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So, you're saying the driver should have waited patiently for you to wake up, and then the network would have become consistent? While the CAP theorem says nothing about rollbacks, application of the concepts of CAP certainly involve rollbacks, eventual consistency, or data loss. Perhaps if we are to take your analogy literally, the data loss is your money? But if you don't want that, you have to present an alternative. You are doing a poor job of convincing me that you truly believe this is a literal event.

Instead of considering an abstract CS theory, let's talk about reality. Reality is that you ordered a service and then weren't Available to receive that service, so the other Party was due some of your Cash because that's the user agreement you signed. Saying this is a copout won't get you very far in the real world of law.
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I remember reading some anecdote from an Iraqi at the peak of the war. They talked about how most of the time you're totally safe, but every once in a while a bomb will go off and a bunch of people will die.

There's a spectrum of danger that a lot of us have had the privilege to not experience. I could imagine getting mugged in some places in Europe, but not really imagine dying in the "mugging gone wrong => someone is dead" scenario you hear about in the US.

And of course the idea that I might get killed in a traffic stop is something I have the privilege to not experience.
always updated

... which is well-intended, but it scares me if that means that all of my installations have version updates at the same time without manual intervention or advance notification. What if there's a defect or an introduced fail in backward compatibility? I'd be dead in the water.

Can you designate phased updates such that managers/leads are updated first, followed by staged updates for the remainder (with manual on-demand update available, of course)?

In my experience, there is too little attention given to backward compatibility. Even we as customers are using a feature "incorrectly", it's still a problem if your legacy code base (or applications and documents, in the Office example) is broken by an unexpected update.
what is "real money" to you?
Fiat currency is real money to me. It's the only thing I can pay my taxes with.
It's very easy to make AK-like and AR-like guns. Even if it's correct that the majority come from the US, they certainly wouldn't have to. Many hobbyists even do this kind of thing, and it doesn't require any particularly special manufacturing equipment. My guess would be that the reason they seize more ARs than AKs is not related to the source, but because they find ARs preferable.

If somehow guns stopped flowing across the border, and cartels still wanted them, they'd be up and running in no time. I'd be surprised if they aren't already doing it, because they have other operations that require much more sophistication.
The US is not the only one promoting violence: http://www.insightcrime.org/news-analysis/how-german-firearm...

German firearms are also used in the middle east conflict despite of the "strict weapon export regulations".

Nothing new in politics since 2000 years: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divide_and_rule
Market cap tells you the value of everything: both the business and its money (cash & debt).

Enterprise value is the value of the business (the thing actually generating value) separate from the cash & debt it's holding.

For example, if I have a banana stand worth $250K, but inside the banana stand is a briefcase with $245K, then the $250K is not really the value of the banana stand - it's mostly the value of the cash inside. The Enterprise value of the banana stand is only $5K.

With the debt, the idea is the same but the sign is opposite. So if Ford is worth $50B while holding onto $100B of debt, that implies that the enterprise value is $150B.

Comparing the valuations of Ford and Tesla without subtracting out cash and debt is like running a race without mentioning that the losing racer started a half mile behind. Though they 'lost' by one metric, they're still the faster runner.
Auth/auth via Oath oauth.
bona fides is a Latin word as well. The Romans used to live by it. Why don't we, and why do we think that's acceptable?
This just seems like a property-rental equivalent of the "yo-yo scam" that car dealers do.

The essence of the scam is they carefully let you think you're buying a car when really you're just "applying" for a loan to buy it. They collect a down payment, processing fees, etc., hand you the keys to the car and you drive off... only to get it repossessed a day or two later when "the bank denied your financing". And of course, all the money you gave them is non-refundable, as spelled out in the paperwork you signed. Then they repeat with the next sucker who walks onto the lot.
No, I don't. But why would that matter? This is yet another story about yet another enormous business lying about putting the interests of their "customers" first.
Economics went down a rathole in the 1960's. Happens to a lot of fields.
Good idea. It's definitely an interesting problem and seems like it would be really relevant to the safety side of an autopilot.

E.g. if there are no hands on the wheel, autopilot should probably do whatever it can to prevent a likely accident it sees
Also, waste is a major problem, environmentally.
They touched on this in their SRE post last week: https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/03/reliable-releas...
Ask HN: The easiest way to set up an automated recurring payment to a person?
What is the easiest way to set up an automated recurring monthly payment to an individual? E.g. I borrowed x amount from a friend of mine and would like to pay him off in n months. Is any of the existing financial services (Paypal, Venmo, etc. ) offering a feature like this?
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> The new study shows that depression leads to Alzheimer's and not vice versa as hitherto thought.

it does no such thing.

link to actual study (open access) http://www.readcube.com/articles/10.1038/ncomms14727
I worked at Microsoft as a contractor for a year during the Windows XP Service Pack 2 days. Blaster was so bad that even bringing up a new machine at Microsoft, you had to install patches from a CD that was passed around our team. If you installed Windows while connected to the corporate network, you would see errors start to happen a few seconds after the network interface came online.
This is a good point. I tried to hedge a bit around the exact distinction, and you're right that I messed it up. Still, there seems to be pretty clearly a real distinction here.
Congrats, that's damn hard effort. I've run 50K and I could see maybe pushing it out to 50 miles. But going on to 100 miles seems just so so so much farther. Don't know how you do it!
First news that Apple is developing its own GPU, now they're trying to buy a NAND memory business. At least they're investing some of that huge cash hoard.

What's missing? The biggest thing seems to be displays.
Sure! Think about two companies that just started up in the widget business, each raising $1 million of capital. Company A issued $1 million worth of equity. Company B issued $500,000 worth of equity and borrowed $500,000. Which company is more valuable?

Obviously both are worth the same amount: each company has an "enterprise value" (the value that all investors in all securities place on the underlying enterprise) of $1,000,000. The only difference is that company A has only one class of investor, while company B has investors that own a riskier asset (the equity) and a less risky asset (the debt). But assuming the two companies are otherwise identical, an investor in company B can easily financially engineer themselves into a financial position that is identical to an investor in company A: for every dollar of company B equity they buy, they simply buy one dollar of company B debt. Owning $1 of company B equity and $1 of company B debt is identical to owning $2 of company A equity.

Since the choice of equity or debt financing is (theoretically) arbitrary, when comparing two companies that have very different capital structures, like Ford (mostly debt-financed) and Tesla (mostly equity-financed) you have to control for those differences. The simplest way is the add the value of each company's net debt to the market value of their equity, which gives you the total market value of each underlying enterprise.

A simple example we're all familiar with is home prices. Two neighbors might own nearly identical houses on the same block in the same town. One might have a mortgage and one might own it outright. But no matter the financial situation of the individual owners, the value of the two houses should be about the same: the value of the asset is separate from the financing of the asset.
You'd expect someone at the top to say something like 'You know, that sounds like a spectacularly terrible idea' though.
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looks like bot to me.

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This is the most comprehensive reply on this post today. Kudos for the transparency!
Understated comment of the decade!
It is to someone.
And this is why … I love California and would never move to a “business-friendly” state.

http://www.dca.ca.gov/publications/landlordbook/looking.shtm...

> “The application fee cannot legally be more than the landlord’s actual out-of-pocket costs, and, in 2012, can never be more than $44.51. The landlord must give you a receipt that itemizes his or her out-of-pocket expenses in obtaining and processing the information about you. The landlord must return any unused portion of the fee (for example, if the landlord does not check your references).”
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> Any applicant with a reported history of non payment is a big red flag and would likely be denied.

Directly from the article:

> My application was denied due to their system show that some management company filed missing rent in 2011. Which is not true I have zero collections or public records.

The point is they were lying.
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At least on recent iPhones, the front-facing camera does not have IR filtering, but the back one does.

Source: I use the front camera to debug one of our products, which uses IR LEDs as a flash to check for obstructions.
Your banks website doesn't have this feature?
Are you hiring interns for this summer?
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I don't own either Ford or Tesla stock directly and I'm not sure how accurate this assessment is, but Ford is probably investing the same amount or more as Waymo or Tesla in self driving car technology. It appears all of the large auto manufacturers are technically a little behind Waymo but are starting to catch up and are ahead in other areas of the total problem of getting self driving cars in production - it looks like none of the big US/euro brands is going to be satisfied with integrating something from Waymo.

http://www.navigantresearch.com/research/navigant-research-l...
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> Even disputing a charge on the credit card — they have copies of our ID, smart.

Your credit card company will charge back that charge. AND they will make a note on the merchant's account. More than likely, when you call regarding this merchant account it will already have notes on it -- just making it even quicker.

Once, I paid 2k for a couch on Macys.com. Their delivery guys came to deliver the couch on the agreed day. On that very day - the delivery men called and told me they couldn't get it up the stairs (which was a lie, they needed keys to figure this out). I called Macys support and it was marked delivered WITH MY SIGNATURE and there was nothing that could be done. Upset - I called my credit card company. I had the funds back in my account in 24 hours.
The same way you know your copy of the kernel tree is authentic.
Personally I feel that Berlin gives off an unsafe feeling on your first few nights but you as you stay longer you start to see there is no reason for it, I mean I remember going past a train station at night and some guy was playing some pots as drums, while some man sat cross legged with a beer listening. And another time walking up a dodgy back alley into a lively square with an outdoor cinema
thats not really a fair comparison because if you take china and india, the make very inexpensive mobile devices.
Between large outsourcing companies (TCS, Infy, Cognizant, IBM etc) and American staffing companies (Edison-based "desi body shops" etc) - who uses H-1Bs more, in your analysis?
Carmack also wrote a Super User answer [1] with a lot more background on that tweet.

[1] https://superuser.com/questions/419070/transatlantic-ping-fa...
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Money-Debt also expires via bankruptcy and gets eaten away via inflation.
Ah I get it now. Yes, that's a valid distinction.
I am using BoA... and No. Do you know if any banks offer this?
That's not a drawback so much as it's a fact of life. In any large-scale (read: distributed) system trying to provide a high degree of availability, rolling upgrades are the only way code goes out and individual components need to deal with interacting with newer/older dependencies. You can constrain the matrix by only allowing current version plus one back running in production, or forcing deployment orders, and so on, but in modern systems (read: ones where you can't just say "We're taking everything down for 3 hours on Sunday to upgrade.") you can't escape non-atomic upgrades.
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And this is why I love California...

http://www.dca.ca.gov/publications/landlordbook/sec-deposit....

> What if the landlord doesn't provide a full refund, or a statement of deductions and a refund of amounts not deducted, by the end of the 21-day period as required by law? According to a California Supreme Court decision, the landlord loses the right to keep any of the security deposit and must return the entire deposit to you.
I've always been kind of curious how the people who fill threads with quotes work. Do they have macro hot keys? A spreadsheet of quotes? (In some cases, the first google result for a quote is a page explaining that the quote is fake, so either they have some system that avoids google or they just ignore results they don't like.)
i dont think they can, unless they package it with something else eg: flight and hide the actual price.
Yes, it actually is. An OEM builds their own OS from source. Google does not own their OS. Also, why are you claiming that I'm pretending that the MADA contract does not exist? If an OEM wants Google Play Services and Apps then they must agree to the terms in the MADA. It appears you have an problem separating the Android OS the OEM builds and the Google Apps and Services that are given to them.
I think "inexcusable" is very strong.

Maybe "lazy" is the best word, but moving from Android's classic "grant permissions on install" to "prompt for permission" is a major change that they spent a long time working on (I think Android 4 already had a lot of the backend for this?).

It's not like it was secretly granting permissions to apps, and you could always choose to not install something that took too many permissions.

You could say they made the wrong choice, but we're a long way from "this binary can do everything on your files" model of Unices/Windows
How do I get in touch about an internship? The link you provided doesn't have any internship positions, but your post has the intern tag.
Yes it is fraud. For extra credit ensure they send you something by email AND something through usps. That is wire and mail fraud in the US which carrys absolutely ludicrous federal jail time.
Well, they're provably secure for some (mind-bogingly massive) search space.

Security by obscurity tends to refer to measures which can be broken once, and thereafter opened trivially. It sounds like the article is about one of these trivial openings.

Everything can be broken; the goal is to move it or arrest them before they can get in, physically or virtually. It just so happens that, virtually, the time required to brute force it can, at times, be on heat-death-of-the-universe scales. Safes tend to rely on men with guns following soon after alarms trigger.
In theory in a properly managed recovery from a recession bad debt is eliminated via loan restructuring and new more productive debt is created to replace it. And income insurance programs[1] are used to support demand. Austerity during a recession works poorly because instead of replacing unproductive debt with new more productive debt, austerity attempts to subsidize the owners of bad debt by taxing demand.

[1] Unemployment insurance, welfare, state run retirement, pensions, etc.
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* Let people know what they're getting into.*

Are you suggesting that when people signed for the loan - which was not with Navient, as they're on the servicing and collections side - that they didn't know what the terms of repayment would be?
Don't forget about our insatiable need for margaritas and the lime cartels.
Applying semigroup in JavaScript is a wholly different enterprise than studying adjunctions, pullbacks, and the Yoneda lemma. I know we programmers like to call using Monoids "CT", to smash Things together with some associativity (those things existed in abstract algebra long before CT), but I don't think those things capture what CT is about or what the OP article is investigating.
Someone posted this link.
https://www.uscis.gov/working-united-states/temporary-worker...

There are whole IT divisions where there is not a single US citizen or GC holder. Tell me how can one distinguish between projects where the whole project members are H1B holders. Do you expect anyone to complain?

The whole thing feels like a april fools joke to me....
I've been living in Mexico for 8 years. I'm from Europe and married to a Mexican woman. I've lived in a couple different states (DF, Edo. Mexico, Queretaro, Veracruz, Quintana Roo).

I've never once felt not safe, or seen violence.

I see the news and I really wonder if I'm living in a different country.
One benefit of widespread adoption even if filtering countermeasures exist is that pollution treatments will cost money to operate, likely undermining whatever profit they might be making from this.
>Who's fault is it?

Chinese Government.

>Why doesn't Google allow it to be installed on all devices?

You can install it on devices (with varying difficulty depending on if you can unlock bootloader). It just doesn't come pre-installed on any device sold within China.
Speaking of Italy, you'd be hard pressed to feel endangered in Rome, Milan, Turin etc. Naples can get a bit sketchy, but even then. Switzerland and Austria also seem pretty relaxed in my experience.
Took him 8 minutes on what's probably mild steel. A high security enclosure might use something like hardened cast vanadium steel with carbide chips. You'll go through a sack of those drill bits even going through half an inch.
Measuring the hiring process is a different kettle of fish, to measuring on the job.

I think being overly measured in a job makes a job about maximizing the metrics at any cost. And a lot of people will cave into that pressure and take shortcuts in areas that are not measured in order to maximise their measured performance.

For example over estimating, less testing, less documentation if the metrics is about meeting estimates.

Whereas without the metrics they might just do what they think is best given their experience in any given situation.

There is never going to be zero metrics, as managers need to know where the money and time is being spent, but I prefer things on the lighter side.
Kelvin taught at Glasgow, Brahe was a cathedral canon, and De Broglie did his best work for his PhD thesis.
Isn't this Amazon taking a page out of Jack Ma's playbook? Never stop vertically integrating. You have to outscale everyone if you want to leverage that into slimmer margins.

https://techcrunch.com/2015/06/25/alibaba-digital-bank-myban...
>The whole premise is that some states want to make it easier than that. What is a state green card even for if it's just redundant with an existing H1B visa and doesn't increase the total number of immigrants whatsoever?

Look, here's some perspective. The US annually admits:

65,000 H1B visas

70,000 Refugee visas

~200,000 nonfamily immigration visas

~675,000 undetected illegal immigrants

675,000 immigration visas total

9-11 million nonimmigrant visas

If you want to just drop a kid down so they become a citizen, it is a hundred times easier to do it on a travel visa and it always will be. Regardless of how many state green cards there are, it will always be orders of magnitude easier to get a travel visa, hop on a plane, and stay under the radar for a couple months.

The H1B visa is incomparable to a state green card on numbers alone, but it also puts this decision into the hands of a small subsection of employers, which is completely divorced from the desires of the states. It's basically different in every way.

When I said immigrants pay more into taxes than they take out that was was a statement of fact[1], not opinion. They pay the same taxes as us and see severely reduced benefits, even at very low incomes. Cut federal benefits entirely for them and require the states to pay if you like. It's a tiny problem.

As for political unpalatability over finances and scaremongering, there are still plenty of solutions. Forcing states to pay for their green cards is constitutionally tricky, but theres no reason those people need to get federal benefits. If cross-border crime and employment is a problem it would be pretty trivial to have an exclusion zone on the border of states that don't want immigrants. Immigrants wouldn't be able to have residences in that area.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/09/undocum...
I'm in Australia so my recommendations are probably irrelevant. I just find it hard to believe that any bank wouldn't have it, it's a feature I was using 12 years ago.
I was responding to the suggestion that it wasn't okay for any company to not have a legal duty to act in the best interests of its customers.

Navient may well have such a duty. :)