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I've previously summarised this as "never trust a techie in a suit."

Another way to look at this has nothing to do with conformism. Whereas a suit says "I feel the need to dress to impress you", casual wear says "I don't need to dress to impress you, that's not why you're going to hire me".

I have noticed a recent trend towards a sort of hipster dress code, but I'm hoping that's just a transient thing that doesn't catch on. Traditionally, the hacker dress code has been more about not caring what anyone thinks than either trying to stand out, or to fit in.

I tend to follow that principle, and will perhaps go with smart jeans and a jacket for more formal meetings. There are however, environments where you're just expected to wear a suit. You have a choice of either avoiding those environments altogether, or just bite the bullet and wear a suit. Unless you are specifically trying to be non-conformist.

The book "The Bluffer's Guide to Consultancy" advises that a consultant should always wear the opposite of the established dress code, so people will fear and respect you. Therefore if you are going to an office where everyone wears suits, you should dress casually. If you are going somewhere casual, you should wear a suit. It further suggests that if you are going to both types of office on the same day, you should dress as a farmer :)
Point of fact: if I want to look good in a suit, I also have to spend at least six months strictly following a diet and exercise regime.

Other forms of apparel are much more forgiving.
I agree. Also worth noting the Lyft had a TC article about this. Getting a product and press definitely takes more time and effort than a beta signup.
~8 unique people with different IP's who know how to game the system.
I find most lights these days have sensors to detect when cars are present and some basic logic to alleviate many of the problems you mention. No system is perfect, of course.
At least one city is working on this, no AI needed: http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/a...
Many lights and transportation networks already do (NYC is one great example). It's not just lights - there are all sorts of inputs into that system.

It does take some resources, so you typically don't see that sort of intelligent routing outside of the major cities (at least in the US), but the tech is definitely there (not that it couldn't be improved).
This guy in the vest? http://snakkle.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/20....

I don't know about that B&W bowtie pic, but that color pic is from the Apple IIc launch in 1984. Apple IPO'ed in 1980, and was already making over a billion dollars in revenue by 1984. And the bowtie is a bit non-conformist, but Jobs wasn't exactly dressed like a hipster even in 1984: http://everystevejobsvideo.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/St.... And I don't know how non-conformist that bow-tie really is. Here's Justice John Paul Stevens at his Senate confirmation hearing in 1975: http://media.npr.org/assets/news/2010/04/09/stevens1-3a512da....
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I'd be curious about the effects on pets or nearby animals as well. What frequency range and power are these things running at?
We've already implemented this in http://filepicker.io so you don't need to do anything if you are already on the service.
Could this be related to the newly announced "latin accents and non-latin characters" support? It seems too big for a coincidence.

SO we're adding support for all these funny characters, and taking away support for periods... yeah!
I don't know a lot about specific engineering details, but a jet engine (turbofan) produces about 1 kw of sound energy [1]. A cell phone has about 75 sq. cm of area on one side. Thus, with perfect efficiency and spherical propagation, the available power to the phone for a user about 3m away would be about 0.2 watt.

However, I'm skeptical that they can actually create a kilowatt of sound energy, and while you can focus the power (certainly you could do something more efficient than fully-spherical propagation), you're also going to have significant losses.

All this for a charging rate that's about 1/5 of what you get from a 1 amp USB charger.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_power#Table_of_select...
But key fob needs to be nearby and almost getting into the car. I was thinking doing it in the office remotely 5 to 10 minutes before leaving. Cooling a car takes some times.
And Europeans can access the American Google site, making this whole mess pointless.
Being creative doesn't become boring because someone else can do it better. Just trying to express yourself is fun. If it weren't, nobody would participate in amateur hour or open mic nights.
Exactly, but some of the pains here are common to these and the rest.
I suppose the big question will be regulation. How much paper trail will Stellar leave? Can it be enough to make regulators happy?
Not attacking Google here, but why can't a company with the insanely vast resources as Google, prevent something like this? I can understand a small provider going down occasionally, but Google should have enough engineers on this to have redundancy and robustness across their networks.
Smaller timezone overlap means less time for meetings.
Win!
Traffic lights will often have sensors to prevent switching when no cross traffic is waiting. There are also centrally controlled systems that incorporate adaptive control methods. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_light_control_and_coord...).

I think key infrastructure would probably be best left unexposed to the Internet, firewalled or not.
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Did you even read the article? The majority of them die of disease when contacted.
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People get what they sign up for - Everyone knows that facebook is a powerhouse of private data and yet they still continue to use it.

If you don't like how FB handles your data, don't use it.
Also, most of the time, sites without a perfect forward secrecy policy are sites intended to be accessed by a very wide crowd, including people still running IE6 (and bellow). Sometimes you just can't push the new technologies fast enough.
Given that Mars would be orders of magnitude harder to terraform than, well... Terra. Why do we even have to consider it?

There's no plan B. Each of us is part of The Red Thin Line (href = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thin_Red_Line_%28Battle_of_... ), whether we like it or not. The only question worth asking is: Am I going to hold my ground or not?
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Sprinklers:

* Lono looks cool, but doesn't exist yet.

* The rachio website is down.

* OpenSprinkler exists now but is not very shiny. http://rayshobby.net/?page_id=160
Ask HN: Where I can search/validate an idea for an open-source library?
I am having a hard time finding out if a library "like this" exists or not. I can go to GitHub or search package repositories, but a lot of times I end up developing something myself because I couldn't find anything only to hear weeks later that I missed using another term in my searching and a pretty good library did exist in some random Github account. If only someone had recommended that library sooner. Sometimes the author of a library does not speak your same language and the library would never have come up in your search to begin with!

Has this problem been solved? I am thinking of a site where you can ask the community of your preferred language if a package of x, y or z characteristics already exists. You could also validate your package idea before building it; someone can point you to a similar package before wasting your time reinventing the wheel. I would develop this if it didn't exist.
This monkey took a selfie. Who owns the copyright?
Toys you meant.
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The reports I am reading say anyone with a period in their e-mail address will have outgoing mail rejected by SMTP server, if you are using a mail client that sends via SMTP.
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Check out Tile (http://www.thetileapp.com/) and StickNFind (https://www.sticknfind.com/).
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US Government is only a tiny fraction of whom I vote for. From State officials through City and County, School Board, even Township and Water Board. All of them affect me, including my tax rates and property rights.
> Calvin and Hobbes isn't used to promote toys and junk food

Sure, if you are going to be hyperspecific about that one particular example and that one specific use, but the issue was more general about works, and, as for that work, while it may not used to promote toys and junk food, its first titular character is used in rather ubiquitous window decals that seem to present at least as much of the same problem.

The cultural context for a succesful work, with regard to its specific characters, but also more generally, is never going to be the same when you want to introduce your kids to it as when you were introduced to it yourself, particularly if you encountered the work when it was first introduced to society (or when first became popular, which may not be the same time).

Trying to restrict other people's freedom in order to preserve that cultural context -- as by adovcating long copyright terms for that purpose -- is never going to work.
I feel like I'm in a new era where more people care about space again, but the reality is probably more that the "right" people care about space, so now more is happening.
Interesting concept. Are you planning on adding a system where you can write plug-ins in Javascript or Python for example? I saw in the blog post you were looking to adding a way to extend the editor.
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We're always hearing "there will be new kinds of jobs", but never what those jobs will be , how many they could be in number or any relevant detail to that claim.

Why is that ?have we no sense of imagination ? Or is it that the claim is just an easy comforting truism(that preservers the current order) and nothing but ?
Based one what time you typically leave the house and where you go everyday, I'm certain there's also room to mature this market by suggesting carpooling groups to anyone who has tried to use the service at least once:

For all users who try UberPool at least once, find clusters where they all leave regularly at approximately the same time and head to the same destination.

Uber can even ask something like "Do you mind if we collect your commuting data for 1 week. If there is low variability, find clusters and suggest routes.

It think this could work bananas in places like SF-SouthBay, SouthBay-SF, and Washington DC where a sizeable chunk of people move back and forth in the same direction each day.
Just a thought, but you could do this with a smart phone right now. I understand the implementation would be different integrated into the fridge, but maybe you could throw something together to see if you'd really like to do this after all.

I'm of the opinion that the value is immediately lost when I forget to scan things, which would almost certainly be the normal rather than the exception.

Edit: I should have assumed this already existed -- there's several apps on the Android/iOS/Windows Phone stores.
Correct, if it's a daytime interview he should wear a morning coat with a matching waistcoat, striped trousers, and a long tie or optionally an Ascot.
It would be very cool to see photographs of the same places today. How much have the clothing and building styles changed? (or not changed)
Hire all of the people that you want, but if you give any of them the kind of access required to actually do anything, all it takes is one person's error to blow the whole dam.
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Our refrigerator. It is big and things easily go bad if we don't periodically go through and do an "inventory" of what's there, what needs to be eaten.

A fridge should, ideally:
Track counts of objects,
Have date of entry of objects,
Have a freshness meter for all objects,
and give me a map of the location of each object.

I have in mind how to visually display this info and have R&D insights to other ways to make this practical. Lots of innovation :)
>>It's debatable whether Signalling Theory really applies to creatures who have enough coginitive ability to model thought processes in their peers.

I don't think it's debatable at all, because in this particular case, it is not about cognitive ability, but meta-cognitive ability. You need to first recognize the signal and process it, and then be self-aware enough to understand why you processed it the way you did.

Whereas the fact of the matter is that people are on auto-pilot most of the time. This is why we put so much emphasis on things like first impressions, which are also a form of signaling.
I suppose somebody, somewhere, prefers them. I'd like to see hard numbers for/against though. I suspect it's more a way to justify a decision someone else has already made for their own reasons.
I have a hard time expressing how unbearably stupid "wireless charging" of all kinds is, especially when it is touted as "green." The only viable use case I've been able to come up with is charging my electric toothbrush by induction, so we don't have to worry about corrosion on electrodes due to my drooling on them. Otherwise; "golly, let's radiate lots of energy into the ambient atmosphere so consumers can have a science fiction experience like they're in the Jetsons."
Lame but Uber seems to make better business decisions. For example: Lyft requiring facebook is just dumb to me even though data collection is easier.

I tried to download Lyft on my iPhone 3GS but I can only use the old version because Lyft is using iOS 7 for their latest app.

Little stuff like this matters.
Exactly.

If you happen to be lucky enough to catch somebody in the act, you can undo the damage pretty quickly, if not altogether painlessly. It'll take a huffy phone call to your credit card company, and some watchful waiting for a month or so afterward. You will get a new card, with a new number, and you'll have to set up new billing numbers for everything. A small, but sharp pain in the ass. [1]

But if you don't catch things right away, and god forbid, if something winds up on your credit report, you are capital-F Fucked. By then it's too late, and your fraudulent data is commingled with your real data in dozens of databases, each one echoing off of the other. The bad data sprouts like kudzu. You can pluck a few shoots out of the ground, and five more pop up in unexpected places, weeks or months later.

[1] You can also set up a proactive solution, like a super-sensitive, early-warning algo at your credit card company. But this net ends up snaring you half the time, like whenever you use your credit card to make small purchases, or buy gas, or out of state, etc. It gets a lot of false positives. My card gets blocked for "fraud" every few weeks, leading to minor headaches at restaurants, bars, and gas stations. But I guess I'll accept this hassle as the price I pay for advance warning of real fraud. At the same time, I'm concerned that this system is just as likely to run into false negatives, which would really suck.
Actually zimride got sold to enterprise. Maybe they needed to build out the two-sides of the marketplace before being able to actually do "ride-sharing"
"Uber" is already a pretty non-descriptive brand name, I think they prefer catchy-ness to descriptive branding.
Or if you do use Skype, use the Metro version, which finfisher allegedly can't eavesdrop on.

Original source was on Dropbox and is overloaded, but here's a link on Slashdot: http://beta.slashdot.org/story/205507
Reddit disclosure: http://www.reddit.com/r/Anarchism/comments/2cjlop/gamma_inte...

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8142465
What I am apathetic to is which liar gets elected into office, the red liar or the blue liar? What surprises me is that people seem to have an irrational trust in these political figures.
Yelp but with shorter reviews

That's actually something I really want. I'm sick of reading "My fiancee and I were walking down Main St, browsing restaurants, when we happened to notice <restaurant name>. She likes fish, so we were looking for fish dishes..."

As for the rest of it - you're likely right. But the old Foursquare wasn't generating money. So either you abandon your hardcore users by shutting down, or you attempt to move them to a new service that has a better business model.
cpursely: Thanks for the kind recommendation!

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I'm not being hyperspecific about that one particular example. The comment you chose to reply to was specifically about that one particular example.

Long copyright terms seem to be doing just fine for Bill Watterson.
Thanks. I should have looked at your pricing/features page before I commented. I was looking there last week and only 1/2 remembered correctly.
I'm not the OP but what do those issues have to do with voting as voting currently works?

And why do you think it's warranted to be deciding how other people live their lives? What is "to get married" and why is it that a decision between two people needs to be chosen by you through "voting"?

Regarding war, why do you think anyone has the right to force young men to engage in a war they didn't start? Don't those young men own their own lives?

And so on and so forth. I'm not apathetic to any of those things but they're not solved (as can be seen in reality: they haven't been solved) by "voting".
It's interesting that Mozilla has chosen to use an image with so much red, which makes JPEG (at their settings) look relatively poor even at quality 100. You cannot optimise the limitations of 2x2 chroma subsampling.

I am also not convinced by Trellis yet. In my tests, it introduced a faint blur. In fairness though, I only tried 4:4:4 and not 4:2:0 as Mozilla apparently does. In the latter case, additional blur may not be noticeable.
I worked in R&D for an extremely large ag company. We found that .5 or 1 STD bucket sizes seemed to work pretty well
Amazing, I did not know this (and I use KDE). Thanks.
Oh boy! Now I can live out my 1984 fantasies where not only am I carrying a tracking device at all times, but literally everything around me is bugged with sensors!

People being able to assassinate me with a software update to my car is also a major plus.
Well... yeah. It's the Internet :)

It's not exactly pointless. After all, the original websites are still up and running, it's just more difficult to find this content with a search engine. Having an obscure list of links somewhere isn't going to make the information that much more dangerous.
I think you will find that the reason why big brands are big brands is because a lot of people do, in reality, want to find them. Just because I don't want to find the same things doesn't stop that from being the most popular choice. Google would appear to be delivering what the bulk of its users want to see.
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Unless they are beamforming, which is highly unprobable, I think you're right.
Hardware is not the hard part of building a computer.
>If a human sets up a camera on a tripod, pre-focusses it, sets up a motion detection system to trigger the shutter, and the monkey walks past it triggering an image to be captured, does the human hold copyright? (Definitely, in my opinion.)

Conversely, I see lots of cool pictures of people doing crazy stuff, kayakers, going off massive waterfalls, bikers doing backflips, street performers, magicians. To me it is the subject of the picture who has spent years training, he / she is what makes the picture interesting (the photographer may make the colours a bit nicer, or the focus sharper, but the subject is what makes the picture).

Yet the photographer owns the copyright.

(To be fair I kind of agree with your last point, but I think that the photographer automatically getting copyright is the problem. I doubt giving the subject ownership would be enforceable, and would likely lead to many more problems related to censorship).
Everybody is talking about Uber's announcement, but Sidecar is also apparently experimenting with the same thing:

http://techcrunch.com/2014/06/29/sidecar-shareable-rides/

There are also many ways to grow the product: for example, I know that Uber will be getting into local package delivery before too long. It looks like Lyft/Sidecar/Hitch/Flywheel are keeping them on their toes in the meantime.

One thing is certain: there is cutthroat competition in this industry that will only benefit the consumers.
Peter Thiel wears suits as well: https://www.google.com/search?q=Peter+Thiel&es_sm=119&source...
Good tech founders need to be innovative, not encumbered by "the way things ought to be." It's reasonable that dress would be a valid signal of that quality, but I don't know if I'd make a rule around it.
I charge my phone wirelessly in the car, with a magnetic wireless charger which doubles as a docking station (which automatically turns on waze/navigation). Super convenient for getting in/out of the car without needing to attach wires.

Also imagine embedded medical devices.
I agree completely. When people talk about the fridge idea I've always scratched my head about it. First of all a good chunk of my food never sees the inside of the fridge. I would also add that the vast majority of items we "run out" of we end up not replacing, at least consistently. I consistently replace only a small amount of the food I consume (milk, butter, bread), and I suspect others are similar.

I'm sure I have some patterns in my eating habits, but it's an area of my life I'm constantly trying to randomize (i.e. try new things). I would also add that seasonality plays a huge role, both in what is available and cheap, which a computer could track, but my own desire for changes. I went through a cheese "phase" last year where I tried lots of different cheeses, but I don't really eat too much cheese anymore. Now I'm in a Bourbon phase.
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In Brazil, mainly in Rio de Janeiro, we have the kombis (usually, but not necessarily VW Kombis) that are basically the same. São Paulo, used to have them, but they were taken off the road. Personally, I find them to be much more convenient than busses half the time, especially since the city really only responds to increases to demand around election time.

i.e. a route becomes increasingly crowded to the point you can't get on the bus anymore. The problem gets so bad over a few years that you have to let 3-4 busses pass. An election comes up and miraculously the increased demand is met. kombis help alleviate these shenanigans.
Hi! I work at Stripe.

You're indeed right about both of these use cases -- we've actually built the first one (but didn't post about it). On your settings page, you can go to Emails and you'll find a preview of the receipts. There you can click "Send test receipt" to any email address you'd like.

Your second point is also something we'd like to build, especially something like including metadata from a charge on the receipt.

We'll definitely keep your suggestions in mind!
Do you think people in Turing's time could have possibly envisioned the existence or proliferation of the role of "developer"?

Not saying you're right or wrong, but our inability to envision future jobs, or lack thereof, doesn't mean much one way or the other.