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It's really not though.

maybe some of us want this to be true but we're kidding ourselves if we say gopher is still relevant.
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Hi HN!

I'm JP, founder of Standups.io. Last March, I resigned from my full-time iOS job with the idea of making a web/mobile app for async video standups. I did some traveling (China/Vietnam) while I started to work on the app, but eventually ended up back in Germany, escaping South Asia's rainy season :)

The idea of async video standups started to grow on me since last December when I was in the north of Brazil. I was there for some weeks doing remote work for my employer back in Germany, and I had to get up at 5 AM just to make it for the 10 AM standup back in Hamburg. This didn't feel right. Other team members were going through the same. So that's how it all started. Today I'm finally launching and I'm super excited to get your feedback. I'm solo founder, so it's been quite of a ride itself, but I'm looking forward to what's next :)

iOS and Android apps are coming next — in some more weeks, as I feel it's important to be able to post your standup update from anywhere, as long as you have an internet connection.

I'd love to hear your feedback (feature requests, bugs, etc) and personal experiences when it comes to team standups and how you guys are running standups with team members that are not on-site / distributed, or maybe as a full-remote team. I'm eager to implement some more features that might help this kind of team setups better. You can try Standups for free here: https://standups.io/register

Thank you so much!

JP

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With respect, I would suggest a quick reading of George Galloway's biography would substantiate that suggestion.

Mr. Galloway has a long history of loud oppositional politics and tribal attacks on his opponents. There are politicians I profoundly disagree with and yet respect for their service and their conduct; George Galloway is not one of them.
The standard of safety for autonomous drivers will have to be far beyond parity with humans. Humans cause car accidents all the time. LIDAR gives unambiguous depth and probably much easier object segmentation, no complexity or reasoning required like computing from stereo images.
How does this compare to Hyper?

https://hyper.is/
What crazy hard problems have his companies solved?

Spaceflight was solved decades before Elon was born. Reusable rockets weren't a hard problem--they were simply a problem the incumbents were unwilling to address because it would have massively cut into their revenues and profits.

Electric cars actually predated ICE cars. The issue with EVs was always the charging infrastructure, which Tesla solved...by simply throwing a lot of money at it. (Not hard, just resource intensive.) Their batteries are built by Panasonic.

Boring Co literally is just a used tunneling machine. They have literally not done anything with it except test it out below the SpaceX parking lot (and the innovation in boring would come not from the tunneling but with the post-tunneling construction of the tunnel walls, stations, dirt removal, and ultimate extraction of the boring machine).

Even at Paypal, their biggest innovation was developed by Musk's biggest pre-Paypal competitor (Thiel's company) before they merged to form PayPal.
What you say is true, but what fraction of the population was "moderately wealthy" in the distant past? What fraction of the population could walk away in the past, and what fraction can walk away today?
Trying to understand the downvotes to this comment. Cisco's been caught on multiple occasions including backdoors in their products.

Expressing skepticism of their stewardship of a security company is perfectly reasonable.
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VOC also functioned as a govt of sorts, establishing colonies in Indonesia and SE Asia etc and having a private army that fought for territorial purposes.
I like Apple’s simple transaction model - I give them money and they give me stuff. My desires and thier incentives are mostly aligned.

Everything Google does is about advertising and collecting data. Those two things don’t align with my desires.
A while back there was a safety ditty from some Australian public transit organization as I recall. Things like not touching third rail and various household dangers. Perfectly sensible stuff. But there was also a line about “doing your own electrical work” which, as an American, struck me as so out of place as to be almost comical.
Sure, but then you're still left with the unsolved problem of getting lidar quality depth maps out of video in all lighting and weather conditions.
The difference is the massive amounts of regulations concerning flight systems.
It's their money. If they have a $1 trillion cash sitting on the sidelines doing nothing that is their right to do so.

Apple doesn't make money to support governments.
Look for "transfer switch".
14 units per week is two drinks a day.
>Tesla has shown zero evidence of their self driving program making any meaningful progress.

Google's autonomous efforts far precedes Tesla, yet they have not out in the market yet. I would say on the contrary, they made significant strides in a short amount of time even after a complete overhaul Mobileye (AP1) to an in-house solution (AP2/2.5) https://vimeo.com/192179727
Actually planning on a major update soon—lmk if you end up using it!
There's a Henry Ford quote that's pretty popular at Apple - “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.”
I just finished Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull who was one of the founders of Pixar and current president. Highly recommend the book for anyone on HN.

In the book Ed Catmull wrote that Steve Jobs would say regularly "as brilliant as Apple products were, eventually they all ended up in landfills."

Gives you some pause to realize how quickly Apple's business could be relegated to the trashbin with no new products to pick up the baton.
Wow. What an unfair statement. I am mostly vegan, drive as little as possible with my third hand high-mpg vehicle, and make a conscious effort to reduce reuse and recycle. However, yes I eat industrial animal products (not a lot but . . . ). Does that mean I'm just signaling because I think, and state, that cryptocurrency mining is a hugely wasteful environmentally damaging and morally dubious activity?
Jampp is hiring software engineers (and other positions) in Buenos Aires
That's a good point - the doc uses it for notational clarity but it's not clear if it's actually used in the implementation(s).
I never stated my position at all. Just asked what his is, since he sees no problem wasting massive amounts of energy on bitcoin. Many of the people caught up in cryptocommity are the ones turning around and posting about melting ice caps with no sense of irony or shame at all.

I could be entirely opposed to the idea of a tax solution to "fight" climate change while also being entirely opposed to bitcoin because of the uses of money laundering, drug purchasing, a My First Day Trading schemes.

I'm personally opposed to bitcoin for lots of reasons, mostly like kids think it's a decentralized currency, when really it's a very centralized commodity (any one of 12 people could effectively destroy bitcoin at any point in time) - but...

I'd be a hypocrite if I considered myself into bitcoin and environmental issues.
MS-DOS.
On top of the holes in your financial argument, you've overlooked something in your competitor argument.

A competitor could replace most of Apple's current products in 5 years, but where will Apple be in 5 years? They'll be five years ahead.
Tie the subsidy to electricity consumption. This really isn't hard.
I'm in Mexico. And yes I find that distinction weird and arbitrary. There's a lot of "Remote OK but USA and Canada only" posts in this list. I'm sure there's a very good reason that has nothing to do with discrimination but… well, that wouldn't be surprising either.
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Backpage's case would be stronger if they hadn't set themselves up to profit from this type of illegal advert, and if they hadn't hampered law enforcement at every opportunity.
I implemented a clone of the Knight TV system in 1979 for the MIT Plasma Fusion Center, where I was Director of Computing. I was also building Lisp Machines at the AI Lab at the time.
"What does the word 'waste' mean to you? Why would you use this word to describe what is done by the proof of work?"

Because it's a waste. It's not worth what it costs to do, and it's making our world worse by eating up more resources.
To be fair that would get you WB's present wealth. If Warren Buffet was still alive and investing just like you did, you would never catch up. This is one of the reasons social stratification can increase over time.
I think it puts it in perspective as a magnitude of money, which I'd assume was all he meant to do. I don't think he was suggesting that Apple actually accounts for 5% of GDP, but was just using it to illustrate how monumental $1T is.
I guess in all of my searching when buying, I never discovered that Victron makes inverters, despite having one of their charge controllers (seems like Xantrex gets all the mentions for high-end inverters). I'll check them out, thanks.
The cameras themselves are good. Weather-sealed bodies, had in-body image stabilization long before anyone else, reasonable (although not great) compatibility with older lenses, etc.

The first-party lens selection is not up to par with the Canon/Nikon offerings. If a third-party like Sigma makes the lens you're looking for, it will usually come in a Pentax-mount variant, but most of the Pentax lineup is focused on consumer-grade lenses rather than the high-end stuff. That's fine, but Nikon and Canon have entry-level/midrange lenses too, while the reverse isn't true of Pentax with the high-end stuff.
Indeed they will. Sounds like a problem solved to me. Charge a market rate for your electricity, then subsidize what you want to subsidize.
The point being, I assume, that as a left-wing person they would be more sensitive to right-wing lies, so that they would get a more accurate model of the world through right-wing media.
Electrical work can be done properly without a permit having been pulled. Depends on where I suppose but even contractors often don’t get permits.
I think to spend 20k on airfare you would have to be purposefully avoiding good deals.
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Great question. I need to add that to the privacy statement. They are all hosted in Firebase's Firestore db.
Who else should make that decision?

Agents will arbitrarily change maps basted on what their current listing are and would happily change them daily. Longer term there is little point changing place names as changing demographics will eventually adjust the meaning of these names even if no lines move on a map.
Governments tend to have powers that corporate/individual entities don't have. They have the power the imprison, freeze assets, and other things that organizations may be worried about.

If you ran an NGO that was engaging in activities that governments may not like (such as a group trying to spread democracy in China), you would very much like to know if your accounts were being targeted by government actors, as it may put you on alert that you have peek someones attention that could be bad for your organization.
They should sell their power at a market rate. If they want to subsidize people or companies ex-post, then they should feel free to do that.
I don’t think you were around before the App Store. The carrier were a lot stricter about what you could sell through thier stores and the carrier took a 70% cut.

Not to mention the cut the publishers, wholesellers, and the retail stores use to take when you sold boxed software.

Their cut is the same as Google’s and Steams.
Very good points. The other point that people often misunderstand is that there is a VERY HIGH PROBABILITY that anthropogenic global warming skeptics are mostly or entirely wrong.
Oh, sorry, just saw explanation below. In the US these studies equate 1 unit = 1 glass of wine or 1 beer, I could swear.
"guns don't kill people; people kill people"

"Hey kids what are you going to do with your screen time today? daily endless-runner challenge? collect gems for virtual powerups? or Math Workout?"
It’s not that the market research was wrong in saying that no one would pay $600 for a phone, it’s that we reached an inflection point where smartphones were no longer primarily phones but became portable internet terminals. Msft should have understood that given the existence of PocketPC devices like the iPaq.
Coincidentally HAL is also Hardware Abstraction Layer, part of the WinNT kernel's architecture.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_abstraction#Microso...
And another I recall, although not sure to whom it is attributed:

"If you asked Porsche owners what they'd like to improve in the car, they'd all say more leg room, a bigger trunk, and better safety features. Congratulations, you just designed a Volvo."
I bet I have very different beliefs than you in lots of things - and agree bitcoin is a massive waste.

I think this is a place where hippie vegans (sorry!) and redneck Luddites can agree :)
>> It's legal to find ways to reduce your tax burden.

Many things are legal. This doesn't mean they shouldn't be illegal. Artificially changing the place where taxes are paid is one of the things that Apple is doing and should be illegal.

Companies like Apple not only use the system but they support it as well. If you want to fix the tax evading think that you will have to fight against Apple along with many other big corp and on top of that with all kind of rich, shady individuals.
This is a commonly missed point. You can buy the car today and be very happy with a fantastic car as it is. I did and I'm quite happy, you'll probably be very satisfied as well. I didn't even buy the EAP, as I don't do much highway driving and I think almost no one actually buys the FSD.

Having said that, I find it hilarious that people on here have such immensely strong opinions about something that doesn't exist. They'll go at length about how LIDAR is a hard requirement, about how many FLOPs you need, etc etc etc. Fact: FSD doesn't exist and no one has it. Nobody knows which approach will work and if more than one approach works no one knows the timelines or economics of the different approaches and very certainly no one knows the market impact of these. But people start thinking they know the future and then become very emotionally vested in their make-believe stories.

It's actually quite simple: companies sell you stuff, buy it if you want it/need it. Today Waymo sells me nothing, Cruise/GM sells me nothing, Tesla sells me a great BEV with Level 2 driving assistance. I got the car, but not the level 2 because it doesn't fit my driving needs. If they start selling level 3-4-5, I'll buy it if the price is right and I need it.
The solar controller, control panel and miscellaneous cost you $3-4k?
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I mean, like i said, it should be treated as a preemptive VM in practice. In reality its not, but for most practical cases, its easier to understand it terms of preemption.
I don't see what that has to do with anything? Give them a rebate on their electricity consumption. That's all you have to do.
I’m arriving at the opposite conclusion as I age. Exceptional people are so rare that it seems to make more logistical sense to ignore them and let them bend the rules themselves. Kind of like a browser leaving advanced features to power users.

For example, the vast majority of kids in school are using their smartphones to do stuff like watch Ninja play Fortnite on Twitch, not whatever self-enriching bullshit we can point out they could be doing.

Also, when I was a kid, there was no greater injustice than my parents kicking me off the computer to go outside. Ugh, don’t they know how productive I’m being?! But boy do I understand as an adult. What better time to learn how to entertain yourself without a computer screen than in school?
What mvc pattern or library do you use with $?
That's probably down the line from const generics, as it has the additional constraint of defining the workings of those (API, over/underflow behaviour), how they'd interact with regular integral types (in terms of conversions back and forth), literals, …
LIDAR provides more than just distances. With full-360 LIDAR you also get object edges in 3d space, which means you can do object recognition on the LIDAR results.

In other words, you get everything that vision systems would offer except color, without having to do any processing to calculate depth, so you can go straight to the object-recognition and navigation processing.

LIDAR > vision systems.
Thanks for the feedback! Added the GIF support to the TODO list.
Metric, Imperial, or Shit-ton?
It amazes me that there are places where there is electronic voting with no paper trail. That is placing way too much trust without any verification.

Really there should be a paper trail where each voter can check their votes on the paper and post-election auditing for a sample of precincts that the voting agrees with a hand count of the paper record.
It's interesting that the charts everyone uses for share of household wealth are from the 1970s until today. If you take it back a bit further, to the 30s/40s (or even further to 1916) the share of the lowest and middle classes is significantly improved and the top 1% has lost wealth. It IS true that that trend has been reversing since the 70s, but it's still not close to pre 30s levels of inequality. I agree we need to figure out what's been going on since the 70s, but I also kind feel like we need to include all the charts for the best perspective.
>Kind of arbitrary to exclude a company because it uses slave labor or other immoral practices.

No it is arbitrary to say "nuh uh this company back when was worth a trillion dollars, if we adjust for inflation". Apple is literally the first worth a trillion United States dollars, a currency that did not even exist for the first 190 years of the Dutch East India company.
Word up bro. Pushing 40 over here feeling the same way. Take it back to first principles. Remember Alan Turing and Vint Cerf.
I'm not really in to ricing like /r/unixporn is, I just think my tools should be simple and flexible so that I can align them with my workflow.

For instance, why do we need one single global menu with all the apps categorized according to a .desktop file? That's overcomplicated and restrictive garbage.

Here's a simpler alternative: let me place as many panels on the desktop as I want, let me place widgets on the panels, let one of those widgets be a button that presents a menu-ized view of a folder structure. Now I can have as many menus as I want, with whatever layout I want, and organize my application launchers as best suits my workflow.
That's great. Companies need to start IPOing earlier again.

http://blog.pmarca.com/2013/03/26/unshackle-the-middle-class...
Apple was the first to lead with this egregious fee

Before that carriers had much higher fees when you sold J2ME apps on feature phones through thier store.
We all know that even a composition of words used (or avoided) to report a fact may be very loaded. And it just how it happens in all media, big and small, because apparently journalists are humans, and editors are humans. There are worse, and better cases, but there's no such thing as 100% neutral reporting.
I don't have any special truth from a true source; I just believe that a typical news story is mostly misinformation intended to drive pageviews instead of presenting accurate picture of reality. I don't think adding more false information helps get a more true picture. I mean, you could try to tease out some true information by "averaging" news from multiple distinct sources, but that's pretty much a full-time job, and most news are just a waste of time.

(I mean, seriously. Doesn't everyone here know of Gell-Mann amnesia? Or are people just afraid to follow it to its logical conclusion?)
While phones were routinely 'free' or $99, iPods were wildly popular in 2007 and routinely cost $300+, and one of the three legs the iPhone stood on was being an iPod.

It should have been a red flag back then if market researchers and the people that hired them didn't see this as a convergence of music player + phone markets; it was the point of the keynote! I remember people complaining then that they had to carry both their phone and their iPod around back then.

The smartphone market was also growing then, and devices like Blackberries and Treos were popular and cost $200+ on contract. I had been using a Treo since 2005, and remember the pain of getting apps on it and getting it to play mp3s or use GPS maps. When I saw the keynote, it was clear it was just the next logical step.

It's weird that Windows Mobile didn't see these trends. Perhaps it was a case of underestimating the general market interest, though iPod's success should have been a strong hint that consumers really wanted devices of this type and were willing to pay. iPods were more popular than Windows Mobile devices even then.

Finally there's just the 'sit down and use it' factor that the iPhone had. Once you played with it, it was hard to deny that it was the future. The fluidness and straightforwardness of the UI was so far ahead of everything at the time. Best I can think of as a comparison is sitting in a Tesla Model S after getting out of your Honda - it's not a question of if, but how much.

At $599 the iPhone was definitely expensive for the time, but any reasonable businessperson could conclude from watching literally the entire history of technology that component prices are always on a steady decline, and there were other levers to lower price like carrier contracts. When the iPhone went down to $399 a few months later it's success was a foregone conclusion - after all, that was just a bit more than an iPod but with way more capability.
L1 speakers are relatively easy to gauge, since national censuses would provide sufficiently accurate statistics. Accounting for L2 speakers is very difficult, since there's often little-to-no census-level statistics on the matter, and the definition of proficiency for estimates is difficult to ascertain. Order-of-magnitude estimates are roughly the only level you can do.

On that matter, there are some languages which are clearly much more common (over twice as common) as second languages than native languages. English, French, Malay, and Swahili are obvious candidates for this: English is a common secondary language, well, everywhere; French is common second language in Africa; Swahili in East Africa, and Malay in Malaysia/Indonesia.
> however, adjustment for confounding factors did not alter the findings.

Let me guess: adjusting for confounding factors means throwing away most of the data, so that all that remains is a small group of abstainers and non-abstainers who are similar in all regards except for the abstinence.

Problem is, there may be more than one way to do that, with different results; then it's possible to choose a way of reducing the data to fit the desired hypothesis.

The only honest way to fix a confounding bias in the data is to re-do the study with a properly randomized sample of subjects.
I'm so paranoid I lockout-tagout my home breaker panel.
Very interesting and informative. That sounds relatively easy to reverse engineer the protocol even if they don't document it. Thank you.
"if mining encourages even tiny innovations in power plant and grid efficiency "

But it won't. All the incentives to increase power plant and grid efficiency are already there. Moreover, as you state quite clearly, bitcoin energy use is a small proportion of energy usage.