skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it really true that you could take a $250k seed round, build something profitable-but-not-huge, then just quietly run the resulting business? I thought that carried a pretty strong expectatation that you'd be hiring employees and looking for series A pretty soon.

Definitely interesting if there are other good routes for "slightly-too-big-to-bootstrap" ideas (beyond the obvious "savings" and "transition from consulting")
Evolution doesn't show that at all. I think it shows that we weren't created by some kind of god, but more of an accident. If that's the case, it makes it much less likely that there are souls or other supernatural-ish explanations for consciousness, and so we are much more likely to be simply physical matter.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_search_algorithm#Perfor... is a simple example. It goes to great pains to talk about numbers of comparisons per iteration, but never once considers the number of memory accesses per iteration (which happens to be 1 or 2 depending on how you count things).

In fact, most of the performance analysis of algorithms on Wikipedia that I've seen look like this. Similar for introductory algorithms textbooks, if I recall correctly (which I may not; it's been a while since I looked at one of those).

Now in practice the number of memory accesses in an algorithm like this is typically O(1) in the number of comparisons so an implicit assumption that all your memory accesses are O(1) means just adding a constant factor to your overall complexity, so it's OK to just not worry about the whole thing. And counting "memory accesses" is complicated because whether something is a "memory access" or not is a bit tricky. For example, in the binary search case, do you need to "memory access" the value you're searching for before every compare, or can you assume it's stored in O(1) storage like a register? But all of this falls down if your memory accesses are not in fact O(1).
Humans do exactly that though - an artist isn't born in a vacuum.
Check out https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Animati... for animation without jQuery
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Fundamentals are hard to argue against, but predictions of timing are hard to get right. The fundamentals may indicate one thing, and predictions based on them are reasonable, until the fundamentals change. Timing of predictions is a very different thing because despite the fundamentals there are external factors you simply cannot predict.

Predicing there would be a housing bubble in 2001 was merely a case of seeing the changes in the law under Clinton, the change in financial settings at the federal reserve under Bush due to the dotcom crash and 9/11, and looking at the way the incentives were set up with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Many people said you can't predict such a thing and in 2006 it was common to see on TV the claim that there was no housing bubble, and that the economy was fundamentally sound and I heard this a great deal from people in day to day life who were buying houses and thought I was insane to think houses were overpriced. I'm not a genius, I just read the right article in 2001 from a "economic doomsayer" and between 2001 and 2008 as far as everyone was concerned, I was crazy, and then after 2008 instantaneously "it was obvious" there was a housing bubble and thus my insight was pointless.

The lesson here is to look at the fundamentals, but don't bet on the timing. I invested against the housing market in 2002-2007. I wish I had known about the existence of CDOs. I got out in 2007. I was a year early. You can't predict the timing.

But you can take fundamentals to the bank.
In 'Software Engineering' there is this thing called 'code reuse'. The idea being that you don't reinvent the wheel. We were all taught it (and moved on to realise there is a lot of code out there that is best not 're-used').

These Ducato vans are the popular 'platform' for camper vans in Europe, due to the low floor. Most of the conversions have worked out the hard problems and been 'debugged' with customer feedback. The swivel seats come already done properly with no hammer needed. The various tanks for various fluids are worked out. Spares can be bought, plus you get something better than really heavy plywood carpentry - actual cabinet-making.

We all have our own dreams, however, from my experience of living with a camper-van mad family, second hand is good. I would not go for brand new van that depreciates and custom prototype carpentry when people vastly more experienced than me have done it all before hundreds of times over.
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It would be the ultimate prank if someone could fake such a signal :)
It's a bit dated at this point, but I still recommend the google python class as a starting point. https://developers.google.com/edu/python/
Awesome build!

I am a product designer working in tech in San Francisco. I also live in a stealth camper van, mostly by the Whole Foods in Potrero. I ride a folding bike to work downtown. Life is very good and I wouldn't trade this setup for anything.

Here is my build out:
http://wonderbywonder.tumblr.com/tagged/chrono/chrono

And here I am:
http://i.imgur.com/s4ZpdaO.jpg
So with these virtual DOM libraries, after seeing a lot of them try to fill in this supposed niche, and seeing two this week including this one, I'm of the opinion that it should either be completely JS looking, e.g. a simple wrapper around createElement, or React looking, e.g. with JSX.

The ones that are in between, while potentially having nice syntax or a nice looking homepage, aren't enough to convince me to use them over React, mainly because 1) if I'm doing any production code, I want other engineers to be familiar with it and its pitfalls; 2) I want to make sure it'll be supported 6 months down the road; 3) engineers are familiar enough with JSX or with createElement, but some other syntax may be confusing and have corner cases that a bigger project like React hasn't thought of... I don't want a lookalike React.createElement because I can just use React.createElement; 4) many of these libraries are built with "performance" in mind, but does it really matter how many more times it can process a ToDoApp if it doesn't really affect user facing performance?

While this isn't a jab at this library specifically (although it hasn't had much substantial development in a while...), but too many libraries are created to fill some supposed niche and then abandoned when they move to different pastures, and if you need to fix any of those corner cases you will inevitably run into, ideally you can submit a PR and get it fixed easily and with little delay.
You are ignoring Medicaid which the article plans to cut.

http://kff.org/medicaid/state-indicator/medicaid-spending-pe...

That is ~$6k of benefits per person.

So lets say two adults for $26k with $12k in lost benefits is ~$14k.

The poverty line is $16k.
My sister's solution: Send the ring in a box with a combination lock ;)

Edit: Ah, charlesdenaul already proposed that. You wouldn't need cryptography, as the problem doesn't state that the postal service also monitors the Internet.
The pythagorean theorem predicts how long the hypotenuse of a right triangle will be, based on it's sides. That's quite easy to test empirically. You take a ruler out and draw a right triangle. It's nice that we have a solid mathematical proof for it. But if the axioms of geometry were somehow thrown into question, no one would question pythagoreans theorem because we know it works and have tested it countless times. It has more evidence than entirely scientific matters like the law of gravity.
And yet, Comcast still illegally throttles torrent traffic..
Big-O isn't handwavey, it was absolutely intended to describe (among other things!) wall-clock time, and the article isn't just talking about constants. Also, many operations (like adding) are constant-time on modern computers, outside of memory hierarchy effects, ALU stalls, etc., since they're bound to finish within exactly one clock-cycle.
I wonder if younger folk today watch that and think how quaint, old and dated it seems... or if they see it and wonder if their current modern cinema fair is really missing something these strange films had.
I understand they recalled all the drivetrains. And will likely do it until all the engineering secrets have been uncovered and solved. I don't see it as a big deal, just part of bringing a highly engineered (accelerated, disruptive) and breakthrough product to market. Another way, do you think the automotive industry got where it is in 10 years? They had oil cloth for windows.
Google's not shooting themselves in the foot because:

- Google Cast is not a general-purpose streaming protocol, even though it is designed to mimic that UX to a casual user

- Cast provides some features like 'ad breaks' [1] that are valuable to content providers and aggregators which you wouldn't find in a general-purpose streaming protocol, making it more likely that those who want these features will make their streaming app Cast-compatible

- The Cast SDK comes with a TOS [2] that's a rather enlightening read

- You have to register your application with Google if you're developing a Cast sender [3], or if you're developing a Cast receiver and don't want to use their Default Receiver [4] (presumably, because you're building your own).

Google's building an ecosystem here. This isn't Miracast or WiDi or even AirPlay, although kudos to them for making everyone think so.

[1] https://developers.google.com/cast/docs/ads

[2] https://developers.google.com/cast/docs/terms

[3] https://developers.google.com/cast/docs/chrome_sender#setup

[4] https://developers.google.com/cast/docs/receiver_apps#choose...
Thank you. Interesting community. Wish there's more info besides anti VC :)
I would be glad to know about other open source python libraries to make facebook bots, that are not for any specific web framework!
Oh for sure - it's definitely the best execution of cloud torrenting that I've seen to date.

I wish they'd do a blog post or two about how they handle their file structure.
That article is currently being discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12383012 - suffice it to say, there are numerous issues with the author's understanding of Big-O notation.
> Therefore the "perimeter" of the inner box can't be greater than the sum of its projections.

What definition of "perimeter" are you using here?
Young Frankenstein is my all time favorite comedy

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072431/

It just has the right mix situational and sarcastic humor. I usually re-watch it every couple of years. Gene Wilder is just so good in that role.
> Jokes aside, are there really places you can rent a screwdriver for a day?

There's places where you can buy them and return them a day later for a full refund.
i enjoyed his portrayal of steve jobs
as an H-1B myself, you don't need to hold on to passports to buy that sort of "loyalty". moving here from anywhere in asia is a huge sunk cost, and the natural impulse is to hope against hope that you don't have to bite the bullet and go back home, essentially eating that cost and starting over.

plus (at least from an indian perspective) there was a time when the indian job market for programmers was so bad that people would put up with all sorts of abusive conditions, simply because they knew that if they went back home it would be to a long and depressing job search that would likely end up with a low-paying position. (i believe that has gotten better in recent years; i'm not sure what the situation in china is)
FWIW, I solve this problem with ~/src/work and ~/src/personal. My default, system-wide config in .gitconfig are my personal creds. In ~/src/work, I have a direnv (http://direnv.net/) which configures my work credentials.

I used to do something similar to you, but this has been less effort to maintain/less repetition :) (which is nice, as our internal structure is lots of micro-repos so you're constantly cloning new things, and constantly adding creds becomes a hassle).
You seem to be implying that a "crash," which I'm taking to be defined as something that drops the stock market and overall economy, is caused by these startups. The widespread Mainstreet investors are not invested in startups like they were in the IPO-fueled dot-com bubble. It is largely accredited LPs going through VCs privately.

Yes, there may be other economic factors that could cause a crash, but at this point, I think we would need to see an unprecedented black swan event to royally shake investor confidence. The election outcome could be an interesting one as markets tend to go a little crazy during election years.

Plus, I'm curious how many people VC-funded pre-revenue startups in the Bay employ. If they were to all crater overnight, what impact would that have on the housing market given the other massive tech companies with strong revenue models and billions in the bank to weather anything? My assumption is they hire and locally employ orders of magnitude more people.
Worth noting that this article is overlooking the definition of our mark on the planet in terms of a geological age. ;-)
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You're making the same mistake that the author of that article is making. That condition only has to hold for sufficiently large values of n - i.e., n ≥ n₀ for some n₀.
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Ah, the Colored Hats is awsome (Haven't tried the other ones, thanks for those)!
It gets even more interesting by using three colors instead of two. The solution stays the same in principle, but [guvaxvat zbqhyb guerr vf n ybg yrff boivbhf guna jbexvat jvgu rira naq bqq.] (ROT13)

EDIT: Happy now? ;P
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And a cooperating West Europe existed for years before the EU. Ascribing the peace to the EU seems somewhat revisionist.
A welcome change:

> Other entrepreneurs have a newfound air of practicality, no longer shooting for their companies to be the next tech behemoth like Facebook.

I haven't been hearing much about raising lately — Is it still the case that you are expected to lay out a path to $1Bn in your pitch deck, no matter what your company does?
Granted, I might have been grandfathered on the Free Plan:

http://imgur.com/a/GZU14

Free Plan includes 1 repository, unlimited servers, unlimited deployments, and unlimited users.
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The solution only requires that they will eventually be visited; you can keep deferring until they are. There's no specific time frame in which you have to make a guess.
Seven-month-old conspiracy rants?
Nope. jQuery came first. For me, it was a matter of spending a few years in Java shops. Most of the work was so server-side focused that I ended up forgetting a lot of my Javascript.

After leaving my last job, I decided I needed to update my skills and Angular seemed like a good road to go down. It was only recently that I decided to return to the old jQuery well to see what I could do with it vs. Angular. I'm glad I did.
If two people have blue eyes, "Somebody has blue eyes" is not new information, because everyone has already seen that someone has blue eyes.
If they change the algorithm to filter out fake or biased news, they might alienate their user base.
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That's troubling. Has anyone got any sense about whether interoperability is merely neglected or whether there's strategic reasons for its abandonment (either from Google itself or via pressure from partners with 'premium content')
It is inevitable that plaintext username/password will be used. This is why I am terrified.
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Opera used to have it, but it was much slower than a dedicated client
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Right, an algorithm that always produces an answer right after the heat death of the universe is O(1).

Big-O is great for telling you which algorithms/datastructures won't scale, it can't tell you which are actually fast enough.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12379811 and marked it off-topic.
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Came here to ask the same question. I'm a seasoned dev and UX designer. Really interested in where i can use design thinking with machine learning and needed a few starting points.

Besides tutorials and books, are there friendly communities for novices? Any interesting libraries to jump start projects?
About solved problems?
When I got 53 (which was before the entire PR fallout), Apple replaced my then-under-warranty iPhone 6 for free.
> The non-trivial part must be that at least one person knows more than they did before the statement.

I think that's what they meant by non-trivial. If the stranger tells them something they already know, that doesn't count.

You can assume that an individual person can count the blue dots they see, but they can't count their own dot. If they count 9 dots, then the true number must be either 9 or 10, so they already know the number can't be prime.
That doesn't sound all that ethical, and you've now spent two 30-60 minute round trips to a store for want of a $5 tiny tool you used to own.
I send my son emails with links to different interesting projects. He is ten. Too bad I can't send this one out. Why do people use foul language everywhere and in between? It's like a disease.
So... it's mithril with a ton of the useful stuff ripped out, for a comparatively tiny reduction in size? Why would I want that?
It seems paradoxical. Access to amounts of matter and energy that would be absolutely transformational to the world (solar system) economy... but no economic case to go and get them?

Perhaps this is something with a huge payoff that doesn't make investing sense on anyone's time horizon because it's longer than all our lifetimes.

Still, long-lived entities (such as nation states) do exist - depending on political conditions, projects on multi-lifetime timescales can be viable. One would like to think that our far-sighted leaders would make some investment, given there's an awfully big prize up for grabs.
Nothing against .Net developers, I'm one myself. But to see what some actual fusion scientists think about fusion, see the videos I posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12381137
> Humans do exactly that though

There's a weak and a strong version of that claim. To say that humans use existing works in creating their own is easily provable. But what I don't think is easily provable is that the new work is entirely the product of existing works, with the brain contributing nothing new beyond an AI-like algorithm.
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Exactly. Because there's only so much money to spend every year, and when it's used up, the economy shuts down until New Year's Eve. /s
What if the signal is not artificial?
What's the end goal of this? How is this making humans happier? How is this improving quality of life? Competing with AI is an artificial competition. Quality of life is a) a real problem that isn't going away and b) is directly contrary to AR. Think emails are a problem now? It's not getting any better with inescapable interaction brought on by AR.
I've looked at a bunch of things and you're correct. the 1for.one precedes jobsonic. Basically just this summer it's had 3 separate names.
Not quite. You're usually measuring time in a specific model. Most often, that's the RAM model, where memory access and arithmetic operations take constant time (defined as one time step). The author is using a different model, but doesn't formally define it and instead tries to make it fit wall-clock time. That requires far more elaborate modelling, ends up being extremely complicated, and usually doesn't yield all that much additional insight. That's why computer scientists usually use the RAM model - it captures the most important aspects of computers, but omits others as they're hard to model accurately. The memory hierarchy is one of these.

Some models where such things are studied in more details include the external memory model (which has a two-level hierarchy - cache and main memory, or main memory and disk) and cache-oblivious models.

Most of the time, you don't need that extra information, though, and the RAM model suffices.
The idiom is magnifying glass representing search.

The star icon more closely aligns with quick access to something used often.
True. I alluded to that further down, as even with the perfect strategy this means that "it is theoretically possible that the goal state never happens", i.e. the probability that the algorithm will terminate will never be 100% (but it terminates with probability 1).
You may think that'll keep you safe, but creepy people can live in houses.
Note that in my country, it's rare for hotel rooms to require credit cards or deposits. (Debit cards are required so they can charge you later if necessary, but they don't put a hold on them.) There's certain chains that do, but it's mostly an American thing.

Renting a car requires one, but there's also more generally a high barrier to renting a car - plenty of forms, showing your license, booking in advance, etc etc. There's also no choice. The same is not true for getting in a taxi. Why would I put down a deposit to ride in an automated car, really?
Detroit is still there. And so are unions.
Thank you. We are trying to get it sorted, but fortunately, we are at a place that even if they still refuse, we can afford the surgery. But what happened to us happens everyday to a bunch of folks that can't really afford to (or have to wait 6 to 12 months to get it using the national health service)
What if pain, in the traditional sense, makes you happy. I get pleasure from rebelling my hedonist parents in a way reminiscent of puritans. It has nothing to do with comparison to others - I just like denying myself pleasure (abstaining from alcohol, sugar, caffeine, drugs, sometimes sex, etc.). I get a lot of meaning from it.
Young Frankenstein is filled with so many wonderful moments. "Igor, help me with the bags." "SED-A-GIVE?!"

I just wish they hadn't opened with a coffin jump scare. It sets the tone of the movie as horror and it took 14-year-old me a while to realize it was a comedy. Fast forward many years and I couldn't get my young daughter to watch it because that first scene scared her.
I'm sorry, I'm a little lost at "the solution to governments having captured individual CAs is to add a set of new CAs that they control directly and that can't be revoked because they're tied to the DNS".
I love stories like this. Well documented, well thought out, and with a 6 month update... excellent.

Now I'd love to read one about someone who's done this with a family...
Nice job! Has anyone at the complex given you grief for sleeping there?
You can get blackout curtains and put them up before sleeping, pretty cheap..
I actually laughed at the idea of renting a screwdriver.