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For me, there are two companies I'd like to work for or build in my life time: Personalized Health Care and "moonshot" infrastructure projects (for lack of better wording).

Personalized Health Care - I'd love to work at a company that helps people be rid of diseases for an affordable cost. Ideally, we'd make big bets on understanding the genetic makeup of individuals and create drugs/therapies based on that make up. This would probably combine some interests of mine such as supercomputing, machine/deep learning, biotechnology, and a modern healthcare system to achieve this.

"Moonshot" Infrastructure - This is sort of similar to the Hyperloop stuff in a way. I think I'd really like to be part of a company that helps build the vision of what we thought it would be like when we grew up. Not necessarily flying cars but modernized & rapid transportation systems, incredible carbon-neutral buildings, robotics, etc.

Seems like my theme would be build the future I thought we'd have. Any company that contributes in a substantial way to progressing us towards something better than we had today, something meaningful, something memorable.
When I was going to become a father, this became a subject of great interest for me. I want my children to grow up in an environment associated with the highest-possible IQs. In my research, I learned that President Nixon created the social welfare program WIC because the science of the time overwhelmingly indicated that malnutrition and childhood stress was causing children to grow up to become a burden on society. If society spends the money on social welfare programs to alleviate that stress in childhood, we save money on having to incarcerate or support adults who are incapable of contributing to society.

That said, this article is extremely light on the science and history of how and why we know what we know. I've written an essay on the history and hard-science behind why we have social welfare and how we know why poverty influences IQ if anyone is interested in learning more about it:

https://medium.com/@ideonexus/the-scientific-imperative-for-...

This is not new information. We have known about this correlation--and more importantly the causation--for decades. I wish it would become common knowledge so we can stop rediscovering it and debating it each time it comes up.
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Some pubs/clubs already require things like fingerprints to be taken before going in, it doesn't seem to stop people going there. If anything, something which is less effort for the customer (like the Facewatch system) would probably be preferred
I think you're underestimating the technical savvy of most people. The tech support calls are pretty much a minority of users for a product.
So, no, you don't believe in someone being able to reform. The rest was not really necessary.
On behalf of our team, I would be happy to answer questions, if any :)
I just plugged the bulbs in, flipped the light switch on and off 3-5x and then added them from the app. I'm not even sure if I had to reset the bulbs by flipping them off/on but I did just to be sure.
To understand the concept, you should think of “free” as in “free speech,” not as in “free beer”.
I guess if he's in Houston, TX then a chunk of that goes on air con
Related: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GPUCC-CU...
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> “Frankly, I think you should just work at Tesla,” Musk wrote to Hotz in an e-mail. “I’m happy to work out a multimillion-dollar bonus with a longer time horizon that pays out as soon as we discontinue Mobileye.”

> “I appreciate the offer,” Hotz replied, “but like I’ve said, I’m not looking for a job. I’ll ping you when I crush Mobileye.”

> Musk simply answered, “OK.”

I have to agree with Elon here, Hotz is such a good fit there. But Hotz knows best, if he thinks he can take down Mobileye then he did the right decision, sucks that Tesla wouldn't back it. I'm sure other car companies would buy Hotz's software
After all the discussion yesterday about Product Hunt, I figured this might be interesting to the community here. I launched this at the beginning of the year and it's done fairly well for something without any marketing behind it.

Fortuitously, it was posted by someone straight to the front page on PH [1] (I have zero pull or influence on that site, only commenting rights because I'm a creator there) and that has kicked off regular sales ever since. I'm not going to be retiring or anything but it made it worth the time at least. Plus I've met some great folks building some very cool community sites, which is definitely the best part overall.

[1] https://www.producthunt.com/tech/rank-it-wp
I just wanted to say congratulations in over coming your horrible childhood...

Personally, I can't relate to growing up in a ghetto with all the poverty, drugs and violence. You had no father? That sucks... It must have been real tough having various new "dads" move in over the years. Those ass beating probably helped keep you line. I am sure you forgive your mother today... When your bother got shot dead at 14 I am sure it inspired you to take a different path then him. Growing up with so little your whole childhood must make you really appreciate everything you have today.

Really, good job being able to take life by the horns and escaping all that to become a productive citizen.
I am wondering how wind directions are calculated? Is there a realistic model that uses height maps and fluid dynamics or just a simple one for visual purposes?
London, UK | ONSITE | Full time | Frontend web dev

Boiler Room is the world’s leading community of underground music fans. We live-stream DJ sets and live gigs from music hubs such as London, Berlin, New York, Paris, LA and >60 other cities to music lovers all over the world. It started as a webcam taped to a warehouse wall in East London - in five years Boiler Room has grown to become the online home of underground music, and also a complex broadcasting and editorial platform in its own right.

We are currently in the process of building the next generation of the web app powering Boiler Room. We have upwards of a million views on our site a month, and that’s not including the hundreds of millions of views that our videos have accumulated on YouTube and Dailymotion. We want to create a completely unique web experience that lives up to the quality of our live shows. To do that we need someone who knows their way around the wonderful mess that is frontend web development, and truly cares about the experience that music lovers will have while using our web app on all kinds of devices.

You’ll be an essential part of a dev team currently consisting of 2 developers and 2 designers. You should have strong opinions about how web development should be done in 2015, and you should be able to come up with and implement new ideas for consuming & sharing online music experiences. You'll be working in our river-side office in Wapping, East London, and you’ll of course be able to go to and invite your friends to the exclusive parties being live-streamed on the site.

Our frontend stack: React, Redux, ImmutableJS, Gulp, Webpack, Babel, CSSNext

If this sounds like your kind of jam, email harry.l+hn@boilerroom.tv
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Mathematica also has the double disadvantage that it's syntax and semantics are pretty different from what most people are used to. I find it quite pleasant as it's quite consistent, but it's not the most straightforward thing to learn coming from e.g. [naive] MATLAB. When I show people how to use it, the first thing I warn them is "no For[] loops and only use Table[] sparingly."
"But the $X cost I can ignore now looks better on the books rather than 20 years down the line with $1000x cost it will cost to fix."

/kicking cans
That's because most of the risk models aren't modeling the most important and real risk in financial business: the risk of receiving margin calls in excess of your capital, or in other words, the risk of ruin. Models generate valuation under various conditions and sometimes these valuations are compared to available capital, but that is not enough. Especially when your securities are held at banks that determine their valuations based on factors not included in your model. If actual trdes are posting in similar securities at values that are very far from the model due to a liquidity or some other event then the margin calls will come in. This is how almost all spectacular failures have happened. If you don't use excessive leverage (> 2:1) it's not important, but for highly leveraged portfolios the most important risks are market moves that are unrelated to fancy models.
Distrowatch has a partial list here: http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=symphony

Symphony showing up on the front page of HN was a total surprise to me today. As a sole developer my focus right now is on the new build and next month's release. I agree that the site is way to sparse and could be much better (it was thrown together in one evening) but focusing on the site would only take away from the limited time I have available to work on the distro itself. If after the January release I am able to get a few more developers involved I would love to improve the site, documentation and community around the project.
So, they are put on a list and discriminated against _after_ paying for the original crime, on the belief that they are incapable of reforming.

Personally, I'm not comfortable with that concept.
CCTV didn't change much the game, I don't think this will either.
I'd think that if there are people forward thinking enough to consider the consequences to humans (Elon Musk, Singularity Institute), there should be people forward thinking enough to consider the consequences to the AIs.
> "People are responsible for their own actions and own lives, not their environments."

Sure, but their environment informs them about what is normal. To change beyond what is normal takes commitment. To give a silly example, do you walk around shopping malls in your pajamas? There's a social code that makes such an action stand out, even though in other parts of the world pajamas are more socially acceptable in this environment (admittedly, they look different from what we commonly think of as pajamas).

To give another example, if you grew up in a mining town, and your grandfather was a miner, and your father was a miner, and everyone else's father in the town was a miner, what do you think would be normal to aim for? I'm not saying you couldn't aim for something different, I'm saying you'd have to be committed to aim for something different, and be clear about what you want. If you're not clear about what you want, then it's likely you'll end up with the 'default option'.
You're missing the largest issue. If the customer is just a dick and did nothing illegal the store owner out of spite might put him or her into the database to be flagged in every other store.

Hopefully the significant fines would keep this at bay. In all honesty kicking the store off the system would be the best way to stop it.
> People are responsible for their own actions and own lives, not their environments. Lets move on

The point is, they are only to a degree. It's actually our cultural meme of pesonal responsibility that makes us blame everything on an individual's lack of discipline - even problems systemic in nature. And then we're surprised we can't solve obesity or poverty. Free will is overrated.

What confuses me a bit is that people are so quick to assume that everything is about discipline, and yet the entire marketing industry is one big proof that free will can be easily overriden by the environment.
You sound confident in your narrative of the internal conflict inside Konami, treating is as established fact and not speculation. But, everything I have read about the internal conflict has not had the internal narrative of the individual players. (For example, this comprehensive piece at Polygon does not mention what steps Kojima took internally: http://www.polygon.com/2015/12/16/10220356/hideo-kojima-kona.... It does not have a narrative from inside Konami about who got fed-up with who, who initiated what, and how the power struggles played out.)

What have you read which gives more insight into what happened inside Konami? I think it's reasonable to assume that the changing direction of the company lead to the rift, but based on what I know, I cannot conclude that Kojima initiated his departure.
What's the story behind this & the Konami departure?
AMD is so far behind at this point that it will take many years before they can leverage a strong market position to try to push some proprietary solution. If they survive at all.
They could just add a settings option "Enable display of 3rd party lights." Non tech minority is thus protected inside the walled garden from the big bad world out there by default while tech savvy users can still use their technology to full extent.

We really need to stop compromising our tech just because some loud minority refuses to understand how things work.
Honestly one of the biggest reasons I don't donate more is I fucking hate how much junk mail and spam I get as a result. Oxfam has been sending us two or three letters a month for years. I wish there was some way to anonymously donate to charities, so they wouldn't ever receive any contact information for me. Maybe send them paper cash in the mail or something......
It is a coincidence. SymphonyOS pre-dates the Symfony framework by almost a year. There are several projects out there in different spaces that are named Symphony
>The smartest people I knew were in high school, and I was so let down by the people in college.

He seems like a good person to get into business with. He's so non-judgmental. Reminds me of myself and all the stupid things I said to VCs in my 20s.
I considered trying to start a service that hosted Ad-less podcasts. I figured I would get sued immediately.

I just skip the first 2-5 minutes of most podcasts and the last 1-3 minutes and pray they don't have ads in the middle.
Also: "Hotz hadn’t programmed any of these behaviors into the vehicle. He can’t really explain all the reasons it does what it does."

Good luck to him understanding how to fix corner cases: he's built a black box.
If the landlords are willing to indemnify the tenants for subletting via AirBnB I'd call it a win-win.
It's about time Windows actually stops dragging the concrete boots around (riddiculous backwards compatibility) - it's infuriating how broken stuff in Windows is, and some of the brokeness has been around for YEARS.

Just do an XP fork for VM to run all the legacy stuff on and start fixing stuff already, damn!
The big, black one that breaths heavily, that's his father. The rest was not really necessary.
> I recently interviewed at very hot container startup. I had 1 phone screen, 6 on-sites, and 2 follow up phone calls.

Seems to me like you dodged a bullet.

> But, the last phone call was set up with the SVP who determined that I was not a good "culture fit" after 30 mins on the phone.

Why is an SVP spending 30 minutes on the phone with candidates that have already done eight interviews with the troops on the ground? You definitely dodged a bullet.
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But that belief is enough to attempt something that more experienced people would hesitate to start.

Naivety is a very good thing at times.

I've seen average people achieve incredible things, and not because what they did was incredible... but just because they started work on things that no-one else thought they could complete. Some way into it, when enough progress has been made, people have rushed to give support because "halfway there but badly done" is a hell of a lot better than "not even started yet".
Likewise, and for as long as I remember. I've always just attributed it having my right arm under more conscious and thus less unconscious control.
People ask that all the time. The answer is simple. No matter what you say and do, some people are going to rationalize and minimize impact. You don't get to solve that. You make the best argument you can with the facts that are available to you without pivoting.
Click the "web" link under the submission if you hit the WSJ pay wall.
What type of control are you suggesting? If you want to rule out genetic effects, you'd have to look at adaption studies.
Right now, numba is a better compiler than Julia has. You can write array expressions and loops in numba and it will do fusion/deforestation to eliminate temporaries giving you faster vectorized in loop code than Julia currently does.

Of course, this is currently being worked on in julia as well, but I don't see your point.
Depends heavily on what you want it to do. EtherDraw is kinda fun, but it's a hobby project, and it's pretty simple.
The Rational Man is a economic construct which is dubious as an abstract concept for building economic models, and irrelevant as a justification for individual behaviour. If the limit of morality is the law and the market, we might all just as well give up now.
> The decision to only support Philips products came most likely from the engineering division themselves.

I disagree. I don't see engineers coming up with or getting on-board with such a clearly anti-open-standards decision. Much more likely, what I think happened is that this decision was forced on engineering from above, morale hit all-time lows, there was much grumbling and consternation as they implemented this anti-feature that they clearly didn't believe in, then they rejoiced at the huge public outcry when the change was pushed, and are now celebrating that those assholes up in management had to reverse course with a heavy dose of "I told you so".

Source: I am an engineer at a big company and have seen this scenario play out many times internally.
> they take your password and just store the keypad equivalent (or more likely, a hash thereof)

That's… not exactly more likely. These are commonly systems predating the internet, from a time when connected networks were trade-specific and Very Expensive, storage security was a lesser concern (and CPU-expensive) when the system could only be accessed on dedicated lines only accessible to employees.
In my experience, Google for example were not willing to tell me why I didn't pass an interview some years ago. I don't know what their actual reason is & can only speculate.

I didn't experience it often but it did occasionally happen with other companies too (I have been working as a programmer for the past 14 years & worked/interviewed with many companies).
The dynamics of health care and technology are sort of fascinating. It's not clear to me that a cheap, effective cure for a particular disease does anything other than create more future demand for health care.

(Which I guess is an oblique way of pondering whether the mission you state is really any different than health research in general, with it being impossible to really see the advances because of all the generated demand)
There are many different models, all of them taking into account terrain data, laws of physics and much more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical_weather_prediction
So on one hand we have a scientific study, and on the other some guy on the internet with a pet theory.
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> I spent many years on the Genius Bar (back in the PowerPC and early Intel days) and, in almost, every interaction, the device was to blame - as far as the customer was concerned.

Selection bias. The people coming to the genius bar obviously think there's something wrong with the computer.
How is joining a startup working on your own dreams?
Possibly. I've been looking for a small handful of smart home products, and would like to have them all on the same network, now that the Ninja Sphere project is dead.

A ZigBee network seemed like the right idea.
I like this story - it was referenced in Charlie Wilson's War by Philip Seymour Hoffman's character. "We'll see."
Starting a startup, not joining a startup.
That's definitely not a solution.

The Philips Hue line is pretty clearly a premium product. What they're selling is a high-quality experience.

Warning boxes are easily clicked and forgotten. Or if they're clicked by somebody you've hired to install a system, you'll never even know. If people have irregular, unsatisfying experiences, they will associate it with the Philips-branded interface they're clicking on, not the off-brand lightbulbs whose labels are tucked away in ceiling fixtures.

Personally, I congratulate them for starting their system open. The most brand-friendly and wallet-friendly solution they could have chosen was to close it from day 1. But they started open and stayed open until it became a problem for them. Closing it suddenly and cutting people off was a mistake, but a certification program seems like a reasonable outcome.
Julia also requires subsets of the language. Try writing rolled array expressions (in a loop or otherwise) in Julia and in Numba and see which one is faster.

Also try IO or text processing in Julia. Python is known to be faster right now.
One reason for that is that to be prosecuted, you have to commit a crime that was on the books when you did it.

As a software developer, how comfortable are you with criminal liability for security vulnerabilities?
Thanks for the tips.
He doesn't; I just gave the example of one course but the pattern happend for other courses, too.
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To all aspiring entrepreneurs on HN, I'd love to help build and validate your idea. I've set it at a month because it's important to get feedback as soon as possible.

I'm doing this because I want to work on new projects and am thinking about setting up my own software development shop. My background is both business and technical - spent 4 years as a full stack software engineer (Python, Perl, JS, AngularJS, PHP, Git, PostgreSQL, etc.) in web and business intelligence. Learnt the business side of things through 3 years of strategy consulting and analytics.

Here's what I've built so far to test my own idea: http://getinsightico.com

If there's an idea that's burning and you just wanted to talk it through, just drop me an email (in my HN profile). We can setup a time to chat it out. I'm based in Canada but would be happy to take on projects from anywhere around the world.
And that's FINE - it just confirms that we don't need DRM and walled gardens for these things. If most users will still buy Phillips bulbs and some power users will be able to use other brand then everyone wins.
I do wonder if number of papers published is an accurate measure of scientific progress, just as when talking about the tech industry I would disagree with saying that the most innovative company is defined by the one with the most patents granted.
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Huh? There's a lot of software involved in wired networking. Way more than for lightbulbs, I'd suspect. And yet they all interoperate via open standards, and any vendor that tried to sell equipment that only worked with their own equipment would be laughed at of the market.
My landlords live in a small one bedroom home behind the house my family is in and I was thinking about doing this with them.

Essentially, I'd still pay my rent like normal and then have them manage the Airbnb while we're out of town and they'd get a cut of the proceeds. I'd need to check the lease to see if I'm allowed to do it anyway, I assume not, but it seems like a reasonable way for all three parties to win:

They collect more rent, I cover some travel expenses, ad someone gets to stay in a cute place close to downtown Santa Barbara.