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Ask HN: Customer demanding $2400 for dirt marks on driveway, how to handle this?
This isn't a purely technical question but it has to do with psychological and legal strategy so I thought it might be fun to examine on here.

I own a mobile auto detailing company and we detailed a vehicle on a new white concrete driveway. The detailing process left some dirt splotch marks on the driveway that didn't readily come off. (Wheel cleaner dissolved brake dust).

The customer asked us to come back out and power wash it, which we did. The result is that the marks are almost completely gone, but not 100%.

Now he is demanding that we pay $2400 to have the driveway re-surfaced or he'll sue us. This seems extreme to me but I'm not sure how things like this are resolved from a legal basis. My best guess is that some metric would be use to calculate "accelerated wear". So we would pay for a percentage of the cost of the driveway that represents the amount of wear we put on it above normal wear and tear.

We do have business insurgence, so I could just tell him we'll refer this to our insurance who will likely not pay him anything since the wear is very minor. But I'm not sure what the repercussions of this could be. Will my insurance possibly decide to pay and then raise my rates? Or will they not pay and raise my rates anyway? I've never referred anything to insurance before in the 10 years we've been in business so I don't know what I'm getting myself into with that.

Anyone have any insight into this??
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When you want people who hate politics, politicians and political correctness in any form to vote for you, then getting called a racist and a sexist just separates you from the status-quo pack and makes you seem more appealing.

That Trump could avoid the bad press if he wanted, but doesn't, suggests that he welcomes it. And, to his credit, it seems to be working for him. He's been able to harness a sense of mass disenfranchisement and anti-establishment rage that the Republican Party has been unable to tap into, despite their best efforts.
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hourly rates they charge :)
Haha. +1 for the effort (though my pedantic affectations force me to note it's `BeOS' rather than BE/OS).

Plan 9 had some brilliant ideas. In addition to the whole Acme editor being integrated into the OS at levels which beat out even Smalltalk, and the Plan 9 tags(1) [see: File indexing and searching for Plan 9] system was marvelous as well. I've been trying to come up with a semantic information modeling system better than the standard hierarchy, and better than just a tagging system. tags(1) and Lotus Agenda get(got?) pretty close.

Side-note: emacs org-mode users - I highly suggest experimenting with Agenda in DosBox for a few months. It's pretty much the paragon of PIM, so much so that I wrote a few thousand lines of elisp to replicate most of the functionality.
Is there anything about ripgrep that makes its performance uniquely fast? That is, is it not possible to achieve the same speed and correctness of results using, say, C or C++?

If neither condition holds, then the use of Rust is almost purely incidental. It isn't even interesting, from that perspective. Far more interesting would be a measure of how safe the Rust code is versus equivalent-results implementations in other languages.
> as opposed to writing an article about how "I am smarter than the GNU grep people for these reasons and have built a tool named after how my tool is going to kill their tool"

You're assuming way too much bad faith here. The article tries very hard to make a fair comparison, and doesn't throw dirt on grep at any point. It's pretty clear that the intention of the author was to write a search tool with particular characteristics, and it turned out that that choice was faster than grep.

I think you're extrapolating from the name of the crate -- as steve said, the name is not "R.I.P. grep", and the intention was not to replace grep.

Go through the post again with this in mind. Does it sound at all combative to you? It's purely technical, and fairly explains everything.
I own a CrossFit box and have a cigar probably once every 6 weeks with our corporate attorney.

There's zero noticeable effect on lung capacity of stamina, aside from the minor mouth/throat cancer risk I don't see any reason smoking an occasional cigar would be incompatible with health and fitness.
Lionel is a woman (birth name Margaret). She changed her name at 15 (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Shriver)
Rethinking Last-Mile Logistics: Deploying Swarms of Drones W/Self-Driving Trucks
Yeah. Twitter is a broadcasting platform. It is different from FB. FB feed has your mom and their friends' posts. Twitter doesn't, unless you explicitly ask for it. Not everything should be about advertising. Twitter can stay as it has, and just charge people with money, money.
>"Sending/receiving data over wifi takes roughly ~8x less power than sending/receiving data over cell"

How did you arrive at this 8x figure? I don't think this is correct at all. See:

http://people.cs.umass.edu/~arun/papers/TailEnder.pdf

Additionally power efficiency is related to distance from the cell tower which is generally much further away than a wifi access point.
> Anyone that takes over the company is going to be doing massive layoffs.

Rapidly-growing tech behemoths like Google can afford to acquihire hundred of engineers and, eventually, assign them to other work.
And Kaldor, Kalecki, Sraffa, Minsky, Lavoie, Shumpeter, Hayek, Graziani, Khaleman, Wallerstein, Thaler. And anything systems oriented and lots of history, sociology and anthropology. Economics tends to be highly reductionist.
> You should know what they are and how they may be used against you, and you also should have a fairly good idea if your founders are likely to do that.

That's what everyone is saying: knowing all of that stuff, the reasonable thing is to take salary. You're just choosing to ignore that that line of reasoning makes sense because you'd prefer yours.

Have you ever been on either side of this sort of thing when it's gone down, or are you just regurgitating the party line?
So Firefox is also expensive to run in terms of energy consumption. No wonder the fans on my MacBook Pro always sound like a jet engine whenever I have several tabs open. Seriously!

Disclaimer: I dual boot (camp) windows 7 on my mac.
Suppose, for a moment, the judge believes that there's at least an open question as to whether the revelations were willful. Can the later conduct, in which they acted in such a way as to double down on the mistake, be used to support a finding that the conduct was willful?
> fixing it without paying the cost at the same time may still be worse.

That's probably true if we're talking about a tax that's more than a rounding error on the total federal budget.

In an ideal world, you'd have a criteria for what makes a tax worth it.

For instance, some criteria might be:

1) Does the tax raise substantial money for the on-going operation of the government or to fund critical programs? (In this case, the answer would be "no" since $100M/yr is a fraction of a fraction of our federal budget.)

2) Does it incentivize a certain type of behavior that society has deemed "good" or penalize a behavior society has deemed "bad"? (In this case, penalizing people for working at a quickly growing but illiquid company doesn't seem like it benefits/hurts society one way or the other.)

3) Can the tax be paid without undue burden to the person paying? (In this case, the burden on gains that the employee doesn't actually have in their bank account could be $100,000+ on gains they don't have yet. I'd call that undue.)

I'm sure we could come up with more criteria too, but at face value, it doesn't seem like this tax has too many good legs to stand on.
"Be nice to people, even those trying to hurt you. "

Perhaps one of the hardest lessons to live by, but of immense value.
Congress was one of two scenarios I mentioned. The other, "presidents wanting to make their own mark on space policy", is exactly what Constellation was - both in its inception, and its cancellation.
No mention of brand v. generic in the entire article. If you're going to analyze keywords and ctr, you separate brand and generic no matter what.

Obviously two/three word keywords bring in more volume and have a higher ctr.. They include your brand name. Brand ctr is always 25% or above, and non-brand fathead keywords have much much lower ctr and impressions.

IMO all the data is suspect if you leave brand in their. As it stands its a better comparison of brand v. generic rather than fathead v. longtail.
The leak of NSA hacking tools was caused by a staffer mistake
I'm looking forward to tptacek's commentary here given his position on in-browser crypto.
Just wanted to chime in I like this comment too.

Having a dedicated partner with whom you can explore your wildest fantasies is a very fun thing. :)
Mainland Chinese capital is flowing into other countries as well, without the need for "integration" -- in economic terms, that would mean things like the relaxation of security listing rules (which are happening).
As an American who has spent a large amount of time in Hong Kong and China, lived there for a year, speak (limited) Chinese, basically go every year, read a ton about China, talk to Hong Konger's and Chinese about politics on a regular basis...I can tell you that most Americans have a very abstract understanding of the complexities of the situation and implications, yet at the same time we feel that we have a high understanding of the situation because the internet gives an illusion of knowledge. Basically if you are the typical American who reads the New York Times, you generally consider yourself well informed, and so you can consider a lot of the problems with the massive complexities of the world, "solved," by reading this level of publication, because there's an underlying assumption that our free and open media sources deliver a sufficiently robust amount of value, but if you haven't got any real deep exposure with the problem, you won't be able to discern what the gaps in a meta-analsysis may be. Basically, the person who you are asking that question will have no idea what you mean by, "cultural genocide," and no historical backdrop for why you would use that term in the first place.

For starters, we are not taught anything about Chinese history and "World History," is basically European history. Can you put yourself in the shoes of someone who is starting off from that perspective?

You hear a lot of broad oversimplifications over here such as, "China is communist!" vs, "No it's not, it's capitalist!" But not a lot of nuance behind the truth of such statements. The commentator is not likely intending to be malicious, he/she likely just does not have access to sufficient information to even know they are making a bad assessment.
I disagree actually- it was a triple reveal, yes 'Trump supporter' was one, but secret finder and shitposting were arguably larger
Interesting idea.

I think it's kind of odd to draw such a strong comparison to the Bitcoin blockchain. As the technical description [1] points out, the "chainpad" system discards most of the features and properties that make Bitcoin secure against malicious participants. That seems like a totally reasonable design decision for this application, but then describing it as a blockchain just adds confusion.

In fact, the design seems to bear a much closer resemblance to the Bayou optimistic concurrency algorithm [2], with operational transformation as the underlying data model, and some extra crypto on top.

[1]: https://github.com/xwiki-contrib/chainpad

[2]: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/lorenzo/corsi/cs380d/papers/p...
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It seems like the dom.ipc.processCount setting sets the total number of content processes to use.

Note that this means that tabs will share content processes, so a crash in one tab may crash a few others. You can reduce this by ramping up the number of processes, though that can lead to bloat.

No idea how stable this is right now. For me, on Dev Edition with regular multiprocess mode enabled, things work fine and I don't get crashes.
The judge tried to reveal the depth of this revelation by comparing it to that of the most secret thing he could imagine:

> If she had had the recipe for Coca-Cola she could have blurted it out in this court right now.

(Seriously!)

EDIT: I wasn't trying to be snarky or silly, just pointing out an aspect of the story that struck me as funny. Serious request: if that is inappropriate, please let me know rather than just silently downvoting. In that case, I apologise and will delete the post.
Or learn Dvorak. The Q and W are pretty far apart.
Caching tweets with all media, I would guess. Probably updates in the background all the time.
Many other governments have bigger armies than the entire population of Hong Kong too, does that mean we must shut up and never speak ill of anyone?
BCE has always weirded me out a little. Making it secular by just changing the suffix isn't really doing anything imho. I just read the Wikipedia entry and noticed that "vulgaris aerae" or "Vulger Era" for AD was once common. Now that is an equally problematic fix, but one I like.
At our company (CISOfy) we created a solution around our existing open source project Lynis (https://github.com/CISOfy/lynis). This way the tool in itself provides value, yet the separate Enterprise offering as well. Lynis itself is useful for a single system, yet companies might be attracted by Enterprise features (like collecting all data centrally, dashboards, reports, compliance reporting).

A similar way might work for your web application, by making two different products, each with their own audience.

My tip as founder: start testing the viability of your product/business first. Consider the reasons why people would or would not pay. Ask people in your field who might use it and if they would be willing to pay (and how much).
I didn't notice that. Thanks.

It works. The binary is 11 MB, or 1.5 MB stripped. ag is 69176 bytes. Shared libraries were a good invention :-) Sooner or later rg will be packaged properly too.
Things are in flux, but the original statement that it's in AWS now is still incorrect. The core app (and some acquired apps) is/are still on their own gear. Moving everything from their hosting environment to AWS (if that's even what is planned) would take many years.
In Depth explanation of the theories and reasons. Great read.

You can always ensure it's the same size by holding your thumb up to the moon in the sky. Low on the horizon or high in the sky, your thumb will cover the moon in the same space. It really does appear to be an illusion.
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Good point about what the article was comparing. I missed that.

I guess I'm just sour that articles like this tend to gloss over what is often the most important impact of a security breach--the end-users' data and privacy--and instead focus on easy-to-report numbers.
The game jam itself has died, of natural causes at old age, and now it can be analyzed.
I see the definition of "evil" has really slipped as late.
Except you're ignoring his earlier pronouncement that if she starts picking judges there is 'nothing we can do, except maybe you 2nd amendment guys' (paraphrasing because I'm on mobile)
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> > fixing it without paying the cost at the same time may still be worse.

> That's probably true if we're talking about a tax that's more than a rounding error on the total federal budget.

Its true in any case; the fact that the total cost is very small compared to the budget means that, yes, the magnitude of any net harm from not paying for it is likely to be small (but, it also means that its also extremely easy to pay for.)

Disregard net costs because they are small means that large harms that you would block if they were proposed together become acceptable so long as they are broken up and spread out among separate bills.
Depends on if you say B E O S or say BE slash O S -- it's artistic hedging ;-)
Did you take a look at Wunderlist? The common problems everyone faces at the beginning are:

* Putting todo list items on the same system.

* Making it a habit. Discipline and consistency are areas I'm always trying to work on personally (these will cause my end). The few times I was consistent, I just demolished whatever I was trying to do and felt like a 20GW laser pulverizing a problem.

https://www.wunderlist.com/
The developer has already stated that they did not intentionally name the tool "RIP grep". Even if they did, who cares? Why do people making grep alternatives have to treat grep with an extreme, undue amount of respect?
Yea ...Heaven forbid someone has to pay for quality news reporting.
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There's a big difference between revealing the details of illegal actions, which Snowden did, and revealing your opponent's private financial dealings which are not illegal.

Would you also support this if someone posted the routing information at the bottom of your personal checks? I mean, it's an "open secret" that's on every check. So no harm can come from the world at large knowing it.... right?
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I think this is a terminological suggestion from SpiderOak

https://spideroak.com/features/zero-knowledge

It's true that it doesn't match the technical meaning of zero knowledge from cryptography (although maybe arguably the meaning of the technical term could be extended to this situation in a trivial way: rather than a proof or protocol involving Bob from which Bob doesn't learn certain information, this is a protocol not involving Bob from which Bob also doesn't learn certain information).
This does seem more like a personal spat rather than an actual intellectual argument. The title itself is absurd given the content.

Furthermore, I love how she left out any details of the speech that the student was protesting (like that she was making fun of students and wearing a sombrero to make the point)
I just found the book The Psychopath Code thanks this HN post and I am reading it right now on a long bus trip. It brings back a way to much not so old memories.
Of course you can. None of those languages would be in use, if projects could not be managed at all. The question is: are you benefiting from their "features" or are you able to succeed despite of the challenges brought up to you because of those features and their complexity?
It seems to be faster than grep primarily by having fewer features (it doesn't even attempt to support all of POSIX regular expressions, for one).
Yes, by people with money who don't want to live in the mainland. Incase you haven't realized it, people with money get out of China. Taiwan and Hong Kong are functional entities with a lifestyle (and civil liberties) which are wholly familiar to anyone who has lived in a civil democracy. The individual is worth something. Go visit the Bodies exhibit if you want to meet a mainland Democrat/political dissident.

Please also note that big chunk of the population in both Hong Kong and Taiwan fled the Cultural Revolution; so Chinese reintegration would best be compared to the state of Israel being given back to a direct descendant of the Nazi party. #Godwin #EverythingIsAwesome
I don't think Oracle is required to pay it's their lawyers.
Even in Europe? I always thought there's heavy duties for importing tobacco and alcohol.

How do you store your cigars? Humidors aren't that cheap and require some maintenance to keep cigars in good shape for longer. Don't they?
Maybe the author hasn't had breakfast yet and has only done 5 impossible things so far?
You mean the best platform running 4 year old hardware? That one.
I also keep 50-100 tabs open at all times. How do you manage your tabs?
I've worked as an employee for 2 startups, both of which failed. I had options for one and took all-cash compensation for the other. I've also founded two, one of which outright failed and the other of which is still in search mode. And I worked at a big company, where roughly 50% of my rather generous compensation was in equity.

I'm arguing that the reasonable thing to take is not salary, the reasonable thing to do is get a different job. It's not worth fighting over the scraps of a company that's going nowhere. Find someplace where the pie is expanding and then you avoid all the fights and backstabbing over who gets the pie. If you can't find such a place, create one. (That's why I'm founding a startup now; I'm not averse to working as an employee for someone else as long as they have their shit together, but I see relatively few such companies that I'd like to work for right now.)
I always used what I saw as the simplest Mutt setup possible: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/ca8dc3ecba60bdee41abb241e6... along with:

mutt -f imaps://imap.gmail.com
It's true that I am not familiar with the "cultural genocide" you are referring to. Could you elaborate?
> This illusion that Google search is winning because people prefer it

People preferring it and Apple or Mozilla asking Google to pay them to include the search bar are not exclusive.

If consumers prefer Google, and Apple couldn't make enough money with their own search engine to compensate for the lost users, it would make sense for Apple to pay Google for the right to use their search bar. Sure, Google could theoretically make money by giving it to them for free, or even by paying them to include it (see Mozilla), but why not get paid twice?

> and that Google doesn't make money on Android

I don't think anyone seriously believes that Android doesn't make money. Why else would Google put so much money into it in the first place?
You might be able to estimate the amount of energy by using the volume of their lungs to find the amount of oxygen they have, then use this to calculate how much 'sugar' can be reacted with it, thus giving you the total usable energy.You may even be able to compensate for the amount of residual oxygen left in the lungs. This would of course have some significant error, as they probably leave some reserve, and have less blood oxygen at the end of the dive than at the beginning.
"""Proprietary algorithms"""
Maybe. But at the same time, with over 3,000 employees and a small set of products, that's not only a lot to take on but much of which is likely redundant. With so many surely they hold a fair amount of under performers as well.
So I'm an Emacs org-mode user, and I'm not seeing a good reason why I should spend the time getting Agenda going just to play around with it. It looks like a lot of resources on the web are geared toward "I used Agenda years ago and loved it, how do I do that again?" Which is great and all, but it's not really helping me understand why I should take you up on your suggestion. It might help to see those few thousand lines of Emacs Lisp, but it'd help even more to have a quick précis of why Agenda is great and what it does that org-mode doesn't. You seem to know such things. Will you share them?