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I wouldn't really equate Google Glass with Heads up Display glasses as most people imagine them. I'm not sure if you've used it, but it sounded super cool until I tried it. You don't see the image on Glass on the lenses themselves but on a little transparent rock that's attached to the glasses.. it was a pretty underwhelming experience to me
There is a cost to playing, there is a cost to not playing; welcome to reality. At some point we've done so much damage for so long, that there is no real winning move left.

Zugzwang.
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If it is like many of their old games, it's just packaging a dos emulator with the game, giving you a single click experience.
> a single (or small set) of customers (Google, Youtube etc)

Well, the applications inside Google are equally diverse compared to applications running on AWS, or at least on the same level. Google's infrastructure is used for an extremely wide range of use cases, from running a shell command remotely, to support planetary deployment of world's largest customer-facing applications.

It was not designed for simple or uniform use cases. Actually, it is impossible to design something that is simple and uniform, and at the same can support Google's growth on the way.

Your examples, Google (search), youtube, are actually examples that have extremely diverse requirements across their entirely tech stack. In fact, many of its requirements cannot be supported in any existing public Cloud providers.
It's not a classic example until you can establish that it's an example.
Does that mean you can train yourself to have perfect pitch?
Totally fair point. haskell.org has a very . . . casual approach to presenting the language. It's been such an issue some people made an alternate homepage at haskell-lang.org.
I think that probably depends on your sources of information.
that watch is gorgeous... I'm drooling. But I can't get over the $950 price tag for a quartz watch.
> Google's self-driving tech is years and years ahead of Tesla's.

Source?
Garry and Initialized have been amazing to work with. So happy for you and can't wait to see what awesome companies you invest in next...
I knocked one of those quartz desklamps over on my bed when I was asleep. Set the blanket on fire, caused it to melt. Fortunately, I was awakened before I was injured. Not sure if that would count, though.
Ehw. Yeah, I sort of assumed that you had a top level function / IIFE (in a .js file, FWIW) in which the var's were nested.

Somebody writing stuff, into the global namespace, directly in <script> tags, has bigger problems :-)
People go for the heat because it's fun.

In my refrigerator right now I have a variety of hot sauces ranging from ~100,000SHU (Scoville Heat Units[1]) to 1,500,000SHU.

The 1.5M sauce is way, way, WAY too hot to eat regularly, but it is kindof fun to put it on something and then see if you can get through it or not.

I would put it in the same vein as playing two podcasts at the same time and seeing if you can comprehend them both. It's stupid, but it's just silly to see if you can do it.

[1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoville_scale
Garry, this is a big fund. What can you do for founders with a large fund that you can't do with a small one?
The idea set forth by the parent poster is that America's does a lot of good, more so than any other country---not that the good is outweighs the wrong.

I think it is reasonable. The US international involvement far surpasses any other countries, which gives it a lot more chances to do right (and wrong).
Because after four years of war the number of people in Eastern Aleppo isn't even close to the pre-war population. The media says, 250,000 to 300,000. Probably more like a tenth that currently.

Meanwhile there is 1 to 1.4 million people in Western Aleppo.
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That might be, I don't know when they would have started to break but they were extremely late if ever. But perhaps it was well within the reaction time I set (350ms), for me it's easy to think they just kept driving because I saw them coming from afar.
"You said it yourself, "The guy revealed government programs that ANYONE who cared to look knew existed decades before.""

I preempted a lot of the Snowden and TAO leaks in my writing on Schneier's blog. I also studied the NSA far back as Puzzle Palace and declassified documents that existed before. The Snowden revelations were not all stuff you'd find studying NSA.

Originally, NSA revelations showed they did what they could to keep Americans out of the collection process. Echelon, for instance, mainly targeted international calls with most of the SIGINT setup outside of the U.S.. Post-9/11, the government's position on NSA and Patriot Act was NSA was getting metadata with FBI targeting individual suspects with NSL's and warrants for "people." Far as foreign spying, Americans figured it was mostly on enemies with allied stuff just keeping fair playing field. Tice leaks showed they were vacuuming up data on all Americans. The Tice and AT&T room leaks indicated they were vacuuming up lots of data which NSA tried to downplay. Drake revealed bad management and oversight at the NSA plus showed what would happen to internal whistleblowers. Binney then told courts and media around 2012 that NSA intercepted all kinds of communications including American emails. That they were collecting everything instead of targeting people.

Now, in 2012, Americans are starting to get the big picture but still claims of 2 or 3 people NSA tried to prosecute as traitors. Then Snowden, claiming inspiration from them, leaks all the specific methods they're using which changes everything. They can no longer deny what they were doing at this point because their own files contradict their lies. That's from domestic all the way through disasters like Belgian networking getting taken down that go way past just keeping tabs. We also find the FISA warrants were targeting criteria applied to whole population's communications instead of warrants for specific accounts or people. Although effective INFOSEC didn't really change, there was a widespread adoption of encryption following the leaks that reduced bulk surveillance a bit plus lots of legal responses that needed information specific to Snowden leaks.

So, there was a huge difference before and after Snowden despite him not being first to tell us they were vacuuming up everything domestic. None of this was obvious for most Americans or easy to prove before Snowden. I guessed most of the attack vectors but even I wasn't sure what they were hitting. It was more "they could do it so we should probably close the hole anyway."
As mtmail said, there seem to be a lot of people that hate them. But then again, there's lots of people who hate BigCorp and its culture. There's lots of people who hate government IT and its culture.

I've been a software person for a long time, and I've learned that there's no perfect environment. Some are less toxic than others, though. And which ones are "less toxic" isn't necessarily a function of whether it's a startup (though there may be a higher fraction of people who don't know how to manage - or even how to be a grownup - in the start up world).

If you're in a reasonably sane and healthy environment, don't casually leave it. A better deal may be much harder to find than you think.
Rio? I had one too. Thought it was the coolest thing ever. I coukdn't wait to get the 64mb "expansion pack"
Not sure if that's the one being used but I found https://github.com/lord/slate and it looks very similar. Check it out.
This seems plausible to me, but Rob is known for being pretty hostile to clever ideas for "fixing" Go.

I really like the idea of using make instead of new, following the familiar ergonomics of the function ("create a variable of this type").
I think it's kindof funny that people somehow associate Mexican and Indian food with being spicy. I almost think it scares them off of trying some of those dishes.

In my experience, Mexican food is rich, but not spicy. Same thing with (some) Indian food. Maybe I'm trying the wrong food, though? I've only traveled in western India (Maharashtra). I would love some recommendations for dishes to try!

BBQ (from the US) is the hottest food I have ever found. Mexican and Indian food barely registers compared to that stuff.
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What a lovely comment to see on HN regarding the genocidal suppression of a popular revolt. I suppose it's very tempting to falsely equivocate both sides when you have a tendency to distrust your own government.
Anecdotally, it definitely helps to speed things along to recovery. I also find spicy food ironically helps in very hot, dry weather.
It's a disguise of neutrality. They don't talk about the rebels or who they are or what they do, but miss no chance to vilify the Syrian and Russian governments. You see how it's not neutrail at all? The revolution is grossly misrepresented in mainstream Western media. The pro democracy protests of 2011 are very long gone. It''s become foreign powers using jihadis to topple Assad long ago. The coverage has lagged several years now and refuses to acknowledge the facts on the ground.

The only reason there has been a response and coverage of ISIS is because of terrorist attacks in the west. As far as what is happening in Syria, ISIS is not particularly worse than most of the rebels in Idlib and Aleppo.
That's a re-write of history.

The Roosevelt administration Congress has approved the Lend-Lease act which meant active involvement in Europe with armaments, active naval combat in the North Atlantic, and ground troops in Iceland. The US had started building a 'two ocean' Navy almost two years before Pearl Harbor. Pearl Harbor was a final gift to the Roosevelt administration's multi-year program of full mobilization.

This program of support and mobilization absolutely was in response to events in Europe and a desire to see the UK in particular not fall. Note that when the US did enter the war, the Pacific was designated the secondary theater of operations.
Against EUR it is not doing THAT bad (but still BAD), but we were over 1.30 in GBPEUR and now we're 1.12 (and hit lows of 1.10 and even 1.09).

For me that causes a problem as I'm saving for a house in the continent, which I have to pay in EUR, now that I might have to leave the UK as my status is not guaranteed: https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2016-10-19/debates/F13...
MacOS is not designed for touch-based computing. It's interesting that Microsoft's merging of tablet+desktop metaphors might finally be paying off (after 4 years!) - but I can't imagine app support is that good outside 1st party apps. Plus you still have/need a trackpad, right?

Where do you find touch to be usable?
I feel very lucky to have had an opportunity to work with Garry and Initialized. They are incredibly helpful investors and I expect big things to come from the new fund.
In my experience it's the provincials, the types who like to think they're cultural and worldly but aren't, that typically go bananas for the hottest peppers.

When I was in university I noticed it tended to be the guys with inferiority complexes that were the ones to bring up how hot they like their food, and would try to work it into conversation.

Spice/heat is a meme.
What sauces exist that at 5M+? If you're talking about pure capsaicin extract that you have added to your own food (essentially making your food into a sauce), then you aren't eating anything that is 5M SHUs, since that is not how the scale works.
Wow, it has been years since I've been to this site. Thank you!

I used to customize this ticketing system. It was Peregrine Service Center before HP bought it. And we had a George too. Ah... the memories
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More likely there isn't one single true answer to this question - it's open to different interpretations.
Get yourself some "miracle berries" for something similar (although without the heat involved).
This "pro" version is different than the one they offer on their site. Pro Font Awesome VS Pro Fort Awesome. Fort Awesome already includes many of the features in Font Awesome 5.
I hope Al Qaeda capitulates quickly to reduce civilian casulties, the Syrian government forces capture the city and restore stable government.
Congrats Garry -- I just wanted to chime in with others to say that Garry was an incredible investor in our seed round -- always helpful, and has been very loyal in good times and bad. If you can work with him I highly recommend it.
This is fantastic news for founders.
Survata (S12) was pumped to have Initialized in our Series A last year. Garry worked the closest with us of all YC partners, and Alexis had already been a customer! They make valuable customer intros, always offer time to help, and have such a pro-founder view of the world.
You repeat a popular misinterpretation of the central dogma. The term was coined by Crick^, and actually says that once the information in nucleic acid goes into protein, you can't get it back out again.

So if you want to diagram it, it would be DNA/RNA --> Protein, where the arrow represents information flow.

Note that (rather ironically!) it was actually Watson who popularized the misinterpretation, in his college textbook. The reason I point this out is that there are many known violations of the Watson version of the central dogma, but none of the Crick version.

Also, I'd take issue with your claim that genes are like a blueprint. I'd say they're more like a recipe, as stated in the article (and I think your comment implies this anyway).

The larger point (that the article mostly ignores) centers around human vanity: we're actually not really much more complicated than many other species, especially our close relatives like the apes. Most of the differences between us and them are developmental, and you don't need many genes to produce such changes.

^ Crick 1956, 'Ideas on Protein Synthesis'. http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/SC/B/B/F/T/_/scbbft.pdf
Adrian is an amazing guy.

Truly knowledgeable. Humble. Technically deep. I've never worked FOR him but I've heard several times how good of a boss he is.

This is a great win for AWS.
There may be some interplay with Impostor Syndrome, but IMO what is being discussed here is a different thing, for which there may be a more specific name... but if so I'm unaware of it.

Impostor syndrome is pretty much universal (insomuch as it crosses class/economy boundaries) whereas what has been mentioned here is a sort of anti-entitlement very specific to people who grew up poor. People in this situation are often afraid to ask for what they are worth (to the point where they will sabotage their careers to some degree as noted in Gustomaximus post), are generally afraid of authority even when there is no reason to be or the authority isn't actually an authority over them, etc.

I've definitely seen and experienced this phenomenon myself speaking as someone who grew up fairly poor -- single-mom American poor (which, as all things are relative, is quite different than seriously-might-starve poor... at least for now).
Agreed. I expect in a few months we're going to see a serious effort at unpopular, albeit necessary, reform to the ACA.
Pretty much anytime I see coverage (to be fair I'm watching BBC, reading things other than CNN or the like) it makes it clear that there are no good guys here, just various forms of victims and victimizers. If there's one steady factor I've noted across all sources though, it's the inability or lack of willingness to connect this incredible surge in violence and instability across North Africa and the Middle East to climate change and drought.

The "Arab Spring" was just part of that; people who couldn't work, couldn't feed themselves or their families. It was always going to go downhill, but people love their narratives of hope.
Between his time at Sun and Netflix, Cockcroft has had massive influence on architectural development practices over the past decade and a half. I'd say that his influence is more on par with folks like Wirth, Hoare and the GOF. Not nearly as obvious as the guys and gals whose influence was reified in hardware products, but still huge.
> If I want to use the touch screen, I tap it without looking to bring up the controls, wait a second, and then they're in basically in the same place they've always been.

I've never sat in a Tesla but that sounds crazy. Why would they want to hide everything away? Aesthetics?
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They obviously don't care. Outside of the tech crowd people don't have a clue. And worse, they don't want to care.
I think demand will be less affected in the short term as EU nationals might be starting consider offers outside the UK (uncertainty + low GBPEUR).

My anecdotal data has a count of 2 people having accepted offers to leave between the Brexit vote and now, both citing Brexit as a reason. Partly from the feeling rejected side, partly from the pragmatic point of view.
Oberon is mind boggling, in all respects. You can download the emulator (<5mb total). It is SDL2 based so runs like a stand alone app, no VirtualBox or QEMU needed. Then you can get and compile Lola-2, the Verilog pre-processor compiler from Prof. Wirth. Now you can literally compile the RISC5 processor "chip" itself which runs on the FPGA!! Just use the output .v files from Lola-2 and compile with the Xilinx toolchain. Next you can compile the "Oberon OS" quite simply by hand in a few minutes. With a compile script the complete OS compiles in 10 seconds.

Then why not finish off with PICL, the language/compiler for the PIC16. Includes the uploader. All in <700 lines of Oberon code. The best part is the amazing tutorials/documentation. Some amazing finds at Prof Wirths personal site. https://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/

This has to be the most jam packed tutorial you could ever hope for:
https://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/PICL/PIC.pdf
I worked at a Fortune 50 and we hired a lot of interns.

After I left, I thought back on the kids we hired, how talented they were, and what they went off to do afterwards.

The 'rich kids' were better prepared, more responsible, better communicators, had a better sense of the vision for the company and the consequences of what we were doing.

'College education' is surely causative to some degree, but in America, most wealth is not inherited, and those parents who can afford 'activities' for their kids are probably far, far better parents than others. It's not the 'activities' that I think develops the kids, I think it's the very fact that these parents are investing a lot of time and energy in their kids, teaching them positive behaviours that matters much more.

I wish I had the link but I read a study a while back that showed that 'rich parents' were far more conscientious than other parents.

I don't doubt that money is a big advantage, as well as social class, but it would be foolhardy to think that these are the fundamental issues.

Rich kids are posited as 'brats' in films and TV because it's populist - most viewers are not rich. And of course - those douches exist. By by enlarge, upper-middle class kids are great. I would bet they make better players than otherwise on average.

I should also point out that kids from communities wherein they were not seen as lower class - i.e. rural communities, seem to have decent dispositions as well, and at least by the numbers, they didn't have a lot of money. But it doesn't cost a lot to have a stable home / good parents out in the sticks.
The soviets did kill children with bombs shaped like toys. Those bombs were called the PFM-1. They may not have done this intentionally, but they absolutely did do it.
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This is ridiculous hyperbole. The only people engaging in genocidal activities are the Sunni rebels who have massacred villages of non-Sunnis. No action taken by the government was ever targetted a specific ethicity or religion. That is why it is still supported by every cut of Syrian society. Sunnis, shias, druze, christians, kurds, etc. Have you ever considered that the coverage you have consumed may be misrepresenting the war in order to push an agenda?
These videos can be done for lot less than 6 figures - avg branded video is 15-25k.
A bigger map is the main benefit that I see.
Most games developers won't touch GPL3, why not LGPL? Also should games engines really have *Player.cpp/.h files?
Why aren’t we holding manufacturers of connected devices accountable?
The review has to be looked at in its context. If the sales figures on Wikipedia are correct, the device he reviewed sold just 236,000 units in Q1-Q3 of 2002. Apple didn't sell more than a million iPods in a quarter until 2004, at which point the full-size device had 4x the storage, a click wheel, support for Windows, and a color screen (optional); the Mini was then in its second generation.
I used Kotlin for basically all of our machine learning/classifier code in a pretty large map/reduce + storm pipeline and have had no problems.

IntelliJ also does not seem to have any problem with it either. (The IntelliJ authors being the the creator of Kotlin)
In terms of code size, Kotlin is definitely smaller and easier to maintain.
In terms of raw/clean compile speed, I would expect it to be a bit slower, but there are ways to improve it. One of the bigger ways is via incremental builds. I.e. Only build changed chunks of code, which Kotlin supports, and is comparable to, and in some cases faster than Java: https://medium.com/keepsafe-engineering/kotlin-vs-java-compi...

In terms of executable size, I don't have good data, but will investigate, but I'd say likely not a major deterrent given all the other value adds. :)
Since they have so few models in production, the title is pretty accurate...
Garry is an amazing investor and a great advisor! Wishing these guys the best of luck!
Based on the fact that there hasn't been any known AI encouter during human written history, that we haven't found any AI artifact of such an event, even in a distant past, .... , and that anyway, if an AI civ is advanced enough to explode exponentially we can't really hope to do anything againts that, there is indeed no need to spend time worrying about that.
Garry is an amazing investor and advisor! Wish these guys the best of luck.
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It was less.
There are lots of small seed funds now! And many of them are new. This way we can lead seed rounds and so when a founder gets our money, they know they'll be done soon (lots of smaller investors will follow on quickly) and will be able to get back to work faster.

Fundraising is always the worst, so anything that helps founders get done faster is the right thing.