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That's not how investing works. People don't invest because they think a company is worth X, they invest because they think it will be worth X at some point in the future adjusted for the risk of not being worth X. Further, they don't necessarily buy stock from the company.

In other words startups have a small chance of being worth a much larger X, and Exxon has a very large chance of being worth a slightly larger X. If you need zero risk buy government bonds not stock.
I find it shocking that someone thought it was a good idea to list a flat on airbnb that they're only renting themselves. Largely in England subletting is not allowed under the terms of rental agreements.
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> deprecating the American Empire is something that enjoys very broad support

While 'No Empire' seems to be a Good Thing, in general, if the question was instead, "Which country should lead the global Empire if not America?" I wonder what the survey results would be.
New Zealand has been 80% renewable for many years (at least for electricity). We do have a great mix of geothermal and hydro but it can definitely be done at a country wide scale.
Why don't homeowner's and renter's insurance policies have short term rental exclusion clauses? This type of damage seems like a source of expensive claims.
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Interesting, do you have a read more link?
Exactly right. Although some people would probably be way too irresponsible with $1M so the financially less savvy option may be better for them haha.
Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies is a wonderful book. I wouldn't call the systems they build upon (such as lMetacat [1] and Tabletop [2]) "machine learning"...

[1] http://science.slc.edu/jmarshall/metacat/

[2] https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/105891

I'd also like to see FARGonauts / Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition style software implementations around... I have run with success this python implementation of Copycat:

https://github.com/ajhager/copycat
You could almost certainly go back only 200 - 300 years.

Hell, in France of the 1950s, the majority of homes outside Paris didn't have indoor plumbing.

(Consider, as a corrolary, that a major cause of building failure is moisture-induced rot: if you want to risk-mitigate your construction and reduce a major source of failure, you'll consolidate plumbing either outside the structure, or to a subsection of it which is particularly immune to rot.)
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Actually box.com has several nice features by which they totally outperform Dropbox. One is for example the complete mess many Dropbox folders become, because you can drag an drop them around yourself, rename them etc. Look at anyone's Dropbox folder and things get quite messy rather quickly.

The problem with box.com is that there's no business support at all (nobody answers any emails). And in that regard Dropbox has been doing a really good job and put some effort into it. The product itself is not superior to box.com, quite in contrary actually, but the support is much better. (it's also quite easy since with box.com it's non-existent).
how does this make sense? Siemens really has nothing to do with EDA/etc.
Show us one of those safe C/C++ projects of a major size. I've never seen one.
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That is only true for long term investments, but for a short term future the $5000 might outperform a lot.

Which is why it is smart to change the type of investment as you get closer to retirement.
I've just started working on a graphql project now and from the frontend perspective its phenomenally better than a rest api. The backend side of things is also pretty simple so I'm really enjoying it.

With Rest APIs there's always the problem (with numerous solutions) of how you select the particular fields and how you nest and or do not nest the resources in the api. With GraphQL this is more or less a non-issue - the client just requests want he wants and gets it back if he's allowed access to it.

I know GraphQL has been around for a while but this has been my first full go with it and I could easily forsee it doing to REST what REST did to SOAP - at least for the use case of building frontend clients that consume some api.
At least, until brexit...
My introduction to a Unix like operating system was using Aegis on the old Apollo workstations that Mentor came out on.
(Installing software with giant 8 inch floppies was big fun)

After getting smoked by Sun, Apollo was absorbed by HP in the 90's...
Not necessarily - Bill G wasn't giving a whole bunch of money away on the way up. It can be rational to look after yourself first before looking after others even if you care about them. I don't think it's as binary as you make out. Certainly I feel the parent saying they don't care about people beyond their immediate circle doesn't reflect my feelings, which are rather more complicated on the subject.
> "Once the law is signed by President Trump, geolocation data along with browsing history data will again be on the market for ISPs."

The law repeals protections that are not in place yet. Those protections were already removed last year.
As the market shows, renting out a space that's actually intended for parties and events is much more expensive than a one-night apartment rental.
I think the TLDR of the original article can be summed by "there is bias even in the interpretation of bias-measuring studies".

The fact that people read this story and conclude "well the only variable at play here is gender, therefore: sexism".

1. This is anecdote. One event.
2. The story-teller is introducing his own bias.
3. The reader has certain preconceptions about gender and bias.

While this is an interesting anecdote, a skeptic should take this whole situation with a grain of salt.
If you're old and don't know LaTeX? Probably not, especially since he was an editor with the journal he published in.
My mistake, I was only seeing it because I'd paid for it. :( Just the other three are free.
Yeah, no. That's not a slippery slope. That you just being obstinate.
Take a look at SQLAlchemy/django's ORMs.

Personally I have two uses, one is in proprietary code, but the idea is basically use python to generate json, but allow incoherence of json pieces via natural python flows. (metaclasses specifically allowed me to reverse the flow of creating objects, so that visually, code wouldn't look like

inner1 = JsonObject(config)
inner2 = JsonObject(config)
outer = JsonObject(config, children=[inner1, inner2])

but instead

class outer(JsonObject):
inner1 = JsonObject(config)
inner2 = JsonObject(config)
_config = config

ish. With this isn't not clear why this is important, but with highly nested structures, having the python code visually mirror the output in terms of nesting is really nice.

The second is at https://github.com/gtagency/pyrostest/blob/master/pyrostest/.... This isn't strictly necessary, but "The documentation states that all test_* methods in a RosTest subclass spin up roscore" is a lot simpler and safer than "if you forget to add `RosTest.setUp()` and `RosTest.tearDown()` at the beginning and end of all of your setUp and tearDown methods, your tests will fail. (and further, future invocations of tests may fail until you run something like `killall -9 roscore && killall -9 rosmaster` in shell because you've unintentionally broken your environment."

Generally speaking, Metaclasses allow you to make better user interfaces for developers, and avoid the repetitive kinds of things you encounter in "enterprisey" code. Specifically, they allow you to make interfaces much more declarative than you otherwise could (ie. the SQLAlchemy example of "this is a table and here are its columns" vs. "My table is a function that takes in some stuff and magic happens within it")
5k month does not pose risks about having the 1M somewhere and potentially having to invest it in order to avoid losing ability to buy things for the money. Moreover you can't do a silly thing with 5k/m while you can do plenty with 1M. It's interesting to note that it's easy to turn 1M into 5k month btw, by purchasing a a few houses in strategic places, while the contrary is a bit more complex.
The author doesn't specifically call out inequality but he does address some of the economics, like how selling gas is a low margin business that will go away, on-demand rides will start to compete with public transportation(and I don't see any busing companies massively contributing to existing inequality), and he specifically counters your assessment that autonomy tech will get all the profits. He even quotes himself in the article.

>I still think autonomous cars will create more billionaires in real estate and retail than in tech or manufacturing. Just as cars did.
AMD already claims that with zen platform if I recall correctly.
The irony of YC's flagship startup forcing exploding term sheets on their customers is a bit much to take.

[ps]

Airbnb's statement concluding this story says that this interaction fell short of their expectations. Maybe they can go a bit farther. Can they commit (just a comment here would suffice) to not using the exploding-settlement tactic with their clients? Maybe all they'd really need to say is that nobody outside their counsel's office will ever be authorized to put an explicit time limit on any offered settlement.
Do we need to throw into the discussion some more behavioral economics concepts like hyperbolic discounting and present bias and present versus future value of money?
This. Routine is the key. I always come to work on time, but I always leave on time as well. I always take my lunch break at the same time. People get used to your discipline and stop coming to you 10 minutes before the end of work with some trivial issues.
That's exactly why I cancelled my account.

There were rumors they were going to launch an email service, then a basecamp competitor, then it was a race against iCloud and Google drive...

Honestly after cancelling my account I've never looked back. I get more storage per dollar with google and iCloud and the Dropbox macOS integration is a joke.

With all the acquisitions Dropbox has made in the past decade, they couldn't have created a more useful macOS app? Read a blog post by any former dropbox employee and you'll hear the same thing over and over:

Dropbox is littered with management problems and their leadership has no idea what the future of the company and will look like because cloud storage is a race to zero.
This email exchange reads like something from Black Mirror.

https://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/emailexchang...

It's amazing he didn't go and firebomb AirBnB. This kind of communication would leave me incandescent with rage.
I think that Samsung beat Intel to it:

"Neural network spotted deep inside Samsung's Galaxy S7 silicon brain (theregister.co.uk)" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12340348
The problem with competing in an ultra-competitive market, like food delivery is that you don't have the margins to pay multiple software engineers ~$100,000/year. (Not to mention office staff, executives, VCs, and all the other costs of running a firm.)

Pretty much everybody involved in food works like a dog, and gets paid an absolute pittance. That nice restaurant down the street? Their head chef probably makes ~$34,000/year, works 100 hours a week, and sleeps in the kitchen. Oh, and the restaurant is as likely as not to go bankrupt and shut down in <2 years. (And he's not doing it with the hopes that Ricky's Pizza Joint will IPO as the next Facebook.)

Yet, for some reason, people think that this business model has the margin to pay a team of developers, working out of a hip, air conditioned Market Street office, complete with a free beer fridge and a Foosball table.
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There isn't one DNSCrypt graph. It's a forest of graphs that, in the event DNSCrypt became mainstream, would effectively converge. But, unlike DNSSEC, DNSCrypt doesn't require universal adoption to provide value.

DNSSEC provides no value at all until graph coverage is reached, and even then provides absolutely no privacy.
You could have said the same about unit tests 20 years ago. The annotations themselves are immaterial; the point is the use of formal methods. Formal methods requires some assistance. Whether you write those as annotations in the code or in a separate file is an implementation detail.
There's old stuff still kicking around, but it's all 15-20 years old. Nobody makes new personal homepages like this anymore.
The company I work for was acquired by Siemens PLM last year.
I was worried at first, but it proved to be much better than expected.

First of all it should be noted that Siemens PLM Software is a different company than Siemens AG, with a different culture, different internal rules and quite a different business. Most Siemens PLM employees come from other acquisitions and they (Siemens) tend to keep the people and integrate them as good as possible(in our case all employees were offered contracts and very few decided to leave the company after the merger).

For us there was a slight downgrade in terms of internal systems (eg. from G-Suite to Exchange and Outlook 2013 and other such changes, but at least we can use Win10 instead of Win7).

On the more negative side, the process for traveling is a impossibly complicated and there are several other procedures as well that are unnecessarily complex and take a long time to go through.

Overall for me it was a positive change so far and my advice to Mentor Graphic employees is not to worry too much, change is coming but it will be slow and not disruptive.
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And of course, those change over time.

I had an undergraduate course my freshman year where we went through a circular proof of the equivalence of twelve or thirteen formulations of the axiom of choice. A hundred years ago, proving many of the steps of that proof might well have been non-trivial, perhaps even distinctly so.
YC likes rules to be broken, right?
There's a better Feynman method: http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~cahn/life/gian-carlo-rota-10-le...

> Richard Feynman was fond of giving the following advice on how to be a genius. You have to keep a dozen of your favorite problems constantly present in your mind, although by and large they will lay in a dormant state. Every time you hear or read a new trick or a new result, test it against each of your twelve problems to see whether it helps. Every once in a while there will be a hit, and people will say: "How did he do it? He must be a genius!"
I am waiting for this as well.
The problem is unwanted notifications of conversations (easy way to target you with spam, for example) you don't want to participate in. And there is no easy way to opt out.
I think the logic is pretty much identical. Abnb could, of course, simply refuse to pay anything. His recourse would be to the courts. The most likely outcome of that would be a settlement. The highest-dollar settlement would likely include confidentiality terms.

The incentive structure Abnb is creating here is not great, though: if you know their settlement terms will include confidentiality, and you know they have to settle somehow no matter what, your incentive as the aggrieved party is to get your story on the record immediately, before contacting Abnb, so that what you disclose can't violate their NDA. That's exactly what Abnb doesn't want to have happen.

They should probably just be up front about the fact that they'll pay a bonus to clean up the PR.
Of late, employee risks include being on the short side of an extremely unbalanced power relationship. This includes unilateral and eternal NDAs, claims on all work, non-competes (including in such "industries" as sandwich shops, hairstyling, and auto repair), drugs tests (which risk drugs convictions), and more.

Jobs mobility may be limited by blacklists or other forms of discrimination: H1-B visas or other immigration status, social, religious, gender/sex, issues (not legally, in most cases, but de-facto), and more.

Employees are committing just as much of their fungible time, and often appreciably all of their available resources, which for roughly half the population net out to roughly zero. Figures I've seen suggest that about that number could not come up with $500 - $2000 (amount varies) on a 1-2 week notice -- that's far less than the amount required for, say, a business-appropriate wardrobe, transit or transport access, apartment deposit, and a month's food.

And that's within the US/EU/AU/JP/UK. It's considerably worse in much the rest of the world.
Same thing for me. I think I have 2 or 3 accounts (by accident) that I created over the years. When I login I never know what files to expect... that being said I don't use DropBox that much, but occasionally someone shares something via DropBox and I almost inevitably have a login issue.
the sacrifices are greater compared to just being an employee.

Sunk cost fallacy.
Doesn't the monthly risk depend on the reliability of the provider?

There are a lot of Dallas Firefighters and GM employees and many, many others that took that bet and it came up short.

Nobody is insulated from risk.
This is the Mossad argument on cryptography.... if your adversary is Mossad, they'll just rubber hose cryptanalysis you, if your adversary is not Mossad, a proxy is good enough.
One of my favorites is the portrayal of N.I.C.E. director John Wither in "That Hideous Strength" by C. S. Lewis. (especially Chapter 3, "Belbury and St. Anne’s-on-the-Hill")

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A great deal of agricultural regulation and subsidy goes into ensuring the food supply is consistent and in excess of demand. Also, food is almost entirely substitutable - you don't NEED any particular food item. (And for items where there aren't good substitutes, like milk for babies, we have extra subsidies to ensure supply.) Also, no one has a government-granted monopoly on "bread" or "fish". Therefore, the market for food doesn't degenerate under the conditions that prevail currently.

If you needed to eat a whole wheat bagel (only) in the next 24 hours or you would die, and whole wheat bagels were under a government-granted monopoly, the bagel manufacturer could charge you any amount they'd like, couldn't they?
We used to order Munchery all the time back in ~2013 because the food was really high quality. Then they dropped the price which I was fine with, then they the dropped quality too. At which point we stopped. There are a lot of options available for shitty food.
The industry is basically derelict which may be surprising to a lot of people. The design and layout software hasn't changed much in decades. Analog/RF mixed signal circuit design in particular is arcane, manual magic even though it doesn't have to be with modern computing power and simulation capabilities.
> "As far as I know, most people wish on their deathbeds that they'd have worked less, been with their loved ones more, and generally would have done more anything else than work."

No, this is just a hackneyed cliche that gets repeated every time work-life balance gets discussed.

I know quite a few people in late middle age that dearly wish they have worked harder and earned more money, now that they need it and can't.
Interesting, I had the opposite experience. The prices were competitive with options like DoorDash and Postmates, but the quality wasn't there. A dish from Munchery would be $10-13 typically, and delivery was around $3, which compares well against competitors. However, the quality was really lacking. The food had just felt like it wasn't fresh. I assume it was the preservatives and/or salt they add, since it's often cooked a day or two in advance. I stopped ordering from them because of this.
This is not about defeating "the agencies". This is about protecting your data from your ISP.
Yeah, it seems to me that there's a sort of duality between a server OS + containers vs. a hypervisor OS + unikernels. Their both attempting to minimize the overhead of process isolation and deployment flexibility.
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If you already have some savings, the $5,000/mo guaranteed may make retirement feasible. Sure, eventually it'll be inflated to be worth less, but by then your other savings should have grown too. Also, Social Security kicks in at some point.
Yep, this is every landlord's nightmare.
That's cool, it's an imperfect world anyway.
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I think Amazon QuickSight is probably a good example of the types of "real" applications they'll be launching more of in the future.

Services slightly further up the stack that reinforce the value of their infrastructure services. For example, I could see them launching a competitor to ESP/Marketing automation services (reinforcing AWS SES).
I just started diving into using Apollo client the an Elixir backend (using Absinthe). It's an amazing combo! I look forward to more releases from the Apollo team.
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>6ns improvement

That's actually a lot for a memory access. All these launch day benchmarks will be obsoleted.
There is hardly a single villain in the existing system. Everyone is making a profit that is ultimately at the expense of the citizens.

And even despots do some good. It doesn't mean they are any less a villain.
I didn't say that. This is why it's hard to have civil discussion online because people take words out of context and use whatever interpretation they have.

If you are one of the people who are in unfortunate situations, you can choose to live two different lives: either believe that you're done for and live a loser life, or try hard to get out of it.

It's your choice, but there's plenty of evidence where people who came from the bottom rose to the top by working hard (and I mean "top" as in someone who's made world-changing achievements)
The obvious answer is (2) don't run a study at all (assuming the methodology is truly flawed). Or (3) run the study but take the results with a grain of salt and don't draw broad conclusions from it. And (4) we can comment on hacker news about how "wouldn't it be nice if they tested this or that because that would have convinced me, personally."

I think that we're kind of saying the same thing. It's an thought-provoking study and I agree that it is a useful step. But I also agree that further research is required to really draw a conclusion.
This is so true. Just apply the Redux idea of smart/dumb components but without actually using Redux. Higher level component(s) becomes smart and handles the state changes while passing down only properties to children.

Usually I start an app like this and when things get really complicated I add Redux and refactor the state management out of my top component.

MobX looks interesting, however didn't get to try it out yet, only briefly looked over it. I find it a bit annoying that they introduce even more syntax overloading - annotations - as if ES6/7/JSX is not enough already. Will give it a try on a pet project soon.
This is what happens when developers drink the startup Kool-Aid and decide they're the only smart people around. Not every industry is stodgy and "ripe for disruption".
Now they do.
I would pick random number between 0 - 5M

I'm not in need of that much money, so the 1 million guarantee is not valuable enough to me to offset the fact that I would have 50%+ chance of getting something more than 2.5 million.

high end of $2,100,000 on the second case is enough for me to switch to the second one.
tell me where I even mentioned "hours". really.
Why would you be bothered in any way by someone booking a pub, meeting hall, restaurant, etc. from the airbnb website for an event?
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