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>According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there were 64,000 steelworkers in America last year, and 820,000 home health aides — more than double the population of Pittsburgh. Next year, there will be fewer steelworkers and still more home health aides, as baby boomers fade into old age. Soon, we will be living in the United States of Home Health Aides, yet the candidates keep talking about steelworkers.

I'm picking up a sort of 'gamers are dead' vibe from all this. I wonder if the media considers Gamergate a sort of success story and template for future political discourse? The argument would be that the issues faced by outgroup demographic X are not real, because outgroup demographic X is dying anyway, and is being replaced by ingroup demographic Y, and is also full of misogynists and/or racists and/or basement dwellers and/or rednecks and/or Trump voters.

As supporting evidence, I will note the author just casually slipped in there that steel workers are all white men while service workers are mostly women.
Its not just finding the libraries, its also marrying the makefiles.
Will Nobel Prize overlook LIGO's master builder?
>Because the person riding around on the submarine under the sea was a Victorian gentleman surrounded by appropriately deferential Victorian servants.

As someone who actually read Jules Verne (instead of watching the Disney movie or reading a poorly-translated abridgement,) I would not characterize Nemo as a Victorian gentleman.

First of all Verne wasn't English, and Nemo isn't a Victorian gentleman, he's a rebel and a terrorist. He doesn't have appropriately deferential Victorian servants, he has fellow freedom fighters.

Arronax's servant Consiel is the closest to a "appropriately deferential Victorian servant" but the way he is written, he comes across as a borderline Asperger's Syndrome savant scientist, not at all like Mercury from "Bleak House."

I get that people make up stuff to support their thoughts and biases, but calling Jules Verne a Victorian writer is simply incorrect. He's a lot closer to Dumas than Dickens.
My hunch is that a bunch of people have been pumping TWTR up with all sorts of rumors so they can dump it before it craters.
If you're properly restrained, you can survive absolutely massive g-forces. John Stapp survived 46g on a rocket sled; Indycar and Formula 1 drivers regularly walk away from >100g crashes. Assuming they're using a proven seat and restraint design, the capsule's own sensors should provide satisfactory data on survivability.
Of course the entire point of this particular article is that they are pretty difficult to make profitable
It's not about "blaming" anything. But the fact is that software development is much harder to make an accurate estimate for, in many ways, than a highway project and this is because the tools we have available to use are not as mature as they could be.
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My preferred explanation for Kalman filters is sec. 1.5 of Maybeck's "Stochastic Models, Estimation, and Control".

https://www.cs.unc.edu/~welch/kalman/media/pdf/maybeck_ch1.p...
> Postgres is a tough database to contend with and it's mature and open source.

Presumably, that's in part why CockroachDB decided to be more-or-less Postgres-compatible on the wire, and embraced SQL.
If you’re not getting paid by your users, then you often get something cool, but maybe not something you want to go to production with.
I find this kind of comment cropping up - can you find a source for your claim that Rice claimed Iraq had nuclear weapons?
For the amount of profit I would have made off of merely buying a house and holding for a few years if I had stayed in the Bay Area, I would be able to buy most of the houses I'd consider with just cash. You really can't get that kind of ludicrous cash making opportunity if 1. your ceiling on pay in your profession is capped firmly leaving you insufficient investment capital 2. your local economy is not booming with lots of investors to drive up asset prices. Nobody's going to buy a middle class house in rural North Carolina and leave within 6 years with $350k+ residual profit, but that's fairly common for those I know in the Bay Area and NYC that bought before 2010.

Whether these things are sustainable is one thing, but NYC and SF have always been expensive areas to live and at the same time among the best chances to grow a career in most fields. Otherwise, there'd be little growth in cities. It's not like the millions of people in urban areas are all stupid or too young to think about families and renting v. buying.
thanks, Andreas. is there an existing solution, or is it DIY project at this point?
Our job is to have fun building.
I see the whole fiasco to be deeply related to how Samsung is run and controlled by the infamous Lee family.
Note 7's battery is made by Samsung SDI, one of Samsung's subsidiaries, and I assume that SDI gets most of its revenues directly from Samsung Electronics. When you (SDI) have Samsung as your guaranteed customer, you don't really have to compete or try to survive.
Besides, Samsung always set their flagship release dates based on expected Apple's iPhone releases, always trying to ship to market few weeks before Apple.
When your release dates are set to your competitors' pace, not your own, you will certainly make mistakes like this.
Even I have the same question.
Kids on the coast can inherit their families now $1m house... Meanwhile those that move are forced to save and save and maybe get lucky to buy a house.
From everything I've learned about security, offense is much, much more effective dollar for dollar and that any concerted effort of creating an impenetrable shield would result in a cyber Maginot Line.

An all out cyber war would be scary as there isn't any procedure or policy for descalation once started, no white flag.

What's especially scary is that the government wastes all this time and money surveillaning people's online habits when the electric grid, probably the number one target in the event of a cyber war, is so defenseless that a squirrel can effectively take out electricity for the Eastern seaboard.
Interesting. I'm a bit surprised I'd imagine they'd be interested in taking it over. What do others think?
No, but it's pro-Apple bias that makes you think that this only happens to Samsung.

https://bgr.com/2016/10/04/iphone-6s-battery-explosion-fire/

https://bgr.com/2016/09/30/iphone-7-plus-battery-explosion-a...
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Alternatively, you could just run :set mouse=a and then use your mouse to do things like scrolling, moving the cursor and selecting text. It's definitely a bit faster than using the arrow keys, but not as fast as knowing the most common vim normal mode keybindings.
I mean, it's open source software, right? Nothing stopping you from downloading it and running before publishing.

I view that as a pretty solid way to make the science better all by itself.
With ordinary proprietary software, there's only one team in the world you could possibly hire for maintenance, and if they're too busy or have a conflict of interest you're just screwed. Competition among maintainers should make them more efficient and scale better.
Definitely, the on-the-job training aspect of a manufacturing job is huge, and there's just so much knowledge that's hard to pass on in a set of standards and best practices. Agreed on all points about skill development & continued education when you're poor. It strikes me as one of the harder problems to fix when it comes to mobility/inequality as the economy changes.

You sound a lot like me professionally haha. I had the same level of experience when I started at the EMS provider I'm with, just doing CAD library stuff and learning as much as I could when requests were light. Graduated to helping out with bits of full board designs like routing/placement, then graduated to full boards eventually. Having both a design team and SMT lines in the back to learn from is invaluable experience that's hard to recreate.
> Is sales just the high-touch end of the marketing continuum?

IMO, no. Sales and marketing are pretty different things.

Marketing isn't "sales without people", and sales isn't "marketing done in person". They target different problems, and you may need one, the other, or both to be convincing, depending on the product or service.
In my experiences, most people do indeed use cannabis because they enjoy it. There are some (and that number is growing) who use it primarily for the medicinal benefits. Neither choice is wrong, in my opinion.
Hoping everyone here has read Brave New World. Utopia and dystopia only differ by a few letters.

The only Utopia I expect is the one of my religion. I don't expect to create one.
I charge an hourly rate for my time. I don't tell anyone that I had hoped to work for them for free, but it turns out I need to charge just enough to pay for my groceries, while in fact making enough to go on fancy vacations. Because that would be lying. I didn't hope to work for them for free, and I am charging more than just enough to cover my groceries.

I have no problem with him charging whatever price he can get for his service, that's business. I have a problem with marketing it as "We were initially hoping to provide this service free of charge. However, watching our bandwidth usage and server costs as people started using us, it quickly became apparent that we'd need some help to cover our expenses," if that's not true.

What's the reason to say this except marketing, because you think people are going to be more likely to pay if you say this? Does it not strongly imply that the guy is charging just enough to cover bandwidth and server costs? And is that true?

I have no problem with what he's charging, which seems a reasonable price, and really I don't care if it's reasonable or not, people can pay it or not, their choice, I have no problem with people charging prices that seem unreasonable to me, if they are successful at it anyway, good for them.

I have a problem with being misleading about your business model in order to get business, and in particular in pretending you are doing what some people _really are_ doing, but you are not, because you want to undeservedly get the good favor those people those people deservedly get.
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Probably not. It's all open-source and they're trying to get a development community going around the project.
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Lets not kid ourselves, he is there for Free Basics & that shit. I am not against Free Basics, a Company should be free to offer whatever they want, but that also seems like a very cruel plan to offer poor people with shitty internet.

Remember the time when he was in India for a week or even a month, but then India decided not to allow Free Basics, and now he's doing the same with Nigeria, which is soon going to be 3rd most populous country.
It's possible these are the same people who think something is wrong simply because it's illegal.
Also note that "schizophrenia" is not an illness but a family of illnesses (and even that definition is one of the less fuzzy ones). Finding a "universal cure" is as likely as finding a universal cure for cancer. That is, very unlikely.
> they're much less interested in demagoguery and strongman solutions

The existence of the Black Panther Party and numerous similar movements for decades, says otherwise. Louis Farrakhan is an obvious recent example of a demagogue.
Condolezza Rice

https://www.crunchbase.com/person/condoleezza-rice/advisory-...
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> My lobster people are not captured by any distribution. They do not exist.

Well then, at least we agree that the point you trying to make, successfully or not, is pointless.
In theory, sure. In practice, a program that takes a century to run is indistinguishable from a non-terminating program. If you prove a macro is safe by trying every possible combination then it could very well take that long.

And we usually don't wait that long. A function that executes when loading a web page times out in the order of seconds.

Once you have deadlines, all bets are off - the function is not deterministic for any large enough input. Equational reasoning does not preserve performance - it could cause a program that previously ran fast enough to time out.

So, knowing that function terminates seems only theoretically useful. It doesn't tell us whether a program change is really safe. It would be more useful to put some kind of bound on the resources a function can consume.

In Etherium's language, there is a concept of "gas" which is an abstract limit on how much work a function can do. (The advantage over a timeout is that it's not machine-specific.) I sometimes wonder if anyone has applied this concept to functional programming? Could we define a language so that it uses static analysis to maintain guarantees about a function's use of gas?
I've flown 25k miles in the last three weeks across 5 countries.

Every airline mentioned this. American, Japan Airlines, Dragonair, Cathay Pacific, Etihad, JetBlue and Southwest.
- The first thing you need to do is prioritise what you want to do. Remove trivial ideas or ideas with the least ROI for your efforts. If you can't remove items, create a second 'backlog' list and keep your main list as small as possible, maybe 2 or three projects you can get done in the time you have (think Agile).

This is the hardest I find as there are so many things I want to get done NOW and even when I do concentrate on one project I'm easily distracted by new "shiny objects" while researching the current task :)
When I do get distracted, I write down the idea and I look to the next point:

- Do everything for the long term and remember that you have plenty of time to do it, be disciplined, there really is no rush.

So, take your time with what you are doing, do everything properly and remember why you are doing it in the first place - you decided it was worthwhile!
You can't rush it just because you have other ideas, there really is plenty of time to do it properly AND to do the next idea on your list.

- Set aside chunks of time to work on your project and time to surf the web and check emails etc. Don't mix the 2!

This one is hard as you almost always need to search for some documentation on the web at some stage but be diligent knowing you have set aside time to do your leisure activities. If you think of some idea in these spare blocks of time just add the idea to the backlog and prioritise it when you renew your main list. If you're getting itchy feet about your new idea then you can prioritise your backlog but don't touch your current task list!

Lastly, if you can't maintain the effort to stick to a project after a week or two, make sure you break down your project into manageable chunks that you can call 'done' when finished. Do these parts as modules perhaps, again, think
Agile programming and call these chunks 'sprints' if you like but make sure you finish and test your 'chunk' before starting the next task or project.
Doing this will allow you to move from project to project and know where you are up to and if you followed the advice above you can be confident the earlier work you did is top notch and ready to build upon :)

good luck!
Yes, I was thinking to myself, "Wow, an X-is-Shutting-Down post about a company I've actually heard of...Well, on Hacker News."
It wouldn't even have been known to the public, if it happened only in Korea, because they have a complete control of the media in S Korea.
When it first happened it Korea, media tried to dismiss it as if it was a false report by black consumers who are trying to win some money by suing Samsung. I found it pretty funny because, in Korea, you never win against any big companies in the court. There are no scenarios where you can sue a company and win any money. Even if, you do end up winning, it won't be in $millions like in US, but will max $10000, which rarely happens at all. So no sane person will even try.
I am glad that it also happened in US, because Samsung does not have the same control in US as they do in Korea.
The only way for this to be properly investigated is to be done by US, not Korean government.
It was really ridiculous to see how all Korean media praised how great a company Samsung is when they announced a recall.
All three of those languages have at least one compiler with an llvm backend, so writing ports should be as hard as C. Perhaps easier, since you don't actually have to write a parser for anything, just an IR->asm pass.
No, I'm not. It's your life, you can choose to end it if you wish. Even if we had a complete cure for all aging and death, you should still be able to choose to not exist. I would never choose that myself, but I would also never tell someone else how to handle their life.
Take a picture of a sunset.

So far none of the cell phones even come close to looking like the real thing. Reds look yellow...

My wife's SLR does a good job of capturing it, but not our cells phones.
I find Atlas obscura.com to be one fascinating sites.

It's a travel guide for the obscure treated in a way that is respectful and not treated as guide for the weird and spooky.
It's great to hear that the Rethink crew will have a home at Stripe. Seems like the perfect fit. I hope you consider putting resources behind the project. We've absolutely loved using at Lumi.
It's your choice to continue working at the company during hints of fraud. Anyone concerned about it tainting their future should have left 6 months ago.
Why were they even doing labs already anyway? If they can actually make the technology work, they can relatively easily print money. Focus on that.
Google are evil
Non-SF resident here. From other stories I have read, it seems to me as if housing prices start to reach levels where even average middle-class workers have trouble finding something affordable.

If this is true, can a program like CHEFS actually get someone out of homelessness?
Really sorry to hear it Slava. You guys were doing great work. At the end of the day, I think that open source has really killed pure database companies aside from the incumbents. We'll see where MongoDB ends up but they have the advantage that a support contract business model works when your product needs support.
Well done Ooshma!!

Two-parter, what's your favorite dish at Gobble and will you be updating the Gobble branding to match the beautiful illustration work from your slides??
Are you serious? You would press employees on the behavior of their CEO?
I don't (just) want to solve the symptoms; I want to address the cause. Many degenerative conditions are symptoms (directly or indirectly) of aging, and are heavily correlated with age, but the current approach to treating them is little better than palliative care of the symptoms. Curing those conditions would be good, but stopping the degeneration that causes them in the first place would be better.

Yes, there are multiple components of aging and degeneration, and all of them will need a solution. What's absurd, though, is saying "oh, it's multiple things, so it must be impossible to fix".
Slava mentioned in his blog post that he would be writing some lessons learned over the upcoming months. The fact that this is an open source project that should continue to live on helps with the reception, too. It's sad news to see the company shut down, but it's positive news to know that we can still keep the project alive.
Having your own domain is a great start to be independent online: if you have a backup of all your content and don't use totally strange features of the underlying platform, you can easily move your content to whatever hosting you want while keeping your URLs intact.

If you want to look into what other people are doing with "my domain is (the center of) my social network", check out the community at https://indieweb.org – some clever ideas & tools around communicating updates etc between sites and integrating with existing social media where necessary.
Keeping the rights to something you're giving away for free is the definition of meaningless symbolism in this context.
You cannot draw that conclusion from the data at hand. There's plenty of closed source product companies that shut down because they didn't manage to make a profitable business as well.
This isn't their only appliance that has been catching fires. There are several washing machines in Australia, made by Samsung, that have caused house fires.
I do too, but having met several people who worked there briefly and left, I wonder how many of those 340 have even been there for years. Seems like they have a lot of writing-on-the-wall related churn.
Yeah, on the other hand prices really have dropped much more than quality. I'm ten years strong on a toaster I picked up from Target for (and I can remember this, for some reason) $12.
If you want a C-level sharp knife, and you want to work with abstraction (not just OO and abstract data types, but also generics and metaprogramming), then C++ is one of the few choices. D is maybe another option (if you can live with GC). Maybe in the future also Rust, but my impression is that the Rust generics and metaprogramming story is not quite there yet. C++ is mature, so it's a safe choice in that respect: large installed base, ISO standardised, mature tooling with multiple vendors.

If you don't need the C-level sharp knife, then there are a lot of options -- and a lot of reasons to choose them over C or C++.

Personally, I value that C++ is multi-paradigm (I can use classes when they are a good fit, generics when they are a good fit, asm when it's a good fit, etc.), also: trivial interop with C and assembler, no GC, runs directly on the metal. These are reasons to use C++, but not necessarily reasons to "continue to bow into it."

Did I mention generics and metaprogramming? Even if you don't use these directly, their availability makes for flexible and powerful libraries. The STL container library is the obvious example, but modern C++ metaprogramming goes way beyond that.[0]

[0] For example, see Hana: CppCon 2015: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cg1wOINjV9U https://github.com/boostorg/hana
I like that. A search doesn't find anything relevant, though. Got a reference?
When did Rice claim that? Please choose a different forum the spout political lies.
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Because it's an inflammatory insult. Calling a group of the population a bunch of babies isn't really appropriate intellectual conversation for a site like this.
Also a write up by the NYTM:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/06/science/maximum-life-span-...
This is not related to the implication made that she is an equivalent to the board at Theranos.

One one side you have people who are actively using their political influence to help a company avoid laws and regulations and operate an extremely careless, dangerous, fraudulent, etc. company in a very sensitive industry dealing with people's lives.

On the other side is a former politician who appears to be diversifying her experiences by being a member of the board of several venture-backed tech companies, one of which is a pretty decent way to share files.

The motivations and sinisterness of one of them stands in stark contrast to the other in the example made.
> Making C compilers for different architectures output great code from same source is really hard. e.g. "const" is not used by optimizers because it can be cast away.

const most certainly is used by optimizers: https://godbolt.org/g/kLmGr4

The willingness of C compilers to (ab)use undefined behavior for optimization is one of the main criticisms against it.
Well, Couch DB got there first but it didn't help them much. I think you're right it was mostly about social media marketing.
That's not true. California enforces non-compete related to the sale of a company (section 16601 - http://law.onecle.com/california/business/16601.html).