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A common remark from VCs, e.g., John Doerr at KPCB (e.g., quoted at AVC.com) is that "Ideas are easy and plentiful. Execution is hard and everything."

Well, bad ideas are easy and plentiful, and then execution is hard and everything.

But good ideas are hard, and then execution is routine.

By an "idea" Doerr meant just some short, off-hand statement, say, at a party or over the family Sunday dinner table, some summary might tell a neighbor over a back fence.

A good idea, however, may come with a stack of solid background research on the market, the problem to be solved, and a really good solution, say, the first good or a much better solution, with good barriers to entry, etc.

Here's an approach: Pick a problem that so far is solved at best poorly but where the first good solution will be close to a must have for enough people and revenue per person to make a successful business.

Then find a good solution. The solution might have secret sauce which was needed to solve the problem (why the problem wasn't solved 10 years ago) and that can also be a big barrier to entry.

It would help a lot to exploit current, comparatively dirt cheap, computing. If you write all your own code, then likely you don't need co-founders.

Venture capital won't much help because by the time you have enough for the VCs to write you a check, you will already have enough in traction that you can monetize to have enough revenue that you no longer need, want, or will accept their check, BoD, term sheet, vesting of what you already own 100% of, etc.

The checkbooks of the VCs were important when a Web site startup needed to spend big bucks with Sun Micro Systems, Oracle, Cisco, etc., but those days are over. Now the prices for such things are WAY down and the checkbooks of the VCs much less important.
Musk says the ticket price would equal an economy international plane ticket.

Back of the envelope calculation more or less confirming that here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15362976
Agreed that QML isn't C++, but it can be connected to C++ code, and the "enacting clause" to start QML UI happens in main()...

I have used Boost and love how it has influenced the direction of std::C++. Do you see any potential for the C++ standard to build off of Boost in building a UI standard?
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Awesome and helpful community, super ideas behind the cerebral, handling side effects in JS as they should be handled :-)
I moved from raspberry pi's to amazon fire sticks and sideloading kodi is now down to a minute or so installation - including copying my advanced.xml over from a unc path so it uses the shared db. Life has been so much easier since.
No, because I don't know what the underlying message is - you didn't spell it out, neither did parent, or anyone in this chain.

If you unentangle the first example the author gives, she wants to give a task to the man, without explaining how to do it, and then complains that they don't do it properly. But it's not even just that, it's her wrapping this task into a "Mother's Day gift", i.e. forcing the man to do emotional labor to figure out what the woman really wants and how exactly to do it. This is a counter-example to her overall argument, both in her literal words(about emotional labor), and (I'm guessing here) in the underlying meaning of "men should do more of the hidden work"(how do you expect them to do the "hidden work" if you never explain to them that you're doing it, you want to share the responsibility, etc?).

If there's a deeper underlying message that I'm missing here, please, I'm interested in knowing about it. But every time I read an article like this, all I can think of is "dysfunctional relationship" and "unreasonable expectations".
I wonder what the greenhouse gas emissions will be like for the Earth-to-Earth trips. Ironic that the display showed a snow-capped mountain after the E2E animation.
The thing is they _didn’t_ hire a good CEO. This happened on his watch.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prompt_Global_Strike

A terrible idea, as the risk of accidental nuclear war is far too high. There's no way to tell if an ICBM launch is conventional or nuclear.
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Similar idea, but done in C: Hisham 'htop' Mohammed's dit editor. Use it for all my quick-in-out edits.
Literally not his business.
I still haven't paid for sublime text...
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For example Boost.Geometry and Boost.Polygon could be used with Boost.UI coordinates, Boost.Chrono (and std::chrono) in Boost.UI on_timeout() function, Boost.Date_Time library is used in date and time pickers etc.

wxWidgets is mentioned in build instructions.
Haha, people are usually very straightforward with what they plan to do with it. Most of them don't feel guilty about it and usually justify that every other person does it.
I have one that is 344 bytes: https://github.com/dseevr/cpu_consumer

It just runs a tight loop that consumes an entire core.
"About the same as full fare economy" So in the low thousands. Incredible if true.

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I would be really excited about a future where everyone had access to clean water.

Going to space is fun and exciting. The future of space travel is going to be interesting, but it essential that when we imagine the future that we do so while recognizing the glaring problems of today.
Zubrin once joked that if you send a heavy smoker to mars without any cigarette, you actually reduce his risk of dying of cancer.
Cue the "outrage dollar" but you could be right there...

The most far-out sci-fi needs to be read anyhow – so many images today, so little imagination.

"Be conservative in what you choose to binge-watch and be more liberal in taking time to read instead."
You should look at the joe editor :)
Great presentation, only thing I'm worried about is human flight in these things. I mean what happens if this thing is 1% off on the landing? Does the whole thing topple over and blow up into a million pieces?

Additionally with the entire flight being automated, what happens if the software gets taken over in space and they just drop it like a rock onto a city? The damage would be catastrophic. We need Elon to invest in city wide force field technology too it would seem.
The joe editor is based on Turbo C
If you work for others as a programmer, then likely they will want you to have spent the last five years using the tools they are using.

If have your own business and write your own code, then you get to pick what you want to learn and use and stay with just that. And maybe you already know enough. E.g., if some parts of Microsoft's .NET are enough for what you need to code and you know it, then why rush off to Linux?

E.g., for my startup, I typed in 100,000 lines of typing with 24,000 statements in Visual Basic .NET; it all runs. And I know a lot more in computing but is not popular now. From just what I know, I can't be hired as a programmer, but I have no trouble programming for my startup.
The fact that you think this thread is non-horrible is a shining example of why this site is appalling to so many people.
Don't get me wrong, I love Footfall. But its politics are a vastly bad idea in the current environment. (Get someone like Jimmy Carter as president and then do Footfall. Just like Trump makes The Handmaid's Tale apposite.)

Also, it's a fundamentally limited story. It'd make a great mini-series but Ringworld could go anywhere. There's not only multiple sequels, but you could junk the lot and explore the world further, take off and expand into Known Space or do backstory with the Man-Kzin Wars. In short, it's got what you want for a long running TV show.
Fair points, I'm sorry for my somewhat pithy original reply.
I identified the trains with the real trains that went past the house.

It's not too unusual to hear a young boy talking about Thomas while waiting for or in a train. It's often been the only real conversation I can understand elsewhere in Europe. ("Which one is this?" "It's red mummy, this is James!")
Doesn't everyone want to become millionaires though?

Seriously, discussions like this just show how out of touch sometimes this crowd is like.
While emacs is a terrific editor (or platform for editors), it is not easy to use. It has a unique set of keyboard shortcuts, which means that for most newcomers, their familiar hotkeys or key combos will do things that they don't expect.

A modern, straightforward CLI editor would help many people.
Objections, sure, but any enforcement ability? That’s international waters.
The smallest useful container I know of is 129B. It was created to test how many containers docker can spin up while reducing the overhead of what was in the container itself.

tianon/sleeping-beauty latest 2e8193709fa7 6 months ago 129B

https://github.com/tianon/dockerfiles/tree/master/sleeping-b...
The lack of access to clean water and most of the bad stuff happening around the world is not an engineering problem, it's a political problem. Elon Musk's passion lies in engineering, not in politics.

So while your sentiment is fine in a vacuum, I don't think it fits on this thread, and it's certainly not a sound criticism against advancing space colonization. In fact, there's a sizable sentiment that this planet is beyond saving due to political failures, and colonizing other planets is the only way for our species to survive.
In the first part, the author makes several mistakes including confusing O_DIRECT with DMA. So take this with a grain of salt.
I can't wait to get my hands on an actual programmable switch
Indeed, the book isn't about Nazis and the show 100% is. Snow Crash is hard to adapt because the author treads a very fine line between the future being a negative judgement on today's values and it being... cool. I imagine they'll go for the cool and leave the eco meta narrative on the cutting room floor.
CO2 extraction for methane production is planned on mars, where the relative ratio of CO2 in the atmosphere is much higher. On Earth, CO2 is only 0.04%, which makes it quite difficult to extract.
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I agree; I can, however, imagine some kind of on-flight technician. Maybe.
Back in my day Easter eggs were inside of finished products.
Oh seriously, there were 100 great performances in TMITHC, but there were two aching voids where the lead characters should have been.
Earth-bound BFR flights could be net zero emissions if SpaceX uses solar energy to generate methane from atmospheric carbon dioxide, as Musk discussed in the talk.
Web browser engines also can be connected to C++ code and I think that this way is more promising that QML-way.

It is very early to say, but Boost.UI library has some potential to be included in C++ standard.
The sceptics in the shipping industry are plenty as well, though. And it has been awfully quite around that pilot. Many wonder if the real challenge is really trust or not just incompatible data formats and plenty of non-digitized data...
> Would we expect a US President (or any Chief Executive of any country) to understand the importance of two-factor authentication?

No, but I would expect him/her to hire competent people who do.

Either you are responsible for the performance of the company or you aren't. If you are you can be richly rewarded when it performs well, but that should also include penalties when you fuck up.
The risk is all borne on the little people. If strategic direction is an abject failure, C-suite leaves with golden parachutes and the workforce is "rationalized" which means 3rd party consultants are used as justification for draconian cuts. The American Dream these days is to get to the protection (and unjust/unfair risk-free status) of the C-suite umbrella asap.
We're in an industry ten years behind so we're just getting into Big Data. Obviously the issue that we can't write working normal software hasn't been addressed but we'll see how it goes. I'm actually relatively optimistic.
If your farm is too small, then lease it to someone who farms, say, 10,000 acres by leasing smaller chunks. Then get a job in town!
There is a solution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cap_and_dividend
Lazarus sounds like an echo to the Into the Badlands, which I very much enjoy.
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But does the progressive responsibility ladder exist for a high school graduate? Can they start their career in a job, even at an internship level?

I think you can tease out three possible factors influencing the situation here:

- more people graduating, more supply, means that even entry-level jobs are flooded with college graduates
- entry-level jobs in decline, either due to automation or companies just not interested in providing apprenticeships
- student loans shifting the power dynamics between employer/employee; you're more pressed to get a job, any job, so you're more likely to take up positions where you're overqualified and underpaid

These scenarios all form positive feedback loops to each other; with more high-skilled worker supply in the market, companies can grow their non-entry level jobs while automating the low-level ones; this reduction in entry jobs means that the desperate college students compete more fiercely with high school students, raising the bar for entry level jobs; the raised bar for entry level jobs forces more high school students to go into college rather than start work, which saddles them with student debt, feeding into the cycle.

I've noticed that many social situations tend to end up in such vicious, entangled circles. My dad used to call these the "downward spiral of failure" and the "upward spiral of success", and I really don't know how you transition from one to the other without a monumental effort or some kind of miracle breakthrough.
For pretty much any imaginable ethnicity, there's a great actor out there. Just look at Ricky Whittle. (Just don't look at him on Hollyoaks.)
Obedience shall depend on what the law is. Sometimes laws are immoral and then it is ok to break them. Which is not the same as breaking the law for profit.

And even there, people who run away from soviet union broke the law. It was ok to do so in my opinion. People who were dissenters, owned printers and spread ... ehm ... evil capitalist propaganda broke the law too. It was heroic from them to do so. Likewise with breaking nazi laws.

Likewise with marrying/dating between blacks and whites where it was illegal or helping slaves escape. I am ok with Snowden too.
Indeed.

Another useful technique, which has been recently introduced, is Multi-Stage Builds https://docs.docker.com/engine/userguide/eng-image/multistag... . This lets you avoid putting tools needed for compilation into the final image.
> "if any big bad thing happens, we pay you $0!"

No, it should read 'if big bad things happen, you pay us the damages'.

The question is simple: Is the CEO (directly or indirectly) responsible for how the company operates ? If (s)he is, then it's fair (s)he gets a decent bonus when the company does well, but that would also mean they are responsible when everything goes south, and then they should pay for the damage. Otherwise they can basically take huge risks with the company in the hope they score a big bonus, and there will be no consequences when it goes tits up.

You cannot only be responsible when things go well, that's not how responsibility works.
I'm not sure here, but I think weather could play a major role in disrupting launches, greater than with jet liners, right? And not just due to windy conditions (which planes can better withstand up to a certain point), but also rough waters.

Another issue is noise. I don't see rockets happening that close to shore in large cities. A long pad-to-city commute, with ship trip included, would be another inconvenience.
Emacs has a GUI with icons and menus and tooltips and all that.

Isn't that what a true beginner would use anyway instead of the terminal version?
Again, that's an Amazon issue. Apple doesn't region restrict apps, the app developer does that when they add it to the App Store.
Used Cerebral on an Ionic app, re-wrote an XMPP client that took over a 2 years to write in 3 weeks time. Great community, really love using it and its the best programming abstraction I experienced.
But they get their groceries from stores that deliver goods via trucks.
I don't mean to antagonize Elon Musk himself. What I wanted to point out is that the future doesn't exist in a vacuum. While some people are jumping around on mars others will be unable to put food on their table. It saddens me to see that things that make people most excited about the future are the development of technologies that don't address issues of inequality.

Why would our political failures not follow us to other planets that we colonize?
I really like Lua and hacking things in Lua, so this editor looks like its what I need. But there is one show stopper, that I have no idea how to avoid: scrolling horizontally on my Mac is terrible slow, and I have lots of files with long lines..

The author and the communtity around it is great, all questions that I had have been answered quickly. So every few months or so I download the newest package and look if anyting has changed meanwile.
Hi Simon,

The n-liner is:

import subprocess
import logging

import mitogen.utils

def main(router):
# http://mitogen.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api.html#context-factories
remote_host = router.ssh(hostname='myvps.mycorp.com')
root = router.sudo(via=remote_host, username='root', password='god')

rc = root.call(subprocess.check_call, 'ifconfig lo', shell=True)
print 'Command return code was:', rc

logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO)
mitogen.utils.run_with_router(main)

Which gives me:

INFO:mitogen.ctx.local.22050:stdout: lo Link encap:Local Loopback
INFO:mitogen.ctx.local.22050:stdout: inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
INFO:mitogen.ctx.local.22050:stdout: inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
INFO:mitogen.ctx.local.22050:stdout: UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1
INFO:mitogen.ctx.local.22050:stdout: RX packets:323421007 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
INFO:mitogen.ctx.local.22050:stdout: TX packets:323421007 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
INFO:mitogen.ctx.local.22050:stdout: collisions:0 txqueuelen:1
INFO:mitogen.ctx.local.22050:stdout: RX bytes:109087018382 (101.5 GiB) TX bytes:109087018382 (101.5 GiB)
INFO:mitogen.ctx.local.22050:stdout:
Command return code was: 0

Seems context name generation has broken :/ But it's running on the remote machine, you get the idea.

I'm working on a "mitop" example utility that implements a multi-host top replacement, with hierarchical statistical roll-ups, and documenting the implementation of that will be the basis for the Getting Started guide, but it depends on a bunch of stuff I'm not ready to work on (async connect), while there are still critical issues where hangs may still occur due due to an exception, and basic stuff like module preloading being incomplete (currently day 13 of working on that).

It will come eventually, but it will likely encourage many more bug reports than my hands can respond to once it is written, so it is kind of a feature that it is missing right now. :)
> Thats why they show the spaceport out at sea,

I suspect putting the spaceport at sea is mainly a security issue. Failing to reach the landing pad is certainly less catastrophic on water than on the ground.
Yes, I'm sure. Backdoors are not implants, they are vulnerabilities.

Implants are the payloads that persistently infect target systems, surveil or modify the envrionment, and exfiltrate data.

So unless you want to suggest the majority of consumer systems are actively compromised to the point of exfiltrating screen caps on a regular basis, my original point still stands. Even then, good luck conducting successful automated analysis on hidden messages made out of blocks in Minecraft. Reconstructing game state as it went across the wire would be easier than making sense of screenshots in that scenario.
But can it replace mg?
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TrekWars: GateCraft actually sounds plausible and potentially fun.

Does anyone else share that ambiguous feeling of pleasure at the overdue broader recognition of good SciFi works mixed with the dread of potentially disappointing TV-adaptations of them?
Perl5 may be making a run, but I think it'll be short-lived. The thing is, you can pick a language like Golang, Python, Ruby, or Javascript now and build your entire backend stack in it. That's a really powerful idea.

Python has become particularly ubiquitous in web frameworks, machine learning, data science, devops, and general scripting and data munging. It may be the one language right now that you can't actually not use it for at least something in your stack.
Indeed. Google "Gartner Hype Cycle" followed by the year to get a sense of the evolution of the different hype cycles.

I still remember my manager getting very excited about XBRL in 2007.
The first half-dozen lectures are not representative. They're sort of easing into the picture before getting started tackling problems.

I'd recommend giving volume 1 a shot to anyone comfortable with freshman calculus and willing to work at it. Like SICP, it might change the way you think. Much as I love SICP, the Feynman lectures are greater.
The book is pretty ...out there. It’s certainly not what I was expecting but it was interesting.
Went for the rant, stayed for the 60fps.
Interesting. Incidentally,

> It was created to test how many containers docker can spin up

What was the answer? I'd think on the order of 200-300 on a server with 64 GB of RAM. (Pure guess!)
I think the issue is exactly that - the colleges are low efficiency, either overpriced or not a good match for the position you go to work as.

As a hypothetical, let's say that most jobs require a degree. Let's say that you use 50% of the stuff in your English Major throughout most of your career; you've eaten a 50% inefficiency on your college investment(essentially doubling the "price/skills" of your degree), you've lost time that you could have invested in obtaining those skills. Further, you are pressured into demanding a higher salary because of your college investment, which isn't matched by the skills you've received; so either your employer carries the burden of your inefficient education, or you do.

This is usually decided by the power dynamic between the two, and if you're a broke college student desperate for a job, you don't have much bargaining power, so you're shouldering all the burden. The worst part is, there's no way for you to fix this - there's no 2-year program that is 100% aimed towards your career goal, and there's no entry-level job for you to start at 0%(you're probably already starting at the entry-level even with your 50% degree). So you're stuck making this investment whether you want to or not.

One way to look at university is insurance - you're learning all these extra things as an insurance that you'll have a baseline of skills if you change your career. The issue is, not everyone can afford such an expensive insurance, but most people are forced to take it under our hypothetical.
I would expect a new grad to be hitting $150k pretty quickly (1 year)

Also: UK salary ranges are ~$50k-$90k (but you can't save 40%)
There'll always be a need for better tooling in this space: what configures your Kubernetes cluster?
Going to space doesn't take resources away from getting everyone access to clean water. These are not related activities.
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This stumbling out of the hall sounds like folklore. There are contradictory claims about how well the students took the lectures. (I attended Feynman's last lecture for Caltech freshmen, in the 80s -- a reprise of the volume 1 lecture on general relativity -- and saw nobody reacting like that. Admittedly we weren't going to get tested on it.)
I'd also be a bit surprised if the FCC were involved with FM radio receivers. Can you not make a simple transistor radio in the US without getting it approved by the FCC?