skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of note is that this letter is dated before the big dog-and-pony show they did of appointing a bunch of experts to their scientific and medical advisory board. Guess that was their attempt to get ahead of this news.
According to Investopedia [1], acquisitions are sometimes negotiated to be called mergers to avoid negative connotations of being "bought out."

[1]: http://www.investopedia.com/university/mergers/mergers1.asp
A) Continuous triggers are implemented by using the logical replication features of Postgres. This means that changes are consumed from a queue and evaluated in a separate process to the rest of the system. A long running trigger will block the trigger process only.

B) We do re-use quite a bit of the standard trigger mechanisms, but we wanted to use our own evaluation context to support extra features. For example, continuous triggers can be defined on sliding windows, which require the trigger to be evaluated over multiple transformed tuples in the underlying table.
That world scale type government I thought those shoes were partially be filled by the un and/or other international committees overseeing their respective areas. Despite limited effect and power I thought they still did some good.
It's definitely crashes per mile. Unexpected stuff happens all the time on real roads -- black ice, debris, animals, flat tires -- and safety depends upon the driver's or software's ability to deal with them. It's easy for self-driving not to wander into another lane because they're changing the radio, but it's hard for them to deal with situations their designers didn't anticipate.
Sentience is central to the philosophy of animal rights, because sentience is necessary for the ability to suffer, and thus is held to confer certain rights.

That said, in my opinion, as it relates to optimal ecosystems, sentience at best might be a consideration.

Impact, contribution, etc. to an ecosystem would be a more natural measure.
But what if they CAN fly to the moon but have decided not to because they realise it's a very big mistake ...
> Nearly everything sold on Amazon these days is 3rd parties. I'd wager somewhere in the 95%+ range. Same with "Prime" items (these are just 3rd parties that use the FBA option).

This matches what I see. What's even more annoying is that it seems like every third party seller also has decided it's a good idea to spam me with emails asking for reviews after every purchase. Amazon provides no way of unsubscribing from there (they block one particular seller if you contact them, which is utterly useless)
At what point does the fraud become criminal?
Yup I love my Kindle Keyboard. TTS is really useful when you are driving or want to give your eyes a break.
My usual approach is to avoid middlewares for async-requests and to keep this stuff in a separate layer. For example, it can look like an ApiClient object with ES7 async-methods. Such methods would:

1. send "Start" action

2. await for result of fetch("http://example.com/api/call");

3. send success or error action

this way redux is 100% synchronous and I have an obvious place for throttling requests, keeping trace of promises, etc.
Have you checked Blue Cherry? They have always been my go-to place for analog video input cards, and they have tons of them. Check http://store.bluecherry.net/product-category/capture-cards/v...
> I spend about one minute per day maintaining my machine by executing "pacman -Syu" to upgrade all installed packages before I log out.

For anyone else thinking of trying arch, this bit is actually important. The one sure way to make Arch break is to try and treat it like debian stable where you just get a working system and then expect to not touch anything for several months at a time.

If you do that in arch, you'll likely be unable to use the package manager for much of anything, because the versions of things you have installed will have rolled off the end of the "rolling release" system. Arch expects you to do an upgrade of all installed packages ("pacman -Syu") at least every couple of weeks -- daily is a pretty common pattern. He's right, that the process is almost always completely painless, but you still have to do it. Wait too long and the upgrade command simply won't work without you doing a fair amount of manual recovery.
It's just the kind of area Rust does really well in. From a certain point of view, Rust can produce executables that are pretty much "written in plain old C" in that they can provide linkage that works like C linkage, don't necessarily need heap/GC, don't necessarily need big std library presuming userspace context.

I'd wager you could do something similar with D (soon if not now), since its no-std support is catching up w/Rust's.
Imagine the day when the software powering that self driving car chooses to avoid the pedestrian by driving your car off a cliff. Software can kill.
Funny to see tech VCs try to get into the medical space with no knowledge or expertise in the subject. Expect more of this as clueless GPs try to cash in on personalized medicine trend and shady founders give them every opportunity to hop aboard. There are already professional VCs who do this shit all day everyday, they just hang out in Kendall Square and RT. 128 not SF.
"He obviously feels he is owed something"
Does he feel he is owed something just now? Why didn't he feel he was owed something at their sizable Series A [1]? It all just seems Opportunistic, someone just waiting to maximize their returns.

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2015/09/18/cruise-2/
Fair point, I don't like the way that reads either. I deleted it until I have time to rephrase it.
Hey, I co-wrote this! I'd love feedback :)
> Scents do not travel back up a drain pipe, and I doubt that sounds or other effects do, either.

Properly engineered drains are, especially if they have traps. You must hang around different drains than I.
Agreed with everything up until your last sentiment. I assume it was hyperbole, but it's still a ridiculous notion that without this specific food item (that currently requires harming other sentient, intelligent individuals), that life would not be worth living.
A 1-in-one-million occurrence will happen a thousand times each day when you perform a billion operations.
Depends on how unlikely that bug is :)

probability x value, etc.
I'm getting 404s for some of the tutorial sections when selecting r0.8 (e.g. https://www.tensorflow.org/versions/r0.8/tutorials/mnist/tf/...). master works. Seems like some of the documentation is only built for master and for r0.7, not for r0.8.
As a naive entrepreneur I allowed someone to become involved with my business and quickly discovered they were not the right person to work with. Their behaviour became a concern and I had to sacrifice millions of dollars to prevent the destruction of what I have worked for. By taking an acquisition offer in an effort to remove them from a position of control I lost a lot and they made a lot. I deeply sympathise with the decision Kyle made to offer Jeremy his own money to end this. I have many regrets about involving that person in my business but to this day I do believe that the decision to allow them to walk away with a lot (of undeserved money) was the right one. The business lives on.

The person on the wrong side of my experience went on to deceive many other people and has left a trail of negative experience behind them, even using their involvement in my business to help deceive. I take comfort in knowing that my business survived their involvement and regardless of how they profited from my work they will likely never find honest success.
It is my understanding that it was owned by Bill Gates not Microsoft.

Bill Gates sold it earlier this year to a Chinese Company
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/d6fbcb88-c126-11e5-846f-79b0e... (paywall),

The Chinese company has structured a deal with Getty to take over licensing outside of China.

However, having access to world class photography is great, but the images that (probably) will be the most interesting for Microsoft to recognize will be selfies, and other "crowd" created amateur photography and possibly memes.

I personally would think it to be cool to see if the bot could traverse the Getty collection and see if it could recognize the photographer of an image it had not seen before. Why yes, this is Leibovitz.
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That statement borders on the obscene.

Just because someone gets anointed by family connections to money and PR, that doesn't make them an 'inspiration', regardless of gender.
I disagree. The baseless part is because Sam doesn't think that finding an office space and potentially filling out a YC application being worth value especially since the shares would be somewhat vested after 1 year of work. The opportunistic part comes because of the timing; he was either looking to put the max strain on cruise to get his payout or it was simply odd timing. I would say that it's more likely that it was opportunistic timing to force their hand.

I don't think it's common for a company to buy another company with pending litigation over ownership of ideas. At the very least, left unresolved, it would devalue the company by some factor. It has the underpinnings of a shakedown in my eyes. I'd like to hear the other side of the story but I can see this type of situation happening fairly frequently.
took a bit to find but here's the link: https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/data_access/data_pool
I do kinda miss the rivets ;)

It will be very interesting to watch this play out.
What trouble are you having with MikroTik? I enjoy them.
I hope your take away is not that it is a good idea to embellish in the titles. There is a reason editorializing in titles is frowned upon; it's a hyperbolic arms race and everyone is a loser.
But if it is 100x more likely to not be real then it is worth investing the money to do the confirmation. This is true for medical and a lot more. Any company with a scientific foundation should have due diligence in the form of test accuracy, precision and reliability before a penny is invested. Anyone investing in a company where the technology is a scientific breakthrough should insist on confirmation tests. If those are forged then it becomes a criminal issue and you don't get to hide behind an officer level position.

I think with this specific industry testing and compliance is more important in due diligence.
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BuzzFeed was around in 2008?
The question is not why didn't he wait until after the sale closed. The question is why he didn't bother to come forward and ask for his equity at any point during the previous 2 years.
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The DX was also super expensive though -- like $450 if I remember correctly.
Does this strike anyone else as naive speculation? And fiercely prejudicial, as well?
Oh come on, you're saying you could not have predicted that a person with whom you began work on a company may one day sue you?

Think ahead a few moves. My lawyers did not tell me 'hey you should deal with this situation,' they just told me how best to deal with it after I asked.
That's monitoring, then. As Steve Yegge's Platforms Rant [1] mentioned, testing and monitoring are two sides of the same coin. Google does both, but the original thread-starter here was asking about how to detect failures when the system itself is designed to mask & recover from failures. (FWIW, most such systems do log when they've encountered a failure condition and recovered from it, and this stat is available to the monitoring system.)

[1] https://plus.google.com/+RipRowan/posts/eVeouesvaVX
Surprisingly it does pretty poorly on the images include in Windows XP's "Sample Pictures" folder.
This is kind of hillarious and kind of terrible.
Are you sure your son is fine with you giving Microsoft his image and accepting all what you permit them by doing so?
That is not what settle means. Settle means "to reach an agreement." You are probably thinking of "compromise."
> If there were automated ways to create a corporation and give it legal personhood, along with an offshore bank account, the possibility of the emergence of self-sustaining autonomous corporations may become more of a certainty.

Take a look at the [DAO](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decentralized_autonomous_organ...) concept. These are currently being built and deployed on the Ethereum platform. Sounds like a real world version of what you are theorizing.
Even before you get to burnout you get saturation where more advertising yields lower returns. There is a whole industry around advertising analytics and helping advertisers figure out how to allocate their budgets for maximum penetration without wasting money on saturated audiences.

If you're interested in some advertising theory, give Media Planning: A Practical Guide by Jim Surmanek[0] a shot. It's short and pretty accessible.

[0] - http://amzn.to/1Q7mGVe
The frustration is understandable, it's a shitty situation and I've also had a "useless" "co-founder" try and hold onto equity that didn't vest, after he left and contributed little.

> I think that happens in nearly all of these cases, which is part of why I find them so upsetting. People know that you can pressure people under extraordinary circumstances, like an acquisition closing, to give you something.

Yeah, this is a topic that deserves its own post for sure. Timing-wise though, if Jeremy has any claim at all, he needs to make it now before facing the acquirer's lawyers, so there's that angle too. I definitely think there's some nuance here, and am not sure what a superior system would look like.

> We tried every non-public method we knew of first. When it came time for the seal to be lifted, I wanted people to know how hard Kyle tried to settle.

Do you see the logic of my last point though, why people would perhaps not look favourably of your public disclosure of this topic, even if you're right? Moreover, what was going public on the individual supposed to accomplish? Because it could sort of look like someone in power trying to strong-arm someone not.

Regardless, I wish the Cruise team and yourself the best, and a speedy departure from this issue. It looks like technology and legal claims are going to continue to interact in increasingly complex ways down the road.
It works on anything since it's just for platform support and unrelated to tooling. But on the tooling side, they also have a companion extension for (the free, multi-platform) Visual Studio Code. From the article:

> In addition to this work on the core framework support, Microsoft is also providing open source tools and services to help developers create React Native apps. The React Native extension for Visual Studio Code (https://code.visualstudio.com/) brings an intuitive, productive environment to author and debug React Native apps.
What if the company had been wildly successful, would you still view it's board composition in the same light? I agree with you, these are some pretty powerful 'non-scientific' people and it should raise some questions.
>> This allows you to do really crazy things like define modules dynamically

In python there's a library called "sh" and it has a novelty interface:

from sh import ls, pwd, my_unique_command
print ls('/dir')
...

I wondered (not enough to check right enough) if something similar could be done in JS. Although due to the async nature of such a call, it might not end up looking so familiar with JS in practice i guess.
I worked in Image Processing and Vision for a long time. If you'd asked me 2 years ago that something like this could be possible, I would have laughed you out of the room. But in the last year or so, I've been stunned beyond belief at how well these networks work.
I can't imagine the stress she must be under right now, unfortunately, it seems like the vast majority of it was her own doing.

Will be interesting to see what the company does. Normally the CEO would be "asked" to step down from having any involvement with the company whatso ever.

However, I believe she's the majority shareholder so the usual remedy of removing her from the company altogether might not work so well.

Man, there goes any hope of a decent exit anytime soon Thernos, as usual its the employees themselves who will absorb the brunt of this. I hope they have alot of money saved because if they try to raise again, and its debatable if t hey'd be able to, its going to be a nasty round.
Just delete the post dude, it's for a court to settle not a forum
Yeah, what the hell?

When there are large sums of money at play, who among us wouldn't work in their best interest? If you have a lawyer telling you that there's a case to be made, you would be a complete and utter moron to not take that route. Do you guys think any angel in such a situation would give it a second thought?

Silicon Valley Exceptionalism is the product that YC sells, and boy do they sell it well. They want you to believe that SF is a magical place where you're expected to reject the opinion of a lawyer saying you have a claim to millions of dollars-- because Silicon Valley is a totally chill place, bro. No assholes in the bay!

When large sums of money get involved, lawyers get involved, and your actions are masked by your lawyer. I am not going to judge this guy at all. I feel like the author is trying to make the case that this guy is an asshole, and implicitly, because we all know YC doesn't like to help assholes-- and because that's an agreeable ideal, we're supposed this guy as the enemy.

But maybe it's the case that he's really a good guy that realizes that he has the opportunity to convince a court to award him a life-changing amount of money.

I really hope the motivation between this post is not to give him an ultimatum. I really hope the reasoning is not, "I have the ability to get a post on the front page of HN, and I can use that as leverage to make this guy's lawsuit more of a gamble-- I can drag his name through mud and stick it on the top of HN, such that he will have more difficulty getting a job in SV after this lawsuit. Unless, of course, he drops the case."

Because if that's the motivation, then I think it's pretty clear who is being an asshole.
There have been plenty of times where I've advocated for the founder that has left a company, but not when they left after a little over a month. That's the reason we have vesting cliffs in the first place.
Relatively speaking? I think Cephalopods are smarter than humans, with their life span of 3 - 5 years their cognitive intelligence I think meets or exceeds most toddlers.

They decide to die by starvation after laying eggs and the majority of the babies are killed while they are defenseless.

With any organization and cognition that they don't have to die at this point in their life, they could perhaps take over the ocean.
iptables (FireHOL) is generally autonomous and does not depend on interfaces being available at activation. tc (FireQOS) requires the interfaces to be up and running. To overcome these issues a) the configuration of both tools is a BASH script itself - do whatever you like in them: variables, conditions, loops, etc and b) in the distribution there is another tool called 'link-balancer' that applies inheritance to routing tables (!) and dynamically alters ip rule filters - it can also manage the balance of gateways.
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The standard solution in realtime safety-critical systems is to perform health monitoring in addition to robust fallbacks, such that when the system is falling back, it is reported as unhealthy.

For example, the CAN bus normally has an automatic retry feature on a variety of errors. A properly functioning CAN bus should have a bit error rate that is nearly zero. Lightly loaded, it can tolerate a very high error rate (say, due to noise, poor termination, etc). In that situation, the product would report a specific warning message to higher-level SCADA systems, such that it gets bubbled up all the way to the operators.
What is your business model? Will you take a commission on funds raised?
It works on so many levels.
>> "That isn't true at all."

In fact, it's false. The majority of cases, both criminal and civil, are settled in the US before going to trial.
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The thing that stood out for me was:

"...team...worked in shifts overnight..."
It's pretty wild that parent could have been so wrong, yet so confident.
You're right, I usually try to have more substance in my comments. This one was a bit knee jerk.

I'm not confronting the argument because I'm tired of it.

I side with the article so the comments make me sad because so many people try to justify why 97% is not really 97%.

I'm of the standpoint that addressing climate change is:

1. Morally right because of the impact on future generations

2. Good for the economy (creates jobs and lessons dependency on sources of energy that are not harvested locally)

3. Something the market demands (just look at Tesla Model 3 sales)

It's a win any way you cut it. The comments remind me that for a lot of people, climate change denying is a religion not a reasoned opinion.

To those who read this who are deniers, please don't be offended and I don't have the energy to defend climate change. But this is my opinion on the matter.
This might be good for a "History of Programming Languages" course. To teach programming languages in an historical context, is a different task. While teaching the most modern version with its best practices, one could mention that feature X was first used in language L, for example.
Offtopic (sorry) - why is it that I can't read this short article in full in one screen on a 4k monitor? And why is it that when I move my mouse around, I get about 10 different places where a mini dialogue pops up? Somebody needs to make a new internet.
It loves things being on top of surf boards

http://imgur.com/WWHQu5i

MS has been providing the net with fun activities for a few months now. The other night the celebrity look alike site blew up on twitter and instagram
Some of the strongest and most successful unions in the U.S. right now are in the entertainment industry. Screen actors, professional sports players, heck even many screen writers make well above the U.S. median income.

Stepping outside of employee groups that are explicitly defined as unions, you find professional associations that work collectively to support high earning potentials. Most doctors, for example, are board-certified by ABMS, even if they work as employees of large corporations. Lawyers are members of the bar. Realtors can only call themselves "realtors" if they are members of the National Association of Realtors. Etc.
> Self driving cars don't have to be perfect. They just have to be safer then driving is today

But how is Google or any other manufacturer going to test their software updates? Are they going to test-drive their cars for tens of thousands of miles over and over again for every little update?
vrv addressed why I called it "way" out of date - in the time since the study was done with CuDNNv2, we've moved TensorFlow to CuDNN v4, and NVidia released the CuDNNv5 release candidate a week ago. Each of those releases provides a pretty big speed bump for specific types of DNNs, and we've been pushing out some very significant speed bumps for TensorFlow at the same time.

My conclusion from this is that Soumith's approach to having a living repository is the way to go. It's harder to call it a "publication", but it's providing something of more lasting value than a static performance snapshot in a field where the engineering is moving so quickly.
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