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Credit rating is highly correlated with wealth, and is also highly correlated with reduced accident rates. This is evidenced by me personally, as I now get much better auto insurance rates with an 800+ credit rating than I did when I was in the 600s right out of college.

I would be willing to bet money that the insurance actuaries that actually calculate risk disagree with your extremely prejudiced opinion.
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I think my ideal scenario would be to have a Java API similar to what android has, but running on the server with a sort of global view of the data. Then it could listen to whatever it wanted to and issue notifications, send emails, etc. That seems like it would be killer since it leaves all the error prone sync and data update code to realm, but still lets the server do whatever it needs to once it sees a change.
I myself faced this issue when google told different arriving-departing terminals at transit. Called the airport and re-verified that it was wrong.
They fail to mention all the very similar accidents that happened in those days regardless of space weather. We have safety systems in place today (fuses, breakers, grounded parts) to prevent accidents that were once the norm. They will also mitigate space weather effects. It would be bad, but not nearly as destructive.
The mortgage interest deduction distorts the market in several ways. Making credit more available does allow people to spend more on homes, but this is then priced into the market. As you hint at, the subsidy is net neutral for homeowners, as it ultimately benefits the housing and banking industries. People who owned suburban land at the implementation of the deduction also benefited hugely, but now that prices are artificially inflated, any removal of the deduction would take money away from homeowners.

Additionally, it makes paying cash for a home unrealistic, making the housing market (more) dependent on banks and their attendant federal regulations. Over time this has had numerous negative effects on land use patterns and urban health by encouraging car-oriented sprawl and devaluing urban mixed-use neighborhoods. There's also the whole race-based redlining thing. The worst of these policies have been mitigated in the recent past, but they still pose obstacles to certain kinds of development (that are highly desirable lately) and would not have existed in the first place without government intervention in home mortgages.
21st century C programming, as I recall, will get you set up a dev environment with tooling, which can be hard for an entry level C programmer. It also covers useful tools and libraries.

It's also a fairly good C book in general, though I don't know that I'd want to try to learn a computer language from it.
In fact, it's still not the same. In Python, the following expression will raise a ValueError.

> a(2)

In J, it will return the length of the array, as stated in the post.
What separated the three from the 77?
I'll take a stab at this. To me, it means instead of leaning on trust to build respect/relationships, you use some more artificial or formal ladder. Maybe you act disingenuously, letting people fail when its avoidable, turning people against each other, thus allowing a space for yourself to succeed.
Cool! We know it is a balance, and we are trying as best as possible to straddle making it easy for everyone and also building the business for the long-term.
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>> Uber only uses subsidies when trying to break into new markets to expand. If they stopped expanding, they would become profitable rather quickly.

Are you sure that's true? That sounds like the marketing speak that Travis K. spouts, but I wouldn't be surprised if that weren't the whole truth. Like any other "startup", you can claim to be profitable pretty easily -- you just have to find a hand-wavy way to qualify that ("if you exclude debt and operating expenses we're net margin profitable!").
Like many database-backed apps performance is currently limited by I/O, and memory is limited based on the size of the data sets I load (machine learning). A faster, lower memory Python does sound nice but I'm not sure how much effect it would actually have in real life.
Don't use recruiters for gov jobs, just go to the website and apply.
It sucks the way you have been treated, and I am surprised that they did not cave in and offer you the position after you held your line on not coming in for the second day.

Having made hiring mistakes myself, I am afraid of the getting the wrong person on board and the only way to truly know is to test a relationship by working together. Contract-to-hire is a good way to go, but good developers have full-time jobs, and it is hard for them to jump ship without concrete promises from the employers.

I doubt they are thinking of these requirements as "we can ask for anything because we are awesome". They are adding more and more check and requirements after unsuccessful relationships trying to prevent another failed hire. "Last guy was a drug user, let's add a urine test to our offer process."

As far as consolation, I have seen DrChrono positions for months on HN so can't be easy to hire with all those requirements.
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Oh so you believe everything you see and read?
Thanks! Hoping to drill into even the operator level, but those will be harder to source / vet. Will dig into SEC and related resources.
Why does there have to be? He's been a public figure for like 40 years, wouldn't someone have seen some evidence of self-awareness by now?
Tests will tell you something broke, you still have to go through the work of figuring out why and how to fix it.
Is your room gonna smell like soldering rosin while you're making the device? Cause there's no "real retro" without that smell of rosin. :)
I think a lot of his stances and statements on privacy are with respect to internet privacy as it pertains to Facebook's users and the success of his company. His stance, in my opinion, focuses more on users having control over what they post and what they choose to share, but in general that sharing information online is a good thing. Unsurprisingly, his views seem to coincide with some encouragement of users to share information via social media.

With that in mind, I feel that the issue of privacy with respect to one's home/private property is very different. With this, Zuckerberg is likely thinking about the physical safety of himself and his family.

I'd be curious to hear more about what you find unsettling about him.
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My browser's disk footprint is already over 100MB. What's another X MB?

The ironic thing is we're reinventing the CA system, only now each browser is its own authority, exactly the problem the CA system was trying to solve.
Symfony has 3 year LTS plus a year security support after. http://symfony.com/doc/current/contributing/community/releas...
I don't know. I will probably try to by 2020 once it gets officially EOLed. Until then I have plenty of other work to do.
Of all the bad calls you can make when starting a business, picking a bad language or platform is a relatively minor one. Google was originally on Python 1.6 (or technically Java 1.02, if you go back to when it was Larry's dissertation project), Facebook chose PHP (!!), basically every Android app is forced to use Java 7, and a good number of iOS apps are still in Objective-C.
>Don't misunderstand me, taxi service in my country is horrible, they're useless and rude and service is generally bad, but just because that's the situation, we should try and improve that, instead of allowing companies like Uber to exploit the situation.

I don't really understand this mentality. You don't want to let them exploit the situation by profiting off of making things better for consumers?
This seems to take a sudden leap from a relatively uncontroversial (I'd think) proposition into a political program. I wonder about this bit:

> The price of the average American wedding in 1980 was $10,000. In 2014, the most recent figure I had, was $31,000.

According to a random inflation calculator I checked online $10k in 1980 would be worth almost $30k today. https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=10000&year1=19...
> a world without power

A CME wouldn't cause a world without power. It would cause parts of the world to lose their power grids and satellites. Generators would almost certainly be hooked up to critical infrastructure and cities in rich countries.
That's really weird, because anecdotally, that's exactly the opposite of my experience. I've gone through a bunch of microUSB cables that got loose and wouldn't stay plugged in, and I've never had any problems with miniUSB cables and connectors at all, ever. I've never seen a miniUSB plug that wiggled in the socket, but this has been par for the course with microUSB. Besides older devices like cameras (which I no longer use), I still use miniUSB on my Microchip PIC programmer and my Fender guitar amp.

It's a bigger, bulkier connector than microUSB, with a much thicker and more robust metal shield. I really don't see how wiggling would be more of a problem on miniUSB than microUSB because of this factor.

As for force, again my experience is exactly the opposite: the miniUSB connectors require a lot of force to both engage and disengage. Not as much as full-size USB of course, but a lot more than the wimpy little microUSB connectors.
There's a really nice article about the Postgres query optimizer, which goes into much more detail about the algorithms used (it's likely that at least the basic ideas are shared with SQL server, though I can't say for sure). I really like the exposition in this:

http://jinchengli.me/post/postgres-query-opt/
nit: seems like OP's definition of luck is roughly your definition of fortune. s/fortune/luck/rg in your post and I think you say the same thing.

Creating a new bucket to qualify things that happen regardless of skill seems redundant with the definition of lot. "Lot" in the context of OP's post happens despite skill.
> but it is already a success. wake up.

Your statement depends on what people define as 'success'. Is Uber a product people love? Yes. So, by a product measure it's a success. Is it currently or will it be in the future a profitable business (without VC money subsidies)? We don't know, so therefore people have differing opinions on whether it will be a successful business.

People also loved products like Napster and The Pirate Bay, but does it mean they were a success? I'd say that they're not successful businesses, but were successful products that many people used.
Well, with 512 MB of RAM you're just fine with standard Java and frameworks. That's still A LOT of memory.
Job listings are nearly identical to: http://www.remoteok.io

Both of these websites seem to fetch jobs from multiple sources (which I find to be a good thing when looking for remote jobs).
Variation of the same sentiment: ask a difficult question and see who everyone in the room looks towards for an answer. That person is the leader.
A server-side Java SDK is on our roadmap. The current version makes use of Android functionality, like the looper, so we need to transition it.

Already, the Node.js SDK has an API where you can register callbacks across Realms, giving you the global view you are talking about. You just pass it a regex pattern of the Realms you want to listen to.

This functionality lives in the shared C++ codebase so once we have Java on the server, it would also have it (we also plan to migrate our .Net SDK as well for server-side use).
I had the same question. Toward the end, the article mentions that the military was starved for recruits and the standards relaxed a little. Maybe eventually she passed at a minimal bar and they needed bodies so she made it through.

I think the article paints a picture of someone who didn't fit in, and who just wasn't in a mental space compatible with the military. Nothing wrong with that, but probably shouldn't be a soldier. I'm sure her experiences all contributed to her taking the extraordinary step of leaking all this information. Human behavior is complicated, I think it would be best not to demonize her despite what I believe to be a mixed record on the outcomes of the leak.
The Design of Everday Things is a fantastic read that disagrees almost entirely with you on that.
I agree. Here is a more direct study review proving your point.
https://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/12/the-rich-drive-d...
Perhaps it's because gravity is relatively less well understood than is magnetism?
It looks like you are trying to replicate the MongoDB Inc. business model (regardless of major differences in the actual product being offered).

MongoDB offers a commercial version of their product with enterprise features (encryption at rest, LDAP auth, etc) and support - MongoDB Enterprise.

Additionally they also offer managed, cloud hosted MongoDB deployments - MongoDB Atlas.

Over the last few years the valuation of MongoDB, Inc. has been slashed by institutional investors such as Fidelity and BlackRock. While they haven't had mass layoffs or some other negative corporate event, they have clearly had some difficulty making their (and apparently your) business model work.

Do you agree that this is a fair comparison? And what do you makes CockroachLabs more likely to succeed with this business model than MongoDB?
It's funny, I've switched to Bing as my daily driver, and I can't shake the feeling that there's a pro-MS slant to the results.

I feel like a programming search is slightly more likely to return .net results, or a charting question is going to have an Excel reference in the first few pages.
He rails on her for the entire article as a quitter.

... But she didn't quit. Kinda diminishes his entire point for me.
Listening to lectures is a good start. I found that listening to it at 2-3x speed multiple times works best for me.
Skimmimg a variety of articles on the topic, this helps for understanding the jargon used in the field. Jargon intimatedes me when I'm reading for a thorough understanding. So if I already have a flavor of the field it becomes much easier to grasp what is written. The best method yet is just spending time with people who know a lot about that field.
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I would have assumed due to the high cost of a Tesla that the owners would tend to be older, and thus a generation educated in much fewer numbers. Today's youth are much more educated, but they are still young, which hasn't given them much time to build wealth.

I mean, who do you think is more likely to buy a Tesla: A 20 year old fresh college graduate, or his 'uneducated' father who has been saving and investing for 30 years and just sold his lifelong home in San Francisco? My bet is on the latter. The boomers in particular are considered the wealthiest generation ever, but not the most educated generation ever.

I'm rather fascinated by how many are questioning the education thing here though. Coming from a farming community, where every (older) farmer I know is multimillions simply by virtue of having purchased farmland when they were young, it's difficult to see how education had any impact on that wealth. Some of them do have educations, some don't. It doesn't seem to make any difference.
Hired (hired.com) does two things that might be close to what you're looking for, if not providing the entire solution:
— We hide candidate profiles from their current employers (and others, upon request)
— We also have a feature for employers called the 'bias elimination tool' which anonymizes candidate names and photos when companies are viewing candidate profiles (more here: https://hired.com/blog/highlights/howhiredcanhelpremoveuncon...)
Well, it doesn't have to be an attack per se. Maybe the client's clock is wrong, which actually happens a lot. Or admin error replacing the cert on the server. There are of course lots of ways admin error can take down a server, but https adds some fun possibilities that are easier to trigger and harder to recover from.
For some reason Uber reminds me of the rental car business. Yeah it appears to be hard to build a monopoly there.
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So your position is that we should just all believe outright falsehoods if it's "useful?"
And when anybody else has got a lot of luck, that's called an aimbot ;)
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There have been a few studies that show generally wealthier drivers do behave more recklessly/selfishly. https://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/12/the-rich-drive-d...
Iceland is an outlier because the entire country is very isolated and has the population of a small city.

The point I was trying to make is other factors than diversity skew those statistics, not that diverse countries are happier. I was being facetious.

The website that was posted tries to find negative statistics to perpetuate it's agenda and doesn't bother to quantify the information or look for other causes, it's closed minded, hateful, selfish, and harmful.
George Patton was confident with out a doubt; but he was humble enough to not be outwitted by his enemies...pretty much that is all the humility you need in his role.
Crashes of cars that were hard enough to trigger the airbag, but still not so hard that the car would not get an autopilot update later in it's life. The "before autosteer" column does not include miles or crashes of Teslas that did not survive until OTA availability.
Sure, UBI is fairly equivalent. Why doesn't that model work?
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This isn't much of a leap -- it's the difference between an independent and a dependent variable, of which in these situations, most people have a good intuitive notion of.

Given a disruptive event that happened to the person and they were able to avoid a worse fate that befell others in the same event (e.g. others died in the same plane crash) is more strongly perceived by people as an instance of "overcoming the odds" than when someone did not experience that event at all. By the time the disaster is past the event horizon (e.g. the plane is, say, in an unrecoverable stall and plummeting toward the ground), the odds of avoiding lethal shock, injuries, or dismemberment seems fairly low.

It's perhaps a perversely named 'survivorship bias', where all victims -- survivors or not -- got into that situation as a cumulative result of all of their (and others') choices leading up to that moment, and that altering their plans ahead of time (by deliberately changing travel plans) would have invalidated the conditions required for their participation in that particular event. Interestingly, though, merely "missing the flight" is often considered to be very lucky, despite often not guaranteeing that the outcome would've been identical.
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You might want to re-read my post more carefully, there is not necessarily an attacker per-se in an availability incident (although there certainly could be. Depends on how evil one wants to think.).

Backhoe eats the fiber to the ocsp responder and CRL distribution point, CRLs timeout after 24 hours.

Boom, as the kids are saying.
> “Robots are not humans, and will never be humans,” Delvaux said. But she is recommending that they have a degree of personhood—much in the same way that corporations are legally regarded as persons

According to the article the most important case is autonomous vehicles.
freshman college algebra is really basic in the us. It's about what I took in the 10th grade. Most people getting math degrees will skip it because they got it in high school.
I lived a short while in Chiang Mai Thailand. At the time Uber was just getting started and Grab was WAY better than Uber. I really wanted to like Uber there, but after about 5 times of the drivers 1. not finding me (yes, even with GPS), 2. not showing up at all after a long time waiting, or 3. not knowing where they were going.. I gave up. It seemed that they lacked training and that they were mostly trying to get the bonus that Uber was offering in the introductory period. Grab was much more established and worked really well.

That said, the past few times I've landed in an airport and need a ride to my hotel, I didn't bother with Uber or Grab (in Thailand and various US states), because it was just so much more convenient to walk to the curb where the taxi mafia was congregated, tell them my hotel, and be on the way.
Grim read, but fantastically put together. Thanks for writing it up.
> Build an opt-in society, ultimately outside the US, run by technology.

Balaji Srinivasan is being considered to run the FDA. If chosen, he is expected to radically weaken its regulatory power, purportedly in the interests of promoting innovation in the pharma space. He's described it as the big enemy for any biotech innovator to overcome.

When we have an opt-in healthcare system, people who are in perfectly good health will opt into favorable plans only they qualify for. Those born with expensive conditions or who develop a chronic illness won't be able to opt in, and will find themselves in a high risk pool paying hardship-tier premiums.

When we have pharmaceutical companies opting into less stringent regulatory structures, even the most dangerous drugs will make it to clinical trials - to be tested by people who lack the ability to choose any other way of making a living. Pharma manufacturers will then base their prices on what they believe the highest tier of wealth will bear, ignoring the long tail of underinsured Americans.

The problem with an opt-in society is that only some people get the privilege of opting in. It's an almost self-contradicting concept. Societies only hold together if their members don't favor exit. Members collectively recognize they're all on the same side, by way of the social contract they've entered into, and they know the rules need to be the same for everyone. A modicum of loyalty - in Hirschman's sense - is an absolute prerequisite for a group to be called a society.

When it comes to our health, let's show some loyalty to our fellow Americans and use our voices, instead of fleeing the inconveniently poor and sick. The veil of ignorance hasn't come off yet, after all: if you get cancer tomorrow, you might well become one of them.
Good point. I often heard that it makes no sense to NOT deal with network partitions and CAP as an "illusion of choice"[1]

[1] http://bravenewgeek.com/cap-and-the-illusion-of-choice/
Python is a wonderful language where the speed of development and maintainability is concerned.

Django is a great framework for getting your web application and/or APIs built. The library support is also phenomenal (looking at Django Rest Framework for API development)

It is also unlikely you will outgrow Python/Django stack as Instagram and Pintereset are doing fine. https://engineering.instagram.com/what-powers-instagram-hund...

Rarely does the stack matter to startup success, why not pick up Steve Blank's
The Startup Owner's Manual about building THE RIGHT thing? Building the wrong product is the number one killer of startups why not focus there?
cdecl is nice and all, but it will fail if there is any type that isn't a simple built-in C type. It's rare that I can just copy-paste a declaration into cdecl.