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With Microsoft's improvements in how they do business and greatly improved understanding of open source I'm really starting to think more seriously about heading back into their technology realm for some years and see how it works out.
I am guessing they are caching frequently used lambda functions on their backend. I noticed the same thing playing with Lambda earlier this week.
I actually ended up in my last job because of OkCupid. Someone sent me a message, we ended up talking for a bit, and they invited me to a board game party at their house. Ended up going, then later got nagged into providing a resume.

OkCupid, at least when I signed up 10+ years ago, allowed you to specify that you were interested in platonic activity partners, and would show both a match rating and friend rating.
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Effectively, yes. But I don't see why you couldn't interact between lanes with SIMT.
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Agreed - replication is the key. There are two key perspectives on what architectural purpose a database serves:

1) As a relational query engine first and foremost. Postgres wins handily here, leaving people wondering "why use Mysql."

2) As a reliable replicated datastore, which perhaps happens to be queried via SQL or some rough approximation thereof.

One item you didn't mention is how the replication chain behaves in the event of a node failure. With Postgres, yes, you can promote a slave to master, but last I checked (~2 years ago) promoting a slave to master would break replication to all other slaves, causing a complete loss of redundancy in your entire cluster. I believe this may have been addressed recently; I know folks were working on it.

Going back slightly further in history, Postgres has always lagged far behind Mysql in terms of replication tools and ability. What Postgres has going for it is a far, far superior SQL environment. Which is fantastic; I absolutely prefer it as a developer. But it can be a complete non-starter operationally and architecturally.
Without adjusting uBlock settings I can't actually click the Github link up top. I can click all the other links. Must be something goofing up because:

<a href="https://github.com/Famous/famous" onclick="trackOutboundLink('https://github.com/Famous/famous'); return false;" class="main-nav-link">Github</a>

Not an important thing and definitely in the realm of `my fault`. The only script I see available to allow is google analytics.
Black cabs are more accessible by default, but I'd assume if I called ahead for any taxi I'd need to let them know of any special needs, the same as if I needed to let them know I wanted a taxi for 7 people?

Shouldn't there be an area for adding special requests such as accessibility? You filter to the vehicles that are able and willing to take this passenger's money.

I can only assume that, as contracted drivers, they have to worry about scratches that may be caused by loading and unloading wheelchairs? Am I overlooking some kind of personal discrimination expecting people to be better?
> You obviously understood what I said.

I agree with that.
Front End: twitter bootstrap. Back End: RoR+postgreSQL
I roughly spent a week on it. At first I was cleaning and moving some data around with RoR but it didn't seemed right to me. Then I started poking around with postgreSQL and once you get a hold of it, it's super powerful and does most of the job. Use indexes... on fairly large datasets it really makes a difference.
Department of Work & Pensions. Ho Ho Ho ! No-one seriously believes the DWP uses a /8. The whole UK Gov can use the block for internal purposes as it was allocated at a time before RFC1918 was a thing and everyone worked on the basis you needed to get an IPv4 allocation for your IP network. Several other public bodies in the UK got smaller blocks too (you can find them without too much digging on Google) but most of these were never externally routable either. You can bet traffic arriving from 51/8 is not about any pension.

Background: there were some pretty forward thinking people in the UK Gov at the early stages of 'the internet'; Parliament got it's own TLD when it was a case of sending an email to be allocated a TLD and various bodies got IPv4 allocations before they even had any sort of working networking going on. There are bits of the stories around if you look hard enough, but I've never seen it pulled together - I'm sure it would make interested (and probably classified) reading.
What i am truely missing is a good benchmark and comparisons between async vs sync. It seems true that everybody says that async is best but i don't see much evidence.
For example, how should 4800 threads exhaust the servers RAM when the thread stack size can be as small as 48kB. That's a round 200MB of memory.

I'm not saying that the threaded approach is better, but that almost everyone comes around with some theoretical statement but nobody seems to care to find hard evidence.
Seems that mostly IE had these issues, which are now resolved in version 12. Chrome has only one issue, which seems to be already fixed in Canary.

Thank you for doing all this, that really helps spreading the word and accelerates web development!
OkCupid needs a lot more than 10 minutes to fill out a profile. Spending a couple hours answering questions is generally recommended for their matching algorithms to work well.
Interesting WRT water content; but now you mention it, I remember as a kid touching blades of grass on an electric fence and still feeling a shock.

My inside-an-amp tinkering only goes as far as pulling 2 of the el84s from a Classic 50 to half the output. It was still stupidly loud for home use though!
Very cool site! I found similar data a while back, but nowhere near this organized/pretty to look at. It helped me make the decision of NOT taking a job that I had a hunch was a lowball offer.

Does anyone know if companies are allowed to include the bonus $ in the 'salary' figure in these LCAs?
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Using Uber with certain disabilities appears to be a real problem, this is true, but there's a very real risk that regulating Uber to within an inch of it's life will make it just another cab company -- and then what? What's the point?

The goals here are not in question: Uber should not be turning these customers away - ever - and currently it seems to be deficient in that regard. But Uber's success is testament to the fact that the old system was also deficient, just in different ways and for different people. Solving this problem optimally is a big thing to ask of a centuries old legislative/political machine, and it's quite likely it just plain old won't manage it - some absurdly moralistic view such as "all Uber cars must be capable of accommodating wheelchair passengers" is a far too predictable outcome, if we let it get that far.

There is almost always a better way, and we should be very careful about going on a witch hunt with things like this, lest we allow the old guard to slowly destroy this exciting new world minutes after we build it.
Great implementation. I've seen the raw data before but never had the web development skills to execute on this idea. Can you also add a query where once you select a company and year, it groups by title and gives average salary.
That's true; it just depends on where the company is trying to go and which user group they are trying to please. But then again, I see sites like passcode growing, so maybe it's changing. What do you think?
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I don't give a fuck about the law. Basic human decency still applies.

EDIT: Anyone care to explain the downvotes?
I've had similar thoughts. Someone needs to create a kind of "Tinder for hobbies" app, if one does not already exist. Perhaps it could show a list of local activities allowing you to swipe right on things you would be interested in attending, then attempts to match you with people who would also be interested in going to the same event.

This could work well for scheduled events as well as your weekend fishing example.
> I was recently in a taxi where the taxi driver said a number of very racist things, directly insulted me, my fellow passenger and pretty much anyone he came into contact with during the ride (other cars, pedestrians, etc) and swore repeatedly.

Please do always reprt this! I know you shouldn't have to; I know it happens far too often. But please do report it.

https://www.tfl.gov.uk/forms/12397.aspx

https://www.tfl.gov.uk/forms/12407.aspx

http://www.londonblacktaxis.net/complaints.htm

(Are these the right websites?)
Still waiting for an ipv6 address for gov.uk
A few things I'd be interested in:

- ratio of LCAs to total permanent full time employees. This will show which companies are really leaning on the H1-B visa (I'd estimate my "household name" software company is at about 50%)

- Source of prevailing wage. Interestingly employers don't have to use the BOL published data and can self report. I'd be interested to see how many self report.

- The average delta between prevailing wage and salary per employer/job title.

- A way to search by geographic region.
What's exactly wrong with nationalists clinging to sovereignty? What's wrong with economic protectionism? I see sensible reasons for both.
there was recently a Talking Machines episode that included some information (not apparent in the title) about difficulties of modeling the world with robots).

"We learn about the Markov decision process (and what happens when you use it in the real world and it becomes a partially observable Markov decision process) "

http://www.thetalkingmachines.com/blog/2015/5/21/how-we-thin...
Can you elaborate on this? What rendering glitches did you encounter?
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Some of those would be absolutely staggering. Epicureanism and Stoicism, for example, were among the most popular philosophies of the ancient world, but our written record of them is extremely fragmentary relative to what we know was written.

Same goes for drama. Discovering any additional ancient play would be completely staggering. We possess only one complete trilogy (Aeschylus' Oresteia) and only one complete satyr play -- an important genre, since it may represent a holdover from earlier forms of the worship of Dionysius that led to what we think of as ancient drama.

It's an awfully good time to be a classicist!
Yes, you do. Accessibility laws generally include exemptions for small businesses. The Americans with Disabilities Act definitely does. Title III goes out of its way to only require "reasonable accommodation" that is "readily achievable" and not overly burdensome to the small business.
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Uber is larger than most huge corporations. Their funding is astronomical (5.9 Billion) and their investors include folks like Goldman Sachs.

It isn't fair to real startups for giants like Uber to claim startup loopholes.
Why is it eww? I found it to be a very nice solution to running a legacy OS on new hardware. I could probably use something else, but VBox with vrdp works great!
I've done some thinking on this.

If you can computationally define how different common neurotransmitters affect the function of neurons at a broad, high level, then you can create your "psychoactive drug" by just writing a routine that excessively applies the function that those neurotransmitters represent.

An artificial serotonin reuptake inhibitor would just allow the serotonin-like activity to more active in the model.
> But, why? They've always been boisterous and exploitative.

Agreed. I'm not saying that I'm proud that I supported them. Previously, I bought into the "taxi mafia" story that Travis spun. I was at a talk he gave and, well, he was convincing. I think at the time, he was probably telling the truth: there probably was a lot of corruption in the taxi industry (and probably still is). But now, after he's used it time after time to justify treating drivers and customers poorly (fighting against insurance, for example), I feel like a fool for believing him.

> so, uber is basically 100% BroTaxi

I don't think he was using the term "baller" seriously, it was most likely a joke. UberExec/Lux certainly doesn't feel like it's for "bros", it feels like it's for professionals.
And not to forget: "If I wouldn't do this someone else would" and "The mortgage needs to be paid".
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The disabled is a club anyone can join. Often without notice.
The special request feature wouldn't be hard to implement, but I'm not sure that it benefits drivers to respond to it unless there was also a system to incentivize them.
This is neat. What's the best way to do rate limiting in from of Apache for wordpress/drupal sites these days? everytime I go looking for something new I'm dissapointed.
I am referring to usage of generators without promises (or rather code that uses generators in a way that it wouldnt matter if promises or thunks were used). And even then I didn't say that you couldn't, even when using promises and generators together most people make their code unneceasarily sequential.
The issue isn't that Uber is discriminating. In fact, the subject of the article was a twice weekly user of Uber for two years. A single driver didn't think the wheelchair would fit in the car. It seems like something that should be reported, and the driver should be dealt with. To take an issue that happens less than 1% of the time and make it sound like it's UBER is a bit absurd.
Isn't that meetup.com?
Try writing idiomatic Flex rules based on the latest spec, and then running through PostCSS Autoprefixer. It smoothes out nearly all of the cross-browser glitches.

What performances issues are you talking about?
Here is the presentation for these slides:

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/The-Evolution-of-the-Erla...
> It's low in the same way that if a non-profit starts to use your IP or trademarks you must go after them for doing so.

Incidentally, this is common legal advice on Internet forums, but is not really true, as lawyers like DannyBee have explained more than once in other threads. It's a misconception that litigating companies tacitly condone, because it paints them in a more sympathetic light, but it's not actually "required" by any stretch of imagination.

If your mark is actually at risk of losing secondary meaning, then there is a risk to not doing so, but it takes a long time to get to that point. It's like saying that every time you have a beer, you're slowly developing cirrhosis - unless you're already drinking heavily and have been for a while, a single drink has literally no impact[0].

Also, since you say "IP or trademarks", not just trademarks, you're applying this principle to copyright and patents, which is also not true at all. Failure to enforce copyright rights is not tantamount to a free, irrevocable license.

> View this from the position of a business with investors they're beholden to, not from an emotional standpoint.

I'm viewing it with the exactly the same line of thinking that got us these antidiscrimination and labor protection laws in the first place.

[0] The liver is capable of regeneration, and cirrhosis only happens if you repeatedly subject it to levels of alcohol that it can't regenerate from faster than your intake. Likewise, losing secondary meaning isn't going to happen because you failed to go after a small non-profit that was using your mark in a way that wasn't really intended to confuse customers with your mark in the first place.
We also have a jobs marketplace and they killed our access.
I think what we'll eventually see are Uber drivers purchasing their own ramps and Uber marking them as wheelchair-friendly, with the customer given the ability to request a wheelchair-friendly car. In turn this would probably pressure other Uber drivers to also get ramps so they're able to compete, and the majority of fulltime Uber drivers will eventually get ramps.

Edit: this might also extend to things like baby seats and various other specialized passenger modifications.
It is still a lot of money.
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You should have raised 30mm in funding for three.js ;-)
I would imagine that self driving cars will be much easier to design for accessibility seeing as other design considerations become less relevant (such as needing the driver to be in a certain position and facing the front in the vehicle). If I were to design an autonomous car today I would design it with one huge top hinged door on each side and a ramp that makes it easy to drive a wheelchair straight in. Have all the seats facing each other and ensure that at least one folds up/swivels to the side to make room for the wheelchair. This would also benefit people traveling with over-sized luggage.

The only thing Uber will get from this is bad PR. Their seeming arrogance (not only in this matter) is a real turn off.
Brilliant, well done!
Sure to screen out the Bozos from people who may really want to talk with you. The good recruiters will get it.

Might suggest a sub-section under Job Description-- who does this role report to? (Give me their name).
Weird seeing yourself listed on a site like this! I imagine my co-workers could find me if they were so motivated.

(this isn't a criticism of the site - just an interesting side effect of this kind of data transparency)
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But please don't require people to have a Stasi 2.0/Facebook account to use your service.
There's a software engineer at Google making $1.1M. That is all.
You might have a case for calling it "sharecropping" if Uber owned the cars and the drivers were paying Uber for the privilege of using them.

They are not though, so it's a gross misapplication of the term.
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I've played more than one game (Freespace, Tribes, Warframe) that had more than 30 keybinds. Managing keymaps can be challenging, but it's not impossible.

And discussing this reminds me how much of a pain it is. What we need is a system where we set our own defaults in an XML file or some other common format (or use a software tool to do that). Then we can select this keymap when we install applications.
Well, presumably if blocks of IP addresses get radically smaller, routing tables will get large enough that not every system can handle them. Given how sluggish people are about upgrading to IPv6 people obviously aren't upgrading often, so there must be a lot of legacy equipment out there.

So it's not like I can just buy an one or two IP addresses, like I could in a liquid marketplace.
> So let's translate what's happening.

Allow me: "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, ...".
That happened in four cities in Australia - Uber just paid the fines on behalf of them.

http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/smartphone-apps/uber-pled...

http://www.brw.com.au/p/entrepreneurs/uber_deep_pockets_thwa...

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/uber-dodges-fines...

http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/western-australia/rideshare-...
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I didn't think that RIPE let you sell off IP address space, given that RIPE 'owns' the actual addresses and just allocates them to members. Has the govt effectively 'sold' these addresses in the same way that my ISP has 'sold' me a static IP address on my DSL connection?

How can the buyers do anything useful with these addresses given that they'll still be tied to the original ASN through RIPE?
Exact opposite experience. I like the newest CSS spec, and it is now supported in the vast majority of stable browsers in use.

It is an elegant approach to very common layout problems without any libraries, plugins, or javascript.

The whole point of markup and CSS is to solve the layout stuff for you. Javascript should be mainly for data transformation.

When you throw in web components and two-way data binding via object.observe, we can approach this ideal separation of concerns.
You are utterly and completely incorrect.

$30,000 a month is a fantastic salary. No ifs, ands or buts.
> Please do always reprt this!

Relevant satire:

https://medium.com/@blakeross/uber-gov-29db5fdff372
It just says "The experiment is over"
Hmm, was hoping this would show the denied percentage, but the "denied" column doesn't corresponds to reality, not sure what it's supposed to represent.
Hi, I'm an engineer on the team working on Tiles at Mozilla.

It may sounds strange, but this is really our honest goal. We want to change the ad industry.

The ad industry in its current state is built on foundations we think don't make sense. For instance, the whole idea of abusing cookies, a useful technology, to track where users go around the internet so that the data can be traded, so that others can make guesses about what ads to show... sounds a bit in need of a change.

We know for a fact that many of the players in the business, the ones that matter, don't really care about intruding on people's privacy. For them, it is what they need to do to achieve their goals.

We have to face it, the internet wouldn't thrive without ad-tech. Not many people are willing or able to pay for content. The digital ad industry is important and is here to stay.

That said, we think we can make a change... for the better. We can think about how to do this from first principles, to be the first customer of our tech.

Frankly, no one will be willing to play the new game with us if we can't prove that it works at least as good as the current way they are doing things: the old tech may be clunky, not that effective and there may be a lot of middlemen, but there are 2 decades of investment in the way its built.

Users are affected. Users care. We know we can make for a web with less annoying ads. They don't need to be nagging, vying for your attention the same way they are now. They don't need to be creepy.
And you know what? They may not even be ads as you know them today.

We thought about this a lot, and it's a very touchy topic, one which would cause controversy any way we'd broach it . Why do you think we're not being honest?
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Nevermind, there's one making $1.5M. I just stopped looking too early.
Since the purpose of this is apparently to provide a fake structure to test against - would another viable approach have been to implement a trivial `Close` function that doesn't do anything?

(context: i am no gopher)

(edit/tangent: i wonder how method calls from inside method calls are resolved when the names are ambiguous?)
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Or something that represents entropy. Maybe Ludwig Boltzmann or the entropy formula?
A (good looking, male) friend was in SF for a conference or something. I'm not sure who initiated contacted, but he got to talking to a (good looking, female) person(/account) on Tinder. They never met, but would talk about the tech industry. Tech gossip type stuff, similar to what you might see here or on Techcrunch, etc.

The female he was talking to may or may not be real... But, if you wanted to get inside information on a bunch of companies, it would be a great way to do it (and i'm sure it's happening as we speak).
Agreed.

It looks as though the researchers saw that as a possibility too:

"It is possible to temporarily mitigate the flaw by implementing the following workaround: Researchers have demonstrated that ITP can be operated over TLS/DTLS, using certificate-based authentication to ensure the security and integrity of the protocol."

I don't really understand why this is only a "temporary mitigation", though, rather than a reasonable long-term solution. Can anyone enlighten me?

Maybe the extra technical complexity of setting up these certificates is deemed too great, and the likelihood of people getting it wrong too high?
Also, "I was just following orders". I think that covers pretty much everything :-)
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