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Because the only way someone can be intelligent, is if they wasted 5 years of there of life, not working, but reading old theories and academic papers that don't line up with the reality we actually live in?

I'll rather save 100k and listen to the blowhard on the radio, than be in debt and listen to the blowhard on a podcast.
> Just not the same as 40 people trying to bring her down without falling to the whelp adds.

It's worth noting that Wildstar launched targeting the hardcore WoW raider experience.

It failed miserably since targeting only a single-digit percentage of WoW's playerbase is not a profitable business decision.
Donning a cape and meeting destiny.

In all seriousness they make it out to be more than it is. From my experience going through their hiring pipeline there seem to be two tracks in SRE; software and sysadmin. If you score higher in algorithms and data-structures, presumably, you'll end up working more on tools and libraries whereas in the other you'll work more on infrastructure and automation. Either way both tracks work together on the same team towards the same goals.

If you want in be prepared to solve simple-to-tough algorithms problems and be quizzed on TCP re-transmission, Linux system calls, and memory pressure. It's a bit challenging because you not only have to know Big-O well enough to estimate the asymptotic complexity of an arbitrary algorithm but you might also be asked what a sequence of TCP packets would look like if you sent some data and pulled the plug or what the parameters are to a given system call on Linux. You quite literally have to know everything from how virtual memory works, how to implement a fast k-means, how the network stack works from top to bottom, etc, etc.

If you've done any work in cloud development and supporting moderately large one it's that but bigger. Make one a hero, it does not.
Note that while the set of "enterprise add-ons" we launched today are open source, we are not promising that all future add-ons will be open source. In particular future products we have planned that specifically target the needs of very large organizations may be proprietary. Once the contracts are so big that it's cheaper for the corp to maintain their own fork, then obviously our stay-open strategy breaks down, but we have a plan for that. (That said, I'm still looking for ways to make it work as OSS if possible.)
What pays most: R, Python, or SQL?
This comment breaks the rules for Apply HN threads: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11440627.

Please don't do that here, or really anywhere on HN.
> > The ban on smoking in restaurants – which, let me be clear, I am wildly in favor of, being someone who can't patronize a business with cigarette smoking in it

> Can't? Given that tobacco smoke contains no allergens, methinks the mot juste would be 'won't.'

Those of us who have had to put up with reactions to cigarette smoke do not particularly care that those reactions are due to cigarette smoke being an irritant rather than an allergen. Won't is the operative word (except if you define "won't" as "won't because I might have to go spend some quality time in the local hospital").

https://www.sharecare.com/health/impact-nicotine-addiction-o... seems like a nice summary.
That is indeed the premise of Datomic, so I'm not sure how that would be a differentiator in this case. Beyond that, it's hard to make any statements on the difference between the query languages without more examples.
Deep learning solves the cocktail party problem
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This seems like an interesting idea

So the user will install your app and link their credit card, and every site that uses your service will just show a QR code?

It sounds like you suffer from a pretty bad chicken-and-egg problem. A merchant would have to accept both SQRL payments and regular payments if they wanted to make money. Merchants are not in the business of pushing a preferred payment method if it means they don't get paid. Every step between a shopping cart and a payment decreases the likelihood of a successful conversion. How will you address this?
This new paper covers some state-of-the-art techniques:

https://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~mangpo/www/papers/lens-asplos...
There's a few questions that I had that I'm sure others would have too, but I couldn't find any answers on your site:

* What's the maximum upload size?

* If I want to change just one file later, do I have to upload my whole site, or can I just upload that one file?

* Can I make changes as often as I want?
> You’ve got $50 billion for transit. Now how should you spend it?

I'd get everyone a decent, quality bicycle loaded with all the right features for commuting/road use, and improve the cycling infrastructure.

No idea what I would do with the gobs of money left over after that.

I'd definitely not waste any on some buses, though.
Cool idea and even cooler business model. In terms of design and product planning, I'm curious about how many prospective users you've talked to and what pain points they identified. Have you demo'd your prototype for any of them?
Great idea! Can we get a 'Apply HN' link added to the top menu bar as well? Would make participating in the community way easier
Damn this is cool.
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> These companies are all supposedly started by hackers who love the internet and technology

I think the word hacker was misappropriated by assholes in Silicon Valley somewhere around the mid-aughts.
It's just a guy on the phone telling you how you won't be like those other chumps, you'll be a hero. The few and the proud. Standard recruitment techniques.
How is it going to be implemented / how will users incorporate this into their existing Stripe integrations?
I use their tools daily and would happily pay 2-3x more per year easily. They deserve every cent and more.
Why will you be successful when so many neighborhood websites have failed in the past?

How do you overcome people's general apathy towards their neighbors (which is especially true in cities!).

For the sake of discussion, let's take as a given that people care about things happening in their neighborhood. Why would someone use your app instead of instagram with a hashtag for the neighborhood?
If you are willing to wait, many times of the year O'Reilly will have their ebooks on sale for 50%-60% off. The best time is black friday.
Errata:

Change

L = b(k)/g(l)

to

L = b(k)/g(k)
I just tried it out. It's pretty cool but for some reason there was no audio. Its going to be interesting to see how to guys handle the hodgepodge of video and audio codecs out there.
Right, there will be a correlation, but that's not the point. The point is that class as a concept exists very much outside of race.

You can easily read the essay pretending that everybody in the US who isn't white simply doesn't exist, and it still makes completes sense.
Will you allow organizers to charge for events? For casual / free events, what's your vector of competition against Facebook event listings?
Hi @sremani, thanks for your feedback! Yes, Asia here covers countries like Turkey and Taiwan, also Western Asia (Middle East minus Egypt). So, it's basically covers all countries in Asia.
Do you have a prospective business model in mind?
I think the first concern could be countered somewhat by 1) the nature of Battle.net's integration with WoW and 2) either doing it via their phasing mechanics or having a means to copy a character over at the expansion's level cap. This way, you could see what friends are playing, which expansion level, and opt to join them.

Otherwise, I do see your point. As much as I'd enjoy it if they offered new players/characters the option of playing revised post-Cataclysm content for leveling or "classic" content instead, it might pull away enough of the existing population to make early group quests painful. (Although, that could be mitigated somewhat in the same manner their cross-realm stuff currently works.)

You may be right about the nostalgic effects, although it is a pretty powerful effect and certainly got one particular company's side venture off to a good start [1]. In the times I've toyed around with TrinityCore, I find I'd play it at least 2-3 times a week if I had friends who weren't absolutely terrified of the potential for permanent bans--the old content was that enjoyable to me. Nevertheless, I recently re-subscribed to retail this February, and I enjoy it, but it feels like it's missing something. It doesn't have the same charm, but I do appreciate a few of the improvements (the "spell crunch" is miserable, however).

I'm a sample size of one, though, and that's certainly not enough to make any time investment worthwhile on Blizzard's behalf.

[1] http://www.polygon.com/2014/7/21/5913763/gog-com-back-catalo...
The fact that MongoDB exists and is, despite all good sense to the contrary, still actively adopted by people for various projects belies the idea that stuff is a necessary prerequisite to success.
Thanks Josh!

We have two mechanisms to try and mitigate false alerts: (1) accountability via Facebook login. The poster's name and face is associated with every post to Wildfire, which helps reduce anonymous trolling seen on platforms like YikYak. (2) alerts are always displayed in the feed by default, but notifications are only sent if they meet our community guidelines [a]. Right now, our team is manually verifying authenticity [b] of posts with eye-witnesses and news sources, and deciding what merits a real-time alert, but in the future we hope to crowdsource this moderation process.

[a]: https://medium.com/@Wildfire.App/community-guidelines-46bbf2...

[b]: http://paulgraham.com/ds.html
Check out the new Ingress stuff for exposing services to public.

http://kubernetes.io/docs/user-guide/ingress/

https://github.com/kubernetes/contrib/tree/master/ingress/co...

The ingress controller runs on nodes with a public IP. When you create an ingress for one of your services, one of the controllers will pick that up and expose it. The ingress controller linked above is built on nginx and essentially just reconfigures nginx based on your ingress resource spec. Similar to when you define a LoadBalancer in a service with GCE, the service's external IP is set to the upstream ingress controller node's public IP.
PostCSS, ES6 (coming natively to Node later this month!), React, Koa. Hmm, maybe it's time for a blog post on the PERK stack. Also Webpack and websockets, but they don't fit into the acronym anywhere.

Coming up soon: async/await and Polymer.
I think that time is coming sooner than later. I just opened up FB today, first time in about a week and a half. It seems their algorithms or the feed has changed somewhat, because it mostly shows full posts of what friends-of-friends have posted, via 1st degree friend-likes etc. Felt completely irrelevant, unlike about 6 months to a year ago, when is was more direct what 1st gen relationships are doing.
I was also confused by this terminology. I personally find buzzwords pretty off-putting, and I don't really understand what "staffing" is in the first place -- is it like a temp agency?
I'm starting to think more and more the culprit is easy access to alcohol (bars everywhere, large quantities and selections of beverages in stores everywhere) - which pauses your metabolism to be broken down as it cannot be stored by the body, and the ease of purchasing sugary (everywhere, in everything!) foods.

In addition, humans used to live in towns where they'd always be walking around whereas the now suburban lifestyles require cars to get around and so less exercise.
Ask HN: AlphaGo vs. Human – When rules are tweaked?
Who do you think will win the game of Go, AlphaGo or human, in case just before the game start some of the rules of the game are changed/added/deleted?
Preliminary thought is wrap and/or monkey patching the Stripe client tokenization and call out to our API endpoint. Then we return with either reject or accept the tokenization.
Will this end up being a dating app? Would that be a bad thing?

What happens if you get paired with someone you don't like?

Do I get to see who I eat with before meeting them?

How do you make money?
How will you compete with NextDoor and Facebook? What's the key improvement?
Re bulk: OK, that makes sense. If you are able to either update the bootloader configuration or modify the initramfs then you can boot directly into a chroot without Android running.

http://bonedaddy.net/pabs3/log/2012/12/03/debian-mobile/

I wonder if any of these terminals work for you:

https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdfilter=terminal&fdi...
https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdfilter=terminal&fdi...

A chroot will indeed not be able to change Android things.

I would guess "real browser"s are either too slow or memory bloated to work on mobile devices and either way their UI isn't going to be usable on a small touchscreen device probably..

When you talk about free as in speech, there are so many layers there it is hard to know which parts you are talking about, here are some:

Do you want the minerals used to not be involved with wars, slavery, suicide in factories and other nastiness? Fairphone is working on that but freedom on the software side is not really one of their goals.

Do you want the phone to be repairable rather than discarded every 2 years? Fairphone is working on that too and just came out with a modular device.

Do you want to run a patent-free CPU architecture with FLOSS-licensed CPU designs? RISC-V exists bit is in the early stages. lowRISC aims to produce ASICs but hasn't done so yet.

Do you want the phone case to be manufactured using the LulzBot libre 3D printer from FLOSS CAD designs produced in freecad or similar? The OpenMoko FreeRunner had libre designs but they weren't produced with libre tools IIRC and they were pretty chunky physically. The Neo900 case is just from discarded N900 devices, but the motherboard and baseband isolation features are excellent.

Do you want the baseband to be running FLOSS-licensed software? OsmocomBB only supports 2G and parts of it have to run outside the baseband.

Do you want the other chips (WiFi etc) to run FLOSS software? There are some (ath9k_htc, OpenFWWF, carl9170.fw, prism54 FreeMAC) but none of the WiFi chips typically used in phones and most are dead projects.

Do you want a FLOSS operating system that supports arbitrary mobile hardware? Mainline Linux doesn't support many mobile devices and the mobile device industry moves so fast that there isn't really time for them to upstream their code before shipping the device.

I recommend looking up bunnie huang's ideas about layers of freedom and the hardware world.
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We didn't have iPhones in 1995, but television filled the same role. The result was no better. It was probably worse.

We'd spend hours watching TV, often while simultaneously being really bored. I can hum the theme song to "Eight Is Enough"; nothing found on Facebook is more terrifying than that.
you should see the ones in Argentina - the good ones have seats similar to the old business class (international) seats and on some they even give you some nice spirits
You would also have had to go to school for several more years, incur massive debt in the process, and work insane hours for virtually no pay as a resident.
At speed == 0, a combustion engine doesn't put out any torque; it doesn't work at that speed. It has quite a high minimum speed, below which it stalls (if under load: the idling speed is lower).

To get going, you need a low gear and a clutch of some kind. To get going up a steep hill, with a heavy load, you simply need an even lower gear. The problem has a solution.

The high low-end torque of electric motors is actually annoying in a transit vehicle. Particularly to those passengers who are standing up. The vehicle moves suddenly, flipping from zero acceleration to high acceleration. The time derivative of acceleration is called "jerk", for a good reason.
hi @wtvanhest this article highlighted quarter-on-quarter investment growth. We do publish y-o-y investment growth as well, but in different period. Anyway, thanks for your feedback!
Why Is Carbon Fiber Still So Expensive? (2011)
I checked out your website but pricing still wasn't clear to me. How are you going to make money?
I just want to make sure I say I wasn't trying to criticize or anything, just trying to improve the clarity of the post.
When I submitted it, it showed up under the "new" tab, but when I went to the front page of HN I couldn't find it no matter how many pages I went back, despite the fact that it was newer and had more points than other Apply HN submissions which were being displayed.

Perhaps I just missed it?
To be clear: that is a distinct project that merely relies on a similar set of techniques at a high level.

If my understanding of Souper is correct, it's using synthesis to improve optimization rules inside LLVM. Lens, on the other hand, uses synthesis to optimize code directly with some neat algorithmic improvements to prune the search space. It targets ARM and, of all things, GreenArrays (a weird, extremely low-energy Forth-based architecture).

To be clear: I think both projects are interesting, as are other efforts in the field (ie Aiken at Stanford has done some cool stuff). Program synthesis is a topic I'm definitely interested in. But if you're interested more in LLVM and less in synthesis in general, this paper is going to be less interesting.
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You're confusing an organization's stated purpose with its actual purpose.

Whether you or I like it or not, higher education IS a career enabler. No matter how this came to be, it's currently reality. People are willing to go into six figures of debt BECAUSE they believe it is a career enabler. Companies filter out non-college-grads because they believe it is a career enabler. Therefore, it is a career enabler.

It doesn't really matter what higher education's stated purpose is...Its actual purpose (in the real world, the one we live in) is to enable careers.
Well it's a bit more nuanced isn't it?

- Oh of course you're going to college, only losers don't go to college.
+ But I have to take out loans.
- Yep, par for the course.

So you're getting peer and parental pressure to get higher education, and in effect make a pretty questionable business decision: it's effectively a modern version of indentured servitude.
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This seems like it'll be more expensive, on average, for the consumer because I'll inevitably miss a haircut. How do you convince someone to use you, and will you have to resort to gym-like cancellation difficulties to keep your revenue up?
You're not the only one in the comments talking about buses "rocking". I've never experienced this in my life in the 3 Canadian cities I've lived in. There must be a disparity in the quality of buses depending on who is building them, or the purchase amount a particular city is willing to spend per unit. Combine a low centre of gravity with decent shock absorbers, and there shouldn't be much to worry about.
It should just be normal debt that you can discharge through bankruptcy.

I think doing that would likely result in no loans for many students or at least higher interest rates. Hell, if I were 22 with $100K in student loan debt to be discharged, I'd be silly not to declare bankruptcy.
I actually worked on this project. This is just an issue with how browsers give back the parsed data (which is what it is reporting, rather than the authored styles). This is covered in the FAQ - https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/platfor...
Agree here, the only real innovation we've seen in this space came with web 1.0 (theknot.com, etc).

The way we look at WedWell is not to find you the cheapest vendor, but to provide the vendor that will allow for the best experience. The better experience comes with our technology and validated vendors. Our technology allows for quicker/easier iteration on the initial idea and for quick/easy payments for vendors.

I really like your idea of starting with a socially validated review system early. We're considering building that out, and may do so.

Thanks again, we'll let you know how we progress here.
So we're thinking about an integration to EventBrite and TicketLeap as optional features after composing an event. Neither company's API (actually, I don't think TL has an API) considers sub-event data. So EventCast can essentially serve as an event authoring tool that can be pushed over to EventBrite (optionally) to enable ticket sales and other EventBrite features.

Competing against Facebook...If you are only inviting through the graph, it might be hard, but I think there are plenty of situations where organizers and guests are less well connected. Hmm.. LinkedIn...we're open to chatting :).
I learnt programming from running an ultimate online server back in the day.

A little sad to seeing an(I assume), open source server like this being taken down.

As an admin we use to run on the premise of, if we weren't told not to run it, we could. Probably not 100% legal but it seemed to work.

It does make me wonder if they take the server down, is it because their subscription dropping so much?
If done at least semi-officially it could equally be a way to bring back lapsed players as much as any splitting of user base. Many leave in major updates or exciting new releases. WoW lost loads since LK. In other games LotRO horse riding update lost 30% of the users. GW2 redesigned for the intellectually challenged. I'm sure some would want to come back to the game before it was wrecked. Maybe not so much GW2 - it was always too easy to hold interest for long.

The problem I see is old versions would be unlikely to get updates like new content or dungeons so even those hoping to play long term would get bored eventually.
Actually, it isn't. That is a snapshot in time doesn't tell us anything.

If they plotted the growth over time then you would be able to determine if it's a myth or not. In fact, I'm willing to bet that snapchat has gone up and facebook down (y axis) relatively over the last two quarters.
We have tons of folks - any particular verticals I can highlight?

Disclosure: I work at Google on Kubernetes.
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Having or not having a degree doesn't make you a certain "race". College degrees are proxy for skill set and ability. Sure, maybe not a good once, but one that's used. And companies are allowed to discriminate based on skill set/ability.
That version is over a year out-of-date, though.
Is there a project that focuses on portability between these "cores", for example taking your AD&D Character sheet with you between all these different cores?