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No, that's not what I'm saying.

There will always be bad actors. Often you design a system to handle them in ways that minimize support costs.

Consider the case of 802.11 or USB or ZigBee. In general, most of the value of providing a device that works with any of those is a function of how well it works with any other device. The support costs are also a function of how well the device interoperates with other devices.

That pretty much kills the value of making a device that only works with a manufacturers own devices, and provides strong incentives to work with as many as possible as well as possible.
It's a good point that unions are about more than just getting higher wages.
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Agree and disagree.

Agree: Early-stage investing is rarely about accurately sizing a market. And nothing can be boiled satisfactorily down to an Excel model.

Disagree: But you still have to do it. For yourselves, if not for VCs. Presumably, VCs want to see that you've thought long and hard about the market opportunity, about the competition, and about your marketing plan and business model. And you should have. Your market sizing will never be pitch-perfect, but you can't just wave your hands in an investor meeting and declare that the entire exercise is bunk.

I would argue that, if you're being asked to "dig deeper" into market sizing, or even if you're being questioned at all about the market size in your meetings, it's really a proxy question for something else. Maybe they find the idea narrow, and they want to be convinced it can broaden to other segments. Maybe they think you're being insufficiently ambitious. Maybe it's the opposite; they think you're being wildly naive. Whatever the case, "What's the size of this market?" is a question their analysts can probably guesstimate in a few days' worth of Excel monkeying. That's not really what they're getting at. What they really want to know is how you think about the business side of your startup (or indeed, whether you do).
I think the take away was to avoid optimizing 'potential' and stop focusing on anything really. He meant go do something else with your free time, like meet people and experience new things.
Ugh I don't know. I've since gotten a new job but he's still there as a figurehead CEO... the COO makes all the decisions/runs the show from what I've heard. Glad I got out. It was just one of many many juvenile actions from that boss.
That was true at least as far back as the 1790's when James Wilson described a corporation as "a person in a political capacity created by the law, to endure in perpetual succession."

To "endure in perpetual succession," companies by definition must operate under a fundamental premise of self-interest.
The answer to this question may tell you something about how an entrepreneur thinks about their market and their place in it. Can they see the big picture? It can also serve as a sanity check. Ultimately markets just need to be big enough, but I've seen investors disengage when you can't give them a clear authoritative number.
Almost every program that relies upon the standard C runtime's random functions has a flawed random distribution

Right, and that function is a mistake in the C standard. It should have been omitted entirely.
Backend is mostly about storying, querying, shuffling and processing data. Ask dba for books on sql, he will recommend you something - do some excersise on optimizing queries for particular database to understand how it works.
Get familiar with nosql solutions, study what each of them does best and how are they used. Practise using them to solve real-life problems.
Ask HN: Does Costco information collection bother you as much as it bothers me?
I am being compelled by family to get a Costco membership but their information collection bothers me. Particularly, it is pretty disturbing to me that they require a government-issued ID to open an account even though their form says that an ID is not required unless one plans to write checks there.

I know this is not looking like a well-formulated write-up but I am trying to understand if anyone else is concerned about this data collection, particularly if there is a breach. The way I see it, they keep your ID information, address, date of birth, another picture that they put on your ID, along with your shopping habits and history. If there was ever a breach, the data thieves in question would acquire a rich mine of information that might enable them to pass a credit check if they also had your SSN.

You can say that Amazon collects information. True, but they are intrinsically limited. You can create multiple accounts there and never have to give them ID or date of birth, etc. Further, you can close your account.

Costco seems to be very interested in tracking each individual consumer very precisely. I say this because when I questioned their information requests, they said that it is to ensure that I don't have any existing accounts with them since they don't like "clutter" in their system (stated as such by the counter manager.)

I know I have a choice to not shop there but I just found it immensely curious how obsessed they are with tracking individuals. The closest analogy I can think of is Facebook and Google's respective "real name" policies, which are hardly impregnable.

Anyways, I guess I am wondering if anyone else has had similar concerns and has interesting theories on the matter.
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Perhaps not, but some of us would like to see more than "potential danger" to justify panicked, knee-jerk lawmaking. "Think of the airplanes!" is no better a rationale, in itself, than "Think of the children!" or "B...b...but terrorists!"

Or, rather, it's a great rationale if you have an agenda that needs more political support than it would otherwise be able to garner. It's not hard to imagine why governments would be utterly terrified of a civilian population with widespread drone ownership and ongoing development.
Yeah. It was kinda a joke-ish type thing but then it started being totally not a joke because he and his buddies were really taking it very seriously. He had a bunch of fratstar intern types and they just encouraged the behavior even more. I'm so glad I got out of there and went to a real company.
Suppose a skateboard or bicycle falls freely, hypothetically, from the top of Lombard St...

Do we now require registration and quarter million dollar fines for all bicycles and skateboards that weigh more than 250g?
5 days ago, 145 points, 201 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10702779
Unfortunately this talk is kind of dated already. Most people don't stack RBMs or autoencoders to pretrain the weights anymore. If you use dropout with rectified linear units, you don't have to pretrain, even for large architectures.
Do ends justify the means when it comes to knowledge being added to the world open-source repository of software? Should we, as a community, reject these people's hard work or just use it while also understanding that they're evil? I'm conflicted.
No drug should be illegal. People should be educated about drug effects. Addicts should get help, not be thrown in jail. Those of us who can handle drugs should be left alone. Is that so hard to understand?
Regarding addictive games: Is it beneficial to criminalize players?
I remember a great quote, "If you can get them to ask the wrong questions, then the answers don't matter."

Model airplanes have been a threat to airplanes since they became popular in 1915. Yes, 100 years ago. So why regulate them beyond the existing regulations now? A better question is "What changed?"

Anyone who owns a quad copter of the type they show on various stories about this, knows they are a pain in the ass to fly in high wind environments. Even with 9DOF IMU assisted station keeping a stiff wind will blow them around.

So why now? Why haven't people complained about 1:10 scale jets they fly around at RC plane meetups? Those things are fast and can fly straight through a gust of wind.

This program isn't about "danger to aircraft", this program is entirely about identifying the owner of a R/C model and being able to jail/fine people who don't agree to link their model to their identity. That ownership link is essential in prosecuting the right person when their model photographs something that someone else doesn't want photographed, whether it is a celebrity sunbathing topless in their back yard or police officers beating down protestors. Its about identifying the owner of one of these devices when they are used in the commission of a crime, whether it is unlicensed surveillance or simple burglary. Its about identifying the owner of the R/C model that just crashed into your sports car and scratched the paint.

None if the prosecutions can be cost effective if the perpetrator can argue that it is plausibly not their R/C model. And having hundreds of identical models sold? Sure anyone could have been flying that particular unit as it buzzed your beach house.

This program is about tying people's identities to the R/C models they operate so that they can be prosecuted when they do something that someone else doesn't like with them. It is couched in terms of "safety of aircraft" because that is a narrative that the general public can get their head around, however the risk to aircraft is already "priced into" the existing regulations.
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The Samsung fridge isn't so great either https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk2TfF1M4r8
This is why I am betting on Amazon for the long win; the Echo is continually expanding to be able to control any device that connects to the internet, and Amazon isn't trying to push their own brand of bulbs (yet). They seem to be building themselves as the point of contact for humans to set off [whatever automated thing some other company sells].
This is not true at all. The correct way of stating matters would be :

If Apple paid out all of it's $181B to shareholders, it would owe $ about half the claimed amount in US taxes. Apple however has not made this decision not to pay out to shareholders, and it would be extremely impractical to attempt to force it.

Note that Apple hasn't actually paid out this money to shareholders, so it probably will do so at some point in the future, and still pay these taxes. These taxes are deferred, not "avoided". It's just doing so at a slower rate (and probably waiting until negotiations with the IRS yield a better deal)

If it was outlawed to hold this tax overseas, Apple would still not pay it out to shareholders. Instead it would simply invest it, in overseas real estate, overseas data centers, overseas financial holdings or whatever. It seems to me very unlikely that it would make a different decision (not pay out vs. pay out) simply because the US govt. would try to force them.

Or worse, Apple would do what companies did before WWII. Never pay out profits. Instead have a deal that roughly amounts to this : "if you have $xx of apple stock, you get a director position within Apple, which comes with an expense account, free disneyworld access, a yacht, ..." and never pay out anything (and then have 10 tiers of this deal ...). And yes, that is legal.
> drone owners will receive an FAA identification number that they must display on aircraft

How many hours of training do you think it'll take for them to look for and read a sticker?

> access to an up-to-date database of registration numbers.

Cops probably have smartphones, right? http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/Serial_Inquiry.aspx
There are many Ubuntu installs that "just work". If this is your "old desktop", then it sounds like you probably didn't set out to purchase hardware known to work well with Linux.

One broken machine isn't an indicator of much of anything.
We're talking about drones colliding with manned aircraft. The potential for death is part of the context.
>When you're a programmer, what is the difference to your work between 10 and 100mbps, really?

While you asked about programming, I think it is the non-work stuff that matters, namely entertainment. If you play video games and/or watch Netflix, then a greater than 10mbps might make those things easier and thus more enjoyable, afaik.

I presently have a 1Mbps connection, which is consumed mostly by YouTube videos. All my other internet usage could be satiated with 1/3 of my present bandwidth.

If I cared to watch Netflix or played video games, then I would be unhappy unless I had a substantially better connection, perhaps >10mbps.
Yep, I've used Anki for years and moved over to Flashcards deluxe because after a few months on both noticed little difference in its algorithm compared to Anki. I find the mobile interface of Flashcards deluxe to be a whole lot less kludgy than Anki and the developer to be a whole lot more responsive.

http://mnemosyne-proj.org/ is pretty good too.
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While this may happen in other instances, Zigbee Light Link products like these are 100% targeted at consumer markets. If commercial/industrial applications are doing a ZigBee controlled building, they're doing it with ZigBee Building Automation. (alternately, EnOcean, Enlighted, etc. which also target commercial markets with wireless lighting controls)

Light Link - "Smart, easy-to-use lighting control designed for consumers." http://www.zigbee.org/zigbee-for-developers/applicationstand...

Building Automation - "Innovative, efficient and money-saving workplaces." http://www.zigbee.org/zigbee-for-developers/applicationstand...

It's conceivable that they could carry the Hue brand into other markets, but the existing Hue Bridge that just lost compatibility is definitely not that product.
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I love the site, but fyi the teardowns are hard to work with on mobile (android chrome nexus5). It jumps around when I hit next, the icons are very small and require a zoom each time, touch gestures on the images do seemingly random things (sometimes zooms, sometimes scrolls, sometimes just jumps around, not sure why). I end up zooming in to touch a button, then when I tap it, it moves so the image takes up the screen and I can't scroll away from it to see the whole image or press the next button.

It's sad because the best times for me to look at it is on my phone and it's incredibly good content. It still seems okay on larger screens.

Please understand, I'm not dissing your site. I only give (hopefully useful) feedback because it's awesome.
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I kinda wanna know how many people actually get asked to show proof the electrical work of shutting off the power, unscrewing wires from a light switch, and screwing them back onto a new light switch, was done by a licensed professional. I get you probably don't want someone running new wiring around a place who doesn't know what they're doing, but changing out light switches isn't substantially more difficult than changing a light bulb.
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This guy is either an idiot or tries to sell something. More like both.

He goes around self treating a serious spine condition, trying to find a doc to inject steroids for cash (which is treating the symptoms, not the root cause).

Then he goes for a surgery in some third world place "because it's cheap"; a surgery on his spine no less, where he may or may not ever walk again if something goes wrong.

Then, he touts a quick recovery, he being, from what he looks like, about 30 years old.

Give me a friggin break.

I am not "buying a surgery for cash" for something as critical as my spine. Or knees. Or appendectomy. Or anything else.
Looks cool. But how do you execute one of those one-liners?
Which frameworks?
Can't a credit card processor determine if a card is a prepaid or not? If they're using it as a verification step, they'd probably want to disallow those.
We can't just be consumers here, even though there is no money changing hands. This goes beyond the issue of trusting their code. We should send a clear message that 'dirty bits' are not welcome in community-built software. In effect, this is the only punishment you can dole out to an open source project--that is, choosing not to adopt it. Our 'ethics' as computer scientists are increasingly under fire and I think it's wise to know when to say 'no', especially when the hand that feeds is also the hand that beats you mercilessly.
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> The content creators (publishers) are the ones who get to dictate terms, end of story.

Compelling argument there.

> You're not paying anything to consume that content and you didn't create it, so your "rights" are minimal (if they exist at all).

Well, they're not paying me to view their ads, so their "rights" are minimal (if they exist at all).
I'm currently developing a FOSS line of robots aimed at tweens, teens, and everything in between. They are not ready yet (work gets in the way!). I know the marketplace well. Your best bet is to go with a Parallax Boe-Bot with the Arduino instead of the Basic Stamp. The kits are high quality and cost around $150 per kit. They are durable and are extensively documented. One kit per 3 teens is the norm. Anything else will have a bunch of plastic proprietary parts that break and not be as well documented. With teens you want a solid road plan that will keep them interested without overwhelming them.

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As much as I agree with you to some extent, every store you walk into, and make a purchase from, whether it is a 7-11 or Costco, knows you. Especially true of grocery stores where frequent shopper cards and tracking is used to determine not only the ads you see, predict your purchases, but also overall product placement within the store as well.

A good example of just how well stores know us:
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FWIW, you've been coding in C dialects since just before I was born. So your experience and judgment have a lot of weight for me. Thanks for taking the time to discuss these things.

It's typical for Python applications to depend on C libraries for databases, crypto/TLS, and image format conversion. For parsing, it depends; lxml is popular for XML and HTML parsing, but I don't know of any off-the-shelf equivalent for RFC 822 and MIME.
I explained it to my parents by saying "You can copyright your street address, and anyone who writes it on an envelope to be mailed to you has just committed a copyright violation."

They said that sounded pretty stupid, I agreed, but its the current law as far as I can tell.
> We don't provide MANAGESIEVE because we don't trust the Cyrus implementation code to be safe to provide over the internet!

I'm not sure I understand. MANAGESIEVE means you send and receive text over a socket connection, which can be secured with TLS. If the text you get back is not valid per the managesieve protocol, you simply ignore it and send back an error; you don't need to trust any code on the client side and you don't need to provide any code over the internet. What is the implementation code issue?
There is a lot of decent free material on quizlet, you just have to dig. I prefer to import it into Flashcards deluxe http://orangeorapple.com/Flashcards/ because it's easy and even after years of using Anki, I still can't stand it's interface.
We are building some related home control products and have forgone radio level integrations instead favoring integrating with anyone over http, providing an open api, and shortly after launch an sdk. Radio integrations in theory are fine but in practice it's a matter of picking sides, allowing third party devices to dictate your access to the Internet and interop, for a few features, offline (local http should be an option with any hub, nest etc but isnt) and lower latency operation as probably the biggest features. Not controlling your own products' access to the Internet is a scary proposition not to mention range/interference issues with 2.4ghz if you don't have aa critical mass. Building IoTs right now is as much an alignment excercise as a technical one and while it's a bummer that they have chosen to remove/prevent compatibility, consumers aren't really choosing subscription models for devices and cloud backed services hence the economics of customer acquisition, support, margins etc aren't realities that can be wished away.
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I appreciate your attempt to move the definition back to where it rightfully belongs, but it's too late for that I'm afraid. All R/C aircraft are now "drones". Whether they have autonomous flying capability or not, regardless of size. :(

Oh well...
Some people have a tendency to tell other people what to do with their money. This can range from annoying when it's some pundit doing it, to dangerous when it's someone in government.
to clarify: I meant economies of scale. In services they are much much lover then in software licensing (example: microsoft in the 80ties and 90ies) or integrated products (example: apple now)
Stuff failing right out of the gate should be no surprise if you're familiar with the Bathtub curve concept. In particular when it is marketably different from what came before.

It might have redundant systems, but if the same manufacturing fault existed in both then that doesn't really help you much. That's why there is something to be said from taking secondary components from different manufacturing runs or even entirely different manufacturers, so that failures aren't synchronized.

As an aside: Are ship engines not tested externally before installation into the hull?
Bayesian program learning looks really promising, largely because it requires less data than deep neural networks to learn.

A couple things to note:

1) One of the authors of the paper, Russ Salakhutdinov, has worked alongside Geoff Hinton to produce major advances in deep learning.

2) While the title appears to include a broad set of problems, for the moment their work has been on images.
There is no way your $25 quadcopter weighs 250g, so they are not affected by these rules. Gift away!
Well... easier than the compiler but very hard to do the last 20% (I never had the time; hobby project) because docs are so hard to find. Or at least were--maybe that's changed.
What are you buying it with then? Good will, bitcoins, large assets or perhaps something else?

I think I may be misunderstanding you. Did you mean that you aren't going to base a major health care purchase on cost alone? That certainly makes sense but it also makes sense to me that cost is indeed a factor even if its not as important to you as it is to the OP.
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I have a first-gen iPad, and it most certainly does not run "perfectly fine". Most apps aren't released for those old versions, some even seem to get removed automatically.

I think the Android world is worse, mind you - but old iOS devices are still left to rot. My 2.5 year old Google TV box being abandoned by Google (can't even log into the app store) was infuriating.
Nylas N1 looks really nice, thanks for telling about it :D
I agree that this example is disturbing. However, you can shop at most stores with cash and no memberships, which I believe would make tracking more difficult. Further, tracking used for recommendations is one issue but in my mind, the idea of collecting semi/non-repudiable information about customers such as ID card numbers and date of births is more disturbing to me, particularly from an ID theft point of view.