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I took a long drive on Saturday, and on the way home I travelled past my old place. I got hit by a wave of nostalgia as I went past.

When home I found a Reddit post by a guy who overlays the Guild Wars maps on the Guild Wars 2 map[1]. Wave of nostalgia... followed by a realization, I can still play Guild Wars.

I cannot go back to my old house and relive my memories, but I'm a quick download from remembering similar memories made in that same house while playing Guild Wars.

That's powerful. It's the same reason my parent and grandparents made photo albums and home movies.

I can literally play a game to help me relive my memories and it's not just me grasping for moments in my head, but it's literally the same experience.

When I'm old and dying I'll have the chance to start up a video game and get my nostalgia fix with far more satisfaction than if I was telling a story of my childhood to any of my future grand children.

[1] http://guide.thatshaman.com/
HN is for many things: wasting time, trying to persuade reasonable fellow hackers of the virtues of Blub, practicing rhetoric and dialectic, etc. etc. It's not for you to cross-examine me, though. You are not entitled. Ask Mozilla if you want more info about my exit.

> I disagree strongly.

Please see my edit, adding "in general" before "remove" and "all" before "agency". I made that edit before you replied (but it seems after you cited my earlier text) because I suspected you would turn "must" to "can" on loss of agency. As you did.

Of course oppression can at the limit remove all agency, by killing the victim. Duh! But your move from "must" to "can" dodges the crucial disagreement that we seem to be having, over whether any force always and exclusively overrides a choice like resigning, or and/or other non-exclusive and exclusive alternatives.

It's nonsense to make complex human interactions involving mobs, boycotts, hidden C-suite action, and finally resignation into an either/or in every single case. Some people feel that "the mob" forced me out (whether they disagree or agree with the result). This does not mean those people all believe I was "fired".

To take another example and leave out "Oppression": did Nixon resign? Of course. Did he face force from his opponents in Congress and the press? Yes, obviously -- in the case of Congress, he faced the full force of the U.S. Constitution, up to an impeachment trial and conviction. Both force and choice were operative; no either/or.

> There's a world of difference between me choosing to leave my job to protect my company; and my company firing me, making me sign an NDA, and lying and saying I left voluntarily.

You are doing it again, right here! Use your imagination. Can you not conceive of excluded middles left out by the two alternatives you pose as if mutually exclusive and exhaustive of all possibilities? I think you can. You should, just as a matter of intellectual honesty and rigor, even if I keep mum. Using my silence as justification for your fallacy is a further fallacy.
I've never watched an Elon Musk livestream that started on time. Not sure if I'm spoiled by Apple keynotes always starting on time, or if live stream start times at SpaceX are just as loose as the company's other timelines
Google 'em or ...

Palantir - racial bias scandal
Theranos - technical fraud scandal
Snap, Reddit, and Path - sexual harassment scandal

It's difficult to think about working for companies tarnished by scary scandals. There are thousands of jobs in the bay area. If you as an employer can't keep the pristine image. You'll be ignored. Period.
I hope everyone here who is complaining about this isn't going to just turn right around and enthusiastically vote to re-elect the party which did it. But I'm pretty sure that's what is going to happen.
Most of the time laws are designed to prevent vigilantism, because vigilantes are not accountable to society and the punishments they give may be disproportionate or self-serving. Enforcing laws through private suits sounds a lot like officially sanctioned vigilantism, and points to a failure of the legal system.
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One way trip to Mars. Rightfully so, the first trip to Mars should be one way.

[edit] Presentation is ongoing and there is a return trip. Cool.
I agree that these comparisons are highly reductive, but one should also consider taxes.

150k is much less after taxes.
The problem with FirefoxOS was that you could already run web apps on iOS/Android; there was no compelling value besides the "privacy" component, as low-cost Android phones already existed. And as I've noticed on other Moz-centric threads, privacy is not enough of a benefit for people (even the tech savvy!) to use a poorly-performing product.
For many years I've steered clear of HP products and voice a strong opinion against them. While HP figures it out, we should also preach against them to our colleagues, friends, family and to all. The only way these companies realize they are in the wrong is if their bottom line is affected, until then, they don't have a lick of empathy.
What if you mess up?

It's new technology. There are bound to be mistakes. There is so much we don't know about how genes work.

Those mistakes will affect a human being's life permanently.
God, my lifetime would be so boring if it wasn't for people like Elon.
I remember when I discovered Google. Suddenly class research papers became so much easier. Google results were just so good and so fast. I remember almost having a hipster sense of superiority when I learned that someone was using Yahoo or Alta Vista and had never heard of Google. I felt like it was my secret weapon.
They claim 60% fewer translation errors than the phrase based system. That's not nothing.
Google "1:30pm CST". It shows it in your local time.
The real question then is why. It is certainly not just access to abundant cheap food - otherwise you would see more rich fat people in the past. There is probably more than factor and actual epidemiologists should be able to disentangle and find most of them, especially as records are available.

It is either something tied to methods of agriculture and farming or appearance of some sort of endocrine disruptor that is nowadays abundant.
It really pisses me off when people are entirely ignorant of history. Come on, guys; the simulation theory was cliche by the early 1960s. In 1999, there were two hit movies about it, one of which was a direct adaptation of a book from the 1950s that had already had three other popular film adaptations. During the 1960s, PKD alone wrote five or six separate books about it, and in 1977, he gave a pretty well-known lecture that set forth a number of arguments accepted later by Bostrom. By that point, it had already been the plot of two different Doctor Who serials.

Stop saying somebody is the first to do something, unless you've actually done the research.
In this case, it's pretty clearly not just a rocket. Both Bezos and Musk admit that this is their fantasy from when they were boys. We're never going to live on mars, this is entirely about mythological projection. The phallus is central to the purpose of this endeavor.
"Waiting for everyone to reach their seats and get settled. Starting in 5 to 10."

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/780838839644483586
What I don't quite get is that if we feel like we could figure out how to live on Mars, couldn't we relatively easily figure out how to live on a hot Earth?
which book was that ? Life Ascending?
Yes, they're really friends. If my friends all use whatsapp to organize parties, and I refuse to use it and force them to email me as a special one-off, am I really a friend? Because I know they'd love to have a back-and-forth conversation about timing/place/duties related to the party, then have to constantly send one-off emails to get my feedback.

Let me guess - in your world they're all assholes for not constantly inconveniencing themselves to cater specifically to what you want. Or you just literally have no social life, because picking up a phone isn't really a viable option to plan a party with a large group of friends. And while email will work, when nobody else wants to use it and you try to force the issue, you're an asshole.
Agree. I watched my first and last presidential debate yesterday, they raised no relevant solutions. I'm so giddy, what a better way than to spend such historical date with my fellow HN users!
That's still about 50 years away.
I'm not sure it is. As junke pointed out below, however, some of this can be achieved through other, less intrusive methods, such as environments, which are actually used by the sc macro mechanism. You don't get it all, but it's usually enough to know that the error was triggered in the expansion of a macro on line <n>. That's dramatically better than most C error messages already. :-D
If one did state that assumption, is there something useful one can then say about how to be lucky? Or can you give an example of a "here's how I succeeded at something, the same strategies might work for you" article that addresses luck in an actionable way?
Central time is currently UTC-0500, so right now.
If Android went closed source, I could see a new window opening.
It's not just that, it's that last time there was serious talk of it, LLVM's musttail wasn't properly supported across important platforms for us. So it got put by the wayside, and there's always so much to do, nobody has worked through the semantics now that support is better.

We did reserve a "become" keyword for this purpose though. Instead of "return", you say "become", and TCO is guaranteed. That's the basic idea anyway, we'll see what happens.
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Ok... relax, you can stay here if some comet decides to pay a visit :)
And began before he even entered the office of the President. How can someone be held responsible for events predating their ability to be involved?
It isn't just Google. There's no user concept of a file on the iPhone, either.
Not using Windows is a very reasonable way to avoid getting hacked, seems to me.

It's been years since I miss something because it only works in Windows.
Frankly there's no point in giving this kind of advice to the 99% you're talking about (I include myself in that group). Most people do not have the opportunities (most important) or capability (still important) to do anything these people do.
So the more powerful a technology is in changing our capabilities as human beings, the more unethical it inherently is, because poor people will have less access to it (assuming it costs money)?

I'm not arguing on the validity of this world view, but it does seems very negative to me, since it can be applied to any powerful technology (that isn't free of charge).

I mean, computers and internet access also costs money, so does this mean that the introduction of these technologies presents an ethical problem, because the poorer part of the population may not be able to afford it, thus increasing inequality?
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> The legal system is worse than the shittiest legacy code base you have ever seen

You haven't seen the legacy code I have. One of the apps I worked on was modelling financial legal agreements. That was some truly shitty code. One function was over 50 printed pages with indentation levels I can't even begin to describe. It was also C++ written like Java. Tons of new's - no deletes or use of smart pointers. Leaked memory like you would not believe. Thankfully it was a batch-process. Even then, the server it ran on was allocated more that 128 GB of RAM because the hardware was cheaper than fixing the software.
"Waiting for everyone to reach their seats and get settled. Starting in 5 to 10." Elon said that about ~3 minutes ago on twitter.
28 million pounds of thrust is 4 times what the Saturn V was capable of.
Eh, when it comes to computers (not printers) HP isn't that bad. I'll take HP over Lenovo any day. Although HP wouldn't be my first choice when choosing a computer.
People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.
In my mind, the most fair would be something that didn't grant a monopoly on an idea to one player.

I don't think rewarding patent owners is a goal, except that we already decided the way to reward inventors was patents and selling them (perhaps to those that can realize the value better, build a product and market it etc).

My question is where are the inventors that want a patent system of any sort?

I was under the impression that patents are a tool for lawyers and wealthy corporations to collect fees and maintain monopolies respectively.

What inventor wants to patent their idea and why do they want to do such an awful thing?
Revealing speech by a young Lincoln:

"Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored. It sees no distinction in adding story to story upon the monuments of fame erected to the memory of others. It denies that it is glory enough to serve under any chief. It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts and burns for distinction; and, if possible, it will have it, whether at the expense of emancipating slaves, or enslaving free men."

In context:
https://jupiter.ai/books/ED2g/?hl=BML
> led ... by the very company that's administering your weeder tests?

I actually didn't even notice this conflict of interest. It would line up exactly with how such an awful class of product has gotten so popular. I've been subjected to HackerRank tests before, along with a few competitor's products. They are universally demeaning, insulting, infuriating, and useless as an indicator of skill.
David Packard in "The HP Way"

Chapter 12 Responsibility to Society

...Among the Hewlett-Packard objectives Bill Hewlett and I set down was one recognizing the company's responsibility to be a good Corporate citizen....

...This means being sensitive to the needs and interests of the community; it means applying the highest standards of honesty and integrity to all our relationships with individuals and groups; ...
While I know what you meant in the parent, "numeric timezone" isn't a thing. When it's in a numeric format the correct term is "offset". It cannot be referred to as a timezone as it's timezone will remain constant, but offset may change depending on the time of year (and the impact daylight savings has on the correct offset).

For what it's worth, i too hate when people say things like "EST","CST" etc. Not only are they difficult to remember, but they're ambiguous. i.e. AEST is Australian Eastern Standard Time, but no one includes the A when it's spoken and rarely when its written, which often means when two people over email say "lets talk at 9am EST", hopefully they're on the same continent, or they will miss each other by around ~14 hours.
> I can perfectly imagine people whose rights he wanted to take away to think he's the latter.

I can perfectly imagine any number of anti-democratic, politically obsessive people who would think that way, yes. They are certainly welcome to hold that view, but if the rest of us want to maintain a cordial and pluralistic society instead of one of constant political warfare and discrimination, we need to oppose those people at every turn.
Thanks :)

> Any rough estimation about the timeframe?

Not particularly. It's still in early stages. We proposed a "Rust platform" idea, but it was poorly received by a large chunk of the community. We are starting towards moving towards a kind of "yearly planning" strategy, which would be one option for the timing of such a thing. But we'll see; it really needs someone to champion it, and like any other feature, as we start to feel pressure, we'll start to prioritize it relative to other things.
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You know, Carl Sagan dreamed of Mars when he was a kid[1], and he went on to do some great things for science and science education. Who cares what Elon's dream is if he only manages to dramatically reduce launch prices?

1: http://thejohncarterfiles.com/2011/12/carl-sagan-on-the-magi...
That's what the consumer would want too
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Which seems to be a different argument entirely, namely one of weighing the positive externalities against the negative externalities? I guess I would agree with that.

Now, there is actually precedent for banning consenting adults from sharing private information in order to ensure the survival of the democracy that is quite common in stable democracies: You are usually not allowed to prove to third parties how you voted in an election. That's only because of the externalities that that can have on the democracy if third parties can pressure you into voting a certain way/can buy your votes.
Oh, totally. If interviews were a perfect science, and perfectly measured ability, then you wouldn't need to prepare for them at all. You're absolutely right there.

And if it were 100% about preparation -- if preparation could land anyone any job they wanted -- then the interviews would be mostly worthless (other than perhaps assessing how much work someone is willing to put in).

The reality is somewhere in between: Preparation helps someone perform at their best, but it will not land anyone any job they want. This is why tech companies actually encourage preparation -- it reduces the number of good candidates who get rejected.

Note that this isn't really unique to coding interviews. People prepare for ALL types of interviews, so it's revealing the same flaw in all of them.
Thank you for posting this. Have been excited about this all week!
It looks from the videos that the boosters return to land using strictly thrust from the rocket. Can someone explain why it's done that way and a parachute isn't used for at least part of the descent? Seems like an awful waste of fuel.
What about going to a different planet makes you think we won't just be taking those same problems with us?

The earth isn't the problem - The problem is the human brain. We aren't genetically capable of processing the world we have built.

Expect there to be Trump IV vs Clinton IV 2117 hosted live on Mars if we haven't made significant improvements in human engineering.
Mars launch is delayed waiting for rocket passengers to fasten their seatbelts
Scale IS the most important factor, because it controls the "demand" side of "supply and demand". So long as hiring someone makes the company more than they cost, the company will be willing to pay that price. Because software is so well leveraged in creating profits, it means there are nearly infinite spots where companies could make a profit by hiring a developer at current rates. The rates will continue to rise, and the supply will continue to increase, until it has hit equilibrium.
> I won't believe cities are serious about reducing congestion until they fix the traffic lights to dynamically maximize flow.

> No, it isn't done already.

Its obviously not done most places yet, but adaptive traffic control [0] is a thing.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_traffic_control
No? If it becomes affordable enough, why can't we do it?

And why are you being a armchair psycho-analyst? Have you examined/talked to them personally?
That's an interesting question. Programming is definitely a skill so study and practice certainly matter. But it's possible the limiting value is the same as g or at least something that includes a set of abilities highly correlated with g (e.g. working memory).
Yep. Academic molecular biolgist here. 100% agree. For as much as this community knows about software it knows shockingly little about the rules of health care.

Hate to break it to everyone breathless over yet another press clipping, but this startup is dead in the water. Another $45M down the tubes.
Fun fact regarding (2). Buchanan, being such a great guy, didn't care that his signature was irrelevant and signed it anyway.
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That happens anyway - traits that help you succeed (IQ, health, appearance, impulse control, etc.) are heritable.
Who is using Semantic Web technology in production?
Semantic Web movement has produced several technologies (JSON-LD, SPARQL, OWL, etc) that seem useful for data integration, but they don't appear to have much momentum. I'm struggling to determine if the Semantic Web is a justly abandoned bad idea or a quietly useful mature technology.

The main place I see Semantic Web technology in use is SEO [1] and Email Markup [2]. Is anyone using these technologies for more general data integration tasks?

[1] https://www.bing.com/webmaster/help/markup-validator-e9b66817

[2] https://developers.google.com/gmail/markup/getting-started
I don't think any of ABC News, ESPN, or Vice provide free forums for people to say whatever they want, do they? Twitter's more like blogspot or tumblr than a news comment site. Taking something like blogspot and turning into something highly regulated is a waste of everybody's time.
Yes. We should all just go back to working on SaaS products and optimizing ad impressions.
They have in some country, if it doesn't in yours I don't think you can blame the technology involved.

There was a time in which only rich people had toilets and in-house showers, now many extremely poor people have access to those; the same thing will happen with "design babies", there will be a time where only rich people can do it, but as time goes it will become a commodity and making sure you are as healthy as possible even before born will be a human rights issue.
I have no idea why people who otherwise are against practices like stack ranking think that companies like "Hacker"Rank which assign you a score based on a set of simplistic algorithm are a good idea. If you are a manager and your company uses HackerRank as a hiring filter, I request you to take a good, hard second look at it – specially if you lament that you are unable to find any developers.

These companies make bank from both sides (the person interviewing who is cramming on their material, and the employer), and leave out important things like how well you work with teams, how fast you adapt to new frameworks, or how maintainable your code base is.

I guess it is no surprise that another of their "featured" blog posts talks in extremely glowing terms about someone for coding for 24 hours without any sleep. (http://blog.hackerrank.com/recap-how-mimino-solved-78-projec...).
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Your comments reveal a lot more about you than they do about Elon Musk
I'd like to know how he financed the court fights. All from NewEgg profits? Did they manage to get financial contributions from other companies that had a vested interest in fighting the trolls?