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Mmmmm. Flagship (Noubar's shop) mostly incubates it's own companies (same with 3rd Rock) and uses VC partners as founding CEOs -- so if you are a missionary founder it's not really a fit. In general the pharma VC ecosystem is way more "professional executives"-minded. It's a stark contrast to tech venture ecosystem that goes for young founder leadership. So if you are a great, recently graduated life scientist solving important problems and want to build your own company I'd still consider YC.
> The flip side of these trends at the top of the wealth ladder is the erosion of wealth among the middle class and the poor. There is a widespread public view across American society that a key structural change in the U.S. economy since the 1920s is the rise of middle-class wealth, in particular because of the development of pensions and the rise in home ownership rates. But our results show that while the share of wealth of the bottom 90 percent of families did gradually increase from 15 percent in the 1920s to a peak of 36 percent in the mid-1980, it then dramatically declined. By 2012, the bottom 90 percent collectively owns only 23 percent of total U.S. wealth, about as much as in 1940 (see Figure 2.)[0]

> The structure of the control network of transnational corporations affects global market competition and financial stability. So far, only small national samples were studied and there was no appropriate methodology to assess control globally. We present the first investigation of the architecture of the international ownership network, along with the computation of the control held by each global player. We find that transnational corporations form a giant bow-tie structure and that a large portion of control flows to a small tightly-knit core of financial institutions. This core can be seen as an economic “super-entity” that raises new important issues both for researchers and policy makers.[1]

[0] http://equitablegrowth.org/research/exploding-wealth-inequal...

[1] http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/1107/1107.5728v2.pdf
> The goal is to get Californians into electric cars before the gasoline runs out

You mean before irreversible ecological disaster? I don't think anyone outside the business of fossil fuel extraction is concerned about us running out of fossil fuels.
If at all possible, please consider building things like this as static websites. It makes them faster, cheaper and much more tolerant to load spikes like this.
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As aboodman points out (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10000966):

> The extension system could try to detect such things, but there are a variety of ways for bad extensions to work around the detections.

A computer proveably (in the mathematical sense) cannot detect all forms of bad behaviour; and the security history of all the software in the world proves (in the historical, not mathematical, sense) that neither can the best programmers, let alone overworked reviewers who see mostly benign or trivially malicious code and so are not experienced in finding subtly malicious code.
That is not a principled way to run a business. If they couldn’t build this thing with the funds raised on Kickstarter, then they shouldn’t have been on Kickstarter.

Sounds like they tried to take something to market with an investment, and returned those investments because they couldn't make it work.

Just because they didn't go to a series C and waste a ton more money doesn't make them any less "principled"
With a quick superficial read this reminds me of:http://simpanetworks.com some. It's a really exciting market for social enterprises to get into.

My guy says that decentralized power generation will flourish in the developing world the same way that mobile phones have.
> ...be glad we aren't living in anarchy.

We aren't?
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I tried to script that together after the same idea occurred to me. What's interesting is the selection plane affects the outcome quite heavily. As the plane of random line selection increases in size, the probability of a random chord having length>sqrt3 seems to approach about 0.13

My math might be wrong; doesn't seem to be a floating point precision issue.

from math import sqrt
from random import random

def randomPoints(width):
return [
[random()*width-width/2, random()*width-width/2],
[random()*width-width/2, random()*width-width/2]
]

def chordCalc(points):
def quadraticEquation(a,b,c):
descriminant=(b**2 - 4*a*c)
if descriminant <= 0:
return None
x1 = (-b+sqrt(descriminant))/(2*a)
x2 = (-b-sqrt(descriminant))/(2*a)
y1 = sqrt(1-x1**2)
y2 = sqrt(1-x2**2)
return [[x1, y1],[x2,y2]]

m = (points[0][1] - points[1][1]) / (points[0][0] - points[1][0])
b = points[0][1] - m*points[0][0]

qa = 1+m**2
qb = 2*b*m
qc = b**2-1

return quadraticEquation(qa, qb, qc)

def distance(points):
return sqrt((points[0][1] - points[1][1])**2
+ (points[0][0] - points[1][0])**2)

chords=0
largeChords=0
sqrt3=sqrt(3)
while True:
if random() > 0.9999:
print float(largeChords)/chords
points = randomPoints(500) #adjust me down to 0.5 and see probability go to ~0.33
intersections=chordCalc(points)
if intersections is None:
continue
chords += 1
if distance(intersections) > sqrt3:
largeChords += 1
All real numbers have an infinite number of digits. For the numbers that you probably meant to exclude, all but finitely many of those infinitely many digits are 0.

(This is almost just nitpicking, but in another sense it's important: viewing an apparently terminating decimal expansion as actually 0-padded lets one say correctly that "a real number is rational if and only if its decimal expansion eventually repeats", full stop, rather than having to add the qualification "… or is eventually 0.")
I happen to agree with you, and I think we passed on some good candidates because of it. Frankly if I hadn't gotten lucky I would still be temping in warehouses or worse, and I actually finished an(arguably worthless) degree. I think it would have been interesting to explore the candidate's sense of prudence in not finishing school, because I suspect that it was a prudent decision for him.
I always answer 'have you considered how expensive the batteries will be to replace' with have you ever had to pay to have an automatic transmission replaced? Not cheap! A blown head gasket is also not cheap either.
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Seems the best stuff isn't always at the top, which sucks given how much clout this seems to give a startup.
This. I'd be very worried about the "regulations are for other people" mentality that pervades some firms - that's not something I want in my biotech.
I don't think PDF is that bad.
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Except the “something” they couldn’t make work is not the something they promised to the backers making an investment. That’s the problem here: The Kickstarter gives the appearance of a simple proposition: Give us $X and we build $Y.

If you always needed $X+W money, and always planned to build product Y+Z, and Z sinks the whole thing, then you have misled the original backers.

I agree that if they couldn’t make the original Matchstick--the one they promised to their backers--work, they should return what they can. But if the thing that doesn’t work is a business that is a lot more complicated than the thing they put on the Kickstarter, they shouldn’t have been on Kickstarter to begin with.
"The relationship between the state and the individual is somewhat akin to that between a parent and a baby. A baby is many things, and it is also helpless and chaotic without the governance of the parent. "

Are you on coke? Have you read Huxley? Seriously, you sound like a well-scripted quote out of the most totalitarian bullshit I have ever come across. If that's original, no matter how dumb you are for saying it...salute.
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a good point. tewi does have best-in-class glyph support though.
Man, makes me wish I had a IIgs.
I don't think that young founder-driven companies make sense in biotech. Young founders do well in tech because business model innovation requires contrarian thinking, which young people (who are naive and lack preconceptions) are more likely to do. Also, software engineering can be learned at home for very little money, on one's own, even at a very early age.

In biotech, once the technology has been developed, the innovative component has largely been completed. And it's the top scientists that have the institutional knowledge and non-dilutive funding to make that happen. The reason there are so many unmet needs in healthcare isn't for lack of trying or a lack of original thought in the top academic research labs - you can be sure that Bob Langer isn't just trying to up his h-index.

That said, you are right that a recent graduate won't be able to found a company in that model. That's mostly irrelevant though, since recent graduates are rarely capable of creating scientific breakthroughs on their own.
Firefox extensions are human-reviewed. Unfortunately Chrome's aren't unless their automated system detects something so for Chrome these concerns are more valid.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/AMO/Policy/Revie...
Well if that method makes you build a better twitter feed then let it be! Go whatever makes it good.
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Yes it goes way back to California Emissions. California has legislated to drag auto manufacturers kicking and screaming to the contrary position for many years. I think it's unlikely engine efficiency, and battery technology would be as progressed as it is now without that.

There is such a thing as government failure, just as there's such a thing as market failure. The problem with both is that perfect information, and hence perfect markets don't exist. The role of a regulator is to try to get close to a perfect market (like truth in lending laws, anti-fraud laws, compulsory minimum warranty, lemon laws, competition law, etc.) in order to bring about a free market that can actually mostly let people (markets) determine outcome rather than it being a planned economy. Of course it doesn't always work for a litany of reasons, mainly because it's a difficult problem.
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129 post/comments per hour

1000 0001 in binary = 129

It's a conspiracy!
Agree totally. LEED is probably a step in the right direction, I don't know much about it myself, but it seems like it'll help since indoor comfort and energy efficiency goes hand in hand.

Personally I'm interested in looking at ways to integrate mechanical energy systems, environmental sensors, monitors with passive energy transfers and strategies so we could (a) cut energy usage and (b) achieve greater indoor comfort due to the far superior self-regulating effects of passive energy. There are ways of absorbing and transferring energy (external and internal gains) around the building that would not only equilibrate the office better, but would also allow us to recycle energy efficiently. That's where I think we need to go. Which, I believe, is beyond LEED at this point.
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> In my opinion the circle should be positioned in an infinite plane, then random vectors should be drawn on the plane and ignored unless they intersect the circle.

After looking at the Wikipedia page, it seems that your method would be equivalent to the "random radius" aka "1/2" aka "ninja" method.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_paradox_(probability)

This is a good demonstration of the paradox here. You phrase your method as "random vectors in an infinite plane", but even when it is equivalent to the "ninja" method, the ninja method doesn't seem right to you.
Yes, it's easier to reason about correctness in immutability land and add mutability in after the fact as a compiler optimization than to remove mutability for safety as a compiler pass.
Probably a case where choosing ones words carefully helps. If you told me in the 90s "wealth inequality will increase" I probably would believe you. If you had told me "the world will be enslaved" I would have been skeptical. Saying that you were right all along because, while you said the latter, you really meant the former, sounds like retconning.
Most of them aren't even computable. As in, there's no Turing machine that can generate the nth digit.
Is there a self-hosted or client-side version of Mint that's also open-source? If not, I think there's an opportunity here.

If we have to resort to scraping for banking data, I'd personally prefer to do the scraping by myself and for myself rather than trusting any third parties with my credentials.
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> Anyway, some plastic/bottles have aluminum caps, and those I might leave on vs. tossing in the bin detached. I figure it wouldn't matter, aluminum is recyclable too.

Yes, aluminum is recyclable, but not when attached to a plastic bottle.

How do you expect that your 'attached' cap is going to become detached from the bottle so it can be recycled with the rest of the aluminum, and the plastic bottle recycled with the rest of the plastics?

For plants that use separator machinery, the machines can't unscrew caps from bottles. For plants that use humans, it means the human has to unscrew the cap before it is separated.

That's why the pamphlets say separate the caps from the bottles. The bottle and the cap end up in two different streams, and if they are separated at the outset, it is easier to split them up into the two separate streams at the sorting plant.
Who do you think is doing the hands-on work in Bob Langer's lab that leads to that scientific breakthrough (hint - it's not Bob). No reason that recently graduated PhD/postdoc can't start a company built on their work. The pharma VC ecosystem has a blind spot for these sort of founders - I'm glad YC is an option for them.
i think that any probability measure you can define on your proposed solution assigns a probability of zero to actually hitting the circle, which might complicate things somewhat :)
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So we're supposed to spend our time, effort, and professional credibility for your cause, but we shouldn't expect even a thank you. Nope.
I believe 1914 was when Martin Gardner was born not the date of publication which I think was 1992. Discussion of hypercards in 1914 would have been very interesting to say the least.
There are non-functional "close" buttons? I assumed your GP was saying that the buttons do work, just that they don't need to be used because the door will close anyway. At least that's the case in any building I've been in.
I had a feeling it was going to be mentioned that I need to delegate the marketing a partner. Does this mean that for anything to be successful one must need a partner to complete the other half (or be superman and be good at both)?
Except it's all based on trade agreements and negotiations. The US didn't agree to German drafted laws so they don't apply - if Germany didn't want them then they shouldn't have signed them.

If the argument is that the German population doesn't want them, then that's an internal issue and not the US' problem, as we negotiate with state actors, not citizens.
All you need to add to make the ninja story work is to randomly rotate the pizza after it is cut (which clearly has no effect on the size of the resulting piece). It is then possible to select any chord of the circle -- though the probability density would be different than in the other two methods.
> dismiss as 'crazy conspiracy theory'

This is simply a current example of the political strategy known as the paranoid style. Just like the fear about "reds" in McCarthyism and various right-wing groups that used racial fears for political gain, there has been a very succcessful application of the paranoid style against the very idea of investigating the intelligence community.

If you (or anybody else) haven't read it, I suggest reading the original essay[1] on the subject. It may be over 50 year old, but it is probably one of the more important essays for understanding the modern (~post-WW2) American politics and how "conspiracy theory" has been used as a way of rallying people against "the enemy".

[1] http://harpers.org/archive/1964/11/the-paranoid-style-in-ame...
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They gave the money back. Regardless of surrounding events or further stories, you do not get to call them unprincipled.
Are you hiring recent grads as well? (CS grads with <1 year of experience)
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"Misapplied" was a paraphrase introduced during transcription, not something I said in my talk.
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Exactly. Or Vimeo which won't care AFAIK. Or host your own on your own site which is easy enough.

This argument is incoherent so it's not worth a further reply.
There's been a lot of persistent misinformation floating around about Kickstarter, and I don't really understand why. It's not complicated.

Yes, Kickstarter projects are legally obligated to fulfill their promised rewards, or else provide refunds. It has always been this way. Really, the only difference between Kickstarter and a preorder is that the schedule is a lot looser.
Well, any heuristic like that is possibly going to give either false positives or false negatives when applied to a set larger than the training data. A pure white-list approach is definitely an option for determining the accepted inputs, but generally some heuristic that attempts to accept inputs "like" the examples will probably be better.
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I love the EPI book too. Have met the authors and can vouch for their competence and sincerity. If you can algorithmically solve the 300 questions from this book, you're in pretty good shape.

Re: coding, given that most people are not competitive programmers, I'd advise them to write code for several of these problems.

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Sounds like the way that google.cn already works -- google will tell you its omitting certain search results because China requested it.