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Yes, this comment is exactly my experience with Bitcoin advocates, too.

I often post the exact same critique of Bitcoin in these stories, that there's no political accountability in the Bitcoin technology to its users.

Bitcoin, of course, has economic assumptions baked in that influence how people use it, but those people have no real recourse to effect change in those economic assumptions. So its users, unlike with any national currency, have to take what they are given, without ever being able to have a say in how the currency is run.

This is antidemocratic at its core, of course, but the near-ubiquitous response I get is, "sure it's democratic, you just need to fork it and then persuade 51% of the network to use your fork," and occasionally someone comes out and says "people aren't fit to make economic decisions, it's right that Bitcoin makes those decisions for them."

Never has a single Bitcoin advocate ever said, "you're right, there should be some method in place for Bitcoin users to have a say in how it operates." Not once.

I haven't seen any other community so willing to either take power (for those who think of themselves as the techno-elite) or give it away (for those who recognize they aren't).

It reminds me of Terry Pratchett's running gag about how the people of Ankh-Morpork want kings back.
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I don't understand the "schools need more money". My wife teaches in a Title 1 school housed in a brand new facility. It's not about the facilities or even teachers as much as it is the student's family situation. The common trend with her students is those who's parents who are involved perform better. The focus should be how to create more of that.
I'm curious, what subset of the software development world are you working in? "Developing locally on your machine" is and has always been standard practice in every part of the industry I have encountered.
I don't understand the "schools need more money". My wife teaches in a Title 1 school housed in a brand new facility. It's not about the facilities or even teachers as much as it is the student's family situation. The common trend with her students is those who's parents who are involved perform better. The focus should be more of that.
I think money and education do correlate in a way that is difficult to disentangle, because more money in education probably correlates to higher property values, and higher property values probably means more money in education. And these things probably correlate to parents who are more likely to be professionals and more likely to value educational involvement.

But revenue from taxes might be spent more carefully, with a budget already planned out, whereas a sudden cash infusion was not planned. So the money's potential was unexpressed.

$20M went to consultants!
9:30 AM: Arrive at office.
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Ok, on the flip side, how would AM hide a $10mm payment to a random shady group from investors and future IPO filings? A new office in russia for 'consulting services'!?

And in these kinds of hostage negotiations, you give in to demands while simultaneously try to capture the criminals.
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Why didn't you give them 1 month notice then?

They would probably fire you immediately anyway and you would get paid.
> I really don't see the similarity here. Threatening to leave a locale is completely different from asking for a specific amount of money up front.

A) Keyword is "threatening" as in proactive, not reactive.

B) This is the clearly in the context of private individuals demanding stuff from government.
Right. It strikes me sort of like "hey! this person over here is/has acted like an asshole!" After a point, what do you gain by publicly pointing out the shortcomings of others?

I'd like to think that at some point we'd just get over the whole voyeuristic, hypocritical obsession with finding new witches to burn but I'm starting to just accept that it's part of human nature.
I don't know why you got downvoted. Punching a police officer seems like a good way to get shot.

It certainly increases the risk of getting shot.
While I fully agree with the empty shelf point (it WAS pretty pathetic), I don't accept the jacked-up price argument. Yeah, Target Canada did not have the prices one sees in Target US, but then Walmart Canada doesn't have the prices, either. Maybe in spots, but for the stuff I buy there's still a noticeable price reduction down south. Even factoring in the currency difference...

I think it's because Wal-Mart's been in Canada and people have grown used to the stores being there. Target was new, and it's way harder to overcome a screw up when new. Once the competition disappeared, things got more pricy in Wal-Mart so the Canadian consumer lost in various ways during this process.

I'm not sure they could have screwed up Target more if they tried. Perhaps this was all a tax write-off?
Between Plated, Blue Apron, HelloFresh, and others, lots of cool stuff going on in this space.
That was actually a typo, but thanks for the translation. And apologies...
indeed, a common story. i get the feeling the fbi did a lot of before-school visits to teenagers dicking around on irc in the mid 90s.

they showed up to my place once. the guy said to contact him after i graduated if i was looking for work, lol.

for what it's worth, they had binders and binders full of efnet logs.
yeah that's a very valid point. shareholders (and potential) of a publicly traded company should be aware of concerns like this and I retract my points about whether people should be judging on this (though I doubt most people commenting do it in that light).
I think you're confusing proper legal protections against exploitation of workers for Marxism. You can have a free market and still protect workers.

No one in their right mind is expecting the means of production to be collectivized into a bureaucratic mess (considering how many corporations are practically Stalinist dystopias in their own right).
That's hilarious. One of the premier and foremost missions of the Verfassungsschutz is of course counter-intelligence.

To support another countries foreign intelligence service (which is targeted with espionage on Germany) is nothing short of treason on an organized scale.
Not the OP, but that's the point of having a system of schools with multiple locations. They should be equal or else some kid is getting held back.

The big part of the problem is the continued use of property taxes and local bonds to pay for schools. Poor neighborhoods don't have the money for either.
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Is it better than what actually happened? You're going to wait a long time if you're waiting for the "best" solution to your problems.
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Maybe "more" isn't the operative problem, but when underpaid teachers pay out of their own pockets to supply & decorate their classrooms, there would appear to be a money problem.

There's also the general observation that if we want to empower teachers & attract good candidates, it needs to be a reputable job and $32k salaries are a major obstacle to that.
So...basically a large scale version of ruining someone's life for being an asshole? I dunno about you but while I'm not married and have never cheated on a spouse, I've certainly been an asshole before and I'm glad my life wasn't completely screwed over it.
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There may be too many of them to do a full list of.
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We also tend to use very subjective terms like "best," e.g., "where's the best place for food in Taipei?"

What is "best" and to whom? Ideally the software would figure this out but I'd always be wondering if it was just going to TripAdvisor and grabbing the first result.

Another problem is that we don't always know what kind of food we want. There's an urban legend that someone actually called a restaurant "I don't care" so that boyfriends would have a place to go when asking their girlfriend for dinner.
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Most of the people I know who got busted back then were into telco systems so they ended up with a fine, usually around 1-2k.

I'm guessing the navy wasn't so kind :/
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Different filters might carry different weights, and the weights might change depending on their combination, or unknown outside factors.

I guess it just seems incredibly inefficient compared to checking a couple boxes and reviewing a list along with a map or other visual aid.
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In addition to the considerations others have mentioned, I would say from a strictly expected monetary value, a successful consultant will make more money than the first technical employee at a seed stage company. So, if you go that route, you should have other motivations than maximizing your expected return.

As a rule, I don't even think it matters what the valuation was because generally the seed stage companies that should rationally expect to make money would have started with a proven team with prior successful exits.

I'm definitely not advising you away from the offer. I've been a consultant, worked at both successful and failed startups, and preferred both types of startups to consulting. But I still think the expected return is higher in consulting or being a top performer at a large (tech) leader. Good luck whatever you decide.
Ha, you're a brave soul. I spent a month on an ultimately doomed attempt to build a decentralized marketplace on Bitcoin. Very excited about Ethereum.
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I keep hearing this and it makes me realize I wasn't as cool as I thought I was in the 90s :P

The FBI visited once, my dad freaked out and told me before he answered the door.

Turns out someone was exposing themselves to kids on Halloween.
Eh, there's very little here that has much point in discussion.

I only wanted to point out that this particular sub-thread was going off the rails (as many are, but I can't respond to all of them due to time constraints and HN's hard rate limit).

The information can't be destroyed now, so there is little point in discussions about what should or shouldn't have happened in this specific instance.

If someone breached a contract and this provides evidence to those ends, then it's simply a fact. I completely understand that facts can upset people.

If someone didn't breach a contract...well I'm not sure what the worry is in this specific instance.

In any case, it obviously sucks when information you gave in trust is leaked out and there is certainly a lesson to learn in data security here. There also seems to be a lesson to perhaps not trust companies who apparently fundamentally produce and specifically market a trust violation product. Of course, if you are in the market for such a product, formal calculation of your preference function may not be a priority.

>I'd say the part where vezzy-fnord talks about the couple's "prerogative" and "things that are none of your concern" set the context in terms of moral rights, not whether it can possible affect the other person.

This makes it sounds like vezzy-fnord is arguing for some kind of thought control regime; a regime where one may selectively engineer the exact perception to create in others. If someone can perceive something, they should be able to contemplate it.

Just as it is a couple's prerogative to seek court mediation for their breached contracts (this is the right the argument afforded the couple), it is another's prerogative to act on information that is known to them.
Sure, and they might be right. But history is rich with these sorts of things. The number of common cancer attributes are legion, e.g. MYC mutations, but to date it always turns out that the total story is complex enough that it doesn't matter.
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I ran twitter's new engineer training for a long time, and much of this rings pretty true to me. I would only add 3 things:
-1 the skill of teaching is approximately orthogonal to domain knowledge, and the difference between a decent and very good teacher is huge, both in terms of student-reported happiness and in terms of retention of the material covered.
-2 history with the company tends to be very valuable, in that new hires are often curious about _why_ the company decided to build system X as it was. My goal was that teachers should be able to answer most such questions accurately, and truthfully say that they didn't know in the other cases. I found (anecdotally, because this data is hard to capture) that the student-reported quality of a class was generally proportional to the maximum length of question/answer/followup q/answer/... chains.
-3 the onboarding process is an extremely powerful propaganda platform. During twitter's long transition from ruby to scala, (before I ran it) there were a series of presentations that were forward looking to the point of inaccuracy: they described as existing in the present that which we hoped would one day exist. This confused a bunch of new engineers when the rainbow unicorn scala world promised them did not materialize. On the positive side, many of them were then motivated to help build a scala world.
This discussion of the root problem is useful, but let's not let it become a red herring or distraction from the rest of the problem: I mean even if the stop happened and was legal, there is a real and valid problem in the way the trial occured, once she presented the proof of valid license and insurance, that should have been the end of it - including a reimbursement for expenses incurred.

I am curious about racial motivations and racial disparity though. It might be reasonable to think that the cop didn't pull over the people due to their race, as it was dark and I don't know if there was any way he could have seen that well. I wonder though if there is a way to find out a stops vs "run the license" ratio and if it indicates any racial biases. The run the license part should be gleanable from logs, but the number of stops part may be difficult - I don't know how those are recorded and how accurately they are recorded.
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I have the same problem. I receive flight tickets, dinner reservations, once even an entire stack of private documents including passport scans (from someone working as an admin for the Italian PM! Blackmail opportunities ahoy...). I usually do my best to track down "offenders" and forward their stuff... unless it's something from racist/wingnut organisations (it looks like Americans sharing my surname have right-wing sympathies).

I originally thought it was a "senior citizen" issue but now it happens with all sorts. People just forget what their correct email address is. Moral of the story: registering your name to new services asap is always good ;)
Ah, well, I guess all I can really say then is that it seems like you're knocking it before you've tried it. It's not any more or less cryptic or explicit than the alternatives, it's just a different, and quite convenient, way of expressing the same thing.
You'd want to separate that complexity from your kernel modules by using some intermediate, e.g. mqueues, named pipes or shared memory.
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I was an extremely early beta user of Future Advisor (I had reached out to Bo from an HN post), and I wasn't impressed after a long experience with them. It was a terrible process having my retirement accounts moved from fiduciary to fiduciary, having problems getting additional retirement contributions into the accounts, etc.

I ended up moving to Betterment.
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Obviously not publishing the link! They're webpage includes name, two addresses, DOB, passport number,.. They said they can't remove it immediately. What can I do?
I don't think segregation is the model, but merely a subfactor. Segregation can be insidious, but it can't explain why getting a huge cash infusion doesn't work, especially since segregation arguments are often about unfair funding differences. But $200M ($100M from Zuckerberg) is a shit-ton of money to get. It's like saying if there were more white and Asian kids there, then money would be spent more wisely.

Given the information from the article, I think power play between major actors better explains how so much money vaporized. I mean, how did consultants get $20M? Because of racial distribution? I think it's because of power play dynamics.

I think tax revenue will be better spent because the flow is predictable, but when you get a sudden cash infusion with no plan, then you won't spend it as well as well-budgeted tax revenue. Perhaps it is also partially Zuckerberg's fault, because he should've realized the political fighting and released the money incrementally.
"but that doesn’t change the fact that Google has produced a service that works, is easy to use, switches quickly between networks,"

I've had what can only be described as a hellish experience with Google's Fi service since I got it. My bugs include but are not limited to:

- SIM cards randomly not being associate with both networks, the fix for which is clearing the Fi app data, restarting the phone, and then re-running the app. With wifi, which is tricky when your car breaks down on highway 1.

- Interment and VERY poor data performance, but no interruption in voice service.

- Data service working fine, but all incoming and outgoing calls failing.

In the support category, Project Fi has also been a nightmare. None of the support staff know what to do when you encounter a problem. They don't know why my account (or my friend's account) are broken. They've suggested (just to me) and had me do the following things:

- Reboot the phone.

- Reseat the sim card while the phone is on.

- Factory reset the phone

- Factory reset the phone again without the sim card in.

- Buy a new SIM card. They gave me free shipping, at least?

- Flash the phone to a version of Shamu that is not compatible with other carriers.

- Remove all other user accounts from the phone.

I've been repeatedly asking to cancel my service and get my number ported back to google voice, and I've actually had service reps ignore me claiming they want to explain "[their] side of the story." I have a chat transcript explaining that.

And of course, let's not forget the weird callback system bugs. Like last night 4 hours after I scheduled a call they called me 2 times at 1am, and when I asked them not to call me I was told, "If you don't want us calling then don't schedule a service call!" When I said I didn't, they said, "Well that's odd because I see it right here" then hung up on me.

I still have not successfully cancelled my Fi service. The web form version 500s.

I do not think it is very easy to use, or ready. It seems pretty terrible to me.
Not saying the book isn't good, but I have a general observation to make. Such books would be better if they provided a sequence of carefully difficulty-graded exercises that would build on towards practical mastery. Instead, there is a flood of theorems with a spattering of exercises. With two exercises one can't feel confident about learning a theorem or other deep complex math concept.

It's one thing to read a theorem, another to be confident to apply it. When I was learning math in university, it was the same. Theorems, axioms and definitions by the truckload, but exercises - nada. In reality it all comes down to applying math.
If and when they catch on, running ETFs and mutual funds are both easy ways to make money. Essentially they skim off the top.

The article says "fees of 75 basis points". What that means is they take 0.75% of the assets under management, year in and year out, in good times and bad times.

Fortunately, as the ETFs get bigger and there is more competition, the fees come down. Eg SPY takes 0.09% and VOO takes 0.05%.
My area of the world (Utah, USA) also has a licensing point system. Accrue enough points and your license gets suspended.

Problem is, like my wife a decade ago when she tried to get her license renewed, it had been revoked a year prior to that because of excessive speeding tickets and due to her being young and moving a lot managed to not receive the postal notification (or she ignored it, you can choose). What do you do when people just start ignoring the points? Have more points that accrue on subsequent violations that further prevent someone from renewing their license after a probationary period? What if they ignore that point system also?

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Thanks for helping me get to the meat of what I was trying to communicate.

It really is all about the interface and the efficiency. I have to wonder though at what point is adding all those filters more involved than checking a couple boxes and glancing at a map or some photos. I'm sure a lot of that depends on context (I can't do those things if I'm driving, but I can use voice recognition).

The other thing I'm unclear about is how such a recommendation engine can best present information about tradeoffs. In theory, each of my filters has a weighting, and that weight might be dynamic based on several other factors. Maybe I really want chinese, but the best match is further away or I know there will be lots of traffic, so I might be willing to compromise on thai, but only if they have that one dish I like. And a lot of it is seeing the options in the moment and making a snap decision. Really curious about the approaches to solve that type of problem.
I may be misunderstanding, but as far as I know it simply layers Mach kernel services onto the FreeBSD kernel rather than actually using Mach.
Imagine the spam you would get if you have a common name - like jsmith@gmail.com.

I have a boss with a very common last name - not quite as common as smith though. He has a "jsmith@yahoo.com" email address. He constantly gets emails meant for other j smiths.
Yeah, but what does that have to do with random unassociated outside observers? Are you saying society at large has some kind of right to intimate details of personal relationships?
> I think websites have a responsibility to validate the email and delete the account if it isn't validate in a reasonable amount of time or have a link to delete the account if someone who signed up wasn't you.

You're talking about a business with questionable practices to begin with in that case, not a responsible one. These people are scammers like most of the dating websites.
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BTW, a little late here... but my comment was actually intended as pure sarcasm over the fact that anyone would so angrily scoff at the idea of paying $20 to a fellow developer and Haskell enthusiast, who is just trying to help others enjoy the language.

Sarcasm is tough.
Not really. If anything, it's done the opposite, because people were all happy that "a bunch of cheaters got what they deserved."
Who cares about email addresses? Credit card numbers are how you incriminate your cheating spouse.