skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple has tried to move into some new categories. There's Apple TV, which is OK, but not unique. Apple has never been successful at conquering the living room. Smart watches seem to be a niche product. Huge tablets without keyboards are less useful than laptops.

Nothing really new. No roll-up screens. No augmented reality that can darken, not just lighten. No breakthrough in wireless charging. Nothing exciting in robotics, home automation, or automatic driving. Siri isn't much smarter. No Next Big Thing.
Yea, I was off by a factor of 10.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equivalent_dose
1W of 2.5Mev neutrons ~= 10W worth of Gamma Rays in terms of equivalent dose. (http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/nuclear-engineering/22-01-introdu...) There are several 14.1+Mev fusion products see chart: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fusion (Which is probably where I was thinking 100Mev), but it’s already normalized so we are talking 10W equivalent.

Granted that 10W dose equivalent is not focused so a person standing next to it might get 8% of that which is .8W, or ~0.01W/kg equivalent (for a 80kg person) which just happens to be ~1 Rads per second. (1 rad = 0.01 Gy = 0.01 J/kg. 250 to 500 rads is the LD/50.

So, Standing next to an unshielded 1W neutron source has a 50/50 shot giving you a lethal dose within ~4 to 9 minutes.

PS: 2.5Mev Neutron radiation @ 1J per kg is ~10 Gy which is ~LD100 and probably where I was thinking 1W = death.

(Please double check my math.)
Is a Grade Point Average really very different?
Andreessen: 'In 20 years, every physical item will have a chip implanted in it'
Not to mention, if the city approves the environmental review, 3rd party groups can SUE to challenge the validity of the environmental review. Turning a 5-7 year process into a 10-12 year process.
Maybe, but it's a fantastic metric when guessing how many undiscovered bugs and security vulnerabilities there are.

GP also goes into some detail about the amount of discussion and updates to Alpine Linux, which are excellent metrics for code quality.
Ericsson, Apple Settle Patent Dispute
I used a Pensco self-directed IRA:

https://www.pensco.com/
All they need is a half dozen powermac supercomputers.

But seriously, could they not be using Amazon until they finish building out their own farm?
You could add an electromechanical failsafe that would trigger in the event of loss of power - i.e. the safety device wants to deploy itself, but is actively prevented from doing so by the electronics.
I'm sure what Google did helps curtail mass surveillance, but they still hold all the data unencrypted, no?
You Can Achieve Balance Without Losing Your Sanity
The most infamous case of this was Zynga pre-IPO where certain employees were pulled into a room and given the "give up your unvested equity and keep your job, or lose both".

I'm not sure if it's common, but it's definitely not unheard of.

Anecdotally from conversations I've had with founders some are very, very keen on cycling options back into the pool as much as possible. More importantly I've heard some ideas on how to do this that made my skin crawl.
Daring Greatly by Brené Brown - discussion of shame culture, its effects on people, and how to combat it - pretty good book about a topic that doesn't get raised often enough, even if I don't agree with everything the author says.

The Sports Gene by David Epstein - how genetics may affect sport performance (and not only that); a bit of a counterpoint to Gladwell's Outliers - probably my favorite book this year.

The Martian by Andy Weir - a guy tries to survive on Mars - found this one rather bland. I would have liked to see more psychology and less calculations, and I am not sure how I feel about its presentation of the scientific community.
Why Google is set up perfectly to build an AI messaging app
That 77 cents on the dollar statistic is just a comparison of the average earnings of all full time women with the average earnings of all full time men. There are so many confounding factors that you can't say anything meaningful about wage discrimination with that data.

The idea that this statistic must be 1:1 is actually pretty horrifying. We all make tradeoffs throughout our lives between our careers, families, friends, hobbies, and indulgences. These are deeply personal choices. Whether by socialization or by birth, men and women are not identical. It's only natural that their aggregate preferences are different. What's important is that each person is free to make this decision for themselves. There's plenty of couples where the woman earns more.

Men are much more likely to study engineering or math, while women are much more likely to study psychology, education, or social work. Women are much more likely to choose to slow down or pause their careers when they have children. Men are much more likely to put long hours into their work. Any attempt to measure gender pay discrimination has to control for these things.

And then it starts to get really tricky when it comes to individually negotiated salaries. Men are on average better at negotiating their pay. And because job offers are often based on your current pay + some increase to lure you away, the effect gets compounded. This isn't discrimination, but it disadvantages women on average. Is the answer to ban pay negotiations? That's not realistic, it'd just depress pay across the board. The solution is to encourage women to negotiate their pay.

As for your claim that women are being prevented from getting high-paying work, I'm not sure what you mean. Could you elaborate?

Some sources for your enlightenment:

Consad study for the Department of Labor: http://www.consad.com/content/reports/Gender%20Wage%20Gap%20... (seems to be down at the moment, but I've been able to access it before)

Excerpt: > Although additional research in this area is clearly needed, this study leads to the unambiguous conclusion that the differences in the compensation of men and women are the result of a multitude of factors and that the raw wage gap should not be used as the basis to justify corrective action. Indeed, there may be nothing to correct. The differences in raw wages may be almost entirely the result of the individual choices being made by both male and female workers.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/christina-hoff-sommers/wage-ga...

http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-wage-gap-myth-that-wont-die-...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2014/04/...
you might use something different, like a parachute.
As to what you're quoting, yes, it does. It seems likely that they found ways to penetrate NetScreen. At the end of the original top secret document:

> The vast majority of current Juniper exploits are against firewalls running the ScreenOS operating system.

This reads like a statement of fact. That they knew of multiple exploits against ScreenOS. Enough to use the term "vast majority". That doesn't mean the most recent backdoors are their work, but it does seem to imply that they found ways to penetrate NetScreen.
>Whether published in Nature or a lesser journal

That's upsetting. Nature is usually quite the stamp of approval. I have some acquaintances who have critical views of Nature, but they dare doubt the rigor of their publications.
The WSJ wrote about Google building a chaterbot app to compete with FB Messenger, WeChat and WhatsApp. Everything that Google does will become infused with its AI and deep-learning expertise transforming the Computer Human Interface into a conversation between the human and the computer.

Google has one asset that no one else has to succeed in building a chatbot that answers user questions, it huge data store of 18 years of Google searches. With a little more polish to decide on the best answer, the chatbot would be very good at answering peoples’ texted questions.
This is the same trap that most stock traders fall into. I've spent a lot of time trading, and when I confer with some of my other friends who trade we always talk about how we bought too late, sold too late, sold too early, etc.

I came to the conclusion early that the only way a trader could be happy is if they bought at the very bottom and sold at the very top. Otherwise there was always a lingering sense of regret. The only way you could have done that is if you can see the future, which is obviously impossible, but your sense of regret doesn't think about that.

After that realization, I decided that I make my selling decisions based on best knowledge at the time of sale, and not to regret selling for higher later on, because it would be impossible to know if it went up further or not.
You just described what google has done in slightly more technical detail than the article. I don't know why. It is definitely not what was meant. Supporting encrypted communications is a prerequisite to publicly advocating for it, but it is not publicly advocating for it.
There will not. QOS was a very large and intentional change, and it's critical to getting great performance out of iOS and to make the fanless MacBook work at all.

In general, Apple has never encouraged anyone to use spinlocks, and as I mentioned at the end, as long as your critical section is really tiny and CPU-bound you're unlikely to actually have a problem in practice. Note that spinlocks have always had a problem with priority inversion (OSSpinLock's back-off algorithm is just to call syscall_thread_switch with a 1ms delay every 1024 iterations, which is not bad but doesn't solve all priority inversions anyway).
Really terrible. Since working at a corporation, I no longer look at Dilbert comics the same way. Man, so much waste, so much lack of backbone, so many of the wrong people in the right positions. I'd really like to read a book that explains why almost every corporation, aside from maybe a select few, have the "oh-thats-just-a-quirk-of-XYZ-leave-it-alone-not-worth-getting-fired-over." You basically end up getting a workforce that does the bare minimum to say they are still working. I mean, I talked to my manager the other day, an abusive one at that, and I told him, just do it already, fucking fire me. But he says he can't. I will just be "purged" by the performance review process.. What a fucking joke.
There isn't a "single" thing that gave rise to ISIS, it's a complex amalgamation of a lot of different things that led to this mess.

This is a documentary that only scratches the surface of this complex history but it's interesting altogether:

Adam Curtis - Bitter Lake: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvyeWaVMDrI
Performance? Reliability? Expected bandwidth usage?
> Overly cynical. The two times I worked for a startup more than 3 months

So how many have you actually worked for? "2 for 2 [out of the experiences I cherry-picked to rationalize my bias]" really doesn't support your claim that the author is overly cynical.

> The problem is not equity, the problem is picking the right startup.

If only we could predict the outcome of the lottery, we wouldn't even need startups.
Oh where to start... too many to name of course. But several new favorites of mine from this yewr would have to be: Blindsight, Essentials of Programming Languages, Welcome to Nightvale, Glasshouse and finally after puttering around it for three years, Accelerando.
Actually, one small correction to your math.

You should adjust, for cost of living, only the part of your paycheck that you will be spending while living in that area.

E.g., supposed SF is twice as expensive as Dallas. If you make $100k in Dallas, and you typically spend $70k of it in Dallas while saving $30k (to spend later in life somewhere else), you would need to make $70k x 2 + $30k = $170k in SF (for an overall adjustment of 1.7) rather than $100k x 2 = $200k in SF (for an overall adjustment of 2).

Then again, if you're planning on living somewhere for the rest of your life, it's safe to assume that whatever money you make in that place, you'll also be spending in that place. Therefore, in that situation, multiplying by 2 would be correct after all.
I think I may be one of the few people who up voted you, only because I think you raise an interesting point. Yes, the auto industry unions caused a shot storm. But do you honest, y think that a modern union, (which learns from the lessons of the past) would really be a bad thing?

I'm still not sure about the value of unions, but I think it is an area that should be explored with a modern mindset.
"To do that, Netflix will transcode every one of their videos a bazillion times at different resolutions and at different bitrates, finally selecting the smallest one for a particular title that doesn’t suck visually."
It's going to be functionally impossible to get good data. Not least because I suspect the vc industry really really doesn't want potential startup employees to see the numbers. Or to think to hard about the wave of upcoming ipo devaluations coming to unicorns (viz a recent discussion from Mark Suster where 5/7 of 2015 large ipo exits where down rounds compared to previous valuations [1]). If the numbers were amazing you'd see someone like First Round giving exit surveys to all their companies and trumpeting the mean or median outcome. Or even YC; they are probably in a position to collect that data.

The best you'll be able to do is a site like glassdoor, with all the sample bias that implies. But even with glassdoor, I've told a recruiter to go away because their company pays poorly according to glassdoor. The recruiter then whined about glassdoor, but since he didn't provide me with salary numbers, what does he expect?

I've also pondered building a site similar to glassdoor to confidentially discuss outcomes, but the best you'll ever be able to do is anecdata.

[1] http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2015/10/18/venture-outloo...
It has eight other engines to fall back on, and engine restarts are already normal part of the return flight. Centre engine failure before the final burn starts would certainly be survivable. It's just a question of the software using two or three engines in a symmetrical pattern for a 1/2 or 1/3 of the length of the 1-engine burn. I'm not sure if they could also fire one engine asymmetrically and use momentum and the secondary positioning system of cold thrusters to counter the asymmetry.

I don't think that the software is enabled yet -- SpaceX usually press forward with the main objective first, and flesh out the contingencies later (for example, abort hardware was present during the last failed launch, and it had been tested before, but the software wasn't enabled, and they lost the vehicle).
It has eight other engines to fall back on, and engine restarts are already normal part of the return flight. Centre engine failure before the final burn starts would certainly be survivable. It's just a question of the software using two or three engines in a symmetrical pattern for a 1/2 or 1/3 of the length of the 1-engine burn.

I don't think that the software is enabled yet -- SpaceX usually press forward with the main objective first, and flesh out the contingencies later (for example, abort hardware was present during the last failed launch, and it had been tested before, but the software wasn't enabled, and they lost the vehicle).
Gravity is also an inherent property of mass... It's also a force.

Crazy huh?
You earn a union.

You earn a union by not treating your employees well, if you knew the history of the labor movement in the 30's you'd better understand how things got to be the way they are, and why the relationship is adversarial, instead of cooperative.

If your employees are trying to unionize its because of longstanding grievances held by a significant minority if not majority of your workforce - grievances that have either not been meaningfully addressed, or can't be aired, because there is no workable mechanism to air them. It's not just pay (though often is primarily pay - we'll put up with all sorts of shenanigans for a big paycheck) if often as much about working conditions and esprit de corps as it is pay.

If you don't want a union, pay your employees well (well above market), or have a great working environment and instill a sense of pride and appreciation in your management - and make it clear you value their contributions as well - it's this balance of pay and working environment that keeps a workplace healthy and union free.

The car companies stumbled because they had a high cost structure and they ziged when the market zagged - while the union contributed to the high cost structure, they had nothing do to with changing market conditions.
Assuming they are honest, I don't get their argument. If most people are paying for the internet, they why do they need Free Basics in the first place? An internet connection costs a fraction of the hardware cost, or is embedded in the hardware subscription.

So you can either afford hardware and internet, or you can't afford internet in which case you also can't afford the hardware, so the free internet is useless.

Assuming their motives are truly altruistic, making internet free doesn't make any sense!
I don't see where they claim that freedom is comprised almost exclusively of their project.
Which is interesting considering you're posting that argument on a forum on the internet, run by a company whose entire existence is based around economic expansion and acquisition of material wealth.
The section on reporting spam from Yahoo has a link to a form where you can submit spam reports from Yahoo:

> Submit your report using our "Got Spam?" form if your email provider doesn't offer a spam reporting feature.

The "Got Spam?" link takes you to a form where you can supply the headers and content of the spam message sent from Yahoo.
Attitude is correct. It refers to thusters controlling the orientation of the rocket.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attitude_control
> Has that ever happened?

I'm not sure if it has ever happened with bitrates in audio files, but the megapixel war comes to mind. 36 MP in a point-n-shoot? Must be better than the 12 MP in a Canon 5D DSLR since 36 is way more than 12.
Death of the Corpse Wizard – minimalist roguelike HTML5 arena game
> Blindsight is on my Kobo right now, but after reading Permutation City I'm scared to start reading it because I don't want to reach halfway and want to chuck it like I did Permutation City.

I read Blindsight before Permutation City. The way he describes the situations and the way his characters are often extremely confusing. But you get used to it at some point along the way. The story line itself and the Aliens are somewhat off the left field which makes the story very interesting. I personally liked it.

Permutation City is, on the other hand, simply boring as hell. Drier than ye olde Abstract Algebra textbook.
Who said anything about the quality of their code?
Raise your personal standards and decide its do or die
Ask HN: Things you created in 2015?
What did you create this year that you are most proud of? Can be writing, software, hardware, product, project, anything. Go for it :-)
Thanks. SSL should always have been this easy. I used the let's encrypt client when it came out and it took 3 hours to install on my server requiring root access. I couldn't get a client working on windows as well so for people without root access to their server they can't even really get a certificate. I paid for my certificates before this and it takes at least 30 minutes. This literally takes seconds once you know your FTP or know how to manually do it.
It would be interesting to know how much Apple knowingly copied and how much is just coincidence.
Non-paywall source?
1- The Emperor's Handbook by Marcus Aurelius. Jan, 10th 2015
2- The crowd, a study of the popular mind by Gustave Le Bon. Jan, 10th 2015
3- Remote by Jason Fried. Jan, 11th 2015
4- The shape of the world to come by Laurent Cohen-Tanugi, Jan, 20th, 2015
5- Post office by Charles Bukowski. Jan, 23rd 2015
6- Gang leader for a day by Sudhir Venkatesh. Feb, 6th 2015
7- Zen mind, beginner's mind by Shunryu Suzuki. Feb, 8th 2015
8- The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Feb, 23rd 2015
9- Darkness Visible by William Styron. March, 1st 2015
10- Zero to One by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters. March, 9th 2015
11- The Kaizen way: One small step can change your life by Robert Mauter. March, 11th 2015
12- Time by Alexander Waugh. March, 12th 2015
13- Max and the cats by Moacyr Scliar. March, 14th 2015
14- Scattered by Gabor Mate. March, 20th 2015
15- East of Eden by John Steinbeck. March, 30th 2015
16- Crossing the unknown sea by David Whyte. April, 7th 2015
17- Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. April, 13th 2015
18- The World beyond your Head by Matthew Crawford. April, 22nd 2015
19- How to Think about Exercise by Damon Young. April, 23rd 2015
20- Solitude by Anthony Storr. May, 8th 2015
21- Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. June, 10th 2015
22- The bastard of Istanbul (in Arabic) by Elif Shafak. June, 21st 2015
23- L’ordre libertaire: la vie philosophique d’Albert Camus by Michel Onfray. July, 7th 2015
24- Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse. July, 10th 2015
25- The arab uprisings by James Gelvin. July, 13th 2015
26- How to worry less about money by John Armstrong. July, 13th 2015
27- Self comes to mind by Antonio Damasio. July, 31st2015
28- Muhammad: The First Muslim by Lesley Hazleton. August, 4th t2015
29- Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari. August, 15th 2015
30- Heidegger's Being and Time by William Blattner. August, 18th 2015
31- Heidegger and a hippo walk through those pearly gates by Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein. August, 19th 2015
32- Why nations fail by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson. October, 3rd 2015
33- Charlie Munger: the complete investor by Tren Griffin October, 9th 2015
34- The selfish gene by Richard Dawkins October, 23rd 2015
35- The philosophical baby by Alison Gopnik October, 28th 2015
36- The three-body problem by Cixin Liu November, 1st 2015
37- Open letter to a young man by Andre Maurois November, 13th 2015
38- Thinking fast and slow by Daniel Kahneman November, 16th 2015
39- What do you care what people think by Richard Feynman November, 18th 2015
40- When the body says No by Gabor Maté November, 29th 2015
41- The truth will set you free by Alice Miller. December, 5th 2015
42- The shallows by Nicholar Carr. December, 7th 2015
43- What matters most byJames Hollis. December, 14th 2015
44- Finding meaning in the second jalf of life byJames Hollis. December, 20yh2015
Full unrestricted WSJ article:
https://www.google.com/webhp?#q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wsj.com%2Fa...
Netflix's internal instance spot market means they can pretty easily throw unused EC2 instances at transcoding tasks.
The two are unrelated issues.

128kbps mp3 files do sound pretty bad, especially on the high end and during very dynamic parts. It is audible to me, regardless of the quality of the original recording and its mastering.

And, while we're talking, I'll point out that the loudness wars began roughly 20 years ago, so you may need to go back to an even earlier mastering to get the really good stuff. Certainly it was more pronounced through the late 90s and 00s, but I remember the first few records I bought that suffered badly from over-compression, and they were released around 1994-1996. The multi-band compression that has killed many great recordings began to see usage around that time as well, though it peaked much later (it was expensive to start with).
"Unicorn" is rather well-defined (if somewhat arbitrarily):any valuation north of $1bn qualifies a startup as a unicorn. In some cases - such as this, the $1bn+ valuation is fleeting / illusory.
I'm a registered voter and would happily vote for polices that resulted in lower house prices. They way it's going it will be the few with their property portfolios against the many renters.