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It is only confrontational to those who are already biased.

Again, you're opening with a statement that will put peoples backs up before they've even heard your argument. If you want to make an accusation of bias you need to build up to it and back it up, otherwise nobody will listen.

seeing my statement as resentment but not the others is itself
telling and, if I dare say, sounds of tone policing.

No. Tone policing means to attempt to discount an argument because of the tone used to deliver it. At no point have I disagreed with the content of your comments, or attempted to devalue your opinion. In contrast, I'm trying to understand your argument and help you structure it more clearly.

And this sounds like rationalization of why an opinion should be dismissed.

That was my point, it's exactly the rationalisation a good proportion of your audience will make when you structure arguments in the way you have so far.

Confirmation bias means you start with a very slim chance of changing anyone's mind on this kind of polarising topic. Using poorly structured arguments reduces your chances to zero.

Or my audience would be the group already aware of the statistics.

Sure, if you like, but you also claim your conclusions are so obvious that anyone aware of those studies doesn't need an explanation. If your arguments are completely obvious to your target audience, why bother commenting at all?

Evidence and logical arguments are second to emotional appeal.

If the emotion you trigger is anger you'll get nowhere at all, or worse.

Second, my original point of the post was not to actually say which group had it worse.

Okay, that's not how it came across at all. You finished with "it is clear which group is actually better off."

... there is not an agreement as to one group having it worse.

There isn't agreement on whether Elvis is dead either. In order to make the existence of disagreement a credible argument you need to also demonstrate reasonableness.

A good tip there is to align yourself with moderates rather than partisans. Claiming that men have it harder than women doesn't help you there; the moderate perspective is to empathise with the problems faced by both sides rather than to compete about which has it worse. I know you've said that's not the main point you wanted to make, but you did make that point.
This exactly. VRBO and HomesAway are the businesses that AirBnB is really competing with, and they've been going for ages. Hotels are for shorter stays, and generally are quite price competitive with AirBnB when staying short term anyhow. As a long time AirBnB host and guest, I've only ever used the platform to rent entire places, and I think that 80-90% of AirBnB revenue comes from renting entire homes. The original AirBnB idea of renting a room or couch from a local was just a beachhead and clever marketing trick to get noticed IMO. Like couchsurfing, I struggle to see that becoming a big business and taking on the Hotels.
They had huge signup growth at launch (everyone wants to travel for free!) but it dwindled and revenue growth hit a wall (nobody wants to fund someone else's travel - shocking). I'm confused about how this was supposed to work - it feels a bit like kickstarter except you don't get anything for funding a campaign (If I want to read blog posts and see pictures about other people's travels, there's no shortage of that all over the interwebs).
I was writing from the perspective of taking it for granted that this service is not actually free. From that perspective, ads versus fees are just different points in the price structure. (The very term "price structure" clarifies that it's not free.)

Ad-supported services are quasi-free, in the sense that the the display of ads is not actually eroding any dollars from your financial portfolio. Ads potentially rob you of time. But not necessarily. For instance during a TV commercial, you can take a washroom break or fix yourself a snack.

Not all ad-supported programs are intrusive with the ads. I have a few on my smartphone, and none of them cause delays or very much interference with the operation of the program. They occupy some screen real estate and sometimes can be clicked by accident. (And that's probably a bad thing for the advertisers: an accidental click isn't an indication of true interest; such clicks will not become conversions at any significant rate.)
I remember reading about Amazon making warehouse employees sign a non-compete agreement - a stipulation that was rather quickly reversed after The Verge and other publications exposed it. What other examples of terribleness have you read about?
Thanks!

Two things leap out. Firstly I love the way you chose to do 1 million sites. I would have gone, hmm, maybe top thousand, and called it a representative sample :-) The scale of the modern world is still something I am grappling with.

Secondly, is that 200 Mbps down / 20 mbps up? I think the UK has some broadband access lessons to learn if that's true. My wet piece of string is getting threadbare.
My youth in rural Texas was punctuated by a two year stint in Florida during middle school. This article really resonates with the memories of my time spent there in the 00s learning to surf and skate with my buds. Great read.
https://xinrongding.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/bugsintux_01...
Try to put yourself in their position, viewing yourself from the other side. You say you don't think they're wrong if they find your attitude negative, so I guess you know which situations caused that? Try to replay those situations in your head from their perspective.

Also what I've found extremely helpful in conflict situations is to review them afterwards, trying hard to find the issue on my side - no matter how obvious it was to me that the issue was with the other side. It has helped me tremendously in identifying that almost nothing is "right" or "wrong", but simply a matter of perspective.

Be honest to yourself and be open to change. Every once in a while it's good not to argue, but just to give in and follow other people's thoughts, even if you disagree.
We do SP GPU development requiring big memories and Titan X features heavily in nVidia's marketing towards us. Tesla is nowhere to be found.
It only takes a few people flagging a story for it to bumped off the front page. If the general premise of "feminism threads" is that some men in technology treat most women in technology badly, and HN readers are mostly men in technology, it make sense that any "feminism thread" would acquire some flags. And then, when you read the story, you realize that it's "anti-feminism", and so you get the feminists also flagging it. And then on top of all this, you get a third group of people, those who are just sick to death of the whole thing, also flagging it. Whoever's left in the middle has been run over by the pros, the antis, and the don't care's.
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I was thinking of Mickey Mouse.
How many government agencies can you name that are even moderately transparent?
My structured view on learning Part One
At the bottom of the page Lists->Active is what I always check after checking the front page.

When there are a lot more comments than upvotes I think its pushed off the front page.
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No: An attacker can massively distribute the key cracking effort, and do it offline. That is so many orders of magnitude faster than asking an sshd if the password is correct, even with the flaw discussed here where it isn't rate limited. Without that flaw, you have to start a new TCP connection every three guesses, which is glacially slow compared to cracking the passphrase to decrypt the key.
Yes.. with the current deep dreaming fad, this could attract quite a few hobbyists eager to get near-real time video processing through large nn.
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> A crowded, hyper-expensive, tourist trap with limited housing

You just described SF.
It’s unfortunate that SMS isn’t supported—that’s practically the only reason I still have a phone, and the entire reason I’d want this service is to block all calls, excepting the ones I’ve specifically authorized.
Walmart.com revenue/worth is a tiny, tiny fraction of the whole Walmart.
Sounds like he just needed a few math grad student editors. A real reason for a new edition!
This was a long time coming. 20% growth on a business that is approaching $100B revenue (and probably 2-3x that in terms of GMV, a better measure of its size and dominance), and AWS continues to grow as does the digital side of the business. The crazy thing is that they still have low market share in several of the retail categories that its in (apparel, grocery, several product lines even in home, health & beauty, electronics, etc.)

Their achilles heal though continues to be browsability and searching. It is obviously a great place to go if you know exactly what you want, but continues to be a poor experience if you are browsing for an item or don't know what you want. There continues to be duplicate listings for the same items (some listed by 1st party and some by 3rd party), and it is very tough to browse items. Once they actually figure this out and implement, that's when this will really become game over (at least domestically)
I didn't recommend anything.

I just suggested one become a little more familiar with history before making absurd claims and value judgements against whole races of people. Every single one of the cited examples had to fight bloody wars of independence against occupation before their refugees were even seen as human. We enslaved the Chinese. We used the Irish in proxy wars between street gangs that still are going on today in parts of the Northeast. The Jews spend hundreds of years trying to assimilate into European society, and then the Germans killed 6 million of them. We gave them back their own country. Out of guilt.

Spouting a bunch of stereotypes about the local immigrant population is a pretty fucking ignorant view of that history.
And a stalled/wrecked/slowed vehicle on a highway sometimes results in death:

http://i.imgur.com/dgHm3E9.gifv [redundant warning: death]

http://i.imgur.com/V6aySGy.gifv

You can't control for other bad drivers' reactions to your vehicle becoming an obstacle on the highway. Swerve and change lanes? Sure, in an ideal world that always happens. In the real world, accidents can happen instead.
Call me old fashioned, but I "value" profitable companies more than unprofitable ones. Amazon had a net loss of $241m last year[1], while Walmart had a net profit of $16b[2].

[1] http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=AMZN+Income+Statement&annual

[2] http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=wmt+Income+Statement&annual
Is walmart.com owned by a different company?
Good idea, actually.
Not nearly ranty enough, IMO. Units are not that hard, and anyone who wants to write about this stuff for public consumption must put in the effort to get them right.
I think a great example of a non-Basic language that succeeded because of 1-6 is Turbo Pascal. Its documentation was thorough enough that you could learn and use the language and its many libraries without external references (except, perhaps, to get you started).

Going with Basic instead of a different language for your IDE can be a good choice for another reason. It is, or at least was, good for marketing to people who write code but don't consider themselves developers. To the potential buyer of the IDE using Basic signals, "this is a friendly environment; we don't expect you to be a grizzled professional programmer". (This may not work today. The latest product from Blitz Research is called "Monkey" and REALbasic was renamed "Xojo" in 2010, both apparently for marketing reasons. The company behind Xojo described theirs at http://www.xojo.com/support/faq_xojonew.php)
Walmart.com is wholly owned by Walmart (it is merely a division of Walmart, actually, and not a separate entity of any sort), and we're talking about market cap, so...according to this article, Amazon is worth more than Walmart and Walmart.com.
That is an interesting feature in Jon Blow's "Jai" language project. Despite being a C-like language, it sets you up to be able to move members between hot and cold storage easily without modifying existing code that references those members.

You can effectively define a struct as references to separate sub-structs in separate arrays. Member access syntax can be flattened so that it doesn't matter in the syntax which sub-struct a particular field is in. Realize that you aren't using a field as often as you expected? Move it's declaration from the hot sub-struct to the cold one and recompile. That will move all instances of that field from the hot array to the cold array, but no other code needs to be edited.
> However, that would violate the HTTP/1.1 spec.

As said there aren't many options, one would be a single parameter (jira does that for JQL) and the rest somehow url encoded. However that problem doesn't only happen to rest. Everything on the web suffers from that problem (Jira is a normal Site which doesn't use too much from a Rest API (yet)) so his statement is really falsy.
> Their world, however, is more monolithic.

How is YouTube, Instagram, Facebook—all sites with millions of people sharing what they've created in thousand of small, interconnected communities—how could that possibly be more monolithic than everyone reading the same book, no matter how nourishing Buddenbrooks happens to be?
There are articles on how horrible the warehouse conditions are. (For example, http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/02/mac-mcclelland-f...). Note that I'm not trying to condone that perception, just merely observing that it exists in tandem with Walmart's (whose problems are well-known).
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Congrats on finishing your book! I know exactly how much work that can be.

I hate to be picky but I know I'd want someone to point these out in my work, so I'll hope you feel the same way. You have a few grammatical errors on your page:

"Building proper tests for a Magento extension can be difficult for seasoned veterans let's not say the junior developer just getting started with Magento."

You at least need a comma before "let's not say", but even then it still feels like a strange construction to me. Maybe "...veterans, not to say..."

"After all, you have written code like this a thousand times before; You know what you are doing right?"

Turn that semicolon into a period. I have a simple rule on when to use a semicolon:

Should I use a semicolon?
1. Nope.
2. There is no second answer.

"And yet, how much time of your day to day do you spend tracking and fixing bugs?"

If you really want to use "day to day", hyphenate it. But I would simplify it to "how much of your day do you spend...".

"What if you could do something that gave you confidence, not only on the quality of the code that is being promoted, confidence that if and when, someone has to make changes to the code there are tests that can confirm that nothing has been broken and the application still performs as expected."

There's some dead weight here and the clauses sort of run on. How about:

"What if you could do something that gave you confidence — not only on the quality of the code, but confidence that when someone changes the code, there are tests that confirm nothing has broken."

When I write, I do (at least) three drafts:

1. Get all the words down. Put all the clay on the table.

2. Rearrange and control structure and pacing. Push the clay into the right shape.

3. Edit every single sentence to tweak or remove words that don't add value. Trim the sculpture down to its final shape and texture.

My goal on the third draft isn't to strip it down to Hemingway. There's still room for character and charm to shine through. But it's to make sure that every ounce of prose adds some value, be it information, clarity, cadence, or humor.
Does this give you the same feeling/affect as brushing would ?
first, let me congratulate that you are admitting to a problem that you have and looking to do something about it. A lot of us don't even get to that stage. So you have already taken the first step when you are asking for help.

"I have no social support, no work support, and am generally feeling isolated and defeated"

This is probably the biggest cause. We are born to be social even though the social'ness can vary a lot. Isolation is a huge problem which can cause things like depressions, negative attitude etc. I will say work on fixing this first. Forget about projects, ideas etc even though they are important but not your immediate concern at this time.

Do something out of your comfort zone. This is the biggest challenge when trying to improve oneself. I personally struggle with this a lot but doing things that you normally don't do will change your perspective in many things. One small example: Force yourself to go meet random people at random places. Talk to them. See what it does. Don't expect any outcome though. just do it. Get involved in some social sports if you can. Go play tennis with a stranger or even squash or whatever you can. Don't worry if you suck at it. That's not the point. Call up a family member randomly whom you don't meet often and ask them to meet. Next time when you get upset at a stranger because they cut you off on the road, think that they may be in a hurry due to family emergency. Think Positive. Force yourself into it. It may seem silly to do this but it grows on you.

Oh, and try to spend time with people who have positive outlook in life and can influence you. Who you hangout with matters a lot. We like to learn from our company. It is just how we are wired.

All these may not be the magic wand but doing things differently than what you do currently will be a start. There is no binary answer to all this of course but just trying to give you some insights.
Interesting. So there's two parts:

- a set of communications tools for enabling the assembly workers to have good assembly instructions. This is an iterative process as the design engineers watch the assembly.

- video is now cheap enough that you can video all the assembly and trace QA failures to a particular step.

There's a generally humane tone to the writeup, one of giving people the right tools to do a good job. If it can improve DfM that's great. The number of devices I've had to take apart with ridiculous numbers of screws or blind clips is too high. On the other hand, who among us would accept continuous surveillance every second of being clocked on?
Personal attacks are not allowed on HN. MaxScheiber posted a fine comment, which implied that he had worked there (or had inside knowledge somehow), so your comment doesn't "explain" anything, it merely poisons the discussion.

The last thing we want at HN is to discourage people who know things from sharing what they know. We don't need you to like Palantir, but we do need you to refrain from commenting disrespectfully here.
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Cybersecurity+as+Realpolitik- Dan+Greer
The stock market tends to value growth very highly (probably too highly). Amazon is growing faster than Walmart. Not that I disagree with you on how to "value" a company, but the stock market thinks the expected future growth of Amazon is more valuable than the current profit of Walmart.
yes the measure they are talking about is market cap, not sales. the market cap for Wlmt includes sam's club, walmart.com, etc.

In terms of total sales, Wlmt (including subsidiaries) is close to $500B, while Amazon is approaching $100B. However, Wlmt.com (domestic) is only ~2% of total sales times $288B total domestic sales so only ~$5B sales
Given some of the edge case interactions in any complex system, they did not and could not know that the only impact would be slowing the car down.

You should listen to the QuviQ guys talk about finding software bugs in automotive control systems.
It's maybe overkill to do it on the whole set instead of just a sample, probably the numbers would not change all that much.

The 200/20 is indeed 200 Mbps down and 20 up, this little trick saturated the line pretty good though. I probably could have saved some time and bandwidth by letting phantomjs abort on image content but I was lazy.
AirBnB is really two businesses in one:

1. A Hotel disruptor - letting people crash on your couch or empty bedroom. This is the original idea as per pitch deck.

2. Holiday Rental / VRBO / HomesAway competitor - renting out an entire home for a period shorter than a 6 month-lease

Would be interesting to see where most of the revenue actually comes from. My guess would be that the traditional model of holiday lets (#2) brings in the vast majority of revenue, whilst the original idea was used as a beachhead / marketing ploy.
The crazy thing is, they're not even profitable right now.
That was my point. If all you do is read what passes for news on gamer sites, you might think that the discrete GPU overclocking market was important.
I love that you posted a TL;DR: on an article whose sole focus is on taking more time. (Full disclosure, I also skimmed the beginning of the article and then jumped here to the comments.)
Original AirBnB Pitch Deck [pdf]
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Wal-Mart's Q4/2014 net income was 16,363,000 and they have a P/E of 14.6.

Amazon's Q4/2014 net income was -241,000 and they had a P/E of, well, they didn't.

I think Amazon has been one of the most innovative companies of the last decade, but Amazon is going to be a much less attractive consumer option as they start transitioning to business models that require them to actually profit.

I could steal all the lawn mowing business in town if I were willing to mow lawns for free...
Why use another domain and not a sub-domain? I assume something to do with the cookie-less comment - but not clear what?
This came up on reddit a while ago; the general tone of the conversation I got was that it really depends on which warehouse you're working at, some had horrible managers and others had really good working experiences. It's still strange that its like that though.
Right, it's like a password or a door lock. The strength of them isn't the issue, it's more that they communicate the owner's intent.

Effective would probably have more to do with covering all the routes of ingress rather than doing so strongly.
I'm not disagreeing with you, it's just the realities. For example CAN does not have a notion of source, it's really in the abstract a whole lot like a bus, just with cables.

So one reason the infotainment might want to send commands is to that station/song information appears in the instrument cluster.

Now I agree it would be really smart if there was another module sitting between the the radio and the IPC with two sides and it filters both ways. Also that gateway has logic like, I have power but it's been less than a minute, this packet has the right code, sure I will let this reflash happen. In fact such devices exist (except they are more trusting).

The thing is though that the radio tends to have the most impressive CPU of all in the car, so there is pressure to add that in there (I mean there was one manufacturer that had tried to merge BCM, TCM, telematics, and DIC all into the head unit with a roughly 400MHz cpu, so that gives oyu an idea), logic like 'yeah maybe, we won't be sending that in fact.' But once it is hacked, all bets are off, it can even DOS the bus. The other aspect is you just want they crap from Delco to work with the stuff from TRW and the gateway is getting in the way and yo don't want to expend the resources to figure-out why.

When it was all a wired network, it did not really matter so much.
profit is irrelevant. their capex is $1B-$2B per quarter. they could lower their capex at any point and show a few hundred million dollars net earnings. the point is that they are as big as they are and continue to invest in the future, and hence the insane p/e ratio and stock price