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The CloudFormation docs seemed to have been intentionally designed to torture anyone trying to use it. You end up reading everything you can find, learning almost nothing and having to infer everything from whatever examples you can find combined with just straight up guessing. Guessing with a run/teardown feedback loop measured in minutes with very little feedback.
But I don't think the point of this is to look at it from the investors' point of view. The point is to look at it from the founders' point of view. That is, as a founder, what's your basic (binary) chance of your company being a success? Founders don't get the chance to diversify across many companies - all of their eggs are in one (their own company's) basket. Thus, for them, a "percentage chance of a positive outcome" is an important metric.
I've always considered myself a fiscal conservative. Not the "let's cut all welfare" type of fiscal conservative but the kind who says, "Ok, we just found out that the Pentagon can't account for billions of dollars worth of equipment. Let's figure this out and try to use taxpayer money as efficiently as possible."

I think if you cut all of the waste and abuse and held agencies to certain targets (i.e. 90% of taxpayer funds earmarked for education have to make it to the classroom level) you would free up enough money that you could actually create poverty programs that solved poverty. You could improve education without paying more for it. You could smooth out demographic shifts that challenge the social security system.

The government is a big money sucking machine. It's not that we aren't paying enough taxes, it's that they're being spent irresponsibly.
Interesting. I thought that kind of stuff (code) would be the intellectual property if the University and subject to their licensing terms.
Nor did I (iOS).
Given that the past participle of "write" is "written" and the preterite is "wrote", the forms of "copywrite" should be "copywrote" and "copywritten", not "copywrited."
Nominal wages have increased since 1970. Where did the money go? It's not hard, it's basic math: deficit spending necessitates printing money (done in various ways, notably QE) , which eats away spending power.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14576935 and marked it off-topic.
So... I said cheap rockets are a good idea, and your best counter-argument is to say "No, cheap rockets are a good idea" ?

> you have a small number of highly educated, highly skilled people allowed to make a new society on a different planet. How much faster do you think they will be able to operate without the ineffiencies of the world today?

How much slower will they work when they don't have quick access to a modern industrial civilization?

> If a facist religious dictatorship ends up forbidding all technology and destroys the planet and us with it, I'd be glad that we at least have something else continuing the species.

I don't really have a rational counter-argument, because that isn't much of a rational position.
I for one would. They are leaving money on the table by not serving burgers anytime anybody wants a burger.
Er no that's not often true. I guess it depends on what you mean by "better" and "small" exit but often an acquihire or low cash exit isn't better than if the company ipos. Consider liquidation preferences, ratchets etc.
> For example, you can't define entropy as an absolute number; it needs to be assigned a unit,

You can define entropy directly without reference to other units, although it's a bit awkward. Entropy is the log of the number of microstates that correspond to a system's macrostate. Concretely, if you put n mols of ideal gas molecules in a box of volume V at a pressure P and temperature T, there is some large number of microstates corresponding to all those parameters. Entropy is the log of this number.

In classical mechanics, there's a normalization problem if you try to get an actual number out of this type of problem -- the microstates and all the macroscopic parameters are continuous. In quantum mechanics, though, this issue is solvable, although it's still awkward.

I can imaging a different type of system in which entropy really can be calculated, though. Imagine a particle that can be in exactly one of two states that are macroscopically identical. Now try to cool the system so that the particle is in one of those states of your choice. To do so, you will need to dump exactly 1 bit of entropy.

1 bit of entropy is tiny, but adiabatic demagnetization refrigerators work kind of like this, albeit in reverse, and I could imagine an experiment that would use a device like an adiabatic demagnetization fridge to remove a calibrated number of bits of entropy from some object. From this, you could, in principle, define entropy directly.
Oh man, what a blast from the past. I remember those docs, they seemed so promising at first glance. But everything was just subtly slightly wrong.

Those libraries were fantastic, so far ahead of the rest of the pack at the time in terms of API design and code quality. I remember looking at it and being so happy to see that there was a js utility/cross-browser library written by engineers thinking in terms of software rather than "scripts".
Surprisingly, the Internet is becoming centralized like the Minitel was.
Is history repeating itself?
This should be in a hitch-hiker's-guide-like guide offline woven into our clothes for the distopian future.
Would you stop violating the guidelines? We're here for thoughtful, insightful discussions, and there's no room for snarky dismissals like this. Please do better.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
TL;DR: Stephen Fry quits Twitter in early 2016.
Well, in this particular case, it seems "Nazis" do have rights, because Alex Jones is apparently having a profitable business and nobody's throwing him into jail.
Stephen has since returned to Twitter, though he tweets much less than he used to. I wonder if he is now treating it as a write-only medium.

I'm one of the lucky 50K people he still follows (he used to follow everyone who followed him, in the very early days of Twitter, but that quickly stopped), but when you have 12 million followers, I imagine your use of Twitter is somewhat different to most peoples.
We detached this flagged subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14576877.
I'd travel for the most part as I get satisfaction from discovering different cultures and new parts of the world.
Are you the owner of Cucumbertown ?
When I really need to be productive on multiple fronts simultaneously, I use a version of this. At the end of each day I'll write down a 'plan for tomorrow' with the items I plan on working on. This is a deliberately ambitious list, so I don't expect to finish everything. This gives me flexibility in case items are blocked, and makes sure if I have a really good day I still don't run out of tasks. The task list then gets updated as tasks are finished or blocked, and the unfinished tasks form the start of the next list.
Google smaller startup exits versus IPOs. Anyways, it sure worked out well for viaweb and PG.
Looking at this move in terms of Instacart-vs-Amazon is most likely short-sighted. Amazon plays the long game just about better than anyone else around.

I'm sure they care about it, but I wouldn't be surprised if they view the Instacart business as tangential. No offense to the fine people at Instacart! I love the service, am a big fan and customer, but objectively I think the business is going to change. Self-driving cars, drones, etc. -- last-mile delivery is going to change in the next 5-10 years.

What I find more interesting about this acquisition: real estate. Amazon just acquired 450 or so locations in high-density areas that are likely in the sweet spot of their target customers.

They are trying out some revolutionary concepts at Amazon Go. I'd say Amazon feels ready to move on changing the user experience in-store, as opposed to "old-school" delivery.
I've always been a fan of old school RPGs, so I like using habitica. You put in your tasks, and when you do them, you get gold and experience to buy items and level up. If you don't do them, you lose health. It makes it like a game.

https://frinkiac.com/video/S03E04/YYBQ9RpVADU0UvixOi_GW4i2E8...
What makes this library fast?

I thought there were already many GPU accelerated paths for graphics in the browser, even including basic CSS functionality which leverages hardware acceleration in a significant number of scenarios.

It's great to see this library, just thought that since a lot of visualizations don't require advanced graphics techniques that a lot of GPU benefit was already being realized.
SQLAlchemy docs are very good. I remember having to drop two layers of abstraction under the main API to get some very specific stuff done and it was still documented with useful example code.

The actual software design is great as well, single-handedly changed my mind about ORMs.
>My grandparents are pretty sure Tito gave them a nice cushy life.

Yeah, but note that your grandparents also had life before socialism to compare, and, whatever troubles the regime had, regimes and lives before it weren't that nice in most of the Balkan either. So it might not be that propaganda worked better on them, but that they legitimately thought their conditions had been improved.

It's not like they went from cushy capitalist life to soviet style misery -- it was lots of war, national tensions, conscription, hard village life, culminating of course to the horror that was WWII.

And Tito was a bug war hero (for them, but legitimately too), and did held the country together (way better than his successors did post-socialism, so there's that).
Pretty cool game curious if you do anything with it, like do you somehow use the client's resources or what? Is it just to waste time? Though I could see if it's a "trying to improve typing speed" as it has to be typed in order
“War Machine” Offers a scathing critique of America’s delusional Generals
A version of Keras is included in Tensorflow since 1.1 as well, under `tensorflow.contrib.keras.python.keras`. (This has been particularly useful for me as a Windows user, since my GTX 1080 is stuck in a Windows machine, and it's a little more painful to deal with upstream Keras dependencies on Windows, but TF alone works great)
There are still many, many propaganda films being made in the US, and not just for kids but for adults as well. There are so many movies and shows glorifying the US military and spies, and making evil caricatures of foreign enemies. Some films are essentially recruitment films for the US military, and they even play overt military recruitment ads before feature films in theaters.

Political campaigns are also essentially propaganda, as are what's put out by the PR departments of the military, Department of State, White House, think tanks, and even corporations.

I almost never see any of this pointed out, much less questioned in the US media. It's like they're either not even aware of it or don't care.

They freak out over Russian, Chinese, or North Korean propaganda, though.
nope - d3 code is extremely imperative...

so after a couple of lines, they're somewhat unmaintainable to me...

but couldn't find anything that covers most of d3's features...
Well, you can already deduce one fact regarding your question from OP: a 30-day challenge that brings its user a clear and obvious benefit does not work (at least, we know it does not work 100% of the time) as a way to introduce and stick with a productive and positive habit, even where the burden of that habit is low.

Some other way, different from a "30-day challenge" must be used to introduce the habit, because this method does not work (or at least does not work 100% of the time).
don't let yourselves be fooled, fools.
if this takes any real form, it'll be gutted and ripped apart until there's nothing of essence left because it would mean the following ingenius legislation be repealed.

and. that. will. never. happen.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_data_rete...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_name_record
And let's not even get started on Roger Ramjet...
It's very inaccurate for my batch (S10) at least, for which I know of about twice as many exits as are listed.

And as others have mentioned, the bigger challenge is that "exits" aren't a good metric for either gauging YC's success or for making founders rich. The companies that have "failed" to convert (i.e., exit) from S10 include Stripe, PagerDuty, and Docker.
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The US, Hollywood, Nazi Germany and The Soviet Union has made English the lingua franca of the world. It makes sense to use it. That said, French is the working language of much of the EU bureaucracy so there's probably a French version out there somewhere.
What homework have I not done? What fact am I missing?
I have all of the information needed to make an accurate judgment.

You've yet to give me any answer to that question, and I'd invite you to point me to anything that I have stated that is incorrect.
“If You Don't Like It, Don't Pay for It”
Your browser is already a HTML/CSS/JS renderer. Why would they not use what is indisputably the most productive UI stack?
> Where Stephen Fry discovers the concept of the Eternal September.
I agree with you too, after all I'm a software developer myself (and I love my 80's Sierra DOS games).

So, it's not like I don't believe that they have some value (ZX games or early iOS apps), but that I made my stand a little more black and white to get my point across.

I don't believe most of it is culture to the sense that a book is, mostly because most of them are quite plain, derivate from numerous other apps for other platforms, and driven by basic commercial desires. And of course, a book can be a window in someones mind/thought/philosophy/etc, whereas an app is mostly a utilitarian endeavour (it's like we don't attach much cultural importance to past commercial products, e.g. old tv sets or old fridges or old typewriters -- we might like them as antiques, but that's mostly it).

That said, there are also utilitarian reasons for us wanting software to keep existing in some form (to open old documents, etc).
Most things made outside of the US are propaganda. Most things made inside the US are propaganda too. Basically it's all propaganda.
Why not just make an app instead of loaning out a physical device
What tech stack is the site by built with?
I imagine that security would be a concern for WU locations at or near refugee camps, considering they need to stock the place with cash. Anyone have insights about how they handle it?
Not sure I understand. These are the default survival::survfit CIs. I'd be very interested to hear why they're a poor choice in this case (I don't think they are) https://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-devel/library/survival/html/...

Also, I have to address the claim of small samples. There is no sample size inherently too small. We make estimates of uncertainty given information. We might wish to extract more certainty (statistical efficiency per n), but that's part of the art. Smaller sample sizes are more work for the statistician but not less valid in any way.
TaskWarrior, sync'ed across several machines through inthe.am, isn't perfect, but it has made my life better.

Start simple, as a to-do list, then add complexity if you need it. The documentation is sufficient. Tagging, projects, and priorities are all interesting/useful.
Next thing you know you're buying things online in your sleep.
Last time I was at a machine learning meetup where Rand gave a speech about the features of your framework he told us that for the speech recognition part you were using Google/Apple APIs, only the NLP/NLU would be handled by you. Is it still the case? Because I don't think Google does "privacy by design" and when someone sells me a product with that brand I expect it to be 100% private, not half private.
The DC Metro is subject to malicious interference from a certain political party that LIKES it to be unpunctual and troubled. Gives them something to bash
Litecoin Booms as Market Cap Tops $2B for First Time
I'm not sure. The statement, without analysis, still makes a kind of independently true point (more millionaires made) and would lend itself to reasoning through. The statement you compare it with is obviously false and no amount of analysis could change that. I dunno. Not a huge deal in any case :)
> People keep complaining about the small community. Please join and help.

I will when I find the chance to start working with it! I'm currently using Scala.

> Is that a bug or a feature? ...

It seems like a bug to me. Yes, corporate backing has its downsides, but it's a great way to ensure that a language will have long-term support. Look at React and TypeScript, for example. If Facebook and Microsoft didn't push them down our throats at the start, do you think their use would end up being so widespread?
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Do you use Amazon ML? If so, what exactly do you do with it?

As with most other AWS products, it is very hard to know what exactly it does by looking at the home page.
Nobody can link any particular home run from Barry Bonds to the steroids he took, either.
As a complete aside, google translate is incredible. Until I started reading the same thing again, I didn't even realize the page was french. And even then, I thought the second section was the translation, not the first!
What I dislike about Twitter is how much significance things that happen on it are given.

With over 300mln active users if something has been retweeted, say, 15,000 times it still can't be reasonably counted as a "storm".
In context, "have octaves" mean treating notes whose frequencies are powers of two as the "same", just shifted up. I believe the pentatonic scale still has this feature.
It's like a chain in waiting.
Bitcoin blows up LTC is already in place to take over.
Crash as in temporary lose some value? Yes, it will, and as soon as this summer. But crash as in "bite the dust and be forgotten", then it's highly unlikely at this point.

ETH's growth is for a different reason, which is the fact that companies can now do multi-million dollar fundraisers on it.
There are more than two categories. Grading the set objectively seems infeasible, and not very useful. I've lived in two cities as they hosted Olympics, but didn't attend either. I've been to a world expo. I've not been to a world cup or an F1 event (though I once worked in an office overlooking the F1).

I think this Expo was a waste of resources. I suspect most TED conferences are not. I understand that Olympics, World Cup, F1 are highly lucrative for a handful of people, but typically a net negative for the host city / state. The corruption associated with at least two of those three is legendary, and well documented. If you would prefer to separate 'the event' from 'the corruption involved in the event', then good luck with that.
Content ... content ... content. Content is the key here.

No matter how much SEO optimization you will put into a website if the content is bad or not regularly updated (at least 2 - 3 times per week) you won't grow enough to see a significant revenue.
Most of those failed restaurants were started by people who never worked in one. When you have only been a guest you think it is easy. If you have worked in other people's restaurants then you most likely wouldn't want to start one. If you did, at least you would have an idea of what works and what doesn't. But still no guarantee of success.
Stefano D'Alessio was able to make something pretty catchy
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8hwDD7mYH_k
He's a memorabilia appraiser, so the reporter probably asked him what they were worth.
Specifically, the Apple app eco system comes to mind.
There are some valid use cases here, I hope this will not affect users of wopr (https://github.com/yaronn/wopr).
Pile of Index Cards, and a very loose set of goals / tasks.

https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/u4dgr0tkxk4tk9npuvex5a

I find the physicality of cards is highly useful. I could use a better set of categories for specific activities, but that requires some changes to working space and desk.

I'm coming to rebel against a tremendous amount of electronic and online tools, as well as find the merits of not only pen-and-paper based systems, but of the critical utility of a dedicated office and work space.

Not that I'm fully there yet, but the highly-mobile, transitory, digital, and ephemeral mode (which I've attempted, for several decades) simply isn't suited to in-depth work.

Which becomes patently obvious when reading much of that written by those who espouse that.
What activity is this even trying to deter? Assisted suicide? Bullying? Texting? And how does it do so?

From the ruling, it seems the judge did not take anything into consideration except for the messages and inactions directly related to the incident. I understand why he didn't, legally speaking, because it's way too complicated if you do so. How can you reason about 2 years of exchanges in which he clearly expresses suicidal thoughts and toys with the idea of death to a teenage girl who herself struggles with these same issues and is under active antidepressants?

I don't feel like it's obvious at all what the true cause is. She's spent more time and sent him more messages trying to deter him from committing suicide and pushing him to seek help prior to her assisting in his suicide attempt. Yet it seems that didn't do anything to help his depression. In his suicide note he thank her for all her support, and for being there for him and helping him. To me, him being suicidal is at the heart of it. She didn't make him suicidal. And if we could find who or what is responsible for him being suicidal in the first place, then wouldn't those who or what be even more responsible for his death?

You could also claim he's made her assist him. He basically spent 2 years promoting to her the idea that he should do it, actively seeking her support in it. To me, that's as far fetched as what she's accused of. As soon as you make a conclusion from the premise that your words were the cause of someone's elses actions, you enter a realm of uncertainty, because we don't understand those psychological mechanism at all. They run deep, wide and complex.

Yes, she's assisted him in his suicide, that's undeniable, to call that involuntary manslaughter is questionable. Suicide is illegal, and that's questionable too. Assisted suicide is also illegal, that's also questionable. The grounds for crime are fuzzy, but you're right, given the law and situation, she contributed, at least by making it easier for him.

So I'm not objecting with the ruling, or anything like that. I feel more like we're just failing as a whole. Failing to prevent depression, failing to support it, failing to discuss it openly, failing to deal with it, failing to understand it, etc. And I don't see this court case improving on any of it. In fact, it might make it worse, by complicating an already complicated situation.
As a birder, this looks like a failed experiment to me. Or I don't understand what their goal was. The groupings make little sense in terms of what these species sound like. I'm guessing that's an artifact of the way they sampled the sounds, losing macro properties. Kind of like grouping the words 'paramour', 'enmity' and 'hamster' together bc they all contain /m/ sound.
My alarm is actually set for 4:30 am, but my internal clock wakes me up between 3-4 for some reason. I do think I can use better sleep, but I think diet affects that significantly.
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They should be, agreed, but people don't always language in ways we expect.
Likely has to do with the increase in the number of pixels on your desktop display. Even worse if you're using a high resolution external display.
same, I just learned SQL this week ha.
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