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Business in self driving cars? How about the elderly that get to choose between depending on somebody, or driving unsafely? How about carting around too young to drive? Making current taxis obsolete? Self driving big rigs?

It wouldn't necessarily eat the entire car industry, but it's close.

That said, yes, they have to target problems that require a lot of capital, because, in practice, a company that will turn a profit no matter what you do is not one that is ever in a rush, or where hungry entrepreneurs go. They have to aim for niches where regular venture capital would never dare to go. This leads to lots of risky bets, looking for one that really moves the needle.

Remember Xerox PARC? That is what a monster like Alphabet ends up doing. It was not great for Xerox, but we all sure benefitted from their 'failures'
Why are you assuming the analogy is to physical resources instead of "population slots," for lack of a better term? The old have to die for the young to move forward, which is one thing that gives me pause about immortality research.
Clicking buttons is not inherently superior. Text interfaces work very well for a subset of people.
I tried to destroy my closet once but the closet-recovery authorities super-cooled it and alas all my clothes were exposed to my dismay...
The answer truly depends on your experience and requirements. For example, I am creating a new business (a quasi-SAAS model), and will use Drupal, because it is a good fit for the project, and it will allow me to be up and running very quickly. Furthermore, because of my knowledge of Drupal itself, I know that the project will be secure and follow best security practices.

I would not, however, recommend Drupal to you unless you are an experienced programmer and don't mind learning how to correctly use Drupal's APIs.
This is something I'm trying to learn how to do as well! Things that I'm in the middle of:
- Going to social/entrepreneur mixers and meeting people to talk about my site. The in person aspect of this is also a great way to get feedback on the idea.
- Providing frequent updates through my own contacts on social media.
- Contacting prominent bloggers in related topics about writing a guest blog post.
- If it's fitting, Hacker News!

I would love to hear what other people are doing besides spending a ton of money on ads.
In the US it's considered studying, in e.g. The Nordic countries it's an employment. You get a decent (but lower than in industry) salary, and for that you are expected to teach some percentage of your time, meaning the PhD will take at least one more year than it would in the US. Still, a fair proposition I'd say, compared to paying even more for PhD studies after you paid for a degree.
There's no such thing as "faith" as separate to "knowing something is true". Many people who even call themselves religious miss that. If you really believe that the doctrines of your faith are God's prescriptions (and there are ways to make that as a logical inference of some basic axioms within the system of a religion), then it's not "arbitrary set of rules" - it's the set of rules God wants you to follow. That's how actual faith works.

(Speaking from experience; I used to be a true believer.)
It's like a month that I uninstalled the facebook app, because it didn't provide enough value. I didn't noticed the correlation until now, but last week I started carrying with me my old kindle touch during my commute. It just happened and I'm at Chapter 11 of Crystal Society [http://crystal.raelifin.com/].
I mean: If Hungary wants to jail everybody who uses encryption, and everybody uses encryption, it's "more efficient" to make the country itself the jail, because that many Hungarians don't fit inside the jails.

It's a joke.
How do you figure? The doom maps are almost all completely dull looking and gray, aren't lit realistically (so depth from shading becomes harder to determine), and because of no anti-aliasing, lines are far more jagged (meaning the computer needs to be smarter, in order to join disparate lines together it 'thinks' are connected). There's barely any distinguishing features separating wall boundaries from texture details either. I think you might be underestimating the challenge here.
If you want as much protection as Earth's atmosphere provides, 25 inches. At least that gives as much mass in between the card and space as the atmosphere does. (1 atm is about 30in of mercury, lead is 11/13 as dense as mercury...)
I think this has been mentioned before on HN. Finger prints, retina scans, brain scans are not passwords, they're userid's.

If the scanner could read a password out of my head then it would be a password. But merely knowing it's my brain isn't good enough (for secure transactions at least).
To put it bluntly, I can think of a number of other cases where

(1) people say things to children because it is more pleasant or convenient, not because it is true, and

(2) these misleading statements have negative effects later.

In this case, it seems potentially worthwhile to keep in view that death is actually not a good thing, and that it would better if there weren't death, and that we want to keep an eye out for opportunities to prevent death. "You do not make peace with darkness!"
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> In that case, no, Microsoft would not be able to do anything to someone who found a Windows DVD modified to remove the EULA check [...]

They would certainly be able to do something about that person, if said person would start distributing copies.
No, that is not better, because it removes the code before getting to the static checker. Most compilers can optimize dead code away automatically, at least the ones for sane languages that understand they are there to serve the programmer and not the other way around. Dead code checking is one of the last checks an optimizing compiler does, in the hopes that other optimizations have made sections of code dead (things like inlining constant expressions need to happen first). So I still want this code to be checked, in case any dependencies it has change. But ultimately it still goes away.

Frankly, I don't even want the cognitive load of dead code, so as I said, I only do this for people who insist they need this sort of crutch.
I think this line of jokes has some potential, but I
I am a bit saddened I never had the chance. He seems like a great guy.

Knowing how to die is as important as knowing how to live, perhaps more. As he leaves us, he is giving us all an important lesson.
This is quite confusing. "A brief summary, the hacker created a proxy on the credential page to log the credentials of Facebook employees. These logged passwords were stored under web directory for the hacker to use WGET every once in a while".

So they were grabbing creds, but it's ok it was just a researcher? Pretty sure that's crossing the line and indicative of an actual compromise of employee credentials.
Because the analogy is about Lego box and making new houses, as opposed to e.g. fitting new houses on a finite Lego base plate[0].

I don't buy the "population slots". 100 years ago, the "population slots" were limited to at most 2 billion, back before Harber-Bosch[1]. There's a lot of space to use - we can live under the sea, we'll finally have an economic reason for that Mars colony. And we can stop making children so much too. Those things are actually easier than beating death, so - with added incentive to actually making them happen - you can expect them coming before people actually get immortal.

[0] - http://www.amazon.com/LEGO-X-Large-Gray-Baseplate-628/dp/B00...

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haber_process
I saw this a year ago too, its was a good watch.
Other than for profit scam schools, the average phd candidate isn't paying anything for their degree. You are right that they are basically getting minimium wage. But that's the trade off for pursuing academia. Nobody is forcing this on them. These are people with college degrees not paupers.

It's really not all that different from people living frugal so they can their startup.

If Phd candidates don't like the system they can go find real jobs like everyone else.
They actually licensed it to low-income, food-deficit countries as defined by the FAO, which means that countries have to both be below a minimum GDP per capita and grow less calories of food than required to feed their population. (The pilot project was in the Philippines, which has since been retroactively removed from the list due to a re-estimation of their GDP.) Most of those countries can't grow rice for climate reasons. Worse, the estimates of its usefulness assume that a rather large proportion of people's calories come from golden rice, which obviously isn't possible - and it's of questionable effectiveness even then.

The Phillipine government has since largely solved their vitamin A deficiency problem through a lower-tech and cheaper approach: vitamin supplements.
For servers, really? I don't get it, they could just use RISC-V.

x86 has a user case: legacy software.
You could also get a Wartburg, a Moskvitch or a Lada, and a few others. Probably also Skoda, but I don't remember hearing about them back then.

The big brass were driving Volvos. They were nice cars, but Sweden was seen as sufficiently neutral and socialist-like.
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Thought this was something for killing processes judging by the title and it being hacker news
I'm not sure why, but something makes you stand out. I love that you present without slides, for example, and I can't think of anyone else doing that.
Ask HN: How well does the Windows version of node.js work?
I'm a node developer, I've been developing on Linux and then OS X for the last decade or so (in Python before node came along).

For various reasons - mainly around hardware - I'm interested in Windows. I use Sublime, Sourcetree, git, RethinkDB, and other apps that have Windows 10 versions. I also use Sketch which has no Windows 10 version, but Adobe XD is similar.

Does anyone develop on node / Windows every day? How well does it work? Do you have issues with path length? Apps assuming path separators? Do you have issues with c modules? Do you lose productivity from random brokenness? Or is it pretty solid?
The marketing opportunities alone are insane. I am amazed that they are turning down the name. This ship had the opportunity to be as well known as the Titanic (but for better reasons)
perhaps because he has no concrete information on their behaviour whereas he had exactly that on his own US government.
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Not even class-action, just individual lawsuits.

For mesothelioma, an in-person referral from a doctor to an attorney is worth well over $10,000. Of course the doctor doesn't get paid until after the successful suit - but even discounting the time value of money, it's easy to see how advertising at $50/click could work out.
There are sites I just can't go on mobile because iOS web view doesn't support purify and they have a form of ad that steals the current page - as in, not a popup or popunder, the whole page gets redirected and original link is lost, you can't even going back because the redirect stack they drive your browser trough is too deep. It's usually the mobsweet network.
Maybe his publishers could increase revenue percentages for him from his books sales; I did not even know he was an author, otherwise I would have bought one or two of his books earlier.
Agree. With Assange I think it's even more obviously the case that it wouldn't actually be in US government interests to bring him to trial in the US. He's a skilled communicator, has a similar and even more fanatically loyal following, is a civilian holding the passport of of an allied state, and it's by no means certain what they could charge him with never mind how they could secure a conviction that looked like justice to the average voter.
I bet security chiefs were besides themselves with glee when allegations completely unrelated to his day-to-day activities emerged, and even more delighted when his response was to refuse to defend himself against the allegation on the basis that it must be part of a coordinated dirty tricks campaign against his freedom of speech.

It's great to get the chilling effect on those most likely to be motivated to expose government wrongdoing without actually having to do anything, never mind do something that the average voter might think is going too far.
Without knowing any additional details of the agreement, I don't see how Intel will let this slide. The terms of their agreement are mostly likely violated at least in spirit, if not in the letter. Not only that, but it will have to get past export controls that have very recently stopped exports of Intel processors bound for China, I have no doubt they will find a joint venture to develop similar processors an easy target. If it gets past that, I would expect a lengthy lawsuit from Intel. Seems very risky from AMD's perspective.
Just like with many other disorders, as long as it's a mild problem you can use a number of ad hoc remedies, but it just won't work for people with real issues. Telling a junky to just do yoga and stay away from drugs is a valid suggestion, but in real-life it's just not enough. Real procrastinator will not do yoga when procrastinating, simply because most of the time you are not even aware that you're procrastinating at the moment. Or if you are you don't have a mental strength to fight the urge to do it. I know this is very hard to grasp for someone who have never experienced it, but the act of procrastination is actually a kind of reality distortion where your own brain tricks you into not really noticing what you are doing. It's a bit like when magician diverts your attention so that you don't notice when he hides the card in a sleeve. You know it will happen, but you aren't aware of it in the moment it happens and you just can't stop him from shifting your focus away from cards. That is, at least, my impression how it happens to me when procrastinating, simply at some point my subconscious gets bored and jumps to another track without consulting the rationale me about it. Half an hour later you realise you've been reading an article about skeletons of giant sloths found in China instead of working or whatever you've planned to do.
You picked an interesting one to comment on - henrik_w's comments contain, based on a quick scan, a bit more than one link to that blog per comment. That no longer seems like commenting, so much as spamming.
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And as a non-mac user I would really appreciate a OS X VM. I know it's possible to build one but it's a lot of work.
Chicken Nugget
He gives his books for free, so I can't imagine what buying would do for him (as I presume the paid sum is just the price asked by publishers for their service/channel). If you wish to support him you can do it more directly.
This is profound.
Is there a reason I can only generate buttons and navbars? Or is that the reason you said you 'started something'? Can you at least pop up an alert when I try to click on the other greyed out items? It's ambiguous why they don't work!
There's a chance you might be misjudging "the people."
I think Snowden is valuable to Putin, he's not just a liability.
Rational Fiction
I can not understand this approach to parenting. I had the luck of my parents never lying to me to shut me up. Even the "hard topics" of sex were handled properly even before I started asking about it myself.

> (2) these misleading statements have negative effects later.

Yes. And I had to fix that damage in people too. You know, sharing an interesting tidbit of information with a person close to me only for her to suddenly realize it was another thing her father mislead her about. Lying to children is like placing relationship landmines - your kids will step on them many years later and it will damage your relationship with them.
> The doom maps are almost all completely dull looking and gray

I will fight you ;-)

But seriously: The project uses a source port of Doom[1] based on ZDoom[2] which supports high screen and texture resolutions, mouse look, colored lights etc.

Although I think that since Doom has less visual clutter (bloom, shadows, ambient occlusion, screen distortion) than a modern AAA game its display should be easier to read.

[1] https://github.com/Marqt/ViZDoom
[2] http://zdoom.org/About
I agree with you on this. I would say that it's a poor editorial decision not to include a leading paragraph that addresses the headline.

Usually I find this is the difference between a good broadsheet newspaper and a provincial one.

It's fine to write in an expansive, non-tabloid way in the main body but you must address the headline in the first paragraph.
Yes, twice.

He said that chemo was the only thing he was trying. Does that mean we can't discuss immunotherapy here? Perhaps there are other people reading in a similar situation, or who will be in a few short years. Time and knowledge could make a difference.
Or God Save The Queen to number "two" to mark Lizzy's Silver Jubilee. Mind you, that was also a decent song.
Power Over Nature
What next? Were the geese Sully's plane nailed actually newspapers?
If you want to cut through the fluff search for "Why?" in the text of the article. More articles should do this.
How is it courageous to safely live (and have permanent residency) in Russia and criticize the US? This is basically what every pro-Putin Russian politican does every single day.
UK intel agencies spy indiscriminately on millions of innocent folks
Seconding (thirding?) this. Where I work, any rep who orders a group of mostly meat-eaters vegetarian food because the group has a single or a few vegetarians too, will be seen as making a declaration of war.

I've had people walk out of company dinners (to get "real" food) due to inconsiderate behaviour like this, from supposedly "tolerant" managers. Needless to say, such incidents are seldom repeated.

And I say inconsiderate, because that's what such behaviour constitutes as in my cultural climate.
Citizens United did not affect the ban on corporations donating to candidates. Subsequent to Citizens United, the Supreme Court denied certiorari to Danielczick vs. U.S., which would have implicated that issue.

Contributions to candidates implicates very different concerns. The biggest difference, in my opinion, is that in Citizens United the law targets people who are not running for office. The ban on corporate contributions to candidates can be seen as a regulation on the candidate who may be required to bear such additional regulation as part of running for office.[1]

[1] That is not the orthodox explanation for the distinction. The orthodox explanation invokes Buckley v. Valeo's balancing test, and notes that the free speech concerns are less in the case of direct campaign contributions and the corruption risk is greater. I don't like balancing tests so I don't find that persuasive.
Been a fan of Pieter Hintjens since 2010 when I found ZeroMQ and read that ZMQ guide which was the most easy to read and fun technical guide that I read ever. I tweeted and he replied back, and I was startstruck by a tech superstar. He was always fun to follow and I remember one of his tweets where he says we don't even need fruit sugar, though I never followed that advice :) As graceful as ever. Godspeed Pieter.
I live at 60 degrees also, and I agree with everything you said.

The cold didn't bother me at all, even though I'm from a hot country originally. I rode my bike to work every day of the year in fact, even in -45C. I loved it. It's like being on another planet in it's beauty and differences.

Like you said, it was always in late winter/early spring that I'd loose it a little. I'd grab a burger and beer after work, then somehow two weeks would go by where I had done that every day, with lots and lots of beer, and I wouldn't really know how it happened.

The key for my was to always, always get outside at midday when the sun it out and get it on your face. Even on the coldest days I always go for a walk along the river to marvel at the beauty and get the sun on my face - that's a luxury of not being further North, the sun actually comes up and I can have it directly on my face.

And to get moving after work. Eat dinner then go snowshowing, x-country skiiing or whatever for at least a couple of hours. It's nice to get into this habit before winter really hits in Oct/Nov, then keep it up. It's amazing to be out there in -45C with a headlamp, the stars and of course it's how you get to see the Northern lights more often than not.

Of course, in summer, I get home from work, eat dinner then go mntn biking/hiking/fishing/whatever until 2am in the beaming sunshine. I call it two days for the price of one.
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Citizens United was not about, and did not change, the restriction on "candidates receiving donations from companies", which is what OP was discussing.
If you want a desktop Messenger application, check this out : http://messengerfordesktop.com

Electron app, uses native notifications, no need to run a webpage in a browser.
> Basically it is a Macbook Pro

Without the display... which is a major reason why people purchase a Macbook Pro.
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>Human language and internal thought (the infinite use of finite means) appears to be entirely unprecedented in nature

The other day, the theory that dolphins might have an evolved language was discussed - a highlight was the fact that word frequency in dolphin whistles follows zipf's law [1].

I'm not saying they do, but I'm curious. If it turned out that they actually possess the ability to use language, and can even think in it, do you think would you be willing to accept that we are not inherently special?

Is coherent thought magically human, or does it simply emerge from high level abstraction and complexity?

[1]http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.0321
Andy Grove must be spinning in his grave!
In general, I'm inclined to think that in a democracy, the people should have more direct influence to things “closer” to them (by some measure), and less for bigger, nationwide, issues, of which they presumably have less understanding. This is, in fact, how most democratic nations work in practice.

Problem is, it's easier to develop an understanding of national issues than local or regional issues because national issues get pushed on us by media, while you have to actually seek out information about anything local. Everyone talks about national issues, that's social pressure to become knowledgable about them.
Mental downtime
I didn't get far enough to do anything past writing some X protocol parsing code in Haskell (for type etc. safety, since writing an X protocol parser in C sounded like a mistake), and there are better language choices today.
"x86 is legacy" is a very good meme.
Alex St. John's Daughter Responds
> Accuracy will get you an endless cycle of "but why dad?"

So keep answering until you can't, and then say "I don't know". Curiosity is something to be fostered, not shutdown with lies.
The trinity: Something you know, something you have, something you are.

Reading the article, the 'brainprint' seems to be more similar to a challenge/response password than an identity. The brainprint is the brain response to 500 images. It can therefore be changed and replaced by another response to another set of images.
It can be seen as a high security biometric challenge/response password mechanism which can not easily be eavesdropped or faked.
The brainprint is something you HAVE (the response) which is different from something you ARE (a fingerprint, a retina, a brain)
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HN is a social bookmarking site.

Anything that gets voted to the first page IS de facto HN content, as voted by HN users, unless it specifically violates some rule.