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I'm going to share this in case someone finds it useful...

I am Canadian and married to a Spanish women and living in Spain. While my son started out sponging up both languages, he eventually took off in Spanish and left English behind. In order to have some form of relationship with him I had to speak Spanish with him.

People would lecture me, "oh, give him that gift of English" or "how can you not be speaking English to him?".

Now that he is older and has discovered the Internet, he has a need to learn English. And he's learned. I'm sure it was there all along, he went from not speaking English to speaking it in about two weeks.

My wife and I would speak English around him, and sometimes I would speak English to him, but it really wasn't until he needed to, like the child in the OP story, that he learned English.
I would say as a general rule, you either need to be in the A round of something REALLY big to survive dilution, for an acquisition. The alternative is that you join a public company or soon to be, that will have a very high market cap.

Big companies routinely pay equity packages in the $200k-$1m range for senior people. Some just pay you in cash, and let you make the choice on how much equity you're up for.

I've been in 3 liquidity events, one which was a nice bonus for 4 years, one which I didn't get anything, and the last which has worked out very well for me.
I'm trying to work out the logical conclusion to your line of arguing though. How do you justify the range of eating establishments that exist? Is any restaurant charging more than $10 for a nutritious meal simply another example of bourgeois excess? A hotel room that charges more than $50 for a clean bed and bathroom? Apple devices vs their Windows/Android equivalents? Automobiles?
We hear you, that's not how we intended to present this service. Clearly, there is room for improvement and lots of things to overcome.
Many thanks for the feedback!
"1 out of every 10"? That sounds high to me. Is it based on YC-backed founders, founders in general, or totally made up?
We're largely talking about only the US market here -- in which only (and I say that word relatively) 32,000 people died in any sort of automobile related accident last year.

To put this in perspective, the common Flu (a totally vaccinatable, preventable, and treatable illness) killed more than 52,000 people in the US last year alone.

In reality, automobiles in the US are the safest they have ever been since 1949, and automobile related deaths have dropped more than 26% since 2005 alone.
According to the CDC, automobile related deaths are not even in the top 10 leading causes of death in the US.

Last year, heart disease was responsible for 596,577 US deaths last year alone. Stroke claimed 128,932 US lives. Diabetes took 73,831 american lives. Suicide robbed 39,518 people their life last year -- in excess of 7,000 more than died by automobile related accidents.

In 2009, approximately a grand total of 2,436,652 died in the US of all causes (including natural causes). Of that number, automobile related deaths only accounts for 1%. Of the entire US population, we're talking about 0.0096%...

According to the CDC, in 2012, 10,322 people (or 31%) of all automobile related deaths were alcohol-related deaths. Another 18% of automobile related deaths are attributed to drugs other than alcohol in the same year. That accounts for just about 50% of all vehicle related deaths, leaving the true automobile related deaths due to accident at a shockingly low number (relatively) of about 15,000 people per year.

All of this is to say, relatively speaking, automobile related deaths are not a significant concern. It does not make sense to spend significant effort in this sector while ignoring or not increasing efforts in these other much more problematic areas.

Sources:

[1] http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leading-causes-of-death.htm

[2] http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/01/09/guns-tr...

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_in...

[4] http://www.businessinsider.com/top-causes-of-death-united-st...

[5] http://www.iihs.org/iihs/topics/t/general-statistics/fatalit...

[6] http://www.cdc.gov/Motorvehiclesafety/impaired_driving/impai...
On an unrelated note, maybe there is something to this "open source (in Go)" phenomenon. I'm starting to think it's more than just a popularity contest, and has something to do with the engineer friendliness of Go.

Edit: But then I looked at syncthing's git repo and thought, nah!
This appears to actually be an issue with the kernel, which I believe is the same as the kernel in the Android version of the device. Therefore, unless I'm missing something, the title is misleading - this is actually an issue with Mediatek's Linux kernel modifications, which applies to Android, Ubuntu, and anyone else who tries to make a Linux-based phone with Mediatek hardware using Mediatek's official kernel patches.
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Good luck if you're not a car salesman. It's a reputation issue, why should I trust you that there isn't a problem with the car, why are you selling it? That "risk of it being a lemon" factor is what causes a new car to massively depreciate.
How does it work now? Has the client been rewritten?

I've just been going back over my emails from about a year ago when we decided to stop using aerofs because of stability issues. It doesn't make for pretty reading.
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I can imagine the look on the average farmer's face when some city folk in their self driving car ask him to lead them up to the field himself. He'd probably just leave them there and drive off in his tractor, chuckling to himself.
You can't just "disagree". This is a matter which science (linguistics specifically) has lots of research on.
Indeed, original and very useful. Exactly what I've been seeking... for some time.
I really miss the old Python snake logo.
> Anyway, FWIW, we used the terms "open source" and "open source code" way before that and it was widely understood. I don't have any reason to make that up.

Perhaps it was your personal jargon. I don't see any evidence that it was widespread before 1998.

I think it's more likely that your memory is failing, and OSI's campaign was so successful that they really convinced you that you always called it "open source". It has been close to two decades, after all. We can forget.
The only thing I am concerned with is how secure / exploitable they are from a computer security perspective. I assume there will be some kind of link between the vehicular peripherals to vehicle control and configuration. Then I worry about who is actually controlling the car. I'm open to AI driven cars with redundant intelligent networks, but people are smart too, and some people are not nice people. How do you know that the entire system is functioning as expected? I'm pretty sure that's NP hard.
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I've been in the valley for ~20 years, and I've only made money on my options once, about $250k on a company that had already ipo'ed a year before I joined.

That said, my wife and I earn a combined salary of just over $500k/yr, and I much prefer this to stiking it rich via equity.
I'd argue that deaths per mile is also misleading, however, as it misstates the actual benefit; people don't directly benefit from a particular number of miles, but rather from a particular set of trips, whose length will tend to vary by mode. People who choose a car-oriented lifestyle will tend, on average, to make longer trips than those who choose lifestyles built around transportation by walking, biking, or using transit, but I would argue that the urban cyclist biking two miles to work derives the same benefit (getting from home to work) as the suburban car commuter driving twenty miles. For comparing cars to bikes, in particular, the relative safety depends on whether you go with a per-mile or per-trip metric, with the winners being car and bike, respectively.
There were plenty more people who came to that conclusion many number of times. There were companies who changed their whole models just so they could sell the software because the result said "you will lose everything" to half the AAA securities out there.

That said, I too dislike his tone about finance. Why? Why is it bad to work in one industry over another?
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That's a load of FUD.

Modern Self driving cars track people on sidewalks not just the street. As to driving in the rain, they can do it, but like poeple there less safe at highway speeds in the rain. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXylqtEQ0tk (6:45, 9:00) Also, 3:52 demos stopping for someone in the road.

They even read stop lights (8:00).

PS: If you actually look at that left turn on @9:00 the car has a much better idea what's around it than people do.
The Foo Fighters are mastered loud a lot of the time. One trend they have is to have a massively gained snare drum shoved through a compressor so it chops the peaks of the snare off and has no crack like a snare should, so it sounds like this: PFFFFFT

Older recordings from the 70s (perhaps early Kansas) have a different sound (not such harsh compression), so the snare drum has a sharp crack on them and they sound like this: CRACK

To get that "sound" Foo Fighters layer distorted guitar on top of more distorted guitar (they use Vox AC30s apparently!). Doing this does make it sound thick but you'll get tired listening to an album of distortion. The bass is also distorted (a tube/valve amp in use). Then Dave Grohl will resort to shouting all the way through the song (In Your Honor was the worst), so his added edgy raspy voice will be added to the distortion soup for maximum distortion.

Listen to some Deep Purple or Led Zeppelin and compare the snare sound to the Foos. Led Zeppelin is a good example because even though Led Zep 1's drums were only recorded with 2 (or 3) microphones, there is real dynamics in the drumming (listen to how the drums come in on Good Times Bad Times). You can tell how few microphones were used because the panning on the drum fill for the toms at the end of How Many More Times pans the entire drumkit, not just the toms. Modern setups would perhaps have close-miked drums panned around the stereo image so as the drummer does a fill on the toms, it doesn't take the entire kit with it (8 microphones for a kit, one for each drum + hi hat and overheads).
File locking and remote storage go together like fish and bicycles, sadly. It's impossible with detached-operation cloud systems and only somewhat supported on LAN fileserver systems.
Its not that finance is bad, people who love to work in some field which doesn't pay well always tend to think lowly of people who work in other fields and get paid well.
Yeah, it makes sense to mimic the D3 style: the only thing worse than a bad convention is two conventions.
That's a total gloss-over.

Broadcast news started out as an FCC mandate for licensing purpose, and a differentiator where more quality made a difference in the performance of the network. As the number of channels increased and mandates decreased, they shifted to a more "entertainy" format to keep viewers.

This stuff is all available online. Look at the information density of a random broadcast in 1965, 1975, etc. Signal goes down, noise goes up.
> Some serious diamond astroturfing going on in here.

Accusations of astroturfing aren't allowed on HN. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9180466 and the links there for why.

If you believe you see evidence of astroturfing on HN, please email it to us instead: hn@ycombinator.com.
> I can imagine the look on the average farmer's face when some city folk in their self driving car ask him to lead them up to the field himself.

I think you've badly misunderstood what "nagivational information or guides" means.
Skylines is showing at £29.99 (equiv of $46) on greenmangaming for me atm...
The site looks slick, but it doesn't have some features I'd expect and want from a news aggregation site. I can't find any way to search for news about specific topics, for example.
Nope, Paradox. They also make Europa Universalis 4, another major time sink.

Edit: You're right, Paradox is only the publisher in this case, not the developer as well.
I don't think we'll go straight from total human control to total automation directly. I imagine that the first versions of automated cars will require some supervision and only work in certain conditions. This will likely require some sort of system to detect the driver is paying attention, like steering wheel sensors, to prevent people from just going to sleep.
I disagree. Describing it as "It is like X but with Y" devalues the true value of the product
Couldn't users just install Windows 7 without a license key? The trial period initially lasts 30 days and can be extended up to 120 days, I believe.
I followed a similar line to you, and what I do find about learning new languages is how easy it is to think in those languages once you grasp them; I've always thought this was due to the years of French Immersion.
And I think you've badly misunderstood what driving in the British countryside means :-p
Ask if they allow early exercise, and do it if you can afford to. It will probably be money down the drain, but it will save you a lot in taxes if there's an exit. If you do not do it and the company takes off, exercise can become unaffordable due to AMT, and you may feel "trapped" by your options.
I think that you and us sharing the same problem of finding the right target users to start with.
Without those early adopters on facebook nor clear demands, Facebook won't be the "Facebook" now and there won't be the 20% of the users who generates 80% of the contents on Facebook.
(Majority of the users just log on and consume the content, liking status/comment max)
Is the description of Spotify's model to pay artists accurate? It sounds suspiciously simple, free of any special deals with labels to get artists on board etc... (which I had just assumed was a necessary evil)

And do total stream divisions take into account only premium accounts? Or do they also include free ones? Because ya, as a premium user, I really do want (and perhaps naively expected) my $9/mo split between the artists I listen to, which certainly seems the fairest.
How do you even find what book to read without reading articles about them? If people told you about them, how did they find them?
Racket is amazing, I agree. :)
Hmmm... Hungarian notation for task delegation. Interesting.

In any case, this wouldn't work for me because it's missing a critical declaration of WHEN. Missed deadlines are more often discussed in failed projects' post mortems rather than wondering WHO dropped the ball.

I would've used '@' for WHEN and maybe '~' for WHO. But maybe we're getting into sigil hell.
I'm not too knowledgeable about type systems but to me "undefined is not a function" is simply the by-product of a dynamic/weak type system. That complaint can be equally applied to ruby, python, etc. Can't I misspell a property or variable in such languages and get a similar error to "undefined is not a function"? Yet I don't see people complaining about them as much as JavaScript.
This is interesting. It must depend on the school districts, but I live in central Iowa and my children attend public school where they started learning Spanish since Kindergarten. It is odd for me since I can not speak the language myself.
Thanks so much for the read!

There were some things I intentionally left out (how to write good code, documentation) because I figured those were out of scope of this post (I did try to reference them subtly with the line "the code is in a place where it’s ready to publish"). I also left out some of the things you mentioned (versioning documentation, changelog, channels of communication, SO tag) because I figured those might fall into a Part 2 type of post, where I'd say "Now that you have a first version of your library published, let's discuss how to maintain it."

I'll be honest with you, I had a little issue with the length of this post, so I was trying to balance how much to include or omit.

I really appreciate the feedback, and I'll keep those points in mind for a Part 2 post!
I used Excel to do some basic data analysis tasks to see whether it is a reasonable alternative to using a statistical package for the same tasks.

Excel is a poor choice for statistical analysis beyond textbook examples, the simplest descriptive statistics, or for more than a very few columns. The problems I encountered that led to this conclusion are in four general areas:

[1] Missing values are handled inconsistently, and sometimes incorrectly.

[2] Data organization differs according to analysis, forcing you to reorganize your data in many ways if you want to do many different analyses.

[3] Many analyses can only be done on one column at a time, making it inconvenient to do the same analysis on many columns.

[4] Output is poorly organized, sometimes inadequately labeled, and there is no record of how an analysis was accomplished.

'Here’s an example of how the numerical inaccuracies in Excel can get you into trouble.'

http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~jsimonof/classes/1305/pdf/excelr...

As someone previously mentioned here 'RStudio' is great. I would also add R-Project for Linux distribution.

Excel is a wonderful tool for many things. Statistics is not among them.

P.S. Happened a couple of times that articles posted on 'Journal of Econometrics' was denied (even by college students) for errors due to Excel.
Haha, never let this person go :)
I think the reason you're confused is because you're under the impression that people are arguing against the very obvious practical benefits of having only self driving cars: congestion, safety, etc. This is obvious to everyone.

However, there are other human concerns. I personally enjoy driving. I often go on drives where I'm simply exploring, not knowing which turn I might take next. It's my personal belief that driving is not just my privilege, but my right. If you want a self driving car, you're well within your rights to do as I am to drive my self.

Moreover, there's a huge scope of privacy issues and increased amount of control being put in the government. I am one of those individuals who is inherently distrusting of government policies that can restrict us under the guise of safety, etc.
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Leaving aside the time from incident to post, this is an excellent example of incident disclosure. Technical detail, complete list of mitigation actions, specific info on what may have been compromised, and what they're doing to ensure it doesn't happen again. They don't need to use the old "we take your privacy seriously" cliché; their disclosure and actions prove it.
Wheeler is chronically uncharitable to technology, and generally comes across a techno-phobic. He's a journalist (and journalism professor) so it's not surprising that he tends to have issues with technology in general.

Does he raise valid points? Sure. Some tech companies are just as guilty as Walmart is of exploitative labor practices, but one can't help but take his commentary with a grain of salt, as he slams "crappy automated phone systems" he ignores all of the benefits of new technologies.
Aaron was very precocious. I would expect that at 11 he was following the news a lot like an adult would.
To limit the improvements we can make upon our selves is to almost deny the natural path of evolution. If we create regulation to further limit the rights of what a person can do to their body, it will only encourage more healthcare tourism(Genetic tourism?).

We allow individuals to change their gender with what they identify. What if a dwarf identifies with being an average size? Or I identify with being the stature of Tony Robins?
Actually, human pilots are too dangerous as well. Analysis of airplane disasters consistently shows that human errors are responsible for majority of crashes.

I would feel much more comfortable flying in a completely automated airplane.
And I think you've badly misunderstood what "when self-driving cars are common" means.

Its not a change that leaves the rest of the world the same as it is today.
No, in Ruby/Python/etc. the error message at least tells you which property was misspelled/undefined. It's still bad (I would hate to have to use Ruby/Python for everything and would complain if they were the only languages the browser supported) but it's 10x better than Javascript.
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That's exactly what I was seeing. If I take the laptop out of the room with the router I start instantly having trouble. Just being one room away, sometimes I can't connect at all.

Even sitting right next to the router, my bars aren't full which is really strange.

I'll try fiddling with the power saving options. Thanks for the advice.
Stuff like that is pretty common in suburban Northern Virginia (for example). There are lots of busy roads with two lanes in each direction which expand to three, four, five, or even six lanes at intersections with dedicated turn lanes. I think the only reason that "proposed hack" screenshot looks so weird is because the distance between intersections is much, much shorter than it would be in real life, relative to the width of the road. For example, you can see it in action in various amounts for all four directions of this intersection:

https://www.google.com/maps/@38.9770719,-77.3149885,438m/dat...

But it doesn't look comical, because the roads are proportionately much more slender and the transitions more gradual.

I haven't played the game, but it sounds like it ended up being accurate here!
Not sure you answered my question. I was asking whether the $500k - $1m was paid as a lump sum on acquisition.
Lots of people just don't think of financial modeling as a particularly interesting or beautiful area of math (this is of course a matter of taste). You could believe that finance is socially useful, and yet prefer for selfish reasons to work in algebraic geometry instead.
Read on Ars Technica that ZDNet's Ed Bott received confirmation from a Microsoft spokesperson. ZDNet shows a chart.

Ars Technica: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/03/window...

ZDNet: http://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-10-to-launch-this-summe...
It doesn't count as a duplicate (for burying purposes) until the story has had significant attention. However, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9220210 did have.
I thought this (what is proposed) is how they already do it.

I guess not.

It does seem more fair for the artist this way, though it probably means they need to do more crunching with map reduce or something.
Always take software ownership of your devices as soon as you buy them, so you're well within the return period if it doesn't work out. You have a much better opportunity to assert your modification rights during the return period rather than having to beg the manufacturer to honor the warranty.

(I know this doesn't help you now, and your next chance is when the device is old enough that you're comfortable losing it. I'm posting this so others don't make the same mistake. I'd personally just forget about the computer in your TV, and setup a proper HTPC).
I'm a one-man show at the moment working on 3+ repositories on Bitbucket. I tried using JIRA for a few months late last year, and it wasn't a great experience or me, so I ended reverting back to using the Bitbucket issue tracker. If I get the time to write an issue exporter (or find one that works), I'll be migrating to Github or something with an issue tracker that gets attention.

The problem with the issue tracker on Bitbucket is that it's not getting better because it would 'cannibalise JIRA' sales, but it's ridiculous that in 2015 I still can't create links between issues, or create subtasks. If I had to pay for a better issue tracker that's built-in to Bitbucket (no JIRA), I'd pay it.
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