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Uhm, why can't we have both?

Sure, Mr. Bakery, do everything in jQuery in a <script> tag. I'd even argue that's probably the correct approach.

But I don't work for a bakery -- I work for a large company with a complex tech stack writing web applications that will have to be maintained by some poor sucker long after I move on. Tools like React/Angular, Webpack, and npm allow me to do that in a way I couldn't as little as 3-4 years ago.

I see comments like this in every one of these threads. It's shocking to me how misunderstood web development really is. If the web was meant to be strictly utilitarian we never should have moved off gopher.
Do you mean discovery as in me figuring out which bots would I like to install from a "bots store"?

If so, I think Apple's approach in iMessage widgets is fantastic: If you send third-party content to a person that doesn't have the plugin installed, they'll also get a link to install it. So it boosts word-of-mouth.
I think that your argument assumes a certain level of job attained already. Sure, software engineers who enjoy it more become more successful. I doubt that people finding stocking grocery stores correlates with their success at all.
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Cheers to that!
Couldn't agree more!

VR the first three or four times around. Fusion - the first 70 years it's been 20 years away. :)

As you say many (most?) things that changed the world either started very small, or were serendipitous (freak accident if you prefer). Even engineering led discoveries started with few, if any, applications.

Take the laser, originally thought it might be useful in spectography and radar. No one was conceiving of CDs, fibre optics, tattoo removal, barcode scanners and the numerous other uses.

The entirety of our industry is based on what followed from building a machine to crack German codes, and from trying to calculate artillery firing tables quicker. Right about the time the US was commissioning ENIAC, HM Gov was smashing up Colossus and burning blueprints, and we'd have to wait 30 years to hear of Tommy Flowers and Colossus.

I think it's safe to believe most of the truly ground breaking ideas will come from entirely unexpected people, places and fields, and that there's a lot more good ones tucked away behind increasingly hard to fund blue sky research.

We'll get some slick applications of AI, VR and data driven computing, and many of them will be marvelous (and many not), and a fortune will be spent. But the actual world changers are likely elsewhere. I hope at least some will be from the founders who've cashed out a Unicorn and are now using their funds to chase the undelivered dreams elsewhere (SpaceX etc). I just wish there were a few more so we can get there a bit quicker! :)
Considerably, sadly most westerners don't understand nor they want too.

Those are about as subtle as the "from the river to the sea" chants you see at anti Israel protests and the nice caricatures of trees and rocks with Arabic text bubbles that lovely children hold up as signs.
Liberals think it's cute, you explain to them what it means they are phased for about 30 seconds and go back to chant.
I live in Davis CA (briefly) mentioned in the article and grew up in Pittsburgh PA. Pittsburgh PA placed in the top 10 worst cities to bike in, several times. The main problem is that the neighborhood streets don't go anywhere, they just feed you onto busy streets with speed limits of 35 mph and up, with minimal shoulders.

So even for a 7.5 mile commute you end on up fairly dangerous roads for bikes. On the bridges you have to choose between really dangerous and legal (no shoulder at all, with a big railing between you and sidewalk), and illegally using the sidewalk.

Things like a local school, grocery store, drug store, and even a pizza joint are often pretty far away. You have to skip several useless neighborhoods on a major thoroughfare to be able to shop.

In davis there's a large downtown section that's largely a grid, low speed limits, bike lanes, and reasonable shoulders. The surrounding neighborhoods often have a green belt, and when they don't there's pretty much always a reasonable parallel road to any major through fair. There's much more retail space mixed into the neighborhoods. There are schools, parks, drug stores, and restaurants spread around the city, not just downtown.

Pittsburgh does have a grid like downtown, but it's pretty much exclusively a business district, very few people actually live there. It seems fairly post apocalyptic after hours with no cars and no foot traffic, just the rats scurrying around.

Seems like all the best cities have mixed use zoning, large grids, and highly connected streets. This allows for biking, walking, and of course better public transportation while minimizing high speed vehicles mixing it up with bikes and pedestrians.
from what I've seen at Google specifically, when hiring for team talent, acquihires are typically performed in a binary fashion -- they take everybody who wants to go, without going through the regular screening process.

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If I say something like, "I've repeatedly seen people finding out that they have been pickpocketed after interacting with a group of people dressed in traditional Roma garb and self-identifying as Roma", does that satisfy your sensibilities?
"However, the numbers follow a grid, with rules nobody told me."

I learned it from reading a state map about forty years ago. The legend succinctly explained the system. Without digging through a pile of paper maps, that might still be the case. Regardless, these rules are probably clearly documented from a simple web search, despite that no one has felt the need to "tell" the author what the rules are.

EDIT: "interstate numbering system" on DDG brings up the Wikipedia page as the first link, and that link explains it. There's no mystery here, though my query string does assume that one assumes a "system" to be explained.

And while I'm editing, state routes and U. S. Routes kind of follow the same pattern, especially the N/S and E/W designations. Would have to go search to verify other commonalities.
It is not "free time" that people want. It is "time to do what I want" is what we all want. For someone like Elon Musk running Tesla might be actually use of that free time.

For many of us writing code is the use of that free time.

On the other hand I can understand why unproductive people are unable to do much in USA. Most things are automated and minimum wages lock out people from mundane work.
But you don't go around and think "this is an American" and "oh, here is another American, she will act the same as the guy before". Instead your internal heuristics notice more markers like age, gender, clothing, dialect, socio-economic status and class. An older person in a suit will be approached differently by you than a drunk redneck/ghettokid/punk/hells angels, even when they are the same ethnicity.
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I think you're missing the context of what people are complaining about. If it's actually the Roma people, I agree that's just racist. But usually what they mean is the culture Rome people live in. Do you think it's unreasonable view that kids should receive education? That young girls should not be given away into arranged marriages? That wifes and children should not be sent out to beg and steal in city centres? That the community is sometimes happy to receive support, but doesn't want to give back to the surrounding society?

If there are whole mini-towns with communities behaving that way and teaching that to their kids, I'm against it, and don't think that unreasonable. It doesn't matter who they identify as. Roma people can't change who they are. But they can change how they live.
I mean, it's kind of a risk you face when you buy a service from a startup, whether they tell you or not.
For a little background on geothermal, keep in mind that while the amount of energy stored in heat within the Earth is indeed vast, it's also extremely hard to make use of generally.

One of the things that I find interesting about physical science is how many similarities there are between things that flow of very different types. In this way, making power from heat is very much like making power from water. We cannot make power from water just sitting around somewhere, no matter how high or low; we can only make power by allowing it to flow from somewhere high to somewhere low and tapping that flow. And for practical purposes, we need flow that has a certain minimum pressure and volume to be able to convert it electrical power in a cost-effective way.

Heat works the same way. There may be a tremendous amount of energy in something very hot, but the only way to use it, convert it into power, is to allow it to flow to somewhere cooler, and tap that flow in a way similar in concept to a water turbine. And just like the water turbine, the heat flow must have a certain temperature difference and rate of flow to be converted into electrical power in a cost-effective way.

Unfortunately, geothermal is terrible at this over most of the Earth's surface. The heat gradient between the hot lower levels of the crust and the surface is so long and gradual that it's effectively impossible to make electrical power from it. It's kind of like trying to extract energy from a flowing stream that's thousands of miles wide, but only a centimeter deep and flowing at barely a trickle. The total amount of energy associated with that flow is enormous, but it's so diffuse that it's difficult to tap.

Note that these guys are planning to use it for heating buildings. That's much easier, as water coming out at 120-150 degrees F is perfectly fine for that. It could potentially save a bunch of energy versus electrical or gas heating, assuming they can pipe it around without losing too much heat. But making electricity effectively requires getting the water hot enough at moderately high pressure to make steam to turn a turbine with. You can play games with exotic working fluids and such to try and get something from lower temperature differences, but it's probably impossible to run a plant at market electricity rates like that.

If we ever want to make really big amounts of energy from geothermal, I haven't really run the numbers on it, but I suspect we'd need to tap into heat below the actual crust, just to get the heat replenishment rate from the mantle high enough. We'd definitely need to be able to drill and maintain holes that deep, and then run some sort of working fluid down to the bottom, let it pick up heat at a multi-gigawatt rate, then pipe it back up to the surface without losing too much of the heat. If we ever figure out how to do that, then we'll have essentially all the power we could ever use in about the safest and least-interfering way I can imagine.
I mean... regulations exist for a reason. You think someone is over at city hall making these up as they go for no reason?

Sounds like your friend could have done a better job educating himself before he started.
Sure it is. It means Hillary sent emails that appeared to not be from her when they were, meaning they are emails out there relevant to the FBI investigation that were never included. I doubt this fact came out during their investigation. It also means that the data Hillary herself had to turn over was incomplete, since she could have left out lots of emails that "weren't hers" because the sender address was different.
If the founders have done their job correctly, it sounds like shotgun agreements will cause the unacquired employees' equity to vest immediately.
https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/cockroachdbs-first-join/
In Boulder, significant east-west streets are named alphabetically from south to north.
Not even close. It's like Google's Spanner database.
Ask HN: How did you learn coding
HN seems to have a pretty interesting community of professionals and self-taught coders, so how did you learn?

Suggested topics:
- Medium of learning: classroom, textbook, etc.
- Age you started
- Whether you taught yourself
- What kept you coding
Supposedly post history/images confirm it was his.
It is an extraordinarily thorny topic.

To my mind, the most crucial issue is education. Travellers have both practical barriers and negative attitudes towards education, leading to the lowest literacy rates of any demographic in Britain. A majority of traveller children do not complete primary education.

Given the immense importance of education in the modern world, it is inevitable that travellers will be economically and socially marginalised. Illiteracy poses a near-impassible barrier to engagement with mainstream society.

Significant effort has been made in the UK to engage traveller families in education, but to no avail; school attendance and educational attainment is actually declining among traveller children.

Unless this impasse is broken, there is little hope for travellers.

https://ore.exeter.ac.uk/repository/bitstream/handle/10871/1...
http://wikireadia.org.uk/index.php?title=Travellers_and_lite...
http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/38614/1/McCaffery%2C_Juliet.pdf
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> how would this work out?

Poorly.
My work life for the past few years has been a constant effort to not work downtown. I don't want to live or work there. It is a miserable concrete hellscape. Dirty, unkempt, infested with beggars and other indigents. The concept of a legitimate grocery store is something that has not existed there for decades. This is all fine if you can survive off of craft beer, gourmet cupcakes, and takeaway for the rest of your life. But the city keeps making sweetheart tax deals for desirable employers. And I keep getting the news "We are moving the office downtown! Isn't that great!"

It's great for somebody, but not the average working stiff.
I could have been clearer because you're right that it's ambiguous.

My sense of discovery was meant in the UI sort of respect. When a feature is hidden from the user, that feature might as well not exist.

Bots (and command lines, for that matter) are awful unless you know exactly what they're capable of. There is an extrinsic knowledge you need.

That is, you can't expect a bot to know whatever you throw at it but you're unsure what you /can/ expect it to know.

The problem is that command lines are sort of made for the expert users whereas bots are said to be the opposite.
>or admitting "I might be wrong"

The post left open questions all over the place and the introduction states this very clearly:

>I stress that I don’t know anything about music and this post is terrible. If you you so much as know how to whistle, please don’t read this you will laugh at me.

Maybe there may be other posts where you could complain about a lack of humility, but this is not that one.
Huge props to you for this. I think this is relevant news for HackerNews, but I suspect people flag it due to other reasons.
"It has long been Mobileye's position that Tesla's Autopilot should not be allowed to operate hands-free without proper and substantial technological restrictions and limitations," said the company's most recent statement, adding: "In communications dating back to May 2015 between Mobileye Chairman and Tesla's CEO, Mobileye expressed safety concerns regarding the use of Autopilot hands-free."

That seems a bit damning for Tesla, but it's hard to take very seriously without examples of the "communications".
This is a spreadsheet, not an article, so I'm confused about your first point.

When looking at a list of billionaires, it's natural to wonder "where did this fortune come from?", and in the case of the Koch brothers, the answer is "oil". I don't think it requires a deep dive into my psyche to defend this interpretation of the "source" field, though I'm always happy to swim around down there.
I've always advised against being introduced to programming through game development.

As much as game development is appealing and fun, the process is complicated and requires advanced knowledge of some fairly complicated algorithms even for fairly trivial games.

Also you can find yourself spending hours shuffling sprites and designing levels which is time spent not learning programming.

Also engines like Unity provide a false sense of security when infact you have no idea what's going on behind the scene and when something goes wrong you don't know where to begin and end up discouraged.

Start slow, build your foundation, learn your bits and bytes, data structures and sorting algorithms first then venture out.
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I didn't actually say anything, i'm simply pointing out that your reaction is knee-jerk and likely baseless. Neither of us know exactly why they are the way they are. It may be their fault, it may be society's fault, it may be some combination of the two. To simply conclude that it isn't their fault because your worldview is such that minority groups are never at fault is illogical and harmful.
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You can learn how to leverage this stuff without a PHD, and if you have a PHD you can be one of the guys doing the bootstraping. Also, NN are also only one kind of AI company.

Squirrel-Tracking Water Cannon guy is one example where someone use basically off the shelf components to hack something together. Finding the right sized niche is hard, but that's always been the core problem. How about showing what a new couch might look like in a room from a cellphone video. There are already several things that do most of the heavy lifting can you glue them together into an MVP? Is there already a product that does this? Can you get referrals from IKEA? etc.
as maligned as mmos are, being the gm of a guild gives you a lot of free training on how to be a manager: you have to learn how to motivate people to work together, defuse issues, deal with egos, even try to figure out ways to incentivize "unfun" activities so they get done (i.e. farming for raid materials etc.)

Not sure if you would put it on your resume, but IMHO if I was a hiring manager and I was hiring for an entry level mgmt position and somebody had "ran a successful wow guild with 50 members for 2 years" it would definitely be something I would see very positively
Can you really not use all those services with a Google Apps account? That seems insane to me! Those are so many services!!

I do have two Google Apps accounts. Luckily I only ever used them for email.
Ah, I see. I don't think the guy was equating leisure with consumption at all. You could say he was equating leisure with "just passively consuming", which is where his mistake is (along with his unrelated error of thinking Keynes implicitly thought leisure would automatically bring happiness).

I would also agree that a person having some leisure that is "just passively consuming" is fine, maybe even good. But I'm pretty sure it's bad if _all_ of a person's leisure is "just passively consuming", at least if they have a decent amount of leisure (if you're working 80 hour weeks then it's probably not bad at all to have your leisure time all be passive consumption).
Nice. Your move Amazon. Time to drop your prices :D
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What do you mean by "less wasted time"? I found I wasted a lot less time when everywhere I wanted to go was a five minute walk away, and work was a 25 minute train ride away.
Are you speaking from experience?
The forest area seems to have decreased significantly between 1760 and 1910.

http://forestry.about.com/od/forestresources/tp/forest_fact_...
I think part of that is to answer questions like "why would some believe this maniac?"
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I'm a developer/manager who does recruiting, but mostly in SoCal, and I see you're in the Bay area. Up there, you might reach out to Aline Lerner. She did the same, although I understand she is now focused on interviewing.io. Still, wouldn't hurt to ask her:

http://blog.alinelerner.com/about/

Another way to do it is go on Indeed at look at relevant job postings from recruiters that are well written. I find I can tell right away when they are useless; it's clearly cut/paste straight from the client and has a total "job shop" feel.

I don't know if you'll get an honest answer, but another good sign is that they have direct contact with the hiring manager.

Feel free to reach out, happy to answer any questions.
http://pricetheory.uchicago.edu/levitt/Papers/DonohueLevittT...
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> they really are a special case, and said case doesn't map onto anything the American public has experienced.

The American public has experienced a variety of urban certain inner-city communities comprised largely of African Americans. They are culturally distinctive, and members are easily recognisable as such by their appearance and their typical clothing.

Due at least in part to a multigenerational history of prejudice and mistreatment, these communities are wreaked by poverty, both petty and violent crimes, alcoholism, and use/abuse of illegal drugs. Some group members ostentatiously reject the idea of "integration" into the more prosperous bands of American society, and have published many popular rap songs glorifying a "gangsta" lifestyle characterized by violence and objectification of women. It is possible that this is self-perpetuating to some extent, as the culture's family structures (a very high incidence of single-mother families) and the culture's values (especially regarding education) may not be conducive to modern prosperity.

And yet we're generally able to say as a nation that African-Americans have as much potential as human beings as any other, morally and intellectually. We call on each other to treat each other, and all people, as individual humans and not to judge them by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character. It's hardly a conflict-free relationship, but it's something.

So I'm curious what's different specifically with the Roma that maps onto this experience so poorly, or whether it's just the larger surrounding cultures not having a well-developed culture of tolerance. Do tell.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12524021
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I think that had he, as warden, resigned/publicly opposed the executions they still would have happened. I think that as warden, he has many other opportunities for reform within his prison. I therefore don't think that he has a moral obligation to resign/publicly oppose the executions. We live in a society of broken systems. If we have to protest every wrongdoing that we encounter, we wouldn't be able to get anything done.

As to the warden's own lack of "the faintest sacrifice to oppose it" and "bending over backwards". What do you consider an appropriate sacrifice for an ordinary citizen who opposes capital punishment? Campaigning for more progressive political leaders? Communicating with state officials? How do you know he did none of these things? I don't have evidence that he did but neither do you have evidence that he didn't. I don't understand the condemnation of this individual you know only through an op-ed.
I've noticed over the years that Palo Alto's residential areas started with a grid system but moved towards a cul-de-sac by blocking off roads to cut off parts of the grid. The College Terrace area is particularly notable (likely because of its proximity to employment centers like Page Mill's corporate campuses and Stanford University), and I seem to recall the Old Palo Alto area having some road blocks as well (particularly the area directly south of Palo Alto High School).

It definitely makes the quality of life better for the residents while making commuters "pay more" so to speak. I wonder when these road blocks (which are visually pleasing with trees and pedestrian and cyclist permeable) came to be.