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Sounds intriguing, but I'm also a little confused about the flow of "code that generates sketch files"... what is the purpose of Sketch in all this?

I would think programs like Sketch are useful in general because they give designers a nice way to design things without adding the extra layers of abstraction that code brings (i.e. they can just draw things with a mouse instead of writing instructions that tell the computer how to draw things). But if Sketch is just another rendering layer of react components, then what is the point of having it... why not just look at the rendering in a web browser?

Or am I misunderstanding and there's a way for react code to be generated from Sketch? (Despite this statement in your blog post: "As the industry has coalesced around Sketch, people have sought to generate code from Sketch. This is exciting, but for our challenges we wanted to do the exact opposite — to keep DLS in sync we have to generate Sketch files from code.")
This leaves out some issues such as likely targeting of Japan by DPRK, but otherwise a clear-headed analysis of the dark and sobering reality there.
We've seen so many scary movies about robots we can no longer be objective
So what I came up: it's either because it's their mascot or about le légionnaire Xarro, blackest of black sheep.
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I try to take meetings at Samovar Tea Lounge in SF when possible. Tea is less punishing.
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Hey there - I'm Zvi, CEO of Contactually. Honestly, if cost is a major factor for you, you can build a spreadsheet tool that can work really well. However, it takes the same discipline that Contactually or any other tool would require - just a bit more time.

If you really love self-hosted, SugarCRM is the main open source CRM out there.
>Why? We literally never see that with top shelf products. This isn't an arduino solder job. This is going to be an integrated software and hardware package that will rival an aircraft autopilot/navigation. Please check you facts on the cost of these things.

Google claims that it dropped the price of lidar by a factor of 10x once it started producing them. That seems like a significant, factual, drop in cost.
That's an awfully generous take on their decision and pretty dismissive of the squishy stuff located behind the the Mark I eyeball.
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>I'm not angry at Mayer at all, I just don't understand why companies agree to golden parachute deals like this for failure.

Because "the company" that decides is the board -- and these people rub each other's backs...
The ransomware scenario is serious, but merely opting out of a connected car yourself won't be enough. You can still get a text demanding payment or other cars on the road will ram into your manual.

As for sharing roads with others who fear death as much as I do. That's a wonderful idea, however in my case a pipe dream. I share the roads with people who have no problem speeding, driving under the influence or even refusing to use seatbelts.

Ultimately I'm more optimistic about solving the ransomware problem than I am about putting the fear of death into other humans.
That could happen today. No car manufacturer is going to admit it's possible, but I'm pretty sure it's there, lurking:
Look at this remote shutoff for example. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2009/10/onstar-gp...
We develop React and test it on Facebook before making open source releases. In most cases, we update the version that Facebook is using every few weeks. Since they aren't full releases at that point, we call them alphas. They let us get a better appreciation for the issues that the new code may have and how hard it is to update before we make everyone in the community upgrade.
Well, they presumably only play once every four years.

And also... it's the Jets :)
> "Some head hunters are decent – I worked a little bit with bamboo talent and they were actually fantastic. But most still are used car salespeople trying to sell you bad goods."

Most? I'm not sure I'd be so uncharitable, but certainly _a lot_ are. And they and their jobs are overrepresented for the same reason poor candidates are: anyone who struggles to 'sell' is going to compensate for a poor 'product' by making more noise about it. These are the recruiters who phone persistently, edit your resume and even sometimes apply for roles on your behalf, without permission.

But how do you find a good recruiter? I mean, someone patient and sensible who isn't going to go into meltdown if they can't reach me in a meeting, littering my voicemail messages.

Whilst we're on the subject: recruiters who won't take 'no' for an answer. I had an interview last year and turned down a second stage, at which point my consultant basically exploded and angrily demanded a list of reasons why, refusing to accept any I gave, and telling me I'd wasted everyone's time when I'd only agreed to interview after extensive arm-twisting anyway. I just didn't think it was an interesting job and my interview quickly confirmed that. Experiences like these make me dread recruiters.
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>Colbert's "truthiness" was eerily prescient, meant in satire, yet followed by Conway's "alternative facts" without irony.

"Alternative facts" is an irrelevant quibble over wording.
Everyone understood the intention. It's exactly these quibbles over technicalities that everyone thought would end Trump's campaign, but it doesn't work; if anything, it generates more sympathy for the speaker.

Conway was not saying there is no such thing as objective reality (a belief called "relativism", which is much more repugnant to the conservative side of the aisle than the liberal one). Rather, she meant "we have different sources". Come now, that's not really such a crazy thing to express, is it?

The MSM heartily strains at these gnats to try to promote their agenda (not surprisingly, it seems Democratic politicians rarely make such snafus). They are apparently unconscious that all they're doing is spreading the message that these strategic gaffers want spread.
The waymo cars have more sensor data and do more local computation than anything out there. Instead of saying Waymo relies on map data, I'd say they have a defense-in-depth solution that integrates a multitude of different sensors and databases.

Do you want a system that only works on forward facing vision? Or only lidar? Or only gps and road databases? Or only machine learning? We know all of these have holes and blind spots, and a safe system wood have redundancy.

I think the actual distance between Waymo and those that evolved from lane keeping is far bigger than people realize and the biggest danger is people shipping MVPs that kill someone or run into a school playground, if that happens, congress will ban these cars or regulate so heavily that progress will be slowed.
First they removed the ability to always require a certain with just one character (+), then they started making search worse and worse requiring you to enclose several words with quotes.

It's one of the reasons I switched to ddg.
> There's not much of a market for [...] "people to browse photos in specific categories and collections".

I would venture that Avenue Q had a more accurate view of this (in the song "The Internet is for Porn").
Sure, but you can also build a perfectly serviceable computer for < $1000. Even $500 would (obviously) get you something far, far superior to that 90s machine.
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If you provide a tool to a criminal that they use in commission of a crime, you are assisting them and should generally be prosecuted unless a good reason exists to counter.

Is providing a public service a "good enough" reason?

If you provide free classes on bomb-making, should you bear any responsibility for how your students use the knowledge? Just because you're offering a public good/service doesn't absolve you of responsibility.
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I also had an hour commute by train in Chicago. I loved it.
> Isn't that fraught with survivorship bias?

It is, but it's not a completely invalid starting point. Even better is to study people who were once fat, but lost weight and keep it off. This is what the National Weight Control Registry does. It's similar to studies that have tried to pin down why marriages fail. Most studies focus on what went wrong in failed marriages, but some of the most helpful suggestions have come from what people who stay married do.

> My son and I are normal weight. My wife and daughter are overweight.

Do your wife and daughter eat the same portions as you and your son? It's a common complaint of women, who are on average shorter than men and therefore need fewer calories, that they can't eat as much as their significant others.
Sure people will buy self-driving cars. People want to own things for themself. If a car has a higher value with this feature even more people want to have a car. Consumers don't think economically.
I prefer YAML no matter how much lipstick you put on JSON.
I have an issue in their recommendation to use the Southern Poverty Law Center as a source to find out extremists. The SPLC is not a neutral source. For example, it has listed Aayan Hirsi Ali and Masjid Nawaz as anti-Islam extremists. https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/03/28/magazine/can-a-former-...

The SPLC is free to list whomever they want, but using their list to rank sites in Google search is very problematic.
On the bottom right side of the page you can see "Powered by Impossible" which is her website.
Why?
If they are already writing the curriculum,lectures labs/homework and Professors are justing using that material and forcing kids to pay for it.

Why don't we just cut out the extremely expensive middlemen, universities and professors ?
How much funding did you seek for a chess education company?
Your argument is about the same as "Humans can calculate arithmetic perfectly accurately, why do we need computers to do it for us?"

There are a host of obvious reasons why even a "simple" L4 car will beat a human hands down:

* Reaction time.

* 360 awareness / visibility.

* Lack of exaggerated "Human Reflex" to surprising events (i.e. swerving violently to avoid a dog, and hitting other vehicles)

* Keeping perfect space around the vehicle for safe stopping at all times. (don't tailgate, don't get rear-ended)

* Assuming a LIDAR-based system, virtually no difference in day vs. night vision. No "sun in your eyes" or "road glare".

* No fatigue related accidents.

* No DUI and related prescription drug accidents.

* No distraction-based accidents. (kids, cellphone, food)

* No "road rage" based accidents.

I could go on, but this should drive the point home pretty clearly, IMHO.
That's an issue that lies in the unfortunate intersection of 16/32 bit Windows, Windows NT and MS libc (MSVCRT), which support some combination of two and a half system designs.
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No matter how subjective we may be, we can never not be the ones making the decisions about robots or anything else. We have to take ourselves as we are, and do our best.
Some previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12856968
Netflix slaps additional $1B on the price tag of producing more content
Whereas content is $100/month when it used to be $0.
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>Machines are actually worse than free weights; you don't get a full body workout

Yes and no. Free weights are the better of the two choices, but machines are head and shoulders better than free weights for solo trainer safety, which is a problem for us guys and gals trying to "fit it in" to our schedules, as well as beginners.

So, I don't discourage people from machines simply because they aren't optimal. They have their place. I generally use the rack to bench. I love the AirDyne and Concept 2, if those count!
A Kantian approach also works here though.
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That's an interesting question. I would say that articles are made out of two things: words and spin. The author writes the words, and the words make the reader spin. Words are like a poem; they have to follow certain structural requirements, and yet out of that structure can come art...
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If you want something lightweight and readable JSON is fine. If you need a solution which covers 99% of all possible requirements there is XML. Everything in between will converge to the feature set of XML over time, if it lives long enough.
That must've amounted to several tens of cents (per book) on the $200 price tag.
I am almost certain I once installed it and paid for the birds. Even emailed support suggesting a Swedish version.
>That's what I don't get about these people.

The thing is, the reason you think this way is the same reason why you won't be as successful as her. Because by the time you make your 1MM, you won't take these big risks any more.

Money was clearly not the issue. She was at Google very early and ended up VP. Clearly she didn't need the money.
>>One of the things that really killed Yahoo, that no one talks about, is that they had these security people called Paranoids.

Did this group of Paranoids hold product-blocking sway after or before the highly publicized Yahoo! hacks? Lose-lose no matter which branch of the analysis tree we traverse.
Functional parity isn't all that matters. Reliability, security, performance, ops overhead and cost make a big difference. It's a tradeoff which makes sense for probably 99% of the users.

And yes, Google's SLA is fine with us, considering they will ultimately be far more reliable than we could be with our own team.
I don't know how much of the information was easy to find at the time, other than the People Magazine (!) investigation in 2006: http://people.com/crime/bill-cosby-under-fire-peoples-origin...

I mean, obviously, it was Googleable, as Buress said in his routine. And yet the question isn't whether or not it is "fake" -- though clearly many people thought it was fake, or outrageous, which is why it was such a funny bit in Buress's routine. But there's also the question of whether it was news. Because it was a big deal, and then it dropped off the news cycle because nothing big came from it. And then Buress simply reminded people that the cases existed and then it blew up in such a way that it's hard to believe that Bill Cosby, just a few years ago, was pretty much a hero.

The rape claims were such old news that a highly senior CNN journalist wrote Cosby's biography and just left out the rape accusations because he "didn't want to print allegations that I couldn't confirm independently". The Buress incident came about the time that the biography was published, and the biography pretty much died on the shelves:

http://www.newsweek.com/cosby-biography-mark-whitaker-i-was-...

Hell, you could make the case that the famous Boston Globe Pulitzer-winning investigation [0] into the Catholic Church would have been deemed "fake news" at the time. The Globe itself covered accusations of priest abuse a decade earlier and the Church argued that such cases were horrific anomalies, and the Globe editor at the time apparently agreed that there wasn't a systemic scandal. It wasn't until the Globe got a brand new editor that a renewed focus was made on cases that victims' lawyers had revealed years prior.

[0] http://www.pulitzer.org/winners/boston-globe-1
Just curious, what are the issues that he found with regards to the medication? I am asking because I was prescribed statins at 30 for the same issue.
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The debate begins to parallel the right to bear arms debate. Anonymity is powerful weapon against the abuses of the state, but that anonymity can also be used to harm fellow citizens.
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This is a pretty reasoned article. One thing I have never understood: why can't China and the US join forces and militarily overrun DPRK? I know they fought each other in the Korean war, but the world has changed so drastically since then. From what I've read so far, DPRK is a source of dangerous instability for everyone involved. Wouldn't having a more stable regime on the Korean peninsula serve the interests of all neighboring countries?
That's fair. Yes there are bandwidth costs and 1 extra hop, although minimal performance impact - but it is an option available and might be a good stopgap solution until the feature is released.
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> One of the things that really killed Yahoo, that no one talks about, is that they had these security people called Paranoids. They were great, super smart, always available, BUT, they held sway over everything and it was very very easy to just say, "naw, forget that 6 months of work, throw it all away, the Paranoids say we can't put it on production machines."

I'm pretty surprised to hear that Yahoo had a security team with that much influence, given their leak of over 1bn accounts and subsequent failure to disclose that information for 3 years.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/14/yahoo-hac...
i assume they want to have only one "place of truth" which should be code. The designers can generate the skethfile of components and then use them in their layouts (eg usecase core components)

also it opens up things like "using real (suboptimal) data" or cross-project-wide refactoring of design, etc
Absolutely. Ever heard the saying "the past is a foreign country"?
Any college worth attending doesn't make homework a condition of your grades. If your class can be beaten by an "answer key" you aren't teaching/testing anything important.
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A word processor company named WordPerfect used a similar "feature on demand" idea quite successfully during their early years in the 1980s. They only abandoned it when it got just too unwieldy, but by then they had become the standard word processor for law firms. They eventually got sold for what was then quite a decent sum.
Don't give up! 5% is nothing to sneeze at, and that pace is actually probably the best way to go about it as it's not radical changes to your lifestyle. It also gives your body, both inside and out, more time to adjust.

The tracking might be a thing for the rest of your life, but it's so easy these days with things like MFP. There's also hope in that once you maintain a weight for a year, your hormones (ghrelin and leptin) will adjust and you won't be as hungry.

Also, people love to trot out the "all diets fail" and claim no one has ever shown otherwise, when there are things like the National Weight Control Registry that put that pernicious myth to rest. As another poster said, most people don't realize that you don't just diet temporarily and stop. The word "diet" derives from the Greek "diaita" which means "way of life".
Right, that's one of the things I have found my fellow liberals struggling with. They don't understand the state of mind of somebody who wants to maintain things how they are, "we like it here" and attribute that to being close-minded, racist, ignorant, whatever. Sometimes that's true, but often times it's not. For example, I'm quite bearish on immigration, for example (I won't get into it here unless asked), and among my fellow liberal friends it's something they don't understand and considered "close-minded" or "unaccepting" but what does being close-minded actually mean?

In my case, for example, I've thought about an issue and have drawn a conclusion based on the facts at hand. I'm very open to new perspectives and new ideas and often challenge people on their own preconceptions because I think it's valuable that people are challenged. But again, I'm not "close-minded", I've just drawn a different conclusion. People need to understand the difference and they largely don't.
This is something that irritates me to the point of irrationality.

Why so many people spend so much time and resources on $name diets, questionable research, news about how 'xyz' is good for you while 'abc' is bad, exercises to eliminate calories in 30 days, exercises to remove localized fat etc? All of this is shown to be evidently bullshit for decades for the minimally rational observer.

Meanwhile the knowledge of what works is blatantly obvious: the energy expenditure must be higher than the intake. Having a healthy diet and exercise regimen along that is highly desirable but not strictly necessary, stating this just because understanding the core concept is more important than sheepishly believing the latest fad. Also that this is a process that takes a lot of time and is not a one-off procedure but a process of learning life-changing habits.

I'd like to remark that this is not easy at all! In fact is really hard due to the inherent biological and societal tricks that play on our minds. But if people are already suffering psychologically and financially with this, why don't just try the basics?

I understand how this is incentivized by an industry that extracts money from desperate people trying very hard to feel accepted by what society indicates as an acceptable and desirable appearance. The irony is that the failure of their latest hope is what makes them unable to understand that the problem is much simpler (not easy), and only try again on a more desperate attempt with the latest extreme measure.

At least if people would be honest enough to blame themselves for their bad habits (lack of a healthy diet and exercise regimen) they could start the process of accepting what they are as a result of their choices, and finally notice that they have some agency on this.

I am not talking here about existent mental and biological disorders of course and would not downplay their role.

Sorry for the rant, the only way I can rationalize that this exists is that there are people that deny the existence of climate change.
Would you have bought it, given the opportunity? I probably wouldn't have either. But she made the sale. If nothing else, that golden parachute is a commission just for ending the damn place as a going concern.

Do you really think the CEO personally negotiates the sale?
I wish I could agree, but I can't. The court of public opinion is fickle and monstrous. You don't have to go far to see examples: https://www.reddit.com/r/instant_regret/comments/67g6lj/moun...

Many of those people probably would've preferred the horse kill that guy instead of just bump him a little. Half of them probably feel that he deserved it, and they were happy to see him get hit.

It's easy to feel like the court of programmer opinion is much more evolved and sophisticated, but as far as I can tell, we're cut from the same cloth.

I was hoping there were a way to navigate ethical issues from a personal standpoint. It would be helpful to have a template: "I'm going to do S, and I know it's right because X." "I'm going to do T, even though it might be wrong, because Y." "I'm going to do V, even though it's wrong, because Z."
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