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we send people to live in exurbs in a literal barren desert

SF was just a windswept array of sand dunes and salt marsh. It produces no resources. All food, water, and materials have to be imported. One of the grandest natural features of the state (Hetch Hetchy valley) was ruined to give SF a water tank.
My favorite thing about the public markets is that it doesn't matter how much hype a company garners on TechCrunch, where the founders went to school, or how slick the company office spaces are. A piece of shit is a piece of shit, and conversely, a diamond is a diamond. That's not to say that public companies can't run on hype--they absolutely can--but eventually hype wears off and a company must show that it's a real business.
I'm not a huge privacy freak - I have the default cookie settings on all my browsers and I'm signed into multiple Google accounts. They know who I am. I can only suspect my adblocker could be blocking something there, but other than that I should be about a regular of a user as they come.
They might not have invented the format, but they are fairly certainly using chemistry optimized for their cars.

Not sure whether Panasonic does it for them but the way I hear them talk about it they seem to have quite a bit of R&D in house.
To be fair, I've twice worked on projects where Jira had been set up in a way that made it a delight to work with and a 100% positive productivity boost. Both times the business had an Atlassian trained staff person to drive it (in one case that was her full time job - in a ~120 person agency running maybe 40 or so concurrent projects at any one time).

In spite of those great experiences, I've never been able to tweak any of the Jira instances I've had admin access too in just the right way to get that outcome. (Maybe I should look Rachel up and see if she's be open to coming in as a short contract for me...)
My experience was that the ATO did not consider me a tax resident. Basically if you've tidied up your Australian affairs, earn 0% in Australia and 100% in the US, they aren't totally bloody-minded. I did make sure to use a specialist tax agent though.

After ~3 years the IRS considers me a resident for tax purposes. The ATO only cares about my income because they want to collect HECS payments.
I think people are missing the forest for the trees here. He's trying to bootstrap a programming environment from the basic tools provided with a default MS-DOS install ( https://github.com/mniip/BOOTSTRA ) and build everything from the "cleanest" possible state.

That is mad as badgers. The batch file assembler is merely what will get him more years in the asylum. ;)
Hmm, that's weird then. I can see how a pediatrician would stop accepting any new patients, if they are totally booked, but not these criteria.
Can you point to an example of anyone doing this (successfully)?
Or you can do what I did, rip them a new one and tell them that their process is shit.
Firefox has been killing off features year after year I dont see why you trust them to be better in that regard.
The timing may be fear driven, but the fact that they are going to IPO has been obvious for a very long time now. No reason not to go for it at this point.
PETA mocked for suggesting animal friendly alternatives to popular phrases
Exactly right. Einstein had no idea what the physical mechanism behind the CC might be (and we still don't). It was just something he threw into the equations because he believed the universe was static, and the only way to make GR support a static universe is with a non-zero CC.
What is "evil"?
For as long as I can remember Atlassian did everything they could to justify bringing cheaper people on working visas: thus 5-6 interviews, long pauses between each stage, lower-than-market salaries, public complaining by CEO for not having enough local resources for hiring - basically anything to make a local (Australian) programmer not to get a job.
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It seems like a lot of what you're saying is from the perspective of a lifestyle that you want, not from the perspective of what a successful or failed business would involve.

There's a bit of interesting stuff on cliffksi's blog:

https://www.positech.co.uk/cliffsblog/2018/10/03/state-of-in...

https://www.positech.co.uk/cliffsblog/category/business/
Spark stores your email credentials and some of your mail on their servers. No-go for me.
There’s cuckoo filters.
I've noticed a surge ofex-uber folks looking to angel invest having been popping up in the past few months. I'm excited for this IPO purely for the money that will be invested in transportation this next year.
There are plenty of results if you search google for "artificial sweetener insulin", some from quite reputable sources.

It doesn't take much of a response to accumulate significant fat over the years, when you're constantly consuming the stuff.
Have you met TSLA? Public markets are as much based on hype than anything else.
Sorry, it's a not for evil. It's usually for government over reach and expansion of power and control. Children, terrorism, and drugs - they say we need to give up our rights for those things.
Yeah and you know that their main drug market is the US and they target that market when deciding which drugs to develop? Also, ever heard of the concept of multinationals, where companies are spread around the world and not in a single country? same for Sanofi.
How is wanting to save your citizens money debatable?
Only when you design with unportable IP which the FPGA vendors are dying for you to design in. Some proprietary things like clock multipliers are unavoidable but they can be isolated in portable wrappers. Most FPGA devs are not this forward thinking and lock designs into a platform that makes future migration a problem. No different than writing code against Win32 vs Posix.

It is quite routine for ASIC development to prototype on FPGAs and that code will necessarily be made more portable to accommodate the architecture changes an ASIC requires.
There is a great difference between in-transit encryption and at-rest encryption. The former is not really comparable, as the existence of the email at rest will forever be vulnerable, in contrast to the time of transmission. A window of seconds versus years.
you have said it was a boondoggle

It was in the sense that it was obsolete, proprietary technology, excessively priced, and badly equipped. It's implementation favored only western Alameda county and SF at the expense of everybody else. That's why San Mateo County and Santa Clara County bailed. Contra Costa would have, too, if they had any idea what poor service they would get in proportion to their contributions from the beginning.
I've been using PyTorch, and the PyTorch 1.0 pre-release for a while now. I adore it but don't really want to write C++ backends in production.

Anyone want to start working on Golang bindings for C++ PyTorch?
Bomb Threat Hoaxer, DDos Boss Gets 3 Years
Back about 2004, I had the same experience, minus the CEO, with Google.
That’s not counting ongoing operations and maintenance.

Or debt service.
Thank your for the in depth reply. I really appreciate your time and insight.

My major take-aways: iterate with speed, criticism isn't personal (don't treat it as such), don't make promises (rather - deliver the goods), have something that might be original (also see iterate with speed).
Good set of guidelines and thanks for sharing. But in reality not all projects can afford to go through this routine.

The following is what i believe works for most time sensitive projects. It would be better to set a top level vision for the UX and give it to proven people to deliver. UI/UX is something that everyone in an organization can have an opinion very easily so your goal should be to satisfy end user and not everyone in the company. Take it as early as possible to beta testers and if your initial vision for UX is solid - it would take few iterations to get it correct.
More info at: https://g.co/morse
Yes, no stock has ever been affected by hype.

It can take YEARS for the market to get things right.
Cool! Add application-level rules (like LittleSnitch) and I'm buying (literally, I don't mind paying for such a feature).
Active vs. Passive over the 20th century shows that active management doesn't work for the customer.
It's also absurd when the big companies invite you for a half-day interview with no intention to reimburse you for your time. I went for an Amazon interview and lost a day which for a contractor on a daily rate is quite a lot. Not making this mistake again :)
Walking to friends that own EV's one metric really is how many days can you go between charges. And the ratio of miles driven vs charging opportunities.

And old lady that drives 1500 miles a year to go shopping might well find all of her charging needs are satisfied by plugging the car in while shopping Petco and Walmart. Because at that rate she only needs the car plugged in for an hour a week.

1500miles/52weeks -> 30 miles/week / 30 miles range per charging hour -> 1hr/week.
70k people go through the transbay tube... 270k vehicles cross the Bay Bridge every day

In other words, taking your figures painfully literally, if those vehicles carpooled just one additional passenger each on average, you'd have 4 times the added throughput that BART provides.

But this will never happen as long as we give HOV lane access to cars other than those carrying 2+ licensed drivers... for political reasons.
I've got a friend in the packaging business over here. Was a babe in the woods until he found the agencies working with him on sourcing taking an extra cut of $125,000 kickback from the factories (on top of their negotiated fees). No honor among thieves.
This is corporate america in general. I am and have been in that position a few times. It's so demotivating but fortunately I got into this line of work out of passion which I haven't lost.

Doesn't matter what they pay or what you get to do. Second class is second class. TVCs are there to support full time's,never really part of the team.

I wonder how leader's think. To me it's like playing chase except all your pawns are contractors or going to war with enlisted soldiers beinf contracted mercenaries from a neutral country. But it seems to be working out for them, at least in the near term.
>I just wish the U.S. would stay out of that bs

You mean the descendants of Europeans who clung to a mythology that the son of that same omnipotent real estate agent granted them manifest destiny over a continent owned by a bunch of tribes?

And whose support for Israel is based, in part, on the belief that Israel as a state has a role to play in ushering in the Apocalypse of the Book of Revelations and the second coming of Christ?

The phrase "not bloody likely" comes to mind. The US is in with Israel for reasons that go far deeper than geopolitics.
I use stevia and monk fruit a lot and would be curious too. I've never felt bad after using it though, unlike stuff like aspartame which seems to make me feel a bit funny.
MIT team develops 3D printer that's 10x faster than comparable 3D printers
> sell your story.

Their main product is equity now. Notice how instead of positions they now hire for "roles".
Right but all this tells me is that the company will implode without further investment. The fact they are rushing to IPO seems like the private investors are wanting the average joe to be holding the bag when it does implode.
By that article, Uber took in $17+ billion dollars, showed losses of $10+ billion, and created a company worth an estimated $70+ billion. Even give them a 75% haircut from there and they still broke even once you cash cow the company, harvest the tax losses in future years, and eventually wind it down. I'm not buying in at $72B, but it's not clear at all that they've destroyed investor value nor certain that they will in the future.
TSLA... the company that doubled its sales in the last three quarters and is outselling BMW and Mercedes in the US?
Have you seen https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18618365 ? It brought interesting insight into additional factors in TSLA’s valuation
Check out Lee Smolin's Fecund Universes Theory. http://evodevouniverse.com/wiki/Cosmological_natural_selecti...
its not only going to hit the dealer network its going to hit the production side as well. the battery and motors for EVs are much easier to automate production of and in the end are less complex on the side of motor and transmission that those types of plants will go away. Yeah dealers will take a hit but all that unionized manufacturing force will take a severe one as well.

dealers are going to have transform somewhat but after seeing the issues with Tesla its not like we don't have a place for dealers (I love my TM3 but damn if some people aren't trapped in repair hell).

With EV and the eventuality of self driving cars they could become depots for rentals and such. plus once EVs hit the roads in numbers there is always something to fix, service, or repair.

finally. working for a parts supplier I a wondering where my company will be in forty years
That is less than 50 cents per ride

... if you ignore all the years' operational costs, personnel costs (including benefits and pensions), debt service, etc.... which is the lion's share of the costs.
What does Slack need to raise capital for? They have their niche and are doing great in it, I don't get why they'd want to be publicly owned with all the headaches that brings. I don't get why a lot of companies do it when they could just as well bootstrap and stay private.
What would be required to disprove reverse causality? They discuss it more than twice

> In other words, an outcome assessed at visit v was regressed on low-calorie sweetener history up to the visit prior to outcome assessment to rule out reverse causality. In Model 2, outcomes at visit v were regressed on low-calorie sweetener use history through visit v-1, hence minimizing reverse causality.
Not all artificial sweeteners are the same though. Xylitol, stevia, and monk fruit for example all taste super sweet and do not have a significant insulin response.
Most people start by assuming you can trade with anyone willing to trade with you. Without more, you're not responsible for their use or misuse of the purchase.

I have a hard time seeing SaaS services operating to make your team complicit in the activities of the purchaser. The "aS" in SaaS doesn't usually require you to do something that can be mistaken for endorsement.

As others have said, these are principles that can end up costing your team lots of money. You all might agree to be a business that helps pro-choice people organize. But it's tiring to be a place that just deals with those of untainted virtue. If you all agree it's that kind of place, fine, but puritanism doesn't scale outside of the small social class that shares your convictions.

You probably want to talk to a lawyer in your place about specifics. I think California does prohibit some political affiliation discrimination, so you might have to sell to Rs and Ds, in that example. And if you think something might be religious discrimination, that's a gut feeling I wouldn't ignore without legal advice.
This is one of the most positive articles I've read all year. This program looks so powerful as a community driver. I can't wait to see what will change in the next 20 years if this keeps growing. The picture of people doing yoga was great. I'm not interested in churches as a community event, but if my town had a movement like this I'd definitely volunteer if it was accessible.
Show HN: TerrainViewerWidget – a turnkey Qt Widget to display a terrain in 3D
If that’s true, couldn’t you short it?
Comparatif lunette noir
What is Jordan Peterson's lobster theory?
The prep and planning required for these IPOs were done months before these market drops happened.
Bitcoin (and all the rest) have no intrinsic worth, being merely a series of numbers.

True wealth does not rely on having 'notional' value, but on reality. Thus a rentable property is "real" estate. A ton of iron ore, a ton of titanium, and similar things have "real" value.
Transport hubs encourage development.

In the Bay Area, compare the degree of development along the BART tracks with development well away from BART (e.g. San Mateo county, Silicon Valley, etc.)

Check out the BART tracks from Oakland to Fremont especially.
Be wary of saying things like "from an infinitely dense point" because you might mistakenly think the universe is expanding from some distinguished point in our space. Instead, the infinitely dense position was in time, and the universe has always been (we think) infinitely big.
yeah, if bulls had been correct and there was a paradigm shift and Bitcoin soared to 100k this guy would have simply kept quiet about his prediction.

If he was truly confident in it he would have taken out a loan and put it on a binary option for bitcoin to be below X price 1 year later, or as you said gotten a broker account and shorted with 100x margin
Start writing down every damn thing I could remember. I can barely remember the skills I had in college I haven't used. It would fade pretty fast amid daily life as a serf.

Bonus: If my writings survived, I'd make Nostradamus look most insignificant indeed.

Seriously though, this is one of my very favorite road trip games. Your family can keep their punch-buggies, we do this.
The flip side is that, if expertise in XYZ is no longer valued, that can be an issue. I've known people who were essentially the world experts in some narrow area of technology or business and that became irrelevant which was a tough situation to be in.

It's easy to say that people should keep skills up-to-date but if you're truly a world-class expert in X, it's hard to transfer that level of skill to Y. That's a different level from junior competency in one language picking up another language.

I know someone at a largely military sub talking about bringing in "geezers" to consult on some very specific classes of problems.
Great article, I am interested in random number generation in general. The discussion on why 3D blue noise is difficult to generate is interesting.

By the way, using irrational rotations to generate a random sequence is a cool application of one of the important examples in ergodic theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irrational_rotation
Cats are especially devastating on island ecosystems where birds, small mammals, reptiles, fish and amphibians have few natural predators. Small mammals such as mice, voles, shrews, moles, bats, pikas, and yes even rats are valuable in ecosystems as an abundant source of food for birds of prey and other predators or good controllers of insects and other things we consider pests. Without small mammals larger predators have a greatly reduced food supply. Plus some small mammals are cute as fuck.
Exactly. If they are not getting out now, they might not exit ever.
> "25 mile commute each way(at around 4 miles/h)"

That'd be 12h/day commuting, innit?
I don't disagree but Google seem set on Hangouts Chat. But it's rubbish and moving incredibly slowly in development terms. I hope the Chat team really get a kick soon to build faster to catch up with Slack and Teams. Not hopeful though.
I like vehicles like the i3, but the styling isn’t for everyone and many buyer prefer a traditional looking vehicle. The Honda Insight for example was quite ugly IMO, but I would’ve bought one that looked more like a Civic or Accord.

Also the R8 isn’t a hypercar, that’s more like a McLaren P1 or Porsche 918.
Beside all the lying, which should lead to more criminal cases, there is a far more sober angle to this issue:

The vehicles were not emitting as much as specified in the papers.

This is a pretty serious offense and fineable (iirc) at up to 12.000 Euros per vehicle in Germany. (Instead, of course, car makers are allowed to give rebates only when you buy another one of their vehicles).
It's complicated. The level of infectiousness to others varies depending on the state of the virus in the person who carries it. People with a chronic infection (long term) typically have low level infectivity. So it would be a very unlikely combination of factors coming together for transmission to occur that way.
In a ICE car you take energy from the engine to pump hydraulic fluid to power the steering.

That makes no sense in an electric car. Instead you'd drive the power steering directly with electric motors.
It's a very noticeable difference. Even an underpowered hybrid can feel like a sport car for about a second when starting from a stop.

If you turn off traction control and slam the pedal down on snow bad things will happen, but it's not like it's incapable of putting out less torque if you give it a light touch.
HQ2 isn't the problem
Right but why now? Why would I want to invest in a company that would implode without private investment when we might be facing an economic downturn?
Tesla is definitely hyped, but that's not the only reason for its market value right now. They are _the_ electric car company, nobody wants other electric cars nearly as much as they want a Tesla.
Glad to see The Economist in top 20
They’re also extremely weight sensitive. Is a camera system with two screens lighter and more useful?
> And the chances of that actually happening?

In the country where VW is headquartered? Not all that bad, I'd think.

In the US? Much worse, if history is any indication.
3 is huge. I’d love an electric for our 2nd car. We own a house, but it’s a townhouse with on-street parking. Unless the neighborhood installs communal chargers, I have no way to charge an EV. I walk to work, so charging there isn’t feasible (and the chargers there are pricey).
By 'worse' do you mean one group will own pure EVs and the other probably hybrids? 'Whole lot'? Where's the problem?
But then why do they consume less fructose overall? It’s plausible but this study seems to suggest the exact opposite.

> ...users consumed lower amounts of fructose and higher amounts of caffeine than non-users, but had similar diet quality.
There has been some discussion about building one for the USA.
Let's just say that the ability to take off from a dead start is a fun thing to demonstrate for passengers that haven't been in an electric vehicle yet. :-)

I have not driven it on snow, so I can't answer how well that works. But there are no gears, nor a need for one.

ICE cars generate maximum torque in a relatively narrow range of speeds, which is why you need a transmission to keep the car engine where it is happy while the car itself goes at a wider range of speeds. By contrast electric cars generate their maximum torque at 0 mph, and work fine over a much wider range of speeds.

Early Teslas tried to have gears, but the torque was murder on the transmission. So now on the high performance models they simply have different gearing on the front and back wheels. With the idea that at low speed you get most of the force from the back, and at high speed you'll get more power from the front wheels. (The basic one drives like a sports car anyways.)
What's special about NYC that makes sidewalk chargers impractical?
This first-to-market strategy has largely been discredited in the business world.

I remember reading a Harvard Business Review article many years ago about how it was the go-to strategy for companies launching products in the 80/90s. To gain the "First mover advantage". Turns out there's far too much risk for too little (potential) reward, which the graveyard of countless dead first-mover companies/products attests to.

The dot-com boom really put a nail in the coffin of that idea. Especially for tech companies and any industry with highly capitalized organizations who can move quickly is far more valuable than being the first available.

Plus you get to learn from the expensive mistakes the first companies almost always make.
Healthcare in general in our small city is fairly messed up. I'm glad to hear this kind of thing isn't as widespread as I thought.
Being on chemo I was THRILLED
The 4 mph refers to "4 miles of additional range per hour charging".