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Children are not adults who are just physically smaller. Unless you have a magic invocation that can instantly train children to behave the way you want, there must, by necessity, be a window of time where this is still a problem even if everybody is behaving as perfectly as can be expected.

Further, the idea that even adults act this way is pretty silly. It's masked by the fact that in the adult world, we have far more power to self-sort into groups we find acceptable. I am not aware of anybody who actually makes everybody else feel welcome, and that certainly includes even those who make a big show about how inclusive they are, which generally gives me a lot of statistical information about exactly which groups they're interested in excluding.
I don't know about this model, but on another Tesla the trunk is pretty huge.

Usually when I think of something that I want to load stuff into, I go with at least a mid-size SUV. Those you can lay the seats down and put stuff in it. It also will have places for roof racks and potentially a little hitch if you need a trailer.

Also I don't mean to insult anyone's taste in hatchbacks. Just compare this hatchback to any other hatchback. Even by those standards it doesn't look as good imo.
The Bolt has no realistic story for long distance travel. No manufacturer other than Tesla does

That appears to be changing: http://arstechnica.com/cars/2016/09/chargepoint-bmw-and-vw-c....
> Socialism is a system characterised by social ownership of the means of production, as opposed to capitalism, which is characterised by private ownership of the means of production. Both are ideologies.

Historically, every attempt to build a socialistic society has led to tyranny. One can wonder, if this might be an inevitable consequence along the path to attempt socialism.

But we have managed to build several capitalistic societies which did not fall into tyranny (although some did).
At the risk of being off-topic, I hate the fact that many modern entrepreneurs use the hilarious-in-hindsight comments on Dropbox's Show HN as an example on why startups should ignore criticism to be successful. Dropbox is the exception, not the rule. (Additionally, the demographics of HN today in 2016 are much, much different and more technically diverse than in 2007, so the irony would be less likely to be repeated)
But the living expenses in cities like SF and NYC are entirely different compared to the rest of the country. 100k is not really a magical number aside from the fact that it's six digits instead of five. You see similar things in other countries.
Back to the government? What makes you think the government was ever doing it to begin with?

And what problem would that solve? Right now a lot of drugs are invented by small biotechs then purchased by the big pharma companies.
i'm not saying it's great, but it's the most practical thing in most cases in go, & it was missing from your list.

whether or not go would be better with generics is still an open question imo.
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This is probably a bit exaggerated. Like someone else mentioned, this is probably directed at adults that have children. Having children comes with loads more time-consuming responsibilities... not that I have any, but my sister complains a lot about that part.
Well, I was happy using normal callbacks, but then promises made me a bit happier and now I even happier with async/await.

You can definitely write clean code with only callbacks, but one has to be pretty careful if there are many nested asynchronous actions.

Promises and await make that code very much clearer.
Wow. Fine, I'll bite: He is prosecuted for the greatest act of whistleblowing since the pentagon papers. This has enabled improvements in both privacy regulations and accelerated the deployment of strong cryptography across the Internet.

As the Berlin University puts it, he can thus be credited with "extraordinary achievements in defense of transparency, justice and freedom".

Yet despite this, his country of origin has no laws needed to protect him and any future cases of the kind. And what the hell are advesary states? Last I heard the cold war was over...

There is of course no possibility that he'd get a trial, so your morbid fantasy is just that... Again, I'm simply astonished that there are people in the US who could see this act as anything other than utter heroism.
ES6 modules are declarative in the sense that the dependencies are statically analyzable.
The internet is decentralized, for the most part; it was designed to be that way from the start. Whole pieces of the internet can go offline that the rest of it will continue operating as normal, with packets routed around the damage. The TCP and IP protocols were designed for this.

It's not the designers fault that so many people are dumb enough to happily give one company a near-monopoly over certain forms of communication.

It's very simple: stop using Facebook for everything. Use different sites/services, or switch to a decentralized service like Diaspora. Otherwise, stick with Facebook for everything and stop complaining when it bites you in the butt, and suffer the consequences when disaster strikes.
> A mode of thought I would expect in socialist countries, not the US...

What is your definition of "socialist" ? A lot of European countries are "socialists" in a way (always a nuance) but they don't have an aggressive kind of local NSA (even if some have a local NSA).
Data visualisation: Climate impact of European electricity production
Interesting. Important and good to know, thanks.
Swift 3 migration pitfalls
Interview with DigitalOcean
That's funny...I always remember the response to the Dropbox post as "Why don't you just use rsync?". Which is something I actually do for things I don't want to put on Dropbox. Not sure how that FTP solution is manageable, though.
I have trouble with the quantum immortality theory because people normally die in the 75-90 years range, and it would be supremely weird for you to just keep living while those around you all died, since in our reality humans tend to have similar lifespans.

I mean, I like the idea, but it just seems so implausible.
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Tesla is truely both an upstart and a startup. They are barely 10 years old and its only in the last 3 years that they've produced more than 10,000 cars a year. Their huge market cap reflects their huge plans, not their current state.
There is no competitive "market" for drugs anywhere.

I guess it depends on what you define as competitive. When hepatitis C competitors were launched, Gilead dropped their price really dam quick to keep market share.

I would call that a competitive pharmaceutical market.
I've always wondered why someone didn't build a vertical washer-dryer combo, about the size of a fridge, where the clothes in the washer portion at the top simply drop into the dryer portion at the bottom (possibly assisted by a mechanical push) and start the dryer portion automatically. Bonus if you can then push the dry clothes out the side into a waiting basket, but not totally necessary. Perhaps stability is a factor with the washer being on the top, but I'm OK with bolting it to my basement floor if necessary.
Dime a dozen.

Google "Social Dining Apps"

Will you use it? I'd bet no. I know I thought it a good idea until I found one, and never used it.

It was specifically for finding people near you to eat lunch that day with. (Can't remember this exact one)

It's good in your head, socially awkward in practice.

Unlike dating apps, or large group apps like meetup.

See "We’re F*cked, It’s Over. Or Is It?" https://medium.com/the-mission/were-f-cked-it-s-over-or-is-i...
[HW Startups] Running a Hardware Startup: 3 Ways to Reduce Risk
I tried to do it all last night: got it installed, db set up, and even a certificate. It didn't feel that overwhelming, and it started to be kind of fun after a while, but something went wrong somewhere just shy of it actually working. I'll try it again sometime.
The builds also expire after a couple of days, which is incredibly frustrating if you tell someone "Yeah I'm working on this cool project!" and they ask to see it.

Sorry buddy, this build is from last Wednesday, so all it can do is launch itself and immediately crash back to home screen.
I think it's still interesting, because (20 years ago) Airbus and Boeing made two very different bets on what air travel would look like in the future. Boeing thought it would be mostly P2P and built the 787; Airbus thought it would be hub-and-spoke and so built the A380. It's going to take a decade or more for this to play out, but this might be the first sign that Boeing was right and Airbus was wrong.
> The main difference is you're not getting fired or ostracized or jailed for run of the mill political views or dissidence.

Jailed, no. Fired and ostracized? Certainly, except for narrow definitions of "views" and "dissidence" (largely calibrated by region and type of employment).
No I wouldn't because "Maxima" is directly taken from AI terminology and "Maximus" is not.
> Alexa has infinite abilities. We call these, skills.

https://youtu.be/UOEIH2l9z7c?t=28

Yeah, right. Infinite.
What struck me as interesting about Tesla's approach is they are using a much cheaper sensor suite than Google/Uber. If they succeed it means they'll have developed algorithms (patents) to achieve a self-driving car on cheap hardware. Giving them 2 competitive advantages.
""living in the East Bay with roommates, commuting at least an hour, (very) occasionally going out," but it's eating good food with a roof over your head."

That sounds like me as a part time student / part time grocery store minimum wage shelf stocker around 1990 in the greater Chicago land area (well, within a very distant orbit of Chicago). I suppose most people would have considered me very poor at that time. I was on no government programs (other than uni student loans like everyone else). I had no medical insurance but I ate good food when I wanted. On the other hand I couldn't afford good steak, it was cheaper, but good and healthy, food. I was financially very hand to mouth no savings couldn't afford to "go out". Probably why I don't go out drinking now, never got in the habit when I was young. There are certainly poorer people, but the best case scenario being I'd have to downgrade to a starving student lifestyle is incredibly unappealing.

In summary it sounds like if you work full time plus at Facebook in CA (admittedly in 2016), your standard of living will be the same as working part time as a grocery store shelf stocker outside CA (admittedly in 1990). Of course my commute was better, but the CA guy has already graduated so he doesn't have to balance work and school like I did, so it kinda balances out.
I would think that a sign on the table would be a lot more effective.

I've definitely had times in crowded restaurants that I was willing to share my table with people who were looking for one, but I'm shy and had no way to signal that without feeling like bad things were going to happen, so I just sat there. I think only 1 time did someone ever ask, and I let them.

But if I had a sign that could signal that the other 3 chairs at my 4-person table were available, I'd use it, at least sometimes.

An app, though? That just seems like a pain.
I think it's just for their digest or "feed" type view, so that overly-long articles don't hog the entire page. I can live with it.
Roughly 2/3 of the global pharmaceutical market is the US. The EU is the other 1/3 and the rest-of-world is a small slice (but growing).
I can get to/from work four different ways. I want to know which way is the fastest. It gets tiring turning GPS on on/off every day just before using Maps.
I suggest you take a look at groups like skillsfund. they audit boot camps and provide scholarships.

the risk in going to a bootcamp, is that most people who would like to go to a boot camp are very easy to take advantage of. career transition often means that you are not in a position to be diligent or picky in your selection. many boot camps will make claims like their average graduate make $x per year. You want to make sure that you understand what percentage of their students graduate, what percentage of their students get placed in the field, and how they actually gather their averages.

unless your boot camp offers placement, and has transparent means of gathering incomes , you are much more likely to make $(y < x) at your first company out of a boot camp. This should not necessarily be a deterrent, but should be kept in mind.

I have known graduates of boot camps to be exceptional developers, that will likely do very well in the field. Their biggest challenge is placing their first job.

others, who are likely without prior expirience, graduate with skills that are just below industry needs. those need to find companies that are interested in growing them actively, which is very difficult. if you can go into a program with at least some proof of knowledge , you will be far better off.
In Canada, one of the major wireless providers offers Spotify premium accounts bundled in with mid and high tier data lines (i.e. 2 years of Spotify premium "for free"). So I wonder what other providers around the world do this, and how many of the 40mm are part of this group.
A special deal with LG, because they are the one making the packs? I suspect LG gave them a discount because they contracted LG to take care of a bunch of other stuff in the car. A bit like a lost-leader sale. You lose a bit on one thing, but you gain it back on something else.
I'm guessing it's pretty common for there to be a phone ban at schools these days, so hopefully Sit With Us has a story for that... Maybe they can coordinate via the app at home the night/morning before school?
I saw a car in San Francisco on Monday that had an Uber label on it. It was an SUV looking thing with sensors and devices all over the outside of it. As others have said, it looked like the early Google self driving cars.
It's really not surprising that established manufacturers can create worthwhile products if they choose to, it is just that they typically won't bother to try.
>So that's like ~$400M of income per month?

Friendly fyi... if we're talking about a company's financials instead of a human's salary, the precise term would be "revenue" instead of "income". Income would be revenue minus costs. Spotify doesn't have any positive income.[1]

>Their expenses are mostly royalties and those are probably spare change compared to that income.

No, it's not "spare change". In fact, the unfavorable licensing terms[2] to the record labels (58% payment) are preventing Spotify from turning a profit. (Keep in mind that so far, Spotify has never turned a profit.)

They also took on $1 billion in new debt with exploding terms[3] which pressures them towards an IPO. A bad timing of the IPO wouldn't help them at all.

I don't see how the financial numbers work in favor of Spotify. It looks like the only companies that can afford to stream music would be Amazon/Apple/Google.

Digital music streaming is a brutal business and all 3 major streaming companies Spotify/Pandora/Rhapsody have been losing money for years.[4] It's now 2016 and nobody has found a way to make profits. Their subscriber growth numbers keep making the headlines so people mistakenly assume those companies are financially successful when they're not.

[1]http://www.statista.com/statistics/244990/spotifys-revenue-a...

[2]http://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/spotify-contract-three...

[3]http://www.fool.com/investing/2016/06/17/will-spotify-have-a...

[4]http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2014/02/18/profitless/
What a lot of people don't realize is that commercial use of the Google Maps API is super expensive. $10,000/month even for something pretty simple and small scale. I was pretty unhappy to come across that price tag on a recent project knowing that all of these street view captchas for Google are just free labor for them to profit from.
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"Societies usually"?

I know a few European cultures, most notably the Germans, make a big deal about this difference, but I'm not aware of other cultures where distinguishing between public-but-obscure and public-and-indexed is a thing.

In my opinion it's a terrible distinction to make, as it gives users false comfort about what's actually unavailable to the public.
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That's terrible. On my Galaxy S4 it never turns on unless I turn it on or explicitly allow an app to turn it on.
I use a Lenovo A859. You CANT turn off GPS permanently. By some algorithm it turns on by itself at intervals
> The offices are like Disneyland for tech folk. Vast open stretches of adjustable desks....

I kinda stop reading and just started skimming after that.
I'm a Christian who finds evidence for evolution pretty strong. http://biologos.org/ is an organization promoting this general view.

I also find the evidence for Christ's resurrection quite strong. "The Case for Christ" by Lee Strobel is a book that lays it out well (though I'm not a huge fan of the literary approach).
Clickable:

- #define CTO - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8516777

- Ask HN: The “I want to do everything but end up doing nothing” dilemma - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9049208

- Ask HN: How to Be a Good Technical Lead? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10395046

- Ask HN: When you feel stuck in life - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12143266

- How to stop feeling lonely - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7044690

- We only hire the trendiest - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11326940

- The days are long but the decades are short - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9454440
so where is the public interest to justify whistleblowing?
No, I saw it on desktop.
Apple's AirPods are ushering in augemented reality
This whole thing seems to be based on that rather inaccurate article from the other day about not being able to deactivate location tracking on android, despite it being rather trivial to grab any recent android phone and verify that you can in fact block individual apps, including google maps and the play store, from having location access, and you can also deactivate location history from the location history menu (I honestly don't even remember if it defaults to on but i don't think it does?).

If the assertion is that you can't trust these privacy toggles then we're getting into extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence territory.

disclaimer: googler, although i'm an iphoney one not an androidy one
That seems like quite a neat list....thanks !!
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You're right I should have clarified that I meant I don't want Google to read the contents of my email and form a profile about me even if I don't use Google services instead of just saying "read".

Edit: I still haven't heard any justification from you for why it's ok for Google to do this nor any evidence that Apple does the same thing.
promotion and advertising that take the biggest chunk from profits

Are you saying that if a drug company didn't promote or advertise their profits would go up?

That makes no sense at all. Why would a drug company spend money on promotion and advertising unless they got a positive return from it.
What you describe (generics auto complete) has never happened to me and I use IntelliJ for a long time now.

And here's info about automatic importing: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/2016.2/auto-import.html
The documentary mentioned above implies that the car was killed, not because it was uneconomical, because the law that insentivised them to make the car wasn't worked out properly and the car companies found killing the law insidiously, and the car, a better option than complying with it.

The company truly was enthusiastic about the electric car, but then the law played unfavourable and they had to kill it.
Yes. But everyone cares about their code base which they have today not after what they are going to do in 10yrs.
An asteroid could wipe us all tomorrow. So I'm definitely worried about reworking stuff that I already wrote.
>> It can't be another wonky toy that a large company threw out there for PR points. The car looks like something they're taking seriously.

I agree, but my point was that the Bolt actually does look like something people take seriously, as demonstrated by the fact that the roads here are crowded by cars that look exactly the same. I'm 100% convinced that if you took a Bolt for a drive here, almost no-one would even notice it. It may surprise car enthousiasts, but that's a very powerful property of car design in the mid-range segment.

I never understood why hatchbacks are so unpopular in the US, maybe that's the reason you think it looks like a 'wonky toy'?
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I can't think of a favorite post... My fav comment was from a few years ago I think? And I can't remember everything, but one commentor said something like "You can't brag unless you won The Award" (the award being some bit deal contest or award. Was it math or programming?) and then the response was something like "Oh yeah, won that when I was 14"
(sorry, wish I could remember the details, but the thread was funny)
My conservative friends, not in the intelligence community, really don't like him. They try to be civil, but I can almost hear them hiss when I mention "Snowden".

It's odd to me. They don't mind digital surveillance at all. They think it's good if it makes everyone safer.

Throwing in my two cents, what interests me on the Snowden topic, is his character. While I'm glad Snowden took the initiative and risk, I don't believe he did it for altruistic reasons: sacrificing himself for the greater good. My opinion is based on seeing and hearing Edward Snowden talk in the documentary "Citizen 4" and other interviews. Many people say, "Look at what he did. He gave up his life in America. He sacrificed everything for no financial reward. He's a hero." It's true he took a big risk; he could still spend a lot of his life in prison. But he has gained huge from this risk. He is famous and respected by many; they're making a fucking movie about him. It reminds me of the line at the end of "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford": "You know what I expected [after I killed Jesse James]? Applause."
There are plenty of charitable hospitals in the US that will treat people who have no other options.
Oh man this Troy guy is the hero we need, fighting the good fight.
Then everyone knows that you're sitting with the Sit With Us kids - the beauty of the app is that new kids can just take a seat without any visible distinction.
What do you think of the Model S? Because that's a hatchback and it seems pretty popular.
I had no idea. I don't know how that's acceptable. Now I'm suspicious that mine is getting turned on without the phone telling me it's turned on.
I work remotely for past 5 years. Nothing beats that if you have small children.