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very responsive, looks nice. seems like a useful page. i bookmarked it. thanks for making it.

one small note: on my monitor, when I visit the Google Play Store itself to view the top ranked free apps, I can see about 10 apps horizontally displayed across the screen. but, when I visit your page, I see only 8 because they are displayed vertically down the screen. (my monitor is pretty wide, not that high.).

FWIW, i wonder if you might consider narrowing/shrinking the green "Top Ranked" banner at the top of your page. then I could probably see 15 or more of the apps down the screen without having to scroll. just a thought. thanks.
Probably more likely that nearby land that's within a decent bus ride of LIC will increase in value and higher density housing will be built there. The land that was right next to the existing subway stop was obviously already quite valuable.
If you have nothing to hide, you also have nothing to say. You also have zero to gain by expressing your assent to what is happening already anyway. You are actually drowning out many people who have no voice in this matter but silently believe in very important things like human rights, of which privacy is absolutely key to freedom and free expression.

I generally think open dialogue is a good thing, but your comment just bolsters those in positions of power to the detriment of everyone else for literally nothing other than reducing your own minor personal annoyance. Want better ads? Mail them a dossier on your life story and leave the rest of us out of it.
You're talking about the wrong book.
Apple also missed their unit sale numbers virtually every quarter this fiscal year. I don't know why people don't acknowledge that.
Perhaps. My point is that the poor or less well off get impacted by the bad effects without any of the good effects. For example, here, there was an income levy introduced to bail the banks out. For the less well off, that money has much more impact on their lives than on the rich, even though those people never stood to gain at all.
Every ounce and second counts.

Ex-racer here, and I'll back that statement up. Trick is, which expensive doohickey actually saves a second or an ounce? Or more realistically, since seconds and ounces can actually be measured by a layman, is the bottom bracket actually stiffer? Are you two seconds faster today because of the bottom bracket, or because you're just faster? Was it the smoother shifting of the new chain rings that saved those seconds? Maybe you need a $1000 power meter so you can get the telemetry needed to make sure.

IOW, many thousands have been spent by myself and others to gain only perceived, but not measurable, differences. And, oh how the component marketers know that.
Even Notepad is programmable if you're brave enough.
totally agree. LIC has nothing.

i dont think amazon will have a big impact in NYC.

keep in mind, people are leaving the tri-state area for florida, texas, etc... there's A TON of supply.
> I still think it's roughly correct to state that humans are a pretty dumb animal that juuuuust manages to pass the threshold of traits required to develop technology.

I think what I wrote is pretty much in support, or at the very least not opposed. Individually, alone and without our "tools" and man-made environment, we are not much, as movies or games like to show us (e.g. when a guy with only a knife is dropped into the jungle).

In those environments we are actually a lot dumber than those living there, including many animals. So what does "general intelligence" even mean?

I think most of our intelligence is social: We manage our interactions, which enables the network effects. I think we spend most of our efforts managing our relations with one another, more than anything else we use our "intelligence" for.
No. Insider trading (in the U.S.) is a specific crime based on federal securities law.
Next episode of Silicon Valley: we find out that they are literally using “machine learning” - adding those words to resumes to get them picked up by recruiters.

In all seriousness I think it would be interesting to explore the latent space of their model, and try to explain it- what does it think the magic words are?
> But did the first one deserve to be "hounded" and harassed until she left twitter? Those people are just as bad IMO

It's the same thing. It's people who have to drag others down in order to lift themselves up. I don't think it's a good thing when anyone does it, least of all when I don't realize I'm doing it.
Imagine a neural network who could design memes/songs by directly measuring a bunch of test subject brains. Kind of like a focus group.

A short story even asked the question, could you engineer a meme/song so powerful that it could literally make you go insane? We know this stuff exists (brainwashing, cults, ...), but can you super concentrate it?
Agreed.

I find way too easy to be cynical and use the old tired arguments like "with all the money he makes these are just breadcrumbs" or "it is really just for tax purposes/PR stunt".

This money will be used to help people in need, and it's all that should matter.
Compared to other unmanned electrical flying craft, would this type be more durable in non-stop flight conditions?
No, I don't think so.

I understand why people are upset over Amazon's behavior with the new headquarters, but this article is scraping the bottom of the barrel for new headlines to stoke outrage over. There is literally nothing wrong with acting on insider information in a context outside of securities trading, which real estate is not.
Amazon exposed customer names and emails in a 'technical error'
Every major airport in the USA is likely to have multiple Starbucks locations, they're likely to open as early as or earlier than anything else in the airport, they also have breakfast options and non coffee drinks, they have a rewards program that actually is decent for regular users, and even if you want nothing to do with Starbucks you can always pass those cards along.
Sounds like lifters. Would it produce a lot of ozone pollution?
You’re assuming it works well. But less tongue in cheek, this is pretty close to the current market, as it is. Things like this might help close some of the arbitrary gaps.

I agree with your sentiment regarding the timeline. We really could manage scarce resources more socially appropriately.
Amazon already has offices and staff in New York, so it's perfectly possible the purchases were innocent. Whether they are or not is another matter.
The CDC is non exactly an unbiased organization. They ultimately report to the president, and there has not been a president in recent history who did not push for a fat 'defense budget'. Got a link to this study you are referring to?
If by "military" you also mean Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, unemployment insurance, space exploration, K-12 education, and scientific research sure.
Would you drop a sarcastic comment into someone else's conversation in a public space?

The main lesson here, as always, is don't tweet... it's a context-less shitshow.
This is really cool.

> “In Star Trek you have shuttlecraft gliding silently past,” he says. “I thought, ‘We should have aircraft like that.’”

It's a good sign when inspiration comes from Star Trek.

Edit: Also, reminds me of this: https://xkcd.com/2072/
Twitter has changed so much since the beginning. It used to be a "smaller" community of people who posted content or brain-thoughts in good faith. Over time it's gotten so incredibly edgy and hostile in almost every type of content whether it be technology, sports, or some other thing.

Tragedy of the commons.
He is absolutely correct. Wealthy in that you have access to ten dollars discretionary to spend per month. A friend of mine is from India and got into programming through free content with ads on the page.

Imagine people for whom a dollar is a lot, who have no credit card to link into your system, who have no money to buy your stuff and no way to buy it even if they had the money. Even a $0.01 charge would be impossible because they simply don't have the tool necessary to buy your stuff over the Internet.

I mourn the Internet that included people like them.
Fair as in: The price is justified by the usage. I only need text and phone calls, so the majority of the smartphone features aren't proving me with any real value, it just drives up the purchase price.
Blockchain could make easier to implement the vision of complementary curencies from https://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0712683992/transac...
Bernard Latier is prophetic in
"The Future of Money: Creating New Wealth, Work and a Wiser World". Aloso, Blockchain could enable some sorts of decentealised UBIs.
Unfortunately the first wave was too libertarian in its culture and not focused on doing really good things for the world. Too much greed, fear and short sighted decisions. But this wave proved that the monopoly on money is an acident and not a necesity. This could be very huge. When many people start believing it just becomes reality..
Do I have some news for you.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/reliable-source/wp/2017/...
It's like a normal person giving $100 to charity. Wouldn't it be cool if you could move the needle on vulnerable children with pocket change? (I'm not downplaying his charity, just putting it in perspective)
There is standard codified punishment for what you describe - it isn't anything special to quant trading, we can talk about secret sauce of many IT companies, or companies in general. Some dev walks out of Google with their Search code/data would be much more scary and damaging.

What we see here is punishment for the sake of punishment, from person who is clearly amoral according to anything you can find on him online (quite a bit). All I say is I have no sympathy for him and the case, which btw even the company itself originally claimed would expire in +-August 2018. Yet they still go for revenge. That's pathetic and clear abuse of legal system from my viewpoint.
“It was very exciting,” Barrett says. “Then it crashed into the wall, which wasn’t ideal.”
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You've summarized it really well, been using k8s for the past year on a large microservice infra and it's been a pleasant experience. Most problems were flaws in the way our cluster was setup or our misunderstanding of the config options k8s provides.
Giving out money is a real cost for the company and the receiver can use it in whatever way he wants. Company tokens and other awards cost the company nothing so in my view they are worthless.
That's exactly what I was just wondering and trying to read up on (I'm incredibly ignorant about this sort of thing)...

https://www.quora.com/How-is-air-ionized-and-what-does-that-...

"Air ionisation can cause the following: forming of ozone molecules

Ozone is produced naturally in the stratosphere when highly energetic solar radiation strikes molecules of oxygen (O2), and cause the two oxygen atoms to split apart in a process called photolysis. If a freed atom collides with another O2, it joins up, forming ozone(O3). Most of the ozone in the stratosphere is formed over the equatorial belt, where the level of solar radiation is greatest. The circulation in the atmosphere then transports it towards the pole . So, the amount of stratospheric ozone above a location on the Earth varies naturally with latitude, season, and from day-to-day."
I don't even think it's a moral issue. If anything, these Amazon employees purchased before speculators could front run them. Working for Amazon is hard enough without generating fake outrage.

Your concern should be with any elected official who offered Amazon concessions to locate in NYC. When their reelection comes up, it should be expressed that New Yorker's subsidized a trillion dollar company.
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However, such memetic behavior such as fads, echo chambers, and meme outbreaks predates the internet and even modern technology. So, according to your logic, it would seem we have always been the Borg.
>> What else would you call one of the top math students at cambridge?

I would call him a good, hardworking student. (At least that's what we'd call it in Singapore ;) Coincidentally me and Xu went to high school at the same time in Singapore)

If we labelled everyone who did well in the undergraduate curriculum as prodigal - the word itself starts loses its meaning.

Let's take the top 20 universities across the world (harvards,mits, tsinghuas, iits etc.) and take the top 10 graduating students from each class (math, physics, etc.) => are we saying that the world is producing 500-1000 prodigies every year?
Not a lawyer but I understand that insider dealing is defined and covered by securities laws and regulations. For instance I believe there is no such thing as insider dealing in the foreign exchange market.
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If you can actually defend your position that "people" in eastern europe routinely compare the EU to the USSR, by all means. Otherwise, have a nice day.
How many is "plenty"? What percentage of people who have enough money not to do those things actually do them?

My sense is that that percentage is pretty low. Yes, there are people like pg or sama who continue to work and add value even though they don't have to, and I think that's an admirable thing to do. But I think there are many more people who, once they have enough wealth to not have to work, stop working for good and don't produce anything after that.
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>While employees of companies are barred from buying or selling stocks based on information that has not yet been made public, lawyers told the Journal that they were unaware of any such ban affecting real estate transactions.

It's the third sentence in the seven sentence OP.
Arguably, Microsoft could do this as well without cannibalizing too much business. It's truly a shame they aren't doing it.
As someone who reviews a lot of candidates, I would appreciate it if someone was to tell me up front whether or not they are interested in the kind of work I am offering.

I think this is a good thing. I'll take honesty and transparency over perceived flexibility any day.
For those who haven’t seen it, here’s the classic Funniest Joke in the World skit: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YeMnPyusuBE
This would have to be pretty light given the low thrust, so durable isn't the first thing I think of. Or does durable have some special meaning with aircraft?
> Kind of reminds me about how they say the highest level of automation of self-driving cars will be no steering wheel. Who decided that that was higher on the scale and a good thing?

Everyone who's ever sat in traffic. It's a miserable experience and it is indeed a fundamentally better thing to be able to use that time in a more productive or entertaining fashion. Few people care if the steering wheel is entirely absent, so long as it's not needed and it's not in the way.

> The "progress" defined here is complete control over all actions of individuals in society by an AI god.

Who is defining progress that way? Everyone I know who wants a self-driving car wants it to go where they tell it to.
I think it's more likely he simply chose to put HQ2 near his house rather than his house near where he planned to put HQ2.
So, you’re saying that about 1 out of every 5 times a gun is used, it is used for a criminal act? And... you think that’s a good statistic?
The locations really weren't generally known internally. A few days before the announcement, there was a company-wide all-hands meeting with Jeff where we presumed we'd find out. Nada. Nothin'. No details. We were all left in the dark as much as anyone else.

So the real question here is "which employees, and what did they know?". Or even better, will they be living in these condos for a few years, or selling them in 3 months?
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Renting a somewhat modern one bedroom apartment in Moscow for $400/month seems pretty cheap.
Insider trading is wrong based on the theory that the insider -- the owner of some shares -- has a fiduciary duty to the company.

That's why there are no equivalents in commodities or real estate.

However, if Bezos were to buy a "ton" of real estate in the immediate area and then intervene in the process solely to enrich himself, the share holders of Amazon may feel they have used their money to enrich himself.

(I am not suggesting anything of the sort actually happened in this case.)
Who is the victim here?
> What I'm curious about is whether LIC condo prices are really going to increase dramatically compared to similar projects in other parts of NYC?

It depends on whether NYC/NY will invest in it. People have talked about LIC being the next great thing for decades. I guess sooner or later, it will be LIC's turn. But I don't think AMZN is it.

> you can live in Manhattan and get to LIC in 1-9 stops in < 30m.

Nobody who lives in manhattan wants to work in LIC though. That's the problem. Manhattan is the work hub of the satellite regions like brooklyn, queens, hoboken, etc. These regions aren't work hubs for manhattan.

> You could even live in Jersey City and get to LIC in 50m.

Depends on the part of jersey city you live in. Most people aren't willing to switch trains to get to work. PATH to Metro twice a day? No thank you. If traffic warrants it, you could probably take the ferry directly from downtown JC to LIC.
I don't think this follows. To a degree, it's already true, because a lot of tech interviews just boil down to "have you learned all the pet CS questions in Cracking the Coding Interview?". A CV just gets you the interview.

Of course you're right, some companies have software to filter CVs by keywords, and often it's as dumb as if the ad says "experience with Puppet", you need to say "experience with Chef, which is like Puppet". This is just playing the game, like everything is.

Why do they do this? If you've been involved with hiring, you know the number of terrible CVs even a small company will get is shocking, so I'm sympathetic to automating things a bit. A lot of them are minimal effort, but that's the best case. Worst case is a flat out lie, because it takes more effort to catch - usually during the interview.

So if we accept that CVs aren't just useful for raw information, but also convey some kind of measure of diligence (e.g. spelling), which you want in a programmer, then knowing about tools is also a useful measure. So I don't think it's going to be as bad as you make it sound.
Long Island City is also an obvious choice for current residents along the L train who might be moving because of the upcoming L train closure. It's worth noting that LIC is only a ~20 minute commute with two train options (M & 7) to the current Amazon office, which is better even than the commute from parts of Manhattan. So I wonder if this is just part of a greater migration pattern from along the L to LIC/Astoria?
Liability law is at least consistent, even if I end up disagreeing with the result. When my (now ex-) wife was in law school, one if the sample cards they studied was an arsonist where the fire had met up with an unrelated one. The arsonist was found liable for all the subsequent damage from the combined fire rather than an approximation of his "contribution" despite the being no disagreement that some of the damage would have happened anyway.

In another case construction crews finding were found liable for a nearby mink farm's lost of income when the sounds freaked out the animals and they ruined their coats, because blowing stuff up, even done legally, is considered a high liability task.

At least those are my recollections of the decisions, it has been a while and I didn't study them myself.
The quantitative difference in spreading velocity and general bandwidth is so large it becomes qualitative and looks a lot like a phase change.

We burned stuff long before modern steam turbines and internal combustion engines...
This seems like a great way to harvest lots of resumes to sell to recruiters.

If you're working on your resume, you're probably open to a new job, right?
Matt Levine covered this very exact situation vis-a-vis Amazon https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-10-22/front-...
I just left a job that felt exactly the same way. Only problem is I let 6 years go by and now I feel I'm behind in the world. The company spent the last 8 years trying to replace another 3rd party system. They're still to this day using the 3rd party system. It feels like such a waste.
What is the most intuitive Chrome extension that you've used to block JavaScript on every site and to create a whitelist as you went?
American Exorcism
You can make this argument about anything: meteorites, viruses, tigers, supernovae...

And yet, we're still here.
This is one of the less appreciated clauses of the GDPR: That companies are required to disclose data breaches within a reasonable time-frame, and users have the right to know about any exposure of their data.
And if they bought the condos with insider knowledge of the future location of Amazon HQ2, why would that be of any concern ? Why would it be fraudulent ?
I’ll bite. I use a VPN every day, and while I will admit freely that it helps for less copyright friendly ventures, it has probably saved my privacy quite a few times, as I am almost always on public networks. In addition, I imagine many users in countries with more stringent censorship than the UK likely need a VPN to carry out their daily lives. True, a VPN can help people hide their identity to do criminal things, but there’s a reason they call ski masks that way: because they have a specific but sometimes vital use.
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And all those industrialists are going to clean up their act. That politician is really sorry about that thing they did and will never do it again. The financial sector pinky swears to never crash the economy again.

No reason to trust what apple is saying. They are a company. If it becomes financially viable to play those tricks again they will do it.
Isn't in US some heavy taxation on capital gains from quick property sales to prevent this type of speculation? Ie in France it's progressively lowering after 5-6 years, it gets down to reasonable levels in I think 22 years.

The result is much less volatility on the market.
What's wrong with that algorithm?

Black people are more likely to date black people, white people are more likely to date white people, and rich people are more likely to date rich people. By tailoring the matching algorithm to take this into account, you increase the chance your users will find a good match. This seems user friendly to me. Were you also offended that the algorithm matched people differently based on age?
And if everybody donated 100 USD to charity that it would have huge impact :)

In related news: extreme poverty is likely disappearing over the next 10 years, if you want earn some karma points by saving people in need, now is the time to act.
Kind of, https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/Differences_from_Linux