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Actually Elon isn't an engineer, he has Bachelor of Science degrees in Physics and Economics (Wharton) as well as 2 days worth of a PhD in Applied Physics and Materials Science (Stanford).

What I didn't know was that Jeff Bezos actually does have an engineering degree, a Bachelor of Science in Engineering (Princeton).
As I said / strongly implied... the time for this has largely passed. Now is the time when people wring their hands as they slowly realize that there's a problem, now that said problem has rolled right over them.
>We want less regulations all around so as to have a smaller government. The exception is when regulations prevent infringement on protected liberties.

So basically, bigger government. A smaller government would recuse itself and let the surrounding society punish infringement on protected liberties, which it already does quite well (example: do you, a San Francisco landlord, trust a racist renter over a non-racist one? And you know, because you looked them up on Facebook.)

Aren't you the least bit concerned with the other sectors of your society, that don't necessarily come to the same conclusions as you, taking notice and doing the same thing to yours? What happens when the definition of "every person" isn't universal ("group of cells" defined in an arbitrary way for the Left, from conception for the Right), or when different groups are split between which one is more important (parent for the Left, unborn child conceived the "right" way for the Right)?

Let's take another 1A example- freedom of speech. Both the Left and the Right have legitimate claims that exercise of certain kinds of speech damages the fabric of society. Their names and emphasis on certain parts are different, but the incidentals are otherwise identical (societies, like religions, are destabilized by blasphemy). But if we cave in and allow one subgroup's restriction, the other logically follows and every subgroup suffers- hard power is even more inflexible than an opposing subgroup's view of you/r group.

So subsocities agree to disarmament; one group gives up the authority to ban stuff culturally justifiable in areas held by a different group, and vice versa. This is the other purpose of the Bill of Rights- all groups, including yours, need protection from the society around them. The fact that there's an amendment ensuring that groups can defend themselves with force if things really go wrong should speak volumes about how important and valuable that treaty is.
What I really want to see is the other 20 men on her team tell their bosses to cut that shit out.

Agreed 100%, but maaaan I have seen it where you would defend someone just so they can turn against you because of the same fear that originally prevented them from speaking out loud. Then they make peace with the abuser and now you are the one left holding the burning candle. It is a very tricky situation.
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Right. Wrong name. The image applied to the style transfer is Starry Night
More practical, science-wise? Yes. Cooler? Definitely not.

Sending humans to space has a very important non-scientific factor - human emotions and imagination. It's an important driving force that's also necessary until we bootstrap a proper profitable market that'll do the driving.
I think it's legit. I wanted to solicit an insider's view, though I agree it may not be practical as I probably wouldn't post on HN even if I agreed.
I had a similar experience. The impetus for me was always building bikes rather than actually riding them though, so the compromise was getting a project car instead! I haven't calculated the micromorts of circuit racing mind you..
Mars as a goal is laudable, but 2025 strikes me as more likely to be murderous. There's no doubt that human lives can grease the wheels of progress, and often have in the past. I feel like people have already accepted that as the way space will be too, when it still doesn't have to be... yet.
I would still recommend watching the video though. There is something special about adding the avatars and the text-to-speech to the conversation.

Here is the link again, just in case: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnzlbyTZsQY
The risk is that more money does not always mean more progress. Government organizations tend to grow all by themselves (would be interesting if you could legislate some productivity targets into budget expansion maybe?)
It seems they must be getting the data through agreement with the companies they're collecting the data on. I wonder where the line is drawn between what they're doing and commercialised insider trading.
an interesting debate. if i build my company on abuse and shady tactics, but i now employ 10,000 employees, is it okay to let me get away with it because so many depend on me? This is the too-big-to-fail issue.
20 idiots!!
Researcher calculates that world poverty could be reduced by more than 20% with just $66 billion, decides it's not worth it.
I question whether elections will be a concern for those in power soon.
Jet fighters routinely use so much fuel taking off that the first thing they do after gaining altitude is refuel. Rockets can use the same idea.
Abuse has absolutely NOTHING to do with whether or not the victim feels they can safely report it. NOTHING.

End of story.
Always calculate the cost of engaging the manufacturer. Call them and ask them how much they charge for an engineer to help you. If you see yourself approaching what looks like it would have been cheaper to explain to someone and have them give you the result, take the plunge. Sometimes it is a manufacturing or design defect. Pay to learn, and ask the manufacturer for a refund if you really do find a defect. Don't ever tell the client you're unable to complete. Take a small loss, learn a small lesson, and deliver like a champ. They will think you did all the work, and with your new knowledge you will be able to deliver the same work for many clients in the future.
Hmm TIL. I think newer ones had an errata (or many) and Intel decided it wasn't worth fixing. Disappointing, but meh.. it is probably true that not many people use Tmem on laptops.
I have a strong allegiance to the American justice principles of innocent until proven guilty beyond reasonable doubt, right to face one's accuser in open court, cross examination, and standards of evidence. So much so that I apply it to judging controversial current events like this. Much as I might dislike putting a powerful entity like Uber into the defendant's chair with those attendant protections, These principles and others have served me extremely well in suspending belief and not being led astray by sensationa news and consequently looking hotheaded and foolish when time bears out the details of the story.

You may feel otherwise, and I cannot and will not attempt to persuade you otherwise. But as I said before, I believe Ms. Fowler at this point, and take issue with Amy's claim on falsifiability grounds. "We" are under no obligation to take any particular person seriously. There are strong labor laws against the transgressions claimed, and if there are problems with enforcement or efficiency, I am all for examining our procedures, but I won't sacrifice the bedrock of fair and individualized consideration of the particular case within the storm of the prevailing dysfunction.
Well they don't sell OS, they sell service contracts.
So true. And the notion that you must own a home is stupid anyway and oversold.

I currently pay $4500/mo to rent a home in California. Because of it's location, the home would cost $2M+ for me to buy. So the debt service / maintenance / taxes is way more than the rental income. You're either renting the house or renting the money (mortgage). The idea that you're throwing money away on rent never considers the gap between rental income and expenses, vaporized down payments and going underwater from falling prices, tax hikes, etc.

I'll probably move into a smaller house soon because I don't need as much space and I've been buying investment homes instead of worrying about my primary residence. My first investment property pays the mortgage and makes money. It's increased in value too but I don't bank on that.

Why buy a home you cannot rent out for more than the debt service? Also - why buy a starter home in California for $1M+. That's fundamentally messed up to spend that much on a home that you know for a fact is not your forever home. The only way to know if it's a good deal is if you can rent it out for more than it costs, or about the same and you're going to be there for ~7 yrs+.
Yeah, in both cases, the SRBs are the majority of the launch thrust.
For the Python-interested, both "Talk Python To Me" and "Python Bytes" are very good.
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Each one of these videos from Boston Dynamics is a little bit cooler and a little bit (or a lot) more scary than the last.
> Just an aside, I think it's insane that women are pressured (or feel pressured) to wear heels. Is this common in California?

FTFY.
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> Looking forward to seeing this page do well.

:) In that spirit, the ram issue for FM2 got just fixed. Not a hole in the database, just a parser bug making it impossible to select DDR3 ram. Thanks again for reporting that.
You haven't even considered how the technology may evolve where it may become more efficient. The solar technology of today could be obsolete and it may be cost effective to upgrade in 10-15 years due to efficiency/cost gains.

As far as solar related jobs you have the manufacturing and delivery of solar panels, all the related industries for raw materials, etc for solar panels and then the installation. That's quite a few jobs.

Also you need to consider jobs outside the US, even the North American continent. Solar may be more expensive than other sources in the US but that's because we have an electrical grid. Solar is the most cost efficient option when considering the developing world, i.e. Africa, parts of Asia, etc. Those solar panels are more likely to come from outside the US, i.e. China, as the dollar exchange value as well as delivery might make it cost prohibitive for developing nations to purchase solar panels from the US.
That title is a bit sensational... there's nothing alarming about this. From the article:

The trigger that led to the crater started in the 1960s. Rapid deforestation meant that the ground was no longer shaded by trees in the warmer summer months. This incoming sunlight then slowly warmed the ground. This was made worse by the loss of cold "sweat" from trees as they transpire, which would have kept the ground cool.

"This combination of less shading and less vapid transpiration led to warming of the ground surface," says Julian Murton of the University of Sussex in the UK.

This isn't related to climate change, and in fact may give us some data that helps to refine climate models. It's unfortunate, but at least (given the trend these days) it's not systemic.
Personally I'd rather Uber fire the HR department who are handling the harassment complaint first.
They're the one who are not doing their job.
Thats a little hyperbolic.
These aren't rust belt coal miners.
With a name brand like Uber on your resume you could quickly get plenty of competitive job offers in SF/SV without even trying.
Its hard for me to see an excuse for this, other than widespread cultural acceptance/willful ignorance of these practices.
This is great, but let's have some perspective, please. SpaceX is the beneficiary of decades of research in engineering and basic science by the US government. They aren't making this achievement as a result of their own original effort or even funding (NASA provided a significant portion of the funding).

I don't think it is fair to compare the SpaceX plan with China's (who have almost certainly had to acquire the expertise from a starting position far, far behind where SpaceX started).
If you make a game that's designed around 360 tracking and utilizing your hands, you can port it to the Rift but only a small fraction of the users would have the necessary hardware and setup for it to work, and you fundamentally could not port it to the PSVR. Right now there are so few VR games that everybody is mostly making tech demos, and it's a bit of a crapshoot how well they work on each piece of hardware as a lot of stuff gets figured out. As more developers commit to the Vive (which polls show is the case) it seems likely that the full experience games won't be ported at all. I foresee a lot of forks within VR gaming, which is bad considering it's seeing much slower growth than many had hoped.

What I suspect will happen is the Vive will dominate for PC gaming (which I suspect will be a niche market), Oculus will dominate mobile (I think this will take 5-10 years and they will be heavily competing with Apple who is leapfrogging VR entirely for AR which I think will be a far bigger market and the true next computing platform), and the PSVR will slowly fade into oblivion the same way that nobody uses a Kinect anymore.
Autonomous does not require any human interaction, not even to trigger a script. In contrast, "automated" systems might still require a human to start the process or have a very simplistic trigger, such as based on the time of day.
The times I count higher than 1,000 in Japanese is almost always currency. I think in USD and yen, so if I say 一万円 I think either "ichimanen" or $100. When I have to translate a big number like 54万円 I just tell them $5400. It's surely not as good as properly learning but it just takes so much longer when translating live.
So when has being socially connected/disconnected in a company hasn't benefited / or hurt an employee ?
Of course they will.

Say to me, "There's too much danger."
Say we could be lost,
And I reply, "I'm no stranger
To danger. That's the cost."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oet1j9EA2fs&index=10&list=PL...

(Incidentally, this lovely song is a good answer to a lot of comments on this story.)
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Nice to see more wood cases for electronics. It should wear well with age, not just get scuffed and grubby like plastic.
> used against us

Is that us the US by any chance? Because if these things ever become war machines I doubt the US will be second to anybody in using them.
Don't get me wrong, I want solar power to replace coal as much as possible.

But if this is accurate, I'm not sure it's a good sign for solar, since solar power provides 1.3% of US power, vs 35% for coal.

I'm sure that there are higher labor costs installing solar vs running established coal plants... but that's 70x the labor of coal.

A labor cost that high would mean that solar costs will never become competitive with coal in the open market. So I'm hoping these numbers are exaggerated or just wrong.
Now if it just yelled "I'm free!" during that last jump :-)

More seriously, this is a very agile robot I am very sure I would never want to be in the same room with it when it was being tested. That said, the 100 lb basket it a bit disappointing. I was thinking "Ok this could be an offload/onload robot for freight" but maybe not. It is remarkably quiet which is something the original Bigdog discovered really put the damper on its threat ability.

But if Amazon used it in warehouses? Probably more than they need for that activity.
This quote makes me picture the Black Mirror episode: Nosedive. I hope this is not the future of employee feedback.
I'm afraid you have a poor idea of what makes high-powered law firms salivate. When they see someone sitting on a pile of billions of dollars, they don't think "how can I piss that person and all his friends off?" They think "how can become that person's best buddy?"
Great app! Just a nitpick. Seems like China, Hong Kong and Taiwan all have "Chinese" selected. Where the dropdown menu in the freeplay page does have "Chinese Hong Kong" (or is it Cantonese?) provided.
You could live in an SF penthouse and drive a Ferrari to work in Oakland everday if you make $1m/yr.
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It is very likely Steve Jurveston.

1. In a comment about the announcement alluded to it as a "recurring dream"[1]

2. 5 years ago, described a moon orbit as "when I plan to fly in space. I have two specific missions in mind"[2]

3. SpaceX Board Member and investor

4. Has the money

5. Knows Elon "Mr Musk declined to reveal their identities, only saying that they knew each other"[3]

6. Is "nobody from Hollywood"

7. Liked this comment on his FB wall "Can I tag along?!? Ahhhhh!!!"[4]

[1]https://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/23226164619

[2]https://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/7659357718

[3]http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-39111030

[4]https://www.facebook.com/jurvetson/posts/10158310863860611?c...
Aren't they a private company? Do people keep investing after the company takes off?
I disagree. Mozilla doesn't have a table at standards bodies or any sort of lever to make positive change on the internet without a healthy marketshare for its products.
The Apollo program also started with around-the-moon missions before the landing missions.
This is actually what the opt-in looks like for Smart Sync (except at an admin level since team admins opt their users into it). There's also an individual opt-out if your team admin has opted you in and you don't want things enabled.
I think the difference is binary floating point tends to be on massive automatically generated sets of data. And binary floats are mostly perfect for that.

However the bias towards scientific computing is a problem. because there are large numbers of use cases where the inputs and outputs are decimal floats because you're dealing with humans and their preference for base 10.
Just look at the composition of the rocket fuel, and add oxygen to that. It the fuel has lots of carbon atoms in it, CO2 will be the result in the same proportion.
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Apologies, been a while since I played Civ ;)
The built-in Pocket feature is an addon that is pre-installed into Firefox:

https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/browser/exten...
OK, color me not surprised to see that you're defending Uber elsewhere on sibling posts.

The point is that yes, there is PR involved. However, not having a toxic workplace is another. It is an idiotic suggestion that the perception of how good it is to work at one company or another is purely a matter of PR. Engineers talk to each other and do very frank "what it was like to work for BigCo X" all over the place. I think you probably understand this but it doesn't really fit well with your agenda here.

Honestly, work at a lot of companies is a drag, for a lot of people. Big deal. However, stories like the ones coming out of Uber are far outside the norm, even if you think that the endless publicity about shiny happy people working at same of the other companies is a product of PR.
Alarming point was, permafrost has as much of carbon as our atmosphere.

Once they thaw, the temperature skyrockets.

I think at this point, we might need to detonate some hydrogen bombs, just to even out the temperature.
They had failures, but they're going forward. They launched again recently, and nailed the landing, again.

That said, I suppose we need to apply Elon Time coefficient here, and the Moon mission will end up being in 2019 / 2020. Still, I'm very excited, because for the first time in my life, the possibility of humans going to the Moon again within my lifetime feels actually real.
Yes but as the ULA whitepaper pointed out there are some challenges to doing so in orbit. For one, the lack of gravity makes it hard to pump fuel. You can spin the tanker to achieve fuel settling but now you are both spinning bodies. Then there is handling cryogenic propellants in space, you get nominal bleed off from warming and again ULA had a really interesting design of an internal combustion engine using the bleed off of Hydrogen and Oxygen as a chiller pump. But suffice it to say, its not as easy as it is flying a jet behind a slow re-purposed jetliner, and doing that is already difficult.
> I'm not convinced that Electron today is any more popular than XUL was back then

comex already named two highly popular ones (slack in particular can't be overlooked) but there are more.
https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome-electron

https://electron.atom.io/apps/

Outside of Slack, WhatsApp and Discord (see a pattern? pretty much all new chat apps are using it), I'm not sure if there's any other truly popular (among users) electron app, but among developers, electron definitely is popular and far more often used than XUL was. It's arguably more popular now for new apps than even toolkits like Qt and WxWidgets. People are writing, not one, but multiple competing implementations of things like.. unix terminal emulators in electron. These are not just webapps contained in chrome, they definitely need native access to local APIs. There's a frenzy among devs.

> so it's a stretch to say that Mozilla failed to execute on pushing XUL. What would the web gain by pushing it?

They didn't fail to "push it to the web". They failed to push it to app devs. They were rather enthusiastic at some point:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Tech/XUL/Th...

> Whether you need to migrate an existing web application to the desktop, are looking for a technology that will enable you to easily port your applications to multiple platforms, or want to integrate your own cool features into the browser, XUL warrants serious consideration.

And now they are arguably failing to push it to themselves as they're entirely abandoning it for Firefox and will rewrite the UI and extensions APIs to get rid of XUL.
By the time those 30 years are up we'll have flying robots to maintain the solar panels. Or more likely we'll have killed ourselves.
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And British Typhoons and Hawks.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/uk-has-sold-56...
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It is most certainly not. By your definition any appointee is a 'political position'. That term has a real meaning in the circles which matter (i.e., politics), and AG is not considered a political position. That's not to say an AG is completely separate from political realities, but the office is (supposed to be) non-partisan.
What does that make me?
I do not know if God exists.

I find it unlikely that a Christian god exists.
But I do not think this is impossible, just very, very, unlikely.

But I wonder if god exists, whether Christian or not.

I also do not know if this is important, but I would like to know.

What does that make me?

atheist? agnostic? Atheist agnostic? A curious?
Not necessarily. I appreciate the values for which Mozilla stands, and those values are entrenched in their products.
> I'm actually surprised that they can fit their daily order number into a standard integer.

What's a 'standard integer'?

The ID in the URL is just a string of digits, and you don't have to be that careful (in simple scripts like this at least) for Python not to care how high you go.
I spent five years in software for Amazon's fulfillment centers. Let me assure you, there is a market for this sort of robotics.

I can think of a few jobs currently handled by humans in the FCs where this robot in particular could do the entire job. Lots of kinks to work out I'm sure but that's what the software team is there for.

Google would probably never sell to their biggest competitor at a reasonable price though. Plus, Amazon already has a robotics company in Boston (Kiva).
That's what I was thinking. It's not really a good thing if it takes a huge amount more people to generate the same amount of power.
Uber being too big to fail is delusion. Let the market work itself out.