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The funny part is that for all the work Google has done building a hiring process that searches for talented generalists, the actual work they have to offer is really boringly specialized. Most of what's going on in there is just stacks upon stacks of web-service middleware, endlessly slinging RPCs back and forth at each other. If that's your bag, then yay, Google is a great place to work! - but for me it was really discouraging to realize, four months in, that no more than ten per cent of Google was doing anything I was ever likely to care about. I didn't last long, and wouldn't go back (not that they'd be likely to want me).
> Bring us worthy opponents and I'm sure there won't be protests from students.

Seriously?

I'm on your side (I guess) but they have speakers that are credible.
This. I wonder what makes people feel like they're buying FOSS packages and that the people kind enough to release their code for no material returns have to somehow lure them into using it, while it's all about sharing and improving together.
+1 for xshell, tons of features and very good GUI, maybe secureCRT is still the best, but xshell is very close, and it is free for home/school
Well there's the rub, virtually nobody is selling out-of-the-box Linux PCs. So, if Linux is being installed by the user, you're rolling the dice on how nicely it plays with your wireless, touchpad, graphics, sound, webcam/microphone, HiDPI screen and so on. "Probably" isn't good enough when the competition is guaranteed to work out of the box. And again, it needs to be guaranteed totally automatic; the population we're discussing won't be able to make the correct selection from a dropdown or install drivers manually (or have any clue what that means).

The problem with the GUIs I've seen for Network Manager is the same problem affecting nearly all Linux software, which is they're geared towards expert users. They expose too many configuration options to the user instead of hiding them in menus or preference panels. Experts like you or I see past all the noise and recognize the relevant bits. But a layman doesn't know what anything means or what's relevant, so they're likely to become stuck and confused.

Worse, many of the visible but probably-irrelevant options will prevent them from connecting to the internet if they're set to the wrong thing. The biggest part of idiot-proof UI/UX is looking at a "connect to a wireless network" modal and counting the number of ways it's possible to exit the modal without vs. with successfully connecting. You want all roads to lead to the happy path, even with Grandma rand() at the wheel.

Most Mac and Windows software could use improvement here too, although to a lesser extent, and same with iOS and Android but again to a lesser extent than with the desktop OSes.

Think of a person who leases a Camry. They like it because it's familiar and easy to drive, it meets all their needs more than adequately, and it has a low cost of ownership. If something goes wrong they bring it to the dealership and it's either covered under warranty, or, if not, they just pay whatever the cost is out-of-pocket. When their 2 years are up they lease another Camry.

One of the car blog Jalopnik's writers, Tavarish (https://kinja.com/apidaonline), doesn't know why anyone would want a Camry when they could have a 10-year-old European sports or luxury car at the bottom of its depreciation curve. The idea they're maintenance nightmares is a myth; he does all the maintenance himself, and finds like-new parts in junkyards instead of buying from the OEM, so they hardly cost him anything to own.

Obviously, Tavarish is an expert mechanic. He can replace a clutch or a turbocharger in his sleep, whereas so much as a fuse or a headlight is beyond the capabilities of our Camry lessee. We are experts. If our printer stops working we can recognize the issue, find and compile the community-supported open-source Epson 6000 SUX driver, and be on our merry way. Other people, who think a driver is a golf club or Morgan Freeman, just buy a new printer.
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Thanks for expanding on this. My answer of 'Yes.' deserved the downvotes.
It is ridiculous to charge taxes based on fictitious paper valuations. I think taxes should be imposed only when shares are sold resulting in cash.
> "Democratic" areas are also to a large extent the areas with money, and population density, and crime, and industry, and higher education, and all sorts of variables you'd want to be able to control for.

Maybe you wouldn't control for them; for example, some of those variables may be consequences of being Democratic areas. I'd guess higher education is, as the GOP often wants to cut funding for it.
Insurance is already regulated at the state level, although it varies from one state to the next. One possible solution to your scenario is risk pooling like North Carolina does with NCRF.
Half of my pantry is food I found in the clearance and damaged goods sections. I never go to the store with the intent of buying three big cans of enchilada sauce, but the bent ones are half off and I'll use them eventually...
Always interesting when the (anonymous) upvote to supportive comment ratio is as high as it is for this submission.
Looking at the overview, this seems to have a central key server at key.upspin.io... Why not use some decentralized mechanism like dns txt records?
Two of the three Kubernetes co-founders (Joe Beda and Craig Mcluckie) co-founded Heptio. The third (Brendan Burns) left Google for Microsoft, where Kubernetes on Azure reached GA today [0].

[0] http://blog.kubernetes.io/2017/02/caas-the-foundation-for-ne...
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Alfred Dolge built a factory town near the Adirondacks and gave his workers health care, insurance, and profit-sharing in the 19th century: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Dolge

The factory featured a pre-Edison hydro-powered dynamo and was the second place in the world to have electric lights: http://www.edisontechcenter.org/Dolgeville.html

This article suggests that he was forced into bankruptcy by his creditor-peers, who feared his socialist business practices would ruin the system that enabled their wealth: https://upstateearth.blogspot.com/2011/02/downfall-of-alfred...

Interestingly, when he was run out of New York he founded a second utopian company town in Los Angeles (Alhambra) but with less success: http://articles.latimes.com/1993-05-31/local/me-41998_1_alfr...
The purpose of insurance is to protect you from unpredictable or unlikely risks. If a risk is predictable and likely, what's the point?

If you want to distribute risks fairly, that's more a job of government subsidization. It is unfair that someone born with a genetic disease has to pay large medical bills, and I'm ok with the government subsidizing that.

On the other hand, I don't want to subsidize the risk of serial drunk drivers. It's totally fair they have to pay higher premiums or not be allowed to drive.

Ideally there could be a compromise. Like insurance companies agree to insure bad drivers if they take remedial driving lessons.

It's theoretically possible we could use insurance as a free market solution to government regulation. Instead of building codes, require building insurance. And the insurance companies will do their best to actually predict the risk of various disasters and what things actually work to reduce them.
Very few guides follow their own advice.

William Safire satirised it nicely in his Fumblerules.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fumblerules

http://dmorgan.web.wesleyan.edu/materials/safire.htm
Still,

In December, the U.S. government reported that life expectancy had declined in 2015 for the first time since 1993 as death rates for eight of the 10 leading causes of death, including heart disease, rose.

points to there being a real problem, not just a problem with how the number is calculated.
> why would an American citizen choose to not learn the national language?

English isn't our national language—the US doesn't have one.
This principal is why we don't make our own shoes and milk our own cows, just at a different scale.
Is it a robbery if you agree on the price _before_ the service is done?
Thanks Vince. A key point is that Scaphold uses Relay and it's schema on the backend, which implies the really verbose queries, and the viewer/node/edge stuff.

Yes you can use the apollo client (the code above does) but as you can see that doesn't help the query size.

For scaphold.io I think you guys have done great on a lot of things, but the docs are really failing to explain the required relay schema and concepts prominently.

For relay, I'm trying to reserve judgement. First impression is it seems like an inelegant and cumbersome design. I did read their design goals, it just seems there were better ways to achieve them. And why introduce graph theory terminology for concepts that not really new in the database world?

Anyway people should checkout scaphold.io, I think it has the best UX going for gql saas.
I may be misunderstanding something but if i'm bidding on something isn't it always to my advantage to have less bidders? Where are the positive network effects coming from?
Not really a great source for serious analysis. Here are some headlines from their front page:

* NOAA Created Fake News by Manipulating Climate Data

* President Trump Already Better Than President Obama Regarding Terrorism, Says Project 21's Nedd

* Ad: Are you tired of supporting corporations that support the left?

* Four Obama regulations Trump can undo right away
I know it's early, but has anyone tried using one of these instead of the AWS p2.xlarge recommended for use in http://course.fast.ai/ ?
The death spiral. I get it and I agree with your analysis that this has the potential to "break insurance." I don't think the direction insurers are headed in with this is good for society or even their own industry but the companies who do it first will get a huge benefit in lower risk pools... so absent legislation to prevent it this its is happening.
Fair enough. What I meant is that they will shovel funds into the markets in order to actually make money. The best way to do this is to have a higher risk approach plus no human traders.
I am not your student and this is not a classroom. I really dislike that tone.
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I feel like even if they paid their delivery people a reasonable wage they'd still expect tips. Ive had movers that made over 50/hour not including the cost of materials/truck/etc ask for a tip.

I was all for Uber being tip free until drivers started driving for Lyft which does tips in-app, and now all the drivers expect it.

I've always felt this way with Pizza. Most places charge a delivery fee. That itself should be the tip. If it costs more to deliver a pizza then work it into the price.
People will do that without even realizing it because they (we, I) instantly come up with some rationalization for why they "really" want it.
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> Nespresso

Anything that creates such an inordinate amount of waste is not well designed in my book.

Even the inventor of coffee capsules regrets creating them due to the ridiculous amount of waste.

> Bialetti Brikka

Yes!

> Blundstone boots

And yes!
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A few years back, there was a prestigious psychology journal that published a paper about extrasensory perception. I'm wondering whether the extrasensory-psychology journals are distinct from the clinical-psychology journals, or do they have the same levels of scientific rigor?
Well that's designed for in-VR avatars, this method is designed for mixed reality videos (VR footage with the real-world person superimposed on it)
I think this is an excessively charitable interpretation. The researcher draws a direct link between this rather limited bit of evidence and his sweeping conclusion, not even bothering to preface it with something along the lines of "Along with other archaeological evidence, this suggests...".

It's possible he was misquoted or gave additional context that was excised from the article, but then the writer is at fault for writing an article that leaves out crucial details.
Forgive my Ignorance,

OpenBSD - Absolute Security
FreeBSD - General purpose

What is NetBSD aiming at?
Wow. No one using Bacula? It seems a little cumbersome to get set up, but once I did it, I can more or less forget about it.

I run a mixed bag of Linux, OSX, Windows machines and each one of them gets incrementally backed up each night, and a full baseline once a month to a machine on the home network. Nothing fancy.

Then about once a month or when I think about it I copy the backups to an external drive and take it off site.

Worst case loss is a month. Seems cool to me.

And yes, I quite often ensure I can restore files - usually by stupidly deleting them at the source.

No one else uses Bacula?
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Postmates is pretty bad about that. Oh, you want someone a block away? 7.99 fee + minimum order + tip.
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It's called Hanlon's Dodge, built on the Hanlon's razor principle. it'll keep happening as long as there's a popular belief in Hanlon's razor.
"and I can keep my brain-space for useful things"

Respectfully, the point of keyboard shortcuts is that they are remembered in your hands, not in your brain. This is the main reason most of these commenters reject the Touch Bar: lacking tactile feedback for button position, it seems like it would be difficult to develop "muscle memory" for a Touch Bar function key.
My google results do no match yours. Mainichi has a story and does not include that quote (or any other). Nikkei as well. There is a Youtube video of the story which describes it, but includes no quotes. It mentions that there is an exhibition where you can go and see the artefacts.

I could not find the story in the Japanese version of the Yomiuri newspaper from google, but I found another site that linked to it. When I followed the link, it was dead.

The focus of the articles I've read seems to be that this is the oldest written evidence of Persians coming to Japan, which I agree is very interesting.
And has anyone compared the rates of drug use? Not illegal drugs, the prescriptions. When i lived in the US i was shocked by how many people lived lives soaked in various drugs year after year, young people. That isn't normal in other countries. At some point this trend, paticularly the opiods, has to start shortening average lifespans.
Interesting, but if you continue the same article you quote, it refutes that as a major cause of the difference:

"But these reporting differences cannot account for the full extent of the gap between countries, says Paul Wise, MD, a pediatrician at Packard Children’s and a health policy analyst at Stanford. “The reporting differences are a minor part of the story but not an excuse for why the U.S has such a high mortality rate.”

Because even when researchers look only at births that meet the criteria for all European countries — 500-gram babies born at 22 weeks and later — the United States doesn’t fare any better. In 2009, Marian MacDorman, PhD, a statistician at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics drew up a new ranking list, comparing the United States with 20 European countries and excluding the deaths of all babies born before 22 weeks’ gestation. The United States still ranked below most European countries."

http://sm.stanford.edu/archive/stanmed/2013fall/article2.htm...
I applaud your willingness to edit. I am bearish on Instacart, but acknowledge that you shouldn't value them based on current cash flows.

It's half a bet on massive growth combined with eventual profitability, and half a bet on some massive non-linear outcome. (For example: search -> ads, or books -> hosting)
Any recommendations on sites where one can read about stuff like this? High Scalability (highscalability.com) is one resource I'm aware of (for people who are familiar with the site - any "must read" posts?). Thanks.
I used the mbed for my embedded class. You can talk to the mbed using the ARM Keil ide and it's so much better. You can actually debug code on the device with breakpoints .
How about this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._congressional_dis...
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> He'd been using those motions to mock people (who are backpedaling) in general for quite some time

Oh, okay. So it's not jus that he's mocking a disabled reporter, but mocks other people as if they were disabled as well. Well, that's just fine, then.
Sounds like all your prejudices are confirmed.
If you haven't heard of Jessie Frazelle, definitely check out her work. As others have expressed, she's a brilliant engineer, speaker, and writer.

If I were in charge of hiring, I'd have recruiters pestering the hell out of her to join my team.

Seriously, she's one of my favorite people that I've never met :)
The customers have spoken, and they don't care.

Witness the popularity of Facebook and tell me the average person cares about privacy.
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Obesity is the problem. And it's so easy to improve: Stop allowing people to use food stamps on unhealthy foods, particularly soda and other sugary drinks.
Instacart's shoppers are its employees.
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Ugh. Dealing some of this right now. 3 full minutes to compile and flash 430kbs to a board. And then the debug tools won't use break points properly. 400kbs are system libraries I can't avoid. I'm thinking of writing a lisp compiler with some ffi and pushing it to the remote memory via tcp. Even having to write my own debugging tools I feel like I might save time.
"It's a weird bubble."

So you imply they're doing a bubble sort on candidates?
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I haven't met her (besides a very few tweeters interaction) but she counts among her fans, I really love the work that she is doing.
For those who are bored with the "new opportunity" emails from Google and maybe other companies: rather than trolling recruiters with obnoxious responses, you can just ask them to add you to the non-contact/ignore list and most probably they'll not bother you ever again.
As seems typical, this video goes on for a while and is straightforward until it completely loses you all of a sudden. I have no idea what would even motivate the separation of numbers into "rooms" like the video shows, let alone how that explains why an infinite positive sum = -1.
For a long time, there wasn't an installer for putty, so a lot of us became accustomed to just dropping the binary on our desktop or "bin" folder", but there is an installer now. Also, certain corporate environments that preclude the installer from working correctly, but won't mind you "installing" a program to your desktop/local app data.
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Well, it's not just US health care that has a problem. Consider this: ETH has 19.2K students and a $1.68B annual budget, while Stanford (a comparable university) has 16.3K students and a $5.5B annual budget.
A Texas hospital sent a west African man home with a bottle of antibiotics to treat his viral infection. Turns out, he had Ebola.

Life expectancy is dropping in the US? Shocking. Do tell.
It is hard to evaluate if the delivery person did the best they could with what the store had or just grabbed random produce. So now we are ripping drivers because the grocery store for a fresh produce delivery?

I'm not saying the lack of tips doesn't hurt drivers, but I agree that I have no idea how I could determine when a tip is justified.
I've been taught in Sports Injury Management that these are useful but can be off as much as +/- 5%. Just something to keep in mind.
Given that you're running it for free, any chance you'd open source it, so we can a) run our own, without costing you money and b) contribute?
Ok, we reverted the title. Submitted title was "A “killer business model”: AI in the insurance industry".

Submitters: please use the original title except when it is misleading or linkbait – that's in https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
>What is the market for +10% on groceries and basic necessities?

People who live in the suburbs without cars.

Cities are successfully discouraging car ownership by making parking scarce near downtown offices and even the suburban transit stations that lead to downtown offices. At the same time, cities aren't permitting the construction of dense, walkable neighborhoods, at least not fast enough to make them affordable. So you have a large and growing segment of the population with:

- A built environment where distances are scaled for driving.

- A hard time justifying car ownership, since it isn't useful for commuting.

- Neighborhoods which are now becoming crowded enough that parking is a hassle, but haven't become dense enough to have useful businesses within a convenient walk. (When they reach this point, they may cease to be affordable).

"Outsourced driving" is immensely popular in such environments. Instead of Target and Walmart and BestBuy, you use Amazon Prime for most purchases. Instead of driving the SUV to the supermarket every week, you use Amazon Fresh, or (in the case of Instacart) pay someone else to do it or you. Instead of going out to eat or picking up takeout, you order from UberEats/Grubhub/whatever. Each use case for personal car ownership can potentially be replaced with a fleet of service workers from further outside the city, and each permanent parking space can be replaced with one of them double-parking for 30 seconds every few hours.

How do the economics work?

- Labor + car operating costs for some contractors < value of the land the people they serve would otherwise park on.

- Delivery fees and markup on everything you buy < parking, gas, insurance, maintenance, and depreciation (by a couple hundred bucks maybe) < rent premium to live in similar apartment in a walkable area (by $1000+/mo) < psychological cost of the tradeoffs you'd have to make, like roommates, to live in high density on a middle-class income.

Whether that's $2bn, I don't know. But I think selling car-based services to the carfree will be a winning proposition as long as NIMBYs and anti-car activists remain simultaneously empowered.
They throw their weight around to get MITM support into browsers, see eg the pinning discussion in another comment.
I don't think you should need/want charts for developer documentation anyway. If you need charts to display the architecture for instance, but probably to focused on layering and not enough on producing code that actually does things.

The user guide can go on that shared drive where everyone ignores it anyway.
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Is there a list anywhere of these unofficial Google Open Source projects?
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Yes, I noticed the other day that one of my subscribed channels somehow had become unsubscribed?

Not sure what's going on there, have other people had this happen to them?
Well, take cryptpad. The link could define the version of the code, and the browser could enforce that it never changes. everything else is communication with the server - something you can audit, given never-changing code. Bugfixes are of course prevented, but that just means you need to bake in a "check for updates" link - there's no reason that URL needs to change, just the contents at it, which you don't need to trust like the cryptpad's pad source.

How to achieve this, no idea. Or, several ideas, but nothing general enough ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
> the best way to understand why a previous relationship didn't work out is to have more relationships.

This ignores all the people who are leaving a trail of destruction in their wake without much self-awareness or guilt.