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Search for Alien Life Should Be a Fundamental Part of NASA, New Report Urges
"I would however love to see it on actual silicon."

Qty 1, but...
https://mobile.twitter.com/boom_cpu/status/10324470709283962...
I got my physical copy a few months ago, glad to see more people having access to this great resource now!
Top 10 Mistakes in Web Design (1996)
the usual term is superlatives for intensifiers like that.
There are thousands of engineers at Google/Facebook/etc making $350k/year or more while working 40-45 hour weeks. For a position where you're expected to dedicate your entire life to the job, nothing under a million would be "ludicrous".
While "even being in the same vicinity will be construed as harassment" is hyperbolic, there definitely is a sense that women expect men to divine whether or not they want to be asked out beforehand. The reality is that the only way to know if someone is interested is to ask them. Saying things like "read the signs" often just either discourages men from making any move at all, or emboldeneds men to make more socially unacceptable advances because they think they've read the signs.

I think this is a big part of why online dating is growing in prevalence. Why take the social risk of being labeled a "creep" when you can go to places where whether or not women are interested is determined upfront?
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18118206
I don't see how privacy and cryptocoins are related. Some cryptocoins can enable privacy, whereas some can make privacy more difficult. My question is if OP has a problem with the specifics of this cryptocoin or if they just dislike all cryptocoins.
MoPoP has one of the coolest Star trek exhibits! http://www.startrek.com/article/trek-exhibit-celebrates-new-...
What's Next for Instagram's Kevin Systrom? Flying Lessons
Teslas have a long-range radar on the front.
Multiple players along the chain could decide to vertically integrate. Although I used the example of high frequency traders, a better question which I should have asked is why hasn't someone dipped their toes into retail and HFT? It seems like someone would want to grab that land for themselves if it were particularly valuable, which the valuation of Robinhood purports. Considering some guys in that industry made this app, I don't think it's too far a stretch of the imagination for someone to believe that an industry player could have made that move.
GPL2 software can (so far [0]) be locked down via digital restrictions management. GPL3 software can be locked up by turning it into SaaS (software augmented w/ arbitrary surveillance).

Both phenomena are really the market finding ways to undermine the fundamental freedoms that the GPL aimed for.

IMHO rather than talking about "contributing back" I think a better standard is whether it's possible for an author to receive back a derivative of their own work yet be unable to modify it.

[0] I'd personally love to see some GPL2 holders of eg Linux start going after eg Tivo on the grounds that they have not included all of the tools used to customarily build and install the software.
Was it not possible to get the source modules themselves and actually record them at a higher bitrate?
Fidelity Subsidiary Will Trade and Store Crypto for Institutional Investors
“It's an experience I will never ever repeat. I work my 8 hours and go home.”
Completely off-topic, but it is intriguing me: why is this post remaining #1 on HN for some time if the post about Paul Allen has 3x more votes and is one hour younger. Both with an ordinary number of comments.

My assumptions about HN's algorithm seem to be way off
This is not hate or envy. There are other 1000 billionaires in the world and most have lived less lavish lifestyle than Allen and some probably even have done more on philanthropy. I don't get depressed when they die or even think of as big event. They spend massive amount of fortunes to stroke their ego and spend money on pointless stuff (golden toilets, anyone?) and then throw breadcrumbs to science. The entire sum of Allen's donations is known to be less than billion dollar. He has spent more on his yachts and fleet of luxury jets alone.
Oh, I see how it is. Black people we're never discriminated against in democracy, because they always had 1 vote per person. It is just that white people got an extra 0.66 every time.

I know it is hyperbole. But college admissions are zero sum games. Giving points to one person, is the same as taking those away from another.
I reported this four years ago with a patch at https://trac.nginx.org/nginx/ticket/642. Nobody seems to have noticed.
I do actually often think twice about accepting a state fund such as from the Saudis.

But then what about buying German cars, some of which were started by Hitler (such as VW)?
The last would definitely be a slam dunk case of discrimination. I guess they are not admitting to discriminating against asians (in favor of whites). How true is that? I dunno.
People say this all the time about Garland, but I'm as Democrat as anyone on this board (as the FEC site will ruefully attest this cycle) and I just kind of don't care. The Garland thing was by-the-book. The Republicans held the Senate. Obama couldn't get the votes to appoint. It's not like the Constitution is fuzzy about what happens when that happens.

Blocking all Supreme Court nominations was just good tactics. It is certainly one among many decisive factors that won the GOP the White House.
Because it is hugely expensive and problematic. These are the same driving factors that have US homes mostly made of wood while many other places insist on stone or masonry.
Are you insinuating conservatives are disproportionately creating fake news?

Silicon Valley's left wing bias is well established. There's no way companies like Facebook can censor impartially.
I can't speak to the broader state of the industry as you can. I don't know what the trends are.

I'm just not actually sure what problem ActiveRecord actually solves. If you don't want to write SQL and you're willing to live with a certain degree of inconsistency in your data, that's what NoSQL is for. If you actually want the benefits of a SQL database, ActiveRecord makes the easy things easy and the difficult things impossible unless you just give up and write SQL, which you could have just done in the first place and wouldn't have actually been that much harder.

It's entirely possible that everyone does the same thing that I did when I worked on Rails apps: manually add all the DB constraints the ActiveRecord documentation tries to talk you out of, write my own error handling code for when these constraints threw exceptions that ActiveRecord had no idea how to handle, liberally call 'connection.execute' or 'find_by_sql' when nothing I wanted to do cleanly fit into the ActiveRecord query interface, and so on. It's also entirely possible that some ORMs other than ActiveRecord does a much better job at these things, but I'm taking you at your word that AR is the best.
I’ve used sendgrid for a while but had issues with deliverability. Then I moved to postmarkapp [1] and have not had any issues so far.

1 - https://postmarkapp.com
> If we let these “fact checkers” control the narrative we’re sacrificing our own ability to critically judge things for ourselves.

Give me a break. We sacrificed our ability to critically judge things for ourselves the second we decided we're ok with algorithmic feeds and timelines. Adding fact checkers only changes some input variables - the net result is still that each social media user lives in a thought prison of their own design.
Can someone knowledgeable answer something: if the judgement goes against Harvard, would this apply to faculty and staff hires, too?

I recall in grad school being in an econ
Their last mainline title, Grand Theft Auto V, made $1 billion in three days [0], and much, much more over its lifetime, even ignoring its extremely profitable multiplayer mode (GTA Online).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto_V
Apple only added TLS 1.2 to their SecureTransport lib in OS X 10.9, which was released in late 2013. Not so old!
The Employer Surveillance State
> The authors of a 2017 study of vanished flying insects in Germany suggested other possible culprits, including pesticides and habitat loss. Arthropods around the globe also have to contend with pathogens and invasive species.
“It’s bewildering, and I’m scared to death that it’s actually death by a thousand cuts,” Wagner said. “One of the scariest parts about it is that we don’t have an obvious smoking gun here.”

I feel this is a good place to share a quote from a favorite author (Charles Eisenstein). His philosophy might be too New-Agey for some (the skeptics society at Google even protested his visit), but I think there's more than a little something to it:

"Clear-cutting aside, the decline of one after another species of trees all over the world is something of a mystery to scientists: in each case, there seems to be a different proximate culprit— a beetle, a fungus, etc. But why have they become susceptible? Acid rain leaching free aluminum from soil silicates? Ground-level ozone damaging leaves? Drought stress caused by deforestation elsewhere? Heat stress due to climate change? Understory damage due to deer overpopulation due to predator extermination? Exogenous insect species? Insect population surges due to the decline of certain bird species?

Or is it all of the above? Perhaps underneath all of these vectors of forest decline and climate instability is a more general principle that is inescapable. Everything I have mentioned stems from a kind of derangement in our own society. All come from the perception of separation from nature and from each other, upon which all our systems of money, technology, industry, and so forth are built. Each of these projects itself onto our own psyches as well. The ideology of control says that if we can only identify the “cause,” we can control climate change. Fine, but what if the cause is everything? Economy, politics, emissions, agriculture, medicine … all the way to religion, psychology, our basic stories through which we apprehend the world? We face then the futility of control and the necessity for transformation.

...

Thus I say that our revolution must go all the way to the bottom, all the way down to our basic understanding of self and world. We will not survive as a species through more of the same: better breeds of corn, better pesticides, the extension of control to the genetic and molecular level. We need to enter a fundamentally different story. That is why an activist will inevitably find herself working on the level of story. She will find that in addition to addressing immediate needs, even the most practical, hands-on actions are telling a story. They come from and contribute to a new Story of the World.
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Still not correct or fair to attribute statements by others to The Guardian!
Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?
1. That's just being pedantic. Just stick with what you said instead of trying worm out of it.

2. There's nothing emotionally charged about any of that. It's a pretty satirical take on the reality you attempted to present in your first post. IF that makes you uncomfortable then fix your statements being easily satirized.

3. That's not how arguments work, or even how law gets interpreted.

4. You can't really attempt to weaponize HN guidelines when the evidence that you in fact were not following them is visible for everyone to see. You were not respectful to me, to the community (by lying), and certainly not to anyone else who you don't agree with.

>Win it with your facts and logical process you claim to have but haven't yet expressed.

I did. This is the veneer I was referencing. You were in fact the person to reference having superior reasoning skills, but did nothing to demonstrate their presence or even mastery.
Wow, great write up. Excellent example of computer science fundamentals being used to tackle a novel problem.

I recently had to use the concept of table doubling to improve a system where rough estimation was being used to determine the size of a data structure. It certainly felt good to recall the concept of table doubling and design a system using it's concepts.
Blaming those making false attributions is the only way to correct those misattributions!
CMP 4.1-5.1 NVMe Drives
“These were also not shitty colleges – CMU, MIT, Duke, Cornell, Harvard, etc.”
I worked as a junior PM at Microsoft and eventually moved to Applied Science. My feel is that the junior PM role isn't necessarily needed & most tech organizations would benefit from a very small group of senior PMs. The junior PM role mostly involves syncing the dev team with the expectations of leadership which means you have to be good measuring dev progress (via scrums, task management, unblocking the dev team) and measuring product progress (via customer interactions, metric reviews, leadership review meetings).

The good qualities for such a role is to be a clear communicator and someone who gets shit done and doesn't work on pointless things.

However, I'd argue that anyone at any company should have these skills. I get that we're trying to make environments more amenable to introverts who don't necessarily want to be bothered with meetings and focus on code, but I also don't see how any pure non research organization can achieve this realistically. You're always going to be bombarded with requests to do all sorts of stuff, you'll have opinions about what's important and what isn't and you should be able to communicate it or else you'd be seriously mismanaging both your career and your product.
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Bump, actually. The other day was trying to transfer files and contact info and it's still an annoyance.
In posthumous message, Hawking says science under threat
I'm genuinely interested in how you think Paul Allen's untimely death should be discussed on HN. Do you think he's getting too much respect, with the HN black bar and the 1300+ upvotes? How much should his post-Microsoft accomplishments be negated enough by Microsoft's bad deeds?
People falsely accused are victims too, so these are not anti-victim sentiments. They are sentiments in favor of due process, fair trials, prosecution of perjury, and the concept of "innocent until proven guilty".

Maybe people have taken "To Kill A Mockingbird" to heart.
i'm not entirely unsympathetic to this argument, but i don't think it only applies to busy executives. there's a certain cruelty in expecting people to spend so much of their lives in a setting where it is prohibited (or at least very taboo) to look for love. especially so for engineer types who may not have the skills or energy to maintain a social life outside of work. unfortunately, i don't think our society is healthy enough to do this in a safe way.
That’s what I said I did, in the second paragraph. “Render” is the verb for going from a digital sequencer file to an analogue output (just like going from SVG to PNG is “rendering.”)
> despite the fact that the evidence and opinion is overwhelmingly in support of climate change being a real problem

I still can’t convince many of my left leaning friends we should be using nuclear power despite the clear risks we face from climate change.
It's infuriating because it's racist, not because it's any one school in particular
Once the SoftBank money stops flowing does the chamath described Ponzi scheme stop causing the whole thing Venture backed growth story to unravel?

Hmm, so should we call this sort of thing a "Ponzi Scheme" or a "money laundering scheme"? That is given that Softbank is a way to recycle the Saudi Billions while other schemes involve Russia oligarchs or Chinese money itching to leave it's homeland?
Personally, I feel it takes a certain kind of person to want to program. I never really understood this push to have everyone learn to code... maybe if just to get them to stop using their computers like a type writer and realize they're capable of more.
How is Wyze's compatibility? I was looking at the hardware however I couldn't determine if I could connect it to my NAS.
It looks as if ONVIF support isn't high on their priority list (see recent Reddit AMA)
The problem isn't a single engineer overriding protections.

According to the article they all knew about it, including other executives, and failed to report or discipline Levandowski.

They only fired him after he tried to recruit other employees, which demonstrates how exactly they prioritize safety versus profits.

They should not be allowed on the road, but not because of a single engineer, but because of their corporate culture.

edit: he wasn't fired, he quit.
Thanks for the tip! This is super interesting. We're experimenting with notch filters to block RGB. Is that what you're talking about here?
Depending what kind of thing you're interested in: Harper's, The Economist, Vanity Fair.
This is a device with a unique approach to mobile user experience, but there are literally no photos of the UI on the site.

Maybe the idea is that it feels like a phone, so you pull it from your pocket thanks to extreme smartphone muscle memory. You find your hands have selected a black glass slab that says "PA LM" in the middle, which is quite uninteresting, So you put it away. Distraction crisis averted.

(Kidding obviously, but nothing on the site says otherwise! Honestly I wrote my first mobile app for the Palm V and I would love for this to be a killer rebirth of the Palm brand. Guess we'll have to wait and see though!)
Is this ironic that it happened in a game that glorifies theft?
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I'm still confused. Are you saying that "Black Men" and "Men" are the same group?
Not surprising. Product managers are typically part of the Profit section of a company. Software engineers are a Cost, even though without them a company wouldn’t even get off the ground these days.
For what it's worth, I wear a respirator[1] when I take the subway. Some people may look at you, but I don't really care.

That being said, I recall reading an article where they said studied long term subway commuters and did not find health issues due to commuting.

Furthermore, you can apparently build an air filter for the fraction of the cost: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q45CkwKiOvw

[1] like the "3M Aura Particulate Respirator". There are also filter with activated charcoal
If anyone has one of these gorgeous machines (or knows someone that has one), please get in touch (email in profile). Through a very circuitous process I managed to score some of those 8" floppys Vogel made for the CMI in 1979 - would love to rip them for the Internet Archive and hear them in their original glory.
How do you become a senior dev if there are no junior devs?

A healthy company will maintain this pipeline, to keep fresh talent and fresh ideas coming in. Plus, getting down and dirty at the coalface is essential experience for a product manager.
but this is a comfortable lifestyle and I just keep on doing it. That does sound like an addiction, right?

I have similar traits that I am actively working to wear off. My only addictions are Twitter, Hacker News and Yahoo Finance. I spend at least 4 hours in a day flipping across these. I must admit Twitter is quite helpful because my feed is well curated. YF is a total waste of time - I don't know why I keep checking the stock prices when I know for a fact I won't sell anything. It satisfies some part of my brain to keep watching the tickers. What a fucking waste. Hacker News is useful too. What has helped me in the beginnings of my de-addiction is measuring how much time I am wasting and writing it down. It's kind of a slap in the face to get up in the morning and see that you wasted 4 hours the previous day.

I can't even talk to other people about it because everybody's noses are in their phones everywhere. Is that weird?

Perhaps hanging out at an old fashioned bar might not be bad. Not the ones with fancy music but the ones that remain somewhat rustic, where you can just have a beer and a random conversation.
The flaws of ETH seem to show daily. The fact that this is a necessity to keep ETH flowing is a bad sign of things to come.

Bitcoin not blockchain.
I'm not familiar with the Japanese system, but according to the library of congress report[1]:

According to gun-shop websites, although obtaining a gun-possession permit the first time is cumbersome, it is not difficult if one follows the requisite steps

Reading through the requirements the only thing which seems "elitist" is (maybe) that undischarged bankrupts can't own a gun. The rules seem pretty reasonable and sensible to me.

I'm interested why you think this is about two classes?

[1] www.loc.gov/law/help/firearms-control/japan.php
I feel like the only one who thinks this is kind of awesome. I want a small phone. As small as possible, that can still text and act as an LTE hotspot, with very basic browsing, and Spotify. I want that. The iPhone SE was perfect for me.
This is a terrible example to set. It's like taking a blow torch to a candle and boasting about the mess in the end. What's going wrong with the world's working hours? Add commute times to this and this is slavery.
Easy to abuse has nothing to do with it.

Positioning anyone to be an information filter is wrong.

Full stop.

This is totalitarianism 101. It doesn't matter if they're right or wrong. Freedom isn't predicated on moral superiority - it is the polar opposite. Freedom is exactly for those who are "wrong".

I cannot imagine a more dangerous position for Facebook to take.
I would, that's a great deal.
Kevin Systrom on what's wrong with social media
Surveying male funders, regarding their self-reported sexual behaviors and attitudes toward sexual expression, would be interesting as well. Are the same number of incidents reported by each gender? Why are men (mostly men) doing this? Have they experienced any feedback or consequences?
Did I mention "lying" was a part of it?
The reasons are not unknown. The vast majority of VCs are male, and the majority of known harassment incidents have involved male-on-female interactions. This is not to say that male-on-male and female-on-male harassment doesn't exist. But if this is one of the first surveys of its kind for YC, makes sense to design it around the population that currently seems to be the most affected.
The other important one, at least in the US, is unsubscribe/CAN-SPAM compliance [0]. You've got 10 days to comply or you'll be at risk of up to a $41k fine per email!

[0] https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/can...
And that capabilities model is one of the big differences in Pony and was the key to achieving Pony's parallel lock-free provably correct concurrency model.

Most lang/system capability models (including Go's) are open from the start -- where anyone can do anything -- and then when designing the lang/system you try to restrict access between some things at some of the time, but this gets messy fast and it's hard to get right and thus it's almost never optimal.

So rather than trying to start with an open model that's inherently flawed by definition, Pony flips the model on its head and begins from the perspective that everything is denied unless specified. You would say Pony has a deny-first capabilities model, which you can see explicitly defined here in Pony's capabilities matrix...

https://soyyomakesgames.wordpress.com/2016/10/10/ponys-capab...

And if you listen to Sylvan's talks, he is emphatic that solving the capabilities problem upfront was key that made everything else possible. All the other cool stuff you hear about in Pony like the provably correct runtime and finally achieving something approaching Hewitt's elusive Actor model that's been theoretically true for 40 years but never fully realized. Well the key to solving that mystery and unlocking the door was to take a new view on the capabilities model and building everything off that from the start.
Thanks, I basically did a brain dump on the README. I plan do do many more bounties like it in the future. Really glad it's made some traction.