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"If we are not tied for first [in autonomous vehicles), then the person who is in first, or the entity that's in first, then rolls out a ride-sharing network that is far cheaper or far higher-quality than Uber's, then Uber is no longer a thing."

(1) http://www.businessinsider.com/travis-kalanick-interview-on-...
I don't think Twitters large engineering teams are just sitting around doing nothing. The article is essentially saying that most of the Twitters resources are being spent on making it an ad platform as opposed to making it "pulse of the planet" system. So much of the Twitters engineering efforts is invisible to outside world but probably very useful for ad buyers.
This is fantastic - this type of transparency will also put positive pressure on agencies and departments to demonstrate their outcomes for citizens.
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May I be in the beta program please?
A nice, simple, and effective bodyweight routine.

Also, for what it's worth a 5X5 workout for those who have the time for the gym is probably the best if you're limited on time - but have more than 10 minutes a day. There are a whole bunch of variations, but it's mostly 3 moves, with a 5 rep/set.

Stronglifts have a good one, Fat Shredding too - http://fatshredding.com/workouts/5x5-workout/
Why is CGI heading to Canada?

I know its common for TV to film up there for tax / government arts funding reasons. Is it a similar situation or something else?
Does anyone have data on the departure of executives at other companies, past or present? Of course the reaction is that this is something like an exodus, but I would love to see data on exec-churn at similarly sized companies for comparison's sake.
I tried to go this route before I abandoned it altogether. I found 3 problems with this.

First, switching contexts between subjects I'm deeply interested in was exhausting. I need categories, or even different accounts to group them.

Second, my borderline OCD has a hard time not reading everything, so I wound up curating my list of follows to "reasonable" accounts,and not spammy one that post every few minutes and take over the feed. Unfortunately, there are a LOT of those.

Third, I thought -- what I HOPED -- would be true is that the platform would allow me to respond to all these great posters, and get a response in return, but this hardly ever happened. I'm sure I was buried in their feeds, even if my response was worth a reply.
Either Uber is getting the cleanse it needs or Uber will our generation's pets.com
The entire podcast series and premise is actually very interesting and couldn't be more relevant in these times:

"As children of the Middle East, we have grown up surrounded by regional and international media that pigeonholes the Middle East and North Africa into politics.

We are taking back control of our narrative to tell stories that reflect the depth and richness the Middle East offers. To tell the kinds of stories in which we can actually see ourselves, the kinds of stories we want to discuss with our friends over warm cups of coffee on cozy sofas. Because we love stories - really good stories, and there are so many from our region just waiting to be told."
Thanks for the support!

We don't have a normal CDN, we have Fastly. They are really incredible at what they do, and this would not have been possible with our previous CDN partners.
You need to set up a DSL for each feature, which is used to test the feature, so any changes to the feature must necessarily include the changes to the DSL, meaning that tests based on "adjust parameter x" don't break just because the parameter x config element had a revamp.
Neat. I assume it would be possible to do the same thing in reverse then? As in, use image editing effects on audio clips?
i'm not sure why the dig at him was a necessary foreword
"Opportunities for advancement have never been better. There's room, and real possibilities for internal promotion to key leadership positions"
There is no "conventional Unicode" in hostnames. DNS is ASCII-only in practice. All non-ASCII hostnames have to be encoded in punycode for DNS to work. This is why punycode was invented.
If there was a raw format that did this, or some other very exotic thing, that would be very interesting.

Right now I've mostly been exploring YUV and RGB colorspace in either packed or planar formats.
This is a very strange and fun idea. Good job!
That is really sad that basically using a term like discovery is banned. Not only that, but it will let you create them, then ban them, and not tell you why.

If there were a legal case, I'd be excited about the _discovery_ phase of it, to figure this one out!
Is that something like metasynth (http://www.metasynth.com) ? You import a picture and use it through FFT to generate sound ?
You're telling me Exxon doesn't look 20 years out? Burlington Northern, a railroad, was looking 30 years out when my dad worked for them. Is there a more classic example of American "big business"?
I just bought a domain for something similar. Oops
LFS was developed by GitHub, a company that depends on people thinking it's "too hard" to run their own DVCS repo hosting.

Compare this with the Mercurial LargeFiles extension, which needs nothing more than a line in the .hgrc on each end (client/server) to enable it.
Hi all, I started You Exec with a few friends -- and its true, most of the people I have interviewed request to remain anonymous -- we had one person ask for money and we refused, hence we can't use his name. The other ones would rather remain annon because his customers would feel used (that was the viral gifts one). And you're right, we are a small team and do this on the side... so sometimes typos do happen.

Overall, we carry out interviews, write articles, and create resources to help professionals. I thought this sleep article would help some developers. Why don't you ask me anything and I'll be happy to answer. And I am sorry for the negative energy in the comments -- overall, if I can be of service or help let me know.
The author of the modular synth "SunVox" made a live tool called "PixiVisor" that does something similar.

http://www.warmplace.ru/soft/pixivisor/

The last two videos on the page are particularly impressive, which demonstrate video mixing using two channels of an audio mixer, and video blurring from multi-path audio reflections.
Could we crowdsource the purchasing of some of this spectrum for collective use?
And in related news, Trump killed open.gov today.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170414/13382037153/trump...
> handing over a bottle of something cheap (but with such confidence you don’t notice)

Three commas?
This is true, but that wouldn't affect the scheduled time of an event.
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> Can't [publicly funded education] be considered a "socialist" policy?

Are there people who think it isn't?
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CGI, like the rest of the film/tv industry, will go where the money is best. There is nothing in film/tv production that cannot be loaded into a truck and shipped elsewhere overnight ... people included. Work is moving to canada for the tax credits but you'd be surprised at how many "canadian" productions are actually filmed overseas. TheBorgias was canadian. Versailles, filmed in france with brit actors, is supported by the canadian government and RBC (my bank) no doubt for some tax advantage. Even the first season of the Doctor Who reboot in 2005 was a joint production with the CBC. Check the credits. No matter where it is filmed, canada supports it.
Ask HN: Is there is zero-config, zero-development hosted HN clone?
Regarding the bullet point lists in 3.2 and 4.2. They don't explicitly state that whether it's an "and" or an "or" condition list. Is that really safe? Are lists like this by convention assumed to be of the "and" type?
Is Steve Ballmer not a citizen? Do you mean crowd-funded? Assuming you're worried about self-interest tainting the project, a crowd-funded project doesn't necessarily eliminate that since someone still has to be in charge. Open-source for peer review would be necessary.
You misunderstand...in some municipalities if you were to opt to not connect your house to the power grid, or water mains you would cited.
> It’s also not clear if he left as a result of the sexual harassment allegations, but something tells me that scandal probably didn’t make him particularly pumped to stick around

"I don't have any facts, sources, or even a quote to substantiate this, but hey, something tells me it's related"

Dude could have left for any number of reasons. Stick to reporting the facts.
During my undergrad I definitely had a handful of professors that came from stints at corporate research labs.
He needs to be in Jail. I would highly recommend reading the entire article. This guy seems like a psychopath. He put that woman through hell.
The pen is mightier than the sword.
This makes me wonder, has the data been public all this time?
This is exactly how most people in rural areas connect to the internet /now/. The alternatives are dialup and satilite which are both worse.
I personally learned about F.lux and love it. The developer did a great job of making the app available on Windows, Mac, etc. Also, yes we do use minimal referral links to create side income to pay for servers, email software, etc.
No website wants to support Twitter login because Twitter refuses to share its user's email address.
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That looks like a fantastic tool.

Being able to do interface with external off the shelf audio gear with an otherwise software only solution would be the goal of all this.
Been in that boat. Got nothing done for a couple of days. Fortunately I was at the company a while and could get away with it as I wasn't being micromanaged. In heinsight a couple of days leave might have been wiser. If they try to make you feel guilty for taking it, increment the red flag counter :-)
> It is the government's place to regulate how prices get advertised.

Indeed, the government has already done this, to mandate that advertised prices are all-inclusive, with all the taxes, fees, charges and so on included in the advertised price you see when you're searching for tickets. Before that regulation, airline tickets were more like phone bills where the taxes, fees, charges, tolls, surtaxes, surcharges, sur-fees, and so on mean you pay $65/month for a "$40/month" plan.
They could maybe spiff up the interface for what it's currently used for a lot...It's a defacto complaint box for a lot of brands.

I don't know the brand's side of that is as clunky as the complainers side. But the complainers side is clunky. You can't tell if it's a company that will respond, if they do, the average wait, if you have to follow prior to a DM, what info they need, etc.

It sounds boring, but would lead to something they could upsell to the brands.
> There is nothing in film/tv production that cannot be loaded into a truck and shipped elsewhere overnight ... people included.

Once you include people, how many other industries would be any different? Mining, tourism, oil drilling seem tied to a set location, but assembling something? Tech or not, seems you could just ship the people and parts anywhere.
That is exactly what happened pre-TSA. And is isn't so much that local government is better, it is that the whole thing is largely unnecessary to begin with; security was different pre-9/11 and it probably worked about as well as security works now.

I don't know how old/young you are, but you probably don't remember a world without passports. They were a temporary measure in response to war; now they are the somewhat Orwellian document without which it is illegal for you to leave the U.S. Imagine making the argument today for rolling back mandatory passports, in a world where few people remember life without them. Sooner than you think, if not already, the TSA will be in that same boat.

I would assume you are old enough to have a solid memory of 9/11, but today's younger college students have no memory other than the pre-9/11 world. I was in first grade at the time, and traveled with family a (very) short time after. The airport was guarded by soldiers at the time and I got to witness their guns trained on my father when he couldn't find the key to his luggage. It was quite tense later when my GameBoy Color set off the metal detector. Fun times.

History is important, if only so that we can remember that what is today has not always been. (Don't be offended if you already know all this; someone reading this comment will be blown away by the idea of a world without pornoscans, patdowns, and shoe removel).

Oh, and for CBP, that is explicitly ("...provide for the common defense...") the exclusive role of the federal government. They should probably keep screening at the border, just ideally with more of a customer service/land of opportunity/"welcome to the USA" vibe rather than the "Muslims/brown people GTFO" vibe.
most of the people I have interviewed request to remain anonymous -- we had one person ask for money and we refused, hence we can't use his name. The other ones would rather remain annon because his customers would feel used (that was the viral gifts one). And you're right, we are a small team and do this on the side... so sometimes typos do happen.
Hmmm, I am still confused. Rotating "around plane" makes sense only in 3D, where a 2D plane is a hyperplane i.e. has a single normal and you can rotate around that normal (which you implied by mentioning projections along that normal). In 4D a hyperplane is a 3D subspace, orthogonal to some normal. So, while it may be true that you cannot find a 2D plane describing a composite rotation in 4D it does not seem to have any significance since "rotation around y-z" plane does not describe one either :) because y-z plane has an infinite number of normals in 4D and any rotation around any of them will be technically a rotation "around y-z plane" while a different rotation in 4D. I am sure you can find a 3D hyperplane in 4D for any composite rotation. Am I wrong?
About metasynth, I don't know. I had a quick look but it would seem to be more of an audio only application.

Nope! Less fancy than that. I just take the bitstream and 'choose' to interpret it as audio.

For it to work somewhat well, a raw video format like YUV444P is used.
I also have twins. You don't need to tell them apart because you can just do everything to both of them. There is one boob for each. If you change one, you change the other. The names don't matter; even with my non-twins I just call them "baby" for a year or two. (so "this baby" and "that baby", or "left baby" and "right baby", or "port baby" and "starboard baby")

Soon enough, one will fall down some steps or fall out of a stroller, and then you'll be able to tell them apart by the scar.
Pretty sure the point of parent comment was to make us think about the hypocrisy that the USA can't have single payer healthcare because it's "socialist", but education is perfectly ok to be "socialist."
> You're assuming that a majority of country should cede their right to having a say for the president, because acreage.

The majority of the country elects the President, because the United States are composed of the several States (not the people thereof), and the states elect the President. Frankly, I wouldn't mind every state having an equal voice, rather than unfairly privileging populous states.
That worked out great for Etherium and the DAO.
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I wasn't speaking about the usual fun physical activity. At all.
What twitter looks like to me, is a way to follow and appreciate brands, to tap into their stream of consciousness, to experience the themness in a way that just has no appeal to me whatsoever, and it goes a little deeper than I don't care what Taco Bell or Justin Bieber thinks.

There is no brand/person that I find so "interesting" that I would want to "follow" them. Whilst I do have a twitter account, I used it to log into an airport wifi once; I don't follow anyone I don't know.

I even find the word "follow" uncomfortable, maybe even an anathema, as it suggests that I'm not as good as they are, and yet another something to confirm their brand celebrity.

Now I appreciate not everyone is trying to be a brand on twitter, and if someone could have multiple channels I could subscribe to, then I might be able to monitor someone's business world (but of course, I have LinkedIn), my family and friends' pictures (which are all on Facebook or Google+), and even seek advice for things to do and places to eat (like on Yelp, but just kidding, I use Facebook for this as well), all inside Twitter, but that's simply not how it's set up.

Indeed, the only suitable use seems to be the thing I have no interest in whatsoever.

So maybe I just don't understand how twitter can be interesting or useful, but if it is just another celebrity/gossip magazine, or some kind of entertainment news/television replacement, then it's stagnation shouldn't be surprising: There are plenty of players in this space, and there will be another.
It's much more important to sustain than to grow.

A better metric would be 'longest active using user base', and sustanance of it.

All things that grow can fall, it's endurance that's key.
This is the best year for wildflowers in the 15 years I have lived in California. If you live in San Francisco or the Silicon Valley area, now is a great time to go to parks like Edgewood. Especially if you are not usually a hiker but are interested in checking it out sometime - now is a great sometime.

My recommendation if you live in SF but never really hike too much:
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M$ will never, ever, be forgiven for the FUD that put OS in dire straits.
This is fantastic.

For folks wanting to play around with this on OSX:

brew install ffmpeg lame
brew install sox --with-lame

The --with-lame is important if you want to process mp4s.

Might want to consider putting some kind of progress indicator (simple polling on tmp_audio_in.u8 vs tmp_audio_out.u8). I ended up looking at the output directory with

watch -n .5 ls -la /tmp/audio_shop-DIRECTORY

I think the cleanup isn't working quite right, getting a rm unlink failure.

Seriously, this is a neat hack.
Actually friday20 might be right on this one. The remote code is very different across platforms. The way it works on non-Windows/non-Mac is very different, and it's possible that --new-instance doesn't work as expected there. On Linux/BSD/etc (everything that uses X11), --new-instance should be prefered.
I think you're correct, but it was poorly worded
Presumably.

That might be the a better way of doing things actually, since visual tools are 2-dimensional by nature.
They were huge in the late 80s/early 90s (at least, huge relative to the overall Internet population).

I imagine it's harder to find an active one now, but even a "dead" one that's still online should be somewhat playable. Just harder to learn and advance without other players.
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Uber's autonomous vehicle program is DOA so I suppose this comes as no surprise, really
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Actually hybrid tablets/laptops won over plain tablets.

The classical laptop has become a product for creation professionals.
The limits on "price gouging" that Amtrak is subject to thanks to Congressional micromanagement have not necessarily been a benefit. Trains run empty during the middle of the week, yet prices are still rather high compared to buses. But they can't lower mid-week prices, because then they'd also have to lower peak prices, which would just mean those holiday weekend trains selling out even faster and bringing in less revenue.
Coming up on 2 months since they hired Holder to investigate. I wonder how long that sort of thing usually takes. I assume they would want to get whatever press release that goes with that out of the way soon, to group all the bad news in the shortest cycle.
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That's why when hiring I always say hire the lucky person not the hard worker. You're an idiot if you think it's hard work that explains success of a company. I get applications to role a set of dices and the one that roles the hirest number is hired.
All reasource extraction. Tourism. Financial services (tied to jurisdiction). Much of the defense industry. Health care. Live entertainment. Hospitality (hotels). Transport. Infrastructure construction and maintenance. Environmental services. Real estate. Space launch. Government. .... not everything fits into trucks.
Hopefully free for non-profit uses at least.
What? Those companies exist because society has granted them permission. That "super-powerful organization" is the government. Always has been, always will be.

Fortunately, now, for the most part, in the west, we all get a say in that super-powerful organization.

It, and everything it spawns, like mega-corporations, exists to serve us, not the other way around.
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That's excellent feedback, thanks!

I'll keep hacking at it this stuff for at least a little bit.
It's much cheaper. Before I had money to use Digital Ocean and the like, there was a similar service called bur.st that offered shells and it was one of my first introductions to *nix systems.
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I think you nailed it. This isn't about ads; Facebook is an ad business and it's 6x twitter. This is warrens vs plazas.

Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat are all warrens. Twitter is a plaza.

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2010/10/27/warrens-plazas-and-the...

Even 5 years ago it wasn't clear whether warrens or plazas would win. They were betting human behavior would change under different constraints -- maybe we'd move beyond our tiny friend networks, come out of our warrens, and have a global party in the plaza. It looks like either we're not ready for that yet, or we'll never be ready for it, because it's suboptimal.

That's not to say plazas don't have their place. It's just that right now we prefer to spend most of our time in the comparative safety of the warren.
If you really believe this why don't you short-sell a bunch of companies and make a killing?
I think it was more about him wanting to win an argument with his wife about his tax dollars being enough for charity but once he started getting the data like all engineers he kept going deeper down the rabbit hole.
Honesty matters in money. Without it, you pay frictions for graft. Liquidity vehicles abhor frictions.

Zcash has been crashing for a long while, and stealing 20% of the economy outright is a large part of the reason. Yes, it motivates the miscreants, but that does not imply success.
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That could result in a nasty surprise.
It is outright theft. Commies also did something like this but worse, it was called nationalization.
Nice stuff,is it open-source? Some frontend improvements would make it even better ;)
Though I don't claim this particular case is usual, it is sadly true that wife abuse is far more common in Indian culture than in the US.

In a conversation recently between my wife and an Indian neighbor, it was mentioned in passing that a spouse would be jailed for physical abuse. The married Indian women looked rather worried and asked if it happened just once and that was it then surely no one would get in trouble?