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>There are many in my neighborhood and none of them close at 5:00PM.

Go back in time to the 70s and they did. They only stay open late now because peoples' expectations have changed.

>Have you ever been to New York City?

NYC is not representative of the rest of America in any way. There's not even any Walmarts there. This is about regular America where there are Walmarts, which usually means more rural areas where Walmart is the main retailer.

>The history of the US which is the history of immigrants is inextricably tied to the existence of the Mom and Pop business[1].

Oh please, spare me the romantic and mythical view of the past. That's just like all the conservatives who pine for the "good ol' days" of the 50s and Norman Rockwell paintings, when in real life America was never like that.

The history of immigrants in the US is inextricably tied to labor exploitation and horrendous working conditions, not mom and pop businesses.

>You are actually asking why am I sticking up for the small guy?

In any small town decades ago, the local merchants weren't "small guys", they were some of the richest people in town.
Ask HN: Why are there multiple high level programming languages?
IBM currently at 380K according to wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM
The chart shows the decline in industrial as the most changed of the 3. I would guess that capacity being flat-ish would be a big factor.
It looks like unpkg was compromised, but they believe it is now resolved: https://twitter.com/unpkg/with_replies?lang=en
I hope he settles, quickly and with a massive payout from United. I hope he laughs all the way to the bank.

That might make it more probable, as compared to a protracted legal battle that just drops out of sight, that a random person will challenge United when put under the same circumstances.

The real culprit here are the LEOs. They had no business getting involved. And, even less business using force. It's another case of LEOs unlawfully escalating to violence. Here I would agree with you: he shouldn't quietly settle his case with CPD.
We are living in the age of efficiency.

As population growth slows it's only natural for electricity to as well.

We aren't limited by our raw computing power, we're limited by our inability to apply it.
There are plenty of reasons to know assembler besides performance. I am completely ignorant of all the pipelining mechanics you discussed but have gotten paid to use assembly for years.

1. Writing embedded software. You're not going to get very far if you don't know how to set up your memory, text section, etc.

2. Debugging embedded software. Good luck interpreting your JTAG output if you don't have a good knowledge of assembler. Even if you get to use gdb/Wind River Debugger/etc., you will want to be able to tell what is happening. Symbols only go so far. A backtrace will get messed up and you'll need to look at the stack to figure out what happened. An access violation will occur and you'll need to figure out what line of code it corresponds to.

3. Debugging without source code. Same as #2, even more difficult.

3. Reverse Engineering. You are trying to figure out what is happening in a proprietary driver binary blob (such as NVidia's Linux driver). You are trying to figure out how to get your software to work with an ancient piece of software whose author has long since been out of business. Even if you have the cash for Hex-Rays decompiler or can readily use the Hopper decompiler, this code is simply not high-level enough to interpret without knowing assembly and having a deep understanding of the stack and memory.

4. Vulnerability research / hacking. You are writing an open-sourced client for a proprietary protocol, looking for a memory corruption vulnerability, etc. You can pretty much forget it unless you know assembly.
+1 I like the idea, the format, the style and design. The theme of dev ops and being on-call isn't interesting to me at all. The GitLab article jumped out at me but after I started reading it realized I'd heard the details already via HN when it happened. But I'll read a different topic or a variety issue.
Great to see this picked up on HN - it's really interesting work. Terence is my colleague at USF (in fact he's the guy that got me to go there!) and it was great to see the journey from "could this possibly work" to "holy crap it does work!" over a period of many months. He's known for his work with parsers, of course (i.e. ANTLR), but recently he's been investing heavily in machine learning. This project is a great example of how domain experts can go into whole new areas by building on top of machine learning methods.

For anyone interested in getting into machine learning, I hope you'll consider the MSAN program at USF (https://www.usfca.edu/arts-sciences/graduate-programs/analyt...). Terence is the guy that made this program happen at USF and it's turned into something really special.

Disclaimer: I'm a deep learning researcher and teacher at USF.
I only save about 40 lines of shell history. If I find myself repeating something I make a script or alias.

Root account never saves history.
Just such a joy to write both syntactically and conceptually.

I wrote C to get through school. I wrote PHP to hack CRUD web apps. I write JS because it's ubiquitous and I'm required to. I write Elixir because I love to do it.
Animals transform their environments all the time, deliberately (I don't get why people act as if animals don't do deliberate things?). What of the great honey fungus in the Blue Mountains of Oregon, a living organism whose size is measured in miles - it deliberately transformed its environment in a way we, the species Aristotle put at the top, can barely even comprehend.

The difference is in degree, not of kind.
To me it seems a little over-engineered but it held up so props to them.
Interesting read on "Dealer" meetings.

From The Myths of Creativity By David Burkus

>> In the 1970s at Xerox PARC, regularly scheduled arguments were routine. The company that gave birth to the personal computer staged formal discussions designed to train their people on how to fight properly over ideas and not egos. PARC held weekly meetings they called "Dealer" (from a popular book of the time titled Beat the Dealer). Before each meeting, one person, known as "the dealer," was selected as the speaker. The speaker would present his idea and then try to defend it against a room of engineers and scientists determined to prove him wrong. Such debates helped improve products under development and sometimes resulted in wholly new ideas for future pursuit. The facilitators of the Dealer meetings were careful to make sure that only intellectual criticism of the merit of an idea received attention and consideration. Those in the audience or at the podium were never allowed to personally criticize their colleagues or bring their colleagues' character or personality into play. Bob Taylor, a former manager at PARC, said of their meetings, "If someone tried to push their personality rather than their argument, they'd find that it wouldn't work." Inside these debates, Taylor taught his people the difference between what he called Class 1 disagreements, in which neither party understood the other party's true position, and Class 2 disagreements, in which each side could articulate the other's stance. Class 1 disagreements were always discouraged, but Class 2 disagreements were allowed, as they often resulted in a higher quality of ideas. Taylor's model removed the personal friction from debates and taught individuals to use conflict as a means to find common, often higher, ground.
I notice you've gone through all my posts and down-modded them. I've returned the favor.
Just as an antecedent, for comparison's sake. We raised more (seed round) with no deck at all. What really mattered was the demo, story, traction, and market plan. We used to use a deck, but as time went on it became a distraction from having a fluid conversation.
I find I do this sort of thing a surprising amount. You'd think spurious symbols would jump out at you, but actually it turns out that's not how it is. Luckily oulipo.social automatically stops you posting bad sigils.
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I'm a bit late, but I wanted to comment on a number of things. The Riemann hypothesis is a conjecture, so I'm not sure what you mean when you say "nothing about the Riemann hypothesis is rigorous." Do you mean 'not rigorous' = 'unproven'? I think your comment that "Physics doesn't lead to insights in maths" is just plain wrong. There a number of topics in mathematics that were hugely influenced by the study of physics. In fact, much of 17th and 18th-century mathematics became inseparable from physics. That said, I'm a bit confused when you try to distinguish the two subjects because I feel that large parts of them are entwined. So, what is 'physics' exactly according to you? For me, the Wikipedia definition suffices:

Physics is the natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion and behavior through space and time, along with related concepts such as energy and force.

To study physics, we need maths. So does your definition of 'physics' include maths?.. or is 'physics' just observations? Take for example the subject of Quantum Mechanics. There are models that we use to make predictions about what we observe. And these models are mathematical. See what I'm trying to get at? The language of physics is inherently mathematical in nature (pun intended).
Also, it might not matter that much, but the 1% people owning a Windows Mobile naturally becomes evangelists for Instagram Stories since that's the only kind of ephemeral posts they can see. Stories are well supported on Windows Mobile 10, whereas Snapchat always sent a big F-U to Windows users [1]

Today, with UWP it means that Instagram is also available on everyone's Windows 10 laptop or desktop, I think that increases adoption too.

[1] https://www.techworm.net/2016/01/snapchat-ceo-hates-microsof...
Your answer is as simple as it is unsatisfactory and arbitrary. Humans have turing machines, sure. But we have yet to truly translate an animal language (though we do know they exist) so your point is rather moot.

My point isn't that humans aren't amazing, it's that we perhaps think too highly of ourselves in relation to our incredible relatives.
Your chart shows current numbers roughly equal to 2008. That doesn't feel like growth.
Being able to live six years without food. Humans can't even come close to that, yet a tiny tick can outlast the so-called smartest species on earth.

See, species tit-for-tat is easy. What's your point?
> probably an area that Stripe would want to target with both atlas and connect (there's a ton of marketplace/ecommerce sellers based here, and a lot of tech innovation)

Tbf, I think their target for Connect is services that would be built to target those sellers by SV brats running mid/high-end laptops, but it's a good point nontheless.
I like all the weird random stuff I've never seen before at Whole Foods - but at the same time, there is an amazing co-op in my town that has far better produce, the majority of the same dry items and much better prices. So, I go to the co-op instead.

This could be hypothetically be their biggest issue - competition in more urban areas, where most of their customers are. After all, people who want local, sustainable products are also more likely to want to support a local business.
A little behind the scenes info, I work for a pretty good sized seller on Amazon. If a customer who purchased an item reports it as counterfeit

* All items we sell of that brand are taken down

* We are required to email a copy of an invoice of between us and that vendor. I think there is a date requirement here also

* We are not permitted to ship comingled FBA shipments for that brand until resolved

If the manufacturer is participating in the counterfeit program, they can whitelist sellers who are permitted to sell their goods and avoid the above.
Certainly possible. Dinosaurs were around longer than mammals and their intelligence did not reach human-level. Makes sense if we consider that evolution is a blind process which does not "aim" for creating higher intelligence, and may only happen by chance if it suits the given environment better than other traits.
> If life is there, completely disconnected from earth life,

IIRC (I can't find the reference now), the "dinosaur killer" asteroid would put rocks from Earth into space. With sufficient velocity that they could reach nearby solar systems within 100M years.

So from a strictly physical point of view, I would argue that the odds of Earth "infecting" Europa with life in the past 3 billion years are pretty much 100%.
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I hate classes that start late. It just means I'll sleep till the time I need to leave for class. If the class is at 8, I'll get up at 730 and of the class is at 11, I'll wake up at 1030. So a later class just wastes my morning.
How long is your mobile app hot fix process?
At my employer even the most horrible disaster of an app/playstore store release can take a minimum of 1-2 weeks before being approved to replace a nightmare release. If you work at a company that releases native mobile apps (either platform) how long does it take for you to push a hot fix?
(When does this thread get closed by Hacker News as being too old? If/when it does is there somewhere public you want to continue the discussion? If you'd like we can move it to the Nengo forums at forum.nengo.ai)

1. Dammit. I misread that paper. You're totally right that they do show it works for multiple layers.

2. By faster hardware, I mean neuromorphic hardware such as BrainScaleS and Spinnaker. The software we use, Nengo, is pretty dependent on the speed of a single GPU, since it's really hard to separate the networks across multiple GPUs. You're right that there's always the possibility that our newer algorithms don't map well onto the specialized hardware we've built. The reason why we think we're ready to at least implement a few hardware prototypes is:

- The principles that underlie our algorithms, the Neural Engineering Framework, have been around for 15 years and are pretty mature. The software built to support these principles, Nengo, has been through six re-writes and if finally pretty stable.
- Some of the hardware implementations are general enough that they can handle pretty drastic changes in algorithms. For example, Spinnaker is just a hexagonal grid of stripped-down ARM chips.
- Even if the hardware ends up limiting what algorithms we can implement, we can probably re-use a lot of the design to implement whatever the new algorithms require.

3. I've been meaning to investigate the HTM theory of Numenta for years (they were actually the first people to get me excited about brain-motivated machine intelligence), but never got around to it. I'm also super unclear on the relation between HTM, the Neural Engineering Framework and the newer theory FORCE. I'll write a question on cogsci.stackexchange.com to motivate myself to dig in.

Where is the internship happening? Will you be working with [Sughanda Sharma][1]? She's my lab-mate working on that using the Neural Engineering Framework.

[1] http://compneuro.uwaterloo.ca/people/sugandha-sharma.html
This is really a neat site, thank you. Have lived in LA all my life, so recognizing places was really fun.

Makes one want to take pictures themselves so they don't forget it.
My previous bank took 4 samples of my signature when I opened an account. When one of them was off, the software could tell that and I'd be asked to sign again, until the computer had 4 "similar enough" signatures.

And then, in reality, I think it's only checked against when you someone deposits a high amount check you've given them or when you do some other substantial trnasactions.
"Changelist".

Similar words are commit, diff, patch, etc. (though sometimes those other words have other implications)
i wonder why he (presumably) did not think "dealers of lightning" was a good book. not read "the dream machine" yet, but i thought "dealers of lightning" was a great look at the history of xerox parc.
That was it. Official site: https://harc.ycr.org/ Nothing super interesting there yet, at least to me :/
People on HN can be quite uptight. One response takes your comment literally and other downvoters do not approve of your cheeky comment.
I remember my college desktop and how happy I was when I got a 400W power supply! Now the Mac I travel with that has 100x the processing, storage, etc uses a 85W supply if it's plugged it. If you do that at scale with more efficient everything, it makes sense.

Remember when turning off the lights saved money? It was dubious then but with bulbs that use 1/10 the power, it's almost humorous.
See the HISTCONTROL environment variable in bash (and maybe something similar in other shells):

HISTCONTROL
A colon-separated list of values controlling how commands are
saved on the history list. If the list of values includes
"ignorespace", lines which begin with a space character are not
saved in the history list.
[...]

This is convenient because any time you don't want a command saved in history, just start it with a leading space.

Also look at HISTIGNORE for finer grained control.
Show HN: A cosmetic startup that's changing the game
So the risk of counterfeit is priced in? Market forces at work!
Should we consume more? I would actually like to see electricity prices to go down, but it seems like research in that area nearly stopped.
I for one would not mind mandatory installations on new buildings within the bay area (East Bay).
So as somebody who lives in London, explain to me why Los Angeles always looks so featureless, so lacking in any kind of urban identity I'd expect to find in a city?

It always looks to me no so much as a city, but rather merely some buildings that are connected by freeways.
Fishy. Check your logs and a/b test to see if these are human users.
Yeah, but it seems like Nintendo could just move to a slightly newer SoC (say the Allwinner H3) with the same software stack and keep putting these out at a $2 premium to cover the more expensive SoC.

A similar board to what was in the NES Classic, the OrangePi One, is $9.99 retail, and I'm sure Nintendo could put in under 20hrs of work total to add what they need to the board and stay within a dollar or two of that board's price point.
Touché. Though at least I was closer than he was :)
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> Laptops have always been substantially more efficient than desktops.

Yes but a decade+ ago, they weren't a replacement for a desktop, so you ended up having both. Now even mid end laptops (or "low end" Macs) are totally feasible as replacements.

I bought my last desktop in 2010 and I can't imagine buying another one.
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Many "recreational" athletes push themselves harder than olympic competitors. Their bottleneck is talent and they attempt to overcome this with drive and determination often against others with similar attributes. Many sink into unhealthy habits in an attempt to just hang on to a weekend group ride or to qualify for Boston.

I was shocked to learn that many weekend warrior friends have sophisticated doping regimes just to stay competitive on group rides. I'm not sure there is an answer.
>Blackness is not a predictor of criminality, even though black people are more likely to have been in environments that lead to criminality.

And your logic is that of nonsensical political correctness. You concede that these environments are more likely to lead to criminality, you conceded that black people are more likely to exist in these environments, yet you refuse to see that if A->B and B->C then A->C.

Let's instead consider, since you do allow that race is predictive of previous criminality, if the circumstances which have created increased chance for previous criminality have not changed, why is it invalid to presume that the same predictors are then valid for future probability? Do you also pretend that credit scores are not statistically accurate predictors of repayment potential?

These kinds of mental gymnastics are detrimental for all parties involved.
Why would United be liable? They did nothing wrong.
A blank check from the Feds in the hopes that giving money to smart people will make tgem develop something we could use to blow up the Russkies. That's what made Xerox PARC.
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Hey Daria, thank you for the shoutout! We do a bit more than just voice metadata tracking. To use a baseball/Moneyball analogy, while voice is the first/entry thing you do in sales, just like catching the ball, People.ai works across all sales activity channels, such as email, calendar, phone, conference systems and even Slack to optimize individual sales rep and team behavior.

While voice analytics tools can help produce the best catchers, we are focused on making every rep a 5 tool player.
After a few years of experience, I'm convinced that "getting the culture right" and later "not fucking up the culture" are the hardest parts.
> All our buildings would've...been crushed by plate tectonics

Our buildings are on dry land. Dry land is dry because it's predominantly made of continental crust [1]. It's lighter than oceanic crust [2]. When oceanic and continental crusts meet, the oceanic tends to get driven under the continental crust, which floats on top. Keep in mind that we still have fossil shells feom 65 million years ago.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_crust

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceanic_crust
This is an excellent idea. Would love to read it on a Kindle.
I'm surprised I have never heard of the Helix streaming server before. However, a look at the supported formats makes me think matroska is not supported. This was the absolute goal of this project: stream in the matroska format. The reason is that most Anime and other subtitled videos are distributed in matroska, because it can mux SubStation Alpha subtitles. I wanted to be able to live stream Anime with my friends without anyone having to download it.
Thanks for your feedback, I'm glad you like it if you need any kind of help let me know!
Reminds me of http://bahiker.com/ which was a terrific resource when I lived in CA 2000-04.
Effective teams maybe don't have people "on call" but hire people to cover all the hours in which work is needed.
I think that's kind of needlessly confrontational and doesn't make your company look welcoming to someone who might be looking to leave SF/NYC.

That said, it's obvious to me who you work for but anyone who'd be offended won't know.

I'd love to move to Melbourne, FL to do vuln research but I'd have to convince my family to make the move first.
Beats rsc's commit message [0] by 158 words :)

[0] https://github.com/golang/go/commit/b902a63ade47cf69218c9b38...
Because unlike London, there is really only 100 years of development in this city. It's much older but if you look at old photos, Santa Monica used to be "far away" and Hollywood used to just be orchards. LA is really more like many small towns growing into a very large city. Each neighborhood has its own identity.
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I have this hunch that Reddit engineers know what they're up against when they launch something like this. It can get out of control extremely fast when something catches on.