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An entrepreneur persuaded New Orleans to let him create a high-tech police force
Based on what you are saying, I would recommend reading some Japanese manga. Manga follows a different story structure from western fiction. In western fiction you usually start the story with conflict. The main characters resolve the conflict and the story is over. Manga follows the Chinese epic structure where you start off with a section that simply defines the rules of the universe and introduces you to the characters. Often it is quite light and humourous. About halfway through the crisis develops. Quite often this is rather hard on the reader because something incredibly nasty happens to their now beloved characters. The rest of the story talks about how the characters resolve the conflict.

The main advantage of this story structure is that by setting up the rules at the beginning and spending a great deal of time introducing the characters, you have the opportunity to examine the actions of the characters in the conflict section knowing their constraints. That way the actions and reasoning are much easier to follow and to relate to.

I'd like to give you advice on what to read, but I tend to enjoy fairly childish, light stuff ;-) Although not fantasy, Barefoot Gen is pretty amazing (should be on everybody's reading list IMHO). I don't personally like it, but Akira is also quite good.
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There should be a law that requires motorists to salute bicyclists as they blow through stop signs. They're heroes for braving the dangerous roads every day and saving the planet from more choking carbon emissions.
Haha, yeah I like to be a bit silly here or there. I might tone it down, but on the other hand I find it makes the text a bit less dry to not take yourself too seriously. :)

re italics: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/27414
Did you read the court document? Amazon employees signed up, sometimes with fake addresses and then immediately began running wide ranging searches across numerous categories in completely separate areas across the country from their primary residence. Jumping from searching on roofers to dentistry to day spas and everything in between. They have some cases where the Amazon employee even used Angie's List internal messaging system to send service providers messages asking them to run promotions on Amazon Local or to talk to them about business deals. It's the commercial aspect that is forbidden in the TOS.

They have all the search histories of all of these accounts, the titles of the employees at Amazon, their home addresses, etc. It's clear what they were doing, the question is will a judge see it as a pattern attempting to defraud Angie's List and were the employees directed to do this or did they do it on their own.
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A great book. It talks about valid, serious points and does in such a playful style that makes reading a breez.
The audiophile’s dilemma: strangers can’t identify $340 cables, either
Looks very similar to https://sandstorm.io/
Due in no small part to the profession of network administration deciding that "security" was in fact not about writing secure software, but configuring firewalls to block every port but 80.

Sealed by the decision of ISPs to provide a piddly 1m up even on lines with 50m down, disallow inbound connections to residential modems, etc.
They might also want to buy, I don't know, bread.

Should the bread company have to build their own roads, too? That's a better world, how exactly?

And what about the people who don't want to buy Coca Cola? Should they get to buy nothing?
So, that's kind of an interesting point, right?

If a character behaves rationally, like beep-boop minmax profits and losses and proceed from there, then it really doesn't matter whether they have depth or not, because it won't really impact the story.

The entire point of a character with depth, like say Harold Lauder in The Stand, is that that depth gives a reader insight into why they do what they do during the story. It provides tension between what is obviously the correct/logical thing to do, and then trying to predict what the character will actually do and why.

If characters are purely rational computational entities, it doesn't really matter what their backstory is, what their motives are, or anything else. The story rapidly devolves into a mere exercise in the reader checking the author's math.
You mention you are a loyal C developer. As someone who learned C as my first language and used it for years (along with C++ and Java), I found I enjoy programming significantly more when I'm using an expressive high level language like Python.

When it becomes 10x easier to express complex ideas and algorithms with a fraction of the code by making use of built-in language features, it's a breath of fresh air. The huge ecosystem of easy-to-use libraries for most anything doesn't hurt either. I can enjoy focusing on the problem I'm trying to solve instead of how to structure my code, what design pattern I should be using due to a limited static type system, how best to avoid memory corruption or seg faults, etc. It's akin to writing pseudo code, and then having it execute.

Another great thing about Python in particular is that it ends to be extremely easy to read other people's code due to semantic whitespace and also by language design of there only being one way to do things.

If Python turns out to be your thing, it's popular in data science/machine learning. If you lean in that direction, you may be able to work more on some complex math/stats problems and less on writing/maintaining large low-level codebases.

Also, that feeling that your code is not perfect is really common. I've been programming for ~20 years and it has never gone away. What's helped me a lot is focusing on the end result of the product, and its impact on the business and the value it creates. As someone who wants every line of code to be error free, as performant as possible, and properly structured, I find comfort knowing my "good enough" solution (and sometimes not-so-good solution) is making business owners and end-users more than happy.
Well, otherwise Angie's List could have put phone/fax numbers and email addresses owned by them in the contact info of the "trap providers", and so they'd have the records of those attempts by Amazon to check the provider.
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That's what they said when we switched from the 12 inch foot to the meter!
Curiously it works for me, maybe it was fixed?
How do you live stream?
> If it was easier to move this power from remote regions to population centers with lower losses

Loss isn't really the motivating factor though: at about 330kV transmission losses are < 3%[1].

Building transmission towers, the land/access corridors, and dealing with the supporting infrastructure is the biggest barrier by a long shot: it just costs a lot of money to build terrestrial (power|communications) networks.

[1]: http://www.e-ijaet.org/media/9I9-DETERMINATION-OF-BUS-VOLTAG...
This may be country-specific, but can options be put in tax-free accounts like TFSAs (Canada), (N)ISAs (UK), or (I think) IRAs (US)? Wouldn't that mitigate the capital gains tax issues?
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"Before you start pointing fingers, make sure you hands are clean!"
> When I read fantasy, I want something inventive and clever in a setting I find interesting. HPMOR had a fair share of silly parts and the author seems a bit full of himself, but it was overwhelmingly the most intelligent fantasy writing I've ever read

I really enjoyed it too. While not everything was perfect, it's better than a lot of stuff I've paid for.

I remember really enjoying some of the early points where there are jabs at what characters do in fiction generally. Very nice reading something and not thinking "Aaargh, you idiot! No, don't split up! NO GO AND CALL SOMEONE WHO DEALS WITH THIS STUFF!" and "What? Don't destroy the... no, NO GO AND SPEAK TO A PROPER ARCHAEOLOGIST".
The Mike Ash blog post linked near the top of this one is IMO more interesting: https://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/friday-qa-2015-07-17-when-to-...

The title also matches the submission better. Maybe this was the intended submission?
Also RIP this intro: https://github.com/Gankro/rust/commit/a42a41520584e28a8fb5e4...

(one of the many reasons I refused to squash this glorious history)
I am even more shocked - you are telling me that journalists exaggerate! Next you will be telling me that they just make up stuff and pass it off as accurate and unbiased reporting.

More seriously I have been an eyewitness to a number of events reported on by journalists over the years. Not a single one of these reports had any resemblance to what actually happened - I guess that is why they are called news stories and reporters hacks.

Edit. Thanks for taking the time to track down the original papers.

I should not be so harsh on social scientists as it is incredible hard to do any real science in this area. I could not design and run a social science study that had any scientific robustness or validity. There are just too many confounding variables and biases.
Glad to hear it, but the article writer hasn't conveyed it well. It really sounds like he's describing fiction about the clash of hyperrational superminds who aren't held back by petty things like "mistakes" or "emotions."

Also--the article mainly uses the term "rationalist fiction," which is fine, but the title is "rational fiction," which is rather a turn-off. It reminds me of L. Ron Hubbard rattling on about how he doesn't write fantasy because fantasy is for stupids who can't write good, and he is a smart because he writes science fiction which is for smarts.

The whole tone of the article is kind of self-congratulatory. If that doesn't reflect the actual stories, well, good.
Why not? Assuming lawyers aren't working based on hunches, one should be able to write down the process followed, which could then be encoded in software (as a flow chart or otherwise).

In fact, even if the lawyers are working from "instinct" and can't fully describe their process, it's just a matter of getting a good sample of existing companies (a few hundreds, perhaps, some of which not Delaware corps) and asking the lawyer to "fake advise" each one. At the end of the process, you'd have a pretty good model of that process.
The reason I brought this up is that there are some founders who believe if you only stick around a year or two, you aren't loyal so you shouldn't get any stock. Some companies have repurchase rights. I was trying to suggest a way for employees who leave after a year or two to keep what they've vested and appease those founders who take a hard line about buy backs. I think this norm will be difficult to change although Sam Altman also discussed it in a post in recent years.
You don't want to work for someone like that. If they won't tell you that, what else are they hiding?
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How does it work? Any info on that.
If the 'making up work later' example weren't exclusive to white collar workers who already have the flexibility to take their work home it might make sense, but i'm fairly certain that's a small percentage. The public sector, blue collar jobs, service jobs... these would be difficult to impossible to do remote, and on one's own time. We are the very lucky small minority who are not location- or shift-constrained.

The article is addressing millennials at large who all want to share the responsibilities of child-rearing and bread-winning. I think this is an incredibly difficult change to make for the majority of millennials and their employers - without screwing somebody over, that is. I'm pretty sure if it does get implemented it'll be at the expense of singles.
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True. But in the case where the owner is secret, they shouldn't be able to sue infringers (I wish).
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The best world map - OpenStreetMap - and the best encyclopedia - Wikipedia - already prove you wrong :)
Killing me I was wondering why my sites weren't working and console access is killed. Can't log in, can't find any information. Thanks for this. Huge.
I would be more concerned with your HN user name since your CV is now linked to it. I hope it is not a reflection of how you are personally feeling.
Not sure what you mean about class of stock. Almost all employee options are common stock. Good point about repurchase rights. I should probably add a section on that. On the 90 day issue, usually those ISOs are converted to NQSOs after 90 days.
I don't think the guns failed, but eventually Arnold got one for each arm and shot them both from the hip:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thLez2LmlKU&t=1m43s
Sure. Change the language - it's still a good point. He's not talking about a few downvotes either, he's talking about the huge numbers of people who get swept up into eg Twitter shitstorms. People lose their jobs after these campaigns.
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Disagree on point 6 - Edge has a long way to go and this change would be easier to stomach if it was better. Having said that, point 4 convinced me that this change is probably good for most users.

I still disagree strongly on Microsoft's default privacy settings, which are god awful. But on the issue of browser choice, its not so bad.
I think centralization occurs because of economies of scale, like the talk says. But open source and protocols can decentralize things again. Security is probably the hardest thing to guarantee when all the source is out there. It takes quite a while to secure against all the obvious attacks, while attackers can see all the code. I'd trust gmail for security before I trust some small host which installed squirrelmail.

But having said that, I think that the reason a lot of stuff becomes centralized is because SOCIAL is not decentralized today. Bitcoin decentralized money but user accounts, profiles, connections etc are still done in a centralized way. That's why GitHuv and is centralized even though git is not. Social and security - if there were solutions to these, many people would decentralize.

And by decentralized, I mean you still have a server hosting your stuff, but it would be your choice - it could be on a local network, and you wouldn't even need the internet. You could be in the middle of rural Africa and your village couls run a social network, which sometimes syncs with the outside world but 99% of the communication wouldnt require it, wouldn't require those drones fb launches.

I think our company Qbix has decentralized social, in that way. It's not decentralized like bitcoin or mental poker, but honestly I don't know why zero trust is such a big deal. Even bitcoin has most people host their wallet with others amd take risks.
I've never seen a 2 year cliff. Can you say what company?
You haven't killed racism or pedophilia, you moron. You've created an environment where you can continue to misunderstand them. You've continued the tradition of denying to try to understand them and actually make progress on the issues.
How is that "ironic"? Contrary to all anti-government rhetoric, most government agencies are by their nature more transparant than the average startup.

However, it's easy to be transparant about salaries when you deal with collective bargaining and don't have to generate your own revenue.

Especially the latter means that what companies are willing to pay tends to depend on the financial circumstances at the moment of hiring, resulting in differences that cannot be justified by performance or value.

It takes costly rounds of corrections before you can be transparant about that without causing major upheaval when you reveal everyone's salaries. It only works for companies with short, relatively linear history. Everywhere else, salaries tend to diverge over time for many reasons.
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Planck length
The size of the Planck length can be visualized as follows: if a particle or dot about 0.1 mm in size (which is at or near the smallest the unaided human eye can see) were magnified in size to be as large as the observable universe, then inside that universe-sized "dot", the Planck length would be roughly the size of an actual 0.1 mm dot. In other words, a 0.1 mm dot is halfway between the Planck length and the size of the observable universe on a logarithmic scale.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_length
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What we need is to buy up all the FF energy companies and have them not dig/pump/burn the carbon they control. While the FF industry is large, it is not that large and it would be totally possible to just buy it all up and shut it down.

This approach would have the nice side-effect of removing the economic motivation for climate changing denial and all the anti-science propaganda that results.
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Was ~ an hour before the status page indicated even the potential for a fault, and we were seeing solid errors the entire time.

Currently can't raise support tickets either, so left in the dark until they fix that...
How could it possibly be more complex than C++?
EU-West is also experiencing problems. A lot of our instances are currently in connection_lost status.

EDIT: The console is working fine at the moment
EDIT1: Apparently OpsWorks is hosted and managed by the North Virginia data center which is why all our opsworks instances in EU-West are experiencing issues too.
I never ever enable automatic updates however Firefox updated itself through my Earthlink dialup. So that's why The Tubes have been slow to drain lately.

I did not realize until quite a long time after the invisible install, and only then because a very subtly UI element appeared. I was overcome with rage:

I download all updates by hand then neatly archive them on a server:

Installers/Windows/
Installers/Windows/Security_Updates
Installers/Windows/Security_Updates/Win2k
Installers/Windows/Security_Updates/WinXP
Installers/Windows/Service_Packs
...
Installers/Mac_OS_X/
Installers/Mac_OS_X/TenFourFox

TenFourFox is a build for Tiger and PowerPC. I use it on my Mom's G4 iMac,mwhich is mint condition. Mom doesn't see the point of buying a new Mac, and frankly I agree with her.

I downloaded all her patches at Starbucks until Apple stopped issuing them. Now I have multiple offsite backups of thousands of installers and patches for many different platforms - even BeOS DR8!

My most-serious gripe with Firefox's unwanted, uh, "upgrade" is that I required for solid hours of struggle to figure out where the UI for a business-critical Add-On was.

It turns out that Mozilla "deprecated" what I regard as the "status bar". Silly Wabbit! Usability Testing is for kids!

It's actually called the Add-On Bar. Once I manger to turn that fact up under some cobblestone, I quickly found a thread in which many, many Add-Onmusers also desperately struggled but a Mozilla employee set them straight. Much like AT&T with the cell signal they eliminated from my neighborhood one fine July night in 2010:

We Don't Care.

We Don't Have To.

We're The Phone Company.
There's also a rather more mundane possibility: it could be residue from some sort of cleaning process done when the spacecraft was still on Earth. It wouldn't be the first time that has happened.
Actually, it is a pretty sound argument when it comes to describing human behaviour.

Things are often they way they are because it works on a macro and micro level. Sure, some things get into weird feedback loops and drift to silliness, but for the most part, if you see something working for a lot of people, they're not doing it just because of tradition.

The OP is absolutely correct in that many people will find it better to specialise in child-rearing and income-generation for a two-parent family. That doesn't mean one doesn't do child rearing and the other never works, but the primary responsibilities will fall down that way.

That's how it has been for a millennia or three, and that's likely how it will stay. Behaviours like this are all about reproductive success so that's why they the way they are.
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I agree. I came across this once, and ran the following model. Assume you assess the expected value of the equity grant to be, let's say, $100k over 4 years. Then this means your total comp will rise by $10k a year, which probably is comparable to your natural gain in market value. Thus this is equivalent to taking a similar offer except with $40k in equity with linear vesting, and either getting a raise or switching companies to get the $10k/year raise.

What this analysis omits is that the expected value calculation ignores the fact that the equity far exceeding the expected value is correlated with a desire to stay at the company, which makes the backloaded vesting irrelevant.

If you interpolate a bit to account for that correlation, I personally started concluding the $100k offer became more like $50-60k, which dropped the offer below market rate and I walked.
Heads up if you're using opsworks your instances may have been removed from their ELB.
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thanks. updated the title to reflect that
XMMP has/had a change, however it's a bit complex, and companies that want to keep their garden closed keep gutting support.
Startups already trade points for office space, by selling points to investors and using the proceeds for office space (among other things.
oh because it's fine and dandy if you call it 'profiling'

suddenly one point out what other airport are doing calling it by its name and he's racist.
I think it's more the case that he recommends against it...unless you know what you're doing!
FanDuel's investor takes interest in Scottish startup Nameloop [video]
startup funding and unicorns.
Nameloop is not one yet but in recent news, Scotland’s FanDuel made a big raise and joined the club.
The link with Nameloop? Beyond Scotland, Owen O’Donnell (investor and former chairman at FanDuel) is now taking stakes in Nameloop (raising via equity crowdfunding, on crowd cube: http://bit.ly/nameloop) and showing the same trust in this team to bring the company to the next level.
Nameloop are developing a web and mobile (app) interface for contact management. The app allows individuals and professionals to aggregate all contacts in one, digital, place and share customised details (and persona) with every single contact. Thus not only being an ever up-to-date address book but also a digital business card.
Beyond that users remain in control of their data and connections, a major point in the wake of LinkedIn’s recent moves.
For further details:
Video presentation: https://vimeo.com/103436923
Crowdfunding pitch : https://youtu.be/iBagljODqBE
Why take someones word for it?

Watch the video and you can see what he actually said yourself; https://youtu.be/yCg3EMf9EYI?t=8m36s
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I've always found that piece to be interesting in that it spends the majority of the article citing studies and illustrating examples for how difficult child rearing is and how unhappy parents are. In the process the author raises the disconnect between that reality versus the contradictory feelings parents espouse... How they can be so much less happy yet will claim the opposite.

And then right at the end the author makes an about face and goes out of their way to defend parenthood... Seeming to inadvertently demonstrate that very delusion.

Of course, the author is a parent.