skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sometimes these people tire of being constantly intellectually stimulated, or they take a different view on life than the purist view of the pursuit of long term development of humanity through research.

Myself, while I was not an Olympian in Math or Physics (the US fields some very competitive teams full of people who had better resources than me), I consider myself accomplished for what I had & the environment I grew in. I ultimately abandoned academia, in part because of the uncertainty, difficult work, and because my caring for friends won out - attempting to become wealthy enough to support friends in their endeavors, and giving them the resources I never had mattered more to me. I am perfectly happy being a lead developer, mentoring people to success & building products that help people's lives. I have no regrets.

It should also be mentioned that being someone who is supremely accomplished in competitions does not mean that the person is the smartest - there may be others smarter than him/her, and just did not have the fortune of growing up in an environment that could best foster that intelligence. Many of the smartest realize this, and don't hang their hats on any particular competition achievement.
Formatting ad-hoc reports in PostgreSQL
> None of these things are that big of a deal.

Perhaps for you.

> If Apple is using cutting-edge manufacturing processes, I'd expect these things to happen.

These are expensive devices, we're paying a premium for them. For the prices Apple charge I expect them to have worked out these kinks before hitting the market.
Mandrill Hacked
Doesn't hold up to scrutiny.

http://gamerant.com/simcity-maxis-ea-online-connection/
Budget 2015: 'Google Tax' introduction confirmed
The way I see it - it's hard to "transfer" all the learnings we get from our everyday driving experiences to other fellow drivers but a machine can do that. It's going to be a sum total of all of its learnings and its neighbours (all over the world). I like the idea of it.
The environment is practically identical to your physical location. You have the same level of awareness that you have here, only you can walk through solid objects and fly, etc.

However, you will often project things onto the environment subconsciously, so it may not be exactly in line with the physical world.

It's like there is a description of the world there that we can access, but we can also overlay our own constructs on top of that description. An unbridled mind fills the environment with seemingly random imagery and we experience dreams, but a concentrated mind sees the environment itself.

It's really not much different from being awake actually - sometimes you're fully aware of your concrete surroundings and other times you're lost in abstract daydreams, completely oblivious to what's going on around you.

As for "looking" at yourself, I usually wouldn't see my body, but I'd feel a strong magnetic pull coming from that area of the room. If I got too close, I'd get sucked into my body and wake up.

I believe data about the physical world is available during an out of body experience, but it's impossible to be entirely objective about it since, whether in the body or "outside" of it, we have no choice but to access that data through a mental construct, i.e., an experience.
I'm glad they are working on this in general, however unfortunately the Model S is not able to slow or stop when encountering a car stopped in front of it.

I was quite disappointed when I found out they don't have this important technology, in a car packed to the hilt with it.
http://my.teslamotors.com/forum/forums/collision-avoidance
Long ago, when it was still called Longhorn, yes. But it ended up being cut.
Well in January of '95 I sold 1000 shares of Sun Stock that I had accumulated over the employee purchase program the previous few years. Sure it was only $35,000, this allowed me to purchase a car for cash rather than get a loan on it. When I sold the car in '99 to a used car dealer I realized the same 1000 shares, 4 years later were worth $1.6M.

Granted at 1995 it wasn't a start-up any more, but it is an easy counter illustration to the myth that "only founders make money." Granted, half or 3 of the 6 managers I had at Sun are actually quite well off with two being VC partners these days and one enjoying their post work life.
Banks are not responsible to public safety. They do not fall under those regulations. It is their own personal interest not to loose money.
Sounds like architects need a DVCS for CAD files :)
There are few long-term (for first-world babies) once you adjust for socioeconomic and socioenvironmental factors: http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/sibbreast.htm; http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_exa... http://www.ntnu.edu/news/breastfeeding; http://www.skepticalob.com/2014/02/hold-the-guil-new-study-f... http://time.com/99746/its-time-to-end-the-breast-is-best-myt....

I would put "huge benefits to breastfeeding" right up there with medical myths that have been recently debunked, such as "dietary cholesterol raises blood cholesterol" or "salt causes hypertension."
You still need an algorithm to decide when it's time to handle control to a remote driver. Who's going to handle the edge cases of that algorithm?
I mostly agree with you, but their first sentence ("Like Dropbox...") relies on you knowing what Dropbox is. Which, as you pointed out, isn't good enough for people who don't ;).
Evidence for nuclear explosions on Mars [pdf]
Thanks, makes sense. Cool for having access to your work stuff on your laptop with having to vpn in all the time.
How to check if your iOS or Android device is hit by the FREAK hack
Mediatek is known for being "gongkai" with respect to licensing etc., as do the majority of Asian companies. A good explanation of that ecosystem is here:

http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=4297

You can find datasheets, schematics, and various other bits of info on their chipsets in various Chinese sites, but if you ask MTK they'll never officially give them to you.
In the one case of a successful exit, I was able to pull off enough of a salary bump that it more than compensated for what I could have gotten with equity. There may end up being one that proves me wrong, but overall, I think equity has generally been used as an excuse to push down salary.

I also have a family and they eat today, so my appetite for risk has been lower. At 22, my decisions might have been different.
One factor (that may not be obvious given Uber's constant talk about breaking monopolies and cartels) may be that Uber is the bully in this story:

International company valued in the billions ignoring regulations that local (per-county) companies with typically less than 5 cars can't afford to ignore (because they immediately lose their license).

If this is about regulations, Uber could have tried to go the legal route (apply for licenses until they're refused, then go to court over it, unlike our solo drivers they can afford the lawyers). They have the money. Instead they want to decide which laws apply to them.
Why not just use containerization instead? it is the best fit for a RB pi in any aspect. Almost no performance penalty and incredible use cases. Imagine having a fast bare OS on it and deploying remotely containers trough tutum web interface. IoT start to make sense now? :)
So, did that founder make clear exactly how you were going to be taken care of, or was it something you had to take on faith, or was it a surprise altogether?

How'd you handle this sort of thing at Matasano?
Beginners' Guide to Concurrency and Parallelism in Python
"Parts of Mandrill's infrastructure are hosted with Amazon Web Services (AWS), and we use EC2 Security Groups to control access."
then "As a result, a cluster of servers hosting Mandrill's internal application logs was made publicly accessible instead of allowing internal-only access."

Does this mean that security groups (ie. firewalls) are the only line of defense between _the internet_ and customer data?
> It won't work, the theory goes, because when congestion reduces more people start driving, until the congestion reaches equilibrium again.

While this sounds plausible, it doesn't follow that building roads or adding buses is a bad idea. Even if the congestion stays constant, now more people get to travel.
Uber: Police Swoop in France and South Korea
Really hoping they implement the storage provider/document picker functionality in their iOS app.
I worked at Palantir from 2009 to 2014 (started as SysEng, pivoted to Infosec). I have only "taken home" enough to recoup the cost of exercising my options and paying taxes (ugh, AMT), but my stock is worth something in that range. A friend who started around the same time I did recently sold a little less than half of his stock for about $500k to a private equity fund. I also know of a few other non-executives who started before me who have cashed out over $500k.

EDIT: If anyone's curious about selling pre-IPO stock, I have an email address in my profile and would be happy to share some knowledge. Seems like there's not much out in the open about it.
Indeed. If the company is a "real business" with actual customers and real profitable finances then those shares can be worth something.

If it's all a bunch of VC backed fluff, well then good luck. At that point it's just a game of selling these virtual units to others wheeling and dealing in similar pumped up virtual fluff. There are lots of ways the 'options' holders get diluted and made irrelevant and are in effect just pawns that can be made to work for less cash based on the, mostly, pipe dream that these options will be worth something some day. One needs to be very careful if you're in this bucket.
10k is barely scratching the surface. 50k is where it gets interesting.
> I don't know where you are in Chicago, but tooling around Streeterville/Gold Coast/Lincoln Park, I always found the CTA buses clean and punctual.

I regularly waited 45 minutes for the 55 Garfield or X55 Garfield Express (years ago, before budget cuts killed it). It's supposedly on a 10-15 minute schedule.
You have to navigate it. You don't have to surrender to it.

Much of that nonsense persists solely because so few possess the fortitude to resist it.

If your spouse insists upon a diamond, you may compromise, but also negotiate something of equal value to you. Perhaps, in exchange, you get sole authority to furnish and decorate the living room in any shared domicile, guaranteed.

You could install an octopus tank. You could put footballs on doilies on cinder blocks. You could create your own Batcave, Starfleet bridge, or Vault-Tec bunker. You could cover the walls in deep-pile maroon shag carpet. You could install 31.1 surround sound, using 24K gold Monster cables insulated with albino alpaca wool braids.

If the ring is a signal to your spouse's social circle that you are the best partner, so too is having all that embarrassing decor connected to the front door of the house, rather than hidden away in the basement.

If you have any inkling that particular compromise may be stupid and selfish, and not useful at all to the marriage as a whole, don't ask for a diamond ring.

A diamond is not forever. A 1:1-scale replica of the TARDIS in your living room is forever. If you burn a significant fraction of the family resources on a useless toy just for you, your spouse will be entirely justified in spending an equal amount on pointless toys just for them. And you can get a lot of pointless toys for the price of one ring--some of them will even yield a higher resale price.

If you don't want your marriage to be stupid and wasteful, you have to set a higher standard right from the start.
Critiques of Paul Graham and YC lose me the instant they suggest that they're rigging the system for venture capitalists. I've got friends in YC, I've worked closely with YC companies for years, I know several people at YC, and the evidence overwhelmingly suggests that their intentions are (a) good and (b) founder-aligned.

I'm pretty sure they're wrong about a couple things --- particularly the stuff that comes from some of the earlier PG essays. That's not the same as being corrupted. I'm wrong about a lot of stuff too.
To bad 99% of managers never think that way. Usually it is salaries are a fixed amount in our budget this extra money needs to go through the process of being approved = Make people work longer to save the hassle. No one accounts for the most expensive cost which is salaries.
Deaths per mile is more useful because it compares the cost (deaths) with the benefit (miles traveled per passenger). Additionally, we can compare directly against alternatives, such as buses, air travel, and self-driving cars.

Deaths per driver's license doesn't tell us the benefit we are getting, and doesn't give us a way to make comparisons with alternatives.
I agree that this is what can be observed, although it's probably a lot more complex than "being rich = beautiful partner". Either way that's why I said I'm probably in a minority in considering it less important than other traits (such as honesty and kindness).
And when the drivers weren't able to pay up a couple of times towards their insurance, premium will increase for everybody to make up for the loss.

Externalizing costs and all that...
Studios they really cratered:
Origin
Westwood
JAMDAT
Pandemic
You have to set "lines" for commuter rail just like metro and buses
> What about this is unclear? It's on the front page..

It is, but companies are not entitled to me reading their entire landing page. There's a large amount of truth in the "you only have 5 seconds to hook a user".

You should always put your best copy as the first thing a user sees.
A little of both. I have yet to handle a liquidity event as well as he did, but I got insulated from that a bit because consultancies pay market salary and don't do equity compensation.
HTML Forms and Go
You can try tonido (http://www.tonido.com) for personal use.
The culture swims continuously left, so a liberal in his 20s, who does not change a single viewpoint, finds himself a conservative in his 40s, and a reactionary in his 60s.
Solution 5: Use ES6
A german startup for energy kites based in berlin with a working prototype was even first.
http://www.enerkite.de/
https://fundernation.eu/fundernation/projects/enerkite
This is surely more of a Mediatek/BQ issue than an Ubuntu one. Regardless, Canonical are supposed to be on the side of software Freedom, and it's on their shoulders to make Mediatek sort this out.
I haven't seen a wiki with as good and editor as a standard word processor, also I'm not sure they are as distraction free and the current crop of distraction free apps like Scrivener and WriteRoom.

VoodooPad probably qualifies as a wiki / word processor fusion that works really well for writing.
So a remote operator is going to be given command of a vehicle which has encountered an unusual situation that the automatics have bailed out of?

Ask the pilots of Air France 447 how well that works out (and they weren't even remote). Oh you can't... they're dead.
Which is not the customer's money but the bank's money. Get the difference on who will pay for at the end?
Yes, it's really that hard. When Chrome fixes "undefined is not a function" and ES6 arrives with lexical scoping and classes, Javascript will reach approximately the functionality of Java 1.0 (plus lambdas, which sure, are a big flaw in Java 1.0) - only twenty years behind the state of the art for slow-moving large companies. I'm finding it hard to find the words to express how much better a real type system makes programming, but let's just say it would eliminate all the angst about callbacks and promises without breaking a sweat. Writing a big program in Javascript is like... it's like writing a novel in Up Goer Five style. Every time you think of something you have to stop and disassemble it into smaller pieces so that Javascript can talk about it. You copy-paste phrases that represent a word in your head, because the word in your head can't be represented in that language except as this four-word phrase that even then doesn't really capture what you're talking about. You write a paragraph and feel really proud of yourself, and then you realise that what you actually wanted to say was just a single sentence.
This just seems needlessly picky, and I can't help but feel that you're expecting a little much.

Of course Elon Musk is self-serving, in the sense that he's talking about and promoting the benefits of projects that he's working on.

They're more impressive than you seem to be implying; Tesla's approach to tackling the existing automotive industry and introducing affordable vehicles is a long-term project, and considering we're about 11 or 12 years in, they seem to be making good progress. It's not something that many other companies have had the vision and drive to execute.

Likewise with SpaceX. There's a long-term plan to colonise Mars – that does seem pretty visionary, no?

And in terms of other projects, look at something like Hyperloop. You seem to imply that "efficient tram systems powered by electric wires" (a technology used everywhere throughout the world) would be more 'visionary' or something? That seems like an odd claim to make.

People treat Musk like a bit of a celebrity because he talks unashamedly of large-scale, long-term visions for things he wants his projects to achieve. That's amazingly attractive in a world where there is so much focus on the short term, and what can't be achieved. I'm not sure why you react so badly to that.
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I use Vim and Atom. It's enjoyable and does everything I need, especially since I've started moving towards xctool as my builder over Xcode's GUI.
Okay... I won't bother quoting stories about ride share drivers stealing, raping and assaulting, or doing unsafe things, because we'd go back for forth forever. I think it's fair to say that drivers can fall through the cracks. It's also fair to say that the cracks are bigger (or, to be generous, an unknown width) with a non-regulated service. But I'll go ahead and take your other bait, because certain things need to be said to ensure that this is an enlightened discussion.

Every taxi I've been in has a number to call, commonly mandated and staffed by a public agency (whose records are therefore public), when you have a problem.

When there's a convention in town, or a major sporting event, or a new taxi service that competes with an existing one, do you know how much my taxi rates go up? I'm approximating here, but (scribbles on napkin)... 0%. Pretty nice.

Here are some more hypotheticals:

If I have accessibility challenges, a quick call to a taxi dispatcher (and disabled folks generally already know these numbers, in my experience), I get the same rate, and the service is required to accommodate my special needs.

If I am engaging in a one night stand, I don't become part of a "ride of glory" dashboard.

My data points are used in predictable ways, and if I pay cash and don't rob the driver, my personal information is known by zero people. I will stipulate that cameras are in most taxis these days and, sure, let's say there's facial recognition there. The city agencies don't have a track record of using that PII in unexpected ways.

If I complain about too many taxi drivers, every other taxi driver will still pick me up.

If I'm in an accident due to some other yahoo driving badly, I know precisely the type of insurance that is carried by the taxi service.

If there's short term construction, or a particular corridor is always busy at an unusual time of day, my driver will already know about it, because there's a good chance he's been driving in this city for years. And if he hasn't, the competition to become a driver is fierce enough that he is highly motivated to be the best taxi driver he can be.

How'd I do?
I dunno it looks to me like they've just defined nil to be equal to null/empty, which is not exactly the same.

In Common Lisp, unlike Scheme/Racket, nil is the null value AND the false value. In Scheme/Racket, 'nil is true unless you define it to be #f. If you wrote an if or cond expression to evaluate the 'nil in the link, I think that it would return true, whereas in CL nil is falsy (I think it is the only falsy value in CL, but I would still describe it as 'falsy' rather than false, possibly incorrectly).

e: Ah, I see why I'm not understanding you now - you're talking about the differences between Racket and SICP/Scheme whereas I made the assumption that we were talking about the difference between Common Lisp and Racket (from OP's comment). To further clarify, I believe this was my fault in comprehension, not yours in communication.
As long as you declare the functions to use a C ABI, yes.
Well, its a company that its fashionable to hate on on ycombinator, but http://gizmodo.com/5019527/bill-gates-made-men-the-wild-n-cr...
Heh, I have a friend who is all rah-rah for self-driving cars. He also likes to go camping. So I asked him, when you show up at the site and the farmer says, top field, past the sheep, turn left at the tractor, what's your self-driving car going to do? Hmm, he said, well it would need some sort of touch screen interface for that. Or I said, some sort of "steering wheel"...
> And really, there are only four classes of solutions.

There might be a fifth solution: learn JavaScript. Its not actually that hard to be productive - I realize mastery always takes time and effort, but its pretty quick to get started and be able to write some decent stuff.

I don't primarily code in JS but I keep it near the top of my toolbox. I'm not up to date with the latest and greatest (which I'm sure it getting better and better) but even in 2011 when I had the opportunity to do some stuff with node, I was pretty satisfied with what the language provided. Some of the syntax was a little verbose, but I can type pretty fast so no sweat.

I wouldn't be surprised if Crockford's jslint rules are not that relevant anymore... around 2008-2009 when I did more web stuff I used to make sure all my scripts could pass with `browser = true && global jQuery` (or whatever the format for the hint was), but even at that time much of that advice was starting to seem irrelevant.
AT&T lowers gigabit pricing to match competition (Google Fiber)
You're totally right. Nobody has infinite context.

Even still, "Like X for Y" is far better than "The product you'll love from the people you love".
OSX supports PAM auth, U2F is just another kind of PAM. That's how I use my Yubikey.
The PARCC test (which my daughter just wrapped up taking) is a computer-administered test, and I assume if Pearson is the company responsible for the questions, then Pearson is running the websites that grade the tests and provide the results to individuals, schools, districts, states, etc.

So I'm a little confused by outrage over the potential of Pearson to "collect personal information" about students via Twitter etc, when by definition Pearson is collecting an extreme amount of personal information about every public-school student in every one of these states administering this test.
That's what the Chirper is for. Although some of that stuff does get "diluted" with the other random "chrips"
I've been playing the Kerbal Space Program (KSP) game lately; it's funny how when you actively use orbital mechanics, thinking about them is easier.

This fourth dimension observation is cool and likely very useful mathematically, but it's also kinda obvious (at least after playing KSP) that if you subtract the time/gravity element from an orbit, it becomes circular. It's equivalent to saying that if you subtract out the gravity effects of the planet you're orbiting, your orbital speed is constant, which just makes sense intuitively.

Calling this observation a fourth dimension is useful, but perhaps unnecessarily complicated for the simple concept.
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