skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's kinda the basic premise of socialism - whereby an employee's salary is dissociated from the economic benefit they bring.

The basic premise of socialism is that the means of production are in social ownership. Paying employees based on the economic benefit they bring is not contradictory to socialism.

People call this socialism because, after so long hearing the term bandied about as a catch-all fear word, they simply apply it to anything that doesn't match their view of the one true God's own capitalism.
I do think it's interesting that there are no (that I can find) reputable competency-based CS programs.
GrowSumo (YC S15) Helps Businesses Grow Sales Through Partner Programs
nemo1618: The proof of work algo for ethereum is MUCH more difficult than in most other cryptocurrencies, leading to far lower aggregate hash numbers- If you want to compare it against BTC/LTC/etc you first need to correct for the average hash rate on a single mining PC for the given currency.
Bombadil is possibly my favorite enigma in all of Tolkien's work. You can dig all you want, but there is nothing, no lore. My own interpretation is that he is not part of the music of the children, but somehow an incarnation of the natural world that was created along side it. Tolkien focuses very much on how the music determines course of the history of middle earth, but Tom seems to be a kind of reminder that nature doesn't really care about us and will continue long after we are gone (unless we destroy it, but Tolkien's experience of the 20th century made human destruction of nature of secondary concern behind our destruction of our fellow man). Of course, the liar interpretation is always possible, but seems to undermine the importance of what the character represents.
What network effect? How does my friends using Uber force me to use Uber as well? I see it more like a toilet paper or shampoo thing: My friends might recommend Uber, but other friends would recommend Lyft, and others a local competitor. There is nothing that locks me in. We can disagree and I can live with them using Uber and me using some other service for years.

Unlike Facebook, Uber is easily replaced. I can't convince my friends to change to a Facebook competitor, but for Uber I don't have to. I don't lose out by using an Uber competitor. With Microsoft in the 90s I couldn't share or read documents if I used a competing OS. I literally had to use Windows.

Right now, Uber is paying lobbyists and lawyers squirming around the issues with braking taxi laws, labor laws, tax laws etc. And they are paying for marketing to teach us to order cabs using apps. And then, local competitors can make apps that are as good and the business model is easy to compete with.

If I travel to London I might not know what the local competitor of Uber is called and I may wanna go with Uber or a conventional taxi. But back in my city, Uber is just one of a bunch, soon one of many. That's, by the way, a difference from AirBnB who is only used by people who are out of town.
So by your logic fossil fuel is solar energy.
How about "Priscilla Chan to be mother"?
I don't think any business that achieves that sort of valuation should be considered a "startup".
I'm not sure I'd pinch my nose over the cost of PyQt, but the cost of PyQt is pretty negligible.

The problem is the cost of Qt itself for commercial development - unless I'm misreading the Qt website I might choke and drown on the cost of a developer license for Qt ("1x Qt for Application Development ($350/Interval)") and (" This subscription is automatically invoiced at 1 months Intervals").

Maybe it's badly-written English confusing me, but that (and other info on their site) sounds suspiciously like "Developing commercially for Qt and being able to do maintenance releases requires a $350/month developer license." Oh, and their licensing FAQ specifically says that you CANNOT start on the LGPL version and change to the commercial license without prior permission from them.

Maybe it's just me, but if I'm going to be expected to spend $4200/year/developer (or "contact us" for a perpetual agreement), maybe I'd be better off spending a little money first checking out the other alternatives.
Hi everyone! I'm one of the founders of GrowSumo and would be happy to answer any questions you might have about starting or joining a partner program. We're excited to launch, and to hear what you think! :)
As other comments have already said, Uber is still expanding. They are also spending millions on self-driving car R&D. http://www.wsj.com/articles/is-uber-a-friend-or-foe-of-carne...
Camtasia Studio 8.5 Crack Plus Registration Code
Since you're the creator, I'd like to ask you, why BASIC and not Smalltalk? You mention a desire to eschew boilerplate and provide instant gratification--doesn't Smalltalk provide that as well if not better than BASIC?
I think it's important to note this was from last October (2014). And here is somewhat of a response blog post from Suster (investor) around that time:

http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2014/11/05/the-case-for-o...
https://www.apple.com/itunes/itunes-match/

Pretty sure, yeah.
I guess it is the trend in software now. 'Move fast and break things'. Started with games, now with Operating Systems.

I agree, there was a lot of duality in Windows 8 with Metro and classical Windows menus/programs, and they still seem to exist with 10. I even have "Backup and Restore (Windows 7)" option in control panel and yet I upgraded from a clean install of Windows 8.1.
I agree. I know people who crunch data for Uber and some of things they're doing are really valuable. All these rides - pickups, dropoffs, times of day, routes, etc. And this is just the tip of the iceberg what they're doing. These kinds of basic projects inspire more complex analysis I'm sure.

The information gathered will allow them to move into new phases of development. The cab hailing service is not the end game here.
> He cancels the donation.

Isn't that literally un-doing a good deed?
This looks really handy - thanks!
A word of warning though: TfL aggressively protects the roundel trademark.
For only $800? Come on, man!
It's interesting to see him being accused of being "socialist" or "communist" when his decision seems to flow from his conservative Christian upbringing.
We will have to think about it. We didn't have it in mind to begin with -- but may be worth trying.
The equivalent jquery mobile size - minified then gzipped - is 53kb.
I think you've said it. It add functionality on top of a plugin structure. The additional functionality like ORM, migrations, validation, etc etc. Makes life easier for plugin developers. We intend to address other areas where we think we can safe time for developers doing the daily mundane stuff.

I've certainly had issues with doing repeat stuff so scratching my own itch.

I am sorry, I couldn't convey the benefits much better. Any suggestions you would like to give?
I was wondering the same thing. It feels like the article is implicitly blaming the Fukushima meltdown for the tsunami somehow.
Based, not tied. Specifically, the salary is capped to their value to the company.
I think your muscles are pretty energy efficient.

The kinetic potential battery (the weight lifted against gravity) is also very efficient.

Food is very energy dense. https://what-if.xkcd.com/128/ (sandwich vs battery)

Uh, change of topic: isn't the caloric value of a food how much heat can be released by burning it (probably when it is dehydrated)? Plenty of energy stored in a sandwich, sure. But a car battery could power a small spaceheater-like thing for... a while. There's a lot of potential for heat production in a car battery (even without BURNING it). Did Mr. Munroe get this one wrong?
> without being dependent on Himera

It horrifies me that anyone would have been dependent on Himera to do real work. While I'm proud that it filled a gap for a few years and consider it a successful experiment, I'm happy to know that it's effectively unnecessary now.
Yes. Lua is a very small and orthogonal language, so even tiny improvements in one part of it help most programs.

For example, if you've figured out a small increase in reading a value from a table, you have sped up all other data structures, OO code, etc., because the table is used for everything.
Serenity Caldwell wasn't able to duplicate this, probably a bug.

https://twitter.com/settern/status/627162699076665344
> potential energy from a weight is likely the least sensical.

potential energy is very easy to produce, keresene is not always available. I think this is the #1 benefit.
You have a serious confounding factor in that urban density correlates highly with liberal political views, at least in America.
Also see http://textslashplain.com/2015/07/31/on-defaults/ and a Twitter thread on the problems with the OOBE UI: https://twitter.com/yuhong2/status/627145718331904000
You also have existing taxi companies to compete against. Way before Uber was a thing, my preferred company in Stockholm had a simple hailing app, it was basically one button for "I want a cab, here, now". No tracking, no payments, nothing fancy, but still.

These days, Taxi Stockholm has a hailing app that is on par with Uber's app, and I just can't see how Uber can compete with that. I can use Taxi Stockholm and get a professional cab driver in a nice luxury car that is insured, regulated, cctv'd and has a trusted brand name, or I can use Uber and get a non-professional in a regular car, no taxi license plate, unknown insurance situation, for maybe a cheaper price.

Uber is fantastically successful in places where the existing taxi market sucks for whatever reasons, but there are plenty of places where it doesn't suck, and it's very questionable what Uber can bring to the table then. Or Lyft, Hailo, etc. Any technology they make can be easily copied by their competitors, but local vehicle fleets can't.
Yes, but a market being big doesn't mean there is a lot of low hanging fruit in that market. In a market with a regulated number of cabs it's easy to see how uber can find market share (like in NYC). In a market without medallions or similar, where there is already competition among taxi companies making margins slim, I don't see how Uber can be so disruptive. Having an app, dynamic pricing, and abusing the workforce should be obvious steps already taken by existing taxi companies in those markets!
Inflation will have to play a significant role. Going by how currencies are based, $100B startup is a reality although a magnitude higher would put us in hyper-inflationary zone perhaps.
It certainly does! Having "programmed" since I was ~5, the concept of variables and that level of indirection was second nature. I was truly astounded when other kids had trouble.

Even cooler, these days, is Dragon Box. It teaches kids symbolic manipulation via a cute and fun game. Starts off with little creatures you move around, then simply changing the drawings from creatures to numbers and letters makes a seamless transition.
Austin and San Antonio is an informative comparison. They're both inland cities, but Austin has placed significantly more liberal policy into practice. They have problems with spiking rent.
What should you do? Stop whining.

If they didn't tell you upfront that you'd be compensated for your time -- you have no reasonable expectation of getting compensated for your time.

More than likely that "business feature" is the same task they give every applicant -- they just want to see how you do with something that looks like a real-world task.

We do that here: We have a fake project that we pull a fake task out of, and have applicants pair with one of us on its solution. During the "work", the boss will throw us a couple curve balls too -- it's interesting to see how applicants react.

We do however, pay them a modest amount for their time.
I wouldn't call it network effect, it's just a market. They need riders and drivers, just like Groupon needed buyers and businesses, but the fact that my friends use Uber doesn't stop me from trying Via. My Via driver the other night was telling me about how he drives for Uber on weekends. The switching costs are very low for both the rider and driver.
I find that the Windows Explorer is super cluttered. I need to find a good replacement.
> I can express a concept much clearer in code than I can in comments.

I doubt it. Just from your one post, I can see that you have a perfectly adequate ability to use human language, and human language is much more powerful and expressive than any programming language.

If you disagree, you should make your counter-argument in a programming language.
Facebook’s Twisted Obsession with Annihilating Your Privacy
James may did an interesting show about classic cars recently and drove one the surviving beetle protypes.
great point punjabisingh. We will certain consider that option too. We are currently trying to gauge if what we've provided solves a problem for someone. If it becomes successful, we would be very willing to interface with wp-cli.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9974944
>I don't know if it's a poorly throught through PR stunt or if it's just a vanity / mid-life crisis thing, but it sure wasn't executed smartly.

Or he just wanted to do what he thought was the right thing. I hire day laborers through a local service on a regular basis. I pay the workers directly and I am supposed to give them $9 an hour. I typically pay them $15-$20hr an hour at the end of the day.
I have found a fair number of companies don't have their hiring process figured out in any meaningful way. It sucks to feel like you've wasted a lot of time interviewing (not to mention any excitement about the opportunity and its possibilities), but you should take solace in the fact that you do not now work at a company where they have these kinds of issues. Keep your head up!
The curse of the secret question (2005)
it's awesome to see this progress, thanks for sharing and the awesome work
By causality, it kinda is.
And then when you go back to a language not based on S-expressions you'll really miss them.
New 'Harry Potter' Movie Trolls Fans
As long as the functionality is there and basic improvements have been made, I'm not at all upset. I got my upgrade for free, and I'm enjoying several of the new features (especially multiple desktops, welcome to the 21st century Microsoft).

We've all released minimum viable products before. Hell, "early access" is dominating video games in particular. As long as they continue to improve and have a stable, steady release schedule with tangible results, then I think it was a good move on Microsoft's part. Especially since the longer they waited the more entrenched users of Windows 7 & 8 would become, just like they did with XP.
Or just use a butterfly net.
Last I knew, Apple licenses Gracenote's MusicID for acoustic signature matching in iTunes and iTunes Match, it's not technology they themselves possess. So perhaps the rationale is a licensing issue.
That is a great way to look at it. I am a real estate investor looking into the pros and cons of investing in the campuses of technical schools. They are everywhere. I think your sentiment is a great way to sort the healthy/longer lasting schools from the ones open to technology change. Fields like nursing, dental hygiene, server maintenance, etc will be more likely to succeed than paralegal, medical billing, etc. Some jobs are inherently (and always will be) onsite.
Last summer, Sander Dieleman was working on recommending music based on audio signals, while interning at Spotify. Very interesting work:

https://benanne.github.io/2014/08/05/spotify-cnns.html
Looks very similar to the way in which numbers / strings / objects are represented in Javascript (and earlier in some Lisps).

The nice thing is that for pointers, tagging is "free", for the lowest 4 bits of a 16-byte aligned pointer are not used anyway.
Agreed. I like Apple more than most but... C'MON, GUYS! They've already got the technology in iTunes Match and it works pretty well. No clue why they didn't use it for this, especially when the whole "iCloud Music Library" is one of the bigger selling points of the service v. Spotify, Rdio, etc.
We will have to price it in as a systematic risk. Our competitors in the local market face the same risks, and when Amazon does come in they will have to face it too. For now we are focused on competing locally. Things have not been all that bad for us in Dhaka -- we actually deliver a lot faster on hartal days.

And insurance works just fine in Bangladesh once you figure out the claims process.
His analysis used the size of the current taxi market as the ceiling for Uber's revenue. In San Francisco Uber is already generating 3x as much as the traditional taxi market was.
This is ridiculous. Any change in pay structure is going to cause someone to get the short end. Who doesn't want more money? Who doesn't have getting less?

One thing's for certain: there's a whole bunch of people who are butthurt about lower class people getting more money. Wonder what that reflects about them...
Yes. Came here to say this. Expect a nastygram from TfL. eg:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/16/tube_map_madness/
>Recent studies have shown that playing prosocial video games leads to greater subsequent prosocial behavior
in the real world.

What about the opposite? Does anti-social activity in games lead to anti-social activity in the real world?
Drone shooting: US home-owner faces charges
U.S. District Judge rules mobile-phone tracking does require a warrant
Thanks for your comment, Aaron. I will address your points in order.

You start by questioning the background and motives of my colleagues. While I have thoughts on how to respond to this, I choose to stick to discussing the facts.

Then you represent the goal of my experiment in the following way: “can I stuff enough kale in my mouth to slow down the release of insulin, and therefore reduce glucose.” This is not accurate. My goal was to see if I could influence my digestive system to release glucose into the blood more gradually so as to minimize insulin signaling to fat cells. More explicitly, the amount of glucose is about the same in the two meals; it was the amount of insulin signaling by my body that changed.

I will add additional detail that I do not mention in my blog post. Cells that have high need for glucose do not need much insulin signaling. In response to their need, they already have placed more glucose transporters on their cell membrane. Gratuitous insulin signaling causes fat cells to absorb glucose that could have been absorbed by a high-need muscle cell.

Then you say, “Here’s a few other things that reducing insulin does....” From your wording, particularly in your use of “other,” you seem to agree that less insulin signaling means less fat cell growth and that your concern is primarily with its “side effects.” I will address amino acids and potassium in a later post. For now, I will address your point about brain signaling.

Actually, too much insulin signaling interferes with leptin signaling, making you respond less to leptin signaling. Leptin is the satiety hormone that is released by your fat cells. The neurons in your hypothalamus that have receptors for insulin also have receptors for leptin, and unfortunately for us, they have commonalities in their signal transduction pathways. So a lot of insulin signaling interferes with leptin signaling. This makes leptin signaling less effective and makes you want to eat more in spite of having enough body fat. (See the paper, “The First Law of Thermodynamics Revisited” by Robert Lustig of UCSF.)

You state firmly, “Fear not glucose and insulin. Fear insulin resistance and glucose intolerance.” You do not state however how you would advise someone to avoid insulin resistance and glucose intolerance. My view is that slowing down the digestion rate of your meals, such as I have done here, is part of the strategy for doing so.

Unfortunately, I have to run now, but I will address your remaining points later. I am also happy to write another blog post with ample references to primary research literature.
Smalltalk doesn't translate as cleanly between common mathematical notation and code.

Variants of BASIC are among the oldest, most minimal languages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_BASIC
I agree to both of your points [0], but you ignore a third. What about people who have already heard you are selling fish tacos, don't care, and want you to shut up? Or people who have preemptively decided that they don't want to hear any advertisements for fish tacos, due to allergies, they simply don't care to hear about fish tacos.

How long should they hear that you are selling fish tacos before deciding to avoid you? Should they ever have to hear you advertising your fish tacos?

Note that I said "avoid you" and not "prevent you from advertising your fish tacos". You're free to advertise to other people - but people who have decided they want nothing to do with fish tacos should be free to avoid you.

You provide no compelling reason for why people not interested in fish tacos shouldn't be able to avoid you and your fish taco advertisements.

[0] For the sake of argument I'll consider that selling fish tacos to people who desire fish tacos to be a morally just decision and entertain the thought that other people want fish tacos who may not have heard you are selling fish tacos, and thus benefit from your advertisement is also moral. Morals are relative and so nothing is "inherently moral" though I don't want to confuse you by disagreeing with you on this point.
Locent (YC S15) Lets Businesses Sell Products via Text Message
Honest series of questions from an outsider:

Your team won, Michael stepped down. Of his own volition. What positive outcome could possibly be had by still spouting bitterness and negativity against him? Is it because he did not genuinely say "sorry" at some point? After reading [0] and [1], is it not possible to admit that maybe both sides have some genuine "sorries" to pass around? Now seems like the perfect opportunity to make a positive change for developers and users instead of venting frustrations that are only going to further polarize the current division.

(I'm not "automatically" labelling your posts as bitter. Almost all of yours in these comments objectively contain negative language, typically directed at Michael.)

[0] http://ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2011-January/106403...

[1] http://ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2011-January/106489...

Edit, to add:

I guess I echo this sentiment (from article's email chain): http://ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2015-July/176493.ht...
Feta and herb loaf
For some reason I feel like ClojureScript starts to transform into a new Clojure dialect (which runs on node.js and not on a JVM). Am I correct?
This was exactly my experience when creating the architecture for my last startup. Joyent's GUI, instance management, and fast helpful support were invaluable and kept their promise of 100% uptime over a 9 month period (unlike AWS, Heroku, and Linode who all gave us downtime during that same period).

The security features of SmartOS can not be understated. Managing an AWS stack seems archaic in comparison, but AWS does seem cheap and more flexible at first glance. I think it's too easy these days to overcomplicate a stack with AWS and/or Docker, and Joyent has picked the right pain points to streamline. I'm using Joyent in my new ventures without hesitation.