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The exact ad in question: https://twitter.com/michaelluo/status/625082960547610626

also should add the author of this nybooks article never interviewed the NYT author.

more related work:

http://sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/05/20/q-and-a-luo-y...

http://fusion.net/story/132309/nail-salon-expose-my-manicuri...
I recommend an [antenna port] to BNC or other adapters as well.
heres the ad in question: https://twitter.com/michaelluo/status/625082960547610626

the author of this post never interviewed the NYT reporter. or her editor
Especially for marine traffic.
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So there you have it. Even based on this admittedly "non-scientific" approach, Scala appears to be the only production-proven programming language to make engineers happy and alleviate their need to curse than more broadly-adopted langagues like Java, PHP and JavaScript.
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That seems to be quite the leap. Without going through the entire list of languages, we're using Clojure quite successfully in production and based on http://clojure.org/companies, we seem to be in good company. Yet the author went out of their way to claim no one was using it.

It's almost like they author sells Scala consulting and libraries or something.
Economic inequality is a hot topic right now. Employers knowing everyone's salaries, but not the employees, puts the employees at a disadvantage when negotiating salary.

One option would be to require all companies to publish employees salaries. Would this requirement be more or less onerous than other options?

One argument is that it hurts businesses - but if every business is required to do it, then it is an even playing field. Obviously that cannot happen in an international business setting - so would it put the countries that implement it at a disadvantage, or would the economic gains outweigh the decrease in competitiveness?
Hypothesis: Whenever I'm unable to get to HN, I'm a 10x engineer (when compared to my usual self).
It's interesting to ponder whether/how EFF could have ethically negotiated such a settlement on 3taps's behalf.
Thanks, I agree there are a lot of factors for a startup to fail.

Thought in the context that I mentioned, it is about some startups that have surpassed the point to find their first thousands of customer and now they need reliability.

But again there are different interesting tradeoffs of these issues.

Regarding:

> Another example is Instagram, I read recently (but can't find the link) that the founders were learning to code when they built it, and that some of that code is still in production, and apparently, it's embarassingly bad, but it gets the job done.

I was at the OpenAir conference this year where Mike Krieger mentioned the above story. But I'm not sure if the Video is out.
>BRB building Slacker News
I know this is not 100% specific to this article, but this is happening right now to a friend of mine's gmail account. Scammer was able to social engineer the cell phone company to forward his number, then did a password reset, and locked him out of his account. 20BTC Ransom. He followed every single google customer service link/resource he could find and tried to reset link, which said they would contact him in 3-5 days. This was 6 days ago. No response. FBI can't do anything either. Its so disturbing that there is absolute nothing you can do to reach Google once this happens. It could happen on anyone's cell phone as well, how many fortune 500 companies have higher up employees with cell phones and gmail accounts? Imagine in the future trusting google with a self driving car and home automation -- imagine getting locked out of your house or hijacked in a self driving car and having nobody to call. If anybody here knows somebody at google who can reach the group that handles Gmail security, please contact this account so I can give you his info.
That's a nice article(s). Gankro, the author, is very active in Rust, specially in data structures.
> ...it's not clear to me that traditional, non-computer law would allow the shopkeeper to retroactively characterize the visit as 'trespass'.

Seems to me that something like this is more like an NDA. Assuming someone saw and understood the sign, what are the legal ramifications? And how does this compare to establishments that require membership to use such as Costco?
And that stain is deep in the heart of how the US, UK, and others respond to "the enemy".
Side comment: great to see some java library for deep learning... I think so far it's mostly python and some C...
Probably scraped Google's cache pages, so they would never touch Craigslist servers.
If playing the sound isn't latency sensitive, you could just have each tab pick a random delay [1].

When the tabs receive the event, they each wait X milliseconds. The first timer to expire marks the event as "played". Other tabs receive this event, and abort their timers.

If a "leader" disappears, it will simply fall to a tab with a larger delay.

[1] Something like, rounded to 50ms increments, in a range, 100 - 1000ms. Avoiding collisions / ensuring uniqueness is left as an exercise for the reader.
Note that clock speed hasn't been zooming ahead recently, compared to the astonishing past, which you can see a lovely illustration of at:
http://www.dailytech.com/A+Supercomputer+on+Your+Wrist+Infog...
Instead we mostly get more cores, but there's no general solution to the Von Neumann bottleneck, so that's of limited help to the majority of software. A.I. is benefiting, though. Building a safe, self-driving car using one core would be rather difficult. So some software IS vastly improved.

And then there's Parkinson's Law, "work expands to fill the time allotted to it". Just substitute "sloppiness" for "work" and "bandwith" or "CPU cycles" for "time". Programmers haven't become cheaper or less in demand, so "sloppy" (resource heavy) code is way cheaper than tight-and-hard-to-debug-and-maintain. If you must hire more programmer hours to analyze bottlenecks or use a lower-level language you do. But only if you must. So homeostasis sets in (Parkinson's Law is all about effort-related-homeostasis.)"The hardware giveth and the software taketh away" because that's cheapest for competitive software businesses.

Part of that situation, too, is that the more the software/hardware is capable of, the more kinds of tasks get done with it; but that also means way more demand for programmers, so now you really can't waste their time "optimizing" everything. And as a result we have word processors that are actually slower at times now, than back when the monitor screens were green dots on black backgrounds. So that's homeostasis at work, too.

And then there's multitasking. There are dozens of pages and programs open right now on my desktop, so a tragedy of the commons is taking place within the humming innards of my PC; a prisoner's dilemma in which each program (and the firm that made it) can hope that the others will only sip resources so that they can steal more cycles and download fatter ads in a browser tab and use sloppier code. They can be wasteful because the user won't usually know which code is being piggy, and because they know others will be piggy if they aren't. On the other hand, if they optimize like hell the customer probably won't notice (given the other piggy programs the customer is running in the background) so the software company has just thrown that money (a lot of money) away. More homeostasis.
I play blackjack as a hobby. Blackjack is somewhat unique among casino games in that your skill can have a dramatic impact on your results. What you call luck, professional gamblers call variance. Things can go extremely well or very poorly in the short term regardless of skill, but over the long term, variance ("luck") becomes meaningless and skill becomes the determining factor in the player's results. This applies to any game where skill can affect the outcome even slightly, and certainly includes the startup game.
The law of trespass reflects a basic ethical principle: owners of private property may invite the public to access their property for a proper purpose (the scope of which may even be implied) but nonetheless retain the right to deny access and to sue for trespass those who access that property for some other purpose. That ethical principle applies just as much to websites as coffee shops. Just because Craigslist makes its website available to the public for a defined purpose does not mean it's not trespass for a company to access that data for a different purpose.
Indeed, there are lots of factors to lead to a product fail.

Though, I'm really curious, mind if I ask what sorts of technical debt you had in your startup that led to such massive slow-down in the process?

Were the debts among any of these:

* Documentations for on boarding devs.
* Lack of tests.
* Delayed refactoring.
* Lack of alignment to standards.
YC not HN.
I'm not familiar with the specific product pictured, so maybe it is a soda, but if you show a can with the Arizona Ice Tea trade dress to 100 people, 99 of them will describe it as "ice tea".

There's no grand conspiracy to make the world believe that it was ice tea and not soda, you have invented this. (I assume you really are passionately concerned with the difference between soda and tea and not just trying to talk about a black kid liking fruit soda and watermelon as a way to engage racist stereotypes to dehumanize him.)

Whether he was going to drink it or mix it with codeine is immaterial to the events that led to his death so why even bring it up?
At least, we're noticing much more quickly than might have been reasonable before.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent
Users almost always retain copyright to content they post on Facebook, twitter, etc
Thanks! We'll be working on python bindings as well. We're finishing polishing the lib now.

Happy to help people on gitter as we finish this out:

https://gitter.im/deeplearning4j/deeplearning4j
I liked you have the guts to make this public.

I'd suggest you read the How To Apply guide, particularly the section on Matter of Fact answers: http://www.ycombinator.com/howtoapply/#matteroffact

I have trouble understanding what you plan on making by reading your answer to the first question. Write web software that records benefits? Make phone calls to insurance companies to figure out the best plans?

If the answer is you'll make a web-based payment system that aggregates and automatically invests premiums, I would put that in the first or second sentence.
It's not true.

https://twitter.com/michaelluo/status/625082960547610626

http://sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/05/20/q-and-a-luo-y...

http://fusion.net/story/132309/nail-salon-expose-my-manicuri...
Kriegsmarine was (I think) the name for the German navy. U-boats were essentially submarines. Tonnage was the proportion of weight of the boats sunk. The "rest of them" refers to the rest of the U-boat captains.
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Taxi drivers block streets of Rio in protest against Uber
I sure hope. This would improve affordability for anyone who wants to create startups with hardware.
Maybe that's true the first time, but 3taps business model wouldn't work with just one visit to craigslist. If you keep coming into the shop, the shopkeeper definitely has the right to revoke your implied license and sue you for trespass the next time you step on the premises.
I imagine (but don't know) a tweet whenever an episode is aired and a link either going to a product or affiliate page. E.g. https://twitter.com/hashtag/tvshowtime?src=hash
For context, MIT has had the consensus best overall economics program for the last ~30 years.

Harvard, Stanford, etc. compete closely with MIT in many fields, but MIT is still the most desirable destination for graduate students and assistant professors.

It's no surprise that MIT students achieve a lot, and it's not surprising they can't succeed when put in intractable positions.
What if the company is in a tight market and it differentiates itself by being reliable and be able to constantly implement new features as well as competitors features quickly? I would assume taking on technical debt, unless you can bankrupt your competitors in one blow, is suicide since in the long run whoever have the least technical interest payments wins. That assumes the company has done those four things you mentioned solidly.
This is the kind of cool Hacker News I like to see! Ordered.
Being an entrepreneur isn't an imposition.
After Wikia Search failed, there's no risk in Google further subsidizing the growth of Wikipedia so long as Google then gets to scrape back much of the value add via their knowledge graph & Wikia is primarily monetized via Google AdSense.

It makes sense Wikimedia didn't see an immediate donation drop. In terms of a conversion funnel, the people who are using Wikipedia for the first time are not likely to donate. My guess is most of the people who are most likely to donate a small amount here or there are the regular users who regularly seek out the site. The drop in donations due to the lower exposure would take years to kick in, because now with 20% or 30% fewer users, there will also be less new future power users who would donate in say 2018 or 2019. But offsetting any decline there for a company making over a billion a month in profits shouldn't be too substantial. Sergey Brin donates a half-million a year grant to the Wikimedia foundation & Google has also donated a few million.

It is also worth mentioning the knowledge graph now often contains affiliate links for things like music, ebooks, and so on. Over time more and more knowledge categories will have paid affiliate links in them (say booking a restaurant, heading to a concert, etc.)

In some cases Google may temporarily make a link type free to try to drive adoption and awareness, but over time it will be the same sort of scrape-n-displace they've done with hotel bookings. They not only turned the "organic" hotel search listings into a second set of paid ads, but now they are also testing having some users convert and buy the hotel booking while on Google.com - just like they are doing with their car insurance offering. And they have also added links to cityname hotel searches in their knowledge graph in order to drive more people into that "almost nothing but ads" funnel.

You can see the net effect of that sort of displacement on an industry by looking at all the consolidation in travel. Expedia acquired Travelocity and Orbitz. That leaves Expedia, Priceline & TripAdvisor as the remaining 3 big players. And even with TripAdvisor Google offered them and Yelp an ultimatum to allow Google to scrape/steal their reviews & if they wanted to opt out of that theft then they could use a robots directive to block Googlebot from indexing their site. That monopolistic abuse was so brazen it actually managed to draw the interest of regulators and politicians. Eric Schmidt did a fantastic job of misdirection & fibbing at the 2011 congressional hearing (ref http://www.benedelman.org/news/040115-1.html ) but the regulatory & political reviews forced Google to back away from at least that form of monopolistic bundling.

Though, of course, the same sort of behavior continues to this day in other forms. From just yesterday there's both
https://twitter.com/chrispirillo/status/624630005734113280 &
https://twitter.com/jeremys/status/624675646694780928
I have worked at a dozen startups, some failed, some grew and still exist, some were acquired and people made a shit load of money.

I have never been at a startup that failed for technical/technology reasons. All failures I've seen were due to issue with delivering what customers were interested in paying money for. Most often, product owners and developers were not able to establish good communication, which led to developers basically creating a product that didn't match what customers wanted. Period.

I would be interested in your definition of technical debt though. What some people call "technical debt" or "hack", I often call "the best/fastest way to address the current business concern and deliver immediate value". In a startup environment I think these is a critical workflow.
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That's one of the things monads do, but they can do more. A monad is defined by an underlying type (roughly, some kind of "container"), and two functions (putting an object in the container, and creating a new container by applying a function to the contained object). That's all a monad actually is. It simply turns out that given those relatively simply building blocks, you can do all sorts of neato things with them, like encapsulating state, error handling, chaining actions together, etc.

An example of a monad which has really nothing necessarily to do with mutable state are Promises in JavaScript. The container, of course, is a Promise, and the two functions I described are `resolve` and `then`.
Nd4j: Numpy for the jvm
Pee on these SF walls? Be prepared for them to pee back
Why would the cop's life be ruined? There are already way too many cases where police body cameras "mysteriously malfunction", often on multiple officers at once. There need to be repercussions for such behavior. This is just an extension of innocent until proven guilty. If cops want to make arrests, they should make sure their camera is working. They would never go out without a functioning gun, radio, or car.
I am not a US citizen, a supporter of the militarization of the police, or their unchecked use of power, but your third (numbered) point: "[1] Being a foreigner, I'm not protected by your constitution and the officers haven't sworn to protect and serve me." is incorrect. All persons on US soil are protected by the US constitution, whether citizens or not.

Your (confusingly) similarly enumerated point earlier "[1] and your guantanamo-friendly interviews at border control" is also flawed, as there is no possible way (of which I am aware) for US Customs and Immigration to send you to Guantanamo Bay without the assent of the country you are leaving. US C&I can turn you back, or temporarily detain you, and have a great deal of latitude with respect to questioning and searches, but you are always protected by the US constitution and possibly the laws of the country you are attempting to leave depending on where you are being questioned. The reason that people were allowed to be transported to Guantanamo Bay is that they were captured as unaffiliated combatants (who are allotted few rights in the Geneva Convention,) within the borders of a country whose sovereign granted the USA custody, and allowed deportation for detention without conditions.
Sweet zombie jesus. I can't believe they not only outright said that, but apparently think it's somehow a good thing.

The only thing the NYT has going for it is reliability. If it's their view that the facts can be had anywhere and what makes them special is the "added value" then they are almost outright admitting that they no longer have any reason to exits.
Time to invest in Taser Corporation. With policing like this, another Fergusson is right around the corner. Not that people in Fergusson were angels, but still, they got something right - fighting against state fashism.
> so the statement is patently false or a complete exaggeration.

Oh, don't misunderstand me, it could very well be either. I'm not claiming to have discovered this based on extensive knowledge.

Thanks for the link. So the CVSS metric is the one you're referring to? I've not seen that mentioned in vulnerability reports, no. Once again, more than happy to admit this is my failure or lack of diligence to notice. But when I've asked before about quantification, I've typically only got variants of 'you must take all vulnerabilities totally seriously, because the bad guys are powerful and evil.'
So, mainly thinking of usability improvements. See Fallout New Vegas, which had iron sights. Sure you wouldn't have the code (in a universe where Fallout 3 was open source), but you would know how it works by treating it as a black box.
Check out the bottom: http://www.myhdl.org/start/whatitisnot.html

I should say that in generating Verilog or VHDL from MyHDL, you can do proper simulations with that... but Chisel's C++ simulator is significantly faster than a Verilog simulator, while still being cycle accurate.
Just took at look at the cx-lang website.
I think it may be too weird for a beginner looking for results. I've been in ASIC & FPGA engineering for 15+ years. The design flow I think they use is more like writing a program that gets translated into hardware. Very different from the regular methodology. Sounds great but there's a big leap between that and getting your FPGA working. For a beginner, it's too much to take on.

I think maybe Chisel and those others would be easier.
Just Admit It, Part 2
> The fact that the premises is an Internet website changes nothing.

Well, the principle stays the same, but apparently Congress thought it changed enough that they had to write a new law to cover things.
edit: you are right, it is coming off looney. Ice tea, soda, watermelon flavored fruit punch or juice, ... the point has been made - a stereotypical-flavor juice drink is converted unanimously to "ice tea" by the media (by 10 out of 10 outlets) for the narrative's sake.

For the other 95% of the story, start with the 2nd link above, to see just how ridiculous Zimmerman's character was built-up.

Then check Trayvon's twitter screenshot for how he conversed and what drugs he liked (lean). Check the pictures found on his phone of him holding a gun and talking about selling it. Him being expelled from school. Burglary charges. See the conversations he had about being in some type of a fight club and making people bleed, etc...

Which was all mostly left out of the story, because it did not support the narrative - http://www.rawstory.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/hoodies-8...

Or how about the recording that was played for weeks non stop on CNN -

> Zimmerman: This guy looks like he’s up to no good. He looks black.

Which actually turned out to be -

> Zimmerman: This guy looks like he’s up to no good. Or he’s on drugs or something. It’s raining and he’s just walking around, looking about.

> Dispatcher: OK, and this guy — is he black, white or Hispanic?

> Zimmerman: He looks black.

The media did a number on that story. It wasn't a conspiracy, it was political spin. Which is what the media in the US does. They do not report facts anymore.
Well you sure didn't slober when you sucked your heroes off. Not your first time I'm guessing? To people in Iraq it was an occupational force of thugs. Hence, I wonder if vast majority of the world thought the same way. Bush didn't even get UN mandate to be there.
I think Krugman is best understood as a pundit these days.

That's his main job now, and he does it very well. But good punditry is often bad science, and vice versa.
If I followed this correctly, the gap is between talking and doing, not between reading and doing. Reading is not the problem.
Banks would start tracking notes if they had some reason to, but they don't. Getting big companies to coordinate to do something new is extremely hard.

Bank note serial numbers are used today, to estimate the average lifespan of a note (a 5 pound note has around a 6 month lifespan on average IIRC). And something like 95% of 20 pound notes have traces of cocaine on them.
All it takes is a landmark case of cop vs. civilian where the camera legitimately broke but the cop was in the right yet cannot prove it and then their life is ruined if the case is automatically decided in the civilian's favor.

I think there's a middle ground somewhere between "toss the case because the bodycam footage went missing" and "lock up the cop and throw away the key"