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I used Yik Yak as a tech observer as recently as 6 months ago, so I'm not unfamiliar with the platform.

That said, it seems extreme to me that two reversible decision could so devastatingly and permanently tank what was a significant userbase ~1.25 MAU.

Other platforms have endured much more with much less money and not been sold off in a fire sale.
Yes, the NSA does do that. And they probably consider it to be their job, no matter what the damn civilians say.
This library is not meant to be incorporated into an application - it is meant to be preloaded to modify the behaviour of an existing program. So I don't see what permission to link into a proprietary program really gets you.
> The post instantly electrified Chinese netizens, who always love to flaunt their centuries-long passion for diversifying food resources.
> The proposed solution was as follows: “Denmark can invent an 'eater's visa' for Chinese visitors, offering unlimited entries within 10 years for stays of up to a month each visit. The oysters will be extinct within five years."
> “Ha! Five years? Five months is enough," one user commented.

It's heartening, in a way, to see how fluidly certain interpersonal relations can move across language/culture barriers in this day and age. We really are all alike in many ways after all; maybe it's not yet time to give up on a post-internet era as one that can reach greater heights of intercultural empathy.

Assuming legislation doesn't gut the net.
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Your argument doesn't work against his point. The fact is that yes, a computer could, in theory, gain a calculable 3D perspective of the world without the need for distance estimation scanning. It could start with the assumption already... but it helps to use two eyes.
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I mean it absolutely sounds like a great trade opportunity, if the numbers pan out.
I just wondered for the first time: do these sorts of raises vacuum money away into one large basket, instead of bets on many smaller startups? Could it be zero-sum in a way?
>> I can understand why some native-born Canadians might be worried when that percentage rises too high.

And I thought the most of them are offsprings of immigrants like the majority of the North-Americans ...
> The Hyperloop was supposed to be a revolutionary form of transport, turns out it was overblown.

He didn't launch the Hyperloop, though. He explicitly said he wasn't personally going to pursue it, he was just putting the idea out there. You can't put the fact that it hasn't yet been implemented (even though there are people working on it) on him. I've seen no evidence that the concept is infeasible, or poorly thought out.
Could always stop at the point you no longer consider them to be a problem...?
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For #3, it doesn't even have to be that fancy for expert players/song writers.

One of our investors is Matt Bellamy, the lead guitarist/vocalist of Muse. Generally when he wants to write a song, he goes for the piano to figure out the chord progression. It's much easier to compose on the piano because all the notes are in front of you in sequential order (black and white keys). After he figures out the chord progression, he'll switch to the guitar.

If he was to start composing on the guitar, there is a higher amount of cognitive load that is based on the physics of vibrating strings and his ability to physically shorten them by pressing your fingers on metal/nylon.

With our instrument he gets best of both worlds, a guitar interface, but every button is a chord in any key/scale. Basically, you now have a chord encyclopedia (like omnichord), but once he figures out the chord progression, he can switch to traditional mode and do the crazy stuff that he does all on one device.
That's really unfair considering the source. This is someone who continually has proved the skeptics wrong. At what point does he earn the benefit of the doubt in your eyes?
Though El Salvador is no stranger to having popular governments overthrown by corporate interests.
Yes, what a selfless act of charity those people undertook in exchange for mere hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. Let us have a moment of silence for the millions of man-hours selflessly donated to this organization, which was founded by Mother Theresa herself.

This unassailable high ground certainly warrants six paragraphs of pointless our-incredible-journeying, especially as they go on to describe the future of the organization as 'tinkering around.'
The fdm project is dead. The Sourceforge project page returns 404, and the Github repository hasn't been updated since 2014. (And the Sourceforge mailing list returns 404 as well.)

The code probably works, but don't expect any help or updates.
Bullying is a weird word for "harassment".

> If anything the anonymous factor prevented harassment within the app, because between posts you couldn't identify anyone, thus no one could really carry grudges or become "popular."

But you can say, "Jennie Ginger is a slut", and positively identify a real person in real life. Or you could just spout racist epithets.

I'm not sure why I'm positing hypotheticals, when harassment was an actual, ongoing problem:

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/09/technology/popular-yik-ya...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/yik-yak-harassment_us_56...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2014/10...

http://money.cnn.com/2015/05/07/technology/yik-yak-universit... - sorry, auto-playing video (fuck you, CNN).

This article is weird; I can't tell if it's blaming the victims, or the colleges, or the institution of college altogether: http://www.slate.com/articles/life/education/2015/10/yik_yak...
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What about waiting time between transfers? You need a certain population density to have almost continuous trains. In Bay Area, you have to wait an hour between Caltrains unless it is rush hour. Caltrains could go 500mph, I would still drive to avoid the wait between trains.
We all have these airlines that we try to avoid. For me it's AirAsia. I would without hesitation pay 100 USD more (depending on the distance) just to NOT take them. I had so many bad experiences with this one airline that you'll have to force me into a AirAsia flight.
> The way I see it ... deals are just staffed by a bunch of aggro nerds ...

On what facts do you base this perception? If it is Uber we say "culture is set from top". This doesn't apply to Google?
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>The fact that people feel the need to defend unfinished projects of a billionaire says a lot.

I'm confused as to who exactly you're referencing here seeing as Musk has no stake in any of the hyperloop companies currently operating.
Honestly, I never thought that far ahead. The whole thing started as an experiment: "can I get something on the AppStore". I had/have no plans beyond that.
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These are great book recommendations!

I've been looking for stuff like this after reading "Cooking Comics" (by Lauren Thompson (Author) and Tsukuru Anderson (Illustrator)). It's a graphic novel/comic book but what's nice about it (beyond being aimed at beginners) is that they have this nice, systematic approach.

Start with stock, talk about why it's important and how it's done, move on to soups, demonstrate two types of soups, etc, etc. Each one has a simple recipe (and the ones I used worked well)

After reading it I'm totally jazzed about a 'cooking school textbook' sort of approach :)
I'd expect that to happen when AIs start beating top human players.
>> LIDAR is not a hack.

Depends on what one considers a "hack". Epistemologically, yes, it is a hack because it already assumes a 3D world identifiable via such means, and therefore may make the AI incapable of "reconstructing" in its "brain" more dimensions. Whereas if the AI has to learn the "hard way", it may be able to project that analogously to other ideas, and could "speak" of them in the same terms we do when speaking about dimensions.

Of course, if we're only looking for productivity from the AI, then philosophical "correctness" is a needless endeavor. ... But it might be more fun.
People are upvoting it because people were pissed with yikyak. Last I checked (and it was more than a year ago) yikyak was the preferred safespace to be racist on campus. So it is tone deaf only if you are reading this comment alone, but if you know the whole history of the company, this comment hits the right tone it is almost musical.

How many years has it been since people have pointed out twitter is a place where women are being harassed and treated worse like you wouldn't believe. Is the company doing anything about it? Not really. If they did, it would have stopped. I wish twitter also rids itself like this somehow.
For large dimensions, a normal linear search.
How well something achieves all of its intended functions (including longevity, etc.)
This is called an escrow company. They've been around for about 500 years. They're not cheap.
> Musk is a master of hype.
> If you live by hype at some point you gotta start delivering

In your book, Musk hasn't delivered enough yet? But why am I arguing with a Ph.D student. I wish you that your life is as fullfilled as Musk's.
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> Most app's domain objects and rules are small. You could describe them on a few sheets of notebook paper. The technology implementation (e.g. database or http logic) is a much larger portion of the codebase.

That not true. Poorly understood business logic is where most of your code is. Once you create and depend on business object it is really difficult to change. Because you cannot change you end with writing more code...

Your code will largely reflect organisation and process. Only way to have "Clean Architecture" is when business owners are fully committed to project and willing to adapt/change organisation. But because it is easier to change code than people, we end up with multi million LOC projects in COBOL.

What this blog post is for enterprise managers that believe in bullshit graphs and layers. Technology is important because it will guide you towards solution. People selling ideas about "You can swap out Oracle or SQL Server, for Mongo" to my corporate masters should be hanged. Next year I will have a project to change database: CP to AP thanks to people like author.
'The millions of reasons people give for why they won't work' are so important and useful not only for the development but for other possible innovations. They should be welcomed.

And I think there are no causation and correlation between thinking reasons that make it impossible and starting a company.
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Looks like the Promise example will be fixed in TypeScript 2.3.1

https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/14770
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> The fact that people feel the need to defend unfinished (and very unproven) projects of a billionaire says a lot.

The fact that people think they can spend two seconds evaluating and dismissing an engineering idea from someone who literally sends things into space is hilarious.

> If you live by hype at some point you gotta start delivering.

If putting cars on the road and rockets on the launchpad doesn't count as "delivering", I don't know what does.
This thread might not be particularly relevant for you. The parent link is discussing theoretical computational capacity at a cosmic level - which "presently has no example of running a human-defined instruction sequence at that level".
I never alluded to their journey being selfless or charitable...

Just because the team partially did this for profit, doesn't mean they didn't work their asses off and are now sad to shut it down. Nor does it discredit the claim that some of their users are going to be very sad to see it go. That was my point.
That was one thing that came to my mind. I also wonder what it'd look like by minimizing LCS score of anagram pairs. Too lazy to code it right now though =/
We get it, this is a difficult moment for the founders and employees. Having said that, there's nothing wrong with writing candidly instead of assaulting us with marketing speak. If they're trying to spin things at this point, it can be quite annoying to read and I personally would lose a bit of sympathy that I'd otherwise have.
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Interesting. There's also a weird CloudFront issue that only hits Chrome that surfaced today. Wonder if they're related... https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=254701&ts...
Yes, indeed, scraping is the easiest part.

Saving everything in a way for use it later is much harder (and expensive), IMHO.
Destroyed, to the tune of 70M?

Surely they could just issue a 'mea culpa' at that point and recommit to their previous direction? In spite of how the web acts, users can be incredibly forgiving as far as 'voting with their wallets' go - at the end of the day they'll just use whatever works, and a 'mea culpa' post would be sufficient for most to 'begrudgingly' resume using the old/familiar service? (I mean, maybe not all of them, but enough to not take such a massive hit...)

Hot damn, adding this to my 'further reading' list.
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I don't understand why you'd be downvoted, this is feasible: see the illegal sand mining operations in India for instance [0].

[0]: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/01/magazine/sand-mining-indi...
> 'The millions of reasons people give for why they won't work' [...] should be welcomed.

Not really. It's easy to think of reasons why something won't work. It requires an insanely small amount of effort compared to finding a way to make something work. "Reasons why not" are a dime a dozen.

> And I think there are no causation and correlation between thinking reasons that make it impossible and starting a company.

I certainly think there is. I haven't collected any evidence, but I wouldn't be surprised if those who find success are always looking for reasons why something will work, and those who run into failure are always looking for reasons why something won't work.

Now, to be fair, thinking of reasons "why not" does have its specialized use cases. Safety, for instance. But even then, that requires thinking outside of the box for unusual failure situations.
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You forgot about World of Warcraft [1]

[1] http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/09/tech/web/nsa-spying-video-game...
Most startups go out of business. Raising $ doesn't guarantee success.
I don't agree with you at all but given that you do present an unpopular opinion (which we need, there is too much "on the bandwagon" thinking at HN sometimes) and given the way you phrase the point I'm up-voting.
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Where have you been exactly? He receives the hype precisely because he has delivered after people insisted he couldn't.

He and his companies have delivered the Falcon, Model S, Modex X, and a concept Model 3 set to be delivered soon, along with a Falcon Heavy.

If any person were able to deliver even one of those products, they'd be deserving of attention. And that's not even everything he's delivered.

If delivering three groundbreaking products (as in you can go out and use them right now) is hype, then I think maybe you need to revise your definition of "hype".
Eh dunno, sounded pretty fluffy to me. Dressing up the move to Square as some 'community' thing when it's likely simple pragmatism, and so on. (Though nowhere near as apparently rage-inducing the other guy found it lol.)
> For example, we banned Nazi science of all forms.

Could you develop this point? Certainly not rocket science [0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip
I'm not even talking about success - I'm talking about investors looking out for their own money and getting a deal done for a buyout. I wouldn't even really call it a soft landing.
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If places aren't dense enough to support mass transit, they are certainly not dense enough to financially support car-trains tunnels. The depicted tunnels have the same costs as building subways, and I imagine similar maintenance costs. On the other hand, they can only serve a fraction of the riders a traditional subway can, which means the cost per rider is huge. Not to mention it still requires owning a car, so the traditional capital and insurance savings from mass transit don't apply.

But to answer your question: maybe, but it doesn't matter. American cities are already bankrupting themselves in road maintenance. Adding a series of super car tunnels for an efficiency benefit? Out of the question.
It amused me last year when I realised that 95% of my phone use was the facebook app, tinder, and pokemon go. One a notorious battery drain, the next crashed regularly, and then the last was worst at both. I definitely think there are a lot of programmers who place a too much weight on the effect of quality when it comes to consumer apps.
I think he's motivated by the idea of building systems that enable other systems that wouldn't be possible otherwise.

Examples would be the gigafactory, his comments about how Tesla is not learning how to build cars, but learning how to build car factories, etc. The approach with SpaceX wasn't "OK, let's build a rocket system that can get to Mars." Instead it was "OK, let's build a company that has a repeatable and sustainable launch business that can drive down cost and drive up efficiency over time, so that getting to Mars won't be a near-impossible problem anymore."

Building a one-off public transit system in the Bay Area, with all the current technological, regulatory, and social headaches, doesn't really offer many opportunities to improve things, does it? Elon isn't God; he can't magically overcome all the factors that cause the Bay Area to have bad transit today, just like he couldn't magically start colonizing Mars in 2004.

So building a new class of technologies to bore tunnels much more quickly, safely, and cheaply seems like it enables a whole new set of opportunities to make the current transit problems more tractable. It creates a whole new set of opportunities for transportation that simply don't exist today.

I'm tired, so forgive me if that isn't clear, just what's running through my head.
My opinion: moving a problem to other place you do not solve the problem.

We have too much cars, millions of people, each driving a ton of steel to move from place to place alone. Cars on the underground is not a good solution.

What world needs is automated and intelligent transport, and for the masses.
And it's more portable than a piano. That seems like the killer feature in that scenario, no? You can compose songs anywhere.
But if you can make tunnel digging orders of magnitude cheaper, why not just run subways to the suburbs?
> Well mobile is one option.

No it is not. Mobile is either Verizon or AT&T. All the other mobile companies use infrastructure from one of those two monopolies, and follow the same business model.

I haven't ever seen a mobile company that does not have some sort of data cap.
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> The latter are also aware of survivorship bias

While that may be true, it would be interesting to compare the frequencies with which successful founders bring up the topic of survivorship bias vs the rate at which those who never found anything bring it up.
Can anybody explain about the buffer pools part?
By the time a significant tunnel boring project gets planned, approved and built, cars will be self driving and the Uber model of rides on demand will be extremely prevalent. Traffic will be massively reduced and existing roads will be much more efficiently used.

I agree with the theory that Musk is aiming these boring machines at Mars. That makes more sense than using them to attack the traffic problem when that problem is already being solved by one of his other companies.
> I wouldn't really even call it a soft landing.

Let me help - you're looking for the phrase, "a cautionary tale."
My father worked as a chemical process engineer for Bechtel stationed in a 3rd world country (we all lived there with him too) working on the public-works water treatment system for the nation's capital - from what I can tell, Bechtel did go in with honest intentions - but were stalled by local corruption and lack of political willpower.
Makes sense.

But, maybe it's a case where they knew the negativity (racism, harassment, bullying, etc.) was so bad, they had to do something to curb it, even if it meant destroying the company.

Sounds crazy, even I'm skeptical, but maybe for once somebody chose to do the right thing despite the money at stake. Dunno.
My experience with DSL is that providers use a "burst" to give you ~15-20mbit (whatever you pay for) for a few seconds, and then quickly slow down to ~1mbit.

Cable companies tend to act the same way, but much less consistently.
> tunnelling is a broadly solved problem. It's difficult, expensive, slow

And now Musk is trying to solve for those three factors
Shouldn't the vigilantes try to DDOS the IoT vendor websites with their own devices (poetic justice) instead of what the bricker guy is doing? That way it seems the message he's sending would be as direct and unambiguous as it gets.
I'm currently a wet behind the years (hopeful) Java developer -- what's cringey about a modification to a kernel driver being hard? That sounds pretty intimidating to me.
The VC market expands and contracts like any other following the principles of economics. Therefore, the fact that the production possibilities frontier (is there a better term for a money market?) can move outward shows it is not zero-sum. In simple terms, as time goes forward, more and more resources can be created and injected into the market unlike a truly scare resource.
How about Bolivia?

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

"The World Bank said that "poor governments are often too plagued by local corruption and too ill equipped to, the World Bank stated that "no subsidies should be given to ameliorate the increase in water tariffs in Cochabamba". The New Yorker reported on the World Bank's motives, "Most of the poorest neighborhoods were not hooked up to the network, so state subsidies to the water utility went mainly to industries and middle-class neighborhoods; the poor paid far more for water of dubious purity from trucks and handcarts. In the World Bank's view, it was a city that was crying out for water privatization."

That sounds eerily like your comment.