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http://eclipsophile.com/total-solar-eclipses/total-solar-ecl... has weather overviews for various locations and it rates eastern Oregon as possibly the best place as far as weather goes. Once you get east of the mountains there's much less water to cause viewing problems.
Fun -- Texas Memory Systems was already shipping a product in that era that was FPGA-based. It did a variety of complicated network protocols, like Fibre Channel and eventually InfiniBand, with a pure FPGA implementation. The guy who ran the company was also an FPGA wizard. I was on a telecon with him once.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Memory_Systems
20 have been reprimanded so far
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Perhaps, but science is a human endeavor like any other and thus subject to human biases. I think a great example is the discovery of the neutrino. Particle tracks showed a clear violation of energy, momentum and angular momentum, but Pauli and others believed in these fundamental properties of the universe so strongly that he (they?) proposed a particle that was virtually undetectable to keep those properties. This was a non-scientific hypothesis at the time, but it told scientists the direction they needed to pursue in order to get to the point where the hypothesis could become scientific.

Most argue that the discovery of the neutrino saved the fundamental conservation laws, but we should never lose sight of the fact that we still don't detect them in a very large percentage of events we record (we say simply that they are there, but interact weakly).

One important measure of whether a hypothesis is likely going to be accepted as true in the future is that as we build better and more sensitive detectors we detect more outcomes favorable to the hypothesis. This is the way smart money bets when data are still hard to come by (see 'climate change').
She should become COO of Uber. Perfect!
For someone buying something, authorization is all that matters.
Not so fast, it's not "only" a bubble.
there is likely more to the story - the volume of negative stories across all mediums really stinks - I fully expect it to come out that negativity was heavily funded at some point

I get some newsworthy things have happened there - but you'd expect that with such explosive/disruptive growth story

I know a lot of people who use Uber - they love the service - and it's become a verb - the online/media profile I see of the company has no resemblance to how everyone I interact with see it irl
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-r...

Stats show that despite having the most amount of guns, the US does not have the most amount of homicides (by firearm) per capita. Most EU (and Canada!) are doing quite well by comparison against the US.
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Yeah, and at other companies, they're handled internally with respect and compassion. That's why you don't read about them in Medium posts where the employee repeatedly points to appalling failures within the organization.
the miners are running software that decides which transactions to include, and I'm sure the software has some logic where it will pick the highest-fee transactions when they can't include them all
Took long time to do it right. Camera doesn't focus and minimal brightness turns screen off (which is nearly impossible to restore). Those are the only problems thought.
That is not an answer to the plain and direct question that was asked.
I don't think this needs to be a zero sum game (they can improve macOS' many problems and also work on self driving AI), but​ your point stands. Apple doesn't seem to care about certain classes of users.
He could have toned down the "playboy flair" and bro attitude as the company got larger and many of these PR issues would have been avoided (or would have been less of an issue). Perhaps just tell the cab driver that you will look into the issue rather than try to win an argument. Many of the things he has done are not wrong in a vacuum, but are not the right way of doing things when you want to run an inclusive company with a good culture.
Please keep writing. I very much enjoy Postgres and also your blog about it.
If you have a lot of unused memory in your cluster, and your application runs a lot faster if you use it, how is that a bad thing?
I think this often as well.

And I have actively practiced my typing to try to reduce this pain. I am stuck at a sustained speed of about 55 WPM, much slower than think. In bursts I can get it much higher, but not for a whole C++ class or lengthy function. I know it shouldn't annoy me but it does that my father, who is practically retired and has has never coded types at like 80 and this while in the military of all the unlikely places.
I agree with most of what you said. But I guess what you are missing is that huge outrage machines like Twitter, FB and new generation online media did not existed 10 years back or at least in this form and with such global reach.

So many powerful people in past have had it easy for their less than perfect behavior.
Being a ruthless business leader does not mean allowing a toxic culture to exist under your leadership.

Being ruthless doesn't mean sending an executive to another country to get medical records on someone who is filing a lawsuit.

It doesn't mean having an HR department that ignores sexual harassment

If you cannot separate the two then that's a very big problem
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People who have to work to maintain housing and a family don't take a year off after losing someone close.

If you have the money and the ability, and the pain is hard enough, why would it be unreasonable to take time off? I haven't lost a parent yet, but I would probably want more than a weekend to grieve.
This isn't just the press covering Uber in a negative way.

I had been hearing horrible stories in private from former and current Uber engineers for several years before the first big press stories broke and personal blogs about Uber went viral. I wasn't surprised in the slightest that the press starting covering these Uber culture issues in a negative way, I was surprised that it took so long before they picked up the story and did.

Several engineers that I have talked to over the years had already been turning down Uber recruiters specifically because of Uber's culture problems, and I had already turned down their recruiters a few times as well as recommended to others to do the same. Their culture has been hurting the company for a long time, and its long past time for them to do something about it. If that means Kalanik needs to be ousted then they should just go ahead and do it now.
Probably disagree on some aspects, and I may not have choosen the best example, or clarified my position enough. In a situation where two parties are voluntarily engaging in competition(for a job applicant), the party who offers more value usually does win, and I think that's appropriate. And I support allocating resources to fight crime based upon the effect of the crime's proceeds in supporting or leading to further crime. In mandatory participation systems like public civil services I am for at least a baseline allocation of resourses not directly correlated to financial input of the particular recipient.
Also, it's about a different car
>The ideal location is 70 miles wide

True but I was trying to minimize the distance from Omaha airport since I have to catch a flight 5 hours later. It will be interesting to see how many of the ~500,000 Omaha residents will be on that stretch of I-80!
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Kalanick was aware and had seen the rape victim's health records and apparently it was an attempt (by Emil?) to figure out how to discredit the victim and her accusations.

These are horrific people and while I sympathize with Kalanick over the loss of his mother and his father's situation, I do not wish him any professional success.
Well, how far in advance are you planning? It's easy to over-optimize when you're starting out and you end up all tangled in an overly-complex system that is over-engineered for your needs.

Everything in moderation. You can often run a single master PostgreSQL system into the millions of transactions a second without having to resort to sharding and other complexities.
Question - Can someone explain the $4.5B valuation of Yahoo-Verizon deal versus the $49.46B Market cap of Yahoo! Inc. ticker on Nasdaq. Thanks.
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1) This should be very easy. However, in this first version you won't be able to migrate the user history itself. Depending on the channel, it may vary from injecting a little js script on your website to authenticate our social media profiles.

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If you want this account not to be banned, you need to never post like this again. It blatantly violates the guidelines, which ask you to comment civilly and not to call names.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
https://www.simplystatistics.org/2016/04/20/data-repositorie...

Users want direct links and CSV.

(my note: prefereably the CSV data should split into small, manageable segments not one enormous file that will cause most software to choke; users can concatenate these segments themselves if they want larger files - catenating is easier than splitting!)
You're right, there are several bubbles.
What are the possible benefits of doing something that could be done using plaintext, using a JSON blob?
If you want to experience the greatest duration plan a trip to Southern Illinois (more info about duration here: https://www.greatamericaneclipse.com/illinois/).

As a bonus a friend of mine's family winery has booked Ozzy to "bark at the moon" during the eclipse: http://loudwire.com/ozzy-osbourne-headlining-moonstock-solar...
Why not just wipe the comp/reinstall the browser? Seems easier and safer. Also get them on ublock so they cant click dangerous ads..
Tried using Safari instead? Might make a difference?
Yep. And a lot of SUVs these days are not really SUVs in the traditional sense. The thing about the Tesla that gets me is that you can't even really put a roof rack on it because of the doors. Which for a lot of people I know (including myself) who drive SUVs would be a complete showstopper.
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Investors. Don't want to be seen as straying too far from the path or doing anything risky.
CEOs normally hold a healthy chunk of company stock, which appreciates with their success. So good CEOs are maybe not as underpaid.
"all other" ? Dell does great work with Linux on some XPS laptops. Ubuntu may not be what we want, but the foundation is set for other distros.
Atlassian was founded 15 years ago, so the funding scene is quite different now -- notwithstanding that the Atlassian founders and employees themselves are now active investors. Blackbird is a good (and long standing) example.

Atlassian did take money, but was actually quite far down the road. Something like 7 or 8 years in. Even then it wasn't a very standard VC deal. They're naturally a global company, but they're still very much an Australian company -- so I don't think the moving from AU to US for funding narrative is representative (or really generalizable for other AU startups).

I totally agree there is lots of good technical talent in Australia. As good as anywhere, but the culture of risks and startups is only just starting to germinate. Seems to be taking root now though.
There's two ways of interpreting "online payments" here. Through the lens of ACH/wire payments, your point is spot on.

However, I suspect the author meant Venmo/Paypal etc.; that's certainly how I interpreted the sentence. I'd argue that those services are better comparisons for P2P payments, especially in the US, where most consumers are not able or inclined to give out their bank information to receive an ACH payment.

Compared to those incumbent online P2P payment services, Bitcoin really is starting to lag behind in that regard.
Sounds like you want to stick to something with a non-GNU userspace, apparently.
Shame, sounds like the same problems that Canada's tech scene also has.
Omg, how is THIS the story that is on the top of hacker news?

I want to hear the results of the Holder investigation.
Is the date on that accurate, did that happen in 2016? Kinda hurts the theory that they were trying to avoid Unix similarity.
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Because currency describes the value.

It's like MtGox was an apple storage facility and lost all your apples - you wouldn't get apples back, you'd get the value of those apples.

Which is in a real currency.
I wish I had read this before I clicked that link. Fuck.
It's pretty clear what's happening. Ethereum (ETH) is rising because people are buying into initial coin offerings (ICOs). They aren't holding ETH, so they don't care about the price of ETH rising in terms of Bitcoin (BTC) or dollars. The ICOs are the significant holders of ETH. They haven't sold their ETH because 1) the price of ETH is still rising rapidly, 2) they don't yet need to access the funds for development, and 3) smart contracts connected to token sales usually allocate ETH for future use. Eventually, ICOs will begin to sell or distribute their ETH to fund the development of their projects.
Perhaps an attempt to ask you to zoom out and see some perspective. You just told someone that you're totally okay expecting someone's family to be unable to defend themselves from an attacker.

But, if you were just blasting an opinion out there rather than attempting to have a discussion - why are you here again? - fine. Can't argue with an opinion, even if it comes off as completely insensitive and tone-deaf.
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>But this is exactly how you're supposed to run a massively successful startup in its first decade.

Is this sort of behavior what we'd like to condone? I mean you even admit that its business practices are sometimes exploitative and that's what? How we're supposed to do things? "Grey-area" is a pretty large understatement as well:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uber_protests_and_legal_action...

>There was literally nothing wrong with the email

4) Do not have sex with another employee UNLESS a) you have asked that person for that privilege and they have responded with an emphatic "YES! I will have sex with you" AND b) the two (or more) of you do not work in the same chain of command. Yes, that means that Travis will be celibate on this trip. #CEOLife #FML

How do you not see the problem with this? Travis is a full-grown adult, he's not even some kid fresh out of college and this is the culture he's setting? We've already seen the results of this culture through Susan Fowler and others.

>Uber is a cultural phenomenon that arguably has more longevity than something like Facebook.

Well first it needs to run a profit...

>I just think he's been treated unfairly because of his playboy flair, but he's actually a pretty smart, ruthless business leader. Even this story tries hard to dehumanize him

Travis is the worst vision of this sort of techno-utopian capitalism. He's a billionaire running a company which can't make a profit. A business which breaks the laws in almost every country it enters, which doesn't seek to even understand why the regulation it is breaking exists in the first place. He runs the company like a frat house. This company also has two viable paths to profit:

1) Become a monopoly and raise prices.
2) Automate his employees (drivers) away.

You're right, Travis has been ruthless so I'm not so sure why we need to put on the kid gloves when we talk about him or his company.
> in the end they never returned my calls or contacted me to say if I got the job or not.

You didn't get the job.
R/Python scripts are 100% plain text. iPython notebooks are not.
Having written tons of curriculum in Markdown, I thought it was amazing! The remixing possibilities are endless and it makes all of it so much more programmable.
I'm a capitalist and think that some CEOs are overpaid and that golden parachutes for failed CEOs are obscene. That doesn't mean that I want the government to do something about it. Shareholders are getting ripped off and that's their problem ultimately. Caveat emptor.
Great article, but 'runs the body' is a bit overkill. If you want to endanger your personal safety, try convincing a nephrologist that the liver runs the body.
A plain text file and a notebook.

Every day I transcribe the notebook into the text file.

Every time I start a terminal window it gives me the top line, and rotates it to the bottom. I then review that idea and either do something about it, or just delete it from the file.
Because 99.9999...% of the population doesn't have that as an option. The cheeky expression "they wouldn't call it work if loads of people wanted to do it" comes to mind. As a general rule, if someone (a group, etc) is willing to pay you to do something it's not something that's going to provide "psychological" or "spiritual" gains.
Can you?

Microsoft Antitrust nightmare that probably set them back 5 years.
Google for invading our privacy, they are still fighting big important battles in Europe.
Facebook for similar privacy invasion, the whole beacon debacle.

There are a lot of things that they probably did wrong, but not to the extend that the press is picturing it.

Agreed 100% w/ dvt.
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Why not flip it around a bit: what percentage do you think?

Don't get me wrong, I'm not advocating for Uber or sexual harassment or any nonsense like that.

I (seriously) just want to know if you're advocating for giving every company with a > 0.0% harassment rate the Uber treatment.
People have been expecting the crypto bubble to pop for almost a decade now, but prices continue to rise.

At some point you have to admit that this isn't tulip bulbs.
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> never returned my calls or contacted me to say if I got the job or not.

That is very unprofessional. Saddens to hear that.
If you compare the images of the Model S on:

Small overlap front:
http://www.iihs.org/frontend/iihs/ratings/images/api-rating-...

Moderate overlap front:
http://www.iihs.org/frontend/iihs/ratings/images/api-rating-...

You can clearly see a difference where the structural integrity of the door area begins to fail.

Compare that to the BMW 5 series in small overlap front:
http://www.iihs.org/frontend/iihs/ratings/images/api-rating-...

There doesn't appear to be any structural damage to the door area.
>Those people who held out an olive branch only to have it knocked aside are less likely to become allies in the future.

You're still acting like people are doing us a favor by trying to understand us.

They aren't, and we deserve better than that: either deal with us substantively or dismiss us, but don't expect us to try and manipulate your biases in such a way that you end up agreeing with us. That's what you're asking when you say we should try to convince people.

>You will be hard-pressed to find a psychologist who will suggest that ridiculing or attacking a person in that transition period will do anything but turn them away and calcify their original position.

And yet, I've seen the opposite of this happen time and time again. When people are ready to learn, it looks a lot different than this. When people aren't ready, yeah, this is basically what happens. Not to mention that if you talk to a psychologist about rational argument they'll tell you it's a quirk of human cognition, not the rule, and that it's basically futile as a means of really convincing someone.

If they really support us they'll understand eventually and come around. If they don't, they won't. I say this because it happened to me, and here I am arguing with you about this. It takes a very mature person to want to understand these things, and not everybody is mature enough.

This whole concept that we have to be nice to bigots lest they become more bigoted is hugely abusive and unhelpful, and you've yet to justify it.
We're living in different worlds. Everyone I know avoids franchises and seeks out the mom and pop shops. Why settle for known mediocrity when you have the chance to get something great? And for those times when greatness is decidedly not achieved, well, you have to expect some lumps on the road to greatness. You're telling me most people don't think this way? Especially in virtually risk-free situations? Wow.
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Just because someone is "really smart" does not give them license to be "really dumb" when it comes to enabling an inclusive culture, in a company where they have the responsibility of being it's CEO: vis-a-viz, being responsible for the company's employees.

He facilitated a workplace culture that, whether my omission or commission, was toxic for some of the people who worked there. Even if that was 0.001% and he wasn't demonstrably trying to bring that number down, he failed. Being a CEO is not "just" about bringing in profits at any cost, including that of the welfare of the employees.
That aggressive nature is both the reason they have problems and the reason they have been so successful.
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Out of curiosity, do you ever browse with your kids and keep teaching them what to click, what not and why? I assume that it can't make them completely safe, but it should eventually bring them near to it. If you're doing it, what's your experience with that and where do you think the malware is still coming from?
If you've never seen a total eclipse before and you live in the US, make every effort to see this one! It's not something that you can get the feel of by viewing photos or video. Watching the sun get eaten by a black void activates something deep inside the animal brain. Don't settle for a partial eclipse, do what it takes to get in the path of totality.

If you have seen a total eclipse before, then you don't need any convincing.
I don't think that is true at all. Most people can't even get in on the ICOs.
That's true, but the path of totality is 70 miles wide. If you make contingency plans, pick an area that isn't too populated but has multiple roads, my guess is that it will be fine.

>everybody else camped out 12+ hours before I did

Basically every spot is a good spot as long as you can get to it. Gridlock starting the day before is the only problem I can foresee that would keep me from actually getting there.

I'll probably pack the bikes in the insane case that I have to leave my car on the side of the road 20 miles outside of the path of totality or something. But the only way I see that happening is if it turns into something like a hurricane evacuation.
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Except it's rumored Tesla is working a Model Y crossover
I wouldn't hold your breath. These problems don't start or end with Fowler (though her story is one of the best examples of them), and per her remarks just today, she has no reason to expect them to genuinely change or to apologize.[1]

[1] https://twitter.com/susanthesquark/status/874684029949235200