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What do you think about the effects biohacking will have on the diversification of people? Will we further isolate ourselves based on our interests? If I want to be smart and enjoy solving problems I will take nootropics while many also enjoy being strong and will supplement their selves with vitamins and whey. Biohacking is already a reality. Bud do we want to live in such a society?
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What are the examples of usage of PostgreSQL Foreign Data Wrappers?
> I dunno it looks to me like they've just defined nil to be equal to null/empty, which is not exactly the same.

But it is how nil is defined in SICP:

'The value of nil, used to terminate the chain of pairs, can be thought of as a sequence of no elements, the empty list. The word nil is a contraction of the Latin word nihil, which means "nothing."' -- http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-15.html...

And then in a footnote to that paragraph:

"It's remarkable how much energy in the standardization of Lisp dialects has been dissipated in arguments that are literally over nothing: Should nil be an ordinary name? Should the value of nil be a symbol? Should it be a list? Should it be a pair? In Scheme, nil is an ordinary name, which we use in this section as a variable whose value is the end-of-list marker (just as true is an ordinary variable that has a true value). Other dialects of Lisp, including Common Lisp, treat nil as a special symbol. The authors of this book, who have endured too many language standardization brawls, would like to avoid the entire issue. Once we have introduced quotation in section 2.3, we will denote the empty list as '() and dispense with the variable nil entirely." -- http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-15.html...
Shuddle Raises $9.6M for Its Uber-Style Service for Kids and Seniors
I actually like JavaScript, and weak typing is one of the reasons.
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> Most of all, however, there's a limited number of taxi medallions.

This is not generally true; it depends on the municipality.

Berlin, for example, does not limit the number of taxi licenses it hands out.

In any event, the specific service that Uber offers is regulated as a kind of limo-for-hire service and not subject to medallion quotas anywhere in Germany. As long as your drivers qualify (properly insured and licensed), you're good to go. Of course, there are existing services that already do that, and they're none to happy that Uber tries to skirt the regulations that they are subject to.

And because these regulations mostly just exist to ensure the safety of passengers (having a license, physical and mental fitness, insurance, cars being roadworthy) and basic quality (knowledge test), lots of Germans aren't particularly sympathetic towards Uber, as the only way they can be cheaper than companies that have been offering the exact same service for decades is by skimping on safety or quality. Taxi apps existed in Germany before Uber. And, as I explained above, it's not to avoid a quota, either, because there is no such quota for this kind of service.
So?

YC can have founder interests at heart and still give out VC biased advice because of the type of startup they encourage. The two aren't mutually exclusive.
Hey all.

We just opened up Sense to the public. Happy to answer any questions you may have about Sense and building a modern data science platform.

Tristan
An ad tech company with offices in New York and Colorado made a successful exit via an acquisition by AppNexus.
Delayed Gratification magazine suits my time sched http://www.slow-journalism.com/

Quarterly that covers the news of the last 3mos after all the misinformation peddled by 24/7 news cycle has run it's course. I also like Stallman's political notes as they are brief and he has an interesting perspective sometimes

https://www.stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html
He made that clarification because he was met with unexpectedly large audience which was critical of his statements.

He was quite obviously supporting future legislation against humans driving cars:

> In fact, in the distant future, I think it's probably going to be... people may outlaw driving cars, because it's too dangerous.

> You can't have a person driving a two-ton death machine.
I am so sick of articles like this which make some broad moral judgement about the new tech economy. This one is even worse than most because the author doesn't even attempt to give some statistical merit to his argument. Instead he takes the lazy route of quoting some quasi-anecdotal BS about how all the young millennials are making their way to SV to develop the next big app as if they're the Oakies of the dustbowl heading west to pick oranges.

The fact is, tech has fundamentally restructured the labor market. Some classes of people will do well, and some will lose out. It is not good or evil. What will really determine whether we win out as a society will be how we invest in things like education and infrastructure. Arguments that attempt to write off tech full cloth as evil are useless, as are the pollyanas who think tech will solve everything.
You have to remember now, that they are making money for each game bought in the MSoft Market place. So I think that has probably helped a bit with this move.
That title is horrible. Where does Silicon Valley send any message to any generation?
In real life, I observe both, often simultaneously. The far left or right lane can back up a very long way as everybody tries for the same turn. Oblivious or selfish people bypass it all and try to change lanes at the last second, often with sudden braking and occasional bent metal because the target lane is full and stopped.
Am I the only what who came away thinking these must have been the most leading questions every written in a poll?
It's a cute joke, but I feel that the US gets an unfair rap around languages. I know for a fact that plenty of people the UK (where I'm from) declare their hopelessness with foreign languages with a good deal of ... I don't know ... pride? humour? There's always going to be a number of talented bilingual folks there, but they're in the minority. I'd be interested to see how the UK and the US compare, I wouldn't be surprised if the US had a greater proportion of bilingual people.
Ask HN: Employee experiences after acquisition
I'm lead engineer in a 12 person start-up with a novel product in niche area. It's a great company and strong team but with, in my opinion, poor equity distribution. Being investor backed means an exit will have to occur at some point and frankly I'd see that as a bad thing. I'd be interested in hearing from anyone who has been through an exit and didn't cash out. Did the team stay together or did it end there? Did you follow the product to it's new owner or were you cast aside?
That statistic is orders of magnitude off. There are 30,000 driving fatalities per year. At the ratio you stated the number of miles driven per person per year would be absurd.
I had something similar happen to me after I put my brand new MBP in my bag on a really cold day. Went away after I cleaned it with a microfiber.

Not exactly confidence inspiring.
I was thinking that server side it was a PAM module, but client side it was not... for some bizarre reason.

So yeah, I suppose if your platform supports PAM this is feasible.
I'm curious what sources others get their news from and how you "cut through the clutter" so to speak. Mine are: BostInno, Abnormal Returns (curates investing/VC/startup/economy links), selected webdev subreddits, hacker news. I imagine this is fairly typical for someone on HN, but maybe not.

Also, does anyone know of a long time horizon news company that primarily provides 3-5 year updates on large macro topics? Actually maybe that's just called "a book"
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One always has to look at the whole person to understand whether he performs relatively well or not. The guy I was talking about is extremely risk averse. That makes steep careers quite difficult. But all in all, he's probably a happy person. Another example: MENSA says I'm way inside the top 1% when it comes to IQ tests (I didn't want to say 'intelligence'). I don't think I'm in the top 1% most successful people in my current environment, but that's all right as I'm coming from a poor village from a postcommunist country, and everything that comes with it (lack of good education, etc.). So compared to that, I'm doing all right, but naturally it's very difficult to catch up with people who could go to Stanford or Oxford. Not because it's difficult to learn the 'hard science stuff' -- I interviewed many Oxbridge guys and they're not that better than the others when it comes to hard tech/science knowledge. However, they're much better in social skills, self-confidence, usually have better network, family connections, etc. And those things matter a lot.

And I'm a big believer of luck and randomness. Since I've got a kid I wonder how do we even survive, life is so risky, starting from the birth itself.

Anyway, I think perspective gives you more happiness. At least it did for me.
Shucks, I had just started working on something very similar as a project! Introducing cooking to people who wouldn't otherwise consider it reasonable or possible for their lifestyle is a fantastic thing to strive for and I wish you all the best.
This has been done before. An R Gnumeric plugin is a thing, and there's been Excel plugins before as well.

I personally use R Studio and see no reason why I'd prefer a spreadsheet, R Studio does let you see a table representation of data anyway, and can very easily import spreadsheets and manipulate them.
Ya, it's still an infant. We're adding tagging, but it will be a couple of weeks
Money to pay the artists listened to by free users needs to come from somewhere. I don't think artists and rightsholders are willing to accept a lower per-play revenue from free users. Which means I doubt that the ad revenue is enough to support the free accounts without subsidy from paid users. (The ad revenue isn't nothing, and the ads helps encourage conversion to paid user, so they're not without value to Spotify, but I suspect actual paying customers are worth more than free users even though they stream more.) So if you take these two assumptions:

* A stream from a free user pays the same as a stream from a paid user, and

* Paid users bring in more than free users

I don't think Vulf's idea works.
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Spotify has been villified since the beginning, and I certainly want a more fair system to exist for artists.

That said, has there EVER been a business model in the US that was profitable for artists? I don't think there was ever money in music for artists from album sales.

The cost of distributing and promoting music is just more expensive than making an album.
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Founder here. Happy to answer questions about what we're doing!
This is almost OK. Wait until you have twin boys, like me. They are 20 months now, grown at home, no day care ( KiTa as in Germany ;Kindergarden is later on).

They don't speak, but very few words with a meaning ( mama, papa, apa ). But! Here it comes: they speak between them and communicate using a almost invented language. The language is so strange, because is based on using the same word ( twin 1 uses 'bahdi', twin 2 'budji' - approx phonetic rendering), repeatedly but changing tonality, like in cantonese. It's really amazing to see how they can talk each other and coordinate while playing for hours using this language, me and my wife feel we are completly left out :).
"I think about the rock itself, where it came from, how it was formed, how old it is, and it makes me really happy"

While you're thinking, think about how it was mined and trafficked, and try to estimate the amount of blood it took to get it on your ring... It's maybe none, but you'll never know for sure...

A Rolex at least is made by skilled and respected craftsmen, rough diamonds are often the product of war and slavery...
This is the space things like solidworks EPDM are trying to service.
When I tested Emit Cloud at work the other week, the OS X client seg. faulted.
I was a little sad to learn that because KSP's orbital model uses conic sections, it's not physically accurate enough to model things like Lagrange points.

Then I remembered that it's still accurate enough to be awesome and stopped worrying about it. :)
I'm betting that people like Wheeler where the same ones who were crying out that the industrial revolution would bring only suffering and mass unemployment to most of society.
I'm not sure, but I have a suspicion that this might open up a can of worms about artists not wanting their music to be available for free. This way, no matter whether the user is paying or not, the artist gets paid for every time his song is played. The proposed alternative, however, might create an incentive for "paid-only" music, since some distributors want guaranteed monetization.
Dropping 10% is hardly a "plummet" for a volatile speculative asset.
For me it's at least 50/50. Maybe not even--the links really are just important as they create discussion on a given topic.

I really, really enjoy the comments on this site.
You have raised a good point about exemption, but how can a small local UK corporation setup same structure to siphon profits to Bermuda? For example, a small local architect running consultancy as a corporation.
I am American and my wife is Cambodian. We live in a Cambodian neighborhood in the United States. We have a daughter, born in Cambodia, who is now 4. I speak to her in English and her mother (and everyone else in the neighborhood) speaks to her in Cambodian. Until she started preschool last September, virtually everyone except myself talked to her in Cambodian.

Not too long ago, she asked me why some person (I think it was a waiter at a restaurant) spoke English and not Cambodian. For her, everyone spoke Cambodian, and then some of them also spoke English. I tried to explain that in America, most people actually speak English and not Cambodian. After that explanation, she kept asking "is this place America?" everywhere we went for a few days.
Can you give an example re why you like JavaScript's weak typing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_and_weak_typing#Definiti...)?

Or do you mean dynamic typing?
Are there any open-source equivalents to AeroFS, or Dropbox for that matter? Could work well for my work, but we'd need to tinker with it.
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If someone started a service that did exactly this, would artists take their music off spotify and onto this new service?

Would the users follow?
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I stopped watching the news about a year ago. I have only benefited. My mood is much better (due to not constantly hearing about horrible goings on), and I have more free time.

I have not found that I am out of the loop on anything relevant to my life. I still follow blogs and news sites (and of course, Hacker News). And I still feel that I am aware of important world events such as what is going on in Brazil right now.

Knowledge is power, but useless knowledge is a waste of mental capacity.
Yes, again above the high end of that. Employee ~65 of a startup that raised very little money and IPO'd for over $1BN (over ten years ago now though ... )
Yes, or throw it into the air and let the prevailing winds take it over as rainclouds.
The problem is that you're not a visionary if you're selling yesterdays solutions just sexed up a bit. An electric car is like selling a robotic horse. Urban areas need public trans solutions, not more cars.

SpaceX's offerings are underwhelming unless your goal is to stick to LEO forever.

The problem is, people just keep thinking of yesterdays problems (better cars, more LEO theatrics) and think better versions of that is "visionary." Its not. Its practically archaic. His flip-flopping on AI just cements his reputation as marketing entity who only exists to provide PR for his companies, some of which are just trying to solve yeterday's problems instead of todays.
The comparisons I've seen are usually on a person-mile basis. Commercial aviation can move more people a further distance with fewer fatalities.
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Ask HN: Should I practice competitive programming and stop doing side projects
I am a junior undergrad studying CS at one of the top universities. I have co founded a company, participated in Google Summer of Code and done interesting projects (some of which even won prizes).

I applied to some companies like Dropbox, Google, Palantir and Facebook for a summer internship but got rejected from them at some stage in the interview process (even after reaching the host matching stage for Google). I see my friends who were able to get those internships inspite of having almost no software development experience just because they are good at competitive programming and wonder if this is all that companies care about? Should I stop building stuff and improve my competitive programming skills if I plan to get a job after graduating?
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FluxThis:Super-opinionated, yell-at-you-for-everything, immutable Flux framework
Was Van Gogh one to challenge the system for a buck?

Did Kafka put pen to paper for his love of money?
I just watched you blame recruiter spam on your gender and you think the blame lies in all the talk online about gender inequality?

The blame lies squarely with you.
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Automobile-related deaths are the number one killer of healthy adults in the US, and the number one killer, period, of Americans between the ages of 5 and 34. (sources: http://www.ted.com/talks/jeff_speck_the_walkable_city and http://www.cdc.gov/injury/overview/data.html respectively). They're not insignificant, especially when you look at their value in terms of dollars per life saved for prevention, or (even moreso) years of life lost per death, as automobile deaths disproportionately affect young people, as compared to, e.g., stroke.

Also, I have no idea why you exclude alcohol- and drug-related deaths from "true" automobile deaths. Humans are fallible. They get tired, get distracted, see poorly at night, misjudge speed, and make stupid decisions like texting while driving, and, yes, drinking and driving. Mitigating that fallibility is the entire value proposition of the self-driving car. Deaths due to drunk driving are absolutely among those that self-driving car advocates aim to prevent.
Speaking as a "millenial": that was painfully stupid and irritating to read.

Look: I don't want "jobs", not as an abstract commodity produced because someone decided everyone has to have a job, and that's that. I want a job that matches my skillset (it's reasonably good), compensates me well, and lets me actually contribute to human progress. If human progress has advanced so far that even someone with my skills is mostly unnecessary, I want a means of supplying for myself that minimizes the personal burden of labor on other people (note: not robots, not corporations, people), and enables me to get on with my life and have fun -- there's more to the world than careerism.

Yes, the sharing economy has been built on the extreme precarity of its workers. Yes, technology destroys "jobs". But overall, the problem here is not technology: it's capitalism.
The desktop Windows Store is so bad, it hardly counts as a real app store. You're more likely to install a scam than the app you want.
The current title on HN states that Mandrill was hacked. The post pretty clearly states that they weren't hacked but unsuccessful attempts at a hack were made.
Thank you for this interesting piece of Information. Will definitely try Mailbird after reading this.
Bangladesh is a member of the Unicode Consortium. Why haven't they ensured that Bengali is well supported? The Unicode Consortium's job isn't to support every language in the world; it's to coordinate between the multitude of different parties who do the actual work to ensure that they produce can coexist nicely.
I'd say it's a bit cheap. I'd expect something like this to start out at $50-60 at initial release.

EA is still selling Sim City 4 for $20, despite it being old enough to be in middle school by now.
Woah! We're playing the Java 1.0 card??? Java is my language of choice most of the time so I'm not hating, but seriously, Java 1.0?

I think you might be nitpicking... JavaScript is perfectly usable as is. They even ship a js interpreter with OpenJDK since 1.6... why bother if Java is so much better and easier to use? And also conflating a bug in Chrome with a language deficiency seems fallacious.
Nothing new here, move along.

But it's a good primer if you've never read up on this stuff before.
I put on the SimCity 4/5 soundtrack in the background after I got tired of the C:S music, which happened pretty quickly. Those two soundtracks are on Spotify, if you can believe it. SC2k also had a fantastic soundtrack (midi, as far as I can recall), I'm sure it's somewhere on the net.

The graphical art style in C:S is pretty neat, overall. There's a mod in progress that'll bring night views. But I also noticed a lack of charm -- I can't quite grasp why that is. It's still a worthy successor to SC4, at last.
So except for the uncomfortable basically the same in Germany.
Right. The news that actually has an impact on the world is limited and usually accessible through non-news mediums (this site, Reddit, etc.). In fact, mainstream media often doesn't cover the news that really impacts you (the net-neutrality debate had pitiful coverage).

On the other hand, Obama not saluting some marines or Michel Bachmann saying some dumb thing has no real impact on the world, mine or others.
How about putting in that effort for the 10 languages with over 100 million native speakers?
Totally agree. API for noisy neighbours has to exist.
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.

That's an interesting concern – I suppose we end up, like with most issues of public policy, trying to draw a balance. I imagine it's much like gun control: while most gun owners are going to be responsible, that damage that can be caused by those who aren't means that many jurisdictions prefer to restrict firearm ownership.

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.

Sure, and there's good reason for that. The privacy issue is orthogonal and must be set to one side (though it's legitimate).

How would you feel about a move to regulate non-autonomous vehicle ownership more closely? Driver licensing could become much more rigorous, for example. Combined with the essential outlawing of non-autonomous vehicles in urban centres (almost inevitable in the long run), that would ideally assuage most safety concerns while still allowing people the freedom to drive.
The first versions of automated cars already exist. Mercedes, BMW, and Audi have versions of their cars that maintain a safe distance from the cars in front of you. Mercedes also has a system which will automatically steer the car to keep it in a lane for you. Prius and Lexus have cars that'll automatically parallel park themselves.
SCO is back and continuing their lawsuit against IBM
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I know. But my comment was directed at OP, who seems pretty unfamiliar with JS, and would more likely know what ES6 is. Also, I didn't want to write "2015" twice.