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People often confuse introversion with fear and see it as being a totally unchanging facet of one's being.

I'm introverted, and I used to be incredibly shy when meeting new people and it was impossible to get me to do any public speaking in front of people. But I'm confident that my shyness and non-desire to be in front of people was a result of being fearful of what people thought of me and my yearning to not make a fool of myself as opposed to my being introverted. Perhaps there is a big overlap in those qualities though.

One of the turning points in reducing my social fear came through being a waiter during college which both forced me to speak to people I didn't know. Plus it forced me to be around groups of people regularly. After college I was a teacher and am now very comfortable meeting new people and speaking in front of groups.

Solitary pursuits still really energize me and social gatherings definitely continue to drain my energy which is able to be refilled with some solitude.
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Well put! Also, there are the cases when the system does not behave as expected (for example, mis-configuration, or wrong input from the user) - in those cases there are no exceptions or crashes, but a good log will tell you why it happens.

I've given a more detailed example of this in example 2 here: http://henrikwarne.com/2013/05/05/great-programmers-write-de...
I have a sneaking suspicion that hiring is like stockpicking: after an initial filter, monkeys with darts would do just as well.

The problem is: if the interviewers are "constantly learning," (and they are, just ask them), then they are consistently making mistakes that the future, more learn-ed version of themselves wouldn't make. To take an example from the article: interviewers are to ask candidates about some time that they used data to make a decision. What if a candidate responds with a story in which they realized the data were pointing the way to a local optimum that the candidate cleverly avoided? To you, smart HN reader, you are perhaps impressed, and tempted to slap the candidate on the back and rejoice in your shared membership in the club of those who've discovered ambiguity ("Complexity, such a bitch, right?"); but if the interviewer but dimly remembers calculus but is proud of themselves for using a sentence with the word "data" in it, then the candidate's response will come off not as an indication of the ability to "ask the right questions," but a sign of non-cooperativeness, "irrational refusal to let decisions be driven by the data," and perhaps intellectual arrogance.

For interviewers, I have no idea what to tell them. For candidates, I can only say: Lie, and then follow through. If they are looking for "grit" but you had a privileged upbringing, make something up and commit to yourself to be grit-ful[0], rather than saying what's in your head, which is "I haven't had much hardship but I get the importance of resilience." If they ask for your greatest weakness[1], say anything but your greatest weakness; instead talk about the difficulty of coping with other peoples' weaknesses ("I don't deal with my father's alcoholism as well as I ought," or "I get impatient with lazy people.").

[0]This is basically what the sales people in your org do, which is why you get those requests.

[1] This is a dishonest question, because there are wrong answers. The only acceptable answers are weaknesses that the interviewer shares; but by making that the only right answer the interviewer is implying that they have the "best" weakness and therefore have no "real" weaknesses. If they don't introspect honestly, why the hell should you? Or, more charitably, which is a better approximation of reality, that you are both about equal on your paths to enlightenment, or that you are an imbecile? Is truth best served by communicating the former through omission, or the latter through facts?
I was going to comment that this had already happened, but I see scarmig had already gone into detail in another thread about how the rules had been changed to undermine Asian-Americans.

I'd maybe quibble about whether this falls under "malice" or not, seems to be pretty malicious to even have the fake meritocracy in the first place, never mind to continually alter it as people overcome the obstacles placed in their way.
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And the risk is overrated - if the host seems dishonest or the place isn't as described/shown, you can still check-in to an hotel.

I find it depressing how this will probably go away, and people like me who can't afford to pay for a stay at an hotel will just lose the option of taking the risk. Hurray for the infantilization of society! /s
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I wondered why the story was dropping so fast.

Currently, the story above it has 57 points, 1 comment, and was posted 4 hours ago. This one has 125 points, 45 comments, and was posted 1 hour ago.
Thanks! I probably am stretching myself too thin and need to build in unexpected downtime into my deadlines. Clients are always happy when things get done "early", I just need to remember to keep adding a buffer.
"How is apple able to apply great leaps in engineering to its phone while at the same time not applying the same pace to the iwatch?"

"How dare apple release a new iwatch after less than six months? Shouldn't they give everyone a new watch?"

Damned if they do, damned if they don't.
Doesn't sound like it, otherwise they'd prioritize customer service, and we wouldn't be heading as many of these stories.
AirBnB can't slap wrists of hosts without very clear proof of their wrongdoing - which wasn't the case here.

In a p2p system like this, it's the bad ratings that need to make this kind of dealings unprofitable.
I agree it is their weakest product launch. However there are a number of innovations e.g. digital crown, force touch, haptic feedback and the excellent Fitness capabilities that do put in far ahead of the competition in day to day usability. It's really the software that is letting it down. And I don't know if you have seen a Moto 360/Huawei Watch in person but they are ridiculously large and tacky. They are nothing like a normal watch you would see around especially not for females which the Apple Watch's smaller size is an excellent match for.
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So, is "introvert" a real thing? I feel like it's just a big group of character traits that are all gathered under an umbrella term.
Same here. They still owe me $500 (which they claimed in emails) and have since completely stopped responding to any emails.
Mostly good points, but one gripe:

> they will thanks to Apple's excellent iOS9 adoption rate

Adoption rate does not matter when discussing 3D Touch because it requires hardware and is only available on the latest models. But I still think devs get on board quickly because Apple sells a lot of phones, and it's a cool feature (and a bummer when not implemented).
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I don't want to tick anyone off here, I enjoy HN, and have for a long time (over 6 years). Perhaps I don't understand the ranking, but more than once active discussions just went away, with low-vote/low-interaction topics replacing them.

I only see articles in my comment history from over a year ago. Search here isn't great, e.g. I can't find the article where PG himself commented on something I said.

Here's a few where I participated
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7923849
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7939414
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8222687

In this one I reacted to someone else with the same impression
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9332889
I asked for clarification on the policy, instead I got a downvote.

Since that time, I'm keeping quiet.
Except prices gradually moved up from "hey look at this bargain" to being at hotel parity. I live in a trendy Chicago neighborhood and have people visit now and again. My spare room is in the basement, which is fairly unappealing, so people try airbnb. The rates they get are comparable to some hotels downtown if you do a little legwork on Expedia.

In places that aren't the middle of nowhere, there aren't a lot of savings, if any. Its a lot of people hoping the hotels get booked for some meeting or trade event and now tourists get fucked and have to use their shitty service, at the same price but no housekeeping, security, etc. In Chicago this happens every so often due to all the events we host here.
Even if it does that (and if this is a problem then you could simply design the system to only deliver enough power to sustain travel) then the car won't be charging for very long before it becomes full.
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Well, I have one theory -- but it hangs by a string at best...
Couple of reasons -
1. You need to stick to compliance requirements.
2. Tracking individual transactions (user complains about $Problem - if you attach a request ID to each request, and pass it between all components, you can find the exact problem for that request)
3. Building retrospective graphs is much easier when you have the data to hand, which you can them opitimise into a metric.

Logging is not the only solution, but neither is metrics / monitoring only.
How does the iPhone 6s camera compare to other iPhone generations?
Get ready for ads to start addressing you directly by name and doing other like things to get your attention. Google isn't usually _too_ overt about these sort of things but the less savory ad networks could get really unpleasant.

"Hey there George Thompson, click to see one weird trick to hide your arrest records from your wife Mary"
I'm trying to decipher the implication. Is it that Americans have a unique understanding of friendship and influence?
The worst part of this, IMHO, is that the EPA's motives are just stupid here.

First, they can already regulate and stop projects that actually distribute ECU changes that are harmful. They do not need the DMCA when they can fine people heavily. If they fine a few people 100k, it's enough of a deterrent.
Even if everyone just runs these projects out of europe, you make examples of a few users in the US, and then the number of people who do it in practice is so low as to be pointless.

Second, The likelihood that anyone has the time and energy to go and build ECU software and flash it into their car is low.

I may bop around and read the source code and notice cheating, mind you, but the barrier to entry on actually building anything and getting it into my car is high (and I have a car where i have near-complete control of flashing components)
I have other people in my phone contacts that Ive never communicated with on facebook and I have never been suggested to be friends with them. So Im doubtful.
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Dude that's not a mutation that's a rebinding. You do not understand the difference, and it is an important one.

Again, Elixir does not create mutation where in Erlang there was none. There is no mutation.

They decided to allow rebinding so that you wouldn't end up with a whole bunch of stupid temporary variables, which is exactly what you have to do in Erlang.
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It is entirely about AirBnB's UX. Going to the rental is the largest part of their UX. If that's a bad experience, why would anyone want to try it again.
what's difference beetween Kotlin and Scala??
This is going to require merchants to update their privacy policies, surely. Sharing personally identifiable information with Google (which could be subsequently joined together with data from other merchants to form an even bigger profile about you outside of your control) is entering a whole new (terrible) world.
Our company is working on a fork of Android that will include a kernel hardened with an (unofficial) port of PaX and GRSecurity.

https://copperhead.co/android/

We already have a working alpha build on github which includes PaX hardening and various other security patches.
Several months ago, members of my team at work booked various Airbnbs for a large conference in San Francisco.

We booked early to get a better deal, and I'm pretty sure a lot of Airbnb hosts didn't know the conference was coming up (or was that big).

As we got closer to the conference time, pretty much all of us had our stays canceled on us by the hosts. We were then forced to rebook at significantly higher rates. In some instances, even THESE got canceled by the hosts.

We're 99% sure that the hosts were given better offers and made the deals privately.

Having used Airbnb a few times now, I'm definitely seeing the benefits of hotels for peace of mind.
Imagine customer support where you really need a record of the individual transactions for that particular customer. A monitoring solution won't give you that level of detail.
I happen to find sbt one of the few build tools (together with lein) that are decent enough. Do you have any particular reason for your dislike?
Intelligent people's brains wired differently
Unless you are 21 and looking for an adventure use Hyatt, Hilton, ... when dealing with foreign countries especially if you don't speak the local language.
I'll first refer you to my previous post about Clean Room Operations at JPL [0].

All equipment leaving Earth is sterilized. The thoroughness of sterilization varies from project to project, instrument to instrument, and the agreed to HW & Planetary Protection Plans. It helps ensure that equipment is not giving false readings. Serious money is also laid out for HW & Planetary Protection (there's a whole division of probably 150 people at JPL) and sophisticated equipment used to test for contamination.

However, if there was deviation from the original Planetary Protection Plan [1], it was likely to execute some other test, timing/scheduling conflict, or some other "administrative" reason.

And with respect to finding water on Mars, why would you send your robot to a polar cap or even a "lake" with visible/detectable water? If you're attempting to prove that water and water flow processes exist & are active on Mars, it's probably better to test a fringe area, hence, the 3.3m requirement.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6809134

[1] http://www.space.com/13783-nasa-msl-curiosity-mars-rover-pla...
You maybe confusing minds with hearts. I would agree those with the best hearts would feel the strongest repulsion for having anything to do with ads.

As to minds, he may be exaggerating, but not as much as you think. Try a less literal read:

For example, Google makes all its revenue from ads. It invests in Android as a way to maintain the reach of its ads in the face of mass migration from desktops to mobile devices. So by that measure, it's not just Google's adtech engineers (which I'd bet is what some if not most of their smartest mathematicians work on. I know, as regrettably I was once in the business), but also Google's Android engineer that are "thinking about how to make people click ads." Just today: Google Targets Intent With Email, YouTube And Search Matching And Universal App Campaigns.[1]

For another example read Dalton Caldwell's story about working for SourceForge, and how it compares to GitHub[2]:

> The problem was, SourceForge was an ad-ridden, user-hostile piece of crap. Getting anything done required several extraneous pageviews & clicks. The site was designed to squeeze every last advertising penny out of you. I can’t blame management for trying to generate more revenue…. two months into my job there, 25% of the company was laid off.

> There was much public hand-wringing over the crappiness of the SourceForge user experience. There were two camps in these debates: those that wanted to build an open source, decentralized version of SourceForge (which someone did), and those that pointed out it was a free service, and how dare anyone complain about the user & developer-hostile aspects of the experience. Tolerating the bad behavior of SourceForge “is a necessary evil”, the apologists would say, “otherwise the service we all depend on might go away.” Does any of this sound familiar?

Compared to GitHub:

> Github has become a much-loved brand and service, and many would agree that it is a key piece of infrastructure in the technical renaissance we are currently experiencing. Github is apparently profitable, and it sounds like the people that work there spend their time trying to make the best service possible, as opposed to spending their time trying to extract additional pennies out of their users.

Full circle: Caldwell plugs the same Jeffrey Hammerbacher quote as jordigh. I also use that quote, as well as this one:[3]

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”
– Upton Sinclair

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[1] http://techcrunch.com/2015/09/27/google-targets-intent-with-...

[2] http://daltoncaldwell.com/an-audacious-proposal

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10047706
Foursquare location data = hedge fund tool?
BTW, the author talks about this in his Strange Loop talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG9CffLlXx0

There are tons of papers with type checkers in the exact same early state, and how they made it fast and more reliable.
> But my question is, why do you care about the outliers if the customer experience is not harmed by them?

The effect of errors is not necessarily linear to their frequency.

Distributed systems of any consequence are not meaningfully modelled with smooth, continuous functions suitable for highschool calculus. There is a great deal of chaos and catastrophe.

Metrics -- including customer visible ones like "zero HTTP responses per second" -- raise the question. Logs provide the physical clues.
And I commented, as it calls itself ultimate, and it has articles about Java, Node, Apache, Linux (including SystemD) and Windows.

If it was titled "We want to build the Ultimate Logging Resource" I would be OK with it.

I would have no problem contributing, and may well do so over the next while, but titles like this get my goat

Edit: Also, while I know this will be downvoted to hell - Open Source? It is by a commercial company, with -all- most of the examples being their product.
> if the host seems dishonest or the place isn't as described/shown, you can still check-in to an hotel.

When I am traveling - for business or pleasure - the last thing I want to do is scramble to figure out where I will sleep that night. I value my time too much, especially for a pleasure trip, to go through that kind of ordeal.

Also, you can save money if you pay in advance for your hotel. You won't have time to even comparison shop if you're rushing at the very very last minute.

So, I wouldn't say the risk is overrated, but instead that people can stomach different amount of risk.

I like to be well prepared and have firm plans on my trips, but I know other friends will just book the first things they find and figure out what they're doing when they get there.
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> Sure, but the vehicle is not in charge of how much it can draw.

The road determines a maximum, but the vehicle need not draw that much, for instance if already fully charged.

> And the metric that matters is kWh per mile.

That would also depend on vehicle speed; charge obtained per second seems more useful than per mile.
Yeah, the problem is that people review based on their expectations. A beautiful vacation home and a ratty student flat can both get 5 stars, depending on who's visiting.
He's likely asking for a citation that shows that water is the second most common molecule in the universe, which is a quite a claim to make based on our understanding of astrophysics and astrochemistry.

The most common molecule is diatomic hydrogen and the second most common is helium. That'll likely be true for hundreds of billions of years, if not trillions, due to the way stars burn their atomic fuel. Even if you don't include atomic helium as a molecule, the second most prevalent would likely be the most reactive combination of hydrogen and nitrogen/carbon.
Airbnb has the worst customer service, no one to respond emails etc.
All Hiring/Interviewing blogs should have a disclaimer like this.

Hiring/interviewing is like judging a medicine by its packaging. It is error prone and there is little you can do to avoid making bad decisions.

Many people get good at it after making so many mistakes. It is much easier to ask an expert in the field help you choose a candidate for the role.
So some more digging and it seems there will be a minimum of 1000 users per group [1], so we aren't quite yet at the point of targeting individuals.

[1] https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/6276125
> I will concede if you have a perfectly configured all-knowing security oracle in front of your application then you don't need proper logging.

Heh, that's not quite was I saying. :) I was just saying that any analysis you'll do on application logs you can also do with an application firewall.

> How often do we see attacks, but then the attacked company doesn't even know what data was compromised or exfiltrated due to lack of logging? It happens daily.

Again, I would contend that you won't find this information in application logs anyway. You'd find it in your IDS logs that are monitoring outbound network traffic.
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For most major ecommerce sites this won't be too different from what they're already doing.
New report shows chasm between car test results and real world
The dangers of microservices-washing
I can confirm.

Granted, Manhattan, where I tried to book an apartment, is a bit of a special location, but the pricing was not that much lower from the hotels.
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From what I understand there is only one thing that constitutes as introvert and that is a person who finds social interaction draining. They aren't necessarily shy, or not outgoing or anything, but they eventually need to get away from people. Opposite from that is an extrovert who finds being alone draining and needs people to to gain that back.
Was I the only one who was really hoping this was going to be about best practices for cutting down trees?
The performance charts have the Surface Pro 3 listed for comparison. The article doesn't specify the chip used, but it looks like all the Surface Pro 3 use some variant of an 11.5 watt Intel chip. Given the that the A9 seems to do about 1/3 slower then Surface, I'm guessing it would do very well against anything Atom based.

I'm very interested to see how fast the iPad Pro's A9X ends up being. If the numbers Apple showed in the keynote are accurate, it will probably be faster then a large chunk of Intel's much more power hungry lineup.
How can a driver be in the same social circle as a well off professional? At the end of the day, very few industries are peers between worker and client.
> So in this worst-case scenario you wound up in the same place as you would have if Airbnb didn't exist? Cry me a river.

Worst case scenario for this story is that the driver takes them out of town, shoots them, and dumps their bodies into a river.
Airbnb and San Francisco
> Even if it does that (and if this is a problem then you could simply design the system to only deliver enough power to sustain travel)

That seems far less useful; "your charge won't go down in this lane" means the lanes would need to go everywhere, while "your charge will slowly go up in this lane" would mean the lanes could sustain travel over a wide area even if they only appear on major highways.

Also, different EVs require different amounts of power to sustain travel.

> then the car won't be charging for very long before it becomes full.

Depends heavily on the charging rate. Considering that many EVs can take hours to charge with a wired charger...
As another posted commented, there will be a minimum list size to prevent this sort of thing. For example, Twitter already allows targeting to specific individuals, but the list minimum is 500 (if I'm not mistaken).
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