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I have trouble believing the nyc startup scene is more egalitarian, but I’m on my 4th startup as an early employee (#1-18ish) and the founders have always been in the trenches. Not to invalidate your experience, just to emphasize the role of luck in all of this.
In 2006 world cup I had predicted to colleagues that Italy will win just because I liked them. I stood by this throughout and viola! It happened.

Last WC my prediction was Argentina (reached the final).

I feel intuitions do matter. This time: Argentina again
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is this an ad?
There are strategic situations where carrying the debt load is good for you -- you are not so attractive a buy for an outsider who wants to acquire you.

Or it may be that the big wigs looks around asking, where is the best place to invest in stocks...who else, but me! This show of confidence in the future performance of your company can be good marketing for your own stock value.
It depends on the firm, but Apple is a great example of a company that took out tons of debt to buy back shares (and pay dividends) and it made total sense. The reason was they were holding tons of profits from overseas that they didn't want to pay tax on. Apple being Apple was able to get really low rates on bonds and that turns out to be way cheaper than paying tax and using those profits for anything.

Interest rates are moving up now, but have been really low for a long time. If you pay out a decent dividend it can make financial sense to loan money to buy back shares just on not having to pay the dividend (if you pay a 5% dividend like Ford does, but can issue bonds at 3%, I mean why not?).

There's also the factor that since interest payments are tax deductible, it further pushes the cost of interest rates lower.

tl;dr it usually comes down to tax and accounting reasons.
This whole thing looks pretty overblown to me. It seems people are trying to take the concept of air traffic control at airports and applying it for potentially millions of devices in much larger free space. The main assumption being that air traffic control works great so lets "scale" it up. The thing is that air traffic control is centralized and comes with all the bad things associated centralized systems, bureaucracy, thick regulations and lack of efficiency not the least of it. Flights are routinely delayed, planes often circles around in air for no reason - all because of inefficient centralized traffic control model.

The alternative is the traffic control model we use on roads that actually scales up. Cars can go wherever they want and whenever they want as long as they don't enter prohibited areas, remain under certain velocity and don't collide with each other. I think this would be perfect model for drones. We can have two types of drones: (1) which are equipped with level of tech that can do obstacle avoidance and have restrictions map (2) all other. The category 2 should fly below certain altitude and weigh below certain limit. Category 1 should be able fly anywhere as allowed by restrictions map. There is no need for centralized air traffic control.
very few people with low body fat percentage will be 220 lbs unless they are 99th percentile height. (6'4''+)

i would say the average athletic/fit person who is fairly lean (10-14% bf) [1] at a height of 6'0'' to 6'3'' will be anywhere from 165-205 lbs depending on frame, but very rarely more than 205 lbs

now there are definitely healthy and athletic and strong people who are at or above 220 at those heights but they will most probably be "overweight"[2] (have excess body fat) or on exogenous hormones enabling them to gain a lot of extra muscle mass (most bodybuilders, nfl players, college football players,etc) [3]

http://nattyornot.com/how-big-can-you-get-naturally-without-...

[1]http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xtRJPJ1VQWk/Tj1ql1w-LrI/AAAAAAAAvi...

[2]https://storage.googleapis.com/media.mwcradio.com/flatterpag...

[3]https://i.pinimg.com/originals/97/7c/3c/977c3c65d9dc3aed71d5...
What's the upstream? Comcast offers 1 gigabit down but only 35Mbps up.

AT&T offers gigabit up and down for $70 a month. I usually get at least 900Mbps up and down.
Yeah I did a search for "Surface" to see if he even compares the two devices and nothing, something tells me this might be a narrow view of the work-tablet world.
Returning money to shareholders doesn't create or destroy value; it just moves it. No money is created or destroyed, and nothing else changes either. Whatever intangibles the company has are still there.
That makes sense, thanks for the reply SourceForge was before my time so I have no idea about any of it.
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There aren't any network effects a la Uber and Lyft because the scooter doesn't come to you, you go to it. And the scooters do not go fast/long enough to stitch different catchement areas together.

Every sign points to commodification here. The way car and bike rentals are commodified.

The economics leaks in many places:

1) people buy their own scooters

2) with rising scooter usage, scooters get way cheaper (see 1)

3) multiple competitors bid down rental prices

4) people figure theft/secondary part market out

5) a scooter inventory uniting meta app (a la Kayak) takes all the margin

6) turns out teenagers were only bird hunting as a novelty, gotta pay expensive 25 year olds to do it

So many issues. It's easier to see a world where electric scooters are neat novelties for tourists sometimes (as long as it's warm! with no kids! and no rain! and we're going more than 0.7 but less than 2 miles! and my wife doesn't say they're dangerous!) than a world where any one of these companies is a serious $1b technology company.

I mean: doesn't it just feel natural?: these are little novelty tourist scoot rental companies.
You still can't use a real third party browser (i.e. not just reskinned Safari) on the iPad Pro, right? I'd be a lot more tempted if iOS was a little less locked down.
Thanks for the example and explanation.
Okay, noted. My bad. English isn't my first language, but I am well aware of all grammatical rules. I was in a hurry, so just ranted off. It won't happen next time.
Sounds like that argument could just as easily apply to Henry Ford and whoever that guy is who actually invented the car.
Err, no. What part of that mass of crazy non-JavaScript did you think was "easy"? Wow. I didn't even know TSX was a thing. To each his own, but yet another dependency written in indecipherable pseudo-script (regardless of its popularity) is not my idea of easy.
The model that you described is, verbatim, the bearer model of SAML that everybody uses. SAML in theory does more than just that, but the flow you just described is the subset of SAML that every open source SAML library implements. Apart from some minor security controls that you didn't describe and that SAML implements, the only difference is that you built your ad hoc system using JWE, and SAML is built with XMLDSIG.

(Responding to edit)

I can only assume that the most widely-used flow in SAML, the dominant SSO protocol on the Internet, is better documented than the ad-hoc custom version of SAML you reimplemented with JWT. :)

I don't like SAML (I in fact hate it), but the problems I have with SAML are all shared by JWE/JWT! You are describing perhaps the one scenario in all of human experience where I might recommend that someone adopt an XMLDSIG protocol.
I think this article does a great job breaking down the d3 API and answers your question in detail “D3 is not a Data Visualization Library” @Elijah_Meeks https://medium.com/@Elijah_Meeks/d3-is-not-a-data-visualizat...
We've (the boomerang dev team) seen many frameworks do this. For many parts of boomerang, we need to get the url of an object (img, a, iframe, anything that could have a url), and just looking at the object's `src`/`currentSrc` or `href` attributes is insufficient.

What we need to do is create a new `link` element, attach it to the window, assign the url to the link's `href` attribute, and then read that attribute back out. This process converts all relative URLs to absolute URLs, taking BASE into consideration.

Note, that you MUST add the link to the document of the correct window. Adding it to the document of an anonymous iframe will not work because while anonymous iframes inherit a lot of things from the parent, the baseURI isn't one of them.
I keep thinking I want to try this way of working, but I just can't into the walled garden of an App Store ecosystem.

Until I can run Homebrew and a proper shell and 'git clone', the iPad is still just a gargantuan iPhone in my book.
There's a very reasonable proposal right here that would do it: https://berniesanders.com/medicareforall/ It could happen in a few years. Something to look forward to. :)
it is alacart and baked in at the same time!
This article breaks down the API in graleater detail. https://medium.com/@Elijah_Meeks/d3-is-not-a-data-visualizat...

All of the functionality in d3 is split up into smaller modules that can be required independently.
If by "real" you mean using something other than WebKit and having access to JIT compilation of JavaScript, then no, at least not on the App Store.
As a UX designer and project manager, I've spear headed several projects like this.

First thought... just about every consideration, question, risk, etc, can be valuable and belongs to a specific domain or stage. I've benefited from creating these category/stage buckets and adding to then progressively. Things will get overlooked, this helps increase observable surface area.

Sophia Voychehovski's OOUX was helpful early on in expanding my mapping toolset.

I'm going to check out Getting Real right now.
It's a one-sided and highly exaggerated view.
"It's OK to throw away money because a big business can afford it" is not a very compelling argument. If an increase in property tax is more than enough to cover it, what reason would you have to collect the business tax other than to spite the companies that are affected by it?
Eh, I'm not sure you're right. While I hate income tax more than most, I think there's a big difference between taxing employment and taxing income.

Personally, I think income tax is probably one of the least bad kinds of taxes. A couple of taxes worse than income tax, as an example:

- corporate tax (double taxing)

- sales tax (regressive)

Property tax is pretty close and maybe even better, as it isn't regressive and requires arguably less resources to track.

The least bad tax system would probably be a combination of pure income tax (mathematical progressive model with no deductions or exemptions, maybe with a negative income tax thrown in there) combined with property tax.

But yeah, if you tax income or property, you'll probably get less of it, but those quantities are probably less responsive to influence than others.
perhaps the website and post was made on the iPad? /shrug
Glad to hear the executive branch did something in favor of the people instead of corporations.
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someone can just open one up? then again, if it is spy gear you won’t be able to tell, if they’ve done a good job.
I don't notice any authorization model in this, where (for example) you could grant a service read/write on a portion of your data but commit yourself to read-only access. But maybe it's in there, or possible.

If that were a part of the conventions, or even if it isn't, services could sign their own versions of data in legal states – as with signed/encrypted cookies. Then out-of-agreement edits could be detected, and possibly rejected as errors, rather than causing other surprises. (This could make for some ugly partial-failure/unexpected-state cases, though.)
That's an extension. It doesn't come with PHP (not "out of the box").
I listened to an unabridged audiobook version - 67 hours of laughingly bad, home-made narration in Russian. Even then, it was easily one of the most riveting books I have come across.
Maybe I'm missing something, but it's literally impossible to achieve something with D3 that you can't achieve with JS+SVG, since D3 is a JS library that emits SVG. The question is how much work you can afford to do. You can always roll your own. But you're going to have to a lot of fussing around with things like figuring out where to put tick marks or grid lines, maybe you need to parse some CSV, or figure out how to label dates. There are also things like Voronoi diagrams which are, if not tricky, at least tedious and annoying to implement yourself. And then there's simple statistical operations like making histograms or calculating medians or other quantiles that, well, you can always implement those yourself.

Basically, D3.js strikes a good balance between ease of use and expressive power, that leans pretty far towards expressive power, while still being far, far less work than rolling your own.
try Billboard.js a nice wrapper on top of D3v4 https://naver.github.io/billboard.js/demo/#Chart.Combination...
It's not by choice. I partially crippled myself in an accident and am still recovering. I had to learn to walk again and I still cannot lift anything with my left arm.
FWIW I'm 58 and still have 20/15 vision with corrective lenses (yes I typically eat bushels of veggies and carrots too), but the fear of only having 20/20 vision or worse is why I never opted for LASIK.

I consider my night vision poor--but I thought that even when I was in my teens. My eyes have always been a bit light sensitive... IDK if the two are related.

Contact lenses? Nope. All the wetting solutions I tried blurred my vision, sure it was only for 15 or 20 minutes but that doesn't work with my lifestyle.

For me the risk was never worth it.
Demographics, geography..

I bet the number of people riding scooters drops sharply at age 30. Heat dissipation for the mechanism and comfort for the rider are two big factors.

Try it in Dallas. It has notoriously low walkability scores and is regarded as pedestrian-hostile. The three months over 100F would make or break.
I would suggest that while new hires of H1B might not get paid less, the market dynamics of not having as many alternatives would invariably lead to less valuable retention efforts by the employer. i.e. fewer raises, fewer promotions, smaller bonuses, etc.

As I understand it, H1Bs aren't too bad (transferability is a thing here), but other forms of visas are brutal in this regard.
The reason buybacks are disconcerting (aside from the debt driven buybacks the article focuses on) is precisely because of what you're saying.

Buybacks are often a signal that a company has run out of ideas for what to do with with their money, other than what they're already doing. Especially for a tech company, that's a very bad sign. For instance you refer to Apple as a mature company yet the interesting thing is that today they are basically 'the iPhone company' - making the wide majority of their profits from a product type that didn't exist 11 years ago. And this is a typical pattern with tech and electronics. Times and trends change very quickly and the winner tends to be the company that's on top of the change. If Apple doesn't manage to move beyond the iPhone they will stagnate (which is arguably already happening) and inevitably decline.
Omni-path isn't support on AMD chips, let alone Power 9. I don't agree with the decisions, but there you go. We switched from 3 generations of Pathscale IB adapters to Mellanox because of it.
> I wish I understood more how people use credit cards.

I'll give you the low-down: many Americans don't make enough money to save up money for medical emergencies, and other emergencies, so when one of those happens, they reach for their credit card. Yes, it's a bad idea, but when they're a few months out of the hospital, possibly still sick, then it's easy to panic when getting repeated calls from debt collectors and pull out their credit cards.

Same thing happens with auto repairs and house repairs. And many such incidental expenses. As a software developer making over $100,000/year, the instinct of many people here on HN is to say, "why the hell don't they save more?". But when you're making $30,000/year and raising a couple of kids, it's really not possible to save money in most cities and their suburbs. Sure, they could save up more money with that income in a cheap rural area or small town, but then there's no jobs.

Saving up enough money for medical and other emergencies is much harder to do for the average lower- to lower-middle class American that many people on HN might realize.
No, you can't just keep pumping. To build a reservoir at the scale that you seem to imagine, you depend on locations that provide a suitable topography. Very few such places exist.
But the USA oligarchy want to keep it that way.
It's pretty hard to cover whatever the other side is when you're stuck in a prison camp. Not sure in what way it's 'exaggerated', though. The worse stuff, nobody was left to write about.
> "This study contributes to a growing body of evidence," Wallmark said, "that music processing may piggyback upon cognitive mechanisms that originally evolved to facilitate social interaction."

An alternative hypothesis is that singing co-evolved with humans' peculiarly selfless social interaction. Joseph Jordania argues that rhythmic signing and dancing evolved as a method of defense and offense for scavenging on the savannah. A group of humans in synchronous motion and polyphonous vocalization might appear quite formidable to a large predator, and the behavior could have begun to emerge immediately upon or simultaneous to human ancestors' descent onto the open savannah. We know that higher-order primates usually already possess all of the physical prerequisites, such as primitive vocalization capabilities, call/response behaviors, and rudimentary capacity to mimic necessary to start down that path.

The cognitive mechanisms which permitted humans to instinctively synchronize their behavior with others would be the foundation upon which not only language could develop (via the emergence of shared, complex modulated vocalizations to which meaning could be subsequently affixed), but also selfless empathy. There aren't any good theories for how significant, non-kin selflessness could evolve using standard genetic models. Game theory shows its too easy for genetic free riders to stifle the emergence of human-level selflessness among non-kin group members. Thus concrete evidence of so-called "group selection" has remained stubbornly but unsurprisingly elusive.

But in Jordania's theory it's presumably difficult to fake the neurobiological characteristics that permit perfect physical and polyphonic synchronization. If you get it wrong or simply don't participate you stick out like a sore thumb (or a wounded animal), become food for a lion, and are removed from the gene pool. And its best if those characteristics for unified behavior are deep, instinctual, and almost autonomic. Those characteristics might not be sufficient to get you to modern humans, but they're a huge leap forward (perhaps the biggest one) in terms of the emergence of complex non-kin selflessness and cooperation via selfish genes. And at its root would be humans' capacity to immerse themselves in and "become one" with music--music would be the bridge between the self and the group, literally and figuratively. And it would have been strongly selected for as part of a survival strategy at the _individual_ genetic level; no need for group selection.
Does it support running as a gRPC server?
> (8) ... how people use credit cards.

This is the "HN bubble" at work. Many of these people are paying medical bills for which they have no insurance or trying to feed their children. And once they fall into the trap, the credit system is designed to keep them there. So yes, it is very tragic.
Businesses use debt as a tool. It doesn't mean they don't also have revenue and cash reserves -- it just means they have calculated they will be better off leveraging debt than spending cash for certain things.

Think about it this way -- if you wanted to buy a car, and you had enough money in the stock market, you could sell your stocks and pay cash for the car. Or, you could get a car loan at a pretty low interest rate. Why would you take the loan? You might take the loan because the money you would make by leaving your cash in the stock market (and avoiding capital gains taxes triggered by selling shares) would almost certainly be larger than the interest you would pay on a car loan. So it might make sense to take the loan and leave your investments alone.

There are not a lot of personal decisions that turn out like that, but a lot of business decisions turn out like that.
This article is incredibly light on actual details.

JS development, as long as you aren't using webpack or some other nodejs-based toolchain, is awesome on an iPad Pro. Many developer-oriented apps ship with WebDAV servers which can serve JS scripts. And thanks to the iOS 11 Files app, you can even test sites that involve the HTML5 File API.

For example, doing some work on a VBA-related tool on a plane was surprisingly productive: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dc9JZBMUwAAg2BY.jpg

More than anything else, I felt more productive on the iPad than on my MBP because the constraints ensured there was no visible chat application or time wasting website screen.

P.S.: the VSCode sidebar never really made sense until I saw it executed in the Kodex app: https://kodex.space/ -- the ability to jump down to a particular place in the file with a single touch is mindblowing and immediately boosted productivity when dealing with huge scripts.
Ah ok. Makes more sense.
SVG is tied closely to CSS, so you can go in your CSS and create a style for your D3 graphs and do things like:

.chartline { stroke-width: 3px; color: red; }

D3 has some convenience functions in JS for creating SVG, but you don't have to use them, you could write SVG just like HTML, it will look more like this in the DOM:

<g fill="none" stroke="steelblue" stroke-linejoin="round">
...
</g>
I don't think he meant that as a law of nature. I think he meant that, empirically, sustained 10% stock market growth hasn't happened on the timescales that are being discussed (ie for a person's retirement savings), while avg 4% growth has.
Didn't Facebook stop using React Native in their own app (or part of it) because it's performance was poor? Or the file size was gigantic, there was something wrong...
There's no misconception about usability. If something is harder to learn for intended audiences on average for common scenarios it just has a steeper learning curve and no amount of hand waving can change that. It wasn't any picnic for me and I wasn't exactly new to any of the concepts.

It's true learning curve is different that productivity. Once you scale the mountain, if it's enough better, it's possible to be more productive in the long run. But this comes with a huge caveat - that there's not another way to design a system to get the same benefits in a more approachable way with a faster ramp up. Do a lot of people really believe that?

Even if there could be a better design it doesn't mean people shouldn't use D3. People use the best solution available however imperfect.

It's a bit ironic that the word complex is used below in describing how it's essentially not as complex as people think.

"The misconception...is that d3 and data visualization are the same thing. That to do data visualization one must learn and use all of d3...I like to emphasize that d3 is a toolkit for communicating complex data-driven concepts..."
I’ve only been using React for a few weeks but the comparisons on that page to React are FUD and the incompatibility with web components is just plain wrong and mixing them is covered here https://reactjs.org/docs/web-components.html
This is a great opener which makes me not want to trust anything this person says,
"I have never been into tablets. I’ve had numerous ones over the years from iPads and iPad Minis to Androi..."
Can someone explain what the differences are between React and Vue? Why is this a good idea and what benefits would it afford me as a React Native developer?