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Thanks. I think you nailed exactly what we're trying to do in your second paragraph, but the trouble is we have had a hard time walking people through the product. And yes, very rough crowd
Sorry to hear this happen to Homejoy.

We almost did a startup like this when we were in YC and looking for new opportunities after we closed our previous startup. However we did some real-world experiments and ran the calculations and could see no way it could work. Here in London we have a lot of recent migrants meaning it's a race to the bottom in terms of hourly rate. You can't make a margin on that... The math just doesn't work. At the time I felt a bit stupid when, months later, Homejoy and several other startups entered the scene. However, I'm very glad we stuck to our guns. The only companies making real money in this market are large established agencies with cleaners on the payroll. And where's the fun/disruption in that? ;)
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Neil deGrasse Tyson with Peter Serafinowicz face: https://youtu.be/gr4gIK7Bv3E

Had fun over the weekend playing with this system. :)
Disappointing. Really wanted more choice and competition in the areas where Uber is the only 'on demand' transportation service.
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> Some people associate their worth with what they earn in a way others don't.

Moreover, they may associate the amount they are paid as an reflection of the esteem in which they are held by others.
The only advantage of going international is just to be bigger

This is not the only advantage. Another is being able to serve international travelers. You can step off a plane in another country and keep using Uber. These users may be relatively few in numbers but they have an outsized influence.
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This was my first thought too! Even on desktop, to be honest, this thing looks hideous. The grey text on almost-black background also completely fails the WCAG contrast ratio test.

And, honestly, what on earth is this? https://webwewant.org/news/We_are_announcing_the_Small_Grant...
The reality of computer security is this:

Attacking is easy, securing is hard.

So everyone is concentrating on the offensive abilities, because that's where the easy pickings are. And you can make flashy presentations about "how we f*cked them over". Flashy presentation about how you probably reduced the risk of a security breach by a few percentage points? Not so much.
I apologise, it was 87%.
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I was going to post this... In order to understand the two big bitcoin bubbles you need to know all about "Willy the Bot"... Apparently Karpeles was operating a fractional reserve since the first breach, and he expected to return the btcs with time (selling high and buying low), but he was not able and all fell apart. Willy looks like an internal tool...
This is why I like Docker. I don't need to think about installing the whole stack on the server.
@xackpot I totally agree to what you are saying, but what I'm trying to figure out how to build startup/products that could be interesting for some big companies in order to get cash fast and build more bigger and more important startup / products. I'm a cofounder of software service company that I has been running for about 3 years now successfully, but the point of stable/ enough cash flow still a problem
> name five jobs in which you absolutely do not need to be able to read or write. Found five? OK, can you name five in which you do not need to be able to program? What set took you longer to think of?

of course that's the case now, but that doesn't mean it always will be. And also, the value (to the person, or society) in learning something is not IMO simply a matter of whether it will help you getting a job where you need to do that thing.

> Secondly, you cannot program without being able to read and write. (OK, KIBO makes do without, but I'm talking about serious programming here.

if we're talking about kids, then the requirement for "serious programming" doesn't apply.

but in any case, I don't agree. I was responding to your earlier comment where you put reading, writing and arithmetic on the same level and programming should come after that. If you can't program until you can read and write then you can't do arithmetic until you can read and write -- i.e. i think that argument applies equally to maths and programming. Why can't you learn programming at the same time as reading and writing? Why can't it be part of learning those things? Just like reading books is part of them?

> we have to be careful not to fall victim to the programmer's bias. Yes, the need for programming skills in the world around us is big and growing rapidly, but it is probably not as big as we as programmers tend to believe, for two psychological reasons that skew our perspective...

have you heard the argument that "software is eating the world"? Yes there is the tendency for people to see "everything as a nail" but just stating that doesn't provide any actual argument against the notion that software, and the utility in being able to have programmatic control over the software, will be pervasive.
> Surely there must be more like me? People who appreciate that somebody, somewhere is putting craft and effort into creating something, and that these people need to get paid if we want that to continue?

They exist and made https://www.patreon.com/ where artists can sign up to make donation accounts that either work on a per-time or per-work basis, and people can donate whatever amount they like, and optionally get rewards defined by the artist for certain donation levels.

Here's an example of a magazine using it for funding:

https://www.patreon.com/TheVitaLounge
Photostats, or, the more things change, the more they stay the same
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I always thought that Homejoy were planning to automate as much as possible, if not everything, related to cleaning services using robotics and stuff, and that humans were only a temporary measure while developing technology. Sadly no, they were optimizing for human cleaning. They could have kept them as contractors while support them providing free education and resources to reallocation in the work force. This would be much better to society instead of organizing the modern slavery.
One thing that's great about Clojure and Clojurescript is that they run on Java and Javascript platforms respectively, and are easy to interoperate with those platforms. For a business that wants to crank out some code, being able to use the libraries that others have created for those platforms makes the decision to use them for production systems much easier.
That's not new unfortunately. The openssl license has always contained an advertising clause.

The problem is often worked around in the basis of GPL's OS exception though.
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And serve international customers.
I'd argue that Homejoy's real competition is Handy, which seems to be alive and well. I'm surprised the article didn't mention Handy at all, because it is the most relevant comp for Homejoy.
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The big pro with Ansible and similar tools is that the scripts are actually very readable, with clear best practices.

If you come to a new place and "there's an error in here somewhere", the difference between layers of images held together with shell scripts and a Ansible/Puppet/Chef script is like night and day.
The original title is: "Oxidative mechanisms of biological activity of low-intensity radiofrequency radiation"
The myth of "hard work = high wages" is one of the most pernicious and persistent of American lies, I'm afraid. It has never been the case for as long as the country has lived.
Finally! The current situation has caused a fair amount of grief. E.g. postgres not being able to link against libreadline and libedit (horribly buggy) instead being used.
I worked at OLPC. We didn't ship any kinetic charging systems as the most reliable ones had a mean time to failure on the order of ~three full charges. The scheme was cute and captured the imagination of people in the developed west but is fundamentally unsound due to the cost of high precision, reliable manual chargers and their miniscule power output. In addition to yielding only several full charges before the $50 charging unit failed, each charge would require tens of thousands of revolutions of a hand crank. As wonderful as the laptop was I think it would be a very strange thing for a child to do when they could easily play with something more immediate.

In practice most of the laptops are charged like other laptops--- from national power grids. Those that aren't are charged from diesel generators and solar power.
Carlypso (YC S14) hiring a data-scientist – perk: drive a AMG E63 with 550hp
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If you do care about data-science, we happen to be looking for a data-scientist! We are data-scientist-heaven!

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A Nordic Champion economy is coming, just look at Supercell
Seats of power? Any woman can start and maintain an OSS project like xterm. They don't, because it's a thankless task and either they aren't interested enough or they figure out the "thankless" part faster than men.
Not mobile optimized? Has to be HN :-)
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The OpenSSL license is not compatible with GPLv2 or GPLv3 due to the obnoxious advertising clause.

The ALv2 however is at least compatible with GPLv3, so it's clearly an improvement.
Nope. And it's been flagged again. I don't know why people think a discussion about this doesn't belong here, but there you go.
You can definitely do that. There is more programming involved, since you need to figure out how to tie a new instance deployment into Chef/Puppet/etc to update HAProxy. You also need to figure out how to get it to update quickly. Finally, you'll need to figure out how to deploy your dual HAProxy server with heartbeat setup automatically every time you deploy a new type of microservice, and update DNS appropriately. It just means that instead of deploying Baker Street as part of your microservice push, you're deploying a) your microservice b) your dual HAProxy setup and/or new HAProxy config and c) DNS.

Lots of ways to solve this problem; our big focus here is on simplicity. If you have the Chef-fu and time to do all the above, you could definitely make it work.
Awesome, great to know the details (we heard about what you guys were doing second hand from Igor). Looking forward to more details whenever you post!
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Seems like a very smart strategy to me.

Uber is dealing with regulatory fights in almost every country it operates in. May as well let them spend all their time and money establishing the playing field before joining in. Lyft is after all only a few minute download away so getting people to switch isn't going to be as difficult as it could. Especially with Uber's appalling business practices continuing to make headlines.
Nah. The point I was making when this thread started was that your ousting was justified. I don't think you've said anything to convince me otherwise.
We are, this is where the demand for embryonic tissue comes from.
Realistically, robot house-cleaners that can compete with a human both in terms of ability and cost are decades away. Not something you can build a business on today.
Finally, thanks god
> no texting in the 90s

SMS was invented in 1992, and definitely popular by 2000.
That is a powerful theoretical concern that I shared when I first experimented with Go several years ago. In practice I have not found it to not be a problem.

It seems (and this is purely an analysis of my own experience and the large amount of Go I read inside Google) that the types of data structures and algorithms I need parametrized follow a power law distribution. Mostly I need a list, or a hash map, and the builtin slice and map types almost always meet my needs. For the long tail of parameterized types in that power distribution, it appears that either it is not a performance hot spot, in which case I can borrow from the dynamic dispatch tools in the language (that is, some variant of an interface{}), or performance is so critical that even in C++ there is no obvious generic data type.

The latter is an interesting case I ran into in my prior life as a C++ programmer, and in OCaml. Someone had created a generic version of a data structure (usually more than one someone), but what I needed in my performance hot spot was some variant that wasn't captured by the parameterization.

An old example that comes to mind: I inherited a struct whose memory layout described a wire protocol. It had an 8-byte piece of padding in the middle of it. That was the perfect place to hide the pointer for a linked list I wanted to create in an intermediate step. Of course, none of the many template-based linked list data structures I had in C++ could do that, so I rolled my own.

So as unexpected as this may be, I find a combination of map/slice, interface{}, and rolling my own meets my generics needs in Go well enough that I wouldn't want to trade off slower compilation for it, or bad compile-time error messages. I still miss generics, and it may be that the particular kinds of programming I do mean I miss them less than others. A co-worker with nearly as much Go experience as I have says he misses them more often. The ones that come up most often for me are sorting and some kind of ordered map, but even those bug me less than once a month.
Where are the 50% of open source projects that should have been started by women?

Or are they deleted from the Internet by those in power?
The question is, who is gonna pay for vaccinations? I don't believe that Western aid organizations can and will put up the money, and most African countries will not be able to.

Another problem is that many people are led to believe by their religious authorities that vaccines are the devil, white men are the devils... how are these parts of the population going to be protected to prevent creation of virus reservoirs?
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Homejoy was certainly not fair to try and charge $10 MORE to cancel the order. But 'forfeiting' your credit card charge just because you could not or did not cancel in time, that doesn't skirt the boundaries of fairness on any service.
Just because you might not like cleaning, it's a stretch to imagine that casual cleaners don't like their job.

Saying someone on by low wage job is 'modern slavery' is pretty obtuse when real life actual slavery is happening right now in parts of the world.
This was already possible, see https://github.com/swannodette/mori or https://github.com/glenjamin/checkers for examples.
Speak for yourself, anti-pizza-ite!
The data in [1] has a mean time between drops of 9.28 years +/- 0.66 years which means a frequency of 3.42e-9 Hz.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitch_drop_experiment
Why haven't them moved to Windows then?

If you prefer Windows ways of doing stuff then use it, instead of changing a perfectly fine but different OS into Windows-bis.
That was my understanding and I see no problem with it.
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That's exactly why I initially joined Uber: I was overseas, and if I'm travelling I don't have to learn how the local taxi system works, I just continue using Uber. It's a bit like McDonalds, it's similar enough in every country that you can rely on it and you know what you'll get. I use Uber a fair bit at home, but my heaviest use of Uber is when I'm travelling to other cities & countries.
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Funnily enough, my experience with Lyft has dropped significantly over the last year.

In the last few months alone, I had an where the Lyft driver who was supposed to pick me up at SFO didn't know where I was despite following the instruction that Lyft texted me. And even after I explicitly told him where I was he just did not understand. Meanwhile everyone else who was waiting for a ride got picked up by Uber without much of a hitch.

On that same trip in SF, I requested a ride while downtown, only for the person not to show up at all.

It's a real shame because barely more than two years ago, Lyft was my preferred choice since the drivers seemed quite friendly and it was that quirky kid on the block. Now that they've toned back their branding and character, it's really no different than Uber. Except sadly, my experience with Uber has been more consistent than Lyft.
That seems to work really well, thanks for your work. I might use it.

One thing I'm struggling with is the data model, of what exactly is returned on an event. I see that right that rockets is sending data like the API would've returned them, and that is why they are not defined in the code?

I'm new to Reddits Api and was wondering how to get a comments url. Just realizing that I should just echo the full object and find keys that way. I'm leaving the comment, maybe you want to add some documentation/links to the proper Api documentation in that direction.
No. I think fees would send readers and contributors scurrying, too.
Human rights? Like the right to a free and fair trial? The right to free speech?

I think the hyperbole might have dulled the comment a bit.
I don't using Docker or any of these tools, but I get the feeling this could have been done easily using rsync instead.
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Because morality is not applicable to anything beyond human experience. Science is not actively trying to subvert morality (that would be immoral), it just doesn't care.
Sometimes SO has the answer, but I can almost always get a better discussion of the answer and surrounding topic on IRC. I can also get help on IRC when I don't know how to search for the solution or evaluate multiple solutions.
Josh Drake(the researcher who found the stage fright exploit) was interviewed on the last episode of the risky business podcast. His opinion is that iOS and Android are very similar in their level of security, but the barriers to entry in researching iOS causes security researchers to spend more time looking at android.

A state who can finance themselves around those barriers to entry may have similar exploits against iOS, but we're less likely to find out about them.
I grew a heart by mistake once.

I was studying the way cells move, and to make cells that moved, we would dissect hearts out of seven-day-old chicken embryos, shread them into chunks, and put the bits down on a layer of matrigel in a dish full of tissue culture medium. After several hours, the cardiac muscle cells would start to dedifferentiate into fibroblasts (not really fibroblasts, but people call them that) and start zooming around, at which point you can do science on them.

I painstakingly prepared one of these dishes, then forgot about it, and left it in the incubator for a week. When i got back to it, the initial chunk of heart muscle had completely gone, turned into fibroblasts - which had then spread out over the dish, and turned back into cardiac muscle cells. There was a thin sheet of muscle strung out across the width of the dish, and it had started beating.
12 scripts and 2 tracking cookies (Noscript/Privacy Badger). Not so bad actually. Does the 4Mb include the download for that video?
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That's your theory? Women participation in math and the physical sciences is extremely high relative to their participation in software, where it used to be much, much higher (same as in other professions) and is constantly declining. That decline actually coincides with increasing, rather than decreasing salaries and prestige, and is not due to increasing work hours (that are lower in software than in medicine and law, where women participation is high). Software is a very clear anomaly.

That theory is even wrong for science in general, especially considering that women participation has been increasing, and that some scientific fields -- that are just as demanding -- are actually dominated by women.
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If you put the function source into edn and the function doesn't depend on anything but core constructs, it would be nearly trivial to eval using the new cljs.js.

If those functions need to call into other ClojureScript namespaces that you've already compiled into your code then the analysis cache would need to be populated so that eval can operate properly.

For reference, here is cljs.js/eval: https://github.com/clojure/clojurescript/blob/v1.7/src/main/...
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I hear what you're saying, but even inline images weren't originally part of HTML...

http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q1/0182.ht...

If I'm being extra nitpicky, Flash and JS were both doing the rounds in '99, but that's beside the point, I understand you want a 'linked documents' web.

In a hypothetical situation where that happened, would we have a different tech stack for zero-install client-server apps? I suspect people would still want to have them. What might this tech stack look like? What currently available software might be a good fit?
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