skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>As if it matters what language Carmack decides to use.

I think if we look at the history of adoption of technology, a lot of it is driven by the top 1% endorsing it. I think its a pretty big deal when high profile people endorse a technology. Social capital is as real as financial capital. Carmack has lots of social capital and it can get results. His celebrity helped launch Oculus from a weirdo company playing with 90s relics to a Serious Threat to The Status Quo and I'm sure drew in big investors and eventually Facebook's purchase of it.

>It's very illustrative to me of just how tribal we've become.

This is how we've always been and will forever continue to be.
When I started blogging a couple of years ago, Hacker Monthly MADE MY YEAR when they put my 'Why I Cycled 100 Miles to Meet My First Customer' story on the front cover

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4796755)

So I just wanted to send you a hug over the internet.

I've loved getting a copy of the magazine by email every month since then.

All the best from London,

James
wife teaches at top 10 us university. they adopted Pearson books after Pearson allowed newer white book edition to be authored by one professor of the department (not the one that are reference in the file field, no. the one that barely has a degree in the dpt subject but is the TA and undergrad teaching supervisor)

now they moved several undergrad and extra classes that were taught by phd TAs to 60% online on Pearson black board system. which is a piece of crap site made in java.

their selling point to the university was that they could save money they pay to TAs. as if TAs are even paid... there is nothing in their pitch (which became public after a small strike) mention better learning.
I have to admit, when I started reading this I thought the places they'd be would be a lot different. Not sure why I had such weirdly high expectations.
Wow. You probably mean the "Hello." manual.
Sure, except (at least in Germany) they get the short end of the stick.

They generally have to enter into non-competes, prohibiting them from working for other agencies or companies. They are only paid when the temp agency actually has work for them. They generally get zero benefits compared to regular employees. They also tend to be paid pennies and don't benefit from labour agreements (because unlike their regular employee co-workers they're not allowed to unionize). Basically, they're like independent contractors, except they're not independent.

Temp agencies in this form weren't even legal in Germany until a few years ago (well, about a decade now).
I think it is more of to do with the extra features, you get with the Business plan - https://www.aerofs.com/pricing/
It's the same for me in French. I can understand Americans (who have a thick accent) much more easily than natives. I think it's because my brain can tune into the palette of sounds produced by Americans more readily. Some sounds that are very distinct to natives sound the same to me; it artificially inflates the number of homophones I have to deal with.
Oh but they do. Regardless of target market, Chinese manufacturers build and test pretty much all their hardware with Windows; that means every other consumer also gets first-class support for Windows in their computers/devices/peripherals/gadgets, which means they keep buying Windows machines and paying the MS OEM tax.
Manhattan's buses are already extremely frequent on popular routes (double-length buses scheduled every 2-3 min during rush hour on routes that aren't redundant to subway service, and even on a few that are -- and still packed) and limited by traffic more than anything.

AFAICT most people who drive to work in Manhattan on a regular basis do so because they live far enough out in the boroughs or suburbs that getting to the subway/commuter rail is a PITA.

There is a large contingent in residential areas of Manhattan above 59th St. that take cabs to work -- especially on the East Side where the subway is often too crowded to get on. Although the 2nd Ave subway (if it opens as projected in 2017) will probably make the subway a more palatable option, I could see something like this being an alternative for some of those riders -- cabs can be difficult to find in the morning, and this would be far less expensive.
Well, if everyone is already using the pirated software in China, making it free means no loss in profit, but an increment in legitimate beta testing. I guess a free early release for China would make much more sense and might result in a higher quality general availability release... or do we also need to wait for Windows 10.1?
I've lived in the valley for like 7 years now and my only friends who have taken a ton from equity are early Twitter folks and the few who sold their startups to bigger companies like Google, Square, Twitter, whatever.
I bet here it covers damages for the people I was driving, and then the insurance company comes after me for the money if I was in breach of conditions. So it is in the interests of the driver to make sure his coverage is OK.

That's just here, of course, different countries have different rules. I don't know those in Germany so well.
Do they still require Java installed?
Thanks! Great poem, and in many ways I see it in my kids. On the flip side I sometimes feel like this as a parent:
http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?id=3659 (minus the last two panels)
“The robots are coming for our jobs. Let them”
It's a good question. My bias is that it often does not, and that the current investors make sure it does not. However, it also isn't in people's interest to advertise that they have a lot of money suddenly, so I'm not sure we'll see some good answers here.
super fast and good to integrate
I don't know if you will see anyone openly stating how much they walked away with, but you can do some basic math to figure out that this is very plausible.

Take Stripe, valued at $3.5b[1]. $1m / $3.5 b ~= 0.029%, so any employee who vested at least 0.029% (after dilution) is a paper millionaire, and chances are their early employees have more than 0.029% equity vested.

[1]http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-12-02/apple-pay-...
>Immersion (even for ~50min, 5 days a week) is easily the best way to learn. I don't know why anyone wastes their time with anything else.

I think once you're somewhat proficient in the language, this is true.

I'm currently taking Spanish courses in uni, and my professor is from Cuba. She's the sweetest lady, but has a tendency to ramble off in Spanish. About 50-60% of the time I can (vaguely) follow her, but the rest of the time I'm just hopelessly lost. And judging by the silence the rest of the class has a tendency for, I'm not alone.

Anyway, I'm certainly not trying to counteract your point, just to say that there are steps up to 100% immersion that I feel are necessary.
On a tangential note, I had no idea what AeroFS is, so I clicked on their landing page.

> Like Dropbox, but behind your firewall. File Sync and Share for the enterprise. Free up to 30 users.

Boom. I immediately am fully educated about what this does. I wasn't forced to watch a 2 minute video with no sound at work, or to google the product - questioning about why it's popular[0].

This is how you write effective copy.

[0] Notable offenders are yeoman and dropbox itself - both of which, while widely-used products - are completely opaque in what they do from their initial text. "You already know what I do" isn't good enough for people who don't.
I don't know about StevePerkins, but since I identified the last couple of lines you pasted as derived from The Book of Psalms[1], the poem already seemed to have taken the religious turn. :-)

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+127%3A3-5...
There are also way cheaper options out there for the same features. Like Emit Cloud http://www.emitcloud.com/home
>> This discussion about HN link quality is old and comes up frequently.

While this is true, I've been reading HN for about 5 years. The first two lurking, the last three actually posting and commenting.

From what I remember, HN used to be very technical and startup oriented, which is what got me hooked. Over the past two years or so, I'm seeing a lot of articles on things which are not directly to tech or startups. I've accepted the fact I have to do a lot more filtering and searching to find articles I'm actually interested in. Not a big deal, but something I didn't have to do 2 or 3 years ago.
Insurance isn't there because you have a good chance of having something bad happen to you. It's there because bad things happen predictably and often, and victims of those would have serious problems for the rest of their lives if not for insurance.
Roads are just one example, Amazon or any other corporation depends upon a whole environment provided by the country and its government.

Beside roads the environment includes, law and order services, maintenance of military, funding of research by universities, public/partly private education system, communication services, health care services etc.

Also if I am a small corporation in UK, I have to pay my fair share of taxes, why should the multi billion giants be exempt from it?
I don't think any of the systems really use machine learning. It's more classical stats and control theory.

Maybe the object recognition stuff uses some trained classifiers, but the higher level systems doing the driving to my knowledge do not.
Pop up to Seattle if you get homesick.
Multisignature transactions solve the "annnd it's gone" due to hacked merchants/exchanges. The rate may be 3 times higher but bitcoin is almost 1/8th as old as the credit card system. Losing $18 billion a year is not a good sign for a system of such age. At least bitcoin can and has improved and will continue to improve.

Yes, I noticed you failed to address the 13.1 million people a year who have their lives ruined because they had their identity stolen.
3 ways CIOs can embrace disruptive technologies without ignoring legacy IT
Humans: The Next Platform
Remote operators work for flying drones, since those don't have to evade children running onto the road with sub-second reaction times.

For cars there is no way electron-based signal transmission technology can control them with an even marginally acceptable latency.
IMO:
Menus can change often
Good food photography is hard/expensive
Hard to present tastefully/there's a stigma
Overall, there's no demand from customers for pictures/limited utility over text descriptions
My guess is that the answers will follow in this vein -- the huge rare success stories, "household names" (at least to us?) are the prime (only?) examples.
What kind of odd browser do you use that results in all of your comments end up with manual line breaks after 30 characters?
Kindergarten isn't day care. Kindertagesstätte (or KiTa for short) are day care. Kindergarten is equivalent to pre-school.
Almost Every Smartphone and Tablet Browses the Web in Portrait Mode
Up to a point. Fork+exec is a very blunt instrument; sshd can piggyback on the unix security model because every ssh connection belongs to a user with a local user account and (usually) has the authority to do everything that that local user account may do. That wouldn't be true for a webserver.

Of course ultimately you can Greenspun any language to do what any other language can. But in practice a language where the vocabulary already exists - where you have higher-kinded types and existing generic libraries for handling when a value has a particular "context" - makes it much more practical.
I was employee, like, #1,000 or so for NetSuite -- hired as a QA engineer and eventually moved over to development. I was hired I think about two years before it went public, and stayed for six years overall.

My equity came out to about $300k. Which I know does not hit the thresholds that you put in the post, but clearly many of my coworkers who came in earlier and were more senior -- but still not founders nor part of the founding team -- did a lot better.

EDIT: I should point out $300k was more or less actual. If I had been really good at selling at the top of the market, it would've been more like $400k. I suppose that overall it might end up being more or less, I still have a few tens of thousands in stock, but most of it ended up being the down payment on my house. The $300k was after buying into the stock (since I wasn't a super-early employee, many of my options cost like 10-25% of the then-market-value to buy), and after some taxes? But not all? AMT and prepayment of some taxes and stuff and my overall lack of financial discipline made it really hard for me to figure out how much tax I owed specifically on the stock.

Another EDIT: Something else to point out was that at NetSuite, this was NOT principally from my initial grant at hire. NetSuite gave new grants of stock every year with ones yearly review, and those grants were pretty generous. Everything was on the same five year vest with a one-year cliff, so I got my entire year 1 and year 2 grants and then fractions of my remaining years. The year 1 grant was at the lowest rate to buy in, but that wasn't hugely important. I would guess that about 1/3rd of the stock that I eventually realized came from my year 1 grant. I've never been sure if that's common practice or not with other companies, and if someone could shed some light on that, it'd be awesome.
No longer :)
Show HN: Unimersiv – A platform to learn through virtual reality
Hello HN,

Since the first time I used my Oculus DK2, I've been convinced that virtual reality could disrupt education as we know it and some amazing experiences like Apollo 11 (first kickstarter I back) just proved that...

That's why I'm building Unimersiv, a platform dedicated to virtual reality courses on which VR developers will be able to share and sell their educational content. I envision a world where people will be able to learn anything faster (sports, sciences, history...) through their VR headset.

I would love to know what you think about this idea, is VR educational content something you appreciate? As a developer, would you publish/sell your content on Unimersiv? (btw, don't hesitate to contact me if you are currently working on a VR courses).

Thanks!
Musk is pretty self-serving here. He writes about how advanced AI will "destroy humanity" to keep interest in manned space and to discredit robot and science missions. Now he's cheerleading automotive AI because Tesla wants to sell it.

I really am starting to see him as an empty suit. He just does PR for his companies' current projects. That's fine, but he's not a visionary. He's salesman. I can't wait for his celebrity to wind down. Its more than a bit over the top now. Tesla seems like a failure to launch an affordable electric or an electric with realistic range at a sane pricepoint. SpaceX is doing well, but LEO theatrics are boring considering the SLS is geared to take us way past that.

I wish he'd buy into causes that don't personally enrich him once in a while. I'd love to see someone of his caliber stump for a radio telescope on the far side of the moon or on replacing cars with more efficient tram systems powered by electric wires instead of the unsolved and perhaps unsolvable problem of batteries that can compete with the convienance of gasoline.
You're right but I'm a software guy so you should never let me at hardware :)
Link: http://unimersiv.com
One problem with German taxis is that they often don't accept credit card. So you need cash.

If Uber isn't changing that, then it's not helping either.
There's probably a catch - a built-in app store where MS can earn via commission on applications, a subscription model for future updates or basic features, that kinda thing.

If they did some better marketing (like Google manages to), they could call it 'combating botnets' or something.
> Now how did this play out in the US?

Similarly. Though we have few relevant national regulations, so we continue to read headlines about Uber being banned or unbanned in seemingly random states and cities, for basically the same reason as Germany's decision.
Another fantastic game. I've sunk a lot of hours into that one.
I'm pretty sure the number of taxi licenses are not limited in germany.
I suppose that depends on whether the customer thinks they're getting $500/mo of value out of the product :) If they don't, I certainly wouldn't fault them for not buying the product.
If a post on Python has more than a handful of comments, the whitespace discussion almost inevitably comes up, in my experience.
Might be just me not being an IT guy, but from that copy I'm not sure how it differs from a traditional file server with cifs/whatever shares like most businesses already have.
Latency doesn't matter. What matter is the final outcome. Better skill, software, data etc can compensate that.
Honestly I haven't seen anyone in this industry get any significant money, outside of investors and owners, since the dotcom days. Back then I knew quite a few programmers that made a killing and still have money today from that era.

Large money comes from ownership and the inherent risk. No one will ever give you enough money to go away completely as an employee. Can you make a little scratch? Of course. This industry pays very well. But if you want 500k and up in lump sums? Being an employee is never going to make it happen imho.

And just for the record equity is not ownership. Go read up about all the maneuvers businesses can and will take to screw you out of your shares and you'll open your eyes. Businessmen don't give away anything they don't have to. Just a reality. If you can navigate that minefield you may one day be the outlier and get rich. But more likely you'll be fighting in court for years only to learn that well, you should've read the fine print.

Don't get duped out here guys. Don't do this to get rich. Do this because you want to do it and everything else, with hard work, will fall into place.
The UK's new digital tax system will need machine learning, streaming analytics
> A memory safe language alone isn't enough. Look at Java. Isn't that supposed to be a memory safe language? And yet it's constantly got security issues.

Has it? I can't remember the last time I saw a security advisory for Tomcat or Jetty (there are some but they're rare), in stark contrast to Apache or Nginx.
Do you believe in talent or hard work? (Growth vs. Fixed mindset)
The reason is (probably) simply avoiding having bored passengers.

You can cringe and say that people ought to be able to withstand a 15 minute ride without needing a dopamine hit, but if you're making a business out of it, providing Wifi is a cheap way of increasing customer happiness and loyalty.
Sounds like you'll make a great husband some day
I always go for salary first, equity second. So far, after half a dozen start-ups, I haven't regretted that strategy.
I really liked this project and it inspired me to write something similar in OCaml. If you are interested the link is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9226093
Here are some facts and figures about driving versus flying for travel safety per passenger mile over a time period carefully measured by official statistics. "In absolute numbers, driving is more dangerous, with more than 5 million accidents compared to 20 accidents in flying. A more direct comparison per 100 million miles pits driving's 1.27 fatalities and 80 injuries against flying's lack of deaths and almost no injuries, which again shows air travel to be safer."[1] I thought everybody knew that airline travel is by far the safest form of travel.[2]

The basic issue about self-driving cars is that setting the standard of performance at "better than most human drivers most of the time" is a moderately low technical bar to clear, but would still result in a HUGE reduction of deaths, injuries, and damage to vehicles and roadside property. But I'm still not sure how soon self-driving cars will be good enough to drive on snowy roads (Google's self-driving cars have never been tested in snowy conditions, as of the last time I checked) or even in rain.[3] The story posted today is more nuanced than a story posted yesterday about Elon Musk's predictions, and reports, "He said he believed that we're still 20 years out from the roads being full of autonomous cars."

[1] http://traveltips.usatoday.com/air-travel-safer-car-travel-1...

[2] http://www.businessinsider.com/flying-is-still-the-safest-wa...

[3] http://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/adva...
Do you mean non-RT apps? Microsoft has two app stores already, one for phone and one for tablet/desktop.
Rust is not "runtime free". Rust needs a "minimal runtime", as stated on the project home page. You need at least a memory allocator. Even C programs are usually linked to a runtime library (like glibc).
I kinda suspect most taxi dispatchers in Germany will speak English.

Also if you have an app then you will have Internet and could just google taxi + city name
Is there any reason why you don't want to meet? People meet people who they do business with all the time.

The only issue to keep yourself aware of is whether their human contact expectations (support, meetings, custom development) match the price they are willing to pay.
Show HN: Garlic: A Chrome extension to keep the time vampires away
LaTeX Is Dead (Long Live LaTeX): On Digital Typesetting
So you think people should be able to drive around on the roads without valid insurance?
Not faulting your decision making process, but have you kept track of the startups you declined offers from?

I would be curious if that paradigm changes in 10 years, not that I will remember to ask you :D
Lecture Slides: An Introduction to the C++ Programming Language
That's probably very reassuring.

I personally don't share this belief that openssl is bad (in fact, for PHP developers, openssl is preferable to libmcrypt which has been abandoned since 2007), I just know it's a common sentiment of infosec people. :)
CK2 is made by a totally different developer.
You mean ctrl-a for beginning-of-line?
Unfortunate. Framing these recent events as "race relations" just works to divide us on the issue of unaccountable police.
As a fairly late hire at Twitch, my equity is somewhere between $500k and $1m.
The Other Suez Canal: On the Internet Infrastructure
A post about this happened to cross /r/all this morning:

http://www.reddit.com/r/CitiesSkylines/comments/2zfx70/if_yo...
Chrome has access to USB and its own code to handle U2F devices. This would require your SSH client to have the same capabilities.

This might work well on Linux/BSD machines, but likely not on OSX due to stagnant unix utility updates and Windows because... well, not a real Unix. Would probably require a heavy wrapper around Putty. Not sure if cygwin and friends would ever work either.
I've had the same Dell for the past 5 years, an XPS 17. I've had a few problems with it:
- dead hard drives (after 3.75 and 4.5 years) which I don't find too bad, as they have both been used heavily.
- dead power circuit board
- another internal board where some things got desoldered as it had a bout of high fever for a while

For all of these I had the next day on site support, and a tech came over and fixed stuff every time with no problems. Now that I'm switching to a MacBook, I'm actually kinda sad to be potentially parting with the computer while it's getting fixed.
Dale – A GC-less S-expression system programming language
We personally use JIRA with Bitbucket to handle our issues.
You sure there is no difference between passenger and paying passenger?