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>https://get.uber.com/cl/xchange/ or just Google it, Uber certainly did begin leasing cars. The lease payments go directly to Uber's subsidiary.

Seems like this discusses "XCHANGE LEASING, LLC", not "Uber Technologies, Inc" or "Uber USA, LLC". I fail to see the relevance.

>These drivers, as independent contractors, are supposed to provide their own tools/materials to perform, not finance/lease/rent the tools from the company to perform.

They aren't
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Sure, ok. But even adjusting the S&P 500 for CPI inflation, it's near all time highs. And if we're going to be careful, you have to also take dividend reinvestment into account, which has the opposite effect of inflation. Neglecting dividend reinvestment will cause indices underestimate the true growth of a dollar.

Here's a quickly Googled source showing CPI-adjusted S&P 500: http://www.multpl.com/inflation-adjusted-s-p-500

Here's another quickly Googled source showing dividend-reinvested S&P 500 returns: http://www.indexologyblog.com/2013/08/08/inside-the-sp-500-d...

I wish I could find a decent source that incorporated both effects.
If you think about a QA team as your customer, as any downstream department in the work pipeline truly is, you realize that in order to make full use of them and to maximize your efficiency, you as a developer should write automated unit tests to cover the user stories or feature requirements, allowing QA to work on the nasty edge-cases.
A lot of US startups don't even consider the fact that there might be people living outside the US, neither in their US products nor in their US PR material.
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His position seems to be similar to MIT engineer David Mindell's, who recently wrote Our Robots, Ourselves[1]. It seems to me that the more hours one spends solving real problems with AI, the less likely they are to believe an apocalypse is imminent. Conversely, the more dependent a prognosticator is on book or film sales, the more likely they are to predict or depict a near-term AI apocalypse.

[1] Google Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nDdqGUMdAY
Did so, but will happily wait as well :)
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They have their own web and desktop client to upload and manage albums. 3rd party tools likely exist (since there's an API) but I've never used any.
In Prof. Tegmark’s presentation at the UN he mentioned the possibility of extremely cheap drones that approach the victim's face very quickly and pierce a bolt into the victim's brain through one of their eyes. That wouldn't require a high precision projectile so it will be easy and cheap to build.
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His website didn't load for some reason so I just went with the Google hit's title. Maybe that was his old page.
Going to miss these guys. They wrote some beautiful clojure.
We started packaging things as .tar.xz for a while, but a large number of users were having terrible trouble opening the file.

Mostly Mac, but iirc some Linux users were confused as well. We switched back to gzip because everyone knows how to use it.
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Pretty sure tar -xf does not actually work on osx unless you download a recent tar.
But will the service work in India?
On the vast majority of Linux distributions, you can pretty much guarantee that both tar and zlib will be installed.

Both tend to be part of an essential core of packages required to install a system.
The becoming part of a special in-crowd who will save the world is the similarity. Not the torture and crimes of course. I've seen and read quite a lot about Scientology, but you are right that they are nowhere near the same league. Scientology is a massive and extremely rich bunch, who do some very bad things on purpose.
> Finally, you don’t have to be a climate scientist to note that 1/3 of all emissions of CO2 have occurred since 1970 with no significant increase in global temperature.

http://www.globalwarmingart.com/wiki/File:Instrumental_Tempe...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperature_record#/media/File...
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The odd thing is that what we're doing has been "sustainable" since the Industrial Revolution. I am honestly interested in what "sustainable" actually means. It would seem that nothing is truly sustainable. I should like to see evidence of what actually is and isn't sustainable because from my chair, "sustainable" isn't wel defined. Dinosaurs lived in a sustainable environment and yet, here we are.

My feeling is that the sense of emergent disaster is manufactured by those with vested political and financial interests.

Progress in things like energy, manufacturing, etc., is welcome and naturally occurs as a function of a free market and a desire to achieve a competitive advantage. However, this 'end is near' cult that would have us believe the ice caps would have been gone by now and island nations would have disappeared. We've had a grand total of .36 degrees warming over the past 100 years. The climate is changing -- but not that much: not enough to warrant 50,000 people jetting off to Paris to talk about it on the taxpayers' dime.

Let's improve industrial processes to eliminate toxic pollution (you know, real pollution -- things like Benzene and Mercury and 2.5 particulates,) and stop wasting everyone's collective time with Chicken Little exploitations of the politically active, but stupid masses of people that seem to think their kids will become scrambled eggs on the sidewalk if they don't recycle that plastic bottle immediately.

There are people that actually believe Chinese smog is from CO2! It's depressing how incredibly wrong public opinion often is due to well placed agitators with a PhD after their name and a bank account full of grant funds.
"What happens when you take away the quality assurance team in a software development operation? Fewer, not more errors."

And what happens when you close your eyes? Reality disappears?

Automated testing is a way to completely remove customer advocates out of the loop. Correct UX doesn't mean good UX and unless someone can automate the test of all the non-quantifiable qualities of good and intuitive they're gonna push loads of engineering driven interfaces to their users.

-shivers-
And Steve Jobs wasn't a muslim.
Have a read through Military Nanotechnology: Potential Applications and Preventive Arms Control by Jürgen Altmann. If you have 30 mins, maybe check out this talk as an optional prelude: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MANPyybo-dA

I suspect that after reading you'll be convinced if you aren't already that in the realms of biological and chemical warfare (special cases of nanotech warfare) nature overwhelmingly favors offense. We've been able to worldwide keep research and development on those limited, and there's incentive to avoid it anyway since if word gets out others will start an arm's race so they can at least try and maybe get to a MAD equilibrium, but it's not nearly as stable as the one with nukes. An additional incentive against is that the only purpose of such weaponry is to annihilate rather than destroy enough to achieve a more reasonable military objective.

But molecular nanotech is on a completely different playing field. Fortunately it's still far out, but as it becomes more feasible, there is a huge incentive to be the first entity to build and control a universal molecular assembler or in general self-replicating devices. Arms control over this seems unlikely.

Giving everyone their own AGI is like giving everyone their own nation state, which implies being like giving everyone their own nuke plus the research personnel to develop awesome molecular nanotech which as a special case enables all the worst possibilities of biological and chemical and non-molecular-nanotech nanotech warfare, and then more with what you can do with self replication, most of which are graver existential threats than nukes. Absent a global authority or the most superintelligent Singleton to monitor everything that situation is in no way safe for long.
The same applies to OGG audio. Better than MP3 but the average user is unable to play it. So everybody just sticks to MP3.
> I am against climate change people because they invariably suggest that the governments should do something.

I'm not sure that you are aware of just how ludicrous, this sounds. Do you have the same complaint when someone's house is burning down and people suggest that firefighters 'should do something'?
Looks cool, but seems to be a pretty inactive project, unfortunately.
Comprehensive unit and integration tests strike me as a waste of time. From what I've seen, getting around 70%~80% code coverage is usually going to be around the tipping point where you start to get diminishing returns.

Don't get me wrong, I think testing is important. But there's tons of code where you get no value by writing tests for it. (At least in frontend development.)

We don't have a QA person, but I think it'd be great to have one. You can't write automated tests to check that things all look like they should. You can't write automated tests to check that all of the interactions are behaving as expected.
Well, our #1 use case is TLS certs, and basically every app supports reading them from a file.

For config files with secrets, there's often a way to include another file, or sometimes we just drop the whole config file into Keywhiz.

Here's an example from the Keywhiz codebase, of a file that's loaded from disk, but in prod could be swapped for a properly secured secret https://github.com/square/keywhiz/blob/master/server/src/mai...

In development, you don't need to run Keywhiz, so you can just write a file on disk, so that's a nice advantage: Less things to depend on.
It's weird how people's brains work. Some people are quite capable of seeing all the bad things governments do, but are like totally blind when looking at the bad things corporations do (many of the free-market people, libertarians etc.). But you also have many people who see perfectly well all the unsavory things private corporations do, but who seem utterly incapable of seeing the negative aspects of governments (socialists, many liberals etc.).
Slackware's official packages are compressed with XZ, and it's been that way for a while, too. :)
I have tar that came with the system (latest OSX) and tar -xf works just fine. And it did work fine for as long as I can remember.
Fascinating.

The original Ars Technica article, with more visuals, is here:

http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/04/how-nasa-brought-the-...
Ask HN: Why did Prismatic fail to gain traction?
If you haven't seen the original post yet, here it is http://blog.getprismatic.com/next-chapter/

Prismatic is basically shutting down its news apps.

I remember signing up for it a few years ago, used it a couple of times but then never went back to it and stuck with twitter as my news feed.

Why do you think Prismatic failed to gain traction?
I don't think this has anything to do with exploiting resources. If someone owned all the rivers, then they could sue the companies producing microbeads for any damages.

Not caring for the long term is still a massive problem for our civilization. I don't know if that has anything to do with privatization. I'm very skeptical that governments or voters care more about the long term than private markets. At least individuals care about leaving money for retirement. And even if you don't care, it's still senseless to deprecate your assets' value more than you gain from exploiting it.
Brotli does not work well for bhoustons use case, so his original wish stands and your helpful suggestion that he should be able to use Brotli in the near future does unfortunately not fulfill his wish.
If I may be so blunt - how are you planning on paying the bills for Kloak?

Don't get me wrong, it looks really, really interesting - but you still need money for it, where will it come from?
I hadn't considered that angle before, there needs to be a lot of oversight (in general when we're killing people, not just computers) but I think you're right.
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That's a good approach. And probably the only one. Just needs some form of vitality to help with spreading it, e.g. one-item sharing links/emails that double as invitations that auto-whitelist recipients as followers.
Cool, I am against climate change people too - pretty much all the people who release too much CO2 from fossil fuels. I am not sure however how are we going to prevent them doing that without collective action, any suggestions?
I think they feel that the science is true, and to say they don't know it's true but let's not take the chance is basically lying, and once you've been rumbled as lying to try to get people to do what you want, you've got zero credibility whether you're talking about the science or risk models or anything.
Did you mean to submit this as an "Ask HN" ?

Originally submitted here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10721178
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Yes I did, I changed the title to reflect that. Thanks for pointing it out.
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MP3s with a decent bit rate is as good is it gets. Of course something like ogg back in the napster days would have been fantastic, but MP3 at 320 Kbps is fine for anyone who doesn't pay $1000 a meter for speaker wire.
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I think it did gain some traction and had a lot of users. It was a very nice app imo, and quite useful, in spite of occasional weirdness. I think the problem was a lack of business model and/or 'hockey stick growth' that would bring in money sufficient to break even/break out.

They did write some very useful open source Clojure code which will live on. I am very surprised one of the BigCos (Google, Twitter) didn't acquihire them - a very talented team.
Decompressing takes 4 times as long? I wonder if that is slow enough to create a bottleneck in processing. Not everyone uses compression for purely archival purposes. In the genomics field, most sequencing data are gzipped to save disk space. And most programs used to process the sequencing data can take in the gzipped files directly.
Ask HN: What are the products in today's market thay you think are innovative?
My presonal pick is the iPhone, Tesla Model S and Nest thermostat.
> The odd thing is that what we're doing has been "sustainable" since the Industrial Revolution.

You then go on to set out how you're not sure what sustainable means. So let me see if I can help.

A simple guide would be that resource is being used in a sustainable way if the resource isn't being used up faster than it is replenished, or in other words 'If we keep doing this, can we keep doing this for a long time?'

So by that measure, solar power, wind, geo-thermal are sustainable - the fact that we use them, doesn't diminish the amount available. To an extent cutting down a tree and burning is sustainable, if you can grow trees fast enough. Fossil fuels aren't sustainable.

Firstly, there is a finite amount in the ground, and the speed at which we extract it far, far outweighs the speed at which new deposits are being laid down.

Secondly, we need to use the atmosphere as the dumping ground for fossil fuels' waste products - including CO2. The atmosphere isn't infinite and we can measure that CO2 concentrations are rising in line with our output.

Clearly, this is a simplified explanation, but I hope it is helpful. It does illustrate that no, we haven't being using resources in a sustainable fashion since the industrial revolution. Just because something hasn't run out yet, doesn't mean than it has been used sustainably.

Finally - sustainable resource use isn't a magic get out of jail free card. Yes, the dinosaur ecosystem was sustainable. That doesn't mean that they were immune from meteor strikes.

> My feeling is that the sense of emergent disaster is manufactured by those with vested political and financial interests.

My feeling is that if you looked into the actual science a bit, your feeling may change.
The greatest problem is adding friends. It's very important that this is very easy, without friends you can't communicate with anyone.

Possibilities for making it easier that are still privacy conscious include IMO: Adding friends of friends. Adding people that are in your local wifi.
He does not state that guns are evil. Also, where I live bodyguards and civilians are not allowed to have guns. Many cops do not even carry guns. So for me it is hard to identify the comparison to guns.
With the exception of one or two, everybody was running terminals across multiple windows and not tabs. I spend considerable time on terminals on my Macs, but am a big fan of having a single terminal window with many tabs. I am curious whether people generally really prefer multi-window terminals and find it to have an advantage over the tabular alternative.
> What matters is whether the tests exist, not when they were written

Technically true, but with myself at least; when I do TDD, I tend to write more, and better tests. When I write tests after code, especially when working on tight deadlines, there are substantially less tests written, just lots of TODOs that never get done.
I started writing one in Go: https://github.com/ianberinger/stockfighter
The price depends on where you're based. I'm in Australia, and it's typical to spend $30 or more (sometimes $50) on a paperback book at a local bookstore, even an online bookstore. Whereas I can find the same book on Kindle for $14, and even then Amazon complains "This price was set by the publisher". That made it a no-brainer to switch to digital for me.

I love my Kindle 3G Keyboard and I really hope e-readers stay around too. But I've noticed I've been using my Galaxy Tablet a lot more for reading lately, even with its lousy 160ppi resolution.
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CFLs do release mercury, but it's still less mercury than released by coal plants powering inefficient incandescents. Not that I support the ban. And I think there are other problems with CFLs, like causing cancer and affecting sleep (bluer lights cause the brain to produce less melatonin.)
I was a Mithril user before i moved to React. Mithril is really easy to use, reading blog post of lhorie was a bliss. But the community and code was just not moving ahead. Nothing changed, nothing exciting in roadmaps and I wasnt learning anything new.

React was just as easy as Mithril. And for big projects, React brings in a better structure and performance. React ecosystem is full of amazing people, there is always something new that i want to learn. Flux, Redux, Relay, RN, the list just goes on.
> the whole endeavor made the job a lot more fun

That is an important part of producing quality output in any job, I believe. The more employees actually enjoy what they are doing (or at least, don't actively hate it), the better their output is likely to be.
> What prescriptions does singulartism give on how to live?

Well, not singularitarianism alone, because it is certainly just a subset of a belief system, but the prescriptive side of that culture is known as CFAR[1], I believe, where Yudkowsky plays a role.

> You can define things however you want.

Not how I want, but how academics who study religion define them.

> What are some other cults, aside from the ones I would agree to be cults (Scientology and such). What are some other religions aside from the ones I would agree to be religions (Islam, Christianity, Buddhism and such...)

A notable one (that has so far taken many forms) is New Age. It is related to another called theosophy (of the Theosophical Society).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Applied_Rationality
In reality it is: Don't trust anyone with your data.

I still struggle to understand why people use systems that don't have an inbuilt way to easily export their data.
maybe a big company like microsoft can afford to not do as much of "qa tests" since they have people lining up wanting to be the beta tester for them(for free too!)
Hi Mark, I think OpenAI is an exciting initiative.

OpenCog is a bit different because it's founded on a specific approach to building AGI. I realize OpenCog is kind of a pain to work with at present, and we hope to fix that during the coming year....

But I see OpenCog and OpenAI as complementary initiatives, really.... OpenAI's mandate is more broad and generic in terms of fostering and funding open-source AGI research, which is wonderful ... but OpenAI does not come along with a specific, coherent AGI design from what I can see.... Quite possibly OpenAI will end up funding stuff that is used in OpenCog, or even funding some work on OpenCog directly, down the road...

For that matter, if I had a billion dollars, I wouldn't put it all into OpenCog, I would also fund a variety of OSS projects in AI and other important domains of science and engineering...

Interesting times ;)
Do they decay in UV light? I know most plastic will tend to break down over time if left outside.
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It's adorable how you think it will improve how war is fought. These autonomous systems will always have a manual override and I will never believe that the review process will be given proper oversight. The armed forces will always err on the side of destruction in any potentially vaguely violent scenario. Fear and War is too prosperous to be peaceful.
Reading about the team was what attracted me to the app a few years ago, but the app just didn't stick with me (force of habit of using twitter as a news feed). I'm sure it got better over the years and I should have tried it again.

And Microsoft did try to acquire them earlier this year: http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/01/prismatic-2/
> How would you explain [complicated query params] to a nontechnical person?

1) A lot of people actually get what ?foo=bar means in a URL. Especially when it is well named (e.g. "&page=3"). Is it really necessary to make URLs overly complicated?

2) Why would anybody - with or without a technical background - write a complicated query UR by hand? That's what <form> is for.

3) The entire premise is based on the "poor non-technical user"... who is writing a query string for an API? This is a complete straw man.

> Two endpoints is good enough for most people for web application programming.

"web application"? The example was a (fancy) search form to retrieve articles. That's not a "web application" in any way. Each article should have it's own URL, and search (even complicated search, progressively enhanced to dynamically load the results) was a solved problem a decade ago.

It is inappropriate to render this on the client, and trying to limit to two public URLs screams that this is a cheap attempt to defeat deep linking and create yet a walled garden. Stop trying to make the web back into TV.

> You can play with it and the StarWars API

An entirely broken demo. Sending an empty body tag is not useful page. There isn't even fallback text, so it just looks broken when the incorrect assumption that "everybody has javascript" fails.
I don't believe that the two are as connected as people think.

I mean, we're talking about hatred of "the other" here, right? I could argue that this supposed fear is nothing more than a rationalization to try to make the hate more palatable, more excusable...

(you may point out that it's the opposite of the rationalization I used in my previous comment. but my point is just that people relate hate and fear, when I think that the strongest hates have little to do with fear.)