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I don't doubt reproductive coercion occurs, and in both sexes but how can your friend know this happened if he was sleeping?
Tesla's batteries appear to be holding up very well to cycling degradation (batteries also degrade with time so there hasn't been as much of a span to evaluate how that factors in to the real world). 92% at 100k miles.

https://electrek.co/2016/06/06/tesla-model-s-battery-pack-da...
Oh absolutely; the ethos of one's argument could be greatly damaged with something like:

OMG u shuld see wat they do in germanny its so different their!

But at some point you do start to get diminishing returns, so there are practical limits to how worried one should be about pedants.
The tech in this article allow sperm through but damage the sperm. The Parsemus tech seems to block the tubes entirely.
The article didn't use the term, but it's basically arguing there are such things as natural monopolies, and that ISPs are examples of them.

Fighting monopolies is an argument for more aggressive application of competition law, to break up monopolies, and disallow anti-competitive conglomeration. But again the article doesn't bring up anti-trust.

The article also doesn't account for the fact that an ISP, without net neutrality regulation, can block or throttle or charge extra, for VPN usage.
I've been in that autonomous vehicle, although it wasn't moving at the time. Their road-follower worked only in very good circumstances.

The amazing thing is how much progress there's been in CPU power. That thing took three racks of computers, and a crew of 5, to drive 5 MPH. They had a 3D LIDAR, though, with a line scanner and a tilting mirror. That was better than most of the LIDAR units until recently.
Man, every startup at SXSW was bitching about this.

I think it's an easy fix...

1) Startups need to pay more than they want to. If you want a talented engineer, they aren't free. I see a lot of startups offering WAY low salaries and then getting frustrated they can't find devs... it's basic supply and demand. Budget accordingly and stop making business plans that involve finding devs for lower-than-market-rates.

2) Hire more junior people, build a process to mentor them. Recognize that they will leave after a year or two...

3) Hire freelancers to augment where needed.

4) Hire remote workers who live in cheaper locations -- realistically these days the only hard part about managing a distributed team is when they are in dramatically different time zones.

5) Work smart... a stitch in time saves nine, measure twice cut once... hire good product managers, UX designers, and QA people to help keep your project momentum going. Devs building prototypes that you just want to changeup as soon as it's launched... those are the most expensive wireframes you'll ever build... you're not only saddled with the dev cost, but tech debt to make changes. Prototype to keep costs down.

6) Cut other costs... Get rid of your office, for starters.
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> Why would a game developer use a Chromebook or an Android device?

Because they are usually a lot cheaper and more accessible worldwide.

As an example, a market we've identified is educational in US, there's millions of Chromebooks out there gathering dust. If you are an educational user, this could open a lot of doors.

> The second point applies more or less to an Electron app, too.

Yes, we are planning on distributing desktop builds via Electron. First phase is in browser only as there's a little bit more to prepare before we can release downloadable builds. Is that what you mean?
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That's a myopic and ignorant view. Not all nationalism is "white nationalism," and nationalism is often a strongly positive force. For example, in places like Bangladesh, Egypt, and Turkey, nationalism is the force opposing theocracy. Israeli nationalism has allowed them to carve out a relatively liberal democracy in a region that's hostile to it. (It's also a bizarre charge to level at U.K. nationalism, given that the U.K. is less white than the E.U. as a whole. Moreover, Indians - the largest non-white ethnic group in the U.K. - voted leave/remain along class lines, like whites: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/world...).
Isn't that kind of the goal?

They get the talent that could build great companies on their own, and if that talent is interested in the same areas they are, they lower the risk that talent will end up building successfully competition.

If the markets are worth winning, the difference of a $50K * team size doesn't really matter in the big picture.

At the same time, by driving up the ante, if an area they're not paying attention to does get traction, to get to a successful exit there's a higher likelihood that the startups will need VC capital only the likes of Google Ventures and similar corporate venturing funds can provide.

Seems like a solid strategy to me.
>If you are driving this many miles the VW diesels (same base platform as the A4, though less luxury) can probably pay for the entire car including maintenance just in fuel savings.

The only VW in the same platform (B) as the A4 is the Passat, and there's a lot less shared components between the A4 and Passat than there are for platform A models.
More likely it was maintenance every 18 months that cost 3k.

Everything is more expensive on an Audi. It's thousands to replace the fan belt, because you basically have to take the whole car apart.
I read about 8 articles a day, mostly from HN and Lifehacker.com, usually just Productivity "Junk Food" Articles

Depending on my energy and/or how long my build is taking, sometimes I just skim articles headings and throw them to Pocket. Then when I have medium energy and more time, I open up my Pocket, filter aggressively, and read the rest. Really long articles get tagged with #someday and go to the weekend.

I've been trying to focus on C & C++ related articles, as that's what I want to and will be doing more. But I also find articles about Functional Programming very interesting.

I couldn't care less about start-ups or the culture. I can't even open most policy or political posts now because it's just a punch to the gut every day. I read less than 1 comment on average per article.
You can't see a downside to living in a world in which you personally have protected your privacy, but society generally has given up on it?
Interesting side note that is rarely mentioned, a surprisingly large amount of defectors actually defect back to DPRK. When you are enclosed in something like DPRK a lot of the time people can't handle the stress of not being in that sort of system anymore.

One thing to note, there was a study that showed that even when they are in countries with an abundance of food, their eating habits remained the same. They ate the same sized small portions that they used to in NK.

As a comment on the article, I think it would be very easy for China to transition them into a sucessful Chinese model with capitalist reforms whilst still being totalitarian. The people don't necessarily want 'freedom' as long as they are adequately taken care of, transposing western mindsets onto them and assuming that they consider things like 'freedom of speech' as necessary isn't generally helpful.
This ALVINN promotional video is a good demonstration of the (1989) technology: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilP4aPDTBPE
Since this is content marketing for meetnotes.co (which looks like a pretty cool service) I feel like it's reasonable to give some constructive criticism to the team behind the product.

Remove "Beta" from your marketing site. Please.

People, especially early adopters, know that software is made by people. If something goes wrong or doesn't work, people are willing to forgive other people. The beta label can only hurt you at this point.

Great work getting to the front page of Hacker News :)
Criticism is good, keeps up on our toes :)
Critically though, there is nothing like the head to block interface, which is a major source of cooling system issues on IC engines.
It seems to me that you're conflating "open source" with "developed for free".

I don't think GP has any issues with Vivaldi being developed by paid developers per se, but if Vivaldi Technologies decides to stop development there is no guarantee that anyone else will be able to take over development. Firefox wouldn't have that issue if it started today.
The first part of the article gives a brief introduction to the history of postmodernism:

> The term “postmodern” was coined by Jean-François Lyotard in his 1979 book, The Postmodern Condition. He defined the postmodern condition as “an incredulity towards metanarratives.”

and then points out the irony that modern proponents of postmodernism have become precisely what postmodernism criticises:

> Postmodernism has become a Lyotardian metanarrative, a Foucauldian system of discursive power, and a Derridean oppressive hierarchy.
If you're curious, Google is quite open about what and how they log from their DNS services:

https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/privacy

So they don't track personally-identifiable information directly; it's certainly possible you could de-anonymize someone from their dataset, but most of what they do track is on their end (what machine handled the request, how quickly, etc.)
I was the primary ops guy (well before the concept of devops and when separation of duties was important) and ended up being the primary troubleshooter for problems. During one of the meetings between DEV, QA, RC, and I, the software architect exclaimed that RC had to be exaggerating since he just said it took X time to transfer the installer from one machine to another.

I looked at him and said the installer is ~200MB in size, 20 seconds is more than reasonable. He started arguing that the network connections had to be at least 100meg links so it shouldn't take more than 2 seconds. It went round and round, until I realized he didn't understand that network links were in bits/sec. At this point, he was refusing to listen and started disparaging everyone 'against' him. I gave it one more go and showed him the unit conversion and basic math on file size, rate, and time.

For a while, it looked like he was trying to get everyone arguing against him released since he was an 'architect' and everyone else was engineers and I was just the ops guy. Too bad for him, he didn't realize in the land of inflated titles, I was the security, storage, and infrastructure architect. I just felt it was presumptuous and relabeled myself the ops guy.
> HN needs to come clean, is the no politics rule continuing? Or are the politics of the moderators or the "politics deemed appropriate" going to continue to rule?

You're not asking this question fairly or charitably, but that story wasn't touched by moderators. The detailed mechanics of the site are not completely transparent for obvious reasons. On the flip side, we're happy to explain when the community has specific questions. The best way to ask those is via email at hn@ycombinator.com.
That's just what either private browsing or ad/tracking blockers are for now. Under the coming regime, they'll track where you've been but you'll still (for now) be able to block the resultant ads.
> Note that unions, management, and investors are often not smart.

And that's an important point, because a "smart union" only works if management doesn't try to railroad them at every turn. It's not exactly surprising that e.g. US Unions had to be hard rather than smart, given management or investors would call the army on them.

In the nordic model, unions are part of corporate governance and thus can have significant stake in and impact on corporate policy, in the US unions are considered pests to be squashed and only listened to when there's literally no other way.
I see this doublethink all the time. The government is both all-powerful and cunning, but also inefficient and inept.
Forgetting your comments on the pill, I'm glad you say that condoms and vasectomies would work for you, but did you consider that you might not be representative of all males?

For my part, as a man who is done with having kids, but is not ready to get the "snip" yet, a side-effect free injection would be greatly preferable to an operation that sometimes takes months to fully-heal from, or a lifetime of condoms.
> In any bigger project, architecture grows organically. It's easy to say "I would have done better". In hindsight, every flawed system looks like a bad idea. It takes a visionary to foresee all possible error cases.

Kudos to the team on their findings and for their honest post with some tips for their odd architecture. I hope my comment did not imply that "I would have done better," or that hindsight is not, 20/20. I have enough experience to understand both of those things.

However, as architecture grows organically, it doesn't take too much understanding or experience to know that using a single Redis instance for three different use cases would probably run into issues. That's more than likely not a symptom of "organic growth," but of poor decision making.

Trivago received a $4,000,000,000 valuation. Why does their engineering deserve the benefit of the doubt here?

At some point we (technologists and developers) have got to concede that maybe it's not just a few folks trying to keep up with organic growth, but that some actual bad decisions were made and should be accepted and highlighted more than just covering up for mistakes.

I think the post could have been more useful if it would have conceded the point earlier that they made bad decisions from the get-go, that they had to play catch up with those decisions, and that the advice was for attempting to catch up to these decisions. It would be very interesting to understand why they made the choices they did.

Why are they running memcached and Redis at the same time? Why wasn't a regular database suitable for data persistence or temporary data? Why wasn't the cache for search installed on the application server to remove network latency altogether? Why weren't they running php-fpm from the get-go?

I made the comment because doing some research or having some understanding from the beginning, might have avoided the post altogether. I think it's important for us to be able to own our mistakes and honestly approach how we made those mistakes so they aren't repeated by others. I think that is far more useful than a writeup on how to adjust some settings to deal with some fairly basic mistakes. Especially for a technical blog post from a company with a $4B valuation.
Disagree. In this stretched analogy, performance might be measured by voting, but production is measured by tax paying (i.e. contribution to the revenue stream).
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If you're so convicted about your beliefs, perhaps you shouldn't be too chickenshit to post from your main account. Drop the troll tactics.
It annoys me that the headlines keep claiming the election was hacked. The election was fine. The DNC was mined and information found was released. This MAY have been in an effort to sway opinion in an election, which, at best, would be scatter-shot social engineering. But the election was not hacked. At least, not that I've seen reports of.
My dad worked for Westinghouse in the late 70s at Hanford. This really feels like an end of an era.
I just mean viruses/malware.
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Shouldn't really make a difference. Just add more counters. Counting votes is perfectly parallelizable.
Male contraception relieves women of that burden

You would think so, but... there are women (maybe a lot of them) who think the loss of power over conception would be bad for women [0]. Read the column. I don't know about you, but it gives me a very queasy feeling. Like there is some subtext that this woman believes she should be able to force parenthood on an unwilling partner.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2006/apr/28/malepi...
Why do you assume that the AI of the future will share our emotional need for self-fulfillment? This anthropomorphization of AI would require explicit effort and I see no reason why AI scientists would pursue it as a goal. Our belief that we have inalienable rights is simply a shared social value. Its propagation is dependent upon the efficacy of the society which produced it.

There are cells and bacteria in our body that perform complex tasks on our behalf because doing so allows their continued existence as part of a greater structure. I see no reason why an AI/human symbiosis would be any different.
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"in Wisconsin"

Wisconsin has unhackable optical scantron 80s/90s voting technology.

Its unhackable because the votes are electronically counted and reported after the polls close in minutes, hours at most, then the physical paper ballots can be slowly and methodically counted and compared to the electronic counts. You could probably stick an eprom in there that reports 2e32-1 votes for Hillary or whatever, but that "hacked" result isn't going to last more than an hour, maybe a day at most.
Don't misunderstand "normal" as meaning "good," or "abnormal" as being "bad." I have no problem with your life (I mean, why would I) and what you say about children being a double-edged sword is absolutely true.

The fact is, just by the numbers, having children is normal. But that doesn't mean you should do it!
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My thought is something roughly the size of a large city state, or small regular state. Or the size of a US state. Or whatever the people of an area decide.
> Initially after elections I understood "election was hacked" to mean there is clear evidence of FSB or GRU intelligence officers hiding around the bushes in Wisconsin with laptops and usb keys, taking out guards and rooting voting machine. We haven't seen a single instance of that.

You may have understood it to be that way, but it was not portrayed in that light. It was hacked in the same sense as "growth hacking" and hacking of non-voting machines.
Absolutely, and even the new designs are multiple decades old. (But even those are a huge improvement over what we have from the 60s/70s).

Many of existing plants were at the time they were built considered to be important for national security (read: nuclear arsenal), which is much of why they're using the fuel they use and have the designs they have.

Civilian nuclear never really materialized in it's own right, which is certainly a shame.
I advocated for Google to please do this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13983468

I'll quote it in full:

>Hey Google, when all email providers sucked you fixed it with Gmail, you run a DNS at 8.8.8.8, and now -- now, I think you know what you need to do now :)

>(I personally recommend you also do a web-based proxy, because who is going to filter https://www.google.com now or in the future?)

>I believe in you. You can do it!

>Counter this chilling effect today - and show more adwords as a result. (There is no irony in this statement. I mean from web sites that opt into adwords, not from selling VPN traffic logs.)

----

Google, pay attention: step up to the plate. Please!
And you're not even counting the lives saved from increased wealth due to cheaper electricity.
I share your mistrust, but why not let nuclear reactors be run as non-profits by e.g. energy institutes at universities?
Looks useful...BTW the shell prompt for "Hello World" example is misspelled: smlie> "Hello world"
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I can see how my statement was unclear. I'm going to go back and edit it for clarity.
I personally would love a C book.
Okay, I'm going to interact with your opinion: it's based on a mountain of lies and fallacies and that's why you're being downvoted.

> There used to be a time when we as a society valued things like self-control, discipline, and tradition. No more.

Is that also the time when people died from rubella and mumps, or when women weren't allowed to vote? Usually an appeal to a bygone era is a secret yearning to go back to a time when the holder of that view had more power over others who now have equality.

> What you are alluding to here is a world where we are ruled by our emotions and our basest desires without the fear or potential for having to deal with our actions.

Yeah, because humans /never/ let themselves get ruled by emotions for the first ~100,000 years of history. /s

> To divorce set from children is to misunderstand intimacy, the family, and the entire underpinning of our society.

And yet, I (a man) had some lovely martinis with my poly boyfriend last night before falling asleep with him. Today, I'm being productive and contributing money to our gorgeous house, and contributing to both my local economy and my various levels of government by paying a decent portion in taxes. Tonight I think I'll spend time with friends and our lives will all be that much better for spending time together.

But please, tell me more about how my lack of child-bearing sex is ruining society.
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So I've been selling my employer on the virtues of Google Cloud, having drunk the koolaid so to speak, and today was my chance to prove to my employer that the Google Cloud is just as reliable if not more reliable than AWS.

Sadly, I started the day by trying to update the GAE app I just created yesterday. The 'gcloud' command hang (was persistently stuck) for all commands including 'gcloud app deploy' and 'gcloud app regions list' etc.

I went on the Google Cloud SDK mailing list to complain about the fact that they're selling 99.999% uptime but what good is that if I can't update my app? Let's say I have a security bug that needs an immediate fix or a feature I want to show a customer in a last minute demo. Not being able to update my app does affect the business bottom line.

I used polite words in my complaint and I stated that I could ping googleapis.com with normal latency.

I got an email that my message was rejected by the moderator.

That makes for (probably) the worst tech support experience I've ever had of any major corporation, including Comcast.

Update:
The Google Cloud CLI wasn't completely stuck. It just takes over 10 minutes to produce any feedback, so it looks as if it's permanently stuck, but the massive delay with no feedback whatsoever (not even a status message telling me what it is waiting for) is not acceptable and my complaining is entirely justified.

Just wanted to warn others that while Google Cloud sounds amazing they still have the world's worst customer service and a very thin skin apparently (or just lack of empathy for your frustrated users)

p.s. they did not send me a copy of my message so now it's lost forever or they have it in their moderation system. Otherwise, I'd be happy to share it here.
> I'm trying to think creatively about benefits that would make me consider a 90k salary.

Pay my rent, absolutely free childcare, and 100% covered healthcare costs?

> The #1 thing that could entice me, over salary, would be some way for my employer to help me secure a decent mortgage...

You mean cosign? Otherwise that just looks like a really big signing bonus.
For game network programming, the Source Multiplayer Networking guide is a fantastic high level write-up of how modern games use prediction to compensate for latency:

https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Source_Multiplayer_...
Neat hacks like this are why I visit this website.
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> Build robots that are ethical

This poses the question, are humans ethical and good for the planet? Fueled by out genetic drives we cause more deforestation and earth movement than natural forces. We farm animals in the millions and exploit them for our benefits in tiny spaces causing a lot of psychological damage.

Before we go on to make smarter more powerful humans/robots should we ask ourselves whether that is actually better for the planet?