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> Here's the problem I have -- how do you avoid hiring professional bullshitters?

You poke at their bullshit until the stench is overwhelming. I personally find a variation of "Five Whys" questioning very useful. Bullshitters can only go a level or two deep and so trip up fairly quickly.
"we choose to go [...]; not because [it is] easy, but because [it is] hard;"
If getting stuff to Mars becomes cheap enough, then the rest becomes pretty easy.

He's proposing a system for getting stuff to Mars cheaply enough.

Characterizing this as "emotional manipulation" is ridiculous. You want to see what emotional manipulation actually looks like, watch an Apple keynote. This is a guy risking his fortune on a crazy dream and presenting his efforts in a technical and factual manner.
Pardon the cynicism, I'm a bit tired of tomorrows. It's the same story over and over. I believe we don't need a new "next". So much is unused or wasted here.. I can't stop thinking we're just gonna spread human absurdity further.

ps: I heard Musk incentive to research interplanetary escape as a safety measure. But this is not what's sold here IMO, it smells too much of space travel tech infused greener (sic) heaven.
Parent was making a size comparison to the moon.
So maybe hire someone to fill in the 'set pieces' of the talk, that he could go back and forth with? As much as I think what he's doing is amazingly cool, it's kind of painful to watch.
Well, here's the link to the document from the Mozilla Security mailing list: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.security...

> Because this document is extensive and contains embedded images, links and formatting, I have published it on Google Docs instead of as an email message here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C6BlmbeQfn4a9zydVi2UvjBG...
The Medium article has been removed. I think the same article (possibly under a different author's name?) appeared here https://github.com/Dobiasd/articles/blob/master/functional_p...
As the parent commenter implied, things get a lot easier when you only bring people who agree.
Not critiquing the theory. Just appreciating the fact that some fairly basic physical premises allow you to deduce nontrivial facts.
> So why are you upset with this one and not all those others?

I'd venture that's because it somehow silently challenges the humanocentric point of view that many (unconsciously, mostly) hold onto. Why would anyone seemingly cling so much onto that pale blue dot unless it's held as deeply special in some way?
> We’re determined to make Microsoft Edge the safest and most secure browser.

You should enable Ad/tracker-block by default and across the board.
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I think this is more an end game move rather than a new ambition.

The best way to take over FedEx and UPS wouldn't be to compete with them directly from the start but make them dependent on your business, so they'd be in less of a position to fight when you have the resources to compete.
> Bad hires are disastrous and have a much greater impact than missing out on a few pretty good engineers because they didn't think to use dynamic programming.

Citation needed. I frequently see the dangers of false positives exaggerated and the costs of false negatives downplayed.
Kaiser Permanente is technically a non-profit. Their wages are more or less in line for tech jobs at bloated big bureaucratic companies where the performance demands are low and the meetings schedule is full.

edit: but other non-profits will typically pay much lower.
As much as I love everything about what Elon is doing I wish there was a way to remove all the "um"s and "eh"s from his diction.
Google's sudden push for India is kinda spooky.
Terraforming Mars actually means creating a greenhouse effect there to increase atmospheric pressure enough that colonists could just wear oxygen masks and not full pressure suits. Oxygenation would come much later, and no doubt the lessons learned there could apply to the poor unfortunate souls still living on this rock.
>If the scale exists in the market, there's no reason why she can't buy it.

Actually there's a good chance that's not true. My experience with specialist equipment suppliers is that they _will not_ sell single units to individuals who don't work in the field, because civilian customers are annoying as fuck, and they choose to keep a clean battle front by refusing to sell to them regardless of circumstance.

Your clean view of capitalism is as irrelevant to wholesale as it is to medicine, I'm afraid.
Average 115 days, payload to Mars 450 tonnes. 100 people he reckons.
My reply is to your whole comment. I am still not convinced that it is inappropriate to celebrate SpaceX, if for no other reason than to encourage others to join in the vision of a multiplanetary society.
Curriculum as algorithm
Mars is just a placeholder for an alternate home to earth.

Most technologies developed for these missions will be reused or new ones will built on top of them.
> realizing McCarthy's ideals--rather Scheme's more academic approach has caused it to compromise less on McCarthy's vision.

What were those 'ideals'? What was that vision?

> even improving on McCarthy's original Lisp

Common Lisp improved the original Lisp, too. It vastly expanded into the areas which were interesting for McCarthy: AI programming. Common Lisp was the base for thousands of research & development projects. That was McCarthy's vision: a tool for AI research.

>In this argument, Scheme results from a deeper understanding of of an idealized Lisp

No, Scheme went away from the idealized Lisp. -> R6RS.

> Personally, I don't take a side in this debate, because I don't care.

Yeah, sure.
US steel companies, coal miners and large-scale manufacturers answered a resounding "no" to that, and yet their former employees are still unhappy.
> If people really cared about mass surveillance would they actively participate in Facebook et al?

The problem is: These people weren't using Facebook. They were using WhatsApp which promised to not send their data to Facebook.

I don't use either because I personally think it's silly to assume they won't sell your data to someone, but they did make the promise that they wouldn't.
I'm not so sure this measures up to FaceBook's PR fiasco.

This is just another example of Google doing just enough in order to measure what may happen (throw stuff at the wall to see what sticks).
I disagree, especially if a property creates negative externalaties. Smell, noise, parking issues, etc. are all quality of life problems. I shouldn't be able to tell a neighbor what color to paint their house, but I think it's ok to make sure a neighbor mows their lawn or shovels their sidewalk. Both of these issue impact me directly, and not just in preference.

The problem with not having zoning is that you end up with a two tiered housing system. People who can afford it move into private communities where standards can be enforced, and people who can't just live wherever they can find, despite their neighbors. Since I can't afford a private community where I can distance myself from my neighbors, I will support zoning restrictions, thank you.
This is why I buy exclusively from Newegg. You can get things marginally cheaper on Amazon, but you are feeding the patent troll fighting machine when you buy from Newegg. And the costs aren't hugely more than other places. It's a few bucks here and there, and I think probably the most important few bucks people like us could spend when buying new hardware.
> This relies on being able to accurately identify poor performing engineers, which is very tough at a big company.

"Very tough"? The only big company I ever worked at was a more traditional engineering company, but identifying the poor performers was easy. The problem was the politically-savvy poor performers who used their savvy to shield themselves.
I pretty much agree that has been my experience. Taking a project from zero and knowing where to push at every stage to have a successful project.

Question. What makes the jobs in OldGeekJobs.com a good fit for older developers?
"$500 [in cocaine use] buys a new AR-15 rifle [for a Mexican cartel]"

That calculation is a bit off. There are a few layers of transactions between the cartel supplier and the cocaine uses. These add markup.

"every time they buy illegal drugs they reward the cartels"

So, buy your weed local, direct from the farmer?
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You aren't going to be doing direct reentry, mars' mean orbital velocity is about 25km/s, your space craft would be traveling at probably 15-20km/s.
MOI requires a slow down burn there isn't any way around it, this isn't KSP.
>>Also, show me the species on other planets.

Exactly, lets go there and see for ourselves.
while Misra-C does have some good engineering practice in it, I think it is jumping the gun when the rust is still in its infancy. Give Rust another 5 years and support from a few more microcontroller vendors, and maybe there is a chance for a Misra-Rust to be created.
There's a phrase I'm fond of:

The man who says it can't be done needs to get out of the way of the man who's doing it.
German data law is very strict, so yes, it is useful:

- You can only take as much as you need

- You cannot ask for data for one thing and use it for another

- You have to clearly state what data you will use for what purpose

- The opt-in has to be distinct from other opt-ins (so, 100 pages of EULA and then a checkbox "I accept" doesn't cut it)

The only problem here is that the penalities for breaking the data protection laws aren't very high .. I'd like to see percentages of a companies revenue.
Fair enough -- but the bullshitters are generally pretty politically savvy :)
I found GrepPage pretty interesting: https://www.greppage.com/
I get where you're coming from. Here's how I see it: No one's really invested in keeping Mars a wasteland, and there are a lot of very powerful people invested in activities that are destroying Earth.
Indeed. We could argue the tragedy of the commons as it pertains to climate change (it's a tough argument for both sides, honestly) but when colonizing Mars means bringing along colonists vetted by scientists and not politicians, keeping from wrecking the place would be a lot easier.

I do recognize that it wouldn't solely be scientists to choose colonists, I'm not that naive, but I'm confident that there would be enough controls in place to ensure that the right thing is the default answer to what do we do now?
I tend to use youtube-dl to grab what I want while at my laptop and sync to my phone so that I have things to watch while about. Not a perfect solution, but works for me for now.
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> Nobody's making you participate in this venture. If you don't like it, then you're free to go do whatever it is you do like.

I can't agree more. I've seen HN degrade into that kind of discussion over the last 2 years and it really disappoints me.

Part of me wishes HN had a really strong moderator that slapped down nay-sayers. If you're not contributing something valuable, comment deleted.
Ask HN: How would you design the USA's policy on combating global warming?
Part of the policy should include working with / influencing other nations to develop part of all of our policy.
YC's leading metric is the success of its investments, without that foundation then all other decisions will be off. Starting off on the right foot is more important IMHO than being fantastic at running a company.
I'd buy this in a heartbeat if I could. No big hopes that it will come soon where I live though - google is just not hungry like Netflix and co it seems.
Aetna launching subsidized Apple Watch program employees and members
Yeah, but that's just how Mozilla's PR comes out. It doesn't mean they'll abandon Gecko.

I think it's more likely they'll make Gecko/Firefox into community led projects and dissolve Mozilla Corporation.
But what the rich don't have is the raw numbers that the poor can output. The rich are already a selective group, but the poor can just throw armies of meat at the evolutionary battlefield.
I would get behind a space pogo project. Would certainly cut down on the pesky emissions from many rocket fuels.
I'm talking about asteroid impact. It fixes asteroid impact.
What makes you think Mars would be more liveable than Antartica after a nuclear war or accelerated climate change?
This also struck me. I was surprised that they picked WWE of all things, you would think that video would be region locked and thus not available outside of the US, like a lot of things are.
It's especially exaggerated here -- almost comically so -- when the subject is JavaScript or when something isn't quite right with a project's website.
> Having worked with many of my fellow graduate students to try to teach CS concepts to incoming students without any CS background my conclusion here is that we simply don't know how to teach computer science. My suspicion is that many people who learn CS usually do it inspite of attempts to teach them, not because of instruction.

I have this assumption about almost all organized learning at this time. I think that's also why things like IQ/g/etc. look so important - they make the learning "in spite of" more tractable, because you have enough of a buffer to deal with even really bad information at a very fast pace, and because high IQ students will make one's education methods look good even if they're terrible.
I wrote the piece here, but commenting because I'm genuinely curious how you decide how a company qualifies as 'friendly' to old geeks. Is it just a matter of saying so in their job spec?
In short, "designer babies" is approximately the same thing to us today as nutrition was to an earlier age.
These days a homeless most cherished thing is a outdated mobile phone. This because job listing etc has moved online.

Damn it, in most parts of the world these days healthcare handled as a public utility.
and who do you think gives that data to the government?
It's those aforementioned world powers and industries doing it. I'm sorry if my argument made assumptions about the context.
I will agree that we seem to be talking past each other :)

I don't know the cause of the broken funnel, but that does not stop me from being to identify that there is something broken with how Palantir are filling their funnel.

I do think the DOL are looking at the wrong end. What Palantir needs to fix is how they are filling their pipeline so that they capture a much more representative cross section of the talent pool. I am pretty sure Palantir have not deliberately set out to do this, but there is something about their selection criteria, advertising, or outreach that is going wrong to end up with such a skewed funnel.
Larger than the moon.
Further, why so much focus on this particular billionaire, who at least is focusing pretty hard on driving progress even if you don't agree on the precise direction, and ignoring all the ones just wasting it, or being actively counterproductive?

Because there is nowhere to engage with them or around their capital allocation specifically? Also because the problem set they are trying to solve is not as ambitious. Remember the problem set for this Mars project is basically "Saving Humanity from Extinction."

You see similar conversations come up when large scale renewable projects are invested in - wherein people shout about how people should be investing in fusion or Thorium etc...

Also, if someone comes out and says "We're investing in Docker" and the response is "You should be investing in AI instead!!" it just makes you look like a crank - largely because they are different value investments.
I had a very similar experience renting my car on Getaround and have heard the same from many others. It seemed to get worse over time as the pool of renters grew and there was less interaction between myself and renters.
Equating Mars to "an uninhabited island in the Pacific" is disingenuous at least. Mars is the largest unexplored area of land potentially available to humans since we left Africa.

Ditto for saying we haven't seen anything special out there, considering that we've barely even started looking (and every time someone proposes looking, a whole bunch of boring people show up to go, "why bother?").

A massive ELE asteroid is capable of doing enough traumatic damage to civilizations on Earth to entirely reset hundreds of years of technological development on this planet. Having another technologically-advanced civilization on another world just makes sense from a species survival perspective. And an ELE asteroid isn't even the most plausible traumatic human disaster we can imagine on Earth; war, politics, disease are all far more plausible.

It seems you also need a reminder that so much of the technological advancements we're enjoying now were developed, at least in some part, by a country that started out as an unexplored frontier (and, I'm sure there were people in 1450 that would have insisted Spain solve its own problems first before sending ships out to find a new route around the world). We have no way of predicting what kind of technology (environmental? energy?) or politics will be developed on a new world so isolated from Earth and populated by, presumably, many of the best and brightest from Earth.
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> How do you design a process that is consistent, measurable and efficient at that scale?

I think you would be hard-pressed to demonstrate that their processes are consistent.
What will probably happen is workers will only get 32 hours through each farm labor contractor, and they'll end up working for more than one contractor.
> I gave up using 1Password when I realized the loopback is cleartexted when autofilling passwords

There's a forum post or blog post or something (I forget) by 1Password about why this is, and it basically boils down to, it's impossible to be completely certain that the other end is the process you're trying to talk to, so there's no point in encrypting the traffic on the wire. Any process with permission to sniff the traffic (i.e. root) also is capable of intercepting the connection entirely and pretending to be the other end, so encryption doesn't really get you anything. Remember, both ends are processes on the same machine, so you can't use certificates or signatures to prove identity as the keys would have to be on the local machine where the attacker can find them.

> a host of other vulns like the .opvault format not used as the default

It was used as the default for iCloud, just not for Dropbox because of compatibility concerns with older versions of 1Password. According to a forum post from 2 years ago, "In time, all users will be converted to the newer format" (https://discussions.agilebits.com/discussion/comment/139552/...). I'm not actually sure whether they've made the switch yet, since I already stopped using Dropbox for syncing.

> and too many other vulns to count

Please elaborate. I've heard of far fewer issues with 1Password than competing services. I've certainly never seen anything that even remotely qualifies as "too many other vulns to count". So I'm extremely skeptical of this claim.

> The master password is also a single point of failure and once you get that, you get everything

You also need to have the actual data. I'm skeptical that KeePass is any better. From reading wikipedia, it needs a master password and/or a key file. If you use a master password, that's the same as 1Password. If you use a key file, anyone who gets access to your machine can now decrypt all your passwords so that seems worse. If you use both a master password and keyfile, anyone who gets access to your machine (i.e. to get your KDBX file) and has your master password can also get at everything, and it's also not clear how using a combination like this even works if you're syncing your KBDX file with any other machines (e.g. using Dropbox). Wikipedia also says you can use the Windows current user details instead of a password/key file, but again, any attacker that gets access to your machine now has all the information necessary to decrypt your KBDX file.

> With KeePass even if they have the master password, they also need a key, and a machine ID so a copy of the KDBX file is useless to an attacker (unless the can emulate your machine UUID)

They don't need to emulate your machine UUID, they just need to apply the cryptographic operations to decrypt the KBDX file themselves. If an attacker gets access to your machine (e.g. to get your KBDX file), they can get all that other info too (assuming you even set up KeePass to use that info).
The jobs highlighted in green were posted by employers on the site knowing older candidates will apply. Those candidates can feel comfortable applying knowing they're welcome.

It's hard to build a two-sided marketplace, so I'm aggregating jobs from StackOverflow and iterating on the UX (I've got some good ideas to test).

I'll keep highlighting the jobs in green from the employers who go there and post directly though.

What are your thoughts on this?
For fun, I did a simple analysis of what kind of posts attract upvotes: https://www.kaggle.com/antgoldbloom/d/antgoldbloom/hacker-ne....

My conclusion is that the ultimate HN post is Sam Altman posting about Rust at midday ET on Sunday.
Celebrate SpaceX for what they're actually doing, which is impressive as hell, not for empty talk.
Some CRDTs employ vector clocks.
CRDT is a veeeeery broad family of algorithms and data structures.
I think the diagram found in wikipedia is the clearest.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/Ni...
But there's no SD Card interface on iOS?
Shit, often videos "just don't load" and I am in the middle of a major US metro area.
We have, to a good approximation, no clue how human biology achieves intelligence. I'd say it is far more realizable to go to Mars than to put a brain in a flash drive. Even if we achieve AGI, that isn't (necessarily) a human intelligence.
Coral Common Lisp was once renamed 'Macintosh Allegro Common Lisp', because Coral went into a marketing agreement with Franz Inc. Apple later bought Coral and its products, and published MACL then as Macintosh Common Lisp (MCL).

MACL had technically nothing to do with Franz' Allegro CL.
Chinese-Israeli fund to invest $250m in med tech
Wouldn't it be cheaper to defend against an asteroid impact? We only need detect and deflect in time.
Please see my response below, and let me know your thoughts on it. I changed the verbiage in my leader because both of you asked the same question, and that tells me I need to do a better job explaining.

Also, maybe we can link up and work together in the future if doing that makes sense.
Yup, Re: the danger. Later on:

Q: Who should be the first humans on Mars?
Q: Who should be the first humans on Mars?

A: The first journeys will be very dangerous, the risk of fatalities will be high. Likely no children - must be prepared to die.
A: The first journeys will be very dangerous, the risk of fatalities will be high. Likely no children - must be prepared to die.
Once you've solved dealing with Earth's gravity, Mars will be a cakewalk by comparison.
Shoppers are turning to Amazon over Google for search
Talk about going on Mars,
Can't get proper light for the conference...
Hollywood, usually. They're really good at pretending, but not always so great on putting the science in science fiction.
I use youtube-dl as well, though I don't sync that to my phone. I need to set up a more automatic mechanism to sync files to my phone when my phone and laptop are on the same network or in the same vicinity.
Paul Graham started Y Combinator, which is a company.

Paul Graham was a borderline founder of Reddit, as well.
Portland International Airport carpet
I don't accept assembly as a valid analogy.
I believe extrajudicial killings have a bit more than "the potential" to go wrong.
All of our customers; see http://stardog.com/ for the notable ones. (Hint: it's a quietly useful mature technology.)