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> I've worked in aerospace and have been reading HN for over a decade.

> Here's some adult advice, for both the OP and HN in general.

> Space is a waste of time unless you're a government or a bored billionaire. Objects are too far, and lift is now a commodity.

> (SpaceX will probably end up shutting down due to lack of lift demand, hence their polluting the sky with micro satellites now.)

You are misidentifying the source of revenue. Space, like military equipment, is an incredible market for corporations equipped to operate in. There are huge government subsidies, private-public partnerships designed to assist research and development, there's an unsatiable market to offload excess production in (government demand), you get to profit off of commercial spin-off products. SpaceX is on the receiving end of all of this. Furthermore, the public does not care what it is that you are doing exactly. That's important because of all the tax money involved. The moment your enterprise has a significant impact on the public ordinary people will scrutinize it. That's bad for business. Even more so when your business depends the government which is somewhat accountable to the public.
Imagine a twist on this: you have to buy from the dollar store, but they dollar store has agreed on a level of quality. They may have a separate back room with only the things you are allowed to buy because that is where items that meet your quality standard are. (They may or may not allow others into that room)

The reality is for big projects quality should always be part of the contract. Use substandard quality materials and the whole contract is void.
Here’s something I’m curious about, hopefully without coming across as too negative: what is the purpose of philosophical work such as Bostrom’s?

As an argument it may or may not be convincing, but it’s not obviously actionable. It’s hard to see how it could be tested.

You seem to be saying that amateur philosophers shouldn’t jump in with their own naive takes on it, as they don’t have the required educational background. I can certainly believe that, but it takes away another avenue by which we non-philosophers can potentially engage with the work.

If there has been any notable followup or rebuttal, it hasn’t made nearly as much of an impact in the public consciousness (and of course the simulation argument is a pretty niche thing in the first place).

How does, or should, this simulation argument affect the average person? How might it affect us in future? What does it change?
Hah! Checked languages at https://github.com/git/git, only saw C, Make, and scripting languages. Apparently Go is buried under “Other”.
You're acting like we can't use multiple systems, or that people care if they can interact with us...
Then maybe that's the correct answer, regardless.
My dosage was ridiculously high after adjusting it many times over years. I was on maintenance mode for a long while, not really thinking about how I was feeling and just carrying on. Then, I finally took stock and realized I wasn't feeling emotionally well. It occurred to me that the way I felt at that time was very different from when I just started taking lexapro (it was a dramatic improvement and I was much brighter). I then spoke about my condition with my general physician who seemed to only have a comment about it after I brought it up, such as "yeah, that is a high dose". I felt disappointed in my doctor for not being proactive about it with me but maybe the doctor assumed I knew what worked best for my self.

I cut my dosage by 5mg every 3-5 months until where I am now (5mg). All the while, I supplemented with hemp cbd flower.

Be very careful about reducing dosage. You can get headaches and feel ill. Withdrawal symptoms are pretty bad. Reducing dosage may also have inadvertent psychological side effects. Speak with your doctor before you give it a try. I am not a physician. :)
I wouldn't consider $10 a day cheap. That'd add up to $600 a month for me and my wife, and that's way more than our current food budget (including delivery, beer, wine, fresh roasted coffee and more luxuries).

I assumed it was going to be way cheaper than that.
Absolutely. The win here is that you get to stop at "installs in one command". No googling. No configuration. Job is done; share your URL.
I totally agree with this piece, and anyone who knows me knows I feel this way.

Giving an entrepreneur $250K-$500K to pay off credit card debt and give them a bit of comfort cash, is one thing. Doing so helps make sure they are invested in the long-term success, without making them eager to sell too early, but giving someone $1mm+ before driving a business to major traction, revenue and profit is dangerous for the long-term success of the company. It removes the requisite hunger level which is a determinant for success. Moreover, it actually disincentives selling at the right time, because founders who have pulled $1mm+ off the table are likely to discard even the best offers at a time when reality would dictate the should take the offer (see: digg.com).
The one that isn't in the newspapers all the time anyway.
General sales in Japan. If you were diverting some of your income to relatives or friends who were affected to keep them fed and sheltered, you aren't probably as interested in the newest Macbook.
It's really much more about losing alignment between employees, management, founders and boards.

The consequences are quite negative, and if I could name the companies I know of dealing with this, I would. Unfortunately, I'm friends with the founders involves and can't out them here. Needless to say, they have some very unhappy employees who have been on board for years and who resent the founders for cashing out while they keep slaving away, especially in the face of overly generous offers to buy the company.
Use TrueCrypt on Dropbox: http://www.truecrypt.org/

IMO, you should use this on any cloud disk service, no matter what their policies might be. Companies are always subject to their countries' laws.

The good thing about Dropbox in this regard is that its synchronization feature is pretty intelligent: If a part of your e.g. 10GB TrueCrypt volume changes, it'll only upload whatever changed, not the whole 10GB once more.
There were plenty of stories over the past few weeks about how Verizon getting the iPhone was not going to give a big boost to Apple, and Apple is stagnating in the face of the Android onslaught, and so on.

In light of that you don't find US iPhone sales being up 155% over same quarter last year interesting, and up 113% worldwide to be interesting?
Don't worry, self-publishing for musicians will gradually become the norm.
And in this context it's especially important that you (the first employee) have the same stock type/class as the founders. You have disadvantages if they have stock and you only stock options. If they have preferred stock treatment or grant other investors preferred stock treatment then the company might exit at $100 million and you still receive nothing.
Yes, dates are really important.

If anybody thinks, readers will skip their article, if the date is too easy to find, why don't you sign the article with the authors name and then let the author decide, if a date has to be added. Like "joe - Nov. 1, 2014" or just "joe".

This article certainly needs a date.
I agree this is highly unlikely to be a common use case. I might use it, because I try to do most things myself, and I could often use some expert advice. And I know the people who would help me, but it'd be inconvenient to have them come all the way out here. But overall, this is a one-in-a-thousand use case.

But:

> Tools are still needed -- is there actually a big market for the kind of repairs you can do with the tools that everyone has lying around at home but which is complicated enough to need hand-coaching by an expert?

Almost all repairs on appliances, cars, houses, and so on can be done with tools you have laying around the house; they don't require anything more than a hammer, drill, screwdrivers, wrench sets, etc. The only thing you're typically not going to have on hand is replacement parts, which are usually not too difficult to get your hands on and which you would have to pay for anyway.

When people do this, it's not going to be an "expert", it's going to be something along the lines of "hey dad, look at this real quick."

> But then you also need the person to buy the AR goggles.

The Ars reporting showed someone using a Surface to view and annotate the HoloLens-user's view, not another set of HoloLens. So the barrier is much lower, any Windows 10 PC should be godo enough.
No, the tragedy is uneducated kids.
One of the biggest selling points for React/Flux for me was the fact that it had been proven by Facebook and Instagram on some very large projects.

What has this been used on?
Is this auto submitted every 6mo? Because that's what it's looking like.

There is no changes from the past 3 submissions...
Good point. I was thinking it was rumors getting out because of the gradual nature of the move, but I think that you're right. Traders were slow to put orders back into the market, which created a gradual drift up, rather than an instant reset in the market when it re-opened.
Was interested, but I stopped reading at "Freud argued."
I couldn't agree more. I studied engineering because I had no idea how you could make money unless you were making things... (I grew up kinda isolated from/ignorant of business degree types and the financial world..) But I still managed to study art and language (I even spent a semester in Italy), read up all the classics, made discussion with English majors to seek out books worth reading, get involved in philanthropic activities, and kept myself immersed in culture. All this on top of spending way to much time in the library studying 7 days a week.
Yeah, re-reading the article the designer doesn't sound blameless.

I'm probably willing to let my claim stand without anecdote (deviations from design occur outside the engineer's control), but honestly it's the weaker point, so let it drop. The more important one is that engineers design within a set of constraints, and if these parameters are exceeded, it is not the fault of the engineer.
If only....

That would be one hell of a twist. Just to really push it, what if he has an unknown identical twin???
It's drawn from a normal distribution.
> There are requirements for companies to attempt to hire US workers first

You should read your own link again. It doesn't say that anywhere. Here's what it does say:

"Employers must attest to the Department of Labor that they will pay wages to the H-1B nonimmigrant workers that are at least equal to the actual wage paid by the employer to other workers with similar experience and qualifications for the job in question, or the prevailing wage for the occupation in the area of intended employment – whichever is greater."

Heck, another source from the US Department of Labor explicitly answers this question[1]:

"The H-1B employer is not required to recruit U.S. workers, unless it is H-1B-dependent, a previous willful violator of H-1B requirements, or an employer receiving
funding described in the Employ American Workers Act (EAWA) which hires a new H-1B worker during the period Feb. 17, 2009 through Feb. 16, 2011. Such employers must take good faith steps to recruit U.S. workers for any job for which they seek H-1B
workers."

1. https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/WHD/legacy/files/whdf...
Depends on how much you trust the guidance systems on your cruise missile.

That said, I can't see the advantage to any one player in taking out Washington DC unless they can shift attribution to someone else. I mean the small crazies (DPRK etc.) might want to do so but have to know that even success would be fatal to them. And the big crazies (Putin, the Ayatollahs, whoever's really running the show in China) would be too concerned about the consequences.

Not saying it couldn't happen, but the odds are, any entity capable of carrying out such an attack successfully has enough to lose that they would be dissuaded from doing something that would have extremely unpredictable consequences.
What do you fear? Fear is telling you what you should be doing instead of staring at a screen...

Diversify your time. Don't put all your emotional/time investment into technical skills/work.

Organize something at work like a potluck or a karaoke night. You don't have to be the center of attention once the event gets going (but you'll have to get the event together). The host has the power..

Be part of something bigger than yourself, be an active part of a community (doesn't have to be tech). Belonging is a big part of happiness.

Volunteer. Someone once told me that to be a true volunteer with no selfish overtones you would need to a) volunteer for the blind and b) not tell anyone. You don't have to do that.

Also:
http://www.nerve.com/advice/miss-information/miss-informatio...
English isn't my native. Sorry if you had hard time to understand my writing.
Uh, can anyone explain what Dark Patterns are?

It's not explained on the page, and while it may be explained if you want to sit through the slideshow I'd rather know what it's about before I start listening to some Englishman drone on about it.
The question you're asking is, "why does it make sense for YC companies to be in stealth mode?" Sometimes it makes sense to be stealthy, and occasionally you need to hire folks when you're in that state. It's certainly a handicap (as spolsky says elsewhere in this thread, what kind of hotshot would want to interview without knowing ANYTHING about a company?).

Good post on benefits of stealth mode here: http://trada.com/blog/2010/03/31/the-stealth-mode-trada%E2%8...
Good post. Don't forget to pay your full-stack engineer with a full-stack money. Don't be cheap on them mkay?

On the other hand, I'd like to have a full-stack CEO as well. Not just someone who can only say "make it work", "make it faster", "make me some money".
Domain driven design is supposed to be about creating an ubiquitous language, used by application code, tests, developers and stakeholders. If you want a more fluent style in your code you want it everywhere not just the tests. The RSpec matchers are great for a more fluent style but they're unfortunately siloed in the specs.
Now this article is brilliant. I'm reposting the link to this article to a maths blog.

My old maths tutors in my old alma mater would also love to read the article, so I'll email them the link. If nothing else, it'll remind them that mathematics teaching does make a great difference.
"If you have a great product, it doesn't matter when you show it off..."

I can refute your comment with one word: Apple.

Do you think their "leveraged media events" aren't effective? I used the believe (as you do) in the "Product Uber Alles" philosophy- no longer. Product is indeed the most important thing with the highest leverage. But it's not the only thing, and ignoring skillsets and tactics that can give you an advantage is silly.

Think of non-product bits as multipliers. If I have great PR, bizdev, marketing, pricing, etc., I can often beat a better product in the market.

There are zillions of markets where crappy/mediocre products are at or near the top of the heap.
You can't ever please every religion, no matter how you try. Therefore, it is quite pointless to even attempt that.

Furthermore, people who are "very sensitive about it", I have one advice: try to be more tolerant. It'll do good in the long run.
Does President Biden sound pleasant to you?
How about President Boehner?

With that aside, a presidential death, homicide or otherwise, would be extremely jarring to the US population. Ask anyone who was alive when JFK got shot. And plus, if there ever is a major national crisis, we would need a strong leader with a strong mandate, not someone who just stepped in because the one before perished in said crisis.
Fun :) thank you.
This poem (and the original spanish) is one of my favourites! Thank you for posting.
I've tried to make myself believe that I'm more productive with headphones. Unfortunately the truth is I work best in terrifying silence.
I think knowing people is a component, but I wouldn't generalize. It works for you, but I disagree that it's a rule.

My aunt knows a sh*tload of people but doesn't get any jobs.

I'm a freelancer and deal directly with the client whom—admittedly—hire me because they like me BUT, I can also get the job done.
Hey, I fail to understand the value prop here. Admittedly I mostly use Amazon, and the checkout is super simple. Second I would be more concerned with using a company I have not heard off. I usually use PayPal if I am unsure about the site. Am I missing something?
I wonder how you get around the giant room, and how its space is demarcated. How do you meet up with someone else who is in a faraway part of the room?
My ex-girlfriend (not Portuguese) when she wanted to "paper cut me" used to say that every Portuguese is a poet. Seeing Portugal with the distance of an expat this is (un)fortunately true.

The most relevant of us is certainly Fernando Pessoa.[1]

[1] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Pessoa
Hart Crane, far and away...

Ted Hughes's Metamorphosis. Such a sick translation of Ovid.
Many public transport options have rules against open strollers. It'd be a pretty big pain to take sleeping baby out, fold up stroller, then clamber onto a bus. I guess a subway would be different, but still probably has the same rule somewhere.
If you want to be pedantic, no, it's not a bug but in the vast majority of the software world people use the term “bug tracker” to refer to a system which also tracks new work which isn't strictly a defect.

And, since we're being pedantic, when I said “vast majority of the software world”, that includes the OpenBSD project:

“Sending in bug reports

If possible, use the sendbug(1) command to get the bug into our tracking system. Sendbug requires that your system can properly send Internet email. If you cannot use sendbug on a functional OpenBSD machine, please send your bug report to bugs@openbsd.org.

Perhaps what you are sending in is a feature request, not necessarily a bug. New features are accepted, especially with code that implements your suggested new feature.”

http://www.openbsd.org/report.html#bugtypes
It's a case of a MOT (major ongoing topic) a la Snowden in 2013. I know it's annoying.

We don't want to suppress the topic altogether because when significant new information (SNI) does appear, it's important to have a thread about it—and if we don't, there will be a user rebellion in the other direction ("I can't believe this isn't on HN, I guess it's not a news site any more").

(Also, it isn't possible to suppress a topic altogether - users will just work around whatever automated restrictions we put in, and manual restrictions are inevitably porous.)

The solution is to allow the submissions that contain SNI and to downweight the ones that don't. By downweight I mean that users can flag the posts, and mods can penalize them.

This solution is imperfect because when there are so many raindrops coming in, we can't dodge them all - but at least the worst copycat/followup posts, the ones that just repeat what has been said elsewhere, shouldn't stay on the front page for too long.

More explanation here, with links to additional past explanations: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33509084.
i'm a huge fan of the recent trend in open-sourced "micro services" that offer one useful product and can be run on a heroku free tier

even one mildly tech-savvy member of a friend group could reasonably manage the digital infrastructure of a personal social circle as a hobby
> who do you report law enforcement misconduct to?

These rights are privately enforced. There is no public federal enforcement. You have to do what this gentleman is doing. Sue in the courts.

It is becoming apparent that the U.S. needs an independent agency focussed on transgressions by law enforcement / a civil rights enforcement bureau. One could keep it purely civil, to avoid conflicting with the DoJ. But in the same way that criminal prosecution is specialized enough that consolidating it in the DoJ makes sense, investigating law enforcement is specialized and conflicted enough that consolidating it under an independent agency makes sense.
Traditionally, they require so much space. My computer can be palm-sized, or lap sized ... even the ones best left under the desk don’t require large percentages of household rooms or a workshop.
I agree with the premise of the article but ACLU might be shooting themselves in the foot asking for money with a full page popup before letting me see the thing.

I almost didn't read it as a result. Just sayin'.

(In b4 "turn off javascript" jamokes. YES, I know. I get it.)
NOT at all. I'm just willing to believe that some Russian, Chines, "Muslims" or [insert anything here] are willing to do harm to our system. I am EXTREMELY happy that ACLU took the case so the truth has a chance to come out
Seems for the hypothetical person, covid mortality is no higher than background mortality.
> Not sure how it works outside of the USA

In France we explain to the children that when there is a problem, they should go to a policeman. Or immediatly enter the nearest shop, go directly to the cashier and explain they are lost.

Not that it worked with mine. I did twice the test when my kids were 6 or 8 and instead of doing what they were happily recitating in the evening, they started to cry their lungs out.
Maybe not in the top decile we are discussing here.

Things like age and prep time matter a lot.

I skipped two grades so I took the SAT at age 15 without studying, did well enough, and went to one of the top state schools for CS at the age of 16.

I took the intro to CS weed out class first year and got the highest score by a mile.
I thought the license issue was one of the past?
Well, lets not forget that this whole mess started in China. It was the chinese government which decided to hide information and pretend everything was under control while allowing it to spread all over the world.
I don't like being locked down at home any more than you do. But right now, my freedom to go out impedes on my neighbour's freedom not to get sick.

COVID-19 has spread father than you think. It is also more damaging than you think. I'm hopeful the lockdowns won't be too long, and countries will gradually open up rather than all-at-once.
> But it is hard to fudge a death.

Not that I think the number of cases is grossly overstated, but Italy lists deaths from coronavirus if the patient dies for ANY reason while they are afflicted by the coronavirus. This would be the source of some "fudging" of the numbers.
> The problem is that the west has nobody in power with living memory of a pandemic.

Doesn't help that the WH pandemic response team was disbanded (fired/resigned and not replaced).
From personal experience, pressure and flexibility. The investigator should be put under pressure to produce results quickly justifying further time investment, in addition there needs to be flexibility in the form of alternative projects they can tackle that have a high probability of working.

But I think it's crucial that they be allowed to place themselves under that pressure, if they truly believe they can accomplish whatever big thing it is. And if they have a really good reason that can be written up, that itself is a result that justifies further time investment.

I think current science eliminates the possibility of that pressure, and focuses on the high probability projects. I think places like Google X actually don't put enough pressure on, though I don't really know that organization very well.