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one of the most innovative car manufacturers in the world

Off topic, but I'd like some more specific thoughts regarding what you are aware of for specific automotive technologies that GM has innovated over the past decades, to make this statement.

Intuitively, GM cars do not do well internationally, have been known to have creaky interior build quality, have silly features like turning the reverse lights on when you unlock the car in a parking lot, and are not competitive on a scale of luxury compared to their European and Japanese counterparts.

I've experience working on a team for one GPS fleet management solution. Our SIMs were usually provided in a bulk PO from a top tier wireless provider and were all locked down to a certain very small (on the order of 5mb/mo) bandwidth plan. This cuts cost and risk.

I have to say I agree fully and it's kind of disappointing how much chaff makes it to the HN front page. This is ostensibly an interesting article, but at second glance doesn't really hold up to any scrutiny as anything really novel... folks buying used cars for decades have been doing detective work on 3rd party aftermarket modifications that have been left in. Instead, show me a door chime that has been converted to Toto's Africa using an arduino or custom fab board with STM chip.

I propose that Walmart needs to use their bulk purchasing power/clout, in combination with the efficiencies that Amazon has put in place, to provide lower prices. If you're going to unseat Amazon, it has to be on price.

Aren't at this point you doing the job of two people? ... our company is worth X Billions of dollars, they can afford to hire a Business Analyst/ Better Product Manager.

Yes, definitely. The difference is that in my situation we are a software contractor, not a software development company that owns its products. If we don't work with the customer to discover and build what they want, then it doesn't get built, which means we've lost potential work.

I work with a customer who is notorious for not defining requirements. Their culture is that everyone is either too busy or not knowledgeable enough of all the working parts of a system to define requirements. It's a culture problem over there.

The tool I work on generates reports. Rather than defining requirements for reports, the only way to make progress is to understand their general needs through conversation, then provide them a draft report - your best guess. They tell you what to change or what they don't want, then you make changes and provide another draft. When enough tracer bullets are shot, you arrive at the report they actually need.

We tried Platejoy for 6 months. We found it was useful, but found a few caveats:

It was very easy to back ourselves into a corner with food preferences such that you see the same set of 20 or so recipes recycled from week to week. This is probably our fault more than Platejoy's, but we are not especially picky eaters.

Some recipes required ingredients that we just couldn't source. We live in the midwest and the closest major city is 1.5 hours away. Try finding tahini paste at your local midwest walmart or smalltown grocer. In these cases I'd have loved substitution suggestions.

We don't have particular dietary restrictions. We also preferred old fashioned pen and paper tracking of our grocery list/pantry, so that feature wasn't something we used. We didn't really harness Platejoy's unique features. So for our particular situation Platejoy ended up being little more than a recipe suggestion tool.

I'd definitely suggest platejoy for people with dietary restrictions who don't want to think about or go through the hassle of finding recipes.

I wonder if Pokemon Go is using this, supposedly it is built using Unity.

As someone who knows zero haskell, and little markdown, can someone explain how this works?

haskell.org [1] says there is "bird style" and "LaTeX style" ways of marking off code vs documentation, and I see neither in the linked file. Is it the "```haskell" blocks?

[1] https://wiki.haskell.org/Literate_programming#Haskell_and_li...

Good insight, I wonder how many nefarious plots were thwarted by surveillance rather than old-fashioned police work.

Just to add, Zojirushi are top of the line rice cookers and I would expect that they outlast most other appliances.

These browser vulnerabilities have got me thinking that I should start browsing in a VM. Has anyone moved to this level of isolation? Steve Gibson on the last Security Now podcast said he's been experimenting with Sandboxie...

Sandboxie looks like a paid closed source solution, I'm not sure they give me a compelling value proposition over something like a light linux distro under VirtualBox.

I would argue the Tor example is not a valid comparison. Tor is a very complex system. It has a vast attack surface for holes, especially if you ignore boundaries like assuming there is a globally omniscient adversary.

Contrastingly, websites sanitizing inputs has been done for quite some time; it is hardly new, difficult, or complex. It's fundamental. I would guess most people's answer is that this is not a sufficient effort to protect privacy or security.

Could you not potentially retire earlier? In that way you're basically "back-loading" all of your vacation time, if one could freely exchange salary for time off.

What filesystems would you say provide you with high stability confidence?

Who is claiming this is a copyright issue? Software licensing and copyright are two different things. Are you saying this is also not a software licensing issue?

From the article:

“With more than 40 million members, we are excited by Credit Karma’s widespread adoption by people all over the country, giving us insight into $2.3 trillion of America’s household debt. This massive data enables us to deliver top quality insights for everyone looking to improve their personal finances.”

Does CK make more money off of people with large amounts of debt? Are they chasing this demographic? I suppose that demographic might be more susceptible to following through with refinance and credit card offers than people with little/no debt.

As a CK user I am not too worried. It's been clear to me that my information is shared with lenders/creditors, and I know I have enough willpower to only accept those offers if it is fiscally responsible.

I understand your tendency to talk about the downvotes, and I don't think you are being rude/baiting. Readers here are probably more interested in your argument/contribution to the discussion itself, rather than your opinion of how your argument will be received (discussion about being downvoted). Additionally, a broader point to take away is that downvotes and discourse work differently here than on reddit (despite what reddit's general rules claim).

Why the title case on Eric Schmidt's quote? Serious question. Can't watch the linked youtube video right now.

It would be interesting to subsidize your tech R&D (and therefore your food output) by using a CSA-style subscription service. You don't have to only self-sustain. You could produce quality food for the local community using technology.

Hi. I can only offer my own anecdotal evidence. I suffered from depression for about 9 years, and I've been past it for about 4 years now. I am not a doctor, so YMMV.

Good that you are seeking help. That is the first step.

Meds: Take them. I always felt they dulled your emotions so that the highs are not as high and the lows are not as low. That's not ideal, but it's worse than the alternative: not taking the meds. The goal is to not have to take them anymore.

Focus: In my experience, meds didn't harm my focus; maybe it even improved, as I wasn't as often caught in the throws of depression.

Motivation: You won't get motivation from meds. The meds help you get through each day, they help you feel less of a huge burden on your shoulders.

Strategies to implement:

Learn about yourself. Learn what makes you happy and what motivates you to do things. Learn what types of things are more likely to get you out of bed in the morning. Include more of those things in your life. Include less of the things that drag you down. Pay attention to how you feel, when, and why. When you're on your way to figuring those things out, wean yourself off of the meds. This takes more effort than it seems; recovery isn't a quick process.

Go out and do new things. Don't feel intense pressure to go do everything. As others have stated, this is a journey. Just make a measured effort to do a new thing every so often. Eventually you'll latch on to something that motivates you.

Tesla is trying to reach into lower market segments. The media is throwing around the $35k price point for a few months. [1][2]

[1] http://www.engadget.com/2014/07/15/tesla-model-iii/ [2] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=tesla+35k

Paid overtime.

Yet another anecdote here... for me, Grooveshark was the genesis of music discovery. Napster, limewire, etc. helped with artists I knew about already. mp3.com helped me with genres but did not expand my library too much. Early Last.fm/audioscrobbler was interesting to see what my friends were listening to, but it was not effortless to discover similar/new music there. Winamp shoutcast stations helped me to broaden my music portfolio, but there was no mechanism to save favorite songs/artists that I had heard, and re-listen to them. GS took the best of all those things and added more.

So I listened to GS for years. I owe GS a lot. Now I wonder if I, or if we had supported them more, would they have not met their demise?

seems strange. what about people who do not have passports? are they out of luck? any reasons provided why they needed a passport explicitly?

When I worked with a lot of MySQL users, they tended to say "s-q-l". These days I'm in SQL server and they say "sequel".

Debian if I have to support the system myself. RHEL if it is a business with money to spend on support contracts.

The common denominators for my coding productivity are passion and money. If I'm not passionate about the product or I'm not being paid, it won't get done.

The key here is consistently finding where your passions lie... I haven't solved that problem.

I've accepted this fact rather than attempting to overcome it, because coding for coding's sake doesn't appeal to me (it may appeal to others).

Looks like the old twitter v1 api supported RSS response format, but not anymore. That's really unfortunate. Anyone know of a generic twitter-to-rss conversion tool/app/service?

A Porsche Panamera vs Tesla comparison is a poor one at best, knowing both the public perception of these brands and the products they have produced.