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I mean http://comma.ai is the self-driving car company. (Reactions was a hackathon project, not a real co.)

He has a company: http://comma.ai .

Sure, but a lot of the people taking classes at the Extension School don't want a degree. For example, I had students whose employers were paying for them to take a single course t…

As a grad student at Harvard I was involved in teaching several courses at Harvard Extension School. While the students were generally motivated and enthusiastic about the course m…

Policy is always about tradeoffs. Is it your stance that the creator of Reddit tip bots should have to register fingerprints with the FBI, hand over personal financial info, send q…

Or tell that to Linus Torvalds, as it's his law.

And one of the key questions is, does this make sense for, say 1000 abandoned dogecoin (current value $0.24) on tipdoge.info? This is why we proposed de minimis exceptions.

We're in the process right now of writing up a more in-depth policy proposal, but you're spot on in terms of different levels of risk management. And we're not at all against secur…

Part of the problem is that the regulations aren't just seeking to cover companies that hold peoples' funds (aka private keys), but instead any technology touching the ecosystem. N…

Indeed he's attempting to apply an existing regulatory framework to new technology, which rarely works well. The point of the article was not to focus on the consumer protection is…

It certainly is an "ask for the moon" type proposal, which is how regulators often like to start. Part of the problem, though, is that it's so far skewed to one side that getting i…

You're missing the point here—we're grateful that people in the jailbreak community release things as FOSS, but the majority of jailbreaks as you yourself mention are not FOSS them…

To our knowledge, no one was working on an open source jailbreak, and given that the site I'm building is designed to incentivize things like free and open source software, this wa…

Hi Saurik, I'd love to hear your response to the substantive aspects of my email as opposed to an ad hominem attack. I didn't send it until this morning because I was sick and trav…

That text is referring to section 512(f) of the DMCA, which states that any person that knowingly misrepresents a claim of infringement is liable for any damages including costs an…

CodeHS is well on its way to that, providing help from live tutors and feedback on coding projects -- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4835649 .

Let's replace "code" with "write." Please don't learn how to write. Only writers do this, and we really don't need more of them anyway. There was a time when this wouldn't have sou…

There was a bad link from the front page before, and now the story is down altogether. Looks like they're trying to fix the problem.

Down for me as well--looks like TC is having some issues. Clearly they could use some coding help too.

Your experience sums up the research in this article to a tee: http://nymag.com/news/features/27840/ "Dweck discovered that those who think that innate intelligence is the key to s…

How should we send in updates/corrections? Seems that the doc is read only.

There's a significant price differentiation between living in Manhattan and in other boroughs. One really can't lump them all together. I have friends that pay $6-700/mo for rooms …