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Comedy of Errors – Episode 1 – Alia and Google Iyer Encounter
I send well over that many a day on average.
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Well I am a quant strategy developer, a libertarian, and I am quite proud of my job (except for the compliance part). I see no "rigging and illegal activity" where I work. (Being legal is not equal to being moral, by the way, and vice versa).
You can run a hidden service off your phone using orbot.
How dependent is Rust on Mozilla for support now? Has it developed its own community of contributors? I like Mozilla and their mission, but with the way things have been going the past few years I wouldn't want to put a lot of time into porting my projects to something whose future was dependent on Mozilla.
Well in Japan the whole pop music scene is a farce - putting idols together just to grab the massive otaku market, and trying to make music in different genres (electro, hip hop, and now metal) just to differentiate because the girls are all underaged and unable to sing anyway.
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/02/08/tanking
>but in practice there's a surprisingly large gap between that and a person who can speak fluently on complex subjects with no fear of being misunderstood, but makes occasional minor errors--or even usages which are grammatically correct, but sound stilted--that betray them as non-native.

Well the purpose of translation is communication, not hiding your nativeness, do I don't see the point of this.

>There's a big jump between 99.9% and 100%

Well the jump is between 0.1%

>and if you want a really professional translation job, you're not going to settle for 99.9%.

That's like saying if i wanted to hire an engineer to build me a nuclear reactor im gonna pass everybody who scored 99.9% on a test in favor of the magical unicorn who by virtue of being born in the beautiful blue glow of a reactor is the only being capable of scoring 100%.

Either the gap is actually bigger then 99.9-100 as you say, or the gap is so small as to be insignificant.

People can vary greatly in english skill if they are not native and while you can most likely figure out whether or not they were born where by their accents and their way of speaking, a sufficiently skilled speaker would give you no more trouble in communicating to you whatever complex ideas they might have in their mind.

The only reason I can think of of this restriction is protectionism, i.e. a translator union located in England would want to protect its members from competition and find it most convenient to claim a special status on nativeness without coming off as obviously anti-competitive.
No patent if invention lies only in computer program, says Indian Patent Office
Given how long it took relative to the original announcement that a name change would take place (more than a year ago IIRC), I thought the idea had been shelved, apparently not.

Guess it doesn't really matter what the name of the company is, so Lightbend, Streamy, Scalewhale, etc. all make sense. The logo though, really? Looks like a 3rd place winner from the local kindergarten arts and crafts contest.

Anyway, wrt to Scala, Lightbend's focus seems to have shifted at least in part to enterprise Java, which by necessity means less resources for Scala development. Probably explains the delay in the Scala 2.12 release: the core developers are too busy serving 2 masters (Lightbend clients and the compiler).

Well, moving forward Scala's surthrival depends on the community and continued popularity of libraries, not so much the company behind the language. Fortunately EPFL provides an ongoing stream of R & D to help bridge the gap created by Lightbend's semi-pivot.
This victory is among the top military engagements in all of history...it's beautiful even.

But, I'd argue that Caesar's crossing of the Rhine was his most impressive victory. He built a bridge over an impassible river, marched his army across, walked around a bit, crossed back over and dismantled the bridge.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNPnBVHSeZc
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The Next Star Wars Movie Has Recruited a Team of Drones to Protect Its Secrets
Google is basically saying that it didn't make enough money. This seems dubious, as the effort should have been pretty low...this isn't rocket science, and the conversion/sales as compared to straight ads would have been higher. The screen real estate these widgets occupy will be replaced with lower performing ads.

There has to be some other motivation.

Edit: See http://imgur.com/a/8c9Xi These have to have a higher CTR and revenue stream than an ad. (edit 2: removed note about other ads being suppressed...happened for a while, then stopped)
Poe's Law applies to metal.

Is Turbonegro metal?
Google to Shut Down Online Insurance Site, Partners Say
The beginning of China's deindustrialization?
Yes, we need spend a lot of time to clarify everything.

We are selling services around actor and enterprise solutions, yes.
Using Vim packages – Feb 21 2016
Why weird? A music with the technical demands of classical music, channeling the angst and rebellion into unity. A music with power - the brotherhood adversarial nature of the mosh is something to be experienced - everybody is doing their best to crush all of your bones, except when you stumble or fall - then literally 20 hands will pick your up and throw you away to safety. A music that is good for training, fragging people in Quake, sex or invading neighboring country. A music with infinite variability and versatility. Why is weird that it transcends borders, cultures and generations?
Totally agree. I made the same small game in Unity and Godot about a year ago to compare them. Learning and using Godot script was no big deal.

The main difference was that I could use VS for Unity and it had a vim plugin, but if I wanted to edit text in-editor I was stuck with Godot's own one.
I installed XMonad. Can't remember the exact sequence of events, but I think whilst messing with the config to set it as the default desktop it crashed and could only boot into recovery.. It would probably have been an easy fix, but I really just wanted a working machine quick.
Why My Startup Will Donate 10% of Revenue to Charity, Forever
I can't help but think this clearly demarks the largest difference between apple and microsoft. MS will sell your security and privacy and rights for some temporary safety.
I don't see the sample games listed on their site but found some googling. I'd be very interested in a good sample point&click adventure game especially for a FLOSS-engine. Creating one has always been in my "neat project" pile but I suck too much at drawing to motivate myself. Last time I tried (with no engine, just pygame) I got stuck figuring out a good way to do paths/movement/blocking areas and it sort of fizzled :D
It does:

"I'm increasingly finding regular needs and uses to refer back to notes. In some cases it is quicker than searching online"

But only this one...
>There has to be some other motivation.

Maybe only 50 million people were using the service instead of 100 million.
I quite liked the article but I agree with you that these are not really "first principles". Seem like the story was shoe-horned to fit the analogy. The author could have taken the same story and used it to illustrate the power of open questions such as "what do I know to be true" instead of first principles.
http://time.com/4136457/terrorism-definition/ tries to give an answer, which doesn't make much sense to me. That's the "official" answer, though.
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I recently registered an LLC, and opened a separate bank account. I did it because I didn't want to "cross the streams"... however it felt more like a switch was flipped in my head, and so far that's one of the biggest benefits.

Where as before when I had to spend some money for the business, it was very difficult on an emotional level. I'm not the kind of guy who doesn't spend money if he doesn't have to. However once I was spending money out of the business account, it was easier somehow. My mindset was now a matter of "will this help me grow the business? sure, let's go for it". Instead of "Can I accomplish the same goal without spending the money?"... which there is almost always a way to do.
Where in the article does it say that?

> In its note, Google said that the product has received a good level of traffic from users but, when it came to revenue and activity, it “hasn’t driven the success we hoped for”.

That sounds like they did have problems monetizing it
If you search for 'car insurance' you should see it.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0gOtFCo_U7HSE0wV0g2b3VfTXM...
Can you explain the non evolving part? We have so many new subgenres and bands with excellent technical capabilities?
I use Telegram as a cross-platform alternative to SMS which offers zero security anyway so anything Telegram has is better than what I would get with SMS anyway.
Theorem (YC W14) is hiring an investor relations and cap intro professional
About us
Theorem (www.theoremlp.com) is a YC W14 company founded by a Google software engineer and a Morgan Stanley quant trader.

We are a cross-disciplinary team applying machine learning, software engineering and rigorous scientific investigation to revamp the lending and securitization space. This is one of finance’s least sexy areas, but is a multi-trillion dollar market- and it’s where the financial crisis started. Bad technology was a major cause, and even after almost 10 years, no one has fixed it. We're trying to, and we’ve raised a multimillion dollar seed round from top tier investors including major VCs, Max Levchin, SV Angel and Two Sigma.

One of our primary products is managing investments in the marketplace lending space. We have LP capital commitments of over $100mn dollars for a set of institutions and individuals We are looking to significantly grow this client base over the next year.

The goal of the cap intro, business development and investor relations candidate is to increase the number of investors and size of investments in Theorem from High Net Worth Individuals, Family Offices and RIAs, to maintain relationships and build the firm’s capital base and referrals with existing investors, and to work with the CEO to find and close deals from institutional investors.

Business Development responsibilities:

Lead Gen:
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· Initial qualification of inbound and referral interest

Sales:
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· Keep detailed records in company CRM
· Forecast & pipeline mgmt
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- Building process to streamline sales

Investor Relations responsibilities:
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Must haves:
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· Prior Investor facing role
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· Track record of fundraising success
· Relationships with potential investor leads
Experience with Lead Generation

Competencies:
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Intelligence. Learns quickly. Demonstrates ability to quickly and proficiently understand and absorb new information.

Persuasion – Able to convince others to pursue a course of action.

Listening skills and Teamwork – Lets others speak and tries to understand their viewpoint; reaches out to peers and cooperates with supervisors to establish a collaborative working relationship.

Persistence

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If you're interested, please send an email to jobs@theoremlp.com
>A guy who is 100% fluent in source and 99% fluent in target will produce a perfectly clear but very slightly stilted translation,because he's not aware of the few mistakes that he makes.

Why isn't the reverse true? It is only that the lossyness of the conversion process is invisible in the result, so somebody reading it would not know that it's wrong, it still produces the same quality of translation i.e. that its not perfect (or as good as can be).

Additionally, there are so many words in english that it's not possible to know them all, and so one has to assume that all people are at most 99%. But my english alarm doesnt go off everytime a word like 'mellifluous' isn't used. So I even doubt the claim that a guy who is 99% in the target language will make a 'stilted' translation. There exists a skill level where a person can produce a text that won't read as 'wrong' but won't be as good as it could possibly be and this skill level is sufficient to not have a text feel stilted. Not to mention most people do not have the same writing skills, and a very good high school student writer writes a much more pleasing text than his schoolmate who is not very good.
On the GDScript introductory page (http://docs.godotengine.org/en/latest/reference/gdscript.htm...), they give the explanation of the shortcomings of other languages:

- Godot embeds scripts in nodes, most languages are not designed with this in mind.
- Godot uses several built-in data types for 2D and 3D math, script languages do not provide this, and binding them is inefficient.
- Godot uses threads heavily for lifting and initializing data from the net or disk, script interpreters for common languages are not friendly to this.
- Godot already has a memory management model for resources, most script languages provide their own, which resulted in duplicate effort and bugs.
- Binding code is always messy and results in several failure points, unexpected bugs and generally low maintainability.

The gave a shot at LUA, and it didn't work out well.
Of course, one of the problems with colours is that different cultures have different colour values.

The Celtic languages like Scots and Irish Gaelic distinguish between dearg, which is the red of paint or blood, and ruadh, which is the red of hair or heather. To them these are completely different colours, and a native Gaelic speaker would be really confused to find that English translates them both as the same word.

Toki Pona's limited root vocabulary really just demonstrates its cultural biases.
>Google has been a complete imbecile when it comes to these things.

Why? A company the size of Google needs to prune these kinds of side-branches of their business so they don't become bloated and unwieldy.

>They could have a division which puts these projects on life support or hell sells them to another company or even open source some of their products and let the community support them!

There may be reasons you can't open source it. We wrote a AS3/Flex to JS/HTML compiler. I looked at open-sourcing it because it's cool, but right now it's totally tied to our build-chain and tailored for our specific purpose. It would take a lot of effort to properly put it out there, and if you don't do that work, people get pissed and complain.

>If i've been burnt by google shutting down something i've made part of my workflow or rely on

Yeah, but it isn't just google. What's the alternative? A scrappy start-up that will shut-down when acquired? Everything is a risk now.

We use fogbugz extensively. Will it be here next year? Probably, but who knows. Maybe it'll be acquired by Atlassian and shut-down tomorrow.
I was wondering the same. Does "weird" in this instance mean that the phenomenon does not begin from marketing departments of large IP owners?
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Bill Gates calls for terror data debate
Maybe Spain has become a communist paradise all of a sudden and nobody told us.
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That's an over generalisation. Unity uses JavaScript, Boo, and C#. Cryengine and Stingray use Lua. They are those exact languages, not "like" those languages.
> Is Turbonegro metal?

Punk.
I was reacting to the word primary. I think that is a common (especially on HN) misconception. The markets make more sense when you don't think of them as mechanisms to fund companies, and do think of them as ways to trade risk and liquidity.

I'm not convinced that the capital allocation component of the markets is even as you say "necessary". You could easily envision the markets chugging along fine without allowing any direct sale of equity to the markets. That is some intermediary would be required to buy the equity from the company as it became available and in turn could then sell that equity into the markets. We are almost to that point already.
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Anyone who liked this should definitely check out the below documentary

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal:_A_Headbanger%27s_Journe...
why doesn't it just use user namespaces?
Actually, since you do have a right to park, but that information is terribly presented, what you get is people driving around and polluting more, trying to find one of the allowed streets.

This "idiot" is doing the government's work and indirectly reducing pollution.
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It IS fairly concerning the 'All Seeing Eye' the conspiracy folks warned about is actually a thing now.
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Fair-enough. I'm not an insulin expert so perhaps I don't appreciate the particular challenges here. But the way it was described on the website didn't make the task sound too impressive.

I was also struck by the money involved. ~$15k will pay for an experiment or two, as they indicate on the website. It takes many thousands of experiments to get anywhere in Biopharma.

So... it's a nice start, and maybe a worthwhile challenge, but it hardly seems like a serious effort. And not everyone realizes that, so I thought it was worth pointing out.
I downvoted this comment because its style heavily encourages low value combative tit-for-tat replies, half of it is quotations from the parent comment, and the remainder is posing questions in favour of adding thoughtful commentary

(parent comment was edited since this was posted)
Thanks for sharing the link!
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I believe the methodology is somewhere on the website. Check out the FAQs
Could be some other motivation but Insurance is a complex business. There are licenses with state departments of insurance, technology partnerships and then carrier partnerships.

Any carrier with existing strong independent agent channels are going to react to consumer comparison shopping with some caution. Carriers simply aren't going to jump right in bed with Google and put their best sales channel at risk.

As I understood it, Google was also asking for too much. They wanted special treatment and wanted to control much of the consumer experience even after the consumer purchases a policy with a carrier.

Google might have figured out the most lucrative part of the insurance shopping cycle is advertising which carriers can control the experience on without creating a downward spiral on market premiums. Google can easily profit in that space with far lower overhead and less disruption to carriers (i.e. the people who pay Google).
Yeah ABI compatibility might be problematic, my currently plan is to LD_PRELOAD what I have to test it for speed. I have the feeling that rust could mock the ABI and serve as a general replacement, but first things first is it even fast enough to use at the lowest levels of the system.
Regardless of how vapid Japanese pop music is, I had the "metal-not-metal" argument enough times when I was a teenager to know that it's nothing more than an easy way to waste 30 minutes.

When did Metallica stop being metal? Was it "Metallica", "Load", or St. Anger? Were they ever metal? Does anyone over the age of 16 care? (the answer is yes).
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Hey, I think it was a pretty obvious idea. In high school, preparing for physics exams, rather than memorising all the formulas, I worked on figuring them out based on some root principles, on the fly. So every exam I spent the first 10 minutes reading the exam and deriving all the formulas I gathered I needed on the back of the answer booklet. It was a lot more effective than memorising which type of questions needed which formula.

Like maybe 15 years ago my dad wanted to teach me maths and he kept repeating the importance of learning the 'first principles'. I didn't get a word he was saying at the time, but looking back, he had the idea too.
I love Whatsapp, but group chat with family and friends replaced any need for real live interaction, and its sad. I'd love to remove it, but sometimes its really useful with the wife and parents.
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This is something we've thought about too, but nowhere near as ballsy as what you're going for. Our aim was to start really really small, so it was always achievable. 1% of profits to charity, always. We feel like that should never ever be a problem, and so we can start there. Hopefully we'll be able to increase that over time.

Big respect for the ballsy approach though, look forward to follow up posts in the future as to how it goes!
German business confidence in steepest drop since 2008
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Isn't there a court case opened against Apple on this one? Sorry my legal knowledge is very limited but I think the official FBI request goes through a court. Maybe I am wrong, if somebody has the details I would love to read about it more.
Yes the Haswell branch prediction is so good that it obsoleted previous "best strategies" for fast interpreter loops.

See https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01100647/document

But unfortunately a lot of real code is so big these days that it thrashes all caches, including branch prediction.

Big is slow.
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You don't have to explain yourself. Down-votes are there for you to use.

Having said that, after scanning through your comment history, I'd say "Practice what you preach".
Holy crap, so it does
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I usually just say (when at home): "Hold on a sec." and put my phone somewhere. Usually takes some minutes for them to hang up.
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There have been others for a while:

http://www.amazon.com/Seek-Compact-Thermal-Imager-Android/dp...
The thing is if they can't monitise it better than someone else, they're better letting them bid up the costs of AdWords (which i assume are pricey on these sorts of keywords). Lot of opportunity cost on this one.
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I'm curious what you've listened to that makes you think it hasn't evolved since those times. Bathory, Cradle Of Filth, Napalm Death, Belphegor, Skeletonwitch, Dream Theatre, Watain, Kalmah, Exodus, Daylight Dies? Because there's a lot of new stuff that broke out cleanly into sub-genres (Insomnium, In Flames, Amon Amarth, Septicflesh, Avantasia, Blind Guardian, Eluveite, Sleep, Abagail Williams, Alestorm etc) and now there's quite a few bands that blur those lines as a form of counter-culture (Deafhaven, Fallujah, Meshuggah, Atoma).
Ask HN: What about the open data portal CKAN most irritates you?
I've been working on an idea for a new open source data portal. I've used CKAN [1] previously and there are many aspects of it I plan to implement quite differently (simpler installation and a REST API to name two). I'd like to hear from the HN community about any other pain points experience while using CKAN.

[1] http://ckan.org/
Maybe the point is that leadership works better when it's approached as problem-solving, rather than from passion or authority.
.... like john merriweather or victor niederhoffer for instance. two guys who've blown up the world multiple times but still manage to find capital and manage huge funds.