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Background: Minneapolis has Ranked Choice voting (or Instant Runoff Voting, depending on your terminology). In yesterday's mayor election, results are so close among the top 5 candidates (out of a dozen) that we're now down to counting third choice votes to determine the winner. The likely winner (Jacob Frey) got less than 25% of the first choice votes.

This election makes a really interesting test case for the value of ranked choice voting!
http://cryptosecretsociety.com they claim responsibility. They are a Crypto Secret Society
The idea of 'singular genius' is over done, and most great artists were well trained and built on the work of others.
Sorry, I didn't make my point clear enough. Amazon does provide services from Luxembourg which would be fine if that's where they are actually based at. As far as I know they have some lawyers there but that's about their presence (which is what I meant with "mailbox only"). The actual service is peovided somewhere else. Making it possible to exploit that is definitely not the point of EU freedoms. I provided an example that illustrates EU freedoms working how they are supposed to be in a cousin comment.

And yes, Amazon operates in Germany. They have engineering offices, customer service, and warehouses all located in Germany. Every company from Luxembourg should be able to. But taxing income derived from that is still possible under EU rules (and actually done).
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I think it's difficult for some people to truly understand the concept of currently. They don't realize that it's a fictitious thing that gets is value solely from others trusting it. So to them, a fork is just a fork. Ya know, some money here and some money there. What's the big deal right? What they don't seem to grasp is that this action kills the trust of the old currency. It has no value moving forward. It's dead and will quickly become useless.

People have developed this expectation for currency (a dollar being this thing that you can hold which always equals this amount printed on this price tag) without having any real understanding of what currency is really. This leads to odd assumptions.
>"It most recent GDP growth figure has fallen to 5.7%, and part of that, too, can be attributed to the policy move from last November."

It would be interesting to quantify what "part". AFAIK GDP growth has many contributing factors both short term and long term. It would really help readers to better comprehend the affect and also help policy makers to be cautious going forward.

>Lesson One: Choose Your Experts Carefully :
Agreed, we must choose our experts carefully. However, author is silent on "how". Instead what author presents is his take on who are experts. I am not questioning the authors credentials but as HBR article, I expected authors to present a methodology instead of what seems a subjective view to me.

>Lesson Two: Don’t Ignore Basic Data :
Authors criticism that basic data was ignored seems more of a speculation.
No concrete sources that such data was not consulted at all.

>Lesson Four: Beware of Digital Silver Bullets :
Here I feel author selectively uses the citation to benefit his narrative. The very citation states the following verbatim.
http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/economy/digital-pa...
>"Still, it is appreciable that the numbers have not come down by a large amount. There are many who have permanently moved on to digital, which is a bigger benefit."
Have you sued any person or company before? How was your experience?
Bingo! But it seems a lot of people are die-hard anti-everything that smells even vaguely of socialism, no doubt due to decades of US political brainwashing.
For people talking about how the solution is to fix the tax code: the problem is not the tax code or the rates. Even if the tax rate was 2%, these people wouldn't pay it.

I feel the problem is much deeper than that - the fact that Tim Cook, and others, do not see it as "fair" to pay for the use of public facilities and services. That they fail to grasp the notion that by helping a nation create better, more educated, healthier citizens will effectively improve their bottom line in the future. That levelling the playing field creates more customers for their businesses. Unfortunately you can't put that on a quarterly profit report, so let's just make more and more money and screw everything else. That's not success. That's a virus in economical form, slowly killing the host.
Or just cameras and some "is this car clean?" UI.
No, because the capacitors discharge very fast. The problem is they want capacitors that discharge fast and have a high energy density, which means that during such a crash we could get an explosion or maybe even an EMP.
"I’m not so sure the industry is “perceived” like this, it’s more like old media outlets (especially The Guardian and NYT) relentlessly push this message and this piece is no different."

Are you blaming the messenger, or do you have an independent source of knowledge from outside the tech bubble?
Even if it (bandwidth) costs nothing, you could still be throttled upstream. Every ISP is different.
> Also, caching and fat pipes are just two benefits of CDNs. They also handle the multi-region issue.

If you are actually paying a CDN to host your stuff you can expect better service. Here we are talking about using resources from third-parties for "free".
My (ultra-simplistic) idea would to only tax land and VAT. Abolish all other taxes.

Unfortunately, governments like fine-grained taxes because it gives them the illusion of control.
Really cool thanks for the pointer! Has GAAR been effective in the UK at preventing tax havens?
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I'm not rich and I had a car that burst into flames twice.
Haha yes, those were definitely awful. I only saw the first one and caught a little of the last one on a plane.

What I meant is I'm not tired of the Tolkien universe and would welcome more. That's not to say I enjoyed the hobbit series whatsoever. For instance, I'd love to see another director try their hand at a Hobbit series on television. At least then I could pretend the Jackson-led Hobbit series didn't exist.
Yeah, indices do never go down...
The sellers reported they sold real estate, art and gold before the cutoff, no? How would the government know they sold it illicitly if it was cash? How would some of these art, gold and real estates salespeople know for that matter?
VPSes did not exist as a commercial product in 2000. Back then you likely purchased and colo'd your hardware or leased from a provider. You could get shared hosting with CGI access but that was about it.
my biggest problem with big tech is they leave people not born / went to a school on the extreme coasts completely out of the hiring process.

The midwest charged forward a large share of human innovation and large tech basically says: do not bother applying.
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They claim it has to do with third-party tech licensed in the product that Logitech has decided they don't want to renew.

The fire-sale stuff is pure garbage though.. They had to know they were selling customers soon-to-be-dead products.
I think the issue is less about philosophy and more about technology.

SVG icons are better than icon fonts in pretty much every way. The only example I can think of where an SVG could be considered worse is if the icon is particularly complex. Even then, the only thing that is worse is file size. At that point, a PNG is probably better, anyway.
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Yes, your explanation is plausible. When I thought about it, the best theory I could come up was that they assumed the smartphone would usually be away from the home -- as in, you're sitting at your job and use the remote app to raise the temperature an hour before you commuted home. If that was the common use case, Trane needed a centralized cloud server (like Nexia[1]) to enable that since the wifi thermostat at home would likely be behind an ISP firewall.

smartphone at the office --> cloud --> thermostat home

The problem is that the engineers made the command flow with the cloud as the only method of communication instead of enabling a secondary communication that lets 2 wifi devices talk directly. Obviously, direct wifi communication is technically possible since people buy inkjet wifi printers and their wifi laptops print directly to them every day. People would be livid if they couldn't print their paper just because the internet down or the vendor's cloud server had an outage for "maintenance". The data sent from the computer to the printer does not roundtrip up to the cloud and back down to the printer.

[1] http://www.nexiahome.com/
Maybe people don't want the two accounts associated? Or then they might accidentally post in the wrong one? That can already happen but the blame lies entirely on the user right now.

I do agree there are likely solutions like you're saying. Pages already work that way. Linked to a personal profile. Multiple can be.

Though I guess it likely isn't in Facebook's interest to do a feature like you propose if they can help it. If they can ban enough actual worthless or hurting fake accounts without messing with fake accounts that are being used legitimately enough. Since that boosts their numbers.
the term for this is "progressive enhancement".
> Most industries require contact with other humans, and don’t rely on overwhelming amounts of capital to try to create vast power imbalances between you and the people you’re allegedly serving.

I agree with the statement, but I'm not sure it squares with your list? Tech and banking aren't unique in offering the chance to sit alone in an office and turn early advantages into ludicrous excess.

Broadly, we're talking about jobs that have power-law payouts among their practitioners, require highly skilled (and hard to interchange) labor, and don't intrinsically punish jerks (meaning limited interaction with coworkers or customers). Not all of them make billions, but they get something exponential that encourages them to compete - fame or professional power or job security.

That's a lot of careers. Orchestral musicians fit, lawyers fit, surgeons fit in spades, artists and mathematicians and philosophers all fit.

Obviously tech and banking are not equivalent to those things - heart surgeons have never destroyed the economy. But I think it's a catastrophic mistake to try and understand why tech and banking cause these problems by acting like the professional demeanor is unique. That is at best a starting point, a way of acknowledging that if yanking pieces out of society is easy and rewarding it will happen. The question from there is "how do we stop that from happening?"

(I'm not sure how much we honestly disagree, I just think the distinction is important. That Jenga metaphor is fantastic.)
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I had to publizie it in the Ubuntu Forums where I got good traction: suggestions, appreciation, feature requests. It eventually made it into the Debian repo and now is in most distro repos including Fedora, Suse, etc.

I'd say it was equally fun for me to get the feedback and incorporate it back into the system. I enjoyed it as much as coding it.
The wealth is hiding behind foundations and non profits controlled by the true wealthy families, that is how. And that wealth doesn't necessary translate to 'luxury' aspect of being wealthy (aka the "how many yachts are enough?") but most certainly does afford the "wealth is power" aspect.

The OP's section on "methodology" touches on "lack of transparency".
Can't even read it, it asked me to pay to read.
bug on Internet unleashes 175mm peoples private info including SSN: Lol internet!

Ethereum bug loses 500k eth: Shut it the fuck down it will never work.

People... get used to stuff.
4 year old MacBook Pro running recent Safari. Not a particularly old or exotic configuration.
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I'd be curious to know what people's views are on the "we're the X for Y" type of pitch. They have the benefit of being short, but a lot of times the description is not that apt.

I know some VCs/angels who have a very high bar for these and think they're overused. But others seem to be much more accepting, even when the analogy is not that tight. Pros/cons?
pump and dumps generally don't pump for multiple years.
yes, but if you add up how much everyone paid for the lost eth it won't be $300MM but it will still be an insane amount of money.
If you would actually rent them the service provider would be incentivized to keep the service running, but the actual payment model is worse than that: fixed up-front payment for at-will termination. It would be plain obvious to everybody that this can't possibly work out, had we not all been brainwashed by two decades of gratis service on the ad-financed web.
I feel like the snark directed at front-end devs was a little uncalled for, as if somehow they're lesser programmers. But I do agree that users of Skype (and Slack) would benefit greatly from them ditching Electron and going native (and my RAM would be a lot happier too).
Remember the mtgox debacle..? That is what's wrong with that.
I work on mainly one open source library on github. I made sure to submit it to npm and blogged on a big site (thinkmof like tutorial like site for devs) about it once. Other than that, because it's just a useful little module people have interest in, it gets downloaded and discussed naturally.

Another little project I have is a bot for slack, this one was picked up randomly by a person on the internet who decided to do a better Readme.md version as a medium tutorial and got me traction...its pretty good for something this small and useful (I guess)
If I were to make this worth marketing efforts, I would:

- self promote in quora, stackoverflow

- listen to relevant keywords in twitter and reply to those

- launch it on HN as a ShowHN

- find all relevant subreddits, contribute a little then self promote

- give a talk at local meetup community or lightning talk about it.

As you can see my suggestions, they match pretty much what you would do in non oss projects to get some traffic going
Btw I loved this question
George Bernard Shaw! :)
Good projects speak for themselves. Use cases, code design, documentation, commit history, ... should be setup well right from the beginning. Then simply speaking with everybody who might be interested in your project should start spreading your project into the wild.
I agree with you and don't believe the high salaries reported here. The best reference set is the H1B salary data which trends with the glassdoor self reported data.

https://www.foreignlaborcert.doleta.gov/performancedata.cfm

The folks making closest to 200k or higher are largely Computer and Information Systems Managers in Santa Clara county at levels 3 and 4. I imagine these are Senior Directors or VPs.

http://www.flcdatacenter.com/OesQuickResults.aspx?code=11-30...
Under the current implementation and rules of the Etherium system, they have lost their money. It may be possible for them to get it back, if they are lucky.
Letters and punctuation are not icons at all. They are symbols. Icons are images, i.e. likenesses of concrete or abstract objects which they refer to. Letters have no meaning on their own, they represent sounds, which differ based on language (e.g. c sound like see, chee, key, gee, that &c in different languages) or its position in a word (caps, ace, click).

And if its not an abuse of fonts to use them as icon packs, its an abuse of the users who wants to use their bandwidth for better things (e.g. cat gifs). I have them disabled and my day is full of fun: What this "f" means? What happens when I click "ff" or "p" or what not? And some are kind enough to provide alt texts, which is soooo helpful: https://imgur.com/cHdSxcO
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Whether you need your pet walked, lawn mowed, dry cleaning taken care of, etc. The AdamHelps app will help you find someone to do it for much less than a commercial price.

I think the gig economy and on demand jobs like Uber and AdamHelps are the future for upcoming generations. What do you all think?
Time series databases have many many uses, not all of which require or even benefit from column stores. Some uses may even be hurt by column stores.
Exactly. My TV and DVD player would very much like to know my router's wifi password so they can connect to the internet. Ain't gonna happen.
duplicate, reporting on issue discussed here yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15642856 (375 points, 271 comments)

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Any thoughts on REIT ETFs like VNQ?
Wait, why are you worrying about Scott Kelly's medical data?

That's what he was in space for, right?
So, you think wall street would be first to identify some brilliant coder who liked video games too much to have the grades to get into MIT? I doubt it. Quantopian sounds like the right platform to access that type of talent.
You can add columns at least.
I think the community needs to develop a process ahead of time for determining how to deal with these issues. A good start might be:

Can the protocol be made more robust against this class of error?

Is the proposed protocol change victimless? (nobody has already spent forked funds, etc.)

Is the protocol change elegant? (If you were to start over would the implementation have included this change to begin with? e.g. no hard-coded addresses with special code paths)
Hey - thanks! Kind of amazed to watch all my karma evaporate for pointing it out. :/
Socially, yes, that's the picture I get. On the other hand, economically, libertarian seems to be the right note. (How many times have you seen the sentiment here that those who are struggling simply need to learn to code and move to the coast?)
I started an open source project a few years ago that was relatively popular within a small community of developers. I started it because I wanted to learn more about certain programming concepts and I wanted some practice at running an open source project. I promoted it by writing a few blog posts and by commenting on relevant posts by other developers. I also answered a fair number of StackOverflow questions with the recommendation to use my project as a solution (and learned early on that you should include the disclaimer that it’s your project). It was actually really fun responding to those StackOverflow questions because I got to see how my work could be used, and sometimes that gave me inspiration to make it better.
I’ve also created open source projects that I think are really useful but that I never promoted. I feel like those projects are of less value to the developer community overall, but you never know who might find it useful.
If we want to get into zinger rhetoric I might reply that the 1st is theocracy and the 2nd is a lie, or also socialism.

If not, we might say consider all 3 (excluding the one that doesn't exist) relative. We never have absolute equality of opportunity or outcome, but we can have more or less equality.
What does "actually worth" mean? It's worth whatever someone currently is willing to pay for it, isn't it?
Agreed with this.

I have a lot of problems with the pharma industry, but I'm not going to chance it with counterfeit medication just because I might save a few bucks. When I get something that's a counterfeit electronic off of Amazon - no harm, no foul, for the most part. Their customer support just refunds me the money and I can send it back. Can't really do the same with medication that might kill me.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15650613
Marketing is getting something of value on the shelf.

Advertising is making sure it doesn't stay there.
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What management wants is not what shareholders want.

What you’re saying is impossible and the law needs to fix this, not appeal to emotion.
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> I'm not sure I understand. The whole article is just describing literally anyone in any industry.

The fact that you think that really underscores how much of a bubble you must live in. No, that's not any industry. Indeed, the only people who live like that in my mid-sized town are college students. College is cool, but it's kind of a half-way house for real-life, not something to be extended indefinitely like the tech firms do.

And isolating yourself from your fellow citizens in this way is a particularly bad idea when you're creating products that have outsized influence on our free time, relationships, health, and elections.
Why is tomshardware calling MINIX a "barebones Linux OS"?
The Fed has an entire department dedicated to replacing destroyed currency. Which I think is the big difference: paper money can be replaced.
India did that!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Indian_banknote_demonet...
> As a software developer I produce code. How would you exert democratic control over means of such production?

Open source software is already a model that approximates such democratic production. If us developers didn't have to make a wage to survive, how would we develop software?
And how should the government define “tax avoidance”? With tax law? Oh wait, they already do it, and you get pentalized if you break it.

The problem isn’t Apple, the problem is the government can’t get its act together to pass tax reform.
Given commercial investment rates, only 25% of the US is winning. You have to play to win.
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I went down this path a few years ago. You're right, but monitors of size X tend to be much more expensive than TVs of size X. At least they did a few years ago.
I don't see how that goes against what I said. Those three main benefits apply to anything hosted on CDNs.
Say you are on the west end of Springfield near the east end of Shelbyville. You don't know that area or what the surrounding towns are.

You Google "pizza Springfield." For a very literal ("stupid computer") search your results are all the pizza places on the east end of Springfield. There's no pizza in the west end of Springfield.

You waste your time calling all the pizza places on Springfield just to find out none deliver to your location.

Your results do not include all the pizza places on the east end of Shelbyville that do deliver to the west end of Springfield.

You go hungry.

This isn't an uncommon situation if you're outside of the downtown. In your example you're going to assume that every pizza restaurant near your location is a national chain that has locations in every town. Completely and totally unrealistic unless you are in a very densely packed suburbia - there is only one chain pizza restaurant within ~20 miles of my house but there's independent ones everywhere.

>People seem to expect Google to hold your hand at every single step along the way.

Google provides a useful service. So I shouldn't use it because...? Because why? it's more "manly" not to? Because search should be hard because that's the way nature intended? or... ?

What kind of logic is that? Following that logic nobody should use the web at all because it makes things easier. Or you shouldn't get delivery at all because it's convenient, you should just drive around aimlessly until you find pizza.
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