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So I work in cleantech, and here's my favorite climate change joke:

They say humans won't act until it's too late... Luckily, it's too late.

To me, Musk is acting like your typical super-smart engineer under a fire drill. Perhaps Musk thinks that we aren't adapting fast enough to the changes in our environment, so he's basically putting every drop of effort he has into trying to engineer solutions.

Engineers are a weird bunch. They love fixing problems more than they love money. Also, they recognize the tools available and use them to their advantage. Remember social engineering is still engineering. Perhaps Musk sees capitalism and markets as a tool and is using it to his advantage (having rich people on your side adds to your toolkit).

What would you do if we had to switch 87% of our energy sources from fossil fuel[1] to something else in the next 30 years[2]? No really, what would you actually try to engineer to pull it off? Now you're in Musk's mindset. Luckily, that's double-digit trillion dollar opportunity if you can actually pull it off[3], so you can use the markets as a tool (and everyone wins[4]). Musk knows the next Googe will be an energy company[5].

Also, he wants to die on Mars. Everyone's got to have a hobby.

[1]: https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=11951

[2]: http://ar5-syr.ipcc.ch/ipcc/sites/default/files/AR5_SYR_Figu...

[3]: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97...

[4]: http://0.tqn.com/d/politicalhumor/1/S/5/6/3/What-If-Its-A-Ho...

[5]: http://www.pvsolarreport.com/the-next-internet/
Oh my god yes. nano, moe, and JOE are more lightweight than vim, and have better ergonomics. I can understand setting $EDITOR to nvi, mg, or similar, but setting it to vim is ridiculous: Vim is in Emacs's weight class.
Rivers don't actually flow at all. It's the water.
تحميل برنامج ايمو ماسنجر للأندرويد وللايفون مجانا Download imo
ex is usually safe from the featuritis that grips vim
My attempts at using ed end up like the session illustrated here: https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.txt
Yes; about 11 of them, according to the article itself. Though I assume they meant "Turkish" as in belonging to the land, Turkey, not the nation.

12,000 years... Older than our planet, according to Young Earth creationism.
Totally :) I'm the author of the PEP, btw. Will be glad to answer questions.
There is no mention of installing a sturdy beam across the road slightly lower than the least clearance, just a suggestion that the least clearance should be reported, and an extended discussion of the multiple (and rather unsurprising, IMHO) ways in which the pilot car system failed.

I am reminded of the half-assed measures that were taken to mitigate the risk of DC10 cargo doors blowing open, prior to the Turkish Airlines crash in Paris. Am I missing something here?
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This the second comment that is critical of Tesla that you have tried to censor by claiming that the parent has no standing to criticize unless they share the identical experience as Elon Musk. It's clear that you dislike any opinion that is bearish on Tesla, but your rationale for stifling those opinions is spurious.
You Sir/Mam/Other, make me feel better about the human race.

Can't imagine how hard that was, but you did the difficult thing and your best at it in the hardest circumstance I can think of.

Thank you.
Because no companies tie executive pay to profit targets.
>Gnome Desktop Environment (GDE)

Is this a common acronym?
> I remember reading an anecdote somewhere that when it's hot out (temperature wise) that physical altercations increase.

This is actually a joke among New Yorkers. Random slashing in the news in May? "Well, it's getting warmer out..."
This kinda feels like a really really minor point to the article, the rest of the article - revolving around parseability of logs is a REALLY important part of running any production infrastructure.

Anyone who's ran production infra for long enough has written all the regexes, mostly from scratch, mostly badly. Myself included. None of my parsers would have caught the ssh 'root from 8.8.8.8'@server log.

Applications that offer structured logging are superior (in terms of logging), and we need to ensure we build applications that support this going forward.

For those in the python world, https://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-logstash is great. It's somewhat undocumented, but it can be used without logstash, writing python logs with their original arguments to JSON on disk (which we then had an agent ship to logstash, because, disk turns out to be a decent buffer for handling network glitches).

e.g. LOG.error("Invalid user %(user)s", {"user": "Kiall"}) can be logged as "ERROR: Invalid user Kiall", or:

{"message": "Invalid user Kiall", "level": "ERROR", "extras": {"user": "Kiall"}}.

I'd love to get the raw uninterpolated message in there too, so that I could match on that, then show the formatted message, while allowing filtering on the extras.
So like media queries, in CSS? That's neat.
this makes all debates about software seem trivial. i agree--it's very well written.
But demand is inelastic and I think there is a patent monopoly.
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State Farm Insurance has an amusing TV ad about the things young people say they will never do: https://youtube.com/watch?v=O1Z91YkPatw
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Well just one example: The static fire test that ended in the explosion is not even done by other providers.
Frankly I don't care...

I wake up some mornings and occasionally when I have those crappy "entrepreneury/startyupy" days when everything is going to shit and I wonder if it's worth all the effort - I think about what Elon Musk is doing and then STFU and get out of bed and get on with it.

Having read the recent biography about the guy, the only thing I worry about is that he is physically on a aircraft too much while flying between SpaceX and Tesla (along with other places). He's too important to the future of the human race to lose because of some crappy accident. Ditto his work schedule - for the love of god, please someone make sure he doesn't die of a heart attack/stress or something else!
The parent poster was saying bikes are less likely to get stolen in LA because nobody knows how to ride--I don't think that's true at all. Most people who steal bikes just want to sell it for money. I heard SF had a huge bike theft problem and was working to reduce stolen bikes in the second-hand market instead of attacking thefts directly. They also added a stolen bike registry to make recovery more seamless. Maybe LA has something similar and that's reducing thefts? I still see evidence of bike thefts in LA (parts of bikes or empty chains locked to things).

More to your point, Los Angeles has free bike safety courses for varying levels all over town. They start with "learn to ride," "interested in riding a bike for daily trips, but are concerned about safety," and "confident city cycling." I think they also give out free safety equipment like helmets, lights, and reflectors.
Sleeping all night in night shift.
I don't think it is particularly good design anyway.
What does demand being inelastic have to do with anything?

And the drug isn't patented.
Isn't one of the reasons why bitmaps are used that icons should actually vary from a standard vector image when shown at very small sizes to remain clear and readable?

This icon library shows some good examples.

http://mezzoblue.com/icons/chalkwork/
OpenBSD's sendsyslog(2) made syslog_r(3) really cheap and usable virtually everywhere, also solved fd exhaustion issues.. and despite any protocol quirks.. syslog has a standard place in Unix arcana.

It would be great of other systems adopted this.

http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man2/sendsyslog.2
I read your summary first and thought it might be a bit biased. So I read the article in full and your summary does indeed capture its gist fairly. I'm a little surprised such a terrible article was written by an economics professor.
I am sorry to see that resistance doesn't stop the dam project. It's a beautiful heritage but will be gone :(
True. The NBN was supposed to fix that but became politicised and that was the end of that.

The mobile networks however are first rate despite having low download quotas. On Vodafone (a cheaper network) where I live I get 60 mbit down and 30 mbit up over 4G. For the record that's 6-12 times faster than my dsl connection depending on if it's raining or not.
If he fails for making promises he could never keep, many will stand to lose. I live in the home of Toyota in Japan, and would welcome any competition that pushes Japanese automakers to achieve more, but in my opinion Tesla is not showing the signs of a business that can scale. Incidentally, I blame the American consumers, investors, media, and labor pool for that shortcoming as much or more than I would blame Musk. A great leader is still only as good as his weakest link. In my view, America is incapable of sustaining a great manufacturing culture at scale due to the influence of various perverse incentives that have woven themselves into the cultural fabric.
like vi, ed is a tool that everyone should know how to use. If your system is well and truly FUBAR, to the point that all but /sbin is gone, and termcap's missing, you need to know how ed works. But even kt himself has given up on using ed for the day-to-day (he uses sam, which is probably what vi should have been...), so it's clear its popularity has waned over the years. I myself would rather emacs any day.

As for acme, I never got on with it. It's too graphical for my tastes: call me old-fashioned, but I like to have my finger on the keyboard when I edit (sam in a tiled wm is about as far as I'll stray in that direction). OTOH, it does have some really cool features... However, we Emacs users don't get jealous of features: we steal them...

grins evilly
> Your incredulity at the fact that trains still have human operators involved in any capacity at all, on the other hand, is spot-on. I'm with you 100% there. Every time somebody wrecks a train because they were asleep or distracted or texting or otherwise had better things to do, there is always a giant thread on HN full of postings from train experts explaining why the world would end if humans weren't involved in fixed rail operations.

I figure it's probably a low-rent version of the reason that the Space Shuttle had to be landed by people: just like astronauts wanted to feel useful, so too do the rail engineers.
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Ahh. Yes. I'm not that bad, but I'm not great either.
If demand is elastic, higher prices would result in lower sales.
I find myself doing the same from time to time! It really does help me push through.

I've tried the same line of reasoning with my girlfriend as well; not much success.

YMMV.
Philosophy doesnt add anything to society
My recollection is that normal cubesats generally don't have any propellant (as they're usually hitchhiking on larger payloads) so that combined with their tiny size, the orbit is not going to be sustainable for long.
Yeah, that's the problem with poor scriptability, mixed with no dedication to minimalism or vision. This minimalism is one nice thing about vi, although I like my editors like I like my paper: scriptable.
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This article reminds me just how out-of-the-mainstream the ideas of 19th century popular economist Henry George have become.

In short, he's one of the few thinkers to focus both on increasing the overall production of wealth, through unfettered free trade, but to deal with the rise of economic inequality within a market (which he identified in his "Progress and Poverty" as monopolization of natural resources, such as land.)

Regardless of George's solution, I'm struck that I see two primary schools of dealing with inequality today:

1) Anti-globalization (both Sanders and Trump), basically a step backwards-- making the worth of each person better by making work more inefficient

2) Laissez-Faire approaches to the economy-- embrace free trade, but also allow great rents with banks, corporations, etc.

I'm seeing very little bridging between these two sects, and I'm seeing it more and more important that we do-- any thoughts on this phenomenon?
No, the article, talks about government intentions and plants that are being built, but almost nothing has been completed, and so at present there is virtually no solar energy in Russia, and virtually no new wind energy.

The problem here is that what the article talks about are government plans in an authoritarian regime, and as we all know from the history of Russia and many other authoritarian nations, it is quite common for such plans to never be actually carried out.

You know, you yourself said you don't like Putin, but you seem to trust the stories his tightly-controlled media put out on what Russia is doing about the environment and renewable energy. It seems to me that is rather contradictory.
I'm not surprised that this article is pretty divisive on Hacker News.

> I find it difficult to find anyone who uses more than Excel and eighth grade level mathematics (=arithmetic, and a little bit of algebra, statistics and programming)

I think even that's a bit optimistic; I think people whose further studies or jobs don't require that level of mathematics forget it pretty quickly. For a base level of "everyday life," you probably only need basic arithmetic operations.

As anecdotal evidence, look to all those times that a relatively convoluted expression is posted on Facebook or Reddit and people argue for weeks about what the proper solution is. Of course there's plenty of people who get it right, but the wrongs range from a subtle misunderstanding of order of operations to a complete lack of knowledge about it.
Companies are neutral. "The company" didn't make this decision. It was the board of directors, flesh and blood people. The board of directors was elected by shareholders. Who are the shareholders?

http://investors.morningstar.com/ownership/shareholders-majo...

Largest shareholder: Vanguard Health Care (5%) ... which is in turn owned by STAAR Alternative Catagories.

https://www.zacks.com/funds/mutual-fund/quote/SITAX

And STAAR Alternative Cats is managed by one J Andre Weisbrod.
This is the first I've heard that the I-35W Mississippi River bridge in Minneapolis was "fracture critical", and even if it was, the design flaw of too small gusset plates would possibly make that moot when one of them gave way, since others that were too small would then fail more easily.
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Worked for me: http://imgur.com/a/43Ksu
I always figured this was because when it's cold out, people simply go outside less.
Ah yes, the Glasgow Ice Cream Wars: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow_Ice_Cream_Wars
What fraction of people using the word intend it in that sense, and what fraction do not, and how are we ever to discover these numbers?

I saw this rhetorical move once before, where someone complained that the concept of "SJW" -- as in "Social Justice Warrior" -- was racist, as Nazi forums used it to mean "SJeW" (whatever an "SJeW" is). In that particular case it was obvious the obscure meaning was basically unknown. In this case it's slightly less clear, but I still suspect most people using the word "globalism" have something like its obvious meaning in mind: globalisation, open borders, etc.
Anyone can be critical now being condescending is a totally different thing. How exactly can I censor anything?
Any reason it's "cum" and not "come to the park"?
How much philosophy do you know?

Do you think you have free will? Some philosophers argue convincingly that you don't. And if there's no such thing as free will, where does that leave the notion of punishment in the criminal justice system? I think that's "content" if there ever was such a thing.

Should we be socialists or capitalists? Is one system better than the other? What does it mean for an economic system to be "better" than another anyway? On the basis of philosophical arguments regarding these questions, people have been inspired to violently murder those who they see as perpetuating injustice. Surely, then, these arguments are not just "abstract" and "without content".

It's very difficult to explain why science is as successful as it is, or why we should put our trust in the results of scientific inquiry. The history of science is littered with mistakes, after all; who's to say that the expert scientific consensus isn't wrong today? So when you encounter someone on the street who says "I think global warming is nonsense," what sorts of arguments will you use to try and persuade them otherwise?

The problems of philosophy don't go away just because you're not looking at them.
Here is my summary of his book on the same lecture: https://ashishb.net/book-summary/book-summary-the-last-lectu...
Somewhat related - One of the reasons my significant other decided to not go into emergency medicine was the high rates of PTSD in ER physicians and nurses: "We don't have good numbers, but the incidence of PTSD in emergency physicians is probably around 17%" [1].

So while I can respect the stoicism and clear focus on the emotions of the mothers of victims, I hope the author and other ER doctors also take some time for themselves to deal with the trauma they experience.

[1] http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/840980
Because he's talking about "other awareness" and "self awareness" as distinct concepts. ToM includes both.
>I think philosophers often free-ride on the discoveries of cognitive scientists without adding anything to the discussion.

Actually, cognitive scientists emerged after millennia of philosophic treatments of the matter (although they approach things with a different methodology of course).

That said, I don't think we have many, if any, philosophers today. All the main perspectives in philosophy have been played out from the time of Pre-Socratic philosophers to the 20th century.

Today we mostly have tame and bland tenured academics in Philosophy departments -- a pale shadow of philosophers of yore, and not so original to boot.
For some context, here is a map of poverty in Philly:

http://www.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2014/01/05/poverty-map/

The hospital is in census tract 016300 with poverty level 58.5%
Nobody dies if you can't afford Tide.

People forgoing medically necessary healthcare and medication is where the problem lies with aggressive profit seeking where demand is inelastic.

Now, if the US government would simply allow imports of equivalent medications and devices when this sort of rent seeking occurs (from other first world countries where the price is set through a single payer system), we wouldn't be having this conversation.
The sheer number of things that had to go wrong for this disaster to happen is impressive.
Two years ago and a day, I could read this and understand the gravity. Two years ago my daughter was born, and now I can't read this, or see commercials from CHOP, or anything else similar without my eyes filling with tears.

I don't know how people lose a child and come back from it. I say I can't imagine, but I do, and it terrifies me.
Ignoring the unlikelihood of someone actually authorizing microphone permissions (because it's no fun if we take that into consideration), what are some good use cases for this library.

Reminds me of those rumors that swearing at an automated phone system will usually cause it to direct you to a human operator. I've never given it a try myself to see if it's true.
I am an embedded software engineer at a company that does handheld electronics, and agree that both jobs are along spectrums. I spend a lot of time with the hardware engineers, and we all spend time testing things on our benches with signal generators and oscilloscopes as well as using computer tools to develop (software in my case and hardware in theirs).

If you want to work with some hardware, or on a test bench with lab equipment, you can always move over to embedded, as there are many jobs available; some even say it's less competitive.
I went in to this article thinking, "this guy is stupid." I came away thinking, "syslog is stupid."
The top comment in this thread details why it looks clear: some icons have different proportions for different icon sizes to make sure things look okay. So the problem is that proportions planned for one physical size are used for a smaller physical size.
The easiest example to see (to me) is the use of the cloud / blush sprite in Super Mario Bros. 1. They use the same sprite with an alternate pallet. (1)

The most complicated example I've seen thus far, however, is that of Crash Bandicoot for the PS1.[2] Perhaps the most interesting thing is the description of their efficient code use:

"Ultimately Crash fit into the PS1's memory with 4 bytes to spare. Yes, 4 bytes out of 2097152. Good times." (3)

[1] - http://www.rantgamer.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Clouds-a...
[2] - http://all-things-andy-gavin.com/2011/02/02/making-crash-ban...
[3] - https://www.quora.com/How-did-game-developers-pack-entire-ga...
I used Inkscape recently, and found it quite a nightmare to use, even if its UI reminded me of Corel Draw quite a bit.

That's what I get for spending like a decade primarily using Photoshop, I suppose.
I fully respect your argument and where you are coming from. Thank you.

As an engineer, I fully support Elon Musk's approach. Space in general is unreliable and there are thousands and thousands of moving parts in space travel and the payloads they carry. A simple error or fault in any of these parts can create unpredictable outcomes. Remember the Apollo missions?Columbia space shuttle disaster?

So, to me it seems perfectly acceptable to focus on reducing the costs of these missions to the point where these missions become cheaper, some fail - we learn, and ultimately failures won't matter much because we cut the costs down by tenth or even twentieth. If we move at the pace of the current industry, it will take 500 years to out a man on Mars. Obviously I am exaggerating but you see my point. Let them try something new, fail but learn and ultimately speed has to matter because humanity has ambitions and Universe is friggin big.
I couldn't get Inkscape to work on Mac at all.
The 0.3 mg of epinephrine injected by the pen probably isn't patented, but I believe that the pen is.
“We have been experiencing a catastrophic DDoS attack”
That's not even wrong.

Philosophy has been pivotal in shaping human civilization, laws, morals, government, arts, and even science itself.
FBI building fresh case for access to electronic devices
>Update - We have been experiencing a catastrophic DDoS attack which is being spread across hundreds of different IP addresses in rapid succession, making mitigation extremely difficult. We are currently working with our upstreams to implement more complete mitigation.

That's pretty harsh.
> All you proles stop complaining about corporate corruption, problematic immigration, and stagnant wages because everything is great and you have us to thank.

It's better than it otherwise would have been. As Margaret Thatcher noted decades ago, people concerned about inequality would be happier if everyone were worse off, so long as everyone were equal in their squalor. That's just insane.

I've seen my parents' childhood toys, and my grandparents'. I've seen items in museums from centuries ago. I've been to third-world hellholes just barely beginning to liberalise their economies. I've seen the famous video of an 'upper-class' Soviet supermarket which was worse than the worst supermarket I've ever been to in the poorest part of town. The past was immensely poorer than the present; illiberal economies are immensely poorer than the West.

It may make you emotionally happier to drag down the wealthy, but it will make you actually poorer.
I do a lot of drawing and sometimes I build panels for prototype machines, but mostly I spec out components, talk to vendors, and do paperwork. FWIW, I work at a small company that makes industrial meat processing and packaging equipment.