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Lots of them are doing it. In fact, one of the oldest schemes devised by American billionaires is to start a foundation and to call themselves philanthropists. After all, how many billions you really need? It is better to take a portion of this money and invest in public relations.
You don't need parameters when you have galactic crystallization eggs.
you missed the point bud. she wasn't saying capital p passion is only for privileged folks, she's saying the attitude of expecting passion as a prereq for programming is
Any one have any related sources on the kind of tech involved? Will this be PV? CSP? Some combination of both?
I heard the same thing in the 80-90s. Toyota has over automated and is spending more on robots, than it would have, had they used manual labour.
The Changelog - Building an Artificial Pancreas with Elixir and Nerves

I'm not sure why I found this so fascinating, but I did. The topic was about monitoring and managing Type 1 Diabetes with a homebrew Raspberry Pi.

https://changelog.com/podcast/261

Also TechDirt - "Copyright, Music & 'Theft'"
Imagine, LOL, this headline (now or >) "Slump in automation developments" almost as joked out as "Useful home robot, that while remaining totally and completely useful, is totally unable to kill the shit out of you by meerly having a series of unfortunate electric field states rise in its transistorized brain nugget" yeh laff
Developing financial wellness tools with artificial intelligence (VB Live)
Ask HN: How do you find mentors?
A pretty straight forward question, how do you find a good mentor, I'm finding it a little difficult to find someone to ask questions that are relative to developer career paths. I'm almost a new-grad, and the company that I'm interning does not really have anyone that can answer my questions.
Visual Studio does everything within the same window (source code management, code review, diffs). Yes, it's great. It does not need any 'new' paradigm, that's the standard operating modus.

It's a good thing this ideology of tools that simplify the process is spreading. But it's not novel.

This article sounds like the author never used Visual Studio.
For a criminal action to take place, there has to be a violation of existing law. What law do you see being broken here, by the creators of the software, or users? Assuming they are diligent about keeping illegal content and activities off of servers they control.

Has anyone ever been prosecuted for making software, or using it, that was used by another in the commission of a crime? Perhaps there is existing law related to people who write and release software that was intended only for malicious use that could extended.

In the crypto/ICO space, the people getting into hot water have charges related to violation of finance and securities law.
"Son" is mentioned twice in the article with no reference to who that is. Masayoshi Son is the man standing on the left in the photo. According to Wikipedia [1] he is founder and CEO of SoftBank.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masayoshi_Son
Hell yes. Just a few days ago I was in search of the state-of-the-art in terms of open source animation libraries for React and was a bit shocked not much has really progressed beyond a half-implemented web version of react-animated, and the unintuitive and cumbersome API of react-motion (which also suffers from performance issues). This looks to be excellently thought out and is very promising. Can't wait to try it out!
A US government run website is not credible? But the article isn't the thing, anyway. The letter that the article refers to, if you bothered to read the article, is why I posted it.
Someone else on here has already gotten modded into oblivion with questioning an issue here, so I want to clear I am not trolling in any way.

Why is this a "game-changer" for React specifically, and not Javascript in general?
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I do not believe with the current administration and Jeff Sessions as Attorney General - who seems particularly anti-marijuana - that this has any chance of success.

Of course hemp is not marijuana, but that has not stopped the DEA from making every effort to make them synonymous. The DEA has gone so far as to create rules that are not based on US laws, and in fact are counter to US federal laws in an effort to restrict hemp. This is gotten them a slap on the wrist at least once by federal court.

Hemp is a fantastic plant with many unique and important uses. One has to wonder why the US has, since the 1930s I believe, been so against it. One might suspect the pharmaceutical industry has a vested interest in seeing hemp (and its naughty cousin, marijuana) banned since there are health products with documented human benefits that compare more favorably to some drugs made by companies.

One might also suspect the private prison industry whose growth has swelled under drug policies instituted in the 1980 which dramatically increased the populations of people locked up for minor drug offenses.

In short, this is nice to hear about, but it is more likely to be a show piece for McConnell to please his Kentucky constituents with.
Maybe they are looking for the select few who developed it.
If you learned Ada, Modula-2, Pascal, or BASIC, though, it might not be so relevant. COBOL, FORTRAN, Smalltalk, and Perl 5 are somewhat useful, akin to, maybe, jQuery in the web world.
100x'ers do exist. But by Lokta's Law, they occur about 1 in 10000. Usually, a 10x'er is only 1/100 so they are much easier to find. You probably know them as Fellow/Staff Engineers.
Same agency http://www.xxix.co/
The funny thing about that is that GM (and others) assumed Toyota had more automation than GM in the 80s, but Toyota had LESS automation!

Toyota simply used their people more effectively.
On that second point, charitably we can assume that they found a marker which is uniquely human. Although yeah, could be contamination.
I would assume the issue was that they had to give these companies data in order to match up a facebook user with an ID in the third party systems. See, for example, BlueKai's integration documentation: https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/saas/data-cloud/dsmkt/integ...
Jim Florentine's podcast has pretty good commentary on cringey social media posting trends.
>sounds like one of those sad stories where the engineers fell in love with the stack and forgot about the product.

Sounds like Steve Jobs... in 1986.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSj6kvv7_Sg
With the cash crunch, this is going to be interesting to watch Tesla try to thread the eye of the needle.

I can easily see building out and proving the final assembly automation being related to Elon Musk's Mars colonization ambitions.
The PL theorist says “assuming a sufficiently smart compiler...”
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Toyota forced a change in the car industry, and buyers' willingness to consider electric options, with the Prius in 1997.

Tesla was founded in 2003 to design hybrids. By 2008 the company had been taken-over by Mr Musk and changed focus to all-electic drivetrains and released the Roadster.

Nissan launched the Leaf in 2010 as the first mass-produced all-electric car.

EVs were coming regardless of Tesla. I'm sure they have helped promote the option and accelerated adoption within their target demographic but to 90%+ of the market they're irrelevant.
What does it have to do with automation...? Quite a lot.
I think they mean we only observe other matter interacting with other matter, and not dark matter interacting with other matter.
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Snapseed

Filterstorm - thats the "Photoshop" for iPad / iPhone
http://filterstorm.com

ExifViewer by Fluntro
http://exifviewerapp.com/blog/

SKRWT http://www.skrwt.com

Slidebox - http://slidebox.co

Union - http://unionapp.co

And many more. Digital minimalism is the new trend. We don't need 3 million special effects / features for a happy life. Less is more - more room for your own thoughts, fantasy. With digital minimalism i invite you that you are a part of my creativity.

Not Photoshop a hug for your mom is life.

See all the new YT videos. Zero effects, zero style, 2D, a human face in the middle and realtalk / rants about truth, emotions and what you really feel.The ppl understand my life is a selflie. I am not myself, i am an actor and dont tell my friends what i really love / feel / need.
Pfff, so? These companies have the data already, and if not, they have long 6 months to get them. This only tells me that Facebook is trying to act as we wish to yet acting as it always did.
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Comments like these are why I read Hacker News :)

Regarding these bets, I'm not sure on which side I'm on. You want them pushing the limits, Tesla itself was a long shot as a company. It's also meant to not just produce electric cars, but to also drive change in other car manufacturers so that they advance towards electric cars and maybe also self driving cars.

However, if they keep piling on the bets, at some point they will go under and I think we still need the company.

Your post makes me believe that they are pushing things a bit too much, like a startup. Yet they are at a later stage in the life of a business, considering their scale. It's like a bank using MongoDB 0.5 in production several years ago.
I thought it was generally accepted that one of the problems with GM in the 1980s is that they spent too much on automation, whereas Toyota and other competitors spent more on just building better cars.

For instance:
http://www.autonews.com/article/20080914/OEM02/309149956/a-s...

"GM number crunchers had pegged the investments in EDS, Hughes and Fanuc at $40 million in the long run. Instead, they cost $66 billion. In the end, GM's plants were no more efficient, and sales plummeted as money was spent on conglomeration rather than developing products Americans wanted to buy."
its a nice library but...

What I dont understand is why the coder community often writes things like "coded with burritos and beer", or "love bacon and burguers", "code and pizza", "fueled with coffee" and so on...

it gives the impresion that coders eats only junk food and are alcoholics.........
I think "Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded." is the aphorism you're looking for.
This sounds like a potential military weapon as well
I wonder if they will they be storing energy over night, or do they plan on using daytime generation to run energy intensive industrial plants such as aluminum smelters or fertiliser plants. Saudi is a major fertiliser manufacturer but fertiliser production consumes less than 2% of global energy production and this plant will produce far more power than that.
Point taken, but I feel all those languages had good runs. Modula-2 might have had less commercial success but still holds some intellectual interest. I sort of got sick of the web treadmill in 2013 as it felt like "learn a new toolkit every 18 months" and am primarily interested in something with longevity in that niche.
Original and expanded story here:

http://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-robots-are-killing-it-2...

Can we please replace the link with this article?

It answers why the analyst think Tesla's way of doing things is an issue:

> the Japanese, try to limit automation because it "is expensive and is statistically inversely correlated to quality." Their approach is to get the process right first, then bring in the robots — the opposite of Musk's.

And, a hypothetical but expansive example on why Tesla's automation strategy might not achieve the desired cost savings.
The idea is that thermal noise operating on the image sensors creates variations in the image. Every frame would have random differences.
Yes, sorry I should have used the original link.
Well, of course, you should have some sort of assurance that you ll be able to pull it. The PR tactics is just to give 10x PR when you actually do it...

And I think Theranos did much more than make people say what they are doing is not really feasible...
I've always thought Australia should build a giant canal from the Great Australia Bite up through central Australia. Perhaps forming a permanent inland sea. The sea water evaporating would fall as rain (not sure where, though...).

A question for this article is who would have gotten that rain had it not been seeded.
The developers of the clone Mino had to pull their game because it was considered "substantially similar" for copyright purposes. In general, game clones that resemble the original, even if they use all-original assets, are potentially infringing; see Atari v. Phillips. TTC asserts copyright over all Tetris-type games, and also has trademarks on the suffix -tris, the Russian folk song Korobeiniki when used in a video game, and the shapes of the tetrominoes themselves. Maybe someone can get a court ruling on whether the abstract concept of a tetromino game is copyrightable (pray it doesn't go before the CAFC), or get the vague trademarks overturned, but most unlicensed clone makers are wisely unwilling to die on the Tetris-clone hill.
More context:

"Let's say there are 10 hours of labour in final assembly (the part of the production line where parts, interiors and the powertrain are installed in a painted bodyshell). In a regular plant, final assembly typically has less than 5% of tasks automated. If Tesla attempts to automate 50% of these tasks, it could cut out 5 or so hours of labour. This might save $150 per car (assuming wage rates, all in, of $30 per worker, per hour).

"But while all that exotic capital might allow Tesla to remove 5 workers, it will then need to hire a skilled engineer to manage, programme and maintain robots for $100 an hour (our estimate of a robotic engineers' hourly rate).

"So the net labour saving may be only $50 per unit. Yet putting the automation into the plant seems to involve an apparent capital cost that's $4,000 higher per unit of capacity than for a normal plant. If the product is built for 7 years, that's over US$550 of additional depreciation per unit built. It's hard to see an economic case even if somehow the Fremont Model 3 line can be made to work. So why exactly has Tesla taken this route? It's unclear."

http://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-robots-are-killing-it-2...
Dumb question here but how do we know dark matter isn't just regular ol matter that is inside the event horizon of black holes? It's something I've always wondered and this discovery reminded me of it..
According to Wikipedia the worldwide consumption of electricity is about 21k Tera watt hours. That's 21,000,000 gw so it's .001% right? Also I think cost is now about a quarter per watt
Because we can measure the mass of blackholes and account for it.
unreasonable interpretation of the rules

There's nothing unreasonable about it, it's the plain reading of Article 7 (2).

Regarding the big sites, I don't see how is that relevant to your initial point about whether "every site" will have mandatory checkboxes, and so I'll let someone else read the magic 8 ball.
Do you mean setting up a payment system for customers? Or getting the adequate funding for a project?
I don't think Musk has that much money in the bank. I think most of his net worth is in his Tesla shares.
Qubes OS' virtualization technology is awesome - love the peace of mind it gives!
I agree with this argument, please continue explaining.
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> It would satisfy 10% of the world's demand of electricity.

That doesn't sound right. According to the (better) article from Bloomberg [1], "Saudi Arabia’s electricity generation capacity ... stood at 77 gigawatts in 2016", which that article points out is a third of this new project's.

I don't work in electrical production, but I don't think this capacity will work for 10% of the world. Wikipedia [2] agrees with your assessment of ~2300GW for worldwide average production; but I think the problem is how an average production number is calculated as compared with quoted output numbers for a given installation.

EDIT: Hmm, if Saudi Arabia produces ~3.3% of the world's electricity currently, then maybe this does represent enough for a substantial percentage of the world's population, assuming the production and capacity numbers are comparable. (Deriving 3.3% from 77GW of 2311GW, which I recognize come from different years.) Anyone who knows more about this care to weigh in?

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-28/saudi-ara...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_generation#Product...
If purpose drives profit, what drives Amazon? (2017)
You can look it up yourself, but watch out for CDN's and other third-party services and be aware that not every IP address has a reverse DNS entry. On MacOS:

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Note that the IP address bytes are reversed in the following command to lookup 18.9.25.15

host -a 15.25.9.18.in-addr.arpa

;; ANSWER SECTION:

15.25.9.18.in-addr.arpa. 1800	IN	PTR	dmz-mailsec-scanner-4.mit.edu.

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host -a dmz-mailsec-scanner-4.mit.edu

;; ANSWER SECTION:

dmz-mailsec-scanner-4.mit.edu. 1800 IN	A	18.9.25.15

dmz-mailsec-scanner-4.mit.edu. 1800 IN	HINFO	"VMWARE/VM" "LINUX"
Maybe there are startup networks or accellerators near you? You can ask there.
Even more damning from the sub: "Shifting control of housing decisions from local to state oversight _could be a way_ to slow the rise of California’s house prices".

Lot's of happy hoping for something.

Since they like to just take random stabs to hope to come up with a kind of variable idea, here are mine:

-Repeal prop 13.

-Enact regional governmental authorities [ala PANYNJ[1]] to govern (coordinate) growth efforts.

-Break the state into at least two distinct new states (it's too big an unwieldy to server everyone well)

[1]I know the PAofNYNJ don't have a good track record, but it's better than the record the 9 bay area counties have in coordinating growth.
What you're proposing is a hack, and one with a lot of negative side effects.

First of all, to go with the obvious, you better hope that what Google deems the direction they'd like to alter reality is aligned with your own, because I'm quite sure that this will mostly be untrue.

Secondly, you're attempting to patch a problem at much too high of a level; making people less racist by altering what they're able to ingest, particularly by altering unbiased reality, is a bandaid that is destined to fail hard. What if, say, we wanted to change the negative stereotype of black Americans engaging in criminal behavior at substantially higher rates, so we demanded that Google remove access to racially distributed crime statistics. Many countries already do this, such as Sweden. We will have lost a primary tool with which to assess the nature of our reality, contextualize it, and strategize about it effectively.

I'm more interested in a free society bettering reality than I am with hoping that Google's ideal version of reality is aligned with my own... particularly because I would still consider it to be a horrible solution even if it was.
I knew about SoftBank but not its founder. He seems like the Japanese version of Buffett... I also somehow assumed that SoftBank was an older company.
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To put 200 gigawatts into perspective, the largest US nuclear power plant generates 4 gigawatts. The US total generating capacity in the summer is 1000 gigawatts.
Isn't it a good step towards a greater good ? If tech companies start to hire from ME, regardless of country, those people can make an impact for their own homelands.
Turtles all the way down then?
That's pretty great. Its still destructive (just less destructive than I expected), and not automatically reset.
I think this article is spot on.
I was struck when this Geneva city planner acknowledged that they have to fight the nimby movement to keep their city's infrastructure balanced: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUfwIPzh_MM (from an urban infrastructure planning course on Coursera). We need someone this objective managing our housing infrastructure at least across the whole bay area.

If you listen to the Cupertino mayor, everything is fine as it is. According to a recent Better Cupertion Q&A with the mayor and with city councilman, Apple isn't really adding any new employees with their new headquarters. The cities are the ones who keep adding office space and turning away housing! Their denial is so upsetting, especially when you inevitably find that the people in charge are homeowners.

We need to stop letting the foxes run the hen house!

edit: typo - new/now
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No I don't. I'm typically using Facebook app on android and I never see any news. Logged on to desktop version now and none there as well. Scrolled through about 100 items on my feed and the only thing I see are posts from friends and intermittent ads from companies which are "liked" by my friends.

I'm guessing maybe it's because I'm in/from Sweden and they haven't set up newsfeeds for this place.

I do see how showing negative news to people would have affect on what people post. And maybe it's a cultural thing as well - one of the hot topics in Sweden is immigration but very few people post about it, probably just because it's such a divider and few good things will come out by starting a Facebook discussion.
In other words, they did have more automation!

Of managers and MBAs, not of line workers.
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Want to second this. It's a neat effect but it is a bit slow.

Perhaps have the active cube move to the same spot but keep the inactive cubes on the top so they have less distance to travel?
Is that wrong? Learning topics like computer science, which lack the ability to be generalized to other aspects of life, if and when there is not enough demand for it is worthless (in the sense that it has no value).

However, if companies desire a specific set of skills related to, but not exactly computer science (programming), it makes a lot of sense to create school focused on that particular subject — especially if they're willing to sponsor it. Further, it adds value to society as a whole, as by creating the goods/services people want cheaper, standard of living goes up.
Hmm, who do I trust, the guy who figured out how to land rockets onto a barge, or some “analyst” desk jockey who has been consistently wrong his entire career? Tough question. I think I’ll go with the rocket guy. He has a pretty good track record.
And definitely in the record industry
Dirty and Cheap PR move!
Great red teaming post with amass inside
I have seen senior engineers with 1.5 years of experience and totally confident (in startup).

And my lifelong experience is that such pepole have pretty good careers, better then humble more self aware people.
The most unique feature of NESticle was probably the menu option "Pentium Crash". Clicking on it froze your computer. I know that first hand :-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_F00F_bug

The author of NESticle sure had a weird sense of humor, which is probably why it is such a loved application!Besides the ability to relive your childhood by playing pirated roms :-)
They mention the US, CN and then SU, now RU, had engaged in weather research for offensive purposes --but at least some of that has turned to defensive measures now, given pop growth and climate change.
Where would this rain that's being diverted normally end up?

Is some other country going to have a drought because of this?
Wasn't pypi.org in beta since ... forever?
companies who are federal contractors are required to hold the requirements bar, or get very angry auditors/federal investigators on their tail.

something I learned at an HR training. So that is useful to prune your search.