skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay so put a mannequin with enough of a heater inside of it to pass for human on IR and strap it atop a roomba and then have THAT "step out" in front of a truck. It's a $1000 dummy and as long as you rob every 5th truck successfully (20%, but really you'll probably get 90% of them) you can make back all the money on busted dummies and more.
The population of CA is about 80 times the population of Las Vegas. Therefore if Las Vegas had a real estate bubble in the past, California cannot be having one now, because its bigger. Or something like that.

Two diagnostic indicators for a bubble: Graph PE ratio and its friends, and is there any monetization strategy presented other than greater fool theory?
I pay Time Warner $60 a month for 20mbps....
> I used to live in Greenpoint and would reverse commute up to Queens Plaza to avoid the "G to the L to the BDFQ" into midtown...

I used to live in Greenpoint too! I lived close to the Bedford Ave station. From there, it only took 10 minutes (5 stops on the L) to get to the 14 St station.

I guess you lived closer to the Greenpoint Ave station?
Hmm... really thought that part was oozing with sarcasm.
The World’s Top 7 Data Scientists before there was Data Science
was bored so made something - http://postimg.org/image/8sm7otl2p/full/
I would like to know this too.maybe he starts his own company?
There is a buzz in Vilnius, Riga, Tallinn that is all too rare in the West, a sense of "the best is yet to come, we just have to make it happen". Whereas in Helsinki just across the water, the vibe I get is of a city that knows its glory days are in the past.
they do it regularly and constantly. I doubt many get reported.
>"going to the press".

Perfect description. Word and other formats feel like a draft. By having established a legacy of making finished PDFs hard to edit without, say, a full licensed version of Acrobat, it got people into the mindset that it was the go to press format.
Jock is not a synonym for athletic.
CrunchBang is a very nice OS too: http://crunchbang.net/ (based on Debian)
He clearly wrote "Well, I can't really be in their shoes. But I tried to blur the boundaries a little and even that threw me in extreme disarray.".
"Ultimately great programmers view their profession not just as a means to make money, but as a means to make a difference. I think that’s what makes the best programmers who they are. Coding, to them, is a way of shaping the world. And that’s what I truly respect and admire."

This is not only the essence and truth of this article, but also what I believe is the core of all good people - shaping the world into something beautiful.
"However, you are not acting in a straightforward "hacker" way, as befits this site, telling the truth how it is."

I'm not even sure where to start with your comment, because it implies so much, and has so little to offer.

Rather than address it point by point, i'll just say things:

When i'm speaking for the company I work for, you'll know it, because it'll be a press release that says Google on it. Maybe you are unable to separate your personal and professional lives, and hold opinions separate from your corporations. For me, Google is a company I work for. While I love my job, Google certainly does things i don't always agree with. When it does, i'm certainly not going to avoid saying something because i am "rehearsing to explain the actions my company has taken".

There are a lot of things Android could do better. But in the end, what I see over the years is a lot of whining that it's never enough. From where I sit, Google has taken a lot of flack for actually pushing the ball forward, because it doesn't always go as far as the open source community wants. First they wanted Google to beat up the carriers (without understanding why this is pretty much impossible). Then they complain when we don't. Heck, some people complain android is "too open", because we can't force carriers to give people what they want. I could go on here for hours. Look at the complaints of a lack of a nexus 4 and nexus 5 on certain carriers . Google releases an entire platform, on which other open platforms are now based, and people complain that they have value-added apps that provide a lot of functionality, and haven't opened them. Well great, good for them. This is supposed to be an innovative community. Create your own. Do it better. Do it open, and win. Prove that they made the wrong choice.

Let's stop and be honest for a second. Do you really think something like Firefox OS would even exist (not even just because it is/was based on Android at the lower levels, like Gonk) in the market today if Android had not pushed the ball forward?

When Android was first released, one of my good friends told me no matter what Google did, people would never see it as enough, no matter how open it was. The saddest part to me of all this is that he was right.

Android was never meant to be the end solution, it was meant to be the beginning.
Aside from good cut&paste behaviour, one of the biggest problems with cmd.exe is you cannot resize the window horizontally larger than its set size by dragging on the window side. I do this when I see wrapped text from the output of a command. And if you experience wrapped text in a window smaller than its max size, enlarging the window doesn't reflow the text! Oh I see the same problem happens in Powershell too. :-(
This was just in the news today:

"Looking at photos of women on Facebook is what distracted the driver of an empty fuel tanker when he crashed into two fire department trucks and three police cars on Interstate 8 killing a public safety officer in May..."

http://lasvegas.cbslocal.com/2013/11/03/on-facebook-looking-...

And imagine how many could have died if it was a fully loaded fuel tanker.
> As usual with pieces critical of science ...

But the article doesn't criticize science, in fact, apart from the word, science isn't even mentioned. The article criticizes scientists, science boosters and science journalists. None of those relate very well or consistently to science itself.

The problems discussed in the article, having primarily to do with the difficulties in finding out what is actually so, is why science exists. Science is a (not the)solution to those problems. But to get the solution, one must learn how science works. That isn't even touched on in the article.
There are actually many good Linux distributions not named Ubuntu.
I don't disagree with most of what you are saying except for the part about Google putting its own most significant parts of android into closed source components.

Your comment about 'You don't get to freeride after X years' is perfectly reasonable if google's goal is to stop contributing to the open parts of android.

I am not disputing Google's right to do whatever it takes to compete, or that there is somehow something morally wrong about that.

I am disputing the canard that 'Android is open' when really only a part of it is, and that part is not what most people think of as Android.

I do thing there is something morally wrong with perpetuating this misleading idea, even though it furthers Google's PR goals.

I know that corporations mislead us all the time with communications that are technically true but pragmatically false. I realize it may be naive to expect different behavior, but it's certainly not going to stop if it isn't called out.
You can already do that with a road train.
Well, do you use leave it on for a long time? I generally use 2-3 times a week on the phone, at most 30 minutes. I do occasionally browse a couple Youtube video (short one though). I usually end up with 50MB~100MB.
I will try Opensuse instead Debian.
I recommend mint.

I think its a good idea to try out alternatives.
Basically,you suggest crowd-funding or patronage depending on my bank account. I believe these approaches are even more susceptible to dazzlers.
I am sorry that my spelling/grammatical error caused you to discount my writing. That is entirely your choice of course, however I think you will find the internet a rather unpleasant place.

Regarding your second point: Tell that to instagram. Your valuation is /only/ defined by what someone else is willing to pay for it, revenue or not. If you do not agree, I have some houses in Detroit to sell you.
I find the Science (http://www.sciencemag.org/rss/podcast.xml) and Nature (http://feeds.nature.com/nature/podcast/current) podcasts very useful. Apart from discussing the research they publish, with their authors, they also summarize science papers appeared elsewhere. Every week there's at least one paper I want to read in full -- I'm not saying that I do.
How about actual hacking?

Can a programmer write a script to automate or enhance their Fantasy Football? Like algorithmic stock trading.
Any time I read these utopian pieces about the driverless car nirvana that is around the corner I roll my eyes. If there's anything we should learn from history it's that nothing is as simple as it seems, especially if it's something we want.

There will be unforeseen technical issues that are not apparent with a single test car or even small numbers of test cars. There will be accidents, and we'll have lawsuits against Google or other manufacturers. Those will have to play out, so we figure out who is really liable when a driverless car crashes. Trial lawyers will flock to these like sharks to a bleeding fish.

We may get to a point where driverless cars are safer than human-operated cars, and are accepted by the public. I think it's at least 50 years away.
Isn't it a little late for this post since we're near half way into the season already?

Last time I played, I got all the way to the playoffs, lost one game and I'm out (much like real thing). Kinda sucked.
They have the same benefits and drawbacks of CAs.
Will this work with an ATT ipad 3?
> There are significantly fewer one way streets, fewer bicyclists, fewer pedestrians. The directions will be simpler on average.

While that may indeed be true on average, the real challenge in developing production-level driverless tech is properly handling the edge cases. Just because a vehicle may not often have to deal with bicyclists doesn't mean it never has to deal with them.
This is a great article, and I was considering starting Fantasy Football this season for the same effect. I will make one finer-grained distinction, however, that the ability to shoot the shit about football is a useful one depending on what you're trying to do with your life.

The trade-off is that everything takes time and attention. Lots of different priorities compete for our attention, and while registering in your office's fantasy league might be a small time investment, it might be a disproportionately larger attention investment. You will start noticing games, players, conversations about football, etc., with much more frequency than you previously had.

In my personal life, I've sat through many sporting events and conversations with the attention of a dullard with ADD. I generally tune out all sports-related things and devote my extra attention at these events to thinking about other things which are more interesting to me, or ruminating on a problem I am trying to solve. These are potentially useful things I would give up if I am more actively focused on sports-related things as a by-product of simply choosing some big names in a Fantasy draft.

At the end of the day, I still find it worth the trade-off, but only because I am optimizing for a certain level of "ubituitous social lubrication" at the expense of, say, skipping the office happy hour and watching a Coursera course on machine learning (a contrived example, but you get my point). You may not want to make this trade-off if you are not trying to be a "general people-person", or if you can obtain this same social lubrication through other avenues (IE, politics).

tldr; This article is very important for startup founders, perhaps not so much for systems engineers / data scientists.
OpenBox + tint2 (the default in CrunchBang) with pytyle2 (tiling support for non-tiling window managers) make for a very nice combination.
I disagree that "great programmers are always programming". I find that great programmers are interested in lots of things; programming is just a tool that makes some things more interesting.
Design Patterns - Prototype
Human Software (http://usehuman.com) - $250 monthly revenue, not enough to be profitable but folks like my app (Prospect) and it's enjoyable to run a small SAAS company.
I don't agree with the parent poster's implication that 'because you work for Google you are a spokesperson'

But.. You have certainly claimed to have authority to speak about parts of Google's strategy because you were in certain meetings.
But if the idea is to get away from Canonical's decisions, moving to a distro based directly on Ubuntu seems a bit backwards.

Check the repos. Mint is Ubuntu + some extras.
By posting your concern on HN, you self-selected the latter group.
I agree wholeheartedly with most of the article, except for this:

"To put it more simply (and, perhaps, too obviously): if you see someone excitedly grabbing problems and acting on them, chances are you have a good programmer on your hands"("They just do it")

it depends on the type of person someone is, more than the quality of the programmer. I know bad programmers who are excited to jump from problem to problem (never doing much good on any of them). And I know great programmers who think twice about taking a problem - because they are working on something else and wish to finish it properly, because they want to think it through,... there are many reasons.

Also, I wonder how many of us identify ourselves with the good ones? As someone said, it is very interesting to observe that about 80% of programmers are in top 5%. ;)
200MB? thats just one email from my mother with some pics.
My reflex is to say it's the opposite of whatever I am. But according to this article, I'm pretty darn good!
The hardware cost is low, as is the barrier to entrance. And the users' expectation is higher.

To attract today's users, you still have to be better than your competitor's website. The fact you can easily build a website for millions doesn't mean it will actually see millions of visitors.
This is the first year that I've tried Value Based Drafting. It's also the worst team I've had in years. I struggle to get 90 points in a standard league. Part of it is because Spiller has been a big bust this year, but in general, this team relies on a lot of potential instead of safe bets. Bad luck for me, as few of my guys have shown that potential. :/

Just saying that YMMV. It's fantasy football, nothing is guaranteed.

I actually like the idea behind Value Based Drafting, and will probably still use it the next few years, though, not for my primary league anymore.
All this is exactly why I've stopped buying PCs and use Windows. Silly inconsistencies like shell not supporting > 260 file paths (I know that some Win32 APIs and NT itself limits file paths to 32,768 or so Unicode characters), but it's all those patches, inconsistencies, limited shell (cmd.exe), drive letters which drive me crazy. With Mac OS X and Linux all that is gone, and the world seems a better place now.
Nonsense. Us was #1 in life expectancy. This year it is on place 51. It's not like racial mix-up in the US changed so much since 1960s that you suddenly dropped 50 places. It's been a process.

Of course, you might have bright spots here and there. Like premature babies are so common for women after 30s and 40s that sure you have to do something about once women started to work and be pregnant much later in life. It's not like we need it as much in Poland where still majority of pregnancies is for women in their 20s.

All I'm saying you are 51 on the list. You may have all kinds of excuses for that, but it's very, very weak.
The biggest aspect of Fantasy Football is the draft - where you select your players before the start of the season. So the area where you could apply some actual hacking is the projection/simulation of player performance to come up with your own rankings. Hopefully, this could allow you to pick undervalued players - so similar to predicting stocks. Basically you can treat it as a statistical modeling exercise and go from there.

There is no realtime aspect to fantasy sports, you are usually setting a roster weekly, waiting for the games to be played for the week, and then seeing the results. So something like high frequency trading doesn't really apply.
Do you have a source which shows that commercial truck drivers are less accident-prone, and by how much?
How much money do you make per month and how?
My challenge for 2014 is to replace my salaried income with passive income from a software business I am launching. The service basically reviews a brands social media streams eg twitter stream and provides a details feedback report. So far my lean approaches have proved successful and so I hope by June 2014 I can be bringing in mo RR of circa $3000.

Interested to see who is doing what and living my dream!
Yes, they most certainly will be collecting tracking data. Do you link to any Google fonts? Or to the JQuery libary they host? Presumably that also sends info to Google.

What info they collect and what they do with that data is not clear. Here's an excerpt from their Google Analytics privacy policy for example

"Google Analytics does not report the actual IP address information to Google Analytics customers. Additionally, using a method known as IP masking, website owners that use Google Analytics have the option to tell Google Analytics to only use a portion of the IP address, rather than the entire IP address, for geolocation."

http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en_uk/analytics/privacyoverview...

Notable by omission is what Google do with the anlaytics data themselves, they presumably capture (and save) the full IP address as well as all the tracking data they collect.

I've said this many times before: Google has a rapacious appetite to track and record online behaviour. That doesn't mean they are evil or bad, but it does mean that their policies on tracking, collecting and recording online data should not pass without discussion or scrutiny.
A good article. I'd expand and generalize "They read error messages (and act on them)" to something like "made plenty of mistakes in the past, learned from them, not scared of making some more mistakes". Its a craft. You can't become a good carpenter without making a lot of firewood when you're just staring out, or zillion other analogies with cooks, mechanics, authors. Some of the perl I wrote in the 90s, ... ugh. The stuff I wrote in GWBASIC in the 80s was worse.
Another fun angle to look at fantasy football is to apply financial concepts to it.

For example, I have Tony Romo and Dez Bryant on my team, who are the QB and WR for the Cowboys and if one puts up a bunch of points, the other will as well, which means I take on a lot of variance for an expected high return. Or I could take both Jimmy Graham and Pierre Thomas, who play TE and RB for the Saints; since the Saints have a fixed (well, sorta) amount of offensive opportunities, you're giving up a certain amount of possible return in order to have a guarantee that, between those two players, you'll have a decent number of points -- even though every rep Graham gets is a potential rep taken away from Thomas and vice-versa.

(The way this differs from traditional financial planning is that success is unary; you win or you don't. So you get a great balance of trying to only take on as much risk as you need to win.)
> High rates of poverty can, as a policy matter, be solved with trivial ease. How? By simply giving the poor money.

It's been tried. It didn't work. How can the author of this article be so ignorant of history, not just of the many experiments in communism and socialism, but of relatively limited, well-intentioned programs like AFDC in the U.S., programs that are now recognized as having made the problem worse?

Giving the poor money is not, and never will be, "simple". Reasonable people may differ, but I personally think putting the money into education would be a better investment.
Are you affected by Adobe's hack?
That comic graphic is priceless, as I play MMORPGs and Fantasy Football.

> you: BREES BLEW IT UP... REALLY DOE

Everyone on my site says "doe"... never really got it.

Shameless plug - I make fantasy football stuff - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sleeperbot-fantasy-football/... / http://sleeperbot.com
I am the OP. Thank you for the great feedback! I think this clarified our choices. I think we will go with PHP, simply because we know PHP now, and don't have to learn something new, as so many of you pointed out. I'll have to update my skills, but that's easy by comparison. I will try to design the project to be as modular as possible, to allow for easy technology substitution in the future. Some one also very correctly pointed out that our blogging platform will be read heavy, which allows for significant caching optimization.
Agreed. The corner cases are very difficult.
Would anyone recommend some?

Also, would anyone talk about FreeBSD vs Linux? What are some reasons to choose each?
Yes, but the average user is also not going around looking for a Truly Free Version of the OS powering their phones/tablets.

The point is, Android is currently the go-to mobile OS for anyone who wants to scratch their itch. like Linux has been on the desktop. And there have been plenty who have taken up this offer (e.g Amazon, Chinese & Indian manufacturers, Android console makers), except they aren't end-users.
If clicking one link leads to your company losing all of its intellectual property, then you have a technology problem. Lazy security "professionals" who can't design good solutions are far too quick to blame users.
A little, but they are still regarded as 'better than the others' by those who for some reason desire that Google obtain a monopoly over search and the OS.
I admire the enthusiasm of the author, and I do encourage others to try fantasy football (or other fantasy sports), as it's really fun and I enjoy it a lot.

I just want to point out that he's in an 8 man league, which is on the smaller side. That's why his team is so stacked. Everyone in his league has a stacked team. Just saying, so anyone who is new to fantasy doesn't have false expectations.

(A 12 man league is considered best, at least IMO, because everyone will have a few good players, but they will have to make some smart trades and waiver wire pickups to actually win.)
Why does CLR report NullReferenceException even if referenced access is not 0?
Here in Munich, Germany you pay something like 6-10 EUR to park in the city centre for the time you're working, that is 8-10h.
There are still some free spots, the more you leave the center, the more easily you find them. Less than 10 years ago it was much easier to find a free one in the center as well.
So... We've got a walled garden, eh?
But what if I'm tired of Debian's bad decisions like libav, wodim or trying to replace OpenSSL with gnutls?
Rails one-click installer for Mac
US is number 51 in life expectancy according to CIA Factbook. All the 50 countries that have higher life expectancy have public health care system. Look at it from competitiveness standpoint: your capitalistic approach to the healthcare yields worse results that public one. I mean those are facts. Now, you can obviously come up with all kinds of theories why it is not so, but ignoring this statistic just make you look like someone with a lot of fairy tales to tell. 51. Are you telling me that all those who are better have worse system? Is that right?

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...
This has nothing to do with VDM; the emulator is only accessible from kernel mode (it's in HAL.dll) and is not meant to be used by usermode applications. See [1,2].

[1] http://x86asm.net/articles/calling-bios-from-driver-in-windo...

[2] http://www.geoffchappell.com/studies/windows/km/hal/api/x86b...
They also have a Debian version now:

http://www.linuxmint.com/download_lmde.php
Arch Linux is great if you like 'hacking'.