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The world unemployment rate is 8% according to the CIA World Factbook. What's going to make this increase so dramatically? We've had industrial automation, computers, and the internet for decades now, and people still have jobs.

Also why would you want someone remote-controlling your car instead of sitting in the drivers seat? Wireless connectivity is way too flaky. Tunnels block the signal, rural areas have poor coverage, and equipment breaks and requires maintenance. It would be insanity to bet your life on a cellular signal.
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>Believe it or not, the F-35 is built to save costs in the long term.

I don't believe it. Sure, that's how they sold it, and I understand the supply chain problems they want to avoid, but I don't believe a word of it.

Most anyone who heard an F35 and is posting publicly about it must have heard the plane in transit over land where they aren't permitted to cause sonic booms, and could have even been traveling very slowly.
Is Google only testing in California? It seems that the data for accidents was given for the whole of the US, but it should be compared to California only. I don't know if it's noticeably different or not, but I'd think that snow and ice would increase the accident rate in some states.

Snow and ice I think would provide a challenge for self-driving cars.
If you don't enjoy some sport then it can be boring. As a cricket fan that too "Test" cricket(the one which takes 5 days) to complete i find "Soccer" or Football as its know here boring. Cricket even has regular scheduled breaks for commercials. I used to love football at one time, but too many boring draws and player behavior led me away from it.
http://www.radiomuseum.org/forum/radios_confiscated_in_us_du...
Poor muffin. I too don't have the same opportunities as other folks, but it never stopped me running hard and achieving my goals ;)

Don't waste your time and energy worrying about what other folks have, and focus the same into achieving your goals and getting some credits won't make that big of a difference....
The city I'm in just has free wifi throughout the CBD.
The F-117 was shot down by a SA-2 SAM, not bullets. The SAM commander was smart, and the mission planners were not being smart and had the F-117s fly the same route repeatedly.

Additionally, the SAM locked on while the F-117 was coming off target, with the weapon bay doors open.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_F-117A_shootdown
Any hints about how a broken down hyperloop train would be evacuated? Or what happens if the tunnel suddenly pressured (e.g. aircraft/lorry hit a section dislodging it)? Also how resistant is the design to earthquakes given the high negative pressure (i.e. how will the flexible joints be built to both withstand the pressure and move enough during an earthquake without derailing the train)? How will maintenance be done on the system?
The company I work at spends a lot more money on staff than hosting.

This is exactly people use Rails in startups, dev time is mminimised, at the cost of speed, and hence a requirement for more servers.
What a well-written article. Even an outsider like me could follow what's happening, the explanation for what's happening seems entirely reasonable, and the references I followed all supported the evidence in a believable way.

The headline of the Tyler Brûlé description "Nanny state rules making Australia 'world's dumbest nation'" seems entirely appropriate.

And, WTF!? Routine strip searches at concert venues in NSW?!
Going from what you wrote, you have a sample size of only 1 company.

You're definitely smart enough to know a sweeping assessment of silicon
valley based on a single, isolated sample is a mistake.

Since you are talented enough to get hired by a "big tech company" in
silicon valley at the age of 19, then you're definitely talented enough
to find tons of other work here. There is _TONS_ of fascinating and
rewarding work being done here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=whoishiring

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11012044

Before you go hopping into a new job, realize that nearly every task,
paid or personal, can occasionally feel like an unrewarding slog. Heck,
even contributing to fun stuff, like open source or HN, can occasionally
feel like a frustrating struggle, annoying hassle, pointless toil, or
thankless grind. When those lackluster moments happen and you can take a
short break, just divert your attention to something interesting for a
while until they pass.

Also before you go hopping into a new job, have you been rewarding
yourself with spending free time doing interesting side projects?

Is there any technical itch that you've always wanted to computationally
scratch?

If you pick the right itch, you may end up creating your own startup.
As John Belushi once said, "If you don't like the news, go out and make
some of your own." The same applies for jobs.

Of course, having a full time engineering job will keep the lights on so
to speak, and it gives you the opportunity to spend your free time
experimenting on side projects you love. Lastly, don't forget that the
Bay Area has _TONS_ of different types of user groups, maker sites, and
enthusiast clubs with regular meet-ups. There are also plenty of
conferences and professional groups here. All of these groups, places,
and events are a humongous asset to the curious and are thoroughly
enjoyable.

Silicon Valley is what you make of it.
Meh, so does drinking alcohol but I aint gunna give that up either.
Fair point, but much of that benefit is lost without decent support for those third-party implementations to be loaded dynamically. So Nim is missing one piece, but those other features I mentioned can get you very close to the same place. Go is missing the other piece, with no really good way to make up for it. That problem's not even solvable as long as Go's runtime makes no provision for interfacing to code that doesn't play by its own (ever-changing, undocumented) rules about things like goroutines and GC. I know which shortcoming I'd rather live with.
Some new, and some familiar DTMF[0] there. You can try it out directly with xmms by playing this "location": tone://440;480

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual-tone_multi-frequency_sign...
It's a Zerg rush, the darn things don't even need weapons. They can FOD the engine out. Enough strikes might damage the airframe critically. Send them each with a small capsule of Mercury and Gallium for extra fun.
On the other hand, if you're actually interested in what the world might look like without oil, check out the archives of the collaborative World Without Oil project.

http://worldwithoutoil.org/default.aspx?showall=true#end

Over the course of 32 weeks, 1,500 participants created blog posts, vidoes, images, and audio recordings as a simulation of the crisis as it progressed. This page highlights some of the best submissions for each week. Unfortunately you'll need to make use of the Wayback Machine for some of the links.
I said not doing the job, nothing about lacking the skills. If HR people are reliant upon mechanical means to read resumes then that is a problem. Maybe the people aren't efficient, maybe their approach to offerings is to broad, or maybe the department is simply understaffed. To say that a department isn't doing its job isn't to say anything about the people in said.
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Um, in case you didn't know, Nature is perhaps the most prestigious and respected academic journal in existence...

And it's sort of mean to say that my naive response to this SENS stuff is "slowing down actual progress."
Being loud and impressive should count twice since it counts against the guy on the other side.

The A10 is still good at CAS that's what it was designed to do. 1 A10 caries a much, much larger bomb load than an F35. If you have air superiority you need a good bomb truck a lot more useful than a stealth fighter.

What were the other 80% of CAS missions carried out by? What % of aircraft deployed were A10s? That 20% figure needs more to back it up.
The F35 is supposed to eventually have some amazing capabilities, but CAS isn't one of them. It can't do CAS, and it will never be able to.
We are all fools to some extent - to be totally alienated from fools is to be alone.

I'm not sure that when problems are systemic that everyone swayed by that system, knowingly or unknowingly, is a fool by the definition you mean. Not being foolish in this regard is only something you can be constantly vigilant about, you can't master it. You can never say "I am not such a fool." If you do, you increase your chances of being what you despise.
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Have you ever heard of Dunbar's Number? http://www.cracked.com/article_14990_what-monkeysphere.html
I've had pleasant experiences with Etel Sverdlov in the past who is a community manager there I believe.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"Please don't do things to make titles stand out, like using uppercase or exclamation points, or adding a parenthetical remark saying how great an article is. It's implicit in submitting something that you think it's important."

Using the apple-specific unicode "" character in titles qualifies.
It depends on the state. Some still have rules against eternal trusts (google "rule against perpetuities") but the trend is now towards the supernatural. So it might fly as an Alaska trust.
Millions of people commute by subway everyday without suffering panic attacks. Tens of thousands (at the very least) ride Paris completely automated 14 subway line every day without suffering panic attacks, or any of the many other automated subways/monorails all around the world.

And yet a subset of them are probably terrified of flying. Because flying, in a way, is scary. Unlike birds we are not wired to fly. But that's fine: autonomous cars won't be flying. If train/subways/tramway/bus can be successful, so can autonomous cars.
I'm not interested in resonating. I want to challenge people's beliefs. I don't care for platitudes. I want to dive down into the subtleties and tease out complex truths.

I don't think the professional world sucks. I think it's awesome. I spent much of my twenties doing construction work. That world sucks. The professional world sucks only so long as you lack professionalism.

Once you learn professionalism then the professional world stops being able to hold you. I have been Office Space-ing my work life down to where I can do pretty much whatever I want with my work time.

I have been cultivating business contacts for some time now, creating a network of clients so that I can make my jump into the business world. The professionalism you learn in corporate jobs is invaluable there.

Every day brings with it a more relaxed approach, more return on my efforts, more ease in learning new things.

Developers are missing out on the unique opportunities that the professional world offers by focusing on non-issues like whether their bosses will allow them to pay down technical debt. How utterly silly from my perspective! If it's that important to you, just man up and do it, damn the consequences!
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bunnie has a somewhat unusual book planned out here. Spiral binding, index tabs, all kinds of oddball stuff. Lulu is more just about printing self-published novels; I don't think they'll do what he wants.

There's some details about the contents of the book at:

https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/the-essential-gui...
So my understanding is that you are proposing to build a swarm of cheap interceptors. But why would an F-35 even engage your swarm? It would fly around or over it and strike its target. If your cheap interceptors are incapable to impose a fight on opposing planes the net effect is that as if they don't even exist.
I am really not a fan of these kind of companies - Beats, Bose who claim to provide the best sound experience with their mumbo jumbo patented technology, sell earphones at an astonishingly high price which do not even sound good. I search for good earphones/speaker in head-fi - it's a good source of earphone reviews.

I bought MEElectronics A151[0] (1st gen) in 2012, they were at half the price of Bose earphones, and to me, sounds so much better than them. I treat them so badly - throwing them anywhere after coming back home, still going strong.

http://www.meeaudio.com/a151p-balanced-armature-in-ear-headp...

I think one should not make any compromises with earphone and eyeglasses. It was a significant purchase as I was a student then and I feel it was worth it.
Reading the replies it seems you're getting a mixture of "I agree / understand" and "It's a business decision you feel wrong".

Humans have weird triggers for emotions. Seeing something that benefits a group that you are not a part of but fairly equivalent to is a typical trigger, even if it does make sense to a degree. When I first saw this, as a non-YC-member, I felt pretty similar. I'm sure it's simply a business relationship in which either digital ocean is making money due to the advertising or YC is subsidizing it (though the latter is unlikely).

So it makes perfect sense from a business standpoint but I think your feelings are equally valid. I would love to see digital ocean partner with other incubators or provider offers to any start-ups in general.
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>The A-10 was the bee's knees when it was new and we were worried about thousands of Soviet tanks pouring through the Fulda Gap. But it's not 1985 any more.

Nobody in Chair Force command ever liked the A10. And the A10 is performing CAS as a secondary role, not the one it was originally intended for; and it is worn out and obsolete, and does need replacement. The F35 just isn't the tool for the job and it won't ever be. The Super Tucano is much closer, but I'm still skeptical of it too.
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I'm confused, go is supported by gcc but does something very different to gcc's inline asm (ie gas) Which can do both intel and att syntax? Why? Yet another assembly language syntax seems insane at this point. Has go got an abi so you can just compile object files with your assmbler of choice then link?

Am I missing the point?
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The NHL strike a few years ago had hardly any effect on people.

They just went out to restaurants more, and bars.

So hockey's loss = someone else's gains. If not, <

Calgary should be fine without a stadium for those games
Don't pat your back too hard. Someone is subsidizing this - and it's most likely the customers that have a choice where they spend their hard earned dollars. Point being, there will likely be a better hosting package somewhere else (for non YC-ordained members of the startup community).
I'm on business support too and generally am talking to a rep in minutes. They aren't always able to find the problem before I do, but I always get follow up details later on the how / why that they did determine.
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The title of the WSJ article is misleading. An offshore wind farm does not power more than 1 million homes, unless you only want electricity when the wind is blowing.

Offshore wind is one of the most expensive sources of electricity generation--more expensive than every except solar thermal. https://www.eia.gov/forecasts/aeo/electricity_generation.cfm Offshore wind is more than twice as expensive as onshore wind.

The fact that the U.K. is pushing offshore wind is one reason why the U.K's electricity rates are much higher than in the U.S. The U.K.'s electricity rates about about $0.22 per kwh [1] compared to an average of $0.13 in the U.S. [2]

[1]http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/...
[2] https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.cf...
I think it's a lack of synergy between the angel model and the price of solving really big or complex problems.

YC in my understanding is catered at companies who are solving natural next steps at the right time, not necessarily problems with a 5-10 year horizon.

I am always reminded how Interval Research went from 10 years research to market horizon to suddenly 3-4 years.

For all the Silicon Valley is good it it seems to be best at creating relatively obvious solutions for fairly trivial problems.

If more big and complex problems were solved Elon Musk would be the rule not the exception.

This is what's kind of sad about SV these days.

It might drive the digital economy but one might ask in what direction.
Thanks for your input. I probably should've mentioned that I've been working full time for around five years now, albeit at smaller companies. I will definitely be reaching out!
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I see what you did there... yea... mercury on aluminum frame is kind of a mean thing to do. ;)
Except for the fact that those "high culuture" institutions tend to stick around a lot longer instead of bolting town as soon as the owners spot a more profitable deal. Also, I doubt there are as many concert halls where the public has sunk anything near the kind of money that frequently gets sunk into NFL stadiums. The Disney Concert Hall in LA, which I think was one of the most expensive ones recently built, bad a total budget of less than $300 million. (The county paid $110 to cover parking construction, getting revenues in return, the rest was covered by private donors, primarily the Disney family and Eli Broad.)
> It is possible that better designed slides would have helped NASA management grasp the problem. But I think the fault is more so on them.

I completely agree, and AFAIK the Tufte essay does not even mention a critical point in this regard, which the Boisjoly paper does. The engineers had already tried to get all flights stopped until the O ring issue could be investigated and properly understood, in the August before the Challenger flight. NASA had refused. So the NASA managers were already aware that there was a critical flight risk, and they had already chosen to ignore it. That means it definitely wasn't a case of bringing new information to management's attention in order to drive a decision. It was a case of trying to get them to change, at least in part, a decision they had already made.

The argument about cold temperatures has to be viewed in that light--it was an attempt to find something, in the absence of good, hard data and a solid understanding of what was going on, that would at least get NASA to delay some flights, since they had already refused to delay all flights. In fact, considered solely on engineering grounds, the argument about cold temperatures was fairly weak (as Boisjoly points out in his essay). But it was weak not because cold temperature flights were almost as safe as warm temperature flights; it was weak because warm temperature flights were almost as unsafe as cold temperature flights! (A previous flight with significant blow-by had been made at a temperature of 75 F, and test stand data showed that the O-rings were not sealing completely at any temperature below 100 F.) But the engineers couldn't say that the night before the Challenger flew, because they had already said it back in August and had been ignored.
Common hasn't been close to 10% in a loong while - common is likely presently valued at >75% of Preferred. Anything 1/9 to 1/11 is strictly seed-level discounts for common to preferred. Dropbox may even be at a point where it's no longer options but RSUs.

When common is equal to prefererd, you have a public stock price.
Actually F-35A does 18,000lbs of ordinance to the A-10s 16,000. I believe there are variants with even more payload planned.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/aircraft/a-10...
https://web.archive.org/web/20110317113904/http://www.lockhe...
I've only seen more coverage of "avoid these startup groups, but use YC instead!" It can set a very dangerous precedent.

YC isn't the end all of all, but it's starting to feel like it is becoming a mandatory part of the startup process (which is NOT ok).
This is interesting, given that they are a Techstars company. I sure hope that they're going to up their credits for Techstars companies as well (currently at $10k, which is generous, but man.. $250k is 25x more!)
>does anyone else feel that 'proper' food has become a luxury item?

Your posit is kind of silly and lacking historical context. 120 years ago when your beef was grass fed beef you may easily find yourself starving to death in winter, or too poor to buy it. Good beef, for anyone who did not live on a farm has always been a luxury item.

Now comes the green revolution (and the clean revolution before it) and nearly everybody in America can afford beef so the explosion of corn farms and CAFOs occurs around the country. But wait, that's not all, it's not just Americans that want beef, it's just about anybody out there. Oh, yea, there was only 1.7 billion of us in 1900, now there are 7.5 billion people out there and the vast majority of them in range of refrigerated shipping.

So yea, you came from the richest nation in the world that produced a huge amount of a luxury item, and completely neglected that you were eating a luxury item the entire time.
>"Nature is perhaps the most prestigious and respected academic journal in existence..."

What does that have to do with the quality of this paper?

>'And it's sort of mean to say that my naive response to this SENS stuff is "slowing down actual progress."'

Sorry for that, it is not really your fault, rather the fault of those involved in the publication of this paper. But don't shoot the messenger, it is also not my fault this study was apparently poorly peer reviewed yet got a bunch of press coverage. I just wish people were doing their jobs and acting with proper skepticism because I want medical research to be successful.
How's YC getting a deal for the companies it's funding a slight to all startups? It's not like YC is free or that it's easy to get into YC. DO is doing the deal because they're hoping to cash out servicing a hyper growth company; which in turn would subsidize small fish using DO. Understand the feeling, just don't see the logic.
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Comparing wind and nuclear is not an apples-to-apples comparison. To make a valid comparison, you would need to compare wind + some kind of back up such as natural gas (or possibly some nuclear).

There is a premium for reliable sources of electricity generation since you have to have reliable generation to avoid blackouts.
Microsoft also offers 27k of azure service to non-YC startups so it's not like you're left out in the cold if you're not a part of the club.

https://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/about/default.aspx
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11025852
Really? If I want to discuss pricing, a sales guy is exactly who I want to talk to.
Maybe, but they control who they accept, so if quality drops it is entirely due to the selection process, not due to the number of accepted companies.
I think you don't have consider a person an enemy just because they consider you one. So in the case of someone you don't know is conspiring against you, I would say of course they're not your enemy--that's something you have to decide. An outside observer could say they were your enemy, if they were privvy to more information.

I don't think an otherwise ambivalent slave owner is the enemy of his slaves. Oppressor or something, yes--but not enemy. Some slave holders were certainly the enemies of their slaves, though.
You're exaggerating.
So it's Middleware.