skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Often if a company is mentioned in an article (particularly the WSJ), the article is directly related to stock performance. Stock often trades on news, so it's relevant information to know what the impact of the news is on the stock price of the company in question.
Probably because the mathematicians don't seem to have the ability to explain why it is not sound without devolving into obscure symbols and jargon.
These are not requirements. These are criticisms for continually treating his fans poorly.
> Programming languages play, within the context of cultural evolution, the same role of tongues in human language. However, instead of making communication possible among two individuals, they provide the medium to single-directed communication between humans and machines.

Abelson and Sussman wrote "programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute". I would view, not the programming language, but the computing machine itself as equivalent to the medium in human language, whether sound waves and ink on paper. Communication of a message between two individuals must conform to the restrictions of the medium used, whether phonetic sounds air can carry, strokes recordable on paper, or syntax parsable and runnable by a certain compiler.

[1] http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-7.html
Thank you for clarification.

I was about to bet on "read fail repeat skip" cycle for dd's behaviour but, looking into coreutil's source code at https://github.com/goj/coreutils/blob/master/src/dd.c , if I'm not mistaken , dd does not try to be intelligent and just uses a zeroed out buffer so It would return 0's for unreadable blocks.
http://www.algomation.com/search?q=bogosort

nothing :P
If you already have active admin setup with a lot of things built on it, I wouldn't suggest changing it until you needed to add new stuff, or it was falling short somewhere for you. No point wasting the dev time if it works.

I would love to talk to you more about what you have customized, and what all would need to be reconfigured to get started with upmin to learn from you if you don't mind sharing. My email is jon [at] upmin.com.
Frustrating to see another letter from CPUC trying to slow Uber and Lyft down. How can CPUC deem this a bad thing? Carpooling means less ubers/lyfts on the road so less traffic and pollution. I've used Lyft Line numerous times and really enjoy it.
Then how are the Google and Faceblock buses legal?
That's true. It's about the V-2s (in particular, one mysterious weapon the Germans appear to be building called the "Schwarzgerät," with serial number 0000).

But that business of trying to figure out whether the bombs are random or not is central to the book. There are a lot of statisticians running around trying to figure out why the pattern of bomb blasts corresponds to the Poisson distribution.

(Of course, there's also a character whose erections appear to predict bomb blasts. Postmodernism, ftw).
From someone who is not a farmer and doesn't know so much about this, for example could we grow vegetables and feed them to humans directly, rather than feeding grains to cattle?
That is odd.. I will try to look into it. Thanks for providing a screenshot.
Why yes, yes I did. But for Doom there were about 10-15 kinds of sprites (monsters, lamps, trash cans). I didn't say it was easy, I said it was straight forward. The code took a lot of time back then, and I'm sure the art guy(s) were busy the whole time.
Making decisions with limited data
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Because they are busses, not carpools?
why does CPUC care about traffic or pollution?
I don't know anything about the legal issues. I only know what our policies are. If you don't take my word for things, I won't be offended.

Regarding the business case, Google has a LOT of compute power. The cost of that compute power on the cloud platform is not the cost in hardware and electricity to Google, it also pays for the engineering. Whether or not people take up Google on the 100k offer, the engineering has been paid for, so really Google is only giving away the electricity and maintenance. I don't know (and if I did know I wouldn't say) how much of that 100k is actual realized cost for Google.

But however much it is, that is at most 100k of REALLY EXTREMELY WELL targeted advertising for the Google Cloud Platform. A customer that goes through 100k of Google compute resources in a year is likely one that would rather continue paying Google's competitive rates for the same services in the future.
Someone, at some point in time, wrote this law. I would like to know what use case they had in mind when they decided this was a bad thing.
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It's pretty sensationalized. Forbes covered it well: http://www.forbes.com/sites/airchive/2014/09/10/review-al-ja...

The shop worker problems sound no worse than any other large factory. If those things bother you, you should probably never set foot in any motorized vehicle again. The 787 rollout (which I attended) being "scandalous" is nonsense as well; everyone knew it was not a flyable ship being shown. They've drummed up a lot of melodrama out of nothing.
This is a much more specific issue than most of the comments here are making it. People are talking about capitalism, competition, etc...

The problem is simply that a couple weeks ago Uber started sending UberX fares to Uber black car drivers. Which was a dumb move, because they are unprofitable and undercut the value of the premium car service. They've now reversed that dumb move.
A friend of mine ran across this in Switzerland. It has a nominally free-market system, but when he moved there, he ended up automatically enrolled in a plan without doing anything at all. He was remiss in reading and translating all his mail upon moving there, and after some months of inaction: 1) he was signed up to a default insurance plan; 2) which was partially subsidized based on his estimated income; and 3) he was billed for the remainder. Nominally private-sector, but still quite state-supervised. There is a minimum standard for plans, you must have one, and subsidies ensure that everyone can afford it. Unlike Obamacare, the "must have one" part is not enforced by fining you $700 on your taxes, either, but rather by actually signing you up for one.
yeah, Smash used curl noise too. He got some crazy particle counts back then. Awesome dev. https://directtovideo.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/blunderbuss/
Oculus VR / Unity
the CPUC says that under California law it's illegal for these ride-sharing services to charge passengers an individual fare when carrying multiple people in one vehicle.

It seems pretty clear to me. CPUC isn't against multiple passengers in the same car. They are against billing those passengers individually, for whatever reason that rule was originally enacted. Perhaps to prevent cabbies from charging pairs of passengers $4 each when a single passenger would be charged $5.
How do I create a monopoly with SaaS when we are constantly looking to undercut each other?
> All failed companies are the same: They failed to escape competition.

This is absurd; most failed companies didn't face any competition because they didn't find a market; you can argue that they in some way failed to escape competition from alternative products to their own, that a firm is in competition with every other firm on the planet because they all fight for the money of their customers, etc., but this is specious.

Failed companies failed to sell above cost, and most failed to sell at all. Not much to do with competition.
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Facebook also incubated itself for a time in a space that MySpace didn't effectively own or control.

See Ha-Joon Chang's Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism for more on this.

"Chang blasts holes in the “World I s Flat” orthodoxy of T homas Friedman and other liberal economists who argue that only unfettered capitalism and wide-open international trade can lift struggling nations out of poverty. On the contrary, Chang shows, todays economic superpowers—from the U .S. to Britain to his native Korea—all attained prosperity by shameless protectionism and government intervention in industry."

http://www.powells.com/biblio/2-9781596915985-8

Similar principles can be applied in business.
I think that's a very important point.

Indeed, when you try to explain something simply to people, they often won't believe that it's really that simple, since there's all those symbols!
I don't know about that. Borges, Sartre, Nabokov were widely translated and read. Among the less purely intellectual, St. Exupery, Coelho, Umberto Eco, Carlos Ruiz Zafon, are regularly found in US bookstores.
> The key characteristic of a funny person is that he doesn't comparmentalize fun ("this is serious business" vs "this is fun").

Actually, in my experience, that's the key characteristic of an unfunny person desperately trying to pass: http://www.theonion.com/articles/who-says-java-programmers-d...

In contrast, here's somebody who could compartmentalize fun: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2birwp/jeff_bridges_he...

Also: https://twitter.com/stuartpb/status/508235714287259648
I don't think we are agreeing or disagreeing. I do want tools that make it easier to navigate and understand code and I also want cultural shifts in programmer communities that lead to better software overall. I'm just saying the communal aspect is more important than any given programmer's ability to navigate code but the two are obviously intertwined in complicated ways.

That article you linked to (http://alistair.cockburn.us/ASD+book+extract%3A+%22Naur,+Ehn...) connects the dots really well. Programming is really about building theories and then implementing them with computational building blocks and then transferring the understanding of those theories. Short of developing mind reading I think there is an irreducible complexity in that endeavor that is impossible to skirt around.

In light of that article I'd like to amend my comment about aesthetically pleasant code. Some programmers are good at structuring things so that the overarching theory is present throughout all code level structures. That kind of code is both aesthetically pleasant and easy to read. I don't know if this is some kind of special talent of if it can be learned but given that most software is a confused mess I'm willing to bet there is a large talent component.
Can't wait to see Amazon's "One Click Buy" patent dismantled. It's way overdue.
Fake: http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/798473-illegal-immigrants-fo...
Ask HN: My client wants to go with a turn-key solution to save money. Advice?
Specifically, http://gentleninja.com/category/uber-for-x/

I don't know of anything that's ever gotten off the ground from something like this, and he seems pretty confident that, "they're based out of San Francisco" and so fourth.

If anyone has any advice (besides telling me to find a new client), or stories they'd share about things like this, please do!
Possibly something written a century ago to thwart jitneys from getting in the way of public transportation systems:

http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/uber-is-currently-fighting-th...
Maybe I'm missing something but this doesn't really make the issue any clearer. Why? What's the rationale?

And why is tswartz being downvoted?
>>It took me a while to come to this realization but aesthetically unpleasant code is indicative of the author's abilities

Not necessarily. It can also be indicative of the circumstances in which the code was written. Even great programmers can write terrible code if they are stressed out or overworked. So you can't just look at the code they have written and jump to conclusions about their programming ability.
I agree that 3-5 years is a bit optimistic but I also bet that when it does happen it will transition far faster than we can imagine. You have a really nice set of aligned incentives here:

- As a 'driver' I get a car that let's me free up large chunks of my time
- As a company like Uber the driver 'input' to my model is now far more consistent, predictable, and inexpensive
- As an insurance company I can start undercutting my competition by charging less to insure this substantially safer means of transportation while still pocketing a nice margin
- As a car manufacturer I now have an extremely compelling reason to sell cars to people that would otherwise wait between 4-6 years in between car purchases
- As a government I can (if I'm smart) try and pass laws that will result in drastic reductions in accidents, deaths, etc... I'll also likely be bringing in a lot of business and money by being on the leading edge of this (less traffic and congestion, new opportunities for businesses that leverage these cars, etc...). Whatever revenue I lose in traffic tickets I can make up for in other ways (like a reduced need for traffic enforcement).

As soon as any of the above are able to make/save money this is going to snowball.

The lobbying power and influence of the teamsters and taxi unions is probably the single largest hurdle but if self driving cars are as safe and cheap as it appears they will be this will be a speed bump, not a roadblock.
One item that is missed by linking directly is the copyright information, which includes this:

"However, such copying, printing, or distribution may not: be carried out for commercial gain; or - for copyright reasons - take place within India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, or the Maldives; or involve any modification to the document itself."

Which may be important as some users here are located in those areas.
Worth a link to his extensive blog posts http://directtovideo.wordpress.com/category/fluid-dynamics/
Regarding Freaker (not necessarily the article): My mentor now is the COO (... basically CEO, just not on Paper for Zach's style); he's repeatedly said that Zach is one of the smartest people he's ever worked with, and that Zach put on an act for the Tank, for the Tank's sake.
So if it is illegal to charge people individually to carpool, how do the airport shuttle vans operate? [serious question]. They charge everyone separately and everyone rides together.
I remember when California passed the no smoking law for indoor establishments. One way around it was to make all of the employees of the bar or restaurant an owner in the business - therefore the law didn't apply because you didn't have any employees. Maybe if Lyft just made every user own .00000000000000001% of the firm, that would be a way around this asinine argument.
Raymond Queneau, Italo Calvino, Stanisław Lem.

But, as an outsider, they seem reasonably well known among english speakers (and so is Borges).
This is the one I have:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0140286802/?tag=mh0b-20&hvadid=3524...

ISBN: 0-14-028680-2

It's a complete collection of his short-story fiction, which is nice. I think the translation is pretty good, and I appreciate the footnotes which give deeper explanations of aspects of Argentinean history that he references. I haven't comprehensively reviewed translations, but I do feel this one captures more of his work than most freely-available translations I've seen on the interwebs.

I have no suggestions for his poetry, sorry.
If someone actually spends all 100k of the credit, there is no doubt that the electricity involved cost more than 5k. There are certainly margins, but if the margin was 95%, then as Bezos says, "Your margin is my opportunity."
Why not address these issues directly in nuget rather than building another layer on top?
I think Facebook beat Myspace on a few fronts. One, network effect of high quality groups to attract other groups. Two, spamming user's inbox in an enticing way. Three, clean user interface, although the side bars are cluttered now.
Don't forget these guys: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lCcb-07Pmcc/TwXJDjDeNJI/AAAAAAAACF...
That's probably a good idea, but it's worth noting that about 30% of the Earth's land surface is too dry for crops, but works fine for pasturing cattle.
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The way to manage this is to eliminate corruption...

This has proven difficult in many situations. Is there any reason to believe that it can be done in e.g. USA?
Really wish there was convention to annotate link titles that immediately bog the CPU.
He's also playing fast and loose with the definition of monopoly.

Oxford dictionary: Monopoly - 1) The exclusive possession or control of the supply of or trade in a commodity or service.

There is no way Google is a monopoly by that definition. Bing or any other company can and do compete. Google dominates because they are better but that is a very different thing.
If this was html & written to the point instead of stuffed in a pdf & written up in this roundabout manner, it would be on top of HN with 100+ votes :) I read the whole pdf but here's the TL:DR; anyways -

Randomization improves algorithms. This is so obvious to CS folks its taught in basic cs101 - the ones i'm familiar with are where you pick a random pivot element for quicksort, or say the one where you draw a circle inside a square & pick n random points inside the square, four times the number of points inside the circle will equal pi as n becomes large, or you resort to the miller rabin test for primality when you are doing those rsa calculator type problems where you pick keys for encryption, which will randomly sample some number of possible witnesses and call the number prime if none turn out to be witnesses, or using monte-carlo methods to compute integrals for functions for which no closed-form formula exists etc....there's like tons of examples where you introduce a little bit of randomness & it'll speed up your algorithm.

So this Page+Hong wrote a paper where they want you to randomly hire employees ( who they call problem-solvers or agents ), because diversity trumps ability ?! So if you have 1000 applicants, instead of hiring based on some metric like ivy-league/test-scores/IQ/github/whatever, you just hire randomly, because the randomness introduces diversity which trumps ability ?!! To prove this nonsensical point, they introduce an artificial math problem where agents proceeding randomly obtain the right answer, & not doing so gets you stuck. Ergo, diversity > ability. Sheesh.
You're right. It's more like a docker philosophy or best practice, not a restriction. And a best practice not everybody agrees on that is [1][2]. I'm using some docker containers based on Phusions base image myself. It works fine. Others of my containers are just running one process. I found it feels like a cleaner architecture when I manage to bundle concerns in a way so the resulting containers are stateless. But when I don't achieve that I don't pull my hair out over it. Whatever floats your boat.

[1] http://phusion.github.io/baseimage-docker/
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7258009
> HUMAN AUGMENTATION

Oh yes, yes, yes. Everyone is talking about the quantified self but human augmentation would be so much cooler. I don't care if a watch can tell me my heart rate at all times (I know when my body is tired, or out of breath, because I live in it!!!)

But there are so many senses that I would like to have; for example, be able to always know where the North is relative to me. A device that would let me feel the North would be so cool and useful (I wear a Tissot T-Touch for that reason, but it's a very poor solution to this problem).

I think I heard the Apple watch will be able to do this, in some cases; but it sounds like an afterthought. I would pay serious money for a wrist bracelet or some other wearable that would do only that, but do it well.
s/sum/average

I really do think that is true.
It's ironic how much people in the technology industry rail against monopolies, when you think how much of the fundamental technology we depend on today was invented by monopolies.

Point 1. The world of technology as we know it today was invented at Xerox PARC: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PARC_(company)#Accomplishments. The GUI, Ethernet, OOP. What wasn't invented at Xerox was invented at AT&T Bell Labs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Labs. The transistor, major advances in semiconductors, UNIX, C.

Point 2. PARC existed on the back of Xerox's patent monopoly on copiers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox#1970s. Bell Labs existed on the back of the AT&T telephone monopoly.

The government initiated action against both monopolies in the 1970's: forcing Xerox to license its patent portfolio to Japanese competitors, and breaking up AT&T. It's interesting to think about whether these actions were ultimately good or bad for innovation.
I don't believe there are any services other than GAE with free tiers.

Edit: someone mentioned bigquery, which I haven't verified but seems plausible.
Somebody please create a p2p ridesharing network and let's be done with the regulatory theater and jockeying of overvalued companies
I made the mistake of hitting the 1m button.. Bad decision.
What "what"? This has been a standard aim for anarchists etc for ages...
Most likely because they are the office of government in charge of administering the roads...
We were a biotech in last batch (Ginkgo Bioworks) and got a lot out of YC. Would do it again in a heartbeat.

In biotech anyway, cost of doing the work is falling rapidly. It's not software development costs yet but we're getting there. Also YC offers a lot outside the check (alumni network, demo day, great partners, visibility, etc).

PhDs are an untapped founder pool in general. There are tons of great PhDs minted every year where academia may not be the best way to accomplish their goals. They are used to living on low salaries and working on open-ended problems. Great founders.
I think the thought seems to be that if we don't allow people to organize in any meaningful way (i.e. against the people) then the problem of organizations is solved.

Never mind that said organizations would simply resort to setting up unofficial enforcement mechanisms, much like organized crime already does today. Other counter-examples aren't that hard to find either.
Unfortunately it's not as simple as that. There is a lot of gray area between lobbying and corruption. And lobbying has a bad connotation, but people and corporations both must be able to speak to their representatives and advocate for legislative outcomes.
Does this work even if you don't have Devise as your authentication?
Phoenix sits somewhere in b/w Sinatra and Rails custom/simplicity wise, while offering features that neither address, i.e. (realtime communication with browsers, native iOS, & soon android clients). "Qualitatively better" is a loaded question, but by virtue of Erlang VM, Phoenix apps can be distributed across a cluster without extra fanfare. You could run 20 Phoenix routers, load-balanced on a cluster, and everything like Webscokets/pubsub would "just work". i.e., no extra layer in b/w like redis or rabbit, no code changes, and no issues with things like sticky sessions.
Agreed 100% - I work in SF but I'm not a fan of the city. Even after considering the higher cost of living, I'm pretty sure I make substantially more here than I would in LA. I'd love to move back to Southern California, though.

It's not just salary, but the types of companies in SF/SV just seem a lot more compelling, and are more often than not founded by people who 'bleed' tech. This might be a gross assumption but my feeling after being involved in the OC startups scene and talking/interviewing with LA startups is that the companies there are started by business guys looking to strike it rich with marginal tech DNA.

Consider these points and try to figure out how to differentiate from the typical LA wannabe-entrepreneur. Work on compelling problems (e.g. Oculus Rift, in Irvine), or just have an established culture of putting the tech first and don't be stingy. Good luck!