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It's far easier to say that a business plan sucks balls and be right 90+% of the time than to get a business plan right.

In practice even the good business plans run into myriad reasons why they aren't actually good plans, they are just lucky enough and have a determined enough team to survive reality.

That's not to say there aren't good business plans, but I think that criticizing Silicon Valley culture for having a high failure rate is counter-productive to encouraging people to take necessary and potentially transformative risks. Whenever you're trying to do new stuff, a lot of retrospectively dumb stuff will get discarded along the way, and it's easy in hindsight to point at the survivors and say "why didn't all of the failures just give up sooner?" I think that underestimates how much the successful ideas only just barely avoided ending up also on the side of the road.
Ask HN: Cheap cloud providers with GPUs?
AWS and Azure have GPU instances and soon Google cloud will join them. Wondering if there are any other providers who have cheaper GPU instances?
We use them extensively in our API client code to pass back immutable, well-defined data structures. Dictionaries and classes are mutable and then each layer of code tends to sloppily change them however is convenient, meaning the underlying data can end up being represented differently in different code flows.

Namedtuples are a way to preserve the data unless the consuming code _really_ wants to change it, which is sometimes legitimate.

I'm not totally sold, as in some cases dictionaries or classes would add nice value. But namedtuples have a rigidity that makes you think twice before tampering with retrieved data.
"much" could mean anything, from "what's a PR?" https://guides.github.com/activities/hello-world/

to "what's good etiquette for contributing to open source projects?", I'd say: add as much information as possible to your PR, why it does what it does, how it does it, etc.
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That is all valid for "is there enough lithium for Musk to make a big profit on this factory?" but is not the same for "is there enough lithium for the foreseeable future?".

There isn't enough oil to power our civilisation for the foreseeable future, but people are still building wells and selling their contents.

There might easily be enough, or it might be easily recyclable but those are perfectly sensible questions to ask that aren't answered by your thought process.
... unless you have a Nobel and a diagram named after you.
"Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers"

source: https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/cs201/projects/commu...

"Blocking misinformation will help protect the [Facebook's] brand and credibility."

source: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/20/opinion/sunday/facebook-an...
Even a really rich dude can't expect to get the single best public site in a large metropolitan area to build a monument to himself. I don't think the goofy tasteless art collection referenced in TFA is even a consideration; Lucas will die eventually and then they can start hanging decent art. If he had picked a smaller city, or a major university, or a less valuable site in the cities he's targeted, the project would have been started already. Instead, he has chosen rare open coastal land in the busiest most valuable neighborhoods of top-tier cities. If he had gotten either of the first two sites, the nation would soon have been covered with similarly pointless museums bearing the names of our silliest billionaires. Thank goodness, those who made these decisions have both taste and integrity.
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There were some recent rumours that FB is going to enable censoring tools to be able to return to China.
Thanks! The careers page was one of the things that made it easy for me to apply - takes a lot of the guess work out.

As far as VISAs go, it's something we'd look into for the right candidates. We have at times had registration for 457s, but the rules/requirements around visas are complex. Sorry that's not a better answer.
That's covered by Achievers. Achievements aren't required, however, they do highlight specific achievements. Still, the challenge of achieving the best score, best time, or whatever else you can think of.
Sure but #1 is not so relevant since the old promotion system was also based in total number of wins rather than strength.
Not many languages can be made to run efficiently on a 83 MHz core with few kbytes of RAM.

Pascal, maybe, but it's about the same thing as C.

Scheme would be nice, but it's both more resource-hungry and the static checking is sort of bolted on.

With Rust's security features I hope we'll have fewer crashing or crackable embedded devices.
I would add "fixing the atrocity that is iTunes" to the list.
Probably because it's made to look like it does something. Sometimes that's all you need to get people to buy.

And yet, they (probably) make no false claims so they are not breaking the law.
It's called empathy. It's not an illness.
As soon as I got to the "over 9000", I knew it was 4chan nonsense. I stopped going to reddit to get away from that crap.
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Yes, it really doesn't HAVE to be in Crissy Field (of course, diehard SF residents are going to get upset!), and if anything, you'd want to build it in a place that allows it to develop a new area as a focal point of attraction.
Do you think the problem is the site navigation? I subscribe to a couple of newspapers and it doesn't bother me at all that I get both movie reviews and financial news from something like the NY Times. I generally have found this to be true with the Ringer as well. The fact that I found a movie review to be insightful drives me to read more of the sports coverage because it carries a similar expectation of quality.
If you're trying to make fun of fact checking fake news, that is a totally facetious comparison. The whole point of fact checking is that the fact check / rebuttal is put side by side or preceding the original claim, with evidence and its own citations. You're not prevented from seeing the original claim, even if statistically fewer people see the original claim.

If the Communist party decided to replace all online censorship with modals saying how wrong the website was, and you could just click through the modal, I would consider that progress in China.
>better battery life

If we're comparing those laptops running linux with macbooks running macos, I highly doubt it.
I think the key is that any game with "in character" modes almost always has explicit game mechanics about how to be a jerk and what kinds of repercussions may occur.

Edit: To be more explicit, when those mechanics don't exist anybody saying "I'm just role-playing a jerk" is full of crap.
Google did back out of mainland China - they're only available in Hong Kong and lost 98% of their Chinese search market share because of it.
Ugh, sorry about that. There's a couple issues here:

1. Lambda tuple args are not yet supported -- I actually didn't know that was a thing :\ -- https://github.com/google/grumpy/issues/17

2. Even if that worked properly, sorted() is not yet implemented: https://github.com/google/grumpy/issues/16
Mostly it is coming from salt flats (or "salars") in Chile (as well as Argentina and Bolivia). It can also be produced by refining a mineral called spodumene which can be found in places such as Australia. If you want to read more, you can look at the annual report from Albemarle, the largest lithium producer in the world:

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/915913/0000915913160...
What fraction of the plant's CO2 emissions are being captured?
Wouldnt this fall under Explorer?
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I doubt we disagree as well.

But (as said in OP) I am disappointed in how he's framed it in this particular think piece. The casual reader without out-of-context knowledge is unlikely to pick up on the nuance, and he's missed a golden opportunity to preach a better gospel.
At current consumption there are ~430yrs of known reserves, with factoring in projected growth, they will last ~200yrs. I suspect people don't search for lithium deposits with much vigor right now as there isn't much demand for it and the known deposits will last for quite a while (why look for something we run out of in 200yrs, when there are things at 60yrs). At ~250mg/kwh (15-25kg per Tesla car) the current reserves of lithium could make enough batteries for nearly a billion cars without recycling any of them.

Since the packs will be large, uniform and contain expensive metals like cobalt, they will be recycled so I would suspect demand for lithium would go down when the market becomes saturated (probably not in our lifetimes), just like how lead-acid car batteries don't need much new lead as quite a bit of it comes from old batteries.

Between these two points, I don't think lithium is worth worrying about.
You should learn to be more grateful when someone points out that you're wrong.
(note for those playing along at home: both of those "bugs" come down to the same issue, which is lexical vs non-lexical analysis. That post was written in 2013, but adding the non-lexical feature has taken quite a long time, requiring a huge refactor to the compiler internally. We're just now getting to the point where the feature could actually be worked on directly.)

I firmly agree with your point here; we need more people of all kinds. Specialists, generalists, communicators, community organizers, all of it. Since this is an ember thread, I'll link to Yehuda: https://twitter.com/wycats/status/675498087717056512
I think that one of the reasons for that is a bad discovey system. The algorithm that generates front page is oblique and not controllable.

I wish I could decide which people/publications to follow, and be certain that I will not miss their posts. And I would love to discover the content reddit-style, sorting it by number of upvotes and filtering it by tags. Instead, I get recommended a bunch of garbage by some weird machine learning algorithm.

It creates problems for writers as well, because I can never be sure that my followers will read my posts, and the amount of views I receive from Medium, compared to HN/subreddits is truly pathetic.

I really wish they would fix the discovery system, because I'm a huge fan of everything else they're doing and I would love to use Medium as a platform way more.
I wish we legally purchase a copy of the original theatrical release of episodes 4-6.
They are bets. In the global market if you pick the wrong tool you severely limit your talent pool and upgrade path. Imagine being stuck on Marionette and Backbone these days. Tough to attract talent with old technology like that.

And this is the global market.

Imagine how worse it is if you want to hire local. Yikes.
Hmm, I've spent a fair bit of time with the 2016 MBPs and have owned and used many Mac laptops over the past decade.

I wouldn't agree that there are no machines with "anything close" to the feel. I agree that the MBP is still at the top, but the Dell XPS, Thinkpad X1, X2x0, X4x0s are close in case, keyboard but lose in speakers and display. HP's top end models are close. Surface Book is extremely close.

To be honest, the removal of MagSafe actually drops the overall "quality feel" of the 2016 Mac a step below the older Macs for me. As does the removal of certain other features over the years - such as the battery lights, pulsing sleep light, charging indicator light, tiny microphone input flowers replaced with single larger holes, inbuilt IR remote, etc. I would classify these things as "design quality" - so possibly not the build quality of what is there, but definitely contributed to the machines feeling like they are a cut above what else is out there.

The fact that I can't upgrade the Mac at all is basically a deal breaker for me. I thought I could live with it, but after four years of having personal Macs (Air) that can't be upgraded, and work MBPs, seeing my spend on computer hardware literally double thanks to shorter new machine cycles, higher cost of "upgrades", and reduced resale value, I've had enough. Not only that, but my machine satisfaction drops a lot near the end of a machine's usable life (where previously it would be quite linear as I periodically upgraded things), and having to make compromises on storage etc is just too much.

Whether OSX is productive as a developer depends greatly on what your particular environment is. In many cases I've observed that Linux can be more streamlined for everyday development, and the disruption that is OSX software updates has increased to the point where it's just as bad as Linux updates. If you can take advantage of Visual Studio for your dev and use some of the integrated toolchains there, you may even get superior productivity to OSX.
Honestly, English language material isn't a huge priority for censors in China most of the time. You'd have to be _extremely_ prominent and cover issues relevant to the CCP's interest before I'd assume "sold out" is more likely than "ignored by the censors".

[It seems reasonable to note, here, that the same logic applies to coverage of the American government -- despite the lack of censors. Perhaps they leverage access to privileged information -- why leak something important to someone who dredges up garbage about you the other six days a week.]
From the outside it looks like a superb deal, but issues are in the details. Most notably, the Museum is being proposed on PUBLIC land and thus the conflict in meeting the requirements.

As quoted in the article from Presidio Trust board member:

“If it’s your land, you can do pretty much what you want,” Bechtle says. “But with public land, there is just a higher level of scrutiny.”

The trust developed design guidelines for the site. The building could be no higher than 45 feet; as for looks, the trust didn’t want a building that replicated an old-fashioned architectural style...

...in short Lucas proposal didn't meet the guidelines and he didn't want to compromise.

Personally, I think the museum is a fantastic deal and any city would be blessed with the gift -- still hoping SF & Lucas find a mutual agreement (one of which not be exclusive to Lucas items/curation).
Other things affect price besides energy efficiency. Railroads could charge a premium for speed. Also, existing rail routes could be sub-optimal.
Just means its in beta. You can signup and use it instantly.
Thousands of Russian hackers are probably intercepting the web traffic of thousands of American citizens.
My other favorite George Lucas property development anecdote is that when Marin County refused to allow him to expand the Skywalker Ranch, he threatened to deploy weaponized "low-income" (80% of median) housing against his uber progressive neighbors.

Truly, real estate brings out the worst in man.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/04/1...
At the right price, there is no shortage of lithium capacity. What is in short supply are the reserves of lithium that can be extracted at relatively low cost, which generally come from salt flats in places like Chile; there are few such resources in the world. On the other hand, there is a vast amount of spodumene mineral which can be converted into lithium at a higher cost. And theoretically (say, in 100 years), there is plenty of lithium in the ocean; it would just take a much higher price per pound of lithium to justify extracting it.
people's salaries is by far the biggest expense for most software startups.
I would personally veto any museum that had a design requirement of "provide enough space to exhibit anything and everything that George Lucas wants to show off."

If he wants the museum to happen, he'd better withdraw his big, fat thumb from the pie a little, and let someone else determine just how much of his personal art collection qualifies as "cultural treasure".

You have to figure that there's at least one person in every major American city who has seen the Star Wars Christmas Special, in addition to all the people who "have a baaaaad feeling about this," after seeing the movies he has directed personally, and the "enhancements" made to certain works for their DVD release.

That's why all the cities want to know what exactly he's going to put into the museum, and replying "that's proprietary information" just raises a huge, Hutt-sized warning flag over the whole project.

Besides that, I just visited the Art Institute of Chicago a few days ago, which sort of anchored my expectations for "art museum". No city wants to green light a project expecting "art museum" and end up four years later with "that useless, ugly building full of m-f-ing Gungan codpieces and Ewok hats."
Your site is showing a certificate error. The certificate it's serving was issued for a different domain.
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The context in that first link is:

https://web.archive.org/web/20140404202911/http://plover.net...

This adds a little more nuance:

1) LOGICAL FALLACIES ARE USUALLY IRRELEVANT OR CITED INCORRECTLY...

2) CITING LOGICAL FALLACIES IS USUALLY COWARDLY AND LAZY
...
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Rather than engage with the ideas in a text, it's much easier to skim through it trying to spot a quick fallacy; and once a fallacy is found, a baloney detector can safely ignore everything else.
"

I wouldn't say this at all demonstrates the weakness in identifying fallacies. Falsely identifying fallacies is not identifying fallacies (the fallacy fallacy?); and nothing says that one fallacy invalidates an entire text; also, I find there argument there weak, e.g "these people seem to have no other opinions on the text" - so what?
Yes, usually there are various rules / guidelines about it. Unacceptable behavior is supposed to be handled by GMs, which is critical for good multiplayer RPGs. Without some moderation things can degrade pretty quickly.

It's also one of the reasons why it's so challenging to make a good RPG of that sort - it's hard to scale. With bigger player base, you need more GMs, and most ignore it in attempt to commercialize the "massive" aspect of things. Quality plummets in result.
Mr. Price did some re-thinking and a follow-up presentation on that same subject, which is also interesting viewing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aIA2LaB2Iw
Dropbox is not charging per GB because they don't really pay per GB. Their model depends on people not having a lot of original content so you might have some home movies or whatnot but if you upload 500GB the bulk of that is probably 3rd party games / Movies etc.

So really, most people are buying <30 GB of storage + a lot of bandwidth and a decent UI.

With that in mind the number of people with more than 1TB to store either need a streaming service or actually have original content which breaks their model.
It doesn't matter if Fuchs is an actual spy for the purposes of figuring out if the FBI should be worried - all that matters is that the FBI believes that he's a spy.
Who said anything about strong players?
The reddit thread also links to more interesting discussion on the board lifein19x19:

http://lifein19x19.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&p=215117#p21...
Is this concerning?
https://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=ember.js,react.js

In any case congrats on the new gig Tom.
Han shot first.
.. but does it have ludicrous mode?
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With kids I prefer 4x8 to 5x6 but my wife wouldn't.
The ecosystem... from people to compilers to libraries to tutorials... is all C and its style of doing things. Gotta be as close to it as possible to have a chance. It's why the successful languages in enterprise, system space used C-like syntax. Still took a huge company basically dictating it.
Well they did that by basically limiting what the user can do. The editing options were extremely limited. There was also no customisation until recently. They built a basic-function responsive blog platform. How is that hard?
With statements such as "To build a platform that defined a new model for media on the internet." it is not completely unreasonable to expect bit more than more of the same
IANAL

- First check your work contracts. US corporations often make you sign abusive work contracts where they own anything you think or write even on your own time. In that case I would advise you first to negociate a new contract.

- One way to avoid mixing work with pleasure would be to use entirely different programming languages and stacks. However, it's true that a program can be considered derived work of another independently of the programming language (in terms of copyright laws, translations are considered derived works), and there are of course those silly software patents and IP.

- Therefore: Just don't do it.

- Or, if you really cannot help, once you've pushed to github your own code, you could license it under GPL or BSD/MIT, and then at work ask for permission to include this open source library. This will give you a couple of weeks or months before the legal service answers by the negative, and then you will be able to re-invent it in a different way, or to find an entirely different solution.
I'm not sure I'd class the Gigafactory as a disruption in the "Innovators dilemma" sense. I think some of the genius of Musk is that his bets actually minimize the big unknowns in a physical realm while at this point in the business dimension, the demand for Tesla's new model is known to sufficient certainty that this factory is needed to fill the capacity.

The core battery tech isn't new, but the machinery and the automation of the process is.. but that's a much smaller risk than say trying to build this factory on a "disruptive" new battery tech.
I remember when Apple removed the App that reported on US drone strikes and civilian casualties.

I remember that Reddit bans foreign news outlets from its news subreddits.

I remember that Facebook censored people trying to post Snowden Documents in the US.

This is a global phenomenon. We should do everything in our power to reverse this trend in the United States so that we have the credibility to criticize China for doing the same.
To be fair, Crissy Field is underutilized prime real estate screaming for a worthwhile, architecturally beautiful monument/museum of some sort. It's too big of a field, usually mostly empty, to be sitting in such a scenic location, and any development there would surely continue to offer plenty of green public park space. It's not like Columbus Circle which is fully utilized.
Ahh, gotcha. That's what I get for not stopping by very often...
They would be profitable if they reduced the employee count 10x. Which should be doable, it's just a blog platform.
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