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A few devs on HN hang on to a bygone web where everything is a plain document. Your non-technical clients, who greatly outnumber them, want apps with rich interaction. Which one of them pays you?
> Vim is very powerful so although it hasn’t got features like visual blocks

Vim has visual blocks? Ctrl-v. Did you mean multiple cursors?
>> If only the executives would listen to them the company would be on the right path.

Founder is an employee, whose executives wouldn't listen to them.

I can see how it could be easier for you to "tune out", but from the Wozniak's mouse to Nokia smartphone presentations, your smirk is actually exactly correct: Employees make or break the firm. The ship will sink without them. Executives do not sufficiently listen to their employees.
I have termius on my iPad and I don't find it very convenient to use. It lacks a bar with quick access to many special keys we use often.
The market is not God, and what it wants is not cast in stone. The current market practices are wasteful, antisocial and unsustainable, but the market only gives a damn if there's enough pressure for it.
Lots of features that are common in popular contemporary editors. Multiple cursors, common shortcuts, good mouse support, system copy/paste, etc.
Honestly, Elon's presentations are some of the most impressive, inspiring I've ever seen. And the way he just stumbles out words and sentences that are completely revolutionary... casually dropping these absurd, incredible statements. I find it incredible.

If anyone else was saying this, was showing these graphics, you'd think it was just wish fulfillment; a fantasy. And I'm sure their timeline is a bit aggressive. But I fully believe the SpaceX team can do this.

This has made me feel inspired for the future almost more than anything else has in recent memory.

(For context, and to the doubters, I've been following SpaceX for a long time, through their many failures, and they've already revolutionized the space industry. They have a drive and a vision and they're just going for it. This isn't about profits for them, it's about pushing humanity forwards -- and if that sounds grand, it's because it is.)
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If the Old Testament is really as bad as people say then Judaism really has a problem. But in my experience Jews aren't any more violent than Christians.

A group of people is not defined by a 3000-year-old folklore collection. You can’t infer anything about the text this way.
It's not particularly difficult but nor is it particularly fun. I certainly don't plan to assemble the furniture for my next apartment myself.
I think this is more an anecdote to the example than counter example.
I think co-opting suggests attacks on the consensus mechanisms or figuring out how to exploit Satoshi's abandoned wallets.
What would you use?
Hackers Exploiting Microsoft Servers to Mine Monero – Makes $63,000 in 3 Months
There is a risk of setting up a situation where "useful" is determined by presumed authority rather than any objective sense of utility. There's also the problem of how to deal with things that are not useful now, but presumably will be (in an emergency, for example.) There's also the problem of usefulness that is not communicated effectively; maybe we don't know how to express the usefulness of some activity. This does not mean it is not useful.

So it's a mistaken ideology from the start. Usefulness is valuable -- that's practically the definition of the term. But life requires finding a way to be valuable in predictable ways just as readily as it does finding a way to be valuable in unpredictable, circumstantial, and unforeseen ways.

So it's not entirely accurate. It's partially accurate; it is as much a lie by omission.
I was a little disappointed he didn't give any timeline at all on that not even a aspirational one. I also assume it's gonna be really expensive due to frequent heat shield replacement. I wouldn't be surprised if it never became economically viable. Too few passengers and too high cost.
What if you had executives that actually understood the tech behind it? Isn't that also the point of the CTO being an important role in a company?
Having someone else install your IKEA cabinets for you probably won't help with the quality of the installation if your house is a bit wiggly around the edges.
There’s No Rulebook to Being an Entrepreneur – Marcin Kleczynski – TEDxUIUC
Differences in scale are a great reason to throw data out.

Past experience gives us lessons for similar cases. The onus is on anybody using a model to ensure the use case is similar to the training data.

The US and Iceland are nations but it’s unreasonable to get hung up on that similarity of category. The nation is not a label for grouping economies that are comparable.

I don’t like bailouts either, for the record. My gripe is only with the scale question.
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IIRC the NYTimes at least used to have a policy where it if you pronounce the acronym out loud as a word it doesn't get periods, but does have periods if it would be said out loud as individual letters. E.g., "Joint NASA - E.S.A. space mission launch", "F.B.I. agents meet at FEMA office". As far as that rule would be concerned SOS is pronounced as letters and not as a word perhaps like "sauce".

But I've just seen some clear violations of that rule by them (they don't spell "SAT" test with periods) so maybe I'm misremembering or maybe they've changed it. Similarly to SOS, the letters SAT don't stand for anything, at least not officially anymore.
Dark-Web Drug Dealer Arrested After He Travelled US for World Beard Championship
I propose the CEOs payment is put on hold, behind all other creditors. Until all lawsuits are settled and all the creditors arising from them are paid in full he shouldn't see a dime of that money. In several years time, if anything remains of the company, he can collect.
I think he is thinking in terms of shares of the company, not salary. Salaries in the Bay are obviously higher than anywhere else, but what people want is to become millionaires when the company they work for sells to a bigger company.
Interview with Startup CEO Alan Brannigan on Creating Better Healthcare
what about...

• freelancer
• advisor
• fractional cto
• performance consultant
• various other vendors
It is natural to phrase it as a right. People have been able to do this for the entirety of human history, every moment in every civilization repairing things has been legal. In fact, it has been celebrated, respected as something obviously good. It is not good for the profit of some large corporations so it is now, for the first time, being banned.

It was never thought of as a right before because it is so obviously acceptable and good that nobody had even conceived that somebody might try to deny it.
Nothing on Moon Base Alpha except a picture. Would be nice to have a timeline for this (maybe the gap years where Mars transit is too long?)
AND core-rope memory. Wow. Thank you for this.
Neither character is "Asian", but nor is either is a white guy, which is the point of the comment you're replying to.
I imagine they can fit 400 passengers though. No need for those cabins or even a need to give passengers drinks.
SpaceX is building the BFR and launch facilities, but who is going to build all the equipment and gear required to live there - who is building the cargo?
This is exactly what I was imagining! x>>2 rather than x/2. Brilliant, thanks.
Thanks for your informative response! That's a very interesting discussion, and I'm glad to see support for at least moving Inspect Element back to the bottom in the short term.

Some of the use cases for precise placement capabilities seem pretty compelling, but here's hoping for accessible user customization options as a long term solution, perhaps in conjunction with the ability for WebExtension developers to set appropriate default placement, as long as that placement is not below Inspect Element. Inspect Element at the bottom is sacred!
> We're more dependent on corporations when we buy things, since we have given them all the money upfront. A service model gives us more leverage.

No, we aren't and no, it doesn't. Buying things up-front means your interaction with a corporation is brief and to the point. With service model, they get to gouge you for money and restrict the things you can do with the item you now don't own, but rent.

> Are you okay not being able to buy a washing machine because you couldn't make a significant one-time payment?

There are plenty of ways to amortize that using third parties that have no interest in limiting your control over the washing machine.

Also, it's you who get to choose when to do the purchase. Once you enter a contract, you'd better have a stable paycheck for the entire duration of it, or you'll be SOL.
I think he was pretty tired, definitely more than I've seen in most other videos. I hope he sleeps pretty soundly tonight (this afternoon in Aus).
People aren't mad that his contract is being honored, they're annoyed that there are no provisions for gross failure.

As for actively facilitating the breach, almost no CEO ever does. One of his jobs is to solve problems indirectly before they show up by appointing the right people to react to them. Appointing his college buddy as the chief of InfoSec was a gross failure to do that.
> Hiro Protagonist

I had read the book twice already, and it took me listening to the audio book and hearing the name said out loud to realise that it was a pun :-)

Call me childish, but I still have to giggle every time I remember his name.
South Korea has banned all forms of initial coin offerings in the country
He finally made it clear what this is about: feeling good about the future.

The other reasons to go to Mars that he has mentioned before are (arguably) valid.

This man might be the most inspirational voice in our lifetime.
Back of the envelope calculation for the price of an Earth-to-Earth ticket:

Musk's stated goal is $500k/ticket to Mars.

It's a shorter trip, so perhaps ~5x as many passengers in the same volume (i.e. 500 total; cf. a380 which seats 850).

It takes five (?) orbital refuel trips for the martian journey, but we'd need none of those. Depending on how much less than a full tank the passenger vehicle needs (payload could be smaller; the ship would also not reach fully orbital velocity), the fuel cost would be between 1/5 and 1/10 the Mars fuel cost.

So that would bring the cost down to between $10 and $20k/ticket, within reach of business travelers.

If maximum the number of flight cycles per vehicle is greater for Earth-to-Earth trips than for Mars, then that could further reduce the ticket cost. It's unclear to me which direction that number would go-- Earth's atmosphere is much thicker on re-entry, though the velocities will be much lower than an interplanetary re-entry. Since aerodynamic drag goes as the cube of velocity but only linearly with density, I'm guessing the speed would matter far more. That would imply much better lifetime on Earth.

So if the E2E fuselage gets (conservatively) only 2x as many flight cycles as a Mars trip, that could bring down the per-seat cost to $5k-- now getting close to the cost of an ordinary international ticket. Of course this is all assuming that Musk's baseline of $500k to Mars is reasonable.

Would be curious to hear from some rocket engineers about these guesses at the numbers/efficiency.

Not accounted for is amortized development cost for E2E-only vehicles, as well as all the infrastructure and ground support at the destinations.

Edit: If you wanted to be less conservative, you could pack in 1000 people instead of 500 (0.5x ticket price multiplier), or use a different source for the Mars ticket price (0.4x), which would bring it to $1k.
> And, you do realize the CEO didn't actively facilitate the breech?

As CEO he is responsible for his company. If a breech happens, it’s because he mismanaged it. They take home huge salaries, stock options and other forms of compensation, supposedly because their job carries so much responsibility, then he should also take responsibility when the shit hits the fan. Not only should he not get a cent, every single dollar that the company loses as a result of this should be recovered from him. Bankrupt the fucker and have him live the rest of his days in a box under a bridge.

You cannot claim ridiculous amounts of money because of your responsible job and then not be held responsible.
This is mostly a problem of the Anglo-Saxon world. In continental Europe, for the most part, at least AFAIK, publicly owned universities are harder to get in, harder to get a degree from, and valued much more in the job market. The upside is that the education is subsidized by the government to the point of being roughly that expensive.

I.e. one enrolls in a privately-owned, for-profit universities if they have the money, but don't want to work their arse off to get a degree, or don't have good enough grades from the secondary education to qualify for public unis.
Active fund with an expense ratio of 0.27%? Well, at least they're doing it with expenses comparable to other robo/index funds.
Will the PixelBook help Google dominate the cloud?
Post-Moore, that argument of acceleratism is done for anyway.
> Mentioned examples demonstrates integration with other Boost libraries.

What do you understand with "integration". Do they really integrate or do you just demonstrate how each library can be used and then somehow represented with a UI?

Examples are great, but making each one specifically for some Boost library feels odd. Are you showing off Boost libraries or are you showing Boost.UI's functionalities?

I don't think anyone will doubt that Boost libraries can be used with Boost.UI.

> And I would like to omit stereotypes about wxWidgets.

That's okay, but I still find it a bit misleading, when only at the build stage the compiler will tell you "oh btw this library requires you to have wxWidget headers".

When I use a library, I want to know its dependencies upfront and not having to browse the source code or being told through a compiler error.
For 30 minute trips you barely even need toilets.
> "Well delivery can be just as important as the message."

Only if the delivery is offensive, otherwise the message is more important.

To give an example, I'm a native English speaker, and when I speak with some non-native English speakers they can make some quirky decisions on how they deliver their message. However, if I've understood the underlying message, I'll look past it, and address what they meant.

To bring it back to the topic at hand, meta discussions like the one we're having now often start out as a form of deflection. Regardless of the term 'emotional work' (I prefer 'hidden work', you may have a different preference), do you agree that the underlying message of the article is broadly correct? It's not so much about who takes on the 'hidden work', but rather it's about the toll it takes.
Making them "Asian" would be exactly as wrong as making them "white guys", no more, no less.
Satoshi Nakamoto referenced Adam Back in his Bitcoin white paper. I don't see that as Adam Back ‘trying to take credit’, rather the reverse.
It's because it's a poorly written summary of the original, which is more about the person Sandra than her job.
You can make bread from corn, though. I don't mean that sugary cake called "cornbread" in the US, I mean actual bread, but made from corn flours. It's one of our national delicacies: https://easyportugueserecipes.com/broa-de-avintes/
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The entire point of the article is that you (or a local technician) should be allowed and able to repair your washing machine and not rely on the company exclusively to fix it. Having to throw it away is exactly because you don't really own it without the right to repair. You "own" a machine that it is impossible and illegal to fix or modify, which is not ownership at all, which means you already are renting it as a service, the company has just lied to you by redefining ownership in a way that makes them more money.
I've been trying to get an answer about this, but no reply so far. What will make a great post on Hackernews that will give a lot of points? Lets say if I design an innovative new search engine , quantum computer or Go AI and put it here on Hackernews, will I gain lots of points ? I saw some posts where the user gained like 200 - 300 points at once.
> Paul cannot retcon, try as he might, the events of the Old Testament

IDK if he needed to. Jesus declared he brought not peace, but a sword. Ananias and Sapphira were killed outright for lying about their finances. Revelations details enormous amounts of suffering for a fallen world, perhaps more than every other book combined. The New Testament is replete with examples of God's justice.
He said the heat shield ablates for Mars trips but not Earth trips (not sure why). If so then propellant should be the only important consumable.

Of course this level of reusability and reliability has never been achieved before, but the whole thing depends on it.
You'll notice how those examples are from two (and the first two) books and you're replying to a comment about how the Old Testament is about cycles. This is not a coincidence.
You'll still need to encode both IP and host somehow encoded in the URL to skip DNS lookup from Google, but it's not even that far fetched.
SpaceX BFR [video]
"You want to be inspired by things. You want to wake up in the morning and think the future is going to be great. That's what being a spacefaring civilization is all about. It's about believing in the future and believing the future will be better than the past. And I can't think of anything more exciting than being out there among the stars. "
> Also, how is using a service different than paying someone to do a job for you. E.g. paying someone to do your laundry instead of buying a washing machine. The person you hire can choose any means of doing your laundry, including putting a washing machine in your home.

It isn't, and this illustrates another problem: with service model, you're much more tied to having a stable income source. If you're temporarily not able to pay someone, they won't come to do the work for you. If you're not able to keep paying for the service, the provider will remotely suspend or terminate it. Whereas, if you own a device, you can keep using it even though you're 3 months out of a job, with no new one in sight.
Elon Musk’s updated vision for Mars also shoots for the moon and much, much more
Wow. Did it have call/cc? No special variables? I would have sworn it was based on CL when I played with it back when I was a customer while you guys were building it in MCL. But I was mostly using the object system.
The "it" to which gp refers is not the old testament.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcionism
And does not seem to be a popular demand either. Going by the points.
> Can’t wait until the “Steve Bannon” of the corporate justice movement emerges to go after these individuals / the structure that creates them.

I'm sorry to sidetrack on this, but I was really puzzled by this sentence, that does it mean?
The term is "skin in the game" :)
x >> 2 replaces x/4.
http://www.businessinsider.com/this-chart-shows-the-bilderbe...
You never ship them individually, you use containers. And it's probably quite efficient: the shipping boats have to return to China anyway to get more stuff.
The US has nonsugary cornbreads, too.
Ok, then you've got the code and the profile. The actual data and hardware it happens to be using is still better information.
Making Life Multiplanetary
Well why not? Just as a lot of characters have been rewritten to be white, why not rewrite some characters to be non white.
Interesting. Two little issues: safety and ticket costs. Also, your average overweight tourist isn't going to be very happy at several G's.
We should stop teaching little boys about dinosaurs too. Those T-Rexs are _terrible_ role models!
FBI Director – Terrorists could launch drone attacks very soon
Explaining complex tech like Hadoop/Crypto-currencies/SEO in the form of a story
Tell me again, why has NASA budgeted $30 billion for SLS?
The day when China is the size of the US there will be lessons to learn from China. I bet there are many lessons today.

But if Iceland remains its current size, neither superpower should treat it as comparable for scenario analysis.

I get a sense this is a political question for you; it’s not for me. It’s just an example.

Amazon is a company. I have a company of my own. Say my servers went down, and a few days later things were alright. Would it be Amazon Exceptionalism if they refused to learn from my experience?
https://www.hetzner.com/
The end result would be the same, they would just pass the costs to the consumer.
Or you could go tackle the Landau & Lifshitz texts for the original theoretical minimum.
> prosecutor's office tries to win the case on a legal technicality

Curious: By that token, how do you feel about DA's trying to win cases on legal technicalities. Are they living up to the expectations of their job?
I think the idea is that by building the bus and announcing a schedule the rest will happen naturally.
They both have great characters though. Can't wait to see who plays YT.
Pipe Logic – Simulating circuits in the Unix shell (2011)
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It should be zero, exactly zero, i.e., no rounding error. Because if you do long subtraction on the significands, the number of digits you need to store the result is at most the number of digits you had, because the numbers were within a factor of two from each other (so no shifting left or right).

Just to check, with sbv in haskell, using the Z3 SMT solver:

λ> f (x::SFloat) (y::SFloat) = fpIsNormal x &&& fpIsNormal y &&& y/2 .<= x &&& x .<= 2*y ==> fromSFloat sRNE (x - y) .== (fromSFloat sRNE x :: SDouble) - (fromSFloat sRNE y :: SDouble)
f :: SFloat -> SFloat -> SBool
λ> prove (forAll_ f)
Q.E.D.

Or without rounding through double, using the formula for exact rounding error of a sum:

λ> g (x::SFloat) (y::SFloat) = fpIsNormal x &&& fpIsNormal y &&& 0 .<= x &&& y .<= x &&& x .<= 2*y ==> (x - ((x-y) + y)) .== 0
g :: SFloat -> SFloat -> SBool
λ> prove (forAll_ g)
Q.E.D.
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Examples_of_God_personally_kil...

seems pretty fked up to me :)

I don't know anything about rationalwiki.org, it's the first site that showed up when I googled "old testament character punished"

Each statement is linked to Biblical verses though, so any objections would be to the spin they put on it rather than disputing whether those passages are actually there.

Basically, old testament Yahwe is a weird dude. Very thin skinned with a hare trigger temper. He's a sociopath who "tests" people by murdering their family among other atrocities. He does have his bro's back though. He sent 2 bears to maul 42 youths to death for mocking Elijah's bald head.
I was bitching in another thread about IBM Watson and had a Reuters journalist email my HN-only address who said he was working on a story about it.
Steve Bannon is kind of known for having a “hit list” within the political establishment. So first it was the Bush’s/Clinton’s, then it was the Koch Brothers, and now he is saying “the day of reckoning” is coming for Karl Rove and Mitch McConnell. Sometimes I think Steve Bannon is crazy, but other times I read his remarks and am shocked by how liberal some of them seem, e.g. his recent comment that Republican plan of tax cuts to the rich is “an economic hate crime” against the working class.
Such a library will never be accepted by Boost community. Boost is a "C++ standard extension", this library infinitely far from STL and Boost standards. In fact GTK+ looks much more promising to become a C++ GUI library.
So what's the carbon footprint of one of these launches? Did I understand correctly that we can make the fuel by taking CO2 from the atmosphere? That would make the footprint negative, would it? That seems to good to be true.
> we live in a corporate-totalitarian
> dystopia

Right. This year is the worst. Except for all the preceeding ones.