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Where do you travel?

I've been taxi scammed in:

- Italy(Napoli): Get taxi from train station to hostel. Drive around for 40 minutes, end up under 1 mile from train station.

- Morocco(Tangier): Get taxi from port to bus station, same thing as in Italy

- France(Bordeaux): Get taxi from hotel to airport. Taxi driver demands extra 20 euro for carrying my backpack in the trunk.

- Costa Rica (San Jose): Get taxi from airport to hotel. Taxi drops me off at hotel, and I pay. I realize that it is no where near the right hotel, wave taxi down, and he refuses to take me to the correct hotel or refund my money.
Well the court just decided that the law was just.

Unless US tech companies with billions of funding are above it, they still have to respect it.

Uber is still allowed in France, only UberPop is forbidden like in a lot of european countries and rightly so.
In that way, no.

In the bad old days before dev-ops systems admins and engineers often had some pretty good pissing contests around blame shifting and pitching shit over the wall. Though it has come down, in tone, this relationship does exist to some extent still. I think they have captured the dynamic but skipped the actual exchanges/interactions to spare a less technical audience.
In those places they just take a longer route instead.
Spoilers deeply upset me and put me in a bad mood for hours, if I care about the topic. I don't watch movie trailers, for example, and even show up 25 minutes late to movies to avoid them. If I do see a trailer, it usually means I won't bother with the movie.

This was a useful warning for me, not to read the article. Not because it would impact my enjoyment; it would make me angry. Though a fair portion of my enjoyment comes from trying to predict what's going to happen.
It was fully intended as a compliment.
No amount of documentation can teach that. The entire discipline of research, collaboration, iterating, grant writing, etc was an amazing experience (and I didn't stay in academia).
I'd love to see some sources on that as well. You dont think the spoiler in Sixth Sense wouldnt have ruined your experience?
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This guy has suffered, but instead of complaining he is pushing through it. We all have our problems, but since ue live in a personal bubble, examples like this can help us put our problems in a new perspective.

I am drawing attention to the amazing human resiliency, and what can we learn from it.
Just spent a bit of time working around some problems to get Dwarf Fortress and the Lazy Newb Pack installed on Ubuntu 16.04.

It's a bit more complicated than running it on Windows, but still works just fine: https://tutorialinux.com/install-dwarf-fortress-ubuntu-16-04...

Enjoy!

If I had a nickel for every time I've said that...
In fact everything in her account is forked from another GitHub account[0] -- he's one of the lead tech consultants on the show.

[0] https://github.com/emcmanus
I wouldn't at all be surprised if PRX releases a Radiotopia app. (They already have one for the Apple TV, in fact.) Any podcast network that has more than, say, a dozen shows, and some data to support the notion they have listeners who subscribe to multiple shows on their network, might be very inclined to at least try an app. It doesn't have to be the only way to listen to their popular podcasts, but it might offer exclusive content. And maybe it'll be the only way to listen to older episodes, or to listen with fewer (or even no) ads.

I don't think this is a good idea in the long run, but I could certainly see it happening in the not-too-distant future. I think we're already moving toward a future where we get the unbundled cable service we thought we wanted in the form of a dozen separate streaming video apps, and I don't doubt that streaming music services are going to push for ever-greater numbers of exclusive premieres, back catalogs and even original content. The question isn't whether producers will try this with podcasts, the question is how many producers will try it--and how successful it will be.
I've always thought a flying motorcycle makes more sense than a flying car. The power to weight ratios are closer, as are the engine requirements. Something like a long two seater cabin motorcycle with wings that attach like glider wings. Something like this with wings:

https://peraves.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/roger_susan_mono...

Flys like a motorglider. I.e. slow for a plane but faster than a car/bike. Very efficient per mile (for a plane). Tolerates engine failure with a good glide ratio.

Ground to air transitions happen at designated places (mini airports). Wings are left at the airport while you operate the bike in ground mode. Or towed in a narrow trailer just like a glider trailer.
I completely agree. Silicon Valley talked about the reality.

I founded a startup and headed engineering for another. I have seen more than half the things there as follows:
Getting money in tranches.
Investors making you spend invested money for personal gain.
Having a business CEO who has no product insights.
Board control issues.
Employees trying to overthrow founders and getting fired because of that.
Being forced to hire friends and family of investors.
Lawyers represent the company and not you.
Founding company with someone whom you do not trust.
Investors getting involved in day to day running.

Luckily each of the startups had an happy ending. But it took a lot of hard work and a few miracles.
Integer factoring has nothing to do with AES Crack. Are they talking about RSA?
FYI: it was funny when you made the joke, a little lame when you explained it, and super lame when you repeated it :-)
The forks are from https://github.com/emcmanus, which seems like a legit githubber.

edit: He works for the show, and is legit https://www.linkedin.com/in/emcmanus
i think it's one of the reason it's so hard for me to watch it -- the comedy/cringe parts hit too close to home.
i dont think I had to do that but i did have to report whether im looking for a job and other yes no questions
One of the reasons i automated it was because the UI, the gap between the question and the yes no option was so far that it's hard to align them (I answered it wrong one time and they made a case out of it, I did check no on the "are you looking for a job question")
No one missed your point. Your point is obvious and terrible. You want the demand side of the equation ignored. Your world view requires that demands for health care be unrestrained and unquestioned and you perform whatever mental contortions you must to allow that view to remain plausible inside your head. You're mentality is common and identified in the story here:

"many academics and health care leaders found the idea of health insurance so appealing as to have a bias blinding them to the negative impact of moral hazard"

Your point has not been missed. It's just wrong. But don't worry; you have lots of company and you won't be left wanting for support from lots of other wrong people.
Oh man, oh man. Don't get me started on the utter mess that the UPS and FedEx APIs are. I've gone through the app certification process for both, as well as Stamps.com (USPS), and I think the only other project that rivals that mess is ADP (development took over a year, certification took another 6 months and 10s of thousands in fees.)

As an example, the developer document solely for obtaining shipment rates is 98 pages long.
I ran it manually, and yes it can be automated even further but I'd like to keep an eye on the process + the sense of gratification of double clicking an icon == making it rain $$$
I hope that this is applied on a case-by-case basis, e.g. Rails 5 RC1 was released more than a month ago, and the official release of Rails 5 will be major news when it happens and it would be a shame if it were 'dupe'd off of the front page.

fwiw, I'm glad that this article was on the front page, if only momentarily, because I had missed or forgotten about the previous RC announcement and am interested in this news.
They convert CO2 to calcite:

"[S]cientists at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University and other institutions have come up with a different way to store CO2.... Their approach involves dissolving the gas with water and pumping the resulting mixture — soda water, essentially — down into certain kinds of rocks, where the CO2 reacts with the rock to form a mineral called calcite. By turning the gas into stone, scientists can lock it away permanently."
Spoiler alerts are a simple show of respect for other people. They might want to be blown away by this particular twist.

It's not like it costs you anything, so why not treat each other with a little bit of grace?
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Thanks for making HN such a great place!
By far the most unrealistic thing about "Silicon Valley" is the complete lack of technical obstacles and setbacks faced by any team in the show. But that's eminently forgivable -- no one (certainly not I) wants to watch three weeks of harried debugging.

Everything else is so on-point that it can be uncomfortable to watch as a denizen of Silicon Valley.
Even greeks were watching their plays knowing what will happen - that's whole idea of watching somebody struggle against future that will happen no matter somebody will do.
> So I'm a bit ambivalent. Yeah, we desperately need more developers in the tech world. Yeah, startup culture is ridiculously tribal and unfairly biased against those who don't know the secret handshakes. But 3 months does not a developer make. When I'm hiring, I now look very skeptically at candidates that have been to a bootcamp. Experience has taught me that interviewing them is usually a waste of time.

That's all the more reason these bootcamps should be way more transparent than they are.

There are people for whom the cost of attending such a bootcamp is enormous - they might spend their entire life savings or finance the attendance of such a camp, putting them in a bad debt spiral. And while many of the camps are selective and only hire people with previous development experience, I'm sure there are some with more 'flexible' standards so to speak that will happily take your money, regardless of your background.

One of the things they could do to make it more transparent is to signal that software development may not be for everyone - just like being a doctor or an athlete or some other profession that requires extreme passion and dedication.
Love this. Some bootcamps are doing the world a great service, but there are also an increasing number of sharks in the water.

I run a 4-week "pre-bootcamp" program to help advise students on making the right choice. I hold my classes in the evenings so students can try out coding before they make the HUGE commitment of quitting their jobs and shelling out 10-20k for a bootcamp.

Sometimes, the right choice is to not try to be a coder. People get excited about six figure job prospects, but the truth is that coding isn't for everyone. The right approach is allow students to "fail fast," just like a startup. I do believe everyone should at least be exposed to coding so they can make an educated decision about it though.

On a slight tangent, I'd love to see more coding schools putting their money where there mouths are by offering income-based repayment (IBR). I've worked as an instructor at a coding school offering IBR, and I've seen first hand how much of good thing it is for everyone when success incentives are aligned.
I have seen it, but in very traditional orgs, where system administrators and developers were in very different realms, and mostly communicate through a ticketing system. Similar things between DBAs and programmers in that environment. Why are the queries slow in production?

So it's not an uncommon problem to have wherever there's no clear line of responsibility, and no real shared ownership. It's only unrealistic in the sense that, if you have those kind of problems in a company as small as Pied Piper, I'd expect the product to not work at all.
Plan 9 replaces ioctl with special files that require writing magic incantations.

It's similar to the various knobs in Linux /proc which require reading and writing specially formatted data. ioctl is simpler in that you don't need to worry as much about formatting the data (the struct declarations take care of that for you), but a file-oriented interface is nicer in that it's a higher-level abstraction--for example, it maps better to different languages, similar to how ioctl requires C or C-like shims whereas /proc can be used from any language that understands open/read/write/close, including the shell.
I doubt the benefit is actually higher than the fine. My guess is that Uber is hoping for a long term gain from a reversal of the law, but it's a gamble that might not pay off.

Frankly, I have no problem with this. As long as there's no direct harm to people (so no fake drugs or contaminated food, etc) and it's done openly, I think it's fine for companies to make this gamble. Either society recognizes the law as outdated and abolishes it (a win-win) or it sticks by the law and the government gets to pay for some public expenses by bleeding some VCs. Either way, society wins.
/s/guys/people
I still haven't found a "remote" replacement for gathering around a whiteboard to work out some system design issues. Whiteboard-through-a-webcam has been mostly ok as long as everyone is almost on the same page to begin with, but it gets cumbersome as soon as anyone misunderstands anything.
I personally didn't like the humor of the show and stopped watching it after 3 or 4 episodes.

On a related note, a few days ago [1] Marc Andreessen recommended another show based on startup culture: Halt and Catch Fire [2]

I haven't seen it, but I will probably give it a shot.

[1] http://fourhourworkweek.com/2016/05/29/marc-andreessen/
[2] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2543312/?ref_=wl_li_tt
I made an ad blocker for iOS that I popped up on the App Store so friends and family can find it easily.

But lately, some websites seem to prefer displaying nothing unless the blocker is disabled.

For those instances, I recommend using Chrome or Firefox. Then you can experience the site unprotected, if you want.

Usually it's not worth it.
The water can be saltwater, and if you set up the system as a loop, you can reuse the same water as it comes back up without the CO2. The limiting factor is the drilling -- you need lots of deep holes in the ground, and making those is costly. It's not a surprise that this was pioneered by a geothermal company, as drilling is their main expertise.

The big remaining unknown is how long can they reuse the same hole before all basalt in there is covered in calcium carbonate. Since drilling is the main cost, and this determines how often you have to drill, it can either make this project feasible or totally unusable.
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The computer labs at my uni were Solaris workstations almost everyone hated them. I completed most of our assigned work using Linux on my home pc (along with a heap of other students in my class) this was in late 90's.

Everyone was buzzing about Linux. The general attitude was 'Why would you run Solaris when you could just run Linux'

Maybe in other segments Solaris was a 'big deal' but for students and developers Linux was a game changer.
Have you actually tried using it on a phone with no Google Play Services? I'm involved with the project and I remember someone reporting it works just fine. Vector for Android falls back to polling if GCM isn't supported/working afaik.
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The SHIELD can now run Plex Media Server as well as the Plex Android client. PMS on SHIELD includes full hardware accelerated transcoding and support for 4k@60 content. Pretty sweet!

Also: https://shield.nvidia.com/blog/plex-media-server
Are you referring to only the first flight of the day?

A plane lands, taxis to the gate. Passengers disembark, the plane gets cleaned and refueled, people on the ground checked it out, new passengers board (me), and it taxis from the gate. At no point did the pilots leave the airplane to "walk-around".
Seems to be a spam account? Seven days ago he was a 3rd year EE student: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11825550

And this is text copied from an old reddit post? https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/c0iup/how_esse...
Uncanny Silicon Valley
>Spoilers have been studied and proven to not significantly diminish enjoyment and can even enhance it.

Then feel free to read articles that spoil things. I don't want to; I didn't read this article because someone was nice enough to tell me there were spoilers. Thanks!
Setting aside if this is true or not (and my gut feeling is that it is not), given the widespread impact of an AES or RSA crack what should one do with such knowledge? It seems irresponsible to just publish it and let the chips fall. On the other hand if you've spent your entire career in the field such a breakthrough would be the ultimate achievement and would expand your career opportunities a thousandfold and it would be very difficult to keep it to yourself or a handful of colleagues sworn to secrecy.
F-droid builds everything from source so there would have to be a build flag that would remove GCM functionality. From what it looks like, when GCM is disabled, vector reverts to polling the server for information instead of messaging interrupts[0]. This is of course highly inefficient and an alternative has been proposed in the issue, but I can't speak to it.

It looks like the team previously made Google Analytics opt-out-able[1]. I didn't look at the commit to see if it's a build flag or just a GUI toggle. I believe to be on f-droid it would have to be absent the binary entirely.

I found an issue relating to allowing a GCM opt-out[2]. I think this would realistically require the polling issue to be solved though.

Here is the f-droid request for addition[3].

I'm not sure about a solution and all I've done is comb the issue log a bit. The Conversations app currently on F-droid is able to handle timely messaging with low battery consumption and no GCM. They're different protocols entirely, I realize, but maybe some ideas can be gleaned from that implementation. In a perfect world, all open-source decentralized applications would depend on zero closed-source centralized services, but I know the cost/benefit analysis of the implementation overhead may not always weigh out.

Keep up the good work either way.

[0] https://github.com/vector-im/vector-android/issues/167
[1] https://github.com/vector-im/vector-android/issues/61
[2] https://github.com/vector-im/vector-android/issues/87
[3] https://f-droid.org/forums/topic/vector-a-polished-matrix-ch...
I'm sure being head of country for a company that will likely IPO above $100 billion will be fine for their careers.
Create a cryptocurrency that isn't designed to provide massive increases in wealth for early adopters?
The PDF is interesting, but reports no actual data from GA... Seems like that would be relevant, if they are trying to push for more transparency!
An indefinitely growing list of spent transactions is the least of Monero's scaling issues. Monero doesn't scale to large anonymity sets.

Monero uses CryptNote's ring signature approach, which scales linearly with the number of coins you want to mix with. Want to fully mix 1,000 coins together? You need a 30kb transaction[0]. You chunk those coins into smaller mixing sets, but then they aren't fully mixed. In anything using this approach, your anonymity set is limited by what you can transmit across the network in any given transaction or a small set of transactions. I've never seen an exact proposal for mixing tx size and I'd be very interested to see one, but if it was more than 100 coins per tx I'd be surprised.

In ZCash, transactions are constant size and are fully mixed with every other coin in the current anonymity set.

Both approaches do have the indefinitely growing list of spent tokens issue. Which in practice means you need to move coins into a new anonymity set after e.g. 2^32 serial numbers and throw away the old coins and spent serial number list[1]. So there is an inherent limit on the maximal anonymity set you get out of any anonymous ecash scheme. Zerocash hits that limit. Due to its per transaction scaling issues, CryptoNote simply can't.

As a result, in ZCash, your coin is hidden amongst all the coins in the maximal anonymity set. In Cryptonote/Monero, it's hidden amongst a far smaller fraction of that set. In Monero, you are far less anonymous. All things being equal, you want to be more anonymous.

Of course, all other things are not equal. There are merits to both Zerocash and CryptNote on a technical level, but scalability isn't where CryptNote shines.

[0] Assume one group element per signature in the ring at 32 bytes per element. The real scheme is likely worse.

[1] There more sophisticated approaches that can be used.
Yeah that would be an artificial cliff hanger for sure. It's about the human interaction and politics.
That's what unicornporn implied.
The parlance of pilots
Halt and Catch Fire is definitely not about startup culture: it's a drama about the birth of the tech industry.
Gas prices vary a lot more than that between countries today (largely due to differences in existing taxes).

http://www.globalpetrolprices.com/gasoline_prices/Europe/

That's stated in dollars per liter (an unusual unit). In dollars per gallon, Germany would be $5.79/gallon today and the U.K. would be $6.13/gallon.
It wouldn't be an entirely apples-to-apples comparison to jet fuel. A fully-electric VTOL aircraft would ditch most of the wings, for instance, and instead make the fuselage lifting-body.

Wings are large to provide enough lift at takeoff and landing speeds, tail and rudders to provide aerodynamic stability which would be provided by electric motors instead. Also, the engines would be lighter and a significant fraction of the empty weight would be batteries. We wouldn't see an electric drop-in replacement for a long-distance airliner in the near future, no one is claiming that.
What I don't get is while they add "depth" in a few selected areas (simulating stuff like dwarf organ function?) their choice of that awful ASCII UI means the entire game runs on a grid of really huge cubes. So while it's simulating a dwarf's digestion, nothing really can exist in the game that's less than, say, 5'x5'. Perplexing design choice.
I've had people try to scam me in Italy but that never worked, drivers demanding extra money for putting your luggage in the trunk should be dealt with appropriately (though that one never happened to me, it would seem that 20 euros is a bit excessive), Costa Rica and Morocco I have no experience with (though I'd expect Costa Rica to be more or less like Panama and I didn't have any issues there on multiple visits).

I think a good part of this is that I don't come across as your average 'easy to rip off' tourist so that may very well be why so far taxi drivers have been pretty good to me.
Nobody cares if you participate. It's just pointless to complain that US styles are used in a US article posted on a US website.
> Checking out the docs it looks like a trip back to the 1970s.

The BSD world never adopted System 5 init, and can indeed trace its mechanism back to Version 7. Ironically, however, that init has outlived both System 5 init and its van Smoorenburg clone.

* http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/in...

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11550802
for a similar satire of high tech culture 20 years ago, check out Douglas Copeland's "Microserfs": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microserfs
The "press release" links to here: http://www.mathematik.uni-kassel.de/ACA2016/ which is definitely not the University of Toronto's Math or CS department page.