skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"In an investor document about the sale that was distributed to shareholders, employees discovered their Good stock was valued at 44 cents a share, down from $4.32 a year earlier. In contrast, preferred stock owned by Good’s venture capitalists was worth almost seven times as much, more than $3 a share. The paperwork also showed that Good’s board had turned down an $825 million cash offer just six months earlier, in March.

For some employees, it meant that their shares were practically worthless. Even worse, they had paid taxes on the stock based on the higher value."
This is a neat idea, but the tradeoff for the added flexibility is extra weight. In FPV racing, weight is everything.
More discussion on previous submission here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10798586
"Some Good employees actually lost money when BlackBerry bought the company. Good was a unicorn, that is, a private company with a valuation of more than $1 billion. The high valuation increased the paper value of employee shares — and thus the income tax bills levied on their stock when they received the stock grants, or when they bought and sold shares. To pay those taxes, some employees emptied savings accounts and borrowed money."
Xcode chokes on large text files as well. A large file that VC++ can dislay and edit easily will be glacial to navigate and edit in Xcode.
Jeez, on an annual basis, that Mars mission isn't looking so bad! That's Apollo program money -- even less if you account for it in 1960s dollars. My guess is that I'm personally not ever going to walk on Mars or drive through a hypothetical SR99 tunnel, so it's largely a moot point.

Keep in mind that the Big Dig's original cost estimate was something like $3 billion. Turned out to be closer to $24 billion. We're not very good at these things, it seems.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10791969
That time frame also matches the rise and fall for the use of leaded gasoline, which has been theorized to be the cause of the crime rate rise and fall. [1]

You seem to be suggesting that liberal Supreme Court rulings caused the crime wave, and conservative backlash in the justice system curbed it. The conservative backlash may have been triggered by the crime wave, but I don't think liberal rulings caused the crime wave. The recent swing back to the liberal side, with the political changes you mentioned, and no corresponding increase in crime, seems to bear that out.

[1] http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-27067615
Best tip I've learned in the past month: when you're at one of those unskippable TLS error warnings in Chrome/Chromium, just type "danger" on your keyboard.

Example: https://subdomain.preloaded-hsts.badssl.com/
I am surprised they were not prepared, our servers were down for 4 hours.
Help yourself! I find the baby name data a great scenario for teaching data...everyone has a name, everyone has assumptions and opinions about how popular and genderized their names are, and everyone is fascinated by how many/few other American babies share their name. The data is structurally simple -- 4 columns, 5 if you use the state-by-state version -- yet numbers in the hundreds of thousands of rows. Plus, even being so simple, it contains virtually all of the "dirtiness" of real world data.
That is certainly an interesting point. Modern distribution centers use conveyers to move packages to the truck loading port where they will be loaded on to trucks for delivery. Why not extend the conveyer through the sky to a truck loading port a couple of miles away. If you lay out reliable ingress/egress channels for the drone traffic you could probably stack 300 - 400 drones per mile in that channel, operating all day would certainly expand the virtual "size" of your warehouse.
I typically work 14-20 hours a day, as a DevOps. Sounds crazy, yeah. This is an illness. I am depressed, and also bored. I am compulsive to working and sitting in front of a computer. And finally, I am super micro-manage. I like things to be done in my way. Now, I can't get up early in the morning because the lack of sleep. I don't understand how he can be on time every day and manage to work 18 hours a day. This guy is just nut, to be honest. Rumor has it that he's trying to be Steve Jobs or someone similar. My bet is he's just very controlling.
Isn't a good rule of thumb to pay taxes by selling some of the shares that provided the income?

I'd certainly have reservations about a stock grant that required me to pay six figures of taxes that I couldn't cover by selling some of the shares.
I would have been more impression if RedStar didn't run in VirtualBox :)
Jack is a genius at starting things.

However, he has yet to prove that he's good at finishing them. Twitter seems unfinished. Square has stopped putting panic into PayPal.
You can buy the Soylent powder instead of premade drinks. It's $216 per month for 28 bags; each bag contains 2000 calories. Either way, if saving money on food is your goal and you're only spending $6 a day now, neither meal replacement powders or drinks is going to help much in that sense.
The problems with the major hub to the delivery point are the same as some of those identified in the article: drones currently in operation don't have much carrying capability, and compensating for that with significantly more drones adds cost over a truck. Even if you scale your drones up to truck size and don't have any range limitations, you're carrying packages a similar distance whilst fighting gravity all the way. And if bottlenecks with sorting at each end and last mile are unchanged, the extra cost of cutting out trucks sat in traffic in the middle of the supply chain might make surprisingly little distance to delivery times.

Getting the FAA to approve airways for long distance autonomous commercial cargo transport without prohibitive fees sounds like a challenge too...
Nice but pricey to assemble at home
Motivation, Stress and Neatness
Until battery tech gets within a decent percentage of a gas tank. Commercial batteries are currently worse than gas tanks, but catching up fast. If they get to 20% volume/weight/price of a gas tank I would predict a switch is going to happen very very fast.

Currently commercial batteries are price limited (about the price of a gas tank + filling up the gas tank 400 times, which would keep a normal car moving for 5-10 years), and weight limited at about 5% of the energy/weight of a gas tank. Given how it's evolving, I'd expect another 2-3 years before the necessary technology becomes available.

I think 20% will be about the turning point because while gas tanks provide a 1000km range, if you can charge at home, then what's the problem with 200km range, decreasing to 160km over 2-3 years ? Especially if you can solar charge (and combined with a house battery ... watch out)

And Teslas don't count. Anything over 20000$ starting price just isn't going to start the migration.
Red Star OS – A Look at North Korean Computing
Also worth mention the DEA plots in Breaking Bad, especially the scene when bomb exploded next to a bunch of DEA agents, that was terrifying.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10796040
Some notes

* The talk starts at about 00:15:00 into the video at the start of the link. The link starts at the end of the previous talk, with a bunch of dead space before the talk about VW.

* lax testing procedures from govt certification engineers is as much to blame as VW. I'd like to understand more about this...

* On the "ROCE" slide I thought of the [capitalist's dilemma](http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/04/business/a-capitalists-dil...). Market dynamics are pushing car makers to wring every last bit of money out of each car, which leads to odd dynamics.

* The comparison between the US and Europe at about 45:00 is very interesting.
That depends what level of competition you're aiming for. At the highest levels of competition sure, but the vast majority of people are going to be limited by time commitment and thus flying ability. If you're not aiming to be a serious competitor, the weight isn't going to be that much of an issue. Work on reducing weight when your current quad is bottlenecked by weight rather than your skill.
Oh so we're going to start burning more oil ? That sucks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

(Note that you can currently see it in action. Fossil fuel usage is very near an all time high while prices dropped 75% due to oversupply)
> And I have not seen any claims from the 1970s or 1980s
> that the command stands for "catenate".

The Seventh Edition (1979) man page for cat(1) says “catenate and print”.

Sixth Edition (1975) says “concatenate and print”.
Mother of God, the new Volt looks like it made love to the rest of GM. Looks like shit on the inside. These big businesses need to appeal to younger masses & people who actually care about why they buy a car.
The usual way to do this via memcpy, rather than either a union (requires some non-portable extension like "packed") or pointer casting (invokes undefined behavior if alignment isn't satisfied).
You go to school for years and become an expert in a field. Understanding isn't out of the reach of any graduate student in the relevant field I would assume.
Do you think that a program like BULLRUN, where the government secretly modifies systems belonging to US and other entities is constitutional?

The answer is almost certainly "no". But good luck litigating it.
So many submissions, so few comments. In fact, none.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10797215

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10785792

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10783003
Because the cops can simply pull you over for a bogus traffic violation, search you, seize any cash you have on you, and send you on your way. Now it's up to you to prove that your $3000 in cash was legitimate.

Costs more than $3000 to fight the case, so what are you going to do about it? The cops just stole your $3000 and there isn't shit you can do.
Cynics might suggest that even if situations where drones are the most commercially viable delivery solution prove to be limited, their putative threat adds to Amazon's negotiation power with their contractors...
One thing I would like to point out is that the surface only option would have included a lot of money for transit.

Imagine how much transit $4 billion could buy.
Does it even have a traditional exhaust? The engine makes such little noise when it's even using gas.
If you define the problem as a lack of business or financial success, then looking at everything from business perspective is just problem solving.

I honestly cannot speak for any Gujarati in SV or even tech, but in my experience, I don't think that Gujaratis are significantly different in terms of skills, morality, or values than any other Indian or non-Indian group of people. It is very easy to say Gujaratis are shrewd or follow the old-boys-club tactics but those are just typical human traits passed on culturally and sociologically instead of genetically. The basic Gujarati values mirror the basic Indian values (be peaceful, love everyone, respect elders, help the poor, be studious, work hard) but some are emphasized a lot more than others.

For every commenter in here saying Gujarat is a backwards place, I personally know a Gujarati who has donated large amount of money to non-religious public service projects. My uncle sponsors the education of 10 kids in our village in India and feeds 100+ people on the death anniversary of my grandfather. I am not saying he is a saint, I am saying he is just one data point among the tens of thousands of successful Gujaratis. It's not fair to measure charity, benevolence, and kindness because one's native place is not Singapore or Zurich just yet.

In the past few decades, our village has progressed significantly, with wealthier Gujaratis awarding scholarships to kids in need ( http://www.balasinorcollege.com/found_trust.html ). Is that enough to wipe out poverty from Gujarat or India? Absolutely not. Gujaratis are NOT any different from other people. Few great, most decent, and a handful of bad apples (e.g. Harshad Mehta). I don't think the article was trying to highlight Gujaratis are some uber-exceptional race. It was just highlighting how ingrained business acumen is in the Gujarati ethos.
I can't find one for Zhu Xinwen.

朱歆文.
Well it's not silent (at least in chrome). it does show that it is downloaded, but it doesn't do anything to prevent this.

IMO a good solution is to make the user manually re-confirm that they meant to download a .dll file on windows to prevent this kind of thing from happening.
What I don't understand is how courts can assume it's used in a crime before a crime has been proven in court.

Presumably, if I can prove I earned/bought something, and am not convicted of a crime, turf the government seizure is wrongful and I should get restitution, but from what I read, that doesn't work?
This goes to show how slow human interface innovation is. Human hands are magnificent tools but she can use a computer (except for typing I guess) as well with her nose, as she did with 10 fingers.
I've heard those arguments but I'm not qualified to take a position on them either way. I also don't know how much trust to put in the studies that predict doom for the Viaduct in a future Nisqually-class earthquake, or how much trust to put in the engineers who say that a similar earthquake won't be even more disastrous for drivers caught in the tunnel. None of these people have a great track record for accurate prognostications.
Then shouldn't the law that transfers ownership be "seizing property without due process" and therefore unconstitutional?
Really? I think it's far more likely the highway tunnel project will be completed than I will personally walk on Mars.

I guess I'm new to the West coast and Seattle area. What is it about this project that has everybody just flipping out of their minds?
Where Unwanted Christmas Gifts Get a Second Life
There's a fundamental problem with client certs as currently implemented in browsers as well as the <keygen> tag: these certificates aren't origin-bound and violate the same-origin policy.

The method of authorizing client certs without using the same-origin policy is the source of the horrible UX problems: ask the user (often without a "remember this choice" checkbox, so users were asked every session)! Determining which certificate to use can be difficult depending on the subject/issuer, and in general this is a terrible choice to ask a user to make.

The problem gets a lot easier if you use origin-bound certificates:

http://www.browserauth.net/origin-bound-certificates

With origin-bound certs there's a clear and unambiguous answer as to what cert to use for a given origin by-design. These certs can either be dynamically provisioned in a browser or device-locked to e.g. a Yubikey U2F token. There's no need to ask the user anything more than to push the button on their hardware token if they have one. Otherwise the process is completely automatic.

I really don't think efforts to use in-browser client cert authentication that don't respect the same-origin policy are going to get anywhere because of this problem.
We're using client certs for some mobile sites. But it hasn't been an ideal experience. Has anybody else experienced a problem where Android prompts for selecting which cert to use for a given site every time? iOS seems to remember which one to use for a specific site, but Android prompts EVERY time. I can't tell if it's just something misconfigured, or if its just the behavior of the OS by design.
'OK, but at that point it's equally possible that it stands for "catharsis" and represents a file, previously being kept inwardly on disk, being released to standard output.'

Catenate and concatenate mean basically the same thing, it's trivially easy to see people confusing the two - they might even hear one for the other if they're only familiar with one. That's not going to happen with catharsis.
Some discussion previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10774180
On-Demand Economy Is Reshaping the Firm, and Society as We Know It
At Theranos, Many Strategies and Snags
ISIS Influence on Web Prompts Second Thoughts on First Amendment
Have you seen what sleep deprivation does to people? Have you seen how it causes people to lose their impulse control and go crazy ? What about driving ?
this'll be fine I'm sure :0
I thought this article great fun to read. If only this was the modern scientific voice, instead of bloodless passive-voice humble-bragging.

I also liked the sequence of posts explaining timely data flow and its implementation in Rust: https://github.com/frankmcsherry/blog/blob/master/posts/2015...
That's fair. Part of anyone's acceptance of the method would have to do with their acceptance of this tenet:

Producing a work of written art requires constant discovery
and guessing—because all works of art are works of exploration and discovery.

Thus InkWell merely seems (to me) like it would be useful as a kind of servant--a tool to show you other plausible variants of your text, and thus spur the creative process.

But if you already know what you're going to write and how, then godspeed--you're in a much better situation than most writers :)
I'm not trying to suggest that there's nothing that can be done, though I can see how you might interpret it that way, or that it's harder now than in the past, though I can't possibly see where you got that from. I'm simply saying that the "justice" system cannot be fixed without completely dismantling and replacing it, and that's not something you're going to do by changing a few laws or even releasing thousands of prisoners. Both are good ideas, but neither change the inherent injustices in our system of which there are way too many to even list. Plea bargains, mandatory minimums, criminalization of everyday activities, habeas corpus (or lack thereof), policing for money, prison officials that encourage rape and violence, racial profiling, different judicial outcomes based on wealth, police committing blatant murders without recourse or consequences, etc. are all huge problems in our current system and are not going to be fixed by a system that can't even ensure its basic principles (the constitution) is upheld.
And now the government has stolen it from the cops. Well, it's better than nothing I guess.
The role of the legal system (and government) is to keep those worth the most, safe. As a consequence, it may sometimes also protect regular people because that makes the society that feeds and supports them safer.
But make no mistake, 1 there is no real power other than the power of force, and 2 he who has the gold, makes the rules.
North Korea doesn't need any of this, because they just send you and your entire family off to a labor slash death camp if you so much as look at them sideways.

Given that context, listing stuff like "data stored and processed in the cloud" is asinine.
I'm not saying liberal rulings caused the crime wave. I am saying that there was a trend towards a more humane justice system that was stopped dead in its tracks for a generation by the crime waves of that era. I mention the liberal rulings of the prior era to highlight how the court system is capable of moving forward toward justice when the political climate is amenable to such liberalization.
consider using eatmydata. living on the edge but it is worth it.

https://packages.debian.org/jessie/eatmydata
The SS20 had serial and SCSI ports, numerous multimedia ports, video expansion from 8-bit 1152x900 to muti-monitor accelerated 3d 24-bit color, and hundreds of different SBus expansion cards. And from a processor perspective, you could (technically) start with a single 33Mhz processor and expand to 4 x 200MHz processors (from Ross) without dumping any investment.

Very few computers had as long a useful lifespan as the SS20, and if they weren't so power hungry they'd likely still be in production all sorts of places.
Interesting. The counter-point to this would be that the drone needs to take a return trip for each package, whereas the delivery truck is able to "batch." Not sure which effect dominates.
It's relative to the location of the executable, not the current working directory.

The idea on Windows is that an application's directory is a trusted location created specifically for that application. Running executables directly out of a Downloads folder is a violation of the Windows security model, so in that sense the security vulnerability is Chrome's fault, as the "correct" thing to do is to put downloaded files into different folders as older versions of IE did. Of course, that's terrible UX, and considering that this exact problem has been popping up for decades, I'd consider a manifest flag for "don't trust the application directory" long overdue.
Yes.

Because Julian Assange is free to come and go as he pleases. And of course Edward Snowden is happily drinking cocktails in Hawaii. And Glenn Greenwald's partner David Miranda was never detained at freedom-loving Heathrow airport. Chelsea Manning posts freely and regularly on her blog. See also Jeremy Hammond. Also Aaron Swartz. Also Daniel Elsberg. Also Lavabit. Also...

Ok, sorry for the sarcasm.

Maybe literally they don't physically attack your house with black helicopters. But they will bring the full force of the legal system on top of you backed up by threat and/or use of physical force.

And the tendency you describe is I think more properly denoted "whataboutery"?

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/whataboutery
> “Never before in our history have enemies outside the United States been able to propagate genuinely dangerous ideas on American territory in such an effective way,” Mr. Posner wrote. The Islamic State’s ability to spread “ideas that lead directly to terrorist attacks,” he said, “calls for new thinking about limits on freedom of speech.”

This seems to me like the keystone of the argument, and I'm fairly sure a good bout of research into anarchist and communist terrorism/propaganda around the turn of the 20th century would show it false.
> I noticed that it ran painfully slow on devices with slower disks. I suppose that is going to change now

No, most of the time is spent fsync'ing and it is a problem at a lower layer (related to dpkg), but ot apt. Too many bug reports to list but see [0] for the latest one.

You can use apt with eatmydata as a workaround.

[0] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=613428