skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To my understanding in intensive traffic it's more about uniform and predictable behaviour.

First option will not improve since (at least in Europe) it just changes lane priority. In linked article's merge case priority traffic is in left lane, since right one merges. In your center merge case priority traffic is on the right (when doing simultaneous merges to center lane, one on the right has priority over the one on the left). So it probably won't change anything.

Barrier option is much better, but it has challanges and restrictions of their own.

Edit: Oh, and I forgot to mention that over here in Latvia I see people starting to respect zip merging. It's all in our head. Not because government said, but because everybody follows simple rule and everybody gets home faster and with less stress :)
Astronaut Photographs Explosions Over Israel And Gaza From Space
It most likely was not an earn out. An earn out is when you're getting paid from the money the company makes after the take-over (based on some minimum performance numbers).

See:

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/earnout.asp

Vs for instance:

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/g/goldenhandcuffs.asp
In what way does Lua interact with the outside world? Are you referring to it being embeddable, or the FFI in luajit2?

Also, in what way does Swift work with the outside world? It seems to be locked in pretty tightly in its own little world?
Some time in the not so distant future we'll think that it was silly that in 2014 the majority of development was done locally.
In Asia we have quite a few if relying on your family is still bootstrapping.
Amazon Fire Phone available now
Thoughts inspired by Jeremy Kun's “Programming is not math, huh?”
Eight Signs A Claimed P≠NP Proof Is Wrong (2010)
Want A Standing Desk? You're Sitting On One
What exactly does suspension teach a four-year-old child?
but it dont have a punchcard reader!
I don't have the data to look up, but I believe heating and cooling is the largest factor in energy consumption. This includes water heating as well as room climate control, so be sure to set those. The next largest would be appliances - dryer, washer, refrigerator, stove, oven in no particular order. Lights are a smaller part overall, but as dmfdmf said, power companies have different rates at different times of the day depending on the demand. They may or may not pass those rates down to end consumers - the hack is to use more during off peak/load hours and use less when it is expensive.

disclaimer: I work at a company that does this analysis for utilities to lower consumer consumption overall - we happen to have an Australian client as well.
The speed difference is largely a result of caching correct?
People block your merge because they think you cheated and should have merged earlier. If they were educated about zipper merge they would not have the same feeling.
The All American Expo that Invaded Cold War Russia
LifeLock CEO’s Identity Stolen 13 Times (2010)
You seem to know something about this - how accurate are the best face detection algorithms on real-world datasets?
The name generation from caching ought to allow it, though...
I like to see Clojure definitely scheme-inspired, but it is a very different language. Scheme has this approach where you can build almost anything out of cons, car, cdr.

After using Clojure for a while, all this cons, car, cdr stuff of Scheme feels like being stuck in implementation detail.

With the scheme community insisting on (1) recursion as the primary means for looping (2) no general polymorphism in the language standard I see no future in Scheme.

(1) - I have seen the light with Clojure's `for` macro. While it is not much more as a `map` (or a python/haskell list comprehension) its that kind of sugar that is really readable and is a good platform for beginners to reach up to map, fold, and other higher order functions.

(2) - Lists have car, cdr, Lazy lists in Scheme have stream-car, stream-cdr. I.e. I cannot use an algorithm that works on lists on lazy lists, etc. Even some lightweight dispatch here would make scheme so much more powerful and useful.

So: While clojure is not much more than Scheme, it demonstrates how a little more can actually make a huge difference in usability and adoption

PS: I really like Scheme as a small, simple language that gives you a good idea how an interpreter might work under the hood.
The Fermi Paradox – Wait But Why
Do you believe that the suspension is likely to result in a positive change in behavior of the child? If not, it seems completely misguided, favoring punishment over positive reenforcement.
What's the bet Microsoft's involved?
Well now that won't be a problem because Google has infinite compute resources.
Bloomberg was bootstrapped.
Just a thought: in order to make these servers more undercover, you can bundle in a port-knocking daemon (knockd) and have all ports initially closed. This setting should be easily changeable, but it will also tremendously help impair a third party's possibilities of profiling and figuring out valuable info about the server.
My impression is that the way this was handled was flawed. Effectively removing him from his full-time ACC job is highly questionable.

The issue is more complicated. The flight surgeon was concerned over the filters, but the chain-of-command couldn't allow him to fly without the filter. There was genuine concern from the chain of command, acting on the premise it was toxic fumes getting into the pilots air/oxygen supply. That turned out to be flawed as well.
So is rackspace now giving up the virtualized cloud market? (Because I remember they didn't follow the recent price drop of Google/AWS/Azure?)
There's a huge difference between "companies exist only to pay (short term) shareholder dividends" and "shareholders are one of the ways companies raise capital to accomplish its mission"

It's two different cultural perceptions that have a big outcome on how companies are managed.

I think it's OK for people to be PO'ed when companies are managed by the first mindset. Because healthy capitalism is as much about culture as it is the concrete laws and regulations. Unfortunately I think the US is struggling with a bad culture here, as evidenced by "corruption" being relabeled as "lobbying", which has become culturally accepted.
In an early merge there is no real merge point, people just merge wherever they can. As traffic backs up further and further people merge earlier and earlier.
Those explanations remind me of Feynman's explanation of elliptical orbits.
“I Do Not Know One Person Who Is Happy at Amazon”
Amazon reports $126m quarterly loss
How the US's terrorism watchlists work – and how you could end up on one
I agree with Larry, at the same time google is one of the last companies on the planet that I would trust with that data.

Much of this internet privacy backlash is aimed specifically at Google and Facebook (and of course the NSA, but let's assume that they don't have any problems getting to your medical data anyway).
There should be a law that gives immunity to whistleblowers. We can already, to some extent, make it more difficult to discriminate based on sex or color or pregnancy -- a similar thing would be good for whistleblowers.

Of course, there are ways and there are ways, but in the general case if organisations knew that the matter of things will still be observed two years after blowing the whistle and that it can't look bad, there would be an incentive to treat these people right.
Nice work. Love that streisand leverages ansible.

One thought, you ask for AWS credentials. Mine are already stored in ~/.aws/config for use in the official aws cli which I think I recall wraps boto. It would be nice if the streisand setup could figure that out for me.
Are you a programmer-mathematician or a programmer-handyman?
This Yo app really is ridiculous. As if there aren't a thousand other egg timer apps…
Spanish media just shot themselves in the foot – or maybe in the head
This is gold. Please do point to more resources like this.
He did.

He sent a memo to the then commander, did a confidential survey, sent the survey result to the commander, and sent few more memos to other senior officers. None were interested in his work. They dismissed his questions and concerns.

Search the phrase "After about 40 hours of flying with the filter."

I have to say in a disciplined organization like military, it's always a bad idea to speak on behalf of your organization without approval. There are all kinds of gotchas in these organizations. But if these officers dismiss his concerns, I really think he has the right to ask for help in public. In the end, he's a human being.
Still the point remains that we have not yet encountered any superintelligent entities, AI's or deities and therefore any statement about their capabilities, intents or character are pure speculation - indeed it seems to me that usually people just extrapolate human behavior.
It doesn't seem like market efficiency was the central thesis of the essay. He was saying that countries which don't allow their citizens to get rich are worse countries to live in. That's empirically true. Based on that observation, he argues that income variation is actually a sign of health. None of that relies on efficient markets.

Most "highly valued" startups usually disappear in thin air once founders get their payouts as if they had never existed (ahm... Viaweb?).

Viaweb was designed to be sold. Pg didn't want to work on online stores the rest of his life. But it went on to become a profitable part of Yahoo. That seems like a win-win for both Yahoo and the Viaweb team.

now you can argue founders are 100X better in skills to exploit market and make believe everyone that their goods are far more worth than it actually is. Should they be paid 100X for these skills? If you think of benefit to the human kind as a whole, perhaps not.

If someone paid the founders a certain amount of money for those skills, then those skills were worth that amount of money.

What does it mean to "benefit humankind as a whole"? That presupposes humankind has a purpose. Who gets to decide how much benefit something has to humankind? It seems like the answer is "the market."
Ack. Somewhere the two ideas (moving vs restructuring) got conflated in my head. Now I can't delete that comment. Thanks for the pointer.
Oh DanBC, your comments never disappoint.
Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS released
I got 12 replies so far including a couple of YC companies. I'm very humbled by the level of support and encouragement that the community provides here at HN.

A big thank you to all of you. I promise to keep you posted on how the journey unfolds.
Kim Dotcom: 'The Internet party will abolish mass surveillance'
Brogue just blows my mind with how simple it is. The magic system is reified as items. You really only have one stat (strength) IIRC. The food clock is both dead accurate and merciless [0].

I haven't played DCSS in a few years, but when I did, it was literally feast or famine: I would either be walking around with dozens of rations or else dying of hunger all the time. Herbivorous races like Spriggans didn't have very high food consumption but also didn't have many options in case they didn't find vegetarian food.

I read the summary page for the usability study, it seemed to give tons of (in particular) very _actionable_ feedback.

[0] Nethack, as much as I love it, causes brain damage in the same way that BASIC does: it shapes the way your brain works in a disadvantageous way. Consider that all of the nethack variants _add_ features (and are unabashed about it, SLASH stands for Super Lots of Added Stuff Hack).
There's one more rule: traffic on the circular road has priority.
Amazon’s Ambitious Bets Pile Up, and Its Losses Swell
Tax dodge.
Personally I'm very much a global warming believer and I think we needed big carbon taxes 20 years ago.

That doesn't mean that I think any aberration in weather patterns should be blamed on global warming without evidence.
> I was a kid with a sub-3 GPA from a liberal arts school with a Political Science degree.

Funny, they rejected me from even interviewing with a 3.01 GPA and a Computer Science degree because my GPA wasn't high enough. It worked out well, though, and I'm glad I never had to live in Madison.
Just to brainstorm with you on this, so if not phone, what would it be? Suppose we could build any hardware, any form factor, with any sort of input to convey your wishes to it, and any sort of output to feed back the output of the "eval" loop of it (riffing off REPL) into any of the five senses (yes, let's include smell to...just for the purposes of an unconstrained brainstorming), how would you envision that? I have been thinking about a "hands-free headset" that just talks to you and you talk back. And I wonder how would "apps" look or function in an ecosystem if the only API available was to speech-recognition engine and a text to speech engine?
Thanks Ed. I'll definitely drop in a note to you.
$10M for 10%-20% = valuation of $50-$100M.
You can't. Putting keys in a distributed app means it can be reversed somehow and leaked.
Have you ever tried to use the most common shortcuts on Dvorak (Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V)? You will have to use 2 hands, or stretch your (right sided) mouse hand. This killed it for me.
There should be an independent committee outside of the military handling complaints that have been ignored (you need to provide evidences you've done all you could to raise the issue to your superiors.)

I wonder if there is one right now.
He probably also doesn't know that he isn't getting any 'notifications' for reply on his comments and most probably he's not going to see this either :D
yammer's head of engineering kris gale also left microsoft last month[1]. he was a great voice of startup/agile culture inside of microsoft. and likely a bigger loss to the company.

he also gave similar talks externally that I'd recommend[2].

[1] https://twitter.com/kgale/status/481876033746919426

[2] http://firstround.com/article/Why-Yammer-believes-the-tradit...
It's not astonishing to me at all. Look at Amicus now. 1) They're still around, and 2) it seems they have actual paying customers now (in a scaleable market). That is farther than 95% of startups.
I agree. With 95/5 you're more like a first employee. My guess is that more popular splits are 50/50, 40/60, 70/30, 80/20. In that order.
Installed it on my One M8, gets stuck on the splash screen I'm afraid.
It's even worse with IPMI.

AFAIK you can own either the IPMI BMC or the BIOS, then if one is flashed, the other can replace it to stay resident in denial of your attempts to remove it.

You have to coordinate flashing both at 'the same time' (which is possibly impossible) in order to get any peace of mind.

That includes situations in which the IPMI BMC isn't even plugged in to a network, because it still has constantly running firmware and backdoor access to the main system.

Of course, you can do half-way mitigations like dumping firmware contents and comparing checksums over time, but no single savior probably exists. A potentially strong tool here is a hardware jumper on the mainboards that says "disallow flashing at all, full stop" and another one that says "disallow reconfiguration at all, full stop" that is honored at a level of circuitry unenslaved to software. Both the BIOS and the IPMI BMC need protections on this level.
This is true. Also Tetra Pak.
I think you are misunderstanding what is being called "early merge vigilantes". They are people who merge early and then don't let people who didn't merge early like them in because they are trying to punish them for "cheating".
>Because Pascal's wager could apply to any possible variation of supreme being - including non-sensical ones and ones that will punish you if you DO believe in them.

Since we know exactly nothing about Roko's Basilisk, we know nothing about its behavior. I could propose that it concludes that for its survival it is best to cultivate a certain level of cooperation with humans. Based on that it might determine that those who did believe in it before any proof are gullible and irrational and might exterminate them in order to free resources for sceptical thinkers who cooperate in the face of proof.

Non-sensical is an ill-defined category if we are talking about something with higher intellectual capabilities than ourselves - a dog might consider a lot of human behavior non-sensical.

>Roko's Basilisk isn't really a deity, it's a powerful AI with the capability of simulating you and everybody else (or possibly just you).

Since this most likely violates thermodynamical principles (simulation DOES require energy, the simulation of everything requires infinite energy) I fail to see how it is not either impossible or a deity.

>Pascal's wager does concern itself with the possibility that you are currently in a simulation.

IDK, to me this is only a different take on solipsism which states that I can only be sure that my own mind exists, everything else - my body, you, the world around me - might be an imagination.
If anything, the reverse is true. In 2005, Sequoia was considered the preeminent VC firm. Nowadays they probably share that mantle with a16z and Benchmark
dusing is probably talking about the (rather common in some places) situation where one lane has half a kilometer of slow-to-standing vehicles, while the other lane is entirely free.

In this situation, of course you're going to pass those other cars (please do so slowly and carefully if you pass them on the right). It would be ridiculous to slow to a standstill with half a kilometer of empty road ahead of you.

When zipper merging works correctly, you usually cannot pass cars in the other lane, because traffic automatically flows in the right way. So in a sense you are right that if you pass cars in the other lane, someone is doing the merging wrong. That someone are the people in the crowded lane, however, not the one of who is passing them in the empty lane.
$2,390 is a substantial amount of money for AT&T?
I've heard it said that Scala is the new C++. But to me that doesn't sound bad at all. Sure, you can shoot yourself in the foot, but you can also design beautiful things, the choice is yours.
> Thanks for the comment. There's this weird notion in Calculus education that we need to start from first principles. Limits were invented a century after Newton died, yet they're taught first. "Oh, students won't understand calculus unless they can build it from first principles. I don't care if Newton worked out gravitation with his understanding, it's not good enough."

It depends. In high school, it certainly makes sense to start from an intuitive, rough idea, but in college/uni, I much preferred classes that started from first principles (axiomatic QM, sets → topology → metric spaces → calculus/algebra) etc. rather than the weird classes which define nothing properly and put in a “this is true, but I won’t tell you why :P” every other lecture. Which approach is preferable obviously also depends on your aims, but I found it hard to get a thorough understanding of a topic without a first-principles-based derivation at least at some point.
And he's still the CEO. http://www.lifelock.com/about/leadership/management/
As soon as I get that 2718 adapter ready.
Is It Time for Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg to Step Aside as CEO? (2012)
Pretty much. Most of the ones that I've seen here in Seattle are basically small landscaped areas with a curb in the middle of the intersection. Probably not much more than six feet in diameter or so. (At the one nearest my house the sidewalk corners aren't even rounded any to accomodate them.) These really aren't true roundabouts.

But yes, turning left instead of going around them should take no more effort than a typical left turn between small streets, while doing it the proper way requires a fairly tight turn. They seem mainly designed to force cars to slow down.
Exactly. Drivers as a class tend to think that they are smarter than everyone else, particularly the transportation departments, and think that e.g. speed limits are something you need to be above, otherwise you're an annoying driver. It's a huge cultural problem and one of the main reason I can't wait to see drivers displaced by self-driving cars.
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Today is System Administrator Appreciation Day and sysadminday.com down. What a irony!
I would say nameapp.com. It doesn't look confusing enough to require a hyphon which brings in a bunch of additional issues as arsalanb has mentioned.
Siberian discovery suggests possibility that almost all dinosaurs were feathered
Ask HN: When was the first usage of “Hello, world”?
I realize this might be an impossible question to answer, but I was just wondering how "Hello, world" started as a trend.
Ahh, sorry for the miscommunication. I can see why you took my question that way.

It was a serious inquiry, more along the lines of, "what difference would it actually make?" I don't see another line of evidence convincing the skeptics, and the diffusion of responsibility and the probabilistic nature of climate consequences means the present tort system is incapable of addressing the problem.
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You are still reasoning from Google's viewpoint. There are other viewpoints. Such as citizens of the EU, who have decided to empower the EU with laying down laws dictating what companies can do with their data. If google wishes to continue to operate in Europe then it will have to comply with the law of the land.

Whether that is functionally identical with censorship or not is another debate.

We can have that debate, but it will end in some gray area where a convicted criminal that has served his sentence should probably be able to clear his name in the search engines and where a politician that was caught in some scandal will not be able to do the same (because he was a public figure at the time).

Censorship requests can simply be stonewalled until the company is sued and then the judges can side with Google or the claimant on a case-by-case basis.
Don't let Stephen Heymann or Carmen Ortiz catch you doing that. They indicted Gary Host on some pretty serious charges for this.
I find it interesting from an EU perspective, since the Spanish media and government are following the path started by France a year ago [1] and more countries could jump on the bandwagon

[1]: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/07/us-europe-google-i...
Quote the first paragraph of the linked article: "A second airframe was partially built; its completion was halted because of lack of funding and interest."

Seems it's not so insanely useful that a second one is needed.
Well, the quality of service here is actually non-existent seeing as how the entire WiFi protocol is still vulnerable to interception, interruption within milliseconds.

So, the word "quality" wouldn't necessarily be the word to identify the current capabilities of any wireless network using the standard protocol suite available to the user today.
"jump up a level and put your competitors on their heels by giving more speed/bandwidth, but there are no competitors worthy yet to challenge and shake up internet connections like cable companies did back when phone companies were lethargic."
That's not going to happen as long as you have a government-aided cartel. There is simply no way a competitor can come up and "shake up" the landscape because there are so many regulations and red-tape. Those regulations increase the cost and barrier to entry. So unless you have a few billion to throw at the problem, address the source of the problem, regulations.