skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
perhaps it is even more important to actually DO something and not stand there for three days watching the whale die?
You can run arbitrary executables, so it's quite possible to run Go and Ruby now - you're just wasting a few tens of milliseconds starting up a python process that's not going to do anything other than kick off your Ruby (or whatever) script.
"it turns out that if you know the census tracts for pickups and drop offs, plus pickup times truncated to the nearest hour, then you can uniquely identify 40% of NYC taxi trips"

Hmmm... but if you already have those pieces of information (start tract, end tract, start hour) what would you want to get from the data? How much someone paid? How much they tipped? Whether they paid with cash or card?

Can anyone see an obvious nefarious use for this data?
We have no way of knowing what impact completely open borders would have on global GDP, so to throw around predictions like doubling global GDP is just ridiculous. Economies are complex systems and moving around tens to hundreds of millions of people is such a massive change that you can't possibly accurately model what would happen. I doubt the economies of developed countries would react positively to an influx of tens of millions of people.

But the people advocating this usually aren't advocating for truly open borders, they are usually advocating for more IT workers, so they can reduce the costs to their companies.

Let's imagine for a moment what would happen if we allowed just the small subset of unlimited immigration that people are really pushing for--an unlimited number of immigrants who have CS degrees. What do you think would happen to programmer salaries when 10 million new programmers arrive next year?
I wouldn't take it as far as you have - releasing Autopilot this early was the right move, but the current sensor mix will limit the applicability of their data gathering until they ship new hardware.

I'm not sure GoogleX had to approach self-driving as a product. At least, not until Alphabet.
What do you mean by 'aliases'? Do you think those posters are me? Should I be wondering if you, kevinskii, and gd1 are the same person?

S/he didn't post anything that validated his claim. S/he posted additional data that continued to leave it contentious, and then pretended like it validated the claim. How is that not clear? The whole point of this is that not defending a claim is the opposite of defending it.
America is broken on so many levels. The slaughter phenomenon probably reflects citizen frustrations as much as it does cynical corporate exploitation of the masses for power and profit. It does not pay to look away. This problem is urgent and real.
One thing we've been watching is that there are less people graduating high school - in other words, there are less people in the school system now. We've been preparing for this for a couple years now by looking to attract more veterans and non traditional students looking at retraining.
Extremely unpopular fact: Berkshire has fundamentally the same business model as Bain Capital. They just do it better.
Thanks for the thoughtful response. I appreciate the perspective on what it means for large test suites, and why it's beneficial to think about this in early development stages as well.
I didn't say the skewering was the problem. The book barely scratched the surface of the material that's out there.
Inconsolata: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inconsolata
No, I didn't do it for that reason. Does karma do anything? I wrote a Chrome plugin that hides my karma score anyway so I'm not sure what it is..

I enjoy meta-arguments and there's a certain satisfaction to trying to set things straight. It devolved into a nightmare though, but it was still decently good practice at arguing.
Wrong. He is most definitely talking about Perl.
Whether that's exactly his reasoning or not, there's no doubt that it's exactly the vibe that he gives off, and exactly why he is so beloved. People are attracted to the sense of existential authenticity that he exudes.
why does everyone need to go to college?

To spread the common memetic and rhetorical foundation required for rational discussions of contradictory sources of information and conflicting ideas. To make civilized society possible.
You're absolutely right, what was I thinking. Need to sleep more and more regularly.

> it always seems a little sleazy to me when still-involved founders sell in a secondary without making that deal available to the rest of the owners.

Well, that depends. If the founders have laid everything on the line for a really long time then I can imagine taking some off the table so you don't have to go back to work in your dads garage if things go badly wrong. If someone is past their vesting period and they own the stock free and clear they should be able to sell it if there is a market. Other stockholders will have these abilities as well (assuming there are no limitations or shareholder agreements to the contrary).

Usually the rest of the stockholders would have an option to purchase the stock at the price agreed between the founder and the outside party anyway, and if there are drag-along clauses then the buyer might find himself forced to buy from many parties.

It all depends on what the papers say and what kinds of shares there are.
The Weekly Brew by Austin Staton, Kevin Cook Austin on iTunes
Your maintenance comment is often overlooked - there's also the issues with supplier quality, shakedown, and getting the kinks out of the hard metal bending parts. Just look at Tesla's problems with milling out drivetrains.
Whereas I'd say the problem was forced nationalisation.
I like them a lot. It tests a lot of things.
The general workflow is read something into R using SQL and do all the magic with it. Anything non-trival is extremely difficult in SQL
I hope you launch after reading all these encouraging notes. Will you please let us know how it goes?
The scientist seems to be withholding information until her paper gets published. That seems wrong to me.
It's a complicated topic but there were real world "experiments": In 2004 in Europe:

"By allowing anyone in the eight relatively poor new members of the EU to come and work freely, Britain, Ireland and Sweden are putting these claims to the test. All seventy-five million people in Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are now free to move to Britain and work. Since wages in Poland are typically only a fifth of those in Britain, Poles have a big incentive to come and work here. If opponents of immigration are right, Britain should now be deluged with East Europeans and unemployment should be soaring.... But it isn’t. In fact, only 427,000 East Europeans have so far applied to work in Britain (many of whom were already in the country illegally) – and most stay only briefly: net migration from eastern Europe was only 48,000 in 2004.5 Unemployment remains at thirty-year lows, tax receipts are up and jobs that British people no longer want to do are being filled."

-- Philippe Legrain
> there's no reason similar conventions can't be created for C/C++ modules

"Oh, that's cute, you want me to do that instead of work on my project?"

There's a huge first-mover disadvantage to this that has to be solved.
Granted, not taking enough risk is probably one of the reasons why I'm not rich. (Another reason is that I haven't had any great ideas). But in my risk-averse world, I have always thought that the idea of taking pre-orders is more to secure customer commitment, rather than to fund production.

I have a hobby business in a niche where I've seen a few small entrepreneurs take pre-orders (often 50% down payments), spend the money, go broke, and face a bunch of angry customers. They can't deliver product, and they can't refund the money. It's possible that those were cases where something like a family emergency pulled them under.

But watching those failures taught me the lesson -- similar to what the OP suggests -- that down payments are a loan from the customer. In my own case, I decided that it was preferable to risk my own money than somebody else's, and I kinda crawled out of the starting gates by doing all of my own production using small runs of parts. Thus my margins were lower, but my risk was commensurately lower too.

As it turns out, my business easily saturated its own world market quickly enough that I still sell a few units a week but am glad that I didn't try to scale up too soon. My only regret is that I have so far missed the chance to learn how to scale up a hardware business.
A more common complaint is about whiteboard coding. Having a laptop connected to a projector is exactly what many people say they would prefer.
We need to do more as humans by using less. That's the greatest hurdle humanity faces. Our over abundance and materialism has some very negative consequences. The sad thing is modern economics and politics still largely overlooks externalities to push short term "job growth" rather than long term sustainability. I hope that changes but it's easy to be overly optimistic.
I think you mean "simulate step i of Turing machine T_j"
The urge to aggressively, rapidly grow.
Ah, I didn't see that there was a table. I was eyeballing it and did a pretty bad job. I meant to go up to that peak a bit after the 94 marker. Not the point really, though. The point is that there's a visibly larger difference in the first few years compared to the last one, if we ignore one giant dip in each, which seems as though they're an external effect. But I really don't have a strong stance about the interpretation except to say that 'you can read it in multiple ways depending on how you do it'.
> With the advent of quantum mechanics they found that, in order to make sense of what their theories were saying about the subatomic world, they had to posit that the scientist-observer was actively involved in constructing reality.

Nope. This is not true. The word "observer" as used in quantum mechanics, is an unfortunate historical accident. The observer need not be human at all---any measurement apparatus can act as observer, and no human beings need be present at all.
...and just to provide an example of how one does verification with for C: https://galois.com/blog/2013/09/high-assurance-base64/
From what I've been reading on the on the development of 9.6 (https://commitfest.postgresql.org/), we may only see parallel seq scan and ordering coming to 9.6. They added the foundation to make more thing parallele but I don't think that we can hope to see parallel aggregation coming into 9.6
You're having the belief that there's only a limited number of jobs in the economy. Newcomers don't just take jobs, they create jobs!
That's an interesting news but I don't think it will be Apple. Car manufacturing requires volume to be efficient (like any mass produced product, ça va sans dire). But it is also extremely expensive to ship compare to their retail price (you could put approximately two car in a full size container but 44k iPhones, do the math).
Let's try to do the Apple's strategy. Apple could go for the Luxury market (BMW series 7, Maseratis and upper). The price, and more important, the margin you have, is high enough to make the transportation cost low enough. At the same time you don't have enough volume to have multiple factory. In this situation you build just one factory. Atlanta is an interesting spot due to it's good connections with the rest of the US and it's comparatively low labor cost (to the Bay Area). But it is on the east coast while it is probable an Apple Car in this price range will have more buyer on the West Coast. Plus in car manufacturing labor cost is a small factor (especially in the luxury segment). But staying close to the hq is a very important factor, especially for your first model. Plus, if you are planning to source component from Asia (electric motors, chips, batteries) being close to a port like LA or San Francisco could be a benefit.

Let's make the hypothesis that Apple is going for a relatively mass market instead (affordable premium, a BMW series 3, but the reasoning holds also for cheap subcompact). Apple probably needs more than one production plant if it plans to launch internationally, but a single plant is enough for the US market and the reasoning before still holds. Actually, in this scenario Apple needs to work out faster the productions issue so being closer to home is beneficial.

This obviously is true if you think Apple will produce the car. But it doesn't make sense based on their production philosophy, and it will be a massive investment when there are "white label" car manufacture ready to be the Foxconn of Apple Car. The first name I could came up is Magna Steyr but if they go for low volume super luxury there are a bunch of small manufacturer in Italy with a good pedigree (Touring, Bertone) with the know how, the production capacity, and the brand that fits Apple needs.

I'm not saying you are wrong, even if my bet for the plant in Atlanta is for a European Automaker, I'm just saying that looking at the logistics, building a plant in Atlanta is not really effective for Apple. Probably tax breaks could change this balance, but I doubt you could have secrecy and tax breaks for a business of this size.
You can impose a one-dimensional ordering on a finite state of any size. Drawing a parabola, for instance, yields a 2-D figure. But the process that draws it (on a computer) is 1-D:

Start at the origin
Move right X
Move up X*X
Make a dot
If X = Screen.Width Stop
X=X+1
Repeat

There you go: a 2-D thing from a discrete sequence of 1-D steps. I hope you can see that it generalizes to N-D things.
http://faradayfuture.com/press/20151105.html
Yeeeep. Can be tens to hundreds of columns depending on the requirements. Fiscal years, UTC+14, holidays, etc, etc, etc.
I suppose the most likely scenario is that these are part of some long-running experiment or are used for some fairly mundane purpose like radio navigation or calibration. My first thought was that it might be for a military or intelligence fail-deadly system (e.g. to mount an attack, perform subterfuge, deploy suitcase nukes across U.S. cities, or check in with a handler).
and they would have an eaasier time getting rid of 200 million worth of private shares right?
[IANAQCG]

As long as quantum computations employ an arrow of time there is no way to escape the before and after semantics of the second law. My gut tells me that the arrow of time and simultaneity are a gestalt. Throwing out the arrow of time takes the baby with it, i.e. what would simultaneity get us without an after and before?

Looking at the letter, once the experiment or equations requires initial conditions, there's no way to avoid an arrow of time. Change comes later. The arrow of time is a premise of the experimental method.

For me, the headline parses out to a dog-bites-man "The Second Law of Thermodynamics" with "quantum" canceling itself out. As Chevy Chase would say, Charles De Gaulle is still dead.
They can't really innovate the UI. The UI for a car is the steering wheel, accelerator, and brake. They can't change that. They might make a slightly better navigation/entertainment package but honestly I'd rather have a simple radio and manual climate controls anyway. My phone handles music and navigation, I don't need to spend an extra $2K-$5K to duplicate that.

Apple has always produced high quality consumer electronics used mostly for entertainment. Cars are entirely out of their realm of experience. Cars are too competitive and are subject to too much regulation and liability to make 30%. I think it's a huge mistake for them but time will tell.
Is there enough public visibility into the top ten's deals to know that this is true?
There is also a patch to bring columnar storage into 9.6 (coming from the Axle project, EU founded). Definitively the gap becoming smaller but CitusDB is also having a lot of the glue built already with easy sharding (pg_shard) ..
It's an exciting time for PostgreSQL!
The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers
I have referred to this book, and very much enjoyed it. Some people prefer a video start just to hear the thought process out loud, so I made one available.
> and accept the cert

... sigh... Trusted encryption fail.

Is there some way to verify this cert?
I have some other DF content on that channel if you are interested.
Wrong C++. maybe that's why he didn't say, it's all of them (for an approximate value of all).
Ugh. Scientific journals are for archiving information, not embargoing news.
Software seamlessly inserts new objects into existing photographs (2011)
Removing artificial restrictions on a free market system will increase overall productivity. It will certainly increase global GDP to remove barriers to free movement of people.

Imagine that people could NOT move between various states in the United States. Do you think this would improve the GDP of the US? Hey, the SF programmers would no longer need to put up with those pesky developers immigrating from the midwest and reducing their 300K salaries to 140K. However this'd be true for the guy working in the grocery store as well for 120K a year - since he'd also not compete with anyone else and gladly take his share of your 300K salary.

People hate monopolies until they are the monopoly. Then they defend it tooth and nail. Native-born citizens, due to the chance event of where they're born, extract monopoly rents to the detriment of the global GDP.
First you need a government/organization that can scale. How much poverty/discontent/violence exists in the US today? How much are you willing to accept as a possible cost?
What's worse being complicit or refusing to play by a governments rules?
Perl6
A Year at Free Code Camp. Ammar Says
There's a great tangentially related article around this by Malcolm Gladwell on Albert Hirschman:

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/06/24/the-gift-of-dou...
http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674276604

'makes a basic distinction between alternative ways of reacting to deterioration in business firms and, in general, to dissatisfaction with organizations: one, “exit,” is for the member to quit the organization or for the customer to switch to the competing product, and the other, “voice,” is for members or customers to agitate and exert influence for change “from within.”'

Hope that helps you figure out whether to use your voice or your feet!
Not really. You should read:

"The Flood that Never Arrived: German Open Borders Too Late for Polish Workers"

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/the-flood-that-ne...

It says:

"Since May, Polish workers have had the freedom to seek employment in Germany without restrictions. But the expected onslaught of laborers never materialized. Many Polish view jobs in the neighboring country with disdain, with Germans suffering from a reputation for stingy wages and lousy working conditions."

Here you had completely open borders between a poor nation and a rich nation, and most Poles decided to stay home or go to some other country, such as Britain, where they felt more welcome.

So there are many variables at work. It's not a simple invasion of the poor moving into the rich country.
He does stuff like this all the time and the legends just grow from there.

A friend of mine was at a bar in the LES and Bill Murray got behind the bar and started serving people. No matter what you ordered he'd just make you a gin and tonic.

Another friend of mine was at Bembe in Brooklyn a few years back and Bill Murray came in, skipped the line out front, and came out a few minutes later with two bottles of water and just walked away. My friend asked him if he really went in to just get water and he said "Yes. Your friends will never believe you."

Both are friends I completely trust to not be lying, but Bill Murray was right. I don't believe them.
For one, if you take global warming seriously it's a disaster. Each immigrant from a poor to rich country increases their CO2 emissions by about an order of magnitude.
Apps can certificate pin in 2 ways. One, they can directly inspect the certificate fingerprint and pin to a specific fingerprint (I chose this method for Level Money's product).

The other option is to examine and pin the signing certificate. This is more code and more prone to error, but makes your connection slighty more robus in the face of a compromised certificate.

And yes, both techniques work even if a cert in your root store has another certificate. Applications can simply refuse to function, but this has to be done on an ad hoc basis.
Chaotic functions of continuous real variables are not computable. Computable physics assumes a discrete lattice, which the universe is not proven to be.
I love the vector space analogy.

I have been thinking about the same thing: that the simplest languages have a minimal set of "orthogonal" features; though it never occurred to me to describe them in those terms.

But hey, it's Rob Pike. I was bound to walk away with something after listening to him talk :)
Parallella vs. Mac in 5 Minutes
It's great to see others in the publishing world moving away from proprietary software like Word and towards plain-text based processes. As the author points out there are many benefits of this.

Here's something to consider: you've ditched MS Word, maybe you can ditch InDesign too? In my experience once content goes into an Adobe program, it's hard to get it out again in a clean way. It's pretty impressive what you can accomplish using CSS3 for print layout[1].

I work at an academic publisher, and I've spent much of the last year preaching the benefits of a similar workflow. Some of the editors are now editing manuscripts in Markdown files directly. Currently we're building a system where a single set of text files get fed into a program like a static website generator. This produces a web version, but also PDF, ePUB, etc. automatically. We're getting pretty close[2]. I think this is the future for many forms of publishing.

I think one of the big remaining pieces of the puzzle is creating a better Markdown editor, something suited for the needs of scholars & academics with support for things like footnotes, bibliographies, etc, while remaining a plain-text format.

[1] http://alistapart.com/article/building-books-with-css3
[2] http://egardner.github.io/posts/2015/building-books-with-mid...
QECC takes "logical qubits on a larger space" to "corrected qubits on a smaller space". So while there is entropy production on the entire space (2nd law thermo), it is still possible to have entropy reduction locally.

Eg:
0) "1 important qubit in some specific pure state" (entropy=0) + "4 ancillary qubits in some known but unimportant state"(entropy=0) are made using a 1to5 QECC into:

1) 1 logical qubit(made of 5-qubits) in a pure state (entropy=0)

2) Presence of noise: 5-qubits now in mixed-state (entropy=a>0)

3) Error correction on 5-qubits turning them into:

4) "1 important qubit in some specific pure state"(entropy=0) + "4 ancillary qubits in some now-random states" (entropy>=a>0)
Parallella is an 18-core computer, about the size of a credit card. It runs Linux. In this 5-minute video, Parallella comes dangerously close to beating a $2k Mac at finding prime numbers.
My brief rant against SPA
The Limits of Reason (2006) [pdf]
Quartzy (YC S11) is hiring a product manager and designer
“Our records indicate your fingerprints were likely compromised”
Of course "better than random" is only worth something if the odds are decent, for example if random chance tends to yield $0 (no loss no gain).
Radar/adaptive cruise control is an available option on just about any new ~$25-30k car and was common in the luxury segment for a good while before that.
Show love or air out grievances anonymously to friends and family
Apparently it's harder than it seems[1], depending on distance.

1: http://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/mythbusters/videos/star-wa...
His point still stands. With data as the focus, GA should be built in such a way that users don't see the need tyo use Mixpanel & others.

But that is not the case. Which suggest Google isn't that good at productivizing stuff.