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" That may work, but wouldn't be so much of a battle if the culture were better."

The culture of guys moving people around in the air or the culture of guys making bets
I Covered Tech for the Times for 28 Years, and Now My Time Is Over
That may be true, but then Marc shouldn't have been secretly backchanneling support. He should be asking the tough questions, not advising against the challenges of the board. Did Marc say to the other members, "hey I'm going to give Mark a heads up on this"? Likely not. If Zuckerberg was not allowed to keep control I assume he wouldn't be divesting so I see no benefit to shareholders.
Um, what? (No seriously, wtf? Is this a reference to something?)
1 & 3. Unfortunately, I have not seen any high quality services geared toward non-startup businesses. Believe it or not, that's actually a harder problem than the one we're solving. There is just much less standardization outside of the world of startups, due to how fragmented the market is. There might be some useful content out there, but I don't know of any personally (let me know if you find some!).

2. I don't know of any resources on this (although I'm sure they exist), but good insurance brokers can often walk you through a lot of the analysis. I've heard Heffernan is a good one (https://www.heffins.com). The good insurance brokers are usually pretty objective and not very sales-y. If you need to get super in-depth in analyzing a policy, you may eventually need to talk to an insurance lawyer - but I suspect most people don't go that far.

4. It's tough. It tough even for attorneys to find competent attorneys outside of their own practice areas, because it's hard to tell who's good. One of the major issues is that most legal work never gets tested out. Clients can certainly have their impressions based on their interactions, but until legal work is tested out - either by being reviewed by other attorneys, or in courts, there's just no way for a client to ascertain the quality of the work product. Legal services are a credence good: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credence_good The best thing you can do is to find people who have similar businesses and successfully survived the risks you're trying to protect against, and then see what lawyers they recommend. I realize this is a ton of work, and it may not even be possible in many cases. Depending on where you're located, we might be able to give you some attorney leads - feel free to ping us at support@clerky.com.
I am of the opinion there are very few people who can be thoughtful, at least in that long-term sense..
I'm not enough of an experienced pilot to authoritatively answer, but here's a guess at some items.

* Sterile cockpit: a rule that pilots avoid any distracting activities during critical parts of flight (mostly takeoff/landing, flying around busy areas).

* Crew resource management: a shocking number of major commercial accidents have involved either confusion in the cockpit or one pilot who knew something was wrong but didn't feel he/she had the authority to say something. Tenerife is a very sad example. CRM is a set of procedures that specify how concerns are brought to the PIC (pilot in command) in a way that's unlikely to make things worse. Basically, it's an escalation procedure that is recognized on both speaking/listening sides as something that needs to be paid attention to.

* Checklists: Not sure if this is new, but it is completely routine in flight to consult standardized checklists for everything, whether ordinary takeoff/flight/landing or emergency situations. It's thus a lot less likely you'll make a stupid mistake in flight like running out of fuel because you forgot to switch tanks. (Actually people still run out often, but the out-of-fuel checklist includes ensuring you've remembered to switch away from the empty tank, meaning people don't crash planes with half their fuel anymore.) There is no cultural shame in consulting checklists; in fact my (limited) experience is that most pilots would question the judgment of someone who didn't use checklists. This is a bigger deal than you might think because most aircraft incidents are fundamentally attributable to human error.

* Better weather technology, both for prediction and real-time assessment.

Flight 1549 (the one that landed in the water with no deaths and just a couple serious injuries) is a good example of the first three. You can listen to the cockpit recording to see them all in action.

When the birds hit, the pilots were already 100% focused on the critical takeoff portion of the flight -- zero distractions that could have delayed reaction time.

The copilot immediately got out the POH (plane's owner's manual containing tons of checklists) and started all the restart procedures while the captain reflexively put the plane in the maximum glide position to extend range.

Then right as they're lined up for the river, Sullenberger asks the copilot "Got any ideas?" While this might sound like comical desperation, it's actually good CRM in action -- after they'd tried the checklists and were in a somewhat stable descent, the captain solicited feedback from the second-in-command, just to make sure they hadn't overlooked anything else.

Anyway, I'm sure my list is far from complete. Someone more knowledgeable can continue it.
Whoa, good catch - we'll get that fixed. Thanks!
The speed increase from Fiber is cool. Brute forcing things by digging up streets and laying tons of Fiber seems like a lot of work for incremental gain.

Streetview seemed like an excellent idea to me and is a Maps feature I like using (which would be even better if the pictures were more detailed and VR-/life- like). Buying or renting a bunch of cars/planes to manually take those pictures, however, seemed like a stupid idea (dumb way to do it), like another brute force approach, and like them trying to grunt their way through the problem using large amounts of cash.

Some may like such approaches, but I'd see them as inelegant and a waste of money (how it's implemented, not the actual idea).
I'm not a lawyer (nor even American) but I believe the most relevant legislation would be the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. In which case, it might be a good idea to formulate a policy similar to the one linked to in the footer of this very website.
Dhall: A non-Turing-complete configuration language
How can a new programmer impress the software engineer (boss)?
In Costa Rica, for a number of years a few years ago, they would paint a hollow yellow heart, with a halo, inside a box, on top of the part of a street or road where a fatal accident occurred. However, after some time, they stopped repainting them after each time the road was resurfaced.
A older friend of mine who structured financial products said that the worst thing we did for the healt of the Social Secuirty fund was the war on cigarettes. He said it in jest... but he wasn't wrong.
Perhaps you should ask your local roads department how they decide where to put traffic control structures before talking about lying :).
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Definitely outside my area of expertise :) I suspect it's only civil, assuming your products are not regulated in some way. But I really can't say for sure - sorry!
RIP CityDesk – Joel on Software
Let them eat memes!
You have to work on most weekends and don't get any vacation days?
I worked on Hololens stuff at Microsoft. It does everything you describe, and IMO does it really well. It's fairly light and is wireless. The tracking is excellent. A lot of the scene parsing is done in special hardware, with low latency. It updates a persistent model of the environment, so it isn't rebuilding everything every frame.
Why is this post greyed out? Did people downvote it? Is not a reasonable question to ask why capital is wasted?
And then they exploit Firefox bugs to drop phone-home malware on users. But so far, it's only been Windows malware :) And it relies on bypassing Tor's socks proxy.
Right, it's better not to think anything at all. Wouldn't want to have an agenda, yuck! Ptooey!
Indeed, but one of the issues is that HN has grown a lot. Five years ago an article with 100 votes was noteworthy, not so much today.
You say that but if we could easily swallow or "tattoo" cameras/sensors, there are many medical upsides.
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I'm not sure you understand the implications of the argument you're making.

> Any treasury bonds held by the federal government (for example, by the Social Security) is money the government owes to itself and has no real-world effect.

That is 100% correct. Which is the point. Those bonds are not a meaningful asset for Social Security; they have "no real-world effect" because they're an IOU payable by the same entity who offered it.

But the promises Social Security made do have a real world impact, and those promises will need to be redeemed. But Social Security doesn't have any assets of the type you say "matter".

And that's a problem.
How can you even book flights years in advance when airlines only publish schedules 330 days in advance?
No, GTA is ~6M and Greater Montreal ~4
GTA is not that big in terms of population and very sparse comparable with other big metros.
If you actually have a worthwhile idea or something you're working on starts going somewhere, the masses will descend trying to stall it out. They'll also magically try to slap their face/name on it, while trying to push you out.

Also, it's funny how many random things are being worked on, as it seemed impossible to get time or support to work on anything. I wonder what process/reasoning goes into deciding who gets to work on their own thing.

This company is so typical regarding many things that most of their PR/marketing sound like outright lies.
SaaS make hacker life easier :)
You walk up to the bank, fill out a withdrawal slip (http://www.handsonbanking.org/financial-education/wp-content...), and hand it to the teller.

Or sign up for a PayPal account and fill in both of those numbers, and transfer money from your account to your PayPal balance.
In one of his essays, David Brin attempts to define the difference between science fiction and fantasy as one of optimism vs pessimism. In fantasy, the characters reminisce about the good old days, when there was a golden age. In sci-fi, the characters believe that the golden age is in their future-- that things are going to get better.

I wish we still lived in a science fiction world.
Nah, screw that. We all deserve comfortable retirements, and we should fund it as a society.

Wealth inequality being what it is, yes, the wealthy can afford to chip in for the well-being of the rest of us. Or rather, we can afford to redistribute our wealth claims as a society in this way.

Why not? Wealth is a logical fiction we've invented, as to who has what monetary claims we enforce, and we can bend this fiction to our goals (including, as stated, the moral imperative to provide comfortable old age for all, regardless of personal means).
In my experience, weather and baseball. And of course ham radio.
Frustrating, but your work still counts and matters.
If you have absolute URLs (http://..../foo.jpg) saved in documents or a database or something like that, you would need to rewrite them to be protocol-relative or just https:// .
Would they need it?
U.S. Bumps Exascale Ambitions, Ties Future to Novel Architectures for 2021
If you're just after any % so you can have a semblance of illusion of control, you could always spend some time researching safest seating positions in planes, how to position ones self to change direction in a free fall, and ideal landing terrain.

Your ability to influence outcome in a plane accident are minuscule but they do technically exist.
This announcement provides a bit of credibility to the suspicion that Microsoft has been wanting to make a "Surface Phone" device for some time, but was delaying until the right pieces were in place. It is possible they had been working with Intel's Broxton and that chip's cancellation required returning to the drawing board, so to speak.

But it seems likely, to my mind, that what we see today—x86 emulation on a Snapdragon—materialized because Microsoft wants to deliver full Windows 10 on a phone-sized device and Intel wasn't able to give them the necessary platform.

Emulation may be inelegant, but the video [1] confirms performance that would be "good enough" (oh how I hate that phrase) for many users.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_GlGglbu1U
This might be stating the obvious, but I think that probably has more to do with the quantity of ASCII codes, and less to do with the "translation" itself. I have significantly more difficulty reading hex dumps than I ever had reading G-code (that's the machine code that runs CNC mills, most 3d printers, etc). After a few years of working in a shop, I was fluent enough in G-code to be literally talking in it (on occasion, when appropriate) while debugging things. Hex dumps are far, far more intimidating for me to manage.
The system doesn't, though, not really. I mean, consider something running over Thunderbolt. A device that doesn't even tell you it supports Thunderbolt (and triggers it via USB3 alternate modes) then has direct, unimpeded access to the physical memory space of the computer. PCMCIA cards, PCI cards, FireWire...USB, itself is more intermediated--but that's also why latency is higher. You can disable DMA in the BIOS, but then lots of devices won't work at all.

If you're doing free-all-the-stuff for principle, I think it gets un-comfy drawing the line at stuff that runs on x86 and ARM ('specially as your monitor probably has an ARM in it anyway). If you're doing it for security, I think you must strive for peripheral openness too, or you're mostly wasting your time.
He did not ordered any cease and desists, he just asked them to use another infrastructure. If you don't like Signal, absolutely nothing prevents you to fork the client AND the server to run something new.
I don't expect debian to provide me CI/repo/mailing-list servers if I decide to fork them.
Is this even intended to be a working cryptocurrency? Seems more likely to be a PoS protocol which more established coins will build upon.

There are plenty of people working on a move away from energy intensive PoW. PoS is an open problem in cryptography. Some coins claim it, but none have come under any real scrutiny. Yet to see a secure implementation.

They don't say much in the readme here, the whitepaper offers all the info, if they have actually solved the outstanding problems with PoS this is huge news.

Not holding my breath though.
Dissecting a Case of Imposter Syndrome
Every company that handles monetary accounts should be subject to the same regulations as a bank.

And: too many complaints about those monetary accounts not resolved in time? ⇒ suspend their license to operate a "bank".
When will castAR support dogs and cats? Will dogs or cats be first? Will dogs and cats be able to use it together?
Yeah, you could claim that. Then, they search your computer and find no traces of malware but they find a copy of the Tor Browser Bundle. Now what?

Besides, law enforcement never just "takes your word for it". I've got a lot of friends in law enforcement and -- as far as "suspects" go -- they'll pretty much (attempt to) verify every claim you make.
Over 40% of the titles on Steam have been added in the past year alone.

The floodgates need to close, now. As someone who has voted on hundreds of Greenlight titles, Greenlight is an abject failure IMO. It's flooded with garbage, the first few waves of approvals gave us some great titles that otherwise would have never seen the platform, but now it's a nightmare. There are no more approval lists. What's worse, it's the only way onto Steam. Your indie gem is just as likely to be lost in the shovelware noise as the latest idle game ported from mobile.

Anyone with $100 can post games there. Anyone with more than $100 can purchase a service which votes their pre-purchased unchanged asset pack "game" through Greenlight. It's ridiculous.

Tags and abandoned curator lists are not a solution to hundreds of shovelware titles clogging up the new releases section IMO.

Unfortunately, nothing will change until something comes along to replace the current system entirely. Valve will act when they are forced to act, not before.
So if they'd started in 1966 it wouldn't have been built until 2066? Good job they waited until the nineties so they could leapfrog their alternate destiny.
Ask HN: Would you read Q&A with senior developers about their career path?
I love reading Indie Hackers and was inspired to start a website that was focused on doing interviews with senior developers/senior level technical management people. I want the site to revolve around helping younger developers learn about the non-technical sides to being a developer such as communication, salary negotiation, career path etc.

As a technical recruiter, I see tons of developers making basic mistakes when approaching their career and I'd love to build a community around this.
Did they just say enabling internet for billions of battery free devices? Is it like a push method? So I guess I could imagine state updates, or task pushes to autonomous agents.
Elon Musk saw that the online world needed a secure payment/banking system. Founded X which eventually morphed into Paypal, grows to be one of the biggest online payment processor. Problem solved.

Saw that we humanity needed to transition from fossil fuels if we are to combat global warming, targets the transportation sector and bam, Tesla, is born produces the first highway legal serial production all-electric car to use lithium-ion battery cells, and the first production all-electric car to travel more than 200 miles (320 km) per charge. Basically, the first practical all electric vehicle. Problem solved.

Saw that humanity needed to switch from fossil fuels for home energy. Devised the original idea for Solar City, which his cousins implemented ( and he eventually took over). Certainly, there may not even be a main player in this story as this problem is evident. However, was instrumental in this effort. Solar is now on par with domestic natural gas production for cost efficiency and will likely supplant it moving forward (Natural gas companies operate on very thin margins)(I'd say it's more efficient if one factors in the negative externality of fossil fuel into the efficiency comparison). Problem solved.

Saw that if humanity is to survive, we need to be multi-planetary. No one else is seriously doing it. He forms SpaceX and likely in the next 10 years will put the first human on another planet and has also devised an economical interplanetary travel network Problem solved (To be continued).

An engineer at its core is one who solves problems. He seems to have a good track record of solving some of the biggest problems facing all of humanity today. That's a pretty kick ass engineer in my book. Perhaps you don't regard him as such because you think of engineeers at the product or component level. Looking at the trees, you get lost in the forest. He's engineering at a higher level than most.

Also, I called Elon Musk the rockstar of the automotive world.
>> Can I run a client from the Git repo and still use all of their infrastructure?

> Yes. You can.

The thing is, lucideer, the "restrictions" on the use of the source code are engineered to raise the barrier to independent use, notably by preventing or discouraging redistribution. This means that only those who are able and willing to compile Android source can run their own binaries. Everyone else has to go with the binaries they distribute which, as the other poster has correctly argued, cannot be independently verified.

> Do you have some personal issue with OWS?

I do not know about him. But I do. Please read on.

> and provided via F-Droid (though I have read their arguments against that w.r.t. performance)

Oh, so it's "performance" this time? It's not something about "updates" like last time¹, or "features", or "metrics"?

Do you really not think, if you go through the discussions, that there's just too many excuses? Does it make sense to you? Do you not get the feeling someone's got something to hide, if you would pardon the pun? :-)

But I tell you what really got in my tits, it was this message: (https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/53#i...)

"Please do not install software from F-Droid. It is an unverified build, exceptionally out of date, and should be considered malware."

You know what? I fucking trust F-Droid. And I for one I am very grateful to everyone who collaborate to make that happen and stand firm in their commitment to open source, and especially to Ciaran, the founder, who gives so much to the community in spite of very challenging family issues (which are publicly known). Top bloke he is.

And then you get some lying, incompetent, manipulative², and possibly delusional individual accuse them of distributing malware. That is seriously not cool.

For those of you unaware, this is the person we are talking about (I suggest you read the comments too): http://www.gandibar.net/post/2010/04/07/The-googlesharingnet...

¹ Cooperative and competent (or at least willing) open source developers can set it up so that F-Droid auto-builds every time you tag a new release.
² And I say this because I'm sure someone will correctly argue that he did not call F-Droid itself malware--that would be too crass even for this guy. He's very careful in choosing his words.
The black bar has usually been reserved for noteworthy deaths in the programming and technology fields, and it's always been at the discretion of the HN staff to decide which death deserves it and which doesn't - and most seem not to.

Discussions around people's lives, regardless of their field, are what create worthwhile tributes. The black bar is just vanity.
Do you know what chemicals fueled this moon shot?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8J5BWL8oJY
I learned some people get really bent out of shape if you tell them they can't talk about politics for a week. I noticed heaps of people complaining. As far as content goes, I didn't notice a difference.
Yes this was within the last couple weeks, using Chrome 55 and Safari 10. The difference is enormous and unmistakeable, if you have an MBP then just try it yourself.
Social security in its current form doesn't even provide a comfortable retirement; it single handedly is keeping millions of seniors just a bit out of poverty. For that alone, it should be protected.

https://www.fool.com/retirement/2016/11/24/the-stunning-effe...

"Researchers at the CBPP used the Census Bureau's definition of poverty, which in 2015 meant $11,367 or less for an elderly individual, $14,342 or lower for an elderly couple, and $24,257 or less for the average family of four, and compared poverty rates for the elderly (ages 65 and up), adults (ages 18-64), and children (under age 18) with and without Social Security benefits.

The findings showed that Social Security benefits have kept nearly 22.1 million Americans out of poverty, with a reduction in poverty rates observed in all 50 states and Washington, D.C. As you might have rightly imagined, the bulk of those being kept out of poverty are elderly Americans, which comprise about two-thirds of all enrollees to begin with. However, children and adults younger than 65 benefited, too.

In total, 15.07 million elderly folks, 5.94 million adults, and 1.08 million children are all lifted above the poverty rate thanks to monthly Social Security payments. For all ages, Social Security reduces the estimated poverty rate in American 7 full percentage points to 13.5% from an estimated 20.5%. But the biggest effect is seen on seniors.

https://g.foolcdn.com/editorial/images/419987/ss-elderly-pov...

As you can see above, without Social Security income, just over four in 10 seniors would be living at or below the poverty rate. With Social Security income, just 8.8% of seniors are living in poverty. We'd obviously like to see that figure fall to 0%, but for such a vulnerable group of individuals who may not have other forms of income beyond Social Security, this data would imply that the program is doing its job."