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>I still think Uber has the right idea long-term with a completely autonomous fleet...

I really disagree here. I think the biggest strength of Uber's business model is that they offload all of the maintenance, fuel, liability, registration, etc. costs (as well as the cost of managing all of that) to the drivers. In addition, local regulators have been treating Uber with kid gloves in a lot of markets because Uber "creates jobs"; when Uber starts getting in the business of putting drivers, both their own and drivers for other companies, out of work, I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of markets start making it even harder for them to operate. Don't get me wrong, I'm very excited for autonomous cars, and absolutely think they will be omnipresent in the long-term future, but I don't think Uber will be the company that dominates that market, at least not in the short-to-medium term, and trying to do so will be their Waterloo.
I wanted to once, didn't have any cash.

It was because the guy let me bring my dog (in her large cage) in his van which was definitely a bit beyond normal.
Yes. The clue is in the title of the department: "human resources". As an employee, you are just a resource to be managed for the good of the company, just like capital, equipment etc. It can be easy to overlook that as most large companies crank out corporate propaganda about the team/family, mission, building your career etc. All those messages are designed to minimize the corporate cost of managing the human resources by engendering compliant behaviour.
I went through over 300 of the top stories and couldn't find it. It was still in its expected position (106) in the "new" pages.
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Run an IRC server, configure a hubot. Yes, 'cloud'-based chat is pretty, but it's a new coat of paint over something that's been around for decades (IRC). For a company less than several thousand people, running your own singleton IRC server is about as complicated as setting up a basic 3-tier web application (i.e., a little fiddly, but not hard at all)
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It's a slash command, should only need a webhook AFAIK.
What's broken on the website? All the docs on http://sailsjs.org/ work for me.
I wasn't "getting at" anything :-)

"Any other implementation could have tried to improve on the performance by running it just as [you] have" -- but apparently haven't.

Now that you have, my guess is that they will too.
Swift is not functional
Even doctors themselves aren't certified by a single other doctor, or even a single committee of doctors. There are many rounds of tests, monitored and double-checked performance with actual patients, and examinations. It takes years. It would start out as a support tool providing a second or third opinion, then gradually be assigned more authoritative weight as it proves it's accuracy and value.
So this guy does something that makes his co-worker so uncomfortable that they go to HR and ask them to tell him to stay away. He then finds the person walking home and confronts them about the complaint. A week later he texts them asking them to retract the complaint. And after that he continues trying to change things so he can talk to the accuser about the issue.

It is clear as day that the accuser doesn't want to talk with him and in every situation where it came up the accuser has politely tried to get out of it. This guy just wouldn't give up and had more than enough chances to just walk away.

He has deluded himself into thinking he was in the right.
how often do your parents have the chance to refuse a ride in a car not driven by a human? Do cars with cat drivers count? What about chimps?
Title should be prefixed with "Ask HN".

Advice regarding what?
Related:

https://www.nsa.gov/research/tech_transfer/

(PDF) https://www.nsa.gov/research/_files/tech_transfers/nsa_techn...

Some people are saying that the NSA is wasting time with patents, but they clearly have a reason or two to file these patents. And I'm sure it could debated that it is either a good or a bad thing.
Remember your employment rights. Or, if you're in the US, remember you have almost no employment rights.
Eliza and Siri can accompany them...
This is interesting. It's what Christensen's theory of disruption would say, given the time, (lack of) complexity, and the curve of 'good enough.'

The only thing could be branding. There is a reason many people buy iPhones, or bottled water in a fancy plastic container for $5/bottle.

Would we want Uber because it's "better" than GM, which does not have a huge appeal? Then again, a car is a car is a car, if it is on time, clean and cheap.
For some reason reading the post gives me a deja vu of a win32 GUI programming tutorial :)
use the canonical url defined in the html (<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/05/technology/gm-invests-in-l...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonical_link_element
Maybe fetch the url and look at the <link rel="canonical"> tag?
I've been teaching myself python for a while now but wasn't sure where to go once I was done with tutorials.

Hoping to use this to develop some C# skills as well.
This is a space where "niceness" matters. Since a lot of it is all about human interactions.
Californians, Wisconsinites, and New Yorkers are somewhat more knowledgeable regarding cheeses than, for instance, Floridians.

Nevertheless, you can still sell individually wrapped American "pasteurized processed cheese food" slices in all states, even those with well-developed dairy herds. As far as I know, those things are produced with petroleum distillates and plasticizer chemicals. It's sort of sad that the stuff colloquially known as "American cheese" is not even allowed to be marketed as cheese according to the U.S. government definition of cheese.

It may surprise you to know that some Americans actually do know the difference between mozzarella made from buffalo (not bison) milk, mozzarella made from whole cow milk, and mozzarella made from part-skim cow milk. We just can't afford the premium to buy the good stuff, so supermarkets don't carry very much whole cow milk cheese, and never the imported buffalo milk stuff.

It's not that we can't tell the difference between Colby, Cheshire, Gloucester, mild Cheddar, and extra-sharp Cheddar. We just usually don't care enough to pay more for one in preference to another.
Agreed. It's an array with 7 MEMS mics, which allows the Echo to do beamforming so they can essentially focus on the speaker while rejecting most of the other sound.

There have been advances in deep learning based speech recognition to reject noise - http://usa.baidu.com/deep-speech-lessons-from-deep-learning/ for instance, but clean audio source helps massively, especially if you are trying to talk from any distance instead of being right next to the mic.

I haven't seen open source libraries for state of the art RNN/LSTM based speech recognition, anyone know if they exist?

MEMS mics have been taking over electret mics recently, they are way smaller and have better SNR (at equivalent size).

I'm building a 4 mic array at the moment, tetrahedral/ambisonics mic for VR use, the mics themselves are very cheap. Mouser and Digikey stock them - http://eu.mouser.com/Sensors/Audio-Sensors/MEMS-Microphones/...

Haven't looked into the software/beamforming part yet - does anyone know if there are open source libraries for that?

Some MEMS mics can also do ultrasound range, opening up pretty interesting possibilities for cheapo LIDAR type echolocation with a mic array - but that's for the next project :)
I'm not sure why you are getting downvoted. I, for one, completely agree with your accessment of how future generations could look at this. The comparison with racism and sexism also does not seen far fetched to me.

I imagine reading articles like this from the perspective of an intelligent alien species who do not kill other sentient beings for sustenance, and for whom the idea is, well alien :)

Now imagine someone from that alien species looking at articles which casually talk about how a glorious peacock must be freshly killed or inject humouous anecdotes about the process. Imagine them looking at TV shows, magazines and articles which go over details of skinning recently living beings and talking about the right temperature to fry or bake their flesh. When I look at cooking shows from that perspective it gives it a completely different coloring. It starts feeling kinda horrifying and at the same time morbidly funny.
AWS S3 vs. Google Cloud vs. Azure: Cloud Storage Performance
Done for the day? Relax and sleep? Ha ha, I can tell you've never taken care of farm animals. What happens when they get sick, or have babies, or get loose, or a storm suddenly blows in, etc?
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> We could influence things one way or the other, but we didn't have a liberal democracy wand that would magically transform a country's political culture. We tried that in Iraq and it was a failure.

I'm not disputing that (well, unless you mean that the main point of the Iraq war was to bring Coca-Cola and democracy to the oppressed Iraqi masses). It's just that IMHO, most of each block's policy was about protecting their own political and economic interests, camouflaging such unpalatable truths under the guise of "freeing people from oppression". You certainly had people who believed in what they were doing, but IMHO, for most of the people pulling the levers, that was about knowing on which side the bread was buttered.

> You can draw analogies to the Spanish Civil War. Both sides sucked. Orwell went to fight for the Republicans, but came back completely disillusioned because the Republicans were totally dominated by the Soviet Union. He writes about his experiences in Homage to Catalonia, which I strongly recommend. The Nationalists were not good people either, but Spain would have been much worse off if the Republicans won and turned it into a Soviet satellite.

It's ironic you write about the Spanish Civil War, considering that the main reason Stalin-backed communists got so much power was that the Republic was entirely dependent on them for weapons, largely in part due to the passive British support for Franco.
thanks for the feedback, this is fixed now :)
Figures are like bikinis: they show almost all, except the essential.

This is a unique source from Google that is a stake holder in IPv6 deployment that has interests in you adopting this technology.

Does anyone else with critical sense would like to have more information to corroborate these claim?

Like, what is the top 100 AS percent of IPv6 exchange?
What are the devices? (mainly android on 4G networks)
What is the traffic per protocols? (is it only android phones pushing your secret data to NSA or does it have the signature of residential use too?)
Could we have for TCP/UDP a distribution graph for speed of connection/failures compared to IPv4?
How much SIP invites get dropped between v6 to v4 and the opposite?
...

One source of information, with only one metric does not tell us much more that google want us to know this.
Nobody said 1894 is not fiction -- it was mentioned because someone said about dystopias.

Of course reality is different. That doesn't mean it's also not worse than 1984 in some aspects. The kind of torture and killings people that got in the hands of the government suffered in Pinochet's Chile, for example, make 1984 look very tame.

And in the US too, government surveillance programs have hurt real people for decades -- way beyond McCarthy, Hoover and/or the Watergate.

It's mostly/only people who haven't suffered from something like this, and can't possible fathom they could be targets themselves, that dismiss concerns about state surveillance and abuses with a cavalier attitude that it's just "crying wolf".

People who have seen their politicians doing all these things and more in their countries (and getting away with it a lot, with the occasional trial), are much more savvy to this kind of abuse than people who think state agencies are mostly good guys plus/minus a few "rotten apples", and that their government killing/blackmailing/spying etc on people on their soil can't (and hasn't) happened.
yes. invite me if you've already set up one?
fixed now :), try the demo now
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For people who don't recognize the name, the author is one of the inventors of the Erlang programming language. Erlang is famous for its approach to mutability, concurrency, and error handling.
Mainly - on how the transition went, how to go about asking for the switch to remote work.
You can agree with this rant and still want to deploy IPv6. All the arguments are valid but even in the worst case it's better than the status quo.

There simply was no technical possibility for backwards compatibility, due to the way IPv4 was designed. So a dual-stack deployment has been pretty much the way to go from the start. It's unfortunate that it takes 20 years, but no better deployment scheme has been proposed during this time, only lots of new tunnel and NAT schemes. The smart phone revolution was really slow, too.
The secret police was just an apparatus of the real enemy: politicians that see human beings as a means to their ends. We can't stop people from voluntarily sharing their information; the right to do that is liberty. If you're worried about the government using whatever means it has to control us, then focus on reducing the role of government in our lives. I don't understand the line of thinking that takes major issue with people voluntarily sharing bits about their activities and interests, but typically has no problem with the government demanding and controlling the details of your entire economic life.
Windows XP can have IPv6, works fine.
You were probably already "gone" once HR contacted you in June. HR's job is to protect the company, at no point were they concerned with improving your work relationship with the other employee. However, they were concerned with making sure you couldn't sue Google for wrongful termination. They gave you 6 months notice, followed up with you a few times, tied up any lose ends and then let you go.

While I do think you were already gone, it sounds like you handled things horribly during this 6 month period. You should have cut off all contact with the other person and started job hunting.
Still not the same as working experience. And honestly I'd rather get payed for tinkering around.

Resume Driven Development is where it's at. Docker? Our "modular monolith" works just fine, but with Microservices we can now rewrite everything in Rust and Elixir. Lock ourselves with yet another build / automation tool just to remove trailing whitespace. Add RethinkDB and Redis and that new graph database now that we're at it. Let's pray for updated NixOS binaries!

For toy projects I'll stick to OpenBSD, Perl and ancient tools like make, awk or even rc.
> Specifically, if you prefer a traditional desktop interface over a touch interface and you don't want your desktop computer to start looking more like your phone or tablet

Have you tried windows 10? They pretty much fixed that stupidity.
Slides from a related presentation: http://perl.plover.com/yak/cftalk/
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There's a minor typo in the About section. It says "...We use Slack all the time wanted to...".
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Lollypop: a Gnome music player
And for lyft, it gives a more adaptive workforce - say there's increase in demand for SUV's - the workforce can more easily adapt.

That seems like an important thing when you look at uber's recent UberHop experiment - using SUV's as small ,almost on-demand mini buses for quite cheap. this looks like something that can grow very rapidly.
If with legacy web server you mean a dedicated server somewhere in a colo that has an IPv4 address, then yes. You can keep that until parts of the internet will no longer have any connection to IPv4 anymore.

If you expect to move that server, say to move to a new colo provider, do you get an IPv4 address there? If you have to pay extra each month for IPv4 and get IPv6 for free, do you pay?

Legacy desktops, there are these things like youtube, netflix, they eat huge amounts of bandwidth. As an ISP you don't want that through your carrier grade NAT boxes. Better try to get customers to use IPv6.

These days many web pages are insanely loaded with ads, trackers, etc. Lots of connections, again really bad for CGN.

Big CGN boxes are also really bad for geolocation. IPv6 is better for that.

There is also reason to believe that gaming behind carrier grade NAT is going to be pain.

Finally, if there was one group of products supporting IPv6 early on, it was operating systems. Even XP can do IPv6. Web browsers support IPv6 for a long time now. So as soon as the network provides IPv6, just about all desktops pick it up and start using it.
"Can I work remotely?"

Although when I've asked I generally start with asking for n days a week remote. If they're already familiar/comfortable with remote workers, though, that's not nearly as important.

Always went fine for me, but in general the remotes I've had already had communications in place and were fully set up for remote work.
It can. I just worked through Christmas, without any real external pressure. As always, putting in extra hours requires much more extra effort than the reward you're getting for it, so it does not make too much sense.
Looks like risky business to me since this is exactly what Slack is trying to do (Marketplace for commands)
How do you get started as a sub-contractor?
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That doesn't necessarily prove anything. Google and Apple were partners before Android.
A new year, a new company
As far as I know, those things are produced with petroleum distillates and plasticizer chemicals.

The key addition is an emulsifier:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Processed_cheese#Advantages

(cue tptacek raving about sodium citrate)

I guess such things might be derived from petroleum, but in that case it would be highly purified and identifiable by a single chemical name (so no need to give it a more general label like petroleum distillates).

The emulsifier does enable the addition of other milk byproducts and oil and such, but there's no reason to suggest that the bulk of the material in processed cheese is anything other than milk products.
Almost any work in history had and 'end', i.e. you could finish it. You can almost never finish a software project, you can always work more. That makes a huge psychological difference.
This commercial LG LED[1], suitable to be on 24/7 has a power reduction mode at 100 watt. Let's assume that works when it is in screensaver/art mode and it would use 2.4 kWh/day.

A Tesla model S can get 240 wh/km, so the energy use of the display would power an electric car for 10 km. so for a year then it would be the equivalent of moving an electric car 3650 km. I don't drive that much, but it is actually about half of my yearly driving averaged over the last 10 years. Personally I rather turn that screen off and power my next car with it.

Edit: just saw you said 16 hours. Well you can do the math. :)

[1] http://www.lg.com/uk/commercial-display/lg-55XF2B

[2] https://my.teslamotors.com/forum/forums/tracking-lowest-kwhk...
> Convincing people to do things is hard

more like convincing ISPs to do more than the bare minimum is hard.
That was probably the most mind-boggling thing in the entire post. How could they possibly imagine that was an appropriate thing to do? (And, for that matter, how could someone else at Google think it was appropriate to offer a ticket under the circumstances?)
550AU, Sun as gravity lens: see Center of galaxy in detail
From the article:

> Daniel Ammann, president of G.M., will join Lyft’s board of directors.
> The closure f does not capture the value of i at the time when f is defined, changing i after f was defined make nonsense of the idea of a closure.

I have an incomplete understanding of functional programming. Are there other uses for closures (besides readability and practicality) that still work if they don't capture the value of i? If not, is this something someone should suggest as a change in swift-evolution?
How much of that $300+ billion in 'lost compliance' is just ignorance without malice? I pay my CPA a hefty sum every year to manage my tax situation - W2 worker, W9 consultant, multiple business owner (musician and S-corp IT consultant), and I still get nervous around tax-time. I'm not doing anything shady, but tax-law is DAMNABLY complex and the question of 'is this a valid deductible?', 'Am I withholding enough?' and similar are regular topics of conversation with my CPA.
It probably wasn't mods, it doesn't take a lot of users flagging an article before it falls off the front page. It's also got a fairly high comment / point ratio, which also causes it to fall faster.
Screw Gnome!! I want this for Windwoes and OSX!!! :) It looks awesome... Now I have to VM it to see if it lives up to its looks.
Hm. Fixed working can make you ill, too. Better of two evils.
What a peculiar perspective. Do you have any sources for this? I've never heard it argued that religions create competitive societies, in particular. I would think that the opposite would be the case.
How is profit from the ebook calculated from revenue? I.e. what percentage of a payment goes to givedirectly.org?
I think big single companies work when you are creating a new market and innovating with new technology. As a market and technology matures, the network takes over.
I'm glad we bailed them out so they could wildly speculate on tech startups.
I was reading [1], and was lectured on how the sun can be used as telescope and a very potent one, btw. Picture at [2]. Searching, I found the linked article. Quote:

"I anticipate that there will be a host of FOCAL space missions launched in all directions around the Sun, each probe launched in the direction exactly opposite to the star to explore with respect to the Sun position…. A FOCAL space mission could be used to magnify anything of interest outside the Solar System. One should then say that FOCAL will be used to magnify the nearby planetary systems, meaning not just the nearby stars themselves, but also their planets, halo disks, Oort clouds, etc."

According to some comments in the article (specially andy's, very informative), one could see another stars' Mercury! Very impressive. And since all EM range is focused, one can use the focal point for radio communication, ala NASA space network[3].
Some catches though: we need to send a probe to 550AU. That would take almost 200 years. Talk about planning ahead :).

[1]http://edge.org/response-detail/26774
[2]http://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=22321
[3]http://io9.gizmodo.com/5714777/the-suns-gravity-could-be-use...
Secure Comparator: A ZKP-Based Authentication System [pdf]
That is already happening even within IPv4 networks. I have to use VPN or shadowsocks to reach much of the Internet outside China nowadays.
It's possible they are attacking the hosting company BECAUSE of a customer they are hosting. We get these all the time -- they attack the customer and then when they can't take it offline they get angry and attack/threaten the hosting company's infrastructure.
Communism requires no such thing. Marx and Engels and every other serious communist thinker understood that it had to be a gradual process requiring tremendous amounts of state coercion and oppression. Ctrl-F for my other comments on this thread to see an excerpt from The Communist Manifesto. Don't underestimate your enemy or they will win.
Indeed. Background images were bad in the geocities age, background images were bad in the myspace age, background images are bad in the current tumblr age.
We live in the internet age. People can click on the top link on google (search term: "State of Emergency France Independent") themselves. But here let me google that for you instead.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/france-state-...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/frances-state...