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Well he's worth an estimated 15 billion, a lot of which if I understand is from his involvement with PayPal
Relatedly, it took me a while to pick up on the fact that "non-profit" does not necessarily equate to "beneficial for society". Many non-profits out there have noble purported goals, but when you actually gain some experience at them you start to realize that they are vanity projects for the wealthy.

[edit]: To clarify, I'm not making the claim that all non-profits are vanity projects, just that there are many out there that are. If you ever do want to work in the non-profit sector, doing some due diligence before applying for a job is a must (I recommend obtaining the publicly reported financial records for a non-profit in Form 990; what a non-profit's founder pays him/herself relative to the average employee speaks volumes about their moral character).
LA Metro just finished using a (Bertha-scale, unlike this one) boring machine named Harriet to make tunnels on the west side for the Crenshaw/LAX line. They've just started using another one (Angeli) for the regional connector project in downtown.
If any of you are suffering from depression, you should seriously try microdosing LSD.
Kidnapping has been around for thousands of years, and yet so far no jurisdiction managed to criminalize paying the kidnapping ransom.
So where are you at in terms of job search and preparation?
Right, and I get that your intention was positive, but "basket case...shit...crap" doesn't count as "inform", and it's only by chance that you didn't provoke aggrieved responses, a.k.a. flamewars. The thread went far off-topic as it was.
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Selectively pulling updates doesn't seem feasible. Consider that:

* Microsoft does not disclose what (most) updates do and it's not feasible to reverse engineer all of them to check.

* Multiple updates, including critical security patches, are published as a single monthly rollup and cannot be (easily) separated from one another.

* The Windows 10 Update client doesn't officially support cherrypicking some updates and delaying others indefinitely; if you let it connect to the (real) Microsoft update server it will try to install all available updates.

* You're not downloading individual per-update executables and checking their hashes; you're running a program (the Windows Update client) that, once it trusts the server it connects to, uncritically runs any code the server sends to it.

Now consider all of that when the adversary controls not just individual update contents but the whole update server or delivery channel...
> Of course, it could be the attacker sending money to himself to try to make victims think other people are paying.

Other people are definitely paying. The scheme stops working as soon as word gets out that paying doesn't restore your files.
That's actually exactly my point, "kills real time constraints" is very strong language, you end up having to look at AAA games the size of Battlefield to see where it falls short. Minecraft-like games with similar voxel rendering can, and have been, done in Unity. In fact on the internal Nintendo Wii U dev forums I recall a Minecraft-clone was deep in development in Unity, but I think a lack of demand on the platform killed it
The ransomers are likely in another country which makes it harder to prosecute them.
I have an e-residency of Estonia and I'd say that it highy depends on what you want to achieve with it. There are a lot of things you still can't do with it and your presence in Estonia will be needed.
So if you want to run a sturtup and establish a company remotely, then Stripe Atlas program is a better option in my opinion.
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A common thing because of racism and wanting to keep poor people out. This is the city that Willie Mayes couldn't live in.
Very sloppy article

>This video shows the first in what Musk proposes to be a citywide network of underground tunnels

That video is clearly in the Hyperloop competition track.
Well, public transit is hard for the last mile to your destination. Having your own car with you, makes it pretty easy to go in and drive the "normal road" for the last miles.

Eliminating the busiest roads and removing traffic jams, seems to be the main goal, i suppose
Imagine wanting to quickly scan which attributes are required and which ones aren't. It used to be easy, find the "null" option with your eyes then scan downwards. Plus it just looks more messy now.
According to the main chart, songs in the top 10 are more likely to be repetitive, and that discrepancy has been growing. That raises the question, is there a causal link between being repetitive and reaching the top 10? If so, the answer to "Who's responsible for this madness?" is: the listeners.
I think you've just rekindled my interest in the game (I didn't enjoy the combat). Thanks!
What train runs downtown to LAX? The closest you could do today is take Blue from 7th/Flower to south central, transfer to Green and take that to the end of the line. And there's a 15-20 minute shuttle at the end of that before you're actually in the airport.
Faults don't suddenly show up for no reason out of the blue. So, the traditional solution is to treat fault lines as a special case and design for some shifting over the useful life of a tunnel.
That's why you build even more houses.
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I could see that.

I briefly worked for a company and it took 7 hours or so to configure a working local copy of their site pulled from GitHub. Ran into problems with PHP versions, MySQL datetime stuff... that was nuts though they used bower, npm, twig, composer (all related) but yeah.

It's a complicated code/company creating charts/maps from data so it's not "just a website".

crazy too how many years things take to develop. You hear some "popular thing" or something advertised even like "Zip Recruiter" for example, started in 2010.

Oh well the little dopamine hit from making something work is a good feeling.
Operations kept working, it just the office stuff that got down, and a bunch of web apps used to get status info on DSLAMS and bunch more subsistems. It is bad, but not as bad as a total disaster.
Grandiose rants about nations are close enough for internet purposes.
> if there's an unlocking mechanism it's possible someone can crack it.

Not at all. This is run-of-the-mill encryption. You pay the bitcoins, your computer receives the decryption key. There is no possible way to crack it, otherwise the entire internet would be broken. (i.e. TLS)
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use them all the time. been around a while though!
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The article alludes to speculation about permits, but Dennis Romero writing for the LA Weekly in February [1] noted that at the time, permits for a small pedestrian tunnel were not granted -- albeit required by state law. That's in addition to a filing required by the City of Hawthorne to allow for a 30-day public hearing period; it was the City that informed SpaceX to contact the state regulators.

I'd like to see more reporting on whether these permits were obtained after all.

[1] archived at http://archive.is/zgAMq
It looks like a promising piece of hardware (though I am not sure if it's an RPi Zero they're adding BT and Wifi to, or actually an RPi Zero W - which would be easier, you'd think). My last two cars both put their OBD II ports exactly where my left leg is under the steering wheel, so I hope they ship it with a short right-angle extension cable (I use a much shorter BT dongle to connect to my phone current, it doesn't project too far).
No, you are right, it was a motion to dismiss. I wrote the wrong type, but the evidentiary standards I listed are correct;)

As for press, yeah, it's frustrating and annoying, but such is the 24 hour news cycle
"[T]ax information, health records, etc." would likely be stored in SQL Server databases.

It looks like SQL Server import and export file formats are defined, but I am not aware that the native format is standardized.
I don't feel you're moronic and I absolutely get your sense of frustration, but welcoming a storm is implicitly saying that you think the suffering of some others is an acceptable price to pay for opening the eyes of the higher-ups. I'd like to suggest that the reason people in management don't listen to people in IT is because the people in IT aren't willing to make them, despite having direct and often primary access to the organizational levers of power.

Have you ever considered the possibility that management deliberately selects for this kind of passivity and conflict aversion when staffing IT departments, hiring exactly the sort of people who might roll their eyes or grumble at things but will reliably do what they're told?
The intended goal of the copyleft provisions of the GPL is to make it differentially easier for people to develop free software compared to proprietary software. Requiring that they pay in order to do the latter (while being able to do the former gratis) does that.
You achieved that jquery is not there anymore and that is us faster. That is quite a lot, objectively. It is gonna look that way after you get rest too.

And yes, people tend to have naive ideas about what is possible and people like to give brag suggestions.
I guess Mr. Musk is preparing infrastructure for his future projects. A auto driving taxi service would have some benefits from this project:

- convenient as taxi while being fast as subway trains.
- less likely to crash.
- easier to estimate transportation time.
It's floppy on the inside[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk#/media/File:Image3...
Working with the GC is definitely tricky, but I think it's a feature that works well for the majority of the games made with Unity and really only rears it's head in specific types of games of a specific size. Saying it kills realtime constraints for gaming is definitely a stretch. Open world games with no transitions for example, leave little room for natural GC calls, where as level based games can do things like call the GC at the start of each level and carefully budget allocations through out the level.
> Imo Text is the clearest thing you can put on a button to tell the user what that button does 'save' 'load' 'new game' etc. Yes, it will need to be translated, but thats simply putting in more work for a better product.

I strongly disagree. I'm looking at my browser chrome right now and if the back, forward, reload, home, and bookmark buttons were displayed as that, it would be _awful_.

Even thinking about my IDE, if IntelliJ said "Class with main method" instead of the little C with play button icon or "Library class for which source is decompiled", it would drive me insane. That's most certainly making a worse product.

It's all about the language you can create and sure, no one is going to learn a new language to play some 2 minute game, but lots of great interfaces require a new language. It's about optimizing for the experienced user instead of the newbie.

Of course there are places where it should be the other way around, but it's not universal.
I think $40/yr or $2/icon is too far out of reach for me to use these icons as a proof of concept, blog, or early website launches. I have a website idea which would use about 100 of these icons, but I can't justify the cost yet since it brings in no revenue.
> There's already a train that runs downtown to LAX

I'm assuming you're talking about the Green Line connecting with the Blue Line?

The Green Line doesn't stop at LAX. It stops outside of the airport, leaving passengers to take a cab for the last mile. Not to mention you have to hop a connection to the Blue Line, which doesn't stop at Union Station.
Did you really create an account just to say that?
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The tunneling project is unrelated to Hyperloop (or at least not directly related). The new proposed project is in the IG video description:

> This is a test run of our electric sled that would transport cars at 125 mph (200 km/h) through the tunnels, automatically switching from one tunnel to the next. Would mean Westwood to LAX in 5 mins.

Musk released a video of a new concept of underground tunnels moving vehicles in cities this past month.
So government agencies will negotiate with terrorists it seems?
Why hardly? I use geany everyday for "real" work.
Depends on the size of your lawn. If you have a little postage-stamp lawn, reel mowers are great. If you have a sizeable lawn (the kind you really need a riding mower for), then you're looking at hours and hours of backbreaking work every week.

The big problem with reel mowers is that they only work well when the grass is already short. If the grass grows too tall (which isn't that much), the mower just pushes the grass over, or gets bogged down in it. So you have to be absolutely religious in cutting the grass on time. I've used reel mowers at a couple of houses I've lived in; they were great when the grass area of the yard was tiny and the grass didn't grow too quickly. But where I am now, there's just no way.
If you'd ask the people in 1900s, they'd say the "right solution" is faster horses.

Public transit SUCKS. And I don't understand why people are pretending that it doesn't. Space efficiency and throughput are not the only important variables here. How about freedom? Once I take that train and reach my work, what if I have to go somewhere nearby work?

There's a reason cars exist. In your imaginary world, trains might be better than cars, but in the real world, cars are way better, even in those higher culture societies with planned cities like Scandinavia. Cars exist there too. Why? Because they do solve some problem, which I'd imagine could be comfort, freedom, privacy, hygiene, and many others I'm sure.
> I feel like writing a LISP in a gc'ed language is taking away most of the fun of it.

Try telling Rich Hickey that. There's also Kawa and Armed Bear Common Lisp running on the JVM.

If you write your interpreter in a non-garbage-collected language (e.g. C), you should use an explicitly declared stack for arguments, and have argument-free functions. Also, for functions which might call the garbage collector, you can't store any garbage collectable data in local variables either. It might be possible to have your garbage collector access the C call stack, but I wouldn't recommend that.

Three decades ago, my first attempt at implementing a Lisp interpreter in Pascal fell foul of this problem and occasionally recycled lists which were still in use. I soon figured out what was happening. I decided to replace the interpreter with a virtual machine and a compiler (and also a source-code interpreter for bootstrapping and the REPL), and I still use a descendent of this.
I have spent usually between 1-3 months to build MVPs..but you can't generalise as it really depends whats viable. Talk to your prospects to define what is viable. For enterprise softwares its usually longer due to various reasons.

My first product was into travel and we spent months just to build MVP that we thought was viable. Stupidest thing we could do. The product didn't go anywhere.

Second product was into logistics. I spent most of my initial month travelling in field with my cofounders and doing stuff manually. This helped me understand what was viable and build product in a month's time.

My third product was education platform. This was a funded startup so they had sales people. I used them to gather information. Like what profs think about the problem space, what students think then what type of devices are they using, do they have good internet access. This greatly helped us figure out whats minimum that we need in product. Like we discovered that students in our country rarely have a laptop or desktop. They use desktops in school's lab.

My current product is about team productivity. I am on call with most of my ex colleagues, friends to figure out what would be minimum. My problem statement is kind of validated as most have felt a need for solution.

So spend more time with prospects to figure out MVP or MRP (Minimum Remarkable Product).
A GP in the NHS may see as many as 70 or more patients per day. Multiply that by half a dozen or more of those doctors working in a medium or large practice, and even just losing this morning's data potentially means hundreds of patients being affected if the server at that surgery is compromised. That's for a single surgery; there are dozens of surgeries in my city alone.

In the NHS, GPs are usually the first point of contact for anything serious that doesn't result in an immediate trip to hospital, as well as for general medical advice or minor treatment, so the effects could be anything from disrupting someone's recovery from a sports injury to losing a referral to a specialist for something serious like cancer or a heart condition.

Obviously if this affects the systems used by the specialists who are actively treating serious conditions, the consequences could also be horrendous: lost records of appointments, medical histories, test results that can take weeks to obtain, etc.

There will, sadly, be nothing cheap about the lesson here. The cost will almost certainly be measured in human lives, and whoever did this should be charged with at least attempted murder.
Not to mention points of interest on maps!
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Regardless, that sled is in the mile-long track they built for the competition they held. They may not have depressurized it, however.

The actual tunnel is just a starter currently, as Musk said. They're only now putting in the TBM.
> the defendant seems to think (for some reason I do not understand...) that you have to sign something in order to have a contract

I know, right? I'm really baffled that any lawyer would even try that argument. That's like, first or second week of first semester contract law right there.
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I'm using Google Fi as my voice provider. It's not an awesome solution and requires a very specific phone, but I do get three things that really help with the spam calls:

* I can manage a list of spam and blocked callers online in addition to on the phone. This lets me move blocked call management off the phone and onto the carrier.

* I never have to answer my phone or listen to my voicemail: the transcripts have gotten to be very good, and appear relatively quickly after a call is received.

* Calls are flagged when I receive them, and probable spam calls are marked as such when the phone rings.
The real advantage is scaling up the number of machines so you can iterate more cheaply, and add capacity continuously. They can always scale up a design at some point in the future.

As to tunnel exits, the goal is not to have 3 or 4 exits per city but hundreds. Even single lane roads can send vastly more people than any one building needs the problem is the longer the roads the more buildings you need to serve. So, his solution is to have multiple layers of grids under the surface.
>Another great example is password rotation. The law demands you have a password rotation policy. It doesn't say what that policy should be. Most auditors have settled on 90 days.

This is false. SOX does not require that you have a password rotation policy. It requires that you have a password control policy, which may or may not include password rotation.

Likewise, I've worked at a company whose idea of SOX compliance was mandating a VP to sign off on every code commit, and I've also worked at a company whose idea of SOX compliance was mandating that someone sight off on every code commit. The former had a 90-day password rotation policy, the latter didn't have a rotation policy at all.
I can just imagine some over-worked scribe attempting to draw one of the more complex shapes like:

https://thenounproject.com/browse/?i=1037952
https://thenounproject.com/term/keyboard/1018886/

I think there was a reason Chinese wasn't based upon the images of the things they were writing about!
I put up a couple of hundred icons that I'd drawn previously up with a public domain license. Here are the download counts and royalties from the last 10 months for reference:
http://i.imgur.com/clNZWUk.png
A coworker paid one for an organisation he helps out with it issues. The files were unlocked
I'm kind of a petrolhead, but a friendly mechanic can give you the right tip if you feed him enough info about what needs you have. you need to be flexible tho, some good model are ugly or may not fit your personal style
The paradigm of "saving" is going away. In "new" apps this can hardly be found. Users expect that all stuff is saved automatically all the time. Files and such are a legacy from the old desktop world.
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I'd also like to know more about your Masters program. My first degree was in graphic design and I've been working as a developer for a few years. I'm currently taking undergrad courses part time in CS and have been looking through Masters programs. Thanks for sharing and also best of luck!
That really depends. Can you imagine photoshop's interface if it were all text? This is an extreme example but more generally I think text is better for discoverability but icons are better for visual memory and thus better suited for buttons in applications you use often.

On desktop there are always tool tips. On touch interfaces this was not yet figured out.
Interesting, I'm not familiar with the RC market at all. I've looked into e-bike, electric car, and wind power projects before, and I definitely found the choice of motors was often one of the most limiting factors. I've followed projects where people have built there own motors, but I've never seen anyone build a custom motor using custom lamination. I've seen more motors made out of wood than I can count though.

Honestly, I think this is one of those things where the market doesn't exist until it exists. Someone could probably create a market for it by creating some cool projects in certain fields using custom cut metal lamination. If you offered to make custom lamination at cost for people who were building their own projects, they'd end up posting about it, and soon enough people would realize that you could make things with custom lamination.

That being said, I definitely don't have the technical expertise to judge whether inexpensive custom lamination is even possible, or if it's one of those things where you build a super cool company that makes just enough money to keep you in poverty.
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I've never heard of Steve Chen or Daniel Hills and I've been involved for about 15 years.

It's absurd to expect everyone here to hold the same knowledge of the world as you.
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What is it doing at that time? "adb logcat" might shed some light.
> Will homo-sapiens still exist in 10,000 years? maybe. 100,000 years? doubtful. 1,000,000 years? nope.

If civilization does not collapse in the next mere 1,000 years, I'm very bullish on technology indistinguishable from magic, which would come very handy in assuring our continued survival well into the billions of years.
Labour won't attack on this because they know it might have happened to them just as easily, whereas it fits the Tory narrative that "the NHS is useless and should be privatised" with almost no spin.
On my Mac back when I used to play a couple years ago, I saw random slowdowns. I tried various voodoo Java VM parameter tweaking and it didn't entirely fix it. Based on my searches I'm not alone.

Maybe it worked perfectly on your boxes, but there's something rather fragile and machine-dependent about Minecraft performance.