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Investments in companies mostly make money evaporate as a standard practice.

Large-scale investors gravitate towards big risk/big reward ventures which require significant capital because it's saves having to make a zillion angel-scale deals. Plus, it seems sexier with extra-awesome brownie points to go after something which may be r/evolutionary.

PS: Color was a snausage clusterfuck of dbag, hubris behaviors that ruined the team (and the venture). Hopefully, that elicited a corrective learning experience.
You lead the way and when you have half of them with you, the rest will follow.
You might think the parent is condescending, but I've noticed the same thing. VERY few movies are anywhere lower than 6 stars or higher than 7 stars on IMDB. It's almost worthless. Not because my taste is so superior to the reviewers, but because the scale is so coarse.
Wait a minute! Where's the Romanian History Month? Where are the menu changes for Romanians? Where's the Romanian Googlers Network? Is it because those of you privileged enough to be born outside Romania are actively oppressing us?

/s
It's ok if people disagree or don't see the point. Much of the fun of Lisp is the initial discovery. But if we make them feel singled out or like there's something they "don't get," then they'll miss all the fun, because they won't try it out.
But that's not all there is to it. It really is a network phenomenon. Otherwise you wouldn't expect it to also appear in power networks:
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1367-2630/14/8/083...
I heard about this model from Michael Church, which I like. The idea is that there are three forces, you need to balance as a manager.

1. Your team. This is obvious. Acknowledge they are humans. You have to worry about them. Try to keep them happy and safe.

2. The Business. This is the cold-hearted inhumane entity which only considers the free market. You need to satisfy that beast, because otherwise everybody loses their jobs. It only wants to squeeze the maximum productivity out of its employees. Often its goal are in direct conflict to your teams goals.

3. The Organization. These are all the other people in the company. Your boss, collegues in other teams, etc. They have their own needs and agendas, usually different to The Business. Do not forget to consider these.
That point you've apparently missed is that current hiring practises among some companies can be discriminatory. There are hiring managers out there who won't hire a female developer because they're just outright sexist. Quotas get introduced because there are brilliant minority developers who get passed over because they're in the minority.

All that said though, I don't believe there's any actual evidence that people end up hiring less-than-competent people because of quotas. It's only a theoretic possibility that could be true if the available candidates only included one incompetent person from the minority group, but I don't think that's ever going to be the case in practise. The choice always comes down to two or three competent people, and the quota system then pushes the decision on one direction. White male programmers don't like it because it's not in their favour, but the reality is that they could be passed over even if there wasn't a quota system. While people continue to discriminate quotas will be necessary.
That's my thinking too. Startups have become more "sexy" since The Social Network and such. So YC is probably seeing a lot more naive/opportunistic gold-rush type folks than before.
You can't burn NaCl.
This isn't the first time: Gigalo's poor performance at the box office was blamed on people texting their contacts as they left the theatre to say "go see something else instead". I can't remember if that was any form of public statement or an internal memo that leaked out, but either way it is funny.
Or at least it gives you easy special cases you can sanity check your general solutions against.
Nice way of framing it, clicked a couple of things in my head.
That's an astute observation. It always strikes me as jarring when the speaker leaves off the "not" in the clause.... but on the rare occasions it happens, it's always about a chance in society/convention which is clearly not considered a positive.
Why so rude?

Like the OP I also pleasantly surprised. Not because I am a racist who thinks the Khoisan are stupid, they are not (I have actually met many of them, they are some of the nicest people in the word).

I would not have thought anyone could do that who had not aerial studied photos of animals could identify them from such low resolution photos... much like submarine operators had to be trained to identify ships at long distances through periscopes. Professional sailors know ships very well, but not so well that they can distinguish between very similar ships at long distances and at random angles (ships look 2D at long distances).
People buy iPhones despite Apple's ability to revoke any app whenever they choose.
We wouldn't have smartphones, game consoles, VR devices or smart watches if big companies in the early 80s were pulling the shit they try to do now.
This does make me wonder how it'll impact their eventual move to Python3. They've been hesitant to move due to a lot of their customer base being on RHEL5/CentOS5, I can't imagine that this move will help matters.
And it's the ambiguity of what they actuall tried. Maybe they pulled open their desk drawer and whispered the question into it.
Especially if there's a way to redistribute the social gains.
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My impression from interviews is that interviewers only care about Big O Notation and number puzzles. Nothing else matters. 30 seconds to come up with the optimum solution or else they tell you you're not a good fit. Hours of whiteboard coding goes fine and they say if you don't do the little puzzle then you don't know anything about algorithms. Thanks Facebook.
the safety of our critical infrastructure, baking

Well, the baking industry is certainly more productive of human comfort and happiness than certain other industries demanding protection from the laws the rest of us live by -- such as finance.
The PS3 does have a crypto key, but it was recovered by hackers because Sony reused nonces in ECDSA signatures: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/sci.crypt/3isJl28Slr...

Apple's probably isn't susceptible, especially with the PS3 failure in recent memory.
This is the blog describing the creation of this machine learning clickbait headline generator: http://larseidnes.com/2015/10/13/auto-generating-clickbait-w...

Also, previous HN submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10380661
"I can’t support a conference that doesn’t seem to understand the value and importance of intersectionality and representation."

Doesn't this just promote the idea that people of different ethnicities really are that different? Why on earth is skin colour "representation" an important factor anywhere? I mean don't discriminate but how is this an argument?

This just promotes the wrong idea that people of different ethnicities bring drastically different things to the table in one breath, and argues that race or gender do not affect technical ability with the next.

How this insane person has people listening to them or why a completely backwards article on the right site gets linked here is beyond me.
I found https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMrYlspifuo linked from your video. It has much more explanation.
This is exactly how the FLOSS community doesn't work. FLOSS only work well with the Unix philosophy. Small, targetted tools/libraries and then some higher level GUI for those. Then, let the law of the jungle get rid of the weaks and let the stong and new contenders fight for market share.

There is some exceptions like Blender and GIMP, but overall, there is no such thing as getting together to build a killer mega-app. This is why OSS have hard time getting into CAD, EDA and (serious) accoutability feilds. Those are simply too large to wrap small tools into bigger ones.
Check out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMrYlspifuo Does it still seem obvious in the physical context?
I usually base it on the movie's stars, theme or genre, then read up its synopsis (short movie description on imdb or theater's website), and if it's less likely to have some kind of twist or I don't mind spoilers at the time, then I'll watch the trailer.

I'm also not really picky, so don't mind giving a movie a try without knowing anything about it in advance (Dancer In The Dark, Oldboy, and Snowpiercer come to mind as wonderful surprises, for example).
> Android device makers from China maybe haven't been told about their own inability to pump out clones. Somebody should let them know.

Oh they know about it. They just don't give a fuck. What is the US going to do, sue them?

(Actually, the Chinese government started cracking down on that industry, because it pisses off the West too much and thus "hurts economy".)

As for the rest of your comment, this is the golden age we're having, but we're seeing more and more signs that the big companies - both technology and media ones - are trying to put an end to it. One reason is that "cost of unreliability can easily exceed the cost of the device, many times over, and the single biggest point of failure are trojan horses & operator errors." The other is that it's easier to make money off people if you lock them down behind dumbed down devices and your own propertiary ecosystem. Yet another is that people like media but don't like to pay MAFIAA for it. Surveillance is also a an issue. This all adds up in a way that threatens the future hackability of stuff.
I thought this was why things like the big end ThinkPad W-series exists?

I still run 3-4 VMs at the same time on my ancient X201 on Hyper-V.
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How many companies have you started? $120k at that kind of valuation for a seed round is not at all strange. I've been part of companies that have done much worse (~$30k for 20%..) and much better ($1.2m for 10%); in the end you take the best you can find, and the valuation you can get in your seed round is not necessarily a good predictor for how well you'll do as a founder.

And you have to consider that "the best you can find" also depends on other factors such as the advice and contacts you gain, which could very well make or break the company by itself.

You're looking at it all wrong when you say "for an idea I believe is worth only $1.7M". It's an idea and a team that's only worth $1.7M now when factoring in risk and time. Let's say a coin flip right after the investors have put their money in determines if the company will continue as is or get shut down; if so the present value of the company is at most half what it will be after the coin flip, probably less. And the reality is that startup risks are massive.

Now add the time element, and your growth also need to reflect returns the investors could have gotten elsewhere.

The net result is that if your startup is valued at $1.7M today, then they're saying they think it'll be worth far more than that assuming you succeed. Even then, the $1.7M number exclude the value of the advice and contacts you gain access to.
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Stripe/Shopify Payments telling me we can't sell Apple Watch straps WTF
I keep seeing more and more about Stripe closing accounts and general weirdness, but this is just bizarre and lacks any reason.

I've been working on a luxury apple watch strap/band brand and figured I'd go with Shopify & Shopify Payments (which is just connecting a Stripe account basically) for ease/speed.

Well as we were about to go live yesterday, I had a message flash up in my dashboard that Stripe was on hold and I couldn't accept payments (and if I had, they would be held) - previously it was showing as all was OK.

Got a response today and I'm being told that "my product base presents a level of risk that our banking partners are not willing to support" ... WTF?

Since when are watch straps high risk? I queried this and was basically told tough luck, nothing we can do.

It's becoming increasingly clear that you can't rely on Stripe - there is just no rhyme or reason to their actions. This is a crying shame as the product is awesome, but really seems like they're turning in to PayPal...
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Yup. Companies are pushing unlocking the devices into seriously illegal territory. Yes, in principle you can unlock anything - you can always kidnap the CEO and beat him with $4 crowbar until he gives you the key. In practice we would like to be able to do it without harming people.
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There are more Indians in tech from me observing on face value than black people.

Any Indian heritage people here think there needs to be greater representation of indians in conferences?
Thoughts?
seems pretty easy to build, not many obstacles are in the sky. surprised this was a break through at all...

this just feels like a video game basically. all i need to do is bring out my xbox controls and i can do exactly the same thing in my video games.
This is highly anecdotic and I'd be happy to counteract it with the opposite experience. Whenever I spend enough time in the outdoors (I used to go camping regularly until a few years ago), I'd end up sleeping less and going to bed later. I'd generally end up sleeping for about 6-7 hours, from 01:00 or so -- and feeling a lot better in the process.
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Because in America, your opinions are only valid as far as your credentials. For example, if you have dark skin, your opinions on black Americans are valid, if you're autistic, your opinions on mentally ill Americans are valid, if you're a computer, your opinions on American computers are valid, etc. It may be a flawed system, but it's better than slavery and feudalism, and it somewhat works to keep people's minds off the real issues, so it's all good.
I apologize unreservedly if I read more into what you said than you meant. However, your original comment was
I'm inclined to at least consider the possibility that other foreign governments are helping out with making this information available because it suits their own interests

In my mind, Russia is congruent with 'foreign government' and is the first that came to my mind. Perhaps you could specify which foreign governments you were thinking of? I will rephrase my take on your allegation to "X is beneficial to country A. Therefore country A is doing X", which is a crazy thing to say without evidence.

> Unfortunately I am too marginal a person to be hired as a disinformation agent

I hope this shows the point I was making: I made an unfounded allegation that put you on the defensive just by raising the specter of it being a possibility (in your words "I'm inclined to at least consider the possibility".) It is this Bill O'Reilly-style insinuation that I objected to.

> If you can't countenance the possibility that your political hero figures could themselves be subject to manipulation

I countenance this possibility in the same manner that I countenance the possibility of Obama secretly being a muslim: the probability for both is non-zero, but I'm not going to waste cycles worrying about it. My attitude to both is "support your allegation with some proof or GTFO."

edit: added last quote & paragraph
> Road bandwidth is more efficient on bike or bus

Not necessarily for the people on the bus. Efficiency in terms of capacity represents one of several possible optimization criteria; the distribution of transit times to various destinations represents another.
Forget the money/valuation for a second. If YC makes your company just 8% more valuable on average than it would have been otherwise, you win. For the value they provide I think it's a no brainer.
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A short history of the USSR through its food
I usually don't trust on online movie ratings. The only platform that have some ratings similar with my tastes is Letterboxd: http://letterboxd.com
Its not a fork of Puppet, Satellite ships with its own copy of Puppet (3.6 iirc) which it integrates to provide the configuration management side of the product but its stock un-modified puppet.

In fact the puppet side of Satellite is built around Foreman (http://theforeman.org/) which is an open source project that isn;t Red Hat controlled so even if Red Hat wanted to move 100% to Ansible it would be very hard work for little gain. It would also be a really bad commercial idea Puppet is by far the market leader and most of their customers buy satellite precisely because it integrates with their existing puppet manifiests.

So I expect Puppet to stay as Red Hat's goto configuration management tool, and ansible to be used more for its ad-hoc remote execution capabilities where puppet is nowhere near as good. RH already uses ansible in the installer for Open Shift for example because it can set up multiple boxes without needing an agent pre-installed.
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They have a strong tradition of opensourcing their products. So they most probably will.
Senator Fritz Hollings (D-Disney) in 2001 introduced the SSSCA, the bill to take away all the pansy freedom of speech provisions of the DMCA and really lock down computers for the legitimate big business that should control programming. It was Hollings's 35th year as the junior senator from South Carolina and -- as chairman of the Commerce Committee -- he had really decided to crack down.

The SSSCA as introduced would have prohibited, with criminal penalties, the possession without a license of a compiler capable of producing programs that could process, copy, or decrypt data in media files. Every Turing-complete programming language in the country would have required a special federal license to use. Finally, only licensed, bonded, qualified, and tracked professionals taking responsibility for their actions could violate our precious copyrights.

But Hollings wasn't as spry as his senior colleague from South Carolina and retired before he could finish his final good work for the corporations that made him. Even that business so famously unashamed that its own mascot is a rodent would have to settle for waiting a little longer to achieve its aims.
Beam – Real Time News
We've just released our first iOS app - Beam. It lets you subscribe to arbitrary search queries (that can be quite complex, too) and then we send you push notifications as soon as something matches. We visualize the results in a feed, so that you can scroll through your matches. Beam uses some AI to filter the stuff you receive for simpler queries, when there's lots of matches. In this way you don't receive every single match but only the most relevant ones. We also combine the matches in your feed - if an article matches more than one queries (beams), we merge that into a single entry.

Check it out and let us know what you think !
> Doesn't this just promote the idea that people of different ethnicities really are that different?

This is pretty much the "but we're a meritocracy" argument, and it's unfortunately wrong.

Having worked extensively with the behavioural science behind things like hiring processes, performance reviews, etc. I can conclusively tell you that we do not live in a meritocracy.

People get discriminated against, constantly. That's the reality they live in. They don't need a conference to tell them that.

I'll go further. Believing that you yourself are unbiased and meritocratic is shown to be correlated with an increase in unconscious bias in your actions through effects such as moral licencing. (See the work by Daniel Effron)

(Edit: you can downvote me if you don't like what I'm saying, but you're downvoting science, not opinion)
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Population density of Norway: 14 people per km².
Population density of the USA: 35 people per km².

Sure it's hard to do this at scale, but nobody is asking for it to be deployed everywhere at the same time. You could start in populous areas, where it would be cheap to do so, and gradually supply less populated areas.
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I see this more as reducing the risk for current air freight, think an emergency delivery to a ship or oil rig in severe weather conditions.
What is the benefit? What's a typical use case?
>> Former employees say Mr. Balwani ordered lab personnel to stop using Edison machines on any of the proficiency-testing samples and report only the results from instruments bought from other companies.

>> The former employees say they did what they were told but were concerned that the instructions violated federal rules, which state that a lab must handle “proficiency testing samples…in the same manner as it tests patient specimens” and by “using the laboratory’s routine methods.”

sounds like they tried to pull Volkswagen.
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I don't think my statement added what he said: I only special-cased his generalized statement by substituting "foreign government" with the first one that came to my mind (the runner-up was China). See my other reply to sibling comment
Wow, what's the deal with this chart?
http://www.ai-cio.com/uploadedImages/ai5000/channel/PEOPLE/C...

The columns on the right makes no sense, Stanford's 9.9% is much bigger than Yale's 10%, Harvard's 8.9% is roughly the same size as Yale's 10%.

Kinda hard to take anything serious in that article when the author can't even draw a chart.
Red Hat has a history of buying closed source software and releasing it as Open Source (KVM, Gluster, Cloudforms etc) so I would expect Tower to be open sourced. Assuming Ansible have the rights to all the code of course and dont license it from someone else of course.
Creating apps for the new Apple TV: design approach and possible use cases
Surely that depends on what problem you're trying to solve.

If what you're trying to solve with a diversity programme is opening up the potential talent pool, it's entirely conceivable that focusing on white women and Asian men could be sufficient.

If what you're trying to solve is a greater diversity of opinions and experiences to foster ideas, say, it's entirely conceivable that hiring white women and Asian men could be sufficient.

If what you're trying to do is increase the representation of black developers then this approach is likely to fail.

Or to put it another way, diversity isn't one thing, it's a bunch of things. If one believes that there should be a higher representation of black people in tech (which seems reasonable to me) then one should look to resolve that problem. It seems completely orthogonal to the question of encouraging women to tech.
But is losing control really that bad? Often we don't want control as much as we want to do more stuff. We don't have control about our food, but we are as fat as never before. We don't have control over what happens with our taxes, but still live for most people in the western world is stable, there are roads, public transport, doctors. I don't think people really want to keep control over their computers.
Deep Learning Startups, Applications and Acquisitions
I can see how that would work for stateless services. Just build a new image and discard the old one.

But what do you do when you want to change my MySQL config file? Create a new image and somehow transfer the data? Or are the datastores somehow externalized? Then how do you synchronize shutting down the old image, then starting the new updated one, preventing them from accessing the store at the same time?

The linked article kind of waves these issues away ('externalize state in Cassandra or RDS'). Then am I supposed to use two mechanisms/tools to run my infrastructure? Docker for stateless servers and something like Ansible for stateful servers?