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The article tries to shoehorn its issue onto what is clearly corporate greed and an absolutely stunning lack of judgement. Would this cheat have been found through the code? Who knows maybe, but the fact that VW went ahead knowing their numbers were fake is unforgivable and almost unbelievable. It would eventually come out.
I imagine BadUSB would fall into that latter category
Those numbers are for pure water. If water is mixed with something, salts (not just sodium salt, but salts of other elements as well), etc, that changes the properties of the resulting mixture.

The water on mars is probably "salty" mixture, maybe slush, but we don't really know what it's consisted of unless we have measurements / spectral analysis of the water mixture.
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The outsider's perspective (I own no Apple products and don't follow announcements from them that closely) is that when their product is obviously outclassed (as opposed to slightly outclasses as the normal phone leap-frogging entails) they quietly wait long enough to have a major performance and/or feature drop and then release it all of a sudden. It helps that their media relations are second to none and can use this time to eviscerate the competition. Say what you will about Apple, but they are very savvy when it comes to product development and marketplaces.
This is also why I'm so against the typical public school systems we've built in the US. Its a top-down beaurocratic system that does nothing but transfer wealth from the taxpayer to the teachers and their unions. Outcomes are piss poor in big cities and endless strikes for benefits and pay aren't wonderful things. Chicago is reeling from a pension crisis right now mostly due to corrupt deals with a corrupt teacher's union. A teacher's union with an average teacher's salary of $72,000 a year - for 9 months work in a very affordable city! How affordable? Our average household income is $43,000.

We need more charter schools and alternative learning either funded by the state with existing tax dollars or attached to property tax breaks for parents using them instead of the standard public school. We've been fighting for more charter schools but they come slowly because of all the pro-union politics that many liberals, unfortunately, consider unquestionable. You'd think liberals would be on the side of alternate education, especially since there's so much research on different types of children responding better to these methods.

As an introvert and somewhat of a non-standard learner, I got lucky that my parents were able to afford private school for me. I know a lot of other introverts didn't get so lucky and suffered badly in public school. Some of them are doing very poorly in life and I fully believe if they had different educations opportunities they'd be much better off. A top-down system that works only with extroverted neurotypicals is a huge disservice to children and the taxpayer.
>Airbnb do not care about guests and their safety at all.

I don't know. It seems like it would be a nightmare to sort through a he-said she-said after the fact when the offended party didn't even book a stay (instead the room was booked by some other person that is insisting "no, it's cool, I know them"), and furthermore didn't even report the apartment not being available when the issue occurred.

It's nice that they were "all cool" with the host and decided to play musical buildings instead of contacting Airbnb right there, but when they did that, they went off the books and severely limited Airbnb's ability to quickly and effectively sort through the issue. A customer that didn't even book a room though the service had an issue and went with a "handshake" from the host to resolve it instead.

Let's walk through the alternate scenario.

Customer desiring a room actually books a room through AirBnB.

Customer arrives and hosts tells them the apartment is no longer available. Customer contacts AirBnB and the issue is dealt with right then and there, and the host is sanctioned properly.

No driving around in a strange city to a place you've never set eyes on, and if you want to book another apartment with the host, you do it on the books.
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I don't think that's the way to do it in Kotlin (though I'm no expert). More idiomatic:

fun myFunc(a: Int?): {
if ( a == null ) {
// handle the null case
}
// a is guaranteed non-null here
}

EDIT: And, of course, you can just use non-nullable types:

fun myFunc(a: Int) {
// a is guaranteed non-null
}
Centralized logging is critical to managing security. No real world production systems should be logging locally.
A portrait of Jesus being crucified from the 16th century is apparently a contemplation for kitsch and fetishism and Olympia is a cogitation for evocative postmodernism?
FYI: I've put together a showcase for static sites [1] at Planet Jekyll. If you browse the listing (a static site itself ;-) you will find project sites, online books, and much more (than just blogs).
[1] http://planetjekyll.github.io/showcase
This perspective completely ignores the use case of off-the-shelf software where you have limited or no capability to add "application metrics". Logs are invaluable in that scenario, which is arguably the majority of software deployments.
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> Unfortunately, by the time they filtered from administration down to me, these attempts (e.g. typology testing for career and school advice, or special workshops) were either so watered down as to be completely useless or so boring-sounding and voluntary that no student in their right mind would attend them without prodding.

This is what I think of every time I hear people proposing changes to education. Nothing is going to work, because nothing can work, because nothing is going to look the same from ideation to implementation.
It's a very briny water which can radically shift the phase diagram. Just like adding salt to boiling water in a pot changes the boiling point.
It has been a few years since I graduated, but my impression is always that people were in general much more willing/allowed to talk in the A-level more than on any other floor.

Sure the ground floor could get packed but the amount of dBs/person was higher in the A-level, so it would it be louder if it was actually packed as well. This likely also because the A-level has the cubicles in the back that were set up precisely for group work.

In any case, it is misleading for the article to say that converting the A-level to a more collaborative environment is taking away from introverts'. Especially since the A-level is one of the louder rooms in one of the louder libraries.
Actually, what happens isn't much different than a magician's slight of hand. The eyes are drawn to the underlying image, thereby suspending the critical faculties of the mind and creating an opportunity for implicit learning.

Thinking Fast and Slow is one of my favorite books. Read it twice!
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I've downvoted you because the world doesn't need yet another post about how some open source project that has the audacity to call themselves "the ultimate resource" for their initial release doesn't live up to some-random-person-on-the-internet's idea of "ultimate".

I'm guessing from the specifics of your example queries that you already have some knowledge about WSGI and Python that you could contribute to the guide. Why not do that instead?
In some cases they aren't overlooked, they get suspended for being involved in a physical altercation (bully beat them up) just like any other student.
I had a bad stay with airbnb. I can't be bothered to repost the whole situation but their customer service was fucking shit.
Seems like a common theme in "sharing economy" companies - start off with a great concept and great execution, but once they become popular, some part of them just falls apart.

For uber, it's the way they treat their drivers. The churn is incredible. But as long as they continue to offer cheap rides and can lure new drivers in with empty promises, they'll continue to exist.
You can extract application metrics from the local logs as they are output (and then redirected to /dev/null).
Well, obviously us tech people are the only ones who can understand things. Everyone else is just banging rocks together.
Was anyone else a bit annoyed by the fact that the 6s and 6s Plus were not both listed on each test? I guess that's why they titled the article preliminary, but damn.
When I travel I don't have time for dealing with this crap. Hence, I overpay for hotels. Not foolproof by any means, but the big chains will generally be pretty legit and have the room you ask when you get there.
As someone who speaks both art and computers, I can assure you that it's at least as rigorous and significant as, say, the startup community's language. The problem with trying to make a counterexample of hard science is that you're opening up to excluding every subject that isn't hard science to the same criticism.

The purpose of the language of art theory and criticism isn't to communicate objective truth, because it's subjective truth. But just because a truth is subjective does not make it less real, or less meaningful. Generally, we are limited to the subjective reality of our perceptions. Art theory is the study of perceptions, and a great deal of modern art is more or less experimenting with perception itself. Knocking it as "bollocks" because it's not expressed in formal logic or mathematics is both subjective and non-rigorous. Or, as the Dude would say, "That's just, like, your opinion, man." If you don't understand the language, that's fine, and if you don't care to understand it, that's fine too, but calling it bollocks without understanding or caring to understand it is itself bollocks.

If you start digging around in philosophy, there's a strong argument within phenomenology that physics itself is subjective. Rigorous language doesn't mean the subject of the language is objective. Godel demonstrated the limits of language against objective nature in his incompleteness theorem as well (basically, Godel proved that, within any system, there are statements that are true that cannot be proven). But I digress.
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TL;DR: friends had a bad experience once with Airbnb, will not use again.

This is not about Airbnb as a business strategy or work place or UX etc.

Speaking of UX, I do find that Airbnb does a pretty good job at managing expectations and making sure people find their fit (I don't have any figure though).
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> Eh? Rich people don't get rich because of skill, ever.

That's silly, of course some do. There are any number of inventors, entertainers, etc, who've gotten rich largely from their own efforts (and luck).

> The only way to do it is by appropriating the output of others, or having it handed to you.

There would be no output to appropriate without the skill and direction of the rich person who had the idea and took the risk. As for the inheritance angle, who better deserves the money than the children of the original rich guy? They're the ones most likely genetically to share the same traits that enabled the original guy to get rich.

> In addition, why should we empower rich people at all? Why is giving a single person a billion dollars, skillful or not, better than allowing a million people to democratically direct that wealth? Even if those million people simply redistribute that money into their pockets.

Because they've proven to be able to direct capital in a beneficial way. Regular people haven't. Regular people would just buy the same old trinkets and necessities and innovation would halt. It would be a very boring existence with no hope of a better life to strive for.
A sharing economy works when you have a lot of like minded people in the same social circle. Once you invite the masses and investors, you lose what made it work...
What does Uber promise to drivers?
I'm a Scala developer and personally I believe that such claims are unwarranted, mostly coming from beginners with a superficial understanding of the language. Not only is Scala not a kitchen sink, but it actually cuts down on Java features that were a bad idea.

This misunderstanding mostly happens because some people start learning Scala in the hope of finding a better Java. But Scala is not a Java++, but something else entirely, being the kind of language that makes sense outside the boundaries of the JVM.

As a piece of advice, if you aren't interested in trolling, you might want to name actual things that you don't like, as in things that you can talk about, instead of things that are non-falsifiable. That way, in case you have a point, then other people or even Scala's or Kotlin's language designers can learn from your feedback. And if you don't have a point, then you might get some useful piece of advice.

On Kotlin - I don't like that it doesn't diverge enough. This is because when picking a non-mainstream language, you lose the advantages of mainstream languages, like easily available documentation, copy/paste-able samples, big developers pool, etc, etc... so the advantages of the non-mainstream language would better be worth it to balance the disadvantages ;-)
I spent my first minute trying to click everything and anything to no avail.

It's worth mentioning that refreshing the page loads another image and description in a random combination.
What an annoying meme. What part did you find so surprising that you want additional references, but couldn't find a better way to ask for them?

As to the first part, there are uncountable examples of water-based life, and zero examples of non-water-based life. That doesn't rule out its existence, but basic chemistry makes it unlikely, and it won't look anything like life as we know it. No other liquid has the properties needed for any kind of life observed.

As to the second: https://www.google.com/search#q=%22second+most+common+molecu...
Ask HN: How to handle being sick?
I'm a freelancer, but I'm sure this applies equally to those traditionally employed. We all have deadlines.

How do you handle being sick?

I occasionally get the cold or the flu, it usually doesn't last more than a few days ... but those few days throw everything into chaos. A vacation or time off you can plan for ... but getting sick happens suddenly.

I realize I'm human and so is everyone else, but telling a client you were sick and that's the reason the project is a few days late ... it just doesn't sound right.

How do you handle it?
Yeah, I'd say introversion can have debilitating/disabling downsides (especially for younger people, from my own experience), but also a few powerful upsides when it comes to information processing and focused cognition. I don't really identify with the accepted negative remarks against introverts, though.

The closest I can comment on is the perpetual "why are you so antisocial" line from childhood through adulthood, which is simultaneously infuriating and isolating. Children and young adults that are introverted are almost always constantly cajoled frequently to "be more social", and, of course, it's to their detriment to be so frequently indirectly reminded that they are outsiders.

Of course, introverts are almost always going to be at a disadvantage in social skills, popularity contests, job interviews, etc-- and these things are far more critical to "success" than mere skill or intelligence. I'd say introverts are also usually slightly worse at the skill of having grit, too-- frequently there's something about having to struggle alone that makes failures more final.

I imagine there's some great works waiting to be written regarding the experience of introversion from the 1980s to the present. The current crop of hackers are probably the first who have seen society go from viewing them as "antisocial" to "cool nerds".
Hmmm. I won't repeat my qualms with AirBnB. I'm afraid that this comment will get downvoted/banned in a bit, and like any negative post/discussion about AirBnB, the discussion will mysteriously disappear from the front page…
That's the problem with the on-demand companies' business model, you often have to put complete trust in complete strangers. This is generally dangerously. But this won't get the coverage it deserves until an "important" host is seriously injured or even killed by a guest.
A car plus an airplane has downsides in both car and airplane mode that cars and airplanes do not have.
Pretty sweet! Love loop recording. The other day I launched my own project that uses WebMIDI, Audio and your great Wad.js: http://midi.space

So, cheers for writing that lib! Looking forward to do more with it than just launching sounds.
Fair enough, though the point 'leonatan was trying to make in this case seemed clear to me.
My feeling is that school was an introvert heaven as compared to adult professional life.
It started off as a cautionary thing for me, when I had to buy (optional) text books and didn't want to blow my money on something bad, so I started paying way more attention to the negative reviews.
The longer version of my rant stipulates that you have a good application firewall that is looking at the incoming traffic and you are using immutable infrastructure for the fronted so an attacker can't do much damage if they do get in.

Keep in mind I consider the existence of exceptions to be an application metric that should be logged, so if there is a security issue causing exceptions that should show up in the monitoring, and then you can look at the exceptions that happen going forward.

If the box is compromised, your local IDS should catch that (assuming you are allowing writes on the box at all)
Opensourcing is not a replacement for QA practices.

If it was, open source applications would never have critical bugs or security vulnerabilities.

It may mitigate some issues in a long run (e.g. intentional backdors) but in a short run it will create havoc as access to source code will make it easier to create exploits.

And suddenly you have whole new problem of making sure that everyone keeps their ECU software up to date or they risk fatal crash.
Worth trying to differentiate between "consciousness", which I think it's obvious cats and many other animals have, and the human "voice inside your head" / narrative self, which is much more a tower of babel built on symbolic cards, which is a very recent human invention, and arguably that moreso than "consciousness" is what can cause us so much harm.
Have you ever travelled to a foreign country where you don't speak the language?

You really need to put yourself in the tourist's shoes. If I booked a tour and the host drove me to a different place to stay, that's all I can do. You rely on their ability to communicate, and if they're being kind and doing their best to make your stay comfortable, then that's fantastic.

What you're suggesting is that you're going to start making international calls with some website's support staff while you have luggage on the street, no place to stay, in a foreign city and completely on your own. You're also going to blow off the only person (the host) who cares at all about your situation. Are you kidding me?
Do you have any links to those previous discussions?
I wonder if this pattern could still be applied.

For a NOC they'll setup a shell corporation called "Southern Electronics Corporation, LLC" or some other discrete sounding name and have a real website, office address and phone number actually manned, but surely they register the corporations, domains, phone numbers at the same place, staff the phones with the same voices...

Makes me wonder if they fixed the problem or if it's just hidden one level deeper.
Mind sharing the link for your static site generator?
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Wow! Wasn't aware of that, and I thought I skipped through all MIDI/Audio related stuff I could find. A lot to learn from it, it seems. Thanks for sharing.
> In a different system of government in which the rich are in charge, the only way to change government is to destroy it and kill them all.

70% of wealthy families lose their wealth by the second generation, and a stunning 90% by the third, according to the Williams Group wealth consultancy [1]. So the power seems to naturally defuse without having to "kill them all".

[1] http://time.com/money/3925308/rich-families-lose-wealth/
Customer service is a joke. I posted this on HN about a year ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9005200

They turned me from being an advocate for their service to never wanting to use their service again. I travel frequently with kids, we use alternatives now.
Cache is a way to enhance performance in a way that can come at a relatively modest cost in power if not in chip area. 8T SRAM cells don't use much power statically, increasing size increases wire capacitance but you aren't switching any more transistors than with a 4mb cache save an extra level of muxing.
I tell my customer / client I'm sick, and tell them I'll be available when I'm healthy.
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I personally know someone who successfully arbitraged Amazon and Half.com.

There is so much potential out there.
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Funny, that's how I feel in open-plan offices...
When schools overlook introverts, they grow up and write songs like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR5ApYxkU-U (Pink Floyd)
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I'm not trying to blame the victim here, but rule of thumb...never use AirBnB outside your own country and that goes double for Spain[1].

1) - Go to google, type in "AirBnB Spain", then look at the auto complete.
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> Any Soviet citizen had an intimate acquaintance with how bureaucracies function

This makes me wonder whether there is any literature out of the Soviet Union on topics like this, kind of like how the U.S. produced works like Dale Carnegie's How to make friends and influence people.
It touches the CPU but it doesn't need to be cached. The CPU loads it, computes on it, then sends it on its way. Hence a 8mb cache wouldn't work any better than a 4mb cache or even a 1mb cache. It's the changes to the storage bandwidth that reflect the better camera.
This is a fundamental problem with online markets of any kind. There was a period in the early 2000's when "eBay SUCKS" type websites would surface regularly from angry users.

But then, as now, you see both kinds of story. Ones like this one, where the seller / renter was anywhere from an outright fraud to unscrupulous, but also the other way - stories of buyers who "returned" goods and got refunds, only for the returned item turning out to be fake / faulty / nonexistent. I'm sure AirBnB have equally large problems with people who have an uneventful stay, leave and immediately lodge a complaint against the host.

It sounds like AirBnB could probably be nicer about this, but equally the author of this post did violate their terms of service (which aren't unreasonable - letting people book for other people opens the door to agents and unscrupulous 3rd parties who charge a fee without adding value).

It would be interesting to see the perspective of AirBnB support. I wonder how many possibly fraudulent refund claims they deal with on a daily basis?
What I mostly remember of school is that it grossly overlooked my great need to be elsewhere, doing something else with my time. I was greatly "extroverted": oriented toward that great exterior sprawling on the other side of the classroom's window panes.
> You can keep the logs on the local box and take a peek at them once in a while...

That doesn't work very well if you're using stuff like AWS Lambda functions, short-lived VMs, Docker containers that come and go regularly, etc.

Plus, off-server logs are invaluable if the server is compromised.