skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A look inside Globalstar’s plan to build an exclusive nationwide Wi-Fi network
HBO's 'Silicon Valley': First Look at Season 2
> "You take ~40% of my money every year. And you took too much this year. Give me a little back, please?"

In my experience, most people are trying to get the biggest refund possible, rather than minimizing the amount they under/overpay.
I come from a Windows background. I've been having a need to do more C programs lately, and I have generally been trying to migrate more towards platform-agnostic configurations. I had started looking at CMake under the promise of a cross-platform build system, but now I see a lot of non-specific complaints about it. Is there something specific you can articulate that is wrong with CMake, and what alternative is there for someone who A) wants to build cross-platform, but B) with as native of tools as possible for those platforms?

In other words, I'd rather not build with GCC on Windows.
The more I think about it, the more I agree with you. That was pretty stupid of me. Can't get emotions get in the way of reason.
I work from home some days and I travel to work at 3-Zone times and back from work after 6:30pm which is 1-Zone times. Would a monthly pass be cheaper for me?

EDIT: I knew the answer but just to be sure I double checked. The cost of the 3 zone monthly pass would be equal to 21 days of travel a week on the 1/3 zone book combo. Since I work a few days from home it's not worth my while. Compass will not change this. I see it as another example of inflexibility since in theory Compass could automatically give me a better rate for this much travel.
Inside Look at Google's Android Auto in Action
> only covers ride-sharing

That's Uber-speak for driving an Uber.
Funny, when I attempted this Go Challenge #1 I had the exact same reaction, and halfway through ended up doing a solution in Elixir (which compiles to the Erlang VM) before finishing the Go one.

I think the the particular problem (which by the way was super fun, great work @mattetti!) was really well suited for pattern matching, so like OP I gravitated towards those tools.

I had been keeping my solution private until the contest was over on the 28th, but for sake of comparison of Elixir/Erlang idiomatic code (which should be pretty similar), I'll make my repo public now too (which also contains my Go solution):

https://github.com/mroth/golang-challenge-1

BTW, if you enjoy playing around with reverse engineering, I recommend NOT looking at any of these solutions, and doing the challenge yourself first (in whatever language you want). It was amongst the best of the "code challenge exercises" I've attempted.
SpaceX continues to be a PR machine. This news comes barely 24 hours after a significant delay due to a helium tank problem - http://spaceflightnow.com/2015/03/17/spacex-puts-off-next-fa....

I'm not saying SpaceX has a fundamental problem, I just find it interesting how obvious PR planted articles are.
Related,
AI Quid Raises $39M
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9233388
It worked for the US and Europe for 100 years of peace after Napoleon - there were no passports and there was free movement of labor. Were they all insane? Were they less sane than we are now, x-raying people before they pass a virtual line on a map?
Whither the Section 215 Reauthorization Debate? (There Is None.)
The Shuttle pushed the envelope in a dozen different ways and always operated right on the edge, which made it incredibly complicated and caused it to require extensive refurbishment after each flight.

If you look at costs relative to constructing new launchers, reusing the Shuttle was quite cost effective. Cost per launch was in the neighborhood of $500 million, while the cost of building a new orbiter was in the neighborhood of $2 billion. The trouble was just that the system was so expensive that even the reused cost was really high compared to expendables.

None of that applies to Falcon. It's a conservative system and it's already one of the cheapest out there without any reuse. If they match the Shuttle on cost reduction (launching a reused vehicle costs 25% of the original) then they'll have substantially dropped the cost of getting things into orbit, because they're starting at ~$60 million per vehicle, instead of billions.
http://www.januscam.com/index.php/news/125-cab/taxi-security...

http://www.purdueexponent.org/city_state/article_8748c000-a1...

Faking Uber would be easier. Admittedly, iirc, these people were scammed relatively easily and at less of a threshold than pretending to be an Uber drive would require.
I think you might be confusing me with someone else, but I agree that there are tradeoffs.

I think RDS is great until the needs are extreme enough to require a full-time sysadmin or DBA. Nowadays, though, that means you're dealing with quite a lot of traffic (or just an edge case in terms of your read/write ratios or latency requirements).
Here is a Julia version for anyone who is interested (print's to stdout instead of passing a struct though).

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/23bbdf1f5077c7669844
Two suggestions:

* Optimize the images in your homepage, they load extremely slow

* Add caching! I clicked on FAQ and it took around 2 seconds to load

Otherwise, I like your homepage.
Given the long-time of stagnant situation of space exploration, it really makes sense to PR like this. Otherwise SpaceX is already dead.
Amazon Prime Now Expands: One-Hour Delivery in Baltimore and Miami
This is an interesting proposition, and one which I'm sure has been thought about and considered by the labels. However, I think people who think this would be better for indie artists are misguided.

The reason this change would very likely not benefit indie artists is simple:

People who listen to more music are more likely to have a high proportion of their music listening being "indie" than those people listening to less.

Pdpi's example explains very nicely how this would benefit pop artists over indie.

Does this system have other benefits?

Yes, a wonderful inadvertent thing you get for free is eliminating fraud listening. People would be unable to create accounts to listen to one artist on repeat all month long and laugh six months later when the checks come in (see the Vulfpeck story for those unfamiliar)

Would some indie artists benefit from the change?

Yes, of course some artists wouldbenefit, that's pretty much inevitable under any calculation methodology change.

None of this addresses the issue of time spent listening. Classical and Jazz payouts will consistently under-index people's time spent listening simply because the track recordings are so much longer than the average recording length. A time spent listening payout system would be a huge improvement, but then you can imagine people trying to manipulate this (throwing 25 minutes of silence on the last track of the album anyone?). Smoke and mirrors...
Well at least on iOS the video requires a tap to play and then promptly goes fullscreen (requiring another two taps to dismiss)
In the past they've posted advisories in their "Security & Vulnerabilities" forum[1], but I don't see one for this particular issue yet.

[1]: https://community.rackspace.com/general/f/53
Ironclad Apps from MSR:

https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi14/technical-sessions/...
They have similar coverage in Canada (http://blog.uber.com/CanadaXSafety).

Why can't they do the same thing in France?
http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/15/adblock-plus-chrome/
We still use Java, but we package and ship our own lightweight JDK, so that we do not depend on system Java installations.

The JDK packager is open source, you can check it our on our github:

https://github.com/aerofs/openjdk-trim
Appreciate the feedback on the design aspects. I agree that the Download page can be enhanced dramatically, maybe even organized differently vs. showing it in accordion format. I will keep an eye on these design aspects.
Great news yes, but there are other states that are still big problems.

Among them, one that the media appears to not even know about: New Mexico (maybe they don't realize it's a state).

In NM, the NMADA (New Mexico Automobile Dealers Association) has basically crafted the laws such that no manufacturer can have a single store OR service center anywhere in the state. All have to be franchises. Because, you know, we have to protect the dealer franchises, otherwise we might have better consumer choice and better consumer experiences and that would be a nightmare.

If one owns a Tesla in New Mexico, and ever needs service, a Ranger has to drive down from Denver. If they're available. If the weather cooperates.

Range anxiety? Meh. RANGER anxiety is a huge problem.

Imagine finding out you could not buy an iPhone or even find a Genius Bar in the State of New Mexico because the franchises selling other mobile phones had bought the legislature and banned iPhone from the state. That's the situation with Tesla. And nobody knows about it, and nobody seems to be doing a damn thing about it.
I'm waiting for an open SSL library implementation in Rust.

A language that statically checks for impossibility of null-pointer references (let alone out-of-bounds access) seems very apt for a critical and intensely-attacked library like this.
If you are buying a new run of the mill car and are not picky about colors/options, you are basically buying a commodity - every new car of the given make and model is just like the next. If you also happen to live in the U.S. near a metro area, chances are that there are a ton of dealerships nearby willing to compete to get their high-value inventory off the lot.

You can turn the tables around quite easily and stress free (and have some fun in the process). Here is a car-shopping tactic I learned in a negotiation class some four years ago, used when shopping for a new car a few months later, and got a significant discount to the original ask. It really works well.

Shop towards the quarter-end. If you can help it, shop as close to the quarter-end as you can. If it's raining - even better. It's incredible what sales guys will do to get one more car out of the lot before quarter-end on a rainy day with no one in the showroom.

Get Consumer Reports Wholesale Price report. This gives you a good approximation for what dealer pays to get the car.

Compile a list of dealerships in 20-50 mile radius. For some brands you can even see their inventory online, which is fantastic.

Call dealers one by one. Be very professional, polite and don’t get emotional. Here is the script -

- I need to buy a new car. I am paying cash and can buy today.

- I am looking for $Make and $Model in $Color and I see you have $N cars like that on the lot. I've checked the Consumer Reports Wholesale Price which lists this vehicle at $X. The additional cost for $Options is $Y, which makes the total cost to dealer to $Z.

- Please call me back and tell me the best price you can offer out the door [1]. Do not include taxes, title, or tags which I will handle on my own.

As you get quotes from the dealers, thank them for their time and inform them of the lowest quote you currently have. They will sure call you back. Be prepared that some dealers will get really pissed and emotional, but just remain professional and polite. There is really no need to lie or waste anyone's time, the process works itself out beautifully. You’ll get a great deal before you even step foot in the dealership.

If you are leasing or financing, it doesn't work as smoothly (more levers to pull), but it is doable. I also don't think it would work as well for high-end brands with fewer dealers around.

[1] This is part of car dealer lingo and for some reason it resonates really well.
I've been working at Quid for the last two and half years. The momentum here is getting really exciting. Let me know if you have any questions! We're (of course) hiring and also just completed a solid round (http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/19/quid-series-d/)!
I was given a test ride in a Hyundai Sonata featuring Android Auto, and got a glimpse into the future of the in-car experience.

There's no question that this is the future of driving. The computer in the dashboard that runs the steering wheel controls and dashboard display will adapt to the driver's smartphone and preferences. A friend's car or a rental car will adapt and operate with an individual's smartphone in exactly the same way as the driver's own car.

Seeing the operation of either the Pioneer after-market head unit or the integrated Hyundai Sonata unit will make every smartphone-owning driver want one. This integration will become a differentiating factor that will determine the car that buyers choose to buy.
A graph of world economic growth since the invention of fire shows anything but diminishing returns however. If rent-seeking behaviour is increasing, it's because the pie is - at least on a global level - growing at an accelerating rate.

Elites always have and always will seek to take disproportionate shares of that wealth because they can, and because regimes, legal norms and competition encourage them to do so rather than because creating wealth doesn't pay. Much of postmodern finance is undoubtedly rent seeking, but so were the fights over ownership of natural resources and sovereign-granted monopolies of earlier generations, and the local nobility and religious bodies taking the surplus agricultural produce before that.
> Rents are not always bad. Protections for intellectual property make sense not in spite of the rents they generate, but rather because of them. A patent, after all, is a temporary monopoly. These monopoly rents give incentives for innovation and allow innovators to cover the costs of research and development.

This is a weird way to talk about IP and rent. Is profit from IP necessarily rent? The problem is that "rent" is defined as "profits earned above what would be earned in a competitive market," but "competitive market" isn't well-defined until you define a system of rights (namely property rights). Markets are just systems of trade, and "trade" is the exchange of ownership.

Thus, an action which most of us believe constitutes a violation of property rights (e.g. I buy a laptop and someone takes it from a cafe without my permission and then sells it to a third party) is not "trade in a competitive market." So is an IP right a legitimate instance of ownership? Many people (and most Western legal systems) consider it to be so. There are also people who don't consider it to be so, pointing out differences between physical property and intellectual property. And, to be clear, there are people who don't even accept certain aspects of well-accepted physical property rights.
I sincerely hope you are joking here.
Tesla's Model S will add self-driving 'autopilot' mode in three months
US equity markets now use base 95 arithmetic for the 86.4B ms in a day
What do you think about bkper?
I'm a co-founder & CTO of bkper (A bookkeeping platform with developers API) and would love to have feedback on that.
Heh — I actually have never met the man. Someday...

We're also working on making space travel free and open too.

First cohort analysis, next... space travel.
I think you are giving way to much credit to "Besti flokkurinn". Right after the financial collapse there was a cry for change in the political landscape in Icelend and an upsurge in new political parties, some of which where able to get some foothold. People blamed the "old block" for running the country to the ground and it kind of culminating in the people voting for a "joke-party" since most other politicians and parties could be regarded as jokes as well. IMO "Besti flokkurinn" was a symptom and not the cause. Recent events and allegations of corruption are giving new wind to the idea of switching things up and creating a new political scene in Iceland and the Pirate Party are indeed enjoying the benefits of that for the time being.
A mosquito bite leads to the invention of a pain-free insulin delivery system
It hasn't failed. If you disrupt the balance of power in a tribal state, you're going to have a lot of contingencies making power plays. The U.S. accomplished its short-term goals at least in Iraq and Afghanistan. "Changing hearts and minds" is good propaganda but everyone knows it's eminently unrealistic, and not why we invade countries.
Do it like AAA games that disallow modifications. They ship with a text file that contains every file and its file-hash (crc32, md5, sha1, etc.). And the game executable checks the hash of text file and then checks the hash of files listed in the text file.
This 18F blog post talks about the different types of roles people play on our team: https://18f.gsa.gov/2015/02/25/We-Are-Hiring/ . The application form for the Presidential Innovation Fellowship program also calls out specific skills and domain expertise they're looking for: https://pif.gsa.gov/ . Cheers!
My sci-fi scale projection/evolution of this concept: because the things we do at work aren't intrinsically unenjoyable to begin with, but the way we think about them has the potential to make them feel that way—slow fusion of games that resemble work and work itself produces games that do work, and the distinction between the two is forgotten, a relic from a cruder era.

Seems possible since the activity in games (for all the examples I can think of) has a pretty strong relation to 'work' activities to begin with: puzzle solving, mastering agility-dependent procedures, military stuff, social finesse, exploring etc. —though typically it's more 'primordial work' (exploring, hunting/gathering), which makes sense since atm we'd be putt off by something that resembled contemporary jobs too much. Dislike of one's work is not pervasive in human cultures/history.
Don't forget to have had a >3.5 GPA from a top university!
"After the process of registering in the US was over and our lawyer tried to extend the trademark to the rest of the world, he realised that somebody had registered it already in Italy. We (Tom, David, David, and I) were shocked and demanded explanations. Gianluca reassured us that this was done to protect our collective investment."

I'm surprised it took them two years to figure this out in the first place, but once it was uncovered then that is the point where you say, "Great, you protected it, now transfer it immediately."

Unfortunately, when it wasn't turned over that means this person is not your friend, and they do not have your, or the organization's best interests at heart. So legal action starts right then and there. I know it is hard to discover someone you work with is (or has been) planning to take advantage of you all along, but history has shown that once its clear that is what they are (or were) thinking, there is no "reconciliation" there is only winning and losing.
Really interesting to see a spike in people switching from desktop to mobile and tablet at Christmas - and then switching back afterwards!
Well, OpenBSD is one thing, but LibreSSL is about more than being OpenBSD's SSL implementation, right? If I'm running ubuntu or debian, at what point can I just say "fuck it, uninstalling openssl and switching to libressl as a drop-in replacement" without having to run through hours of hacky shimming or whatever and/or making various compromises at every turn?
Moore’s Curse: There is a dark side to the revolution in electronics
Why Egg Freezing Is an Impossible Choice
Apple Watching Tee
Liked Season 1. And now that I see my lovely TI99 in the promo image...
Sorry to hear you had a bad experience with our support team. Things have gotten much better in this area at our organization. Our average time to respond these days is a few hours.

If you ever decide to give us another shot feel free to ping me, I'd be happy to help you get up and running.
This is over simplified. Research budget measured by amount of money is not a good metric. Money, after all, is just a human's invention to smooth out transaction costs, or to scale the size of a coherent community.

Research budget could be measured by the percentage of thinking time the whole humanity is spending on improving their lives (potentially times how long it takes on research before a solution is found), which probably reflects better the effort we put on something.
Erlang pattern matching over binary data is one of the greatest things about the language. I basically copied the idea wholesale for ocaml-bitstring[1].

[1] https://code.google.com/p/bitstring/
Unfortunately, BPG is heavily patent encumbered so no one can risk shipping it right now.
True. The questions on U.S. border may sometimes be a bit more strange and thorough than in other countries, to the point of obnoxiousness, but there are similarities in the immigration point to many countries. And there are some grounds for why it is like this in the U.S. - after all, U.S. is the top destination for illegal immigration.

The visa and ESTA forms really should get rid of questions about whether I was involved in the crimes of Nazi Germany between 1933 and 1945. Snare me all right, but snare me with something more relevant today.
Here's RedHat's roundup article on which of their supported products are impacted by which CVE:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/1384453

Yay for being on the trailing edge...
Am I the only one that doesn't entirely enjoy gamification of everything? What's wrong with just writing software?
Nice post - Why did you choose to build on Keen IO vs accessing a service like Mixpanel's API?
New Jersey reverses ban on Tesla's direct auto sales
New Tesla software update intends to keep you from running out of juice
Yeah. I and I think that housing workers (from patio-builders to roof-workers) will benefit from "Handibot" portable CNC machines. A CNC Machine custom-cutting all your lumber to the proper shape should make life easier for workers.

Similarly, a self-driving car fleet will require repairs and maintenance, as well as regulators who will ensure safety compliance (whatever those saftey measures are).

In any case, its the industrial revolution again. We're replacing legions of factory workers with machines. Rent-seeking occurred in the late 1800s / early 1900s as children were used to control absurdly powerful machinery (and put into dangerous situations... and paid extremely cheaply for it).

We need to ensure proper economic growth while balancing the needs of future workers... ideally while allowing older workers to transition their skills to the economy somehow.
Swedish muncipality demands $60 000 from 17 year-old boy who hacked their system
They launch to specific orbits desired by the customers. It might well be extremely expensive to move the second stage from these orbits to some common one where could dock.
By my count 12 out of the 14 vulnerabilities in this advisory are due to manual memory management. And past ones were similar.

This is security critical code, being developed and polished for more than a decade, and the only thing protecting the privacy of millions (billions?) of people. If any public project should have gotten this right, it should be this. Yet it can't.

Is this time to admit we simply can't do manual memory management at this level and move to something else? I know the performance boost is tempting, but I think we can't afford the consequences.
I don't know about entrepreneurship but investment is definitely struggling. As a share of GDP it is relatively low right now compared to the long run average (in the U.S). And that is in spite of exceptionally low interest rates.

However, investment as used in GDP calculations comprises more than just business investment. It also includes construction of new homes for instance. So to compare investment to corporate profits, which are indeed relatively high, you would need to know the level of business investment and I don't know where to find that data right now.
Final episode of Season 1 had me and my wife dying of laughter. She said it was probably one of the top 3 funniest things she's seen on any show ever.