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Ask HN: How can one offer free services to work with VCs/startups
I really wish to work with some VC firms and Startups to offer my expertise for free and just getting more involved with them. I am not really sure how to approach them or do they even need such help.

I do not wish to charge any money but instead just want to be more involved with the community. (I currently work as a data scientist/engineer by profession.)

Has anyone here tried such thing before?
Wrong!
The title should read : Regulations so strict, 60 years of advances in technology can't make it to the market place.

To see what we are missing, Just take a look at experimental aviation which is not as heavily regulated..

*I did most of my basic training on a 172 and I love them like I love a favorite old pair of shoes.
The Onion is fake news, so it probably should be disputed, especially considering there are many instances of people considering it as real news.
You express a vital misunderstanding of capitalism. Companies do not take the actions that are best for their long term health. They take the actions that are best for their health in the foreseeable future. Further, FB is a private company that owns largest forum for online socializing and public discourse. They are a private entity that controls the commons. I don't care about FB's profit motives; I care that their actions directly erode one of the core requisites of a healthily functioning complex society, so that is what I will talk about. It is not okay to make money by fucking shit up.

edit: I don't understand your stance on satire outfits. Was the Onion a satire publication in 1988? If so, how do you square that with your claim?

edit2: You refer to "malicious newsfeed entries." It's interesting that the only large scale activity that can even begin to consistently be considered such is the creation of "dark posts," which FB's censorship program does zilch to combat.
Before you start, read up. I have the impression you think you can make a quick buck. Mining large scale is expensive and the field is heavily contested.

The biggest cost is electricity. You compete against mining farms in China and wherever electricity is as cheap. Sit down and calculate the cost of electricity per mined unit currency.

Hardware should also be efficient because if you buy lots of servers, heat is going to become a serious problem.
Because then you can prove any theorem (by applying modus ponens), which makes
the theory uninteresting.
The issue with tricky algorithms questions is that they often become tests of how well you can keep your cool. I've (and I'm sure others have also) bombed relatively easy questions due to nervousness compounding. I've also done much better than expected on other interviews because I remained calm and kept the interview flowing smoothly. This is the real skill under test, IMO. Of course, your ability to solve problems is still important, and a subset of what's being tested. The issue is just that there's a lot of (possibly inherently random) factors that cloud that signal.
And the other side said the system was fair. We can trust the results. Anyone who challenges the results is a threat to Democracy.

BEFORE the election everyone was confident and trusting of the election. It wasn't until AFTER the Election that we all of a sudden started to care about Russia "hacking" the election.

I mean... which is it? it's fair and trustworthy if you win but it's not trustworthy and fair if you lose?

Honestly though... if there is a secret system for "actually" selecting the President... do you think those secret puppet masters would choose Trump?
And that content would have to be downscaled and probably converted to another texture format, too, unless you can get people to be okay with waiting for gigabytes of data to be downloaded. Along with this comes extra costs for managing the additions to the asset pipeline that this incurs. Supporting another platform isn't just about code, it's about content creation, asset management, and testing, too.
It's most likely a jumping off point. One way to learn painting in the past was to copy paintings made by masters. So as the economy develops and more people can afford to take risks, innovations should be more common (unless govt intervention prevents it). Japan was viewed upon as a land of where cheap imitations were made.
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I said the bias was collective, not individual.

Individual Germans may not have thought of themselves as particularly bigoted against Jews, but that didn't stop them from participating in regimes that marginalized them.

Most of the people fighting against slavery owned slaves. Jim Crow persisted well into the sixties and it's probable that many of the people against slavery would have been for Jim Crow.

It's very possible for the hiring market to be biased against liquidity even when everyone wishes it were easier to hire.
I mostly deal with it by yelling, screaming, cursing, throwing things, and threatening (in a non-specific and non-literal way) to "kill the motherfucker that made this site".

And then I think about installing an ad-blocker for 2 or 3 minutes, but usually by then I've calmed down and I just go on with whatever it was I was doing to begin with. Lather, rinse, repeat.
I'd expect they have a reasonably effective approach for A/B testing. Essentially, you want a uniformly random sample of your users, but you also want to enforce some properties about "connectedness" of the users in the sample, since user-user interaction might be an interesting metric to track. I think the buzzwords related to this sort of thing is "causal inference."

Based on the performance of some sample, you might decide to tweak the feature and release it to a new sample. The buzzwords for this would be "bandit algorithms."
The specific case of pre- and post- memory management could be handled by hooks (like in emacs lisp) or automatically through an abstraction along the lines of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_acquisition_is_initia...

I'd argue that some languages have some quite powerful syntactic conventions. Pattern matching and algebraic data types are very clear and concise (and statically-checkable) ways to write code. A whiteboard can't compete in the concrete case of covering all the possibilities and proving it. There's clearly more wit in those constructs than in a simple AST, which seems to me to contradict your claim.
Speaking as a business owner actively hiring... the cost of a mishire is huge. It is difficult to understate mishire costs. This means you have to simply spend a lot of time with candidates. Even then you have a narrow window of time, relative to how long the business and employee have to live with one another, to figure out if it is a match. This means you will say no to a lot of people after investing significant time and effort into them (and them into your business). We owe it to our teams to hire well. If that means making it harder, so be it. Think about if it is easier for the wrong people to slip in under the radar. It can wreck culture and team quick. Most teams and businesses dont spend enough time. In Work Rules (Bock) they found the first four long interviews they did helped a lot at Google. After that interviews added one percent accuracy in judging a hire. It is a hard problem and I think the first and foremost goal in any hiring process that is well developed aims to make good hires the #1 priority.

I won't discount your theory of a bias, but I think it is a small influencer if it exists.
What do they use as investment? Personal savings, loans, VC?
Respectfully, it's not about counterpointing, or there only being one way to be right.

It's more about developing a positive and healthy inner mental and emotional dialogue that allows you to live in a viewpoint of seeing and acting on possibility instead of worshipping doubts to drag ourselves and others down.

Innovation, improvement happens by pushing yourself to grow, not finding faults in everything around you and in yourself.

No one will be in your corner if you aren't.
Commits aren't automated and their contributions aren't commensurate. It's a distributed system, but not one solving the same problem.

We can always torture the concrete into extended metaphor. It just doesn't add any value here.
Gutenberg has a free textbook from 1911. No idea whether it's any good or not.

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18251
This statement is points to why it doesn't suck for most people "In practice, it wasn't a whole lot better than dial-up Internet—in speed or reliability."

At the time of adoption, many people were on dial-up or just moving to slightly faster internet speeds and they were accessing the internet via wifi, so they didn't notice a drop in performance. Wifi speed increased along with access to faster internet.

Is it as fast as it can possibly be? No, but it's like having a Ferrari in highway traffic. Most people can't take advantage of the technical capabilities of anything that would be considered better.
> for one, because they are NOT time-bound

I find this point interesting, as to me, this would be an argument for, not against. Time constraints on homework assignments are a lot closer to the constraints you'd have programming for a job than "whiteboard coding" would be. I'd hazard a guess that doing a good job on an in-depth, open-ended problem given a few days to a week is a better indicator of ability to be a successful software engineer than being able to solve a logic puzzle on a whiteboard in fifteen minutes.
Spam detectors are clearly also political in nature. And I know some Nigerian princes that you really need to meet.
This seems to be the biggest risk with Uber.

I think they will probably end up working with the first company to have autonomous cars "ready". The big question is what happens next. Will Uber be at the mercy of that supplier every few years as the contact comes up for renewal, or will autonomous cars become so commodity that there will be multiple players competing to be Uber's supplier? Another possibility is an M&A event.
From what I've seen the best hiring process seems to be Automattic's. They do a short interview over chat then give them a project if they pass the interview where they pay them $25/hr and then evaluate at the end. Minimal time wasted for both parties.
They've been saying that since the Chinese economy opened up in the 80s, really opened up in the 90s, really really opened up in the 2000s. so far, nothing in 35 years. Japan had so much innovations in way less time. meanwhile China's economy is crashing down, and no more free FDI to fuel any further progress
Why aren't we focusing on the source of news instead of the truth of it?

Nothing is purely true or false because everything falls on a continuum. Words can be strictly true but the sentiment can be false or vice versa.

So, a better system is one that attempts to trace back to the source and then you let the reader decide if it's true. Lots of things happen along the way until a news story gets to you.

Even direct access to the POTUS twitter account isn't the original source, he's just reciting something he heard. Until there is a technological system that quickly and immediately traces news stories back to the source we will all just continue to be stuck in our own confirmation biases.

News outlets protect their sources? Fine. Then the endpoint is that news source. I can then use analytics to discern how true that source has proven to be in the past and/or if the person saying it is typically left/right etc.

Based on data you can decide what to believe.

I'd also like to see some data on why the POTUS may be lying and not just the fact that he is lying. Sometimes its ego but other times its a red herring.

I like John Oliver (in doses) but after watching a few shows it's clear that his show is full of cognitive biases. It is impossible that he doesn't know that he's cutting corners at a minimum.

It got me thinking after his show on Apple and encryption. It was pretty clear that in that show he definitely took some creative license. After I thought about it, it makes sense; his whole show is about how ridiculous something is and not to provide both sides of a story.

Here's how you know the media is biased. When was the last time you turned on MSNBC and heard them say anything positive at all about the POTUS?

Even by accident he must have done something they would normally consider good.

You will lie to yourself (cognitive bias). the media lies in a number of ways, politicians lie in many different ways for different reasons and all of that comes to you by way of massive corporations who, well, you get my point.

Forget trying to find the truth. Focus on the source of the story then tear apart that source with data and analytics until you can reach some kind of consensus about the degree of truth you are hearing.
How can a combination of existing maps/car technology and LIDAR pinpoint at high resolution where a car is? Imagine a scenario where a car needs to merge across two lanes of traffic and turn into an alley. The car has to be able to plan the merges before it gets to the alley, and know that it is at the proper place to turn. Before you say "GPS" think of how often your phone's GPS messes up.
I remember being taught about approximations, rounding and significant numbers near the end of primary school. It was part of explaining why the calculators we used[0] displayed 1/3 as 0.333333 (because they rounded internally, of course). And, we were told, because a lot of calculations with calculators had this rounding error, those last few numbers we saw on the screen would be incorrect, especially if we did repeated multiplications and additions with them. So, our maths book instructed, we had to round down our answers to the same number of digits that we started the calculations with.

This, of course, was not at all the right way to explain what significant numbers are, but that's how they were introduced to us.

Anyway, I figured that (obviously) rounding after every step would only create a bigger error, so it would be best to only round at the end to get the best approximation. Then my teacher docked points for that. One of many "and I still kinda feel upset at my teacher for that" memories.
They will probably allow even more work from home as the technology of avatar visuals improve enough that people feel like high bandwidth personal communication between people is possible and comfortable.

You'd really have to capture facial expressions and body language for that work work well.

Not sure how doable that is with avatars instead of 3d video, and not sure how you'd get the video to not lose anything while editing out the VR goggles.
The main reason I mentioned the CEO's, is outside of perceived differences or challenges, achieving goals often require becoming a lot better than one probably should have had to.

Attitude, curiosity, work ethic, being easy to get along with and work with others go a long way.
The QUEST Kodiak is filling in for many of the larger NGOs. I believe it was designed for that express purpose (taking over where the small avgas powered planes could no longer operate due to the price or availability of avgas).

Unfortunately Turboprops come with a whole new set of maintenance requirements but otherwise it's an excellent aircraft and working out quite well.
if you are attempting to draw out salinger's orange peels(o), i would argue the tree makes a sound

if you are sincerely asking.. i suppose i'd answer: well the same as the state of the universe: empty; now what would be the meaning of the concept that the term, or symbol, seven refers to? well, still 7, but such a universe would lack the necessary representations to express it

my mathematical research begins in an 'empty universe' and questions the most base of assumptions necessary to get to a representation of, for instance, 7

an empty universe actually contains enough information to express all information utilising mathematics: the current empty 0, and the potential any state replacing the empty state 1; if time.. when emptiness begins and ends.. is allowed to be considered

(o) http://materlakes.enschool.org/ourpages/auto/2013/2/25/50973...

> "Someone just dumped a whole garbage can of orange peels out the window." ...
"They float very nicely," he said without turning around. "That's interesting." ...
"I don't mean it's interesting that they float," Teddy said. "It's interesting that I know about them being there. If I hadn't seen them, then I wouldn't know they were there, and if I didn't know they were there, I wouldn't be able to say that they even exist. That's a very nice, perfect example of the way--"
> the only way to release them is for the merchant to call the customer's bank and provide the, cc number and auth code.

Who is your payment processor? They should be voiding the auth after the AVS or CVV mismatch.
> interference is considered as noise, which means that SNR simply drops

You're arguing that PHY data rates are low because SNR is low, and SNR is low because interference is high. In my experience, this is not the case. PHY rates can be quite high, but the overall throughput is low due to inefficient channel access at the MAC layer.

Wi-Fi doesn't consider interference as noise. Since it uses CSMA/CA to manage channel access, a device can only transmit if no other interfering device is transmitting, or if background interference is very low. This is why your device can be operating at a high MCS, but actual throughput will be so much lower. If your devices are using a low MCS, it's more likely that they're getting a weak signal from the access point.
Docker is just a container, anything you can boot you can put in a container. That doesn't make what he did "basically a docker image".
I replied to you elsewhere but I did just remember that Google / Apple poaching deal. That isn't even a bias, but outright manipulation at a massive scale that hurt the market more than any bias probably could. I am just wondering where in the hierarchy things like this go vs. subtler market forces you are theorizing.
I can't provide you with exact sources, but I recall the same thing happening in Mexican indigenous villages with coca cola. Coca cola would subsidise the drink so that it is much cheaper than local drinks. Villagers give up their local drinks for coca cola. Once it has a monopoly, coca cola raises the prices. Villagers are unable to get back to their local drinks which no one makes anymore, and keep buying Coke.

These kind of things generally happen over many years, and you generally take it as one of the good things in life. Unfortunately before you know it, you are already paying top dollars, you have a multinational making huge margins on your back, and not many ways to get out of it.
Exactly. NYC cabs are not only extremely uncomfortable (the worst are the Ford Explorers with zero leg room.

The advertisement video loop is also a major detractor.

Typical NYC cab rides involve the driver exchanging heated language with other drivers, rude gestures, etc., and drivers frequently pretend to be naive about the best way to get from point A to point B.

Climate control systems in cabs are usually broken, and there's a thin film of human oil covering every surface.
Considering that anyone can publish anything online, and then collect money for advertising dollars on that topic, this seems like a very reasonable feature regardless of the political climate.
If the interview time is paid, sure. But if it's not, agreeing to do unbounded unpaid work for a chance of being hired for a paid gig, especially when it's not even clear the chance is particularly strongly correlated to effort put in, gets worse as a proposition the longer you spend on it.
My favorite example of this is when an interviewer asked me about an algorithm. In the course of the problem it occurred to me, what I needed was to break down the input integer into two parts--two equal parts that could be multiplied together. I kept referring to these two parts as such.

After the interview he said I was clearly weak on math because I didn't know the definition of a square root. Something I did know (10 or so college math courses in linear algebra, calc etc) and was describing, but was at a loss for words.
I feel like this could work really well if you just slap up some fake/broken solar panels on your roof that you got for dirt cheap
Poutine is Junk Food sold at McDonalds and CostCo. I would not call it "Canadian Cuisine".

If you go to any food court in Canada what you will find is a myriad of ethnic foods: Chinese, Thai, Vietnamese, Japanese, Mexican, Italian, Lebanese, etc.
And they don't care if a few dozen or more people die at the hands of their self driving car because all they care about is winning the self car driving war at all and any cost!

Some hacker or a hacker group plz teach uber a lesson in humility and make sure they pay for their sins! This is not how you win and or change the world via deaths of dozens of innocent drivers killed by your self driving unproven cars which you stole from Google.

Their lack of humility.. morals .. ethics is Unbelievable!!!
5% is more than the entire average net margin of some industries.
What do you mean by source?
There's no doubt "diversity" is corporate bs when it doesn't exist from the top down.

Such reflection also shines a light on how unreasonably hard some people, in any group are having to work to ensure organizations reflect society, and the nature of their sacrifices and commitment compared to others.
I get pissed and close the tab. I always regret visit CNN.
The court.
Last time I was in the air in a private plane was a 152 a couple of months after a friend achieved his pilot's license. We're both 6'2" and around 190lbs. It took a bit of work, and we were shoulder to shoulder the entire flight, but it was workable. The cabin of the 152 is smaller than any car I've ever been inside of. There's room behind the seats for maybe two backpacks.
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I don't believe there is a secret system. Our president does.

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/74970946297443532...

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/78799502552741068...

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/78769993071869542...

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/78761820744413184...

There are a bunch more.
Where the story first originated. Who was the first person to say it.
I work with tons of software companies that pass additional fees onto customers (so like 4% processing fee, and keep the residual).

Note - none of them I work with have used Stripe. They are normally using a gateway provider (like NMI) and a payment processor (like PayPro, Auth.net, Vantiv, etc). Stripe combines the merchant, gateway and payment processor into one bundle.
Thanks for the tips! I guess some of my frustration was that I was trying to get haste running with stack, but it needs ghc v7-something, but I'm getting ghc from pacman, so stack kept asking me to manually resolve libraries... there were other dramas and confusions too, but mostly I have little patience for making package managers play nicely, especially when I'm not very familiar with them in the first place and am new to the language! I get distracted and go off to play piano or something that's more straightforward to me :)
In my experience, hiring is the most political act a company does, meaning individual goals very often take priority over company goals.

Well above avoiding mishires, loyalty concerns are paramount in every organization I've worked for. You'd think that they'd treat hiring as the quintessential bet-the-company decision, and operate accordingly, but this simply doesn't happen. Leadership creates policies and procedures designed to introduce opacity in the process with the ostensible goal of avoiding mishires, but the real goal of preserving power.