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You assume too much. Uber might be good for the customer, but it is a total jerk to the driver.

Last scandal at my hometown, that is unlikely to reach the English speaking world, is as follows.

Our airport, which lays on federal grounds, grants a monopoly of transportation services to certain well established company. Not even city taxis are allowed in (they can drop passangers, but cannot pick up anyone else while they are on premises). Uber attitude towards this situation is the standard one, basically an extended middle finger to every law, institution or authority of the land.

The problem is that if airport security catches an unofficial taxi on premises, they call federal police, the car is taken to a seized and the driver cannot recover until he's paid a very considerable fine (think several months of blue collar wages). Uber strategy to deal with that is to swarm security, so they always catch someone, but the process to deal with the offender is very time consuming and all other Uber cars are free to do business while the guards are preocupied.

Uber will punish any driver that refuses to take airport calls with bad karma, and will "gratiuouly" pay for your fine... once (if you get caught twice, it is on you), but they will not pay you any wages while your car is locked in federal grounds (a time that is measured in weeks, not days). They will also not pay for any damages to the car itself, which unfortunatelly is a rampant problem in this country when vehicles end up under the custody of the government.

So, be very glad to have a car and a chauffeur at your fingertips beck and call, but please do not assume the driver is enjoying it as much as you do.
I don't think it's likely that Y Combinator is so scared of anti-capitalist discussion on their web forum that they would actually tank the thread to censor it.
I meant more as a replacement to laptops and desktop computers.
I did some analysis a few months ago and collected the names of approximately 100,000 buckets in the wild. Rough numbers, about 5% are open to the public for anonymous read, and about 5% of those are open for anonymous write.

I'm convinced that Chris Vickery, the guy behind a good many of the open bucket finds this year, has access to enterprise firewall/proxy logs. Not because the buckets would have been hard to find, but because you could spend a lifetime looking through thousands upon thousands of open buckets before you find anything interesting.
I’m not saying employers would hire solely based on IQ. That would be crazy. It’s just a screening measure. But so is educational attainment. Nobody gets hired because they have a college degree, but plenty of people don’t get hired because they lack a college degree.

Also, agree that educational attainment gives you more information about a candidate, but in terms of assessing intelligence, it is a coarser measure than IQ. I’ve hired a few people in my day, and there is huge divergence in intelligence among college grads. For lots of jobs it is useful to be able to distinguish between not-stupid, bright, and ridiculously smart. Educational attainment doesn’t really help with that, but IQ tests would.
In other words, physicists were entirely correct to toss the infinite values, and mathematicians were later persuaded it was mathematically sound.

Nowadays, although physicists say they are "renormalizing", they still just toss the infinite values. They're justified by results of experiments. Mathematicians are limited because, typically, they have no handy universe to run experiments in, never mind budget for a supercollider.
Most people have some kind of pension and most work pensions are invested in some kind of diversified portfolio involving stocks and bonds.
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You cannot just take all the single family home zones and subdivide them into 3, because the infrastructure needs to expand with it. If you're familiar with Edgewater, NJ, you know what I'm talking about. There is one main road that runs through this town, and you're essentially trapped if something happens to that road.

Seoul tried to address by going to outskirts of the city where land price was much cheaper and essentially built high rise clusters with parks, stores, and modern amenities. They took the, "build it and they will come" approach, with good success. Now some people in city center are kicking themselves in their undeveloped, old residential zones with tight ally.

It took well over 10 years to fully build out subway systems, but you have to start somewhere (literally and figuratively).
Huh, they made GNOME look good, I'm mildly surprised to admit. Not bad.

I have to admit that for a second there I thought you were running Bash on Windows and the terminal was going through an X server. Ha
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Samsung Galaxy was designed to simulate the end of the solar system.
A is a realistic case of security by obscurity - there's a sizable amount of people who believe that to be secure.

B is in my opinion much less realistic: very few people believe a password two bytes long (or better, with two bytes of entropy) to be secure. Even a trivial password like "TelnetSucks" scores 31 bits of entropy with https://apps.cygnius.net/passtest/.
This article from First Round Capital outlines the modern tech company approach: http://firstround.com/review/why-you-need-two-chiefs-in-the-...

Tl;dr - CoS stands in for the CEO in meetings, fills her in on what's going on across the organization (or outside of it), and overall leverages her time. It's beyond someone who just does scheduling but short of being COO, which entails direct reports and accountability.
Well... as long as they work precisely as well (or badly) as the 37-year-old originals do, that's perfect, right?
I'm sorry, but this is entirely unfair, especially points 1 and 3.

First, addressing #3:

>People who know statistics can't interpret results to laymen.

This doesn't match my experience. Stats experts can sometimes be terrible at communicating their work, but no more so than the security expert at explaining why we have to jump through these hoops, or the web dev explaining why the site went down. Some technical experts are good at communicating to lay people, some aren't. Stats is no outlier.

But for learning and using statistics:

> Go google how to do basic significance calculations in, say, Excel. The first paragraph of the resulting articles will dive into t-test and twin-tales and P-values and on down the lines.

This seems to really be saying Using statistics requires you to understand statistics. Which seems sensible.

The big issue is that uncertainty is a different kind of thinking. To put it at its simplest, if you want a yes or no answer and I keep saying "Well, probably yes, but maybe no" you're going to be really frustrated that I keep using the language of uncertainty. "I just want excel to give me a yes or no answer, but the articles keep trying to teach me about 'maybe' in the first paragraph!" Uncertainty involves new kinds of statements. No way around it. The software and the concepts require it, and there's no (correct) way to reduce it to "I just want excel to tell me whether this effect is real." When you say most people know how to ask the basic question, I disagree. Most people want to know "Is this effect real, yes or no?" But no matter what tools you use, that's not enough of a question to have a single correct answer.

"You'll probably see some nasty formulas and opining about which PhD-level approach is better." That's just untrue. It sounds anti-intellectual and a lot like the defeatist "I'm just not a math person." The formulas you'll see in those 'Intro to NHST' tutorials require high school math and are covered in the first stats class you'd take in undergrad.

Edit: Sorry for the rant. I'm going to leave it up, but I'm just really turned off by "I consider myself analytically-minded, and statistics still gives me a headache," followed by 'here are the problems with statistics.' It's not hard, but you have to learn the foundation to use it. Do that before criticizing how we use it.
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> I see this being claimed a lot, but isn’t all security by obscurity at the end of the day?

I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means [1].

To elaborate, the concept is not formal/mathematical, it's a design concept. You can distinguish between a security implementation that explicitly depends on a secret key or password, and an implementation that implicitly relies upon secret implementation details for its security. The latter is not intentionally designed as a carefully-controlled secret, and therefore much easier to accidentally leak.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_through_obscurity
Berkeley recently made it easier to build accessory dwelling units on a residential lot http://www.berkeleyside.com/2017/03/20/new-laws-make-even-ea.... I think people are pricing this in when they're buying property in Berkeley now - people who have the cash to invest in building these structures are paying hundreds of thousands of dollars more than the next best offers if the property has a good sized yard.

Sonja Trauss sure gets mentioned in a lot of articles for her work at the San Francisco Bay Area Renters Federation. No surprise to see she's running for Supervisor now.
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Why not just hold bonds?
Thanks for that post. It's an interesting perspective, from a background different than my own.
I couldn't agree more with your second point, but risk is usually considered the product of likelihood and impact. If I name my bucket 'bestbuy' vs '4fc6-43b0-bc19-75fe07e06133', the likelihood that some random is going to find my bucket increases dramatically.
Ah, I interpreted it to mean transaction volume, since that's an indicator of BTC's utility beyond speculation.
I think that's a bit too apples-to-oranges. The internet "pipes" won't explode if they're not maintained properly.
String theory has no experiments, so has no touchstone to justify dodgy maths. String theorists routinely depend on the infinite sum 1 + 2 + 3 + ... = -1/12, without apology. It's anybody's guess how well that will turn out in the end, but it hasn't interfered with grants, publication, or tenure, so it's OK so far.
I thought what you meant by it reloading USD from btc would mean a sale of btc (which is taxable event?), no?
In the US, the film is on Netflix. I haven’t seen it yet so I can’t recommend it personally, but I’m looking forward to watching it.
Wow. Gnome has improved significantly (visually, that is) since I last looked.
I think currently he is in Jail, but I followed him a bit on YouTube where he said, that he is contractually obligated not to release it for 88 years (for Wu Tang Clan album).

One of the reason Wu Tang et al. released these limited edition albums was they hoped they would be bought by art museums or so, in this case ended up with private collector.
If you don’t mind competitive programming sites then you can try codeforces [1] which is probably one of the hardest sites to compete in. You could also try codechef [2] which has long challenges so you can compete over the span of a week rather than over two hours like on codeforces.

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I was alluding to your comment regarding price history and track record. People put their money in bitcoin (and other assets) based on future expectations. It's very risky now because we don't know if it will deliver on it's potential, but it definitely has some attractive features.
It’s interesting to see which forms of misogyny are acceptable and which aren’t.
Thumb up, just like the top drug dealers don't abuse drug themselves
Thanks for providing the search link. By my reading, a lot of those are sympathetic to Dolezal, not critical.

Shouldn't there be universal condemnation?
I feel that many of these legal arguments have not caught up with modern technology. If we had had the capabilities we have today 100 years ago, I am sure the lawyers would have pushed for maximum recording of all things. But face to face discussions are some how grandfathered in.
I agree that this knowledge is not necessary, but it could be useful for certain scenarios.

TCP/IP: networking between cluster nodes
Server setup: deploy a map-reduce cluster
SOAP/REST: read/write data from services
Software development life cycle: plan/deploy a reporting system for end users
Unchained is probably the best crypto podcast currently, but would love other recommendations.
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"bat shit crazy".
I don't think debt would be worse for startups though. It's unlikely debt would wipe out a startup unless it continually finances through debt over a long period of time or just has really unfavorable debt terms (which wouldn't make sense for the debt issuer either).

The problem is getting debt financing...but I would imagine debt financing would make sense for 99.99% of startups.
I guess. That squares with Pooja Ashok's resume, too.
This sounds like splitting, exactly what a BPD would say. I am suspicious.
I might have stuck around to view your site, if it wasn't incredibly slow. This isn't an old laptop, either; I have a desktop with a recent, fast CPU and GPU, which should be way more than enough to run any modern website.

(Latest Firefox on Arch Linux)
> ChromeBook / Windows 10S device

"Hey sumitgt, how do I get $software to work? I bought it for $79 on sale but it won't open."

> iPad

"Hey sumitgt, can you help me get $university's site to work? I need to turn in my homework before midnight, but the page says something about Internet Explorer and Adobe Flash."
Neither was Voayger
Do people not turn them back on?
Watch the traffic stop video if it's a traffic stop. But watch the video I posted for everything else. If they are looking for a suspect, be very wary. Some cops ain't exactly looking for the right suspect, just anyone who can fit.
I wonder if debt is "not available" simply because it's not the standard for SV. I would bet that companies like Slack, Stripe, Stitchfix, etc could have raised considerable amounts of debt instead of raising money through their last rounds.

It's essentially a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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Everybody can have a bug. Even a bad one. In fact, virtually every system does have a doozy now and then. But recently with Apple it looks like they are serving them constantly lately. Shame for this to happen to the company that once could be pointed at as an example of somebody who gets how to make a professional Unix-based desktop.
Shall I mail them to you?
Yup. Why aren't they seizing Al Franken's assets or Matt Lauer's? Why am I watching the news seeing somebody who accused Al Franken of grouping her not want him to resign but everybody is calling for Roy Moore's head?

I think all of them are despicable but I don't really see that any of this makes sense.
19 hours and 35 minutes * speed of light is a long way.

It's not pointed in the right direction, but it's interesting to think of this as just over 1/2000th the distance to the nearest star.
This is the only hope, but I'm afraid one would have to put limits on the amount of time spent in a relationship and do some reflecting on their own life and goals. Realistically, is one willing to spend decades with a BPD in therapy hoping for good results? I'm just trying to guard against false hope.
If you save some of the wages you get in bitcoin from 800 - 10k I'm sure you'll be pretty happy, not like the fiat increased in value.
Duplicate post discussed more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15827177
Author here. Not worthless because you can add checklists to your PR template, PR review, QA process, etc. But I agree that automatically checking things is the next step. I've talked about how to achieve this with custom linters in a DjangoCon talk: https://youtu.be/IMRHFlDxaqU
> The better analogy in this case would be to an AmazonBasics USB cable

What's the story here? I purchased on (that failed quickly) and then another - which also failed - and gave up on those. I've actually never found a USB cable (that I often use as a charge) that I liked, but I've never set out on a quest to do so...

Is the AmazonBasics USB cable a well-known lemon?
Philwelch, I think you and I need to have several beers.
By its very design Bitcoin encourages deflation. The money supply is over time going to shrink, rather than grow, as does every major reserve currency.
In the abstract they claim it's because a photon state is in continuous space-time. But this isn't the same as the theoretical limits of detecting a state off a single photon, as instrumentation always destroys info.
The connection to the Borg isn't cannonical. Though Star Trek's cannon has gotten extremely messy in recent years.
So more startuppy than it might first appear then
I think their is a strong bias that people which free time tend to care more about the neighborhood. Most people may not agree, but we rarely hear from an unbiased same.
What about violent capital outflows?
They are welcome to buy all the empty lots and tear downs and make community land trusts out of them, or otherwise legally restrict their property with covenants.

But if they don’t own the property, they need to stop trying to get Berkeley zoning to break Berkeley laws. Thank goodness for Nancy Skinner’s law that will make the city pay legal fees if the city does more crazy stuff like this.

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Methinks your accounting professor never was a CEO. It took me a lot longer than 3 weeks at my new job to understand the key structures in the application I work on.
According to Wikipedia the atomic batteries are good until 2025, which isn't so far away anymore.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_1#Power
From my anecdotal experience, this kind of intrusive thoughts stems from being afraid of your emotions. Being afraid that anger of frustration overpowers you and you'd do things that would destroy your life.

It's important to understand that emotions can't 'force' you to do anything. You fuel your intrusive thoughts by not allowing your frustration to vent in an appropriate manner. Just sighing and saying 'I am frustrated, oh well' when you are can help a lot.

Intrusive thoughts are like a mild case of OCD, and with a bit of psychotherapy the will disappear.
That was the excuse. Their network, absent any major upgrades, was carrying real time video from all sorts of sources within a year. This was a naked money grab to force users into a metered data plan.
pls, we use tensor calculus and exterior algebra. More, precisely, the electromagnetic tensor is the exterior derivative of the 4-potential.
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Isn't a quaternion just a 3D representation of a vector in terms of the coordinate system's unit vectors? From what I recall, using such a representation makes it easier to perform transforms between coordinate systems.
Then someone realizes what you're doing and "plays" your game to play you. If you outsource your brain, don't expect your bodies sanctity to stay intact. How's that for an evil scheme.
It makes a lot of sense if you want to, say, have a mortgage that you keep paying, but your equity never increases in your home anyway.
And they typically replace working systems that you're used to with broken systems with a lot of new eye candy thrown in for no other reason than to be more modern looking totally throwing off any kind of muscle memory and familiarity.
speaking from experience at Google, yes. Obviously depends on size of company, but many C-suite/SVP/High VPs would have a "chief of staff" type person reporting to them.
It appears the problem is that the fixes included in the security updated were not backported to 10.13.1 which caused a problem for users coming from 10.13.0 that had done the security update. Certainly a huge issue, but many commenters seem to misunderstand the article.