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"That 1 train is always busy"

As someone who rides the train I can tell you that you are very, very wrong.

In the winter lots of people ride it to Reno.

Families ride it from Winnemucca, NV to Green River, UT. Kids ride it (by themselves) between Reno and Winnemucca.

Lots of families ride it that can't afford the airfare for all of them. Or they have too much luggage, or they live in rural areas that are hours away from the nearest major airport.

Unlike an airplane that is point to point - the train connects people in the in-between places to other in-between places.

Between SFO and Chicago, Amtrak sells each seat in the zepher about 3-4x.

I know that the train will be crowded between bay area and reno ( filled with people that don't exist apparently ). It will empty out at Reno. Gradually refill across nevada, utah and western colorado. Empty out again in Denver. And then refill to chicago.

And yes I have met people who are taking the train all the way.

Traveling by train is way more than just getting there.

And that airfare from SFO-DEN - that is fantasy - esp around christmas.
Other commenters have touched on this as well, but I'd be really interested in seeing a breakdown comparison between this and GV. Clearly they're different, but I'd be interested in explicitly seeing what PJ is not. Really cool idea, though. Not sure I need it right now, but bookmarked.

On a superficial note, the website looks like it was thrown together in minutes, and I think it's actually really refreshing. It honestly grabbed my attention more than a bootstrap site with a full window background image and a snarky tagline overlaid. No cheesy stock photos and disruption talk, just paragraph tags and bullet points. Kudos.
hm, but i don't think most founders have founder series preferred. It was getting more popular for a few years but the trend seems to have died down - if you have evidence to the contrary, I'd be curious to see. Mine's anecdotal but not bad: last 20 cap tables with at least 5 you would recognize as "hot" companies, I didnt see one.
Drought caused by global warming countered by using desalinated water which is produced using energy from fossil fuels which contributes to more global warming.

Although in CA looks like the majority of their electricity comes from natural gas and renewable resources[1] which is a start, I suppose.

[1]http://energyalmanac.ca.gov/electricity/total_system_power.h...
Likely culprits are "performance analyzers" that grade a website and report an "F" (failing) grade for not using CDN-hosted common libraries.

This is a red herring: this idea that the user will already have a cached copy of CDN-hosted jQuery is bogus. Even for a common library like jQuery: the number of versions of jQuery that are in use is likely above 50, and the number of popular CDNs that host jQuery is surely above 10. So we are hoping that the user will have a cached copy of that exact jQuery version from that exact CDN.

This is somewhat similar to the situation we have with operating systems: we created shared libraries to save disk space and memory. These days using them is pretty much pointless and incurs a performance penalty, yet everybody still uses them.

For JavaScript, a much better approach is to a) make code Google Closure-compatible, b) compile everything using advanced mode into a single JavaScript file. That way you get an optimized subset of all the code that the site actually uses (this works wonders for ClojureScript apps). Most sites probably use less than 10% of jQuery, so why include all of it?
Nice - who needs 8K. 8. K. I haven't even updated to 4K. I don't think I have anything that runs 1080p.
Seems cool, but it's missing a lot of listings. Compare the city's listing of permits at protlandmaps.com and buildzoom and you see lots of missing ones from BZ. It does have a nice UI and seems cool. Oh also you have to implement the zillow style grouping otherwise folks won't even zoom in enough to see the data you do have.
You dont need to do any of the cgo stuff manually anymore with gomobile
Given the complexity of the software components in a modern car I think it would be a safe assumption that all of them are shipping with such vulnerabilities. If there is one area where we could benefit from some openness it is the embedded world, these are life critical systems in every sense of the world and what I've seen of such code bases does not inspire confidence at all (rather the opposite).
Do other people evaluate the potential lock-in before signing up for something like this? This service seems great as long as you continue to use it. My fear is that I sign up, port my number, give it out to everyone like the site suggests, and love the service only for this startup to disappear in X years. The phone number used is basically poisoned and I would either subject myself to unwanted calls after porting it elsewhere or be forced to get a new number. That always is the problem with these "run your life through us" startups, what do I do if you fail?
The infotainment system should never have access to the CAN[1] network in the first place... ever. At most, they could have a very simple listener on the can network that could send data (one way only) to the infotainment device via a different channel of sorts. Mixing the two is asking for issues such as just this to happen.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAN_bus
There are typically at least two CAN buses in many recent cars, one for critical stuff like engine, transmission, etc, and another for less critical things like environmental controls, there is also LIN, FlexRay, MOST, and maybe another one or two that are less popular.

One problem is that there is no limitation in the CAN protocol to prevent a node from impersonating the master node. Another is the mutability of a node's firmware.
Many (most?) readers of Hacker News are founders or employees at startups. It's very relevant to most of us.
"effective" as in "in effect", i.e. it exists and is used, not in that it's actually secure. The law would be rather pointless otherwise, as it would only make it illegal to bypass encryption which cannot be bypassed.
Do not drink at all. Literally never tried alcohol at all and never wanted to.

PS. I hope there are more people like me over there :)
tl;dr...

* sharing/talking is helpful if you have bipolar depression or any depression...

[googles bipolar depression....
"The depression that people with bipolar disorder experience is generally of a melancholic or psychotic type and therefore more biological in its nature"]

Biological depression? I gotta say that's hard to swallow. But anyway back to the talk...

* Best cure: Get a beautiful wife (he shows picture of wife)

and

* Get good meds. Get therapist or doctor to advise and supply you the meds, don't just order a bunch and start munching.

Well that's advice I suppose, if a bit unusual. He quotes Swartz with the "not even fresh air helps" thing, which is arguable. Getting out and lungs working and body moving is almost always a good thing. Physical attention helps to attract the beautiful partner which is the ultimate cure apparently. So in the end, there's no reason why depressed techies can't chess-move their way out of whatever holes they're in.

Personally I can't help doubting depression as an illness. It could instead be some sort of ego malfunction. Something about self-expectations vs realities, the vast difference growing between those, acting as a crushing force, keeping you in bed. You've tipped your own chemical balance with your own free will though. That's why the meds work, because they tip the balance back and you follow/float along, until it all starts again (pending intervention/kick in pants by wife/partner).
I was researching stuff for another post I was going to make (didn't end up making it), but I think it's worth adding an caveat to your point re parasitic vaccines, namely that we do have anti-parasitic vaccines for livestock [0]. This is not an attempt to down play the general difficulty of anti-parasitic vaccines in general, or of malaria especially. My understanding is that malaria is sufficiently nasty that even repeated childhood exposure typically only grants partial immunity - as opposed to say some other nasty like smallpox or measles which grants much fuller acquired immunity.

[0] http://www.oie.int/doc/ged/d4014.pdf
Yes! And it can be tied into your contacts list.

I can set it so that Family always gets through. Other groupings can be created and customized, like Friends, Coworkers, Acquaintances, etc. Each can also get their own voicemail greetings.

People not in my contact list will be answered with an automated greeting asking them to announce themselves, which I will hear and then have the option to pick up or send them to voicemail.

There's a feature that lets me dial a number on my phone to record the conversation, which also announces that the conversation is being recorded so as to adhere to various local laws.

Plus there's automatic voicemail transcriptions powered by Google's awesome voice recognition software, which just got a 49% boost in accuracy in an update this week.

I also haven't had to worry about transferring numbers as I switched carriers. I just let the carrier give me whatever number they want, and when people dial my Google Voice number it's automatically forwarded. I can even set it to forward to multiple numbers simultaneously, making it so I can even answer my "cell" using my desk phone at work during work hours.

Again, I sincerely hope Phone Janitor can compete with all that. I think competition has been sorely lacking in that space, and I'm eager to see what improvements it will bring to bear.
Can you give me an example of a couple missing addresses? Thanks! We should have all of them, but we are dealing with millions of addresses from ~1000 data sources so we are still ironing out the wrinkles in the normalization, etc.
I love GV, started with many years ago, but found it limiting (hence the push to Phone Janitor). Long-term plans depend on user desires, but right now you can do this on Phone Janitor, can you on GV? http://i.imgur.com/HTnJ7FB.png

I would legitimately like to know if I'm missing that kind of flexibility in GV.
Virtually nobody talks about the AMT credit when discussing ISOs and the AMT trap. Everybody assumes that AMT is this horrible beast, and while it's never a good thing, folks would do very well to have an experienced professional look at their unique situation and perform the calculations because it's often not nearly as bad as suggested.
ssh keys on USB attached to your physical house and car keys with encryption (say an encrypted volume).

Don't note what machine or where the key has access to either. I know purists will take issue with this but it's a solution to a problem as you have detailed.

Obviously only works from "borrowed machine from friend work etc" unless you can get the key from a machine to "wife's phone".
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Obligatory xkcd reference: https://xkcd.com/1102/
A proposal for a 'unum', the universal number for computing
I drink, but I think it's no problem.

I make sure to avoid drinking in any negative context, like after a hard day of work, to drown out feelings, to be able to relax etc. That just asks to become an addiction eventually.

I do not see much risk if you drink in a social context, as long as the social part is not just there to hide some other reasons.

Also, I personally do not think we should single out drinking or other drugs as a problematic behaviour. I think its always the reasons behind that behaviour that make it a problem or just a fun activity. Playing video games or watching TV for hours and hours could either be something you do for fun and truly enjoy, or as well something you use to avoid having to deal with your problems.
Actually, FWIW, I'm using pairNIC.com for DNS. I do host on Amazon S3, though.
I remember reading about http2 that using a single javascript file is an anti-pattern since http2 has smarter management of requests and can deal with them in a more granular manner.
Then, simply don't exercise your options--you won't have any taxes to worry about.
If bandwidth is a worry there are open data projects by Amazon[1] and I think Google that could host your data.

[1] Amazon Public Data Sets, http://aws.amazon.com/public-data-sets/

[2] Google Public Data, http://www.google.com/publicdata/directory
The truth is that most companies in the unicorn zone will probably have some sort of stock sales plans set up that go through the company. It isn't black and white between private/no liquidity and public/full liquidity.

However, the private market liquidity is always controlled by the company, and that can create artificial boundaries on timing and volume, which can be trouble if an employee wants to leave on their own schedule.
Presumably you can always just give important people your "real" number like you already do.
> Both systems have their downsides. The simpler system generally has fewer, and that makes it preferable in many ways.

[Citation needed]

Also, I find the version with paperwork better, because that creates a documentation trail. If someone is routinely favoring certain people or groups, documentation makes that easy to expose. As opposed to the "word of mouth" system where it's likely impossible.
Yeah, I'm a lazy bastard. My blog's all static files on Amazon S3 with no server side smarts, and I wanted comments. Disqus doesn't suck completely. There's a Google Analytics tag in there, as well as some Twitter code to embed a tweet.
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Like, security is hard, comp sci was hard, so the websites are all built by social science grads and "designers" who know fuck all about security.
Missing from the article: the fact that employees are discouraged from seeking buyers because there is an unspoken implication that this means the employee is "losing faith" or "believes less" in the company, or is getting ready to leave.

If the party line is: "hey, we are going to be a billion dollar company!" and then one employee says "hey, I want to sell at this $100M valuation", even if the $100M is a solid upside from the employees strike price the next natural question for the founder is: "hey, why would you sell at this valuation if we all know we are going to unicorn?"

Lots of people are reasonable and could understand many good reasons to sell at that point, but in high-growth culture those are not always appreciated. Sure, employee can/should suck it up, but it still makes it more challenging.

Generally, I think this is why company's should more regularly organize secondaries, it removes this dynamic to a certain extent.
http://www.stoel.com/the-anti-circumvention-rules-of-the-dig...

No, the exemption is this:

Encryption Research. The DMCA exempts encryption research from its circumvention and trafficking bans. Circumvention of access controls by one who has lawfully obtained the encrypted copy is permitted if the circumvention is done in the course of "an act of good faith encryption research." The researcher must first have made a good faith effort to obtain authorization before the circumvention, and the circumvention itself must not constitute infringement. The researcher may also develop and employ tools to circumvent the access controls for the sole purpose of carrying out the research, and may share those tools with collaborative researchers. The DMCA lists several factors to be used in determining whether the exemption for good faith research should apply in a particular situation, including whether and how the research results were disseminated, whether the researcher is engaged in a course of study or is trained or experienced, and whether the researcher provides the copyright owner with the results of the research.
> So... more perceptive women, who see from the outset [...]

Way to diss the authors' intelligence.
This is a useful idea, IMO. I would use it for programmatically generating complex reports in Excel. Would be nice if it supported advanced stuff like charts and PivotTables too.

I've recently been messing with some Office files (mostly XLSX) using various libraries in Node, and I've been thinking that a transpiler type of tool would be great for this use case, given that an XLSX file is basically just a zip file with some XML files.
So you're okay with spy agencies (from all over the world) as well as drug cartels and other criminal organizations having the power to kill you in an almost untraceable way while you're on the highway?

Also, the US gov has been using these entertainment systems to spy on people for more than a decade...it's already been happening. Unfortunately, I can't find the link now, but it was a post from 2001 or 2003 on NYT and I think they were using Ford Sync to do it.
Last job interview I went to in SF, I was offered whiskey and felt extremely pressured to drink it, mostly because I wanted the job. I've only worked at one place (out of over a dozen or more) in SV/SF that didn't have alcohol on hand and didn't drink in the office. I don't care if people drink, but when you're pushing it onto your employees and former employees, it's a huge problem, and most companies in SV/SF are borderline in the pushy area. Simply offering a drink in a situation where the employer has exceptional power over an employee or potential employee (at work or in an interview for example) makes the employee feel like they need to drink to fit in and not get penalized by the company or the bosses.

I think most companies and employers don't think like that because they simply assume everyone likes to drink which is incredibly closed minded. I've known other people, other than myself, who do not drink or cannot drink (because of unrelated health reasons) feel pressured to drink at work. I'm sure someone will say that one can refuse. That is true. One can indeed refuse, but not without negative consequences. One cannot refuse and still keep one's status and place. The refusal will be questioned, as if the refusal is the unnatural position, not the offer. I'm sure it's even more hellish for addicts who have to work at these places, but at least, they're quite used to unfair social stigma.
Wouldn't existing excel bindings for languages accomplish this?

https://www.pyxll.com/
http://xlwings.org/
That's not what I'm saying at all. Let me give you an analogy:

"He got teased for being fat". I got teased all the time, why is being teased about being fat any different/special?"

I.e. I'm not saying it's "okay" to tease someone just because I question why being teased about being "fat" is any different to other kinds of teasing.
In-flight entertainment system is barely connected to the important parts of the airplane, if at all.
Why would you exercise a stock option to receive stock you can't sell? If you can't sell it, it's not worth $1,000,000--it's a piece of paper that might one day be worth more or less than $1,000,000.
That sort of feature is available in GV, though I think that Phone Janitor is more flexible in the way it's structured.
My idea is a USB stick on car keys (my comment) is preferred simply because a phone is a more high value target than your car keys typically. You usually don't leave your car keys "laying around" they are in your pocket although that probably depends on a host of factors. Plus your phone can get snatched out of your hands on the street or taken if you leave it for a second. That's at least the way I view the risk pro and con.
FWIW, my post is not a rant against advertising in general. It's about doing it with such a large volume of code & third parties involved, leaning on my bandwidth & CPU to cover for a lack of coordination.

Toward the end of the post I say something like "what if we actually accepted the fact that ads are a way of funding the web at large" and mention some Mozilla efforts in that direction
Thanks for the helloworldprogram pointer. In this form https://www.youtube.com/user/helloworldprogram/videos it will be easily consumed :)
I don't know who your sources are, but you can talk to an attorney about this. A company does not have to permit employees the early exercise of options that have not yet vested.

Founders and key early hires, who may be receiving restricted stock (not options), are in a different camp because they're receiving stock, not options.
Most young feminists oppose alimony,

Where are all those young feminists campaigning against alimony, for 50/50 shared custody in divorce, equally severe sentencing criminal cases for men and women, draft for women, etc? I'm not meeting them.
There's also such thing as "key stealing". I imagine it would be quite a valuable target.
So I am 23 and have a large astigmatism and a -9 prescription in both eyes. I used to wear contacts but gave it up because they were more hassle than they were worth for me. I was constantly dealing with dry eyes, and shifting vision. Now I use glasses but I have trouble driving at night. I have thought about LASIK and even though the risk is low, I feel that I would rather deal with the problems I have now instead of new ones. Are there any other procedures other than LASIK that are recommended? Would I even be a candidate for LASIK with such bad eyes?
Checkout Angular's guide on e2e testing using https://docs.angularjs.org/guide/e2e-testing

Also read about Protractor, http://angular.github.io/protractor/#/, their e2e testing framework. These tests generally should be run in the browser. You can run them in PhantomJS, a command line browser simulator, but it's not the same and there are sometimes issues that don't get caught by Phantom. Best to run those tests in an actual browser.
The write-up about Tao when he was ten years old [1] by Miraca Gross mentions Tao's connection to Julian Stanley, the founder of the Center for Talented Youth (CTY) at Johns Hopkins University. I had opportunity to correspond with Stanley before he died, and the evolution of his views about the education of mathematically precocious young people is quite interesting. A 2006 retrospective by Stanley and co-author Michelle Muratori[2] examines the education of Tao and of Lenhard Ng, another very precocious mathematics learner. A key paragraph from the earlier article quotes Tao's father: "There is no need for him to rush ahead now. If he were to enter full-time [university] now, just for the sake of being the youngest child to graduate, or indeed for the sake of doing anything 'first,' that would simply be a stunt. Much more important is the opportunity to consolidate his education, to build a broader base." I wish every parent of a precocious child had that kind of healthy perspective on the child's overall development.

Tao's father's attitude reminds me of the advice on mathematical education given by Fields medalist William Thurston.[3] "Another problem is that precocious students get the idea that the reward is in being 'ahead' of others in the same age group, rather than in the quality of learning and thinking. With a lifetime to learn, this is a shortsighted attitude. By the time they are 25 or 30, they are judged not by precociousness but on the quality of work. It is often a big letdown to precocious students when others who are talented but not so precocious catch up, and they become one among many. The problem is compounded by parents in affluent school districts who often push their children to advance as quickly as possible through the curriculum, before they are really ready."

AFTER EDIT: Tao's write-up of his experience taking the Princeton University general examination for his Ph.D. program in mathematics is quite interesting, and certainly makes him look very normal indeed.[4]

[1] http://www.davidsongifted.org/db/Articles_id_10116.aspx

[2] http://gcq.sagepub.com/content/50/4/307.abstract

[3] http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/math/pdf/0503/0503081v1.pdf

[4] http://web.math.princeton.edu/generals/tao_terence