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Excellent idea. Where are you doing this? If its in NYC I can help work on this.
Topics
1. Cost v efficiency v customer satisfaction triumvirate
2. Do you use Customer support as a cost center or lead in to future customers
3. Online FAQ,wiki,guide content readability
4. What metrics are customer support people incentivized on, how can they be optimized for the specific business
5. B2B customer support vs B2C
6. Is there a feedback mechanism to either product or sales
Also, don't upgrade. v3 is going to maintained with bugfixes and whatever needs to happen to be compatible with new React releases indefinitely.
So citizens that don't care are supposed to elect people that do. As if somehow, by adding an additional layer of separation and lack of liability, you're somehow going to get a better result. It's no surprise how often that fails.
When you show a correlation like this, you can still take action.

Even without knowing the underlying reasons behind the issue, you can at least diagnose based on the easily visible corrleated event----sleep depravation is much easier to test for than the comorbid immune supression.
The best write up I have seen on taxi medallions (and in general one of the best bits of journaliam) is this Globe and Mail article:

https://www.google.ca/amp/s/sec.theglobeandmail.com/globe-dr...
I'm not sure how to take "The emissions scandal should have ended VW" but assuming you mean financially, I cant agree. As a listed company you would be taking away many peoples jobs and savings who are innocent parties in this.

The bigger issue is it seems there has been one executive scapegoat and no real punishment for the multitude of people involved.

While a company fine is good, if we were to gaol and heavily fine at a personal level anyone involved to the point of wiping out their net worth, and heavily fine anyone (if we cant show they were involved) who should have been in a position to know/stop this I suspect we would see a better result in these matters in future. IMO the bigger issue is every time we have one of these scandals the perpetrators seem to walk away without any personal punishment or direct consequence of their actions.
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Hmm I used to work for Siemens as a field service worker and worked on their turbines and generators. Neither me nor any of my coworkers had degrees. The only people with a degree were the project managers who were engineers and even then you'd sometimes get older guy who had been around long enough to know their shit that they didn't need a degree to get promoted into that position. I've also worked for a few other power generation companies and it's pretty much all the same across the board, in fact most of their employees are contract workers who work for outside companies because it's easier to lay them off in the summer when it's slow.
For an out-of-warranty German car, your best bet is the independent mechanics that the local car club members like. For a BMW, maybe start with the BMWCCA-approved safety inspection shops on the track day prep list.
Sure. My thesis is just that:

a) open source as a technique and a body of work has become indispensable (or at least, for the moment, quite important) to a lot of industry and to the structure of the existing network that enables it. I don't think anyone very credible on the issue would seriously dispute this.

b) open source as a technique and a body of work has been instrumental in giving players like Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Twitter (etc. ad infinitum) the leverage to build a service-oriented / centralized / siloed model of networked computing which is antithetical to the aims of user control and freedom expressed by the Free Software movement and a broad set of more-or-less related ideological impulses.

By some measures, the health of the open source ecosystem seems quite robust. By others, we're plainly fucked and I'm not sure what to do about it.
I'd love if we could eliminate these H1B only "consulting" firms, and actually use the H1Bs to bring in top talent from around the world, instead of mediocre labor.
> The physical book feels like it's worth something. The digital copy doesn't. People have a moral intuition that they should pay you in the first place, and that they should not in the second, and legality is largely just the formalisation of our moral intuitions.

If this were the whole picture, it would be legal for anyone to take the text of Harry Potter and print their own copies of it.
Or all books with the same physical "feel" would cost the same.

In the US, its constitution motivates copyright and patent law pretty clearly "[t]o promote the progress of science and useful arts."
At least in that sense the laws are to ensure that people have some incentive to actually create new stuff and ideas.
Furthermore, people inherently attribute value to the information within or else you would not see price differences in content with the same physical feel.
> You're also free to write your own software for the vehicle to bypass Tesla.

I thought the problem was that this part was illegal also
This is one of those "Third Rail" issues in the tech community (on both sides, I've found) and there will be plenty of people screaming Nooooo!! because... Trump, but the H-1B program is a mess.

I'm not going to argue here whether the original principal of the legislation is "right and just", or whether or not we should just have open borders, because that's not what we have, today and it's unlikely to change any time soon. The H-1B visa program's intention is to provide a way for US employers to get skill-sets from abroad where those skill-sets are rare/not available in the US. Personally, I can see a lot of good reasons why allowing this form of immigration is A Good Thing.

Unfortunately, those who wish to take advantage of the program to use it "as intended" are often the victims of the way it's often being abused. Today, it's frequently being used to hire in cheap (by US wage standards), highly-skilled labour to displace comparatively expensive US employees. Companies who actually want to use the H-1B program to fill high-paying positions with people they can't hire in country are getting a very small slice of the limited pool which is being wasted on companies who are using the legislation to get cheap labour, and worse, replace highly-skilled US staff. I've, personally, seen this tried at companies I worked for and know of several individuals who have had to train H-1B visa holders to do the job they were scheduled to lose in two months (or lose their severance pay). Anything that can be done to eliminate the latter practice would help the "good players" in this particular arrangement.
Following stable releases we had one breaking API change in 2 years from 0.13 -> 1.0. 2.0 was fully BC, 3.0 removed 1.0 API 8 months after 2.0 was released. People shouldn't install beta/alpha like its stable and then complain to us about it.
If we "end" VW, we're not going to just fire everyone, close all the factories, and throw all their assets in a river somewhere.

Instead VW will be broken up into smaller more manageable companies, with tighter governmental oversight, and if it is done properly we'll have a stronger economy for it---one without the existence of a malignant massive company.
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Check out Harlech, Conwy and Caernarfon. They're pretty epic.
> Object-Oriented programming doesn't have a place in our hearts,

Go is object oriented.

> I hate to say it, but I just don't trust Microsoft.

But you trust Google? well known for discontinuing products or abandoning them ( GWT?,... )

> It's a statically typed language that treats functions as first class citizens

Without some form of generics/type classes you can't fully take advantage of Go first class functions to do classical functional programming.

> It's not object oriented

it's completely object oriented, it has methods on values,composition through struct embedding and implicit interfaces for polymorphism. It ticks every box of a OO language.

> is easy to deploy (compiled & doesn't depend on a runtime like JVM or .NET core)

Go actually has its own runtime, it's just included in the binary resulting from the compilation.

> doesn't have exceptions (yay)

Go has panics which are exceptions.

I personally find Go useful but don't like the limitations of the language. And they are showing already with more and more untyped API ( context.Values(interface{})interface{} ). Go relies way to much on runtime behavior like type assertions for a so called statically typed language. Go basically asks the developer to do the compiler's job. Because the compiler doing its job would make it slow (?!?). So you find yourself doing a lot of copy paste, writing your own parsers, code generators and manifests to use go gen, use tricks that make code ugly, or just say "fuck" to types and use "interface {}" when you are tired of all that.

.net core isn't ready for production, but when it does it will support both F# and C# + a vast ecosystem of libraries useful for web development, gaming (unity), mobile and desktop apps (Xamarin GUI libs ...), while Go users will be stuck with that poor type system writing extremely verbose code because they believe that generic programming is bad.
> To even entertain the idea that secession would not result in a mass amounts of destruction death exemplifies the Bay area bubble mentality.

Why? There's no reason secession has to be a violent affair. Very recently we almost saw Scotland succeed in a perfectly peaceful way and we're now witnessing the UK do the same.
I'm late to this one, but the most common symptom is extreme sleepiness during the afternoons, even to the point of narcolepsy. It'll cause all kinds of havoc with your sleep routines.

I got suspicious after falling asleep at work a few times, just an unbearable sleepiness, like I had just taken Benadryl and some vodka. Turns out I had sleep apnea to the tune of 61 events/HOUR.
I had tons of issues with my 135 but they always gave me a loaner of similar value.
So how does this work with stuff like virus scanners or text-searches that read all the bytes of all the files in a hierarchy?

Does it load up all the files locally and then LRU-discard them only to load them all up again the next time the virus-scanner runs?
Files in src/ are run through Babel and output to lib/ as a prepublish step. The version that you download from NPM contains a lib/ directory.

https://github.com/ParsePlatform/parse-server/blob/master/pa...
May I ask where you're from?
If you like vim, you might like my Miki: Makefile wiki. Works with restructured text and markdown. It's just a makefile. https://github.com/a3n/miki
Not as true as it used to be. Increasingly municipalities are using Chloramine, which I seem to recall does not disperse. While it doesn't affect the safety, it does mean that letting the water sit won't necessarily get rid of the taste.
That bill is not passed yet and will take some time.

Also - a lot of bills are introduced that have no chance of passing. If it's coming from Paul Ryan or Mitch McConnel - then it's likely primary GOP policy, outside of that there are tons of things that nobody votes for.

Apple I think will comply with whatever laws the are legally bound by.

Since it's not law, I don't think that it's the issue here.

I don't see Apple doing anything pre-emptively, or as a favour to any politically partisan group.

I suspect there is either a misunderstanding, or we don't have the whole story.
DARPA used to work on something like that for the US Army.

IDK about any results yet.
Do VW's numbers include their self-registrations, which make up 30% of their "sales"? Explanation: http://dailykanban.com/2014/05/that-car-filled-test-track-ac... (towards the end).
H1B needs reform no doubt. But I remain vigilant to see exactly how Trump administration is enforcing their agenda.

Worst case, I would go to another country or go back home, which will be hard in the beginning but will be fine over long term. As a decent and confident developer, it is not hard to find jobs around the world. There will be more opportunities for other countries if US fails to attract and retain the smart people from all over the world.

Stay strong and curious, people!
> Obama was able to pass Obamacare. The only way this was possible was with the support of the Republicans.

Holy shit you are delusional.
> That's not fair.

What you are asking for is a point-based skilled immigration system like in Canada, Australia etc. Nobody has proposed that in US yet. But there is a bill - H.R.392: Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act of 2017 [1] - currently up for consideration of the Congress which removes the multi-decade green card backlogs for skilled immigrants. From [2]:

H.R. 392, Fairness for High Skilled Immigrants Act replaces the current per-country caps
on immigration with a first-come first-served visa system without increasing the total number
of available visas. The current system of awarding no more than 7% of available employment-based
visas to one country is discriminatory. It ultimately imposes decades-long wait times for people
from some countries, creating a backlog of qualified workers. The bill makes no changes to the
current law limiting US employers to hire foreign workers except when there are no qualified,
willing, able, and available American citizens.

Please consider supporting H.R.392 as that is closest we have now to what you are asking for.

[1]: https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/392/...

[2]: http://chaffetz.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentI...
I thought they were cutting edge at the time,everyone else was still using scale models weren't they?
>I welcome the next dot-com collapse, as only those who love their craft will remain

No you don't. It's painful for the good ones too.
Would also be curious to know how this would work with something like Lightroom that can operate on pre-computed downsampled versions of the RAW originals.
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Awesome selection. Thank you!
I am a core dev at Stack Overflow. We do not work with .net core yet in production.

That said, we do maintain a number of .net libraries, such as Dapper or miniprofiler and we ported them to .net core (or we are in the process of doing that).

We are also contributing significantly, together with other community leaders, to the design and development of the .net core API.

This said, we have been having some of the pain that is mentioned in other threads. The framework is still incomplete and evolving, although a lot of what's coming out is excellent and very fast/modern.
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And like the arrival of Uber, this was a massive boon for customers, and had unfortunate ramifications for the drivers.
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There are a couple of hidden assumption here:

1. It is possible to punish a person for his crimes in a justifiable manner.

2. People are somehow deterred by punishment when the option of winning via cheating is available to them.

It's very hard to argue that 1 is possible considering the ethical dilemmas that it exposes e.g. would capital punishment be a justifiable punishment for a murderer?

If 2 were true, then there wouldn't be doping scandals in sports, would there?
> As a listed company you would be taking away many peoples jobs and savings who are innocent parties in this.

Perhaps we need to require of publicly-listed companies that they have a "registered acquirer" or the like--a company that all the employees would be moved to if the original company were forced out of existence. (Basically turning every Chapter 7 bankruptcy of a public company into a Chapter 11 bankruptcy by default.)

Then we could allow civil suits to kill companies with impunity, knowing their employees would just end up "passed to" another company willing to retain them for the same salaries performing the same duties.
They call me the wanderer.
Have fun with your friends while trying to prevent the wall from building or help building it. Choose your side!
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My student, Jessica Fan, and I published a paper in the Allerton Conference in October 2015 on just this question.

You can create a Gray code for exactly the numbers 0 to n-1, for any n, by the following steps:
1. Create the binary reflected Gray code for the next higher power of 2.
2. Take just the first n numbers of that binary reflected Gray code.
3. Bitwise exclusive-or each of these n numbers in the Gray code with the binary representation of floor(n/2) (i.e., n shifted right by one bit).

To create a cyclic Gray code for exactly the numbers 0 to n-1, n must be even. (It's easy to prove that you cannot get a cyclic Gray code for odd n.)
1. Generate the Gray code for 0 to n/2-1, as above.
2. Concatenate the reflection of that Gray code to itself.
3. Shift each of the n numbers you now have left by one bit. The first half gives you all the even numbers 0 to n-2, with the Gray-code property.
4. Put a 1 in the least significant bit in the second half The second half gives you all the odd numbers 1 to n-1, again with the Gray-code property.

The whole sequence gives you 0 to n-1, with the Gray-code property, and it's cyclic.

If you'd like a PDF of the paper, email me: thc@cs.dartmouth.edu.

Tom Cormen
Professor of Computer Science
Dartmouth College
The major thing it does wrong is that it mounts the directory in the fs root, rather than my homedir. That means it was effectively invisible (if it's not in my homedir, I never see it), so I never used it. Dropbox, on the other hand, is always right in my face at ~/Dropbox.

It's too bad, because kbfs really gets many things right.
To be clear: Racism is important but arguing about its semantics isn'?
I didn't know that livejournal was still a thing.
Read the Trump administration's draft of the executive order on cybersecurity
Please reread my comment and the one it's replying to.

I'm not justifying their actions. I did call it illegal and morally reprehensible.

I'm saying that after the dust settles they will probably excuse their actions with 'following orders', exactly like the folks at Nuremberg did as the GP mentions. I do not think this is a reason to condone their actions, much like we do not condone the actions of the folks at the Nuremberg Trials. This is just a prediction of how this will be portrayed when the dust settles (and we should probably be wary of this and resist it being painted over with 'following orders')
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I remember a fairly recent story about Disney laying off a bunch of IT folks.

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2915904/it-outsourcing/...
Really? Aren't Uber drivers paid a % of the ride cost. So they are not being subsided. And I know Uber are not profitable but I imagine they could be the day they want to. The cost of infrastructure they maintain would be fairly low when they move from a growth to cash-cow strategy.

Seem to me VC's are subsidising expansion within new markets and ventures, not the rides and this 60% figure is misleading.
So many posts on HN are like this, assuming that every obscure webservice is common knowledge. "Jabberwocky has reached version 1.1! Performance increased by 30%, users must migrate from 1.0 by the 12th. Use Jabberwocky in your business now! New users get a free trial!" OK that's nice but what tf is it and why should I care?
I have nothing to add other than I think it's awesome your niece might ask you about this.
I wish having healthy sleep became vogue. Imagine people humble-bragging about the quality of their dreams, about sleeping 8 hours or more, having enough self-discipline to routinely go to bed by 10:30pm, etc. Imagine sleep, it's quality, the freshness of body and mind it gives, became a subject of conspicuous consumption, a symbol of higher status. "I work smarter, not harder", etc.

Dies not sound implausible to me.
Uber doesn't have driver incentives nor any competition in Toronto and it's still less than half the price of a cab.
I used to have trouble sleeping as a kid, was always the last one wide awake at the sleepovers; always up at the end of a teenage conversation with a girlfriend noticing she had passed out like an hour earlier an hour later (maybe my convo was that boring).

After my first kid, I've had no problem at all catching and cherishing a nap. Dreams, I think, are the brains garbage collection mechanism. Without them, the system just grinds to a halt.
I own a GM vehicle in a large city (1 million +). There are plenty of GM dealerships. Whenever I call, they typically offer an appointment time about 1 week out. So I'm not sure I totally believe the argument.
Hey looks cool! Is there a video that shows how it works?
A couple of additional points: Google and RedHat are the technical steerign group of the .net foundation (https://dotnetfoundation.org/about/tsg); Microsoft is a platinum sponsor of the Linux foundation, and by the way, google is "just" a gold member (https://www.linuxfoundation.org/members/corporate)
Good for her for standing up for the constitution.
None of which qualifies as "misinformation disseminated as part of this action from the media to social media" as your OP stated - rt?
> is easy to deploy (compiled & doesn't depend on a runtime like JVM or .NET core)

.net core is exactly the same as go, it can be compiled to an exe that includes the runtime.
Typically the loaner is part of the warranty. Beyond that, service managers can approve loaners for good customers (repeat buyers, high value cars or long service history).
For all the criticism about their cheating of metrics and rules, I recently hired a VW Polo Diesel for a month to drive around Germany, Switzerland, Belgium and France and found it to be a comfortable, performant, nimble and all-round decent car. It handled doing 160 down the Autobahn quite comfortably without steering judder or anything I'd expected at higher speeds. It accelerated surprisingly well (not even considering it's a diesel!) all the way up to 100 making entry onto roads and highways a breeze, it had great steering which helped parking in cramped spots and did well for fuel efficiency - I was getting about 750km to a (45L, if I recall) tank in a combination of highway and town driving.

All in all, I think I did something over 5000km in total and it did it everything I could have asked for. I was quite impressed by it. Compare that with the Vauxhall I had in England for a couple of days, which was utter horseshit and struggled to accelerate up a moderate incline at 80 in 4th gear (I had to put it down to 3rd, rev the hell out of it and even then it was losing speed up the hill) and I can only say good things about the VW Polo.
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Name one.
Someone who makes something that persists longer than the 5 minutes it takes to Lets Play the latest Call of Duty.
TBH, the old way of measuring emissions for diesel was to look out the back and see if there was a black cloud forming at idle and with slight throttle applied. Maybe California actually measured more, out east they didn't. It wasn't until model year 2007 that new regulation kicked in that made things a lot more strict.

For this emission issue, there was increased NOX coming out the pipe. The NOX by itself isn't a huge issue... it's when it combined with volatile organic compounds (VOC's) from trees'n shit. Then magic happens under the sun and it combines with carbon to become smog (ozone), which blows into cities and gives the kids asthma.

Some further reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropospheric_ozone

EDIT: The old test handled particulate emissions... the DPF worked on these cars and no black smoke appeared until they programmed it to fail and crack (like mine!), you can't see NOX and I don't think it has a distinct smell...
If he had "defied" (i.e. not endorsed) him during the campaign season, we might not be in the mess we're in now.