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Another decent in-depth book on this topic that I can recommend is The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood by James Gleick[0]. A bit dry at times but somewhat interesting if anyone is looking for a high-level look at quantifying and managing information.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8701960-the-information
How can you know this? Would DARPA or the DoD tell us about their advances?
Have a look at Revolut - they're adding Bitcoin, Ethereum and Litecoin as holding currencies in the coming weeks.
The other project that needs to become a reality FAST is the construction of a telescope large enough to measure the spectra of exoplanets. Because once you find a habitable planet with oxygen in its atmosphere, you now have an irrefutable and pressing case to move fast with Breakthrough Starshot.

Sadly it's going to likely a require 100metre telescope mirror or larger, and current science funding only has a 30metre telescope mirror in the works. The 100 metre telescope was cancelled. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overwhelmingly_Large_Telescope

The answer is at our fingertips, yet the science community can't get the money to build something that would be a fraction of what F-35 fighter jets cost.

What the !@#$ are we doing as a human race...
Does money absolve a founder from potentially fraudulent behavior?
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Eh? This is over control, not money. There is no "middle ground"; Benchmark wants Kalanick off the board and he wants to stay.

I expect a tooth-and-nail battle, with much of it leaking into the public.
They are but only up to an agreed value. If Automaticc's employees choose to spend more then they can, and probably do.

If the employer were to cover the full cost then you can be quite sure they'd want a great deal more control over where the employee was based, and if the employer could rent an office for several employees then they probably would. At that point the job stops being remote and becomes an ordinary office job. That's how these things work.
His previous blog post actually said that he moved away from the exact $5/mo digital ocean plan you're talking about, to this.

I think the author meant to do this less of a "play with fire" way but more of experimenting with new tech way. But yes, I agree that for personal sites, running with your own money, you probably want to stick with something safer like the $5/mo digital ocean box.
I think a slim profile and large ablative shield are two good ideas. that largely solve both of these issues.

Build something like the TransAmerica Pyramid (without the two white flanges) and put the motor(s) where the foundation would be as to make the building fly like a rocket. Put the motors on at one G and you get artificial gravity, a slim profile and damage equally distributed along the bulk of the ship and most collision will happen at extreme glancing angles.

Stop off near a comet and melt large boulders of ice to the hull. If the outer hull is tiered whipple shields there will be plenty strong and will serve as mount points for the ice. Run simple heating element through it and simplify the installation of ice as ablative armor.

Have all of the storage on the ship be on walls, cabinets, netting, shelves, etc... and bolt all the furniture down. Because when you aren't accelerating you will have no gravity.

When you want to stop, turn the ship around (using reaction wheels or attitude jets) and blow your engines at the target at 1 G to slow down for the same amount of time you burned them to accelerate. This will create artificial gravity again in the same direction you were experiencing it before because you changed the direction of thrust the same amount you changed the orientation of the ship.

You have a nuclear explosion clearing crap from in front of your ship as you slow down, not as safe as the ice, but presumably your engine(s) is tough enough to withstand a nuclear blast.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transamerica_Pyramid
Can we just change the title to "Guardian beleives Guardianistas don't know the difference between revenue and profit?"
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Wait, what?

That sounds wonderful, I'm signing up.
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Oh! That answers a lot of questions. What was the board it was posted to called, though? I've heard about this board where people are encouraged to talk about topics that are potentially controversial, but I haven't been following this story too very closely (as you've just proven.)
Travis has lost the support of Ryan and Garrett apparently (per several reports over the last month/Garrett's statement/Ryan stepping down from operating role). Seems like a man on an island at this point.
Seriously? This is HN, there are plenty of climate skeptics here, and I would guess that 0-5% of them listen to Rush Limbaugh or similar. Perhaps they are simply people with a scientific mind and came to different conclusions after evaluating the evidence independently?
Great interview, I enjoyed your insights into separating out the emotional issues from the technology issues and the challenges that UX / UI issues present.
I have said it in another comment which has been downvoted but just to answer your question, I'll say it again. They are not doing this because of economic viability. If it was economically viable, it wouldn't take Statoil to do it; numerous startups would find investments to do it. They are doing it as an "investment in renewables" to keep the eco-terrorists happy.
Your Plato metaphor is unfair, because we already know Plato is a man, not a goat, from fairly conclusive evidence before you present your statements. However, Damore has put forth that the current societally accepted reason for the skewed IT gender distribution (prejudice against women) has less than conclusive evidence backing it up.

Your assertion of the memo's claim:

-Fact: Women are different than men.
-Observation: There is a difference between men and woman in IT.
-Conclusion: this difference in IT must be based on the primary difference between men and women.

This is close to what I believe Damore was saying, only replace 'must be' with 'may in part be and we shouldn't rule out the possibility just because it's politically incorrect to discuss.'

Here's what I claim the current politically correct claim is:

-Fact: There have been cases of sexism found in IT.
-Observation: IT as a whole is a sexist industry.
-Conclusion: this gender difference in IT must be based primarily on this sexism.

However, is this a foregone conclusion, given the current studies found on it? I know of several attempts which have been made but none are any more persuasive to me than Damore's theory, either being too small, flawed(often for the same reason Damore felt the need to write the memo and why he was fired), or just inconclusive. And it seems anecdotal evidence makes up a large part of our reason for believing it as a society.

It's quite possible the truth lies in a mixture of both, in fact I'd say I'm almost certain of it. However, for some reason everyone is outraged at the suggestion that there might be a drop of truth behind what Damore was saying even though he wasn't claiming gender inferiority, merely preference.

Additionally, I don't believe he was misusing the conclusions of the scientific studies he cited. The prime example is his claim of women being more 'neurotic,' and people immediately assume he's calling them inferior. Whereas there was no value judgment in the original scientific study (which was widely accepted prior to the memo) or his application of it and may very well indicate a preference not to work in IT.
Control requires time, knowledge, judgement and implies liability.

You may just be good at getting funds and collecting dividends / next round money and that's totally cool. You may not have any plan for the future, and you may not want to go in jail when something goes bad.
Ya, and something that makes zero sense in the context of revenue. Nobody is taxed on revenue because taxing companies on revenue unfairly penalizes low-margin high-volume businesses (like Amazon). Revenue has nothing to do with tax rate. Nothing. Quoting their revenue in the headline is just meant to shock people that don't understand taxes. It's a bullshit headline and a bullshit story.
I'm not on Mac, unfortunately. I couldn't find anything on the web site showing how the integration happens or works. Presumably it is completely transparent.
Welp, I made a mistake. He's had multiple opinions on Israel, and he's currently pro-Israel at the moment, this was the offending quote:

"A decade later, however, Shapiro reversed his position. In an article published on March 13, 2013, Shapiro wrote, "Some on the right have proposed population transfer from the Gaza Strip or West Bank as a solution. This is both inhumane and impractical. Moving millions of Palestinians out of areas they have known for their entire lives will certainly not pave the way to peace" and while "both right and left agree that a population separation is necessary," he proposes that Israel "has no choice but to weather [the anti-Israeli propaganda]" until a realistic solution comes to light.[37]"

This however was followed by the UCLA section which I misunderstood. Either way, I don't think there's much point on focusing on Israel. The Don himself is probably more pro-Israel than he is. Opinions like that are less identifying of alt right and more as weapons to be used when the alt reich feel betrayed.

That mistake is also why I'm forgiving you on the whole being attacked by the alt right. I've already said why that doesn't matter, it was also in the paragraph right after that one: "I've experienced more pure, unadulterated anti-Semitism since coming out against Trump's candidacy than at any other time in my political career". If he was alt-right he wouldn't be the first to be turned on like with Milo and the Daily Stormer.

I think there's something I need to clarify here. Another poster here posted how alt right means Nazi now. I DONT believe that, and if you may notice I prefer to say Reich for the Nazi side. I see the alt right as someone who has taken to the right socially, possibly being opposites with libertarians with left economics, but are not evangelicals because they're a revolt on social justice (not against it, but specifically a "what about us?") and, most important here, the reaction to such opinions by colleges, news, and businesses. Also, please remember my second comment before you bring up Wikipedia's own article on the alt right.

Which makes the whole discussion a bit funny but confusing. The guy is definitely alt right, despite what everyone's saying here. A bunch of people here are alt right too but, again, don't want to say so. What happened is history has repeated itself as alt right is to alt reich/Nazi as liberal was to socialism/communism.

It doesn't actually matter in the end how I separate them in the end. Much like the mere mention of redistribution was likened to communism, The fact that alt right can be fiscally left has been taken advantage of to frame everything they believe as Nazi under a simplistic understanding of it. The end result is people seeing a thing as alt right, even if they define it differently somehow.

I'd recommend not replying to this comment as quickly as the last, it had to be long to clarify myself and I won't read the reply till tomorrow anyway.
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Stakes: Per the complaint, Kalanick currently holds around a 10% equity stake in Uber, which most recently was valued at around $70 billion. Benchmark holds approximately 13 percent.

This is interesting. I thought HNers were saying Kalanick had the biggest stake, which is why the board couldn't fire him.

How does this work? If someone only has 10% equity, why was it so difficult to remove them? This is a useful tool for founders, so it's worth understanding.
30% is not fair?
It's exasperating, people around me over-consume, drive too much, own pets (which are completely useless, cost energy too (healthcare, food, ..), cats damage seriously the ecosystem when they are outside, ..), we are talking of something close to a billion of pets, 20% of people still smoke cigarettes as a bonus

It's not just those simple acts, but when you consume 1L of gas with your car, you have to consider the amount of energy to extract it, transport it, stock it...

It can't go well with those attitudes, where residential pollution is about 40%-45% of overall pollution. This alone can be divided by 10, when I see my environmental fingerprint, with my bike and laptop
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Isn't this fairly normal?

I seem to recall that the DoE, NOAA, and NASA always had a lot of computing resources, and that they generally rented time on those clusters out to other government agencies.

I do wish the government would step up on AI though -- I think that they owe it to the country to put together a Manhattan Project for AI.
Hah wow... I've had this app for over a decade and never noticed that feature... right next to the Debug button which I have used numerous times on really gnarly regexes
I'll bite. An Inconvenient Truth was so overly political and full of lame folksy rhetoric that it motivated me to investigate the issue further. And now I'm a climate skeptic. I'm sure there are others.
A consequentialist might argue that it is, but then, consequentialists are wrong.
And that's the problem -- the CEO wasted a ton of time and resources trying to create a Spotify competitor that just burned resources.
Well it works without GC, but memory is never freed :)
I can't wait for someone to make a sign language browser interface out of this. I'm sure things like that have been done with desktop accessibility apps, but embedding it into a web page or browser plugin would be amazing.
devil's advocate, why not youtube, or reddit, and if downloading is a problem, mega?
It requires interesting control systems to keep stable and performing optimally. You can read about some of the challenges here (has some great figures) ...

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167610515...
The market has done this, in part, through segmentation.

When you are on shared hosting, the expectation is that you get shut off when you go over.

When you are on "unlimited" shared hosting, the expectation is that you and everyone on the server gets throttled when you go over.

When you are on a VPS, the expectation is that you will be throttled when you go over, and you will be throttled much less than with other options when your neighbor goes over.

With cloud, then, the expectation is that if you go over, you are charged more proportionately, but things continue to work.

Of course, this is a simplification, but I think it accurate enough to be useful.

I do agree that it would be better to choose your api/provisioning and node reliability separately from overage behavior, but most of these behaviors and expectations were based on traditions that were shaped by technical constraints.

To credibly say "we will keep you online and just charge you" you need a lot of spare capacity.

Throttling one customer on a shared host without impacting other customers used to be very difficult. It is still way easier to throttle one VPS customer, and easier stil to throttle that one customer when they have their own kernel and reserved memory; it is not as big of a deal as it once was, considering everyone now uses ssd, but systems that share page cache are notoriously difficult to setup such that light users don't impact heavy users.
Isn't building a 100m telescope incredibly hard? does that kind of technology exist already? (I genuinely don't know).

Also, what would the effect of the atmosphere be in such a large telescope? would a bigger mirror increase or decrease the effects of Earth's atmosphere for these kind of observations?
The last image on that page has text in Dutch, I took a few moment to have a quick translate. (P.S.: I have no idea what they meant with that last sentence)...

In the last 20 years, every stylist has met the forcing limits of designing a car, set by the cost, production methods and the ever growing regulation.

But this situation has had little consequences for the standardisation of cars, it's more due to market probes that there's a danger of all cars looking the same.

There's that many investments involved that the stakeholders don't dare create a car that deviates too much from the normal.

Currently in Europe cars increasingly look very similar and the public is taking notice.

This is an opportunity Citroën should take: its image has always been about creating cars that are different than the rest and that's undoubtedly what's the buyer is seeking these days.

At the Automobile Salon in Paris 1980, Citroën presented 'a dream car', designed by it's 'Design Bureau': the Karin.

This prototype is the first stage of research into the mid-range: 2 'wing'-doors coupé with 3 separate seats with the driver's seat in the center. The car is 3.70 meter long (145.7 inch), 1.075 meter high (42.3 inch) and 1.90 meter wide (74.8 inch). It has front wheel drive.
The interior is also avant-gardistic. An electronic screen continually provides information about the condition and performance of several elements of the car.
Though the esthetic design of massively produced cars has improved all these years, their style risks turning somewhat monotonous, since the designers get less playing room due to inceasing external demands.

With this in mind the 'Bureau de Style Citroën' has undertaken this 'design exercise' to reasearch the impact of a body with really clear lines on the car buying public. With designing this car an attempt is made to describe an offer for the future.
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It reminded me of http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/science/rock-paper-scisso... a game illustrating how simple AIs strategy(er, algorithms)) can win in well over of 50% of the cases ; but it's unplayable now in the post-Flash era.
You know about the SKA, right?
1060s are back in stock. It's specifically only the 1070 that is problematic at this point, and you can actually find them although they do sell out pretty quick.

However both 1060s and 1080s have yet to return to their pre-bubble prices and are hanging out close to MSRP again.
They did plan one (maybe you were thinking of it), but passed in favour of a 39m one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overwhelmingly_Large_Telescope

We certainly can't visit these places for quite some time though.
yep. all of those qos and traffic shaping features on routers don't actually do anything. that is why it should be illegal for public isps to use them. makes sense.
Is there any business being the middleman among artists? Could have a musicians-only option, similar to IMDBpro, be monetized in SoundClound platform?

A lyricist auction their lyrics among some artists, musicians sell their music to advertisers who are producing a commercial. Musicians selling to filmmakers. Dj buying the rights to remix some songs. I know there are already several businesses doing this, many separate. But SoundClound could dominate this market by having a worldwide scale. And for being the first choice of niche artists.
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There's no lowering of the bar in the sense of denying hires/promotions, but I think it's fair to say that there are still significant disincentives to female participation. Also, I know this is heresy, but GitHub is not necessarily representative of software engineering in general. It emphasizes pure code development over ops or design, it emphasizes a very particular style of open source, it's skewed toward certain project types and sizes, etc. How many of those "male" commits were women hiding their gender, or senior males acting as the upstream conduit for an entire mixed team working against a repo elsewhere? Competitive coding contests probably skew even more heavily male, for reasons that I should hope are obvious.

It's a data point, and I thank you for that, but it's not exactly a complete refutation of contrary findings by others. It's also kind of beside the point in exactly the same way as the OP.
Funny how someone without anything remotely technical in their comment history feels like they can speak for "the majority of tech people".
Haven't read TC in years, but is this type of "article" now the norm there?

The tone is converging on unhinged.
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Classical liberals are not "on the left." They lean left, maybe, but I would never consider them leftist.
Kids? Do they have a Github repo?
Oh come on. If this is a side project, it's likely impacting his personal monthly budget. A sudden, unplanned, $180 expense on a personal budget can EASILY be significant - even if you make six figures.
Yeah, not if the company gets banned from self driving car tech for 10 years or something. This will likely have an impact on the value of uber on paper or other.
Ah, yeah, I looked past the subtitle and started reading the article itself, which is definitely not ideal inverted-pyramid reporting, as it starts with:

"It’s led to raids by law enforcement agencies and mass deaths in animals; in the United States, chefs have ‘dealers’ who smuggle it into the country."

So: lede's not buried, but the rest of the article's garbage.

I'm fine with nonstandard, creative news writing, gonzo, whatever, when it's justified and done well, but this article's just a rambling eyeball trap.
They need to find a much better way to let their listeners discover new music. SoundCloud groups used to be an alright way to do that, and when SC ditched them they really crippled themselves, and now I as a small, independent music producer don't even bother to upload my music to SC because it gets zero listens since there's virtually no way for anyone who might appreciate it to discover it.

Back when SC had groups, I didn't have a lot of listens, but it wasn't zero, and some people actually liked my music. Now SC is a ghost town for me, so why even bother?
Perhaps normal, but the concern is that this could be a strategic disadvantage versus countries that are massively boosting these programs.

The Chinese government is leading (and funding) massive efforts in high performance computing and AI. If they win, entire high tech industries could be situated in (and lead by) China.
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I like that GnuStep is still out there. That's awesome.

Quoting a study from 1992 is kinda funny. But NextStep is a faster development environment than SunOS. Preach on, brother.
This fails the do one thing and one thing well test very badly. This entire this can be managed by a window manager already. Managing information frames should happen at the WM level, not the bastardized versions of it like this, or man IDEs, or mysqlworkbench, etc
The new Mini owes nothing but a vaguely similar shape to Alec Issigonis' original. I had two Minis, a van (1965 model) and a Traveller (1970-ish). They were both great cars to drive and the ride was not especially hard. I never felt particularly unsafe or uncomfortable driving either of them and none of my passengers exhibited any signs of worry either. They were also astonishingly roomy when you consider how much smaller they are than the BMW version.
Are there any similar wars between investors and majority share owners? I'm not familiar with the area.