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I think AI-generated art is an industry waiting to happen. Imagine telling a VR system "show me a mountain ski resort with skiers going everywhere" and it just generates it. It could have a huge impact on procedurally generated maps in gaming.

Or even plays or fiction! Look at how formulaic detective shows are. It'll probably be hard to get the emotional nuance, but maybe AI could make all of the characters and plots.

While I think we're far away from generating TV shows with Conv-Nets, perhaps it can do simpler things (porn?).

> * Outrage that despite the billions upon billions invested in spying programs no one was able to predict or stop this attack. Proving that the vast spying powers granted to governmental organizations don't work.

In fairness, we don't exactly find out about the successes...

Just in case anyone here doesn't know who Brian Kernighan is:

- He co-created AWK (he's the K) and AMPL

- He literally wrote the book on C with Dennis Ritchie (the book with the big blue "C" on it)

- He authored some of the first UNIX programs (cron, for example) when he was working at Bell Labs

- He made "Hello World!" a trope and named UNIX

He's also quite possibly the nicest person ever.

In this case, it is the license that matters.

Most charting libraries are licensed. You can use them trivially by downloading them, or inspecting them in the browser, as you suggest. However, it isn't legal.

Thanks! It's surprising how we still don't have a good open source charting library. I've checked most of them out and Highcharts/FusionCharts blow them out of the water.

Depends on the country.

In countries that have electricity coming from fossil fuels, it's inherently less efficient. In countries like Norway where everything mostly comes from hydro power, this is completely different.

Article 13.6: International Mobile Roaming

1. The Parties shall endeavour to cooperate on promoting transparent and reasonable rates for international mobile roaming services that can help promote the growth of trade among the Parties and enhance consumer welfare.

That sounds... great!

Twitch makes a twitch clone

What does "Facebook of X" even mean? "X for close friends"?

In any case, I see Medium as long-form Twitter. Follow who you want to follow (even if you don't know them), respond and have discussions. Make it super clean and put the content first.

I think Medium:Tumblr as Facebook:MySpace. Less customization, cleaner, more about content.

See: Rocket Internet.

They have a habit of seeing what works in the US, making it in Europe as fast as they can and either:

1) Selling it to the original US company

or 2) Developing it into a big independent company (see HelloFresh)

Some people are mad at them for that. I think it's pretty brilliant.

$2,961 in Brooklyn and $3,361 in Manhattan. Ouch.

Source: http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2015/05/14/rents_rise_across_n...

Oh, I totally buy it. I'm just joking around :). I said in another comment:

> Some companies end too early because the technology or capital wasn't there to let it get to its full potential.

Blogger is a clear case for that. If it was founded 5 years later, it could have had sharing features and been Tumblr.

Similarly, if Tumblr was founded now, it'd probably have a better comment system, cleaner design and collections. The real question is - is that enough to move the network effect over to Medium. I see Tumblr v. Medium as very similar to MySpace v. Facebook in that regard...

It's not that surprising if you think about it.

Some companies end too early because the technology or capital wasn't there to let it get to its full potential. Also, those founders tend to be the people who understand the space the best because they're the ones with the most experience.

Never used Vagrant that much. How does Vagrant/Otto compare to Docker/Docker Compose/Docker Swarm?

Step 1: Found successful startup (Blogger). Sell four years later to Google.

Step 2: Wait ten years. Then, repeat step 1 with similar idea but different branding (Medium).

At this rate, we have about 6 years until Ev does step 2 for Twitter. Maybe it'll be called Tiny :)

This is super impressive.

My favorite was: "Who is your daddy and what does he do?" "It's not a tumor!"

Theano is great! The learning curve can be a little difficult, but once it "clicks", it's nice to work with.

Assuming these numbers are right...

(15 million lines of code changed a week) / (25,000 engineers) = 600 LOC per engineer per week

Is ~120 LOC per engineer per workday normal at other companies?

Depends on the product!

Are you making something that searches the entire internet for relevant documents based on a custom query? Or are you sending a picture to another phone that goes away in < 5s? Or is this a blog?

If you're talking "minimum" then theoretically it could be 1 person. It's very easy to scale static pages. Heck - you could host a static page on S3.

Dan Luu's original post: http://danluu.com/yegge-predictions/

This is great! There are certain puns/combos that would be really hard to catch though.

For example - the Ford Nova. In Spanish, it literally translates to "no va" "doesn't go". Terrible name for a car.

I'm unsure how to make this understand the context of the product, but that would be the next step

Here's a video of him putting 331 lbs over his head...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-v8OexNKrug

At the age of 14. Most people can't deadlift that. This kid's a prodigy.

“The only time you look in your neighbor's bowl is to make sure that they have enough. You don't look in your neighbor's bowl to see if you have as much as them.”

With nuclear subs, it really doesn't matter.

I admire iteration - the idea that you make a basketball game and you keep making it better makes sense to me. Eventually, it'll be as good as it can be, right? When you're out of improvements, you can just update it every year with better graphics and updated rosters.

In another other industry, that mentality makes sense. In the video game industry, it doesn't. Video games are so tied to emotion that you really need to strive to create something new, to induce something novel in your customers.

I think the best example of this was the release of NBA Live 10 vs NBA 2K10. Since 1995, NBA Live was the basketball game. They (in my opinion), crushed the 2K series. For years, it was a really polished game and sales were pretty consistent. They continuously improved on the menus and on the actual basketball games.

Then, something changed around 2010. Suddenly, EVERYONE preferred NBA2K over NBA Live. Here's a good article about that:

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/416482-nba-live-10-or-nba...

In my opinion, EA kept optimizing for local maxima. When 2K10 started experimenting more with simulating the business side of NBA teams with Association Mode, more people were hooked. The metagame became way more fun. And My Player mode was great too.

EDIT: I think there's a lot of parallels between the video game industry and the film industry. The companies that stay on top (Disney, Nintendo, Blizzard, Valve etc.) are fiercely protective of their brand and never release something they think is just okay.

The "people will forget about our mediocre games" mentality is very, very off in industries so tied to emotion.

Just noticed this was already on the frontpage:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8810857

Sorry for the repost!

Oh god stories like this scare me.

One of my friends used to intern for a very large company that maintained software for flight control towers. His entire summer was spent writing bash tests for these old Fortran apps that kept planes from running into each other. Most of the mainframes still had tape.

That's the code that keeps track of our planes.

> So basically, a data lake is a fancy word for a file system?

Well, when you get down to it, any database is a just a file system with an API :)

I think a "data lake" might be a combination of raw files with metadata. For example, raw scrapes on S3 + an entry on Postgres with a link to the file, the date it was scraped and the version of the bot that scraped it.

The product page is live now: http://www.apple.com/music/

Is there a font nerd here who can describe what makes Roboto unique?