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It's a dated reference, but I can shed some light on this. I'm from Detroit and my dad worked at Chrysler basically his entire adult life. Lee Iacocca was the rockstar of the automotive world before Elon Musk hit the scene. As an exec and former engineer at Ford, he spearheaded the development of the mustang among many other accomplishments.

After leaving Ford, I guess he needed a challenge and took on the ordeal of turning around Chrysler, which was about to go out of business in the late '70's. He personally secured cash from Congress for a bailout (Yeah I know, this sounds familiar). In the 80's after turning Chrysler around, he would appear in commercials saying something like "You can't find a better car. If you do, buy it." Since he saved my Dad's job and livelihood, he kinda worshipped him and that reverence trickled down a bit to me.

EDIT: I do find it a bit sad that fewer of us work for CEO's that we personally look up to. This is probably one major factor in what inspires the entrepreneurial spirit in many of us. The main reason that I want to work for an Elon Musk company is that I'm tired of being a cynic in a post-modern world and want to be a part of a vision greater than 140 characters or self-driving cars.

Unexpected personal reflection: As I'm writing this, I'm beginning to empathize with the coal miners and manufacturing workers who believe in Trump. I know people aren't fans of bailouts and as a student of Economics I'm generally opposed to them as well. However, The automotive industry was and is still so deeply intertwined with the fabric of Detroit and Southeast Michigan in general that losing those companies, once the shining example of American manufacturing exceptionalism, would be a crippling blow to the collective consciousness of all the residents there.You don't simply see it as some efficient restructuring and reallocation of capital if they go out of business. Those automotive roots run deep and when Chrysler faced bankruptcy again after the financial crisis, even though he was retired at the time, we both felt like an extension of ourselves was on life support. If it had cratered, it would've been a massive blow to our psyche similar I guess to how one would feel if an army had razed your city. When an industry is so closely related to your community, it becomes a part of your identity. Chrysler basically allowed for me to attend an elite private high school and university. In principle, I still disagree with trying to revive the coal industry (that American manufacturing strength is dead is complete fiction. I would argue that the USA is still the leader in global manufacturing because it's done without polluting the shit out of the environment), but I guess now I'm willing to listen to their side with an open ear and am open to some sort of environmentally responsible compromise.

That's the thing about heroes, even in death they can inspire change. Godspeed, John Glenn.
Or perhaps in the case of Google, something a bit healthier and more expensive than sodas? Those things are pretty bad for you.
Ask HN: Improving how you convey thought?
In short, when speaking orally i tend to lack clarity of meaning. I pause to think of words (of which i seem to know little), i forget names of persons, places and things. In general i feel i suffer from memory issues. My ability to form words from thought, verbally, is severely lacking. I find this much less of a problem at the keyboard, as it seems to be a "real time" issue.

Now, i'm in my early 30s and this has been happening for many years. I don't think it is inherently anything wrong, nor is it bad enough to warrant a medical diagnosis. No one notices my problem as a problem.. it's just how i speak.

Yet the fact remains, i'd like to try and fix this.

For a little history (in case the context matters): I've always hated english. Grammar spelling were evil to me growing up, and while i wanted to read books, they put me to sleep so i could never get beyond a couple pages. As a result, i frequently google spellings of words i should know, or look up how to phrase something, etc. The little grammar and english i do know is from osmosis more than any concentrated education, and as such my education on the subject is woefully lacking.

So, might there be some classes to help people like me? Should i push through the sleep phase and try to read every night? Thoughts?

NOTE: I'm sure i could take some classes to improve my spelling, grammar, and general understanding of the english language - but that's not the core problem i'm trying to fix. If you think that will lead to a solution, great, but the core problem remains as wanting to speak with more clarity and ease.

Thank you.

(As an aside: How ironic it is that i am having trouble conveying my question.. haha)
Sure, but I didn't necessarily say that I'd give them the final version of the script and all of the tests.
Someone may buy Craftsman, but all they'll get is a name. It's a house brand Sears puts on tools that are manufactured by a number of other companies, and whoever buys the name will need to make sure those business relationships continue. It probably wouldn't be easy.
Not necessarily. GE's already testing it out.

https://www.ge.com/digital/press-releases/ready-augmented-re...
The unarhiver also handles .rar files, whih archive utility can't do.
Can someone please explain the "fried potatoes are better with onion"? Is this an in-joke? A secret key?
Many potatoes, -l
Yeah, Safari kills all JavaScript threads - even on active tabs - after 90 seconds or so.
Funnily enough, we sell a lot on Amazon using sears for fulfilment (recently about 50k worth a month). I wish they'd partner officially, it would make stuff a lot easier. But even with the extra hassle of placing orders manually, they can offer better prices than Amazon on many items with enough room to make money.
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It's amazing, isn't it? This was one of the best parts of math class.

It's so natural, too. Numbers, you count, 1, 2, 3, 4... it makes so much sense. And of course, rational numbers aren't too hard to grasp within that context. They're expressible with the nice numbers we know.

Even today, there are a lot of people who consider pi a strange, unusual number, an oddity. If they're aware of the square root of two, or euler's constant, they may consider them to be unusual as well.

At least in the US, it isn't until you've studied math for a while that you really do get into the notion of limits. A professor in Calc might talk about this in more depth (maybe when Taylor series come up) or high school geometry might mention that pi isn't actually that unusual. But I honestly don't blame people that this is hard to grasp. It's a long way from the "numbers" you understand from an early age, when you learn to count.

But yeah, it says something that numbers that occur "naturally" are almost never representable as the ratio of two integers. The ratio of a circumference to a radius. The "long" side of a right triangle with "legs" of a single unit. The number whose natural log is 1. Almost every number that took us by surprise, that we didn't invent but were instead required to measure and explain, remarkably, isn't expressible the way we thought numbers would be.

Can I go on a bit here and say that math gets hard the moment almost everything else gets hard, when you get out of your own head and try to see things as they actually are? When I was a kid, I loved "mechanical drawing", because it all looked so good on the page. I drew human creations, cars, houses, everything with nice lines, it all looked so sharp and snappy. And then you try to draw nature... where are the lines? It turns out you can't represent nature very well with lines. You have to draw what isn't there, not what is. The first time this comes up is when you try to draw someone's face.

Same for numbers. Draw a cube, measure the volume. Ok, easy. Draw a cylinder, measure the volume. A little harder, you have to make a good circle, but it can be done. Measure the volume - now you need this strange, "irrational" number that. Now go draw a tree trunk...

Hard. There isn't even a nice circle there. And to actually take the volume or surface area accurately, you need some way to measure the space under the curve, which requires calculus, little squares above and below the line, which can be made smaller and smaller, but they never reach zero. And the limit of the upper and lower sequence isn't an approximation of the number. The limit is the number. And it turns out that it's exceptionally unusual for that limit to be expressible as a ratio of two integers.

It's just unreal, isn't it? Er, I mean, real. ;)
I'd add a GTX 1060 GPU.
Onion routing probably. TOR stands for the onion router .
That assumption is based on experience and reasoning:

I've been in many wide open places without trees, and have experienced much higher winds there than in places which have lots of trees -- for example, forest vs golf course. The trees seem to do a good job of blocking and reducing wind. It would make sense that they could do a good job of at least reducing the number of tornadoes in tornado-prone lands.

I'm sure tornadoes uproot trees as well, but I am not sure whether tornadoes are common or even possible where there are lots of tree around - such as in a forest.

I would love to be corrected if I'm wrong. And it would be helpful if the questions I raised in my previous post could be answered.
The term isn't dead: at the very least, British social democrats still use it.
Whilst bitching heavily about it earlier, I've got to be honest here. If they fix the people, mail and calendar app bugs, which they are doing rapidly, it destroys Apple and Google's offerings. I've only used them with an outlook.com and office 365 account so far but it really has potential. Just please Microsoft, don't screw it all up and feature dump too hard!

For reference I went on a six month long hiatus after using Android for about two years and getting shafted by zero updates, via a Nokia dumb phone and now to WP, which was where I was before the android handset. Android on a mid range handset is a disaster worthy of it's own rant in a more appropriate thread. My wife is always complaining about her iPhone 6s random problems like audio disappearing and suddenly getting random impossible to delete stuff appear in her calendar from emails and the inability to easily move music around. There's an opportunity to kill this friction.

As for app culture, screw it. When I had a dumb Nokia I learned that it pays to use a proper computer for anything serious so I run the phone as a music player, a phone and casual email/calendar device and nothing else.

eBay app was awful. The android one is no better - falls over all the time.
It adds efficiency for military grade targeting but the everyday applications are more novelty than explosive technology. A field technician will have minimal benefit from a heads up targeting display.
Yet, "In order to be an engineer, it is not enough to be an engineer." Jose Ortega y Gasset.

No profession has a monopoly on competence.
What I mean is that the exporter linked to by modinfo optionally allows you to input your Snipt API keys to export your private snippets in addition to your public ones.

It appears that once this process is done by the exporter, both your public and private snippets are hosted on the exporters server and accessible without any authentication.

For example, this is an export from the exporter: http://fotis.co/snipt/export.php?user=3760&limit=100

Increment ?user=3760 by 1 and you are greeted with someone else's export.
> However, Haskell doesn't impose an additional burden on the design of your software to accomplish that goal.

giggles uncontrollably

I like Haskell, but saying that it doesn't impose a design burden is incredibly misleading.
The hole point about this sort of things is you can detect mass attack. If only one person finds a problem all get the benefits.

Its much harder to make a targeted attack, specially if you are not google or have the full support of google.

Nothing is perfect, but there is very little that is better.

Your other options are only not using the devices at all.
If you believe the accounts of Crowther and Woods, they knew nothing of D&D and there were maybe a few thousand original poorly made copies of D&D at the time. Only "wargamers" knew about it until the 80's.

From a historical perspective, even though D&D was published in 1974, its influence didn't kick in until years later.
Eastern Europe eats a lot of potatoes.

Onion = Onion Router
A dinosaur’s tail preserved in amber
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Not on the market yet, and it's 22,800 sf for 2 years and will include all the furniture. Email me at dpalmer@savills-studley.com for pics and more info.
>encryption means you have something to hide

It means for me, but I fail to see why it is bad. Even direct "not your business" does not prove any guilt. It is okay to hide, we don't have to be open book.
That moat is accompanied by staggering amounts of risk. They spend well over $1 billion on each new fab plant, which they have no guarantee of breaking even. I hate the ME too, by the way. But we still have a choice. No one forces us to use Intel.
You know, I was wondering what site. Perhaps, it's some sort of an orange thing on the launch site (of rockets). The sudden context switch of parent comments talking about astronauts got me :-)

I've never seen the orange bar being blacked out recently (since I've been a member).

Glenn does seem like a swell guy!

Edit: fix typos
Wait. I know all about having dunderheads hired above me, having gone through the dot com bubble and crash.

But are you implying that no VP should ever be hired over the early engineers? I can imagine numerous situations where doing just that would provide value to the engineers and the company. And an experienced VP, even if expensive, can be a bargain if they've "done this before".
The roads in the US are in general horribly maintained. I've driven across it north/south 8-10 times and east/west 4 times along different routes/not just freeways and it's rare to find great roads. Michigan was the worst but luckily starting/ending in Ontario we weren't often on their roads for long.
Glad to help! The handbook will pay for itself just as a support resource for us :)
Sorry, I missed that although it's in the very first line.
People like John Glenn are the reason why I became infatuated with the space program and STEM. He showed the heights humanity could reach by using science and knowledge to become masters of our own destiny instead of victims of nature and fate. Before personal computers, before the Internet, before cellphones, humans landed on the moon & live streamed it to 600 million people. I feel the same way for artists like William Gibson and Neal Stephenson. It's become fashionable for many to deride the value of a non-STEM education. But if it weren't for them and their creation of the cyberpunk ethos and genre, I'd most likely be working at a bank or a hedge fund in a decidely non-technical role.

I also highly commend and greatly respect him for his efforts in nuclear non-proliferation. I imagine when you've seen earth from the view he had, you can't help seeing how small our differences actually are. That said, he wasn't perfect. His testimony in favor of excluding women from the astronaut program kept them from going on a mission until the 80's. To his credit, by the 1970's he had changed his mind and began supporting a female astronaut (Judith Resnick...interestingly she was recruited into the program by none than Lt. Uhura/Nichelle Nichols ) in her endeavors to join the astronaut program. Ultimately and unfortunately, she was a member of the ill-fated Challenger crew. Glenn gave a touching and inspirational speech at her memorial service that is worth reading: https://www.nasa.gov/centers/glenn/about/memorial.html

Off topic rant: As I hear this news, I'm reminded of the whole Buzz Aldrin dustup. While I'm no advocate of violence, I was inspired when he decked that looney conspiracy theorist who claimed the moon landings were faked. Despite the fact that you can literally shine lasers on the pieces of spacecraft left on the Moon and see the reflections, there are still those forces of ignorance who refuse to accept reality even as it stares them right in the eye. Most people in his position and especially at his age would simply try to avoid that confrontation and be content to let charlatans spread their destructive, nonsensical fictions. John Glenn was not that man. For some reason, that incident is what truly sticks out in my mind about him and I always associate him with this image: http://www.themarysue.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/3779149.... It's probably because I associate him with being the last of a dying breed, a modern hero in an increasingly cynical, post-modern society.
> They forgot they were a logistics company

Sears was the Amazon of 80's. Peering through the lens of time, the concept of a mail order catalog was no different from the convenience of today's Amazon e-commerce experience. They are both points on an evolutionary timeline of the retail distribution experience. Sears disrupted retail, just like Amazon has disrupted Sears.

What's interesting about companies like today's Amazon is that they are scared shitless they'll end up becoming another Sears and eventually dead in the water, so they are constantly investing their own profits into re-inventing themselves (see Amazon Go and drone delivery for example). And hence why the PE ratios of these companies (Amazon, Google, Apple, etc) are catastrophically high.
Most contracts I see these days define it as work that could be reasonably seen as in their line of business, or using company equipment or resources (e.g. internet). I can't remember the last time I saw one that made a distinction based on clock time that wasn't also for a 1099 contractor. These days it seems it either goes "All your thoughts are belong to us" or "using our stuff in a market we sell to".
> Somewhere between "We choose to go to the moon" and "if you see something, say something" we traded all of our hope and optimism for fear and suspicion.

We chose to go to the moon because we were afraid (afraid of Communism, afraid of the Russians, afraid of the Cold War).

That doesn't mean great things can only come about as the result of fear and suspicion, but it's not like the Space Race was a great example of hope and optimism in contrast with fear and suspicion.
A well stated point that I hadn't myself considered, and has changed my perspective on the topic enough that "I changed my mind" would be an accurate statement if it wasn't for the binary it would otherwise imply.

(Indeed, it's comments like these that give me pause when thinking about votes in moderation systems)
The end goal isn't whether state is ubiquitous or not. It is still that you don't need to buy a computer anymore, you can just buy a phone which does everything a computer does. Everything until that point is a compromise because the technology isn't there yet, but Microsoft also can't afford to not be ready the moment the technology is there, so they're iterating on it now to make sure they will be.
If it's really for 5-10 years from now, they should release it in 5-10 years when it's fully baked. How can any product that needs at least another 5 years of work be anything other than a poorly implemented beta product that isnt fully thought out and doesn't work properly?

Apart from the total disregard that shows for current customers, the big issue with that attitude is that it's fundamentally incompatible with the discipline and focus needed to actualy get the product right even 5-10 years down the line.

Poorly thought out, badly implemented compromised systems do not transform into great products. None of the parts of those half baked tablet computers from Origami and such exist to this day. The whole lot had to be junked when Apple showed everyone how it ought to be done. The fact that they had a half baked solution to sell actively prevented better solutions being developed within Microsoft because they would compete with the existing system. It's a recipe for mediocrity now and failure in the future.
You need to write a function/job that looks at the current partitions for a table and does the "rollover". Then you add this to an Oracle Scheduler task...
I gave spacemacs a serious try, a month of solid usage, but I just couldn't get it to work how I wanted, and then a couple more weeks of just emacs/viper. It's in the uncanny valley where it behaves like vim but only superficially and sometimes. The default home screen for instance, only maps hjkl, none of you're custom bindings will work. Open up the package manager and you need to know emacs, not vim.

Then there are other things about emacs/spacemacs that are alien. When opening a tab, spacemacs want's to have a conversation about what to name it, vim just opens a tab. There are little things like this everywhere, emacs expects interactivity, vim just executes commands.

In the end I went back to vim and with version 8 it now has all the programming versatility I need.
On the other hand, from the demos I've seen of "what the car is seeing", it looks like the car would probably know the child is running in his direction even before the ball passes in front of it.

We use general intelligence to deduce what we don't see. But the car sees much much more than we do.
Maybe you didnt see the right images.
I don't agree regarding drivers, especially in the last months. AMD drivers are quite solid since Crimson.
Thanks for the kind words George - and thanks for being an editor :) I completely agree with you on the scope limitations - we're looking forward to pushing the boundaries out a bit more over time with additional articles.
This reminds me of the other article on HN recently. Using calloc makes it cheap because it's using the kernel's CoW. Of course you probably want to use that CoW functionality explicitly in this case.
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Amazon doesn't.

Facebook and Google both give away free food, so I can't see why soda would be a problem.

Microsoft has free soda and the food is fairly cheap.
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In my university we often had group projects and at the end of the project you scored your team members. If the entire team scored one member highly or poorly, their grade could be weighted higher or lower.
What would you suggest to Walmart, Krogers, McDonald's workers and all Truck Drivers who will be displaced by automation in the next decade? Learn to code? Not everyone is cut out to be a coder, or has the money for education in the first place or the mentality to learn it online on their own.

Truck driver is probably the first job to disappear, this is also the #1 job in about 30 states. Truck drivers also touch many communities by travelling through po-dunk towns who's whole industry be it a couple mom and pop shops and a gas station IS because of truck drivers who frequent their route.

All of those communities will dry up, millions of truck drivers will be out of work. What do you expect people will do when they are starving, and the unemployment rises from 6% to 40-50%, by 2040?

There's currently an 83% chance that workers earning less than $20/hour will lose their job to automation in the future, and a 40% chance that those who earn between $20-40/hour will lose their job (forever to automation) in the not-to-distant future. Do you know anyone who falls in those ranges? Would you risk it all on 40-83% chance that your job will be here in 20-30 years?

What happens to the graduate who ends up graduating from medical school only to find out all doctors have been replaced by robots? They still have gargantuan loans and all, but zero employment options.
Source: http://www.geek.com/tech/middle-class-workers-are-losing-the...
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You should take a look at the AMD Crimson drivers, better than what Nvidia offers IMO.