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I really love bell hook's work. Feminism is for Everybody was a clear and concise discussion of the issues of race, class, sex, and gender and I truly wish more critical theory books were up to that standard.
Remember, just one year ago the common consensus surrounding facebook was - "If you don't want it to be public, don't post it". We have learned so much since then.

Revelations are important.
And that's a large reason why I use Go: scaling to multiple cores works out of the box if you build it with goroutines.
I use both: an increasing percentage of formatters and linters support .editorconfig so you can set the common basics there and not need to duplicate configuration for every tool you use on a project.

I’m in very strong agreement on using formatters, too, but I have mine run on-save. It’s slightly disconcerting at first but extremely relieving when you realize how long it’s been since you’ve talked about code style.
The value was created on the company itself, thanks to the early funds of the investors. Value was definitely created..
It really just emphasizes that our connected devices make it easy for the police to track you. No privacy, even leaving a phone home won't do it.
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and how much would the consumer be educated by news such as "sausage maker lobbies against more sausage regulation"?

if everyone is ill and they know it's from sausage quality, why even discuss about regulating it? Just do it. that's what the short cynic comment was about. this is noise that only serves Facebook by pretending that the obvious action to be taken should be discussed. it's way past that point for online privacy.
Looks like the other driver incentives may not be included in revenue?

Revenue is money they take in. If they pay drivers a minimum it will be an expense. I’m assuming under “cost of revenue” or “sales and marketing”, since they don’t categorize drivers as employees but contractors.
> They found that the runner plotted these murders with the attention and precision of any serious athlete

From the article... This is a bit grim: but maybe he was trying to beat his PB?

You got to be a little psycho to take a life. It's fathomable that it was just "sport" for him ...
Companies like Lyft, Uber or Airbnb changed the world. Literally.
And this has something to do with Buffet selling his Oracle shares .... ??
They did get a nice short-term windfall by changing the JDK license. Which will fall away in a couple of years as everyone shifts to OpenJDK or something other than Java.

I'm also seeing big stodgy companies getting more comfortable with things like Postgres. It will take a while, but barring some big change, Oracle is headed down long term.
Gotta close those rings!
Looking to get better at building web apps. I just don’t know if there is a better way of structuring my code, making it more maintainable, more efficient. Sometimes when I look at my code from a year ago, I think it’s embarrassingly bad.
I heard from someone inside that at least one office's developer reqs were all moved to India, inducing a pretty big morale hit.
Bmw develops everything external. They do not have internal software competence. The software development center basically is just a hub for creating product requirement document and reviewing functional specification documents for software packages. Everything else is in a eco-system of small competing software developers- this worked great when you thought detail knowledge to be replaceable and you wanted those external devs to bid each other into the ground. Today, the external developer firms are bleeding people to the swiss and the valley or turn to other- more lucrative industires/projects.

Its also why those car software projects always have such subtle bugs and almost never updates. The final integration step of those packages into a whole is basically bitching to the various supplier about unspecified stuff until the time runs out.
It's also a push to get you to buy Exadata/Exalytics appliances, since the lock-in is harder, and margins are bigger.
From what I understand the tracker data was from an earlier time when they were gathering intel on the target.
>Because no one uses `kernel` for anything already.

Because people will seriously be perplexed between an esoteric experimental programming language and operating system kernels, right?

Like that huge fiasco in the early 50s, when people confused OS kernels with corn...
Go doesn't really have parallelism features either. A language designed for parallelism needs to have data-parallel features like parallel iterators, good support for SIMD, and concurrent data structures, neither of which Go has. (In fact, due to lack of generics, you can't even build your own generic concurrent data structures!)
How it worked before:

AMEX Platinum comes with $15/mo Uber credit. Credit auto-expires by the end of each month.

Before - this credit automatically applied to ride and the rest charged to default credit card.

Now Uber got clever and decided to pull the fast one on their customers (and AMEX).
$15 AMEX credit now pushed to "Uber cash".

And you can only apply this credit to rides that are <$15.

If ride is more expensive - you cannot apply Uber Cash credit unless you refill "Uber cash".

But here's another trick - you can only refill Uber Cash with $25, $50 and $100 chunks.

Which means if you got AMEX credit of $15 but your ride is $50 - in order to use the "uber cash" balance you can only refill your Uber cash with another $50 which doesn't make any sense for customer. You'll always be keeping leftover balance on "Uber cash".
Without lending UBER your own money through "Uber cash" refills - your AMEX credits will auto-expire at the end of every month.

This way your $15 AMEX credit is expires unused by the end of every month effectively cheating customer away from reward and diminishing AMEX-promised reward program.

FRAUD!
Apple has a lot of potential to expand into health care tech and digital therapeutics, which is a huge, growing market. They have a great brand, expertise in making consumer hardware and software, and they're one of the few large tech companies that's able to take privacy seriously.
Exactly. With the hostile takeover of PeopleSoft, Oracle bought themselves a number of huge customers who are disinclined to change ERP systems on anything other than decade-long timelines. It has evolved and is now cloud...ish, so they can certainly talk themselves into being perceived as a “leader.” (Even though they’re not really cloud-native in the way that Workday, Salesforce, or others are.)
He didn't wear it during the actual assassination, but during an earlier trip when he was planning it. Still not a very good idea.
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EAitis at its finest.
Given your experience (which is replicated all over the world), why not just use ORMs for what they're good at and skip the rest?
> It's one of the nicest things about Go given that async is just manually implemented lightweight threading.

No, async/await is typically stackless, while goroutines have stacks. That's a significant difference.
Decrypting traffic on the client isn’t always possible due to how modern browsers operate.

Decrypting traffic on clients is also much harder due to the multiple types of clients you have and the fact that there is no easy way to MITM every connection the the client.

The security threat model by definition defines clients as untrustworthy hence relying on them for decryption is a flawed approach.

If you are going to be cocky and disrespectful at least be right.
Thanks as lot! But yeah, I'd rather build it myself or at the very least, get a signed binary that's somehow official.

I'm a bit reassured by your words about the build, but the hard part for me is the download as I don't have fiber at home: I've already tried once and given up after a few hours. Compiling should be okay as I've some horsepower :)

Thanks again :)
Discussion from a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18944605
If someone was looking for a genuine place to deploy the trite phrase "virtue signalling", this is what that actually looks like.
You're referring to 3-way, I think. I think most people would classify that as a dimmer.
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Do languages other than C# support formatter/convention configuration via EditorConfig? Or is C# going some other way here?

Ref: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/ide/editorconf...
He didn’t. He wore one during reconnaissance: ”almost two months before Massey’s death, the watch had recorded a 35 minute activity starting in Fellows’s neighborhood and traveling to the field near Massey’s home.”
Measles cases are on the rise in many countries. A lot of nasty politics is appearing in non-English speaking countries which gets no publicity, but it's difficult to trace to Facebook.

Of course, Facebook is merely the carrier for these influences. Some are driven by hostile intelligence agencies, some by opportunistic chancers.
doesn't node have workers ?
> emails that end in .edu

Only universities in the United States have emails that end in .edu. Most of the universities in the world have domain names that end with their respective country code.
Well, they also make it so you can't have some really horrible things, and a bit less likely that children will have horrible things done to them.
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That's a great point. In that case, I would prefer a video conference call or an online service that allows collaborators to share a paint canvas or some other kind of unrestricted drawing board. Again, this is personal preference, but I prefer text for writing out proofs and something visual and more freeform for brainstorming.
Even if you had infinite data, you are not allowed to just control for everything you measured. You still need to bring in your causal knowledge. E.g. you probably shouldn't control for body weight if it was measured a month after the treatment.

The point is, if you use your causal knowledge in a smart way, you can also draw strong conclusions from just observational data.
For another way to do data science workflows, there's the Common Workflow Language (http://commonwl.org)
> Gmail, venmo, etc. don't need a redesign because they were thoughtfully designed through a good process in the first place.

Eh. Gmail is redesigned from time to time.
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The only foolproof way to opt into shared nothing in Go is not to spawn any goroutines. Global variables (which are all mutable, because there aren't any other kinds of variables in Go) are used all over the place in Go, including in the standard library.
From a WYSIWIG editor or the result of manual PSD2HTML conversion.
This tabloid style link doesn't belong on HN
This is just gossip, not news, and not that scandalous.

The only nice thing is the hilarious story that Lauren Sanchez's husband, which she was supposedly cheating on with Bezos, after hearing the story was found going out with a model called Keir Alexa, possibly to get back at Bezos because of the name 'Alexa'.
Except for receiving GPS, it's not really a "connected device", seeing as they had to get a warrant to physically search his home and analyze it.

It's really no different from a Sherlock Holmes scene in the killer gets some specific type of mud in his shoes, or something, except a bit easier to decipher :)
The full machine learning pipeline goes far beyond sklearn scope. Think about scheduled data reading or scheduled model updates. I think there is a need for such frameworks to help using ml.
A lot of what they are doing dates back a lot further than that. The innovations SpaceX has brought to the industry are more process related than technical. SpaceX has done a great job of setting a streamlined vertical integration for their production processes, which has allowed them to iterate a lot faster than others in the industry.

That isn't to say they haven't been doing interesting things from a technical perspective (they're landing rockets on barges, after all), but the real secret to their success has been taking proven technology and doing it better/more efficiently (for instance, the fundamental design of their rocket engine, the Merlin, dates back to 50's).
For what it's worth, North recently laid off 150 of their employees [0] and the Canadian government is pulling their 18 million investment [1] in the company. There's some discussion about this on the /r/uwaterloo subreddit [2], as well as the regional /r/waterloo reddit.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/22/18236253/north-focals-sma...

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/22/18236695/north-focals-lay...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/uwaterloo/comments/aubwpm/north_tha...
Your comment makes no sense, goroutines are multiplexed on each cores thus it has parallelism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_computing

"Parallel computing is a type of computation in which many calculations or the execution of processes are carried out simultaneously."

Do you enjoy trolling and dismissing Go in general? Reading your comments sounds like some envy toward Go popularity. When you're not complaining about concurrency features it's about Go GC.
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I use Python for most of my general programming needs, but in an engineering environment MATLAB (unfortunately) still has an edge. As a programming language it’s quite sh*tty, but it’s strength is in the high quality toolboxes. I work quite a lot with constraint non-linear optimisation and I still have to find a Python or Julia library as flexible and robust as the MATLAB toolbox. I think Octave is a good FOSS compatibly solution, but the main strength of MATLAB (the set of toolboxes) is unfortunately missing.
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Oracle is not a tech driven firm.
It is sales driven, meaning their sales teams are world class at ingratiating themselves with decision makers at "big stodgy companies". How do you explain why they survived all this time. Very very few of the top Tech firms use any Oracle software for atleast the last 10-12 years now. Some even have internal procurement bans!
You can "skimp" on hardening if you use more redundancy (which is generally cheaper, and often lighter (which is the real cost savings)).
TL;DR: The article points to explanatory mechanisms that explain how androgens (testosterone) cause differences in the amygdala (fear and anger regulation center of the brain) before birth. These differences go on to cause difference in play behavior later in life.

It seems to me this kind of science is currently politically inconvenient. It points to gendered behavioral differences that have an innate cause.
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Some companies list a take-home assignment as an alternative.

IMO, that's worse than a whiteboard interview. My time is valuable, and I don't want to spend my evenings or weekends on an assignment.
> But businesses do throw around money for the wrong reasons, and keep on doing so if that's the status quo. No one gets fired for buying IBM.

Businesses are wasteful because that's the natural status of a bureaucracy. They aren't throwing away money on infrastructure because they are unaware, they are spending more than they potentially have to because infrastructure isn't their core business.

> IBM stuff was bought by a lot of people.

That's such a tired argument. Just because they could save money doesn't mean it's a good idea, and with Enterprise pricing from Amazon combined with tax advantages, you honestly have no idea how much "cheaper" it really is.

> That statement is very misguided and misses the problem. For example if you built your infrastructure around a specific solution then you also end up building a team of professionals whose livelihood is tied to a specific supplier of said infrastructure.

No, the fact that you think this is a "problem" is the problem. Do you honestly think dev ops guys couldn't figure out how to use a different tool? By your own logic, you also shouldn't build data centers because you end up building a team of professionals whose livelihood is tied to managing your own infrastructure.
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Yes, this always struck me as strange and at the time my naive thought was that Apple was overvalued.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTd7Iax-I60

What he says around 00:27 about Snickers applies very much to Apple as a brand. This is the only Buffet-ish explanation of why Berkshire would invest in Apple that I could think of.

And apart from this, the decision to buy a lot of Apple stock a while back was made by other asset managers, not Warren himself, and I'm sure was the result of thorough analysis, not based on some offhand comment in an interview.
There's also speculation that Buffet was trying to buy Southwest Airlines: http://amp.timeinc.net/fortune/2019/02/28/southwest-stock-ac...
Whiteboard interviews are great, just not for writing code. I want to see how you can communicate a design and have a discussion. So we always gave someone a design problem where there really wasn’t a right way to solve it but lots of ways. Then we asked them to tell us what they are thinking as they go thru it. Some people just can’t communicate their thinking or think on their feet under pressure. It was good at finding that.

I ended up trying not having it with some candidates and later I realized it was a mistake. It would have given me some additional insights into their communication skills I didn’t pickup on otherwise.
Soyuz has done "fast track" (same day) approaches for years now.
I agree, to a certain extent. People were definitely on social media and used online IM (plus stuff like YouTube and Runescape), but I think the hard disconnect that occurs when you step away from the family PC is worlds away from having a phone in your pocket. These days, we're always connected.
You mean consumer health care tech? From what I can see that is all about marketing and has very little to do with science. I see it more as a fad.
Maybe. The churn for Uber is reportedly 96% annually[1]. The Uber booth at the mall is for recruiting drivers, not riders. Ads on the radio are for drivers.

And if you look around at what they spend all of this money on, it's incentives and marketing towards drivers (as well as insurance). That's a lot of churn given the loss they're taking on these expenses towards drivers.

Re: your other point about demand. A piece of anecdata that weighs on my mind is, 10 years ago, there was some extreme economic disincentive for a cabbie to come to my residential neighborhood. Uber's black car service was a godsend, even though it cost twice the price of a cab. The supply/demand curve made sense, since I was paying more for my sparse neighborhood.

Now I get 10x quicker service for half of the cab cost and a quarter or less of the black car cost. Wat.

What I want to know is whether this is because there's a supply of 96% of yearly suckers who come to my neighborhood without doing the math like cabbies in 2009? Or is it just that Uber/Lyft is dumping incentives on them? Because my neighborhood hasn't become more dense, and the math got far worse for the driver.

I keep wondering what a reversion to this norm means for Uber and Lyft. If drivers have a lot more pricing power through churn, is 2009-cab-refuses-to-come what it looks like? If you can't get a car due to supply constraints, somehow would that be good for these companies?

Anyway, it seems like Uber/Lyft pour most of their money into making drivers happy, and yet they fail to keep them on "the platform". I don't know the full ramifications of it, but it seems like a major issue.

[1] - https://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/20/only-4-percent-of-uber-drive...
Different strokes, take home is way more to my liking and much better at demonstrating non-algo work like UI development.
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> It’s stunning to read this. Are you really claiming you haven’t seen hatred towards Muslims?

It is a fraction compared to the hatred from Muslims.

> Yes, Christians, truly the most oppressed people in the West.

Not only in the West; try being a Christian in the Middle East. You know, the countries controlled by Muslims today. Are you going to claim with a straight face, that they are not opressed?
We got hit by that.

Oracle used to charge us per physical core on our production nodes, with a discount for development and backup/spare.

Then suddenly they changed how it was licensed and our bill jumped up 4x (we're talking a six figure increase).

We negotiated it down somewhat (closer to a 2.5x increase as a "goodwill discount"), but since then have been quietly making changes to the code-base to make a future SQL Server migration easier. We have four years left in this contract, and we hope to be ready by then.

We're on Oracle at all because we used to use their application development suite (ADF, Forms, etc), but those all either got discontinued or turn so sour you don't want to be using them, so now Oracle DB is just a remnant.
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Sure, not disputing how they got where they are. I'm speculating that none of that helps them from here. Big stodgy companies, their bread and butter, are now tired of Oracle's shit. And, they now have lots of credible options.