skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Boeing didn't take a straight path from A to B so the timescale is not all that relevant. It's just an example of how things that seem impossible from a cold start seem more possible when you think in steps. It's not step 1 - raise $250m , step 2 - build spaceship.

Elon Musk seems like the counterexample because he started with so much capital and credibility. But he was very obviously thinking steps from the start. Each one risky. Build engine. Build high end car. Buildlower end cars. Maybe then build parts for other manufacturers.

Most big goals are reached in steps. The more difficult and risky the goal the more steps there are and the bigger and riskier they are likely to be but they are still steps.

If your goal is building spaceships you could start by doing something useful with satellites as a step 1. This could be a kickstart-able sized undertaking.

https://www.google.ie/search?q=site:https://www.kickstarter....

Obviously if you are trying to push the boundaries of what a cold start startup can possibly achieve, you are going to find yourself on the difficult-impossible border region but that's the point, isn't it?
Anything can be made to sound bad if you oversimplify. Any community can be made to sound incoherent if you collapse the opinions of very different people on top of one another.

It's pretty obvious that the article is describing an unusual arrangement that won't suit everyone - although it's not specific to tech, there are other jobs where you get stuffed into a remote, often mostly young male, community for months at a time. Oil, the military, certain religious and agricultural communities.
He bares a striking resemblance to PG.
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he might have been naive, stupid even, but definitely not to blame: they effectively broke the law.

IANAL and I'm not based in US but I would guess the only way to do this legally would be for MS to go to a law-enforcement agency, the agency would need to get a warrant and then the agency would be able to look into it, not MS itself.
> How could these people be of such high caliber yet believe such vastly different things?

I guess a Greek philosopher (Socrates or Plato) would say that it's because things like Truth, Justice and Virtue do exist independently and universally. They are not attached to people's religion, human laws, etc.

In ancient Greek tragedies you can find themes that deal with this sort of questions[1] and if you look into Plato[1] you'll find incredibly thorough analysis on various topics such as knowledge, religion, laws, justice, slavery, etc. Considering the fact that Gods in Ancient Greece were beyond our definition of religion today, they were all over the place, in every-day life, that's astonishing.

I was born Christian and Greece is the only modern theocratic European state, but I also reckon that religion and philosophy play well together only if you allow doubt into the equation. Otherwise you better stick with the beliefs/answers of your religion - whatever that religion might be - and stay the hell out of philosophers of such caliber or your mind is going to explode.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antigone_(Sophocles)#Significan...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato
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I sense deep irony in this comment...
There's a very real chance that over 200 people were murdered in a single event - if that's not newsworthy anymore then that's a pretty fucking sad indictment of the state of the world.
I see myself doing this for a short period of time, say one or week.

That's actually a plan I am making with some friends/coders. We may rent a nice villa somewhere in Spain for two weeks.
Get some buzz and some work done.
Would be nice to have ideas flowing and in the end we may leave with a product.
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At virtually every company I've worked with, there's something fucked up. (Can't even afford to be unaware of it, as it affects the work.) Yes, I've been privileged enough to leave... for yet another fucked up company.

(So no point in speaking for everyone, like managers typically do. "At our company, we think...")

Like others, I'm very curious how it works with non-work relationships like families and friends.
More like burning acridness: http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/suicide-note-reveals-taste-...
By schleps I assume you don't mean people, but tasks.
Such as filling hundreds of test tubes or soldering as many connections
as you can do, or writing code that is necessarily huge but represents a
small concept.

Hustling is one of those tasks surely too.
You have to be able to balance the selling and/or delivery in some way to keep the ball rolling.

Not many scientists, especially researchers, are entrepreneurs but those that
have lived by their own technology might just be the ones that have
the abilities that would be good for investors.
Still may not be very "brilliant" compared to working for an institution.
Depends on the person.

>most are terrible at making sales pitches.
Oh, well.

Given capital, a breakthrough entrepreneur can turn a used car salesman into
a technical representative, there will always be a time or place when persuasiveness
is critical. Looks like Musk could use a number of car dealers about now.
It's supposed to be easier to find sales talent than accomplished scientists.

Bell Labs I always thought was exactly what Bell needed, since they were
living on their own technology.

Has anybody here worked for 2Wire? I've got some interesting theories.
I think it's no Bell Labs but I could be wrong. That could be another thread.

>The real breakthroughs will require extremely slow, deep thinkers which have the autonomy and time to work on very hard problems without interruption in the form of sales pitches, VC meetings, demo days, and above all a constant scramble for funding.
Two ways of doing this are to be really big or be really small.

Janelia does look interesting but who owns the product of your research?

Probably whoever builds the lab.

I druther build my own lab.

How many well-equipped non-institutional researchers are there any more anyway?
I thought so.

Odds are pretty slim. If you don't do it your dang self it just might not get done.

But genius, the exceptional individual, "Great Man" or "Great Woman", is not
just a theory, Einstein & Curie did appear.
And true quantum leaps were made.
> we are currently only at about halfway our feasibility study

From http://www.boyanslat.com/plastic5/
I would do this. I understand it's not appropriate for some people (families / children etc)

But there are people like me, who just aren't good at the "real life" stuff. Give me a place to sleep, eat and exercise (wow - they have a pool!) and I'd gladly spend the rest of the time hacking on a start-up ... especially if it was cool technology like Augmented Reality
I just used one of those little water-bird things to play the game and won!
Bridges between Microsoft and non-Microsoft technologies
As far as I know it´s not been published, I´m just making an example of what kind of information it would give (not too much).

I´ve read that the telephone ping was just every hour or so, that gives you at least 5 or 6 pings during the flight, some of them when the aircraft was at known positions.

It´s a pity because with a ping every 5 min it would have been possible to obtain a pretty narrow route.

The ping arc error zone it´s quite wide (about 100NM) but maybe it could be possible to correct it somehow comparing the ping string with the last known positions.

Of course it´s just going to give wide probable routes, but there is a possibility that they give additional indirect information, like some branches overflying radar zones, or airways on the general direction of the probable route that could be used to narrow the search again.
Even if it just works for reducing the actual search surface it´s worth looking at it.
I suppose that the SAR teams are trying to do something similar, but after seeing last´s week response it´s difficult
This is actually significantly better than Flappy Bird because it has ACCURATE hit detection.
I see this daily, but then I don't have a sub-20ms ping time and a cable modem where I live. The CDN doesn't have to go down. The user's connection doesn't even have to go down. Things just have to get momentarily flaky _somewhere_.

I'm working on a project that uses google fonts and the page loads with fonts timing out multiple times per day. I get to sites where just the html loads and none of the css (or worse: just some of the css) all the time. Especially on 3G, but regularly on ADSL too. Or what if you're sharing a saturated line?

(And waiting for a timeout to kick in before you trigger a callback is just not an option. By then the user probably closed the page anyway. Rather just make it work in the first place.)
Yep, those kind of 2d metaballs are indeed doable in GLSL - I have a WebGL proof-of-concept lying around. I really struggled to get good performance, though my shader-fu isn't up to much.
Pretty sad they decided to do this, actually.
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Now imagine that you could create a gravity alternator and use gravity in a similar way to electricity... of course this doesn't make sense, but maybe there are gravity applications not even imagined by now.
At least EAX was DSP accelerated, which meant no latency. I used to use my Soundblaster Live as a guitar effects pedal. Doing effects processing on the CPU was entirely feasible with the hardware, but the stock Windows drivers added about 2 seconds of latency to the input - useless for jamming. So I'd just plug my guitar into Line in, go to settings, and play with different EAX environments. Eventually I found the kX Project which provides non-sucky drivers for EMU10K1 cards, but I remember how awed I was when I first installed Linux and found that Linux soundcard drivers were non-sucky by default. I think that was formative...
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Really? Have you ever sat through the experience of waiting for the primary source to time out so that the fallback can kick in?
You would be right if most regular surveillance cameras were continuously running face-recognition software and had access to a vast database linking faces to identities. And the day this happens might not be that far off.

As it stands for now, the privacy implications of regular surveillance cameras are limited by storage and the computing & manpower needed to analyze every frame. It's pretty certain your local police department isn't storing every frame recorded by area highway cameras for several years back; they are doing that for license plate readers, though.
"RAAF P3 crew unable to locate debris. Cloud & rain limited visbility. Further aircraft to continue search for #MH370"

https://twitter.com/AMSA_News/status/446583054002171904
nothing wrong with trying to monetize their software.
Why do you think the hit decetion is off in Flappy Bird? I think it's very accurate and fair and that that's one of the reasons it became such a hit.
I've always thought of Haskell as a programming language for people who prefer maths to programming.
> If you want the best graphics

graphics is a very small part of a good game. If a game relied solely on the graphics prowess to draw in the audience, it's a failed game in my books.
An explanation about environmental impact (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_garbage_patch#Pho...):

> Unlike organic debris, which biodegrades, the photodegraded plastic disintegrates into ever smaller pieces while remaining a polymer. This process continues down to the molecular level.[26] As the plastic flotsam photodegrades into smaller and smaller pieces, it concentrates in the upper water column. As it disintegrates, the plastic ultimately becomes small enough to be ingested by aquatic organisms that reside near the ocean's surface. In this way, plastic may become concentrated in neuston, thereby entering the food chain.
The "Where is Variance not a good fit?" section is useful. I'm not just saying that as a long time victim/critic of pie charts.
1)The chrome app can be run from the GitHub repo as far as I know.

We are also trying to sponsor an Electrum plugin and our android app will soon work similar to the Chrome app (at the moment it uses appcache and it doesn't do the independent blockchain data verification via the electrum network.)

We are also working with hardware wallet manufacturers.

2) see (1)

3) We will update our website information to make the user aware but please keep in mind that 2FA (soon with transaction details) means malware has limited capacity. Also keep in mind that an attacker would have to attack both our service and our signing key at the store which are not in the same place and are kept encrypted when not used.
There is a very minimal Docker build with Musl showing how it can be usd to build a minimal container https://github.com/mwcampbell/vontainrr
For a slightly different slant on SOA's I'd thoroughly recommend watching Fred George's talk on the technical side of implementing micro-service architectures from Oredev last year

https://vimeo.com/79866979

along with his talk on Programmer Anarchy which is more about the resulting team / working patterns

https://vimeo.com/79866978

It's moved playing with much finer-grained service architectures way up my to to list.
Every time I see code.google.com my brain anticipates the pain and it actually hurts. Please don't do that again. Even Google is using Github now.
Also, what happens if I really like the product, and I am eager to work on it, but not 24x7? I suppose I'm not welcome then? This is just sick, IMO.
> Flying is my bet.

I believe you nailed that one! And some people doubted the value of speculation on forums in terms of aiding the investigation :-)

People have explained on other threads that the pilot can pretty much turn off anything they want on board, so I'm not sure how you'd prevent that. Maybe they should have some kind of black-box-transponder thing that's self contained and cannot harm the aircraft even if, say, the circuitry were to catch on fire. Shrug... not my area of expertise by a long shot.
"That is all just value-added services that protect their reputation and deepen their relationship with customers. That's all."

Surely, delighting your customers in the provision of your product/service is what a successful business is all about...
Surprised at the negative attitude in this thread. It's certainly not an environment I'd like to work in but all the people working there don't have to, they choose to. It's probably also a hell of a lot cheaper than trying to rent in SF which I'm sure a lot of them like. Without knowing working hours/salary it's hard to say exactly how good or bad it is but the most important thing is that with so many companies having difficulty finding talented engineers all of those people are working there because they want to.
It wasn't covered by TV recently because it's not recent.
Seems like all the programmers who can't go a paragraph without mentioning the importance of "abstraction" got what they asked for.
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I expected Dart...
How about a widely held view so far: Possibly held captive by hijackers or terrorists? Not desirable, but better than certain death indicated by debris (if confirmed).
Wow, that was indeed violent. The worst thing is: I wasn’t complaining that it was off-topic; I was pointing at a different treatment of two off-topic events on the Front page, and how they were gender based.
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I can understand people considering it fucked up, but I've also done this on a smaller scale (my first startup - we were 5 people initially and 3 of us lived in the office, and the other two spent most of their waking time there too) and it can be awesome for a while if you're young, without dependents and enjoy what you're doing.

In fact, I'd recommend the experience for a year or two. It was a bit like an extension of university dorm life. And it was a lot of fun that first year.

Living in the office (we had our separate rooms, our breakfast table was in the reception area; our living room was also the meeting room...) and being used to bizarre sleeping patterns provided a lot of unintentional entertainment.

Like the time I happened to be up at 3am on a Sunday morning, and the support phone rang (we ran an ISP), and I decided I might as well pick it up, only to hear a lot of noise on the other end before a bewildered voice told me he'd called in pure frustration and didn't actually expect anyone would answer, and had gotten so surprised he actually dropped the phone.

And this is a bit sad, but one of my best memories from that year (1995) was staying up late at night to max out our little ISPs 512kbps line downloading Netscape 2.0 right after it had been put on the FTP site.. Font color, animated gifs and livescript/javascript!
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IMHO, yes you should ask to work remotely and no, you shouldn't take a paycut.

If anything there should be more allowances because you will be saving Employer's expenses that he usually does per employee in a physical office. You will instead be paying for Electricity etc.
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They left the most valuable gift to their children - great education from their parents, and they gave the most valuable present to some less priviledged children in the world - the chance to be educated with the help of Bill&Melinda foundation. Well done, Bills.
While this sounds silly to the layman, what does this mean to lawyers? Is "under investigation" a term of art?
Take them to court. Otherwise they will do it again.
Driving around in public with a big id number associated directly with you has never been considered private.
The 5 Gyres Foundation http://5gyres.org advocates both cleaning up plastic from the ocean and cutting down the use of it
Could MH370 landed in the ocean because of user error?
If you change the -/+ or N/S of the Lat Long of where the possible wreckage was found you get an airport in range of MH370.

Could the Hijacker/Pilot entered the wrong co-ord into the flight plan?

S 43 54.432', E87 28.452'
https://www.google.com.au/maps/place/43°54'25.9"S+87°28'27.1"E

N 43 54.432', E87 28.452'
https://www.google.com.au/maps/place/43°54'25.9"N+87°28'27.1"E
I don't quite understand what you're
worried about.

Keeping your bitcoin in Coinbase is a bad idea for the same reason keeping your bitcoin in MtGox is a bad idea.

It's the "largest and most established", until it isn't and your deposits have vanished like a fart in the wind.
This is clearly Carcosa.
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And that is how to not get female employees.
Presumably their kids will manage the multi billion dollar trust.
So I suppose you were a founder of the startup, or at least an early employee with the expected benefits. It sure is great! Like this dear CEO of Meta, he wakes up with a big smile on his face thinking of his equity and all these employees who probably have little enough or none and put in just as much time as he does, and are presumably as immersed in it as he is.

Frankly, I felt filthy hearing him talk about productivity and evening brainstorming sessions and people talking in the kitchen, you know, furtively at 3am, about his great company and product. Does it occur to him that his employees are humans and might be interested in talking about other things? Every mention he makes of spontaneous social interaction involves "brainstorming and great ideas." The dream of every founder, that he could scale his (warranted) passion down to all those who have not nearly as much stake in it but should love it all the same! Yuck.

If you want communal living, there are cooperatives and similar arrangements with equal stakes. If you want to play capitalism, don't play fucking coy.
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I get a 404. Maybe this https://github.com/mwcampbell/docker-muslbase ?
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How would Clojure be described in these terms? Java is too static/verbose?

Edit, previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6968775

Some suggestions:

@tensor wrote: "Clojure: lisp promotes mutability too much."

@ajuc: "The JVM needs a good lisp."
I really dislike his transformation of the dichotomy into a trichotomy. It takes a simple, deep insight and muddies it. The middle category is just a subset of "things not completely in our control", all of which we should be indifferent to.

That aside, I found Irvine to be a great introduction to Stoicism, even if he misses some of the depth and grace of Epictectus. I think I would have had a much harder time getting into the Roman stoics if I hadn't started with this book.
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Me too. My question was more about clarifying editorial guidelines. Commenting guidelines are already weird (I got pummeled for that one, even though I was the only one trying to explain the relevance for HN on the entire thread, and ask the community non-obvious questions) but I though starting by clarifying posting ones: is it neglected technical aspects, social issues, things that a world-changing company can make profit from?

In this case, the only solution that I see is automated construction using 3D-printing, most likely augmented by drones to scale. That would put most of those workers out of a job -- a situation probably worst off, and more deadly than the one they are in at the moment. It follows the disenfranching trend that Brynjolfsson gives to technology, and against yesterday’s parallel example (locally made menstruating pads in rural India).

I assumed talking about that was better that the tacitly racist ‘You know, Qatari have no respect for human lives…’ that fill this thread otherwise. It might sound true (family members living there tend to agree, vocally, but they aren’t exactly not-racists) but it seems far less productive than highlighting the works of some Qatari trying to change that.
Great plan. And useful if you later on move job. You have another useful skill.
True but that's just a matter of technology to search the data. The data itself is fine.

So if you forced police to manually go through the list of license plates every camera recorded, and find the one they want, that would be ok? But if they made a script to do the exact same thing automatically, it's illegal?
I guess the clearly visible diagonal axis is because people just type the same distance for all the axes when they choose gray. So they would go like: dcdcdc or acacac etc.
> Since this is open source, you are free to remove the version string but we would appreciate if you would leave it in.

It's easy to remove, and they only track which apps use it to gauge how popular it is. Hardly evil.
What, you wouldn't want to live, as a woman, in essentially a geek version of a frat house?
I am curious what your take would be on that effort, mentioned in a different thread:

The Ocean Cleanup:

http://www.boyanslat.com/plastic/
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Robotiky makes coding as simple as A B C++ (Wired)
did you watch the video? nowhere does it imply you're forced to work 24/7 - it's a huge house, I suppose you can just go somewhere else when you need some time alone.
We may be witnessing the genesis of plastic-based lifeforms :P
Yes that's the one.. Android paste...
Run your company how you like, of course, but I doubt the benefits of the arrangement outweigh the smaller recruiting pool it leads to.
Also an option to bookmark your position would be great. Some articles are difficult to read in one go!

i'm also using Foxit pdf-to-text feature to upload my pdf ebooks on pastebin and use this to read them.

If you even open this up on github i'll be glad to contribute some features :D