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usually the definition is around some technology coming out that the incumbents were so heavily invested in earlier technology that they couldn't embrace the new technology until it was too late. It's not that taxis companies couldn't have developed tech, it's because they followed the law which caused them not to be able compete. so, unless you call "law" a technology I don't include it in my definition. And since most of the other on demand companies are failing it leads me to believe it's not about technology or even strategy(unless you call breaking the law a strategy). Is my way the only way to look at it obviously not. Just like facebook didn't disrupt anything. they just executed better.
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Wow, were you really down 6? Per my other comment[1], I couldn't upvote you enough: the problem is that our truth-finding method in the justice system is vulnerable and open to manipulation. It should be robust against investments like Thiel's: roughly, an exponential investment of resources should only have a linear impact on the verdict.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11824193
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Casper has a 100 day no-questions-asked return policy. We ended up returning one of their mattresses and it couldn't have been easier. They send somebody by your house to pick it up.
Presumably eviction?

If you currently make a living wage and you don't pay your rent you still get evicted, so I don't think it would necessarily be any different.
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I think many people who are physically unable to take a hike (disabled, elderly, ill, etc.) would appreciate a VR system that can closely mimic a real hike.

Also, if a VR system can perform well as a hiking simulator it would be able to realistically simulate things that don't exist, places that are too difficult/expensive for an average person to visit, or experiences that are too dangerous to attempt in reality.

EDIT: For example, I'd love to visit the moon or Mars but it's highly unlikely I'll ever be able to physically go there. A highly immersive VR simulation would be very appealing to me!
"Press the 'f' and 'd' keys randomly. As randomly as you can. I'll try to predict which key you'll press next.
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A rolling mean of my accuracy in predicting what key you'll press."

So does that mean it's not able to predict with more than 50% accuracy?
I think it's more or less obvious that languages and platforms ran by a benevolent dictatorship can move much faster than one ran by a committee of several different groups and companies.

This is especially true of JavaScript, where maintaining backwards compatibility is really important [1] -- you have to avoid doing something you can't change later.

They also tend to wait until there's a few implementations of any proposal already. It has to be tested first, before becoming standard.

[1] http://www.2ality.com/2014/12/one-javascript.html
The media industry sees this as a threat to their industry/tribe and does a circle the bandwagons reaction using their convenient tool at hand. Writing articles in widely published publications. On top of it, these people are probably friends-of-friends publishing these articles.

That is why it gets more attention than many other instances of similar behavior in similar situations.
The critter is a reference to http://landoflisp.com/
How many partners are there at YC now?
think some keys got mixed up here:

h or the left arrow - will move you left one character

j or the up arrow - will move you up one line

k or the down arrow - will move you down one line

l or the right arrow - will move you right one character
I'll answer this from the position of having just launched an Open Source project with accompanying website.

The software is Wheatbin and the website is actually a landing page: http://wheatbin.com with a short video (of admittedly low production value).

What people complained about on my site (and I tried to fix) was the lack of specifics, mainly 1) why someone would want to use Wheatbin over competing productivity software, 2) to stop using metaphor and get into specifics and 3) keep the writing simple.

Your software is different of course, but the general rules probably apply.
Neither the consumer nor a repair shop will have the 3D printer to do that, and it would be almost as expensive as buying a new bike anyway (after the labor).

Worse, economy of scale means that you could just buy a new frame from the manufacturer for less than making one yourself.

So in practice this option boils down to "throw the bike and/or frame out (scrapyard) and buy a new one."
I'm on mobile.

My choice was taken away from me.
Uncertain; that was my initial understanding as well, but the Wikipedia article on PRISM indicates that certain search terms are fair game as well.

Also uncertain about the relationship between BULLRUN and AT&T room 641A. My understanding is that BULLRUN is different, focusing on influencing encryption standards so that the government could break them, but I'm not sure.
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If you upvote a post you can access then later by clicking on "saved stories" in your profile page. There is a "saved comments" too.
This is an ad. If you snore, get a sleep study done with a Doctor. Dentist know nothing about this.
Going by a legal definition, a moped can only be a two wheeled vehicle with a displacement smaller than 50cc for gas engines and a top speed lower than 35mph. Anything else is a motorcycle, including most scooters.

Being legally registered and titled is a different matter than being simply described. I think motorcycle is exact and correct given the styling and capabilities of the bike.
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I guess I'm pretty random. I don't know what using your free will has anything to do with this. In fact, this may be the opposite of free will.
I got hung up on it too. My sarcastic thought was, "yeah, nobody on mobile uses their device for messaging, e-mail, photo sharing, dating, fantasy sports, etc."
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Bash... sorely missing and sorely needed. :)
PAM is portable in the sense that it usually exists on Linux systems whether or not they use systemd, and thus is more portable across Linux distributions than systems-specific code is.
Well, don't forget that the article talks about the Pebble Core, which is the screen-less processing module on the new Pebble Kickstarter. There is no direct manipulation (other than the two buttons on the device) or feedback. It is intended for development or things like run tracking.

If you are running, it may be considerably easier (and safer) to use a voice interface like Alexa than it would be to use a screen. Which is probably why they focused on Alexa for the Core and not the watches.
There are some physicists running around saying that free will is defined as acting randomly even though that's at odds with philosophical and common sense definitions of the term. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_will_theorem
What Gawker did was disgusting, but what irks me about Thiel's actions is the fact that most of his wealth was created by investing in businesses that have significantly reduced consumer privacy (i.e. Facebook, Palantir, etc..). How many people have been accidentally outed due to Facebook's poor privacy practices?

Gawker is a by-product of the current ecosystem that Silicon Valley has created. The rise of click bait journalism was a by product of incentives created by social media companies like Facebook. And Thiel sits in the center of this universe. If he really wants to be 'philanthropic' he should focus his efforts at the root causes of these issues. But he won't, because that is where his net worth comes from.
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I guess I'm pretty random. I don't think this has anything to do with free will, in fact, I think this is the opposite.
Unexpected traffic making it slow?
You can use its own output against it. (Which means, ironically, it does not follow "know thyself", a maxim said to be from the Oracle at Delphi.)

Fixate on a number fairly late in the sequence (the millionths place seems to work well). If that number is 5-9, push 'f'. Otherwise, push 'd'. Keeps it pretty consistently around 0.5.
Good point. Does anyone have a good web based bookmark tool? I hop between a dozen machines on different networks so keeping bookmarks is kind of tedious.
The question isn't "can" but "should". Should we, assuming we could, create conscious (conscious meaning being self-aware and having the ability to learn) machines? There have been hundreds of books, movies, games - about this issue and all, come to the same conclusion... NO.
How do you plan to compare and compete with other projects such as Stack Overflow documentation (currently in closed beta iirc) which, as far as I can see, offers the same functionality, but a larger user base?
Let it go, you're wrong. It's obvious that you know you're wrong, otherwise you would argue your position rather than throwing personal insults and a hissy fit.

Pseudocode is not code. Flowcharts are not pseudocode.

You also didn't describe your stack. I just see some fresh meat who desperately wants people to take him seriously, but he has a hard time with it because he's kinda childish, very defensive, and can't argue his point.

Anyway, this discussion is counterproductive, so I'm going to stop reading after this one.
I think it isn't a failure. There are some big successes/

1) Give them leverage on Microsoft to not mess with PC Gaming Ecosystem?

2) Cross Platform more common - personally I am glad more and more games are being made cross platform.

3) Steam Controller sold 500,000 units.

4) Linux has gotten a lot more visibility and GOG.com supports it.
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Oh man Steam sales cause ramen dinners in our house. The Wife and I are equally guilty.
This is certainly an interesting and theoretically promising method, that, if it works, should make it fairly easy to develop specific personalized "vaccines" for each person's cancer.

For background, dendritic cells are a type of antigen-presenting cells, which means their job is to pick up proteins, break them up into small pieces (antigens), and then show those pieces to T-cells, whereupon the T-cells can either say "looks like a self antigen, everything's fine" or say "that looks like a foreign antigen, raise the alarm!" and then initiate a specific immune response against that antigen.

The basic concept here is that if you have a specific protein that you want to raise an immune response against, you can do so by tricking dendritic cells into producing copies of that protein, which will then get presented along with all the other antigens for inspection by T-cells. You can pull off this trick by feeding RNA that encodes the target protein to the dendritic cells, and as a bonus, the fact that there's free RNA floating around triggers anti-viral defenses, which causes the T-cells to be extra suspicious of the antigens they're inspecting (i.e. it lowers their threshold for raising an immune response). But injecting RNA directly into your spleen isn't exactly practical, so instead they found that attaching the negatively charged RNA to some positively charged lipids in a specific ratio (which results in a specific ratio of charge to mass) causes them to localize to the spleen and then get taken up, translated, and presented by dendritic cells when injected intravenously.

So, put it all together, and the workflow for treating cancer looks something like this:

1. Find a protein produced by the cancer cells that is either sufficiently different from the same protein in normal cells (due to mutation) or not produced in normal cells.

2. Construct an RNA transcript that will produce that protein when translated.

3. Attach that RNA transcript to the liposomes in the appropriate ratio, and inject it into your bloodstream.

4. Let the immune system do its thing.

5. Repeat as necessary to keep the immune response active until it's killed all the cancer.

Obviously step 1 is still the hard part, and the paper chose as a proof of concept two example cancers for which this step was already done. But finding a viable cancer-specific antigen is certainly orders of magnitude easier than determining the mechanism of a cancer and then developing a treatment specific to that mechanism.
This is why you want client side encrypted clients who treat your NAS/Cloud Account/HDD as dumb storage. This way it's easy to immediately verify on your client computer that entire CRUD cycle works fine, and continues to work fine.

It also allows you to have simple redundancy, so if your NAS setup fucks up, the cloud account and external hard drive version is still there.
That's the trouble with game theory-like heuristics. To a layman like me it's unclear how many times do you want to recursively apply it.

The 2/3 of the average guess game is an interesting illustration where if you take the game theory approach and recursively apply it you'll end up with 0 all the time:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guess_2/3_of_the_average
You'd want a sequence that contains every 6-gram exactly once and ends with the same 5 digits as it starts with: such a sequence would be 2^6=64+5=69 bits long, and then you'd repeat the first 64 over and over. (Or just contains exactly once up to cycles.)

Some searching tells me this already has a name, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Bruijn_sequence

So yes, just take a De Bruijb sequence B(2,6) (algorithms in the link can generate them) and repeat it.
I got it to .41 predictability. Does that mean I am a demigod?
How does your perceptual recognition technology distinguish piracy from Fair Use? Given the impossibility of knowing with certainty which jurisdiction the end user is in, which Copyright scheme are you assuming? Can works be registered as Public Domain or as subject to a permissive license such as Creative Commons?

This sounds like you're making an Internet-scale DRM scheme. What precautions are taking to protect people from creators trying to take more than copyright provides?
1) Where do they advertise steam machines? Maybe they'd sell more if they advertised a little

2) Wasn't vulcan supposed to help somehow? Vulcan is still in its infancy and I'm guessing some big titles will come out later this year.

>less than half a million Steam Machines sold over a span of more than half a year.

Doesn't sound too bad to me. Plus consoles in general are having worse sales this year compared to the past.
The conclusion of the article (I think) we are (still) discussing here, however, appears to be "Thiel is a robber baron and we the poor public should be wary of these new rich", when in fact the conclusion should be "Our system of justice is broken because rich people can get different outcomes than poor people."

Clearly, the author of the article does not want the poor people to come to the conclusion that the justice system is broken, presumably, because then the rich and powerful establishment, would not be able to use it themselves. Instead, they want to put upstart newcomers like Thiel in their place.

Are there any other areas where the establishment may need public backing to take down the "robber barons of silicon valley"? Anyone having the nerve to fight back on issues of privacy, national security, encryption, copyright, basic human rights in general? No?
Are you sure that's a good definition? You yourself can't reliably stop remembering something even if you want to; why expect a computer to be able to do it?
>There is always the possibility of someone - no matter how much you trust them or pay them - screwing up your data. Including yourself.

Especially yourself. I trust a product with dedicated administrators who do nothing but keep people's data safe to do a much better job than i could ever do myself. I don't want that kind of responsibility when google and dropbox are willing to do it for me for a couple bucks a month.
Wow, from their very own docs, huh? I was never a huge fan of some of Microsoft's patterns even when I worked there, but this is a new low in my eyes.
I've only used serverless and that only needs to run CF when you update backend resources.
As mentioned in tfa's comments, the Steam Link may be undercutting the Steam Machines' sales... In any case, I think it was a decent experiment.
To most people, "how predictable you are" and "whether you have free will" are almost the same question.
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"Adora Cheung is joining YC as a Partner. Previously, she was co-founder and CEO at Homejoy and a product manager at Slide."

I followed the Homejoy/Flymaids [1] controversy loosely. It seems like Adora was not involved in the Flymaids project, but the handling of internal customer data left a bad taste in many people's mouths. Was this situation with Aaron ever resolved?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10466888
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Dang it, I counted the \0 but miscounted the characters in the string.
You are incorrect. IE10 implements the wrong spec and it's buggy in IE11. And Edge isn't IE.
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There's a really nice web-based bookmarking tool called Pinboard. You might have heard of it.
Sounds like you are deciding for him.

And 99.9% of human beings wouldn't have that kind of money to spend in the first place. Now, if you were to adjust the amount of money as a % of wealth down to the average income, would they spend that much, if that's all it took?
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Use Linux. Problem solved.

Of course, if you have special needs (games, proprietary Windows-only software, etc.), you might have to run Windows. My advice would be to simply use an Enterprise version of Windows 7, which doesn't "upgrade" you automatically, and work on moving away from any Microsoft platforms as quickly as possible.
I did that too and it worked for a short while, but then started increasing without bound. I wish it would list the record as you go.
I've been using https://pinboard.in for years and can't recommend it enough - it's brilliant.
Can Wal-Mart get to where Amazon is before Amazon's expanding deliveries eat more of their pie...
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I worked for a long time as a coder, then team lead / principal engineer and finally architect before reaching a point where I could exit. Now I synthesize new psychedelic drugs and sell them to rich yuppies from NYC seeking mind expansion.
Extremely interesting to compare with Jack Gallant's reconstruction of video from the brain MRI of a viewer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsjDnYxJ0bo
I don't know what algorithms they use, but they don't seem to be any kind of secret sauce. It seems like the relevant computation is done by human brains playing their web game.

http://go.unu.ai/lobby
It could make a sort of perverted sense in one way. Since the tyre will create so much drag, it will make the cycling harder. So it makes for tougher exercise, thus burning more calories and building bigger leg muscles :-)
I have been having way too much fun with this, but it really goes off the rails sometimes. I am currently in a stream where the correct answer is "Ambrose Bunside". It asked me if my character has been dead for more than 100 years, then two questions later asked me if my character uses musical.ly. :/
An idea I shared on "Can you behave randomly? (1998)" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11753194) seems relevant here.

The keypresses I entered were not predictable by the Oracle. I generated the keypresses by first picking an arbitrary integer in [0,59]. I then (using simple mental arithmetic) used that integer to seed a PRNG by George Marsaglia [1] to generate a stream of pseudo-random decimal digits. For each digit, if it was in [0,7], then I took the 3-low order bits of its binary representation, in order from least significant to most significant bit (0=f, 1=d). If the digit was 8 or 9, I discarded it. The PRNG I used has period 59, and only 20% of the output digits would have to be discarded. Therefore one could use this approach to generate up to 141 pseudo-random bits.

[1] Marsaglia, George. "How to generate random number sequences (in your head)" https://groups.google.com/d/msg/sci.math/6BIYd0cafQo/Ucipn_5...)
I remember reading the article about Pebble and how smartwatch growth had not panned out.

With a capable voice interface though, I can see the possibility of that magic combination / killer app. I wonder if the Pebble Core will be as competent as the Echo in filtering voice. Is this going to be a passive-listening device, or do you press a button?
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We already have a single atom transistor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-atom_transistor), but you're right that it's far from commercially viable.
Sklansky tells in the Theory of Poker that you need to be unpredictable when deciding whether to call a possible bluff, and "tune" it to the cards that are known.

So you may need to make a yes-no decision where you decide on yes about 65% of the time, when you consider lots of those decisions.

His solution? Glance at your watch. Divide the current minute into proportionate parts. See in which part the seconds hand is standing.
You're right that there will be a way higher number of reference points with varying degrees of awareness, but I'm pretty sure most kids know Stampycat, Evantube, etc..
Yeah serverless is a little smarter and directly uploads lambda functions.

The main reason I don't use serverless is because it's geared towards web development -- the lambdas and the api gateway are tied together. Most of what I'm doing is not web based.
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Thanks for this, I get plenty of magnesium. I'm reasonably certain that the extended melatonin use was a primary cause, in my case.
I can tell you the Autobahn is being constantly maintained, it seems like there's roadworks everywhere. Another interesting thing I didn't know about it is that you are expected to have your car in tip-top condition for driving at night, as there's virtually no street lighting on it.
Extremely wealthy people are also just like any other group of people in that they act in their own self-interest.
Being predictable does not mean you have no free will.

I mean, ever heard of compatibilism?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compatibilism
Infrastructure that works has very little drama. Without drama, you're not in anyone's sphere of attention, and being outside that, there's no reason to be sexy.
FWIW, I've been using serverless the last couple of weeks and I find the request-response parameter mapping absolutely maddening.

Most of us have become used to frameworks like express for specifying our routes and manually specifying API gateway rules feels like a huge step backwards.
You'd also need to subtract half of the self-employment taxes (equivalent to the employer share of payroll taxes) to get an employee-wage-equivalent figure. Assuming that the $12.3/hr is the net before SE taxes, SE taxes are about $1.74/hr and the employer-share-equivalent is $0.87/hr, leaving a wage-equivalent of $10.43/hr.

Which is just barely above California's minimum wage ($10.00) today, and not (as suggested upthread) better than the most generous minimum wage proposals.
Working on a video course https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04ZZKFcpUoo though there is also a great book for Haskell now http://haskellbook.com/