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Sam Altman: 'The greatest threat to this country is incompetence of governance'
thanks for enlightening me, what's stopping the employees to directly using the former company's technology on the new company?
I don't think comparing means what you think it means.

No use comparing things that are the same.
This law is about controlling oil wells in the middle east. Not about protecting a war otaku that went to play the soldier in Siria.
Database as a Symbolic Form (1999)
Great question. I've seen companies with entire teams dedicated to dissecting the performance claims of the competition, and then running their own tests to verify and/or debunk the same. Keeps everyone honest, and it prods along the in-house engineering effort. Why didn't the other automakers see this?
This explains it: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc

Open source is a gift economy, like science without patents!
I am learning Shen [1], and this talk [2] shows how you can write Shen on JavaScript, Ruby, front an backend. Shen is a lisp with pattern matching, optional lazy evaluation, optional static type checking, macros of course, and many other cool treats! It can run on top of CL (SBCL), Clojure, JavaScript, Python, and more.

[1] http://www.shenlanguage.org/
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMcRBdSdO_U
> Whereas the way Docker is using Linux containers doesn't seem secure enough...

Which is totally expected, because docker tries to be useful to the largest user-base possible. It would be quite harder to use if didn't support directory mounting (via -v). And it would be a total nightmare for almost every user if you had to specify a list of allowed syscalls for every container.

This reminds me the situation with SELinux a lot. It has improved a lot but I still see "disable SELinux" almost in every tutorial I read on CentOS, Fedora or RHEL.
tengine fork has application health checks, although I'd still probably recommend haproxy
Can someone describe a real-attack scenario, using Docker's default settings as of the latest version? I see a lot of people claiming that it's insecure but no concrete examples of exploits. I am not saying that it's as secure as VMs, or that it's inherently secure - I am genuinely* interested and really do care about this.

*We're in a limited beta of cloudmonkey.io, and we want to run unrelated/untrusted containers side by side securely.
OVERTURE – A Short film
Celebrating One Year of Mars Orbiter Mission in Orbit - Release of Mars Atlas [pdf]
Awesome Starter – help you fresh start a new project fast
The biggest place this breaks down in my experience (which is not to say it's not a win overall!) is when a compiler upgrade introduces a new warning. There's several ways it can play out, some of which aren't a bad thing overall, but most of which involve some pain.
I mean online communities?
As 'tdlyan' said, the median age was 30+ in one of the recent batches. I honestly don't think age should define the success of your startup.

Also, don't let YC determine the fate of your startup. You are bound to fail or succeed based on your execution skills and hard work, and not whether you get accepted into YC or not. That being said, I wish you all the best! People like you are an inspiration and remind me to always do what you love.
I agree completely, but on the other hand I'm not convinced that tighter government regulation of ECU code would be better. Can a bunch of government bureaucrats come up with a set of standards and regulations that would actually be beneficial? Given the track record with similar projects, it looks doubtful.

Really I'd say that part of the problem here is that academia has been letting us down. CS programs are universally of fairly low quality, in my opinion, and proper software engineering programs are very rare. There has been insufficient pure research into software development practices, software design patterns and features, and so on in regards to what is required and what is beneficial when it comes to creating control software and firmware. Industry too has been letting us down with their lack of pure research in general, but that's been obvious for a while.

We're starting to reap what we've been sowing for the last several decades in software engineering. We got out of the first "software crisis" where many software projects didn't even deliver anything worthwhile or functional, but now we are in another perhaps even more severe software crisis. One where shipping software that "works" isn't a problem, but where making sure that it does the "right thing" and is sufficiently secure, robust, etc. for the intended use is becoming a huge issue. And not just a financial one, but one that can (and will, and has) result in injury, death, and destruction. We very much need to wake up to the seriousness of this problem, it's not going to get better without concerted efforts to fix it.
Well clearly if the rewards included all the money on the planet, that would be egregious. It seems fairly likely that there would be limits that are lower than that (all the money in a country) and possibly below that....
Equity in what?
This is a major thing for us. We've got half a ton of stuff on AWS which is being moved back to physical kit at the moment. Turns out the cloud is a geopolitical risk and being in finance in Europe, our data protection regulations and compliance obligations are pretty heavy.

Incidentally it's working out much cheaper, simpler with less API lock in than AWS was as our workloads are fairly predictable and we make a lot of money off it.
I feel that that the article often mixes cause and effect. It also neglects to mention that the cost of producing music is much less than ten, twenty, fifty years ago. I have the tools in my modest office to record a track, edit it, cut it, release it, and promote it. That ease of production inevitably leads to a much greater supply than the market can handle.

I believe software is on the same path. Ten, twenty years ago, to create, distribute, and market software was a complex undertaking involving many actors. But now motivated software developers can release and market products with much greater ease than even shareware producers experienced in the 1990's.

Seven years ago I released my main software product (poker hand tracking and analysis for OS X), a niche product within a niche market. I thought I would own the niche forever. But due to the ease with which competitors could create and launch, there has been a steady stream of competitors in my small, small space. This increased supply should lead to a decreased average income for mini moguls like myself.
"At the end of the day, with 340 trillion trillion trillion addresses, handing out too many isn't ever going to be a big worry in the foreseeable lifetime of...anything, really."

This is untrue, and a big over exaggeration.

Consider that pretty much any business (even a mom-and-pop shop) is allocated a /48 if they ask for it. Assuming one thousand /48 are allocated every second (ie. one thousand "business" IPv6 users coming online per second, which might be absolutely plausible 100+ years from now --we made IPv6 to be future proof right?), then we would run out of allocatable blocks in the global unicast IPv6 space (2000::/3) in 1,115 years. And we would run out of allocatable blocks in the entire IPv6 space in 8,919 years. So, yeah, I get annoyed when people mention the "death of the sun" or the "lifetime of the universe" when talking about IPv6, when in fact we could start running into exhaustion issues in the next ~1000 years.

Note that I am being pedantic here. I think any technology that seems to scale "only" for our needs up to ~1000 years from now is good enough :)
I ended up with my primary tools being DRF + React/Redux. I'm genuinely curious about Ember, but haven't had a chance to play with it. What do you think of it? How's it stack up versus React-based frontend setups, if you've evaluated them?
Oops, I forgot that c i r c l e j y r k trips an HN filter.

I only post on throwaways these days because these moderation practices remind me a little too much of 4chan.

No, seriously, you are more likely to be banned from 4chan these days than from HN. Let that sink in.
Is Bower Useful?
> Between the social equality, lack of fear, and ability to drive action, it sometimes feels like everything Tumblr wants to be.

This is the most common misunderstanding I see about the activist crowd. Their direct goal is not actually "social equality"... that's the thing they hope will eventually happen. What they want immediately is inequality. Feminism is about "let's focus on women". It's not about "we've been focusing on men too much, let's focus on gender issues 50/50".

Personally, I think the main reason for that is that it's just really hard to think non-patriarchally, and switching back and forth is just too hard. So it's easier for feminists to say "screw it, we'll take the women stuff and we'll leave the men stuff to other people".
That's true, but arbitrarily picking 30km for the car and 4 hours for the car is useless. The only reason they did it is so they can say it pollutes as much as 1,000 cars.

You'd need to look at average km driven per day and avg time used per day for the stove.

You'll note that they are also comparing old, non EPA certified wood burning stoves with modern EPA certified cars.
Are we really talking about open sourcing here?

As far as I know the discussion is against DMCA, which prevents even looking at the code on the car. DMCA makes no sense whatsoever.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/09/researchers-could-have...
TCP/IP is a pretty old technology, and it's still rock solid at what it does.
Just Another Factory Closing
Why Backbone.js and ES6 Classes Don't Mix
Java doesn't get much love. I've been looking for remote employment opportunities (I'm not based in the US), and a huge percentage of the postings I see are for Node.js and RoR. For Python shops it's almost always a requirement for Django experience.
And serialization lead to many 'classic' 19th century novels being the dreary slow repetitive reads that they are. When an author releases a whole book they can read the whole thing back to themselves first and streamline it so that it flows as a whole. It's like the difference between a TV soap and films.
You may need to externalize the responsibility, to have someone else "make" the decision.

For myself I've found someone who is above me in our org, even though they aren't particularly technical. I can take them these problems, they'll hear me explain why I think X is a good direction, or why it's better than Y (even though I'm uncertain of the outcome). They will ask sensible questions (costs, risks etc) and approve the direction, eg "then I want you to pursue option X, and come back to me when you hit unexpected circumstances".

This person can be anyone that you feel some ultimate responsibility towards - in a one-person startup perhaps it's your significant other, as you owe it to them to be efficient and effective (and not wasting time procrastinating).
10-lane freeways and speeding cars? I wish. I live in Silicon Valley and the traffic here is unbearable.
> Demanding that all code be open-source

Open source means a license which grants others permission to modify and share the code in a non-discriminative way. This is not that.

> asking for free software code...

Free software also add patent grants and the right to run the software for any purpose. While anti-DRM has been called for in other articles, code inspection doesn't need to be done by volunteer researchers and can simply be done by government inspections. This leads me to...

> why not demand that Coca Cola also make their formula and their entire manufacturing process public

I am sure Coca Cola allow health inspections into their manufacturing process. They are also required by law to provide an ingredient list in order to be sold for human consumption, including a nutrient list which further details what Coca Cola is made from. If they had sneaked in some illegal substances, say rat poison, we would be here asking why current regulations were not enough.

> we need a better emission testing system

We can always claim that the testing systems need to be better, but it is not enough to just do black box testing when the product itself can identify and change behavior during testing. If society keeps the current system, we would need to at least add criminal liability for deceiving during testing.
This is me all over. Intellectually I know that doing anything, genuinely any of the possible first steps, is better than nothing but when there are too many first steps I freeze up. I even know from experience that the biggest, sometimes only, hurdle is just starting, but even that knowledge isn't always enough. There is somehow a difference between intellectually knowing that, and really internalising it.
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Depends on your product/service category. There are sole operators making $x0k/mo from Amazon's affiliate program because they picked an overlooked category and promoted big ticket items. 5% of a $15 book is a pittance, but 5% of something that's $x00 is a different story.
Yes, this isn't an alternative to Android wear or Apple watch, just more of the same. Fun fact: a few months ago I was looking for a wearable which had the option to store data locally - I looked at dozens of products and only three of them offered this. One needs a Windows app to transfer data over USB, the other is the Oregon Scientific Dynamo, which has a rather poor iOS app and is quite bulky and imprecise and the third one had a terrible companion app.

Everything else had a mandatory cloud sign-in and sync, with the typical meaningless privacy policy.
Absolutely. But finances are pretty standardized, software is vastly more complex. Audits are a good idea, but it's an incredibly hard problem.
>How about the CEO does not get a golden parachute?

How about we let the CEO and the board work it out?

>It is your money when you bail them out when a too big to fail company fails.

There's no reason to bail companies out.
More Than Just Parks
UK, France and Germany lobbied for flawed car emissions tests, documents reveal
Utility is that what is optimized by a moral algorithm. Money only represents an (arguably weak) approximation to it. But someone trying to make economic decisions needs to use a moral algorithm to do so, and money is one of the more relevant quantifiable metrics in that domain.

And it's perfectly scientifically sound idea. It's just too complex for us to solve very accurately. (Like a lot of important problems in science.)
I understand and sympathize with this point of view, but I have no idea how it would work out practically. Software patents are rightly criticized and I don't think they should be the avenue to recapture investment. But if you also remove trade secrets, the dynamics behind expensive R&D would certainly be a lot different.

I used to work for a company that produced diesel engine. Trying to pass ever stringent emissions meant massive capital investment and millions of dollars in research and testing. The "secret sauce" ends up being a few thousand lines of code and lots of constants. It is literally the make-or-break factor in whether a manufacturer can sell a product or not. If all results had to be immediately shared, what happens to the competitive zeal?

My most optimistic perspective is that critical pieces of software just become common, with everyone latching onto the best option available. There is still plenty of room to differentiate, especially in something like a car, and that the sharing would be just generally beneficial.

But will the real breakthroughs still occur if there isn't the potential to be substantially better (and substantially rewarded) at some fundamental factor, like fuel efficiency?
Unison: a next-generation programming platform
Governments just need to regulate one thing on the ECU: access to the code. They don't have to make any specific laws. Of course to be able to proof, this is the code uses, one would need access to upload it to the ECU. (And compile it.)

Which gives another issues: people breaking the law by changing their ECU map, to exhaust more pollutants.

But I suppose this is no more of an issue then it was/is with WiFi access points, not a lot of people do it, and you don't want to brick your car :D
> and very clean, but not efficient ... Does not the inefficiency also lead to a lessening of cleanliness

Not at all. You can burn tons of fuel, while making no pollution at all. It might not be efficient, but it will be clean.

In a car, they use some of the energy to clean the waste product of burning the fuel, so that all that comes out is Water and CO2.

But it costs energy to do this cleaning, it's easier not to.

For an internal combustion engine higher temperature means more efficient, but higher temperature also makes more NoX (i.e. nitrogen that burned in air). So you can lower the temperature, or try to clean the exhaust.
In the article, they say the software detected the 'speed' of the vehicle among other things. I always thought the speed was simply calculated as a function of the wheel turning rate - unless the article really means 'acceleration', and there's such sensors in the car?
Maybe other car companies don't want to know because VW is not the only guilty company? What are the odds that only one car company cheated on only one car model?
that ain't ketchup
> If someone from Vietnam searches for "Vietnam War"...should they be sent to the entry at vi.wikipedia.org because it's in Vietnamese and perhaps more relevant to the Vietnam user? Or to en.wikipedia.org's version, because besides having a shitton more inbound links, it's likely to have also many, many more eyes and editors on it? These are complicated things

I don't find this one so complicated; they're better sent to en.wikipedia.org, because that page, like their query, is written in english.
Mostly it comes down to lack of experience with containers so far, and lack of tools.

Most apps need very little from the underlying OS if you actually take the time to e.g. set up a toolchain with a build container that you then move the build artefacts out of to install into the final container. Instead you see a lot of containers that in effect include all the build dependencies and a nearly full OS pulled in by that.

It is improving, though slowly.
Years You Have Left to Live, Probably
> Why have there not been any whistleblowing on this, it's huge?!

If whistleblowers were treated as the heroes they are instead of traitors, that might inspire other people to do the same...
I have a Garmin watch, it's as smart as it gets (display weather forecasts, SMS, emails, tracks activity, runs 2048 and Tetris if you care), last a full week on a charge, is waterproof, and is way cheaper than most "smart watches". Android wear, Apple watch? Sheesh.
> And I don't think it's a "flawed assumption"... Are you seriously contending that the people who made this chart thinks that anybody actually invests that way?

Even if you don't want to call it a flawed assumption, at best it's misleading to argue "compound interest is a myth" with the evidence of linking a chart that shows that's only true if investing in a way in which "nobody invests that way".

If you link to a chart that shows when compound interest _could_ lose, but only under conditions in which no one actually invests, then I don't consider that sufficient support to dismiss it as a "myth". Actually, if anything, it supports how true compound interest is. As long as you're willing to make the standard assumption of diversifying deposits over time to build it every year (i.e., dollar-cost averaging), which virtually every person investing does.
I tend to procrastinate on things that are only really important to me like side projects, job hunting etc. When someone else is expecting me to do something, I will just do it. I worked on a side project that my wife asked me for and did it in one sitting.

My "fix" has been to create external pressure somehow. Want to learn something? Sign up to a course that has hard deadlines. Want to build something? Tell someone about it and offer to show them a draft by a certain date. It seems to work for me.
A couple of things that I haven't seen mentioned here yet:

- You might like getting a 4K external screen: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10168766

- A 2ndhand desktop or previous-gen server in the corner can provide extra computational power; AWS et. al. throw in staggering network bandwidth and uptime guarantees.
iOS 9 Lockscreen Bypass
Why should cities build more densely now if truly massive job displacement is coming in as little as 10 years?

Why do people need to live in cities? To be near jobs that won't exist? Why shouldn't they be moving to less expensive low density situations if they're not going to have jobs?

If you're going to think and talk about these massive fundamental structural changes to the economy, then it's best to step 5 or 10 steps further back and start looking at the really big pictures.
As a reader without unlimited time the publishing industry acts as a barrier to entry which filters out the worst books... We need a robust reviewing system which filters out shill reviews.
>there are no persistent identities

Oh, if only!
Cubic SDR – Cross-Platform Software-Defined Radio Application
I'm surprised such a small amount of code hasn't been reversed engineered and the constants copied for millions of dollars of profit.
Space cowboy
And who should do it? Universities and NGOs are commonly bribed as well..
No. Apple may collect data but it does not sell it to third parties.
Clearly the ebook is not providing greater value if demand is slack compared to paper books..
As I moderate an interfaith discussion group I was looking for a way to better use the Stanford Encyclopedia offline (printed or as searchable archive) like wikipedia has and found these tools:

* Create Offprint pages
https://github.com/jgm/sep-offprint

* Latent Semantic Indexing
https://github.com/skywalkermml/LSI_on_SEP/blob/master/proje...

* Quest for making an ePub
http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=183269

* RSS feed generator
https://github.com/21zhouyun/SEOP_RSS

* Mobile apps
There are an iOS and Android apps, but I'm not sure if they can be used offline

* Reddit SEP bot autolinking relevant articles
https://github.com/AFFogarty/SEP-Bot

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Anybody know what happened to the branched Wikipedia projects that were started because of the editorial quality issue discussion almost 10 years ago like Citizendium? What others were there? How do they compare with the SEP and Wikipedia or Encyclopedia Brittanica or the IEP http://www.iep.utm.edu/ on philosophical topics now?
> My dad can give me a book he read in college

My dad is in his 60s and lends me books Kindle-to-Kindle.

Easy long-distance sharing, and talking about those books while he's alive, is more meaningful than looking at the dusty old one-of-identical-millions copy of Dune I jacked from his bookshelf.
I guess the reason we have QRs is because we are not yet there to determine what is the object in question. QR technology makes it easier by providing a unique tag for each object. So now when you see the QR code, your QR reader can access the look-up table to find what particular object it is.

The proposed technology is one step ahead of existing QR systems. But I guess the end goal to identify objects, and making a one to one association would be very cool. For Ex - when you want to identify people, you do not want them to come with QR code. Putting a name tag is something I will do to introduce myself in conferences so that people can recognize me from distance. But Ideally I would like that they recognize me by my face :)