skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Work on LARGE scale, e.g. pick a project from pg's frighteningly ambitious startup ideas (http://www.paulgraham.com/ambitious.html). This was from 2012 so a bit dated now but the general thought applies. Disrupt a segment, but one where there aren't huge clear antagonists that can squish you immediately, e.g. healthcare.

Two examples that are important to me:

* Investigate the rising cost of higher education. Start with public data (for state universities), create a nice visualization on where the money is going. Extrapolate to private colleges. Then find ways to attack and change the status quo.

* Increase quality of education of poor kids (not just inner city, but that may be easier to start with). For example, can the shuttered grade schools in poor areas be repurposed into startup spaces, providing office to startup at very low cost, but they have to provide tutoring teaching for local students.
a nuked earth will probably still be better than Mars after the dust has settled.
He didn't mention this in the talk, but the story of how SpaceX came to be in the first place is pretty amazing too. He wanted to land a greenhouse on Mars basically as a stunt, to get people interested in Mars again. He wanted to buy surplus Russian ICBMs as a cheap way to launch the thing. After tough negotiations, the Russians basically gave him the middle finger. He basically said, "Fine, I'll build my own rocket, with blackjack, and hookers!" And thus SpaceX was born.
depends what spending is on, government spending can be incredibly productive. Tax increases on the rich would work better if they actually paid them. This is a difficult problem, I certainly don't have the answer, and I'm not convinced there is a simple answer.
I live and work in NYC as a JS developer, and I feel like it's a great place to be. The community is strong here and there's a lot of diversity in what people do, technical or not, within the tech community. The amenities are good and I walk to work and honestly the rents are not that bad. Manhattan is the most expensive, but if you want to save money Brooklyn, Queens, NJ, etc. are cheaper and all linked by (mostly working) public transit. One of the biggest factors keeping me here is the public transit and the fact that I don't need to drive and sit in traffic.
One thing you're missing:

For a very high profile requirement - say, some kind of huge emergency - you could land the BFR anywhere there's a solid surface the size of a soccer field. Zero infrastructure required.

Getting it out of there again would be difficult, but you could have a team of experts and a whole lot of material resources literally drop down from the sky anywhere on Earth in a matter of hours. Most of that duration would be spent loading the human and material cargo into the rocket.

We have no way of doing that currently.

P.S.: And if the emergency is big enough, you could drop the whole thing into the ocean near the shore and just jettison the passengers and cargo shortly before impact.

Rapid intervention anywhere on Earth. Literally.
It is a very sound hypothesis.

Take a look at this:

https://iq-research.info/en/page/average-iq-by-country

If we are speaking of the U.S.A (and Germany, Sweden, France) then most immigrants are people coming from locations far from the top of the list; therefore, if these immigrants (their kids too, IQ is a heritable trait) are partaking in such tests, the average will decrease, do you not believe so yourself?

Perhaps you can pinpoint the flaw in this hypothesis.
> I think Cubans would rather have a better basic quality of life

They do have a better basic quality of life. That's exactly what they already have. Cuba is not a rich country like the US, so of course the direct comparison without historical context will mislead you. If they opened up free capitalism style trade with other nations, they would be slaves on foreign owned farms and foreign owned factories instead of the government (using this thread's definition of slavery, of course). If they opened up capitalism style free trade internally, some people would get very rich and the majority of people's lives would be much much worse off. The income inequality would skyrocket.

You're suggesting that they're poor because they're communist. That's not the case. They're poor because they're an ex colony whose never became rich from wars, imperialism, natural resources, etc.. And when you consider that and the US trade embargo, they've done amazingly well.
Since they came over almost entirely an manmade debris that had been 'freed' by the tsunami, I think it can be argued that this was not entirely natural. If Japan was unpopulated, we'd get a few logs that would made the journey, not complete manmade structures which could house many different species at once.
Is this website related to the popular http://highscalability.com/ ?

Holy cow, this is an intense article, with great definitions for a bunch of detailed variations of distribute system jargon, and even has some nice images to explain the ideas!

My specialty is in eventually consistent data types, which there section is much smaller on, but they have some links to follow up on CRDT stuff.

> are often limited in functionality and impose performance overheads

This is for the most part true, with CRDTs. However we just formalized and proposed in a new paper, with some Stanford colleagues, how to construct a generalizable CRDT. One that actually lets other more case-specific CRDTs be built on top of it, which we use at gunDB, so that way you can get the advantages of the more optimized CRDTs but still have the rest of your data glued together.

Another set of really interesting CRDTs which they didn't mention, are the ones used for making decentralized versions of Google Doc:

- Martin's Kleppmann has an exceptionally great/interesting talk on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCcWpzY8dIA&feature=youtu.be...

- And we recently did a "layman" animated explainer of a similar algorithm, that explains it for the non-academically minded, with simple analogies to "distributed systems" that happen in every day life: http://gun.js.org/explainers/school/class.html

I'll definitely be referencing the OP's article in the future though. Even though I'm in this world, I constantly get the vernacular mixed up. And this will be a really great dictionary to use.
Wouldn't flying to and landing on Mars be a true proof? what other kind of proof can there be?
This is not autosave, this saves open buffers, and may cause saving changes you may have wanted to discard. With non version controlled files this may cause data loss/corruption. See "Auto Save" in emacs manual instead.
Umm, interesting take. There are some good sci-fi series that explore the idea of religious groups expanding via space colonies. Heck, even the KSR Mars series discusses this.

Living in fear of Islam (or LDS, or Branch Davidians) is a foolish way to evaluate a scientific/societal exploration project.
NYC has a great ecosystem of experienced people who know how to program, know math, and understand how businesses/product work. In this regard there are many amazing qualified data science practitioners.

But, the data science startup scene is not really thriving in NYC yet. Compared to the Bay Area, I see two main issues: a lack of data scientists with strong software engineering skills, and a lot less angel money (probably due to very few large successful exits).
> Because talented engineers don't want to work on the typical things that get outsourced

another assumption without substantiating evidence.

See the comment from @pavanred for some context.
In order to bring the suit in the first place, you have to have some kind of reason to believe that they defrauded you. That they weren't able to achieve their goal isn't good enough.
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I can only assume you haven't spent a lot of time in the EU... Switzerland (which is not in the EU) is the only European country I've been to that does not have a very visible population of homeless people.
Uh, excuse me, can you check this?

http://money.cnn.com/2017/08/16/investing/china-us-debt-trea...

Do you want me to be more precise? Foreign creditor?

"The Treasury Department has ranked China as the biggest foreign creditor to the U.S. for the overwhelming majority of the past nine years. "
I'm referring to the shipping of the broken goods to amazon individually. That's the part I'm critical of.

Sure, send them back to China, I don't care, it just seems silly that we would all just mail our broken junk back one piece at a time to AMazon who then puts it in a container and sends it to China.

Better to take it to alocal recycling facility for them to send it en masse. Have Amazon give you a voucher to handle the recycling fee.
It is uthinkable by many and it is a very hypothetical question.
I am not even sure if the US would want to have a soil so far away from the “mainland” :-)
So you're saying the movie Idiocracy is where we will end up? Guess I had better start investing in Gatorade.
I agree about "needlessly," but in this case they're providing sub-par information because they don't want to write the word.

If the actual name is Big Fucking Rocket, maybe that's what media should report.
Still nothing of consequence said.
I built smartphone web apps in 2005, and I can assure you there wasn’t a single smartphone browser even close to being worth a damn. Safari on the original iphone was the first decent browser on a phone, everything before that was garbage from a JS developer perspective.

It is true that there were some desktop debugging tools (i remember a js debugger for IE6), but it was difficult to set up, and nothing like firebug or chrome dev tools. Live DOM inspection and editing didn’t exist.

Despite the lack of tooling and the horrors of IE6 I still feel that was a golden age in web dev. It was a time of wild experimentation, where a single js dev could gain global notoriety by creating a cool hack or a nice library.
Hangover free booze.
This shouldn't surprise anyone. It's basic psychology that should be taught in school.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-group_favoritism

Edit: And it's something to keep in mind with politics. The other side is not nearly as evil or stupid as you think they are, nor is your side as righteous or clever.

Edit 2: It also fuels racism and xenophobia.

Edit 3: Which reminds me, PG's essay on identity: http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html
> having management and decision authority at company A & acquiring technology from Company B, that you own.

On the Board of Directors level, this kind of thing happens all the time.
Vinnie Bono!!!
Remember the fate of Prometheus, who brought fire to mankind. Opposition to creators and innovators is not a new thing.
He outright said that the 2022 timeline was "aspirational." That's basically an "if everything goes perfectly" date. We know everything won't go perfectly, and so does he, but he still likes to start with that.
http://seclists.org/nanog/1997/Apr/444
Privatized vs government run. In some situations a privatized provider can be more effective than a government run one. If the private company has the call center in Tennessee, their accountants, lawyers and headquarters in Phoenix, they can be cheaper than a government run organization that has all employees living in a high cost area in CA. There are also economies of scale for a private company to manage these services for many different areas. S a city getting half of the toll revenue from a private company can get more money than collecting all of it themselves and hiring people.
>So Synergon is really better than the current open-plan office?

Sadly, it really is.
To be fair, you couldn't get a solar roof delivered in the next month like you could a traditional one.

From their site "Initial trial installations are complete and undergoing evaluation, customer installations are about to start and will ramp up through 2017."

https://www.tesla.com/solarroof

Seems like it needs an update, 2017 is almost over...
It is because it will be extremely expensive to do this. Plus there are a ton of issues to be worked out before this is possible.

Here is just a small list:

- What food will people eat on Mars?

- What space suits will they all use?

- Who will train all the astronauts to go there?

- Who will build the habitats?

- Who is building the equipment to make fuel on mars? How much will this cost?

This is far from a fully researched plan. Look, I really hope it happens and I'm seriously rooting for SpaceX, but there is much more to figure out and plan to make this a reality.
Sounds like this could be a pretty trivial way to load balance React prerendering. As long as the react code fetches all data in 1 call it should be at least as efficient as doing it all in Nodejs on your server.
I am an Indian and i will tell you how it is. Most indians in india and the valley where i live and work suck in programming. I can't say how i do because we can never judge ourselves objectively. Indians in India write bad code because they will they are being cheated and being paid less money. The other issue is the education system is to memorize stuff and get a job so they can make money. There is no passion to do great or decent work. The end goal is to keep a job and make money. The same is true for people who work for google or amazon. They memorize the damn interview questions and get the job. Now all this is my experience with majority. So don't ask me for a study. I am sure there are exceptional programmers, founders that are Indian but majority aren't.
Whatever interests them the most.
It looks like Gatsby generates a static site as a SPA? What's the advantage of that approach over multi-page sites generated with Jekyll, Hugo, etc.?
Well, normal markets have a sawtooth growth pattern. It's only a matter of time till each of the discussed markets reaches bubble-proportions, then pops. History proves that with both the stock/real-estate markets. But I haven't heard anyone else predicting 5 simultaneous bubbles like this.
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That would be kind of expensive though
Nice article, but the arrows are wrong on the push-pull diagram under gossip protocols.
It was originally conceived as a multi-purpose synth chip. Bob Yannes, designer: "When I designed the SID chip, I was attempting to create a single-chip synthesizer voice, which hopefully would find it's way into polyphonic/polytimbral synthesizers. I never realized this however."

http://sid.kubarth.com/articles/interview_bob_yannes.html
And they have had opportunities to begin the process to fully opt in and haven't done so.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Rican_status_referendum...

We should help because they are people hurting but lets not mischaracterize the dynamics of PR/USA relations.
asdf-install is absolutely the [vastly] more secure and more efficient model in terms of software distribution since it places the author in charge of his own software and not some arbitrary middle man.

You seem to think that convenience can not be added to the asdf-install model which is demonstrably false (I described how to do it). Paraphrasing Alan Kay [1], Quicklisp was done by amateurs so you shouldn't assume things can not be done better.

There is no technical barrier to something that's similarly easy to use and vastly more secure.

[1] http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/interview-wit...
As a developer, I fully understand that the nails and girders used to assemble a building aren't expected to reflect the preferences embodied by the final construction they contribute to, but would you just look at the React website, and stand it next to Facebook itself? One looks and feels like shit, and the other does not.

I'm just one guy with an opinion, but I strongly disagree that Facebook is a model example of a complex website. Facebook is blessed with a money hose, that ultimately washes away so many other problems, meanwhile provided that Facebook is not a network hardware and CDN company, I'd contest that if that's what they wind up bragging about, incidentally, then that's clearly a hint that they've gotten their core offerings wrong.

Yes, Facebook started as a PHP garbage pile, and now it's got more going on, but the surface UX of Facebook remains a garbage pile, whether it's a fast garbage pile in terms of line speed, or a photo-realistic representation of a virtual garbage pile.

If I can get consistent browsing results, productive interactions, and notice a presentable style and appearance on a React documentation website, which is a wholly-owned property of Facebook, then why isn't the flagship Facebook system provided to end-users with the same nuanced attention to detail?
Nice, maybe if we had more native frameworks of similar calibre to what we have in the realm of web development we could start seeing more new applications going back to native.
> There are three things that would factor into my decision about whether to strap myself to a rocket rather than fly in a plane: time, cost, and safety.

It's a valid concern, but it's only a matter of time before each new technology is perfected and made safe.

The exact same debates took place when Stephenson built his locomotive.
Sharding sucks and we really need to get away from it. I wonder if there's any databases like these that use a hierarchy to distribute and manage access of data rather than with a flat topology of arbitrary chunks of data. Currently there's a lot of shitty hacks, like memory-resident databases in front of disk-backed, proxies, etc. We can do better than that if we build hierarchical data and node management into the network.
IIRC, that 3.3% is just for the 5 branches of the military and doesn't include intelligence spending (~$80b/yr) or the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq which are around $2.4 trillion dollars thus far over ~14 years. A more honest number is probably above 4%.
Nice, Snow Crash! I've been waiting for an adaptation for that book. Some interesting writing styles (like the perspective change from Hiro to the girl), but the story overall was great.
Why is IBM outsourcing then? It's not just about money. They can't find an American to do that job. Americans get paid more and can find more interesting work. Plus, Indians are really good at delivering code fast of inferior quality. Americans like most people here delve too deep in stuff and are slow at churning code.
20 years in Europe. I've never never never never tripped over crazy homeless. It's all I do in Berkeley and SF.

It's not a small, nuanced difference but literally night and day. Have you really seen tents downtown in any city in Europe?

I'm American but most Europeans I know struggle with living in the Bay Area because it's such a shock for them.
Mining vs. buying cryptocurrencies
Could this be used to make Cloudflare respond to HTTP POST requests?
What the Banking Industry Can Learn from Nokia’s Demise
Not cooperating with a particular political actor is not quitting involvement, it's choosing method of involvement.
Probably the same evidence for phrenology. I'm just skeptical that there's even 5 bubbles right now.
Author here. I've tried to keep the article as apolitical as possible, while giving some context to provide the setting.

Anyway, I'm very interested in knowing if the used crypto is sound or not, and stirring a discussion around possible alternative approaches.

Ask me anything if you want to know further!
It's the colonizing Mars part

Getting into Mars is solvable technological problem. Colonizing Mars is more economical and sociological problem than technological problem.

Everyday living in high-tech place where everything is safety critical (like in a nuclear submarine or ISS) is extremely expensive. Productivity would have to be beyond everything that has ever existed for that becoming possibility.

If Elon Musk can crack Mars colonization economy, he has also invented something that can be used to drop F-35 fighter, nuclear submarine and aircraft carrier maintenance costs to level where they are negligible.

There is always counterarguments that are based on post-scarcity economy. I accept that argument. But we get faster into Mars if we first develop post-scarcity economy here on earth first. Then those who want to leave just move there. Those who want to go Mars now are thinking it wrong.

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In case I didn't make myself clear, I believe that Musk can get into Mars in his lifetime. There can be small research station and we can explore little.

But it will be a money sink. We will do some research and then leave and probably it takes another 50 years until someone visits in person again.

All the science fiction thing humans have achieved, microchips, computers, mobile phones, commercial air travel increase productivity and there is massive demand for them. Combined R&D over decades can be trillions and it's profitable. Interplanetary space travel is going nowhere fast because there is no profit motive. Getting into orbit is profitable business and that's what SpaceX is doing.
Optimizing human health through nutrition, robotics, human colonization of space and the planets.
What if it is just the USD losing value against assets? You know, inflation not reported correctly.

If "everything" is bubbling, then relatively speaking prices are the same.
A fair economy.
DroneDeploy does that: https://www.dronedeploy.com/

One of the best hiring prcoesses I've experienced (didn't end up working there, though)
In fairness, I vastly dislike all of these solutions, and prefer to hand-manage any libraries I need per-project, which I've never found to be particularly onerous.
"I'm not interested in building an other B2B Invoicing SaaS app"

I think I made the very 1st one of those and I'm working on an upgrade now. lol.

A few areas come to mind that are obvious, like food, shelter, income, energy.

There's a lot of work being done on growing food for personal and community use with controlled systems but there looks (to me) like there's plenty of room for improvement and innovation there still.

From what I've read recently inexpensive, durable, and accurate soil moisture sensors are needed. It looks like a "Pick one feature" situation there right now. I've been pondering that a bit lately.

I've seen some interesting innovation in how weeds are managed in large scale agriculture that include using organic "grit" to "sandblast" weeds with remote controlled mechanically articulated nozzles using image recognition software to direct the blast. This eliminates the need for herbicides so it attempts to solve a very pressing issue.

I recently saw a robotic "weed whacker" on a social funding site that got a lot of attention, but the prototype they showed didn't inspire confidence in me that it'd do much.

Pest control is another obvious pressing problem in agriculture, as is efficient use of water.

I'm currently designing a simple experiment to grow salad veggies outdoors in the winter using low hoop row covers and passive solar heating.

Growing food closer to where it's consumed has the potential to greatly reduce costs, environmental impact, and hunger, and it looks to me like there's a lot of headroom there for improvement.
Ron Howard was working on one, but put it on hold to work on the Star Wars Han Solo movie
Yearly rents are about ~2% of the price of property, In US it is about ~7%. So yes rents are cheaper in India because that's what market can afford.