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Gladly.

I think that both people and governments should work from both stories and statistics. Statistics help us understand one way. As narrative creatures, stories help us differently. In particular, I think empathy is much easier to find with stories than raw data, and empathy is vital for functioning societies.

As to noticing privilege, I think we have good ways to measure some sorts of privilege. E.g.:

http://www.nber.org/papers/w9873

http://www.nber.org/papers/w5903

http://www.pnas.org/content/109/41/16474

But I think it's incumbent on all of us to understand what power we have and use it wisely. For me, both stats and stories have been useful. The stats are widely available, but here are some collections of stories:

http://everydaysexism.com/

http://projectunbreakable.tumblr.com/

And I also really benefited from Project Implicit, which helped me understand how my own subconscious biases were contributing to various societal problems:

https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/

For me, privilege checklists have been helpful in seeing how I got lucky, what advantages I happen to have:

http://danilocampos.com/2013/02/unpacking-my-knapsack-the-pr...

http://amptoons.com/blog/files/mcintosh.html

I also really benefited from seeing these issues as the tail end of long historical imbalance. E.g.:

http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/05/the-case...

http://www.amazon.com/Why-Does-He-That-Controlling/dp/042519...

I definitely agree with your point that spokespeople and media gatekeepers are often part of the problem. That's what makes me hopeful about things like Twitter. There I can make a decision to seek out individual voices and add them to the mix of what I see every day.

Is that helpful?
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Possibly, possibly not, depends on the circumstances. The real thing to remember is that Box, Dropbox etc. aren't a replacement for backups and if them shutting down without warning tomorrow means you lose data then you are Doing It Wrong.
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Reminds me of TOP - Table Oriented Programming - as discussed in the c2 wiki. I use those simple but helpful ideas to this day.
Open Source miss the point of free software not only in software themselves but also in services.
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Exactly.

Being an AI company is what's pushing them toward the automobile industry. It's easier for Google to get into manufacturing cars than it is for the traditional automobile makers to develop a competency in AI on Google's level.

It's actually not that different than what's been happening with mobile. Google has gotten better at e.g., UI design faster than Apple has been able to replicate Google's competency with the cloud.

The things Google is good at are generally harder problems than the things that they're weaker in. AI is the most important of these.
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We're all benefactors of this process. We're having this exchange on the Internet, with people all around the world. We use ATMs, escalators.

Check out this video by Hugh Herr about bionics and watch how artificial limbs give people dignity and freedom and joy: https://www.ted.com/talks/hugh_herr_the_new_bionics_that_let...
Because Facebook knows my mobile number... I provided it long ago (IIRC for setting up some ad campaigns or was required as anti-spam measure)
To save people a bunch of time, here's 90% of the comments:

>Just use flexbox!

Which is great, except it isn't supported at all by IE8 or 9 and is only partially supported in IE10 (by prefix only). Which means a lot of people simply can't use it. I'm hesitant to use it myself, and I've got a very lax policy on supporting old IE.
Not so fast.

Depends if them saying "who knows what he might have done" gets e.g. like 80% more harsh penantly, and them saying "look all this maximum thing he indeed done" leads to a 100% harsher penalty.
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Did anybody here use the corresponding worker module too? How does it compare with kue (in production)?
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"If partnering with Facebook meant that we had to change our values, we wouldn’t have done it."

https://blog.whatsapp.com/529/Setting-the-record-straight
The implication here is that what was in the rough draft is somehow "true", when in fact it was cut and therefore the writer thought it was "false".

Everyone writes garbage, all the time, including the greatest writers. Indeed, when you do much serious literary criticism, one of the first things you learn is the (perhaps surprising) extent to which great writers can write terrible junk in their rough drafts. Sometimes terrible passages almost make it into print, as, for instance, the first chapter of Hemmingway's book "The Sun Also Rises", which had already been sent to the printing plant when Hemmingway, on advice from Scott Fitzgerald, sent a telegram asking that the first chapter be cut. You can find that cut chapter online, and everyone whose ever read it agrees that it is terrible -- cutting it was a very good idea.

Likewise, there are some famous cuts from Tolkien that would have been awful if they were included.

If the author decides to cut a passage, the author is saying "This isn't really true for this story, this is garbage." You would be unwise to read deep meaning into passages that get cut.
That hardware is mostly commodity. You can do a lot of new things by bolting some computers and software to any car currently on the market.
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Hardware: ThinkPad T440s

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> it's missing a feature you wish existed.

indeed, an extremely basic and fundamental feature than any site that implements popups could use.
"He'll likely be granted pretrial intervention by a judge, sheriff's detective Anthony Bossone said."

They're scaring the kid by charging him with a felony. Then the felony charge disappears during a pre-trial intervention, and the kid hopefully learns a little bit of respect afterwards.

> stealing private information

[Redacted] said that on the morning in question, he accessed the computer that stored the FCAT files and, realizing that computer didn't have a camera, found another.

He was trying to spy on the other kids using the school cameras. Since his teacher's computer didn't have access to the cameras, he left a prank instead, and then looked for another computer.
The number of crypto negative posts here makes me feel like HN SSL posts are being gamed. It's the same sorts of comments from multiple "people" across different threads. Anyone want to do the NLP to verify
Yep, the problem with "fast food comedy" is that once you reward it, everybody wants to do it– and then it drives out all the more invested, technical conversations.

We can do the G+ jokes on Reddit. Getting to substance requires a certain rigor and discipline that can seem a little draconian, but makes all the difference.
Then why does VeriSign charge more than Gandi for the same thing (domain control validation)?

Why do we treat ID verified certificates (i.e. it has your name on it) as somehow "better" than the former, but the browser doesn't care, it just cares that the cert was signed?

Why do certificates expire, but not require new keys? (And why does this expiration cause a scary warning akin to a self signed cert?) There is no practical reason for the expiration, save to line the pockets of the CAs.

None of this crap makes any sense, unless you view the CA system as exploitative and broken by design, in which case the answer to most of these things is "because greed".
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Breaking Deep Freeze was how I spent most of my time in computer classes in high school. I guess I should consider myself lucky that I'm now I'm a productive member of society instead of rotting in a prison.
No, we're like a doctor who is threatening to yank it, with the explicit goal of pressuring others to bring forth a better medicine sooner. Nobody's actually yanking anything yet, and since this is the federal government (of healthcare.gov fame), I don't expect them to yank anything effectively anytime soon.
> Availability during standard office hours is an expected part of any free-lancing gig

"Freelancing" for 6+ years here. I disagree that this is the case and in fact IMHO you should treat the client as though they are one of the many demands on your time schedule, not as though you need to fit into their time schedule. Our clients have always understood that I fit them into my availability and not the other way around unless we have worked out an agreement ahead of time and they are compensating us for it.

Further, one of the primary determining factors of whether you can claim to be a 1099 worker is if your clients dictate where and when you do your work - if they get to tell you where to be at what time, you are an employee.

My advice is as another poster stated, negotiate the hell out of this with 2-3 pricing options.
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That makes sense only if you view companies as abstract money generating entities stable over time. In case of Google, it matters more what's their primary competence (information technology) and goals (information technology, solutions to big problems).
Apparently Isobutanol is supposed to be a better biofuel:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isobutanol

This is independent of the issue of weather we should use biofuels in the first place.
How many are running a third of a billion dollars in deficit?
Best bet is to buy the "premium" blend, but ask to be sure.
I think a retainer fee is a bad idea and this isn't really what a retainer fee is for anyways, so it's kind of weird.

Your client doesn't really care why you are freelancing and unless you are like the best of the best at what you do, I'd urge you not to bring this up as part of your pricing strategy. It makes it sound like you are a pita to work with.

I only do day rate. No hourly, no project based pricing. Covers this kind of situation perfectly.

And, of course they want you available during office hours.
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Until he graduates from university?

Universities often exclude felons (or at least, most felons) from admittance. The negotiating position of the applicant is one of appealing their standard policy of exclusion on special grounds, rather than competing with other entrants.
Oh, the Federation, where the world isn't run by corporations? Yeah, Google is not working on that future.
I thought of this too. I remember reading it years ago and wondering why this idea had no traction. I honestly think some sort of tuple oriented programming paradigm will eventually emerge at the forefront. Look at R datatables for example.
It's a setting on a computer. Get a grip. This is pure insanity.
I think this is one of the most important points here. Even from a practical perspective, the amount of damage done to a child by "throwing the book" at her will end up costing the state many times over. And then there's the fact that it's just inhumane.
I've had 3 cofounders over the years.
1. school
2. hired them a few times and added them to the team a couple years later
3. lean startup and tech event

All in all, I recommend picking someone you have known for a few years. Can be friends but usually best when it is first a business relationship.
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This is very interesting. If we look at [Pebble](https://getpebble.com/), their model respects the view where one connected product should not duplicate or bring new dependencies to an existing network. The problem is, the only way Pebble could concretize was by creating an app that connected the watch to several other apps.
IMHO, these islands of technology are profitable to Apple, Google (and Microsoft).
SDKs for specific products are abundant, I would suggest an open-source IoT SDK that frames and federates the development of new 'things'.
As one of the aforementioned firms, you can leverage an existing outsider service and make the experience easier for users whilst keeping a hand on their SDK. Divide and rule ?
> McDonald's is a "real estate company"

I actually like the "McDonald's is a software company" lens– the idea being that they have miles of code describing how humans are to interact with one another, how to handle disagreements, how to make french fries– all with staggering precision in detail.

More realistically I guess they're in the business of selling convenient-familiar-cheap-ish-food. The "real estate" elements and "software" elements help to achieve winner-takes-all effects re: convenience and familiarity.
One little question to the posters here: Did you every doubt that your best smart buddy, might not have the same level of dedication?, might not pull through?
Wow thanks so much for the background info, and thanks for giving me a peek into the past! That makes a lot of sense about how it came about and what it was trying to accomplish, knowing the restraints the software was written under only makes the product you came up with more amazing!

The thing that strikes me the most about this whole thing is that your pizza tool is essentially the same functionality as Domino’s online pizza builder today—but it took the rest of the world a quarter century to recreate what you had in 1990?! Sometimes I feel like the consumer software market has hit the ‘pause’ button on the computer revolution and stalled forward progress for decades…learning about this tool backs that suspicion with proof. You were active during the golden age of desktop software, this must have been such and exciting time to be creating things.

“I would love to be able to order a pizza w/out all the hassles of talking to a human. O:-) ” — Angela Thomas

AMEN! I Loved this quote from the email exchange : ) About to watch your video now, can’t wait to see these ideas brought to life in motion.

Thanks again for the background info and links, feel free to send any further replies to tomhodgins@gmail.com in case this HN thread gets lost. I’d love to hear more about what you built since the pizza tool too, I’m fascinated!
2 years ago I was a dishwasher at a restaurant. So it has definitely at least doubled :)
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The kid was already suspended in October.

Which means the order that is going on right now is...

- Warning from Teacher

- Sent to the principal

- 3-day Suspension <--- Happened in October

- Police + 10-day Suspension

- Expulsion

Which frankly, doesn't sound that "unjust" to me at all.
Also to get your OS into space. That's definitely on the bucket list.
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It's over 60% depending on who's stats you believe. There's been a bit of press on this subject lately:

http://www.newsweek.com/2015/04/17/clock-begins-ticking-911-...

http://www.today.com/news/some-911-systems-cant-find-you-eme...

http://video.foxnews.com/v/4151374978001/swipe-to-save-a-lif...
Well, in fairness, a good number of laws ostensibly designed for public safety are very much predicated on the idea of what you might do, and stopping you before said act is hypothetically done.

Not that I agree with this particular case or even such laws in general, but it's hardly something outside social consensus.
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There are a lot of individual circumstances, but generally:

Prison is where people who are convicted of felonies (crimes worthy of >1 year in custodial sentence) are sent. Jails are where people awaiting trial, or convicted of misdemeanors (crimes worthy of <1 year in custodial sentence) are sent.
Isn't Star Trek about everyone basically working for the government (ie, in the military)?
Maybe the officer should suggest that the school and district have a better systems security policy? And that youth who seem to get passwords should be suspended from class? Or expelled for repeat offenders? Or possibly have a community service program for these sorts of cases?

Why did the police need to be called at all? This is the centeral question in this case. Are we trying to say at this point schools and districts and parents can't punish for minor offenses like pranking a teach?
PPA = Personal Package Archive

As someone who is unfamiliar with this term, can someone please summarize what it means? What makes it appealing?

Thank you in advance.
Agreed. As an expert in various things, I have learned to try to shut my mouth when the topic is how easy those things are for novices.

A young friend is learning to program, so I set up a virtual server as a place for them to upload things. It was only when I went to give them the account information that I had to stop and think about how complicated the "easy" act of uploading files via SSH is. Shell commands, directory trees, working directories, the fact that the web site is in /var/www and what that means, why index.html is special, what ssh keys and asymmetric encryption are, what a bastion host is, etc, etc.
With an email hostmaster/webmaster@example.com and/or a DNS record. EV certs require more, but DV certs have their identities verified automatically in seconds.
>a commercially viable DARPA.

Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't the only subdivision that makes any significant money for Google the Adwords business?
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Don't get me started.

We had an internal dev' server. We generated a certificate for the IP address using our internal CA. We installed the internal CA on client machines+inside Firefox, Chrome and IE worked perfectly, Firefox bounced the IP address "domain" certificate even though it was valid by all metrics we could measure. It just claimed that the IP address of the host and the certificate's CN weren't matching even though they were. We tried it as the alternative name also, no dice.

We finally had to assign the machine an internal domain name using our DNS servers and redirect from the IP address just to fix Firefox's HTTPS issues with IP addresses. It is damn stupid and no other browser acts this way.
> [redacted] said that on the morning in question, he accessed the computer that stored the FCAT files and, realizing that computer didn't have a camera, found another.

> "So I logged out of that computer and logged into a different one and I logged into a teacher's computer who I didn't like and tried putting inappropriate pictures onto his computer to annoy him," [redacted] said.

Erm... the kid was looking for cameras so that he'd spy on his classmates using administrative privileges.

BTW: The real problem here... is that the press is extremely dumb how they're handling this. I shouldn't be able to find this information... the press should have editorial discretion to protect this kid from this sort of analysis I'm doing. It's not right to take apart an 8th-grader's argument like this... but I think I have to to prove a point to yall.

I'm gonna redact his name at least, unlike the press.
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[start quote]
The client now wants me to be available large parts of the day during office hours
[end quote]

I'm not sure what "be available" means in this context.

I just lost a client because they wanted responses--including completed development--within an hour. I said I had other clients / projects / commitments and couldn't guarantee dropping everything for their [relatively] small commitment.

I tried to negotiate a "Same day acknowledgement" and "next day look at code"; but that seemed to be a no-go.

I did not try to negotiate on-call rates because I didn't want to give up my flexibility [but it may have been a valid approach]

So, do they expect you to be on call? Do they expect immediate response, or hourly response? If so, then I'd take one of two approaches. Either a retainer for being available and then your normal hourly rate. Or no retainer; but double your normal hourly rate.

Or can you get on by just negotiating office-hours with this client; as others have suggested. "The best time to reach me is between 2 and 4; and I'll get back to you as soon as possible that time in the unlikely case that I miss your call/IM/Text/Email."

Or can you just make it up as you go. "As long as you call before noon; I'll get back to you the same day; otherwise it may be after close of business, or during the next business day"

Overall, a client request that you are available during office hours is perfectly reasonable. But, the level of commitment required from you is what needs to be determined would affect billing rates.
Google is working on turning sci-fi technology into reality, not sci-fi politics. In the absence of a Third World War, a warp flight and subsequent first contact with the Vulcans, leveraging existing economy seems to be the best strategy for that.
first of all, I dont use facebook, I had the account active, but force myself to stay out of it ..

Lately I had added a couple new contacts to my phone's agenda, and now facebook shows me these in the "people you may know" emails

it's clear to me that they had already started the data capture
Thank you very much for the kind words!

Out or curiosity, what were the graph viz engines you know/use today?
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I read the book a few years ago, and have since read the excerpt. I think she was right to cut it, but only because it breaks up the flow of the story and seems rather heavy handed. In this sense it's "garbage." But I think it is completely consonant with the themes of the book. It's obvious that the dystopia in the book promises safety and security at the expense of a totalitarian society, so I don't know how one could read too much into it.
No; Star Trek focuses on the "military" branch (Starfleet), but the majority of the population of United Federation of Planets are civilians.
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It's all about money -- if San Francisco suddenly started allowing a lot of new high-rise residential developments to go up, it would cause existing property values to decline (because there would be more options). This would cause a lot of people who own property to lose money, so even the new, wealthy owners in gentrifying areas have an interest in preventing new development from happening.

I'm not saying that this is the right thing to do -- only that there is a reason people resist new development when pricing is based on a limited supply of housing in desirable areas.