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I agree, but after reading articles like this I always leave with the impression that the personal change doesn't need to be encouraged by the society, and must come solely from the individual. Like other commenter said in the post, some people like the mentally unstable can't change without a lot of outside help.
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Well, there was also the two revenue figures for their respective offerings. Doesn't get too much more concrete than that.
I still remember the day I read the article on the Mandelbrot set and went, "Whoa, I understand the math!"

I went on to write my first Mandelbrot renderer in Python. I was delighted, in a way, that it worked, but badly disappointed at the performance.

I rewrote the thing in C, and then rewrote it again to make use of multiple CPU cores. I am certain there are Mandelbrot renderers out there that put mine to shame. But still, it was fun, and I got some pretty desktop wallpapers out of it. And I learned a thing or two along the way. Also, I rewrote it again using PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine) to spread the work out across several computers. So I actually learned two or three things along the way. ;-)

In a previous job, I had a supervisor who learned programming in the mid-80s who told me about rendering the Mandelbrot set, then using bit-twiddling on the VGA memory to change the color palette on the display. I was not sure if I should be envious to have missed those times or happy.
Clearly they are providing a net benefit to the drivers life otherwise they just wouldn't do it.

The logic in this statement is inherently flawed. The whole point of the article is that Uber appears, at first, to be providing a net benefit to people who sign up to become drivers -- only to leave them holding the bag when problems (inevitably) arise, and which "real" companies normally take care of for their employees. Like what happened to Casmir Patterson, for example:

Casmir Patterson, 32, found early on in her Uber-driving career that she preferred to work late nights, when the LA traffic was more tolerable and when she could provide rides to women looking for a safe way to get home. But on 13 June 2016, during her last ride of the night, three intoxicated men entered her vehicle in West Hollywood and she quickly sensed trouble.

One of her passengers sounded like he was going to vomit in her car. She pulled over and asked the trio to leave. They refused, and then dragged her into her backseat where they started punching her. “I thought I was going to die,” she told the Guardian.

The men eventually fled, but not before kicking the outside of her car and running off with her keys.

Patterson called police and reported the incident to Uber in the hope that the company could track down her attackers and help her with medical bills. But the criminal investigation went nowhere, and Uber, she said, did little to support her. LA police did not respond to repeated inquiries.

It's not like we need to ask, "is this Uber's problem?" In situations like these, Uber is the problem.
Moore's law has already ended like 15 times. I will wait to use that in my predictions of the future only have AMD and others have tried and failed.
Clear is an awesome service, but their strategy/service is a bit different than ours.

We provide you with a dedicated agent/problem solver (pun intended) that takes you from curb to gate and gate to curb. We're also really helpful on international trips where there are language barriers and insanely long immigrations/customs lines.

We also make sure you're safely off in your vehicle when you exit the airport and your'e not getting ripped off on a taxi or car. For example, in places like Mexico City or Beijing you're swarmed by drivers trying to get you in their car as soon as you exit the airport.
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No one in Netherlands use helmet and they bike in ordinary cloth - exactly the same they use in office.
> Is it typical for a 13mm+ Ulock in Amsterdam to get broken?

Yes. One thing that still works is to get two different high-end locks and to always use both. Most thieves specialize in one lock only. But I'd still not leave a decent bike outside over night.
Amazon Prime and Costco for me. I have the executive membership at Costco, which basically pays for itself with the annual 2% reward on purchases.
I live in the bay area and I mostly hesitate to use my bike more due to theft and/or some areas where there are many cars and stoplights. I have a big thick U lock which will probably keep it fairly safe at least in the suburbs. It takes some of the enjoyment out of it to carry the 5+ lb. thing though.
Because cars are so extremely expensive here in the Netherlands.

The fact that the bicycle paths here are amazing in most of the country is secondary.

Bicycles are at extreme risk of theft in major cities. There is nothing to romanticize about crappy bicycles. People do not ride garbage old bikes by choice, but out of necessity. People ride garbage on rusty wheels because they have been burned by theft multiple times.

Criminals with trucks in Germany and the Netherlands routinely roll up to train stations and steal dozens of bicycles at a time, take them to get resprayed in Poland, then resell them.

If you chained your bicycle to something in a way that isn't aesthetically pleasing, the government will steal your bicycle and you will have to retrieve it at a cost plus your expensive lock will be destroyed. This assuming you can find your bike.

Don't be fooled into thinking that this is bicycle utopia. You are only less likely to get killed by a car. This is a huge plus. But the rest of the story is bleak.

And now for your amusement...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5ay3r5Kpio
Happy to hear you had a nice experience!

I'm generally not too 'patriotic', but I can't help but feel a certain pride when I see the insane amount of bikes, especially around rush hour, and especially when I see the variety of cyclists: pregnant women, the elderly, people in suits, a father/mother with a mind-boggling three kids strapped to the bike and a little kid wobbling alongside, and then of course the occasional 'weird' bikes (The tall bikes in Amsterdam are my favorites[1]).

There's plenty to criticize about our society, but I love the bikes.

[1]: https://hansfoto.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/bikewar2.jpg
The idea was that the truth would come out and disseminate if the distribution channels weren't censored. It assumes everyone had a natural good faith search for truthful and accurate information.
Exactly. You seem to be under the misapprehension that I disagree with you.
And they had 3bn$ to begin with. Those pockets are deep enough to pull a martingale. And this thread is about a web developer asking how to make side income. Still don't see the contrast?
I think the point is fundamentally they were making something that could do way more than make phone calls, where so many other devices on the market were just a phone (or pager) with some extra functionality strapped on.

They started from a clean slate.
do you athleticism at the pro level is achieved by personal abilities alone? what if you grew up in a society that doesn't value basketball for example, you will never have opportunities and support to develop a physical ability to reach pro level status. Societal conditions play a critical role in my example
Could you please spamming HN with this? If you have a point to make about the topic, please make it and do so civilly and substantively.
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Could you clarify why you think this? I don't see any connection between this API and the types of standards OASIS works on.
What's terrible about it? It's concise, memorable, and apparently nobody else is using it. Perhaps it's terrible because some people use the word offensively, like "Queen"?
> If you blame the tools Hacking Team or NSO or whomever, disappears into the oblivion, and two more spawn to take their place.

Hail Hydra?
You also don't become an "owner" of the word, you just get an exclusive right over its commercial use on a specific sector.
> Our examples are 1) (yours) cultures that are hostile to employee growth and education

You assert that, but I have no idea why you would think that. That's why I was perplexed at your statement. Can you elaborate? Non of the examples you give liek work/life/diversity/environment has featured into the discussion, nor the definition of "success in the industry"

> I said "What these types of interviews say to me is the companies who use them have no interest in their employees growth and education."

And I ask again, is, why would you assert that? It seems trivial to you, but I'm completely at loss. All I said was that I cannot, at hiring, offer a 10-year growth plan for a person. It does not mean I do not expect, encourage and help them to grow (quite the contrary).
I think direct accountability is overrated. Not to say that it shouldn't be there, but I don't think it's important enough that the electoral system should be fixated on it as the primary goal. For example, in US today, despite single-member districts (which put it as the cornerstone), party politics dominate in practice.

I think MMP is a reasonable compromise system between direct accountability and regional representation on one hand, and proportional representation of national politics on the other - each district still gets a direct representative (or several; I'm not opposed to multimember districts in general), but party lists are used to keep the overall balance of power in line with the national vote.

The risk with the system that you describe is that it can still skew results substantially. For example, a party that consistently gets just under 20% of the vote across all districts would end up with no seats at all, although 20% is a significant proportion of the population, and in fairness is entitled to appropriate representation. This can be improved by adding more members per district, but then the legislature becomes unwieldy - in fact I would dare say it would be unwieldy even at 5 members per district in US, since it would push the number of representatives over 2000. Increasing district sizes proportionally would mitigate that, but it also decreases the connection between the elected representative and the people in their district, and thus also accountability.
Not really, no. In the US, it's mostly about your family, although there are exceptions of course:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socio-economic_mobility_in_the...

> The correlation between parents' income and their children's income in the United States is estimated between .4 and .6.

> If a parent's income had no effect on a child's opportunity for future upward mobility, approximately 20% of poor children who started in the bottom quintile (in the bottom 20% of the US range of incomes) would remain there as poor adults. At the other end of income spectrum, if children were born into wealthy families in the top 20%, only 20% would stay in that top income category if their mobility opportunities were equal to every other child's in the country.

> But long-term income statistics show this isn't happening. Mobility opportunities are different for poor and wealthy children in the US. Parental incomes and parental choices of home locations while raising children appear to be major factors in that difference. According to a 2012 Pew Economic Mobility Project study 43% of children born into the bottom quintile (bottom 20%) remain in that bottom quintile as adults. Similarly, 40% of children raised in the top quintile (top 20%) will remain there as adults. Looking at larger moves, only 4% of those raised in the bottom quintile moved up to the top quintile as adults. Around twice as many (8%) of children born into the top quintile fell to the bottom. 37% of children born into the top quintile will fall below the middle. These findings have led researchers to conclude that "opportunity structures create and determine future generations' chances for success. Hence, our lot in life is at least partially determined by where we grow up, and this is partially determined by where our parents grew up, and so on."
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I wonder how the people who are currently homeless would have ended up, if they were born in tribal times?
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Out of curiosity, are you hanging your hammock from studs in the walls, using a hammock stand, or something else?
It's dangerous to cast blanket statements like that.

Some people end up in poverty by bad choices, sure. I don't think it's safe to assume that most "deserve" to be in poverty because of their choices. I think the more common scenario is mental illness develops > bad events happen due to mental illness and lack of treatment > job loss > more bad events/choices made out of desperation > repeat
A good question indeed. I was not at all thrilled about eh Snowden leaks, but I had, and still have, some faith in the mechanisms of institutional governance, plus I viewed it in the context of strategic calculus.

Being a Euro I personally favor very rigorous privacy protections, and think you should be able to know who has data on you, get detailed copies of it in some accessible format, and request its deletion. Public institutions that do have a custodial data function should be subject to increasing levels of accountability and their powers should not be unlimited.

Now, since the US doesn't currently promulgate such strict data-gathering and retention standards in the public or private sector as I would like, it's a strategic reality that well-resourced actors like foreign governments can vacuum that up for their own ends, whether nefarious or merely curious. So I'm OK with the NSA collecting such data insofar as it seems irrational for the government to put itself at a disadvantage relative to everyone else in the private sector, in the same way that it would irrational for police officers to have fewer powers than regular people, as opposed to greater responsibility in the exercise of those powers.

In short, if all that data on people can be legally bought or acquired, it'd be pretty stupid for the USA/NSA to be the only entity that didn't have a copy.

I do heartily agree that data aggregation in both public and private sectors is way, way out of control, and I also agree that a checklist approach would be far preferable to yet more books of rules. I have some radical (but inchoate) technical approaches to this problem in mind, if you want to get in touch via gmail.
I like to tell this to all the billions of people starving on the street around the world.

Poverty is not structural. It's the individual's responsibility.

Poor people just need some change from within to elevate themselves out the favelas of Rio, the Dharavi in India, the west side of Chicago.

The cancer they get from drinking polluted water, the failure of their body after being exposed to the elements, their family member getting murdered, dismembered, and hung from a bridge by cartels....could have been prevented if they had only just elevated themselves.

Poverty is the individuals fault.
*the digital currency for speculation.

It seems just as unsuitable for every day use like Bitcoin or tulips.
It's not competition with unguarded/unlocked bikes. In order to minimize chance of theft you're competing for least desirability and most effort to steal. Most if not all Dutch bikes are by default fitted with an O-lock, which is a good first line of defense, combined with attaching your bike to a railing/bikestand/tree with a decent hardened steel chain lock.
If you're looking for a background on the attack itself, I did a writeup of the basic attack some time ago at https://ldpreload.com/blog/stack-smashes-you . The new thing is that Qualys has developed this into a real class of exploits against lots of software; I think we all thought that it was relatively rare to run into this vulnerability.
Locking just a wheel is a rookie mistake, of course! Always wrap it around the frame and something that is solidly rooted in the ground.

It's just that even all that isn't always good enough if the homeless guy or professional bike thief has a power-cutter thingy.
Yeah, the police union will take that one and keep it for themselves faster then you can say donuts in the break room.
You're right. It's too bad we don't have all those great web browsers that existed on phones before. I remember how great PocketIE was. The Opera thing that sent down screenshots? The joys of WAP?

People complain about Safari but it was a REVOLUTION compared to what was available before.
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Over the winter, I used a Trader Joe's padded/insulated bag for my laptop. Partially open, because of a broken zipper.

It took me a while to realize that the uptick in friendly conversations with drugstore workers, and the onset of being stalked in my local supermarket, was likely because I now matched some shoplifting profile. It's been a useful reminder of privilege. Though it seemed unfortunate to be wasting people's time.

But here's summer, and sometimes not carrying a laptop at all. And it appears my supermarket, of more than a decade, has retained state. And given they certainly have my card information, I have to wonder how far that state has propagated.

So when choosing a laptop bag, or breaking a zipper, or paying cash, or spotting a possible misunderstanding, you have to wonder, can you really afford to appear different than the norm?

You might be significantly impacted, before (or never) realizing what happened. And thus you get to share in that joy of racial discrimination, pervasive uncertainty. Did the cab really not see me, or choose to not see me? Why did X happen to me, what's going on here?

And yet, the concept of "nudge" has public policy value. Doing noisy profiling, and helping people do the right things.

There's an old line, that the internet is creating a global village. But villages are extremely diverse. From warm and fuzzy, to amazingly toxic. There are tremendous social benefits to "everyone knows you". I just wish I saw more thoughtful discussion of the roles of anonymity, and on aiming us away from toxic.
Overly focusing on one attack vector still leaves you vulnerable to many others. System designers need to consider risk:reward and effort:reward for users.

The paper offers an interesting but extreme extension into one aspect of security that users control. That is great to offer an extreme solution for the paranoid. If implemented well, even the less paranoid could use it.

Sadly this solution still offers less security than systems integrated into SSO/OAuth and 2FA.
Absolutely. Financial success requires determination, natural ability, and luck. But the popular narrative discards the last two and says that anyone can escape poverty--or be the next Bill Gates--if they just put their mind to it. Ergo, anyone who isn't successful is just lazy and deserves no help.

Still, it is nice to see people escape bad circumstances on their own, as long as we don't turn it into justification for selfishness.
What a negative way to view this. It's an incredible story, not a condemning of everyone who doesn't do something amazing.
Those of us who live in the US have the opposite problem.

(And Georgia the US state has a larger population than Georgia the country. So perhaps this is one of the rare times when our parochialism about the rest of the world is justified.)
I guess that the mentally ill would have suffered an extreme ostracism and violence from the population, but I also think that some of the conditions that lead to homelessness (drugs, alcohol, financial problems) are very recent.
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You ever hear a black man call another black man nigger? This band made up of Asian people wanted to name their band "The Slants."
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Right which is why I'm supplanting that observation with news recently announced about the new line of chips slated for release in Q3/Q4 this year.
High frequency neons, halogen or maybe leds (do they make high frequency leds? ). In my experience, most headaches come from stroboscopic effect between the light source and the monitors ( sometime from the flickers of a defective light ).

Color temperature, not so much...
Not true, Dennard scaling has actually died since around ~40-28nm, which is already causing visible trouble for Intel, especially in the server region.
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There should be vinyl wrap for bikes that provides a paintable, duct-tapeable substrain for camo tape and radioactive fuchsia and orange also camo ejaculation. Flat (no shine) paint makes a bike even less attractive.

PS: I had a old/ugly bike that I had for 16 years in Davis, CA that I still locked and it was stolen from an apt complex the one and only time I forgot to lock it. There are thieves whom ride around in cargo trucks stealing bikes wholesale, in addition to people whom just "borrow" bikes and dump them whereever.
In Rotterdam I used to "buy" my bikes from the homeless by offering a €5 kapsalon [1] in return for a bike. As a result, I didn't care too much if this bike got stolen and never bothered locking it, allowing others to take my bike. And then I would do it all over again.

In hindsight I realize I was probably wrong to contribute to this ecosystem, but the way I saw it, I was feeding the homeless to provide a social good.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapsalon
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It's hard to say - I'd like to imagine the addiction and mental illness would be much less prevalent.

Also the book I mentioned talks about personal value and self worth in a Tribe setting - sharing and providing for others, keeping the tribe healthy as a whole, was the main driving factor versus personal wealth and possessions. The biggest Tribal infractions were failing to fight for the tribe (cowardice, not protecting the tribe), unwillingness to share food/resources, and killing another Tribe member.

I'm sure there would be Tribe members who were less effective/productive, but for the most part it seems like the slack would be picked up by the other tribe members.
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> Back to normal travelers - I wish there were a free wiki that covered all this, since it seems like it's just a matter of having the right information. Like knowing which office to go in, what forms to have ready, etc. I guess it'd be more targeted towards casual travelers who won't pay $200 for this kind of service.

I went on an extended backpacking trip recently across 5 continents, and Wikitravel was unbelievably invaluable. Because it's a wiki, it has all the tiny up-to-date details that you're not going to find on more professionally-produced websites, right down to sidestepping tourist rip-offs like "if you go around the corner to XYZ plaza when you land, you can get a taxi for $20 cheaper than taking it from the airport".
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