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"My Nest thermostat, which after some early teething problems I’ve come to like, falls flat on its face when my broadband connection goes down."

The implication here is that like the other thermostat mentioned, it doesn't work. That's simply not true, the Nest still works albeit only from the device itself like a traditional thermostat.
> do you use some mix of command line and GUI?

This, for me. I do most git things through the command line, but I find Tower's GUI very convenient for reviewing my changed files before I commit them.

At that point, I'm basically looking at superficial issues. That's usually the step where I realize I've left some debugging statements in my code, or have some formatting issues that ought to be cleaned up.
Provided you had prior experience with functional languages then yes.
Did you know there's a remote control for everything?
Most of those issues I mention are exactly the kinds of issues which pull the reader out of the text, even though he may not be able to pinpoint exactly why. Certainly often when I use Instapaper to read a web page or Calibre to convert ebooks I can read through the issues if I try hard enough, but it takes more effort than reading a well-produced book, and I somewhat regularly give up on automatically-converted texts because the issues are just too dire.

(Some of my other favorite conversion errors: Endnotes or references not hyperlinked. Chapters and other headings not correctly marked-up. Page numbers or other irrelevant header/footer material not stripped. Footnotes, margin notes, or other relevant header/footer material stripped. ...As you can tell, I'm great fun at cocktail parties.)
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I don't understand how people are always so shocked that some people are unaware of these issues. For a related example, I didn't know catcalling was that prevalent (outside of the assumedly anachronistic stereotype of construction workers I'd seen in movies) until shortly after college. I'd never witnessed it happen, and none of my female friends had ever mentioned it happening to them, so why would I assume that it happened super often?

It was only after we all graduated and moved to denser cities that female friends started experiencing it and mentioning it (and since then I've read plenty of articles about it). Since none of my friends are assholes, my initial "wow it's really that universal an experience?" was met with affirmation instead of "you really are a pervy creeper with your head in the sand".

Your specific example about socializing women to be accommodating is also not something I knew existed until a couple years out of college. I didn't see how my friends' parents raised them firsthand and my sister was/is a holy terror, by far the least polite and accommodating of our otherwise fairly reserved family (myself included). The girls in our friend group tended to be less demure and more confident. Again, I wouldn't know about it if I hadn't read so much about it, and there are plenty of people who haven't been exposed to articles about it.
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Are you ok with UK currency not being accepted on buses?
New iOS App for Drummers to Trigger Bass Drum Right from Phone
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> Tobacco and Alcohol companies would likely suffer as a result of drug legalisation, like cannabis.

To state this in another way- think of all of the Budweiser/Bud Light sponsorships and commercials and replace that Bud with the other kind of bud. That's about the scale and usage to expect, at the very least, if cannabis were to be completely legal everywhere alcohol is.

And all of the abuse, drunk driving, etc? Increase that somewhat. They won't be able to control all of it with treatment and education any more than they have with alcohol. Also, imagine the level of drinking at work even in the 1940's and 50's after alcohol prohibition was lifted.

Aside from cannabis, think of all of the other drugs that could be abused. Yes, drug violence, etc. will go down, but there is a tradeoff.
It's a memorable name, like "Yahoo!"
I see no problem with a whimsical brand.
Too late to change it, anyway.
As a former salesperson and manager...

It’s not so simple when you sell a product with recurring revenue. When you sell something like a computer, you get a chunk of revenue right away, you make margin on that, and you pay your salesperson out of the margin. You can work out quotas based on the salesperson’s base salary and overheads. That’s a very simple model, and nearly everybody understands it well enough to know when a salesperson is profitable and when they’re not.

But when a product has recurring revenue, like seat licenses, you have to model the revenue and mach it up to the compensation. You could tell the salesperson that they get commission when you get revenue, in which case an enterprise sale will pay very little today, put provide an annuity over a long period of time.

But salespeople hate that. The thing they control, the sale, happens immediately, but the things they don’t control, like whether you lay them off, whether the customer decides to switch providers, &c. happen over time and are much more likely to cut their income than to boost it.

You generally have to be a very mature company with a very well-understood business model to structure salesperson’s income over the long term.

Most growth companies are fraught with risks. Thus, salespeople want a chunk of their money when they make the sale. And thus, you have to model the net present value of the sale and structure the salesperson’s compensation accordingly.

Now you are taking on some of that risk. And the faster you want to grow, the more salespeople you need to hire, and the more of that risk you need to shoulder. Basically, you’re buying future revenue with cash right now. If the revenue doesn’t materialize, you’re out of pocket,and you need to have fewer salespeople.

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p.s. I’m leaving out the REAL reason why many growth companies lay salespeople off when growth stalls. I explained it above in terms of the value of a sale from a revenue basis. But for most growth companies, the value of a sale is in how it boosts the perception that the company is in hyper-groth mode, which leads to higher valuations, which leads to founders and investors making mad crazy bank.

Under such circumstances, the cost of sales can exceed the net present value of the expected revenue from the sale, but companies will merrily dump investment funds into the sales force to keep the company growing at a rate that justifies more investment funds, and maybe get a round where they can take money off the table or go public and make the investors rich.

If the company is “buying growth” with its sales force, and growth stalls, you have to get rid of sales very quickly, because even when they’re making sales, they aren’t paying for themselves. And when they aren’t making sales, they’re dragging the company deep into the hole.

The interesting thing about this scenario (“buying growth,” as opposed to “buying revenue” described above) is how it affects employees whose equity is locked into the long term. Generally, they shoulder all the risk of this tactic not working, while investors reap all the rewards when it works and they take money out early.
That also applies to code, I've seen some ebooks that have blocks of code formatted like they exist on a blog instead of in a printed environment. It made reading them a pain because code snippets were word wrapped badly, split over multiple pages, and you'd get pages and pages of code.

Given that ebooks are electronic, perhaps they could use some sort of pop out window for larger code snippets, so that they could be scrolled rather than in page format.
There have to be open protocols and control needs to happen locally (as in: on the home network). The good news is, you can absolutely have that, today. The bad news is, it's not as easy to set up as a Nest. People have to understand this tradeoff.
Such a thing already exists if you're ready to host your own DB:

http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1616/

http://labs.mysql.com/

That's as simple to find as googling "<db name> REST API"
Ive never seen a team develop which dont share the same physical space.

Even a Big Enterprise Company, suffers from "us vs them" in the same city but different building blocks, now imagine how "we" see "them" in another country and they us. Hell, Ive been in this "safe" big enterprize for more than 2-3 years now, and the people on the floor above and below are more strangers than you here on HN.

So, remote work, consider it different.

However, you mentioned finance, Ive turned down a very lucrative offering from a finance company just because they bragged that their investors are Saudi Arabians, its just personal, but no thanks, they can keep their blood/oil money.
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>I mentioned that the most common method for uniquely identifying a handset (the IMEI) can be changed by switching a chip on the iPhone's main board. (At least this was true 6 years ago.)

https://www.theiphonewiki.com/wiki/ECID Firmware updates use this, not IMEIs. And I think the IMEI is more commonly used to identify the radio, not the device itself. But I could be wrong about that.

>So, unless Apple uses an interactive signature scheme or prevents the FBI/intelligence agencies from ever seeing the signature (using TLS with hard-coded certs), then the signature can be replayed.

Every time you update an iPhone it generates a nonce, called APTicket. Apple signs that, your ECID and the firmware. The nonce essentially makes replay attacks impossible, even if you managed to swap a devices ECID.
A "publisher" in the digital world will be a very different beast and it will be hard to call it such. Most of it will likely be automated. Their core-competency might not even be book-publishing.

Are Amazon and Netflix "studios"? No, but they do produce high-quality video content. Is Louis CK a "studio"? No, but he's producing a TV series.

Publishers' functions (content editing, packaging, distribution, marketing and merchandising) are being split and reorganized in different ways. Verticals built on the new production chain will look very different from current publishers.
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Kanye West caught using Pirate Bay to download music software
The rational conclusion seems to be that whether drugs are legal, or decriminalized, are, at best, only part of what determines levels of drug use and drug-related crime.
Hire a DBA and stick with relational DB. We had (previous group, still running) a 40-50TB Oracle db that collected much more data daily.

I would think you shouldn't be writing to a txt file, then doing imports into a DB. That's hitting disk multiple times and unnecessary. Relational DB's should handle 50GB of inserts in real time. IF you stream the data real time into the DB then you won't need to worry about your batch of 50GB taking longer time than you have to update.

Other things I have observed from very large relational dbs: have one database for data capture and keep everything normalized. Your problem down the line is going to be purging data so if you can, partition tables by date so you can just drop partitions later. Setup a separate database for reporting purposes and import necessary data - possibly consolidated metrics, etc. into this per your business needs. Make sure your DBA understands the business needs of each, tunes the databases for data capture and reporting and is involved with specifying table layouts, etc.

My rationale for sticking with RDBMS - you can solve this problem with that tech, the candidate pool is larger and the depth of knowledge, documentation and best practices on the technology is much deeper than NoSQL alternatives.
In the US culture, I think a lot would depend on marketing and advertising. Consider the marketing of high fructose corn syrup, which is cheap, legal, hardly "rebellious," possibly a sort of low-grade high, and consumed in toxic quantities.

I'm not arguing against legalization. But I had a similar conversation with my kids about legalizing pot. I told them that whatever the health aspects of pot use are, the pot industry would use all of the tactics of the tobacco industry, to market pot as "cool" and perfectly safe.
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That's really cool. I've always been interested in pathfinding, but I'd naiveley assumed that the restricted world of mass transit would be simpler than free-form pathfinding.

Relatedly but somewhat off topic, I wonder why Google doesn't provide route maps too? While the transit route planning is neat, I often want a larger view of the route or system, and many municipalities just feed you a PDF from Hell.
Not everything could be type safe with generics.

You can't typecheck the generic itself.
Especially conversions could be really hard with them.

(I love generics, still this somewhat aweful).
Currently Converting Generics between Scala and Java is totally Ugly.
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Ah my understanding was along the lines of "market [rate]" for a person being the "rate they could get in their first choice occupation assuming a job was available to them".

Or market rate of a field being the mean rate for workers of that occupation.

If it's work below market or gut chickens for a living people will tend to accept less than they feel they're worth.
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Thanks! I was just interested (not planning to implement anything myself soon).

How does WebRTC perform in realistic scenarios? Is it capable to realistically compete with the big guys (Skype et al)?
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> The only realistic solution would be for hosts to forcibly upgrade customers' sites,

They could stop putting new customers on outdated systems, for a start. I routinely still see shared hosting delivering PHP 5.4, in 2015 (last I saw something that jarring).

You want to keep people on old stuff? Quanrantine them, and have all new customers going forward on newer stuff, and develop a plan for upgrading. "Guys, yes, you want to keep running PHP 5.3, but for the security of the entire data center, we have to upgrade. You may need to upgrade your wordpress/etc - we'll do what we can to help mitigate problems, but not addressing this means your site is more at risk of becoming hacked".
No joins like in MongoDB?
upd: missed that it is usees mongodb. Sad but true.
Yes you can lend physical books to other people, but you also have to pack them when moving, and a decent physical book collection is surprisingly very heavy.

Also when lending books to people you have to know them well, and then follow up if you ever want the book returned.
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The one thing that usually catches my eye is when a company offers these things 100% vested. I know that I'm dealing with people that understand what I want.
My wife and I received an electric kettle as a wedding gift and it's pretty amazing how fast it brings water to a boil. But, she may end up taking it to her office at work as she has no stove there whereas we have a really nice gas stove at home. I have not run the calculation as to if the electricity or the gas costs more to bring a 1/4 kettle of water to a near boil. But to be honest, most of our hot water drinks are coffee so the 12 cup drip coffee maker or even the Mr. Coffee espresso maker, both of which are electric get used far more.
Did the abuse of alcohol and it's impacts go up or down after prohibition? Probably depends on whether you count making gangsters rich and famous, and people dying from drinking bathtub gin as abuse or not, but even if you exclude all that, it's not a slam dunk that there would be a big shift in either direction for users, or that it wouldn't simply displace other drugs, legal or illegal, which you'd need to measure to get a true picture.
"Nearly all countries have some ban so I doubt full legalization is the answer. "

Most countries went with the flow of international pressure, rather than banning as a sovereign decision.
It came to a point in which any country that becomes sufficiently soft on hard drugs is labeled a "narco state", and that's widely considered reasonable grounds for a military invasion! What we're seeing today is the chilling effects of that.
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> I treat Slack like I treat talking to a person

Exactly! A channel is just like a meeting room, you can expect me to constantly follow more than one or two channels, for the others, @channel or @myusername.
TL;DR: Someone buys cheap no-name brand chinese light switches and is surprised when they don't include instructions, have poor security, and don't work very well or at all.

I see these kinds of "IOT hate" articles on HN a lot recently, and most of them are judging an industry based on the cheapest and worst quality parts.
Execution is a very drastic drug-related harm. If we killed everyone at age 50 then cancer rates would fall drastically, but it would be completely unreasonable to suggest that we had effectively solved the cancer problem.

It is worth noting that Indonesia have changed their drug policies in recent years and are moving towards a medicalised rather than criminalised approach to drug use, largely as a response to rising rates of HIV infection amongst injecting drug users.

https://www.unodc.org/indonesia/en/issues/hiv-and-drugs.html
I don't think a claim like "the pay for job X is unfairly/unacceptably low" makes sense on its own (or at least, it's not a claim that people would be sympathetic to in general). It tends to contain an implicit argument that either a) job X is representative of the most lucrative (reasonable) jobs available to people in particular circumstances or b) job X is somehow socially valuable. No-one complains that e.g. surfers are underpaid, and few would be sympathetic to "How much do you value your favorite surfers eating or having health insurance?" I took kevinr to be implicitly claiming that authors are socially valuable, that I would prefer for people like his friend to write instead of working at their market rates.
The article is a little bit misleading. It sounds like they went to a very 3rd tier program. I've interviewed plenty of people from these types of programs. Many of them list MBA on their LinkedIn tagline, which inadvertently highlights "University of Phoenix" or some other online program on the bottom. For most of these people, the MBA is worthless.

Net - I think MBAs from non-top schools are worthless for most of the reasons the author suggested.

But... There is value in specific fields for top degrees. More than half the people from top 6-8 programs who want to get into banking or elite consulting programs can get there. If you really want to work for Bain/BCG/McK and you recruit on campus from a top program, you have an ~50% shot depending on the market. If you don't have that top MBA, it's much lower. (Less than 2%?) Similar with front office jobs in investment banking.

What about technology, which is what most people here care about? I see a disproportionate amount of non-engineering CEOs with Computer Science undergrads followed by MBAs from a small subset of schools. (Harvard and Stanford followed by a big drop, then Kellogg, Penn, Chicago Booth and Cal in the next tier - perhaps I'm missing one or two) The #s are very disproportionate to what these schools produce.

Is it causation or correlation? Much harder to say. These are hyper-talented people. They have technical skills too. I suspect they get some benefit from the sorting mechanism in place, the network, and the confidence that they built. Good CS programs are much more academically rigorous than most MBA programs, so I don't think it's genius granted from the mountaintop.

I've strongly advised people to avoid programs outside the top 20 for economic reasons. If someone else is paying for it, and you're interested in learning about business for it's own sake, sure. But the maximum NPVs accumulate only to the grads from the top few schools. In this sense, MBAs are much more similar to law degrees than technical degrees.
>US incarcerated very significant percentages of its black male population under the guise of the "war on drugs" //

You think it was a government backed conspiracy against black males?
>In my country (India), there is a region in the Himalayas - Kasaul - where marijuana grows in the wild. It is so easily accessible that you can literally pluck some on a walk through the forest.

e.g. Hindu Kush. Interestingly, cannabis has been used in India since 2000BCE.

Aren't there some tolerated/accepted uses of cannabis in India? I suppose what I'm really asking is it actually tourists or aren't there some significant traditional uses such as bhang? I can certainly understand that some users would just be tourists, but most I'm not sure of.