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Is there any custom hardware, built in house, in it? like is it a custom motherboard or do you put in custom PCIe cards that you can't find anywhere else?

If it's a standard Dell server with just some custom software and nothing else special about it, then I have a tough time comprehending why it would be called an embedded system.

If it has like a PCIe card that you can't get anywhere else. that you can only interact with the embedded software you provide. Then maybe I can see it being called an embedded system.
The Myth of RAM (2014)
When you have bombs, debt doesn't mean much.
It's even worse than that, because eventually the battery pack will have to be replaced.

While Tesla may cover that under some warranties, people who bought something like a Nissan Leaf are SOL. Their cars start losing range much quicker than a Tesla, because of the need to charge almost daily due to lower range.

Google shows the replacement cost for a Nissan Leaf battery at $5,500. Going by your calculations for 100k miles (which is Nissan Leaf's warranty range for the battery), the electricity cost will have to be $1,800 for it to make sense to buy. That's going to be nearly impossible to achieve.

The math starts to become a bit better at $4/gallon, though.
How many times will this be submitted before it gets traction? Indeed, will it ever? This is the sixth submission in the last 15 hours (or so). Here are the previous ones:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12382566

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12381788

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12381213

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12379951

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12379646
All of them, even pro-UBI articles with numbers that can be reversed to figure out what they mean in concrete-ish terms, agree its $2 trillion or more.

This one for instance (~$13k) that argues it will save money:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/a-guaranteed-income-for-every-am...

Its pretty clear the entire savings comes from cuts to Medicaid & Medicare & Agricultural subsidies.

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> 3. Propose a low (subsidence-level) basic income, which represents a major cut in benefits to pensioners and the disabled. Since those two groups receive the bulk of current welfare spending, redirecting their benefits is the only means by which a UBI can be feasible.

That one one went with a clear option #3.

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As for your solution, it works-ish, but ultimately requires maintaining Medicare & Medicaid which inflates the cost beyond what you propose or admitting you are doing #3 also.

So you'd need to actually raise ~$5.8 trillion to make your system work. It can work, you'd just need to basically double the current tax levels.
Python is great for simulating, processing data, providing an interface to automation control, but I'd still use C++ for anything time critical. With more recent versions of the standard and Boost, you can be quite productive with C++ without giving up much in the way of runtime performance.
I am, and apologies for that.

My starting point is "The goal of a recruiter is to fill positions." This leads to hiring actions being the key conversion step.

In a hiring pipeline with length like Google's or similar, I could very easily be assigning too much weight to this sort of role.

Thanks for helping me think in a different way.
The real question is one of assigning value to each goal. The valuation changes as do you.

It is easy to get into a local trap of running for a goal you no longer value. It is also easy to get trapped in switching between goals without progress.
Yes.

The non-compete is less of an issue than you may think. Your new company may even be willing to defend it for you if you are valuable enough to them and you are upfront about it. It happened to me (not in software/engineering). Plus, your current company needs to have the money and be willing to spend it to enforce the non-compete.

Your current salary is unimpressive. The $60K and the options sound worthless. The biggest mistake seems like letting it get to this point.

My recommendation would be to find that next job to support your mortgage and whatever else, and get out as soon as possible.
Tourism hasn't really paid off. Imagery seems to be doing OK, but is a fairly small business. Science isn't doing much for business at the moment, and asteroid mining is still theoretical, so I generally agree on those.

But communications? There are how many hundreds of commercially operated communications satellites in orbit right now? From a quick perusal of SpaceX's launch history, communications makes up nearly half of their business so far. Seems like pretty good business to me.
The very word "Ceremony" is a hint to the theatrics and purpose of the DNSSEC root key procedures. It's more about incanting a sense of authority in the integrity of DNS and creating the impression that DNSSEC provides some kind of transitive trust; if the procedures at the top are this robust, then that security and sense of legitimacy must flow down.

But in reality lookups to the root DNS zone are very uncommon; resolvers perform them only when occasionally boot-strapping the name-servers for the TLDs.

An attacker using a poisoned root zone to take over your traffic would have to wait between two days and a week for it to work, so it's not very interesting for a direct attack. A mass poisoning is even less useful: there is a relatively small number of TLDs and any false answers would be detected very quickly (the occasional operational mismatch is reported within minutes on DNS operations mailing lists). And if your goal is to block some DNS names, as happened in Turkey a few years ago, it's easier to simply drop the queries and responses for the domains you don't like; signing doesn't provide any help at all. Bottom line: the root zone is not very security sensitive, there aren't interesting attacks to mitigate in the first place, and none that TLS/SSL don't take care of.

Queries against the TLDs on the other hand are much more common; but what are the procedures for the .com/.net roll-over? or .ly? where are the live-video feeds for that zone signing ceremony? are there people walking around with Shamir-split copies of those keys around their necks and wearing them as if they were the guardian of the internet?
It may be true that it's harder now to make those kinds of leaps than it was in the 1970s though.
Some questions:

- Which CPU was used? Which compiler optimization flags? (2 million inserts per seconds seems slow, for a std::unordered_map, using 64 bit data)

- How does HashSet read operations perform vs std::unordered_map?

- How does external fragmentation handling in HashSet compares to std::unordered_map? (e.g. writing and deleting random keys, continuously)
Indeed, when I say life has no meaning, I don't mean that it is devoid of rules. Quite the contrary is true, since our modern life revolves around mathematics. In that sense, the universe is exquisitely meaningful, it's full of mathematical meaning, but that's not massively useful for us humans trying to figure out how to spend our time.
"This is only the beginning. The same ceremony will be repeated at the secondary master key facility in early 2017 before being used in anger for the first time at a third get together in Q2."

???
Don't get me wrong, it will get there eventually, but the current market economics aren't exactly primed for explosive growth.
rant about DANE from tptacek incoming

http://sockpuppet.org/blog/2015/01/15/against-dnssec/

I don't have a strong opinion on DNSSEC myself, but I agree with him that DANE is a bad replacement for standard TLS connections. DNSSEC is by far not the best security protocol ever designed, but it can protect to some threats, like cache poisoning.
Waterwheel, the Drupal SDK Ecosystem
I have driven one (two?) and was very impressed with it's straight line acceleration. I didn't press the handling at all (the owner wasn't the kind of guy who would/could appreciate that) so you may have a good point.
Most people (especially pundits) are terrible at predicting the future. If you want to get better, you should read "Superforecasting" by Tetlock.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expert_Political_Judgment:_How...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superforecasting
That won't fly, once you are out of the warranty period.
You are spreading very bad MIS-information, and it doesn't matter why -- stop it.

The fact, for a number of different states in which I've employed people (including MA, CA, NH...) is that there are very specific requirements for hiring people, and

NO, YOU CANNOT SIMPLY "pay using invoicing while a company gets going".

Federal and state laws specify that all employees are W2 status, and you are REQUIRED to withhold taxes. Management is even personally on the hook for these tax liabilities.

There are exceptions under certain limited criteria in which you can hire people as outside contractors -- commonly referred to as "1099s" -- the Federal laws are quite tight (the famous '20 questions'), and state laws are even tighter. E.g., in MA you cannot hire any person who performs core functions of your company as a 1099, so if your company writes software you cannot hire anyone to work on that software as a 1099 (but you could hire someone to, say, customize your office accounting package as long as you are only using it). Yes, it is that tight.

Just because some founders decide to break the law, and you would be happy to go along with them, does not make it legal.
I think most firms that tried it have since scrapped it. It turns out to be about as effective as firing a random 10% and promoting another random 10% of staff.

Consider: a project is floundering. You put your best engineers on it to try and save it. It fails anyway. They get fired! Yay stack ranking.
The cost of driving is more than the cost of fuel alone. You also need to include wear and tear on the vehicle, the cost of insurance, and of course the cost of putting that CO2 in the environment, which is currently not a part of the price of gas.

The cost of driving is closer to $0.50/mile:

https://www.irs.gov/uac/newsroom/2016-standard-mileage-rates...
That's just it, it isn't precise, at all. No one seems to remember 2000. It was a disaster in large part due to the lack of precision of paper voting. Those who don't remember are doomed to repeat I guess.
The problem with communication satellites is that the technology isn't as good (throughput, latency, cost) as a ground based system, except for handling coverage gaps.

Coverage gaps on the ground are slowly going away, so eventually this business will likely decline.
> Don't forget lots of incorrect assumptions about human nature, namely that there won't be a large, permanent underclass created by BI and that the people actually paying for BI will be more than happy to do so.

I think almost everyone would want to work on $13-$15k a year. However, they'd work part time.

And tbh, for our current welfare system, that is essentially what happens already. They work minimum wage jobs, part time, on call.
Your third to last sentence is precisely the point: we aim to teach computer science, not programming, not calculation. That was a very conscious choice when developing our curriculum - and it will probably come as little surprise that Excel is therefore not what we started with.
I noticed that one proposed solution is pretty pointless: attach a key to the hasp of the first locked box. The key can then be copied ("stolen" in today's copyrights-holder's parlance) by anyone along the mailing route, and the first person to use the key gets the ring.

This, aside from the fact that the key on the hasp is not "inside a padlocked box" ...
why does it matter if the moonshot factory is getting products out the door or not?
So according to this and CiPHPerCoder's comment, the only reason it didn't take off is that it didn't take off?

Edit: found the comment from Adam Langley [0]. They didn't want to add it to Chrome because it wouldn't meet standards for the preferences UI inclusion, practically everyone would just rely on the default notaries, so Google would have to guarantee notary uptime, thus being forced to run them on their own.

He doesn't really point out why they don't include it as an optional alternative without any notaries pre-configured. He does however say that running it as an extension would be fine, but the required APIs weren't available at the time of writing.

0: https://www.imperialviolet.org/2011/09/07/convergence.html
This depends on the goal of the projects. If it's pure R&D that doesn't have a requirement to transition to commercial use, then you are absolutely correct. I don't think that's the case here. Some percentage of projects has to transition it's technology or research into commercial use, otherwise what is the point? Google is a publicly traded company, I wouldn't be a happy stockholder if I knew they were blowing $1 billion a year and with very little to show for it.

One thing did jump out at me in this article.

Mike Cassidy, who stepped down from Loon, ran the team “like a fire drill,” a former employee said.

I read this as, "Leadership likes to change its mind about direction and focus ... constantly". That's a recipe for disaster. Focus is key. You need to find the right direction as quick as possible, then execute.
You don't know me or my situation so don't speak like you do. I bargained with collections to give me the time. I paid the electric bill with promises of “If you shut it off right now, I cannot earn the money to pay the bill, but if you keep the lights on I can work hard and pay in full (soon)”.

For months I had negative money in my bank account and a court order against me (collections for a credit card I had been buying groceries on and no longer had). So that means whenever I did make any money, the instant I put the cheque into my account to cash it - it was gone. I still couldn't buy groceries even if you put a cheque for $5000 in my hand at some points.

I got by and survived. Dropped 70 pounds from not eating right, but you're right, perhaps I wasn't poor as some folks you know, so therefore my experience hasn't been my experience.
"Jessica"'s point of view:

https://tessfstevens.com/2016/06/10/the-new-mission-liking-y...
Do you think the culture is affected by one specific industry being so prominent? For instance, in New York people might ask where you live because it might be too difficult to even understand what someone else does. (Someone's address in NY isn't just some clever proxy for asking their income, since it could be related to how savvy they were at some point in the past, and could be an opener for talking about specific restaurants, etc)
The Chevy Bolt will beat the Model 3 to market and have similar specs, ~$37K and 200 mile range.
What if your brother has hungry kids? Moral superiority doesn't feed kids.
Thank you for posting this. I read the parent several times trying to figure out if they were mistaken or I was dense.
I wouldn't count on getting much more kWh into lithium. But the batteries probably will degrade slower in the future.
From my experience as a nerd playing werewolf with non-nerds I'm afraid you're right.

Me: "Here's a plan that will defeat the werewolf in any case, even if I am the werewolf"

Them: "That sounds complicated, therefore suspicious, let's hang him"
Does that replacement cost for the Leaf battery include the core credit for returning the old battery? Those batteries still have value, and if they can be re-manufactured or re-purposed as stationary storage batteries, that could reduce the cost significantly.
This RFC was proposed in 2012. It provides a simple way to place TLS server certs in DNS, in addition to or even in place of usual TLS certificate negotiation. In theory, it lets us even remove the TLS chain of trust in favor of the one provided by DNSSEC.

However, it is obviously dependent on DNSSEC, and as the latter isn't quite ubiquitous yet, DANE cannot be widely deployed.
I saw this here a few months ago, with interest. Indeed, there is quite a list of language bindings growing there.

It seems this could pair nicely with .NET Core and appeal to C# developers who may prefer to transition to a cross-platform UI library instead of UWP.
5 Apps That Defined How Awesome Ionic Framework Is
Lets have a look at the some of the best Ionic apps made on Ionic Framework
Is there a substantial difference in this cost when comparing an electric vehicle to a gas vehicle, though?

The parent's post was about cost of fuel (per mile), not the overall cost of driving.
My personal business model since around 2002 or so has been to try to join disruptive teams within established firms.

Before that I was working in early-to-middle-stage startups ( but not startups in California ).

What I've seen is that you can actually bring something to "market", and the rest of the company will do everything it can to scuttle it. "The rest of the company" is busy keeping the old fires burning. So you don't get buy-in.

I've seen people leave relatively no-risk millions on the table to scuttle these things. But the main body of the organization is able to overemphasize risk in a way that leads to scuttling.

You'd have to have somebody fighting for the thing full time. Even then, it's not enough. I also won't say it's not that the others simply do not understand what was done. and to be fair, the engineering staff weren't really up to it anyway. When you've adapted to just duct tape fixes, it's hard to embrace a real fix. This, and the people at the coal face of these "products" proved less than capable of deployment.

Bluntly, people like having a buggy product or process to charge hours to. it's less work to jigger or abandon any measurement of defect rates and appeal to nostalgia. Management likes having "engineers" actually just doing clerical work because there's then no deployment cost. And frankly, we probably got it all done too cheaply.

I'm in the process of abandoning that model and going to work directly for the customer ( not a customer of any of the firms I worked for, of course ). This is a "firm" that's going from having contractors do maintenance to taking it "organic".

To quote Walt Kelly - "We has net the enemy, and it is us."
As I said above, requirements for games change dozen times a day, every day. This is a solved problem in the games industry. Good for you if you can afford code changes but it doesn't make such a solution better.

As of now there is no financial back pressure against the enterprise practices. It may stay like this forever. However, it's not entirely unlikely the situation will change in the future. For instance, in 80-90s people used to be paid handsomely for developing things like in-house email or spreadsheet. Now these jobs are gone because it's much cheaper to configure an off the shelf office suite than keep developers on payroll.
> Do you have any examples of corporations submitting to FOIA..

No, I don't. "Public counts" in my comment refer to how the individual votes would be captured within a blockchain's ledger -- by design, visible and traceable.

I appreciate your follow-up. The right to free expression, and by association, the ability to vote, define our constitutional republic. It's so basic that I didn't consciously recognize it.
An electric car has all of those same costs. The CO2 cost will be slightly higher, but 90+% of your electricity comes from CO2 generating facilities. Not sure where battery replacement will net out in terms of dollar and CO2 cost, but it is unlikely to be cheap.
Their biggest success is probably Google Brain.
Yes you are right. So just saying "embedded system" is very misleading. He did not mention any of specific field. So I still think he does not know embedded system.
Can you expand on this last step? it's not obvious to me what you're applying the triangle inequality to and why it gives the desired result.
One of the problem might be the incentive/motivations are not match between Google and people who works in those moonshot projects.

* Even if the projects get 10, 100 millions $ in revenue / profit, it is meaningless compare to billions in profit from search. The folks in those projects are not likely to benefit significantly from it.

* The smart folks probably know it. If they join the project (self driving car), some of motives are to learn as much as possible using Google's resources, name, connections and set it up for their own next venture.
My understanding is that externalized costs have nothing to do with a free market. Intervention is necessary in order to account for the externalized costs, which is an infringement on a free market. Are you saying that is incorrect?
That is a worry of mine, that 7 years at this company looks bad on a resume.

Also, I was not trying to impress anyone with my salary. I am aware it is probably at least 50% below market. I was hoping the company would make due on it's offer to give me a raise and I could negotiate from a stronger position.
You're speaking in absurdities.

There are things you just don't see together. You don't see quality blueprints printed on napkins, and you don't see quality code that is well-suited to its task written in a sloppy way. Technically speaking, you can lose weight eating all your meals from McDonald's. But the person who eats all their meals from McDonald's isn't going to exercise the portion control necessary to do it. It's just not a thing that happens often enough to bother considering it.

Sloppy code is an excellent indicator that the program is a buggy piece of junk. I don't care if it's technically "possible" to write a "good" program in a sloppy way. If your code is sloppy, you aren't that person who makes that program. The person who is capable of making good programs doesn't write sloppy code, even if they are technically capable of doing it.
Detroit locker is effective, but I wouldn't really call it clever. For that I think of Torsen, the Torque Sensing differential that uses planetary gears. The problem with the Detroit is primarily noise, as you mention. The problem with Torsen is that it doesn't work in the presence of near 0 traction on one of the outputs, so people will drag the hand brake in that case.
So ... one problem is a long term tanking in the velocity of money. Can't make commissions or skim off money that's not spent. No matter how fast or slow the revenue comes in, the fixed debt, is fixed.

Its very hard to argue that even if every penny goes into the pocket of a couple New York Bankers, that there won't be more activity along the way than if nothing gets spent.

Something interesting to consider is there are goods and economic fields where the population has been trained to say they'll pay anything for X, Y, or Z. Medical care, Education, Real Estate, whatever. Given that we have generations of explosive inflation in those fields way beyond normal inflation rate, I don't think changing the base income would change much in the long run. If health care costs always in the past and forever in the future until rapidly approaching system collapse will increase by 25% annually, then giving a poor person $10K/yr will have basically no impact in the long run. Like arguments I had with my wife about Peapod grocery delivery vs shopping myself... the difference is (was) approximately six months of food inflation price, and I don't enjoy shopping, and I intend to continue eating six months in the future, so I don't care if it costs a little more today, its not really changing anything in my life financially.

Another interesting thing to think about is the old Dr Phil line about money problems being unable to be fixed with money. So giving 10K to poor people means in practice its all going to disappear with no improvement in standard of living, just like every other handout in the history of humanity. Such that there's almost no point in talking about that economic segment of the population WRT mincome. And its not much money for rich people, so ignore them too. mincome is a purely middle class play, its the only group that can experience any change.