skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Relative to the intrinsic value of the organization, they were much bigger.

The majority of companies funded back then were e-commerce plays focused around selling the same items you buy offline for less money and making up the difference with VC money. As a consumer, it was pretty awesome. I remember signing up for AllAdvantage.com in high school (that was a startup that would pay you to view ads, and pay you for referring friends to view ads), installing the toolbar, pocketing about $50, and then uninstalling the toolbar once they crashed & burned and were no longer paying out money. My sister (newly arrived at college) fell in love with Kozmo.com, which would deliver groceries to your door at about 20% under supermarket prices.

The whole thing was a pyramid scheme designed to prop up valuations by incentivizing early adopters with discount prices, subsidized by VC dollars, who would unload the shares on the gullible public markets for higher valuations. The early adopters got some nifty conveniences at bargain basement prices; a few lucky founders & VCs got massively wealthy; most of the unlucky founders & employees wasted about 5 years of their life; and the gullible public lost their life savings.

There's some of that now, but it's much more muted. My wife and I ate very well this summer off delivery startups that were offering FaceBook deals with VC money for prices under supermarkets. However, most of the giant companies this time around actually have solid business models that operate more efficiently than existing incumbents. AirBnB takes advantage of surplus housing capacity. Uber breaks local laws that enforce inefficiency. WhatsApp ran a really lean organization so they could offer text-messaging services at a fraction of the cost of a telecom giant. Instacart charges more than the supermarket, and people pay it. Slack has made office messaging fun. SnapChat at least realizes that its lack of revenue is a major problem, and they're heads-down trying to fix it.

The public markets are not as gullible now as they were then, and so the "unload on the unsuspecting public" strategy doesn't work as well. Companies that are based on nothing but hype & investors dollars often flame out around the C round now; we saw some of that with Secret and Homejoy.
How much faster is a truncated Singular Value Decomposition?
Makes me wonder when a paying customer being directly disadvantaged by DRM first happened, and what the effects were.
Cool clock, Sam.

I have to be honest, I got an echo for Christmas (thanks Mom!), and while it's really cool, it has only served to highlight how much amazon prime music sucks. In fact, it has only served to highlight to me how disconnected cloud music services are.

Google music has just about everything (now that it is connected to youtube), but amazon doesn't want to let its speakers play google music's music service because they want to sell you their own.

The future is a strange place right now.
From my experience most Germans don't own a credit card. Everybody owns a EC card (since it's your normal bank card) but most people only use them if circumstances prevented them from carrying sufficient cash (unplanned big purchase etc).

Card use is on the rise, but it's far from the norm
Valuations were indiscriminate, meaning that companies with really bad fundamental were valued very richly, although the worst of these companies like Pets.com and The Globe tended to fizzle quickly. Better ones like Infospace and AOL held up longer, but too, eventually succumbed when the hype died.
It changes the calculus in Amazon's favor, with the benefit accruing to Amazon, and yet, Amazon tricks the customer into paying for this benefit. It's pretty brilliant, but I'm not gullible enough to pay for it when it buys me literally nothing. Faster shipping, when needed, I can already buy, without Prime, and for much less.
The bus is cheaper and less comfortable.
It's somewhere around a 5 euro base charge plus about a euro per kilometer (rough approximation).
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No, what politicians do is to build up debts (easy - it's other people's money) that no business would or could ever countenance. Thus you have a State with a $20 trillion debt and rising. One day it won't rise any more and the suffering will be immense.
It literally does. "The big advantage of using Python and prompt_toolkit is that the implementation of new features becomes very easy."
According to the EPA, not true for the US.

http://www3.epa.gov/climatechange/ghgemissions/sources/agric...

I also wonder about humans vs agriculture for gas emissions. What's worse?
A prototype peer-to-peer caching proxy that uses socket.io to turn web pages into etherpad-like canvases[0]

It currently requires something akin to EigenTrust++ implementing in the DHT namespace, except EigenTrust++ requires information about the amount of successful downloads peer nodes have made, so it's going to require minor adjustments for decentralised HTTP.

On the frontend it requires a way to insert arbitrary elements into the DOM using something akin to Mediums' impressive little editor.

Also missing RPC_EDIT, so there's no inter-instance web page editing /just/ yet.

[0] https://github.com/Psybernetics/Synchrony
Haskell server side and Clojurescript client, nice!

One suggestion: I was wondering where the client code was and had to read most of the way down the README file to see the link to the separate client project - might want to move that up to the top of the README.
Munich (http://www.taxi-muenchen.com/privatkunden/tarif-und-preise.h...): minimum fare 3,50 and 1,80 per kilometer if <5km, so 5,30 for the 1km and 20,50 for the 10km ride.

Taxi prices across Germany are similar.
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Driving a taxi in Germany is pretty much a minimum wage job (or close). There's not much room for cutting costs.

The Mercedes E-Class aspect is a bit misleading; Mercedes offers cars to German taxi companies at a pretty hefty discount (as long as they are used as taxis for at least one year), which is why they're so popular.
Do you realize that EC cards are either Maestro (MasterCard) or V pay (VISA)? Also you shouldn't make generalization about "Europe", payment habits vary greatly between neighboring countries (Germans' love for cash baffles me and most my non-German coworkers).
Never heard of him, but I think I need to know about him. I find this book he wrote to be very enticing:

> Computing: A Human Activity

Sounds like a forerunner to Agile programming.
The issue is not the desire to redistribute per se. The point is it matters what you actually do with the money. Some uses are productive and some are wasteful. Soviet Union was born out of the desire to redistribute - and failed. So this discussion can not be had in the abstract
Hate to be a negative nancy...

..But we're making a fuss about restarting the production of something we'd already mastered, and we first made in 1941?

I'll be more interested when an American commercial breeder reactor comes online.
Just curious—is this the same at every company in Japan? Or is this just an anecdote? Or somewhere in-between?

Reading about the Toyota Way, and the cultural focus at that company, I find it difficult to believe that Toyota would just let this go unseen in the midst of 'continuous improvement' and 'respect for people' in other parts of their operation...
>I've said it elsewhere, but I'll say it again: Uber's endgame is not in the disruption of the taxi industry.

On my more cynical days, I've convinced myself that their true endgame is an Enron-sized fraud.

Somewhat unfair... and yet.
Peter Naur's paper 'Programming as theory building' is perhaps the most lucid, thought provoking and practically usefull single thing I have ever read on the sociological aspects of software engineering. Right there with the Brook's "Mythical man month" ( but the value density of the former is much higher, since it's a paper and the latter is a book).
Before Amazon pushed Prime, you routinely had to pay for standard shipping everywhere.

I remember ordering from catalogs in the pre-internet era where you would pay $20 on a $100 order for 2-4 week shipping.

Being able to click a button and have whatever I desire show up on the doorstep within two days for $100/year is the next best thing to a Star Trek replicator.
Betteridge's law of headlines[1] says the answer is "No".

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
No, it has nothing to do with the pie fallacy. Yes, even the poorest in America lead better lives in absolute terms than most people have throughout history. But regardless of the absolute "economic level x" of the poorest, the wealthiest among us will enjoy disproportionate access to the latest technology, education, healthcare, influence etc.
Eh, many of the startups now are selling services for less than you'd pay for, with the difference subsidized by VCs. Granted, some services have close to zero costs, but one can also argues that many of them have close to zero values too. There will always be a few winners and a lot of losers in any periods. The last bubble brought us Amazon, Google, ebay, etc. I am sure some of the current unicorns will become big household names, but many others will fade away.
> they don't always take card or like doing s

Don't blame the taxi drivers, it's widely known that Germans don't like cash-less payments, and much less credit cards. Partially because of surveillance and partially because unlike the US, you have to have excellent credit reports to get a true CC and not prepaid/debit CCs.
Summary, given the challenge some companies have had keeping ahead of their last private round when it comes to public markets, large funding sources are pulling back from their irrational exuberance of the last couple of years.

That is an entirely expected and reasonable thing for them to do. And it's going to force some IPOs on companies that are not ready for it, and it will cause some companies that used to be "golden" to start dismantling. And that too is entirely expected.

And some people, perhaps a quite a few, who thought they were "set for life" and perhaps even thought their kids were set for life, will find that maybe they aren't really yet. That certainly happend to me during the dot com crash and it was a sobering experience.

But like the 1,000 sea turtles that crawl out of the sand and into the surf, the 100 that survive may do so for over a hundred years. Sadly there isn't any easy way to figure out which are the survivors until they are the last ones left standing.
Thanks very much for your thoughts.

What do you think about the foundational tech of numba itself?

Do you think it is any more of a black box than say Julia? Is there anything about it that would impede extension into a more stable, predictable and feature rich product?

BTW looks like Intel is doing some stuff with Julia: https://github.com/IntelLabs/ParallelAccelerator.jl

There has also been alot of recent funding to Continuum and dev of numba seems to be going strong. Also some recent work with AMD.
My experience as a salaryman was pretty much Scenario A. I dated a bit during those years; the modal date was probably "I'll meet you at 3 PM on Saturday at the train station, we'll do a late lunch, movie, dinner, and some karaoke. This will be the only time we see each other this week."

Repeat for virtually the entire relationship. (It took me a few years of maturity and a little bit of post-salaryman-clarity-of-hindsight to realize that I was probably as emotionally distant as I was physically not present, which was something I would not have agreed with if you had told me it at the time.)

This is not wholly dissimilar to the traditional expectations for amount of time a Japanese husband is expected to be able to devote to his wife and children during regular working weeks. (I'm reporting, not endorsing.)
My first pass is actually attacking daily fantasy (i.e. given data about past NHL games, predict a player's performance in an upcoming game). I'm scraping some NHL stats sites to build input vectors based on a couple dozen manually-chosen features (e.g. "number of goals scored last game", "opposition goalie's save percentage in his last 5 games") and passing them through a neural network to see if there's any usable correlation between the input features and a player's eventual performance (goals, assists, +/-, etc.).

It's all in good fun -- mostly an excuse to take a look at TensorFlow and regain some of my machine learning knowledge from undergrad :)

I'd be curious to hear about anyone else mucking around with machine learning for fantasy sports!
The Exploratorium. Not really a kid's museum; they have date nights, evening programs, and a first class restaurant.

http://www.longnow.com -- try hanging out at the Interval Bar in their facility at Fort Mason

Volunteer at the Intenet Archive, www.archive.org

Volunteer at San Francisco Sex Information, www.sfsi.org

Volunteer at the Electronic Freedom Foundation, www.eff.org

Trek down to Stanford for the Stanford EE Computer Systems Colloquium, http://ee380.stanford.edu

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I wonder how are they going to compete with Intel?

I don’t see how they’re going to match raw performance against those 1tflops+ 20-cores xeons.
I don’t see how they’re going to match performance/watt against 7w quad-core C2338.
I don’t see how they’re going to match price against $20 x5-Z8300.
If none of the above, then why should Google/HP/Oracle/anyone else buy that?
AKA "Creating insanely difficult puzzles that will drive you potty"
Peter Naur – Programming as Theory Building
I never understood this argument.

Stores are still a thing, right?

And if you are incapable of planning, how is Prime going to help you? When you need one of those things, even with Prime you're still going to the store, because you're not going to wait a day or two for TP or printer paper.
Link to the paper: http://www.dc.uba.ar/materias/plp/cursos/material/programmin...
Interesting idea - but what are your pricing plans?
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I'm not against property right at all. I was just making logical argument to poke holes to show that something is at miss in asserting in its puritanical form. The property rights are generational because of ability to transfer those rights. This immediately establishes generational lock down if resources are limited while keeping less fortunate out. This applies to resources such as real estate and political power however not to resources that are unlimited such as creativity and innovation. A large number of people currently live in poverty because there is simply no way for them to acquire education, nourishment or healthcare because they couldn't chose their parents correctly. This doesn't necessarily imply re-distribution of wealth or socialization programs or welfare state or guaranteed basic income or even charities as the solution. In fact, they are almost certainly not the solution. I think we do not yet have correct model for economic rights and rewards established for modern human society. It is also likely that purely economic solution does not even exist given the innate human nature. In that case, the technology might be our only savior where by one day we can have virtually unlimited energy source and robotic savants to create age of abundance.
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It could also be congestion at the peering points your ISP uses to connect (directly or through transit) to Amazon or HBO.

I think Netflix also still uses caching boxes in a few locations, but they are being phased out.

In other words, there are a lot more variables in the equation than just your home network and the Roku app.
In theory, but they would have ended up with a lot of books they didn't need. My wife taught them that you only buy your textbooks after a few class periods - you never know if the professor will actually use the books they add to the course list and sometimes the list is just plain wrong. There were many instances where a book was on the list but never used - so my kids just never purchased those. You really rely on fast shipping as occasionally the professor will throw you a curve-ball and start referencing a book half-way through a semester.
The state is neither corrupt nor incompetant? Really?? If this is the case, why so much interest in black lives matter??

There seems to be this spread of misinformation (especially on HN) that evil business owners aren't paying their "fair share" when in reality, they pay the majority of taxes in the US.

High taxes and regulations will only make it harder for the non-rich to accumiliate wealth and the zuckerbergs of the world will just move to another country.

Do you like only having the choice of either working for a big corporation or the government? I sure don't.

nordic countries are a good example of what not to do, because this is exactly what has happened there.
Author of tmuxp here, a python API and config manager on top of tmux(1).

You can see the quickstart at https://tmuxp.readthedocs.org/en/latest/quickstart_python.ht... and the API documentation at https://tmuxp.readthedocs.org/en/latest/api.html.

You can see the testcases we cover use real tmux sessions and monitor the state of the session / window / panes to assert the API functions correctly. https://github.com/tony/tmuxp/tree/master/tmuxp/testsuite

As for pymux, Jonathan Slenders' work on ptpython [1] and prompt_toolkit have been quite nice when working with shell_plus in django or debugging python projects. He's good in this area. Agreed that it's a nice thing to have pymux there.

And agreed that adding native language extensions (python, ruby, etc.) to tmux would be complicated code-wise and perhaps not in the spirit of what it aspires to be. That said, on the tmuxp side of things, a lot could be improved. For example, switching tmuxp to use control mode (-C) and filing smaller patches to expand control mode's events in tmux(1).

[1] https://github.com/jonathanslenders/ptpython
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dpc is to the current system, what netflix was to blockbuster.
We have taped out several chips for our own research. But as a university research lab, we do not have any plans for a commercial manufacturing run. The lowRISC team can say more about the roadmap to a commercial dev board.
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Isn't he the N in BNF?
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HA.

How could school not be stressful.

Same rooms. Every Day. Same kids. Same motivations. Same tapping-of-the-foot. Same stagnation. Same restlessness. Same mockery. Same shame.

'Stupid fucking faggot retard loser fatty useless cunt.'

Try living with that cacophonous litany for 8 hours daily and not coming out a little fucked.

Absolutely a first world problem but I would have 100% more enjoyed an apprenticeship or something similar.

I hated myself all throughout high-school. Hated. Cogitated on my own self termination regularly.

Today, working on my own, I feel so much better; not having to actively think about the various groups I have to conform to or rules I have to follow... Extremely liberating.

I just want to freelance, actively contribute, subsist, and die.

I'm not a piece of shit for wanting that.
The only real failsafes I have are overcurrent detection on the blade motor (when you hit something bad, current will spike) which triggers immediate shut-off, as well as a big red emergency stop button that will be on top of a pedestal at between knee and waist height.

Otherwise I intend to implement naive obstruction avoidance to start where I detect proximity to an obstruction and simply steer away from it when I'm too close. In the case where the distance to the obstruction decreases faster than warranted by vehicle velocity, I'll simply shut off the blade and stop moving until either the obstruction goes away, or some timeout expires.

Later on I'll add some smarts to this w/ a bit of mapping so that the static object "too close threshold" varies depending on whether or not the object is known in the current map - that way I can implement wall-following for close edging without that behaviour conflicting with the lower-level "don't turn the neighbour's cat into sausage" behaviour.

Edit 1:

My yard is quite private, and lawn mowers (even electric ones) make scary noises, so I don't really expect that much will want to interfere with it while it is running.

Edit 2:

It'll also have a camera and I'll be experimenting with various monocular SLAM and odometry algorithms. If nothing else, I'll use the camera to capture video for remote FPV control and for offline structure-from-motion mapping purposes. My hope is that if I can get decent enough pose estimation (likely from fusion of VSLAM + wheel odometry + AHRS/IMU data + GPS via an EKF), that I can compare the live camera image with one taken from the map at a similar pose to find and avoid dynamic objects in the scene. Of course, to do that well I'll actually need some sort of statistical map of the environment, as a single textured 3D mesh won't convey the expected variance of the scene (things blowing in the wind, etc).
Not for nothing: Uber is subsidizing most of their markets like crazy in a Kozmo-esque growth gamble (particularly in China), and there was this story about Instacart making the rounds the other day:

http://www.fastcompany.com/3055033/instacart-raises-fees-and...

It isn't 1999 again, but I wouldn't go so far to assume that "most" of the giant companies are solid businesses just yet. As Buffett said, you don't know who is wearing swim trunks until the tide goes out. Even if companies aren't obviously subsidizing their customers' purchases (as in the first boom), there's a lot of bubble money sloshing around, making everyone's revenue numbers look better.
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Japan is a big country with a diversity of people and companies in it. This post accurately captures the traditional expectation for work culture among a segment of the economy, which is largely professional full-time male employees of an elite fraternity of Japanese megacorps and their corresponding governmental counterparts. Many Japanese firms are not members of the elite fraternity of megacorps; many people resident in Japan are not professional Japanese men who are full employees (正社員) at their company. Salarymen peaked at about 30% of the labor force and have been declining; if I had to hazard a guess in 2015 it would be in the 20~25% range, but it depends a bit on how you define the edge cases.

I'm socially constrained from talking about Toyota in much detail. Can I talk about Google, instead? Ridiculously profitable company with teams of tens of thousands of geniuses running around busy inventing self-driving cars and being basically shadow-infrastructure for literally the entire world. Would you assume Google is not a total clusterflop? I would assume Google is not a total clusterflop. But then I e.g. talk to people who tried to interview there, and my confidence is shaken.

So Toyota. Yeah. Great company full of very dedicated people. Their cars are fantastic.
Your wish has been granted. It's called C and it's been around since the 70's.
The Hollywood movie selection (non Netflix produced) is pretty horrendous. They have a fair amount of TV shows, but the movies are absent.