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Populism does have both right and left forms (and others besides), but that doesn't mean that it isn't inimical to democracy. It is not hard to find historical examples of populists who have used the vote to seize power. Democracy is a lot more than voting, and it's certainly more than having one last free vote for a populist who ends free voting.

There's also a particularly ugly history of populists stirring up racial hatred as a means to power, which I think is especially dangerous.
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He's indicating that he may be lacking some details because he's not a part of the population being discussed.

I assume that when someone posts "IANAL, but..." you also get upset about it?
If you're writing iOS apps, Swift is the language to learn.

If you're writing server-side code for Linux/OSX, probably not quite yet. The language is nice, but it's only been available as open-source for a day now... the ecosystem you'd need to be productive in Swift isn't there yet.

(On the other hand, if you'd like to be involved in building that ecosystem, now's probably the time to jump in.)
How to Model Cars: Using Higher Abstraction Levels
It seems to exist a correlation between early retirement and high deficits on country budgets..
That's only true if society is poorer and there is not enough young people for doing the necessary work. Is it the case?

Of course, I don't think is "silents and boomers" who is pushing for this, but I'm going to leave the class war debate for other day.
Mark Zuckerberg explains why he didn't give his Facebook billions to charity
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I totally agree, and my use of JScript(er) has been the first in the last few years, the last was when I was teaching a bunch of school kids about Web technologies. I don't intend to use it again and only arose out of laziness than ignorance.

Are there any other such bad practices in the JS dev world? I've only just considered moving onto Node as I've grown disillusioned with Rails and the concept of using a single language across the entire app & mobile (React Native, etc) sounds enticing.
WOOT: an Algorithm for Concurrrent and Collaborative Authoring (2013) [video]
I saw this posted on Designer News the other day. At first, I was impressed, but then somebody in the comments pointed out your inspiration: http://www.vanschneider.com
Those papers are very interesting. I was particularly surprised that the method exactly recovers the Big-5 components of personality from the results of the survey questions.

The whole idea of "simplest model that explains most of the data" has always been very appealing to me. The concept is closely tied to reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces, which have recently experienced a revival in interest due to the representer theorem.
Which is mostly social security, pensions and the military.
Employee stock options are designed to comply with the IRS rules for Incentive Stock Options (ISOs), which allow employees to receive and execute options without being taxed on their value; tax is assessed only when the stock is sold. To qualify as an ISO, options have to be exercised within 3 months of an employee leaving the company.

The alternative seems to be to use NSOs, or (maybe?) ISOs that turn into NSOs; NSOs have tax implications at the time of exercise, but the point of giving employees NSOs is to allow them to defer exercise, perhaps to a point where the options are liquid (remember: most options aren't liquid; that's the problem with requiring them to be exercised --- it requires employees to spend money to receive illiquid speculative options).
The problem is that bad behavior is usually more acceptable and tolerated when directed at the vulnerable and disenfranchised.

I am currently homeless. I face a lot of classicism for being open about that online. The cherry on top: When folks tell me the shitty treatment I get is my fault for being open about it. "No one knows your dog online if you don't tell them." In other words, the prejudice is a-okay. If I want to be treated like a person, it is on me to hide my status.

I have reason to believe this approximates the experiences of a great many other groups that are de facto second class citizens.
Yes and the reason it's cheaper is that it's unregulated.

Thats the insight here.
Is there any evidence that Newman invented the phrase "on fleek", rather than just being the first person to document it/publicize it outside her subculture?

This is the same sort of thinking that leads people to believe Shakespeare invented many thousands of words, which always struck me as a dubious claim.
Agreed, mesh networks are awesome and could be very interesting in this space.

I think the downvotes are because the poster basically handwaved a complex problem by saying that THE solution is mesh networks.
If you don't live in a state where insurance is absurdly expensive, don't live somewhere gas is absurdly expensive that is also very spread out (California, Alaska) and aren't insistent upon driving something new you can easily have a reliably car for under $3k or even under $2k and drive it for ~$500/yr in various fees (insurance) before gas. Add in a $120 set of tires and rims every other year (because you don't buy new, you buy used). If you live in a blue collar neighborhood maintenance usually costs next to nothing because you trade services with your neighbors or church congregation or have relatives or close friends that will do things at cost.

If you're not trying to visibly live the suburban upper middle class lifestyle personal freedom of movement can be had relatively cheaply.
Why wasn't Erlang/Elixir even considered? It checks off all their initial set of requirements
At-will employment is something that should be universally banned.

Politicians expect their population to consume stuff, to raise kids... if at-will employment were legal I'd have to save and save and save money for anything because I could not be certain to still have a job tomorrow.

Get rid of this shit, impose minimum 2 weeks (better 4) of prior notice, except of course for stuff like theft, assault etc, and watch as your in-land economy rises.
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sadly, babel is taken for granted these days.
Exploring refactoring with color
Yeh, I'd take your approach too
If HE hadn't already been so cynical with his charitable donations, maybe I'd be inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt, as you suggest. Donating $100 million to the Newark public school system the same week "The Social Network" was released, with nothing to show for it educationally, compels me to suspect this LLC is more about Zuck and his family than the downtrodden or whatever.
On the other hand, Zuckerberg has been richly, wildly rewarded, praised and glorified every moment since then. Where do the signals that guide improvement come from in that situation?
Codes of Misconduct
Free parking is kind of mislabeled. The correct term is minimum parking requirements. Most build standards now enforce having a minimum amount of parking for any new building or housing development, including for low income housing.

In order to have mass transit work, we need to be able to build housing and businesses that have very little to no parking allocated. Minimum parking (along with level of service for roads) makes every business and house foot print larger, decreases density, and decreases pedestrian accessibility.

It wouldn't even be that hard to naturally enforce/encourage this. All we would have to do is eliminate minimum parking requirements for developments within a quarter mile radius of a mass transit station.

One would argue that would do essentially nothing. For example a wealthy condo owner would naturally want a parking space and thus pressure the developer to build a space. But I argue there is demand and will be more demand for this parking-less space today in very crowded cities (think SF) or in the future when younger generations or immigrants decide to live in high density areas.

I actually think we have things backwards with minimum parking compared to other cities like Tokyo. Minimum parking acts as a hidden subsidy that increases the price of the property. In Tokyo, houses can be sold without parking. But in order to own a car in Tokyo, you have to prove you also own a parking space. So many housing communities will have parking lots or shared parking garages where nearby residents can rent a space. (There also exist houses that are sold with attached parking as well, but it isn't a requirement.) This is essentially a free market solution to the problem where as the American minimum parking solution is a government regulated solution.
It is probably covered by FCC regulations about 911 calls, specifically, "The FCC's basic 911 rules require wireless service providers to transmit all 911 calls to a PSAP, regardless of whether the caller subscribes to the provider's service or not."

[1] https://www.fcc.gov/guides/wireless-911-services
That spoked diagram's image is named "google-wonder-wheel" and is linked from an article referring to Google's Wonder Wheel. That doesn't seem like a spurious result to me...
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>you end up with a ton of spam on your statements

We think we can avoid that. It's going to be hard to get it right all the time but over time we should be able to learn which transactions settle for amounts less than or greater than the author amount and show these in an appropriate way.

Could you explain what problems you have consolidating your bills with credit card statement - I'm not sure how number26 do it but after 48hrs our statement should be the same as if we didn't show you the auths.
The Curious Case of Linux Containers
Yes, it makes him sound petty, as if it was a form of revenge by not firing off a few emails.
the baby bells were all monopolies, though.
Checked these two charts: http://cdiac.ornl.gov/trends/emis/top2011.tot and https://www.imf.org/

France is making 30 400$/tonne of CO2 while Germany is making 18 200$/tonne of CO2.

Edit: Here is pretty informative chart about energy production in Germany: https://www.energy-charts.de/power.htm
I was doing x86 assembly coding as a teenager, and certainly didn't need nudging. I also taught myself calculus, physics, and even material engineering. I don't see any problem with kids coding. It looks like other people are comparing it to chess or soccer? I would compare it to Math, which is taught to people. I'm not sure why people would feel like only certain people can do it (like soccer or chess). I don't feel threatened if more people code. Maybe I'll create (another) language to teach my kids if I have any.
Indeed. However, it's important to note that even if someone does MITM letsencrypt.org, they only see your public key and CSR. The private keys never get sent over the wire, so you don't risk leaking your private keys. However, a MITM could issue you a fake certificate that doesn't chain back to the Let's Encrypt root. This risk isn't any more than the way most CAs do it now (they email you the signed certificate).
> Arguably you can already play Warhammer 40k with any bits of plastic, but you still need the printed codexes and the setting, which is controlled by GW.

GW today think of themselves as a model company. They neglect game design (e.g. they won't pay for experienced designers) and rule QA. If anything I'd expect to see people playing other rulesets with GW models (they still make better models than many of their competitors).
> Why would people want to work longer?

Why would anyone want to work at all?

Just as it'd be absurd to imagine a world in which no-one works and yet we all have food, clothing, new computers, entertainment &c., it's absurd to imagine that people capable of being productive members of society (which is what old-but-not-debilitated people are) should not be working.

> I think we, as a society, should be trying to figure out how to let the elderly enjoy their twilight years with some dignity

Work is dignified!
I wouldn't call a language that encourages writing spaghetti code and creating dependency hell to be "easy to work with", much less one which doesn't even pass its own test suite, which implies that even if you do everything 100% correctly, the spec itself is faulty, so you WILL have non-deterministic "3AM phone call, up till 3PM fixing" type bugs... No thanks
HFS+ is crazy
Pandora will fire most of Rdio's staff
> the state should pay for it then.

Oftentimes, the state has paid for it. In my home state, Verizon-then-GTE was given tax breaks and cash payments to build a rural broadband system. It has not come anywhere close to completing that task, but now it pleads poverty and dumps the crappy copper infrastructure on Frontier.
...Is like being a resident at the Recurse Center.
I think it holds true for dev shops that are not simply body shops as well.

As for family businesses, they rarely if ever hire software developers. They hire someone for a different role who can code, such as the "help wanted" sign I saw last week in Santa Fe looking for a sales clerk who could also maintain a small website front to back.
Vancouver startup tech company wants to change the way millennials bank
I don't think Trump is really in either of those categories. He's optimized for feeling confident and saying things that (some) people want to hear.

It's not that he's lying, because he doesn't even know what the truth is. I also think he doesn't know that he doesn't know that. In this regard, I think of him as like a sophisticated bot: he doesn't track input in terms of true or false facts, but in terms of word-strings to say that are useful for his particular purposes. Any belief necessary to sound convincing is generated from the word strings.

My grandfather was a master salesman and as best I can tell, this was his basic approach to managing reality.
I'm sure I would but the commute's a killer. Thanks for updating. :)
I don't think employee equity is broken - you just really have to pick the right startup, because most startups will have worthless equity. And all of the fixes promoted in blog posts like these are nice, but they pale in comparison to picking the right startup.
The article is implying that corporations take from black teens specifically because they want to seem "black cool" (such as the case with IHOP using "on fleek" in marketing). In America a lot of what's considered "hip" has come from black culture- jazz, hip hop/rap, clothing, slang etc.

A majority of people who listen to and consume rap music are white. In the 90's, tons of white people wore FUBU (a clothing brand whose name is an acronym for "For Us By Us").

So I don't think the article is only getting at corporations stealing black teens' viral content, but corporations taking ideas from black culture in general, with viral content being a specific instance.
Anonymous claims CloudFlare provides security services to ISIS
I hadn't seen Andrew's post before writing this but I think it's awesome. Will try this out at the next company.
Securing Your Node.js Application
Look at it another way: If the employer is willing to share information about what options might be worth in different scenarios, it's a signal that the employer is negotiating with a "win-win" mindset. Employers who don't share this information are signaling that they're negotiating using a "win-loose" mindset. Adjust your negotiation tactics accordingly.
I'm curious how this will play out over the long run. How do you reward later-stage employees fairly? A few early employees who leave the company will have an enormous advantage over later-stage employees who might do more meaningful work at the company.

In my personal experience, I joined a company mid-pivot. At the time, the strike price on the options was $75+. People who were leaving the company had strike prices around $1. That was a tricky problem there, because stock is hard to use to incentivize people when the upside is taken by people who aren't at the company any more.

One way to fix that is to issue lots of more shares, basically diluting the old employees out, but ultimately this is what these companies are trying NOT to do (effectively the 90-day window is a way of ensuring current employees' stock isn't diluted by old employees). The board isn't going to allow early investors to get diluted out, so after a few years, you're handing tiny amounts of stock to new employees. I guess the hope would be that you're paying market rate at that point?

It sounds like a good way to attract talent in an early-stage company, but after a couple of years, it's going to be tough to attract new employees (at least with stock).

These are just my opinions though, I'm convinced that unless the company is public or you're a first-20 employee, stock is not going to be worth much, especially considering the opportunity cost. There are other things that are worthwhile (it can be great for a career), but purely money-wise, you're probably going to be net-negative.
I wrote the title and blog post (that's me looking all awkward at the beginning of the video). Originally I wanted to just write "walk into a foo", but the reference was deemed too oblique for biologists, even with the hyperlink. Would love to hear your ideas for the rest of the joke!
"Similar organizations have existed for hundreds of years"

So have done the internal source of erosion, is just they now have the technological capacities. In absence of a strong social movement against, this doesn't look well for the future.
Which is the same as var func = function(){...}.bind(this); no es6 required.
Not only do I think you are wrong as other commenters have pointed out the artificial scarcity caused by medallions and the like but for me this isn't about price. I regularly paid $20 (including tip) to get a ride home or to downtown and had no major qualms with it. It's about leveraging technology which the taxi companies never did and are only now starting to do.
> Aren't board games some what popular on kick starter

Yes, very much so, and miniatures games (not really the same thing) also.

> don't they have a pretty bad history of abuse/fraud/mismanagement/underperformance?

No? At least not by Kickstarter standards. The category has a much better track record than computer games or new hardware gadgets.
Everyone Deserves Nice Things
> So this must there is some characteristic of the problems that we generate in practice that makes them "easy" but we don't have a good understanding of what this characteristic is. All we know, for now, is that we've somehow stumbled upon a near-perfect set of heuristics that work amazingly well on the SAT instances we encounter in practice.

There's also the intriguing possibility that "natural instances" however one might define them arise through some complicated process that ends up sampling from easy SAT instances. I think of it as analogous to the Benford's law (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law#Explanations) except that we do not have nearly as good explanations for SAT solvers.

It is also highly likely that MOST instances of SAT are easy but that doesn't preclude it from being NP hard, nor does it stop us from easily constructing hard instances. (Such things are absolutely necessary for cryptography as an example.)
Depends on how you define work, I guess. If you're in the lucky 5% and in control of your career and doing something you like, it's awesome. I for example don't want to retire as long as my body can take it.

That's not always true for the rest of the 95%. For them, dignified, yes, but fun, not always. That 95% is generally very interested in retiring so they have more time to themselves.
I've long thought that states/municipalities should take over the running of last-mile connectivity to customers.
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iPad Pro: An Entrepreneur's Verdict
You're right that "it's more like math" is a vapid argument by itself. Personally, `star` versus (×) feels like a wash, in particular. Most of the multiplication I've done by hand has been with a dot (•) and not a `star` or (×), anyway.

The most compelling case for "looking like math" is when the ASCII representation is clearly imitating something that could be rendered in a more pleasant and smooth manner. Like a plain arrow (->).

> Sticking with the ASCII representation does have one real thing going for it: it visually represents the way you type it.

Which is why we should have easy ways to switch between views of code. There might be views which are hard to translate between, but typography seems to be one of the most low-hanging fruit.
It's very possible that it's not possible to deploy fiber profitably.

Remember, Verizon doesn't get exclusive franchise rights to fiber or ISP service. When Verizon rolled out FIOS to areas it thought were going to be most profitable, they ended up not making nearly as much as they thought they would. Turns out people stuck with the cable company. FIOS only get 40% of people in FIOS coverage to actually sign up.

That's why they stopped their FIOS expansion. It was barely profitable in the easy and rich areas. No way is it going to be profitable in poor and rural areas.

In fact, we've always had to subsidize rural and poor areas. The deal was originally that AT&T--which split into the current AT&T and Verizon,etc.--got to have exclusive telephone rights in exchange for making sure everyone got a connection. AT&T was legally entitled to a certain profit margin.

Now governments are expecting the same sorts of benefits without giving Verizon and AT&T the same sort quid pro quo. And they are finding out that nobody is going to build a new fiber network to rural and poor areas.

In fact, Google Fiber is capitalizing on it. The biggest concession Google gets before deploying Fiber, is that they can pick and choose which neighborhoods get Fiber. So they can cherry pick profitable customers.

I think one great compromise is providing LTE coverage without tyrannical data caps. There is no reason to data cap traffic during non-peak periods. And you don't need to tether a phone, there are wifi routers that work on LTE.
Yes it's an Apache project, but was created by Facebook.
If no one's willing to give you that info, at any of those stages, it's a good sign that they're not going to be up front with you about equity at all.
> I think this idea that coding is some sort of silver bullet is ridiculous.

Its not a silver bullet, but it is as a core component of developing of computer literacy, a broadly applicable foundational skill for non-menial jobs in the modern world, even if programming itself isn't a central duty of the job.

(In the right context -- though its possible to learn programming without developing much of this -- its also a valuable way, and perhaps the most accessible in terms of providing concrete feedback, to develop technology-neutral systems literacy, which is an even more broadly applicable, foundational skill.)
I would more say this was just an aspect that Google inhereted by going with Linux ( see also https://xkcd.com/619/ )

iOS inhereted a strong foundation for this as OSX has a history of strong support for this sort of content creation. Linux does not.