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Hm, I've been hoping that DSI would be competitive with Plantary Resources. They were hiring people with welding skills on day 1.

I haven't followed Deep Space Indistries since they're public announcement and flashy video. Are they real? Are they building anything? I sure hope so, but they certainly don't feel as real as Planetay Resources does.
This may seem weird, but is this being posted because of some standardized testing?

My 6th grader took home a practice standardized test today. Last question on the test required a MAD computation.

He didn't know what MAD was and I had to look it up myself.

I think understanding the idea behind MAD is great and potentially useful and interesting.

However, I'm not sure what 6th graders are going to be able to grind through two iterations over a data set to get the correct answer.
I have always wanted this!

Every now and then I get the thought that maybe I'll try to hack Lua into a browser just for fun, then I start trying to read the source and it is just 0_o to me.
No way man it's all about Hilfinger, probably the only Prof who still highly encourages the use of emacs at Cal.
All thing being equal, yes, the company name does matter (at least as much as what you do there), to most people spending the requisite 200 milliseconds scanning your resume and/or profile 5 years from now. That is, again, assuming all other things about the role description being roughly equal.

But in a grossly imbalanced situation such as yours:

With Dell I'd be a "software intern" and they can't tell me anything more about it. With the second company I would be working on doing Full-Stack development to build (another) IoT product, which seems very interesting to me.

Where company A seems eager to heap responsibility and challenge after challenge on you, while company B refuses to even tell you anything about the role other than that you'll be an "intern"... and given that company B, while you could say they're a household name, isn't exactly a Google, Facebook or Tesla... or anything close to it, really...

... then I hope you won't have any hesitancy in choosing the role offered by company A.
Out of those three you mentioned? No brainer. But those aren't startups, by any stretch of the word. What ford really has to compete with is actual startups. Companies that are 10-100 people, offering positions where people can make a difference.
No, the article is based entirely around the fact that Cameron did pay all the tax he should have paid.

That single paragraph you mention is just an opinion of the author (and one I would also disagree with). I don't think the leak shows one way or the other whether anything illegal was happening. It looks like the Icelandic PM might have been doing something dubious.
Nihilism says play itself is meaningless. Not that I disagree that play is important, but it's your own meaning, your own value that you've either held on to or come up with. Frankly it's by rediscovering things like play that I was able to crawl back out of the abyss.
Software allows scientists to control what Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin say
These are both great books, but they aren’t really the same subject per se.
Right, they'd look very different. But charging money isn't necessarily the answer there. I'm betting on decentralization. Facebook and Twitter manage identities that let us interact with our friends, but we have the technology for decentralized identities that have no middlemen. We'll replace these services with clients that act on our behalf.
It feels disrespectful to hijack someone else's Apply HN application like this.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11458280 and marked it off-topic.
Lua is cool because it's extremely simple and small. But JS is the way it is because we built the web around it. Nothing less than JS will do anymore.
>How do you get air into a closed system?

By disconnecting hoses or removing parts that suddenly make it an open system.

>Taking a caliper off does nothing to introduce air into the system.

No but gravity does, the brake calipers themselves actually don't move that far at all between no brake and full brake. It's only moving a tiny amount of fluid into the brake so just an air bubble or two is all it takes for the petal to go to the floor without doing much in the way of applying pressure.

>still trying to square how you think it's ok to replace pads but not take a caliper off, but it may come down to interpretation

What I meant was to totally remove the caliper from the car and disconnect the banjo bolt for the hose. As for just changing pads, you leave that alone and just remove the bolt for one slide pin and then the whole caliper flips up exposing the pads on most cars.

The concern for needing to bleed the brake system completely instead of just a bit at a wheel is if you need to do anything like replace the master cylinder or there was a leak in a wheel cylinder that was fixed but had already drawn air in through half of the master cylinder. If there is a slow leak in a hose or seal it's not uncommon for someone to never check brake fluid level and the low brake fluid sensor might not even come on if it's stuck in position over the course of 15-20 years. Even if it does someone might ignore the brake indicator light because they can still stop okay until it draws air in.

>The addition of the computer has not changed the makeup of a cars engine, just the addition of sensors.

Not too drastically but the computer still needs to know when certain things are changed depending on the vehicle. For instance, on certain BMWs if the battery under the seat is replaced, there is some kind of battery management system that needs to be reset. Failure to reset this can even cause damage to the replacement battery according to BMW. http://www.bimmerforums.com/forum/showthread.php?1355106-Why...

>Anything related to programming control modules?

"Programming" isn't exactly what I would've called it but for better or for worse, that's the terminology. You're not flashing new software on it so much as configuring it. It's as much programming as "programming" an answering machine is. With that said, let's say I need to replace an instrument panel, ECU, PCM, body ECU, etc, then I very well might need a special tool to pair it with the car. For a new ECU or instrument panel you might need to program in the VIN, mileage, emissions related settings, etc. The point being that while it's not a given that you'll need some obscure dealer only tool to do that, things are trending more and more towards that. Adding more computers and sensors is certainly a good thing in the automotive world but it can be a detriment to repairability until manufacturers start being a bit more reasonable with access to all of the firmware on a modern car.
I think the limited key space is a large part of the answer, 46 lopsided choices is easier to learn about than 256 equally distributed choices. The smaller word width probably makes the memory requirements reasonable.
If you have the right sort of brain for it, ecstasy will give you the best feeling you will ever experience. It is so beyond what you would have imagined possible. For me, the come down is not hard at all, it's pretty enjoyable actually.

LSD can also give you small glimpses of ecstasy here and there, but overall it's way different. It basically allows you to experience a different consciousness. LSD is often life-changing, because it really shows you that reality is not what you thought it was. It kind of gives you a glimpse of a reality that is richer and more "real" than what you're used to. There's really no way to explain it, honestly.
*Ecstasy is an undefined product.. it's easy to critique the black market, but even products on Amazon or ebay are known to be counterfeits.

It could be caffeine, meth, research chemicals, MDA, MDMA, bath salts... who knows? Who can verify these things?

One can only hope even a claim of 'pure' MDMA is what someone says it is. The same issue applies to LSD. How can you be certain it's not DOB or a research chemical?

http://pillreports.net/

http://www.ecstasydata.org/

https://dancesafe.org/drug-checking/
This gets a bit philosophical, but they may not be simulating the whole universe, just you.

They could just be simulating the universe as you view it, everything outside of your view doesn't exist, you are just a complicated AI that could be fed data.

You have no way of proving that others have "consciousness", and simulating what a single person can experience is MUCH easier than simulating an entire universe, hell I believe we could have access to technology that could do that within my lifetime.

It's also fun to think about. What if my forgetfulness is just an optimization?
That's really common with movie reviews.
The fact that you quote "Che" and described him as inspiring is disgusting. Learn history you sheltered kid. Che Guevara was an enforcer for people that believed in the ideals of Mao Zedong. If you own land, or own a business, Che would have killed you. The fact that most of you live in modern western worlds is enough for somebody like Che Guevara to hate and kill you.
Agree. Regulation is the only way to ensure you're dealing with the freeloader issue.
Interesting assertion. What have you seen to make you think this?

Also, does it apply to the PHP/Perl world of malware, the kind that gets installed on cracked, old and weak WordPress sites? There's 20 variations of "Web Shell by oRb" floating around, for example, and many, many versions of Perl IRC bots, for example.
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>I remember reading once that the limitation on speed of light could be a performance optimisation.

>Things in superpositions only becoming "set" after observation... that is just lazy evaluation.

I've always thought about it this way also, I'd love to get a source on where you read it so I can see a different take than my own.

Some other things to consider:

1. Planck length is the most granular unit or pixel the computer can measure.

2. The time it takes to move one Planck length at the speed of light is the time of one iteration of the simulation's "main loop".

3. The reason time dilates as you approach the speed of light is because the faster a particle moves, the more the main loop must access that particle, and the more the particle's state may be in a "being processed" lock where it can't be mutated by anything else.

Just some thing I've always thought about when trying to see if I could use code patterns and processes to quantify the behavior of the universe. Of course, I wouldn't say I believe these things as fact or anything, just awesome to think about.
University of Sussex research brings ‘smart hands’ closer to reality
The goal isn’t perfection (which is after all the enemy of good)

Who has this much arrogance?

This isn't the 1980s there aren't a few hundred developers playing around on spare university machines here.

This spec is one of the most expensive documents in the world.

I'd be suprised if tens of billions of dollars hasn't been lost because of just HTML 5 nevermind its predecessors.

HTML 5 affects
- the cost of computers: having to buy better ones as it hogs more ram and cpu
- the accessibility of the internet as swathes of poorer users are cut off from websites that don't support their mobile phones or won't load on their internet speeds
- the accesibility of millions more who can't browse on internet enabled devices (internet enabled TVs, unupgradeable phones, etc)
- the accessibility of websites as screenreaders stop working
- the huge cost of development as web developers have to skill-up
- the stresses on developers and businesses who don't want to have to re-develop their work again and again and again and again
- the monopolies that run in the internet as development of alternative browsers for
- the backwards compatibility conundrum: we've nearly got rid of the pervasiveness of of the HTML4 only browsers
- the cost to the environment (this is serious: mobile devices use some pretty horrible rare metals, they use energy and they aren't easy to dispose, so if you have to upgrade it's not good)
- the list goes on ...

So the goal should pretty much be perfection, because at the costs involved good simply isn't good enough

If that is too much, then modularise the specs, delegate the work into manageable specs and if you've not got a spare billion lying around to develop it, then find it because this spec needs to be awesome.

Failing that, since HTML started: the Linux community realised that X11 isn't good enough; Microsoft canned its UI framework (or three of them?), Apple and Google brought in new Mobile UI frameworks and also, J2ME and Symbian largely disappeared: it might be time for us to consider deprecating HTML and finding a more appropriate body capable of creating a better web language.
True in my area as well. The only new things being written in Python are things that need to interop with other systems that have giant existing Python libraries.
Absolutely. Working on auto-related stuff would be far more interesting to me than any of those three you mentioned.
Reading the comments in this thread, is somewhat ironic.
You have to wonder about this. If it is a computer simulation then there is a God that is running the universe in a computer. Evolution is based on object oriented programming where one object inherits the class of the last object but modified in some way. Did God run Bingbang.exe or some other program to create the universe simulation. Then things all fell into place and sped up for God until life developed on one planet.

If it is a computer simulation it has more storage than any computer he have now because of all the galaxies of stars and their own solar systems to keep track of. Does life exist on some other planet? We don't know until we get better telescope technology to get a better look at planets.

I do think we live in a computer simulation because there are so many things in the universe that can kill us, yet we survive to an old age for most of us. That means there is some unknown force that prevents most of us from dying. Everything in the universe can be simulated using Math for the laws of physics and other sciences. Very much like a computer uses math for video game simulations.

It could be that we exist in this universe and our real bodies are in a different universe Matrix style and when we die we wake up in the other universe, and this universe is like training for the other universe that we can't see because all around us is this simulated universe.
I guess that's nice? Solidarity confronting blatant stupidity? But people who know use a VPN. And everyone other horny guy is going to move out of state? Use another service? Because sure as shit the bigoted state legislature would love to hear there's less porn being used. And the milquetoast governor is barely self aware...
The whole second act of the musical puts Hamilton's worse qualities on display: his over-consideration with his legacy, his centralization of banking power to further his own rise to power, his hot temper and fondness for duels. I think there are some necessary summarizations and a lot of it gets condensed, but I also think Miranda went to great pains to ensure he got the spirit of the narrative down right. Ron Chernow, the guy who wrote the biography that inspired the musical in the first place, as an historical advisor to the musical.

Slightly off-topic, but the genius community is really great at annotating and calling out the details here: http://genius.com/albums/Lin-manuel-miranda/Hamilton-origina...
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Impossible to get steady ingredients due to the embargo and low incomes, most restaurants I ate at there would make do with whatever they could secure for that week.
These things have changed in the last decades. I was raised as an evangelical Christian. During my childhood we were never taught to directly disagree with science, with the idea that science and religion were separate things. Nowadays they make a point of telling that science is wrong.
Funny how it mentions USPS using GPUdb to "process complex queries and display 2D visualizations in the time it takes to load a Web page", yet every time I visit the post office, It takes at least 8 seconds after scanning a prepaid package for the package details to appear on the screen. They need to port that tech over to where it matters
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I disagree with "no-rules design." As a kid, the one rule was that after seeing the box art, you would be thoroughly disappointed the first time the game loaded and you saw the actual graphics.
oh the nerd police is coming to get me!

my comment does the same as did the comment i was replying to which you have conveniently removed, faggot :)

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If you want to learn more about Hamilton I highly recommend "Alexander Hamilton" by Ron Chernow. (Which I now see was an inspiration for the play, who knew.) One thing I took away was that the world we live in pretty much what Hamilton envisioned. Another thing is that we're still playing out the ideological disputes between Hamilton and Jefferson.
Some would have said the same thing about Microsoft yet they are turning things around into an exciting place again

Secondly, $$$ can go a long way in competing for talent
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Warning, unabashed Alexander Hamilton fan here.

It's truly appalling that this article questions Hamilton's dedication to abolition. He did a great deal to actively fight slavery during his life and it's all incredibly well documented. Look at the work he did with the New York Manumission Society or the endless political battles he had over abolition. I can't imagine what Hamilton would have had to do to satisfy these people/
Jw how much monthly revenue did you have?
Nope, not even a tiny bit.

There's a difference between the rigor required for an online discussion, and the rigor required for a formal paper. I knew some of my post would miss the mark - and by a very WIDE margin - because using very simplistic, stereotypical cultural lingua franca makes the general point easier to make, but lacks pretty much any rigor.

Viewing it more as a starting point for discussion - and trying to see past the many bad parts - is all I hoped for.
Honda is doing something somewhat similar:
https://www.hondasvl.com/
lmfao made me giggle m7
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Most of us knew :)

But great suggestion none the less, it really does speak incredibly well to our current political situation and makes the case well that we are living in Alexander Hamilton's america.
The consumer grade novelty wore off Polaroids much the same way in the 1970's. By the mid 1980's the cameras were available for $12 at the drug store and a standard last minute gift. It as common for the included film pack to be the only film that ever went in as the years whiled away with the camera in a drawer.

The killer app was always scientific documentation with the intent of making sure there was a photograph that captured what would be important later. Putting a Polaroid back on a technical camera was another way of using technical cameras to do what they were made to do.
Also agreed. His courses are awesome, and he takes care to explain things right the first time, rather than relying on repetition.
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This may not be a very popular belief but I honestly don't care what other people believe/think/worship/do as long as it doesn't harm any one else or me. I have extreme liberals on my Twitter feed as do I have extreme conservatives. People post stuff every now and again that kind of turns me off, but I still follow them because they have good stuff to say tech wise. I'm always open minded to what they post though.

In our profession we can't always work with the most open minded people(politically) but as long as the work gets done and they are open minded technically that's all that matters to me. I work with and hang out with people I don't agree with on certain things, drink beer, go over for dinner. No issue for me. I'm Libertarian, so politically I have something I can agree with on both sides usually.

As long as this guy doesn't give any hate speech or harm someone then I honestly don't see the problem.
The grid spacing is 30 meters, so probably not.
> The question arises again, can psychedelics have lasting effects or is meditation the only way to create permanent positive change in that direction?

I have over the past seven years taken ayahuasca more times than anyone who isn't studying to become a shaman probably reasonably should. (Still debating the apprenticeship, but leaning strongly towards yes.) Doing so — and, more specifically, the changes I have witnessed and implemented consequent to those experiences — has, without question or hesitation, improved pretty much every aspect of my life. I'm smarter, I'm happier, I'm calmer, and I have a better and more diverse community of friends; I've shed bad habits, delusions, maladaptive behaviors, and people who brought — and kept — me down.

Many regard it as form of "cheating" your way towards enlightenment — as if that's even a thing. I think that's a misinformed and prejudiced attitude; and, yet, if you look at it in a non-judgemental light, it's also a little bit true. Psychedelics, taken intentionally, can be powerfully positively transformative, and they can get you there in an eyeblink.

Literally, I've had years-, even decades-old behavior patterns that were limiting me that evaporated instantly, never to return, after ceremonial experiences that showed me what was behind those patterns, why I kept engaging in them, and how that was holding me back. Others have taken a bit more chipping away at, but the end result is the same: a way of engaging with the world that wasn't conducive to success or happiness or whatever is recognized, and changed, and the experience you have of life, particularly in places where those patterns would previously have been expressed, is forever changed, for the better.

There are risks, and they most definitely aren't for everyone, but for those for whom they are indicated, and who are willing to engage with the experience as a transformative one, and not merely one of, "Ooh, pretty colors!" the only things that limit how far you can go are yourself, and the laws of physics — and I'm starting, sometimes, to question the latter (or, rather, some of the assumptions behind them) a bit...

EDITs: there were many.