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Apply HN: Companion, the smart backpack
Problem: If you're into IT or travel frequently, the backpack is essential to transport devices and checkpoint ready items. A helpful backpack must (1) Preserve the carried items in their best shape, (2) Improve, if possible, the items' state while on the go, (3) be accessible both when at rest and while on the go (4) Reflect the style of the owner.

Smart backpacks today (1) Use materials that are damaging other clothes (2) Are heavy (3) Are not fashion items but functional items at best (4) Can't be personalized (5) Don't focus on the "on the go" experience, but just at rest

Companion: 100% natural crazy horse leather. Waterproof. Can be engraved. Aiming for single cloth design. Wide shoulder straps for comfort and grip. Embedded 4g to wifi board + portable battery with USB ports. Recharge using chugplug / znaps type of adapters. iOS app for stats and configuration. Special pockets for earbuds and phone, to store and grab them while the backpack is on the back, without removing it.

About us: we're two guys, one product oriented, one sales, always playing with ideas and products we would be the first users. I'm an entrepreneur for 11 years, having created 2 startups to date, together with the teams around them. Andrei is an artist by nature, and a great product manager, we've worked on a prev startup.

Why apply: We want to build Companion for ourselves. The mentorship from YC + the network are world class and we believe it will be the best foundation to start with. Also, some additional finance would help with the experiments we need to do with all the materials involved. We believe in many iterations and beings hands-on with the end result.

Prior Work: We're using and improving a good part of what's above for 2 years. Others proactively admired it. Validated some assumptions with 50+ friends in IT and local manufacturers.

Please feel free to reach out to us with any questions you may have. All feedback, regardless of its nature, is welcome :)
Affluenza guy is going to serve 2 years
> I think a paralegal from the lender's firm just Googled me, concluded I was a "business guy" (so, moneybags)

That's a good guess imo. One side effect of the housing bubble is that banks decimated their loan-recovery units on the way up (because how would a loan ever go bad when prices are rocketing? You just force a sale. So lay off most of the recovery personnel.)

As a consequence, when the market went south the recovery efforts were second rate, which probably explains why the bank is wasting its time going after you. But you knew that. :)

In any case, good luck to you.
Still not gonna use it because it's just laggy.
Sometimes they write it: http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2013/11/11/243973... . Scary.
San Francisco man forced to vacate box in friend's apartmen
People who run Linux for serving production traffic generally disable power management, and for good reason. So it's a non-issue in that context.
Calling out shitty behaviour isn't a bully move.
It depends on what kind of algorithms you are using for classification/ml. Some algorithms can be distributed easily, like recommendation engines, etc. Others, like say SVMs, are much harder to distribute.

If you checkout apache mahout you can get an idea of what is possible and what is not.
Sorry, I feel your pain for sure. Curious to hear more about your VoIP startup. Want to shoot me an e-mail (in my profile)?
For you Atom users: Why have you chosen Atom over, say, Emacs?
Visual Studio Code is a totally different foundation. The only shared piece is the Electron shell for embedding Chrome.
Wow, that's rather strong language, especially given the context. Even in the most strident defenses of US involvement in Vietnam, I have never once seen anyone argue that the safety of the United States itself was at issue. Even if we accept that this war was a fight for freedom and democracy, is it "freeloading" for someone to refuse to fight for the freedom of people thousands of miles away in a completely different country and culture?

In addition, a relatively small proportion of Americans are ever involved in the military these days. Is the vast majority of the population freeloading? Or does it somehow only qualify as freeloading when you avoid the military because of principle?
Right place for an off-topic feature request? :) I introduced Nylas to a few of my coworkers and one brought up something he felt was lacking: the ability to 'mark all as read.'
> nor should you have more say than any other resident in Silicon Valley

I'm fairly sure Sam meant in terms of the startup ecosystem rather than the real estate. I also bet you're aware of that and decided to write that anyway.
I hear it; if it's a delusion, it's made me miserable on many an occasion and I'd love to have it gone--whatever it is.

It's not constant, it varies in loudness, it's not tied to anything I've been able to figure out via rudimentary data collection.
Well I am German too, and I am quite opposed. I think Böhmermann did a good job of creating a public discussion about our ancient Lèse-majesté law that should be finally abolished (together with similar blasphemy laws that somehow survived to this day). Also, Erdogan basically called for this by his ridiculous reaction to the Extra3 video.

P.S. Also, what exactly is the difference between the content of the article and your statement except for your added sentiment?
suddenly that person is playing with the fate of the rest of Germany while also violating a person's dignity.

Is it viewed as a bug or as a feature that a normal citizen can, in the framework of this thinking here, anoint themselves a kind of 'ambassador' for Germany and potentially have real foreign policy and diplomatic impact? And by the way, if that be so, would it not be reasonable to lodge a flurry of protests with the Erdogan's government in response to whatever random hooligans on the streets of Izmir say about Germany or Merkel?

Perhaps a reasonable compromise would be to hold highly conspicuous or famous people making statements in broadcast media to a different standard than ordinary citizens who merely face the chance of accidentally ending up on camera.
'Cruise control' does not (at least it didn't until very recently) even attempt to avoid collisions with neighboring cars or keep the car in its lane. Even without navigation, autodrive in a car is a considerably more difficult problem than either cruise control or autopilot in a plane.
Hi, i'm the author.

If you have any questions or feedback, let me know!
Another close encounter with a Russian military plane
Businesses, in particular corporations, only operate in the context of some government.

Plenty of folks who think competition is the best and that competition brings out the best in everything still believe that you still have to first organize markets and make sure they are competitive, i.e. It is not the natural state of things in each and every realm of life. We do not force companies to be profitable, we force them to play by a set of rules that we agree allows society to extract the most value from the companies rather than the other way around.
Founders Playbook: The secret 5 min recharge
If dns-01 is currently a blocker for you, and you're willing to run a HTTPd on each server, there might be another option: Redirect all challenge requests (i.e. requests to .well-known/acme-challenge) to a common verification server (i.e. http://irc.example.com/.well-known/acme-challenge/token -> http://verification.example.com/.well-known/acme-challenge/t...). That way, you can run the client on verification.example.com and don't have to deal with distributing the challenge token to all nodes. The verification server can then distribute the certificates and keys to your nodes.

That's one of the recommended solutions for shared-hosting providers who don't want to use DNS-based validation.
I wish I had a better answer. Find a good book or set of resources and go through it again. A good method might be to go through chapter by chapter and skim through the subjects and the problem sets, if you see something that isn't "slam dunk" easy then consider reviewing that material and just reading through that chapter and doing the problem sets until it makes sense. Similarly, if you're working through something in calculus and you hit a speed bump, try to figure out exactly what you're struggling with and then go back to your algebra/trig materials and focus in on that until you've learned it.

Khan Academy has a ton of videos on algebra and trig on youtube, so that's also another good resource. If you have the money, consider hiring a tutor for a few short sessions, they can be remarkably affordable. Also, if you're in college there are study groups and office hours, so consider taking advantage of those.

The most important thing in math is to make sure you're actually learning the material rather than just skimming over it and passing the tests.

You can also try various games, though sadly I don't have any recommendations.
> Given that two-hand holding is the norm for paper books

It's not.
Thanks for the insightful comment. What would be a good substitute oil for cooking?
NES games ran at 60fps progressive (240p). This is a mode in which the CRT does not alter the scanline position each field.
Journalist Matthew Keys Sentenced to 24 Months Under Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
They don't throw out the first vial right there in front of you.
> It's just not that impressive. If you want to work at a startup in SF, your output and immediate impact are most important.

First, my experience is that startups are good for 'entry level work' - they pay a lot less than the big companies do. Unless you are at the very top (and in that case, a degree from an elite school matters a lot to VC, I am told) you are better off at a larger company, unless you don't care about money. And SF is... well, it's SF. Especially if you are like me, an unstylish, overweight nerd[1], you are much more of a 'cultural fit' in the valley. (it's stupid that sort of thing matters, but it does.)

Next? at least at the big companies, while a degree in general doesn't make all that much difference (I don't have a degree myself, and I'm at google right now, though I'm a contractor. I don't think a degree from a easy to get into school would make any difference to my pay rate) - a degree from Stanford or Berkeley is a different sort of thing. Half the big companies in the valley came out of Stanford, and we still use little bits of BSD every day. Lots of people at the big companies were educated at those schools, but almost none of them are down with the marginal folks, the contractors like me. (to be clear, I'm only marginal at one of the top-tier big companies like google. At Yahoo, for instance, I was pretty good. Not the best of the best, certainly, but well out of the marginal category I am in now. I suspect I might be good enough to be an employee at Facebook or Linkedin, even, though that has yet to be tested. Everything is relative, especially standards.)

[1]https://prgmr.com/~lsc/images/luke_at_2972.png
What is the reason different GCE regions use the same IP blocks?
Your description is what I had in mind. The user won't be the one to add the bots, the meta-bot has a strong knowledge of the 'chatbot community' and knows who is good at solving problems in different categories.

The proposition of allowing the user 'add' bots is also quite interesting but I've not given much thoughts to that.
Walmart's Plan to Catch Amazon? Vastly Expand Its Online Assortment
Completely missing the point.
"Social Media Site" aka, a place where we put (mostly) public imagery. By definition this is curated, and as the prof says is a self-selected view of ourselves.

But, the point being missed is that OF COURSE people don't look the same "in day to day life" because those social media pics are just a moment of one day. If the prof happened to meet the person moments after the social media picture was taken then ... he would have concluded that "people present themselves truly as they are in reality" ...

My point, the point ignored in the article, is that Social Media is a self-reflective, self-curated snapshot. Not a continuous, objective representation.
FreeBSD even has docker, portname sysutils/docker-freebsd
It doesn't change the conclusion, but note that in a relativistic regime you can't use F=ma because the mass is no longer constant. You need F=dp/dt, where p is the relativistic momentum. The Lorentz factor here works out to 1.02, i.e. 510 N, not 500, so not a big effect if I got my maths right.
The first link provided above is a Google search URL for the terms "cash for clunkers cost".

Those are article quotes from the front page results.
(Still worth it by far, though. I'll take a few seconds and nice error highlight over an hour of "Where the heck is my missing semicolon?")
Oddly enough I'm reading this after the AirBnB next door, one of whose many guests has broken their front door, smashed it closed two meters from where I'm sleeping at 1:40AM. YC reaching out from the physical world and I wake up and visit HN.
I like both. VS Code does indeed feel significantly snappier, but I really love the tabbed view on Atom, and Atom's plugin ecosystem is more developed as of now.
Yeah ,the part with canary code rub me the wrong way too.

These safeguards include a canary step where the configuration is deployed at a single site and that site is verified to still be working correctly

This sounds very unprofessional imho. "Touch this cable to see if there is electricity running" sort of thing.

Is that really how its should be done?
I've never seen a serious assessment that doubts the general idea, that there is racism in law enforcement.

This is likely the result of what is known as the "filter bubble."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filter_bubble

Police are in fact less likely to kill blacks than whites. Perhaps in absolute terms, but definitely when you factor in the varying behavior patterns of the two groups.

But also adjusted to take into account the racial breakdown in violent crime, the data actually show that police are less likely to kill black suspects than white ones.

"If one adjusts for the racial disparity in the homicide rate or the rate at which police are feloniously killed, whites are actually more likely to be killed by police than blacks," wrote Moskos. "Adjusted for the homicide rate, whites are 1.7 times more likely than blacks (to) die at the hands of police. Adjusted for the racial disparity at which police are feloniously killed, whites are 1.3 times more likely than blacks to die at the hands of police."

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/09/10/black_l...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piwaBO6U43U
Interesting since I continue to be impressed by my skylake's low power consumption. I built a desktop (arch linux kernel 4.2 - 4.4) a few months back and my killawatt generally show 25-35 watts. Thats way below my old desktop. Its also plenty cool.
I hope they're planning on taking TPS or true potato seeds with them. You could fit a million true potato seeds in a small pouch and you'd be set for a long time :)
wsj's paywall prevents me from getting to their version of "the facts" and their presentation of it. So I'll just make up my own.

Suffice to say that this debacle won't do any further biotech investment any good, and that's a great shame.

US$ 10B is a lot to piss away, I hope some good came of it.
It's worth noting that the publicly posted postmortem is not the same as the internal postmortems (which include much more detail, specific action items, timelines etc). The SRE book (https://landing.google.com/sre/book.html) has a whole chapter on our internal postmortems, which is probably a better learning exercise in how to write one.

Source: I work on the team that writes these external postmortems.
3D printing enters the next dimension
Wat. That $12.9 billion wasn't a loan. Maybe AIG paid some back but Goldman Sachs definitely did not. It was an insurance policy, except they (AIG) didn't call it "insurance" because that would have made it subject to regulation.
Makes more sense to me to allow bankruptcy to apply to student loan debt than to add even more rules and and exceptions to the laws.
Also, if it takes you, say, 2 minutes to struggle through a simple multiple choice algebra problem that you're able to overcome through lots of brute force methods but you still get the right answer, you can pass algebra tests easily, but you're going to struggle when you hit calculus. You need to be able to solve some of those problems mostly in your head in seconds, and the methods need to be intuitive and familiar to you. Moreover, the rest of your work depends on having the right answer to that problem. If you can get the right answer 90% of the time with a lot of effort that might be good enough to pass a class, but it's not actually good enough to use those skills practically. In an easy calculus problem you might have to work through dozens of little simple algebra problems, and if it takes minutes to do each one, and you get the wrong answer 10% or more of the time, then calculus problems are going to take hours and you're going to get the wrong answer most of the time.
This is why I set windows firewall to disable connections by default and then opt programs in. Visual Studio tries to connect to the internet too.
Keep in mind, it's not automatically criminal. The insulted person must go to the effort of actually filing a lawsuit to have anything happen, and it's unlikely for that to happen over some random dude talking on the street. The only reason Böhmermann is getting any attention is because he did manage to make it on national TV with this.

As for the questions: With or without the law, someone insulting a foreign dignitary on national TV can have serious diplomatic effects. It's just reality.

As for the second question: In two parts: Insulting the country is not covered by the german law, only direct persons. Further, if Merkel were insulted by whatever a turkish citizen is saying and Turkey has a law allowing her to sue those, then she could do it. If there isn't such a law she'd need to find other ways to deal with her anger if she has any such.
What It’s Like to ‘Wake Up’ from Autism After Magnetic Stimulation
Making decisions that optimize outcomes for current founders over ex-founders is not the same as assuming there won't be founder disputes or exits. I just think it creates better incentives.
26 gave me a hard time because I kept trying to do them vertically. Once I completed 27 & 28 w/ horizontal tiling I finally cracked 26.
I'm not saying we should punish GS for getting $12.9 billion.

I'm saying that, in light of the totality of events, this $5 billion fine is not meaningful.
BuzzFeed's biggest problem, at least as I view it, is an immense negative equity as yet another exploiter of weaponised viral clickbait crap.

I'm aware that the company produces other material, but it continues to rely heavily on clickbait. And so I say: die in a fire.
Holding them to exactly same standard as all retailers. It seems US and EU law may be vastly different on this front. Here it's the retailer held responsible for problems, so it's in their interests to vet as a normal part of the buying process, and they do.

New Company will find product looked at to decide if it's worth putting in the stores, that they meet electrical safety or whatever laws etc.[1] Only once approved will they be placed in store. They'll probably trial in just a few stores first. At least some retailers have an audit process for the factory too.

[1] https://www.homeretailgroup.com/suppliers/how-to-be-a-suppli... 80,000 lines, they say they assess all products, and mention lab testing and pre-shipment inspections. They're a mass market retailer with a lot of product at the cheaper end of the scale.
I appreciate your skepticism. And I mean that in the most positive way possible. Seems like most of HN visitors areskeptical about almost everything except extraordinary claims regarding AI prowess.

But really, you're being way too generous. 99.63% accuracy was reported on a relatively constrained dataset[1] when being asked a yes-no question: "are these two faces the same"? In our case, however, we're speaking about a search algorithm that tries to match something in a huge database. The accuracy will be way, way worse.

http://vis-www.cs.umass.edu/lfw/
I'd disagree that it doesn't matter who solved the problem: there are real-world implications across the board. I agree the most important thing is that knowledge is advanced, but to relegate the "solver" as an unimportant fiction seems disingenuous.
no duh
There is an undo button.
I never said there aren't people who do oppose it. :)

As for that law: Böhmermann could still be sued without it, just not have to worry about a jail sentence. And frankly, i prefer that over having Erdogan express his anger towards Germany differently, which is the whole reason this law exists.
Mathematical Foundations for the Precautionary Principle [pdf]
Here's a whitepaper on the tech behind the CaptionBot.ai demo: http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/264408/ImageCaptionInWild...

This demo uses the Vision API and the Emotion API from here: https://www.microsoft.com/cognitive-services/
I've worked in a slaughterhouse/processing facility, and I'm certainly not a vegetarian.
> Microsoft's Visual Studio Code is built on similar foundations

This is my understanding of things:

- Electron is built on top of Chromium, where the technology was mainly driven by Google and their engineers.

- Vscode is based on Monaco which Erich Gamma and his team spear headed.

- Atom is based on work done by GitHub.

The analogy would be they both use Honda engines, but Microsoft appears to be able to use Honda's engine way more efficiently than GitHub.
Homeboy cameras are great. Can be placed anywhere without a cord (at the cost of having to charge them every couple months or so). Edit: but as another comment pointed out it depends on your needs. I don't want to constantly stream or monitor, I just want something that only starts recording when it senses motion, and only does so I'm not home, and immediately uploads the video to my dropbox.
If user is allowed to add bots then you take away one thing from the meta-bot. The task of Discovering relevant bots. At the same time you limit the meta-bot from helping you out with a task if a bot for that task has not been installed by the user.

The meta-bot could technically suggest what bots to install if it does not find an installed bot to perform a task. In the current world of bots I think this would be a more optimal approach rather than a true meta-bot to bot transparent communication.

Also take into consideration that a meta-bot should provide proper attribution to whichever bot it chooses to perform the task otherwise you open yourself up to copyright infringement or equivalent.
"Buzzfeed" sends me running screaming every time. I avoid it like ebola.
Natural gas is not remotely as dirty as coal (though it still produces CO2, obviously). And I don't think we're going to get rid of gas anytime soon, particularly because it adapts more quickly to changes in demand than anything else.

I disagree that opposing nuclear means you cannot oppose coal. You can, and many do. I think the main point is that new investments should go primarily towards wind and solar, not towards nuclear, but I do agree that it's way too early to close existing nuclear plants as long as they work well. The German post-Fukushima plan to close their nuclear plants is folly; they should be closing their coal plants first.

But nuclear plants are expensive, and I think Uranium/Plutonium fission can be transitionary tech at best. The primary target for investments should be on cleaner tech, and on better networks and storage to deal with fluctuations in supply. That is absolutely an issue, but it's an issue that's being worked on.
Senators Propose Encryption Rules
Webflow adds flexbox support
It wasn't much better before him.