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> I thought he was like John Carmack or something, but at the end of the day he's mostly a sales guy with big dreams. The self-taught rocket engineer stuff is mostly self-promotion.

Where do you get that impression? Except maybe from not following anything about him. Unless you think that the following quote from this interview is an outright lie:

"I think a lot of people think I must spend a lot of time with media or on businessy things. But actually almost all my time, like 80% of it, is spent on engineering and design. Engineering and design, so it's developing next-generation product. That's 80% of it.

(...)

I think a lot of people think I'm kind of a business person or something, which is fine. Business is fine. But really it's like at SpaceX, Gwynne Shotwell is Chief Operating Officer. She manages legal, finance, sales, and general business activity. And then my time is almost entirely with the engineering team, working on improving the Falcon 9 and our Dragon spacecraft and developing the Mars Colonial architecture. At Tesla, it's working on the Model 3 and, yeah, so I'm in the design studio, take up a half a day a week, dealing with aesthetics and look-and-feel things. And then most of the rest of the week is just going through engineering of the car itself as well as engineering of the factory. Because the biggest epiphany I've had this year is that what really matters is the machine that builds the machine, the factory. And that is at least two orders of magnitude harder than the vehicle itself."
So okay, electric cars don't work for every scenario, that's not exactly news. There didn't used to be any gas stations either, and over time they were added. EVs are a tiny percentage of cars, and charging time will keep improving, and availability of charging will keep improving.

A toyota prius is not a great car for pulling your boat, but that doesn't make the prius any less useful as a fuel efficient commuter car.
I'm glad it was informative - as a big fan of IQ2 I believe many internet arguments could be short circuited by links to such debates.
I do not agree that violence is the purest form of assertion. On what basis did you judge purity, anyway? That seems like the sort of thing a violent person tells themselves in justification of their world view.
Your hypothetical doesn't apply. There's no way for you to know the subconscious impact in the long term that everything being referred with "she" would have on your interest in Veterinary work, if you did have one. It's not something you can mentally put yourself in, and know for sure it would not bother you.

Also, I think this was kind of apropos. Seems like the English language isn't using the right levels of abstractions. There should be a true gender neutral pronoun, one that should be used when the gender specificity isn't relevant and should be hidden away behind the pronoun's abstraction. Its just not something we're familiar with, and that's really the only problem. Its hard to force language on people, when everyone learns language effortlessly as they grow up, nobody is used to putting effort in how they talk.
No, I'm saying that "the future" arriving is more a function of political will than it is of technological development. It's a mistake to imagine that we can merely build magic technologies and humanity will benefit; if we don't make the effort to organize to share what we make, "the future" will be a set of circumstances enjoyed by a narrow subset of humanity.
I always wondered why we didn't at least have a "full access" number the user would never shared but on their taxes, a "write only" number to give employers, and a "read only" number for background checks, banks, &c.
Is this high price due to rural or is it normal range for the U.S? In Mumbai India I pay about 30USD a month for 50/5 and there are fibre providers in places like Bangalore that are much cheaper.
Your belief that foundations were worked out in the last century is completely mistaken. Very serious and concerted efforts at foundations were made then, but they famously and dramatically failed when apparently unreconcilable contradictions were found at the core of these foundations. Then the foundational effort was largely abandoned and mathematicians moved on.

I suppose back around that time and up to a certain time after this happened, most mathematicians were aware of this history, but perhaps they aren't any more, if yours is a representative view.

So then it comes down to interest.

But many mathematicians were interested in foundations around the early part of the 20th Century. Now they're generally not.

This shift makes me wonder how much of mathematical foundations are actually "inherently interesting" (if there is such a thing) to mathematicians and how much has to do with fashion, and if it foundational projects among mathematicians will ever become fashionable (or "interesting") again.
And with 077213 and 012345 octal that is what happens. That's why the distribution was so uniform when Ken checked.
> Change job or interview frequently

Be careful with that... being a job-hopper is probably worse than "10 years running an outdated DB system at a boring company".
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I'm not talking about a cure for death, but something that is the life extension analogue to plastic surgery.
> Did you know that in the original version of the Matrix motion picture, humans were grown and plugged into the Matrix so that the AIs could use their brains for complex computation? I'm not sure why they changed the script to turn the people into rechargeable batteries instead of CPUs, but it was a really bad idea to do so.

They probably did it because test audiences (or maybe studio execs) didn't get the computation thing. If you watch the films, they really only changed it superficially to account for that, and lots of it only makes sense with the computation explanation, which even before I knew it was the original concept I assumed was the real thing going on, and that "batteries" was a faulty conclusion reached by the free humans.
I would not characterize many CEOs as being "a decorative role, who can be replaced in an instant". Leading may not be hands-on engineering and design (at least, you hope!), but it's certainly FAR from decorative.
Whatsapp history from Iphone to Android for starters would be nice.
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The point you raised is almost unanimously the major issue people have with the piece. I did think about it and try to address it in the last section, but clearly failed.
I will probably to rewrite it to address it, so thanks for raising it as well.
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Having watched a good number of Elon Musk interviews, I wish more interviewers would ask more direct questions. Asking Elon general questions usually results in fairly similar responses to what you have heard before or read in his biography.
You should browse around folklore.org and look at the posts about the early Macintosh:

http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story...

The Lisa and Macintosh projects interfaces pre-Xerox visit were remarkably different from post-visit. The Macintosh pre-early-1980-Xerox-visit was based around soft keys. Yes it had a bitmapped graphical display, but it was not a mouse based user interface as we know it, it was more like what Raskin did later with the Canon Cat.

The office desktop with icons interface that shipped on the Lisa is very clearly influenced by the Xerox Star office system more than it is by Smalltalk. And the Mac copied the Lisa.
Appreciate the insight....

But I find it slightly ironic that people are bitching about PageRank having slightly some issues with respect to the specificity of what they are searching for...

meaning that even though "killed this idea twenty years ago" we are coming back to the same problem...

Is that perhaps just due to the volume of info that is available on the web and the much more complex way we have categorized (mentally, not digitally) all the knowledge and information thats out there now?
Forgive the narcissism but I quite like the main function here:

https://github.com/mbrock/klatch/blob/master/Klatch/Embassy/...

And also this (incomplete) test suite for a language interpreter:

https://github.com/lessrest/koko/blob/master/test/Tests.hs

Other than that I really love well-written shell scripts that do their job.
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Selection bias. Assuming will power to be a trainable trait...

It'd be clear our current society does not recognize this fact, and that it would lack methods to train in effectively. People that seem to have reasonably high will power would be those that either won the genetic lottery or stumbled on some way to (informally) train themselves while trying to do something else.

It would be as if a bunch of tall, reasonably fit guys in their 20s went to play a basketball match against an NBA team. The fact that they would have no chance has more to do with their lack of (serious) trainning that with their innate lack of basketball talent.
I would characterize most CEOs I've met(and not only) as decorative. And that's why they do get replaced in an instant.
Me too. Click, select all, copy, switch to favorite text editor, paste. No signup/login prompt, and no problem. Maybe they fixed it?
What exactly does a CEO do?

I haven't spent much time in a corporate environment, mostly in a workshop making structural steel, so it's not at all clear to me who the CxO layer does.

As another comment suggested their roles seem to be mostly decorative. Do these roles actually make decisions, or just sign off on them?
I'm not quite a senior citizen so this is purely anecdotal. (I also have no desire to gamble whatsoever, so this probably makes it even more anecdotal) I grew up with video games - modern slots and "video poker" hold absolutely zero appeal to me. They are worse than the most horrible 2600 games from my youth. They simply aren't "fun" and a casino owner would get way more money from me with a Galaga or Pac-man arcade machine (not my favorite games by far) than any fancy "video slot machine".
The solution is simple. Stop taxing profits. Tax consumption. Defining "profit" is nigh impossible.

Starbucks is headquarted in the United States. Their research in Canada. Their beans from Columbia. European distribution is out of Germany. London finances new franchises. A location in France sells a latte for 4€.

How much of that 4€ is profit and how big of a slice does each country get? Because each country has a very fair claim to say that they deserve a slice of the profit pie.

It's impossible. There is no single answer. There is no moral system that precisely describe to which countries go which dollar.
My guess is that JavaScript blocking interferes with Scribd.
In what sense? They're only ever assigned to a single individual, and they are not reused[1]. The number uniquely IDs the individual.

The Wikipedia article makes the same point as the parent poster: "the Social Security number has become a de facto national identification number".

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Security_number#Exhaust...
>has been using the money to fund cool projects

Musk and his companies' investors enjoy most of the financial upside of the government support, while taxpayers shoulder the cost. [1]

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hy-musk-subsidies-2015...
I suppose? Running out of physical space is almost as bad as running out of food, physically and psychologically speaking, unless you're very heavily adapted for it.
I swear, the HN front page algorithm is easily gamed, this gets a few points quickly and it rises straight to the front page. I don't know if HN is accounting for vote rings but some penalizing should be implemented.
Correct, but I think his argument, and the argument in the article was that they should have used pixel art. Given the technology at the time.
Ah yes, the tried and true "You haven't solved MY pet problem, therefore you shouldn't be working on anything else" argument.

And people wonder why we rarely get anything done...
Well, that is certainly a mountain of things to go through just for fluoride in toothpaste.

I find it amazing that only basic testing is needed for cosmetic products and something one is easily ingesting (slightly) on a day to day basis, but yet... fluoride requires animal testing?

I would think at this point, a simple chemical composition testing the fluorine levels would be appropriate enough. They obviously don't find the caffeine a threat enough to warrant such things in the product.
For me, age 26, I'm already slower than I was when I was 18. I write better code though and can wade through harder abstractions, so on hard, novel material I'd likely win against my old self. Still, I really detest the "work" aspect of work which I don't wake up excited to do, so my plan that I'm on track for is to be "retired" by 32. Why slave until I'm 50? I've even considered depleting my savings earlier on to take a couple years off and then come back, delaying "retirement" by a few years but potentially making the "come back" slog much more pleasant. (I don't think I'll ever master the tricks other, often older, people seem to have about becoming excited to do even the mundane or just being able to plow through it regardless of 'motivation' or 'pleasantness'. My mother basically worked her whole adult life until she died, I don't understand how but sometimes wish such a mindset was more genetic.)
Raises some good points, but I think the title isn't really correct. It's not "don't use microservices" - it's more about making sure you understand the implications of having a microservice architecture, and making sure it's not an excuse for not writing a monolith (or SOA) properly.
I guess I'm fortunate never to have worked with the kind of people [...] who would notice I'm upset and tell me to "smile."

It's not only some demanding command to modify your mood, it can be a good natured suggestion to try and keep your chin up. The person who said it to me most was my mother.
No, that's because the overvalued market caps wouldn't fly in an IPO. If Uber went public, they'd have to disclose real numbers, which probably indicate they're unprofitable. They're only worth $68 billion when the market doesn't have to pay out $68 billion.

It's today's very low interest rates that fuel "private equity", which is usually debt at some level.
Consider computational biology. There are lots of problems which hinge on understanding the impact of genetics on populations and variations in genetics and that effect. As there are already sources of genetic data sets and infrastructure to generate those data sets, genetic research becomes more of a data science problem than a medical problem.
Tesla/SpaceX are not your typical for-profit companies, where CEOs are decorative and all that matters is quarterly reports.
We will never be harvested (as a stand alone species) for any of our parts by an inter-stellar faring alien race -- if they can make it here via space vehicles, then they can surely create bio-computers in some lab without the deficiencies of the human body....

Unless, for some odd reason our DNA is special such that the way our brains/neurons work would be some benefit.

At that point though, they would only need to snatch up a few of us and reverse engineer our DNA/genome to do what was stated in step one....

That would be a good topic for /r/writingprompts.
I love MagSafe. Very skeptical about USB-C. We'll see.

I love Lightning. I'd happily swap Lightning for all the USBs. I'd happily use lightning headphones.

I don't remember ever using Thunderbolt, so those can go.

I've never had a second (or third) screen. I've always just used Teleport span to my iMac. I'd probably feel different if I was doing video or something. So I'm ambivalent about HDMI.

I bought one of those flush Mini SD adapters. Which is cool. But I could live without it.

In short, for my work, I just need Retina, keyboard & touchpad, SSD, power, wifi, bluetooth, and some lightning ports.
Wow, just wow. This seems like one of those regulations that could be changed. Obviously the caffeine isn't a flagged substance: It would seem that a simple chemical composition test would be good enough to qualify a toothpaste - since we've done a lot of research on fluoride itself.
You're choosing to interpret it one way (and only one way). What the commenters in this thread are suggesting is that the phrase is often used with genuinely positive intent.

No matter how ill advised or inappropriate you find it, I don't think you should assume intent.

At least, where I'm from this is true. Maybe it's a societal norm that varies by culture and region.
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If anyone deserves hero-worship, it's Elon. In our age where the Kardashians and other vapid people are being worshiped, we need people like Elon to get a bit of the limelight and encourage and motivate ordinary people.
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Obviously, he's a different person and has a different opinion.

My experience has been that people on HN tend to interpret that part of the posting a little more extrapolatingly than I do. I think he is saying something pretty obvious, which is that when you can structure things in terms of pure functions, you don't have to worry about the side-effects that are one of the main issues you need to contend with when factoring things apart.

This is different from being a "fan of functional programming", i.e. believing you should use current functional programming languages to build your projects, or whatever.
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Oh, I envy you! As soon as I get more (living) space, that's what I want to do. ASAP. I just have to figure out how to make an elegant mechanism to run both horizontal and vertical monitor alignment (tate or whatever the name is). Few of my favorite games run like that and I want then to have fullscreen glory.
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From personal experience
Microservices enforce a clear interface and isolation pattern. This is achievable many ways, but having discrete deployed code makes it very hard to violate rather than being disciplined.

Licensing costs can go drastically up as most modern licensing is node/core based. As can deployment procedures get more complicated.

I would love to understand how this article believes that the modules in a monolithic system can be scaled horizontally if they are actually a single code base in a single system. Either the system isn't monolithic, or it they have never really done it. Sticking a load balancer in front of a micro service and scaling based on measured load requires tools and technologies, but is very scalable. It also allows you to do rolling deployments of draining/rotate out/update/rotate in that allows you to get near no planned downtime.

Distributed transactions are the devil, but you don't need to do them in a microservice design. It requires design work on the front end to clarify what the system of record is, but if each service has a domain it controls, and all other services treat it as the truth, it's rather simple. I say this having researched doing payment transactions across geographically diverse colo's and we treated that as a sharding/replication/routing issue very successfully.

Ninja edit: Starting with a microservice design is most likely overkill for a lot of systems, but either way, clear interface/boundaries in your system are good and healthy
> This is a more general kind of concern that applies equally to, say, nuclear weaponry or genetic modification.

This is an interesting point. Concern about the possible threat posed by some technology like genetic modification will often get dismissed as being "anti-science", while concern about another technology like AGI (artificial general intelligence - Skynet) usually doesn't. You have people like Bill Gates who both admonishes people for being worried about genetic modification and admonishes people for not being worried about futuristic AI.

Particularly interesting since concerns about genetic modification (or present day AI) is more grounded in reality than concerns about AGI. Something like the paperclip maximizer are like worrying that Monsanto will genetically engineer trifids (killer plants). I can imagine the reaction most people would have to such concerns.

I wonder how much of this is cultural.
It's the procedure that constructs most of the puzzle panels in the game.

Usually I just search for the name of the puzzle I want to edit (which is also how you'd do it if it were a ton of different procedures).
What you're telling me is it's not designed around that use at all but it has a really strange and weird workaround that kind of does something slightly similar maybe...

No, how about I use an actual product that does what I actually need? Problem is: none exist. The kind of jerks who write ad-blocking programs can't even imagine a universe in which a person may not want to block every ad everywhere ever.
It was more stable in my testing of the Windows 10 beta. It went all down hill from there.
Not really. Many discussions here are about politics and economic policies, which btw are important forces for some enterpreneurs to be aware of.
Ending world hunger would cost a lot more than time spent trying to get out of Earth, because in order to end world hunger, you'd have to reform political systems that are impeding the abolishment of world hunger. For example, there is no way world hunger can be ended without massive regime change in North Korea, and any such change would be monumentally expensive, even if done peacefully.

Solving the first 80% of world hunger was cheap, solving the last 20% is expensive.
You probably couldn't. But if you refer to two things Musk said - a) genetics is important, and b) PhD is not the best way to be useful - I think he didn't mean it to be taken together. He spent some time talking about how being useful means "area under the curve" - do a big thing for small number of people, or do a small thing for a large number of people. Most people can aim for either of the two, and in both cases PhD is probably not the most efficient use of your time.
Haha, yes, technology has nothing to do with politics or economics, of course.
Ask yourself what the real subtext is; what most people are going to think when they read "But actually almost all my time, like 80% of it, is spent on engineering and design".

Is the mental image that of Tony Stark, single-handedly designing rocket components in some kind of advanced cad/cam-ish lab, scoffing at staid business meetings he delegates, or is it of a guy talking to a bunch of engineers, and hearing presentations, picking favorites among a bunch of proposals, signing off on this or that?

You are supposed to think of the former (PR), whereas the latter is closer to the truth.
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If you think the place where you program determines whether or not you are a 'blub' I believe you are sorely misguided.
I built this thing if you want to follow along. Unfortunately no video, but at least you can copy the text:

https://jotengine.com/t/elon
oops - while I know I forgot many...I have to add Verimatrix (because they hired a UCSD intern this past summer!)
In most places in the US, that is not true. The minimum wage of someone who receives tips is lower than the normal minimum wage, specifically because "the business" is set up to expect tips.

Now I don't know where you live, but. I was speaking from the US perspective.
That's an excellent article!
Scribd is a YC company. What you're experiencing is called "growth hacking".
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