skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can perform a number of the functions of VS from the CLI. Were you interested in editing text from the CLI or was there something else you had in mind?
Well, there brains can handle 8 arms all moving independently and with many control points in each arm all acting with out pattern. Can humans do that?

Before we jump on the intelligent octopus bandwagon, lets realize that intelligence in one area does not mean they are intelligent or some how superior in another. Qualification and acceptance in society transcends beyond intelligence.
I'm pretty convinced that the 97% of educated scientists working in the field have already done that. The confusing part of this is why you'd trust politicians and big oil more than those educated and studied in the field.
We don't know that. We know that Kyle says that's true. Did Jeremy create the original logo? Did he come up with a particular idea? I'm sure these will all be things that come out in the case, but I hesitate to take one particular side's 'truth' as the whole truth.

Anyway, I'm just trying to inform folks that this is a possibility, and that they should take care of this sort of stuff early. It doesn't take long, and it isn't expensive.
Their most infamous mistake (17 civilians dead, 20 injured at insourcing square) had nothing to do with government incompetence. They were found to have lied and covered up the mistake. Perhaps you should read scahill's account of it.

In the light of the above and many other incidents in Iraq your contention that things would have been messier is questionable to say the least, and your apologia for blackwater and Eric prince unfounded.
Of course. You should still have a goal to strive towards.
Regenerating the data is kind of cheating; it is as if you were given twice the amount of data.

In a normal situation, you obtain a list of input / output (say, images as input, a digit as output, for learning handwritten digits). You separate it between training data (which actually improves the net) and testing data (to detect overfitting), and you don't get more data than that.

Here, you can generate more data for free, as we have the function we want to approximate. Having more data will often result in a better result and faster convergence.
Simple responsive one-page sites using Carrd
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IIRC The EC2 FreeBSD applies all new security patches and reboots (if there were any) on first start.
Are there certain types of continuous views where continuous triggers work better or worse? I can imagine things like alerts on moving averages could get tricky and possibly send repeated alerts when predefined thresholds are crossed multiple times.
Read the post. Jeremy was never a part of YC, and did not make any meaningful contributions to the company.

If this action scares other people like Jeremy away from YC companies, that would be wonderful :)
That assumes that failures are uncorrelated. My personal concern is with correlated failures, like those that occurred in GCE. What if cars from some manufacturer all fail simultaneously in the same way (say, because of a software push that rolled out more aggressively than it just have, just as in the GCE case)? That's the sort of scenario I'm really concerned about.

At least with human drivers, the failures are generally uncorrelated.
It's amazing how wrong this gets some things, and then again its amazing how right it gets other.

The last one in this set really surprised me:

http://imgur.com/a/gLTl4
No, but you can monetize videos on other platforms. Even if FB videos don't have ads, the rehoster is still taking away ad money from the original creator (but the rehoster doesn't get the money).
I love his signature: "Benjamin Treynor Sloss | VP 24x7".
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From the filing it looks like they only collaborated for one month. Assuming that's true - it's a pretty offensive shakedown. It sounds like Kyle tried to offer some portion of the proceeds to make it go away but it was declined. Out of curiosity how much was he asking for?

Also in what form did the claim take- Did Jeremy hire lawyers to write a demand letter? Why isn't that in the filing? DOes Jeremy have a lawyer or was he just talking.

Further, isn't there a way to close on the merger given the specious nature of the claim and just ignore the claim and this whole thing? I mean- they knew each other a month.
Like open source not making all bugs shallow, start-up capitalism doesn't guarantee an accurate assessment.
Unless Jeremy is right and he's fighting for truth and justice?

We are seeing one side of the story from an investor set to make a large sum of money with the merger.

We have no idea from here where the truth actually sits.
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You don't need a HA wordpress platform, you just need to point your data center's CDN at your internal wordpress platform running on an raspberry pi.
They had a canary release mechanism in place. This is described in the post mortem.

> These safeguards include a canary step where the configuration is deployed at a single site and that site is verified to still be working correctly, and a progressive rollout which makes changes to only a fraction of sites at a time, so that a novel failure can be caught at an early stage before it becomes widespread. In this event, the canary step correctly identified that the new configuration was unsafe. Crucially however, a second software bug in the management software did not propagate the canary step’s conclusion back to the push process, and thus the push system concluded that the new configuration was valid and began its progressive rollout.

Taking no cofirmation of the canary testing process as a signal to go ahead though is not just a bug but a design flaw IMO.
“To date, GTA 5 has generated approximately $3B in sales”
> Scientists don't "believe" in science, they understand how to apply the scientific method in order to examine and discard false beliefs.

Scientists need nature to be uniform for the scientific method to work, correct?

Has a scientist been able to prove that nature is uniform without appealing to the uniformity of nature?

If so, whom? And how?

If not--would you say a scientist is exercising "faith" that nature is uniform?
I agree with you, although: it's got to be a pain in the ass and a huge expenditure of social capital to try to negotiate some equity in a contentious situation like this. Most startups will not result in a meaningful financial outcome, so it sort of makes sense waiting to go through this mess until it's clear that it's going to matter because there's money on the table. (Whether the claim is legit is another matter...obviously extraordinarily shitty to do this if your claim is bogus)
Fun stuff

http://i.imgur.com/kS6sgNT.png

Edit: I was expecting it to think an eel was a snake, but... http://i.imgur.com/EmpRNkA.png
While that's true, that's a strawman.

This was a particular situation that Kyle & co. clearly knew about, and it could very easily have been prevented. That's very different from an unforeseen legal circumstance that occurs solely due to bad luck or an outside bad actor; they knew Jeremy was with them for the first month, and they knew he left.
We don't know what made Jeremy leave the company and how he helped before YC.

If this is a case Jeremy was present at incorporation, he contributed to the product (in some way) and his shares were eventually diluted, this will be similar to Saverin's case.
I would love to hear peoples thoughts on how they would go about getting customers: Client Acquisition. I have put our thoughts down below in one of the comments.
xombrero depends on webkit. truly minimal? right. oriented towards security? have you not seen how WebKit does security? they wait for dozens of reported vulns before patching/disclosing. nothing that depends on webkit can ever be considered "oriented towards security"
If this interests you, definitely checkout Sonic Pi. It's a Ruby DSL for music programming.

http://sonic-pi.net/
If the problem is that people put in charge cannot be trusted, how do you avoid voting in the next corrupt union leaders? Also, if they collude and you decide to be a rabble rouser, they could likely just have you fired to maintain the status quo.

If I were a Verizon employee and thought what I earned was unfairly low, I would opt to find another employer or if that is not possible, consider a change of career. Propping up a lousy company by letting them have access to my abilities is not worth it. If everyone left for greener pastures under such circumstances, they would correct things or go out of business.
If you like Vim keybindings, check out qutebrowser, which currently has a crowdfunding campaign to update it to make use of the newer QtWebEngine backend https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/qutebrowser-a-keyboard-fo...
Yeah I always kinda wrote off BuzzFeed as listicles for people who can't take the time to actually read news (which it definitely still is in some sense) but then I saw Jonah Peretti speak [0] and I've been a lot more interested in it since then

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V82JTa3iJfk
Thanks Corey,

Yes indeed GPS sucks on the sidewalk. Outdoor feature-based SLAM is the way to go. Congrats on getting the robot to go navigate 12K by itself with no loss of localisation.

The human operator is the backup, similar to Starship.

A separate mapping operation needs to be done first to pre-learn routes.

Recovering from lost localisation is tough and will need people to go recover the unit.

The Zed 3D camera operates better outdoors than the Asus, and solid state lidar sensors like Quanergy's are coming to market at a rapid pace and lowering costs. http://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/sens...

Crowds are tough too. The robot would not want to move too much in a crowd, and perhaps is best for it to just stay still until the crowd passes and it can re-localise.

These solutions and technologies are only going to get better with time, not worse, so it'll be a much easier problem given some short time.
I have Nook 9", it is perfect sized and even today good tablet. Since they had to do custom plug, if I forget to charge it, it will linger. It is slow but works well for reading.
Why not keeping Async operations as react-elements (simple <div/>s with hookds) in the DOM?
I think another big, big factor you're missing is people wanting to justify their existence, or "change for the sake of change".

For proprietary software, we see this in several ways: existing teams and managers want to keep their jobs, so they're not going to say, "this product is excellent and we're calling it done. We recommend that you keep Joe around to maintain it, and lay off the rest of us because we're not needed here any more. Joe will report to a different manager, so you can lay off Jim too. Sorry Jim, good luck finding another cushy middle-management job elsewhere!"

The other, related dynamic with proprietary software is wanting their software to seem "up-to-date", and giving customers a reason to keep "upgrading". Is this year's Photoshop really that much better than the one from 2 years ago? Probably not, but you're not going to get customers to keep paying over and over for your product if you don't keep making "upgrades". So you end up shoving all kinds of bloat in there and then trying to sell customers on paying for an "upgrade".

You don't see a lot of this stuff as much in the F/OSS world, since for a lot of projects, people aren't getting a salary for their work. But F/OSS isn't immune to it: take a look at Gnome3 for a prime example of fixing something that wasn't broken (and ending up with something that's far worse). But the causes for this aren't quite so clear-cut as in the commercial world. Part could be due to idealistic developers wanting to prove they have a better vision. But part could also be that, combined with getting a salary for it: most of the prominent Gnome developers are employed by Red Hat, so they've managed to sucker someone with money into funding their pet project. You don't see this with a lot of other F/OSS where there is no real funding. vim, for instance, has been chugging along for a couple decades now with not too many changes since it's mostly been done by one guy. There are a couple projects to replace it, but they don't have big corporate funding so they're just products of small teams of idealists and aren't moving that fast. A lot of F/OSS projects just don't have much work on them at all; they're in security maintenance mode only, and only see updates when someone finds some little bug or a security vulnerability. When was the last time TeX had any noticeable changes? Yet lots of academics use it every day.
I have seen my fair share of co-founder disagreements, and I have issues with several parts of Sam's comments:

Even if Jeremy had signed a stock agreement, he wouldn’t have reached the standard 1-year cliff for founders to vest any equity

Sam, are you recommending that co-founders with no salary be subject to a 1-year cliff? I have always argued that it's a bad idea, and today's case is the perfect example: if someone who is not paid leaves before 1 year, they receive absolutely nothing for their work. That's not right. I'm fine with a 1-year cliff for early employees who get a salary (see FAQ section of http://foundrs.com)

To play devil's advocate, you need to hear both sides of that story. Of course one month is not much time. But if I'm the one who said the one magic sentence that made Elon Musk fall in love with Mars and told him how to get there, and I can truly claim that without me, SpaceX wouldn't exist, do I deserve something? Hard to tell. By default, if two people start working on something, they are partners, 50/50. That wouldn't be right either, but maybe the truth is not a 100/0 split.

EDIT: after having read the legal complaint, it sounds like that person was not an original co-founder, but someone who had some discussions after the startup was incorporated. The only "oops" moment is having listed him as a co-founder on YC's application. You can imagine the scene in the courtroom: "did you or did you not list Mr X as a co-founder in the company's YC application? If so, are you lying to us now when you say he is not a co-founder or were you lying then?"
Couple of questions:

- If the trigger function hits a service that takes a long time to respond, how does that affect the system?

- Why did you have to reimplement trigger functions, what was the problem with using trigger functions for tables on continuous views?
>Really? I can automate a pipeline of GUIs? Please show me how I can automatically query a database, take that output, run complex data aggregation over those results combined with past results, send that to a remote server for storage, and email myself the result of the upload, using only a combination of GUIs.

Yes, you can, and we have been doing it for decades, e.g. Automator on OS X.

Especially stuff like this is quite easily achievable: "query a database, take that output, run complex data aggregation over those results combined with past results, send that to a remote server for storage, and email myself the result of the upload, using only a combination of GUIs".

Not only that, but pipeline steps can trivially include "run a specific cli program with this as an input and pass the output to another program" (where the previous/after program can be GUI or CLI or a remote service, etc).

Nothing precludes a program with a GUI from taking formal parameters (in whatever format) and being scriptable and pipelined to other such programs.

Whether your question is if this is true for a particular program P, it might, or it might not. That's no different from command line programs which might or might not be pipeline-able between them without intermediaries doing custom scraping, parsing and massaging.

Other scriptable solutions for GUI programs but without GUI-based visual mixing and matching of pipelines include Applescript (and it's Javascript incarnation), Microsoft PowerShell, etc. This are textual based, but not CLI -- you can run them from an IDE for all the extra power that gives.

Also macro recording/playing (available in lots of GUI apps) means you don't have to write anything like "click window at pixel x,y".

And of course in the trivial case, a mice GUI can run any terminal emulator too -- making it a superset of CLI, since the GUI terminal can also include buttons, menus, show images, etc -- which a command line interface cannot -- so it gets the best of both worlds.
And with this specific industry it would be cheaper to not do the deep assessment (medical compliance work is $$$ and you can only lose 1x your investment, if it is real you can make 100x).
> This is a huge game changer.

Agreed. React Native is turning into what a lot of us were hoping QT/QML would. But QT offers a very poor experience to both users and developers for mobile use, due to both license issues (making users download an additional binary scares most of them off) and to the uncanny valley caused by using non-native widgets. React Native has neither of these problems on mobile.

QT still rules the desktop, but it looks like only React Native offers hope for a true cross-platform GUI framework.

Who would have thought 2 years ago?
Update: after playing with this for way too long, I've found that it can converge to a spiral with 3 or 2 or even just 1 node in the 2nd hidden layer.

The 1 node case is especially interesting, because when it converges the single node must learn the whole spiral pattern. Although with noise it can be less reliable with more jagged edges, as well as take longer to converge (also bumped the learning rate down), seeing the spiral encoded directly in the 2nd hidden layer is more interesting to me.

http://playground.tensorflow.org/#activation=tanh&batchSize=...
Soliciting the levels of financial investment needed for Cruise to be successful would be difficult if the founders expressed the same sentiment, that they're trying to solve a problem regardless of the payback.

I don't think any business is immune to legal trouble. I sincerely hope you don't experience any yourself (ever), but if you do you may find yourself using similar language.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11486005
I think the community has a prevailing opionion that C# is part of a UWP lock-in and they're concerned about that.

I'm sure at least some people think C++ is helpful as a hedge against this.
While I also think that the GM/Cruise acquisition is terrible, it should be noted that the linked accident occurred during "Conventional" mode and not "Autonomous" mode.
For those interested, the GitHub repo is here: https://github.com/ReactWindows/react-native
I never managed to make it work either.
You will be able to (somewhat) soon!

Support is going to roll out in 3 steps:

1. A system that converts <script type=module> to HTML imports so that loading and ordering is consistent across JS and HTML imports. The converter will run in `polytool build` (polytool is the Polymer CLI in development) and in `polytool serve` (the dev server).

2a. Chrome's implementation of <script type=module> will work correctly with HTML imports, so that HTML imports wait on any JS modules and their transitive dependencies before signaling ready.

2b. The HTML imports polyfill will wait for JS modules to load (this might require no work).

3. HTML imports itself is being re-imagined as a layer on top of the JS module loader, so that HTML is just a different file type that can be loaded and participate in the dependency graph. This idea of "HTML Modules" has positive feedback from other browser vendors so far.
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Well self-awareness doesn't have a direct correlation with intelligence. I agree that it generally comes down to what/who we can easily empathize with, but I would argue it sentience matters more in that respect (as well as providing a more logical basis for what entities we should actually be concerned about).
I can definitely see the advantage in some cases of good breakpoint debugging with a nice IDE, but personally I like to see realtime what is happening while running the program and changing things around, without having to stop,break,continue and repeat this cycle which stops the flow.

But each to his own. And like answered already, the YouCompleteMe uses clang to provide intelligent autocompletion for C/C++.
> To be fair, vim is not strictly vi although they were related.

In the same sense, the emacs most people use is not the original one. Everyone uses GNU Emacs or Xemacs.
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Presumably it received a false positive (or it was interpreted as such). This really seems like the root cause, and I suspect a case of happy path engineering striking again.
$289.99 for an ugly looking kindle that isn't that different from the paperwhite... no thanks.
For this reason, most self-driving car development will only happen at large companies like Google, Tesla, Ford, etc. because they are the only ones who will be able to afford to purchase a massive general liability insurance policy.
You are right! The title (or the timing) did make a difference though.
Runtime heap usage.
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Agreed. I also was rubbed the wrong way by:

> parted ways ... and well before the company had achieved much of anything.

There are many shareholders of Thumbtack who left voluntary (or not) "well before the company had achieved much of anything," because companies take a long time to achieve big things. That doesn't mean they didn't have critical early contributions or that they aren't entitled to their equity.

I'm not saying that means this guy is entitled to anything, clearly the courts will figure that out, but I think writing off early contributions in a nascent company as having no value is also wrong.
>can we at least agree that is uniquely shitty to suddenly level these claims days after the acquisition is announced?

Would you prefer that he wait until after the acquisition closes and then have to fight a multi-billion dollar corporation and a newly minted billionaire cofounder? He obviously feels he is owed something, and strategically, it was now or never.

I cofounded a company, named it, was listed as the inventor on the company's patents, wrote its first product, had a written equity deal, and still got screwed on an acquisition like this. It wasn't for billions, but it was for more than $60 million. The acquirer was a multi-billion dollar company and once the deal was done (I didn't find out about the acquisition until after the fact) it was impossible for me to fight them.

I don't know what the merits of his case are, but looking at this from Jeremy's side, having been similarly positioned, he had no choice but to do this right now. Once GM has the company, unless Jeremy has some insanely wealthy backers willing to fund a very expensive legal fight for many years, all bets are off.
Uh interesting but sadly it doesn't look like it is open for all:

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/1311402
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