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That's a good point, although I fail to see how Elon's claim of 1 million robotaxis by the end of 2020 can take shape in the first place.

An interesting study - albeit 3 years old - on company driven political activism and which areas of policy making they should stick to (according to public perception). Unfortunately, I think this is very indicative of the current state of polarisation in society, but it can be useful for start-ups to navigate this tumultuous landscape.

They have conducted some of these studies some years ago. One of the was a study on the effects of LSD [0][1] on the brain, and I if I recall correctly they were also looking for test subjects for shrooms around the same time.

[0]https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/171699/the-brain-lsd-reveale...

[1]https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/early/2016/04/05/151837711...

In general I have issues with the Azure documentation. I can't put my finger on it as to why, but for some reason the information doesn't seem to be presented in coherent ways, it's often disconnected and gets outdated very quickly. I can't speak as to the performance of the drivers (in general using the database drivers or a gRPC/thrift equivalent should be better than REST), but I agree with the lack of SLAs.

The lack of SLAs in the documentation is one of the major issues we've had when assessing the suitability of Azure managed services (e.g. Postgres, Cosmos DB, Bus, Event Hubs, etc.). To Azure's defence (not sure I should be doing this), a lot of these services are new and they are made available before they are operationally ready. For example, I was looking at the SQL warehouse offering a few months back [0] and if you want to use it you'd have manually maintain the statistics of the DB to keep the query plans optimised. It just seems like more overhead than necessary.

[0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/sql-data-warehouse/sq...

Only in part. The part of Airbus that deals with confidential information [1] will stay on the Microsoft stack for a while (at least for e-mails).

[1] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/03/19/sorry_microsoft_hat...

We still haven't received a rejection e-mail. Weird.

Would it not be hard to interleave the first frame of these videos given different starting times and angles (ignoring camera movement)? It should be easy if the videos have synchronized timestamps, but that might not always be the case.

I think the random walk is incorporating the "hidden" knowledge which clusters the nodes in the graph together. As they use inference to create the links between the nodes, that will (I believe) incorporate the knowledge forming a local neighbourhood of data which when traversed randomly will expose that knowledge.

Moving forward from the sparse to dense conversion (which is pretty clever) I think it would be interesting to look at learning properties of vertices or clusters from random walks on surrounding clusters. This would enable someone to capture information which might not be directly available (silly example: activity of a hidden facebook group, based on the activities/profiles of its members).

This is pretty sad to hear both from the perspective of the lost life of the test pilot who was willing to take on the risk of pioneering space flight, as well as from the perspective of science and technological advancement. I don't think this is a major set-back but it will certainly require more effort into getting space flight to a level of safety where it can become commercial.

This might be a stupid idea, but maybe use pairs of translator to get the text translated forwards and then backwards to the original language, and compare how much of the message has been lost? I think this way you can also get a hint of how that native person would interpret the translated message.

I think the original source is on a youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPKKQnijnsM . The video aggregates data from multiple sources:

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/02/income-inequalit... http://danariely.com/2010/09/30/wealth-inequality/ http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/10/03/334156/top-five-... http://money.cnn.com/2012/04/19/news/economy/ceo-pay/index.h...

How reliable these sources are, I'm not sure. If the information is wrong, I wouldn't blame it on Upworthy, it's a distribution channel after all.

On a related note about the economic system have a look at this: http://www.upworthy.com/9-out-of-10-americans-are-completely...

This is what happens when wealth accumulates at the top of the pyramid. The video is talking about people, but those people are those behind the companies you mentioned (including Google, Facebook, hedge funds and oil companies). The problem with capitalism in my opinion, is that it's not truly capitalism: i.e. it's not the free competition system they claim it to be, but a system which is "more free" for some.

It's not impossible, it can definitely be done through asset acquisition at higher prices, or contracting some dubious consulting agents/firm.

but but....:(

I recommend watching Person of Interest. The TV show has started long before the NSA scandal, but it's like a Hollywood post interpretation of some major event. Except it was a premonition.

I have had this brilliant idea of a start-up. A website that has one big button saying start-up, and it costs $1 to press, and voila you have your own start-up. So...who's in?

Some of the things I've learned at university are pretty interesting and fun to play with. Now, notice the "fun to play" with part. Some thing require a lot of investment (both money and time) in order to be learned. So, I believe it's not unfeasible to want to start a company so that you can fund your curiosity and learn the new things. The company itself might fail, or might not, but I believe as long as the purpose was to learn something new, failing is not as bad. If you start a company thinking this is the future, and you put value in making money as opposed to learning, then failing is losing.

I think the ad delivery method has to change. Facebook and Twitter have noticed this and are trying to overcome it through ads as feeds/posts, which makes it slightly harder for adblocking tools to distinguish between the normal/adverts. And I really mean slightly, because you can still just look for the "Sponsored" label and get rid of that html node from your feed. I can't think of a solution at the moment, but I do acknowledge the needs of companies to sell ads on their pages to keep the content free. However, once your stuff gets transferred over to the client, there's not much you can do about the way they digest your data.

I second this. Decompiling java to bytecode is not only easy, but not very hard to read with a bit of experience. It's like reading normal java code but slightly more concise haha. However, I can understand the developer's concern. I think the best way to go about is to put in copyright notices and some sort of license on it. Then, go for the lawsuit if you really need/want to.

I have to agree. The social network business is quite harsh. The new networks that have emerged in the post facebook era do not really offer something in addition to what facebook does. They just recycle some of the "features" of Facebook in its early stages. So...Ello is ads free. Who will pay for it? Donations? That could work. Is that a stable income when it comes to scaling out (should it become successful)? I honestly doubt it.

Is Tech City the geeky version of Sin City?