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> Whether or not the complaint is legitimate is irrelevant.

I do not want to live in a world where truth does not matter. Truth is all that matters.

> If you're going to complain about somebody, you should expect people to complain right back about you.

Oh, I definitely expect people to complain about me. I support their right fully. Here it is not a case of complaint. It is a case where a non-technical group of people think it has the authority over my interaction with a different group of people, and takes an administrative action.

A bunch of people are threatening me and actively take action against my way of being.

> Being butthurt about getting an email isn't so rare and precious that you should write a thinkpiece about it and post it to HN.

I have not posted to HN. I have posted on the Go mailing lists. I have no control of what is posted on HN. I posted on the Go mailing list because there are other people who feel the same (I know because they told me), and are afraid to talk in fear of repercussions. I posted in the minute hope that things might change.

This incident is just another event in a long streak of events of constant discrimination by some people associated with the Go project. It is no sole event, although my e-mail to the list mentioned only this particular event.
How Twitter handled Greg Gopman's press situation seemed alarming to me. I wonder how much of it is PR vs cost cutting.
I see a lot of value in a single payer system as health care system as I fundamentally believe healthcare spending does not conform to the same rules as other parts of the economy and thus might make all of our (basic) understanding about economics moot.

That said, single payer does not solve the single biggest classic problem with the current healthcare system in the US and that is the agency issue. Right now I cannot make informed choices as a consumer in this market. Prices are not transparent and the people negotiating the prices are not the people receiving the care.

Further, we've coupled insurance to employment which is just insane.

Oddly McCain's health plan from a few elections back would have at least dealt with the last point. I wonder if the exchanges would be more successful if the entire population was buying insurance through them.
Wise words. I totally agree on this. The world is more than only one specialized field, their are too many possibilities in life to focus on one thing.
I have an A3 sheet of paper where I note my sheet. When it is full, I copy the parts that are still relevant on a new sheet.
You say public transport, but I have my doubts it'll work particularly well on the subway.
What's up with the chart in the middle of the article? It's a color coded, stacked, bar chart but it has no labeling of what the colored stacks represent.
That can depend -- at least in London, many government-controlled cameras were initially installed for terrorism prevention and investigation. (Just last week someone was arrested for leaving a bomb at a station, although this is now very rare compared to the 1980s-1990s.)

The majority of cameras are privately owned, and are supposed to prevent normal crime.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_of_steel_(London)

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/tube-bomb-suspect-damon...
None.

Which is America's end game: to end that apparent scam.

This is why I actually had hope for the original draft of Obamacare: he straight up cloned the Netherlands system where insurance companies must insure x% of various classifications of sick people (cancer, AIDS, asthma, heart disease, overweight, etc), where x% approximates the national average...

... and they must spend ridiculous high levels of what they make on actual health care, AND the prices of health care are nationalized.

In the end, they fight over sick people (have a rare sickness? insurance companies will give you a discount to get you, instead of trying to figure out how to lifetime ban you from insurance instead). And what happens if an insurance company can't get enough people to meet the strict guidelines? They're banned from selling insurance in the Netherlands until they do.

This is essentially the original Obamacare, filtered through the American way of doing shit. What we got instead? Half of that, and maybe not even the good half.

We got fucked.
To push the analogy even further: paint drip people.

https://www.facebook.com/notes/kent-beck/paint-drip-people/1...
Im also one of 'those' people, i like my own.. https://www.filmitright.co.uk/
In addition, "All rights reserved" is technically obsolete: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_rights_reserved
Don't feel too bad. I just commented the exact same thing. Sloppy charting...
You can create a short video with highlights of your work, people seem to digest that easily:

http://www.whitneyland.com/recent-projects.html
500 people over a relatively short period is noteworthy, even if one of those events only had twenty people in it.

Also those twenty people likely weren't in a union so I doubt they had service jobs like running the coffee shop.
Apple's WWDC was in June.

I wonder if that had any measurable effect?

It seems very unlikely that a presentation from any company would cause a measurable change in such a short space of time but anecdotally I did personally try to find possible replacements for my Mac after this year's WWDC. :)
All the more reason for a single-payer/public option system. Spread the costs across the entire system instead of making individual small businesses take the hit on their own.
eBay can't check the source of a 2nd hand item to discern if it is stolen.

Surely if there were landlords renting out entire apartment buildings then the sequential addresses would show up in AirBnB's data as mystreet 1a, mystreet 1b, mystreet 1c and so on? It must have been pretty obvious to the point that a routine check against illegal activity should have carried out.
Something here doesn't add up, and in general, this doesn't pass my smell test.

How does this part work?
"This person has the most equity in the company."
"Our company is seed funded and have beta launched. Idea/direction wise it's going quite well."

It sounds, based on what you have said, that the company is succeeding and this person is driving that success.

Is it possible that the equity arrangement isn't adequate to retain people through challenges?

Do you have specific examples, something obvious, where this person is damaging the company?

Is it possible that other people are overly sensitive, or perhaps their egos are creating the conflict?

It sounds like you are gathering support to validate your decision to leave. If you want to leave, go ahead, but own that decision and don't blame someone else for pushing you out.

Alternatively, push back, create the environment you desire.
I'm currently a software engineer intern at a security company. The work, while being semi-mundane compared to the projects I'd choose (At least at the level I'm working at), is at a fair enough pace to be fun, and it's aiding my self-development hugely because of the culture at the company.

Overall it's a 40 hour work week along with 3 extra hours of commute a day, so I take to reading mathematics/cs literature on the train and use the rest of my day to either relax or to learn more things.

I would say that while we do have to do what gives us a living, there are options. Contracting, for example.

I should say as well: I also have the same dilemma, I'm interested with everything. So I decided to choose for subjects (such as mathematics) that will give me a better base to learn more subjects.
How fast are group bys? Like say I have 120 billion rows, 25 not-sparse columns, and want to group by between 2-20 columns (5 of which are varchar), aggregating the other 5 columns?

What kind of hardware would I need to do that interactively? Or consistently sub-10 second, with 100s of queries per minute.

I have built a thing on Redshift that can do some of this, but it has been new territory for me and I am not sure I've done it "right". Constantly looking for alternatives.
> now

Project Loon started in 2011 (officially announced in 2013).
It could be that 4 dots delimit 3 months, if data are sampled on one specific day (let's say 15th) and are not full month value (average).

June-July 15ths + July-August 15ths + August-September 15ths = 3 months
This is one of the biggest decisions I've had to make based. The current implementation requires a huge critical mass before there are enough local users.

Because as of now I'm not perusing making any money from the app, I opted to test the feasibility of the core idea. Talking to local people. One could of course argue that I could deviate from this slightly (variable range) to reach this critical mass.
It has a hard year but I think Fiscal 2016 has to be better -- nearly every major phone has a new Snapdragon in it except for Apple's.
I spent five years on the YouTube anti-abuse team. You should also apply there. And where I am now, Square. And Stripe, and Facebook… there are lots of good anti-abuse teams in the industry.
> I'm thinking of joining Twitter to work on their anti-abuse efforts.

The abuse issue on their platform is the main issue with most potential buyers. I would imagine by now they have their core services running on auto pilot (minus SAN failures).

http://www.businessinsider.com/disney-twitter-acquisition-tr...
I have every expectation it's "ridiculously profitable" (they don't, for example, reveal all the details of achieving good power consumption in their patents), but it's clearly not a big enough part of the company to avoid the terrible results baq highlighted in this comment:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12804392

And it's very common for a company with a great cash cow to bankrupt themselves by going out of their area(s) of core competence ... which this acquisition might be a doubling down on. I.e. isn't Qualcomm fabless, while NXP has 8 sites according to this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_semiconductor_fabricat...
Having a single entity negotiating prices would obviously lower them--it'd establish a monosopny. But would that be a good thing? I mean, we could lower prices for everything that way. Have a single entity negotiate prices for cars, or construction services, for example. That'd lower prices too. Why don't we do that for everything?
We do ban other kinds of advertisements already when we deem them against the greater public good.

So I can see how banning drug advertisements falls into the same category as banning cigarette ads, in that it makes for a more healthy public. The same thing can of course be said about just about anything, but sometimes you just have to stand on that slippery slope.
They'd still be providing insurance. A national body negotiating pricing doesn't necessarily mean any or all forms of healthcare would be affordable.
Exactly, why fix healthcare when we can argue about trans bathrooms.
"It worked for a time"

It's only been in effect for a few years - what "time" did it "work"?
Except the drug "schrekli" priced gouged was out of patent. It should have been a commodity, so why weren't any competitors allowed on the marketplace? Take a look at Washington for your answer.

There are lots of amazing companies trying to invent cures that don't otherwise exist, and need compensation for their work. Then you have Epipen and "schrekli" jacking up prices on 30 year old drugs.
Yeah, I do wish we'd figure out a way to decouple insurance from employment. Right now, I have two choices... one from my employer, and one from my wife's employer. One is terrible ($12k/year OOP max), the other is better (but still worse on cost and benefits than the typical PPO from 15-20 years ago).
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Also, working at a company which actually has a deployed product with a high public profile is probably not bad. There are plenty of startups which never pan out. And there are plenty of companies out there with a single profitable cash cow and futile strategic projects searching for the next hit. Or barely running but business critical legacy projects written in Cobol, C++ or Java. Twitter doesn't strike me as particularly bad in comparison.

Also, having had layoffs is not necessarily only a bad thing. Even the best company will end up with a certain amount of substandard, undermotivated employees after a long hiring frenzy. The best thing for everyone is to let them go and hopefully blossom elsewhere.
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This is indeed a general rule, but there are oddball cases, like when the firm I was at was acquired and the new owners kept all the back-office staff, but laid-off the developers (the acquisition was for the customer base, not the technology).
Isn't netmarketshare looking at browser user agent ? So if you are using Linux in a VM this is counted as a desktop Linux user ? (which in a way might be true but still...)
I did manage to find one: http://www.mensjournal.com/adventure/races-sports/how-video-...

But I'm not sure if it's exactly the one I read years ago. It doesn't talk as much about strategy as I remember, and no mention of juking, so it's probably not yours. There's likely at least one more out there.

I'm curious if videogame playing athletes do better than their non-gamer colleagues.
https://www.netmarketshare.com/faq.aspx#Methodology

There's nothing here to indicate that they make any effort to exclude bots/crawlers/scrapers/etc.
I like Drew Wilson's:

http://drewwilson.com/
The fine is structured such that only people that can pay for health insurance are hit with it. The various income tests and whatever might not be perfect though.

Here's some numbers.

~8 million people chose the fine[1].

More than 9 million people receive subsidies on the ACA exchanges[2].

About 58 million people receive Medicaid (heavily subsidized insurance)[3].

[1] http://www.cnbc.com/2015/07/20/irs-more-paid-obamacare-fine-...

[2] https://www.healthinsurance.org/obamacare/will-you-receive-a...

[3] https://www.medicaid.gov/medicaid/program-information/downlo...
Cool story but FB and Twitter aren't violating your rights denying your access to their site. Otherwise every bar tender who's thrown out people for drunken tirades is now violating civil rights (despite the case law that says otherwise).

So unless you got a constitutional lawyer that has a solid argument against site-wide bans of users, I'm just not going to listen to you until then.
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You assume that this current broken state was unintentional. I believe this situation is intentional and was predicted and expected.

Back when Obamacare was being debated I and many others argued that the best it could do would be to slow the meteoric rise of health care costs because it was painfully obvious (to me at least) that it didn't actually solve the problem. I have no doubt that the politicians knew this as well which was why Republicans fought so hard against it and why Democrats wanted it so bad.

I believe they wanted it to come to this. They wanted to demonstrate that even if you force people to get insurance it still wouldn't be enough. It is a real-world application of how, "the compromise" (forcing people to get insurance) doesn't actually impact the price much because health care costs are not controlled by traditional market forces.

What is the price, "the market will bear" when someone will die or suffer immensely without treatment?
Like Powow http://powow.info/ (also based in Netherlands)?
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That might work, yes. I like the term much better than passive.

If you need to [edit regularly] respond to SEO changes, or payment provider issues, or maintain your relationships somehow it just isn't passive. It's not a lot of work, hopefully, but it is not passive. You need to stay engaged enough to know how to do it.

Reacting to the environment changes and modeling absolutely is not passive, and I wish people would stop calling it that. I also suspect people underestimate the amount of time they actually spend on this stuff.
I'd be interested to know if anyone has advice on how to break out of these thought patterns.
There was also a presentation on Bus1 on the systemd.conf 2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zN0b6BfgLY
> The problem is that it's not really that big a market.

I considered that too, that the market might be too small. Dell tried themselves to crack this market with some exquisite kit a few years back (see my links below). Sadly they canned those products and haven't revisited the market.

Whilst there has always been premium Apple kit, there's never really been premium Windows kit. I really do hope Microsoft persever and don't give up on this segment of the market. The first few years can be painful when pivoting but customers do sometimes reward patience.

> As I've said before, I have absolutely no confidence that MS can execute competently in the consumer market. I wish that was simple prejudice, but it's actually years of bitter experience.

Agreed! But I do recall the 90s when people said the same thing about Apple...

No company stays on top (or bottom) of the pile forever. I for one hope and look forward to Microsoft evolving and changing, as they must.

Dell Crystal monitor:
http://www1.la.dell.com/vc/en/corp/peripherals/monitor_22cry...

Dell Adamo notebook:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell_Adamo
I'd imagine looking for victims is the hard part.
I remember doing a lot of WP consulting in the 2006-12 timeframe. The PHP was (is?) god awful. Difficult to parse, difficult to follow, and followed no discernible best practices. Spaghetti all the way down.

I hope the React is better!
Customizable, yet not very usable - if the gesture you want to set already exists, Vivaldi doesn't let you overwrite it (unassigning the other one). Hell, it doesn't even tell you which one has taken it : ) Gotta find it on your own. Did they test it?
What's the story so far? Is this patched in upstream yet? How serious is this bug in general?
There's no free lunch. In low vacancy market with a large amount of tourism if you divert housing stock to vacation rental, then housing prices go up and vacation rental goes down. This means that the cities poor are subsidizing a more affluent tourist (or business traveler).
One side wants to repeal, the other wants to continue into the abyss, pretty fucking clear.
Facebook uses Mercurial with a REALLY large monorepo with some extensions[0]. Google also has some usage of Mercurial.

[0] https://bitbucket.org/facebook/hg-experimental
> fighting Intel

At the close of the 19th century, the Jules Verne novels occasionally featured an 'arms race' for the biggest possible cannon.

Then in the 20th they just slapped smaller ordnance on tanks and planes. Mobile platforms ...
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arguably not everyone needs everything - many people can get by just fine without a car, or construction services, or other things you might list. Not too many people get by (for long) with poor/ailing health.

Some aspects of health care - basic stuff like getting people insulin they need and whatnot - does that not potentially get justified under "general welfare" clause? Many other countries seem to get by just fine with a baseline "health service" provided to everyone, with "premium" service paid for out of pocket or via private insurance. People should not have to face bankruptcy (or just extreme debt) because they happened to be born with the wrong genes.
How does that mesh with Health Care Co-operatives which are also raising premiums?

Actually, the co-ops are dying in dramatic rates because they don't have enough capital to become self sufficient. How do they get there if they don't have investors? How do they incentivize investors without showing a plan to profitability?
Something useful, indeed.

Perhaps a teaching-focused site that explicates all the tips and tricks you've gleaned about atomic microscopy. Maybe featuring a WebGL microscope simulator. And extensive Youtube tutorials for beginners.

Or a data bank. Resources that would appeal to researchers rather than students. Modelled after something like the Electron Microscopy Data Bank:

http://www.ebi.ac.uk/pdbe/emdb/

Your goal is simply to convey that when it comes to this particular characterization technique, you're the world's #1 expert. Not so different than the inbound-style, content-rich influencer marketing all of us are seeking to master here ;)

Good luck!
That's actually not how underwriting works. If an IPO is a flop right out the gate sometimes the bank can get stuck with the shares.
In that case, you still have May-June which makes it 4.
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Dan, your project sounds cool and interesting. Feedback on the site:

-Don't make us wait so long (so far down on the page) to find out what you're doing. I'd like to see this immediately: "Film it Right is a new and exciting tool created for amateur and independent filmmakers".

-You could move your own pictures and names to the bottom. People tend to first look for a reason to care, then lastly look at who did it.
https://mjavascript.com

https://ponyfoo.com
Wouldn't surprise me, but among numerous other issues all it's doing is amplifying how everything gets worse when the federal government gets involved.
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For those not aware:

NXP subsidiary Freescale was originally the semiconductor division of Motorola, which developed the first ever commercial high-power transistor, supplied much of the computing technology to the Apollo program, and developed the MC6800 and MC68000 processors that helped spark the modern computing, gaming and consumer electronics industries.

Quite a legacy Qualcomm is aquiring.
I think you are talking about named branches in Mercurial. You can use Mercurial without named branches and use bookmarks instead.
From the screenshot: "I'm at X, who wants to get coffee?"

Are people this social, and this lonely? "Let me spend this 30 minutes of free time to talk to some random potential weirdo!"
Looks interesting; hoping its fun! Best of luck!
The title is slightly misleading -- Linux is WAY above 2% of computing marketshare, it's really only on the desktop that it lags behind. Linux is running on more computers than almost any other OS. The only competition for most popular it has is VxWorks and QNX.

EDIT: The title was updated to be more accurate, it didn't mention desktops initially.
" but even before it made it to being a law it got all messed up"

Requiring legislators to read legislation (and maybe even take a test on bills that are larger than 10 pages?) before they vote on it might help. Being told "we have to pass it before we can look inside of it" is... I can't think of anything less sane.

Re: Canada and other countries. I know in the UK you can get private insurance and "go private" for most services, or you can take the public option, which may involve waiting. Why we think here it's going to be 100% one thing... I don't understand. Your canada story already demosntrates that - someone with more money paid for faster service. I have a strong suspicion he could have had that done privately someone in canada for $x, but seattle was closer/easier (?)
Price controls? How about bloody telling the price for stuff?

"How much is this procedure/appointment?"

And all I get are sneers of derision or confusion. Then I'm told, "The bill will be in the mail." Yeah, well fuck you too.

You want price controls; I want an estimate, and a list of procedures and their costs.

Then again, I'm waiting to sue someone over the lack of informed consent based on financial availability. I'd do it, but I'm not a lawyer.
Sure, so let's scam him. Idiots exist so we can explore them. The world is a place for the smart guys. We just have to hope there isn't someone smarter than us out there.
What, you don't remember those articles immediately after Obamacare went into effect gloating about how everything was going fine?
Good luck on that 28K price point ... maybe if you're shopping for a Chevy but not a Tesla.