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Thanks for sharing your experience.

I'm still surprised that more doctors aren't taking a proactive approach to telling their patients what to expect. I suspect part of it stems from lack of education, but I think some doctors are afraid to tell depressed patients that they might get worse before they get better because that suggestion alone might make them not take the medication in the first place.
I don't understand this. I read the entire thing and even though it is from the authors point of view, to me he come across poorly relative to the business guy. The only thing I can see the business guy is accused of is that he didn't make it clear enough that he has been working on this idea for 18 months and has an LLC. The author acts as if it is obvious this guy is an asshole but aside from going to the gym and having blond hair and saying "gay shit" (without any clear reference to homosexuality) what did he do that made him an asshole? Even the joke he made that was supposed evidence of his being a bully was in response to the author's joke about remembering to throw the team under the bus.

The author on the other hand comes across as a guy with a chip on his shoulder. Based on this article I would be reluctant to work with him.
Tests have fixed usage patterns. You detect those while total mileage is low, and you assume it's a test. After X thousand miles, you stop detecting. Job done.
The best example of this I have seen lately:

Big Software Company officially changed over to Agile this year. Now has two-week development sprints. Any customer who calls in with huge, flaming, earth-shattering issues with the software is now told that the earliest their issue can be brought up is whenever the current sprint is over. There's absolutely no leeway whatsoever to do any ad-hoc development for customers (frequently Fortune 500 or 100 who are paying millions for their software support.)
Can't add much to this discussion given all the excellent comments already posted. I've never done a "hackathon," and while I would not be surprised to see a good, working company come out of one, I do think the outcome presented in this tale is as likely as any other, and perhaps more so.
This is a really neat, rules-based, Chomskyian NLP (as opposed to the statistical kind represented by Word2vec). It's an old division...

http://norvig.com/chomsky.html

The essential question is: Can it go from basic reading comprehension to advanced just by adding more rules. Is intelligence simply 10 million rules? If so, how do we go about creating new rules as language evolves? By hard-coding them, as in the example code?

The real test for general AI and NLP is how well it, well, generalizes; i.e. how well does it deal with situations we have not explicitly anticipated?

In my opinion, the fuzzy, statistical methods @davesullivan mentions have a better chance at generalizing (although they may well be augmented by rules-based AI).

If an AI doesn't have a good way of transferring what it knows to novel problems, then it is severely limited. It's treating the world like a canned problem with a finite number of possibilities, like chess or checkers, when in fact the world is much more complex.

The way DeepMind combines deep learning and reinforcement learning is one way of acknowledging that complexity.

Deep learning learns patterns in raw sensory data, which means it can ingest and handle the new. Reinforcement learning learns to perform actions over a series of unknown states, improving its choices by monitoring the rewards it receives for those actions. They both maximize within uncertainty, and I think that's our best bet going forward.

Because the world, and language, cannot be known in their entirety. The number, motion and interrelation of the atoms of air in the room where I'm typing this are all too large and complex to be computable. Their fluid dynamics can only be vaguely guessed at, not deterministically predicted in a few lines of code.

The trick will be to bridge the gap between the hard-coded, limited rules and the unlimited recombinations of language, which is inventing new rules and words all the time.
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Thanks for checking it out. An extension would be helpful and I can see us working on that in the future. I see what you mean about the information being below the fold. We'll work on that.
> Someone who thinks that 40 beeps for the founding team

Not the founding team. Some guys who contributed 10-20 hours one time.

> For me, if I thought that the company would be worth $100M in five years, the $1.6M the SW team would be getting would be the least of my concerns, well behind 'how do I get in on this?'

Nobody would be complaining about how difficult fundraising is if investors were all so amenable.
Because this touches me in a very personal way, regardless the fact that I may or not be a member of the team.
I can't believe such a large company would cheat like that.

Companies, at the time when "company" was still being defined, used to do anything to exploit people and kill the environment just so their owners got a return on investment.

Only through the past 100 years of laws, regulations, and cultural refinement have corporations overtly stopped so many abuses of power. Some of the refinement is purely psychological manipulation as well ("Clean Coal!") and companies are still doing awful things to individuals, societies, and the world at large.

Our current generation is blind to many of these abuses because we grew up inside the bubble of "friendly companies." Friendly companies know they have to maintain their image. Friendly companies know they must hide their evil deeds from law/regulation because public relations now matters more than beating people with sticks to increase their productive output (because companies are immortal after all, you can't have the public turning on you).
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> If I had to guess, I would point the finger at Ghostery causing this. Lifehacker wrote that Ghostery sells some data to marketers, so perhaps the approach taken with the app interferes with Ghosterys model

Doubtful that's the case. If you read his post, he recommends Ghostery several times. It just sounds like he ultimately didn't feel comfortable about making money off something that takes money out of other people's pockets:

"I still believe that ad blockers are necessary today, and I still think Ghostery is the best one, but I’ve learned over the last few crazy days that I don’t feel good making one and being the arbiter of what’s blocked...I suggest you use Ghostery on the desktop"
I wonder why he made this decision after launching. The consequences and economics of ad-blocking are nothing new or surprising, and I'm sure he knew this while developing the app. Sounds like he was threatened or blackmailed.
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Is it me or does it seem like he'll back pedal the moment the backlash gets too big? It's the 'Apple software is buggy' back pedal all over again.
Having worked in mobile games for a few years, it's frightening how confident he is in his data. Demographic data is notoriously hard to acquire and validate within mobile apps. Yes, you collect everything you can (like every other company) but you absolutely do not own anyone. You beg and plead and issue content updates to keep them in the game.
Or, you just pay more for a car that has those performance characteristics both in taxes/registration fees and in fuel.

That said, cheating like this is really bad on a very large scale, and should probably face fines and maybe criminal charges, unfortunately discovery is likely to fall outside U.S. juristiction so it would be hard to prove enough to bring criminal charges against the appropriate managers and executives.
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> WAMP usually means the "Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP" stack

Ya, but no one in their right mind runs that.
You would think that they would be smart enough to only cheat when they won't get caught.

Here, they got caught, so they were being stupid.

You don't expect big, successful companies to be stupid (after all, they spend a ton of money to get the best CEOs they can).
All of them can and all of them have to buy in to licensing it. Similar to when an open source project wants to change licenses (for some licenses), they need to reach out to every contributor and get an agreement from them.
We don't have to worry about the philosophical questions of comprehension to find cases like this present challenges. These types of example (better articulated in mrec's link) are cases where we can imagine straightforward, plausible queries that the computer would be unable to answer: "what shattered?" or "what remains?" Some of the examples are such that simple web searches wouldn't be helpful in resolving the ambiguity; you'd need some "common knowledge." (Again: not that that's an insurmountable or necessarily relevant problem.)
FYI take a look at SiftScience and ThreatMetrix products. They wont process your transaction, but at least one of them offers a zero chargeback guaruntee, at $0.03 per transaction I believe.
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Simple UI? Karma? Traffic?
Where I live, they just plug a thing into the OBD-II port and go with whatever the car tells them. (I drive a '96 Honda Civic.) They don't test the exhaust directly.
Since you passive-aggressively banned my account by not actually telling me about it. I'm going to passive-aggressively come back and continue to post.

I'm not sure what you are referring to when you say "doing the same thing over again".

My posts aren't offensive or against the rules.

You really need to take a good look at yourself in the mirror: the truth hurts sometimes and banning opposing view points as being against your community rules (which they are not) is a problem and only contributes to the echo chamber of Hacker News.
Read up on P-values. http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/published/pval...
My wife is working in a school library. For some reasons, the previous book database has been lost.

The fact that you could snap a picture of a shelf, do some check, and get a raw text file with title, author, ISBN number would be a tremendous help for a quick and dirty digitization.

I know this is not your primary use case, but I am sure there are many people with that kind of issue. Looking forward to try your app !
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"The immune system evolved to discriminate infectious nonself from noninfectious self"
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0167-5699(92)90198-G

"We propose that humans have evolved to withstand energy crises by decreasing their body size"
http://www.nature.com/pr/journal/v64/n1/abs/pr2008135a.html

:humans evolved to modulate social behaviors like mating and
parenting in response to specific environmental cues:
http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-1-4612-3760-0...

After just few seconds of search..
So apparently some scientists didn't get the memo.

Hopefully some day you will also evolve to be less nitpicky.
Meh, who knows, but tossing the word "blackmailed" in there is unnecessarily sensationalist, imo. All sorts of things can be "known" in the abstract, and still feel far more intense when experienced in reality.
Georgia doesn't even test diesel cars, others only if over three or four years old.
Recommending them means nothing at all. That is practically the status quo when breaking up with another business, employee or whatever when it is done publicly. (and this obviously had to be public)
I'm wondering how this is going to be implemented.. it doesn't seem like a thing that's really fixable here.
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This is interesting. VW has already been performing a nationwide ECU reflash on all MkIV TDI cars this year. Was that part of this action, or was it the cause of this action?
The previous announcement about turning into a subscription based IDE pushed me into trying Netbeans again.

Netbeans is suprisingly close in features to IDEA and better in some places (in my experience XML handling and performance). This new announcement is probably not enough to get me to switch back despite some Netbeans annoyances.
Could it also have been a black rook as well?
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> since users will just turn to free alternatives

If there are completely free alternatives which are an acceptable replacement how are you going to compete in the first place?

I would never accept that opt-in for an ever growing list of reasons but I'm also the person who donates to sites I like.
they are both a catastrophe, i never implied that inconsistency is not one. i'm merely involved in semantic bickering here :) both are bad in their own way, but which is worse will depend on the case. bear in mind that programmers make mistakes all the time. they can also cause such effects. which is why we often do things in a way where incorrect data can be corrected later. particularly in anything related to accounting, where the practice has existed for centuries. i'm really not interested in claiming that one catastrophe is better than the other, but a data corruption in a database can sometimes be more problematic.

edit - sorry, i just noticed i actually did say, in another thread here, that corruption is worse. i would like to take that back now :D
Caveat: if the punishment does not exceed the profit from cheating, it's not a punishment it's a cost of doing business.
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Taking "speeds" will have a huge impact on your body. Most people that abuse of such substance will find themselves in some sort of chemical induced depression. Your body will stop giving you pleasure responses, nothing will seem worth doing or living.
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It's only the most advanced, most thought-out web forum. It's leaps and bounds ahead of phpbb and Invision because the lead developer knows that details matter. That includes testing, automatic updates, spam protection, user experience, and all that stuff that old PHP boards suck at.
I love your username =)
For me, it's the quality of the submissions and comments (which are often better than the articles themselves).
This is disgusting. I've turned down job opportunities based solely on the feeling that it would compromise my values / principals. So whether you just need to pay the mortgage, your school loans, or for the booze and clothes you're going to wow all your friends with tonight, if you're one of the many people building these sort of companies and normalizing these type of practices, I say to you, this is wrong. And if you choose to keep on keepin' on, don't expect me to associate with you; expect me to do what I can to roll back the mess and harm you're producing. If you do this kind of work and, god bless you, you stop, then I say to you, thank you and please share your experiences / stories with us. This sort of stuff doesn't just mean I feel my privacy bubble is popped. This is the stuff that changes the way we live and who we become. We have more productive capacity now than in all of human history, let's do something beautiful and good with it.
Can you give me a reason for "subpoenable" as a requirement? I mean wouldn't the github data be authoritative and easy to check? Or do we really need to be forcing githubs lawyers to get involved to provide answers to a subpoena if there's a lawsuit?

Anyway, you make a great point about the commits being clear assignment of copyright, and thanks for that!
Well, if you can find someone who believes in your idea that nobody will pay for, the opportunity that you can't prove exists, and the team where some folks are taking 90%+ and others are getting 0.5-3%...more power to you. This is why startups find hiring, hard, though. These folks are a.) hard to find and b.) prone to leaving when they realize they're slaving away for virtually nothing.

And IMHO, pretty much everything in this story is set up for failure. This is not how startups get founded. Actual startups get founded by a team working for equal or nearly equal shares, who do all of the work necessary to build something that people want, and then either take funding or use revenues to hire people once they can pay market-rate salaries. Startup Weekend is for meeting people. 0.4% equity deals with no salary are for wasting time on a lot of drama.
That's because you signed a contract surrendering your IP to your company. If no contract is signed, then ownership of IP you create defaults to you, as it should.
I am left wondering how it is that this more "to scale" than any of these other long-established scale models of the solar system:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_System_model#Scale_model...
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I don't really understand the 'whale' strategy.

I'm assuming the reference is to literally targeting a single person, but how much money can they make selling the 'whale' these additional IAP items, compared to the effort involved in having to research him and create them?
Perhaps he read "pure water" as "pure H2O"?
In short: «The core problem is that non-technical managers of software projects will always fail, or at best be counter productive, whatever the methodology. Developing software is a deeply technical endeavour.» Technical excellence or at least competence is key and can't be replaced with any process. Estimates are not very useful; technical debt is dangerous toxic waste, and any process that does not treat it well is bound to fail.

A discussion 2 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7389940
In NY the first year is safety only; but year 2 and on are emissions + safety (depending on the county you register your car in, some never need emissions). The safety inspection only costs $10; IIRC the emissions + safety is $37.
Alternatively: I am seeing a lot of angry articles by journalists who see adblockers as an existential threat to them, and Marco also developed Instapaper. He's almost certainly already getting hate mail from content sites who don't like the way that Instapaper renders their content readable without allowing annoying intrusions. Releasing Peace on top of Instapaper set him up as a high-profile target -- even higher with that #1 app store ranking -- and that's no fun at all to live with unless you've got a very thick skin.

To those who think the pro-ad folks are right: I'd urge you to meditate on just what the #1 ranking of an ad-blocker in the app store implies about the public's appetite for advertising.
Adding... for web applications use IDs and Classes liberally in the html output... for actual string injection, especially if you support internationalization, this is needed so you can separate the text to display from the controls in place.
Well that was quick.

I see things as he does, the ads are terrible, but it's silly to try to pretend like ad-blockers are an unalloyed good. This situation will continue to worsen, and as I see it, will hasten the popularity of Facebook's new instant-article feature and similar.
It looks like that. The spyware from CEO Nadella actively scares away consumers of their Windows and XboxOne products.
If you are getting money from a legal activity you consider morally unsound, consider donating the profits to a charity GiveWell recommends. Some other service will pick up the slack, so throwing in the towel and your profits is a very inefficient means of stopping that act you consider to be morally unsound. In fact, you're subsidizing those without moral scruples.

Stopping this because it "feels wrong" is odd. Donate the profits to a charity. At the absurd extreme, If you honestly feel adblocking is a moral problem, donate the profits to an anti-adblocking lobby. Throwing away your money is throwing away your leverage.
" I remember we had a whale in one game that loved American Football despite living in Saudi Arabia. We built several custom virtual items in both his favorite team colors and their opponents, just to sell to this one guy. You better believe he bought them. "

That answers one question I had. How to target the whales. I remember one free-to-play pay-to-win game I played where they had a promotion to get a random chance of getting a new OP character. On the first day, one player had 9 maxed out. The forums calculated the player likely spent somewhere between $30-50K to get them. I then realized how big a deal "whales" are in games. A big enough whale can employ a dev for a year.
Instapaper is owned by Instapaper Holdings (Betaworks), not Marco. (In addition to starting Instapaper, Marco also started a publication called The Magazine, which he sold and is now shuttered.)
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I have been working in the tech sector in the Bay Area for a while, writing code, writing tech documents, training, etc.
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No. A Black rook would have allowed black to b8b7 and block the white rook from the final checkmate. A knight, on the other hand, would not be able to block the white rook and would therefore result in a checkmate.
If someone offered me 0.4% for getting their company off the ground, I'd tell them to get lost. That's absolutely insulting.

If your goal at a startup event is to have fun, jam on something, see what comes of it, then it's easy to succeed.

If your goal at a startup event is to make something valuable, you've already lost. There is no winning. This is the worst possible environment to create a new business in, and there are way too many variables. Everyone will feel cheated no matter what the arrangement is.
Well, at least we've finally found out where the "Partial" in PZEV comes from.
Furthermore, some "rocks" may be water ice and the "ice" is probably nitrogen ice, so it's not even ordinary rocks and ice.
really cool.
Good,a while ago it was the contrarian, underground cult, then it was all the rage, then you were not a professional if you didn't worship it, then the cracks started to show, now it's failed and passé.

When should we expect the revival?
They could be storing a hash for each trigram in the password (assuming he meant three consecutive characters starting from a random offset). Although it might still leak information that could improve a brute force, I suppose.

It's not a good solution anyway. A phishing page could easily claim the entered password was wrong and ask for another one (starting at another offset). Most passwords are probably <= 9 characters, so you'd have the full password after 3 attempts.
From FIDE rules:

> When a player, having the move, plays a pawn to the rank furthest from its starting position, he must exchange that pawn as part of the same move for a new queen, rook, bishop or knight of the same colour on the intended square of arrival.

> promotion: 3.7e. Where a pawn reaches the eighth rank and is replaced by a new queen, rook, bishop or knight of the same colour.

https://www.fide.com/fide/handbook.html?id=171&view=article
I would definitely recommend that you reevaluate it with a newer version of etcd, as it has had some significant stability improvements post-2.0. I've been doing some fuzz testing of it lately and found that it has gotten much more reliable.
Well, China has very old ties with Outer Manchuria (also known as Priamursk is Russia [1]), so would it be OK for China to invade?

There is a lot of shared history around the world, like Alsace-Lorraine, for example. Strangely enough Germany doesn't invade France for some reason...

[1] - https://www.quora.com/Is-it-true-that-Russia-Soviet-Union-in...
Does "work for hire" extend to verbal contracts?