skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
NPR just ran the story "Study: Half Of Jailed NYC Youths Have Brain Injury"

The study found nearly 50 percent of both boys and girls reported traumatic brain injuries that resulted in a loss of consciousness, amnesia or both. And they said 55 percent of those injuries were caused by assaults.

An estimated 60 percent of adult prisoners have a brain injury, according to a study of prisoners in South Carolina.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=3045728...

The US justice system has become extreme in the pursuit of punishment vs treatment and rehabilitation.
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I take this as a positive sign that Hacker News is working.

I suffered through reading this post which contains such gems as: "Have you ever been clinging onto a rocket ship, then cut the engines at full speed, and then tried to fly again?" because it was on the front page of Hacker News. When I refreshed the site a couple minutes later it was mercifully off the front page.

I'm curious how it got front page to begin with but I'm glad it didn't last long.
I read the whole article, but I don't understand why he is so offended by the wealthy being wealthy and getting wealthier. Does Bill Gates being rich hurt poor people? Not that I can see. In fact he puts a lot of money into curing diseases. Does Musk being rich hurt poor people? Not that I can see, he is saving the environment by making electric cars popular and bringing back the country's space capability. If this is what rich people do, by all means, lets have more and bigger rich people.
I've seen this argument over and over again, and it's ridiculous. Saying "humans are not rational" is not the same as "humans are never rational"

The statement is made about perfect rationality. No, humans are not perfectly rational, but it does not follow that humans are never rational or unable to be rational.
The criticism isn't specifically for Langley, but rather for all of Google-Mozilla-Microsoft. They've all been derelict on this, knowing the certificate-revocation standards are hopelessly broken, but not fixing it from their positions of power and responsibility.

(Might it take a product-liability lawsuit, where somebody suffers financial loss because Chrome is deceptively showing the "secure" indicator even for certificates revoked days/weeks/longer ago?)

Consider the CRLSet approach. Maybe it's the best any browser-maker has done, and a useful learning-exercise for a future industry-wide fix. But it still sucks. It's capped at 250KB, assembled via an opaque editorial process, only refreshed daily, only protective of Chrome users and some chosen subset of "high priority" certificate-revocations, and still vulnerable to an arbitrarily-long attacker embargo against the Chrome update servers. Langley himself mentions it can't scale to the recent need for higher-volume revocations.

Compare it with Google's own "Safe Browsing" blacklist system. That delivers megabytes of compressed privacy-protecting blacklists, constantly refreshed via incremental updates to maintain a freshness of under 45 minutes, in a manner available to all browser makers.

So a potential version 1 of a better approach: leverage Safe Browsing to deliver fresher certificate blacklists to more end-users, and also warn users (not just silent-fail) if they're making 'secure' connections but are too-many-hours behind the best available revocation information.

I sketched a few other possible next-directions in a prior comment, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7584458

However, the implication that I, as a lone individual, must "roll up my sleeves to get the actual work done" for my words to have weight here is both nonsensical and (speaking of rhetorical cancers on HN) unnecessarily personal. Google, with plentiful expertise and cash, is shipping the world's most popular browser – but that browser has multiple inadequate certificate-revocation systems. Yet I should be contributing my expertise to fix this before I may speak? "Christ", that.
My initial reaction was that he is qualifying his company with a swear word. Everyone is free to interpret how it was meant, but still.

Then this quote

> I want to build a company that touches millions and millions of people in a positive way and is known as one of the great companies of our time.

This made me think about Steve Job talking to Apple employees at his return. Throwing the Michael Dell quotes at the employees, and telling them that they shouldn't stay for the salaries, and from there it will be as tough as it can be grow back.

Apple is considered a great company, and it touches millions of people in a positive way, my household is full of Apple products. But Steve Jobs was a douchebag, there was the no poach thing going on, there seems to have been a lot of verbal and psychological abuse to reach their level of perfection, and I don't think everyone (the server side guys working on iCloud for instance) were very happy of their jobs.

Some people are attracted by this kind of culture, and I don't deny it can have wonderful results. But is it something to be proud of, and acknowledge as a sane or needed state?
From 13.10 to 14.04 there are also an incredible amount of polish and small touches around Unity. If you aren't a consistent non-LTS user, you might miss them, but there are a lot of them and they really add to the experience.
Feels more like Python because now we have lambdas and I can write auto everywhere.
How was it handled with cars? At some point, leaded gasoline became unavailable for cars. And yet, cars from before are still around, apparently limited by maintenance and accidents rather than fuel. How was that handled?
I can't ever remember reading a review of a new Windows version that included registry paths.
The SDF Public Access Unix System[1] uses NetBSD exclusively. They had some bad[2] times[3] in the past with Linux[4], and they seem very happy with NetBSD now.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SDF_Public_Access_Unix_System

[2] ftp://sdf.lonestar.org/pub/sdf/historical/fscked_up.txt

[3] ftp://sdf.lonestar.org/pub/sdf/historical/linux-beastie.txt

[4] ftp://sdf.lonestar.org/pub/sdf/historical/bye-bye-leenox.txt
Age is more important than economic class when we're talking about potential markets for this idea.

Empty Nesters in their 50's and 60's is where this product needs to be focused. These people usually still work, tend to have more house than they need, have fewer monthly expenses, and aren't able to do run-o-the-mill house maintenance (even if they have the time). They could range anywhere between middle class and upwards.

My parents are firmly middle class, and I could see them wanting something like this.

Empty Nesters are your customers. And it's a growing market (in the US at least).

EDIT: Spelling and grammar.
Twitter seems like the poster child for Scala. I've played with Scala a little and it definitely has a lot of things going for it yet I wonder:

- Is Scala used exclusively for systems programming in Twitter or are there other languages in the mix?

- The majority of other big software players seem to be not using it for various reasons. Is that a concern?

- How is the learning curve for new hires? How long before they become productive? How long before they write great code in Scala (as opposed to still figuring things out but maybe being productive)?

- Isn't the JVM too big of a performance compromise for large scale software where every bit of performance matters?

- Is it easier to hire people for Scala positions? Harder? The same?

- How do engineers in Twitter with a lot of experience in other platforms and languages feel about Scala after having used it for a while? E.g. vs. C++, Go, Java, C# just to throw a few names into the hat there. Do people tend to just write C++ in Scala or Java in Scala or whatever or do they adopt to new paradigms with ease?

I know we always say that a good engineer can pick up any new language and to some extent that's true but I think expertise in a specific language builds up over time. Maybe an analogy would be a musical instrument. It seems some of the other languages have larger pools of talent, more mature tools, etc. I guess it's hard to be a new language in this world...
I think you'll need to adjust for speed of data transfer and population density when attempting such analogies. A peasant from Gaul for example could not travel to say Alexandria unless as a slave via Roman galley, and had no information of interest generally unless related to insurrection. Roman legions on roman roads operating from the hub of power, Rome, controlled information at a minuscule fraction of today's rate, but it served as a topological monopoly on transfers.

The Romans spent centuries withholding the northern tribes of Europe, like Picts and Teutonic peoples, the barbarians from the gate. But after adjustments to modern propagation speeds, the northern wars were much like a flash revolution in Egypt I would suggest.
Yep, lots of people work for little people at BigCo.
Been working with LibGDX since 2010 - I still remember buying the Newton physics game on my Motorola Droid. This was the best 2D Android game engine back then, and it still is in my opinion :) Congrats to the devs!
"Become"? When was it not?
Agree with this post, but would go further: if someone feels that they are not contributing in a way commensurate with what they think they should be able to contribute, then the reason- whether they are bored or not, and it is their fault, or someone else's, or no one's fault- they will be unhappy. Challenging is not as important as fulfilling.
There are reasons besides environmental ones to encourage use of biofuels (hopefully made from more than corn). One is that ~10% less oil has to be imported during production shortages.

It's not a complete solution, but a minor part of one.
How about it being more of deductible. You would pay a flat fee for each visit of professional except the regular checkups.
Despite the other commentators' views, I completely agree. My Panasonic's YouTube app cannot ffwd or rewind. WTF! For a video streaming app! Unbelievable.

What I do is fire up the XBox. It's a brain-dead app there too+, but at least I can rewind a few seconds if I missed a word or two.

+ Titles truncated too much; no comments viewer; unresponsive UI.
This is interesting to think about in the context of your technology:

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230345610... (in case the link breaks, the topic is bacteria on currency).
Old structures with leaded paint don't routinely spray it in a fine mist of particulates from several thousand feet in the air, do they?

Do I understand correctly that leaded paint is harmless until scratched or otherwise dispersed?
Bootstrapped solo-tech founder here, I'm creating my portfolio/blog, hopefully I'll have something to send your way soon enough.
If they read a few of those out and dealt with them at the meeting it would be an entertaining one. "When started was friendly and open, now its gotten so big that those at the top have no connection with their employees, if you have a problem its now passed on to customer service and you receive a generic answer. middle management manage by threats and I doubt those at the top have a clue whats happening." for example.
I'm curious: at what point do we stop calling a company a "startup"? A company that has 750 employees (as Fab had before their restructuring) and has existed for three years sounds like a somewhat mature medium-sized company that has accumulated a substantial amount of inertia and bureaucracy (a horde of middle managers, an HR department, etc.). When I think of startups, I think of at most a few dozen employees struggling to get their first product to profitability.
This isn't exactly what the statement means. I highly recommend you read Thinking Fast and Slow, it gives an excellent analysis on this topic.

The statement "human beings aren't rational" doesn't mean "human beings are stupid", but rather we're really terrible at statistical analysis, and are very susceptible to manipulation.

The science leading up to the statement "human beings are not rational" was actually used to explain why classical economic theory didn't accurately predict human behavior in (close to) free markets.

Although some people may use this deduction to make laws about protecting people from their stupid selves, really this conclusion leads to protecting people against dishonest behavior, or subtle manipulation. Humans can only make rational decisions when the information is comprehensive, and presented in an non-influential form.
Please don't post comments like this to HN. WildUtah's comment may (or may not) have been overstated, but yours is mean.

Seeking to cast another person in the stupidest possible light is a form of incivility. The precedent it sets for others gets worse the more right you are.
Also tangential to it: IP-over-ICMP
http://thomer.com/icmptx/ though never got to play with it.

Iodine is cool. If you plan on using it soon remember to set up your DNS records beforehand cause it might take a bit to propagate. I literally spent a whole airplane flight sending DNS requests to see if it propagated yet.
Two things - capitalism replaces Mercantilism, and declining marginal value of money. So yeah - there are equalizing forces within capitalism relative to other systems.
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I think 'process' in this context is more about mindless bureaucratic processes rather than organized effort. Running a household requires tight organization, but it would be weird if I required my wife to submit TPS reports to me on a weekly basis.

We have a family culture that makes it possible for a lot of 'rules' to go unwritten and unmentioned, I think primarily because we're on the same page. We don't need an employee handbook, or weekly meetings, but we're an efficient organization.
Lame. 2011 called and wants its entrepreneurial war stories back. Stories with "suffering" and "struggle" where all in the employees are "all in", but not sharing the profits of course, oh and you can be cut or fired anytime, while your out of touch CEO/founder is having the time of his life.

I think I have grown an internal immunity from this bs. (Or maybe I am just older and more mature now).

What does fab do this days anyway?
My wife started using E85 fuel her gas mileage went from 22mpg to 17mpg. Even though there was a subsidy on the fuel she ended up having to purchase more. She has since switched back to regular fuel.
Do you want a corporate job? Then the MBA and the school at which you earned it is of some importance. Also remember that there is an oversupply of MBAs - too much supply, falling demand. So even if you dream of a high paying corporate job, you will have to accept that there is a high level of competition.

BTW: I don't have an MBA, so my view is that of an outsider looking in, based on a mixture of real world (TM) observations and reading business magazine articles.
Sometimes I'll follow a Google News link to a good article, then hit "Back" and look forward to reading the reddit/HN comments only to realize I was led there by Google News and there are no comments.
>I'm not aware of any other language that lets you write inline Asm, procedural, OOP, and functional-style code, all conceivably in the same source file.

Gambit-C.
For someone who wants to learn "modern C++", particularly for number-crunching, without a strong C background (say... someone who develops predictive models who mostly writes Python and Java, not that I resemble that or anything...) – where would be a good place to start?
Intentions: An experiment in Ultralight View Controllers
What do they do? E-commerce, apparently:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fab.com
The whole corn ethanol thing amazes me. How they can throw $30bn a year into a program than makes the environment worse is surprising. I realise the recipients of the cash they pay a proportion back to the politicians to keep the thing going. But really - a $300bn or so cost over the life plus producing hunger in poor countries by burning the food? I'm surprised the political system is actually quite that bad. On the plus side I'm optimistic about algae produced ethanol that companies like Algenol are trying to produce.
I read a summary of this product somewhere else. "For when you're going into a place that doesn't allow you to bring alcohol from outside, but doesn't mind large quantities of mysterious white powder."
This should be tagged 2012.
So, if I use a VPS, how do I protect myself?

I am not clear on what to do here. I don't knowingly use AES anywhere; does using bcrypt/scrypt for my PW hashing help at all or is that unrelated?
since you cited sources, i went and checked.

Your first article is an expose on the wealthy class in Dubai, not a religious position. Granted, they speak Arabic, but almost no one believes what the ruling class in Dubai (or Saudi for that matter) does has anything to do with Islam.

Your second reference is to a story from the 7th century that historians believe is a fabrication. And, even if it was true, she was condemned to death for inciting violence, not for singing.

i understand that there is a lot of hostility toward what some Muslims do, and justifiably so, but that doesn't necessarily represent Islam any more than Warren Jeffs or Fred Phelps represent Christianity. And, there's no doubt that some won't agree with Islam's sense of morality, but at least disagree with the actual tenets of the faith, not corrupt foreign rulers and centuries-old gossip.
I don't care much about this article, but I'm reminded of pg's middlebrow dismissal comment.
These companies will try very hard to settle before this goes to trial, because the emails that have been unearthed so far are not flattering. The companies lost their motions for summary judgment, which http://appleinsider.com/articles/14/03/28/silicon-valley-ant... is where the companies could have proven that their actions were not illegal based purely on the law and uncontested facts. Now, they'll face a jury trial, and in such a setting, in front of ordinary people, the appearance of wrongdoing can matter a whole lot. The emails produced so far in many cases come across as mean and callous, and that's going to play in front of a jury.

I think tech companies will have to take a lesson from this case and reexamine some of their approaches to dealing with engineers. Tech more so than many other industries seems incestuous in terms of how companies deal with the labor pool. This can result in policies that open these companies up to liability under antitrust as well as discrimination laws.
The designs are all quite different. They use additive manufacturing for example.
This seems to contradict r > g . Inequality results in investment, which shifts wealth from the g part of the economy to the r part, due to a lower propensity to consume among the wealthy.

Or are there second order effects that the reviews (I haven't read the book) don't discuss?
Would "Humans are not always perfectly rational." be preferable?

(meaningin this case that in a large enough group, it is very likely that a portion of the group will make sub-optimal decisions)

Whereas some economic models would model every person as always making the optimal choice.

So expressing the idea of this assumption being false might be useful, and ideally if one is talking about it often, it would probably be good to be able to refer to the concept in a concise way.

Hence, as a shorthand, saying "humans are not perfectly rational."

I think that's correct reasoning?
There are different ways of looking at this. Some I've come up with are ROI, happiness, and intelligence.

If you quit working for two years and pay for school, will you gain money in the long term? When?

If you are able to attend school, will it make you happier in the near term? Will your new career and life trajectory make you happier in the long term?

Do you think the knowledge and skills you'll learn while getting an MBA are worthwhile to learn for two years? Will these skills apply in the long term?

I know MBAs get knocked around a lot here, but my own opinion is there will be something to gain in attending class with smart, motivated individuals while at a resource-rich learning center, such as a top ten school.
In the post-launch press conference, NASA made it clear that ISS scheduling is tight, with a lot of traffic (Dragon, Cygnus, Soyuz) and onboard activities, and rescheduling was not going to be easy.
In general the lending and charitable patterns of rich people is in favor of the occassional and ideologically. So if x person believed that global warming was a hoax, they would be funding or trying to shape the world as they see fit. There are a lot more rich people sitting on wealth than just Gates/musk.
2 and 3 are probably a consequence of 1 because a human being with fewer information will look irrational to someone with more information.
This is a better article than the OP. Thanks.
> Do those capitalists get to use those fortunes to wield massive political power?

They do, which is why I laugh at the proposed solutions of higher taxes and even a global tax.
The math is a bit more complex than 10% and why I put the ~ there.
Read simonster comment, posted 20m before yours.

If wealth becomes a hereditary entitlement rather than an incentive for hard work, then no matter how much you work you can never become economically equal.

If you can not earn wealth by working, what is then the point of work?
The (current) top comment says: In his recent book "Capital in the 21st Century", he's done something very big. He's pointed out that capitalism is flawed -- that inequality is not an unintended result, but rather an inherent feature of it.

So apparently the fact that capitalism naturally produces inequality _is_ controversial.

How to address that inequality is obviously a hard question. However, if you are thinking about it as "rewards", then you are guaranteed to arrive at the wrong answer.
Are there countries, or locations in the USA that could be used as a control for this hypothesis? Places that didn't get rid of lead.
If the culture is one of arbitrary profanity, sign me the fuck up!
Infact the same thing was discussed at 55 mins in.
The only way to implement network-connected appliances safely is with open-source. It doesn't have to be under a permissive license, but it does have to allow the end user to change the code. Anything that is network-connected -HAS- to be update-able and independently verifiable. Anything less is a risk to all of us, like biologically unstable organisms released into a city would be.
I'd think the security of Facebook privacy settings will be improved by, for example, lightweight modelling using Alloy. Alloy would catch bugs like this one:

http://mashable.com/2011/12/06/facebook-bug-zuckerberg-photo...

When I read about that bug in the past, I thought "this would be a great example to use for Alloy".
Because recovering the first stage was not what they were being paid for. They are paid to move stuff to the Space Station.

That said, the ability to 'tag along' additional testing without jeopardizing the main mission is a huge win for SpaceX. The cost of the launch (about $100M according to their web site) is paid for by the contract. Getting flight test data as well is pretty priceless.

Finally, even if the seas were calm it would be unlikely they would put a ship in the area as it would put people at risk of having a chunk of rocket and fuel crashing into them. They might have gotten better video though. If I were there I would have tried to figure out how to borrow a predator drone to have it loitering right there to film the arrival.
Lead paint can get pulverized and dispersed as dust as you open and close windows and doors and the like.
I would be less inclined to be saved with a dive since all I'll be thinking at the back of my mind is that I'm (to quote the article) "working at a company where folks apparently need to resign in order to have a real conversation about their roles.".