skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having to abort a lane change because another car is passing you sounds more like an everyday driving occurrence than a "close call".
That $18K only covered our expenses up till Demo Day. The $100K we raised after that allowed us to get to launch and then profitability. Also, it's not like we could predict that it was all going to work out. From our perspective everything was a risk up until it wasn't.

Having the choice to not take on debt and work with people who'd done it before made way more sense especially considering we hadn't written a line of code when we got into YC and had no idea what we were doing. YC paid us to start our company and gave us amazing advice that kept us from making a lot of bad decisions. The loan option isn't exactly a great deal by comparison.

Plus, we were not from Silicon Valley at the time. We quit our jobs because we hated working in a fucking cubicle. It was probably irrational, but easy for some people was completely unacceptable to us.
The user will just refuse to give the app those permissions.
Oh, they don't have that feature in my area (yet?) - if I browse Instacart for Trader Joe's, I see "15%+ higher than in-store pricing" and it is generally on the plus side more than the 15% side. (The average markup seems closer to 25%, it is a really really poor deal.)

I've never seen the in store pricing option here.
I take it you work there? Would you mind sending me a message at me (at) smaili (dot) org? Thanks!
Would recommend going through a divorce while building a startup for the ultimate entrepreneurial "nightmare mode". Great for building a tough skin after it's all over. Some founders come back home to an unconditionally supportive partner, others come back to a bunch of legal paperwork.
> I don't know a solution. What strikes me is that as broken as the system seems, we still manage to hire good people most of the time.

Interestingly, the simplest conclusion would be that everyone is good, most of the time. So if we throw hiring out the windows and pick employee randomly, we might still get to the same result.

Which actually isn't too outrageous, since if we have 10% unemployment, wouldn't it mean 90% of people (or more, actually) have to be value added?
Like Uber for Wireless…
There was an entrepreneur of some Web 1.0 company - I think it may've been Excite or Paypal - who said that it was very important that you "celebrate your victories" as you found a startup. That's really important. Launching a product is a victory. So is fixing that really tough bug. So is implementing a feature, no matter how small. So is hiring a key engineer or closing a round of funding. So is coming up with an idea or hypothesis that seems plausible. So is getting a user and keeping him engaged and happy.

You need a lot of these little victories to have a successful business. But that doesn't stop them from being victories. And when you set your scale small enough, some of them are basically guaranteed.
I think the long-term hypothesis of many of these companies is that you can hit a critical mass where your logistics can be made significantly more efficient. The current efficiency bottleneck, both in terms of cost and time, results from the fact that deliveries are infrequent and relatively distant. If enough people were ordering in an area, the theory goes, you could efficiently route delivery drivers to minimize the amount of time spent between deliveries and restaurants. Whether this works in practice remains to be seen.
Like I said previously, pressure from Apple & probably Microsoft, as well as others that make a similar product. If they don't like the heat, get out of the kitchen. Robin - your personal eyes-free assistant on the road is a legitimate product and comparing it to others is NOT a violation. I will continue to use Robin - your personal eyes-free assistant on the road, and tell every Android phone user I meet to get it.
What about Doughbies?
I tried using a paper Kanban board (sticky notes on a whiteboard), but it didn't last.

Some technical issues (the sticky notes kept falling off and we literally "lost" work) and some social ones (we didn't secure buy-in with the household before we adopted the system; not everyone was on board with the idea of writing down every significantly sized chunk of work).

We still have some TODO list items that have been backlogged for a year or so but succumb to lower-pri, higher-urgency issues. Oh well. They'll be a little higher-stress to fulfill as the deadline approaches, but not a big deal.
She's a Wall Street Journal tech columnist.
Well, this particular dynasty :)

In any case, it's part of a feedback loop with increasing unemployment and increasing crime.
But...but...how are the media gonna raise fear about these things then?
FWIW I was also offered a spot at AppAcademy and asked to pay an amount that was higher than anything advertised on their site. This ask took place on the phone, during a 'congratulations' call, and when I emailed back balking about the price discrepancy they said something about new pricing, yada yada.

I guess not everyone balks, so they pocket what they can.
Just get one and use it and don't let the arrogant bastards get to you.

After a couple of near-fatal bicycle accidents with asshole cars, I got a front and rear camera for my bicycle and always take up the entire lane I'm entitled to. I'll pull off to the parking lane and let people pass when there's space and the guy behind me is being civil. But I just completely ignore the assholes who honk and yell, even if there's ample space in the parking lane.

And I buy myself a beer for every honk or yell I get, so I can stay pretty zen knowing I'm going to have a good Friday night, instead of getting angry at SUV dude. And, you'd be surprised how rarely I get drunk -- most people are pretty decent :-)

(for context -- I ride on 25mph streets and my cruising speed on my normal routes is 20-25 mph, and my max speed is typically around 27. I accelerate pretty aggresively for a cyclist, and only moderately slower than I think is safe for a car on these roads, which have lots of houses and pedestrian traffic. The last guy who passed me immediately slammed his brakes when he realized I was already ~10 over and he was now doing 35 in a 15mph school zone... idiot.)
One thing you can do if you'd like to help with docs is to flesh out Rust By Example: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-by-example . It began as a community project but was then adopted by the core developers at the behest of the community, but it's seen much less love than the official docs. If you're interested you'd be largely free to make it your own. :)
What about Gibbs?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willard_Gibbs

I thought del operator was his?
He invented coax too.
I don't want to relitigate this issue again, but that's not an accurate description of the policy. If you tell us that one of the changes in a point release broke your code, then appropriate action will be taken, regardless of who you are. No organization is given special privileges regarding breaking changes based on "close relationships" to the developers.

It is true that Rust, like all actively-maintained languages, can make changes that are theoretically breaking if all evidence strongly suggests that no code is actually going to break.
Ditto. Good book.
When I resigned in protest from amcc i wrote "When i lay on my deathbed looking back on a lufe well-lived, I am not going to wish I had shipped more product."

While not dead certain I may have just found a woman who wanted to marry me in 1985, but her grandmother did not approve of me.

I miss her so. Im going to write her soon, if its her I will go visit but now she is far too old to bear my child.

Several times I have been kissed by beautiful women who made it plain they were mine for the asking but each time I pursued the impossible dream.

My ex did not want to have children. I know why but cannot tell you. Deciding to be with her was one of the most difficult decisions of my life. Now i feel I chose wrong.

Hey Anne whatever happened to Cheryl, she was one of our vendors back in the day.

She died of some very rare cancer. I am completely convinced thats because I did not kiss her back. Not that I was not interested but that i was painfully shy then.

He who hesitates does not get To swim in the gene pool.

Ive written lots of code ive made lots of money. nsome of my products were huge hits.

Consider homer's illiad and odyssey. what code that any of us write will last that long.
You have to think _very_ highly of Fog Creek to believe that they've been so successful despite making a massive strategic blunder a few years in.
> That is hardcore mode.

I agree that it's hard (I have three) but it's like anything else, if that is what makes you fail, you probably wouldn't have succeeded anyway.
Then I think you are confused or inexperienced because Unix does not treat everything as a text stream and you say functions in a programming language are different so they are better is not a wise statement. It appears you don't understand the fundamental concept and think Unix hasn't improved over the years.
You are trying to fit a deterministic philosophy into our probabilistic world. If you exercise, any number of outcomes may transpire, including heart attack. Minimum risk with maximum reward may be a more realistic approach.
I have just started working in kdb+/q and, it's my first hands on with any APL, it was a bit overwhelming at first to see an alien language like script written q but now, I am quite comfortable to understand what the script is doing in general though frequently I get stuck deep. The q gods' inclination to shorten and obfuscate everything(even the C api) makes it harder to grasp things at first, but later you also find guilty pleasure in writing one liner codes that can't be done without writing multiple loc in sql. It's a very interesting language.
Upgrading to Sublime 3 can't hurt...

I don't have issues with large files on OS X.
People were hitting that a few months ago, is this the first time that you've visited the docs in a while? In their case it was due to a problem with the page's font file itself, and it may be that your browser still has that version of the font cached. Maybe try a force-refresh?
That's a problem with politicians. Don't confuse the two.
Is BEAM slower due to the constrain bound by the concurrency model, or could one day BEAM gets further improved to the point close to JAVA?
What's more, www.roadtrafficsigns.com will sell MUTCD-compliant traffic signs to... well... anyone.
You have to have a really big system to get to the point where the timer issues are a major problem. Even then, you can avoid a lot of the problem by making some small changes to your code. Once you get to that point, there are different ways you can go on fixing the problem (bigger timer wheels, more timer wheels), without coming up with a good, elegant solution that's now present in R18.
Anyone buying a home in 2008 wasn't doing the math. That was prime time bubblesville.
I actually did just that.

Nowadays I prefer to rent a single room in a shared house. Thats really all the space I require to be happy. my futon, my desk, my electric piano, a workbench, a couple bookshelves and my cat.
Pretty much anything to do with make ends up being harmful, in my experience. It's just not a good language.
The author of this post started at Fog Creek around a year after Wasabi was invented, if I'm getting my timeline right. He was also the one to finally kill Wasabi. Hardly sounds like jumping ship.
>Consider homer's illiad and odyssey. what code that any of us write will last that long.

Not to be pedantic but that's really a non-sequitur. You can't compare literature/story telling to technology on the same impact metrics.
I do not follow your logic, at all.

Users use search engines. In fact it's pretty much a required feature to display a search bar proudly in the UI of a browser.

Users therefore give their search data to search engines. You can quibble about which corps are good corps and which corps are bad corps, but users cannot use search engines without giving search engines their search queries. Obviously.

Mozilla does no concomitant damage to users' privacy by allowing them to use their browser to use search engines. Mozilla, therefore, is not complicit in any wrongdoing which you ascribe to them.

If Mozilla made a deal with a manifestly worse option than the popular ones, measured either by results quality or by user abuse, the yes -- Mozilla would be reprehensible.

DDG is better, but it's not what users want.

> You know what would be nonsensical? If Yahoo didn't collect data about you.

Sure. Cool. That'd be neat.

> If Mozilla did not need to sell our data ...

Repeating that doesn't make it true. Mozilla does not sell your data. They sell placement of choice. We can agree that most users won't change the default choice, but we must also agree that almost no users will choose !google !yahoo !bing !ddg. In that order.

> ... it could ask which provider we want to use or integrate technology like YaCy.

The choice exists and is highly accessible. Are you suggesting a first-run dialog to ask the user to pick a search engine, a la Internet Explorer post-DOJ judgement? That's usability insanity.

YaCy doesn't even exist in Mozilla's user population's awareness. What's better? A good browser option or a dead browser?
FTR I totally agree they should have been more transparent.
ESR's claims about politics : ESR's claims about technology :: your claims about logical fallacies : your claims about ESR
As a somewhat-related data point, Servo is already using the macro deriving infrastructure of Rust to generate these lists at compile time for its garbage collector.
As a drone builder and pilot I hate stories like this. A few really stupid people will eventually ruin this hobby for people like me. That being said, why not simply snipe the drone out of the air rather than abort the mission? I know that the drone going done could theoretically cause another potential fire. But It strikes me that that's something the department is well equipped to deal with as long as they can track where it crash lands. Just a thought.
Met one person claiming he enjoys using mind mapping software.
Maybe at some point, the cars get to talk to each other when they detect proximity to another self-driving car. Then they can negotiate either time slices for sensor use, or even sensor data sharing.

OTHO, the thought of untrusted cars meeting up on the streets and forming a mesh network to exchange vital information is really scary.
I mean, storing logs to DB is an inherently slow way to store logs
Asana is pretty awesome for managing projects both at work and at home. Relatively easy to use/learn and if you're ok with cloud based software convenient as it syncs with your phone and can share with family members or team mates.
How gross! I used to like Blogger.
Is the beta stable enough to use regularly?
its called a calendar. A well organized calendar.
I'm Sheva, the author of the article. Mind getting in touch with me? Curious to hear a bit more about your experience.
Thanks for that, terminology is important in any domain but I found it to be decisive when you talk about colour science. A lot of people are using incorrect terms in incorrect contexts which leads to even more confusion.
A lot of server side enterprise software have GUI admins and management tools.
I use a Git-tracked text file to-do list for both. I also shove random notes into it. It's a pretty effective system, and it never becomes obsoleted or loses my data.
Sounds like me at home too, though with a digital version. I remember making a list of things to do around the house before we were due to host a party. Found the list a year later and about half the items still hadn't been done. Had to laugh at myself for that.

I've seen it said that if you don't get something done before the sticky note loses adhesion and falls off, it's clearly not important enough to you to bother with!

I wonder if something like this - home to-do lists - is solvable with an app for those that have failed to stick with something to date. Is it the person or is it the app?
This is a great reminder that there are things we need to let go of and not let them bother us for the rest of our lives. Whatever decisions we regret, we should remember that they seemed like good ideas at the time. Hindsight isn't always 20/20; sometimes it is really, really distorted.
I am growing increasingly concerned that one of my ex girlfriends has committed suicide.

She lives far away but we always kept in touch.

Her website has not been updated for quite a long time.

Last we spoke she had to sell her hoyse because she lost her job. Then the animal control killed her beloved dog because it bit another dog.

Someone like herbwould have some online presence all the time but other than her unmaintained website I find nary a trace.

I met her in a psyciatric hospital.

Another exgirlfriend called me, in tears, then asked "How can he say he loves me when all he ever does is hurt me?". In her case I fear she has been murdered.
Your colour terms usage is really sloppy to the point it makes no sense in some instances (jacobolus comment is really spot on).

Here is the terms reference when it comes to colour science: http://eilv.cie.co.at/
They're really slow to update their site, unfortunately.

When I was accepted, they had moved offices a month or two prior but had not updated their site with the change. The $5k deposit was a recent change and not yet mentioned on the main site either.

They have a lot of documentation that they're slowly bringing up to date. The curriculum is constantly in flux and being improved. The people who work on all of this are the TAs so they're spread a bit thin. It's not that they aren't being transparent - they've always been 100% honest with me and beyond fair - they're just overworked. I made lots of pull requests during my cohort to update documentation which they're really good about accepting and seemed to appreciate the help.

Based on what I've seen though, this $18k up-front probably has more to do with the realities of the marketplace for junior devs right now. It seems to be slowing a lot and people sans-degree or work experience take a lot longer to find jobs. There's a glut of junior devs sans-experience in the market and many companies don't know to filter for AppAcademy students yet. The size of their cohorts also seem to be growing quickly - probably ahead of how quickly they can hire TAs and fit people in the office.

Full Disclosure: I'm a recent AppAcademy grad. Also, I'm looking for work in NY if anyone is hiring. Post here with contact details and I'll follow up with you.
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If it's not a quad copter (drone), then it's model airplane/glider. These are usually are made from balsa and can be broken with a finger.
Quads and RC Planes can easily reach altitudes of 11k feet+. However, most Radio Systems and Video transmission systems can not throw a link that far. Some people can get as much as 17 miles with UHF radios, but those operate in the 400Mhz range, which, I would assume, would be very busy with all the radio traffic from fire fighters and other first responders around that area right now.

Of course it could be a fully autonomous system, which makes it all the more dangerous.

Overall, if I had to guess, I would say this is just bad reporting on LA times part. The drone was probably well over 1,000 feet in the air, but more than likely the hight reported was from sea level, not ground level.
Can you elaborate on the drug addiction you've alluded to? Alcohol? Opiates? I'm interested in learning more about Punjab, which is why I ask.
Yep. This dynasty is special in many ways. Taking one of the best states in India and bringing it to the knees.
The point is you don't have a flock of drones. There is usually one drone. I don't see how one drone can shut down two engines.
I'm hoping the Human 1.1 patch resolves these defects:

Bug #12: Memory leak causes occasional "enter room and forget why" state

Bug #57: Buffer overflow of extra hair in non-standard locations

Bug #98: Motivation module randomly fails to load
As an App Academy grad, I'm sorry about your experience. I am unaware of a/A charging $18,000 due to your age, or your lack of a college dree, or both. I know several students in my cohort didn't have a formal degree. Also the age of my cohort varied widely - young and old.

Was the $18k to be charged up front, upon finding a job, or within a year of you not finding a job? For me I was unaware of deposit increased from $3,000 to $5,000 which they only told me during one of the interviews.

I know there are some hoops to jump through, but I don't think it's as bad as you make it to be. The initial coding challenge can be taken almost immediately and my live coding challenge was scheduled a week later. I was in the conditional acceptance group where I had to do additional 'homework'. If you were in that boat, that sucks.

~ The policy does sound a little dubious. I would be very suprised if it was a blanket policy.
My wife and I use Google Sheets pretty often. List all the tasks, strikethrough them when done.

I also use Sheets as a bugtracker for my software projects, and it's been pretty effective. It's so low-overhead that I'm not spending all my time filing bugs, it's quite satisfying to see a full spreadsheet where everything has been checked off, and I can define functions for severity, time estimates, etc.
"Drones" can be fixed-wing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_D-21
I have a feeling that we'll solve self-driving cars to your driveway a long time before we solve getting the package from there to a person/porch/mailbox.

I reckon for some time we'll see people sitting in self-driving cars just to take care of the final hand over.

Actually, just struck me that what might work is an Amazon Locker on wheels plus an Uber-style app. You track the package drawing near via app (plus alerts) then go outside to grab it from an opening on the van before the vehicle recognises a completed transaction and drives off. You could take a delivery at a park, home, work, anywhere with a road nearby.
Yes, I would say it is quite stable. In fact, in the ST blog it says: "Sublime Text 3, while still technically in beta, is the recommended version of Sublime Text to use." [0]

[0]: http://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/sublime-text-3-buil...
I had a rough day today. I got home, and the dog was as excited to see me on a bad day as he is on my best day. We went for our walk--sun, grass, the park--and it dulled the bite of the day a bit. My wife got home, and she was as wonderful on a bad day as she is on my best day. We went to dinner, and by the time we got home, the day hardly seemed like much.

I know it's a privilege, but (my) family doesn't measure me by anything more than how much care I put into it, and I get back far more than I put in. It really is (to me) the most important thing to have.
20 y/o App Academy grad here. I was 19 when I finished the program. First, I must say the program was totally worth it. This is true that you have to pay regardless after the program. It really blows. The fee was also quite a bit lower when I went (I think it was 12,000, 3k upfront) back when it was just 9 weeks. It was explained to me that people under 22 showed more of risk as they might go back to college since their peers are still in college. It sucks that they weren't more transparent, but I found it to be completely worth it.

Additionally, There was more than one occasion I was late on payments and they were always lenient on my payment dates without ever charing me interest. Should they be more transparent? Absolutely, then and now. But I found it to be totally worth it.
There's no good way to do that. You'd be trying to hit a moving target from a couple hundred feet away in probably windy conditions and maybe limited visibility, and a bullet could pass between the quadcopter's arms without doing any damage to it.