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> However, I imagine he buys entire movements and concentrates on the case, face, hands, and other aesthetic elements.

I'm not so certain about that; the article mentions his making a wristwatch (and pocket watch) version of a traditional Japanese clock which varies the length of a day by the seasons. Such timepieces (as clocks) fell out after the Meiji restoration (according to the article) when Japan transitioned to western style clocks.

Given that, unless Seiko (or some other company) is also making movements for traditional Japanese timekeeping, I can't imagine your scenario being true, simply because the market for traditional Japanese timekeeping watches would have to be pretty damn small, as they are virtually useless for practical use in the modern world, and only would serve as curiosities and/or art.

Just my opinion based only on the article, though - I could be completely wrong.
No, they put a low-poly mesh into the algorithm (I presume so it'd be foldable in a reasonable amount of time).

"Maybe links some of the triangles together" is the difficult part, especially since they guarantee the boundary of the paper folds to the boundary of the mesh.
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How could a platform detect this kind of "transaction laundering"?
In 1973 a female teacher (I think a teacher) at my high school got funding to start a computer science (i.e. programming) class in my high school. We learned to code in Basic and Fortran(interpreted!) on a teletype machine with a paper tape reader, connected to some time sharing system, plus got industry visitors and some field trips. Today I am a programmer because of this. If someone can put that together back then you can do it now.
We were not allowed to tell anyone. You have to ask the teams directly, but they also won't reveal their secrets. I would have so many interesting F1 stories...
> Given that both authors are pure mathematicians ..

Erik Demaine is a computer scientist: https://youtu.be/3e1ZF1L1VhY
wait lemming investing doesn't always work?
Why would we celebrate something like this?
It's 2017. Do you consider that a big number?
How do you figure? How can somebody replicate Google's services without a tremendous investment in both hardware and software?
Share Labs is a organization in Yugoslavia. Look at the 'about' page.
> That's really the only way their financial model can make sense.

Theirs and Tesla's, Faraday Future's, Ford's, Waymo's, Nutonomy's, Apple's (?), Yandex's, Audi's, GM's, Land Rover's, Hyundai's, BMW' and a few others I missed but that can be found by Googling "* investing self driving".
That's true. The hashrate/$ and hashrate/watt for the AMD cards is much more favorable for Ether mining.
If it were really the only thing giving Uber a monopoly on the market I guarantee somebody else would lose their scruples.
Barbarism is killing innocent people, blowing up mosques, and using men, women and children as shields because you can't fight your dumb little revolution.
Wow, I would've never thought a 3.4km shot was even possible. How fast is a .50cal even going at that distance?
If you're using a stolen credit card or fake address or whatever and you don't want to create any waves, not shipping the item is a value-add.
Nowhere did the article say it is a bad thing. Only that the rich have changed their behavior.
Nowadays most of them also have a bitcoin address as it is safer. Less hassle. Atleast this way you don't have to pay extra to not receive stuff you don't need anyway...
That's a spectrophotometer, not a GC/MS... Can you detect smelly airborne chemicals with this as well?
You just explained one of the big deals.

More generally, the way tipping works, there is no clear, consistent, compatible expectation, so I'm forced into a position of either a) overpaying, b) committing a silent faux pas, or c) having negative feedback misinterpreted as stinginess or ignorance.

Would you not consider that a big deal? Are you really surprised about the existence of people who don't like the tipping system, or who don't consider "just stiff them" a valid workaround?
It appears a small subset of HN is bloodthirsty.
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Destabilizing the Middle East is probably the better move.
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Yeah it was - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2191800
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What exactly did you mean to accomplish with that comment?

It looks like a textbook case of virtue signaling.
I really hope you never get to experience what it would be like to live in a society where everyone thinks like you (and nobody stands guard while you clutch your pearls).
I would love to emphasize one of the thoughts from @kustosz reply: our main goal is to make Luna simple and intuitive yet very powerfull. We've got super cool type system on top of purely functional language, however we put our hearts to make the syntax (both visual as well as textual) very simple and intuitive. Neither of the mentioned solutions - Idris, PureScript nor Haskell, Erlang etc are "simple" and "intuitive" to use unless you are really good programmer.
I think that's the point, though. To compete (as a new entrant) with Uber+Lyft, wouldn't you need to build infrastructure, win mindshare with drivers + passengers, and all the other things that Lyft and Uber have been spending years doing?
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I prefer getting 90s TV shows instead of this "original material".
this should have been an extension... seems too specialized to a technic I hope will not endure the test of time.
580s (~$300 MSRP) are selling for well over $500 on eBay today.
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It depends what you mean by "solved." In a rigorous, pure math sense, no. But so what? Math is only about itself and its own esoteric rules, not about practical reality. In a scientific sense, it is proven in the same way we know there are no unicorns: there isn't a scrap of evidence they exist, nor is there any reason to believe they should.
Google seems to be interested in hardware, hiring an ex Apple chip designer. Maybe they would be interested in this sale.
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As a publicly traded company, yes they do. Customer satisfaction only matters to the extent that it increases shareholder value.
SF has much worse air quality than Pittsburgh though, actually

https://qz.com/963089/california-is-home-to-eight-of-the-10-...

Preemptive plea: Please don't shoot the messenger by downvoting me for sharing this demonstrably factual information with you (I know it's coming, I know how this site works now).
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Thanks for sharing that insight. I guess that in terms of perception and experiencing – at least when it comes to what consumers are used to –, sound is a different beast altogether. And then you have to differentiate music recordings from sound production for cinematic content, where the latter is of course more about recreating real life.

It's funny that 2D stereo still works so well. Perhaps that will also change again, with binaural recordings and object-based audio, but that's something I don't see the music industry using anytime soon.
The actual life of the cells is much longer than 8 years. It's probably up to double that. Even after the cells degrade to the point where they are no longer useful in cars, they are still perfectly good for stationary storage.
All vendors are trying to lock-in in their cloud ecosystem and differences between their service offerings makes it very difficult to run same benchmarks on all of them. This put customers in dilemma: which vendor to use or if they should migrate to other.
They did say that additional cameras could be approved on a case-by-case basis. And anyway, professional shoots and productions aren't hobbyists. They don't want "interesting" cameras, they want proven, reliable cameras.
Without an external mandate to keep the price low, this should only happen rarely, because the chain will realize that they're underpricing the drug. If your copay is $10 and they sell it retail for $5, they'll make some kind of differentiation in the labeling to effect price segmentation and maximize the profit from each group of potential shoppers. That way, they'll be able to bill your insurance co $30, you'll pay your $10 copay, and they won't legally be allowed to sell you the cheaper $5 version since it will no longer fit the doctor's Rx.

They may keep a few things underpriced so that they can have pharmacists offer the cheaper version and create the impulse/illusion that the chain is looking out for their best interest.
Labor camps?

>>>

Once upon a time on Tralfamadore there were creatures who weren't anything like machines. They weren't dependable. They weren't efficient. They weren't predictable. They weren't durable. And these poor creatures were obsessed by the idea that everything that existed had to have a purpose, and that some purposes were higher than others.

These creatures spent most of their time trying to find out what their purpose was. And every time they found out what seemed to be a purpose of themselves, the purpose seemed so low that the creatures were filled with disgust and shame.

And, rather than serve such a low purpose, the creatures would make a machine to serve it. This left the creatures free to serve higher purposes. But whenever they found a higher purpose, the purpose still wasn't high enough.

So machines were made to serve higher purposes, too.

And the machines did everything so expertly that they were finally given the job of finding out what the highest purpose of the creatures could be. The machines reported in all honesty that the creatures couldn't really be said to have any purpose at all.

The creatures thereupon began slaying each other, because they hated purposeless things above all else. And they discovered that they weren't even very good at slaying. So they turned that job over to the machines, too. And the machines finished up the job in less time than it takes to say, "Tralfamadore."
Interesting.. but class distinction b/w middle and upper class or middle and lower class? After you mentioned it though I do agree on this... dental care is incredibly good in the US and covered by insurance so many middle class Americans do have incredibly good looking teeth.
For 500 mil it should be a no brainier. Its like a rounding error for google.
The alternative is not supporting a company who doesn't provide a living wage for their workers after they go into debt. They talk about making drivers entrepreneurs? That's just code for "we convinced some suckers to invest in a falling wage". Who do you know who invested in a black car and paid it off driving uber? There are similar stories with medallions, but that's a separate issue with separate solutions.

Lyft may have similar issues, but in cities without real taxi companies (e.g. Sf) there's no real alternative to being a part of this terrible "entrepeneurship". Tipping will put uber back on my phone.
This article may have a point about poor state of basic computer education in US, but its just blindly guesses the reasons on the topic of why so many hackers are from ex-USSR countries. A pretty good level of CS doesn't help here much - take a look at Europe, for instance.

The secret ingredient is a culture of cheating. Its absolutely fine to cheat on any level of exam (unless you get caught, obviously). This makes students think about the weak points of any system, gives them a chance to train their skills etc. The side effect of this culture is much higher level of corruption and financial crimes
There must be a guinness record somewhere in those two projects (linux and git).
If you ever go that route and you plan or using/creating some open-source components I would be very interested on hearing more (I am a JavaParser/JavaSymbolSolver contributor)
It's not a bogus! We are FP enthusiasts and the word "category" has really strong connections to our type system. However, the name might be a little misleading so we've already changed it. Anyway, we treat our types as categories. For example 1 belongs to a singleton category 1 (thus you can write 1 :: 1) but it also belongs to category of positive numbers or all numbers in general, thus again you can write (1 :: 1 :: Nat :: Int :: Num :: *). I hope you see now connections to category theory. However the name itself, as I noted above, could be misleading so we need to change it.
> You can create amazing things with software but does any implementation actually have permanence?

Software hasn't been around long enough to really know if it has "permanence" - but the Sabre Reservation System probably comes pretty close...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabre_(computer_system)

/somewhat serious...
I'd love to hear how this might be applied as a general debugger concept for CUDA and the likes. To a layman like me, CUDA's GDB debugging interface has always left a sour taste in my mouth due to the high amount of parallelism that simply can't be displayed through a debugger entailed to be used only on a single thread. I'd love to see someone working on (and I'm probably going to take a crack at it myself ;) ) not just using this interface as a language, but also as a debugging tool for other languages. Decomposition of CUDA (and other -- thinking Erlang right now especially) programs into bite-sized visualizations in order to program and debug would be invaluable for the space.
Maybe a good possible future would be that people focus on earning and saving capital when they are young and try to get to financially independent (ie., can live off the production of saved capital) as soon as possible. If most people were financially independent, jobs people did not want to do would pay well and people could quickly reach financial independence working these jobs (in a decade or so?). I think working hard and having the feeling of earning a life full of choices would go a long ways to prevent the psychological malaise of sucking from some one else's (the government) teat ones whole life. Also, having most of society overseeing capital instead of the 1% would probably be a good thing. This is possible today in the USA, Europe, Japan, South Korea, Australia, etc. See the Mr Money Mustache[1] blog for an extended description and discussion of one way of living this life.

[1]http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/
Currently, UBI is also wishful thinking. So why not wish for something that doesn't disempower the masses instead of something that does?

The world does not have to bend to my will. But I also do not have to bend to its. I can continue to desire a better system for how we treat people, no matter how ridiculous that seems to so many people.
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very late stage investors are more sensible to interrest rates.
Yes, it's one of our core goals! :)
ARRI Alexa 65 and Panavision DXL cameras are not for sale. They are only available for rental from ARRI Rental and Panavision respectively.

Sony don't manufacture the F65 anymore, so you won't find a current list price. It originally retailed for $65k for the camera body, and $20k for the SR-R4 recorder, so basically $85k. [1]

[1] http://nofilmschool.com/2011/09/sony-officially-prices-f65-t...
Wonder if Apple's inhouse GPUs will turn out as well as their CPUs. It's gotta be a hell of a gig to land to work on either.
Not only is what you’ve said not logical or true, you keep putting your irrelevant Uber love in threads where we’re discussing Uber’s toxic office culture. Whatever you feel about the NYC taxi industry is irrelevant when discussing a culture that fosters sexual harassment.

And even more in bad faith is your constant assertion that people who are not fans of Uber are somehow against poor people. Your entire second paragraph is filled with this. Based on that, I could easily say that, because of your comments of Uber love, you’re a huge fan of the kind of office culture that Susan Fowler wrote about. Would it be accurate? Probably as accurate as your assertion that those who are against Uber is against poor people.
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I don't think they shot Seinfeld in 35mm to be future proof. It was the best way to film at the time.
Is this a joke? They are pouring money into building a monopoly, so they can raise prices when they eventually control urban and suburban transportation.
It tells me that its a terrible investment decision and that I am better off at the blackjack table. At least casinos are regulated.
That would be a neat derivative of poker. Same as regular poker where everyone antes but if everyone folds they get 1.1 X their ante. if one person doesn't fold, you play it like regular poker.
The reasoning in the article seemed strong to me: Street level transport is a commodity and the market is mature. There is a maximum amount of value to extract from this business and the current companies almost do that. Uber spent way more money than the industry is likely to generate to try and steal their business.

Combine that seemingly solid market reasoning with them being opposed often and them fucking up almost as often and it seems surprising they are still functioning now. Their are missing leadership, their investors are unlikely to assemble a stellar team, there are existing internal and external problems. This seems overwhelming for all but the most profitable companies, and that is just what was in this short article. Even if it is wrong the reasoning seems solid. News facts or or astounding leadership at Uber are required to pull out of such a deep hole.

Their master stroke was supposed to be a self driving taxi, but they are no closer than anyone else and their bill is due. They appear to have an existential need to have that desperation move work for them for at least a few years before anyone else gets in on it. If they succeed then likely Google and Telsa will succeed within a few months of them. There appears to be no situations where they can recoup losses at a reasonable rate.

I could be totally wrong, but it looks suspicious as hell. If I had money to invest at a scale that mattered to Uber, I sure wouldn't go with them.
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Those are all good examples, and I think a pattern of that type of behavior is good evidence of a "toxic culture". That's what people are talking about, not just the recent sexual harassment stories. I'm pointing this stuff out because you said in your comment that you'd never heard of any bad behavior at Uber besides sexual harassment. In fact there's a consistent pattern of bad decisions made by people throughout the organization, and that's why people talk about a toxic culture.
Exactly nobody who knows anything about these sorts of agencies will be surprised to learn everyone is spying on everyone.
That's beautifully clear - I wish I worked with specifications so lucid. I've got almost no real knowledge of the field it's governing, but I believe I would know how to successfully shoot some footage that Netflix would accept off the back of reading it.

One thing intrigues me though - albeit likely a function of my lack of knowledge on the matter - do these requirements implicitly rule out shooting on film for Netflix?

(I mean, I'm sure that ${hollywood-bigshot} could negotiate, but for Joe Public..?)
Optimizing compilers are purely an implementation detail of a language: This shouldn't leak into the language (If that's what you meant)
Really cool you chose to do an image processing demo with the "color grading" example. That is such a natural fit for visual programming. I could see Luna fitting into a video post-production or digital asset creation pipeline for games. The combination of a visual interface and functional logic could be used to create mind-blowing custom procedural solutions! Have you given any thought as to what media libraries you might use for the final stage rendering of audio, video, bitmaps, 3d scenes, etc. Because I think it's possible it may be entirely done in HTML5 / JS...

Keep up the good work!
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great travel story. it misses something that i felt in spades whenever i popped my head into a pachinko parlor: it is incredibly depressing. ive never seen slots in vegas but i imagine its similar. theres something incredibly reductive about sitting there watching balls bounce randomly and slowly losing money. especially knowing that people are hopelessly addicted to it. but, i get it. we are all capable of succumbing to things like this. the void is utterly palpable in those places.
>It's because being a doctor is uniquely stressful and the training and work takes an emotional toll to a degree that is hard to explain.

Knowing several doctors, it is not that hard to explain.

And frankly, most of your answer is merely a reflection of the status quo, but not why that status quo exists.

Look at most developed countries and I wager you'll see less stress in becoming a doctor. Are they providing lower quality of service than US doctors?

And not all doctors work highly stressful jobs. All the PCP's I've had had a comparatively relaxed lifestyle compared to people like surgeons. Sure, they get paid less, but still get paid a lot. In my company I know plenty of engineers who work longer hours with greater stress (roughly 10-12 hour days and then being on call on top of that - PCP's are usually not on call). Their pay is a lot lower than that of a PCP.

I'm not saying they don't deserve to get paid a lot. Just that the "number of years of training" is not a good justification for it.
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1. Admit 'we can do better' and purge management ranks. Bring in some reliable, non-rockstar talent from the industry, and start a corporate responsibility blog.

2. Cut costs. Reduce headcount, relocate (out of SF/SV) or offshore dev work. Spin off or sell off expensive ventures, like self-driving research -- there are too many companies working on self-driving, it's not smart to compete with them in-house. Partner with one instead.

3. Increase revenue and maximize rider capture.

- Reduce fare subsidies in metros with lower competition, but offer a loyalty program for riders.

- Institute Expand high-margin LoS like UberRUSH, the courier service. Forge contracts with surburban/exurban governments to provide transportation services; try to absorb government subsidides.

- Monetize data collected during normal operations: partner with market research firms, expand incidental mapping operations to reduce reliance on external maps.

- Deepen partnerships with automakers, and make preferred partnerships with sites that are frequent origins and destinations.

- Think about usecases: not just cab-hailing in one's hometown, but offering safe passage to high-profile sites in foreign metros while one is travelling. Make people choose Uber for the same reasons they discretionarily choose another brand: consistency of experience, trust, and perks; i.e. don't compete solely on price. Make partnerships that support these use-cases.

Companies to be wary of: Google, Amazon, and automakers with whom they have no pre-existing relationship.

Companies to court: HERE Maps (owned by Volkswagen, BMW, and Daimler); hyperlocal providers like FourSquare, Snapchat; car-sharing companies like Zipcar; arch-rivals of their competition like Facebook, Walmart (!); AirBnb and hotel chains.
That's a sweet resource. Thanks!