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Well, that private settlement certainly clears it up for them. As for the rest of us, who sat on the sidelines and watched the slap-fighting, it doesn't offer a whole lot. Here's the crux I guess of the article:

>Cruise and its founder Kyle Vogt now acknowledge that Guillory was a cofounder of the company.

This is very much a sticking point that was extensively discussed in the prior hullabaloo regarding the YC-affiliated post on the matter. How this was agreed upon - the reasoning - being private isn't the most clarifying outcome for the public. I've no doubt this is on purpose for all the parties involved, and hope they are satisfied in private.

As a longtime observer of human behavior, my belief is this announcement will do nothing to quell outside speculation. If the parties involved don't want a bunch of randos-on-the-internet making up their own scenarios, there is an easy fix. Just share with the class what happened so we all may learn.
Completely disagree. Can't put it more plainly than as satire:

"Dear Programmers: Stop Giving Me a Ballpark Lines of Code Estimate

Once a programmer and I are past finalizing requirements and have selected a stack (or they are contributing to an existing project) I need to know exactly how many lines of code they will be writing for the functionality. I need this for my accounting requirements.

Stop giving me ballpark estimates like "a few hundred" or "thousands" or "well, it depends on whether I can use an external module, can I get back to you?"

That is unacceptable. Once we have agreed on requirements, I will be paying for your "discovery session" where you must sit down and discover exactly how many lines of code you will be writing.

At the end of the day, you're the one writing it. Only you know what that number will be.

I require an exact number of lines of code that I will be paying for. 7,428 lines of code is not the same as 9,416 lines of code. The difference between 7,428 and 9,416 is the same as the difference 3 and 1988. Likewise, the difference between 76 and 7,428 or between 7,428 and 14780, or between 458,583 and 465,935 LOC are exactly the same. (in each case it's a difference of 7352.)

If you expect me to pay you to discover my requirements, do you expect me to be able to pay you to discover your requirements?

Or is there some sense of scale that you can have some kind of understanding of?"

According to the author, there is not.
Think of it as venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, but with Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz replaced by the wisdom of the crowd.

How wise is the crowd? They gave almost $2 million to Solar Freakin Roadways. That's how wise.

EDIT: How about Twitch plays venture capital?
Fully electric cars are not (yet) realistic for many people. Most people at least occasionally drive beyond the range of even a Tesla and don't want to stop for a lengthy recharge (lengthy compared to refueling with gasoline, especially if they aren't near a supercharger).

A plug-in hybrid is a more realistic option for more people.

Edit: not to mention far more affordable.
Hah. I got divorced. I got served a while back over a joint debt that got overlooked. The principal was $1,050.

The firm had also tacked on $2,000 in "preparation and legal costs, filing fees". Which is pretty rich for what likely amounted to a mail merge in Word. But it's no coincidence that most collection firms are owned by lawyers.
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'How many more new tools do we need? This is getting ridiculous. What does an excavator do that a wooden shovel doesn't do?'

Also, python is a steaming pile of crap.
> The problem is, frequently even an order of magnitude isn't even enough.

"$500 if it's just a 3-page site, but if you expect a large number of visitors, it can easily jump to $10,000 to $50,000 when all is said and done. Sounds like you have an interesting project with lots of variables. Let's talk more."
This is like saying eating less meat is worthless because the only valid choice is to go vegan. The Volt has comparably practical electric-only range to popular "full-on" electric cars like the Leaf (~50 miles, so plenty for daily commuting). That is has much greater overall range with the ability to refuel in 5 minutes at any of the over 100,000 gas stations in the US also means that it can be practical today for millions of households for which pure-electrics won't be practical for many years to come.
If most modern cars are fugly, then 90% of everything made by American manufacturers from 1973-2008 is eye bleach material.
I guess I have to consider their subsidies program when contrasted with their claims that submitting to municipal finger-printng regulations for their drivers here in Austin are "too expensive."
The only thing you didn't admit to learning is what household income really means.

You aren't married so you lied about income as household would only equal you. This is going to be a problem for you in bankruptcy court.
In that case we may have no choice but to ban you.
Depending on your business and your services, $1,000 might be insanely low. (That's like 4-5 hours at a reasonable consulting rate... can you build out functional requirements in that time?)

The point is to give your client more data and an off-ramp, and works well for frank discussions (and ghosting your competitors):

"As you know, websites can be $1k or $1M. Based on this, I think you're in the $100k range. But until we get down into the details of exactly what you want to do, it's hard to say for sure, right? So I could do what a lot of firms do and bid $100k: if I'm high, I keep the difference. If I'm low, I surprise you with a change order. That's not how I do business. So if we're in the same range, let's start slow, figure out exactly what you want to do, not lock you into some giant contract with me, and give you better data to move forward with confidence."
You know, people who make these projects read HN. It really hurts to read someone slam your work, even when (or perhaps particularly when) it's a hobby.
Can confirm. $300 monitor spiraled into $2,500 of debt by the end of college (The downfall was precipitated by that month-long gov't shutdown which I was told not to worry about, "it might be a day or two, if that"... and then I wasn't paid for two months because I was a contractor)
Many things can be done safe, but safe is often a route that's not taken because it's much more expensive.
Not responsive, either. The irony being that very few people will be looking for a consultant on their phone, but your site is absolutely vital in conveying what you think about when making a site for a client.
I'd like to start this as well, which app do you recommend?
I try not to use my debit card for two main reasons: fear of fraud and lack of rewards.

While I believe my credit union would reimburse me if someone were to steal my debit card information and use it to make a bunch of crazy charges, that would also mean that I could literally have no access to cash for some period of time. This isn't a fear with my credit card since fraud never becomes "real" to me - I've never had to pay back fraudulent charges.

Second, I pay a nominal fee ($75/year) for an American Express card that offers higher cash back rates on the purchases that happen to make up the bulk of my expenses (6% back at grocery stores!). Without that $75 fee, cash back would be 3% at grocery stores...still pretty good.

I have never carried a balance on my credit cards - I set the closing dates for all my cards to be the first of the month, and I set an automatic payment for the balance of the card to be processed on the second. Clearly this is something most consumers don't do, but it has worked well for us.
What a beautiful comment, thanks.
Oh, thanks! It's kind of crazy to see Python 3.x usage stuck around 7%, though.
I guess I don't understand why this is an issue. How is 1,000 software "coders" as the article quotes different from 1,000 administrative personnel.

I could understand if the goal of zoning wanted to preserve Downtown as a destination/place for generating foot traffic/visitors...but I don't see a difference between an office of 1,000 HR people for Amazon and 1,000 software engineers.
How many pointless comments do we need? This is getting ridiculous. What does your comment add to the conversation that a million other whiners don't do?
Ah, fair enough - I should have said "achieved".
> The bad news is that it took us so long to think of it and millions more might die of new diseases before we can finally get efficacy at scale out of these techniques.

This isn't new, though, that's just reality before this discovery—if we can't use our existing antibiotics we're screwed.
If there ever was a need for a TL;DR, then this is it. Anyone care to take a crack at it?
This is such an interesting article to me because it describes a time when a fundamentally unique paradigm of computer science was in it's nascent form. It makes me wonder, were people aware of the watershed nature of their work at the time?

Are there new paradigms being worked on now, that we are aware of, which have a similar significance?

I suppose it may be hard to see such a thing in the moment, but it sure is fun to think about.
The car analogy isn't very solid because most drivers are invested in their own safety as opposed to the fracking industry which only cares about environmental damage insomuch as it represents a financial liability. You claim that fracking can be done safely with good regulations, and I appreciate the nuance in your response, but for the most part, fracking proponents tend to be categorically opposed to regulation because additional expense is inherent to the nature of regulation (it's always cheaper to do nothing instead of adding extra steps for safety, clean up and proper disposal)
No, actually it doesn't. Only if you have a thin skin.

If you have a thin skin, keep your ideas to yourself.

That said, it is not HN-ly (pronounced "heavenly") conduct. :)
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I've recently been musing on a similar theory, but for safety regulations, redundancy, and preventable disasters, for example at nuclear power plants, or the recent example with the Washington DC subway system shutdown. Initially, there are lots of safety regulations and redundancy, and the power plant goes for a while with no accidents. Then, either the people working there fall into complacency and get lax on the safety regulations, and/or politicians or higher-ups looking to cut costs cut some of the redundancy, in either case thinking "it'll be fine, there's never been an accident". Then the inevitable happens, and suddenly there's a renewed interest in safety and redundancy. Rinse and repeat.

The implication of this is that while it might be theoretically possible to operate a nuclear power plant safely for an indefinite period, the inevitability of relaxing safety regulations after a long period of no accidents virtually guarantees an accident after a certain amount of time. I'm not sure if there's any empirical (i.e. non-anecdotal/confirmation biased) evidence to support this theory, or what could be done about it if it were true.

See also: The resurgence of vaccine-preventable diseases every few generations, because parents who never experienced the disease since their generation had the vaccine decide that their kids don't need the vaccine.
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Thanks for the advice, and no worries about mixed metaphors.
"What we are" is meant in the context of "To me, nothing defines humanity more than the constant improvement of our race, our reach, and our capabilities." which I outlined in my original comment. In that respect, the tools are just stepping stones to let us be us. Sure, we might have less specialized cells in the hippocampus because we aren't exercising a specific (conceptual) tool, but I don't see that as any different than peasants with muscles developed to make it easier to spend the day tilling the land, or a knight with muscles developed for fighting in armor, or a modern day basebal player, with eyes developed to track fast moving object and lots of high speed twitch muscle fiber.

These tools change our jobs and behavior, but they don't change our core physical being much in a way that persists (evolutionary aspects of course apply), much less change philosophically what makes us "human" (in the sense of our "humanity", not homo sapiens).

Another way to look at this, what is it to reduce someone's humanity?
> and sharing coffee (which I will gladly spring for).

No. If the discovery session is $1000, I'm paying for that coffee. That cheeky attitude is why you are having issues with this and felt the need to blog about it.
Looks pretty awesome.
It's all very subjective, but I think the Tesla Model 3 is underwhelming visually. It's not ugly, but it looks like any other sedan and the nose is just weird -- make the car look sort of like a wooden shoe.
I disagree. The ones I listen to do just that: not only flyover country, but Canada, Australia, UK, Italy and all over the rest of Europe. And the facebook groups for the genres I follow frequently post music from excellent, up and coming or obscure bands.

Widespread reach? It's the internet! How widespread do you need to be? ;)

Also, labels != radio. It's not radio's job to nuture and develop bands. But they can expose bands to greater audiences, which allows people like us to "discover" new-to-us bands.
Merchant here. We don't get a cut from "the exorbitant high fees"; we pay 2~3% for the (substantial utility of) being able to reliably take money from you in seconds.
Suppliers question Tesla's goals for Model 3 output
And by the way, the slippery slope of this [warning: logical fallacy] is the argument, "I can't tell you what it's going to take until I've already done it. 100% accuracy!"
"Hush" immediately came to mind as a useful name for an invisible language.
git makes Anguish code look more readable than the rest of the file: http://imgur.com/AHavQor
With one bit of information ("I want to have an iOS app") you probably can't give a reasonable estimate. But you always have more information. Be it because the prospect already told you what kind of app they want, or just because they know what kind of apps you make - the very fact they're in your office provides additional information.
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I'm pretty sure it was joking about how some people write "intensive purposes", by taking it one step further.
Sorry about this. Russia just did what I referred to in my country so I'm a bit emotionally upset.

Sweden is being attacked via the Internet by Russia; see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11740587 for more detals. This is the substantiation.
So we've just got from 'evil' "votes against same-sex marrige" that Mozilla CEO guy was fired for, to "cosiders tax breaks are for families to (eventually) get children" -> "votes against gay marriages because they don't get children even if though they can", which does not look evil at all.

I could probably summarize opinions of those voted against same-sex marriage in "marriage and any tax benefits coming from it are there to support people who will eventually raise children". I see, that gay people are not happy, because opposite-sex marriages still get some benefits, but some of them do not end up having kids.

In my opinion, to separate the bugs from the meatloafs, we should separate living together and having kids legally. And the first one should be available to any kinds of partners, but should not provide any benefits, and the second should give benefits, and be positively recognized in society as "family".

But allowing gay-marriages is in no way makes lives closer to that.
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The antiquated design is really inexcusable for a company that markets itself as "web development experts".
They won't - high index materials have made coke bottle lenses a thing of the past.
Another option here is to pin your Python version to whatever Anaconda is. It's very easy to install and use Anaconda in production.
We need as many languages as we want to make, otherwise we would have stopped at C.
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Maybe? I'm not really sure. How hard is it to get into the contentID system?

I'm guessing part of the reason he did this was more for the humor of screwing with larger media companies.
My blog's 2.4kb. It's way too big (and my blog sucks on mobile). I've been rethinking about how I can redesign my blog to be as close to http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/ as possible.
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So here's some constructive criticism for your constructive criticism. Your heart is in the right place but unfortunately your criticism isn't that constructive. Just saying "Your thing you think looks good actually looks bad. Fix it." is really more of a soft-pitch put-down.

Constructive criticism points out what's good about something and how it can be improved. It's specific and provides actionable guidance.

1) The site would benefit by leading the eye in a more controlled manner. Right now there are at least two groups of three or more columns so it's hard to know where to look. Take a look at brick wall designs such as Twitter Bootstrap. Lead from general at the top to more specific, detailed information as you go down the page. Imaging the page as a tree diagram.

2) Make the site "say more" by reducing content. Right now there are at least two places on the page that talk about what you do, who you are, and what you're about. Combine those to be more succinct.

3) The color scheme is changing to match the client you're highlighting and that's kind of cool. It's also kind of cool how you show a different client each page visit. But I think a slider would do a better job there. Do you expect more than one visit to evaluate your business? Probably not. Plus a slider that has controls to move back and forth makes the page interactive, fun, and space-efficient.

4) It's okay that all the content is "above the fold" but do you think links to case studies are the best use of that space? Why not use it instead to guide clients immediately through your specific development process in simple terms, show them how easy it is to work with you, and show how you're different from competitors? Then you can give them a link to case studies to show that you practice as you preach.

5) "Cogeian Systems is a small team of custom software and web design experts." I'd be careful about your grammar. You're a small team of custom software? Oh wait, and web design experts. You could change that around a bit to be more clear and active, "Cogeian Systems' experts create custom software and web designs that meet your needs, affordably and on-time." Now your verbs are active, you're saying you have a team of experts, you say what kind of experts they are, and you share what the benefits are of having experts do the work (ie you save time and money).
Licensing & Prices > Indie+ (Windows, OS X, Linux versions) > $1260 + yearly upgrade fee

> We have no intention to cover full CSS1/CSS2 attibute map.

Yeah that's not gonna work out for many projects.
That's still an oversupply caused by a fall in demand, not a rise in supply, so it isn't correct to say, as the parent seemed to imply (in a Glenn Beck, wink wink sort of way) that too much construction in places like North St Louis caused the problem. People moving out of a jurisdiction lowers the tax base and hurts the economy; building more housing does not.
Started pylibui at https://github.com/joaoventura/pylibui. Pretty barebones for now, but hey, it shows a window!
One thing that really ought to be stressed about Chernobyl is that it was a really shitty reactor design (probably just about the most unsafe reactor design ever) manned by poorly-trained and incompetent people.

With the outlier of Chernobyl, nuclear energy has a very good safety record. Shoddy and dangerous Soviet engineering has a very bad safety record. The operative variable here is shoddy and dangerous Soviet engineering.

You wouldn't say that because Eastern Bloc cars would have ludicrously awful[0] results in a crash test, therefore it's unsafe to travel by car. You wouldn't say that the safety record of the Ilyushin Il-62[1] proves all passenger planes are unsafe. You wouldn't say the combat record of the T-72 means the Army should immediately retire that useless deathtrap M1 Abrams.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oF4phDLfGF4

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilyushin_Il-62#Incidents_and_a...

There are inherent dangers to nuclear power, as with cars, passenger planes and combat vehicles. However, these dangers are all well-understood and easily mitigable. In the Soviet Union safety was not a priority or oftentimes even a consideration, in America it is.

Not only that, but nuclear power is not remotely even the most potentially dangerous form of power generation. That easily, easily belongs to hydropower. The Banqiao Dam disaster[2] killed 171,000 people.

But I'm not worried about hydropower and neither should you, if you live in the first world. Dams are, inherently, incredibly dangerous. But we understand the dangers, and we know how to make dams so that the danger is reduced to near-zero. That a dam built in Mao-era China was unsafe doesn't mean that it's impossible to make a safe dam.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banqiao_Dam
> Netflix would not affect piracy because their offer is very small.

I question this assertion as Netflix used to use torrent trends as a decision input for deciding what content to purchase: https://torrentfreak.com/netflix-uses-pirate-sites-to-determ...

I can also offer anecdotal evidence that the piracy rates of my college social network dramatically decreased as the affordability and content quality of Netflix increased.

Netflix is being squeezed by media publishers which is why they started publishing their own content. I still hope that streaming services like Netflix will win and reshape the market...but it is a difficult fight.

On the note of you only having watched "House of Cards", there are a bunch of Netflix shows I could recommend for you if you're interested. "Peaky Blinders" comes to mind immediately since we are due for another season at the end of this month.
Why is it fine to use antibiotics to kill bacteria, but it's currently not fine to use a gun and kill a homo sapiens? When you look at cities, it looks like an infection on the planet Earth. Why isn't that treated as a disease and proposals made to start working on a method that would exterminate humans, because humans are a disease to this planet and other life forms?
Yeah... That was one of my concerns also before hand, I forgot about that.

I didn't think I'd be happy on a chromebook because I made regular use of those missing keys, like the windows key, page up, page down, f11, f12. I thought I needed those keys to prevent too much chording.

But I saw the keyboard switch as an opportunity to remap things so that I stay closer to home row more of the time. Its nice. The old (windows style) key layout was also nice, but adapting was easier than I thought, thanks to the flexibility of most linux apps.
It's a little different as gmail is useless without search. This is an extension to messaging that nobody was asking for.

Furthermore, email was never secure to begin with. E2E encryption has finally been making its way to devices; this is a major setback for the effort.
Sam Altman posted on his views on his blog:

http://blog.samaltman.com/cruise

And the related HN comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11490188
If I could add one thing it would be:

Always read an order of magnitude more code than you write.

(Any code, in any way. Debugging included.)