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I can see build-out requirements being a big issue to picking a next city, but I don't see it as the reason for why it looks like Google appears to be slowly stopping all efforts across the board in existing cities. OTMR fights hint that Google may be losing a war of attrition with the entrenched monopolies to inflated costs and infrastructure battles.

«If OTMR ordinances are really what drive fiber rollout, why not fight that battle on its home turf?»

I don't know much of nuance of geopolitics here, but I would assume that the cities that have started the OTMR battles think they are particularly underserved by incumbents, but more importantly may have more political jurisdiction in their respective states to pass OTMR ordinances/legislation within city limits. While Google has been the biggest suggestion influence and has been helping to fight the OTMR battles, it certainly seems like thus far the onus and a great majority of the work has been the cities themselves trying to reign in monopoly control incumbents. (Most of the cities even seem to be fighting for OTMR in spite of anti-regulationist-controlled state legislatures and public utility boards, where such a change might more naturally be easier.)

I think the question is more why hasn't the Bay Area tried to fight for OTMR ordinances than why hasn't Google tried to get the Bay Area to fight for OTMR ordinances.

As to why Google doesn't include the Bay Area at the top of its priorities, I'd assume it's economic as much as anything: they seem to be prioritizing places they can most easily compete against incumbents, and their values seem focused on "floating the most boats" for now by finding the cities that are most currently underserved. You may personally think the Bay Area isn't adequately served by Comcast, but have you seen some of the rest of the country that doesn't have millions of technical workers living in it? (Spoiler alert: we all have it terrible. Our for-profit infrastructure monopolies don't have our best interests in mind and most of our regulations and oversight has been defanged or destroyed.)
I think the JavaScript updates are great news, enough for me to finally dive into Rails.
Yes you can use it to describe and automate systems built in other technologies and I've done that on a couple of projects. It's a good fit for any web app with a lot of client-side code. But its sweet spot is definitely node.js apps.

You could certainly use electron as a driver for tests written in other tech, but there is no capybara electron driver that I'm aware of. Using cucumber-electron means you write your step definitions (automation code) in JavaScript.

(I'm the author of cucumber-electron)
The other aspect is that investing isn't the end of the story. Nearly all car companies have made investments in green energy--but which are likely to produce results and win the market?

Tesla is expected to execute better because it hasn't just set up a department to prototype EVs. Tesla is dedicated to EVs. The company is built on the technology. That results in a lack of legacy distractions, faster iteration cycles, effective vertical integration, and a wholly different culture and brand.

It's a classic startup disrupting incumbent story. It isn't a sure thing, but it's enough to make Tesla very valuable.
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That is an obnoxious way to reply to someone who expressed a personal concern. If you can't be respectful of others, please don't comment here.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13716297 and marked it off-topic.

Edit: it looks like you've been using HN exclusively to comment on politics. That's not what this site is for, and we ban accounts that do it, so please don't use HN this way.
Have you considered increasing the number of views on each plan? Charging for everything else is certainly reasonable, but as I mentioned before, a single popular post can easily exceed the base plan and force you onto the Team plan at $80/mo.
There's also Kivy (http://kivy.org). Not with a sizeable sponsor like React or Xamarin, but it's Python :D
I wrote something similar to this but 1 level higher by using Karma. It's called `karma-electron` and it allows you to use any test framework inside of Electron as well as any other launcher Karma supports (e.g. Firefox, Chrome, PhantomJS):

https://github.com/twolfson/karma-electron
How do you handle versioning of the compiled assets and linking to them from the view? `<%= javascript_tag 'foo' %>` is the main benefit of the asset pipeline to me, so they can be long-expiring and busted with any change.

I, too, agree that the asset pipeline is clunky. But at my startup we went the other way: use npm/webpack but compile the resulting file _into_ the assets directory, so we can still use the asset pipeline. It sort of double processes the assets but it was the only way I could think of to take advantage of modern JS with imports and exports, and still get the cache-busting goodness and easy rails view interoperability.
For drugs that are off patent protection, yes. These would basically be public service announcement, which do exist, although some folks would like to see more. On the other hand, private philanthropic organizations also play this role to some extent, urging various screening, etc.

For things on patent protection, the argument would be that companies are better positioned than the government, for the same reason that most net-positive ads for non-medical goods are made privately.
This needs to be higher up. It's using Blowfish (a 64-bit block cipher), unauthenticated, in CBC mode. These should not be the defaults for a system designed and built in the past five years.
The capacity for some of the reservoirs listed in the graphic is misleading. Some of them (like Oroville) cannot be completely filled because there are concerns that the dams will break in an earthquake.
I think nothing in the US Constitution prohibits states from electing their members to the federal House of Representatives by a proportional representation method. For example, California has 53 representatives, and these could be elected not in 53 separate districts, but instead in a single state-wide election.

Making this change would require action by a state's legislature, and likely changes to federal law as well, but no federal constitutional amendment is needed.

I think it's highly germane to discuss alternative election systems in a discussion on fighting gerrymandering.
Looks great, but it's sort of unfortunate that the author doesn't seem to have seen the work on microformats[1] that the IndieWeb community has been working on.

Being able to pull microformats out of the posts to reconstruct feeds, automatically embed txt.fyi post summaries, syndicate to facebook/twitter/etc (with comments backfed in to it) is super nice for low-bandwidth sites like these, you can add a lot of useful value for little more a few extra HTML classes. The core of a lot of this, the "webmention" standard is a W3C recommendation, even.[2]

[1]: http://indieweb.org/ http://microformats.org/
[2]: https://www.w3.org/TR/webmention/
Uber is an object lesson in thinking you can get away with destroying all your social capital because you're pig-in-shit deep in piles of VC cash. Whether they survive or get taken to the slaughterhouse, they're never gonna shed the stink.
Like I said yesterday, the company is bleeding users and they know it.
Great news! Is it any good? I'm bit afraid since the genius behind Delphi now does Visual Studio (Code) for MS and his touch is incredibly visible there.
The problem with these sites is, they're hard to discover. Telegra.ph is the most awesome (rich text, widgets for youtube & co...), but can't be found when you type "richtext pastebin" on Google, because the welcome page is too simple, obvious, perfectly ergonomic, ultimately simplistic...
This is the right logical point to make. When we impose a political boundary due to a specific geographic boundary, we crystalize a bunch of winners and losers (compared to if we'd chosen a different geographical boundary).

In the same way, however, nearly any law creates winners and losers compared to a slightly different, hypothetical version of the law.

I think the intention behind creating geographical districting was to allow geographically dispersed interests to gain political power that would otherwise end up concentrated in population centers.

This is the same basic idea as the Electoral College -- create a definition of consensus that requires not just population-dominated consensus, but geographically diverse consensus.

The tension about what constitutes legitimate consensus mirrors the sort of debate in the cryptocurrency community about proof of work vs proof of stake vs other methods of weighting the consensus algorithm.

Redistricting is thus somewhat analogous to developing an ASIC that exploits a quirk of the consensus algorithm. Of course interest groups are going to want to exploit whatever loopholes they can find that are within the rules.

But in the case of redistricting we can easily see the folly of it. The impact of minority votes all being lumped into one district is that all the politicians in the other districts can safely ignore minority concerns, whereas if each of the other districts had 10% minority voters, those concerns would not be something all politicians could ignore.

But on the other hand, with a single minority-dominated district, we're much more likely to get minority politicians winning at least one seat, whereas with minority votes spread thinly over all the other districts, this would be less likely.

We can impose whatever restrictions on shapes we want, but ultimately we are just shifting the balance of power between geographically-general interests and geographically specific ones.

Since redistricting is so embarrassing, though, I'd support limiting district shapes to regular polygons whose height and width are within 10% of one another.
Then maybe the problem is that the public is expecting results to be actually true, exacerbated by "hey what peer-reviewed literature are you supporting your argument with". If peer-reviewed literature is just a scratchpad for ad hoc ideas that may turn into something legit later, then the current standard is good enough, and we shouldn't be worrying that most of them are false.

OTOH, it's a problem if people are basing real-world decisions on stuff that hasn't reached textbook level certainty. That's pretty much what happened with dietary advice and sugars. "Two scratchpads say a high-carb low-fat diet is good? Okay, then plaster it all over the public schools."
I agree people are weird, and their group interactions can be hard to characterize or understand. And this is a particularly contentious and difficult issue.

Let me try to summarize what I hear you saying:

There are demographic disparities everywhere between the general population and any given field. Some of those disparities may be due to discrimination, but to what extent discrimination may be playing a role is hard to determine. Companies (for the most part) aren't engaging in blatant discrimination. Some of the disparity is likely due to career choices that are in part a result of how people are brought up and their educational opportunities. As far as education goes, no one should be deprived of educational opportunities due to environmental factors.

Is that an accurate representation? I don't want to be putting words in your mouth or creating a straw man, as that serves no one. Please do correct or improve my summary where needed.

I think your point regarding educational opportunities is particularly important. How do you think this can be improved, in as far as decreasing disparities due to educational opportunity environment differences?
Really. Is THIS what the web is about? Just sharing text? Of course sharing text is part of what the web is about, but hey, how can we find this text? How can the author know what he has written? How can we be sure of who wrote it? How can we make sense of what text refers to what? Which of these texts is more worth reading?

Just in the field of text-sharing, there are tons of problems which are not being solved by these pure plain text services, while these are not new problems and other services are already trying to solve them in multiple different ways.
One notable difference with YC is that when they cut ties for ethical reasons, they do it privately, and dispose of their ownership.

It's a particularly principled stance.
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Hey there, I'd love to hear a bit more about your negative experience a couple years ago and how we could make things better. Didn't see an email in your profile -- could you email me at david@weebly.com? Would really appreciate your feedback!
Yes, I was indirectly making the point that against such an adversary both systems are equally threatened (although there may be malicious actors less capable than a nation state that can spoof a DNS response).

One difference you didn't mention, though, is that with DNSSEC the domain owner can choose which TLD they register under, whereas it is less common for a site to specify which CAs are allowed to issue certificates for it (especially in a way that works if the browser hasn't visited that site yet).
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They can also (often? always?) be rolled over to another 401k when you change jobs

I can think of no good reason to ever roll a 401K to another employer instead of rolling it over to a usually much lower cost IRA.
beautiful; thank you
I would consider http://ix.io/ to be even more "dumb" than this. And it has a command-line client too.
Agreed. Since it accepts Markdown for blocks of code, the default should not be monospace.
My new workstation has 128 GB of RAM. It also has 1 GB of swap (on NVMe) that, AFAICT, has never been touched. I use it as sort of a canary that something abnormal is happening if it starts being used.
You'll notice that many companies write an article for each new release with some feature front-and-center, then they share the article around and it's like they're launching (again). An example of people using their releases to drive signups. That seems like the main business outcome of telling people about a new feature/release.
Unclear. It's a tough situation.

I wouldn't consider one of the (100?) investors Uber has to be responsible for Uber's actions, particularly since they're famous for ignoring their investors. Investors are most responsible for the investment decision itself; if they knowingly invested in Uber today, that's a different statement IMO than investing in Uber 4 years ago.

I would still prioritize fiduciary duty and privileged information/position as an advisor over anything else, unless there were criminal activity, in which case I'd bring it to the attention of the board and correct authorities.

I think you can criticize Travis and management a lot in private, and ultimately push for changes in management (although I don't think anyone would benefit from removing Travis!). Doing things in public is not helpful, though.

The other really helpful thing is probably a good reporting pipeline for employees if they think something criminal or illegal or unethical is happening. Less of an issue in a company the size of Uber (there SHOULD have been a way to report to someone...HR was weak, but legal/CFO?). In a smaller company, I'd consider an investor a good proxy for that.
Could you explain why? Honest question.
Uber investors blast company for failure to change: 'We have hit a dead end'
If it were, treatment with anti-cholesterol drugs such as statins (the most used) or even a new class of drugs called PCSK9 inhibitors wouldn't have such a clear cause-and-effect on reducing cardiovascular events and mortality.

I've read that studies show it only has an effect for men > 50 yrs, but that the effect isn't due to reducing cholesterol.

I have notice a huge increase in the last 10 years in the number of researchers reporting no causal link between cholesterol and CHD.

On the first page of a Google search:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/behindtheheadlines...

Evidence abounds that there is no link.
I became aware of Q codes through their use in the book Seveneves. It provided a brief glimpse into a subculture that I've never had much contact with, and I ended up in a bit of a Wikipedia crawl.
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You're absolutely right it's a breach of trust. In the _worst_ kind of way as well. They're saying - I'm really upset about such egregious activities that took place at Uber, but here's why my continued investment is justified. It's pure posturing.
As a male in my early twenties, working as a developer I've come to realize that it's just better to not even try to engage in small talk and/or non-work related conversations with female co-workers. I keep it dry and basic. Just last week I had a buddy who was on the phone with his brother and blurted "Bro, she was amazing, then I left her house haha" he was fired the next day because a co-worker overheard his conversation and felt uncomfortable.
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> Given all that, talking about proportional representation is a complete waste of time, and it gets in the way of having constructive conversation about this subject. It is constitutionally impossible to disband the House of Representatives and switch to proportional representation

You are confusing "proportional representation" (an outcome which many systems approach) with Party List Proportional (an election method which is designed to achieve proportional representation.)

There is no Constitutional barrier to many PR systems (e.g., STV in multimember districts) in the US, though there are some structural limits to the degree of proportionality that could be achieved (you'd still have to apportion by population and have each state as a separate pool.)

There are some federal statutory limits mandating single-member districts, but those are much easier to reform than Constitutional barriers.

> Every time I see a thread here I really do look forward to reading thoughts that are actually about gerrymandering and solving gerrymandering

Distortions of the kind labelled gerrymandering are fundamental to the exclusive use of independent single member districts (and exacerbated if you use plurality or majority-runoff elections in those districts.)

This is an inescapable fact. You can't complain that you want to hear solutions to gerrymandering and simultaneously exclude all the things that actually address gerrymandering from the acceptable solution space. Well, you can, but you are making irreconcilably conflicting demands when you do so.
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Do these VC investors not install adult supervision of the companies they invest in?
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I think there's a little more to it than that; I feel like the rise of autocorrect is pretty strongly correlated with the rise of glass keyboards, an intrinsically imprecise input method. I remember being pretty damn precise (and fast), typing blind, while pounding out sms on my Motorola Razr.
Ah, you're right. I misread that part.
> What would an ideal way forward be for Uber?

How about firing sexual harassers? And any HR staff that systematically lied to cover it up. And the people who gave them those orders. And not taking forever to do it.
I believe what you are describing is what they call "chunking."
You can have all the technology in the world but eventually what censorship really means is someone else stopping you from speaking your mind, and that person can be benign or malignant.

"host better conversations" is a nice little marketing jingle but what it really means is "host conversations closer to what you consider 'better'". And 'better' is in the eye of the beholder.
Seconding the support for COS. When they test reproducibility, they actually pair labs that are proficient in the particular technique with the original authors. The two labs (the originator and reproducer) work together to try to replicate the findings in the new environment. It's a smart way to work around the problem of labs trying (and failing) new techniques.
I think I was there from 2002 to 2004 but the language barrier was too big for me. God I was a mopey kid then. Here's my embarrassing page: http://sosa.deviantart.com/
Java on Windows used to have a background service which touched the pages of the Java components to keep them in memory and make Java performance look better. This was active even if you hadn't run a Java program in weeks. OpenOffice once had a similar program. Enough things like that and you can't get anything done.
Last time I tried running a linux system with zero swap, I ran into huge issues.

It would never actually hit the OoM killer, instead it would just lock up while it still technically had a few hundred mb of memory free.

From what I can tell, it was stuck in a loop evicting something from cache and then immediately pulling it back in from disk. Everything was technically still running, but the ui wasn't responsive enough for me to even kill a program.

Simply adding 200mb of swap would change the behaviour enough that the OoM killer would eventually run.
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Its not exclusive to MS, like you said if you're valued as an employee, ask.

I work for a pretty small security company doing assessments (penetration testing, vulnerability research and stuff). I loved the job and really didn't want to lose it but was willing to.

The first year I asked, I basically just said, I love working here but I'm going to go hike this trail for 6 months and hopefully they'd work with me.

Then I asked for it again the next year, again willing to leave but didn't have to.

Finally, I took some time with my boss and had a discussion around continuing that work pattern into the future and how I can make it easier for them (notice periods, time of year to take off and such)

I completely agree with your last statement, if you never ask, the answer is always no. One of my coworkers when I returned the first time actually asked me how I asked because he wanted to do the PCT.
Perhaps to be taken more seriously by management. All things being equal, the content of PDFs (auditor reports) is more important than that of JPGs (cat memes).
> I don't know what terribly mapped place that is...

I mentioned above, but it's Perth, Australia. Google seems to have won the mapping wars here. Google even includes live feeds of how busy a store currently is (measured in realtime by Android phones), and shows busy/quiet trends for each store so you can plan ahead when you want to go.

The Open Street Maps Australia website appears not to have been updated since 2009.
"The Great Suspender" (browser extension) is your friend.