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I used to be shy when I was a teenager and only started to break out of my shell once I got sales and customer service jobs. These jobs taught me how to interact with a wide range of people. And my success as a sales person was literally tied to my people skills, so I learned that way.

I would say, anything you're irrationally afraid of (that isn't literally dangerous), you should consciously seek out and force yourself into situations.

I remember when I was younger I was conscious of the fact that I was socially awkward, and the awareness of that just fed into my social interactions.
Stripe cofounder here.

This is an issue that I know a lot of HN readers care about and I'd encourage anyone interested to get involved. (Feel free to reach out to CA YIMBY, your local representatives, or any of the other organizations doing good work in the field.)

Bad housing policy is one of the biggest impediments to overall economic growth[1] and to individual economic opportunity[2][3] in the US. Our current restrictive policies disproportionately hurt poorer, younger, and (frequently) non-white[4] people. I really hope we can change them.

[1] https://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/chang-tai.hsieh/research/gr...

[2] https://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/publication/83656/...

[3] From the Obama administration: https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/files/images...

[4] https://www.amazon.com/Color-Law-Forgotten-Government-Segreg...
I don't think that's a good analogy; there are significant differences between a local supermarket (local, items must fit in the store) and Amazon's marketplace (global, items can be located anywhere globally within reason).
If you want a cheap HSM, there is also nitrokey:

https://shop.nitrokey.com/shop/product/nitrokey-hsm-7

I've bought one, but didn't use it yet. I had ideas to use it to test an HSM + pkcs11 OpenSSL engine setup in a personal project (RFC3161 server), but I didn't found the time to play with it yet.

However, the standard tooling to interact with a P11 device under Linux is a bit of a mess, you have tooling from gnutls, p11-kit and OpenSSL (kind of actually, they kind of broke arguments passing, for example the URI of the key not being a valid path, when using external engines).

Also, if you want to play with an HSM without a physical HSM, softhsm is for you (https://www.opendnssec.org/softhsm/).
Everest: A lightweight REST API client written in JavaFX
Does anyone know how this compares to Construct 2 & 3? I've only used Construct for simple 2D HTML5 game development, and haven't really heard of any other HTML5 game engines.
In the same genre, Boiler Room did a good job showing the harm done to the victims of Wall Street con artists.
> Unless you are in a highly demanded domain like software, there are few opportunities for young people.

If you mean old style "Jobs", correct. If you mean opportunity to impact the world and get paid for it, nonsense.

There has never been a time that it has been so easy to 1) Reach millions/billions of people (Internet), 2) Raise money (kickstarter, VC/startup culture), 3) learn about something for free (MOOCs), 4) bring a real product to market (Amazon fulfillment) .

The only thing missing is real ideas and the work ethic to use 1-4.
No, the data grid has problems on Windows, as that code is being contributed by someone else. I already have it on macOS and Linux, and have for years now... Hopefully soon the Windows code will be merged in and we can keep going.
it's even cheaper if it's for an open source project: https://www.certum.eu/certum/cert,offer_en_open_source_cs.xm...

28 eur.
> No solution to a 51% attack.

A 51% attack would cost more money than Bitcoin’s entire market cap
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Because if more $$$ are in the employees pockets, the employees are easier to attract and happier, and the company is more competitive.
Its inspiring to see him but it's also ridiculous that Elon Musk is the one pushing the space and auto industries forward. I really hope he succeeds, but it is just stupid that our hopes for scientific and technological advancement have shifted to the private sector.

The private sector has historically been the one that had sane and logical business practices minimizing risk, while government had the funding necessary to take on large, risky projects for the good of their constituents. Somehow taxes have gone further and further up while our expectations of government plummeted, and now we are looking to these single "genius" entrepreneurs to revolutionize science and technology with investor money.
Random does not mean independently chosen random number.

Consider, if you pick a completely random location then two numbers could end up in the same box so one prisoner's number implies there is some order.

Further, random does not mean even distribution. The logic is really based on a very specific kind of random distribution.
Has he? They still deliver less cars than Henry Ford did in the 1930s.
I have the opposite of impostor syndrome. I always feel like I deserve more than I get.
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>'the CEO said an analyst was asking “boring bonehead questions” that were “not cool.”'

The thing is that he isn't wrong. I listened to one of these earnings calls the other day and literally fell asleep.
This might be a stupid question, but if the hominin needed a boat to get there, then didn't the rhino also need one?
Tesla isn't doing that though.
@pc: Any consideration to closing your SoMo office (similar to what Automattic did [1]) and migrating towards a fully remote org? That would improve the quality of life of your workers currently required to be near SF by allowing them to relocate to lower cost of living areas, as changing California housing policy and seeing the results in lower housing costs due to denser construction is going to take decades [2].

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/automattic-closes-san-francis...

[2] http://www.sfexaminer.com/solve-affordability-crisis-bay-are...

Disclosure: Worked for a popular and well run fully remote startup for two years.
One of the most age old ways to get rich is just like you said: write a book titled "I'm really rich! I will teach you my secret!"

People eat that shit up!
"I didn't make this one for the critics" frequently means "I made the movie I wanted" or "I made the movie the studio wanted". That statement could boil down to "I'm not concerned about money, I'm making a movie I wanted to make in service of the fans" or "I made a movie that I knew would make a ton of money, because people go to see this junk even if critics don't like it". CEO's don't have critics in the same sense that movies/art does. The financial/business sector work on completely different axes to judge performance.

Elon seems to be more focused on his vision of the Big Picture (solving transportation problems, moving to new planets, fixing the energy crisis, etc) than making money in the short term (which might be over the next 10 years). He appears to be a man convinced he knows how to help fix global problems, and believes in his mission more than making money. You still need money to change the world, so he's also tried to do very well at the business side of it.

I'm not convinced Musk will fix humanity. I'm also not convinced he won't. I just feel that this specific statement, that Tesla isn't a business everyone should be involved in, feels like a "we're mission driven, not money driven" proclamation to me.
So one thing I always have trouble with on this debate is that it feels totally one-sided. There's smart people on the YIMBY side making the case for building. But then NIMBYs are always portrayed as a caricature of the self-interested rich guy. So I read this article and then I click through to http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-housing-bill-failu... this article and I see lots of poor people opposed SB 827 as well. But even then there isn't really a strong op-ed or anything like that making the case against YIMBY. Where do I go to read that? If you're a YIMBY what's the toughest NIMBY article or argument you've come across?
You may be interested in reading Allan Organ’s books. He claims that aspirations to Carnot efficiency are a red herring and claims (with Much Math) that the peak efficiency is closer to 50% of The Carnot cycle.
Absolutely -- increase the scope and also go after the managers and execs who design & implement badly secured systems -- you'll get no objection from me.
Think of it this way: you are always in a chain. It can be between 1 and 100 boxes long. But it can’t be a dead end or not include the 1-note. Worse case it visits all boxes and gets back to 1.

Try forming a scenario that doesn’t. E.g a “loop”:
Prisoner #1 opens box 1. Finds the number 2. Opens box 2 finds the number 3. Opens box 3...
Could he now find the “2” that would lead to him being stuck in the 2-3 loop? No. He already found the 2. It can’t appear again. In the third box he’ll find a number he hasn’t seen. The loop cannot form in any other way than to come to where he started - which it will do when he finds the note with “1” on it.

So by starting with box 1, he is on a loop of length 1..100 including the pointer TO box 1 (which is what he is looking for).
I can't say thank you enough! California's housing policies have repercusions even way up here in Bend, Oregon:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/back-againbend-oregon-matt-ab...

The articles and book you cite are excellent ones, and I'd highly recommend them to anyone interested in this issue.

I have a bunch more here, too: https://bendyimby.com/2017/06/12/yimby-reading/
The difference is that Tai Lopez is just selling knowledge, no different than an audiobook or a college program. The guy in this article is actively participating in a pyramid scheme.
Wait, why would “sending a big chunk of that fat tech money to a landlord” make someone not interested in fixing the housing crisis?
Debian (and Ubuntu as a downstream) patched out issues already: https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4104
I would love it if the OS just said ‘put it back or your files are gone’ and then let you reinsert the drive without data loss.
It is effectively another stirling, just with membrane instead of piston, and very high frequency of operation.

Sound == heat.

An AMTEC converter may be an another "fully self-contained" solution
>thats the opposite of being fair, but unfair is fine sometimes.

fair point ;)
Because high rents cancel out the benefits of a high salary. It's simple arithmetic. Why give up 30k of a 100k salary to work and live in SF, when I could give up 10k of an 90k salary in Austin instead? (These are just illustrative figures.) And the high price of housing means that even tech workers who want families can't afford the space to raise them.
Elon says lots of stuff.

Elon is frequently full of shit.
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I never knew Moby-Dick was spelled with a hyphen. Fascinating.
I used this years ago - however ended up with construct 2.
I've also contributed to the open source scratch 2 apk (runs in a browser) using webRTC for the cloud vars. It's the only scratch emulator with lists support too.

https://github.com/htmlgames/htmlgames.github.io/tree/master...
Yeah, it’s not like a weekly status update meeting. It’s a tad unprofessional IMO. As the CEO of a public company, you are accountable above all to your shareholders.
It's not even clear he did for sure -- he could have been fired for just claiming he could since the claim harms the company.
I dont think the prices have come down at all, they may have flatten out. Most of the new units are high end, 4k for 1bed?
To me it sounds like him saying the risk is higher than most investors are willing to accept.

I also hold a wildly different interruption of the saying "I didn't make this one for the critics."
Oh good, TSLA is on sale at 10% off.

Setting aside the abject glibness of this comment, the likelihood of it recovering at this time tomorrow is pretty much guaranteed, and by his logic (not everyone should own this stock) it will be owned by the right people (those that believe in Tesla's ability to deliver a compelling product rather than healthy stock returns).
I have been investing a portion of my paycheck every month for the last three years and never sold TSLA. It's bothering me to see so many high profile departures particularly in finance/accounting groups. And yesterday's conference call was a disaster, I see it as dodging valid questions related to current state of the company and answering open ended interesting questions like "When will Tesla launch its own network of driverless cars?".

I just dumped all the $TSLA stock I have bought for the last few years.
If you consider that each box only has one box that "points" to it, and that last box must necessarily be part of the box's cycle (by definition, there's no way to avoid it as if you hypothetically swapped the last box to point somewhere else then all you're doing is linking the cycles and you'll end up in the same place but later)
That all depends on what you do.

If you have a specific skillset, and your talents and work ethic are obvious to your managers, you can end being mostly self-managed at your job.

However, if you have no skills and work a job where your raw output is all that matters, managers will breathe down your neck trying to get the most output out of you as possible.

These get-rich-quick schemes prey on those unskilled workers. They promise a world where you have no boss, only work a few hours a week, and make enough money to afford whatever you want.

It preys on people's fantasies, and their lack of understanding of how successful people get where they are.

If you want to escape your cubicle farm and get a job where you don't hate your boss, teach yourself a valuable skill and seek gainful employment using that skill.

But don't ever expect that there's some magic lifehack that let's you stop working and make enough money to afford every luxury you ever wanted. Just because there are some examples of people doing that doesn't mean anything. For every Bitcoin millionaire there are ten Bitcoin bankruptcies.

Yet all people have to do is wave around "This is the next big thing", and gullible people will swarm it in hopes of getting in on the ground floor.

There's big money in FOMO.
California and the Bay Area is so screwed. The Powers-that-be looked at SB827 like it was the work of lunatics, and did not engage in any of the significant concessions that were made. The bill was completely impotent at the end ... local demolition control + 4-5 story buildings. It drew no interest nor alternative proposals to actually help solve the housing crisis.

So yeah we're going to end up with middle class social housing lotteries, 1.5 hour commutes and crazy inflation of basic service costs ($3k/month child care, anyone?).

Every neighborhood can't be a wealthy enclave of SFH. There is literally no where to live in the central Bay Area on teachers salary much less a Social Security Disability paycheck. The homelessness epidemic will grow.

It's a rentier economy of land owners and the rent-controlled incumbents. How "Progressive".
Unimportant to the business is not the same is unimportant for other purposes. There are a lot of unimportant projects that are interesting to an engineer.

Trying all the latest javascript framework is not important to the business, but but is your best person is free to try each fad, every once in a while he will be able to say "this one isn't just a fad we should use it". It is thus important for someone have time to do this.

Trying some new tool is not important, but it might long term result in better quality if the tool turns out useful.

Upgrading the CI system might not be important, but if you let it fall out of date you get into trouble.

Stepping back from the day to day schedule allows the best engineer to focus thinking up a better solution. There are many things that are done "because we have always done it that way", but in fact the pressures of a 8-bit CPUs and limited memory 40 years ago drove that decision and there is a better way that modern CPUs could do now if only people weren't blinded by how it has always been done. The proof of concept will get management excited enough to make this the number one project, but right now they can't imagine the better way is even possible. (and the best engineer will sometimes discover the algorithm isn't actually possible)

In short the unimportant projects the best engineers work on should be largely self directed. There is the following items that are a consideration so long as they don't take up too much time. (if they add up to 25% you need someone assigned to that problem)

The best engineer is also free when a customer discovers a show stopper bug. If it is easy he can get the fix done in a couple days without interrupting the main team.

The best engineer is free to tell marketing which ideas are possible and which is impossible. He can also help workout timelines. Thus ensuring that the next project is actually possible in the time given.

The best engineer is there when sales says "I could make this big sale if only we had feature..." - some of those features can be done in a few hours and make a lot of money. Others take years and lose money - but the salesman has someone to ask before making a promise that cannot be met (that doesn't mean the saleman will ask)

This is also a rotation - your second best developers will be playing "leapfrog" to the best and then your best developer gets rotated into a valuable assignment while the new best engineer gets to lead a project again.

If your company has any size to the engineering team you can find those engineers who are self directed who will enjoy the lest important project
c't is a reputable German computer magazine. The chances of this being a hoax are slim, I'd say.
In an infinite universe, there are an infinite number of variation of universes with properties implying any given of event happen 0, once, rarely or often.

That's the problem with the infinite universes theory. You can pretty much make up whatever you want, it answers to any question.
"Rest easy knowing that your Team’s data is secured in a dedicated network and logically separated into its own SQL schema. Learn more about our security policy. "

If its using logical separation on a shared SQL server, then is it really a "dedicated network"?
I don't believe it will last for exactly the reasons mentioned in this thread--ageism. What good is a 40-something "engineer" in a society that doesn't value experience at all?
This point was obvious once pointed out, and is definitely the reason this link clicked for me and the Wikipedia explanation did nothing.
The arguments I've come across fall into three buckets: neighborhood character, traffic/infrastructure, and (my personal favorite) supply and demand doesn't apply to housing. I suspect the real root is a fear of change mixed with greed.
The 1% rule applies to cashflow investors, NYC is basically at the complete other end of the spectrum and this rule makes no sense there.
On the other hand, Microsoft offers a free Visual Studio Team Services account where you can have up to 5 users, unlimited private GIt repos, project management and a hosted Windows, Linux, or Mac (for iOS) build server. 40 hours worth of build time per month or $40 for unlimited hosted builds.

No, this isn't the Microsoft of old. You can use basically any popular language, it integrates with Github (if you prefer using it over VSTS for your git repo), there are plug ins for deploying to AWS and there are local Windows and Linux agents.
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I say it's pretty close.
I would beg to differ on that. Capitalism has brought us many, many harmful things. Oil companies using might to muscle into developing countries, polluting them, and not doing anything to clean up, for one.

If you're going to blame the deaths of 100 million people on Communism, you have to attribute to Capitalism the same deaths caused by companies flouting the law, releasing dangerous products, and market based providing of services. Communism isn't to blame when someone dies because they can't afford healthcare.
Yea i echo this - genuinely different backgrounds, influences on business processes and styles as it pertains to the company is discountes as not diverse because of where they are pgysically located.

Like an office in sf with all genders and colors represented is diverse...even tho they are all impacted by being im sf and sf culture
If you are in California I would suggest you look up Michael Schellenberger. He is a democrat running for office and pro Nuclear.

Here is a good interview with him where he lays out some of his opinions on amongst other things the problem with NIMBY.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-7DIv3AU1o
I mean, most warehouse work is a horror show. I was in between jobs in my early 20's and had to take a job at a dvd packaging warehouse and it was fucking awful. You didn't know what you would be doing from day to day, 12 hour overnight shifts, sub par or no safety equipment etc. I have never been as dispondant as I was after six hours of folding hundreds of one side of a cardboard standup display for some b-movie.
He doesn't want to admit they company will need to raise money later this year.
Are you mentoring someone now - is it on a commercial or personal basis?

There are a lot of certifications in computing fields, why don't they meet the need you felt (feel?) for objective acknowledgement of your skills? (From where I am they all look like primarily commercial efforts rather than efforts to provide objective recognitions of standards/abilities.)
For context, moves like this are self-serving for the tech companies based in SF. Their interest is to have access to the tech talent fueling their growth.
Disagree about it being embarrassing and cringey. I appreciate his no-bs and no-fluff candor.

Elon called out the press for writing misleading articles to generate clicks. He went as far as calling it irresponsible and dangerous.

He also called out day-traders, saying of you can't handle volatility then sell your stock. "I am not here to convince you to buy Tesla stock."

You can listen to the call at https://edge.media-server.com/m6/p/nwvzygvo
Actually as a CEO he has a fiduciary duty to maximise shareholder value.
Tesla barely talks about self-driving any more. Their no-LIDAR approach didn't work.
It's literally his job to talk to investors. He explicitly invited those questions, too.

Obviously it would be boring to you as a layman with no money on the line. I'm sure I'd be bored too. That's not relevant though.
This is a great checklist! Do you have it posted in "blog post" format somewhere for posterity?
Yeah this is the cool part. If you have a secret agent, he only has to make one change to guarantee success. (Success may already be guaranteed, but by the time the secret agent leaves the room, all prisoners are guaranteed to be safe).
It's more like a movie director deciding to make something other than a superhero action movie, and telling critics not to expect one.

Not all investors have the same aims. Shaking off short-termist investors may be sensible to follow long term strategies. Sometimes public companies even have to become private again in order to pursue the course of action that's best for them.
Improving Autoplay in Chrome
That will give the Saudis a more environmentally friendly way of bombing schools and hospitals in Yemen.