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That's right, it was I-5. For some reason I often confuse them, even though it's obvious one is north/south and one is east/west. I'm on portions of I-80 about once a month, but I-5 generally no more than once a year.
A 2 million round for 15 people seems very sparse. That's either an incredibly short runway or you're all working for peanuts.

Keep in mind that your equity is 90% likely to be worth nothing, so you should value it at 10% of its face value, if that. If they're expected valuation is <20m and your equity is less than 1%, you're basically being scammed.
Ah yes, the 250,000 mirrors.
It's like what Lenin said...you look for the person who will benefit and uh...
Usbdriveby: horrifying proof-of-concept USB attack
I guess I would love to hear what you are missing. I think there is a gap between your unknowing and my knowing and I tried to bring that gap a little.

I am still trying to figure out how to explain Meteor to someone brand new to web dev and would love for something more constructive from you here :)
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What you've described is a lot of what Differential[0] does.

0: http://differential.com/
Yes. It is being worked on by the core team.
If this was truly fraud, how did the people involved expected to get a way with it? They must know that the results will be checked multiple times and independently verified. Especially on ground breaking advances such as this.
Obama: The US 'will Respond' to the North Korean Attack on Sony
Iterstuff is the cut-down single-blade version of Python itertools
What would you suggested or advocate instead then?

I have helped publish a ton of polished Meteor apps.
There's more to being human than intelligence. It's important to remember that sentience actually refers to "the ability to feel sensations," not merely the quality of being an intelligent entity.

Our future robots may be very good at passing information via some programming code... but will they love? Will they be sad? Will they read literature to empathize with the experience of other beings?

I would argue that "being human" is inextricably linked to the isolation of our existence (what David Foster Wallace described as being "marooned inside our own skulls", and why he argued that humans make literature to "give imaginative access to other selves"[1]) and the knowledge that our existence is finite. All humans -- from the cavemen all the way down to you reading this on you computer -- make life decisions knowing that our time on Earth is short. Do you share the same human experience if you know you will live forever?

[1] http://hudsonreview.com/2014/02/on-david-foster-wallaces-con...
This pilot exists to test the waters and see if owners will use it and how to make it more efficient before going nation-wide.

It doesn't look like they're "backing out" at all.
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Why doesn't MPAA take the millions of dollars they poor into anti-piracy and give us all a Netflix of movies? Oh wait, AMC and Regal Cinema wouldn't like that.
You're not addressing the source I provided; in effect, you're affirming the consequent in this argument.
I love this comment, great job!

Also, people are scaling it, we just aren't hearing about it much. I am working to correct that, these trials of scaling need to be more public right now.
:) I use NFC Tools from the Google Play store + Whiztags with write capabilities, not that's necessary for executing predefined phone actions.

The update to the Nexus 5 now allows you to use the tags for unlocking the phone based on unique ID on an NFC tag as well.
> Also, I find it funny that scientists always claim that the the future people will augment their intelligence with computers, to make them selves smarter. It's not a problem of capability, it's a problem of motivation. Have you ever heard someone say: "I wish I was smarter!" Maybe, but most of the time you hear people say "I wish I could have X, screw X, live in X." The simple fact is, most people couldn't care less than they already do about how intelligent they are, as long as they achieve the goals that make them happy.

Case 1 for motivation: Governments want to be ahead of the governments of other countries, so they want smarter leaders. One way to accomplish that is via augmented humans, another is via supporting AI.

Case 2 for motivation: Businesses want more intelligent functioning and less employees (so they don't have to pay as much for wages). And they want the employees that they have to be brilliant at what they do. Economic forces are likely to fuel a substantial amount of progress with the development of more capable AI (just look at Google, Intel, Microsoft, Amazon...).

> Have you ever heard someone say: "I wish I was smarter!"

Yes, quite a bit actually. I certainly don't know anyone who wishes they were less intelligent.
I can give you the short article:

M:N is great for maximising throughput, at the expense of fair scheduling. If you want any kind of fair scheduling, make sure you 'yield' often. Hope you're using a language that helps you with this.

If you want to avoid deadlock, don't get stuck in any infinite loops and avoid OS thread synchronisation, e.g. in third-party libraries. Oh, and if you're running on a NUMA architecture, make sure you resume tasks on the same thread that suspended it, unless you like needlessly consuming your processor interconnect's bandwidth.

On the plus side, it's a lot easier to write concurrent algorithms with green threads than when you have to farm work out to thread pools. It's even easier if your language was designed for it and can help you avoid the common pitfalls above. But if you can use a thread pool easily, you probably shouldn't be looking at M:N threading.
My heart actually skipped a beat when I read "Nasa's kepler spacecraft finds first alien...."
Teaching STEM? Try robo-gaming
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I'm really curious now :) can you post the title of the novel in rot-13, or obscured in some other way?
>I'd honestly rather see a business embrace the ablative nature of code and instead build itself with the assumption that, every 2-3 years, chunks will be rewritten

>And even worse is [...] you're going to be wasting effort temporarily fixing something you know will be thrown out

Can you reconcile these two points for me? I fear I may be misunderstanding you. It sounds like you're arguing in favor of treating code as a transient thing, but then lamenting having to write something that won't last.
The FBI's North Korea evidence is nonsense
Any excuse to initiate any type of attack on another country. This is getting ridiculous and blown out of proportion like everything else does outside the US.
We are lucky to have you around to correct us all in the HackerNews comments! Where would life be without this generic comment?!?
For better or worse, the system isn't really set up for that. Under the current system you might want to look for a doctor that believes in "informed consent" and "harm reduction".
Death of technology or the emergence of Utopia seem much less likely than conscious AI. Also, if people aren't interested in supplementing their intelligence, why do folk value education?
In theory we agree. But in practice there is little to no firewalling in the default configuration of home routers BUT there is masquerading NAT which behave as a firewall of sorts. NAT under linux is actually done with iptables which is considered to be an "interface to the linux firewall", although it's only for practical reason, once again.

Now I do agree that my point was kind of moot because it's indeed easy to firewall without NAT. I am all for IPv6 if it's done well. I especially like the idea of finally moving away from ARP Spoofing attacks thanks to Neighbor Discovery (ND).
Curious, is it possible to have a cyber sanction against NK? Block all Internet access in/out of the country.
The docs make a nice tutorial on various itertools functions and how iterstuff enhances them.
If you add up the trips that people take between all of those cities then sure, eventually you can make that number as large as you like. But that problem is not solvable by mass transit--you need O(k^2) direct links to get everybody efficiently between any pair of k cities. Meanwhile, here in California, we've got a graph with two nodes, one edge, 8 million people on one end, and about 32 million on the other. Which problem seems more straightforward to you?
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I didn't really study anything in college I was too busy occupying various administration buildings and smoking a lot of Thai stick.
This is a book from MIT press not quiet yet finished but getting there - might be a good source for material for getting the linear algebra and the probability pieces! Core material is Deep Learning
http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~bengioy/dlbook/
Yes. It's very unlikely to work. There will be far more overhead than you imagine, egos are far more important than you realize, and the payoff seems far larger than it will actually be.
I'd like to disagree. The language specifications provide various limits on the kind of performance you can get, regardless of the platform.

Performancewise, for the record, I find JavaScript to be wholly adequate for writing servers, but to say that the platform is what makes it slow(er) doesn't ring true to me. For example, JavaScript has a few poor design decisions that make implementing performant arrays really hard. Some other interpreted languages get this right, and their performance can be (and usually is) much better in that regard. However, this is kind of splitting hairs since you only care about its performance on whatever environment on which you are running it.
No one mentioned this one yet, it's not free but works pretty well with Windows 7-like snapping too: http://www.nulana.com/flexiglass/
No middleman is safe in the digital economy
"The atend and peek properties of the Lookahead class enable a whole set of simple recipes for working with generators."
Customers often have no idea whether they want special requirements before they use it (or, of course, someone who knows what questions to ask can drill down on particulars). There's simply no way to have copy detailed enough to trigger a simulation of their business in their mind perfect enough for them to find every problem they are willing to pay to solve.

Your mileage may vary though, my brain may be addled by too much extremely high touch B2B work. :)
If a dolphin was found to have the same level of reflective intelligence as a human, it would not be a human, it would mean that we would have to extend personhood to include other species.
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I'm going to write up something that is a bit more geared towards the HN crowd and the pros/cons and other thoughts that go into Open Sourcing a SaaS play, but this is our coming out party announcement. :)
There's no "design", there's merely a stable result of random fluctuations in a constrained space. The constraints (i.e. water, oxygen/nitrogen atmosphere, other life forms, etc) are what's key.
Posts without URLs get penalized. You'd be better off posting a story with the URL as the link and your text as a comment in the thread. You can also add "Show HN: " to the start of the title.
systemd-timesyncd is not much of an alternative. It is simply an sntp client, it does not serve time to other hosts nor can it use reference clocks.
Howso? Without unsafe, you can't do what you need to do. That's the definition of "necessary for making useful software."
As another current student... you are very mistaken.

See: http://oli.cmu.edu
That's not the argument you made. You said "nobody lives in the Midwest". Clearly that's not true. Meanwhile, a single midwestern city pair is the 6th busiest air route in the US.
Imagining a society that isn't dominated by police
I feel like this is very sound advice but i'm not sure if i can really accept it fully.

I'm a fairly green developer (3 years professionally) working on an C# application that suffers from design schizophrenia as detailed in the article. I'm more or less the sole developer assigned to it now.

Although I am new, I feel very strongly about my 'pride as an engineer' in my application of sound design, knowledge and rigor to the best of my abilities. So it discourages me greatly when i hear a lot of "Uhh, that was a long time ago...", "We had tough deadlines..", "Well developer 'X' and me disagreed about that..." from the former maintainers of the code.

I've taken to a rash practice of just tearing out tightly coupled, untestable, duplicated and poorly designed code by the roots. I feel like i am somehow passing a 'holier-than-thou' judgment on the work of my predecessors. But due to it's tight coupling i can't have much confidence about even seemingly simple changes since they always seem to come back with a wagon of defects. The new code i write surely isn't perfect and has it's own defects that come back to me, but i feel much better about the code in many ways and i am always open to criticism and discussion over my design choices. If anyone would ever give them serious study...

I have this gut feeling that if i leave the code i touch messy that i'm not doing my job and the next poor soul to come behind me will lose weekends to trying to clean up an even deeper mess. I feel judgmental even voicing these thoughts.
Imagine a movie set in Africa with only white actors.
Seems like what's really needed is a way to swap batteries at home, so that you can leave one pack at home to charge from your solar panels while you drive to work with the other one, then swap in the evening when you get home. Otherwise you'll have to charge a stationary battery during the day, then charge the car pack from the stationary battery at night, with all the attendant losses.
"It’s actually funny, because before we were able to get the Roadster out, they would say, “Well you couldn’t possibly make that car work”. Then when we made the car work, then they’d say, “Well nobody’s going to buy it”. Then people bought it. Then we announced the Model S and so many people called bullshit on that it was ridiculous, and yet we were able to bring it to market, and when we brought it to market they said, “Well you’d never be able to produce it at volume”, and then we did that. Then they said, “You will never be able to make a profit”, then we did that in Q1. So I’m hopeful that people will observe that theres a trend here."

- Elon Musk

http://youtu.be/QUiWPZQiy64?t=43s
I wouldn't say the US is wrong, but at the same time, I wouldn't blindly trust the accuracy of everything they claim.
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Zinc is essential for all sorts of human biological processes, including DNA transcription, DNA repair, and antioxidant defence. [1] Since most immune cells are don't live very long[2] one theory goes optimum zinc intake improves all cell reproduction but especially fast turnover cells.

1. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15542347
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_blood_cell#Overview
I don't find that argument very persuasive. First, while there are dialect differences I think this argument significantly overstates them - I think the last answer in this Quora discussion sums it up well, saying that it's like the differences in American and British English - significant, but hardly a serious barrier: http://www.quora.com/Korean-language-1/How-different-is-the-...

It's not like North Korea's government just picks random proles and tells them to start writing malware if they want to keep receiving gruel; anyone engaged in cyber-espionage is going to have a very high security clearance and be well educated by North Korean standards. You wouldn't be surprised by the idea of a KGB officer (or FSB these days) that spoke perfect English, would you? Why is the idea that North Korean spies would be fluent in dialect/idiom of their own language so hard to swallow? I would imagine that any North Koreans engaged in cyber espionage/security has spent at least some time infiltrating South Korean social networks, to gather intelligence, disseminate subtle propaganda (as opposed to the chest-beating type put out by the official news agencies) and so forth.

I don't know if the Sony attack was carried out by NK or not, but the idea that it could not have been rests on the notion that North Koreans are incapable of social engineering, acquiring language skills beyond their own, or impersonating anyone else for espionage purposes - a modern version of the trope that Russian spies could be quickly detected by the poor cut of their suits.
Aren't histamines part of your immune response, thus making antihistamines immunosuppressors?
Poll: What Is a Proportionate Response to the North Korea Cyber Attack?
It is official, the US has announced it will respond to the North Korean Cyberattack. From a legal perspective I will say this is a first and will set precedent under the UN Charter as to: 1. what actually constitutes the use of force (which now officially includes cyberattacks on private corporations); and 2. what kind of response is proportional.

Not that the use of force to respond to Cyberattacks has not been anticipated and discussed academically for sometime, but I will admit I have never seen a legal analysis on a hypothetical attack against a private corporation which resulted in leaks of information/crashing systems. Every scholarly paper/article I have ever read or authored was based on Cyberattacks of government or military targets, but now that we have a real world act to analyze the HN community probably has more incite into what took place and what response should be permit under these facts. I will try to add additional options as they are suggested if they are supported by some historical precedent post WWII (i.e. consistent with the UN Charter).

There are many interesting sub-topics such as who has the right to respond, including, whether the US has the right or the right should be limited to Japan. Should Japan and the US have right to respond? Should any country where Sony operates have a right? If N.K. went through servers in Countries outside the US and Japan, should they be able to respond with the use of force? Certainly the UN will issue resolutions that clear up a lot of this, in fact I will guess now that the US will respond prior to a UN resolution authorizing the response and the UN will later retroactively publish a resolution authorizing whatever force the US actually responds with, but as the HN community what response would you authorize if you were the UN?
Sanctions (there are already vast sanctions against N.K., I am not sure how much they can be stepped up, but I suppose and option)
Counter-Cyberattacks
Use of Force (limited to taking out sites that were used to support the Sony Cyberattacks)
Use of Force (unlimited for the purpose of removing the current regime)
tl;dr, card trick app earned an average of $180/month over the course of two years.
Thank you for such an insightful comment! I will absolutely check this out!
We're chained genetically to our primal instincts of survival and territorial behavior, highly intelligent AI will most likely not be. Why would it want to exist? If you were void of emotion and instinct, and with high probability could calculate the universe would end in a Big Rip, why continue? Sorry to be a downer but genuine question.
Assuming 1, NK has opportunity (but, given the Internet and the time frame, about half the world has), means (but, apparently, the method of break-in is for sale, so many parties epwill have the means), and, apparently (I haven't seen the movie), motive.

I do not see a huge motive, though. Also, I think we can assume that the NK is above average competent, too. Why would the NK find this so important to spend time and effort on? Did they buy options on shares in movie companies to make a lot of money? Is this a small operation by some NK agent or department head who wants to make an impression to his superiors, or intends to blackmail Sony Pictures (if that is the case, the villain should already have asked for money. We don't know whether he did).
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cui_bono
Part of the problem is that the name brand drug is sometimes better than the generic, and one generic brand is sometimes better than another. I have experienced this as a patient.
It's worth remembering that headlines with "may" in them can be replaced with the same headline reading "may not" without changing the meaning.

While we can imagine a lot of things--like, for example, that everything interesting has already been invented, or that physics consists of cleaning up a few loose ends in classical mechanics, or that anyone going on about nuclear power is talking moonshine--the history of science has shown repeatedly and in great detail that what we imagine and what we can imagine doesn't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. The world is the way it is, and our imagination is pretty much an anti-tool for extrapolating from what we know into what we don't.

Utopians and distopians of all political and technological stripes tend to forget this. Which is OK so long as they keep their visions to themselves, or present them as the fictions they are (self-serving example: http://www.amazon.com/Darwins-Theorem-TJ-Radcliffe-ebook/dp/...). When they ask us to take them seriously they shouldn't be surprised that we respond skeptically, or with laughter.

It's fun to think about this stuff, but funny that anyone thinks their imaginings have a greater-than-epsilon chance of being true.

I'm hoping this doesn't come across as excessively mean-spirited, but I get tired of these high-flown fantasies being presented as if they had a non-negligible chance of being true. It promotes the idea that our unaided imagination is useful for prediction, and the data shows overwhelmingly that it is not, and that believing otherwise results in a considerable amount of preventable failure and human misery.

The most dangerous four words in any language are: "It just makes sense!"

While there is a limited value in such speculations, and they make a great basis for fiction, there is a tendency to take them far more seriously than they deserve. Science--the discipline of publicly testing ideas by systematic observation, controlled experiment and Bayesian inference--will tell us about the nature of the universe. Imagination is vital to coming up with ideas to test, but the silent universe--which isn't even mentioned in the article--is actual evidence that rather than super-intelligent AI, the dominant intelligence in the cosmos may (or may not) be us.
That was most definitely "a" reason but also most likely not "the" reason.

Also, the primary reason of a journey may be a route to India, but the result may be a whole other country.
It even has a snazzy name, ala Heartbleed, Shellshock: Misfortune Cookie: http://mis.fortunecook.ie/
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Assuming it really was North Korea, I hope they will come up with a sensible response. Maybe another funny movie. Or just suck it up and be better prepared next time. But not something as disproportionate as the 9/11 reaction.
It does a lot more than just support one method of doing http requests. Also I'm pretty sure there are some stuff curl can do, which streams for example can't.
Well, the process by which genes are passed with genetic mutations is random. If you looked backward in time it looks like animals developed fur to warm themselves. In fact, you're just not seeing all the animals who randomly didn't have fur that froze to extinction.
Can someone give me a very short summary of whether or not to read this article? 30 seconds of skimming and I'm still clueless.
Is an AI not subject to natural selection as we are? If emotion and territoriality are net negatives but local maxima, couldn't an AI fall into them as well?