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A lot of comments here and I haven't seen one that addresses the problem of impulsivity. Many / most of the times I need a car are not schedulable events but impulses. For example when I'm working on a project around the house, it's typical to need to run up to the hardware store 3 times in a day.

I think autonomous transport will be very popular but shared vehicles will be hardly more popular than Uber / taxis are now. If you think that shared autonomous vehicles will be significantly more popular than shared conventional vehicles are today, I'd be interested to hear why. Is it primarily cost savings?
One cannot build a company with the expectation that everyone will use your product. There are always people who will find a reason not to work with you. You have to aim for the majority, not the exceptions.

If everyone felt like you did, it is a deal-killer. But you need to do enough research to know whether or not that is true before giving it any weight in your decision making processes.
A problem I see with many Microservice vs Monolith discussions is that there seems to be an assumption that it is a binary relationship instead of an analog one. That is, there exists all sorts of architectures in between the microservice model and monolith model that have different trade-offs. You have programs like postfix which has a collection of small applications working together via sockets, queue based separation like sidekiq, RPC systems like protobuffers or thrift, etc. You don't have to use an HTTP/REST API to get many of the benefits of microservices while controlling the complexity.
> I drastically overestimated people's operational cleverness.

Maybe your target audience was just not quite right? People go gaga over ARGs and devote thousands of hours to 'em.

Maybe hint that your game has something to do with HalfLife 3...
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Considering the relatively positive comments here and its prominence, it is fairly interesting that there are no notable FOSS alternatives for Notes, not at least any that I'd know of. I suppose writing corporate software is not that sexy, but on the other hand I'd imagine document management is something that would be a itch to be scratched even in personal use (it certainly is for me)
Interestingly enough, Google has the best metrics with which to gauge customer interest - just tally up the searches for the product.
As someone who once had a long-distance relationship with a 400mi round trip, I'd say it's a little of both. There's a novelty factor, but there's also a part of it that some people find enjoyable.

Having the right car helps: trips made in my almost-busted Honda Civic were much less enjoyable than the ones in my brand-new-custom-ordered Mini Cooper. :) The right soundtrack, the right weather, and the right caffeine vehicle are major factors as well.
I'm sure no commercial publisher will agree. But there is still a difference between "I will not review because I don't feel like it" and "I will not review unless I get paid for it". They send different messages to both the publisher and the scientific community.

By the way, feel free to provide your reviewing services for non-profit or open-access journal. Just please, pretty please, don't collaborate with publishers who demand to be paid for a service they don't even provide. And point out that is the publisher who is freeloading, not the researcher who merely refuses to work for free.
> I think you overestimate how willing someone is to sit in a small car with 3 other strangers during their morning and evening commutes.

The self-driving vehicle needn't be a small car.
Yeah, wow, all I have to do is write a bunch of regular expressions tailored to the unique output of this command instead of passing in a list of property names. It's so easy.
I see language conformity through two lenses: risk and scale.

I'll speak to risk first.

If you are a company delivering a report to shareholders, the risk is primarily downside risk. It's unlikely for your stock to skyrocket if you say something clever, but it might fall if you spook them. This is because the default assumption for companies is that management is already competent, so the risk distribution has more downside than upside. I see corporate speak as a tool to avoid spooking folks and triggering this downside risk. (Notably, there is a positive feedback loop, where non-corporate speak becomes a stronger signal as it becomes rarer.)

On the other hand, if you are a startup company trying to break into a market, the risk is primarily upside risk -- if your communications go well, your business could eventually grow by many multiples. And achieving growth almost always means differentiating yourself from competitors. The reason that many startups eschew corporate speak is not necessarily because they are smarter, but simply because they are adapted to their environment. Avoiding corporate speak is the correct strategy when your upside risk is high.

The second issue is scale. It applies to both the receivers of the messaging and the senders of the messaging.

If you are selling to a specific niche, you can use the language and sensibilities of that niche when crafting your message. But if you are selling to a broad base composed of many niches, this customization of language is no longer possible. Anything too non-standard risks distancing certain niches. This is why when you are selling to a large audience, your communication necessarily needs to be blander than if you are a selling to a specific niche.

Another force that pushes corporate speak is coherence. When you have one voice, as individuals or startups might, it's easy to keep messaging consistent and coherent. Avoiding mistakes is easier, because there's only one point of failure. But as your company scales, you suddenly have hundreds of people putting out communications (and there is constant turnover among these folks). In this setting, it's hard to keep the style of these communications unique and consist. It's also harder to prevent dumb mistakes, since there are now hundreds of points of failure. Relative to more personal or unique styles, corporate speak is easier to apply across large organizations.

Lastly, and relatedly, I think corporate speak often arises as a result of people optimizing individually. If I'm putting out communications, I could get fired if someone doesn't like my bold/honest/creative take. But if I put out something bland, especially in an environment while others are putting out something bland, I'm not going to get fired. It's a similar risk argument as above, but applied to people. If I write a great a blog post for my company, no one is going to double my salary. But if I write a disastrous blog post for my company, I'm getting canned. The risk is asymmetric.
The target market is companies providing facilities management services to residential apartment blocks.
I suspect that also sex and rock'n roll are not going that strong anymore ...
DynamoDB cannot store empty strings
Totally this. I have a friend who's running his company's Shanghai operations. They installed four air purifiers in their home just to keep the smog out - and Shanghai is a relatively clean air city! They have to check the smog report every morning to see if it's okay to take their kid outside. I would never raise a family in that environment.
Ok so if a business a) has limited management bandwidth and many promising options or b) has a particularly cyclical/risky business model that results in a high cost of borrowing then you're right.

These are somewhat linked to profitability as you say, but a safe slow-growth company generating massive profits (eg Coca-Cola) doesn't face this.
> (although I think the name could use a little work)

In Japanese (書こうね), it translates roughly to "Let's write, mmkay?"
And how do we undo it when we discover we don't like the side effects?
I take it that Uber is betting on being thee brand for ride sharing. Maintaining market leadership is critically important for when autonomous cars take off. Even if any car manufacturer were able to undermine Uber on cost, Uber will already have a significant upper hand with people already seeing it as the company you call to get somewhere. The only question I ask myself when looking to go somewhere is, Uber or Lyft?

If car manufacturers tried to clone what Uber has built they'll probably flop on making the technology usable, and the experience may just be overall frustrating.
Aneel makes some good points. Most PR firms serve large companies, who can afford to wait for reporters to come to them. Startups need an active outbound strategy that's focused on reporter needs, and those needs revolve around satisfying their fact-checking editors and readers who want a good story.

I was a reporter for years, and I used to talk and write about it:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzcEIIxKcYncbUk2ZjRHS1hmQUk...

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzcEIIxKcYncOHd4VTBrU29ObFE...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAWZBdLVj24
This is a great idea.

As you note, long-festering mental health issues often build and persist below the threshold of obviously needing intervention. I would add this anecdotal observation: the episodes associated with these long suppressed/ignored issues crossing that threshold seem to often lead to much worse outcomes (breakdowns, binges, harm to self or others) than comparable issues that are chronically at or above the treatment threshold. I think that much like cancer, early detection could do a lot to prevent these devastating outcomes.
So, overall, would you say it's worth the price? Where you able to take the advice and translate that into money? I've never been to a conference before. So I'm having trouble justifying the cost to be honest.
> So yes Slack is to IRC, as the Ford Model T is to a Mercedes S-Class.

I think you mean the other way around.
To be fair, the author says that the value is between 0 and 1 since _the alternating series clearly converges_ to a value between the 1st and 1st+2nd.

So in reality it explains pretty well why it's between 0 and 1, and leaves the "clearly" to something which in his opinion is common knowledge:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternating_series_test
I did a couple of searches for various terms and you had a huge index for the various terms. Surely such an index is only possible by hooking into search results from another engine, eventually this will lead to some sort of issue?

What's really made it difficult for competitors is being able to match Google's index. Bing crawls a lot of pages but is much more picky about what it index?

Also can you say where you are pulling the results from the Yandex API, Bing, Yahoo or Google itself?
First, I'm very sorry you have to deal with such a difficult issue, and I'm glad that something is available to help with your pain. It is very unfortunate, IMO, that many people are having difficulty getting the pain meds they need due to the drug war.

I think issue with Fentanyl is not the accurately labeled stuff you're getting from the pharmacist. The issue is that since fentanyl is a lot stronger than other opioids, and is easier/cheaper to manufacture, people in the black market have figured out that they can sell counterfeit pills/heroin/etc. that is actually (cut/diluted) fentanyl, and get the benefits of 1) higher profit margin, 2) easier supply chain (no pill mills or poppies needed), and 3) easier to smuggle and store raw product, due to the higher potency. The problem comes when the counterfeit product is too strong -- a user takes what they believe is their normal dose, but it's a lot stronger and they die (e.g. Prince: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-37151146).

I've heard it theorized that the high number of recent fentanyl-related overdoses could be because some gang(s) might be trying to figure out the optimal ratio of fentanyl to filler to use in their counterfeit products by watching the overdose rates in low-income markets before moving the counterfeit products into high-income markets (i.e. they don't want to have a rash of stock brokers overdosing).

Applying Hanlon's razor, another explanation might be that these counterfeiters are just mistakenly putting to much fentanyl in the mix.

I assume that fentanyl is no more dangerous than any other opioid when the dosage is correct (I really have no idea, someone correct me if I'm wrong here!).

(EDIT) The counterfeiting issue is a one of the reasons that some people (myself included) argue for legalization of all drugs or at least better harm reduction strategies for addicts: purity, dosage, and quality control would all be better if these drugs were obtainable from more reputable sources.

Unrelated to fentanyl in particular, but a word of advice: if you need to take these meds for an extended period of time, be very wary of any issues with your gut! A very close friend of mine has been on prescription opioids for around 8 years due to some chronic pain issues she has resulting from giving birth; the constipation side-effect eventually caused a bowel obstruction which she ignored for too long, and it has escalated into a very painful and dangerous situation for her, involving several procedures which sounded very unpleasant.
The proof is quite terse but did you find the 'clearly' bit harder to digest and verify than the series expansion itself? You know a is an integer >= 1 and every time you subtract a term bigger than the one your subsequently add so there's no way to get past the sum of the first two terms.

The bit of algebra and the series expansion is shown in the margin note and not touched upon at all in the text - it seems not nearly as simple to check by simply staring at the thing.
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Yes.

For a while, I've actually tried uploading stuff to small TrueCrypt containers. Everything above 50 MB per container is absolutely unusable for cloud storage.

Now I'm simply on ownCloud (well, Nextcloud to be precise) with the encryption enabled on the backend when the data is at rest.
> Also: Private car ownership is going to fall off a cliff shortly after autonomous ride services arrive. Which probably means general demand for vehicles will fall off a cliff.

I've seen this sentiment so many times now that I have to ask a serious question to anyone who echoes this sentiment:

Do you own a personal car right now? If so, why?

All of this... excitement over the transformations that self-driving vehicles will bring to the world of transit basically boils down to a model that's a mixture between taxi service and (really crappy) bus service, both of which exist today and have existed for several decades--and basically predate the automobile when you think about it. Yet somehow self-driving vehicles are supposed to completely change the mix of transit use when it's not really adding any capability changes. So I'm genuinely curious as to what the magic sauce is that makes people so giddy for this future.
A blind person rode a Google car alone in 2015
That sounds like the opposite of what I want. I find myself unlocking accidentally now (though less often than when I first upgraded).
"disallowed from leaving" sounds just a little more ominous than that, but who knows if OP was exaggerating or not.

In terms of this particular example, Goldman would not attempt to do that because 95% of the affected employees would quit on the spot.
Hah, yeah, that's a good way to put it. For some reason I had it in my head that Notes got carried along with Symphony but it turns out it was the other way around with Symphony being given away as a free add on to Notes.

I had the "pleasure" of using a Notes/Domino solution back in the mid 90's but it was only for a couple of months; when I joined they were most of the way through a migration to MS Exchange/Office. Can't say I loved/hated it with the same zeal as other posters, just didn't have enough time to form an opinion at the time.
So you would become a professional reviewer. Sounds like a reasonable career choice to me.
> Why electron over native?

Presumably to go cross-platform with less effort.
thank you for this answer. I'm glad that this is being enforced because this is literally me 100%. Glad to see that other people are looking for someone like me.
It seems we don't win anymore. Bigly.
So bicycles would have to carry the car-to-bicycle communication device too?
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Yes. most people when confronted with the choice of a cheap shared ride, or the convenience of their own vehicle will choose a cheap shared ride. The cost on a per mile basis, will be close to 10x cheaper. I predict even you will change-over when confronted with that kind of choice. It seems inevitable.
3D Expressive Avatars from a Single Photo
Excellent. I do hope it's better than Hipchat's attempt, which I found to be terrible -- delayed audio and stuttering video.
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Imagine warehouses filled with growing tomatoes. They wouldn't have leaves or roots. The plants would be directly injected with sugars and nutrients to grow. There wouldn't be any wasted energy due to the inefficiency of photosynthesis, or the need to grow leaves that will just be thrown away when the fruit is harvested. There'd be no pesticides, herbicides, or fertilizer running off into the water ways. No more habitat destruction. We would have delicious tomatoes in our grocery store, picked only a day before, full of nutrients and flavor. I'm aware that Monsanto is a terrible company, but GMO is going to help save the planet.

Lygos is the first step towards the above scenario happen. At its heart, a cell is basically a huge finite state machine. It is programmed both through dna and proteins. Some day (and maybe Lygos already has something like this) we'll have a programming/description language to describe what a cell does/how it works. It would start with the basics. (When you see this molecule, attach this other molecule to it. When concentration of this gets too high, start doing this.) It would also have a basic support structure (nucleus/ribosomes) needed to be a functioning call. On top of this, you could program it to produce what you needed.

I never supported Trump, but I'm severely disappointed in the direction his administration is going. If he wants to make America great again, lets start researching projects like what I described above. There was a pdf posted in yesterdays posting on Germany's fusion reactor, talking about the private companies that were helping to build it. They had to come up with new manufacturing skills and tools, and are now able to use those in other jobs. That is how you make America great again.
> ...optimized factories...

> Feed them sugar & water, and out pops specialty chemicals.

Even if your culture contains microbes that produce the specialty chemical you're interested in, natural selection in the reactor favors the populations that use the least sugar and water and multiply the most. In other words, reactors are very good at growing microbes: surprise! They're quite bad at selecting for much else.

Just doing what you described is called the Evolvenator. That discovery described how to build and test the microbe, but not necessarily how to design it.

There's a fix: what if we make the interesting chemical a side effect of the kind of more efficient metabolism that's expressed by the highest-surviving population in your culture? In other words, the microbes that multiply the most make the interesting stuff by accident, usually as a consequence of the media in their reactor and a small tweak to their genetic code.

It turns out that designing a chemical pathway that is metabolically superior to a natural one and as a side effect, produces an economically valuable product, is crazy hard. It is usually harder than designing an industrial process to manufacture the economically valuable product in the first place.

That's why the article mentions that these other biotech firms "specialize" in making certain kinds of chemicals. In reality, they experiment with maybe two targets a year, and they land one that works out of 10.

You'd be wrong to judge them on their hit rate: rather, I'm just pointing out how there isn't some kind of "optimization" magic to discover efficient chemical pathways. It's incredibly hard research! And I'm always surprised (though pretty delighted) that VC finds its way to these people, because VC avoids actual science projects like the plague.

PS: The $13 million will buy things like the Sartorius bio reactor, a $1 million up front + $1-2 million a year machine capable of running automated experiments on yeast cultures in bioreactors. If you're in the business of making pickaxes instead of trying to strike gold, clearly you should make a better bioreactor. If you agree, just e-mail me.
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Good ideas are a dime a dozen. Whatever you're thinking, a thousand other people on the planet have DEFINITELY thought of as well. The difference between people with ideas, and entrepreneurs, is that entrepreneurs make an attempt to bring that idea to life.
> that you're UX is better

> you're
I'd love to build something like this hooked into a wall mounted eink system or a larger home automation system.
Slack uses Opus.
Exactly, unless self driving cars become cheaper than taxis then what is the point?
Not with this kind of ink, that is very interesting in fact.
Isn't this more of a public statement about the report than the link to the actual report that's hidden behind a link at the bottom of all this?

The only thing I've learned is that they're a part of some coalition about the transparency. The report itself is much more interesting.

Maybe it's worth switching the link to https://www.dropbox.com/transparency/ ?
I think I probably didn't explain my meaning well. For Netbeans, Intellij, Eclipse, VS, etc. you tend to have to create a new project to write a plugin.

In Emacs, adding a simple extension is simply a matter of adding a function to your .emacs file. So adding useful functionality is very low friction, low enough that you can afford to do it when it wouldn't be worth the effort in an IDE.
> windows 10 … won't let the user decide when to reboot and install updates

This isn't actually true; there's a setting in the control panel to tell it when to reboot and install updates.

That said, Windows 10 will reboot to install those updates, and then, next time you log in, will make you wait several minutes while it 'finishes installing updates'. It also does so in what is intended to be a user-friendly matter, but which comes across as creepy and menacing. The first time it happened, I logged in to see a screen that said

'Hello'

Then:

'We've made some changes to your computer' (or similar unsettling language)

And then, as if they realized at this point how menacingly they were coming across:

'Your files are all where you left them'

I was 95% sure that I'd been malwared and someone had encrypted all my stuff for ransom. I actually had a moment of panic, wondering what they would have had access to from that machine.

> This is why people buy overpriced stuff (like Apple!).

I would argue that if the frustration-free approach that Apple tends to embody best appeals to you, then it's not 'overpriced', it's just more highly priced.