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Technically, all advertising and promotion is subsidized by the paying customers of the company. So increased promotional expenses still result in increased prices for customers, or reduced margin for the company (excepting an influx of customers that allows significant cost reduction due to scale).

But that's not always a bad thing.
But then stop calling it Hyperloop, and call it the VacTrain it is.

Nothing revolutionary, has existed for many decades as concept.
I've had a pretty bad time trying to get code coverage with my cli tests. I've ended up using spawn() in my test cases due to most libraries using process.exit() / process.stdout.write() and console.log() (instead of picking one and sticking with it).

How are globals used in the vorpal codebase? Is it going to be easier to write my tests (and actually get code coverage with istanbul working)?

I like the site, and the API overview. The library looks nice!
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Just a thought on something I've learned over a few years. Sometimes, the most correct way isn't necessarily the best. Example here might be that the redis db is being used to store data which is constantly being read. While being in a MySQL instance might be the most correct method, the end result might actually be slower. This is just my naive guess but the point is, sometimes, given a particular context, the value of taking a hacky/less correct solution becomes great enough to use it
Digital Ocean is really great for hobbyists and side project. I especially admire their community tutorials, which hosts tons of great content and I'm sure has been very valuable marketing for their products. With that said, I think trying to build a real startup on DO would be a big mistake. They simply don't offer the suite of products that the bigger cloud offerings do, and as clouds become more sophisticated, companies using them will have huge competitive advantages. From my perspective, tools like PaaS, Lambda, managed databases, big data/analytic tools etc are getting increasingly sophisticated. Using them now is a bit like a late 90s company using Python to code circles around companies sticking familiar, stable C++, where in this analogy C+ +is the equivalent to DO's basic VPS offerings that you use to cobble together what you need (stable and familiar, but ultimately less powerful and requires much more developer time to use effectively).
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They're not hosted in multiple datacenters; there was a power interruption in their single datacenter that exposed this firmware bug. The point of this postmortem isn't the initial power interruption but rather its repercussions, why it took so long to recover from and how they can improve their response and communications in the future.
Tesla is based on not using expensive batteries, but instead the common "same as in every laptop" type.

They can't magically increase battery lifetime, and that's why Hyperloop will either end up as Transrapid in vacuum (VacTrain, concept for many decades) or not at all.
https://predictors.ai/#/p/Neural_Storyteller HN doesn't aloow me to edit Links after an Hour...
No it is https://predictors.ai/#/p/Neural_Storyteller
Telepresence works fine in the civilian world, where you don't have someone jamming your GPS and comm links. It fails dramatically when you're fighting someone with decent technology. Definitely not a "solved problem." Look at how the Iranians managed to capture an RQ-170...

If the US tries to fight a near-peer opponent like China or Russia, GPS will be jammed, satellites will be either blinded or destroyed, and both UHF and VHF comms will be either jammed or severely degraded. Just recently a US Army General was bitching about how advanced the Russians were with their ECM/ECCM in Ukraine. The Russians are extremely good at this.
Perhaps https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10223645 might give some idea of what the moderators are thinking?
It needs to be on HTTPS https://predictors.ai/#/p/Neural_Storyteller HN doesn't allow me to edit Links after an Hour...
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Let's say I am a dividend investor looking for a steady cashflow stream.

Why would an asset class like medium-size technology companies pursuing highly competitive cut-throat markets, requiring long lock-ups of capital (Dropbox was founded in 2007, so someone has been sitting on those shares for 9 years already) be more attractive than similar dividend-flowing asset classes like real estate or energy MLPs?

Are the dividends so outsized that Dropbox is basically swimming in cash and the yield is much better than I can get with similar asset classes? Do they have a stronger foothold in the market with expected longevity to out-survive an office tower, apartment complex or gas pipeline? Is it likely to attract better talent than Valley's established public companies (GOOG, AAPL, FB) or Valley's hyper-growth startups with IPO potential (Uber), and that better talent will out-compete the rivals on products, execution and market share (and, as corollary, fall under "dividend growth" umbrella, in theory allowing me to buy larger yields at substantial discount)?

Dropbox would have to compensate investors for (a) lack of liquidity and (b) for being in technology software market, known to be particularly unforgiving with its "winner takes all" mentality. Its peers would be highly risky single purpose private REITs (think casinos and fracking companies in North Dakota).

To accommodate that compensation the yields would likely have to be in the double-digits range, so let's say with profits of $20 mln of which $10 mln is allocated to dividends the expected valuation would be in the range of $60-100 mil (10-15% expected yield which seems reasonable in this rate environment with the type of risk described).
I just played with this for too long, and I made some images I'd want to hang on my wall.
I'm guessing they didn't disclose the vendor because they didn't want to be sued for defamation.
According to the design spec, it is working as intended.

http://marxists.org/arxhive/marx/works/1867-c1/
It seems to have been corrected; it may well have just been a typo.
Pretty much right, but IMO most of the defense is because Bush II meddled in Venezuela politics and (from the Lefty perspective) anything Bush did is automatically wrong, so Chavez must be okay.

Just like most of the climate denialists (or other far-right bad ideas) are from people who first heard about global warming from all the Liberal professors and hippies making noise about it. And anything they want must be automatically wrong.
Partially correct, and partially wrong. Israel is allowed to spend around 27% of FMS on their equipment they manufacture; the remainder is to be spent of US equipment.

Oh, and the IAF has already contracted to buy the F-35...
>Not all air combat is done in a dogfight.

You're right, almost none of it is.

>Most A2A kills in the last 30 years have been BVR shots. Which the F-35 will excel at.

Negative, Ghostrider. It still has to be able to catch its prey, which it's not fast enough to do. And faster aircraft can still prevent it from disengaging. Speed is life in air combat.

>And I'm glad you know the truth about stealth. It is useless you know. That's why the Russians, the Chinese and now the Germans are starting to build 5th Gen stealth aircraft. All to prop up the illusion that it's just a boondoggle, and "mostly worthless."

What are we, on reddit? You're purposely being snide and also purposely misinterpreting what I've written. Stealth itself, as a concept, is not worthless. The F-35's stealth technology has been compromised, therefore it is of little value against an adversary such as China or Russia.

>Back to reality. Stealth is very useful, that's why countries work tirelessly to find countermeasures. Some of these work to a degree, some have potential. Stealth isn't magic, it's just a useful tool; like jamming, like AWACs, like OPFOR training. But to deny its merits is just ignorant.

I'm now convinced you are trolling. Enjoy your evening.
Try https://predictors.ai/#/p/Neural_Storyteller
These are great product guidelines. Especially the 98% use case. Are these from the book linked in the parent comment? Or do you have a source with more ideas along these lines?
He can have, watch, and archive copies because the Supreme Court in Sony Corp. of America v. Universal City Studios established that time shifting is covered under fair use.

Posting a copy to YouTube, without permission of the copyright holders, is in general not covered under fair use, which means he could be sued for copyright violation.
It kind of sucks especially for that since it forces you to do offline compaction which is hell on earth. I cant imagine they have fixed that, but it was a MAJOR ops headache because it would NEVER finish.

Never again mongo for anything with lots of writes.
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I don't see how that quote indicates that her "feud with Singhal was responsible for her 'demotion'...and eventual departure".

I'll admit that I generally dislike these books that construct a simple narrative out of anecdotes out of years of time, so I'm mostly responding because it's disappointing that this is the only top comment right now.

And (assuming it's true), believe it or not he's not the first person to resent someone bringing their expertise to bear on their baby, regardless of merit.
Some reports have come out about mass bird deaths, a group did a study that saw large population decreases;

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/birds-are-tails...
Having had Shures, and now Bose QC20s, there is a significant difference. The noise canceling definitely works.
There is no way you could pay me to give up a year and a half of my family.

You're very special if there is "no way" someone could pay you to trade "family time" for "work"!

By agreeing to participate in the work process, most people these days "give up" not 25 days a year, but full 100. Of course, there is a price tag they put on that time -- the salary.

This single-minded "family time is infinitely more valuable than work time" sentiment doesn't seem to match people's actions in reality. It looks more like some new-age signalling process; a (recent?) social phenomenon.
How do you sell more season tickets to raise money? There are only so many seats and like you said, ticket rights are passed down from generation to generation. And like other folks said, there is a sales tax.
Not a startup, but I was going to shut Go Report Card (http://goreportcard.com/) down because I didn't want to pay for it myself anymore, and I reached out to Digital Ocean and was given some credits to keep it running. Thanks.
That's a completely different question
Here's a bit more on the specs of MIT's design:
http://hyperloop.mit.edu/

From the lift to drag ratio(14) and cruising speed provided(110 m/s), we can compare it's performance to other forms of transportation(neglecting air drag) using the Von Karmen Gabrielli diagram[0]. Using the inverse of the L/D ratio as the specific tractive power and using the updated Von Karmen Gabrielli diagram in [1], we find that performance is expected to be a bit better than that of a commercial plane.

This is pretty promising. Although power required for stabilization and overcoming air drag should be taken into account.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_K%C3%A1rm%C3%A1n%E2%80%93G...
[1]http://www.ingenia.org.uk/Content/ingenia/issues/issue22/Imp...
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The B-1 has dropped more ordnance in Afghanistan than any other aircraft. The combination of long range, high endurance, and big payload make it perfect for this role. But the A-10 has its fan club that ignores this.
They'd be autonomous, with instructions like "kill anything in the air that isn't a drone", so jamming their control signals wouldn't cause any major problems. Sure, they might not be able to get new orders (retreat, chase another target) but that's a problem for any plane, drone or not.

Flight time/range - if the wings are large enough drones can be powered by solar panels and run forever [1] but we can safely assume that combat drones will be heavier and be capable of high acceleration and maneuverability so they would probably be powered by battery packs charged before take-off. You might think that's a limitation but battery tech is improving to the point where this will be viable by the the next conflict.

You're thinking of them wrong. They're not meant to compete with $100m planes. They're so cheap that they could be used as cheap guided missiles. They only need to collide with the enemy plane to achieve the win condition. Considering how light and maneuverable they will be, that should be simple.

[1] - http://www.popsci.com/article/technology/solar-powered-drone...
THAT is an interesting setup for a nosql microservice.
Noted...thanks...note to self: slow down and verify details when you're enthused...
Mostly time saving. With Majd Sakr teaching this, I expect fair amount of distributed systems content in here.

Although if a student at CMU does have time, a better roadmap is to take the new parallel programming course, along with distributed systems class. I did this and it served me well.
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Thanks for responding and sharing what you know.
To continue:

> In October 2010, it was made official. Mayer was removed from the top of Google’s search organization and put in charge of Google Maps and other “local” products.

> Technically, this was a lateral move, if not a promotion, because Mayer retained her vice-president title and she was, at the same time, given a seat on Google’s operating committee—then-CEO Eric Schmidt’s round table of top executives from the company.

> In reality, it was a demotion. Mayer was no longer in charge of what Google’s most important product looked like or how it worked. At Google, there was search, which generates nearly all of the company’s revenues and profits, and then there was everything else. Running Google search, Mayer was managing the most important product at the world’s most important Internet company. Running Google Maps, she was not.
N0,,, best views in chrome :D https://predictors.ai/#/p/Neural_Storyteller
I have the QC25, no paper needed. And they are amazing.
[All of my local recommendations (handyman, local photographer, where to buy tomatoes) have now shifted to facebook groups. I no longer google handyman in blah, xyz. instead I go through my saved posts in FB.]

In my local area NextDoor is replacing FB completely for any local recommendations, news, Alerts.
Is that with a private jet or something? The commercial flights between even SFO and LAX seem to take over an hour of flight time alone. Which isn't surprising, since it's 300 miles to cover.
I don't know for sure since I didn't design the course, but I imagine this goes more in depth than your normal undergraduate distributed systems course. At the very least, I don't remember having to read any papers in my courses except for Cryptography, and even then we didn't come close to 30 of them. It sounds like this would actually tell you more about how the services are implemented, as opposed to how you would go about using them?
No i meant https://predictors.ai/#/p/Neural_Storyteller
....Sorry
At best are you trying to argue for a "feud" with Larry Page?
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Hilarious! This reminds me of "Kill all the poor"..

https://youtu.be/owI7DOeO_yg
Yes, it's from the same book.
Most fighters don't cruise around on full AB; they cruise at lower throttle settings to conserve fuel.

So again, how are you going to get these 100k ball bearings up to 20k AGI? Your slow, cheap drones are just going to loiter up there and hope an F-35 flies into their web?

It's not like the air forces of the worlds would be ignorant of this "surprise" tactic. And the methodology of targeting an F-35 with a cascade of ball bearings is conveniently left out of your scenario.
Heh, so far up the food chain, being in charge of Google Maps is a demotion. If anything Google Maps is a genuinely good product and well used by many, as is search and Gmail. Could have been worse... Google+. I wonder how Googlers internally feel about maps, it should be "up there" next to search in terms of being amazing and well used.
I recently created http://filepiper.com, still busy validating the idea, then get someone to pay :)

I always wonder if software products are really the way to go. Getting initial traction is seriously hard
144 comments as I type this and I can't believe no one has mentioned OVH yet. I'm a happy customer of DigitalOcean, AWS, and OVH and my default choice for a while now has been OVH. DigitalOcean beats everyone in ease of use and UX, and AWS obviously has huge potential for scaling, but OVH consistently beats DigitalOcean in VPS performance and they include DDOS protection as standard.

Test for yourself, fire up similarly sized VPSs at both DigitalOcean and OVH and benchmark them running identical tests. The DigitalOcean VPSs are pretty fast but the OVH ones consistently perform better for both CPU and disk speed.

OVH supports startups just like the rest of the companies mentioned elsewhere in the thread too - see https://www.ovh.com/en/dlp/ for info. I have no affiliation with any of these companies except as a customer.
Thanks for the link, it directly contradicts the Yuricon depiction of events. I can easily see impacts in wildlife populations, especially over time. Cesium gets in the plants, bugs eat the plants and concentrate it, birds eat the bugs and get an even larger dose. Similar effects observed in Salmon and Tuna where there is mercury in the water. But the notion that just after the event it was so radioactive outside the containment vessels that it caused immediate fatalities would suggest 10s of Sieverts of exposure and that was not recorded or measured anywhere outside of the buildings AFAIK.

Not that I'm not glad that Yuricon is trying to commercialize vitrification. It is a solid strategy for safely entombing waste for millennia, but the "story" as told in the original article does not install confidence in their claims.
I think in a twisted way it's sort of beneficial as outright there's no promise of encryption or security, implying you should take care of it yourself, client-side.

This follows the Unix philosophy where a utility does one thing and does it well, and if you need two jobs done, you pipe one through another.
Do there exist any small packages that we would like to get between these points faster than they currently do?
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"Should be"? "Ethically"? On what basis and under what code of ethics do you operate? You understand that your view of ethics is only one among many, and you have no right to impose yours on other people by force... Right?
The Mac is just as compelling
> Page consulted with [SVP of Engineering Bill] Coughran. Coughran said he could no longer peacefully referee what was becoming an increasingly hostile relationship between Singhal and Mayer. Coughran said that a couple times a week, one or the other would be in his office, complaining and asking to lead the organization.

> “We’re going to have to pick somebody here,” he told Page.

The feud was with Singhal. Page only picked the winner. I'd recommend you just read the book (the quotes are from chapter 6).
Not really a good explanation. Ungefärlich is more like "harmless" in English. Yes, it contains the word "harm", but there's a modifier that inverts its meaning.
I recommend you go for data science rather than finance.

For one you'll have less to learn to catch up (ML = prob theory + modelling skills). Also "data science" is a much broader skill that is in demand in many industries, while to apply your modelling skills to finance requires that you join one of the dirty banks, dirty hedge funds, or other dirty system construct.

This is a good book to have on the shelf: https://www.cs.ubc.ca/~murphyk/MLbook/

also on topic http://p.migdal.pl/2015/12/14/sci-to-data-sci.html
I dont agree with the way the title is worded: as if to indicate that it is wrong in principle to build a stadium for NFL team. I think this is a case of a bad business deal or contract. The NFL clearly had a better contract here. If the deal was worded such that St. Louis Ram's teams were obligated to play there for X years or something else that guarantees cash flow, probably the city wouldn't have had such a loss. It is just poor deal making.
I agree they would not advocate it but I'm wondering how they would prevent it. It is easy for people who don't understand the consequences of their actions to over power those who do, because they are willing to take action that favors short term gain over long term survival. So your 'sane libertarian' or 'anarcho-capitalist' who was not also willing to destroy the economy to further consolidate their influence, would be swept aside by thugs who were willing to do that.
Interesting; I had never heard of OVH before. I currently have a bunch of stuff hosted on AWS and have been looking at digital ocean pricing; I'll add this to the list of places to check out. Thanks!
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No, nothing like that - I am removed from any personal feelings.

Just observing facts from the picture. I'm getting down-voted, but I don't mean any ill will towards anyone. Perhaps no women or minorities applied to be in the first batch, but then again, that is also an indicator of a social issue - that more women and blacks and hispanics are not engaged in tech.

I just wish that tech entrepreneurship drew a more diverse crowd, as that would bring more diverse and necessary solutions for world problems. Not everything can be fixed from the lens of middle class white and asian men.
I wrote about the problem here: http://250bpm.com/blog:36

The fact that abstractions can often add complexity rather than remove it should be taught in schools.

The problem with distinguishing between the two cases is that it often requires business domain knowledge. And programmers, sadly, rarely care about the domain logic.
I've seen many people on tech shuttles in the Bay Area get on the shuttle at 9 and get off the shuttle at 6. The shuttle is considered to be "in the office".
Building your own fab will cost you a lot more than 1.5B!
Ok, wild guess here but Sundar is cleaning out the house? It's kind of hard to give direction to some who's been there forever, actually achieved more technologically and financially, and more critically would not listen to you.

No wonder Larry decided to create Alphabet, stayed out of all the office politics. I would take a bet that Jeff Dean and Urs Holzle will leave in the next year or two.
Sorry for that Embarrassing broken link, The URL is actually
https://predictors.ai/
and an example project that I recommended for the you guys was https://predictors.ai/#/p/Neural_Storyteller

* P.S HN should take half the blame for disabling editing after a while
> Was it ever? I thought that the idea of exceptions in C++ was always "no cost if not thrown".

Long, long ago enabling exceptions would add some overhead to all functions. When "zero cost exceptions" went mainstream it was a bit of a big deal, but a lot of people didn't read the memo and still argue about their cost.

Either way, I'm not a fan of exceptions in any language. I'd prefer an Either<Result, Error> return value any day.
Hasn't most of that been paid back already due to personal seat licenses?
The first instance of this I saw was "Testing on the Toilet" which started at Google in... June? July? 2006.

Still going strong, though depending on the office and particular bathroom distribution seems to have problems at times.
I'm sure this has been said already, but this is a pretty big slap in the face to startups not in a fancy incubator program, which probably already have everything else going for them. It's like giving a big check to someone who already won a full ride to a top university, no?