skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an interesting move. Security work seems like the quintessential outsourced role - what does Apple know about hiring, training and maintaining a quality security force? It seems like a distraction from making hardware and software. If it makes sense from a plain bottom-line standpoint (economies of scale, etc) it seems like they would have done it a long time ago. So is this more like Cook just deciding to do it despite the higher costs? (Not that I don't think it's the right thing to do, I just know the pressures to increase profits)
This is really impressive. How did you secure the games and scores data?
That's all speculation on the part of the reporter, and a lot of it is oddly ungrounded. SpaceX has already built its own spacecraft prep facilities and launch pads at its two existing sites (Canaveral and Vandenberg), which already are largely automated (you don't want humans anywhere near a fueled rocket!) So it's not like they needed their own site for any of that.

The one part of that speculation that is sourced -- different range safety systems once the rocket is in flight -- does deal with facilities that SpaceX shares with the Air Force and other launch systems (ULA Atlas launches at both sites, at least). But handling of the rockets on the ground is already completely under SpaceX control, and done entirely with their own purpose-built equipment.
Hey Joel

1) Hotkeys will be coming
2) Just write me on twitter or on facebook. However I realize I don't have a mail address to write I will update that. Thanks for the catch.

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When I first played it, it really felt cheesy as hell but I recently revisited it on my PS2 and I love it. There's only a handful of great movie/game transitions and I like to think that's one of them (the Riddick games being the others on that short list). I really wish we had another horror game with the same gameplay elements.
There was a teacher in middle school that I remember fondly that had a great homework policy.

His homework was never super time-consuming, but there was enough of it to become a significant portion of the grade. The really interesting part though: homework was corrected and returned with a grade, and the student had a chance to fix the wrong answers and turn in their corrections for a new grade.
This leads me to wonder if there actually might be some value in revisiting Jaynes' Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. I'm also reminded of a monograph -- can't recall the name -- by a 1970s psychiatrist that argued for treating schizophrenics through cognitive therapy, and provided several case studies in support of his or her argument. It seemed a bit speculative to me when I read it, but this article is pretty good anecdotal support in favor of that kind of strategy.
Most of my classes were something like this:

- No mandatory homework (not graded)
- Quizzes at the end of each week
- Optional homework is designed to reinforce the concepts that were going to be on the quiz at the end of the week.

If you understand the material, don't bother with the homework. If you don't, do the homework and feel free to ask questions about it in class.
Reasoning involves inferring and applying causation which is different from correlation [1]. One can possibly define process of "understanding" as building a "model" of the system where previously unseen events can be predicated or justified using the model. The big difference in "human understanding" seems to be that we can extract fairly minimal set of laws that govern the system from our observations that we can communicate and apply very efficiently.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_caus...
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> cows that can milk themselves

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we are looking into this. Seems to be some thing around multiple monitors or displays.
I did homework on the bus in the morning before class, or in other classes, but never at home. I hated spending 8-9 hours at school, plus bus time, and then 1-2 hours at home doing even more work, it seemed ridiculous.

I sometimes enjoyed the material, in particular reading, almost regardless of subject. I hated busywork, like "answer these questions about the reading"--which is the equivalent of a test. Just ask me on the test! Not to mention people can copy that, and those who don't read WILL copy it. Those who do read have no need to (assuming reading comprehension). It's not a measure of anything.

The memorization of facts came easily to me and I didn't mind them because it often turned my expected-1-hour assignment into a ten minute assignment. For instance, in a vocabulary book I could read each word, and between being well-read and having a good memory, it was very easy to fill in all the blanks.

My worst experiences were on some larger projects. One required that I typed & printed a report, before computers were ubiquitous. I had no access, was afraid to ask my dad to take me to a library, and had no friends with computers. I got docked a letter grade for my lack of access, which my teacher attributed more to laziness. I don't entirely blame him--most kids aren't scared to ask their parents for things. Similarly, science projects were no fun because they generally require either some investment or some creative thinking, often on the part of parents. My dad was pissed to buy the folding cardboard display, I could not ask for say, lumber and tools. One time I was supposed to build a "one-string canned bean guitar"---lumber, can, fishing line, etc. Mine was absolutely awful and I was mortified to bring it into class--and as expected I caught a lot of teasing for it. Anyway, not really the fault of the school, but bad experiences nonetheless.

If I were implementing a homework policy I think I would make it optional. It can be part of your grade or not--you can choose to have only tests / projects / labs / etc in your grade. If not optional, then not part of the grade.

In a typical college model there is no homework, and in my high school days, homework was just equivalent to padding grades...weighted the tests less, but everyone expected to get 100% or thereabouts on their homework, if they put in the effort to actually do it.

I think your responses here will be skewed towards those who enjoy learning for learning's sake, and that's something to account for. Everyone hates homework & busywork, but for this crowd it probably wasn't necessary. I'd argue that for some students it is, but I'd also personally argue that we should refocus those students into something more practical, like vocational programs.
We have commercial dishwashers in the kitchen where I work (a software company) and they are pretty awesome. I rinse the disk before putting it in but don't try too hard to get every last flake of food off. Run time is 3 or 6 minutes on these ones.
When I edit an alert template in my inbox, it doesn't currently update the table cell (at least for me), but if I click on the alert, I can see from the title that it has been updated. Additionally, you may want to consider separating the templates from the notification/alerts in the view somehow.. possibly a different menu
>video game crash of '83

you need to remember games were blue pixel chasing three red pixels back then, that was the main reason for the crash.
Well, because the advertisers' wrote the code that's running in your browser, and I imagine that they will do whatever maximizes their profit.
Agreed, it's a bit silly to assume that all Google cares about is ad revenue. Plus, improving internet accessibility and making more revenue aren't mutually exclusive. Why do self driving cars? Def no ad revenue there.
yeah, I wouldn't use Java for scripting neither. :D
Consider (diplomatically!) talking to your boss.

If the company is successful-but-not-spectacularly-successful for a long time, one way to handle such issues is by structuring the flow of money from the company to the founders as dividends - that way, you'll get paid some fraction of what they get paid, indefinitely. Note that there are other ways to structure that particular money flow, though, and there's very little you can do to influence the choice.

For a select few companies, secondary markets exist that trade in illiquid stock. I understand that many equity agreements forbid selling on those markets and/or quickly selling on those markets. However, this only works if the buyers have a reason to believe that the stock will ever be worth anything at all.

You mention valuations, which suggest that some fairly savvy people have decided to exchange money for shares in this company. Do you know how the investors expected to get paid back? It's possible for founders to screw investors, of course, but this may be another thing worth looking into.
> How did they ensure this?

Yes, that's exactly the question this raises.

> As a few news stories, including the linked article, have reported, they would have been immune from FOIA requests.

They would not have been immune. They may have been overlooked in the course of handling such requests, although assuming anyone in the State Department offices responsible for conducting document searches in response to FOIA requests (or subpoenas, etc.) was aware of the practice, they quite probably wouldn't have been, there just would have been an extra step involved in handling the requests.
Hi Kevin, just to clarify... are you offering 15 minutes of your time a week, or to build something that would save someone 15 minutes of their time?
Why have you not touched on security? How do you protect people from MITM attacks against your service?

This is the largest thing that could happen (since it seems you are targeting people on-the-go from hotel to hotel).
No shit.

This should be a disclaimer when buying the phone then.
PubSub messaging is definitely a PaaS feature more than an IaaS feature, so it's going to be less portable until we have the problem so well surrounded that we get some sort of open source abstraction to the whole problem and all of it's semantics. So, yes, there is a level of lock-in.

However! I know of a number of PaaS products that provide similar functionality, and with some effort, you can build it in AWS or Azure features, or you can build your own on top of RabbitMQ or Apache projects. The characteristics are going to be different, but it's doable. It might be like a MySQL to Postgres migration, or it might be like a MySQL to Mongo migration, but there _is_ a migration. Using a vendor product with unique advantages as a dependency is a known engineering problem with known risks. Take your dependencies carefully, but it's riskier to take no dependencies and fail to deliver a useful product.
This sounds like a pretty good policy. Was this high school or college?
How slow was it ? 1/3, 1/4 ? I know that's not the purpose, I'm just curious about the emulation penalty.
When I started out with the simple items like flashdrives, I experimented with automated import via the Amazon API. But meanwhile I switched to a completely manual process. Everything has to be checked and proofread anyhow. So it makes the process simpler to keep out the automation completely.

"PoC"?
>> "SpaceX Profitable as Musk Pulls in NASA Contracts, Google Cash"

Re: Google investment of $1B. I'm not an accountant, but when did taking investment money constitute making a business "profitable"?
It isn't really a valid point to say that income for miners must increase, since if miners aren't making money they will drop out and increase the profit for others.
The first one that comes to mind was their fraudulent reporting about the audi 5000 and "sudden acceleration" in the 80s. Their lies almost destroyed an entire company.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audi_100#Reported_sudden_uninte...
Benghazi coverage, the Bush National Guard story coverage, their NSA/Snowden fluff piece, etc. It's not hard to find credible criticism of 60 Minutes, even if you can't tell just by watching it.

http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/60_minutes_bad_run.php
>>> If you have the options to buy common shares, which you probably do, they're worthless so don't even bother exercising them.

I was in the exact same position as the OP, with expiring options on common shares in a company with no immediate plans to IPO. I (fortunately) didn't take your advice, exercised the options and 3 years later, when we were acquired, I was $500k richer. Of course, everyone's situation is different but I wouldn't take such an absolute position.
I guess I just don't have the same experience with food removal. I'm the sort of lazy guy who loads in dishes with days-old food residue caked on, and my dishwasher has no trouble getting it all of and such, even in the pretty egregiously residued cases. I agree that a power sponge would still be cool.
Its amazing how not having the typical "here, hold my beer" response seen in a huge amount of movies (not just horror) enhances the movie. Ok, knowing what they know, it is a pretty good set of decisions. I do admit to committing one of the horror movie cliches in real life, but I'm not fond of them in my movies.

I absolutely hate movies populated by the smart-stupid-doers. For a low budget example, "Deep Star Six" is basically a comedy because of it.
I wasn't aware free form amino acid padding was a real issue. Do you have any idea if this a world-wide problem or of particular US-interest only? I bookmarked your site, thanks!
When I said "well-developed cities with good economies" the intent of the 'good economies' bit was specifically to exclude Tokyo. A bad economy will make anywhere cheap and Japan's had two decades of that.
A much longer post with a similar gist is "I Can Tolerate Anything Except The Outgroup"[1] by Scott Alexander (I recommend the whole blog actually):

> According to Gallup polls, about 46% of Americans are creationists. Not just in the sense of believing God helped guide evolution. I mean they think evolution is a vile atheist lie and God created humans exactly as they exist right now. That’s half the country.

> And I don’t have a single one of those people in my social circle. It’s not because I’m deliberately avoiding them; I’m pretty live-and-let-live politically, I wouldn’t ostracize someone just for some weird beliefs. And yet, even though I probably know about a hundred fifty people, I am pretty confident that not one of them is creationist.

1: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anything...
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That is really very nice - well done! Any thoughts on Evernote integration?
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great making-of doc on The Thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B48Yp00LitE
I agree with you completely until

> Why do self driving cars? Def no ad revenue there.

Sure there is. Many people commute in their cars for 1-2 hours per day, when it is illegal for them to look at ads on their smartphone. If Google makes this legal, it's another 10%ish increase in the waking hours that people may be clicking on their ads.

I think that Google's ambitions are a lot higher than this, of course. Self-driving cars will be a lucrative business for them in numerous ways. And increased ad revenue will be one of them.
Ask HN: First visit to the Bay Area – How do I make the most of it?
Hello, After a long time coming, I'm making my first trip to the Bay Area (second to the US) between the 24th - 27th of this month and I'm wondering how I make the most of my time there?

I'm aiming for this to predominantly be a work trip to generate interest in my company OtusLabs.com (a consumer profiling company) and I already have a couple of meetings set-up. But I'm wondering if there are any must visit locations / events where I will meet / bump into other funded start-ups?

Also in the UK a lot of founders are happy to meet for a quick coffee to discuss if our platform would work for them + give feedback. - Is the same true for SF & if so any recommendations on the best approach (Twitter, LinkedIn, Email, Intro Only, etc.)?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Mike
The location near Brownsville is amazingly similar to Canaveral. Tidal flats, ocean to the east, barrier island, similar latitude, hurricanes.
There are risks: I merged some contacts on the new web UI and now my Android phone has 8(!) different versions of one particular contact of mine.
I don't know how computationally intensive OP's algo is, but I've found that in real world use cases Damerau–Levenshtein distance algo has slowed down a number of our jobs (and we aim to avoid it is possible).

Our jobs are real-time where the user is awaiting a response. So probably not limiting factor for jobs that can be run on your own time.
tx/block did not stop increasing. But the transaction volume in USD has been flat recently due to the falling price:
https://blockchain.info/charts/estimated-transaction-volume-...
The amount of value transferred in bitcoin network has seen no growth at all lately. On the other hand it has not diminished either.

I simply wanted to point out that you cannot cherry pick the time periods. Right now on a 6-12 month timescale bitcoin has been absolutely terrible investment.

You are right that transactions that remain within Bitcoin do not incur transaction fees. However those transactions do not include the big merchants, which you did use as an example. So yeah you can give bitcoins to your friend without a fee but you cannot buy anything from a shop that 'accepts' bitcoin in practice without a fee.

The annual revenue of the merchants in those slides is the total annual revenue. There is no mention whatsoever on how many purchases they have that is being made with bitcoin. So it's useless data in that sense.

Do you happen to have any data about the purchases made specifically with bitcoin?
This happened to me. My employer got sold, and only about half of my outstanding ISO's were vested at the time. However, I'd been there a pretty long time, and getting more ISO grants as time went on, so I wasn't too bent out of shape about it.

In my opinion, you should think about instruments such as RSU's and options as accruing to you at the date of vest, not the date of grant. From an accounting standpoint, that's how the company is viewing it, or at least should be.
Now look around you at the 1000 products that construct and are in your home that are made in China.

We even import some food from China.

Your car tires are probably made in China.

Think all those things meet US regulations? Who is going to inspect them, the handful of people that are responsible for tens of thousands of freight containers per day?
If it's a profitable company that you've been at almost 10 years, that you want to stay at, can't you ask them for a raise, and ask them for help with the stock option problem? They probably would want to work with you if you've been there that long.
Yeah, it's fashionable to point out that Google does what it does to sell more ads. But isn't this getting very boring? We don't hear things like "x is making a TV program to sell more ads" or "x is making a new car to take in more revenue".
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>In any one month...

Pretty much everything you mention in this paragraph is covered by accounting rules a student would learn in year 1. Cash flow isn't profitability. Spending on assets is capitalized, and they depreciate according to rules, not what you "may want" to do.

Yes, there is always some leeway to play fast and loose with accounting, and companies are always trying "adjust" earnings to suit to their business model. 4 times out of 5, it's horsecrap. That's why we have GAAP.
You sound like an awesome dad. This is the correct perspective on grades.

I wasn't allowed to get Bs. There were repercussions. I think my dad just took the lazy route, and it's easier to take the teachers' word that your kids are learning than to make sure yourself.

When I talk to with-it high-schoolers I make a point to question grades. Nobody cares, so long as you pass. Grades are incredibly easy to manipulate, anyhow, as evidenced by the jaw-dropping number of absolutely clueless high-school graduates there are.
I like your ideas about the colonial aspects of Bitcoin in the developing world. That is an angle I haven't heard anyone else mention before. It pairs nicely with another critique I don't often see, that Bitcoin is undemocratic; there are economic assumptions baked in that, if it were a government-backed money, people could discuss, vote on, and ultimately change. With bitcoin, there is no way that the people whose lives could be affected by those assumptions can have a say in them--the design and operation of bitcoin doesn't answer to the people in a democratic way.
It's possible my monitor brightness is wrong (nevermind, you're right, I see it now), and thanks for the feedback and sharing tips.
Isn't that what lawyers are for? I paid mine a small fee to review my equity agreement before I signed and I made it clear to my potential employer that I couldn't sign until my lawyer signed off on it.
I remember an AI researcher (I forget who) recently said something to the effect that early AI research produced all sorts of planning algorithms. E.g. the top down camp of AI. But they weren't capable of working with the real world because we didn't have very good low level perception. E.g. this complicated algorithm for planning the robot's actions, but it depended on getting input about where objects are.

Now we have decent low level perception from the bottom-up camp of AI, but they are limited by a lack of high level stuff like planning and reasoning.

But you are right that there is no obvious way to just combine these wildly different algorithms without lots of human guidance.
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I've noticed a similar thing in the furry community (also has a lot of geek MtF people, and GSM people in general). It seems like every other person is in IT. Even the non-IT people are more focused on the technical aspects of their hobbies and professions than most people.
That is no longer true