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Personally, I was having a bit of fun. I thought about deleting it because it was too light-hearted and non-substantive, not because I thought I was being snarky. I understood his response in the same vein. (And where did all this "signaling" language come from? I must not be reading the right forums.)
>Or maybe it's just a waste of time/money?

We are currently shooting missiles that cost $800,000 each at people in caves on the other side of the world from boats that cost $4.4 billion dollars each. If anyone can justify that expenditure, I think we can find a small fraction of that money to investigate this further.

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world/at-800000-per-round-...
Did not know about the crash.
Not even recommending it, just acknowledging that you were ever acquainted with it.

A good number of the people I met in that community who still keep in contact with one another avoid the question when asked how they met, by someone who isn't from that set.

I suspect, indeed, that the reputation backlash as it hit critical mass is why people don't want to be associated with it any more.

(I've not; I ended up too busy to keep following it around when the largest of the pauses transpired, and haven't gone back to finish it or the added epilogue yet.)

e: drat, this comment makes less sense with your edit.
Nice article. A little off topic, but the book "A Guide to a Good Life. Writings of Marcus Aurelius" is a fantastic read. He was one of the last "good" Roman Emporers, and his ideas on Stoicism are excellent.
This sounds really interesting but my physics are abysmal.

Could someone kindly explain this thread in conceptually simple terms?
Absolutely correct, the way we improve safety is by making the most dangerous people feel less comfortable.

I've read about some places where a rural highway leading into a town will narrow to ten foot lanes, waking drivers out of their daze because the driving environment is about to become much more complex. I wish I could remember where this was.
Pay is based on the business value you deliver. That's more true the higher up the pay scale you go. No one is paid a lot just for knowing a language or working at the right company. If you want a big paycheck concentrate on identifying and solving business problems.

If you are talking about getting rich from equity you have to get lucky as a founder or early employee of a company that makes it big. If that was easy we'd all be rich.
I agree with you up to the stress bit.
Until we have reliable autonomous driving we should be fully alert while piloting heavy objects through shared space at high velocities.
It adds to your cognitive load sure, but so does killing an equally distracted pedestrian.
There's something so satisfying about woodworking, that I've never felt with other, similar skills, such as metalworking (except maybe blacksmithing).

The most satisfying and long lasting thing I have from high school is probably my cabinet set I built. They actually look really nice (probably because you can't see my amateur attempts at dovetails), and they're built to last.

I guess it's because cabinetmaking is so permanent. You build a flatpack cabinet in an afternoon and you don't feel bad throwing it out 6 months later, because there's a million like it. But when you make your own cabinet from scratch, there's just so much care and effort that goes into it. My cabinets were built to last. They didn't have any veneer on them, and all the joints were dovetail joints, they do contain some plywood for the side paneling though, but I don't really see that as cheating myself.

It's something that software lacks, I've nuked entire directories of a project that I may have spent a week or two working on. If I spend 2 weeks working on a woodworking project, I'm not going to throw it out and start again.

It's unfortunate that I haven't been able to do much woodworking since I left home, since I no longer have any tools, and I've been moving too often to build up a supply.

Luckily there's a "Menz Shed" nearby where I'm living now, which has woodworking facilities (and also acts as a social and support group for men).
"Making driving more dangerous forces drivers to focus harder, and focusing harder makes drivers less likely to screw up."

The inescapable conclusion is that we should get rid of seat belts, mount the driver in a plexiglass bubble in front of the front bumper, and put a bloody great spike in the middle of the steering wheel.

Any takers?
Does repeating the stale "value-signaling" HN/sociology meme make you feel better about yourself?
He's also the author of the gear template generator program, which is, in itself, quite cool: http://woodgears.ca/gear/index.html

I discovered it when I watched the video about the making of the Wintergatan marble machine.
Which is why European cities with narrow roads have special fire trucks that accomdate them.

Today we build cities to fit fire trucks instead of building fire trucks to fit cities.
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You're giving Node devs too much credit. Most Node devs know nothing beyond `fs` and `express`. For some strange reason they refuse to learn about the standard library beyond the very basics.
Is anyone actually sitting on zettabyte-scale data sets, as the introduction claims?

There's a three year old xkcd "what-if" that guesstimates Google has about 15 exabytes of data, and that presumably includes lots of different types of data (e.g., you're not going to run any analysis across youtube videos, gmails, and self-driving car telemetry).
yeah, the book was pretty mind blowing. That book blew my mind the way reading Philip K Dick did when I was 16. I didn't think books could do that anymore. I recommend this book to anyone who wants a further exploration of the ideas mentioned in this article.
That differential accounts for Go programmers usually having significant experience with C, C++, PHP, etc. A newb is still a newb no matter what language they learned first.
Cryptocurrency mostly (based on public disclosures), but sometimes other digital assets like twitter handles or game currency. Sometimes domain names themselves are the asset.

As is now well known, mobile numbers are often also hijacked to subvert weak 2fa.
The fires in question weren't from recent years. These lands and tree regrowth are in the burn areas from the late 1980's and 1990's.

The types of pines that burned in Montana require fire to procreate; fire causes the cones to open spreading seeds. No fire no new trees. There are no meadows after burn. After 10-20 years, you have dense thin tree regrowth. The beetles do great there.

Link to tree type: http://indianapublicmedia.org/amomentofscience/lodgepole-pin...
I don't see the reason for down-votes here guys. It's a legitimate question, isn't it? I was hoping the recipient would understand - once they try to enumerate "the parts" - that it's them managing the state, and that centralized state management and unidirectional data flow are obtainable in Backbone, Custom Elements, or vanilla JavaScript for that matter.
As in "State of being awake" rather than awareness.
Preemptible Instances only can be used for a max of 24 hours, so would not fit the above usage pattern...though I don't know if AWS spot instances are really meant to be used for that long either. Of course both allow you to use the regular non-preemptible on-demand pricing.

https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/preemptible
Let me clarify ...

I want to control the phone with unix. I want to perform telephony functions with the command line.

I want to place calls with a command line. I want to redirect stdio into an SMS. I want to query provider/signal/encryption/service with sysctls.

And so on ...

I don't think many unix cellular telephony tools exist, do they ?
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No. The implication is that driver behavior adapts to road conditions, and that slippery curvy roads demand higher attention and care to navigate. In many instances, improved driver attention compensates for the increased risks of dangerous road conditions: more "dangerous" roads may not have proportionally increased accident rates or fatalities.

In the extreme case where a road appears life-threatening, a driver with that knowledge chooses not to drive.

The most dangerous conditions occur if the road appears safe but has unforeseen or transient hazards.
They recently finished replacing the box girder bridge over the Tennessee near where I live.

2 lanes (one way, for the last couple decades), no shoulder, 55mph limit, 14' clearance. Log trucks got both lanes, if you were fond of your life.

I'll miss it.
Society sure loves mixed signals. I always had the impression the modern culture tries to push exactly the "journey is the goal" idea into people, and I vehemently dislike it. To use a silly example, if I want to eat pizza, I do want to get the goddamn pizza, I definitely don't want to "enjoy the journey" of calling up the joint and placing the order.

Or in more general terms, focusing on the journey instead of the goal leads to complete detachment from reality - running in circles and enjoying the patterns of your own thoughts, like a stoned hippie. It's vegetation, not life.

I do read Adam Smith's quote differently - the way I understand it, it says to focus on a goal, but to derive happiness from the process and make that happiness independent of whether or not the goal will be ultimately achieved. An impossible thing to do in full, but definitely worth pursuing.
AWS has publicly stated that they build their own hardware for a few years now.
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My grandmother lived o a very wide but otherwise normal street in South Bend, IN. She had a row of GIANT oaks in front of her house. There were at least 3 crashes I heard about that killed drivers. People would drive down the street way too fast, hit a slight bump about 40-50 feet down the street from her house and lose control. The city offered to cut down the trees after 4 teenagers died a while back. She declined though, because they would end up in her living room if they didn't hit the tree.

That being said, there's only one tree left, cause that last accident killed the tree they hit.
Done that without problems, also because I know how to drive.

Out of curiosity, where you found 9' wide ambulance when the US GSA (General Service Administration) standard says that they should be 96 inches or less?
"The numbers given in this article do not account for any AWS reservation"

Well that's a huge caveat. Anyone intending to be a serious user of AWS will use reservations. The discount is large, well over 50% off IIRC. And then there's the spot instances/spot fleets with even steeper discounts.

For better or worse, AWS's pricing is more complicated then its competitors. A serious comparison would have to include those details.
but they thought he was a foreign born muslim during the elections that he won also. explain that?
That planning decision articulates to the drivers and pedestrians that the cars will encounter few or no hazards, and that the pedestrians are not welcome near roadways. It also supports things like large safety areas (25 ft) on either side of the road that allow drivers to be minimally injured if their cars leave the road. It tells everyone, "cars have margin of error to wander out of their space" and, following from that, "pedestrians shouldn't feel overly confident about not encountering cars in pedestrian space." That's a pretty good way to do highways.

The alternative is the reverse, where pedestrians wander, and drivers know not to get too comfortable even in their own spaces. This arrangement supports commerce and community and vitality.

You can't have it both ways. You're either moving cars, or you're building places. Both have their place, but they are separate places.
I really enjoy watching his videos, not because I have any desire to start woodworking, but because I really appreciate his approach to problem solving.
Yes it is a balance, but it's important that we always be mindful not to get caught up in the rat race. Life is a beautiful thing in of itself and shouldn't be fractionalized to achieve maximum ego-gain, nor should it be entirely mismanaged that it dishevels your ego completely.

Your time is free and will continue to be so. As a human, hey you got some time left and if you got goals, well then perhaps you haven't time to waste. Yet, if you wish to speak of "reality", you must tell me who's the one demanding any payment for any second of your time? Is it no one but yourself? Is it not your idea of what that time could have (perhaps _should_ have)? No, that's not reality -- that's your superego, which is in your own head.

You should watch your tongue a little more carefully; it's rude to reply "no time is free" when it's not at all the topic of conversation. You deserved to get downvoted for that reply and the reason you're getting downvoted for this one is that it's too binary. Lighten up. All someone said is "I do this in my free time" and you had to step in as protector of truth and say "no such thing." There's no valor in this behavior.
This appeared more wishful and idealistic than practical.
I agree this vision (as stated) is fantasy, but I've often speculated about whether it would be smart to buy up land that was formerly used as landfill. It doesn't generally seem to be considered valuable.

I suppose this is because it is not desirable for property development or agriculture... the killer might be assuming some liability for environmentals but I never investigated that in detail.

An interesting option would be to try and buy just the mineral rights. The seller will probably think you're crazy, and they might be right.

In any case, a landfill operation is close to the reverse of mining, and while the extraction technology one would need isn't here yet, it's hard to think of how you could get greater concentrations of natural resources all in one place. Plus everything is at least close to the surface.

Another major downside I can see is that landfills tend to be too close to built-up areas. People want their trash to go "away", but also they don't want to take it too far. Which then leads to the surprising mental image of landfill "ore" being dug up and transported to a remote processing site.

[this is why I think the author's vision is mostly fiction -- it's hard for most people to imagine the sheer scale that modern resource extraction operations need to be profitable].

The slightly unfortunate part is the "crazy grandpa" image that leaving such a legacy to your descendants creates...
Selective irrigation can deliver water to trees with the most need for water. There is no good automated system for selective irrigation yet without human irrigators or expensive installation. Autonomous irrigation drones will happen at one point.

I must add that so far we have been focusing on orchards rather than forests. We are looking into expanding to forests and we have been in touch with the government.
Rather than making roads visibly more dangerous, there are better options.

One I heard long ago on a motorcycle forum is: get rid of seat belts, mount the driver in a plexiglass bubble in front of the front bumper, and put a bloody great spike in the middle of the steering wheel.

I wonder why that idea hasn't caught on?
Just speculating, but they have picked up on the Socratic method aspect. Some find that condescending. If that's actually your goal (as indicated by "I was hoping the recipient would understand"), it's not so much a legitimate question that you want to know the answer to, is it? With your explanation, it's more of a rhetorical device.

Personally, I didn't read it that way (nor did I down vote you), but given your follow-up, I can see how some might.
> Why? Why do you care so much about a particular technology?

It's caring about your own neighbourhood. For better or worse, some technologies affect everything we deal with daily. The web is one of them - I don't get to code Common Lisp in the browser, I have to do HTML + CSS + JavaScript, and therefore the way it gets increasingly shitty over time affects me every time I interact with a website. And web becoming a primary code distribution platform these days also affects me whenever I want to make something other people will use, because I'm forced to deal with those particular technologies.
"I live in rural France with narrow roads and it's incredibly stressful to be driving with nearly no margin of error preventing a head on collision."

This is the crux -- I think the author is in fact saying that roads are safer while you are in this stressed state.

"This is like reducing the size of your front door to make it harder for thieves to steal your couch."

The problem is fundamentally different in that the agent on the road at not trying to cause accidents.
It might seem outdated but still in use today. When entering a new country you still need to fly the Q (yellow) flag till you cleared customs / immigration.
Absolutely. The road's design language should communicate these things to drivers. Knowing 65 vs 70 may require signs, but you should be clearly informed by overhanging trees, narrow lanes, and activity when you are in a busy area.

It also builds aversion to law enforcement, who have to stand in for proper design by charging people large fines. I don't think it's a stretch to assume some link between police enforcing seemingly malicious and arbitrary rules, and growing public mistrust of police.
You can see what service workers are registered here:

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Frankly, I'm tempted to label the whole notion of a remote-installing auto-updating local proxy as a misguided antifeature, but I honestly don't know enough about it. What was wrong with app caching?
Eh? Sandstorm automatically updates itself and apps...
"Ported to Fortran 77" means, to me, that continuations can be captured across the activation frames of Fortran 77 functions. E.g. the interpreted Lisp code calls, say, a native mapcar written in F77 or whatever, passing it an interpreted function as the functional argument. The functional captures a continuation, right across the mapcar.
Seems like the only appropriate chance I've ever had to plug Monty Python's "The Semaphore Version of Wuthering Heights": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqiUGjghlzU

(Starts about a minute in.)
A rocket using chemical energy at a constant rate does not have this problem, because the excess energy it seems to gain from kinetic energy going up quadratically is balanced by a decrease in the kinetic energy that the expelled reaction mass is left with.
That's to make the safety zone larger. You know, so drivers can safely drive off the road. https://youtu.be/P9BUyWVg1xI
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The guide recommends a space after the `/` operator. Does a pair of parenthesis (around the denominator) in such cases hurt that much?

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As an aside, I'd be interested to see their NodeJS Style Guide too. Any pointers?
There is a fourth set: people who like being under control if their lives are acceptably happy, comfortable, and secure.
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Hey, there's a great way to significantly reduce commuter stress: Efficient and comfortable public transport.
There's a similarly-styled AT&T building in Seattle, near the Space Needle.
I appreciate your posting of this comment. I understand the sentiment, and the perception of what's possible. I do value privacy, however. But I appreciate discussion.

You're right in that the challenge is much more psychological than technical. Many of us living creatures have an urge to thrive, and more of us have an urge to survive. Taking privacy as asymmetric ignorance: often, humans, in possession of some information they see as advantageous to them, will want to exploit that information, and if it's only (or more) advantageous while in only their possession, then they will wish to keep that information private. (Not always. Often.)

Growth of tolerance and respect will go against those ingrained urges.
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Sure, but smaller payloads == smaller capabilities. Telecommunications satellites need massive switching capabilities and also massive power. They also need large antennas to service particular areas and they need propellant to maintain their orbits. How many CubeSats would be required to stream HD video to many thousands of people, for example? Not saying it can't be done, just saying that it isn't an easy problem to solve and there has been a lot of money already spent trying to solve it prior to Musk's announcement.
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In greater Boston, the DCR (Department of Conservation and Recreation, formerly the MDC) maintains many arterial roads such as Storrow Drive, Memorial Drive, VFW Parkway, the Jamaicaway/Arborway, etc.

These roads are considered "pleasure roads" and date back to the day when a drive in the outdoors was primarily recreational. The roads connect and traverse major parklands.

DCR is not part of MassDOT (Department of Transportation). These roads are not necessarily built to traditional highway standards.

For example, trees along Memorial Drive and the Jamaicaway are closer to the roadway than would generally be recommended. These characteristics are linked to the historic character of these roads and their surrounds. Periodically, there will be plans to change the roads in some way, but they are usually met with significant pushback (neighbors, parks people, preservationists). On the other hand, the DCR for years resisted standard pedestrian crossings as well.

Currently, I think there is a slow trend to make these roads more standard where possible but also slow traffic speeds and improve pedestrian access.
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What do you want to build? Do you have a system you're excited about? For instance, a virtual assistant/personality? A robot that can move around and learn like an animal? Something else? Answering this will definitely help identify the proper field(s) to look at.
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> conceptually simple terms?

Physics does not seem to operate on conceptually simple terms. Three options, it is simple when approached from some way we have yet to think of. There is some inherent mistake we are making with a huge range of current experiments. Or, as seems most likely the universe operates very differently on different scales making it conceptually difficult to deal with.
Why does Google not say "deleting this email will destroy these accounts attached to it"? Surely it can't be too hard to find which accounts an email is attached to, then check those accounts for other owners?
I think this article misses the point that it seems many customers are disappointed they can't get more than 16gb and many would be willing to have the trade-off of 50% less battery life.

How many people work away from power for more than 5 hours at a single stretch?
These are the 14 words:

"...we must secure the existence of white people and a future for white children."

They were coined by David Lane:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lane_(white_supremacist)

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David Eden Lane (November 2, 1938 – May 28, 2007) was an American white supremacist leader and convicted felon.[2][3][4] A member of The Order, he was convicted and sentenced to 190 years in prison for racketeering, conspiracy, and for violating the civil rights of Alan Berg, a Jewish radio talk show host, who was murdered on June 18, 1984. He died while incarcerated in the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana.[4][5]

Lane coined the best-known slogan of the U.S. white supremacist movement, the Fourteen Words. He has been described by the SPLC as "one of the most important ideologues of contemporary white supremacy."[2]
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Yeah, nothing racist at all there.
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