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Congrats to the team at AirBnB on the exciting launch! As somebody who has thought a lot about navigation on React Native, I'm super excited to see an easier way to utilize the native navigation views on each platform.

React Navigation, released a few weeks ago, includes a customizable JS re-implementation of the native views, and it also provides routers that make it very easy to plug your navigation logic into redux. Because each screen makes no assumption about the surrounding app, it will be very easy to switch from React Navigation to AirBnB's native-navigation.

The RN community has been consolidating efforts between several navigation solutions. React Navigation is an alternative to Navigator, Ex-Navigator, NavigationExperimental, and Ex-Navigation. And now, thanks to native-navigation, the community has a great alternative to NavigatorIOS.
For most currencies, governments act as huge buyers and stabilize the value over the entire year by calculating taxes in that currency. It's not just faith in the currency itself. Bitcoin doesn't have any institutional buyers like that.

> Take Venezuela, their currency is/has collapsed because the people no longer have faith that it is valuable.

Almost all the devaluing there is because they keep making so much, not because of a lack of faith.
I am so excited to tinker with this. Looks awesome.
If the js ecosystem taught us something is that react and his derivates are going to fall and being replaced by another iteration of new tools very shortly, and then repeat.

Honestly I think in 1-2 years at max reactnative will have the same popularity of Ionic and Phonegap at max, and probably far less if react will fall against the newcomers of the web-frontend space (vue.js, inferno.js, riot.js, etc) as fast as it seems doing right now, remembering closely the time of angular1 eof vs react beginnings.
> For one, all currency is based on faith.

But that rings like nonsense to me. (No offense intended.)

A .gov is, at a basic level, the warrantor of property rights. It can confiscate at will. And it did so in the US itself, for all practical intents and of all places, when households were asked to hand over their gold holdings (during the Great Depression if memory serves?).

At any rate this ability of .gov to tax and confiscate wealth on demand to protect a currency (or for that matter, its ability to limit capital inflows and outflows like Iceland did in the aftermath of the 2007 crisis) is a much stronger guarantee than any crypto currency can offer.

Or maybe I'm entirely out something for assuming as much?
>most big companies that invest in Ethereum just do it because they don't want to miss "the next big thing", not because Ethereum solves any of their problems.

I disagree. First let me say there are two types of companies, those that make use of IT and those that are themselves about IT (ie Microsoft, IBM). Now those that only make use of IT often ignore what their own tech people tell them, and so they are susceptible to tech fads.

But the IT companies pay very close attention to their IT people. And the IT companies have lots of IT people as smart or smarter than you who are quite qualified to look at Ethereum and figure out if there is anything valuable there. The fact that lots of IT companies are getting behind Ethereum says to me it is really going to be valuable, at least for their sorts of businesses.

Let me add that nowadays, banks and other finance institutions are basically IT companies that happen to also have a lot of people that deal with customers directly. So if they think they can use the blockchain to eliminate intermediaries and in the process save billions of dollars, I tend to believe they are correct.

You may be right, however, that a lot of the people at Ethereum meetups don't really understand it.
I recently went from programming to janitorial and I've been really happy with it.
Most people have considered this, yet most "solutions" the industry come up with kick in far too late in development.
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How does that book compares to Peter Shirley's Fundamentals of computer graphics [1]

I'm interested in CG but don't really know where to start.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Fundamentals-Computer-Graphics-Fourth...
and a community driven list of good advertisers that are transparent in how they deal with our information and take the quality of the adverts seriously.
Are you Paul Ryan?
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"Melt down" has traditionally meant that the fuel has overheated and breached the primary containment vessel. I don't see how that definition would not apply here. Just because the primary coolant loop uses molten salt instead of water shouldn't much matter.
Like what? Vue.js? One BDFL who might take a new job or be hired away by BigCo? Some other starving artist project that will die when the main contributor loses interest perhaps?

GPL, done well, fosters community and contributions. In five years, everything will be "legacy code" and it won't be nice maintaining something with no community behind it. Permissive licenses only work when backed by giants like Facebook/Google/Apple. Even then, they can go Angular 1 on you.

Dead stack with no community is a forced rewrite. You can't just sit on it, because every new feature has to be done from scratch by yourself. That's not a lot of fun in my experience.
FYI, pull quotes usually duplicate segments of writing from the article body---they're the article quoting itself, pulling out the highlights. You're supposed to be able to skip over them when reading the full article.

~~~~ "they're the article quoting itself, pulling out the highlights" ~~~~

Like this comment: the pull quote was already present in the text.
Yext Files for IPO
I thought Swift had multiple levels of SIL inside the compiler.
Webpack 2 doesn't really do Tree Shaking
""DO NOT have "dirty words" (see dirty word list - TBD) in the binary.
Rationale: Dirty words, such as hacker terms, may cause unwarranted scrutiny of the binary file in question.""

I'm not even kidding. I've found so much bad code over the years through searching for profanity. It's actually a bit embarrassing to be honest.
This is why I wish more package managers had a (more) formalized versions of what Gentoo calls "slots". One of the major uses of slots in Gentoo is to represent major versions of libraries, s.t. LLVM 3.5 would be in the "3.5" slot, and LLVM 4 would be in the "4" slot. Dependencies are declared against slots, and the standard *nix naming convention for shared objects trivially lets multiple slots be installed at the same time.

(Other package managers tend to emulate slots by simply having multiple packages with the slot number embedded in the package name itself. Debian/Ubuntu, for example, does this, and it isn't clear to me why their scheme would preclude having multiple LLVMs installed. That said, Gentoo always seems to have difficultly with clang/llvm, so my gut wonders if there is something more at play here.)
Fair enough, I been doing the startup thing for so long, I forget about big company problems. My typical workday is probably a lot more wild west than the average coder's. I imagine there are a lot of people out there whose creativity is somewhat stifled in their work. Many times it takes everything I have to keep the lights on around here.
It's actually feasible with fast reactors. Conventional reactors fission U235 and a little plutonium which gets bred from U238, but most of the U238 and plutonium just ends up as waste. Fast reactors fission the plutonium just fine, and ultimately can use up virtually all the U238. So they produce very little waste, most of that is short-lived, and they get up to 100x more power out of the same amount of uranium ore.

But Transatomic isn't a fast reactor.
MUMPS (the programming language not the disease) found a niche in the medical world where it was developed. The name is an acronym for Massachusetts General Hospital Utility Multi-Programming System where it was developed. There is an ANSI standard for the language: see http://71.174.62.16/Demo/AnnoStd, for example.

I worked with the MUMPS Standard Committee trying make the language better while simultaneously trying to minimize the problems moving the large base of existing code to the new Standard MUMPS. MUMPS was filled with hidden gotchas. For example, in some early versions, trailing blanks in statements were significant.

The Wikipedia MUMPS article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS) provides some insight into the language and its genesis. The inclusion of a key-value store embedded into the language was a significant innovation and helped the language to be successful.
I can't speak for Godel's original proof since I haven't seen it before, but I certainly found Computability and Logic [1] to be pretty approachable. It's the textbook used for UC Berkeley's "Intermediate Logic" philosophy course (in other words, it's so easy even philosophy majors can understand it! :P).

From my understanding, C&L diverges from Godel's original proof technique in order to make it easier to follow, but it's much more rigorous and explicit than what you'd find in Godel, Escher, Bach or something. It's still a textbook.

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Computability-Logic-George-S-Boolos/d...
I didn't say he was guilty. That's not my place to decide. I said it looks like they have a smoking gun unless they can explain away a lot of suspicious behavior. Maybe they can.

I actually haven't drawn any conclusion, particularly on the person involved. This is basically standing on the sidelines and saying damn, they have a good case. It'll be impressive to see the defense.

You've drawn the conclusion and assumed I have. I'm merely remarking that the case is extraordinarily strong and the evidence, as circumstantial as it is, is compelling, unless you feel that the evidence is fabricated. And a lawyer can't rip all of what I read to shreds, though I understand what you're saying.
> The biggest breakdown in the democratic process has been a lack of appreciation on the part of the public for all that we consent to by not actively dissenting and demanding answers and accountability.

I agree. I don't intend to defend anything problematic. I just worry that it will be hard to demand actual changes if people are concerned about vague issues driven by a misunderstanding of how things work, versus actually being able to call up their representatives with specific changes and demands in mind.

> Frankly, the response by officials to the Snowden revelations was deeply embarrassing to our nation.

I think this was due to the amount of material he leaked. If it was only the metadata-related material or other material related to problematic practices, I would think there would be far more leniency. But because he had taken and leaked everything he could get his hands on, much of it unrelated to anything domestic, the disclosures were viewed very differently. I personally think it makes no sense to charge him with relation to the leaks regarding domestic metadata collection since it was already admitted that this was overreach, but it is hard to figure out why he would blindly copy and leak other sensitive unrelated material (Easy example: I do not understand how he justifies scraping the content of certain internal wiki pages and giving it to The Intercept, there are no injustices described there, just legitimate sensitive intelligence information).
This is great advice for interviewing anyone. What it's like to work with/for/around the person will dwarf all other concerns in the long run.

(And since the other interviewers will almost certainly overspend their interview minutes on technical quiz questions, you can help even things out by skipping them.)
There's Mark Ames's claimed tobacco links.

https://pando.com/2015/07/07/shillers-killers/b3741e29bc9adb...

Gladwell denies this.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/07/08/malcolm-gladwell-sm...
This whole discussion is misplaced. Economically, the cost of fuel for a nuclear plant is almost negligible, about half a cent per kWh! Up-front capital costs are the vast majority of the total. That's where research and venture capital should be focused, not on squeezing down the half-cent.
Are you a native speaker of English? If so, how would a Molten Salt Reactor make any claims?
Sigh. Claims made by a few people about a particular molten salt reactor design do not stand up to scrutiny. Molten salt reactors, on the other hand, are proven technology.
Ex-Apple snr. engineer with 13 years experience gets rejected in 12 hours
Actually I like the ability to == all known ducks. There are a lot of cases that we run into like a DB that we have no control over where they use null, '' or 0 as some form of indicator of no value, it's nice to be able to ignore all of those cases when one does not have control over the quality of data coming in the pipe.

I tend to favor the mantra of be a liberal when consuming data and a conservative when exporting data and I find the == vs === does that very well. Sure it's a gotcha but no big surprise to most people that have been doing JS for any amount of time. I personally think it is a brilliant feature that save a lot of boilerplate when one understands the difference.
That's such a brilliant idea. What if there was a website where people could divide up which OSS projects their $1k or 1% goes to? It could be anonymous, pseudonymous, or public, depending on how bold the philanthropist was.
The GO Train is probably my favorite commuter rail service. People line up properly at the doors, it's never too crowded, it's clean, there aren't delays very often, and it's generally civilized.
Air Force: We have more drone pilot jobs than for any other aircraft
Has there ever been an indication into what stuff was actually stolen? The only evidence I've seen so far has been of old hardware (LIDAR interface boards etc.). That's hardly anything to construct a grand buyout conspiracy about.

However, if the stolen material had the results of years of training data generated from all the trial runs, that would be Google's only edge in the whole market.
Containers done right

I wish the documentation was better for integrating with docker seamlessly
Gresham's law, market for lemons.
I've consulted for a prominent SV VC looking at small scale hydro-kinetic energy before.

Two major hurdles:

1. Section 404 of the EPA's Clean Water Act (aimed at normal dams and protecting fisheries) still applies to smaller scale hydro-kinetic turbines.

2. We determined the potential market wasn't sufficient after looking at detailed satellite imagery of the US and Canada river networks. It was surprisingly small compared to the potential of solar and wind.

To really solve our energy problem we need to start getting serious about nuclear funding. Including scholarships for master's and PhDs.

It is a great solution if you need off-grid power though.
I would focus on the soft skills & cultural fit area and leave technical and managerial skills to other interviewers.

The reason for this is that as a junior developer, you won't probably be able to technically challenge a candidate with many more years or experience.

Also make sure you ask for advise to other interviewers in your company, people is always happy to share the way the interview candidates and everyone has a different approach that we can learn from.
I do not understand. The question was:

> Can you elaborate on what you specifically take issue with?
I don't understand what you mean. Explain?
I spoke at PolyConf two year ago, and really enjoyed it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQL48qYDwp4

There was only one problem--beer instead of milkshakes at the reception. ;)
Alarmist misleading title. Downvote.

There are other companies (FLIBE, Lightbridge) researching LFTR MSR that have promise. Just because some grad students made ridiculous claims, it shouldn't throw shade on the whole industry.
It's not even that sophisticated. I mean, it's trivial to do with gnuradio, so I expect prepackaged solutions to pop up soon. This happened in the past with simple remote car keys.
> From Jack Reeves he cites the epiphany "that in fact the source code is a design document and that the construction phase is actually the use of the compiler and linker."

Ha. That is laughable. If it were so, then we would be able to automatically graft features from one product to another. I contend this is exactly how SoC are designed and there's no reason why we shouldn't copy the methods of the digital design community (proven to scale or you wouldn't be reading this).
"That Otto hadn’t received funding from any VC’s is unusual. With 91 employees, getting paid $150k/year (this might even be too low given they are working on self-driving cars, one of the hottest spaces in tech right now), they would have had a $13.6 million/year burn rate just on salaries. Otto always aimed to get to market quickly, but getting to profitability without funding seems like it would have been very hard, especially on the accelerated timescale they were working towards and the need to likely hire many more people to get to production. All of Otto’s public self-driving car and truck competitors have taken venture funding. However, as someone working on a bootstrapped SaaS application, I’m sympathetic to wanting to self-fund."

Anthony Levandowski has a personal net worth in the hundreds of millions, that is not counting the other founders plus they could raise money at a whim, or get acquired whenever they wanted

"The next day, January 15, 2016, Mr. Levandowski’s venture 280 Systems - which

became OttoMotto LLC - was officially formed (though it remained in stealth mode for several

months). On January 27, 2016, Mr. Levandowski resigned from Waymo without notice. And on

February 1, 2016, Mr. Levandowski’s venture Otto Trucking was officially formed (also

remaining in stealth mode for several months)."

not sure if that timeline is accurate, any way to check when the ot.to website was registered? the site used for looking up http://whois.domaintools.com/280systems.com doesn't work for ot.to
I started a project in React Native a few months ago, then I left it for a couple weeks, then when I came back to it, I did the usual chore of updating libraries, and found that I could no longer compile/run the project. Purged and re created my npm_modules folder to no avail. Things kept getting worse and I simply have no clue what is going on. Started a fresh RN project and even that would not run.

I got the feeling that it's layers upon layers of leaky abstractions and the whole thing seems rather fragile.
You're conflating language and culture. I'm against using "culture" as a reason for (dis)allowing immigrants in. A language proficiency requirement is reasonable.
Last paragraph:

inally, who cares about reprocessing fuel? At this time naturally abundant U235 prices are so low and projected to continue to be low for this century that all this effort to recycle fuel and burn longer seems completely unwarranted on market principles, despite how cool and hip it sounds to "close the fuel cycle" or produce "100 times" less waste. Last I checked, fuel and disposal was a tiny fraction of the real costs of nuclear electricity, and certainly far smaller of an engineering problem than the public likes to believe.

I wasn't aware that anyone had solved the problem of spent fuel. last I knew there were thousands of tons of the stuff sitting around in swimming pools next to reactors all over the country/world. I don't recall the status of the project to bury the stuff under mountain in Nevada either, but I don't think that plan is approved.

WTF is wrong with breeder reactors that consume the otherwise spent fuel? Yeah, yeah, proliferation risk. If the stuff is that hard to contain then why all the waste sitting around?
"there's no reason the QA process for e.g. releasing a game on iOS can't involve certifying zero stutter on a given iPhone"

To guarantee that, testing has to go through _all_ possible game states. For almost any non-trivial game, that's infeasible.

"and then restricting the game to only be playable on that iPhone or newer"

There is no guarantee that newer hardware would be faster for every possible program execution, and even if it were, timing differences could affect game play.

There also is no guarantee that newer hardware produces the exact same results. For example, better anti-aliasing or fonts drawn at double resolution could affect hit detection.

This even isn't guaranteed on the 'same' hardware. For example, there might be C64's that don't have the bugs that this demo exploits.
So at that point, why not just have all those used-daily projects be sold commercially instead of (or in addition to) being OSS in the first place?
You're never forced to comply with the status quo, you can fork. This is what people in Ethereum realized and this is what the Bitcoin Unlimited movement is about.
The nakedcapitalism post that started the 41% myth actually has enough info to calculate the real number, at least for 1H2015 (http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/11/can-uber-ever-deliver...)

Farebox ratio = fares / total cost of operations

Total cost of operations = fares - profits

Farebox ratio = fares / (fares - profits)

For 1H2015:

Farebox ratio = 3,661 / (3,661 - -987) = 3661 / 4648 = 78.8%
I feel your sentiment, and usually oppose to the construction-driven approach you describe, but it is really easy to play devil's advocate here. I mean, let's just be realistic. There's nothing sacred in programming.

The fault in your argument is that there's no design/construction dichotomy, but rather a gradient: everything can be viewed upon as a design from close enough distance, and everything can be a construction looking from the high above. For business people all the programming is just very, very low-level construction, and there's no design to it. Damn, even hiring programmers and creating companies is just a construction stage to them.

And from the practical standpoint, the truth is that perceiving a lot of programming "just as a construction" just works. For the better or worse. It is cheaper and usually reliable enough to design the system in a way that a lot of the components would be plugins not depending one on the other that can be outsourced to anyone. Even if some fail, the system continues to work while you hire new people to rewrite some components. Sure, maybe it would be more efficient and "cool" to hire a really smart guy (or do it yourself, if you believe you can) to write it as really optimized monolith system, but if this isn't required, it is usually less risky to build something not so sophisticated, and improve it if need be. It is usually ok, that some parts of the system may fail. Fuck it, let's not lie to ourselves: there always are some parts of the system that fail, whether you think it's "acceptable" or not, let's just take it into account.
I'm confused. If you've used DNA evidence to find a person, how can you then use the DNA evidence (as if it were an independent factor) to convict?
Possible corrosion issues aside, does the article have any negative implications for the much sought-for development of molten-salt thorium reactors?
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http://heinonline.org/hol-cgi-bin/get_pdf.cgi?handle=hein.jo...

This is the paper Isaac Asimov researched as an undergrad, and was the basis of his first sci-fi story sold.

There's a lot of material on this topic.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=resistance+to+technological+innova...
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