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1) Consider an assembly line where all tasks and material movements are done by humans.
Over years, line operations are tuned to improve faster & better production.
Even the vehicle designs are influenced by the capabilities of the line.

2) Machinery is introduced incrementally, supplementing or replacing each
human task or material movement. Operations and designs continue to be tuned.

3) Eventually, a line has no humans - but the line design was created
around humans, and still inherits constraints for human interaction.

4) Now, imagine a line where the entire line is designed for robots from
the start. No humans doing production tasks at all, ever. Even the
vehicles being produced are designed to facilitate robotic production.

Henry Ford was level 1. Most modern US production is level 2, hoping to
reach level 3. Tesla hoped to reach level 4, settled for available tech
at level 3, and is having to fall back to level 2 in some areas. (IMHO).

Is anyone manufacturing entire cars at level 4? How about major components
(engines, transmssions, drivetrains)?

edit: 1..3 are evolutionary, 4 is revolutionary.
I've always been under the impression that concepts like thread/continuation-local storage were generally discouraged, but I never fully understood the reason.

Obviously, you'd want to avoid coupling your code to an HTTP-specific context if you want to expose a gRPC endpoint in the future.

Are there any other downsides to this approach?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominance_hierarchy
> For the first time I'm considering Apple's device.

Apple does collect analytics, but those can be turned off in OSX at the very least. As a company, they are not currently geared towards data collection. They have publicly positioned themselves in favor of privacy.
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In 2010, Facebook's revenue was significantly driven by something other than ads - Social Games. Zynga and the like were raking in billions based on people clicking virtual cows, and Facebook was getting a cut. Promoting these kinds of uses was their goal. It's easy to see modern Ad-Driven FB and forget that there were other eras of the company.
I would like to know the contexts behind these defensive gun usages before I come to a conclusion. It could be that a significant portion are "empty" uses (e.g. brandishing a gun when scared by a weird noise at night when nobody was there), not actually defensive / used in a situation where the gun greatly escalated the situation (e.g. someone cuts you off in traffic and you "defend" your space), etc. - even though these wouldn't technically count according to the wording of the survey, we are still relying on respondents' interpretations of the questions. The author mentions that if anything the rate was underreported, but knowing gun users personally, I find it just as likely that they were willing to overstate their gun use or the utility of their gun as a type of bragadocious machoism.

It's true the CDC was obviously quite biased, but the study could have still been flawed
They shouldn’t be, but it’s not new. The big fuss about the CDC and guns happened in 92/93/94 when Clinton came in and wanted ammo for his upcoming gun ban proposals. Funded some absolutely junk science that had been almost all entirely discredited. Such gems as “you are X % more likely to die of a gun if you own one” that was based on police reported deaths only where the victim owned a gun then applied to all citizens. The data for these “studies” was never fully released.

The 1996 congress came in and slapped the CDC down from being used as a propoganda tool again. The Dickey amendment never banned research as many like to claim - but did ban advocacy of gun bans - imagine that once they couldn’t be used as a tool the junk science stopped.

Should the CDC be focused on guns? Explicitly no, but it’s not new. Of the studies since 96, none have found a link to guns and violence or gun ownership and higher death rates.

Edit: downvotes for truth, please don’t turn into reddit.
The "future" should be in quotes. Articles have been selling these BS for 20 years now --- and we're gonna get the same articles for the next 30 years at least....
Just wanted to say that I really admire Jekyll, and Jekyll+ looks very nice too.
+1 facebook helped to foster the “ze russians snatched hillary’s victory” hysteria abusing their power to pursue their partisan agenda and then suffered when they themselves got on the wrong side of it. Nothing to do with americans’ newfound hightened awareness of privacy really.
This is a management technique perfected by Elon. No matter what date you set, it’s going to slip. There’s little reason to set conservative milestones.
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Seems like they're just prohibiting what can be considered a regression.

How is this any different from the majority of other software release policies? It's fairly common to block a release which fixes numerous things because it includes a fairly visible regression.
True, but too much of everything might be bad for you.

I have seen however more projects out there that have code duplications in tests than projects that go overboard with DRY
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Java is pass-by-value, indeed. Too bad Java's values aren't the values you want.
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Guns don’t cause injury and disability more than they prevent it. Sorry, but that’s the truth.

We have 340,000,000 people, more guns than that. And 10,000 homicides where the vast majority are drug and gang related.

We have a problem, but it’s not with guns.

Edit: more truth, more downvotes. I’m curious as to why there is such effort against an enumerated right - when putting even 1/10th the effort into fighting heart disease which kills 700,000 a year would have such a greater impact?
Well, I'm glad you always have your dowser ready to determine the sex of a butt, nipple or whatever else you might find sexy before you actually find it sexy.

And trust me, I have no problem pissing someone off who sees any need to be offended by someone insinuating that they might find people of the same sex sexy to any degree at all.

And no, I would not have a problem with you defining my sexuality. I'm frankly not sure what that's even supposed to mean. I find things sexy that I find sexy. There's nothing to define about it.
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My remarks have _nothing_ to do with the open source nature of your product.

> that there is a good 70 to 80 who appreciate it, get value from it, discover a new cool tool, and wind up building projects and helping out.

Then why do I always ever see you posting comments about gun, and not any of those people?

I don't argue that HN isn't a place that can also be used for self-promotion, but there is a right time and place for it: "Show HN", and when people specifically post comments seeking out something like what you are building.

There are also mechanisms in place to prevent too much self-promotion, like not being able to submit the same link twice. You know that, as you've also "cleverly" figured out how to circumvent it and submit the gun Github repo >10 times.
Clearly this was not what they intended, and I'm sure it'll get fixed this week.
>could we someday provide our livestock with an actually good, and perhaps even idyllic life ... before we kill and eat them?

I would say yes. It's certainly not a new concept, if unfamiliar with Judiasm, part of the Jewish dietary laws knows as Kashrut (where the term kosher is derived) address this.
I also know this guy. I'm his barber. He has the worst dandruff, absolutely unbelievable. But now that I think about it, he probably didn't know because he's blind
> Which is also what's behind journalists, bloggers, etc. all hating on Facebook too, but nobody ever wants to hear that.

Yeah, no. Generalisations are stupid. Doctorow's a perfect example of why what you're saying isn't true, for example.
For anyone interested:

How Blind People Type and Dial Numbers on a Touchscreen: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16897415
I don't disagree with your point, but it's very rude of you to dismiss developers who find coding fun as 'uninteresting'.
Not really. This was posted 2 days ago where that HN post was 30 days ago. You can't even comments there anymore.
In C++, terms

void f(Foo x); // pass-by-value
void f(Foo* x); // pass-pointer-by-value
void f(Foo& x); // pass-by-reference

In the last example, you aren't passing in a value, you are essentially creating an alias for some variable in the calling scope.
Um, the person who provided the link called it biased. I’m just commenting on the phrase I quoted.
But cpp doesn't have call-by-reference. It has the ability to refer to pointer and reference objects directly and pass those by value.

foo(int* x) takes a pointer by value. foo(int& x) takes a reference by value.
There's definitively something wrong with the Youtube recommendation algorithm, it is much less intelligent that people assume.

For some reason YouTube want's me to watch Bill Burr and John Oliver. I tried multiple times to tell YouTube that I'm not interested, only to have the same content pop up in my recommendations a few days later.

The again I have the same issues with Facebook. At this point I fairly sure there's zero intelligence, machine learning or AI behind the Facebook newsfeed.
This is awesome! More alternatives the better!
> No one else is trying to make a sexy electric car at a low price.

Whatever Tesla is trying, they aren't actually delivering that, either. The model 3 may have curb appeal (the interior is another story) but it certainly isn't at a low price (the base price is above the median total—options and taxes included—transaction price of a US new car purchase.)
>Musk is discovering that large-scale car manufacturing is really hard, and it's not easy to improve on the methods of conventional automakers. And while automation obviously plays an important role in car manufacturing, it's not the magic bullet Musk imagined a couple of years ago. Far from leapfrogging the techniques of conventional automakers, Tesla is now struggling just to match the efficiency of its more established rivals.

This was the money quote for me. Maybe this dose of humble pie will be good. Not for Musk but for the legion of hero-worshippers who believe that some guy who founded PayPal can just "think from first principles" and outwit nearly a century of manufacturing and industrial innovation.
I wonder if he could patent that portable milking station thing and just license it to other milk producers. I definitely would be more likely to buy milk that didn't require the slaughter of calves. Not aware of any options for that in the US though.
I think that approaching this as a technical problem isn't the best approach. Unless the business questions are answered (how does one make a billion user social network that makes enough money to keep the servers running without the mess facebook created), the code doesn't really matter that much. Making a social network is easy. Making one that sticks and satisfies this criteria is much harder.
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> It's relying on the assumption that the hardware hasn't changed since it was last hibernated.

Which is also true in 99% of cases when I boot.
Appears to only be certain accounts, my "spam" email is getting loads of this.
Wow, I'm not sure, but, I think I'm impressed - Amazon are really going over things with a fine-toothed comb.

However, not allowing an update because it deprecates features seems overzealous, they're not paying for the app.

What do they do about unfixable features?
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Actually I don't think you're alone. Seems to have been a nagging issue for quite some tome, but the good news is the Yahoo login mechanism will soon be gone.
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> Java's semantics are pass-by-value only of you consider that the "values" that are being passed are pointers.

All values in Java are indeed either primitives or pointers. You cannot define your own values! How is anyone supposed to call this a high-level language?
Haha, I thought of "mall grabbing" too when I read his post. Electric Longboards are a totally different application. It's like comparing apples to oranges. FYI I come from a background with experience in Snowboarding and Wakeboarding and that's what an eboard feels like except we're not restricted to water/snow anymore. This is great for people like me who have office jobs/family and just want to shred for a few hours after work to chill out. I also had a traditional trick Skateboard when I was younger, but was never very good and was always afraid of hurting myself. When I go to my local park where everyone goes for downhill skating I always laugh at the guys on trick skateboards and penny boards who look like they're going to eat shit at any moment. I often see some nasty bails and think to myself "well that's going to eventually turn into arthritis down the road". Hell, even traditional longboards look scary in comparison to my eboard (which has regenerative breaks). :) I can bomb step hills (and also climb them ;p) without worrying about getting pancaked by a car at the bottom. I can literally go anywhere a bike can go with my eboard. :D I like it better then my bike because I can instantly switch from "bike mode" to "pedestrian mode" and can drag it into a store/restaurant with me as opposed to worrying about locking it up and getting it stolen. I also build/fly drones too, so eboards are a great transportation method to enable that hobby.
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No it's not lost. It gets the same though longer winded results of saying "no". The b.a. product owner complains to your manager that you're not a team player and you get into trouble with your boss.

Even if that didn't happen you're never going to win, because the b.a.'s have no other job than playing this verbal judo, while you also have to spend your time getting conplex technical things to work. You're like someone who goes to a karate class twice a werk fighting against someone who's life is dedicated to training.
I’ve been debating leaving Google Apps for months now and oddly enough this is the straw that broke the camels back. Will be migrating to a new host today.
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The highest pressure situation I was in was for fed gov approaching deadlines having missed milestones. The more pressure the put on, the calmer and more relaxed I became. Everything worked out fine in the end because the managers didn't understand investing in developing a framework. When that was done all the apps came together, more or less with outliers needing more exceptional additions.
Exactly and often times when I write tests for a bug fix, I'm exposed to thoughts of other cases that were also missing, and write tests for those too. Like everything to do with software testing, for it to be effective you have to use your brain and not blindly follow some prescription you read on the internet.
Source for the Hiawatha performance claim?
That is a pretty major issue itself.
Is there a recognized name for the fallacy southern_cross is using here?
> It looks more like poor engineering than a dark pattern.

Poor engineering and sensitive data are a bad combination.
I saw the other day that the percentage of Americans who say they've defended themselves with a gun is lower than the percentage of Americans who say they've been abducted by aliens.
Someone like that probably can’t afford any EV with a range to even make that trip one way. Affordability isn’t really there yet. That’s something that’s also true with hydrogen cars and so has little bearing on the relative advantages and disadvantages of hydrogen and batteries.
The question isn't "can Facebook be replaced" as much as it is "why haven't alternatives already succeeded?"

I'm thinking of Diaspora* in particular.
what's so great about "intelligent" platforms? They're constantly doing something wrong or at least useless.
Later in the video it shows training against the LSUN dataset.

https://github.com/fyu/lsun
We have been here before, resulting in Diaspora*. What is different this time?
Here's the exact wording of the question:

> “During the last 12 months, have you confronted another person with a firearm, even if
you did not fire it, to protect yourself, your property, or someone else?”

I don't think we should seriously modify those answers with anecdotes of "bragadocious machoism". The article says, "in sum, the surveys used an excellent, carefully worded DGU question, in contrast to the wordings used in so many other surveys".
No but climategate is exactly the type of pseudo-controversy that I was getting at. Read the reports:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climatic_Research_Unit_email_c...

No scientific misconduct. No fraud. But yes, concern over the public relations battle that scientists have been forced into. Would you rather scientists just concede that battle?

And again, they have been fighting that battle _without scientific misconduct_. There was no hiding of uncertainties, it's all there in the papers. There are very few fields of science where uncertainties are so well studied. The sentence in the NYT article you quote is simply not backed by the facts, and it is mistaking consensus for group-think.

Opposing requests for transparency (looking at raw code and data) is unfortunately all to common in science. The culture is shifting, but it's a result of things being generally messy. Often it takes considerable experience to reliably reach judgements on what the data/code outputs mean. And that's typically not well documented. I advocate for open science at my institute wherever I can. We're getting there.

One perfect example is the "hide the decline". Anyone with statistics training knows that "the decline" is perfectly consistent with the previous trend + fluctuations + data problems. It didn't challenge anything. It's also right there in the published papers. But of course if you want to put out press releases you can't assume your audience knows that, you need to communicate that fact. The part of the audience that understands that can read the papers just fine to figure out the details (they are not hard to read).
Agree. As someone who was playing table tennis for a bit time, where basically you can't see the ball due speed, prediction training is essential and long term process. At some point you get so versed you know where the ball will be just by looking at opponent elbow or arm.
Looks like there are some people trying to use the "anti-smoking" campaign as a blueprint for an "anti-gun" campaign. I found a couple links like this when I searched:

http://theconversation.com/public-health-research-reduced-sm...

I doubt any "motivated" research like this is going to be good science. It just seems impossible.
Why do people consistently think that an employee gives a shit about whether you continue using a service?

I'm reminded of the summer I worked at the electronics booth at Target and people would threaten to take their precious business to Walmart.
>Pedantry matters in our profession. Details have consequences.

Well, if so, even more reason NOT to say "Java is Pass-by-Value".

Instead, you should be a good pedant, and explain the Java passing model, its caveats and edge cases, in its entirety.

If details matter, don't throw some BS blanket statement like "Java is Pass-by-Value" around, that can be misinterpreted in 200 ways, and that doesn't capture the whole nuances of what's going on.
Guy says it's an area of partisan dispute, and you write a post that proves it.

Yes, it's partisan. Your facts may be right, but the argument is one sided.
Do you know of any study I could read about this?

For a layman such as myself, it would seem that producing a plastic bottle should be significantly more expensive than reusing one.
Tesla makes a 20% profit per car if you ignore standard auto industry accounting practices and use magic voodoo accounting and ignore the capex that goes into developing and building those cars. Notably, the only sites claiming that Tesla realizes per-car profits are tech companies which defend the use of non-standard accounting practices.

Note: Most other car companies make hundreds of thousands of cars at each of their factories, and sell hundreds of thousands to millions of cars each year, which substantially reduces the per-car capex. Tesla sells comparatively very few cars, so its per-car capex dwarfs the rest of the industry.
>[Edit] The author, Gary Klek, is a firearm-ownership supporter.

Can you state clearly the implication of this?
I'm not sure what there is to believe. Obviously, Stanford and Harvard are at the top of the list when it comes to founders. However, you claimed that IIT has never produced a company the likes of Facebook or Google. I pointed out a few companies that are in the same league. Moreover, the source you linked to points out that IIT is the fourth highest unicorn founder producer. This is quite notable, given that it's an institute in a relatively poor country. It's more notable given that Indian graduates are at a disadvantage when competing in the united states as well, due to extra regulation on foreign companies or the overhead of immigration.

I'm not sure what point you were trying to prove with your graph. I never claimed that IIT produced more superstars than Harvard or Stanford, only that it does produce some.

You said:

> Tell me how many googles, facebooks have been started by IIT grads.

The number is 18, according to your data, which makes it #4 in the world, which is a very respectable position.
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CDC can't study gun violence because they are out to ban guns.

Quote from the CDC head Mark Rosenberg from 1994:
“We need to revolutionize the way we look at guns, like we did with cigarettes. Now it [sic] is dirty, deadly and banned.”

This isn't an okay attitude for a government employee to have because the bill of rights guarantees all Americans the right to bear arms.
The replacement for Facebook is likely already being used by many people, perhaps even yourself. You just don't know it yet. ;)
>I've heard this term "unityped", but i'd always written it off as a politically correct way of saying "untyped". Is there actually a worthwhile argument for it?

Yes. Python e.g. is more unityped (union typed, things have a type, but are handled as a union among several options) than untyped. tcl, on the other hand, is more untyped (everything is the same thing: string-like).
What about the investment in fuel, energy, water, and detergents: to collect the reusable containers, bring them to a sorting facility, sort them, bring them to the manufacturer, and wash them before they can be refilled?

Disposable containers are much lighter and cheaper since they don't need to be so durable for repeated washing and filling. The additional fuel costs of shipping heavier reusable containers around must be pretty substantial in itself, let alone all of the other steps.
This is interesting and important in one way: anything poorly specified will eventually cause a problem for someone, somewhere. That being said, my first response was to complete the title, ". . . yet it remains useful and nearly trouble-free in practice." There's a lot of, "You know what I mean!" in the JSON definition, but in most cases, we really do know what Crockford means.
yes, i've indirectly dealt with both fiserv and jack henry on past consulting projects and they're definitely slow-moving dinosaurs. =)
Guns have an amplifier effect on suicides, domestic violence.