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I have a friend who was ridiculed by a founder recently for not understanding the concept of equity.

She had rejected his salary + equity offer which was a %50 salary cut from her current position.

Irrespective of what the equity portion was I thought the founder's response was disgusting and pretty much validated her decision to pass.
Can't you evaluate his claims on their own merits? Unless he's saying "trust me, I won't expose my reasoning but it's solid", or unless you are outsourcing your thinking, such things would seem to be irrelevant.
And they limit you to scanned pages per year on the corporate/server offerings. Doubly-so for all their dev/api license options.

And the kicker: You can't buy those licenses from them directly. They put you in contact with some randome monopoly local distributor that usually has mandatory "training" charges.

Messy, and I'm planning on staying away from that with a ten-foot pole.
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The police here in the US would doubtless love these things. A "scientific" reason to search anyone you feel suspicious of? Sign them right up!

It's merely a less baroque version of "drug-sniffing" dogs (who cue from their handlers) and polygraph tests.
It's true that the language plays a role in deciding where one prefers to go, but there are also the somewhat more prosaic considerations like the economical ones. The state of Greek economy is nothing like that of Italy or Spain. I have a romanian relative that left Greece after seven years (time in which she learned Greek, accommodated herself and everything) and settled for Italy recently. The hardships exist and this move wasn't easy (from an economical point of view, compared to her previous pre-recession Greece settling experience), but with all that it seems that it still does worth it.
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It seems likely. Mosquitoes have like 3 neurons, and can't be built to deal with macroscopic events. More likely the species uses simple statistics to survive: enough eggs laid in enough places will survive the harshest downpour. The flying guys are only there to lay eggs after all. Seen from that angle, a mosquito is an eggs way of making another egg. Dying in rainstorms is not a problem.
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It's been considered rude since the days of Usenet and probably before, and whether or not the comment was entirely in all caps is irrelevant.
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Almost every black cab ride I've ever had has been great - and they most certainly know how to get round London better than a newly minted uber driver with google maps. However if you've never had a black cab with the driver spouting racist/misogynist/anti immigration rhetoric they whole journey, then you haven't lived ;-)
>A study says a mosquito being hit by a raindrop is roughly the equivalent of a human being whacked by a school bus, the typical bus being about 50 times the mass of a person.

That is not a sensible comparison. When you scale something mass changes as the cube of dimension. Strength changes as the square of dimension. So small things are inherently stronger with respect to their mass.
Just a simple advice: When someone comes to you to offer you a "taxi" service everywhere in the world, be careful, it might be a scam. (One time, I've been robbed of all of my money in Vietnam accepting an offer like that)
The best thing to do is to go to a taxi terminal or stop a car with TAXI written on it.
I think is endemic to founders that they think this way. Else they'd not be founders.
I think you are mistaken. Most taxi drivers are not employees they rent the taxi from the company on a per shift basis.
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I've just remembered that the definitive treatment of "why are companies structured the way they are, instead of a cloud of contractors?" is Coase's Theory of the Firm from 1937: http://www3.nccu.edu.tw/~jsfeng/CPEC11.pdf
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> taxi medallions cost a lot (€200-250K in Paris, up to €300K in some southern cities)

My understanding is that they're actually free. But it can take years before you actually get one, which is why people buy them on the black market.

I don't know how I feel about those taxi drivers. It seems they've just made a very bad investment.

In any case, it would be great if taxis were more affordable and available in France. Maybe the gvt could work with uber and negotiate some sort of compensation for the taxi drivers?
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You are mostly right. Everybody has an internet connection now a days. There is sizeable migratory population which could get benefitted from such a system as they dont need a new wifi connection every time they change place provided neighbours have Griggi. Its chicken & egg for sure.

What we are trying to do is similar to what Uber did to cars. Not everybody need to own a car. Similarly, not every household need a dedicated wifi connection when you can borrow some from neighbours.

Apart from city center, big apartments are another good case for Griggi. Big apartments in cities have a good number of migratory population.

Free WiFi hotspots that works is still a rarity in city centers of developing nations. Griggi is also an attempt to organize the unorganized free WiFi hotspots. A couple of guys are trying to solve this problem by building a mobile app that does the job of remembering username password of free wifi hotspots. Griggi is an attempt to solve the problem at the root. But I agree that it also makes things more challenging for us.
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For the motivational posters specifically, you might want to check out a Perceptual Hash type algorithm. Convert the image to a 64px square low-depth grayscale (4b?) and most of them should look more or less the same to PHash. Maybe you then classify them into clusters based on hash distance or something.

I also like your dominant-color thing. If you have a couple approaches that each make sense, you can use them as an ensemble - the more classifiers that don't like something, the more likely it's junk.
Neither is Office for Android when they disable basic functionality like page breaks.
Cab drives to cleaners; some dude cleans cab. A few minutes work per day per cab. Maybe the other factors will be of more importance, but I don't see huge labour costs here.

Oh, and bonus: hiring an autonomous account will likely involve disclosing your identity in advance. If you're the sort of customer who makes a habit of fouling cabs, maybe you'll have to pay more to hire one.
> in some cases, this philosophy has resulted in the "tangled mess held together by duct tape" kind of systems architecture that no one dares to touch for fear of breaking things.

Pretty much, just as Booch's philosophy has given us tangled messes of class hierarchies with cross references pointed every which way. And just as The Gang of Four gave us AbstractedTangleMessFactorySingleton.

The distinction with the Unix-style pipe mess is that it exists and works an order of magnitude faster than other examples of bad code.
Wasn't a beta; it was a totally different app.

It was a Holo app... here's what it looked like: http://www.gsmarena.com/microsoft_releases_office_mobile_for...

It originally required an Office 365 subscription, but they later lifted that requirement.
Sure, blame the taxi drivers for the cost of medallions. Or the laws that require them to purchase insurance. It's their fault, right?
Or print it on a t-shirt. If anyone tried to capture a screenshot from a CCTV video feed, well, too bad...
Most rental contracts and HOA agreements (where present) ban subletting. Most car insurance bans working as a taxi unless specifically agreed.
It depends on where you live. In my city many of them are employees, I know because I've got some acquaintances in the business. And we're still having the same poor service just like everywhere else.
Not even that. It's core competence is to publicly break the law on an unprecedented scale for mainstream company and get away with it.
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More specifically, the government draws that line differently. And as civil liberties are basically never an election-defining issue, there is no pressure to change or improve things.

Unfortunately this means the UK tends to be run for long periods by social conservatives, because that's the only way to get people who are also fiscal conservatives. I don't think you can draw deep conclusions about the value of free speech to people in Europe or the UK when it's so rarely debated.

(British guy speaking here)
> I want cheaper and better services but never at the cost of other people's rights.

I hear that quite a bit.

The evidence seems to be the opposite though. So long as the deprivation of someone else's rights and conditions is external to your experience, hidden from view... then people tend to be very accepting of any compromise of another person so long as the price goes down (quality isn't even important if the price is low enough).

When people tend to try and argue this, I usually proffer Primark in the UK as an example. People have got to the point that they think a £4 T-shirt costly, without any regard as to how it came to be that a T-shirt is even valued at £4.

We only have some issue with taxis because we speak to the people involved. Even then we're hardly sympathetic.
I can't define it. I love it. And I have no words better than that. I don't know if it's nostalgia of the 8bit era I grew up in. I don't think so. It's a blend of sensations. Legos also bring that feeling. The geometric simplicity, yet complex combinations.

Maybe the low-resolution asking your mind to fill in the details subconsciously. Like visual incarnation of words. It goes beyond the instantaneous perception.
A step in the right direction, at least. Problem is, if I come to a new town I probably won't be checking the app store. So it would have to be something that spans the whole EU. Also, EU needs to be a single data roaming zone, it's completely ridiculous the way it is now. It's often the same damn cell provider, but because it's a different country there's a completely unreasonable extra charge and an insulting data cap.

Edit: looking at the reviews, apparently they charge for the trip to your location before they even pick you up, which is just stupid. Wouldn't they actually want to encourage using the app so people aren't clogging the call centres?
Yes, illegal, unregulated services tend to be cheaper.

What a groundbreaking discovery.
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Maintaining IPC/RPC as text has the significant advantage of keeping the programs involved honest, approachable, and easier to debug. Just being able to see the interface by running the program (or reading the config file) makes it a lot easier to learn[1], and bugs in text formats can often be seen visually (or marked in an editor).

The alternative - binary structures - require complex data definitions where you have to care about stuff like exact byte lengths when you have to convert between big/little endian. Some people like to claim that binary is faster, but your bottleneck is not going to be strtol(3). As for advantages in parsing - you still have to parse the binary structure you just read. I suspect most people that think "parsing text" is difficult are confusing the parser with lexer; the latter is the only part that changes when you switch between text and binary formats.

In the long run the initial investment in a text interface can be cheaper than wasting time debugging binary structures. Even more important when thinking long-term: it is a lot easier to inspect a text interface from the outside without the consent or availability of the original author. If you have an old program binary that was used in production for years and no source code or documentation, which would you rather try to debug? An opaque binary file? Or something in JSON or INI format?

[1] however, this is not an excuse to skip proper documentation
Nope, that's still just passing in data, from the point of view of the function receiving the data. Passing data to a function is just a regular old function call.

However, you could consider that the caller of the function could have had the stream injected, depending on the perspective of the rest of the application.

For instance in pseudocode:

useData = (data) ->
munge(data) + calculate(data)

setupPipeline = (input, output) ->
input
.pipe cleanup
.pipe useData
.pipe format
.pipe output

application = ->
setupPipeline stdin, stdout

test = ->
setupPipeline mockInput, mockOutput

Notice how I've included the test case to illustrate how the dependency injection enables testability, which is critical to understanding the concept. Without DI, the setupPipeline method would take no parameters and explicitly hook to stdin/stdout.

Contrast this example with the standard case of regular-old-data-passing:

useData = (data) ->
munge(data) + calculate(data)

application = ->
useData stdin.getInt()

test = ->
assert.equal -1, useData 42
assert.equal 0, useData 100
assert.equal 1, useData 99

Note how inversion of control is not necessary to unit test this function, which is the indication that there is no dependency injection going on there.

If you were using dependency injection for the behaviors, it would imply that the injection is not strictly necessary, and you could instead write the function with a hard dependency. Since the behavior just takes data that whole idea is nonsensical. What would it bind to? Nothing. It's just taking data.
I can attest to this. I used Node-DV in a production environment and it's pretty damn amazing with all its built-in functionality.

There are options to adjust the image in various ways and once Tesseract runs, it's easy to get the result in various formats.
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Think about these poor postmen every time you send an e-mail.

As long as we are moving forward jobs market will keep changing. Those workers are also consumers. They have cheap electronics at home made in China (which caused some local factory workers to lose their jobs), they use roads built by machines in places where humans used to do the work. They eat food from automated farms that are more efficient.

It's all connected. I wouldn't say it creates losers in any class. Their/our living standard would be much much lower at this point without these kind of changes.

It's up up up up DOWN up up up. (DOWN being when it hits your sector and you are not prepared for the change, and up when it hits other industries)
A part made from cast aluminum will have a significantly higher environmental cost than the same part made from cast steel because pulling aluminum out of the ground is much more expensive environmentally, and monetarily (fuel/electricity aren't free) than getting the equivalent amount of iron out of the ground. Even if you make the parts from melted down anvils and beer cans that initial cost is still there (there's also a lot less aluminum around to be recycled than there is iron and steel).

Materials and methods of processing matter a great deal.

OEs care very much about this but the progressive fuel economy requirements make it worth their while meet the requirements all else be damned
They pretty much said it was catastrophically broken...so maybe it IS making a big difference?
Thanks for the math to back up my own doubt. Fortunately, the bus analogy appears to be added by the author as a bit of sparkle and does not get brought up again.
Uber operates in countries where their services are not in compliance with the local legislation (or operate in a gray area), and are operating until they get to a court case that will decide whether it is legal or not.

So if you don't know the local taxi regulation, your Uber might get pulled over by the cops who take the driver and you're left in the middle of nowhere. This has happened in Helsinki, for example (where the local taxi service is very reliable, albeit somewhat expensive and may be busy at certain hours).

In general, when visiting a country, you are expected to roughly know what the local legislation is.
Talking of different styles, I think Cuphead looks incredible... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TjUPXAn2Rg
We already have car sharing services like Autolib where you can pick up an electric car at a station, use it, and park it at another station.

I imagine cleaning autonomous cabs will be exactly the same effort than cleaning shared cars. Probably less if the car can drive itself to the depot.
The fun part is that a taxi licence is delivered for free by the city, provided you fit the criterias. But taxis don't want too many licences to be around of course, so they lobbied for a low limit to be delivered (which may or may not be revisionned when a city increase in size/population). They built this bubble themselves and now they're crying about it. Since last year you can't resell your licence anymore, obviously it only works for the new ones delivered, otherwise the country would get sued and loose instantly. But the "bought" licences are probably going to stick around forever.

Also the current protest is not about Uber but UberPop, which is kinda illegal at the moment and rightly so. I don't mind the taxis getting fucked over by their own greed, but I'd prefer if it was done lawfully.
The local taxi company I usually use in Amsterdam had an app before Uber was even a thing.

That's a lame excuse. The only itch Uber is scratching is the libertarian itch to circumvent consumer protection, environmental protection and labour laws.
It might be the corporate firewall I'm behind, but those images all look broken to me.
A blockade against self-driving cars would be very effective since they are programmed not to hit pedestrians.
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How should we handle working with an organization while developing a MVP?
My partner and I are working on a product targeted at organizations. We're planning to approach a few organizations in our area to flesh out our minimum viable product and make sure it solves the problems that we think it solves, but we're not sure how this kind of relationship would work.

What we're building will provide immediate benefits to the organizations we're approaching; but since we're building a product—not a bespoke solution—a client-agency relationship doesn't seem appropriate. Our product would otherwise be billed at $XX,XXX if it were being made under a traditional client-agency relationship. Part of our product's purpose is to put it in reach for organizations that would otherwise find it unaffordable.

How did you handle your early working relationships with your users?
"Services like AirBnB and Uber can be great for entrepreneurs, investors, part-time workers, and consumers. We should be reminded that disrupting industries sometimes creates losers in the working and middle class that don't have an easy way to switch jobs in some countries or economies."

This is absolutely true, but it has always been so, for countless professions across the centuries.

Industrialization, automatization, globalization have caused many people to lose their livelihood due to the obsolescence of their industry and profession, but the net result has always been a richer, more modern society (whether if 'happier' or 'better', it's hard to say).

Taxi drivers happen to be a much more vocal, compact and uniform community, and that's why they appear more in the news, but there are countless other people being affected by technical progress on a daily basis (from journalist to shoe repairers to travel agents).

While it might not be a zero-sum game, to reference a famous pg essay, it's a bit naive thinking that entrepreneurs can create value out of nothing, without affecting the existing status-quo in other ways than positive ones.

Instead of fighting it by enforcing ad-hoc laws, governments and unions should work towards creating the conditions so that the affected workers are able to find other occupations, IMHO.
None! :-(

Thanks, you made me do some reading. There is no evidence that heating oils beyond their smoke points turns then into trans fats (or where their consumption is particularly dangerous for heart health).

There are dangers of carcinogenic factors of using oils near or beyond their smoke points but that's not to be confused with issues affecting heart health.

Thanks!
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That's not hanging shit on ESR, that's just a valid critique of poor code.

A better example might be this post, where ESR is implied to be racist when his actual post is a reflective one about correcting irrational racist reactions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6884767
That would kind of waist the opportunity to create a new product brand that's not tied to Firefox's current trajectory.

Since Mozilla doesn't have the ability to fund advertisement campaigns the way Google and Microsoft can they have to be more careful about momentum and not waist growth opportunities by spending them on a established product which is consistently shrinking in marketshare.
Thats cool...until the day Google decides to close it and shuts down the service and all projects trapped on it. But until then, its pretty cool!
Github really owns the "organization aspect".

For my personal projects, I'm fine with my own git server on a cheap vm, but for work I've been really happy with Github's issue tracker and org membership administration (with which we use OAUTH heavily for internal tools, several of which queue background computation). Github issues are much easier for tracking job submissions from analysts than integrating with the company email, and developers prefer it.

I looked at GitLab a year ago. I liked it, but it was a little funky (avatars weren't working; obviously not mission critical, but little shit like that erodes confidence -- either support a feature or don't, but never half ass it because I'm not going to admin over a server when I've got a chorus analysts bitching about it being hacky). GitLab people: this was a digitalocean prepared image version of GitLab, in case you're listening.

Version control is really the most minor and easy to replicate part of Github's value proposition.
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So wait it doesn't account for dense circle patterns? Like if I have a bunch of circles, then it rejects the image if any five of them have bad distances? I would think it would account for blank space somehow.
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