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Moving on to a better opportunity should never be looked down upon. If you develop a pattern of short durations and lateral movements then some people will consider that a flag.
University education in the US is overpriced and over-commoditized.

The inane mantra of education always equivocates to "better," when it doesn't consider skills employers need nor fostering critical thinking or curiosity, cramming rote memorization and inaccurate Pearson slides down students' throats... It's too commercial.

Granted the good, small universities (i.e., Amherst) are still overpriced compared to other countries which greatly subsidize their students, but at least there is value compared to large, anonymous campuses which are primarily focused on churning out sheepskins as cheaply as possible.

See also: the math lecturer at UCB (a large campus) whom seemed to be fired by teaching too well, when the dept wanted low-quality, high-volume "McTeaching."
I'm not trying to be confrontational. Please keep that in mind.

I see you're from Brooklyn. Have familiarized yourself with the issues surrounding the anti-development sentiment and roadblocks to new development in San Francisco? There's a lot more to it than "[Some] voters don't want to increase the quantity of housing ... near them."

To speak directly to the Krugman quote: San Francisco's rent control is more correctly termed rent stabilization. Rent increases are slaved to the CPI for as long as a unit is occupied. When a unit is vacated, that unit's rent may be set to any rate the landlord desires. More importantly: unless special arrangements are negotiated, [0] rent stabilization does not apply to housing built or first occupied after mid-June 1979.

AIUI, at the time, existing landholders decided that they would make much more money by raising their rents to ludicrous levels than by increasing the density of the housing on their property. They could do this by taking advantage of high demand and limited supply. When most landholders won't allow a developer to build on their property because they make more money by restricting the supply of housing, Krugman's argument goes out the window.

Rent control and rent stabilization has no place in districts with healthy responses to increased demand for housing. It is a tool of last resort. San Francisco worked hard to balance the potential damage done by rent stabilization with the real damage done by astronomical rents. I would say that they largely succeeded. [1]

[0] As far as I know this has happened only once, with with Sangiacomo's Trinity Place on Market street. A special arrangement was reached to destroy existing rent-controlled units at the site, but have a 1:1 replacement in the new construction. All other units in the building are "market rate" units.

[1] But, -in retrospect- they erred too far in the landlord's favor. The "Vacated units reset to market rate" provision in the ordinance gives landlords ample incentive to harass and subtly force out long-term tenants, and -in times of radical rent inflation- behave as slumlords and neglect maintenance and upkeep. (Because, if they have a captive revenue source, why on earth would they spend more than the bare minimum that they can (legally or illegally) get away with to retain it?) [2]

[2] Naturally, if rent control was the situation in SF, there would need to be some flexibility in the law to encourage new development.
Seems like this study set people up to believe a system was trying to help them so instead of seeing a random set of events unfolding they were looking for a pattern and then trying to attribute that pattern to the system they believed was helping them.

This doesn't seem like the placebo effect, it seems like an example of the human mind trying to find patterns that don't exist. Just like when someone tells you a cloud looks like something and then you can't stop seeing that thing in the clouds until it goes away. Tell people there's an AI and they can't stop seeing it, even if it's not there.
That 0.25% is for a 24-72 hour loan, not for a multi-year loan. If you spread it out, that's a 25% yearly interest rate. You want that rate?
What the law says and what drivers do are significantly different. A 45 mph road with poor visibility is not safe to bike on. Alternatively, I cannot endanger people on the sidewalk if there are no people on the sidewalk.
Could you give me an example? They just write a ticket for something that never happened?
As long as you have a good reason for moving on, I wouldn't worry about it.

Some times things just don't work out. Sometimes it's the employer, sometimes the employee. Employers understand that, but they will want to know that it was your choice to leave, and what made you want to leave.

Though the pay is one thing, if somebody asks you about this in the future, it is better to focus on the work not being what was promised, and not being fulfilling, or whatever the issue was.

On a side-note, if this shortish stint (I've had shorter), comes up in an interview, try to tell the interviewer what you liked about the company as well as what you don't. I remember interviewing a guy that did nothing but complain about a former employer. He didn't get the job specifically because I didn't want to bring in somebody who had so much negativity. Byt he sounds of things, you've got a good head on your shoulders, and a couple of offers already, I'm sure you'll be fine.
I always think of Churchill's 'You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.' when I hear this comment.

Critics also take a risk by staking out their opinion, which they know is fallible, subjective, and liable to attack. They take the risk because they value discussion and learning over the protection of their and the artist's egoes. It is a form of courage that should be praised, "man in the arena" notwithstanding.

Moreover, in many industries (if not all), if the critics stay silent, only the PR firms are sounding, which sucks for the consumer who becomes drowned in noise and unable to engage with the art.
Etherium sounds like a great idea, and a great approach. But I'm afraid it's going to end up like GPG: Technically awesome, strong, capable, and useful - but completely out of reach of most of the people you'd want to use it with.

Every time I read a "Getting started with Ethereum" guide which involves 7 steps just to buy Bitcoin (from a site nobody's heard of) and then set up a wallet, I watch the number of potential users dropping like a rock.

I hope very much that it succeeds enough to justify its learning curve, as it's an interesting idea. But I suspect that outside of a few very small markets where it offers the ability to do something completely impossible with any other method, having an ethereum interface for your product or service will be roughly equivalent to GPG signing all your emails: People in the know weren't that concerned anyways, and nobody else knows enough to care.
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Ah I misunderstood, I thought it was OCR.
There are a lot of methods that was developed by Harry Lorayne. I recommend to read some of his books (The Memory Book).
Augur is built directly on Ethereum. Truthcoin will be making its own chain. I don't care who wins, and to be honest I don't give either a very high chance. I really really think prediction markets should exist though, So I applaud both efforts.

One real big problem is nobody wants to bet using shady highly volatile currency like Bitcoin or Ether. I'd much prefer USD markets, Vitalik has some ideas about making stable coins that track USD. Hopefully that works out.
I have been messing with nodemcu on an ESP8266 ebay board for the last few weeks. It was initially really weird to have a REPL on an embedded system but I'm already missing it when I go back to other platforms.
Parallelism is but a small part of the complicated topic of boot time optimization. And yes, sequential strategies can still be really fast. Much of the speed increase in modern systems is not from parallelism, but forfeiting the overhead of the shell interpreter in favor of direct execution. Checkpointing can do far greater wonders for your boot times than parallelism can, anyhow.

No. I have worked on embedded Linux systems where we have carefully charted boot time. We were able to get order-of-magnitude improvements by parallelizing service startups during boot. Parallelism is far from "a small part"-- it is the only important part. The overhead of the shell is negligible even on the slowest systems. Checkpointing is not an option for most things (I have mentioned this several times) because most of the startup processes initialize the hardware directly or indirectly, and hardware can't be checkpointed.

The idea of device units is not well borne out, as I mentioned. You don't need to create an object type out of a udev handle to order after devices or trigger hotplug events (the device node manager itself does fine, of course in the case of systemd, udev is part of the project, so...)

The important question is whether there is more or less complexity in systemd than a system with a separate device node manager. I am not convinced that systemd is more complex than the alternative. If the device node manager was separate, you would have to debug the interaction between the two processes. Having dealt with debugging d-bus interactions on Linux before, it doesn't sound fun.

I'm not convinced that a static dependency graph is even feasible in a world where users can reconfigure and install new services, hotplug hardware, and join and leave wireless networks.
It's certainly a red flag for many companies, but due to the current demand for engineers you can probably get by just fine.
Try emacs smart mode line https://github.com/Malabarba/smart-mode-line
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Look around you next time you're out at a restaurant. See all the beers and glasses of wine? You think they all took Uber or have a designated driver?

Everyone drinks and drives. That's not even illegal. But it's not that hard to take one sip too many and break the law. Seriously, get off your high horse. There are over a million DUI arrests per year in the US. That's just the tiny percentage they catch!
I was listening to an interview recently (though I can't remember where) that was discussing how some people park violating the rules knowing they will likely get a ticket, but justify it because the cost of a parking permit or lot fees will end up being more expensive that their accumulation of parking ticket fees.
I'll second that. MBB consultants run significantly more.
Universities are generally designed such that people following their natural incentives will get security wrong. Universities tend to have both central staff, and departmental IT staff distributed amongst them. It works in the sense that departments with larger needs can fund their own hires, but they're often understaffed, underfunded, and report to (and are hired by) people who's general requirements are that systems operate either long enough to submit a grant proposal, publish a paper, lecture in front of class or submit final grades. Anything security related, like rolling out patches, is likely to interfere. This hypothetical won't fly:

> 'Oh gee, we rolled out the latest version of firefox and now your lab's instructional java applet won't run. Sorry we didn't test that before going live. But we patched this weeks' bug. See you this time next week!'

I figure until cybersecurity causes more outages than security lapses, the departmental system will continue to underinvest in security practices and overproduce botnets.

Because of that division, central IT folks working in security have few levers they can pull or dials they can twist. It's been shown that universities have the most expensive password policies among policies observed. Think about that: you can execute a six figure trade using a password less secure than what you need to download a lecture video in Blackboard.
So an app which was correctly identifying parking tickets which were improperly issued, automating the completely legal dispute process, and making it easier for people to pay their fines was blocked because...?

I really want to believe that there's another side to this that's more substantial than, "we're too lazy to issue citations correctly, we're banking on the average person not knowing that their ticket was improperly issued, and we're counting on people forgetting to pay to rack up those sweet, sweet late fees" but I can't think of anything. Can someone possibly shed some light on these cities' reasonings?
You're fixating on something which wasn't the core thrust of the thread, and using it as a point to derail the conversation. The original post was essentially about his daughter having a shitty experience. I don't think there's a playbook, but it is odd that people get so kneejerk defensive about these kind of things they have to lash out with whatever tiny criticism they can muster, regardless of it actually being relevant to the topic being discussed.
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May not be a helpful comment, but investing in the US as a non-citizen is surprisingly easy. I have several investors from outside the US and they mock my US based investors who have more hoops to jump through.

The USG doesn't feel like it has to protect you, so if you want to put money here, they are more than welcome to take it. :)

(Of course, don't trust me, get a real advisor / tax advice)
Someone really has to get a simple proof of concept application made that any dummy can understand and run on their own. I'm a developer that bought ethereum, and even after reading their materials after the launch I couldn't be bothered with trying to get it running or understanding it. That doesn't bode well for the long-term success of the project.
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Sounds about right: 2000 working hrs in a year * 1000 $/hr ~ $2mm

Quite often partners in big firms make more than that
Saying that Microsoft was fined for "bundling a browser" is like saying that the Feds went after Al Capone because of tax evasion. I hope this was a joke post!

There were plenty of other cases pending against Microsoft, but they were all dropped when George W. Bush came into power. If Gore had won, Microsoft probably would have been broken up, like AT&T before it.
Most everyone agrees with you in general about the usefulness of "trashing other people's work", but I think your response here is disproportionate to the circumstance.
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Ideally cars should also be limited to 20 mph on all non-arterial streets, and IMO no faster than ~30 mph anywhere that isn’t a highway.

Drivers have a dramatically longer time to react and much better road awareness at 20mph compared to 30–35 mph, and at 20 mph something like 5% of collisions with cyclists/pedestrians are fatal, whereas at 35+ mph the majority of such collisions are fatal.

Fast-moving cars are death machines, in the hands of people I am not happy to trust with my life.
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Exactly, that's the most profitable line-item. Paralegal's take-home pay varies considerably, between $15/ and $30/hr, with a few commanding much more. And do most of the work and get paid the least.
We're talking about new features marked as experimental and unstable by the folks who write and maintain the browser that implements that feature.

And when the manager says "deadline is next week", and the new and EXPERIMENTAL and UNSTABLE (gasp) feature is the only way to get it done, you use it.

Now, good luck getting permission to go back and clean up technical debt.
I did that for years. Parking at my apartment building was $350/mo (and was valet only, so it was also a major PITA).

I often parked at my work garage and walked home, but many times parked on the street/at meters, and didn't sweat it too much if I got the occasional ticket (not getting back to the car early enough, usually) It was virtually impossible to run up a total anywhere near the cost of the less convenient valet parking.

For the longest time in college, garage parking in Harvard Sq was $14-20/evening and a residential parking violation in a nearby neighborhood was $10 or $15. So we often used the "stochastic parking garage".
Source on that statement about expensive password policies please?
So...

The weird thing about DNA and genes is that the data, should you have access to it in it's original form, as samples of biological material, is never anonymous.

The techniques that effectively anonymize genetic information, typically render it as an unusable data set for practical purposes.

The only thing that makes DNA anonymous is constructing an unrelated set of hash keys as lookups, and then using these coded tokens as decoupled representational references to a remote system that mitigates requests. Even then, even without access to the direct data, the traits expressed COULD still accidentally identify certain members of the set very easily.

How many albinos are in the set? How many male albinos? How many male albinos with blood type O positive? Oh look, it's Joe and it turns out he's a carrier for this other embarrassing genotype. Whoops, secret's out and everyone knows, and there's no going back!

So phenotypes can still identify people inadvertently, and then provide opportunities for the enumeration of members, through process of elimination, inherently weakening what might become a theater of anonymity.

But more terrible still, is, let's just say they give the raw genetic data up. Say you have a juicy tidbit of information you pulled from the collection of samples, and you think you know who it is. So you surreptitiously snag a hair follicle from them. It's them all right, and you can prove it conclusively. Maybe your a nice guy and you won't misuse this sort of advantage, but is that true for everyone at large, throughout society?

With DNA, genomes and genetic evidence, you kind of just have to keep saying to yourself "this is not anonymizable, it will never be anonymous, we cannot truly de-identify anyone's DNA" and the sooner we come to terms with that, the better we'll get at dealing with this sort of data.
> What Happens When Second Graders Are Treated to a Seven-Course, $220 Tasting Meal

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they should move their operations to Belgium, the country where police tow cars just because they can :)
The name reminds me of the report from In The Loop called PWIP-PIP[0].

[0]: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1226774/quotes?item=qt0957918
Except most people are paid a pittance, when there is plenty of capital to go around. Just look at the income distribution of the 1950's compared to now.

You really should be more educated about reality and acfual statistics.

Go watch the Park Avenue (2012) film on PBS.
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YouTube actually had something like this available for a while (or still does this?) through Caption Search.[1] If a video had captions available (either user provided or automated), one could search based on the captions on that video. Results would return the video and the time associated with that clip in question.

I am not exactly sure why they discontinued the user experience, since it seems like it could be really useful for finding relevant parts in potentially long videos.

[1] http://youtube-global.blogspot.ca/2012/02/captions-for-all-m...
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I see accuracy guarantees with each plan. How do you ensure any particular level of accuracy?
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This is a fun study but I really have to question the legitimacy of the experiment. They said the second run was always the 'placebo', this should have been evenly distributed first and second runs.

Don't Starve is a really great game focused on discovery and knowledge and going into your first run knowing completely nothing is going to be fun but you are going to spend your day checking everything out and learning how to survive 1 day. You are so excited to play the second run, you think to yourself "now I know what I want to do on my first day", you are almost guaranteed to live longer and discover more of the game. I would love to see a follow up of this where there is no 'placebo' and people are given the same experiment and asked which one was more fun, I think almost 100% would say the second.
This is not a placebo effect, this is manipulation of expectations and is a well in other areas, such as marking the same wine with two different price tags.
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So, one job at over two years, then a 7 month stint, then another role?

No problem at all.

I look askew at resumes where the longest stint is 18 months and the average is 12-15. That reads of someone who either can't stick something out, or someone that gets discovered as less-than-good over and over. Either way, I don't have a place for that.

A few 2+ year stints, a few promotions within a company, and still moving around a bit? That's normal. One bad fit job? No problem.

If you get another offer you want and you don't like the current role, switch. Life is too short. You might make it a point to stay at the next place longer than 7 months (ideally 24+).
My first impression is that this is built on MTurk, but actually it's not. Then I don't understand what "Stripe-Like" is. Probably need to refine the headline.
Here's one that is not blocked --- http://www.vancouvertranquilityspa.com/video.html
A lot of people also aren't young and able bodies enough to ride such a thing.
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I can. And my options were:

Fight it and risk losing anyway and wasting a day defending myself. In LA and OC you also have to prepay the ticket and then they refund if you "win". Oh btw they also charge fees to defend yourself.

Just eat the cost of a 45 ticket.

I was just starting my first job but this was before this new boom so I didn't get paid a whole bunch. But I can see why tickets are considered a tax on the poor. If you get hit with one and you don't make enough $$$. You are fucked.

Even though I could afford to just pay the 45 ticket it ate away at me that I didn't fight it. Why am I being punished when I am pretty certain the meter maid didn't even know the law?
> Each person has to choose a number between 0 and 100 and the prize goes to the person whose number is closest to two thirds of the average of all of the numbers chosen. What number will you choose, and why?

A link for anybody who wants to know more about this question - but I do encourage you to spend a minute or two thinking about it before you click: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guess_2/3_of_the_average
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Yes true. Sorry. Will do moving forward!
Thanks for catching that! Sorry, I obviously can't do arithmetic.

Interesting that the global gdp is that high, actually.

Comparing to the minimum wage is still a bit misleading, since the wage share of GDP is far from 100%.
All these recent posts about peoples' "light" vim configs and they're complex as hell.

There is some advantage to installing pathogen, airline, and just leaving it. Notably, defaults take like three lines of vimrc and you don't have to make a blog post to remind yourself how to decipher it six months later.

Ironically, all the things this guy decries as "noise" I find fairly useful. There are parts I don't use, but selectively ignoring them is much easier than adding even more lines to my two-page vimrc which is already bigger than I'd like.

Sometimes simple is more clever than complex.
> Choosing to endanger people on sidewalk just because not enough balls to ride on the street is kind of low.

Yeah, well, fuck it. I don't have the balls. I also have enough empathy to understand I'm two-three times slower than cars on the road in my city and drivers are seriously pissed at me when I'm holding down city traffic.