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Indeed, but prototypes running in production or running without tests, is a symptom of other underlying problems in the organization. I feel that scope creep and lack of testing goes hand in hand for projects that are poorly managed.
> If it comes to eviction, we’ll see each other again very soon, on the Campus or elsewhere – as we wander around together and take the city for ourselves.

>- The Council of Occupiers

We haven't heard the last of them :|
yep, and then using this type of analysis to determine who is good and who is not: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-rater_reliability
You are likely being auto-filtered for a reason, ask for feedback and build on that. Also manage your own expectations, you are in a highly competitive industry with finely balanced requirements - you're not perfect for every role but there is a perfect role for you.
Reason calls itself Javascript 2030. That's not a completely unreasonable time line for ML languages to go from the small percentage that they have now to being in the top say 5-10 languages used.

React has made the probability much higher. Reason is kinda like JS the good parts + Immutable JS + Typescript + Redux. Plus it works well with React. If your team is using React there's a good chance you'd get a benefit from implementing Reason in a few places with little risk.
The whole protesting thing seems pretty tame these days. They list demands, but don't follow up with any threat? Why would anyone take the demands seriously?
A company that went from losing $49 million per quarter in 2011 to losing $742 million per quarter in Q2 2018 is poorly run.

Yes. That's pretty bad. Their growth is quite backwards, they've learned to lose more money over time.

http://ir.tesla.com/news-releases/news-release-details/tesla...

http://ir.tesla.com/static-files/7235e525-db16-470c-8dce-9ec...
Why not build more housing. Build enough housing for all new residents - rent doesn't go up
sure we want good jobs with high salaries, but these jobs are just for a minority and they will pump up the prices in the whole area. There're lots of unemployed and people with low paying jobs in berlin, some artists, students etc. they make the city vibrant, fun, adventurous, but they can't stay if you have to pay 1200€ a month for a decent flat.
As an aside, I just got back from China and found Didi, at least as a tourist, to have really improved in the past couple years.

Accepts foreign CCs, very good English translation in app, and text based translation to communicate with drivers.

And quite inexpensive; Shanghai at least charges similar distance costs as Lyft and one third the time cost.
> [...] the average MBA in big business isn't exactly a reader.

I've worked with several MBAs in big business[0]. They didn't seem illiterate. What prompts this comment/impression?

[0] FWIW - I prefer them to the average MBA in VC.
I assume the less data your browser stores about your browsing history, the better your privacy is (at least in terms of someone snooping around your computer applications to determine your day-to-day behaviour)
Or the money to see them through... not to mention in smaller cities they can also be blacklisted (illegal or not, happens all the time to those asking for their rights, suing employees, looking to unionize, etc).
I think Narwhal's are what they call Canadian Billion+ valuation companies (Unicorns of the north. haha)
> More importantly, why do we want this? What benefits does this bring? I don't see many for the ordinary person.

Maybe it could shift liability? So if someone posts the lyrics to a song and Sony sues them for 50,000 euro could they argue that it is the fault of the ISP for not filtering their post properly?

This is a longshot, but I was trying very hard to think of some way in which this law doesn't screw over individuals for the benefit of large corporations.
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So you're saying that because my neighbor has much more money than I he can behave however he pleases even if the whole neighborhood despises him?
"Maidenberg was frustrated by Palihapitiya's push to prioritize data in the VC investment process, which is traditionally based on a more high-touch, personal approach."

I think that is a telling line. There are certain decisions that can be improved with data, and many others where data can be your only criteria, but, in business, there are also a whole class of problems where data is basically a pipe dream.

Don't get me wrong, I am not saying that wanting to make decisions with data is wrong, but, there is a lot of what goes into an investment that is "unknowable" in the sense that your "data" is very sparse or anecdotal, or, you simply have more unknown unknowns. It is this fact that causes many VCs to invest in good teams, that they feel will be able to handle the uncertainty, rather than investing in purely data backed opportunities.
It's definitely a neat project, but worth mentioning that there are sub-$100 projectors running Android (so it can be headless and programmable) that also have a better native resolution than the TI DLP component used here, and video inputs (so you can use it as a regular projector, too).
Yeah but for the most part Keybase is not that. The person above point out one special case and not for the whole system.

For the most part Keybase crypto is modern, effective and easy to use.
>I don't like encouraging mucking around in about:config, but I might as well mention this one.

One issue fudging around with about:config presents could be increased fingerprintability. More battery life is cool, but will it come at the expense of an easily fingerprinted browser profile?
>I've been wondering whether you could use computer vision in combination with sports betting to generate more accurate odds given the current state of the game.

Totally unfamiliar with the gambling side of things. Do they set odds at the start of the game and maintain them throughout? There are already companies who will do live "coding" of game events to create a stream of data about the game. Players on the field, time on the field, location of the ball, location of the players, who has possession, possession by player.

There are some other trackers out there targeted for coaches. E.g. track player running speed. If they are going 10% slower than typical after the start of a play in American football, it's a good sign that they need to come out.

The common problem with your idea and mine are getting high enough quality for relatively modest prices. A standard dash cam isn't enough to grab a license plate, it'd have to be at least somewhat better tuned. Drone video from a distance is going to be tough to use to discern who is who and to get valuable info.
got it from here. https://seekingalpha.com/article/4109731-united-states-incom... Looked for income by percentile for individuals. The examples of waste above that "everyone" does, didnt seem to apply to families, more than individuals so I focused on that instead of household
> I don't think you quite grasp the effects of a massive influx of hundreds to thousands of new individuals making $150k-250k.

I'm from the bay area and pay close attention to land use/zoning issues, so yeah, I think I do. The bay area has had particularly extreme series of decades of rent increases precisely because of anti-housing policies. If the market was allowed to respond, rents would still rise, to be sure, but not nearly as much.

> Sure, it might create a few new jobs for baristas and shopkeepers, a few bartenders and waitresses. But ultimately it just leads to gentrification and prices people out of the market.

Anchor industries succeeding in a metro also raises wages for others in that metro. But, the catch is that the wage rise may not necessarily be enough to match the increase in cost of living. The bay area (and really all coastal California) is a good example of this. Wages for a lot of random job types are higher than normal, but housing is still too expensive.

> You wonder why people are angry? It's because of tonedeaf responses from big companies pushing their agendas.

Companies have a basic duty to run themselves ethically and obey laws and regulations. "You created too many high-paying jobs" is a silly thing to get upset at them for, when the problem is clearly a governmental failure. Liberal US cities are neither permitting the market to create new housing, nor are they creating large amounts of public housing themselves. Their attitude amounts to, "We've tried nothing, and we're all out of ideas!"

You want a solution? Look at Singapore or Vienna.
> swapped the first black president for man with a less than stellar morality record

This is a weird juxtaposition. You appear to be implying that "first black president" and "less than stellar morality" are moral opposites.
I used WireMock extensively in a recent project that had a dependency on flaky REST API. Using the proxy/recording feature to quickly get some canned responses from the dependency allowed us to perform integration testing even though the dependency was frequently down...we basically mocked it away so we could have a reliable CI environment. Later on we were able to stabilize the dependency but we kept the mock service in several cases because it provided significant flexibility.
Even the name "bad news", depending on the situation, can come off as a bit of a deflection - if you're causing the bad news (e.g. firing someone), then it's not bad news, it's just you! Not to say that that it's your fault per se, but the wording is a bit weaselly, which often doesn't do much more than add to the frustration.
I frequently see recommendations to disable "safe browsing" features. Why?
50 percentile for individuals. https://seekingalpha.com/article/4109731-united-states-incom...

it was a very quick google, so i could've been misled
It's really dismaying that this whole constellation of goofballs passes as some kind of intelligentsia.
The onus is also on the users of these extensions to inspect the code. Chrome extensions are not compiled - they are simply zip archives and all the code is readily inspectable. My only gripe is that the extensions are mostly marketed towards people who don't know how to code and so they run these extensions never knowing what's happening under the hood. I trust about five extensions currently, one of them being uBlock origin which has a lot of eyeballs on it. However I do worry that hackers will try to get nefarious code into popular extensions, because the more people that use the extension - the more they can exfiltrate (browsing history, passwords, etc).
It must be a different port, otherwise localhost without a port number would work fine. Presumably 8080 or something, which is common for user apps to use since without privileges you can't open a port below 1024 normally.
S3 trickery, using it as a scheduler
Vanuatu is 270k people. They can be bought off in any deal.
You can't fit more people into the same amount of housing by raising everyone's pay. Either someone needs to start living with more roommates, or someone needs to get priced out and decide to leave.
No? I remember at least three demos that were happening down the street from our office because people had to move out in the last few years. And eminent domain is not the only way to force people to move. Renovate the building, you may now raise the rent so people can't afford it. No eminent domain, people were still forced to move.
I use Firefox. I've found the big battery hit has come from streaming services (Netflix, Pandora, Spotify, Youtube, etc).

One small change I made was streaming music to my phone, and that had a big impact.

I know that streaming will use some battery life, but the amount of CPU being used by say, Pandora, was rather extreme.
The opacity of the window OpenGL context is inaccessible to content.
Although I don't agree with their way of communicating, I think the protestors' concern is valid: they will be forced to move because Google's rich employees will price them out of their living area. This is because of two reasons:

1) Renting: the protestors rent instead of own the homes they're living in, so their costs go up with the housing prices. The government could have reduced this problem by promoting home ownership in the past.

2) Income inequality: the protestors are not techies, so they won't be employed by Google, and will earn far less than Google's employees. The government can reduce this problem by increasing income leveling.
Tesla stock plummets after Elon Musk smokes weed on live show
You can get an LTE data-only SIM capped to 1GB for $5/mo (ZAR 67) from Axxess[1]. Granted - it's not unlimited and doesn't include calls and SMS, but it's much better deal than Vodacom - for data.

1. https://www.axxess.co.za/mobile/data
Newer devices might support the Port Control Protocol, so applications can ask for the port to be forwarded on ipv4 and allowed in the firewall for ipv6
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Sapiens seemed very pseudo-scientific to me. It seemed like Hariri had one agenda and was trying to push that desperately.
Google makes most of their money from AdWords which is keyword targeted advertising buy and large.

People way overestimate the helpfulness of profile targeted advertising vs search term targeted ads.
This got me to do a sad reality check. Since reading Hans Rosling's Factfulness, I've started using a decline in birthrate to Western levels as a proxy for nations getting their shit together. But checking Uganda, they're still above 5, declining slightly now but not precipitously.

Idi Amin, awful as he was, is the past now. What's the present like? That's what matters for countries that have yet to modernize. And it looks to be not good yet. Every nation in Europe was ruled by an Idi Amin at some point. They got better. African nations will too, someday. But I really want to see more African nations on that rapid-modernization cycle that we see in places like Iran, China, and Vietnam.
Genuinely asking, what can big companies do? Lobby for laws to not pay people 150-250k?
Hysteria or ignorance, as with other items in this list. Safe browsing is designed not to compromise privacy.
Maybe what's for the good of mankind is to stop funneling public money to somebody so unstable and unable to deliver on his promises.
This isn't a hard bug to avoid, but it would take completely reimplementing the extension so that all of its UI beyond the "keybase chat" button lives in the extension rather than being injected into the page, and having the chat button do nothing but call the extension with the username of the intended recipient.

I understand why Keybase principals don't want to do that, because the extension is an addon that probably doesn't do anything in particular for them as far as adoption goes. I'm not sure I understand why they continue to ship the existing extension, knowing that it's insecure.

And I don't see any excuse at all for editing the bug report on Github out of existence - that strikes me as sufficiently sketchy that I may no longer use Keybase at all, and certainly will no longer rely on it to be especially secure.
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Why would a stock fall after someone smoked weed in a recreational legal state?

It's likely for this reason: https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/7/17831204/tesla-accounting-...
It's 4443, and actually everything appears to be working fine now. I swear this bit me every time I tried to use FF for months...
Why, yes it does! Thanks.
You are absolutely correct. If you have ever owned a potato peeler or a right-leaning dog, it is imperative that you never set foot in Europe. It's just not worth taking that chance.

I'm sure the poor folk in Europe will manage to struggle on without you and they thank you for your concern.
Just, yikes.
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> I don't think you quite grasp the effects of a massive influx of hundreds to thousands of new individuals making $150k-250k.

It also drives up demand for new housing and thus urban renewal projects become viable, which contribute to create higher-quality housing suitable to modern needs, not to mention contributions to ancillary services like public transportation.

> It increases rent across the board, which impacts all the people in an area.

No it doesn't. It impacts those who don't live there but want to, and due to increased demand need to compete with more people for that privilege.

> Sure, it might create a few new jobs for baristas and shopkeepers, a few bartenders and waitresses.

Ah yes, because those who didn't had opportunities to enroll in an engineering degree deserve to have their occupations ridiculed, and shouldn't even have the right to a respectable job.
Google cache links aren't served from `amp.yoursite.com`, they're served from `cdn.ampproject.org`.

If you're visiting `amp.yoursite.com`, then the site _isn't_ being served from the Google cache.

Also "this Chrome update is about hiding the "amp." subdomain on the original site from the viewer" is patently false since this update _doesn't_ hide `amp.`; only `m.` and `www.`.
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BSkyB has a betting arm, why wouldn't they just do this with all the cameras they have?
> Lack of highrise developments is what makes those areas attractive in the first place.

Why? Aesthetics? Google-type people don't want to live in high-rises?

I don't think I've ever heard anyone say they aren't willing even to live near high-rises. That's a new one to me.
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Lots of people stop using Facebook in exactly the same way that they stop using old e-mail providers.
Remember when the stock market was considered an art, dependent on your ability to make a deal? I'm sure a lot of those folks insisted the quants would never eat their lunch, because the data is a pipe dream.
NYer here.

Where did you live? Downtown Manhattan?

Pre-Uber try getting cab service like that in Harlem or the other boroughs. You mostly rely on gypsy cabs who were always sketchy and always tried to cheat you. Coming back from the airport one time, one driver even tried to put my bags in another cab and tell me he'll finish the ride.

If the pre Uber cab service were so great, Uber wouldn't be such a popular success there right now.

And God help you if you were black and trying to get a ride.
Good on Mozilla for taking this on.

There's so many problems with this.

It sets up the infrastructure for control of media. Is an image being shared that is unflattering to the current powers that be? Well, now we have a mandated system in place that can immediately pull that image from the web.

I don't think getting totalitarian control is the goal here, but it is the end result of it.
> Always in Berlin the knee jerk response to what is going on "We have to keep the rents down!" in response to housing crisis....never "We have to raise pays!"

If salaries go up without housing being addressed directly, you get what's happened in SF: everyone middle-class and down being pushed out by high rent prices, because they're all competing for the same limited amount of space.
I'd absolutely be all for it - I've been running my mail server since the 90s, and used to run it out of my closet.

There are two major, somewhat interlocking problems, though: home users with compromised machines currently represent the population of home "mail servers" (spam malware) at the moment. Selling this involves convincing mail administrators that not simply blackholing all of what is currently a cesspool is a good idea. That's not easy.

The second problem is that fixed-IPs, open well-known ports and DNS have become a product differentiator for ISPs. Those are "business" features; dumb ole' consumers don't "need" them.

I don't see any compelling argument that would convince either prong of that trap - hell, I agree with you, but as a mail admin both professionally and personally, the first one gives me hives, thinking about the years of work it'll take to re-stabilize a functional antispam infrastructure to handle it.

And after that, you need to convince Comcast to change their revenue-extraction plans and generally be less dickish.

If just you want a mail server now, your best bet is a cheap VM somewhere. It can be really low-end and cheap.
But what port would firefox connect to, and how would it know?

Chrome doesnt do this either as far as I can tell.
Would it be as useful if it weren't being subsidized? Say 2x the current costs?

It varies by city of course but there were at least two largely orthogonal issues with cabs in a lot of places. General crapiness (unreliable, hard to get dispatched, won't go some places, credit card readers broken, etc.) and high cost.

e.g. I get a car to and from the airport were I live. It's comfortable and reliable but not cheap.
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Out of curiosity, what are you considering modern?

The trend I see growing is towards microframeworks, smaller libraries, less dependencies (or if you have some, a small opinionated set of them), are more doing it yourself -- I think this phenomena, more simply put and was championed by go -- is to "just write code"

I am enjoying "just writing code" far more than my days as a library and framework glue person, and it is a lot easier to have other devs ramp up, as an added bonus. "Here, read this simple code to understand what's going on and then add your code" versus "here, study these docs, learn this framework, install all these dependencies then learn our coding style within the framework to understand what's going on, then add your code"

Gary Bernhardt kind of captures my sentiment these days with regards to massive libraries and frameworks these days in this thread nicely: https://twitter.com/garybernhardt/status/1037101314939875328
> I'm also wondering what the implications of this are for brexit

We're well into "who knows?" territory, but what would definitely happen is the UK would lose any say over the EU rules. The UK isn't really large enough to be its own market for startups (unlike the EU and US), so we'd mostly end up using companies hosted in one or the other and obliged to follow their rules.

(Safe Harbour is probably a more interesting one to consider!)
Interesting tidbit - second generation GLONASS satellites' software is written in Modula-2 running on hardware implementing a subset of VAX ISA

Modula-2 being Oberon's predecessor.
Yeah, I had noticed that, too. To give a totally unsubstantiated opinion (i.e. mine) I'd say that that only helps make the case for the massive deforestation happening as soon as the Neolithic Revolution got under way in earnest, starting about 5,000 BCE, that would explain the rise in CO2 concentration (also see the Cucuteni–Trypillia culture - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cucuteni%E2%80%93Trypillia_cul...). The rise in methane concentration which happened 2,000 years after that might be explained by people raising a lot more cows around 3,000 BCE (the start of "civilization" on the Nile and Euphrates, for example).
My first thought was that a lot of these WAT should elicit an eye roll from anyone who took Comp Sci. My eventual conclusion was that this was just a form of stealth basic Comp Sci education for language hipsters.
Apparently Tesla is already producing 5,000 a week, which isn't very far off from 25,000 a month.