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Fine job on the video, young Valve employees!

Can I make a suggestion? Make your email capture form immediately visible and give it equal emphasis with the video.

Don't let intrigued people leave without giving you a way to contact them later. People who offer their email address are your biggest fans, and having that information will be valuable to you almost instantly.
I'm not sure if its been done before, but neural networks could be used for outlier detection. Autoencoders can also be thought of as a form on nonlinear PCA, and the LISA group in Montreal has actually proved that the reconstruction error from a contractive or denoising autoencoder for a data point serves as an estimator of the probability density under that point.
Very cool, but they really should have had more women in the video.
Actually, NNs (specifically auto-encoders) are more like a nonlinear PCA. PCA can be seen as an "information bottleneck" where you try to represent an N dimensional space as a K < N dimensional space such that your ability to reconstruct the original space is maximized (that is, the "reconstruction error" is minimized.)

Autoencoders are precisely the same idea, except that you use nonlinear transformations (e.g. softmax or tanh) in addition to linear transformations (matrix multiplications). You can also use multiple layers in an autoencoder, just like any neural net. (The linearness of PCA makes multiple layers useless. You can always replace multiple layers with a single layer.)
Aren't high schoolers the wrong crowd? I mean it lets them get their feet wet, but most (read: 99.99%) of high schoolers won't be valuable employees to a technology company.
I dont't think we are quite on the same page, having an public API etc is wonderful but let's use a slightly different topic. Using some 3rd party ORM to talk to your database is generally a no brainer, but v0.1 might not even have a database yet because persistence is not generally needed for a demo. Why put off such a core feature, because just changing your objects is less friction so and the goal is to see if anyone is ineested. aka idea validation and nothing else.
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I find it interesting that everyone suggests switching to Firefox and then changing the default search engine since a good deal of Mozilla's income comes from Google paying to be the default search engine.
You could always use .__len__()
Speaking as a high schooler, I think there are plenty of us out there who would be plenty helpful to a company like Valve. (I like to think I would be one of them!)

As for this project, I, for one, would like to learn about 3D rendering -- that's always been something that I'd admired from afar.
Of course! Macros are distinctly less powerful than functions for one reason: they are not first class values at runtime and thus cannot be passed to higher-order functions.
"In many ways, I always kept my distance a bit, never caring much for advanced methodologies, studying design patterns, proving algorithms, or learning cutting-edge languages before they’re stable and practical. I’ve always written code for the sake of making the product I wanted, not for the code’s own sake."

Refreshing to read something like that here on HN, especially when you share this instrumental approach. If I remember correctly, DHH also said something along those lines somewhere.
Even at lower levels. I managed a team of 4 people at Yahoo, and whenever I was replacing someone, we'd send a spec to HR, negotiate a pay grade target to fit the department budget, and wait for the resumes, who'd first been sorted by external recruiters, then been further filtered by internal HR before they landed in my inbox.

This was true even when I managed hiring at a company of 50 people or so. At companies smaller than that, I've usually been the one to have a first look at resumes for my team.
I wouldn't say so. I'm currently in high school and working at a small indie studio on our flagship game. Working with other professionals on a title that matters is invaluable experience, at least in my opinion.
What you are describing is a clue problem, not a language problem - the root cause is that the TA does not understand the assignment, if they can see it and still don't understand it isn't the language that's the problem. What you are describing is familiar, it is just like in that Algorithms class I sat through.

The original comment was about TAs with poor command of English.
That's fine to first approximation, but doesn't hold up in the real world, where women have the deck stacked against them in the tech world at every turn. If men are being preferentially chosen over women, then that damages the ability of women to be competitive at the next level.
The only sensible comment in the entire thread! There is no reason whatsoever to trust DDG more than Google. In fact you'd think it far more likely that DDG is a stooge of the NSA than is Google.

I do personally find this thread quite amusing because it's so irrational. Firefox + DDG is so slow for searching that you might as well erase 10 years of browser performance improvements and downgrade your DSL line. Chrome omnibar + prefetch + google instant makes for much faster searching vs. firefox which lacks all of those things (and DDG which lacks "instant"). Also I have to type the entire search into firefox's search bar because DDG doesn't have suggestions. And let's not even talk about the gulf in quality between DDG and Google.
Because the market is not a perfectly efficient discriminator of quality. In a more extreme way, why do homeopathic products exist?

The real question here is whether customer satisfaction is a fully sufficient criterion to determine whether or not something is a "ripoff".

For medical goods the answer is a fairly universal "no". For everything else it's more controversial. Is it correct to shortchange your customers as long as they don't know about it and are happy with their purchase? Are Bose's products actually shortchanging their customers, or is it simply satisfying a different set of priorities?

I don't think we'll ever come to anything resembling consensus on the above.
Programming is to Software Entrepreneurs what Mathematics is to Architects. Means to an End.
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Every study I've seen on outcomes either finds no effect or a negative effect for boys' performance in all-male schooling. It is beneficial to girls, but currently in America all students, boys and girls, perform better when there are more girls in the classroom.
If nothing else, they might be a good audience for Valve's older employees to bounce ideas off of. They could provide information about what teens (a big consumer of Valve's products) want and think are cool.
> Without finite resources there is no longer any point to capitalism, a system which allocates finite resources.

That's just a nutty idea. There will always be scarcity of something. For instance, there's scarcity of specific people. If I didn't have finite resources, I'd love to pay Billy Joel to play a concert in a tiny bar for my friend's birthday party. But so would everybody else, so his price to do that is bid up to a level that some people can afford to hire him for a small gig, but most can't. Ditto for everybody else on the planet with specific unique skills. Front-row center seats for any form of live entertainment is a scarce resource - not everyone can have them at once.

Many other sorts of experiences will always be scarce. Like: I went to East Africa for a photo safari and got to see the rare black mountain gorillas of Rwanda in their native habitat - out in the forest rather than a cage in the zoo. If everybody did that the experience of hiking through virgin forest would be ruined - not to mention that there aren't enough gorillas to go around. So you have to pay for a tracking permit. How would that sort of scarcity go away?

> No more commercials, since that's pointless.

Much of the point of commercials is informational - they tell you or remind you that some product exists and what its characteristics are. It's true that it'd have to be something that's scarce, that you can't just print yourself at home. Such as: jungle safaris or Billy Joel tickets.

If the cost of energy and automation comes way down it is very very unlikely that people would just stop using money. It is likely you wouldn't need money for a lot of standard stuff. As society becomes richer, the set of things that aren't worth charging for increases. Free water and napkins and air conditioning and light and access to a toilet and wireless internet access are becoming pretty standard now in the first world, whereas in the third world all those things might be expensive or unavailable. Today you can get free food in the form of "free samples" at stores that hope you'll buy something. In the future, more basic food and shelter will become free, but the high-end stuff will always cost. However many buildings there are, not everyone can get the top-floor penthouse suite with a river view. Scarcity exists; it's an unavoidable fact of life.
That assumes the robots won't be radically superior at balancing than humans are; they will be. It also assumes you can push one over to begin with; you won't easily be able to. They'll be able to withstand far more force against them than a human can before falling over, and they'll have a nearly perfectly calibrated response to achieve rapid re-balancing.

As to whether it's ideal (versus whether it'll work), that's a very good question. Perhaps if you can actually make it work very effectively, it's 1) maybe (?) cheaper than having three legs, 2) more agile than a tank tread style and 3) easily navigates in/around and uses human things.

Clearly in the future there will be a plethora of robotic war machine styles for different purposes, for the same reason we use different weapons for different purposes.
Try typing 'n'... seeing as the url of this website is news.ycombinator.com. It doesn't start with y, as youtube or yahoo does.
If we assume that's the reason, it should be easy to fix: if men start complaining about unprofessional and harassing behavior, there'd no longer be any reason not to hire women.
See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5955043
I remember being blown away by Bose active suspension, and wondering why Bose was doing it. Seems like a Google play in a way: make a bunch of money in one area (audio/ads) and do awesome stuff in another (active suspension / cars, glass).

Video of active suspension: http://youtu.be/q8sVDenpPOE

Incredible company. He'll be missed.
It has all that in the latest Firefox Nightly.

Chrome only has the black back/forward animations. Firefox Nightly's animation is exactly like Safari, although you has to enable them specifically for now in about:config.

It also has ML-style scrollbars where they enlarge when you mouse over them.

So OS X integration has certainly improved.
It's not necessarily a bad thing, but you should consider that it's often unwelcome. There are things people think of as compliments to me that aren't things I actually want to hear, particularly from people I don't know.
You don't have to be so embattled in courts to be concerned about it. Your comment is equivalent to telling someone concerned about getting raped that getting raped is their fault.
Yet another reason that Balmer needs to go.

I guess they really are determined to follow in IBM's footsteps. I hope there is a Lou Gerstner-equivalent waiting in the wings. I depend a lot on their platform.
I can't imagine why people wouldn't want to speak up so other people can judge whether or not their discomfort qualifies as "reasonable" eyeroll
I think building stuff is hugely underrated. When I look around most people are working on stuff that concerns being interfaces to complex systems (lawyers, doctors, customer service), communication (formal and informal jounalism, technical writing, making data comprehensible), or management (making projects happen).

There are, of course, much pleasure in these things, but what I enjoy most is building and releasing new "stuff" into the world. There is perhaps something primitive about building articfacts that give you pleasure, enhance your life, or make you more productive.
This article screams linkbait. "If you are a web designer, you have to have good equipment in order for you to design a good website." in particular irks me. From my experience, anything that can run vim (virtually every computer ever) is enough for web development.
What are you using to define evolutionary success? Most pedal species aren't bipedal, and the more populous species don't even have legs.
I'm not sure you really read it closely. The ONLY thing that changed about his resume is the clarifying "Mr.". Whatever faults his resume might have were present before and after, yet the differences in its reception were dramatic.
It's cheaper and better to buy off all but one competitor and then both jack up prices and provide no customer service. AT&T i hell bent on getting back together
Invaluable experience yes, but it's really the employer who is providing the value, which is backwards in business sense.
One of the original stated goals of Petman was to test uniform designs.
Well now you know. It's a French noun, and most French nouns that refer to people add an extra "e" in the feminine form. It even works for a lot of names (Jean vs. Jeanne).
I think that asking such questions in an interview in the US can make it easier for people to sue if they don't get hired.
I think it's satisfying a different set of priorities.

That's a very good way to put it, now that you mention it. I think Apple fits this category pretty well too.
I wouldn't call continuing where the inventor of mainstream content publishing (ev williams) left off with blogger, a rehash. After Blogger, Odeo, Twitter, and now Medium, I think he knows what he is doing.
Your post could be paraphrased as "It's obvious X isn't helpful because X isn't ancient and X isn't helpful. Why do people do/use X?"

Please use better logic. Also, fetishizing ancient things is an impediment to progress.

The long term survival of the human species in the presence of something is (weak) evidence that the thing isn't harmful, but the logical inversion isn't true. That is, the survival of the human species for a long time without something is neither a valid argument for nor against that thing's benefit.
Yep. Linkbait.

Because if they were talking about graphic designer types, it would have been a list of one.

I run Windows in a VM on a Macbook Pro Retina because I use Visual Studio for development. The second machine on the list is passible. The rest are a random joke of every form factor out there.
Yes. Sit hat, Congress. Sit hat.
As a Supply Chain professional, this is exactly how I felt reading through the site. When you say Inventory Management, you could mean hundreds of possible types of inventory management, but I never figured out which type you were targeting. Even by narrowing it down to a "Small Business" target market, that still leaves a huge gap in understanding.

You don't have a value proposition at all (let alone a good one) until you can answer Renauld's questions.
There are some pretty obvious ways to fix it. A basic step would be people actually owning up to their own biases. At the very least, then people could better detect their unconscious biases and override them with objectivity.

I don't think that would be enough, but we'd be far better off if we could get to that point.
Smalltalk has been doing embedded DSL's since its creation in the 70's; they are not a new phenomenon.
It's hard to find high school girls who are really stoked about Valve. I suspect the video reflected that ratio.
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How about shipping Half-Life 2 Episode 3? :)
> (Sidenote: Judging by my AdWords clicks, Inventory Management is very popular in India)

The cost per click in different countries can be very different. India traffic is usually considered lower-quality, and is usually much cheaper. My guess is that he saw a lot of India users not because its popular, but because that's what his budget allowed him to buy.
If you're seriously interested in learning about 3D rendering and have some programming (and some linear algebra) experience, you should look into Udacity's CS291 course.

https://www.udacity.com/course/cs291
damn, i loved my dad's 380ZX soundsystem. its what turned me onto hi fidelity. neat to know it was named after someone and that he went to MIT. peace
I, too, do not like the omnibar and can speculate Google did it to drive traffic to its search engine, not to help you. They judge that this (highly profitable) annoyance is not enough to drive from Google.

I wonder if the recommendations are however slightly linked to CPC of the terms, wouldn't surprise me.
I included exactly what I was responding to in my original comment in italics.
I also made this switch, and am slowly trying to find my way off of Google services (mostly gmail).

I really like Chrome, and might have stayed with Chromium if there had been an easy to install bookmark and password sync server I could run like Firefox has with Weave (for obvious reasons, I no longer want my sync data centralized with Google). Chromium apparently has a server you can run at home, but I couldn't for the life of me figure out how to do it. In addition, Chrome for Android has no support for self-hosted sync, so unlike with Firefox I couldn't sync my mobile devices even if I could set up a self-hosted server.

With Firefox, hosting your own sync server is trivial: there are even several different implementations of the Weave server besides Mozilla.

I miss Chrome, since I was very happy with the performance and dev tools, but I've made my decision and will live with it (except when I need to test web development stuff in Chrome).
There's a great pun to be made here involving mid-grade professional killers being the means to an end, but I can't seem to formulate it.

I'd argue that programming is a lot more core to anything software than mathematics is to most architectural firms.
Rather than lying about anything and claiming "state secrets," he should have said, "No comment," or "I can neither confirm, nor deny."

To purposefully perjure oneself before the entire nation is inexcusable.
The comment appears to be in response to you using the phrase "sexist remark"... and it appears that badclient believes there is a problem with that phrase being too vague. In the context of your comment, it was pretty clear to me that this vagueness is of some concern to badclient because that could land a person in trouble one day for doing something that was not an issue the week before. I think the difference that might be tripping you up is that you were speaking of a specific "man violates rights of woman" situation but badclient was talking of a more general "person violates rights of person" situation. Some people like to pretend that this is only a "man violates woman" topic... when really it goes both ways. Of course it is entirely possible that you don't believe it goes both ways... but then you and I would have a totally different issue... one that I'd opt out of discussing.

EDIT: "both ways" should probably be "all ways" since all parties involved could be the same gender.
Oh. I'm assuming the same thing, then.

The attractive part of basic income for me is that everyone has enough to buy food and housing, so suddenly menial laborers have an iota of bargaining power.
Wordpress.com:

http://en.support.wordpress.com/videos/youtube/

http://en.support.wordpress.com/feeds/

If you have better things to do than figure that out yourself, hire a Wordpress freelancer for a few hours.

Depending on your actual business goals (which you could also discuss with a freelancer - we love to chat about these things) a service like Wistia really might be a better bet than e.g. YouTube. For example, a third party's embedded ads can be kind of jarring in a business context.
Top moments are generated based on your current view and what you haven't marked as read. "Aaron Schwartz Commits Suicide" post got a lot of points https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5046845
>MLP
>on my hacker news

I feel a little sick.
Less data-points for Google /NSA the better it is.
Firefox managed quite fine even without $300 million a year and the idea is not use Google for everything, not to ensure that FF has billions in their bank account
Damn, wish I could upvote this a couple more times.

I've heard the sugar-is-bad, fat-is-not argument but this is the first time someone explained the underlying mechanism.

Sugar Spike -> Inflammation -> Damaged Blood Vessels.
I don't think it is, see : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest_bridges_in_the_...

Also this list is way more interesting imo : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest_suspension_brid...
In that Apple ad, 'crazy' is used as a negative. "While some may see crazy ones, we see -foo-". They're saying that what others call crazy, we see as not crazy.

They also only used example of people who proved their success decades before the ad aired, basically capitalising on hindsight and not making even the slightest of bets. None of those people were thought of as crazy when the ad aired - and of course, they weren't going to predict a few contemporary crazies because betting on crazy is generally a losing bet when you don't benefit from selection bias.
I have a better idea. Instead of forcing companies to change using an incompeteny bureaucracy, invest in operations that commit to gender-blind hiring practices, and get rich when those companies hire better people and are vastly more successful.
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Yes. The footnote I saw referred to that spelling as "the French spelling"... so (since I'm not French or in France) I think I'll continue to use the other one like every other time I've seen it.
But I also have a lot of respect for the idea that you should not make people feel uncomfortable at work

You can have a lot of respect for something and still have a hard time achieving it. You're suggesting that people that make crude jokes around a sex about that sex don't respect that sex. I find that assumption to be unfair and false.
the reasons for this and the tradeoffs are covered in the Valve employee handbook

I don't think we're going to see the Valve employee handbook...
I like the way Warren Buffet explains markets: in the short term, they're a popularity contest. In the long term, they're a weighing machine.
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Excellent! Even though the program seems to be aimed at high schoolers, I hope it eventually expands to those (like myself) with experience in other industries who are either considering or trying to break into the video game industry.
"I spent most of my time on the SmallBusiness forum on Reddit." ... I'm not saying this is the cause for the failure, but imho, this is a terrible place to look for validation because its a breeding ground for people that have tons of opinions but don't really represent your end customer and at the ending of the day, have zero desire to buy your product, they just want to login in and have opinions. Its in a sense, similar to techcrunch.. a club for internal admiration. I see so many people fall for this sort of thing.. I personally just think its unfortunate.
My friend worked on this for nearly a year all by himself. I thought it deserved a little recognition.
The fix for that is to work from the bottom up, not by intentionally ruining a bsiness by hiring less effective people at the time.

Note that "women aren't represented in the executive levels" isn't a significant issue, not for the vast majority of women or men. Very few people are executives, and it's not important to 95% of the population what the gender of the executives is. The majority of women have more in common with the majority of men that are non-executives, than they do with the few women that are executives.
The Valve Employee Handbook was made public some time ago:

http://media.steampowered.com/apps/valve/Valve_NewEmployeeHa...