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Quote from TFA:

One Vista Biz, called Medic, is developing a water-efficient toilet that also measures blood pressure, weight, and overall health by using sensors and sampling what passes through it. Hall hopes insurance companies will eventually cover the costs of installing such toilets at companies to track worker health.

This seems like a blatant invasion/abuse of privacy. Not to mention requiring people to give up their net worth and surrender all IP to live at the place.
Completely off-topic random question: how closely related are Mormon families, generally? With similarly insular populations (Mormons seem to tend to marry other Mormons), that have families that are larger than normal, it seems like family ties would proliferate and you'd end up with communities that are rather closely knit through webs of marriage.
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As a black San Franciscan I can say it's palpable.

Remarkable article revealing that there was once Black History in San Francisco, which you'd never know walking around.
Here's an interesting thought: should everyone involved be charged with conspiracy to commit grand larceny?
okay but "this is really hard" is not a good argument when ("beta" notwithstanding) this is being pitched pretty heavily by your firm with this public announcement. None of my professors or bosses have ever accepted "this is really hard" as a legitimate answer to the tasks I was given if I myself had pitched my ability to perform them. A firm like Google, with all its towering resources, is going to have a hard time getting cred with excuses.
Aside from the legal technicalities here, I mostly ponder the future of IP. I think Napster positively affected the music distribution world in the long run. I am not very black-and-white on this issue, however, since there are many contradictions by both sides.

I read the majority of comments here on HN about dated business models, big corporation dislike, the old executives don't understand the new market, etc..., but then a young indie artist in LA finds out Zara the clothing retailer has obviously copied her designs, and the lynch mobs are out to boycott Zara, send letters and other things to Zara and their attorneys. [1]

I have not inquired directly, but I am guessing a number of the indie artist's supporters have downloaded a torrent or two. How do they morally distinguish the two, or how does anybody who is against copyright or property rights of IP?

[1] https://www.buzzfeed.com/victoriasanusi/an-independent-artis...
Since we're getting personal: do we know each other? I went to OHS with some Halls.

(Possibly not the question you had in mind, but...)
One of the best recruiting/employment branding pieces I've seen. Genius!
Excessive human feces on sidewalks. Mentally ill on every block. People selling drugs up and down the street. Loud music played on the sidewalk into the evening. Very run-down grocery and convenience stores in the area. Drunks on the corners at night.

And that's just the neighborhood. You still have the generally crappy things about SF like how awful June/July are (cloudy, windy, and cold), how expensive it is, the fog.
>I find the SpaceX reporters to be much more informative (and much less irritating) that the standard network morons.

Jeez. Talk about a low bar.

The problem with most journalists is they don't really know anything, so they just repeat what people tell them. These folks have a huge advantage in that they're only covering a single subject, and they understand that subject very well.
On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies (1905)
As Amazon looses money on every sale, and makes it up with funding from new shareholders, I'm going to call it a Ponzi scheme and not a business.
Is the app uploading pictures all day?
I don't think people who go into these kinds of "communities" really have much desire for privacy. He's basically planning a commune.
You are right, the video analogue to vinyl is film. I can see the appeal of 35mm film, I can see people imagining it as more natural (being analogue) and having certain human/warm qualities --but I can't see that in VHS. VHS is very utilitarian, I can only guess it's the "vernacular" aspect of it. It was the every man or woman's medium, it was not classy, not professional, so maybe that, the vernacular, the pedestrian appeal. Like the Bic pen or the cheap Dutch bikes, acetate eyeglasses frames, polyester, etc.
Your thesis is simply incorrect.

The original tweet is as follows:

> Man, y'all, American health care is some fucked up shit

I don't see how anyoe could possibly infer any of your comments below from that.

> Since you were responding to this tweet [^ above ^] wherein someone is trying to help their friend beg for money in order to try to avoid dying from cancer, I'm not clear why you felt it was appropriate to shoehorn in your own political commentary?

No part of that implies a single word of what you said. No one would ever interpret that from that text, ever.
The original tweet is PURELY political commentary. If you post political commentary on the internet, expect that someone to disagree with you. I feel like I was polite about my disagreement, expecially so as far as Twitter goes.

There is no mention of it being a friend. Period. There is no mention of "hey help this guy". There is zero of the context you imply. The context you are adding is purely from her later defense of her profane attacks against me.

Without the non-existant context, it is a political Tweet with a link of an example. An example that I thought was a cool idea, essentially kickstarting your cancer treatment. I was arguing that what this guy was doing was actually a great idea.

So to answer your question "Like, seriously, did you think that? Real question, no sarcasm." As none of the context you implied was actually there, yes, absolutely. I still do. You post a political tweet, expect a political response.
> brand new unactivated phone (for which you just paid full price).

Still can't believe the fact that they let people walk away with a subsidised phone without a contract to ensure they'll recoup the price.
> to serve a few multinational corporations that feel their profits are severely cut due to copyright infringement, meanwhile posting record earnings.

That almost sounds like a Bernie Sanders level paranoia of words profits and corporations. Honestly share-worthy content exists because of these entities in first and I will never fault HBO, Adobe or Microsoft going after those who are pirating their software. I think it is government who is going after someone who cant defend himself and just pretending to have done something.
None of those people are US citizens. They're foreign nationals extradited from the US most often back to their country of origin.
I don't understand, why would you need self driving cars if you don't want to drive? Public transport is here, is cheaper and safer. Also it allows to multitask.
Love it. Presented the crux of their business challenge in a very succinct fashion.
It's bad. It conditions people to simply not bother reporting bug. For every reported bug there are thousands of users who already don't bother to report anything. Bug reports are free, very valuable input and if you have a bug reporting process you really should fix them.
This makes me wonder what a next-gen datacenter would look like; far more control points, far more data gathering, probably some combination of high- and low-inertia cooling with different characteristics -- essentially you are going to want to start giving your NN more knobs to tweak.

That seems very singularity/jackpot-ish to me. Cool, but will have some interesting unexpected consequences, I bet.
Oh, I forgot to mention how drugs are sold all day long ("The Wire", corner-boy style) just catty-corner to the police station next to the McDonalds. Two people were shot there in January on the same day. Cars parked in the street are constantly broken into. Despite all the crime, I never see cops.
Time to pop this old chestnut out:

https://blog.fastmail.com/2014/12/14/on-duty/

"At one stage, we decided to try to avoid having to be woken for some types of failure by using Heartbeat, a high availability solution for Linux, on our frontend servers. The thing is, our servers are actually really reliable, and we found that heartbeat failed more often than our systems - so the end result was reduced reliability! It's counter-intuitive, but automated high-availability often isn't."

One of these days we'll finish our new system and I'll blog about that, which is that the automated systems are allowed to take ONE corrective action without paging, at which point they flag that the system is in compromised state. Any further test failures trigger an immediate wake of the on-call.
We're not really going to "end the 2 party system" unless we move from first-past-the-post. We may change which two parties (or, my more realistic hope, change up the particular alliances that make up the two parties).
If this scenario has a majority of cars autonomously driven, congestion is less of a problem. The cars would cooperate to solve congestion issues that individual human drivers struggle with. Also, as a passenger you're probably sleeping or being productive within the car, so the increased commute time is less of a problem.
> People who buy electric cars are far more likely to buy solar panels. And storage batteries. And wiring they would need for the electric car. It's all directly related.

Is this true? I'd be interested in learning more about the data behind this.

Anyway, for the sake of discussion let's say it is. Does that mean there is a correlation that scales to the whole population?

Or is it just that electric cars and solar panels appeal to the same small segment of the population? That would show a strong correlation, but not scale well.
That's a very interesting point.

While AI is not at a point to write programs, it's probably going to eliminate the need for many programs.

A majority of programs exist in order for people to use them to achieve some result. If the AI can achieve the same result, you've eliminated the need for the program, and the programmers who would program it, and the people who would use it (and the sales people who would sell it).
Well Tesla also relies on government subsidies as well a loan (which it paid back early, as did Ford). Also Ford is more than a 100 years old, so it's bound to have a bad period. We'll have to see what happens when tech companies are that old ( or will they even survive)
Whoa. What neighborhood do you live in? The article mentions a couple. That doesn't sound like San Francisco.
Replace the word "AI" with "optimisation algorithm" and you are safe from AI hype.
I take it you live towards the Western Addition? That's something that's always seemed weird about SF to me -- there are all these little pockets where it's night and day difference a block or two apart.
If I am on a self-driving car and it meets with an accident, there might be a case to be made against Tesla if I consider myself a very safe driver. Even though on an average self-driving might cause less casualties but that figure might not hold good compared to what my personal accident rate is.

And this should be good enough for law enforcement to nail Tesla.

I think, like everyone else, that Musk is probably the smartest entrepreneurs of our time. In this case though, maybe he is over his head a bit:

- Getting Tesla 3 to production volume will not be easy.

- Autopilot is NOT good enough to be used in production. This can be fatal to Tesla if FCC catches up. Tesla needs to quit Autopilot and focus only on getting Tesla 3 out. Tesla 3 will face competition sooner rather than later and market dominance is not guaranteed.

- SolarCity has absolutely no synergies with this business. It should be sold off.

- SpaceX is again a distraction given how hard it will be for Tesla 3 to roll off.
Do people put their hardware description language code on github and ask questions on Stack Overflow? I think there's a lot of programming that doesn't fit into the view that RedMonk goes into.
"How much did Return of the Jedi cost to make?"

"$32.5 million"

"And how much was the revenue?"

"$475 million"

"So you had a $442.5 million profit!"

"No, no. We had no profit - we use Hollywood accounting"

Repeat for Forrest Gump, Spider-Man, etc.

Real sad, these modern morals. Real sad. If you don't respect others, they ain't gonna respect you.
Oh he is the SV Messiah? Honestly enterprise is enterprise. Look what Google have become.
Do you have any idea how sustainable/profitable his ventures are?

It sounds like he's been trying to license technology to finance the venture. There's also a mention of other nearer-term real estate developments. Has any of this worked, or is he basically just spending his fortune down?
It sounds every bit like San Francisco to me. Even nice neighborhoods have problems with car break-ins.
It's like that in Detroit too. Robber Baron mansions surrounded by open fields and burnt-out shells of houses with bodies in them.
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Utopia just means 'non-existent place.' Which I feel like fairly describes the state, given that they only survive by giving out tons of speeding tickets to non-residents and jacking up their property taxes.
Yep, all systems until literally ideal will have efficiencies to iron out. Unless your data center is identical to Google's, taking any specifics to play would likely be ineffective advice!
Def. off topic. ;) UTAH-based (note the qualifier) are insular, though that is most certainly less and less the case. Both Mormon and Gentile (I'm being cheeky) populations are significant enough that marriages are factional across the board. There are still some not-so-distant 2nd, 3rd, and so-forth cousins, but that would be the exception not the rule (guesstimating here).

I'm certain someone has done a study on this, and if not it'd be interesting to see one done.
I'll tell you the real reason behind microservices: developer fiefdoms. "Faux-Specialization". It allows developers to feel like they have control over certain pieces of infrastructure and run the gambit on their strategy for getting ever more increasing pieces of the pie.

It has nothing to do with building reliable software. You could just as easily build and deploy a single networked application (so called "monolith"), that is composed of many different libraries that have well defined interfaces which can be tested in isolation. In fact, that's how most non-web software is still written and done.

The real reason is that by having these microservices, it allows single developers or teams to own or control parts of the codebase and enforce their control via separate repo's, and when speaking runtime, via authentication: Sally can't see the code to Joe's service and Joe can't make requests to Sally's production instance of her service that gives a guess at how long the car has to arrive to pick poor end user Bob up.

I've seen this same thing play out countless times at large tech companies and startups alike. It has nothing to do with building scalable, or more maintainable, or more cleverly designed applications. If anything, it adds more complexity because now we need to do all kinds of data marshaling, error checking, monitoring, have more infrastructure for something that should have been done in shared memory/in-process to begin with. Not to mention all the issues and headaches caused by fan out of tons of API requests, complicated caching scenarios, etc. I've seen the horror of microservices architecture where no one person is responsible for the actual app, only their "service".

There are a few exceptions where its useful to scale out parts of a distributed application, but in 99% of my experience the services aren't a real distributed system anyway and are vaguely organized by function, developer interest, and yes, control.
Most security breaches don't allow the malicious user to root the entire server farm either.

I just spent a week fixing permission validation done in JS on the browser. Users could have potentially allowed themselves to see parts of documents outside their role. This didn't give them access to our payroll system, credit card processor, or the backend infrastructure.
Backtracking regexes matchers are a Bad Idea.

It's true you need them to implement backreferences. But I've never used such a thing. If I were creating a runtime for some new language, I would simply ignore that part of the POSIX standard.
Have staggered work start and end times and "peak usage" will be a less pronounced peak. Also add in more home offices. I've no doubt that in 20 years car ownership will be a fraction of what it is today. Everything points in that direction and nothing opposes it.
I wonder how their software works. I think there's untapped potential in adobe's postscript.
Theoretically autonomous cars will decrease congestion through better driving patterns and maybe coordinating with each other, meaning we could support a lot more traffic with the infrastructure we already have.
I'm surprised there wasn't an influx after the Civil War. The article sort of glosses over that period.
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I guess he/she thinks that a small number of very young people will live to achieve the Singularity.
I went out to SF for a vacation and to check out if it made sense to move out there for job prospects, but the homelessness absolutely ruined it for me. Nobody ever seems to talk about it on HN for some reason, but it was the absolute most glaring part about SF.

Within walking distance of some pretty big named companies, I felt less safe than I do walking in Chicago. To make things even odder, it was in an area with fancy restaurants and folks in suits/dresses walking around. It was truly surreal. How can people have such strong blinders to those things?
1. They'll be able to line the entire trailer with batteries. Elon's pretty good at physics and engineering: if he says this can be done better than existing gas-powered semis, you're not going to be able to prove him wrong with some back-of-the-envelope arithmetic, as if he hadn't considered this. Obviously he has and knows it will work. Tesla didn't get this far on vague conjecture.

2. Maybe so, but it will happen, and the delay won't really hinder Tesla. They're not dependent on it. It's not like they can't sell cars without it. It's just another tier of advancement to be reached in time.

3. Maybe you don't want anyone using your car (nor would I), but that's why it's optional. A lot of people will love this. Owning a car of that level of quality for a greatly reduced price thanks to earned revenue. I assume the app will let you monitor its location, and you can anticipate when you'll need it back again and call it back before that time arrives. Or....just take someone else's car if you're in such a rush :) Sharing is caring.
No Anaconda[1], porque? I am a big fan of the Anaconda distribution and workflow... am I alone? I would find that hard to believe.

[1]https://www.continuum.io/downloads
Data isn't that hard to gather. Uber has more robotics scientists than all the others combined.
Because in Mormon (and Christian) eschatology, Zion, the New Jerusalem, is a real thing. It's not just one man's experiment to build a utopia. Zion is swamped in religious significance. It can't be built without specific forms of divine help, and it's not Zion without specific markers, like divinely-authorized temples.

Smith's early drawings are good as far as they go, but they are non-canonical. They are of only historical interest to the Church. It is fine that Hall has drawn inspiration from them, but it is not fine to imply that there is any connection between Zion the Mormon Concept and Hall's NewVistas project.

A copy of an old drawing isn't the distinctive characteristic of Zion. The distinctive characteristic is that a group of people within a specific geographic region are so completely realizing their religious precepts that divine beings make a home there.

Joseph Smith's teachings re: Zion are meaningless outside of that context, and invoking Zion in any other way is sacrilege (doubly so when it's to promote a commercial endeavor).
The largest city in Vermont has a population of 40k. If this development succeeds in attracting a population of 20k, it will be the second largest.
Microsoft has not spent my trust.

I was born in a Mac OS household. By the time I was born, my parents used Apple II clones and Macintoshes for over a decade. I have used Macintosh my whole life, except for the time before I was computer literate.

There was a time when I played Lord of the Realms on hand-me-down Windows 3.1 greyscale laptop I got for free in 2005, and a time when I played Age of Empires on another hand-me-down Pentium I desktop I bought for $99 in 1999. Those were the best times. I also used PowerPoint during primary school and high school.

Having no other experience with Microsoft software, I cannot emphatically say Microsoft has spent my trust.

On the other hand, I have a huge degree of trust in Apple software, which, I must say, has been slowly eroding in the years since the passing of Steve Jobs.
Congrats on the release Sandi and Katrina! I am looking forward to reading it! Just purchased and downloaded.
As an American living in Australia, I'd say your perspective is kind of skewed by the American market. A large number of torrenters aren't cheapskates or thieves but are from outside the U.S. and unable to even get ahold of this stuff due to the way licensing overseas works. Or if they do, it's at 1.5x-2.5x the price.

We have a 21st century distribution model tied to a mid-20th century legal framework and business model. It's hard to say what is fair in every case. What I feel is not fair is throwing the book at all of these site owners, especially when the laws are written in the U.S. but are somehow stretched to where they apply to people who never set foot there.

In 5-10 years, they could still be in jail while technology remakes itself to the point where either distribution and payment has finally started working gain, or torrenting has gotten to the point where it's nearly impossible to trace the activity to any one person. Neither option seems unlikely, and punishing people now for something that doesn't hurt anyone too much does not seem like it's worth it.
That sounds like a good idea for a chrome extension.
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> If sharing blocklists is an effective way for likeminded people to create a shared experience on a platform that they prefer to have, it seems like a course of action with very few downsides.

It encourages shallow mindedness, ignorance and echo chambers - where you only hear only ever what you want to hear. It literally 'Fox News's Twitter.

Surely, it's great for the bottom line of the company; people hate to be told they're wrong, even when they absolutely are. It's honestly this kind of thinking though that's lead to the strong polarization of the country.

I'd much rather have people yelling at me non-stop that I'm wrong, and take the time to rationally consider their positions. I'm assuredly in the minority.

Are blocklists good for Twitters bottom line? Undoubtably. Is it good for the overall health of society, never having to hear that you're wrong? No way.