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I think Musk sometimes does get too much credit, but the opposite -- that he deserves none and is a fraud -- is equally ridiculous.

Gwynne Shotwell deserves a lot of credit for leading SpaceX in its day-to-day operations. Without her I doubt it would be working as well. Everyone else on these teams also deserves a great deal of credit. They are teams, of course.

On SpaceX being government funded -- yes, that's true to an extent, though they have made a lot of money off private satellite launches too. The fact is that the entire aerospace industry has been deeply embedded with the military and other government agencies since its inception. It's a very heavily subsidized and regulated industry.

But team building and capital raising is a skill, and Musk seems good at it -- at least at the beginning. He's great at getting things off the ground (pun intended?) and breaking through barriers of technological learned helplessness. I do get the sense though that he's less of an effective leader as things get more established. Tesla's problems are too boring for him at this point.
I would say Delphi did it better, until VB 6.0 that is, but then again I am biased. :)
But it's good enough for ANTARES/KM3NET to see Cherenkov light, which I believe requires a dielectric medium.
One write per second, per key plus eventually consistent does limit the functionality a bit.

You're right for some use cases though.
Everything from Zillow to online property listings to Google StreetView to just the Web generally probably makes it hugely easier to get a feel for the market, find properties, and scout locations than when I bought my house. But, based on friends who have bought and sold relatively recently, I'm not sure the process of actually making a purchase is much easier or cheaper and that's where the stress really lies. (Well, that and just inflated property values in locations many consider prime.)
Well IMO Google has an unprecidented ubiquity and scale that out-performs all of the companies you listed (Search, Chrome, Android, Youtube). Even Facebook.

For Apple I'd like to see a source that backs up that claim because they're obviously not in the business of selling personal data.
What's missing is how not to do terrible outreach.

I help operate a blog with a fairly high domain authority that accepts guest posts.

Every morning I have to spend time mass-deleting guest posting requests that are just so bad there's not even a point in reading them. Poorly written but "customized" spam about how much the writer loves our site and why he or she thinks a listicle about online gambling would be a great fit for our audience. But the "legitimate" requests often don't look much better or different than the purely spam ones.
Sorry but I don't believe you own stocks... this just sounds too naive, like first advice any broker will give you NOT to do is to buy and keep for the sake of it:

> I have shares and you only lose money if you decide to sell the shares now

Many stocks went to near zero just to get de-listed next minute. Some of these fine folks that have played marked by your advice blew their head off in the process. Never assume stock will just rebounce; to the contrary before you execute a trade set a head ceiling (in most cases) and definitely set the floor that you going to play by strictly following it. This is indeed an advice any book on trading stock market will tell you.

I'm not gonna comment on the part about Musk being scammer or not. I don't want to change a subject all of sudden.
> the belief that Linux would be immune to this type of attack is naive at best.

Certainly not. The exploit depends on Windows-specific and Windows-only behavior[1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10039870
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I think we can thank Twitter for exposing this. When you can go to a journalist's twitter page and see their actual thoughts directly (opposed to heavily edited and curated through their media property), you can get a better sense of who they are.

What I found is that there's an enormous amount of group think and yes, sociopathic tendencies among journalists. They also tend to tweet a lot, like 30-40 times a day.

Ironically the archetypal example of this is Sarah Jeong and the New York Times. That they would publish this article about bias in their readership, while being obviously biased themselves pretty much sums up that whole sociopath thing...
Sure but which languages are still there to calculate fib(100) and which bailed out?
Musk continues to make very, very poor decisions, over this last year. If his decision-making for things like this are so poor, I can only imagine how poor his decisions are behind the scenes for things concerning Tesla itself.

I wonder what happened. My guess is that he must be on some sort of medication due to his battle with the Model 3. The tweet in question was inexplicable and I was very tempted to short the stock when I heard, but I didn’t want to bet against Musk. Now he seems mentally so fragile and his ability to lead Tesla is seriously in doubt.
Also worth noting that Manning has sales quite frequently.
I'm kind of amazed they were even able to record a video in a 1200 Tesla magnetic field.
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16 Intel Xeon E7 v4 processor sockets + 24TB RAM.

Amazon just announced these 8-socket Intel systems: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180927005961/en/AWS...
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You see that lock icon in your browser's url bar? If you see that, then you're using an encrypted connection, and your browser was able to verify that the site's SSL certificate is valid and is signed by at least one trusted Certificate Authority. You can click on it to get more information about the certificate, which CA or CAs its signed by, how long it'll be valid for, etc.

If the firmware on your router is replaced by a malicious program, then it could intercept all SSL connections and handle them itself. However, it will not be able to present a valid certificate, signed by a real Certificate Authority. Thus the lock icon will show as broken, and you'll know that something is wrong.

Note that in a corporate setting, it's not unheard of for an employer to add itself as a trusted Certificate Authority on your work computer. This allows them to intercept all encrypted SSL traffic and also have the lock icon not be broken. Of course there's absolutely nothing wrong with this, because your employer is perfectly trustworthy and would never betray you or spy on you.
No. The point of switching out a password field for a text field is to prevent the browser from warning about the existence of a password field on a non-HTTPs secured page. This is a well known, and old trick.
Protonmail is not located in the same jurisdiction as SEC, besides all they could eventually get is encrypted garbage.
Is it realistic to presume that space debris orbiting around the earth will only ever get worse, or will it effectively remain the same to some degree of consistency?

Or is it more of a thing that it only becomes more of a noticeable problem for us as humans when we are affected. Meaning that the only reason we have a problem with it now as opposed to some previous timespan is that we are sending more and more objects/satellites/etc into orbit and they are being damaged/destroyed/affected, so we therefore write about it and try and come up with ways to stop it?
Who will sue the SEC for causing the stock to plumet due to this lawsuit? :x
If you mean "In the old days it used to be better", which I think you did, "golden age fallacy" is pretty close. I'm reading your argument that way because what you actually typed is simply that there have been changes, but there have been changes, pretty obviously, so I assume you didn't mean change in the generic sense.

I attribute a lot of the belief that the past was an intellectual wonderland to the fact that in the past, only intellectuals had a chance to communicate over the mechanisms that were both widespread and lasting. There is a extremely effectual selection process on what has survived to be seen by us as we look back in time that biases us to see a more intellectual, positive time. As communication became cheaper, more and more people become involved, and inevitably that pulled the center away from the extreme intellectual center that it occupied before, by sheer regression to the mean.

But there is one relevant change. Even fairly recently you could go online and hear people cite the idea that an argument is separate from the arguer, and that it's a fallacy to attack the arguer. That's no longer accepted by any culture I'm aware of, up to and including academic culture which has wholeheartedly embraced the idea of attacking the arguer and discrediting them at the most fundamental levels they possibly can. There's hardly even anybody paying lip service to the idea, except a few people who haven't realized that time has passed them by and a few diehard idealists. (Like me, who still thinks it's a basic foundation of anything worthy of being called "intellectual". But I recognize that my belief in that statement doesn't make it something that exists in the real world.) There was a time when I could debate things on the Internet, and if insulted, other people would cite the principle and ignore the insults. Now making unpopular arguments carries real risks of being the target of an Internet mob, and every argument is unpopular with a lot of people. Yes, that is a real change that has happened.

You could argue that had this level of easy communication existed in any previous era, the same result would have obtained. I'd be down with arguing that humans fundamentally lack the ability to intellectually debate things at this scale and mob mentality would have been inevitable in any time in history where such technology was introduced and that there is nothing necessarily special about today's people. But it is a change that has occurred in the past 20 years for sure. Posting controversial opinions online has always required a certain amount of fortitude for the resulting responses, but there was never a mechanism that allowed the responses to magnify into a feedback loop so large that it could cost you your job or more.
To put another spin on it:

In Australia, at $56 for 40 grams of loose tobacco at Coles, the 170 grams or so he smoked would cost ~$240/week in 2018. If you added a pint at the pub per day at city prices that’s another $70/week.

That’s $16000/year and would buy you a lot of books.

(This comparison for amusement purposes only... sin taxes seem to have increased much faster than inflation!).
I like them, saves me lots of time to have the answer in one spot instead of having to search through lots of pages. Show them some love!

I wonder why people here dislike them so much, is a mystery to me. I also try to answer old questions when the answer in stackoverflow was no good (this way I don't have to fear the mighty editors)
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Context: The POTUS broadcasted the gif. Afterward, CNN claimed to have found the original creator, who CNN had kept anonymous but reserved the right to de-anonymize them if circumstances warranted.
You work for Cloudflare so that's a fun question but realistically there are still plenty of limitations. The script size, number of routes, KV consistency, write limits, and simple get/put API, etc.

It can work for simple apps but there's a long way to go before any serious enterprise system will be hosted entirely on a FaaS system like Workers.
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Making something legal now doesn't mean you didn't commit a crime before. They may wipe records clean but there is no guarantee.

And I suppose most of the records are not just the result of simple consumption. It probably involved trafficking or maybe DUI, which will continue being illegal.
Hi everybody

I built QuickNote mostly for fun and to learn the Serverless architecture*
However, I actually found myself using it more and more so I decided to open it to the public.

My main pain point was that of sharing quick notes with people online (like links, images, snippets of text) but not wanting to create a Google Doc or EverNote note and change the sharing settings.

In short, QuickNote allows anybody to create a quick note and share it online.
No signup, no payment, no sharing configurations. Nothing.
Just go to https://quicknote.io, create your note (add images, videos, bullet points, etc) and share it with the world in a few seconds.

Here are some examples:
> Code sharing: https://quicknote.io/56d8a010-c2fa-11e8-8b1e-dd72d0895237

> With image: https://quicknote.io/f1e02010-c2fa-11e8-8b1e-dd72d0895237

> Simple text with links: https://quicknote.io/55e80910-c2fb-11e8-8b1e-dd72d0895237

PS: Shout out to the fine people at WIP who made me change my mind about using the original name "OneNote"!

Enjoy and let me know if you have any question or feedback!

* For the nerds: the frontend is a static React app hosted on S3, the backend is simply 2 AWS Lambda functions. It scales infinitely and it's super fast (< 100ms to load). 2 Million notes/month would cost me ~$5.
Where do you think the billions come from?
I wonder how often the more serious crime wouldn't have been charged had the drugs not let to it? For example, carrying a firearm isn't necessarily illegal, but carrying a firearm and weed in a place where weed is illegal is most likely a separate, non-drug charge like "carrying a firearm during the commission of a crime". Also how many non-drug arrests would have never happened if the officer hadn't been able to manufacture reasonable suspicion by simply saying, "I smell weed".
you can't strap N cpus together and get the same performance as a single fast CPU unless you have problems that map well to that. It's cost effective for intel or AMD to throw multiple cores on a die, but less effective to put multiple sockets on a motherboard as the motherboard now needs a bunch of expensive traces between all the sockets to handle the communication which is required to parallelize algorithms.

It's just not cost-effective. And you can buy dual socket machines- they start around $2K which is about 4X the cost that a consumer wants to pay.
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I presumed most existing co.uk owners simply moved to the far simpler, more memorable .uk TLD, ditching their old domains along the way. I know I did.
Or use normal method names chosen by the class author like for example Ruby and many other languages. In the case of the standard library it's easy to be consistent. I concede that in any other case it can be hard or impossible.

About self, it's so strange to define a method with 2 arguments and call it with only one. Not only it's strange, it feels the opposite of being explicit. Most other languages manage to do without that self (Java, Ruby).

I run into another oddity today. Yesterday if forgot about

a = 0
if not a:
print("like in C")
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Because there are many popular desktop options for Linux that don't use ext4 and non-encrypted as their default?
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Google were not as "evil" when Larry Page and Sergey Brin were in charge. Nowadays, the moral standard is very low.
My wife interviewed then... She was an Admin Assistant for a CEO of a fairly large pharmaceutical company in the bay area. They asked her what she wanted to do and she responded she would and could perform quite well as an admin asst. They they said, "no, what do you want to do?" I think they were asking about pottery or saving whales or whatever. My wife didn't get it; nor the job. If only she could have said "Chase Rainbows". sigh (edit: words)
Anyone know how these behaviors are passed on from parent to child?
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The article doesn't address this, but the 15 years in question are actually 1996-2010. The city attorney's motion doesn't explain why, though it implies that the motion covers all cases prosecuted by that office.
> I'm not selectively picking anything.

That's definitely why you're hanging out on a website built for armchair intellectuals. There's definitely no bias on the selection of people who visit and comment here. /s
Because people change.

Who you were last year is not who you are now.
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As an ex-devops/infra guy, every day I'm ecstatic I don't have to wrangle k8s. These are not attributes of production infrastructure tooling. My hat is off to all of you in the trenches.
Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18092660
"Achieving things"? What things?
I'm surprised how swiftly the SEC is moving, could they really build a strong case that quickly?
Throwaway account, Vox Day propaganda, check check.
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I don't think the argument is erroneous. From talking to people who grew up before the Web became mainstream, they said that since your social circle was typically neighbors and colleagues, there was much more incentive to be civil because you were going to see those same people almost every day. Once the Web became popular with the mainstream, people started to form ideological bubbles because now you could pick your social circle, causing people to grow accustomed to everyone agreeing with them. Once in their echo chamber, they don't need to defend any of their beliefs, causing them to lose the ability to have civil disagreements with people they disagree with, and they don't need to, because they can just stay in their bubble and surround themselves with thousands of people who all think the same thing.
> namecheap

I got a free domain with Github student pack from Namecheap. Just my personal experience, the person I talked to seemed very helpful and kind. However, the multiple rounds of talking to a real person to register a domain makes me think they don't have nearly enough automation which is a red flag.
A recent study has shown that removal of malaria carrying mosquitoes is unlikely to affect our ecosystem [0].

> Lead author Dr Tilly Collins, from the Centre for Environmental Policy at Imperial, said: “As adults, An. gambiae mosquitoes are small, hard to catch, most mobile at night and not very juicy, so they are not a rewarding prey for both insect and vertebrate predators. Many do eat them -- sometimes accidentally -- but there is no evidence that they are a big or vital part of the diet of any other animal.

> “There is one curious jumping spider known as ‘the vampire spider’ that lives in homes around the shores of Lake Victoria and does have a fondness for female blood-fed mosquitoes. Resting blood-fed females are easy and more nutritious prey as they digest their blood meal, but this spider will readily eat other available mosquito species as opportunity arises.”

[0] https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/187427/removing-malariacarry...
Add to it changes in what schools teach and what tests measure. Changes in who is included in those tests against 70 years before (was 16 years old drop out tested 70 years ago? pregnant teenager?).
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That they would publish this article about bias in their readership, while being obviously biased themselves pretty much sums up that whole sociopath thing...

By the best interpretation of this statement, it is highly confused as to what sociopathy is, and may be harmful in its belief that normal human cognitive biases are signs of mentally ill behavior. It makes total sense that people would have inconsistent metrics applied to themselves vs to others. It's normal human psychology.
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> Musk reportedly refused to sign the deal because he felt that by settling he would not be truthful to himself, and he wouldn't have been able to live with the idea that he agreed to accept a settlement and any blemish associated with that, the sources said.

What is he even thinking here? The evidence seems pretty clear that he did not have funding or investors secured at the time of the $420 tweet — judging by the unprepared and panicked reaction of his investors and executives an hour afterwards. Is Musk claiming that he truly did have funding secured despite all external evidence to the contrary?

I really hope this won’t also be his mentality for fighting the libel suit.
It was the conditions of reserved the right to de-anonymize them if circumstances warranted that made CNN look bad.
If they'd shoot me for speeding I'd do less of it.
Oh man, James Raven was my History tutor at university. How weird to meet him again here on HN!
"Resource" (Merriam-Webster), definition 1c: "a natural feature or phenomenon that enhances the quality of human life".

I would say silence does indeed meet this definition.
As a woodworker, this is one of my prime reasons for still liking inches. Of course, fractional inches are kind of terrible once you get past 16ths, but, that's what decimal inches are for!

(As an aside, one of the great mistakes of standard measurements IMO is that we reduce all our fraction. the alternating 1/2,33/66,17/32,35/64,9/16, etc is awful. We could have just kept everything in 64ths and then just used the numerator.)
I agree with all you said, except this one:

> they violate the commutative, associative and distributive laws of the relational algebra

I follow the idea of relational set, but implementing a relational language (http://tablam.org, alpha btw) I see why bags surely are better. Is not a mistake rdbms take it. Make everything sets demand more memory and runtime costs. You need to couple a index or pay O(N) for each mutation and get only a few upsides.

If exist a way around this, truly I wanna know.

However, exist another reason for what sets are wrong (as being default) them fail to cover the most simple and yet more powerful capability of the relational model: Model data.

Is posible to argue than [a, 1; b, 1] must be a set and order not mater. But [a, 1] & [b, 1] are both relations, right? also are [a, b] & [1, 1]. Is wrong to make [1, 1] to [1] just to get a math purity.[1, 1] is valid. Say that duplicates are wrong is non-sense. Also say that "order not matter" is non-sense too.

Ironically, the solution for this? add another column just to keep thins as set.
Sounds like a case of "elite bias" that crops up in history naturally. Previously mostly the far end of the bell curve would be the only ones you tended to hear about because they were the ones writing stuff down in detail. Roman graffiti while insightful doesn't tell you much more than humanity doesn't change much when it is just some guy boasting about his sexual conquests or insulting his neighbor. Not good for telling you who is in charge or how good a job they did.

The noneducated got largely forgotten because they left little trace. Go to a retirement home and ask about what they did for a living and how much education they had - you will find a very high percentage without even a high school diploma - and that is the recent enough that they are still alive past.

Look at the internet - when it was just universities everyone was more technically knowledgeable but now that it is widespread and accessible there is a broader range. That doesn't mean that technical adeptness is going down.
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