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Exactly. One of the entire core values of having electrical infrastructure and equipment is to make energy sources perfectly fungible, abstracting generation details from usage. That in turn means that energy generation is always about economics and national strategy (which in turn often just boils back down to economics), the expense of any given method is the whole point. This often comes up with "peak resource" issues, which aren't generally about using up all of a given resource so much as using all that can be reached for a given price.

What we're really seeing are fossil fuel industries finally starting to have to actually compete under a real Free Market as society becomes less tolerant of letting them ignore their massive externalities. If coal is more expensive taking into account not being able to dump expensive pollution into the wider world, then it can and should go away. In fact that cost should have always been taken into account.
There's a concept from SEI's CMM levels that attempting to maintain an impedance mismatch of greater than 1 between different parts of the organization ends in pain.

I think in this case I agree with GP that it is possible to 'solve' a problem at one degree removed from the source if there is no way to actually solve the problem at the source.

So for instance, lots of people write code to scrub janky data from a partner (indeed, that may be part of the value you add to the system).
Cool to see that most of the toys are actually geared to supporting the visual element of his live show. The Lan party / render farm in particular.
I don't think this is true, as the browser is still executing the OpenGL calls via WebGL. This isn't a video streaming solution, it just allows WebGL rendering via the network, so you still need hardware capable of natively rendering the graphics.
Google Maps also burns through battery at a crazy rate. Seems like phone GPS usage is just power intensive.
"mid-size, independent haulers" in NYC are truly awful drivers. They regularly violate every single rule of the road— I recently saw one signal a right turn, then proceed to turn left and pull a 360 in the intersection while almost hitting a motorcyclist.

Then this driver drove the wrong way down the road in order to a get a bit closer to a load of garbage without having to go around the block.

It's a business that externalizes its costs by driving dangerously and killing people:
http://nyc.streetsblog.org/2010/07/13/see-a-pattern-of-deadl...
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(I work at google)

>Google has been working on it for ages and we have yet to see a serious attempt at a non-academic implementation.

This seems like a claim made without knowledge. The 2016 autonomous vehicle disengagement reports [0][1] show that Waymo is an order of magnitude ahead of any competitor in miles driven and vehicle reliability. And as another user mentioned, Waymo is currently testing with real consumers and a large fleet of vehicles in Phoenix [2].

[0]: https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv/detail/vr/autonomous/disen...

[1]: https://www.wired.com/2017/02/california-dmv-autonomous-car-...

[2]: https://waymo.com/apply/
I am going to come out here strongly in favor of medication.

All of the natural stuff you've been trying, the meditation, the emotional stuff, it's good and I appreciate it, but it just doesn't work significantly.

As a society we have lots of "medication guilt" I've noticed. I don't know where this comes from, but it would be interesting to have a sociologist explore.

Western Society is a very cognitively demanding society. It places lots of strain on our brain and mental capacities. The idea that most people can do very well using their limited cognitive resources is to me as unrealistic as the idea that most people can just fight "regular diseases" using their body and no vaccines, antibiotics, or other treatments.

I see a lot of guilt too around "being dependent" on medicine. I've never gotten this either. We're incredibly dependent on food. We take it everyday. Personality changes dramatically as well. That to me is an argument that while interesting and having good points, doesn't really help anyone at the end of the day.

Medication does have bad parts. A good example would be people increasing dosage of a medicine when in reality they need to get their diet in order. Also, as I write below, you'll probably get a non-effective / bad medicine your first go around since you have to find the right one and work at it.

So what approaches helped me?
- Anticonvulsant medication. This medicine is an alternative to typical antidepressants. I've seen very little written about it, but seizure reducing medicines have been showing some very positive results in treating depression. This is very good for nervousness and social anxiety as well.
- All-cash psychiatrist. Find a psychiatrist in your city who doesn't take insurance. I really believe in insurance, but in this case, those who don't take it will be the best. You are looking at $400ish for the first appointment.
- Better diet. The book "How Not To Die" is very simply written. Ugh so many medicine people have elaborate programs and actually make their books hard to understand so you have to buy more materials. Dr. Greger is very good. Yeah I realize 15 other people are saying something different but just trust me on this.
So what is your plan in case your phone gets lost/stolen/whatever and you lose access to your TOTP app?
When you say funnel optimization, which side of the funnel are you talking about? And I am wondering if you really need lead gen or just a better idea of who your target customer is. Very specific target customers are usually easy to find....but you have to make sure you know how to talk to them, meaning, your towel page is selling "comfort and softness with upmost absorbency" but your customer might want to buy "looks great in your bathroom and the color won't fade"
Not German, but nouveau riche pretty well covers it.
I'm not chiding anyone about their behaviors. brainfire was saying how they solve their problems with Facebook, and I suggested an easier solution.

Lots of people have problems with Facebook, and I was suggesting a solution to their problems which many people think is untenable, but works well for me. If you don't have problems with Facebook, my comments weren't directed at you.

There's some irony in jumping into someone else's conversation to tell them to mind their own business and stop chiding people for their behavior.
It's not about people buying their excuses. They don't expect you to. They don't care.

It's about giving talking points to "defenders".
> The more income you report, the less "universal basic income" you receive...

What you're describing is welfare, not UBI. The whole point of actual UBI is that you give everyone the same amount, irrespective of income.
If you like this, check out even-better-ls[0]. It does pretty much the same thing but does it just by setting LS_COLORS, so no need to run a separate script. I also find the spacing it uses much nicer.

[0] https://github.com/illinoisjackson/even-better-ls
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Do they make you sign a contract or can you put 3% discount for person to person sale?
That way they are paying their agent if they decide to use one.
Nope haha. It was a very badly shot video done in haste for a WSJ article because they wanted a live video as proof or something. We've done way more polished videos since but none get the same kind of traction. I wonder if theres a lesson to be learned there...
Google is going to increase or fully acquire Uber. Uber has virtually no management in place right now and I could hypothetically see that clearing being pragmatic for the social reasons, but potentially part of a deal with Google for business ones. Maybe they will reach a settlement before this goes to court. This is obviously unfounded speculation but a few other points

whole C suite is pretty much gone

Uber is integrated into Gmaps. Currently running an existing user promo for $15 if executed through maps.

Whole Uber team has apparently trained on Googles tech already so on boarding will be easier

It's Googles core competency

They already own a smallish percentage

They seem to be focused on production, key exec was let go from Ford for wrecking a Frenemy partnership trade of AI / Tech for Ford production expertise. They have the synergy with Gmaps, much of the AI and prototyping with Waymo and they can turn around the negative sentiment. They need the network short term to ramp up whatever their play is for the future.

I can see this being reasonable. Uber is a financial mess with limited upside if this case goes south and is only attractive to a few buyers. Google, already being an investor is one of they few Incs with the knowledge and capital to actually get value from this cash fire.
> But I eventually gave up, because I think the biggest developers who would adopt this are heavy 3D graphics companies

Is lack of viable adoption by users the only reason you gave the project up?
Pretty much.

If your BOM cost is say $200 including labour, then you should be targeting a price of at least $600. That $200 doesn't include the cost of design, tooling and so on. If you bought a $50k CNC machine you want to get some ROI! If you go for a distributor, they're going to take 10-20% (and they may want a volume discount). You might want some room to have sales, or offer bundle discounts to attract customers. You have to ship the product, market it, support it and fund the next iteration. Why go for razor thin margins? If you have a niche, people will pay. Apple have this nailed - they are expensive because they actually price their products sensibly and they're rolling in cash as a result.
The best art is often produced under great constraints, something that usually disappears after commercial success.
You can add SoundHound (the confusingly similarly named and colored startup with not unrelated lines of work) to the list of companies willing to hire!

I'll copy paste my usual Who's Hiring message here:

SoundHound | All roles available in Santa Clara/San Francisco. Engineering roles only in Toronto. NLP only in Sacramento/Baltimore | ONSITE - http://soundhound.com/careers
I'm an NLU / Data Engineer at SH. We've just raised $75 Million from NVIDIA, Samsung, KP and others to take on Amazon and Google in AI with our "Collective AI" Houndify platform. Our open Houndify platform has the world’s fastest speech recognition and most sophisticated natural language understanding. We've had a lot of interest from partners and there are a LOT of really interesting projects being worked on requiring complex problem solvers who can work well independently.
Things have come a long way since our leaked demo video took top spot on Reddit a year ago!
https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/38fdyl/this_is_insa...
https://www.houndify.com/
http://app.jobvite.com/m?3uCiQhw0
If you have any questions you'd like to ask an engineer here just email me: rob at (company name) dot com. I respond to all emails but please no agents!
It may be an allusion to McDonald's...
I had this situation. I had an AWS account linked to some email I no longer had access to and could not get into the account. I opened a support ticket and they sent an email to the old address, after 10 days of no response they sent it to "Legal" for review. The account was then closed by them which resolved it for me.
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I'm asking for something even more basic from ad targeting: as a Canadian, with a Canadian IP address, don't advertise products/services to me that are US-only.

You'd think the web advertising industry would at least figure out how to never show me an ad for Hulu or Blue Apron, seeing how those companies don't do business outside the US so the ROI on having me click that is zero.
> A good agent is worth 10x their commission.

You actually think a 'good' realtor deserves a 60% commission? I can tell you're married to a realtor.
To clarify, get a new number for your credit card account; don't cancel it entirely. If it's your oldest credit card account then canceling it outright will have bad repercussions for your credit score.
I imagine google think they have, but the truth is, a document saying that approach X does not work would save anyone who read it a lot of money. And the only thing you'd see in the final design was that it didn't use X.
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We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14719484 and marked it off-topic.
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Respectfully, I'm not sure you fully understand these issues that you seem to have a very strong opinion about.

Teenagers around the US do not as a rule have convenient access to contraceptive pills. That's because the FDA refuses to approve them for OTC sale, despite their safety relative to many other OTC meds. The stated reason for refusing OTC sales is that allowing them would prevent women from seeing their doctors for other medical issues (this is also the reason you can't buy extremely useful and safe meds like Ondansetron OTC). I feel like I'm on firm ground when I add that this is unlikely to be the only reason you can't buy OTC contraceptive pills.

Meanwhile, about half of US states require parental consent for most minors before doctors can issue prescriptions for birth control.

As a fun additional wrinkle, churches, and in particular the Catholic church, run some of the largest hospital and health chains in US metro areas. Church-run hospitals routinely refuse to provide access to contraceptive services. In Chicago, the Loyola health system --- an otherwise well-regarded health services chain! --- won't prescribe contraceptive pills to adults even for non-contraceptive reproductive health purposes!

I don't think we need to spend too much time talking about Planned Parenthood clinics; the issues there are obvious to anyone familiar with the state of reproductive health in the US.

So, no, I don't think it's reasonable to argue that any teenaged girl in the US should be expected to be fully armed with all the tools of modern contraception.
> This is a combination of the power of server machine and the convenience of the web.

Just to clarify, Qt WebGL Streaming is not a video streaming solution, so the rendering still happens in the browser via WebGL. The hardware requirements to run a graphics app with this feature would be no lower than they would be to just run the Qt app natively, so the only benefit is the portability and accessibility of the web.
I don't want to turn it into a contest, but across my domains I receive in excess of 3000 spam emails a day.
Google aside, plenty of email servers regularly filter or silently drop customer requested emails from well established companies.
Adding myself to the no-call list and marking the numbers as spam in the phone made them disappear for me.
In a previous job, my team was responsible (among other things) of the company's newsletter. Nothing great but nothing spammy either, and we made sure to follow anti-spam law by having the newsletter subscription being opt-in and having a clear and easy unsubscribe flow. We didn't send the emails ourselves, but rather used a big player in that area.

What I learned is that sending emails and not getting treated as spam by any of the big email providers is an absolute mess of tinkering and hoping it'll work. Not all of them would categorize our emails as spam, but Outlook.com started doing it out of the blue, and even a year later we didn't have a clue as to why or how to make it stop. Support for email senders is as good as for users, meaning getting anything else than a canned response wasn't happening.
In Republican eyes, they are heroes for their Supreme Court victory over Obamacare. With that comes immunity from pretty much anything short of a dead girl or a live boy, as the saying goes.
And here is another issue. The content to sell VR cannot be hyped by "try it!". You want to sell VR to someone who has not bought it yet so there is no time/content restricted "demo version" route. You cannot demo it in Bestbuy either (I don't know many people willing to put a public use mask on their faces). If a 2D video does not sell it then the only channel left is through friends and family. Do you have friends coming over just to play SUPERHOT VR?
We detached this flagged subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14718836.
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Sorry, should be fixed now.

The idea is that it's backed by my money for now, so I can issue points but I need the money to back it (1 point = 1 dollar = 1 euro for now).

I'm still thinking about the economics.
Isn't that about two decades late?
My Uncle has Alzheimer's and this makes me feel even better about my exercise goals now. I lost around 40 pounds and I'm shooing for another 40-50 ish.
I wonder if he could use Indiebound's affiliate program and attract readers who prefer to buy from a local bookstore.
How possible / appropriate would it be to utilize this library to create an interactive version similar to this example using d3: https://www.jasondavies.com/maps/rotate/
>who cares if he's arrogant? There's hundreds of big corporations manipulating media for financial gains.

That's a hell of a non-sequitor
Interestingly, the original incarnation of tweets in Google (circa 2010) was fully real-time, with new tweets on a query coming in and getting displayed on the SRP as soon as they were posted. My friend spent a significant portion of his tenure doing a custom scrollbar so that if you scrolled up, it would pause the scrolling while you read the tweets, and then if you returned to the final scroll position, you'd see what you missed.

Ultimately the feature was discontinued over contractual differences, and then when they brought it back a couple years ago (after I left Google), it looks like they went with a fully static page. I think that real-time webpages has been one feature that every techie thinks is really cool and just around the corner, but the general public just finds annoying.
Columbus is weird, it's growing rapidly but I think there's a big stock of previously abandoned buildings.
Doesn't waymo already have a deal to supply self driving cars to lyft? What would they get from Uber but a competing service?

The brand seems like a liability in this case.

Hell, if anything, i'd use this to force Uber to license the cars from Waymo, too.
Greed is another logical explanation. I don't buy the narrative of Levandowski as some tortured idealist who just wanted his dream to shit rainbows, and Google as the neglectful parent stifling his creative growth. If that was the case he would have stuck with Otto for more autonomy.

I think Google just understands the complexity of the issue presented by true self-driving cars. I'm still highly skeptical that they're going to become a thing outside of cities and major highways anytime soon, there are simply too many edge cases to cover. That's not to say it's impossible, but Google is clearly shooting for pure self-driving cars that don't need a steering wheel, or something close to that, prior to any commercial application. Tesla and Uber are taking more iterative approaches, but they can directly benefit from mediocre/incomplete self-driving in the meantime whereas there's no incentive for Google. We'll see who gets to the holy grail first, but I wouldn't discount Google. Large-scale, public, iterative approaches, while the dominant religion in modern tech, are not a panacea.
Agreed, for most people this is by far the single largest monetary transaction they will make (aside from another home purchase) in their entire life. Some form of "assistance" during the process is necessary.

I'm a big DIYer and will go to great length to research and do things on my own. My Realtor (Redfin agent) payed for himself and then some during the home buying process. Your paying for their experience and knowledge.

My agent making statements like "I had our lawyer review our signed purchase agreement and because of X,Y,Z we are still ok" helped me understand why I'm paying a big company a lot of money to help me out.
You guys are funny.
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Ask HN: Online privacy while job hunting?
It seems to be accepted practice to throw out all the general rules of internet privacy when looking for jobs. Is it a necessary trade-off? What are the privacy practice you follow when looking for jobs online.
Pittsburgh has a thriving tech and financial sector, driven by CMU and PNC respectively. Buffalo has never quite been part of the "rust belt", they're more east coast. They have lot of stable government employment because of New York state.
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Exercise. Fasting. Daily Aspirin. Daily Metformin.

Together should put you in a pretty good position.
Most of what the article complains about can be solved with an ad blocker. The rest by staying off of Facebook.
The purpose of these ads is not to sell you stuff. Its to sell advertising to companies that don't understand this internet stuff but are terrified of being "left behind". The ads need to be plausible, thats why someone has to see them, but who that is literally doesn't matter.
With much of the sexual impropriety stories at Uber, is it really a good PR move for Google to go ahead with such acquisition?
What is your point? Are you implying that people thought electronic music was otherwise difficult or expensive to produce? Did you think people didn't know you could write code to generate sound?

...Or are you just being reductive and showing off your programming knowledge?
Being powerful, ie good in something, is a function of Work over Time, so if you are good without much effort, that implies some sort of talent I think.
The title of this is pretty misleading. They are not encrypting emails, they are encrypting email traffic. The E-mails will still be plain text _unless_ the user decides to encrypt them, which is functionality that has been around since the mid 2000's.
Bingo, I was mainly thinking of a large christian organization acquiring ancient artifacts from the middle east.
"Google is going to increase or fully acquire Uber."

Talk about a "God's View", they'd be literally begging for regulator's attention if they tried buying Uber
I forget where I read this (somewhere on HN most likely), but there is a major difference between what Google/Waymo is doing and their competion. It all goes back to the DARPA days; The waymo approach is a hybrid one, its terrain detection using LiDAR as well as visual based systems. To see and "understand" the environment using a mix of these technologies is very different than what, say Tesla is doing, which is using cameras to do what is basically advanced lane following (although it is still fantastic technology). I believe that its this dichotomy in approaches which causes what people interpret as Waymo falling behind, or well, not being as ahead as they once were. Many other companies are catching up using visual based systems, but I believe there is a wall they will hit, where they will need to go through a major iteration of their technology to match what Waymo is currently doing.
OK, completely out of topic, but it's interesting to notice how broadly they use the term "data science". This goes to confirm my thinking that data science is becoming more and more an "all around data". The various facets of data science I am seeing in this spreadsheet:

- BI
- Data visualization
- Data engineers
- Statistician
- Warehouse
- SQL
- Python-fu
- Marketing

I look at it and I think it's a great prove that data science is not only phd territory, there are so many ways to bring value to the field.
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