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> Political philosophy is not a protected status, nor should it be, and private entities should not be under pressure to give up their freedom of association.

This justifies 80% of McCarthyism. Are you comfortable with this implication?
What Good Is Evolutionary Psychology?
Communication? Sure. Decentralized works well enough. Diaspora?

As far as privatizing the physical infrastructure: your hardware should be yours. Anything past that should be common carrier/ISP. Need an alternative? Good luck.

Decentralize the cloud? Owncloud works on most hardware.

Decentralizing payment software? What do ya think bitcoin is supposed to be?

But decentralizing DNS... Yeah... That's a challenge. Probably not gonna happen non-maliciously for a long time.
I want nothing to do with the shit-sandwich that is hosting mail, and have utmost respect for those of you that can.

But I would love a small server box that can be simply stacked to increase capacity for home labs and desktop k8s clusters without having to buy and configure a switch and complicated power delivery.
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It's new, passive screen time and active screen time are getting a lot of attention in the pediatrics community.
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Tmate might have issues...there's both client and server code.
I wish YC could have funded every unicorn! In reality there are a few hundred such companies worldwide, so it's less than 1 in 10.

https://www.cbinsights.com/research-unicorn-companies has a list.
Also something to consider if you might go for a Master's or above in the US. I worked in admissions in a graduate-level only film school and there were definitely issues with someone's BA being "good enough" for the school. I didn't directly validate anything but I assume there was a master list somewhere for those whose jobs it was to qualify the degrees.
Even if they have 20PB of maps, which is probably way too high, it's still 80kb.
I think you miscalculated.
I get 10MB per trip on average, assuming 10bn total trips. Maybe deduct something for maps and inefficient file formats & data structures?

1 billion bytes = 1GB,

1 billion KB = 1TB,

1 billion MB = 1PB,

10 billion * 10MB = 100PB.
What if I use a text editor and not an IDE?
Besides the novelty of the actual 8-bit machines, that era pushed the 'kid hacker hero' character (hard!) Whiz-kids Richie, Wargames David, Ferris Bueller, kids programming supermodels, spaceships etc.
What came first the enthusiasts or the role models? A generation of kids might have easily been bedazzled into chef'ing or carpentry instead. Mightn't have been a bad thing.
Everyone is different, but I found it is down to allocating the time you are most productive effectively.

If you want to get work done and you work best in the morning with no distractions, get up early and go to sleep early.

If you work best at night, stay up late and maximise your time in those productive hours.

If you are comfortable with your day job and want to maximise life enjoyment it's pretty much the same thing, except you're picking the time best suited for what makes you happy. No surprise that active people like to get up and excercise early, lots of daylight and that fresh morning air is invigorating. It's also no surprise that people who like to game or veg out tend to do it at night when they are slowing down from the day.

It is a concious choice though, and I feel many just accidentally fall into a pattern and forget they usually have the agency to choose.
Pretty sure that's because in some cities the driver is dispatched by a local car company and the driver works for them, not Uber. I've seen that in a few places.
What does this mean really? I was just going to buy a PWS for my grandpa for christmas. Actually, I was going to buy it for myself but figured I was only going to view it via the 'wundermap' so might as well give the station and console to him. Are they killing off access from PWS's or only how you can retrieve the data?
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> You cannot say that Google was at fault for the incident because they had the right of way.

It is interesting to note that the concept of "right of way" has been removed from various jurisdictions in Australia. We now have many "give way" rules. Basically, if someone is supposed to give way to you and you could have prevented an accident and didn't then you are considered proportionally at fault with the other person.

Not that many people take notice, but you are supposed to drive defensively here and work to avoid accidents. The only ones who have any sort of "right of way" are emergency service vehicles like ambulance, fire and police.

One thing I encourage the young people I know is to take up the various "defensive" driving courses that are available.
I agree.. I love what Discord are doing and I hope this works out for them.

For reasons that I struggle to put my finger on.. Discord beats out all of the Enterprise chat apps for chat. Most of the groups I am in (that are non gaming related) now use Discord for their chats.

The client support across iOS, Linux, Windows & Mac is fantastic and consistent. And the mobile notifications are super smart - if your desktop is not idle they go there, if you haven't read them yet once you've been idle or lock your screen they are now sent to your phone - including any you haven't yet read. It's great.
Now that's a moonshot.
Tipping shouldn't be based on a percentage of the bill either, it should be based on the service. If you give me good service, it doesn't matter if I spent $10 or $100, you should be rewarded the same.

I have kids, and I know they can be a pain for servers. If they handle my kids well (e.g. sitting us in a booth near a wall is better than a table in the middle of the room) and/or my kids make a mess, I'll leave a bigger tip. If they ignore is for more affluent looking customers, I'll leave a smaller tip. When I bring my kids, I'm not paying a sitter, so that money is up for grabs.

My wife and I will often order and give some to the kids instead of them having their own meal (they only pick at it anyway), so basing the tip on the bill isn't a very good way to do it. I also don't like to buy drinks (I don't drink alcohol and I prefer to avoid sugar), so my bill will always be way less than someone who goes all out.
Geostationary orbits are very far away. The speed of light being what it is, they aren't great at relaying realtime two-way communication.
I'm glad I worked in a pairing-heavy environment for awhile but I'm very glad I no longer do. I learned a lot incredibly quickly from the more senior folks I was able to pair with at the time, but the idea of doing it full time now fills me with dread.
So make a supported hardware list,docker container, etc. The hardware is interesting, but the types of people who would buy this either already have racks in their houses and just want someone else to manage their stuff, or want to manage their own hardware because they want to make sure they have their own hardware components locked down. It's a neat project to be sure, and it's not terribly expensive for the hardware, but the real money maker is the ongoing support and security for the service, which is functionally really similar to a cloud service without a lot of the benefits.
I just realized I was replying to the wrong parent comment! So sorry. I was talking about a PBS Space Time episode on YouTube I saw in (or came across via) a different comment.

https://youtu.be/KePNhUJ2reI
See also: https://github.com/chr15m/awesome-clojure-likes
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Long time Ubuntu (Linux) user. Using it since Ubuntu 10.04 days.
My new employer is only willing to provide a 2018 MacBook Pro (f* that awful keyboard and the next to useless touchbar). What should I be ready for?
I am going to use an external keyboard, mostly. Dual-boot with Linux is somewhat out of the picture because of company policies, perhaps.
Not so sure about things so just looking for advice on things that I might get punched with.
I would wager you simply can't. Levandowski was spearheading the self-driving effort at Google.

He was guiding strategy and everything. When a senior employee misbehave it's hard to fire them. When they have a strategic value, it's almost impossible unless they are already lost i.e actively work against the companies interests to further their or a competitor's interests.
Probably because different teams are working on different pieces of the application. Spotify does this as well. They have multiple iframes where each team responsible for the iframe. This makes loading external libraries easy.
Did Uber steal Google's intellectual property? Probably not, if it's in the LIDAR area. Google's LIDAR is still an expensive spinning unit for experimental vehicles. The production solution is going to be some other technology - flash, MEMS, or something else that's more solid state. Continental and Luminar have both demoed reasonably good automotive flash LIDARs.

Google/Waymo may have some proprietary technology in LIDAR data reduction. There are hints of that in Urmson's 2016 SXSW talk. Lots of people are trying to apply machine learning to camera images, but applying it to LIDAR is probably more likely to work. Less ambiguous data. But there's no indication of that being an area of litigation.

I met Levandowski briefly when he was preparing for the DARPA Grand Challenge. He was still a student at UC Berkley then. His real achievement was that, after the DARPA Grand Challenge, in 2008, he built a self-driving car able to cross the Bay Bridge for the Discovery Channel.[1] That's where Google got their start in self-driving. There was not a rush, after the Grand Challenge, to throw money at the problem.

[1] https://spectrum.ieee.org/robotics/artificial-intelligence/t...
It would be awesome if Discord would stop their pseudo-funny-gaming-language (not in this blogpost, but generally). Nobody talks like that.
> "I learned more real-world skills in 12 weeks than my Stanford degree taught me."

I'd hope the author of that quote was paying very little attention, because I find this hard to swallow.

My problem with these programming bootcamps is that they seem almost more focused on a shallow but fun dive than teaching people thoroughly. That's not problematic in it of itself if it gets people interested, but I'd hunch a guess that most of the graduates of these bootcamps are not going on to self-study more intensely after.

In my opinion, these bootcamps generally teach you to be a barely average web developer. If you are sufficiently self-motivating, self-study is a great idea, but you don't need a bootcamp for this.

I'm not one to judge people on whether or not they have a degree, but I think there is real value in an equivalent curriculum for self-studying.

If I have the choice to hire someone fresh out of a web development bootcamp and someone who was self-studying compiler design, I'm hiring the compiler design person every time, even if it's a web development job.

I don't know why this is teaching jQuery anymore. But why do you need this course for JavaScript when you have the excellent MDN guides for beginners to use? I think people are afraid of reading and prefer to be spoonfed.

If you want mentorship, there's usually a good subreddit, Discord or Slack server that doesn't cost you $30 / month.

I'm just extremely skeptical of the value that any of these bootcamps bring. AppAcademy appears to bring good results for hiring, but I don't believe that it's the most effective method of learning.
The Google Assistant call screening sounds really interesting. I probably get 10 spam/scam calls for every legit call. I'm curious how it will work, or if telemarketers will end up gaming the assistant. This is the first feature since 2007 that would get me to consider switching from iPhone.
Having been on the other side of this, yes, it really can be.

On the other hand, in a review-driven situation, you're back where you started, multiplied by a slow feedback cycle and competing stimuli.
The part that bothers me most is that they never seemed to care about this while he worked there, why are we hearing about it so long after the fact? Given the unnamed Google sources being quoted, they would appear to be the source for much of this story. This quote seems to sum it up for me:

“He was that kind of guy,” the co-worker said. “You know, an asshole. But a really gifted one. Our asshole, I guess.”
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I see some people lack a sense of humor and/or that a 'truth' perhaps cuts too close to the bone.
We're talking about politics, and I'm saying that Stripe should be ashamed of themselves. That's an inherently subjective and political claim. If you want to structure society and government according to empirics, well, good luck with that. An appeal to emotion doesn't have to be baseless.

The broader tax environment in the United States is leading to growing income inequality. There are other countries with successful economies who tax the highest earners much more than we do. In my subjective opinion, fairness requires those who have been lucky enough to become rich to pay more taxes than they do in the U.S. at the moment. If it were up to me, companies who resist paying more taxes while their founders become overnight billionaires should be made to feel ashamed of doing so, hopefully driving up the cost of acting contemptibly toward their surrounding community by making it harder for them to hire. My subjective belief is that the problem of homelessness is worth spending more money on, and that it's really the least these companies can do to sit out of taxation debates.

Having $400,000 to spend manipulating public opinion is having a thumb on the scale. The ideal of democracy is not that whoever has the most power should have the loudest voice.
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"In three experiments, we trained adults to name pitches for 12 to 40 hours. Within the training period, 14% of the participants were able to name twelve pitches at 90% accuracy or above, a performance level comparable with typical AP possessors."

This sounds like good relative pitch, with a memorized reference tone. Absolute pitch doesn't fade in 12 to 40 hours. Many musicians have relative pitch abilities that look, to observers, like absolute pitch, because they've memorized a reference tone sometime in the recent past and can find any other note relative to that reference (some folks also use their own voice as a reference tone, because they know the top and/or bottom of their range, or how a specific note feels when they sing it).

I only have the summary to go by, but this sounds quite different from absolute pitch and quite similar to relative pitch. We've always known people can acquire very good relative pitch recognition skills as an adult. That isn't new or groundbreaking (though if they have a training regimen that works fast enough for a study like this, that would be great news, since ear training for very good relative pitch recognition is a months or years long process for most people).
Uber sent a woman to the grave. Don't know if that counts for you.
My full-time job is indie game development, and I'm very pleased to see this. I sell my games on Steam, the Apple Mac Store, Humble Bundle and Green Man Gaming (and a few other places, but those are the big ones) but 90% of my income comes from Steam. This is... understandably not the most stable feeling thing, to have one distributor paying my bills. I'm looking forward to Steam not having quite the hold on PC Games that it currently does! It's not that I have any complaints about Steam specifically, but Discord selling games, the rise of GOG and Itch, and Twitch getting in on it are all quite interesting to me.

I hope Discord opens up to more developers soon.

Oh, and another thought, I run a Discord for people interested in the game I'm currently developing. You can imagine the effectiveness of putting a Buy button so close to an engaged community.
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Just words that make no sense.
Why were they thrown out?
Just drop Slack altogether. Discords interface is so much nicer and faster, I don't see what use Slack still has.
> "This era has produced the smartest (or more knowledgeable) and wealthiest people in the history of humanity an what are they doing? trying to make you click on ads."

At first I nodded my head in agreement. Then I paused, pondered a bit, and reworded it a bit:

We are living in a system designed for viewing ads and clicking ads; the scale of this system is creating an unprecedented amount of wealth; the system best rewards those who disregard guilt in order to service it; profits are the new progress; shamelessness the new barometer of success; exploitation the new innovation.

Harsh? Or simply blunt and honest?
Oh boy, I know people with a fiber drop, 25tb raids with baby server farms and single character password. I think you highly underestimate the lazyness and/or stupidity of people. That doesn't even cover fishing.

Secondly, I think you underestimate the time intensive work that goes into clearing up an IP. I've run mail servers with users in the thousands. It's basically a full time job to keep a single ip clean. And that's with a half or less percentage of clueless users. I'm unsure how this will scale to hundreds of IPs let alone the thousands(x100) that would probably be needed to make creating your own hardware profitable.

Third, you're going to need to reach incompetent customers to make this profitable.
World looked pretty bad in the 20th century, and it (mostly) happened without cell phones to blame.
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It's not so much the process itself but the overall fact that your ability to get hired ultimately hinges on things that are trivial and shallow. In general I believe that skill and talent get rewarded, but everyone has a story about a job they landed out of sheer luck - they knew some obscure tool or framework that forced a hiring decision in their favor. Very few hiring managers are genuinely talented at spotting talent. Most rely on some level of cargo-cult knowledge, tribal shibboleths, and technical hazing rituals. Or they just hire lazily and optimistically, and then you have to work with those people because now you're one of them.
Almost no women within the founders, I wonder what is their excuse, it is not like all the founders suppose to be technical so even that can't really be an excuse. It is not like kids are the problem since a lot of them were very young when creating the company. When they talk about pay gap or high level positions do they take into account the fact that women don't seem to create businesses?
I feel old. Mine was commador64 basic in 1988
For contrast, here is an article I wrote that is largely against pair programming: http://www.mattgreer.org/articles/pair-programming-is-not-a-...
Not to mention that as soon as something happens that hurts their small lives...they want other people to pay to fix it.
I avoid Slack entirely. My comment [1] on Reddit still stands for Slack's advantages for business. I'm sure Discord is happy without the business userbase, but I can't help feeling they could challenge Slack if they wanted to.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/95wzu6/discord_is_...
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I was hoping you'd contrast the world-changing device as seen in ads and how it changed the world in reality, which is what the author did but you put in a nice tag line. Maybe the Internet (from its invention up to a certain point) made thr world a better place, but "Web 2.0" certainly made it a worse planet: like the author wrote; genocide, mass surveillance, the constant expression of rage made worse by anonimity and mob-building (140 characters at a time, excuse me, 280 characters at a time...).

Now I want to do a mock phone ad with all the images of these atrocities and end it with a shot of a shiny phone and the tag line "We make world-changing devices. - Silicon Valley".
This seems overly simplistic. Both have ridiculously tough to harden attack vectors.

In physical, it isn't enough to protect where the votes are done. They have to be transported back and ultimately counted somewhere. At any point in that process, they are vulnerable. No?
There are many small companies which provide anything from staff augmentation(engineers for hire) to full product design services(come to us with an idea and a bag of money and we'll make it happen). I'm in San Diego and know a couple companies that do this:

http://www.serranosystems.com/

https://fairwaytech.com/

http://www.a2etechnologies.com/

http://www.jetheaddev.com/
In general, I'm happy to say "to each their own", but pairing is very often not a personal choice. Your zealotry may well affect me! Happily, pairing doesn't seem to be taking the industry by storm at the moment, so I'm not too worried about it, but when I started my career (mostly in Ruby) it seemed like a real possibility, which I came to fear the more I realized how poorly it suited me emotionally.
I don't have a bone in this fight.
I'm pessimistic about governments solving it through policy, but optimistic about science solving it. I'm particularly interested in technologies that sequester CO2, and I think this is a fantastic way to start setting prices for a carbon tax when things get worse. If all else fails, I've seen proposals for geoengineering that could work out in a reasonably short amount of time.

I'd prefer if we solved it through being responsible (plant more trees, stop cutting down the rainforest, move to renewable energy, etc), but I'm not all that worried in general.
What do you stay up to do that you enjoy?

I think that for most people who don't get enough sleep it's not because they are busy squeezing every bit of joy out of life. It's because they're using their phone in bed, watching TV, etc.
The libssh client code is used pretty commonly for that sort of thing.

The libssh server code, on the other hand, is pretty niche.
The original paper on the first detection of a black hole merger by LIGO is really great[1]. It's even open access. Much of the paper is accessible to someone at the freshman physics level. Download the pdf as it is in a much nicer format than the online version.

[1]https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.11...
what is this, a phone for ants?
Railroads and telephone companies are regulated. AFAIK, telecoms can't just refuse service to people because they disagree with their politics. Likewise, a toll-road can't just say, "we're not letting traffic from X company use this infrastructure." Private companies that sell cars are de-facto incapable of refusing service to certain groups, since another entity can just by the car and resell them to the banned party. Private common carriers like UPS and whatnot are also bound by similar rules if I'm not mistaken.

I think it is fairly unprecedented that many of the pieces of infrastructure central to running a business are increasingly owned and run by companies that are allowed to refuse service to people on a whim. At least unprecedented since the early 20th century.
Eudora email client. I still use one of the last versions. I don't know how I'd function without the filing systems and filtering features, as well as the easy to manage multiple POP accounts ("personalties") and the templates ("stationary"). It just makes juggling everything so much easier.
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