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SpaceX is profitable. Tesla is not, but only because they want to take over the world. If they concentrated on being a niche high-end car maker they'd already be profitable.

According to your link, Batista's companies never did the quantities they needed or said they would. The oil drilling didn't produce much oil, the drilling equipment manufacturer didn't sell much equipment, and the shipping company didn't do much shipping.

What's the Elon Musk equivalent to "Batista’s oil wells only pumped 1/50th of the barrels he predicted they would"? Tesla said they'd sell 50-60,000 cars last year, and they sold somewhat over 50,000, not 1,000. SpaceX said they want to do 18 launches this year, so far they're on track for more like 12, but certainly not 0.36.
I'm sorry, but this argument still hinges on the idea that you are entitled to their content for free. By going to their site, you have agreed to pay them in the form of ads. If those terms are not amenable to you, that's fine, just don't go to their site. Don't pretend you're doing something just and noble by stiffing them on the bill.
Here's the original lips on which this is based: https://github.com/zc1036/lips

Maybe I'll use this to hack generics into Go …
> Even if they are reporting something that isn't libelous, they will always fear in the back of their mind that a wealthy person who doesn't like them will bring a case against them that will bankrupt them, even if what they wrote was legit, just through having to defend themselves.

So I keep reading this argument but am having a hard time accepting it because it's acting like Thiel is somehow the first person to think of something like this. If you think this will become widespread as a result of Thiel's actions, why is it not widespread already? You could make the argument that media outlets (or really anyone) were just never made aware of who was actually financing lawsuits but I'm more than certain that if it was widespread that someone would have looked into it by now.
In terms of technologies, JavaScript is here to stay for many years and depending on the industry can be very profitable, too. A LAMP background lends itself to branching out to other web-based technologies. JavaScript will be a natural extension to your current skill set.

However, I'd advise against focussing on a technological niche alone. I'd suggest focussing on a business niche (industry, specific business problem) and additional skills that are complementary to coding (teaching, consulting).
Try to position yourself as a business problem solver rather than someone who turns requirements into computer code.

Learning something completely new such as Golang or mobile development only makes sense business-wise if you already have customers who might be interested in that.

There's nothing wrong with learning new skills but in terms of business success learning a new technology - especially if it's a relatively new one such as Golang - is equivalent to developing a polished product before having the first customer or in other words: The exact opposite of the Lean Startup / MVP way of doing business.
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America has a lot of guns, guns are ingrained in it's culture, and despite of having that many guns, it isn't a third world hell hole.

Talking about gun bans in other countries is like trying to convince Australia to ban Kangaroos based on how it worked in America.

The situation hasn't changed since the times of founding fathers. In Federalist Paper #46, James Madison was bragging about how because of American gun ownership, totalitarian governments can never take over America, like they can do in Europe.

[Reformatted]

>> Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate governments, to which the people are attached, and by which the militia officers are appointed, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit of. <<

>> Notwithstanding the military establishments in the several kingdoms of Europe, which are carried as far as the public resources will bear, the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms. And it is not certain, that with this aid alone they would not be able to shake off their yokes.<<

>> But were the people to possess the additional advantages of local governments chosen by themselves, who could collect the national will and direct the national force, and of officers appointed out of the militia, by these governments, and attached both to them and to the militia, it may be affirmed with the greatest assurance, that the throne of every tyranny in Europe would be speedily overturned in spite of the legions which surround it. <<

>> Let us not insult the free and gallant citizens of America with the suspicion, that they would be less able to defend the rights of which they would be in actual possession, than the debased subjects of arbitrary power would be to rescue theirs from the hands of their oppressors. Let us rather no longer insult them with the supposition that they can ever reduce themselves to the necessity of making the experiment, by a blind and tame submission to the long train of insidious measures which must precede and produce it. <<

http://www.constitution.org/fed/federa46.htm
The same argument could be used to not pay you the money your employer pays you.
> All this assumes you want arbitrary duration/portion dispensing, otherwise you just need N bowls, and a rotary cover that opens each at a set time (which is most commercial ones I've seen).

Mine current design will allow some level of arbitrary feeds and duration.

My current plans call for a sealed rotating drum with an opening that contains ~1/2 cup of kibbles, so each spin of the drum will dispense that much. Using door brush to seal around the bottom of the hopper and the drum to keep kibbles from escaping. The servo will rotate it from 0 to 180 and back, allowing the kibbles to fall down a small ramp and into the bowl. My concern with this design is that I may not be able to rotate the drum fast enough, but I'll see if that's an issue when I get there.

Just spin it X times for X/2 cups of kibbles. I figure 1/2 a cup is good resolution for a home project.
There is: Look to Windward. Good, but not his best. Excession would be that one, IMO.
There are a few developments trying to crack down the micropayment Holy grail
It's often simpler to keep data in a relational DB for reporting, especially if you've got data lake tooling -- it's just easier to get wider insights if your data is stored relationally. I know it's possible to do this without relational DB, but you get it for free with SQL.

As you say though, put it in memory first and write it out to a DB every now and then.
The Milky Way is about 100k light years across. If colonization proceeded at 1% of the speed of light, it would take 10 million years to colonize the galaxy. That is roughly 0.2% of the time that the Earth has existed. And a bit under 2% of the time since the Cambrian that we've had complex life forms.

Speed of light is a barrier for intergalactic colonization. It is not a barrier for an advanced civilization trying to colonize a galaxy. Even a relatively large galaxy such as our own.
I'm still stuck with Django 1.4 for one of my projects, it's such a big hurdle to upgrade it. I wonder if it's worth to just straight up rewrite it in 1.10.
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My personal belief is that we haven't run into them yet because they are quietly observing us from the asteroid belt.

It's only been a few years since we have been able to even begin to survey the solar system and that would mean that a bracewell probe could have been burrowed in an asteroid for millenia observing the development of the human race.

Perhaps it choses to not make contact with us because we have not yet crossed a threshold that it is programmed to observe before making contact/annihilating us.
He's not. My original post said "five Pis".
That's the story of a massive bribe [allegedly] paid to an individual rather than the source of the IOC's funding though. It was never likely to be directed to the part of the Olympic movement that most needed it.

Actually, I suspect that part of the justification for the IOC executives' lavish officially-sanctioned, sponsorship-funded expense accounts is to limit the ability of bidding nations to curry favour with less obviously corrupt "free hospitality" arrangements that apparently were common in the 90s. (You're less likely to feel obliged towards someone for the offer of free flights and a five star hotel for your fact finding mission if you could charge it to your Amex card anyway)
Whether it actually works is another question...
I think Denton's a parasite, but they forced Hogan to be accountable for something he should not have done like a tasteless Wikileaks. A nicer and more ethical Gawker could have been a good thing, were it allowed to survive and change.

I don't think it matters Thiel funded it, I don't really see how that's different to a high profile lawyer volunteering or expecting Apple, Google etc to step in when Lodsys were being parasites the other year etc. The EFF funds plenty of stuff too I think. If the consequences were survivable or Hogan lost would anyone have cared Thiel backed it?
I doubt that will work. Just like other prestigious or enjoyable things people do (like photography) there is basically an unlimited supply. The only strike that can work is countries boycotting it.
When Airplane Food Was First Class
Ask HN: Borrowing TOC from a similiar service?
Is this legal/wise as a temporary solution?

I've read through it and amended it as required. It's fairly generic in itself.
"Reader view" seems to be meant for text articles. This is more like a graphic novel, little text.
1.4 to 1.5 is the really painful upgrade. The rest are much less so. Especially after 1.6.
Not with all the same possibilities. If it's the same company, they can sell one product close to margin (or below), and make it up in other products that are sold in the same package. Installing solar panels at zero profit isn't all that useful for Solar City as a singular entity, but if it's part of a package that includes an Automobile and Powerwall setup, there's a lot more places to make that profit.
Germany is so far ahead in their understanding of the common good. Recall too that they single-handedly jump started the modern solar industry with their feed-in tariff scheme.
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I'm an engineer at Stitch. Our approach to transformation is to do just enough to move data from one system to another without losing precision or fidelity. So, we transform datatypes and structures into more appropriate forms for the target system, but we don't have any transformation operators like aggregation or windowing.

We have found that this approach works well for our users, who prefer to get the rawest possible data, and the systems we target like Redshift that are themselves powerful transformation engines. This gives the user unlimited flexibility for defining transformations, and a full audit trail for understanding how their data has changed.

We are always evolving, though, so if there's a use case that you think requires this approach, I would be eager to hear more about it.
So resist by not visiting those sites. Once you say that you are still entitled to the content, you have lost any claim to moral high ground, and are just acting like an entitled child.

"Once you send information out into the world. you DONT own it."

This sounds like someone who believes that if something comes up in a Google image search, it's free game for anyone to use.
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I think in part because it's well known and also because this might be the first time it's been specifically stated as a personal vendetta.
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But that's the thing, I don't need hundreds, I just need five or ten, so it's just amateur usage but one doesn't work (one could easily fry while experimenting).

I just make weird things out of them. My latest one is an RC car that I was hoping could get some mapping software onto, and turn fully autonomous, although an ESP8266 talking to a laptop is acceptable (and what I'm currently doing).
Paris outsourced its water supply to a private company (Suez) a while back, only to witness exactly what the article describes: Rising prices and sinking quality. The city finally decided to take the water supply back into its own hands and did not renew a 20 year lease to Suez, creating its own water supply company instead, "Eau de Paris". Already in the first year of its operation, the city was able to decrease water prices by 8 %.

Here's a short article in English:

http://www.futurepolicy.org/food-and-water/remunicipalisatio...

Wikipedia article about water privatization in France:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_privatization_in_France
I dont know if there is any simple way of achieving this. However, I had similar issues with sharing high quality images and whatsapp was not the right app for it. I setup slack for my parents on their phones and they share images and stuff on it. The free tier for slack works for me, and integrated tons of apps like dropbox, kayak and etc to it. But then this is more suited for close group, like in my case.
Once you get to civs that last >10^6 years, the galaxy becomes a trivial size.

The galaxy - and the speed of light limit - are also trivial distractions to any low-energy civs that evolved to run at a much slower metabolic rate, or adapted themselves to same.

With Fermi, the smart money is on the galaxy being full of life - but it's either avoiding Earth completely, or it's here already and doesn't want to be seen.

Besides - the goals and technology of >10^6 civs are literally unimaginable from a human perspective.

We assume that exploration and travel are major interests. They may not be.

There may be other pastimes we're completely unfamiliar with - ones which make getting into metal spaceships and banging atoms together to make them move through spacetime in a linear way seem about as interesting as sleeping in tree branches are to us.
Hardly.
He must be smart, he nodejs'd the mongo with haskell#! INSTAHIRE.

It's actually possible to model smarts and turn out bad work without actually being smart. Joel's phrase is intuitively obvious and subtly open to deep abuse.
They love vague statements, haha! I don't know if these qualify but things like (from most novel to least):

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tax revenue as a percentage of GDP has been stable since WWII - http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/statistics/source-revenue-sha...
The difference between Zaibatsu and Keiretsu is how much the state is involved. After MacArthur's attempt to demolish Zaibatsu completely, they found a way to reorganize with almost no state involvement as Keiretsu. These days, after half of the century, Japanese pretty much recreated all the things MacArthur killed - from Zaibatsu to ultra-nationalism as government ideology [1]

Samsung, Daewoo, Hyundai - pretty much any big Korean firm is Chaebol.

[1] http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/07/10/does-this-r...
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Definitely. No need to be worried about what orientation you are in relation to a hypothetical observer either. Then again, you could sit in a molecular cloud, or near something really exotic like a neutron star of some variety to REALLY hide over longer time scales.
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I would think it's unrelated. The issue described by Uber and the Postgres team is specifically related to UPDATEs against highly indexed tables. In an event store the data is typically completely immutable.
Ah interesting. So is this just something you guys do for fun at the end of your posts? Great example of dogfooding, especially coming from the big guys :)
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I wish whatever anti-shake filter hadn't been applied (does youtube do this automatically now? I've noticed a scourge). Still, I'm totally bookmarking this to watch later when my limited Japanese comes back online. Thanks for posting it!

There wouldn't happen to be an original somewhere without the filter applied?
Delivery fails at jobs@jask.op

Also I can't reach your website. Ah dug around your LinkedIN apperently it is jask.io not .op
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If we assume that life is common enough* that it will evolve independently multiple times in the future, then the chance we are "the first" is closer to that of being "the last", unless you have a convincing prior I'm unaware of. So it should be a pretty low probability.

Don't you think?

*Common in the sense of "easy enough to create", i.e. the macrostate corresponding to "life" can be made up of a very large number of microstates.
Yes. They also should be required study material for anybody that writes software interacting with the real world. Humans are fragile. I wrote a cad/cam system for a lathe/mill combo, in all the years that that system was out there we found one bug that made it out past my desk and that only happened because some idiot decided to demo a new feature to a prospect to try to close a sale.

The fact that a simple error could cause someone to lose a limb or die does wonders for your focus.
Is this comment supposed to be ironic? Sounds sorta like it, but I don't really see anything wrong with demonstrating a product like this.
That would work if they made the password full of zeroes public. But did they? I think it's more likely they wanted to increase probability of correct execution. So they prepared for the possibility the correct passwords to launch would not be available when needed, in the simplest way - have a password that is easily remembered.
If I were reviewing this paper, I would be quite surprised that there is no mention of how long it took life to emerge on Earth after there was liquid water. While the earth is around 4.6 By old, my understanding was that liquid water was not present until about 3.8 Bya, and that life probably emerged in the by 3.5 Bya. So, 300 million years for life to emerge in on Earth with liquid water. I realize it's only one data point, but it seems like it should inform the probability calculation.
This was not a post written as "We were naive and unprepared and suffered the consequences" but rather "look at all these bad things this bad man did to us, the victims, and oh yeah maybe we could have done something better at some point."