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Interesting. As an informal evaluations of the premise of the top comment in this thread I read your bio. I am posting the comment and your bio here for other interested individuals:

The comment:

>I know two people on the “30 under 30” list. Both of them are incredibly charismatic and charming in person. Their Instagram and Twitter accounts churn out constant brand building material. They both have pseudo-startups with noble causes and vibrant websites. Their startups have a list of impressive advisers, including B-list senators and industry executives. However, neither of them have made any progress on building an actual business. One of them has supposedly been developing the same simple product for almost 7 years now, but they’ve never been able to produce even a proof of concept prototype. I thought I was missing something for the longest time, until I let go of the idea that they were really trying to build a company. They’re not. They’re building their personal brand, and succeeding wildly thanks to publications like the “30 under 30” list that have an insatiable appetite for underdog success stories. Surely some of these companies are legitimately successful with great business models, but they’re mixed into these lists with the brand builders who know how to game the system. I’d be interested in reading an honest “Where are they now” follow up series that checks in with these founders at the 5-year mark after they make this list to see who the real successes are.

And your bio:

>Tyler Menezes is the Executive Director at SRND, where he works to increase diverse Computer Science enrollment across North America by inspiring underrepresented students to give coding a try. Born in Canada but raised in the Pacific Northwest, he briefly attended the University of Washington before dropping out to start a Y Combinator and venture-backed social video startup in 2011. This, combined with stints working in machine learning at Microsoft Research and as a programmer at several Seattle startups, led to his work finding data-driven solutions to increasing CS diversity and enrollment since 2014. In his free time, Tyler helps run the Projects in CS class at Garfield High School, and organizes the public speaking event Ignite Seattle.
We are in the same exact place inside. I'm glad I'm not the only one. I don't have a divorce or a child or anything hanging over me like that.

How old are you?
For comparison:

Marissa Mayer spent $2.3B - $2.8B on 53 acquisitions in 3 years to make Yahoo into a MaVeNS (Mobile Video Native Social) company. It didn't work because the core revenue engine just didn't flystart.

Mark Zuckerberg spent ~$30B on ~70 acquisitions in 8 years to keep Facebook a social platform through photos, chatting, and VR and he's been successful at it because the core revenue engine keeps it all going.
What really needs to stop is the fanboi narrative of "I drive my glorious Tesla like that (and damn the compriomises) so YOU BETTER LOVE IT TOO, AAARGGGHHHH!!!!!!"

If it works for your roadtrips, great. For mine it doesn't, and anyone telling me that I should enjoy spending an hour in some crummy location in the middle of nowhere waiting for the thing to charge (but only to 80%, or your battery will lose capacity!) are probably the same people who enjoy Elon's fart jokes.
Seems like a good move. Better than deleting.

First thing I do when I see "more replies" is click on it, knowing this is where the juicy stuff or counter argument is.

Like in HN, when it says [dead], I have to read it, to see whether I agree with it being [dead] or not ;-)

So there is certainly psychology there, at least to me, that makes me dig further. By hiding stuff behind a click you actually make me want to read it more!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ICYxBuS2iw looks like a pretty elementary introduction
If an API requires that I re-check the docs to remind me of something simple like whether or not the source or destination comes first, the API is bad.

This isn't about removing flexibility, it's about helping people to avoid making easy mistakes that could be prevented.
Your advice here is very dangerous and people would be breaking numerous laws if they followed it.
No, the main thrust of the original point is that Tesla's actions may not be illegal, because some laws don't apply.

And my comment addresses that.

Instead, it would be nit picking to say "well, actually, some laws do apply, and since you said all laws accidentally, that makes you wrong!".

In reality, whatever actions the Tesla car in question did, might not be illegal because some laws might not apply.

The original point, that maybe the Tesla car didn't do anything illegal, could be true.
Reading the name I thought it be a way you could directly reply to a tweet without it being such a public matter, and also gunking up my timelinem but it seems to be a way to self-moderate your own posts which is... interesting.
As Felix Denis said, give people an office with a door. Also, keep meetings to a minimum.
electric ducted fan RC models easily reach 100+ miles/hour. 10 minutes instead of 2, yet without all the really impossible to overcome in modern conditions hassle of artillery. While full VTOL on launch may be a bit much, tilting the ducts on return landing without payload you can even possibly have a smooth low speed safe landing/recovery.
Loved Mondo 2000 as a teen but some of it has aged terribly... really terribly. To see an example do a search for: mondo 2000 R.U. a Cyberpunk?

Even with that, the art design was absolutely amazing and is still a joy to view. Early issues of Wired had some pretty edgy (and often nearly unreadable) design too. Not Mondo 2000 level but certainly reflective of the tech culture of the time. I suspect that some of the advertisements in early issues of Wired weren't for real companies but were fakes to make the magazine appear more popular with advertisers than it was starting out. Anyone remember ads for a company named Origin (not the makers of Ultima and Wing Commander) that didn't seem to have a product?

IMHO, Wired peaked with the Neal Stephenson Hacker Tourist issue. Perhaps what they've become is simply a reflection of the world now and tech's place in it.
>But because it is a Tesla you are dismissing all the issues and sell it as the best car ever. This wouldn't fly with any other car. If you spent 50k$ on a Audi with poor quality you would probably complain about it.

Nobody wants to look like they pissed their money away so popular expensive stuff gets the benefit of the doubt whether it deserves it or not. For example:

When your Tesla has a shitty interface it's your fault for being too dumb to use it right. When your BMW makes you go through one too many menus to change the GPS routing preferences it's the Germans over-complicating things.

When your S10 snaps in half it's a piece of shit. When your Tacoma snaps in half it's the government's fault for salting the road

When you break a Harbor Freight wrench the wrench sucks. When you break a Snap On you were abusing it.

When the server misunderstands what you said at a 5-star restaurant its your fault for not being clear. When the server at the burger joint does it they're an idiot.

When something is spilled at Whole Foods they haven't cleaned it up yet. When something is spilled at Walmart it's because the store is a dump.

When someone breaks into your car in SF it's because they need to feed their family. When someone's breaks into your car in Buffalo it's because Buffalo is too dysfunctional to control crime.

I'm generalizing a bit here with these examples but you get the point.
The C.A.A are covering all costs to hotels. Mainly through the ATOL fund. The CAA have already reached out to those hotels who have been kicking people out.

So no, it’simply not true that any Greek hotel will be left out of pocket from this.
I think it's safe to say ~80% of the women are attracted to ~20% of the men (physically fit, financially solvent, pleasant personality).
I think you're missing the point... It's people who have not even used the product that I'm talking about here.
Akin to those who claimed that the iPhone is stupid because it lacked a QWERTY keyboard. History have proven all of those people wrong and Apple changed the entire smartphone industry...
>stop the madness of centralizing the wealth among founders and investors, and distribute it to the workers.

This seemed to imply that the investors would take less of a stake.

Are they adverse to funding employee owned enterprises? I've never looked into it.

Maybe they think that companies with dictatorial management are more effective at competing?

For the record, having been a founder, I agree that equity tends to be overly concentrated with the founders.
Thanks, that's helpful!

Regarding locking the database rows, I'm a little unclear about how that helps? Is the idea that once a record has been migrated from mongo to RDBMS you want to lock the data in the latter so that no-one accidentally updates the record in the RDBMS and not in Mongo? And therefore Mongo remains the definite source of truth?
GIMP? Chromium? Even as a decade-long gimp user: I absolutely hope not. There is a huuuge difference between GNU/Linux (of which, 32/64-bit and architecture are of course considerations) and packages. I certainly hope they aren’t handicapping the phone by enabling bloated cruft trying to keep up with this crap.

...before the downvotes: I literally use each of these daily with the exception of blender...

Edit: you want to install your own WM without messing with DE? Good luck to you, is nothing good enough? This is the first step toward freedom since the bad guys won!
Fwiw, the nearby airport, XNA¹, opened in 1998 largely to replace FYV as the facility for commercial service. FYV was a crap airport from a pilot/dispatch perspective and flights often were cancelled when the the weather was below minimums; a frequent event².

As the destination airport for both Wal-Mart execs and vendors seeking an audience, FYV was a huge headache for all involved.

Curiously, XNA had its own problems when in 2011 runway degredation was found, so a temporary one was built while the main runway was torn down and re-slabbed. What a PITA.

¹—at the time of its opening it was nicknamed the "eXtra Nice Airport" as a cute promotional blurb and as a handy mnemonic for its unique IATA code.

²—legend has it that in its initial planning phase the surveyor for the siting of FYV died prior to making a final recommendation; "luckily, " they found on his maps a big red X and assumed that would have been his recommended location. So, rather than contract another surveyor and incur more expense & delay, they just went with that and built it there. However, when the airport opened, the frequently fickle weather there with subsequent disruptions to service led those in the know to acknowledge that the "big red X" must have meant, "this site is completely ruled out." Oops.
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It'll probably be a bit lower pay than you're used to, but the work is quite interesting, and you'll get to learn from a strong engineering leader & team culture.

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Especially high level radioactive waste which is some of the only stuff you might care enough about to worry about a "permanent" solution. The existing nuclear payloads are either RTGs or occasionally fresh fuel that is only lightly radioactive compared to high level waste.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bikeshedding
My anecdotal experience is that the "younger and cuter" crowd has moved on to Instagram, or even Snapchat. Many more options in social media than 12 years ago.
Ok, great. I get it, privacy. But there are murderers that could be caught, that would likely reoffend...
In JavaScript you can simply use the logical or operator

x || y
Not that ridiculous. Google likely knows better than any one developer how much to charge to maximise revenue, in the same way that Airbnb knows best what homes will rent for. Lots of hosts defer to Airbnb's recommended price.

Of course, Google has an incentive to maximise total Play Store revenue, so their incentives don't line up with any individual developer. But I can definitely imagine a world in which almost everyone just allows Google to manage their pricing.
You have stumbled upon the iron triangle of interviewing software developers.
> and that means looking more like Java than Lisp.

No.

(No (No (No (No (No)))))
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Blockers are not always obvious.

People don't always realize that their tasks is blocking someone else.

Often times when engineers are blocked, they work on a lower priority tasks while they wait. Sometimes that is a good thing but other times they get off track.

Spending 10 minutes every day resolving the communication and prioritization mismatches early helps deliver software faster.

With just weekly meetings, these issues could go unresolved for days.
there's also a short story "love is the plan, the plan is death" that deals with similar themes (from an alien perspective)
In the dot-com days Yahoo was $100B val. When Marissa took over it was hovering around $40B val. In the end Yahoo is priced out at $4.83B.

WeWork's $40B+ IPO val and the $4B+ re-val parellels Yahoo's Icarus story.

How does Marissa using Yahoo's $30MM in a sweetheart deal to pay a 16 yo kid in Oxford for his news summary mobile app any more "tech" than a $12MM investment in a Spanish engineering company making artificial waves.

Lol all of this is an indictment of how the last 10 years has been a crazy run.
Great non-driving features.Not going to complain about Tesla making my car continuously better, but I was hoping to see, "Autopilot now does more".
Is that it though? I mean, I get the appeal of torque but there's more to cars than a straight line pull.
But don't you think the real power (AGI) will come when merging these deep approaches with logic and probability, sort of where deep probabilistic programming seems to be heading, albeit slowly?

I find deep learning models like this one are trying to do too much in a single "step" or module.
TM3 owner here. I agree completely that there is a level of hype around Tesla akin to Apple, and along with that comes a polarized audience. I can't change your mind, but I'll provide my anecdotal experience. In our objective search of fully electric vehicles, the model 3 stood alone for us on the 3 most important things in our case, with awd, 310 miles of range, and a mature fast-charging network. On top of that, in our experience, the fit, finish, tight acceleration/deceleration, low center of gravity and polar moment of inertia, and pure joy of driving make it the best car we've owned, EV or not. In our opinion it beats out not only EVs but all cars in the 50k price range.

Add to the above the following positives, and you can get an idea why model 3 owners might be ok dealing with a few negatives.

self driving features, ota updates, top safety ratings, pre-cool/heat interior (and now defrost with v10) from app, regenerative braking for one pedal driving, brake pads last longer, low maint costs, lowering overall tco
This might be phone OS specific. I have an iPhone and the latest iOS13 update seems to have fixed this.
Congrats to Kyle and the team. Been using Gatsby in prod for nearly a year now (v1 then migrated to v2), the team is super helpful and responsive to feedback and issues.

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So where is your line? I'm sure there are murderers who could be caught by suspicion-less, warrantless home searches, too.
>The value of these websites for law enforcement was highlighted last year when Joseph DeAngelo was charged with a series of rapes and murders that had occurred decades earlier. Investigators tracked down the suspect, dubbed the Golden State Killer, by uploading a DNA profile from a crime scene to a public ancestry website, identifying distant relatives, then using traditional genealogy and other information to narrow their search. The approach has led to arrests in at least 60 cold cases around the country.

It seems like a pretty big loss if these types of cases cannot be solved in the future.
I seem like that adds up. If somehow black hole consumed enough material from the sun so that it's orbit stayed inside the sun it would start growing exponentially.

First the outer layers of the sun are not very dense, but as a larger fraction of the matter for the black hole comes from the sun the slower (relative to the sun) the black hole would get. The slower the black hole is that closer it would come to the center of the sun. The closer to the center of the sun the denser the sun is.

The pressure of the sun is at least 10,000 times greater than the center of the earth which is 3,500 kilobar. Wouldn't the amazing gravity gradient and the 3,500 kilobar pressure result in a very well fed black hole that would double in mass within say a few days? Sure a accretion disk would form and start pushing back the matter at the north and south poles to reduce the feeding rate.

Sure black holes generally increase is size slowly, but they aren't usually inside a gas cloud of 1.4grams/cm^3 at a pressure of 3,500 kilobar and having an entire suns worth of mass to provide resistance to the accretion disk allowing for matter to fall in quicker.

I've heard numbers like you mentioned for atom sized size black holes that fell within the earth, but the main problem is that the likelyhood of swallowing an atom is so small that it grows incredibly slowly.
In natural language, "A isGreaterThan B" is a statement and reads as an assertion or a constraint, instead of a conditional test or question; it's ambiguous whether it should do anything. Esperanto has a flexible word order; I think the options would be:

ĉu A estas pli granda ol B? (S-V-O) (lit. "whether A is more big than B?")

ĉu A pli granda ol B estas? (S-O-V)

ĉu estas A pli granda ol B? (V-O-S)

and never "estas pli granda ol A B" as you suggest, but also never avoiding any indication that it's a question.

From a natural language side, it feels very contrived and arbitrary to have one hill measure whether it is bigger than another hill, instead of having an observer measure both 'from the outside'. That suggests the imbalance in syntax between a. and (b) is strange. a > b is more balanced and looks more like an outsider doing the comparison.
You need to understand that this workflow was designed by overpaid people with bullshit jobs having meetings for the sake of having meetings, there was never any concern about actual user experience nor security.
Why should you be "sharp" on things you can Google for in seconds?
has anyone here received confirmation of which batch they're in? i haven't and i'm just trying to gauge which batches are confirmed.
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Can't answer that without knowing the scope. One data point is that back in 2010 I built a few very very small self-contained games for people for like 15k-20k. No networking or anything at all. Just simple stuff folks had mostly already done and ad-network integration. These usually took about 3-4 weeks.

If iOS contractors in the states charged less than $200 an hour these days I'd be surprised.
Oh dear, where will I look now to see the same seven reaction gifs forced into bad jokes every single day on every single post?
Yeah but what about the other half of the transaction? That person needs to have identity verified and a license in the system. That doesn’t sound like a good starting point to a laundering scheme.
Disagree, it would additionally show that the storage device was in a natively consciousness-readable format, and that's just for memory sharing. Experience sharing, if that's what the "light in one cage, button in another, reward for both" study really shows (as opposed to, say, short-term memory sharing that appears like experience sharing to an outside observer) would seem to directly suggest the circuitry of consciousness. Of course it can't be completely proven, but neither can anything else.
> One of my favorite interview questions (created by Vikrum) was: “What happens after you type ‘https://www.google.xn--com-to0a into a browser and hit enter?”

Wow, I had no idea who came up with that question first. (see, e.g., https://github.com/alex/what-happens-when ).

When was the first time it was asked? Where?
https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/left-shift-right-shift-operato...

"The left shift and right shift operators should not be used for negative numbers. The result of is undefined behaviour if any of the operands is a negative number."

Might be one reason?
I rented one once, you can adjust the follow distance for the adaptive cruise control. Annoyingly it resets each time you turn on the car though.
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It’s not just the US where they do this but other countries in Europe also. The U.K. govt are looking into doing this for aviation as the US model was brought up in the commons when discussing Thomas Cook.
I don't mean for them to come preinstalled and I don't mean that I personally would typically use all those programs specifically on a phone, but something that sucks about phones is that they have a completely different software ecosystem. If it's a linux phone, I think it should be possible to use the same programs. I can run any linux program on any raspberry-pi which also runs ARM, why not on a phone?

At least, I would like to have the option of having a web browser with a web inspector available using only the phone and the same extensions that are available for desktop.

> is nothing good enough?

I'm just concerned that the consensus seems to be that $700 is too much for the personal value this gives. The marketing even needs to resort to statements like:

> Vote with your wallet to support a future safe from digital exploitation and create a secure and respectful environment for you, your children and society as a whole.

I agree that that's nice, but for me personally, it's not reason enough to buy it at that price. We all understand the reasons why it's $700, but I think being able to install other distros and being able to install any linux app like on any other computer would motivate a lot of people. It would be an additional edge this would have over other phones.

There's at least 1 comment[1] (with upvotes) on that article that shares the view that having few apps and an incompatible ecosystem would be a concern.

This doesn't mean that they must support those programs or other distros, just their possible installation would be enough for anyone I think.

I'm just looking for ways to justify my buying it.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/09/purisms-librem-5-pho...
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