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First, Retric made the claim. The burden of proof is on him/her, not on me.

But second, I think you misunderstood my comment (or else I misunderstood Retric's). Retric said, " It's uncomfortable for some people to realize a purely material world can give rise to objective experience, but there is a lot of evidence that suggests this is true." I understood that to mean that 1) we live in a purely material world, and 2) we have objective experience. My reply was that those are both assumptions - that this is a purely material world, and that we have genuine objective experience.

Now, if the claim is that we have theories that explain these things, then I would say that "theories that explain" is not the same as evidence that suggests (or better, demonstrates) that this is true. A fine-sounding theory about something like consciousness (that we don't really understand) leaves me somewhat less than convinced.
Does this cover your concerns?

Open-toolchain FPGAs
Blob-free operation
- Fully libre (open-source) IBM OPAL primary firmware w/ PetitBoot interface
- Fully libre (open-source) OpenBMC secondary (IPMI / OoBM) firmware
NO signing keys preventing firmware modification
Hrm not yet. I'll probably put a mailchimp form on my blog. If you use twitter follow me @bkanber; I tweet rarely but I will tweet about any mailing lists or impending book releases. Appreciate the interest!
Would they make more money with the latest Web 3.0 React SPA website that takes over your scroll wheel and loads megabytes of stocks photos showing happy rich people?
>Brands like Denny's embraced this approach and have an amazing Tumblr blog and presence because of this - the original engagements they received paid off immensely over time.

For those out of the loop: http://imgur.com/gallery/jKs0n
The damn patent system needs reform. Plain and simple. Make them short and unprofitable unless you are going to use them to do something useful.
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Did no one read the legal disclaimer?

"linking to this website without written permission is prohibited."

I wonder what how the lawyer who wrote that expected people to navigate to the site.
I'm going to be around for a while, probably, and living in a better world makes for a better life. After I'm gone, I still want a better life for my child.
I wish more websites took this approach, especially news and information sites, I'm tired of pullng terabytes of pointless js and images just to skim a bad article behind clickbait.

Mind he takes a different approach behind the Berkshire Activewear link.
Looks fine in Lynx, too!

http://imgur.com/yAEimmZ
I wonder if they charge Geico for the ad space ;)
Docker is investing a lot of time and energy on unikernel as well. Makes a lot of sense, but I agree with a lot of the comments here. It might be a year or so before we start to see faster adoption.
And their ad network pierces all adblockers - best site ever built?
I don't think so, if only because seaweed isn't very calorie dense - 4 calories per 2 tablespoon according to Wikipedia (well, the google card that gets all its info from Wikipedia at least).

I think it's much more plausible that we'll go the route Asimov predicted in "Caves of Steel" - genetically modified and processed yeasts, which are much more calorie dense than seaweed, and much better suited to the sort of industrial process that feeding 10+ billion people requires.
I don't think you could react quickly to something without having predicted the behavior of that thing in advance.
In their mind at least the prohibition does not apply to some of their other web properties some of which my contain links to this site but do allow to be linked from other third-party websites?
Netflix is actually known for paying some of the best salaries in the Valley.
That does sound attractive and a good opportunity to reflect. Anyone here (or do you know any good stories) spent any long periods either in complete isolation, or in a small group like this far away from society? How was it?
EU wide base regulation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directive_on_the_energy_perfor...

In the UK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_Performance_Certificate

In Belgium: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energieprestatiecertificaat (nl language only, sorry)

In Ireland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building_energy_rating
Go ahead and call me all the usual names (I don't care), but I'm a skeptic of a few things - especially things like science that has strong political influences/biases/implications - and yes, sometimes even mainstream science.

But no, I don't deny or ignore the apparent trends. That's why I also don't feel (as others have expressed here) any sense of grave alarmism or fear about the effects of warming. When climate-related deaths have steadily decreased in recent history[1], shouldn't we really be more concerned with adapting (or continuing to adapt) our own environments to deal with the earth's climate? That doesn't mean we shouldn't be environmentally conscious; just the opposite. We should be conscious of our environment, both in terms of what nature provides and in terms of how we adapt to it. Surely, very few people alive today would be suited to living in many populous places in the world without the protections afforded by human invention - today or pre-industrialization. Technological progress (much of which is a product of fossil fuels) has enabled us to live significantly longer lives, and fewer people are in climate-related danger now than ever before in history. In my view, that's a good thing.

[1] http://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/wp-content/uploads/...
That Kasich is considered a "moderate" in the context of the contemporary GOP sorta illustrates your point.
Man, my newest car is 25 years old and I do all the maintenance on all of them (25 years, 30 years, and 32 years old) myself, aside from safety inspections and alignments. I recently had one fail safety for two small things and the shop quoted me $1k to fix it--$250 parts, $750 labor. That $250 is going to be more like $50 for me since I know what parts need replacing and I know how to make a bushing for my steering rack rather than replacing the whole rack.

If I didn't have that know-how (or a friend or family member who could help me out), I'd be SOL. And this is hardly a one-off thing, and hardly specific to me. Plenty of people are only able to afford cars if they can fix them themselves.

Moreover, I hope to keep these cars running 10 or 20 years further down the road. The only reason I can hope to do this is because of aftermarket manufacturers and no technical restrictions on what I can replace, upgrade, or re-make on my cars.

A friend of mine has had weird problems on his relatively modern car because of what's probably a cold solder in the fuse box on his car. That fuse box costs $700 to replace PLUS whatever the dealer is going to charge you to reprogram the computer in it. Why does a fuse box need a computer in it? Hell if I know. How do you fix this once the dealer no longer keeps around the cables and software to reprogram that computer? Either replace every single computer in the car with computers from a car with a working fuse box, or reverse-engineer the proprietary protocol the fuse box talks and re-engineer a replacement.

Oh, except that latter choice is legally questionable, thanks to the DMCA.

I expect a lot more cars from this era to end up as fancy bricks.

That's a damn shame; there's no reason to discard a nearly-functional pile of parts just because some auto manufacturer is too stingy to help you fix, or not hinder you from fixing, the thing they built and sold you. I recall a study that showed that keeping an old car functioning was just as efficient pollution-wise than building a whole new car to replace it with.

I guess the upside here is that there's going to be a decent amount of demand for folks like me who have both mechanical and electrical chops in the car repair scene in a few years.
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You are correct that we don't understand EXACTLY how this works. But we do have an increasingly good idea, and it is now very widely accepted that increasing CO2 levels are due to fossil fuels, and that they are going to make life for future generations miserable. And I don't mean a few beach-side swimming pools falling into the ocean miserable - I mean millions of people drowning in a storm surge in Bangladesh, and millions more starving to death in Africa miserable.

So we can either hope that some mysterious feedback mechanism will appear that puts this all right, or we can figure out how to fix this.

And we've actually done this before. In the 1980s, scientists started raising concerns that the ozone layer was being depleted, and an international response reduced our CFC use to levels where we are now seeing the ozone layer recovering. In my cynical moments, I do wonder if the difference between then and now is that the oil lobby is much more powerful than the refrigeration lobby, but actually I think the problem is that reducing CO2 is a much harder problem and so more people just bury their head in the sand.

So you can choose - bury your head in the sand (that's really what dreaming of mysterious negative feedback mechanisms is), or get fixing. I have kids and would hope that their kids have as good a life as I do, so I'm fixing.
I'm going to posit that many of your proposed changes to standard of living aren't even downgrades. For the most part, cities eliminate cars in town centers to raise the standard of living, not out of fear of pending ecological disaster.

As far as consumerism, I think a lot of it is driven partly by corporations desperately trying to avoid us ending up in a post-scarcity society; inducing artificial scarcity by emphasizing fashion and planned obsolescence is a great way to capture what otherwise would have been excess wealth.

On top of that, certain resources are either naturally or artificially constrained, which lets the owners of those resources collect rent, again capturing what otherwise would have been excess wealth.

On a side note, I don't have air conditioning, and my house gets much warmer than 30C in the summer. Anywhere above about 32C is just plain too hot for me to do anything other than lay underneath a fan and drink water, so if I need to get work done I go to a coffee shop. At 15C I put on a sweater and am fine down to about 5C (assuming I'm sheltered from the wind). My wife, however is shivering under six layers of blankets and 3 layers of clothes at 5C, but is perfectly chipper up to about 35C. It's lucky we don't have thermostats because we already argue about when the windows should be open!

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About the clothes dryer... I live in a semi-arid area now, so I understand how clothes lines could work. I grew up in an area where much of the year at least one of the following would apply:

1) Raining

2) over 90% humidity

3) below freezing

clothes lines in those conditions were more than a minor inconvenience.
Yes, these things will be rendered insignificant in the fullness of time, but as a human's with limited lives, it's still important to maintain empathy towards the human suffering of the here-and-now, and the very near future. It will be painful, it will be stressful, and we need to brace ourselves for the reality that many of our fellow humans will die from famine, regional war, and refugee crises whilst we struggle to adapt to and mitigate the worst of it.
I suspect this kind of thinking is an innate evolutionary reflex. Similar to why people love having kids.
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Most professional athletes don't earn big money. Rather like music, a very few make it in the big leagues. Of the rest, some find steady work in minor teams; many, many others struggle to get by combining their passion with casual day jobs.

If your sport isn't one of the few that can command massive advertising dollars, then there may be no pay at all. The value chain is very clear: all high athlete salaries are ultimately funded by advertisers wanting access to consumer eyeballs.

Overlay all this with the very short effective career, the near-absence of post-athletic marketable skills, and the devastating effect of injuries, and you'll find athletes are statistically underpaid over their lifetimes.
I remember when VCD (subset of MPEG1) was the standard for releasing movies online. I was even in a group that converted them from VCD to MPEG4 for those for whom 2CDs (1400MB downloads) was just too big.
Fixed. (And yep, that is the correct URL.)
This is truly amazing.
> "Cars are big computers, and have been for a while"

IIRC, it's been said by Cory Doctorow that a pacemaker is a computer I put into my body, and a car is a computer I put my body into.
You hate being almost run over. (oddly, you think narrow streets will... give you more space???) You hate the weather enough to spend 20 minutes in it (10 plus 10 is 20) rather than just 15 minutes in it.

Pardon the suggestion, but it seems you'd rather be in a car.
No problem. I gave written permission on a napkin just now.

It doesn't say the written permission has to be theirs.
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Both party candidates believe in fracking. Not sure how we lower our CO levels while fracking is the new coal.
Ask HN: Mentors and coaches
Does anyone have experience, thoughts, ideas or strategies on where or how to find mentors and coaches?
"But is it even possible to sustain this many people (at current standards of living with foreseeable technology)?"

In short no.

The reason being the current system requires endless growth (measured currently in GDP) in order sustain this many people with current standards of living. Of course current standards of living are not enough, especially for people in poverty around with world. If growth doesn't continue the entire economic system grinds to a halt. However, endless growth confined to a closed system (Earth) is not sustainable not only for the climate but also for resources like water, food, etc.

Geoengineering is just another foolish attempt of humans to try to bend the planet to our wishes. This line of thinking, that we are somehow better than the earth, somehow removed from all earth systems as a species, is what got us in this mess in the first place. Yes, I realize the irony of saying this on a forum with readers, like myself, who solve technical problems for a living.

Parts of the environmental movement are now starting to focus on economic system change for this very reason.
This exact "greed" rhetoric is what helps businesses keep dev salaries down. You don't get greedy people for that much, you get smart business people (they know their worth and charge for it).
Ok, ecumenicalish :-P
I don't know anything about lemmington, but assuming the land is highly fertile, you could greenhouse elsewhere rather than covering high-quality land with concrete.
Now we need a muchbettermotherfuckingwebsite.com
It's not a win win at all. If OP could get a job they were equally happy with in other aspects that paid more and had less commute they would be better off. Their situation is probably fine but it's hard to spin low salary and long commute as positives.
FWIW the City of Somerville recognizes this and is working to reform the zoning code.[1] Here are some highlights from the proposal:

"Makes Somerville a national leader in using zoning to produce affordable housing with the most ambitious inclusionary housing requirements in the state"

"In areas of the city where major new development is planned, up to 20% of new units must be set aside for affordable housing."

"Ensures that infill development fits into the form, scale, and pattern of existing neighborhoods and squares."

"Only permits formula businesses and big-box stores by special permit."

"Requires new buildings in certain districts... to set aside 5% of gross floor area as leasable arts and creative use spaces."

[1] http://www.somervillema.gov/zoning/key-changes.html
If you've been following Buffer at all, you'll know that they actually walk the talk. It's not just a vacuous "mission statement".
Rampage: The Movie?
https://www.linkedin.com/in/clint-griess-24720b4
Ask HN: Does it makes sense to try it out in “The real silicon valley”these days?
Does anybody have any insider info on what is the current industry situation in Shenzhen?

The last thing I heard about the start-up ecosystem there was that the city is more about real estate speculation now, rather than "renting a garage and making the next Aliexpress bestseller"
That's not really a direct comparison. Somerville is a residential area just outside of Boston, but central Boston is full of places similar to the German examples:

https://www.google.com/maps/@42.3645779,-71.0554965,3a,75y,1...

https://www.google.com/maps/@42.3578491,-71.057966,3a,75y,20...

https://www.google.com/maps/@42.3503591,-71.0797167,3a,75y,9...
Definitely hear you on that, and we've taken steps to mitigate Terraform's "surface area" after we encountered some problematic use cases.

This excellent article [1] does a nice job of talking about why it's important to keep your tfstate files small and isolated. Since we started doing that, working with Terraform has been much nicer (and safer!).

[1] https://charity.wtf/2016/03/30/terraform-vpc-and-why-you-wan...
Actually, it's 20 hours of instruction time, not "flight time."

And that's enough to get the licence, but unless you come from a flying family, that will probably get you killed.

Factoid: According to a flight school owner I know, it takes on average 65 landings to master them in a C152 or C172.
Narrow streets are safer for cyclists. Cars tend to drive as fast as feels safe regardless of posted speed limits, which makes wide streets into dangerous speedways.
I forgot that this was Hacker News, where "Serial Entrepreneurs" moonlight as leading experts in automotive engineering.
I spent a week in a Beijing startup, here’s what I learned
I've been postmaster@aol.com for years on many sites with mandatory registration.
Exactly!

Where's TensorFlow, where's AWS Lambda, where's Node and Spark and Elixir?? This is some prehistoric junk.

I demand a deep-learning-ready version.
The Future of Writing Looks Like the Past
Most developers can write crud apps without any issue.

Not all of them have problem solving skills that translate well across different technologies.

It's not about looking for people that meet a specific checklist of tools/languages, it's about finding people who can solve problems - even in fields they are not familiar with. The latter is far more useful trait for an employee to have.
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As a Korean, I'm glad we're prepared. Jellyfish salad and seaweed soup, anyone? :)
I don't think it's that clear cut. Other than the personal freedom aspect, which I agree with, you can also argue that more people == more scientists/engineers/minds working on advancing our technological capabilities. This is arguably the number one thing that will lead to a solution.
TODO: Hello World Exercise

#include <QCoreApplication>

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
QCoreApplication app(argc, argv);
return app.exec();
}
"The optimum level of carbon..."

Such a human thing to say.

Between that, and all the top comments as of writing this start out addressing how beautiful the data visualization is. That is why humans are doomed.

Mother nature is fine with or without us.
International Labor Economics, Ugh
Rolls-Royce unveils its first driverless car
Dancers and Diplomats: NYC Ballet in Moscow, October 1962 (2014)
interesting how they 'fix' problems people don't care about, and don't fix problems people do care about.
Spend a lot of time in spaces where people with relevant experience hang out — e.g. Hacker News, in fact. Email the people who impress you. This technique has worked out very well for me.
As I said, a financial instrument problem. If nobody is willing to create the appropriate insurance because of structural inefficiencies in the insurance industry, well, that's reality. But there's no prima facia reason why it should be uninsurable.
I worked at Google some time back. Take a look at the list of products [1] that Google provides. It's pretty long! Of those, 7 products have >1 billion monthly actives: Android, Chrome, Gmail, Google Play, Maps, Search, and YouTube. Things at this scale take a lot of effort.

Alternatively, a quantitative measure of effectiveness is the company's revenue or net income per employee. For 2015, that's $1.2M / Googler or $264K / Googler, respectively.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_products
More importantly, the NASA video is only for a single year (2006). The chart from WaPo that you linked clearly shows the problem with looking at only a single year of data.
Did you consider Scala? I think it has great support for the kinds of changes you're pushing for.
For a timeline of Juno events see this post at the Planetary Society [1]

[1] http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2016/0616123...
This is very clever, and I wish I had figured this out when I ran into the same problem last summer. A little "smelly" but better than being forced to publically export implementation details.

That said, to play devil's argument, why not just make all implementation details public? I will say I remember being pissed off by Go packages that don't publicize all of their types and interfaces, which made writing tests against their behavior (usually requiring mocking, hence the need for the publicized types/interfaces) to be painful/impossible.
504 pages according to Chrome’s print preview.
Security through obscurity protects people from cellular eavesdropping?
If anyone reads this comment, FYI it is not remotely accurate. They have 23 just in engineering and 6 designers, with 2 in ops. We have AWS and these guys have incredibly run of the mill needs, why on earth would you need 1 ops person for every 3 developers...

They have nobody doing what you'd classify as a "sales." They have some marketing people, people doing whatever "customer research" is, a number of people working in "community" and a bunch working in customer success.
Fibratus: a tool to capture the most of the Windows kernel activity
Arnold Schwarzenegger Motivation – 6 rules of success
Nothing I can find compares to an outdoor-grown heirloom varietal.
How a Student Fooled 17,000 Coders into Running His ‘Sketchy’ Programming Code
> However, the world is adopting containers in traditional kernels and unless a unikernel on a hypervisor can be better, I do not see much value in devoting resources to unikernels too.

Unikernels allow more experimentation. The interface that the hypervizor provides is generally lower level (especially with hardware passthrough) than the traditional operating system's interface.

Unikernel 'programs' would normally use a library as an abstraction layer to bridge the gap. These libraries are easier to swap and change and experiment with than traditional OSs. (At least that was the whole justification for exokernels in the 90s, the approach our current hypervisors grew out of.)
Have these techniques been used to generate realistic looking test data for testing software? I have had ideas along these lines but people think I'm talking about fuzz testing when I try and describe it.

I'm imagining something where you take a corporate db and reduce it down to a model. Then that can be shared with third parties and used to generate unlimited amounts of test data that looks like real data w/o revealing any actual user info.
Some good advice already, but also, you can just post what you're looking for? In-person or remote? More on the technical side, or career, or something else?