skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You seem to think that keeping the pilot awake is the only option (based on your car example and rhetorical question) but actually there are several options but it's important to be tracking pilot drowsiness as a datapoint first.
Autoland is already quite safe. However it requires special procedures on the ground to ensure the ILS signals are of sufficient quality, and so it is normally only used either in inclement weather where visibility is to low to trust human reaction times, or as a monthly system test with a pilot ready to take over in conditions suitable for a fully manual landing (in which accuracy of the ILS radio signals cannot be assured as ATC is not making sure other planes stay sufficiently far away from the path of the radio signals).
There is no reason not to enjoy the benefits of modern version control just because some code you inherited is utter shit.

On the other hand, being familiar with modern version control is a good idea, if only just in case you inherit code that will be shit.

On the other other hand, regressions occur and go unnoticed even on the best of projects.
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Lots of words, but once again they boil down to your intentionally skewed benchmarks and your personal opinion that performance overrides any other concern and that dynamic and non-JVM languages have no advantages. This is oversimplified debate-club propaganda presented as fact.
Except for saving human lives in emergency situations. I doubt the self-flying plane would land in the Hudson river and saved all the passengers.
Agree, it's the first CMS I've worked with that wasn't incredibly painful.

Modifying Cartridge to work with my payment provider was pretty straightforward, and creating a few custom Page types was super easy as well!
Qassem Suleimani: the Iranian spy who runs the Iraqi government
Nicotine as a useful stimulant
Wikipedia exhaustively documents 'Have a nice day'
A Map Of All The Microbes On Your Body
>I'm an idea guy

>learning how to code

>WordPress plugins

>iPhone apps like Santa Strike.

lol you wonder why
Crowdfunded equity investments should be treated as gambling, don't do it unless you're willing to lose money.

Over half of traditional angel investments don't return the investors money and 90% of the returns come from 10% of the companies. These are traditional angels who are well connected, do due diligence, etc.

With crowd-funding from the start you face an adverse selection problem, a lot of the "best" looking startups are going to take money from well respected angels and are going to fill up their seed rounds long before they need to turn to crowd-funding. So with crowd-funding you're left trying to find the good companies (which there are significantly less) which aren't obviously good from a surface analysis.

So rather than 10% of the companies returning 90% of the returns with crowd-funding it might be closer to 5% or 1% of companies (only time will tell us the exact numbers).
Please tell me how I can make the ads less intrusive. I was under the impression that we had done them right. There's even a link to forever opt-out of ads without a second thought.

>Do note that imgur doesn't have any ads on imgur.com.

...yes they do.
Re-structuring a conversation destroys the old bad conversation.
Google to face trial for wiretapping
You're correct that Notch worked at King[1] for many years, but he had left King long before Minecraft became big enough to pay for development. He left king in early 2009 and started Minecraft in May 2009 while working for Jalbum[2], in June 2009 he started opening up sales of Minecraft and in August 2009 went part-time at Jalbum so that he could focus some time on Minecraft. He left Jalbum completely on June 1st 2010. A fun fact about Jalbum and Notch (although this is steering way off topic): after Minecraft really started to take off Notch recruited a bunch of people from Jalbum, one of the Mojang co-founders was the Jalbum CEO (Carl Manneh) and a couple of Mojang employees were Jalbum employees.

[1] He was an actionscript programmer, he worked on http://www.king.com/games/action-games/luxor/ http://www.king.com/games/action-games/carnival-shootout/ among others

[2] http://jalbum.net
Isn't the whole idea of clojure that it is built on JVM?
Most of the base stuff used with linux comes from GNU. glibc, gcc, bash, and many the base tools - which is why many insist on calling it GNU/Linux
Why would you want to? The JVM is pretty awesome. There's already a scala implementation for .net, so it's got at least some level of VM independence, but the JVM is the primary target and I'd expect it to remain so.

As well as the VM there's the runtime library to consider. There was a project recently here that compiled scala to javascript to use on web pages, but unfortunately it needed a 16mb standard library.
very interesting! i'd like to see more please!

-bowerbird
Show HN: Formbuilder.rb - Rails engine for users to create their own webforms
Your comment added nothing to the discussion so no. Such cheap jokes are really not interesting.
You can delete your own images, by the way, from the same computer you uploaded them from. We won't put media on a time bomb, though, it'll be there as long as MediaCrush is there.
Strangeloop 2013 slides
Dave's Pirate Metrics is great. If you like it, you might also enjoy this matrix that maps the most common SaaS key metrics to pirate metrics phases: http://www.happybootstrapper.com/2013/pirate-metrics-matrix/
Declara Co-Founder Ramona Pierson's Comeback Odyssey
Ramona Pierson got hit by a drunk driver, went into a coma, came out blind, had 100 surgeries, conquered the world and just started Declara, which is funded by Peter Thiel
> Apparently, they are still making progress, but it must be hard to catch up with Linux.

Its probably hard with far fewer active developers, and even harder with the amount of Hurd's development effort that's gone into a series of dead-end efforts to replace the kernel.
Haha, many people just find it too painful to admit they were ever wrong. So once they say they support a given team, party, church, company they start ignoring all evidence against it.

Interesting how after your original argument (the difference between app and bookmark) was defeated you came up with a new one (percentage of people liking).
I don't understand why people link to raw slides. Are we meant to waste our time trying to read meaning from them like tea leaves?

Surely there is something to go with this slideshow?
bcrypt. It'd take roughly 40 years to reverse a single hash on one modern CPU. A truly dedicated adversary with lots of resources could tie a single uploaded image to a single IP in about a week of hardcore hashing with thousands of CPUs.
@mediacru_sh
Countdown to imgur buy out...
As daigoba66 says, air traffic control (the equivalent of which is a large part of driving) is still done by human beings.

Two other points.

1. Driving happens "in 1-and-a-bit dimensions" (i.e., cars are on roads, which are 1-dimensional plus a bit of width) and aviation happens "in 2-and-a-half dimensions" (i.e., planes are in the air, fairly close to earth, but with quite a lot of flexibility as to height), which means that there's far, far more space for planes than for cars.

If all the world's drivers were completely unable to tell where other vehicles were, all the roads would be filled with crashed cars within seconds. If all the world's airline pilots were completely unable to tell where other planes were, the effect would be minimal. Except that there'd be a bit of danger at takeoff and landing -- which, not altogether by coincidence, are two other things that are best done by human pilots rather than unaided machinery.

2. Cars operate in a world where there are also pedestrians, buildings to crash into, etc. Planes, not so much.

It seems to me that, to a very good first approximation, none of the problems self-driving cars need to solve apply to planes in sufficiently similar ways for "we can do it with planes, so why not with cars?" to be a good argument.
Indubitably.

More relevantly, Finnish uses compound words more than English.
s/\<OS\>/kernel
Especially hard to catch up with Linux when Linux began development in 1991 and Hurd began in 1983. Linux is only -8 years ahead of Hurd in development, you'd think Hurd could have caught up by now.
"Individual programmers can contribute by writing a compatible duplicate of some Unix utility and giving it to me. For most projects, such part-time distributed work would be very hard to coordinate; the independently-written parts would not work together. But for the particular task of replacing Unix, this problem is absent. Most interface specifications are fixed by Unix compatibility. If each contribution works with the rest of Unix, it will probably work with the rest of GNU."

This stood out to me. Back in 1983 online collaboration was unheard of, and it was only the incredibly modular nature of Unix which made the project seem at all plausible.
WebRTC is going to break the whole game open anyway
Exactly. Crowd funding is an ideal source of capital for con artists.

"We are a team of Nigerian Bankers, and with your donations we will raise enough money to give you double what you contribute!"

"We are a team of scientists who have discovered this one wierd trick that the medical community doesn't want you know about. If we meet out goals, you can receive the new wonder pill that adds 3 inches to your penis!"

The future's gonna be interesting...
We've had RES support since day one. We contacted him a while back.

As for HoverZoom, we don't really want to be involved with them [1]. We considered it, but decided against seeking their support.

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/MediaCrush/comments/1k1sb7/announcin...
How exactly does 2 weeks paid vacation and 8 days paid sick leave change any of this? You're still out of luck if you end up bed-ridden for two weeks with the flu. My alternative of giving everyone a minimum chunk of four weeks --preferably six, but a minimum of four-- of paid time off for whatever reason gives people more breathing room, not less. They get more time off than they would have otherwise. This keeps more sick people out of the office, because they aren't having to worry about eating up precious PTO on what might get the office sick, or might just be a stomach bug.

Honestly, I sense people are latching on to my "tough luck" comment without bothering to think the rest of my comment through.
I would be actually ok with that provided that they offered to pay for the overtime.

In the US, salary and overtime are usually not available together.
You can use Java and Scala in the same project.
The TomTato: tomato combined with potato
"According to data compiled by Wadhwa, the average age of a successful entrepreneur in high-growth industries such as computers, health care, and aerospace is 40. Twice as many successful entrepreneurs are over 50 as under 25. A whopping 75% have more than six years of industry experience and 50% have more than 10 years when they create their startup. "

Yeah but the data also says that most chess masters are under 30. And chess is more strongly correlated with success than success.
Exactly, and it is really hard for me to see a scenario in which this whole thing ends well. It's basically inviting a huge pool of suckers to the table, gambling on terms set by the dealers, with payouts engineered and controlled by the dealers.

Just about the only way for this to work, without causing a ridiculous speculative bubble, would be to force increased transparency of the financial documents of private companies (thus blurring the lines between private and public, which is opening a can of worms in its own right).

Success in angel investing is predicated on two things: 1) access to the best deals on the best terms, and 2) enough capital to absorb losses in search of outsized hits. Retail investors have neither of these things going for them, so what they're doing amounts to little more than playing roulette.
If you care at all about this stuff, do yourself a favor and read "The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses". [1] Eric Ries shines a light on vanity metrics, tells you what you should be tracking, and ways to track it. [2] He goes into detail about how companies, big and small (himself included), often track the wrong metrics, which in turn give wrong indicators, he helps you turn that around.

[1] http://www.amazon.ca/The-Lean-Startup-Entrepreneurs-Continuo...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean_Startup#Actionable_metrics
Sounds like a material for a story in itself ;)
Can't believe "on-line" and "snail mail" were terms being used in 1983!
Works fine for me in incognito mode.
I think details matter here. What you've described is a little too general to know what's really going on. For example, when you say "everyone bashed her", what would we read in the transcript? How many is "everyone"? How was she bashed?

I agree that it might be sexism...and it might not. I'd have to know more. I know a talented scientist woman who, at least in one point in her career, put across a very "flaky" image to other scientists, and one of them told her so. She felt hurt about it, but it was true. I think since then she has tuned up her presentation style and probably doesn't get this concern now. But in our context, it surely wasn't because she was a woman, because there were at least 10 other women in her position that were not getting that sort of feedback whatsoever; on the contrary, they were held in high regard generally.

If it is sexism (or at least that's a component of it), what a shame.
Well, GNU has traditionally been awful at systems programming. They worked for more than a decade on the HURD kernel even after gcc and coreutils were long completed. Eventually, Linus got tired of waiting and created his own operating system using the GNU utils (I so wished he had used the 386BSD tools instead), and HURD pretty much just went away.

The mailing lists are full of spam and progress is at a crawl. It's awful. If you want progress, just use Linux.
This is why Federal law in the United States says consumers are eligible for a completely free credit reports from each of the 3 credit reporting companies. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_and_Accurate_Credit_Transa...)

This report can be accessed though https://www.annualcreditreport.com which is jointly operated by the big 3.

This is the only site for a free credit report. Everything else is a scam.

EDIT: I see you actually meant credit score, that's a bit different.
Or if you'd like an open-source alternative, deployable on Google App Engine, Twilio has produced this: http://www.stashboard.org/
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MIT Suggests Lightsabers could be possible
Trouble is, airlines have always been a strategic asset to governments, a situation the airlines play like a fiddle. So even if one is willing to use a crash as a "market signal" it is likely to get washed out by TBTF.
We're running on nginx, and we told it not to log IPs. You'll obviously have to take our word for it. Even if you don't take our word for it, it's no worse than most other sites, which do log your IP.

EDIT: Or you can run a self-hosted instance of MediaCrush, it's open source: https://github.com/MediaCrush/MediaCrush
YOU'RE A GLORIFIED BUS DRIVER.

I hate this type of sentiment. Guess what: most programmers are glorified plumbers!
Tapestry isn't standard Java, it does its own class postprocessing. As a result a lot of the advantages of Java go away (e.g. standard Java tools like debuggers and profilers don't work reliably), and code becomes virtually impossible to reason about.

Furthermore the design of components is backwards, making it impossible to properly encapsulate reusable components. I forget exactly how it worked, but I remember that you had to pass parameters down from parents to children, and because of the way variables were passed data ended up alternating through html-like files and java code, making it very hard to see where a given variable had come from.

After a month or so of that we switched to Wicket, which remains the best web framework, and quite possibly the best object-oriented library, I've ever used.
I worked on the LRO project for 4 years (on the LROC science operations team, we ran the cameras). LROC released, and continues to release, all of the data to PDS where it is publicly available. A release happens every 3 months, with a six month lag. The data are released as a set, with raw[1] and calibrated data released concurrently. So the raw data actually are available, just not immediately.

Now there's some difference between LROC and Curiosity. A Mars rover is much higher profile, of course. But it's also a snail's eye view. I imagine timeliness is a much bigger deal with rover data. Whereas with LROC (and the other LRO instruments) there's a massive data set that can fuel interesting research for years to come. So who comes to get the raw data? Very few people, as it turns out. Who but a planetary scientist getting paid to do Lunar stuff has the time, ability and inclination? Also, DLR (German space people) managed some really awesome original stuff with our data, and not having it as soon as it came down didn't seem to hamper them.

Notes:

1. By "raw" I mean EDR (Electronic Data Record), which may be reorganized to facilitate access and conform to PDS format, but contain unaltered, unprocessed measurements.
Hopefully a disclosure like this prevents at least one patent.
What platform? Wordpress?
I feel like people ignore the fact that many of us find Clojure and Scala more expressive and fun than ruby, not just much more performant.
"On ARM64, 19 bits of the isa field go to holding the object's reference count inline." That's really awesome.
Not all official names survive a confrontation with reality, where 'easier to remember' and 'easier to pronounce' have value, too.

Do you use the terms IA-32e and EM64T, too (both are/were Intel's official names for what people now typically call x64 or x86-64)?
Great write-up, thanks!

I expect we'll see ARMv8 architectures in the next round of flagship phones. Apple's a little ahead of the curve, but it won't be long till competitors catch up.

In the context of Apple, it's interesting to think about how they're going to take this next. ARM process and architecture improvements are likely to lead to chips with high-enough performance to be used in mainstream desktop applications – Is it possible we're going to see something like an ARM/x86 dual-processor Macbook platform that allows ARM's low power consumption supplement Intel's performance?
I don't understand why people don't realize there is a place for rebasing and a time for merging.

untothebreach explains it well [1]. When you are working on changes which are not public yet, sometimes it's helpful to rebase them into a single or fewer number of commits. Period.

No one is arguing to always use rebase and never use merge.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6456434
I'd say it's an somewhat important side point... But Clojure already cross-compiles to Javascript.
What's particularly funny is that today, Java is the poster child for performance. I remember when I was giving a talk in 1999 where I said that HotSpot is a game changer, and its lacking performance will not be an issue any more, I was laughed at.
Here is an NSA slide where the NSA talks about exploiting Trusted Computing Platforms for intelligence[1].

The German government believes that the TPM is backdoored and a danger to security[2].

1: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/09/05/us/documents-r...

2: http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news/microsoft-seeks-calm-on...
Jeff Dean : Lessons learned while building the Google infrastructure
“Whoa Whoa Whoa, Stop” Dianne Feinstein Misstates the 2011 Violations
Didn't DDR3 ram basically make cold boot attacks obsolete? They don't hold any voltage when you power down long enough to even freeze the chips
It is, and I'm glad they've changed it. Having said that, this happened to me in 2003 or 2004 - so this wasn't a simple UI goof that they fixed a few months later. Additionally, the process for unsubscribing at that time required a phone call. In any case, the experience left me permanently sour on their company.
That domain isn't active and is in the process of being auctioned. Typo perhaps?
It sounds like you're trying to get to their enterprise value (simplified as market cap + debt - cash), but market cap is market cap (value of outstanding shares). They also own other large assets such as their building in SF.

With revenue of $231M last quarter their market cap looks pretty bad. But that's expected given their trajectory.
I like backpacking, and often spend money on topographic maps because of this (typically from mytopo.com). I do like this site's idea. It obviously wouldn't work as a map, but it might be nice to integrate a lot of standard topographic map features into the models themselves. Especially if you can do it on really small-scale areas, architects might really want it.
> (I so wished he had used the 386BSD tools instead),
I'm curious to the difference between the two. Do you have an example ?
I like lambda's answer, to which I'll add:

You have NEVER finished work on a feature and you look at the history and there are 10's of commits with crappy commit messages and extremely minor changes? If so, good for you. Not so for me. I don't always squash ALL commits on my feature branch, but I often remove a good number, so the history looks helpful for my future self.
We have syntax files for vim, emacs, kate, gedit. https://github.com/mozilla/rust/tree/929b75e220f6fced42dcfe2...
Thanks for posting this! Very, very cool app :) I helped create the Shapeways API and just shared it with our dev team.

People are blown away, this is by far the best app we've seen using our API!!

Perusing your Github repo right now :D
While everyone's needs and background are undoubtedly different I'm coming at this from the perspective of developing business software that is used globally for over two decades now and I have a pretty good handle on most technology in this area.

I invested a decent amount of time now in both Ember and Angular (also Meteor) writing a proof of concept app for the next major release of our business software.

Frankly most of the negative comments I've seen here either way are low on actual knowledge and high on axe grinding and emotional reactions.

It's interesting when you see a post here that is in your domain of expertise and then see the reactions to it. It really makes you wonder about all the other stuff that you might not know so much about and how much you can trust what people post about those topics.
"I am Richard Stallman, inventor of the original
much-imitated EMACS editor."

Stallman may have significantly improved Emacs, but he isn't the inventor. Guy Steele and David Moon are. Stallman only took over development after it had become the standard AI text editor. Stallman wasn't even the first one to implement Emacs in Lisp; Dan Weinreb did it first. "Inventor of the original" makes it sound like Emacs was his original idea.

http://web.archive.org/web/20110719154038/http://danweinreb....
Happy Birthday to GNU (2008)
Now whenever I see The Future of <something>, I asume such thing is getting killed.
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