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I can't speak about his other work, but A Clockwork Orange would be timeless even without the Kubrick movie. It is such a special language he invented, and I find such bold experiments quite rare among the literature I read.

On the cover of my book they quote William S. Borroughs: "I do not know any other writer who has done as much with language... a very funny book". And he is quite right (at least with the first part).
Neither can I. linux's file identifies it as PDF document, version 1.4, but KDE's okular says:

Syntax Error: Invalid XRef entry
Internal Error: xref num 229 not found but needed, try to reconstruct<0a>
Syntax Error: Invalid XRef entry
Syntax Error: Top-level pages object is wrong type (null)
Command Line Error: Wrong page range given: the first page (1) can not be after the last page (0).

Seems like it is damaged but some readers deal better with it than others
Google bans developer with half a billion app downloads from Play Store
Wait so you are blocking their javascript then claiming it's broken?

I was curious, and I just went in and tried blocking the google analytics, google tag manager, and everything from cdn.jsdelivr.net, and even some random scripts (like the commons.js file), and everything still worked fine as far as I could tell...
Yeah an uber that smells of farts, vomit and piss, and the seats are sticky... that has become more commonplace for standard uber.

Uberx is much nicer for an extra dollar or two (for standard trips), no more farty taxis.

But using my power of recollection - taxis were a crapshoot before uber came along too. Some were okay, some were disgusting.

I have not had (after a night out at a comedy lounge with my wife) an uber driver chase me into another uber, try and yank open the door yelling "I was first in line! You fuck! You Fuck! Get out!" while my taxi driver speeds away tires squealing.

Since uber came along, the quality of standard taxis here in Perth has increased dramatically. The result is a net positive.
I would totally Moviepass the crap out of this. Road trips across Utah and the Colorado Rockies, Pacific Coast Highway, etc.

Amtrak used to have a similar pass arrangement.
> As the money from an individual loan gets repaid, the loan disappears from the banks' balance sheet, and the bank earns only from the interest.

It disappears? How does that work?

When the bank credits my account with, say, a $500,000 mortgage, they consider that an asset. Because now I owe them $500k+interest, even though they didn't actually take that $500k out of any account. They created it when they loaned it to me.

You're saying the bank "destroys" the money as it gets paid back, and only keeps the interest?

I apologize if I'm misconstruing your explanation.
iOS devices are easy.

There’s the ones that you can buy, and the ones that they want to sell.
Or that terrible customer experiences which are currently "exceptions to the rule" end up becoming the norm at whatever they pay drivers/charge customers... there are only so many good drivers and customers/contractors burned by bad experiences will not come back to Uber's platform.
Reuters has been running a series of articles about China's military this week (top story). I wonder if China is launching a huge PR campaign right now?

I remember they used to (and probably still do) have 'China Daily' - it was available for free on DC Metro.
One advantage of this is Ponzi schemes never have to fall apart. As long as people are willing to HODL forever your crows never have to come in to roost.
They said the same about Rome
Definitely a fan of the Select and Black options. In fact, I've been using them more and more.

The price - while higher - feels more aligned with what I would consider to be "good value".

Ranked in order of importance for me are:
- A competent + safe driver, preferably someone who knows the area.
- A nice, clean, comfortable ride.
- A driver who doesn't talk to me.

All 3 of these are markedly improved in both the Select and Black options. Given I don't take Uber that often, I can justify the expense. If it was something I relied upon on a more regular basis I just don't think I could justify using Select/Black.
> The last contractor we hired was for firmware and an issue we had, we needed someone with Rockchip experience and someone who could work on it full time.

"Full time" for $1000!

And it was an "issue with Rockchip", which sounds exactly like a problem that could be easily specified but impossible to predict how many hours it would take to fix.

GP seems like a rant from someone abusing a fixed price worker.
I've used both and have two additional comments.

Some of the dplyr elegance comes from the flexible evaluation mechanism in R, whereby mutate(data, col1+col2) works because the second arg is evaluated in an enriched environment. Python eschews this kind of macro-like extensions because, my guess, tampering with evaluation makes a lot of other things complicated (for instance, forget replacing args with their value, that doesn't work anymore). I think the author of dplyr himself in later work has promoted the use of the ~ operator to explicitly block eval of an argument and at least make these departures from regular eval explicit. That means dplyr is ahead for interactive use, but for programming you have to switch to a separate API (the underscore "verbs") and that makes the transition from interactive work to coding a bit steeper. It's all trade-offs, and I am not saying that I know better than either the pandas or dplyr authors.

As to ggplot, if you believe the future of statistical graphics is in-browser and interactive, you should take a look at altair for python (I myself created a small extension to it called altair_recipes). It's based on vega, like ggplot anointed (but not quite ready) successor ggvis and uses the grammar of graphics (or on interpretation thereof) like ggplot, with extensions to interaction. Simpler than D3 by most accounts.
Just don't use biometrics to unlock your phone. It seems silly to me to discuss ways to disable the biometrics on-demand.

It still reduces to something you can be compelled to produce (your finger) vs. something you must remember (your passphrase). Now, you might end up spending time in jail to help your memory, so there's that to think about too.

I'll stick with the passcode. It places the ball into my court automatically.
All publicity is good publicity, as long as they spell your name right.
Github's https://primer.style/

Google's https://material.io/design/

I guess most companies have a design system in place
Since we are talking about net losses being flat, it means their expenses are going up as fast as their revenue.
Indeed. Usually if you get question such as "you have an array of 1 through n", the immediate thought should be "why is it just up to n and not arbitrary numbers"? From there, you know you can get a linear sort by leveraging the mutual relationships between these numbers.
Yes, you're right they should respect privacy. But in this case Tether initiated it by claiming they had a relationship with the bank and clearly asked them for a letter stating such a fact. But still the bank "declined to confirm the information in the letter to reporters".

> Tether, which has faced questions about whether it actually backs its popular namesake digital coins with dollars as it claims, released a letter attributed to Deltec Thursday that said the company has an account with the bank. Deltec spokeswoman Melanie Hutcheson, reached by phone Friday, declined to confirm or deny whether that’s true.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-02/bank-tied...

That combined with the wording of the letter and the squiggle signature just makes this whole thing sketchy.
No this is about developing one. They talked about how they looked at the existing database options and how they choose different bits/pieces.
I've been writing code on a daily basis for over 30 years; in umpteen different languages, some more typed than others. And I'm still not very fond of having types shoved down my throat, nor any other kind of restrictions.

We've been building computers and writing code for quite some time now, so long that some of us are beginning to notice the repetitions.

The fact that experience is so often dismissed begins to explain the mess we're in.
Can you elaborate? I don't have any context on this other than taking a Lyft in NYC once.
Usually, one manager/lead take care of 3-7 people. So rather than making everyone on the same page, I'd spend more time with these leads and making sure that you guys are on the same page, and it will percolate down to the rest of the team. On top of that, well written document with clear goals and high-level strategies help to re-inforce it amongst everyone, but imho it should still be the mid-level manager's job to communicate in 1:1 and in other ways to their team.
Well, it's a hackneyed worn-out cliché. Without the users there's no viable product. That's what makes them the customers

No, that's what makes them "users." The customers are the advertisers who actually pay money to Google. You can rest assured that they don't have to post a cri de coeur on social media to get a response from Google when something goes wrong.

IMO, a company that does its level best to act like vital public infrastructure needs to be held to standards appropriate to vital public infrastructure. If that's a controversial point of view, then so be it.
gurr hurr durr murr burr
Ok, the confusing bit for me is that credit union deposits are called shares and the earnings are called dividends. However, you still get a 1099-INT, I believe because these shares are not considered securities.

https://budgeting.thenest.com/report-dividends-credit-union-...
My mother worked for the IRS (ducks thrown shoes). And then worked as a personal and small business tax accountant.

From her experience from working both sides. Criminal prosecution happens when people repeatedly challenge the IRS's authority with intent to defraud[1]. Like if they catch you actively[2] illegally hiding income, they fine you. And then find you're right back at it. Otherwise penalties and interest are simply mechanical and based on the amount not squared up for the fiscal year.

[1] You can bitch about the IRS all you want and they don't care as long as your taxes are in order.

[2] Meaning you are doing things to hide assets and income that proves intent to defraud the government. Merely not reporting or failing to record income tends not to count.
> how can we punish Facebook simply for being Facebook

Exactly. Let's pursue the idea of fines big enough to cripple a company. Why stop at Facebook? Couldn't you apply the same policy arguments to the banks that brought us the housing crisis, to the pharmaceutical companies that brought us the opioid crisis, to oil companies, tobacco companies, and so on? Why didn't the people calling for Facebook's death by fine make the same arguments in these other cases? Because they don't really believe in this as a general policy. It's stupid as a general policy. It puts the government in charge of picking winners and losers, and even as a pretty extreme leftist I don't think that's right.

Regulation should be general, not targeted to favor or punish one company, and I think proponents of a "kill the company" fine know that. They just want to kill Facebook, and a fine is just the tool that comes to hand. It's dishonest, and it's bad general policy. People who truly care about privacy would be proposing regulations and fines that can apply to anyone, not just to their self-chosen nemesis.
Totally agree that in the past Taxis were MUCH more of a crapshoot, but lately they've really stepped their game up, which I think is attributable to Uber/Lyft.

So all in all, I think it's been a net positive for the consumer.
It’s so very hard to find any ride share profit Signal within all the Noise of monetary policy and VC weaponisation of capital.

Airlines at least have the possibility of temporarily defending margins on city pairs with mismatched supply/demand.

Perhaps surge pricing on ride share is an analog to that.

The accumulated debts of ride share players seems akin to picking up pennies on ground getting stickier and the steamrollers are accelerating.

It will be interesting to see what happens if/when full spectrum subscription ride share options become available.
I see your point, and usually these work best if the interviewer can prove that such a thing is needed. For instance, many jobs might require sorting of data that cannot fit on disk (think for instance of loading a massive file that you want to parse, and sorting might help you in processing it), in which case knowing merge sort (the disk variety) can help. So yes, the onus is on the interviewer I think.
Productivity from Work at Home Parent
a common pattern I see in papers written by people on the technical side is:

"The correct way of ensuring algorithmic fairness is X" where X is something they already happened to work on.

In various papers X could be robust optimization, differential privacy, causal inference, adversarial training, etc. The papers are mostly good, actually, but it's sort of putting the cart before the horse.

I think there might be legitimate value in having a bunch of lawyers, sociologists, and philosophers set a target more-or-less in ignorance, and let the people on the technical side try to hit it.

Of course even better would be interdisciplinary collaboration but that's hard, there aren't many incentives in its favor (where do you publish? any given venue is worthless to half of the authors). and it requires humility on the part of everyone involved.
A good night sleep is required for your mind to process the previous day. Lessons learned get cemented. You can miss a good night's sleep and make it up later in terms of being rested, but whatever lessons and growth from the day prior to the lack of sleep will never be processed. They are lost, even if you sleep enough on a later night.
It's sort of like saying there is 'eat healthy debt' where you binge on junk food for a day and try to cancel it by eating super healthy the next day. That healthy eating is a good thing, but it doesn't un-eat the unhealthy food.

Edit: to incorporate the valid suggestion below
Or, that it did go somewhere, but the start of this project's "near term" was decades ago.
> Firstly, Gmail's success is entirely predicated on the health of the global email ecosystem.

That simply is not relevant anymore if 99% of email is on Gmail.

I want to echo the exact same issues as the original author. Running my own email servers since the 90s I recently just “gave up” - no single indication about spam issues. All green on several tests. But Google rejects mail. Zero help or tools from google to get off their filter or whatever it is that makes these kind of decisions.

Friends and family all have Gmail accounts for those important emails that Must go through. Enough said.

I’ve moved my email to another provider and stopped self hosting.
I've also run a mail server for a long time. Yahoo and Hotmail are probably the most annoying, Yahoo because you can't do anything about it and Hotmail for blocking entire IP-ranges.
I don't blame them though, preventing spam is very hard.
Spammers always have spf,dkim,dmarc,reverse dns,signing, etc meanwhile many legitimate senders has none. I'ts a hard problem to solve.
I've tried things like increasing the response time so the sender have to sit and wait, or used spam lists, but there are too many false positives. One easy solution is to make it illegal to send spam. Since my country made sending unsolicited e-mail an offense, spam decreased a lot. The second problem is hacked servers. Unless you are running a mail server, always block port 25 in the firewall. So at least the hackers wont be able to send spam on your behalf. Many ISP's already block port 25.
Otherwise known as a Ponzi scheme.
Not following how this is a natural monopoly. There aren't barriers to multiple companies operating large fleets.
Well that's going to shorten travel time to Mars! Now we just need a gravitational mass reduction device so we don't need so much fuel for take off and landing!
Co-sleeping was forbidden by hospital. If they'd seen her sleeping with the kid they would have observed her for the rest of the stay to make sure it didn't happen again. She disagreed with this rule, as did I.
See how well Gojek and Grab are eating Uber's lunch across Asia. Better experience and lower costs.
> but I'd consider paying a fee to eliminate all internet-based advertising and tracking.

It's too late for that, I'm afraid. Google and the others have invested billions in their ad products and made back many more billions. It wouldn't make any sense for them to offer any kind of paid opt-out.

And even if you didn't use any Google services, they already have reams of data on you based on your correspondence with anyone with a Gmail account, plus whatever data they can buy off your carrier network and your credit card provider.
The reason Tesla doesn't post yearly profits is it is still in start-up mode, so it doesn't sit back and maximize profits from what it has developed so far, but charges ahead into new areas. Look at all it has going on now: it is working on the semi, model y, and a pick-up truck, doing a renewal of the S and the X, working like crazy on self-driving, developing solar tiles, and building a gigafactory in China.
Thunderf00t will have field day with this
Aren't property taxes progressive? That's one of the fundamental arguments behind Georgism.
I tried to use my bank's mobile site once and got my account locked because of "suspicious activity" (probably because my IP address was unusual/kept changing, because, you know, cell towers). When I talked to support, they recommended I use the native app.
You've nailed their single differentiating unique selling point.
Even if that’s not the intent of the gift giver, gift cards are always a net negative to the receiver versus cash, and a positive for the shop who gets cash before having to provide a product.
The guys behind Todoist have a tool to solve this. I haven't tried it myself: https://twist.com/?lang=en
>Firstly, Gmail's success is entirely predicated on the health of the global email ecosystem. Gmail does not, inherently, have any network effects [...]

That's ... unconvincing to the point where it sounds like PR spin. How does Gmail not benefit from crappy email service outside of gmail? How do more gmail users not accentuate this?

>Secondly, we care deeply about having positive relationships with developers and all our users.

Frankly, talk is cheap.

I don't mean to be rude, but your response is either (a) completely missing the point or (b) disingenuous. Assuming the former, can you substantiate your claims?
Yep, pecs triceps and lats are where I feel it when I bench. "Proper" hand positioning should be double the length of your clavicle, if you can measure it.
Show HN: Goblin – Stream your content as your users solve computations (beta)
You guys ever going to do another episode Justin? I still have Techzing in my podcast app list, hoping it will light up again with a new episode sometime.
No, content creators don't want a financial model, they need one. If they don't get money from creating content they have to spend their time doing something else. And today they get that model from the centralized advertising model. Until someone comes up with a different financial model, that is where they will stay.
Yes Uber can make money, once they have an EV that selfdrives.
Mozilla Research Grants 2019H1
Software had zero marginal cost before everyone started hosting it on cloud services.
Better to have it and not need it.
Everyone would benefit from learning the deadlift. As you've mentioned, office workers, but also more physical trades -- it's a great way to improve posture and build strength, especially for younger workers.

Plus, once you really get into it, diet improves. When one can feel the effects of the terrible food they ate, people tend to naturally gravitate towards a high protein diet with enough carbs to support their growth. Also helps improve sleep patterns in my experience.
I'm curious what Rust's implementation looks like in comparison now...
Who needs a ride from 8pm to 8am? Nobody except drunks. Sure you can send your car out, but you need to plan to get up early every morning to clean the puke out.

Most people follow similar schedules: they go to work at rush hour, ride with co-workers to lunch around noon and then home during the second rush hour. If you are willing to let your car out 6am to 8pm you got some possibilities - but this is when you need/want your car for your own convenience.
It's loading the first-party scripts (all 58 of them), but there must be even more delivered by a CDN that it requires.

https://i.imgur.com/iGqwpWR.png
The article makes mention of Aurora and Spanner as inspiration; did CosmosDB not exist yet? I realize Cosmos is really more of a document database but given its ability to be queried with SQL in addition to massive horizontal scale and global replication seems like it should be more or less in the discussion.

Reference to querying Cosmos with SQL: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/how-to-sql-...
You clever.
Unscientific people are repulsive and serve as tragic human reminders that there is no alternative to science.
> but we certainly care a lot about fixing issues like this when we hear about them.

What then should we make of the fact that Google practically ensures that they won't hear about such issues by making it next to impossible to report them?
Gables: A Roofline Model for Mobile SoCs [pdf]
One way to combat this as a small business is to be in it for the long haul, like pinboard
This is emdrive hoax.

Navy got took.
Yeah they are loans, like apartment loans. The loan might be for something like 20 years and might default.

In my opinion having assets like house loans is pretty far away from being "backed". If enough customers want their money out, bank can go bust. If they have lent the money to wrong people, they also can go bust. Banks go bust now and then.
> Ok, then why is loss-making more acceptable (safer for small investors) in a formerly profitable company than it is for a not-yet-profitable company?

One has demonstrated the ability to turn a profit and the other has not. This seems a bit like asking "Why is radiation considered a valid cancer treatment and rhino horn isn't when both have failed to help people before?"
Living in London right now.

Finding bone marrow, fat trimmings, or most of the cheap by-product of whole animal butchering is not as easily available even from a good local butcher.

Some butcher still do, I manage to find some stuff in halal butcher and random butchers around town, but 40 min travel to find a bag of bone is not something you do past the exitement of the first time.
until the VC-subsidized pricing goes away and they're stuck paying more than they ever did for taxis.
Honestly it shouldn't take a billion to make a viable product. I mean come on that is more than 20 Juiceros worth of funding. Why is VR/AR still not compelling enough after years of investments?
I always like having my views challenged :) can you recommend any particular text or would the top hit on amazon be sufficient?

Also, in terms of GEB, the book shows how self-reference leads to a system being able to make statemets about itself, leading to, eventually, something more than (apparently) the sum of their parts. It’s a funky mix of philosophy and math and I think you’d like it.