skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This very much ties into my answer elsewhere on this thread but I hadn't quite thought of it in your way.

It's like what the Citibank CEO said about the subprime mortgage boom: as long as the music is playing, you've got to get up and dance.

VCs are pressured by unicorn successes to 100x their investors' money, and the scarcity of decent (acceptablely small return without absurd risk or absurdly small return with acceptable risk) investments around the world are very hard to come by these days, so Silicon Valley is pretty much the only option left for people with money who want to see more of it.
As far as my research goes, we can make a secure system fairly easily which solves 1 and 2, but not 3. Getting all three may even be an impossibility theorem without physical control of the data (e.g. paper ballots). The cryptographic solutions are very new though, and there may be a breakthrough I haven't heard of yet. Still hopeful
It's actually one of the few non-insane ideas about blockchains. But it has already been done as another commenter already posted.
Study shows one way that scientific progress is broken
That puzzle needed more clarification. The solution talks about having two padlocks affixed to the same box, but I can't imagine any kind of box that can have 2 padlocks affixed to it unless the box is specifically designed to allow 2 locks.
You can only think in these morally high ways if your rent is paid for by other means. Otherwise the most important thing is getting any money.
Everything adds entropy for user fingerprinting. That argument is about as valid as "DNSSEC is an enormous vector for DDOS" (it is, but so is everything else).

Meanwhile: it's "trust on first use" for individual connections, but if you break a pin, your browser vendor will find out. It doesn't matter if a pin is broken for a minor reason or because some CA in Uzbekistan falsified the entire chain: either way, shenanigans get CAs penalized. It's happened repeatedly and will happen more and more.
Not everyone wants to deal with running a company. If I started my own company, I'd have to be involved in hiring/firing people, worrying about whether I had enough cash flow to make payroll, and all sorts of other things I'd rather not be doing. That would probably burn me out faster than being employed as a developer. (In a previous job, I almost burned out from the stress of being a manager, and then went back to being a developer, so I know first hand some of the burdens of management.) Besides, my employer treats me pretty well.
I thought that too, but that last YC batch was filled with some solid (read boring) start-ups. They all had potential... not sure they all had the potential to be billion-dollar companies, but I doubt YC is going to lose any money on that batch. It was a lot more down to earth than the typical silicon valley type nonsense I've personally become used to.
Major blockchain competition is getting closer
My school loans are paid off in less than a year, and the thought of this has certainly crossed my mind. I've got the house, and I'm sick of all the shit in it.
I'll just solve this assuming the light starts off, because otherwise I have a feeling it will get miserable to think through.

Every prisoner starts at c=1. If light is on, turn it off and decrement c. If the light is off, turn it on and increment c. It c hits 0, always do nothing. If c=101, everyone has been to the room.

Everyone wants to turn off 1 more light than they turn on, but that means one person has to turn on the light 99 more times than they turn it off (and then they have to see it off, indicating the 99th person has reached c=0, and turn it on for themself to reach c=101).

Edit: Thinking back through, I think just starting at c=2 and waiting for c=200 works for an uncertain initial state of the light.

Edit 2: One of the problems with this method is that you are essentially waiting for the nature of random distributions to select people unevenly to get people to hit c=0 and be "removed". At higher average c (excluding 0s), this may take a while. It can probably be made faster by having a chance to not turn on the light at low c and not turn off the light at high c, but I wouldn't be surprised if that doesn't actually end up being faster. At the very minimum a prisoner could stop lowering c once it got above the 50% mark.
Same here! I absolutely loved the King's Quest and Space Quest games (and really most of Sierra's adventure games) and have very fond memories of them. Definitely a big part of it was due to the settings, characters and stories. And the interaction and exploration of those worlds... on a computer. Which I was just naturally fascinated by. I was also fascinated by Ken and Roberta's story about creating games from their kitchen table. That seemed magical to me. I poured over every page of their pamphlets and magazine (Interaction).

I know that if those games were released today there's no way I would play them for long and I'd recognize them as poorly designed. But when I was a kid every new game was a big deal and so I pushed through the puzzles (I felt certain ones were ridiculous, but generally just accepted them as what adventure game puzzles were). Sometimes I'd get stuck and come back months later. Ultimately I beat most of the King's Quest and Space Quest games, even years later.

It's hard to imagine that today with the unlimited buffet of cheap or free games. The constraint used to be money, now it's time. Even for kids.
Off topic but how would you build something like this from scratch. Just for the learning part of it. Any examples?
Great resource, well made. Bookmarked.

This will be a good supplement to nomad list.
I am unable to mirror Chromecast from my Mac. Basically, it mirrors the video but does not mirror the audio.
I did something similar.

I wanted a vehicle I could explore the world with, so I turned my Jeep into a house on wheels with fridge, drinking water and filtration, solar and dual batteries, interior cabinets and a custom modified pop-up roof so I can stand up and walk around in the Jeep.

I joked about applying for a home owners grant :)

The full pictures and story are in this album - http://imgur.com/a/OLK3o

I'm driving it around Africa now.

EDIT: I'm a Software Engineer too, and I decided there is more to life than sitting at a desk - a few years back I drove Alaska->Argentina, now it's around Africa for 2 years.

EDIT2: I've hit my posting limit.

Yes, I'm still alive!

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Well, you could do it to defray some of the cost of the car by making use of its idle hours, but it probably wouldn't make sense to buy a car just (or even mostly) to rent it out, for much the same reason that individuals don't do it today.

Plus, when Teslas are usable as self-driving cars, the value of the rides provided will drop precipitously -- that figure would be more like $5000, and you'd have to lock up usable hours for it and perhaps pay some penalty to renege on specific hours.
The shortest path to a career would be if he could use Python proficiently, then applying for jobs that requires Python. An easy way to get proficient would be cheap online work that pays poorly but will have him solving diverse problems.
I feel your pain. One thing i'll note about your landing page is that it seems to suffer from the same problem mine does which is a lack of content.

Folks that have reviewed my landing page brought up this issue as the biggest red flag. I had a nice looking site but very little content, very little actual information or persuasion. I've been working on adding more content.

As a user, i feel just like that looking at your landing page. What's the real problem you're trying to solve? Why is your way better? Why should i trust you?

Those are the questions your content should answer. I would shoot for 500 - 1000 words on your landing page (based on advice i've read only)

ps. I think it should be 90th percentile in your screenshot.

pps. I added more content to my landing page (to answer those questions) this weekend. In case it gives you any inspiration, it is: https://jobrudder.com
Stocks are stagnating.

* S&P500 YTD: Up 6.7%
* S&P500 1 Year: Up 9.7%
* S&P500 5 Year: Up 85.4%
"Surely this Pentium is so powerful AI is just a year away!" we all thought in the early 1990s.
What the graph really seems to indicate is that time is only linear when working within a cache size on the author's computer (remember that iterating a linked list accounts for the gradual increase in between the cache jumps). If the theoretical upper bound of RAM access was really the important factor at this scale, I wouldn't expect it to be almost flat and to suddenly jerk up every time we have to go to the next cache.

Assuming the author's O(sqrt(n)) is correct, it seems only relevant on much, much larger scales.

In light of that, it really doesn't make sense to pollute the typical use of Big O notation. It should always be understood to be just one metric to understand an algorithm.
> Sorry cache-misses don't count as part of a theoretical analysis on complexity.

They don't in the random access machine model, but there are other models where cache misses do factor in.
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> Maybe I'm not up to date but what kind of evidence exactly? Could you give a source?

Wired: "According to a number of top cybersecurity researchers, they're probably right." (https://www.wired.com/2016/07/heres-know-russia-dnc-hack/) Wired cites the following firms: Crowdstrike, Fidelis Cybersecurity, Mandiant... and a professor named Thomas Rid. Apparently Crowdstrike is the firm hired by the DNC specifically (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/russi...) but there's more than one organization mentioned.

New York Times: "American intelligence agencies have told the White House they now have “high confidence” that the Russian government was behind the theft of emails and documents from the Democratic National Committee, according to federal officials who have been briefed on the evidence." (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/27/us/politics/spy-agency-con...)

Reuters: "U.S. intelligence officials told top congressional leaders a year ago that Russian hackers were attacking the Democratic Party, three sources familiar with the matter said on Thursday, but the lawmakers were unable to tell the targets about the hacking because the information was so secret." (http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-democrats-hac...)

The Daily Beast: "The researchers, at Arlington, Va.-based ThreatConnect, traced the self-described Romanian hacker Guccifer 2.0 back to an Internet server in Russia and to a digital address that has been linked in the past to Russian online scams. Far from being a singly, sophisticated hacker, Guccifer 2.0 is more likely a collection of people from the propaganda arm of the Russian government meant to deflect attention away from Moscow as the force behind the DNC hacks and leaks of emails, the researchers found." (http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/07/26/dnc-hacker-...)

If you want notes from the cybersecurity organizations, why not head to both Crowdstrike's blog on the subject (https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/bears-midst-intrusion-democ...) or ThreatConnect's blog (https://www.threatconnect.com/blog/tapping-into-democratic-n...) or a link to Fidelis Cybersecurity's blog (http://www.threatgeek.com/2016/08/fancy-bear-has-an-it-itch-...)?

This honestly doesn't seem like weaksauce evidence at first glance. Of course since this is politics / national relations, "you never know". But what I don't see yet via a Google search is a post in a cybersecurity research organization's blog saying Russia didn't hack the DNC.

If you come across that, let me know. At present, the argument some are making -- that the evidence that Russia didn't hack the DNC -- seems weak to me. There's just no evidence I am encountering that Russia wasn't involved.
> Energy != electricity.

If we are concerned about reducing CO2 emissions, energy usage is the important metric, not electricity.

However, this distinction doesn't matter much here, because, as I said:

> The exact percentage, whether it's 91.5% or under 60% doesn't even matter though, what matters is that fossil fuel burning is increasing in absolute terms[1].

Also, we burn fossil fuels to heat up houses. If we want to burn less fossil fuels for that, we need to generate more electricity, but we need to do it without fossil fuels. The only available ecological technology that exists today and has enough capacity is nuclear, and nuclear production is decreasing.

We burn a lot of fossil fuels. A big part for electricity, some other part to do other things (X). A big part (not all) of X can be done electrically too, but then we need a way to generate that extra electricity without fossil fuels.

> [something about plants and fish]

True, but I don't understand the relevance.
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Thank you for the extra and unnecessary bloat on the main browser I use for work.
Yeah I know how the old init systems work. I also know that the newer ones all try to keep track of which services they're starting so they can shut them down in the right order and wait until they're finished.
Whoa, whoa, whao. QT is superior to Tk because of network abstractions? Hello, Tk is part of Tcl, which has a socket layer so sophisticated that its embedded into Cisco routers.

Let's keep the discussion between QT people who actually KNOW Tcl/Tk and Tcl/Tk people who actually KNOW QT
Haven't people tried this before and Apple shut them down for infringement?
I found that odd. I do worry that many people use technologies because other people working at a completely different scale or in a completely different domain have hit a ceiling which wouldn't really apply to most people. They are convinced to start with a more complex and more difficult technology that's solving problems they are unlikely to be facing any time soon.

1. NoSQL <> traditional RDMS because of scaling/sharding

2. Angular <> jQuery (or anything similarly lightweight) because of the issues around huge complex webapps

3. 'Fast' languages <> 'nice' languages ( ;-) ) because of performance concerns

4. Static typing <> Dynamic typing because of maintainability across large teams.

5. Docker/Microservices etc <> traditional architectures because of... I really have no idea...

So I guess the degenerate case is some poor chap learning web development who decides to write their Pet Store as an angular app with a Scala API backed by Mongo and Solr deployed to a Kubernates cluster ;-)
You mean something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamir%27s_Secret_Sharing or even RAID6's Reed-Solomon codes?
> Long before that is the case, there'd be no incentive for the manufacturer to sell the car at all;

True! Given that a large portion of US car sales are 'fleet sales'[1], it's very likely that car companies that lead in automation with sell their cars to their own subsidiary automated taxi companies.

It's also worth noting that some car companies already have their own car-sharing services - BMW with ReachNow and Mercedes Benz with Car-to-Go. The moment they have their own reliable automated driving systems, they will turn those into taxi services.

[1] http://www.autonews.com/article/20160307/RETAIL01/303079955/...
I suspect all of tesla's high end cars will always have it- their lower grade cars are probably going to have a subscription of some kind.

Also, consider that tesla essentially owns the largest amount of electric stops in the US. They've got their foot in the door, no other manufacturer is going to come close. When electric cars really kick into gear, tesla controls the gas pumps, and can charge everyone else, while still giving free to their own cars, which is a pretty good incentive.
It has nothing to do with the model and is just a question of whether b is a variable in the big O notation.

And in this case of O(sqrt i) memory access times, a binary tree and b-tree stay within a constant factor even as you vary b. (The reason is, the binary tree accesses that a single b-sized access replaces get exponentially more "local.")
This was not relevant to my point. 4 comments (in 2 places) without touching my point... :-( You are not serious, bye.

You argue also in the other comments that there are small differences between USA and Russia -- my repeated point is that the whole Western democratic world don't agree with your assessments here.

(In Sweden, a good part of the ex communists do agree with you -- at most 5-10% of the population-- but those guys have never supported a democracy in military conflict with a non democracy...)
It's depressing when even the BBC is full of click bait and contentless garbage: http://i.imgur.com/n482Pze.png

Two or maybe three are fine. The rest is total shit, though.
The interface is very fluid and reactive for me. Not on a massive project though.
The title of the post itself sends shudders.

What does it feel like?

It feels like a blessing to have known what was and what is now. Certainly gives one perspective.

It feels like Wow
Interesting but ridiculous approach to hiding content because of ad blocking: set the article's font to "redacted_scriptbold".
Big thread already.https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12379518
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They claim autopilot uses "cameras, radar, ultrasonic sensors and data."

I think even just the cameras alone would be valuable. It seems a Tesla has a better idea of what's going on around it than a human would, so these sensors should be at least close to sufficient for training an autonomous driving agent.
The developer is here. I've already mentioned, I wasn't ready to be on HN today (I'm not the OP), and that's why I missed logging. Anyway, I'm really sorry for that.

Right now I'm making a new build with the fix. Thanks for letting know.
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What static analyzers do you use for your embedded C++ work?
This is true but there are a couple caveats, one being the device playing the content has to already be authenticated properly.

You cannot simply go near a Cast-enabled device and start playing your stuff, unless I am mistaken. If that is the functionality then that would be terrifying as I would be handing my credentials to this Cast-enabled device.
What do you have against your brother putting $500 back into the economy? That's good for everyone

How is it good for everyone else? Everyone else now collectively has $500 less to spend on other goods and services. Instead of scarce resources being used to create those other goods and services, they will be used to grow weed. That sounds to me like it's decidedly bad for everyone else.
The theoretical discussion is interesting, especially the circular library that gives some intuition of the square root law.

But in practice, you usually know the order of magnitude of your data, so access is rather O(1), for some constant that depends on the size of the data. Jeff Dean's "Numbers Everyone Should Know" quantifies this constant.

http://highscalability.com/numbers-everyone-should-know
> It seems like Cast would be an inferior way to stream HD content to a TV for many users. If the source host is wifi-connected, you're tripling the amount of traffic that's passed through your access points:

That's a fallback method, but the expected methods for most sources is that the you send the Google Cast receiver (chromecast, etc) a URL for the media, and it goes and streams it directly.
What a life...

Go where you want, do what you want, buy what you want.

Get payed for making and playing video games.

Sign me up!
not to worry. some taggers will probably beautify it soon.
Why are you assuming that everyone agrees with you? Maybe we reject your premise.
Ah, hearing the name "Sierra On-Line" brings back some memories. Caesar, Earth Siege... Does anyone here happen to know where their licensing portfolio/copyrights/code have ended up?
You think as founder you don't have to deal with that? Oh boy, you're in for quite a few surprises. And how do you learn about how to handle this if you work at more established companies?

It's the kind of thing we all already know of because of tv shows like game of thrones. But experiencing and actually handling it is another topic.
> IPs aren't tied to specific subscribers, and giving out a database of IPs to subscriber addresses would be a huge breach of privacy (as advertisers can use it also).

Would that really stop BT? Or do you think that they wouldn't without getting paid first?
Yes. Psystar tried this shit 8 years ago, and lasted all of 18 months: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psystar_Corporation

Edit: did some digging on what they're actually aiming to sell.

Also, regardless of their copyright/ip infractions against Apple, their marketing staff are taking pretty decent liberties:

> Looks like a Mac. Feels like a Mac.

From the images shown, it's a HP EliteBook 14". So, it's vaguely silver coloured.

From the FAQ:

> It's a like-new refurbished HP EliteBook

Given that, and matching the specs against what I can find online, it appears to be an 8460p, which from what I can tell, is at least 4 years old.
I don't know why, but a lot of devs seem to just ignore ~/Library/Application Support/, where crap like this is supposed to go
Am I the only one who feels like depreciation should of been taken into consideration when he was calculating how much it cost?
Most laptops which don't have thunderbolt ports have a pci express card slot that's also vulnerable to DMA attacks.
The 'crash' won't be so much a function of how well earl stage companies are doing.

It's a function of the IPO markets and overall investor confidence.

If there are a few big IPOs, it will create excitement and money will keep coming.

"The money is not there anymore" - it definitely is.

Even without some IPOs to keep the animal spirits going - the big difference between this and the last few VC 'corrections' is that now we are in a permanent era of low interest rates - and - money from around the world is finding it's way into the Valley creating a surplus of cash.

This is a secular change, and it's the 'new normal' at least for now.

As long as there are pitches, there will be money.

I suggest a correction is coming of some kind, but it won't be a huge drawback, like the kinds we've seen before.
Totally agree. What if the title doesn't sound rant-y or millenial-y? Like "An Analysis of Yelp's Sorting Algorithm", or something else that is data-driven and not emotional-sounding? I'm interested to know how the common underlying reaction that you describe could be different depending on what the article sounds like.

That is, does seeing "medium.com" after reading a post only serve to amplify a pre-existing suspicion (based on title) that the article sounds rant-y, or does it actually decrease your likelihood of clicking regardless of what the title was and how you felt about it?
> So now its called Google Cast, not Chromecast?

The apps and technology have been called that for a while; Chromecast is one of the receiver devices that supports the technology (there are others.)
I suppose this makes sense if you're renting a unit in a massive apartment block or from a large property management agency.

My guess is that a quicker reply would give you little to no advantage when it comes to mom&pop landlords who only have a couple units to lease out. All but one of the places I've rented have been from small time landlords and they seemed to put more work into than just who replied the fastest.
Still can't develop apps for iPad Pro on an iPad Pro.
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