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by srj 11y ago
Right out of undergrad school I worked for a large software company (not Google) and I could have pictured myself doing this. Usually around 7-8pm I'd start exploring options for what to do that night and if nobody wanted to go out any
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by srj 11y ago
A huge thank you to Michael. It's easy to forget how difficult playback was just 5-10 years ago. FFmpeg has been invaluable.
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by srj 11y ago
How are you rate limiting UDP traffic? If it's after the traffic is on your network isn't that too late to be rate limiting?
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by srj 11y ago
I am curious on the ranking. I just came back to see if I had any replies in the Snowden thread, and even though it's as old as this post and has 100 more points and 150 more comments it's on page 3. Anybody knowledgeable in HN ra
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by srj 11y ago
The questionnaire given to potential jurors asked for their beliefs on the death penalty. It begins with question 88, form embedded on this page: http://bostinno.streetwise.co/2015/03/18/heres-the-questionn...
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by srj 11y ago
Interestingly I thought a pardon could only be granted after conviction but this 1988 NYTimes op-ed shows that it can be done: http://www.nytimes.com/1988/01/05/opinion/l-constitution-all...
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by srj 11y ago
Chelsea Manning was basically driven insane before even getting to trial. Held naked in solitary confinement, in a cell not much bigger than a closet, and forced to stand for most of the day as to not be able to sleep. That prosecutors woul
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by srj 11y ago
Which index? If it's an S&P500 one that's 500 stocks to buy. What happens when companies enter the S&P500 or exit it? You would need to trade again which means more commission fees. What if one company in the index grows c
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by srj 11y ago
Managers evidently aren't supposed to approve more than one peer bonus for the same single act. I work at Google and hadn't heard of that policy before (then again, I'm not a manager) but it came up in an earlier thread.
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by srj 11y ago
Actually the duration is a bit high on VBILX. I use Vanguard's muni/tax exempt version VWIUX, but the point is you want a bond index with a duration of around 4-5 years. Maybe I'm more conservative than most, but you don&#x27
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by srj 11y ago
What's bad about my suggestion? REITs are risky for a 5 year investment. Most are highly leveraged and have volatility similar to equities. Go ahead and compare charts of VTSAX (Total Stock) vs VBILX (Intermediate Bond) vs VGSLX (REITs
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by srj 11y ago
Curious why you say that? Equities and intermediate term bonds are pretty low risk, equities are a huge amount of risk. Someone with a 5 year investment horizon should not be putting money into equities.
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by srj 11y ago
5 years is a bit of a cutoff point. Less than that you typically want a CD and more than that you want an intermediate term bond index. You could put 20k in CDs and 10k in bonds which would have the nice side effect of giving you experience
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by srj 11y ago
Vanguard does reduce the fee in many of its funds as the investment amount becomes larger. The tiers are Investor, Admiral, Institutional, and Institutional Plus. Some of these you can get in a 401k plan negotiated by your employer. VIIIX f
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by srj 11y ago
I'm not sure how it is in France, but in some cities a few large firms own the taxi licenses and rent them out to drivers. The people who buy them do so as an investment, speculating that because of their scarcity that the resale value
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by srj 11y ago
The existing taxi industry is a protected monopoly. In a hypothetical future where uber has displaced the competition any other company could spring up and take their business.
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by srj 11y ago
How is a person's attitude not relevant to culture? Change everyone's attitude in the company: has the culture not changed?
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by srj 11y ago
Yeah unless you're the person desperate for a ride who can't find a cab. The compromise is absolutely avoidable. Even with today's "oversupply" people are signing up to become uber drivers, so it must be at least so
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by srj 11y ago
I guess I can't tell if this post is a troll or not. :) Someone not getting their job done is a problem. Someone using vim as their editor is not. I could understand giving that feedback ("try an IDE") but telling them their
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by srj 11y ago
Student loan interest rates were fixed at a relatively high level for a while: http://www.finaid.org/loans/historicalrates.phtml One of the people cited in the article had their rate go from 6.55% to 2.69%. For a socia
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by srj 11y ago
"Even when the data quality is great the real challenge for a map service is to decide what they should and should not display. Google does an excellent job in always showing the right amount of information." I used to work on til
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by srj 12y ago
I don't understand why they pivoted to a Yelp model instead of just trying to grow check-ins and market their data to businesses. For at least the US market I imagine Foursquare is the best dataset out there.
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by srj 12y ago
It's not entirely arbitrary. Some CAs may actually be worthy of trust. I imagine it would be possible to modify the browser's UI to reflect the trustworthiness of the server certificate to encourage better diligence on their part.
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by srj 12y ago
I agree that it's criminal but that doesn't make it a terrible offense, and far from an "act of war". The damages to GitHub are probably minor in the long run. Nobody will have died or have even been injured. Any one vio
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by srj 12y ago
When I was an admin of an IRC network we regularly reported large scale DDoS attacks to an FBI agent assigned to us. He didn't care. Some of those attacks took the network down for a while and resulted in many users moving to other net
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by srj 12y ago
It looks like this certificate can also be used to codesign malware that can then run as a superuser.
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by srj 12y ago
I would argue that it's not working in this case. A company was harmed financially so let them sue him. It does not need to be a criminal matter.
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by srj 12y ago
I don't believe making a profit was the government's intention. Stopping a credit freeze was. Would you have the US government behave as a payday loan lender? If not then what's your point?
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by srj 12y ago
I feel this is the largest threat to freedom in the US in a long time, possibly ever. If the US has the ability to decrypt traffic from all of the major players I think, based on their history, they'll likely try to collect everything.
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by srj 12y ago
Which NSA activities have been necessary for you to sleep in safety? And as to the 'nasty unappealing job', what has led you to believe that is a common perspective among those who work there? The project detailings that have been

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