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Hey HN!

This is a Meteor app I've been building for the past six weeks. It's definitely a "scratch your own itch" project -- I've wanted a source for well-curated, topical reading lists, but haven't found anything that quite fit the bill. Rather than complaining or waiting for somebody else to build it, I went ahead and did it myself.

This is very much an MVP — it has some rough edges, the design isn't exactly drool-worthy, and there are several much-needed features on the way. But I'd rather have the thing launched and be a little embarrassed than to stash it in the Graveyard of Dead Projects (my Dropbox folder).

Any and all feedback is welcome... just please keep in mind that (1) it's an MVP and (2) it's not for everybody. I value the HN community's thoughts — take a look and let me know what you think!
When the feds hack a computer, do they follow the rules?
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> "Second, Miller and Valasek have been sharing their research with Chrysler for nearly nine months, enabling the company to quietly release a patch ahead of the Black Hat conference."

I did admittedly miss the "nine months" portion of that, but that's still only one company out of many.

> "WIRED has learned that senators Ed Markey and Richard Blumenthal plan to introduce an automotive security bill today to set new digital security standards for cars and trucks, first sparked when Markey took note of Miller and Valasek’s work in 2013."

If you read further, you'll see the paragraphs on Markey's letters to auto makers regarding the 2013 findings; Markey's own findings only reinforce my point further.

Also, note that my point - that auto makers mostly ignored Miller and Valasek, according to the article - would not include senators (unless said senators build cars, of course).
Usually automated bulk (non-targeted) hacking tools don't like to spend time looking for services on non-standard ports. I get zero ssh hack attempts on my machines ever since I changed to a non-standard port vs 100s of attempts everyday previously on standard ssh port.
I apologize that my facts were wrong. I didn't mean to offend you.

I understand that my view of this is against the circlejerk of the commenters on this post, but my original comment and your last paragraph agree, end users do not have the freedom to run GPL software on the Apple platform even if they have the source code. This doesn't seem very free to me.
That "mini-ice-age" claim has been very quickly questioned by many. But the Gulf Stream reportedly exhibits strong signs of slowing down, which to me sounds like a much more important factor for the UK.
I'm personally concerned about all students, but this sounds interesting:

> coming up with things that can happen...can get great talent

Do you mean things like the famous programs by Intel and Westinghouse or something else?
This exact attitude is the reason why modern software is so bad. Dates are set before anyone has any idea how long the software will actually take to design. Then, when it turns out the dates were too aggressive, the design is compromised so the software can be shipped faster.

That's not to say the article isn't right. Maybe speed really does win. But if that's true, we might be stuck with terrible software forever.
Here's the Next Phase of Moon Travel, Backed by Buzz Aldrin
It stops your log from filling up with half-assed attempts to break in.
Slightly tangential, but sometimes people I can only describe as "tourists" walk around in the publicly accessible areas, so it's not totally unprecedented.

For what it's worth, I tend to tell these people apart from the people with business in the building by noting where they're looking (tourists seem to be looking all over the place like they're taking it all in; people with business at Gates seem to be looking for numbers and other navigational indicators in line with tzs's comment).
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One Smart Nation: SG50
Apple Watch, the BBC and Me
I started using Chrome because it is fast in startup, load. But its not the case anymore. Still I am using Chrome coz of awesome developer tools and Chrome extensions.
To put words in your mouth, what you're saying is basically that we've reached the pinnacle of theory and practice in software engineering, aside from hiring AIs to do the job for us. That, to me, doesn't seem to be a tenable position. We haven't even reached the limit of application for known best practices, for example. And to say that we've reached the limit of understanding after only a few decades of practice seems equally unlikely.

Software is a complex subject, but is it so much different than chemistry, physics, mathematics? Each of which took hundreds of years to progress through multiple stages of advancement. Is functional flavored OOP with bolted on TDD the grand unified theory of programming? That seems unlikely to me. I suspect there are further conceptual breakthroughs on the horizon. And there is still a tremendous amount of improvement available just in getting everyone up to the level of adhering to known best-practices.
Being early and being fast are two different things.

Difference is the starting point. You can start from any point, but you need to be fast.
It turns out that the kernel is smart enough to deduplicate (in memory) the same version of a shared library across VM boundaries, so I don't really see why we need to make packaging handle this, especially if this can be applied to containers (if it isn't already). Duplicates of the same file on disk is not a big deal, and can be solved by a good file system which handles deduplication. I don't see why we necessarily want to do all of this in a package manager.

It's actually a good thing that we have these duplicates from a packaging perspective, because you completely remove the host requirements altogether, and can focus on what an app needs, and if you want to take advantage of deduplication (on disk, or in memory), then you can let another subsystem resolve that for you.

To resolve the patching something system-wide, you simply use a common base image, it's orthogonal to containers. Just because you can have different versions of a dependency, doesn't mean you need to. The main advantage of the container having it's own version is that you can independently upgrade components without worrying that a change will effect another application.

You might argue that this is a security concern, but I'd argue that it's more secure to have an easily updatable application than an easy way to update a particular library across all applications. In the latter case, we already know what happens, people don't update the library nearly as often as they should, because it could break other applications which might rely on that particular version. At least in the first case we can upgrade with confidence, meaning we actually do the upgrades.
Women complain about a lot of things that some men don't understand. Minorities complain about a lot of things that some whites don't understand. A lot of these ungrokkable issues attack our self confidence. And when we complain about them, we give people a reason to dismiss us.

Being treated like you don't belong sucks. When I am asked "Where are you from? Where are you born? Where are your parents from?" I have to ignore it. She needs more life experience if she thinks the average person will have sympathy because people ask us these questions.
I think with the name change, people might actually think of trying it out.
If only humanity had discovered an energy source which was safer and cleaner than everything that came before, and produced no GHGs. Oh, and that we hadn't spent the last 60 years irrationally demonizing it.
Apparently their results are too urgent to be peer-reviewed. The cynic in me wonders why they couldn't put it up on the ArXiv while waiting for the peer review process to run its course.

As a layperson I don't know what I'm supposed to make of these results. It looks like a bunch of prestigious authors held a press conference to convince non-specialist reporters that the end of civilization is a distinct possibility. But I know from my own research that you can convince the general public of anything as long as you can give a good presentation. Famous names and bold statements don't necessarily equal good science.
Wow, nine million. At its current rate, this fanfiction will surpass that tome in 8 or 9 years: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4112682/1/The-Subspace-Emissary...
it's from Neuromancer
So... pay them the 0.32 cents then, eh?
Google: Neuromancer
"The three have lived in the area for 3 years and prefer to live off the grid."

lolwut? "Off the grid".. while they watch a basketball game, use electricity, 1 guy on a laptop, another wearing headphones.
Ah, you are correct. I mixed up the dates with IE 10 for some reason.
And the input image.
Here is Indiegogo's take on PR with crowdfunding campaigns: https://learn.indiegogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/IGG_C...

That being said, PR is spikey (traffic wise), also don't expect millions of dollars to pour in after you announce your product. The news cycle is quick and your can be yesterday's news in hours. The ones that stay relevant is what they do with that traffic after. Make sure you have systems in place to collect emails or track who your potential leads are.

PR is a better tool for branding your company, so when a VC wants to see how the public receives you or a customer is deciding to buy your product and wants to research if you're a legitimate company. "Oh! XYZ publication demoed the product and it looks legit."
Hmm. I suppose there is some semantic ambiguity in "appear". If you just mean that any arising opportunities are not noticed, then I certainly agree with that part of your comment.
Patrick's advice (both in that article and otherwise) has been very useful to me. But when I said "access to advice", I meant in a pull sense rather than a push sense: Patrick (and other people who I consult from time to time) is great within his area of expertise, but he doesn't know everything -- whereas I get the impression that at YC, for every problem there is someone who has relevant expertise and can offer advice.
It can't be done. Congress could never get their act together.

Then, when some other country or group of countries does it, the President at that time will be blamed by his opposite party in Congress.

And then we'll invade a Middle Eastern country.
> First, I disabled HHVM via systemd and substituted in supervisord.

Why? what does supervisord have that systemd doesn't provide?
This comic [1] has a pretty solid explanation of it underneath. And if you don't like the Axiom of Choice (or think that this paradox is a good reason to reject it), read the things that can happen when you don't have it at [2].

[1] http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/2339.html
[2] http://mathoverflow.net/a/70435
You were, until the debate was lost.
Obviously presuming Deep Dream images to be the output of a strong AI or an otherwise sentient being is absurd, but it does raise a very good point.

That being: where do you draw the line in terms of what constitutes electronic sentience? The short answer is nobody knows. We only have vague ideas, and for all we know those may be completely wrong.

It becomes difficult in that the cognitive architecture of artificial intelligence is not bound by biological limitations, and thus may be quite alien in nature relative to mammalian cognition. As such, our existing ethical frameworks may be completely unsuitable if applied to artificial beings.

What I personally find unsettling about the Deep Dream images is their striking visual similarity to that of what a human sees on hallucinogenic drugs. The underlying algorithms utilized are themselves are heavily rooted in biological intelligence. It's not a huge leap of logic to say that if you were somehow able to excise part of a living human's visual cortex and hook it up such that it could receive input and generate output, you might see similar results.

It's also worth noting that attempting to grow human brain tissue to any large degree of scale or complexity within a laboratory environment would be considered a highly unethical horror show, despite the fact that we almost certainly have the technology to do such a thing today.

By the same token, one could do the exact same thing in digital form and the perception would be entirely different. This brings up a lot of issues, including the possibility that artificial agents of the future could potentially suffer in silence on unimaginable scales, double standards with regards to artificial versus biological intelligence, as well as fundamental questions about what constitutes artificial suffering and sentience in the first place.
The response to wind power never ceases to amaze me either.
That's funny. I work in industry, and we have a lot of GPL flying around.

How do you folks get away without Linux (including Android)? It seems like you're in industry, but you're probably not in very successful industry if you don't have a mobile strategy that includes running on Android.

And if you do have an Android app, then you do GPL. You just do it without any sort of sensible policy around it. Again, not all industry is that stupid.
Yes; I really dislike adjusting statistics, because it's off-target, whether it's easy or not, but I definitely agree that opportunity is the desirable thing to equalize.

Each racial group has subsets that trend towards different desires; e.g. as a white guy I knew lots of other white guys in high school who were anti-intellectual, and thought that going to college inherently meant you were a snob.

I don't know how to change subgroup attitudes like that, but at any rate it sure would be nice to give opportunity to those who want it.

The primary way that that is hard is that it costs hard money. In my example, money for student instruments and money for music instructors (typically far more than for the instruments, although both are nontrivial).

(In my areas public libraries have been cutting hours (and days) for decades. This is part of the ridiculously negative trend that we, as a society, must stop being foolish about, like these other issues.)

Statistics, OTOH, averages together those who don't want, along with those who do want, which is clearly unfair to those who do want.
Here's my attempt at a partial transcript starting from shortly after they disable the accelerator:

Driver: "It says 43 miles an hour, but it's not really that fast."
[voiceover omitted]
Driver: "Guys, I'm stuck on the highway."
Researcher A: "I think he's panicking."
Researcher A: "He's not going to be able to hear us with that radio. So loud."
Driver: "Guys, I need the accelerator to work again."
Researcher A: "The accelerator..."
Researcher B: "It won't work! You're doomed!"
Driver: "Seriously [beep] dangerous, I need to move."
Researcher A: "You gotta turn the car off!"

Many cars can be seen passing them on the left in the video during the test.
Are you joking? Apple products are the most locked down and functionally inept of them all. Remind me again how I can drag and drop music onto my iPod, or for that matter play an ogg or flac file on it, or switch to a different task on my Mac without its app and all of its windows taking over my entire desktop, or lock my screen without knowing some arcane keyboard shortcut, or find my home directory in the finder?

Not only is OS X by far the hardest to learn and use of any of the desktops, free or non-free, it is also the least customisable. I can't even buy software to make the window manager usable because Apple won't provide the API to make it possible.
That's from Neuromancer, when the hologram (like a chat bot) is having a conversation with the main character.
Is what you're working on “Steve Jobs Finished”?
GNUisance: Pigdog Interviews Richard Stallman (2000)
Unless your directly influencing the output you own the copyright to the program not the output. Basically, if your code generates a random image you don't get copyright, which is useful as generating say every English haiku is actually possible. It's under ~(15,831 syllable candidates) ^ 17.
So when you procedurally generate a world in mine craft does the guy who manually inputs the seed count as the creator, or Notch, or both, or none?
The complexity of climate patterns doesn't preclude both happening at once.
We're still deciding how the judging will work, but community-based voting will definitely be part of it. We will announce more soon
I think so too. Maybe another reason is we can use 'go func' in this programming language to start a concurrent function.
The incessantly being asked if you are lost is the most unrealistic part of this story. My wife and I were looking for a room in Stanford last year - we really were lost. No-one gave a s..t.
And look at the stunning success Microsoft has had over the past decade! Much of that is a result of stupid policies like this one.
"Too urgent to be peer-reviewed"

Maybe the sixteen co-authors could have...oh, wait what?
That's an interesting misreading of what I said. Let's try again: your employer had best not even give the appearance of questioning legally protected actions. Is that straightforward enough? Does that make sense?

But I cannot envision a situation where the question "do you realize what could happen?" is not implicitly suggesting that the realization to be made is one of company harm--and thus, yes, threatening.
Lack of opening windows is a bigger deal. Replacing all the curtain walls and stripping the place down to concrete gets suspiciously close to new construction costs. The land had better be worth it.

I've seen in down quite successfully in dense urban locations for condos but that only worked because the land was highly valuable and the building had grandfathered exemption from zoning / sightline laws for height.
The Lukuga -- #40 on the list.

I suspect there is an error in the data. The project lists the Lukuga River as being 1904 km long. But Wikipedia[1] only has 320 km, which would give it a much more ordinary sinuosity of 1.27.

For a river that might actually have a very high sinuosity, take a look at the Fraser River -- #20 on the list, with sinuosity listed as 5.12.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lukuga_River
E.L. Doctorow, Literary Time Traveler, Dies at 84
Given the general rate of change and the impact even half this effect could have on climate, with a huge amount of hand waving, I'm inclined to fully support this assumption just so we have a slim chance of getting it 12% handled before it starts to progress even slightly toward disaster. And then, if it turns out to be greatly overstated, maybe we'll have tackled it prudently anyway.
Google Now is becoming increasingly impressive to me. For instance, last time I rented a car when it was time for me to return it, it showed me locations of gas near the airport. That's incredibly useful.
You're not "infected." You have a copyright violation. It's the same as if you violate the terms of a commercial licensing agreement.

The resolution is damages in both cases, not any kind of "infection" spreading.

If your lawyers think otherwise, they're idiots.
No hidden costs! We work on a shared savings model. We analyze the employer's current paid price for each procedure and test. The delta between this current average for a procedure and the actual price is the savings. We split this savings between us, the employee (in the form of paying their out of pocket expenses, and the employer. We only get paid when we actually drive savings.
We really need to stop portraying aquihires as something bad or some kind of terrible failure. Congrats to the Pixate team.
As I understand it, this is because nullability (typically?) doesn't nest and so can't be a functor (with the whole of the types of the language as domain). If you can't wind up with m (m a), then there is no place for join.
The foundation of cloud-native computing
"Earth’s Most Famous Climate Scientist..."

Al Gore?

"In what may prove to be a turning point for political action on climate change, a breathtaking new study casts extreme doubt about the near-term stability of global sea levels."

Unfortunately, for any action to take place, we'll have to lose NYC and Miami. Even then it'll be attributed to an angry, homophobic God instead of human-caused climate change by those who can afford to be air-lifted to their new chateau high above sea level. (We're still patriotically rebuilding New Orleans, FFS.)

I don't have much faith left that any level of terrifying science can have any effect on our plutocracy.

That said, this does feel extremely alarmist, even to me. Seeing all costal cities catastrophically wiped out (and permanently under water) in my lifetime is hard to fathom, no matter how much I appreciate the science.
I think a couple things are important to consider here:

- Though it's just another alphabet, it was independently invented. This is pretty cool. Alphabets (and related Abjads) have only ever been invented historically very few times and t hey tend to be variations on a few earlier systems. It's not at all obvious that this is a way to encode sounds and many more cultures use syllabaries or abugida (2 of the three native Japanese systems) or some kind of logograph system (like Chinese). Even Tsalagi ended up turning Latin characters into a syllabary.

- Runes look like they're uniquely useful for scratching into wood, just like various scripts in Mesopotamia (like Ugaritic or Akkadian) work best when pressed into wet clay with a stylus and Arabic, Chinese and Korean work best written with a brush. It's interesting how different systems have kind of an optimal medium to work in.
Why'd you stop writing for TC?
As an aside, it could be a small indication that this community is a.) growing a bit via reddit, and b.) reaching a critical mass where maybe StackOverflow rules should be considered.

Something like, not being able to reply to the "root" of a comment tree without some paltry number of karma, like 10.

Don't get me wrong, I don't care about karma scores, but as you point out, it isn't very hard to "farm" karma if one so chooses.
> The cynic in me wonders why they couldn't put it up on the ArXiv while waiting for the peer review process to run its course.

The arXiv is not mainstream in may fields, so they may not have thought of putting it there. I am sure they would have figured something out, but glacncing at the subject areas on the main page, it isn't immediately obvious where a study such as their should go. Physics/Nonlinear science, Statistics? Occasionally a meta-climate study appears in the astrophysics listings, but those are generally papers studying any interplay between astrophysical events and (often historical) climate change.

It would be great if more fields used arXiv. Some do have their own similar resources, separate from arXiv (the cryptography community comes to mind). But I am not aware if there are any associated with climate research.
so just business-as-usual for a Perl5 programmer?
>The only reason that that is not obvious is that Docker is piggybacking on the relatively excellent and well-developed package management of distributions like Debian and Fedora.

s/well-developed/widely-used

Just because a package manager has a broad user base does not make it excellent nor well-developed. pacman[1] user base is far smaller, but (IMHO) it's a much more refined package manager than apt or rpm.
Resume-wise he can just not put the position on there, it's easily explained away by a break traveling/freelancing etc.

As for financially, I agree with you for the most part. I'd still rather take the hit on the money and get out ASAP, you can always earn more. The best situation would be another sign-on bonus that paid the original one off - as long as the new position was good enough to last the year.

But, if he's getting a $35k sign-on bonus he must have quite a good skillset and be earning a high salary wherever he lands. Paying it off will be unfortunate but is totally doable.