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It's not science fiction, it's just drilling holes in the ground vs waiting for flying cars.

It may be expensive - but you only have to build each tunnel once.

There's a startup that got some hype recently for flying an electric airplane between London and Paris - when as someone commented on the HN story [0] you can just take the Eurostar through the tunnel - which is electric and takes just as long and doesn't cost any more.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13930880
AMD's Threadripper will bring a 16-core, 32-thread monster to the desktop
Archived link:

http://archive.is/HiG0l
The vehicles use a monorail, not asphalt. Both in the concept video and the actual prototype of the electric sled in a tube video.

Also, the concept video shows multi-user pods. If you pack them as full as a rush hour subway, you could probably equal or exceed a subway's throughput.
Swedish gov't agency blocks Israeli amb. and Foreign Min. Twitter accounts
Imagine you were trying to measure whether or not increasing X proportionally increases Y. Now imagine you first sort your data points, Xi and Yi, independently -- it will now misleadingly appear like Y increases when X increases since the variables are both sorted. You've scrambled your data (Xi, Yi) to be (Xk, Yj). So you're essentially working with a totally different dataset now.
What do you mean by interest in car ownership?
Wasn't that the WSJ?
Cows are treated pretty fairly until the end. They are usually grass feed and graze until they fatten them up for slaughter. They have miles and miles of fields to roam. You can find pigs that are treated fairly or are "free range". Both of these animals have been domesticated and lives with humans for a couple thousand years.

Both of these animals are slaughtered young so they aren't locked up for years and years.

Putting an dolphin in a small pond and put to work all day doing tricks is horrible. Whales and dolphins belong in the open ocean where they can swim for miles and miles. They are not domesticated animals.

My view is that if you have to put the animal in a cage to keep it, you shouldn't have them. The exception would be a fish tank with nothing exotic.
privacy.com?
Interestingly I was researching TLS forward secrecy. And the recommendation seems to be to disable tls tickets. https://timtaubert.de/blog/2014/11/the-sad-state-of-server-s...
Apple Assembles First iPhones in India
Steven Pinker talked about the idea of the "Left Pole". A mythical place where any belief that doesn't conform to your ideology appears to be right leaning. You can say the same thing about the right.

If I started a political party and wanted to capture myself. I'd just steal all the good ideas from all the parties.
How to (whatever)

Works for me :-)
Fuzz JSON with this one weird trick
> Well, the bug here is that user input wasn't checked.

It will just result in your minefield function being wrapped inside safe variant which just returns an error in some form. Which could happen in the first place.

Seriously the best thing is throwing an exception on the bug path too. If it's truly a bug, then it shouldn't be handled and you get what you just described.

If it's a bug that could be constrained into a subsystem, you can maybe get away buy bringing down the subsystem only. That's what actually happens with your strategy too, but on the process/OS/service hypervisor level.
That's a good point I didn't think of actually. Forgot about the extra commute time to/from the daycare.
"treat each other with respect"

Sounds like a loophole, not just 'more formally.'
Can't wait for the blockchain frenzy to start, because I started investing in altcoins a few months ago.

XRP (ripple) seems to have the potential to disrupt a few thousands job in banking in the near future
Sorry, but exercise doesn't require a gym membership, that's just nonsense. Look at the guys in prison. Go run around your block, do pushups, and pull-ups in your house. I've never spent a dime in a gym, and I exercise five days a week.

Also exercise is not for weight loss, it's for exercise.
Can you not ask the bank not to do this, though?
Yes it is but an Engineer cannot create time and other resources required for solving this problem out of thin air. The so called "Management" needs to learn this lesson and until they don't an Engineer can't do much.
Knowing a little about the people who make Signal, and their principles (particularly Moxie Marlinspike), it would surprise me nigh unto death were they to compromise its security in any way.
How far away is ML from identifying everything in a picture?

For example if we could take a photo of Noah's Ark loading up every animal?

Do you just loop through each NN you have on each species?
There could be technical issues with keeping grandfathered plans around. Maybe the 16mb email accounts were on an old system that was getting increasingly difficult to maintain?
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> It's git. It's decentralized.

Except for issue/project tracking. And all ACL and organisation configuration. And CI hooks and so on. Of course GitLab lets you make a clone of this information, but that's a hack.
Really good overview of the current business environment for OSS companies and SAAS vendors of OSS software.

I definitely agree that Amazon, Azure and Google are squeezing the OSS vendors and other SAAS providers by offering their own hosted options. From experience, I know that it's possible to still compete with the large cloud vendors, so I don't think that they're necessarily an existential threat to OSS businesses. But if you're a VC-backed company watching your valuation and your investors are expecting a 100x return, I think that cloud vendors jumping into your market makes the big investor payday a lot less likely. And if you want to compete in the SAAS market your company needs to get really good at the managed hosting business.

IANAL, but if all options are on the table is it possible to have a modified OSS license that would exclude 'hyperscale' cloud vendors from offering a hosted version?
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I thought either way you get oversrafted fee or at least in the case of a debit card unless the card comes with a cap limit.
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Leave it to an academic to think a degree is necessary at all to be successful in this field. The value of a 65k course where a couple of cheap certs will serve even better is dubious at best.
Reducing density of cities actually increases a lot of problems. It means you have to spend a lot more of your time traveling, which will make all these problems worse. LA is a fairly low density city and has terrible traffic problems. It reduces economic efficiency, too.

Additionally, public transport often interferes with regular road traffic, making the problem worse. The solution is to use an elevated train (Chicago) or subways. So now you're back at 3D.

And biking in a low-density city isn't a practical solution.
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Yes many of them are. People on part time contracts so companies don't have to pay healthcare. It's really quite grim.
Tell HN: The term serverless needs to disappear
Small rant on something that truly annoys me.

The term "serverless" needs to go away.

You're utilizing servers that someone else is managing. By definition, it's not a server-less architecture. You still point a DNS record at it.

There's got to be a better name choice which intermingles the concepts of managed servers, auto scaling, etc.
In US history some black slave women working in the house were called "Mammy"
No, no he didn't. None of the information he released revealed anything criminal whatsoever. All he did was violate his oath and the law, and for what?
> My point was that if nobody bothers to look at the code, the bug will go undetected. Think of how long the Heartbleed bug had been in OpenSSL before it was discovered.

Yes, I agree. "Linus's Law", while it has some truth, is a flawed (and open source) reasoning if considered absolute.
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This might be a slightly better page: https://www.continuum.io/anaconda-overview

But, they really don't give enough info about what, where, why. What data? Who is this intended for? Etc.
'90s Japanese cars were much the same, you could generally increase the engine power by a factor of at least 1.5x - 2x with bolt-on mods and still keep things mostly reliable.
It sounds like you own a contractually agreed upon amount of shares. Since it's not an employment contract but ownership you can just walk away and keep all your shares until you or the company dies. If they want you out they can buy your shares. But otherwise there is no problem with keeping the shares and walking away.

Before I had to fight for my legal rights a few times I always considered agreement more important than legal state. Don't do that. People will exploit that and give you much less than they owe you or ask much more than you owe them. Focus on your legal right first. You wouldn't give them your car or smartphone as a gift, right? Then don't just gift them your shares.

It sounds like there is no reason to sell your shares before the company gets more funding, which should also increase the value of your shares.

If you don't have a written agreement about the shares take whatever you can as fast as possible.
Of course, this approach only works if you're happy to have your service cut off more or less abruptly if your card bounces, something the author of the article explicitly mentions isn't an option.

The problem (in the article at least) isn't being surreptitiously billed a large amount, it is cost of a critical service changing dramatically without warning.
> Since concrete production accounts for 4.5% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions,

there is no way this is even close to being correct. For a point of comparison, "Airlines account for about 2 percent of global emissions".

just how much concrete does this guy think is being produced. come on. He probably misreported a figure that said concrete production accounts for 4.5% of all construction-related greenhouse gas emissions.
I don't think they should get a free pass, but I don't think they should be beholden forever to be under-metering traffic if they made a mistake and weren't counting part of it (as it seems to be the case here).

To that extent, they should have communicated this better, ideally 90 days out perhaps even with phone calls for customers whose bill will increase notably.
CaptialOne does this pretty well. So far it is the only bank I have come across would alert me they are blocking the transaction for a few days so I have a chance to review and if I don't they will release the block. Every 6 months or so they have someone called me up to verify recent transactions.
No matter what they do, they're going to make someone miserable.

As it stands, they've chosen to make the people who don't use the site miserable.

I'm not sure why you'd expect them to make the people who do use it miserable.
When the original vendor gets purchased by one of the big companies, it's time to move on. If it's Google, run.
SSH man-in-the-middle tool
Forgive the slightly lazy response and lack of sources but - I remember there was a crowd source delivery service in the UK. Whereby you could bid for the opportunity to deliver something from one place to another.
Good question, and it's a personal decision as to what a person believes their best path is.

Speaking as someone who has co-founded a successful company (Wombat Security Technologies, over a thousand customers for our security training software), I really didn't know what I didn't know. As an undergrad and a PhD student in CS, I learned tons about graphics, distributed systems, hardware, algorithms, and so on. But that didn't prepare me to read balance sheets, understand how to do a good competitive analysis, know how to manage people, know the best methods for rapidly prototyping and validating ideas, how to do sales and marketing and (more importantly) how to measure it, and so on.

Just on this last point, like most techies, I originally had a negative view of sales and marketing. I never realized how hard it was, how good you have to be at it, and that it can actually be measured in useful ways. If you're lucky enough to be part of a good team that can teach you these and other skills, that's really fantastic.

Now, our Master's of Product Management won't teach you all of the skills above, but it covers many of them. It also does it in a safe space where it's ok to try out ideas, take risks, and fail. You can do it without having to worry about making payroll (though of course there is tuition), or having to find space to lease, or figuring out founder's pies, or worrying about lots of other logistics and paperwork.

That is, at a startup, you are focused solely on one thing: survival. You don't have a lot of time for reflection, for deep thinking, for understanding what are best practices backed by lots of empirical evidence. Like I had when doing my startup, you might also have a narrow view of things because you simply don't know what you don't know. You don't know what other options are possible. And making too many mistakes can be fatal for a startup, resulting in bad feelings from your co-founders and funders.

Now obviously no single master's program can address all of that, or even guarantee success. These are just very different paths for learning, with lots of different goals and tradeoffs.

It's also worth pointing out that startups are not for everyone. Some people might be at a large company and want to make a career change, but still want to stay at a large company. Again, different goals and different tradeoffs.
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Started with WSJ but lots of other outlets pitched in.
Most animals that are raised for meat are treated horribly. there is no way around that. I am not for dolphins being held captive but they have it much better than most cows, pigs or chickens.
> raise 500K for 25%

This puts the company at a valuation of 2M

After that you would have 1/3 of 75% of 2M, that is, 495k

You can base your "how much" answers on the above calculation (and previous money raised)

If you really don't want to be a part of it anymore, propose them to pay you in installments (depends on the company cash flow)
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Evaluation of technologies is an important skill for any developer to learn.
Lock-in on a proprietary technology that powers your company should be a giant red flag.
In some cases, you are obligated to use a third party (Payment Processing) but if
it is a core part of your business you should really think about why you are unable to
do it yourself. I've seen a few demos of firebase before and while their demos are highly
polished, there is nothing they offer that couldn't be done by open source tools.

A hard lesson learned, but hopefully this company will pull through.
I decided to submit the link that I gave:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14357859

I'm not sure whether my chosen title follows HN guidelines - admins please feel free to edit
> Except for one situation...

And the other situations.

If the rest of the founding team think you're holding too much; it may well demotivate them or cause them to leave entirely, damaging growth and ultimately your chances of success.

If incoming investors think an early investor or departed team member is holding too much equity they may be reluctant to come on board unless that situation is rectified.

Thinking about you as an early employee with 16/48 months of vesting, 10% is about right assuming you hit full "good leaver" provisions... but that's a huge proportion of the business to be walking out of the door.

I understand your co-founders' frustration. They now need to use the remaining 23% equity to replace you rapidly without losing critical early momentum. Even aside from no longer actively contributing that distraction will reduce the chance of the business succeeding.

Considering the gambles taken by all parties I don't think there's a right answer here. I guess I'm curious what you think the actual value of the equity is if you're willing to leave so early.
Because it is new FoxNews, they spread half truths and missinformation.

Yesterday they published article how Seth Rich was never in contact with Wikileaks. From other sites there seem to be healthy exchange between him and Wikileaks before his murder. How can you be journalist and not know that.
I really appreciate your feedback, improving the UX/UI of GitLab is my number one priority. We have been doing extensive research on Navigation, you can see the issue here:

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/ux-research/issues/7

I would love for you to take a look and give us feedback on the two directions we are considering. When we made a significant change to our navigation by removing the sidebar, most felt that there was "too little" information being shown, so I am intrigued by your "too much" comment.
They clearly never looked at the task manager or something similar. I'm running ~900 threads on my CPU which has only 6 cores and 12 threads. Magic! ;o)
GitLab has been very receptive to many recommendations. There's discussion (stalled) here:

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/15678

More discussion can be found in the archives:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/repo-criteria-discuss/
Looks like you have to pay for Backendless. I can't see an open source version. Also, Horizon looks dead.
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So far I've seen only one customer notably affected, and (judging by the post) I doubt they'll be sticking around on Firebase. There are a lot of take-aways for this story, but I don't think "vendor lock-in" really fits.
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He certainly seems to have been "stealthing" before it was called "stealthing"
Yes, you can. The last few banks accounts I've created have all asked if I wanted overdraft protection. You say "NO! decline ANY transaction that would cause an overdraft"
Furthermore, security bugs are a special case, because of the motivation for the bad guys to find them first.

One might argue that the rest of us have just as much motivation, but you know how that works in practice.
He'd only have 495k if someone would be willing to buy him out for 495k. Nothing else.
Providers to some degree get a free pass when they do their best to fix their mistakes.

In Gitlab's case, their response was excellent and their total data loss was less than a day's work - and even that only for a full time manipulator of gitlab metadata (project managers? some parts of QA?): "Database data such as projects, issues, snippets, etc. created between January 31st 17:20 UTC and 23:30 UTC has been lost. Git repositories and Wikis were not removed as they are stored separately." ( https://about.gitlab.com/2017/02/10/postmortem-of-database-o... )

Considering that "[...] out of 5 backup/replication techniques deployed none are working reliably or set up in the first place." ( https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GCK53YDcBWQveod9kfzW-VCx... ), this was a pretty amazing result, and about the best a response they could make. That, combined with their transparency, earns something of a pass (especially when data loss I care about is already limited by git's DVCS nature, even if they had obliterated the repository data.)

In Firelab's case, if no other action is taken, they've actively mislead their customer in failing to follow through on crediting their account, charged them an obscene and unsupported price hike, and gone incommunicado. That's like... an anti-pass.
See:

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/15678

More discussion can be found in the archives:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/repo-criteria-discuss/
Only way I got around the paywall was pasting the URL into Google then clicking 'Cached' version.
I don't agree. Manning and Snowden irresponsibly put their government in an embarrassing position wrt every other country, friend or enemy. Snowden may be partially justified because he wanted to protect his people from his government, but was it really necessary to go all-public? Why talk to a journalist instead of a judge?

Assange, exactly what did he do of heroic? Again, secrecy is a very important weapon in international relations. Just stealing random documents from random actors... I can't see any advantage for people at large, but only for a few among those who were not hit by the randomly-aimed sabotages.

While not being pro-Trump, not at all, I can't see why he should be blamed for sharing selected information with a selected partner (Russia, very recently) while these three guys should be hosannaed.
Snowden is a traitor. If he'd only released information on the NSA's domestic spying he would be a hero. His revelations about the NSA's foreign activities crossed the line.
Or if you want actual truth, interview people at said missing home.

Person A was rich, her 500k in savings was all spent to provide her care at a rate of 5k per month until it is gone.

Person B had 100k to her name. She paid the nursing home 5k per month until it was gone. Then care is free until the money runs out.

Person C had 0 money. They paid $0 from day 1.

All three got the same medical care. All three got the same food. Maybe person A spring for a private room vs a shared room... But otherwise all would be the same.

Nursing homes in general aren't great. Hopefully you can stay out of them. Eating well and exercising seem to help. If not, money won't do much.
While this article[0] demonstrates that numbers have improved slightly for actual car ownership as millenials age, it still contains other tidbits and statistics (like the having driver's license by 18 stat at 60% vs. 80% in 1980) that reflect views on car ownership amongst millenials today.

Anecdote, I don't have a lot of mileage (pun unintended), but every girl I've ever dated did not have license, and neither do I, and I am 27. I live alone and bike and bus ride for the most part.

[0] http://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-millennials-c...
why bother? Just click back and move on to other news.
I'm drawing a comparison with gadget reviews (MKBHD youtube), but isn't it better to get news from an outlet you know the leanings and interests of than of one you don't ? I'm paraphrasing MKBHD here, but I know his tastes and how they differ from mine, thus I can infer good information from his reviews by working out the differences.

It may be less easy to do with political news -which are even more emotionally loaded than an Apple Watch review- than with gadget reviews, but it's worth it in my opinion.
Google support team is a python scripts. You cannot call someone and get real help.
I'm sure that's true.

But then it's not my problem.

FastMail made an agreement - $15 in exchange for a lifetime member account.

Now they don't want to honour that agreement.

And they've created work for me: What to do about my father's email account?

I have his email address as part of the domain that I have associated with my (legacy) FastMail enhanced account. They've discontinued family accounts for new signups.
Brilliant idea! Why not try it out yourself and see how it goes?
They won't cut you off immediately and the gain you get is some breathing space/wriggle room to decide what your next step is going to be once you've been landed with a huge, unexpected bill.

Also, nothing gets them talking to you faster than a bounced invoice :)
My reference to Japan was wrt it's Car production. I want to use in US.

PS: How does one follow replies on this website? I'm new here.