skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For example, Facebook had an offer from Yahoo for a billion dollars, which everyone told Zuck to take. Fortunately, he said no. Had he said yes, it would have been another failed Yahoo acquisition and Facebook would not have nearly as much impact.

It seems to me that the world would be overall a better place if FB had sold to Yahoo. Yahoo would have screwed it up (like AOL with Myspace) and there would be more competition in the space all around. Monopolies are good for the investors, not for the customers.
You are a cunt
Why would people want to use a social network they have to pay for when all of the existing ones are free?
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He's thinking of borders
The research side may not be the main culprit, hence I said "compiler engineering" - meaning usable tools delivered to the hands of developers. Though I think the research side has not focused on this enough either.

Regarding the Milk paper specifically, it appears to be about reordering and clustering memory accesses without changes to data layout. This is a fine thing but I think it reinforces my point about lack of attention to memory/data layout optimizations.
He's on patreon: https://www.patreon.com/beneater

His videos are so great, I'm happy when I get my monthly emails that he's receiving money. It's a good reminder that I need to hop back on them!
thanks! I saw that page as well a while ago on HN, although I'm not sure how feasible it is for such a network to run smoothly on mobile.
> Bitcoin used to be at $1, now it's at $1,xxx.

It's now at $2,4xx.
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That's a bit previous, as my my grandmother used to say. I'd need to see a lot more context and also to see this ruling adopted in other jurisdictions before I'd expect any sort of impact on that - I don't know much about Swiss law and it's equally possible that this judgement might be overturned because the judge misunderstood how social media works, for example.

OTOH I do wish there were some sort of legal remedy against such fakery.
gRPC is a great, but has a ton of small problems including a catastrophic documentation (in some cases we had to read byte code to figure out what to do).

The biggest issue for us was however was that there is no middle server that could handle an route connections to available workers. We were using haproxy which worked ok but far from great. It was very hard to figure out how many servers need to run at any given point and thus a ton of our requests were ending up with UNAVAILABLE response.

Essentially what we needed is a synchronous RPC over PubSub which gRPC doesn't offer.
For me personally, Chrome is WAY worse in memory usage than Firefox
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Off topic, but am I the only one amused that a company called "Websecurify" can't even spend the $0 necessary to put an SSL certificate on their blog?
Would say the exact opposite. This deck is great and like how they focus on how things are changing. One of the most interesting slides was which tech company most trusted with health data.
Apple's kid-friendly coding app can now bring toys to life
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While there are many compact binary systems in the universe continuously emitting gravitational waves for a very long time, LIGO is only able to detect the most violent waves emitted by the final coalescence and merger. So, on the astrophysical side, there is some joint probability given by how common these systems are, and how likely they are to merge in a given time frame. (Space based observatories like LISA would be able to see the long-lived inspiral waves though.)

On the instrumental side, we've only just reached the sensitivity levels to make any detections in the first place, so it's not surprising that we're not getting a huge number of events (otherwise the previous generation of detectors would've seen something). In addition, each individual observatory has its own "antenna pattern", making us less less sensitive to certain sky locations. This will improve as VIRGO, KAGRA, and LIGO-India come online in the future.
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Source: Observation of a 50-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence at Redshift

https://journals.aps.org/prl/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.221...
> Servo's WebRender sub-project has amazing performance

Have you gotten amazing results on your machine? I ask because I think Servo, Rust, WebRender are awesome and I'm rooting for them, but the performance has not been great when I try Servo or WebRender in Firefox on multiple machines. Maybe it's just the machines I've tried on though.
> Yes, but how many people really need better than netbook performance?

With current super bloated state of the web, Electron apps and other disasters? Probably all of them.
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I don't think you are necessarily in disagreement with him.

The fact we are machines doesn't mean the circuits to video game analogy is incorrect, in fact I think it's apt.

If physics is about understanding the fundamental nature of matter and energy then why do we study chemistry? Because they are different abstractions that yield different insights.

So the point is thinking about consciousness may be more useful that thinking about chemicals even if we understand some of the low level mechanics.
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A bit of trivia: Computation is frequently pipelined so that part of the work is done during previous frame(s). This of course means that the game logic latency is longer than 1 frametime.
Lunacy? Nah, the vast majority of software that regular people use is massively I/O bound. For the stuff that isn't (photoshop, e.g.), it will get ported. All of those non-photoshop apps will work just fine under emulation. Chrome and Edge will be ported, they'll work just fine.

I predict that this will have a negligible impact on PC games. They're CPU/memory/GPU bound and will not work well under emulation. They're not likely to get ported. But gamers are not the target market for this product.
What interests you in starting a blockchain company then?
Seconded this book. It's also available on Audible.
He's being sarcastic. But no one does seem to consider how much this has gutted local economies
They're hoping to sell the capture of CO2:

>Ultimately, the company wants to sell its ability to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and store it underground, and it thinks that the market may be ready to pay sooner than the startup initially expected.

>“Based on our experiences now on the market, we are very confident that we will be able to develop a market in the very near future, maybe next year or in two or three years, to sell these negative emissions.
> Otherwise I wouldn't mind one to turn into a highly portable Linux machine -- stars in my eyes, and all that.

Assuming you'll be able to boot Linux on such a device, that might still require exploiting some yet-to-be-found bugs to root it, and/or voiding its warranty. BTW good luck with GPU drivers, multitouch, exotic sensors...
Conversation going on at http://avc.com/2017/06/icos-and-vcs/ today ...
Jasper : Sam Altman has said that the only criterion Y Combinator uses to evaluate applying companies is, “Can this be a $10 billion plus company?” like Airbnb and Dropbox. While this model works great for a fund, there is an Early Exits movement that suggests individual entrepreneurs have a much higher likelihood of success when they raise less capital and target exits in the $20 million range. What do you think this view?

Paul : The math does not support this strategy but if other investors want to try it that’s fine. Also, it is not just returns we are looking for but really impactful companies. When you sell too early you don’t realize the full potential.
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What's the difference between the two?

I've only done a little front-end development but I tried both browsers debugging tools and other than layout, I couldn't see any differences.

They both seem to offer the same things.
In the same vein, there is no right to life, there's right of not being killed.
It's certainly not as ostentatious as the major stations in that article but the ceiling height, apparent quality of materials used (marble on the columns, slate floor, not completely horrendous tile on the subway walls) and the abundance of light make for a functional and safe-feeling environment.

Compare that to the first east-bound station on the Toronto subway line (one of the few stations with sometimes-usable bathrooms).
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Your comment about list comprehensions reminded me of an old, interesting Perl book, "High-Order Perl", which explores functional programming techniques in Perl. One of the chapters implements a lazy map - which, turns out, is actually quite easy to implement in a few loc, since Perl supports closures and high-order, first-class functions.

http://hop.perl.plover.com/
>Once configured, don't plan on using the computer you setup the Media server on as it is always busy/ bogged down scanning files and transcoding video.

This is such a bogus statement. The impact that Plex has on your computer is directly tied to the processing power of said computer.

I run Plex with a >10tb media collection on my >2 year old desktop, and I am able to play games such as PUBG, DayZ, Arma 3, Overwatch, etc with absolutely no hindrance.

This is my build: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/QVKMrH

edit: I'd also argue that Plex has a vastly superior interface, as well as metadata handling, compared to Kodi. Kodi is basically "the poor man's Plex."
>Alternatively, Tesla is completely right (which I personally don't believe), in which case as they confess that : "Vandermeyden had been granted numerous positions “over other more qualified candidates” and was “given special treatment and opportunities for advancement that were unwarranted based on her qualifications”."

Why is it bad to admit that? She's fired now anyways.
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No. That was why the next paragraph began 'Seriously, ...' and went on to talk about good practices and personal responsibility. It was a joke, rooted in the widespread experiences of such practices among bad managers.

This is called deadpan humor and it's wise to look for additional data for comparison when you see someone make a superficially outrageous or incongruous statement.
My biggest concern with something like this is how it affects debuggability and the principal of least surprise, for a couple of reasons. The biggest is that in the presence of bugs. If there is a bug in foo but you only use foo in the context of foo x (bar x) then all those operations get transformed and you end up with the correct behavior even though your code has a bug that will suddenly appear when you use foo in a way that that rule isn't applied. Or there's a bug in superOptimizedFooBar, so you correctly write "foo x (bar x)" which is correct, but you get the wrong results, and you may waste time trying to debug foo and bar not realizing the rule replacement. And there is also the possibility of bugs in the rules themselves. In general, I'm a little hesitant to use something that is replacing my code behind my back.

It is very interesting, though, and is a good avenue to explore. I've got some reading to do :)
Can you explain the idea a little more? What's an example of an environment?
Why don’t new programmers start with stuff like this?
https://processing.org/overview/
Events big enough to be detected are quite rare, but the phenomenon you are asking about is more a financial reality than a "convenient coincidence" as you put it. There is a pretty steep curve connecting sensitivity and cost, so when the team that built LIGO was designing it, they used the best available models of colliding black hole event rates to estimate the sensitivity required to deliver a conclusive result in a reasonable amount of time.

If you're getting 10 events/second with a device like this, you probably overpaid for sensitivity and if you're getting 1 event per century you're probably not going to be able to maintain the operating expenses to still be running when the detectable event occurs (and, as critically, none of the people involved will be able to get the data they need in the time they need it to get their PhD's, assistant profesorships, or tenured positions, so you can't get the labor force you need for your experiment to work on it, which is really what sets the acceptable duration of most experiments in practice).

It looks like the original estimates were pretty good, so events are coming in at about the rate the experimenters hoped they would see them.
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Ehhh.

The research doesn't sound crazy ab initio but calling it "mainstream" makes it sound like everyone is working on it. Skimming the Wikipedia article and its citations, it's a field that a half dozen researchers have been working in for less than 10 years. It's "mainstream" in that it's the sort of work that mainstream cognitive scientists do, but it's not a particularly dominant or well known methodology; it's just one of a hundred "what if we modeled decision making this way?" paradigms currently being pursued. Time will tell if it ends up being a useful explanation of broad swaths of cognition, or just an interesting footnote.
The paper describing the event is available to the public at https://dcc.ligo.org/LIGO-P170104/public

The instrument data of this event is also available to the public at https://losc.ligo.org/events/GW170104/