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Check United Airlines stock price. Or Über. Or Exxon. Or Shell. Or Haliburton.
Vote with your wallet - tweeting/posting/complaining is fine and should be done - but denying them revenue is a universally effective message to bad businesses.
Thank you for your response. I am very familiar with Fedora as well as CentOS/RHEL and that is where most of my experience lies, but I would like to see what it feels like to use a Debian distro as a daily driver. I've been using Ubuntu all day today and am disappointed about a few things.

Because I want to see what it feels like to use a Debian based distro I think I will actually go with Kali Linux at least for now.
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I'm pretty sure these races are pari-mutuel where the house takes a vigorish. The sentence you give is basically the definition of pari-mutuel without the vig.

FWIIW the author is wrong that this problem is unstudied. There are actual hedge funds which do nothing but this and a quick google search provides numerous academic examples; even a github repo. "Deep learning" is probably the worst approach I can think of to the problem.

I'm also guessing he misunderstood the data if betting on the favorite compounds like that. If you make the race pay off at something other than the actual odds, that would probably do it.

Examples from the literature:

https://github.com/dominicplouffe/HorseRacingPrediction

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016792361...
> Surely Google is on par with Facebook in terms of the potential damage it can and does cause society. Together they nearly monopolize the online advertising market and both have massive amounts of personal data, tracking, ability to promote/demote views arbitrarily...

Definitely, but the key word is potential. Facebook has been far more careless and far worse at concealing its arrogance and selfishness, both of which have helped paint a larger target on its back.

Google, on the other hand, appears to have been far more responsible. Through past results do not guarantee future success.
Most service staff are probably thinking within a set framework, where getting a minimal base pay is a foregone conclusion.

A more interesting and useful comparison would be to poll individuals who have held similar service industry jobs in countries that do and do not have tipping cultures, and ask them which they preferred and why.
I don't understand, could you explain? Level3 may be the biggest backbone provider but I doubt that Microsoft is peering only with them are they? This is maybe something that a smaller company might do but Microsoft seems too large for that.
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I also disagree with general applicability :-)

But fair enough, I hear this a lot.

OTOH, a side-effect of working categorically is that we really assume very little, so we can apply the system is many things (at least the core doesn't restrict us, of course you still need to write code etc).

this is unlike all other systems which are domain specific.

you should think of it much more like an alternative syntax for bits of constrained Haskell code... anyway, thnx for the feedback, I am mainly surprised to see this on HN =)
Frankly I can't fathom how this company is still in business. I live in the bay area and I don't know a single person who's ever used it or mentions it.
I don't know Jack, but it might be worth checking whether something like buggy automatic power management is suspending and resuming the relevant USB path during acquisition...

It is possible to disable the power management at several levels. The "powertop" utility is a convenient way to play with the top-level device/driver tunables. And the /sys/bus/usb filesystem has a power/autosuspend setting for individual devices.
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My first criteria would be show everyone the door that thought they could "finally solve physics."
/shrug

In this case they're doing something (questionably) legal but terrible.

There are plenty of cases out there of outright wage theft. I wouldn't have a problem with the people in charge of those decisions getting arrested.
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this is not always true. my restaurant was listed on doordash without my permission or request, with a butchered menu and completely incorrect prices.

multiple requests asking them to at least fix this info or take me off the platform altogether (because customers were starting to wonder why my prices were so low on doordash - they're not, the couriers paid the current amount in-store...) and they ignored me. it wasn't until i signed up to be contacted about being a restaurant partner that they finally paid attention.

of course, once i registered interest in partnering with doordash, they spammed me with requests to sign the terribly lopsided agreement, and then took my restaurant off as a "bargaining" chip. yeah, okay. works for me.

so, tl;dr, if a restaurant isn't directly partnered with doordash, they can do whatever the heck they want with the prices.

(which, speaking of restaurants setting prices, they all definitely have clauses in there about not charging more than you would on other services. they definitely let you upcharge... i was half tempted to put up burgers for $20 each, for real...)
The Cuckoo's egg is a must read for anyone persuing a career in Devops or Security - It covers such a wide range of debugging techniques and ways to track down unusual behavior, that it's still a relevant read and great primer. The early anecdote about 'mirroring' the typing if his hacker by hooking up line printers to phone lines is particularly ingenious - using `tee` as a tool for the same effect has saved my hide many a time, and helped me understand complex systems. Introspecting median output is great tool (see also printf debugging).

On a different note, Cliff Stoll is himself a great dude, fun and witty and very friendly. I bought a Klein bottle[1] from him as a present for my father, who loves it, but the real treat was for me - I went in person, and he gladly took an hour of his time to show me his warehouse and custom robot he uses to manage it, and chatted about everything - Life, The Universe, his book and his business and software problems (I was at a videoconferencing startup, and he'd also done some work with telcos that proved relevant and illuminating). If you have a chance, buy a bottle and have a chat.

[1]http://www.kleinbottle.com/
Was perl ever the language of choice for distributed services or database systems?

Did I miss that part of history?
No, but a growing number of utilities can inform customers that it is a 'peak usage' time and customer devices can adapt accordingly.

Nest (and I assume other internet-connected) thermostats are able to accept peak-usage notifications from the power company and dynamically reduce usage. In my case (Portland Electric), it's two-way communications, if Nest can prove to the power company that I let its device reduce usage during peak-load times, I get a credit at the end of the year. The Nest in my house has almost paid for itself.
Bloom filters are not a common data structure. Google ain’t gonna check what you know about them.
German Federal Constitutional Court: Posteo must be able to monitor customers
The German Federal Constitutional Court has decided today that German email providers must be able to log IP addresses.

Link to their English-language press release: https://www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de/SharedDocs/Pressemit...
In other places YC has described this as bullshitting and their answer is Jessica. They claim (at least publicly) that she significantly shifts the ratio to favor people with real skill over those who are good at advertising it.

http://foundersatwork.posthaven.com/the-social-radar-what-i-...
It does a lot more than manages services.

It breaks screen and tmux functionality, leaks DNS when connected to a VPN, it riddled with "wontfix" security vulnerabilities stemming from a refusal to be POSIX compliant.

Systemd replaced udev for crying out loud.
What existing solutions solve their particular needs ?

And don't forget that rolling out commercial products in an enterprise is often expensive and time consuming e.g. involving legal, procurement, architecture etc.
> There is almost certainly a binding arbitration clause. This removes the possibility of individual or class-action lawsuits.

But it does not remove the ability of the court to overrule the clause itself. So someone could still sue Instacart knowing that it will be thrown out if the court decides to enforce the clause.

In my life experience, these things are almost always up in the air until a judge says otherwise.

Getting to the contractor thing, the most workers can really do is file IRS Form SS-8 and see if the IRS will release them of some of their tax obligations. Other than that, there's really not that much enforcement.

Source: I was a misclassified contractor in 2017 while working in WA state. IRS forgave some of my tax burden, but Labor/Industries and Employment Security are absolutely useless if you don't have a literal Form W2 to use.
This sounds like a no-win situation. If Thiel doesn't influence the papers published in the journal you get headlines like this ("journal publishes insane article"), and if he does influence the articles then you would have the even worse headline, "billionaire censors academic publications in journal he funds." The apparent solution would be to appoint a board of censors that aren't you but agree with all of your beliefs, but let's be honest that's not any better.
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I'm surprised GPUs were the right call for this use case. Not to say GPUs aren't useful in DBs, but I/O and keeping the GPUs working hard quickly becomes a bottleneck. I'd assume the workloads must be non-trivial in order for this to be superior to general purpose CPUs using SIMD + in-memory data.
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Tips are taxable income in the US, even to the point where the IRS will assume a minimum amount of tip income, even if you didn't receive that much.
> (or lose the worker)

Not how it works, unfortunately.
Everyone is forgetting realization. What can you actually collect from end clients? What "discount rates" do certain companies get? That ~$800 is rack rate and after discounts, write offs/downs, you rarely realize that entire rate. Utilization is also important. If client doesn't allow charging for travel, and your talent is flying around, they aren't going to get high utilization. But when they are working the rate is higher.
Google font logs are not dumped into their analytics and they take a number of steps that greatly reduce requests made for fonts in the first place.

https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq#what_does_using_the_...
Java Applets were awesome. ActiveX is handy for enterprise glue. Flash is nice too.

There was a huge gap before JS frameworks cought up to Java Applets and Flash after they in practice were dropped.
Especially in the US. Just look at their ancient measuring system.
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... there's a pretty damn good explanation given in the comment actually

and it's pretty obvious regardless: status pages are highly transient. it's probably good to have a record of what's being discussed?
Same here. I’ve been using instacart since 3 years almost everyday. But this is it. I am off it. I can’t believe the greed that some companies go to, to take advantage of people struggling to make ends meet. Shame on them
Yes, and a lot of us marketers are scratching our heads when designers talk about "human-centric design" (i.e. making products by thinking about what people want, what marketers have been doing forever) as if it had really profound and new insights. But it's certainly a good approach so, it's worth promoting.
You are talking about deficits in the tools to work with graphical representations and lack of language support to contain behaviour to a single box (like a decent type system and separation of effects from pure computation)

I am the first person to admit that visual programming goes wrong about 95% of the time, but it doesn't have to... also nobody is expecting everyone to swap out their tools for statebox haha
Piracy of Microsoft products that allow offline use is rampant, especially in poorer countries. A cloud service is a really good tool to prevent piracy.
> Or will you drive yourself to the store and buy it from minimum wage employees who work unstable hours?

No, I will get on a bus operated by union-organized employees and travel to a grocery store where employees are also covered by a union and inside the city limits of a city with a reasonable minimum wage and scheduling rules inside a state with mandated paid sick leave. While there, I will likely pay a bit more than if outside those borders but the people involved in the process will be getting treated minimally well.

People crap on what cities like Seattle and states like Washington are trying to do as “socialist” or “a nanny state,” but workers are humans who deserve to be treated well and “the market” seems terrible at that if left to its own devices.
My (IKEA) desk at work has a hand crank, too, but it's easily within reach when I'm sat down.

I still don't use it much, though, since I don't feel particularly productive when trying to do my work while standing.
Not all customers/workers feel the same way about every business practice, so it's not fair to appropriate their decision-making power by monopolizing it through one regulatory agency or union that they may not support.

People are entitled to their individual choices. If it's too much information to process, they can individually choose someone they delegate their decision making to. One way they do this is to trust a particular certification and only buy products with the certification seal. But each individual should get to choose which party plays the role of delegate for them.

Resorting to one-size-fits-all regulatory/union monopolies shows a lack of imagination that deprives individuals of their agency and breeds corruption/rent-seeking-behaviour.

As for this case, it's pretty clearly theft, and should be dealt with accordingly by the legal system. Customers/workers shouldn't have to band together to punish theft.
Per month vs per year.
They return their cash to shareholders via dividends and share buybacks, letting those investors allocate it to wherever they expect better returns. Apple doesn't need to become a conglomerate or start a corporate VC arm themselves.
DoorDash seems to be the best value to me with their DoorPass option. I don't find the markup to be completely unreasonable, it makes sense to me and never felt shady, they have to make their money somehow.
This kind of assumption (that you must optimize your behavior for common good) is unrealistic. Only "good people" will do so, and that caring will put them at a competitive disadvantage compared to people who simply don't care.

No, regulation has the possibility of leveling the playing field and making everyone behave in a certain way, irrespective of how good or bad they are.
>Could you try ffmpeg using aac instead of wave? I think it would involve adding only `-c:a aac` to the command.

ffmpeg -f pulse -i default -c:a aac -strict -2 output2.m4a

ffmpeg -f alsa -i default -c:a aac -strict -2 output2.m4a

no issues. alsa one through pulse too of course. -strict -2 is because distro's ffmpeg is old.

>Did you ever notice any type of pops and cracks during normal system usage? Not even recording.

If I remember correctly, yes. When I had crack/pop issue playing youtube videos or music I would occasionally hear this. But again, it fixed itself.

My general advice is to not use Debian unstable, and if you want a stable working enviroment avoid rolling release distros generally. When I tried living with Debian unstable 10+ years ago someting would constantly break on a apt-get upgrade. Not sure how it is now.
Yeah, but the very shipping of data back and forth to the GPU is usually a bottleneck no matter how clever you get. Moreover, you're limited to say 8 GPUs per box for a total of 100GB-ish in memory. You can operate on nearly 10TB on the largest AWS instances using CPUs. With AVX512 intrinsics, this translates into some serious potential on large in-memory datasets that renders GPUs less appealing.
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in that situation perhaps you could review their keywords. I know that sometimes the solution can be found through searching, but knowing what to search is half the battle. Reviewing their search terms and suggesting alternatives should take very little time and helps them keep searching and gets them off your back for a little while. It is also not as dismissive as 'keep searching'
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>That's not the logic behind the tipping system. It's, "tipping incentives employees to perform well because they'll make more money for doing a better job".

>It doesn't work that way either, but that's the rationale.

Indeed. The on the ground reality is that tipping does not serve this purpose. I don't know if it ever did, to be frank. Studies[0] generally show little to no correlation between performance and amount tipped.

And the reality is that tipping is the reason invoked in many state laws for paying restaurant workers less than minimum wage. Tipping is the reason they get paid poorly, and I always find it problematic that people invoke tipping as a way to help people, when it is the cause of their low wages. In those states, tipping is a big win for the restaurant owner. The customer pays more money out of his/her pocket, and the waiter often does not get much money.

Unlike others, though, I do not consider this wage theft (even at a moral level). We don't tip for many other services that we receive, and the problem of how those workers are compensated doesn't cross our mind. Why do we insist that tipping some category of workers has a moral component whereas others do not? Fixing those laws will be a challenge as long as tipping is commonplace.

[0] Example: https://scholarship.sha.cornell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?arti...

(Taking off my pink hat)

(Yes, I do contribute to their poor wages by tipping. Have to conform somewhat to society!)
Reminds me of the old joke: only two fields call their customers "users" and one of them is drug dealing.
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The issue remains prevalent: https://factordaily.com/telegram-turns-go-to-platform-for-te...
> compare it to the HN narratives

Seems like you constructed a strawman to knock down. This site contains diverse opinions that you'd find in any community of large enough size.

PS - The graphs are very attractive, but it is unclear if they're inflation adjusted. $6.9B in Q1 2015 Mac Revenue dollars is worth $7.42B in 2019 dollars.
Personally, I'm glad he lacks charisma, because it can be used to cloud people's perceptions.
Better yet - what percentage have succeeded?
My ISP (Telefonica) currently doesn't return addresses for login.microsoftonline.de (cloud Germany) while Google's DNS servers do. I wonder if that's related.
Here is an article about the Supreme Court case that upheld it.

http://articles.latimes.com/2002/jun/18/business/fi-tips18
You made that comment after I had made mine, so I had not seen it.
Anecdotally, Montreal certainly has a tipping culture _and_ pays service staff the same minimum that everyone else is subject to. The restaurant prices aren’t any different from metros in the US. Really, there is no advantage to taking a lower wage to anyone but the restaurant owners issuing that wage.
Where did you get the notion that tips are supposed to be untaxed income?
And it helps them dodge taxes.
And even then, the worker does have the right to petition the court to review the clause itself. So the worker can still sue with the knowledge that it will be thrown out if the judge decides to uphold the arbitration clause.
In part because they’ve added a layer of deception to the practice. In part—and I’m speculating here—because this is a young company, founded and run by people in (or nearly in) our cohort, and were disappointed in them as peers (albeit peers who struck it rich).
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"Censorship"? Que?

Deciding what to include in your journal makes up the character of the journal. It's not censorship, it's the editors' jobs to include some things and exclude others.

> board of censors that aren't you but agree with all of your beliefs

Beliefs shouldn't really play a role. Pseudoscience is not science because it doesn't adhere to scientific methods. The editors' beliefs are orthogonal to the topics included.
The only issue is that Office is extremely easy to pirate, and it's pirate-able by the (you guessed it!) offline authentication service, KMS.

If it's so easy to pirate office then the cloud-based authentication service only serves to cause issues for those who legally purchased the software.
That post was edited after I responded to it.
That's one of the things I've been doing with my son, is trying to show him a cool thing that seems too advanced for him, and show him that it's only a small step up from where he is

Right on! One of the most valuable skills I've learned over the past several years, is how to decompose your projects into small pieces, then decompose those things into even smaller bits and keep going until the pieces seem downright stupid. That last part is the key. You have to keep going until you'd feel insulted if someone asked if you could do those things. This sounds bad, but it's actually a very powerful mental tool.

Let's say you want to build an MMO. That's a really huge, complex chunk of work. So let's just take a piece of that, let's say the networking part. That's still really huge, so let's just take a piece of that, like the part that synchronizes the client's ship position. That's still quite big, so let's just make something that can send some kind of data between some clients and a server. Well, it turns out there are a bunch of tutorials online for building a Websockets chat server, so let's just start with going through one of those.

Then, when you can send/receive data, write a game loop simulation of an Asteroids ship, and build it into the server. Then, for a client, forget about networking altogether and go through a Javascript Asteroids tutorial. Next, sync those two in the stupidest way possible. Then, when that's working, make your sync just a bit smarter. Rinse and repeat. This is actually how I started building my game server.

(You can see a sort of reverse chronological order of this process here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7x2uQjLtXkY&list=PLnAL8xf0QQ... )
They actually had an app way back called Google Listen, which was EOL'd...

https://www.androidcentral.com/google-listen-officially-dead
>I am 100% in favor of tipping, and all of you people calling to ban it don't understand service jobs.

I used to live in Japan where the service is quite better than in the US and tipping is frowned upon. You honestly don't know good service if you think tipping is necessary.

And to those saying to tip in cash, note that a lot of the times those that receive tips in cash typically don't report it as earnings on their income taxes. This is why I never tip cash.

Restaurants and such really just need to up their prices and do away with tipping. The practice itself is inherently discriminatory/racist in that better looking people typically receive higher tips, women typically receive higher tips than men, Whites receive higher tips than Blacks. It's really a disgusting practice.
Have you ever seen anyone accurately report tips earned in cash?