skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think we can get a fair idea of what would happen by looking at the two unrestricted auto racing divisions: Group B and Can-Am.

Group B was a basically unrestricted class in the World Rally Championship. This series was initially very well received by fans, and the manufacturers produced cars that are still legendary to this day. However, in only 4 years, costs of remaining competitive ballooned, and the teams with the deepest pockets were the teams that could dominate. Sadly, the entire class of cars was banned after a series of accidents caused many competitor and spectator casualties. I don't believe this would be the result of unrestricted Olympians, as few events pose a direct risk of grave injury to athletes or fans.

Can-Am, on the other hand, lasted some 8 years in its unrestricted form. Unlike rally, it was run on closed race courses, so safety was easier to keep in check than on the winding rural roads of rally. Like Group B, it started out popular with racing fans, and the unrestricted nature allowed manufacturers and teams to innovate faster and faster. The only restriction was funding. Again, the teams with the deepest pockets began to dominate, and competition suffered because of it. Teams pulled out, and public interest dwindled. The last scheduled race wasn't even run.
>There's nothing wrong with doing a job that you hate

Really? You don't see anything wrong with that?
As a developer, my job is going to pretty safe for a while; however, I think the big data revolution is real. If you want to continue making the big bucks as a developer, you'll have to learn to automate. A current example is the rise of DevOPs.

When we first started talking about Web 2.0, all the focus was on the interactivity that better browsers and stronger web standards enabled. In retrospect what makes Web 2.0 significant is what these better UXs enabled: big data collection on a scale never seen.

The snappy UIs enticed Sally Q to take up an interests in the Internet. The web was no longer the playground of boring people and nerds. Sally was now willing to become someone's autonomously updating data source. Web 2.0 was really about the creation of autonomous survey networks. The surface of Web 2.0 was UI/UX; on the underside of the iceberg, it was a revolution in data gathering.

The autonomous survey network's value is derived from the data it collects. This is why there are crazy billion $ valuations for what appear to be silly and/or banal web sites. It doesn't matter if the idea is silly; if it collects a lot of data the site has real intrinsic value - not as a website but as a honey pot.

Web 2.0 is over. New honey pots will spring up from time to time, but the (adult) public basically sees online communication as a commodity and therefore doesn't have much interest in the next new social network. Just like most people don't have much interest in the next ketchup innovation (although I must admit I am waiting on those nano-coated bottles that will let you get every drop out). Once it's a commodity, we pretty much stick with what we have.

Web 3.0 is all about consuming the bugs in the honey pot and making (commercially viable) sense out of their corpses. This is big data network engineering, AI, and machine learning. Most of the billion dollar software companies of the next 10 years will be companies that innovate in these spaces.

As companies begin to loose trust in the security of the cloud, they will begin hiring their own teams of statistician/programmer hybrids and big data network engineers.

TL;DR If you're a developer, start learning something related to big data.
For Europeans wanting to try it, check out Joylent[1] as well, a Soylent fork based in Netherlands. They do a few different tastes too (vanilla, strawberry, banana, chocolate and soon mango).

[1] https://joylent.eu
Sadly behind a subscription or paywall.
Heh, I liked it better when it was implied.
Microsoft is a business and openness is a business strategy. I don't see the problem with that. I also don't think it is unique for any of the big technology companies. Do you think OS X is Unix based because Apple loves openness?
Hey - I'm the CEO at http://newstorycharity.org - we crowdfund houses in Haiti and give 100% of donations to home construction. We actually partner with MOH - they are great.

Where 100% of your donations go:
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*be sure to click on the home cost breakdown.

The 33 families we've funded in 6 months:
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Example of a video every donor gets:
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Also this "A 2009 ProPublica investigation found that contamination was far more prevalent than indicated in the report, citing more than 1,000 cases tied to drilling and fracking that had been documented by courts and state and local governments." http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Fracking_and_water_poll...
At the opening yes. Midgame, is requiring autonomous cars only in certain situations - perhaps highway/freeway lanes. Endgame is, of course, autonomous only - aftermarket is inevitable there. But the tech will be old and reliable by then.
What's going on is that companies don't want to pay an inexperienced chemist to learn on the job; they want to hire an experienced chemical engineer for a discount.

This is happening all over the sciences. Drug companies routinely have jobs open (while they're laying off senior research staff elsewhere...), but good luck getting one of those jobs as a new PhD grad. It's almost as hard -- perhaps harder -- to get a "scientist" position at a drug company as it is to get a faculty position in academia. Think about that.
"Steve Cohen at SAC was famous for overpaying on commissions "

After a real estate deal last year I bought the broker a gift and delivered it. He said "wow shouldn't I be buying you the gift?". No problem because the next time I was the person he called first when he got a fresh listing on a commercial investment property which I was able to buy at a much lower price per sf than if he had actually taken the effort to shop it around or keep the listing active. People respond amazing predictably even if they think of themselves as highly ethical. They tend to remember the people who treat them well and appreciate their efforts.

In this context a small gift (what I am describing) also isn't necessarily a bribe. It is an "advertisement" that makes the person that you are giving the gift to remember you and to call you when they have "a good deal".

It all depends on the relationship. It is often the case in business that instead of thinking solely about the costs (or commissions) that it definitely pays to be someone's good customer and allow them to make money from you.
If they use their money to purchase other companies or invest in r&d , this isn't taxed, right ?
Why not? If I, as a US Citizen, moved to China or Germany to work there, I still owe US taxes on my income there.
I think this guy got a payday by working on a fund with Jim Cramer, who probably made all the money by way of insider trading.

The moral of the story is ride the right coattails, don't be afraid to do some sketchy shit, and then if you luck out and get some money, then spend a bunch of time giving fairly dumb advice that has nothing to with your own success.
Yes, but... There are now a huge number of new wells being drilled precisely because of the fracking boom. So if no fracking, then the water doesn't get contaminated. It's not the actual fracturing of rock thousands of feet below that does it, true, it's the pipe that goes there and back. But the responsibilty does roll up to "the driller" which are the guys getting gas out of the ground.
I always assume it's about gathering data. I am probably completely wrong, but frankly i feel like every large decision i've seen from Google comes down to 2 core concepts:

1. Enable more people to use your service
2. Create devices that can gather more data

The thing is, a ton of device types can fit into one of these schemes. Phones for example, both let people use your service, as well as gather a ton of data. As we increase the technology in phones, they may even be mapping the environment.

Likewise, these self-driving cars are able to exploit much of Google's current offerings, as well as contribute mapping of a near limitless amount of roads/etc.

If Google can pull far ahead in the technology they can become the self-driving service. Even if they don't create the cars but instead lease the technology to normal makers, Google now has constantly updating maps, traffic patterns, routes, building changes, etcetc.

Sure, Google made a car, but i don't think they car in the slightest about the car itself. They need to push to improve the technology and legislation as fast as they are able - everything else, people and car manufactures, will catchup eventually.
Fair point. Home is a complex idea.
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Often when the Marshmallow study is being quoted, they leave out half of the story. Which is that the kids who managed to not eat the Marshmallow didn't do it via iron discipline. They managed it by distracting themselves with other things (for example reciting poems or whatever). So maybe it was more about imagination than self discipline.

Or you could say it was about self discipline, but self discipline is not what we traditionally think it is.
Hey - the CEO of http://newstorycharity.org (YC S15), we fund houses in Haiti and are radically transparent and accountable.

See where 100% of donations go:
(1)http://newstorycharity.org/roseline
*be sure to click on the home cost breakdown.

The 33 families we've funded in 6 months:
(2) http://newstorycharity.org/families-page#funded-families

Example of a video every donor gets:
(3) http://newstorycharity.org/maria-rose

Would love to hear your thoughts/feedback! - brett
cletus, we're New Story (YC S15 nonprofit) - http://newstorycharity.org

We had similar experiences to you in the past, where we would donate to a large org and NEVER know where I money went or who it helped.

So, we're on a mission to change charity by showing our donors EXACT where their money goes - here's an example: http://newstorycharity.org/maria-rose

I'd love your thoughts!
"An industry consultant, Cherian Abraham, put the fraud rate at 6 percent, compared with a traditional credit card fraud rate that is relatively minuscule, 10 cents for every $100 spent. Mr. Abraham wrote in a blog post, one of the first to spotlight the issue, that the Apple Pay fraud “is growing like a weed, and the bank is unable to tell friend from foe. No one is bold enough to call the emperor naked.”"

"The vulnerability in Apple Pay is in the way that it — and card issuers — “onboard” new credit cards into the system. Because Apple wanted its system to have the simplicity for which it has become famous and wanted to make the sign-up process “frictionless,” the company required little beyond basic credit card information about a user. Nor did it provide much information to the banks, like full phone numbers and addresses, that might help them detect fraud early."

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/17/business/banks-find-fraud-...

Neither Apple nor banks will release official fraud numbers for Apple Pay despite repeated requests.
I'm not allergic to the term "War Stories" like smacktoward. I would like to see a similarly highlight set of curated stories about entrepreneurs that succeeded or failed while working with VCs.

Frankly, these stories read more like marketing and fluff than real war stories or lessons learned.
Besides the fact that they're a US company, enjoying access to the world's deepest capital markets and most sophisticated and responsive legal system (the US legal system works incredibly well from a corporate perspective), you're implying that they're paying the same rate of tax as their domestic competitors in Germany and China/ I'm not sure this is the case, and in any case such local taxes would be deductible from US obligations under tax treaties, as far as I am aware (not a tax lawyer or accountant, consult a professional before setting up a megacorporation of your own).
I think they mean "billion", not "trillion", two words that are sadly very close together. A typical person might consume 60,000 calories a month, so a trillion calories a month is the equivalent of 17,000,000 people consuming nothing but Soylent. Soylent's not that popular.
Thanks for doing this! I hope more people add their stories.
didnt the first digital camera start that way?
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Indeed.. I might have been a bit naïve. But the current model doesn't seem to work.

Watsi-style disruption might be the other option, but it doesn't scale for fast relief.
We basically already live under the scheme where a certain amount of doping is legal. It's just that what is legal, we don't call doping. But a pro athlete is certainly going to be downing protein powders, creatine powder, etc. that aren't natural either. There's no bright line. So I think you're already correct.
He's talking about HopperApp.
With economics, that means interpreting things through political lenses for them. Contrary to some veins of popular anti-intellualism, not everything can be broken down into soundbytes accessible to anyone with a third-grade education without losing meaning along the way.
> Aging or visually impaired loved ones wouldn't have to give up their independence.

I know this is simply phase one, but I'm hoping google puts some emphasis on individuals in wheelchairs in future prototypes because this technology can be life changing for some with extremely limited mobility - my mother being one of them. Independence is key here and the the majority of us can't conceive what it's like to to be dependent on others for everything. A user with a wheelchair or power chair needs to able to get in and out of the self driving car with zero assistance.
If anything, "watch everyone to have enough data available to be able to spot a criminal before he strikes". But my point actually is, some amount of watching will always be necessary, and advancements of technology seem to increase the need for that surveillance as the time goes.
In the exact same circumstances, humans can adapt to and handle the difficulty, whereas autonomous car technology currently can't and doesn't.
Apple appears to be terrible at deploying capital. Most of it is just sitting around in cash. It's actually hard to imagine a worse allocator of capital.
Their driver policy is terrible, it should get banned in larger areas till they wake up(just my opinion)
Mailgun actually provided some free templates on their blog once. See this

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Yeah, but is a vote-system going to be better?
Maybe I'm missing something here. A quick google search says Win 7 upgrade is around $60. A cheap laptop is $299. The cheapest macbook is $1299.
Exciting but mundane. A lot has been invested but there have been very few useful results. It turns out the genome offers very little more than you already know from living in your body every day.
Before anyone complains, obligatory: https://www.google.com/search?q=wsj+surgery%27s+far+frontier...

Here's a related video showing the surgeon talking and performing the head transplant operation on a mouse: http://www.wsj.com/video/cutting-edge-science-head-transplan...
Awesome! http://etymonline.com/index.php?term=awe&allowed_in_frame=0 :)
No. It isn't the inmates who are using Facebook, it's their family members. There could be a whole demographic category of "people with family in prison" which could be quite valuable to the (numerous) services around that market. Private companies manage commissaries, telephony, etc. and charge orders of magnitude above market rate. There's a lot of money in those services.
Having been shot at in actual wars, I find it disrespectful and dishonest to use this term to describe some marketing experience or whatever. Unless, of course, you pulled a rotting child corpse out of a canal at some point. Then I suppose you could say it was a "war story".
No problem. The inline tool has saved me countless hours though and is simple to use. Their templates are great for building blocks or also ready to go as they are.
kyrre, unfortunately the world of big NGOs and charity is broken. I think you'd also like the book - Confessions of an Economic Hitman

A couple months ago 2 friends and I launched New Story (YC S15 nonprofit) http://newstorycharity.org

Our mission to show donors EXACT what their money goes to funding (by showing a home breakdown costs) and EXACT who they help by showing donors a video of the family in their new home - here's an example http://newstorycharity.org/maria-rose
Single point of failure here, but...

> keep learning, keep having fun, enjoy your teenage years

Didn't learn squat from 5-10th grade. 11th and 12th I got into AP curriculum with fantastic teachers. I still talk to them. But you need fantastic instructors, the kind who would have been professors if they were not so selfless to work in public education, to make that happen.

It won't happen for 99% of children. I got incredibly lucky my last two years.

But the inbetween? The monotony of public educators with tenure, in the years between when I had learned the "basics" (arithmetic, reading, national and global history) <aside, I do need to mention that home ec and cooking were amazing classes to have in 6th grade, and were an exception to a multi-year rule> was a void. I spent my days playing Neverwinter Nights and learning NWScript (and thus basic C) to build campaigns for a multiplayer persistent world I was constantly on. This was in the years before World of Warcraft, which consumed the later years, and with those an education in Lua and engine hacking.

It is always incredibly harmful to assume schooling == learning. Even the social aspect is wrong - its an artificial setting. Bullying only exists as a pandemic when you are forced by law to be next to your bullies eight hours a day. The rest of us have the freedom to leave those people behind. You acquire no real world social experience in public education, just look at how out of whack everyone is their freshmen year when suddenly you are interacting with people voluntarily and can pick and chose your associations for the first time in your life.

It was not fun. It was not enjoyable. It was a purgatory. And I now have a 12 year old brother whom I can see the exact same thing happening to. And it will happen to millions of children every year until someone puts their foot down with the authority to do so and say this machine we grind the creative spark and imagination out of the younger generation in needs to stop, because I was lucky, and most are not.
I think liberal arts could prepare people well for various jobs. Writing well could be very useful in today's social media landscape, for example.

So I think it is not the choice of major, but the associated expectations. They would still require some creative thinking to create their jobs.

What I saw several times, for example, was people studying to become journalists. This was a couple of years ago when I was still a student myself. When I asked them about their goals, they mentioned writing for some popular newspaper.

It boggled my mind that they would be studying journalism and not have their own blog and be unaware of the developments in media...
> I wonder what would happen if we passed an un-repealable law (if such a thing existed) that prohibited tax holidays for the next thirty years?

It's really not possible. We can even repeal constitutional amendments.
I did that a long time ago... I had to decide between becoming a professional musician, or going back to school to become a software engineer. I looked at the relative outcomes, and here I am.

In the basement studio I can afford to have because I make a good living, I have a framed dollar on the wall. I call it "The last dollar I made as a musician".
What do you mean by backing it up? You can export and import csv files and other password managers but all your password data is saved to lastpass as an encrypted blob. Are you looking to automate your plain text csv export?
I see this mentioned a lot but what actually is the problem with NetworkManager that people complain about?
one day manual driving on public roads will be outlawed, as is smoking in public spaces :)
Some people compare FORTH with game GO or philosophy ZEN. Very simple rules. And you build an own universe. And all of this fits into a very small size. As you also mentioned.
On the other hand, as a teenager you can try many things that you later simply won't have time for. It's a shame if that time that could be used for exploration is wasted on cramming useless knowledge in school.

I would plead for a better school rather than dropping out, though. It's depressing that apparently even Altucher who is supposedly a millionaire can not find a decent school for his kids.
> That said, when they sell one of these things to a person, how the heck are they going to handle the insurance?

There will be a large fluctuation prices as data becomes available but its like insuring any other system ultimately. They calculate the odds, add in their needs, and come up with a figure.

I doubt it'd be significantly different than today since all of these can be switched to manual mode.
Perfect quote for a developer sitting in a cube:

"....no one HAS to do something he doesn’t want to do for the rest of his life. But then again, if that’s what you wind up doing, by all means convince yourself that you HAD to do it. You’ll have lots of company."
Hey. Now - if you're looking for someone to talk to about TFS and bash it to death, count me in.

The thing is, I mostly care about my VCS. And TFS supports git natively now. No need to interact with anything else if you don't want to. No need to use the VS integration. Or the website (although that one did improve a lot in the last couple of iterations).

WorkItems are .. well. What do you expect from 'extensible objects based on XML that are used for tasks, tickets, and whatever you can come up with'? So .. yeah. I'd say it's subpar at builds, tasks, issues etc. - but again: You can host your repository there and ignore it, if you want (I do).

Especially your line about TFS's source control seems confusing, because I explicitly said that it only supports git or crap (TVCS or whatever that thing is called).
Telling Poor, Smart Kids That Hard Work Brings Success Is a Lie
I feel like Facebook for inmates is a social good, not something that should be banned.

The last thing I want is for inmates to leave prison with no friends or family left to turn to.
Soylent is a different product from MealSquares. MealSquares likes to talk about "whole-food ingredients" but the whole point of Soylent is to get away from that and base the formula on what the body specifically needs... as opposed to what whole food ingredients happen to come close and taste decent together.

Soylent is simple to make, simple to drink, and has a pretty neutral flavor. They tweak it at each new version so the issues with the early versions have been eliminated. Some people won't like that approach and will prefer a "whole food" thing instead, which is just fine.
Why would machines be worse than humans in bad weather if they are better than humans in good weather? Its not like our eyes are better than the machines cameras.

If its because human drivers can better "build a mental model" of whats happening with limited visibility/data - that seems like the same problem that autonomous cars are designed to solve.

Whats stopping autonomous cars from making progress in the bad weather arena? Is it just we haven't done enough miles in that weather and we need to train the ML some more?
Google's driverless cars designed to exceed speed limit [http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-28851996]