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It's a reality. The nickel smelting operation in Norilsk, Russia is so polluting that you can mine the topsoil downwind of the smelter feasibly: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/12/world/europe/12norilsk.htm...
Explanations.

That there exists more than one explanation for a phenomenon, like ethics and moral values, doesn't mean that choosing any of those at random yields a good explanation. It also doesn't mean that there is no valid explanation at all.

That's just lazy not-100%-sure-therefore-I-substituite-my-own-reality-ism.
that's almost too good, even if there was going to be something this good just by sheer quabtity.. it almost sounds like the Newspeak stuff from 1984
they would like to thank all their "fans" for congratulating them further on how "Wow" they think it is.

you're all idiots.
> "...but for many Chinese, they would not want to eat the oysters without grilling them with mashed garlic and chili sauce.”

At first that sounded gross (I, I guess like the danish, prefer them raw with a little lemon), but now I kind of want to try it. I think I'm going to try to find a place in NYC that serves oysters this way.
> and still think Musk's ideas are foolish

With Musk's established track record I think it's pretty arrogant for anyone to call his ideas foolish. He has achieved things that people thought were impossible or bound to fail. You can say: “I can see this potential problem”, or “I wonder how he's going to deal with this physical limitation” or similar sorts of statements. That's feedback and analysis given with respect. Simple dismissive negativity against ideas put forward by a person who would already rank in the top 10 in the world today for technological and engineering achievement is arrogance and narrow-mindedness.
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I went to Graduate School for a Masters in Theological Studies. My focus is the Historical Theology (To know what people groups believed in specific times and locations). So this is a high travesty of centuries of thought both Christian and non-Christian.

Just look at the founders of Humanism, one being Martin Luther. The whole Reformation was built on Humanism. Martin Luther's whole world change from being a Priest to being the first Reformer to actually die of natural causes was that he was going to the bathroom and realized that Jesus also poops. Popular thought is he was scared by lightening, but that's weak academic research. That really is Luther's turning point, Jesus pooped. History of the Western and now the whole world has changed because of that one Humanist thought.

The whole birth of Humanism was "emphasizes the humanity of Jesus." Now we changed the term completely 180 just so people won't use the term Atheism to define themselves but they will fight to hold on to the equality of humanism and atheism.

I actually have had days of discussions with various modern Humanism thinkers and leaders. They don't deny that fact, but they also choice to defend that Humanism equals Atheism. It is like a Intellectual Hijacking of Centuries of Thought and Philosophy. It's because the preference of semantics but it is the actual opposite of the word, thought and historical meaning of that word.
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meta: it would be good if not every thread on HN about javascript devolved into unproductive complaining about how bad you think it is. It's really not interesting or enlightening to read, and javascript's various flaws are already thoroughly covered elsewhere.
You'd have to get the government to stop building roads...

which of course is seems crazy to most people. But the consequences are all around us.
This is very nice. Does anyone have an idea of how to extend the visualization so that they could be rendered based on the actual runtime of a real program?

I have a theory that much complexity could be understood if humans could just see the interactions and the data flowing.

Even if the program took 100X longer to run, if you can see the bug, you can fix it. If you can see the complexity, you can understand it.
I tried the live demo on Safari on iPhone. When it arrives to the end (with the logo) it's starts flickering around 10 times. Then you can continue scrolling.

I don't know if it's on purpose (distracting effect while doing your stuff). But it's more looking like a bug.

Despite that, works like a charm.
That's like saying light worked different on the time of the Greeks because they thought our eyes shoot beams. Face palm

Their understanding of the thing was different, and wrong, the thing in of it self wasn't.
First of all, the most recent data in the document you linked to shows Amtrak at 1,629 BTU/passenger-mile vs 3,877 BTU/passenger-mile for cars -- a 58% reduction in energy consumption, or alternately 2.4x better energy efficiency for trains over driving.

But it's also important to note that the numbers for Amtrak are averaged across the entire system -- and most Amtrak routes outside the Northeast Corridor operate way below capacity, despite it being very inefficient to do so. If you look at rail systems where this is not the case, like in Switzerland (716 BTU/passenger-mile) or Japan (534 BTU/passenger-mile), you end up with 5.4x and 7.3x improvements energy efficiency over driving, respectively.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_efficiency_in_transport...
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Whether a problem is "created by humans" has no bearing on what would or wouldn't be a good solution. If the same problem arises without the intervention of humans, why would you treat it differently?
Except the monoculture here doesn't account for just how terrible buses and trains are.

Mass transit is fundamentally superior and realistically inferior. The second any rational actor has the economic advantage necessary to not ride in a box packed with people of questionable hygiene they'll chose option #2 no matter the negative externalities.

I love this place but people aren't packets in your stream, they actively decide against your well designed "optimal" systems and opt for less efficient "luxurious" options as soon as they possibly can.
Ask HN: Salaries for non-engineering roles?
I work for a fairly large tech company that is known to make people work 60 hrs.

I have 10 yrs of software development (9 years as hands on) experience. Last month I moved from Software Engineer to Technical Program Manager role.

I am wondering what are the salaries for non-engineering/non-developer role?

I am looking for salaries for following roles

TPM (technical program manager)

Product Manager

Analytics Manager

Data Engineering lead (not a software engineer)

How much goog/fb/amazon/apple/Netflix pay for these roles?

You can share anonymously it you want.

Thanks!
> I wonder what can be done to counter his seemingly perfect narrative so Americans can be rightfully concerned about what's happening.

I think that a) redefining common terms to mean idiosyncratic things and b) using the idiosyncratic terms in public to imply their original common meaning is enough to trigger a warning to the layperson against putting too much stock in a particular speaker's narrative. I can say from experience that people tend to perk up when you give them such a warning.

Also, Sam Harris isn't particularly well-versed in the issues surrounding wide-net surveillance. Add Bruce Schneier or Dan Bernstein to the discussion and that "seemingly perfect narrative" will start to look very different.
Two thoughts from someone without a mentor (if you can get one, do that) -- you asked how I (or we) keep improving, but my first thought is you seemed to figure out your own problems:
1) "...and tutorials seem to move at a way to slow pace, so i mostly skip them".

Either you're doing the wrong tutorials, or give them more credence.

2)
What I do:

i) Keep myself exposed to what is out there (Hacker News, Blogs, Twitter)

ii) Make sure I am always reading a book (audio books, usually)

iii) Be aware of the next wave of tech -- what is bleeding edge? (current answer: Machine Learning, VR/AR, Self-Driving Cars, Blockchain)

iv) Find resources to learn them: Coursera, Udacity, local colleges courses, meetup groups.
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I technically never met one single athiest. Not in academia. Not in even Punk or Hardcore culture. They have all been agnostic.

Atheism is the total certainty and belief that their is no God.

Agnosticism is the disregard to the importance of if there is a God or not absolutely. There may be or may not be a God.

Everyone when it is said and done places themselves in Agnostic thought. You really can't prove a negative and so this is the place of philosophy and thought. Historically they were Diest like Ben Franklin.
I think this crazy tunnel thing Elon just announced looks horrible, but the moment you claim that Tesla and SpaceX aren't doing anything special is where it becomes pretty obvious that you don't know what you're talking about.
Start by comparing yourself to yourself, not to others. Don't worry about matching others for their strengths. Just be a better you tomorrow than you were yesterday.

Next, distinguish between depth and breadth. Are you a generalist by nature, or a specialist? I'm a total generalist. I've achieved basic competence in a truly shocking variety of different subjects, but the main thing I'm an expert at is being a generalist. I've gotten very good at picking up new skills whenever I'm interested in them.

Other people are specialists. They find something they're passionate about, and they get good at it. Really good. They go deep. They may not know a whole lot of things, but that one thing they know, they know so well it's hard to even comprehend from the outside.

So are you a generalist by nature, or a specialist? Do you want to be one or the other? Pick a direction and start walking.
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Occasionally, a couple of times a year, I will challenge myself to learn some new technology and I will utterly immerse myself in that technology until I have a working basic knowledge of it. It is how I learned Emacs. It is also how I learned Vim when I grew tired of Emacs' shenanigans.
Cars and mass transit both have major problems. Cars aren't scalable, and mass transit is often slow when you have to wait for trains/buses to come. (It's worse when you have to change buses or trains.)

The video looks more like a high-speed form of personal rapid transit [1], which is a sort of hybrid system that tries to achieve the best of both. It's like a bus or train system, except the vehicles are smaller and don't operate on a timetable. Instead, they pick you up when and where you want and they take you where you want to go.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_rapid_transit
From what I know of people who do those (TPMs anyway) it varies wildly based on perceived contribution and skill set.

Also, what do you mean by "data engineering lead (not a software engineer)?"
This is getting into very marginal territory, but attack surface. Your phone is an entire network-capable OS with god-knows what security vulns or backdoors. Those dongles are an air-gapped, often tamper-resistant chip.

For the record, I think services should ideally offer all three options (SMS, TOTP and physical device), since the biggest problem in security is actually getting users to use ANYTHING at all, and something like SMS that offers 99% of the protection in return for easier setup/ease of use is well worth it.
This is cool. But maybe a bit too subtle. I wonder whether devices could use a shared P2P database, so your crowd could be millions strong.
I'm no advocate of rapid change for its own sake. I mostly do POSIX systems programming, and the churn of web development frameworks does not appeal to me at all.

However, I still want to at least aspire to learn new stuff and stay informed about what other people in my field are doing. Every technology has an expiration date, and as I get older and more ensconced at work, I've been getting paranoid about getting too comfortable. Specifically, I'm paranoid that I know relatively little about web development, period. I am not some twentysomething hipster web guy, I'm a weird middle-aged Unix guy.

Although I've rarely pushed myself to learn about something because I felt like I had to- I'm just interested in software and have always enjoyed learning about it. I don't have to force myself to do it, and I probably wouldn't be productive if I did. The only thing that really matters is doing whatever makes you happy. If it has pragmatic side effects, great, but if it doesn't make you happy then it's not worth doing.
The Silicon Valley carmaker is under the gun to accelerate production and save money as it readies for volume production of the Model 3 in September.
Most times religion is a crutch to hold to "common sense" and with little regard to others or primary sources AKA scriptures.

As a intrinsically religious person I say, I am sorry and as a former Pastor that sucks.

To quote a wise saying that helps me wrestle with these stories like yours is from the very non-religious movie Armageddon, "A person may be smart, but people are stupid."
Yeah but they spent the first 40 years of their life with a lower standard.
I say the same thing every time this comes up: I don't want to live like that, and neither do many, many people.

I like driving nice, new-ish cars, eating out, using the latest technology, drinking Starbucks or whatever coffee I want and having fun, even if it isn't cheap (when I can afford it). I'm not alone here.

I'm glad you've found a way to enjoy life on little means, but trying to say that it's the best way to live is disingenuous.

$600k in savings and investments means nothing if I'm not doing things I don't like. Money is made to be spent.
So why don't you write something better if the shortcomings are so obvious? I'm not saying that the current popular stack (npm, babel|typescript, webpack) is the end-all solution but it's miles better everything else that came out in the last 10+ years.
> is not secure at all

Absolutes are the wrong language. It adds a significant burden (steal the user's phone account), which if nothing else requires individual attention, which drastically changes the economics of an attack vs, say, mass automated attacks using leaked passwords checking for re-use. Sure, you and I might have unique randomly generated passwords for our accounts, but not everyone is so careful, and SMS verification can and does save many an account.
The language I use day-to-day in my current job (machine learning and data engineering) is Python, although I employ a smattering of C++ and, lately, Rust as well (the only one to use either of the latter, that I'm aware of, in the company). Python's virtualenv/pip system, for all its warts, is orders of magnitude better than any JS package management system I've seen.
I think the IEEE is just ethical. Faithfully build the thing you're paid to build. It's probably not fair to call the encryption free splitter an HDMI splitter. If you build it, call it something else so you don't dilute the standard.

Of course, i don't have a lot of experience with IEEE, they may actually be super pro-DRM, and my opinion could be swayed.
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The video has a lot of bad details. That's the call being made.
you are, actually, too optimistic.

Even In the 1990s, people knew that environmental efforts were going to fail and people have already started trying techniques to terraform the planet.

https://books.google.co.in/books?id=nArq-K7ZiacC&pg=PA420&dq...

Take a look at he geoengineering options.

This is how it's going to go down.

1) environmental attempts will fail.

2) various records will be breached, eventually a perceptual point will be crossed, but it will be far, far too late to save the planet.

3) poltical imperatives will change, soon after public imperatives change.

4) since the risk/reward from stoping environmental damage is now a divide by 0 operation, "can-do" individuals/groups (the same firms who created this mess), will pitch geo-engineering/terraforming

5) Governments will propose multi billion dollar programs to do this, farming out contracts for "jobs!"

Bonus) hacker news 2.0 will debate on various economic models to support such work, and people will say they hate big government, so let's give limited resource rights to these firms as compensation instead of government largesse.

They'll brand it as jobs creation, man against nature, and use it to capture more power and funding.

I've been right betting on my reasoning for non standard events before, and I can't see any reason this won't happen. Within a few deviations of the original plan.
Is your complaint that JS development is getting better? People didn't ditch Angular1 because it was old, they ditched it because Angular2 is better.
You can definitely order a black powder pistol (and the caps and balls and powder) through the mail, no background check required (I guess some states do have restrictions, mine apparently did not).

I ordered one years ago and the delivery service left it with my neighbor who's id they did not check.

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Granted it's not a sub-machine gun and takes a bit to load but it is a repeating firearm every bit as deadly as one that uses conventional shells.
So because he has a "track record" of founding companies that achieved impressive feats he it's now forbidden to call out his ideas as foolish?
The experts are panning this idea.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/elon-musk-ted...
That's not necessarily a bad thing. At the very least, I think it's reasonable to require that certain software engineering projects have some professional oversight, but that doesn't mean that the intern needs to be licensed, just that the important architectural bits of a project are approved by a competent professional.
sure, collecting emails has no benefit unless people believe that they are not being watched!
I don't think it's about learning new stuff. Find a really hard problem and work through it. That's how I learned the most. I am not talking about one month projects but something that takes a year or more. In a project of that size a lot mistakes you made at first come back to you over time and you can improve.

My most difficult projects have been done with C++ and took years. That experience still gives me an advantage even with JavaScript because I have developed pretty good instinct about what probably will work or not.
You just defined Agnostic vs Atheist. It's in the very word's semantics and history. I love talking about this in academic circles and I always find it frustrating if the talk is over semantics.

Occam's razor, "Among competing hypotheses, the one with the fewest assumptions should be selected" So if it's impossible to prove a negative let's move on to the side where you can prove. The disregard of if or if there isn't a deity as opposed to there isn't.
Induced demand means people are now able to practically get places when they couldn't before. It doesn't mean "hurt everything."
The essence of The Boring Company is the same as the business plan behind SpaceX: people assume that an existing industry (tunnel development, rocket launches) is reasonably well run and operating at something of a local optimum. But it turns out that there are order of magnitude (i.e., 10x) improvements available when Musk is able to assemble a sufficiently capable team to focus on it.

I would suggest that tunnelling is a more fertile opportunity, given that there had already been a bunch of rocket startups that had tried and failed over the last couple decades. Tunneling today is insanely expensive. Here's a superb article from Matt Yglesias at Vox on the $2.2 B per km Second Avenue Subway: http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/1/1/14112776/new... . Other countries are already achieving costs of $100 M per km or less.

Now, does the car carriage from the video make perfect sense? I'm skeptical. But Musk has never been slavishly faithful to the original conception of his ideas. He gets started and then iterates, and so far the results have been awfully impressive.
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I think it's both, actually. There's lots to criticize and there's also lots of hate/jealousy/whatever.
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The incidents you describe are examples of what Alan Kay means when he says that 'outlook' is more important than 'IQ'.
I read a article recently [0], and I think you may like reading it.
From my username you can see what I'll post here is really naive. But what works for me is failing. Failing sets a precise goal of where is my limit (be it in knowledge, or something else). So keep trying, keep failing and soon you'll find you keep improving. Other than that, a good mentor would help a lot, don't be afraid of asking questions when you don't understand something or think the person can help you improve.

[0] - http://www.daedtech.com/how-developers-stop-learning-rise-of...
Yeah. Going from rail to roads was another dumbass move.
Ever been to New York or a similar city and watched people pouring out of a subway station at 8:30 am?

Now imagine every one of them is sitting in a sedan that is delivered out of an elevator, one by one.

According to Wikipedia, "Times Square–42nd Street/42nd Street–Port Authority Bus Terminal" station has 206,247 riders on each weekday on average. If we have 100 elevators which can transport a car every five seconds, it will take 172 minutes to move all of them.

With more realistic numbers (an elevator usually doesn't go down and come back in five seconds) it will be more than a day.
It's entirely true money is made to be spent. I'd just rather buy my own time back instead of spending it on unnecessary luxury items.

But then, I don't feel sorry when someone has to work their entire life to retire; that's their choice too.