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It's nice that Tesla makes an SUV, and it's nice that it has achieved this rating, but I'm also of the opinion that this vehicle is an SUV in name only.

I'd love to someday own a capable off-road 4wd electric vehicle - but this one doesn't seem like it. Such a vehicle would have to be able to handle at least a moderate to mid-moderate vehicle rated (3 - 3.5) trail:

http://www.dirtopia.com/wiki/4WD_Trail_Rating#3._Moderate

This vehicle doesn't seem to have the ground clearance to do so; whether it could be safely modified (lifted) is questionable. While given enough time and money you can lift any vehicle, there are practical limits. Plus - in the case of an electric vehicle - you also have weight limits (to lift a vehicle you'll likely be adding longer springs, shocks, plus other components to allow for the increased wheel travel - that all adds up to more weight, meaning fewer miles per charge). There's also the question of underbody armor to prevent intrusion into the battery areas (similar to skid-plates for drive-train components in a regular off-road vehicle, you'll want to prevent damage to the batteries as well in an electric - which again means more weight).

Will this kind of vehicle satisfy the crowd that wants to drive something big and (seemingly) capable, but isn't willing to own a minivan or station wagon - to ferry kids and groceries between parks, school, home, and mall? Sure.

But it likely won't be safe to take it off-road on a 4-wheeling adventure trip (it'd probably be ok for most graded dirt roads, though - so for basic camping trips).

I think I'm going to be waiting a while still for my hypothetical vehicle. Right now, the biggest limit (as always) is the batteries (unless you want to trailer it to the trail) - because of the weight vs range issue. What it may take is a complete rethinking and redesign of what an off-road vehicle means or needs. Probably more lightweight but strong composite components, or maybe something even more exotic - unless the battery technology improves (ie - if the stuff we've seen in labs becomes consumer-friendly and practical to manufacture). Hopefully, though, with those changes also comes ways for recovery in the event of broken parts on the trail (today if you break an axle or drive component, you at least have the possibility to repair it on-the-trail without necessarily needing to carry replacement parts, using a welder or other means - though some people -do- carry such components as well, which might become the norm for electric off-roading).
Thanks dehhn. From the LRO picture in the article, you can see that they're actually taking high-precision elevation maps of both the Moon and Earth into consideration, which sounds like something rather computationally intensive. I might be wrong, but I don't think they used Blender to handle that.

I would be curious to hear what tool they actually use, their pipeline, etc.
Were the taxi background checks in New York and San Francisco more comprehensive than those done by Uber?
Which is, sadly, almost always the case.
Bikes, skies, canoe and so on. All stuff you can put on a roof rack, but not in the frunk.
Thanks. I have fixed that.
The Model X is most certainly an SUV from a size perspective.

You're confusing its shape for its size. Likely it's slopped rear hatch vs the vertical rear hatch of that gives the box shape you associate with SUVs.

For the record SUV stands for Sport Utility Vehicle and thought there's not really one set of characteristics or definition for them, their utility is typically the thing that defines them. This might include things like passenger and cargo capacity, off road capability like ground clearance and 4wd, on road capabilities like towing capacity, etc.
There are lots of agencies as well as recruiters in Australia which will push out contracts. You can use that as a springboard into selling into enterprise / business if you want.

Can't speak for UK healthcare, Australian healthcare is good but has a private component. you will probably buy private for the tax incentives. there are also going to be out of pocket costs which may be unusual for a Brit but comical to an American.

Schools... in Melbourne I haven't heard of that kind of competitiveness. Sydney, sure.

You should figure out visas and ensure you can get on a path to PR. You should also visit if you never have before bringing your family all the way over. You want to be 100% committed to the move or else you will probably give up and move back.
> Mainly because the layout code (Postscript?) in the PDF file assumes an A4 or US letter sized page

Technically, it could be anything. The layout is specified, and everything stems from this.
I'd argue the value of the computation is strictly less than zero, because I could do it cheaper without using Ethereum at all.
> If this didn't kill ethereum why would it be a problem for bitcoin?

The situations simply aren't analogous. At the time ethereum was still seen as speculative and didn't have another project nipping at its heals for dominance in the turing complete contracts space. But now, ethereum is nipping at the heels of bitcoin to be the dominant blockchain currency. If bitcoin falters and money starts flowing out of bitcoin and into ethereum, there is no reason to be confident that it'll retain dominance.
> The horn of Africa (notorius for pirates) is on the other side of the continent. Or does this sound truthy because, you know...Africa?

No I wasn't stereotyping Africa or ignorant of geography. Did you know there's a lot of piracy on the west coast as well?

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

That's a bit further north than Namibia, but their officials in Namibia say themselves that they're concerned about it.

'Sea piracy is a concern to Namibia' http://www.namibian.com.na/index.php?id=99745&page=archive-r...
CS grads in good markets make significantly more than 50k/yr.
Did I say Uber isn't doing anything about it? The parent comment dismissed a clear problem in the company and was being all revisionist now that TK is on a leave by saying that he's a ruthless business leader running a typical SV unicorn and is being treated "unfairly". I pointed out that he failed to see a problem.
RETHINKING HOW THE HOUSING CRISIS HAPPENED
Ps... did you do anything to become less unavailable to the team? Like standup meetings or scrum. Or any other interesting strategy.
Yep, agreed on all counts. I was mostly just curious about whether the NRA is worse than it needs to be, or whether 2nd Amendment issues are so warped and conflicted in the US that any group entering that space will become something ugly.

The ACLU has a great record on 1 and 4, as do several of the groups they work with. "Restore the Fourth" is fantastic, and you can guess which amendment they care about.

The NRA is strange and uncomfortable to a lot of people, I think. I share your complaint, but they have strong stances on so many different issues that I've met people who object to them for half a dozen different reasons.
I am not an expert in machine learning, but the way this video presents automation just feels wrong.

I see computer science and machine learning as something which can amplify the power of a human. Taking the example in the video, previously if 20 managers were required to oversee a job software makes it possible for 1 manager to oversee the job. The presentation in the video of software as something which learns our jobs and starts doing them just sounds like a mischaracterisation. It sounds as if machines will t6ake over the world.

While jobs are being lost due to technology, I would think its because a few very smart people are doing the jobs which required a lot of people.

I would like to hear HN's thoughts on this.
How is a machine with a network connection 'airgapped'?
And? You're remarking on a surface-level resemblance to the greatest communication and economic innovation in human history. It's a disingenuous comparison.
Thanks for your (and everyone else who has commented here) advise. I think the approach I am going to take is to see if he's willing to sign an agreement to dissolve our partnership, giving me 100% of the company. If he really has just grown tired of it, as I suspect, I think he might do this. If he's not willing I'm going to try some type of buyout, payable once revenues can pay for it. Then I'll offer a small stake as a last resort. If he's unwilling to accept that then I guess I'll just have to quit the company. I really don't want to do that, I've spent so much time on this :( . But I'm also not willing to keep working on it without my fair share of the company; I'd rather start from scratch again on a different idea.
IIRC, of the 215 cases that were investigated, 20 resulted in termination, some 17 resulted in warnings (i.e. if HR hears complaints about you again, you're fired), and some 27 resulted in counseling. The rest were found to be either simple enough to resolve with a conversation, or about ex-employees, or lacking information, or unfounded accusations.

There's now a new anonymous hotline where employees can report harassment, so presumably any new reported cases will be investigated by the law firm that was hired for this.
The meat of the document is missing. It states the situation that triggered the investigation, describes the process followed, and gives the recommendations.

But it doesn't tell us what they learned through the process.
> it's essentially vaporware and all signs point to the conclusion that it will remain that way for the foreseeable future.

Here's the ethereum proof of stake code that will go live on ethereum sometime this year: https://github.com/ethereum/research/blob/master/casper4/sim...

This is the actual production code (though of course still in draft form, under review)

> just toy applications that have no practical purpose

The UN uses an ethereum app to send aid to Syrian refugees via vouchers: http://www.coindesk.com/united-nations-sends-aid-to-10000-sy...
The app doesn't support all languages that the website did yet. Since the app supports things like telling the time, phone numbers, etc, it takes a little bit of effort to add a new language. The web version supported pretty much any language that the browser knew about.

Thai is on the list to add to the app now. :)
Or a cardiologist.

Turns out you need pretty much everything in there.
oooh no, people are interested. Go DI frameworks are appearing rapidly. Simple ones are indeed simple (and often all you need, which is great), but that's nowhere near all there is to the field.
There are very few companies I have ever worked with that had the majority of these bullets covered, so no, I don't think this particular snark is very biting.
> ... mentioning "sex" as opposed to "relationship" or "dating" ...

Sex is a natural human activity. People fuck all the time. People especially fuck at parties where there's alcohol involved.

> ... even if you assume that the guys will be asking for consent ...

Uh, what? The entire point was to ask for consent. I can't speak to your other hypothesizing about tone, or what 20-something guys might or might not do.

> ... there are many people on the team that the Travis wants to sleep with ...

Not sure where you're getting "many." Regardless, Travis probably wants to sleep with some of his employees, but he's leading by example and not pursuing. Again, I can't speak to your mental gymnastics as to what an employee might infer or not.

I can only read what's in the email.
Run a random number generator (0-9) for each decimal position after the dot in parallel. This should do a trick.
Organized crime doesn't have to work exactly like the Cosa Nostra to qualify. I guess neither of us know enough about the relevant law to take this discussion much further.
> She spent Yahoo's money like a drunken sailor, an odd thing to do if her job was managing Alibaba (how exactly do you manage a passive stake in anything?).

Well, it's no small thing to divest a big chunk of equity like that without crushing the value. There are a few ways you can do it, but you need someone empowered to actually execute on it for the board. That's the CEO's job. She did a good job in that.

And yeah, she made some bad acquisitions. But most of these types of acquisitions fail (it's not like great companies put themselves up for sale -- just look at Microsoft's or HP's acquisition history) and the losses on those acquisitions were more than made up for by the additional amount she was able to get for the combined Alibaba + Yahoo. She basically ended up spinning off the entire value of the Alibaba stake plus $4.5 billion -- which is about $5 billion ahead of where the company was at when she started (remember the articles basically saying Yahoo's operations were worth negative money?)
Law obviously isn't the same thing as morality. SS soldiers also didn't break any laws, while Oskar Schindler was a criminal by legal definition. You may see an attitude that doesn't bend over to all decrees from the government as "rotten," but the most interesting and intelligent people I've ever met wouldn't agree.
Wow, shame on this Adobe support person. 50 bucks a month is no trivial amount. Plus, with teachers paying school supplies out of pocket and not getting paid for the extra hours marking and prepping. The least this person could've done is to show some respect!
You say that as though they don't make some of the best laptops out there.
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I assume you sold him on the investment tho
What Would Happen If the Steam Platform Shuts Down
> So basically they took a simpler version of software used in hundreds of medical imaging labs around the world and put it in an app?

> I've worked in labs that do this exact same thing. It's cool that they're putting this in a consumer-facing format but the technology (re: accuracy in ML models) still isn't there yet

Don't these observations explain each other? The whole point of have a consumer product is to reduce office visits and/or increase the monitoring frequency. So reduced accuracy is acceptable since any positive results would be followed up by the standard, more sophisticated tests.

They aren't trying to mimic the state of the art in a phone.
The equation that defines curvature in GR depends on the stress-energy tensor which describes the distribution of matter/energy in spacetime. This depends exactly on position and momentum of the matter involved, which is in direct contradiction with the quantum mechanical nature of the stuff.

Normally this doesn't matter because gravity is so weak compared to the scale where QM effects dominate but it is a mathematical inconsistency that becomes very relevant towards the extremes of both theories, in particular: the very early universe just after the big bang and the dynamics near black holes.
You mean when Apple stopped being a hardware company and started being a media / services company?
There are probably ways to mount bikes or skis in the back. (The bike rack on my SUV is actually in the back--which has pros and cons.) But I need a boat rack and there's no way around that. Plus the odd pieces of lumber, etc.
Yes, I've read it all and feel much more confident stepping into an Uber than into a taxi. I'm hardly alone. It's not a rare or unusual view like you're trying to present it.

It's not like Uber is a rape fest touring the world in beat up lemons. In fact, I never even had an impolite conversation with the driver. It's just enforced with a different mechanism than background checks and inspections.

Frankly, I find the American paranoia behind running background checks on everyone much more bizarre than taking a ride in a stranger's car. And I highly doubt their effectiveness in a world where Reality Winner holds a (much harder to come by) security clearance.
Me too.

We were going to make a weekend trip out of this. But we realized the chances of bad weather are pretty high at our planned viewing site in Western North Carolina and that it would be better to stay in Atlanta closer to an Interstate Highway so we can quickly drive to an alternate site.
Yeah, that's what I was thinking of with individual versus collective rights. The final sentence is a nice acknowledgement of the collective right, but as far as I can tell the (national) ACLU has never taken a rights-expanding stance on a specific gun issue. (Some state orgs may have.)

In practice, they don't advocate for Second Amendment protection. That's not necessarily a bad thing, I think it would destroy their effectiveness elsewhere without achieving much, but their acknowledgement of the right hasn't involved them actually getting involved with legal cases so far.
So allow me to get meta for a moment here. Do you want to be right, or do you want to change people's minds?

Ignore the fact that we see this on two different levels and don't even agree on first principles for a moment. Let's just talk about the pure practicality and rhetoric involved.

From a purely objective standpoint, a great many people in this country believe in the 2nd amendment as written.

There is no legislative solution that doesn't involve their consent. As much as you'd like to drag them over kicking and screaming, you can't. Our legislative system has safeguards in mind to prevent minority opinions from being imposed on the rest of the country. You're talking a 2/3 majority in both houses of Congress, or a constitutional convention involving 2/3 of states, to amend the constitution.

Please realize this. It's important. There's your goal which even I can agree is admirable, and then there's talk of realistic ways of achieving it, which is a much more interesting conversation, and one you sadly don't seem to want to have.

So that said - why the tone-deaf posturing? Do your comments here advance your goal of reducing gun violence in any way?

Or rather, do they confirm every stereotype of anti-gun people ever cooked up?

Do you realize your earlier conversation could be run verbatim by the freakin' NRA as an example of what they fight against, generating more support for the exact opposite of what you hope to accomplish?
Your original assertion was generic; that a janitor has as much impact on market cap as a CEO. So let's stick with that.

Consider: the CEO of Ford decides Ford will no longer sell petrol based cars (getting the board to go along with it too) and then executes that strategy.

If it succeeds then the market cap of Ford will increase. If it fails then it will decrease.

On the flip side, no matter how clean a janitor can make the facilities, he can't dictate corporate strategy and Wall Street doesn't care how clean Ford's bathrooms are.

This doesn't diminish the importance of a good janitor, but let's be honest about the limits of their impact.
Except a large number of companies committed to development and experimentation with the ETH blockchain.

See: https://entethalliance.org/members/
No, they call it an SUV which it is. Crossovers are typically smaller with much lower towing capacity than the Model X.
Historic Preservation: NIMBYism for the Rich?
Why you should manage your energy, not your time
I don't see how your conclusion follows from the premise. And captured regulators are hardly the pinnacle of democracy.
But it did popped already? Just because its value didn't go to zero doesn't mean it wasn't a bubble.
Right, but like I said in my original comment, you're just hoping you don't make a very easy to make mistake. I can't count how many times I've updated an app on accident

I'm currently on a version of Snapchat that does not recognize when I use iOS 11's screen recording feature, so I can record anyone's snaps and they don't get a notification. But I have to have automatic updates off, and be very, very careful when updating (when I tap "more" to read about other app updates, I accidentally tap like .5cm lower I can upgrade Snapchat), and hope none of my friends ever "helpfully" tap the "Update All" button on my phone. It would be so much nicer to just lock the version somewhere.
My favorite statistical/probability paradox has always been the birthday paradox.
> We're arguably the least cavalier about taking life of any life on earth.

Fungi beat us in this respect. Most of them feed exclusively on dead matter.
No .onion link (Tor hidden service)?
Architecture – AppAgile PaaS and BIG Data
In his satirical work.
Yes, they were, and yes, they are. Uber wasn't even doing background checks at the start, and they aren't doing fingerprint checks. They are quite literally, matching people's names. This has a huge false positive, and false negative rate.

Never mind that circumventing their background checks is also trivial - many drivers have gotten friends and relatives to create their accounts. This flies under the radar, because Uber doesn't care - they need more drivers.

They could, of course, calm these concerns by being transparent about their process (Or just doing the same that taxi companies do.) They don't, and they aren't, though.

[1] http://valleywag.gawker.com/uber-driver-heres-how-we-get-aro...
Org exports to anything including utf8 plain text with a nice style reminiscent of IEEE RFCs.
I think this only sounds like a paradox if it is phrased poorly. The accurate way to state it is "The probability of randomly picking a specific number is 0" and that sounds reasonable. The probability of successfully picking any number is 1.
TLDR version. Anyone?
There are many ways to pick randomly from the rationals with a non-uniform distribution.
What measurements do you propose?
I especially like:

"Uber should consider moving the catered dinner it offers to a time when this benefit can be utilized by a broader group of employees, including employees who have spouses or families waiting for them at home, and that signals an earlier end to the work day."

Note to Linux users: this PDF looks terrible without msttcorefonts installed. I guess MS Word neglects to embed fonts? Also, as someone who is not used to seeing documents generated by MS Word, I'm surprised at how bad the typography is in general (although maybe this due to user error...for example it looks like hyphenation might be disabled.)
He sold himself just on whatever is said on Bloomberg etc. And he views it about like laying $$$ on the Georgia Bulldogs to cover against Alabama, so I'm not going to put up a fight.
I dunno. Uber's "mostly assholes" approach seems to have gotten them pretty far. Perhaps the message is rather that you can be as awful and unscrupulous as you like because by the time it bites you you you'll either be long gone or far enough along to bring on Eric Holder and Arianna Huffington to rehabilitate your image.
I think you're comparing general population with technical population at HN, many of which are in leadership roles and would naturally be more sympathetic because they understand the struggles of growing a company. People who don't get it simply don't understand the situation and wonder why Yahoo isn't dead already or why they have insane payouts for a CEO which essentially finished the downward spiral.
Any specific ones you can point out?
Many teachers have seen at least one, if not multiple consecutive pay freezes under recent budgets. It's a pretty rough stance.
This is a list of recommendations. Many are stated as blandly as possible. This is definitely not the full report.
Hey now. The US asked [the Canadian provinces] to join them. They were completely happy trading furs and being second place, well before the US' existence.
Teleport 2.2 Released: ARM Support, Security Audit Report Published
Guild.ai: Real time TensorFlow visualization
But it gets to the heart of the matter of why responsible people who are pro gun rights feel like progressives aren't willing to consider productive compromises that address the real fundamental problems. Banning "assault weapons" would be largely ineffective. Requiring people to demonstrate basic safety as determined by an apolitical third party (National Guard in their state?) before being licensed would probably dramatically cut down on gun accidents and nobody would have to be afraid that their right to self-protection is being taken away from them.