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If they take 29 days to respond to this, I wonder how long they might take to respond to the fairly shocking allegations within the recent Business Insider article [0]?

In fact I wonder if this response was ever going to happen on its own? Perhaps the cause of the response was their recent string of bad press - dear github, business insider, eslint, etc.

It strikes me as strange that a company that has so many people focused on community and social impact doesn't have time to talk to its users.

I hope they manage to sort themselves out as it's getting embarrassing.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11049067
...because it costs money to run it? And it costs money to hire good talent to maintain it?
The only distinction is that democracy has widespread support whereas Bitcoin does not. "Coercion" is simply what happens when society decides unilaterally to do things any one way.
Can you back up and explain what "transfer pricing" is? The article itself kind of skirts around the issue, and it sounds like it's at the heart of the issue.
I've been working on a bot to copy Github Pull Requests into Gerrit reviews, using the Google-hosted Gerrit servers.

My bot isn't running publicly yet, but you can see the start of it working at:

https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go/pull/546
or
https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go/pull/545

(Code is at https://github.com/LetsUseGerrit/gerritbot for now, but I don't imagine anybody would use the code themselves... they'd only interact with it via the Github bot)
I agree. Medical data must not be free in any way, shape, or form. It would only be used to drive up the price of delivery in the form of fatter profit margins.

> "Otherwise, due to market forces and financial constraints, your data will be turned against you before anything else"

Currently, it's using "manufacturer coupons" for meds, given out at your doctor's office and then filled at your local Rx to skirt around HIPAA. Each one has a unique serial number for a reason.

Research data, on the other hand, must be more free - but there are no standards for anonymization of patient data prior to release.
This is a lost cause on HN, where the surround yourself with the 5 people you want to most be like turns into "let's all hole up in SF with liberal people just like us and to hell with the rest of the country"
Oh? I'm sure 16.10 will be great but there's a bunch of things coming in 16.04 which have me excited!
If you literally just want the technical stuff, then anything by Damodaran is good. His Valuations book is awesome, but does not qualify as "condensed / quick". You can also watch his valuation course on YouTube.

I have not read it, but if his "Little Book" is indeed a condensed version of his main book, then its a good start. I think he also gives out a PDF for free on his website.

I would advise against blindly applying DCFs, or at least making real investment decisions from blindly running one. When I first got started I looked for some grand "insert and crank" method of valuation, but now I am convinced there is no shortcut aside of thoroughly understanding a business and its financials.
This is really cool. I think that the biggest weakness is the preference elicitation, but that's a super hard problem.

Also there's the fact that there is almost as much diversity within cities as between them. I live in Echo Park; I don't think of myself as living in Los Angeles. Maybe people pick a city and a part of town for totally different reasons? I don't pick a city based on the average green space, but I would prefer a neighborhood that has a big park or beach nearby. And that neighborhood problem was the big one for me when I moved to LA. I got in to grad school in LA . . . so, ok, I'm moving to LA; not a lot to think about. But what part of LA should I live in? That was really hard to figure out.
Is this really a useful application of function overloads? Integer promotion is tricky as it stands. Overloading, instead of having the user signal intent explicitly, might increase likelyhood of errors, and make them harder to find.
Because in order to be brought into existence, young Twitter needed money, and the people who gave them that money did so in return for the right to vote on the future of the company, and the holders of those rights today vote for profit.

If you'd like to see a different kind of company, you should offer to invest in startups under more altruistic terms.
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Jacksonville, Florida here, school from '88 - '01. Both public and private schools.

I've been punched in the face and chest multiple times, spit on, thrown into a creek by three kids, pushed down stairs, you name it. But it was mostly constant emotional abuse. For how much I was called a faggot, you'd swear the WBC kids went to school with me. I can't even imagine how much worse it'd be if I actually were gay. Kids in the '90s were obsessed with anti-homosexuality. I'd usually ditch the cafeteria and eat alone in the stairwells. The worst parts of the day were between-classes. I took to just carrying all of my books with me all day so I could jump from class to class as quickly as possible. Well, that and gym. Gym was always a nightmare.

It was at home where I received by far the worst physical abuse. But, I'm not looking for a pity party for myself here. I'm doing just fine today, and managed to cope with most of it.

And to be fair, I really was a weird kid. The sock thing in the article caught my eye. I would have killed for socks without seams: I was always taking off my shoes and folding the edge of the sock because the seam would drive me nuts. I had all kinds of weird tics, many caused by actual (not trendy) obsessive-compulsive disorder, others by misophonia.

I'd just really like to see people take bullying seriously instead of as a rite of passage. Imagine if you had a coworker call you a faggot and push you down the stairs at work. And so you told HR, and they told the coworker, "hey, don't do that again or we might make you work an extra hour!" and that was it. Yet somehow this is perfectly okay with children, because "kids will be kids."
"He also complained of denial-of-service attacks against Coinbase and others, while The New York Times reported that some developers had received death threats.

[...]

But he raises a good point—denial-of-service attacks and death threats notwithstanding.

[...]

This is pretty much how things are supposed to work. Sure, [...] the election tactics got out of hand at times. But, well, this is the internet."

This is a hell of a thing to yadda yadda. Calling DDOSes and death threats "election tactics" is ridiculous. If running X version of bitcoin is voting, then it's not a (free) election if you interrupt people on the way to the polls and intimidate them when they're not backing your candidate.
GitHub should consider "open sourcing" GitHub itself so the community can submit PRs and RFPs.
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I'm going to report David Danon to the IRS. He could have made more income as Wall Street corporate lawyer instead of working for Vanguard as a tax lawyer. The extra income he could have made would have resulted in more income taxes to the government. Obviously, he is a tax dodger.

Did I get that right?
"However, this article is meant to be more than a funny background. We were surprised by the amount of flirting that takes place in support channels – and even more by the changes that we’ve seen in the conversation climate once we had finally completed the test and defined all our processes. After replacing Carolin’s image with my name and my photo, people showed more politeness and trusted my advices on a higher level. We just hope that these results are not symptomatic for the IT industry and the support area and that they only appeared in our case."
Schools don't intentionally dumb down the smartest students. They just care about compliance and control more than unleashing human potential. Dumbing down people, distracting them with fear and anxiety, and stamping out creativity is merely a side-effect of school's primary purpose - handling children when parents can't keep up with their own controlling tendencies.
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First read: http://www.androidauthority.com/amazon-new-app-forced-google... to understand that Google won't allow competing app stores. (https://play.google.com/about/developer-distribution-agreeme... for more details section 4.5)

As per this document: https://developers.google.com/cast/docs/android_sender
You need Google Play Services (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Play_Services#Concerns) to write an Android app with the Cast API.

Because of this, Amazon cannot distribute Google Play Services on their own Android devices and therefor cannot use their own Android devices to cast to a Chromecast. They could enable Prime Video on other Android devices but not their own. They feel this will cause confusion and therefor have decided not to write a Prime Video app for Chromecast. Saying "oh, Amazon just doesn't want to write a Prime Video app for Chromecast", while true, doesn't truly explain the complexities of the situation.

The business decision to remove Chromecasts from the network steps from the above desire to prevent confusion. I personally don't agree with it but I understand it.
Well, Maxwell is wrong in the sense that it is the fault of the system of favouring expert rule against user will. Due to mining centralisation users have lost their power, although really never exercised it in full. They only exercise it in the sense that they can stop inflation, but not much else. The far more interesting question is what better consensus systems will be capable of. In the first article on blockchains the system was described as a "constitutional microdemocracy".

http://szabo.best.vwh.net/securetitle.html

If one follows Core's line the question becomes: who if not nodes make decision in Bitcoin? Their answer - the core developers. A future system will have to address this corruption of power.
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TLDR; We've been busy making piles of money in Enterprise land and forgot that we acquire customers via FOSS. Oops.
Recycling sucks. You have to dismantle products and packaging, cut cardboard into little squares no more than 20cm X 20cm, sort glass bottles by colour, remove the labels, or else it won't be (expensively) collected. You can also go drop it off yourself, but you have to pay for the pleasure, and own or rent a vehicle.

Even after all of that, a majority of what is supposed to be recycled ends up being "recycled" into electricity, by an incinerator. That's the case in this neck of the woods, at any rate.

Recycling treats a symptom, not a disease. We allow the production of wasteful packaging, we accept planned obsolescence, and we dispose of things that could be yet used for a long time to come.

A better solution would be to impose the cost of disposal on manufacturers - this already happens to a degree with WEEE, but try actually getting a manufacturer to collect - it's made deliberately difficult as they'd rather you just fly-tip and save them the expense - even though you paid for that service as part of your purchase.

Another better solution would be to pass goods on whole for re-use rather than recycling wherever possible, which has gained some traction through things like freecycle and eBay, but is still a minority case. This behaviour could be encouraged by governments, but is instead actively discouraged, as it hurts sales of new goods, and therefore tax revenues.

As per usual, we'll only change when forced to - by which point it'll be too late. People will use 300 year old toasters in the future, and weep for our wastefulnes.

I do what I can, buy very little new (all of my furniture is pre 1960), dumpster dive, pass things I no longer want or need on, but it's still not enough.
Salaries are also much lower in Montréal. If you are willing to learn French, you will be very welcome.
I was really missing this from the article. I'd describe it as "play" to get to know the system you are trying to learn. This knowledge than helps with the specific task.

Given the study I assume a different mechanism coming in to play also:

If you try to play a musical piece on an instrument teachers will advise you to practice as slow as needed, not to make a single mistake, that could end up being learned.

It's like trying to correct yourself on word you mangled up while speaking, you'll be so fixated you immediately make the mistake again and again.

This memory effect might have been countered by the variations in the study.
I don't know anything about the details of this particular CDO structure (and the article was a bit sparse on the details other than its small banks), but I've grown disgusted with people trying to make convoluted financing schemes to make money.

CDO's didn't exist until 1987. The market and economy grew just fine without them. In fact, we've seen an increased divergence of rich/poor since that time. CDO's only help the rich get richer.
I've seen something like this suggested before, something like github for the law - lawhub but with a nice user friendly UI, be interesting to see the stuff evolve over and time and who was making the edits ;).

https://draftin.com/ has a lovely UI I like a great deal.
I think the focus is correct in this blog in telling customers not to attempt advances in the first place. Furthermore, it would be disgusting if the first question out of someone's mouth when staff tells them about unwanted attention is "well maybe you should've followed the guide" or the defense of the perpetrator to be "she didn't follow the guide so I assumed it wasn't unwanted"
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Women write better code, study of GitHub pull requests suggests
once the troll is fed the appetizers, it demands the main course.
I'm in similar situation. I finished MA and never really had to work hard for anything. Had IQ at around 130. Probably less now cause I had not done anything challenging for decade.

I hate my job, have no achievments whatosever and I balance on doing bare minimum not to get fired. Changed job 4 times and it's definitely me. That's despite the fact that I was always going to be a programmer since I was 10, and I loved programming. I'm lazy as hell and I'm astonished every day they won't fire me. Any dreams of success in mine choosen callign are long past.

I also had huge problems with social interactions, married first girl that could look past it (she has similar problems). It wasn't a good decision.

My wife has even bigger problems with employement, but she declines to agree it's her fault (she changes job every year and it's always "them"). We are codependent and use each other not to be alone. We hurt each other a lot. I don't think it's love, but then I find love to be hard to define (I mostly feel "I should be feeling this" instead of actually feeling this, not only towards her).

I should really leave her, cause she isn't happy with me (nor am I with her), but she has her life wasted, in some party because of me, and she depends on me at least economicaly at this point. Or maybe it's rationalization because it's more convenient to continue this.

I'm addicted to internet and gaming, and I'm well aware of the fact that I'm wasting my life. I just don't care. No right to complain really, I had it better than most people, and it's entirely my fault I'm wasting it all. And yet I do, because nothing worthwhile seems achievable and vice-versa.

BTW I know I sound arrogant and selfish, that's because I am. I wondered many times if maybe I'm just stupid (that would explain a lot). In the end it doesn't really matter, results matter and I don't have them.

I probably could get depression diagnosed, but I don't want to cure it even if it's true, because it would mean I have to actually do sth. So my best diagnosis is "chronic laziness".
For all these 'bubble' cities (Vancouver, S.F., Seattle, London, ...), I wonder if the bubble ever pops? Are there examples of the prices/avg. income getting so far out of whack that things collapse?

http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/11/global-hou...

Detroit probably experienced a R.E. bubble in the day...
It's just bad writing.

It muddies their actual meaning, and an unfortunate metaphor that gets in the way--does more to confuse than illuminate. These guys are onto something big, but they're not great at presenting it.
I remember just a couple years ago Microsoft and Google both had "health" portals that would allow you to aggregate data from various providers. After some time though it became clear that doctors and insurance companies were to beholden to their own products to allow such a platform to aggregate results. Thus the platform failed as not enough opportunity was given.

And to quote this article:
http://mobihealthnews.com/11480/10-reasons-why-google-health...
"As much as we’d like to think it isn’t the case, the fundamental driver of most (not all) behavior in healthcare is the reimbursement scheme... To understand the impact, I’ll exaggerate to make a point—your healthcare provider doesn’t care about you unless they can see the whites of your eyes. Why is that? Today’s flawed reimbursement scheme only compensates the healthcare provider for a face to face visit."

Thus until a broken model of healthcare is fixed in many many ways we will be stuck in the same old model for years to come.
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That completely mis-characterizes Maxwell and Blockstream's position. It isn't that "the rules are the rules and we got to live with them." Rather larger, slower to validate, slower to relay blocks creates centralization pressures, and centralization destroys the user protections at the heart of Bitcoin's value proposition.

Blockstream has no position on the block size debate, other than supporting the consensus building process (whatever the outcome might be). Blockstream's business model does not depend in any way shape or form on small blocks. That is pure FUD. In fact, small blocks are a hindrance to things like sidechains, which generally use much larger transactions for the two-way peg smart contracts. Some of the risks called out in the sidechains whitepaper are that Bitcoin blocks might be too small to contain a return peg, or that full blocks will make it difficult to get a fraud proof on chain before the expiry.

Everyone stands to benefit from larger blocks, but only so long as the network remains decentralized. The debate is over where to draw that line.

(Disclaimer: I'm a co-founder of Blockstream.)
I'm translating it to portuguese (github.com/muthdra/hosts-ptbr). I love it!
I guess that's arguably better than accepting corrupted data, but still a step backwards from the abstraction TCP is intended to provide in regards to checksums ...
Non-profit exemptions rest on the government's policy of forgoing tax revenues on specific favored activities. Non-profit entities have to take great care to avoid engaging in activities besides those favored ones. So the non-profit hospital likely couldn't fold the advertising activities into itself without jeopardizing their tax-exempt status.

The problem is not the acquisition of the for-profit entity by the non-profit entity. The problem is when those entities don't interact at arm's-length.
I'd describe at least one of the factors as "play". "Play" to get to know the system you are trying to learn. This knowledge than helps with the specific task.

Given the study I assume a different mechanism coming in to play also:

If you try to play a musical piece on an instrument teachers will advise you to practice as slow as needed, not to make a single mistake, that could end up being learned.

It's like trying to correct yourself on word you mangled up while speaking, you'll be so fixated you immediately make the mistake again and again.

This memory effect might have been countered by the variations in the study.

(I posted the same thing elsewhere, but as a comment of the furthest down top-level comment I doubt it will be seen there)
It became vital back when economies first started to specialize.

If you take the net the fisherman wants to use and string it up as a hammock, you're going to eat fewer fish later. If you take the blacksmith's tongs and use them to crack walnuts, you're not going to get that handful of nails that you wanted to build your house.

Property rights alleviate the tragedy of the commons, by taking resources with multiple possible uses out of the commons and dedicating them to uses other than just the one with the highest immediate value.

It should be obvious that you can't plant a field on the same land footprint as the foundation of your house. You can't build a road over it at the same time that it's under an apartment building. Property rights are part of our system for resolving the conflicts behind multiple competing exclusive uses for any particular thing.

They are not absolutely essential to democracy, but they are the best solution we have yet tried for resource allocation in a specialized economy, and democracies tend to fare better when there is enough prosperity to spread around to everyone.
Wall Street is where tech companies go to die. They make something good, go public, investors demand to make ALL the money on Earth instead of a modest profit for providing a good service, then the service goes to shit because developers have to sacrifice what makes it good to make it more profitable, users leave, service dies.

I'm perfectly happy to make my living in a small company that does good work. I'll never be a billionaire and that's fine with me.
That would be odd; ESLint is a pretty small project compared to, say, the top 100 or so. I can't imagine their investigation would be much of an issue.

Honestly git is distributed so I don't know why people wouldn't just setup another repo somewhere, say, GitLab and you could experiment with different workflows, etc and essentially have a remote back-up.
Hardly unexpected, but sad none the less. Interesting how they wonder whether a pure online edition will be able to support the same number of journalists. Were it not for the assumption that online ad revenues are busting in the same way as print sales, the platform should have no relevance to that. What a time to be ad funded as iOS9 comes out, for example...
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Generally physical items are considered more expensive if you pay back over time, not less. For total cost, loans are the same way, but are measured by APR instead.
Not using IPv6? Are you sure?
There is no ruler. The user can choose the software to run. It's possible there will be multiple protocols that claim to be Bitcoin. It would be nice if some general consensus emerged not to use the Bitcoin name for specifications that introduce substantial changes to the underlying economics or reward structure of the protocol. But even if there's no consensus on semantics, each group can choose to ignore the other and the only consequence will be that I have to check who is speaking before I conclude they mean the same thing I do when I say "Bitcoin".
Or, they got the original letter and only then decided to implement some changes. It could take 29 days to get management level approval for switching developement to issues, and to get an idea if all those issue changes are possible, before they are willing to publically announce it
That's a recipe for building up an "industry" where almost all of the money is expended collecting small amounts of money, while limiting access severely. (There's a huge difference in how many people (or computers) will read free text vs. text with even a tiny $$ cost.)

Compare to the alternative of uploading one copy to Public.Resource.org or the Internet Archive. It's probably cheaper for the courts to do this than to provide copies to 3 non-profits for further sale.

Edit: add Public.Resource.org, since they're in the forefront of making the Law available for free.