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Is Moore's Law still a thing?

I don't doubt we can go far beyond present compute power since I am far beyond present compute power and I am reading this. But is the economic driver there?

At the endpoint most people use PCs, tablets, and phones to browse the web, write e-mails, play games that are already pretty good, etc. In the cloud we can always just make data centers larger.

There's obviously always a push for speed and density, but is that push still powerful enough to pump the billions upon billions that will be required to make leaps into areas like 3d circuits, photonics, quantum computing, etc.? At what point does the economic driver drop below the threshold needed to overcome the next hurdle?

First we flew in balloons. Then we flew in fixed wing airplanes. Then we motorized them even more and fought wars with them. Then we built jets. Then we broke the sound barrier. Then we went to orbit. Then we built the SR-71 blackbird and pioneered stealth. Then we landed on the moon.

Then nothing happened in aerospace until Elon Musk, and he's just getting back to where NASA should have been in the 80s. Meanwhile the Concorde is still cancelled and commercial flights are no faster than they were in the 70s.

I'm a bit concerned the computing is about to do what aerospace did. I take some of the breathless hype you hear today as a contrarian indicator for this, since before aerospace went comatose we saw this:

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/t_original/...

I hope not but history does rhyme and economies are more powerful than wishes (or even governments).
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FreeCAD is great. It's basically an open source CATIA (in its early stage).
I know plenty of people that are long-term unemployed. With some the idea of talking about work is deeply upsetting, they just cannot bounce back, pick themselves up, learn a new skill and get set into a new career. To them I should be an example of how it is done - I had to change career a few years ago, and despite being long in the tooth with no formal university education in things like OOP, I was able to learn enough to get a programming gig and move on from there.

I do e-commerce for my sins and I am fortunate enough to always get work. Last time I had to pick up the phone I had 12 interviews lined up by tea time with a couple of those being of the 'start Monday' variety. From this perspective I am aware that, for what I do, there are more jobs than candidates.

Sometimes I watch the news and see some story about unemployment, particularly among the younger entrants into the job market. Normally you have some talking heads in the news article where the government gets blamed for individual circumstances of despair and no opportunity. I then feel bemused, and wonder why the world of work is how it is with companies like my current employers unable to find me a front-end dev for love or money. Sure we would take zero experience for the right candidate, although a few years of experience would be far preferable. I truly doubt we would have more candidates even if there were a million out of work coal miners in a five mile radius, that is what I find odd about this article is that there were '1000 applicants'.

For all of my out-of-work friends I do try and find them some work, even if they are not able to enter the job market properly. I can conjure up some translation work (for those that have a different mother tongue) or some customer service work (that requires no pre-requisite skills). I also offer to train them up in everything I know.

But do these opportunities, even the easiest, baby-step stepping stones get followed up on? No!!! Never!!!

Those of us in the world of work, able to get up in the mornings and able to wear clean clothes doing as we are told working for the man at some desk all day with a convenient pay check just do not 'get it' when it comes to understanding the long term unemployed. To us it seems obvious - learn a new skill, get some experience, put together a portfolio, move to a new area, but many, many people are fundamentally depressed and excluded from the job market. Our advice and gentle nudges falls on deaf ears. We don't understand them and they don't understand us. Articles like this one and every news article ever written on unemployment just has this naive view of things and never touches on the issues of self esteem and confidence that haunt many job seekers.
It's not to prop up the Nasdaq. In the doomsday scenario referred to above, housing prices dropping 30%, salaries went down 25%, etc. This is unacceptable to the Fed and they will do whatever it takes to counter this, including dropping as much money as possible.

And they can go negative interest rates which would be crazy, but it's happened before, and currently going on in Japan.
Oh man I so agree with you. Just finished a mini app build with React. I don't understand the popularity.
How often are you replacing those sensors?
Jump to the new job. Doesn't necessarily have to be a high number, but if I'm not looking for a lateral (meaning, I like my current job), then it should be significantly larger than what I'm making in salary/benefits today.
On a quick glance Meshbird seems to be closer to Tinc than OpenVPN.
Don't worry; the prediction is wrong.

Now: Do you find my comment less scary? Or more?
Aren't telemarketers people who are just trying to get their bills paid?

Seems like bullying behaviour to be unkind to them.

A quick "no thanks" and hang up is enough.
That's absolutely not true.

All of these providers have multiple levels. There's a cheap option of usually a few hundred or thousand then the upscale option with 5 or 6 figures over a year.

We got into higher tier AWS Activate for $25k/year by just asking. Then we worked with a MS Azure evangelist to get us into the $120k/year program. We would've made it but declined because we asked Softlayer and they gave us $120k/year first and their network was a better fit for us.

Lesson: JUST ASK. There are entire teams of people at these companies who are working to get more customers onboarded and will do whatever they can to help you.
I can see how that's ambiguous, and this is just an assumption, but I assumed he meant "jump ship to a new opportunity" because starting off with the lowest number you'd accept seems like a bad negotiation strategy :)
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Imagine if GM owned ExxonMobil. That's a better example of what Tesla is (an energy storage company that sells a product that uses their core product).
You don't really need something that complex. You can either:

1. Just don't answer any call if it's not in your address book, as I do if I'm not at a computer.

2. Do a Google search for the number, if your doctor, tailor, or dry cleaner doesn't come up, don't answer. Add these to your Address Book for the future.

Usually http://800notes.com/ or similar sites will come up for telemarketers, with many notes. If implementing #2 in software, it would make sense to go the other way, validating that a number probably is a telemarketer, instead of validating that it's something relevant to you (which would be harder).
No I don’t confirm your stupid permissions
I managed to alleviate most of the problem by adding a new click event listener that `e.preventDefault()` to every target of the drag event. It's kinda clunky but it works for anchor tags. Doesn't work if the element uses JS for navigation/showing a modal/etc.

I figure effectively disabling everything you drag doesn't really matter as dragging stuff around kinda FUBARs the page anyway.
I'm not sure what the author is getting at but I think the Model X is a mistake- mostly only because of the falcon doors.
1. It is too ostentatious for most people - especially in its biggest market- the bay area. You can hide a gold iphone or Rolex watch but you can't hide when you open the falcon door while dropping off your kids to school.
2. The door also drastically reduces the headroom for the 2nd row and it feels like a Nascar racing car with all kinds of bracing in the back. About making it easy to get into the 3rd row is not really true. It is no different than any 3 row SUVs. The tall fixed headrests also limit visibility in the back rows.
3. I think Elon is a pragmatist and if he decides to change the falcon doors to regular doors, I think the ModelX will trump Acura MDX and BMWX5 in Sales very easily. Everything else in the ModelX just blows everyone else out of the water.
two of the best cars ever
Yeah, but double or triple the price of systems with similar specs from other manufacturers? Ouch.

I'd appreciate it if there was a better spectrum of choices.
Hopefully you've learned something important about not giving your login credentials for any service, to another service. ;)

[And yeah, I'm aware of people doing this for other services too, eg financial account management. Expecting they'll become further anecdotes later one... :(]
> You must remember that relatively speaking compared to Fortran, C is a "modern" language.

In what way?

Fortran code is certainly not lower level than C and in many cases higher level. Furthermore, they are closer in age, for example, than Smalltalk is to Ruby.
Have some empathy. Regardless of how this person got to their decision, you may be justified in the right to be annoyed, but why not choose to be kind?

Also people complain about telemarketers so much, but how many calls are you really getting a day from them? Also, how many times has one really interrupted something important you were doing?

They're just sales people whose business meetings happen over the phone.

Yeah, you COULD treat your waiter like shit (angry customers are just an occupational hazard), but that's a shitty thing to choose to do, outside of extreme situations.
Today's stock market downturn looks a lot like 2008
Check out the followup:

<begin quote>
Hey Matthew,

I'm Zach, Director of Support here at DigitalOcean. Thanks for raising this topic.

I was able to locate your account, and I see that I was the one who granted the credit and followed up via email. I hadn't heard back from you until now, and I'm happy that we have an open line of communication. I'm hopeful that this thread starts a conversation, that it clarifies what steps we take, and we might even uncover a different solution that works well for everyone.

To start with, I want to be really clear, this is the absolute worst case scenario. I absolutely don't want it to happen to any customer, let alone someone who has been with us for such a long time. There's really a delicate balance that we must strike between customers who forget to pay and customers who do not want to pay.

Currently, our notifications for overdue balances are sent via email. If a customer account is unpaid on the first of the month, we send ~15 emails total notifying the customer of the situation, and subsequently power off servers 21 days after the account is on hold as a further way to gain your attention. At this time, droplets are removed from your account 14 days following power off, which is an increased amount of time from what you experienced. It was increased from 3 days based on past user feedback.

Why do we do it this way? In the past, we had no hold or suspension process for non-payment, which enabled bad actors to run for months and months without paying. From a business perspective, we made a decision to put a scalable process in place that limited how long an account could go unpaid.

As a support team and business, we are always willing to work with our customers who are unable to pay. We are always available via ticket, our contact form, and have made wide-ranging attempts to help users who aren't able to pay due to banking regulations: https://insidedigitalocean.com...

I'd like some input, so I'll publicly ask for feedback on questions that I've asked privately before. I'd also like any other feedback that we can consider on how to make this a more positive experience for everyone

-Knowing that we do not do phone support, what's the best way to notify you of a past-due balance?
-Is SMS effective at times like this?

I would love to hear your thoughts.

Thank you,
Zach
zach@digitalocean.com
> A perfect example of what I'm talking about.

It's certainly a perfect example that people see what they want to see, even when presented with overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

I'm talking about you, by the way.
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" With many of the new systems supporting RapidCharge where you can get to 80% charge in 30 minutes, it is just too dangerous to try to charge someone's aftermarket eBay battery."

I have to agree with that. Search "hoverboard fire". That's what it looks like without all the usual safety devices. Most of the safety devices are in the battery pack.[1] The track record for cheap off-brand battery packs is not good. There are supposed to be seven safety devices,[2] most of which are in the battery pack. A laptop battery without those is a bomb.

Overcharging a lithum-ion battery will cause it to go into thermal runaway and catch fire. The sensors and logic for detecting when to stop charging are mostly in the battery pack. I don't blame Lenovo for being unwilling to charge strange battery packs.

Underwriters Laboratories is, as of this week, offering safety testing and certification for hoverboards.[4] Any previous UL sticker on a hoverboard is fake. UL insists that the battery and charger must be tested and certified together. There's no standard for charger/battery interaction for hoverboards yet. This matters; it's not standardized which side is responsible for which parts of the protection.

[1] http://industrial.panasonic.com/cdbs/www-data/pdf/ACA4000/AC...
[2] http://www.electrochem.org/dl/interface/sum/sum12/sum12_p037...
[3] http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/lithium_ion_safet...
[4] https://ul.com/newsroom/featured/uls-involvement-in-hoverboa...
How does clock_gettime work?
Yes, they can definitely do that.
>allowed for private transfers

Monero?

https://getmonero.org/knowledge-base/moneropedia/ringsignatu...

https://getmonero.org/knowledge-base/moneropedia/stealthaddr...
Someone made a similar comment and was severely down-voted -- be an adult, say no thanks, and hang up the phone.

If you're being called extremely consistently at the same inconvenient time, then your case is extraordinary, take some measures to make sure the company doesn't call you again (no call list, whatever else) -- don't take your frustration out on the person who's turn it is to call you.

I stated this before, but if you think about it, telemarketers are just sales people who work over the phone. Even when they're being overbearing, no one treats sales people this shitty in person.
I think mistake is a strong word. It clearly wasn't part of the original plan, at least where it was, and did take (and continues to take) a lot of time and effort on the part of Tesla to get it to market already. However, Tesla was moving into SUVs eventually, they would have to, and the X if nothing else provides a ton of useful data and experience to them down the line.

Best idea? Probably not and maybe a little premature too, but the article makes it sound like Tesla's going out of business because of it and I don't think it's nearly that bad.
The link indicates that because Let's Encrypt doesn't support wildcard certificates, they're using a self signed certificate
Article about Microsoft's Xiaoice - But apparently still no English Language interface... :-(
Misplaced moral outrage? You're a complete clown in real life if you let yourself get swindled to a point of paying 2k/mo for rent. Have some self respect.
Telemarketers started off with blocked phone numbers, which I don't pick up anymore.

Now that they reveal their numbers I immediately block that number on my phone after I hang up the call.
Damn, the Alphine linux ISO is tiny
The UI of Blender could be a lot better. 3D Max, Maya, CINEMA 4D, CATIA, SketchUp ... every 3D software has a sane UI that can be used without reading a manual at all. Except Blender with its non standard UI concepts. Hopefully someone sponsors a UI clean up.

It reminds me of Gimp, which had a similar weird UI where every window had its own unique menus and what not. To give them credit, they fixed the UI for the better.
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Not taking it personally is healthy for people on both sides of the phone-line.

I tend to just hang-up without saying a thing. I highly doubt they take it personally. If they are bothered by it, they are not going to last long as a telemarketer anyway.
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"Xiaoice is not a polite listener. She answers questions like a 17-year-old girl. When a person pours out his or her heart to her, she is not always predictable. She can become impatient or even lose her temper. This lack of predictability is another key feature of a human-like conversation."

Predictability is a huge part of conversing. I expect a lot of range and flexibility in conversations, but definitely not unpredictability. It seems like an ai (chatbot, rather) behaving unpredictably just covers for it's lack of abilities and tact.

Nonetheless, this is still a very cool project.
Sometimes I get the vibe that it's a weird self-fulfilling prophesy of terrible SERPs. You reward freshness too much, so then people play that game. But you also punish duplicate content at the same time so the best content, if it already exists but is not fresh, naturally has to fall off.
I suppose that makes sense.

Also we all drive cars and use machinery, so we should all learn the principles of mechanical engineering while we're at it. And all of our lives are heavily influenced by the weather, so everyone should learn meteorology. We also all live in homes, so high schools should provide mandatory construction classes.
Also the call is often given away by the slight delay and sometimes music whilst their computer hands the outbound call to an operator. There's the signal to hang up.
> That said there is an obvious use for it in helping stop attacks and pretending there isn't is weird to me.

Where is your evidence for that claim? This article is an example which should be PERFECT to detect. Poitras was under targeted surveillance. And she was still able to communicate with Snowden without detection. The security industrial complex has a terrible track record of success.
Here: http://www.zdnet.com/article/peter-norvig-on-googles-mistrus...
If you're one of the 135 people's lives they've wasted... you might take it a bit more personally. :D
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The US has about 33,000 deaths by gun per year. This is the price we pay in blood for the right to keep and bear arms.
First of Tesla stock is down because Detroit Auto Show has put a steady stream of EVs and PHEVs. At least in the immediate future Tesla is not going to own the low-end market. They are still executing their high-end. On battery side, LGChem and Samsung are doing great job and Tesla battery chemistry is neither that different or superior to them, so there is absolutely no differentiation there.

Tesla stock is over priced, once the German Luxuries esp. BMW arm themselves with batteries there is going to be stupendous completion that would not justify their market value. On top of this, you have Apple getting into the think of things, at least rumors of it.
By buying Softimage, Microsoft wanted to develop a high end product, to demonstrate to the world that its OS was powerful enough to compete with high end, software specific machines, at a lower cost. In that regards, I believe they succeeded.
Any idea when the mac version is coming, if at all?
ExxonMobil isn't quite an energy storage company. It is an energy retailer. Tesla's batteries are more similar to a gas tank, which GM already produces.
With worldwide sales approaching the US sales of the Jeep Liberty.
My mentality going in is "please give me a reason to walk away". The few that don't are always surprising offers and get me excited. I go in determined to find a reason to walk away.
> It can even detect when a telemarketer is getting suspicious, triggering a completely inane response that usually convinces them otherwise.

How does it do that? Does it have some sophisticated voice recognition that can pick up on emotional reactions? Or does it just jump into them on a schedule that's calibrated to when someone would likely start to be annoyed?

The "yeah uh-huh" stuff seemed pretty straightforward: it sounds like just shoots them off whenever there was enough silence to imply the telemarketer was waiting for a response.
It was in an interview on an episode of radiolab: http://www.radiolab.org/story/91712-limits-of-science/

There aren't many details. I believe the scientist who said it is Dr. Gurol Suel, from that radiolab page.
Have you considered a career in sousveillance [1]?

In High School I read and gave a report on David Brin's The Transparent Society [2] and that still has an impact on how I see some of these topics.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sousveillance

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Transparent_Society
GM doesn't produce gas tanks to hold the tens of GWs of clean, cheap renewable energy the world is bringing online each year.
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Editor costs money. Jeditable isn't bad, just takes a little work to get it up and moving.
> BMW arm themselves with batteries

Tesla will be consuming 2013's entire world production of lithium batteries in ~2 years. Please, enlighten me, where is BMW going to source cells from?
Where will you find these youth drivers who don't want autopilot, and prefer "the ultimate driving experience"?
Are you a military fighter pilot?
MMOs that try to enforce against macro miners are effectively large Turing tests. The macro miners don't try to write sophisticated chatbots, though. They build human-assisted systems that only need one human to supervise many mining units.
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New Relic shuts down Seattle office, moves employees to Portland: http://www.geekwire.com/2016/new-relic-shuts-seattle-office-...

New Relic Stock is 22.23% down: http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=NEWR+Interactive#{"range"...
Last I recall the Turing test winner pretended to be a non-native speaker with a developmental disability. It seems to me like the chatbot AI / Turing test entries are not following the spirit of the challenge at all anymore. They're all just going for cheap tricks like the original ELIZA did.
Fisher-Price smart bear allowed hacking of children's biographical data
"Are Machine-Learned Models Prone to Catastrophic Errors?"

http://anand.typepad.com/datawocky/2008/05/are-human-experts...
"You get used to it. I…I don’t even see the code. All I see is blue squiggle, green squiggle, translucent squiggle."
Once again, your reading comprehension needs some work. I never said that I spend that much on rent. In fact, I spend less than $2000 per month on rent.

But what I spend is not relevant, because I never made any statements about myself. I was merely pointing out that the argument, "Tech employees making $200k+ are the only ones who can afford a $4k per month apartment in SF", is incorrect, and that many people who make less than $200k are living in apartments that cost that much.
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If I'm on the no-call list already and am getting called, the person on the other end deserves Lenny.
The one thing that article totally misses is the Dual Motor drivetrain that was developed for the Model X was what enabled the 85D/P85D/P90DL which moved the Model S from "awesome" to "supercar" territory.

Also, there was many similar slow rollout/complexity issues with the Model S first shipped, I'm sure they'll be fine.
Why are you so angry at someone who's just explaining the situation?