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I think you're right that it would be considered, but from inside the VC world, I can also say it would be very very strange (to the point of almost unthinkable) for a fund to make a meaningful hedge against a particular portfolio company's commodities exposure. It's just not done, at least if you're running other people's money.

You can think of lots of reasons why, but it mainly boils down to this: VCs are hired to make bets within an asset class (startups) and not outside that asset class. Institutional investors (upstream of VCs) have other managers to do commodities etc.

Also, at least in theory, the market price of oil takes all info into account. If the VCs could really predict the price of oil in 3-5 years, they should probably be trading that alpha instead of investing in VC.
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> Since businesses are unwilling to pay their employees reasonable salaries, and the government is unwilling to regulate wages

Except this is not true. The government does regulate a minimum wage. Businesses never want to pay minimum wage so they have to.

But because tipping existed, the restaurant industry was able to carve an exception that if someones tips do not equal up to minimum wage the business will cover the shortfall, but if it exceeds it, the business only has to pay a special lower minimum and the server gets to keep the gratuities.

Either way, your server is guaranteed to make minimum wage.

That people like you exist, who think that they are doing society a good thing, is one thing that keeps this practice alive.

A lot of servers and bar tenders want to keep the special minimum wage + tips setup. Tips are often paid in cash and are much easier to keep off reported income.
> She regularly has nights where she makes $300+ in tips. If tips did not exist, the restaurant would presumably pay her minimum wage or something close (as opposed to the "minimum wage with tip" they currently pay). There is no way this would come even close to paying her the same amount that tips do.

Why are you so sure about this? Many people work service precisely because they can make tips. If they were now limited to a fixed minimum wage they would look elsewhere and put upward pressure on service salaries.
A simple protection to this that would reduce the impact significantly would be to add an accelerometer to the keyfobs, preventing unlocking if the keyfob hasn't moved recently.
Efficiency is one of the basic tenets of Engineering. Almost every problem can be reduced to "How can this system be made more efficient?"

In real world systems you often have competing constraints. In construction if someone asked you to make a beam section more efficient you'd need to consider weight, cost, weld-ability, yield strength etc. All competing against each other.

An effective engineer is someone who can see the whole picture of the system and where his design fits into it. Being able to make the most appropriate efficiency gains in areas where you get the greatest benefit.

I've always considered a technically elegant solution to be something more novel - an approach that had never been considered before or consider and dismissed as unworkable in the past.
Well, this works the other way around too, right? If you invite, or accept applications from, someone who is primarily noted for {bar}, then whatever your name, official agenda, or spokespeople say, you are now hosting a conference tolerant or supportive of {bar}.

You seem to be making a declaration that acts are inherently political, and I'm all for that. It's just that the standard works both ways.
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Right-wing unions aren't the only kind. Take the IWW, which is quite anarchist: "They are known for the Wobbly Shop model of workplace democracy, in which workers elect their managers and other forms of grassroots democracy (self-management) are implemented. IWW membership does not require that one work in a represented workplace, nor does it exclude membership in another labor union." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Workers_of_the_Worl...)

Obviously, corporations and governments support right-wing unions. Which they then attack after successfully coopting any threat of workplace democracy.
Good job LambdaConf.

Disregarding irrelevant political views and focusing on the technical content is what every conference should do. It's too bad that this is less common than it should be.
(I submitted this topic)

I remember created this submission 30+ hours ago, but it said "1 hour ago" and suddenly reappeared. Bizarre.

Also, if you have ad blocker like uorigin, try this link:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:wdPiE5R...
> At what point does someone's routine vocal
> endorsement of racial superiority and advocation of
> violence become problematic?

The Americans have a whole load of case law around First Amendment rights, it would be worth familiarizing yourself with that for a few hundred years worth of considered thought.

> Or are we obligated to welcome these people into
> our conferences

Well in this case, their conferences - he's there under his own technical merit, isn't he? Do you really get to exclude him because you don't like his views, even though he may well be more qualified than you to claim a right to be there?

> (workplaces?

Conveniently there's case law in employment too.

> homes?)

Weird strawman.

> the issue at hand is the expectation not of freedom of
> thought or freedom of speech, but a desire for speech
> without consequences

I would be curious to know what you think free speech means, if it doesn't mean speech without consequence. "We're free speech in this country, except you can go to jail for saying the wrong thing".
Yes! I love this movie! I watched it often growing up and still revisit it today. It wasn't until I was a teenager when I found out it was supposedly 'bad.' I've been having conversations where I'm on defense about it ever since. Most people just tell me I like it because I grew up with it, they might be right, but that won't stop me proudly declaring "that movie is fucking rad," when I hear co-workers or friends bring it up.
Binary joke
Barbara Walters is interviewing a computer. She asks, "How would you describe your relationship with binary."

The computer replies: "It's a bit off and on."
Exxon Mobil must allow climate change vote – SEC
Since I first heard of the pen and saw the technical details of it (e.g. latency, tilt feature, palm detection) and general faith in Apple's ability to leapfrog innovate, I knew it'd be a huge deal.

I'm not an artist but when I tried it for the first time at the Apple store, I was blown away much more than I expected and had I been an artist, I would have probably had the same reaction as the author.
Then we should tip DMV employees, cops, firefighters and plumbers too? Also don't forget the cook in the restaurant and border immigration officers at the airport and airline pilots. I am only half facetious. Why only waiters?
What's so good about RHEL/fedora vs debian or ubuntu server, say?
Usually, dependency hell doesn't bite you, until it does. Try to rebuild that thousand-dependencies app in three years from now and you'll see ;-)

I recently had to rebuild a large RoR app from circa 2011 and it took me longer to solve dependencies issues than to familiarise myself with the code base.

Excessive dependencies are a huge anti-pattern and, in our respective developers communities, we should try to circulate the idea that, while it's silly to reinvent the wheel, it's even worse to add unnecessary dependencies.
I think the attribution to edison is tongue-in-cheek reference to the War of Currents. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_Currents
In a way this shows what a great job NPM did at making it easy to publish packages. It's so easy that people decide to package up extremely easy functions.

As a python developer I would never publish a small package, simply due to the overhead of setting up a PIP package.
Hey as long as your able to get the latest OS and the phone fits your needs, great. But of course other people value different things, and obviously iPhones fit better for lots of people.
Well NUAN took a 5% price hit after the announcement today, so maybe there's some overlap?
Here are his comments ranked by upvotes: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=author:patio11&sort=byPopulari...
Why nobody is going to be out of a job in the digital world
It really depends on the company. My suspicion is that companies only get serious about DR once they reach a fairly big size. When I interviewed at Squarespace they were just finishing building out their second datacenter. At that point it was a DR data center but they were planning on switching all production traffic to it in the coming months. Most of the startups/midsize companies have relied on a third-party for backups ie Rackspace.
I think it speaks to just how lacking the baseline Javascript standard library is. The libraries that come with node help, but all of this stuff seems like it should be built-in, or at least available in some sort of prelude-like standard addon library. The lack of either leads to all these (apparently ephemeral) dependencies for really simple functions like these.

That said, I work with Java, Clojure and Python mostly so I may be more used to having a huge standard library to lean on than is typical.
>Accordingly, I decided to retroactively cut her in for 5% of the business. Props to Pepper for accommodating this request, as it is somewhat non-standard. ("Can you invoice me a substantial amount of money and promise me that you will pay a particular employee of yours a bonus of the same amount, net only of taxes?" "We can do that.")

Businesses exist that are this cool? Where do I find them?
Apple Pay coming to mobile web with TouchID by end of 2016: Report
Very cool! I've always been fascinated by lighter-than-air vehicles, and I'm excited to see that the technology is still being developed. For anyone who's interested, the history of the field is littered with odd false starts, such as the US Navy's (now long defunct) LAV fleet circa 1920 [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Shenandoah_%28ZR-1%29
it exists - through space and time
I am always interested in knowing how cryptographers come up with these big big big big numbers?

https://github.com/mimoo/Diffie-Hellman_Backdoor/blob/master...

They appear to be mysterious, magic numbers in every single crypto implementation. And many are written in byte form. I mean how can people comprehend them?
I never said more powerful. I said stronger. In C++ you need unit tests to check something I can have statically proven in C#. And obviously you can't instantiate your template for all possible valid input types, because this number can be infinite.
I agree.

But if tipping is removed through some global measure, such that no restaurant offers tips to its employees, then where would that upward pressure come from?
I don't see anything wrong with using a pre-made left pad function. Why waste time and lines of code implementing something so trivial when there is already a solution available?

However, I agree it is ridiculous to have a dedicated module for that one function. For most nontrivial projects I just include lodash, which contains tons and tons of handy utility functions that save time and provide efficient, fast implementations of solutions for common tasks.

Lodash includes `padStart` by the way (https://lodash.com/docs#padStart).
> Why only waiters?

To a large extent it's society's way of allowing "the right kind" of drug addicts or whatever to have a way of earning a living wage.
It works.

https://youtu.be/W8vBm6oXlEM
Wow, they invented their own HTML.
"Android" as it is distributed in mobile devices has some Google proprietary components.
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And on Samsung, we have Samsung apps. Double standard?
Yes, not all of them are Samsung apps but those are mainly what Samsung users rile them for.
Once again, you are not forced to suffer this. You have the freedom to get out of this. In your case, you DON'T!!
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And that's why Apple fans will never get it. We do have a lot of crap on Android just as you! But the thing is, we don't have to suffer it! We have the freedom to change this!
That is why Android remains a superior platform. You get to choose your experience!
The reason that springs to mind immediately is that tipping is a mechanism by which good employees (polite ones, or ones who go above and beyond to provide excellent service) are paid more relative to worse ones.

If only that were true. It is not quality of service that drives tipping size, but to put it crudely, hotness.

Even if your statement were true it is for the business to resolve, not the customer. If the level of service provided by the employee does not match the level expected by management then management needs step in and solve. All tipping does is screw up the normal relationship between the employer and the employee.
I know many restaurants that share the tip with the kitchen staff (some including dish washers).
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Reading the article it seems like the Kik emails were a little poorly worded, but not extremely so.

However, Azer's response is completely over the top. Clearly he has a take no prisoners attitude and scorched earth approach to things. Given that open source is also about collaboration, this response is kinda lame.
That's the content they choose to sponsor (with a soapbox), and which they should curate.
Hari Seldon and Gaal Dornick as devlopers of Psychohistory would approve. (Isaac Asimov's "Foundation" universe)

"Psychohistory is the name of a fictional science in Isaac Asimov's Foundation universe, which combined history, psychology and mathematical statistics to create a (nearly) exact science of the behavior of very large populations of people" source: Wikia
Holy moly-- is-positive-integer/index.js:

var passAll = require('101/pass-all')
var isPositive = require('is-positive')
var isInteger = require('is-integer')

module.exports = passAll(isPositive, isInteger)

I retract my previous statements that Javascript programmers are going down the same enterprise-y mess that Java programmers went down a decade ago.

They've already taken it to an entirely different level of insanity.
My current programming project, my goal has been to do as much in-app as possible. Does that mean I'm more likely to have bugs in my own code? Yes. But I've learned a ton doing it, and I know that my code doesn't have a giant monster of bloat hidden behind some random dependency somewhere. And yeah, that means when I wanted to handle email, I learned a heck of a lot about how programs handle email. Did it take more time? Yup. Education is time well spent.

I've got two dependencies besides the basic framework my project is built on: A scheduling engine, and a database interface. I eventually hope to factor out both.
You're the first one to say "only waiters"; savanaly certainly didn't. Their statement was clearly in the abstract and not an endorsement of the current tipping status quo.
This is illegal, in New York at least. The employer cannot take the worker's tips.
Nearly everyone has had it drilled into them the "Don't reinvent the wheel." nonsense for better or worse.

I use lodash in almost every javascript project I start, big or small because it makes my life easier.

I'd rather use the lodash isArray than roll my own.

https://lodash.com/docs#isArray
Sounds like NSA's Tailored Access Operations[0], and other equivalent agencies. When you're a big enough target, state actors bring the full force of the state's espionage tools to bear.

[0] http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/how-the-nsas-secre...
For what it's worth, iOS and OS X both have Keychain built into them, basically LastPass but blessed by the OS.

ex: http://imgur.com/YJXCWxz
What concerns me here is that so many packages took on a dependency for a simple left padding string function, rather than taking 2 minutes to write such a basic function themselves.

It takes more than two minutes. That little module has a test suite, if you're including it then you have some assurance it does what it says it does. If you write it you've got to worry about whether it works or not.
Counter-argument:

A good micro-module removes complexity. It has one simple purpose, is tested, and you can read the code yourself in less than 30 seconds to know what's happening.

Take left-pad, for example. Super simple function, 1 minute to write, right? Yes.

But check out this PR that fixes an edge case: https://github.com/azer/left-pad/pull/1

The fact of the matter is: every line of code I write myself is a commitment: more to keep in mind, more to test, more to worry about.

If I can read left-pad's code in 30 seconds, know it's more likely to handle edge cases, and not have to write it myself, I'm happy.

The fault in this left-pad drama is not "people using micro-modules". The fault is in npm itself: all of this drama happened only because npm is mutable. We should focus on fixing that.
See if you can get to LCA2017 in Hobart, there's often Red Hat employees there, and lots of opportunities going around.
Except when they steal your dongle signal and use that to open the door and start the car.
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This is acceptable because web developers expect a certain level of coddling. Many developers are quick to defend this insanity because they simply cannot see their own level of entitlement.
It's a different class of stress - think marathon vs. sprint.
When I first read this I thought it was a silly idea. It seems so obvious now.
Airy fairy.
Sherbit allows you to see and understand all of your online data
What are these laws exactly? Are you saying that, e.g. CFO, requires a minimum credit score, by law?
> Why work for peanuts of a salary when you can make way more in tips?

This is why they won't pay servers minimum wage (i.e. Danny Meyer doesn't).

Europe doesn't have tipping and service is perfectly fine -actually, better in many cases, in my experience they bother you much less, and there's no aggressive pre-bussing because unless it gets to the point where the business fails, table turnover doesn't matter nearly as much to the employees.
As an American, when I'm traveling to other parts of the world where tipping servers isn't the norm, I feel like I have more time to sit and enjoy my food. I can't say for sure that this is related to a tip-based experience or not, but it stands to reason that if a server doesn't benefit financially from getting more volume through his/her tables, he or she will probably be happy to let you sit and enjoy your lunch conversation as long as you'd like. I love it and wish I could have this no-rush dining experience in the States more often.
The only way you can get diabetes from excessive sugar is if you are genetically predisposed. And if not, then not.

Tooth decay is a problem, of course, but you just have to clean teeth more often. I know no valid links to dementia, except on sugar scare sites. And sugar is tasty, and quite natural for me. (I experimented what foods give me the most weight gain; pure sugar and sweets are not exactly bad, compared to, say, white rice).

I am a vegetarian, I gave up meat quite easily, without any withdrawals, and I felt benefits immediately, but living without sugar looks unimaginable for me. Perhaps it's withdrawal, but I didn't feel _any_ positive effect, none at all.
> a far higher percentage of iPhones have actually been infected with malware than Google-flavored Android phones

Citation desperately needed.
That's for crimes, but copyright infringement is generally a civil matter.
Will be interesting to compare with http://www.speechmatics.com
This could nuke PayPalOneTouch (a similar product without the biometric part of TOuchID)
Dropbox and Airbnb were massively successfully with in 2-3 years.

That's debatable. They both went a long time struggling to get growth and big funding in the first few years, and (particularly for Airbnb) it was more like year 4 when they became mainstream hits.

What are the big successes from 2013 to the present?

Magic, Myo & Teespring are some of the more promising ones.

And if you take it back to 2012 you have Crowdtilt, Instacart and Coinbase.

And going right back through the batches you have dozens of companies that are doing very well - servicing big markets, generating big revenues, employing many people, making good returns for investors - but you don't know them because they're not mass market brands.

And as for Zenefits; yes they deserve criticism, but they're still a formidable company with big revenues and a strong leadership team and I'd expect them to survive and do very well long term.

But the main point remains: it's the easiest thing in the world to scoff at a bunch of nascent companies presenting themselves to the world for the first time after a few months' work.

And you will always be about 95%-100% right when you judge a whole batch of startups as trivial and doomed to failure or mediocrity.

But that says precisely nothing about the effectiveness of YC's strategy.
I don't know how Apple's servers security fares now, but I took a quick look 4 years ago and it was notoriously bad. They were responsive and solved the exploitable bugs soon after I notified them. No bounties though.

If their software and network security is similar now.. then they should spend resources there rather than care too much about modified hardware by a governmental agency.
Boom is going to be smaller, I wonder how much simpler (and cheaper) than a 787 one of their planes is going to be? It's still going to need all the same type of components. It won't be as hard to make the wings strong, given they will be smaller and delta-shaped.

I also wonder if a business jet would be a better market for this type of thing. Netjets would buy a few, I bet.
"Tips" are another word for "commission." Waitstaff are sales people for restaurants and bars.

Restaurants can certainly try to motivate their sales staff with a wage instead of paying commission, but the consequence will be that their sales people will lose motivation, be less competitive, and less aligned with the interests of customers and more aligned with the interests of management.
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One of the YouTube comments on the SciFi version sums it up best for me: "Dune, a miniseries from Roger Corman"
As a dot net developer I avoid adding packages and references at all costs due to all of these same reasons. Usually for something simple like this left pad example, I just copy the code and put it in to my project in some sort of class of helper functions or extension methods.

Seems like a lot of these basic Javascript functions need to be built in to javascript/node itself or consolidated down to a single package of common core functions that extend Javascript. Like padding, is array, etc. As others mentioned, these are fundamental things in other languages.
There aren't many old movies (in the public domain) that are subtitled and/or have good audio... However, in the U.S., we have a huge amount of government audio/video that is captioned. Here's an example of using youtube-dl to download one of President Obama's speeches and extract the closed captions (which I believe are produced by the government) into its own VTT file:

https://asciinema.org/a/93ihv5er83mrpihh9i5m3s9o5

Congress has video for all of its sessions and it is transcribed. So does the Supreme Court (though not timestamped).
Relevant:

'"The Excel development team will never accept it," he said. "You know their motto? 'Find the dependencies -- and eliminate them.' They'll never go for something with so many dependencies."

In-ter-est-ing. I hadn't known that. I guess that explained why Excel had its own C compiler.'

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000007.html