skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd rather have effort spent on making the game funner for those who play legit. Especially since many of those anti-hacks, if implemented in the wrong way, make mods more difficult. Nothing like working up a mod tech tree to get flying/super speed to have it boot you ever 4th time you use it.
I doubt many homes would have adequate fire separation between a garage and main home to make a difference between laundry vs garage.
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Climatemaster has about a million US ground-heatsink heat pump installations. In their system, the ground loop is water with antifreeze, not Freon, so there's an additional heat exchanger.

Rheem, the big water heater manufacturer, sells solar water heating systems. That's progress; previous solar-only sellers were kind of flaky. (See "hot2o.com", which disappeared.) Solar water heating systems have a reputation for leaking. Buying something that is supposed to last 10-20 years from a small company is a problem.
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Not every feature can be completed in a single six-week train, especially one as complex as rewriting huge chunks of a browser that was not initially designed with process separation in mind. :)

That said, we should have a go/no-go on Monday for uplift with Firefox 40. We're getting Very Close Now. :)
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What lack of confusion? Did you miss the first thread that some people posted in and which fizzled out?
Inflating a valuation by 50% to 100% over "fair market value" means that the company will have to grow by 50% to 100% to grow into it's own shoes/expectations.

Holding all else equal, if future investors value the company at fair market value A16Z will have over-paid to get into the round.

If this is true then what is A16Z's angle? Do they believe that overpaying is a cost they are willing to incur to get the best deals and concentrate talent in their portfolio? Does this concentration of talent make up for a company's overvaluation? Ie: does a 100% overvaluation with A16Z lead to a greater than 100% company growth compared with other investors?
Which "heretic" would you be referring to? Pythagoras? He was persecuted, but not for believing in a spherical earth.
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Thanks! This looks pretty cool. I especially like the "stick pack" option, of course.
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As an ex-Facebook employee, I can't wait for this to be released to the public. It is hard for me to overstate how much this infrastructure makes building products a joy, not to mention the tremendous developer and server efficiency that can be attained. I miss having the GraphQL stack so much when working on my own stuff.

The client application should drive the decisions about what data to fetch. After all it's the client that knows what it is actually going to be doing with the data, not the server. Current approaches like having a "fields" option on a REST endpoint are at best a hacky approximation to this.
No concrete plans for now. JS is complicated, and we don't have enough people to do that. Relying on a JS engine that's currently being used (which we know will get security updates) is much better than rolling our own, for now.
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Going beyond the article, it feels like a16z gets in on a lot of the "hottest" startups of the moment. This makes sense given some people think a16z is the best VC in business, but it givens them a really weird slice of sv/hype-market risk that I don't think anyone really understands.
The site is a showcase for the organizer to get attention to win a job at a big tech company. See also: the online self-appointed leaders of Occupy who went to work for Google on adtech.
It uses SpiderMonkey.
Because that's exactly what HPA want to do, foolishly try and disrupt the market with unproven hardware no one can afford.
The reasons they list in favour of GraphQL vs REST and Ad HOC APIs are really convincing. Being a developer for an API that powers multiple mobile applications and a website this looks really interesting and would solve a lot of problems we have right now. Unfortunately I know it would probably take too much time to re-implement all our backend and clients to even think about using this in a near future.
I'd be interested to know as well. My brokerage only lets me trade on 10 exchanges.
How do you get the successes without the risk? If that were possible there would be no angel or VC and investment banks would just fund winners according to some formula.
No, they plan on embedding SpiderMonkey like Firefox.
I'm not understanding this argument. Wouldn't the same amount of thrust get you less and less delta velocity as your velocity increases?
Am I missing something? How is this on the 2nd page? A year-old article with a broken image?
What exactly qualifies as "being killed by patents"?

A lot of patent trolls will canvas small businesses and extort settlements. The bigger cases that you would hear about are usually when litigation happens - but by that point its when the company is no longer a start up and large enough to be a profitable litigation target.
The heretic, Galileo Galilei, claimed that the earth revolved around the sun instead of the sun revolving around the earth. That the earth is (almost) spherical was known since antiquity.
You'd never get more change in kinetic energy than the energy you put into it, right?
I worked for the Texas Center for Superconductivity, where Paul Chu discovered superconductors that operated at liquid nitrogen temperatures, in the 1980s a year or so after his discovery.

We spent a great deal of time trying to figure out how the mechanism worked, and about half the team were theoreticians who would try and posit theories, or evaluate theories posited by other teams, and the the other half of the team spent time either testing the new theories, or experimenting to try and improve the results of previous experiments.

Y1B2C3O is not even a metal, but a ceramic crystal. This was kinda mind blowing at the time. It shouldn't even conduct.

IIRC the best theory at the time was that it was superconducting because of particular errors in the formation of the crystal due to the production process. But I left the lab in the early 1990s.
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Why would that be the most important detail?
> Encouraging everyone to make constant, short, pithy, public pronouncements is not a recipe for thoughtful conversation.

I have a friend who switched to Twitter a few years ago and whenever the fact that I don't use it comes up, I mention that I just can't deal with the inevitable dumbing-down and loss of context that comes with such an idiotic limitation. It's a medium designed for soundbites instead of consideration and "wit"[1] instead of intelligence. His go-to explanation is that the limitations force people to be concise and choose their words carefully. Either he's rationalizing or he's extremely naive about the quality of discourse on the Internet.

[1] I mean that in the most negative way possible. "Perceived wit" might be a better term to use here: I've often seen things like pleasing sentence structure used to cover a lack of veracity, a la "If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem". or "YesAllWomen". While not inherently incorrect, I've seen both of those used a massive number of times in situations where they're entirely irrelevant or inaccurate. And yet, because it comes across as pithy and clever, they dominate the conversation.
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As a potential client I'd feel safer if they admitted that fraud had occurred and said what steps they were taking to avoid fraud in future, but considerably less safe from the revelation the fraudsters were rank amateurs and that the website operator might be prepared to use hacking and doxing as a means of redressing grievances.

I haven't payed particularly close attention to weev's trial but IIRC, the main points in his defence were that the "hacked" data was actually accessible via the public internet with no real subterfuge or misuse of private information required, and they'd tried to disclose it through appropriate channels. Neither seem to apply here, even if Russian hackers don't particularly deserve the Feds rushing to their aid.
Shit - time to throw the laptop in the oven. :-(

I understand where you're coming from, but I really think we'll have plenty of support.
On the variety of ways media influence content length
>(the constants - which are then often hard coded for best performance).

This caught my eye. Really?
That's probably a short-sided opinion. There's a lot of companies in a16z'a portfolio that I could see going public or having a big acquisition in the next 5 years: http://a16z.com/portfolio/
I think that's right. On the other hand, I don't want the place to just die. That would be bad for the world.

Predicting where the future "is", if there is such a place, is harder.

In 1975, I think that the concentration of investment made sense because it followed the same principle as academia: smart people want to stick together, and smart people with esoteric specialties usually want to be near others in the same specialty.

Now, the model of a large city is taking over. Smart people want to be around a heterogeneous set of smart people, and use the Internet and conferences for in-specialty interactions. So New York and Chicago and even Boston are more compelling. People just go to the Bay Area to make money. No one under 40 wants to be there (and almost no one over 40 can afford to be there) because, while the talent level is high, it's monoculture.

In 2015, the Valley makes a lot less sense when you consider what people are building out there. It's not technical excellence any more. Marketing experiments using technology have driven out actual technology, the latter being too long term to gel with two-week "iterations" and an age discrimination culture that (stupidly) discards people just around the time when they start to develop a deep expertise.

The 2015 Valley story is different. What we have is a lot of passive capital tied up in pension funds and retirement accounts, and some sliver of it gets thrown into higher-risk asset classes like VC firms. The passive capitalists, above all, want the highest returns on their investment. They'd probably also prefer (as a tie-breaker) that the jobs be created locally (i.e., in Ohio if it's an Ohio state employee pension fund) rather than in California... but if the returns were better in CA, they'd want their money put there.

VC has become a conveyer belt that sucks up a huge amount of passive capital from all over the country and funnels it into a few people in Northern California. This would be defensible if VC were a high-performing asset class. The problem is that it's not. It works very well for the careers of a few hundred very well connected people, but the passive investors get shitty returns and the engineers building the stuff are lucky to get 0.01%.
Where does he suggest that?
Or, perhaps you move there because you care about the environment or the poor, and that's how change happens.
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I think we're instead going to see more direct load-shifting agreements with end-users, not on-demand pricing. For example in Texas it's now common for utilities to give you a discount on your electric rates if you sign up for a program where you install a smart thermostat, and agree to let them slightly reduce your A/C power usage when the grid is nearing peak capacity. This lets them do exactly the peak load-shedding they want, controlled directly by the system operators, rather than having to design a system of price incentives, educate users about them, and hope the incentives produce the desired outcome.
Yes, and that's kind of my whole point. This post is right on par, comment wise, with the other ones. Clearly not much confusion took place.

Dang says there "needs to be a standard place" -- but I think the success of this thread disagrees with that statement.

Hardly a big deal, just pointing it out.
Do you (or anyone) know why the gcc package isn't GCC 5.1 yet?I'm not sure why Homebrew hasn't updated the gcc package itself, and instead requires you to use the versions/gcc5 one.
That's excuse making. The Clinton's have had plenty of misdeeds exposed, they still have millions of dollars and no one cares. They aren't being cowed to silence by the NSA.
Are those environmental stats per capita or area? I ask only because it's by far the largest state in the CONUS, which makes me wonder if that doesn't play a contributing role.
I read the wiki page on public choice theory and eventually found a wiki page for The Myth of the Rational Voter [1] where they talk about rational irrationality [2].

The idea is that people are more likely to make irrational decisions when the cost of that decision is low, like in voting. An irrational vote only harms you as an individual in a very small way since the cost is distributed across the entire population.

So, it seems to me that we should look for ways to increase the cost of irrational decisions. I'm not sure the best way to accomplish this, but one way would be to reduce the power that government has, thereby reducing the impact of irrational decisions.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_irrationality
I prefer topo maps and compass, GPS isn't really necessary.

For emergencies I do carry a SPOT though: http://findmespot.com/en/index.php?cid=100
I don't. How have you seen it work out?
Borges was not wrong about the endurance, and the reasons. I'd guess that few under-30 year olds, even here, know of the movie, and even fewer have seen it.

But then, Borges' reasoning would apply to most anything not made recently. There's a very small cadre of writers/creators aware of anything not produced in their lifetime.

(Furthermore, Borges could not guess at the time that Citizen Kane would be anointed as one of the show pieces of "the seventh art" for a few decades - a fate that could probably have been bestowed upon a few other contemporary movies, but was not.)
Not to rain on anyone's parade, but where are the hard facts?

HP has that solution in The Machine. By discarding a computing model that has stood unchallenged for sixty years, we are poised to leave sixty years of compromises and inefficiencies behind. We’re pushing the boundaries of the physics behind IT, using electrons for computation, photons for communication, and ions for storage.

Where is the review of the hardware? The pictures? Prices?

I'm glad that you're having fun there, getting your 15 minutes of fame, making a living doing R&D. I'm sure you work hard. I wish that when you publicized - you had something more than a generic PR site with pablum.

I'm sincerely interested in what you're doing. Please show actual prototypes, or there's nothing to prove to us it's not Vaporware. I'd be more satisfied your tithe is justified.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8RyKrREzuI
You just exactly described Terra :)

You run Lua to construct sequences of code in the language Terra. The Terra functions can be jitted or AOT compiled through LLVM.
Thanks so much, dang!
The NYDFS could be pretty stifling to financial services innovation in the state of New York.
Thank you for the explanation. This doesn't sound like it really has any advantages over something like Dokku...
Honestly, you might seriously want to consider getting a new lawyer. No good lawyer would ever tell you that it's ok to publicly admit to a felony just because it's unlikely that you'll get sued.
That scenario is exactly why we need less jail time and more restorative justice [0] so the highest priority of the courts would be making sure the victims and community are compensated, any destruction is restored, and any emotional harm is healed. Rather than a strange obsession by the state to seek vindictive punishment, regardless of the interests of the victim or community - as is the current motivation in most countries.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restorative_justice
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The only way Sergey "stole" code was by pushing open source code back to upstream..
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> foolishly try and disrupt the market with unproven hardware no one can afford.

Sometimes, that is what research is all about. Some work out, some don't. I am actually quite excited about this for HP.
NASA is working on super-fast space technology that defies the laws of physics
tl;dv:

- real ObjC compiler (clang) + runtime (unspecified)

- "modern" ObjC with ARC + Blocks

- C++ interop access to all Windows APIs

- C# integration "coming"

- Apps are full windows apps

- subset of iOS APIs

- OpenGL/ANGLE/CAEAGLLayer/EAGLContext, OpenAL, Sensor

- UIKit, CoreAnimation, CoreGraphics CoreText, "Touch"

- Nibs, Storyboards and Autolayout are supported

They don't claim or shoot for complete coverage or compatibility with a specific iOS version.

Swift is not there, dev said "coming", suit said "we have no comment" (the interaction between the young and slightly insecure program manager and the old and very comfortable dev. was fun to watch).

Project conversion is one-way and apparently one-time, which could be an issue. Dev immediately said "why not two-way, hey, that's a good idea, we'll do that". I think the suit was only half joking when he asked for the dev's mike to be cut...

I didn't quite get the philosophical musings about code generation. Huh?

Coroutines for C++ also looked quite neat, very light-weight/fast implementation (~cost of a function call).
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I'm curious to learn how API response caching is affected by GraphQL. In a REST setup, there's a possibility that API responses can be cached. But if the response structure is dictated by the client, it seems like responses might differ and not be cacheable.
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You don't need to obtain a permit to upgrade your countertops.

I believe the only time that an upgrade could possibly increase the taxable value of your house is if the township/county knows about it (I.e., you got a permit to install it).

I also live in Michigan, but haven't researched renewable energy sources vs taxable value. I'm surprised to hear the gp say they had an increase.
Commercial-grade technology has about 3m accuracy, but different methods can yield down to 10cm accuracy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Positioning_System#Prec...

And then there's a whole segment of survey-grade equipment that can get within a centimeter or two:

http://water.usgs.gov/osw/gps/
It's like there's a calculated trickle of info to keep us interested as they prep it for release.

Good job, it works.
I think it's human nature to find the boogyman wherever they can. Everything from religion to political alignment... people assume the worst from those they don't agree with on some issues. Given, MS deserved a lot of the ill-will they received at that time and I think that as a whole, they are much better today.

That said, some of us tried to point out that it was FUD at the time. Even when MS-PL projects came out, it was attacked as FUD... today with MIT projects, they are attacked as FUD for not containing the extra provisions that MS-PL provided regarding patents. It's almost a no-win situation. For me, my largest concerns are cost and lock-in, in that order...

I am pragmatic about it and do pay for some things, but will usually prefer an open (floss) solution. It really depends. All of that said, I don't think it was meant as a dirty tactic so much as a stance on RMS' somewhat religious views regarding software.
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The island layout doesn't help either. The geothermal resources are all on the Big Island, and that's also where it would be easier to install large-scale solar facilities. But the main energy usage is on Oahu, and there isn't an inter-island power grid.