skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People build it and then you can exchange money to receive one, how does that not qualify as a production car? Some are even built in the US (by TMI) and you can find them at dealerships: http://arielatom.com/locate-dealer/ A friend has one and it's perfectly legal to license, register, and drive on the street in some states. It has all the federal auto requirements like indicators, brake lights, etc. and can even pass a e-check (as long as you bought one with a catalytic converter).
I see the value from LinkedIn's perspective. I just don't see the value from mine. All they're really offering me is an opportunity to be spammed by even more recruiters.

And, yes, I am in business.
Good point. It's pretty sad that even Android phones have a worse track record than a car with this stuff.
It certainly weights a bit, but the CoG is much lower than any ICE car due to the battery pack running along the floor.

That gives it much better handling characteristics than an equivalent ICE car.
‘World’s Most Dangerous Rivalry’ Stoked by Bowing Abe Robot at CIROS
It takes a lot more effort to go more than 85mph (and the engine has to work differently depending on the environment).

Someone stepping on the pedal and being where a pedestrian is in 2 seconds could be very fatal for inexperienced drivers.
Telling of what, exactly?
FWIW there's a hole for the Netflix of News that needs to be filled.
I'm curious if this is simply some silly patent issue where people would make it but MS or Logitech owns a patent that is preventing it without significant modification...
I'm just wading into the HA waters with Postgres. I somewhat understand the tradeoffs between simplicity and robustness, but what would be your recommendation on how to proceed for someone who is a newbie?
Agreed. The 2015 Mazda3 we just bought has a horrible info/nav system that crashes and frequently stops responding. I'm guessing the actual chance of it ever being fixed at 0%. Tesla's get an automatic OTA update that would fix that kind of thing and it wouldn't be something you'd have to 'deal' with for the rest of your ownership of the vehicle.
Exactly. That's what I ended up telling them: "Thanks for offering me 5000 shares of your company, but you won't give me any details about what they're worth... did you issue 50 million shares? 5 million?

If someone is stupid enough to take something that you won't tell them how much it is worth, you are going to end up with stupid/naive engineers and you will fail.
You need a larger team to do automatic failover because getting it right is a massive PITA. Either that or pay someone to do it right for you, e.g. RDS, managed solutions.

Manual failover is often a lot safer, automatic systems have a nasty habit of not doing what you expect them to and trashing your database / losing data.
I'll continue to steal stuff.

Then I sincerely hope someone else takes the same attitude towards your economic activity by helping themselves to it without compensating you, so that you gain some first-hand experience of what that feels like.
I can recommend the Bentley manuals.

With general knowledge of how an internal combustion engine works I basically learned how an actual car really works by reading through one back in the 90's.

The Haynes manuals are merely worth a quick reference book if you really need to know something model-specific and you don't have access to the maker's original service manual, but not much more.
Your morning cereal isn't auto-updated in the box, obviously, but the recipe is presumably tweaked quasi-continuously without calling it Corn Flakes 2.1 or something like that.
So, anecdotally, low end Porsche models have sold well, like the Boxster and Cayman, and high end VW models have often not sold well, like the Phaeton.
Better for whom? People that don't understand what a value or a reference is and need image macros to explain everything?
The batteries in a Tesla aren't very green and sadly they are quite large. Big automakers think in volumes of millions of cars, Tesla delivers about 25K (EDIT: looks like 40K projected for this year[1]) cars a year.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2015/05/12/tes...
If I find it again, there's a video of a quine deduced by a scheme interpreter relationally defined in minikanren.
In addition to the low-bandwidth pointed out by other commenters, the burden on NASA's Deep Space Network a significant limiting factor [1].

The DSN is the only system of antennas capable of communicating with New Horizons at its current distance, and shares the responsibility of communicating with many other deep space missions.

So, aside from having a bandwidth on the order of 1 kb/s, New Horizons is also going to have to wait in a queue of other missions waiting to use the DSN.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_Deep_Space_Network
English version will come next year and yes we will have movies from Nollywood :)
>for the condition it targeted, an incorrect diagnosis would kill.

But that's not always the case, it's not even the average case. Where there is much lower risk, there should be much lower barrier to entry. Treating every medical device as if it were a likely Therac-25 is not even remotely a good solution, and in some of these cases the lack of approved medical equipment is directly contributing to many peoples' untimely deaths, and to even more peoples' poor-health and/or poor quality of life.
Well done, and I appreciate that this is valuable to you. However, I am not looking for a job so it is not relevant to me.
Wargamers tend to have narrow elitist focus when it comes to boardgaming. I think its because they see their hobby as more than simply playing a childrens game for the fun of it, rather they see it as a more serious exploration of history. Since it has a war theme, I agree with you that Battleship completely revolves around FOW.. Stratego is another example of a classic boardgame that does this as well. Neither one of those games touch on "friendly" FOW mentioned in the article though. If you want to try a lighter game that implements "friendly" FOW give Memoir 44 a spin. Hidden information is also a standard feature of many games that don't have anything to do with war...poker for example.
> So you agree that the status-quo is bad, but you think that almost anything else would be worse?

I think the status quo is a trade-off between too easy and too restrictive. Too easy kills people; too restrictive kills different people. Saving more of one set of people almost automatically means killing more of the other.

Re the horrible environment: It was horrible in that we didn't (at the time I was there) have much automation to handle the FDA documentation requirements. (Don't think the standard "document your code" here; FDA requirements are much more than that.) The result was a mass of manual paperwork for the software engineers, which (at least for this one) is a horrible environment to work in. It got better after I left, as they got more tools to help them.

> That's another anecdote I'd use to support my opinion.

But I don't see it as supporting your opinion, and I'm the guy it happened to.
And all those other problems like getting people to Mars, or the moons of Jupiter, for example, will be easier?

All things with space are difficult, expensive, and possibly dangerous. Sure, getting to Pluto was difficult and cool, but that's the nature of space exploration.
>it will need Congress to intervene

Agreed on that. When cloud DVR is legal but cloud DVR+antenna is illegal, something has gone belly-up.
Would you recommend any approach or I should go undust my high school and college books in the search for study material. Or is this too basic material.
So, there's clearly a lot changing in the winds of business, right, especially in tech circles where a) skilled employees are really in demand and b) we communicate a whole lot more than other sectors with each other.

I don't think anybody expects to really build a career long-term at a company anymore unless they're a cofounder--5 years, maybe, right? So, companies are starting to say, "hey, wait...let's lure them in with equity".

Problem is, we as employees are wising up (due to this sort of constant gossip we all have) that equity is basically not worth counting on at all, and is just a way of tricking engineers who've avoided business learnings into working for less than they produce.

I'm curious how long until we see an approach where the employees get a direct stake in the company's revenue, growth, and expenditures, instead of this silly equity proxy arrangement.

The problem that I see from a morale standpoint, especially for early engineers and hires, is that the founders have massive massive massive equity compared to you, but don't do nearly as much to actually build out the company. They don't organize the teams, they don't write all the fiddly bits of the code, they don't smile and dial all the customers.

And maybe that's just my own bitterness and experience, but it really seems like a lie to treat equity as some actual stake in the company, because you'll never get into the founder club.
I started working with RenderMan in 1988/89. If you're a programmer then I think the RIB interface is even easier then using GUI tools like Blender. It can be very fun to play with directly. Feed the following text into `prman`.

Display "hacker news" "framebuffer" "rgba"
Projection "perspective" "fov" [45]
Translate 0 0 10
WorldBegin
Translate 0 -1 0
Rotate 120 -1 0 0
Geometry "teapot"
WorldEnd

Then check out the Steve Upstill book "The Renderman Companion", "Advanced RenderMan" by Tony Apodaca and Larry Gritz, and the spec[1] for reference.

You can learn a lot of creative skills, geometry, animation, math, and technology from this simple interface. Note how rotations are in degrees, and commands are easily human readable. The interface was designed to be useable by people as easily as by software ("WorldBegin", cute and intuitive). Key things to remember when playing around with the RIB interface:

It's a 'right handed' coordinate system, so use your right hand to model the axis (perpendicular index finder, thumb, and middle finder form the axis). Put your thumb along the positive axis to visualize things like rotation. Above I use a negative 1 x axis (vector) to rotate 120 degrees so I can visualize the direction of rotation by pointing my right thumb to the right (negative x axis), and the direction my fingers curl is the direction of rotation.

The transformation hierarchy makes it easy to control and reason about transformations without resorting to matrix math. Use that to create easy to manipulate groups. The relevant commands are:

# parent object
TransformBegin
Translate x y z
Rotate angle x_axis y_axis z_axis
Scale x y z
Skew angle dx1 dy1 dz1 dx2 dy2 dz2
# child object
TransformBegin
# Translate x y z...
# ... invoke geometry
TransformEnd
TransformEnd

1: http://renderman.pixar.com/products/rispec/rispec_pdf/RISpec...
They were also sued.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/03/startup-workers-s...
I find this to be one of the better guides. There is a list of questions at the end you should be asking.

https://equityzen.com/blog/understanding-equity-compensation...
I thought HomeJoy was an awesome idea at first, until I started reading about the experiences, and tribulations, of their ...contractors? Not even sure what to call them, other than hardworking people who, when you balance it all out, weren't making that much. I'm sure the CEO and her brother made a killing, but house cleaning is tough work, even for people who do it professionally every day, for a living. I think those people should be employees, they should be given job protections, and they should be treated (and paid) a lot better than they are.
Yes. And very little if they approve something too fast that causes problems.
More impressive to me is the fact that the 90kWh battery is already trickling down to the Model S. It was originally developed for the Model X.

I think it's safe to say that we'll see Model X features moving down to the Model S much faster than previously thought. This is how you relentlessly improve a product instead of holding specific features to a Model without solid technical reasons.
Try ~55k this year
>I certainly thought the cleaning was done better than Handy, but Handy got them beat in pricing.

I've heard this a few times on this post. It is not remotely true in Seattle. I just checked, Handy is 20%+ more expensive. Weird
I don't know.. Google confirms they covered my area. I really don't look for house cleaning services, so maybe I just didn't get targeted for ads.
I'm willing to accept to a large amount of honest disagreement of how much regulation is appropriate for medical technology. But articles like this, which twist the truth and drop so much context make my blood boil.

Some examples:

"Many high-risk medical devices today are approved on the basis of just one clinical trial (as opposed to new medications, which usually require two trials)"

This is only true if the medical device in question is an update to an existing medical device that has extensive clinical data and use in the field. Sometimes that minor update is as minor as a software modification.

"And only a small minority of clinical studies of medical devices are randomized, controlled and blinded — the gold standard for reliable evidence"

This is true because it's unethical to conduct major surgery on someone to give them a placebo, so we can't really blind the studies. They are definitely randomized and controlled though.

"In fact, according to a 2014 journal article co-written by one of us, the F.D.A. has never issued a warning letter or penalty for a postmarket study delay."

This is laughably untrue. I've in fact worked for two companies that received penalties for not being timely in postmarket surveillance. It might be true that FDA has never given a warning letter (which is their version of 'you've been a bad boy, no new products for you until you get your shit together) solely for postmarket reporting failures, but that's a much different claim.

"When a high-quality clinical trial was finally completed, in 2011, it found that patients who had the device implanted were more likely to have another stroke and to die than those just receiving medical management. Despite this evidence, the F.D.A. did not withdraw the device (though it did narrow its recommended uses)."

Wingspan was left on the market because for certain classes of patients it was a good treatment. FDA's action was appropriate.

"But alarmingly, the 21st Century Cures Act would establish a third-party program of nongovernment authorities to assess whether a company is permitted to make such changes. The act would enable the device manufacturer itself to select — and pay — the third party from an approved list. This flagrant conflict of interest would make it impossible for physicians or patients to have trust in the safety or effectiveness of updated medical devices."

This is the mechanism that Europe uses to approve all medical devices, not just changes, and it is not the nightmare scenario the authors make it out to be. The reason is that the regulatory middlemen have balanced incentives: they can't be too lax because when they get audited by the European Commission they can lose their license (and in effect go out of business). They can't be too strict because a manufacturer has 5 other companies they can do business with.
> What you end up with is handing the market to huge corporations that can afford the not-product-related huge upfront costs, and who have the institutional knowledge of navigating the approval process.

True. Management mentioned it from time to time, as a barrier to entry for competitors.
Where I am we have a similar setup for leader election and failover (using etcd and haproxy) but we add an additional step: a standby instance that does not participate in master election, and always follows the elected master.

Then we turn on confirmed writes on the master so that the non-participating standby (called the "seed") has to receive and confirm your write before the transaction can commit.

This has the bonus of preventing split brain... If the wrong instance thinks it's master, writes will block indefinitely because the seed isn't confirming them. If the seed is following the wrong machine, same thing. And if clients and the seed and the master are all "wrong", then that's ok because at least they all "consistently" disagree with etcd.

The seed instance can run anywhere, and is responsible for receiving WAL snapshots from the master and archiving them (to shared storage) so it can crash too and be brought up elsewhere and catch up fine. The writes just block until this converges.

It's worked quite well for us for a few months on a hundred or so Postgres clusters, we haven't seen an issue yet. I'd love for somebody knowledgeable about this stuff to point out any flaws.
Correct. After all, the copyright holders (who are ultimately the creators, followed by their contractual assignees) are citizens too, so if the government renders their economic relations de facto obsolete (even if negligently rather than deliberately) then they are being discriminated against through no fault of their own.
Blur that a little bit, and it would make a pretty good wallpaper.
Things to ask from any start-up:

Regarding your grant:

1. How many outstanding shares (including as yet un-granted option pool shares) - divide your grant by this number and you have your ownership share of the company

2. If you're granted RSUs, ask about whether you need to file an 83b

3. If you're granted options, ask for the price of these options (or the last common share 409A valuation). This is your cost value of each share

4. Post-money valuation of the previous round (can't be calculated by 409A since that's different, but rule of thumb is that 409A valuation X outstanding shares x 5 ~= last round valuation).

5. Post-money valuation/total outstanding shares is technically the paper-worth of your options or shares (and you can subtract the 409A valuation to get the current expected profit per share). Assuming nothing else, your shares vested per year X (valuation-409A valuation) = your paper equity salary per year

Regarding the company prospects:

1. Money in the bank

2. Monthly burn rate, at which point you can derive the amount of time left for the company to keep going without raising more funding

3. Revenue growth rate, and expense growth rate - this allows you to adjust 2

4. Status of next funding round - when, and which investors. Ask if the same investors will participate again in the next round of funding. Very very rough rule of thumb - if yes, company is doing ok. if no, something's up (with the exception of large growth rounds where smaller investors can't participate anyway)

5. Ask about liquidation preferences (so if there's a sale or exit, do investors get their equity share or at least 1x their money back (the higher of the two), or do they get a multiple of their money back (if that's greater than their equity share)

*Edited formatting
Imagination Creates PowerVR GR6500 Low-Power Real-Time Ray Tracing GPU
The incumbents have already beaten them to the mass-market segment. The Nissan Leaf and the Chevy Volt are both affordable, competent (if unexciting) electric vehicles.
This was all clearly laid out (with backing statistics) by Sam Peltzman in his 1974 book "Regulation of Pharmaceutical Innovation".

The statistical result of the 1962 Amendments is that the beneficial effects of reducing the amount of bad drugs being released is far more outweighed by losing the beneficial effects of drugs being delayed or not being developed. But people only see the former.
Where did the water come from on Pluto?
"Congress" isn't a penalty. Budget reductions are a constant threat, and I'd consider that threat more a function of the politics of the majority leader than of whether or not the FDA had to issue a recall or got some bad press.
This link lead me to the API used by the project: http://www.dronestre.am/ followed by the twitter account linked to the api https://twitter.com/dronestream

I never thought the US conducted so many strikes, especially in Pakistan ...
It [Tesla Model S CoG = 17.5-18"]'s competitive with supercars, i.e. that of the Ford GT [1], and better than the Porsche Boxster [2], which is not a supercar.

[1] http://www.motortrend.com/oftheyear/car/1301_2013_motor_tren...

[2] http://www.caranddriver.com/features/tesla-model-s-60-2015-1...
Why not the company that makes the melatonin you are currently taking?

Presumably they are making a profit at it. They spent a bunch of money to set up factories to produce, package, and market melatonin, why suppose that FDA approval, but not these hurdles, would stop them?

Or what about the patent-holder (if there is one)? One would think they would have ample incentive to seek FDA approval if they have a temporary monopoly on producing the compound.
That is a large part of my point- natural monopolies, or more generally, any concentration of wealth in a capitalist society, rapidly progresses towards what you call "state corporatism" (but what I would just call "capitalism"). You seem to miss my main point - it was claimed that "corporate monopolies are rarely [the] result of unadulterated capitalism, but rather state corporatism"- my point is that state corporatism is the be-all and end-all unadulterated capitalism; the latter becomes the former, one is not a perversion of the other. "State corporatism" is merely a cop-out word to describe any inconveniently obvious examples of coercive forces within a capitalist society, so they can be dismissed as un-capitalist, and in some cases even twisted so that any laws which protect the public from unadulterated capitalism are guilty by association.
Money, Value and Women's Work
Isn't it an overstatement that the batteries aren't green? Yes, there are environmental impacts from the production, but still a lot less than the environmental impacts of all the oil that would otherwise be produced and burnt to fuel the car over its lifetime, no?
Sorry for being off-topic, but where did you learn to write this solid C++ of yours?
I don't think he was trying to be snarky. I thought the same thing when I first clicked on the link.
Haha. Stay a subscriber to Netflix so you can spot the strengths to copy and problems to avoid. Competitive intelligence for $7 a month is hard to beat. ;)

I think the biggest thing for you company, though, is to just put all your effort into getting operational where demand and connectivity are strongest. Don't worry about the others too much: you'll just get overstretched. Many projects have made that mistake. Just add them gradually over time.
I've not seen anyone, not even libertarians, argue in favor of allowing companies to fraudulently misrepresent their products.
100% agree. Really appreciate the feedback! I added a skip button. I'll work on the missing poster issue too :)
The biggest issue at the moment is the limited range with battery only.

Even after a large network of charging stations is created, the user experience for long trips is not ideal - up to 1/4 of driving time may be spent charging.

The ownership paradigm may change at some point, but at the moment people like the idea of using their own car to go around town as well as going on vacation / see the parents / etc across the state or nation.

- Disclaimer - I work for GM