skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, I get that a Tesla costs more than the median yearly income in the US, but $13k for a sub-10mph crash seems excessive. Repairs for a similarly priced BMW or Volvo would likely be less, knowing a few people involved in accidents with expensive vehicles like those.

Meanwhile, I'm gonna stick to buying used for less than the cost of your accident :P
Backers Abandon Laurene Powell Jobs' $10M Oakland Super School Project
It's useful to review what the computing landscape looked like back then. The choice of language was either fortran, cobol, or assembler. And if you were automating business processes, your programs were reading fixed length lines of data off a tape.
So compared to assembler, cobol was a dream. Sure it was a dead end, and its creators seemed to lack the insight and sophistication of the Algol creators, but no one ever claimed it to be a general purpose language, and it did its job well.
Sure it's fun to bloviate, denigrate, and opine, in ignorance, but there are good reasons why it was widely used for so long, and why there are billions of loc still in production.
Hypothesis: Aluminum Body and frame cars are still in the minority and require more careful/specialized/costlier repairs.
Black-bar worthy?
Fire Me I Beg You (2012)
This is written by someone without a good grasp on grammar.

> get pregnant

become

> her child

this is used two times in one paragraph as though referring to one and the same entity, although the succeeding paragraph claims the opposite case as essential to the whole premises.

> The Nonidentity Problem

this linked to article suffers from the same lack of (grammatical) precision.

> an act that confers on a person an existence

What is that even supposed to mean?! Granted, that touches on the essential problem central to philosophy and takes a fast and loose short cut instead of getting into semantics, but to me that's the whole point of philosophy, so why skimp on it.

The whole argument should remain egoistic instead of digressing. The non-sequitur follows from the focus on non-existence. Ex nihilo nihil, ex falso quodlibet.
Along with Splendor you may want to checkout Machi Koro. Both my girls like playing it.
I'm becoming convinced they are saboteurs. See all the projects that descended into chaos over codes of conduct.
rurban (and frik and wulfklaue) do not seem to feel that it is a valid position for me to take.
What do you have to use in this case? A large needle bearing along the motor ring? How much noise does that make?

Is it possible to have a water-bearing with injected high-pressure water in a small area, or will that use as much power as the propulsion?
"why do you have a feature that cannot see an obstacle in the middle of the road called autopilot?"

Answering this with "it crashes less than your average driver!" is not an answer to that question, despite being true. If a Boeing plane crashes on autopilot, Boeing cannot dismiss questions about safety of the system by saying "hey, our planes on autopilot crash less than manually controlled planes!", even though that is true.
I think that the reason why people dismiss "duck and cover" is that they think it's issued as a recommendation for surviving inside the lethal radius.
I have three screens but the two on the outside are doubles (extra width ) so i use 5.
>> in the UK ...

I did mention England, Belgium, France, Middle East, Philippines, USA, Egypt: so scale geographically ISIS wins. I didn't mention Canada, Sweden, Africa, Turkey.

For if it's about numbers, would you say IRA has killed more people than ISIS? Did the IRA use sex slaves like ISIS did with Yazidi prisoners as in the New York Times piece I linked? These guys are targeting all different sorts of groups in almost all continents.

And if nations security apparatus were not fighting ISIS and Al Qaeda, do you think there would be less or more violence? In other words, are they satisfied with sovereignty in some limited geographical area, or would they try to do as much damager wherever they could?
"A project like this might attract new developers because it might be less intimidating than joining the Linux kernel proper."

Quite possible, but for the new project to be successful, existing _users_ will have to see clear benefits. The only way I can see those "new developers, using Rust" make a better product than "current developers with sometimes decades of experience, using C" if those experienced developers currently create lots of ownership related bugs.

IMO, _any_ argument claiming the way forward is a (partial) rewrite in Rust should start with some estimate of the number of ownership related bugs in the current code base.
I miss steel bodywork. This kind of "collision" in a 1980s vehicle would require a little hammering to pop out the resulting dent, and a little touch-up paint. Modern cars, it seems like you breathe on them, and they shatter and you're replacing entire quarter-panels or front-end assemblies.

Somebody backed into the front corner of my pickup truck at about 2 mph. Put a little crack into the plastic bumper, that continues into the front quarter panel. I'm glad I don't care about my vehicles looking 100% perfect, as I've no doubt that it'd be in the shop for a week, torn completely apart, and would cost a couple grand. It's ridiculous.
So in what way did you change your org to reflect the software structure, re. the grandparent comment?

My reply was about orgs, not your software. Since orgs are made of people, they are distributed systems.
These are indeed "arguments". There is an actual reason though. Mars cannot be terraformed because it has no magnetosphere. Which is also probably why it is like it is now in the first place. Creating a magnetosphere is not impossible theoretically but vastly unrealistic at this time.
http://nelp.3cdn.net/98b449fce61fca7d43_j1m6iizwd.pdf

This has been done. Dube, Lester, Reich is a very rigorous study that compares all minimum wage increases across all state borders between 1990 and 2006. It controls for most things.

No effect on employment was found, period.
Since you're here, what's your take on why Clojure has become so popular lately (compared to the mindshare that Common Lisp or Scheme seem to have nowadays)? Although I've barely touched Lisp (and never touched Clojure), it seems weird to me that Clojure is so widely used compared to other Lisps. From what I can tell, the main differences are that it's on the JVM (obviously) and that it uses loops rather than recursion, but neither of these really explain to me why things like ClojureScript exist instead of "SchemeScript" or something like that. Do you think it's related to the ideas presented in the blog post, or is there something I'm missing?
Perhaps it's because you need data to arrive at the correct pricing and if you price too high, you won't get that data. It may make sense to lose a little bit initially during the data gathering stage to more quickly arrive at an accurate pricing model than to overestimate and allow your competition to gather all the data.
A layter version (this pdf is cited as [34])

http://inference-review.com/article/a-country-known-only-by-...
>> I don't think the parent doubts the runtimes or is claiming that the code for his pet language wasn't written properly and therefore the site is a sham. <<

We could always take the parent at their word -- "Now i know these are Potemkin-village level stunts and political maneuvering by language activists and staff of that site.".
> My mentor suggested to stay at Google until I find an interesting startup idea to work on.

This is a sound piece of advice.

However, it looks like you're very keen on traveling. Maybe you can take a 3-month unpaid sabbatical from Google, and see what it feels like?
Because life is fundamentally good. People spend a lot of time talking about how there is no such thing as good or evil, but when it comes down to it, no rational person would believe it. We all know that life is fundamentally good, and that the loss of it would be a great evil. Just like we all realize that rape and murder are intrinsically evil.
Fred Brooks on COBOL - https://cycle-gap.blogspot.in/2009/08/fred-brooks-on-cobols-...
Rory Sutherland is a truly unique guy. I saw him speaking a few times while worked at a sister company, and was always impressed by his ability to pack so much information in his talks, and so eloquently. Plus, he's hilarious.
In Europe we have two types of insurance:

Compulsory liability insurance - this one pays out for damages and injuries to the victim of a collision you caused.

Comprehensive insurance - covers everything even if you are the cause of accident.

>the owners of the Model X file for claims 41 percent more often than average,

What exactly does that mean? Did they cause the accident, or did someone else rear ended their Tesla? This smells like victim blaming.
Sounds great in theory.

The dirty reality is that text is the lowest common denominator, and as such, most reusable.

Speaking of Microsoft, I would rather manage flat config files than structured registry editors.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14465534

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14475846
Lol! Truth.
It depends where you are. Some people do strongly see it as not gender-neutral, and will loudly criticise you for using it even if you mean it in a gender-neutral way. Which is a shame, because while language is important there are probably other bits of language that are worse.

Ireland has "hey lads" as a gender-neutral term which surprised me the first few times I heard it.
> No matter the methodology in this report, common sense tells otherwise.

And it's common sense that the mercury in vaccines is neurotoxic, no matter what those studies say. We don't need any fancy book-learnins here!

> It's a basic economic tenant that as the price of a good or service rises, less is consumed.

We're all familiar with Econ 101, thanks. But there is in fact a great deal of empirical evidence that the real world in general, and labor markets in particular, do not adhere to these extremely simplistic models.
"Banks seems to have many layers of checking for potentially suspicious activity,..."

I don’t think so. I had this kind of incident and nobody from bank noticed it (60 euro paid over night 3:35 AM from central europe to fake company somwhere in tax paradise, summer 2014). If i asked why and how it was possible, they replied with formal letter how much sorry they are. Nothing more.

I was in touch with ViSA guys and they confirmed payment as fraud and returned my money back to me.

Around 10 years ago i was in national bank. We had small project for entrance gateway automation. Control unit was strange DIY solution.

Banks aren’t so secure as we think. At least in my country.

I worked for big oil company and even their infrastructure and solutions are far from ideal. So i don’t have false expectations about security.
Of course leaving a well-paid job for your dreams is scary -- you don't have a plan! That's not a criticism, that's just how it works. If you were comparing two plans, you could more easily decide what's better. But right now you're comparing "stay with what I know" with "maybe my dreams will come true or maybe I'll die a failure in two weeks".

My advice? Go talk to a therapist (not a mentor, but an actual psychologist) about what you want to do. That person can help you figure out what you're afraid of, and how you can deal with it.
I know some googlers who described the engineering culture as hiring the brightest people to work on the dullest stuff. It's a giant company and lots of people do amazing things. But not everyone there is having a blast working on the cutting edge stuff. Someone has to maintain the google web toolkit gmail codebase.
Large axial thrust => tapered roller bearing, usually.
If the makeup matters enough to cause an emotion then yes you are racist/sexist.
>> Now i know these are Potemkin-village level stunts and political maneuvering by language activists and staff of that site. <<

That's just name-calling.
Amazing. Is the Forth interpreter / compiler from Green Arrays?
It already is. Tesla is arguing that the Model S shouldn't be compared to cars like the 38k XC70 because it is in a higher (more expensive) class, which is what AAA is doing.
I have enough scars from complex Golang-applications; I'm just wrapping up a port of a 5kloc Golang-codebase to C++ and one of the things that struck me is how much declaring intentions and having them checked by the compiler helps. It's not that easy to prove decreased readability, it's more a gut-feeling of additional effort being required to keep track of everything. It's an issue I've found in any language that favors structural sub-typing, it's just that Golang is pretty exceptional at bragging about about it. What saves Golang in my opinion is the possibility of declaring types in hierarchies, which solves some of the problems; but you still have the issue where random types are part of a hierarchy without any hints in the code except for which methods are implemented.
If you have a good relationship with your employer you should be able to say "Hey I want to try something else for a while, but if things don't work out, I'd love to keep the doors open on both sides."

I've done this before with a few jobs, one of which I went back to after I left and the other thing I was pursuing didn't pan out. In the time I was gone I learned a tremendous amount about myself and what's possible. If you can something like this set this up, it's only a win-win.

A few reasons to not try something like this:
(A) - you're worried you'll set back any career path you were on track for at google
(B) - you're worried they won't take you back

Have no comment on (A) b/c for me I'm more interested in personal growth than specific career track at a specific company.

If (B) holds, why wouldn't they take you back? Top engineers are hard to come by. If you can't make a convincing case that you're in that top category of engineer, then what has working for Google earned you these past few years? (Other than $..)
I don't think anyone was asking "What is the purpose in having a bug in your autopilot?"

I think people were asking "Is your autopilot actually dependable/safe?"

And that latter question is what Musk was responding to.
If there are no humans around to appreciate the aesthetic value of mars as is, then what's the point? I think human survival trumps the ascetic of a dead planet.
And I guess We don't need any fancy book-learnins here when it comes t basic economic principles either
Never worked at Google, but do you think you could take a sabbatical or long vacation to travel and think? I think the risk profile would be lower since if you do come up with something solid, you could leave, and if you don't, you'd still have a job. Maybe consider doing a side hustle as well? Or part timing or working remote to get away from it all.

You shouldn't leave google because of all the smart people you have around, which isn't the same in a startup world, and because there are multiple projects and divisions and companies you could jump to in order to learn about different things. You should do a startup if you have an itch and an idea that makes money and you like doing.
UBports Has a Lot of Work This Summer for Letting Ubuntu Touch Live On
The big plastic bumpers on the Ford Ka were designed to survive city driving as well as comply with the law for motorway speed requirements of safety. The original version of the a had the same bumpers in the same black plastic regardless of the car colour. However, the version 2 Ka had colour coded bumpers, as if this 'easy to park' headline feature mattered not. The updated bumpers will show scratches whereas the black bumpers were visually more forgiving of damage.

So 'bumpers that you can hit things with' failed the market test (as did bull bars).
And if anyone were still undecided about SMS 2 factor security, attackers can simply call your provider and fwd all messages to a 2nd number, possibly without you being notified of the change. The susceptibility probably varies across providers.
No matter the methodology in this report, common sense tells otherwise.

Common sense says that complex systems behave in unexpected ways. Seeing wages only as a market is naive. Wages provide money to be expeded in other markets. Unemployed people tend to look for alternative income sources, legal or otherwise, or move. Poor people get sick, commit crimes that in turn causes more needs in other parts of the system.
A bit late for this thread, but, still, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lb13ynu3Iac
The was talk of using OpenCASCADE in solvespace, but it has not happened. If it's the source of crashes in FreeCAD then maybe that's not a good idea.
There are three effects minimum wages can have:

1) They come directly from profits

2) They cause a commensurate price rise (inflation)

3) The business shuts down because it can no longer afford labor it requires to operate effectively

If you raised it to $100, #3 would happen for most businesses.

In a competitive market, if you raised it a few dollars, #1 would happen.

In a non-competitive (monopoly) market, if you raised it a few dollars, #2 would happen.
It's true but it's also misleading. For instance, it's true that Johnson didn't have to run across the campus to the bathroom, but Jackson did. (And someone did complain about Johnson's use of the unmarked bathroom, but only after she had been working there for long enough she had the social capital to ignore the complaint until segregation nominally ended.)

The film does suffer from trying to compress a whole office of computers into just three people, and a whole remaining government bureaucracy into another handful (Costner, Parsons, etc). It also has to do this while covering a part of the space program most people today are not familiar with (technically NACA not NASA, Atlas and earlier). At the same time, it's reasonable to cut out the 90% that's normal office work, because it's boring and doesn't help us understand the time or situation.

Most of the events have strong factual footing, with the notable exception of Costner's white savior moment. If you want more information, the book is dry and a little disorganized, but of course much more thorough about the timeline and who did what.
I think Tesla is arguing the opposite? AAA is comparing the cost of repairs of Tesla's do cars that cost less than half as much. Tesla is saying their costs should be compared to other cars of comparable value (other high end luxury vehicles).
There is literally zero friction between Kotlin and Java since they're interoperable. You can even translate Java files to Kotlin files by selecting a menu option in Android Studio or even cutting and pasting Java into a Kotlin file. Sure, the code may not be optimized fully, but it's a good starting point. Additionally, you can even mix Java and Kotlin files in a project.
This is like the memetic version of a virus. It exists only to subvert the host into spreading itself.
When should I check the mail?
It sounds like you're bored, and you don't have a very good reason to start a company. Starting a company is hard.

A less drastic move is to find a job you'll actually like. They exist.
Great list for inspiration! Though, it is not true that all the problems can be solved in any programming language: try to make a "Bandwidth Monitor" in Coq.
If you can source it, so can others, what makes you think only you have thought about trading on that data which must necessarily be public for you to have it legally?
Since Fortran had a large amount of existing code soon after it was invented, the standards committee has always tended to add new features to Fortran after other languages had already tried them out and perhaps discovered pitfalls.

From my experience working on compilers, the thing Fortran begat the most was advanced compiler optimization algorithms, which then trickled down into C and C++.
It was three comments above yours.
Terraforming Mars is our Manifest destiny.
I know. That's why I think it's a very difficult but worthwhile problem to tackle.

We have stopped questioning certain things and take them for granted and those come with certain constraints and limit our progress.

(Such as the idea that any programming must involve editing text that is stored in a collection of files and folders)

I also think we under-estimate how pleasant a structured editor can be.

Most programmers associate those things with "toys" or think of them as not hardcore enough for their skills, some clunky drag-and-drop GUI editor that insults the mad skills of the precious programmer who has embedded vim/emacs bindings in his/her muscle memory.

It doesn't have to be that way. If it's flexible enough it can look almost like a plain text editor. But it would be one on steroids. It could do holy-grail stuff in terms of suggestions/intellisense/auto-complete and so on because of its rich understanding of the underlying structure.
"I think that, like species, languages will form evolutionary trees, with dead-ends branching off all over. We can see this happening already. Cobol, for all its sometime popularity, does not seem to have any intellectual descendants. It is an evolutionary dead-end-- a Neanderthal language."

http://www.paulgraham.com/hundred.html
That is probably correct, I don't have any way of evaluating their collectible value as a time series. My response was half serious and half joke, when people discover large caches of currency, someone often pipes up "Gee but if they had put it into the stock market ..." which over long enough times is often (as in this case) no better than simply the intrinsic collectible value of the currency. Of course some currency has no "value" at all, I've got some East German Marks for example which you certainly can't take to your local currency exchange booth and get local currency for them. But I did have an offer from a coin collector which was more than their face value in equivalent Euros.

For the same reason I think a gold coin makes an excellent college graduation gift. For me it embodies the essence of the value of a college degree, on the one hand it has a 'face value', on the other it has a 'value in trade', and on the third hand it has value as an industrial ingredient in various products. It really captures the economic notion of value versus cost. And I see a college degree in the same way.

And the final bit, there was a comedian who once joked that as a kid they put all their money in a savings account to save for the future, but now realized that if they had just kept their toys in good shape I could have resold them in their golden years for a fortune!
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The way that Halt and Catch Fire was unrealistic is that the women I've known who enjoyed and were good at programming were not emotionally volatile at all.

HBO's Silicon Valley does a much better job portraying this personality type.
What's your vacation schedule been like so far? Just curious if you're recently recharged or in need of one.