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A prototype is supposed to never get used. The point is to learn - to explore the territory so you have an idea of what's a good idea and what's a bad when you start implementing the real thing.

I just threw out a prototype last week, and started on implementation for real. I was able to cut about 70% of the features, throw out a couple third-party libraries and bleeding-edge language features that turned out to be more trouble than they're worth, identify 2 areas that really needed to be firmed up and made more robust before they'll support a "real" system (and have about 20 concrete examples of the first and 80 of the second, so I can design the features with actual data), and revise the API 4 times, for 5 weeks of work. It helps that I'm both CEO and only developer and so have the political clout to do this. And I'm under no illusions that this is the "final" revision - I'm doing this incarnation with somewhat more robust development practices, but I still expect I'll have to throw it out in a year or two. But it certainly beats doing those 4 revisions over a year (with a 7-person team) and then going out of business, as happened in a startup I'd previously worked at.
This is essentially a complaint that Rust went with strongly-typed generics like every statically-typed, non-C++, non-D language instead of untyped templates like C++ and D. I think that the difficulty of reasoning about template expansion type errors, the complexity of SFINAE, and the consequences for name resolution like ADL make templates not worth the added expressive power for Rust, especially when the features needed to support your use case can be added in the strongly-typed setting eventually.
I'm continually baffled by the pathological disdain some people like yourself seem to show towards Apple... Is it the cognitive dissonance that "Google does no evil", therefore if Apple is seen working for the privacy of their users (which they have both sound business reasons and I have no reason to doubt moral convictions to do), where Google does not, then they must have a hidden agenda?
Was it "rushed" because of Microsoft's bot announcement a couple of weeks ago? (not expecting an answer... ) :)
No, software developers were stupid enough to give a dumb storage device the ability to run code without the user's knowledge or permission.

USB drives are thought of as purely for storage, like a cassette or CD. People aren't stupid for not knowing they can have malware on them.
Could you explain what you think I meant?
I think the appreciating value in housing far outpaces inflation - and I wouldn't expect retirees on a fixed income to have planned for such increases 30 years ahead of time.

We need cheaper housing - desperately. Poor. fucking. city. planning. with mediocre transit systems is not doing enough for us. I hear talk all the time about how we should be moving out of the cities and building the needed infrastructure in more urban areas. I think the first way to make that attractive to younger generations or even retirees would be to improve on transit to get to those areas. Make "the country" easy to get to and from.

Anyway - I don't know the answer here. I don't know if it's justified whether prop 13 should exist for individuals. Ethically or logistically I don't know. I sure as hell know businesses don't need prop 13 - they don't retire.

To me "if we should have prop 13" sounds like an argument against people being able to retire.

I'd be happy to let it go entirely (business + residential) if property taxes were factored into social security. ;p
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Missing from TFA: any consideration of whether the "work phone", which was subject at all times to repossession and inspection by San Bernardino County, stored any information about terrorism, particularly information worth overturning fundamental assumptions about the duties of electronic device manufacturers.
I was also visited door-to-door, leading me to research gas rates here :

https://w2.lara.state.mi.us/GasChoice/Choice/CurrentOffers?a...

There is a sufficient disparity in rates to make a business out of it, in my opinion.
If you live in the middle of NY or San Francisco maybe, but if you actually look at the map it is the Midwest and south that are having issues. The problem isn't housing..there are enough houses. The problem is that people don't have blue-collar jobs and the housing that is being built is geared towards higher wealth brackets. The carolinas for example: with limits on zoning permits and fees, it's more cost effective to build high-end homes. No one wants to build low end homes...it all really comes down to income inequality. If anyone actually read the article, it's not about homes but about the blue collar work force not having enough income to live where they live.
There are also economic reasons. Parisian density is only possible with a great underground transportation system. That's hugely expensive to build and takes decades. SF has traditionally been a boomtown economy with corresponding bust cycles, so it's harder to make those kinds of investments. They are happening (e.g. the Chinatown extension) but more conservatively.
Am I the only one who reads the quotes in this article as "see Apple, if you don't give us what we want then we may just have operational reasons to not disclose vulnerabilities to you, wouldn't that be a shame..."?
i said nothing about google, i am cynical about the whole industry in terms of its collusion with the government. you sound like an apple fan boy.
I bootstrapped my startup so I indeed never needed outside money (well rather never really tried given that we started during the 2000-2002 nuclear winter).

But if I had to do it again, especially in the current VC environment, I would raise money. It can be slow and tedious to bootstrap (took us 12 years to grow to 125 people and exit) and a lot of good startups in Pittsburgh seem eternally stuck in the seed stage.
It's a lot cheaper buying a macbook if you can get a 20% off credit, which you can get by buying a new porsche. Spend $100k, save several hundred dollars!

Saying that learning C++ helps with learning Rust is almost certainly true in a banal way. Learning any N languages will make the incremental cost of learning language N+1 a little lower, even if those languages are not closely related.

Are you actually claiming that, if you knew someone who knew, say, Python and JS, but no statically compiled unmanaged language, and that person needed to know Rust by 2017, that your advice would be to spend the first several months learning C++? I find this implausible.

C++ is a baroque language with way too many conflicting features, conflicting cultural standards, and general all-around cruft. Isn't it?

Disclaimer: I know so little C++ that we should assume that I don't know it, and I haven't written any Rust yet.
That's really interesting. They talk[1] about being able to automate it in the future but it seems like there may be a lot of human involvement still.

That article goes further, that their goal is to be Instagram like, helping the unlearned make more professional sounding things.

That doesn't seem more revolutionary than the Auto-Tune.

[1] http://www.globaluniversityventuring.com/article.php/5136/ju...
Btw., being from the Czech Republic, I have never used a cheque in my not-so-short life. The bank transfers take here from 0 seconds (within the same bank, costs 0 in my case), through a few hours/usually (within CZ, costs 0) to around two days (within EU, costs 0.7€).
Paypal is used here because of the ease to pay abroad and competes with Visa/Mastercard mainly.
It's implicit, the equivalent of a warrant canary, if there had been anything of remote interest (which nobody expected) there would have been a lot of noise about that.
The company I used to work for bullied most of the employees into signing a 5 year non-competes. And that was after they'd already been in business for 5 years. My department collectively said no, but it was a huge showdown, and they immediately started trying to figure out how to make the company less reliant on us. Every other person in the company except for us signed it.

The lawyer we consulted said it was the most draconian thing he'd ever seen and that we should all quit on the spot.
Oh my, never considered Pittsburgh as part of "Appalachia" - I thought that was West Virginia! I guess the US looks at Pittsburgh like Pittsburgh looks at WV...
The contextuality came later once they had built out the backend systems and proven the core idea worked.
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I wouldn't apologize for that, you're addressing the elephant in the room here. JSON has turned into the new XML. There seems to be a pervasive undercurrent that if it looks website-ish, it's got to be good. So it seems to be used quite a bit in lieu of looking carefully at the problem and figuring out the best structured format. Configuration files tend to have a lot of ambiguity in them, going to a format that makes it all that much harder to pull out the why part of settings does nothing to improve on that.
NSF funding isn't really a fair comparison, because Pitt is most well known for its excellent medical research. $4.5 million in NIH funding at CMU vs $79.9 million at Pitt in FY2016...

Plus CMU and Pitt collaborate quite a lot, especially in biomedical research.

[0]: https://report.nih.gov/award/index.cfm
> Our banking system is in the 1990s because PayPal, Square and now Facebook will lobby to keep their business models.

I find it thoroughly unbelievable that banks are trying to offer advanced, consumer-friendly features, only to be thwarted by the lobbying efforts of the technology industry. Don't get me wrong: technology companies are not morally superior and above political manipulation, but they would most certainly lose going head-to-head with the banking industry.

The banking system is stuck in the 1990s because banks have insufficient incentive to change, and there is a non-trivial segment of the population lacking knowledge of, access to, or trust in technology when it comes to financial matters.
It's feature flags + AB testing with a nice interface for non-programmers to twiddle with and analyze the results.

It's basically the same market as Optimizely.
They sampled rather than investigate every note. We all take those "short cuts."
Like SnapChat?
My preconception is that what you said is exactly right, but the idea that one maybe should push every green build to prod -- and the fact that a lot of big-scale companies are doing that -- is really intriguing.
I read the book on Sunday. I think there was a lot of selection bias -- a company which would hire a random journalist at a high salary to write blogspam, badly, and not fire him for underperformance, is the kind of company which will have asshats in various management roles, too. You end up with the bozo explosion.

Imagine that book if he had gotten hired into a meaningful role at a company like SpaceX. I suppose that is ultimately what happened -- joined a great writing team at HBO and performed as well as the team.
The dots are the training data. The orange and blue background are the estimation for how the neural net will classify a new orange or blue dot.
I think we should have a new unit of measurement called the Elon. "He traveled about 45 million Elons at a rate of 25 kiloelons per second"
Skepticism could be constructive. Most of time people just want to improve some novel idea in question format. If someone really do not care about it they would not even bother to raise a question.

I do want to raise my hand about how the sails is going to avoid space objects (meteoroid, space dusts... visible, non-visible, or even dark matters) given its large surface.
The massive image sharing and social media network Snapchat uses Google App Engine.*

* https://www.theinformation.com/Why-Google-s-Cloud-Needs-Snap...
That's a good point, but the fact that all Turing machines are equivalent (and the fact that the equivalence is purely mathematical, and does not rely on any laws physics) implies that computers in ANY universe would be similar to ours. At least in terms of what it can compute. Even if the laws of the parent universe made their computers dramatically faster than ours, you would still expect that they would choose our universe's laws of physics so that they were relatively easy to compute, so as to save CPU time. That doesn't seem to be the case -- it takes us a supercomputer to accurately simulate a volume a fraction of the size of a proton. Of course this doesn't prove anything -- it's possible that computers in the parent universe are so ridiculously powerful that even simulating a trillion galaxies is just a drop in the bucket -- but IMO it is suggestive.
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My preference is to use C++ like a C with some extra useful features, and not "go full C++" by trying to "do everything the C++ way". C++ has a lot of features and is growing but, contrary to what a lot of evangelism seems to say, you are not obliged to use all of them. Use a feature when it makes the code simpler and the effort reduced, don't try to use one and complicate things just because it's a new feature that seems interesting.
Absolutely. While our MVP is residential electricity in CT we are building a model that scales to all 14 deregulated states, all consumer types (commercial, manufacturing etc.) and gas.
If you remove controlled burns or natures free will...

Nature finds a way!
"Okay, I don't understand. Why is my output so terrible?"

I saw the play button very clearly when the page loaded, then promptly got distracted by all the dials and knobs. :-P
It depends on what you are trying to achieve. There are many, for e.g. see: http://cs231n.github.io/neural-networks-2/#losses
Can a US startup crowdfund from your platform? As I understand it, US companies can't crowdfund from non accredited investors.
> Uber said it had not received any national security letters or orders under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance act.

This statement is likely a warrant canary:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrant_canary
What does that have to do with what I was talking about? To the best of my knowledge, he was not advocating for the enslavement of anyone. However, I don't care to argue about or defend his writings.

My issue is with the belief that by alienating someone from your 'polite society' you will somehow shame them into changing their views.

Social shaming works only when it is done by people within the shame-ee's social group. By excluding a person, you are directly decreasing the effectiveness of that shaming.
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My opinion is a bit uninformed as I've never sold a company for any significant price, but I can't imagine a company with 1+ billion market capital making a bid on a smaller company that has less than $10 million revenue.

At that revenue, you should be able to contact someone to do M&A for you or get you in touch with the business development teams. You won't necessarily have to do this... if you don't know how already. Just pay someone.
> by putting the emitters in space

They cover this somewhat in the article by saying that emitters powerful enough to power the craft, and that are essentially able to position themselves to point in any direction pose a potential military threat and they're unlikely to get approval for launching such things.

Presumably other space-faring nations would also take issue and look to destroy them (China has already demonstrated it's capable of destroying satellites in orbit using ground based lasers).
I'd consider learning it to work on a critical FOSS projects already done in C++, make money with it, or write language analysis/transformation tools to make C++ apps safer automatically. Little reason to use it in a new project without legacy C++ code.
Those are Hills dude, not mountains :) I am from the Pittsburgh area and the geography is tough for a cycling culture, but mostly because of extremely steep terrain. See Canton Ave.

Pittsburgh has a fantastic cultural scene. Performing arts, visual arts, it's all great and cheap.

I think the Elephant in the room is the weather. The partly cloudy weather pattern is tough for me. I prefer for more consistent sun (which I get in Boston or the West Coast).
FBI cracked terrorist's phone with the help of hackers
Are you a US citizen? Do you think you can pass a background check? If military and government projects don't bother you than try looking on clearancejobs.com. From what I've seen a lot of big defense contractors looking for engineers just need you to be a citizen, get a clearance and have a pulse. Smaller firms will expect you to actually be capable and you will probably do a couple things across the stack and some dev-ops too.

Have you looked at any part-time/contract work? Maybe that could keep you afloat and activey coding long enough to get a fulltime job.

Edit: this quora answer is helpful for those of us without elite algorithms skills https://www.quora.com/I-am-quite-bad-at-algorithms-but-good-...
> Whenever anyone at all asks you where you work, you just be evasive.

That's a pretty mentally taxing adjustment for most people to make.

It's also incredibly awkward when engaging in small talk with new people. Being evasive about answering where you work will lead to many presumptions (e.g. that you work for a 3 letter agency), few of which are very conducive to continuing a conversation.

Similarly I could just lie about where I work, but I think you can probably see how that's similarly taxing to do continuously.
Scientist create thesaurus from Google-news that adopts to contemporary culture
Yup, just need to "synthesize" words and melodies as the gp said and you're set.

"To create a song, the user must input the melody and lyrics".
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You are right. WeChat has had voice message, video call, group chat, stickers, sending money for years.

I use WeChat frequently but seldom use fb messenger. (I am in Hong Kong.)
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Nonsense. "Freedom of contract" isn't some freedom that supersedes all other forms of freedom.

In fact, freedom from economic coercion due to highly asymmetric power relationships rates quite a bit higher than some silly "freedom of contract" which is way the hell down the list after freedom of personal safety, etc.
BuzzFeed missed 2015 revenue targets and slashes 2016
When I think of the top engineering schools in the US: UT Austin is on that list. Dallas isn't. There's a pretty big gap between the two schools.
Steve Jobs was pretty publicly opposed to donating to charity, but he's been gone for a while. If you Google "Apple Donations" you'll find a whole slew of articles detailing some of the contributions they have made since Tim Cook took the reins. For example, they match employee donations both in money and time.
This is the correct answer. Large companies are always on the lookout for possible competitors as well as businesses with a complementary model. When you gain traction you'll get the call(though you can assist the process somewhat, as pointed out above)
Seriously, this thread is full of crazy people.
i) What exactly will be involved in this aggressive marketing to a niche group? That's a very broad statement, and a very difficult task. Do you have specific plans for how to do this?

ii) Are the employees expected to do this as part of their regular job? Writing enough content to overcome the ghost town effect is a fulltime job in itself, for a whole team of people.

ii-B) Is your pitch to investors that they should give you a ton of money to hire people to write content to make your site interesting? How will you identify such people?

iii) How will you do this funnelling? Why should people who debate sociopolitoeconomc issues care about your site versus the many existing blogs, forums, newspaper comment pages, and so on that they use now?

It's all well and good to say you'll design it just for them, but what exactly does that mean? Why are the existing solutions not good enough?
Case studies provide all the required information in the case itself. Do you believe this to be right?

The case study is a learning tool. The required information is a starting point. It is up to the student to use the information "correctly." I recall doing one case study in a TQM course, where I was the only person who bothered to crunch the numbers and create a simple income statement which provided a powerful insight: higher than projected retail prices wasn't killing the company. Rather its return and rework expenses were.

Don`t you think that in the real world, you are faced with many situations where available data is highly ambiguous and unreliable.

Yes. However I think you are misunderstanding me. I have a graduate background in computer science and management. I've played games. However I can't recall many times I was bored in an MBA class. All other things being equal, I don't believe MBA courses, or any course, needs gamification to keep students interested. That is not the selling point. I think more about when Alan Kay talked about the rise of "Skeptical Man" and his ability to create powerful simulations and perform what-ifs and see things from multiple points-of-view. Perhaps Y-Combinator is the wrong place to argue about pedagogy. You probably have a good product. Just the rhetoric is off-putting. Immersive long running games are definitely a part of the future of business education*. Throw in some form of integration with an ERP, you have some really powerful stuff going on....
Any suggestions for a format that is sane?
SF restaurant prices have in fact already gone way up. ("The biggest factor: labor") [1]

It doesn't sound like you're actually offering to pay higher prices. You just want tipping built into the base price. There are restaurants experimenting with this, but it generally doesn't make them more money. [2]

[1] http://www.sfchronicle.com/restaurants/article/Why-is-it-so-...

[2] http://sf.eater.com/2015/10/16/9557877/tipping-restaurants-s...
No, it was rushed because F8 was getting close, we're a small team and we had ambitious goals in terms of features!

We had planned to release the Bot Engine at F8 long before MSFT's announcement. If you ask me, F8 might have affected their timing more than the other way around ;-)
I'm not following you. I don't understand your point. This fraudulent practice went on for the better part of a decade.

You think that the SEC and DOJ are doing a good job? You are in an extremely small minority then. Not only is this settlement a slap on the wrist its also "engineered" courtesy of the warm and friendly relationship Washington and Wall Street have. Please read this:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/12/business/dealbook/goldman-...
Could you expand on that more? From my perspective, there are a lot of ethical concerns with silencing opposing viewpoints. In fact, one of the execs was publicly admonished and fired because he tried to do so:

http://www.betaboston.com/news/2015/07/30/hubspot-ceo-and-ct...