skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my personal experience, you don't tend to be too successful doing freelance security consulting unless you have a lot of certifications and you're aiming at very small companies. Bigger organizations will go with PWC, even if you're half the price.
Profits without prosperity
> future legislation undoing the protection granted to dealerships

Franchises were purchased with the understanding that they wouldn't compete with manufacturers. I think the correct law would be to grandfather the old manufacturers in but let new ones sell direct. I guess a zero-emissions exception makes sense to eventually phase out dealerships and immediately allow Tesla.

Also I'm no so anti-dealership. It's not the easiest business and most of them have low margins.
Sorry, I meant: pharma drug prices, not development costs. Prices are artifically created, rather than being purely based on supply and demand.

I know plenty about pharma costs, having worked for one and studied the area of biophysics including protein engineering extensively. My point is that the prices of drugs are only weakly correlated with the costs of bringing a drug to market.

More importantly (and kind of ignored by most) is that pharma R&D costs are shared between many drugs. For example, Genentech has a huge R&D division and there are people who work on general projects that benefit all their biologics.

Also, there are ridiculous inefficiencies built into the process of bringing drugs to market, many of which are designed to avoid large-scale adverse outcomes, or to make it possible to track where the adverse outcome root cause is.
It would be an interesting experiment to measure actual alertness and ability to react.... I would hazard that while you think you might be alert you're probably less so as because you're not actively driving your brain is not ready to react in the same way as if it's constantly processing while driving.

Case in point - I've got two cars, our boring diesel daily driver and 380hp:600kg track day weapon which you really have to be mentally prepared to drive (no driver aids at all). Headed to the track one Saturday morning in said track car, a car in front of me pulled out of the lane to avoid a big a-- bird in the road. Partly because I have to be alert in that car and partly the car itself I managed to treat the bird more like an obstacle course and (narrowly) avoid it. The dumb thing started running off the road then back into my lane(!). Anyway the point is in my Corolla no way would I have reacted in time, while I think I'm conscientious I know my alertness level is way higher in the track day car - it's low, small, has a brutally fast steering rack - a single moment of inattention you'd get away with in Corolla would see you in the ditch in the other car. 3 hours drive in both cars and one of them I'm pretty happy to have a little break afterwards!

A byproduct of the environment, I think autonomous cars/controls are going to reduce the level of awareness and concentration and you'll have some pretty nasty "I don't know what happened" crashes when things happen that the systems can't respond to and human has to drive out of it.

Of course the flip side of the coin, and I can fully appreciate is the reduction of crashes where people doze off and plough right into the back of other cars. So I guess it's a risk reduction numbers game of which is the lesser of two evils?
how many days worth can you get from a Walmart vial, out of interest?
I know little about trust computing, but here's a thought.

To know whether an open source program on server is modified, we send a customized different executable copy every time with one time use secrets. So when the program starts, it has to answer questions correctly and shortly (to protect against reverse engineering) to prove it's a genuine copy, then we can send it our encrypted access key.
The access key will never be written to disk by a genuine copy, so a restarted program won't be able to access our data without asking for a key again, then we will know something is wrong.

The copies we upload to server functions exactly like open source one, but the user is responsible for adding secret parts to it so that it's closed source.
My understanding is that these laws were put into place so that the manufacturers couldn't have it both ways - they couldn't enjoy the low startup-capital requirements of the franchise model, and then after using the franchisees to grow and scout out the best spots, cherrypick the most lucrative spots for manufacturer owned dealerships, driving out the independent dealerships by using their lower end-to-end costs. Because the franchisees are usually completely at the mercy of their chosen brand.

The perversion of the law is that Tesla has never had franchisees, and they're still being blocked by the laws in many states, contrary to the original intention.

I hate buying from dealers as much as anyone, but the law as I understand it makes some sense. I'm sure it varies from state to state and doesn't make sense in some.
I always hear this comical assumption that the employee would automatically receive the matching Social Security and Medicare tax amounts if they were repealed but do you honestly believe that to be true and it wouldn't just go towards padding margins or buying more office supplies?

Employers by definition want to pay employees as little as possible, only enough so they stay.
You can host Sandstorm yourself. The most recent relevant Dev Group post that I see on the subject of self-hosting is at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/sandstorm-dev/ff3oZG....
Apple removing misleading 'antivirus' apps from App Store
Downvotes because it's obvious? No google bashin'? We like monopolies?
Your resumé says you live in a state that expanded medicaid. Eligibility is now entirely income-based, NOT asset-based. If your current income is below the cutoff, you qualify for medicaid, period, end of story.
Native consumer anthropology advertising, yay.
Perhaps for the identical reason that all articles on the internet are starting to look the same.
If normal citizens have access to it without a VPN, then why doesn't China just block it with the firewall instead of ddosing?

Maybe I'm not understanding.
It's disappointing to me that restaurants always tend to serve the same tired dishes with slight variations on recipe or style.

The best and most exciting food and mixes of ingredients / obscure cooking techniques seem to come from hole in the wall restaurants with chefs who just really love food and know what tools/ingredients/techniques are available to them and like a brilliant mad scientist they serve up and share their successful experiments.
I'd say you can apply the 80/20 rule to most occupations, executives are no exception.
Dell Inspiron 15 3521 Drivers Download and Update
Their API is a FHIR implementation.
I hate this sentiment. Yes, Elon makes huge promises. And you know what? He frequently gets there. Everyone quoted in the article says "No". Elon says "Why not?" And you're worried about the engineers.
Decades-old cybernetics has much to offer on the wise use of feedback loops.
Here are a couple more interesting historical maps from Bell, specifically from The Bell System Technical Journal in 1930.

The first shows "special contract telegraph circuits furnished to a brokerage company" (30 circuits / 95 stations / 38K km): http://i.imgur.com/vL4W8Vz.jpg

The second shows "special contract telegraph service furnished a press association" (53 circuits / 124K km) : http://i.imgur.com/ZEsBKKe.jpg

Lots more fun maps and diagrams @ https://archive.org/stream/bellvol9systemtechni00amerrich/be...
yikes mate.

This is a sure-fire way to burn a lot of bridges.

Nobody in this type of business should be charging interest for a few days of delayed payment.

I wouldn't call this bad advice, but this is definitely something a consultant should NOT do.
What a weird article. Modern culinary arts are at their most inventive right now, with boundaries constantly being pushed, with the trickle down reaching more and more places due to globalization, resulting in more and more people being able to have exciting dishes at affordable prices.

At the same time, more and more attention is being paid to preserve authentic food, while elevating it to more haute cuisine levels.

The author claims they're not trying to begrudge locals good food, but basically the entire article reads "I want to travel to places and have TRADITIONAL!!! cuisine, not this fancy bullshit!"

There's never been a better time to be alive for foodies and even food tourists than now.
Turbo boost. As is traditional in self driving cars.
> This is amateur nonsense.

Yes I admit I am an amateur predictor of the future, like most people. :-)

> One could easy argue the same for anything: "Humans will discover there is more to life than money, success, and pleasure, and they will all kill themselves. That's what I'm afraid of!"

Not sure how this is the same thing?

> How much you care to work is not a function of your intelligence or awareness. The problems that you choose to solve aren't either.

If you are intelligent you won't work for someone else for no reason.

> If you build a computer to value something, it will, because there is no other way for it to establish a value function outside of the values it already implements.

When computers build computers, they will evolve.
Both are lock-in services, where you cannot build out again without significant re-investment into the work already done.

Evaluate both those options widely, and perhaps opt for a PaaS like OpenShift, where you can easily take the open-source version of OpenShift and self-host.
I would also like an invite. I am an active FOSS developer https://github.com/hollingsworthd

dan@machinepublishers.com

Cheers
Oh, I see! Yeah, that's true.
It's a lot easier to sell something when you frame the issue as one of loss avoidance.

"You should do X, because if you don't do X right away, then this bad thing may happen in the future! By the way, it only costs $N0,000... But your baby's life is on the line!"

I can't think of a much more convincing sell for this target market than that if I tried.

Something about this feels off to me. When viewed in the right light, this almost looks like blackmail, or extortion.
Well that was a bait and switch...
Perhaps the right policy to serve the public interest is for Uncle Sam to pay the patent owner $1B for each of the remaining years on its insulin patent and then 'genericize' today's insulins.

The shareholders would earn their profits while the public would be served by gaining immediate access to superior diabetes treatment for a trivial cost of perhaps $20B -- a pittance when compared to the current scenario where millions of diabetics worldwide continue to suffer because unthinking pols continue to publicly kowtow shamelessly before the altar of Capitalism.
Don't forget about the need for earmuffs:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois%27s_4th_congressional...

It is interesting that drawing a congressional district along ethnic and racial lines is somehow legal.
As strange as it may sound - I ask them to exclude all taxes and fees to reduce variability and have more of an apples to apples comparison. Taxes & fees are well defined, but in my experience, dealers try to sneak in a decent "service fee" in there. One guy tried to sneak in as much as ~$600 I think, which I found amusing. It just helps to reduce noise and focus on a single number; they'll do all the DMV work for you for free.
"He" doesn't frequently get there. The engineers get there. Or they don't. If they don't, whose fault do you imagine it is?
I can't tell if this is sarcastic, so I'll just respond genuinely.

> What research have you done on the pedagogy of computing?

I haven't done research on the pedagogy of computing because I'm not teaching computing. I'm basically being asked to teach someone how to build a birdhouse, but it's marketed as "carpentry boot camp".

As far as Google has told me, there's been very little inquiry into the success or failure of CS education, outside of the attraction and retention of minorities. How do you even quantify a successful CS education? Income? Satisfaction? I wouldn't trust any metric that you could possibly quantify with the information that's reasonably available (grades, salaries, and surveys).

Even if this research were done, it wouldn't have been done specifically about web programming, which is just totally different from "computer science" in a lot of ways (mainly in how much abstraction there is between the programmer and the underlying system).

So this is my first real stab at doing research: asking people on HN how boot camps have gone for them, what has worked, and what hasn't.
Drink water.
Interesting—had no idea the 24 hour insulins were so new.

I think that also explains a certain trend I've seen with insulin usage guidelines (typically) given by doctors, versus by learned users. I found at first independently, then later had the finding corroborated, that using meal-time insulin (e.g. Humalog) was too unpredictable: too many factors are involved; blood sugar almost always go too high or too low—and, unpredictability varies with dose size (even while 'appropriately' matched by carbs). So, many people, including myself decide that since the lowest dose is most predictable, use zero (this is a Type 1 speaking)—zero meal-time insulin that is—and compensate by eating an extremely small number of carbs. This is only possible because I have the 24 hour insulin running in the background, however. My perplexity about it was that doctors seem unaware of this strategy (in my experience, which, while limited does extend to several doctors, and I hear this consistently from other diabetics). Instead, there's this myth that you just calculate your carbs, match with insulin—everything's good! But if it's only been around for 11 years or so, I guess it takes a while for the literature to catch up.

The other side of the situation, at the risk of sounding unappreciative, is that it feels like I'm paying Tesla prices, but still opt to get out and walk most of the time since the car is so bad.

Better blood sugar monitoring tech (e.g. continuous) and quicker meal-time insulins would seriously improve things. Quicker is better since carbs convert to blood sugar more rapidly than the insulin acts—unless I take a large insulin dose. That's another aspect of insulin's unpredictability: its processing rate is proportional to dose size, so there isn't just one ratio of insulin-to-carbs—though one could still infer their dose->(insulin units/gram of carbs) function :)
I too believe that robots running Ruby would be quite happy!
Stability and features tend to fight each other.
Just because an RFC oversteps and starts mandating useless mailboxes to exist doesn't mean we should play along.
LEDs at 4 V DC are probably much easier to control with "microchips", which operate at a similar voltage, than neon at 2-15 KV AC. I agree he worded it badly, but the conclusion still makes sense for a loose reading of "essentially".
Basically, everyone in the world agrees on what ingredients they'd like to cook with, and how they'd like to prepare things. When you give a chef unlimited time and money to make a dish, they make mostly the same stuff, which is what we tend to call "fine cuisine." There might be variation due to local consumer tastes, but a French chef and a Japanese chef and an American chef will basically agree on, say, who makes the best beef in the world, and then will (if allowed) all import that same beef.

So, you only get originality and inventiveness and "ethnic flair", under resource constraints. Every "local dish" is a local resource optimization, making food tasty using ingredients or techniques that happen to cost less to apply (or, at least, used to, traditionally) in the local area. And hole-in-the-wall restaurants, running under the heaviest resource constraints, tend to thus produce food at its "most ethnic."
I find it more apropos to suggest that they're all cooks, but meth cooks.
Here's an article that describes the difference:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/08/11...
> state( "Magic", { consume(16), toString(), assert("SPLICE") } ),
> state( "Length", { consume( 1), fromOrd(), cropInput() } ),
> state( "Version", { consume(32), toString(), setVersion() } ),
> state( "Tempo", { consume( 4), fromFloat(), setTempo() }),
> state( "Instruments", { exhaust([snip]) } ),

The layout, from my abortive attempt to write a parser.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-precision_floating-point...
No, the circumstantial evidence of the book title was placed along with the shallow exposition that made up the "analysis" and was found to point in the same way: towards a not very objective assessment by the author.

I mean, this is a the text where a teacher relates anecdotes of the japanese actively sabotaging their learning (answering "yes" even when they don't understand) in a positive context.
If ROS is anything like player-stage, it is probably a great deal more involved for quick hacks than something like Artoo. P/S was a good research platform, but not good for hacking on stuff (not the year I spent with it, anyways).
The recommendation I've heard is not just to keep the trade-in separate, but to take it to at least three dealers and take the highest quote. (I haven't tried this myself.)
I wonder whether the name has something to do with the movie "The last Starfighter": http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087597/
Oops, you're right, I thought I was still talking with dankohn1.
> TRADITIONAL!!! cuisine

Which is no more than a few decades old at most, a century at the outside.

People live, people die, and new people do the "same" food differently; people move, new people come, and there's a new influence in both locations.

A static view of tradition is a Victorian invention, a reaction to the increasing pace of industrialization, and nothing more than nostalgia. Mix that with the idiotic notion that the Medieval period was a stagnant "dark age" and you have the modern notion of "traditional" "organic" food which was the same for ever until Evil Modernity Literally GMO Monsatan moved in and made a Mordor out of our little Shire.
Another language which involves both constraint programming and imperative programming is Alma-0[1]. While Alma-0 doesn't seem that much more than a toy language, I always liked the backtracking + standard-loops feature. It seemed offer clarity plus incredible power.

I would wonder if Picat has similar feature (to implicit backtracking in imperative loops)?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alma-0
I wrote the article because I find the manner in which humans alter their reality to be fascinating and I wanted to create a basis for a discussion. Thanks to you and others, I am achieving that goal. As far as the reaction goes, I do not consider any one reaction "better" or "worse", they are all different and interesting to me.

The "strawman" example was actually just a timely (today) inspiration for framing an idea I've held for a while; there are other examples of similar ilk. I just thought Tesla was a nice modern one because they accomplish things that are beyond the average person's sense of what is possible similiar to the great minds of the past.

The notion that someone who claims they are going to do something in the future is lying in the traditional sense-- is indeed horseshit. However, that was not the point of the example or the article.

The purpose of the article (and all examples) was to show that it is not possible to make provably true or false statements about the past and future.

The use of the terms "liar" and "lying" throughout the article are used in an attempt to show how the value judgements we associate with "lying" are somewhat generalized considering that Galileo and the like are obviously NOT liars, but were made out to be so at the time.

I felt it was necessary to examine this aspect of something that otherwise would be looked it in a purely logical (and therefore somewhat impractical) manner.

The purpose was not to call innovators liars. The purpose was to illustrate how the process of factual dispute and reconciliation of past events is the same as the process of the creation of new events (innovation).

A truly strawman example would disintegrate when debated in the context of the principles it was representing. Yet, the principle it represents in this case is that we must use our actions to make the statements about the future or the past reflect reality.

Tesla declaring their intention and then successfully turning the Model S into a self-steering car is a perfect example of just that.

Do I take it then that you have since read the rest of it? :)
To bad people down voted you without commenting on why. Here's what I think:

>>I mean, the Merlin-1D has really good thrust to weight ratio, but the actual amount of thrust and the ISP at sea level is lacking compared to, say, the space shuttle's main engines (even with +30% the 1D is going to come short of 1,000 kN thurst, whereas the RS-25 on the shuttle was 1,860 kN).

The Saturn's F1 engine had an even lower Isp, and was also KeroLox. Your focus on Isp is a bit misguided. Sure the SSME's have a stellar Isp, but guess what? The shuttle solid rocket boosters had a terrible Isp (Shuttle basically ran the RS-25 at lift off only to verify they'd start. They weren't throttled up until well into flight). When it comes to hauling millions of pounds off the launch pad, past the tower, Isp is not what you want. You want mass expelled at a tremendous rate. In other words, why not use electric ion engines with >2000 Isp for the first stage? Thrust to weight matters on lift off is why.
Some argue that Japan fudged its numbers to hide the drop in GDP following the crisis, and was waiting for reality to catch up whilst reporting stagnation for a few years.
Oh I didn't realize this was a few days. Agreed.
Wow. What a mountain from a molehill. Your response has so little to do with what I've actually said that I can't see any useful way of responding. Good day.
> No, the structure only allows for a small percentage of the overall population to sit at the top, no matter how 'lucky' or 'skilled' an individual is.

Yes, there is only so much room in these kind of schemes at the top.

However, I don't buy this statement that "skill" is not involved as I have seen certain people simply rebuild these kinds of networks over and over.

There is a real skill in being able to work a weak, but large social network.
Yeah, no -- my fault. I wrongly assumed it was some type of proxy or way to get around the great firewall.
I haven't used Polymer, but:

1. They are not at all the same. Polymer is definitely a framework, while React isn't. They do a few things the same, but even their data-binding features are different.

2. React is way more popular, which matters a lot. It means tutorials, sample code, and Q&A is far easier to find.

3. Polymer is based on Web Components and relies heavily on polyfills. You may or may not care about this (I don't think it matters that much).

4. React is backed and used by Facebook, which means it's less likely to be abandoned or buggy.

See also: http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/225400/pros-a...
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"Stay inside your comfort zone"
-Most Interesting Man in the World
Agreed. Can't understand why I never see DosArrest on these lists though. They've been doing DDOS protection for a while and are good at it AFAIK. That said, I have no idea if they are interested in taking on the Chinese government.
Primarily because it contributes nothing to the discussion but also, yes, because it's an obvious comment to make.

If you have strong feelings about the issue, use that emotional fuel to write something substantive, or take it to Reddit.
Your Ford certainly doesn't do even most of the above. Your Ford has pedestrian awareness and active lane departure systems? It has radar to brake and accelerate during traffic? Definitely not.
Artoo is part of a family of libraries, all of which are similar. For Node.js robots, check out Cylon.js by the same group.