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I am not sure that all European cultural paradigms are unsustainable, but I said that the one Elon is working under seems to me to be. I think Elon is doing the best he can working on the problems that are available for him to work on.

To me, one wrong problem is anything that perpetuates the automobile/road system as is. I think the whole thing needs to be completely rebuilt.

To me the enormity of our problems from a sustainability standpoint are so great that anything but a massive mobilization and shift in our way of life is arranging deck chairs on the titanic.

I think that religion was a science of mobilizing public opinion, and I think science has replaced it, and has yet to do as good a job, and has yet to recognize that fact.

I think the right problem is how to manage mass social/cultural change in a very brief period of time.

I'll say again, Elon is doing a fantastic job within the paradigm of our current industrialized cultural norms, which says that we can keep on with business as usual and make some adjustments to our systems ... but I think it's not enough by an order of magnitude, and so that's why I think minds like Elon's should be working on manufacturing a social/cultural reality that prepares us for a huge change in lifestyle.

To me that's a problem of social engineering, same as religion, and same as building a company, and Elon excels at it.
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I'm on our company's 401K plan. If you know nothing about how the stock market works, then the target date retirement fund is the way to go. The worst thing you could do is not participating in your company's 401K plan, especially if the company offers you matching dollars (Read: FREE MONEY). I started with a target date retirement fund (managed by Schwab) but almost 2 years ago, I decided to re-allocate my fund into 3 mutual funds: S&P 500, US Small-Mid Cap, and International Large Cap. I'm happy that I re-allocated my fund. Ramith Seti's "I will Teach You to be Rich" book inspired me. And, another influence that made me re-allocate my fund is the "Three-Fund Portfolio" principle by Boglehead's Guide to Investing. I don't currently have access to the funds that Bogle suggested, but if I have extra money to invest, I'd open a Roth IRA account (alongside my 401K) and do the following:

VTSMX 60%
VGTSX 30%
VBMFX 10%

or ETF's

VTI 60%
VXUS 30%
BND 10%

These allocations follow the Boglehead principle of 3-Fund portfolio / Lazy portfolio
How would 401k laws change, you are already taxed when you withdraw from a 401k normally? The risk with Roth laws changing is you get double-taxed because the government needs money, with a 401k you have gotten the benefit the moment you contribute money to it, after that all they can do is literally confiscate money from it, or change it to a regular taxable account, but you've still already come out ahead of contributing to a Roth in either case.
In the case of 1), the string theoretic tools, including AdS/CFT appear to be more effective in condensed matter physics than in their originally-intended use.

I've been glad to see the emergence of the Grassmannian/'amplituhedron' ideas, as they're different, and different would appear to be good.
If you live in Silicon Valley, a new grad would probably be in the 28% or 33% bracket just to be able to afford renting a studio apartment on their own.
This is a big reason I like remote working (and can't wait to find another job which is remote). I find office life really political and very inefficient. Our team (and others who stop by our area) is very chatty, and there's a ton of political (Game of Thrones level) maneuvering. My experience of remote working is that you're insulated from a lot of that--or at least you're in a lot more control of how distracted you allow yourself to be. Politically there are still stressors from time to time, but at least you're hopefully just judged on your output rather than how many hours you sit in your chair, the car you drive, the length of your commute, how you dress, and whether you shave daily.
A perfect example of unsustainable European cultural paradigm!
> Always be invested in the market.

I'm glad you don't adhere to the defeatist approach of Efficient Market Hypothesis proponents. Always be in the market, yes. Always follow the market, no.
Commercial treaties are signed all the time to make a few bucks, the same contracts could predict economical penalties for breaking these agreements. Money talks both ways, but it takes a lot of courage and political will to enforce such penalties.
> The article makes it sound like that starts to occur as it approaches the Sun, so is it a result of a jet of sublimating ice what started this spin, or was it intrinsic from the comet's early formation?

My reading of this part of the article suggests they think the former might play a role:

>> Based on the Hubble data, the research team suggests that sunlight heated the surface of the comet, causing it to expel jets of dust and gas. Because the nucleus is so small, these jets act like rocket engines, spinning up the comet’s rotation, Jewitt said.

That said, it could be a bit of Column A, a bit of Column B type situation?

> If it's the latter, why is it only starting to fragment now?

The sun could be weakening bonds of ice, to the point where they're weaker than the preexisting centrifugal forces. I know many (all?) materials start to lose their strength as they approach their melting points... it seems to me that either the bonds must weaken, or the forces opposing those bonds must strengthen or spike...
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Yeah, homo-sapiens will undoubtedly survive but the economy sure as hell won't. And given the inevitable loss of every major city coastal city, the unutterable disruption of agriculture and water supplies with the attendant massive die off, I agree the word 'fine' may be a tad inaccurate.
I think about the 24 hours in my day and see if the time I have spent/will spend expresses the priorities I have in my life. I create routines to ensure the decision-making is minimized as much as possible such that my habitual actions reflect my priorities. Lastly I consider the fact that will my future self think I am doing him a favor by the actions/systems I am putting in place. Motivation should be about putting yourself on the appropriate trajectory not just completing the individual action that leads to fleeting satisfaction.
What is a Vanguard, Betterment, WealthFront equivalent for EU-residents?

Local banks usually offer a very small selection of funds and the fees are usually 2%, which has a huge impact.
My father, brother, both grandfathers, one grandmother and fiance (female) are all adults on the spectrum (Aspergers under DSM-4). Empathy can be systematized like anything else. This works in 99% percent of situations. Just give him opportunities to be around people at his speed (like 2E gifted magnet programs in a large urban center) and he can learn to mimic their social skills. Career-wise, we seem to keep going to school until we burn out due to boredom (introverts last longer, like masters or PhDs, extroverts seem to drop out of undergrad) and then end up owning small, obscure businesses as a dictator doing economically valuable intellectual things. Primarily the introverts of the family maintain no regular social relationships at all outside of immediate family, extroverts have weird friends of varying IQ levels. The biggest source of meaning seems to be family and intellectually difficult work. YMMV.
I've lost track of the number of times I've been hired to fix an outsourced project disaster. I feel like this has burned enough people that I'm not nearly as worried about it as I was 10 years ago. If you make your living doing wordpress sites, though, it's time to retool.
Strength training athletes
What determines career satisfaction?
Ask HN: What problem would you pay for a solution?
I know that asking people this question directly could lead to weird results, but I've realized that most people I know pay for solutions to perceived problems that actively bother them (ie: buying coffee in the morning instead of sleeping more).

They often don't pay for solutions to actual yet dismissible problems (ie: being unhealthy, skill rot while employed).
I think https://www.cybrary.it/ is pretty good for free lessons. You can combine it with VMs like https://www.offensive-security.com/metasploit-unleashed/requ... and those from https://www.vulnhub.com/ for a bit of hands-on. Also, you can get a lot of information specific to your language, like http://guides.rubyonrails.org/security.html and https://github.com/presidentbeef/brakeman to look at real apps, to see what can go wrong.
Sponsored content. http://www.hulu.com/watch/873050

It is South Park (so you get all the crude/offensive humor that comes with it), but this episode is a pretty good microcosm of this sort of thing.
NK is indeed working on delivering payloads to orbit. Their latest mission was declared a success, although most watchers determined the orbit was so bad it would be coming down soon. I didn't follow the mission closely so I don't know what became of it.
Out of curiosity, what were the biggest differences in your expectations vs reality of basic training?

I've never been in the military so I don't know how accurate pop culture portrayals are, but I never got the impression it was supposed to be a walk in the park...
I'm user #1483 on Slashdot. That still exists, and I hardly ever go there though. Before the Slashdot era, I don't remember having visited some particular site regularly to see updating content.

But, oh, I got one: http://suck.com. That stopped making new content in 2001, but existed for another 14 years. Now the domain seems to have been taken over.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suck.com
What is it with inventors and umbrellas? I can't think of a bigger non-problem. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-Yx9GGqW5U
Yes, because we have to render props.children and normally Router is right under or near ReactDOM.render(), which only wants a single element from the component from the top of the tree. We were inserting a <div>, but that would screw over React Native users. So, unfortunately due to the structure of React, we have to enforce a single child.

This is improved a little bit in git, where we do a React.Children.only check: https://github.com/ReactTraining/react-router/commit/5a74d46...
Reinforcement Learning for Torch: Introducing Torch-Twrl
Made me laugh hard after a long time, yet informative..
Any other articles like this?
> Twitter's huge value is the ability to follow without needing a follow back (friend relationship).

Facebook also allows this. (Didn't always, but they do now.)
Sure, there are some research projects for that, but note the wildly different cost: charging a little different doesn't degrade the car's battery. All it takes is an Internet connection, a good prediction of how much charge the driver will need, and a micropayment of some kind.

That's a no-brainer compared to paying the owner for shortening the life of the battery.
Even if you have prior health issues, they can't reject you from a private medical plan.
This is actually a naive version of what I've been doing since I had to unwind a react/router/redux application once (I've since moved the components into an object and just reference it as component[value]).

While React-Router had a lot of great convenience features I found that it was surprisingly easy to roll my own redux-compatible version that fit my personal needs with a few lines of code and no additional dependencies.
Great book, I'm getting a lot out of the site and I'm looking forward to the release. Thanks!

I understand there is always one more library or topic that could be included...

.. but with that acknowledged, what do you think of sqldf as an alternative to dplyr? You mention that dplyr is a bit easier (within the context of being specialized for data analysis). I'd have trouble weighting in because I don't use R all that much, but I do really like the python "equivalent" pandasql.

Also, I've used SQL for a long time, so I'd have trouble at this point really knowing what's "easier" for someone new to both, but I do often find it easier to use SQL than do data frame operations in pandas. dplyr seems to be a closer cousin to standard SQL, so the difference might not be quite as great.
3D Printing Is Going to Turn the Miniatures Gaming Market into a War Zone
Snapchat is a pretty good comparable for Twitter's business model and employs less than a tenth of the employees, according to Forbes: http://www.forbes.com/sites/liyanchen/2015/08/11/the-most-va...
Not extradite but I imagine they may ask the local courts to enforce debt collection based on the civil judgement in the US. I've heard there are agreements with other countries to collect child support so it isn't a stretch to believe they may help collect other debts through the local court system.
Type-erasure was a crime against the Java community, perpetrated to make the JVM writers' job easier. Backwards compatibility was a poor excuse, as I can think of at least two ways to mitigate that without type-erasure:

* Introduce new generic types in a new namespace. .NET did this with `System.Collections` and `System.Collections.Generic`.

* Default unspecified generics to `Object`, including usage of generic types in bytecode tagged with pre-1.5 versions.
I agree that the risk of Roths being raided is quite high if we get to the point of taxes being raised that significantly to cause them to be valuable, so I don't really see a benefit personally of making significant contributions to one. I think raiding of 401ks is much less likely, as a lot more people have them and would be affected, and even if they do, you are still going to be better off than having contributed to a Roth unless they outright confiscate your balance, since you will have at least have avoided paying taxes in the past.

Or we could just continue doing what we are currently, and just keep piling up the debt :) No tax increase or Roth/401k raids needed.
True. And it's also not terribly unusual to vastly overestimate the "fame" value of a brief appearance on a TV show, and underestimate the risks of allowing yourself to be exploited for entertainment by billionaire media corporations and billionaire investors.
It's because "sharing" sounds really good. Everyone knows that it is kind to share, so lots of companies try to stick the word on to their own business.

I hate the way that any company with a vaguely peer-to-peer business model calls themselves 'sharing', or 'part of the sharing economy'. It's not just Uber. e.g. Zopa (a p2p loans company) describes itself as 'sharing', but it's a business where people lend money to others for a fee. AirBnB claims to be 'sharing', but at it's core, it is little more than a hotel booking system. Taskrabbit gets described as 'part of the sharing economy' but no-one is sharing anything, you are paying for workers to do chores.

Since when has sharing involved making a profit by charging users?
> I feel like this has burned enough people that I'm not nearly as worried about it as I was 10 years ago.

Europe is still catching up with US in terms of outsourcing, specially from richer countries into the lower wages ones.
Awesome! Do you foresee corporations contributing to fundraising? Unpatent seems like a great way to raise awareness of overreaching patents, but individuals have little incentive to contribute financially. Corporations have both the incentive and financial resources to contribute.
Personally I work in macro and fixed income market analysis (strategist), and I can heartily recommend R as your first language. Indeed, coming from a CS background, I first applied Python to many problems, and resisted R which was not a "grown up" programming language, in my opinion (some would make the same accusation on Python). However I dipped my toe in the water one day because R had a Bloomberg terminal add in and Python did not (at the time), and after about a month of uphill learning curve the eureka moments started materializing thick and fast. I cannot recommend R enough, as a problem exploration language. It just beats Python hands down when it comes to grabbing some (usually dirty) data, mangling it around, cleaning it, and then install.package'ing a bunch of potentially useful libraries which allow you to do everything you could possibly imagine to a small to medium sized data set. And crucially, static graphing. Nothing else comes close for this use case.

Now...caveats. R is not a production programming language. If you find yourself creating something truly useful for many users, that requires robust programming language structures such as threading, proper memory management, server-capability, or indeed, speed, R is going to become frustrating. Yes a whole bunch of people will tell you "it's possible, I do it, etc", but that is not its sweet spot. Also, if your data set is bigger than 2-3 gig or so, you're going to start hitting R's memory management wall. It's slow. You'll then be better off with Python, C, or indeed, Scala, or possibly, Apache Spark. The common thing about these caveats, however, is that they're definitely second order problems, later in your career life cycle, than the excellent mainstream data science tool which is R for people who have outgrown Excel, but are not full fledged computer scientists, and who want to get (lots of) stuff, done.

(by the way, pre-empting comments. Yes Pandas is great, but no it's not quite R).
That's interesting to know, thank you. Just so I am clear, you have domains that end with .local?
Twitter had to kill their ecosystem in order to make any money on advertising. There was just no way to sell ads if so many users were going to be using 3rd party clients.

You may be right that killing off the 3rd party ecosystem hurt their usage, but from a business perspective, there wasn't any point keeping it if it was damaging their business model.
Because of the exponential growth of humanity along with cars and CO2 emissions. We're a direct cause of the temperature rises, and exponentially more of us means accelerating growth.

See also this xkcd comic for a great visualization of this: xkcd.com/1727/
In which case you've lost nothing since that money wouldve been in a conventional account and taxed to hell anyways.

Put it in the IRA and if things don't go to shit, your money is fine. Don't put it in the IRA and of things go to shit, lose the tax advantage.

Do either and things go to shit, it doesn't matter which you did.
> Because running the ads team at Twitter alone would take 75 people.

Then make it 150 people. 75 for tech and 75 for ad sales. Right now it's something like 3500-4000 people working there. What do they do?

I think WhatsApp had something like 50-60 employees around the time they got acquired by Facebook. Sure the request/response ratios are different (few publishers, lots of subscribers), but at the end of the day I don't understand how you can have, literally, thousands of people to run something like that.
Oh, and there are some good podcasts, too. Like Risky Business, 7 minute security, Liquidmatrix, Security now... 7 minute security just had a decent series on how to set up a DIY $500 pentesting lab, for example (https://vimeo.com/179271256).

Finding some famous pentesters to follow on Twitter can't hurt, either.
For anybody who cares - the first iteration of temperature data supporting the 1940-70 cooldown period included only latitudes from 20 to 90 degrees North.
When equatorial and southern-hemisphere data become available, it showed the cooling was less than previously thought.

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/GISSTemperature/gi...
More corporate batman than bateman, but in effect, yes.
This is info people should be aware of, but it doesn't help me if I only have money in a traditional IRA and want to use $100k for a down payment on a house.
Ask HN: Website or software to teach young kids to type and mouse
Does anyone know of any good websites to teach kids how to type and/or use the mouse? My kids already have the touchscreen thing down, but are lacking keyboard skills.

I remember a software in school where you type and bubbles come up and push away little animated fish. (It was a long time ago).
>Everybody who watches this show knows the Sharks can pull out of the deal later on.

This is a show is on ABC which is over the air broadcast TV. The most mainstream there is. I guarantee there are a ton of people who don't know the nuances of reality TV.
Previous discussion from 1195 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5847166
>> "in the same act, the ability of the Home Secretary to intervene on human rights grounds - passing that to the High Court"

It seems like that's how it should be. Having politicians override the law willy nilly could be very dangerous. Worrying to think that preventing McKinnon's extradition required that though.
> if you are still eligible for a Roth, but already maximized your other tax-advantaged space in 401(k)s and IRAs.

Under what conditions could this occur?
My Uber Engineering Intern Experience on the Supply Engine Team
I expect it is one of those strategies that allows you to channel buyers toward your preferred pricing structure. e.g. 1 month = $10, 3 months $20, 1 year $75, lifetime $250.

In this example you really want to sleep at $20 for 3 months, so your $75 for a year is for customers convenience, the 1 month for $10 is there so people see how good value it is to get a 3 or 12 no the subscription, the lifetime is there so people who get a year subscription don't think they are taking the most expensive option.
A reply to European(mostly German) decision to try to tax Apple...

US Government went furious with UE decision because they consider Apple more than 200 billion dollars outside America their own. As all governments around the world become progressively more and more broke they need money and companies money abroad is the easy (temporal)solution.

I know US officials were considering a tax break soon in order to repatriate all the money from US companies. The Europeans taxing Apple was considered a threat by US of taking all this money before the US does.

I have friends in EU council and chairs had literally be thrown in the air in the last days. Never forget the US is a military power that believes it is the king of the world.
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This is great news on the bandwidth front. Unfortunately we're so pitfully far behind on Fiber-to-the-home that it will be a long, long time until we see this realized as a speed increase.

Large internet services providers will roll it out and still keep absurd bandwidth caps as a cash cow. Municipalities In largely populated areas will continue to overregulate the installation of fiber, making t prohibitively more expensive. Where's our Roosevelt when we need him/her?
I had to reread that sentence a couple of times myself, but I think you captured his intended meaning here.
> there might not be a unified domain model

I agree with this. See my reply to mahyarm c.f. "analytical debt". Keyword here is "might not".

If there exists domain level solutions, incurring the (forever) micropayments (in context of operational complexities) of a rush to embrace microservices is a systemic fail of the technical leadership.
Hear hear, these silly Airpods are a small revolution. Bluetooth headphones that don't suck make quite a difference.
OK, here goes.

Twitter was Great. Yes, with a captial G. In 2008/9 up until, let's say, 2012 (or even 14)?

It got a lot of early adopters, it got groups together on it (real groups, people that meet in real life), it was a medium of conversation.

It still has some important aspects, some discussions work great there.

But I think people moved onto other platforms and most (of the cool people) left.

Twitter (company) needs to go beyond Twitter (the product). Fb knows this better (while moving the product forward, but it's visible they're reaching a limit there as well)

Both Twitter products, Vine and Periscope offer an inferior experience to Instagram videos and Fb live. (Especially Vine. It seems as bad as a Java plugin)