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What is most? Is it more than 50%? Then maybe, but certainly not for 100 years. Or is it the vast majority? Because GP did say "anyone" in his post. Then I'd like to quote:

Almost every fourth person in the EU still experiences at least one of the three forms of poverty or social exclusion.
Monetary poverty is the most widespread form of poverty, affecting 17.3 % of EU residents in 2015. Severe material deprivation and very low work intensity follow, affecting 8.1 % of the EU residents and 10.6 % of EU citizens aged 0 to 59, respectively.

http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/...
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5735#page-6

It's known as "This" Network.
Really good read; I especially like:

"With written content, we instinctively frame our engagement in terms of the individual behind the content rather than the content itself. And I think this is the reason behind much of the undesirable behavior we find on platforms where we use words to express our ideas."

Excited to see where you take the platform!
If it's a list (and not a generator like `range`), then `l[1:-1]` will do.
I quit reading after a few of the inflammatory exaggerations.

Obvious bias one way or the other turns me off.
It's a question of risk vs downside. Pulmonary embolism for example is deadly and can look like a lot of more common things. Which is why it kills a lot of people every year.
Hard pass. ;)
Strike prices are in terms of the energy actually produced, so they can be compared directly.

You can, of course, argue that baseload is more valuable than intermittent sources, but also remember that nuclear doesn't scale well - that strike price will still be paid in the middle of the night when there is low/no demand for the energy its producing. (For that reason, storage will help us make more efficient use of nuclear as well as renewables)

Wind is already a very significant energy source in the UK, supplying up to 50% of all demand on the windiest days, and 11.5% of all overall demand in 2016.
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Clearly that's his way of saying something dodgy happened. Note the mention of Russia.
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The Apollo program did result in significant advances in science and technology.

Had we put the same resources into solving other more earthbound problems would we be better off? Maybe we could have developed a better, standard, safer nuclear power plant design and could have left coal and oil behind 30 years ago. And we would not be discussing climate change or at least not the idea that it was man-made.
The original source has previously been submitted (but downflagged/modded as of 2 hours since submission): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14985001
https://www.groupmuse.com now envelopes my entire life :) We have starting making a bit of money, finally, but not much and it sure ain't why we've been at it for 5 years!
> The world had less reliable housing, less clean water, less reliable food, worse healthcare, and more physical conflicts in the 60s, and we still had the Apollo program put people on the moon.

Of course, you do realize that statement could also read: "When we ran the Apollo program, the world had less reliable housing, less clean water, less reliable food, worse healthcare, and more physical conflicts."

Neither of these statements are particularly good at answering the question: How much do we gain by investing money in space exploration versus something else?
I've heard that IBM is a dying giant for 30 years. Wake me up when it's a reality.
Setting the carbon tax level to the EPA's social cost of carbon seems to work out.
Zendesk, but lately feeling a disconnect compared with Intercom's.
Go work in the government where many of these big contracts are granted. You'll see a lot of engineers borderline competent and a few good ones who manage to keep things running.
If nothing else, it's good PR.
> I just wanted to add that it's not terribly applicable to the specifics of the memo and article. People are upset about systemic total representation and undervaluation rather than a lack of singular genius.

It's applicable in that (in my opinion) the majority of the people aren't - rather they are interested in a fantasy version of the situation that exists only in their imagination. This is why even on forums like HN where people are far more logical than the average person, there is no shortage of bickering over obvious misinterpretations, moving of goalposts, etc. For example, how many of the outraged people here are angry about things that literally aren't even in the article, and even when this is pointed out to them, still they aren't able to wake up and realize how their brain is playing tricks on them.

The older I get, and the longer I see the very same arguments over and over again over decades, the more I am coming around to the idea that a massive portion of the human population possibly can't even see reality. Maybe I am one of them!
I'm actually kind of blown away RDS doesn't have pgbouncer installed on the database. That's how we operate...each db server has pgbouncer living right on it. We connected to bouncer, not directly to the DB.
If we've built a Dyson sphere around the sun and have no more spare energy sources available in the solar system, then we can start thinking about reducing energy usage. If you cut back energy use by 50% for 1 million years and it delays this point by even 1 second, you've probably already lost out.

Until then, the energy your aunt Sally uses to run her AC pales in comparison to the amount of wasted energy being sent into space every second and so it's always worth doing research to capture that excess. There are plenty of rungs on the energy ladder before then, too:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders_of_magnitude_(energy)

In particular, capturing 100% of the solar energy hitting just the Earth would get you 10000x the US' electricity consumption in 2009. At those ratios, saving energy is just a bad idea compared to capturing more: If a key scientist has to spend even 1 day sorting his recycling or hunting for a more efficient AC, you may have already lost out.
Hah! I just noticed "Not a git repo" on the main page. Say no more! I completely grok why that's there.
The money is there. U.S. military spending far exceeds spending on science.

By another commentators estimate, the 100 Metre Telescope would cost ~$15 billion to build. In comparison the F-35 fighter jet program cost $168 billion, and in 10 years the U.S. will spend roughly $5.5 trillion on its military.
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https://www.mescale.co

Simple online weight logging app with pretty charts, first web app I've actually pushed out into the public. It doesn't make a dime, but I love tweaking it and seeing the user number slowly climb.
Are your snap and pop keys shifts (works like shift), dead keys (I full press & release, then strike another key), or locks (like a dead key, but good until I strike it again to unlock it, e.g., caps lock)?

(Let's say lower case is your first layer, upper case is your second layer, snap is your third layer, and pop is your fourth layer.)

I've worked on a similar design, and I've replaced Caps Lock with a "level 2 shift", which gets me to third layer. (Perhaps in your case, "Snap") The fourth layer is then Level 2 Shift and normal Shift, together.

If your snap & pop keys are shifts, combined with normal shift, you have a total of eight layers, potentially.

(I was inspired by the Neo Layout[1], but it's for German.)

(Also, since programmers often use - and _ for word separators, I put those on the space (which is a word separator) bar; they're level3+space and level3+shift+space, though I don't remember which was which. This made sense to me, but keyboard layouts are a personal thing, I think.)

[1]: https://neo-layout.org/index_en.html
"I'd encourage each of you to make an effort over the coming days to reach out to those who might have different perspectives from your own," he said. "I will be doing the same."

And then firing them...
HyperTalk was the first programming language I ever learned. Now I understand how each card was an object that I was manipulating.

It was so good! It's too bad it never became more popular and disappeared.
They had previously refused to pay him wages that they had agreed to pay.

It is common in parts of the programming world — especially when dealing with untrustworthy clients — to keep a way to take their IP/disable their website/turn off their domain/etc unless they pay you on time.
Very bad. A floormate of mine tried it freshman year in college (of course) and finally emerged from his dorm room two full days later with giant bags under his eyes, and nothing good to say about the experience.
> The article quite clearly suggests

Are you asking too much?
Related story about how a guy made millions by gaming Ticketmaster, 130+ points:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13643045
I discuss some of this at a Meetup in Sunnyvale on Aug 24:
https://www.meetup.com/BAyPIGgies/events/239118816/
-- Dan Bikle
Small earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14979120
what are you talking about? who exactly did he dox?
100? why not 1000!?
I've been using screen forever but recently I came across the 'eternal bash history' setup and now I don't dread rebooting or restarting the screen daemon any more. I have my shell history dating back 2 years pegged to screen session ID. Next I guess is some way to distribute it across more than one server.
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I've never seen such bullshit! I live in Chinatown with a 100k salary. According to this website the median is 111k salary, with 11k discretionary income.

I have a decent place in Manhattan (Chinatown), which I'm paying $800/mo for (split with 2 friends), absolutely not paying 5.3k/y for transportation (3 subway cards a month??), and I have NO idea what these mystical $1500/mo miscellaneous expenses are, unless they could be attributed to savings, $600/mo on groceries is just feckless profligacy--and $500/mo on utilities??? WTF!???

I have so much discretionary income I literally have nothing to do with it except save/reinvest. My two roommates constantly make fun of me for being a spendthrift, but according to this website I must be in the top 25 penny-pinchers in Manhattan...
The point is that if you can convince people to demand a budget cuts for the military, they will almost surely demand to allocate the funds to more pressing needs than space exploration. Most people would sooner want that money spend on things that could improve their lives in a tangible and immediate way than spend it on something that does not benefit them directly in any way.
I'm hoarding profile data diffs from a well known social network. Been crawling every single user for the past 2 years and saving the changes. Had to stop doing it last month, after storage costs became too much.
Hypercard is largely responsible for my love of programming. As a kid, I would work with my sisters on making games in it. It was a beautiful combination of half painting program, half drag'n'drop GUI creation that we used to make adventure games. Each card represented a room, and my sisters would draw on it using the paint tools, and I would follow up after and add invisible buttons over doors and the like to allow for 'moving' through rooms. We'd then use the built-in MacInTalk speech stuff to make characters say things, too. Granted, they were silly little games without much point to them, but... as a kid, man. It was like magic, learning you could have computers do this.

I was sad when Hypercard fell out of general distribution with the Mac, but I'm happy to see it here.
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Hmm, that's odd... Maybe it's detecting your timezone incorrectly? Can you try setting a date that's tomorrow?
More like concerns the NLRB will show up and document ongoing racial/gender discrimination programs.
Google just posturing... they'll never actually planned to have a real discussion with the side of the aisle that agreed with James Damore.
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I wish I could go back 10 years old playing with HyperCard with understanding I have now!
This gets especially interesting when you start to expand into Europan countries, and suddenly large amounts of the board seats are elected by the employees (usually a similar amount is chosen by investors and by employees).

This is something that seems to be missing in the US.
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Not sure really, I guess it is a bit of a hobby, observing the psychological behavior of humans. To me, it is absolutely fascinating how widespread the affliction is where when you find yourself in a disagreement with a person, you can ask them if they think their position is right, they say yes, are you confident, they say yes (or, perhaps by this time they may already instinctively sense danger and leave the conversation), and then if you say ok, let's make a deal, I will ask you a question, and you must answer the question, the one I asked not a modified version of it, and you cannot change the subject....and then after that you can ask me a question....and so on.

In my experiences, this experiment "fails" 90%+ of the time, either by the person refusing to participate, or refusing to hold up their end of the bargain. Yet, they continue to believe absolutely that they are "right"!

I mean to me, this is very fascinating to observe in action.
I also made a handful of things with Hypercard. A very impressive program. I'd say it was killed by a combination of Steve Jobs' desire to turn Macs into appliances and the web.
futures + debt based investing are the two canaries of market crashes. It was true in 2008, 2000, 1987, 1929, 1873, ... heck all the way back to tulip mania or arguably the financial panic of 33AD.

The question of "who's buying, how many of them are there, how long do they intend to hold for, and how are they buying?" you can't answer for sure, but when the capital to buy starts getting more scarce and people start leveraging other assets to continue buying...you'll get to a point where market velocity surpasses speculative velocity and the leveraging ability of the buyer.

In the physical world, this is a vendor of widgets on the street and a buying frenzy. Buyers spend money on the widgets and turn around and open up their own widget shop as sellers to feed the craze. Eventually enough buyers are converted into sellers, not enough buyers remain and the price crashes.

Futures contracts are a form of credit in this model. Bitcoin's crashed 4 times in 6 years - don't think it won't happen again.
Woah, do you have an end goal with this. Willing to let people get their hands on it?
Google employees that asked questions for Town Hall were already leaked & doxxed by somebody within Google and posted on various websites/youtube. Seems like somebody high up at Google is trying to destroy internal trust or the upper management went completely insane with digital maoism a'la 'Hundred Flowers'.
Agreed. Sundar's memo was just posturing...

"We want you to feel free to express different opinions..."

Proceeds to fire Damore...
A alumnus of my school does the same thing, except he works out of Google Chapel Hill while managing a Mountain View team.
I have changed the wording to be more accurate, thanks!
It is actually a solvable problem if you're willing to dig into the details of the file changes. It isn't pleasant, but welcome to life. Team members can make conflicting changes as long as someone is willing to dig through the mud to make them all agree with each other. I've been doing it personally for a long time, it isn't my favorite part of the job but it does enable significant parallel productivity.
That reminds me of this: https://twitter.com/iamdevloper/status/830070592611172357
You clearly don't understand how science works.
Haha, that's a nice turn of words.

Well, assuming you're serious, what's your thoughts on that? Can we have any absolutes? Or is everything indeterminate? If nothing is knowable and communication is not possible shall we stop sending our children to school and go back to living in caves?
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Thanks, I'm glad you like it! Try the editor plugins, they're 90% of the site's value. Pressing a single key to share code is amazing.
>It will happen again

maybe an 'AI recession' is plausible but a large scale loss of interest is unlikely given that AI / ML / deep learning (pick your favourite word) is already too embedded in commercial application.

Like always the hype in the field is strong, but this time we actually have the data growth we need to produce palpable results (and already have).
Any SQL database can do time-series well with more functionality then the specialized stuff like influxdb which doesn't really have much reason to exist at this point.

Citus is a another good alternative and SQL Server and MemSQL also have in-memory and columnstores if you need the performance and scalability.
I'd have been using Python 3 ten years ago if they put something semantically useful in like a switch/case statement.
That's what he said, your example just implicitly excludes Python Language devs.
Did you grok "because I changed deployment techniques and git can't read the commit hash any more"? :P

I was going to fix it, but I like your reaction, so I might just leave it!
Prettier is an opinionated code formatter
James Damore has gained nearly 20k followers on twitter in a few hrs.

50% of googlers disagree with the firing.

Steve Bannon has knives out for google.

A congressman is calling for a senate investigation of google.

Google managers were caught on twitter bragging about personal and cross company blacklists.

This canceling is obvious damage control, the chief officers have some work to do.
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I get what you're saying, but max(f(x)) isn't a very good way to characterize a sampling distribution. It could be that for very few people, Dvorak is blazingly fast while for the vast majority of experienced typists there is zero (or negative) improvement.

I have no idea if Dvorak is better or not, but this data point isn't convincing.
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I laughed so hard at this, almost peed myself.
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Heliostat molten salt looks to be so promising for so many different applications. There is a looming water crisis that I think heliostat molten salt could help alleviate by using it for desalination.
> How in the world is this article supposed to buttress your argument that women are somehow innately unfit for STEM careers?

I never made that argument. You're in the same boat as the people that got James fired by misrepresenting his view. Whether it's lack of reading comprehension or malevolence on your part, I'm not going to deal with you further.

> The article literally says "A recent study found that rather than too few girls opting to study scientific subjects or women forgoing careers to care for their children, the biggest cause of gender imbalance in Stem is cultural."

I'm not actually saying the causes aren't cultural. To the contrary.

> Clicking through the link, you get to this paper [1], which is in fact a pretty thorough refutation of your entire position.

I don't see how exactly that's the case, but given that you're unable to even represent my position properly, I'm not interested in investigating this with you any further.
Great, any even bigger platform for Google to hoover up peoples data.
Same, with Colemak. I actually type a little faster now, but the major benefit is how comfortable it is. Hardly have to leave the home row.
What justification is there for this to hijack the back button of my browser?
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A textbook example of poor leadership.
A program that allows you to control robots in Minecraft from a web browser: https://github.com/dunstad/roboserver
It was also a great introduction to event based programming e.g. attaching HyperTalk scripts to 'on mouseUp'.

As an avid HyperCard user one of the problems was you couldn't extend it with new UI components. I did write an XCMD (C code to extend HyperCard) but there was no way to visualise new stuff, I understand it was because of the highly optimised code by Bill Atkinson. The extensibility is probably why Visual Basic took off.
I don't think coinbase are going to add Monero. It's too much like cypherpunk money.
I had only used a code formatter in Go - when I found this out for JS it made writing and copy-pasting Js/React code much, much faster.

Its a big win - you just have to abandon formatting stuff "your way", which I quickly conceded.
Just curious, is it still possible to get to this beach by boat? Personally I wouldn't want to chance a trespass charge, but sea access might be a way around it.
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I loved hypercard and wish it was still around. I learned how to code in that an in TI-Basic
I think one problem I encountered prior to switching to Dvorak was that QWERTY encouraged me to make bad touch typing habits like holding my right hand further toward the top row rather than at the home. This exacerbated my prior inability to pick up ambidextrous use of shift and ctrl.

My error rate is now tiny, backspace is for bad writing rather than bad typing. It is really comfortable to type on Dvorak in all manner of postures. I can type with my hands coming at the keyboard sideways, way above, way below, or while dancing or walking with the keyboard on a moving dolly; I've had no strain issues on any keyboard from doing this sort of thing regularly, or from sustained typing while sitting in crappy office chairs behind desks at the wrong height.

I think it might have something to do with the complete effectiveness of the home row. Because the home row reigns supreme in Dvorak, changes in posture aren't compounded by changes is hand positioning on the keyboard to hit certain motions.
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> a new way to organize databases

Is this referring to graph databases, or something else?
Fun fact: When the video is paused, you can use arrow keys to move forward/back. This also works on some kinds of youtube ads.
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So what you're saying is, if the US or someone else develops amazing new space telescope technology, Ghana will eventually be able to buy it from them instead of the Japanese.
> "the smart people leave, the dumb people stay and promote other dumb people"

This is sometimes referred to as the 'Dead Sea Effect'.[1]

The same way that water carries salts and other minerals to the Dead Sea, and then the water evaporates while the salts accumulate.

Similar effect with hiring a mix of good and bad people, and over the time the good ones leave because they have options while the bad ones stay and accumulate.

[1] http://brucefwebster.com/2008/04/11/the-wetware-crisis-the-d...
Interesting. I had the opposite experience and went 8/2/4 against the bot, by assuming he would mime typical human responses to my previous choices. The last 4 games isn't enough for it to start engaging in metacognition, I guess.
Late to the game again =/

I'm working on https://theymadethat.com It's an IMDB for everything, not just movies. It does show you who built what but it does more: theymadethat can show you what they used to build it, what those things are made of (parts, ...), their evolutionary history, who they worked with, and so on

I can't say that I'm building it out of sheer joy; it's more out of obligation. There are so many people who's contributions to mankind should never be forgotten. Wikipedia is great (and I see it being complimentary to theymadethat in the long term), but we need something more. I could be wrong but I strongly feel that theymadethat is the answer.
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