Hacker News: hershel

New comment by hershel in "Uber isn’t the problem; taxi regulations are"

hershel — Thu, 26 Jun 2014 12:45:21 +0000

I think there should be an UBER competitor ,that really helps cities build their own clone effectively.

If that's possible politically , it would be interesting : the cities would have regulatory power to win over UBER, this very critical business that's might just be the future of transport will be in public hands and hopefully will be guided to the good of the community, and drivers will be compensated fairly.

But getting the politics right is very difficult.

New comment by hershel in "Charles Stross YAPCA keynote: The world in 2034"

hershel — Wed, 25 Jun 2014 10:58:54 +0000

"The continuing trend towards fewer people being employed in manufacturing, and greater automation of service jobs, will continue: our current societal model, whereby we work to earn money with which to buy the goods and services we need may not be sustainable in the face of a continuing squeeze on employment. But since when has consistency or coherency or even humanity been a prerequisite of any human civilization in history? We'll muddle on, even when an objective observer might look at us and shake her head in despair."

He wrote very little about that subject, although there's decent likelihood that will be the issue(together with AI,VR and possibly medical innovation) that will make 2034 very different from out time.

New comment by hershel in "Sel4: We’re going open source"

hershel — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 20:36:38 +0000

Here they describe it in detail:

http://ertos.nicta.com.au/research/l4.verified/proof.pml

Basically they plugged a lot of the possible holes, but it's not done yet.

New comment by hershel in "FAA bans the use of drones to deliver packages"

hershel — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 20:27:56 +0000

Even if they lose, won't the laws change to give them these powers ? I don't see something as potentially risky as drones running around unregulated.

New comment by hershel in "Poll: Are you moving to the Amazon Fire Phone?"

hershel — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 09:42:13 +0000

Like the author says ,it's a pretty forced explanation, but just to get more money out of them, the excel table shows how much:

http://stratechery.com/2014/amazons-whale-strategy/

New comment by hershel in "Poll: Are you moving to the Amazon Fire Phone?"

hershel — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 08:24:44 +0000

We're probably the last population targeted by this phone. It probably targets seniors or heavy prime users.

New comment by hershel in "Why The Cool Kids Don't Use Erlang"

hershel — Sun, 22 Jun 2014 14:56:37 +0000

Since there are actor libraries like akka targeting the JVM and claiming to offer similar benefits, why should someone prefer erlang?

New comment by hershel in "Show HN: An open distributed search engine for science"

hershel — Sun, 22 Jun 2014 08:38:03 +0000

What about http://commoncrawl.org/? Why not use it?

New comment by hershel in "The Ocean Cleanup"

hershel — Sat, 21 Jun 2014 11:02:21 +0000

Great project. I do wonder , why are 100 people involved ? is it very complicated ? or just the fact they volunteer so they can't give their 100% attention to this?

New comment by hershel in "Teaching college is no longer a middle-class job, and everyone should care"

hershel — Fri, 20 Jun 2014 21:21:30 +0000

Teachers would probably have bigger problems.

According to clay christensen , the guy behind "the innovator's dillema" , more than 50% of colleges will go bankrupt soon(until 2020/2024).

New comment by hershel in "FPGA and Xeon combined in one socket"

hershel — Fri, 20 Jun 2014 07:57:14 +0000

YZF,why can't we start from an optimized FPGA - i.e. small memory blocks spread all around with massive bandwidth and low latency, and find a way to give decent enough access to the cpu to all that memory ?

And yes i know that the cpu will be the bottleneck, but it will be the bottleneck anyway.

New comment by hershel in "Nokia's New Homescreen Replacement App for Android"

hershel — Fri, 20 Jun 2014 07:19:43 +0000

Cover looks cool. Seems like the sort of thing amazon would like to launch next - with a quick launch button to it's flow app - as a way to spread the new firefly button("push to visual search") functionality faster.

New comment by hershel in "FPGA and Xeon combined in one socket"

hershel — Thu, 19 Jun 2014 18:18:54 +0000

What's your opinion on the new xilinx c-base design tools, and altera's opencl tools for doing compute acceleration ?

New comment by hershel in "FPGA and Xeon combined in one socket"

hershel — Thu, 19 Jun 2014 17:57:34 +0000

Thanks. Interesting paper.

Further ,this increases total cost of ownership by 30%, So the performance improvement is just about 70%.

New comment by hershel in "Amazon Fire Phone"

hershel — Wed, 18 Jun 2014 20:17:48 +0000

Maybe the reason amazon prices that way, is that it's really expensive ?

It seems that the most expensive thing here would be the mayday service. And maybe it's the killer feature here?

One big reason why seniors buy the iphone is that there are classes in the apple store which help them learn to use the device and overcome their fear of tech.So mayday could work well for that segment.

Also, many tech people hate coming home after work and doing tech support for their family. They could have a strong influence on their family members phone purchase decision.

And i'm sure amazon has got data from their mayday on tablet to estimate the value of mayday.

New comment by hershel in "Amazon Fire Phone"

hershel — Wed, 18 Jun 2014 20:09:24 +0000

I agree about the mayday. One big reason why seniors buy the iphone is that there are classes in the apple store which help them learn to use the device and overcome their fear of tech.So mayday could work well here.

Also, many tech people hate coming home after work and doing tech support for their family. They could have a strong influence on their family members phone purchase decision.

New comment by hershel in "Science, Superstition, and Open Plan Offices"

hershel — Wed, 18 Jun 2014 20:00:54 +0000

I know. They are supposed to be unique in that regard according to pcmag.

New comment by hershel in "Science, Superstition, and Open Plan Offices"

hershel — Wed, 18 Jun 2014 17:10:13 +0000

Recently i've been interested in buying a noise cancelling headphones. There's the new bose quietcomfort 20i, which are claimed at least by some reviewers to almost cancel talking sound.

Assuming they work well, since they are controlled using software, it might open the way to a more "programmable" noise environment. For example you could set them to hear only the team members you want at any given time, thus giving you the best of both worlds.

New comment by hershel in "Why would Amazon want to sell a mobile phone?"

hershel — Tue, 17 Jun 2014 11:07:51 +0000

Another thing that amazon can do with a phone is offer better service:

1. It could deploy it's mayday service , to get you a customer support rep on your mobile , which will help you install that TV. Rep would also have access to the phone's camera , so he could "see" the problem.

2. Amazon could develop an augmented reality app to make this process even more efficient and simple. Having 3D augmented reality might also make it simpler and more effective.

3. Combine 1+2 to gain better cost efficiencies in support.

If this succeed, amazon could implement another step in it's mission of being a complete business infrastructure solution.

Static typing where possible, dynamic typing when needed[pdf]

hershel — Tue, 17 Jun 2014 10:48:11 +0000

Article URL: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.69.5966&rep=rep1&type=pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7903643

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