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In the very early Twitter days, writer Jay Bushman did a sci-fi adaptation of Benito Cereno, tweet by tweet. It was the first I encountered that storytelling format, and Jay has gone on to other successes in digital media writing since...

I met him at a BarCamp in Los Angeles, that's how I started following the account. I miss BarCamp.

Anyway, The Good Captain.

http://jaybushman.com/The-Good-Captain
There are under 2 million residents of Manhattan. 8.5 million people living in NYC, tho. NYC is all 5 boroughs, not just Manhattan.
The comparison was between Tokyo, and the ENTIRE STATE of California if that didn't jump out at you the first time.

San Francisco's never going to have 10 million people, but the Bay Area could sure add a lot more. Look at, say, Palo Alto with all its single family housing.
I noticed this exact thing when Desperate Housewives became popular. Suddenly (it seemed), many of the people around me started to act like the characters on the show; tuning in for more information each Sunday night. I seriously kid you not, some even started to take their kids' Ritalin just like on the show. It was... bizarre. Many people really do take their cues about how to behave/act from the pseudo-Jungian gestalt that is TV/YouTube/Pop-media. I just can't understand it, but I do observe it. Maybe that is more to say something about me than anything.
I read through the transcript of the call [1], and it was not as bad as the headlines make it out to be. But unless they start delivering larger numbers of Model 3s, they will have to raise additional capital later this year or face running out of money. Tesla is still basically a startup and they were hours away from bankruptcy once before in 2008, so this is not entirely impossible. Musk claims they will be cash flow positive in Q3, but so far they have missed Model 3 production targets for the last three quarters, although they got close at the end of Q1.

Under these circumstances, it is not unreasonable for investors to hold you accountable and inquire about the financial situation and plans. Musk's conduct was unprofessional and he could have handled those questions more gracefully instead of dismissing them and berating the people who had been asking them. This kind of behaviour does not exactly inspire confidence, and burning your bridges with the very banks that you might need to raise money later on was certainly not his smartest move.

[1] https://seekingalpha.com/article/4169027-tesla-tsla-q1-2018-...
I buy all of my Apple equipment used or refurbished. I only need it to build and test iOS apps, but it’s perfectly usable if you like Apple stuff.
If it seems Musk/Tesla have conceded to working with Wall Street in order to achieve its long term goals, then isn't it reasonable to assume Musk/Tesla does care about what Wall Street thinks?
85%+ of available water in California goes to commercial agriculture

SF residents use 50 gallons/day of water. Compared to 85 gal/day average across the state.
Why airpods? I thought bluetooth emits much less radiation than a phone does.
Ask HN: How can we stop making disposable hammers?
The tech industry feels to me a lot like a disposable hammer factory. The hammers we make are made out of a non-durable material, and they tend to break down without constant maintenance. Every few years you have to buy a new hammer because the old one becomes ineffective. You can get a new hammer for really cheap, but it won't last long, and it really only works on nails and boards that are made to work with the disposable hammer of today.

Trying to use a Netbook with a dual core Atom processor and 1GB ram recently to browse the web was a bit like pulling teeth. I can't imagine trying with my first "fast" computer, a Compaq Prolinea with 50mhz 486DX2 and a whopping 32 megs of RAM (http://www.totalgeekdom.com/?p=356). If my Compaq could browse the web back then, it should still be able to browse the web now, but I imagine that it would be very difficult. Good luck trying to put any new files on it.

A hammer from 100 years ago, or even a telephone, works about the same now as it did then. But the technology we're making today seems like it will be completely unusable in just a few decades, or less. This is pretty wasteful and probably not sustainable. How can we stop making disposable hammers?
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Enough money to sway 0.5 a typical SV household.
Not really. Attracting the right kind of investors is more important to him than attracting all the investors. There are folks with dollars who can stomach TSLA, and there are folks who can not. Some might argue that it's better for the company overall (especially in the longer term) to attract the former and ignore the latter. The latter will generate a ton of noise, and cause great instability in the stock price because they frighten easily. Case in point: the price of TSLA today taking a dive because shareholders that cannot stomach TSLA are frightened for no good reason.
You write it satirically, but I believe that being honest to your employees if such a type of problem occurs, is indeed an important virtue of a good leader.
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Kind of tangential, but a self-sabotage concept I find fascinating is called "short term mood repair." That's a phrase that one of the top academics studying procrastination uses to describe one of the most common prompts for procrastination. (Tim Pychyl)

In this concept, you have some tiny anxiety about upcoming work that probably never even reaches your conscious thoughts. And the absolute fastest way to make that anxiety go away (i.e. repair it) is to pivot away from the upcoming work. Rationally, this is a terrible idea. But emotionally, it's very functional. Procrastination creates a short term fix to that anxiety.

Or, maybe more familiar to people here, this is just another example of System I and System II thinking from Thinking, Fast and Slow.

I think there's something similar going on with "Get Rich Quick."

The desire to get rich is both rational and emotional. Yes, obviously, it's rational to want to have money. And then also, there's often an emotional anxiety about our place in the world and having money is a fantasy that resolves that anxiety.

So, everyone who points out that Get Rich Quick is not an effective strategy for actually getting rich is right. Rationally, you should choose behaviors that lead to steady accumulation of wealth.

However, I do think Get Rich Quick does provide a functional, short term, solution to the anxiety that's prompting people to want to get rich. In other words, these people in the article are performing self-care with a "short term mood repair" strategy.

Another concept that Dr. Pychyl introduced me to is that MRI scans show that the same parts of our brain light up when we think about strangers and when we think about our future selves. In other words, it's easy to sell our future self short.

http://www.procrastination.ca/
Or like a director trying to convince a major studio to fund a super expensive non action hero movie ... it would be the major studios more so than the critics who would take issue with a non-blockbustery flick.
A lightweight approach we've started at my company:

1. Create a GitHub Repo dedicated to user-facing issues (https://github.com/scoutapp/roadmap)

2. Customers can subscribe to issues they are interested.

3. When resolving an issue, we reference it in the git commit, which closes the issue and notifies the issue subscribers.

We're a developer tool, so it's a familar flow for our customers.
Jim Cramer, though, is.
Investing in better public transportation is important too so that people can live further away from the city and commute in a reasonable time.

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2016/03/14/bay-area-cities-...
The limits don't apply to rolling over a 401K into an IRA. They're for contributions to an already established IRA.
If you believe housing prices are a core problem to the growth of your business why continue to grow in the bay area rather than try and move to a less expensive region of the country?

Massive growth in the SF housing supply is just politically infeasible at this time, a million dollar donation won't change that.
It only worked because the Impact community had people like you. Thank you so much <3
The purpose of the call was to serve investors. Musk should have answered their concerns.

Normally investors listen forward-looking statements from CEO, but Musk has failed all his projections so many times that they are worthless. He says that he don't need to ask more money this year. Investors look at the numbers and don't believe it. He should give something useful that helps investors to asses the risk on their own and put number to it.

> Musk is making a contribution to the world.

Musk is not in trial. People just want to ask tough and important questions. Avoidance is not a good signal.
I've been seeing a lot of title changes lately that seem far too editorial to me.
Please don't do personal attacks here. It damages the community, regardless of what you think about Musk.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
There's nothing to "defend". These articles are entirely misleading and absurd. What he said wasn't even noteworthy.
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True dat. Supply is necessary but not sufficient. I don't think this is too popular amongst YIMBYs, but some of us do support limited rent-control for the sake of displacement protection.
Even long term investing is fundamentally risk management. Tesla has so much debt and burning trough so much money that Tesla has problems with the future.

You want to quantify the risks you are taking. Answering questions would help.
Though so is Impact (well, unmaintained) and its plugin ecosystem (the website died and the plugins it hosted are lost), so it's more or less something you have to be comfortable with if you choose to use Impact in 2018.

Excited to see it open source now, of course. Great opportunity for a community to slowly redevelop and rebuild what once was.

I used Impact as recently as two years ago despite these issues and was able to make a networked game. The code is easy to work with and understand. And I used one of the Node wrappers to get the editor working without PHP.
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Engineering students are usually required to study physics.
Depending on the worth of pictures I might save some words here.

Weeney propane torch:
http://gigadgetstech.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Organic_...

A real flamethrower:
https://flamethrowerplans.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Fla...

Or, as others have already described, one burns a flammable gas and puts out a flame a few inches long. The other squirts flammable liquid at you from a long ways away, then ignites it. </vast_oversimplification>
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As someone who considers myself a YIMBY, I welcome people from elsewhere, but I hope that they move to my town because of its merits, not simply because "WOW, CHEAP!".
Did you mean rlwrap rather than wlwrap?
And sometimes they stay alone for ever: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16983540
Or Denver and others could build more housing. This increasingly isn't just a California problem, even New Orleans is facing supply constraints causing measures of relative affordability to go in the wrong direction [0]

0: http://www.nola.com/katrina/index.ssf/2015/08/new_orleans_ex...
Prohibiting roommates would drive the rent per person up and the rent per unit down. That would make the city less affordable to both renters and landlords.

The problem with AirBnB is that it benefits landlords and tourists at the expense of renters by driving the rent per unit up, the short term rent per person down and the long-term rent per unit up.
Or all employers in the area are more or the same level of awful. And that says nothing about if they employers can pull off an implicitly coordinated race to the compensation bottom in a given region and section of the workforce.
Show HN: OpenPGP Web Key Service and Web Key Directory Implemented on OpenBSD
Like I've been saying, npm is ripe for abuse https://medium.com/p/73fac4bc5068
>traffic, parking, what if the new people are different from me

those all seem perfectly reasonable
This is definitely bad news. Big media is dying to know everything that they can about the listeners of podcasts. I can guarantee you that the first update to Pocket Casts will be a new privacy policy, where they go Big Data on the user.

Podcasts is obviously going the way of the web, with extreme spying on the users.

Really disappointed because Pocket Casts was a great cross platform app, working super on Android, iPhone and even iPad.

I'm switching to Overcast, where the developer cares about privacy.
For a lot of people a "vapid, shallow lifestyle" sure as heck beats their serious, suffocating lifestyle.
Except for perhaps the most trivial ones, and ones that exist in many variations, you shouldn't implement algorithms and data structures without looking them up. I would add, without looking them up from more than one source.
The point is that the IRB's process was onerous for the type of study he was doing, so much so that it effectively killed it. The status-quo assertion that everyone alike is responsible for fulfilling the IRB's onerous process (ie "get back in line") is not a valid refutation of that indictment.

As the purpose of the IRB is to police studies, then it indeed has an inherent responsibility to work at actually understanding those studies - not to simply design one-size-fits-all forms and promulgate top-down rules as its primary requirements. Such behavior reeks of an entrenched institution that does little besides bureaucratically gatekeep to perpetuate its own power (and therefore is actually shirking its intended purpose!), a trend which is eating our society alive.
The name doesn’t inspire confidence to me. Too close to Asylum, but I guess they’re going for “a silo”.

It's just my opinion. I know the meaning of the word Asylum, but as I explained below...it's the association that I get from it. It's like using the word Niggardly - even though the definition is not related to race, people don't use it because it just sounds wrong.
>That will require strong action at the state level, or the emergence of a new layer of government with the mandate and budgets to bypass the petty squabbles of cities and impose a sane bay area transit infrastructure development roadmap. One can dream...

Controlling what people can and can't build on their property at the city level was created to prevent the same problems that exist on the city level back when they were on the neighborhood level.

I don't see state or county level zoning as anything more than recursion that will just keep bringing the problem to a different level without solving it.

The fundamental issue is that people are not allowed to or the regulations make it economically impossible to build housing at high density.

I don't think adding another layer of bureaucracy will make it easier to build the necessary density of housing.
Seriously. Until there's a CVE, this may just be an attempt to influence stock price.
As another shy, socially awkward person, I must say that getting professional help is definitely worth it.

If you find that you can't break this wall yourself, don't be afraid to ask for help.
The Kilopower reactor presents far lower radiological risks than RTGs in the event of complete disassembly within Earth's environment.

Pu-238 has a specific activity of 634 billion Bq/g, nearly 8 million times that of the Kilopower reactor's U-235 fuel (80 thousand Bq/g). Once the reactor attains criticality, it produces fission products that have even higher specific activity than Pu-238. But the reactor can remain safely inactive until the risky launch phase is over. There is no way to inactivate the decay of Pu-238 for the launch phase.

The risks of RTG launch are handled by using designs with high mechanical/thermal robustness to encapsulate the plutonium ceramic. I think that they were already safe enough. But the Kilopower reactor is inherently low-radiotoxicity before criticality, which makes it safer yet during the launch phase.
I live in a suburb of LA and roughly 70% of my yearly water consumption goes to irrigation. Another 5% goes to the pool. You could rip all that out, quadruple the density, and get the same water usage.
There are a lot of different ways of adding supply:

http://www.sightline.org/2017/09/21/yes-you-can-build-your-w...
Would you mind backing up the assertion about convection being the mechanism of sodium transport? e.g. on earth are you saying the sterling part wouldn't work if the hot fluid had to traverse say down (a gravity gradient) instead of up?
Then let his CFO answer the questions. These are important things to shareholders.
She actually has a fairly good track record and platform on mobility: https://medium.com/@LondonBreed/transportation-that-works-fo.... I wish she had come out with this post much earlier, but better late than never.
I think we're trying to get at the same thing but describing it in different ways. I don't mean that people should be looking for the meaning of life. But you should be doing things that you find meaningful. That can be climbing high mountains, raising a kid, running a business that employs other people, etc. I don't think it matters very much what it is, but you should have something you're directing your efforts towards rather than just aimlessly seeking experience that make you feel happy.
Indeed and I'm not disagreeing but my point is that it should be.

Companies don't exist in isolation, they benefit hugely by been able to operate in stable societies with defined legal systems, educated populations who are capable of buying their products, it seems fair that in return they should pay their taxes and operate in a way that society broadly considers acceptable.

The problem (imo) is that we have a two tier rule system where if you get big enough fast enough you are essentially untouchable in any real sense.

* Bank Bailout
* HSBC laundering money for Cartels/Terroists
* VW (and others) cheating emissions, lying to customers etc.

The list goes on and on and they all (in real terms) get away with it because they are too big to punish.

If a SME behaved that way they'd go out of business.
The Stirling converters will need a heatsink which can connect to an actively circulated coolant even in zero g.

Thanks for the article.
OK, but the OP said they have $100K cash, not $100K in a 401K
Residential water never made up any significant portion of water usage.

Feel free to take long showers, and water your lawn. It is a literal "drop in the bucket" when compared to the actual large industrial water users.
rand.Shuffle was introduced in 1.10 which is currently the tip, maybe it's a case of lessons learned?
Neat! Glad to hear it. Do you have a couple billion dollars Tesla can borrow?
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/05/business/workers-of-amazo...

http://time.com/956/how-amazon-crushed-the-union-movement/ (2014)
Colloquially, "random" does imply a uniform distribution.
> Today we’re excited to announce Asylo (Greek for “safe place”)
not at the cost of decent housing options for people across a broad range of lower/middle incomes and also not accommodating baseline population growth regionally.
Nice, helping make it cheaper for us :)

I for one have been loving the dump, makes it real easy to buy.
I think asylum is exactly what they mean. Asylo is the dative singular of asȳlum according to Wiktionary:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/asylo

Asylum simply means a shelter or protection from danger.
If you're targeting the web, then you're compiling to Javascript anyways, so the indirection + engine complexity isn't always worth it. Unity tends to pay off as you take on more platform targets and/or implementation complexity (like graphics), for example.

It's kinda like using https://github.com/schteppe/p2.js for physics instead of Box2D: if p2 gets the job done, then you get the advantage of working with a much simpler code base than Box2D which is just about impenetrable as an emscripten port.
(2016) but still a great analysis.

The site is slow to load, probably from traffic, but it explicitly blocks the Internet Archive. Who does that?

User-agent: ia_archiver
Disallow: /
10.00.00.01?
Not really. Your right to an unchanging neighborhood absolutely does not eclipse the right of a long-term renter's ability to stay in their community, or the right of a newcomer's desire to move to a better job. Plus, climate change. Sprawl and traffic are bad for the planet. California will never be able to meet its CO2 reduction targets if it does not discourage more driving, which we can only do by shortening the distances between where people live and where they work, and compressing the areas people live in.
Are you concerned that the optics here of tech companies funding CA YIMBY will be bad, particularly since it is already seen as a tech employee group by opponents such as the existing low income housing advocacy groups?
The main TEE wikipedia article wasn't very informative for me (about as high level as this blog post). Looking through links off of that brought me to Intel's "Software Guard Extensions" wikipedia[1] article, which actually defines enclaves:

"Intel SGX is a set of central processing unit (CPU) instruction codes from Intel that allows user-level code to allocate private regions of memory, called enclaves, that are protected from processes running at higher privilege levels."

I still don't fully understand the security model of enclaves (for instance, the same wikipedia page also talks about modifying spectre to work against enclaves[2]).

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_Guard_Extensions
[2]https://github.com/lsds/spectre-attack-sgx

(disclaimer: I work at Google, but obviously not on this)
I'm not sure I'm following you. Creating market value and returning money to the investors as an ROI are not the same things. An earnings call is an opportunity to tell shareholders when - and if - they can expect some of their money back by giving them a more complete picture about how the company is doing. It is part of the role of a CEO in a publicly traded company to continue to inspire investor confidence. Value creation is the easy part, value capture the hard part and without that second bit Tesla's stock will implode. So he will have to talk to those investors to address their worries or the stock value will drop rapidly.

A crazy high valuation is no guarantee that a company can not go bust at some point, though in Tesla's case if they run out of money all that will likely happen is that their next round will be one at a lower valuation and with a group of investors that cares less about the short term.

Elon made the decision to play on Wall Street, that decision comes with some responsibilities and it is downright strange to see him literally bite the hand that feeds him. Without the cash he picked up through the IPO Tesla would be in a completely different position. He's made a couple of boneheaded moves (such as rolling Solar City in with Tesla), which have so far been accepted because of the halo and the promises. But there is a limit to how far that will stretch and I'm confused why he would stretch that on purpose if he has other alternatives (such as simply answering the questions). If he doesn't have any answers, which is one way to interpret his refusal, then Tesla is already in trouble.
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can this be used for car/boat/etc-fuel somehow one day, then all gas-station will be run out of business and middle-east-plus-texas-oil-field all file for chapter-11?

not sure how to prevent radiation though.
Nowhere near it. Doge has a "market cap" of about $630m, with volume last 24h of $62m. Bitcoin Cash is at $25 billion, with 24h trading volume of about $1.2 billion.
This is very exciting. May be this can hold the fort till fully homomorphic computing becomes a reality.