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I believe in altruism, but I don't believe that Elon Musk is altruistic. In fact, the way he seems happy to treat his people suggests a far less humane side, but that's neither here nor there. In any case, I don't really care about his motives, just his plans.

He's made some interesting points about using Mars to shield from radiation, but it doesn't matter because they'd be cooked before they ever arrived. Worse, it seems that radiation is going to have an impact on cognition, which is just about the worst thing you can imagine. Dying in your 50's from cancer is tragic, but dying because you stopped thinking clearly before your mission ever truly begins? Wasteful.

The notion of using water as a shielding works at first glance, but then you realize that you'd need a looooot of it, and that you've kicked the problematic can. Now your biggest concern shifts to micro-impacts, which no longer just erode your armor (you'll need armor... expensive as it will be to lift, you'll need it), but open your radiation shielding to vacuum. Presumably you'd have some means to circulate the water through the outer crew quarters, so large parts suddenly freezing and slowly sublimating away strike me as catastrophic.

What we need is a material that is incredibly strong, durable, manages thermal stress, and which can shield against all kinds of radiation (without just cooking the poor bastards with gamma rays secondary to the incident radiation). That material need to be light enough that lifting it into orbit doesn't bankrupt any potential operation, and frankly... no such material exists.

That is just one problem.

Edit: To be clear, I don't think that Elon Musk being something other than altruistic, is for example, malevolent. I think of all the arena in which he could have acted, he chose ones that were potentially beneficial to the species. Not being altruistic doesn't mean that you have to be terrible... most of us aren't altruistic.
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There's a _TON_ of amazing software out there, which sadly is licensed under a non-free license, so it just can't be used in something free, because it would make your program proprietary.
> Why couldn't you rebuild the SD image from Yocto?

Because the vendor should provide an SDK for development?

It's fine if the vendor's image is based on Yocto, but you should still be able to download something from them with instructions.
Sure they do.

That's an immense spend by IBM, however lots of big companies spend in the 11 figures on projects.

Exxon is spending $20 billion in the next five years to expand its oil refining and chemical operations along the gulf coast.

Las Vegas Sands is planning to spend at least $10 billion just to build its Japanese operation.

Verizon spent $25 billion or so over 12 years trying to build out FiOS.

Wanda Group in China is spending $15 billion to build a Disney park competitor.

Apple's total cost every time it builds a new iPhone is in the tens of billions including its ahead-of-time purchasing commitments.
When I came back from my first tour to Iraq in 2004 (was 19 at the time) it took me almost a full year to feel mostly "home" again. But it definitely changed something about me, ever since that year I've never felt 100% "home" for some reason.
Bowing st the supermarket ? I've been in Toyko for over 10 years I've never seen customer bow at a supermarket. Is that a thing in some other part of Japan?

What I notice going back to the USA is how it often feels like the 3rd world countries my dad would tell me about as a kid indirectly trying to tell me how great the USA is.

Now I just see crime, corrupt police, etc. Came back for 6 months got my car broken into twice. Once in LA, once in SF. Try to hang out at a coffee shop to work but have to pack up my stuff and give up my seat to use the restroom because otherwise my computer will be stolen. I never feel safe riding public transportation in SF where as I never not feel safe riding in Japan.

Another is convenience. After 9:30 in Venice Beach, if I haven't eaten by 9:30 nothing is open except 24 supermarkets in have to drive miles to. Compare to Tokyo where there's almost always a conveniece store within 5 minutes and they actually have reasonably good options.

Food is bland and large. Americans seem to prioritize quantity over quality in general. At least in the suburbs.

I could rant about Japan too but the topic is reverse culture shock.
Heck, I grew up in the Bay Area, and I get reverse culture shock when return to visit for more than a few days.

So. Much. Traffic. People packed into trains. Everyone so...not exactly rude, but not nearly as friendly as I've grown accustomed (I live near Boulder, Colorado).

I feel like my blood pressure is higher the entire time I'm there. Of course the air pressure is higher, so that may have something to do with it, but I think it goes beyond that.

On the other hand, I've never been in great shape, and the first day down at sea level and I feel like I could run a marathon...
> Is there money in Linux?

http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/rht
I'm exaggerating of course. Born and raised in Toronto.

It's more an inconvenience, not wanting to spend much time outside in the winter. I think everybody generally goes out less in the winter months -- it's a problem you don't generally have even in marginally warmer climates south of the border (or in, say, Vancouver)
While Orthodox Judaism (and be careful, there are distinct flavours of what 'Orthodox' means and multiple authorities) holds the Torah to be the revealed truth of God, the concept of an "obvious, literal interpretation" of anything is anathema to Judaism. You're supposed to struggle with the texts, peeling back layers of meaning, context and application, finding patterns, etc. The truth doesn't come from reading a verse, but through a lifetime of focussed study. It is also part of the tradition that the revealed truth is understood in the context of the world as it is experienced---G-d doesn't lie. If your observations contradict your understanding of the Torah, your understanding is flawed.
As an American, I experience almost (not to same degree, but same kind) when I visit Kansas where I grew up. I now live in Washington, and the two states in the same country are entire worlds apart.

The people I know in Kansas, I can tell that my thinking has changed a bunch in a multitude of dimensions.
You're right, its a simple login portal, no app, no fuss.
Please define "anonymous analytics".

Is a log of ip addresses and times that your smart toaster was used acceptable?

What if said smart toaster really needs to contact a server to decide exactly how long to heat the toast for?

It's difficult to have an internet-connected widget with an App that doesn't generate some kind of information in logs somewhere.

I agree with you but I think it's something that needs laws around it, and unfortunately can't be simplified down to your one sentence solution.

Unfortunately with the apathy of the general population and the flat-out corruption of our own untrustworthy governments, I think those laws are unlikely to materialize.
Regarding the broken promise of Web Components
I would think of WASM the same way you'd think about JNI. It provides a way to have processor intensive integrate with a broader system.
A good read. One of the more interesting, informative and well written pieces to appear here in a while.

The one concern I have with this playbook is that fashions in niche technical subjects change (I think) very quickly. For this to beat simply selling coding services on a T+M basis the revenue stream would need to continue for several years, with a suite of similar books/courses added over time. Are people still going to be interested in paying money to learn about Ruby performance in 2 years from now? Can two, three, four equally profitable subject be identified and mined every year? Probably not, unfortunately, due to this industry's eternal desire to churn the tech (often to no obvious positive purpose).
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See that is just incredibly cool. I honestly see no reason why they, or someone, shouldn't be able to make it work. The barriers would probably be having enough of an installed userbase, but that's always the problem.
I publish utility nonfiction (i.e. "how-to guides”). There is indeed a universe of cheap frauds using every scammy tactic you can imagine. There is also the issue of free competition on the Web, YouTube, the library, etc.

But I have found that the seemingly infinite supply of information resources gives a big advantage to brands that stand for quality. My customers don’t like wading through YouTube, or sites of unknown provenance or quality, or books with dodgy covers and keyword-stuffed titles. My brand (In 30 Minutes Guides, 1) and motto (Quick Guides for a Complex World) stand for something, and anyone browsing through first few pages or the verified reviews will see that the books are legit. We update them regularly, and I am constantly expanding the catalog - our newest release was on Monday for Crowdfunding Basics In 30 Minutes and in a few months we will have another title about end-of-life documentation as well as an update of LinkedIn In 30 Minutes for the new UI.

1. http://in30minutes.com
"You may have heard the phrase the plural of anecdote is not data. It turns out that this is a misquote. The original aphorism, by the political scientist Ray Wolfinger, was just the opposite: The plural of anecdote is data."

http://blog.danwin.com/don-t-forget-the-plural-of-anecdote-i...
The bolt and the volt are well engineered products at a very reasonable price point. I think GM is innovative with these platforms
Did Uber change the way they deal with driver ratings? Their "rank and yank" system [1] was once the object of considerate consternation. You would think that it would have been quite effective at dealing with "aggressive, tip-hustling" drivers.

[1] http://www.ridesharingdriver.com/low-uber-driver-ratings-a-c...
From a different article about the same dude:

"He’d not been sick in the woods, and his worst accident was a tumble on some ice, but his teeth were rotten, and no wonder. I dug through his twenty-five years of trash, buried between boulders, and kept inventory: a five-pound tub that once held Marshmallow Fluff, an empty box of Devil Dogs, peanut butter, Cheetos, honey, graham crackers, Cool Whip, tuna fish, coffee, Tater Tots, pudding, soda, El Monterey spicy jalapeño chimichangas, and on and on and on."[1]

http://www.gq.com/story/the-last-true-hermit
And now Google is putting your website in a callout bubble and treating it as fact: https://i.imgur.com/mIyZV9a.png
I will respect HN when a site making similar fun of Islam hits the front page
Maybe they should have just used Java bytecode as WASM format? Then we’d have an entire existing ecosystem available.
I'd argue it's easier to not tip when you have the option to tip in the App. If you're transacting with cash the driver knows if / when you aren't going to tip them. It'd be next level aggressive to sit and watch if you tip the driver on the app before you get out of the car. Personally, I'm fine to tip since the normal barrier to tipping for me is having cash, but either way in app tipping seems to make things easier.
> It’s no secret that I love the ease and convenience of Uber and have been using the app for years.

This https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13863955 is what you are supporting, then.
I disagree that the jarring bit about home is that it's changed. For me, it was that so little had changed.

At the supermarket I worked at when I was 16 were some of the same people, working the same cashier job.

Friends were still talking about "getting back into college," doing the same thing they had done every weekend for years.

It depressed me.
But when I lived in Geneva, it was the opposite. They had an entire freaking shopping aisle for bricks of chocolate. I'd never seen a brick of chocolate before let alone an entire aisle of it. Trader Joe's has these bricks now.
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What I like about the Lyft tipping model is that allows you to decide the (optional) tip after you have left the ride - when the driver says goodbye, they have no idea if you will or will not leave a tip.

Removing the on-the-spot pressure of tipping and the immediate human response makes it feel like a very different experience. It makes me feel truly generous when I do tip, but I also know that my personal rating does not depend on that decision in any way.
In these particular cases I would expect there would be no assignment of copyright (however I would assume you're right about trademarks).

Despite the fact that there most likely is some transfer of intellectual property contemplated here, I do think the term "donation" is a little odd when describing stewardship transfer of open source projects to nonprofits -- though it's fairly well established (I associate it mainly with the Apache Software Foundation).

To me "donation", based on its ordinary usage in English, suggests "here's something I don't need anymore; you can have it, I won't have any further involvement in it." That does fit certain situations (an example that comes to mind is Oracle's transfer of OpenOffice to the ASF).
Born and raised in northern Europe I find the US tipping culture weird. To me, tips are a bonus for service that goes above and beyond the expected.
Nice. I also have blocked JS global in Chrome and activate it on a per site basis.
From the linked Google doc:

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Suspend all background tabs (~2018)
Fully pause a tab in the background after N minutes unless a web developer states that the tab should continue to run via an explicit opt-out.

Remove opt-outs (~2020+)
Remove the opt-out and pause all pages. We’ll be able to do this once we’ve (1) ensured that the web platform provides the APIs needed for major use cases and (2) given developers a sufficient deprecation period.

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That sounds a bit scary, and would require a lot of rewriting or refactor existing code. I'm assuming not all the APIs are even ready yet to proactively start doing this already. But sounds like the iOS model, which has it's pros and cons. Probably has a lot of benefits though in the long run.

I hope by pause, means if they switch back it resumes instead of reloading/refreshing. Maybe even emit an event to know it resumed, if the app wants to check if new notifications, etc for it's view... Maybe you were filling out a complex game form - losing state would really be sucky if it reloads, instead of resuming.
Totally agree with this. Having to join 10+ Slack-like groups to collaborate on open source projects is unrealistic for me. As a result, I don't frequent some projects' chats and stick to bug trackers/mailing lists -- as a result of that I miss out on a lot of the camaraderie that comes with contributing to open source. I've missed out on a few conversations where decisions were made too. Being in multiple groups on these services is a huge pain point for me, whereas being on multiple IRC servers in multiple channels is far less invasive to my time and computer resources ;D. I'm not necessarily advocating that everyone use IRC for everything, but it seems like a lot of us had standardized on IRC for OSS before most of these services came along.

Also I'm salty that most of these Slack-like services have no ignore feature/minimal moderation tools which are both things I've leaned on heavily when working with communities. That's probably a rant for another day, but it's related to why I really dislike using some of these things.

This might just be my perception, but it seems like most people I come across in this field were on IRC at some point.
I always hated tipping because I had to have cash on hand. I always appreciated how Lyft lets you leave a tip electronically. Now when I use Uber I make sure I have cash on hand so I can tip the driver. Why? Because I think their rates are too low, and I can afford to help someone who pleasantly moved me from Point A to Point B. I don't blame other people for not tipping, because maybe they have neither the cash nor the inclination. But I will continue tipping. Lyft is better than both taxi and Uber in this scenario because you can choose to tip after you get out (that said, I always do).
Stability, good pay, interesting work. Software is a second career for me, my first one was a lot more sexy but a LOT less stable. I am thriving with the stability of working in software and getting paid quite well for it.

To me, it's less important what I'm working on than who I'm working with, and the people in software have been great so far!
A German-born American with 11 years total living in Germany. Almost all of it with the iron curtain in place. A white guy, I now live in a neighborhood that's 3/4 black, 10% Hmong for 16 years, I feel very normal being permanently out-of-place. In Germany I am the "Amerikanischer". Here it's "he's German".

But I'm permanently alone in a crowd, too. Always on the outside looking in. Suspicious of the herd. Skeptical of consensus. Circumspect. Cantankerous at times. I am, simply, permanently, "the other".

It's all not bad. You notice things other people don't wherever you go. You're the first person to seek out the people who don't fit in and hold out your hand in friendship. Because you know, deep down, that with all the divisiveness we're experiencing right now, that we will never get through it any stronger without the greatest concern for each other.
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Beijing air is horrific. I can't imagine putting up with it for nine years.
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Why does tipping suck?
Many people share an apartment and get free weekday meals from the company. The utility also seems high since heating and cooling aren't necessary for much of the year.
My basic claim is that contrast in perceived lightness (a.k.a. value, in Munsell’s terminology) is the most salient color attribute in graphic design.

This is based on the architecture of human vision. When light comes into the retina, it is measured by three different types of detectors called cone cells (“long” L, “medium” M, and “short” S). But the independent signals from these cone cells are not directly passed to the visual cortex. Instead, at the first layer of processing, the cone cell responses are combined into 3 different signals, a brightness response (L + M), and two color difference signals, yellow–blue (L + M – S) and red–green (L – M). The brightness signal has the finest resolution, and is used for detection of edges, textures, fine details, motion, depth, and so on. The color difference signals are layered on top of that. “Lightness” or “value” is a perceived attribute of surface color based on the brightness response. (Caveat: this is a pretty simplified description.)

Almost any color scheme you choose which has enough lightness contrast will tend to look okay, especially if you avoid picking colors which are outrageously colorful. On the other hand, categorically, any color scheme you choose which does not have enough lightness contrast will look bad (will look muddy or clashing, text will be illegible, etc.).

Any color guide which doesn’t start with a discussion of lightness contrast is in my opinion doing a disservice to its readers.

Unfortunately, the “L” in HSL and the “V” in HSV are not remotely close to real measures of perceived lightness (value). You need to go to a different color model. The most established choice is CIELAB, from the mid-1970s, supported in a wide variety of software.
That's what it would be here, except that it was co-opted by the usual Horatio Alger types as a means to underpay for labor and hide that cost. Then, like so much, it just became "how it was done".

We're not bright, as a species.
Great question :) We are a small team so we prefer focusing on writing code than managing our infrastructure.

Keeping even just one server secure and up to date is no small task. Additionally, in this particular case, given Gitlab pushes changes pretty often, we wanted to have access to the latest stuff without having to update the self-hosted instance every time (with the added risk of screwing up in the process). I guess there's a trade off for everything.
Scientific papers is actually the very first market I had in mind when Genius launched as at the time I was doing research and ramping up on image processing / computer vision literature. There'd be so much value in having annotations on research papers to speed up that process.
Using Emscripten (with embind) 1.37.3 it takes slightly over 1 second to initialize a 2.7mb wasm file. The JS version shows slightly under 300ms for parse time, obviously not the same as the full WASM pass, but it does significantly delay initial page load.

The positive side is what took 250ms to run with cold JS (nothing JIT compiled) and 35ms after a few runs takes just 5ms the first time in WASM. This is on Chrome Canary on Windows.

Is there anything I'm missing to speed this up?
I like being able to choose whether to tip once I'm out of the car, cash-free, no time pressure. Sometimes a driver does really deserve a tip, and I like that Lyft facilitates it.
Did you even read the article? It has nothing to do with the US infrastructure or healthcare system.

It happens between cultures, even when neither of them are American. It can even happen if both are American if the source and destination are different enough (e.g. moving from a farm town of 500 in Wyoming to Manhattan).
I can't speak to the SDK parts, but take a look at Firebase's suite more broadly. :) Viz a viz Cognito, check out Authentication and the Realtime Database in particular.
I would think that volatility would be a shot term play. Give me a stock the just goes up 0.1% every day and I'll borrow to the hilt to buy it.
The supply would still be extremely limited outside a few markets where French is a primary or main secondary language. Also unless you're paying extra for the French speakers the chances the small pool will be already booked with normal jobs is pretty high.
I wonder whether this variant is similar to APOE E4 allele—which significantly increases one's risk of Alzheimer's—in that its affect can be minimized by lifestyle changes.

In men, APOE E4's disadvantages can be almost completely eliminated (compared to APOE E3) by regularly exercising and completely abstaining from alcohol.
Unless I'm missing something, I think most languages will be fine. I'd think pretty much every language will need to cross-compile their runtime library to WASM, which would include their garbage collection. C/C++ will obviously be easiest to map onto WASM, but I'm guessing other languages won't be too far behind. LLVM already has a WASM target.
> One of the hardest things for me to adapt to is how "liberal" America has become. It's not an objectively bad thing

One wonders, if the rest of the world is more cautious about this sort of thing, if maybe it's America that's in the wrong. Maybe other cultures deal with these things more sensitively or more rationally or just better.

My experience travelling abroad is that people seem more comfortable in their skins, which is sad given that America is supposed to be the place where anyone can make it.
>We're not bright, as a species

The people under paying labor would probably disagree with you.
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> I've turned down two offers from the local bowling alley because I'm not going to have much nice to say about it.

To maintain your credibility, you should review it pro bono; for bonus points, note that they previously tried to pay you twice. Otherwise it would be honest to clearly disclose that you mostly/only write positive reviews, albeit via selection bias rather than outright lying.

I've written product reviews before, always either for stuff I bought or stuff received via an intermediary (i.e. X sends me Y's thing, I send my review to X). The whole "sponsored content" model makes me long for the days of flashing banner ads.