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I think it's overrated though - not open source, doesn't have an ecosystem.. the dev experience is sub par - services take too long to come up even with the one node cluster on a beefy laptop. Plus you cannot run the service outside of SF as an exe now.

I migrated a decent sized solution still in dev from SF to .netcore and SF - 10/10 would do it again. Not to mention that you also end up saving 50% $$$ on vm costs with linux vms (not considering SF on Linux)
Yes! The situation is dire enough that we need all hands on deck pushing forward on all solutions. The creators of AirMiners.org talk about active solutions here https://goo.gl/oUFg9c. An active project seeking STEM experts: Open NanoCarbon, an open science effort to solidify all the anthropogenic carbon. It's listed on the Air Miners and in the video, and is having a 2/15 meetup at Google SF: https://goo.gl/kbhuUk
Because there's noise inherent to any physical measurement. On the monthly chart, the range on the y-axis is 0.7 ppm. There's absolutely no sensor in the world capable of giving a reliable and valid measurement of CO2 in the atmosphere with sub-ppm accuracy. Just consider e.g. changing wind speed and directions which influence both the degree of atmospheric mixing and what the mix is of CO2 sources/sinks in the upstream direction.

Really, the smallest range on the y-axis should be 10 ppm, no matter how small the time interval. No need to spark general curiosity about noise.
Thank you for your long feedback!

I focused on the "passive" usage of HN for this first version.

I'll add the downvote feature (along with the post/comment submission feature) in the next major update.
Seconded. It's a very good course for someone getting started with Elixir having already had a good amount of programming experience.

I originally bought it at $60, and even at that price point I would buy it again.
I love that there are 16 points listed out using hexidecimal
Write as much code as you can in as few files and methods as possible
This is true. One thing I want to add though, is that at least in your unit, standard housing laws do not apply -- meaning you can discriminate on any basis in regards to the people you allow to live with you.
Easy, right? Except now you have created a timezone border (multiple, actually, because what business does Bulgaria have in GMT+1?) splitting a somewhat borderless EU, just so it looks more logical on your map. "Everything has at least three side effects..."
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Awesome!

Most of the HN apps still work even if abandoned -- it's the UI framework demo websites (HN UX re-skin seems to be right after the TODO app demo) that have all disappeared. Also the audio ones, but there haven't been many of those.
I agree, but it is also a matter of hardware resources.

Back in the 80 and early 90's, languages like C, Turbo Pascal, Basic,.... where the scripting languages, with the core implemented in Assembly.

Then the ladder moved up and they started to be used to implement the engines.

Same happened with C vs C++.

Now we are on the C++ vs GC languages phase.

C++ won't be gone from the pixel pusher and real time audio layers for a long time, but the other layers willl eventually use something else.
Fire?
Termites?
Surprisingly, Bootstrap v4 may fit your bill. If you into the source, it's all scss and mixins, so you can freely pick and choose. Besides, it covers any possible corner case out there thanks to its massive adoption.
This section is angry-making:

> a lot of millionaires live on something like 10% of their income. Everything they own, their house, their cars, even boat, doesn’t surpass 10%. You can apply this thinking too!

Something tells me the people able to live on 10% of their income have at least one "multi-" prepended to their "millionaire" label.

In SF, doing this while living in a 1BR apartment would require a yearly income over $430,000. San Jose, over $300,000. In NYC, DC, Boston, Miami or LA, you'll need at least $240,000 a year. National median rent ($1234/mo) still needs above $150K/year. And that's just rent, no frivolities like "eating food" or "wearing clothes".

(Rent data from http://time.com/money/4359971/average-apartment-cost-us-citi... 2016; current numbers likely worse)

It's easy to save money when you already have much more than you could possibly need. Otherwise, less so.
Soy is safe for all but a small few who are allergic. (true of any food)

The dairy industry did a stupendous job convincing people it will interfere with their hormones though. Master class in PR.
de facto, yes. imagine if you knew nothing, and then the people you trust said you need X to succeed.

you go and get X with the means you have. most people only have the means of borrowing.
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"financial success is inevitable as long as you don't try to become an investor (that's an entirely different set of problems)"

I'm curious to learn what new problems being an investor(read: owner not resident) introduces.
I believe that Musk has made it abundantly clear that the BFR is their goal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BFR_(rocket)

I read that Musk wanted to scrap the Heavy development to free resources to focus on BFR, but there was sufficient immediate customer demand to justify continuing.

Most of us are quite glad that he did.
That was my major question in the interview process too: "how do you stay relevant across administration changes". His answer was (paraphrase): we save the government money, how could anyone be against that?

Looks like folks can be.
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This sounds a lot like what Tim Ferris says about Total Immersion method / Terry Laughlin. So I'm curious if that was influential on you.
Everything is either a giant function, or every possible line that can be split out, is.
Not sure where you got that figure. Cost estimates for the EV1 range from $80-250k per unit. The $250k figure came from GM's Vice Chairman Bob Lutz.
Your ex-gf's story seems a bit off. First, Gilead didn't license it to Roche until 1996 and it was approved in 1999. About the time it takes to conduct clinical trials and get FDA approval - no apparent delay.

The major Asian bird flu epidemic was ~2005, after it was already brought to market.

Tamiflu isn't a "cure", the effects are pretty limited, but it's used because we have nothing else.

Tamiflu has been wildly successful product for Roche, why would they not develop it and instead try to treat "symptoms"?

Tamiflu is not in short supply by any means, Roche produces huge stockpiles for the US gov't and the shelf life is pretty long. There is plenty to go around.

To summarize, your ex-gf's story sounds like a could-be-true story (for those who don't know better) that plays to the typical stereotypes for "big pharma".

I'll also add that the cost to treat someone with Tamiflu before it went generic was ~$100. Pretty reasonable considering what drug costs are like in general.
Here's how I suspect this thing works:

[1]: Crawl reddit.com/r/roastme

[2]: Map images to an array of "roast" comments

[3]: Compare input photo to all images from [2]

[4]: Return top three roasts from most similar image

Pretty neat, though! I've got to caution people on sharing this with coworkers as there's a very high risk of NSFW racial/ethnic/gender humor.
Between this $2B deal and the $5B Apple Park deal, I start to wonder how companies are justifying these purchases as remote and distributed work becomes more feasible.

They're probably focused on the fact that productivity is still higher in co-located settings and the best talent pools are in major metro areas. But what if, instead, they invested $500M in remote work research and $500M in building a remote work infrastructure for the company. Then they can go ahead and pocket that extra $1-4B in real estate costs, and perhaps another ~$10B long term as they avoid future real estate purchases and scale this across the company. Also, save several hundred million in hiring and retention, as they attract more talent from around the world and retain employees by offering remote work as a benefit.

Could this be a more forward-thinking approach? I'm merely posing the question.

Real estate is super expensive, and most people would consider being able to live anywhere a huge perk. In other words, the only reason talent is so concentrated in New York, is because it has to be right now. But what will happen as more companies offer distributed work? Will people choose to continue living in metro areas with astronomical costs of living (perhaps even away from family or in a climate they don't prefer)? Or will they leave and work from wherever they want? And then what will happen to the value of this real estate? And what will happen to the companies that invested in it?

I find it odd that innovative tech companies seem to not be questioning one of the more non-innovative and dogmatic practices of today - physical office space. Not only that, but they're investing billions into that idea. Why not challenge it?

Or what if you took a hybrid approach? Have a collaborative space in New York that everyone can use to come together, but everyone can also work from home. You may be able to cut down the required space by 3-4x.
There's a 250+ page PDF "Programming Guide" for the vSphere SDK, on top of almost every Object/Type/Fault/Method etc documented, and a built-in API/object browser. What more do you want?

There are community samples for pyvmomi, multiple blogs explaining common use cases etc. But yes, sometimes it's quicker/easier to create thing in the UI and read back the values.

Maybe my standards are low.

EDIT: I also don't understand your "string oriented" comment. Do you mean the object IDs (MOIDs/morefs)?

In pyvmomi you can do this:

vm = vim.VirtualMachine("vm-1297")
vm._stub = service_instance._stub

You now have a VM object, not a string.

vm.RebootGuest()

etc (yes you need some helper methods to lookup things by name etc, but various things by name are not unique)
How does one quantify the risk of cascading failure?

My initial instinct, informed by computing, is to say that it's easier to avoid cascading failures in the system that is composed of more, smaller parts. All other things being equal, in a rocket with 5 engines, if one of them fails, then each of the remaining ones needs to pick up 1/4 of the slack to compensate. In a rocket with 9 engines, not only would each of the remaining engines need to pick up only 1/8 of the slack, but the total size of the gap would be a little over half as much, too.

(This is obvs ignoring the possibility that the failure in question is catastrophic.)
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Agreed that we probably end up on that naturally for things like traffic lights or danger signs, but I was thinking more interns of a full UI with that approach as an integral, conscious design consideration... based on more in depth and sophisticated study of replicating colour schemes in a natural environment in a broader sense.
Your story is why we don't run single patient clinical trials. In fact, Tamiflu has pretty limited efficacy if not taken in the first 24-48 hours.
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It's nigh impossible for a political leader to make an effort to "make government effective" only for operations with bipartisan/mltipartisan support. Why would a leader intentionally subvert their own power?
Touche, and I did not mean to deny your evidence of thousands of hateful tweets.

I was just pointing out Trump said nothing controversial in the aforementioned tweet.
Yet.

I need to remind people that Minecraft, a hugely popular game in the "real world", was originally written in Java. Not the kind of language you'd expect a game from. (I will agree that Java is probably not the right tool for the job though ^^').

This is the kind of thing where nobody will use it, until someone does. And proves the viability of the language. Nim has the potential to be a good gamedev language, but lacks the maturity.
I'm not familiar with UK tax law, but you don't have to live with 2 people for 9 years. I'd do it until you have enough to put a down payment on a multi-family and transition to that. Then you don't have to live with the other people, but you still have the advantages.
Something tells me that they'll be flexible if you have 300m DAU :)
Can you link to the reddit comments? It'd be interesting to see the photos they are roasting
> Western Spain and eastern Germany are in the same time zone, but the position of the sun will be offset by 3 hours.

To argue that the hour is supposed to track to some arbitrary precision is to argue against a straw man. They're approximations that help us communicate with each other. As is arguing that some current configuration of time zones is a problem so the idea of time zones in general is flawed. If western Spain and eastern Germany sharing the same time zone is problematic (which may be, but just saying "the position of the sun will be offset by 3 hours" doesn't mean it is practically), then we can decide to place them in other time zones.

> "In the current world, timezones only cause confusion, and do not provide any of the benefits you think they do. ... Everywhere else, they’re purely rage-inducing madness, and useless."

Having lived in time zones across the world while communicating with family and business partners in multiple time zones while doing so, I respectfully disagree. While you may find they don't provide benefits to you, to decree they provide no benefits for anyone in such an absolute sense is frustrating. Yes, there are tradeoffs regardless of the adopted system. To dismiss them out of hand is absurd.

I'm sympathetic to reducing rage-inducing madness in general. However, as it is very general, it makes it hard to address directly. Sometimes reductionist is used as a pejorative. In this case I would like to know specific examples so we can determine their root cause and see if it's essential or accidental.

I suspect there are other issues that arise in China with such a large area spanning such a longitudinal range. I'm sure there are trade offs.
Yeah, HN needs to put a black bar on for JPB.
Very useful transformation of a "conflict" or zero sum model of engagement into a "mistake" or positive sum. For more on difference see http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/01/24/conflict-vs-mistake/

I also wonder if Jane Jacob's Guardian vs. Commerce split in "Systems of Survival" is addressing the same split, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_of_Survival
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We have 5 weeks of paid vacation, which usually occurs in July (Norway). But I can take longer vacation if I want, just without pay and that's no fun. Usually I have about 2-3 weeks overtime during a year. So technically I could take a 7-8 week holiday, but I prefer to spread it out evenly.
Was your OP outraged?
Which is why they do "stay tuned" weather bits three or four times per newscast.
>I don't think I can do anything more to guarantee that's the actual shipped code?

Not without way too much work (which would never satisfy everyone).

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> No one is expecting the Navy to have stealth carriers any time soon

I watched a lecture by one of the decision makers in the Ford class carrier development program.

They actually looked at a stealth carrier concept. You can shroud the deck and elevators with side walls that screen them from radars. But that creates huge problems with jet engines and acoustics, to the point that being on the deck even with ear protection would be very risky health wise. Also they'd be hideously expensive.
Yeah, but it's a ship with a crew of 140 with no realistic path towards a combat deployment. It's the naval version of a dead end job.
Boulder has a population of ~100,000. I don't oppose the Google office, but their workforce will grow to represent 1-2% of the city's populace. That isn't a "drop in the bucket."
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What if the size of the sphere is the determining characteristic about the level of discourse? I just read Geoffrey West's book, "Scale", and it is interesting to think of a sub-linear relationship, with "quality of discussion" on the y-axis and "number of people participating" on the X.

It's possible the current state of "bad" affairs is a natural consequence of the democratizing power of the internet itself. Reduced friction means anyone can participate; more participants means lower quality of discussion.

Just a theory as I try to synthesize West's ideas.
More than you might think. 1 in 20 people make over 200k / year. 400k is not enough to get someone into the top 1%.

So, several million Americans are making 1/4 million + per year before taxes. Which is why millionaire does not really qualify someone as rich anymore. Consider 1 million in 1915 is the equivalent of ~25 million in 2017 which is closer to what most people think of as rich.
That sounds just like Reddit tbh.
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second to that. I had many pairs of Merrills. The last pair lasted ~6 months, and the interior fabric had torn apart and the padding was entirely ruined. I don't even exercise that hard, and I don't pronate. the sole wear was fine, but the uppers were ruined.
No one is saying you can't afford to live on $160K GS-15 pay. They are saying it's hard to walk away from $200K-$300+K pay of a webtech job.
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I think it means production-y code. Exploratory code, ideation, POC, etc? All valuable. Code you expect to throw away, basically.
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About the same as if you got 7000 people to substitute a 1 mile car drive with walking, once.
Don't forget #17: Work in isolation so nobody bothers you.
Look at the data??? Why would I do that?? While the feature I'm building isn't useful to me, I know exactly how I would use it if it was, so that's exactly how all my users are going to use it. Duh!
Toys are on demand because people have become more childish in a way. Avoiding responsibility, seeking protection, hiding behind the groupthink, having more time to engage in juvenile/schoolyard behavior. That is not considered in the article.
A carbon tax at source (presumably, at a wholesale level) for electricity, natural gas, diesel, petrol etc would capture most of that, with a lot less effort.
On a scale from x to ListOfSinglePeopleWhoHasADogButNoCar I'd say that "self documenting" code tend to be quite a lot more so than some of the alternatives I've seen.

However, if someone claims to write self documenting code, and by that think it's enough to have long variable names and skip comments, then I can understand the sentiment above coming into existance.

In "identifiers are comments" paradigm the goal isn't only to just skip comments, but also to structure the code in a way so that it's as clear as possible what it does and why. This helps much more than a long comment block hidden somewhere in a big ball of spaghetti code.

Comments aren't a panacea either, as they take effort to write in a helpful way, often only occurs once (so you'd have to find the place where the purpose of x is defined) and of course, often are some level of wrong/outdated in relation to the purpose/function of the code.

Sometimes, it's not possible to write the code in a way that is clear, this could be for compatibility reasons or performance reasons. That is when comments really come into their light.
Being a little less rich than possible is a relative loss, but it's not "suffering". Nor is it more "thankless' than being a cog at a tech company.
> As you can see above, we are using the npm package serve to serve static files.

I would recommend using nginx or apache instead. You get more performance and better configurability.
"Rollup is a module builder" and here's a link to the main page: https://rollupjs.org/guide/en

(Which is mentioned nowhere in that announcement.)
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Isn't it about time for Bret to be noticed by the MacArthur Foundation?
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Agreed. I've had one of their Trail Gloves and while I loved what they did with the design and fit of it, the quality was very lackluster. Holes started to appear within 2 months of very light use, and it had only gotten worse after that. Shame.
Reddit has become very much the same as Tumbler and Twitter became. It's no longer a tool for expression and conversation. It's an echo chamber with separate factions occupying separate areas... downvoting and banning every opinion that goes against the "reddit circle jerk".

Hacker News has become the only place I can have reasoned conversations about science, politics, etc without so much of an issue. The requirement of quality comments eliminates the karma farming from memes and nonsense and the inability to downvote until you are somewhat established prevents mass downvoting of opinions. It's a quality model IMHO.
Ask HN: Could deepfakes be the answer to online anonymity?
With the recent uptick in Deepfakes specifically over at reddit (https://goo.gl/PBXgdE) it got me thinking that perhaps this is the answer to online anonymity or more specifically online deniability.

Say for example a set of images where leaked online which you did not want, would it not be possible to flood the internet with 'deepfakes' so that those it brings in the credibility of the original image down?

It seems to be that a company which could create and flood these 'fakes' could be quite successful.

Do you think there is an feasibility to this or have I missed something completely?
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Who cares if it was published in Tiger Beat? It offers substantial documentation for its claims. It seems like a lot of folks want to attack Buzzfeed because they don't like what the article has to say but don't have any substantive rebuttal.
Thanks! From the documentation and all the threads I searched in discourse, it was never clear to me that @parallel and pmap where aiming towards the direction you just described.

I did try Threads.@threads, but the overhead was way too high. I might look into it again soon.
I always appreciate the line "//Incrementing i by 1"
It would be very psychologically difficult for someone whose relative just died to accept a "blameless review", and if that review lead to a decision that a lawsuit was unwarranted, well, that might make the relative angry enough to do something regrettable.

I agree that it's the right answer in a cold-blooded "improving the practice of medicine" sense, but laws have to take human behavior into account.