ritchiea

Wow, I grew up in Chicago and thus lived there for 18 years, and I continue to return to visit family. And I had never heard of the Pedway.

A few fiction recommendations:

Where'd You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple is the funniest novel I've ever read.

Man v Nature by Diane Cook is an inventive, insightful and sometimes dark collection of short stories that are often high concept but reveal a lot about human nature & motivations.

The Sellout by Paul Beatty is a funny and also literary novel by an author who writes endlessly clever, joyful and energetic prose.

There's a crowd here on HN that hates regulation but this is exactly why regulation exists. Massive, wealthy, powerful industries just aren't held accountable by average consumers or markets. There's no serious competitor that benefits if your data isn't safe at Facebook. And average people not only aren't powerful but have their own lives to look after.

Without regulation massive companies are entirely unchecked, there is virtually never market pressure to fix problems like this.

Facebook also is an enemy of publishers because of the way it’s platform dominates how people use he internet. Journalists have no love for FB because they are taking clicks and ad money away from publishers.

You can also, add irregular punctuation & capitalization, throw in some numbers within words, include words from other languages that you know or look up. Or use near words of other languages.

I have always thought of "3 random words" as a starting point for randomizing a password not literal advice to follow.

It is quite a stretch to compare making yourself be kind to a colleague or underling despite your own frustrations with defrauding investors.

The idea of faking it until you make it is exactly what Linus needs. Most of the point of communication is for the other person, especially giving feedback on patches. We all need to vent but we shouldn't vent at the people below us in an organization. Venting is for a counselor, and maybe a close peer? And it's ok if he's frustrated with people, he just shouldn't take it out on them.

Maybe he could find someone to get his own frustrations out to, while only sharing the productive, practical code related aspects with his developers.

This makes a lot of sense, what systems are in place in other countries that lead to better outcomes?

The original comment has a point about not raising the quality of service in NYC but the consistency of Uber across states and even countries is a huge value add. I have been able to quickly get a car in less populated areas of the USA than NYC or SF (the suburbs of Portland, Maine for instance) without having to guess at or research the quality of local car services.

I have requested Ubers in almost a dozen different countries and been able to easily get a car without worrying about language barriers or being pressured into increased tourist prices. I actually deleted Uber due to the concerns about their company culture and ended up re-downloading their app because it's so helpful for international travel.

That sounds a lot like affirming your knowledge of the most likely scenario in your mind. Whereas the article proposes a framework for considering other possibilities which I can imagine being very useful. If there's one thing I regret about decisions I've made in the past it's that I didn't consider enough potential alternatives.

Interesting. I've honestly never heard the complaint about "magic" and abstractions made so concrete. I still believe many of auto-created methods are a good thing and generally done with the thinking that if you do X in 80% of cases the same developer also wants Y. Which makes perfect sense to me but I can also see how that would be surprising and/or annoying.

How is that different from any new codebase you have to look at? If anything Rails reduces the confusion because it has a set of agreed to conventions. I can’t think of any decently complex codebase I’ve ever come across that didn’t have it's own weird abstractions that aren’t immediately clear.

Disliking Rails’s built in abstractions seems to come down to only liking abstractions your own devs created which sounds like not invented here syndrome.

What alternative exists that’s better than “fine”? All of the popular framework options have major cons/arguments against. It’s almost as if some of the choices we make when picking software development ecosystems are subjective.

It's not just a lack of housing. Airbnb is changing neighborhoods by creating increased demand for vacation friendly activities and turning some areas into an effective full time weekend. It's taking popular neighborhoods like the Mission in SF or Williamsburg in Brooklyn or the Gothic quarter in Barcelona and turning them into 365 day a year tourist parties. Any neighborhood with a reputation for being hip, having art, music, bars etc. is now half populated by Airbnb guests at all times.

The biggest difficulty here is enforcement. You can create laws based around how frequently a residence is rented or whether it's the full residence rented or merely part of the residence but then you need to actually enforce those laws. Is enforcement based around income taxes from the renter? Or reporting from Airbnb itself of what's available on the site? Do local governments have to setup a small team or even an entire agency to watch this stuff? Cities need to budget for this enforcement. This stuff is hard.

Even if every popular tourist city immediately passed legislation to limit Airbnb practices it could be years or decades before they figure out the details of making that policy into reality.

Yes but Ambien doesn't have a side effect of gifting the taker racist views.

It's not just that, anti-tax zealot Grover Norquist has outsized interest on the right and he gets republicans to sign a pledge to not raise taxes, and if they violate the pledge Norquist raises money and campaigns against them. The problem is, the pledge also requires signees also do not support legislation to make paying taxes easier.

The radical anti-tax groups are so anti-tax that they see making it easier to pay taxes as support for taxes. So they want it to be difficult to pay taxes to make it easier for them to argue against taxes entirely.

The system is broken in so many places trying to approach it with any rationality gives you a headache.

Well she says in her account the large majority of people at Riot Games are lovely. The problem tends to be that there are powerful people who the company has strong reasons not to fire that perpetuate the worst behavior. Then the culture of ignoring the worst offenders allows other people to get away with little things. And the culture of ignoring things period, eats away at employees's sense of well being and sense that their workplace is fair and looks at them with respect.

I'm sure there are plenty of managers at Riot Games who wouldn't tolerate the stories for a second, but there are a few at or near the top that will and that can ruin an entire workplace.

It’s not stock in a public company or money in your IRA, it’s alcohol, drink up & enjoy!

Actually at least in my experience the people into expensive alcohol tend to like collecting it, which I find odd. I'm into food and I enjoy food with my friends who are also into food (note I said food, it doesn't have to be expensive, just good). My friends who are into expensive alcohol like having huge stocks of expensive alcohol that they rarely or never drink because it's expensive. Doesn't sound like much fun.

I'm going to recommend some fiction.

Man v. Nature by Diane Cook is an amazing read, filled with Kafkaesque, conceptual short stories that all also have real portraits of humanity when faced with extreme circumstances. It's my favorite thing I've read in years.

Other fiction I would recommend:

- Remainder by Tom McCarthy, a novel that dives deep into a weird cognitive question. I first read it about 8 years ago and it changed my idea of what a novel could be.

- Where'd you go Bernadette? by Maria Semple. The funniest book I've ever read. By a writer from the TV series Arrested Development. Satire of the intellectual & tech wealth Seattle world, but also much more than that.

Similar project: Bro pages, like man pages but short examples of common use cases instead of extensive documentation.

http://bropages.org/

What did you expect? That I had a website that says “I am very poor, please donate money to me?” Or maybe “I am a tough SOB from the hood that made it good at google and now i’m a crypto millionaire who boxes in my spare time to drown out the aggressive tendencies I acquired in my youth”?

Who do you want me to be to fit your world view?

Tell me about my background

It’s absolute bullshit that you assume you know so much about me from browsing my web presence

I didn’t ask for an apology and what I said about my life is true. You seem to have some kind of complex about class where you feel you need to make a point but without actually expressing anything of significance. I am not at all trying to prove any kind of point about what your class background means or doesn’t mean. I made a very clear comment and you replied snarkily with assumptions about what my background might be. And I replied that you are wrong, which is true.

What are you trying to get at? What is your point? It looks like you want to be an asshole unless I can somehow prove I am the poorest kid from the roughest situation still posting on hacker news. But all you’re posting is pithy bullshit.

Yea I did, what is it to you? Do you take joy in asking that question? Does it make you feel better to know my mom was a single parent without very much money?

Do you feel like you productively added to the conversation?

I wish someone would write a useful version of this for the question “what should I do to make the most of my life when my family is poor or somehow less fortunate?”

A lot of this would still apply but there’s a huge percentage of the population that has to deal with major difficulties in life before they can heed the kind of advice Patrick offers.

Note: optimism in SF more easily sighted when you’re a well off tech worker

The New Yorker typically doesn't provide news, with some exceptions such as Ronan Farrow's reporting on Harvey Weinstein. The New Yorker provides the perspective of it's writers which is always going to depend on the editorial strength of the magazine and has always existed in a competitive environment. Admittedly today is an even more competitive environment than the past but my understanding is the publication continues to be profitable despite online competition and it has already outlived many of its internet born competitors.

SEEKING WORK - Berlin, Germany or Remote (originally from NYC, can work in U.S. as well as make trips to US east coast)

Experienced full stack Javascript & Ruby developer with work history focused on startups. Some big company (e.g. NY Times, Cleversafe) and agency experience as well. Occasional open source contributor (most recently to KillBill a billing & payment platform). Most of my experience is with Rails and and node.js/Express, but I also like React and Sinatra. Not dev-ops per say but I have experience managing deployments with AWS, Digital Ocean, Rackspace and Heroku.

A lot of my projects have involved helping startups get to an MVP or from an MVP to product-market-fit but I'm also not shy to jump into legacy code. Really I'm open to any project that sounds interesting, let's talk. Lots of client facing experience as well, great at communicating with the business side. As well as picking up the slack when design resources are short.

Github: https://github.com/ritchiea

Resume/CV: http://www.andrewritchie.info/docs/andrewritchie.pdf

I understand the sentiment but propaganda and prediction are vastly different fields. Some of the things they were doing were: spreading misinformation, undermining trust in real information and spreading negative affect. Those all seem more concretely achievable than predicting whether you will like a film that has dozens to thousands of variables around tone, content and aesthetic.

They don't really have to change people's political opinions. But they can know what makes people angry and give them more of it. They can know the lie they want to tell and make it more ubiquitous so it's harder to discern from truth. These tasks aren't anywhere near as abstract as predicting your taste in film. It seems like they knew angry people were showing up to vote for Trump, so just give people more of what makes them angry. And give people thinking about voting for Hillary more reasons to be skeptical about her weaknesses as a candidate.