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> but we don't have the strategic level for the AI to build its own rules

Reinforcement Learning is an approach to learn rules by observing a positive or negative feedback from the world. Recently a single algorithm learned 40 Atari games on its own and a Go playing algo beat the European champion. They both used RL.
> It is clear that he did not anticipate the astonishing severity of the legal response [to scraping JSTOR].

This is a key lesson. The transition from protected academic life to "The Real World" (as we used to style it) can be alarmingly abrupt. It's best to plan for the worst.
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That still doesn't make any sense. The modus operandi here (I thought) was that N fraudsters mix-and-match their actual addresses and phone numbers with fake names in order to open N^2 fraudulent accounts, which they then operate legitimately for a while before pulling the scam. So they can't be using other people's cards because the fake identities don't really exist.
The value of Parse is entirely in the client SDKs that would take forever to build and not in the server (which is a simple rest API over MongoDB).
Online education is a great way to democratise access to the very best teachers/classes/content and I see it as a great way for learners to discover new topics/subjects quickly without needing to enroll in any physical classes.

I don't think we will reach the point where we have great teachers everywhere. That is just not practical and too idealistic. That's exactly why we need to start innovating in the field of education to try and make it a more meaningful experience and one which positively impacts society.

I see online education as one of the pieces of the education puzzle.
IMO their container stack is much better decoupled than Docker's.

In Docker's early days they made a big deal about how a standard container spec could revolutionize software the way the shipping container spec revolutionized the transport of goods.

An independent spec never emerged though. The Docker monolith got bigger and bigger. They threw out standalone mode, so instead of being able to just be a container runtime, Docker basically owned the whole host, and your logging, networking, process monitoring, etc. all had to be done Docker's way.

CoreOS created the App Container spec (https://github.com/appc) to deliver on the promise that Docker started with. They eventually shamed Docker into becoming part of the Open Container Initiative (https://www.opencontainers.org/). Hopefully that means we'll get to a point where application images can truly be shipped anywhere and run anywhere, without having to give any one company control of your whole stack.
Food.

The food production is not keeping up with the boom in population, specially in the developing nations. In India, where I come from, farmers are running away from Farming. (Because it's not profitable enough to even feed a family and pay for school fees). We desperately need ways to increase the food production, without increasing the land or water usage.
A way of doing it can genetic engineering (Supercharged Photosyntesis?), but even this solution looks like a distant reality. May be not enough people are working on it or there is a lack of funding here...

Food is the most basic requirement for survival for any life form. Fund this research... YC will be eternally blessed! :D
Of course it can't catch your logical bugs. Please see my comment below.
The US taxpayer and government funds public research, and the results are given as private profit to publishers. Swartz downloads papers en masse, something he may have had a murky right to do as an MIT fellow. This results in MIT, JStor, and the US government persecuting him. The New Yorker and Larissa Macfarquhar don't look for the darker side of all of this in the government persecutions and taxpayer money for public research privatized by corporations, but in Swartz himself. Conde Nast is just another big corporation (watch the nth generation heir of it in a piece more illuminating than this one - "Born Rich") coming to the defense of another big corporation in the slimy way someone like Larissa Macfarquhar specializes in, although its the New Yorker it's middle-brown, and in a slimy quote subtle unquote way. No articles on the darker side of other big publisher corporations for sure.
Criminal Justice

+ Apply machine learning algorithms to determine and preempt causes of recidivism

+ Develop Minority Report-style "pre-cog" policing algorithms to prevent predict future crimes and help prioritize policing resources

Public Policy & Economics

+ Land use reform (impact of land value taxes / pro-density initiatives)

+ Develop robust electronic voting systems

Science & Medicine

+ Explore possible systems of carbon sequestration

+ Mars habitability

+ Superconductors? Carbon nanotubes?
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The problem with those rules is the second you want to reuse your .quote class in your new .wrapper2 layout you are in for some refactor hell. In addition your specificity levels are getting pretty wonky, simple things like media queries would require duplicating the exact same nesting structure. Another issue which could effect code like this is ui performance, see this deck for more info https://speakerdeck.com/jonrohan/githubs-css-performance. Many sites won't need to worry about this last point.

Every modern CSS codebase attempts to use 1 location agnostic class per element. Usually when warning against 3 levels of nesting in preprocessors it is to maintain readability on pseudo selectors but not an encouragement to nest classes.
Define a location-based metric for climate change vulnerability analogous to the way walkscore.com has defined and developed a metric for walkability.

A good walkscore makes property more valuable. A valid and widely distributed climatescore could be the most effective way to create political will by making property value accurately reflect future risk.
+1 for YC Research's basic income (and standard for quality of life)

Meta-Research. +1 for @mietek's Meta-research; creating a distributed, open ecosystem (not a website, but a protocol) for publishing and navigating interdisciplinary research.

Medicine. +1 for Bacteriophages @mietek & open-medicine (e.g. Counter Culture Labs - Open Insulin) https://experiment.com/projects/open-insulin. Additionally, cancer and heart disease research.

A distributed, persistent, interoperable world wide web. (e.g. IPFS)

A sensible distributed DOI and identity system for people.

A meta exploration to determine the world's hard problems and impending catastrophies (e.g. www.metaculus.com)

Alternative energy and renewable energy.
A few things:

1. Fusion research

2. Food/Water security research

3. Astrophysics research

4. Mental health research
What exactly about Bolo made it a good [network] game, in your experience/opinion?
> They are throttling a service because it does not participate in their BingeOn program.

That's not correct. Non-participants are treated the same as participants as far as throttling goes--both get throttled when BingeOn is enabled. What BingeOn does is make it so that the throttled video from participants is not included in your data usage.
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Genetic rescue & de-extinction. The Genetic Rescue Foundation https://www.geneticrescue.science/ and Revive & Restore http://longnow.org/revive/ have research projects that are advancing the scientific techniques required to do this. Having YC Research also take an interest in this would help to expand a field that already has the attention of some pretty talented individuals e.g. George Church.

Human beings are now the curators of planet earth. This is the Anthropocene era. We can either continue to intentionally and unintentionally destroy the earth's biodiversity; or through technology we can develop the means to preserve it.

We're not preserving biodiversity because panda's are cute and starving polar bear pictures make us sad. We're doing it because biodiversity is useful to humans and it takes a very long time to get it back when it's gone.
The biggest opportunity for impact would be to find some politically incorrect / heterodox studies in areas where existing power structures have no incentive to fund. Nutrition comes to mind but it's a pretty crowded field. Alternately I think funding more open source legal docs like the SAFE could offer huge social ROI. (Perhaps in non startup legal areas.)
Counter-lobbying

Wealthy interests lobby governments to do what is good for them, but often at some negative cost for society. The reason they lobby is the bang-for-buck. What if lobbying is used for good. What if instead of billionaire gives to charity, billionaire lobbies government so that charity is not needed anymore?
> Academic publishing is obsolete

To expand upon this, it's not just publishing papers behind paywalls that is the problem. The entire system we use to advance humanities shared knowledge is broken. The Internet enables a dramatically more efficient model of scientific collaboration. The problem is academic science has been stuck with a reward system from the 17th century. And quite simply, it does not reward what we want it to reward anymore. However, there is a solution: science funders can distribute their money in a way that creates a very different set of incentives. Sadly, almost all science funders are very conservative organizations. YC Research can play a critical role in catalyzing a transition to an Internet-native model of research. My startup, Thinklab, wants to help. We're a service that helps science funders reward participation in a massively collaborative open online model of research.
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Having worked at both Google and Facebook I prefer Facebook's strategy of "hackathons" and "hackamonths" to encourage people to sometimes work on different projects than they usually do, to mix it up. Hackathons (1-3 days at FB) are cool because they really encourage you to work with a new set of people. Hackamonths are usually tied to, "this project is with a different team and if it's going well I would join this other team". I think that is cool because they make it explicit that maybe your side projecty thing is going to turn into your real project. The setup is aimed at a similar thing to 20% time and I think it is overall more effective.
My view is that treating everything in the universe as part of the same filesystem hierarchy is one UNIX philosophy we should have dispensed with long ago. I don't think it makes sense to project the same abstractions we use to represent file storage onto other aspects of a system just because they also happen to provide some information and then to treat everything as part of a huge, monolithic, homogeneous structure. The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard is very complicated already -- a discussion for another time, perhaps -- but what does something like "rm -rf /" (or any other actual file/directory manipulation) even mean at this point? I think reverence for some of these ideas just because they are "the UNIX way" is holding the industry back.
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Malaysia showed promise a couple of decades ago. Their economy was growing, large companies were setting up shop and building factories, trying to diversify beyond their traditional resource-based economy.

With growth came rampant corruption, nepotism, an increase in fundamentalism, while they dug their heels into the quicksand that is quota-based reservations for Malays and the indigenous Bumiputra people.

Not that they ever had much freedom of press, but the Malaysian media today is largely a mouthpiece of the UMNO without the guts to write about serious and growing economic, social and political problems.

This was apparent during the MH370 crash when the media meekly swallowed the garbage and misinformation shovelled out by their officials, and now with their PM Najib unloading more guano about the huge scandals in their 1MDB organization and the three-quarters of a billion (with a B) dollars that mysteriously appeared in the PM's personal bank account.

Their economy is being battered due to this double whammy of institutionalised corruption and weak demand for their resources, and I don't see this getting any better any time soon.

They had a great future, they were myopic and blew it on short-term greed.
CrossFit is already free - they've been posting the WOD on their blog for free since forever. You could just take their body weight exercises and pick one randomly every day and you'd be doing CrossFit.
We often call things 'The Real World' when we see how harsh and unethical the current reality often is, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't strive for a more ideal one.

We have to work within those real rules, but it would be a shame if those rules define us.
> Gives credence to what/whose concerns?

The concerns that there are leaks not in the public interest, which harm our[1] military's capabilities to defend us. If I were opposed to the west (Israel/US/UK), this is not only great military intelligence, but a fantastic propaganda opportunity.

> If Israel were spying on US drone video transmissions, and a "traitor" in the Israeli security apparatus leaked that info to the press, would it still be harmful for the "public" to know?

Would we be upset? Yes. Is Israel likely to release volumes of public condemnations of US/British intransigence in this case? Absolutely. Does that make it unethical? No. More on this in a second.

> It really weirds me out the degree to which people seem to moralize these brain-dead spy games. It's like we're already in state of paranoid pre-war.

Information is the most valuable asset for survival. Knowing what will happen or how someone will act is incalculably valuable, across pretty much every field.

- Engineering: Why do we "spy" on our servers with analytics, logging, and alerts? Because it helps us make the right decisions.
- Product: Why do we "spy" on users with tools like Heap or Mixpanel? Because it helps us make the right decisions.
- Military: Why do we spy on other world powers? Because it helps us make the right decisions.
- Business: You know the hardest parts of building a business? People. We have a lack of information (it's hard to get into their heads) which leads to a lack of perspective which leads to a lack of empathy.

> but its not OK for citizens to spy on their own government

Is it right for HR to know things about you but you cannot access everything they know about colleagues? Yes. Unless you have a legitimate interest (outside of "I'm interested") in knowing information that could cause others harm, you don't deserve to have it.

You have elected officials who are informed on a need-to-know basis about the programs done in your name. Do they always make the right decisions? Absolutely not. In those cases, leaks are in the public interest. In cases like this, how are you better able to defend yourself with this information?

> If it's of no interest to the public, then surely the secret was not a secret at all, and there was no harm in leaking it.

I'm saying it is _against_ the public's interest to leak it, because the NSA is doing their job and this harms their ability to do so. If the NSA were doing something outside its job (e.g. dragnet surveillance) and a leak harmed its ability to do so, that leak is actually in the public's interest because they are protecting themselves.

[1]: "our" in this context is democracy and/or the western world.
I don't mean to outbid you in the horror but some who commit suicide also decide to take their closest parents with them because they believe the pain of the situation affects them and they want to free them from that.
How does the article "come to the defense of another big corporation"? Which corporation is it coming to the defense of? JSTOR is owned by Ithaka Harbors, a non-profit organization (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ithaka_Harbors), and MIT is a non-profit educational institution. In any case, the article didn't seem very sympathetic to them.
Being stupid doesn't make you an asshole. You sound like more of an asshole than any random person dying because they did something stupid.
I don't think this obsession with Aaron and his death is any good. It feels like a morbid soap opera. He is more talked about in death than in life. I think its better to focus on the living. There is plenty of interesting tech entrepreneurs and activists out there.
Every death is natural selection.

You are stupid.
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> You can live for a thousand years and you will still procrastinate and you will still not want to die.

Of course not! Why should you ever want to die? Why should you ever "get over" that?

It's a bug. We haven't fixed it yet. It should not be romanticized, and it should most certainly not be treated as inevitable. It's an abomination we have yet to eliminate.
- over complicated human processes

- dealing with assholes

- functional testing

- writing unit tests

- extending shitty unit tests

- most programming. don't get a buzz from it anymore
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CoreOS is built using Gentoo. Gentoo is a meta-distribution whose main contribution is the portage tree which is a collective of ebuilds that describe how to build each individual package, the dependencies, the configuration flags etc. Literally every user who uses Gentoo builds and produces their own linux distribution, with their own CFLAGS, USE flags etc. ChromeOS is built using Gentoo, so is CoreOS. Neither ChromeOS nor CoreOS are Gentoo based distros because Gentoo is a toolkit to build distributions, not a distribution itself.
AGI. It's nearly impossible to get a big company to invest in AGI due to the historically bad ROI. That's also the reason there probably won't be a successful startup in this space for a while. The private sector is not particularly great at exploration where ROI is uncertain. OpenCog is a great start, but it would be nice to have another project in parallel that utilizes different ideas.
Thanks a lot for your link :-)
It will be interesting to watch this play out in the context of the Chinese intellectual property policies and non-enforcement of US copyrights, patents and trade secrets. That might be enough money to reverse engineer Intel's 14nm chipsets. Will it accelerate humanity's technological progress, or will it stifle progress by removing incentives for inventors?
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That's an interesting way of looking at it. I'm from London and thinking of visiting SF. I guess there are more famous tech names that have made it there but you probably don't get to see them much.
God, Mission Starlight was so great. I also played that on my Dad’s office Mac :-)
He had a greyscale display for a long time, and I still remember the amazement of getting a color monitor and discovering Mission Starlight was in color, too. What a time!

Do you know of a playable/emulatable binary of this anywhere?
I guess you are right but Aaron didn't do that. What we already knew about him (his suicide) was pretty dark and nothing in this article is darker than that. The title suggested that it would be a hit piece like Jobs biography, but thankfully, it wasn't. I was afraid that we would learn that he abused his girlfriend, or something like that.
But then whatever app that runs as root that actually needs to update it is going to remount it rw, at which point the original problem stands.

My personal opinion is that, for the use case of a single-user machine (i.e., "Linux on the desktop"), the traditional UNIX root isn't a useful concept. What's actually sensitive is your files, your saved passwords, your browser cookies, your emails, etc.; the ability to reconfigure drivers or replace OS components is only a problem because it allows all of those things to be compromised. Instead of throwing roadblocks in the way of root (remount ro, expose it as something more complicated than a filesystem so innocent users aren't tempted to look at it, etc.), let's take all the stuff that users should be able to do and make it accessible by nonroot, and take all the stuff they shouldn't be able to do and put it in the realm of automation.

UEFI has a pretty reasonable concept here, of a distinction between "boot" and "runtime" configuration; the BSDs have a conceptually similar idea of the securelevel. The idea is that if you're around during the boot, you might be interested in reconfiguring what the machine is doing, but as soon as you're out, you permanently abjure any further ability to reconfigure that. If we take a variant on that, that the OS doesn't abjure those capabilities as a whole but instead reserves them for itself, disabling all user-controlled ability to change things, I think we get very far. You can install new software, but not change the trusted sources for software. You can apply firmware updates via an existing cronjob, but not make arbitrary changes to firmware variables. If you want to do any of that, you have to reboot and enter a special setup mode. Apart from protecting against simple human error, this also serves as a very effective protection against malware: non-OS software simply has no ability to do unwanted things.

Then let's use UNIX users (which are a pretty solid isolation technique) to isolate things like your banking info from your Flash-requiring music service.

Chrome OS, incidentally, has this concept of things the OS can do that the user has no interface to, and Chrome OS is basically the most successful Linux on the desktop, so.
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Racial equality, especially in tech. Develop a disruptive and innovative way to help bring more diversity into the technology field. How to break down racial barriers to more people of color, especially blacks to enter STEM fields and level the playing field for access to education needed for that.
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Is there some particular point to tell me to stop hours after I've stopped posting?

Yes, I've posted 17 comments. Each comment has been original, on topic, with a point and I've several times been thanked by the founders for raising important issues. What's the problem with being active and engaged? How on earth can that be considered over the top?

I have no dog in this fight, but I'm genuinely worried something bad will happen if they continue. I'm not even alone in this point of view. Several other posters have noted the same.

As to rhetoric, which part do you consider overheated, and more importantly, wrong?
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