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It wasn't about the PC vs the minicomputer. Ok Intel is based in Santa Clara, but the PC story was really about Microsoft.

It was the internet. Sun among others were pushing open standards, TCP/IP, and the internet while DEC tried to go proprietary with DECNet. It might not have paid off for Sun in the long term, but the industry in Bay Area was definitely pointed in the right direction.
Or perhaps explain how all the different inputs influence the result? I more or less get that it's just iterating over the data to approximate the given data set when you press play but I have no idea how giving it more or less neurons changes that, to name an example.
I lived in Boulder from '99 until late last year and still own a place there that I rent out. It really is a great place but culturally you start to feel like you've seen everything it has to offer after a couple years. You can't beat the outdoorsy stuff though.

I moved to Denver in December and really like what I see. Lots of startups as well as established companies, easy to get around, and great variety between the various neighborhoods.
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To be fair, Pittsburgh gets a lot of external government money through DARPA grants to General Dynamics and CMU. I had a friend (working on DARPA contracts at General Dynamics) who told me "wearable computing is going to be huge". This was in 2007. 2007, before the iPhone even came out. In general, the military seems to know about things 10 years before Silicon Valley gets ahold of them, who knows about them 5-10 years before the rest of America does, who (until recently, with China's resurgence) knows about them 5-10 years before the rest of the world.

Other huge innovations first funded by DARPA: multitasking (1963), the Internet (1969), the GUI (1968), GPS (1978), self-driving cars (2004).
It's ok. Sometimes things take time. If you feel like practicing interviewing email me. I will gladly help you anonymously.

Keep your head up. :)
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No he wasn't. He was the drummer for another local band they were friendly with. He stood in with their drummer on several occasions nearly 2 years before joining, even recorded with them as a backing band for another singer.

Their original drummer, Pete Best, could not keep time when recording. George Martin raised the issue that he needed to be replaced, that's when they decided to reach out to Ringo.
> What makes a good logo or bad logo is mostly subjective.

But not entirely. There are some choices that can inherently weaken a design. A logo should be scalable; it should look just as good on a business card as it does on the side of a plane. A color logo should be able to be translated to black & white.
> Nothing should ever appear as a commit in master that isn't something that should be used in production - ie, should never intentionally be broken in isolation.

I don't understand why people do it any other way.
It sounds like there was no subpoena attached to the request, which is immediately shocking that a company feels so free to divulge the details of their customers. They also divulged the details of that journalist they were miffed at a few years ago. To me it seems like a pattern with Uber.
I understand that, I was mentioning that because it's interesting, not to say it's better than others. It's an interesting fact because it shows how much of a massive area the Dallas metro is. It's fun to take the DFW area and overlay on other metros on a map. I wouldn't call it negative either. The potential Dallas has BECAUSE we have so much more room to grow is why I stay here.
I'm very familiar with newspaper headline grammar, but this is at best extremely awkward. It doesn't fit any of the usual patterns.
Interesting that no-one has pointed out here the dynamic vs static or scripted vs compiled dimensions.

Facebook's use of php arguably allows them to build new features quickly, just as Viaweb's use of Lisp. But is it the dynamic nature of those languages that allows the faster development, not the 'power'?

It seems accepted that dynamic languages allow faster development, but static languages are more able to prevent bugs. It varies from language to language of course.

Apparently the research studies on static vs dynamic have many problems though, so you can argue that there is no evidence that one is "better" than the other: http://danluu.com/empirical-pl/

Maybe we should have a coding competition that has an equal number of (lisp, perl, php, ruby, python) experts vs (haskell, ocaml) experts and see how fast they can add features, vs how buggy those features are. Haskell and Ocaml are powerful, but 'very static', so it would be an interesting comparison.
Sadly, breeders are also quite usable for reprocessing fuel into weapons grade plutonium. This is the main reason they aren't used at any scale.
I look at things like this as not "making it too easy", but rather, "time for a more difficult problem".

I'd quite like if you could define your own input patterns and data sets.
I think it's obvious we have to abolish the profit motive. I mean, what has it done for us lately?
I think we're in violent disagreement. I fully understand what my code did, but people I've worked with and gone to school have been tripped up by statements like these. Stuff like this is all over exams.
> My biggest issue so far is CoreOS' naming of Ethernet interfaces on VMWare ESXi. It always uses some eno* name for each interface. I have a unique case where each VM I spin up has up to 10 interfaces.

That's a systemd decision, not CoreOS, and also impacts the 7.x series of RHEL derivatives and anything that uses systemd > v197, really. Your way is one of three to revert it.

https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/Predictabl...
Vote for whom exactly? Obama has done very little for labor. Do you content Romney would of done a better job? Or that a 3rd party candidate is viable? That trend trickles down to the local level in my experience. The US is not a democracy anymore[0] more drastic action is required.

[0] http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27074746
> I just found a bit a data that states that Pandora accounts for ~10% of new music discovery which is a lot better than I would have guessed

To me this says more about the weakness of the alternatives than about the strength of Pandora. At least it's possible to hear new music on Pandora. It's sad what a lowest common denominator echo chamber terrestrial radio has become.
front of my shirt, or failing that, my pants.
The price of wind and solar (or anything else for that matter) at point of generation is irrelevant. It could be practically free and it still wouldn't matter [0]. The actual problem we need to solve is having reliable, dispatchable baseload supply that can be ramped up and down to meet demand. For every GW/h of intermittent generation added to the grid there must be another GW/h of on demand generation that can be spun up to compensate when the intermittent source is not available. Not storage, generation. Because otherwise when that once in a century weather event comes around and your intermittent generation falls over, once your batteries drain you're back to rubbing sticks together.

[0] Actually it might as the cheaper it gets, the more it drives out reliable baseload generation, which is bad.
How does this compare with the theta https://theta360.com/en/

It's much cheaper and available now.
"Except percussion" is a pretty big exception on Pumpkins records!
Don't forget about power storage facilities in the discussion of the grid design. The storage facilities to make use of any large quantity of solar power would have to be massive...
Wind power, yet more massive due to long term lulls in supply.
>I'm sure everyone has read that file where damn near every single line ended up in its own little function (in its own file with some big framework around it) and you're jumping all over the place trying to figure out what its actually doing.

Sounds like node and its moronic packaging ecosystem.
Enough to figure out properly working fusion if trends keep up.
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They only brought in session musicians for instruments they could not play (ie. orchestral pieces).

They never brought in session musicians to play their own pieces. All guitar, drum, bass, piano, etc parts were played by the members of the band and on very few occasions piano pieces by George Martin.

Eric Clapton was not a "session musician", he was doing an uncredited solo for his best friend George Harrison's song.
Came here to complain about the HN title which tells me nothing about why I might care to read the OP.

Noticed the domain, now glad to know.

The title could do with a fixup though - my RSS reader doesn't show the target domain.
I'd like to see something that takes a depth map with lidar and then actually lets you explore the photo.
The light transfers some of it's momentum to the sail as it bounces off of it. It works in a vacuum, but there's too much drag to use it in an atmosphere.
Please DO NOT. You are right in your other comment that it helps with the flow and for example in the case of

// We're going to create a `value` string that we are going to push
// characters to.
var value = '';

your comment declares you intention in advance, even if it might be trivial to deduce.
How does this compare to ProGuard?
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Nice! I like that this framework is meant for portfolios only. I always seems like a lot of portfolio-generating web-frameworks are added onto much more complicated tools like Wordpress. This is relatively simple, but does the job of portfolio generating much better, too.
Remember that this book is entertainment, and Lyons advertises it as entertainment. I have already forgotten everyone's names, and would have forgotten the company's name had it not come up in the news recently over this book. But the book has valid revelations about the industry (one reason I read the book was to hear this, since I am a software developer with lots of startup experience and now some big-company experience); and it also has sad material about poor inter-personal interactions with lots of covert aggression (which can happen in any industry, but it will be mitigated or exacerbated by company culture and the quality of the role models --- which is one reason you want elders in your company, for if you don't have role models and coaches, you are in for a sorry life).

To make a book entertaining, you need material. This startup and some of the employees gave him lots of material that he didn't want. I think that Lyons would have been much happier if the startup had provided a flourishing environment rather than material for writing such a book. I do not think that he sought this out --- I've experienced a languishing environment and it is punishing. The irony is that (based on his telling of the story) people used quite a bit of covert aggression towards him, assuming that he would be some powerless guy out of fear of losing his job due to his age, yet he has power through an audience that will read his books, and the aggressors walked right into it with poor behavior.
That is sadly not counting in the cost of energy storage and is counting the huge regulatory overhead and major inefficiencies in building nuclear plants so far.

And the fact that you'd need massive areas of high quality solar panels - it's not like the solar panels will continue to get infinitely cheaper. And massive numbers of energy storage plants which do not exist.
(Even lithium-ion does not have enough energy density and it's very limited on lithium mining.)

Check the Lazard (2015) numbers. A comparable PV plant in a favorable location itself is only 25-30% more expensive than modern nuclear plant, but the batteries required put it an order of magnitude higher.
Plus nuclear plants scale better - they looked into medium-sized power plants.
Ah, fair enough. But it looks like that introduces another problem. When you spin up a VM in ESXi, it generates a new MAC address for each interface. So it would be great to create systemd .network files that bind to those MAC addresses. Except you don't what MAC addresses you need to match against. The only flow I see working is:

1) Create a VM with your interfaces, but don't boot it.
2) Take the MAC addresses and enter them into your .network files, created via cloud-config/Ignition
3) Mount the cloud-config/Ignition file to your VM and boot

Which is a bit painful to do manually when you have 10 VMs, with 5-10 interfaces each. I'd love to automate this, and if you happen to have a suggestion here, I'd really appreciate it.

Edit: Oh, and when I said it had an eno* number, it's more like eno16777736, which is not very predictable at all.
Haha, you guys really hated these two comments.
I'm about halfway through. So far I find the book to be an amusing send up of startup culture. A bit like an updated version of Coupland's Microserfs with slightly more factual basis. Although, I am confused by his condemnation of HubSpot and his former colleagues for age discrimination when he regularly questions his colleagues for their own (lesser) age. Especially since many of his younger colleagues obviously had more industry experience since this was his first time working for and not writing about a tech company.
> X as a service allows you to get X with a lot less efforts.

I think it's more accurate to say that it allows you to borrow X. It's very true that it helps to bootstrap your own product and eventually if things work out you can bring X in-house.

My worry about everything-as-a-service is that until that point, each different service that you use is an another vulnerability to your product. This goes double for specialized services like AI, where unless you already have experts in that field, you're unlikely to have the expertise to replicate the service in-house. (Although by that same token, in this case without the service you couldn't provide your product anyway.)
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Get a substantial number of their current (or now former) customers using it.

Until you can demonstrate your offering is real and the market thinks you matter, they won't think you do. There's really no way to skip this step unless you already have a personal relationship with someone who can drive the acquisition at the acquiring company.
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Are you talking about things like eno16777736 ? it's a vmware issue...

http://serverfault.com/questions/636621/why-is-my-eth0-calle...
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>>The pitfalls that Rust solves are known issues in C++, and there are known solutions to them

Known issues and solutions that are known to experienced C++ developers. The article is specifically talking about newcomers.
Try telling me that the App Store has UI standards
Hey all, ReDex developer here, happy to answer questions!
Sick of absurdly-priced applications like this that want to charge you a huge monthly fee for something trivial? Contribute to Dia [0], a reasonably good diagramming program that could use some love.

[0] http://dia-installer.de/
Besides overengineered apps, problem is that people start learning frameworks and libraries instead of learning how javascript itself works. They are so excited by the new tool/toy that they fail to realize that the same thing can be achieved in much simpler and more efficient way.
It's a bit of a strawman argument to bring in unrelated paris and brussels.
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Would it be an accurate analogy to say this is why stars in the night sky appear the same size (point-like), but vary in brightness?
I bootstrapped a company in Pittsburgh in 2000 (the founders all came from CMU - I am from France originally) with a good exit in 2012.

When I moved there the food scene was nonexistent and people in the US still perceived Pittsburgh as a bad place to be (e.g., a lady I met in CA responded with "Oh I am so sorry" when I told her I was living in Pittsburgh). CMU also didn't really understand startups - we were the first company to ever do something with a technology that CMU released to the founders.

But it was also a time where you could hire CMU CS grads for $30K/year and rent an office for 30 people for less than $2K/month. And we were a big fish in a small pond so we got a lot of local press and a first cut at the local tech talent (one of our first hire ended up becoming co-founder of Tumblr!)

After the exit I tried to get involved in the local scene. And while I found a lot of talent/ideas/start up to promote it was amazingly hard to attract any kind of money in the city. That convinced me that Pittsburgh would never make it as a hub and I ended moving to Manhattan last year.

Now my family (wife and 4 kids) hate me for that move - because even if you throw huge piles of money on rent it's hard to match the quality of life of Pittsburgh - and we are reconsidering that move.

Happy to answer any question about starting a company in Pittsburgh!
States don't need that data because they can get even better data from telecoms & banks already with less hassle. They know your IMEI, billing information, credit card information and the location of your cellphone. Uber is completely dependent on people's cell phones as it is, so NSL-ing them adds nothing new, like the contents of communication.
Yes, precisely. The comment below identified one of 3 possible routes to turn off the naming, one of which I'm using (net.ifnames=0 in the kernel config).

If I could find a better way to match the interfaces, it would be fantastic.
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I heard there are something like 400 mobile developers working on the FB apps. I don't know there's any way to keep a team that size from producing bloat with every revision.
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Only if you're really into games.

I used to work on physics engines, but I was into physics engines, not games or Hollywood. Dealing with Hollywood sucks. Either they're in development and their credit cards bounce, or they're in production and they want a new feature yesterday.
> The pitfalls that Rust solves are known issues in C++, and there are known solutions to them and best practices for avoiding them. A lot of the problems are "solved" as new iterations of the standard come out.

What is the known solution for memory safety problems, in particular use after free?

(It's not RAII and smart pointers.)
Believe me, I most certainly don't underestimate the environmental cost of coal power.

Coal or nuclear power is a false dichotomy but one that is continually trotted out by nuclear boosters such as the author of this piece.

> there was also a certain amount of bad luck

No, it wasn't bad luck. They built the reactor right next to a coastline that is famous for tsunami risk and where there are historical markers of previous tsunamis. They ignored safety concerns that were raised on a number of occasions [1]. That is not bad luck, that is bad and corrupt management. The nuclear industry, being necessarily a highly centralised, capital intensive industry has very close links to Japan's less than transparent government. It is a corporate model ripe for corruption and that is what the Fukushima disaster (and previous incidents in Japan) exposed. The Japanese people, sensibly, don't trust it and demonstrated in large numbers against it, something that is quite unusual in Japan. And yet numerous arm-chair nuclear boosters around the world tell the Japanese people that they should just suck it up and keep exposing themselves to this existential risk. [2]

As I said above, I'm not terribly concerned about the radiation risks and loss of life from this disaster. I'm more concerned by its economic impact, loss of valuable land and community impact. The costs of rehabilitation have been estimated at between $250 billion and $500 billion. [3] That huge amount of money would have bought a very sizeable amount of solar and wind power to Japan. Now it's wasted on the very non-productive clean-up of a disaster. The nuclear industry has continually proved itself to be a black hole for money that could have been spent on sustainable development. This is the guy you hired who sexually harassed the secretary, wrote false invoices to his benefit and burnt down the regional office. He says he's ‘learnt his lesson’ and deserves another go. He's obviously sick and disfunctional but what about the people who stand up for him?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disa...

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/28/world/asia/japan-considere...

[3] http://www.psr.org/environment-and-health/environmental-heal...
It's conceptually similar, but we've focused on optimizations that add value on top of ProGuard - we do use ProGuard internally, so the improvements we're seeing from ReDex are on top of that.

We get a lot of leverage out of operating on dex directly, as the final step in the build. For instance we can make really good inlining decisions because we know how many virtual registers the caller and callee use.
I do get what's going on here, maybe poor example. I was trying to show off some confused ways I've seen pointers and const used together, in attempt to confuse people. Some corollary of Poe's law maybe at play.
There is a big difference between someone who secretly or privately holds an offensive belief, and someone who publicly advocates an offensive belief. This is not about Yarvin's "beliefs," this is about what Yarvin has done and is doing, including using this controversy as an opportunity to again expound offensive and fallacious claims about race. This post goes into a lot of detail:

https://medium.com/@codepaintsleep/lambdaconf-2016-controver...
"...that they now have to negotiate with people..."

Watch the Yale video and tell me where the negotiation was.

There was none. Many of these people are incapable or rational debate or discussion.

Because...feelings.
It's not a bad school by any stretch, but it's not on the same level. Looking at federal grant money (e.g. NSF, reasonable metric for research), U Pitt is at 26 million to CMU's 70 million. Penn is a much closer match at 48 million. Berkeley and Stanford are at 112 and 78 million, for comparison.

You can make 'world class' mean whatever you'd like, but I think most would consider Pitt a solid state-level school, whereas CMU is more competitive nationally.

http://dellweb.bfa.nsf.gov/awdlst2/default.asp

I'm definitely not saying it doesn't matter, but it's not as significant as CMU, and PG's argument seems to be that you benefit from having a really apex research institution for making a startup scene.
I know a few people who work in R&D who are quite good at their activities.

They can usually turn around an effective product in at max a year.

They usually create a set of underlying patents, this takes maybe a year of reading academic journals and thinking of your physics and me guys, and then you usually have a theory you can put in practice.

Apparently, all they need from there is a trip to home depot, one or two things off amazon, and a PCB designed and printed. From there, they can make a wide range of products.

One small invention can be used as the underbelly for many, many pieces of technology; everything that comes as a result usually also has one or two applications to research or defense. This means big money.

Most real R&D is self sustaining, so long as you have a team that can sell.

The hard part of R&D is getting the right people in my mind.

I've had this conversation with many people, and it usually helps to ask this: has anyone you have met who works in R&D said they didn't like their job?

I've never heard of it.

I'm curious to see what you think.
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