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That is a very defeatist and ultimately useless world view. Every generation is mad at the generation before it about something, and argues the previous generation could have solved the problems but now the current generation is left with the problems.

Your statement above about millennials being left with the bill, meanwhile gen x feels the baby boomers did them in like another comment here states, the baby boomers is mad at the generation before them (silent generation) about sending them to the disasters that was the vietnam and korean wars, and they in turn is mad about WW1 and WW2 and the great depression that they had to endure because their parents were living it up in the swinging 1910's and 20s.
But it would mean a bot could get the highest possible score for that seed by going back in time and trying again.
... While simultaneously building their own services which gather and store huge amounts of data about visitors and users.
I'll keep it in mind. Thanks!
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I'll watch out for it. Thanks!
Uhhh...we landed on the moon in 1969. Do you think there wasn't much testing involved to get us there?
As a heavy excel user this is tremendous. I've always wanted to be able to run SQL queries against a Range.

However: from much experience working in gigantic firms where Excel forms the core of a like a gazillion work flows and is the default analytics platform - sadly most users just aren't technical enough for this to be useful to them. There's probable a niche 1% who'd get value from this. Most people do not understand databases, SQL, and have little/no experience in any kind of coding including VBA.
also the article says there's two ways it could go, low growth or similar growth compared to the past 30 years.

given that these predictions are always wrong i'm going to say some big revolution in technology comes our way and we see higher than previous growth and everythings going to be great.

put that in a headline.
This! Why does everyone believe this FBI PR bullshit? It's classic propaganda to save face.
Indeed, I haven't though about that.
I don't have that either. Just some gear to withstand light rain and cold. Nothing that's especially made for cycling, I use this with other outdoors activities too. My way to work is too long to comfortably ride in work clothes. Imagine riding 8 miles in your jeans and sweater and then sitting in front of the computer all day in the same clothes after that.

You're trying to label people "cycling enthusiasts" in your heads (and I know exactly the stereotype you're thinking of). They do exist, but for most people riding a bike, it's just their daily commute. It might need a decent bike and a few items of clothing.

You don't call every car owner a "car enthusiast" even though taking the train/bus is a viable option in many places of the world and owning a car is much more expensive than a bike.
Looks interesting so signed up for the beta but just ended up on a waiting list. Not in the spirit of Show HN.
> AI is what works instead of humans.

But all algorithms do what humans used to do. So is AI the name for algorithms that do the work humans (in Western societies) still do, or did until recently?

> human command will move to higher and higher levels of abstraction

So am I on a different level of abstraction when a human is driving my taxi than when a computer does it? ;)
I wouldn't put a lot of faith in such predictions either, but there are a few reasons to believe that exceptionally good returns might not be repeatable. One is simply regression to the mean. Others are high global levels of debt and a significant wave of globalization having just run its course.

But I think productivity growth and our ability to redistribute the fruits of that productivity growth are the big unknowns for the next 20 years. The current step change in our AI capabilities could throw a spanner in all attempts at making any reliable predictions.
Is that true? The topic page linked in the article http://topics.wsj.com/person/E/Elon-Musk/1173 presents a variety of articles. Using SpaceX money to buy SCTY's unrated bonds is a fairly questionable maneuver - were investors from SpaceX's last round aware the money would be used this way, and if so, why didn't they just purchase SCTY bonds directly?

WSJ was also super-negative on Theranos, just to throw it out there, as tech press was being busy singing accolades to yet another unicorn.
I used to work for a Japanese multinational making networking gear. Excel was part of the mandated SOE, and was used for everything (even unit testing frameworks in VBscript), so this would be a no brainer for their environment. The engineers would have difficulty getting this purchase through as it is too cheap for the enterprise version... In the accountant brain, cheap == a toy for a number of companies.
Here's a nice graph from the zstd site, showing the trade off between compression and speed for several different algorithms:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Cyan4973/zstd/master/image...
It is hard to understand, indeed. Wolfram is clearly extremely accomplished by all standards. We all know this. Why in the world does he pump all his written work with insufferable self-promotion? Anyone in a position to make good use of Mathematica has heard of it. I haven't met anyone who doesn't know about WolframAlpha, and I've taught mathematics to high-schoolers.

Moreover, it should be obvious to Wolfram that his incessant self-promotion greatly reduces the probability that a reader will recommend his writing to their friends -- if Wolfram's goal is to promote his software, research, or even just himself, then he's clearly going about it in a ham-fisted way.
So statistics is now synonymous with intelligence? It used to be quite the opposite... :)
In the army they call that behaviour 'the grey man'; trying to stay out of the upper and lower quartiles to avoid (1) being assigned difficult and / or risky tasks due to competence and (2) being assigned punishment tasks due to incompetence.

Usually grey-manning involves trying to do things just well enough to be signed-off, but not quickly enough to be commended and noted.
The farmer could maybe bid even higher than $10 since he's sitting on reserves of $200+ billion.
Thanks for your reply. I've taken down all the points you mentioned and will keep an eye on them during development.

I know all the file managers you mentioned (my market research turned up 91 file managers available globally). I believe my point "don't really make you go wow" still applies.

Thanks again!
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I think it can get much worse than that.

I don't know why people think the current levels of accumulation of debt are sustainable but there is a limit to what even the US can roll in term of debt. All developped nations are at around 100% debt to GDP, more than 200% if you include private debt, and growing at 3-5% per annum.

Now does anyone really think that sometime soon any developped country will start making public surplus and deleverage for 30 years? That's never going to happen.

I think one or both of two things will happen: 1. massive defaults of states and therefore of banks and insurance companies. 2. Long period of high inflation.

Either way savings from people now in their 30s will be wiped out. A little gift from the departing generation (baby boomers)...
Ask HN: Should we still apply to YC even after told not to?
Throwaway account for this one.. We're a team of 2 and have tremendous growth since we've been founded last year and we always wanted to be part of YC for a couple of specific reasons than just the funding or mentorship.

We're currently partnered with a big YC company and they've specifically requested us to not pursue VC money or apply to YC. I think the reason is when the time is right, they would want to acquire us at a very low price.

Since this is a YC company, would applying be a conflict of interest and we'd be just wasting our time or even worse.. cut ties on our trusted partnership?
I just knew Wolfram was going to draw parallels. Such an arse.
The main difference being hat before social media you probably had direct contact with those people on your friends list, because you either worked with them or hung out with them. That direct contact allows people to filter the bragging from the reality much more easily.
Interestingly, there's discussion going on right now about adding a similar feature: http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2016-April/0889...
It was a different time
>All those 40ish looking people that look weirdly out of place in their uniform shirt? Yeah, that's us since the boomers nuked domestic manufacturing and construction wages made a run for the bottom.

technology and economy do change. The changes can't be stopped. The question is how you adapt to them. When many people suddenly lost their job as soldiers 70 years ago there was in particular GI bill created to help manage the transition. What was done to manage the specific transition of domestic manufacturing jobs disappearing and overall transition to globalization and "information" economy? Nothing. Education and safety net are the main missing pieces which would support the transition. Yet, the country during last several decades has been either electing or seriously consider to elect a Republican :) Just think about couple trillions buried in the sands of Iraq and Afghanistan - that was basically total squandering of the humongous peace benefit of ending Cold War. It could have been a humongous improvement in education and medical systems and country infrastructure which would help tremendously to the transitioning GenX-ers as well as to the graduating and entering workforce Millenials... yet the country in 2000 decided that "lower taxes" outweigh it all. Well, you get what you pay for.

Blaming all those issues onto the third world countries for using the chance to improve their life just a bit, to stop being hungry every day - well, lets say that blaming is pointless whining at best and pretty heartless at least.
I just said "<insert your favourite algorithm here>". BFS is just an example.

Oh, well...
The amount of debt that the baby boomers will leave behind is a very objective thing. This is the biggest accumulation of debt in peace time in the history of mankind (and objectively the parents indebting their children to buy a shiny new TV, a behaviour that would be universally unacceptable if it wasn't state wide).
The (sadly all too predictable) comments about Wolfram's self-promotion and product placement give me an idea.

Someone should create a blog called "Wolfram minus Wolfram" (in the vein of the excellent "Garfield minus Garfield") which exists solely to republish Wolfram's (often very interesting) writings, minus the references to his own products and his own past achievements. I think it would be popular.
One of my favourite Twitter people to follow is Remy Sharp, he tweets all the dumb stuff he does (he's a developer btw). All the mistakes he makes are there alongside the great things he achieves from day-to-day. It's inspiring to see someone much better at development than I am using twitter to learn, err, clarify and sort.
The 0.1% did this to you and blamed it on your grandma. The very least you could do is not believe them.
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A very nice article.

Personally I'm not bothered by the "self-promotion" others perceive in Wolfram's posts. The criticism in the comments here are all very repetitive and tiresome. I presume many read anything written by Wolfram with the hope of finding something they can point out as self-promotion ;)
So it remains to see if the general public holds them accountable or not.

That's not likely to happen. The American public is generally quite apathetic.

For example, one of the current leading candidates to become the next president of the USA had the following good fortune a while ago[1]:

- did not have any previous experience trading commodities futures

- deposited less than $1000 in cash into a futures trading account

- Made hundreds of trades. Each futures trade incurs a significant bid/ask spread, much greater than stock trades. And yet: Two-thirds of her trades showed a profit by the end of the day she made them and 80 percent were ultimately profitable. Many of her trades took place at or near the best prices of the day.

- cashed out for $100,000 nine months later

To me, that $100,000 was nothing more and nothing less than a bribe. And, although corruption is endemic in many parts of the world, one would hope that in the USA such obvious grift would unequivocally disqualify someone for the office of the President.

But if you took a poll, probably 99% of the electorate wouldn't even be aware of this little incident. And the majority probably wouldn't care.

So don't look for "the general public" to hold anyone accountable about anything. That's no longer how this country works. Not in 2016, anyway.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Rodham_cattle_futures_...
A programmer is a member of a 'guild', where he/she draws a monthly income. A business needs some sales/biz dev automation done. The usual approach is to either hire someone or contract out the work, what I propose instead is that the business puts out specific outcomes that they want with a monetary value.

For example; we will pay x amount per customer who stays for 3 years and we spend only time(t) per week servicing this customer.
The benefit here is,instead of maybe just creating a DB and automating invoice collection(which are just features and piecemeal work) the programmer and business are forced to look at the totality of biz operations and explicitly state the cost and value of each action, step and procedure.This way a programmer can directly identify the value that they created from cost savings or higher billings.
To me the 'Xprize' is about specific successes and outcomes.Even if these outcomes may take time to be seen, the programmer is earning an income from the guild and the business pays up for actual value when it is experienced.
> Every generation is mad at the generation before it about something, and argues the previous generation could have solved the problems but now the current generation is left with the problems.

I mean, the canonical example is the German student protests in the 1960s ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_student_movement ), which led to things like the Red Army Faction ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Army_Faction ). These were people whose parents were literally Nazis....
And even zimbra!
Sounds kind of dodgy honestly, I don't think it's any of the other company's business what you do in your own interest.
For something like that, I would use the explicit pointer arithmetic. The array syntax implies (to me) "I am doing the normal thing with this normal array".
So you mean google employees should put bing links in their blog posts rather than google links?
Tricky situation that only you can make the final call on. Some things to keep in mind though:

1. Your YC partner is very clearly looking out for their own interests - they have more negotiating leverage when you're small, both in deals and in a potential acquisition. Nothing wrong with that. But remember that it's your job to look out for your own interests and that of your company. Nobody else is gonna do it for you.

2. Yes, it could damage the relationship with them if they find out. And it's fairly likely they will find out; YC alums help read applications. Plan accordingly.

3. It's up to YC to decide whether it's a conflict of interest on their end. They have funded direct competitors in the past (with several hundred startups in their porfolio, it's kinda hard to avoid it), though, so I doubt they would consider it a dealbreaker if your startup looks good on its own merits.
Republishing? I suspect you would immediately find yourself in boiling water with Wolfram's lawyers. See this nice story: http://bactra.org/reviews/wolfram/
Assuming you get in, you can ask this question from the YC team. If you don't get in, I don't think YC will tell this company that you applied and didn't get in, so there's no tie-cutting.

Edit: nostrademons makes a good point, but the chance of the specific YC alum that is running this big company also being the one that reads your application seems pretty small to me.
I think the op meant they were avoiding the Muslim friend and not Snowden's Twitter.
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The problem with that strategy is that all too often, "smart people you'd like to work with" equates to male, white, upper-middle-class, with a fondness for beer.
Massive defaults of states doesn't make sense.

A country that have debt in its sovereign currency have not need to default.

Inflation is not precisely the problem now, is it?
> some people need to eat.

That'll need to be addressed some day: jobs are being automated away (yesterday typists, today cashiers, tomorrow drivers…), and those people need to eat too. Then there's artificial scarcity. Unlike food, software can be copied at negligible costs. Proprietary software puts arbitrary (and harmful) restrictions to that copying so that its developer can eat.

When we get our act together and finally have a form of guaranteed income, we won't need copyright or patents any more, because there won't be any starving artist or author or developer.

Proprietary software is harmful and needs to die. The need for proprietary software is harmful and needs to die. I long for the day they will.
> I think maybe you're engaging in a ridiculous level of paranoia.

One of the interesting effects of the Snowden revelations was how what is considered "paranoid" changed.

Pre-Snowden, if you thought that the USA government was definitly spying on everyone, you'd be considered a bit paranoid.

And well... Snowden told us those paranoid people were right...
Well given that writing a blog post is a form of advertising, this could just be an add-on for existing adblockers. We could just use NLP to eliminate plugs from all corporate and personal blogs.

I can already see a future where forbes issues a big message: "we've noticed you're using plugblockerplus, please disable it if you love our writing!"
It is actually annoying from a very practical point of view. You cannot, for example, write an algorithm that will work an any sequence type, and then apply it to a list. This is why, for instance, you have List.map and so on
Probably depends on the interviewer.
For someone who is on H1B and under GC processing this matter a lot more because they are under additional scrutiny.
There's nothing artificial about the scarcity of people like cbloom and ryg, competent enough to produce something like Kraken.

"getting your act together" sounds scary to someone who grew up in Communist Eastern Europe; I surely hope you don't get your act together.
Well companies like GE, Cisco, IBM earn >50% of their revenue ex-US, so you would expect a corresponding outsourcing - offshoring is the correct phrase here - of jobs to countries where they get revenue.
Almost everything, decision trees are the bubble sort of AI.

To expand upon my comment: For most programmers Decision Trees & Nearest Neighbor, at a first glance look very promising and seem like natural solutions to lots of problems. However in reality one can easily prove that Decision trees tend to be suboptimal even with trivial problems due to the brittle nature of the rules represented. Also Nearest Neighbors methods face problems due to difficulty in deciding optimal space and metric (Euclidean distance is not inherently better). The reason why "Deep Learning" methods trained using non-convex optimization perform so well is because they can represent a hierarchy of features at different granularities. They can be "designed" to favor one task over the other. E.g. by choosing correct loss (triplet loss), network structure, etc.

If you are interested beyond Image recognition problems, I highly recommend reading on interesting approaches such as Triplet loss for Face Recognition , Semantic Segmentation, Attention based models and Unsupervised Visual Representation Learning by Context Prediction.

An interesting outcome of Deep Learning research is that a lot of papers are extremely accessible and involve little proofs/difficult math. E.g. This is a good one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUgRR-JFE8s & http://web.cs.hacettepe.edu.tr/~aykut/classes/spring2016/bil...
;)

But it's a plain fact that the NSA intercepts and scans whatever it can, wherever it can. And that it retains as much as it can, for as long as it can, following an elaborate triage strategy. Or at least, they claim so in various reports and presentations. It could all be bullshit, I suppose ;)

Also, isn't there some evidence that Google helped the NSA develop XKeyscore etc?
Especially if you redefine "win".
I really miss the possibility of configuring dependencies per project in a easy way. OPAM will allow this using OPAM switches, but it is complex and error-prone, while most any other package manager (sbt, leiningen, maven, nimble, cargo, npm...) will do this by default.

For some reason, OPAM defaults to installing dependencies globally and does not provide an easy way to support different workflows
What about licensing? Does the docker image manifest include machine-readable licensing metadata required for automated licence compliance verification?
> I think maybe you're engaging in a ridiculous level of paranoia.

Not at all, what we're trying to do is quantify what is the appropriate level of paranoia. As others have pointed out, (see sibling comment by rmc) it turns out that some people why were previously considered far too paranoid turned out to be right.