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Check out Costco. Their brand is not only cheap, but one of the few that are real. The price went up since 2010, but it is still around $10/l.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/5-things-you-should-buy-at-costc...
> HR finds some excuse to fire you

Which shouldn't be surprising, because unless carefully expressed, skepticism towards the stereotype threat effect can be interpreted as a justification for stereotyping, especially when the skepticism is expressed in the context of political tenets.
> Today, the company’s fuel delivery drivers are 1099 contractors

Why? Even if truck driving jobs tend to be contract positions, this isn't any driving job. And it certainly isn't uber.
Is there anywhere (e.g. blog) you've shared about your move and experience living in Turkey? Like, do you speak Turkish for your job?
> “If it was illegal, they would have and should have told us many months ago.”

I love this quote so much.
There's two things of interest here. The game itself, which is really thin as far as gameplay and will dry up like a standard MMORPG as people go crazy leveling and the initial rush dies down. But the social aspect of meeting up at hotspots and dropping lures to get a party started and all that feels like a new sort of sensation that should persist beyond this one game.

The real key is the location data from Ingress. There's plenty of room to expand into other games, to create a cross-game persistent world or do any number of fun things (they already have the original Ingress game and a travel app based on it). It'll be interesting to see if they can keep branching off from this. I think ultimately it could become a sort of better Foursquare and that's where real advertising $ could come into play.

It's been an advertiser's dream for a while for a phone app to make some sort of "location alerts with coupons" hit critical mass and slathering that over this game would be extremely easy (go to the Starbucks to get a Pikachu or free lure!)
Looks gorgeous. Visualization is always an underrated activity, and I think visualizing the process of neural nets is only going to become more important for understanding what's going on around us.
Being realistic, it might take more than a decade to see a standard EcmaScript version with type annotations available in all major browsers. Until then, transpiling is the only choice. So I don't think diverging from the (possible) standard is too bad. We don't know how the state of web development will be at that time, and probably the standar won't ever catch up with TypeScript and transpiling will be required for quite a long time until something like WebAssembly really takes off.
The key word of atom-morgan's comment is "voluntary".
You leave it running on your server, so yes :)
For those unfamiliar with elm:

I would sum it up as:

-) a stripped down, simplified version of Haskell

-) with a good concept for side effects

-) that compiles to Javascript

-) gearded towards writing type safe frontend code for the Browser

-) strongly nudging you towards a clean, well architected app structure (see 'the Elm Architecture').

I think it's on the tipping point right now:

if enough people jump on board, the language get's good documentation, and the library ecosystem grows, I see a great future for Elm.

Otherwise, it will dwindle away soon into the endless annals of forgotten languages.
About 6 years ago, I wrote and sold a dumb little modification for WP-eCommerce that added additional details to admin emails. I think I charged $20 one time fee.

I promoted it in forums and Q&A websites that asked specifically for the feature.

I think I sold 10-ish total? I was young.
Good question. We created a device (that we call a "Fuel Vault") that we can install in your car's "gas flap." We'll require that you leave your car's gas flap popped open for your first fill-up so that we can install it. After that, we'll be able to get into your gas flap anytime. It doesn't require any permanent modifications to your car, and can be removed anytime.
This is exactly the sort of repair that gets implemented - fixing the wrong thing!
I can't speak for the GP, but it's (apparent) popularity worries me. It is a brutal sport, with some of the dregs of society participating at the highest levels (here's an interview between two competitors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTzhVVIjLCE). I don't think I would have an issue with UFC etc. if the fighters could show a little class and some respect for each other. As it stands I think it supplies very bad role-models for teenage and 20 year old males it is surely popular with.
I think we - and by that I mean "most programmers, on average" - have a pretty good idea how common or uncommon it is in real life programming in a variety of programming jobs to encounter an actual algorithmic problem. One that you are better off solving yourself instead of just googling or asking (yes, on horrible SO). The last sentence does not advocate copy&paste programming, I myself in particular actually have hardly any external dependencies because I try hard to avoid them, and when I do I actually do look through the source code, mostly because I need to adapt it to my needs.

Even if I were to do something like machine learning I'm much better off just using something made by others, simply because developing the actual algorithms requires people completely immersed in just that and a big love of math (and the Ph.D. to go with it) much more so than programming.
But there are many incompatible mathematical systems, and only at most one of them could describe the actual universe.
Good stuff--feel free to post back here with the results, I'd love to hear how it goes.
I only watched it casually at the bars back then, but it was really that I found I couldn't identify with the "Tapout" culture of MMA then. You can say I was being a snob, but it didn't appeal to me. Nowadays I just feel like things are operating at a higher caliber, the commentators, the post fight analysis, the fighters themselves, and I'm way more engaged now.
E.g. you want to access some server or services at your home, but your ISP is changing your ip address every 24 hours. With a DDNS service you can always use the same dns name, only the a/aaaa records of these will be updated when you get a new ip address from your isp.
I'm a massive Morris fan (so much so that I've read about this contraption before), and while I've only watched a few minutes of the documentary you linked, I do think that the interview style is different. It's not just about talking to the camera, but rather about talking to the camera as if it's human - McNamara, for instance, regularly wiggles his finger at the camera, as if he's lecturing to you in your seat. Toss in the fact that Morris regularly shouts his questions or comments from somewhere off to the side - probably somewhere across the same room, as dictated by the way that this system works - and there really is an unsettling way that it feels as if you are the focus of what is happening, with the SecDef during the start of the Vietnam war and your crazy shouty uncle over for dinner.

It's just so hard to articulate how it feels, and I'm sure the effect doesn't work on everyone as well as it does on me. Errol's movies have changed my opinions on both McNamara and Rumsfeld, though, and that's a phenomenally tall order (and, I think, speaks to how vividly human he can make his interview subjects).
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Not quite... I like that idea better, it's just a lot harder unfortunately. We're starting with stationary fill-ups only
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Scribie | San Francisco, CA | Speech Recognition Engineer | Full Time | Onsite

Scribie is an audio/video transcription service where we manually convert interviews, meetings, teleconferences, podcasts and other spoken audio files to text via our 4-step process which guarantees high accuracy. We have tons of high quality data, audio files and their corresponding transcripts. We would like to build a ASR system and use our data to train it with the aim to eventually achieving a high enough accuracy to replace the first step our process which is manual typing.

The key skills we are looking for are:

- Hands-on experience with speech recognitions systems, eg. Kaldi

- Knowledge of major components of an ASR systems

Drop me a line at rajiv@scribie.com if you're interested in taking up this challenging position.
No? What's wrong with my calculation then?
I would try not to shut them down, but to make it clear that a meeting has a cost. If they are willing to meet that cost then fine, meet them. If you gain benefit from the meeting then, as I say, you can refund the fee.

Be honest with them - meeting with them costs you money, and if the meeting is of value to them, they should be prepared to pay for it.
> “If it was illegal, they would have and should have told us many months ago.”

Said the man to his cellmate.
Although difficult to test, there were features that were in theory testable! AFAIK this is currently not true with ST
It is not my argument, it is my dream.
The thing is Floyd Mayweather is practically the only fighter in that position. He had a contract where he made 40 Million on each of his last 6 fights but for a "normal" fighter a pay of just 2M - 5M is considered an excellent deal.
I came to the same realisation when I've discovered that closest Pokemon Gym is right outside/next to a local Lidl shop.
A way to get experience might be to suggest that you're hired as a consultant or contractor. It's easier for the company to do, but be careful that they still treat you fairly. I know a company in the UK that does this for its remote workers.
Admittedly I didn't finish the entire article, but the point regarding blind and disabled people being killed seems like a strawman to me? Tesla never intended people who couldn't otherwise drive to use autopilot, so I don't know what lessons we can draw from this in that regard.
totally agree! digging in a little more, he talked about the cycle of:

cue -> craving -> action -> reward

and the whole question is, how do you find rewards that instill craving which will lead you to an action that changes your lifestyle?
The RepRap project and the derived printers tend to share the opposite philosophy - the original idea was to print parts for more printers, so naturally parts were designed to be 3D printed. The RepRap logo is a compromise design for part holes without support (no longer necessary, though).

Most RepRap owners ('hobbyists') are using the 3D printer as the end manufacturing method, not just for prototypes, so this is a pretty reasonable tradeoff. Note that the original article fell into this category - the 3D printed part was not a prototype, but a jig used in production. (looking at that part, it could have been designed to not require any support material at all)
I think the problem is less that an attacker can use an economic attack on PoS, and more that Vitalik won't be able to force through an PoS fork to begin with if the community rejects his (possibly misguided) recommendation for a DAO fork.
This article basically states that the chance of there being intelligent life outside of Earth is > 0% so obviously the chance of aliens is 100%. It doesn't provide any proof so the title is technically misleading.
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I actually think this is a pretty good idea, especially if you can also handle the annoying, piddly maintenance stuff, like tire pressure, fluids and perhaps oil changes for me.
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The game isn't just the game, it's the social experiment of walking to a place with a lure and seeing 15 people playing. It's hearing someone talk about catching a pokemon you just caught yourself at the same location. It's Tinder for gamers.

The lack of gameplay is probably intentional. There is very little to do without going for a nice walk. If you play it like a walk supplement, it's great fun and not overwhelming. If you go on a walk just to catch Pokemon, it's a nice outing - nothing more.
Explain please, why anybody would want both null AND undefined?
Article argues, "autopilot could let people who are blind and disabled drive now, where they couldn't drive before. but they could never get killed in a car accident while driving before, so this is ethically questionable."

Article's logic is dumber than a sack of hair.
UFC is more than an art, it is a competition backed by an organization with opinionated rules and a huge marketing budget. It'd be like asking, "Why is Coca Cola such a big deal when we've had sweetened caffeinated drinks for centuries?"
I too am leaning toward Flatpak. I expect it, like other products from Red Hat (systemd, pulseaudio) will eventually be the winner in the end.
This is just a guess, but perhaps it's a very strong magnet?

Many gas flap locks seem to be simple solenoids, and it's often relatively simple to change the state of a solenoid using a powerful magnet. Certain low-end electronic-lock safes are susceptible to similar attacks (that's part of the reason why better electronic-lock safes use motor-driven bolts instead of solenoids).
Do you want more Malware apps? Because this is how you get more malware apps.
As I understand ST, by choosing particular parameters you can make it predict (more or less) anything. If so, what does it mean for it to have made a prediction?
Nintendo could sell a $60 mobile game, no IAP. Problem solved.
iOS version of Pokémon Go is a possible privacy trainwreck
Ah, the joys of 1970s electronics, or "it's full of parts!" Electronics was finally good enough that you could design and build complex systems and have them work. But it took a huge number of 7400 series TTL ICs to do anything.
I use both. Braintree for SaaS income (monthly, one-off, client contracts), and Stripe for marketplace payments (Stripe Connect - event ticket sale service fees). It works well, and helps me reconcile the income easier into separate clearing accounts that I set up with Xero. I was originally enticed to Braintree because of the first free $50,000 of processing. I have been very happy with both.
"I suspect you'd get the most RoI on education related to what the economy needed at the time. However if the market is compensating employees fairly* then students will likely pick what enjoy doing which also best fits the needs of the economy (as dictated by the benefits of the job)."

The problem being that much education has a minimum of 4 year lag time. So one could go into a degree program when the market is hot, only to see it cool off by the time they graduate.
That's not true. I have just read an interview with Juncker and Van Rompuy where they clearly stated that the UK didn't slow down the decision process and actually implemented directives faster than most countries.

I am not pro UK in the EU though.
Either the UFC $4B valuation is way too high, or Disney stole the Star Wars franchise from Lucas films. The disparity in revenue on a historical or annualized basis is huge.

http://fortune.com/2015/12/24/star-wars-value-worth
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Agreed. What would be better is if they were full service and actually had good coffee that they'd bring to your window.
Don't forget multiple units. Those usually have axles in multiple of 4
It's not new indeed, and there's been a shift from Microsoft's "How much would you charge to clean every window in Seattle?" type to Google's "Reverse a binary tree" kind of questions. I could be wrong but I believe the former wasn't as ubiquitous as whiteboard algorithmic questions have become.
In fact, the $2000 Lulzbot printer used in the article is made of lots of 3D printed parts, manufactured on a farm of Lulzbot printers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_jUObUGLTA
Most Pokémon Go Stories Are Hoaxes
This seem to be exactly how it works. A lot of states and countries have tried to fix the problem by introducing housing benefits – but guess who, in the end, gets that money?
Yes, we actually do do this, and we're now a corporate perk at several companies in the areas we service. We also let people sign-up and start getting serviced at lots where we aren't sponsored by a company too.
Which is exactly what new developers (who are attracted to these kinds of services) ignore.
No, robots will make all the things. For most manufacturing tasks there is no reason why a human needs to do it.
Furthermore, Uber solved a problem in a market with inefficiencies and use regulation arbitrage to do it. This is just an on demand service betting on the fact that people are lazy enough to not want to put gas into their car. IMO, there are bigger (or actual) problems to solve.

Honestly, I wonder why they didn't launch in Chicago or Boston in the winter when weather would make people not want to bother going outside.
Those interviews are all for show and to build up hype, they don't actually dislike each other.
I share your point, it just sucks to see this happening because three years ago I was cheering for Coinbase here on HN.

> PS: maybe your IP is wrongly geolocated in Iran?

Highly unlikely, but even if that was the case, they still have my passport and bank statements on file.
Thanks. Let me make an issue to update the docs on that.

I've been using Firebase a while, and so I didn't fully think through the experience for users unfamiliar with firebase.

By necessity, this repo use of firebase is somewhat opinionated. I intend to add comments and docs to explain the architecture and how to set it up to work with different kinds of persistent data (ie - shared and public data as well as user related docs). And, of course, to set up secure separate docs for different users.
> fluids and perhaps oil changes for me

You're wanting a full service mechanic to come out to you. That's not what this service is (nor do I think you can commercially change oil and other fluids in random parking lots).
So here's the interesting thing... apparently if you sign in with the same google account on another phone, you have to start over as a new player.
Yes, I find it a little weird that the author tried to reconcile two different things. Finding the perfect grey piece among hundreds of other similarly sized grey pieces isn't equivalent to finding/optimizing a math problem.
Sounds to me like those weren't the "best employees", but rather just the most petty and jealous.
Can publishers handle advanced math? They are taking the same audience, same advertisers, and just dividing it up in to more pieces - and like you said, at a lower quality. I suspect the growth in online advertising has done a good job in masking the long term destruction being done to the publisher's revenue. Facebook has made it rain for a few years. That is coming to an end just as Google rolls its news traffic over to AMP. I don't want to own any publicly traded publishers right now.

Auto generated video is just a grab for using press release content for auto play video ads. Upon closer inspection, there is really no business left. It looks more like Demand Media's content farm now, to see who can provide the thinnest layer between traffic source & advertiser. The business I see is Google/FB providing the audience and Google/FB providing the advertisers. Making a higher quantity of videos no one wants to see is not going to recapture ad dollars from some kid playing a video game that an audience wants to see.

The only thing that amazes me is how many big publishers, including popular tech blogs, are able to run sites which barely function on a late model iPhone. I have no idea what metrics they are looking at. The past few months I've gone back to RSS feeds and bloggers so I can get readable content again.

An end to my worthless rant is publishers will probably have to deal with less glamour and focus on producing extremely high quality content that users will pay for. Most verticals have no market for paid content. Those probably have to turn in to donor based non-profits or business models shift to selling products.
My car (a 2015 Ford Focus) has an actual metal tooth + clamp style lock (like a seat-belt kind of). Without putting something into the lock that prevents it from catching, I don't see how they can unlock my gas flap without somehow allowing other's to unlock it as well.
Jigsaw puzzles? They're awful.
This question could have it's own separate thread.

How do you approach ideation right now ?

While I won't say I have implemented any ideas recently, my approach is very straightforward. Look at what is working (on threads like these), understand why it is working, and assimilate those points while ideating.
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actually it's not that bad - i've got 3 boxen that i use regularly and that's it. the problem is that those machines get EOLed every once in a while (say, 2-3 years) and each time i get a replacement i dread about some config setting that i set to solve a problem or whatever and then forget about it. it's a problem that happens often enough to be annoying but also seldom enough to not be worth automating, because software evolves, etc. i've got a few most important dotfiles on dropbox.
Tell HN: Namecheap has hijacked my Domain's name server records
Today, my WHOIS data has been updated to NAMECHEAP's own servers. They did not send me an email telling me they were going to do this. WATCH OUT!

Also, I am now in the market for a new domain provider. Does anyone have a recommendation?
I've just run the query and it's 6 (not this month, all time) with Beijing as a location.

My best guess for China is: they have to have something similar, although obviously not in English. They have a huge market with limited reasons to cooperate with English-speaking Internet. Also, Chinese Internet is isolated you won't see many services that are available in US or EU.

Fun fact there was an attempt to implement (copy) whoishiring.io http://www.v2ex.com/t/213945# the reason they like it but no google maps in china.

(I'm an author of this blog post)
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Oh god, a deontic argument for slowing down self-driving cars. Yes, we choose to let several people die every day by not spending every available dollar on healthcare. Even then, we would have to decide where the large but still limited budget would be invested. There's no pure white way to get out of consequentialism. Might as well accept it and work with it rather than shutting your ears and singing la-la-la.

Sorry for the rant, for those that care for a reasoned argument along the lines of the above, Scott says it better than I ever could -- http://raikoth.net/consequentialism.html
That's clever. My guess was going to be either a Snap Gun [1] or brand master key used with permission of the owner.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snap_gun
I have. DM/email me (lucas@gonze.com) if you want to chat.

My company was Webjay, a playlist-sharing site. No funding, no other devs. 500K users, 10 million page views / month.

Selling was dramatically easier than ordinary because I was getting the whole pie, not a slice, and because I had no investors to placate. I did not get FU rich, and I still have to work, but my quality of life was dramatically improved for the rest of my life.

The hardest deal term in the acquisition was indemnification. I refused to indemnify the acquirer, they insisted on it. Finally I said:

1. If we don't have enough personal trust in this relationship for you to believe in my company's practices, you shouldn't enter this deal at all. And if you do, indemnification doesn't matter.

2. You are a more attractive target than me. Many people would sue you who wouldn't bother with me.

It was harder post-acquisition than ordinary, because I was a faction of one within the acquirer (yahoo).
Yep, it's not mentioned in the article but we actually air-up your tires and service them (if needed) as well through a recent partnership we made with Firestone. Depending on the market, we're also offering oil changes and other maintenance things too. Working on expanding these wider.
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