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It looked interesting - is it really $400 a month for access to the course, or is there some other way to just take the course without some kind of certificate?

This letter gets posted time to time. Definitely one of my favorites for explaining the rationale on spending money pushing boundaries when there are plenty of things that money ca…

One of my co-workers has put together a Clojure plugin for VSCode - https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=jamesnor... Another co-worker is the one who put together pr…

https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2015/06/08/https-e... Has this been superseded by a new policy?

> There is noone who can decide to work one hour more at his workplace and get paid for it, then donate the money to charity. There are plenty of people that can make this exact ch…

Not trying to upset you, just trying to help you see that the story is not crazy. I'm not sure if you've tried trading futures or options before. I've never traded futures, but I'v…

I just want to jump in and comment that 30x gains in a year are not really that crazy with out of the money close to expiration options. I've had 2 different years in the past with…

I had no idea this was out there. I found a bunch of old projects out here from a program I work on in the realm of Earth Science. Things from 2002 and 2004 that have probably not …

Video is up: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/743602894226653184

We've tested out DMS to migrate from a 3 node Oracle RAC to Oracle RDS, and I was incredibly impressed. They list a bunch of limitations in their documentation that you should look…

Musk video talking about batteries - says they are tracking 60 different battery improvement efforts. https://youtu.be/sTIH6ncIXYc?t=1563

They announced three products initially. Two Powerwall products (7kWh daily cycler and 10kWh emergency backup) and a grid scale product called Powerpack. The product that was cance…

I haven't heard this before, can you provide a link?

SpaceX is competing with ULA for U.S. Government Agency launches but I don't think they could drive SpaceX out of the commercial launch business.

I saw a discussion about a supersonic jet company on HN not too long ago. http://boom.aero/ Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11329286

There's an index.refresh_interval setting. It defaults to 1s, so by default your data will be available for querying within one second after being indexed.

The idea that exponential growth has been happening long before Moore's law is one of the main themes of Ray Kurzweil's book "The Singularity is Near". https://en.wikipedia.org/wik…

Great comment which really made me think. You are right that unmanned projects are a no brainer. I would argue that both are important, and even with the budgets we have, we have b…

It sounds like they might try to show the landing attempt live this time. Can anyone confirm?

I found an excellent book talking about realistic sustainable solutions. It is from 2008/2009 and so solar costs are already dramatically less, but is still a great read. http://ww…