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There is a large 360 YouTube timelapse video here: http://virtualforest.io/vrtimelapse.html

If you want to do non-360 timelapse with the regular (and much cheaper) Pi camera then I wrote a guide: https://unop.uk/time-lapse-photography-with-a-raspberry-pi
The state of automated fact checking (Where we are and where we could be)
If it was $1.25 million for Clinton, there would have been no complaint. If it was $1.25 million for Mitt Romney, or John McCain, or even George W Bush, there would have no complaint. Donald Trump is a different and unique circumstance, as Sam Altman and Paul Graham repeatedly claim in their writings, but do not follow through with in their actions.
I've worked in both Europe and the US, and in my opinion, US workers are far worse off for it. You earn more money in the US, you can advance faster, but you have next-to-no vacation time (and even when you do, you're still often expected to be reachable by e-mail), maternity/paternity leave is pitiful, and you have to pay large health insurance premiums, amongst other things.

I know that isn't the case for everyone, but on average I'd advise someone to take Europe over the US, just for quality of life alone.
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That's a fallacy, taking a stand against bigotry in no way makes you a bigot. There is a huge difference in refusing to support a person or a business on moral grounds than trying to copt the government of a nation to enforce bigoted believes. Trump is clearly advocating just that, using the the government to enforce anti-muslim restrictions.
These moves are also a bet on the future: a bet that the future cost of disposal stays high, so that increased costs earlier in the lifetime are justified.

The future is discounted for a reason, however. The future is probably wealthier, has better technology, and can reap the reward from investment today. It takes not just political good will, but a leap of faith to make the bet on spending now instead of later.

For planned obsolescence: here's another way to look at it. For a designed lifetime, we can coordinate across all the inputs to a product and select the right tradeoff between cost, quality and longevity. If we don't have a designed lifetime, the actual lifetime will only be as long as the shortest-lived part that can't be economically replaced. Making everything economical to replace means compromising on design, and often quality: a phone that plugged together like Lego would be substantially worse than our current integrated devices in weight and size.

(The idea of building something without a designed lifetime seems a little bit crazy to me, from an engineering perspective. It frames a whole bunch of decisions and trade-offs. I think it's better to put stuff into more people's hands rather than keep things expensive and exclusionary, which would undoubtedly be a side-effect of outlawing designed lifetimes.)
I think the parent is actually referring to pre-tax salaries; the baselines are much lower (last I checked) in the EU relative to the US.
In most cases is not like they (the Americans) have a choice to work less hours. Vacation time in North America is significantly under the European norm.
You wont have healthcare cost problems in London though.. for starters.
Future of mobile Apps
Am I missing the sarcasm tag?
Hold on, I need to write that one down...
The Extensible Web Manifesto #extendthewebforward
This game would be lauded as one of the greats if each player was given a home planet where they could configure the flora and fauna as they see fit.
Thankfully, I can help answer this :)

The drilldown is roughly:

* $5K Amazon + mLab hosting

* $3K extra services (intercom, mailchimp, dropbox, gmail, slack etc)

* $1K accounting/payroll overhead

* $1K all office expenses

* $15K salaries

people underestimate the cost of compilations for 10,000 people. We have ~150,000 compilations per month ;)
First and foremost, that rule of thumb is meant for retirees, not institutions looking to sustain themselves in perpetuity. Secondly, a 4% withdrawal rate offers a decently high chance that the principal can be drawn upon for 30 years. Withdrawing 80k per student per year would be exceptionally irresponsible on the part of the school administrators.
Like the other poster mentioned FDR might be a good example for checks and balances rather than some unfettered expansion of power.

While we might not know what power the executive branch will have in 50 or 100 years we know what power it has now, and we know what power it can have in 4 years unless you really think "Emperor Trump" is a possibility.

Also while POTUS does appoint chief justices they still need to be confirmed by congress.

And regardless of what is going on neither branch of government can go against the constitution, at least not to any major extent before being reigned down.

P.S.
It's more than likely that the US had presidents recently that had pretty negative opinions about a certain population including women, I would refer you to the Nixon tapes to see just how "disgusting" a president can be in a private environment.
And while I'm fully aware that Nixon is one of the least loved presidents I don't think he was an outlier, just some one who got caught.

P.S.
I don't support Trump, I'm not an American, I don't understand how Trump even got into the race in the first place yet alone became a nominee, but I do not support any type of political oppression and thought policing.
Regarding BitLocker, even on Windows 10 Pro, you can't encrypt the virtual disk and put it on the DVD or BlyRay and later read from there directly (why? because MSFT). That means it's not suitable at all for longer-term archiving.
NASA press release: http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/goddard/2016/maven-uv-mars

Mission page: http://lasp.colorado.edu/home/maven/2016/10/17/maven-gives-u...
Though nice to see moment and webpack
Shocking how people accept that.
Definitely see that.

Though as we've seen recently, there are a lot of people who say, e.g., in the flower shop / bakery trope, "I don't have a problem with gay people, but my religion prohibits me from serving them."

In such a case, do you really need an epithet to read hate? Do you really need to hear the N word to know that people are racist? It's, at best, a very privileged (and at worst, an entirely naive) POV to suggest that you do.
Is it just me, or is the article looking a bit too hard for reasons why US workers having longer working hours is a good thing?
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That's a pretty bold statement. A billion years should be enough time to convert the entire galaxy into computronium and deploy all over it. Mind you, the author probably won't be around by then. Probably.
If memory serves, there are certain branch conditions that can't be easily queried via ptrace to implement it that way. So instead, you enumerate the targets and break on all of them.
Is that doing the dollar conversion at pre- or post-Brexit prices? It's now 20% worse than it used to be.

I'm not in London, but I'm seriously considering sniffing around for jobs which can be done with transatlantic remote working. Sadly that's a rare and oversubscribed option :(
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Altman made it a very public conversation when he posted it on the YC blog. Others are just continuing to discuss in a similarly public venue.
I'm talking about the general principle of shaming. Trump's an idiot - no argument there. Shaming and going after someone because they see _some_ amount of value in a person is not OK. And both sides do it. What I'm calling out is all the finger pointing and name calling, when both sides are doing exactly the same thing as what they're calling others out on. Frankly, I don't see how this country will ever again be united in any real, lasting way because of all the demonification.
About 90% of Americans overall have health insurance. Most full-time tech jobs in the US at the companies that would pay more than European salaries will include sufficient health insurance. I'm not sure who you're referring to dying in the streets because of a lack of medical treatment due to financial limitations.
It occurs to me that another benefit of this approach is that it gives you ample time and warning that an attack is occurring, because unless the attacker has physical access to the machines and can just plug in a drive, you will know that a ton of data is crossing the wire.
And if you thought that putting gasoline in a diesel engine was bad, just wait until you accidentally fill up your horse with the wrong fuel.
I'm so glad that you equate me fearing for my safety the same as you getting kicked out of your tech conference.

You were so victimized I'm sorry.
And people can just buy an iPhone instead. Windows phone is still chugging along.
Who stands to lose more if Theil were to no longer be affiliated with YC? Is YC a social endeavor with a political agenda, or a program for entrepreneurs?

If the former, might want to tell the investors. Start with John Meriwether. ;)
The City is fascinating in the UK context, it really is more like a different country. It's strangely archaic being more of the 1200s than the 21st century. It can alter its own constitution, still permits business voting long abolished in the rest of the UK, and avoided much of the modernisation and reform elsewhere.

There's now only about 10,000 residents - most of whom are in a single estate - the Barbican. Business votes now far exceed individuals.

That doesn't touch on freemen, livery companies, and all the other archaic complexity.

Secret City covers a lot of it, but the film is as much about the financial crisis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_London
That's exactly it. Dutch workers apparently work the least number of hours per year, yet Netherland is one of the richest, happiest and most productive countries in Europe. The country where people work the most hours in the EU is Greece.

(I realize this Bloomberg article has slightly different figures than the one I remember from another study. Maybe they used different ways to measure this, maybe the situation changed. I think the former.)
Where is "we"?
I see a lot of comments here interpreting this as a push towards standardizing certain tools, yet I don't see anything on the site that suggests that is their mission, nor do I see any way they could possibly effect that kind of change.

There seems to be some kind of messaging problem in that we are reading totally different things into what this foundation is about.

Can you share why you think this foundation is trying to "push [any] brands on developers"? I just don't get it.
But other professions are comparable.
"The pen and paper, well... that's the most important thing I own."

Without explaining why a cellphone or that thai notebook wouldn't work there is a bit odd while claiming its the most important thing you own. If it's the most important, i think it deserves a few lines on why.
MAVEN Mission Gives Unprecedented Ultraviolet View of Mars
An old infographic I had bookmarked which shows this pretty clearly: https://i.imgur.com/Vkd1I01.png Also shows that working more != more pay (I'm Dutch, maybe you can see why I bookmarked it)
It seems more interesting to ask Are they any more productive? Even if American companies are more productive, can that be attributed to longer working hours? I'm guessing not, because it is the job if the organization to make its workers more productive. The individual, being locked in his position, has little leverage on his productivity.
Sam Altman has so much money that he divides his time between multiple McLarens. His "reserve fund" in case of emergencies is ten million dollars. Altman need never work again in his life. That's not me, especially after my two teenage kids go to college.

I'm a startup founder. Not only that, but I'm a startup founder that just last year considered attending YC during the summer session after Altman invited me (and, more likely, my then-cofounder Patrick McKenzie). I have friendships with people inside of YC, and with YC founders. Moreover, the company I'm building now works exclusively with startups, most of them at the YC stage of development, no doubt many of whom will actually be YC companies. How likely am I to get that invite again?

Furthermore, Peter Thiel is famously the most vindictive investor in Silicon Valley. He bragged about it, I believe, to the New York Times. I've had the pleasure of being blackballed by a group of different VC firms in the past.

If you think I have nothing to lose by antagonizing Sam Altman and, I guess, Peter Thiel (I think I have some safety from being too insignificant for Thiel to care about), I'd ask you to reevaluate.
Which programming language for you?
Right, but how do we get the US to move to a system of proportional voting and power? We're never going to get a president+congress that is controlled by one party to vote and pass new laws / ratify new amendments that change the system such that they'll no longer be in control. And we can't get the current two parties to agree on whether the sun is hot or not, let alone on radically changing the way our democracy works.

The cynic in me suspects that, despite all the fiery rhetoric, both parties are in fact very happy with the status quo and the partisan divide that exists in this country. Aside from a few battleground states/areas, most seats are perfectly safe. Mississippi isn't going blue, and California isn't going red.
Cool and smooth app, got nice chat with Dan. Good luck.
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I'm confused, why are you copy-pasting nazis? This reply is very weird.
Shame on this political shaming. Not everyone has to agree with you.
How enlightening this discussion is.
The number of hours doesn't tell the whole story though. Working cultures differ a great deal. You may put in longer hours, but then it's more laidback, with more socializing etc. whereas somewhere else it's clock-in, work, clock-out, no fooling about.
In your CRUD ToDo app?
Donald Trump Is Running Some Really Insecure Email Servers
I think the idea is to use energy input collected from the sun to push our material resources in a circle instead of the way we do it now, which is to use previously stored sun energy to push our natural resources in a line from a more useful place/form to a less useful place/form. This linear method leaves us with both less useful material and less easily collected energy when we're done.

We will have to change over sooner or later and it gets harder if we wait until later. The thermodynamics of it is simple. The energy input of a nearby star means its not a "closed system". There's plenty of energy input to keep it all going. How to use it is the choice. Eventually the costs of idealistic schemes will balance out, probably with interest, at the point where there is no longer a choice; the stored energy collected and spent, and our material wealth buried in landfills after being reduced to its least useful form.
Any form of ostracism based on someone's political views scares the hell out of me.

It constitutes an attempt to suppress political discourse and ultimately, freedom of speech.

Disappointing to see many in the tech industry not understanding this.
Exactly. It's a bullshit mag
See also mission page:

http://lasp.colorado.edu/home/maven/2016/10/17/maven-gives-u...
> if everyone else in the world would do what you do, would the world still work?

Do you define the current state of the world as "working"?

You'd be better to say "if more people in the world did what I do, would things get better or worse".

It's not my birth-function in life to perpetuate the way society currently functions. I didn't sign some kind of contract that says I will make life decisions to make sure things stay the way they are now. If I choose to work less, and consume less, that's entirely my choice. If everyone did it there would obviously be impacts, and things would change, though nobody has ever convinced me that society wouldn't be better if people had more leisure time and less stuff.
The main basis for the computation seems to be this:

"The paper notes: “The main difficulty is that the coherence time of physical qubits is finite. Noise in the physical system will eventually corrupt the state of any long computation.”"

However, just yesterday, I read that new research had once again lengthened the qubit coherence time, this time by a factor of ten. A little quick googling reveals that this time is growing. Rapidly.
Good step toward a circular economy, require that the vast majority of things be repairable.

The disposable economy is the enemy of the circular economy.
Plants capture about 1% of the incoming sunlight energy into chemical energy. We might be able to come up with a process that is more efficient.
I think the core of this dispute is the question: How do we deal with those we deeply disagree with? Ostracism, shunning, and preaching? Or vocally opposing their beliefs, as civilly and constructively as you can?

America is increasingly settling into two tribes who seem to believe in the first option.
> Just look at salaries in London. Given the extraordinary cost of living, salaries are pitiful.

That certainly wasn't the case when I was working in London about 10 years ago. The going rate for a Java contractor with banking experience was about £600 per day (then $1,100).

Have things changed that much in 10 years?
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Almost nobody will agree with the idea that in an ideal world built upon the "marketplace of ideas" that someone should be constrained from expressing political opinions for fear of losing their employment.

In fact this being so is a primary driver of Trump's anti-PC appeal.
>And just by that you became what you claim to be against.

Are you claiming that pointing out bigotry is in it's self an act of bigotry? Im asking because that is how I read that, and I don't want to accidentally create straw-man argument because of a misunderstanding.

Having said that here is my potential straw-man.... Wouldn't it follow that pointing that out is also an act of bigotry? Where is the cutoff point?
I have a 4 yr old. They adapt well.

My kid only used to be exposed to touch screens. Her daycare then introduced them to more traditional computers with a keyboard and mouse, and they adapted fine.
Especially since he also describes his Macbook as his "most important item".

Neat writeup though.
I feel like you're judging me and my app.
PG is a butt. sam altman is a mess of an old man. greasy.

you're all idiots.
A senior ie 10 years experience in London is unlikely to make more than $70k which is about half what the starting salary is for google in the valley
Timezone issues are probably much of an impediment when it comes to remote employment (over the pond)
Is there any other developed nation where you pay $300 a month for health insurance and it doesn't cover you for the first $10,000 of expenses?
UK Government agreed referendum could not be legally binding
The article is super misleading.

First of all it's no secret that quantum attacks aren't a big problem for hash functions, there's "only" a need to switch to longer outputs. The major impact of quantum computers will be shor's algorithm, which affects public key algorithms.

But it seems the author of this article also didn't really understand the paper linked. It only looks at preimage attacks. We generally expect hash functions to be resistant to collision attacks, which is a much stronger statement.

And here things aren't that rosy. 256 bit algs have by design only 128 bit of collision resistance. Grover's alg reduces that to 64 bit, which is not comfortably secure. Granted, one would need a pretty big cluster of quantum computers to practically break that, but if you go postquantum you should probably better go to 512 bit algs.

However none of that changes with this new paper.
some of us love work.
I don't understand this line of reasoning, from either end of the spectrum. When those ideas have abhorrent real world consequences, that negatively affect real people's lives, why would we not criticize the people who hold them?
...according to the unpublished working paper (PDF)

Why would Bloomberg release this as news?
Nobody is losing their employment in this discussion. Thiel doesn't even have equity in YC. His part-time partner status is a marketing arrangement, a co-endorsement. All that Sam Altman is being asked to do is to reconsider endorsing Thiel.

Meanwhile, all sorts of misconceptions are behind the appeal of Donald Trump. Donald Trump is a monster. I do not think reasonable people are required to change their behavior to assuage the misconceptions of his deluded followers.
I find it astonishing how positive Bloomberg tries to spin this:

People earn a wider range of incomes in the U.S., so “workers have an incentive to try harder to move up the job ladder because a promotion is worth more,” said Dora Gicheva

-The income range in the US is so large that there are lots of people at the bottom end who have to work multiple jobs. How much does that have to do with the longer work hours, Bloomberg?

Generous pensions in Europe are also a strong factor in discouraging older people from working, the study said. In the U.S., more people over 65 are working than at any point in the past 50 years. The U.S.’s shift from traditional pensions to 401(k) plans makes it harder for Americans to know when it’s safe to retire.

-This sounds less like people in Europe are "discouraged" from working, rather than many Americans must work longer because they can't retire.

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He's criticizing the fact that certain people are holding two irreconcilable ideas at the same time.
They are indeed returned after the ceremony. I suppose it helps keep the tradition without the tedium of trying to source another six oversized horseshoes every year. And the building of a pointless stock of blunt agricultural tools somewhere in Buckingham Palace too, I guess.
Read this: https://baselinescenario.com/2016/10/17/you-cant-get-there-f...

The very same Gallup study which that Vox article relied on to argue that Trump support was correlated with higher, not lower income also found that blue collar and less educated workers were disproportionately likely to vote for Trump, and Vox intentionally omitted that fact. This is particularly dishonest of Vox because the result they did quote was after correcting for the fact that working-class status and education are correlated with income, and they didn't mention that either.

That is, any correlation with income that appeared to be better explained by both being correlated with being working-class or anything else was excluded, and worse still there's no guarantee that the attribution to a particular category (say, class instead of income) is the result of anything other than random chance.
Thank you. This perception is exactly why we keep telling Sam Altman and Paul Graham that they need to reconsider their stance on Peter Thiel.

You do concede that people (including Thiel) can be decent and support Trump? I know plenty of good people who support him and for good reasons.
I think there is a big difference between working completely remote vs working an hour or two a day remote. Some companies provide flexibility to work remotely when a person is sick or has to be home to get a package or be there for a repair, but still want people in the office most of the time to be available for in-person collaboration.
Some payroll taxes have to paid by employers (i.e. not subtracted from monthly salary). If they are higher than in the US, employers have less incentive to offer big salaries.

Just did a quick calculation for Brazil and for an employee that earns $1000/month, the employer has to spend $1528/month ($1000 salary + $528 in taxes and mandatory benefits).