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What is this fixation with LA-LV? In the 1950s, a monorail was proposed. In the 1980s, a maglev was proposed. High speed rail has been proposed. None were built.

As a freight carrier, the Hyperloop has a capacity problem. The stopping distance is huge. So the distance between trains must be huge. Real freight trains have hundreds of cars, but the Hyperloop doesn't do that.

The killer problem with the Hyperloop is curve radius. Unless you're a very powerful government, like China's, acquiring the very straight right of way to go any place populated will be tough.

Are they building this as a maglev? That means either expensive track or lots of onboard power. Transrapid's maglev works great, but it just costs too much.
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> Just because you can't legally purchase it today doesn't allow you to harm the future sales of tomorrow.

There are no current or future sales. That's my point: if you are not releasing a specific recording then why do you have copyright over it?
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Here is a Numberphile video [1] that explains - at the very end - why this database was put together.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTveQ1ndH1c
There's certainly a trade-off here. I think that making updates as frictionless as possible is overall a big win for security and development velocity. The down side is, of course, that malicious updates take effect more quickly.

FWIW, Sandstorm is already designed to limit the possible damage from malicious apps in general, by making sure each app has only the minimum privileges it needs to do its job (and making sure the UX to grant said privileges is painless for the user). For example, we've seen quite a few security vulnerabilities in apps that were largely mitigated when running the app on Sandstorm:

https://docs.sandstorm.io/en/latest/using/security-non-event...

Hypothetically, in the Sandstorm model, you could architect a messaging app which is incapable of leaking messages to a third party: for each contact, you would create a separate grain (fine-grained instance, in Sandstorm terminology) of the app, and you would permit that grain to communicate only with that contact's corresponding grain they created for you. If the app cannot communicate with other grains of itself -- much less third parties -- then it cannot leak any communications.

Obviously, there are a lot of UX questions raised by this design. It is a goal of the Sandstorm project to solve those UX issues, and we believe they are solvable, but I can't claim to have all the answers today. More likely what you'd run today is a single grain which can talk to all your contacts. In this case an evil app update could almost certainly find a way to covertly leak any message through the network of contacts.

(And, of course, another issue, if communications are crossing the internet, is traffic analysis and covert channels embedded therein.)

So, yeah, there may or may not be a good technical solution here. But on the bright side, the Apple-FBI case seems to indicate that the government doesn't have the power to compel false signatures on code updates. I can only hope that interpretation stands and is reinforced over time.
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"Uber has saved $730m by classifying drivers as independent contractors."
I guess we'll get "Conservabook" soon :)
It's only not an accounting shift if it's awarded after-the-fact from this lawsuit which is a one-shot deal. In an efficient economic model the reclassified "employer" would lower your future earnings to pay for the fuel costs they were previously expecting you to pay for. And then it definitely is just an accounting shift.
First of all, talk to your lawyer. This is something that should have already been in place and there should be literature to give to each employee during their on-boarding.

Second, if the harassed employee does not wish you to do anything, the best thing to do is to indirectly address the situation with a company-wide seminar/meeting about the topic. List off all the things this employee did that are intolerable - he'll get it really fast.
"Uber paid $730m to its contractors to cover fuel costs and now has to pay them for it again."
I went to Pitt from 1996-2000. In the first OS course, we did have some programming assignments in C, but it wasn't a good course and the assignments were mostly just using the Windows API. In the second OS course, the professor and his student had been working on an operating system simulator in Java (DORITOS, http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=736855...) and it was used to teach real-time systems programming without needing to get down to real hardware.
Good questions both.

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We totally agree that containers aren't a suitable interface for everyone. We see containers as the ideal interface for developers. Over time we're expecting developers to build simpler interfaces on top of it. We'll also be building a lot of those ourselves. For example one feature we have on our near term roadmap is a SQL layer. We're going to implement that in terms of our container API which means that it should be very possible for a developer to implement a totally new access pattern just by throwing some code in a container.
Very true. I counter this cross-platform assembly notion whenever I can as they're not the same thing. One reason for its weirdness, also only assembly it's tied to, is that it was specifically designed to utilize a PDP-11 well. It and anything depending on it is mapped to what makes sense on a PDP-11. We don't use PDP-11's today.

So, the C model neither makes sense nor matches assembler of today's CPU's. We've certainly developed ways to implement it efficiently. It wasn't designed for that, though.
On those days when I want "HN + humor", and they do exist, I simply visit the HN Humor Museum: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5326511
As always, the first question to ask is, what are you using the distinction for? Only then can you start making progress in the debate over the issue; otherwise, you're just committing the "Noncentral Fallacy"[1] of forcing something to be completely in one category (or the other) and attaching all of its usual implications, regardless of how special the case is.

For example, instead of asking "is alcoholism really a disease?", you should be asking "Will it accomplish anything if I rebuke an alcoholic for drinking?" or "Are there medicines that will result in someone not drinking so much, with tolerable side effects?"

So what is labor law trying to accomplish with the contractor/employee distinction? I don't have a good answer. As best I can tell, it's trying to meet two criteria:

A) Ensure that legit independent businesses can exist and not be shut down for failing to pay themselves enough; and

B) Ensure that, if you make someone economically dependent on you, you cancel out that dependence (sick pay, unemployment, worker's comp), just like we do for parental obligations, child support, alimony, and torts.

Sadly, it turns out, the law commits the Noncentral Fallacy by acting as if everyone fully in one category or the other, so your "balance of factors" puts you squarely on one side or the other. A better way would be to require more "cancel dependence"-type benefits as someone becomes increasingly "employee-like" in the sense of becoming dependent.

But I'm open for other explanations of the law.

[1] http://lesswrong.com/lw/e95/the_noncentral_fallacy_the_worst...
A super nerdy look into the email “From” field
From 2 perspectives

* Yes, they'd have to hire / refer / recommend a financial planner / accountant / or "not financial advice"

* Any sort of non voluntary training could be construed as breaking the consulting relationship - but then again, franchises do this often as a b2b setup.
> If an uploader gets a Content ID claim, then they can dispute it, and if the person making that claim is forced to file a regular DMCA takedown if they want the video to be taken down.

I don't believe that's true. The claimant can merely tell YouTube, "no, my claim is legit" and YouTube trusts them implicitly without requiring a DMCA notice. While the claimant could produce a DMCA notice at any point, ContentID doesn't require them to to knock the video offline.
And, yet, good sushi places in California get fish and shellfish flown in from Tokyo. Also, the tuna and some of the other fish sold in the Tokyo fish market is actually frozen.
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So, with art, I can acknowledge that the point isn't to be better.

But what about collecting knowledge? Sure, you could help analyzing the genome & biology of a rare butterfly with all your free time. Say, maybe it would takes computer-assisted humans several years. But the AI could finish it in a month! Wouldn't you feel silly about that?
It's not just about money though. There is a much greater administrative burden to hire an employee than to hire a contractor.
This is super bad advice. Clueless people who read company wide memos very often have no idea that "We are talking about YOU, bub." I know, because I used to get those department wide memos and almost always felt like raising my hand and asking "So, um, this thing you are talking about...is...is that something I am doing?? Kthxbai."

(No, this was not about sexual harassment per se.)

Edit: Additionally, if this guy does put two and two together, he may well realize she told on him and this in no way protects her.
you are correct, but Amazon cannot do that. The changes to Android are small but large enough that Amazon can't call Fire OS Android.
I didn't mean a personal attack on you btw. Your track record suggests you know your stuff and would likely be an asset on a large/complex project. My comment is informed by my bad experiences at two previous employers - both parachuted agile coaches to "help" when the problems were obviously a runaway feature list and not enough developers. Surely, you must know of charlatans in connection with agile. I think we all need to educate management that agile is not a silver bullet or a panacea. It is a process with good and bad. Great if welded by adults but very easy to abuse by non-grownups. To many of my developer friends, agile is a synonym for daily status updates, which is absolutely not what it is supposed to be.
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A few areas - Data, Analysis, and Reporting. I work in institutional real estate and we still heavily rely on legacy data providers (Costar and Brokerages), do most of our analysis in Excel, and Reporting in Word and Powerpoint. Financial instruments have been largely unchanged for the past 20 years, and perhaps new ways to fund debt and equity could be areas for change. By and large though, new ways to get data that is meaningful and ways to analyse it could be winners. Also, CRE has changed a lot in the last couple of years. First movers like VTS, Hightower, the crowdfunding companies, and even brokerage companies are starting to embrace technology beyond email and phone calls.
Great find, although I can't quite grasp why "discovered" is in quotation marks. The cities hadn't been investigated before, although some of them might not be actual cities anymore.
At some point, Google might have to hire (gasp!) actual human beings to provide customer support, instead of just relying on their crappy unfriendly automated systems.
Thing Explainer was a nice experiment, but, really... what's the value in trying to parse CNL explanations that are harder to understand than using the actual word?
The Senate wants Zuckerberg to say whether Facebook has manipulated the news
I think for large companies administrative burden is pretty much just a matter of money.

(I had initially said they were fungible, but it only works one way)
If health and safety precautions are cost effective, which I believe they are, then OSHA is redundant because businesses will strive to be economically efficient regardless of the regulations.
I don't know the first thing about fencing. But that image doesn't look like a stab to me. It doesn't look like it's aimed at the penis in particular either. (But again I know nothing of the sport.) (Edit: I agree that if I had a sword, the crotch could be considered for an attack, but I'd go for the hip joints mostly.)

What I do know is that if I have a sharp stick, I will not aim it at your penis. The main goal in a fight is to incapacitate. So an attack on the penis even if successful would be rather wasted. Bleeding from the crotch doesn't make you any less dangerous in the short term.
And where is the room for a sixth empire? Is Uber trying to claw in from the physical logistics side of the loop?
It's not the constant interruptions (headphones do a good job of dealing with that), its the lack of internet access that is the showstopper - I don't have all the APIs + docs in my head.
Wages of labor, interest of time, rent of land, profit of mind.

(German: Löhne der Arbeit, Zinsen der Zeit, Miete des Landes, Profit des Verstandes)
One of the first things I learned in management training was: "as soon as a manager knows about an incident, the company knows about the incident." You can't promise confidentiality because the company _must_ act on information it has. (If it does not, it opens itself up to later lawsuits for _failing_ to handle discrimination and harassment.)

All of this is to say: patio11 is right.
That is my understanding, yes -- but the NSE and (McVoy-authored) NSElite chapters of the saga pre-date me at Sun. Before my "Fork Yeah!" talk[1][2], from which this is drawn, I confirmed this the best I could, but it was all based only on recollections of the engineers who were there (including Larry). I haven't found anything written down about (for example) NSElite, though I would love to get Larry on the record to formalize that important history...

[1] https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/lisa11/tech/slides/cant...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc
The recently posted HN Article about the elederly in japan stealing to avoid the penalty of beeing poor for a honest live in capitalism.
I would go further and say that it's more than just a murky area. It's an area in which settled law is incomplete. I think that most people can agree that an Uber driver is kind of like an employee but also kind of like a contractor. Trying to force them into one bucket or another is almost silly.

We really need a third classification here and then a debate about what rules we should have around this classification.
Same for me :/
Good idea. Give them these:

http://neugierig.org/software/c-repl/

https://root.cern.ch/cint
Unless you're being sarcastic, "more profitable" cargo? Yes, in the sense that cargo rail is profitable and passenger service is not. But certainly not in terms of pound of thing moved. Cargo rail (and shipping) is profitable because it's such a cost effective way to move high volume and high weight materials that aren't time sensitive.
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I agree with you, but depending on a person's background, it is likely not always intentional harassment. I've known people who use MILF interchangeably with something like "hot". (Which also would often be inappropriate of course, but presumably wouldn't be considered as crossing the line into harassment as a standalone incident.) Basically there are plenty of people out there who use MILF as an adjective without even considering the literal meaning of the acronym.
Last time I understood they got a classical speedup. And yeah if Scott says it ain't working, it ain't working, agreed there.

I am wondering if they demonstrated there is quantum entangling taking place between qubits and have they observed an asymptotic speedup?

Wonder if there is some hesitation to just say, yeah this doesn't work. We spent all this time and money on it, but that's ok. We learned what doesn't work that is still valuable.

I studied quantum computing a while back (maybe 7-8 years ago). There was a feeling it was going to be the next big thing. Grover's search and Shor's factoring was promising. But I think we ended up mostly with pictures of cats in the cloud and Javascript on the server ;-) which is ok too, I guess.
Sure. But that still makes it more than just an accounting shift. Things will be different if Uber drivers are employees. It won't just be moving around numbers in a ledger somewhere.
I think there was no "boots on the ground" confirmation yet.
I don't see a problem in that. I was pointing out that "Milf" would be the only thing in the series of events that could qualify as "sexually harrasing", and the others would not.

That's a legitimate thing to do when trying to be objective in face of making some important decisions. A single qualifying statement is not a very firm basis to make decisions on. That's btw. why I was suggesting collecting all the facts.
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I agree it sucks, but you could have bought a Roku or something you knew already supported Amazon Prime in the first place instead of a Chromecast. It's not like there's never been competition in that space; Chromecast is a super-late-comer.
Contract law is all about the rights you cannot sign away. You can sign a contract agreeing you are, in fact, a Gibbon monkey, but that doesn't make it true and it doesn't strip you of any rights a human has.
I use ArXiv and PubMed if I'm looking for interesting stuff. If I have a specific goal I just google(or google scholar) keywords and then gain access using Sci-Hub. I often end up using patent letters (and applications) as a source of information in fields where there's a lot of industrial knowledge.
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If you believe this, it seems like you might also believe that it's legally risky to fire a developer who rm's the production environment. After all, they might bring a frivolous lawsuit for no purpose other than to "get a declaratory judgement asserting the facts of the case".

(Incidentally: I don't think you can just "sue for declaratory judgement" to enlist judges to settle arbitrary disputes; the judgement has to apply to a justiciable controversy. If the employer threatened to sue the accused for damages, for instance.)
Isn't there anybody already trying to build some hyperloop ring test ?

And at what speed does the hyperloop starts to be more viable than an airplane?
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This service doesn't seem to be intended for family videos at all. AFAICT it's not even possible to upload a video without monetizing it.
> Exploits in jpg/png are very rare.

I would like to introduce you to libpng: https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-7294...
This was news yesterday on Reddit, and was debunked. https://www.reddit.com/r/badhistory/comments/4iib55/you_prob...
1745 current employees on LinkedIn [1] and 76 on AngelList [2]. Those are some data points that could be analyzed from their APIs.

1: https://www.linkedin.com/vsearch/p?f_CC=20708&trk=rr_connect...

2: https://angel.co/palantir-technologies
As a father of three toddlers, I can tell you that sitting in an airplane for hours is pure heaven for concentration and lack of distractions.
There may be no current sales but I don't see how you can claim there will be no sales in the future.

A retail release has nothing to do with copyright. I can have copyright over something I've created, never offer it for sale to anyone, and still keep my copyright.
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For those of us familiar with the YouTube Content ID system, Green is correct, and I had the same reaction. Upload your music to the system, set the policy to take down.

To give you an idea on how well this works, this is what the movie studios do - upload the entire move to YouTube and set it to takedown (usually if the matched portion matches more than 1 minute or something). The movie studios have a comparatively less stink about YouTube.

Secondly, its unclear if Azoff has a direct relationship with YouTube and has his own CMS or if he's using a third party service to manage YouTube. In that case the third party could be misrepresenting the options YouTube has (and it could be the case that the 3rd party makes a revenue cut of the UGC set to monetize rather than takedown, giving them an incentive not take down [/speculation]). However a percentage of the major labels music content is licensed via the partially-Google owned VEVO.

Third, with the release of RED and Google Play Music, and some of the rumored contracts that Google has with music producers, it could just be we aren't privvy to the special contracts Google has with music rights holders. Maybe, due to the way their contracts are setup, that can't issue takedowns. I remember Indies got particularly pissed[1] when RED was released.

My own personal opinion is that despite whatever content protection tools YouTube provides, the music industry won't be happy until all their music is behind a paywall like Spotify Premium or Apple Music. I suspect their beef will always have to do with the "for free" aspect, regardless if the content is legitimate or pirated. If the issue were really about illegitimately consumed content, and if YouTube ContentID system was that bad for rights holders, I'd assume more than just the music industry would be annoyed. (It seems to be the other way round, ContentID is railed against for being much more generous to rights holders).

[1] http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2014/06/23/fk-heres-entire-y...
I think we should think about Advanced Chess (aka Cyborg Chess) in this context. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Chess

Humans already operate on a very high level of abstraction. I'm not aware of how my food is being digested, I'm not aware of how my muscles are being maintained. (Although, come to think of that, I do wish I could direct my muscles to get swole without going to the gym.) I'm not really aware of every photon my eyes capture, I'm given a blurry "executive summary" that has the contrast in the center turned up to 11, and the color spectrum I see has had a clustering algorithm run on it.

Similarly, executives in a company don't always know what's going on in the day-to-day of their reports. They have an idea, but they don't actually solve the problems, and in same cases they don't even know how to solve the problems.

We use computers to help inform our decisions. As long as we can continue the path where humans work with AI, we will have some place with them.
One book that I found to be amazingly helpful about engineering leadership / management is http://leadingsnowflakes.com/
It's Blaise Pascal: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Blaise_Pascal#Quotes
Unless the driver is also a Lyft driver and decides to use both. Most do.

Also, Payroll taxes are regressive IMO.
watch Silicon Valley :-)