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Net neutrality IS a government assisted monopoly but in the favor of consumer instead of provider. I don't think people who support net neutrality will be able to bring arguments in support of free market policies for ISPs.
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if I understand the concept correctly, basically it's wrong because your index/seed values will be much more complex than the data you are supposedly extracting. So basically you have to already know the data you want in order to "find" it in pi.
I wonder if these municipal broadband networks can be sold to a new not for profit that does the same function
Is BRIN Index the same as ATM Machine?

Article didn't really explain the acronym.
Followed by a more expensive subpar service. I typically lean towards getting governmetn out of most business, but these muni ISPs have always struck me as more grassroots democratic very american bootstrap sort of thing and commercial ISPs who fail to serve their customers exhibiting very anti-american behavior.
Read more carefully. About half the people quoted in the article are postdocs or junior faculty.
This is true of low-voltage DC (V), but very much untrue of high-voltage (MV).

Irrelevant to the use case under discussion, of course, but someone reading this thread might find HVDC long-range power transmission interesting.
This argument applies to all forms of media. As the barrier to entry to create plummets, there's going to be an insane amount of noise, even if there's tons of good stuff around. If you don't need a publisher's/editor's approval, no one is going to tell you your work is not worth distributing.

But "not reading" is click bait. The author is just being more selective in how they spend their time, since they can only afford to consume an increasingly narrow sliver. But you are seriously missing out if you elect to ignore the (good) stuff that will last, like (IMO) GEB and Infinite Jest.
> A car picks me up in 1-2 minutes, instead of the 10 minutes a taxi used to take.

The Phoenix metro area is quite spread out. Even so, I averaged about 7 minutes to my passengers' pickup location. This included the time it took to enter the address into my phone's navigation software. Sometimes I'd arrive seconds after the passenger hung up the phone with our dispatchers.

The taxi company's latest version of its dispatching software has all the latest features, but these were not available in 2004 or in 2008, when the old computer hardware was deployed.

To see a video of how a 2008-era electronic taxi dispatching system worked, see "Electronic Taxi Dispatch, v1.0":
http://www.taxiwars.org/p/electronic-taxi-dispatch-v1.html

> And it actually comes - taxis in SF have always been unreliable.

The cab company I drove for wasn't the cheapest company in town, but we had a reputation for being reliable. The other big companies were okay too, if you weren't in an outlying area. One time a passenger told me how he'd called a random company in the phone book. They said he was too far out of that small cab company's usual area, and to just call the company I drove for.

> And instead of most cabs driving around aimlessly empty half the time burning fossil fuels,

Where does this idea come from? The only times I was empty was in slow period during the middle of the night.

The cab company I drove for bought its first Prius in 2004. Sometime in 2013 or 2014 they retired the rest of the Crown Victorias (old police cruisers), switching the fleet to a 70/30 blend of Priuses and Minivans.

The fleet was very well maintained. The vehicles were cleaned regularly, and repaired as needed. An extensive rejeuvination was performed at mid-life, which is around 200,000 miles. The cabs were looked at very carefully at 400,000 miles - most of them were sent to the boneyard at this point. The owner-operator I drove for took very good care of her cab - it probably made it to 500,000 miles, which is the state-mandated retirement age for taxis. Replacing the battery pack twice, fixing a head gasket, and replacing the original engine with a recycled engine was cheaper than buying a new cab.

The upstarts' unfortunate drivers don't have access to economies of scale for taking care of their vehicles.

Throwing cars away at 200,000 miles [1] is much more "carbon-intensive" than maintaining them for 400,000+ miles.

[1] http://business.time.com/2012/03/20/what-you-only-have-100k-...
And I believe that most countries do not share citizenship databases (as opposed to passport databases), so it would not be noted.
THIS

This single diagram explains the market dynamic year over year in a way I've never seen anywhere else. The 1/3/5/10 yr returns figures you see don't even come close to understanding the nuances of one year over another.

I remember when this diagram was published in 2011 and _still_ refer to it routinely.

This is why you do dollar cost averaging and steadily invest every year, to spread out your investments over multiple years.
"My current target is a role at one of the "big four" tech companies or a high-quality startup doing either webdev or infrastructure engineering"

Yup, I'd say if that's your goal, then you're not cut out for it.

That's like saying you want to get into stock car racing because you want to hang out with Danica Patrick. You're doing it for the wrong reasons.

You have to love it for the joy it gives you to learn it and use it. Otherwise you won't spend the necessary time to be truly good at it.
That's quite interesting to hear. A lot of what DHH and Jason Fried preach about making money fast, having a profitable small business, etc goes directly in the face of venture-backed startup memes e.g., "grow like mad and figure out how to make money at scale". I actually prefer their approach myself. It's nice to see the two worlds collide.
Whoa, startfighter.io is winding down? That is the first I've heard of that.
Yes, I use a plain resume: http://printf.net/resume.pdf
It's very, very rare that I say to myself, "Self, I'm glad I read that sign-up email this morning." Thanks, Patrick.
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Minor comment, I think you should point out that you run the site. Unfortunately there are a lot of hit-and-run self-promoters on HN, and they tend to use a style similar to this. I usually flag them if I see them, especially when the content has little to do with HN's readership.

Your comment history shows you are not one of those. I think if you had written ".... wrestling website I run." you would improve the chance of getting some feedback from other HNers, because it's a more personal connection.

My market is completely different from yours. All I can offer is encouragement in your effort.

As someone with no interest wrestling, I browsed around a bit out of curiosity. Would it be reasonable to add more links? You have the Twitter handles, but I have to copy/paste to get there, and there is no home page. These could be linked, by icon, inside the the ws-header for the school page.

Will there be (possibly user-submitted) links to photos from recent meets? What about links from the upcoming tournaments to the web site for the tournament?

I don't think it's that important for most people to see "This is a cached page, it was last updated: 9/16/2016 10:43:18 PM" / "View version: Click here for live version | Cached version" right at the top of the content. Even if they cared about cache status, I think "Last updated 5 seconds ago" would be easier to interpret. Especially as it isn't 10:43:18 PM in this time zone.

I realize this is all extra work, and you are self-funded. Feel free to ignore me!

Again, best of hopes that it goes well, and that you figure out a good funding model.
They allow sponsored content they're just really restrictive about it.

For example I couldn't wear my work shirt (with logo) during a 2 minute piece on a kids TV program. However, watch whatever is on on a Saturday night, guest appearance from some "star" and the host's question will be "so, you've got a [media product] coming out", with a promo image of the book/movie/CD/whatever. Or if it's a movie then they'll often show a short clip (aka advert).

If you watch a cooking show then it seems it's fine to promo a restaurant as long as it's high-end - here's such-and-such chef, fresh from his Michelin starred restaurant at Poshtown. It's quid pro quo but waiving [part of] an appearance fee in order to get publicity surely counts.

It's curious, some kids shows are all black-tape over the carton being used to make a craft project but then they have an "inside the factory" series which is a massive promotional piece - though probably not paid - for the companies with branding clearly shown. You might argue not "sponsored" but "we'll let you do this filming if you show our factories in a good light and keep our name and logo in the show" seems sponsored to me.
Image caption: "The comet debris consists of a cluster of building-size chunks near the center of the image. They form a 3,000-mile-long trail, larger than the width of the continental U.S."

What am I not getting here? If the cluster in that image is 3K+ miles wide, then those are city sized dots, not building sized. I'm guessing the long tail is not actually in the image?
I've never felt that politicians think of us as people, more as cattle or unruly pets.
Aside from the apocalyptic theme from the website maintainer, this is quiet a comprehensive list of mass animal die offs that have been reported since 2011, when these reports begin skyrocketing.

http://www.end-times-prophecy.org/animal-deaths-birds-fish-e...

http://www.end-times-prophecy.org/mass-animal-deaths-2015.ht...

http://www.end-times-prophecy.org/mass-animal-deaths-2014.ht...

http://www.end-times-prophecy.org/mass-animal-deaths-2013.ht...

http://www.end-times-prophecy.org/mass-animal-deaths-2012.ht...

http://www.end-times-prophecy.org/mass-animal-deaths-2011.ht...
What is the blood harvest and what does Sothic replace? I'm confused.
> Crowdfunding has a bit of an adverse selection problem, where only companies which are insufficiently attractive to more professional angels

They mean every idea that doesn't have a 10 billion market to disrupt and gain 1% of

Its crowded at the bottom, enjoy the liquidity preference!
> The content makers / publishers / distributors never see a cent of the secondhand DVD market

1) Japanese games publishers did want to prevent second hand sales, so your question isn't as bizarre to the rights holders.

2) They do see some of that money. I can afford to buy some new games, but only if I can sell my old games. I can only sell my old games if someone buys them.

I agree with you, though.
the problem of blackhole firewalls were really interesting to see what kinds of techniques and rules modern physicists are using.
If you're running multiple copies of anything that cares about the concept of a master it better have its own consensus algorithm. Luckily such things exist and are open source.
Agreed on all points, but the inevitability makes the years dropping of a billion USD seem even more insane.
I don't really agree with that. Investing well is almost always more important than worrying about small expenses. Do you know how many people don't invest? Like, 99% of people.
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Not to mention the inherent pressure, knowing that those few minutes may have a big impact on your career.
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Please don't goalify working at one of the behemoth hiveminds. You will become a better hacker by working at a small, scrappy non-unicorn startup -- meaning, an actual startup -- with tons of work to do. It's not for everybody, but where else can you hack on machine learning on the same day you experiment with building infrastructure? There is so much work to do all around that you'll find yourself digging deep and learning tons of new stuff every single day. One year at a startup I think is worth five at a big ass corporation. Going to work for Google, you'll forever be at the behest of naturally-talented CS PhDs that spend all day answering Gmail support tickets. You won't ever get to play with the cool toys at one of those companies. Seriously. That is one thing I've learned after twenty years in this industry.
I saw the vctrs package repo the other day on your GitHub. What's your plan with that? I guess your covering all of R's base data types (dplyr:data frames, purrr:lists, forcats:factors, vctrs:vectors)? Also do you plan on developing further functional programming packages?
"Net neutrality IS a government assisted monopoly"

It seemed to be the opposite to me. A monopoly is a single supplier that dictates everything, esp price and service. Net neutrality is more like free market where it blocks artificial restrictions to boost benefits for consumers.
All these anecdotal quotes about Warren Buffett who issues bonds in Europe and didn't create Berkshire from index investing

His successful leveraged investments are analogous to negative expected value bets that people would typically relegate to degenerates.

He advocates indexing for the little people. This has nothing to do with what he did, or does now. (And there's nothing wrong with that)
Not only rich people but poor people who are really in a hurry. If you're suddenly about to be late for work, it's probably better to pay surge pricing than get fired. Of course it's not entirely fair since a rich person can afford to treat more trips as important than a poor person, but it's still better than the traditional system which is a gamble and ignores priorities of riders.
A tax deductible loan, in essence, reduces the actual interest rate you pay. If you only pay 1-2% on a loan, that's fine. Better to make 6-8-10% on your money, than using it as a downpayment for a mortgage which you could finance at 1-2%.

If cost of debt < return on investments -> then invest it, don't use it for your downpayment.

Obviously, this does not apply to credit card debt, on which you pay 10-15% interest per annum.
That sounds like supply and demand pricing, people want to work for Google even if the salary is low. It could also be a good pay off in that some people will value you as a better programmer because you're ex google? The right move might well be to take a position for a year and leave if you don't like it, on leaving I imagine you can get a better paid position more easily than before it was on your CV??
If the major telco and cable companies weren't consistently the most hated companies in the country...well, these things wouldn't spring up. There wouldn't be sufficient drive among people to make it happen; it's hard to get something done in government. So, the fact that it has gotten done in a number of municipalities should be taken as a warning sign for just how poorly existing providers are doing their job.

Internet is a necessity for participating in the modern economy. So, companies that provide it, particularly when they hold a monopoly or are part of a duopoly, wield a tremendous amount of power; or, maybe even worse, when they have a strong enough hold on a given region but opt not to provide broadband to some of their service area, making it nearly impossible for some rural folks to even have broadband. They've shown themselves unworthy of being trusted with such power, over and over again. It's unfortunate that legislators in NC are complicit in that abusive behavior.
If you finished a CS degree with a 3.6, you definitely have the aptitude. What makes you so sure you had to work harder than your classmates to get similar results? They could have been burning the midnight oil a lot more than you think.
> Once you find a "suspicious" result, I guess you could try searching direct quotes from the article

I believe google only removes the results from searches for the specific name. The page can still show up if you search for something else.

Other than that: +1 for your request for responsibility. I disagree with the court ruling, but having the right to publish some information doesn't always mean it's a good idea.

Google has details on a few specific requests. They include "high-ranking corrupt politician" (not removed) as well as "stalking victim's home address" (removed).
The HP-01 foreshadowed the need for “interactions” in smart watches
I met a writer a decade + ago who wrote for two of the most popular "reality" shows at the time. This individual confided in me everything on the shows was scripted and rehearsed. Everything. The NDA's prevent contestants and workers from disclosing such information, apparently. Studios loved them because, back in the day, they didn't have to pay "scale" to these people who weren't actors at all.

edit: no names
There isn't much left https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_active_Royal_Navy_ship... especially the surface fleet. Compare with

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_active_French_Navy_shi...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_active_Italian_Navy_sh...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_active_Spanish_Navy_sh...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_active_German_Navy_shi...
I would love to downvote you; sadly, I can't yet.
Yeah, so that look should be avoided if you're 13 years old, because other kids will laugh at you since tampons are funny because its women stuff. /s
That looks very much like the sorts of resumes I see. (Software development in pharma/biotech.)

I looked at enhancv.com's example. I've never seen resumes like those. They do not have much information content.
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It seems like this includes up to 500 bytes of padding in a request. Is there a reason for that?
This is only sound advice when interviewing for a non-technical position.

If you're going in for a technical position, prepare to be grilled.
It took me 8 years of industry programming (after college) to get a job at a top tech company. But I'm here, and I feel like my skills are a lot better than they were. Don't get down on yourself by getting rejected, and don't invest too much time in interviews. Take 1 or 2 a year, and just concentrate on being a better programmer and person.

1. No, but you should evaluate how much time you invest in this. (time per year)

2. I hated every time I got rejected. I never did postmortems myself, but swore I would never interview at another BigCo again. But guess what kept happening.

3. I never found a mentorship useful. The best way is to find where you're deficient (which is hard, because companies almost never give feedback). I don't think post-mortems is the right way to approach this -- look at different ways companies evaluate someone (tip: it's not always just the code you write), and see where you can do better.

I'd be happy to answer ad-hoc questions you have -- maybe it would be better to provide suggestions by understanding of your particular circumstances.
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I feel this graphic, while informative and delightful, is insidious in its choice of scale and its lack of comparisons.

On scale, it makes it seem like +3% to +7% real returns is "neutral". This makes it seem like the stock market is sometimes good sometimes bad but overall it may as well be just okay.

On comparisons, it does a huge disservice by not adding a tab showing bond yields and a tab showing cash/treasury yields (which would be dark red across the board except light red around 1930).

I feel these slights make the graphic present stock investing in an unfairly unfavorable light and makes the suboptimal strategy of keeping your money out of the market seem much more favorable than it is.
SPA is a show that I had a lot of influence over. My editing work on the first show was mentioned in a New York Times.

Sarah was very protective of her family's image as it was airing close to the time when one of her daughter's was having or had just had a child out of wedlock.

She had good reason to be protective, but this made it difficult to produce an entertaining TV show. So, the show wasn't really a show until it got to post. The executive producers were really worried.

I remember, one of my fellow editors became frustrated with his supervising producer. He threw a stack of papers into the air and slammed the door in his face.

Also, there was a scene where Sarah'a other daughter had a boyfriend over. The boyfriend wanted to go upstairs to her bedroom. Sarah wouldn't allow it, and she demanded he come back down. We edited it so that he never came back down and that she was calling her daughter's name... as if they were up there naked or something... That is where the "lie" is most evident. When there is a clear departure from the truth, but all of TV is a lie, based on excluding the boring parts. Do I feel bad that we changed what really happened? No. That was probably the most memorable moment of the entire season and drove viewership way up for the entire season, resulting in a more satisfying product for viewers.

Also, once Sarah saw the show, she got it. She had the ability to tell us to change anything she didn't like. She didn't want to change that scene or many others. It was gold.

She does love Alaska. Todd, her husband, seems like an awesome guy. They are a pretty normal family, thrown into the limelight by John McCain.
The point become regulations are actually a firewall for incumbent. The more regulation you have the up-start is unlikely to enter and complete. Uber brought disruption through rough-shodding taxi regulation.
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With the constant bias and falsities economists keep getting caught in, do you guys think they serve a purpose at all?
> Rich people contribute more to society

Maybe in the sense of economic contributions, but this is far from clear for contribution defined in a general sense.
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This would be a win for everyone, but the EU won't bend.
> Of all the countries in the world, China is 1 of 2 that are actually capable of standing up to US military might, and the only real advantage the US has is a more robust intelligence system via satellites.

citation?

From what i've read/heard the Chinese military may be second or third in might, but the drop is so steep so as to not compare to first place holder.

Chomsky sure as hell paints that picture, at least.
These lose-lose scenarios make me sad. Does anyone else feel that the "we're paying 4 gold coins but are receiving only 2 platinum bracelets" style arguments are _extremely_ petty? They come from stable societies in which people who are willing to put in the effort are well rewarded and live carefree lives. I don't know if it's just because I'm living right in the middle of the tech bubble and I am empowered to pursue my interests anywhere, but I wish people would be taught that they have no right to feel they own a place just because they were born there. I believe spreading progress is essential for our peaceful survival and maintaining our way of life. The media is actively harming this.
But don't you know, if you make things easier for rich people, the benefits trickle down. Or is the argument currently that people who can't afford the inflated prices don't deserve transport? Not sure.
Sky gave an interesting technical presentation to the UK IPv6 Council in June about the roll out[1]. There is another presentation scheduled for October if you want to know more[2].

1: http://www.ipv6.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/UK-IPv6-Co...
2: http://www.ipv6.org.uk/blog/
> Net neutrality IS a government assisted monopoly

The definition of monopoly ("the exclusive possession or control of the supply or trade in a commodity or service") makes this clearly false. Net neutrality is a policy, supported by legislation that gives the FCC the power to enforce that policy. In no way is that related to monopolies.
> Obviously Facebook has cracked engagement in a way that Twitter never has and never will.

It's the chat feature. It's the only thing that keeps me on facebook and I suspect I'm not alone. I rarely hear it talked about and I think it's underappreciated that facebook chat replaced AIM. That's a big deal.