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They are not just any other car manufacturer, though. They are the leader in EVs and the first potentially viable non-big-three [edit: American] car manufacturer in quite a while. Plus, they have a polarizing CEO who craves being in the news. I am sure he would prefer it was only good news, but that isn't how it works.
They mentioned in the PR that it seems like an adapter for rspec/cucumber needs to be added for that to work out--I, too, am hoping that such a thing comes to fruition.
> You won't have much free time if you and your family can only aspire to reach the ripe old age of 30

That was never the case though; ancient societies had much lower life expectancy at birth because they were very likely to die in early childhood. People who made it to adulthood, sure, didn't live as long as today on average, but the difference is much smaller than life expectancy at birth numbers would suggest. You seem to recognize the high infant mortality, but not understand how it affects the other stats like life expectancy at birth.
A City Planner Makes a Case for Rethinking Public Consultation
Another long distance hiker and mountaineer chiming in. I don't agree with your points, but moreover, I don't think this is intended as a hiking aid to be sold at REI. Like the article says, it could be beneficial for soldiers with very heavy loads or for rehabilitation / physical therapy. In that respect, I think this is a great, innovative medical device.
This comes as a great news to many developing countries where doctors are worried about TB strains which are difficult to cure. TB carries with it the potential for great damage to lungs. People who suffer from TB have severely diminished breathing capacity and for many the 5 year prognosis is not good.
Yep. It's not like "scaling" is a 1 dimensional thing, either. On one project it'll be 1000s or millions of space ships, on another it'll be 1-5 photo real creatures with closeups, on another it'll be an environment the size of NYC. You do you best to cheat, but often you get handed something awful from another department with no time to redo it.

Just never close Maya and pray it doesn't crash or leak too much memory =)
We're Whole Foods / Amazon Employees: Amazon's Collaboration with ICE Must Stop
I'm not talking strictly about death threats, calling him random slurs already is too much and has happened on HN, this "loose set of people" should not, and it'd already probably change his opinion about different communities. Lennart should absolutely sometimes choose his words, like Linus, but I don't think we should be excusing insults with saying "it's unenforceable" when most places haven't really tried to remain civil due to personal beliefs.
> Nobody was going to switch to an entirely different mode of communication just for my sake

Please elaborate. No iPhone user has to switch from the "iMessage" app to the "SMS" app to reach an Android user or include an Android user in a group chat. While it does indeed involve a different mode of communication, it's all handled seamlessly in the background from the same app.

In fact, if it wasn't for the coloring, they wouldn't even have noticed, except if you exchanged other data than pure text, but I can't imagine this being a real deal-breaker for planning?

Note how the Twitter OP also explained how they were texting the Android student from iOS until they decided to abandon him and create a new group. Not because they had to switch to another app to reach him, but "because he was on Android and turned the thread green" (sic).
There's a famous paper called [DO POLITICAL PROTESTS MATTER?
EVIDENCE FROM THE TEA PARTY MOVEMENT](https://www.aeaweb.org/conference/2013/retrieve.php?pdfid=22...) that addresses these concerns. They use the weather as a proxy for randomized controlled trials and show that: areas where it rained during the tea party protesters had fewer protesters and the tea party movement had fewer votes in those areas. Because weather is essentially random, we can therefore conclude that the fewer votes was probably due to people choosing not to protest due to the rain, and if they had chosen to protest then there would have been more tea party votes.
The theory you mention is a koan MEANT to radicalize.

- Support for any tenet of my opposition proves you directly support the opposition's atrocities.

- Moderate, centrist or apolitical people are responsible for ALL atrocities.
I bought an alcohol one via a crowdnfunding campaign that plugged into your iPhone via this mythical ancient technology called 'an audio jack' years ago called Breathometer. It was neat, it actually shipped and despite it chewing through batteries like crazy it was neat.

I imagine these sorts of chips/sensors have coome leaps and bounds in the past 6ish years. I know that researchers at some point had developed one to monitor blood sugar level for diabetics, this is a neat application too and with more and more states decriminalizing marijuana I bet you guys will have a lot of customers!
Great point. In general it differs from country to country. In Australia, they have a random testing program that allows police to breathalyze without a warrant or probable cause. However, in the US roadside breathalyzer tests are voluntary and police require probable cause (visible evidence of swerving, smell alcohol on the breath, etc) to request a test.
It's incredible to see this book mentioned on HN's front page. This is literally my favourite book of all time. The only issue is that there's a lack of decent English translation so it's very hard to recommend it to my English-speaking friends.
But continuing to have car-centric cities, and investing more into car-centric infrastructure, as many cities and states continue to do, is a real dilemma. Government funds are limited, especially in the current era, and space in cities is limited, too. We should be converting interstates to high-speed rail, and cheap/free city parking into bike lanes, but if our plan to tackle climate change is all about electric cars, none of that stuff is going to happen.

In a sense, this conversation mirrors the myopia the article talks about, because people who disagree with it are defending their individual consumption choices, while ignoring the broader social and policy connections that surround them.
I'd like to see a movement towards growing crops back east and midwest where soils are rich and water more plentiful. It doesn't seem to me like the central valley is a long term sustainable place to be concentrating agricultural production.

California's seemingly ideal growing conditions are only ideal when imported irrigation water is cheap and plentiful. There's whole swathes of the east and midwest that have been abandoned to cheap cash crop farming that could be growing nuts, market vegetables, fruits, etc. without the same water fears.

Consumers would simply have to get used to different varieties -- more cold hardy and fungal resistant varieties of stone fruits and grapes, hazelnuts instead of almonds, etc.
A nice and clean front-end template for building fast web apps or sites
Nothing you said is relevant if the person will refuse council if they percieve it to be from someone who won't be able to understand their issues.
I get where you're coming from, but "story" here seems more akin to a "user story" than literature.

User stories have been used for quite a long time for both software architecture and establishing/informing QA and testing processes.

This strikes me as user stories without the "user". It's the same concept at a different level of abstraction. A "code story" is to a unit test as a "user story" is to an integration test.
> Sure, it's nice to say, "I would prefer...", but honestly, we would all prefer things to be different than they are. But they're not.

I think it's important to note the role that Google plays in breeding this culture. I've worked in fintech for years and have yet to hear a single coworker talk about politics, race, or gender. It's a good policy and SV is just slowly beginning to find out what the reasons for it are.
A carbon tax to me seems like something designed to generate political blowback. The problem is a carbon tax punishes people for decisions they made previously where they didn't have a choice. With the hope that they'll suck it up and find a way out somehow. It's stupid to assume that 'somehow' isn't going to be toss those dicks out on their ear.
I remain interested in a Tesla coming to my garage, for me the deal killer right now is uncertainty about their future, and horror stories about service. I have a fairly low tolerance when it comes to being inconvenienced by my car.
Yes, automobiles are very dangerous and it'd be great if we used them a lot less.

That said, driving impaired is even more dangerous and I'm totally fine with tools to crack down on it. Smoke or drink all you want, but do it at home or with someone to give you a ride.
Guns are an escalation to which the oppressive government will answer.

If the people have guns, then the authority will say they have to resort to tanks.

If the people have tanks, the authority will say they have to resort to nukes.
I argue that it's "you-as-employee" whose privacy is on the line, not "you-as-individual". I expect my employer to own the work I do -- that's the contract I agreed to. As they own the work, and the systems used to generate it, it seems reasonable they have unlimited access to what I'm doing.

(I do like the required notifications through HR, but it doesn't sound like that is a prerequisite to ask permission, even in more privacy-stringent places)
Nobody ever mentions the security aspect. The group that would be otherwise e2e encrypted if SMS people aren't involved. Green-texting the entire group chat removes that, so it goes beyond just some visual inconvenience. But more likely, they're locking them out because SMS users cause media in group chat to be down-converted - it's a user-experience factor.
no shortage of toxicology literature proving it. check ramaekers' publications. he sticks high folks in real cars on closed tracks to see how they do.
I can't directly disagree with anything in the article. However it's a bit shocking to me to hear about influential singers using falsetto for parts of their songs and not even a mention John Lennon, Geddy Lee, or Howard Jones in passing.
> Would an improved field sobriety test be a more appropriate product than an improved breathalyzer?

Yes, do you have such a test?
Reverting to SMS is the problem, though. It gives participants the illusion that the conversation can be extended to anyone, but once they find out that the platform loses features and degrades with the addition of an android participant, that person is excluded so that the rest can keep using the full-featured platform.

The suggestion of WhatsApp is so that everyone can use their own phone and have full features. If someone wants to join the chat, then its on them to get on board with what everyone else wants.
There are mandatory rest periods for drivers of commercial vehicles. For non-commercial drivers, there is no such required rest periods but you can indeed be ticketed or arrested for driving in an unsafe manner due to sleep depravation.
Protests also have to be effective, and part of being effective is targeting the right audience.
Apart from the difficulty of testing, I think the lack of simple guidelines like ‘one drink per hour’ makes it hard for cannabis users to guage their level of intoxication. I’m not sure whether it’s biologically practical, but it would be a big improvement if people generally had a reasonably easy and consistent way to determine how long they should wait as a function of how much they’ve consumed, the delivery method, their weight, their tolerance etc.

Right now it’s just completely subjective and that makes it easy for someone to justify DUI when they would never do so if similarly impaired by alcohol.

We need research and education as much as (and probably more than) enforcement.
I can recommend meditation for people with social anxiety. When I meditate on a regular basis, the way I interact changes completely. It's more intuitive and I say and do things I wouldn't do otherwise, yet people are completely fine with it and like me more. Like I am really authentic
> Take the pool of people that use spaces and tabs and let them compete for a 100k job. 9 times out of 10 even if randomly hired it will be a space person.

But you'll get the same result when they compete for a job that pays poorly. If all other factors were equal, the distribution of developers who prefer tabs should match that of developers who prefer spaces.

By your argument, people named Steve would make less money, because they're outnumbered by people not named Steve.
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..yes? Is it some trick question?
The Bear with Its Own Zip Code
Even for someone who correctly predicted the when, how can we know if it was luck or skill?
nobody should ever be allowed to drive ever then
Cocomelon – Nursery Rhymes
Aside from any intrinsic reasons to Google, it's also a huge and diverse company with a big public spotlight on it at all times. Every public flap involving Google gets amplified more than it would for any second-tier place.
> Right, so if they had the same level of police brutality you would have 60 deaths in the history of American police, or about 1 killing per year

Only if problems scale exactly linearly and there are no side effect emergent behaviors you have to account for. Otherwise when a big tech company goes from 1M to 10M users, they just need 10x as many servers, right? Problem solved.

Nope, in real life each order of magnitude has required serious, difficult engineering to overcome the challenges, you should read up on how companies like Amazon/Facebook have scaled with users. I'll give you a hint though - they didn't just draw a line and extrapolate how many servers they would need for each year.

Otherwise you could just say: "Oh, New Hampshire has a homocide rate of 1 per 100,000. New Hampshire has a population of 1 million, therefore that's 10 deaths per million, therefore by simple extrapolation, the USA should only have 3000 homocides per year!"
Netflix still does this - they pay top of the market in cash, no stock, and encourage employees to bring them competing offers so that they have even more hard data on what the top of the market is for a Netflix employee. They also have an ESOP, so you do still have some privileged access to the stock.
I think Apple is not counted because this article was only about datacenter stuff, and Apple doesn't factor in there yet.

It's not to say that Apple doesn't matter to nvidia as a customer or potential customer, just that it has nothing to do with this article because Apple doesn't have as much datacenter footprint... yet.

But just as a point of scale, Apple spending $10B on datacenters globally over 5 years is less than Google spends in a single year in just the US.
Apparently reports of Rails' death are greatly exaggerated.
Well, if you want any further insight into the CEO, check out Toptal's investment page: https://www.toptal.com/investors.

He minces no words and comes off quite aggressively. Very much a "my way or the highway" tone to that page.

They seem sort of like StackOverflow or Basecamp from a bootstrap perspective, without the warm fuzzy feeling you get from interacting with either of those companies.
I am assuming that Norway was chosen to provide an extreme comparison. Go ahead and compare the US to a few other developed nations. Hell, compare it to a few under-developed nations too. Hopefully you will notice a pattern.
How are you accounting for different consumption forms?
Interesting idea, that sounds like it would give some useful information. I wonder if a study like that has been done?
It is not a joke, people still use "1234" as their PIN or "Password" as their password. I also understand that even today hardware is shipped with default passwords to set them up and one of the first things to do is to install a new password. BUT THEY DON'T!

Add in cheap management that does not pay for the tools the IT department needs.

Management that demands access to part of the network they never really need to assess.

And people install their own hardware to the network to bypass security so they can watch Netflix, use Facebook, etc.
>> at the southern end of the Central Valley, is putting up 4,000 acres of solar panels, and setting aside 2,000 acres of habitat for kit foxes and burrowing owls, as environmental mitigation.

The thing about solar panels is that you don't need to fence off the wildlife. If installed properly, kit foxes can live among the panels. You just cannot bury the cables without thinking. If you armor them (steel or concrete conduits) then there is no reason not to let the critters share space with the panels.

The shade from the panels can create a less harsh environment. As a general rule, new artificial structures increase habitat diversity to the benefit of small critters which in turn feed larger critters. Think of artificial reefs. A field full of solar panels might be an easier place to live, support more wildlife, than the 'natural" landscape.
Age is the obvious confounding factor; have you tried controlling for it?
Definitely going to have to check out the newer Blender. Anyone remember the "hidden menus" you had to know which part of the window to drag them out of?
The multiple database support is really exciting. Anything that makes it easier to push database reads to replicas is huge!
Twitter doesn't have a monopoly over communication. Whats app, facebook, gchat, skype, word press blogs, reddit, there are a slew of other communication mechanisms beyond just twitter.
Weed is also in other forms like edibles too which are quite potent. I have seen many people who have smoked excessive amounts, or had way too many edibles. I have personally working in the event medical field dealt with countless people who are puking and unconscious due to weed.

It definitely is not anywhere near as bad as other drugs impairment wise, but it definitely can be quite dangerous to drive on.

And yes, being sleepy while driving is also super dangerous.
Actually it's still applicable regardless of legality... that doesn't change police profiling and would still adversely affect minority groups. So instead of more people of color getting arrested for marijuana possession they get arrested for marijuana dui
I prefer spaces purely out of consistency reasons.

Some systems say a tab is 8 spaces, others say it's 4. Some editors can set a tab to any customizable N spaces. But a space is always a space so your code will look like you intended (or should I say indented) it no matter who's looking at it.
Bug:

It looks like you're hitting the `master` branch by default - GitHub allows you to set other branches as the default for the repository. Several of my repos have `primary` as the default branch and don't even have a `master` branch, which causes this to fail.
Ok, but 2 or 4 spaces?!
And on the flip side, if this was an article about consumer gpus for computers, then Apple would probably feature in the article as a customer (or obvious non-customer), whereas nobody would even consider mentioning Google.
I understand, thanks, and it seems to me like a nice approach, still I am not convinced that it will be intrinsecally superior to more traditional education.
Ontario never had a carbon tax, it had cap&trade in the same market as California and Quebec. Most consumers never noticed its introduction. But the new idiots in power certainly made political hay about how they were going to drop gas prices by removing it. Turns out it had almost no effect on gas and utility prices but a huge effect on the province's budget, along with axing dozens of environmental initiatives in the province.

And the federal gov't has now imposed a carbon tax to replace it.
But that's not what that quote is saying, nor is the article - they are aiming for some amazing life, where you reject the easy path and take the hard one - where you end up in a land of glory. Otherwise Achilles saying "I'll go home" is equally valid based upon what you're laying out here. But that's not what the quote is saying at all.

But I'll remember to shout "burn the boats" before my next choice of soup or salad.
There is no escape from assholes at any company of even medium size. From the narcissistic architect, to the arrogant sales rep, to the ignorant vegan. It's part of any society.

The problem is, people have been coddled so much and isolated from it to the point that they're unable to cope with it when they experience it. More people need to spend more time pushing themselves into uncomfortable positions instead of averting them. Don't let a temper get the best of you and stay rational. It makes you emotionally/mentally stronger.
The answer is that it's not all about 'coworker', but understanding that the way society has treated black people and minorities has create a hostile environment. The reason why people don't want white men at the table is because they tend to make it personal and about themselves. There's a great episode of south park, the 'n word' episode [0], that kind of explains this. Stan exuberantly "gets it", by "not getting it".

[0] https://southpark.cc.com/clips/155500/stan-gets-it
It's my belief that racist discriminatory policies have led to an "underclass" of people, who are primarily minorities, that are criminalized more often and deprived of services that would ultimately reduce crime. So yes, due to discrimination, the diversity of the US contributes to higher crime rates.

There was a study recently produced that showed that simply installing street lights in a neighborhood reduced crime dramatically, when you take into consideration that installation would be funded by local property taxes, and that majority minority neighborhoods have lower property values, partly due to post war discriminatory housing policy, it is clear that there is somewhat of a self fulfilling cycle here.
How do I talk to users if nobody responds to my emails
My recently launched website has quite a bit of users but very few active users. So, I emailed all my customers asking about how we could improve the app but nobody responded. How do I collect feedback from my users if nobody responds to my emails? Is there any alternative ways to talk to my users?
This is what Googlers refer to as "my pony is overcooked" syndrome. It's when the person detaches from outside reality so completely, they think Google is somehow "bad" on any of these hot button issues. It's not. I worked there for almost a decade, and I have not seen _any_ real racism, misogyny or discrimination. You will retort that it's sample size of 1, to which I will say that if the issues the authors of these memos describe were as pervasive as they claim, I'd notice _something_ at least.

That having been said, I'm not black myself, and during my time at Google only very few people around me happened to be black. I _could_ be they're experiencing issues that are so unique to them I can't even grasp the extent of their "burden". But knowing Google, I find it really, really hard to believe.

I'd even go as far to say that if you're looking for a company that takes gender/race discrimination seriously, for real, you'd have a hard time finding a better company to join.
It's an opinion built up over repeated interactions with police. Of course the Yelp effect applies to police but even my positive interactions with police have left me with an impression that public safety and in some respects law enforcement itself is not their primary motivation for being police. In the absence of a comprehensive psychological analysis covering a geographically distributed sample of police with a large sample size, my own experiences are what I fall back on to form my opinions. YMMV.
This is why tools like gofmt is great. No more debates about spaces vs tabs.
Is the sensor gnp based?