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This looks cool, although it appears a bit young still.

I'm looking for a cross platform (>= iOS+Android) mobile solution, so I can write a web app once, and deploy it easily as a mobile app on multiple platforms. The app will be very simple, almost proof-of-concept-like; I basically just need something not ugly that can connect to the RESTful app backend.

I've been Googling for the past couple of weeks, and so far https://coronalabs.com/ and https://dropsource.com/ look interesting, but I would love to hear from someone with experience.
I tried to stick with KeePass.x for the longest time, but keeping the keepass databases in sync across multiple platforms/devices, while possible, was very much a pain and quite a clunky/messy process which always required me to remember to do something after updating the database anywhere. I eventually gave up and migrated to Lastpass which "Just Works™" on all my devices.
It's not necessarily the experience on the phone that is lacking in other SMS based apps on competing platforms -- I see it as the ability to leverage being able to message anyone from most platforms be it conputer, iPad, or phone and have it all in sync. That to me is the massive draw to it.
Facebook Open Source 2016 year in review: https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/t39.2365-6/15945710_1292506674...
Can you please cite your source for the good coffee? I hate when people don't give evidence in their posts here. Seriously, this community is going to hell.
I just realized that the Star Wars "you have a 45% chance to death if you proceed to travel" could totally become a reality in hazardous travel conditions.

Heck, there could be live read-out of "probability of accident", "probability of death" etc... once we get to level 4 to 5. Computer asks you whether or not to proceed.

What's the threshold at which the computer should be programmed not to proceed? This moral rabbit hole gets big picture fast.
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Python doesn't force you to use IDEs. There are good command-line tools (and editors such as sublime, vim and emacs can jump to definitions etc).

There are "IDE guys" and "text editor guys". You can just determine who you are and be productive there!

Best text editors are sublime, vim, emacs;
Best IDE is probably PyCharm.

It's much less of a choice when you code in Java for example: way better to use IDEs.
Is there a theory for what "effect" would be produced by a theoretical object going faster than light? The relevance is that, I thought a "sonic boom" was defined as what happens to an object and its surroundings after going faster than sound. A "sonic boom" of light seems nonsensical, even after reading the article. Isn't this just a cone shaped wave?
My great worry with self-driving cars is that they shouldn't be right around the corner, but they might be anyways. Marketing departments might move faster than engineering, smooth-talking the buyers into taking uninformed risks in order to expand the company's training data.
Australia doesn't have low speed or huge fines. Many places like the city of Sydney doesn't even have red light or speed cameras in the city, it is a joke.

Australia does not take traffic crashes seriously at all.
Come to Canada!
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> requiring rearview cameras

Please lord, this. I hate backing up.
I was designed to survive a nuclear attack and be able to retaliate, not to survive long term societal collapse.
That is genuinely insightful, and is most certainly a political problem to address.
a genie offers you a deal. "I will prevent all car accidents that cause death for an entire year. In exchange, at the end of that year, I will randomly kill people, one by one, until as many as XX% of the prevented deaths are 'repaid'.

The 1% safety people would take the deal at 99% repaid deaths. But I think most people would only be comfortable with a number much lower.
Muscle atrophy? ;)
SAE Level 4 seems to match up with that.

https://www.sae.org/misc/pdfs/automated_driving.pdf

the driving mode-specific performance by an automated driving system of all aspects of the dynamic driving task, even if a human driver does not respond appropriately to a request to intervene

The only way to do all aspects of the dynamic driving task when conditions are untenable is to stop.
$500 etching fee, and the saleperson
re-etched the VIN in the car windows
over the top of the VIN already etched
in the car windows.

Wait. What?

My god. I don't even understand the necessity of... etching? a VIN? into a window? Why is that even a billable line item? It sounds like a form of vandalism.

Why did they insist on ruining your windows with a numeric marking? Windows can break. They're replacable parts. They carry no assurance of permanence.

Who requires this? Why is it required?

What is accomplished by this practice? Why does it cost the buyer money? Why does it fetch that much money, when it's essentially an unskilled task that occupies minutes of effort?

EDIT: Oh wow. I didn't even know this was a thing. [0] Certainly not anything of a $500 value. Certainly not a requirement.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VIN_etching
The paper describing the camera is very interesting - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25471883
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The New Yorker did a story about indoor vertical farms – whether or not they can be scaled to feed entire urban populations, etc. Really interesting read and it might provide a spring board for some ideas

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/09/the-vertical-fa...
I remember this concept being the cover story in an issue of Popular Science back in the 1970s -- a "gas station" where you exchange electrolytes.

philipkglass' comment brings up one risk: what happens if the batteries are breached in a severe collision?
Yea, lastpass got burned by it with their chrome extension. After that, I switched from a web password manager to desktop password manager. Less attack surface area.
Household water usage, especially for dense housing like apartments that lack yards, is such a small percentage of overall water usage that it's a rounding error. Agriculture and then industry are the main users of water.
I also like how LastPass can be administered by company / team admins, has 2FA, allows you to share passwords (or groups of passwords) with people (or teams of people), has some built in tools to help automate password updates, and can give you a quick at a glance audit of which passwords are old / insecure / are used more than once / are used for services that have been reported hacked and should be changed.

But... HackerNews hates LastPass for some reason... still haven't quite figured out why. (= It's a great service.
Correction: One of AlphaGo's techniques is MCTS (Monte Carlo Tree Search), not MCMC (Markov Chain Monte Carlo).
Tudor made a smaller version of their submariner that looks great on smaller wrists. I don't think they ever made a no date mini sub, but it's worth checking out. You should also look into the tudor black bay 36. 36 mm case, only downside is it doesn't have a dive bezel

Tudor is a Rolex sub brand that uses Rolex cases but swaps in more generic swiss movements. Less expensive servicing, especially since you don't need to send it to rolex, but all the Rolex quality on the outside.
Remember COBOL.net !
> There are some cities with very lax zoning regulations, Dallas or Houston come to mind. And yet we don't see a massive migration from suburbs to the high rises.

Have you actually compared rents in cities like Houston to the same sized apartments in cities with more restrictive zoning? They're lower in Houston.

The reason people don't live in high rises in Texas cities is that they're so sprawled they don't need vertical construction. San Francisco has almost five times the population density of Houston even though Houston has almost three times as many people.

> How do property taxes discourage construction?

They discourage the property owners. If you own a ten story building on a lot zoned for twenty, adding the extra ten floors looks a lot more attractive before you subtract out the additional property taxes you'll owe forever if you do it.

This is a compounding problem because the property taxes are based on the property value but the property value is based on scarcity, so if housing units become scarce then property values (and thus property taxes) go up and you have to charge higher rents to justify new construction. Which allows rents to go even higher because there is less new construction which further increases property taxes and requires even higher rents to justify new construction and so on
There was post early today (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13463263) where the same issue was happening, but the search was for youtube. The hoax site looked just like you are describing. Interestingly, I am no longer seeing any ads on my google searches.
Funny comment :) Looks like someone got rejected a few times. The point here is to land an interview first. I can't name one single engineer who wrote "algorithm and data structure" on his/her Resume. Do you? If you do have a nice github profile it'll help you get into the hiring process. AND THEN we can start talking about the actual interview content.

It's all about separating the good from the bad.
Yeah the smart thing would have been to acknowledge that you arent FB and dont need to be FB and to focus on areas that are underserved rather than trying to semi repeat what they have done
Luxury housing becomes more affordable with time. There are plenty of buildings in New York that were targeted upscale at the time they were built, but are no longer upscale and thus rent to people lower down the income spectrum now versus then.
Doesn't he get entry to whatever presidential compound there is?
Rear view cameras are already mandatory on all new vehicles: http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2014/03/31/nhtsa-re...
I have used virtually all commercial conferencing services and aside from the lack of linux support, have found webex to be by far the most stable solution that integrates voice from phone lines (far better quality than voice over ip), video and presentation. Blue Jeans comes close but has very limited countries with phone line support.
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My feelings are the the way forward is to not make more restrictions on what companies can do (by forcing them to sell repair parts), but rather to simply remove currently-existing restrictions on everybody in the form of IP laws (i.e. patents and copyrights on components) which prohibit consumers from legally making their own repair parts and doing their own repairs.
As an organization, you can't actually reach "your followers" on Facebook for free, because they aren't your followers. Facebook will lower and lower the reach of your posts until none of your audience actually sees them. They'll gladly show your posts to more of your audience for a fee though, which is where much of their advertising revenue comes from.

Any small organization/business would be better off with an email list, so they can actually contact their audience.
Uh, no. Max out of pocket != Deductible.

$10k max out of pocket is not that bad. $10k deductible is bad if you're single over 30.
I think KeepassXC includes the "auto-reload" patch, which causes the database to be automatically reloaded whenever the file changes; if you also enable auto-save this allows for fully automatic synchronization if you to store your encrypted database file in Dropbox or similar.
You might enjoy this article given the kind of work you do:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/249951/computers/if-it-aint-b...

You've probably seen plenty of crazy stuff in legacy systems but I'm hoping at least one surprises you. Maybe the first one. :)
What happened to the Windows binaries?
Fellow New Yorker here. Thanks to all of that construction, rents here have actually decreased over the past year: https://www.rentjungle.com/average-rent-in-new-york-rent-tre...

That's why we're all "build baby build": Increase supply enough to meet demand and you can get prices to drop. It's worth it in order to help maintain the existence of affordable housing.
This DIY lane following algorithm made me think about it, and after reading Elon Musk's tweet about retrofitting I'd been thinking about the market and figured this thread was as good a place as any to deposit my thoughts.
> "Uber for planes" would be highly illegal, and everyone involved would get arrested.

Unless, of course, it was actually Uber doing it.. then it would suddenly be made legal in 90% of the places it operated and have a blind eye turned to it in the other 10%. I saw a ton of gypsy cab services get shut down in my city before Uber came along.
If chromeOS is the native eco, why is everyone talking about rolling chrome into Android and not the other way around?
Yes, I am who I am, and I've done a little more than "play poker before".

While it is true that solving a smaller stack size is cheaper, you have to solve many stack sizes from 1 to N to get good coverage across the space of all play.

I've been following this work for over 15 years, and they certainly deserve credit for what they did. But what they have done falls short of the banner headline.
Right, but what was your Max out of pocket? If you can't remember these details then how can you say it was a good plan?
If NHSTA does its job, this shouldn't be an issue in the USA at least.
It's funny, Uber is betting the farm on autonomous cars becoming reality and reading this reminds us of just how far away that is.
> What happens to lithium batteries over time?

Depends on the type of lithium battery. Primary lithium batteries (not rechargeable) can hold a charge for years/decade and high rate ones can be a long term hazard.

However lithium secondary batteries (rechargeable) in your old phones discharge faster. Few percent a month. Likely they're dead with no stored energy to create a fire hazard.
"Like a startup inside a big company" seems dubious. I have heard it so many times through the years, and it just never pans out. It is basically a euphemism for: you will start with a blank piece of paper and work very hard in a small team. But you will still be subject to big company policies, and of course you don't get anything like startup equity in case your project succeeds in the marketplace. So not literally the best of both worlds.

I'm not saying not to join such a team -- just that you should go into it with a clear picture. It sounds like this could well scratch your techie itch, and seems better than your current position. However, if the chance of a big payoff is important to you, I am dubious.
Does Apple have a lead in innovation to even keep?

You may be right, being on the ropes and declared dead can be a catalyst to motivate innovation. But that's not much help here. Apple is nowhere near the ropes or being declared dead; not in any practical, rational sense of the words.

Maybe Apple has plenty of innovation happening they don't release or it's comfortable it can hit the On-switch when it wants to? Unlike Apple's need to make a comeback back in 1997 there is less incentive to release major "really new" stuff today in as quick a cycle as they used to. It can actually hurt them long-term if that pace continued.

"How fast do you need to be to outrun a bear chasing you?...Just faster than the guy next to you."
8 grand is a stretch for a steel sub, but an 16610 (roughly 10 years old) would easily fetch close to 5 in a pinch. A pretty new 116610 lightly used you could turn into $7000 cash without too much trouble.

Precious metal rolexes don't hold their value nearly the same way as steel ones, since part of owning a gold rolex is the accomplishment of being able to buy it in the first place. They also come with a dizzying array of options, so if you want the right one you have to buy new. Sports rolexes have few options so they are interchangeable. Rolex has pulled off a neat trick of making them thought to be rare while selling nearly a million a year.
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Back at the time phones hadn't scaled up enough. Remember how horrid early android (and iphones) were? I actually skipped the first generation entirely (and only got my first smart phone because it would be better than my existing phone and have GPS navigation as it's killer app).
Why not change the name entirely, then? KeepassX is already a terrible one.

Makes me think of DOS software from 1998.
$14,300/year is the max out of pocket for family ACA plans. What are you buying that's not insured?
I know they can deal with the risks, but what about the "informed" part? My pet peeve with Tesla's marketing dept is that there are tons of Tesla drivers who seem to think the autopilot is more capable than it is: https://youtu.be/qnZHRupjl5E Those people are surely not aware of the risks they are taking, so I'd bet even the more responsible users aren't aware of its limits.
For the past decade you can find a lot of Renault with a speed limiter. Nobody mentioned it here because they probably don't know of it but it's really cool.

Like cruise control you set it up, for instance to a maximum speed of 50km/h. Then your car won't go over the speed, unless you decide to override it.

I find the design decision they made to let you override the limit very clever : if you press more aggressively on the accelerator pedal, you reach a second max level, which disables the speed limiter.
So you feel like originally you already were on full throttle but you have an option to go even more full throttle.

Driving in the city, you don't have to look at your speedometer and can focus on the road more
Uber's main use cases aren't necessarily the "hard miles" discussed in the article.
Even if the underlying HuffPost quote is accurate, this article gives a good illustration of "fake news" strategies.

Note what the article says: "an inauguration team source told the Huffington Post..." So, whether the content is false or true, it may well be true that somebody claiming to be a source told the HuffPost that, in which case the NY Post considers itself off the hook for validity.

However, Even the HuffPost article doesn't claim that this was Trump's request. Quoting: "... a member of Trump’s transition team floated the idea of including tanks and missile launchers...". So, the NYP headline appears to be a flat lie.

Nowadays, one has to parse news like YACC parsing a grammar.
> You don't need a years-long permitting and construction process to deploy them.

Not sure where you live but this definitely is not the case in all areas. In my town the local utility has been trying to get approval to build a substation (standard design by any criteria, and needed to support increased demand) for going on two years but nobody wants it near their neighborhood.
If the doctrine of patent exhaustion is undermined, I can only imagine how the public's ability to use general purpose computers might be restricted. Possibly the only unencumbered computer I own is an 8088 that hasn't been powered on for well over a decade.
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I agree, and add that sometimes people who have a tendency to BS can surround themselves with more grounded people, so that the whole package works. Their confidence and superficial knowledge can even make them seem more relatable to customers than a deeply knowledgable specialist would.

In other words, an individual's value is context-dependent. It's really hard to make such crisp distinctions as in the article.
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We're well-compensated commensurate with the skill required (not everyone can write code) and the ebb and flow of the markets (need I remind you of the late 90s?). The work, more often than not, is not interesting, not valuable (in an intrinsic, not financial, sense of the word), and forgettable.

I would say that we are the prototypical "company men" of the new millennium: non-essential cogs in a machine that are easily replaced. I think that's Bukowski's point and I wholeheartedly agree. With all this talk of culture, and paid time off, and personal development, the world hasn't changed that much in the past 50 years. At least I have the good sense of knowing what I am.

We all would like to think we're Steve Wozniaks. But we're not. Because if we were, we would've co-founded Apple. And this is precisely why I'll be leaving my cushy 6-figure job soon. As Nassim Taleb put it, "Risk takers can be socially unpredictable people. Freedom is always associated with risk taking, whether it led to it or came from it. You take risks, you feel part of history."
But if the roadbed can't support the overall tonnage, it won't matter how gently the vehicle strikes the surface.
I don't think I've ever seen an AMP page on a google search result, so either I'm searching for very different things than you are, or there's some browser configuration that doesn't show tons of AMP sites on Google.

I usually browse with JS off (though I think not on Google) and the standard suite of privacy apps - uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, etc, and I usually use the version of Google with Instant disabled. Maybe that helps.
WebEx is definitely among the best ones.

I remember the joy of using WebEx for the first time back in 2006, instead of Netmeeting or the other applications we had available to us.
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Went to read the article, got a full-screen "give me your e-mail address" window and closed the tab :(
AMP is probably good for web users. However, I believe that AMP goes against the free and distributed spirit of the web.

I am somewhat a Google fan, happily paying for music, tv shows, movies, and use the Google cloud platform. I also get some value from Facebook.

That said, I think that Google and Facebook are going to eventually badly damage the web, or at least the web that I love.
Here's my take:

- You need to think a certain way. You need to be able to see how to translate a problem into something a machine can execute. You need to be able to switch from the macro to the micro smoothly.

- You need a certain level of proficiency with the tools you're using. Those can be programming languages/OSes/libraries/other software.

- You need experience. Having seen different approaches to solving various problems. Which ones worked. Which didn't. Having tried a few different approaches, different languages.

- You need domain knowledge. If you're working in a certain field you need to know the state of the art. You need to be able to read papers in the field. You need to be able to apply whatever techniques are required for the domain.

- You need to be a problem solver.

These are sort of basic table stakes for being a good "programmer".

In most real world settings you need to have some more on top of that:

- You'll need to be a good communicator. You will need to interact effectively with many different people, e.g. your boss, a product manager, junior developers. It's a team effort.

- You need to understand users/customers. You need to be able to gather requirements, ask the right questions, and deliver something useful.

- You need to understand the life-cycle of software. How long will it be in use? What sort of maintenance work will it need. How will it evolve?

- You need to have some business understanding. Is what you're doing creating business value?

- You need to appreciate the right trade-offs. Sometimes a crappy solution sooner wins over a perfect solution too late. And sometimes you should wait and have a perfect solution. That's just one example of a trade-off but our job is full of them.

- You need perseverance. Sometimes things take longer than you think. Some bugs take a lot of work to chase down.