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Twitter is publicly visible. Everyone sees everything posted there. There is no expectation of privacy. Why is this so hard for all the "outraged citizens" to grok?
>and isn't Watson closer to this goal then ever?

No. Watson is a family of algorithms IBM uses. Not even a single machine, it's more of a brand name. And some of the impressive feats like Jeopardy are more like gimmicks than actual advanced AI.
Society has every right to tell you not to severely other people's lives.

I'm amazed that there are actually people who think it should be okay to drive around uninsured, so when you hit a pedestrian and he ends up a quadriplegic and in need of constant care, you just say "oh, I'm sorry, take all the ten thousand Euros I have and good life to you!".

I'm certain you'd see the stupidity of your point of view if you were the quadriplegic without any compensation.

Fortunately, in Europe we don't let those people learn their lesson the very hard way. We do the sensible thing and just demand insurance from everyone. Including self-proclaimed libertarian rebels against the system.
It's intriguing that the same issue crops up in the financial industry with product fees. Fund managers with high fees are not the best but people mistakenly apply the "I must be getting what I pay for" concept, not appreciating that the best managers charge lower fees because they're operating at larger economies of scale.
Vulfpeck is also the band behind Sleepify[1], the album of ten silent 30s songs which fans looped on Spotify while they slept. Vulfpeck earned $20k as a result and used it to organize a tour.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleepify
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m = 1000, or m = 1000000?

(Sorry, my definition of those suffixes has been forever muddled by working in finance :( )
To up the meta-level here: why are all comments on this discussion so far allergic reactions to JavaScript criticism?

Reminds me of when I moved from PHP to Ruby & Python reading arguments that people should just shut up about the 'minor' problems PHP has and that it isn't going anywhere.

Well JavaScript _really_ isn't going anywhere. It is here to stay. But that doesn't mean one should stop complaining about where JavaScript falls short.

There are multiple angles to get out of this mess:

* Local optimization (trying to fix the things that can be fixed and not introducing new problems: very hard, very slow process, think quicksand).

* Global optimization (Dart, ClojureScript, Elm, GWT. Ambitious compile-to-js languages that give you a ton by moving away from what makes JavaScript JavaScript)

* And something in between like compile-to-js languages that stay closer to JavaScript like CoffeeScript, TypeScript that add to it and/or retract stuff.

The fascinating thing here imho is that especially the ambitious approaches to getting us out of the mess we're in lead to faster local improvements (here just some of them) …

* SIMD support: Dart nudged JavaScript to add SIMD support, John McCutchan of the Dart team even worked on that

* Classes: Dart, TypeScript, CoffeeScript

* Briefer, more expressive syntax: CoffeeScript, Dart, TypeScript

* Optional types: Dart, TypeScript, …

* VM Performance: Dart

JavaScript got better as a language as well as a compilation target, especially in the last few months. This is great for all of us. It happened and happens because people are not satisfied with the status quo and don't shut up about it and do what they can to go beyond what's 'good enough'.

The day it becomes unacceptable to criticise the status quo is the day innovation dies. I hope the JavaScript community at large is far away from that mindset.
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Probably the Matthew effect. When it doubt, attribute a quote to Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord.
> 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?

I don't see any problem with that, even with no direct controls. That's probably a situation that requires more detailed navigational input from a driver than providing a destination for road driving and letting the system handle the routing, but doesn't necessarily require actually manual driving. And, even if it did, even fully automated cars that are designed for personal ownership and (especially) for off-road use are likely to have full-control overrides available for some time.

Of course, camp sites and other destinations that people are expected to drive to will probably also have navigation information or guides available that self-driving cars can follow when self-driving cars are common, rendering the whole hypothetical largely moot.
It's amazing what a small team with a great vision can do.

And even more amazing, for me, is they did it in Unity as well!
It's really hard. Try to learn english with native speaker first like at http://preply.com/en/skype/english-native-speakers.
Haha, I went for the wither-and-die approach myself.. end result is the same, and inexplicably it's still sending "sufficient" funds my way. Major props, next time I shouldn't miss my Penang flight.. Phil ;)
I joined an enterprise data storage company in the Bay Area in 2012 about 2 years before IPO as a software engineer. Company went IPO in late 2013 and total value of initial grant over 4 years is currently around $800k.
yup, I think you're in the minority here, I can't imagin anyone appreciating simcity for the music.

It had some pretty graphics, for sure, but I think most people view that as fluff.

You should hear me gush about factorio, and it looks like this: https://www.google.ca/search?q=factorio&tbm=isch&gws_rd=cr,s...

edit: ok, apparently not. apparently people really really really care that their games look pretty, color me surprised.
Perhaps it depends on how you distribute "vanilla" across the "or"? I read it as "(vanilla BSD) or FreeBSD" but perhaps you meant "vanilla BSD or vanilla FreeBSD"

I don't agree that 'the people that matter know' is necessarily accurate, I also don't think it's sufficient. FreeBSD depends on donations and people donate for a mix of reasons. For example you can successfully brag about donating to "Linux" because even in non-tech circles people know Linux is cool. But even in tech circles people don't know much about FreeBSD.

Not that donations as a from of conspicuous social responsibility makes sense from a rational point of view, but we're humans and there are many situations where we spend money just so people see us do it.
A better measure would be deaths per driver decision, if you could estimate such a thing.
I felt exactly the same. I think its the illusion of the infinite promise of youth and subsequent disappointment. That and it reminds me of my own mortality.
Developer here.. This is my first user facing product after becoming a programmer (my journey can be found in my comments and posts here in HN).

I built this after searching for a journal app that just allows me to store my entries only to my cloud storage. There are many people who still prefer plain old text files for writing journal and this is an interface for them.

Would really love your folks' feedback on this thing..

I planned to implement features such as multiple cloud services,search, tagging, Markdown support all down the line based on the feedback and adaptability.
I just wanted to see if I could search for someone to drive me to some specific grocery store for a specific day, to see how much that would cost me if I would plan in advance.

It's a 15min ride, and the bus service is poor for that particular route. I need to carry a lot of food, and on welfare aldi is a must for me, so I would gladly pay for gas money plus some more instead of taking the bus, especially since I carry frozen food.

I started entering my info. Closed it immediately when it asked for my credit card before I could search for anything.

I'm sorry, but if uber is getting money from rides, I really think it should at least play nice with governments and laws, especially when it has so much value on the stock market. It's a matter of respect, being disruptive doesn't excuse everything.

Building and regulating civilization has a cost, if you want to improve people's lives, don't be so greedy about it. It doesn't require so much money to help people find each other for car rides.

I totally understand that cab licenses are against the libertarian's dream, but when I sense unjustified money behind it, it sets me off immediately. The internet doesn't feel very free, it's just another new land for money makers, and I'm often okay with it, but here, I'm not.
Self-driving cars seem to be ~1:1 with driver licenses. A licenced driver drives at most one car at a time.
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Regarding poor-weather performance, I'm assuming self-driving cars will outperform human drivers sooner than in good conditions, rather than later (as long as it is made a priority). The information a self-driving car can gather and process about wheel traction is far more detailed than can be gathered by human drivers.
Wealth already causes a large division in biology. Although as of now it's still confined to the phenotype of humans (better nutrition leads to better physical development and higher performance, mental or physical). However if recent advancements in biotech continue this might soon affect the genotype as well and that's where I believe we should draw the line. I don't think there is a single society which can cope with a strong heterogenity in the genotype. In the past humans have killed each other based on different shades of skin color - imagine what would happen if they were different down to the bone marrow.

Governments need to step in early and create two exclusive lists for approved genetic mutations. One for which every member of society can opt-in free of charge and a second list of mutations which can be purchased at your local gene shop. Example for the first list would be improvements to your cognitive abilities and health in general. On the second list should be mutations, which are mainly concerned with aesthetics (change skin color, shape of ears, etc.). Ultimately there needs to be a broad political discussion which mutation belongs on which list - and as societies evolve those two lists will change.
Interesting point: Uber is (rightfully) continuing their service, because the ban only goes into effect when the plaintiff pledges a security, to compensate Uber's loss, in case this ban is reversed.

I have no idea if the plaintiff wants to take that risk.
> This is a very incorrect association to make, as the existence of iOS has very little effect on the relevance of BSD.

Certainly Mac OS X has more relevance to the traditional BSD userbase than iOS, but that's because iOS preempted the existence of a mobile BSD userbase. Linux has not only Android but also a slew of smaller players like FirefoxOS and Tizen. BSD has nothing. It's hard to have less relevance than non-existence.

> (Besides, Netcraft confirmed * BSD was dying long before iOS came out. :)

Of course it was -- it has been under the BSD license the whole time and before Apple it was Sun et al as you note.

> However that doesn't acknowledge the profound change internet distribution has had on how developers consume open source code. There is now a massive ecosystem of BSD/MIT/Apache licensed code and very few evil corporations sucking it up and turning it proprietary.

That is almost a self-refuting statement. The primary reason to want a permissive license over the GPL is to use the code in proprietary software. In some cases that does result in the proprietary software dominating the open source equivalent in the market (as with OS X or Safari/Chrome), and the remaining cases (the framework code you mentioned) are the exact use case for the LGPL, which allows the framework to be used in proprietary software without allowing the framework itself to be supplanted by a proprietary fork.
Well, at least you are not Ron-Wayne.
In the short time I've been reading HN, it's become clear that its readership likes to think of itself as more enlightened than the average mouthbreathing yokel. It doesn't mean they don't have their own orthodoxy, though, and religion is one of those things We Don't Acknowledge Around Here.

Hell, I'm an atheist and I would have added the last lines anyway[0]. Of course, he didn't attribute the poem to the author anyway so we're supposed to imagine he wrote it, right?[1]

[0]http://www.katsandogz.com/onchildren.html - the first thing I ran across, but at least the author's name is on it. EDIT: hey, he finally did the same google search I did!

[1]http://nedroidcomics.tumblr.com/post/41879001445/the-interne...
German county governments provide taxi licenses at what I'd consider to be 'at cost'. Unlikely that this is their main concern, or even 'all this boils down to'.

Also, no government branch sued Uber. The organization of taxi cooperatives did, which is private (as are all its members).
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Definitely could be, but I'm not holding my breath for any of the major OSes to implement that. You'd need a popup window for every new keyboard to say "This is a keyboard! Is it allowed to be a keyboard?" Which works for a laptop because you always have a keyboard/trackpackpad built in, but could be a problem on a desktop if you can't approve a keyboard/mouse without already having one connected and approved. Do desktops ever include accelerometers? Maybe you could pick it up and shake it to allow a new keyboard.

On the other hand, as I understand it, USB Power Delivery negotiates the voltage over the power wires only, so making an adapter cable that doesn't pass data should still be an option for the paranoid among us. But good luck getting every user at a big company (say, Anthem or Premera) to do that religiously.
I was reading recently about the struggles of Fairphone to open up their hardware so that other operating systems could be installed - Sailfish, Ubuntu, Firefox etc. The impression which emerged was that the people placing hardware orders had really quite limited power to affect this kind of behaviour, unless they are a really large player. What do you think Ubuntu can do?
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Historically it replaced suing the other party in a failed engagement for "breach of contract". The idea being that a woman who had a failed engagement was less able to find a good match. The engagement ring essentially acted as a good behaviour bond that the marriage would go ahead and especially to stop the "I promise I'll marry you, now let's have sex" cad.
we understand that you drive because you have to. the problem is that most people aren't trying very hard to imagine ways to drive less, or ways to build communities that don't utterly rely upon everyone owning a car.

its not a problem that an individual can fix overnight. its got to become a social movement with lots of new technology and new social institutions and new beliefs and values behind it.

as things stand now its easy to feel powerless and give up and say "doesn't matter, I'll be dead before our society changes enough to make not driving a viable alternative". and that's why nothing ever gets done about this problem. its still a problem though and at the rate things are going now we won't ever solve it before it becomes a crisis. so that's what will happen. inevitably there will be a crisis and then we'll have to confront the problem under much more desperate circumstances.
You will know my name is the LORD when I exterminate all rational lambdacalculus
Interesting that this actually looks pretty similar to how it looks today. The large "headline" graphic, the smaller graphics in a row below it and then extra stuff at the bottom. Even the news page looks fairly similar to the default Safari page I recall when I first got my mac (with it's column style with stories on one side and important links on the other).

EDIT: Geez, it's still called "Hot News" and it's still a 2 column layout. That's actually a remarkable consistent design over 17 years.
"rider comfort" is not real value?

What if busses had no seats at all? What if they were 100 degrees? What if they didn't have shock absorbers? What if they smelled bad (worse)?

Rider comfort IS real value. You've just anchored your perspective at the current level and decided that anything above that is "pretentious" which is itself kind of pretentious.

Also, it seems tautological that luxury services benefit the wealthy. What's the alternative? Socialism?
Haha! I know what you mean.

It can be scary because we're essentially confronting the unknown, but concentration helps with that. Fear is a distraction that takes you away from a single pointed mind. When you recognize fear or worry popping up, you gently return to your object of concentration until it goes away.
I'm so sick of government interfering in business. Why the hell are there so many pointless regulations governing electrical appliances? If I want to build a toaster with undersized wiring, no safety earth, no thermal cut-offs and no flame retardant plastics, why should the government be able to stop me? Why should I be burdened with the cost of product liability insurance? I can just base my company in the Cayman Islands and dodge the inevitable lawsuit when my product kills someone.

Taxis are regulated for a reason. I want to know that when I get into a taxi, the vehicle is roadworthy. I want to know that the driver is competent and medically fit to drive. I want to know that he isn't a convicted rapist. I want to know that his insurance is still valid when carrying paying passengers. Uber provides none of those guarantees, but intelligent regulation does all of that without creating a significant barrier to entry.
I don't think so. My math says it would be more like 1268 years.
Another things that is interesting, is the diversity of responses on this thread.

One saying "I've been here for long, I cannot remember of anybody" another one saying, "of course I know plenty of people who made a lot of money".

I think it means, as all other aspects of life, there are distinct clusters of people in this field, with little cross cluster exchange. Either you are in that group in which all of you make money or you are in the group that you and your friends none make much money.
I did a blog post about that: http://2pasc.com/2012/05/18/the-power-law-of-startup-employe...

Overall - it depends when you get in, and its valuation potential at exit. Companies with 10B-100B+ exits can create hundreds to thousands of millionaires. Companies that exit at 200-500M, much less, obviously!
I have not been here 4 years, but that's the full amount assuming the current Amazon price. I don't have any strong opinion about where Amazon's price is headed.

A dead sibling comment claims that $0 is $0, which might be a relevant thing to say if I had not vested any shares yet.
Both of your links ([2] and [3]) are to YouTube; if they are normalizing the audio (as claimed by the author), then you shouldn't be able to hear a difference, right?
If you're a talented mathematician who thinks that the financial industry is a net positive for society, you're most probably already working in it. It undoubtedly pays the best and generally recruits talent.

So, if you're a talented mathematician not working in that industry... it's reasonably likely you've made a conscious decision not to work there - perhaps because you don't agree that it's directly useful to society.

There's a reason why the financial industry has to pay the highest salaries. It's surely not out of generosity.
I'm not too surprised that Americans and Brits don't speak other languages. I doubt people here (Denmark) would speak more than one language if Danish were the lingua franca of international commerce. As it is, the vast majority of Danes are fluent in two languages, English and Danish, because they are both necessities to function in modern Denmark (Danish is the national language, and English is the commercial/business language and language of travel).

People do learn other languages, but at about the level Americans learn other languages: a few years in school, rarely able to carry on a conversation. Older people are more likely to be able to carry on a German conversation, but among younger people it's uncommon. If anything there's increasingly a little bit of nationalist suspicion about people who speak third languages, especially third languages natively. It's normal to be fluent in English and Danish, but if you're raised speaking another language at home, that smells of the dreaded "multiculturalism", and people may actually criticize you for raising your kids speaking a foreign language at home instead of fully assimilating into Danish culture and raising them in Danish. (Goes doubly if the foreign language is Arabic or Turkish.)
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I guess it's not surprising, but I was super impressed by their copy on the website. "The most original Macintosh since the original Macintosh" holds up really well 17 years later.

I'm looking forward to the iPhone 8 being advertised as "The most original iPhone since the original iPhone".
Ask HN: Paid remote internship?
Hello,

I'd like to ask if there are startup companies which offer something like a paid remote internship or remote junior positions. I come from a relatively poor european country and have been mostly working in a big corporations (in an offshore model). I would like to work in a startup but i am currently afraid to move off from the financial stability I do have with these big corporations. I am young but still have to support my family with few bucks here and there. I earn about 1400 euros )(net income) a month (however i do cost my employer around 2700euros a month).

I have been mostly doing system administration (mostly UNIX but Linux as well),DevOPS (kind of but not very well executed in a big corporations in offshore centers). I also do a bit of Ruby,Rails,Perl and shell scripting.

I am eager to learn from people doing something meaningful, from a company with a vision.

You may ask why you would want to hire some loser like me...well you probably would not. But who knows :-)
Did you know that income equality is a large problem in the US? That social security/medicare/medicaid are looming issues, and that the solution to climate change requires drastic retooling by factories, and habit changes by consumers?

To me, removing javascript in its current form from the web is in the same class of insurmountable issues. To "Solve" the issue action needs to be taken by literally everyone who is involved in the web. To do that the first step to that action starts with admitting there is a problem.

I'm in favor of beating the dead horse, because every once in a while, i see it try to breath again.
How does that help people who ended up selling their Macbook Pros as salvage parts at a huge loss?

My 2011 MBP, which was out of AppleCare, basically died a few months before they announced the repair program. I was very lucky I didn't sell mine for parts at a loss -- I seriously considered it.

I still lost a little bit of money because I basically gave away the RAM upgrade I bought for it, as I had no idea when or if they'd even offer a repair program.
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Eh. I feel pretty neutral about it. It seems to reflect the mentality of shorter, more frequent updates to the language. Nobody wants another loooooooong wait like the current one.
wait... what?!

HOLY SH*^%