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Just because you cant distinguish the fine differences between a good and great carpenter doesn't mean they don't exist. Someone making detailed engravings for a casket is far more skilled than someone who hammers a wooden crate.

Any profession to which someone can devote their life to (incl. carpentry or software development) is going to have gaps in skills between "ok", "good", and "great". Pejorative attitudes which measure something like software development as "harder" than carpentry are not beneficial and simply dilute the discourse.
Is there any kind of context to this statement? Does it come from somewhere? It certainly doesn't ring true to me.
I disagree, abuse of the credit reporting system will make it useless which is good thing because in it's current implementation it really shouldn't be trusted.
I've had some negative experiences working with SendGrid a few years ago, but honestly I think they've improved a great deal in the last couple of years. Some stuff still could use some improvements (API, UI) but it felt a lot more stable and reliable last time I used it.

Still, I miss Mandrill the most.
FWIW, from Mackenzie v. Hare, 239 U.S. 299 (1915) at https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/239/299/ :

> Citizenship is of tangible worth, but the possessor thereof may voluntarily renounce it even though Congress may not be able to arbitrarily impose such renunciation.

On a tangent, it used to be very easy to give up citizenship. That same link says:

> Marriage of an American woman with a foreigner is tantamount to voluntary expatriation, and Congress may, without exceeding its powers, make it so, as it has in fact done, by the Act of March 2, 1907.

For example, from https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/338/491/ :

> Held: she expatriated herself under the laws of the United States by her naturalization as an Italian citizen followed by her residence abroad

or from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perez_v._Brownell , "the Supreme Court upheld an act of Congress which provided for revocation of citizenship as a consequence of voting in a foreign election. The precedent was repudiated nine years later in Afroyim v. Rusk". See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afroyim_v._Rusk .
It is a technology problem. Technology created the centralisation that makes the target so juicy, and courts treat stuff entrusted to third parties with less care than stuff you keep in your mind.

The closer the storage is to you, the bigger a hurdle the government needs to jump to access it. Closer tech is more private tech. It's also much more expensive to snoop on.

The ballot box approach will last exactly as long as the next terrorist crisis.
People will hand wave this away as a publicity stunt, but frankly I'm fine with a publicity stunt that makes the world a better place.

Tesla wants to donate water filters to Flint? Apple wants to donate watches to scientific research? Microsoft wants to give away patents to Linux? Heck yeah! That's one outstanding use of a marketing budget if I've ever seen one.

The world is improved and your business gets good PR. Win/win. Please keep this going other companies!
If you want a total surveillance show, there's Person of Interest.
Ask HN: What could be better in your industry?
As a business, while it might be too expensive to have custom software solution built for your exact needs. But it's completely doable if it's built as a service, as in business similar to you with same needs also use it. Then cost is spread out. So let your brain have freedom and think beyond your budget. Assume you have a magic wand and it can solve any of your business pains, just like that.

We're a group software developers who build custom software for businesses and instead of charging one customer $50k we charge monthly fee, ex: $300, to 1000 businesses.

Whatever you have in mind let it out here in comments or PM me. Doesn't matter if it's your business or you work in business and know it's a problem. Doesn't matter if you think it can be solved with a software or not.

Few questions to get you going:

- What is something that you do repeatedly and could be automated?

- What is that eats up most of your time in day?

- What is currently grinding on you?

- What software do you use that you wish was better and you think it sucks?

- What app do you wish existed for your type of business? or what app do you wish some tech company would make for you guys?

- Excel... what stuff do you do in excel manually. How much time do you spend on it.

- could there be an app/software that would allow you track something better, let your team collaborate better, alert you whenever xyz happens, let's you automate customer support, calculate quotes..

These're questions as much as for you as for us.

There are problems which you're aware of and there are some which are so standard that you may not even realize it's one. Don't hesitate, think of anything that either take times, unreliable, ambiguous, tedious, repetitive ...

Try at least 3, quantity of quality.

So your industry, title, problems, and background on the problems.
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But they have plausible deniability since the customer indicated they were taking the last leg of the flight. The possible tax issues should be on the customer here, right?
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Yup. I updated the copy. NO UPFRONT FEES. The application is another thing im building to track tesla inventory and charge a subscription.
Does anyone else find spicing up ordinary words with new cognates amusing? Super-researchers are ultraconcerned about hyperalarming insect megaloss.
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The Christakises, Bret Weinstein and his wife Heather Heying, James Damore, and Lindsey Shepherd (actually not sure if she was pushed out; she had the good sense to record her abuse which may have ultimately protected her). These are a few of the more egregious examples off the top of my head.

EDIT: Brandan Eich and Lawrence Summers popped into my head as well.
There's at least one big difference between Mailgun and SendGrid that I know of: Latency. I implemented an email-only authentication library based on random tokens for Django[0], and that's very sensitive to latency (you don't want the user to have to wait ten minutes for a login link).

Unfortunately, Mailgun is pretty slow to deliver emails, so I use SendGrid to send emails for that.

[0]: https://pypi.org/project/django-tokenauth/
While I share your sentiment, I don't see any real actual address of the underlying cause of climate change before irrecoverable harm to the planet.
It’s wild that the announcement of a $2 billion deal isn’t mobile friendly. The font is so small, I bet desktop customers also have trouble reading the press release.
Exactly. We use them because they have a robust feature set that works for our use case (highly regulated data, etc). That's not a trivial thing. It's not a "moat" but it's wall.
They might consider them dynamic but in 18 years the only time they ever changed was when I actually switched providers. They were essentially static IP addresses. With one ISP it was the same for 5-6 years.
1. No it wont, please show me where this is happening.
2. No it wont, please show me where this is happening.
3. No it wont, please show me where this is happening.

There's concerns and then crazy questions and comments.
> rising working-class unrest

Brexit and Trump is primarily a cultural war, not a class war. While the "poor have risen to overthrow the yoke of oppressive elites" story was perfectly plausible thing to believe in the months after those votes, people have taken a much closer look at this premise and it is simply not supported by the data.

Those voters are not poor and haven't had their jobs taken by immigrants (or have even had much contact with immigrants). Their "anxiety" is not over something they've lost, but something they fear losing, which is their dominant social status.

I know this is common refrain, but IMHO, people want this to be true because it offers a nice simple little solution - more taxes, more redistribution. Acknowledging that this is a cultural war is quite uncomfortable, because there really isn't any solution.

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/existent...

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/05/white-w...
Their participation in the affiliate scheme is very often mentioned in the articles.
Whoa buddy. There's a huge difference in skills there.
Arbitrage and short term bets such as high frequency trading and day trading.

The most old fashioned ways for banks to make money on reserves, though, is to lend it - especially moderate-interest loans such as business loans and mortgages. These days, they also can use the funds to back credit card payments, for instance.
Meanwhile, Skiplagged seems to have gotten a kick out of the ordeal with their new tagline: "Our flights are so cheap, United sued us... But we won."
it seems like they could make money if they threw an emulator on it and sold games licensed from maybe Nintendo for royalties
I'm no expert on the matter, but that seems like a pretty sweeping generalization.
Grid cells is, according a learned colleague of mine, an epiphenomenon. If so, this is not a viable path, as it is really just the grandmother cell theory in disguise.

I like Hawkin's work. I think he has good instincts, and he was probably the first to hammer home the point that all the brain does is make predictions and there are a small number of evolutionary mechanisms at work in the brain. Still, that doesn't make him right here.
Where did they say that anywhere here?
Yes. I'm surprised this isn't on here with the headline "YC-reject company Sendgrid acquired by Twilio for $2B." Maybe that will be the TechCrunch writeup.
Lol I thought the same thing. Bounced out of the site in a second.
What matters is that the harassers are beholden to no one. They have no HR dept. to give them sensitivity training.
Maybe the answer would be that such communities should be restricted in their growth in terms of how many they can manage without the “thundering horde” taking over, rather than how many they can sign up.
Well, for a start, we could be a lot more thoughtful about who we're willing to accept funding from.
A wave of AMAB people in my circles came out with their own experiences after Terry Crews shared his. I think it's a lot more common, possibly to the point of parity.

It's a catch-22: it's assumed half the population can't experience it. They're strong (and will be assumed the agressor if they fight), all men want sex (not necessarily with women, or that woman), etc. There's a whole suite of victim blaming and denialist rhetoric to match what women deal with.

So there's no research, education, or advocacy, and the lack of data is used to justify not devoting resources. I've personally been propositioned and harassed in inappropriate ways. Underreporting is a known problem for women, but too few people apply the same logic that leads to that conclusion to other genders.
Not really - the vast majority of people who engage in this behavior do not notify the airline that they aren't showing up. The pool of standbys for the average flight is typically tiny or non-existent, and it's practically impossible to find a buyer for a ticket within the 15 minutes that airlines might be allowed to invalidate a paid customer's reservation and resell it.

Wasted seats on flights is a much bigger environmental problem than wasted fries.
Its also basically impossible to avoid office politics as a PM. Suddenly you're in a role where you have to make decisions that come down to opinions. And you know what they say about opinions. You can justify and be as transparent about the process as you possibly can be, but you'll still have people in other parts of the business that have their own assumptions and disagree...and suddenly there's stress and friction in the job.
Ha. That would be true if the only purpose an army was to stabilize the currency. The army/military of any nation does far more than that.
You might want to check out Mendeley if you're still shopping for a pdf with notes application.

Unfortunately Elsevier own it nowadays, but it's very functional. Also, I haven't used Citavi, so I can't offer you a comparison.
I saw Maniac's setting as a conscious attempt to emulate the future as envisioned by Philip K Dick, but with modern twists. The idea that you'd get free services by allowing a person to sit next to you and make a sales pitch was especially poignant.
Is there a curated list anywhere of YC rejects that made it? That'd be neat.
I literally did not think that level of precision would be possible. There were people from Cardiff, England who located these two gentlemen at a tiny tiny airport in Missouri. Incredible and mildly frightening.
You can play the game though. It's nowhere near finished, sure, but I've put way more hours into Star Citizen than I have some other games.
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> It's obvious that air pullution can't possibly make you forget one year of such knowledge,

Is it? What people remember of one year of education is probably very little to begin with and it only gets less over time; it doesn't seem unbelievable that pollution could cause those memories to decay faster.
That's the thing about personal experiences - they tend to transcend epistemology - but fortunately, at least in my case, not basic self-defence techniques.
This is way beyond what I can understand, but got me thinking: if a complex neocortex finally gets emulated and trained (current ML techniques) to a human level, how hard do you think it would be to implant primary directives?

Robot brains in Asimov's SF stories were designed mathematically, and they were mathematically proved incapable of defying the three laws. Our robots would be less certain, as its design would include too much randomness to manipulate with absolute certainty. OTOH, even Asimovian robots could defy the three laws if they knew enough philosophy.
The article covers this. The short answer though is price discrimination. Airlines want to sell tickets for the most total money they can. There is more demand for A-to-B tickets than for A-to-C tickets, so they are able to charge more. As long as selling A-to-C tickets is marginally profitable though, they will do that as well, even though the price is lower, and regardless of the fact that the most efficient way for them to move people from A-to-C is through B.

Basically airlines will charge what the market will bear; their costs on a given route don't really factor into it, except in as much as they won't generally fly routes that aren't profitable.
Prefixes, not cognates.
It is meaningless, if you want an accurate estimate, or even, say, a 95%-confidence lower bound.

But since we like to be pedantic on this forum, I’ll defend the parent: if you want a true, 100%-confidence lower bound (ignoring the possibility of false reports), then that would be 5%. It’s a completely useless statistic, and you shouldn’t use it for anything, but it’s correct for the strictest possible interpretation of “lower bound”.
Isn't it pretty late to re-sell the ticket if you don't show up? It helps them with overbooking, standby customers, fuel costs and increased comfort to other passengers though.
Nothing at all. My black ass did just that, minus the convention. There are enough of those.
As an engineer, I've worked with far more gifted engineers than product managers. The for the good ones is intense. Let's be honest, most companies don't actually need unicorn engineers. They can't afford them, so they get by with solid contributors. Second-tier engineering will eventually bite you in the ass, but without excellent product management, you won't live long enough to experience that pain.
Then don't play today's games. They probably are all overly complicated for the experimentation someone would want to do. Use the older games that have well-developed tooling and open source engines and assets.

The most popular games aren't cutting edge graphics games anyway. Gameplay is beating pretty graphics in lots of ways.

And those games that don't provide modding tools? They'll go quicker out the door and will be less famous.
>I feel you can have a nice balance between hiring assistants to help with grading & discussions by increasing the cost somewhere in between on-campus & average MOOC prices.

Blended models have a lot of promise--at least in theory. My understanding is that post-pivot Udacity does some things along these lines. And, of course, there are more traditional degree programs that have a large online component.

One of the nice things about CS/programming is that, in many cases, you don't really need the physical resources of a university campus. And even if you can't handle 100% of a full degree program, "nanodegrees" and the like are a big win. It's also nice that computer systems can handle a lot of the grading of problem sets--and, as you say, it's not super-expensive to have TAs handle the rest. (Source: I remember what I was paid to be a grader for a few courses in grad school :-))
> then maybe they really could blackmail you (because you violated a "social order" by playing ticketing games...).

Airlines should, conversely, have terrible social credit scores for selling tickets to people and then bumping them from a flight they paid for.
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Seems like a well designed system. Note if you don't watch the video - the police can only send requests to users for video. The users can say no.
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> Between 1968 and 2014 the average fuel burn of new aircraft fell approximately 45% [1]. We also move more people more reliably [2]. That's innovation in my book.

When I was in college, that statistic was used to remind people how depressing it was to be a propulsion engineer. It amounts to just 0.8% improvement annually, in the face of billions of dollars in investment each year from P&W, RR, GE, etc.
> "Just xtrapolate from these numbers."

They could've simply involved the male population as-well, but for reasons unknown, chose not to.
Just look at Elite Dangerous or Rim World. Amazing, fantastic games that started off very primitive, with the core of the gameplay at least prototyped. And now, a couple to a few times a year, in both games, we get an update that makes it more awesome.

And those effects are compounded - both games are far superior than other games in their genres because they steadily improve and focus on the core gameplay features.

Elite dangerous has had a working game for 6 years and has released at least 15 pretty big updates (with another one only like 2 weeks away). Star citizen is focusing on ice cubes and the rest of the game isn't even really a playable game.

I feel bad for people who are thousands deep into SC.
High density usually isn't the problem for American cities (though it might be for SF, I don't know that one specifically), but rather low density suburban sprawl is. Higher density usually makes it easier to walk or use personal transport like bikes.

For it to be too dense for biking to be a viable transport they would have to be much denser than European cities which would by definition not allow for parking in the places where business takes place (in which case nobody would drive).

Most American cities were clearly designed with cars in mind, while most European where not (having grown organically rather than being designed), and while the American decision might have seemed better for the better part of the last 100 years, that might not be the case for the next couple of decades.
My dad claims that the bugs come and go in cycles and says he has seen so several times over his life. He believes that we are just in a period of low bug population and that at any time there could and will be a population explosion.
Personally I am not so optimistic. My dad moved around multiple times over his life and I would suspect different areas would naturally have varying bug densities and that is why he felt they went in cycles.
Because for myself I DO notice the decline in bugs and articles like these do scare me for the sake of humanity.
I doubt we'll see every space getting a charger, in fact as EVs/PHEVs become more common I would expect to see the free charging parking spaces go away (they're supposed to be an incentive to get people to switch, but if everyone already has...).
Ford sold ~559,500 1965 Mustangs in a much smaller overall market.

Chevy sold over 200K Corvairs each of the three first years of launch.

First 12 months deliveries of Tesla Model 3 were a little over 26K. First 15 months deliveries (which is more apples-to-apples with other company "first year" launches) were a little over 80K.

It's not even close, IMO... Do you see the figures differently?
They put me on a spam IP 2 months ago & i wasn't able to deliver to outlook, account got disabled later that day for 'abuse'. Same for Mailgun without the account being disabled, although they quickly switched me to a different IP and it was fixed. It has given me anxiety about deliverability, even with domain and everything configured correctly you could just be put on a bad IP, especially for low-priced options.
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What?

Did you think before you typed because 2 of those questions have nothing to do with this.
How do you know that they’re actually monitoring conversations? Is there nothing in the TOS saying that they won’t view your actual conversations?
VCs often call this their "anti-portfolio", some publish their lists. Bessemer's is super impressive:

https://www.bvp.com/portfolio/anti-portfolio

They were pitched & passed on: AirBnb, Apple, Ebay, Facebook, Google, Intel, Intuit, Paypal, Snapchat, Tesla..
I made a similar calculation a while ago when I moved from working at small companies to enterprise level tech and cybersecurity positions.

My goal is to maximize the amount of money that can be made without the stress, pressure and demand of the job overtaking the enjoyment of the compensation.

Admittedly, I could be making more money and being more aggressive in my career but ultimately I am satisfied with the balance I have found.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18223847
And that's what I said: "DWARF or pdb style metadata".
> I might take a snippy tone myself if ignorant people kept sending me the same stupid suggestions and questions.

And in that hypothetical, I guess I'd point out that if you are affected by such things, having a strong Twitter presence and making your web presence a sub-blog on an automotive website might be the wrong way to go about things.

> Most of his articles are somewhat "inside baseball" and assume that the reader has a certain baseline knowledge of policy and technology rather than explaining every little thing.

I didn't exactly feel like I was reading Aviation Week or something when I took a peek at his stuff. Hence my original question.
I don't know if MailChimp is on its way down or what. I recently reset my phone before realizing that 2FA would be affected. Now, I was encouraged to enable 2FA, but I can't get back into my account and MailChimp isn't getting back to me about what I can do if I don't have any backup codes. I know it's a tough situation, security-wise, but I can send my passport if they need it!
No idea about other BSDs, but in case of FreeBSD that’s generally just Intel and AMD graphics drivers. All the rest is native.

And this goes both ways - at one point Linux folks famously managed to violate the BSD license when porting some WiFi driver, iirc, which is notable, since it’s not that easy given the licenses nature :-)
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18214707