skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's great that it elicits that reaction in such a stark way, though - it will make more than a few of them wrestle with it and maybe get past it.

I can totally defend the desire to quit out of not wanting to have golden handcuffs, but quitting because someone "below" you is now not as far "below" you (or is now "shackled" to you, a ridiculous thought) is just spiteful and self-damaging.
it was way overblown, the details ignored in the anti-Uber cacophony.

This ruling only effects California and a single driver, as explained by an article in Forbes: http://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2015/06/30/the-california-...

California did not rule that Uber drivers are employees. Rather, a single labor commissioner made that finding (not a ruling) in an informal, non-binding hearing that is based on the facts of the specific driver’s circumstances, applies only to that driver, is likely to be appealed, and is of no precedential effect. Other commissioners in other circumstances have found the opposite
Impossible, you don't get to choose them:
http://www.le-message.org/?lang=en
Yep, and within a few months you will find yourself accidentally typing `(if` instead of `if (` in a C-based language.
Open-source and, best of all, not polluted by M$:

http://smallbasic.sourceforge.net/
I think being an introvert helps tremendously when attempting to build a network as long as you are dedicated and passionate about doing so.

Dale Carnegie wrote a book titled "How to Win Friends and Influence People" (which I recommend, its old, but a great read!) where he described that the easiest way to "win friends" or influence people is to have a genuine interest in other people and actively listen and allow them to feel your genuine interest in them.

I find that when I have more introverted characteristics I am able to make more connections because I spend more time listening to other people and less time trying to make myself feel important which helps me to better get to know the person I am meeting and to appreciate and value their characteristics and skills.

Recently I began a summer college job working for an accounting firm with 100 other employees and I only knew about 6-7 people. Over the past few weeks I have dedicated a large amount of time to expanding my network and getting to know my fellow workers on a personal level. Now I find friendly faces all around and I consistently have people popping in to my office area asking if I need anything or just seeing how I am doing and even sometimes popping in to talk about some cool new business that they read about (sometimes even the CEO).

I think that at the end of the day whether you are an introvert or an extrovert all that it takes to start building a network is to find a genuine interest in other people. If you have that you will be pretty successful at what you want to do.
I think the reason people are upset when this is called socialism is because those same people saying "you are paying those people more than they are worth!" don't call it socialism when other people are paid way more than the value of what they contribute to the company (CEOs of failing companies making millions, board members who don't do anything, etc).
By email on relevant mailing lists and forums.
Some of the comments on the NYT piece touch on this -- that higher-earning, hard-working employees were off-put when their "just-barely-cruising-along" employees were receiving the equivalent of a promotion.
Elon, please buy the production rights to this and put it back into production, exactly as it was, no changes, bolt-compatible with the original. Interestingly, they had prototyped an add-on electric powerplant back then, too, which, sadly, never made it into production.
Read my HN comments to authenticate my id.

You're doing it again: equating pro-traditional-marriage with anti-gay with hate. The last bogus inference is the one that I called a non-issue.
Where are these all-knowing economists and why aren't they running NYC already? We'd have all our problems solved if only we removed the market controls!

EDIT: I've replied to a post that is undergoing on-going editing.
> Also if you copy code so often that this is becoming an issue I'm not sure I would want someone like that working for me.

This seems like a cruel comment in a thread specifically talking about a 9-year-old learning her first language.
Hmm, that's actually pretty doable if coupled with pedal power (you'd either charge directly with a dynamo in this case or pump water to a higher elevation to store as potential energy). Back of the envelope math says you could do it quite easily in 15 minutes which isn't bad at all especially given the fact that you can't shove power into the battery anywhere near that fast.

Granted, this works much better with something like a light because LED's use so little power to run.
Let's just be glad they aren't always correct ....
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Population growth is going down, and is even negative in many countries. Inflation... not so much.
I don't think it's a nitpick. I think this is a very important point. Is the hypothetical fuel more expensive than food?
This is right in the article:

"That said, the point here is not just to make a game (plenty of people are doing that already), but to make a unique engine, and that could not happen in a vacuum."
I wonder how far their valuation can go before they go public.

$100B, $200B, $400B?
This may be just me..but I feel like Uber is being built up way too much. People outside SF see it as some shining beacon of Silicon Valley tech startups. If they make missteps and show weakness I wonder if it will shake people's perception of how strong the tech industry is now.
Another Correct Prediction – AirBNB
Clearly it was dumb for people at Mozilla to take a bullet for Microsoft. But no matter -- I'm curious why you can't see past that and (also) hold Microsoft to account for rejecting WebSQL.
In tech companies they tend to be.

It sounds like the dev was inexperienced which is why he was talking about improving skills to work at a tech company.
So how long until this "Extended random" thing is purged from all TLS implementations and standards? And with such a blatant (in hindsight) trap in the TLS standards, how can the rest of it be trusted?
>How does someone else earning more money hurt you?

It's not that simple. The employees were already working under conditions that job/person a was worth 2x and job/person b was worth 3x. That was established and everyone was content (or reasonably so).

All of a sudden, someone declared that job/person a is worth 3x too, with no corresponding change to the output or expectations of either job.

Job/Person b, having been previously told that their value was, at 3x, MORE than job/person a, is now told that their value is now equal.

That's a redefining of the previously established contract of understanding. To expect Job/person b to completely agree to that redefinition is rather naive, to say the least.

I'm more valuable to my company as their key software developer than the receptionist. I've got more knowledge of how the company works, contribute more to the bottom line and am harder to properly replace. I expect my compensation to reflect that.

If you suggest all of a sudden that I'm not any more valuable than the receptionist hired last month, you should rightly expect that I'd be a little pissed.
> I grew up starry eyed, thinking that our minds have virtually limitless capabilities ... and for the first time (late high school) got confronted by the limits of our 'tools' ... was just depressing and I took to computer science.

Alas, not even safe there. Thanks a lot, Turing.
Quietly, Congress extends a ban on CDC research on gun violence
Quite a lot of companies will only ship to the cardholder address, unfortunately.
I love the extended abstract at the top that includes the principle findings and conclusion. More academic papers should use this format.
I don't read teddyh as saying that BI would lead to a boon in engineering research in particular. Rather, the example of the OP suggests that monetary incentives and short-term performance monitoring are not the only way (or even a good way) to encourage creative, productive work.
Didn't somebody do the math and came up with $40B for entire taxi business globally?
I get the feeling the law will be changed on this. There is far too much money involved to not have workers rights further eroded by Internet billionaires.
There is also the problem that we are talking about certain subsets of badgers and squirrels. Consider that many of the badgers that originally grew the forest that they now enjoy only did so because they were shunned not just by the squirrels, but by many other badgers. Look closely and you'll notice that some of these badgers, or those of the same subgroup, are resistant to both squirrels and other badgers coming into the forest. It isn't due to some sense of greed or superiority, but from a trained desire of self preservation.

And then you have the issue that in this forest, the job of maintaining the forest and the hobby of playing in the forest merge together, so groups that formed by badgers who play together carry over their group behaviors, including the exclusion of outsiders, into their work of maintaining and growing the forest. They likely don't even mean to do this most of the time.
Easily $100 billion. The momentum is too strong.
This experiment is quite flawed, at best. At the minimum:

- Oversimplified models of biochemistry (way, way more complex than insulin = fat)
- Sample size of 2 trials (leaving one result)
- No measure of insulin (not a one-to-one relation to blood glucose, also released in complex cycles)
- No control of meal time (blood glucose varies)
- No control of meal contents (assuming both meals are equal in content)
- No control of fasting time (blood glucose varies)

I have had to treat diabetes in cats so I got quite proficient with measuring blood glucose levels. Even when you control every single factor as much as possible (animal eats the same amount, at the same time, every day), blood glucose varies wildly. Non-diabetics have the same massive variance, as I have done blood glucose curves to myself and to others.

This experiment is unfortunately pretty much useless. The body is a very complex organic machine with lots of parts that evolved independently of each other. There aren't neat little one-to-one relationships that can be tested easily. It is full of genes that modify genes that modify genes that secrete hormones that modify pathways and brain patterns and so on.
There's nothing wrong with greed. Greed is why you choose job A over job B, partner Y over partner Z, and many other choices in your life.

Compulsion is the problem. That's why being a mugger is frowned upon and being a mechanic, generally, is not. Both are greedy, or look out for their self interest. It is compulsion which makes building restrictions abhorrent. Similarly, it is compulsion which makes rent control abhorrent.
They're doing those things because they're fun things to do

There are games and activities that don't gender stamped all over them, yes. But cupcakes and yoga are pretty close to the activities which have some gender-attachments.
I get it, I am just saying that there are a lot of ways to make a single LED light shine, potential energy from a weight is likely the least sensical.
I take your point, but the food ultimately gets its energy from the sun, which gets its energy from collapsing under gravity. I don't think there's a clear place to stop, but I'd say the name Gravity Light gets the idea across anyhow
This seems ridiculous.
As a VLC user, I'm sorry to hear things in the FFmpeg community got so bad. However, I thank all involved (including VideoLAN) for the work they did to make something that plays about anything on the major systems. Good news is, since it's open-source & mature, it has a chance of rebounding back into good shape either in current or new hands.
"So, what you are really asking is: If you were getting paid $115k/year to do a job where $115k/year was the normal competitive salary in your area, would you feel that it was somewhat unfair?"

^ How in the world did you come to that conclusion? oh_sigh's whole point was that a person would be upset if they knew they were getting much less compensation than others for the same kind of job.

I'm guessing you had a point there, but I'm not sure how the quoted phrase above is supposed to support whatever the point was.

:-D
I don't think it would pass emissions.

Interestingly (?), Dr. Porsche 'borrowed' the design.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatra_97
If we're playing that game:

- Human muscles get energy from food.

- Food is or gets its energy from plants.

- Plants get energy from the Sun.

- The Sun's energy comes from gravity-forced fusion.

So gravity :)
The acoustic signature would be generated by the client, then matched by the server. A bit more work than comparing tags, but not particularly onerous.
I love when the press accelerates startup success, even among the most successful companies of all time. They want everything to be an overnight success.

There is no timeline where Uber could be justified as being 5 years old. For example, there is a Techcrunch article [1] about the company launching the initial product over 5 years ago (which I'm sure took some time to develop!). Uber's website says the company existed in 2009, along with Travis' LinkedIn profile.

And then they spend a good chunk of the article comparing the speed that the two companies reach different valuations. I wonder what arbitrary date they picked as the date Facebook was founded...

1: http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/05/ubercab-takes-the-hassle-ou...

2: https://www.uber.com/about
Since when is an employee's salary based on their value to the company? Occasionally that value can be measured, and an employee will be payed by commission, but that seems like a bit of an exception. How do you judge the value of a business's single, extremely necessary, janitor?

I thought employees were generally paid by their market rate, i.e. how much it would cost to replace them, which is not necessarily related to their value to the company.
It was never standardized and is in no TLS implementation currently shipping, nor was it ever enabled in any mainstream implementation. The extension was proposed specifically as a compatibility measure for DoD networks, and was never recommended for normal use.
Can't you suspend a bed wired to one of these to the ceiling? At night before you go to sleep climb the stairs and get into the potential energy elevated bed. Then in the morning, after the bed descends, you have enough reading light energy stored for the next night.
This project makes me really happy. My first programming experience was modifying numbers I found in GORILLAS.BAS to see what would happen. I didn't know I wanted to learn to program or even what that meant. But the only way I knew to play the game was to open the source file and then run it, which made me curious. I couldn't understand it, but it wasn't unintelligible, either. Being a single text file without a lot of programming ceremony was probably a big part of that. You just start reading top to bottom and that's exactly how it's executing at the start of the file (before you get to subroutines of course).
Let the company handle that.
How putting $10M into UBeam illustrates everything wrong with tech investing today
Is it okay to steal from person A to give to person B if person A has > person B?
If they are so great, I'm sure you wouldn't mind moving from your W 55th street rent controlled apartment up a few blocks to the Amsterdam Houses, right?
The part he left out is he's only doing that until his job search pans out.
Housing should follow the normal economic laws but it doesn't seem to. Part of it is regulation, and part of it is an odd kind of scarcity. If there were no housing regulations, I'm sure you' get a lot of new housing in the Bay area and people would live in there (despite it being potentially unsafe). Heck .. I was actually entertaining the live-in-a-container option :-p

I'm still struggling to understand the scarcity aspect of housing. Supply of land isn't increasing so you'd think the asset would increase in price over time. That said, population isn't growing that much - prices in a city like Toronto have reached epic proportions fueled by a combination of speculation and foreign investment. To me, the problem lies in the fact that we are living in a highly leveraged economy. Will that ever stop? Doesn't seem like it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcdtVD8X1-A

:)
There was some discussion of a blog post explaining this paper here a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9833584
> You can only blame yourself for overusing goto in qbasic. It had functions, loops, block ifs, and all the other staples of structured programming.

When talking explicitly about children beginning programming, I think "you can only blame yourself" is overly harsh. I would certainly say this of a seasoned developer; but a child just starting will—and, I think, should!—do whatever the language allows him or her to do, and it is too much to expect such a child to see, before the bad habit is ingrained, the price that he or she is paying for the apparently wonderful freedom of navigation that GOTO affords. An introductory language should, I think, be very opinionated in matters of underlying structure; just having good options is not enough, if they are not forced (or at least strongly impressed) on the novice who doesn't yet know to use them.
Enigma is Hiring http://enigma.io/careers/
At Enigma we make sense of the world through data. We're connecting data to the curious minds and hungry algorithms that need it to drive better decisions. This is an ambitious project, so we are recruiting aggressively and trying to find not only the smartest people in the world, but those who are genuinely passionate and curious about our endeavors.
For the record, "prosocial" is not a real word in the English language
[1], but the phrase "prosocial behavior" [2] is a defined term (albeit
somewhat contrived) in behavioral psychology, sociology and related
fields.

You'd probably want to compare "Prosocial Behavior" to general "Social
Behavior" [3], as well as "Antisocial Behavior" [4] and "Asocial
Behavior" [5]. To keep things simple, I consider "Prosocial Behavior" to
be a combination of empathy, consideration, and kindness being shown
towards others.

[1] http://dictionary.reference.com/misspelling?term=prosocial

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosocial_behavior

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_behavior

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-social_behavior

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asociality
Well, sure there are quite a few people that are very critical of the US and some go as far as wanting to see theses bases go, but they are a minority.

There is also no political party (worth mentioning) that has any interest in getting rid of them and there isn't any discussion of the topic in the media either.

I don't see at all how it matters that there are conspiracy theorists who believe Germany not to be a sovereign state.
Thanks for the headsup - but there's nothing wrong with some competition and not to mention getting more coverage; for example it doesn't look like they have any data near the coast of Fukushima preficture which is the most important spot. Also the monitoring does not appear in realtime and if we are getting nitpicky there are certainly a few UX issues with how the data is presented.

On a related note, I'm sure Ken Buesseler is a good guy and his site is nice and I have nothing bad to say about him; I don't know him - but you can find comments about him from people who claim he's a "nuclear shill" and so regardless as a matter of principal it would be prudent to get more independent researchers involved in gathering data.
Sun is powered by fusion. Gravity just holds it together.
> because of arrogant people like you

> you are entitled to spew crap like that since you are the holder of truth?

We ban users who address other users repeatedly like this, so please don't do it again on HN. Comments here must be civil and substantive.

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LED is much more efficient than kerosene lamp, so I guess yes.
Why Mozilla CEO Chris Beard Wrote an Open Letter to Satya Nadella
That's only relevant in a world where you assume Uber is limited to the taxi market.
I remember following Groupon closely and feeling like Groupon was spending a bunch of money teaching people around the world how to use daily deals, only to have competitors come in make it a race to the bottom because the barriers to entry were so low.

I feel like Uber is doing the same: spending a bunch of money teaching people how to hail a cab from their phone. When competitors like Lyft, Hailo, and Via enter the market and compete with them, it starts to look like the same race-to-the-bottom that happened with Groupon.

(Last I heard, both Via and Lyft Line are cheaper than UberPool right now in Manhattan. I suspect both are taking a loss on many rides to compete.)
Don't forget to setup a pension and pay into it regularly.
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For most of my career, my salary has been not only known to my coworkers, but to the public at large via the local newspaper.

The impact? Nothing at all.

The only situation where I would be concerned about it would be a case where the company discriminating against people or aggressively ripping the employees off. I've witnessed both.

The big argument here is that the 10x producers are pissed off about others benefiting. The reality is that most of these "10x" people are mythical, and the ones who are real are either getting screwed anyway or make a salary consistent with their value.
GPU yes, ASIC no.
Better coverage here: http://www.wdrb.com/story/29650818/hillview-man-arrested-for...

More recently disputed by the drone's owner, who has the flight data recorded by the drone: http://www.wdrb.com/story/29670583/update-drone-owner-disput...
Slightly confused; are you saying they should say they're more than 5 years old? 2009 was 5 years ago, and if that's when the company was founded, saying they're 5 years old makes sense.
My mom had one of these 1970 bugs, navy blue, and I spent much of my childhood years in the back seat. Good memories.
Good point, but it's not the end. Fusion uses up energy put there by the Big Bang :)
> a few months ago when gas price was down to a mere $2.00 . It was wonderful for the public, but all I heard on TV is how bad it was for the economy.

That really pissed me off. When the gas prices were high, then the damage to the economy was clear—everyone was paying more, prices for everything across the board were going up, because the cost of doing everything went up.

And then when prices dropped? Suddenly it was "bad for the economy". I'm sure there were companies it was bad for—specifically, the companies that were riding high when prices were gigantic. But for the rest of the economy, it was a breath of fresh air.
Looking back since 2008 or so, with the possible exception of groupon, I can't think of a single $5+ billion dollar web 2.0 company that has crashed and burned.

A significant number of these web 2.0 companies seem to have defied the ‘crash and burn’ that characterized the first boom. Pets.com and Webvan were pretty much failures from inception, but sites like Pinterest and Airbnb keep getting more successful and more valuable.
It doesn't mean that ranking is just as effective with hidden text, only that Google can index hidden text. Big difference.
You can always do it "manually" by sending in your articles, the form, and your £25. I did this years ago for a company limited by guarantee.
I feel so unintelligent. I try my hardest to understand these valuations and I'm failing miserably.