skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's actually not terrible. Looks like they have about 1000 employees, so that would be $294,000 per employee on average. Obviously a normal distribution will skew this pretty heavily so that the first 50 or so employees get most of the money and everyone else gets progressively less. Seems to be about normal for payouts on exit, though.
Alternatively, eat lots of cake so that you die of something else first.
I can't imagine everyone who gets on the L every morning getting to Manhattan via Uber.
Twitter is pretty much a counter example. They have a terrible time being profitable despite their size and their stock is getting hammered for it.

Amazon is a different beast because they live at the razor's edge of profitability and have for years. Square is not close not to mention they're competing with entrenched competitors.
If that wasn't your own thought you'll need to hand it in to the Council.
>we can all be united in watching against the people who really are.

Almost like a neighborhood watch, one could say.
Instead of simply measuring volume of all content created, I would like to see a measure of high quality content created. I think that sharing of high quality content leads to a higher demand for it, while sharing of low quality content leads to lower demand. So things like the practice of putting a single good song on an album would overall decrease demand, showing an overall drop in revenue for those companies.
If you look at the modern distribution of Doggerland Y, then it's clear that it's much, much more common in England and the Netherlands than in Norway-now-Sweden. You are correct that I can't be 100% certain.
Chrome is much lighter than phantomjs. I use Awesomium which is a .net port of Chromium and it loads pages at half the time phantom does with much less CPU load. My guess is that Google can refine it even further.
Isn't knowing better than not knowing? You can prepare accordingly.
>until you become part of the oligopoly of Visa, AMEX, Mastercard, Discover

I thought their competitors were First Data, Vantiv, Total Systems Services, Global Payments, and Heartland Payments Systems, etc. Does Square issue cards/ credit? It's not clear everybody in this discussion has the same facts.

Edit: Replaced pronoun with proper.
> Every conversation in Zulip has a topic, so it’s easy to keep conversations straight.

Threads! Hooray.
I really enjoyed this article, it was very accessible. Recently I've been studying some literature on stochastic optimal control, and I've bumped into the KL-divergence concept a number of times, but never really understood it. I expected this article be a fun read, but I never expected to learn something so directly useful! Information theory really does show up everywhere.
C++11 compile-time string hashing
Furthermore Stripe is highly visible in places like the Bay Area, where I believe many HN members are located. I wonder what the numbers are for Stripe adoption outside of major tech hubs.
> But climate change does threaten to greatly accelerate the rate of species collapse, perhaps unstoppably so, in the coming decades and centuries.

What is the evidence for this? For example I'm not aware of any correlation between the historical records of warming periods and historical records of mass extinctions.

There is no reason that warmer temperatures or higher levels of CO2 should be bad for life in general. As cold areas shrink, populations of species adapted to cold habitats will suffer, but warm habitat species populations would expand.

I'm not trying to take away from the reality or seriousness of anthropogenic global warming, or give Exxon a pass. Just because something is real and is bad in certain ways, that does not mean it threatens all of life on Earth, which is how I interpret the concept of "unstoppable" species collapse.
Todd from Prerender.io here. We've seen the same thing with people switching to AngularJS assuming it will work and then coming to us after they had the same issue.

[1] This image is from 2014, when Google previously announced they were crawling JavaScript websites, showing our customer's switch to an AngularJS app in September. Google basically stopped crawling their website when Google was required to execute the JavaScript. Once that customer implemented Prerender.io in October, everything went back to normal.

Another customer recently (June 2015) did a test for their housing website. They tested the use of Prerender.io on a portion of their site against Google rendering the JS of another portion of their site. Here are the results they sent to me:

Suburb A was prerendered and Google asked for 4,827 page impressions over 9 days
Suburb B was not prerendered and Google asked for 188 page impressions over 9 days

We've actually talked to Google some about this issue to see if they could improve their crawl speed for JavaScript websites since we believe it's a good thing for Google to be able to crawl JavaScript websites correctly, but it looks like any website with a large number of pages still needs to be sceptical about getting all of their pages into Google's index correctly.

1: https://s3.amazonaws.com/prerender-static/gwt_crawl_stats.pn...
Marvin in pulp fiction maybe? Just kidding.

Who knows. It does seem like an easy way to get away with such a crime. In the past it may have been a legit safety concern.

Now with uber it seems safe. Police can track the location of the car, driver and passenger.

Probably has something to do with collecting tax money too. Licensed means it is easier to track taxes. Uber doesn't need the traditional licenses for reporting taxes
So what does this have to do with Square's IPO?
Back in July, Elon Musk complained that the crummy lines on the 405 Interstate around L.A. made it difficult testing ground for Autopilot; now, as more and more Model Ss (and all their various sensors, forward radar technology, and cameras) hit the roads, they will record and relay the information on highways and freeways across the fleet, creating a car-crowdsourced database of road conditions.

Great note on the implications of crowd-sourced road data. If we're impressed with Waze/Google traffic notifications and re-routing now, how much better can we get if the vehicles themselves know how many others are out there and can report back on conditions, route equal numbers of vehicles to each detour to keep traffic volumes down, etc. Every car prior to this has been a dumb box in this regard, and by design.

Looking forward to seeing what real-world testing demonstrates for the tens of thousands of Teslas on the road...
Obviously building a subway is not just having the money to build the subway. Anywhere.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Avenue_Subway
The problem is when people realize they're not going to get paid, they also realize there's no reason to finish.

After a constant stream of cost overruns the US military tried to do fixed price contracts for awhile. What happens is the big players don't bid, or they do it through independent subsidiaries.

Then when the project costs balloon the contractor comes to you and says "Look, you have two choices - either you can modify the contract so we can make money, or we'll declare bankruptcy and you'll have to write off every nickel you've spent so far."
Performance Testing: What to do with my results?
You tell me what you're counting as a mass killing, and then I can show you how that event is overwhelmingly something that happens in the US. You've pointed to less than two events per year for Europe for this century.

How about six people killed? There have been 13 events in the US where six people were shot and killed since Jan 1 2013.

You're wrong anyway. From your own post:

> De Gelder, Kim, 20, Jan. 16/23,, 2009, Belgium, 4, 12

> Bosse, Bastian, 18, Nov. 20, 2006, Germany, 0, 22

> Radmacher, Sabine, 41, Sep. 19, 2010, Germany, 3, 18 (arson was also used)

> Sacco, Angelo Secondo, 54, June 28, 2005, Italy, 3, 9

Numbers killed: 4, zero, 3, and 3.

Wikipedians are going to list every event that happens in Europe, because these events are so rare. They are by definition news worthy, which provides a lot of reliable sources. But US mass shootings are so common that they hardly make the news.

The fact that you dismiss an event where 15 people were shot but not killed as not being relevant, or you dismiss events where 4 people or more are killed as not being mass killings is a sign that this conversation is pointless: you're blind to the facts.

> this is a uniquely American

I didn't say uniquely, I said overwhelmingly.

It is overwhelmingly a US problem.

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/oct/0...
By targeting DEX, which happens to be documented, there is at least the hope that for the Android tooling that Google cares about, it is just like Java running and there are less hurdles.

So, you get the same benefits of the languages that target other VMs like JVM, CLR, BEAM and so on.

As long as, the language semantics can map into the VM semantics, all the libraries and platform tooling are available without the need of writing wrappers.

True, that is a big "as long as", but it still is less problematic than going through the current state of the NDK.

That is the approach take by Elements for their tools (http://www.elementscompiler.com), for example.
We have a similar setup and were wondering the same thing (though we use push state). Today we were actually trying to figure out a workaround for 502s and 504s that google crawler was seeing from prerender. We just took the plunge and removed the meta tag because over 99% of our organic search traffic is from google. Fingers crossed!
If you want to talk about people being shot, instead of just cases where civilians walk into a crowded place just to kill as many people as possible, then I think you need to take Syria, Iraq, Somalia, Palestine, and more into account. And I doubt, once you do that, that the US will still have the most mass shootings or carnage.
We usually "region propose" and crop to a certain area (in this case the face area, usually at 256x256) then transform to align eye areas before passing to training. This is to standardize the data beforehand. I'm not sure if this lib does region proposal but you can easily write a pre-processor with openCV face plugins to identify face regions (if any, maybe your training image is a landscape not a face!) for cropping.
I think sitting might be bad for you in some ways. When you sit, your glutes are not activated so they become weak since they're not used (in the absence of any exercise) so your back suffers. At least if you stand, your glutes are used/activated. It might not increase your longevity but you'll probably have better posture.
> 1. Gas mechanism has nothing to do with tamper-proofing transactions, thats what blockchain (or more correctly hashchain) is for.

I am not sure why you are mentioning this here, but if this is what you think I am misunderstanding about gas, perhaps you could point out where you think I made this mistake.

>2. There are Turing-complete languages which only allow loops with known number of iterations.

You did not originally write "loops with known number of iterations", you wrote "disallowing jumps backwards / loops".

> 3. Check my presentation, If you want to understand Ethereum programming model.

Based on your contributions to this thread so far, I am not very confident that I will find my specific question addressed, but if you give me a specific slide number to start at, I will give it a look.

BTW, do you have an answer to the question I posed in the second paragraph of my previous post?
Internet Companies: Confusing Consumers for Profit
What I said gives you no basis for that assertion. It's like claiming that a company can't scale because it hasn't scaled yet. Scaling amazon has gotten harder as it has gotten bigger, but that didn't stop them from scaling.
The money in credit card processing is in high interest loans fronted to the merchant that are paid back as a percent of the transaction. SquareUp for instance.
You listed two serial killers with a high IQ; however, the merits of IQ can be debated, but more importantly Kaczynsky stands out because he holds a PhD and was a Berkeley professor.
it doesn't even produce power
Very interesting. Assuming that the drivers doing a "Rush" order can gather delivery items from multiple businesses in one geographical area, it could mean greater delivery efficiency (and shorter delivery times) overall. Example: orders come in to 4 businesses within within a few blocks of each other. Businesses send their Rush request in to Uber. Uber Rush driver indicates that they are in that area and picks up all items, then delivers them to target area(s).

Another thing this implies is that that these businesses could switch from a staffed delivery service to a completely on-demand one. One of the things the businesses and their customers could see an improvement with is the case where all their delivery people are out making deliveries, and new orders come in. With this, they just make a new Rush request and get a new delivery person.
It seems more inline with Justification based/Truth maintenance systems than hard AI.
Your first problem is assuming it was a hypothetical situation. Your second problem is projecting that because it hasn't happened to you it hasn't happened ever or that it is normal behavior. Then finally, you decide to tell me to grow thicker skin.

You argued against all of the above on the other side of the coin. But the moment its an issue that doesn't affect you, you're quick to resort to the arguments you're advocating against?

That "PC Minefield" is avoiding that "someone, somewhere will think I'm a sexist". Which is the problem you admit to existing but don't care about. You'll care when you're the one being seen as a sexist with a Twitter hate-mob at your employers' heel demanding you be fired for an offhand comment or action that wasn't even sexist unless twisted and taken out of context.

It's not about "growing thicker skin" it's about avoiding HR. If I don't speak to them or deal with them, there can be no case for harassment. I consider it job security.
I know Dwolla's FiSync protocol is being adopted by more banks and is zero-cost, but for Square to provide the consumer coverage most merchants expect they would have to wait for FiSync to get to a much larger scale.

How would Dwolla help Square cut out the CC companies?
> In this example, are the blacks racist for assaulting Asians, or are the Asians racist for profiling blacks?

Those options are not mutually exclusive; its quite possible for their to exist Black racists that target attacks against Asians and Asian racists that profile Blacks, motivated (or rationalized) by the fact that some Blacks have engaged in racist attacks against Asians.
My take is as long as said self-destruct feature exists prior and independent of it being used with evidence related to a crime, then spoilage of evidence should not apply. Apple created this feature in their phones for many many uses, just like a knife can be used for many many uses, legal and illegal.

At the end of the day, the evidence need not be destroyed either. It can just sit there concealed in an uninspectable form.

At the end of the day, they may or may not have the evidence they want in their possession. They just can't inspect that evidence.
Yeah, that's exactly what I mean.

Wall street rewards growth over profits so incentives for Salesforce are to keep purchasing businesses which at least break-even (e.g. Heroku) which in turn show growth in revenue but don't necessarily translate into growth in profits.

As long as Salesforce keeps buying these businesses, they can keep showing paper loss forever without actually being in any danger of running out of cash. And while they are doing this, their shareprice might double or triple.

It sounds crazy that it actually works but I'm not the one who is going to argue with markets.
That's the current policy with the current rates. If they cut the rates too much, they may have to choose between changing the policy or having no Uber drivers.
Although it's worth pointing out that some of the worst US mass murders were arsons, such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dupont_Plaza_Hotel_arson and there's one I'm having difficultly finding that was almost as bad set in the entrance of a NYC nightclub.

That people in the US choose guns vs. fire is I'm sure cultural, including fire safety being part of our culture, i.e. the "payoff" will seldom be great.
Down votes for pointing out the same API is available on three platforms? (And iOS and recent Androids for that matter.)
And then some newcomer comes in and disrupts Uber, and the cycle repeats. Except, this time, there's an opportunity for there to be change, and riders will briefly have gotten a better experience than before.

It's not necessarily a bad thing for business models to be cyclical. Even when it results in a downwards spiral, it usually allows the problem space to be explored, and that spiral can be disrupted upwards... at the cost of temporary lack of quality.
I'd be surprised if they just not finally decided to improve since I have the same feeling as ck2 due to anecdotal experience dating back to the year 2000.
What happens if the magnet comes back on while the hammer's not touching the metal? Is there a way to make this safe?
If Google Webmaster Tools is unable to render your website correctly, then that's a good indicator that Googlebot won't be able to render the pages correctly either. If you remove the fragment meta tag, then Google will need to render your javascript to see the page. Let us know how that goes if you try it! todd@prerender.io
My client is a launch partner. Congratulations, ChowNow (and Upfront).

https://www.chownow.com/lp/UberRUSH
I'm not sure how that well that's going to work, with genome sequencing now below $1000. The data is going to be out there, putting your head in the sand isn't going to solve your mortality issues.
23andMeh had to pivot because their egos thought they could simply ignore the FDA. But 23andMeh essentially lost several years to that hubris, and as a result many others in the genomics field have not only caught up but bypassed them.
"I love the feeling of having a new way to think about the world. I especially love when there’s some vague idea that gets formalized into a concrete concept. Information theory is a prime example of this."

THIS! THIS is why I love programming and electronics/mechanical engineering. I live for the new ways to think.
Sadly, by its very nature, it misses a lot of the "long tail" of rarely-visited sites that Google et. al. can crawl.
> I'm a big fan of running word2vec and clustering.

Can you explain more about this?
Pangu9+jailbreak+iOS+9.0.2+released+now.iOS+Jailbreak+Tools+and+Jailbreak+Guide
I think I've only heard that term while shopping for a car (the salesmen kept saying he'd have to clear the deal through the "back office")...he was lying...but anyway...

No, in terms of websites/apps, I've never heard that term used. If I encountered that term on a site I would assume that the copywriter wasn't from the US.
> Most criminals are in fact black (which is not to say they are criminals because they are black, it's just a statistical fact).

There's probably someplace in the world this is true (e.g., I suspect its true in several sub-Saharan African countries), but its not either in general, or in the US in particular.
Years of their skills and labor that could have been spent working at another company (including competitors).
When I mean "stone old" I mean of corse better than todays ideas. This should be clear from the context. Not everything which is fast is also good.

You can also come up with some kind Greenspun's tenth rule applied to neural net's:

"Any sufficiently complicated modern AI program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp."

In this case not even that.
"we lose money on every sale, but we plan on making it up in volume" (TM)
I'd love to help here if I can. I'd also love to hear the results of you removing the meta tag! todd@prerender.io
I'm not sure if you meant just that, but they certainly use in-house developed SDN stuff. That will at such scale still be "expensive" and "enterprise" tough.
Pattern matching has unbeatable performance benefits, at least for our current computers.

If you go deep in numerical calculus, you'll see that our computers are must better fit to work with continuous smooth functions than they are for discrete noise-like data. So, all the power goes to the people that turn their knowledge into a smaller set of interpolated curves. (And yes, I think that's very counter intuitive.)

Anyway, I'm not convinced this is a fundamental property of CS. It sounds at least possible that different architectures could have different constraints, and make symbolic AI viable. But it those would need to be very different architectures, not based on the Von Neuman or Turing's ideas at all.
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It's a little more complicated. This will likely mean a good return for the VC funds that invested early. But VC funds to my knowledge don't reinvest returns directly. Rather they raise another fund, often from the same LPs. And note that this usually happens multiple times before the return on the first fund is known.

So it will likely take some time for VCs to liquidate their position, return the capital to LPs, and then have the LPs reinvest in the same or other future VC funds.

All that said, a good return on a single investment will be seen positively by LPs and will make it easier for a VC to raise future funds, which is generally good for startups.

My only real point is that the money made directly from the Square IPO will likely not be deployed for quite awhile, and other events can turn momentum against startups in the meantime.
I feel like 90% of my motivation for writing blog posts is vicariously reliving this feeling. :)
It's a conceptual building block. YMMV. I enjoyed the concepts regardless of actual applicability.
Very nice graphic design, though!
It is even slower. But not much. And with this information you usually can fix logical problems to improve the AI.
A lot of restaurants and locally owned shops have ditched their old registers in favor of Square registers

Some citations would be nice
First Data, the largest merchant acquirer (spun out of AMEX years ago) is going public on Thur. with $18B in debt. They were taken private 7 years ago for $30B. Go figure.

Edit: Here's First Data's S-1:

http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/883980/00011931251533...
Awesome work.

As it happens I'm working on an image cropping front end (using CropperJS [1]) - I'm going to integrate this so that the initial crop selection is set using the results from SmartCrop.

Thanks again.

[1] https://github.com/fengyuanchen/cropperjs
Probably they will switch as vehicles get into higher performance requirements. Alcohol's a great fuel to work with: clean burning, room temp, good cooling properties, but it'll be tempting to switch to something else when you need more performance--and have the money and experience to deal with the extra complexity. (And RP-1 isn't that much worse, unless you have a particular problem with coking and a reusable engine, while it gives a noticeable increase in ISP. If you can handle the low density, methane's nice and clean.)

But part of the new wave of space development is to optimize for cost and simplicity instead of performance, and you certainly can do real stuff with alcohol; many early rockets used it. It's possible someone will keep using alcohol; Masten's suborbital stuff might certainly stay that way. Doubt they'll land on the Moon with alcohol, though.
That's probably the reason why the FDA wants them to get approval before making such evaluations.