skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google didn't start first at all. Maybe they have the right people but as far as resources, other car companies have them too. That's their bread and butter, not some experiment

By the way: " Mercedes missed a barn-door sized opportunity last week when it revealed technical details of next year's 2014 S-class, which showed that while this flagship model could potentially have been the world's first autonomous driving car, Mercedes has decided not to give it that capability. For now, the driver's hands have to remain on the wheel at all times.

"The car would do it [autonomous driving] today," said Jochen Haab technical support manager, "we have had test cars doing that, but what happens if a child steps out into the street and the radar misses it?"
http://www.roadandtrack.com/go/first-looks/new-car-tech-2014...
I don't think many people will necessarily own their own self-driven cars. Why have something there idle when it could be doing other work? More likely it will operate more like a taxi or by subscription. Or even own your own, but have it used in a pool to recoup costs, a bit like swap-n-go gas bottle refills.
It's a moral imperative to destroy capitalism before we gain transhuman power over Nature!
In this case the test was "substantive speech". IANAL, but my layman's understanding is that in order for some action to be protected under free speech laws it has to intentionally communicating some coherent message.

So, for example, if I was kicked out of a restaurant for not wearing shoes I couldn't generally claim free speech protections for my lack of footwear. However if I did so as part of some theoretical organized protest involving shoes then I could, as in the second case my unshod state was clearly intended to convey some message.
Neurosynaptic chips
Just choose a random chapter and read it!
That's only true if we assume that the chance of dying of an accident will remain constant in the next 2000 years (it won't).
Do you know the suicide and depression rates throughout history?
The need to appear intellectual by disliking popular things is strong in this forum.
You might want to set up another revenue source before you quit whether is be freelancing, another job, etc. Personally I'd never leave a job before I did that, regardless of how disillusioned I was.
Not to mention that exit valuation is a dubious metric of startup success to begin with. It also excludes startups that don't exit. Airbnb, Dropbox, etc wouldn't be included.
'Grand Theft Auto V' Is the Most Expensive Video Game Ever Made
"It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on Earth has ever produced the expression 'as pretty as an airport'. Airports are ugly. Some are very ugly. Some attain a degree of ugliness that can only be the result of a special effort. This ugliness arises because airports are full of people who are tired, cross, and have just discovered that their luggage has landed in Murmansk, and architects have on the whole tried to reflect this in their designs.

They have sought to highlight the tiredness and crossness motif with brutal shapes and nerve jangling colours, to make effortless the business of separating the traveller for ever from his or her luggage or loved ones, to confuse the traveller with arrows that appear to point at the windows, distant tie racks, or the current position of Ursa Minor in the night sky, and wherever possible expose the plumbing on the grounds that it is functional, and conceal the departure gates, presumably on the assumption that they are not" – Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea Time Of The Soul

(In all honesty, I suspect I'm guilty of producing several websites that could easily be accused of those same faults – though I don't _think_ I've ever accidentally sent anyone to Murmansk…)
I am not an engineer outside of IT, but what if you submerged the hyperloop in the pacific between SF and LA? Would thermal expansion no longer be an issue because you're using the ocean as a thermal sink? And you can provide enough positive air pressure to keep water out of your loop.
Somebody coded the Star Wars Opening Crawl into HTML and SCSS
In addition to the discussion here, you can also follow the discussion on fred's article here.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6408318
"The kids who went into fighting games, though, I do judge as such."

Where "fighting games" includes snowball fights? Seriously, that is all kids above the mason-dixon line (and I assume kids in the south have some equally harmless equivalent. Water-balloon fights probably.)
Like with Blackberry 10 they are too late.
I do not expect a company with a name that seems cribbed straight from the lyrics to "Here Comes Another Bubble" to remain a mainstay of standards in the design world for very long.

This, too, shall pass.
Apple issues internal high priority alert for iPhone activation server woes
Who cares about startups that don't exit? We aren't here to build companies, we are here to exit and make lots of money! :)
We're clearly months from April, so is there another prank date of which I'm not aware?
The biggest predictor of a society's average predicted lifespan is infant mortality. Most of the gains in average lifespan over the last 100 years is from increasing the number of children who live past 2.

3 years increase from a non-infant mortality related improvement is actually pretty huge. I'd have to look it up, but I think the impact of non-infant vaccinations would be roughly a similar sized increase.
I don't see where Fred says that exit valuation is a metric. His blog post on the subject never includes the phrase "exit valuation".

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2013/09/maximizing-runway-can-minimi...
I don't know. I left RIM before that all unfolded. From what I recall, the Indian government was appeased by RIM offering to install a Relay in India, and giving the Indian government access to it.

However, even having access to the Relay shouldn't compromise the integrity of encrypted BBM because it used peer-to-peer public/private key crypto. When you added a new contact, the devices would perform a handshake and exchange public keys, so even the Relay shouldn't be able to see cleartext BBM. This was a feature baked into the BBM app itself, built on top of the PIN message system, and separate from the encryption used in a BES environment.

So did they shut off BBM encryption for the whole world? I wish I knew.
You should come live in Santa Cruz. Ocean, mountains, cheaper. We have a tech scene here - really!
My understanding is that the thermal expansion is taken care of near the stations with a telescoping section. So the tube then has to be free floating, i.e. not attached to the pylons.
I have a carbon fibre and silver Caran D'Arche. It cost me GB£ 500 seven years ago, and I use it daily. It, and my watch (a Breitling Navitimer) are the only things I've ever bought where I was able to perfectly balance utility, quality and aesthetics, and hence didn't care less about the cost.

The point is that what works for one person doesn't necessarily work for another.
Yes, it's just your circle of friends and mine too. Majority out there are easily swept up in a panic, sadly.
Are we ever allowed to change our mind about something without being called a hypocrite? I don't think changing as you age is hypocrisy.
Very interesting graph.
But this is kinda obvious - success of startup is really about team, product and market. The way how company raises money (or not) it should not really matter. If a way how company raises money really matters, then VCs will care less about team, product, and market and more about who is investing with them and how much money is needed. Which is obviously not true...
Sounds like a great idea, well, except for the Texas part.
A nonprofit, a national lab, a university...
... and that's why i use tripit
We're actually testing Signal on Safari/FF as the majority of the codebase is the same. They should be out in the coming weeks.
The public aren't really aware of how much of a flight's control is handled by a computer and how much by the pilots themselves. Behind closed doors, literally.

I'm keen to see self-driving cars, but there will be a lot of opposition. Lobbying from trucker unions and the like will push negative stories and pressure decision makers, for example.
Life expectancy is increasing, but quality is decreasing... we've been made to die; not live forever... but some egos just can't stand it.
Well they've got "cyber-bullying" now just for one I suppose. Probably plenty of other new dynamics that adults aren't particularly aware of.
Yeah, but one of the big bullet points is that the tube should be at negative air pressure in order to reduce air resistance.
And what if I lean towards, "Universal healthcare, and this is health care, so therefore the government should have a monopoly on it, and this should be way up high on the list of priorities"?
Classy address in the MailChimp email, but I'm not sure this is CAN-SPAM compliant:

Signal
Starbucks
San Francisco, CA 94100
Yeah, with 18 Euro - 20% for a single .net domain. It's pretty easy to know what's going on. <sarcasm>Big bargain</sarcasm>
He is a VC, and a good one, so success = exit valuation by definition. This is implicit when a VC is talking about success.

Fred talks about he defines success here - http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/06/how-we-measure-success.html

"We are financial investors and we do want to see our portfolio companies become valuable."
It was possible to install the betas on non developer iphones by using the upgrade button in itunes (it doesn't require activation). Also, the GM doesn't require activation.
I have a feeling that if you're a startup that took VC money, you very much care about an exit. Whether you like it or not.
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one of the angelhacks
I haven't tried it but you can make your own epub using the scripts here:

https://bitbucket.org/gsauthof/aosa-epub
Really? That's a reason for staying with Blackberry?
Curious who/what these users are. Is there some case where users are primarily dealing with email on a mobile device AND forwarding around lots of attachments?
I'll admit, I like that idea, but not enough to stick with an (IMO) highly antiquated platform just to get better attachment forwarding.
If we are going to consider crazy ideas, here is one. On the side of the street that has the fewest parking spaces, get rid of on-street parking. On the remaining side, change from parallel parking to perpendicular parking. Two perpendicular spots should fit in the same curb space that held one parallel spot, so we break even or gain even if we not gain some new spaces between driveways that were too close together to allow parallel parking.

The space for traffic lanes would be a little smaller, and actually maneuvering in and out of parking spaces would be a pain in the ass from at least one lane.

The loss of some space for lanes could be addressed by angle parking instead of parallel parking. If the angle is not too steep (say, 30 degrees or less), it would not unduly interfere with people using their driveways even if both sides of the driveway were occupied by parked cards.

Both the lane width problem and the maneuvering problem could be addressed if the street was changed to a one-way street.

(Hmmm...converting a street to one-way and reducing the number of lanes by one could give enough space to do angle parking on BOTH sides. That would give a big parking gain).
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i probably should have. but whatever, I'm not participating in theirs again
I think you need to look at this from Fred Wilson's perspective as a VC. Exit is the only the measure of success. It is how he and every VC is ultimately incentivized by their LPs. The more exits and the larger those exits, the more money the VC makes and the more likely they'll have LPs invest in their next fund.

Of course, one can argue that startups should be not be in it for the exit, but when you take VC money, that is what you are signing up for.

Fred talks about he defines success here - http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/06/how-we-measure-success.html

"We are financial investors and we do want to see our portfolio companies become valuable."
I think the 2 working parents in combination with commutes and non-walking friendly neighborhoods killed it.
http://www.leancrew.com/all-this/2013/08/hyperloop/ goes into this in more detail (and is skeptical that it can work as described in the Hyperloop Alpha white paper).
Well it's not just to promote their work, it's because that specific brand could use an update.
I'm sorry, I fail to see how Android is designed has anything to do with carriers not updating their specific hardware's OS version. My devices are kept up-to-date quite nicely, so I guess Android on those is the one that Google designed correctly?

That's more about Google's negotiating capabilities with the carriers than how they design software.
As long as we have social systems designed to maximize strife and toil, we should be working to destroy those social systems and replace them with systems for creating peace and happiness, yes.

Medicine and life extension as a public service is great. As a private luxury of the rich it's abominable.

Think about the implied statement of making radical life-extension available to the rich alone! "Whereas I will live to 160, you will only live to 80. Because I can afford these treatments, it means my life has double the moral worth of your life."

If you honestly believe that moral worth and financial net worth are two different things, you cannot support setting lifespan in accordance with money. Period.
Per the referenced link, a package of fresh beer yeast contains about one hundred billion cells.
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That's a technical problem, not a moral one.

More seriously, we could scan backups. Or we could live in the Matrix, not as meatbags plugged through the neck, but as programs –which could be backed up as well. (Don't ask me who gets to be root.)
Unfortunately Google doesn't let you manually filter out sites from your search results anymore. At one point EE was the only site on my filtered list...
metafilter.com

To elaborate on this answer, it's one of the coolest general communities on the Internet. It has a good, developed culture. Peruse the wiki for a bit...

http://mefiwiki.com/wiki/Main_Page
Exactly. Dribbble is a canvas where you post whatever the fuck you want knowing that most likely you won't be able to use it anyway. It's a way to say, "look how cool it is", and move on.

It's not unlike posting a snippet of cool JS/CSS/whatever on HN and showcasing it. Yes it's not practical but it COULD be inspirational.

One reason why fashion shows exist is to give trickle inspiration to other fashion designers, not to be an exercise in practicality.
No (nor is it an oxymoron, which I think is more relevant); a paradigm is a defining pattern, and quite including a pattern of action. Its frequently used in a way which implicitly references a pattern of thought, but its not redundant to make that explicit.
Except you don't have free speech protections in restaurants; they're private establishments that are free to restrict speech as they see fit, provided they are not discriminating on the basis of your membership in a protected class.
> Mate, the 'future' you're suggesting here and the related straw man argument is one of your choosing.

It's a thing that actually happened. I'm sorry facts don't accord with the world in your head, but there you are.

> Very few of mine don't have Linux versions. This might not be the norm for most people of course, because it's linux that is gaining in the field of gaming platforms over windows.

"You shouldn't want to do that" is rarely a compelling argument to customers.
So it sounds to me like you agree with him – your Dribbble content is closer to "digital art" than "examples of your typical design work".

I wonder if there'd be an opportunity for a Dribbble-like site to showcase your "business goal articulation" or "optimised interaction flow"? I'm guessing not – partly because I don't think nearly as many people do that work for "fun" (in the way that many people _do_ create polished final renderings as an art/pastime), but mostly because I suspect there's significantly more business value in them – I'd expect to see that sort of higher-level business-strategic work showcased as whitepapers on a Digital Agency's website (or locked away behind NDAs or contractual/provacy agreements with the clients).
Our research institutions are not broken. They are actively defunded, disabled, and handcuffed by an elite class who would rather return to the days of aristocratic decision-making than subject themselves to democracy.
What's the ask here?
Text Messages / SMS cost a LOT outside of the US. With very few offering decent text packages.

Everyone I met in Mexico City used Whatsapp. I suspect BBM caught on in England for the same reason.
The hypocrisy appears when they don't pass the same judgement on themselves. Do they disapprove of what they did when they were younger, or do they think "oh, well that was all fun and games, but these kids should not be drinking"?

I had this discussion with my mother (who went to school in the early 70s) when I entered school. Her position boiled down to it being reasonable for her to drink because it was legal, and unreasonable for me to drink simply because it was illegal. Now, I don't equate legality to morality, in no small part because she didn't raise me to do that. When pressed to actually explain her disapproval, she relented and admitted that her position was hypocritical.

Hypocrisy isn't about changing your mind. It is about holding yourself to a different standard.
Right, but what if its not feasible on land due to thermal expansion, but is feasible underwater with slightly higher power requirements to overcome air resistance? Just a thought.
If you'd actually described any relevant aspect of Hyperloop your criticism might have more credibility, as it stands it has none. Hyperloop is not a vacuum tube train, and the primary mechanism it relies on is non-trivial.
The "Catholic values" you criticize and approve of are not "catholic". Forgive the pun.

Edit: I see a way to read your statement as saying that Duquesne has a twisted view of Catholic values. Which I could agree with. However there is another reading, not difficult to stumble into, where you are trying to make a general statement about Catholic values, which I could not agree with.
I like to take notes of things that people mention in articles that will help me, such as websites for pens, and what kind of notebooks to buy.
I don't know, I'm kind of skeptical that your language reflects statistical realities at all times. Have you never described something with the adverb "probably" that actually had a less than fifty percent chance of occurring? If not, I'm not sure what it is about this particular usage that merits the increased scrutiny.
>>We eradicated smallpox for everyone, without distinction between rulers and ruled. That's the difference!

You may want to familiarize yourself with the history of smallpox eradication before continuing this debate. The vaccination was available mostly in wealthy countries first.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallpox#Eradication

"...coordinated efforts against smallpox went on, and the disease continued to diminish in the wealthy countries. By 1897, smallpox had largely been eliminated from the United States.[66] In Northern Europe a number of countries had eliminated smallpox by 1900, and by 1914, the incidence in most industrialized countries had decreased to comparatively low levels..."
I have. I play some of them (e.g. Limbo, which is great). I also want to play the Saints Row and Risen series, too.

Unfortunately, the games market as a whole leans more towards the big series, which are much less likely to be cross-platform beyond "several consoles and maybe a PC port."
While I mostly agree with you, I bet the AltaVista team at Digital said the same thing about that stupidly named "Google" company started by those two academics with no business experience…
Bump validation - Google Patents
Imgur: the simple image sharer
Jquery-snappish: snappy scrolling like on Apple's iPhone 5s/5c websites
This is a good start. I am hesistant to share my Gmail info with any app.

on the other hand Gmail itself (as in the client) is clearly reading my mail
A good argument against ad blockers
How to make a DIY home alarm system with a raspberry pi and a webcam
Hi Bert!

(Firebase Community Manager here). Great job on this! To get some feedback on your app, I recommend sharing it with our Firebase + Angular Google Group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/firebase-angular

Thanks,
Sara
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For those of you upgrading to iOS7 it will need to be reactivated, so hold off for now.
Let's go to the original post [1]. Fred says "To my mind, maximizing runway is not the game startups should be playing. Getting somewhere fast is the game they should be playing." This is consistent with the VC playbook. They invest in high growth companies and want to fund expansion, not an extension of "As is".

Let's look at a few issues with the OP's analysis:

1) As others mentioned, there is a survivor bias.

2) Runway should be measured in months, not in millions. Size of funding to log size of exit is the wrong metric. Months of runway to IRR of exit is the better comparison.

3) I forgot what #3 was.

Even when the counter-argument isn't great, I still like the discussion.

[1] http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2013/09/maximizing-runway-can-minimi...
Transcend violates GPL
This is honestly a crap article. Absolutely shit.
It feels like NPR doesn't approve of Snowden, rather like how Jeffery Toobin doesn't approve of him.

Is this just a manifestation of NPR feeling that upstarts like bloggers, etc aren't Real Journalists?

Or is this a manifestation of NPR being part of the mainstream media, and not wanting to upset their relationships with "insiders" and "unnamed sources" and so forth?

Either way, NPR seems like they're part of the "US media is a US Gov lapdog" syndrome. The Guardian and "O Globo" scoops everyone else in the whole world, so the US Media is going to ignore the story.

NPR acts this way on copyright related stories, as well, I've noticed.
Thanks, this thread needed a strawman.
> Are you going to complain that open source software destroys the income of developers too?

Even open source software needs support, maintenance, optimization and customization. Even if Linux is OSS, Google still has their own in-house kernel team (and I bet the same happens downstream at Samsung). Apple with LLVM is another example. Some people/companies are willing to pay to get more features/support/bugfixes for FOSS projects, and there's always going to be more work to do.

I can't think of any open source project that was ever finished; for an example of the opposite, look at Wine.
Verizon Has Never Challenged NSA, Exec Mocks Internet Companies For Doing So
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Bundled SMS are usually only "free" within the home country. International SMS get expensive fast, even with the new European rules on pricing. WhatsApp and presumably BBM, etc are great for people with contacts abroad / Travellers with a local data plan (although WhatsApp gets complicated with all the different numbers, so travellers will likely benefit the most).
Move east to Manhattan and it's easily $5,000/month for a 2BR. If you want a neighborhood with a decent public school, it's even more.