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A lot of his ideas are full of holes:

Hyperloop: See all of the problems here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNFesa01llk

Boring company: summary of issues here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBtL3qDvdZc

SpaceX: How will we fund the amount of rocket fuel required to get the stuff to Mars that can produce an atmosphere? If producing an atmosphere isn't required, then how will indoor atmosphere be maintained sustainably (financially)? Matt Damon's math didn't seem to work out in that movie...

Tesla: So far so good, but what about battery recycling?
“We are at the very beginning in energy storage in general,” says Phil Hermann, chief energy engineer at Panasonic Eco Solutions. “Most of the projects currently going on are either demo projects or learning experiences for the utilities. There is very little direct commercial stuff going on. “Elon Musk is out there saying you can do things now that the rest of us are hearing and going, ‘really?’ We wish we could but it’s not really possible yet.”
https://www.theguardian.com/vital-signs/2015/jun/10/tesla-ba...

SolarCity: Just look at the customer reviews so far:
https://news.energysage.com/solarcity-complaints-what-homeow...

I would urge Mr Musk to focus on Batteries & long-term Tesla ownership. It would be a shame for that not to work out!

I hope this comment lasts for 5 years :)
IRL tracking is quite prevalent

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/mar/03/revealed-faci...

And it's not just high end retailers
https://twitter.com/GambleLee/status/862307447276544000/phot...
For sure, but the GDPR only applies to interactions with EU residents while they are in the EU.

People on vacation away from the EU or emigrants are not covered.
A rough calculation of how much it'd hurt (or not): Atmospheric pressure is 10.1N/cm^2, or 0.1N/mm^2. The hole is 2mm diameter, or ~3mm^2 in area, so the force over that area would be ~0.3N or roughly 30 grams.

It's not a lot of force. I'd be more worried about my skin sublimating, however.
It does make a difference especially to a beginner or a child. You might not have admin privileges at your school or your friends may not be able to install those tools so you can't show your work.

But you can hack away on any computer with a browser.
I've been thinking this for ages!

Makes me really angry when I think that the guests will receive great reviews from some faceless agency who never even interacted with them, whereas we as residents have to suffer for their behaviour.
I agree, and watching larger families in my community (where my three kids is a "small" family), it's obvious that older siblings take a significant role in helping the younger. That said, the demeanor of kids matters a lot, as my oldest (teenager) is significantly more of a challenge than my other two. She by herself takes more energy than the other two combined.
No, it actually is a problem. It has to be stored for millennia, and in a way that does not leak/contaminate surroundings (including ground water). Very little technology /materials can meet those requirements[0], and the current situation is a damn mess[1].

0. http://www.nwtrb.gov/docs/default-source/reports/synopsis-of...

1. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/05/0...
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There are a great many of these that are 1BD/650 sq ft size condos and apartments that would otherwise be occupied by locals, at market rental rate for standard 12-month lease terms. But the owners of the condos are renting them out on AirBNB.

Or people are renting apartments for $1700/mo from absentee owners, and then illegally subletting them for less than 30-day terms on AirBNB and running the sublet as a business.
People use AirBnB not just for the price. I've used it before to get a more authentic experience when traveling. The places generally vary a lot more in capacity (IE not just 2-4 per room). For a family with smaller children, renting out a small apartment for a weekend is much nicer than a tiny hotel room on the nth floor of some homogeneous building. I think many hotels can't compete because they cannot provide the variety of options that AirBnB provides.
We're following a very similar philosophy of bootstrapping a set of businesses we're working on [1].

reasons are :

1. we want to stay flexible and put out a variety of businesses that might not be similar except in that we're leveraging our skills to build them. From my experience in venture funded startups - once you take funding for that business - radically changing direction or adding unrelated businesses seems impractical.

2. we want to keep full control and ownership - so that if an opportunity arises to sell the business we can do it with minimal hassle.

4. we're skeptical of our own ability to raise vc; and worried about all that that exercise entails - especially the potential distractions.

[1] "Yukon Data Solutions" is our first; we have a few other analytics related businesses in the pipeline; but also, interestingly some direct to consumer products that sort of fall into the "fashion" category.
What you're missing is that pay is not based entirely on merit, productivity or any objective measure. A significant fraction of pay is based on social status in the org, and programmers are on the lowest bar as far as that goes.
We’d have to look at numbers to argue this objectively, but I highly doubt that a tourist spending 1-2 weeks a year in a city will yield more revenue to the local government than a resident living there 365 days a year.
> How will we avoid making a leading 'Does the user have permissions?

You don't avoid it, you do it. Gathering simple user info including permissions should be the first step at the request boundary and it can traverse the life of the request. If you foolishly use a stateless token to read permissions, you're gonna be annoyed when changes you make don't take effect immediately. I trust your seniors know this (of course different situations and caveats apply, but this is referring to the general approach).
Do you have any references for your assertions about "best run and safest nuclear plants in the world"?

Management of the plant does not discount the safety concerns with the plant location and design, of which there are many critics [1]

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diablo_Canyon_earthquake_vulne...
Either raise more funding or have technical cofounders who stay technical? You are essentially asking how they can compete with money against competitors with more money. And the answer is that they should focus on culture/flexibility/equity as you mentioned. Especially culture and flexibility, since for small orgs these can easily be set from the top. Allowing fully remote working is a great move because it allows you to widen your talent pool and potentially pay less (at least less than Bay Area market rate)
Property taxes are certainly the mechanism by which wealth transfers from residents to public schools. They're a mechanism by which wealth transfers away from private schools.

But more relevantly, they are not a mechanism by which wealth transfers from residents into academic outcomes. It is non-controversial that wealth is correlated with academic outcomes, but it's not at all obvious that there is a causative link between them. Increasing the amount of money a school has does not in general improve the academic outcomes achieved by the students at those schools.
you don't need the -F do you? unless I'm missing something you're saying about less
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This is so true. My monkey brain cannot deal with the onslaught of cortisol triggering events.
There's obviously an inequality problem between races in America but why don't we just provide affirmative action to low income people of all races? It could be as simple as boosting the chances of admission for all low income applicants by 5%. Just because systematic racism has lead to the oppression of black people in the country doesn't mean that race is the only factor we can look at to encourage diversity.
I'm a fan of a notebook and a pen.
Some examples:

Schools with more special needs (In the literal sense) students will perform worse on standardized tests. They also need bigger budgets, because they need more staff, to support those special needs students.

Schools with more students coming from troubled homes will perform worse on standardized tests (Because not only do those students score badly, many of them disrupt their classes, causing problems for other students.) The common solutions are smaller class sizes, more administrative staff, more money spent on dealing with damage to school property, more money spent on on-site security, etc.

Being a teacher to 30 kids is hard. Being a teacher to 30 kids, and a parent to 10, and a cop to 5 is maddening.

These school districts that are spending more money, and performing poorly... Usually aren't pissing it away on serving caviar on Thursdays, and filet mignon on Fridays in the cafeteria, or on sending the Grade 5 class to Disneyland, or on buying the principal a Porche.
Agreed, I wouldn't consider doing a full day interview, unless I was looking to relocate and wanted to fit the whole process into a single day. As a regular job offer, it's absurd.
Ask HN: Book recommendation for math behind formal verification in software?
I'm very interested in that field, unfortunately, the math part pretty much escapes me.

The long term goal is to be able to use Coq or Isabelle to prove some small piece of software.
that's an old idea
It's not just a lack of housing. Airbnb is changing neighborhoods by creating increased demand for vacation friendly activities and turning some areas into an effective full time weekend. It's taking popular neighborhoods like the Mission in SF or Williamsburg in Brooklyn or the Gothic quarter in Barcelona and turning them into 365 day a year tourist parties. Any neighborhood with a reputation for being hip, having art, music, bars etc. is now half populated by Airbnb guests at all times.
Assuming those states want to sell power to CA. I suppose they would if CA is willing to pay for it.
A lot of tourism is also cheaper because of cheap airfares/lowish fuel prices. Probably Airbnb can also make traveling a bit cheaper for those who use it. Economies of many of the countries in which and from which people travel a lot are fairly strong.

>Travel is the new materialism.

Maybe? I know there is the whole experiences over things mantra. Maybe that's in play. On the other hand, maybe there's less interest in big McMansions but the apartment/condo in a lot of major cities is--as can be seen in other comments--pretty expensive by historical patterns. If tourism were down instead, we'd be hearing arguments that young people who have fewer other obligations aren't traveling because they have no money.

In any case, I have trouble seeing tourism as a particular source of the world's problems.
No clue, I just wanted to point out what they meant by using the "revolutionary" rhetoric.
Indeed. Very well played.
There's a tendency in many fields to take a piece of jargon specific to that field and insist that non-members of that field also use it the same way. Forming jargon is healthy in a field but trying to enforce it outside the field isn't. A biologist who tries to correct you when you talk about an octopus having tentacles is wrong to do so. And a critical race theorist correcting you when you say that James Strom Thurmond was racist is equally wrong.
For a quick order of magnitude comparison, taking SF as an example - as near I can find, there are somewhere between 5k and 10k airbnb listings in the whole bay area. But to be very conservative let's assume 10k and assume they're all in SF itself.

Well between 2010 and 2015 SF added 150k more jobs than housing units. Meaning to get back to 2010 levels of affodability SF would have to add on the order of 150k more housing units (and that has probably grown even worse in the past 3 years since 2015).

Airbnb is unfortunately just a drop in the bucket.
Military industrial complex for the win.

In all seriousness, at least they aren’t putting more peaceful drug users in prison to make their money.

That’s a much bigger problem IMHO than overspending on an obsolete airplane.
That pretty much sums up the endgame with Anti-access Area Denial (A2/AD) strategy:

https://www.sto.nato.int/SitePages/newsitem.aspx?ID=3546
Going to space probably would've taken a lot longer if there were a ton of legacy low quality low-Earth orbit spacecraft floating all over that we first had to upgrade or remove.
> but man seeing 2045 is always a little dismaying as I wish we could be even more aggressive

CARB thinks like this, and it has been a disaster for some people. It takes time to write policy that makes any sense, and to develop the infrastructure (including web pages, etc.) to make things work correctly. Ultimately, what you end up with is a torrent of Californians escaping to Texas and Florida because their profession has been written out of existence on an "accelerated schedule", with no grandfathering. One particularly ironic testimony on the effect of CARB policies was given by a school bus maintenance overseer, who recounts that (due to CARB policy), they end up actively regenerating their diesel particulate filters (which only regenerate in transit with sustained engine load, because they otherwise don't get hot enough) right next to the school (they don't have the budget for separate facilities), effectively releasing finer versions of the particulates the filters are designed to capture directly into the atmosphere of the schools, rather than distributed over the sprawling neighborhoods they serve.
So maybe have 2 tests. A second one that is harder and spreads students out more. I was just questioning the value of a test that 'normalizes' student scores having no distribution at the top end.
> and requires at least a coordinated national response.

The federal government has proven for at least the past decade that they are incapable of delivering a coordinated national response.
I run the same thing and have zero complaints. The only app I've found that actually requires Google services to start is YouTube.

A lot of other apps pops up a dialog saying they need Google services but then work perfectly without it. I'm not a android Dev but it's almost like that behavior is default even if the developer doesn't use any of Google services?
Because I weigh my need to have a home higher than someone else's desire to be a tourist. I don't want my entire life subjugated to international market forces. Shocking doctrine, I'm sure.
I think a lot of devs are over the asset pipeline. Recently I built a small app where front-end performance really wasn't a concern. I stuck all of the assets in /public and called it a day. I also think you'll see more Rails apps using package.json and webpack for assets management.

As for the scripts section of package.json, that's typically managed via rake tasks, that can be listed via rake -T.
It depends on your threat model.

You pair your phone and browser and then they can talk. Any time you want to log in through that browser it can talk to your phone and auth you automatically. For someone to exploit this, they'd need access to the computer with your browser.

So if your laptop gets stolen, yes this is a bad idea, but I think most people think that they can just revoke the browser's keys if if the laptop gets stolen and they are way more likely to have their phone stolen anyway.
My impression reading the article was that the primary problem is affordability and AirBNB units competing for housing space. The remainder, about the problems of tourism in general, seem like a pro/con situation that has always been an issue in popular tourist destinations, and AirBNB is just the latest highly visible participant in it. It seems likely that AirBNB has helped make tourism more popular, but that trend was already going strong before AirBNB and probably would be without it as well.
Brexit prompts surge in Brits signing up to learn languages online
"Harvard does not discriminate against applicants from any group, and will continue to vigorously defend the legal right of every college and university to consider race as one factor among many in college admissions"

translation:
"We don't discriminate, but we discriminate."

How can somebody write something that stupid?
I am fully comfortable with that (not parent though) and have even done so on several occasions.

You do realize we can detect contamination by radioactive elements in quatities many orders of magnitude lower than could conceivably cause any harm right?

On the other hand, I live in Europe and our local government has yet to produce a complete environment monitoring fail such as the Flint incident in the USA.
You dont necessarily have to give a board seat to get funding. Some VC would happily accept that.
Luckily for me acceptable where I work.

Nice deal for everyone: they get access to a larger pool of potential employees. I get to live where I want.

And I make sure I only write the hours I actually work while commuting. (Right now I'm reading HN instead.)
It’s called wage compression and is seen in many fields. I agree it’s somewhat perplexing, though.
There's not many people that can say that their finger was in "direct contact" with space.
Believe it or not, I got reverse catfished by a faceless global megacorp, during the hiring process. I interviewed with half real people, half Skype interviews, and it turned out all my co-workers were the ones on Skype.

It never entered my mind that they would do something like that to me. They certainly didn’t tell me it would be that way. Being on the other end of a nonstop video chat is like living a lie somewhere inbetween telemarketer and infomercial goon.

As a developer, I could not code with a constant video feed of remote assholes chiming in for more bullshit. I quit in a matter of weeks, and I’d do it again, the same thing, every time.
Actually, if you read to the bottom of the discussion [0] you'll see that it was fixed, and FF respects the Do Not Track setting.

In addition, they negotiated with google special terms for their analytics. This is the description [1] and this is the resulting options they got [2].

[0] https://github.com/mozilla/addons-frontend/issues/2785#issue...

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=697436#c14

[2] https://bug697436.bmoattachments.org/attachment.cgi?id=73207...
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Are you saying that as a company grows larger its business model becomes MORE precarious such that they can no longer afford experimentation or optimization of any kind?
How do renegotiate prices when Microsoft is not your only customer? Just increase the prices on Microsoft or on all your customers to pay for these benefits?
No, but then again neither is "Sitting Bull".

English wasn't common in pre-Columbian America.
would you be disappointed if you had 95% clean energy in 2035?
E.g. you change the other part of the battery. "Air breathing" LiO batteries could reach energy densities in the ballpark of other chemical fuels. I think lab demo cells are around 5MJ/kg nowadays.
Traditional chemical fuels have high energy density because we don't include the oxidizer, since it's readily available in the air.
Any time you stuff a lot of potential energy into a small space with a low threshold for release you're making something dangerous...
We don't want CATOBAR, using STOV(R)L aircraft is cheaper in the long run.
But it’s a horrible POC. It’s not solving any serious mass transit problem. No, the Boring company exists to solve Musk’s “I don’t want to share space with other people” problem.

The real problem with The Boring Company is the fact that anyone takes it seriously as a form of mass transit. The damn idea is crowding out real solutions while we indulge Musk’s pipe dream.
Grindr announces IPO plan
Personally I think it is more a matter of quality than quantity with news. I stopped watching news over a decade or so ago because I could tell that it became vaucous space filling. Instead of covering events in depth they beat a topic to death with speculation and dropped it by the time it had an actual resolution. It was abundantly clear they were trying to avoid any real journalism as it would take work which costs money.

I find news worth it as read and more in depth to the point it is more history say covering the hysteria over the VCR or past moral panics. Which I suppose sort of agrees with the article's point - seeking insights instead of ephemera.

The ephemera is relevant however if one is involved with activism in some way even if it is just to donate twenty dollars to the defense of someone subject to some injustice.
Chamapesa puts Kenyans and their social savings on the blockchain
I feel like they'll take a little anti-freezer burn over suffocation.

If only they had an inanimate carbon rod to block the hole!
Oh my zsh, powerlevel9k theme, iterm2 if you are on a mac.
Politicians generally tend to choose deadlines that are beyond their terms. They get the approval of their voting base today without actually having to do much of anything to reach the goal itself.

I'm reminded of Bush calling for the US to return to the moon by 2020 -- a proposal Obama quietly nixed.

I'd much rather we say, "We're going to increase renewables by X% every year, starting now, to reach the goal of 100% renewables by 2045."
A full day interview is standard. You grant that it's standard, right in the first sentence of your post. But you'll tell anyone who offers you a standard interview to take a hike?

This is symptomatic of a broader problem with HN comment threads on "how to interview" articles: for any given approach to interviewing, the top comment will be a middle-brow dismissal saying, "I would never interview at a place that interviewed that way." For all X.

I would never interview at a place that does whiteboarding. I would never interview at a place that gave me a take-home assignment. I would never interview at a place that asked me to pair-program on a real assignment during the interview (I should get paid for that). I would never interview at a place that asked me to work as contract-to-hire. I would never interview at a place that used HackerRank. I would never interview at a place that looks at Github profiles. I would never interview with a recruiting firm. I would never interview if contacted by a recruiter (instead of the hiring manager).

And apparently some people would refuse to interview at a place that asked you to talk to half a dozen of your potential teammates before offering you the job.

There's just no good approach.
I was a high school teacher for half a decade (not exactly veteran status, I know) and I've kind of soured on the very concept of education. Both affirmative action and the general push for increased funding suffer from the same fundamental flaw of "fostering opportunity." Even if every last student in the US were educated to the point of genius, at the end of the day they'd still be let loose in an economy where wealth is derived from ownership, not brainpower. Devoting so many resources towards ensuring everybody is as intelligent as Bill Gates is a fool's errand when only a sliver of a sliver can ever be Bill Gates.

The sentiments that drive these initiatives are generally progressive. I don't doubt that most people involved in AA and educational reform ultimately want to ensure material security for every student in the country. The problem lies in attempting to do so through a rigged framework. It would be nice if this energy were redirected towards guaranteeing material security directly through class-conscious mass politics, without regard for that middleman "opportunity."
Putin would not look bad in Char Aznable's helmet.