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Don't take it personally; he's not saying you're wrong to make a living. He clearly says he understands that the companies of Silicon Valley want to make money -- there's no judgement about that.

But the author is also clear about the distinction: there's technical innovation, planting seeds, and business execution, harvesting the fruit. Planting seeds is expensive but you get paid back (hopefully) when it bears fruit. Xerox PARC created technical innovation, and Apple and Microsoft made billions harvesting its fruit.

The author is simply bringing up what others, like Alan Kay of PARC, bring up regularly: that we are running out of fruit and no one is working on investing in planting trees. Silicon Valley of the 70's was not about anything demand-driven. True innovation is too far ahead that people don't know yet that they will want it. Silicon Valley at that time made true technical innovation. Since then it's become all about business execution of making money off of that innovation, and yes that's very demand-driven. Again, there is nothing wrong with that. But at the same time, you should be able to understand if he (and others) might be disappointed by that turn.
Do you know your shit? If yes, you have nothing to worry about.

If no, work on that.

There're so many unqualified job candidates out there, you can rise above the crowd just by being good at what you do.
Yeah, it's pretty much taken as normal these days. I'd still rather have job stability than a sky-high salary, if I was given the choice.
I sat down to learn Python a few years back to add another language to my tool belt. I ended up hating it in the first 10 minutes and haven't really had the need to use it since. Why? My sample program looked perfect. It was indented properly without braces - losing braces was the first concession the language asked me to make - but it wouldn't run because of one line which was indented several places. Three of those indents were 4 spaces each, but one of them was a tab. The interpreter chose not to tell me this fact. It merely said my program had illegal indentation or something. Looking at it I didn't see any problem. Solving this mystery was an unnecessary waste of 10 minutes of my life and I decided on the spot that Python was too opinionated for my tastes and not helpful at all. Then I read the designers of Python are forcing coders to change their "print" statement when upgrading Python 2 to Python 3 and think my first impression was right.

In terms of Boy Scouts, Python is the kid with strict dietary requirements who insists the other boys eat his crappy food, just because.
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What are you having problems with? I remember setting up react-native to be a total breeze the first time around, especially compared to html react.
I have a dear friend who is a 'sex offender' because she and a boy her age were arrested for having sex in a stall in their college dorm bathroom, which was legally a 'public place.' Is there any point that she deserved to be locked up in a cage for that?
If you want an easy one click set up for Django, ansible's a much better approach than docker.
Ha. I think Java is the best all round language. Oddly, it's usually not the best language for any specific thing :).

Paradox :)
Haven't you followed the discussions on Facebook about the kid that jumped into Gorilla enclosure ? Did you read the horrible things that people said to the mother for not holding the kid's hand all the time ?

I know from first hand experiences that in certain cities people and cops think of this as a concern.
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> The Story Grid by Shawn Coyne is an absolute must-read

I just read it. Story, by Robert McKee, is much better. All the useful insights in The Story Grid are lifted from Story. To Shawn Coyne's credit, he credits McKee. But he lifts a lot and presents it less clearly.

The things that aren't lifted from Story, like the grid itself, are less useful. Some things, like the labyrinthine requirements he trots out for genres, are harmful.
curl ... >> .git/hooks/pre-commit

Append instead
http://qz.com/668514/if-you-want-to-be-like-warren-buffett-a...
I'm pretty sure what's being presented is the opposite situation, where private companies have an industry taken away, rather than handed to them.

That said, I'm not entirely sure how increased regulation makes it impossible to manage as long as the rest of the market is allowed to work. It's fairly obvious that both capitalism and socialism have very real downsides when unfettered. It's a balancing act.
To his credit, I had a (rather eccentric) founder in NYC ask me if I planned on having kids anytime soon as the first question of his interview - after all the tech questions from people under him.

When I said yeah, and I was planning on commuting from NJ, he said "well I don't want to break up a family, so see you later" <end of interview>. I thought it was rude at the time, but here I am 3 years later and damn if he wasn't right. Dodged a bullet that only he saw was coming right at me.
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of course that is not the only Kennedy miss-step towards appropriate funding of mental health..there was the case of JFK's sister:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemary_Kennedy
You don't need a source for common sense. It will take years for self driving cars to become reliable. There are many adverse conditions the car will need to be able to deal with in the real world. Weather and all other chaotic systems are not to be dismissed casually if we want self driving cars to become a reality in our lifetime. Just because something will take a long time to reliably engineer doesn't mean it's not a worthy problem to solve.
doesn't look like much imo. https://www.kinesis-ergo.com/shop/advantage2-silver/#whats-n...
The failsafe is to do what responsible drivers do when they can't cope with the conditions present: stop driving until conditions improve. The hard part is to reliably tell when the situation is no longer safe before something happens.
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Singapore is a city, and therefore already quite challenging. I've never been there, but I suspect there will be streets with playing children, scooters, etc.
> But something definitely seems different nowadays (from both the interviewer and interviewee side of the desk), compared to 1999 or even 2005-2006.

You're 17 years older :)
>Everything at the GPUOpen portal will be open source and licensed under the highly permissive MIT license, allowing developers to not only see the code behind RTG’s tools and libraries, but to integrate that code into open and closed source projects as they see fit.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9853/amd-gpuopen-linux-open-so...
As far as I can tell the Eames' were all about innate human preferences, warmth and affordability. Too bad they're dead and Vitra or Herman Miller or whoever owns the licensing rights is capitalizing on their work in a borderline extortionate manner.
Let's assume that we have all the algorithms discovered, the prototype works excellently. For example, all the problems with snow and weather have been solved, as well as the logistical problem of making an extremely accurate 3D map of the world. Google has their prototype working everywhere: it's ready to be implemented as production quality (it has to be better than Android).

Writing high quality, reliable code (for example, in airplane control software), including testing etc, tends to take 5-8 years. So from a project management perspective, that's the reasonable estimate.
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So I critiqued the Aldryn Cloud solution and Django CMS's approach on the Disqus comments on their blogpost and it was swiftly rejected. This product is far from the values of open source Wordpress is built on.
China exchanged trillions of goods at below market rates due to games with their exchange rate. This worked because the government does not care about it's populace and can extract a lot of value from an oppressed population. The populace benefited from increasing purchasing power though far less and far slower than most developing nations.

I would say the US and communist party members got a great deal and the Chinese population is better off though still being stepped on.
It reminds me of my Freshman college English class where the teacher had to teach the class not to turn in their first draft of papers. Reading each others' papers, you could really see that just going over it once and correcting things made a huge difference in quality and coherence.
Don't know why you're being downvoted. You astutely point out that just as defunding can cause a move toward privatization (or the belief that only private enterprise can solve a given problem), so too can overregulation lead toward nationalization (or even at state/local levels, the belief that only government can solve it).
vouch is only available is the article is flag-killed, so it normally isn't visible (even if the [flagged] mark already is there, but you can still comment). I assume the limit is the same as for flagging (500?)
>These people are out on parole. That means that they could be in prison instead

Will you be fine if people are allowed to beat up an inmate scheduled for death penalty ? How does it really matter if we break a few bones right before he is dead ?

I think the logic is the whole "sex offender" registry is bullshit. Check what sort of things can get you on that list. So people on parole are not necessarily hardened horrible criminals we should despise.

Even if they are bad people why should not be they allowed to play a game ? How on earth do we even enforce such restriction? Creating restrictions that can not be enforced reduces overall respect for law. Tomorrow the politician will say Itunes should not sell pop songs of teenage singers to such people are we supposed to comply ?

I see this as sex war pretty much like drug war.
No. Disregarding technicalities of which there are many, the most important difference is that with ssh you either get the host key through a different secure channel or "trust on first use" (TOFU). With HTTPS you trust certificate authorities (CA).
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That seems quite unlikely since Sweden had right wing governments during 76-82 and 91-94.
China's achievements are incredibly impressive, and will likely slow down as it gets closer to parity with Western standards of living. As for outperforming - rate of growth/catching up: sure - but not (yet) in most other regards.
Well, given the current safety level of new cars, which is coming down towards 1 fatality per one billion miles driven, and a fleet of 100 000 vehicles driving autonomously for 10 000 miles per year, you need to collect data for five to ten years just to show that your autonomous cars are safer than regular cars.

Tesla, with the current AutoPilot, will have to collect data for closer to 20 years in order to have good enough statistics to claim AutoPilot is safer. (Since AutoPilot only works in some situations, they wont get 10 000 miles per year.)
>Different systems, and they seem to have some advantages.

Of course there are advantages to planned economies. In the 60s, the US was absolutely terrified that the Russian command economy gave them overwhelming advantages that we couldn't compete with.

And If you went to school in the early 90s you'll remember that there was a real fear that we'd have to start going to school on Saturdays to keep up with the Japanese.

I can almost guarantee that in about 30 years, we'll have a panic about India.

>I didn't say they built the tallest building in the world. They built a 54 story buildings and five story buildings are certainly realistic.

Never said you did. My argument is that the company is essentially a propaganda machine, as evidenced by their repeated claims (and failed attempts) that they are going to build the world's tallest building.

>The whole "they cheat" meme is part of every criticism of China.

I'm not making a moral argument about China. I'm telling you the reason that they can accomplish many of the things that they are accomplishing is because they aren't restricted by the same rules.

They can have cheap factories because they don't have strong labor laws, and they don't have strict emissions controls.

The thing is though, all of that will end as their standard of living increases. It's already happening. People are tired of living in smog, so they are introducing stricter emission controls. People aren't living like rural peasants anymore so they are demanding higher wages.

As these things happen, growth will slow. Sure they're GDP will eclipse ours one day, so will India's most likely, but it's going to take a lot longer than naive extrapolation predicts it will.
Ask HN: could HN threads be upvoted using machine learning?
Could HN threads be upvoted using machine learning based on the comments (read/write behaviors)?

EDIT: in a way that would satisfy the current HN audience of course
> Are self-driving cars able to handle rainy conditions?

Seriously? I pretty sure all current vehicles need to go through extreme weather testing before they can be brought to market. For example my dad worked on a project testing Ford vehicles in extreme cold and snow conditions in northern MN.
While the i915 driver nowadays lives in the Linux source tree, it is still released under a permissive license. Same goes for a lot of drm stuff. I'd assume similar for radeon.
>It would be unthinkable in America to force all cars on certain roads to be self-driving only.

There are private cities (Celebration, FL), private housing communities (1000s of them), private large corporate campuses, private shipping yards, private military complexes, private airports, industrial hangars - lots of places where you could safely force all cars to be self-driving without any governmental interference.
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Hey mate navigation is still a pain point for RN. This OS project https://github.com/aksonov/react-native-router-flux/ is one of the more popular alternative ones and has many open issues. I am sure a-lot of people will be appreciative of any help. Thanks
History is written within the context of the current power structure. Her caricature is the most recognizable allusion I could envisage for the idea.

If there was a fantastic lever that would give you youthful skin at the cost of 100 lives in some remote village, I imagine there'd be a line that would extend far beyond the horizon.
You seem to forget its a startup and not a well oiled industry giant that has been around for ~20 years.

Maintenance to fix a security critical bug in the middle of the day to remain in compliance for credit card processing could have been a reason for this nuisance. Lots of factors and variables.
Most of DRM is MIT licensed, including these two drivers.
The problem, and this applies to both parties and liberals and conservatives, is that politics is rarely evidence based. It's anecdote based, because that's what's easier to get people to relate to. There are plenty of liberal policies that are disasters, just as there are conservative ones, but if you attempt to change them it's an attack on that ideology, regardless of how well the policy is working in practice. The biggest problem with politics isn't that politicians are insular and out for themselves and their own interests/area, it's that they've all got their heads stuck so far into the ground they don't even know whether what they are doing is actually helping or hurting. Confirmation bias at its worst and most harmful.
No. I said that changing the key, which must happen, will trigger a warning that will scare users away. Which is (partly) why no one uses SSH with non technical populations.
Admittedly, that part stinks. It's been 20 years and they still haven't fixed some of those basic things.

BUT - Python is a great language for scripting. If you need to parse some stuff, produce a result ... Python is it.

The documentation bytes, I'm not a big fan of how it scales, packages are clumsy, deployment can be clumsy, but if you can get past those things, script away.

As far as brackets: in the long run I think it's better. I was very resistant to it at first. But then I came to prefer it.

I actually wish Java had a bracket-less option.

If Java had that, plus simpler file access, plus amazing array and string access ... man, that would be great.

Even though those are 'small things' - in reality, a lot of scripting code is filled with that, so it really adds up.

Going one step further ... maybe heretic - but having worked with a lot of Javascript ... I suggest that some loose data typing options would be great as well.

JSON in Java is a goddam pain. JSON and Javascript is seamless.

A lot of front-end programming is very data centric, but in the 'micro sense' i.e. passing around a lot of little bits of data. Also, it's highly event drive and async, which JS does well. So - also add more seamless async (Java Lambdas approach this) - and voila, Java could be better for UX type things as well.

But languages don't evolve very well, sadly :) it usually takes someone to come along and reinvent it using best practices and maybe a big company to support it, and it takes years to get to maturity.

Either that or to create a highly 'proprietary' version of something, a-la Microsoft.
It should be noted that Scout Law varies depending on what country you're in. For example, some countries have laws saying a scout should smile and whistle under all circumstances. I'm not sure how one would work that into a positive property of a programming language.
But I think for it to have meaningful impact we need interstate public roads to have self-driving. I haven't looked at the statistics, but most deadly accidents I read of late happen on interstate roads.

Edit: It's unthinkable at present but I believe if a city-state like Singapore undertook the experiment and it was successful it could eventually spread around the world like HD adoption. (That's why I said it would take a long time to happen in America.)
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If someone notices that you walk on the insides of your feet and see that you're in pain and they say "Hey, I own an orthopedic shoe store, you should stop in and we can alleviate some of your foot pain", is that sleazy?

I think it's beyond helpful; it's doing a great service. Thoughtful, highly targeted cold outreach is just that.
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Global warming is the greatest existential threat to civilization. And when today's Republican nominee says that global warming is a "hoax", it makes me almost certain that that's what's going to end up doing us in.
Few films (34) can be shown in China each year so being selected is a thing which some go for and others ignore. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/china-film-import-quot...
I love the Autonomous trend. When will the government put in actual firm consumer policy to encourage Tesla and other electric car makers to return ?
The section on setting your price is bad advice. There's no consideration for covering your business costs, your living costs, taxes, credit card processing costs, or even what the minimum wage rate is ($15/hr would actually be below the Australian minimum wage, for example).

There's lots of Freelance Rate Calculators out there that can give you better direction, here's a few selected semi-randomly:

https://motivapp.com/freelance-hourly-rate-calculator

http://www.flyingsolo.com.au/hourly-rate-calculator

https://hourlyrate.beewits.com/

There is one redeeming feature in the pricing suggestion (for beginners), and that is it might stop analysis paralysis. It's better to actually get out there & undersell yourself the first time, than to stress so much that you never even get your first client.
$12/pack ?!? It's less than half that? Or where are you that the taxes are that high?
> That argument would be more convincing if the original poster were not comparing SF to Sweden -- the country that essentially solved those problems in 1950-1980 by having the most liberal and progressive government in the world.

You will find that this type of governance only works in homogeneous societies - where the people can agree and identify with one another (and also have qualities such as good work ethic, social responsibility, love for their country or place, etc).

Once you bring in variously diverse groups into the picture, half of which are only seeking benefits, those same polices tend to produce the opposite effects.
This is why I feel that Telsa's telemetry expertise will be the key to their success.

It's been covered a few times that they're constantly running AP algorithms in parallel with the driver when AP is not enabled and filtering the results back home. You're going to get a ton more real world scenarios that way, unknown unknowns and all that.
The Florida Man phenomenon is mainly a result of the state's stringent public-records laws [1]:

"Since 1909, Florida has had a proud tradition that all government business is public business and therefore should be available to the public. That means all records, including photos and videos, produced by a public agency are easily accessible with a few narrow and obvious exceptions. Public officials are also required to open all of their meetings — even unofficial ones — to the public."

[1] http://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/how-floridas-proud-open-go...
I play it a few times a week. Project Cars and DiRT are what I spend most of the time with. I'm also enjoying Chronos right now, which is more of a RPG.

Echoing what a few others have said, there are not a lot of great AAA titles for either the Vive or Rift. This will change over time.

Are you excited about VR, or are you looking somewhere just to make money? If you're into this, then yes, I would recommend you learn about developing for VR. No one I know has tried the Rift and just shrugged their shoulders and said "that's kinda cool'. Everyone, even my most techie friends, drop their jaws and lose their minds. That's exciting.

This is a brand new field with tons of potential. That being said, I don't think it will be a very lucrative market to indie devs for sometime.
> Part of the profit for google fiber includes the ads served up.

The ad income is just peanuts compared to the monthly cost of Google Fiber. We are talking about a few bucks per month for ads versus $70 for fiber. Ads are just not going to move the needle in any meaningful way.
To be fair we (FL) have had a horrible track record with mental health care for the better part of 5 decades. While I am no fan of Scott and his corruption the state of mental health care in FL has been on a slow roll downhill for a long time and both sides are just as culpable.
This technique assumes the operator is OK with taking a few weeks for all users to register the new host key. In the event of a leak, revocation of the leaked key must be immediate. That's why we have CRLs (and OneCRL) and OCSP.
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