skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think one of the considerations here is what degree of professionalism he wishes to portray with this.

The info products sold on sites like WF and such are what I'd lump into the "guru" category, and are oftentimes just lots of fluff or something the writer paid someone off Odesk to write for them. Overall, they don't come off as terribly professional and can quite readily be identified as living within the "Get rich quick" bucket.

Affiliates can be helpful, but I'd be really careful about picking ones that won't damage the brand image and credibility he's built for himself.
How does the EMV compatibility work? I thought the point of EMV is that you couldn't copy/forge it.
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> I don't think that's what the system was designed to be.

I think it would require some proof to what design you are referring to.
I like the separation between design and development (also mentioned by atomicfiredoll). I'm decent at implementation but have zero design skills. I realize that a lot of companies don't have the budget to have separate designers and developers, but it does limit the talent pool to require both in one person.
I saw their stuff in action in french fry plants in Idaho. Awesome stuff, especially considering the hostile environment those machines are deployed in.
It's reduced to the point of not being worth insane prices for EMDs. The majority of his ranking is likely due to his backlink profile and relevant content vs. the domain. I'm sure it doesn't hurt things though.
Hey there,

I might be up for this, some quick examples of my work:-

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11137205/flwg.png

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11137205/flwg-forums.png

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11137205/flwg-forum-topi...

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11137205/dance-socks.png

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11137205/senduser.png

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11137205/satrangi-wip.pn...

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11137205/stop-violence.p...

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I also happen to be a programmer.. StackOverflow profile: http://stackoverflow.com/users/362006/salmanpk

(Yes, I am from Pakistan but I do try to strive for high quality work and an atheist so rather unlikely to blow you up :P)

Get in touch if this sounds good, the SO profile has my email :)
Really? The only lyrics sites I can stand are SongMeanings & RapGenius because they aren't coated in ads and people can explain stuff. AZLyrics is one of my least faves, with MetroLyrics coming in as a fave after the other two.
RetailMeNot Bounces Back from Google’s Doghouse
Pretty sad that the media chews up and spits out guys like Buzz.
It was going fine here until you started whining about someone mentioning the Nazis. This went off topic because of you, not him.
"Nobody dies" is likely false. Think about first responders. Think about medical systems in hospitals. Think about all the second-order and third-order side effects if the Internet goes down in an industrialized country in 2014 for longer than, say, a few hours.

People would definitely die.
Datanyze Acquires LeadLedger, a Sales Tool That Tracks Tech Product Marketshare
A comedy movie did not cause this, a comedy movie triggered it. It has been brewing for years.
> The car that they put forward first needs to be non-threatening, safe, and easy to adopt.

Moreover, I think Google wants their car to be recognizable as a driverless car. They don't want it to blend in, because people would (at least for now) think that was "spooky"—that any car anywhere around them could be being secretly driven by a robot.

Instead, the visual distinctness means that it's instantly clear that these are their own thing, in much the same way that golf carts, scooters, and backhoes are—despite all being wheeled vehicles that can be driven in car lanes—their own thing. Because they're recognizable, it makes it possible for you to build a separate autonomous response into your subliminal "driving event loop" for the class of "driverless car", the same way that you will react separately to seeing any of the above in your lane. Which is exactly what people want, in order to feel in control: the ability to notice and compensate for the driverless cars around them if they all encounter some pathological edge-case.

(Just as an example of what I'm talking about—and this is a completely untested hypothesis on my part—I bet that driverless cars come to a complete stop a lot more frequently, in surprising places, because their sensors tell them something is standing in front of the car—e.g. a pigeon. A regular driver knows a pigeon will just sit there minding its own business as the car approaches it, but fly away right before the impact would happen; a driverless car might not know that. Because of this, your driving algorithm for being behind a driverless car will likely have a component similar to driving behind a school bus: "this vehicle makes frequent sudden stops, and I need to be ready to stop too. I should be more car-lengths away from it than are strictly necessary.")
> The North Korean government publicly warns that the release of The Interview will cause dire consequences.

They say that about a lot of things.

> Shortly before the release of the film, said dire consequences occur.

No, it did not. The Sony hack does not meet any definition of "dire" nor a specific event aforementioned by NK.

> The moment the movie is pulled, all of a sudden the consequences stop.

Nothing started, nothing stopped. So I guess you're kinda right? Either way, this stop posting drivel.
I suppose you've purposefully neglected that tuition fees become artificially inflated due to a high credit society/economy?

Since 1985, cost of college has increased by about 500% [1].

1. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/10/29...
ejabberd. Way better than OpenFire in my opinion.
I wonder which movies North Korea will let me watch
They've got to make more progress on the sensors. They still have that overpriced Velodyne HDL-64E scanner (about $100K) on top of the prototype. The new vehicle has a slightly smaller device on top, probably the HDL-32E. Google doesn't seem to be making progress on flash LIDAR or millimeter microwave radar, which are going to be needed for reasonable-cost production vehicles.

CMU/Cadillac have a self-driving car. They have a number of long videos taken with a back-seat camera.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXhvQeArwWM

It's good enough that it's been driven around downtown Washington. It doesn't seem to sense turn signals or infer much intent from other-driver behavior. The driver has his hand on the auto/manual switch at all times; clearly there's not much confidence in this thing yet.
Google Glass is a camera on your face. The self driving car revolutionizes transportation internationally forever.

One makes you look like a hipster. The other is primed to save tens of thousands of lives a year if it gets rapidly adopted.

One weighs grams. The other can run you over and crush your skull.

Perception matters. This initial design is so insanely non-threatening it achieves its appearance goals. It does not need to sell units, it needs to sell the idea.
I don't understand why they don't just change the District of Columbia to consist only of the federal buildings, and give the rest back to Maryland (I don't believe there are still any residences on the Virginia side of the river, but if so, give that land back to Virginia).

Then there can be the constitutionally mandated federal district, that consists simply of the federal buildings, and everywhere that people live (outside of the White House, Number One Observatory Circle, and maybe a few other formal federal residences) would actually be within state jurisdiction.

This already happened to the bulk of the Virginia side of DC in 1847 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia_retrocess...). I don't see why they don't just do that again with the rest.
Ten Years of Podcasting: Fighting Human Nature
Have you met BIND?
"forcing"? I think if you objectively reviewed Search's integration of other google services, almost every single time you will find it is to the benefit of the user(meaning they are not doing it just to get marketshare; it is actually a better user experience).
You won't lease or own self driving cars. That makes no sense. You will just subscribe to a drive service if you drive a lot or just pay per ride and have one pick you up.

I easily see you scheduling regular events (leave for work at 8, for example) and your car will be out front waiting each day.
This justification actually makes some sense to me (Software engineer familiar with crypto.)

If an attacker already has access to the password hashes, then yes, they can brute force any 8 character case-insensitive password easily.

However, a brute force "try to login to their site" attack isn't feasible without hitting a rate limit or alarm: (26+10)^8 = 2.8*10^12 is still a lot of attempts to login to an account.

The weakness to this model is the password. It is easiest to guess your password if it was the same one on your Sony account (i.e. leaked). However, if you're forced to pick a unique password just for Schwab, it's immune from the most common [citation needed] attack on passwords. Also, it makes the Schwab password useless for hacking other databases, making user passwords a less valuable target for hackers.

If the tradeoffs are worth it: I have no idea, but it's not without merits. I personally like using a password manager with 2-factor authentication and generating all new random PWs for my accounts. I generally don't use more than 8-character passwords, since they're isolated from each other anyways. I would be negligibly less secure using this with Schwabs constraints than other sites, as the security lies in isolating passwords. (I use https://lastpass.com/)
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x18tmnc_mayday-s02e03-the-k...
simpler, cheaper, healthier alternate solution: have no cats
35mph is the normal minimum in the US, outside of some neighborhoods where it gets as low as 20-25mph.

The 25mph speed is a hack around US auto regulations, which are far less strict if the vehicle's max speed is 25mph or less.
Pretty much all oppressive states have at one time or another used torture to stay in power. The good news is that we can learn from their mistakes: No torture method publicly known has been shown to "work" in the sense that you can trust the results.

A person under torture will tell you whatever it is you want to hear. This has been shown again and again. The only time where this is useful is if you can keep the methods under wrap and use the confessions to your advantage PR-wise. This is important to keep in mind to understand a proponent's agenda.
“If meritocracy exists anywhere on earth, it is in Silicon Valley”

Is this PR, self-delusion intended to make the (powerful) speaker not feel bad, selective blindness or just mind-boggling ignorance? If it's the latter, how can society educate these people, who hold ever-growing power over us all?

Of course, he could have meant "meritocracy" in its original, parodic, sense, in which case he's absolutely right.
China is publicly backing away from North Korea. They have said that they will not come to NK's aid if they do something stupid and get attacked.
Liberal Nader voters in 2000 were partly responsible for Bush getting elected

False.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/12/06/1260721/-The-Nader-...

http://www.cagreens.org/alameda/city/0803myth/myth.html

http://prorev.com/green2000.htm
AFAIK, Google Glass was explicitly a prototype, meant to visually advertise itself as a prototype to anyone who looked at it—in the same way that, say, a breadboard or a caseless Arduino visually advertises itself as a prototype.

Seeing someone wearing Google Glasses was meant to put you in mind that they were testing something and you could help them test it, not that they were using a piece of everyday consumer electronics.

And this car is pretty much the same: it's meant to stand out (see my other comment above: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8785463). So I wouldn't say they needed to learn anything.

As the technologies are accepted and commercialized by other parties, then they can make one that looks normal-ish.
How is it inferior? When I search for lyrics, most of the time I am looking for just that...lyrics. When I get clean lyrics free of popups, auto playing video ads and in one fewer click, it is superior experience than my previous experience. As for Google Play, all I see is a small logo. You don't have to visit Google Play to see the lyrics.
There's no need to add it as a separate state, just give back the land that Virginia and Maryland originally donated to create DC in the first place. Then when the next census rolls around, residents would be considered during redistricting.

No new senators would be created, so no yielding 2% power, and Maryland and Virginia might get 1-2 more electoral votes and/or congressional representatives.

I would imagine that the main issue that would need to be resolved is jurisdictional...would laws passed in Maryland and Virginia apply to residents of DC? If so, it's conceivable that those states could influence Federal policy. What would happen if one of those states made it illegal to order a drone strike without the approval from one of their courts...could the President be arrested and charged in that state for violating that law?
Fidelity had a similarly terrible password policy (6-12 characters, only letters and numbers). I complaining to their tech six months ago and got a stock "we're looking into it" answer. In the past month they've actually fixed the issue and now require 6 characters (upper case, lower case, number and symbol).
On city roads, if your car gets confused it can just stop, even without pulling over. This will annoy a lot of people but nobody will die.

On a highway, you can't safely just stop. And there are still difficult driving situations. For example, construction zones often have poorly marked lanes (or multiple, contradictory lane markings), construction workers to watch out for, and nowhere to pull over. Exit and entry ramps may be clear, but merging at speed and in traffic is a difficult and unsafe problem. And any failure at highway speeds is far more dangerous than at 25mph.
I trained my cat to do its business in the toilet. I cannot tell you how much better this is than any other solution. There are training kits that our friends and family have now used for their cats.

If you live near the ocean, you won't want to do this if your cat could be a toxoplasmosis carrier (I.e. is outdoors or otherwise could be eating rodents). Apparently toxoplasmosis makes it through water treatment and harms sea mammals.

Otherwise, this is a great way to go.
JavaScript: The Good Parts - http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596517748.do

Once you get a broad overview of the JavaScript paradigm it really helped me to read other source code that people wrote.
35mph is closer to the norm- I don't think a 25mph car would work (even in cities).
If you are for closing Gitmo (or at least the nefarious aspects of it) and you didn't vote for the greater evil party, you are blameless on that matter, regardless whether your representatives only pretend to care.
Many people in the US are very annoying to sit behind someone doing 5 above the speed limit in many places (and I don't mean just highways, where the speed limit is just an unlimited police funding scheme through being able to ticket anyone whenever you want).

I imagine they did 25mph because its slow enough to appease representatives in letting them put the car on the road. Nobody with the ability to actually make this happen is rational or knowledgeable about this, and will behave like psychotic monkeys when confronted with autos, so Google is using every trick in the book to make these look innocent, including Grandma grade speed limits.
You're right, that's what people need to do. The problem? That's not what most people are going go do.

Why?

They will walk in to Walmart and see PooperScooperA for $100 and PooperScooperB for $200, will see the items have similar specs and buy A. Why they won't realize is A has DRM that only uses special expensive A packets. The packaging for A is going to hide this fact as much as possible.

And you are right, it leaves that advertising to us to bitch, post, and yell about DRM wherever we can. Many people will complain about how tired they are about said posts. Some forums will even be paid off by manufactures to block such posts.
The only lyrics sites you can stand are the ones who are burning through investors millions, you mean.
He also owns a Model S.

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/tesla_model_s
I think it's important to acknowledge that men and women are treated different socially but are also different biologically. We should work to equalize representation and treatment from a social standpoint, but we also need to admit that the innate behavior of men could possibly play a huge factor in their roles in business. The factors themselves compound.

We should not work to equalize men and women objectively. What we need to do is make sure that our daughters and sisters have the same opportunities that they would have if they were men, and aren't prejudiced by what society tells them to be.
Forget about mining Bitcoin unless you have a couple million bucks already
> With self driving cars ownership will likely disappear

That's a bold statement. It might become more of a luxury, i.e. something you buy when you reach a certain income, rather than something you need to live. But disappear, no, it won't.

As anecdote, I can bring the experience of European life. In a lot of European towns and cities, you can live quite comfortably without a car, today -- after all, they were built for people and horses. Rich people (or people who want to be seen as wealthy) still buy huge SUVs -- and then struggle to park them, because they're not as thin as a horse.

In London, a lot of people simply use cabs to move around most of the time; but sure enough, if they have a decent income, they'll buy a car and park it somewhere, ready to be driven during their countryside weekends.

Already today, car ownership has very little to do with convenience; it's mostly about ownership and individualism, something that is completely opposite to the concept of sharing. My wife is absolutely horrified at the thought of sharing anything ("germs! ruined things!" etc etc), and that will not change because of Google or Uber.
The wikipedia page reads like a Clancy novel: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_8969

Intense situation. It's remarkable that in the end there were so few casualties.
> blow out your L1 cache

Fair enough.

> more complicated than just a quick loop unrolling

Yeah, or else it would be 8 repetitions of the same line.

But its speed is from from eliminating *byte++ in each of the unrolled lines. Instead it just fetches one 64-bit word into a register and works on that for the unrolled lines.

I guess this surprised me - how much of a difference that makes.
> Indeed. Looks "cute", but cute doesn't sell with cars..

I don't really see Google looking to sell these to consumers. What I see Google doing is some combination of:

1) Selling services to consumers which self-driving cars help deliver (Google Now cards currently give you approximate time to likely destinations -- maybe in the future they also include the time including how long it will take a Google Car to get to you to pick you up and take you.)

2) Using them for Google's own use -- driverless Street View cars, for instance.

3) Demonstrating a technology platform that car companies that do want to sell to consumers can purchase -- and put underneath their own styling.
Still watching the presentation, but virtual reality is the medium that will eventually allow for a lot of the things he's talking about.

Edit: he later dismisses this, but I don't think he's right to do so.
Very cool. Years back I attempted to write a web app in Python to chat with MegaHAL, and though I managed to get something working, I was in way over my head at the time and the app had too many bugs to release to the public.
Or you're not in the USA.
This is as useful as announcing we put an embargo on rolls royce pinnacle travel. There's only 15 of it and not many people can afford it anyways.
>"Rationality" does not require that one must perform a search through every possible permutation of items.

And yet you - or someone, inevitably - is also going to claim that markets are somehow magically "efficient" precisely because they're capable of usefully approximating exactly this kind of optimisation.

So which is it? Is "market efficiency" rational or not?

As for the original claim - of course it's true. Any sane study of the financial industry should make it obvious that the last people you want to manage anything are those who are motivated primarily by profit - precisely because they inevitably lack empathy and awareness of the social costs of their "rational" decisions.
Elon Musk has said from the beginning of SpaceX that trips to Mars would have to return as well. It's not because of the humans but because the cost of producing the space ships will be so large that it's not feasible to shoot them to Mars once and leave them there; they have to be reusable.

> The principle behind all of its vehicles is total re-usability; every single system must be able to be serviced and pressed back into operation. This is to cut down on the already astronomical cost of space flight (pun intended), making it more affordable for private companies to conduct missions into the heavens. The company’s main goal is to eliminate the equipment cost for space travel, leaving fuel as the only financial burden.

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/122923-spacex-ceo-claims-...
Lots of people are point at this being Uber's future "auto-car". Here's an alternative idea:

- You can buy this car. It costs $100,000. But that's okay.

- When you aren't actively using it, you tell it to go "Uber mode" and pick up and drive people around as part of the "Uber Network of Cars"

- You split the fee with Uber/Lyft/whoever. They get 30%, you get 70%.

If the average ride pays you $7, over 5 years that's like 8 rides your car has to "sell" per day to be effectively "free" to you (except for financing, insurance, etc.).

- At the end of the workday, Google Now summons your car to pick you up in front of your office and whisk you home.

- After dropping you off at home, your car goes back onto Uber mode and does night-time service (if you opt-in).

You could probably pay your car off much earlier than 5 years with more rides/higher average ride fare, after which your car is making you money. Clever people will use this extra to finance more cars to run small fleets and effectively live without working.
He out and out said that money qua money wasn't his reason for optimizing at this point.

(He could do more, but he doesn't have to, which is a great place to be).
"Much more PR" than what? The only ads for self-driving cards I've seen are Ford's ads for its automatic parallel parking.

And far from "dominating," Google is a small player in any market for physical goods in which it competes. They're much more likely to license their technology to other manufacturers than sell it directly to consumers.
When did you receive that email? is it new? that bug should have been fixed.
The normal answer would be to vote for a party that would stop this. This is democracy's answer.

(I don't want to discuss much futher because of the downvotes, but the Five Why's can probably be utilized here.)