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Ultimately, sure, you run out of photons.

Let's start off with a baseline image resolution of 1 megapixel.

1 Joule is about 6E18 visible light photons, give or take. So that's then 6E12 photons per pixel.

Full sunlight on Earth has an intensity of around 1400 Watts (Joules/second) per square meter, or 0.14 Watts per square cm.

So achieving a frame rate in the trillions of fps would likely run into some limits relative to the size of your optics, the intensity of light coming from the scene, or the bulk quantum efficiency of the sensor.

And, of course, if you try to achieve quintillions of fps then you start dumping in nearly an entire Watt in photons into every single pixel on your sensor, which rapidly becomes a very big problem re: everything melting.

Additionally, modern electronics has trouble operating above the low GHz range, beyond that you'd need to move to superconductors or some such to keep up with the data.
If you send me something according to this template, you are very unlikely to get a favorable response.

Moral: Treat people as individuals.
Good to see Tcl shining brightly.
pretty sure amazon's Q3 earnings can be attributed to the site i launched on EC2 that accidentally had a little bit too much power, load balancing, and backup instances. fun bill.
Coding academies are nonsense
This pendulum will lose energy because Euler is not a good integration scheme if you value accuracy. RK4 is almost as easy to implement but dramatically higher accuracy. Fixed step sizes will either be inefficient or lose energy around around critical points in the dynamic system.

RK with adaptive stepping solve all these problems and leads to a more efficient use of computational resources. You will probably be able to leave the simulation undisturbed for days, and it will still be swinging merrily.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runge%E2%80%93Kutta_methods

Such methods are already wrapped up in the ODE solver of numerics.js

http://www.numericjs.com/documentation.html

(see dopri)
Moderate to large hospitals generally have full-time coders, whose job is to take the records generated during a patient's stay and figure out which codes apply. There's a lot of money in what's called 'up-coding', or using a similar code that pays more.
Oh, first I thought there is some difference and did this:

SELECT * FROM [fh-bigquery:hackernews.stories] WHERE [by] != author
Amazon's customer support tends to be pretty awesome and forgiving. I would definitely try giving them a call and see if you can get some of your cash back.
Find a job that doesn't intrude on your life outside the office, if you can't directly monetize your passions.

I work a corporate gig, getting paid below what many on this forum might consider appropriate, because I live in an affordable area, near family and friends, and the job doesn't ask anything of me after my 8 hours are done.

That last part is most important. The things that I was passionate about when programming was my life (I got a bit burnt out), were not things I could have gotten a job doing (easily) without a graduate degree, something that I found I didn't have the emotional fortitude to get through. So I did them as hobbies after hours. Now, programming isn't a passion of mine so much. I'm rediscovering old interests (languages, martial arts, travel, art) that had fallen by the wayside.

When I leave work at 4 (most days), I go do whatever the hell I want. Now, if you're not single and childless like me, this isn't as easy to do. But if you are, it's pretty much trivial. Pick your priorities, and do them. Right now, for me, it's fitness first (most days). I go for a run or cycling, then go to a fight gym for a couple hours. It's a lot more than is needed just to stay healthy, and more than I'll be doing in a few more months, but I enjoy doing it. I'm traveling to Italy, so I'm learning Italian. This is easy to do with just my downtime. I use Memrise and Duolingo, this weekend I'll be looking into Italian podcasts to listen to on my commutes.

You may not be able to make a living performing music, but are you good enough to get hired out for gigs? I have several coworkers that play instruments in bands in this area. They don't get a lot for their gigs, but it's more than nothing and covers the cost of their equipment and lets them do what they really want, perform.

Plenty of people (based on Show HN posts) seem to have made their programming languages without monetizing them. It may require a time sacrifice (you can't go out with your friends most weeknights, because the language is your "second job"), but it can be done.
In the first line of "About Avian" on the homepage:

> Avian is a lightweight virtual machine and class lbrary [sic] designed to provide a useful subset of Java’s features
It's sort of a moot point. It's not especially difficult to scrape HN and compile a dataset like this for yourself.
Amazing, thanks.
The only thing Twitter is likely considering for new features is "Can we sell ads on this?"
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> As an example, at the top of that list would be relocating to a lower cost area. Residing in NYC/SF/BOS/TOK/LON is a choice that forces one onto the hamster wheel.

This cannot be emphasized enough. There are lots of good jobs and good areas to live that will not force you to spend absurd amounts on small rental properties, let alone half-million dollar or more homes. A lot of middle America is actually pretty nice to live in, and near the big cities that have the culture people might want, while costing a fraction of what NYC or SF cost. And the salaries aren't that much lower. You may have a hard time getting to six-figures in some of these places, but your $80k a year salary will go a lot further than $150k in SF.

And the jobs offer a great deal for having a lifestyle that isn't centered on work, in my experience. Leaving at 4 is not frowned upon, by most, and you get essentially a second day to spend doing what you want, or with the family.
You get all these folks freaking out with nonsense self diagnoses and labels when the plain fact is they have messed up health. They've eaten garbage for many years and spent too much sedentary time inside and spent too much time alone. They'd clearly show elevated prolactin on a blood test. They have elevated serotonin and cortisol. It's "learned helplessness" same as you can predictably induce in rats.

The labels are meaningless. The problem is shitty health. There is no such thing as mental health divorced from physical health.

You do not have "social anxiety"[tag]. This is another destructive idiotic label. Death to psychiatry. At one level you might have some health problems leaving you in an overly reactive state. At another level you might simply be insufficiently practiced with dealing with group settings of strangers.

At no point does some medicalized label like "social anxiety" or "aspergers spectrum" make sense. Keep in mind that all psychologists and psychiatrists must be executed.
While lower population areas are losing their only hospitals due to "one size fits all" stuff like this (see e.g. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/11/12/rural-h...), and in my "moderate" sized market, all the doctors I know of are now working for "the man", one of the two big hospital complexes, or otherwise outsourcing this sort of thing to them.
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But the police situation is fundamentally a lot simpler than the workplace one, because it is a single interaction. If you fear you are being lumped into a category by them that it is not good to belong to, you really have only two goals:

1. Avoid truly terrible outcomes (being shot, beaten, framed for a crime, etc.).

2. Get re-categorized.

There are many stories in the news of people of color failing to achieve these goals, even when they are pleasant and polite. But there are few stories of pleasant, polite interaction making their situations WORSE ... except that if your politeness is ignored, it can be dangerous to repeat yourself, because that can indeed be construed as a challenge.
Are there implementations available, yet?
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I would bet that not at all. And probably won't be for a few years (if past experience is a good predictor).
I'm always curious about stuff like this so I don't mean to be rude, but in all seriousness, how do you think a shower head will hurt you? I understand it isn't rational so maybe the answer is "I dunno" but figured I would ask.
Uber is raising another $1B and could soon be worth $70B
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In an interesting coincidence, I have another of their papers in my hand, and it's equally as impressive (I'm using it to improve a related solver in econometrics).

One problem though is that the constant terms of these models make take a while to go down (i.e. don't expect to see this in production anywhere for at least 5yrs), but it's still great to see progress there.
I don't see how difficulty has any bearing on privacy or copyright issues.
Give me an API and I will move the world... I can't find API in that page.
> all psychologists and psychiatrists must be executed

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Good question. Pardon the long response :)

Path never had a friend limit consistent with a personal social network. As far as I know, Robin Dunbar's research suggests a person's inner circle is up to 15 people. Path's goal for a user's friend number of 50 - this put it in a murky spot that's not quite intimate and not quite open.

There a lot of UI nuances (such as not showing the number of likes or views, and not having a feed as the main screen) between the apps. These make big differences in how people use products. (Consider that you can basically post the exact same stuff on Facebook, twitter, and instagram, yet they are used in very different ways.)
We really tried to create an experience that is as low pressure as possible, so people can feel comfortable sharing even seemingly mundane moments with loved ones. The goal is to make people feel closer to their loved ones. I feel that's a more important venture than letting people share funny videos or keep up with the Kardashians, which is seemingly what every social network with a broad social graph (d)evolves into.

Considering external factors as well, the way in which people use prominent social networks has changed a lot from 4 years ago. No one shares live status-style posts of what they're doing anymore.

Much of our underlying philosophy is shared with the original Path concept. I think their founding theory is super cool. The personal social network is a great goal, but it's a really tough nut to crack. I don't know if we cracked it either. We'll see!

Life360 and eFamily are more heavy duty family management or VPN-style tools. Ourglass is a very quick and simple experience in comparison.
> I've noticed that my 5yr old daughter is also scared of them when they make those whoosh-sounds just before water comes out. Maybe I was traumatized from that too.... I dunno...

If I may: it's more likely you passed along the stress you experience in these situations to her. She learned to that the shower head should be approached with caution because you tense yourself around it.

Moreover, irrational fears are not necessarily linked to the stress inducing agent. It might have been associated later (to prevent your psyche to directly relive the trauma). That psy territory though so I stop there before saying anything stupider ;).
The first half of this editorial doesn't really address basic science.

In the second half he does get to the premise in the title, and he gives it some support ... but he has very few cards to play. Yes, sometimes scientists get caught in an ivory bottle for too long. But sometimes practitioners play "poke and hope" for too long.
Yes, there's a lot of bureaucracy involved, and providers are picky users =)
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Please post civilly and substantively, even when someone else's comment is provocative.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Here's the complaint for anyone interested:

http://www.pacermonitor.com/view/AUBIRDQ/Banco_Central_de_Ve...
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> Oh get over yourself

Please remain civil, even when someone needs to get over themself.
Not entirely sure, but according to its github page[1], you can have it use the OpenJDK classes for a "conventional JVM".

[1] https://github.com/ReadyTalk/avian#building-with-the-openjdk...
Well Duh!!!!

Just like there are good and bad managers, there are also good and bad CEOs. The only difference I see between the two is that a bad manager when fired is basically given a meager severance package and a CEO walks away with millions.
Top+5+Richest+People+In+the+World
Does anyone trust Google enough to build a business on their product? They've shown a propensity for terminating projects when they no longer feel like supporting them. I'd hate to have thousands of servers relying on Google's services and API's and have them say "Oh hey sorry, we're shutting down, you have 90 days to migrate starting tomorrow".
The link you provided doesn't seem to show disjoint union support. I'm talking about this: http://flowtype.org/blog/2015/07/03/Disjoint-Unions.html
A CEO is only as good as the people below them, and the people below them, and so on...
People pay attention to that? I use Facebook to share photos with my friends and family and keep them informed of new life developments. Frankly, I'm totally oblivious to the 'trending' part of the screen.
What a vapid piece of ultra-capitalist rhetoric and self promotion.

According to the author we don't need any tax-payer funded research. Just leave the market to do its thing and Science will take care of itself! Short-term thinking; that's the ticket! eh?? eh??

Cripes.
"befriend us"... among other things :/
Why do we not need basic science? Because

> technology is self-organizing and can, in effect, reproduce and adapt to its environment. It thus qualifies as a living organism, at least in the sense that a coral reef is a living thing.

This piece is essentially just a hodge-podge of quotes by various sources which are intended to vaguely support the headline of the article and in no way actually addresses the tie between research results in science and technological innovation.

If you want to read more worthless fluff (the not-at-all pompously titled book is available in a book store near you):

> Mr. Ridley is the author of “The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge,”
I've witnessed some titles being changed to a very simplistic phrase. Perhaps moderation to let the best content rise on its own merits?
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No fan of the Venezuelan government but I feel it's unfair to blame socialism. Bolivia is socialist and growing 7% per annum and doing fine. I'd say Venezuela is more a dumb version of Marxism. They'd actually do reasonably ok if they just dropped the stupid imaginary exchange rate stuff.
Codingbat looks cool, hadn't heard of it before. You might also try Project Euler, another programming/math-problem solving site where "the problems range in difficulty and for many the experience is inductive chain learning. That is, by solving one problem it will expose you to a new concept that allows you to undertake a previously inaccessible problem. So the determined participant will slowly but surely work his/her way through every problem."

https://projecteuler.net/
Would it somewhat work to store the initial potential energy, and when running each step, correct one (or more?) of the values so as to make the energy of the system correct, while making the smallest change?

I mean, I figure that would make it so it doesn't lose energy, but I don't know if that would make the simulation significantly worse in other ways.
But Texas wasn't really the wild west, the "wild west" was mostly what now are the central and north western states and California.
Yes, I'm aware of that project. Unfortunately, it is not open source or free to use. Additionally, it is fun to have your own project.
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This man knows nothing of history, let alone physics.
CEO compensation is as much voodoo as the compensation of managers of actively managed funds. They're all geniuses in up markets, but only a tiny minority beat the indices in the long haul, never mind being worth their fees.
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You're right, that's a huge problem. Critical access hospitals are really struggling, and many smaller hospitals and clinics are getting swallowed up by big hospitals somewhat nearby. A side effect of that is that the newly-acquired sites are often migrated to the records system of the new owner, which is creating silos of medical records. The problem is that the silos still aren't connected to one another, which means the vast majority of hospitals still have to transfer records through fax. I really wish I was joking about that.
"The Myth of Basic Science" is clearly one of those titles that will put the entire thread on tilt, so we changed it to the subtitle.

Please comment only if you have something substantive to say. If you think the article is unredeemably bad, you can always flag it, but don't degrade the thread with empty dismissals.
Ha! This is the opposite of my hypothesis that I blogged about a few days ago: Founder-CEO's outperform non-founder CEO's.

https://medium.com/nick-tommarello/my-strategy-for-investing...
What is love? (in Python)
This is something we face in our environment. The OSes are pretty homogenous, but the application set is very diverse; 16 of these, 2 of these, 8 of those, and so on. It's made previous orchestration tools a bit more unwieldy, but of course manual control is unwieldy as well!

In addition, of course, the task of learning, implementing, and evaluating the options take a large amount of time on top of the time we already spend (mostly) manually maintaining infrastructure.

Articles like this are a great stepping stone.
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Oh yeah, I definitely am aware of that one. I heard you guys were doing an initiative for getting providers up and running on Athena in 5 days. Neat stuff!
So open source becomes a moral issue after all. To judge the morality of an action, we must know the intent. To know the intent, we must be able to see inside the box.

Anything less and we face the prospect of the public getting "VW'd" in life or death matters. (Not to mention the rich and/or unethical tampering with their own cars to cheat the system)
Stopped reading as soon as he shifted from a description of his horrific symptoms, to bragging about his intelligence and creativity. The dichotomy wasn't endearing, but I got it.
How about right person at the right time?
Usually these types of simulations require that you don't use Euler approximation.
Trending tailors your results to you. Right now, my trending, in order, is:

Parkinson's Disease: Wonman Accurately Detects Neurological Disorder Through Smell, Report Says.

Deep Brain stimulation: National Geographic Channel to Broadcast Live Surgical Procedure Oct. 25

Ecstasy: Removed Facebook Post by Mississippi Police Warned of Drug in Halloween Candy.

If you get crappy trending it's because facebook thinks you're interested in crappy stuff. And, in my experience, Facebook is really, really good at deciding what you're interested in.

In fact, they're so good they had to add a bit of randomness to their sorting algorithm because people thought its accuracy was creepy.
Calling it the "myth" of basic science is not instructive. Plus, the general gist of this article isn't new. But nonetheless interesting and accurate in many aspects.

But the old [BBC Connections](1) series brings home the inevitability of technical and scientific progress in amazing ways, such as how the introduction of the concept of bank credit led to refrigeration and the space shuttle. One innovation does inevitably beget another. Very much worth watching the whole series.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connections_(TV_series)
Apple and other US tech companies struck a deal with China that reportedly involved handing out decryption keys as well.

http://qz.com/356233/apples-capitulation-to-china-undermines...
http://www.wsj.com/articles/us-presses-china-on-bank-technol...

RIM at the time fought Saudi Arabia on the same thing, but has also eventually given up.

http://www.dailyfinance.com/2010/08/07/rim-deal-saudi-arabia...

Companies will always do what it's profitable for them, for RIM Saudi Arabia at the time was a big enough market, today it's China.
While there might be some backlash, most people don't care and while you might need to invest money in spinning this if a country doesn't allow you to sell the products in the first place you lose by default.

ATM there seems to be sufficient public pressure to fight against these decisions in the US and Europe, but not so much in other regions, and if China gets to access your phone YBA the US won't be in a position to give up on it either, not that they seem to want to at least at this point in time regardless of that reality.
Some science was done on a large amount of organizations and the state of their security.
Yes, that's what I said:

> If you don't like the increasing Reddit-ness of HN, then pointing out that HN isn't Reddit is the right thing to do to stop the trend.

That "isn't" might have been a bit confusing, but, with parentheses, I meant:

> If you don't like the increasing Reddit-ness of HN, then (pointing out that HN isn't Reddit) is the right thing to do to stop the trend.

My point was that, when BinaryIdiot said "Um, this isn't Reddit", you said (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10433352):

> It's way more reddit than it used to be. It happened to Reddit, it's already almost completely happened here. This place is basically a decent subreddit in culture now. Kind of sad.

I took this to mean that you thought that BinaryIdiot's chiding was inappropriate, or useless.
Buying those 600,000 drives is probably only 10% of your costs, you need to run a data center if you want to actually use that data.

Also analysis pipelines generate intermediate results that are also large, and data is stored with 2x or 3x redundancy. So that 100GB might be more like 300GB once you factor in robust storage and bioinformatics.
Nope if I read that right. They made a simulation with random data. It explained 70% of the measured impact attributed to CEOs.

A prove that it's random can not be explained by claiming that it depends on anything. But it still leaves those 30% to be explained by something else.
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Poor misguided creatures.