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Dear Pavornyoh,
Thanks for your question.

By "the ideatostartup is kind of a crash course" , we mean that ideatostartup will take you from idea to startup within those 40 days. Within those 40 days, you will have a MVP and clear cut process and strategy of achieving the product market fit.

The company itself will definitely grow over years but the launch will happen within the 40 days. We have met a number of entrepreneurs who just can't launch even after spending years on an idea. The reason is simple. Sometimes they are afraid to go out and talk to customers, to validate the idea while other times its because they just can't get the product built and keep adding features after features.

We ensure that entrepreneurs get over this fear of launch and focus on achieving the product market fit.

For 40 days, we work 24*7 with the founder/s. After that we provide all the resources and connections we can as advisers.
Confreaks - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWnPjmqvljcafA0z2U1fwKQ Is a really good collection of tech conference talks.
Having been the victim of a DBA pulling that stunt, my blood pressure still goes up a bit when its mentioned.
A corollary of "if it ain't broke don't fix it" is "if you can't read it don't refactor it."

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html
Back to the MotherFuckin Future
Their vids on the math in Futurama/Simpsons is worth the sub alone!
This monday I had the most amazing startup meeting of my life. The founder had found out a niche that some deliverable software could serve. She had a business plan, good idea how to sell and for how much. Not a single viral, cloud, uber for ashly madisoned cats or other types of stuff. Very refreshing.
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Well, Asset = liability + owner contribution. /s
> The article mentions most medallions are backed by credit -- that would mean the drivers would be put in a position of defaulting on their now-worthless medallions.

A medallion buy-back is the only fair solution (for individuals, not for taxi companies). So there should be some kind of compensation so we can all get out of that system, system the local legislator created. But it shouldn't be up to Uber to pay, no matter how I dislike Uber, they didn't create the problem. The whole "free but paid because of scarcity" medallion fiasco is the real cost of corruption, and tax payers always foot the bill sooner or later in these case.
I may be ignorant, but I find weird that this is reported as the most famous poem of the 20th century in America, and possibly the world. In fact, I had never heard about it at all.

Honest question: is it that well-known? I don't think in Italy it is all that common. Or again, it may be just me...
Also Xidnaf has super interesting videos about linguistics - https://www.youtube.com/user/Xidnaf/featured
Has anyone considered that the roads are equally travelled precisely because every traveller chooses the less travelled path?

Could the poem actually be a commentary on load balancing?
The fucking source is confusing, remember? This is frankly just as confusing for different reasons. It isn't funny enough to be considered comedy so I honestly don't understand the point.
I'm going to start saying Elastic Breadstick and see if my PM starts using the phrase to solve everything. He likes buzzwords.
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I've watched probably 1000 hours of woodworking videos. I even bought a whole shop of tools.

When I get an urge to make something, I go into the garage, and freeze. How do I put two pieces of wood together again?
Yes, it can make a huge difference. I did this once when I had arrays of ~1 million floats and had to compute statistics on them. I wound up implementing a bunch of stats functions as C stored procedures that operate on arrays, and brought query times down from ~12 seconds to ~20 milliseconds:

https://github.com/pjungwir/aggs_for_arrays/

Another time arrays are handy is when you don't know how many "columns" you need to return. SQL can't do this, but a variable-length array can. Here is a writeup for one time that came in handy:

http://illuminatedcomputing.com/posts/2013/03/fun-postgres-p...

Another time they are helpful is to throw an `array_agg` into an aggregate query to see what values are getting rolled up. This can be really useful if you're trying to debug weird behavior.

Also `(array_agg(...))[1]` is a poor-man's `first` function. :-)
PatrickJMT's channel, which is included on the linked list, is an amazing channel. Helped me through a few math classes in college so far. I highly recommend checking out that one.
Similarly lost in meaning is Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" which is a beautiful poem, but many people don't see the suicidal undertone. I've had it memorized for years and only just learned about this.
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Treat them too differently without any uniformity, and you get a hodge-podge system of names that can barely interact.

An object here is just a blob of state that enforces a primal uniformity. Files still look, walk and quack like files, they're just represented under a common construct underneath which is immensely useful for the programmer and irrelevant to the end user.
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I'd considered calling it "Amazon State Machine" - better?
Most will probably do nothing because they don't see an alternative, and so they are resigned to using products they know are harmful.

https://www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/publications/tradeoff-...

edit: fixed URL I copied from the wrong tab
Clicked thru expecting it to be about "The Mending Wall" http://writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/frost-mending.html

"Good fences make good neighbors." is often misused to mean the opposite of what it does in that poem.

...at least I guessed the poet correctly.
One of the good things about this is that when somebody comes again comparing AWS to any regular ISP's VM we can point at this to show that EC2 alone may not look favourably in a comparison, it's the other services in the vast AWS ecosystem that brings the value.
Steve Jobs never took sole credit for inventing anything or changing the world. He always heaped substantial credit to the smart people that worked under him. It's the media and many people that inflate the importance of individual people and attribute everything to them. How many times do they use a star player's name rather than referring to a team by their name? Think "Michael Jordan battles Larry Bird tonight on ESPN".

It's hard to dispute that Apple as a whole has changed the world in profound ways, whether you like them or not. Steve Jobs' greatest attribute was assembling great talent and motivating them into creating great things. Perhaps this comedian doesn't like the way that he pushed people into doing what they felt was impossible.

Perhaps Apple would have changed the world without him, but surely it would have been very different without him. Even though he can't be given full credit by any means, he deserves a lot of it for motivating people and pushing them to their creative limits. Steve Wozniak has been very critical of Steve over the years but also recognized that his contribution was essential to getting products into the hands of people. When you read that Steve Jobs or Scott Forstall was the "creator of the iPhone" I suspect all of them would laugh and vigorously correct you. And they would be absolutely right to do so.
Object store is what it is...FTP would be marketing BS implying something that the service isn't at all.
To be fair...
(and pragmatic)

Societies subsidize people who live in flood plains because of agriculture, infrastructure and logistics. Essentially, we get far more OUT of people living in MOST flood plains than we put in with respect to subsidies.

Consider MOST of the coastal cities. We, obviously, get WAY more OUT of Houston, Galveston and New Orleans, for example, than we put in. Those three ports are enormously important to us. If they disappeared tomorrow, you would discover why they were important the hard way.

Similarly for people living in midwestern flood plains. We will typically get far more out of them than we put in. Try feeding the world, with currently known agricultural technology, while not using any land in flood plains and you'll see what I mean. Even if you could somehow manage to do it... and I don't think you could.... but even if you could, you would cause enormous damage to the ecological tapestry of the continent. You would have to move MATERIAL amounts of water and soil at a minimum. It's best to subsidize the farmers to do what they do and make sure they're not disturbed in their endeavors. And, yes, many of those farmers and agribusinesses will be in flood plains.

Now I'm not saying ALL flood plains in the midwest or on the coast are critical infrastructure. New York, Houston and New Orleans are far more critical to our survival than... say... Miami, Myrtle Beach or Malibu. So obviously, I'm not saying that ALL port cities or ALL midwestern flood plains are critical. But there are definitely some places in this nation that merit sizable subsidies to keep people living and working there. It's the nature of the beast when you're talking about engineering an empire.
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IMHO, "leading zero indicates octal" is as old as it is wrong. There are a handful of cases where this is helpful, and an ocean of cases where it breaks things unexpectedly because someone tried inputting prettyprinted data.

At least with Hex you can't mistake the 0x prefix for anything else.

One of the best features of inet_pton over inet_addr is that the former doesn't do automatic conversions and instead assumes every field is a decimal number. The latter has a hidden trap where 192.168.0.11 is different than 192.168.000.011.
Yes, but the point is that sort of change requires _REALLY_ good unit tests.

Do you have a check that every place where an integer is parsed from a string will correctly handle the error of the string not being an integer within the required range?
"Ideas are just a multiplier of execution"

> To me, ideas are worth nothing unless executed. They are just a multiplier. Execution is worth millions.

https://sivers.org/multiply
Being a Machine Learning noob, this article leaves me fantasizing about a future that would make my life a lot more exciting.

Based on this article, I would love to invest my time getting skilled at deep learning.

I would love to know what people with more experience with Machine Learning think about what Yann Lecun is trying to achieve?

Thanks!
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“Picture yourself as a stereotypical male”
"Act of God" is common legal terminology for a very rare event outside of human control for which no party to an agreement can be held accountable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act_of_God
It's incredibly well known in my experience. You see it in posters in elementary schools, for example. At least the phrase is all over the place, I'm sure there are plenty who don't know or remember what it's from.
My grandparents and granduncles were all Irish farmers who immigrated after WW2. None were over 5'9. From photographs, it appears that their parents were noticeably shorter. None of the males of my generation is under 6', and most are > 6'2". None of the females are shorter than 5'8" or so.
Yeah, it's very popular in the US. Or at least the "road less traveled by" part. People rarely recite the entire poem, but I've heard phrases from it hundreds of times.

I've heard it so many times that it really just lost all meaning to me, and just felt kind of pithy when I heard it. I'd never heard of this interpretation, which is quite interesting.
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It is very commonly taught as an intro to poetry is US schools. I had to memorize it at age 10, for example.
I'm curious what Linux has against the strl* functions. He says that they can be implemented wrong too, but it seems like they are harder to screw up than the strn* versions that required you to manually terminate the string when it hits maximum length.
And it's a much better poem because of that!
Great job! A real breakthrough!
And people are really bad at making decisions with long term repercussions. Take smoking, drinking, texting while driving, driving without a seatbelt, eating too much, sitting too much, spending all day staring at a computer screen, not sleeping enough, etc. Humans are short-term thinkers. So if you ask a poor person "would you rather protect your industry and reduce the risk to your health, or keep getting paid"... well look at all the people working in coal mines. They sacrifice their health, their neighbors health, their economy, and their planet just to have a paycheck.

People vote with their actions. But people are short sighted, selfish, and greedy. That's why labor regulations and unions were invented. It's just been so long since the days before unions and regulations were created that everyone thinks they're useless. It's been so long since it rained that you start wondering why you have a roof over your house. You'll remember soon enough.
Meh

There is no "I don't know" on most of the answers. "We don't know as of yet" is not equivalent. How does me choosing a random answer from a list give an indication of whether I am politically biased?
How will it get pushed to production if there is no build artifact, because the build failed? This is what CI is.
As pointed out a lot of the verbosity in PowerShell is optional these days as there are a good number of aliases for common commands.

The nice thing about the verbosity is kind of similar to the point of SQL in that it too has something of a natural language DSL intent (in PowerShell commands are expected to be "Verb-Noun" and verbs for the most part are encouraged to be from a relatively small set of common verbs). This can make it a bear to fully write out without an IDE (and there are multiple choices these days) or tab completion (which gets better with each release).

The benefit however, is that typically you can very easily read someone's PS1 script if it has been written at full verbosity and know what it is doing. It's often very close to self-documenting at that point.
T'wer we speaking of Python not Emacs, the "one true way" idiom would be deemed virtuous.
Marketing thinks like this, "Will it force users to experience our message", "Yes", "Then it's a fucking awesome grade A great idea".
Each rule we follow blindly is a stupid one. If the introduction of a new sign just promotes hate and brings no advantages, then there is no value gained.
Not only is it incredibly well known, but the first half of the article is about why it's well-known and how well-known it is.
I have seen magic done with custom types and aggregates. For example, I know of projects with run-length-encoded bitsets and custom aggregates for doing set operations and counts, sort of like Redis' bitset commands but built into PG. This is a massive space optimization, because otherwise you'd just have a join table with zillions of tiny rows.
A good insight. The key is the middle line "Though as for that the passing [travelers] there / Had worn them really about the same". Yes, he chose the path less travelled, and the poem itself is remembered for extolling the choice of the less travelled path - but that path was not barely used as we all tend to recall the poem's point (and the author's future listeners interpret), but instead was quite nearly the same and chosen only because it hadn't been trampled quite as badly as the marginally more popular alternative.
It's exactly the same thing. Flood insurance enables people to build houses in places where there are going to be floods, just like fire insurance enables people to build in tinderboxes. Which would be fine if the person who buys the house there carried a financial burden proportional to the risk.

there isn't a ton of flood preventation infrastructure that has been built with tax money.

All flood prevention infrastructure outside of the dirt berm at the local pond was built with tax money. Been to, say, New Orleans recently?
"I don't always test my code. But when I do, I test it in production."

Credit where due: I stole that from a co-worker named Kalen Braley. (He doesn't actually do that, as far as I know.)
Brilliant. A+ certification.
>Modern Compiler Implementation in Java

I recommend ML version of this book.

Functional programming is a much better suited paradigm for task like these.
It is very common in India.
Claiming consent because automatic updates are on is really, really a stretch. Strikes me as disingenuous. I'm very surprised they've done this, it just seems so stupid and prone to backfire.
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I like this. It feels pretty similar to the "enter this random set of numbers" method for some Bluetooth keyboard pairings.
Because of the thrill of it? I think is the same as to why people like suspense movies.
What is truly meta is that this entire "misunderstanding" is CENTRAL to the Poem's popularity.

Variations of this story and headline have been popping up for years - like in the wonderfully informative "Top 10 Most Misunderstood Lines in Literary History" (1)

Or heck, as a monologue in Orange is the New Black (2)

Didn't see it there because you're too high-brow and busy, so saw it in business insider last year like me (3)?

The poem's dual-meaning is central to its popularization - similar to the "big reveal" that drove the Six Sense to become one of the top 100 grossing movies of all time.

(1) http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-most-misunderstood-lines-in-li...

(2) http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2013/08/15/orange_is_the...

(3) http://www.businessinsider.com/frosts-road-not-taken-poem-in...

(3) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_Not_Taken
I have literally never even remotely thought of this poem in such a way. Grue3, you have shined new light upon these words.
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My problem with doping isn't moral. Is that in pursuit of sponsors people will literally kill their athletes, with or without their knowledge.
> The Developed World can not continue with it's standard of living, it's simply not sustainable. Something has to give.

That's not true _at all_. How productive are self-driving cars going to be with no drivers? And electric powertrains? Very! Why would a government allow Uber to have a monopoly on that? They're government owned roads!

You can entirely continue to provide a high quality of life to citizens of a developed country using automation and software.

Shall we continue to socialize the losses and privatize the gains in society? Pardon me for being crass, but fuck that noise.
David Orr did a talk on NPR that was far less overwrought (http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/weve-gotten-wrong-robert-fros...) It got to the point quickly:

"DAVID ORR: He claims that he wrote it because he used to go on walks with the English poet Edward Thomas, because Frost spent a brief time in England. It was actually the beginning of his career as a poet.

And what he would like to say at readings afterward is that he and Thomas would go on these walks, and then Thomas, who has a somewhat more romantic sensibility than Frost, Thomas would always regret whatever path they had taken.

And then afterward, he would say, well, we really should have gone to the right. I could have shown you something over there. We should have gone to the left. I could show you something over there.

And Frost was very amused by this. And so he wrote the poem as a kind of joke at his friend’s expense."

In other words, it's more about regret than making the right choice, or that you deceive yourself sometimes by dwelling on a choice that is actually perfectly random. Or a million other interpretations...
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This is an operating system problem. When a new device is plugged in and claims to be a keyboard, it should lock the screen and not be accepted as input until it has typed the user's login password.
I agree. Still, that's the behaviour of parse_integer (specifically, base determination in _parse_integer_fixup_radix).
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I have no retort, simply, thanks for the reality check. We come up with all these hypothetical optimization scenarios for nothing more than the challenge - my trick is probably useless, but it was fun to code.
hmmm I can try.

Sometimes a bunch of drifting around, talking at length in detail about seemingly unrelated minutiae, and blatantly teasing the reader along can set a mood or an atmosphere. If it is done properly, it can convey more than what the words on the paper are explicitly saying, it just makes an impression.

An example that would maybe work for the HN crowd is this old essay about Earthbound [0], where the writer (Tim Rogers, translator) "reviews" the game by just going on long detours about fishing, being sick in bed, things that happen in other games, etc. As a huge fan of Earthbound, it just captures a lot of it for me.

An absolute master of this kinda thing was the well-known rock record critic Lester Bangs (who, again, may be vaguely known to some; Philip S. Hoffman played him in "Almost Famous"). His rock album reviews are barely recognizable as such by the "8/10 graphics, 6/10 sound" crowd. He just goes on and on about completely esoteric topics, from politics and his life philosophy and little vignettes about his personal life, and occasionally relates it back to the record. I don't know why, but I dig it. I've read "Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung", an essay compendium, a couple of times.

I don't know if I'd want something like that if I was writing an essay for university, or trying to decide which laptop to buy, but it can occasionally be a very nice piece of journalism.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20100102165201/http://www.largep... (ps: it opens up with a really weird line about games being like prostitutes, which I think feels stupid and dated, but it gets better after that)
iOS downloads updates in advance of you agreeing to executing them. Maybe OS X does the same?

I suppose iOS, Windows, and others all have an opt-out for this feature.
It often gets referenced. You probably just never noticed. Ever watch Dead Poets Society? The common message is used in one of the scenes:

http://youtu.be/68SLg5ofQMI

About 1:30 in case you miss it.
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Humans cause some fires. Not all. I'm not even sure that humans cause the majority.
Not familiar with djbdns. Looks like it could improve my speeds in theory. I'll look into it. Thanks!
I just reread it and don't detect that undertone. Could you explain it?
Guilty of using this phrase, even aware of the poem's meaning. I use it because it's an instantly recognized American phrase, and I do believe that good fences make good neighbors in many situations (e.g. File permissioning).
Start the autonomous car, let it send a "punch the clock" event to work.

Status:
1) Remote
2) in office
3) working, in route?

Additionally, only accept meetings when status is 3).
On a similar note:

While in high-school English class taking an exam, in a fit of boredom (having completed it early) I scrawled the Hamlet soliloquy "To be or not to be" (going on for several lines) in the margin. Next morning, the teacher took me aside and asked as gently & tactfully as possible if everything was OK. Momentarily puzzled (yes, everything was fine), the meaning of Hamlet's mutterings suddenly hit me: the lines were not just a vague pontification about life, he was actually contemplating suicide. I assured the concerned teacher everything really was OK.
"It may be the best example in all of American culture of a wolf in sheep’s clothing."

Not sure about that. I suspect Springsteen's Born in the USA takes that crown, or perhaps any number of satires that have been taken at face value (looking at you Paul Verhoeven).
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Sounds like /r/iamverysmart itself belongs on /r/iamverysmart .