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I wonder if in 300 years Musk will be mentioned in the same sentences as Genghis Khan...

I've been continually amazed at how Musk has been able to generate buzz, and then eventually execute on that buzz.

For instance the Price to Earnings ratios for traditional automakers are better now than they've ever been, but Tesla has surpassed Ford and GM in market cap; but Tesla has negative P/E!

Musk has done so many things his own way, and he's been successful... eventually.

But there have been expensive lessons: the Falcon wing doors probably adds $20k and 6 months to the launch of the Model X.

Failing to use lean manufacturing principles drives up the cost of Tesla's vehicles, and probably reduces quality; from the stories I've heard of the number of people at the end of the production line, it sounds like old GM methods.

The turbo pump failure ground SpaceX launches to a halt.

Will his enterprises be successful in the end? Who knows!

Disclaimer: I work for a Tesla competitor.
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The math doesn't actually support that view. Over the past couple of decades a number of studies have been done on this and it is always less costly to the business to pay 'snacks' than it is 'overtime.'

When you step back and analyze the business mechanics, which is to say your cost to run the business versus the revenue that business generates, in terms of personnel cost from most to least expensive is 'salary + overtime', 'salary + snacks', 'salary'. In many ways snacks are the 'open plan' equivalent of cost management.

That said, I don't think there is ever 'one thing' that says "Hmm, we might be dying." often it is a combination of things. From a startup perspective founders leaving (especially if they are replaced by someone completely out of the blue), delays on new projects, failing to replace people who have left and were doing good work. All good signs.
Yes, they can force you to provide your goods to them in any situation they declare urgent/emergency, and at priority over all other customers, even prepaid ones.

You will get paid, it's not confiscation, but it is an offer you cannot refuse.

I'd be surprised if the situation isn't the same in every other country -- national security/defense takes a very high priority. Moreover, any truly revolutionary technology that could create a significant military advantage will be almost required to be controlled by the mil, lest the adversaries get it.

If you don't want to ever be in a situation where you could help the military of your country, you probably need to move to a country without a military. Then worry about other countries deciding to invade for your revolutionary technology.
It's only 2000 chronic homeless in San Francisco. It's crazy how such a small number of people can make a such a huge impact on the city.

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/SF-s-new-count-shows-h...
Canada's Top Court Upholds Worldwide Injunction Against Google
Or game developers got really good at them!
That's a terrific way of putting it! Maybe we can say that IPA reminds of the challenges that are still out there for us in terms of distinctions that we overlook and sounds that we can't produce.

For example, I haven't learned to distinguish /pʰ/ and /p/ or /bʰ/ and /b/, as Hindi does, but thanks to IPA, I know that that issue exists and maybe I can learn it some day. Also, I haven't learned to say the consonant at the beginning of a Chinese friend's name (I think it's [ʈ͡ʂʰ]), and IPA helps remind me that [ts] and [tʃ] are just approximations to it.
University is sold to kids as the thing they'll do after high school and before starting their careers if they want to be successful. There's a grain of truth to that too; I have heard that it's hard to get a tolerable job out of college these days but even harder without a degree.

If that's how universities are positioning themselves, if they're opening their doors to students who are clearly not the best of the best and destined for academia and/or highly technical careers that demand high-level theoretical knowledge, then you bet your ass they should be teaching practical skills and helping students find jobs. Otherwise they're just taking (a lot of) money from kids who clearly don't know any better, and leaving them high and dry after graduation.
Sure! We're at 50+ paying now, so we've more than doubled since then. We also raised prices so our revenue per customer has grown too. Long ways to go, but a good start considering we're bootstrapped.

Here are a few things we're focusing on for marketing.

– SEO: Dominate the long tail of keywords relevant to our business

– Content marketing: Put out content that is valuable to our target customer

– Ads: Experiment with FB retargeting, AdWords, etc.
But there is always a voice talking in our heads. It's just that we generally ascribe it to our own consciousness but when you really sit down and think about it, it's a bit creepy when you realise that you don't actually know where it's coming from and what is prompting it to say what it is saying.
Yeah just depends on your goals/place in life. I imagine once kids come along I'll start growing more roots, but for now my focus is on my fiancée's and mine careers. And right now I'm at the best software development job that doesn't require a 1-hour commute. So while I could chase pay-grades for the next 30 years and make a decent run of things (plenty of my coworkers have), I kinda see that as a path to career mediocrity.

I agree that moving around makes developing strong ties tough. Once I get further along I'll reconsider taking my foot off the gas a little. My standard is essentially: "If I was trying to convince my kid to go into engineering, would I use my job as an example to aspire towards?" Right now, while I'm grateful for my job and the work certainly isn't bad, the answer is no.
Hello! Author of the post here. If you have any questions about Flow or our process integrating it into our codebase, I would be happy to answer them here.
Clojure solved this in the way it has been done for decades :-)
Do they add up to more than the time you spend waiting for the next flight, which may take a full 24 hours?

I guess that's a rhetorical question, because the answer is the same to what you wrote; nvm.
I found that when I do all-nighters (although it's been a while since I've done one), I get a "second wind" of sorts from mid morning until late afternoon. So if I want to make sure I don't go to bed too early, it's only really the last two hours that are hard, although they can be very hard (especially since you don't want to drink caffeine or anything like that since that would affect the sleep quality).

Fresh air and light exercise help me during those last hours, but it can be mentally difficult to force myself to doing that.

Again, it's been a while since I've done it, so it may have been a symptom of being a bit younger. Maybe I wouldn't be able for it now...
French air force chief accused of using fighter jet for weekend jaunts
Why not. Google Search is financing and providing users to Google Map. How could you be competitive in the map market when you have a giant with limitless ressource ? See street view, how could you finance that ? WHat is the commercial viability of such a product ?
The single point of failure was the posteo.de[1] account. Surely doing business over this kind of channel was doomed to fail. Infosec Twitter is alight with conspiracy theories that receiving money was the least of the attacker's concerns. I too believe that they just wanted to cause damage and piss people off in Ukraine, using the ransom functionality of the software as a front. BTW: Instead of using email, what should they be using to offer support and arrange payment? Some sort of encrypted instant messenger system?

[1]: https://posteo.de/en/blog/info-on-the-petrwrappetya-ransomwa...
Don't discount the self-sustaining Gigafactory.
GitHub for Unity is Now Open Source
It's sort of like Geocities, but with higher resolution images and better typography.
They are a middleman that could be easily bypassed by bigger players, and investors are calling them out on that. Also, customer retention and cost of customer acquisition remains a big issue.

No reason why Amazon couldn't just tack on nice recipes to their food delivery service and the acquisition of Whole Foods makes that direction even more likely. Blue Apron is in a dangerous and precarious spot and that's being reflected in the lowering of valuations.

We're going to see more "disrupters being disrupted" as value chain consolidation continues to evolve.
> The Defense Department used to just be more honestly called the War Department.

Not exactly; the (now subcabinet) Department of the Army used to be called the (cabinet level) War Department. The Department of the Navy used to be its own cabinet-level Department. Then a new cabinet level Defense Department was formed, the Air Force split out of the Army and made co-equal, and each of the three (two before the split) service departments made subordinate to the new Defense Department.
Suspension of disbelief is always a continuum. A drama set in a hospital might have some very reasonable efforts at realism, enough to seem believable to an informed layperson, while a particular procedural oversight might completely ruin the immersion for a medical doctor in the audience.

As a designer, I might see Futura used in a sign in a period piece set two decades before Paul Renner designed the font, but not really care because the grotesks and early geometrics that preceded Futura bear a lot of similarities. But if I see Futura in a period piece set two centuries before the font was in use, that completely destroys the believability of the film's production design.
Let us set aside the fact that value is subjective and the reflexive problems that entails when discussing humans being "obsolete".

120 years is too long for any of these experts to have any skin in the game.

Let us see what they have to say about five years from now, and if they will put some money on it.
So then is this startup idea testing itself?
Note that GDP is only a proxy for value to society. It's based on what's measurable, not on what's valuable.

Prisons and wars increase GDP but make us worse off. Likewise, many free apps (e.g. Google Maps) significantly improve our lives but don't significantly impact GDP.

This matters because the approach used to measure externalities may undervalue software engineers and teachers and overvalue defense contractors and lobbyists.

Edit: This is really important for software. Software has low marginal cost so the market price (and therefore measured GDP) trends towards 0 but the (mostly unmeasured) consumer surplus is huge.

Another Edit: Note that externalities for defense contractors and lobbyists actually weren't measured here and probably couldn't be reliably measured with this technique due to international differences, but they made great examples for my explanation.
It's not about harming Google or Microsoft. It's about attacking vulnerabilities in infrastructure. No one cares if your webapp that's instantly reporting on the current length of a celebrity's hair is still capable of serving traffic if traffic lights have been disabled or if your ISP has been knocked completely off line or if the cellular network has been severely crippled.
Workhouses were for debtors who could not repay debts. That's a very different situation from say, Reagan kicking the mentally ill out of institutions and onto the streets of our cities.
Managers, as a group.

A good manager on the right project can make a huge contribution to that project's success. Ditto a good senior leader running a large organisation. I have no problem with these people being compensated accordingly.

However, many people in management positions aren't particularly good at it, yet still command compensation as if they were.

In far too many cases, a manager is even making their organisation less effective overall than if they just left and let the people doing the work figure something out between them, yet still commanding that high compensation.
From this sentence?

> Google has included a number of criteria in these algorithms, as a result of which rival comparison shopping services are demoted.

Sounds like a jump to conclude they were doctoring results from "they modify their ranking algorithms".
The most dangerous thing about systemd-resolved is that it exposes its own non-standard DNS resolution protocol over dbus, which the documentation recommends applications use instead of standard, interoperable protocols[1]:

> The native, fully-featured API systemd-resolved exposes on the bus. See the API Documentation for details. Usage of this API is generally recommended to clients as it is asynchronous and fully featured (for example, properly returns DNSSEC validation status and interface scope for addresses as necessary for supporting link-local networking).

systemd wants applications to depend on systemd-resolved so it becomes irreplaceable. This is very bad, because the first thing you should do on a system with systemd-resolved is uninstall it. The systemd developers are not qualified to write either DNS software[2] or C code that talks to the network.

[1] https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-res...

[2] See http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/592, which came out after Lennart Poettering had the hubris to call systemd-resolved a "pretty complete caching DNS and LLMNR stub resolver"[3] even though the dangers of DNS cache poisoning were already well known at the time.

[3] https://lwn.net/Articles/609740/
'Exaggerations' threaten public trust in science, says leading statistician
It does. But now it's almost impossible to sleep without it. I'm not sure which is worse.
That's an option I've considered, but it's only really a temporary solution and might not be a viable one when I come to need a new laptop.

My 2009 machine probably has another year or two in it, meaning that a 2012 machine will likely be a minimum of six years old when I get it, which means it may only have a usable life of three or four years from that point on. Even being optimistic and assuming the hardware lasts 10 years from when I buy it, Mac OS support certainly won't.

The real kicker is that those are the last machines that I'll really be able to buy that meet my needs and preferences. Come 2022 or whenever it's time to upgrade again, I don't know where I go from that 2012 machine. I certainly don't expect Apple to have backtracked on their sealed-box design.

There's no easy answer really, and all of them involve compromise somehow. I'm now treating it as a matter of 'when' I switch, rather than 'if'. Maybe it's best to get it over with sooner rather than later?
You may be able to normalize the labeled images by removing the background. I found some OCR examples of doing that with bluring and subtraction. The same normalization steps could be run on smartphone images taken with a consistent background.
Wikileaks reveals CIA's Elsa: a geo-location malware for WiFi / Windows
GC support [is coming][1]. Just because they didn't include it with the initial Minimum Viable Product release, doesn't mean it won't ever be available.

[1]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/issues/1079
If, like me, you find photography of piles of sorted LEGO pieces hypnotically soothing, you will probably like this album I put together:

http://imgur.com/a/OJaq6

A while back, I sorted my childhood LEGO pile before sending it to my brother. 73 pounds of LEGO sorted by hand. I'm sure it says things about how strangely wired my brain is, but this was an eminently enjoyable endeavor.
How many people in Appalachia can afford a down payment on any house? From a quick search of the addresses you linked, all are in places with high rates of property & violent crime. None of them seem like better options than being poor in your home town, and avoiding the myriad risks associated with big moves when you're a low earner who can't take any hits at all to monthly income without major sacrifices.
part of a semi serious "brutalist" trend I've seen pop up

My experience with Brutalist architecture, is that it looks weird on the outside, but it's often quite comfortable on the inside. This isn't comfy.
Oh yeah. Cross site scripting and SQL injections are still perfectly easy to write in Rust. You can accept a web POST and pass it directly, unquoted, to a local shell too.
Mozilla's job was to help out where there weren't enough players. I felt let down when they ventured into this.
> Every time I see a doctor prescribe one of these 'new' drugs I suspect there's some kickback involved.

In such cases, will you recommend the patient to buy the two separate drugs instead of the expensive combined drug?
Please be aware how many executives, lawyers, physicians, finance & trading experts expense meals in restaurants and hotels, go to "trainings" on cruise ships, fly in business class.

Giving engineers free peanuts (so they don't walk out of the building to by some) is hardly a perk.
Cox: Supreme Court Says We Can't Kick Pirates Offline for Piracy
I disagree. Laws like CFAA get passed because legislators want to look tough on crime. Not, IMHO, because corporations are lobbying for them.
Watching Anderson Cooper try a schizophrenia simulator is one of the most stress-inducing things I've ever seen. I'll occasionally hear a voice here and there (I guess this is somewhat common?), but am able to normally brush it off. I couldn't imagine living daily with this much noise.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL9UJVtgPZY

One thing of note, found in the YouTube comments, that this example is pretty generic voices, and instead for someone suffering with schizophrenia, imagine having the voice be very specific about the individual, attacking known issues ("Your parents don't love you!" "You're so stupid and everyone thinks you're a failure!"). I can't imagine that level of suffering...
@BigJono - it would help to hear a little more about your overall idea or goal of what you might want to do. Like are you thinking maybe game engine programming? Mentioning Vulkan/DX12 implies you might want to get into real time engine/shader programming, but that's only a small slice of "modern computer graphics".

If you're interested in computer graphics in general, and googling "modern computer graphics", then the Vulkan/DX12 APIs aren't super important, the fundamentals of CG have not changed at all. The paradigm shift with those APIs is centered on performance, not on new concepts. You can learn vast amounts of computer graphics by writing a ray tracer or animation program or using off the shelf renderers, and never touch Vulkan or DX12.

There are definitely lots of great suggestions here, but it's a wide variety, because it all depends on what you envision or hope to do. It doesn't have to be fully formed or thought out, but if you had some inking like 'hey I saw this awesome procedural animation on Vimeo and I want to learn how to do that' or 'I'd love to work for Valve someday... what steps do I have to start taking?' or 'I was thinking I should add some 3d to my website' or 'I want to be a film animator', if we had a little more insight on what you're hoping, we can definitely get answers that will be more focused and helpful.
Safety and Daemons
Yes - I've used ASMR videos for the same purpose; Gently varying sounds seem to be enough to suppress the internal dialogue for me.
Agreed, I said the exact same thing in another comment on this thread.
True. I think the only time I really worried about my job is between 2008 - 2011. Between the economy sucking and me not following my own advice, I was in a very precarious position.

I told myself I would never do that again
Ask HN: How can I prepare myself for working as an ERP expert?
I'm willing to learn more about Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems. I think the most important problem with them is the implementing part. What technical and managerial skills do I need to become an ERP expert?
>Electric transportation is one of the most moral technologies we can work on to get out of oil's malthusian trap

While I agree with the sentiment and can't wait for good mainstream electric vehicles, I would like to be pedantic and point out the possibility of generation of the electricity to run an electric vehicle being very dirty. As well as the (not current, but theoretical) possibility of using clean energy to synthesize combustion fuels for engines that efficiently clean all outputs.

A transport being electric does not automatically make it better.
It would be interesting to see these results cross-checked, by applying the methods from one job to another - for example by applying the methods used for law and engineering (Cross-country regression of GDP on <job> per capita) to the other fields listed.

Personally I find the results presented surprising - especially the claim of research being worth 25% of GDP, which seems very high to me.
Raymond Chen wrote some time ago about the variable quality of MS Knowledge Base articles: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20060424-21/?p=...
IMO, they were already way, way late to market the day they assigned their first engineer to work on FirefoxOS.
It's interesting Bloomberg with with a brutalist approach to the aesthetic. I'm not sure it lends itself that well with the content they were presenting.
AI Trying to Design Inspirational Posters Goes Wrong
I'd actually counsel updating the resume every 6 months and applying to at least one job posting with it, just to get a sense of the local job scene. And even if your current company is fine, you might get the chance to switch to one that is better. At the very least, you get some interview practice, which never hurts.

One does get slightly paranoid after getting laid off with only 3 days notice and no severance, one time.

If your management feels that it has to offer some form of reassurance to its employees, in the form of "Don't worry: X will probably not happen," then you should create a contingency plan, as though X is happening next month.
A yoga nidra (check youtube) or body scan meditation can really recharge me without becoming unconscious. They are also more effective for me, I think because they lack the randomness of "will I be able to fall asleep quickly enough to take advantage of this short window".
You're right that $79M is basically nothing when it comes to government spending as a whole, but the USPS doesn't get support from federal taxes - they have to generate enough revenue to pay their own expenses.

The government has already been trying to do everything they can to run the USPS into the ground, something needs to be done about these treaty deliveries or a continual increase in volume is going to harm the postal service (I don't know what that something looks like, maybe make the federal government pay the cost difference for these treaty deliveries since the postal service is required to deliver them).
C-f Jaynes

Nothing.

Modern psychology needs to come to grips with The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. A trove of riches for anyone interested in practical psychology.
Good on them for admitting to all these flaws. I'm especially interested in the fact that government officials seem to be citing articles to push people to certain communication channels.
I would pay good money to send you a big box of Lego from mixed sets and have it come back sorted into one bag per set.

You'd probably need the set numbers so that it'd be easier to choose which set to associate a part with.

I'm more than happy to be a beta customer!
Thought the same thing. And be able to go in different directions than being limited. See Big Bertha being stuck for two years.