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> Over time, it seems like the feedback for early stage startups on HN has become progressively more gratuitously negative.

There's a term for discussion in an internet medium trending toward this the longer it's popular. The name is slipping my mind right now.
Perhaps sort of digital wabi-sabi meant to test the zen level of the reader? If so, I'm failing.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12347510.
I have spent weeks in yoga ashrams and meditation centers. It's pretty easy to get up at 4 if you don't have a commute and no work at all or limited work. At home it's much more difficult and not really sustainable unless you go to bed at 8 or earlier.
Yes :)

I did day it depended on your point of view. As a grad student less competition is good - if you are part of those exploiting grad students then not so good.
Compared with other EVs the volumes seem pretty high:
http://insideevs.com/monthly-plug-in-sales-scorecard/

Compared to a comparable line of luxury cars, for instance the BMW 5-series, the volumes are relatively low:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_5_Series#Production_and_sa...
The author of "Quants" also wrote "Dark Pools" for those who might be interested.
I would love it if they would do another roadster (or coupe) like this.
There is something odd about one consumer product funding another. Someone once wrote about the VW Veron that is was a shame that all the not-rich people buying VW Jettas paid a little more, and got a little worse of a car, so that a handful of the super rich could have Verons. Telsa would be doing the opposite. The rich people buying the expensive car are paying more, and getting less car, so that Tesla can make cheaper cars. Maybe Tesla will pull it off, but it seems unsustainable. VW could justify it as the Veron project was a tiny part of a giant company. Tesla isn't VW. Eventually someone will want to stovepipe the money made on one market into further developments for that market alone.
It's not enough to share the same wifi network either, at least in the recent past the devices had to be on the same access point for aiplay to work.
The author is doing less than 10 insertions per benchmark, that's practically a constant O(1), even if you have to copy the entire array 5 or 10 times don't affect the Big O analysis
> MATLAB, R, FORTRAN, Mathematica, or if you're hip, Julia

You are so correct. I have not used Julia, but what do the first four have in common? As languages, they suck. Each in their own way can be used to do amazing, incredible things. But from a development perspective, they are pure torture to code in.

The joy of writing scientific code in Python is that there is a whole set of users, the majority really, who have nothing to do with science. The language must stand on its own, so Python cannot suck.
This Steve Jobs’s advice still empowers startup founders
There's a difference between a negative comment and a hateful comment. Engaging hate usually leads nowhere and the source is often too subjective to matter. But understanding constructive criticism or user sentiment is important. If 30% of users are now hateful because you've failed to fix a bug, you have a problem, and your comment system isn't it. There are also practical implications such as NPR not being able to moderate fast enough to put out fires.

But there's also the issue of the audience. When I'm walking down Spring Street in DTLA I usually (regrettably) ignore all the random comments, since I know the audience. But if I were participating in a staff meeting I called for, I'd engage every comment, and probably even prioritize the hateful ones, not that there are any.

I always love landing on Youtube videos with close to zero dislikes. They're usually fairly specific or niche, and so the audience got there by seeking it themselves. And they searched because they wanted to see something from that artist.

I find random acts of hatefulness result mostly from random traffic. And the upside of intentional hate is that at least you matter enough that they chose you as their target.
That was the alternative, but I figured since the article gives a definition of what that means, we might as well use it instead.
Half a decade is not enough? How long did it take taxi drivers to learn to be taxi drivers in the first place? Surely not 5 years. Moving into another career/job/position will certainly take time to transition, learn, and train, but 5+ years is a long time. I know many people who are in wildly different jobs, different fields in much less time than that.
> I would note that all of these fall either into the category of "creator encourages community involvement" or "creator has abandoned work and ignores community involvement." Yes, people participate when participation is a net-positive. What I was asking is why people would bother contributing their time and effort to effectively do software development for a company that actively tries to discourage them from doing so.

Well...Pokemon Uranium and the community Metroid 2 Remake. Both actively discouraged, but both worthwhile creations, IMO (and the kind of thing I'd have fun doing). Presumably, they did those not just because they wanted to write an RPG or Metroidvania game, but because they're fans of those specific franchises. I read it as an expression of fandom.

I'm working on an engine re-implementation project for an old game, currently owned by a fairly litigious company, for a few reasons:

- I love the game itself, and writing my own in a similar genre+style misses the point

- I like to feel like I'm the first one to re-discover the file formats in a couple decades

- I like understanding the low-level details of "how the sausage gets made"

- I've seen similar projects with this same game crash and burn, and I'd like to be the different one (there've been half a dozen previous attempts at the same game).

- I want to make it possible to easily mod the game, maybe to get a community to build a remastered version.

> Why not create a Fanny-pack Gremlins March app?

It's a lot of work to attract people to a franchise, and it's easier to ride on the coattails of another one ;-) I also suspect that the driving force was Pokemon fandom, not only the desire to make a game. The legal issues involved clearly weren't a decisive factor during the development phase.
Patent suit settled over palm-sized gene sequencer
Criticism needs to be constructive which is surprisingly hard to give well. It is a real art to do this well so it actually helps the person receiving the criticism.
But, but, but... http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Missing-Child-King...

> The suspect then held the boy as the mom took a phone call, according to investigators. The suspect then walked out of the mall cradling the boy in her arms, police said.

If you ever answer your phone, it seems like a very real risk somebody will snatch up your baby.
FORTH? Nope... still asm at the bottom.

I call shenanigans!
Seeing a chimp and bonobo demonstrate morality doesn't exactly assure me that a born sense of morality is "adequate enough by itself".

Pretty sure there is a zoo in Cincinnati that agrees with me on that one.
By whose authority are you imagining that expectation is enforced?
JavaScript being single-threaded is one of it's biggest drawbacks. This is universally agreed on by both it's proponents and critics.
Yes sure, some very few resources are wasted on each thread, but in case of JavaScript, it wastes a lot more by not using all the cores, of which there are usually several present in almost any modern computer that will run JS.
At least it subscribes to the "Do things that don't scale" mantra. Can you imagine trying to run that sort of operation but for the sake of argument instead of HN comments, YouTube comments.

On that note I'm surprised nobody's using the YouTube API to do some Akismet-like auto-filtering already.
The protocol is also that you send a valid, non-faked User-Agent:

"The User-Agent request-header field contains information about the user agent originating the request. This is for [...] the tracing of protocol violations [...]. User agents SHOULD include this field with requests"

Many scrapers disregard this part of the protocol. Of course, whether a headless browser should send a different UA is an interesting question.

https://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html
What is the philosophy of zen?
I’ve tried something similar for a while. On the plus side the day seems to last longer because you get a lot of productive work early in the morning when everyone is asleep. On the other hand it seriously fucked up my social life. When everyone is out having a drink or whatnot you’re heading home to get some sleep. The only way I could make it work is to sleep during midday so I can stay up a bit longer in the evening. But even that doesn’t seem to work that good because by 11pm you’re already dead meat. Nowadays I only use it in urgent situations when I have to get a lot of work done and never for more than two months.
Why do you assume that I'm not already using all of the techniques you described, in conjunction with the meds? Why do you assume that you know what's going on inside my head better than I do?

I'm not being rhetorical, I honestly would like to know. It's a huge problem that so many people refuse to believe that mental illness exists, not just for me and not just for ADD. You wouldn't say to someone with chronic fatigue syndrome "Yes, nobody likes to get up for work, but you just have to suck it up and deal with it." You wouldn't tell a diabetic that they shouldn't have to take shots just to get through the day. What makes you feel qualified to do that to me?

> Yes, we should be exploring alternative treatments besides powerful amphetamines which can cause addiction and health issues.

Absolutely we should! I would love to find a non-stimulant treatment that works for me. I regularly do research and ask my doctor to see if there are any new treatments available. Until they come up with one that works, I'm going to keep doing what I need to do to get by.

Also, I'd love to see a source on "addiction and health issues," because Ritalin and the other common ADD meds are not addictive, and have no long-term side effects for the large majority of patients, at clinical doses.

> I don't want to have to do drugs at work to keep my career from those who want to take a pill and work for 12 hours a day.

This is a strawman. That has never happened to you; your career is not under threat from drug abusers. My career will absolutely crash out immediately if I stop taking my meds, I've tried it before. What you're doing is no different than medical marijuana prohibition: you'd sooner let patients suffer than run the risk that someone might get high.
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It's easy to complain about free to play games and the tactics they use. But it's just a response to the consumer base.

Developers tried the paid game model and, other than a small number of niche games, the mobile market just doesn't want to pay for them.
Just to pile on to the hate you're getting, you're the type of manager that couldn't earn my respect in a game of checkers, let alone at work.
I found plenty of rare Pokemon walking around while I was visiting London in late July, including a Dragonite.
With a risk of stating the obvious, this is a double standard simply because there are two standards - one for Google and one for others. I can't speak for the poster you were replying to, but whilst I see it as logical self-interested behaviour by site owners, it still feels unfair.
De-sarcasming your comment, I get "Recruiting people is expensive and difficult, and maintaining company culture is important, therefore this proposal is a bad idea."

However, I don't see how the conclusion follows from your premise. Are you saying this idea would lead to recruiting difficulties, or that it would increase unintended turnover? Are you saying it would destroy company culture because of employee departures, or in some other way?
It's a bit telling about the median sensibilities here that so many responded earnestly.
Full text on Brain's site: http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
[ The following is not tax advice. ]

Stipends are generally considered "awards" and not "wages", so Social Security and Medicare taxes are not withheld. There's no free lunch, of course, because each quarter that those taxes are not withheld are quarters that don't accrue the "credits" needed to qualify for Social Security benefits. This could be an issue for someone who, for example, became permanently disabled at a young age. Most people, of course, will work enough years after graduate school that they will qualify for Social Security benefits, but it is something to consider.

I think it's standard at this point for universities to not withhold any tax from stipends (or the stipend portion of a disbursement to a graduate student if they are paid from multiple sources). Of course, income is income, whether it's "earned income" or not: so it's not like there isn't a tax liability just because the university doesn't withhold tax.

Note that all this is even more complicated for foreign nationals, for whom some combination of state and federal taxes may actually be withheld depending on the specific tax treaty that applies, the visa status of the student and current IRS policy.
That's it, thanks! I don't recall it having anything to do with Wikipedia, so it's possible that Crocker was channeling an even older idea.
It seems a strategic error from a sales perspective. Why call attention to the fact that the car is expensive? They could have pointed out that the car funds the Model 3 without highlighting the high price.
> As a lover of capitalism this all leaves me conflicted.

I don't want to go on a tangent but this is the exact contrary of Capitalism, it's a monopoly: as a consumer I can't make a choice, there is no market.
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Here I thought I'd be getting some validation for being a night owl.

4 AM is my most productive hour. It's just that I haven't gone to bed yet then. What's this "up before the sun rises" stuff? It's productive because the day is just coming to a close.
Well, not if I've stayed up all night to get there...
Can anybody figure out the year of this? Content suggests mid-90s but I haven't been able to pin it down.

Edit: wow you guys. I'm impressed. 2003 it is.
Many donors to Clinton Foundation met with her at State
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This is a great idea. They should have an item that buffs the gym for 24hr. This will create a nice mechanics where you want to put your pokemon on these buffed gym (more incentive to train) and it will be challenging to beat in general. Players that beats the gym also gets more XP.
So, how do they move the stock? Bags of stock certificates on international flights? It seems that shifting stock between business units might incur taxes or other regulatory concerns.
I've never in my life drank even a sip of coffee, energy drink only a few times mostly during college. I have also never woken naturally before 9am. Literally as long as I remember even as a child before high school in the weekends I would sleep in when my younger siblings would rummage through the house the entire morning, much to my parents surprise.

I don't doubt that it would be possible to be conditioned to wake up at 5am every day, but don't just brush it off as a culturally-assigned norm, I didn't even meet another computer nerd until I was 13 years old.

A solid nights sleep for me is over 9 hours. I rarely get that as I have to set an alarm clock to work up to be able to coordinate with the team effectively and I usually don't manage to fall asleep before 2am.
The only skill you need is to read man pages. I don't think you'll become a better reader every year. But if you master this, you could change jobs tomorrow without worry about adapting.

If you're calling technological knowledge a skill, you've already lost.
I am pretty sure Sam cares about YC. Sam would mostly likely land on his feet if YC did go down in flames, but he would not be happy if he felt he was responsible.
NSF puts $110M toward the XSEDE national computing initiative
Check in your modules.
> Honestly a few percent raise a year for a competent programmer is insulting, assuming you're increasing your skill set all the time.

Huh? Expecting raises of any sort from an employer is insulting to them, unless you're increasing the value you bring. There are loads of devs I know 'increasing their skills set' yet not bring any actual value to the business they're employed in. The two points can be quite orthogonal, and the business is really only going to care about what value you're bringing to the table.
There's a lot of different technologies and ideas that need to come together in an easy to use way.

Three of the most important:
* Blockchains
* Protocol-level anti-DDoS changes (protocols specifically designed to make them less suitable for use in in DoS)
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_centric_networking
> And no, writing the implementation in C does not introduce undefined behaviour, although it may require a number of compile and run time checks to ensure that you're never invoking it.

This is a valid C program that contains an undefined behavior, from http://blog.regehr.org/archives/213:

#include <limits.h>

#include <stdio.h>

int main (void)

{

printf ("%d\n", (INT_MAX+1) < 0);

return 0;

}

It is a perfectly valid program. The outcome is undefined (integer overflow is considered undefined behavior in C by every authoritative source I've ever seen). GCC does not emit any warnings when this program is compiled, even with all warnings turned on. There certainly aren't any runtime checks for it. Any program that adds numbers which are passed into it can run into undefined operations.

Here is another example:

i = i++ + 1;

The result of that operation is undefined.

These examples demonstrate that undefined behavior is not something you "invoke" in a special way -- it's often the result of a mistake. It is not restricted to certain operations -- these examples use simple addition! The compiler and runtime checks can't help you avoid it in many cases -- you sometimes won't even get a compiler warning.

Here is an example of a bug in the C implementation of Python that caused undefined behavior because of integer handling: https://bugs.python.org/issue23999

It's basically impossible to avoid. Even if your code is perfect, the compiler might optimize it into something that might contain undefined behavior. I suppose that if you never did any math, or anything with strings, or any pointer dereferences of any kind, or any casting, or any recursion, and you made sure the compiler didn't try to optimize anything, you could end up with a C program that could not have undefined behavior. But it's clearly impossible to implement Python without doing all of those things.
Sulong is a really good idea -- I wish I'd thought of it first! We've had a student do a small project looking at something equivalent for RPython. There are, as expected, no show-stoppers yet, but I have no idea how far we'll be able to go with the limited resources we have to throw at the problem.
As predicted. The content was too thin, and they're adding more too slowly to keep up with demand. See also: World of Warcraft as an example of a product with a similar problem, albeit a much longer lifecycle.
That's a scary thought. Think of it this way: in a corrupt society the wealthy upper class can do whatever they want and get away with it. If we continue controlling behavior like this through tax then we'd have the same behavior as the corrupt society: wealthy people do what they want and poor people can't do anything... The difference is you'd be codifying this into law. Instead of being 'corrupt' behavior we can work to abolish, it would be the acceptable expected behavior.

Maybe that isn't corruption at all, and we've been wrong this whole time. Maybe right and wrong are malleable enough to sway under money. Maybe we need corruption to survive as a species. I don't know.
The middle ground is obviously ideal. some anxiety about your behavior is necessary to be a person anyone wants to spend time with, much less work with. I'd rather be an anxious person (as anyone know knows me will attest I am) than a person nobody wants to be around. There's no panacea for "correct level of self-awareness".
I'm actually really excited about this because this is the kind of data that a tiny startup couldn't just get and helps people compete. I am still worried that nobody will be able to compete with the big guys long term in RL, simply because they have the money and access to build these huge training sets, but at least this gives someone somewhat of a chance.

Kudos to Vincent, Sergey, Chelsea and Laura for promoting openness in ML research!!
Even drug addicts leave the house to go to work. What makes the house safe for a child when that happens?
>LLVM or libraries from Microsoft and IBM can be used to ease the building of JITs.

Which libraries are they talking about? I tried searching but the only mentions of JITs I found on Google were IBM's JVM, and Microsoft's CLR.
"public property" may not be the correct metaphor. But neither is "shop front" correct.

Taking the store metaphor further, it would be more like you knocking on the front door of a clothing store and the store owners open the door and throw every possible piece of clothing at you, shirts, shorts, underwear, including coupons to "partner" stores, when all you wanted was a pair of pants.

Upon knocking, if the store owner hands you instructions on how to enter their store and interact with their products in a personalized shopping experience, that would be one thing. But when the clothing owner throws everything at you at once, what they flung at you is for all practical purposes public property.
As far as I know most robotics research is done offline, i.e. in a simulation (e.g. via gazebo, ROS, etc.). Obviously one has and does make the step to reality eventually (which is always messy), but you can go miles using simulation only.

I would even say the learning curve from nothing (however being proficient in basic CS and programming) to successful demonstrations and experiments in a simulator is steeper, than from simulation to real robot. The first step is time and the second step money consuming.
I'm guessing you don't feel noticeably older right now than you felt two months ago. So if the pill merely slows aging, rather than reversing it, it's not likely you'd notice any change.
With open data, you finally get what you’ve paid for all these years
Here's a great video on Colossus. The interesting fact is that Tommy Flowers had to build it with his own money, as the government wouldn't pay for it initially.

https://youtu.be/TPvqy9tldoo
PR piece, who is paying?
Fair points. I'll clarify: I don't play in a competitive way. I have no idea how many Pokemon any of my friends have caught. I don't know their levels. I've never tried to hold a gym. Honestly, I was never a heavy map user, either (I discovered them late, and my home apparently doesn't have many nests around it, so there wasn't anything interesting to see).

It seems like a philosophical debate: If I'm playing a game where players can optionally compete (but I don't), while using a tool that gives me a theoretical edge (even if I'm using it ineffectively), have I ruined someone else's game just by the perception that I could have?
That's a fundamental misunderstanding of what corporate culture means (and that misunderstanding is, in my experience, a sign that the culture is actually pretty bad). Comparing my previous and current positions, there's clear differences in what sort of behaviour is acceptable, what sort of behaviour is frowned upon, and what sort of behaviour is praised. This both in terms of the work product itself, and in the way we relate to each other as colleagues. I can also tell you in no uncertain terms that a culture I'm happy with is much stronger than money at producing the sort of motivation that keeps me producing "acceptable work".