skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Watched the video finally and I think this is a good explanation.

Mars Direct is all about the cheapest, simplest way for a state-sponsored space agency to send 4 people at a time to Mars, with a slow build up towards permanent settlement via increasingly concurrent missions.

SpaceX is trying to start a permanent settlement within the first 5 or so missions, with the first few hundred people being uber-qualified astronauts, and everyone thereafter being whoever can put up $200k for a trip, potentially one-way.

It's like a fusion of Mars Direct and the very plans Zubrin was opposed to (Elon acknowledged this by making a reference to "Battlestar Galactica", which Zubrin used many times as a pejorative in The Case for Mars). The only reason the multiple in-orbit refuelings and re-usable rockets makes sense is the ridiculous scale (100 people per trip) and the ultimate goal (Mars Trips for anyone who wants to go).
Ask HN: Pmarca's advice – BitCoin/BlockChain and AI/ML in 2 hours a day
Before vanishing from twitter, Pmarca, my favorite tweeter, posited that if he had to start from scratch today he would focus his energies on learning BitCoin/BlockChain and AI/ML.

I want to start devoting 2 hours each day (starting tomorrow), total, to studying BitCoin/BlockChain and AI/ML. No specific goal apart from that at the moment. I trust that the eventual goal will emerge once I start getting competent at these.

Six months ago, I got started on the Princeton/Coursera BitCoin/BlockChain course but it sort of overwhelmed me. I think I watched a total of about 2 to 3 hours of video. Maybe I need to do some kind of "pre-requisite" beforehand?

Also, I have played around with ML... mostly with CART, using the the GUI R tool Rattle and other tools such as Weka and Orange.

I know a little Python and R, and a fair amount of JavaScript and PHP. I can set up a LAMP server.

---------------

Hacker News: suggest a curriculum for me so that I can pick up BitCoin/BlockChain and AI/ML on 2 hours of study a day. Give me specific tuts, courses, URLs in the order I should tackle them in.
Well, sort of.

There is a fair amount of graphics whose good looks are based around the fact that pixels are little squares. Like orthogonal lines.
Absolutely. I was watching it live and couldn't believe how bad that Q&A section was. Felt bad for Musk standing there, having to somehow respond politely to all that stupidity.
Hi Sam,

Do you need to be an accredited investor to invest?

Do you take funding from the public through A+ for any YC startups?
You raise very good points.

The future will either be great or terrible--I think an intermediate outcome is unlikely. I think it's a super exciting time to be alive, but I feel the shared sense of responsibility most others do to do everything I can to get safely through the other side.

I understand the desire to save enough for a scary world ahead, and I think it's prudent to do that. Beyond, that, if you're nervous about these things, probably the most satisfying and reassuring thing you could do is figure out how to use your talents to maximize the chance of the a good outcome.
Is there any work on ASLR for quasi-static binaries? So you have no external linking (good for distribution and unsurprising dependencies), but still relocate at runtime.
We have discussed trying a remote group through the YC batch. Although we're all varying degrees of skeptical, I think it's worth a try.

As you point out, there are (some) good reasons that MV doesn't make sense, like your customers being very far away. That said, it's only three months.
You should give up when no one loves what you're building and you're out of ideas about how to make it better.
1. Where do you think the jobs in the software field will be after 10 years?
Currently, we can say that the jobs are in the web developer and mobile app developers categories.
Like that what would be the major category in software?
And what would be the future of web and mobile app developers if they know nothing about machine learning now.

2. In the competition of web vs mobile? What would be their state after 10 years?
Will there be more native mobile apps or websites?

Thanks!
That's a very good initial step.
The same reason Apple bothers me.

Today, I don't care. His clients know what they're getting involved with, and if they don't care, I don't either.

My concern is when he does go to Mars, he'll have hundreds of people signing up not realizing that he's putting lives on a beta rocket.
Millions of people buy Apple products because of the status they convey. Those are the people Apple cares about serving. If their "hardware is solid" as well then that's just a happy byproduct.

Are you really saying that status symbol is not a MASSIVE part of Apple's marketing strategy?
If your ISP gives you a native IPv6 address you can connect to it remotely.

If not you'll need to configure a tunnel. You could find this is as easy as installing `miredo`, for example a debian system run:

apt-get install miredo

That will then automatically give you a globally routable IPv6 address - which you can view via "ip -6 addr list", and which you can connect to remotely, again you'll need IPv6 on the remote system.

(e.g. I have IPv6 on my home network, and on my laptop. When traveling I can SSH to my home network via the IPv6 address I've got.)
Will you come to China? When?
Not yet but that would be interesting to offer some day.
Exactly, I don't understand the voxel craze all of a sudden. Plain old triangles work a million times better than any voxel ever will. I guess voxels are more of an aestetic now but I'm not a fan. All the sharp edges just make it harder on my eyes to focus on what I'm looking at.
Except for reading up on the school's history (which I wasn't too keen to), is there another indication that a school is public?
A related question: have you considered re-trying the "branch office" concept?

I know Boston was tried, but that was 6 years ago? Considering your increased scope + larger overall size of YC now, it seems doable to have a retry on that front.
You can produce fuel from lunar regolith as well.

http://www.wickmanspacecraft.com/lsp.html
Oh, useful anecdote time!

I was talking to a professor a while back about this, and he reckoned that when the University of Canterbury (in NZ) switched from Java to Python for their 100 level papers, the grades went from bimodal to single-modal. Not sure why that is, and I don't remember him giving me a reason, but I guess it's fair to assume that a lot of students were really struggling with the initial learning curve of Java (boilerplate, static typing, more difficult array and string manipulation) compared to Python, and either just not getting it, or getting frustrated and giving up.

Now I didn't see any numbers to back up his claims, as it was a casual conversation, but I'd be inclined to believe him that they were bimodal.

Anyway, the point I'm making is that the study here references only one university, different universities have different curriculum and different teaching styles, which could affect whether the distribution is bimodal or not.
Working at a startup is the right answer to your first question, and it's definitely a viable path!

I expect the rest of the world will trend towards Silicon Valley. But I'm biased.

To find industries ripe for new companies, look for places where technology is causing a high rate of change.
FYI.. Googling for answers is a bad idea. We have a built in plagiarism detector which will flag your report to the recruiter.
We're spending a lot of time right now thinking about where we should add new groups (i.e. where we're limited and where the biggest opportunities are).

Hopefully will be ready to talk about it early 2017.
mpv is the gold standard in video players. I use both constantly.
Node.js 6.7.0 Released
Yes, some people call me that...
Have you tried it? Unless you're handling custom animations in the main thread, the UI feels exactly the same as native.
I think the need for a college degree to even get a job is (1) specific to American society and regulations, and (2) not really true even there.

Since we're talking about general human morality, I wouldn't put much weight on the particulars of this region in 2016.

On a healthy job market, you get paid about as much as you produce. Regardless of what others produce. You also get to benefit from whatever inventions any new super talented people come up with.

Finally, the more intelligent a population is in general, the more peaceful it is.
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> biweekly maid service

This is the most shockingly spoiled thing I've ever read on HN. Tops even that dude (Timr?) who said that $250k in SF was near-poverty.
How involved are you and Elon in OpenAI? What are your roles specifically, both for you and Elon?
How can any human being be worse than Hillary Clinton?
Is there a poison and antidote? Reddit [yc backed] and <insert here> to raise the bar. The symptom is partially caused by YC.
NXP's coldfire chips are a (not so) direct descendant of the original 68k CPUs
I don't know the specifics of this particular situation, but one possibility is that there is a limited number of seats available. If he is admitted, then he is taking the place of someone who has a better chance at recovery (so far as they understand the disease).
> But then again, isn't it reasonable to expect some sort of deprecation or end of life for most products?

In a cell phone? Sure, because the replacement process is a somewhat annoying sales appointment at $carrier. In a thermostat? No, because it should last years. Maybe decades if it's a good one. IoT falls apart in this arena because the hardware is designed to be replaced often, and that's exactly what house hardware should not be.

And if the software is too complex, then don't do it. Do it right or don't bother.
Why not Stalin? Catchier and easier to remember. :-)
I have worked on two of loosely related projects. Both of them are very close to my heart. Since I am heading another (3rd) project that has become a funded startup, I would like to share those ideas and see if anyone is interested in pursuing them. Would love critical feedback on these as these are my life goals as of now.

1) Food and Farming - iPlantTrees. The idea is to set up a platform where two kinds of people meet. One without the resources or knowledge but have a place to plant. Other side of people or organizations who have knowledge/resources to plant. I came up with the idea because when I moved to CA, we bought a house with an Orange tree. It gives amazing oranges so we no longer have to buy from the store. It would have been great if I could also get some Apple or other trees too but I have scant knowledge of finding -> planting -> maintaining plants. I could spend years doing so or someone could plant them for me. You could make money by partnering with Nurseries etc. In the end everyone would know a lot more about food plantation and have fresh home grown food to eat.

2) Path to middle class - FillSkills. My understanding of the problem is the barrier to entry to jobs. Which is being brought down tremendously by the internet. Even now though I meet people all the time who would like to become a Software Engineer or a Data Scientist or a Business Analyst etc but have no idea where to start. FillSkills would take a look at all job postings, show which jobs are in in demand or expected to be in demand. Think of a stock trading app but for Job data. So you can really see what is going on in the job market and make life choices accordingly. In addition it will be able to tell you specifically what you need to learn to get the job profile you like. Companies should also be able to post jobs directly with a string of challenges (courses, exams, interviews, projects etc using whatever tools) that if passed by a candidate, guarantees a job or at least an in person interview.
I have inhaled every cigar I've ever smoked, and I smoke them pretty regularly and have for years.
Nope. See Austin. Largest city in the US without its own congressional representative. Instead, it's gerrymandered into 6 other districts to minimize Democratic representation.[0] See the latest disenfranchisement laws.[1]

If you're going to lose, change the rules.

[0] http://www.politifact.com/texas/statements/2013/jul/17/ellio...

[1] http://www.newsweek.com/voter-id-laws-discriminatory-disenfr...
It's completely optional to run any Google stuff on AMP pages.
Lol, the entire Bitcoin mining ecosystem uses less electricy than the Bank of America headquarters.

Also, ponzi schemes require that money from users be stolen to pay off new users. Instead we pay miners to secure all the Bitcoins in the network by burning power (IE, just like a job, you use 8 hours of energy and you get a paycheck)
> pretty sure it's either iOS or Android.

it's web, android, iOS, and PC. That's 4 platforms, if you consider web and PC separate, and more if you consider windows and linux as separate.

Crossplatform is more valuable than ever. But react-native may not be the answer.
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Which others? And how is "think harder" problematic?

It's like some priviledged first world teenager exclaiming that they have to study hard for some test, and it's the WORST THING EVER.

There are way more worse things. Think harder
What's not true about the open source of React?
No particular point to this comment other than I noticed at the time of this comment,the AMA started 6 hours ago, the question was asked an hour ago and you replied 9 minutes ago.

Good on you for checking back and updating things, not doing an hour long hit and run like so many do on reddit. It reinforces that you care about keeping people informed and not just getting some visibility to your business.

Thanks!
AMP is absolutely a proprietary format.
To each their own. I'd rather retire at 35-37 then have to try to stick it out in the tech industry in my 40s and face the ageism that comes with that.
Think about this, burning power in every office while gaining a 100x redundancy factor may be worth it.

The cost of going from 99% to 99.999% can be a 100000x increase in the software space.

For reference Bitcoin has a 99.99% uptime per http://www.bitcoinuptime.com/
There's a phrase I'm fond of:

As long as you don't want my money for it, I'll be more than happy to help you get the fuck out. I hope you never return.
Have founders successfully applied to YC with just an idea? A "hey I think this would be cool, here's some data with respect to the market but I don't have a product"?

If not, what would you need to see from an application with no product to be accepted into YC?

If so, what was about that application that made you believe in them so much?
I guess I'm thinking of precision in terms of the very close relationship between the game's logical model with the visual representation.
I don't know about in the US, but under Australian consumer law companies are required to provide a 2 year warranty against defects.

I think the number of customers who are genuinely affected by this is so low that HP might be happy to just pay off the handful of customers who complain to them. If you're using 3rd party inks, you're probably not a customer that HP want anyway. If no one actually tries to get a refund, we won't know.
If you are considering how to build a native app, reasons why you don't like Javascript are relevant.
One problem is who is actually represented. The dozens or hundreds of families that are priced out of the town, can't vote, because they've been prevented from living there. By definition, local elections are going to favor the people already living there.
Nothing, actually, it's a quality library, just old.

I can think of a few algorithms that have changed or been created since the 1990s so I have to assume there's something that can be done to optimize it.

There's also a severe lack of "in-browser" CV solutions (which could be fun), instead opting for binding OpenCV in the server-side.
> all of the revenue from these ads and trackers, without the bloat.

That is impossible. AMP is just forcing some changes and using better tech architecture for the rest. There are already slow AMP pages because of all the re-added plugins, trackers, media and ads.

Other sites could easily work on better tech delivery to improve performance without AMP, which now only decreases the amount of resources/time they have to work on their own site.
Elon Musk May Name the First Spaceship to Mars After the Heart of Gold
Launch abort should provide a safety margin on launch. It does less well in other segments of the mission, such as deep space, reentry, or landing. If you're looking at deep space missions, there've been issues at all of these.

There are also the instances of missions (Japan fairly recently in a Venus probe) where issues affecting an unmanned flight but not causing failure of the mission, would result in failure of a manned flight (expenditure of all life support resources).

The estimates here do suggest some significant loss of life will be expected. That's not unheard of in voyages of discovery, colonisation, and exploration.
BTW there are (were) two main forms of assembler formats, the one shown above and "unix form" which is a little more terse "movl" vs. "move.l" addressing modes are also slightly different - neither is 'right', you use what your tools do
> He also rants about using the best language that catches the most errors but then picks Swift as his solution.

That is because he is weighing solutions for developing native apps on Apple devices, where Swift is one of the best options.
American democracy: suck it up, you don't really have a choice.
So, instead they are going to pay fees to third parties who provide cloud-based "blockchain-as-a-service" which functions as a centralized (on Azure) settlement database?
The giant 1MB image in this post should be fixed, goes against the rest of the principles.
Hey Sam,

What's the difference between being persistent and wasting time? I'm curious as to where you draw the line.
World's first three-parent-baby
Wow...I even spelled it out at one point and still screwed it up while abbreviating it! Thanks man. I'll fix it. :)
Copperhead OS: Secure Android
It does have a compile time cost and that's not negligible... although with all the heavy transpilation going on these days, a bit of type checking might drown that out.

At a previous job we tried TypeScript but it took around 20 seconds to build our front end. Since then I hear speed has improved.
I'm 27 and I've cofounded only one company in a lifestyle industry (video games). Despite being nearish the top of my particular field, I don't have a PhD in a relevant field like AI. Games are hard in that they are very competitive, but we're not exactly curing cancer.

How behind am I, assuming my primary goal is maximizing positive impact on the world?
High demand. Very small supply.
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I guess you missed the main point of the quote.

If you have power, and your opponents only have the moral high ground, your opponents will lose.

According to the historical sources (on wikipedia), the Athenians executed all the adult males, and took everybody else into slavery.

Much like the situation of the Ukraine. Russia decided it wanted a warm water port, and then took it. Nobody else said anything.
From what I've read, you want as little as possible to do with Tizen:

https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/15001/enlightened
The state of Apple may be okay for you personally, but the rest of the Pro market is famously neurotic about maximum power and maximum stability. A video editing shop isn't content with rendering on three year old hardware, or having frequent updates and bugs to mess with their workflow. The article's not just sewing FUD.
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I read Peter Thiel's advice as being more along the lines of finding a small beachhead that you can conquer to get started, then using that as a base to push into a big market.
It's not bullshit if it's a valid consideration when you are trying to build an app on say iOS and weighting it against say Swift. How many times does this need to be said? It depends on what you are trying to do and what you want.
You might also like WebTube if you're looking for a good way to search and browse YT as well.
If we edit our application after we submit it, then are you notified? Or is there a chance you read our application before we edit it and you miss our edits?
Bay Area economy outpaces U.S., China
MyLG real-time trace route vs. MTR (my trace route)
SpaceX has raised quite a bit of money from private investors with long time horizons, so that option definitely hasn't escaped their notice.
The title should be "Ready, Set, Hacktoberfest!".
Does the BofA "Azure Blockchain" have voting non-BofA nodes, or is it BofA-controlled? Suppose BofA wanted to roll back a transaction? Whose permission would they need? Is this the same blockchain as the HSBC/BofA blockchain intended for use for trade finance?

There's a use for a blockchain where the voting members are, say, the top 20 banks worldwide. It would be tough to get more than half of them to agree to change something. If half of them agree to change something, it probably really needed to be changed.
I refuse to believe that disk space is less as it can leverage other libraries in the deps list to load at run time and other can use it too.

For static executable the same dependent library will have to linked to all binaries. Maintenance is a pain in the neck.
"On WMT En → Fr, it takes around 6 days to train a basic model using 96 NVIDIA K80 GPUs"

Notice that the actual Google Translate uses a much bigger dataset than that.
It seems half these questions are from Single Founders. Considering YC's interest in experimenting with who and what they fund...

Has YC ever considered a class of only single founders and trying to solve the problems YC anticipates with single founder startups (i.e. emotional support, etc...)

It seems to me that the demand is there, and the potential for single founders to succeed is certainly possible... why not experiment putting together a track that "fills in the blanks" for singe founders much the way YC does with legal and accounting for startups to get started.

Edit: I recognize the signaling issue of not being able to convince a cofounder to join, etc... but sometimes signals are just noise.
Well, Yammer is not going away, they are just changing the way they sell (Standalone vs part of O365)
You'd run "pkg-manager upgrade", just like you do with dynamic linking.
Awesome! I didn't realize it was an open event

Are they held on a regular basis?
No, sadly I have not. But I am very interested if I could afford such things and this was not a hobby.

Ahmon Dancy talked about his experience doing DB programming for Allegro and they sound, as a group and a generalization, super competent from this talk, so much so I would love to have a reason as a cheap wannabe to use their graph DB.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7nEZ3TuFpA
Very curious to know more about legal (licensing?) problems doing VR work on Apple computers. I tried to search but didn't find anything that seemed related. Is it specific to Oculus and Vive hardware? I know of other companies who literally use Apple notebooks as the monitor for their VR rigs.
When you know all the participants you don't need to roll back the chain you can just call the other side and tell them to add the inverse transaction. If they won't do it you have the courts to make them.
Hi Sam, I would like to apply for Winter 2017. If we are not accepted for this batch, would it hurt our future chances (i.e. could we apply again for the next batch without being negatively affected).
The problem with that is Google can deny you rights to bundle Play Store... and they will if they see you as a thread... and you're fucked.
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-fPIE? Works on OpenBSD.