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Yeah - 'dump pipes' - that was a phrase I was looking for. My water company just pumps water to my house. That's it. It's a commodity service. Major content companies also owning and managing the information pipes seems as bad an idea as having Monsanto or General Mills own and manage my local water infrastructure, no?
> Instead of trying to lower costs for big companies by creating software that replaces people...

Or we could try to lower costs for people by creating software that replaces big companies (and government.)

Just a thought.
The other half of this is that the skills required to get past the interview bar are not quite the same skills that would make you a great developer. There is some overlap, but the interview process at Google is a game in itself.
To improve your chances of survival if you fall into the water? Pretty important skill to have I think.
Poor process from the candidate's viewpoint. It is long and fraught with false negatives.

The fact that there are very few false positives is what allows Google to have "the world's best engineers".
In swimming, elite swimmers are about 300% more efficient. This means that instead of 97% of their energy going to fight water resistance - 93% of their energy goes to combat water resistance, leaving 7% for forward motion. The average swimmer is lucky to get 2% to 3% of their energy to forward motion.

No wonder why most average athletes who do not know how to swim efficiently are winded. They just literally ran through a 25m wall of water.

To beat the odds, learn to swim like a fish.

http://totalimmersion.net
Good point. I know many fellows, who forget that they are moving way faster than expected and it's the competitive cyclist to blame. Oddly enough, I know a few groups who basically race in the traffic; However, the ones I know, reside in Netherlands. Most of the time, when I see conflicts between cyclists and cyclists or pedestrians it is due to bad design (of the pathways of each of one).
In Germany often simply a few red stones in the sideway are defined as cycling path. Recently, cyclist traffic gets detached from the sideway and placed on the road. What is good and basically copied over from Netherlands and Belgium. A downer at this point is, that the state doesn't change the width of already existing roads, though it would be possible sometimes. Thus cars constantly are driving on this "cycling lane" or simply forget it is there.

Basically, I'm speaking of (road)cycling and cyclo-cross. Not necessarily competitive. Considering commuting it gets better, as nature and sustainability is more in political focus these days. However, it is _really_ far away from the infrastructure you see in Netherlands and Belgium.

But it is also depending upon what you compare here. So, considering a global view, I guess that Germany is way over the top. Considering good design, Netherlands and Belgium have my wholehearted appreciation. Netherlands even much more than Belgium.

On a side-note: I do not believe Strava neither has much commuter nor too much "leisure" data, imho, most of them are somewhat ambitious.
You do realize it says: "Assuming no change to that pattern". Can't Reuters apply that analysis to any event and extrapolate "reportable" results?

Some examples:
- assuming no change to the Facebook user acquisition pattern, it will reach over 20B users in several years
- assuming no change to the growth of a company, it will become larger than the market in 5 years
He hasn't sold it all yet; for all we know he might have instructions to retain one percent. Or π percent. Bill is always going to have some spiritual importance to Microsoft, whether he owns 4%, 1% or a single share certificate elegantly framed for his bathroom wall.
A reasonable first cut might be making the local storage target configurable (if it isn't already), so that the user could point it to a file synced by Dropbox. It doesn't look like there's any daemon involved, so changes made from one box would be visible on the others as soon as Dropbox finished syncing them.
Sorry, didn't you hear? Internet discussions about economic inequality are logic-free zones. Please keep your clear reasoning and pragmatic realism to yourself.
August 23rd, Microsoft announce Balmer's departure.

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2013/aug13/08-23an...

Stock is up over 25% since then.

http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:MSFT

I'd say there are some other people who agree with me that Balmer probably wasn't the right fit, and certainly overstayed his welcome.
So they should've named it Thunder?
I believe the treading is only required for the "boating test", if you plan to sail or row.
There isn't really much distinction between the mainstream 'brands'. Like modern cars they're mostly built from a small range of parts-bins:

Electrolux Group: AEG, Electrolux, John Lewis, Tricity-Bendix, Zanussi

Indesit: Ariston, Creda, Hotpoint, Indesit

Candy: Candy, Hoover

Bosch: Bosch, Siemens
I believe Cornell does the same thing.
Another batch of this idiocy. Great.
Interesting...top-loading washing machines have never gained a foothold in the UK. Front-loading washing machines are the norm and always have been. Front-loading machines are perfectly capable of cleaning clothes, but sure there are some disadvantages compared to top-loaders: generally longer washing times, inability to add clothes once the wash cycle starts. I'm guessing that the high cost of front-loaders in the US is due to their low popularity?
He doesn't make it sound like anything - it was a quote from the Boston Globe.
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>> Why?

I suppose there's the argument that most of the earth's surface is covered in water; it would be useful to not be afraid of it, to know how to move in it, and to be confident doing so.

But then, I grew up on an island where you're never more than 75 miles from the sea; undoubtedly that's affected my worldview.
This. Is. Hillarious.
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We can not remove the need to work, because there will always be a need to eat, and to be able to eat, you need to work because nobody will feed you voluntarily.

If somebody else has to work so you can eat without working, thats theft and your victims will try to kill you to stop you taking the products of their labor.
You would like to protect the benefits you get from being far more privileged than people in other countries.
Taplytics (YC W14) is hiring a mobile engineer
Probably some people know how to swim, if you can and want to do something else. Try out the navy seal stroke - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lUHudMN1TU , i just recently found out about it :-)
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But you don't want new pipes that can deliver twice as much water every few years.
I wonder how are Chinese white Goods, since the market is new, manufacturers are quite new and consumers are clearly interested in saving money and in durable goods.
I'm not arguing about Balmer, I'm saying that Bill's decision is probably nothing to do with Balmer or the state of the company. Why don't you re-read my original comment?

Here; I've highlighted the key parts for you:

" he's selling because he doesn't want the stock anymore therefore Balmer being replaced as CEO is unlikely to be an influencing factor."
There is an alternative possibility: That the human need to dominate, procreate, etc. operates at a much lower level than the human intellect. That human intelligence is a tool of our selfish genes, and not the master or driver.

A superhuman machine intelligence would have no genes, no body, no fear of biological death. It seems obvious that a key challenge will be to recognize whether a machine is thinking because it is extraordinarily unlikely it will think like we do.

Our fear of super-intelligent machines may be a result of projecting human psychology onto machines. It is not likely they will work that way.
The other side of the world is quickly catching up to developed nations. Granted there's still a while to go, but there's good reason to think that at some point countries everywhere will be more or less on an even keel.
SanDisk announces 4TB SSD, hopes for 8TB next year.
In a lot of environments, the SSH servers are listening on some non-standard port. I don't see an option in ssh-copy-id to specify the SSH server port.
Reason appears ;-)

When calling a Java method assume a null return and wrap it up in an Option just as you'd do with Haskell when interfacing with the "outside" world.

As for Scala compilation speed, Haskell's not gonna win that battle, ghc is to scalac as scalac is to javac, which is to say, the last is first and the first is last in terms of compilation speed. Also, IIRC only Yesod provides incremental builds, no? With SBT incremental builds most code changes incur a < 1 second recompilation hit.

As for the IDE story, the secret to a performant Scala IDE is to turn off automatic builds in Eclipse and let SBT run the show. With the SBT eclipse plugin there's a setting that allows SBT compilation target and Eclipse target to be shared so you never have to clean/build in Eclipse -- this is a huge win, the difference between standard dog slow Eclipse performance, and snappy, oh this is real nice if only the haters knew, joy ;-)
Now I want to say something oblivious so I can be anontweeted too!
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Might it be something to do with living on an island and historically there having been more boats and water transport issues vs, say, someone living in the center of the US (Kentucky? Tennessee? Kansas?)
How many times have you felt into the water involuntary in your life? I can't count single time.
I agree with you. Denying the existence of qualia makes no sense to me, except as the result of psychological processes. When you have to believe something in order to hold on to other cherished beliefs, there is a strong human tendency to do so, whether it's consistent with obvious evidence or not. A lot of mankind's tendency to believe in religions can be explained that way. So can Dennet's denial of qualia. (Ironic, in view of Dennet's view of religion.)
>The primary reason I won't work for Google is because I'm nowhere near smart enough.

But as long as the hiring process keeps the same as of it is now, it can be hacked not that difficultly by keep practicing on coding exercises (e.g. http://oj.leetcode.com/). All of my friends spent several weeks working on the coding exercises got into Google (for those cared to apply). Several of them are really not that "smart" and they are below-average in project-coding & general computer science understanding (sorry my friends), but repeatedly working on coding exercises and even memorize some common problems' solution just works for Google or Facebook's hiring process.

That process of cracking the coding exercises can be boring, though. I would be immediately returning to do my side-project even after I do one or two coding exercise. Not worth of the time at least for me; there are tons of great companies packed with people smarter than the average Googlers and they don't emphasize on algorithm in hiring process that much, why not work for them?
Thank you! Fixed the singnup box. Haven't tried it on Windows yet (think we'll have to fix some directory code).
Google first approached me in 2010. Here is the relevant part of my otherwise short reply:

Google follows what I believe to be unethical business practices – including, but not limited to, condoning censorship, invading their users’ privacy, [publishing] proprietary software, and making available and encouraging the use of network services with far too little user control of the programs.

A little more than a year later, Kragen Javier Sitaker wrote this, which I thought was the best explanation of why one wouldn’t want to work for Google:

http://lists.canonical.org/pipermail/kragen-tol/2011-August/...
This is untrue.

For one, I am a counterexample.

Also, I know members of hiring committees, and they tell me that if you have a failed interview one year, and a pretty good interview the next, that is a stronger hire signal than a pretty good interview without the previous failed one. That is, it shows growth.
The Incompetech has some useful ones like polar and triangular, too.
> All this extra value floating around

All this extra value didnt fall from the sky, but has been produced by somebody elses labor. If you dont want to work to trade the products of your labor for the products of his labor, why should he share with you?
I'd be careful about assuming that it is necessary just because it seems plausible. Workers rebelling against capitalists and seizing the means of production once also seemed like a logical, necessary progression from the economic system of the time.

edit: The material dialectic, if it exists in any meaningful way, is far stranger than we once supposed.
In Australia (80+% of population living on the coastline) it's common to see schools providing the "Bronze Medallion" (http://www.royallifesaving.com.au/training/bronze-medallion) as a recommended course for students.

I'm not sure how applicable this would be to the USA, but I can't see that it would hurt (it also provides basic first-aid training and CPR practice which have saved some lives as an incidental side effect).
previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4375342
Or after Capitalism destroys technology (such as TWC/Comcast or RIAA/MPAA). Or even after Technology destroys technology (NSA). People are still greedy and power wants more power. If you push powerful people too far they will fight back. If you push governments with power you usually wind up dead. If you try to take people's wealth away they usually have the resources to beat you back. A few exceptions is not a rule.

History is full of people who tried to fix society's ills and virtually always have things wind up even worse. The French revolution started out as idealism and wound up using "technology" to chop off people's heads.

I'm not at all against technology trying to make things better but unless we eliminate people it's not going to change basic human behavior.
"I've long felt that type safety is largely a solution to a problem that doesn't really exist."

this made me LOL #lol
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This is absolutely not true. I interviewed, didn't get the position, and some time later another recruiter contacted me and I got hired there.
Like other posters said, it's something like a 6-12 month period and we're recontacting because we expect motivated people might have improved and want to try again.
In fact it's incredibly common.
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"They have the world's best engineers at their disposal"

That's what they like telling the world. They probably employ a lot of smart people, because they can afford better work conditions and salaries.

However, they don't have the monopoly on smart engineers. You can't rank people from best to worse: everyone is different. You can certainly recognize that some people are smart, but there is more smart people outside of google than inside.

The notion that they "have the best" is ridiculous, because there is no such thing as "the best engineers".

I'd prefer saying they have optimized picking their engineers so that they have more chance of picking smart ones.
My father is/was a fisher and I come from a community that has a high proportion of people who fish generally. You'd be surprised how many fishers can't swim, despite spending their working lives out on the water.

The justification I heard was usually along the lines of "If you fall out of a boat in the middle of the sea then you're either wearing a survival suit and it floats for you... or you're not and you're dead anyways.".

(My father even fell in once, but he was wearing a survival suit.)
I'm in the UK we where taught to swim at primary school and one of my secondary schools had a pool and it was part of PE.

Saved my life when I was in my late teens and screwing about on some rowing boats on a local lake and fell in.

I also pulled a kid out of a local boating lake though that was mostly shallow enough to wade (which I didn't know till I'd dropped in and might not have done if I wasn't a reasonable swimmer).

It is definitely a skill that should be taught at school (not to mention it's fantastic exercise).
What is this comment from the website about ???

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Must say I don'y approve of the term white goods and the connotations that can be formed."
True... the possible dangers of AI can exist even if AI never achieves true consciousness. Many forms of life have evolved to service their own needs at the expense of other forms of life, and most of them either have no brains or brains too primitive to be likely to involve consciousness as we know it. There's no reason AI can't do the same thing.
I'm genuinely curious but how to do prevent abuse with shared stuff? There's lots of people in the world who will abuse, destroy, hog, etc. There was that story about the airbnb sex party just over a month ago as just one example.

I'm sure there are good ideas. Maybe that's yet another tech solution?

A quick google about abuse of Zipcars brought up this article

http://www.triplepundit.com/2012/07/zipcar-users-dont-good-c...
After I turn off local mode, why does it still say "local" when adding a new key-value pair?

"Item has been updated (local)"
I looked at the domain. Telegraph? Of course it's about electricity!
In the US even when there are swimming lessons in schools, they're often dramatically understaffed (from my point of view) -- one teacher, no lifeguard, for 30 students. There are several recent incidents in the US of immigrant kids drowning in school lessons.

How was the staffing done at your school or elsewhere in the UK?
I used to hate not having a MicroSD slot on my Galaxy Nexus. Then I realised that I don't really need to have that much music/videos/games (the only things that challenged my 16GB capacity) readily available on the phone. It is good enough for me that I can connect a USB storage device (thanks to USB-OTG) and access any large files from there -and that's something I actually find myself needing to do only in rare cases.
Once and another time I went in voluntarily to pull someone else out, in both cases had I not been a decent swimmer someone might have died.
If that's true then Google's hiring process is as broken as everyone's. If below average people are hired by your process then it's the process that sucks. Of course if you keep doing that then eventually your company will suck too.
What irked me about this article was the author's immediate need to declare his love of Marxism and "Marxist-powered technology". It's a reminder of how entrenched the current ideology is and how people feel they must align themselves to it, for fear of ridicule (or worse). But I agree with the overall tone of the article. Maybe there will be a day when Marxism is considered to be a thing of the past and we can move on to some other socio-economic paradigm.
A class with mutable fields that a caller can mutate is not immutable.
There's no official Linux version of the larger Dell XPS 15, but it's also a great choice if you need a little more power: quad-core i7, 16gb ram, 512gb ssd.

I recently installed Fedora 20 on it with no problems. I except Ubuntu 14.04 works well too.

All the hardware works out of the box. As usually, the proprietary NVIDIA drivers gave me fits, so I've just uninstalled them for now. Battery life is still good, as usually the Intel chip is used, even with an external monitor connected (unlike a MacBook Pro).
> So go ahead and download the binary

Indeed I did just that, the issue is that the only binary distributions for Linux are CentOS 6 and some flavor of Debian, both of which are dinosaurs compared to any modern distro. The long and short is the installation fails due to a missing dependency on antiquated libgmp.so.3, thus cooking my CPU for an hour and building from source.

If you want to talk about barriers to Haskell adoption, this is certainly one of them.
Have you considered using kpcli and Keepass files to store server info for machines not set up with key based login? I use it on OSX with my keepass database and it works pretty well. See
http://kpcli.sourceforge.net/
That is exactly what I was implying maybe it was unclear.

You don't need dirt on all of congress (though I wouldn't be surprised if they had it on most of them) just key players committee leaders etc.

Hell the stuff doesn't even have to be illegal to be useful, illicit affairs have brought down presidents before.
Most of everything on HN is shit. But we read it anyways all day long.
Do you need to present a series of images in rapid sequence, to the user, in a seamless manner, evocative of a particular concept?
Have you been able to successfully use the proprietary NVIDIA drivers? That's the only thing I've had any trouble with at all (on the XPS 15). Otherwise, it's a really great machine.
this shows that there are massive inefficiencies in this market
Do you have any finished products yet (just wondering)
It is more common than your link from 2007 suggests.
Me, being a sailor just hates those retards endangering maritime life and boots.

I would appreciate it if penalties punish this company into bankruptcy for not securing their goods.

Normally the (heavier) containers above deck are tied together, but over a certain height the stability of the ships is in higher regard than those (lighter) goods.

Trucks on the street certainly can't blame storms for loosing goods and endangering others and other beings.
Perhaps a dozen? Roughhousing by a pool or on a dock can lead to that.

Even leaving that out, the last time I fell into the water involuntary was a couple of years ago in my first kayak lesson. I did a stroke wrong, rolled over, and ended up in the lake.
This is really funny. But it should be a HN thread instead of a twitter account, so we can vote.
Interesting point. Do Apple and app developers design/build with BT keyboards in mind? Do you use a tablet for software development?
Presumably you would also be the first one clamoring for them to be removed if the economy of your country tanked and the situation was reversed.
Dateline: nineteen seventy-mumble. School swimming lesson, small town rural Australia. Me, aged seven, evidently having a mild but irritating panic attack about having to go into the water. Swimming instructor gets sick of my shit and throws me in. Oddly, this does not reduce my panic attack! He pulls me back out again and yells at me for disrupting the class.

... And learns an important lesson: if you're going to lose your cool and throw a kid in the pool because he's misbehaving, don't choose the school principal's son.

We got a new swimming instructor... but I never did learn to swim worth a damn. I make a point of living inland.
As a regular white 30 year old guy from the UK I find it so strange that so many people don't know how to swim. I know it is a common (American-centric) stereotype that black persons do not know how to swim and generally hate water but all of my black friends swim just fine and find the stereotype kind of strange too. Seriously swimming isn't that hard people and it is a skill that could very easily safe your life.
I can’t help but think that this is the wrong approach by Kickstarter. I think it should only be possible to ask for refunds if the creator doesn’t make a good faith effort.

The creator can just not offer rewards.

Or small no-risk rewards that are worthless but let the backer enjoy the fact they backed. If that isn't enough to encourage someone to back, that's tacit admission that they're backing to "buy" the reward.
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