skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Self driving cars are going to upend this industry (eventually). Many mining companies are actively working on getting their mining equipment to be automated to do the riskier jobs without risking drivers. The same ideas apply here. Remove the driver and suddenly you have a truck that runs deliveries 24/7 and only stops to refuel and get serviced. One would hope that as the technology gets more sophisticated the number of accidents would drop, the vehicles could safely drive and react at higher speeds, and of course self optimize their routes and driving styles to save on fuel.
Not to mention Leah.
Yes. Your question implies that because he's a star actor he should be excused of his faults. Hell, he's not ashamed about being a bad actor!
I think the idea was that if Disney can get the government to essentially destroy the idea of 20th century work entering the public domain, they could probably get the government to act against an open internet.
That's 5% for them, 2.9% + 30c for CC processing.
likely in different forms, think UPS/Fed Ex with their tablets and GPS connected trucks. Many trucking companies know exactly where their trucks are, they don't need to be told when they left; likely only why they haven't
>I agree with your point, but just made me smile in that we tend to look at a lot of (possibly) long dead stars from our past, too!

haha, well said. Although to take it to an extreme, every observation or study would have to have been by studying the past right from the milliseconds in the past to light years in the past.
small towns can develop the network that's right for them

What does that even mean? Do people in Smallville use the internet differently or not like to their video to buffer too fast? A mishmash of half-assed local standards was how the road network used to be, until Dwight Eisenhower came to power and argued that the US deserved something better than the miserably inefficient network it had, and championed the development of the Federal Highway System.

I'm not being sarcastic here: I really want to know what you mean by 'the network that's right for them.' Are inferior networks right for poorer towns? Should there be different network standards in different states? I presume you like the way that telephone service is uniform across the whole US, so that making a call is procedurally identical whether you're in Alaska or the Florida panhandle. What positive advantage do you see in having internet accessibility be inconsistent? I recognize that you regard the capital cost of a national network as a disadvantage, but I don't see a clear benefit to your proposal. If you're all for municipally run internet, does that mean you do favor national regulation forbidding local monopolies or strategic litigation designed to prevent municipalities from setting up their own networks, as proposed in some states?
To be in an environment with like-minded individuals so one can foster ambition, inspiration, and collaboration.

Your sentiment can be applied to any skillset. The same reason why a college degree is not needed for programmers.. One can learn concepts and languages from books outside of college. However the resources available in a community of like-minded individuals provides great benefit for the study of said topic.
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I'm actually working on a fix for that just now :)

Will be deployed shortly, pending tests.

EDIT: and it's deployed to Live. Enjoy!
It is relevant but could include maps as his other accomplishment to not brand him as a guy who potentially goes from failure to failure. He is a big deal behind one of the biggest digital innovations of all time IMHO.
Comparable Verizon service appears to cost between $200-$400 a month (though it's available almost nowhere.) At that price you can bet they'll waive a $100 installation fee.
Being a VC is a very attractive role to many people if you can make it work. You get to work with top-tier companies in a meaningful way and have the chance to make an incredible amount of money in the process (you participate both in fund upside and separately from additional upside in your portfolio companies), all for a much lower amount of stress than being an actual founder.

It's entirely possible that he wanted his GV role to continue but he did not succeed there. It's also possible that the cover story is true. We will likely never know.
I only see it on Chrome. Tried in Safari and Firefox and got nothing.

Parsed the source and all I see is some flickr sites credited for the image.

No idea how I got that.
In my scenario, a machine knows the local exchange price as of 0ms ago (instantaneously) but knows the remote exchange's price as of 5ms ago.

You are saying it is better to know exchange A's price as of 2.5ms ago, and exchange B's price also as of 2.5ms.

But why? Either way you are ignoring 5ms's worth of trading activity. Either 2.5ms on both exchanges, or 5ms on one exchange.

Edit: I think I understand the advantage - see my edit #2 in my post above.
Depends on the pell award. Place I am working is at $1,650/semester Tuition and Fees for 12+ credits (prorated for under 12 credits). Books are around $350 semester and we don't have housing yet.
Unrelated to the TI-83 calculator MirageOS - http://www.detachedsolutions.com/mirageos/

Would be quite the feat to do IP networking on that hardware..
Ah, that clears up the sampling bias.

I might have asked the wrong question. What I meant was "how many people are 5% of YC applicants" that were used to calculate a representative proportion? Let's say 2000 companies apply each with 2-3 founders, so 4000-6000 founders total. 5% of that is 200-300, which can result in a reasonable margin of error for the conclusion proportion but may not be perfect.
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Kevin was interviewed by his former TechTV co-worker Leo Laporte on Leo's podcast Triangulation, if you're interested in Kevin's story: http://twit.tv/show/triangulation/162
OK, I searched a bit and found an article from 2011, which appears to be the original source (free access [1]). It appears that aluminum is the most common material from which local pots were made.

[1] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-3156.2011....
I've found that generics are really only 'necessary' for building libraries. If you are writing applications or utilities, then you probably don't need it very much.
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> but they effectively have to compete with the terrible speeds and service of the muni, which conspires to improve nothing

Wait, shouldn't that be easy for them to compete with, then? You say it like terrible speeds and service are somehow challenging competition for the cable company? Of course, they would prefer no competition at all, as all companies would.
Yes but "transgenerational epigenetics" as it is sometimes known has a lot of baggage (and bad ideas). In fact if you look at it historically it has a very bad track record.

Gene expression is something relatively recent that may shake things up (and the research is looking positive). However it doesn't mean that everything within the field of transgenerational epigenetics is accurate or proven.
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The usage of words has shifted, but my point remains. The genetic/ethnic/racial difference between Irish and British was much, much less than that between the British and Black Africans. So my point remains that it may be much more difficult to assimilate across very large ethnic/racial differences.
At first my adviser did all of this for me. It was waaaaaaaaay easier than any test I ever took in college.
If they used capitals, it could possibly be a play on the notation of cardinal directions.
Would a mechanical keyboard be more vulnerable to that microphone type of attack since it is louder?

Not that many people are busting out a mechanical keyboard in a coffee shop. I'm just curious.
I think community college is a great opportunity but I don't know if government funding this will really help many. From what I read, community college isn't very expensive and, since it is so valuable, I can't imagine that many people are on the fence about attending due to the monetary cost. There is a lot bigger investment required in terms of dedication, focus and effort, but I don't think the constraint is monetary.

If the government picks up what little monetary cost isn't already picked up by the state or other groups, this will certainly attract some students to attend but I imagine those marginal students would be a lot less serious and would not benefit from the program. To paraphrase Nassim Taleb, it's always helpful to have some skin in the game.

An interesting statistic to look at is college completion rates [0][1] which haven't improved too much over the last few decades (although certainly on the way up for women). I was pretty surprised to learn that completion rates are only 30-35%. I imagine community college completion rates are even lower.

Even though more people will certainly attend, getting more people into college won't necessarily benefit anyone. For those that aren't able to perform in an academic environment (for whatever reason) are ill-served by the nagging insistence of politicians.

[0] http://www.hamiltonproject.org/multimedia/charts/college_com...
[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/new-college-da...
This is correct. The compass needle is just a polarized magnet that is floating in solution. One side (usually the red side) points North, and the other side (usually white) points South.

If a person was holding that icon they would be facing Northwest (assuming "front" is at the top of the icon).
Sure, why not? We could all do with a little more eggnog in our lives.
I had the TRS-80 Model 1 with the expansion interface. I never remember seeing 32 column mode, my video was always 64 cols by 16 rows.

Though I thought the way it handled graphics was pretty ingenious, where each character could be split into 2x3 blocks, and these 64 combinations were represented in the upper ASCII characters, for 128x48 resolution that is really just 'text'.

That's the machine I really learned how to code on, in Microsoft Level 2 Basic, armed with some David Ahl Creative Computing compilations.

How did you figure out the negative line number hack, just playing around to see what happened?
Curiosity due to ... ?

Implementing something similar?
The wars in the middle east are not likely to make us more money than the cost. This is. It's an investment, like roads. It grows the economy. This is more or less considered a fact in macroeconomics.

There are two very comparable super-relevant historical precedents: public high school education (yes that was someone's idea too) and the GI Bill. Both of these social programs (as they would be called today) have made this country not only a better place but MONEY.
The main benefits he reaped from CC are an atmosphere of learning and growth, and the ability to engage with interesting people, not the degree itself.

Both of those things can be obtained outside of college(community or otherwise). Too many people will get the degree for its own sake and simply coast by for this program to be worth it.
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I'm fine with it, if there are laws in place that prevent governments from stifling free speech through Internet controls.
10 minutes without weather/traffic. 15-20 average. 2 hours minimum when it ices.

(Fucking bridges and people don't work well together with ice, I guess)
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So your problem is with the paper? Agree that the "system" is "broken", but I think describing college as just a "piece of paper" really over-simplifies the problem. Do we not need some way of certifying skill sets? And I'm unconvinced that what you would see would actually be a devaluing of high school diplomas. Potentially, we'd just view high school how we view elementary school now - something everyone assumes you do.
Are we not trying to encourage everyone to do more and become more educated? In what way could we benefit/teach people that doesn't cost anything?
Whoever wrote this doesn't seem to quite understand how bit math works.

"IPv6 addresses are 128 bits long, compared to 32 bits long for IPv4. In other words, IPv6 addresses are 296 times more numerous than IPv4 addresses."

IPv6 addresses are actually 2^128/2^32 or 7.9e+28 times more numerous than IPv4, which would strengthen the argument that it's hard to be "wasteful" with them in the way described.
Seems Microsoft arranged for it to be free:

http://www.asp.net/mvc/pluralsight
Any sample size this small is open to sampling bias.
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the united states is a federal republic. municipal government is SUPPOSED to be the level of government where programs like this are implemented. communities will have varying needs and their local governments are best equipped to evaluate and meet those needs.
> If food really is something important for the country, would it not make more sense for the country to prioritize and fund it as opposed to leaving it to the whims of whomever feels like funding it that day?

We... do?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_and_Drug_Administration

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Ag...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_farm_bill
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Duplication depends on how you pull them in. For 3rd party libs, you'll pull them in via 'go get', and they will reside in the normal GOROOT, which is appropriate. It's just the libs you write for the particular project which would go down the local lib directory.

Resetting the env isn't my preferred choice, but if you put it in a make file, it becomes hard to forget. Especially if you are in the habit of reusing make files between projects with a few customizations, which is my preferred setup.
I ultimately found there was not enough promotion/marketing done on tilt's end of things. It would have been nice to see a weekly tilt email of all the cool things featured like indiegogo and kickstarter both do.

I love the customization, the price and the fact that open tilt is completely open source. That's absolutely the reason why I went with you guys, I want to support 100% open source. But at the end of the day, if I can't get enough eyeballs seeing my project because nobody is scrolling through tilt projects the way they scroll kickstarter projects, I'm going to lose out.

I'll happily take some of the blame for not launching a good enough campaign, but I sure as heck could have used more support. Here was my campaign btw and thanks for working to constantly improve your product.

https://joatu.tilt.com/do-good-get-goods
more than 10,000. still, definitely small enough for random variance.
I don't know where to find a current inventory, but I think they now keep four US EMUs on the ISS. They've been dealing with various failures, and at one point were down to 2 working ones, but I believe there are 4 functional at this time: 3003, 3011 (the one that tried to drown Luca), 3010, and 3005. Dragon I think took up 3003 and returned 3015 during CRS-3.
Why sample as opposed to looking at the whole population? The typical reason is, "because it's difficult to survey the entire population". But in this case I'd think that it'd be easy because I assume you have all the data.
> Last year, the Republican-controlled House passed language banning the FCC from banning states from banning cities from building municipal networks.

This should be a case study in every civics class...
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It would be interesting to see the proportion of foreign entrepreneurs (applied from abroad).
Just to be clear: Nike as a family of nuclear surface-to-air missile systems; the Atlas and Titan were families of ICBM. The Nike system had rail launchers like conventional SAMs designed in the 1950s through the 1970s, but were kept in armored bunkers until needed to keep them from being destroyed in a preliminary strike. The facilities for Nikes and ICBMs are very different, and Nike facilities are usually located near large population centers because they were only built at high-value targets.
I'd rather not deal with any inconvenience at all. In a dream world I don't have to swipe/touch/anything, Starbucks just knows who I am and charges the total based on my phone being in my pocket or something.

I don't care how, I just want to get the paying part done in the least possible effort. I'm lazy. At this point I get mighty vexed when I can't just touch my card and have to actually put in a pin number.
I wish we had seen this more progressive, pro-active Obama 6 years ago.

More progressive and pro-active then basically socializing 1/7th of the US economy with the ACA?

Wow.

[edit] I used the wrong term "socializing" when I meant "intervening in"
A thought that occurs to me is that if the government is providing internet access, various pressure groups will leverage that for various kinds of censorship.

Why is my government providing access to porn? To religious sites? To sites that violate copyright? To sites that contain many sorts of 'unsavory' content? Allowing children uncensored access to many things?

I don't know how those complaints would fare, but I'm absolutely certain they'd be made.
not a mature technology. how would the mesh be established? run ethernet cables between people's homes? have everyone open a port on their wifi router? this is beyond the technical capability of the vast majority of people. it would require a company to coordinate this, and at that point you've got just got an ISP running the last mile anyway.
An alternative could be to encourage four ten-hour workdays. People will feel.like they're putting in their forty hours (perh fewer productive hours) but that could acclimate people to four-day weekdays....

Then eventually transition to 4x8-hour days as people accept 4 days as normal... Just a thought.
The ability to encrypt torrent traffic (requiring encryption is tremendously easy to do through the guis I use, and might even be the default in many clients) combined with the American reflexive response to government censorship leads me to think this won't be as big an issue as you imply.
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Saves having to wiretap commercial ISPs, is why he's doing it.
Socioeconomic diversity is the elephant in the room.
Mine are both in NYC3, so same datacenter. No clue regarding rack/host. I can't comment on AWS...
> you can tell because of how stridently Comcast/Verizon/AT&T oppose it.

How so? Whether its good or bad, ISPs would be against it. Most companies do not want competition. (regardless of what they say)

>by allowing the option of municipal networks.

I personally think its rather unfair to ask a for-profit company to compete against a tax funded service.

>Really, he's calling for the FCC to prevent rent-seeking

You can prevent rent-seeking by repealing any "sponsored" laws that protect their monopoly.
Why has this been allowed to be posted twice?

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=I+Almost+Let+My+Failed+Startup+Des...

Both by ruidelgado
This is a good summary of the book and a sufficient alternative to actually reading it.

Source: Read it last week.
I went through a 2.5 year marathon when bootstrapping my business. I don't regret it. But if you do something like that, you must take care of sleep, eating, exercise and stress as your first priorities. And I always made time for
family.

What did I cut out? Dating, making friends, a lot of leisure activities. I did some, of course, but work was the highest priority on my mind.

The payoff was that I got a significant amount of work done, and had more ideas as well, because business was the subject my idle thoughts turned to.

I'll note that I had clear revenue metrics. So while I was living for the future, I also got results and money in the present as well.

All that said, it's not without it's costs. I am happier now to be working at a lower pace. On the other hand, my business would have failed without the marathon pace in the first few years.

If you make this choice, make it a deliberate one, and take care of the bases. And have outcomes you won't accept. I had clearly defined conditions for when it would have made sense to quit, take the results I had into maintenance mode, and get a job.
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OR if anyone is OK with 50 hrs in 4 workdays (4 12.5hr days) post away :)
You can make smart pointers which are not specific to a GNU language. Here is how: doh, use C++.

Let's see, ISO C++ portable smart pointers? Or GNU/LLVM C smart pointers?

If all you want is a C dialect, with smart pointers (and nothing else from C++), you can easily program that way.

So here is an idea: in a similar vein, you can make your scheme work with C or C++. You then have code which can be compiled as standard C++, and has smart pointers. Or, it can be compiled using the LLVM/GNU dialect of C and it can have smart pointers. (Okay, so what is the benefit, then? Just that someone can build such a program without a full toolchain that includes a C++ compiler: the program is buildable with a more bare-bones toolchain. There are some added benefits in that you can validate the code on more compilers!)

From the point of view of the implementation of this, it could be great. Add a few #ifdef __cplusplus in there and see if you can target C++. You then have more ways to test things.
are you serious? you can't be serious. i usually assume that hacker news has a bit more sophistication than this. i would actively celebrate a legitimate socialized health care system in the U.S. but that's not what we got. ACA is basically a huge middle class tax with the proceeds paid almost entirely to health insurance companies. its a massive expansion of a deeply entrenched private industry.
Is there really that much variation in basic infrastructure like internet access though?
> It will also further devalue high school diplomas as well as make good high schools less of a priority across the nation (everyone is going to CC anyway, right?).

I can't imagine anyone actually thinking that.

"Who needs good elementary schools? Everyone is going to middle school anyway, right?"
Ah, I misquoted. On the page http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq15.html, they point out that the ports tree concept was borrowed from FreeBSD.
OP is an idiot/troll. I don't understand why so many take the trouble to respond.
A less pathological phrasing: Congress says states can boss around cities and force them not to build municipal networks, and the FCC can't do anything about that.
I think this is still narrow sighted. What we're talking about is collectivism vs individualism.

Sending everyone to community college to learn various things produces a benefit to society that might not translate to economic benefit for that particular person.

An educated populace is good for a democracy.