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I would love if the following existed:

A policy in tech companies to grant a given amount (let say 50$) per month to each employee, the employee can attribute this amount to whichever OSS project(s) he sees fit.

If the employee doesn't chose a project, this amount is given to OSS projects in need.

To streamline this, the ideal would be to have a service where everything could be done:

* OSS projects register to it

* Tech Companies then give the money to the service, which then dispatch it to the OSS projects

* Employees of tech companies logs into the service to select which projects they chose to give money to (with maybe some suggestion to avoid over/under funding projects).
My brother, who joined facebook during the whole Cambridge Analytica fiasco, said that he had "sold his soul for more money".
I ran a hackintosh around 2009-2010. I will never do it again. When I first got it all setup and had everything working, I thought it was the best thing ever. Then a security update came out and it completely wrecked my setup. I didn't own any Apple computers at the time, so to fix my broken setup I had to borrow a friend's macbook to fix my desktop. This happened to me 2-3 times before I reformatted and installed Linux.

Fast forward to present day, I have both a personal and a work macbook. I badly miss my Linux setup, but there aren't any other laptops that can compete with a MBP. I've debated installing Linux on my MBP, but then I'd be back to forcing an operating system to work on unsupported hardware.
For major releases like sierra -> high sierra it pays to wait 2-3 weeks and check around on forums for any issues. I had a few issues with some drivers going from Yosemite to El Capitan. My Sierra to High Sierra upgrade had no issues though. I have noticed bugs in the upgrade process have generally declined pretty steadily since I first started hackintoshing with Mavericks.

I never had any issues with minor releases with Sierra or High Sierra.
Trading is halted.

https://seekingalpha.com/news/3379457-tesla-trading-halted-l...
Technically, he's not lying. He should be able to count them on one hand then.
Twitter isn't some esoteric social media platform and Elon has made extensive use of it which has moved the stock. I don't see where disclosures taking place being relevant in 2018 but admit there's not a lot of precedent behind this.

Agreed on the halt.
I believe people are working on making this work, also getting it to work in browsers.
Because it’s the SEC. It’s the favorite tool to send rich people to jail. Of all the things rich Americans should be afraid of, the SEC probably ranks near the top, short of physical threats.
Funny question, basically with corrupted data anything goes.

For a very extreme convoluted example, maybe that value given back to the JavaScript layer will trigger a patient death by sending the wrong value to their insulin device monitor.

But yeah, code and true call stack will be perfectly safe.
Having these flavors in college towns may explain why midtown pizzarias catering to commuters dabble in these strange combinations as well.
I don't think there is any Rust (or any Rust on the roadmap) in Blender -- they would most likely use MoltenVK on macOS, similar to the path the Qt folks are taking [0].

[0] http://blog.qt.io/blog/2018/05/30/vulkan-for-qt-on-macos/
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Yep, and they've halted TSLA.
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The US was not engaged with China prior to 1971, how did that work out for the United States and for China? Over the long-term, engagement with China has led to more personal freedom for the Chinese.

Trade with China has helped lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty, while helping with the prosperity of the United States. True the corporations are reaping most of the benefits, but that's natural under a free market. We need reforms here in America to broaden the benefits of trade to all workers. Outsourcing to Asian countries existed prior to China's rise in the supply chain. Most of the stuff that is "Made in China" have major components that come from America's allies such as Japan, Korea, and Taiwan.

Google is in a position to offer a superior search product to China. We should see this as an opportunity to advance freedom.
These articles explain the demise of Symbolics:

https://danluu.com/symbolics-lisp-machines/

http://web.mit.edu/6.933/www/Symbolics.pdf

Some of the reasons given were unique to Symbolics, others more general. LMI went under earlier, and the other two Lisp machine manufacturers (TI and Xerox) stopped manufacturing them but they had other products.
> - you can’t get a good keyboard (for some definitions of good)

You mean like, a PS/2 keyboard or what are you on about? Any bluetooth or usb keyboard works on any regular mac.

> - macOS gets more iOS-ified with each release and some people don’t like that

Again, what are you on about? A hackintosh is running a just as ios-ivied macOS as a regular mac.
The hackintosh scene has come a long way since then.
Man, that's some thick sarcasm (I hope).
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> to announce news of this magnitude.

Only if he's announcing news, which he likely is not. The method itself makes it feel more like a muse and less like an announcement.

[edit]

Well, everyone seems to be taking him seriously...
You are arguing against a point the parent doesn't make, they are arguing against using Hackintoshes at all. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17709707
If you make PGP signing easy enough, at some point you end up with a Jenkins with a trusted PGP signing key, and you haven't actually solved anything.

The problem isn't making it easy to sign things, the problem is making it sufficiently hard for unauthorized parties to sign things without affecting any workflows you'd like to preserve - that is, the real problem is a workflow problem. The real problem is figuring out how to secure automation so it has the privileges to do what it needs but isn't leaking access. The Jenkins instance was designed to do authenticated pushes - it needs automated write access to the Homebrew repos.

Also, signing commits doesn't help you if the risk is unauthorized pushes to master. You can pick up someone's test commit and push that to master, or push a rollback of OpenSSL to a vulnerable version, or something, and still ruin many people's days.
my concern is, is this an indirect admission they cannot meet their bond/note requirements? While irresponsible I am not sure if much of a case will stick if he doesn't act on it personally or have it shown he tipped others off before the tweet.

my interest being I just ordered a III on Monday. Oh joy.
As far as I know, he isn't trading any of his stock, so any market movement he wouldn't personally benefit from. Unless someone can prove that he made statements at the behest of someone that did trade the stock, I can't see how this breaks any laws. As an aside, since the stock is essentially a Musk sentiment gauge rather than having anything to do with the actual fiscal performance of the company it must be fun algo trading his Twitter feed...
> I don't hate it nearly as much as Windows, and how much Windows is getting worse every release.

As much as I try to maintain a fair and balanced point of view, that is a pretty low standard to meet. I work as a sysadmin at a windows shop (~75 clients), and I regularly have to deal with stuff that would make run away screaming if my trusty old GNU/Linux desktop gave me that kind of trouble. Handling updates for Windows alone is enough to send grown women and men into hysterical laughter. And then you look at license management for their server software, and you think you must have fallen asleep and woken up in some Kafkaesque nightmare[0].

[0] I am told vendors like SAP or Oracle are much worse. But still, Microsoft's licensing schemes are pretty ____ing insane.
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Not many people have a spare billion dollars, however.
TSLA stock should have been halted before the news, not after it. (It seems like TSLA is currently under a T1 halt: "News Pending").

https://www.nasdaqtrader.com/trader.aspx?id=TradeHalts

If this isn't a joke, then that means Mr. Musk announced the news before the T1 halt. Expect an SEC investigation soon. I'd definitely expect his actions to be illegal, although I'm not a lawyer.

Its probably going to be a slap on the wrist / a relatively small fine, but there's a proper dance to releasing information on the stock market to ensure everything is fair.
The Arthur C Clarke solution is "anisotropic matter" - walkways that are firm in the vertical direction but can flow in the horizontal axes, so that the same moving way can start slowly, accelerate to a high speed, and decelerate at the other end, all without any transitions.

Although, if we're making arguments about accessibility, I'm sure a more prosaic solution could be found that was no less accessible than just walking normally. But in any case, the usual approach is to have a scalable system for the 99% case, and then to provide an alternative that doesn't scale for the 1% who can't use the scalable solution - chairlifts etc.
I agree. In addition because Dart shared some superficial similarities with Java, some people just assumed it's Java and criticized the language for it. For example Dart variable declaration is of the form "String a" vs "var s:string" - the former syntax looks like Java so Dart must be Java. It certainly felt like people were willing to 'pile-on' criticism because they felt that JS ecosystem was threatened.

The language itself is very well designed and pleasurable to write code in.
Isn't Fuchsia going in this direction? Languages used there: C, C++, Rust, Go, Dart, Python and.. (I think that's about it), with Dart possibly mostly for the UI.
According to the rules [1] it seems Tesla should have initiated the T1 halt 10 minutes prior to that tweet...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trading_halt
Is it just me or do the first few paragraphs sound a bit desperate: “We’re relevant, really we are!”

Don’t get me wrong, there’s plenty of languages that haven’t set the world alight that are nonetheless being used by a fair few people to do worthwhile things.
I think he's implying that you would run an older, less iOS-ified version of MacOS on the Hackintosh.
You don't need to negotiate with the CDN.

Squid supports HTTPS caching, the TLS connection is terminated at the proxy and the client gets a cert from a locally trusted CA. This is not very trivial to configure but the Squid Wiki should get you through it.
Would extracting the data via a browser extension be in violation? It doesn't require making an in-memory copy of the HTML, since it's just navigating the HTML structure that has already been rendered by your browser, in the same way that your eyes (or a screen reader) must do to read the page.
I'm confused. What's the difference between outsourcing and automation in your mind? They are both driven by a desire to lower costs. Automation isn't yet "there" in terms of being able to implement a model/robot/system as effectively or cheaply as sending it to a lower labor cost country, but that's a temporary state of affairs. As soon as automating things is cheaper than paying low-cost labor, companies opt for automation. We've already seen this happen with manufacturing "coming back" to or staying in the US, when what actually comes back is highly automated factories with few blue collar jobs [1].

You seem to be arguing that the issues I brought up are tied only to globalization and outsourcing when they are, in fact, tied to underlying economics that strongly favors automation in the long run. Over the next 10-20 years as automation becomes cheaper and more practical, it makes sense that the same problems will accelerate, even as globalization and outsourcing decline.

[1] https://money.cnn.com/2016/12/08/news/companies/carrier-jobs...
I'm of the opinion that all knowledge is helpful. If you work at a startup, understanding the bigger picture of how it operates, where it fits in the market, and what all the roles and responsibilities for success may be can only help you.
His compensation from Tesla is based on the stock price.
Good on Tesla. Markets are fickle and not conjunctive to long term planning and investment
The information was disseminated to all parties at the same time and they weren't in a "dark" period. I know several people are upset given their bet but I don't see this being any different than some headline in an AP release. If anything, twitter is more immediate to the masses and there's no middleman.
I salute Musk for all his achievements. No question he has changed our world in more ways than one. But as the CEO of a public company he has a responsibility towards his shareholders many of whom continue to stand by him through thick and thin he has to be careful with what he says and the medium he chooses to say things that could effect his company. None of this would apply if he is not a CEO of a public company.
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As always, Betteridge's Law comes into play.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
What the hell kind of a company name is "Voatz"? Can you buy Voatz with Flooz and Beenz Bux?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flooz.com

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beenz.com
Many more billions have been spent by others trying to do these things and they have failed.
The Three-Body Problem and especially its follow up, The Dark Forest, explore this a bit. Great books to anyone interested in this kind of topic.

TLDR is that technology ramps to effectively infinite levels far faster than anyone can reach the nearest star. The only safe option, strategically, is to kill off any intelligent life you are capable of killing, lest the balance go the other way before you know it. And knowing that, no intelligent species should let itself be found.

Even if you accept the premise, a counter-argument could be that the only way to truly "win" the race would be to be the first one out the gate and ramp your resources to infinity. If a strategy requires an unknown condition to be true to win, you have to assume it's true as all other outcomes are a loss.

I've also heard it argued that any species that makes it that far will need to have overcome its violent impulses.

It's a lot of speculation, but interesting stuff.
Are you seriously suggesting that a censored search engine is "an opportunity to advance freedom"?
Honestly, I'm starting to think this is less about avoiding the public markets and more about getting out of the crushing debt (8.65 in liabilities comming due before the end of March 2019)that they have coming due in March of 2019.

The billion of debt coming due is convertible above a price of $360 and if he can keep the price propped up will almost certainly force all bond holders to convert into equity holders.

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4191711-tesla-stealth-capit...

I mean, think about this rationally, if it wasn't for the public markets Tesla would already be bankrupt. Going private means giving up this access to capital as well as having to come up with 9 Billion to fund debt commind due.

With stock you have something to bargain with when selling debt. Without it you've lost a huge weapon.

Same for paying your employee's. No more tesla stock that appreciates each quarter that you can sell as soon as it comes to you.

Also just did some digging on Tesla bonds and CDS...

At current levels, they imply a about a 30% chance of a Tesla default in the next five years. It costs around $1.3 million to insure $10 million of bonds against default.

And if Tesla went private and he funded it with debt he's looking at a rate somewhere around the low teens from what Bloomberg is reporting which means borrowing $58 Billion to finance this would cost aroudn $7.1 Billion a year in interest payments at 12.5%.

And keep in mind he's paying that to cut off public markets access for raising money, one of his best sources of cheap capital in the past 5 years.
Are you kidding me? He owns close to 20% of the company. How does this not benefit him?
Why you shouldn't build a Hackintosh: it's a pain in the ass, things will probably break after a major OSX update and the usability gap between OSX and Windows 10 has closed considerably over the past few years.
Startups actually care. You often see interest in their product/industry as one of requirements.

But large companies care much less. It's much more important for them to find a person who will be effective with their well defined processes.
Interesting. But I’m getting tired of hearing the misuse of “teaching” in regards to software engineering. Unless the software is using machine learning, i.e neural networks, it’s not teaching. Genetic algorithm? Evolving. Anything else, programming.
Is that supposed to discredit him? He started with nothing. Nor is simply having money anywhere near a guarantee of success in that industry.
> You mean like, a PS/2 keyboard or what are you on about?

I believe GP refers to the crapboards in the recent MacBook Pro lineup, which are amazingly bad. Also, IIRC Apple doesn't offer a real wired keyboard anymore.
I run into this all the time with Windows users switching to a Mac. I do a lot of training for new users when it comes to using Macs and the Windows users are always the worst when compared to people learning for the first time because Windows users always want to do it "the Windows way" and so they get frustrated when all their right clicking doesn't pan out. They bought a Mac because they were frustrated by Windows but then they expect their Mac to just be "Windows without the problems". They rarely are open to using the product differently than before and don't even consider that part of what's "better" is that you use it differently and think about it differently.

Case in point - I recently had a user who did all kinds of audio editing for foley sound effects and had organized them all into folders himself. When he switched to the Mac, we were using software that has a very iTunes-focused mentality and it imported all the sounds into a library. He could not get over the fact that everything was flat and that he couldn't view his folder structure and was so frustrated because he couldn't find anything. It took me days to get the point across to him that a library system was much more powerful than a strict hierarchy because he could tag sounds with multiple keywords instead of just relying on his memory to remember which folder he had put a particular clip in. It's now been about 6 months and he has converted so many people to the Mac just by showing them how he can search tags for "flute", "wood", and "horror" and get a listing instead of having to remember that it was in his "horror" folder and then inside the "flute" folder with some weirdly numbered filename.

It's so nice when the computer just gets out of the way and lets you worry about the work and not about futzing with everything in the background.
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There was an interesting comment on this in a recent government finance report. An owner of a company said, "I'm having trouble filling all my open roles". When asked, "Why not offer more money?", they said, "Because then I'd have to pay all my existing workers more too and I can't afford that. It's cheaper to just pay them all overtime".

So this could explain why they won't just pay more -- because some people are already willing to do the work at the current pay, and it's cheaper to have them work more.
I hope he pulls this off. It would be excellent if he could get out of the public company weeds, and get more brain bandwidth to focus on executing and solving problems.
There are two issues that are not generally considered, the first is that it may be that the normal size of intelligent beings is rather larger than humans. Secondly it might be that the size of the worlds that the live on is larger than the earth.

Bigger worlds will have bigger gravity and might have thicker atmospheres, possibly less deep though.

All of these factors would make space travel much harder, life support would be more difficult. take off harder (much) return to the surface much, much harder. So I think that even if civilisation is common space faring civilisation is going to be rare, and as we know even space faring civilisation doesn't approach interstellar civilisation.
Anything that blocks radio control or GPS.

The same things that defend against off-the-shelf radio airplane weapons - a risk that has spanned decades. A couple of dozen dollars and some foam core creates an equivalent risk (or greater, since it has a longer range due to being more efficient than multirotors).
Or they are true but we are the first to reach this technology level.
Thank you for checking facts and sharing citations.
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All: please don't do the superhero-vs-supervillain thing all over again. It's repetitive in the extreme, which makes it unsubstantive, which makes it off topic here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
So a company that wants you to pay them to build you a mobile website espouses the benefits of mobile websites. Can't really say I'm surprised. Is storage really the only real benefit they could think of? I mean apps are <75M and the smallest iPhone these days is 32G. Apps aren't being downloaded as often largely because the people aren't looking to install more things. If people aren't downloading your app they're not going to use your PWA either. App Stores have basically zero friction already and carry more far more trust than a site spamming them for an install.

Twitter is a great success story but it's not because they used a PWA but because they made their app better. Saying the reason you lost weight is because you became a vegetarian is a little misleading -- becoming vegetarian was just the excuse you had to revamp your diet. You're likely going to see a massive improvement in any app if you commit to a rewrite.
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Also chemistry, the chemistry of an atmosphere may screw up rocketry..
Why would you want to do that? DOM manipulation is what makes JS slow, not JS itself.