skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not quite an identical profile; it's not quite 1g, since Venus is less massive, and you're already quite a ways off the surface.

It's still not trivial, but it's not like there are a whole lot of do-overs when launching valuable human cargo from Earth, either. (What happens if the space shuttle's engines go awry? Everyone on board dies, and everyone on the ground speculates as to whether they died within 30 seconds, or survived to hit the ocean.)
The thing I noticed was that Steve Jobs had the least impressive credentials on the page.
> Why not get other resources from near-Venus asteroids and Mercury?

The exact same reason we don't get our resources from near-Earth asteroids and Earth's neighboring planets: It's freaking expensive. One of the aspects that makes Venus attractive for colonization--similar surface gravity--also makes it expensive to launch anything. More-so, given that you'd be doing it with a frontier outpost's industrial base.

> Raw materials would largely go down, and people, culture, intellectual property, and fluorine would come up.

So why bother going to Venus at all, as opposed to creating such an economy around Earth? Barring catastrophe, Earth will certainly have a lot more people, culture, intellectual property, value-dense high-tech goods, etc., as well as significantly nicer/cheaper real-estate.

All successful colonies require an economic driver, and Venus is no exception. "Like Earth but less-profitable" is unlikely to do much.
> Granted, I'm not sure I would want to show up to a blind date with a human/portuguese man-o-war hybrid.

You should read K.W. Jeter's "Farewell Horizontal"; he makes it seem a lot more palatable.
Which book? I didn't see a book (title) referenced above.
Hmm, OK, that sounds much more reasonable. :)
Maybe from a technology point of view. The problem with driverless cars isn't the car, it's the insurance. Google would need to become a large insurance company. Doing business in NYC would kill them.
Yeah, "couch potatoes" in Copenhagen likely rank in the 90th percentile in terms of overall physical activity for most American cities.

What this study says is, "Running really fast (> 7mph for four hours a week is not exactly a cakewalk) for long periods of time might reduce your mortality.
The change you wanted was rejected.

Maybe you tried to change something you didn't have access to.

If you are the application owner check the logs for more information.
> By the time the internet is destroyed by regulation

There's a huge difference between "the internet" and "the internet delivery business". There is no free market in the ISP business as it hasn't been a competitive market since the days of DSL.
Daemon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_(novel_series)
Where in the article do you see 73% were not VC-backed? It doesn't have that number anywhere.
This appears to be an unpopular idea on hn, but: We are nowhere close to developing sentient machines. We have made no progress toward it, we're not getting closer. Statistical optimization and sentience are parallel lines. No matter how far you travel down one, you don't get any closer to the other.

If "evil killer robots" are created, it won't be because of advances in big data or deep learning or any other buzzword. It'll happen independently, potentially aided by current state of the art techniques but not because of them. It could happen at any time, some guy in his basement could be on the verge of a breakthrough as we speak. But google's ability to detect cat faces or Watson's winning on jeopardy are not signs of a coming apocalypse. It's highly unlikely that we can cluster or gradient descent our way to human level of intelligence, no matter how many cores or hidden layers are used.

This whole "famous people are worried about AI" thing is understandably media friendly, but it's a bit of a distraction. Fortunately the majority of active researchers aren't taking it seriously at all.
This is from using Debian stable, and normal. Debian has 4 "branches"

1. Old stable, the previous stable version and only receives security updates.

2. Stable, the current stable version. There is a massive amount of stability testing and security hardening that go into ever package before its allowed in this branch. This is usually a very long process and the packages are usually old.

3. Testing, This is where packages live while they are being tested for stable. This branch may be broken, but is generally working during the release cycle, and may not receive security updates in timely manner.
4. Un-stable, This is bleeding and mostly in broken state...

During the release cycle, packages are selected and brought closer and closer to 'stable' and move though the branches. At a certain time, the package version are frozen in a feature freeze, and are not allowed to have feature updates, only stability and security hardening. When are the packages are ready, the debian team releases alpha and beta builds to test everything. Then, and only then is a new stable released.

If every thing had the Q&A of debian, nothing would crash, but everything would be old.

This is the reason why so many people use one of the many distro based up of debian testing. Ubuntu, Linux Mint and many more are based off of testing, with newer packages and there own feature freeze. The ubuntu cycle tries work like clock work every 6 months and debian has more of "when its ready" mind set.
This is from using Debian stable, and normal. Debian has 4 "branches"

1. Old stable, the previous stable version and only receives security updates.

2. Stable, the current stable version. There is a massive amount of stability testing and security hardening that go into ever package before its allowed in this branch. This is usually a very long process and the packages are usually old.

3. Testing, This is where packages live while they are being tested for stable. This branch may be broken, but is generally working during the release cycle, and may not receive security updates in timely manner.

4. Un-stable, This is bleeding and mostly in broken state...

During the release cycle, packages are selected and brought closer and closer to 'stable' and move though the branches. At a certain time, the package version are frozen in a feature freeze, and are not allowed to have feature updates, only stability and security hardening. When are the packages are ready, the debian team releases alpha and beta builds to test everything. Then, and only then is a new stable released.

If every thing had the Q&A of debian, nothing would crash, but everything would be old.

This is the reason why so many people use one of the many distro based up of debian testing. Ubuntu, Linux Mint and many more are based off of testing, with newer packages and there own feature freeze. The ubuntu cycle tries work like clock work every 6 months and debian has more of "when its ready" mind set.
> We're not poorer from it, though, because we shifted from weaving shirts to doing construction work or working in finance.

the video specifically has a refutation for the argument you made - that technological improvement is not necessarily always augmented by better jobs that people could do. Their example with the horses and automobiles is quite pertinent.

The point about jobs that require human empathy is moot - if the cost of hiring the human is much higher than a machine, the machine will win.
I wouldn't be very happy if I hired a designer based partly on his website and then found out that he copied the design.

Just sayin'.
I get that when I paste improperly formatted CSV.
I don't think it will work out that way. If Uber dumps them cold they'll have no money to retrain.

Also I doubt taxi driver stays taxi driver because of all alternative opportunities he has.
Nice clean look. Just FYI, newlines aren't properly formatted in the output:

a,b,"c
c",d,e

Also, what is the privacy policy as for data we paste into your site?
Of the compatible phones, only Sony Ericsson J100a appears to support North American GSM bands, and eBay doesn't have any of it on sale, at least not at the moment.
Why the Down votes? Open and honest communities don't seem very open and honest anymore when they just down vote anything they disagree with.

I guess I should just continue with the "all government regulation is good" HN circle-jerk to not get down voted.
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>Hypothetically, if a model like that produced an exact mathematical equivalent of quantum theory wouldn't that be more satisfying? It would also destroy some of the notions that have been mathematically proven - like EPR and Bells' inequality.

destroying Bell's inequality would be the key. It would be very satisfying. I'd say Nobel prize and forever in history books satisfying. Unfortunately (as i myself is on the ERP side and came to a something like pivot wave on my own while trying to explain the double-slit) there is no reasonable explanation for observed Bell's violations except for the explanation by QM (which for a "realist" like me sounds just like "will of God spreading FTL" :)

Note: actually i haven't been able to find good (for my criteria) Malus law verification for single photons - the law is the basis of Bell's violation claims in photon polarization experiments. Slight modification of the law on top of Einstein's proposed modification - with resulting law being pretty reasonable for single photon situation while still preserving classic law in the case of classic light ray - actually produces the Bell violation in the classic "local realism" explanation. So i still hope a bit :)
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All the various unbranded/generic/clone handsets coming out of China are likely illegal to use on any networks too since they haven't been given the certification, but AFAIK they work fine since they adhere to the protocols and would probably pass the certification anyway. I don't know how far along OsmocomBB is, but if it is indistinguishable from a "real" phone as far as the network is concerned, then it'd be a similar scenario.

What the networks don't want - and the motivation for the certification - is for some device to misbehave (e.g. emit a continuous transmission) and interfere with the operation of other devices on the network.
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It's a header-only library, so it should be inlined.
At least in Europe, the Amiga had this... the RF output was strong enough that you could use it as an antenna and get it from the other side of the room, complete with snow effects :)
Exactly. While it may be flattering to be copied, rote copying by a designer for what is presumed to be a demonstration of creativity is not acceptable.

Some of these are perfectly reasonable adaptations, others are quite close to duplicates.
This guy has always impressed me. He works on Java at Google and spends a large chunk of time being a C# and .NET expert. Obviously C# and Java are semantically close to the point of nearly interchangeable, but the devil is in the details and he seems to have them down.
Funny how these guys are always going after youngsters.
We SHA256 the passwords on the client side at Userify (SSH key management for EC2) as well (bcrypt is too slow in mobile browsers), and then bcrypt on the server side the resultant hash. (We don't cache it, though.)

Even in the event of a TLS leakage, we still never see your original password, and the server doesn't end up doing any more work. It's not perfect, but I definitely agree it's a great step forward.
The only reason why I suggested Verisign is because they have been in the industry long enough to know what they are doing (presumably) and not make the same mistakes that were made in the past.

Worst case scenario - if Verisign doesn't want to share the toys in the sandbox, Microsoft/Google/Mozilla et all can just refuse to include their CA certs as trusted certs.

However, Verisign is in a very interesting position as they currently manage/control .com tld.

So what I'm saying is - if the children don't agree to play together then they can take their toys and go home then no one can play.

(I like to use the analogy of children and these big companies because, in my opinion, it appears that's how they operate. They just can't come together, like mature adults, and form some sort of solution to this. Last I heard is that Google wants to show an error page for non-HTTPS enabled sites, on Chrome, which will make everything even worse[1]. Don't even get me started on the whole self-signed cert error message page...).

[1] - http://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/marking-http-...
he does mind, which is why he posted this; he's staking original ownership on this design in a humble way
what evidence do you have that we are in a post scarcity world?

Petroleum is running out, lots of places are being desertified, and arable land is shrinking, leading to places with food shortages. Until the day a very cheap, completely renewable (or effectively infinite) source of energy is found (such as cold fusion, or vacuum energy), there will be no post-scarcity.
I'm vaguely aware of Jon Skeet from echoes from the Windows dev world, from which I've largely stayed detached.

Can someone explain the significance of Jon Skeet, preferebly in terms of "Facts" in the style of Bruce Schneier's [1] or Jeff Dean's [2]?

[1] http://www.schneierfacts.com/
[2] http://www.quora.com/What-are-all-the-Jeff-Dean-facts
Ugh, this is tragic. Such a talented person gone too soon.

Now I don't want to say it was life changing for me, but I greatly enjoyed watching his earlier videos (Dead Fantasy series, Haloid).

But with RWBY (his most recent work) he spawned a universe out of nothing that is now loved by thousands and thousands of people.

True creative talent and dedication at his level is rare, and while we'll never get to see more from him, I have no doubt that his work has inspired countless people to create their own universes, and for that we should be happy.
I think working in software involves a lot of shifting between making something that works and shipping it, and stepping back and thinking about the tools you use in a deep way. It's possible to dismiss one by focusing on the other. (I noticed that the author partially responds to criticism of PHP by pointing out who shipped with it) And it's possible to dismiss actual good ideas by noting how fashionable they are. I'm just sayin.

It's true that a developer using a tool doesn't say anything about their skill level, but as the author points out, those perceptions become reality so... yeah. Programmers are more fashionable than we like to think. But I would rather use that to my advantage than doggedly stick to something that I can't get a job with, just because I think it's so great. I mean... they're all Turing-complete, right?

There are a lot of things that I thought were pretty good, that fell by the wayside. Sure if I get riled up enough about it, I'll insist on how good they were, and how they died for unjust reasons.

If I came to work every day and felt like I was facing a torrent of people telling me PHP sucks -- even if I thought they were wrong I would start looking for a Javascript job. I mean... they're all Turing-complete, right?

The only other thing I have to say is that it's a bad idea to take personally the uninformed criticism of something you use every day. It's just not a good idea. Figure out why you think differently, but you have to stop there. Otherwise you will go nuts.
Yes, running the VM would be silly, but machine learning etc. is awesome. We get acces and time sharing across resources much easier (at all) now. At Graphistry, we are using AWS G2 instances for previously impossibly big interactive data visualizations and streaming into stock browsers. It's pretty ridiculously cool :) Always happy to chat about GPU clouds and related fun things.
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ah. you can send your device with all the things attached that you want?
Because professors are teaching those tools, which means students are more comfortable with them / know what they are.

This isn't CS fundamentals, but, at least for a good portion of CS 1 classes taught at my school, and all of the CS 2 and data structures, Visual Studio is what people are taught, with the OS X users typically using XCode.

I don't know if it's better to start with IDEs or just basic text editors and compilers, but I know a lot of CS majors are going to be coming out of my school without knowing how to compile and run almost any program without clicking on the green run button in their IDE.
> But if they are genuinely of as little use to the workforce as it seems, does such a stigma to not working really make any sense?

in the natural world, if they are genuinely of as little use, they "should die", for the resources to keep them alive is more than the "profit" that they can generate. This is becoming more and more true with more and more automation - the cost of resources to keep somebody alive is getting to a point where their contributions don't really cover it. I dont know if there is a real solution to this problem.
Ask HN: Hiring CS vs. Non-CS graduates. Bubble is getting big
I work in bay area with one of the top 3 companies. Recently, there has been increasing trend in my Org. of hiring non-CS grads over CS grads and/or experienced folks.

These non-CS grads are people coming to bay area since start-ups are making big. Many of these have degrees in management from Ivy-League, law school. Many complete fast track course from hacker school, GA and/or any other make-it-quick school.

What's your take on hiring such candidates ? I have experienced in last 2 years that these people somehow make it through interview process ( sometime in name of diversity) but lack core skills. They lack in-depth system knowledge that is necessary while writing applications.

Not sure if we are truly getting into bubble now. Unfortunately, bubble burst will affect everyone.
I am part of technical interview committee along with 12 other members. On number of occasions tech committee recommendation of not to hire is overturned by HR and higher ups.
I felt bad that deserving candidates ( both male and female ) were turned down in favor of these whacky-get-rich-quick one.

I know some people on HN are already part of this group so I want to be clear on couple of things.
I have absolute no objection on self-learning process. I have more respect for such people.
However, doing 3 month course just because Ivy-League or law school and claiming I am most deserving one is not something I appreciate.

Why tech sector keep itself shooting in the foot ?

These 3 months like school are already tried in India ( Google NIIT courses ). In long term though these candidates hurt more than producing any value.
Can you explain what you mean here? Chocolatey is built on top of the NuGet package manager, which includes package level dependencies.

A simple example is this ConEmuConfig package, which will install ConEmu if it's not already installed due to the dependency chain: https://chocolatey.org/packages/EthanBrown.ConEmuConfig

Many Chocolatey packages I use have dependency chains, and I know some developers that build metapackages so installing one Chocolatey package installs and configures all the software on a new dev box or server.
This is the world if tomorrow.

You cannot buy it but you have a lifetime rental agreement.

It cannot be bequeathed.

Your device is not yours but is owned by ACME Inc and all content is accessible by Big Brother Global Corp. Your preferences and deepest inner thoughts and desires shall be sold to the highest bidder, sliced, diced and abused for profit.

The services are 'free'.

Do not dissent. You cannot win.

Death can set you free. Your memories remain our property.
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Peer review and getting an article published takes at least a month if not half a year or longer. The preprint on Arxiv is most likely the final version of the paper they submitted for publication post peer review.
> Because of the applications development ability of the software oriented hobbyist, Apple will continue to service his needs.

Developers. Developers. Developers. Developers. Developers.
Yes, but no physicist will tell you its safe to leave uranium lying around. Virtually everyone working in AI, including the biggest names in the field, will tell you that the methods are very domain specific (they generalize, but you have to train them specifically for a given domain), and bear no resemblance to sentience as it is typically understood other than that they give rise to seemingly intelligent behavior. Which actually isn't so much intelligence, as discovering a function mapping inputs to outputs.

And no one is arguing that software can't be dangerous. It clearly can, just like poorly constructed bridges or cars can be dangerous. But the idea of machines thinking for themselves is science fiction. There is no indication that we're anywhere close to that happening.
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Jon Skeet is a frequent contributor to StackOverflow.com[0], where he is known for being able to answer highly obscure questions with equally obscure answers[1].

[0] http://stackoverflow.com/users/22656/jon-skeet
[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6841333/why-is-subtractin...
Ok removed that.

Privacy policy? Oh hi, I got yo pastes.

EDIT: Yep, you can inject JS too. Apologies for the way I posted that, did make sure there was nothing personal on there (was mostly test data and people copy-pasting Wiki stuff).
You could still just truncate. (But what is the use case for a 4 megabyte password anyway... keys aren't even that long)

Certain companies (Fidelity.com, looking at you!) enforce a ridiculously SHORT password max length. 12 characters? I'm laying odds that they're not hashing passwords at all.

And then we come to the companies that disallow characters that could be used for SQL injection. Those companies frighten me the most..
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It doesn't have that stat, but you can calculate it from the numbers given: 2886 total exits and 640 (589 + 51) VC backed exits.
Is there a way to fingerprint the code in such a way that it's quite difficult to detect/remove but easy to trace?
Will be announcing it shortly. Had to wait for the 2014 numbers to all come in.
Some websites just assume your browser is old because it doesn't match chrome or firefox exactly, even though you have a perfectly fine browser.
A history of VisionFS
With enough time, I'm sure we could uncover art with the exact same design style that was created prior to his website.
What were these drivers doing before Uber? Let's not pretend that any job is an ok job. These jobs are not ok for humans and with a basic income, these people can contribute in better more creatives ways. My best friends mom was a cleaner for the Hilton for 20+ years. Sure it was a job, but there was nothing meaningful about it.
I've worked with terrible developers with CS degrees and non-CS degrees. Some of them had experience, some of them didn't.

What I'll say is that, without exception, the ones without experience were terrible. No matter how smart/educated they are, junior devs need mentorship and code review.

If these people are consistently turning out bad code, start documenting it. Keep track of how much time is being wasted on them.

I'm strongly in favor of over-paying awesome people rather than under-paying an army of unskilled people.
Imagine you wake up Monday morning and your Android tells you that it automatically upgraded (beautyness of default settings) the default Google Map app on your phone, you tap it out of curiosity, and it asks you "would you like the cab downstairs in 5 minutes?"

Oh well; there goes Uber's 50 billion dollars valuation...