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Programmer (among other things) here, and I have seen exactly this attitude among a not-so-small minority of those around me.

Sometimes I get the feeling (when often confronted with the whole 'everyone should earn to code' idea) that there is some articulated and unconscious ideological drive that dictates that we have finally invented a language can completely control all alternative, that is, that we're looking for a real version of the ancient memetic constructs from Stephenson's Snow Crash and that somehow the logic and linear bias of computer code makes it impossible for some so-called postmodern programmer to emerge, or something. [I also think about this when I hear computer majors complain that programming language classes should be count in place of foreign language ones.]
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Also the shorts try to push the stock down via endless false rumors (there are real challenges to tesla of course) about bad cars, crashes, fires, etc, and those false rumors must prevent some people who just don't have time for so much drama from looking into them.
They never said that they would release the Mac Pro next year (2018) they said “not this year” (2017). From the link you posted...

These next-gen Mac Pros and pro displays “will not ship this year”. (I hope that means “next year”, but all Apple said was “not this year”.) In the meantime
I think my cheap choice of wireless charger is to blame; I'll have to try this out again with something more legitimate.
The small upside of this is that maybe Musk will be convinced to settle the libel suit that was announced yesterday [0]. For the suit filed in the UK, the max loss would be ~$400K (unless it goes to trial and he ends up paying Vern Unsworth's legal costs), and it would spare us the sad spectacle of Musk trying to prove that Unsworth is a pedo.

[0] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/cave-rescuer-su...
You can't really push your children into liking things. They are humans just like everyone else.

The best thing I can suggest is let them observe and watch your work. Setup the computer in a shared space with a large monitor so they can watch. If they see you having a fun time with the computer, they will naturally become curious.

If they come to you with questions, guide them and provide resources. Don't push.

Good luck...
Well we do know that Tor usage shot up after Snowden's revelations

https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2015/5/186025-privacy-behavio...

https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/tor-usage-doubles-snowden-ns...
No, it's not killdozer, but thank you for the reply.
> He then went and taunted short sellers on Twitter when the stock went up in response to his tweet.

Source? I legitimately haven't seen this.

> Also I don't believe his intent matter for criminal liability in market manipulation.

I'm not saying it does. Where did I say it does? I don't understand why I keep getting this response.
Probably DeLorean's attempt to traffic cocaine in order to keep the company afloat:

> On October 19, 1982, DeLorean was charged by the U.S. government with trafficking cocaine following a videotaped sting operation in which he was recorded by undercover federal agents agreeing to bankroll a cocaine smuggling operation. The FBI set him up with more than 59 pounds (27 kg) of cocaine (worth about US$6.5 million) in a hotel near Los Angeles International Airport after arriving from New York, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation stated DeLorean was the "financier" to help the financially declining company in a scheme to sell 220 lb (100 kg), with an estimated value of US$24 million.
This.

I'm sick of people giving high-profile people in the tech sector a pass on their shitty behaviour because of the pervasive hero-worship culture. Jobs, Zuck, Torvalds, etc.

Irrespective of Musk "caring too much" or whatever other justification his fans have concocted, this is exactly the sort of behaviour (lying to manipulate the market) we have laws to prohibit.

We see articles every so often about how Tech as an industry needs to play catch up on the Ethics side of things. Now's the chance.
> That telegraphs a pretty lenient stance on misstatements that aren't completely fabricated

American commercial law goes out of its way to avoid criminalizing stupidity. At a certain level, the difference between a genius and a madman is the genius was correct. They are indifferentiable without the benefit of hindsight.

The nail in Elon's coffin (or lack thereof) will probably revolve around the degree to which he documented his animus towards short sellers in the days leading up to the misstatement.
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Well, my employer makes a kit pretty much designed to excite kids about programming - the Harry Potter Wand Coding Kit: https://kano.me/store/us/products/coding-wand
> … to play with the bokeh depth of field f-stops, you have to use an iPhone XS because it depends on the A12’s Neural Engine. An iMac Pro has a more powerful CPU than an iPhone XS, but it doesn’t have a Neural Engine, and the bokeh effect depends upon it.

This doesn't bode well for anyone who cares about being able to manipulate their photos without being too tied into Apple's ecosystem.

I hope that Adobe and the developers of other photo editing programs manage to reverse engineer this.
Not to mention the lawsuit for calling that diver in Thailand a pedo.

Right or wrong (the dude certainly seems not to be a pedo), Musk is the ceo of a currently near-failing company unable to produce and deliver cars as promised. And a defamation suit is what he's spending his time on? I'd be livid were I an employee.
> modern cars seem more anti-pedestrian.

Pedestrian safety is a big consideration with modern cars, as it's a legal requirement in most countries. Most of the homogeneity in modern car design is due to these regulations -- low hoodlines are rare because there needs to be a buffer between the engine and the hood; the hood can't extend all the way to the grill because the edge causes excessive injuries; and the front ends of cars have a weird bulge because pedestrians struck should be tossed to the side of the car to prevent them from being run over.

That's not even getting into automatic braking systems or backup cameras.

In contrast, a 65 Toronado looks designed to cause the maximum amount of damage to any person you run over.
After reading both to some extent (but Schopenhauer in great depth), IMHO Nietzsche is just wanna-be Schopenhauer. He even admits this in an essay dedicated to Schopenhauer IIRC!

He was a weird person, just like the article portraits him to be. He might have been unstable mentally, to say the least.

Not sure if he was in a position to tell others how to live.

He kinda reminds me of Weininger; I mentally group them together as "awkward philosophers with some insane ideas masquerading as deep thoughts" even though he was technically a philologist.
Seriously? Non Competes for Janitors and Baristas?

At what point do we call this what it is: bullying.
It's not that they'd fall apart, it's the fact that you have to retain a lawyer to get a new job. Sure, you'll win eventually, but at what cost?
If it was mostly turn key, how’d he do such a bad job? I’m mostly at that point with my business and am aiming to “fool-proof” operations so looking for things I may be overlooking.
Intent matters enormously in US criminal law.
I also grew up in the suburbs in the 1980s, both in Florida (more rural northwest) and Illinois (Chicago suburbs). The suburbs of my youth don't exist anymore; certainly not the ones I actually lived in. The streets are far more dangerous because cars drive faster and they seem to be more reckless (e.g. idiot kids or grumpy adults racing down the block in cars that outperform sport cars from 20 years prior). I used to regularly walk 2 miles to high school (when I slept late and missed the bus), a portion of which required walking on the side of a main thoroughfare without a sidewalk. Cars today drive 50mph or 60mph on that road whereas they once drove 30mph. I wouldn't walk that route as an adult today, and sure as heck wouldn't let a kid walk it regularly.

They do exist in some places. I've seen them and have visited friends living there. Cul de sacs in subdivisions still on the city periphery, predominately Mormon neighborhoods in Utah where people expect kids to dart into the street, or tony gated communities. But they're just not as common. And in any event, even when they can, kids these days don't spend much time outdoors. In places where I did (and kids still can) spend all day roaming around in the woods or riding their bikes across town, today's kids spend all day playing video games or chatting online. Even if I my kid chose to hang outside, he'd be playing alone much of the time.

As someone else mentioned on HN a couple of years ago, you can optimize for a kids ability to play in the streets when he's < 10 years old. Or you can optimize for a 10+ year old to have the freedom to get around an entire city by himself. These days you can't have both, unfortunately, whereas once upon a time the city offered both (when kids could play in the street because drivers and cars were less threatening).

Times are different. I don't dislike the suburbs, I just don't think they're sustainable. Most often suburbs deteriorate quickly within a decade or two. The qualities that make them livable disappear once they're subsumed by a new ring of suburbs, bringing increased cross traffic and a new generation of childless homeowners.
There's a big difference between thinking or saying "I know what I'm doing and there is no risk," when you're clueless, and saying "We are facing a known unknown and have to take a risk." For one thing, if the blowhard eventually comes across the real answer he'll ignore it because he thinks he already understands the situation.
>Also, do you have something against using the letter y for the "kit" vowel? I've never seen spellings like "simmetry" or "metonimy" before in any dialect. (Honest question.)

Only typos, sorry, corrected.

>Is it so unbelievable that wealthy people might have met once and exchange phone numbers? What use would Berkshire Hathaway be for him? He wanted advice from Buffett directly, not some other person, nor the company as an entity.

Not at all unbelievable, actually very probable, I was only pointing out how you didn't use the metonymy in your Tim Cook example.
> Words mean things. That's how we communicate.

Yes, but words are often nuanced and ambiguous. It's why we have an entire legal system to interpret exactly what "words" mean.
Ask HN: Who wants to reform IP law?
The patent system is broken. The copyright system is broken. IP law is less urgent but also less politically charged than other issues, and the internet has enabled more people than ever to become would-be beneficiaries of a well functioning IP system. Furthermore, the fault lines of this issue cross party lines, so the goal of bipartisan consensus, while lofty, is not outlandish.

Let's reform IP law! Surely there's enough collective intelligence, interest, and clout at Hacker News to give us a reasonable chance of accomplishing this if we put our heads together. The world will be better for it. Who’s in?
Interesting. Wonder why there's someone above complaining about how much of a PITA it is.
Actually, "According to the FBI, affinity fraud crimes are especially prevalent in Utah." https://fox13now.com/2017/12/20/fbi-warns-lds-church-members...
Nope, he never said so. He used the word "considering" - to interpret that to mean it's a done deal is stupid, and all the risk you take is your own.
Perhaps you are thinking of California? This is certainly true in California, but I've seen non-competes enforced in the tech sector elsewhere in the US (Seattle, Utah, etc).
It's super interesting to watch the reaction of the US blogosphere to EU laws. I feel like I'm learning a lot about US culture just by observing the general attitude that seems to be coalescing against things like GDPR. I used to think that I'd been pretty well indoctrinated into the US value system, despite being born in the EU, just by virtue of having most of my influences (movies, the internet) having come from there. But seeing how much different my attitude is towards all these laws, compared to articles like this one, totally gives me a whole new source of specific little value updates I aught to make if I want to escape from a mindset I suspect isn't optimal in the current economic climate (an EU-based one), to one that is (i.e. an american attitude to things).
I'm betting the janitors don't actually work for them, but for a contractor.
I could take your comment as either a dig at me or at Elon. I can see how either is applicable(and valid). I think I can just add that if I screw up on Twitter, there would not be the same consequences to a business or shareholders that Elon may face, but obviously it is not my place to tell him or anyone else they are doing it wrong.
I lost a job due to one. This was in NY. I had signed the offer and the new company's counsel withdrew the offer because of my current employer.
I seriously hope that through this Elon Musk learns that he's not an expert at everything and sometimes he needs to shut up and listen, but I doubt it.

If he can't weasel his way out of this, I imagine he'll continue to spiral and lash-out... all this because he just can't shut up.
And the "losing" scenario is a WTO ruling like Antigua and Barbuda where China is directly permitted to ignore US copyrights and patents from trade disputes.
I thought the whole point of legislation is that it should be left to reasonable interpretation. Trying to be exacting just leads to a race to how many loopholes we can find (and we will find them), and now you get a scenario where the law only applies to you if you cannot afford a sufficiently good lawyer.
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In my network of friends, which is within the EU and comprised entirely of EU citizens and spans multiple EU tech companies from dinky startups to Giant Unicorn, GDPR has been almost universally approved. We had to implement it, and generally feel better for having done so. The Giant Unicorn employees were dismayed by how little time they were given for such a giant task, but were in support of the law.

Everybody is completely and 100% against the copyright law.

There is a huge difference between the two from my point of view:

GDPR is not a law about "The Internet", it is a law about company records. It applies to Google, but it also applies to the Pakistani food stand on the corner. It affects Google a lot more, sure. I support the concept that a company does not have some inherent right to be a steward of my personal data without my explicit consent. GDPR is also easy enough for even tiny startups to comply with, and is significantly easier for small companies than large ones. It does not create a large barrier to entry for new startups or a rift between the existing small and large companies.

The copyright law, however, is a law about The Internet. It controls how businesses interact with the internet. It sets _technical_ restrictions on how they can do so. It sets technical restrictions that are probably not even feasible, at that. It absolutely does create a huge barrier to entry for small companies, and could possibly enshrine the existing tech giants into de-facto monopolies (I mean, if they aren't already...)

The copyright directive is horrible enough on its own. I don't see why everyone is in a rush to pull in mentions of GDPR to make it seem "worse". For a lot of us, it weakens the argument instead of strengthening it. Not everyone likes GDPR, obviously, but we can _all_ agree that the copyright law is garbage.
Nobody is at a loss having read none of them.
I say this as a person that has read some of them (probably majority of them, too)
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Facebook also backs a lot of "women in tech" stuff, why aren't they being sued for that instead, given that it's explicitly sexist?
> Musk tweeted in an effort to destroy the shorts

Is there any evidence that this was his intent? How do you know that he didn't actually intend to take the company private?
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Yes, but it is relatively small amount of revenue. Even with the new 10% tariffs on extra $200B, China tariffs in total will be less than 3% of federal government revenue.
Oh yeah only nuts given we are in Python land. It's kind of like if some super advanced alien artefact landed on Earth. It would appear as magic incongruent with reality. Thats Python and almost anything thats expressive. God forbid your brain can imagine something beyond simple statements.
I can't do much, but offer a memory; don't forget to thank tim berners lee for his support of DRM in HTML.

https://www.w3.org/blog/2017/02/on-eme-in-html5/
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This is certainly false, and a lot of that comment is completely incoherent.

Per the original Harvard Med rules, brain death for beating-heart donors couldn't even be declared without 24 hours of ventilated observation of the patient.

Per DCI Donor Services (a large organ donation org), brain-dead patients today are regularly ventilators for several days while maintaining transplant-worthy status. The minimum turnaround for a donor is about 12 hours from brain death, since a full disease screen takes around 8 hours. And the maximum turnaround time after removal for even the shortest-lived organs like lungs is 4+ hours.

Possibly the commenter is trying to say that patients who enter unventilated brain death will cease to be viable donors within two hours? But that position is even more incoherent; the problem with unventilated brain death is that it promptly becomes cardiac death also.
Long is short-hand for anyone benefiting from the price of the stock rising. This includes people who own the stock outright, have bought on credit, own call options, have sold put options, etc.
Even Portland and Eugene love to boast how bicycle friendly they are, but neither are really commutable by anything besides a car for most people. Which is why most cyclists are so prolific -- it's hard to be a cyclist by circumstance. Riding your bike inherently comes with crossing a dozen intersections beaming with cars that treat you like you don't belong on the road.

A solution is to level the planes of separation between types of traffic in urban areas. With pedestrians closer to cars the cars have to go slower by nature. It's antithetical to the common logic and current policy of building walking paths completely separate from roads and all of the businesses attached to them.
> What there is not though, is an enormous shortage of software developer applicants.

I can't speak to the software side, but in IT there is a deluge of applicants. Lots of folks retraining, or coming in with 2 years of online ITT Tech-knockoff training. On the mid-to-high level that stratifies very quickly -- once we started filtering by (verified) CCNP/CCIEs/other certs the pool of legit applicants shrank greatly, but there was still a lot of noise.

Anecdote from when I did hiring: we needed 1-2 network engineers, low-to-mid-level and posted on craigslist, plus went through a couple headhunters we've worked with. Engineer needed to be in Atlanta, NC, DC, or Philly (though we did consider NYC-based folks in a couple cases). We posted CL ads in those cities 4 cities (not in NYC) and mentioned that we were in the entry-to-mid-level range.

We got something like 600 applications in the first day, couple thousand before the end of the week. Many were from far away from those cities, including several from overseas. Several applicants were clearly under-qualified, though I was surprised to see the number of overqualified folks, easily 30-40 applications; 7-10+ years and related degrees and certs. We didn't hire the overqualified people -- some looked too good to be true, others we worried about jumping ship quickly or being difficult to manage -- but it definitely threw me for a loop. IIRC we settled for a CCNA with a Big State 4-year degree who had the lowest salary requirements; he stayed on for about 2.5-3 years.
I disagree with the EU about their copyright legislation, but applaud their attempts at increasing privacy.

What I find odd about the conversation around EU internet legislation is the idea that "The Internet" is a single entity that has some kind of natural state, and further that natural state is for all information to be free and to be a place where anyone can say anything (or should be able to). I think this grows out of the American origins of the Internet, and the American concept of free speech.

But other countries have different views of how free speech should be. Should you be able to deny the holocaust? Should you be able to purchase unlimited political ads? Should you be able to spread misinformation? Americans tend to say yes, because the truth will sort itself out. I'm not going to make a judgement on whether that's true, but it is true that other societies make different judgements on where to draw the line on freedom of expression, and those countries have a right to implement those decisions for their people on the Internet just as much as Americans have a right to have wild-west style freedom of expression.

Oh, also, before someone straw-mans me, I'm not talking about repressive regimes. I'm talking about societies where the populace is making informed decisions about their leaders, and have collectively decided they draw the line on expression in a different place than Americans do.
The part where the FBI set their sights on John DeLorean at the same time the company was trying to raise money to stay alive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeLorean_Motor_Company#Downtur...

If Tesla goes down because of this there will be a striking similarity.
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Yes. There was no income tax for the majority of US history, and tariffs were a major source of revenue for the government back then.
Effectiveness is not "good leadership". He may have been very effective, but he fucked people over, probably gave people PTSD, treated others with disdain, etc. I know some people see the Elon Musks and Steve Jobs' of the world and think they're awesome and effective, but it's a net negative for the organizations they are a part of due to the human cost.
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Imagine a private company with ballistic missiles and submarines...

I was musing the other day that Elon Musk may be planning to run for president. Why? Well, if there's one thing that 2016 showed us, it's that the road to the White House runs through snubbing Wall Street, calling the press a bunch of boring liars, accusing your opponents of pedophilia, making bizarre incoherent tweet storms in the middle of the night, and bragging about the size of your rocket.
A square mile is way more than needed. it is 640 acres. My parents recently retired out to a small farm in Missouri with 60 acres. With even 1/5th of that you would not have to see or hear neighbors. And assuming everyone around you has an equal amount, that is quite a buffer.
The problem they were trying to solve was a lack of transparency about what's happening with our data.

Now, I thought I was reasonably engaged on this topic and I thought GDPR was overreach. I also thought I was reasonably careful about giving out my data (sign up to very little, don't use FB etc).

That was until I started to get all the GDPR popups and read about all the places my data was being shipped to. Holy crap I was naive. I've done a 180 on this now and am a buyer. It would have been great in legislation wasn't required but I'm fully onboard with it being needed.