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It's just driver being an ass or an idiot. Pretty sure the driver has an option to cancel without charging you and the one that does. I had experienced both. The first driver said his GPS isn't working and told me to cancel, which I refused because then I would be charged (also happened to me before). He cancelled, and I was still charged. I got a refund later (via customer service). The second time the driver was 10 minutes away and he called me and suggested me to cancel and get another ride. I refused because I assumed the app chose the closest driver to me. After a while he cancelled and I wasn't charged.
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Let's just say that we're not impressed. And plenty of people of Turkish origin living in European countries aren't impressed either.

Erdogan is working hard to undo approximately 80 years of Turkish progress. He may succeed in Turkey, but I highly doubt he will succeed to destabilize the rest of Europe or to make good on his threats of using Turkish citizens that have moved abroad as some kind of fifth column. He's mostly playing to a local audience with statements like that and likes to depict himself as the strong man in a struggle that is mostly initiated by Erdogan himself.

I feel pretty safe on the streets here. Much safer than I would feel in Ankara or Istanbul, and much safer than plenty of Turks feel in their own country.
> Sony and Nintendo

Video game makers generally doesn't make much money with hardware, they make money selling software (a.k.a. games), thanks to licensing. To allow only licensed software to run in a modern video console, all software running on it is signed with a key that only the console maker have. However, if someone discovers a way to run unlicensed (unsigned) software in their hardware, this means that the console maker will lose money to piracy.

Generally, using BSD systems in video consoles is desired since you can simply close the source code (thanks to the BSD license) and not reveal possibly potencial kernel exploits. Kernel exploits are the key for console security since once you get a exploit running in kernel, you can leak encryption keys or simply bypass the signature checking. Kernel exploits is what allowed piracy in most last generation consoles (Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo Wii U, PS Vita, PS3). Using Linux, thanks to GPL license, would mean opening the source code of the kernel, allowing someone to study for exploits.

Actually, even if PS Vita/PS4 uses BSDs as a base, they use a heavily modified BSD, since using a vanilla kernel would make a public exploit in say, FreeBSD, easily ported to their device.

Nintendo consoles actually uses an in-house developed kernel by Nintendo, that debutted on Nintendo 3DS; the Nintendo Switch's BSD part is mostly network, however BSD network is used even on Windows because it is of high quality and portable (and BSD licensed).

Disclaimer: I am not a console expert or anything, I mostly follow the console scene so those information can be wrong.
> BSD supports fewer platforms than Windows

OpenBSD currently supports:

alpha
amd64
armv7
hppa
i386
landisk
loongson
luna88k
macppc
octeon
sgi
sparc64

NetBSD has "Tier I" support for...

amd64
evbarm (ARM evaluation boards)
evbmips (MIPS-based evaluation boards)
evbppc (PowerPC-based evaluation boards)
hpcarm (StrongARM based Windows CE PDA machines)
i386
sparc64

...and "Tier II" support for nearly 50 others.
Linux is getting bloated to do a minimal install.
I had gotten used to the QWERTY like keys.
Thank our spineless European leaders. I can't believe we are letting Muslim nations pull the strings here--how did we let this happen? It was usually the opposite.
And that is not counting the OH cost of the dead time flying.

Black in the 80's I worked at a place where they looked at chartering a plane for one project - doing some R&D in a deep coal mine.

As the cost of the senior engineers at our > 600% oh rate for them to drive to the site was more expensive than a plane charter - we where based at an airfield
In the days of ink and paper the extra space had a measurable cost that accountants considered unconscionable. Those days are gone but the sentiment continues as a ghost of past technologies in the minds of those who can't move on.
You have more lines with PAL but in practice since most of the game devs were either in Japan or in the US (with a few notable exceptions) most games were designed for NTSC and many didn't bother to increase the resolution when porting to PAL. Furthermore many games refreshed the display at half the video framerate so you end up with 25fps on PAL.

So in many cases you end up with games that run at 5/6th the nominal speed and have black bars at the top and bottom of the screen. PAL gaming was pretty crap, but of course at the time I didn't know any better and I didn't understand english anyway, so it's not like I had a choice...
Isn't that a duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13936480 ?
And believe it or not, the Huns/Gauls/Carthaginians were worse.
I never understood why Eclipse stores plugins in the workspace directory.

If you have multiple workspaces that you switch between, you have to install your plugins into each of them.
The same could be said for programmers calling themselves "Software Engineers".
It's only March. How do you know you're going to get a penalty next month?
FreeBSD took great pains to rewrite and replace all of the GNU utilities with BSD licensed ones. So the tools are different.
That may have been the case 4 years ago, but Uber is a fairly seasoned company with many iterations of their app. I don't think it's safe to jump to "uber is scamming us" but this is definitely something that was done on purpose.
What advantages does Teleport offer over, say, a PAM module? We currently do this, and it works a treat for managing user SSH access.

The one thing I do potentially find useful is the session replay. It could help quite a bit with auditing.
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Because if there's more than one of you working on the same project, you want to keep your plugin versions in sync too, I assume.
Related: https://danielmiessler.com/study/security-by-obscurity/
From the linked article:

> Mistreatment by provincial Roman governors soon led to widespread discontent among the Visigoths and, by 376 CE, open rebellion had broken out.

In other words: treat your refugees as if they're people.
I'm in Denmark. We didn't get that far in the conversation though, but I'm sure the scammer had protective measures - like the ones mentioned by other replies - to prevent being caught easily after a transfer.
> If you want to promote safe storage, the best solution would be a tax benefit for buying safe-storage equipment

Yes, a tax benefit seems like something you would probably need to add to a bill requiring safe storage, just to get it past lawmakers and special interest groups.

> Something else that I would love to see, and stealing a page from the Swiss, is universal gun education

That sounds like a good idea. Not sure if having it mandatory even for never-to-be gun owners is the best use of resources, but at least having it as a requirement for a license sounds reasonable - just like driving.

Being a Swede we have (and had) mandatory gun education. For men at least. Same thing in Switzerland. Conscription! (now everyone is again elgible for conscription but far from everyone will be required). So that problem is at least solved in countries with conscription armies. Obviously, neither Sweden nor Switzerland ever trained everyone in gun safety but there is mandatory training before ever using a gun at least, because the licenses require it. So owning a gun for hunting requires passing an exam, Military obviously includes a lot of training, and owning a gun for sports of personal protection is simply not a concept.
Oooh... Ouch... Cancelation by emailing somebody is really not cool... That should be the sort of thing that can be done automatically with the hit of a switch. If you could get your programmer to set that up it would be a good step.

Also, no shipping to Japan?

I'd like to try this out but without shipping to my region I suppose that's me out.
That's not what happened.

People stopped using Concorde and started using the new comforts of business class on larger albeit slower planes.

The per seat fuel consumption is perhaps optimistic on their part.
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I do most of my work from within a single tmux session, so this isn't super useful for me. However, I heavily use tmuxifier [1] which I've extended with some custom shell scripts which further enhance my workflow.

Instead of launching tmux with a predefined session configuration, I launch a fresh session and then use tmuxifier to load window configurations as needed.

A large benefit of tmuxifier is that it's all written as a collection of shell scripts, so there are no additional dependencies. It also has really good tab completion.

1: https://github.com/jimeh/tmuxifier
> (Which is surprisingly close to the figure you had there of 42.7%)

I've cross checked the OECD numbers many times, and they are very precise. Any discrepancy tend to be year to year changes in deductions etc.

> Oh: A source of great injustice in Sweden is that renters (predominantly low income earners) don't deduct interest rate expenses of those who own property (their landlords) while those who own their property deduct a crapload of interest

This is interesting. Norway has that for a long time as well, and I believe the US allows it, but very few other countries in the world does and didn't realise Sweden also allowed it. Norway allows deductions of all debt interest, which makes it one of the most extreme examples of this, and is one of the big confounding factors when people look at tax rates without taking into account that e.g. even credit card interest paid gives a deduction towards taxable income...

In Norway at least I believe it's largely been seen as an incentive to reward home ownership, and making the average worker a home owner has been as one of the big goals of the labour movement, to the extent that any growth in proportion of population renting has come to be seen as a sign of collective failure.
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My totally unsupported guess is that they detect pure functions and add implicit memoization. It is relative easy to implement, has good benchmark times if N is big enough but not too big to make the trick obvious, but under the hood it use more memory than you expected.
The Huns were victors though, so the age old adage may need some updating
Yeah, it sounds like Uber is basically favoring the driver by default in cancellation. Which is ironic when you consider that we are usually hearing stories about Uber screwing their drivers.

I'm curious how often in these cases was it actually user error [standing in the wrong spot] vs system error [GPS reporting a wrong location] vs driver error [driver navigated to wrong location, assumed user had walked away] vs driver malice [intentionally cancelling with no intent of pickup]. Most of the users getting canceled on assume the last, but I'd hope that either this sort of driver malice is rare or Uber has some sort of "driver fraud detection" algorithm.
This seems like it's just a bug, not some ill-considered intentional feature.
My main point is that they're in business because they can get licensed to distribute the content because they'll accept DRM. Try being a DRM-free alternative to Netflix that I think is worth $8 a month. Good luck. It's not that DRM changes a ton with consumers, it's all about getting the producers onboard. For better or worse, most of the best content producers (at least the management) are insisting on DRM.

Anecdotally, I do see a whole lot less piracy than I did 10 years ago. I think things like Spotify and Netflix / Hulu provide enough of what people want with the right business model and enough freedom that the peasants aren't willing to revolt. Which can be a good thing - fewer computers get AIDS from Kazaa. It's analagous to most governments. Some people want 100% anarchy. But almost no one's trying to overthrow the government because 60% freedom is good enough for most people and not worth war. But maybe I'm just less hip than I used to be.
> An experienced engineer at google or facebook make 200k with a sizable signup bonus.

I think Silicon Valley megacorps are exceptional outliers. Obviously people can make silly money at Google, but so do athletes in the largest leagues. It's just not a useful comparison between continents with millions of employees. Exclude the top 10% and bottom 10% makes for a more reasonable comparison.
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>I make 500 million a year, drive a brand new ferrari, and I'm 6'5 280 lbs with 8% body fat.

r u me ?
That's why you need to install the cable.
Good point. I'd forgotten how much the recent raises in personal allowance had decreased the effective tax rate.
And its fixed already in https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-ruby-extras/diaspora-ins...
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Editor Macros, I believe. There were several Emacses before GNU Emacs.
> You might as well say that anyone who is not living an RMS-sanctioned ascetic technology lifestyle is hurting the cause of free software everywhere.

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."

―George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
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It is a great mystery to me how so many people drink so much coffee.

In the early days of my work life I started drinking a cup of coffee here and there. It helps if you're tired in the afternoon, and I like the taste. Then I started having a cup after lunch since everyone else went for it. Not long after, I'd have a cup first thing in the morning, and not too long after that I would be a complete zombie without drinking coffee from the morning and into the afternoon.

It took hard work kicking that habit, but I did, only because: (1) I don't like having such a strong dependency, it just seems unhealthy, and (2) I become irritable and jumpy in the evening if I have had coffee during the day. Maybe I'm just more sensitive, I don't know.

It sucks because I love the taste of coffee. These days I have a big jar of Nestle Instant Decaf at my desk and I dip into that every other day, just because I miss the taste of coffee, for which the instant just barely qualifies, but those are the lengths I go to. Now, if someone would come up with a decent instant decaf I would happily throw my money at that.
The Fall of Rome podcast had a really interesting episode on The Huns:
https://m.soundcloud.com/fallofromepodcast/fall-of-rome-epis...

He makes the argument that in the later Roman Empire, the Huns treated the Roman Empire as either a vassal or a buffer state to their own empire. They demanded tribute from them and even forced the romans to chase down and return refugees. It's really interesting to look at the Roman Empire from a hun-centered point of view-- just one more border state along a small section of a vast empire.

They seem to have been one of a long series of steppe empires with the same basic organization-- from the Scythians to the Mongols.
Cost of living is always important to consider. Looking at this site[0] for a ballpark figure, it would seem that someone living in San Francisco needs to be earning at least the double of someone in Berlin, to afford the same standard of living. San Francisco is still a very attractive place to work as a Software Engineer, but it's not as black and white, as the huge difference in pay might make it look.

[0] https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?cou...
You know what would be handy? If you were to codify these reasons and purposes unambiguously in a single, agreed upon, authoritative place (say, a law book or something), so you don't need to divine meaning from ancient texts and have the same silly discussion every time the subject comes up.

Take a look at the legal system of just about any non-English speaking country, to see how this could possibly work.

(Admittedly, it makes for great film scripts and courtroom scenes, which are valuable and important export-products of the US, but having clearly defined and agreed upon laws and rules is kind of important too)
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I'm reluctant to belabor the point, but I must say that, at first blush, this doesn't seem to add up.

Content prefetching? Sounds good (if you are prefetching the right content of course).

Checking the user-agent and doing prefetching only on that basis? I can think of no reason to do such a thing.

If this was not intentional, can you clarify the reason that your team engineered such a strange and unusual solution?
Is the maximum theoretical efficiency I often see stated just for type of technology we use today (pn junctions)? Or is it a hard physical limit for any light -> electricity system? Would it be possible that some new technology for solar cells could be more efficient?
> My first wife worked a 9-5 W-2 job during her labor with our second child.

Are you confusing 'labor' and 'pregnancy'? The Lyft driver suspected she was in labor (i.e. experiencing contractions) and continued to work, operating a vehicle no less. Is the same true of your first wife?
There's a lot of reasons to hate Uber these days but I'm not sure this is one of them. The problem with cancellations is real, I have to cancel rides constantly because I live and work in Brooklyn Heights/ DUMBO and the app just can't seem to get the hang of the river, the bridges, and the expressway that runs through our neighborhood.

It's pretty much routine to get assigned a car and then watch as it speeds over your head rapidly towards Manhattan, or get assigned a car already on Wall Street, which is about 1000 yards away on the map on the other side of the East River.

It's super annoying, but if you get hit with the cancellation fee you can just go into the app and do it and it's always simple and instantaneous. Calling it a scam seems a little extreme.
Efficiency isn't quite the important thing for solar as it is for fuel burning engines since all the sunlight is used up at the same rate no matter how much power you capture from it. We could get much cheaper panels with no better efficiency and that would still be excellent.

More important than energy efficiency is price per unit energy. You could have an inefficient but cheap solar cell that's more economical than an expensive efficient one (eg. active tracker vs fixed - the less efficient option is usually more economical). Though when installation costs dominate, then you really do want smaller panels so you can spend fewer man-hours nailing them up.
Actually they are not. POSIX? Sure. But Linux is notorious for NIH and is incredibly off in the weeds in incompatible and broken ways from the UNIX world. Have you tried porting software written for Linux to another platform??
That's a bit of an oversimplification; static scheduling is used in extremely low-power architectures (The ARM Cortex-M series, for example), as well as GPUs and DSPs. It has its uses. However, the evidence is pretty compelling that it's not a great fit for "conventional" CPUs doing latency-sensitive tasks.

It's a good fit for low-power single-issue architectures and DSPs, because ... well, there's only trivial scheduling to be done because the machine is so dead simple. It's a good fit for GPUs because they are primarily throughput oriented, and can make scheduling issues "go away" by running lots of threads / warps / whatever marketing wants to call them to hide latency.
The point is that you see announcements like these at a rate of 4 to 5 every year and hardly any of those ever make it to market. I've been active in the renewable energy-scene off-and-on for two decades and I really can't count how many times there have been announcements like the one here that did not go anywhere. It makes me quite skeptical of announcements like these, they do not really convey much in terms of information other than to create an optimism about solar panel efficiency gains that is usually met with disappointment when someone actually costs out a system and realizes that over approximately a decade we tend to see gains on the order of 1 to 2%.

Hype simply doesn't help, at best this is 10 years away, worst you'll never hear from it again.
> but we do quite well with parental leave don't we (the UK)

No. No you don't. :)
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It's an apples and oranges discussion.

The ancient empires weren't modern nation states. People, particularly the Roman designated barbarians were more mobile. The Romans used these peoples as buffer states to keep other tribes migrating from the East away from their borders.

Even the "Roman" lands weren't necessarily Roman. There were petty kingdoms and tribes in there too, with scattered Roman settlements. As the empire declined economically, they started depending more and more on the non-Roman kingdoms to fight as mercenaries, etc.
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Sounds like you're one of those people who use Linux.
This sounds very interesting, but why did you choose YC? The organization seems to be suffering from serious style drift lately (I know this is "diversification" by design). That being said, YC has no demonstrated historical core competency in physical consumer foods or goods.

In short, there had to be a better org to be a better initial investor/growth partner for a food company than YC.
The button says Join Expert Now, I guess should say Join Tesse Now; also you say you support 3 fields now but it doesn't say what fields it is on the front.
No. I said exactly that, and provided the formula for the area of the circle, and was still asked to do the calculation.
Yes, I believe the article was meant to be sarcastic...at least that the tone I was picking up
Even if they posted a front page story saying you were exonerated that cloud would probably hang over you forever.