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Give me a rolling upgrade AWS/Rackspace/wherever (I choose) private hosted version of Gitlab with everything just working for under or equal to Github's USD$25/month and you have my business. Do a bulk deal, get some custom instances, lower the overheads. IMHO the pain of Gitlab (which I've used ~2008-now?) has always been unfamiliarity, UI obtuseness (recently vastly improved) and maintainability. Kill those - you're well on the way to doing so - and you'll gain market share quickly. You can even sell stuff like storage space, redundancy and global POPs as real time deployable add-on packages.
Thanks for introduction Roger. This is my first Startup School too. Hopefully will meet there!
I don't disagree with you but I could see a hybrid model working for AirBnb.

Say they own an apartment complex and allow people to either purchase units or lease long-term, with the option to rent out their place to short-term AirBnb users when they aren't there.

AirBnb and its users would benefit from having on-site staff as well as standardized units, reducing unpredictability for everyone involved and making it a hotel-like experience, while still profiting off of capital owned by the working class.
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Anxiously awaiting the IPO.
Out of curiosity, how many of those teenagers come from impoverished circumstances? I find a certain irony in schools teaching things like iOS development to demographics which very likely cannot responsibly afford an apple computer or even an iPhone.

I still think it's a good thing, just that it brings a different perspective to the "walled-garden" argument against many brands/services as well as tech education as a whole.
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I worked for a company that did openstack; was pulled into their security team. That company dumped so much money just to have a terrible openstack client offering.

There was no CVE mailing list like other projects. We had to scrape their launchpad bug tracker. On top of that none of the package repos we checked (Canonical's, Debian's .. couple of others) would even have package updates for up to three weeks on some of the CVEs. We started building out own CI so we could build and patch ourselves. Then I got pulled from the open stack team onto something that was not a bottomless pit of haemorrhaging money.
https://yandex.com/support/domain/additional/maillists.xml

Doesn't seem to support addresses from other domains though.
I wonder what percentage of pure Java programmers code in vim with a java-autocomplete plugin.
The perception of threat by a random police officer shouldn't equate to judge+jury+executioner.

However, due to the lack of consistent repercussions, it's much better for a cop to shoot first and ask questions later.

Ergo, if you aren't a cop and support this situation, maybe you need to think again.
This is just a platformer made in Java, that happens to have a few characters with the same name as Super Mario Bros.

Nothing about the original NES game has been implemented here.
Yes, do you know of the number of groups who are actively developing AGI? who have made steady progress over the years? I see no big names invested in them. Why would someone try to create your own group having no background in development of AGI? Seems a bit off the mark no?

Most AGI focused ventures are not even in the U.S. A prominent one is in China. Another is in Europe. The ones in the U.S are privately funded beyond the big names. Furthermore, where is the U.S's equivalent of :
https://www.humanbrainproject.eu/ ?

Where are the seasoned software engineers in the ranks at these highly funded silicon valley Ai companies? I typically see a roster of 'big names' and PhDs... Whereas, I look at the companies specifically pursuing AGI and I see a whole range of individuals.. PHD neuroscience, Senior game developer, Robotics Engineer, Senior firmware developer, Guy from down the hall who can code circles around silicon valley's most decorated engineer, etc etc.

Look at the Geohot story, that's the kind of individual and company who ushers in a new paradigm ....

If the solution requires you to 'think different', how do you expect to achieve it by padding your company with a bunch of individuals who are all centered on the same techniques from academia?
I do not agree. I use the internet quite regularly, and I'm never on Facebook.

Seems pretty alive to me. As for then stifling competition and copying them, it happens in every industry, yeah it's shit, but you just have to compete on value and service.
It'll be a never-ending cat and mouse game deciding those limits. I'd say artificially skewing the market is unsustainable and shouldn't be done.
Try the Pycharm Community Edition and see for yourself. I've found it to be one of the most comfortable environments to work in.

I was truly surprised by the code inspections (the "linter") and the depth of code analysis that it does. The first community edition would get stuck on some weird constructs from time to time, but every update improves upon it and I haven't seen the 2016 edition to have any issues with the weirdest code I have to maintain.
Most of them do. We teach basic Ruby and Swift (with UIKit), certainly not "iOS development". The workshop is only over 3 days, with some homework.

The goal is not to make them the developers of tomorrow - just to expose them to programming, and light CS thinking. They don't get these opportunities at school. If they don't like it, well hey at least they tried. If they like it, then great! They have discovered a new passion they might have not found otherwise. We've been doing this for a few years now, and many of them (about 40%) have gone on to study CS or something related in college; of those, a fair number also got the motivation to go to college partly because it'd allow them to study CS.

We very much emphasize the fact during the workshop that if they understand the basics (variables, loops, functions, etc.) then they can learn any language. A big part of the pedagogy is encouraging them to try things, fail, use Stack Overflow, etc.

Gender split is basically 50/50, a fair mix of black/hispanic/asian kids with the few white kids sprinkled in.

All that said, a fair amount of them do have iPhones.
On iOS you'll also be tracked 24/7 by Google if you have Waze installed. Hiding behind the "being a traffic crowdsourcing app, we need location data from everyone" it doesn't allow you to use the location sharing option "while using the app", it's either always or never. And there's a purple arrow next to it each time you're driving, a sign that it's currently tracking you, even if the app is closed. (Gray means past 24h). Probably they use accelerometer data to know when you've started driving.
I doubt that short-term apartment owner vacancy rates will be low enough to justify the costs. I could see this working for vacation properties, but this kind of business model already exists - just drive up to Whistler, BC... Or any serious ski resort, really.
The dealer is always the favourite person in the room.
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This is correct. Those at the top, like myself, will continue to develop AI and automation tools while doing our best to keep workers from "becoming smart" through low wages/benefits/minimally satisfying regulations. You wouldn't want your maid revolting against you, now would you?

Call me morally corrupt if you want, but there will always be morally corrupt people in the world whether we like it or not.
> If so, are the "gig economy" businesses ultimately just very fancy wedges into existing markets with players too entrenched to come at directly, and little more?

The "gig economy" as exemplified by Uber and AirBNB primarily seems to be a way for businesses to circumvent the regulations on existing markets, giving them a competitive advantage over 'traditional' players.

Uber wouldn't be investing in self-driving cars if they thought they were going to have to buy taxi medallions for them and offer fixed fare prices, the way legitimate taxis do. If there were a way for AirBNB to just run hotels without having to comply with the usual hospitality laws, they'd be doing that instead of crowdsourcing.
The secret sauce is the marketplace as much as the brand.
Congress shouldn't be promoting newcomers (or incumbents -- perhaps that's your complaint?). And FWIW the barriers faced by GF and Tesla are at the state level, not congress.
I'd assume that this would be considered in the selective breeding process.
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Oh for crying out loud. If you want to interpret the meaning, READ THE WHOLE DAMN PASSAGE. Not one mention of the surrounding txt, not a single quote of Beckett's actual words beyond the familiar soundbite.

If you read the whole piece, or even just the whole paragraph, it's clear THERE ARE NO MORALES TO BE DRAWN, it is not normative but descriptive, it tells us not what we ought to do but what the entire natural order does and will do: fail, get sick, throw up, and die once and for all, never to rise again.

It's about the absolute and final fact of mortality, the ontological unreality of progress of any kind. The total cosmic triviality of change, not its celebration.

But hey, that's just one interpretation. It might be wrong, but AT LEAST I READ THE DAMN THING.

Here's the original context of the quote:

"Say a body. Where none. No mind. Where none. That at least. A place. Where none. For the body. To be in. Move in. Out of. Back into. No. No out. No back. Only in. Stay in. On in. Still....

Somehow on. Till sick of both. Throw up and go. Where neither. Till sick of there. Throw up and back. The body again. Where none. The place again. Where none. Try again. Fail again. Better again. Or better worse. Fail worse again. Still worse again. Till sick for good. Throw up for good. Go for good. Where neither for good. Good and all...

All of old. Nothing else ever. But never so failed. Worse failed. With care never worse failed."
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It looks like it is free now. Given Evernote's horrendous move to limit the number of devices a user can access their notes with (literally the dumbest gating mechanism I've ever heard of in this day and age where device-agnosticism is table stakes), I'm looking for a free alternative.

Are there any downsides moving from a free Evernote account to a free OneNote account in your opinion?
Surprisingly, AirBNB only reports your host income if you have over $20,000 in earnings and 200+ bookings [1]. (These thresholds are set by statute)

Sounds like a legal fix is in order to get that down to a $600 threshold as applies to traditional 1099 reporting, but I'll assume a fix won't be made as the threshold was most likely set high as a compromise to enable such reporting to occur.

Luckily, AirBnB will collect occupancy taxes and can remit them to taxing authorities directly.

[1] https://www.airbnb.com/help/article/481/how-do-taxes-work-fo...
Maybe it's not as bad as I first thought. The capitalized K breaks the word up - it was only the URL that jumped out at me.
Inconceivable.
BSD Unix: Power to the people, from the code(2000)
Also known as "how to guarantee the survival of the Z80 architecture well into the 21st Century".
Either require them to get a bedbug treatment before relisting or provide it.

Details can be worked out by someone other than me.
The Facebook technically kills the whole internet. (http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/04/facebo...). It tries to copy other startups, so people can stay on its platform and watch more "ads".
Instead of surfing idiosyncratic webpages, flaneur now surfs facebook. It is like going to Paris and one only sees McDonald and Starbucks. (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/05/opinion/sunday/the-death-o...)

In addition, nowadays, people do not create webpage for fun. They want to commercialize their online presence. Everything, including oneself, is a brand now (http://www.personalbrandingblog.com/50-tips-to-brand-yoursel...). This leads to the totalitarianism of minimalism (https://www.sitepoint.com/less-minimalist-websites-still-rul...) where they want to people to "see" their webpages "efficiently". People are wearing a mask in and out. There is no authenticity and honesty.

The internet was the place for playfulness and wonder. DeviantArts, Rate Your Music, Geocities were really fun.

Now, the internet is full of BS. Startups are full of BS ("This is a site that spits out whole websites of fake bullshit web companies. Hit "get started" to refresh. http://tiffzhang.com/startup/?s=243648772317). Reddit is a rare phenomenon because it was founded by Aaron Schwartz and he never got any credit. And I am pretty sure Aaron Schwartz would never go to “Hackathon”, “Entrepreneurial leadership at Stanford”. They are full of BS. No one has a deep passion for truly improving people’s lives. Everything is for efficiency.

Palo Alto becomes a dead place now. There is only one bookstore in Palo Alto area and no students ever visit. Stanford students do not love to learn at all. They are “excellent sheep”.

The dark net is okay and it becomes boring after a while.
They would acquire users and data from one of Keep's largest and most established competitors short of MS OneNote while simultaneously removing them as a competitor in the market. Seems like a pretty solid incentive if Google is serious about staying in that space.
>"I wouldn't be happy if the government decided to simply pay people for making poor financial decisions"

Government already does that in a myriad of ways, some more morally accepted than others. It's almost part of the base definition of what we expect the government to do, if you really think about it. Paying for the poor that made bad life decisions and lost their job, the sick that didn't save for medical expenditure, the parent that had one-too-many kids and can't pay for their food/schooling, etc.

I would argue they are all very similar, buffering and protecting those that are incapable of providing for themselves, either by inability or conscious inaction/abuse. It's just that some people think this should be done by private efforts, instead of by government which uses it's power to force people to obey and pay.
Yeah man, like, butterfly effect, you know?

Rather more direct when they're taking my money to do so. This isn't an abstract "ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee" scenario, and the alternative is not personal autarky. OP is proposing a direct transfer, from me to a stranger, to which I am opposed, and therefore one which must be imposed by force. The alternative is not imposing such a transfer. Cut a check yourself if you think it's a good idea. Bullshit about the universal brotherhood of man and unity of the volk does not excuse arbitrary impositions.
I actually did, that spend was part of an NRE package for an R&D contract and the cost was borne by the client. How it works. If the point you're making is that the additional developer fee is marginal, you are of course quite corrrect.
> mass of low effort comments

I'd love to have a personalized filter to hide low effort comments and posts automatically, both on YT and Reddit.

It would be doable using machine learning to assign a low effort/meme score to comments. Posts could be scored by the average time it takes users to see it. If it is a gif, image or clip under 1 minute - it's almost 100% fluff.
I was thinking about this notion of using simulated worlds for doing training. An open source simulated world would be fantastic - to the extent that it is actually realistic. For example, maybe collect archived gameplay from some MMORPG and use it to build the simulated world. As new players play in the game, the gameplay data is collected and available for the community to use. Obviously this is not well thought out, but it would be an excellent candidate for a group like OpenAI, assuming they aren't already building something like that.

I wonder if it will be a chicken and egg problem though? Maybe you cannot even create decent gameplay without already having a trove of data, but bad gameplay will not attract more data from potential players?
Did they give you a hotel in a major chain or something local? Probably some local cheap stuff.

I stayed at a best western in the Philippines and it was pristine. I also stayed at local places and quality varied, because who was going to know/care?

The lesson here is that big, reputable places have incentives, whether traditional (best western) or alternative (airBnB).
Yeah, he made an embarrassing mistake. I googled "rust binary heap" and the second link[0] is a priority queue example using the std binary heap.

[0] https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/collections/binary_heap/
Indeed, an officer who manages to subdue a suspect without shooting them faces repercussions.

Police officer sacked for not shooting black man holding an unloaded gun: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/police-officer-sacked-not-...

> “I told him, ‘Put down the gun,’ and he’s like, ‘Just shoot me.’ And I told him, ‘I’m not going to shoot you brother.’ Then he starts flicking his wrist to get me to react to it,” he said.

> “I thought I was going to be able to talk to him and de-escalate it. I knew it was a 'suicide-by-cop' situation.”

I'd be interested to know if that's common, or if it's a one off.
Front pocket all the time. It'd hurt if I was flexing it there...
Love it, the Readme is hilarious. Looks like you could avoid some code duplication though with a little awk script run by the script on its own source.
> As one tiny example, some things other cultures do would also seem unacceptably individualistic and lawless.

Do you have any examples of this by chance?
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The point about 1865 is that 1863 refers to a military order that applied only to the states in rebellion. There were, IIRC, on the order of 50k permanent chattel slaves in the Union that were not affected by the application of the proclamation to rebel states as the Union secured control of them, and we're only freed by the ratification of the 13th Amendment.
Why? Why do You think the justice department needs to get involved? This is a place where capital am actually works. If people only use aggregators then airlines not listed won't get much business. I actually check swa because swa us the online airline that doesn't charge bag fees. So I go out of my way to give them business when I can.
AirBnB files an income statement with the IRS, so at the very least that avenue is covered.

Proof: https://www.airbnb.com/help/article/414/should-i-expect-to-r...

It could be very different in other countries or across borders though.
There is an urban legend in Russia about these tamed foxes that quality of fur from them became a lot worse than from the wild ones, and thus all that attempt is considered a failure: foxes can be domesticated, but become useless as a result (originally it was done to reduce traumatism from bites on the fur farms)
I would note squid and octopus have fine manipulators (tentacles) and they are relatively intelligent.
By your own admission, a registry of legal gun owners would in no way diminish the perceived risk to police officers - because criminals own and carry illegal guns.
If you go on the actual subreddit, you get bombarded with illusory superiority, google knowledge, and advertisers. I saw someone trash Apache server because it includes a test suite in the source package. I love the constant astroturfing for certain products. The best part is their "articles" where they try to make their job sound like a popular HBO TV show.

It's just not a great place to go for anything. The people there seem deeply flawed. They are trying way too hard to be the "intelligent ass hole" without the research.
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Whales have prehensile penises, so while it may seem a bit odd to us, they do have fine manipulators. (That said, in all seriousness I don't think a prehensile tail/trunk/penis would really be enough to develop tools the way we have.)
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>flying or in development

You've forgotten about ULA's Delta IV and Delta IV Heavy, NASA's SLS, and JAXA's H-IIA and H-IIB.

Delta IV Heavy is currently the most capable rocket in the world and uses liquid hydrogen throughout (no solid boosters).
Have you seen these websites before? If you know any subculture internet user in 1990's or early 2000's, you should ask them what they think of the internet now! Unless you have the experience, otherwise you can't tell the difference.

http://www.deviantart.com/
http://rateyourmusic.com/list/novocaine69/the_great_obscure_...
http://www.novaexpresscafe.com/main.html

Today, my Uber driver was a DJ and he mentioned how stink the internet is. He is still using Usenet now. This is how pathetic internet nowadays.

And Silicon Valley is the least creative place I've lived. It is quite pathetic. It is "creative" through "newspaper" only. You can't argue against their success.

Nothing is more successful than success. You can't argue against success.
I don't agree. The whole point of the program is to get banks to lend money to students when the spreadsheet says it's a bad idea.

And the schools should not be in the business of telling students what they can afford. For one thing, they probably can't know.
Quite. It's not even a huge amount considering all the other stuff you get along with it (and it was less then) but it still felt weird as I'd just come off a stint of Windows Mobile stuff (shudder) which was pretty much plug in and hack - though of course in that case you still have to give MSFT money for the dev tools. (And the host. And the devices. And the chair to sit on ...)
Again, I can't really disagree.

What I'm imagining is probably closest to a time-share property but re-branded to lose the stigma and with slightly more standardized units.

I just like the idea of something that allows remote workers to easily move between multiple cities, for varying intervals of time, with similar, predictable accommodations.

No idea if there's actually a viable market or if it's even in the realm of what AirBnb are trying to do.
Why doesn't competition bring down the prices of university degrees?
I'm done with airbnb after realizing it was similarly priced to hotels but came with a ton more rules. I don't really want a 10pm bedtime when I'm out visiting friends in LA. Thanks though. At least with a hotel you can come and go as you please and not have to stress about getting there by check in time of whatever the host decides.

Airbnb is worth it if it's significantly cheaper than a hotel, but once the prices became similar imo totally not worth the hassle. With a hotel you know what you are getting upfront.
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Competence is charismatic in itself, though not something that translates onto video.

Do you have open office hours? I'd love to get a feel for how you think.
Not everyone has 'vision' and its hard convincing those who don't have it to see the potential in your idea before its fully formed. In cases of fundamental technology like Ai, there should be a national effort to fund individuals and people who want to passionately pursue it. Europe has been on top of the ball when it comes to this lately.

Thankfully we live in an age in which the most important research to developing fundamental things like Ai is 'time'. If you have an internet connection and a reasonably decent computer, you have enough resources to create AGi.

If you passionately care about seeing your idea through, save up money, move to a cheaper location, wire your computer to the internet, and get to work.

Once you've proven your vision, who can deny you then? Slam it on the boardroom table, disrupt present day business models, and be the next tech giant.