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We can determine bias simply by comparing one company's numbers to national trends?
In other news, How Uber is Changing LARPing - LARPers use Ubers to get around.

I usually love Vice, but this is nonsense.
That's because Twilio doesn't exist in a bubble. They're in a highly competitive sector. Their pricing has to reflect that.

They may lose money in the short-term but it allows them to become the de facto standard for telephony APIs and then they can increase their pricing or they can leverage their size to open new revenue streams.
It's gotten so bad with these sorts of tools with their incredibly annoying design flaws that I've been debating creating my own using rpm and ssh on top of bash with some python.

I get why it's important to have a lot of the features, but when the devops crowd thinks [0] is acceptable (or at the very least, doesn't scream about it), then it might be time for something new.. with [1] in mind.

[0] $ man salt 2>/dev/null | wc -l
140905

[1] https://xkcd.com/927/
I've read the RFC and quite a bit of the surrounding debate, and I knew that most of it would take longer to stabilize. I just didn't realize that the '?' notation in particular was still under debate.

Why would stabilizing the Result version of '?' lock out the possibility of supporting it on Option or other types in the future?

In any case, I look forward to it whenever it becomes available in a stable release.
I completely agree with you and this is a large part of why I simply avoid Webpack, Babel and other, similar tools. Yes they can be useful but they are completely unnecessary. Yes I said it.

Everyone wants to get into the latest and greatest ASAP and this completely disregards the entire project. I would love to use EMCAScript 6 too but you know what? I don't want all the additional dependencies of babel, the configuration and the setup to run my code through it constantly just to test my code. I will wait 5 years when it's available enough on the client machines that I work with and then I will use it.

Sometimes I feel like the "old timer" complaining about all the new wizbang things but at the end of the day I don't even care because my build will run, with minimal dependencies, out of the box after cloning the git repo. It's reproducible. It takes seconds at most and it's debuggable without trying to figure out how to use source maps inside of chrome.
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> If API's are copyrightable

> And if you're in the camp that believes APIs should not be protected, this precedent--if it stands--means that you'll have to shoulder the expense of going to trial on the fair use issue before winning on the merits.

worth remembering that since that decision was made by the Federal Circuit, it has no bearing on the rest of the court system when it comes to copyright. There is no place where "APIs are copyrightable" is binding precedent.

Any lawsuits that don't end up in the Federal Circuit (which pure copyright suits never do) will have to start from "are APIs copyrightable?" before having to make any sort of fair use defense.
Amidst the forest of diversity demographics, I found this little tidbit:

"We have a flexible paid time-off policy and our maternity/paternity leave policies exceed the tech industry’s norm. In addition, our policies do not differentiate between maternity or paternity leave."

Now THAT is cool. I really wish more companies did that. When my wife had a c-section with our son, she got 6 weeks off of work. I got nothing.
Yes, if you stare directly at the full moon, it will be harder to see into the shadows for a while afterward until your eyes adapt back to the dark, and you can probably (I’m not sure this has been scientifically tested) push back when you start feeling sleepy.

In general, the moon is high overhead, so it won’t be directly in your field of view while it lights up your surroundings.
That's fair, we just use text message, and keep it in one place. Bouncing between different apps for essentially the same thing isn't something I feel like spending time doing.
So, they can try, they just have an additional opportunity to fail that they wouldn't have at the Circuit Court level.
Instant feedback: to see your productivity in RT you need to go to its dashboard. Qbserve shows productivity score in the dock icon (with color) and in the menu bar (colors + percents).

Chat tracking: Qbserve can look into Skype, Slack and Telegram Messenger apps and track your chat/team names as separate activities.
Does your code all work in python 3? I know none of my old ruby 1.8.3 code still works.
I love this, but why does he list just those specific members?
Right, it's very likely that systemd is the reason luxpir's N900 (released in 2009) doesn't boot anymore.
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Good point. That's a corner of the federal rules I'm not nearly familiar enough with to give you a confident answer.
I said probable bias, and yes.
Condoleeza Rice wants a kext now? Glad I never jumped on the Dropbox bandwagon.
Control of the network helps a lot too.
What about snapchat is useless? Or is this just typical "damn kids these days" speak? The app is an incredible form of communication, and there is a reason people prefer it to other mediums.
>AOSP is okay but it does not feel as snappy as when I tried iOS for which I blame Dalvik.

Dalvik hasn't been used since Android 4.4. It was replaced with ART in 5.0, which was released towards the end of 2014.
Math?

Like, you gotta give some more deets than that, language and so forth.
You're answering literally every comment on this thread, with this "passive aggressive" tone that will do nothing but derail the conservation. That's the definition of a troll. Why don't you make a point of your own instead?
RTags works pretty well and always jump to the right definition for me. You pass it to a compilation database json file that you can make using CMake. It runs in the background as a daemon and provides robust go-to-definition as well as autocomplete for both C and C++.

https://github.com/Andersbakken/rtags
This is called reverse racism.
See, as ever, Florian Mueller for a... different perspective: http://www.fosspatents.com/2016/05/oracle-v-google-jury-find...
Another option is to assume at most 128 bits then do something like:

>>> _bitflags = [1<<i for i in range(128)]
>>> (E_GLASS_RN_STATE_INITIAL,
... E_GLASS_RN_STATE_WEAKENED,
... E_GLASS_RN_STATE_SHATTERING,
... E_GLASS_RN_STATE_ACTIVE_FRAGS,
... *rest) = _bitflags
>>> E_GLASS_RN_STATE_ACTIVE_FRAGS
8
I also agree with the sibling post on this one, but another line of reasoning is that when texting pictures or other forms of sending, the default option is that the photo is saved. When using snapchat it's the opposite. Screenshotting allows you to keep it if you want, you can replay it if you missed it, but if it's not anything exceedingly special or worth keeping, it is discarded. In todays world I find myself with far more data that I can keep organized, and a lot of it is not of any particular value.

Another way of phrasing that argument is that if you look through my snapchat screenshot folder vs the received images from my SO, the snapchat screenshot has a higher density of content worth keeping.
A business with a tendency to move people and materials from points A to B on short notice will be employed to market drugs. Remember Kozmo?
That math holds if they are planning to only spend money on hiring those people for 1 year only.

More realistically, the money is probably for tech overhead. Server space, software licensing, money for keeping all their servers working for a while (support, replacement servers/drives) etc.
> Also, it's not really a topic you should bring up at work.

FWIW, he didn't bring this up at work, and my reading of your comment implies that he did/would. She doesn't work with this guy, and she doesn't suggest that he said this in a work-related context.

If everyone's suitability as a colleague were judged by what they said outside of work, I imagine that most of us would fare poorly.
Yes, we're talking about tutorials here, not "coming soon but sign up for my email list" pages :)
I'm interested in your idea for the delivery mechanism.
Just added to Homebrew Cask, feel free to `brew cask install qbserve`

(I'm one of the maintainers of Homebrew Cask)
It's cool, you can't please everyone.
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You can just do all the deletes in the same transaction and then the constraints wouldn't need to be disabled.
Good point about factor #4. But (in light of dragonwriter's comment below): wasn't Sun making a play at getting JVM into peoples' phones before Android stole their thunder? Or am I misremembering the timing?
There are actually 3 dropdown menus based on productivity selection. So if you've added a productive category, select "Productive" tab first and then it will appear in the dropdown.

If it's missing from there then it's probably a bug.
This is classic Vice journalism of turning a non-story into a puffed up scare-piece all for a sexy, sharable title. I would really like to see less of their poor excuse for journalism (Motherboard included) on HackerNews because links like these really bring down overall quality. In the HN guidelines, the site lays out a call for stories that go beyond superficially interesting and provoke something deeper. Vice content rarely does this, and when it does, it is often built on the back of sensationalism or shoddy journalistic integrity.
Gotcha. Sorry to have kept to conclusion; thanks for the clarification.
I would look at the growth of millionaire by city:

1. Huston 9%
2. LA 8%
3. NY 7%
4. D.C.
5. Boston
6. Chicago
7. Sf 6%

The real impact of taxation of Millionaires would be between "what is" v/s "what could have been". Should the financial capital of the world NY be third on that list ?
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> People should get hired according their skills, not race/gender/etc.

And what do you do when you find out that you're not actually hiring people according to their skills? Like, when that's what you're trying to do—and believe that you're doing—but the data reveals the opposite?
I'll admit to not really understanding the path this has taken through the courts - I haven't been following that closely though.
React is complex because there are realms of new things you can do with it that you couldnt do before in a web app, and the best version hasnt been found yet.
Every bit of structured recreation you partake in has people devoted to it as careers.
As far as I know, the fastest one remains Hibernia Express - sub-60ms New-York - London.
Errr, you didn't do factor one properly :)

"Under the first of the four § 107 factors, "the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature ... ," the enquiry focuses on whether the new work merely supersedes the objects of the original creation, or whether and to what extent it is "transformative," altering the original with new expression, meaning, or message. The more transformative the new work, the less will be the significance of other factors, like commercialism, that may weigh against a finding of fair use.
"

Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc.
510 U.S. 569 (1994)
> It's not Chinese culture. It's about penalty

I agree it's not Chinese culture to cheat. Adults know this leads to poor work performance. Why, then, does the cheating happen on a larger scale among Chinese students?

American high schools and below are more strict than Chinese schools. In the US, after four years of high school, most of us know one or two kids who were expelled for some major transgression like cheating.

Therefore, by the time Americans get to college, most of them know there are immediate consequences for cheating. Students coming from China may never have seen someone seriously punished for cheating. Rather, students are praised for giving gifts.

So, if the student is innocent, whose fault is it that Chinese students do not know the consequences of cheating? Is it the American college's fault? Or the Chinese high school's?

Someone else in this thread pointed out how lousy instructors filter out students who are not self-driven [1]

Perhaps China's plan is to just let what happens happen. Anecdotally, I feel this produces some extremely smart kids alongside some who get caught up in the feeling that the piece of paper is the most important thing.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11779160
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Excuse me here but I have to ask. Is this final? Because I've read that Oracle won the case some time ago.
Can you embed an existing js app (angular) with Elm? Doesn't need to be any real communication between them. Just have the Elm app decide if the angular app is displayed or not. Honest question as I'm embedding angular in react at the moment and there's quite a lot of library fatigue going on.
I would imagine resetting the whole db even on a RAM disk after each of 6000 tests wouldn't be particularly fast.
:D Sounds interesting but I don't know how many users know how to read this...
They can appeal, but it is going to be very hard for them to get any revenue out of this court action now. That's what this would have been - revenue.
No nasty swipes on HN, please.

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Thank you for the tip, I will see how we can integrate it with Gyroscope.
By Windows support, do they mean as a Control Machine? Because I thought it has supported automating Windows remote hosts for a while now? The documentation still reads as though it doesn't support Windows as control.

I just tried it out, and "pip install ansible" fails because of pycrypto. If I install pycrypto manually from another source, ansible installs successfully, but isn't recognized as a command. (I've double-checked it's installing ansible 2.1.0).
So much totally unbiased opinions to bring forward this grand theory of shamelessness...

And while we are talking about Gawker publishing private sex tapes of people for everyone to see...

It's not like Peter Thiel has been a member of Libertarian party and has strongly supported principles of privacy, personal liberty and freedom... and it's not like himself and others have been a victim of Gawker's disrespect of privacy for sensationalist shit. It not like he has endorsed previous frontrunners of the conservative party with libertarian principles.

Nope. None of that fucking matters when you can come with with a totally not retarded theory of shamelessness instead... while you are talking about Gawker shamelessly posting personal sex tape of someone publicly merely because it could. Awesome lack of hypocrisy there!
> Why would stabilizing the Result version

Well, because in stabilizing something, you have to declare exactly what is stable, and what the semantics are. "? only works with Result" is not a detailed enough semantic, so you have to dig into details. Is it based on a trait? If so, and the trait gets designed incorrectly, it could cause problems. Is it not based on a trait? Now the language needs to know about Result, specifically.

> I just didn't realize that the '?' notation in particular was still under debate.

Well, we have never had a case yet where an accepted RFC failed to end up actually being stable. We have had some RFCs that have had final details take a very long time. But in theory, it could happen.
I guess I just hold photos I want to keep at a higher value than a screenshot of an already poorly compressed / altered photo. Whatever works for you!
Not an expert but...

First guess is that facial symmetry is a proxy for social intelligence which is easily 75% - 50% of what your brain is working on during the day.

However if my guess is warranted then it shall be incorrect for some men with non-symmetrical faces because many generals, politicians aren't that attractive but definitely of superior intelligence.

A way to test my hypothesis is to separate the men from the women. Evolution plays looser with men than women. The machine learning should be more accurate for the women.

All this may be bollocks.
The challenge is that, taking away what most of us wanted the ultimate result to be, the in a vacuum argument that APIs aren't a creative work seems wrong.

The problem, however, is that the current fair means test in the US code probably never envisioned something like an API. Arguably, there should be a means test along the lines of "Exists primarily to provide a means of interacting with other copyrighted works" or something along those lines.

Essentially, the interfaces shouldn't be copyrightable argument is an outgrowth of the fact that, if they aren't copyrightable, the fair use protections around compatibility etc. (e.g. in Lotus v. Borland) aren't as strong as one might like.
Or make little robots to fight the bacteria
Isn't LinkedIn supposed to have an amazing data science team?

Hmmmm.
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I would rather that individuals be enabled to use DRM, but in the direction that makes sense. It shouldn't be used by centralized organizations against individuals. It should be used by distributed individuals against centralized power. Individuals should be empowered to restrict access to their personal information, or to delete it.

If the government can restrict Uber and Lyft from storing data, what's to stop them from restricting individuals? (The usual pattern in the US is to have exceedingly restrictive laws that the authorities can selectively enforce.)
Time for Congress to authorize a very big monetary prize for the company that comes up with a better solution, with that solution then being licensed for free to all U.S. manufacturers (or something like that to make it politically acceptable to the xenophobic elements in the GOP).
Kudos to atlassian for bringing some much needed clarity to a confusing topic. So many people that claim mastery of git only know particular workflows and, when attempting to mentor others, just mansplain whatever they know without consideration that there are alternative valid ways of doing things.

Without a firm grasp of one's intent(workflow) learning git commands is pointless and leads to people desperately flailing out commands.
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But you 're not turning it around, because men are not minority. Think this though: If you 're greek in some way you 're assumed to be representing all greeks.
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I need some light immediately, and the incandescent gives me some light immediately.
I suspect it's for a lot of other things: Advertising, technology (HW & SW), customer support, paying off initial investors, space, etc.
The supreme court has repeatedly stated that being commercial or not commercial is not the entire point, and the more transformative the use, the less it matters whether it is commercial or not.

(see the cite to campbell v. acuff rose, etc)

In fact, the precise argument y'all seem to make is disassembled in that case, because it's what the original court of appeals decision was in that case :

"The Court of Appeals reversed and remanded, holding that the commercial nature of the parody rendered it presumptively unfair under the first of four factors relevant under § 107; that, by taking the "heart" of the original and making it the "heart" of a new work, 2 Live Crew had, qualitatively, taken too much under the third § 107 factor; and that market harm for purposes of the fourth § 107 factor had been established by a presumption attaching to commercial uses."

They also explicitly said: " The statutory examples of permissible uses provide only general guidance. The four statutory factors are to be explored and weighed together in light of copyright's purpose of promoting science and the arts. Pp. 574-578."
We're talking about sexual objectification of women specifically, not some kind of generic "objectification". So I don't think most of what you're saying is really relevant to the topic. If you can provide citations showing that significant numbers of cognitive scientists and social psychologists regard the sexual objectification of women as inevitable, then let's see them.
> Why would stabilizing the Result version of '?' lock out the possibility of supporting it on Option or other types in the future?

It wouldn't necessarily but it could be done in a way where it does lock it out. For example, `?` could be implemented by defining an attribute which is applied to Result in libcore. If that attribute were stabilized, it would make it hard to migrate to using a trait to define the behavior of `?`, because you've made a guarantee that this attribute makes a type use `?`.

All of this has been avoided though, I think. Stabilization or deprecation of `?` is pretty much a political issue now and not a technical one (and I don't mean that the question is frivolous, just that its about what people want now).

There's still the Carrier trait which has unresolved technical questions, and the catch construct I don't think even has a PR.
Lesson 1: recursion

Lesson 2: See Lesson 1
> People have no fucking clue how welding actually works here, do they...

There's no need to put people down for knowing less than you do. This comment would be much better without the first sentence.

Many people here know stuff that the rest of us don't. The thing to in that case is to teach something.
Twilio went from $33m to $59 Q1 '15 to Q1 '16. That's huge growth - and is a lot to like.

Virtually every company that is growing at 80% YoY runs unprofitably.

Here's why: compounding. They're growing 80% YoY because of that spend and it's absolutely worth it.

Say they could run break even at 50% YoY growth. Straight line that growth through 2019 and you have a company doing just shy of $800m in annual revenue. Invest $40m extra a year for 80% growth (admittedly very simplified!), and you have a company doing $1.4B per year.

Growth costs money up front: it's marketing, it's customer acquisition, it's hiring and scaling so you're ready to do nearly double the volume next year and it's opening new lines of business.

You'd be nuts not to spend some extra cash when a) unit economics are good and b) you can turn it into significantly more cash in 12-24 months.

Twilio could run profitably tomorrow at the cost of hundreds of millions in revenue and potential profit 3, 4 and 5 years out.

Disclaimer: Jeff Lawson is a CEO I greatly admire.
Is Dalvik's use of the Java API transformative? My understanding of Cambell is that it's the Google Image Search scenario: where the thumbnail of the copyrighted work is fair use because it serves a totally different function than the original work.
Yes, it isnt compatible, but this phone isnt being sold in the US.
My first question would be: how hard would it be for them to become profitable right now?

That translates to: how manual is their business? How much cost in the form of wages, contractors, etc. could they shed?

If the answer is that they could easily become profitable, that means they're leaning into growth. If the answer is 'no' that's a bad sign.
The difference in association patterns between "Fellows of the Water Buffalo Lodge" and "Drug dealers and their clients" is probably not one that is trivially solvable by algorithm. There's plenty of good reasons that someone could want to make a bunch of short stops along a circuitous route - Not the least of which is commerce of precisely the same nature, but with legal substances. I know somebody who bakes cookies, sells them online through facebook, and takes uber to make her deliveries. It's precisely the same scenario, but nothing illicit is going on. How would an algorithm distinguish?
This is incredibly helpful and a great perspective I hadn't considered. Thank you
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