skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's building an engine from scratch as opposed to using legacy code and design decisions.

Why wouldn't you expect that to be faster?
So I don't know how much you know the law, but I worked at a public swimming pool (run by the city) and we had a patron that was screaming at everyone and refused to leave (she was in the water). We called the police and they told the lady if she didn't get out they'd jump in and remove her by force. She got out and left. Are the circumstances that different in this case if the lady refused to get out and was forced out by the police? (I'm not defending the police or United here but wondering the legality)
The figure for the wider metro region probably includes a ton of undeveloped land in the LA mountains all the way out to Palmdale/Lancaster, which will skew things quite a bit since those areas are very low density.

I would definitely include neighboring cities in the LA basin when discussing LA as a whole though. The cities in the SGV, south bay, and gateway cities are very much a part of LA even if they're not within city limits.
Pro tip: tell the ICE agent at border control that you've come to check out the snide unhelpful bumpkins in their natural habitat. He'll smile knowingly and wave you through without so much as a cavity search.
The answer is obviously to be less competitive. Relax, you don't have to "win" everything, just do your best and enjoy the experience.
Except downtown LA, and some other isolated spots, there isn't much architectural beauty. Most of the city just feels like roads, box-shaped buildings, and strip-malls with ugly signs. At night, when it lights up, it has a certain charm that you do not find during the day. However, I have seen very few urban landscapes as beautiful as when the sun sets behind a horizon cut by its palm tree silhouettes. It is a city one loves more for its vibe and endless possibilities, and for the nature that surrounds it, than for its architectural beauty.
This sums up nicely why working for someone else's dream (the dipshit Orion's in this case) is a bad idea.
The article opens with the claim that "Albert Einstein and John Coltrane had quite a lot in common" but then hardly addresses that further.

Did Einstein have any musical talent/interests?
I would run away from any deal with a multi-year all at once vesting period. It's just too clever.
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Your math is off -- if it reached $5, he'd have made $250. I think you were counting in cents. To convince yourself:

>>> total = 0

>>> for i in range(5, 500, 5):

... total += i

>>> total

24750
We are (playing the Wayne Gretzky game of invention).
droopyEyelids said, "Businesses either need competition or regulation. If they have neither, you end up in the situation we have now." That sounds to me like saying that the current situation does not have competition.

I'm trying to talk with exactly the same degree of absoluteness that droopyEyelids is. Frankly, I'm not sure why you read my statement in any way different from that.
https://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3AUAL&sq=United%20Air%...

comparison of 4 airlines 5 past trading days.

Delta is actually doing much worse.
On github, it'd be called a "pull request".
> It's not as if you can simply work around and pick similar words for that individual's particular noun

We're working with an arbitrary constraint here (and I, for one, am enjoying it, actually); we kind of /have/ to do that. ;)

> you miss almost all of a thought by dancing around it vs. using a fast shortcut that quickly aligns thoughts with low odds of ambiguity.

You seem to forget that we're trying to find clever ways to refer to people and things without using the most common letter in the English language.
> Why are people so adamant in denying the potential that blacks on average may in fact commit more crimes?

If you read GP again, you'll note I never sent the potential at all. I just note that all the bases for the claim—made in the post it responds to—that that is a fact and not a potential rests on data affected by known sources of bias whose magnitude cannot be independently measured and corrected for.
Whoever thought that calling 'Orions List' 'Schindlers List' was clever has no idea what Schindlers List was all about.

> The situation at Tanium underscores the risk of venture capitalists placing near-absolute power in the hands of a company’s creators.

That sentence does not make sense to me. It is a rule rather than an exception that VCs end up with minority shareholdings but usually favorable terms in case of liquidation. They don't 'place near-absolute power in the ands of a company's creators', they're simply later to the table and have correspondingly fewer shares bought at a significant premium.

The original founders call the shots and only if they dilute to the point that outside capital holds a majority does the equation change and even then there might still be different classes of shares to deal with.

For the most part VCs are along for the ride, they can make noise and they can try to win over the board but as long as the founders have 51% or more they call the shots.
> You realize that the explosion of Walmarts didn't do a lot to foster a competitive balance right?

You're probably not old enough to remember when Sears and A&P were fearsome monopolies ...

Anyhow, as much as I hate WalMart, I will go to a WalMart in preference to almost ANYTHING local in small town America.

I do remember "old school" small town American businesses--yes, they were slow. But they had lots of oddball stock, gave good advice, and, they would give you a slow deadline, but they would move heaven and earth to make sure that they hit it if something went wrong.

About 1990, or so, that all changed in small town America. Inventories went to shit. Advice became laughable. And deadlines became optional.

At that point, why shouldn't I go to WalMart?
It's unfair because those companies can't extract their required funding at gunpoint.
The pentatonic scale. [0]

Once you tune your ear into it, it's absolutely everywhere.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentatonic_scale
Did you come to Elixr from Ruby or Erlang? Or neither?

I learned a bit of Erlang first, and never really found a taste for Elixir's syntax. Can't say that I've really used it beyond tinkering though.
Mining companies generally hire very smart geologists who care a lot about the processes that shape resource deposits, in order to predict where new deposits will be found. If there were any pattern that didn't fit with natural processes people would notice
Google hasn't done much that's game changing that I've seen. Their incentives and goals are different than PARC most of the time. They did a lot of practical solutions to their problems that are similar to other solutions. The one, ultra-clever thing that jumped out at me was Spanner's TrueTime. Utterly brilliant.

Google could become PARC if they chose. Even have some groups like Spanner's doing unconventional stuff. I think it would take changes in management's priorities and evaluation of employees to get it there. It's not yet but there's potential.
Sure. Realizing as I go through them that all of these were from my peers in middle management; ICs tended to be much more genuine in their communication. Such is the nature of politics.

Things justified based on "customer obsession":

-Forced weekends and extra on-call assignments. This was bad managers making up for their poor planning and trying to use company values as a stick for their employees.

-Delaying the launch of a feature beta testers were raving about for six months to meet an operational metric that would clearly be made irrelevant by the launch, but for which the complainant had a goal in his commitments.

-So many similar things related to goals that someone needed to hit. Managers would say to other managers, in only slightly more words, "you are not helping my team, therefore you are not customer-obsessed". There was no consideration given as to what other impacts might fall out of the demanded action and how those might affect the customer.

-One that happened to me: I disagreed with the (clearly faulty) analysis of a dataset made by a higher-up manager. He was about to make a decision with his analysis that was going to affect several engineer-years worth of commitments, so I did a reply-all to his analysis respectfully explaining his mistake. He emailed my boss's boss (his peer) to complain that I lacked customer obsessions and to question whether I was a good fit for the team.

Essentially you can pervert anything to be about customer obsession (or any company value) if you want to. There's a fantastic book called Moral Mazes that does an excellent job of illustrating and explaining this phenomenon. It puts all of my examples above to shame.
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Yeah. Snapchat competes with apps like iMessage and WhatsApp much more than apps like Instagram.
Same here in Vietnam -- population 95 million. I know tons of people under 25 using Instagram. I've never met anyone here using Snapchat.

No WhatsApp usage at all. Viber, Zalo, and WeChat all the way.
I've only lived in Los Angeles for ~6 months, but my understanding of what people accept as the "greater LA area" goes as far east as Covina, includes Santa Monica, down to Long Beach, and up to Santa Clarita. These are all rough estimations, depending on personal preference (which I've exposed here, I suppose), but it gives you a sense of what one might consider in trying to figure out where LA ends, and where the rest of Southern CA begins.
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For something to last a really long time, you'd want to have it at one of the Lagrangian points. Have it be big and reflective - say, a tremendous expanse of reflective cloth behind a relatively small probe - and anybody with a telescope and patience will eventually spot it as a weird "star". Something shiny at a Lagrangian point will suggest something weird (compared to the non-shinyness of objects collected at the Lagrangian points of other planets), making it an obvious target for investigation by space probes.

There are actually a number of probes at the Sun-Earth and Earth-Moon L2 points already [1], because it's a perfect spot for telescopes and observatories. I don't know if any of them are big enough to easily observe from Earth, though.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_objects_at_Lagrangian_...
As someone who grew up mostly in SF/Oak and now lives in LA, I'm not sure I'd agree. They both have some truly beautiful areas but large parts of SF aren't particularly aesthetically pleasing, at least to me. I grew up mostly in the sunset and I found it fairly drab.
> do you really think that about deep learning?

Yes, absolutely. To put it bluntly: how many jobs do you think are affected by being deaf and blind?

Computers are now able to see and hear, and on top of that they have become better at most classification tasks than humans. Those are game changers, this goes much further than advertising.
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Didn't have time to read it all, but wonder how much airlines make on the people who can't get refunded their tickets even though the plane might be full or just paid for a ticket without showing up

since this should change to math used for this
I'm less of a PARC fan and more of a Lampson fan. In fact, I'm a huge Butler Lampson fan. I've read his PARC valedictory Hints on Computer System Design many times and he's updated it recently. He went from PARC to DEC SRC (maybe 5 miles). I saw him give a talk at SRC and for about 15 minutes afterwards, I understood.

Hints is the favorite paper of a lot of my heroes like John Regehr.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...

http://bwlampson.site/Slides/Hints%20and%20principles%20(HLF...

http://blog.regehr.org/archives/1143

From SRC, he went to Microsoft and he also taught at MIT.

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu...
The key is board majority, not common shares majority. Because board can change the rules.
> why no mention of python? seems strange than any modern programmer to leave it out.

Maybe because Andy Hunt was more into Ruby than into Python. Not every modern programmer uses Python. From practical point of view Ruby and Python are similar scripting languages. Python has an edge only if you need NumPy, SciPy.
Google Translate didn't use deep learning until less than a year ago: https://research.googleblog.com/2016/09/a-neural-network-for...
Same here with a lot of the older works. I felt it as I read on Barton's B5000, LISP machines, PARC's stuff, high-assurance security, some high-availability (eg NonStop), SGI's graphic hardware, and so on. Although not with new fundamentals, even Microsoft's VerveOS was a pile of nice engineering with ExpressOS following its lead for Android.
Because it was developed in very large tracts due to being in the desert and needing to import water. So, the financing only made sense if you developed large, spawling areas. This was true before cars were popular, when there was a tram and people took the tram and then walked everywhere. Then cars became popular, I think the tram died and now you have to take the freeway to get anywhere.
There's a quote about music and Einstein, don't know more.

Also feynmann liked percussions a lot and maybe music in general.

What I find in learning music alone, is that it's highly relative, there's no real absolute, so the space of combination is huge, yet very regular in principles; what's not to like for a scientist.
Did I miss the part of this story where they said they had nonstandard vesting? The industry standard is 4 year vesting, month by month, with a 1-year cliff. The traditional horror story is employees being fired just before they cliff.
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The board does not change the shareholder agreement nor does the board change anything else to do with the shares. What the board can do - and will do - is fire the CEO if they are of the opinion the CEO is not functioning well, but if the CEO is also a shareholder and has majority control of the stock (or the confidence of the majority of the shareholders) he/she can call a shareholder meeting, get rid of the board and re-instate himself or herself.

Boards are not active at the level of shareholders, though many boards do have major shareholders as board members.
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If we can find tons of fossils of animals and plants, I'm absolutely sure there would be fossils left behind of cars, houses, etc
Relevant username. But your #4 is silly, SNAP stock's valuation is exactly so high because of "that BS" that you are complaining about other companies doing.
Have they really though? Facebook is much less 'cool' now than it was 5 years ago. Even if more teens have Facebook accounts than Snapchat accounts, engagement seems to heavily favor Snapchat for that demographic (at least in the U.S.).
No, because they are maintained for tourist and historical value.
The R&D being done here doesn't only apply if you run extremely large data centers. Facebook, Google are contributing back to the Open Compute project [1] , and anyone could use this knowledge if they want to build a small data center with things like the Open Rack[2].

[1] http://www.opencompute.org/
[2] https://code.facebook.com/posts/1687861518126048/facebook-to...
32" UHD is about perfect, IMO. It's about the same height as those 30" 2560x1600 displays (which I thought was about perfect) and then gives a couple inches extra of width. The PPI is "almost retina", so if you very occasionally have to use one of those legacy apps that don't work well on retina you can. You'll have to squint but you can.
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That was great. It really spoke to me, and I really love what you said about the American Dream. Such a good way to frame it for me.
"> we haven't seen anything comparable from Google's Advanced Technology and Projects program

And we won't because all those things have already been done."

We haven't because they're not doing them that I've seen. I hope they prove me wrong as they're in a good position to be next PARC with some changes. So far, they've wowed me only once (TrueTime) with other stuff being variations on prior work with usually short-term focus or for pragmatic goals rather than vision. Their wide-eyed visions I've read about are rarely executed to completion. I don't see them as another PARC.
"You know what makes the rockets fly? Funding." - The Right Stuff.

What really made PARC work is that they were funded to develop the future of computing by building machines which were not cost-effective. It was too early in the mid-1970s to develop a commercially viable personal workstation. But it was possible to do it if you didn't have to make it cost-effective.

That's what I was told when I got a tour of PARC in 1975. They had the Alto sort of working, (the custom CRT making wasn't going well; the phosphor coating wasn't uniform yet) the first Ethernet up, a disk server, and I think the first Dover laser printer. All that gear cost maybe 10x what the market would pay for it. But that was OK with Xerox HQ. By the time the hardware cost came down, they'd know what to build.

Previous attempts at GUI development had been successful, but tied up entire mainframe computers. Sutherland's Sketchpad (1963)[1] and Engelbart's famous demo (1968)[2] showed what was possible with a million dollars of hardware per user. The cost had to come down by three orders of magnitude, which took a while.

Another big advantage which no one mentions is that Xerox PARC was also an R&D center for Xerox copiers. That's why they were able to make the first decent xerographic laser printer, which was a mod to a Xerox 2400 copier. They had access to facilities and engineers able to make good electronic and electromechanical equipment, and thoroughly familiar with xerographic machines.

Ah, the glory days of Big Science.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6orsmFndx_o
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY
I thought corvids a strong candidate, but if they've been around for 25 million years without getting human-level intelligence, they mightn't ever get it, like the dinosaurs.

General commemt: we can have increasing complexity, without a specific trend towards it, by positing evolution in all directions. We'd get mostly simple life, and fewer instances as complexity increases - which is what we do see. Most life is unicellular; there are more insect species than mammals etc.

I like that paper applying Moore's Law to biocomplexity, showing an exponential increase of the most complex life existing over time.

- It seems complexity increase is inevitable (but there could be barriers, as there seemed to be for dinosaurs).

- intelligence seems to increase with complexity.

Would mammals have expanded to today's diversity if the dinosaurs had survived? Would the ur-mammal instead have remained just one minor species or family, without those niches available?

And what caused the sudden increase in brain size of our own ape-like ancestors? (Surely, some killer application of intelligence, perhaps trade, that gave it incredible survival value, far above the value it already had).
She was creating a public disturbance, which is most likely a violation of the law.

In the case of the United passenger, he was disturbing nobody until after they tried to force him to leave.
The power states and performance per watt have gone way up too, in 2007 power gating CPUs was not commonplace, and Intel was just starting to optimize for performance per watt (especially in the low power laptop/tablet market).

What vendors have done is provide computers with the same power envelope, but much more performance so they may do your calculations @ 35 watts, and then immediately cut all power to large swaths of the CPU so as to curtail power use by at least a few watts, if not 10 watts (depends on your CPU).
Many technology people adopt a see no evil, hear no evil point of view. It's commonly manifested in the pseudo-libertarian philosophy that you hear a lot.

IMO, its one of the reasons this field is such a feast and famine shitshow. Unlike accountants, attorneys, and engineers, we have no professional associations or standards to help protect our professional interests.
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They may have done nothing illegal (for a court to decide). But they definitely did things wrong.
Like self-driving cars? I think they are desperately groping for something to diversify, because the ad models come and go, and the revenue can some day dry up.
I have a friend in the army who was on a training course. The entire section were spending 8-10 hours a day on the Playstation.
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Android patches were released a week or so ago that fixed this vulnerability. [https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-04-01] That probably explains why it is bubbling up now. Many phones and routers will remain unpatched.

The CVE was marked as highly critical and the kernel patche comments are vague at best as to the risks.

The issue is not with this being on HN, the issue is with the lack of clarity about the scope and severity of the vulnerability.
Wish I could move (and ten years ago I would've in a heartbeat) but today I have too many personal ties where I am.

Thank you, though; that is a darned tempting offer.
3 weeks for electronic components, you have extreme patience, I would have mostly given up on the project if that much time elapsed.
I've read an interesting theory about this before but I can't remember the source. If there was intelligent life on Antarctica, it would be impossible for us to detect it today. Antarctica was warmer once and could have supported much more life.

It's plausible any life that evolved there would be restricted to that continent. Humans evolved in warm climates and could adapt to cold climates by building shelters and wearing clothing. An animal that evolved in a cold climate would have a much harder time colonizing warm climates.

And since then glaciers have scraped the surface clean and there would be little remains of them.

<ridiculous_conspiracy_theory> I read another, much more crazy, theory, that the government is covering up something in Antarctica. There are so many untapped resources in Antarctica. And after WWII, lots of were exploring it and trying to lay claim to them. Then suddenly everyone left and a treaty was signed banning mining there. To protect the most desolate continent on Earth from... environmental harm? In the 1950's when environmentalism was such a big thing? And there are a suspicious number of military bases down there... And they are guarding what, exactly? What did they find... </ridiculous_conspiracy_theory>
Definitely, heat dissipation and power envelope limitations on laptops are still a major issue, but with power gating coming standard on most chips and very aggressive p states, average power usage is down by double digit margins on your average CPU over the last decade.

This is very beneficial for servers and workstations too, as it keeps your power bill much lower, and makes it not financially viable to stick around on 8+ year old hardware, where it draws 250 watts for half the performance of a year or two old system, that will pull 60 watts minimum, and while topping out at 250 watts, will like average around 70 watts or so, saving you about $180 a year at $0.12/kwh.

Edit: Missed a zero, reworded last sentence.