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It really depends on the game genres you like.

For example, I like fighting games, and that's why I bought the 3DS (even though you can count them all on both hands). Street Fighter IV was one of the early launch games for the 3DS and holds up surprisingly well.

Meanwhile in the Switch announcement, Capcom announced a rehash of the older 2D Street Fighter II, which is a less than impressive announcement. At least the Wii U got Tekken Tag Tournament 2.

If I didn't just buy a GPD Win recently (which plays the Windows Steam versions of SFIV and Street Fighter x Tekken among others at close to 60fps @ 720p in a 3DSXL-like form factor), I would still choose my 3DS for fighting games over the Switch for the foreseeable future. I still play my 3DS a lot because I somehow started playing Pokemon for the first time (Sun/Moon) and got hooked on it.

I actually pulled the trigger on the my GPD Win a couple of weeks after being disappointed with the Switch webcast. It basically killed any remaining desire I had to get a Switch, but as I mentioned earlier, it all comes down to the genres you play and which platforms serve them the best.
I think it's more apt to say that with automation that increases in sophistication the fewer labor hours you will need to maintain it and it's successive replacements. Meaning that absent a theoretical breakthrough in AI, we'll still see a permanent dislocation of labor across all sectors over time. It's just inevitable but how we deal with it isn't.
I'd just upgraded to Sierra and wasn't sure if color profiles for monitor had changed or something.
If the client sends incorrect Authorization you will still serve from the cache. This is insecure.
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"In practice it can also mean oligopolies, monopolies, rigged systems, and scams" - Pure capitalism has none of those things. What you are referring to is cronyism which increases proportionally to the size of the market. Regulation should in theory be used to keep markets of sufficient size in check but it's a double edged sword. Often times regulation creates even more cronyism since only the approved players can access a communal resource or service.
Youtube automatic captions aren't actually that bad last time I checked. They updated their algorithm recently (read: last couple of years) and on non-technical phrases it probably has about 95%+ accuracy with good audio quality.
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Yup. That's about it. I am going to start using that.

Consider your IP stolen.
Yet would those massive government killings of their own citizens not have happened if those citizens had guns? There are plenty of methods a government can use to kill large swaths of its population without ever coming in contact with said population, even a 100 years ago.
I suspect that the cost ($20 * 20000 videos = $400,000) is unpaletable.
He bases some of this on a "description of Pavlov’s last work in a popular paperback, written by some Rockefeller-financed psychiatrist". This is probably Battle for the Mind [1] by William Sargant [2].

The Wikipedia entry on Sargant says things like "his reliance on dogma rather than clinical evidence have confirmed his reputation as a controversial figure whose work is seldom cited in modern psychiatric texts.", and others "described him as 'autocratic, a danger, a disaster' and spoke about 'the damage he did'".

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Battle-Mind-Brainwashing-Evangelists-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sargant
Thank you for this! I coming up on graduation and am looking for my first job. Perhaps I am a narrow use case, but I would like to see a distance slider for the filter; I am looking to relocate to the SF area but I really don't care what city it is.

Also, it would be nice to see a little bit of information underneath the posting before you view the full ad: maybe show the "skills" section from AngelList?

Again, thanks! I already applied to FormSwift through your site.
This is not the first time deaf people have used the ADA to take down free educational materials, and it won't be the last. This is the same reason Stanford's cs231n was taken down as well. Luckily it was downloaded and re-posted by many people so it's still available, but future courses won't be.
Caching proxies are old hat. Things like squid have existed pretty much the entire lifespan of the web. Keeping things close to your servers means you don't have the inherent delay of pulling things from a remote server, regardless of how fast amazon makes things.

Additionally, not keeping all your eggs in Amazon's basket means you're not SOL when they have a datacenter hosting all your content go down. It also means that if and when a service that better fits your needs comes along, you are more readily able to migrate without problems.

Finally, site reliability is not something that takes a team the size of Amazon's. A lot of the things that are required for availability on AWS -- redundant systems providing services, standbys, etc -- are things that sysadmins were doing before AWS was extant. AWS' biggest gift to reliability is that its instances are less stable than most dedicated servers; you're taught from day one not to rely on a single server, so you build it right the first time.

So no, it's not hubris. It's calculating price/performance, it's applying things you're probably already doing to a new problem, and figuring out what the best solution really is, which rarely involves just throwing money at Amazon.
Surely they (Berkeley) could use some speech-to-text software to do this relatively well, easy, and free. There's also bound to be people who would have volunteered to do it for free so they didn't lose access.
Fortunately, I am top engineer and am on-call for what I implement and rely on. :) This is also why I build things in a way that don't add more risk to production infrastructure. If you'd read the post, you'd see that this is a strict improvement without risk on our side from introducing a new dependency.
> I don't disagree with most of your post--but in the land of the real, it is very difficult to say that vetting for refugees in the United States is not already an intensely strict process.

Agreed.

> The people asserting it's not are self-described nationalists who wish to stop immigration...or are sourcing what they're saying from them.

Here I disagree. A big chunk of it is people who think that nothing bad should ever happen, and if any refugee ever does anything bad, that proves that refugees are not adequately vetted, and we have to do something. They may then listen to the self-described nationalists, but that's not where they start.

And it seems to me that writing off all the people who disagree with you is not a winning strategy. (A whining strategy, perhaps, but that's not the same thing...)

You're going to have to persuade them, or you're going to have to live with them (and their votes). And you don't like the consequences of their votes.

> Because we are in a real bad place and the literal fascists are actually at the gates. And in the White House.

Yup. At least as advisors. (I'm not willing to place Trump himself in that literal category, at least not yet.)
TextMate had (has?) a "Copy as RTF" format which I used to use to copy code into slides. But, yes, more editors doing this is handy.
> Further, only Github has been given this waiver. Anyone else is still held to any requirement of attribution.

This convinced me.

I can release my code under GPL, and then sell it to someone else under different terms. It's my code, and I have copyright. I don't have to give the same permissions to everyone.

Likewise, just because I give Github certain permissions doesn't mean I have given the same permission to everyone else.
I'm not sure about contempt, I'd say indifference or apathy instead. I can only hope that efforts like YouTube's automatic captions get better because it'll I.prove the situation just by giving a cheap way to handle 90% of cases.
But why then, say "this is not legal advice" when you could instead say "I am a lawyer but I'm not your lawyer"?

Or how about "I'm not formally signing off on this statement as a product of my legal-professional persona, but you're free to take what I just wrote to another lawyer and get them to vouch for its veracity, which they probably will"?

I hear that in military and political contexts all the time—"I can tell you this as a friend, but not in my role as X, so go find some other X who's allowed to speak on it if you need formalization"—but I never hear it from lawyers. It always seems to be phrased more as "what I'm about to write is probably wrong and you should go to get your own lawyer who will tell you something entirely different."
All the unicorns are going to have valuations looked at again, which is going to make it hard for them to raise money, which is going mean they'll have to lay people off which is going to have ripple effects throughout the economy. Might not impact google much, but it'll hit amazon for sure as stuff like aws spending gets looked at.
I don't know if you are trolling, but I will bite.

You know the Netherlands will be literally underwater within this century, don't you?
1) There are some new funds popping up, like indie.vc, which don't subscribe to the "Uber or bust" model. Some accelerators, like 500 Startups, are also in that camp.

2) If you can bootstrap to enough revenue, you can try bank loans or things like http://www.saas-capital.com/

3) Unfortunately, the numbers don't work out for VCs if your goal isn't "$1b+ or bust." Almost all companies will exit for much, much less than $1b, but if there's no chance of $1b+ then there's basically no chance that a company will product very meaningful returns for its investors.
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The tiny effects claimed per genetic variant also call the scientific validity of the result into question. If you use a large enough sample and a broken enough null model, of course you're going to see "significant" effects.
Hi eduren, I'm on the VS Code team. The minimap this release is just a preview focused on getting the performance aspects of it right. You can read about what's to come at the bottom of the minimap section https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_10#_preview-minimap
> I'm not sure if I disagree with you, or if my perspective is this same perspective from a different angle, but: I would say that it's more that men tend to (expect to) derive their self-esteem from things they do, rather than things they are—so they invest much more time in doing things, and much less time in being things.

I agree, but that seems tangential to the point. It's a gender difference that has been constant throughout history, and seems arbitrary to want to change. It also doesn't fix the main problem. Making men more feminine will not make them more self-nurturing.

To illustrate, putting on makeup isn't self-nurturing, anymore than getting a haircut. It's not something that depends on your self-esteem, everyone does it. Binge-dieting is self-neglectful (the opposite of nurturing), and so obviously doesn't come from a position of high self-esteem. Being more obsessed about your appearance doesn't make you more nurturing of yourself physically. Again, women don't nurture themselves more than men. You could chalk up wives' willingness to go to the doctor as higher fear of potential negative consequences, rather than self-nourishment.

The question is how do you get men to care more about their health, remember. And changing society or "gender roles" isn't the solution.

> In order to "be" beautiful or to "be" athletic, it's usually a pre-requisite to be healthy

The assumption here is that women nurture themselves because they want to look good, I don't believe that at all. You'll nurture yourself because you'll want to do it, instinctively, without needing any willpower. A necessary condition for that is high self-esteem.

Put another way: if you want to learn better eye contact, you have two ways. 1st: practice better eye contact. 2nd: increase your self-respect. The 1st won't work. The 2nd, will, because it addresses the actual cause. I'm arguing that the same is true for men's health.
> If you really care about high availability, you want to bring all of the points of failure under your direct control.

This is what exactly I'm talking about. People can't accept that trying to control it is not in any way guaranteed to make it more highly available. Bringing points of failure under your control makes no innate guarantee of improving anything. It can easily make it worse.

The only thing it can do is let you blame yourself of blaming S3.

You can only be hardened for what you have anticipated or experienced before.

There are tens thousands of wall clock hours of operational experience w/ S3. Availability is one of the top concerns of all AWS.

Thinking you can be more available is just fooling yourself. Believing you are more available will entail a willful ignorance or distortion of metrics.

Do your engineers carry pagers and have a <15 minute engagement time? Do your engineers sit at home when they are on-call because they know they can't simply let a page slide because they were in the middle of dinner? Or is your company more lenient than Amazon when it comes to operations?

Do your engineers spend a quarter fixing some failure mode of your infrastructure, or are they too busy working on features?

Is your team's performance measured by availability of your service? Or your actual core business?
From what I've read, from former ycombinator founders, that if one person isn't in charge then people get stuck in decision paralysis. And that for instance if three people are equal partners, its always a game of alliances and two people ganging up against the other one.
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Releasing video of academic lectures is showing contempt for people with disabilities?
Or it shows it's a terrible law and total compliance with it results in terrible effects.
> the slowest it could be is probably the length of the actual lecture

Have you ever transcribed content? The length of the recording is the lower bound on time it takes to transcribe, not the upper bound.
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I find this funny. I've been told my voice sounds nice when I speak Norwegian, despite the errors (I don't think I'm fluent yet). I always somewhat assumed it was due to Norwegian being nearly song-like compared to English, but you might be onto something with the higher pitch.
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I thought it was apt. The only problem is that I myself imply that there's a such thing as a "good" slaver, but to assert that an employer is justified by their existence and corporate strategy to reduce their employees to chum is comparably distasteful.

GP's point at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13757973, where they illustrate a few externalized costs, which also seem reasonable to criticize, received pushback that companies don't have to do nothin' for their employees but reap the profits, which is a bad position to take, IMO.

People use the term "un-American" too much these days, but the person I was responding to went way beyond that into anti-civilization.

There is no way that the person I was replying to could possibly be a slaver, so I wasn't attacking them personally. I was connecting their position to that of slavers who would just as soon let their slaves die in the fields from overwork, dehydration, or any number of other things that "shouldn't be the boss' responsibility."
This would be pretty amazing, to have a shared base.

Considering the amount of Electron apps that I've now installed I must have at least a couple of gigabytes dedicated to just hundreds of copies of Chromium.
Ban??? Where do you get that idea?

Dreamhost gives you gigabytes of space even on the basic $9/month plan, and they add more storage over time until you basically have unlimited space.

The one thing they don't like is to use your account as a place to back up a 500 gig drive. You will get an automated warning if you do (based on my experience). The rule of thumb is use, don't abuse.
Whatsapp was privately valued at $19B by way of acquisition. Proactively buying growing competitors to defend a moat, even competitors with hundreds of millions of users, does not establish a valuation the same way an IPO does.

I don't have a strong opinion on Snap's IPO (I guess I hope it does well for industry health?) but I strongly push back on using private acquisitions as a barometer of IPO health.
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http://www.newsweek.com/2016/06/10/permafrost-greenhouse-gas...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_feedback

'runaway' is hard to predict, perhaps even hard to define, but we're getting a much better handle on climate change feedback mechanisms.
This is so awesome. I love the guys notes as well. Right on. Great work dude. Keep it up.
I may be wrong, but unfortunately I believe that the URLs will only work if you are authenticated as a Berkeley university user.
This made me laugh. For a long time, I felt like I could only speak like a child using Norwegian (my second language). It has improved, but there are things I still can't properly express.
Awesome. Right now the industry standard is to limit incoming mail to 25mb attachments. Once it becomes common place to accept larger sizes we can squash out these technological relics.
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Technically yes. But we're pretty accustomed to this level of risk. For something like this, the pros far outweigh the cons involved. Yeah, it could fail. The maintenance overhead of this is absolutely minimal and took a handful of hours to have tested and in production.

Also worth noting, that this isn't really a single point of failure as a system wide thing. It'd only be a single point of failure on that single node. So if haproxy decided to explode, only that one machine would have a problem momentarily, while the process got started back up with our process manager.

The worst case scenario is a human error where we ship a bad config and break everything.
I did something like this with our company, but it doesn't really do anything other than make round share counts. All that matters is the proportions between shareholders, not the number of unissued shares.
Not exact same article but also being discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13760405
Would it possible to provide more granular data(anonymized, of course)? What was the mean, median etc dilution for your seed investments? And same for when your portfolio companies go on to raise a Series A? Thanks!
A bit of both. Code still belongs in a class, not pictured here. `static` blocks are executed when the class is loaded and are usually used to fill `static final` members. In a toy example like this it's shorter than writing the `main()` incantation.
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The other consideration with raising a large round is that you are going to have a high valuation. If your company is awesome and growing really fast, this is no problem. However, if you overestimated your market and struggle to grow into that high valuation, you limit your options for a successful exit.
Hey! Love the product, but I'm out of the embedded game. Thought I'd give my $0.02:

The first step of our boot process was to enable the watchdog. We extend the timeout periodically during the boot process, but generally if userspace isn't reached within 30 seconds or so we reset. Once in userspace, the daemon validates that things look good (this includes things beyond just application of the update -- did services start up correctly? Is the hardware operating as we expect?) before disabling the watchdog and marking the update as a success, at which point rollback isn't possible. At this point we might consider applying new updates, etc.

We also modified our first stage bootloader to be resilient to bootloader update issues, and chainloaded our second stage bootloader from a stub which could rollback.

We also niced the update process to avoid resource contention, allowed the updates to be delayed until the network was quiet, and paused them when it became noisy to make for a good user experience. There was a server-side flag to force updates to apply regardless, with higher priority, as well as one to basically disable all other functionality in the case of a unforeseen serious, perhaps security related, issue.

We actually had a discrete watchdog service which was responsible for petting an always-on watchdog, to rescue the system if it locked up or became unresponsive (if certain processes were not running, or responding, the watchdog would not be pet).

All of this led to effectively 0 failures in the field, a seamless user experience (except for the 30-second reboot when inactive). I wish everything I owned worked this way.

I could talk ad nauseum about this stuff. It's very cool to see the designs of others. I feel this is an under appreciated and under explored problem space.
Ostensibly the National Association for the Deaf are aware of YouTube's automatic captions feature[1] by now.
I wonder if it's possible nobody informed them until after they filed the complaint?

I'll grant that on previous occasions YouTube's auto captions have been hilariously wrong, but these days it really seems to be more fully baked.

I was curious to see how well the feature worked on older videos, and tested a random CS lecture from 2008.[2] Captions were perfectly fine.

The caption feature rolled out September 2009. [3]

[1] https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6373554?hl=en

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMV45tHCYNI

[3] https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/automatic-captions-i...