skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aws has plenty of serverless - s3,dynamo,cloudfront,lamda,sqs, I could say rds and beanstalk are also kind of serverless, in loose way.

And aws is cheap...until it becomes not cheap (usually after you hit some numbers, or start dealing with "compliance").

On google side, Gcp app engine is kinda bleh... kubernetes is probably the best thing they have, but it's useful up to a point. And once you cross the "point" you start spending shit tons of money - and unless you are snapchat/YouTube it's hard to swallow it too.

Bottom line - aws might be marginally more expensive at first, but it has plenty of ways to keep things cheap if you are so inclined and flexible enough to meet all kinds of it needs (at a price of course).
What are the properties of successful robot startups?

- iRobot - made enough on military contracts to enter the vacuum business.

- Kiva - new, low-cost approach to warehouse operation. Changed fulfillment industry. Bought by Amazon.

Those are about the only recent startups I can think of that made it.

Startups not doing too well:

- Rethink Robotics - Rod Brooks' startup. Heavy on the hype, light on the profits.

- Abundant Robotics - apple-picking machine. VC financing, yes. Production hardware shipping and being used, no.

In industrial robotics, the successes are all old-line industrial companies - Fanuc, Epson, Comau, ABB, and Foxconn.
That comparison may be apt. PHP at that time was a mix of some good ideas (ease of deployment) with some horrible ones (register globals on by default is unexcusable), and some poor planning. We all lived with the fallout of that for a very long time.

The register globals issue could have been avoided at very little cost, if any cost at all, to the popularity and spread of the language and many millions of dollars and much personal information would have been saved.
Crypto has had at least 3 distinct bubbles. There's the current one, marked by Eth's absurd rise to $300. The previous one was when Bitcoin made an absurd rise to $1200 in 2014. There was a bubble before that where Bitcoin rose to $266 in 2011. And one before that I believe where Bitcoin rose to $32 in 2010.

Though crypto has risen past the high point of each of these bubbles, each price point can be definitively classified as a bubble in it's own time, and was followed by a crash that wiped out >70% of the market cap over the coming months/years.

Though it did recover, that doesn't mean it wasn't a bubble.

I believe cryptocurrency is going to be bigger than e-commerce is today. But it's not there yet, and it shouldn't be valued as though it has changed the world. It hasn't yet, and it's still a few years away at least from doing so.
Cyclus: Dependency injection and lifecycle for JavaScript
The most commonly used functions/methods are the non-mutating versions, that newcomers to Julia do learn about first. (The exception being assigning values to vectors and dictionaries using `setindex!`, as in `vector[i] = x` or `dict[key] = value`.)

A lot of user code just uses functional methods on types which have the potential to be mutated. OTOH, library methods that are called by the user often involves optimized code that might be doing mutation internally but presents a functional interface, such as `sort(vector)` (which basically uses `sort!(copy(vector))` internally).
> Create a need, then fill it.

Oh, and throw money at getting laws passed to take out the competition.
Hmm. If the pedestrians know they're not engaged in a dominance game with an aggressive human driver, they might actually be more likely to get out of the way.
There's a button which does that: "past", up right under the post link.
Thanks for the detailed response, it's very helpful. I'd be down to meet up in person to talk a little more, maybe after you talk to your mentor and have a better idea on price range. Can you email me so we can arrange in private? [Edited out]
First time I had heard this:

a pressurized cylindrical container pushes outward with equal force in all directions. This is crucial for pressurized beverages.

My favorite bottle redesign (http://www.minimallyminimal.com/blog/2010/3/15/ecocoke.html) was done on Coca-Cola and had a similar "sqround" shaped bottle, but I don't think he considered the pressure in the bottle.
Most Indian tracks are electrified back. Only a few diesel trains run right now, on light traffic routes.
I'd argue DJI is a robotics company, although there are a lot of definitions you could use (you could also say self-driving cars are robots, in which case Cruise was a financial success).

I think your point remains though. Robots really epitomize hype over profits. It's a tough industry where people ignore margins while trying to build impossibly-difficult tech.
The question is whether you can get cash out of the exchange quickly. How many ETH exchanges could write a check for $10M?
Other folks have pointed out that NeXT had a successful exit and the software lives on, to which I'd add a nice continuing career path for many of its employees (with Apple).

Can I ask what metrics you're judging by?
Also interesting: The US has about two thirds the amount of fatalities by 100k people compared to India. I.e. the US should first improve its own stats before trying to school anyone else, especially considering that countries like the UK show that it could be improved 4-fold.
That Y hotkey is immensely useful. Thanks!
In a lot of post-Soviet countries, rather than buying new, they import second-hand cars from Western European countries and keep them running. If you have skilled mechanics, and a steady stream of spare parts (from everyone else importing the same cars), it's quite easy to keep your car running up to 300,000km or beyond.

The other week I was in Armenia, and although the average wage is $400/mo, you see more BMWs and Mercedes on the road than you do in the U.K. Admitidely the climate helps, as you don't need to worry about rust in most of country.
My original motivation for building it was because I wanted exactly that:)
> The third piece — and it’s missing for a lot of teams, she said — is someone who can communicate the exact value proposition for the customer and speak their language.

So, basically, someone doing sales and marketing. I'd think that'd be a CEO/non-technical cofounder job in a very early stage startup, but maybe the capital-intensive nature of scaling up a robotics/hardware startup means the CEO should be entirely focused on raising money and securing partnerships while someone else is entirely focused on product leadership. I wonder why the investor settled on that division of labor.
That's not the point I was making. I am saying that the design principles of good design, especially for safety, should be well known now that decades have passed. Two additional points:

1. Can a 190 of that vintage be had for $4k now? IMO, that is a better investment than the Renault.

2. Could a car company license to build that 190 in India now at a low cost? That would have saved a lot of the design cost and provided folks a safe design.
I learnt Erlang before Elixir became popular. Other than a few sanity changes (like ordering of arguments for some built in functions), I prefer the Erlang syntax. The syntax is Ruby like, but it's still different enough.
It's really simple.

Addicts don't make good customers.
>I know you had to "turn on" pocket. That doesn't counter my argument.

Kinda does, especially since Google never used pocket?

> they didn't do before Chrome started doing it.

Chrome uses GA for general telemetry IIRC, a feature which Firefox has basically always had. Firefox's telemetry is much more privacy conscious (it collects very basic numbers and nothing personally identifiable). I'm not sure why about:addons decided to use GA instead of Firefox, but this isn't "copying something Google did first".

These are decisions which you may not agree with, but you're reaching when you describe them as "copying Chrome".

> toggle-able options were way back when FF used to have different settings in the options page where you could make changes to the UI, functionality, etc. Almost all of those are gone now for a "simplified" set of options.

about:config still exists. Most options are still there under advanced in settings. The UI is even more configurable, because themes exist and you can drag-drop UI elements to other parts of the browser.
Not that this will instil a huge amount of confidence, but I filed a bug about a XNU kernel syscal that returned the wrong error code. They shipped a fix two years later and closer the ticket.

I provided a diff fixing the bug but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I suppose but this sub thread was a reaction to someone mentioning that it was hard to get USD out of Bitcoin. It's not about laundering money from illicit transactions.
>Trusting governments has worked out so well historically though.

On balance, though, for most people, it actually has. Which creates a bit of a messaging problem for anarchy in the general case.
>So if you're not a STEM major ... why even study algebra?

I feel like this is equivalent to saying "if you are a STEM major, why even study writing?" I do some technical writing for work, but absolutely none of the kind of writing I did in my college writing classes. Would anyone, especially a non-STEM major, care to make an argument that the two cases are different?
Elio Motors Faces $500,000 Fine in Louisiana for Violating State Law
Performance is really good with the new multi threaded implementation.
I think the Internet's greatest failure is its inability to protects its own disruptive nature. I can just feel it slowly becoming a set of proverbial cable companies.
On a related note, a colleague once worked at a place where they did this for on-call: Everyone has an on-call score. Every week, the person on-call had their score set to zero, and everyone else incremented by one. You could plan out the next couple of months this way, and it provided an elegant way for new hires to take their place - they start at zero, and were generally familiar enough by the time their number came around.

There were some housekeeping rules to work around the organicness of human life - if someone went on holiday they kept their score, for example - but overall it seemed to work.
You could make the same argument about AirBnB. If it's profitable to rent out a room in your house, it's profitable to open a hotel. But people are still renting out AirBnB's because their homes are a sunk cost.
That pun is golden.
Build stuff you want and then license the things to large companies who would want to actually make a business around what you build.

Here's someone doing just that: https://www.smartpassiveincome.com/podcasts/how-to-get-paid-...
Learn Hash Table the Hard Way – Part 1: Probe Distributions
People are far more likely to benefit economically from strong communication skills than strong math skills. The vast majority of people go to community college to help themselves economically.
That's a strawman of what GP said. Of course technology can't solve humanity's flaws. The point was that smart contracts caused many problems they weren't meant to, which was exemplified by the DAO hack. Smart contracts failed to deliver on their promise and the fallout proved that when it came down to brass tax, nobody with skin in the game would respect a smart contract's execution anyway.
about:performance can now help you figure out what's going on.
Salmon are also notorious for having huge worms but they're by no means a low-quality fish
ML is a huge field. What kind of problems are you trying to solve?
This is a nice blog post - what's with all the hate? So it's basically a marketing tool, but isn't that what blogs are for? As a customer of Soylent, I appreciate that they are writing blog posts about their thought process. It feels nice to be communicated with. Also, I highly doubt a detailed blog post like this is going to convert many new customers - seems like it's mainly for existing ones.

FYI, the new bottles are a nice improvement. There's no wrapper at the top anymore, which is sometimes annoying to open and creates extra trash, and the shape of the bottle is more space efficient for packaging and storage.
Why not just go with a square carton design? Now the whole rectangle is full and they're mostly recyclable (I think?). It would probably also normalize Soylent into something like milk.
When your battleship is destroyed by a peasant with a pitchfork, there's not a lot of perceived fairness...
A bit. They limit to 10,000 per day which would be 300 transactions total for $30 million.

I'd personally call them and get a contract out before funneling this kind of money through their system.

Though that's pretty normal. A regular brick and mortar bank would likely want additional assurances before funneling $30 million into or out of an account that doesn't see that regular volume.
I think there is a lot of squeamishness about this kind of thing because they are afraid that people will develop a taste for the invasive species and then deliberately spread them. But lots of cultures eat these.
A hypothetical hacker could robin hood easily then.. only steal coins from wallets with massive amounts, and "give them away" to miners via transaction costs
¿Qué significa brunch?
I'm definitely in support of the idea that a purchased product should match the advertising; recreational drugs (alcohol and weed, too) are no exception.
Well, they could claim they invented the bad-tasting six pack!
> IMO, for an intro language, you need either something close to the metal

Agreed. They aren't just learning to program but they are learning how computers work so the less abstraction the better.

On the plus side, I imagine this will be great for our salaries in 10-20 years.
Okay! Let's do it! I want to start a start-up. What do I do?
I'm not defending the White House's off-camera briefing policy by any means but how would NBC being barred from the briefings completely for breaking the rules help them as a news organization? How does that make them cowardly?

Cowardly, would be the administration forbidding cameras at the briefings.

See:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/02/24/wh...
I don't think so, considering obesity has skyrocketed since the 90s and I don't think we were starving then.
I think algebra should be taught in a different way. I remember in school I just didn't get it for more than a year and almost failed math. Then my brother in law gave me a few examples and suddenly it clicked. From then on it was super easy.

I think a lot of people who aren't inclined towards math just don't get it because it's taught the wrong way.
Model-Oriented Programming: Introduction
It wouldn't be as cool, and wouldn't be worth a blog post.
On a general Welles note: I also recommend One Man Band http://www.ubu.com/film/welles_oneman.html which is actually where I first heard of F for Fake and talks a lot about Welles ' creative process (or well talks about how he was creative).
What vendor knowingly sold adulterated kratom? Just curious.
OK, it is in this this guy's interests to "sell" Appengine, but he's absolutely right. And I have no skin in the game except as a very satisfied user.

Our startup happened to get in on Appengine early on, and we went with it for exactly the reasons he puts forward. At the end of the day we spend all our time building our apps, instead of being diverted every time the mail server crashes, or a package needs a security upgrade, or our OS needs updating, or a hard drive dies, or a routing table gets corrupted, or replication fails between databases, or the load balancer is doing something strange. When any of those things does happen, I know the best sysadmins on the planet are jumping to fix it.

Having said that, there are a couple of provisos you need to bear in mind:

1. If you need to do anything outside the Appengine ecosystem (using unusual protocols or ports for instance), you're going to have to do it outside Appengine.

2. You have to write to Appengine's datastore. There are alternatives (MySQL for instance) but none of them give you automatic concurrency, scaling and redundancy. This is more painful, but it means if you ever hit the big time, you're covered.

I always imagined what would happen if Oprah mentioned our service on her show. If we had built on AWS (or Azure, GCS or other IaaS), I'd be tearing my hair out provisioning load balancers, web servers and sharding databases. With Appengine, all I'd need to provision would be a crate of champagne.

The article mentioned the Royal Wedding website. This was a great example of Appengine's strength, going from zero to thousands of hits a second and then back to zero. If you'd done it with AWS (or even worse, real hardware), imagine the difficulty of estimating the number of machines you'd need, and the cost of provisioning them. If you have a "bursty" service, Appengine just works and you pay for what you actually use.

And that's the other thing - what you pay is minimal. The Appengine user group is full of people complaining that it is more expensive than $CHEAP_HOSTING_PROVIDER, but as soon as you factor in any sysadmin time - or lost app development time - you come out ahead. We run three services with up to 2 million users, and the monthly cost is in two digits.
Oh. Dear?

(I mean, I understand the pressures of academia, but... ridiculously bad timing, yeah?)
It's also the major component of most imitation crab meat.
I have a hard time imagining that 6k of the remaining cost (a basic car in the US can be had at $10k) would be because of a decent safety standard. I am curious to know how much more than $4k this Renault would be if they had spent a little time designing a safer passenger cell.
Would they even be considering this change without the pressure to increase graduation rates? Even if changing the requirements is the right thing to do, this seems like the wrong reason to do it.
On iOS11 beta, To get passwords you will go to Settings > Accounts & Passwords > App & Website Passwords [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yy1JEyxRzIc&t=23m42s (@ 23 minutes and 42 seconds)
Non-Stem; I'll give it go but the answer may be considered a cop out.

I don't think STEM majors should have to take writing courses nor non-stem majors take math courses.

This should not be done in University but earlier. I'm skeptical that forcing these two categories of students take these courses make them effective with in the subject matter or a more enlightened person as the excuse goes.

IMO it is a way to keep professors who teach unneccessary coursework employed.
It doesn't seem especially egregious to me to restrict fishery in US waters to US-based companies.
WTF is Memoization
> bases pay on factors such as job level, function and location

So, not really "equally" at all because race/gender are not uniform across those slices.
Also in cryptography, in things like CSPRNG (cryptographically secure pseudo-RNG)
Disagree, I think it is the exact opposite. I say that as someone who did their CS education in the early 90s when that was the case. We used C for everything unless the class material implied something else. We got into the down and dirty details quite fast.

IMO that's the wrong way to do it. Using myself as an example it took me far longer to learn things like data structures than it should have. Why? Because I still hadn't wrapped my head around pointers. The fact that the two are coupled is an implementation detail IMO. It turned out that I never had a problem understanding the structures, I had trouble writing code which didn't segfault.

I'd prefer to see CS education start with the more theoretical constructs and then start diving towards the metal as the basic concepts are known. In other words, treat it more like computer science and less like computer engineering.
https does, but not EV from what I have seen
19 ICO tokens affected by multisig exploit. 105M USD drained
*intelligent
I think that is something that is worth repeating, telling and shouting: AI research is being open-sourced (arguably the most important research to make in the open, ever) because researcher DEMANDED it. And were ready to refuse job offers for ideological reasons.

As someone who has turned down offers in the military, I have often heard that it was childish and inefficient to have ideals when hunting for jobs. Well, here is the proof that it is not.

I really congratulate these researchers. By their perseverance alone they may be helping avoid one of the most worrisome dystopia ever anticipate by SF writers.
> A mere few months before Apple took the Magic Mouse to market.

So you're implying that Apple saw the idea, copied it, and used it to bring a product to market—in months? That's not how any of that works.
Yeah man, the cure for declining American competitiveness is absolutely dumbing things down even further. The other countries need to respect our dum-dums!
This video made a few rounds on the internet and it's dismissed as fake-science feel-good marketing bullshit. This picture and text explanation is not how Bernoulli's principle works.

>Hot air enters the bottles from the outside and then sends cooler air out of the thinner neck. The principle is similar to the effect when you exhale into your hand with an open mouth or with pursed lips. http://files.heftycdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/885e140...

Bernoulli's principle predicts the exact opposite: when air is compressed, it gets hotter. According to stackoverflow, their cooling explanation is completely wrong https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/7868/why-does-th...

And the real reason this cools the house is that these creators have rediscovered the window. https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/261284/how-does-...

It's sad fake-sciecne like this gets shared so widely on the internet.
Yeah, seriously. Not everything can or should be addressed by for-profit businesses, or start-ups in particular.
It's the same on Android. CNN is garbage propaganda anyway. But yes, they fucked up and are getting brigaded.
What we really should do is to engineer some mosquitoes that produce only male offspring.. well actually that might be overkill but I wonder if it would work?
Read The Four Steps to the Ephiphany by Steve Blank, and The Art of the Start by Guy Kawasaki for starters...
I swear to god NPR spends half their time actively trolling at this point.
Yes. People are looking at this.

https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/25148/why-is-co...
The value created by access to a car they can afford will advance both India and the world to the next level of health, abundance, and technology. Just as the car and the ICE advanced so many other places of the world from the horse cart. With that I believe will come the education and technology needed to push us past ICEs and further into the future.
You really do no understand what Google is doing or how it works. The article does a poor job explaining. It is more like a virtual circuit switch network. It enables far less cost in equipment as no need to over provision. But a key feature is it makes latency far more determinate. This was necessary to make Spanner work.