skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And so it begins (or continues, rather): you've got 45 years to come to terms with your laptop being smarter than you are.
> The fact that you can select a sample of outliers who won big on risky investments doesn't change the overall statistical situation. Most capital is still getting low returns.

That's the key part. Looking at only winners doesn't tell you the whole story. It's like looking at lottery winners and saying: "Why are returns from gambling with the lotto so high?"
Technically, yes it is possible for an autopilot to use dead reckoning for navigation without GPS at all. (we didn't use GPS to navigate to the moon, right?) However, all commercial autopilots that I know of rely on GPS to some degree. The difference is the use of low-cost gyros and accelerometers. They are good enough when augmented with GPS, but not good enough all alone.

Edit: the low-cost sensors can be augmented with sensors other than GPS too, like vision processing. This has been demonstrated but is not yet in widespread usage. I expect to see this become more common due to demonstrated vulnerabilities in GPS.
As a matter of national economic and technology policy, Finland needs a backstop to Nokia. And the world could use another open platform for phones.
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Ikea's desks aren't that bad. I'm currently using one of these at home:

http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/60111123/

I've only got one of the small shelves on mine (which holds my three monitors) and it holds up fine: http://db.tt/GhnkSwjI
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> The way that Obj-C's popularity matches the profitability of writing for the iOS platform in lock-step tells me that some people can pick tools by themselves, but most just do what they're told...

Same exact thing happened with Ruby, and the herd followed. Is their any doubt?
They can do this already in an unmarked car; why would it be different from the air?
The door desk is a lie. They claim it is cheap, its one of the company mantras like "its day one!" that are part of the ideology/cult that exists at amazon. It is part of their fraud (like leaking that kindle fire is a success via a PR firm, if they told lies in their annual reports it would be actionable, but they can commit the same fraud using a PR firm and get away with it.)

Basically everything Amazon says is exactly the kind of lie that the door desk is-- it sounds plausible and in other contexts it could be true, but in reality, it is a lie.
> "The pay in Silicon Valley was maybe 25-50% higher than Toronto/Montreal/Waterloo and the weather didn't suck."

I live in SF currently, and recently accepted another job in NYC. Apples to apples, the pay in SF/SV is easily 100% higher than Toronto right now.

The gap is even higher in NYC (150%+), though of course, cost of living is going to eat up most of that. With the bubble heating up even more right now, I know people who are picking up comp packages 200%+ higher than the going rate in Canada.

There is simply no reason to go back - critical mass of talented, dedicated people. Interesting work. Ludicrous sums of money.
When using an IDE, that seems the type of thing that should be automatically derived from code rather having to be written and maintained by hand.

i.e. More suited to some kind of read-only overview browser than just another finicky text file.
Hey, you found me.
Super high-speed connections between South East Asia, China, and Japan will benefit everybody. It will be the backbone of cheap hosting in the SEA region.
ahem:

http://www.defensenews.com/article/20111204/DEFSECT01/112040...

edit: ( I think the real concern in this situation would be reverse engineering with an eye to finding vulnerabilities to be exploited in other drones, not so much reprogramming the one and only they have )
I was primarily thinking of knowledge workers, not process workers.
Imagine the employees at some instances of Yahoo when they removed the water coolers for cost efficiency reasons...
I usually do too, because most tickets I buy have a face value close enough to the market clearing price to begin with. But by your very own logic, that is still unfair--it would be more fair if tickets cost less but were more difficult to buy because they sold out more quickly.

The entire purpose of prices is to help distribute scarce resources efficiently. Just like Nixon's notorious attempt of putting price controls on gasoline, government messes things up when it tries to dictate a lower-than-market-clearing price. And it's hard to get me worked up with a fundamental justice argument over luxury goods anyway.
engineers aren't even on the list of high-demand occupations

Probably because there is no demand. My local municipal government was recently looking for someone to maintain their website, which is little more than a simple blog. The job description essentially laid out the job as your basic, run of the mill CRUD application. The kind of stuff kids in high school do for fun.

When you read down to the requirements section though, they were asking for a CS degree and a bunch of other stuff you would normally expect to find from a $200K/year job at Google, not a mediocre pay, small government job. The fact that they can actually ask for such ridiculous requirements and fill the position speaks to there being far more supply than demand, at least from my point of view.
There are many reasons for this, not just cost, but also link quality, latency, non-contention etc...
>what gives the "public" the right

The public paid for the roads.
Using HTTP in general as an internal transport protocol has always struck me as odd. But I come from a financial services perspective where latency is the key driver.
Nokia drops below $2 a share, HTC also having a rough time
The FAA is currently coming up with the rules to govern unmanned systems in the national airspace. They have a mandate from congress to have the rules in place by 2015. As of today, the only way to commercially operate a UAV requires case-by-case permissions.
He should do it with his 404 page, too:

http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/squirrel/404.html

:)
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UT is in the top 30 on the Times Higher Education world university rankings: http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-ranki...

They are #13 on the list of world rankings of engineering schools: http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-ranki...

By saying "Texas college", it makes it sound like some random second or third tier school did it. That's much more sensationalistic as it can easily give the casual reader the impression that pretty much anyone can easily hack these drones. If they said a team from a top engineering school did it, it would not frighten people because that's the kind of thing you EXPECT people from top engineering schools to be able to do.
tl;dr: MapReduce is bad at a lot of things that it was never designed for.
>gluing it to something that can acceptably be chucked into the glass recycler //

Can you (or anyone) provide a citation on the viability of chucking electronics fused to displays in to a glass recycler?
Thanks for reply! I am big fan of YC so this was really interesting question for me :) I believe workspace design is very important for great results and looking at YC backed-startups I was wondering which desk (and not only desk) are you using.

I'll definitely enter YC with some of my ideas at least ready as initial prototype (writing this using the moment). I hope I will like it so to make something similar in future to save this state of startup-spirit.
Good point, but not relevant for the article.
I was doing BASIC in C years ago (I was a physicist then). Don't ask...

Good to see the tradition continues. Remember this is write to do stuff everyone knows on the team.
What about Chile's startup scene?
I'm surprised you think New York or Vancouver are lower cost than SV. Externalities (housing, cost of living, etc.) are the same or higher than the other places. Talent may be more expensive but that's because that's (by and large) where the talent actually is.
That's the Smalltalk heritage of Objective-C shining through. Smalltalk was actually intentionally designed using Human Interface notions to be friendly -- even to the point of being used by grade school children.
Glad that Seattle is getting noticed. Wish more Seattle people would stay in Seattle rather than think they need to relocate to SV. Just my opinion.
Hehe, it's not actually my code, I just found this gem and I liked it :)
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Most developers are just interested in the compile-time type verification.
Why skip over Seattle, which is much closer to Vancouver than the bay, and has a pretty thriving tech scene (both startups and big players like Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft)?
Hadoop is popular not (only?) because of some PR-driven mania around big data. It is popular because it is an organic, evolving open source project that solves hard but common problems faced by a lot of companies in a variety of industries rather cheaply; despite being somewhat susceptible to the common pitfalls of design-by-committee projects.

I fail to see how the existence of other tools that solve different and/or narrower problems takes anything away from the success of Hadoop, let alone spells its demise.
This is silly. Just because google offers these things doesn't mean having your own isn't an advantage. The other thing is there are mapreduce like systems where you can start to break the rules.

The days aren't numbered. More and more companies are going to keep on contributing to Hadoop and Hadoop like projects. One can imagine that the days are numbered for Google. The moat will start to become less and less. Google is running from Hadoop not the other way around.

I mean look at this http://opencloudconsortium.org/
Eventually everyone is going to figure out that you can not just copy google but you can out engineer google. Google can't hire every good engineer.
Your sequence is growing, albeit at a decreasing rate, so I'm not sure it's a good fit for memory usage. Unless you meant to say the rate at which Firefox is bloating is slowing. I could believe that. But Firefox is claiming memory usage is following a sequence more like 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, ... Which should approach zero.

If you meant your sequence to represent performance, maybe that's what's happening, but then I think they should stop saying "now 1/1024 faster than before" as if it's a reason to upgrade.
Yeah.

Say, when you decided to write in English, you agreed to obey the rules of grammar, which state that every sentence should have a subject, an object and a verb. Constructions such as "Not some of the rules . . . " etc break that rule.

And when you decided to pick a fight with me, you agreed to not put words in my mouth. Suggestions that I assert some right to not have the laws enforced upon me, when I made no such statement, or any statement of any kind about my rights, break that rule.

I'm not saying all these rules are right. But this idea (that is, that while lecturing others, you have some right to break those rules because you them inconvenient) is absurd.
Great. California on Bankruptcy, startup bubble at his best and now burning more budget on this.
That is, in fact, exactly what I was talking about.
Can you imagine how Google Glasses will change this experience? You will be able to record everything you see, every day, every moment. Imagine wearing Google glasses all the time, for 15 years constantly recording everything. Then you will really be able to relive every moment of your life.
I've spent about 3 years doing support in #nginx. Perhaps I've just been thrown someone else's list of 15-20 locations too many times.

Locations definitely need reworking, never said they didn't, I just took issue with the having to check the verbose logs as it's perfectly possible without.
I like the Economist and was glad to see them report on the facts as they currently stand and not offer an opinion nor get overly passionate on the matter, like some news reports in the States tend to do.

That said, as someone who was caught leaning too far in the direction of the collapse about a year before it happened, and lost considerable funds when some surprise discount window rate drops happened in August of '07, I hope all this information finally comes to light. There is <i>no way</i> this is limited to just the banks in England.
I'd make the exact opposite claim. Apple's been extremely aggressive about minimizing their impact on the environment. They've reduced or eliminated packaging whenever possible, reducing the carbon costs of transporting their products. Heck, they've stopped physical shipment of their software, which means they're no longer pressing media and shipping boxes around the world.

When it comes to their machines, they've aggressively moved to using more recyclable materials throughout the entire product line and taken steps to reduce toxic chemicals used during production and assembly. Based on the OP and other articles, it does seem that some machines are less recyclable than others, but overall they've taken huge steps to improve recyclability. If nothing else, current machines are certainly more green than "old Apple's" machines (or any other manufacturer's machines of which I'm aware).

Thanks to the increased importance of mobile products, even their OS is more power efficient than most others out there. They've gone to lengths to architect the system to be aggressive about stepping or powering down hardware when it's not needed, and to also be intelligent about when work needs to be done so that the system's more often in a reduced power mode. Because they make the whole widget, the hardware and software are complimentary in reducing power drain. The same reason a MacBook Pro gets 20 hours of battery life is why an iMac pulls less wattage that other desktops.

Finally, addressing your explicit point: a machine's only obsolete if it no longer meets your needs. I know people still using PowerPC Macs, or early generation Intel hardware. Apple no more "designs for the dump" than any other computer or phone manufacturer. Everyone releases new hardware every year and wishes consumers would immediately upgrade. Ultimately its up to the consumers themselves to upgrade; no one's forcing them to buy new hardware.

Again, comparing "old Apple" to "new Apple" – Mac OS 8.1 was the final OS release that supported 68040 Macintoshes. The first 68040 shipped in 1993 and Mac OS 8.1 shipped in 1998 (as did 8.5, which removed support for the 68040), giving us a supported OS lifetime of ~5 years. This month OS X 10.8 ships, which will remove support for 1st generation 64-bit Intel hardware (those machines ran 32-bit EFI which can't support OS X's 64-bit kernel). The oldest supported machines will be the second generation Core 2 Duo and Xeon, which shipped in 2007. That gives us a supported OS lifetime of ~5 years. Old Apple seems rather similar to new Apple, in this regard.

According to Mactracker, Macintosh 128k only had a supported OS lifetime of 2 years – System File 3.2/Finder 5.3 are the last supported Macintosh software releases, and they debuted in 1986, just two years after the first Macintosh. Perhaps "new Apple" is better than "old Apple". ;-)
In which case it is no different from Java or C#: both also give you compile-time checks.
The timeline/feed is not a WebView from what I can see. The news part/tab is though (which is displayed in the screenshot).
Not too sure about the bit that says our brain stores everything. There's a school of thought in psychology that works on hypothesis that our brain only stores partial information, and the rest is reconstructed. Bit like a fantasy, where you imagine the most likely outcome and context for the bit that you remember.
I can't find it right now (how ironic), but the example was, that if everyone close to you (parents, brothers, sisters) insisted and told stories about you that did not actually take place, you would eventually accept them as reality, and be 100% convinced that this is what actually happened to you.
Anyone fancies an experiment?... :)
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They're not broken, they're not linked/non-existent. They're using the '#'. Either the details will be anchored/bookmarked within the page or just a holder.
go on ... explain, would love to hear
Thanks! It looks interesting.
I know. My point was that this isn't a good justification to remove the public folder, as people could always put HTML files there and it was safe to do so.
Some of the submissions may have been 30-40 basis points off (0.3-0.4%). "If you take this and multiply it by the $800 trillion, you start talking real money."

Ever since I first heard that LIBOR is set by voluntary submissions rather than actual data, I have wondered how that works. Now it's becoming obvious that it doesn't.
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I was using the Mood, Smile, Male/Female, Age Estimation, Recognition and those are the key ones.
i wear glasses and for a while, i was considering trying this as an experiment (there were various options available with a camera in the frame and such) ... just to take snapshots every few minutes and do that for a week or so. thing is, this most likely will top the point of redundancy, where a sequence of images might just not be relevant anymore after the first image in a particular scene...
Then you are needlessly torturing yourself, if that's your thing then go ahead, but yeah I'm being blunt and calling that stupid.
Because it would seem to me that your company _invented_ a tradition like that, it's just that you didn't like that it wasn't invented from the guy sitting next to you.

Yes, but even if the reason for bucking the new "tradition" is spite or envy (and I don't think it is in this case) that's reason enough. The whole point is that culture emerges; it is not prescribed. It doesn't matter why it didn't emerge. If it didn't, it can't be forced.
Indeed, this is really bad reporting (IAA UAV researcher).

They were using a small rotary wing (relatively cheap) research UAV, despite the various articles including pictures of Global Hawks/MQ-9s etc.
These small systems are usually designed for research, and so use the same UBlox/MTK/Sirf based GPS chipsets you find in sat-nav systems for example.

It looks similar to a Yamaha RMax, although I can't be bothered to find the actual model. The RMax is designed for agricultural use & research, not fighting wars.

The vehicle control software simply assumes the GPS is correct. It wouldn't be that difficult to cross-check against the IMU data - our research drones can happily fly for a few seconds if they loose their GPS lock but spoofing would probably knock them down, because we just assume it won't happen!

You could build a DIY version of the Texas drone for around $1000 using open source hardware and a COTS model helicopter.

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This not news, anyone who works with these vehicles knows this. It's like shooting a horse and then claiming terrorists can take out tanks with a single bullet.
I'd sure like to see Dave Chappelle get the cast back together and resurrect his old show. Maybe if he was in total control he could deal with the pressure. He could even stage it on his Ohio farm if he wanted.
Maybe some one would create a Bittorrent WebRTC bridge of some sort.
i agree, this sounds much more reasonable ... and I think this explains why we quickly lose details of situations ... they are likely not deemed important enough (or possibly can be replaced with blurry bits and pieces and reconstructed). not a brain scientist. although this whole thing got me curious for sure.
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Kiosks begin defining shopping and customer service?
Well the way it's supposed to be set is by averaging out what the '16' banks are charging each other, or more specifically by throwing out the top 4 and bottom 4 rates then averaging out the 8 remaining.

When you look at how everything eventually played out, it becomes clear Barclays was not alone in what they were doing.
Along those lines, reading Programming Perl is a pleasure in good part because Larry et al. spend time explaining not just the language but also where some of it comes from and its rationale (or not so rational ;-).

Note that I'm referring to the first or second edition (maybe the third); I understand that the fourth edition is just recently out.

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If you are genuinely curious then read some political theory. Such as John Locke's second treatise on government, and "For Individual Rights" (see Amazon).
And Schmidt underestimates the thrill of driving and flying.
It also happens because capitalists make "more money than they know what to do with". Scare-quotes because they think they know what to do with it: invest it!

However, if they all have lots of profits and all invest looking to make additional profits... you get the problem that more and more money goes chasing the same amount of productive assets/investments. The supply of capital has increased versus demand, which will naturally lower the price of capital (ie: return-on-investment).

The best thing the rich could do for their own rates of return would be to consume or donate large fractions of their wealth, returning wealth into the economy as something other than capital. This would reduce the oversupply of capital and thus increase its price back up to where capital investment becomes worthwhile again.
There's no such thing as an "Apple factory". Apple doesn't own factories. And Foxconn makes products for more companies than just Apple.
Ewww. WTF?!

http://www.cprogramming.com/c++11/c++11-auto-decltype-return... provides a rationale: so you don't have to type in ClassName:: twice. Is that really worth this monstrosity? The function name is still not at the start of the statement. '->' is being horribly misused. Anybody know if there's a better reason for this? Did the committee really have nothing better to think about?
I am aware of the history of the internet. I am responding above to rhetorical mischaracterizations of the Pauls' statements.

As to whether DARPA's history suggests that any 'net neutrality' regulations would be applied in an 'enlightened' manner, I find that idea laughable. The FCC is not run by by research scientists who value the end-to-end principle and resistance to damage/censorship above all else. The Congresspeople who'd be passing the enabling legislation are those who keep passing 'Decency Acts' (no matter how many times the Supreme Court strikes them down), enabling new wiretapping powers, and trying to sneak favors to big donor industries into legislation.

The internet is no longer a research project or prototype. Its equipment, infrastructure, and services are now overwhelmingly privately provided. We should look at attempts to federally impose "network" neutrality with as much skepticism as if they were trying to impose "printing press" neutrality or "nonfiction book neutrality" or "newsprint neutrality". Those ideas would rightly be heckled, were they proposed, because our society understands at a deep level that the printed/written word should be a government hands-off zone, from author through editor-publisher-distributor. The same should apply to the internet.
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