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And theyve done that with some devs. rocket league obviously being the big one, where valve went to a linux dev and said "hey can you help port this"

And the point still stands that this is a future investment for them. They aren't pushing to make linux exclusive, they are pushing to make linux viable. Valve has ~360 employees. Linux has a ~1% gaming market share. If valve has even 4 employees working on Linux, they are essentially scaling their effort based on current income from the platform, whereas Sony/Microsoft get 100% of their income from a singular platform, so they spend 100% of their expenses on building that platform. If valve switched over and said "ok, all employees full bore on SteamOS, ignore windows", they would lose a LOT of money. Besides, the goal here isn't to make SteamOS "their" platform, they goal is to make gaming work on an open platform. Microsoft has to entice people with support in order to keep them locked in to their garden, Valve is trying to unlock the garden (to an extent).

if they want growth, they should spend more than just 1% on the platform, but people are acting like they are spending 0% on the platform. It's still improving and actively being worked on, but this is a big undertaking for a team of 4, OS updates, dev support, steam client, etc etc... And if the team is bigger than 4, then they are in fact spending more than 1% on a 1% market segment, which still proves the point of "they havent abandoned it, its just not growing at the 'right' pace in publicly obvious ways"
I have been really impressed by the quality of the releases lately. It has been interesting watching the changes after Tom Christie managed to become full time on it [0] (and the successful Kickstarter campaign [1]).

I would love to see this sort of funding become more common place.

[0]: https://fund.django-rest-framework.org/topics/funding/

[1]: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tomchristie/django-rest...
Foreign nationals killed in undeclared wars?
Feeling disgust while viewing the "Collateral Murder" video(good job with the title, wikileaks!) should not be a 'left' or 'right' thing.
Their customer support for GCP is top notch and they re-organized their entire support structure this year so each account has an account executive, SREs, etc. I've been very pleased the last year I've used GCP after migrating from AWS.

Before the reoganization I'd send in quota updates and they'd take 1-3 days. The last quota bump I did took 7 minutes.
Learning Chinese is not as big as an obstacle as you might think, especially when it's that or find a way to past US immigration and afford school + living in the USA. When I lived in Taiwan, I knew a tremendous amount of south american students that had come for the graduate programs because the schools were on-par with American universities, the cost of living was extremely low, and Taiwan is very open to immigration.

People are talking a lot about China in this thread, but I think Taiwan is the country to watch for. They already have a highly-educated population and are a major player in global high-tech hardware.
Take a look at your leader. He is figuratively Hitler and rapidly implementing full blown fascism. It wouldn't surprise me if Muslims are being hauled away by the trainload to secret labor camps before his term is done.
Of course it was their intent. You don't just accidentally release information like that.
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This is simply not true. Support for GCP works as expected.
Additional US troops enter Syria to help fight against ISIS
At least it's not phenolphthalein -- https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/phenolphthalein
My biggest gripe is the word 'wiki' in the name of the Wikileaks organization.
Instead of asking customers to give numeric star ratings, perhaps a better option would be a short list of Yes / No / Unsure questions. Were there clean sheets on the bed? Were there any cockroaches? Did the appliances work? Etc. Such questions are more objective and less prone to inflation.
Oh I forgot about that! That's a big thing going for them. I feel like half the projects I've worked on in the recent past could benefit from a graph database.
Don't get me wrong, I am not denying that CQRS/stream processing style approach is not useful for any application. Rather it is unsuitable for this particular problem.

In my experience all these features sound nice on paper. But you quickly run into practical issues that are far easier when you know approximate information about the state.

E.g. Developing a model? you might just want a subset/batch data. Doing BI/Analytics? are you going to continuously tax your server to recompute? The argument about recommender systems is also honestly flimsy, having built and applied such systems to live traffic at very large scale (more than hundreds of millions of users). There is only a small advantage from being able to quickly reconfigure flows. In most cases you have a single baseline model which you compare against for a small fraction of the traffic. The real complexity/gains in recommender systems lie in choice of algorithm/hyper-parameters/features, not on continuous multi armed bandits with 1000 different models applied simultaneously while waiting an infinite amount of time to produce any statistically meaningful answer. In fact for a website like this one, recommender systems can only provide so much advantage.

There are actually several really good specialized use cases, e.g. Google secmon-tools uses a system like this one.

[1] https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs259d/lectures/Session11.pdf
Respect to Chamath! I am disappointed there hasn't been much discussion in the community around why AirBnB founders did this. Is @sama in support of this wheeling and dealing in general. I am pretty sure he is not. What is YC's official stand and ethos around cashing out by founders without providing the same kind of liquidity to employees. Since AirBnB has been successful beyond anyone's wildest imaginations this event was either forgotten or didn't really make for a bad PR. We don't need for things to fail spectacularly before we do what is right.

I see YC and YC community in general bringing more transparency and fairness to the way startups are built and run. They need to set the tone and tenor about what is right and acceptable. I am looking forward to see constructive debate around this topic in the comments (or not, if I am totally off the mark here).
This looks like a worthy competitor to AWS Lambda, but I'm disappointed by the unalterable limit of 400 concurrent invocations of a function. (The "Quotas" page says "Max concurrent functions" is 400, with "Can be increased" as "No." https://cloud.google.com/functions/quotas)

One of the cool things about AWS Lambda is that you can use it as a short-term supercomputer with thousands of threads. We (Stanford/UCSD ExCamera) are using AWS Lambda to do massively parallel low-latency video encoding with 4,000+ concurrent threads. Our colleagues at U.C. Berkeley who built PyWren are doing machine learning on Lambda with similar numbers of threads. AWS has been encouraging to us for these kind of workloads, even if they aren't what Amazon initially envisioned.

So a hard limit of 400 (that can't be increased) would be a real bummer. I wonder if we can get around this by defining 20 identical functions and then invoking each one 400 times in parallel...
It did, however, dramatically help the U.S. We got the atom bomb, moon landings, computer, and many other inventions out of European immigrants who fled the Nazis. The U.S. had a strong science program before the war, but its superpower status afterwards was just as much because we got all the brightest minds in Europe as because we bombed everyone else into rubble.

I could see Australia, New Zealand, or Canada similarly benefitting if the U.S. turns towards xenophobia & warmongering.
> That's typical pro-nuclear propaganda.

No, it's a simple matter of fact statement. That doesn't mean that radiation is not dangerous. Especially in high-doses it is extremely dangerous. But so is almost anything energy related (heat of a gas turbine, fall from a dam, etc.). In terms of public health, so far fear of radiation has had worse health outcomes than radiation.
That all depends on your view of individual rights vs the what's best for society. We make decisions all the time on things that restrict individual freedom because it's best for society overall. Which of these you think is okay and which you don't generally come down to where you draw the line. Here's a short list of things that in the U.S. we have dictated that everyone needs to deal with, except for specific exceptional circumstances ("exceptional" being somewhat relative depending on the item).

- Paying taxes

- Child schooling

- Vaccination

- Health care

A population growth policy that targets birth is not so entirely different from those, as fundamentally different as it may feel, depending on your background. Giving people the option of either birth control or an abortion if they get pregnant would be one way to handle that. Have a fundamental disagreement with abortion? Use birth control. Have a problem with birth control too? Take it up with the state, just like in those items above.

I'm not advocating for this, I'm just pointing out it's not fundamentally different than other things we already do.
I think for someone that has gone through a startup program most that is written in the article are obvious truths. Yes, there might be a lucky few who benefit from a demo day, because that's one of the few chances where you might get the attention of investors that might usually not be that easy to reach. However most people will meet their investors during the program via some connections.

To me, demo days feel like they are mostly PR events for the accelerator. It is a very easy way for an accelerator to get people to notice it, since it is one of the few events an accelerator is usually hosting, where they have significant presence and they can attract a lot of reports with the startups. Apart from that, it is very hard, especially for smaller accelerators, to even be mentioned in an article of one of the startups they funded.
Every argument in favor of letting people with money have a nicer prison experience than those without is an argument in favor of fixing prison problems for every inmate, instead.

As a side benefit, you avoid seeing rich people swinging from lampposts instead of serving time.
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Check out Exegesis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Exegesis_of_Philip_K._Dick
Pretty far out there though. He sort of went insane.
Cop: So would you rather go to The Hoosegow, or The Clink?

YT: Hoosegow, no question.

Cop: You know, we get a kickback from The Clink for every suspect we bring in.

YT: How much do you want?

Cop: How about a hundred? Swipe your card through the reader.

YT: Done. Enjoy your bribe.

Cop: The Clink it is.

YT: My union will hear about this.
If we were on a colony on mars where food, oxygen, and water were metered to the centiliter, I doubt you would bat an eye at enforced birth control and accidental-pregnancy control policy.

It's an extreme example, but I want to underline that enforcing birth policy is not automatically immoral. China has a lot of people, of course they enforce birth policy.
Most heard feedback we get about our DRF APIs is about documentation. For us API devs the dilemma is how to write the docs, where to publish, keep in sync, test and so on. Now with 3.6, there's only one place and it's with the code. Granted, this won't solve our dilemma completely (we still need to write the docs).

Automatic JS client should come in handy as well. I've been toying an idea about automatic integration tests that could exercise the API externally and keep an eye out for schema changes.

DRF is an important product in Django realm. If you haven't already, take a look at their funding options: https://fund.django-rest-framework.org/topics/funding/
If it's public the vulnerability might be patched. The whole point of these is that they were secret (though the concepts may or may not be novel).
Am I misunderstanding this? It looks you you have to request the tracking data from them?
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I'm surprised to not see it (or other similarly popular data types) on there, but can't prove it doesn't work without trying it.
> You’ve probably heard the following statistic: Men apply for a job when they meet only 60% of the qualifications, but women apply only if they meet 100% of them.

Ah, I had not. Landing a job I don't know how to do 2/5ths of sounds awful.
As a Canadian, I was surprised someone would be denied entry for a DUI. Since I looked this up I'll summarize:

Essentially Canada can prevent people who have committed what would be indictable crimes under Canadian law from entering. DUI is particularly strange because it can be either an indictable (serious) or summary (less serious) offence, and in Canada this depends on the circumstances and the way it's prosecuted. Coupled with the varying laws in different states regarding DUI/DWI/OUI/etc, and presumably to prevent the border guard having to act as a Canadian criminal court (to judge how it would be handled here) they just always treat it as if it was an indictable offence.

So even if you're not driving and not intending to drive, the fact it's a potentially indictable criminal offence is what prevents entry -- nothing at all to do with it being a DUI.

There appears to be a couple possible ways to be admitted despite a criminal record[1], by getting either a Temporary Resident Permit (TRP) or being granted Criminal Rehabilitation. I'm not sure what's involved with either, or how likely it is to be approved, but they apparently issue around 10,000 TRPs a year.

http://www.ezbordercrossing.com/the-inspection-experience/pr...
Did the founders cash out and left the employees in the dark about it?
Anecdotal evidence. I used to feel more strongly of the 100% qualified and I know many other men who have as well.

There was a point in college that I didn't apply for a scholarship because I didn't have the 3.0 GPA requirement at the time, I had like a 2.95

About 7 months later I found out that a student with a 2.2 GPA had received the scholarship because so few people had applied, they were able to give them to everyone who applied, regardless of qualifications. That was the moment I realized that not everything is written in stone and even if you don't stand a chance, you still should make an attempt at pursuing things.

Indirectly, since then I have encouraged all my friends, both men and women to apply for jobs or things that they are interested in, regardless of qualifications. Sometimes interest/passion alone can help get you a job, or perhaps they will create a more junior position just for you; it is not unheard of to do such a thing.

Since I learned the lesson, there has probably been at least 7 different times in my life, that a rule/qualification was bent or changed that benefited me, because I simply tried for it.
I don't see this as especially outrageous. The part that bothers me is that it isn't available to poorer criminals. But I don't agree with the ex-gang fellow who said getting your ass beat is part of the punishment. That seems unfair to weaker criminals in the same way this scheme is unfair to poor ones. I think the state has an obligation to keep inmates physically safe. If physical violence is something we want as an official part of the punishment let's just bring back corporal punishment.

Also can't help but notice the problem with making this more widely available. The violence in regular jail is a consequence of being locked up with violent people. If you move them to these easier jails they would bring the violence with them
Man, one of these days I need to go get $35 mil in funding and produce nothing but a vision video.
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This is excellent news - am currently evaluating options for cloud Postgres. Only wish they'd support a few more extensions - https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/postgres/extensions - e.g. plv8 would be great https://github.com/plv8/plv8
http://globalnews.ca/news/2477598/vancouver-ranked-3rd-least...

Vancouver is, apparently, worse than SF.
Then what would be the difference between showing them the AMP standards, and just pointing them to those documents?
Well you see, the lack of sanctions against US exports and the lack of the US relying on exports pretty much undermines the oddly ominous parallels.

The US could benefit in the coming years by being more inclusionary again. It spans an entire continent and has a diversified portfolio of industries to sustain itself. It is unquestioned by its allies officially in wars that are remote and primarily benefit the industries within the US. It really could use an inclusionary policy to enhance its population wealth machine making selective immigration there to once again be a greater object of envy.

You see where the parallels to Weimar and German fascism fail? There isn't enough to extrapolate outcomes just because you see the trendiness of dietary restrictions in the US and notice that the fascist german leader had one too SO OMINOUS.
I really enjoyed it too. As a sailor, it's an such an incredibly interesting topic. It only gets more challenging when you consider the twist in the sail (change in angle of attack from top to bottom), varied sail shapes and sizes, and oscillating wind patterns.

I also love how even though a technical knowledge of aerodynamics can help you trim a sail, most sailors can do a pretty good job by feel alone.
Stencil and Mustache do that because they don't compile to Swift, but load and parse templates dynamically. That kind of template language implementation of course exists for Rust as well. (And the other way round, you could have a system that's like this submission for Swift, if there isn't one already)
I would pay a recurring subscription for something that was worth more (to me) than I paid for it.

Edit: After your edit: I would pay a recurring subscription for something that sent me seeds for my garden each season, with some basic instructions and a chart for when to plant & harvest, what to plant together, etc.

Presumably I would have some minor say-so in what kind of plants I was getting, (Root crops, fruits, veggies, sprawling, herbs, etc), but generally I want you to decide what I'm getting and when I should be ready to plant it.
If you have been generating value for a business through software you have developed you are clearly a software developer.

Several things can be happening :

* The companies you are applying for are testing for software developers with a different skill set ;

* The companies you are applying have bad interview process and can't test for software developers that would generate money for them.

Interview is broken in software in general I think.
Could you explain how Bizure compare to Gryadka.
Are the performance tradeoff similar.
The title was "US Visas" for those wondering.
Man, imagine if you could compose chinese characters out of radicals like this.

I'm not sure if that would be a good thing or a bad thing.
Of course not complying with border security as a foreigner will get you deported, I don't understand how you would expect anything else. I don't think foreigners who have refused directives from border security have ever gotten in, regardless of presidential administration.
Not at all. To say that less limits always translates into more freedom is very simplistic idea that I proved wrong.

If the freedom exists, it will be used by someone, because people do commit suicide.

Less limits can lead to more freedom, but some restrictions of freedom can also increase freedom.

For instance by having conscription a lesser evil government can protect itself against bigger evil government.

Case in point, Finland against Soviet Union during World War 2. By forcing Fins to serve in the Finnish army, Finland kept their independence from a totalitarian communistic rule and evolved themselves to one of the most free countries in the world.
It's almost like it's painting a pattern now. Almost.
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There's a bit of a nuance here. Even if you join the Blaze plan (pay as you go) there's still a large free quota. The quota is actually much larger than you get with Spark as well. We just can't allow arbitrary REST calls without a credit card. This helps avoid Cloud Functions being used for abuse/malware.
I'm skeptical, because both Ontario and the feds have raised the higher tax brackets in the last few years, plus the dollar is around 74 cents to the US dollar now.
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It's all of the freedom flowing through you like a Saiyan.
Oh okay I didn't realize you were redefining what "dangerous" means. Makes sense, I completely understand your point now and I agree 100%.

Nuclear bombs aren't actually dangerous, so everyone should be allowed to have them. It's only dangerous if you actually use it as a weapon.

Smallpox isn't dangerous unless you're infecting people, we should give everyone a vial of smallpox to wear on a chain around their neck.

Children should be given hand grenades in school, I mean they're not dangerous unless you pull the pin. We would just teach them not to do that.

I completely agree with you. Weapons are just atoms. We shouldn't criminalize the possession of WMDs, only the use and transmission of them. The fact that I'm stockpiling mustard gas in my apartment is of no concern to my neighbors and the police have no right to question me until I actually release the nerve gas into my city. I'm glad we've cleared that up.
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Looks like the IP will be for sale soon.

"68. Second, the Debtor will pursue a competitive auction and work to close a sale transaction. The Debtor intends to file a sale procedures motion shortly after the Petition Date to initiate that process. The Debtor has received indications of interest from a number of potential buyers of its intellectual property portfolio and believes that its planned 363 sale will realize value from the portfolio. Due to the potential loss of value to the IP if it goes stale, the Debtor hopes to expedite the closing of any transaction. "
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depending on who's writing up the "qualifications" though, a lot of them are probably bullshit
ladies, if you need to cry about the wage gap or something and you're not on your period, my messages are open ;)
I think is at least instructive to compare the number of Chinese citizens immigrating or wanting to immigrate to the US to the number of US citizens who would like to move to China.
the draw they have for engineering talent side is that you do preliminary interview with them and then move straight to on sites with companies they recommend you to. It means you can have 10 on sites without having to do 10 phone screens
One of Cloud Functions unique offerings is the ability to scale CPU and memory separately.
Taiwan has a low cost of living, highly educated population, fantastic universities, is deeply ingrained in hardware tech, has a relatively high immigrant population for students, and is very friendly to immigration.

Japan has phenomenal universities and many foreign-study programs.

New Zealand is pushing for international hires for tech and has several visa options available. It is has a very youth (20-30) oriented culture, is full of active people, and its natural resources are drop-dead gorgeous.
Politics discussions are so unfruitful though. Everyone replies to everyone else with the exact same format:

"The problem with that way of thinking is [problem]. It's dangerous to think that way. In reality, my way of thinking is superior"