skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In some sleepy town centers like near Portland maine they put aggressive cobblestones on a main road and the gigantic flower pots, park benches and sidewalks invade the street to a point that makes it inhospitable to cars so much so that the cars are limited to the gawker sight seers who don't know where they are.

And those cars that do attempt passage get their teeth and windshield tested for hairline cracks. Ai self driving cars are the only viable solution to the humans killing humans with metal boxes on wheels problem.
Here's the thing. History flatters who's in charge. In the age of emperors, kings, and noblemen, history was all about them. In the age of universal suffrage, history is about the common man. Recently, with the push of political correctness, there has been a push to focus historical research and teaching on women and minorities.

When will it be the turn of engineers and entrepreneurs -- the individuals who have in actuality moved mankind out of the caves and into skyscrapers? To our great shame, I can't say when that day will come. And I'm not holding my breath for it.
What service would the more experienced out there recommend run this on? AWS seems rather expensive, but Digital Ocean wouldn't provide much storage space. Also, what about reliability? Any advice on not getting blacklisted for sharing a subnet with spammers? Or do people generally run setup like this old school: on a server in their bedroom?
So, we can't really say we have the "rule of law" here.

We do have a rule of law, it just ain't perfect. Otherwise, we would be like China.
My real suggestion is that you share this play book and the spammers stop doing those things, making it worthless.
The number one cause is the "left hook". This is when someone is turning left and doesn't notice pedestrians in the crosswalk moving across the street the driver is turning onto. Unless there is a dedicated left-arrow green, these pedestrians almost always have the right of way, but the driver doesn't notice them because they are too focused on the oncoming traffic or other hazards, and completely forget to check. I've attempted a crude ASCII diagram. C is a car with a green light, attempting to turn left, P is a pedestrian walking up

| | |
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____ ____
--P- ----
‾‾‾‾ ‾‾‾‾
| |C|
| | |
| | |
I don't own a car, so I don't know this, but does the privilege of right-of-way come in the glove compartment of new cars or something? In all honesty, what are we creating things for? People, or cars? Which one should we be optimizing out shared space for?

It's food for thought.
>There is no provision in the constitution for the federal government to regulate money exchange.

Er, what? If you fund or help fund a criminal enterprise, you can be prosecuted for it. If someone was funnelling millions of dollars to, say, a child sex slave ring, you think that the constitution protects their sending of that money and they can't be charged for it?

I don't personally think drugs should be illegal at all, but I do think that funding crimes in general should be illegal, which is essentially what Shrem was charged with here.
Derek Jeter receives $42M yacht in shape of #2
Andreesen Horowitz became the apple of every startup founder's eye because they were the new guys who had success as investors while being friendly to startups

I'd rather raise money from a guy who wears a 'No Bitchassness' [0] shirt who wants to pump up my valuation, help me recruit tech talent, and allow me to give equity to compensate my best people versus some stodgy old guy who thinks he's better than everyone because he invested in [insert successful company from the 90s/early 2000s].

Basically, they were the uber of VCs in terms of how they treated their portfolio companies.

That said, I generally don't like media that praises investors because once we start glorifying the fund-raising process rather than bootstrapping and making money, we'll have tons of companies with too much money and no exit. Bubble burst.

0: http://www.jasonshen.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/benhorow...
Read Spam Kings. It covers a lot of the history.
Ask HN: Which Lisp/Scheme and why and how to learn?
Since starting to read HN, the idea has entered my consciousness that there's something of value to be learned in the Lisp family of programming languages. I am primarily a Python programmer now with experience in BASIC, Pascal, Perl, PHP, R, etc but no Lisps. My programming needs are for web apps and for (non-graphical) simulation models. I'm a Windows and Linux user so cross-platform is important. Which Lisp/Scheme variant(s) would be valuable for me to try to learn and use? And what's the best way to learn?
Is this because the accidents are avoided or turn non-fatal?
That does change things, I agree.

However, to play devil's advocate a bit: the FBI essentially saw the output of the PHP call `print_r($_SERVER)`. The only thing that's actually sensitive in there is the server's IP address and hostname. This is not usually considered sensitive information. If it is to be believed that is as far as they went before getting a warrant (and I don't know if that's the case or not), then obtaining the IP address would allow them to actually serve a court order to the hosting provider. In that sense it could be seen as non-invasive and purely conducive to their investigation.

But I agree there should not be a double standard. I think what weev did was not illegal, and what the FBI did here was not illegal, personally.
> when pressed about my plans, told Fs

There's your mistake. It's one thing to keep your ideas separate from your work (there are contracts that insist that any idea you have belongs to who you work for), but it's another to tell your company about your ideas. As soon as you tell them, they can make an argument about who owns the idea.

That said, they sound pretty incompetent. If you're serious about your idea, you probably need a lawyer at this point. If not, cut your losses, be done with them, and move on. I can't actually give you advice on your idea, it might be good to let that go as well if you want to avoid future legal problems. If you think it's worth fighting for, get a lawyer.

In the future, keep your ideas separate from your work if you're entrepreneurial. By that I mean only work on them in your own time on your own equipment, including your smart phone.
Fascinating view of yet another high-profile software project failure. Also a demonstration of the consequences of not making getting software development right a priority.
I had previously written a simple program to check the expiration dates of SSL certs, and warn if the date is approaching. After reading this (and the Microsoft article), I updated it to check signature algorithms as well. If anyone is interested in such a program: https://github.com/timewasted/go-check-certs
Hands on with the Moto 360, the First Round Smart Watch
I'm kinda a little disappointed at the answers provided here.

1) I downloaded a 49.6 MB TIFF file from here:
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2004/32/im...

2) From the OSX terminal:

$ time sips -Z 150 hs-2004-32-d-full_tif.tif

Resulting file size is 150x150px and 32KB.

Time to run process:
1.48s user 0.15s system 98% cpu 1.663 total

The superpower computer required for this incredible speed is a 3 year old MacBook Pro (with SSD) ;-)

UPDATE:

I created 10 copies of the image. Total size: 520.1 MB

$ time sips -Z 150 .tif

Time to process 10 images:
14.98s user 1.44s system 94% cpu 17.384 total
(approximately 1.498 per image).

2000000 images 1.663 seconds = 38 days.

Note: This is using larger images (49.6MB vs the 25-30MB images you have) and is using a single MacBook Pro. Divide amongst a few machines and be done in a week. GraphicsMagick could possibly be even faster.

ANOTHER UPDATE:

Since your files are smaller (20-30MB), I found a 30MB jpg sample here:
http://sto-rvlt-01.sys.comcast.net/speedtest/random4000x4000...

Time to process was much faster:
0.37s user 0.04s system 97% cpu 0.418 total

2000000 images * 0.418 seconds = 9.67 days

At that speed we are talking under 10 days. On a single 3 year old MacBook Pro. Using built-in software. Without any optimizations. Find 5 computers in the NY Public Library and you'll be done in 2 days.

I am not saying this is the fastest solution. I posted this because it appears that people are over-engineering this problem or proposing solutions which will cost a lot of money (Amazon, bandwidth, shipping hard drive fees, etc).
It was only a very deliberate and expensive efforts that created car supremacy in America. Drivers who killed walkers were at first tried as murderers, as makes perfect sense. Of course people should be free to walk over public thoroughfares. Only well funded measures created the legal idea that a driver is not in all circumstances responsible for injuries and deaths.
Cash is not a great growth multiplier, and today it yields almost nothing. The core business and its profit generation capabilities are what matters.

Think of it like food for a body. It's nice to have plentiful energy availability in the form of food, a surplus of food around the house is typical. However there's only so much you can realistically do with it, and your body has an energy limit / potential limit. This is true about all businesses in any given period of time, they can only do so many things successfully. Cash is a required operational fuel, and sometimes it's useful for acquisitions, but each dollar of cash you possess beyond the bounds of your realistic capabilities or potential (the ability to put that cash to work for the business and yield a sizable return), is worth less and less and less.

That's why Amazon has been allowed to keep such a large market cap, despite the fact that for most of their history they had a terrible balance sheet, and very modest cash.

If Google had $10 billion in cash instead of $60 billion, what would not happen, is Google wouldn't see a ~12% discount applied to their market cap. It's all about the earnings, the business, the future growth prospects in advertising and mobile, and so on. Investors aren't primarily sitting around wondering what Google might do with the $3 billion dollars they add each quarter - they want to know how mobile search is doing.

Microsoft has been a great demonstration of how worthless cash often is to a cash rich business (except as a discharge to investors). They simply can't find anything sane (or permissible) to do with it all, and that has been the case for 15+ years.

That's why stocks historically are traded by a multiple of their earnings. That's why companies can have hilariously bad balance sheets, like Comcast or as GM used to, and still have a reasonable market cap.
Will eventually become Common Sca.
Perhaps it's more a physical thing than a metaphysical or psychological thing. We live in a universe of increasing entropy and by definition, for any expected outcome the possible disorderly states vastly outnumber the orderly ones. So when we contemplate a set of outcomes for a single future event, it is likely that we always end up contemplating more negative ones than positive ones?
JP pays programmers very well. In fact, it's very good for the counties in which those programmers are employed. Well, that is, if they were in a money center. Costs centers, like security and infrastructure, those places they minimize the costs! Part of minimizing costs is all about not paying for things that aren't expressly needed or killing programs that might make sense but cost too much.

I worked there for half a year before quitting and going back to a start up. Nice people but only the people at the top seem to have a clue as to what to fix and they, themselves, can only focus on so many things at once.
Is it ethical to hire sherpas when climbing Mount Everest?
You might be somewhat interested in FundersClub, a YC company which has helped fund other YC companies. FundersClub does limit membership to "Accredited Investors" (rich people), but I don't believe they take steps to verify whether you qualify for this. They got their start before the new rules you mentioned, so that limitation may change soon.

(CrowdTilt, which IMO democratizes crowdfunding better than Kickstarter does, is also a YC company).

On a separate note, I personally think that "microbonds" would be a better model for the general public to invest in small companies for whom presales/crowdfunding don't work, as equity actually is hard for the average person to really grok.
Strong opinions, weakly held.

http://blog.codinghorror.com/strong-opinions-weakly-held/
When Websites Peek into Private Lives
Woops, missed that line.
I don't have a lot of advice about LISP proper, but Scheme ... ah, Scheme is near and dear to my heart. But which one? Look for a standard one that is current. The usual suspects are Chicken, Guile, Gambit, Racket, Chez (Petite Chez) (am I missing any?). I prefer Chicken or Petite Chez because I'm currently going through "The Reasoned Schemer" and those two seem to work best with the code from the book.

But my ultimate suggestion for a LISP is Clojure. Runs on the JVM, has good Java interop (and a huge community of open source software) and has nice syntax to boot (I love the use of [, {, etc. instead of just ( for the syntax to differentiate different data structures).
I think it would be possible now.

Bluetooth keyboard and mouse, of course, already on the desk. Chromecast hooked up to the monitor. Use one of the Android automation apps to automatically mirror the display via Chromecast when the phone is in range of the BT keyboard / mouse on your desk and when it is laying flat on a surface (plopped onto the desk).

Not perfect. Chromecast latency might be an issue. You would still have to plug it into a charger if you don't have wireless charging. But it should work.
How about Subnetizen?
Your ability of denial is quite impressive but looking at your posting history, it's actually not surprising at all. You seem to have quite a thing about Scala and hating pretty much anything that's not it.

Java is at least as transparent as Scala in that respect: every single feature that was shipped as part of Java 8 has been discussed and decided openly on mailing-lists. Everyone knew exactly what was going to be in Java 8 (including what was not going to be shipped) which is a far cry from Scala's operating mode of adding features to the language and then retroactively creating SIPs to give them an air of legitimacy.

I'm siding squarely with Paul Phillips there: I don't have a lot of faith in Typesafe to carry Scala forward any more.
I recently drove from my home near DC to Manhattan and back. Exiting the Lincoln Tunnel and heading north, my expectations of "normal" traffic behavior were shattered. I wondered why there aren't bodies littering the streets and hulking wrecks of naive visitors' cars abandoned, leaking, everywhere. It was truly mind-expanding. NYC pedestrian deaths are on the rise, says Google.

Meanwhile, I look out my window as I type this and see the suburban road adjacent to my group of homes being resurfaced. It's a beautiful expanse of asphalt they're laying down. It's smooooove, and fast. The neighborhood toddlers want to cross that road, and parents have trouble explaining to them that this road in sight of their homes is just too dangerous. We live in a town renowned for its planning and quality of life.

I don't really have a point, but something is obviously amiss.
The pedestrians may also not be visible due to the car's left pillar blind spot, especially while turning left.
MHacks Fall 2014 Opening Ceremony (Livestream)
> Costco comes to mind

That isn't a coincidence. According to[0] "The Everything Store"[1], the latest biography of Amazon, Bezos picked up the model for Amazon retail from Costco founder James Sinegal.

The first aspect was "value trumps everything" - where prices would be slashed and net margins thin. The second was the subscription model - Bezos learned that 70%+ of Costco's profit was from the membership fees. It was easier to charge a membership fee once and offer lower prices than it was to attempt to spread your profit margin across products and into the pricing.

Amazon slashed its prices and adopted the thin margin model in the future and then implemented Amazon Prime.

"The Everything Store" is a decent read, easy to flick through and some interesting cases and anecdotes within it. Ignore the negative reviews and give it a read if you haven't already.

[0] http://bobmorris.biz/what-jeff-bezos-learned-from-jim-sinega...

[1] http://www.amazon.com/The-Everything-Store-Bezos-Amazon-eboo...
And then we have the other side of the argument which says that speed limits have a small impact on how people drive http://priceonomics.com/is-every-speed-limit-too-low/
Don't you want to learn to founder like S.H.?
> We're talking about a game in which, all parties stipulate, your playable character can physically assault a stripper.

Yes, is that misogynistic? The game is about a Hitman. He can assault and kill anyone on the screen. Both men and women. In that particular section of the game, assaulting a stripper will reduce the rating of the player i.e. the game discourages the player from doing so. Why? Because you're supposed to be a Hitman who only kills their target without collateral damage. If you believe I'm misrepresenting what she said I'll dig up the video for you where the critique was made and you can judge for yourself.

> The gross misrepresentation is Sarkeesian's belief that the game encourages players to do that, refuted by the fact that a number at the top left of the screen in fact decreases when you do.

What number? Are you referring to my points for my comment?

edit: Here's the video link[0]. Skip to 2:28. If you don't accept that she misrepresented Hitman than I don't believe we'll ever see eye-to-eye on this issue. It's important to stamp out misogyny. Just don't be dishonest. Fighting a good fight does not give you a free pass for doing other bad things.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuRSaLZidWI&t=148
I think I'm a careful driver, and I (see other comment) recently drove into Manhattan from out of state. I almost killed several people. I don't live there, but my impression is that the expectations are so fine-tuned, that one small miscalculation and it's OH MY GOD MY LIFE IS CHANGED FOREVER.

Edit: Most of the close calls were straight on, no turn. Some son-of-a-bee-biscuit suddenly decides he needs to stop his car right in front of you for some important business, you end up in the middle of an intersection. In your eagerness to get you and your family out of harm's way, you inch around the car in front, and the pedestrian pops out of nowhere. They thought you weren't moving when suddenly you realize you need to get the heck out of the middle of Madison Ave and accelerate like a mofo so you don't get rear-ended by that bus.
This factoid relates the mortality rate for an accident at the given speed. It doesn't assume more or fewer collisions.
I personally took his Introduction to Big History course last semester and had him as a tutor so my experiences may be useful to you!

1) While I don't know a lot about academic circles from what I gathered his method of teaching history is seen as different but not at all bad, he has connections in other fields who seem to love what he's doing.

2) Can't really answer that unfortunately.

3) David Christian is interesting as he'll readily admit if he doesn't know something in a lot of detail. That said, I found his knowledge to be quite good across all of the history we covered and he answered student questions well, pulling on others with more knowledge if he was unable to fully explain something or was unclear. He does in fact enlist the support of other professors for teaching certain topics, the lecture of the formation of the Earth was given by a Geologist and Evolution was in part covered by Dr Greg Downey, an anthropologist.

I actually really enjoyed the course as, coming from an IT background, it was quite a bit more engaging and interesting and the group discussions in tutorials were very interesting with many good discussions had.
You can't send unauthenticated (anonymous) email from home machines, at least not directly. It's not really as bad as it sounds.
See also: https://github.com/al3x/sovereign
That's a good argument against cars, not against pedestrians.
The privilege is a subconscious process which springs from having spent a lot of money on the car. One begins to believe one is entitled to things in return. In fact antisocial behavior of drivers is directly proportional to the price of their cars.
Shouldn't that be manslaughter?

Anyway, I agree with your point. And those does the NYT: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/10/opinion/sunday/is-it-ok-to...
Well, when you "pour all your money" into rent, you get z-e-r-o return on investment. Sure, the value of a purchased house can decrease but, at the end of the day, you have to live somewhere. May as well build equity while you're at it...
You're ignoring the externalities of drug usage. The question becomes whether the externalities of prohibition exceed those of junkie fuckups in your extended family and community. I'm pretty libertarian overall about this stuff but you have to be in denial to fail to notice that a large fraction of the population cannot handle their drugs and alcohol. Drug users frequently ruin families and neighborhoods.

Consider, for example, that both Trayvon and Michael Brown were high on marijuana when they made decisions that lead to their deaths and ensuing hugely expensive social disturbances. If you care to step out of your upper middle class bubble, it is not at all crazy to suggest that cannabis does in fact have huge negative externalities.
Scala moving in a similar direction.

Odersky: That's going to be a more fundamental rethink of what Scala is. The main goal is to make it simpler, to review it or work out what its core is, and have a very simple core on which essentially the other features of Scala can all be based. Essentially, it's a way to modularize the language better, to base the features that we know from Scala on a very, very simple core that we can compile efficiently and reason precisely about. That's the main goals for Don Giovanni.

http://www.infoworld.com/t/java-programming/scala-founder-la...
I took David Christian's unit last semester at university and had him as a tutor, it was probably one of the most interesting and thought provoking units I've taken! Feel free to ask any questions!
I would love these figures too but VC is notoriously secretive about their returns. There was a court case where Reuters sued Sequoia to get them to disclose their returns based on the fact that a big public-sector pension fund was one of their investors. Reuters lost.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/20/us-funds-californi...
Ask HN: Founding a company – what's your one piece of advice? Why?
If you had to give ONE piece of advice to a friend who's preparing to found a company, what would it be? And why?

I'm looking for your biggest non-obvious insight / "aha" that you discovered when preparing to launch (prior to bringing employees on board and/or scaling).
Are you saying that they are/should be allowed to pick to lock of that drughouse without a warrent? That's the relevant issue.
"If you slow down the cars to compensate, doesn't that somewhat defeat the purpose of having cars in the first place?"

Hmm, well, requiring cars to give way means that they're less likely to kill someone. Which is kind of the point, outweighs slowing cars down a smidgen. Although pedestrians have right of way it's only an insane pedestrian who would rely on that to stay safe: whether they have right of way or not, pedestrians need to be fully aware of what cars are doing.