skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who works for a CDN who does streaming, I don't think this is the case. Popular videos would be streamed from multiple servers, and it is actually easier to stream the same video to lots of users vs a lot of videos to only a few users each.
And thus begin the gradual descent into a MySpace/Twitter cesspool.
The due diligence comes after filming. The deals you see on TV are a handshake deal and in my estimation only about 30-40% of them actually end up going through because a lot of founders lie about things like being litigated against, having tax liens on their company, etc. The sharks all have people on staff who sniff these problems out and make sure everything the founders say about their numbers are true.
Sure, coming to a stop is dangerous in those situations if other drivers don't react appropriately. It's not a great idea, but I also don't mean that self-driving cars should be doing such emergency stops regularly. And obviously they should do it only as an extreme last resort, when things like pulling over have failed.

I still think it's more reasonable to stop either of those two places than to suddenly hand control of a car traveling 75mph to a human who hasn't driven in a year or longer.

edit: concrete example: You're biking along. Would you rather A. a car in front of you come to an abrupt stop, or B. a car passing you at twice your speed be controlled by a drowsy driver who doesn't know where the edges of his car are and doesn't have a feel for how the steering wheel reacts ?
Yev from Backblaze here -> We're designing to have 8 "9's" of durability. Our speed tests have been pretty good thus far, but like with our online backup product it's best to just try it and see how quickly you can get to and from it.
Nice name. Pity about the 8th bit, though.
Right, but 25 basis points is such a miniscule increase that it's not really going to do much. It's only a few hundred dollars to buy that amount in discount points.
"Yet in 1961 LOR was a completely insane idea."

It's not that you have to be crazy, it's that most people around you are actually the crazy ones who push conformance on you because they can't hack it.

Innovating is difficult due to many people being so very risk averse. Ideally you have a balance between caution and boldness, however, people lose the will to take chances when the "bottom" line is at risk.

Of course, when it comes to what NASA does, the bottom line also involves human lives. Although, then NASA's existence would have and probably is still considered crazy by some number of people.
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How much evidence of a bubble do we need? When even universities get into the incubator business...
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> I can't imagine what else could the GP have been referring to other than mass automatized labor for most sectors, hence either AGI or lots of narrow AI.

* Renewables generating the majority of power consumed world wide

* Self driving electric vehicles

* Universal basic income

Nothing outlandish like transhumanism.
Government spending on bureaus like the FDA, EPA, and BBB give consumers and citizens access to outlets for complaints against dirty businesses and give us a decent amount of protection against those who would harm us to gain more of those dollars you think they'd rather have in their own pocket.

Some evidence to the contrary: http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/research/files/papers/2015/...

There's always costs of utility forgone to putting upper bounds on heterogeneous consumer preferences, and as it turns out, they can be rather severe.
Here

CppCon 2015: Herb Sutter "Writing Good C++14... By Default" around 00:32:00.

https://youtu.be/hEx5DNLWGgA?t=2053

> The work-in-progress ISO Core C++ lifetime profile does not work on unmodified code and requires a lot of annotations…

Herb mentions that it still less than lifetimes in Rust given C++'s type system:

https://youtu.be/hEx5DNLWGgA?t=1653

https://github.com/isocpp/CppCoreGuidelines/raw/09aef9bd86d9...
0.005 GB is a competitive price until you bake in the total cost of ownership. In this case, it still makes better sense for us to use Google's Cloud Storage offerings for our 100TB of mp3 file storage since sending all those files results in outgoing bandwidth charges from our infrastructure.

Staying in the same cloud "ecosystem" (Google or AWS) allows for free incoming bandwidth and free bandwidth when transitioning between services (EC2 to S3 / Google Cloud Server / Cloud Storage). An important consideration.
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'....the researchers behind this new study say that’s a total mischaracterization of what they found.
Rather, in terms of environmental impact, it turns out that not all foods in a particular food group are created equal, Michelle Tom and Paul Fischbeck of Carnegie Mellon University told The Huffington Post.
“You can’t lump all vegetables together and say they’re good,” Fischbeck said.'

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/vegetarian-bad-for-envir...

Another person commented elsewhere:
"This is THE WORST science ever. They did simple calorie comparisons (ex. 1 kilo of beef = 2300 calories, vs 6.7 kilos of broccoli), without taking into account the inputs needed to produce that kilo of beef. It takes anywhere from 5-7 kilos of grain to produce that 1 kilo of beef. And a kilo of corn has over 3500 calories! So over the cow's lifetime (while it produces copious amounts of methane) it has to eat over 17,000 calories per kilogram of meat it produces."

So, A)It's being grossly miscategorized, and B)It's bad science in the first place.

Perhaps we should be discussing how powerful people's cognitive dissonance is surrounding meat instead?
Clara.io, online 3D modeling and rendering, is hiring 3D software devs
http://Clara.io is the main product created by Exocortex. Full details here:

http://exocortex.com/blog/exocortex_is_expanding_again

We are located in Ottawa, Canada one block west of Shopify's HQ and four blocks south of Parliament Hill.

We are big users of JavaScript, NodeJS and Three.JS to name just a few of our technologies.

Our platform, Clara.io, has over 150,000 users who have created over 400,000 scenes and have made more than 24M edits.
It honestly makes no sense whatsoever. It caused massive confusion in the business I last worked in as users constantly opened Skype, and not Skype for Business.
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How is development/testing done for this software? Is there a test data set of seizures to test against?
> AFAIK struts+arrays in C# are the only construct I've seen

or Go, especially with the value types. Now there is no automatic SoA/ AoS conversions but otherwise, you have full control over memory layout.
Mmm.

I loathe hot corners; every day or so I accidentally lock the screen on my work macbook because when I fling the mouse pointer out of the way of what I'm looking at it hits a corner.

I also loathe full-screen menus. Screens are big, and having the entire contents of my screen be replaced with an information-heavy overlay is a non-trivial perceptual context switch which instantly causes me to lose my place in what I was doing. You underestimate how cheap a right-click menu selection can be; press, drag a small distance down, let go. And if the app's designed properly you can right click anywhere.

(Which, to be honest, most apps aren't. I grew up on RISC OS, which was driven entirely by context menus, and did this stuff right --- each app was a single context target. Modern apps have different contexts for every tiny UI element. Web browsers are particularly bad; I can't count the number of time I've done 'Open in new tab' rather than 'Back' because the mouse just happened to be on a link rather than a text area.)

My point is: one size doesn't fit all.
> Fed raising interest rates 0.25% and setting a goal of "normal" 2% by 2018 means little to nothing.

This means the end of 70% of the unicorns.
I don't (yet), it's very appealing to me though. The main thing blocking me is that it seems well suited for long-living servers but I also write a lot of things like cli programs and I'm not sure if it's suited for that.
Market segmentation, premium pricing, signalling, etc. Basically, when your product is good, you can charge more for it. Free is a great price to get exposure, but unnecessary for extraordinary profitability (see Kx).
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My feeling is over the next 12-18 months, at least in markets that are already hot (SF, NYC, Boston, etc), you'll actually see house prices rise as the buyers who have been on the side lines are given a kick in the butt to get in the game for fear of losing out on the low interest rates.
Too useful. The innovation drivers are now purely concerned with the consumption of media.
> This way, you’d get all the smart kids in the same place, just like in any other competitive 4-year program.

I found this statement rather interesting. I had an internship at Garmin where they provided housing to all the interns via dorms at a nearby university. It was rather refreshing to be near students whom where, for the lack of better words, smart. They had received an internship. There was some bar that people had to pass higher than just SAT/ACT and what your grades were in High School. People had drones, RC cars, Raspberry Pis (and others), every weekend was something different and new. (Not to mention how engineers can go from drinking, to science, and back in seconds).

It was a better time than I ever had in University Housing at my actual college (but then again my college wasn't exactly a Tech/Engineering college (we just had a decent program that wasn't $250K)). Even when I made my stunt to stay in the Honors Dorm at my University, there's quite a divide of personality when you get students from all majors. It was rather segregated internal communities of STEM, Arts, and Not STEM/Arts. It was never quite as amazing to live in a group like that was provided at that Internship.
production creates demand. Not because people want to buy it, but because the act of production gives you something to trade.

The people who build iPhones (Apple employees) produce something valuable (iPhones). Everyone else has to produce something to trade for an iPhone - a bushel of wheat, a written work, a clean window, a haircut, a night of entertainment.

The act of production and trade is what creates wealth and economic growth.

People get lost and separated from this basic understanding because if you create and give everyone money, then everyone can go and trade the money with Apple employees for an iPhone. But this is not long term sustainable, and you actually cheated the Apple employees because the money they are getting is worth slightly less than when they set out to build phones. And it's clear that the extra money has not made the world as rich as it would have been from people actually producing something else to trade. This is patently true even though the mythical gdp number went up, giving the illusion of an increase in wealth.
On the optimistic side: has anyone done an estimate of the global significance taking into account the fact that CMS and ATLAS both saw the excess at the same place (~740 GeV)? (Clearly, if the situation was a simple as each bin being "excess" or "no excess", then you would only correct for the look-elsewhere effect for one of the experiments. When you turned your attention to the second experiment, that bin would already be special. This is muddied by the fact that things are not so clean, and the small blip of CMS was just the largest of several blips, etc.)

On the pessimistic side: has anyone done a "fully global" significance test, taking into account all the other bump hunts of similar a-priori interest?
Additionally, you can buy discount points to reduce the mortgage interest rate. So it's either a reduction of $21k as you said, or $3000 more due at closing to buy the discount.
Who is we? The federal govt can borrow at far lower rates than 3%.
Offerers aren't rejecting their applications, because the modal Airbnb renter has no meaningful reviews to begin with. Try it yourself sometime: make a new Airbnb account and see if you can rent a place with no history. Spoiler: you can.
> 2. Dissent and constraints stimulate creativity.

Re dissent:

If you're in an environment that values 'useful' dissent, that's great.

If not, you're 'that guy who argues about everything', 'hard to work with' etc.
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Second is a real possibility during the next 20-30 years. First and third are significantly more doubtful.

Even assuming all three come in place soon, I don't understand how they'll fix public choice. If anything, at least autonomous electric vehicles will be a boon on private enterprise, which I don't think is what you had in mind.
> Government spending on bureaus like the FDA, EPA, and BBB give consumers and citizens access to outlets for complaints against dirty businesses and give us a decent amount of protection against those who would harm us to gain more of those dollars you think they'd rather have in their own pocket.

Well, that's clearly not the case for the BBB (which is a private nonprofit), unless you are counting granting tax exempt status to an organization as a form of "government spending". I tend to agree with regard to the FDA and EPA, most of the time, but its not exactly a non-controversial claim and regulatory capture is always a concern.
At the moment the limiting factor is energy -- The energies required to create these collisions (and hence, the possibility of these new particles) is enormous. In a way that's the only way the LHC exisists; to create higher energy collisions than before.
As for computing values: It's nice to have a theory, but it's nicer still to have it confirmed/falsified by expermiment.
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The net benefit and multiple direction things are what makes it particularly frustrating. I wouldn't mind as much a new technology/technique/framework/etc if it were a clear, direct, step and meaningfully better than what came before. It's especially hard to be considering what technology/stack to recommend as being easy to develop in and maintain for LOB enterprise developers who will be maintaining an app (without rewrites) for ten years or so.

Right now we're using Knockout but it's feeling a bit grumpy in various respects so I've been looking into React. But still it is common to have breaking changes, and then there's the whole ES5/ES6/TS split.

I need something that our devs can do a Google search "How do I do <X> in <Y>" and nearly copy-paste the result. Knockout has been particularly good for that because it's evolved very slowly and every example for it is in ES5.

Microsoft has wedded themselves to Angular for ASP.NET 5, but it looks like it's Angular 1. Meanwhile Angular 2 looks much better but again splits across ES5, ES6, TS, and Dart... If someone searches "How do I do <X> in Angular?" who knows what combination of assumptions might be unlying that answer.

As much as I'd prefer to use something like React, I think shops with the combination of lower skilled staff and longer term maintenance projects (like ours) will need to wait until, hopefully, the industry calms down and settles on a set of new standards.

Microsoft seems to have gotten sucked into the "do everything a million different ways" spaz attack with ASP.NET 5, but meanwhile Apple seems to be doing it right with a narrow, opinionated set of technologies with a well understood evolutionary path and specific tools for specific jobs.
That makes more sense.

Another SF writer (name escapes me) posited a Ministry of Sabotage, in charge of making government less omnipotent ...
As a father of a child with epilepsy* and who has observed many tonic-clonic seizures, I'm horrified by the thought of being an independent adult who would have to deal with them on a regular basis. So I can't upvote this enough; I feel as if epilepsy is one of the red-headed stepchildren in the age of AIDS awareness and pink-colored campaigns everywhere.

Kudos. This is awesome.

* More specifically, Myoclonic Astatic Epilepsy (MAE), which he appears to have been lucky enough to have outgrown, though I don't know if saying he "had" epilepsy (past tense) is accurate (or even relevant to the discussion).
CLI isn't mature right now, I'm failing to upload a file, kind of basic functionality.
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Does this mean that buying a home in San Francisco, where 1/4 of the homes sold are all cash, just got a little bit more difficult?
If Java was dead, they wouldn't have to shout down with Java. Rumors of Java's death have been greatly...oh, you know.

Java's in the running to be the world's most widely used programming language. This is, in large part, due to Android.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/the-top-10-all-time-programmi...

It so happens that a lot of companies have bet their stacks on Java. Java is the language of Hadoop. In addition to the companies you mention, there's Amazon, eBay, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter. (There are plenty of other great languages that outperform Java in one way or another, but this post is just to make that point that Java is far from dead...)

It's a stable language with a huge ecosystem, that's growing all the time. Our project, http://deeplearning4j.org, gives it deep neural networks that run distributed...
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That really only became possible when they decided to auto-play new episodes, which is a bad feature in general. There are quite a few shows with really nice music videos in their ending credits. Shrinking the video to the size of a postage stamp and kicking me into a new episode is a rather annoying.

They also have a terrible habit of skipping the opening credits. The credits are often funny or beautiful. Every time I watch Futurama, I need to start the show and then rewind back to the beginning to see the opening joke. It's like VHS all over again.

Opps. I'm ranting. You know, I never noticed how much the interface annoyed me until I stopped to think about it.
If you want non-accredited investors to invest in your startup, all you need to do is IPO.

Yes, there will be a regulatory burden of reporting on your financials... The kind of reporting that allows non-accredited investors to make informed decisions about whether or not your startup is a good investment.
Take some time to watch his YouTube video explaining the iPhone hack.

He starts the video by giving credit to other people involved in the project.
> iPhone would not exist without the development of the internet during the cold war on gov grant

Isn't that a bit of a broken-window fallacy, though? We can see that the iPhone exists, and we can see that it exists in part as a result of the State grants which funded the development of the Internet, but we can't see what that money might have funded had it not been spent on those grants. We have no way of knowing what the original earners of those dollars might have chosen to invest them in, and what the world would now look like had they been free to do so.

We do know from history that while socialist economies like the USSR and its satellites did indeed tend to improve their economies measurably over their pre-socialist levels, freer governments tended to improve their economies to an even greater degree, leading to exponential quality-of-life differences over the decades. The average Russian was better off in 1989 than he would have been in 1913, as was the average American, but that average American was so much better off than the very best-off Russians that Boris Yeltsin was converted simply by seeing a Houston grocery store[1].

I love the Internet deeply, and I'm glad that government grants financed the research which led to it, but I wonder what else I might have had if those grants had been spent otherwise, just as a Russian in 1989 was no doubt glad for what he had — and amazed when he saw what he could have had.

[1] http://blog.chron.com/thetexican/2014/04/when-boris-yeltsin-...
Ok, bad example :-) Rust's mutable-iterator model of abstract collections supports this directly, but Clojure's functional-reduction model does not. I'll see if I can think of a better example, but it might be hard -- mutable iteration is pretty flexible (which is probably why it's what most languages do...).
Which is fine. Trust is built slowly and the public should have a chance to debate it.

If most of the public thinks it is "common sense" (by that stage) that self-driving cars are safe, then we're in a good place to be overturning it.

This is one place, public safety, where "move fast and break things" doesn't work because those things will be literally people.
Perhaps they don't want Netflix to be used for public screens (laundry, hairdresser) and randomization is necessary to check for the presence of a human.
If it doesn't have a market of 100 million people or more, it's not worth doing. /s
This is good. Berkeley's startup ecosystem is lacking compared to Stanford and MIT, I can only imagine its worse at the other UCs. While more specified programs to encourage students to build and try something would be ideal, funding alone is a solid step forward.
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"my right" is a strange term. It's entirely a social concept and is defined by the society you happen to live in (and re-defined by every subset of that society).

In a sense, money is just a technology a society uses for allocating its resources. So, yes, the society/government can regulate how you can spend your money as a little monkey-patch on its tech.
I agree with pretty much everything you said minus the Go one: if you are doing a CRUD app and you don't expect a huge traffic something like Python works well. Go shines for microservices though.

I can't talk about Node on the server since I don't use that - already doing way too much javascript for the frontends - but the frontend side is hard to keep up with as well.

Between all the Babel and Webpack plugins it's hard just to get a working setup and the `do one thing and do it well` should not be a bigger thing than user experience.

TypeScript makes writing JavaScript less painful but doesn't solve the ecosystem for me: I do rm -rf node_modules/ && npm install semi regularly to make sure everything works (not using shrinkwrap yet) on a fresh install and I get install errors way too often (peer dependencies etc).

To save you time, don't bother with npm3 for now as it is extremely slow.
Yeah, given the crazy amount of fake profiles on Facebook, I'm not sure what the big deal is, maybe it's targeted specifically at US users, because this policy never affected me.

I will never give Facebook my real name. Professionally Facebook is useless and my friends know who I am. Facebook has my phone number and it's already too much information.
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