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And my point wasn't "boohoo look at Tesla". It was that, contrary to what OP claimed, Google made the explicit decision to shoot for fully autonomous after having tried what Tesla did (and with LIDAR-equipped cars!).
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Even some natural numbers have bad reputations: 666 is the mark of the Beast, 13 and 4 are unlucky, 1 is the loneliest number, 3's a crowd, and 40 (four tens) are terrible.
I couldn't believe they actually got him. Those last couple of seasons had some really quality guest appearances.

(Also, all episodes of Frasier are great...)
When I start thinking of some of my code as safety equipment, and some like shop tools, a lot of my decision processes become more straightforward.

My tests and practices are, occasionally, like a five point harness in a race car. Without it anchoring the driver in front of the wheel, they could never ever drive that fast with any safety at all. This one comes out as a counter to the 'straightjacket' argument some people like when the tools won't let them just write shit code that the rest of us have to babysit while they run off somewhere else to write more shit code. Which we are supposed to be grateful for... I digress.

But most of the time my tests are more like smoke detectors. The ones that go off for no reason get replaced or removed. The ones that go off after I can see fire and smell smoke? Why am I paying for upkeep on those exactly? What's the value?
IIRC, the perfect examples where you neither say "Alexa" or "Hey Google" aren't going to happen any time soon - those recognition phrases are hard-coded for performance reasons, and adding custom ones will be difficult.
Kids need parents.
> My only complaint is they try and be clever and detect when you move your wrist up to look at it, so it auto-shows you notifications. This sucks because it's not totally reliable (so half the time I press the button to bring up notifications and it ends up dismissing them because they are already in view, and other times it triggers due to an incorrect motion). I wish you could turn that off but I haven't found a way yet.

The Pebble watchface Time Orbit by Spectre Collie has the very same problem. I love the watchface looks, but if you tilt it, it decides to show other info such as date. It is a usability problem.

There's a rather large difference between the Vector and Pebble though. I checked various Vector watches and saw most at 500 USD, with one at 400 USD. So the cheapest Vector appears to be about 4 times more expensive than a Pebble 2 Classic. I don't know, that just doesn't seem like a fair comparison.
It's anecdotal, but I think my employer does the same thing. If true, it seems strange to reward a person for a personal choice.
It would also be worth looking at the geographic distribution. I suspect that most of that growth is from urban areas. Which, then, would also reflect the ongoing urbanization (and corresponding rise in demand).
Well, 3 years (at best) to find an employer who will sponsor you for an H-1B visa application. And then you have win the once-a-year lottery to get the actual H-1B visa (~1/3 chance this year). And then you hope that your employer will agree to apply for a Green Card on your behalf right away (which they don't have to; they can keep you on the short leash of H-1B for another six years). The processing of the Green Card application can also take a few years. And if you change jobs while your Green Card application is in process, it's voided -- you have to have your new employer re-apply from scratch. And if, at any point during all of these, your current status (OPT or H-1B) expires, you have to pack up and GTFO of the country.

So no, not nearly the same in the US.
Weirdly, I have always believed this to be the case, but just yesterday I considered that it was possible I was wrong.

I can't now remember exactly what news story I read, but basically it made no sense at all, unless true religious belief was the motivation, rather than selfish greed.
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But it does matter to a lot of people, which I think is the thing.

There will absolutely be people who are willing to sacrifice some ease-of-use in the name of additional privacy, but it seems that those people are in the minority, and that means that Google (or whomever) needs to provide 99/99 when everyone else is only 90/90, if they want to continue being market leaders.
Thanks for the info, I'll keep an eye out for this sometime in the future!
The New York Times had similar structure to Google for almost a century.
Open source as defined by the OSI describes something identical to free software as described by the FSF.

* "Free software" and "open source software" are two terms for the same thing: software released under licenses that guarantee a certain, specific set of freedoms.

https://opensource.org/faq#free-software

What you're describing may be what's sometimes called "shared source".
There are certainly things you can do right away to get things right on track. What is your workout schedule like? Are you lifting weights? Check out 5x5 or Stronglifts.
We've improved it some but there's more to go. If you have specific parts that you consider to be still-terrible let us know!
They're still quite uncertain. The most recent time somebody didn't make it back was less than 14 years ago, and it'll happen many times in the future unless there's a sudden halt to manned spaceflight.

What's really interesting to me are how little they really knew about the basics. Stuff like the rocket and the heat shield are pretty obvious, but for example they had no way to be sure that humans could even survive being in orbit at all. They sent animals first so they had some confidence, but they couldn't really be sure until they tried it.
Is it "customary" for a company to pay for mattresses? Maybe if the company runs an oil rig, but a tech company?

This even goes for things like salaries. If a company pays salaries that are way above the market rate, this could be seen as [corporate] tax fraud. But there often isn't a bright line in law, which is frustrating to us engineers who think deterministically.
There are rumors that the Soviet space program actually sent several humans to space before Yuri Gagarin became the first man to be sent into space and make it back alive (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Cosmonauts). The USSR was known to send cosmonauts on known doomed missions, for instance Gagarin tried to volunteer for one mission knowing the government wouldn't risk killing a national -- and world -- hero and hoped they would cancel the mission: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_1.
I shutter to think what you believe a "strong position" would be if you do not believe patent holders today do not have one.

I am personally favor abolishing all patents, especially true for "design" and software patents. I feel Patent holders today have FAR FAR FAR too much power to the point where the patent system is HARMING innovation instead of encouraging it
Doing it well while either obtaining patent licenses or avoiding patents, however, could make it non-trivial.
Got to wonder if there's been an uptick in enquiries about moving some operations across the border in the last month.
Thanks for the info! I'm still using babel on the server side for my side projects where I use async/await.
There is also a fair bit of "systems thinking" in aviation, which focuses not on who to blame when things go wrong, but how were systems set up to permit failure. Barring gross negligence or malice, most things go wrong for reasons other than the immediately involved actors.
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>A lot of that stuff although is cheaper for the corporation to provide than for the employee to pay for themselves in money and time

If that was really the case then why do so many companies offer no perks to their employees?
Ham radio isn't just a single hobby but multiple hobbies under a single banner. Initially I was interested in building things, to go from a handful of parts and a roll of solder to a completed device.

Then I got interested in communicating, talking to people all over the world. With the net that seems perfectly normal, but it was a different world back then. I made friends from all over, some of whom came to visit me.

For a while I got really interested in contesting which is a competition to talk to as many people as you can in a single weekend. That progressed when I got to Michigan State into working with others in a special group of contesting called multi-multi (multiple operators with multiple transmitters) where you'd work with a group of people at one location. This produced some difficult technical challenges and helped me become a leader.

After school I became interested in the public service aspect where hams provide communications during disasters or events like marches or marathons.

I think my original interest in communication is why I purchased a modem for my first computer and became fascinated with BBS's and later the net. Really its just another form of communication.
But did they have 2 classes of publicly traded stock, one with voting right & one without, that could be compared? I don't think so?
Which is why I used "paint", not "said". Not that I expect a company to explicitly say in their big day that others were already doing it, of course.

But my impression from the presentation, as someone who had never heard of differential privacy before, was that this was brand new research from some professor, which they contracted to help them apply it to the real world. Definitely not "this is a technology that's used to achieve such and such, this is how it works".
First gigs often suck, they don't know how good you are yet, so the don't let you touch the awesome stuff. Cool firms won't hire juniors? Well go hack some of that shit with these guys until you got a year or 2 under your belt, then you won't be able to keep firms away from you.

On the depression side, I'm just getting out of some shit like that. A couple things that helped:
Sun bathing, sounds silly and vain or whatever but most people are vitamin D difficient

A bit of exercise: ride a bike or walk for 20 minutes a day. This is easy, and just enough to get blood moving and what not.

If you drink, take a month off of booze.

36 hour fasts every other weak. Basically dinner on day 1 no food day 2 breakfast on day 3. It sucks while you're doing but it'll keep your head straight for the next couple days.

There's probably more shit that I've tried, but I do the above on and off. Try one out?
Not Quebecois-French, though, LOL...
You're confused thinking that a patent troll is just a non-practicing entity.

A patent troll is not just a "non-practicing entity" - it's an organization that attempts to use a granted patent to charge tolls on a range of later invention which was neither enabled by nor anticipated by the patent.

There should be absolutely no incentive nor mechanism for patent holders to block and extract tolls from inventions they did not enable.

It's perfectly fine for a bridge builder to authorize someone else to charge tolls (a non-practicing entity), but it is unacceptable for an unrelated party (troll) to set up camp charging tolls on a bridge, just because they had an idea for a similar bridge somewhere else.
> Donald Trump as far as I know is largely anti-union, not on the side of more progressive taxation, and not on the side of strong safety nets.

Actually a big part of his appeal was that he was strongly for attempting to keep existing safety nets. Particularly when compared to the Paul Ryan "true conservative" wing.

His tax policy is a little more mysterious because it's fairly clear from his speeches that he wasn't reading any of the proposals that his campaign was putting out.

He worked in construction, real estate, and running hotels / casinos. And he tried to avoid hiring illegals. So he has a history of working productively with unions. Although I'm sure there are some nasty disputes in his past.

So I'd say he's more pro-union and pro-safety net than a typical Republican nominee.
> You can just type "set -o vi" in your shell

I use the following instead, applies to bash and all other programs using readline.

cat >>~/.inputrc <<EOF
set editing-mode vi
EOF
I for one would prefer to avoid the gaming industry, but would not turn down the opportunity to work at Valve.
He's got a great prescient paragraph at the bottom:

> Sun is the loose cannon of the computer industry. Unable to see past their raging fear and loathing of Microsoft, they adopt strategies based on anger rather than self-interest. Sun’s two strategies are (a) make software a commodity by promoting and developing free software (Star Office, Linux, Apache, Gnome, etc), and (b) make hardware a commodity by promoting Java, with its bytecode architecture and WORA. OK, Sun, pop quiz: when the music stops, where are you going to sit down? Without proprietary advantages in hardware or software, you’re going to have to take the commodity price, which barely covers the cost of cheap factories in Guadalajara, not your cushy offices in Silicon Valley.

Indeed Sun got eaten alive by commodity hardware while not having any viable strategy to make money on software.
I mean, google is not quite going from 0 to 1 there. it's a machine learning problem and google has some of the brightest machine learning people out there already working on search.
That was funny indeed. I also remember reading about a homeless professional bottle picker who used the money he earned to buy a Bahncard 100 (A ticket which allows you to get on any train for a year) so that he could sleep in ICEs (German high speed trains)
Apple/Google aren't discounting MS, they just need to control their walled garden and contunuum will be DOA.

MS had time and again failed miserably to gain foothold in mobile, and failed miserably.

MS is like IBM in the 90s, it's past its prime.
> a window with a single progress bar for the entire task would be OK, but would still slow operations down.

There's a simple way to do a visual progress bar with almost zero slowdown: run the task in a separate thread from the progress bar, and update the progress through lock-free shared variables. Make the progress bar read the shared variables only a couple of times per second, sleeping between its updates.
This isn't a dichotomy. It's possible to make a fast-performing GUI for this task. The GUI is slow due to poor engineering.
Bing has 30-40% of the market for search. Remember lots of search engines are just rebranded bing.
Well, in the English world, bread has roughly the same definition; people mostly argue about whether it includes a leavening agent or not. (I'm of the opinion it shouldn't require a leavening agent). If you handed someone a generic food sponge when they asked for bread, they would become very angry at you because they explicitly asked for a certain type of food that you did not give them.

Which is not to say that whatever people speak doesn't have a word that's a superset of "bread", but it's certainly a much less useful, descriptive, and precise word.

In fact, the ONLY alternative definition of "bread" in english is actually "sweetbread" which, ironically, seems to be meat-based rather than derived from the word "bread".
Are the minion cores comparable to the PRU's in the Beaglebone?
I'd seriously think about taking it. Even if it is temporary and you decide to move on in 6 months or a year. It isn't ideal in some ways, but it may go a lot further towards helping your mental feeling then you realize.

I'd also agree that you get established with a physician and talk to them. Even a GP can a lot of times help walk you through this while you start your new job etc.

And just cause you take a job doesn't mean you have to stop looking for your passion. Keep up the search but take a job.
"Steve suddenly got more intense. "Rectangles with rounded corners are everywhere! Just look around this room!". And sure enough, there were lots of them, like the whiteboard and some of the desks and tables. Then he pointed out the window. "And look outside, there's even more, practically everywhere you look!". He even persuaded Bill to take a quick walk around the block with him, pointing out every rectangle with rounded corners that he could find."

http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Round_Rects_Are_E...
They should make the UI idiom feeding your file a mushroom and then double the icon size on completion.
I'm not involved with Hyper/HyperContainer, I'm just a user and recently started contributing. I've had hyperd silently crashing once, and the API and tooling is a bit rough, but these things can be fixed. No complaints so far from a purely architectural viewpoint.
As others have mentioned, Clerky is great.

We incorporated our company via Clerky and did our bit of angle investment stuff through them, as well as some of our other contractors IP paperwork.

I recommend it to anyone who asked me about doing a startup.
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I think the idea is that we won't have the option to help us support our parents, because we'll need to keep living in the house (and haven't finished paying for it so we don't have the equity to borrow from anyway).
> The main concern for people using TOTP from a password vault is attacks against the websites they are visiting, not compromise of their password vault.

Well, if they gain access to your machine, they can't access your iphone. Or yubikey. Just don't kid yourself—you use the same password for everything, and that's your only factor.
I grew up next to mission control and many of my neighbors and friends' parents were involved in Mission Control and/or Astronauts or both. Oddly, in the middle of nowhere Texas - Clear Lake. This gave me some interesting run-ins with cosmonauts, astronauts, physicists etc...

I was lucky enough to meet John Glenn on 3 separate occasions.

The first time, I discussed Plutonium 238 and my worries for satellite power given decommissioning of mission critical battery fodder for satellites on earth.

The second time, the viability of a colorblind astronaut.(I have deuteranopia and he explained to me the structure of the consoles and the switching costs of changing out colors and the follow on risk/reward of color confusion).

The third time, how we could keep more funding for NASA scale projects without having to keep offices in 50 different states for political pressure. He said he could go on for hours about this.

All 3 times, he was sharp, inspiring, and a pleasure to be around.

Today, humanity has lost the Lee Iacocca of Space.

One of my favorite quotes by him that I think is incredibly relevant right now:
"The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel."
My thoughts exactly. If I was reeeeally invested in getting that job, I would have found another laptop lying around, and powerwashed it after I was done.
Are you implying that Tesla killed the (1 person, not people) who decided to let his car slam into a tractor-trailer on cruise control?

It's not a problem to you that, say, Apple has "financed the suicides of dozens of Foxconn workers," or that GM killed 140 people by suppressing information on a defective ignition switch, or that Lockheed Martin and Halliburton buoy their stock by selling weapons to kill hundreds of thousands of people?

Evidently, you must find totally acceptable the gun-running, terrorist-sponsoring activities of HSBC in the last few years. I bet Google's permabanning of people from their own Google Apps accounts (because they were reselling a couple Pixel phones) is ethically fine with you, as well.

Never mind the tens of thousands of preventable automobile deaths yearly because car manufacturers refuse to implement even the most rudimentary of Autopilot functions.

Yeah, totally reasonable to pick on the electric car / solar battery company with $3b in revenue since one dope decided to drive into a truck and behead himself. There's nobody else deserving of criticism whatsoever.

Let's not even get started with how cocky their CEO has been with his fancy sustainable business plans!

p.s. I won't even attempt an ad hominem at the guy selling homeopathics and 'nutritional supplements' in this thread.
That's a good point, for example when many individual app developers were being sued / threatened for the use of in-app purchases, it could be argued that the root of the problem is that something like in-app purchases is not an idea that otherwise wouldn't see investment due to the lack of a profit motive, and that it shouldn't be covered by the patent system in the first place.

For the idea that patent trolls add liquidity to the invention marketplace, I'm under the impression that the cost of acquiring the patent in question is often only a minor component of the operation, and the major cost is litigating it. Which seems to suggest that the primary economic effect is something else (what that is I'm not sure).

I think part of the problem with NPEs is that in practice there is a natural disincentive for large companies to sue over (possibly) frivolous patents, since they generally each have large patent arsenals and can countersue causing a loss to both companies. So there is an incentive to have some degree of restraint except in particularly egregious cases, and for total patent wars not to go on forever. NPEs obviously don't have this incentive, and it's not clear to me how a change in patent law could effectively replicate it.
A few thoughts on the Handbook:

1. Law can be a morass and who then can you rely on when trying to understand it via online resources? Well, for startup legal issues, the answer now is the Clerky Handbook: thoroughly and carefully vetted by those who have lived and breathed this stuff for decades while working in the trenches with founders of all stripes. If you want reliability, you can’t ask for better.

2. The Handbook has scope limitations and that is understandable: to be useful for founders, the core part of the Handbook must by definition be strictly bounded or it loses effectiveness by injecting more nuance and complexity than is needed to convey the fundamentals. If the need is there (and I assume it will be), nuance and complexity can be added with adjunct materials.

3. To date, the Clerky founders have done a superb job of taking legal complexity and turning it into simple and streamlined processes - how to do a Delaware C-corp, how to do convertible notes, etc. This Handbook extends this to the idea of simplifying legal understanding, which is no small feat. In the end, it may look simple and easy but this is incredibly hard to do and all the more reason the accomplishment is to be commended.

4. The hand of YC seems to hover in and around most startup innovations of the past decade and this Handbook is no exception. So many barriers to founder success have come down in recent years and founders have YC to thank for much of this change. Add this Handbook to advances in which it has had a role.

5. The startup world is an amazing place. One advance after another, nonstop over many years. Now add this online resource to the list as a great reference platform to which many quality people have contributed. As it grows and develops, it will do great service for the common betterment now and for many years to come. Great work and kudos to those who drove this effort!
I will do that the day it becomes publicly available, but no sooner because I'm serious about Termbox being open source.
Yes, it's not there yet, but approaches based on metal hydrides are one of the leading contenders for storing hydrogen for electric vehicles powered by fuel cells. Generally, the energy density is better than a battery, but much worse than a hydrocarbon fuel. Here's an overview: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_storage#Metal_hydride...
Costco claims it had a version of Amazon's futuristic grocery store for 20 years