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You should see the Tesla employee parking lot. Most of the people working on these cars will never afford one.
I saw a sarcastic comment a while back saying that webdevs should be forced to work on a Pentium II machine and they would cut their bullshit, I laughed, and moved on.

But after seeing many examples where sites were built on huge iMacs with no care for users running off a battery, slower network connection or with an average 1366x768 display I somewhat agree with the sentiment.
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> I'll drive the extra distance to pay at the pump

Another data point is New Jersey, where gas attendants are required: http://mentalfloss.com/article/74549/why-cant-you-pump-your-...
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He stumbles onto something quite interesting at the end of the interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VW_R98EBO7s
I've been very tempted to start publishing content on the gopher protocol, its immune to the cancers of the modern web.
I agree. I want to make sure nobody competent works in the executive branch alongside the other team, so that the maximum amount of damage is cause to my country as a result of their mistakes.

Wait, no I don't, because I'm not insane. Are you aware that we're playing for real money?
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I always love these stories. I'm pretty sure half of the over engineered apps where I'm working could be replaced by a handful of shell scripts. One particular one recently had us adding a whole lot of tables to the database with the accompanying sql and code so we could monitor performance in real time. The information could have easily been generated from our log files with a sed script or a flex program.
Link to the Hinton's view?
Too old for what? You never run out of time if you have a good solution for a real need.

Perhaps you could provide some specifics to receive pertinent advice.

Good luck!
>can often work better than neural networks

But what about neural networks of the future? Sure, _at the moment_ they might be not as good as current statistical methods, but surely their ceiling must be through the roof? Same goes for quantum computing and the like...
>But any blue-collar coder will be plenty qualified to sling Java­Script for their local bank.

Yeah, that sounds dangerous.
Here is another eastern watercolor painting tool "Expresii"[1].

[1] http://www.expresii.com
Welp, apparently all managers have something in common…
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While I'm all for coding literacy and job retraining, I think the hype around code schools misses the fact that the field requires extremely deep knowledge along with curiosity. A few months of an intensive code bootcamp can get you the basics of writing some JavaScript, basic git workflows, and maybe some API development on top of a database, but it does nothing to develop the intuition a lot of us developed over years and years of tinkering.

I've seen lots of code bootcamp grads get completely lost when deploying an application to a Linux environment. Or when they have to figure out what's going on with a malfunctioning system. Or when they have to think about networks. Or when they encounter performance issues in their code.

Then I realize that a lot of my peers that I pair with were like me. They broke the school computer and fixed it when they were 12. They spent their summer job money to build a computer from parts because they were curious at 15. They taught themselves to code, then got better at college or through continued self-study. They ran Linux as their desktop for fun.

Now I'm not saying that bootcamp coders can't get there, but it's hard to compare to someone that at 21 had 10 years of autodidactic learning experiences, maybe with a college degree on top of it. I'm all for being more inclusive and we really should be making efforts to get more people involved, but I think we forget how broad of a domain we work in and how long it took us to get to our skill level.
I MAY not BE.... FRANK SINATRA.... BUT IM.... PART OF the pack.

EDIT: lol apparently not many others.
On a slightly related note, I have serious doubts that even if they hit their target that the company will actually sell enough to profit in the long term, because it is an electric car and they only sell electric cars. This is dissimilar to traditional car manufacturers which do manufacture electric cars but primarily make gas powered cars.

The main reason I argue this is that to a lot of consumers, an electric car is nice but functionally less useful than a gas car. That is, a lot of consumers think, "What if my battery runs out? How do I charge it in an emergency?" referring to if the battery runs out somewhere. In a traditional car, if you go somewhere far and run out of gas you can just call AAA and they can either tow your car or bring you a bit of gas to get you to your next gas station, and this isn't really possible with current electric cars. Even in town, if you forget to charge your car you can't just go to the gas station, you have to wait a bit of time for your car to be ready to go. Don't discount 5 vs 15 minutes -- I can fill a car and be done in less than 5 minutes whereas it takes a bit more time to charge an electric car, even a Tesla at a supercharging station.

The company that produces a car that isn't gas powered but can be re-powered in the same amount of time, or creates the technology within batteries, will be the one that causes a true revolution. I don't know if I'd go so far as to short TSLA but I am not completely convinced their cars will take off (also consider the fact that a $35,000 car is still really expensive for the average consumer).
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Ever run into trouble on sites that use font's for icons, like bootstrap ones?
Mine used to not work, now, the same passport works everywhere without flaw. I notice I have to take my glasses off otherwise I does not, but that is not too strange as my passport pic has glasses. Not that it matters, most airports have manual checks after automated check anyway.
So let's pretend 50TB is unquestionably a legit figure, pick the lower storage density of arbitrarily listed portable media options that a single person could think of off the top of his head, and assume exfiltration was exclusively performed with this media type (think think think, ponder ponder ponder). Nope. /s

Did you even pause for a second to consider that 50TB may be a grossly misrepresented figure, or digest the parent comment to size up the context of my remark?
I wonder where this fits on the continuum to end-user programming: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-user_development

One can see Rails and the later enthusiasm around Node driven by the idea that people could come to be programmers, not necessarily through a dedicated process of education in computer science.
What an insulting, patronizing response to a perfectly legitimate moral stance. If you disagree, fine. No need to be an asshole about it.
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Of course, if these were your dice rolls, you're pretty unlucky, and should try again. And/or buy a lottery ticket.
I wish I could just manage a login page all day, sheesh
Other advice from Scott Adams:

"The reality is that women are treated differently by society for exactly the same reason that children and the mentally handicapped are treated differently. It’s just easier this way for everyone. You don’t argue with a four-year old about why he shouldn’t eat candy for dinner. You don’t punch a mentally handicapped guy even if he punches you first. And you don’t argue when a women tells you she’s only making 80 cents to your dollar. It’s the path of least resistance. You save your energy for more important battles."

"If there are no sponsored terror attacks before Election Day, it means ISIS prefers Clinton. They have the means. Think about it. #Trump"
Guilt by association is one of those things that people don't like about the current administration. Let's not sink to the same level.

Also, let's leave the politics for the few political articles and let this discussion be about the technology and business of Tesla.
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The "Subscribe to Updates" button on that page doesn't work. Also, above the "Full Name" field, it says "invalid".
I think the opposite is true. For Tesla owners its more like "Every day I wake up with a full tank of gas."

The percentage of trips over ~215 miles is quite small. Doing the math you are saving many hours/year on average. Of course I'm not accounting for edge cases but that's the point they are edge cases.
How's the working environment at Tesla? Seems they are very productive (or it might be PR), does it have a 'big company' feel yet?
If we get down to <10ms does that mean that real-time video processing becomes feasible?
It would have to fall more than that to make up the interest they're paying on the shares they borrowed as well as brokerage fees.
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> A pure HTML minifier can’t change the class names because it doesn’t know that some external CSS or JS doesn’t depend on the class name.

After everything has been parsed, it would know (the browser knows).

Couldn't a proxy service produce super lightweight, compiled web pages? I seem to remember Opera used to offer something along those lines, but I may be wrong.

Would there be commercial value in building such a tool?
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> Once powered off, the data is only recoverable for a short time

It comes down to defence-in-depth.

That short time is usually between seconds and minutes.

A can of compressed air can extend it a bit, but a dip in liquid nitrogen can turn the dial up a long way. Other techniques may appear in the future.

You need to trust that one of your own people won't do any tampering to extend the RAM. Much easier to verify there isn't any on the way out the door.
Obviously you have rather romantic and idealistic view of how casinos work. When I go to Vegas I often see casinos full of clearly lower middle class crowd wasting away hours on putting in their hard earned cash in slot machines in a hope to win jackpot. Those are the times I am glad I have had some education in math of probabilities and more importantly how powerful tilt rules in their favor.

https://knpr.org/knpr/2015-01/legal-or-not-card-counting-not...

https://www.google.com/search?q=casino+refuses+to+pay
Only via particularly tortured accounting.
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Why consider just WebGL 1 (ES 2 feature set)? WebGL 2 is already shipping, even in wildly optimistic scenarios any successor is going to take many years to surpass it in browser support. In WebGL 2 you get better support for compute, integers, dynamic loops, halfway to tessellation (transform feedback), etc. And like with WebGL 1, more features will come incrementally as WebGL extensions.
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?? Tesla Model 3 full cost of ownership, esp including tax incentives in CA (where factory is) literally is the cheapest car on the market.
I'm sure Tesla is trying to figure this problem out without compromising the integrity of their batteries. I expect to see quick charging electric cars within the next 2 decades. Regardless, I'd still rather have a Tesla car over any ICE car because I can just charge my car at home, and I can still do road trips across the country because of superchargers. I wouldn't mind the wait at all.
Removing the date criteria is significant change to the codebase and will eventually require more testing. This might not work well with budget and deadlines.
So you're not going to do business with a company you already weren't going to do business with. I fail to see how that is going to make any kind of statement.
I work in China as a programmer and the local outsourcing shops tend to throw tons of very cheap labour at anything. Unless you're building critical or sensitive systems this model can work (even for physical products and civil engineering if "QA'd" enough through brute force). It's a complete pain in the ass for the in-house team who have to pick up the pieces and maintain the code, though.
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Buy a sports car, have a fling, get married, become a monk, walk Camino de Santiago, etc. are some of the usual vaguely sabbatical-like experiences people use to assuage their internal perspectives in times of existential "forks" in the road. Obviously, stay away from harder drugs, hookers, shopping, food and so on.
What is a "hammarspace"? Web search suggests it is a science-fictional concept akin to D&D's portable hole, but I can't imagine that's what you meant.
I love Chapo and this interview had me buzzing for days after I heard it, it's one of the best calls to action for left politics I've ever heard. If anyone new to the show likes this, I recommend you start with episode 2 after this, since the show relies on a lot of running jokes (episode 1 is basically just a throwaway where they talk about how they want to organize the show). Highly recommend it though, one of the best podcasts I've listened to in a while.
You could feed the profile data back into the C compiler in theory, so in practice, I think the C could always be faster.
$35k for model 3 is pretty cheap... I wouldn't expect them to drive a $150k car though.
Anytime an operating system is designed to show you ads it has to be bad!
People dislike Elon Musk and he's basically a slave driver by most reviews.
> Then Linux happened, then scripting languages like Perl, Python and PHP proved themselves capable of getting the job done, and the modern web came about. This would never, ever have happened without those tools.

So Linux was so good . . . that it enabled a world where normal people don't use it, but instead use JS apps that store information on other people's servers? Because that's what I hear when you say Linux is a success because it enabled the web.
Why does the page have 112px of top padding? Seems like a waste of space.

body {
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padding: 112px 0 50px;
}
Yeah but you need to understand it's not the actual coding they sell, it's the 'online business consulting' which brings in the moolah
If you have dynamic data the best optimizations could change, and you can't feed the profile back to the compliler while the program is running. (Well... maybe in theory)
Sometimes I wonder if the money is the only thing that keeps me coding. It seems too hard to do well otherwise.
I guess I'm jaded from my week spent there. It was a whole different world to me. One lady talked to me about how this is her second job today and that she can barely make it on time to today's safety training because of the bus schedules. The parking lot was an ocean of beat up cars. The perception I got was that nobody on the production floor would ever own these cars.
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No, I think they should hire more people to do operations.
They'd be shooting themselves in the foot doing that. They could never override their own code.
So there are three classes of work: white collar, blue collar and no collar.
The funny thing is, the only people who are sticking around with Windows 7 are the people who should know enough to care about the technobabble.

You are not getting the performance you could be out of your PC. Your computer isn't as secure as it could be. You don't have the latest features. Some of those UI changes you mention are actually nice, btw.

Your PC is not spying on you; it is not scandalous that a web search via Cortana sends what you type to Microsoft. Telemetry is also not scandalous; Microsoft has had telemetry in Windows & in Office for well over a decade (coming up on two).

Perhaps I should consider a career in tech journalism; With all the scandal around Windows 10's approach, I can only imagine how people will react to literally everything they ever do in their browser. You never use your web browser, do you?
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I understand. I was more getting at the fact that, for example, an HVAC technician would develop an understanding of basic engineering principals by virtue of their job. But nobody would come out and say that they should be retrained to be MEs.

Those same people would learn basically nothing about CS in their job, yet they should be developers.
How does the DFA engine match anything without looking at the whole input?
There's a lotta good citations in SEP entry:
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/connectionism/
Well the stack is small :)
No backend. No db.
Using Typescript to get some compiler help, instead of plain js.
No libraries for the graphical parts.
All drawn on an html canvas.
And finally wrapped up to native with Cordova.
Thank you for making this point clear! I'd like to also add that white collar often means management positions to most real blue collar workers in the factories Ive worked in.

Additional note: I remember a 'blue collar' robotics technician at an aluminum casting foundry that knew the actual machine code instructions for programming a legacy robot. Not assembly, binary op codes. He performed this type of work daily, while also turning a wrench, driving forklifts, sweeping the floor, etc. Id say there are 100s of hardcore, real blue collar programmers out there, but few white collars realize it.
> If you want an average successful life, it doesn’t take much planning. Just stay out of trouble, go to school, and apply for jobs you might like.

I wonder why so few manage it then? Perhaps it was easy for Scott Adams, but most people have different experiences. What if you can't afford college, for example?
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Assuming Tesla parts start with "A" or no letter suffix, that actually doesn't seem too bad, in my experience. The Ford Focus I owned several years ago had 34 revisions made to the door handle assembly by the time I had to replace mine.
Developers need to get out of their bubble and realize that even a basic website is sorcery for 99% of the population. I'm thankful that I started off in online marketing and then learned to code because I remember what it was like to know nothing and can see opportunities that people like yourself overlook.

This post reminds me of the infamous HN dropbox comment in terms of how out of touch it is.
> Usability around search can be improved as well.

Curious if this statement is about the most recent experience post improvements mentioned in tfa?
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Sure, if you just completely redefine my point. But if you take a PR "district", like a state, with multiple representatives, and imagine them a a collection of single-representative districts, they're about as far from contiguous as you get.

I'm not arguing PA-7 isn't a problem. But I don't think "looks" is a good standard. What's better is something like the standards being argued in the current Wisconsin case that I think might still be going to the Supreme Court.
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Add to this with their fast charge you can add ~70m/100km 10min. This makes topping up quite fast if your going over the range a bit any one day. Or 80% charge in 40min, which for most people would be easy to organise around lunch break or meeting if your already doing enough driving to drain the days range.

Looking further ahead, the self driving will likely allow the car to go fuel itself while you are out of it. And generally we should see more and more parking spots with chargers.
I'm guessing he meant hackerspace.
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Look, I am pro-snowden and I am very skeptical of the DNC hack being Russia. That said, the shadow brokers got the equation group tools from somewhere.

Do I think this is the "official story", No. Of course not. But in terms of actual national security threats; not just the ISIS/Russia/ect propaganda-- a contractor bringing home terabytes of data is worrying. This is actually a huge threat to NatSec. This isn't whistleblowing this isn't treason; it's incompetence. Whether this is where the shadowbrokers kit came from or this is a patsy, this is irresponsible.

The information this guy had is almost certainly leaked. Whether he had a "convenient" penchant for bringing his work home and became the fall guy, or whether his home was compromised, or whether he outright sold them, its obvious this was dumb.

I don't love the NSA/FBI ect. But they are gonna do what they do so they might as well do it securely.
For someone straight out of school, that's pretty much true. After a while, if your CV is strong enough, your universe gets more flexible.
I think it's fair to say that there is a large percentage of the population where a trip over 215 miles is a once-per-year or less event.

For myself personally, I probably take 5 or 6 trips per year where I'm covering over 400 miles in a day. The time it takes to recharge the car would be a big negative to me. It's nice to be able to jump in the car in SF early morning and be in Seattle by evening. Not sure I'd even make it half way in an electric car.

I'm sure someone will comment "well this car isn't for you" and they are correct.
Are you a Microsoft employee? I mean "just out of curiosity".
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This is arguably the stupidest thing I have ever read. I spent a good portion of my life learning to be a software developer--CS in college, then grad school to specialize in UX type work for awhile. Even the "local Credit Union" is not a blue collar role. Being a developer requires aptitude and constant study.

I take offense because my Dad was a welder, a real blue collar worker, and it sucked balls! He never wanted that kind of life for me and for good reason, it was a dead end--working with drunks and biker trash and it was dirty and dangerous inside power plants, paper mills and tall smoke stacks.

Don't write about things you don't have the first clue about!
I haven't tried it, but it's not native and that is quite important to me. Maybe if their JavaScript was absolutely on point it would be bearable but I have a bad feeling. Imagine writing C++ or Python for 8 hours a day with nothing but an online IDE.
I used a script that relied on Imagemagick.
It was never "women's work"--wiring up those analog machines is really in no way programming.
>"Urbit for mere mortals guide"

How about this? https://www.popehat.com/2013/12/06/nock-hoon-etc-for-non-vul...
Ask HN: Machine Learning for those without CS/Math degrees?
Are there any good resources for developers/programmers (like me with my Philosophy degree) who don't have a strong foundation in things like Calculus or Linear Algebra to learn about and/or apply Machine Learning? Is it even possible to get into the field without a CS or Math background?

I'm really interested in the field but always get intimidated by what appears to be a huge amount of high-level mathematics required to even get started.
Thanks - definitely not yet, though I still have hope and feedback from customers is very good.
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Becoming moderately good at two things is how I ended up where I am. Before I went to college I did freelance graphic design. In college I ended up studying computer science, simply because that's what my brother majored in. The two combined meant I was getting job offers in my sophomore year. I can't stress just how much it helps when I'm applying for jobs - not only do I have a wider selection (design and programming jobs), but it also opens up niche jobs which are typically in high demand and low supply (prototyper, my current role). Scott's advice here is spot on and is the first thing I recommend to people when they're looking to prepare to enter the workforce.