skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But I don't want to fix Air BnB's problems, I want to see them die in fire. I use it all the time, but I can't resist the urge to work there and burn the place to ground.
I've never upgraded from 2.2.1 and it still works great for me, except for the fact that I have to tell it not to update every time it loads.
Twitter Sets I.P.O. Price at $17 to $20 a Share
I'm embarrassed that I even know this, but she used a standard pickup tactic[1,2], popularized by the book "the game".

[1] http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=neg

[2] http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/voices/2012/05/negging-lat...
Ctrl-t will flip two words. Not very useful but pretty cool.
It's an interesting approach to make the server utilities an add-on to the base OS X platform rather than a separate operating system as with Windows.

Interesting features are "profile manager", which sounds like an LDAP server and the Mail/Calendar server to replicate Exchange functionality.
Quoth Wikpeida:
"In August 2011, a human-controlled Google driverless car was involved in a crash near Google headquarters in Mountain View, CA. Google has stated that the car was being driven manually at the time of the accident. A previous incident involved a Google driverless car being rear-ended while stopped at a traffic light."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_driverless_car#Incidents
To be honest, back then most computers didn't have a direct connection to the online world.. and even if they did, it was rarely always-on.

But it's not all sunshine and roses, do you remember the scourge of toll-dialer viruses (that made your dial-up modem call a toll number that bills by the minute, money going to the attacker) from back in the day? There were a rare few that could even figure out ways to silence your dial-up tone so you wouldn't be guaranteed to instantly find out you'd been infected..
Woah. This seems highly relevant to me. I might actually be able to manage all the macs, ipads, and iphones running around my house in a more centralized way? It seems worth 20 bucks just to find out.

Can it help manage my current home media server, a headless 2003 Dell running SuSE?
Only in perfect cases.

There are plenty of places where a person can BS the whole day, build gangs, do no productive work for years and yet take away a fat salary, get travel opportunities, big bonus and manage to get routinely promoted.

Its called politics, and luck.

Such people win more often than the hard working ones.
Self-driving cars = more time online = $GOOG profit
Yet it's very much what SuSE has been doing with YaST modules for years. Need an NTP server? click. Want to play around with NIS? click. Kerberos? Click.
Control-Left and Right switch workspaces for me. A giant pain in the ass, because the normal word-jump shortcut, Option-Left/Right, just drops a [C/[D into the shell on iTerm. The stupid thing is, if I shell into an Ubuntu machine, it works fine.
I'm presuming you already know, but for the benefit of Mr Random Reader: it's been that way for a while now (as of OS X 10.7 Lion).
> That said it really helps if you're already hanging around at a party with a CEO of a big, in the news, growing startup and thus have insider access to tell him exactly what you think after a few drinks.

Sigh.

I know Travis personally. I met him years ago, before Uber was even a twinkle in his eye, and he was running his last company, Red Swoosh.

There's no "insider" here. I graduated high school, turned 18, and moved to the Valley in 1999. I stayed there for the next 10 years. My parents are not technical and I'm from a small town in Indiana.

I did not get a college degree and I did not go to a prestigious university. I knew no one when I moved there. Eventually, years later, as the startup community coalesced and we all recovered from the pit of despair that was 2001-2002 in the Valley, people started having parties.

I went to socialize. I met many of the "heavy hitters" you see today. And I built a successful tech company with many of them as customers.

Yeah, the articles love to talk about Stanford grads and whatnot. Maybe they had it easier than me. I don't know. What I do know is I came out there with nothing but guts and a car (that literally exploded on me a year later) and...most importantly...no belief that I couldn't succeed or that I wouldn't make it.

It does take guts to pack your shit and sleep on the floor for a while, but eventually it does pay off. I'm running my second successful tech company now, this time in Austin, where again I know most of the folks in the startup community. Not because I'm some sort of "insider", but just because I went out there and met everyone, and I asked them for advice.

There's nothing stopping you, or anyone else reading this, from doing the same. Can't afford a ticket to the Valley, or don't want to deal with immigration laws? Find a booming startup metropolis somewhere else and get to know the people there. Startups are global now and it's a beautiful thing. But don't buy into the negative media hype.
What's the point of implementing cryptography on a closed-source OS? We'll audit TrueCrypt and then have people say "there can still be backdoors in Windows or Mac OS." When it comes to security and cryptography, Linux (and similar) are the only things that matter.
Google self-driving cars have caused accidents, although Google claims the self-driving feature was off at the time.

I'm more concerned of what these cars will do to highway capacity and therefore traffic congestion due to the excessive lag/follow distance their algorithms impose. While they should be following at < 1sec lag due their super-human reflexes, what you actually see (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRIOE1IZrq4) is sub-human follow times and it's apparently the only car on the road that's frequently pumping on the breaks (which consequently makes following cars increase their lag time as well).

I've also read that they won't exceed the speed limit, which is significantly more dangerous than driving with the flow of traffic. I hope it knows enough to move over when being overtaken from behind. If you're driving 65mph on I-280 between San Fran and San Jose with no traffic, you are the slowest car on the road by between 20-40mph. The road has long straightaways, often 1+ miles of visibility, well paved, and I'm often overtaken while going 90mph.

I expect that the experience of having to share the road with these devices, as they start to become more common, will transition from, "Gee that's cool" to something more like "Geez, get off the road Goorama!"
How about oil slick James Bond style?
It's 56% bigger in its dimensions. I guess it depends on your definition of close.
> if the 1/10 of deaths are caused by computer errors then at least the problem can be fixed over time.

This only follows through if you don't introduce new technology and innovations to your software (and thus new bugs), which isn't going to happen.

If you look at air travel, the number of fatal accidents occurring each decade since the 1950s has stayed around the same, even though we've significantly improved automated systems and reduced the potential for pilot error.
But why does it need to do that? The desktop paradigm is dying a slow but inevitable death for most consumers.
You can turn that "do you want to update?" off: Options -> Preferences -> General and then uncheck "Check for updates automatically".
It'll probably take at least 40-50 years before autonomous vehicles become the norm. The interesting thing will be what happens in the meantime, when there's a mix of autonomous and human driven vehicles.

Will the laws change to have 'autonomous only' lanes? Will they replace HOV lanes? Will autonomous vehicles be allowed to make maneuvers that human driven cars cannot in order to improve traffic flow, such as driving through red lights if determined safe?
The most interesting feature for me is the XCode Server + Bots.

I'm still trying to figure out how to use it. I've installed it, added a git-repo, created a Bot, but it does nothing. Also, I don't know how to tell it to do "pod install"[1] before attempting to build the app.

1. http://docs.cocoapods.org/guides/installing_cocoapods.html

I just want to see Bots work and what is has to offer that my already existing Jenkins CI environment doesn't.
Hackers compromise official PHP website, infect visitors with malware
Actually, DBS has been around since the 1980's, just Medtronic sat on the patent and it was little more than a glorified converted cardiac pacemaker. now the patent is up, all of the sudden all sorts of research into closed-loop stimulation, electrode designs, battery design, etc suddenly pops out of the woodwork.

They're trying to do some sort of closed loop feedback instead of some clinician inputting random settings of volts/frequency/pulse width into the device, but no one knows exactly what signals in the brain to listen for yet. The EE-oriented neuro types are looking at signal processing, i.e. using FFT's to look at power spectra of local recordings, etc, but nothing too promising yet.

As far as what the physiologic mechanism of the electrical stimulation does, no one really knows, but there's some data from monkeys and mice optogenetics suggesting it activates passing axonal fibers. Generally, nerves don't die due to the electricity, unless your surgeon does the implant French-style and shoves a 5-microelectrode array into your head, therefore boring a nice 2-4mm tunnel into your brain...
There would never be a need for a car in the suburbs. If i had an app that would just bring me a car and be ready at an exact time right in front of my house, bring me to a store and leave, and when twenty minutes before I'm done shopping I order another taxi to be ready for me outside the store, not need to go to the DMV or any auto shop, that would be a huge win for the suburbs.
Yes and degrees of disability related to driving.
> replace the AI that flies airplanes with one that gets bored and does crossword puzzles

This would be a great scenario for a sci-fi novel / movie. An AI that threatens the human race not by achieving sentience and attempting world domination, but by achieving sentience and playing Sudoku instead of doing its job...
> I've also read that they won't exceed the speed limit

I don't see any way they can exceed the speed limit right now - the legal liability alone would be huge. The best solution to the problems you're posing would be to adopt an German autobahn-like system.
Agreed. In a way, this could mean the CEO was already aware of a need to change, but needed people caring enough to try a different approach and this woman did the right thing at the right time. Another way to put it: if she didn't walk to hime he could have gone to some independant product guy/girl the next week or month to rethink the design. [1]

When asking to work for a company, there is always the tension between the company needing one's input (in other words, their product really suck in some way) and the company willing and being able to act on the input. The OP's story flashed back the other stories of the designer that went to Google to bring some design expertise and just dropped the ball because it was an endless uphill battle.

[1] Of course, the other way round, if she's a freelance designer invited to award ceremonies and walks at CEOs pitching ideas to improve their companies, she'll eventually find work I think.
just plain ole mathematical modeling / machine learning, and associated duct taping the tubes.

I am also going to be releasing the start of a "Numerical Haskell" tool chain sometime (hopefully this fall, but life happens and all that jazz)
to answer your question

just plain ole mathematical modeling / machine learning, and associated duct taping the tubes.

I am also going to be releasing the start of a "Numerical Haskell" tool chain sometime (hopefully this fall, but life happens and all that jazz)
For Startups, Your Culture Starts With Your First Hire
If you haven't seen it already, you might find the WWDC 13 session video 'Continuous Integration with Xcode' useful, it covers bots.

https://developer.apple.com/wwdc/videos/
This is the most interesting feature for me as well. Intuitively, there has to be some sort of pre build script just like in XCode.
one thing: I do NOT like the idea of riding in a self-driven car when the majority of other cars are driven by humans. That doesn't seem ideal to me. I worry about a self-driving car driving exactly the speed limit and not being able to speed up whenever you need to, to either keep up with the traffic, or when someone is tailgating you. Especially at night, when you are driving and tired people drive straight up to you and don't slow down until the last second. I want to speed up in those instances.
EX-NSA Chief Gets Spied On. Furious.
>We’re starting with eCommerce and then rolling out to other retailers.

Isn't it illegal to charge the customer before the goods are shipped. Do they handle pre-auth and settlement?
You may be able to get them working in a FreeDOS virtual machine.
Reminds me of Quartz Composer
it's actually not too bad. There is a small micro electrode that is sub-millimeter, and the DBS electrode itself is ~1-1.5 mm depending on the model.

The one traumatic part of it is that some groups use a device popularized by some of the French groups that use a 5-microelectrode array for the mapping portion of the surgery, which has a 4x4 cross sectional spread. This probably pins and destroys a lot of the brain tissue in its path, but the people who use it claim it gives them "better spatial resolution" in the mapping recordings. Which doesn't apparently improve overall accuracy anyway, but some people are married to using that damn device.

Most surgeons in the US use 1-3 single electrode passes sequentially, which is a lot better.
Ricochet: Retro Space Shooter iPhone Game
Ricochet is an exciting arcade shooter hybrid wrapped in a beautiful retro package. Ricochet offers a modern twist on the classic well known genres: fast paced space arcade action with physics gameplay.
The post is light on details, unfortunately.

As far as I can tell, it's more similar to BillMeLater than it is to a credit card. The only other information I could find on Dwolla Credit is a support FAQ[1]. Interestingly, the credit provider is Comenity Capital Bank, which is also behind BillMeLater[2].

I still don't completely understand the difference in models between something like Dwolla Credit (or BillMeLater) and a credit card. Why do credit cards cost the merchant 2+%, while Dwolla Credit only costs 25 cents? It seems like the same risks apply.

[1] http://help.dwolla.com/customer/portal/articles/1330333-cred...

[2] https://www.billmelater.com/help/index.xhtml
While we're nominating our personal favorite BT clients, I want to make a warm mention of (the free and open) Deluge: http://deluge-torrent.org/

Works pretty well on Windows.
Do you work at/for/rendered services to LinkedIn in any way?
I imagine you already know about this if you qualify, but Mac and iOS developers just got a free redemption code to get OS X server.
Typical risks - there's a 1-2% prevalence of hemorrhage which usually isn't too bad. It's really rare to have a major event. The other major risk is infection (as with all implanted hardware), or device malfunction.

Otherwise, the most common side effects that could happen is that the stimulation causes some spasms or tingling. There's some hand-waving as to whether it may increase susceptibility to depression or falls, but that is hard to tease out between disease progression.

Of note, if it's Parkinson's, one hard part is that the meds will have to be adjusted a lot post-op which cause some folks problems.
Many companies also spend serious money to buy the topmost text ad for searches on their own brands/URLs. Even when they're #1 organically.

What branding benefit can there be in showing a text ad to a user who is already searching for your website?
I am happy for you. It sounds like you've worked hard and done some great stuff. That said I have no idea what your reply has to do with my comment. The anecdote in the parent is a story about an ex-IDEO employee encountering a big name startup CEO at private tech industry party. Noting that there's a high level of insiderness in the anecdotes doesn't mean that it is not possible to accomplish a great deal without first becoming an insider.

Really your short bio of your self makes a better "most people won't" anecdote than the original post.

I don't think my comment was overly cynical. I don't mean to tell anyone they are incapable of accomplishing things and I definitely don't believe that you have to start out privileged to make an impact on the world.
No it's not illegal to charge before shipping, why would you ship something out that costs $$$ when you run the risk that the card will not be good?
That something it's resting on is my chest half the time, so yeah, it makes a difference.
Python Patterns - Implementing Graphs
Lean Startup in the enterprise world
I don't disagree with any of it, and I think perhaps my non-chalant "Who cares?" somehow conveyed to you that I think something stated was false. I don't.

But, why waste time with this?

You cannot not reduce it to statistics, vast majority of your cognitive activity is statistical in nature, in the more general sense of the word.

Most here believe statistics are globally applicable, even in domains dealing with the odd, esoteric, or random. With that said..

- Hofstadster tries non-strictly-statistical-methods

- "but you can't be non-statistical!"

- lumps hofstadter into statistical ai > "but hofstadter is non-conformist!"

- create seperate subgroup which hofstadter can exist within with his experiments

- "but you can't be non-statistical!"

... and on and on. Is this the kind of recursion geb was talking about?

A lot of us think we know statistics are universally applicable. It's a waste of time to state, and adds little to the discussion overall. Sorry that it came off so negatively, either before in my first post or now. I don't mean it that way.
Why should that be the case? Google had defended and won most cases around the world where brands accused it of allowing competitors to show ads against their keyword searches. Why should banner ads be treated any differently by antitrust regulators?
If the SEC Restricts How Startups Solicit Money, What Will Happen to Demo Days?
That is true - I don't know how many grants/VC rounds a company like Braingate has blown through. The Andersen group seems to have success as well, maybe with less actual expenditures.
Theoretically though, you are in a market where individuals have specialized skills and learned how to perform their skill at the highest efficiency level. Each person along the supply chain has competed against and put out of business someone else who was less efficient. Suggesting otherwise is creating a market that invites predatory and/or trust related pricing. That cup of coffee should be as cheap or cheaper than my cup at home.

As for the costs, the varying factors to make a cup at home holds true as well. A retailer had me pay the varies fees, fixed and variable, both bean and machine, to make a profit.

About the only conflict that exists to producing a cheap cup of coffee (or, for my for urbane friends, 'latte') is the rent. Here, you are competing with the various retail options that a landlord could also sell in that location. So, that coffee shop could also be an Apple Store which commands both high margins and high revenue per transaction.

At that point, it becomes the market's choice as to what best serves the community's interest. Do we pay for a coffee shop or an Apple store?

I know my choice. Coffee shop.

As a side note, credit card processing fees as a variable cost should vary indirectly to sales.
Why are so many people in Silicon Valley arrogant?
Frankly, learning about LZW[0][1] and the Burrows-Wheeler Transform[2] was probably one of the highlights of my first undergrad algorithms course. The latter certainly made me feel like an idiot, too.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lempel%E2%80%93Ziv%E2%80%93Welc...

[1] For the record, LZW isn't used in gzip; it was the patent-encumbered compression format used in GIF.

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burrows%E2%80%93Wheeler_transfo... (used in bzip2)
takes incisive Hacker News hat off, puts on hyperventilating fanboy hat.

HOLY SHIT.

incisive Hacker News hat is put back on.

I had pretty high hopes for Episode VII already, but this gives me a pretty good degree of confidence that it might actually turn out to be, y'know, really good. Kasdan has written or cowritten some of my favorite films of all time, and—ewoks notwithstanding—is unlikely to insert patently offensive alien races into the next Star Wars film.
Low pass filters are absolute miracles when working with numerical derivatives. I have had instances where that was the only reason I ever got anything meaningful out of them. It really comes down to the fact that the numerical representation of a function is in general not truly analytic. It is has kinks and bends all over the place.
Python 3 was adopted in Fedora 13. 3.0 was not meant for production use (eg io library was pure python).
So, how does one fight a contempt of court? Is it even possible?

(PS: Great job EFF!)
taxis won't need drivers to go back, so you could probably take a taxi from manhattan to like the middle of connecticut, which would be awesome.
There is actually a huge population in the VA w/ Parkinson's so it sort of makes sense, and there may be applications in TBI
Lot of vets with Parkinson's too, interesting enough - one of the biggest clinical trial of this device was done in the VA population.
My first reaction to this news was: "there is one screenwriter who was involved in writing Raiders of the Lost Ark, Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi?"...and he's still alive? what the hell has he been doing all this time and how badly did he piss off George Lucas to not be involved in the most recent Star Wars and Indiana Jones movies? Both Raiders and ESB have such wild adventure and such respect for the audience's intelligence that watching them today is still a revelation, even after seeing them dozens of times. I recently watched Avengers for the first time and was shocked at just how such a dull movie could make so much money...are our standards just lower? Are special effects too relied on to gloss over poor imagination? Or am I just getting really old, even though the original Star Wars movies were before my time? I felt the same way during Avatar...I couldn't believe that the same guy who wrote the sparse but brilliantly quotable dialogue of "Aliens" was behind Avatar's groanworthy one liners.

I hope Kasdan brings back the magic and that the reason why we don't see movies like ESB and Raiders anymore is because their screenwriter simply stopped writing them.
centos users had to live with python 2.4 until recently...
NEWSNIGHT - Paxman vs Brand. Full Interview.
I got bitten by this yesterday when I updated. I didn't expect it at all and only realized I had installed something a fraction of a second after I clicked what looked like a Next button... Went to Control Panel and uninstalled as soon as I noticed an icon in the taskbar notification area.
Magnet links work fine in 2.2.1
Unfortunately—unless I missed a change in the release notes since Bots was introduced at WWDC—there isn't built in support for something like `pod install`, though there's probably a hack someone's figured out. See Michele Titolo's open radar here http://openradar.appspot.com/14221477

Jenkins is going to have alot more functionality, especially with 3rd party integrations and doing arbitrary work. Jenkins is also an ugly mess than can be painful to setup, especially since most iOS/Mac developers build from Xcode and not the command line. OS X Server gets some ease of use out of only doing running standard Tests, static analysis, and building your project for distribution (they bragged about 1-click downloads from their Bots website to people in your company, but I haven't tried that). Bots integrates with Xcode to give you a nice rundown of how tests ran on multiple devices and OSes.