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I see a couple of problems with your arguments.

> First of all, the guy is stretched way too thin. He runs two huge companies. Now he is starting some other company to be even more distracted. (Boring company)

He has done that for a while and both his companies have thrived. That said, he himself only took control of Tesla because of bad times and want to leave he reached a certain point.

SpaceX is what he really want to do.

The Boring Company is basically a hobby.

He will continue to do fine.

> It sounds like he really pushes his workers way too hard. I wouldn't want to work at one of his companies. Long hours, a lot of stress, and you're underpaid!

Lots of stuff gets made where you wouldn't want to work. Tesla workers have better condition then most people in the world.

Plus I'm sure this is not something new, now the media has just discovered this topic and is pushing it.

I'm sure we could find many of the same stories for other companies, but nobody in the media gives a fuck if somebody works a 16h shift at some small company in the middle of nowhere. If we want to talk about this stuff we should talk about actual statistics and not periodic media flairs.

> They are building cars that real people will drive. You can't rush or cut corners with something that will kill people.

His cars are proven to be saver then other cars already. How bad do you think they can mess up in order to undo that advantage. Musk is a business person and he understand that there are diminishing returns, sure they could spend the next 3 years writing the perfect software, but that would be nonsensical.

Also no other car company does it (given the quality of software we observe). Why are you applying a different standard, specially when its already saver.

> I really fear if he doesn't step back and change his ways a bit, he just won't be able to hire and retain the talent needed to change the world.

I feel like if SpaceX/Tesla were not making super modern things that techis and environmentalist love nobody would care about any of these issues in his company. There seems to be a need to hold him to different standards.
Thanks. I really have no idea why it was flagged ... I will try to add an anonymized report.
It's a process the CEO tried to start, never became binding because they are incorporated in Delaware which doesn't recognize B corps, and can't finish because he doesn't have buy-in from the owners of the company.

So it's temporary status doesn't belie the fact it's not going to be one and shouldn't be treated as one.
This is a great and really honest talk. I really enjoyed it. In particular the description of how one risks spending too much time building something that no one really wants but everyone is kind enough to tell you is a good idea.
If the timeline is so tight that there's no buffer zone for QA, exploration, etc then someone isn't doing their job properly.

Either expectations set by the developer, improper buffer added by the project manager, or lack of push back against the client.
1 out of 70 is pretty damn huge. We have global campaigns about preventing cancers that are less dangerous than car accidents. There was panic over Ebola, which killed essentially nobody compared to car accidents.

Yet the general response to 1/70 people deaths being because of cars is "meh, oh well."
> I'm sure the percentage of applications that actually require administrative privileges to perform tasks is in the single digits or lower.

This is probably true. I'm surprised we don't get after companies for unnecessarily requiring admin with their apps.
The Bolt EV 0-60mph is rated at 6.5s. That's amazingly fast.
shrug you can't always get what you want, man. If he's tearing up and down your local neighborhood street that's one thing, but it's hard to feel sympathy for someone annoyed by a loud car when its out and about among hundreds of other cars.

Can't you just roll the window up till he's gone? It's not like it's hard to avoid a loud car.
Guess who's getting fat off DRAM shortages? Yep,DRAM makers
They did not consider at least three very important factors: field of dergree, type of institution, age.
>but if they liquidated the company, they would have more than that in the cash alone!

Someone has to buy that though, right?

I'm sure a ton of people would buy a lot of pieces of a liquidated Apple, but what other effects on the economy does a suddenly-liquidated Apple have since it's such a major company? Does Apple take any other companies with it?

The only way to insulate yourself completely and still benefit is to only own Apple shares, otherwise, Apple going down is going to affect the rest of your position.

What if they continue to trade below the cash that they are holding for 10+ years?

Plus, since they use tax havens, what happens to that cash if someone did liquidate Apple? Wouldn't it have to come back to America and would be taxed heavily?
Focus on how to market that landing page before creating it. its a waste of time ab testing 100 visitors
Furthermore it's harder for developers to learn these things if they have a pay out of pocket for them. I know a lot of people who'd love to dive into kubernetes but don't feel like dropping $200+ to use it in a semi-production environment on GCP or AWS. The free $50-100 credits these services provide does not last long when the services are presumably designed to be used much more then that!
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The Guardian ran an entertaining no-holds-barred review of his book "Worst. Person. Ever." when it came out 4 years ago: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/sep/25/worst-person-e...
It's something that takes tons and tons of practice. The more positions and tactics and openings you burn into your long term memory the less you need to keep in short term memory.

The best players in the world have put so many thousands of hours into the game that they can beat casual players trivially without thinking more than one move ahead. They owe this ability to having vast knowledge of fundamentals and theoretical lines in all the most common positions. This is how they are able to win simultaneous exhibitions against a large number of casual players.
Personal value precedes network value
my beef is with 'val' being keyword. How many variables did you name val in all your coding? I certainly did.
And paid very well in Brazil too. Much above the average here.
It's headquartered in Delaware. It's B Corp status isn't binding there, and never will be, because they chose to IPO and sold much of the company to investors who don't want that.
I think it's posing in the extreme. I recently got an SV650, and no matter what pipe you put on the thing, it's just not going to sound like a Harley or Busa or whatever. Mildly disappointing but then again, if I tried to get it to sound like a bigger bike, I'm kinda just lying.

Nothing amuses me more than a riced out camry with a glasshatter pipe hitting high revs and then just kinda putting off the line. All bark no bite.
He did this mostly because they believed it would keep people working for him and they needed good assembly workers. That they picked a number that could make the car affordable was more or less a happy accident.
I'm not scared of moving at 80 mph; I'm scared of what arbitrary human beings can do (by accident or on purpose) with their vehicle, in the opposite lane of non-divided highways, when we have 160 mph of relative velocity (i.e. ~100k newton-seconds of impulse on impact, assuming 2tn vehicles.)
This doesn't surprise me tbh. It's the same situation except you're not shackled by yesterday's commitments and free to act independently of them .
Of course, silly me. I misunderstood the genius here.
I play 30 minutes games and still don't have enough time to think my moves though. It's amazing for me how people can play blitz or bullet games
The article has been been silently edited since original posting time. I just checked the version I read in the morning and indeed, it never said anything about salting.

The original quote is:

>The reason you’re reading this blog post is because of a recent discovery by our security team - about 17 million user records from our database were stolen. The stolen information has user email addresses and hashed passwords.

?The hashed password cannot be converted/decrypted back to plain text - so the sanctity of your password is intact in case you use the same password for other services. But if you are paranoid about security like us, we encourage you to change your password for any other services where you are using the same password.
DARPA is DoD.
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Those are both great cars in their element. When the MX-5 debuted in 1989 it had IIRC 110 horsepower, and for many motorsports purposes was utterly dominant. There is something to be said for balance in a sports car.
Would love to see a similar article on motorcycle improvements. Seems like the line between top-of-the-line MotoGP bikes and the most expensive street bikes is becoming quite thin.
Hope we never see "looks exactly like Java syntax but behaves differently when you run it" like we see in Apache Groovy, e.g. their == operator acts differently to Java's.
It looks to me like it violates the Show HN rules by being just a sign-up instead of something people can try out.

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
How much does it cost? The Mac app store link simply redirects to https://www.apple.com/macos/what-is/ (wtf, apple?)
What are you trying to accomplish by posting this?
42 hours a week in a physically demanding job is very, very different from 42 hours in a chair.

I did a temp job ages ago at a warehouse for 3 weeks, the first of which I was required to pack and move boxes, 8 hours a day, 5 days a week (2 15 minute breaks and 20 minutes for lunch, complete with a bell telling you when these things were happening). That first week was brutal.

Fortunately at the end of the first week I demonstrated that I was an order of magnitude faster at operating the computer for that packing line than the guy who was running it (also a temp) and I got to stop doing the physical labor so the remaining time was less terrible.
This is due to the rising power curve of ICE.
Working at a large company migrating from our own datacenters to AWS where our monthly bill is approaching 8 figures.

The higher ups were lured in with promises of easy elasticity that'd allow them to save money compared to our relatively overprovisioned DCs but the reality is that only some projects that benefit from this and certain teams which need large numbers of heavy duty servers for baseline usage are much more expensive.

We have an internal team of 5-6 who are responsible just for building infrastructure on AWS for other teams and prodding teams to get into AWS.
Not scrum-specific, and I don't recall whether it was backed by academic research, but one of the rules in XP is that estimates longer than 3 weeks were (more) unreliable. So if the estimate was longer than 3 weeks, you had to break it up into chunks, each of which was 3 weeks or smaller.
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I'm curious what the median salary is in these data centers.
The article's thesis seems to be less about those guys and more about naive investors who saw them making money and figured it couldn't be that hard.
I don't think all squaddies in a brick (fire team) carry a javelin from what I have seen they go on the back of the jackal or Coyote.
You are right, I was referring to it's peak price on IPO day. It did sell it's shares for $16 in the IPO. But either way it's performance has been horrid, 3 years of a -20% is bad enough but it actually slipped to $7 at one point and has only recovered to $12.97 because the CEO got canned and a private equity firm is trying to restructure the entire business.
Why Unity Will Power the Future of Virtual and Augmented Reality
I completely agree with this. I believe that staff scientists should be treated as independent researchers. In my experience, they tend to be used as lab support, for example, ordering reagents, managing the annoying aspects of big projects, etc. etc.

As a post-doctoral fellow who would rather not be a principle investigator, I would love a job where I can work independently on my own research projects with a reasonable wage.
> JetBrains is doing this, not Google. Google is only going to collaborate with JetBrains to help with the Android support.

Jetbrains isn't doing anything differently with Kotlin from what they've been doing for the past 7 years. The headline here is "Google officially supports Kotlin on Android," and that is what has HN so excited. Regardless of how the work involved in supporting Kotlin on Android is split, this represents a guarantee that did not exist before. If all Jetbrains employees were abducted by aliens tomorrow, Google will now still have committed to first-class support of Kotlin through the next couple of major versions of Android.

> then it also breaks the same app written in java. Because the good thing about kotlin is that it is transparent, it generates bytecode as java does. So from the point of view of the platform there is no difference between kotlin and java.

They share the same compilation target, not the same semantics and idioms. Just because Go, Haskell, C and LuaJIT all target x86 assembly does not mean a Linux kernel update won't break a properly-written program in one of those languages but not the others. This in fact happens all the time.

> This makes me think you don't know how kotlin works. You can mix java and kotlin files in the same app and call methods from one to the other without problems.

I was answering their question generically. But first-class official support means that, for example, if Google adds a new feature to the [Java] Android Runtime, they will, where relevant, now ensure it's implemented in the official Android Kotlin compiler as well as the Java compiler.
The link points back to this page.
> That said, it was such an emotional an psychological effort I'm not sure how anyone could ever do this to earn money. I had a very very large leveraged bet, that could have easily went south. Flipping is crazy.

Because at the time people were saying that housing values would never go down.
Well it is culturally ignorant tho I won't call it insensitive.

Why do they do it? Because they can :-)

Is it comfortable? Sure it is, if you've been used to sitting that way for most of your life.

Is it clean? No more cleaner than riding the subway in a major metro or sitting at a park bench or some such. You do notice that they have a rug or some such on which they squat and even if they don't, people tend to keep the areas where they sit relatively clean.

You have to understand that irrespective of where people come from there always is a personal sense of hygiene, it may vary from person to person but by and large there is not a glaringly large variance in what is considered clean by most humans.

Btw, kids in India and Indian adults out of India have also been known to enjoy sitting on the floor :-)
Let's not forget that grass is what they have evolved to eat. The fact that we can get away with feeding them food that is 10x more calorie dense does not make that approach correct. As others have said, the most environmentally friendly solution is to drastically reduce consumption of animals, regardless of what we feed them.
I know some unemployed PhDs in their late 30s that are always low-balled when looking for a job, looked down upon because they didn't manage to become successful titans of industry earlier... PhD is either a ticket to the highest echelon of the society or a life-long poverty.
I don't have the back data to test this, so I would not invest in this manner...
Preferring tabs to spaces makes sense when you're using variable width fonts?
It probably does, but the amount of money day traders have riding at a time is probably not so large comparatively.
I have a pedal-powered bicycle that dusts ICE cars at stop lights. For, like, 5 metres...

Not only does it take a while to get all that machinery rolling, doing it quickly kills your gas mileage. Most drivers aren't drag-racing out of the stoplights.
Except road "accidents" are the biggest killer of teenagers aged 10-19, people who are pretty much on the lowest possible spot on the natural mortality curve:

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-39920052

For many of those, it was someone else deciding to drive that killed them.

So yes, if you take slanted statistics and add some "but look over there" rationalizations... well, you still end up at "1 in 3 accidental deaths".

What you should be looking at is comparative injury rates for other methods of transport such as rail or tram. The picture is rather shocking, but even more concerning is the lack of a safety culture in the car manufacturers and ultimately the agencies regulating them and the vehicles on the road. Every plane crash has a root cause investigation, but we still have the same truck designs with massive blind spots because...? By the time autonomous driving becomes a reality cars will still have side mirrors with blind spots, you can't make this stuff up.
if they provide you with $300 of free credit how can that be anything other than a loss leader?

They're providing you something for free, which costs them money to provide...
I assume it got flagged because it looks scammy at best. This is a one-page site with practically no information offered about the service supposedly being provided, no information at all about the company behind it, and the signup button takes you straight to a card payment popup. Honestly, I find it difficult to believe this is a real attempt at a launch.

It's quite common when someone posts something to 'Show HN' for some of the more affluent member of this community to sign up just to see if it works; perhaps the flaggers feel this website has been set up to take advantage of this.
Just wait until one of us disrupts factories with the gig economy.
For playing I like tChess (on iOS). It costs money but was worth it for me.

No puzzles though.
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People forget sometimes that the ARPAnet was a closed Internet. And it didn't have some of the problems of todays internet like spam for that same reason. (you could be kicked off) And the thing that lived alongside of it was FIDOnet and Usenet which exploited another closed network (the switched network service known as the telephone network) to run a parallel and notionally "open" internet.

Then (as now) the challenge was that for long distance communication you needed someone who was paying for that infrastructure. The way it typically worked was that a big company like Xerox which nominally had a coast to coast telephone system that was being maintained for corporate reasons but had excess capacity, was notionally "ok" with a couple of engineers creating a 'tunnel' between the west coast and the east coast. Locally people would use their 'free calling zone' to call.

We have companies that have their own wide area networks, and we have things like software defined radios and ISM bands that allow for nominally low cost 'hops'. Is it time to dig up the old Usenet architecture?
Exactly my thoughts I am willing to accept the ridiculous pricing for web dynos considering that they provide a load-balancer / SSL / ability to quickly scale up etc. But running worker dynos or CI with same pricing just doesn't makes any sense.
I'm very interested in and motivated towards mounting an attempt to bring munifiber to my city.

Few things have been bugging me though: what vectors do ISPs compete upon if they're all renting the lines at the same price? How would one be able to offer similar speeds for less price? What value-added services can they possibly offer?

If someone could answer these questions for me, then I'll have the ammo to seriously consider bringing this to my local legislators. I've tried searching the internet and I can't find any detailed pieces, they all speak at a high, fluffy level.
Looks like a mobile layout that is "responsive" in higher resolutions only by adding some extra elements to surround the fixed-width central container.
I don't care for the gendered/colored emojis, some people want them, I ignore them, everyone is happy.

But I really don't understand replacing the blobs with yet another boring variation of Apple emojis, like Twitter, FB, Samsung, ... I'm also a big fan and I believe it's a unique feature that makes Android stand out (even before KitKat, the green droids were pretty fun). I always found Android apps that embed Apple emojis infuriating, but now everyone will get ugly emojis, I guess it solves the problem.
He's entitled to 1/3 of the founders shares. He's not entitled to any new shares and they have the ability to issue as many new shares as they want. Their only restriction is that the shares have to be fairly valued, so they might have to issue them as options with high purchase prices.
Everything we've needed to do at my shop just works on Azure and we can do a lot of it from visual studio. AWS might have the same features but we haven't hit a wall yet were we needed to go looking, and frankly I think my corporate overlords are just more comfortable with Microsoft considering the number of other products of theirs that we use.
"Don't worry you'll never reach the superstar level. There's always time and space for improvement".

Still not a superstar, but my code became better in the last 4 years.
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They never did.

If you use the definition of a startup as "still searching for a business model" and not "any company of any age and size as long as it's involved in technology", then there's no reason for them to apply for a patent.

By the above definition, startups haven't yet figured out what is their exact product, what is their business model etc. There's nothing there to protect with patents yet.

And what also follows, they're not successful yet so no-one will sue them for patent infringement. Lawsuits are about money. If there's no money to extract, there's no point in suing.
>> any product whose use is regulated by any law in any jurisdiction
> handmade doll clothes and wigs

Toy safety? For example, all the "toy" sections of 16 CFR Part 1500?[1]

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/16/part-1500
Found via a link on my (shameless plug) "A feel for: torque"[2], under 10^-1 Newton-meters.
[2] http://www.clarifyscience.info/part/ZoomB?v=A&p=CK6Ji&m=torq...
Amazon Cloud Drive does not work anymore with rclone
Not just adults, but children sit on the floor as well.

Anyways, yes, it is a cultural thing. If you do it all the time, it is comfortable enough. What Westerner's perceive as uncomfortable is not uncomfortable at all.

Don't forget that Western style toilets are also a relatively new thing, so sitting Western style is actually less common (but is now common in post modern India).

Also, Indians are generally very fastidious and clean. Paradoxically, India itself is quite dirty since the concept of cleanliness in India is usually limited to one's immediate habitat. Sweeping, dusting and mopping is a daily chore in Indian homes unlike the West.

The images in this particular article do not portray a very clean environment though, I'll grant you that.
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"Free Tier" is "60 CPU minutes / day" [1]. That's barely enough time to create the default project in Visual Studio and build it, let alone do some trial development off of it.

[1]: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/app-servic...
Advanced I'd suggest is subjective, however Google cloud has not been running longer than AWS (GCP started in 2008 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Cloud_Platform), AWS started in 2006 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Web_Services), with Azure coming along a bit after those two in 2010 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Azure)
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Being a landlord is a great deal if you have lots of properties across which to amortize your risk. It's maybe OK if it's a multi-family home you live in. But one or two rental properties seems quite risky.
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