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Partner, 2 kids, full time job. I get home, play with the kids, wash them and put them to bed. I usually work on side projects most evenings and spend an evening or two a week with my SO.

I usually budget 3 - 4 nights a week to side projects.

I saved most of my time by choosing to work remote/close-to-home. I don't make as much as some of my friends who live in the big city or out on the West coast. However I get to wake up at a reasonable hour, walk my kids to school, and stop by the café on my way to work to catch up on the local gossip.

From about 8 - 11, 3... sometimes 4 nights a week I work on my side projects. I used to do more open source stuff but right now I'm working on a book [0] and testing the waters with a GraphQL service [1]. I've also committed myself to recording one, short, album a month.

It sounds like a lot but I guess being a parent I've learned to juggle and be effective with what little time I have. I tend to pre-plan my activities and force them into habits, rituals that sort of thing.

Some days I'm too exhausted. But that's ok. Take a little time off and go to bed early.
Huh, I thought they got rid of sucralose in 1.7; it's clearly there in 1.8 though.
If money is moving from one state to another, then I would assume it's considered Interstate commerce, which is federal jurisdiction.
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Are you saying that HN commenter response is a good barometer for business ideas? A free and well-diversified focus group?
If those local officials were issuing arbitrary fines and illegally impounding cars I'd agree with you. But they weren't. Those local officials were enforcing the laws of their jurisdictions, which Uber was trying to circumvent.
No, despite most preconceptions about corporations and gov'ts you don't lobby your way out of criminal charges. The best defense to avoid this is don't do stupid things or break the law.

This is actually really important for this community to understand, because a nontrivial # of founders read this. Don't get politically involved to enable bad behaviour -- not only is it wrong, but it won't work. Listen to your lawyers and conscientious objectors, and build a company around good products that people love.
Why haven't you quit yet? There's been more ugly stuff coming out about Uber over the past few years than basically the entire of the rest of the tech industry combined.
It's such an awesome feature. I don't use macOS as much as I used to but I will always switch to my Mac when I get a doc to sign, which is a lot.

It must have saved many many millions of sheets of paper.
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I'm not implying that liquidity is binary. I'm implying that it does not scale linearly, but rather exponentially towards an asymptote. That is, you can add as much as you want, the total amount approaches a limit.

Said a different way, with your "trading costs" substitution: If x amount of human effort is required to reduce trading costs from, say, 5% of a transaction to 0.001%, perhaps (let's assume) that's justified. But is it then wise for a society to encourage expenditure of 10x more effort just to reduce costs to 0.0001%? (This analogy doesn't really hold, because cost of trading could be 0 and there could still be 0 liquidity, just no other parties interested in buying or selling, but it still seems to point at a real issue when restricted to talking about liquidity.)
Not only would it be rude to pelt someone's colony (or planet) like that, but if they were sufficiently advanced to recognize what's happening, they would likely consider it an attack. Not a great way to make friends.
It's been quite a while since I've been involved with PCI, but it was mostly a compliance system for dealing with fraud risk. I don't remember any legal aspects of it though.

There are different levels of PCI, each with requirements for risk mitigation.

Edit: Fixed an apostrophe.
Sort of related but not about the main site being down: search crashes way more often than I expected it would for such a popular site. I read an AMA by the CEO that said they're rolling out a new search by (the end of?) this summer. Probably not enough resources to scale up as fast as they want to.
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> The logic on this statement doesn't really check out, as if this were the case it would be impossible to retain CEOs, they would all leave after a month.

Or, CEOs don't have the same set of options engineers have, or, CEOs are drawn from a pool with different preferences than engineers have, or...

Well, lots of other reasons your dismissal of the claim about engineers based on CEO behavior is unconvincing.
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Sure, but what federal law was broken? I wasn't aware that the federal government enforces local city regulations just because money is moving between states.
Switched to Lyft following the Susan Fowler blog post, haven't noticed any difference in service at all. Great replacement, at least in a major metro.

Sometimes I'll chat with the drivers about what they prefer and most seem to like getting Lyft work more, but Uber has more demand.
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Uber is having one hell of a year. Anyone have an idea whether it has significantly affected their recruitment of new people?
I'm not sure this is relevant to PCI. PCI is about the security of credit card information. Do you store it safely, is access restricted, etc. I don't think PCI is concerned with whether you're doing ethically shady stuff with the data so long as it's stored and transferred in compliant ways.
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Unfortunately, the only reliable way to understand reality has been through the use of such formal system.
I mean, we can say "It's wrong for you to keep using the thing on your phone that's installed and works," but all that will do is make people conceal that they still use Uber.

A better approach might be an anecdote: My friend actually made the switch to Lyft, and apparently it's just as quick and effective as Uber. She hasn't had any complaints as far as I know.
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Your guess is exactly right.
never. HIPPA violation
Don't you think it's fundamentally wrong to cause thousands of deaths every year for profit?
If you're scared about an audit, you shouldn't be in business.
Doesn't seem very likely to be a serious problem for Uber. Basically bad PR.

If I were them, I would be more worried that they can't kill competitors well enough to ever be highly profitable.
Agree with these. You can hire a freelance designer for fairly cheap and it makes a huge difference.

I think adding a visual separator between sections would help too, along with maker search/header/post-cta a little bigger:

http://imgur.com/a/qaj0x
A fair amount of them are breaking their lease agreement, or doing it in violation of local laws. Walking down the Mission in SF, you'll find a fair number of orange sheets taped to apartments from the San Francisco Office of Short Term Rentals, informing the tenant that they are in violation of the SF Administrative Code Chapter 41A.
My stove is a dumb as it gets. It burns wood and produces heat. More wood and/or more air -> more heat. Living in the countryside has its advantages, I guess it will be hard to cook on a wood-burning stove when you live in a city or suburban environment - not to mention the problem of getting wood to feed the thing, even though it is really quite effective - the equivalent of about 1 m of 2x4 of wood is enough for a 2-course meal for 4 people (not that I feed it 2x4's of course). As an added benefit it heats up the kitchen sufficiently to be used as the only source of heat in spring and early fall here in the Swedish countryside.
What developed countries have comparable scale and diversity as the US?
Just went through a PCI audit at a fortune 150. It's not just you it's your processors too. It was hectic to say the least. Then come insurance renewals.
Agree. Change what you can control, at least start there.
To be clear, I'm not criticizing Google. Just presenting an interesting piece of information that shows the approach they've taken on this type of phishing attack in the past.

Phishing is a hard problem, and any technical solution will only go so far. The main criticism I have with many OAuth authorization dialogs, not just Google's, is that they often don't show enough information for technical users to vet the authenticity of the app. It's like if a web browser didn't show the address bar.
I can't speak to all of it, but some of it is the result of people's day-to-day experiences being different than a wikipedia page.
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Ok, what's the over under on the people who coded this getting used as scapegoats? I'm at about 40/60 against.

Morality and legality in software is a massive frontier we hardly pause to think about.
It's only bad advice if they died of malnutrition
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It needs to access your contact book at contacts.google.com.
Electronic surveillance techniques could be one angle.
The challenge with LIDAR (for the foreseeable future) is ubiquity. If you're building a car, then sure, LIDAR, no questions asked. If you're trying to pair this with say a structure-from-motion pipeline for photogrammetry targeting mobile phones as capture devices then this becomes very very important.

The best data for many applications is often the data you can get at scale.
Ah awesome!!!! Shoot me an email would love to chat more about that. The one thing that I wanted to offer that's different than those other sources is if I was an engineer who wanted to see what working with EMR data was going to be like I can't find an EMR export online anywhere (CCDA and raw notes) for using ML and NLP to analyze.
> I realize that non-competes are illegal by CA law, but perhaps they should do the engineering in a different state to stop hemorrhaging talent that tries to compete with them?

Doing engineering in a different state might make it more problematic to attract talent, as might the non-competes separately.

OTOH, maybe Waymo needs to be spun off and be able to offer employees Waymo stock, so it can be a "high-upside startup" option for engineers.
> Doesn't Uber have a responsibility to protect itself and its drivers from fake riders looking to do harm even if they're government employees??

Sure, just like a mob boss has a responsibility to protect himself and his underlings.
Why spend resources developing AI for a plane designed for Humans? I'd imagine that AI on cheap drones/missiles vs traditional human fighters would be a more interesting simulation.
I probably don't know enough about market making and trading to really say whether this question is interesting to people who are.

My thinking, and why I found it interesting, is that the connotation behind showing that the company 'never has a losing day' because of the law of large numbers is that the company is taking practically no risk. I was trying to ask a question about that point; do these companies really have no risk? Are they basically printing money?

I am sure the answer is no, because no company has zero risk. I want to know where the risk is, and I figured the answer to that question is answered by answering the 'how do they make money on 51% of their trades' question.

That might not be the right question, but I don't think my question was equivalent to asking 'how do MARKET MAKERS make money on every trade', because traditional market makers (i.e. the stock exchanges) are not the same as HFTs. A stock exchange has inertia on its side to protect their profits; a competitor has to fight against the network effect to take them on. An HFT has none of that protection.
Yes, but one mammal has created a technological civilization.

We did, but is that really categorically different than groups of primates using primitive tools [1]?

I think the idea that humans are categorically different from other species is misguided. Instead consciousness and intelligence seem to be more continuous than discreet, particularly when looking at semi-intelligent animals like monkeys, dolphins and octopi. Animals in that class can all learn pretty complicated tasks and are able to make use of tools. Self-awareness and consciousness isn't something we understand fully enough to even exclude all animals from possessing.

The only thing that seems particularly unique about humans is our ability to use complex language and record it. Passing down knowledge from one generation to the next is the _only_ reason we have "technological civilization".

[1] http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150818-chimps-living-in-the...
I don't think the council holds any real influence. Also that would be unethical for U.S. Attorneys to do that. I think it's unlikely they're related.
Flipping this the other way - a company that works in a particular area, whether it's law, finance, retail, advertising, anything - it's important to educate engineers about the specifics of that industry. The alternative is to forgo bottom-up innovation in the company (with engineers that don't have enough business context) and risk embedding a command and control approach to feature development (coming in from sales, through product management, into engineering design, all the way down to the interchangeable coding monkeys).
Yeah it's the same here in Sweden but its much less hassle audit wise to just show a separate unit with the company name on the door than a single room. Or at least, that's what my accountant told me, and the grapevine seemed to agree at the time I looked this up.
>> Then there are companies, or rather teams inside companies, that send buy and sell orders into the exchange that they never want to execute, on millisecond timescales, to disrupt the market. They are trying, in simplified terms, to create signals for other market participants that do not really exist, and then execute trades that they know will be profitable by exploiting other participants for whom they generated buy signals.

This is well-known. But for some reason, only kids trading in their parents basement, across the ocean, over a non-fibre connection to the internet, get charged and convicted.
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You know, I remember posting on this site years ago that the Uber CEO was a terrible person (Based on a few interactions I had with him back when UberCab had about 5 employees) and being told by some prominent people that I was wrong. This was back when YC was talking about how "niceness" was a key quality in successful founders. Feels good to have my instincts vindicated.
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Any organization that is suspected of committing one of a list of crimes enumerated in that article, and engages in activity across state lines, falls under federal jurisdiction. In this case, I'm guessing the charge is obstruction of justice. But I'm not a lawyer, and they could be using something other than RICO to press this case
What transaction fees you mean? I can transfer between wallets with no cost using BTC right?
That is kind of the point of a firewall, no? If some random video conferencing app can punch a hole, get a refund.
Yep. That's why when you reach this milestone, you ain't care about the name of a company, if the product is hot or not. All you care about are

- ability to work from home

- not too competitive environment (otherwise you'd get put aside by young people)

- good health coverage
I don't think this is much useful. You should check out the linuxfromscratch.org
So let the local officials bring a case.
If it was written before 1998 I expect you'd find a version of C++ that existed before 1998 :)

If it was written today, I don't know that's a really good question. I think its a mistake to ignore the advances that 2011 and 2014 bring to the table though.
No. Self-hosted anything is not a good alternative for someone running on blogger. The entire reason for using blogger is to not worry about any of the things associated with hosting your own service.

(That's not to say you shouldn't self-host but it's not a great suggestion for someone who made the decision to use blogger in the first place.)
haha https://clean.email scroll to the bottom ;)
title of article says it now supports seamless reloading?

what's the alternative to reloading on config change? automatic detection and reload on file change? personally I prefer the explicit action
> Whether you're a startup that never makes it, or one worth billions, at some point this kind of stuff surfaces.

But if you're a startup that fails early, it doesn't. The thinking is that you do whatever it takes to make it, and that if your nefarious deeds ever come to light it just proves that you've made it big enough to cop some scrutiny.

I don't agree with it, but many do.
RICO covers fraud and obstruction of justice, both of which could theoretically apply to Grayball (or not, depending on the facts uncovered).
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Your assumption is wrong. It's still really difficult for vehicles to navigate without high definition maps.
Only if you claim to be experienced in building distributed, multi threaded systems.
I'm not a fan of Uber, but it seems like it's their right to decide who is allowed to use their service. (Baring protected classes, of course.)

If a regulator started creating fake user accounts in order to scrape Uber's data, I don't see why Uber can't put a stop to that.

And if a legislator is a vocal critic of Uber, I don't see why Uber should be forced to allow them to use their service.
Or the lawsuit could be viewed as an attempt to deter industrial espionage by a competitor within a hot field.

Between these, which do you think is more likely?
More likely, it's the other way around.
No. Google does not "make it better".

And no. It's not "paranoid" to want to dial your phone without onerous terms of service.

And yes. There is something sacred about our phones and their privacy. It's 2017. Without privacy on your mobile device, you effectively have no privacy at all.

I'm not sure your comment could have a higher degree of wrongness. Every single part of it is wrong.
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I get this. I just have an intuition that some friction in a dynamic system is actually a good thing, and also wonder if the growth of HFT might not lead to an unsustainable deviation from an underlying power law distribution of trading activity.
What exactly part of this is criminal? I mean, isn't any business free to discriminate and refuse service to anyone they like (for example government employees, hackers, or Democrats), as long as they are not in one of several protected categories like sex/race/national origin/etc.? Or is this violating consumer privacy laws when CC info is used this way?
What's really strange is that I bet a good percente of the people reading this comment will know exactly what I mean when I refer to a: "Startup that employs mafia tactics and forces businesses to pay a protection fee, or actively fucks them up and attempts to hurt them."

Why aren't the authorities going over the ACTUAL, honest-to-god mafia startup? Sorry, I realize it's off topic here, but my first thought when I read "Justice Dept begins criminal probe" -- was FINALLY!

We all know which company I'm referring to. And all I said was "employs mafia tactics and forces businesses to pay a protection fee, or actively fucks them up and attempts to hurt them". There's only one company like that in our "community". Why are they allowed to behave that way with immunity?

(Sorry to hijack this thread. Also, I have no disclaimer to make and am not associated with either company.)
It depends.

Disclosure up-front: I work for Clover Health, which is a company people probably would put in the same bucket as Oscar. The biggest difference is we operate solely in the Medicare market (people who are eligible for Medicare can enroll in the traditional single-payer system, or a plan from a private insurer under contract to Medicare; in the latter case, Medicare pays a monthly premium to the insurer).

So we're an insurance company. Ho-hum. No big deal.

Except... it turns out that if you want to get people healthy and keep them healthy, being a provider of health care (i.e., nurse, doctor, clinic, etc.) may be the wrong business to get into. A provider sees only the particular slice of your health that they happen to deal with, which may not be much at all. The only entity in the whole system who sees everything is the entity that pays the bills, and that's the insurer.

And that opens up all kinds of opportunities, if you can break into the business. Medicare is interestingly set up to encourage this, since Medicare Advantage plans (that's what we are) get paid partly based on their rating on a five-star scale. The input to that scale is a set of about four dozen factors, many of which measure actions likely to improve or maintain health.

For example: someone who's on a lot of different prescriptions for various conditions faces risks as a result. Not just from uncaught interactions, but from things like the complexity of when and how often they need to take different medications. One of the ratings takes into account how many of those people have had a sit-down chat with someone who will help them go over and understand all of it and come up with a plan to stick to the required regimen. Which sounds like something so simple that it's almost silly, but non-adherence to prescribed medications is a huge problem that affects the health of a lot of people.

And beyond the factors that go into our star rating, there's a lot more low-hanging fruit to go after, and a lot of little and inexpensive things that you can do to help people get healthier and stay that way

Which is a major break from a lot of plans, especially in the Medicare space, because generally people treat the business of insurance as solved: you just hire some actuaries, work out from a given population what you expect the cost to be of covering them, and make sure you charge more than that. Very few companies are trying to get there from the other direction (figure out what the cost would be, then figure out what little things nobody has bothered to do that might have a big impact on that cost).
Yes.

I've already switched some of my purchases to Jet.com because:
1) I don't want the bother of trying to figure out that products are "real" and not knock-offs
2) For some items (most recently under bed storage containers) I need to know the exact dimensions and I could easily find that on Jet but not on Amazon

However, I still default to Amazon for other items. So I think Wal-Mart can compete, but I seriously doubt that they will beat Amazon.

Jeff Bezos is the Sam Walton of this generation of retail and I don't see anything changing that anytime soon.
Those number absolutely include payments. It's rare (in my experience) for an equity market making strategy to be positive in gross terms (prior to the maker-taker rebate). These numbers you hear from Virtu/KCG should be net of exchange trading costs/rebates.
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they don't attach to the PC at all they are a simple standalone device you put your card into

they look like this: http://l7.alamy.com/zooms/04452dfd35964790b44ee6514745de5c/n...

to transfer money you enter your PIN, then the target account number and amount to transfer, and it gives you a code you type into the browser
A fascinating example, and well told. Thanks for sharing.
Can't wait until Nextdoor replaces Yelp. It's only a matter of time.
That's exactly what SEJeff is saying (profit is positively correlated with both trading volume and price volatility).
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