skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
She raised money for them as they were exhausting what they could get from "friends and family" connections, and long before they went public. Probably like a few others she worked with they later went through cycles of completely different management that was more suitable for different stages of growth, and rarely stuck to the long term plans of the founders.

If I remember correctly, an early business plan for Blockbuster projected streaming, or at least delivery through people cable boxes, about a decade early than when later management was ridiculing Netflix's streaming business.
Just to point out, this attack goes back at least 22 years. According to [this thread](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/sci.crypt/JSSM6Nbfwe...), credit is due to Paul Leyland.
There are entirely rational arguments for it, such as promoting an efficient market instead of wildly speculative prices. Some market participants will always have more information than others. The largest market participants being insiders and their friends that know their shares are going to be worth way less/more before the general public gets spooked/exuberant.

The laws deterring insider trading are - as you observed - to give people CONFIDENCE that they aren't going to get screwed. Confident to gamble in the markets, because they'll be "fair".

Stock markets aren't that popular around the world partly because investors don't feel like they won't get screwed over. Liquidity really does suck in most national and regional markets!

Its all a game of confidence man.

In many places, and yes you still see this in the US as well, the driving perception is that if you have attained a place in society to have privileged information, then you have the privilege of making money from it.
Unfortunately, none of those services or projects existed when we first started building Atlantis at Ooyala. I haven't been at Ooyala for a while now, so not sure what their plans are for this project now that open source tooling with wider support exists.
`each with one or two sockets of less-capable processors, like Xeon Phi.`

Corporate smacktalk...
Unexpected random problem from the article: he couldn't apply to college online because of COPPA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Online_Privacy_Pr...
A competent programmer knows variables should be initialized. A proficient programmer always checks if they are when changing code.
As a happy user I second this. I've never been let down by their sync -- set it and forget it.

Also: thank you for Linux support :)

I would add:

* They only offer one service. I consider this a feature: they're not off building smart cars, they're not about to release a Dropbox wearable.

* It's not tied to any platform (Microsoft, Apple, Google). It's their core product. They have to be dependable.

* They charge money. None of my folders are brought to me by coca-cola. They're not "Sorted based on intelligent algorithms". And never has Dropbox prompted me with "Check out what documents are trending with your friends!"

* They don't encourage me to just keep everything "on the cloud". All my data is still on my devices.

It's a solid, dead simple, stable product that I hope never goes away.
Interesting, though it appears indie.vc does not have a website (I get redirected to a page with just the title when I go there.)
>Space-X can't make and launch Falcon boosters fast enough now.

The bottleneck is not Falcon 9 production, at this point it's largely on the payload side. A faster turnaround would certainly help, but there's only so much optimization that can be done.

The Falcon Heavy is not a priority because (1) much less demand from customers and (2) it's a transitional system between Falcon 9 and built-for-reuse BFR/MCT, so it will have limited use.
The Intel Opportunity (2013)
Also deis and flynn.
http://deis.io/
https://flynn.io/

There's quite a few options in this area. I've recently started using dokku for personal projects. My current plan is to migrate to deis in future if/when I want multiple nodes.
From my Android SDK experience, Ant and Maven are much faster than Gradle.

If you check the developer Q&A videos at Google IO 2016, one of the issues that got discussed was precisely the slow builds.

It is also interesting that they had to re-write the public API in Java for Gradle 3, as part of their speed improvements.
Sure but you would expect a few exceptional exceptions when dealing with 1.25 billion people. Also India is a huge melting pot with people from different ethnic and cultural backgrounds. I just don't see how this can be the only reason.
Ask yourselves and answer brutally honestly

If an Asian or African had said the same thing would it hold as much value to you?

"Is it possible that a starving African farmer has less sense of injustice than a middle-aged western male who has never been fellated?"
> But this industry sucks at software updates.

Except Tesla.

I think we're going to see a race from two ends of the spectrum: Can Tesla ramp up production faster than traditional manufacturers learn how to build software?
Virtual office cubicle with Microsoft Office. Like Job Simulator but real. The future we deserve.
> My experience with hosting in the boom consisted of mostly first ip-based, then name-based vhosted Apache, maybe a per-vhost, but often per-system cgi-bin, and if you're lucky, mod_php.

At the core of it this is not so different.

> So yeah. This is a slightly different model.

No, not really. What's changed is our understanding of how to run this kind of infrastructure. And we now have a little bit more sophistication in how we organize process runtime environments (sandboxes, cgroups on Linux, jails on FreeBSD). But if you tear down all the PR and get past the nice decoration it boils down to a glorified shell access.

Back in the boom it sucked because nobody knew then, how to do these things properly.
Not sure if "millions of years" is actually truthful considering exponential growth and highly localized effects
You do understand your body needs to build muscles every day right?

If a large part of your protein intake is based on soy you can quickly start to lose muscle mass which isn't great.

It looks like rapid weight loss but you are effectively gaining fat and losing strength.
Univision’s $135M Bid Wins Auction for Bankrupt Gawker
Someone claims (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/sci.crypt/JSSM6Nbfwe...) that it's just as easy to spoof 64 bit as 32 bit keys. I have no idea whether to believe him, but even if he's full of it, it's prudent to assume that if the 32 bit attack was practical 20 years ago, 64 bits is within reach today.
Yes, you will. Especially for engineers who often need vision. Also, not everyone is in their 20s. Most of the top talent to recruit is in their 30s.
Why should you not be paid for your work? Founders often work for little or no salary. If you work 10 months and you get contractors hourly rates- sure you don't deserve stock. If you get market salary, you deserve a little bit of stock (Because you're taking risk). If you are making less than market you deserve stock commensurate with the income you gave up-- that is an investment with a dollar value as legitimate as any other investment in the company.

One year cliffs are just completely unfair, and at this point, absurd.

A 90 day cliff is fine by me, though I think it's still a bit intrinsically unfair, because the employee is always taking more risk than the company. But it's an acceptable compromise to me.
More like http://store.steampowered.com/app/448280/
Yes, around 10 years ago, before Maven got invented to work around the issues caused by vendoring in Java, with Ant or Makefiles.
> Apple's laptops are absolutely locked down using EFI, you can't install any other OS unless Bootcamp allows it.

Not exactly true, or even a little bit true; however, I'd say that these tools aren't exactly well known.

http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/

> This page describes rEFInd, my fork of the rEFIt boot manager for computers based on the Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) and Unified EFI (UEFI). Like rEFIt, rEFInd is a boot manager, meaning that it presents a menu of options to the user when the computer first starts up, as shown below. rEFInd is not a boot loader, which is a program that loads an OS kernel and hands off control to it. (Since version 3.3.0, the Linux kernel has included a built-in boot loader, though, so this distinction is rather artificial these days, at least for Linux.) Many popular boot managers, such as the Grand Unified Bootloader (GRUB), are also boot loaders, which can blur the distinction in many users' minds. All EFI-capable OSes include boot loaders, so this limitation isn't a problem. If you're using Linux, you should be aware that several EFI boot loaders are available, so choosing between them can be a challenge. In fact, the Linux kernel can function as an EFI boot loader for itself, which gives rEFInd characteristics similar to a boot loader for Linux.
I assume the "aaS" stands for "as a service", but what's the P stand for?

And yes, I looked at the link. It uses "PaaS" without defining it.
We don't generally allow people to murder during evictions, and infact often allow several months for the tenant to move out.
I see it as an indirect dependency since systemd now allows to create a configuration that is broken unless the kernel is patched.
But let's not forget that schema-less databases are often marketed as noSQL, so typing sql (quicker on phone) should be acceptable imo.
Why Reddit was down on Aug 11
Am I the only one who read the paper in a kind of wise-man on high high voice, complete with deep sighs of self-reflecting pauses (perhaps denoted by the '^' characters?). Are those meant to make us think the author is saying something profound and important?

I wish I had the motivation to give a self-help lecture at a Rails conference. I'm sure no one would come though, and if anyone did come, they would probably hate me for talking about such self-important windbag topics like depression, motivation, and cognitive behavioral therapy.

Signed,

The Perennial Pessimist
> Presumably, some of those people would be happy to sell in order to let denser housing be built.

Maybe, but they surely knew what they were getting into when they bought their houses. So what right do they have to complain? It's not like PA's zoning is a recent development.

I might be able to make even more money if I build a chemical plant or a toxic waste dump on my suburban property. Should I be able to do that?

> [Zoning's racist roots]

Unless you have some evidence that the current zoning laws in PA are racist, this is a non-sequitur.

> you lot in California are exporting a ton of people up here in Oregon

If you think that PA's zoning is what is driving people to Oregon you are completely out of touch with reality. There's a lot of cheap dirt left south of the Oregon border.

Also, it strikes me as just a wee bit hypocritical to complain about our zoning because you have failed to keep people out while we have succeeded.
Completely off-topic, but what's the latest thinking on space-elevators? Is there any active research on them? I thought that carbon nanotubes or diamond nanothreads were likely candidates for the cable material.
For those of you wondering "why would/did Curse make a chat app"?

A: It's a niche chat app for gamers to use while gaming, in order to communicate as a team.

From my understanding, it was meant to be a low resource alternative to skype. It's hard to play games like League when skype is eating up your resources/bandwidth/etc.
Hardly offended, sir. I envy you the clarity afforded by your certitude.
ASTs and SSA are orthogonal concepts. ASTs are a representation of syntax (including SSA) where immediate subterms are easily accessible (unlike with strings as representation). Easy access to subterms is important for the efficiency of type-checkers and code-generators. In contrast, SSA is a simple programming language that is often used as an intermediate form in code generators.

HOAS is a form of embedding a language L with binders into a language L-Base also with binders and functions, but such that L-binders are handled by functions in L-Base and the problem of defining capture-avoiding substitution for L-terms is reduced to reusing L-Base's capture-avoiding substitution. (NB L = L-Base is possible but not required.)

HOAS is neat, but (simplifying a bit) prevents you from making inductive definitions on L terms. There are various ways of getting around this shortcoming, the most principled one is probably the nominal approach of A. Pitts et al. Another problem with HOAS is that the
representation may contain 'junk'. That means there are L-Base terms that do not represent L-programs.
Great post, Its quite fascinating to see that some influences of cyberpunk owes its origin to french Sci-Fi. I would like to also add that, they are many more French influences such as Jean Giraud which have also inspired, countless artists, e.g. like Hayao Miyazaki (creator of spirited away) and worked several times together. Just to add, that one of my favorite sci-fi movies of all time, has to be the fifth element, well its concept art was made by Jean Giraud & Jean-Claude MézièresaS. And I must say that movie along with blade runner and the matrix, those movies were the best tech-noir / cyberpunk comic -movie sci-fi adaptations ever made. Merci la France.
Why would you be worried about recycling spacecraft at this point in history? Up until the last 2 years, practically all spacecraft either burned up in the atmosphere, crashed into the ocean or land, landed permanently on another body, or are now sitting in a museum somewhere if they were designed to return. Recycling the material in spacecraft is simply a non-issue.
Platform as a Service - applies to services like Heroku and the like.
Weird, speed of development and execution is exactly why/when I would reach for Just using a SQL based RDBMS.

Whereas, going to a non-relational solution would be something I'd do when I needed to trade away simplicity and consistency in exchange for scaling/performance for specific cases where relational can't handle the write load. Losing the schema and ability to do joins and arbitrary queries and assume transactionality is a big loss that requires lots of work.

A dirty secret of NoSQL is that sure, part of their target audience is legitimate needs, but another part of their target audience is just new developers who don't have much experience with either SQL or NoSQL databases, and are easily mislead into buying the idea that NoSQL will be easier Because There's No Schema or Joins To Think About
I'm not familiar with it, so how is discord a competitor to twitch? It looks like a newer TeamSpeak to me.
There's a few things there too, consider for every Grenada with one medalist how many small countries have none which can kind of add to that pool of participants.

The other thing is that in most sports each country is limited to the same number of participants. In swimming for example if the US had the 4 of the best 10 swimmers in an event only two get to compete at the Olympics which leaves them at a slight disadvantage.
For some such cases, it's also important for people to judge for themselves.

Try something and see -- that (experiment) is even more in the original scientific spirit than relying solely on citations.

It's doubly so for things in soft-sciences, where you don't even have the rigor of hard-sciences, and things can be widely cited and praised but be nothing but the ideological fashion (or academic fashion) of the decade, to be scorned a few years later.
I think this is exactly what the article set out to disprove.

> particularly when it involves lots of lives as you risk dehumanisation.

The article stated:

> If people relied on their stereotypes more or less rationally, they would rely on them to inform judgments when they had little or no definitive information, but ignore them when they had definitive information. And it turns out this is just what most people do.

The idea that stereotyping is dehumanising, or used is some way to deny others, or put them in a box is specifically what the article says people don't do.

Instead, the article claims, people use stereotypes to improve the odds when there is no other information. To call that dehumanising is a pretty long bow to draw IMHO.
Opinion. I'm on the white meat side of this debate; dark meat is just mushy and greasy to me, not more flavorful.
I'm the last person who should be correcting someone’s spelling. Great Article BTW.
Why didn't they evolve?
Materials science isn't there yet, and the investigation is still in the more general material research phase.

We're decades off. You're asking about the state of supersonic air travel while researchers are still figuring out how to smelt aluminum.
The value of the option will rise with volatility. It is more apparent if you delta hedge leaving you with a net gamma position (i.e. hoping for quieter or more volatile markets depending on whether you are short or long gamma). Selling an option puts you in a short gamma position whether it is a put or a call.

The subtlety is that volatility falls slowly as prices rise AND rises much faster as prices fall. So (equity) options become much more valuable when things go badly. Check the S&P500 vs VIX and watch how the VIX explodes upwards with each market correction then slowly drops back as prices rise.

The metaphor can only go so far. He does not specify the underlying in the article but the mechanics described imply the company's health. If the bet is correct, the company will do well and "volatility will fall" making the option less valuable. You could say the impact of the damage made by technical debt is less important because you have more resources to deal with it (this is how spaghetti ball codebases start, but in the medium term it holds).

On the other hand, if the company does badly (fundraise fails, product does not grow as expected) the relatively small payoff from technical debt is exponentially more expensive and might well wipe out the tech side or slow down development enough to allow the competition to win faster. This is why I say the damage is "potentially infinite" (where infinite is used colloquially rather than formally).

In particular, an unhealthy company with a lot of technical debt will rapidly see its top technical talent bleed and find it hard to hire (I'm not theorising - I've many times heard developers who interviewed at well known places tell me afterwards "I liked the pay, the people and the brand, but the codebase was a mess and life is only so long"). Thus the damage done is rapidly exponentially higher than the reward (traders will refer to "convexity" or non-linearity in the model, convexity being the degree of curvature) throwing you in a death spiral.

You can even fit in the volatility smile: as more experienced developers ("the market") have in aggregate picked up on the convexity of the technical debt trade, they are more reluctant to take it on the more improbable the payoff is - that is, they compensate for the kurtosis of the return distribution (which is why buying deep out of the money options all the time hoping for 2008 to happen is a bad strategy).

I recommend Nassim Taleb's Dynamic Hedging which despite the dry title explains these ideas quite intuitively.
AppAll: Cloud App Storage and Streaming
Came upon this company, www.appallmobile.com , they seem to have just launched this week and I signed up.
A friend of mine showed me a demo he got as an early user and I was surprised to see that it works very fast and nice. I assumed storing mobile apps on the cloud and streaming would be slow but in this case I wasn't.

What are your thoughts on this folks?

If their cloud based I was surprised to find out they can run any mobile app, that means they must render the graphics really fast somehow
It is unbelievable how far procrastination can go: you wrote an entire productivity profiling tool!
Maybe they have the same PR/charisma coaches.
Would it really have been that hard to type the word "platform"? Sigh.

Thanks.
How are you going to pay for all those moonshot projects that cost billions and might not make money for a decade, if ever. Google still hasn't made any money on the self-driving car. Oculus Rift?
It's sad that the promise of VR was that we could be taken to places that we couldn't go in real life. Like Iceland - I'd love to go to Iceland, but there are issues that prevent that. Or maybe The Louvre, but without all the other tourists, etc. clogging up the joint.

No, we get email and a virtual dog.

So far, I'm not seeing a reason to even want VR, much less shell out ridiculous amounts of money for it.
Aerospace aluminum isn't as easily recycled as beer cans.

If you're building a space ship you have very tight tolerances and specifics needed for the alloying of the metals you use. The aluminum in aircraft is full of strange things that need to be removed for general use aluminum and definitely need to be removed for building new aircraft.

You're right that melting and re-casting aluminum is really cheap and efficient for beer cans, it's not so much the same for aerospace aluminum.

When it comes down to spaceships, the energy used to produce them is usually a very small portion of the total cost of the mission and we don't make very many of them – recycling isn't and shouldn't be a priority.

The Falcon 9 burns 110,000 liters of kerosene every launch, if it were made of carbon fiber, maybe it wouldn't matter how the structure was disposed.
Cheers, glad you liked it
Still a lot of active research going on. The biggest issues that need to be resolved are currently with the cable material. There has been a surprising amount of progress in the last few years with creating longer carbon fibers, but its still nascent and has a minimum of 5-10 years of work. Probably much more.

Then even when the cable strength and length issues are satisfactorily resolved, there are lots of other logistics to deal with.

I think any future barriers to the elevator(s) will be more regulatory than technological in the future.
The problem isn't fiber length. The problem is that the fibers are impregnated with resin, with strong chemical bonds.
This seems to be the case, at 926 karma I have comment downvotes but no vouch button yet.
>True: here in Canada, the McDouble costs, I think, $2.19? Our exchange rate to the US has never been that bad.

They're costing $0.99-1.49 in the states depending on location (and usually more than $0.99.) They're $1.69 in Canada (Bacon McDouble is closer to $2.19) as of last year.
> Runs only things from their "App Store"

Not a problem, not even by default with the latest Oculus software. SteamVR supports Oculus, not sure if the inverse is true (although I will be finding out with my Vive purchase).

> Sorry, no X86 apps.

Not a problem.

> Very little applications for platform.

Somewhat. Virtual Desktop implies that you can use any Windows application - but purely native stuff is still scarce. When you get more specialized with stuff like Leap Motion Orion (which is outright mindblowing), the situation becomes much worse. All the cost of living on the bleeding edge: the devices themselves are extremely polished but the community surrounding them is still miniscule.

> Loads of crypto data going to and from MS domains.

Oculus tracks. Nothing reported in that department for Vive.

> No Administrator access, nor is there even a file manager.

OSVR somewhat blows this door open, although not yet. It's really new and understandably janky - I steer well clear of it. Still, once it's more mature, it's going to be great.

> Requires Microsoft account to use, full stop.

I can't recall if I had to set up an account for the new DK2 runtime. Vive requires Steam.

> If you're prone to getting migraines

VR is known to have motion sickness problems in specific titles (which move/rotate the camera) for some people. I am not one of those people: test a kit out before buying. I've never heard of/read about migraines with VR.