skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But speaking of paying, self driving cars also won't speed, turn right on red without a full stop, etc. Which means traffic tickets would be a thing of the past, along with the revenue they bring in.
Anyone have a link to a tl;dr on how market manipulation like this works? It seems like crypto-currencies are ripe for for this of thing and it doesn't take much money to do it.

Presumably the hidden information you have from being part of a cabal means it's different than just changing your risk distribution like a Martingale betting strategy does.
> Wired, which just isn't much for middle ground

I imagine middle ground doesn't make for good link-bait headlines, so this is true of most media outlets (even prestigious ones).
> I really hope no one trades actual markets believing they can 'pick' equities.

I do and make a lot of money doing it. It's not about picking equities per se, it's about finding good trading opportunities - every equity provides good and bad trades, depending on a multitude of factors. You can play any stock both long and short....
I've found the docs[1] to be extremely easy to follow, as a nice blend between a tutorial and a spec.

[1]: http://docs.julialang.org/en/latest/manual/
I think this is precisely the right conclusion to draw, plus the fact that the manipulation is harmless unless you intentionally expose yourself to the risk.
You should work for Intel. We have free coffee.
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Anything I can do to fix this, and am I on some list?
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So let's just blindly accept the US-centric viewpoint on everything, which has been proven to be manipulated much of the time...

The idea isn't that there are 2 valid viewpoints, but that more often than not the truth lies between 2 extreme viewpoints.

Good job on arguing against a straw-man you two created...
Yup. The competitive advantage is not the streaming technology. Many providers, including the ones you mentioned, have feature parity w/ Netflix. I have Netflix, HBO Go w/ Time Warner (and their TV app), and MLB.TV. Although those 4 all have the technology, Netflix's competitive advantage is in convenience. HBO Go and TWC requires an expensive cable subscription and MLB.TV has a horrid blackout policy.

It all comes down to sports for many. If Netflix of Google TV begin to seriously bid for sports contracts things will change very soon. Similarly if traditional sports outlets like ESPN or Fox would cut their cord requirement (even at an egregious per-subscriber cost to start off with) the landscape will really start to shift.
I don't see any problem with giving the officer complete control over the camera.

If the cameras are easy to use and reliable and such, the officers should be demanding that they be available, it will only make their testimony more credible.

(to the extent they are going to abuse their power, they can just go set the stage for the camera when they are off duty or whatever, so I don't think that is the right case to optimize for)
I can see Julia replacing Go for a lot of people, specifically those who came from a Python or Ruby background and are using Go for the kind of things more typically written in those languages. I bet Julia will shine in this problem space.
It's worth noting that despite the price increase compared to what Tesla charges in the United States they will, according to Tesla, actually be charging significantly less than other car manufacturers are charging for comparable vehicles in China.

http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/fair-price
> Do not invest anything you are not prepared to lose.

Let me fix that for you:

> Do not gamble anything you are not prepared to lose.
Why are you sure this is legal (everywhere)? No it isn't regulated by the SEC, but that does not mean that it isn't fraud.
Off-hand, I would say you can't use chi-square unless you rolled at least 360 pairs of dice. Chi-square assumes a normal distribution and the rule-of-thumb you need at least ten hits and ten misses before the sample distribution approaches normal. Source: just helped my daughter pass her AP Stat mid-term.
Actually assuming 190 million licensed drivers (although drunks kill all manner of people, including themselves) and 10K drinking related deaths per year (how many are caused by drunks as opposed to would have happened anyway with at least one driver who happens to be drunk?)

Anyway assuming all victims loose 100 years of life...

10e3/190e6 * 24 * 365 * 100 * 0.1 = a delta of 4.6 hrs/day so I think your hyperbole is pretty much mathematically correct.

Our local krispie kreme closed, so the next closest is about 100 miles away, so if a "driveby" was purchased for me, it could actually burn up 4 or 5 hours of my time, especially during rush hour.
Shocking that a bunch of engineers don't like being cold-called ;-) But it's silly to write it off as a viable sales strategy. At my startup we've had a ton of success with cold-calling, and I've talked to software CMOs and VP Sales all over Boston that use it as a core part of their strategy.

If you're doing B2B sales in a relatively new category there's basically no other way to reach your early market; they're not googling for your category, and probably not even for a technical solution to it, especially if you're selling to a non-IT function (marketing, sales, finance, etc.).

In those contexts, cold-calling, done well, can help educate the market, create demand, and set the stage for later inbound efforts. Often we'll have a cold call where the prospect's response isn't "WTF you wasted my time" but "I had no idea this kind of thing existed; where were you 5 years ago?"

It's not easy; you have to select your targets carefully, and have a good pitch, not be too push, and get a lot of other things right to make it work, but it DOES work.
At the same time policing costs would decrease dramatically.
Who is responsible for paying the fine if the self-driving car breaks the law?
Of course he is. It was always known that he was just a US stooge, and didn't look out for his people's interests.
I work in IT at Caterpillar and they meet all of your points except being located in SF.
He is probably merely saying that child elasticity is not very high. I doubt he is making the more extreme claim that it is zero. Also, it's not like having a child is profitable. It's just not as expensive as it could be. Your claim that we are paying people to have children is a little misleading.
I don't see any reason to believe why you are in any less control with a autonomous car. If anything, you would be in more control because making that quick decision turn into McDonalds would be as stressful as pushing a button.
I don't know the literature, and what assumptions they make in there, but out in the real world the lightbulb cartel lasted from 1924 till 1942 or thereabouts. The keyword to look for is "Phoebus Cartel". Also, recently in the news: the Silicon Valley wage-fixing cartel.

They may be hard to maintain, but they do spring up and may exert power while alive.
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It's not how much PHP is running, it's that PHP is running _at all_. It makes me feel very, very uneasy that every time that web interface is hit PHP executes a shell command. There's something inherently wrong about that, to me.
Driving while black, failure to provide proof of ..., tail light out.

If a cop declares "your" car's driving was reckless or too fast for conditions, how exactly do you fight that in court?
Why is the American dream dead in the south?
Does anyone hear a small, annoying whine in here?
An "App Store" is not a requirement for having a sandboxed environment.

Consider these examples:

1. Your web browser.
2. Java and .NET programs can be run in different trust-modes only allowing certain functions from the standard library, and obviously disallowing external libraries then. This is mostly used on servers to isolate websites on the same server today but if given a better user interface could have been used to secure desktop programs.
3. User permission levels in operating systems
> I find the lack of ORM a feature in a web framework.

There's quite a lot of stuff between "write raw SQL queries" and "full-blown ORM". http://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/latest/core/tutorial.html for instance.
Is there a calendar of the events? It could be an occasion to physically bring T-shirts.
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- Im getting the same problem.
I'm not arguing with any of that. Of course I understand why AGPL was chosen; if I was KO I would have done the same. But that kind of licensing is not something that I can trust, and all of those forks also need to be AGPL-licensed if I'm reading the license correctly.
Does anyone here work at Dell? How has the culture changed since they went private? Are they still "corporatey", or are they trying to be more "start-upy" like their recent ads hint at?
Better yet, would you trade ads and impulse buys for free rides?

So you never have to own a car, but every time you go anywhere your car is actively trying to get you to spend time and money doing things you normally wouldn't do -- play online games, visit donut shops, and so on. Would that be worth never having to own a car?
>It is estimated that the Dutch transported 550,000-600,000 Africans as slaves. Although slavery is banned, the Dutch society still has exploitation of expats ingrained in their mentality.

Just read the blog... what the hell?
You could probably fight it in court with the electronic logs that would presumably be present in a self-driving car.
I think the answer given by dfc is the correct interpretation: the chips are 37% chocolate, not that the cookies are 37% chocolate chips.
> the owners of capital accept being taxed to fund that

Given that the alternative seems to be riots and potentially a revolution, I think they will see that it is in their benefit to keep the population living reasonably well.
Asking for $20 to save a man's life seems to be just another tactic for them to get money. This is not surprising. It is Verizon, after all. After disputing many months worth of Verizon charges for service I didn't have (at about $100 / month) and getting the money back from my credit card, they tried twice to submit the fraudulent charges to two different collection agencies till I had to threaten the agencies with legal action. Of course, the quickest and best option in any dispute is to hang up, try again, and hope you get someone who is not a total asshole on the other line. It does happen, albeit extremely rarely.
I've been a sysadmin since the mid-90s, working almost exclusively for startups and small companies. Eventually I got tired of it, and went to GE in late October (not as a sysadmin, but a security/automation related position).

So, on the bright side, there are no more insane hours, there's no begging for money, I'm doing a bluesky / "fun" project for a living, and for a big company a lot of it seems to be more fast paced like a startup. My coworkers are nice people, and my boss is like a real life Ron Swanson.

Downsides? We're not really supposed to telecommute though some managers allow it. There's a dress code, but it's tolerable. Lots and lots of meetings, and lots of lots of management. There can be a lot of communication issues between different departments. Almost everything has a well designed workflow, but they often break down due to those communication issues. As GE is a very large and political company, people without great social networking skills may need to work on them.

All in all I'm happy there, and it's a really nice change from burnout-inducing workloads, pagers constantly going off at 3:00 AM, and wondering whether any of us will have a job by the end of the day.
This already doesn't work with human powered autonomous vehicles aka taxi cab.
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Unless the script accepts parameters, which it doesn't, there's nothing to worry about.
I have huge questions about Goodwill. 1. Why are your district managers paid so much money? 2. Why don't you
prosecute store managers who have stolen, embezzled thousands of dollars? 3. I heard your Marin
Store has fired at least three managers(in 12 years)for theft. One was hired back? 4. Why don't you tell prospective donators that their donated items won't stay at the donated store?
5. Why do you only keep convicts on for one year? 6. Why
don't you wash all donated clothes? Your employees are telling the public everything is washed. 7. I really
question your nonprofit, and just who benefits.
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In anything that is not PHP. Bash would have been perfect for this use case, for example. The correct way to do this is to obtain the data separately and merely show it on the interface. I haven't audited the code, so I don't know what's being passed to the shell commands, but the fact that an attacker MIGHT be able to influence the commands being executed (see register_globals, etc (yes, I know this has been disabled by default in recent versions of PHP)) is enough for me to completely write it off as an unnecesary risk.

By collecting the data periodically (i.e a cron job) you eliminate most possible vulnerabilities.
VMWare seems to be a company that'll fit your bill. I don't work there but personally I found their APIs and documentation to be among the best in the industry. Just high quality.
Microsoft fit all of those criteria except the main criteria in SF.

Generally, you would only need to be in the office if you have a meeting ( as long as you get your work done).

Depending on your team, you may or may not be expected to work over 40 hours a week. On my team, we are encouraged to work 40 hours with no overtime.Even if we need to stay in late for a bug fix, we would come in late or leave early the next day.
Because the motive and the modus operandi make a good fit for the scenario.

The family is not interested in the emotional baggage of foul play, or the hassle of an arduous investigation, which would, hypothetically, probably be fruitless, even if suspicions were accurate. It's much, much easier for loved ones to swallow an official story of a tragic accident.

For total strangers, not burdened by emotions, the scenario is objectively disturbing.
With dashcam?
"The risk is just too great to ignore."

Can you elaborate on this? I'm looking for you to clarify which other dynamic languages would be considered less risky in this specific application and why.
Impressive work in so short a time. I'm relieved that you guys are this responsive to the community. You've already addressed one of my personal concerns and hopefully the other (sort by date) soon. Here's some more feedback.

I think the defaults should be "all" (not story) and "forever" (not past week). I searched for something that I knew existed and when it didn't come up, my first thought was that the search was broken. Better to show everything at first and let the user decide how to narrow it down if they want to.

I think you'd be better off if the design looked like HN itself, especially the comment rendering. Not that what you've got is bad, but the user is almost always going to go from HN to search and back to HN. Any context switch is already a speed bump, and visual changes, which take time and mental energy to process, add to that jolt. Anything you can to do minimize these cognitive hurdles will serve the #1 goal, which is to get the reader the info they're looking for with minimum overhead. In this respect, the old HN Search is more usable, precisely for being unoriginal.

Thus, if I were you, I would drop the thumbnail pictures of the stories (it's cool that you can do it, but they don't really add anything and are distracting); would not include the story info with each coment (rather, I would do just like HN does and have a bit of text that says "| on: the-story-title-linked-here"), would make the text rendering look much like HN's, and would follow HN's lead in having a text- and information-density-centric design.

I'm not saying that HN's design is the global optimum (though it is better than most attempts to improve on it), but rather that HN search is an extension of HN and therefore not the place to innovate on its design. You're in a counterintuitive position for a startup with this project, since calling too much attention to yourself in this context is bad. You want to be unobtrusive and have the thing just work; the HN community is smart enough to figure out who you are from that and like you better for it. (That said, you shouldn't obliterate yourselves. For example, I like the visual cues that say "Page 1 of 10, got 237 results in 3 ms" and "1,244,896 stories and 5,289,181 comments indexed". They are unobtrusive and impressive.)

Lastly, a bug in Chrome: if I search for something, scroll to the bottom, click on "about", then hit the back button, the original results page freezes (i.e. refuses to scroll).
You need more images on your site...
This is awesome. Thanks for sharing it.
That is not true and I have done nothing of the sort. You may in fact be reading something into what I said that I did not say or intend.

I used an analogy of the PRC spying on the US to show that Industrial Espionage is something the public would care about (notice the 'Eh. Who cares? part). It is an issue that evokes a response. Next I specifically state that the opinion of Industrial Espionage in general is negative:

In a general sense I think its a pretty defensible claim to say that the majority of X country's citizens oppose industrial espionage.

People may think it is 'justifiable' (for any number of reasons) but I do not think they would believe it is a good or noble practice (again note that I used the word 'general'). I then go on to clarify, by saying the opinion/matters get muddy when you ask specifically if their government should be doing it, rather than just discussing the idea in general.

I never said anything about 'espionage' being a more frightening word than 'war'. Because lets face it... 'war' is a much more frightening thing that generally involves a lot of death. You implied that onto the conversation.

Regarding coherency... I think maybe you didn't read what I wrote, but what you wanted to think I wrote (or were expecting to read).
Look at the government or public institutions like medical schools or hospitals.

There are lots of interesting projects in state and local government. Great benefits, pay is usually competitive with a company (but no bonuses), and you usually get a defined benefit pension.
Groupon is headquartered in Chicago, but has a big office in Palo Alto. Very modern tooling, decent compensation, working from home is fine, keeping your own hours is fine, 40 hour weeks (including lunch) is the norm, interesting problems.
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MeoMix - this is an awesome app. You said you taught yourself the libraries. I have an engineering background, and a little bit of programming (VB) - how long will it take to learn to code a chrome extension and any recommendations on websites to help with this ? thanks !
Like I said in a previous reply, see register_globals and company. Sure, that was some time ago. Sure, the defaults are better now. But at some point in time the people in charge of PHP thought "yes, this is a good idea, let's do it".

...

It's not like the attitude has changed, though. There are many, many things deeply wrong with PHP when it comes to security. PHP is supposed to cater to unexperienced programmers. An unexperienced programmer might see "mysql_escape_string" and think that it will escape strings, making them suitable for use in SQL queries. The programmer will think the code is secure. WRONG. Because you have to use mysql_REAL_escape_string.

Also, look at the `e` flag in preg_replace. WHAT THE FUCK. Like, seriously. What. Why. There are no words to describe how gobsmacked I am.

And FOUR people in the PHP committee (or whatever it's called) voted __AGAINST__ deprecating it. FOUR. [1]

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The point is that I can't audit (and would rather not waste my time doing so) this PHP code. The fact that it uses shell_execute when a HTTP request demands it is enough of a red flag.

[1] https://wiki.php.net/rfc/remove_preg_replace_eval_modifier
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There are a number of pump and dumpers manipulating the altcoin market. I'm surprised there aren't more people doing it.
But Webmin not satisfies the NIH-Syndrom ;-)
It would absolutely start a trade war, that America would lose very quickly. The incorrect assumption here is that America has more to gain than lose from doing that, when such couldn't be further from the truth. America is temporarily riding on a fake consumer driven economy supported by the cheapest debt in world history and cheap imports from other countries like China; emphasis on temporary. Our ability to rapidly scale up domestic manufacturing is non-existent, so in the midst of a serious trade war, nearly every single thing Americans buy would skyrocket in price and decimate the already tapped-out consumer, leading to millions of laid-off service sector workers.

This is going to happen anyway, as China and others can increasingly afford their own cheap goods and don't need to export them to us, and the days of cheap debt are coming to an end very soon. It would just accelerate the erosion of what's left of America's economic fantasy. And none of this even touches on the dumping of US Govt. junk paper by a country like China, which would collapse the economy instantly into either an Argentina / Venezuela style inflation nightmare (as the Fed has to print ever larger sums to keep the government solvent), or a Greece slash & burn scenario.
Thank you for this. The comments are funny. Most of them are the exact "layer" he was mentioning in his article.
I work there as a senior developer and those blog posts couldn't be further from the truth. There was some discussion about them on Reddit a while ago that I contributed too (I'm "avar" there too): http://www.reddit.com/r/perl/comments/1mkdl4/what_exactly_is...

Anyway to reply to @csswizardry while we have offices worldwide (including in SF) the only office where we're hiring developers/sysadmins is in Amsterdam, and very small sysadmin operations in Seattle/Singapore that mostly handle pager load outside of Amsterdam office hours.

If anyone's interested I'd be happy to field questions about it, my E-mail is listed in my profile.
We also have Hulu+, and have never been required to link with our current cable provider (which we don't have at all).

I personally enjoy both Netflix and Hulu+. They are different use cases. Hulu+ for current shows, while Netflix for the rest. The only thing I dislike from Hulu is the ads.
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