skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alexa is basically an audio command line. You have to say things specifically. Plus, Alexa is pretty restrictive in that it only needs to handle English (and American English at that). It also has a limited set of things it can do since it's only audio.

With Siri you can actually mix languages. So you can ask in French about an English film title. I don't know how good Alexa is about these kinds of things. Considering that it's only for the US, I can't know.

I don't know if Google Photos is running circles around Photos. I know a new version just came out with macOS Sierra. I just read an article today over on Six Colours that praised its search capabilities. I don't use Google Photos or Apple's. I haven't had a camera in years and only got my first cell phone this year (I was given an iPhone 5).

I completely rule Alexa out from these kinds of discussions until Amazon bothers to sell it elsewhere. It's been a consistent issue with Amazon. It took several years before we got the Kindle in Canada, we were promised Amazon's MP3 store, but we're still waiting. Our Amazon Prime only covers shipping, not any of the books or video.

Siri does what I need it to do on my phone, but I don't really ask for much. I mainly use it for timers and creating appointments. Those have all worked perfectly, even when I'm standing right next to my kitchen fan or the speakers of my stereo.
So, you're saying, the only advantage is that instead of every high school student being able to crack your DRM, now only every college student will be able to crack your DRM.

Just stop it and give up on DRM.
Assuming we can ignore your septum and the roof of your mouth, your respiratory system is basically just an indentation in your head. From a topology perspective, it doesn't really exist. Your lungs are on the outside.
Apple buys out machine learning firm Tuplejump [u]
Not sure if this is a serious reply.
> Airbnb owning actual apartments/hotels

Wouldn't that just make them literally a hotel chain, with no disrupting difference to any any other? I'm fairly sure I can book a room online at the Hilton.
We're all just waiting for you to enlighten us. Go ahead, show us what you've got :-)
I recognize my bias towards community colleges is impacted by the fact that I grew up in a small, isolated community with a major R&D institution.

My chemistry, math, and physics teachers excelled in their field and taught night classes because they wanted to. This was much better then the university classes taught by people who just wanted to research or who were too caught up in all the theory to figure out how to explain concepts.
> Texas is not part of the US federal government, not even a subset.

And the government of Newfoundland and Labrador is neither a part of, nor a subset of, the Canadian federal government. As recent as the 1949 it was an entirely separate country. It is a latecomer to the Canadian Confederation.

America is not unique in its federalism.

> Canada is under a single sovereign, with the provincial governments being smaller pieces without absolute authorities.

This is completely incorrect. In point of fact, Provinces have more power than the federal government (and, in practice, more power than states do in the US). Section 33 of the charter devolves power to override the federal constitution or acts of the federal parliament to provincial legislatures. This so-called not-withstanding clause effectively grounds British-style parliamentary supremacy at the provincial level.
I have heard before that the Z-buffer was not actually usable on the N64 due to a design flaw. I forget the details, but one of the wikipedia pages about the N64 mentions this:

"The Z-buffer could not be used because it alone consumed the already constrained texture fill rate."

-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_64_programming_charac...

I vaguely remember a technical analysis on the N64 that explained using the Z-Buffer had such a dramatic negative impact on performance, that only a very small handful of games actually used it. The general theme of the technical analysis was that the N64 had a lot of "features" that had a massive performance impact to use, so many of them went unused.

If I remember correctly -- most games implemented their own pseudo z-buffer in microcode, which is why a lot of games on the N64 have issues with textures popping through each other incorrectly -- Goldeneye's bullet hole textures stick out in my mind as a good example of this.

However, I'm trying to find the analysis, and I'm not having any luck. Maybe I'm just remembering things incorrectly.
Hanjin doesn't really qualify as a "smaller player", do they? So, it seems to indicate any shipping company could end up in trouble, if the sixth largest in the world can fail so catastrophically in such a short time. Given the size of the expenses involved, and how thin the margins are (particularly in a market that has more capacity than cargo), it seems like it's not easy to predict who will be solvent six months or two years out; I imagine the contracts are negotiated on a relatively long time-scale, since these voyages take weeks in the best of cases.
Yes, they also need the money to fund their lobbying and fake grassroots.

One campaign cost 8 million.

https://www.fastcompany.com/3059975/how-airbnb-turned-its-ho...
Thankfully "messing" isn't the word I would choose for most market participants but you're describing the algorithmic game theory that goes into designing a good execution algorithm.
Four years running Server Check.in
> This is a mess because Hanjin's top management was in denial about the possibility of bankruptcy. Just like the typical startup.

Just like pretty much anybody. Everyone keeps hoping against hope, everyone is afraid to show weakness, and nobody likes to tell the boss no. Typically the staff knows for months that the end is nigh until some minor event precipitates the final undeniable crisis.

Megan McArdle has some interesting things to say about this in her book "The Up Side of Down." Chapter 5 is about handling crises (in general) and the GM failure (in particular).

"Wagoner [the head of GM] seemed to believe that by not admitting GM might declare bankruptcy, he could somehow keep it from happening. What he thought would take place when the company ran out of cash is not clear. Nor is it clear why his executives and his board of directors nodded and said 'Yes, Rick' rather than insisting that he confront reality. Instead, they helped him sustain his delusion by formulating a mad plan to merge with Chrysler, as if strapping together two nearly bankrupt auto firms would somehow make both of them solvent."

https://www.amazon.com/Up-Side-Down-Failing-Success/dp/01431...
Firefox version here: (you know, if you're not a hip snake-person who uses Chrome)

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/millennials-t...
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The article states that around $200 million is expected to go to a repurchase or secondary sale from current employees. This seems like a nice thing that airbnb might have to regularly do from here on out.

But yeah, the core of your question still stands.
a passion filled life is also just a slow march towards death.
I know a lot of people who do that.. politicians, judges, police, people on the internet.. Though, journalists and writers have a wider reaching platform.
If you've got a lock on calculus, programming, and linear algebra, then you've got the skills to understand deep learning. Most time spent working on DL is not in the megamath part, it is in finding good network structures to optimize results.
Does NSA tapping Google's fiber count:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-24751821
Not entirely. As you know, public companies fluctuate heavily on other factors than just financial news. Something like a summary judgment in New York or California that negatively impacts AirBnB's business could send it for a spiral. It is likely more responsible to stay private until they feel they have solid footing with the regulatory environment. Private investors are clearly willing to give them a huge valuation knowing these events will likely turn out to be positive, and as long as employees are able to get liquidity, might as well stay private for now.

They do seem to be spending aggressively on growth (and legal) so I suspect you are half right in that they are probably losing a lot of money.
I should have never created that rocketmail account.
You can run this model on a RasberryPi.

Training is another matter.
Nitpick: "White" is too coarse-grained for the North End; it's an ethnically mixed area near the end of gentrification, with SWPL elites displacing the native South Italians...
IPO is a one-time event. You gotta wait for the best perfect timing. I don't think its financial suck. It might not be the best shape at this moment.
Ultimately what you want to do is de-risk the potential investment by showing that you have significant traction, and having actual paying customers is a great way to do that.
It's an Uber joke.

...right?
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HN also seems to dislike the New Yorker's writing style. They tend towards more narrative than informative/dry.
Anybody know its previous valuation before the $555M?
It's not so much about scale as about characteristic types. If you find that the air defenses were suppressed with anti-radiation missiles that the US doesn't sell much or at all, that makes it reasonable to find US involvement more likely than the bombs just having come off an F-16's racks does. That's just as true whether one such missile was used, or one hundred.

(In military parlance "suppress" usually means not specifically to destroy, but to render ineffective. For example, at the infantry level, "suppressing fire" isn't intended specifically to kill members of an enemy formation, but rather to make them keep their heads down so as not to die, rather than doing something useful like actively opposing a move by another of your fire teams. In the case of anti-air defenses being suppressed to clear the way for an air attack, though, the tool of choice is going to be a standoff anti-radiation missile; see "Wild Weasels" for more detail on how it's done.)
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That quote is referring to a game that runs at a 640x480 resolution. According to a quick search, most N64 games including Mario 64 run at 320x240 which reduces the fill rate requirements by a factor of 4. That would leave plenty of room for using the Z-buffer along with texture sampling.
It's very exciting to notice a needed gap in the market that you could fill - you could make a difference. Passion can follow opportunity.

I liked this: "follow your contribution"
Elon has announced that with autonomous driving, you could send your car to transport passengers around and earn you the money. It's still based on traditional car ownership model, probably because the cost of Tesla cars. Spiri and Amber are startups that are introducing new ownership models.
Some of the requirements they list are pretty unique to github since they serve .git to git clients as well as http to http clients (which is what most SaaS companies do). Like a very long running git clone from someone with slow internet not having its connection dropped.
One of the highlights in this release for me are the Review Apps and the autoscaling CI on Kubernetes. Questions are welcome.
see my (late) follow up comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12559900
Taking all of that as given... when law enforcement sees illegal activity from an IP address, what are they to do? Use a search warrant to gather more specific evidence? Or just give up?
> What alternative reality do you live in? A short unsubstantiated single sentence-fragment from an unnamed, untitled support employee on a random fucking forum is not a "precise statement".

Ahhh, the anti-conspiracy theorist who doesn't want to see a spade in front of him.

You have an employee at a company who has given a very short, to-the-point, precise reason as to why they can't do something. This hasn't been through an edit filter, been past lawyers or anyone else who has seen this as a problem. It's an honest statement that they probably didn't think would blow up into anything major.

> But the company issues AN ACTUAL PRESS RELEASE describing the technical reasoning... and you're just willing to completely dismiss and ignore that?

They're not going to admit that they couldn't do this because they had an agreement with Microsoft in an 'official' statement are they, you idiot?

> What the "buggy, fake drivers" are you talking about? Just making shit up now?

You haven't the faintest idea what they are talking about. 'Fake RAID' drivers (do try reading) are well known to be incredibly buggy because the RAID implementation is not in software in the OS or in hardware, it's shoehorned into the driver. The are not well tested or well maintained. Linux doesn't have these drivers....because it just doesn't need them. It already has a perfectly good RAID implementation of its own.

> Are you REALLY contending that the NVMe devices don't work better under RAID mode, despite the fact that it's a widely researched and accepted fact with whitepaper to boot?

What a load of utter dogshit. Single disk systems are run under AHCI for very good practical reasons. If you have multiple disks, then you can go ahead and look at various RAID implementations. I also wish people luck if they ever want to image their disk for recovery or try and read it in any other system.

> Please stop, this is embarrassing. Go troll somewhere else.

No, you're embarrassing yourself because you haven't the faintest idea what you are talking about and obviously haven't read what's been written.
Yes, absolutely. There's a reason that growing the food in another country and shipping it is still cheaper than growing it locally. All those energy costs get compounded together in the final cost of the product, and typically being cheaper means it cost less energy. (There are other factors that come into play of course, like farm subsidies.)
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Why do you want to avoid multicast?
No. Saved you a click.
I can't upvote this enough. "From first principles" is the only way to master something -- math, programming, automotive maintenance, whatever.

There aren't ever that many foundational principles to a field of a study, but if you understand them -- really understand, until it becomes intuitive -- you're 80% the way to being an expert.
I'm pretty sure he's saying that they made it too easy to read, at the expense of being easy to write (with the premise that these are opposite ends of a spectrum stated above)
If we take your "nothing" to mean "nothing practical" to do with oil, then you are completely correct.

If a boat could be operated for free, then overcapacity wouldn't matter, just ship boats underloaded. Of course there are costs so that notion is silly. I suspect he thought that fuel costs were among the biggest costs in shipping. I bet licensing and legal fee are the biggest costs, then I bet personnel cost come in second, then boat maintenance, then somewhere below that oil.
I've recommended teams that have been accepted, and recommended teams that have been rejected. It's really just another data point to consider, not a golden ticket.

And it certainly can't hurt to network with YC alumni, for reasons beyond just getting a rec.
I was discussing this once with the maintainer of an MIT licensed scientific software. The solution in the end IIRC was to require all first-time contributors to agree in writing to a Contributor Agreement that states (among other things) that all code submitted to the project would be licensed under the project license.

It's not much of an obstacle really, just whenever someone submits a PR for the first time, say "I'll look at your code and comment anything that may need improvements. Also, you have to agree to these conditions [link]."

Is this a suboptimal solution?
Often. But you want to back it up with a blanket invalidation and password deletion after some grace period, to deal with the case where the user just never logs back in - and a password reset process outside the auth flow, to handle anyone who comes back after that.
Did you ever get your money back?
Somehow, no! Will check it out. Thanks!
Funny enough, the word ketchup comes from Southeast Asian/southern Chinese fermented fish sauce. After it became popular among European sailors after 1600, the word was coopted to refer to a wide variety of different sauces, because Europeans didn’t have any idea how to make the original sauce. The modern American ketchup is a descendent of a descendent of a cheap European knockoff of expensive imported Chinese fish sauce. :-)

This lecture is great: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iYwUh1Hdho
:) We're not doing this better.

We're struggling with our load balancers right now. We're using Azure load balancers and then HAproxy. But the Azure ones sometimes don't work. Luckily the new network type on Azure supports floating IPs so we can set something up ourselves https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/infrastructure/issues/466
I started by ruling out things I did not want. I followed my passion of getting away from things I dislike.

When I hear people talk about passion I always view that as a starting point. I dont take it to mean all you need is passion.
Awesome interview.

The other comments reminded me of this fan-made video of an Unreal Engine-powered Super Mario 64. It's stunning.

https://youtu.be/VUKcSiAPJoQ

Note: keep playing past 0:50 - it's not just the non-Mario environment.
Increased engagement!
> Self-driving RVs

That is actually not a terrible idea!
It's only reality because it's policy, which can change.
Still a cool extension DICK
You shouldn't touch these licenses unless you're a professional.

I'm no lawyer either, but I believe that clauses such as "use of this software constitutes agreement to" change its nature from a license grant to a contract.

I have no idea what the practical difference could be, but I don't want to find out, either.

Additionally, making changes in licenses makes it harder to reuse code. The license may be incompatible or it may just run afoul of procedures in larger organizations who sometimes have whitelists of approved licenses.
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A company I worked for did the same, they raised some money and used some of it to purchase a portion of the employees' vested equity. In other cases the company's major investors were willing to tender to purchase employee equity to increase their stake.
> would I rather be rich and bored, or poor but living the dream?

I'd rather be rich because it's impossible for me to be bored. Probably that's why I'm poor.
You're the one publicising him and funnelling traffic to his blog, but, hey, ho.
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and you could call a cab too but you might use Uber if their booking process is better.
Iterative approach to writing SQL in Postgres
Yahoo are forever having security breaches. I think people kind of take it for granted.
Andy Gavin wrote several extended articles on the making of the original Crash Bandicoot. IIRC correctly, Dave contributed to a few of the articles,, or at least his contributions are mentioned pretty heavily.

http://all-things-andy-gavin.com/2011/03/12/making-crash-ban...
The same logic used by cperciva can be used here:

> If 95% of applications are from pre-revenue companies, then the 50/50 split between acceptees which are with/without revenue would indicate that companies with revenue are 19x more likely to be accepted

Replace revenue with referral.
There's a kernel-mode component here too - Dokan.sys I think. It's the equivalent to fuse.ko. I imagine a bug in FUSE could cause a kernel panic as well.
Yes I did eventually get all the money reimbursed. They told me it was some sort of a glitch in the receipts system :\.
I think people are downvoting me because they don't like the idea that Trump and Hillary are neck and neck in the polls.

I am fairly certain his saying "dumb and offensive things" is a huge part of his success. Where I am Trump has about 60% of the voters. When I talk to people they say they like the idea of the wall or that they do want muslims banned. These are each dumb and offensive and as far as I can tell the reason people in my area support Trump.

Whether or not you support Trump, if you understand what he is saying, they are objectively (or at least not much room for subjectivity) dumb and offensive.
Honestly no offence meant, but you won't be very good in your connections.
You won't know the right people, the alumni or professors or generally all the actually important people that will give you massive leg ups if you want to start a company.

As for learning? Your peers won't challenge you, you'll be exposed to easier lessons, to easier concepts, you won't really get challenged at all. When I was keeping up with this stuff, in the UK the shit unis taught Java, the good ones Lisp or Python. The whole ethos is different. A friend of mine got a 1st (best degree in UK) from the 2nd tier University he went to.

But he couldn't remotely handle complicated code written by our literally genius colleague (I've honestly never met someone so insanely good again in 15 years). He was not anywhere near 1st material in a real top-tier university. He would have been lucky to get a 2:2.

I know someone who did the 2nd tier route and who is genuinely good. He, perhaps like you, is the exception, not the rule.
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I know that it's not, I just said that I like it better than the two-factor auth that I use elsewhere. If I need to pull out my phone; its just easier to click my notification and click "approve", than to go to Authy to get the 6 digit code, and type it in to my computer.
Easier, but more expensive and much more polluting.
If I remember correctly there was another study a few years back in europe (by Prof Raedler?) which was not as effective. Will try to dig it up tomorrow, I'm too sleepy right now.
Just to clarify my previous statement. I didn't mean to imply that zlib or MIT require you to distribute your source. I meant that if you are distributing your source code (for reasons other than any requirement from zlib or MIT licenses), then it's not too much of an additional burden to include the zlib license attribution, because you'd already be including the files that I had licensed under zlib, and each of those files has a little header saying it's licensed under zlib. Including the zlib license is then not much more work than including another source file from the project.

The way I've seen MIT interpreted most often is that you have to distribute the license and attribution even for binary only distribution, or distribution in binary form as part of a larger work.

But you're right the language does seem kind of vague on what "The Program" actually means.
Congratulations on being the outlier!