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> promotions don't buy their way out

I'm not talking about a give-away. A prepay program is similar to an airline loyalty program. Delta can charge me higher ticket fares than a competing airline on the same route, because it's good for me to consolidate my "miles" with one airline. Now that I'm "elite" they can manipulate my ego and get me to pay more so I have a chance at a "free" upgrade to a fancy seat.

If Uber can convince me to prepay, they don't need to compete on price or wait time for the rest of the month. It only needs to be a good enough value to convince me to prepay again the next month.

Going back to the airlines, that industry is quite similar to Uber's. Sure, there's the capital investment in airplanes, but that can be financed with debt or equity. There's negotiating terminal space, but again, that's just money. No barrier to entry there either. Now, the airline industry is a good example of a place it's tough to make money. "How do you make a million bucks? Start with a billion and start an airline." But the airlines are still around. Not sure why Uber is different from Delta.
First of all, backup any and all email communication you have had with the company about it.

If neither of these are true, and you are in fact marketing to customers but not using their list or software, gather logs and customer testimonials, and proof about where you got the customer contacts.

Additionally, gather emails indicating why you left the company or were asked to leave, as it might indicate the company's intent to get even with you.

Lastly, talk to a lawyer. Consultation is often free for the first time.
Does XDE run on Raspberry Pi? (Or if not, how difficult would it be to port?) It would be a nice hook to introduce people to programming if they could write mobile apps on the Pi.
Eh, criminals don't hang around outside of a prison, but that could mean they break into your house to steal a getaway car. I don't know. But I can understand people not wanting the possibility of a desperate escapee convict who has nothing to lose, loose in their neighborhood looking for a way out.
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Very beautiful interface.
Building a data pipeline and analytics dashboard for Intercom
You compare it to the general population. In disparate impact lawsuits, this is the 'applicant' vs 'pool' distinction; the idea is to make it possible to sue even when the discrimination 'barriers' operate before the formal application process, but of course, you wind up in Orwellian games where the necessary number of minority potential-employees simply do not exist and the employer is forced to provide a devil's proof to show they weren't being discriminatory and they argue over what 'proxies' are appropriate... Ward Cove and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazelwood_School_District_v._U...
OT, sort of, but a while back I saw one of these... "Pi-like" boards that had two Ethernet ports. It also had significantly more horsepower.

I'm wondering what might be recommended choices at this point for someone looking for an inexpensive, wired MITM / Firewall platform.

P.S. It would be great if it also had decent on-board wireless for e.g. making a portable hardware firewall device.
That's one heck of a 1-liner! I like it.

>. Remind me again why nobody uses it (finger) anymore?

People wanted "shiny" for their things.
Ask HN: Open source government using best practices
Is it possible to start a project that uses best features from different models from different countries. But then how do you define best practices ? For example lot of decision on finance are based on data , likewise we should be able to create government which can be a blackbox and approves decision making on various aspects such as defence , education , economy , human rights etc. Its still debatable which model is better , but we can learn using past decisions of different countries. Such as deciding education budget of country using population and other parameters and learn if literacy rate went up or down.
The best way to do blue/green is put them behind a single endpoint. So, if your endpoint is 'app: node-app', then you put the label 'app: node-app' on BOTH your existing version, and your future version, and target all traffic to a service with the selector 'app: node-app'.

Then, you slowly start to spin up your new instances from 1 -> 10 -> 100 (or whatever). The traffic will split automatically because both apps have the same label/selector, and you control the amount by how many instances of each you have.

Disclosure: I work at Google on Kubernetes
Fair point.

There's no cure for ego or being delusional.
I'm responsible for 5% of the new inside -- our team did heavy lifting!

I am interested in people's feedback of course!
I think this is an interesting and common response to the policies. As if the "Too Broad" close policy is the only thing stopping volunteer contributors from writing a 10 page thesis "How To Write A Video Game" for every questioner that asks for it.
> More importantly some of the intermediate commits from the feature branches will almost certainly be broken, because typically not every single commit even goes through CI. You can work around that by hacking something up to ignore these commits but it's probably gonna be a pain.

git bisect skip. Also, if your maintainers aren't doing a `git rebase -x "make test" origin/master` before merging then you're the ones to blame. Not merge commits.

> Once you found the problematic feature you want to back out you then will spend half an hour googling how to revert merge commits.

`git revert <merge commit>`. Or if by "revert" you mean "change the history to the state it used to be in" you can do `git reset --hard <old HEAD using git log --first-parent>`.

> Of course, there are advantages to having the "intermediate" commits available and if git bisect were better designed the experience with merge branches should be strictly better, but in practice it's enough of a pain that people who semantically prefer merges opt for a rebase-based workflow.

git bisect is actually quite well designed considering it works given any two commits (even if the histories are different). To be fair, it doesn't handle histories where a bug is fixed and broken multiple times -- but there's no nice way of dealing with that (it's a hard problem to solve without iterating through each commit).
How to make a city car-free?
It's not offensive to me. I didn't downvote you.

As an Indian, I can see why some others could've found it offensive. Anytime ISRO does a newsworthy launch, some Western newspaper writes that the money could be used to build toilets. Sometimes, the newspaper is a rag, but Indian media prefers to cover that (sometimes more than the launch itself). So it's a touchy point. If I had not had my coffee, I'd probably be offended too. I think you were unlucky (vs having said something offensive).
Good feedback !
Summers is talking about hypothetical future job losses in, eg, trucking. I am talking about present unemployment caused by excess labor in sectors like agriculture, food processing, food service, nursing, construction, etc.
Well obviously the government cares, I'm suggesting that they shouldn't.

And yes technically you are correct. But that assumes they are exactly equal. If you exclude a bunch of people for arbitrary reasons then you necessarily get worse results. Some of the best candidates may be excluded.
It lacks integration with SMS though.

GText will integrate SMS and all in-house Google instant-messaging/texting modalities.
I think it should? If you had Linux running on it and a monitor and keyboard hooked up, I can't think of any reason why it wouldn't work.

If there are any problems, they would probably be easy to fix. The thing I'd be most worried about is just that some things might run very slow on the Pi.
So when I said RVO, I mean't NRVO too (but not from an argument passed in).
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Do they mean Asians from Asia or Americans of Asian descent?

The article is unclear, but if the former, given Palantir'a security work with various US government agencies, it might be a factor as others have pointed out.
maybe by "green card" they mean a green light didn't light up when he scanned his access card. <badum-ching>
if anyone has a link etc. where I can find more / better info on exporting an SVG as a image. It would be appreciated.
This suggests the obvious approach of poisoning the horn without dying it. Did anyone try that?
>You cannot give away money and expect to have more money than before you gave it away.

In the valley this is the most effective way to raise money.
> When was the last time U.S. regulators reviewed the percentage of 'asians' in companies like Infosys and WiPro?

Are Infosys or WiPro government contractors covered by EO 11246? The audit process doesn't apply to most employers, only government contractors.

NOTE: An earlier version of this comment incorrectly referenced EO 12466, because of a transposition in reading from the scanned-but-not-OCRd copy of the lawsuit text.
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I would speculate that the majority of 'asians' who applied to Palantir were not from China, but rather from the region sometimes called South Asia.
Ah...I disagree, but that explains the other comments.
I thought this would be about how computer vision is distracting AI researchers from other areas of AI. I guess computer vision has multiple definitions now.
It's possible to have municipal deign standard for public facades, but still build new stuff.
Hmmm that purchase price does not cover the monthly free from the trailer park company. I am guessing its going to be close to market rate for the land value.
I knew a seller - a veterinarian in Missoula, MT - who purchased a trailer, then sold it on owner financing, and repeated the process many times as his buyers defaulted.

Even at the lowest income bracket, there are buyers who can put together 10% down on a $12,000 house - even some who can put together 20%. If you owner finance such a sale, and charge interest rates that make the monthly mortgage competitive with rent elsewhere, you can do very well for yourself.
> a malicious svg witch

You got me interested there ;)
Replace "Asians" with "Blacks" or "Women" in that sentence and see how much support you'll get with that statement.
According to the 2010 census (via wikipedia), in SF "There were 345,811 households, out of which 63,577 (18.4%) had children under the age of 18 living in them."

It seems highly likely that much of the other 81.6% might be willing to sacrifice some space in order to spend less on housing. But it's not an option. Instead we either overpay or have roommates - often both - and rent rather than buy.
I seem to be the only one that Flux drives crazy. I know it's just my perfectionism speaking, but ... I just want to know if I'm alone in the world in my criticisms. In the past I've been stuck with old broken monitors that made certain colors look wrong or blend with similar colors, and I remember the beauty of seeing the same applications and websites render correctly on a good monitor. When I see a friend's monitors with the colors off, I feel that same feeling I get when you go to a relative's house and find them sitting around the TV with both letterboxing on and an incorrect aspect ratio (apparently it's possible) like barbarians. In the past I've had friends work on some page CSS and come up with something where parts of the text had arbitrary colored off-white backgrounds in the middle of a white page. I ask how they missed such a mistake, and then when I look at their screen you can't even notice it behind the oppressive yellow tint.

I'm sure if I ever do somehow see the light and accept Flux into my heart some day, with my luck right afterward there's bound to be some hip new product that claims that looking at an over-abundance of parallel and perpendicular lines keeps you awake longer or is otherwise minisculely unhealthy, so the product applies small distortions to the locations of everything on your screen, and people designing while they have it on will inflict similarly-jumbled messes upon their own users...
That's what I thought too. I would imagine if something like this were the case, it would be more likely done out of clearance concerns or even a genuine fear of infiltration, than for customer facing optics.
From the last line of the article: "The lawsuit seeks relief for impacted individuals, including lost wages." This sounds like remuneration to me.

I don't know how the government can identify race of all applicants, since this cannot reliably be done by surname or by any other indirect method. And since applicants cannot be required to provide this information in an application, there is no direct method either (other than seeking applicants to identify themselves after the fact).

I am curious about this partly because I am an Asian American who interviewed at Palantir and was turned down for not having enough X skills, when I was never asked any questions pertaining to X.
3rd time's a charm.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12531079

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12533650
A few items:

1) The people on that page all contribute mightily to the project in various ways - we wouldn't be where we are without them. We take feedback from everyone (we have over 15 special interest groups, many led by non-core team members).
2) K8s developers are most definitely not primarily sponsored by Google - more than 60% of K8s devs are NOT Googlers.
3) Overlay networks are definitely not a hack - many partners set them up with great benefit. The fact is networking is hard (tm), and unless you're just looking for a flat network, then you're going to have to use SOMETHING.

Disclosure: I work at Google on Kubernetes
Primary payload of this launch was ScatSat-1 satellite[1]. ScatSat-1 contains a scatterometer to monitor weather conditions over ocean (weather forecasting, cyclone prediction etc.). ScatSat-1 data can predict/reveal bad weather conditions as early as five days before the actual bad weather conditions occur.

ScatSat-1 satellite is a stopgap replacement for OCSCAT payload, which stopped functioning recently, onboard Oceansat-2 satellite.

ISRO's Oceansat-2 data is widely used by various weather and space agencies such as ESA, NOAA, NASA/JPL[2][3][4] etc.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCATSAT-1

[2] https://earth.esa.int/web/guest/missions/3rd-party-missions/...

[3] https://www.wmo-sat.info/oscar/satellites/view/344

[4] https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/dataset/OS2_OSCAT_LEVEL_2B_OWV_C...
> "You'd only recognize how awesome the Dreamcast's library was if you were interested in taking huge gambles on stuff you've never heard of before."

You didn't have to take a huge gamble, you just had to play one to see quality that was on offer.

As for games with mainstream appeal, aside from the Sonic Adventure games there were a number of decent sports titles for the system (Virtua Tennis 2 probably being my personal favourite, but the 2K Sports franchises seemed to make amends for the lack of EA support). I'd also say games like Soul Calibur, Crazy Taxi, Metropolis Street Racer and Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 had broad appeal.

Think about when the PS2 was released, what was the big draw at the time? Tekken Tag Tournament is the only thing that sticks out as a memorable PS2 exclusive in the initial period when it was competing with the Dreamcast. I personally don't think the PS2 had the superior game library at the time the Dreamcast was discontinued.
You can always build down. It's a lot more expensive than building up, but with prices where they are I'm surprised it's not feasible by now.

Maybe the earthquakes make underground habitation too dangerous?
"Some people" who support poll taxes have historically been Southern racists trying to prevent African Americans from voting. In fact, people were so disgusted with the idea that they passed a Constitutional amendment to prevent poll taxes from existing. I doubt we'll ever see them again (for good reason), the text in the Constitution is pretty straight-forward:

> The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.
I agree with you about actual usage, but your wish for Lisp==CL doesn't make sense either. Is LISP 1.5 "Lisp"? What about MacLisp or InterLisp or any of the other languages that both predated Common Lisp and had "lisp" in their name?

The people who create Common Lisp didn't think that is was coextensive with "Lisp", so I'm not sure why that would have become _more_ true in the last 30 years.
I'm pretty sure the government auditors whose only job is to do compliance audits of government contractors are more than aware of the relevance of citizenship status to qualification for certain jobs related to certain government contracts.

And, even if they weren't, I'm pretty sure that Palantir could easily have pointed that out in the two rounds of attempted to pre-lawsuit conciliation initiated by the Department of Labor to resolve the identified issues.
So only the projects being done under the govt. contract are being evaluated, or the whole company if at least one such project exists?

Also EO 12466 is an executive order on Reimbursement of Federal employee relocation expenses. I fail to see how is it related to the topic.
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That's all great and dandy for you and the few people inside your circle of influence but there's a bajillion people on the internet, using all kinds of devices, for whom this is impractical to impossible.

Even getting this kind of attack mitigated in one of the major browsers makes this a much less appealing thing to try and exploit and raises awareness of the problems potentially improving everyone's security.

Putting this kind of responsibility on others makes you part of the problem, instead you could help in being the solution. That's not to say webmaster shouldn't be doing a better job at this, but sometimes their abilities are limited. I'm surprised that anyone would be willing to then as a consequence let this be inflicted on others if they had the ability to do something substantial about it.
plus millions who who support truckers, truckstop workers etc
Would you mind sharing this script? I am thinking of investing in the 2K workstation, but this sounds like a much more efficient way to go.
I don't think there is a distinction between a supporting and a developing organization at this point in the Kube ecosystem. At Red Hat we offer an enterprise version of Kube (OpenShift v3) and at the same time we contribute a ton of stuff back upstream. Personally it has been a great experience for me working with engineers from Google, different companies, and even individual contributors and I am pretty sure most if not all of my coworkers feel the same thing.
That may be what you're thinking. But it's often not how it comes across, especially when it's the totality of the reply. If you want to say the rest of that, I'd suggest you actually try saying the rest of that.
What does alooma generally charge? Just curious.
I am moving from a laptop as my at-home computer to a quiet-build mini-ITX system literally this week, after the last parts arrive from Newegg.

I think the ongoing market fragmentation resulting from the incompatible proprietary laptop form factors is pushing the whole industry towards consolidation and mergers, and will result in less consumer choice in the long run. I have been privately railing against this crap ever since Dell started shipping not-ATX-but-looks-like-it-at-first-glance power supplies in late 1990s. And Apple has always almost gratuitously used proprietary connectors and form factors, even when a perfectly usable standard already existed. They can all go to a Hell where nothing can interoperate without at least two adapters, and you never have both.

I was driven to the custom build when the headphone jack on my laptop broke. I opened up the case and desoldered the broken one, and the microphone jack, and resoldered the unbroken jack into the headphone jack's place. That worked for a while. Then the laptop keyboard stopped responding to about 5 keys--all of them rather indispensable for typing words. So I replaced the keyboard, and the replacement is just a millimeter too small, so it constantly pops out of its recess whenever it shifts and the plastic clips disengage. Then the headphone-jack-formerly-microphone-jack broke like its predecessor. I already knew the component itself was impossible to find to replace it, so I looked to replace the motherboard. That would cost more than a newer, more capable laptop, if the part had even been in stock.

So I'm building a system such that if anything breaks, I can just replace that one part. I can't get decent repairability without building it myself, and I can't build it myself if there aren't any rassafrassin' standards! I would have built my own clamshell computer (not even necessarily a "laptop"), but no one mass-produces an empty clamshell case for consumer sales, because there is no laptop-standard form factor. Replacement parts for laptops are always expensive, and frequently out of stock.
No, it is pretty well established that countries have corruption problems, and cultural attitudes can be at variance to what you would expect. Many practices we would find outragously corrupt are common in China, with no recourse through the legal system.

https://www.transparency.org/country/#CHN
The same course of action? War with Afghanistan was certainly inevitable after 9/11 (assuming Gore, like Bush didn't follow up on the warnings, and the attacks still happened). The Iraq War, on the other hand, would not have happened.
I disagree. Such a measurement method has several significant flaws (which work to the advantage of whoever is doing the measurement):

1. How do you decide which price to count? Do you count initial costs, or all recurring fees? Do you count additional services by third party vendors? Do you count training materials and so on?

2. It ignores products that have no price, and emphasises inflated pricing of products. This is obviously massively incorrect as a measurement when it comes to services that can be done by gratis software (which includes a large amount of free software).
>Empathy is not a "fad," empathy is a basic human societal construct and a fundamental psychological building block.

I agree. But would you not also agree that "empathy" has become quite the buzzword recently? I have a hard time separating "empathy" from "Empathy."

And the people peddling "Empathy" seem to think if everyone was empathetic, we'd all come to the same set of conclusions. A very narrow set. I want off this train because I haven't found the right way to retool my lack of respect into the "Empathtic" vocabulary for strong disagreement. I think it involves uses the words "problematic" and "pernicious" quite a lot, but I don't care to find out.
We haven't tried but I think it would since XDE is made with Electron and runs on Linux. You might have to use real devices to run your app, though, since the RPi might not be powerful enough to run the Android emulator well and the iOS simulator is Mac-only. I'll have to try out XDE on my RPi sometime tonight.
What is that supposed to prove? It's a test vehicle. It's being driven by a human. There's no roadmap, there's nothing that's passed certification, there's no roadmap for when there will be something that passes certification.
https://github.com/exupero/saveSvgAsPng
Specifically this:

> ... seeing a top answer with ~150 points that's simply wrong, and then a second or third answer with ~20 points that's actually correct.