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I have been wanting to do this, hadn't gotten around to detailing all the pieces I'd need to put together, and also I've been wanting to check out ansible. Thanks for this writeup!

Just to pile on here, I interviewed at Google in Santa Monica in 2007. I didn't get hired. The experience was okay, not awful and not incredibly drawn out. Anyway, I brushed it off and moved on. Then, just this April, I received an email from a Google recruiter noting that I'd interviewed in 2007, complementing me on my work since then, and asking whether I'd like to re-engage in a conversation about working with Google. I wrote back saying sure, I'd like to discuss the opportunity. I never heard anything back again. Six weeks later, I wrote again, asking whether there was some issue, and saying it was strange to reach out to me, for me to reply, and then to hear nothing... but still... nothing. No response.

Then, a few weeks ago, shortly after I'd accepted a new position that I'm actually quite happy with, I received another similar email from a different Google recruiter. I wrote her back and told her about the other recruiter that had recently reached out to me and then went silent after I responded. She promptly called me and we talked. She agreed it was strange, said she didn't see anything in the system about it, but she did apologize and - we had a discussion about Google, the interview process and what it's like now (as opposed to 2007). If anything, it sounded like it would be incredibly long, bureaucratic, drawn out, and fairly ridiculous. I said I'd keep in touch with her if indeed I did want to re-apply to google, but I think I do not.

funny-ish. I mean - this is clearly not real - I guess it's a snarky response to the criticism that "some of this generations best minds" are being wasted on creating apps to share pictures of our food with each other.

Yes, I agree. That's a large part of why I found this particular quadcopter project attractive. I am interested in a fairly specific project that is much more about how the quadcopter is used than about the science of keeping it stable, aloft, and responsive.

I was pretty close to contributing to this kickstarter, and the comment is at odds with what I could find about the guy whose company it is (a Canadian guy who seems pretty interesting), following his personal links, etc. That comment on techcrunch really bothered me, though.

The guy's name is Patrick Edwards-Daughtery and this is his personal site:

http://secretvespers.com/

I guess I didn't read Hyperloop documents correctly, but I thought that the solution proposed for thermal expansion as well as earthquake mitigation was tube in tube expansion system at EACH joint, and dampers in X, Y, and Z axis under EACH pylon.

This is odd - I was interested to read more but all the links are broken.

I mean - I too call that working, or at least "working" :) I don't mean to criticize!

Wait, are you working, or reading and commenting on HN?

I love this and know what I'll be doing all day tomorrow at work!

She's a he.

I think she's a he.

The article is spot on when it observes the strong correlation between effective lawyers and sociopathic personalities.

I disagree about a few things you said... first - that Bakersfield and Fresno are unimportant. Each has a population of around 1 million. (Bakersfield city limits has 362k, but the metro area is nearly 1 million.) That's pretty significant.

So - why compare these things? We can have both, especially if Hyperloop can be done for so little capital and so quickly. Even if we got it, though, it would not replace what CA HSR is going to provide. It would be the express line. It has no city center terminus in either LA or SF. Rather than have to take BART or something from the Hyperloop terminus to downtown SF, why not have special cars in the SF CA HSR station that go straight to the Hyperloop terminus - in the same car - one that is designed to seamlessly be transferred from a HSR car onto the Hyperloop. It would make the Hyperloop more useful and cool.

It is primarily a political manifesto, as he presents it as an alternative (cheaper, faster to build, faster at moving people) to CA's HSR project.

However, in my view, there's nothing that makes Hyperloop and CA's already started HSR project mutually exclusive. Hyperloop just isn't a valid alternative. It does sound awesome, though, and it should be built, too, because - why not? Its cost to build is low enough that private investment and a public private partnership to get it to share rights of way (where necessary / convenient) with HSR, to even share stations... I mean Hyperloop could be conceived of as the express line from LA-SF - a complementary technology, not an alternative. Even if we had Hyperloop, there are still a number of great arguments for having HSR too. And the fact is, we don't have Hyperloop, it's a completely untested, unproven technology. We do have (a detailed plan, approval, and some funding) for HSR. So we should build HSR, check out Hyperloop, and if it's actually feasible we should do it too, and connect them.

This is interesting, I didn't view this article the same way.

"No, this country has decided it's beyond the state's responsibility to provide food, shelter, and medicine to everyone." - this does seem to be true, and I view this article as a criticism of this decision, not as a criticism of the programs these people are seeking to get benefits from.

I think this story highlights the absurdity of not having unqualified assistance for housing, food, and healthcare. If people take this as a reason to eliminate these programs, well... I'm sure people will view it that way - well, I don't know what to say about it. I mean, I can at least agree with this: "THIS COUNTRY IS GOING TO HELL."

This depends a lot on whether or not you have pre-existing conditions. If you have none and are young (I assume you are), then you can shop individual plans from the major providers and should be able to get one at a reasonable cost. If you have any conditions, these could either price you out or make you completely uninsurable, in which case you must wait until January when individual plans will become available to everyone at reasonable prices regardless of pre-existing conditions.

It is presented to provoke and I think you're right, it does look like an attempt to derail CA HSR.

Instead, I think of it this way... if it's so cheaply do-able, then - do it! Sounds like an easy money making idea if you can build it for the figures proposed. While you may only need to charge $20 each way to break even, why not charge double what it costs to go the next most fast, convenient way, and you would make bank! I mean, who wouldn't do this if it works as envisioned? It's a genius business plan, right!?

So do it! Some rich bold genius! Build us a hyperloop - so cheap and obvious and do-able! And whenever we get to HSR, we'll build it so it connects to the awesome LA-SF express hyperloop.

Why not go ahead and build the Hyperloop, and when CA HSR gets around to actually building the links into downtown LA and SF, design them to connect up to the Hyperloop, which will surely be complete and running by the time HSR is projected to be available. The Hyperloop can even share some rights of way with HSR. Why not have both?

Hyperloop should be an AND proposition to HSR, not an either/or.

"especially with prison guard union - of course huge prison population resulting from "toughness on crime" may not be viewed as government waste by some" -

what if the prison guard union got in on the contract to have the prisoners build the hyperloop?

I'm not going to argue with you either, but you are terribly naive if you think the circumstances around Michael Hastings death are not incredibly suspicious ;)

Yeah I'll go with the "gut" feeling of someone who couldn't possibly have been pressured by anyone to say anything in particular when she goes on a TV show that will be seen internationally.

That's great for you, obviously you have no documented chronic health conditions that would exclude you entirely from private insurance. Unfortunately for me, I do, and am considered uninsurable as am individual, leaving only employer sponsored group coverage as a viable option until next year.

Any references to support any of your claims?

I'm in pretty much the same situation, and it's absurd and also should be obvious.

"Smoking it cannot be much better for you than smoking cigarettes." --- well, it's complicated, but read this as a starting point:

http://norml.org/component/zoo/category/cannabis-smoke-and-c...

There is really no media shitstorm about Michael Hastings. It's practically over now. What stays long afterwards is the chilling effect sensed by journalists and would-be-whistleblowers - the fear that by disclosing or reporting on the wrong story, they too might find themselves up in smoke.

No.

I had back surgery following a few months of severe debilitating nerve pain. The surgery fixed the pain, but I was hooked on prescribed opiate painkillers. I quit the pills cold turkey rather than tapering, because tapering just prolongs the horrible withdrawals... less severe, but longer lasting, and more chances you'll just say F-it and not really taper but stay hooked. I used MJ edibles to zonk myself out silly during the 7 days of the withdrawals so that they would be more tolerable, and that REALLY REALLY helped, and I succeeded.

"In many major metro areas, you're more likely to be ticketed for cannabis than arrested." - as long as you are white and not wanted by the authorities for some other issue.