SUSPECT that he shouldn't have had the information, but that he KNEW he shouldn't.

The reason that things get so silly is that it's very difficult to prove intent in the absence of any kind of access control. If he had bruteforced an admin password, the intent trail is there to be found. If he had done SQL injection, again, it's easy to argue intent. If he had physically broken into the building and stolen paper documents, again the intent is easy to discern.

I would argue that it's akin to finding an unmarked binding lying in the street with absolutely no way of telling whose it is, and what it contains. You open it and don't see anything that says "AT&T confidential information" and start paging through it. How could you possibly be convicted of a crime for that? I know there's criminal "finding" whereby you don't try hard enough to return something to someone that's obviously lost it. But that doesn't apply in this case because the binder in question isn't marked in any kind of meaningful way. Even if it had a header or footer or cover or something that said ANYTHING then I'd be persuaded differently.

But leaving a web service with confidential information on the internet with no access control, I might argue is criminal negligence.
https://www.grc.com/sqrl/sqrl.htm

https://twit.tv/shows/security-now/episodes/516
Wait until you have VR head-mounted-display with 8k resolution in each eye. Carmack will deliver!
That's great stuff, I will check it, thank you for the link
> You don't get a moral blank-check just because you don't like your job.

Whether someone can "feel" your passion about a job isn't about morality. I can do my job well, even if I feel its the equivalent of shoveling horse shit, and have zero passion for it. Whether someone is doing their job well is never a moral question. If someone didn't do the job you agreed to, its contractual; don't pay or pay a reduced rate based on the agreement and move on.
> Companies like Pixar and ILM should be contributing to projects like Blender instead of developing proprietary internal tools and marrying themselves to packages like Maya that aren't terribly better than Blender, if they even are better at all anymore.

For anyone who might think the same thing:

1. This is not going to happen anytime soon.
2. The tools they use, proprietary or not, are better than blender. I know everyone loves to rally around open source software and Blender has benefited lots of people for a variety of reasons, but high end visual effects is not its place right now.
3. The large 3D programs are actually used by an enormous amount of people these days, not just the big VFX companies.
Driving is a common skill. Most people with a license can drive a car safely. This isn't heavy equipment.

Cleaning, being good at cleaning, is an uncommon skill. I've gone through my fair share of housekeepers. When you find a good one that you trust with the keys to your home, you want to hold on to them.
My issue is more with DirecTV than the price of SundayTicket. I'm not going to go without Sunday Ticket as some sort of minuscule protest to DirecTV+NFL.

When there's a non-DirecTV option, thats when I will vote with my wallet.
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Maybe a key lesson is that the game is essentially playing itself, that in battle so many factors work independent of your intent that one must accept that there is little one can do to change the outcome, and how important it is to insightfully work that little one can do.
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Humorously this is in their FAQ about the close:

> We hope that you are able to continue your relationship with your current cleaner, independently of Homejoy.

http://blog.homejoy.com/faqs/
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Depends on what you want to achieve out of the next few years of your life.

As in any other choice in life, you have both pros and cons in both the choices.

As also pointed out in other answers, it would hold true that doing your own startup will be the easiest now, as this choice will only get harder as you grow older and your responsibilities/obligations increase. This would definitely give you a good overall growth in many areas.

If you want to develop skill-sets in a particular domain, then I would suggest to go join a big corp where you can learn some best practices, get mentors and maybe even find interesting folks for you own startup at some point later in life.
Also a somewhat middle path can be achieved by joining an early stage startup where you can find the above mentioned things in the team, and the pace of growth will be faster as well.

Will share my personal experience as well, maybe it might help. (Though take it with a pinch of salt, as it's not purely objective for me anymore.)
I had a good chance to do a startup right out of college with a few friends and some ready funding/accelerators acceptances, but I took the option to go with a big corp. After about an year, I really regretted that decision. I have been wishing to go back and change that... So I left the big corp job after about 2 years, and have been working in core founding team of a startup for 2 years. Learning pace is much quicker in startup, but be clear in what you want out of the time you give to the organisation you will work for be it your own or someone else's.

Big points of regret for me:
1. I had a good team with me then (damn difficult to find this),
2. I was quite passionate about the problem we were working on (again not as easy to develop as it sounds).
3. Seed funding was readily available, so finances would also have been taken care of while working there (as you grow this starts becoming a concern as your burn rate increases...)

Also, I would suggest you to watch both Paul Graham's lecture (L3) and Dustin Moskovitz's advice (L1) @ http://startupclass.samaltman.com/ to also maybe get some more perspectives.

Hope it helps. All the best!
I think WeChat started being more popular a year or two ago, due to less censorship (at the time). However, this is all based on vague impressions from reading sinocism.com and not by any hard data whatsoever.
The thermal losses at the power plant are kind of a bummer.

(My vague understanding is that heat pumps are not cost competitive with natural gas for winter heating)
> Animals are meant to move about.

I should probably take another cue from animals--they aren't meant to read internet comments.
> They stated they are folding primarily because of lawsuit pressure, not referral issues.

I haven't seen any reasons for the closing. Where was this mentioned?

Edit: More reading turned up a shady Re/Code article proclaiming that the Uber decision shuttered Homejoy. Loads of clickbait, nothing firm in the way of substantiating the title.
I'm surprised. I don't know much about Homejoy but I read once that it was the company in the YC portfolio that has the highest growth, so I thought they would become a unicorn at some point. What happened to them?
Apparently so does The Pirate Bay.