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This is specifically not about religion or some kind of hatred for war-hawks. Both of which are choices and therefore more complex. You are still skirting the issue. Why would someone support Prop 8 without trying to enforce some level of heteronormativity on the people around them? Until, I see any way for someone to care about who else can or cannot get married without being bigoted, this issue remains pretty binary.

Deal with everything on a case-by-case basis, is my point.
The caller can still text you or email you.
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It would be possible to send packets to the elevator, but the elevator playing them would be another issue. If there is no authentication at all (as it it just plays all packets it receives on UDP 2046) I would imagine you would get an interesting mix of "valid" elevator music and your own "invalid" music.*

At that point (assuming it's the kind of elevator music that uses low-intensity instrumental versions of pop hits), it would be really fun to get the original versions of the songs they're playing and sync up the position and playback rate.
I did the things you recommend (CS, MBA, 2y traveling) but learned much more running a startup. You really just need experience with autonomy and exposure to smart people.
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Shame beats it. See up-thread. Once people start seeing mindless staring at phones as the public health equivalent of smoking, things will improve.
I've also heard tell of paying to exhaust competitors advertising budgets. Pay $1 to cost them $20 kind of thing.
>>By traveling, you see a lot of different viewpoints of average people around the world. But by reading, you get to see into the minds of the greatest people who ever lived.

Agreed and today we can read the great works almost freely thanks to projects like Gutenberg [1] and Internet Archive [2]. So, essentially you don't need to spend $200k for this type of knowledge. I have educated myself thanks to the books on these sites. Of course, I didn't get access to the network of people that a Harvard graduate might seem to have. So, you have to figure out if it is worth to spend $200k or whatever to have access to that network.

[1] http://www.gutenberg.org/
[2] https://archive.org/
Name names. Or at least LinkedIn titles!
You can use something like Vitelity vMobile which routes your cell phone as an extension to a PBX system/SIP server. This gives you total and complete control of what happens on incoming and outbound calls. For example, you could have your cell phone number give an IVR menu, ring forever, play hold music, you're only limited by your SIP server. This is the closest I've seen to providing your own dialtone.

I used it for a while and the only con---and it is a major con for me---is that, like most innovative or unique MVNOs, it's riding on Sprint. And Sprint is really terrible, at least where I live, which made the service great, except that getting data to work often involved walking around in large circles til I was able to catch an LTE signal.
Here’s where better technology could help. Body cameras could be automatically activated immediately when certain cues are triggered, such as when the officer enters a crime hot spot, leaves a police vehicle, takes out handcuffs or a weapon, turns on the siren, or makes a call for assistance on the radio. This way, the officer doesn’t have to think about activating the body camera in a tense situation.

I'd taken it for granted that a police body camera would not require manual activation. I'd also assumed that they should be always on. Is there really need for better technology here, as opposed to just a change of political will?
Was that the Giant Bomb talk with Blow? I have that queued up to watch once I play the game.
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> how do we provide energy ...? Renewables might work - if people stopped having kids for a while

It seems like you haven't done the math. I have. You're ridiculously wrong.

US marketed energy consumption per capita is 9.5 kW (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_energy_co...). That's 9.5 square meters of sunlight. If we pessimistically assume that we can only site solar panels on land (29% of Earth's surface) and only 10% of that, and that we're only using the currently common 16%-efficient polysilicon photovoltaic panels (rather than, say, solar thermal collectors or multijunction cells), then we receive enough solar energy for 60 billion people at current US levels of consumption, according to units(1):

You have: circlearea(earthradius) * 1000 W/m^2 * 29% * 10% * 16% / 9.5 kW
You want: billion
* 62.281752
/ 0.016056067

That's about eight times Earth's current human population.

Is it too costly? Currently, photovoltaic modules cost about US$0.50 per watt (see http://www.solarserver.com/service/pvx-spot-market-price-ind...), so, for everyone to consume as much marketed energy as USAns, we're talking about an investment of about US$4800 per person, or about US$160 per person per year, assuming a 30-year lifespan for the panels, even if costs didn't drop further. That's only about 1.6% of the nominal world GDP of about US$10k per year per person (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi...).

And that's just solar photovoltaic. EGS (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_geothermal_system) and oceanic lithium (see https://www.withouthotair.com/c24/page_172.shtml) are two other energy resources of similar magnitude to solar photovoltaic, but they're being developed more slowly — photovoltaic is practical today.

Your comment would have been reasonable ten years ago, when solar PV was still expensive. The facts have changed. When the facts change, I change my opinion. When are you going to change yours?
Wow. That's ridiculous. The human problem is really ubdermining my solution as usual.
Here's how I built our deployment system at work for our various interdependent packages and services, each of which is a git repository (and where libraries are symlinked into those git repositories as needed).

First, I built a tool called checkout_package which clones/updates a package and then recursively installs and symlinks all of its dependencies. Devs used this for local installations as well as on production servers.

After that had its problems ironed out and everything was working, I built a system called command_runner, which was a simple JSON-based RPC daemon. This had the ability, among other things, to call out to command_runner and return the result back to the callee. Now our developers could run command_runner, which we knew worked (and knew how it worked), on remote machines without having to log in. A simple shell script was all that was required to loop over every machine to update them all.

After that, we built a web interface that could let you choose which packages you needed to update, and it would run command_runner in X number of threads to do the updates concurrently. It also returns the output from command_runner (which is extremely terse if everything went fine) back to the user of the web interface so they could tell when something went wrong, and retry if necessary.

We also use monit. I added functionality to command_runner to run and parse 'monit summary' to see what was installed on and running/not running on a given server, and to run monit commands (start, stop, or 'restart', i.e. stop and then start) on a given server. From there, we followed the same pattern: shell script to iterate, integrate into web interface.

Eventually, we tied the two together. After you deploy, it takes you to a version of the services management page that only shows (and already has selected) the services which are, or depend on, the packages you deployed.

None of our system abstracts away any of the details of what's happening; it merely provides an easier way to do what you would be doing anyway, and provides more information than you would normally have (for example, the package deployment page can show you the git diff between what's live and what's HEAD, so that you know whose changes you're about to deploy). Because the devs still use checkout_package at the command line in their local environments, it requires that tool to remain both usable and sufficiently user-friendly, and for nothing to be wrapped up into any other layers of automation that is necessary for doing the fundamentals.

This way, we have managed to prevent our deployment process from becoming impossible to reproduce by hand if necessary (e.g. when deploying/rolling back changes to our deployment system).

The system provides extra information that you wouldn't have had, does some tasks for you that you don't have to do manually anymore, and does stuff for you all at once instead of having to do the same task over and over again per server, but fundamentally it's more like cruise control than a self-driving car.
Second there is really no excuse anymore not to move every OS over to randomised memory location access, and more. But even so I am not convinced this would help here.

It might make it harder... but in this case couldn't an attacker search the entire address space for the location of the library? ASLR protects against buffer overflows as an attack vector, but here the attacker already has access.

(I'm no expert and would appreciate correction.)
Thats assuming the driver follows the route uber/lyft tells them to take. It is still really nice to have an idea of the route and the bill.

One reason I like Uber/Lyft more is I can take it a few blocks. A taxi driver would be upset if you only needed them for a short ride.
Can someone explain what this is for? I read the readme but still have no clue
In this specific implementaion, yes. But they had local code execution, so they could replace the executable with one that doesnt have the checks, or at least patch the code in-memory.
The police have created an environment where the people on the street know they are going to come in with overwhelming force.

The police have created an environment where everyone fears any interaction with the police because if the officer is scared they can and will kill you.

With no consequences for the police.

The police turn on the cameras and expect people to suddenly forget the above. Wont happen.

Paybacks on the police will be taken by certain individuals if they are given a chance.

Frankly all public servants should be required to have a camera running at all times when they are working. If a cop is carrying his weapon he isn't off duty and should have his camera running.
>Drinking adds no tangible utility to anything significant. People do it because it's fun, not because it improves the quality of their work.

many creative people worked or were inspired "under influence" of various stuff causing addiction.

>Group chat adds tangible value to work when used responsibly.

some claim so. Well, for example cigarettes or a glass of wine help too - by calming down. Wine is also great for heart and blood vessels. And meth (ADHD drugs) is very useful for increasing concentration and productivity even for healthy people. They give it to [healthy] pilots for example.

>If they were experiencing a dopamine addiction because they couldn't learn how to properly contextualize and ignore notifications when they needed to be in the zone, that's on them, not the tool.

Blame (internal and external) is a typical trap of addiction. The way out is to understand what it isn't about blame, it is about what to do. Honestly accepting your weakness if you can't manage addiction and go sober completely.
Errors do increase with length of shift but they also increase when continuity of care is disrupted by shift change. When you look at patient outcomes it's a wash. This probably speaks more to awful shift change procedures than anything else but reducing the hours junior doctors are fostered for has not lead to any improvement for patients.

http://healthland.time.com/2013/03/26/fewer-hours-for-doctor...

I seem to recall surgery being an exception in that shorter shifts lead to more patients dying but I can't find anything quickly.
I personally am a big fan of the modal behavior when I receive notifications of an upcoming meeting on my Google Calendar - having that screen come to the front clearly grabs my attention, and allows me to prepare for whatever task/call/meeting I have coming up.
Way off topic, but I have a similar background -- have you felt compelled at this point to obtain a CS degree?
In other words, the future isn't 10,000 languages all equally good, but 10,000 languages suited for 10,000 problems that will reduce the comparable workload by 1/2 or more, depending on the case. That's a much more interesting conclusion to the article...
The "regular" Amnesiac album is a bit sleepy (get it?) but the Amnesiac College EP with songs like Fast Track, Trans-Atlantic Drawl and Kinetic is not to be missed!

This may be a bit pretentious... But if you're not listening to their smaller EPs you're missing out! (Airbag: How am I driving, is easily one of the best)
As a driver I often feel cyclists are reckless in how they ride in busy city streets. I have seen guys entering the path of a speeding car with no regard to his safety. Cyclists are not protected and I am acutely aware of the risks around them, and that makes me nervous. As a cyclist, I am afraid to take these risks, so I keep to sidewalks and parks.

Unfortunately, when I walk on sidewalks I often feel threatened by the cyclists. They ride too fast, too close to people. They feel entitled and reckless because they have wheels and us only legs to walk. Cyclists sharing a sidewalk are just as bad, or worse compared to drivers sharing a road with cyclists.

The solution would be dedicated cycling paths, but those are a rarity in my city and many of those that exist are just one meter width marked right on the sidewalk, reducing the space for walking. Sometimes the sidewalk is too narrow and people have to enter the cycling path in order to pass, and that's where a self entitled cyclist would run over you just to teach you not to step on his path. That's why I often walk with some anxiety, you never know who's on wheels and what they think they are entitled to do.
I think you're agreeing: We certainly missed a huge segment of the market at the time, but now that we've got GCE new business can certainly come our way.
"Frankly all public servants should be required to have a camera running at all times when they are working."

Fine, but be prepared for the first-person video of me taking a piss in some conveniently placed foliage because I'm on a mail route with no bathrooms.
I enjoyed reading and entertaining your point of view. But sometimes a plant is just a nice looking plant.
Can you let me in on "what was up" with the square reader? Credit card theft/fraud? I never take taxis.
Something this intricate had to have some testing -- My hypothesis is that they did a test heist for small amounts prior to the big one.
Search Infra (and Ads for that matter) is an extreme case. Google Search might be one of the worlds most highly tuned infrastructure projects: a marriage of code and hardware design to maximize performance, scoring, relevance and ultimately ROI.

Before we had custom machine types (November 2015 GA), we wouldn't have been remotely close to what they needed. I'm not even sure we've had anyone evaluate the amount of overhead KVM adds in either latency or throughput.

tl;dr: Don't let Search be your "not until they do it". We've got folks in Chrome, Android, VR, and more building on top of Cloud (as well as much of our internal tooling being on App Engine specifically).
It's not so much the technical "integration" that your website needs to communicate about vs how your product works.

I honestly have no idea what your product does. How is it different to Google Analytics, Optimizely, Mixpanel, et al?

Apart from explaining more about what you do exactly, I'd recommend including testimonials and results (if you have them) - "we helped X increase their ROI by Y" for example.

Edit: 'Totally free until August 2016'? I'd recommend phrasing this as 'sign up now and get our Business package FREE for the next 5 months'. 'Free until August 2016' doesn't sound very appealing as a potential customer.
Ha, love it that someone went out and registered http://your-carrier-is-hijacking-dns.com/
And also the netsh urlacl command line where you have to put the standard user group name "everybody" in the computer's locale.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18855607/create-sddl-fai...
I do not think that is his conclusion, though he is certainly at fault for giving that impression. I think he is actually saying that it is a misleading to compare a brain too closely to a digital computer.

It is trivially true that the brain processes information - that is not much of a conclusion, it is a starting point, and it certainly does not mean that it is like a digital computer.
I actually quite like this limitation. It encourages you to separate data structures into their own modules and use qualified names to access their member data, which I think is often the right idea.
Is there a nation-state actor who would have cause to put forth these resources to disturb the Bangladeshi central bank?
well... im assuming you are more showered than the homeless bum i have to walk around pissing on market street most mornings ?
Back in the seventies anytime I took a trip out of state my Dad would get me a AAA trip book. Each page had a short section of the highway and in a yellow marker it would show exits, towns etc. You'd flip the pages over every 40 miles and people referred to them as flip books.

I found them to be quite useful but now they seem kind of quaint. It would show gas stations and motels at the exits. Every year they'd publish a new one, wish I'd saved one now but they were really meant to be disposable.

We aren't very far from the days that Google/Alexa will ask as you start the engine where do you want to go today and just take you there with little effort on your part. In a way its like we're all going to have robot chauffeurs.
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What are you looking for exactly? Good ideas, good people, interesting projects, etc?
Yeah, it's will could be
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You might want to check out Lyft. Been using their 'Line Ride' product as it's currently 50% off (at least in Bay Area).

If their growth team wants to throw VC money our way to keep me on board, why not? Recently commuting from Palo Alto to Mountain View pretty regularly and paying around $7/$8. PS Not affiliated, just a happy user.
I think this article overlooks the multitude of benefits of body cameras. Sure, according to some research they may not reduce violence. But reducing he-said she-said situations can make a much better legal situation.
I assume when you come on Hacker News you feel offended for being called a hack and a criminal :P.

Colloquial usage of these terms has shifted massively, to the point where the most common definitions I hear from people are:

nerd: someone with an obsessive interest in certain intellectual areas, especially academic/technological things (math/computers/the sciences/etc.)

geek: someone with an obsessive interest in certain subsets of popular culture, especially ones relating to fiction (games/comics/novels/etc.)

Now 'dork', that still has the old ring to it.
Thanks for both references. It's been a while since I studied algebra in college and I'm hoping to get back into it and solidify my understanding. What do you think of Artin's Algebra? http://www.amazon.com/Algebra-2nd-Michael-Artin/dp/013241377...
I should have said the implementations of GraphQL have similar problems. Since it's just a query language you can implement your own server with limits. Facebook is ultimately just punting on this problem but the declarative query boundary is helpful. Your DSL is much more imperative. You're in a very practical niche between individual ad-hoc endpoints and a completely new way of doing things (GraphQL). Especially for use with existing systems. There are a lot of people out there (at least one) who just want batching and don't need a new abstraction. They know exactly what requests they want made; They just want them to be made on the server. That being said I think you should change your presentation. The thing that's "not right about this", as mentioned in another comment, is that it seems to be a programming language and not a web development tool. It is a programming language but that's incidental to it being a web development tool. I think your scope is in danger of creeping towards a turing-complete homo-iconic scripting language based in JSON. There is something not right about that. Lol. It's a scripting language with syntax derived from the object literals of another scripting language which was in turn syntactically perverted in order to attract the users of non-scripting languages. It's an abominable version of lisp.
The most infuriating thing is that when logging on to live.com or its friends, they hook the tab key. When you type in your email, then tab over the next field, it redirects underneath you.

This infuriates me. It also really screws with people who can't touch type, and thus don't realize it's happened until they look up after entering their password only to realize the page changed and their text was lost.

I presume what's going on is the site realizes the login won't work and redirects you to the domain where it will, but it's just terrible design all around.
Why do you live in the modern world after this experience?
Isn't it for setting cookies not on the google.com domain?
Yeah, a lot of places use it as an initial phone-screen "can you code" question.

I did bust out a version on one call which did detection of combining classes, normalized into composed form before checking the reverse, etc., and the interviewer seemed kinda lost as I explained it.

Ended up not working for them, but for different reasons.
While you make no explicit claim, I suppose the responder was reacting to your opener of "I maintain".

That implies you have been saying this all along, in a forum that we would expect to have heard it, but yet you have not been heeded.

In my perspective, there is an element to your statement that is claiming authority, thus making you appear as a self-proclaimed expert.
The toilets in Japan that have noise-making as a feature do flowing water (or urinating I guess) sounds. Still, if you believed the sound, it might be startling when you wondered how long before the person next to you dehydrated to death from over-urination. Probably like herd immunity, it's something that reaches peak utility only when it's ubiquitous.

On another note, I'm surprised to see so many comments worrying about bathroom noises in what I presume is a male-dominated forum. Do these dynamics exist in men's rooms as well? In my workplace, at least, all manner of sounds accompanying bowel movements are ignored, or, judging by occasional laughs, sometimes even encouraged.
> I wish they were taught in high school, because they would motivate kids to learn graphics and programming.

Learned Linear Algebra (matrix calculations and some analytical geometry) + Calculus in eleventh grade, around 1995. I think it was the standard curriculum in all Eastern Europe and the countries from the ex Soviet Union.
Mycroft just open sourced their framework. They are using snaps on Ubuntu Core to make an open home voice gateway.
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No worries, friend! We both learned something. Please do not let your unfamiliarity interrupt your contributions; different perspectives such asyours are why I come here. To hell if anyone makes you feel different!
Maybe you should try turning it off for a while? The benefit for me is highly proven - I'm 5 to 10 times more likely to make a bracket or parenthesis mistake without color coding. And I make about 10% more variable/comment errors too.