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The promise and pitfalls of machine learning
Watson is a made up marketing concept for IBM's collection of fragmentary services, almost all of which run on deep learning of some sort.
what is your goal?

a) just improve coding skills >> code from scratch
b) have a website up and running >> use a wp theme

personal note: I dont really get "lack of uniqueness" - in terms of features or just visual appearance?
Make your own unique Wordpress theme.
Consulting will murder you. You'll never build a product while consulting.

Read your employment contract and talk to a lawyer. Don't put anything on paper before you leave. I'm not a lawyer but you have 3 problems:

-- if you design products while employed, your contract may assign ownership of those 'thoughts, ideas and inventions whether reduced to practice or not' to your boss

-- you're planning to recruit your coworkers to come with you? may violate your non-solicitation clause.

-- if you're a senior employee and your new company is in the same area as the old company, your old company may be able to stop you from working (period) under your noncompete.
They are indeed reducing bias, and finding value where others aren't, such as in candidates with non-traditional backgrounds.

When I interviewed with TripleByte I had just come out of a 3-month bootcamp, and spent the prior 3 yrs as a teacher. Most companies did not look twice at my resume and it was very tough to break in. TripleByte didn't look at all and judged on ability instead of credentials. I haven't seen that from other recruiting / sourcing organizations and give them a lot of credit for it.
Isn't this exactly what the radio feature does?
Funny, I was just thinking about this and Steve Blank.

Early at IMVU we really struggled with our crash rate. It was a 3D desktop application for _mainstream computers_. This was back before Windows 7 and everyone had terrible onboard graphics chips with equivalently terrible drivers.

During a board of advisors meeting, our CEO presented our crash metrics and justified it by saying "We might not be able to improve these metrics much - we're one of the only applications shipping 3D graphics on almost every computer."

Steve Blank immediately ripped into him: "That's an engineer's justification! Figure it out!"

I felt pretty guilty because I was the one who'd planted that idea in our CEO's head just days before.

Of course there _were_ ways to improve application reliability in the presence of driver crashes. You just have to move the rendering code into another process like Chrome does, detect when it crashes, and restart. :)
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I guess I shouldn't be surprised that most people on HN don't like this attitude. I used to think this kind of thing was stupid too. "Oh, management by fiat, that will never work". I see comments here talking about management by fear, or, ironically, making excuses as to why this won't work most places.

I've worked in numerous Fortune 500's, and without a doubt the biggest piece missing from the dysfunctional teams is always accountability. Or lack of responsibility and ownership (said another way). The high performing teams don't tolerate excuses or abdication of responsibility. They may not come right out and say it explicitly, but between the lines of success, that's what's going on. If you're on a team that sucks, it's probably because no one cares about doing a good job.

There are many ways to increase accountability and responsibility, but sometimes people do need to lose their jobs. Trying hard is not sufficient when you're making six figures a year. Steve Jobs (I think) had the quote - "Somewhere between the janitor and the CEO, excuses stop mattering". In my world, that's once you start making 100% more money than the median. I've never seen a big organization that couldn't lose 25% of its people and not miss a beat. In some cases 50%.

Anyways, our culture has moved beyond responsibility and accountability. People joke about participation ribbons and "everyone gets a trophy" - but speaking generally, most of the younger employees I've encountered don't know what it takes to really succeed. They don't understand how hard you actually have to work to be better-than-competent at something. I know it sounds very "get off my lawn" - but the change (generalizing of course) is real enough.
Every time I say something like that, someone tells me that we're better off the way things are. Tracking is BS. Ads are a great way to make my computer fetch data that I neither need nor want, and to run programs that work against my best interests using my own CPU cycles. I'm not completely convinced that we wouldn't be better off dumping the current state of the art and re-designing from first principles.
Sorry if I wasn't clear. Using a time-dependent BVH (where instead of two vec3 for the corners you store four, one pair for t=0 and one for t=1) is an "optimization". Given the later sentence:

> After that, he applied the same optimization to triangles (for actual character geometry)

it suggested that the bug was just using a single bounding box that ignored the motion (which is correct, but slow).
> The parent comment was talking about his household.

No, I really was talking about HN :). When an article about bike helmets pops up it usually leads to civil but heated debate (and yes, I got burned once). Inside joke, nothing sanctimonious ;).
For some added fun: algebraic numbers are the set of all numbers which are roots of rational polynomials. You know, things like sqrt 2, along with all the rationals themselves. Algebraic numbers comprise the vast majority of real numbers we ever have a reason to actually use.

These are also merely countable...
All of them, except "pet".
The entire Southern Hemisphere gets light on December mornings. The summer solstice for the Southern Hemisphere is during December.
If anyone would like to see/interact with some more interesting patterns (often with explanations), I just finished this WebGL Conway's app a couple weeks ago: http://symbolflux.com/conwayz/
Is there a share to all button for Snapchat, Instagram, WhatsApp and other?
I am so fed up by recording across multiple apps to convey the same message out. Is there anyone who is doing a share to all button for stories? It will make life so easy!
Ah, if the trend toward nastier and more potent fentanyl analogues was an expected and predicted consequence of opioid prohibition. That would have been nice to know!

Before opioid prohibition deaths from opioid use were quite rare. You ever heard a pothead drone on about "it's nearly impossible to overdose from smoking marijuana"? The same thing applies to smoking opium. It's nearly impossible to overdose on that. But prohibition has pushed us from opium smoking and oral laudanum to injectable heroin to fentanyl and now we're at carfentanil.

The current USian "opioid crisis" is another manifestation of opioid prohibition pushing people from safer, cheaper, less disruptive and deadly drugs to more deadlier ones. Two decades ago some USian opioid users could go to pill mills and get prescriptions for pharmaceutical grade opioids but the DEA kicked down doctor's doors a bunch and that ended up pushing people to the illicit market. Maybe next time you see those scary increasing graphs of opioid deaths vs time, give that a thought? Sum up all those deaths (compared to the baseline, prior to the increased LEA focus on "pill mills) and ask yourself: are all those needless deaths worth it?

For a unit volume (so, for a unit risk of ending up in a concrete box as a consequence of shipping/making raw product) of uncut/active material, you want to be able to sell the most diluted/cut doses to end-users. Of course people will want their chemist to synthesise carfentanil (over regular fentanyl), because you can supply the the same number of end-user doses with 10,000 times less active material. The harder the enforcement, the more potent this selection pressure gets: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_law_of_prohibition
weed cures my depression. so why deprive myself of something I enjoy doing?
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Airgaps are not just the physical separation of systems, but also auditing and filtering of what goes on to the airgapped machine.

One can get many of the properties of an air gapped system by compartmentalizing ones activities. Only playing media in the media-vm, only surfing the web in the web-vm, and only doing banking and high security stuff in the security-vm. Many of these systems wouldn't need persistent storage. And each one has different requirements, for the VM doing banking one could remove the root certs for everything except the sites you care about. Each VM could be on its own VPN, for the security-vm one could choose a network exit that was closest to the desired endpoint.

Copying media files from a guest to the host would compromise the air gapped machine. The host should not do any general purpose computing and nor should there be an account with special administrator privileges.

Look at https://www.qubes-os.org/
This seems like a decent primer for someone who already has their heads wrapped around application development, but absolutely horrid for someone who wants to pick up a web language for the first time and create that first simple output.

That first simple output IMO is critical for retention and engaging the language knowing exactly what you're going to get by looking at dirt simple code like echo hello world; at least it was for me as PHP was one of my very first languages

The intent is well meaning in this "real world" hello world, but I feel like taking the espoused mentality in the opening paragraph, one is throwing construction tools at a toddler who asked for a box of legos for christmas.

Curious what others think
So you've never used it, it probably doesn't work with every app, but it does a few of the same thing so it's probably the same?

That seems like it would be offensively dismissive to people who have to deal with this issue.

Apple puts a phenomenal amount of work into allowing people with all sorts of different handicaps and disabilities to be able to use their devices. I remember being in college before the iPhone was out. I had a blind classmate who had a special Nokia Symbian phone with thousands of dollars of software on it just so he could use it. All paid for by insurance, and it crashed all the time.

I don't think I've ever seen an article say a bad thing about Apple's assistive technologies. They are built-in, they don't cost extra, they basically work everywhere. Developers don't even have to put in that much work to make use of it. It's a core part of the system which means that when they decided to build watchOS it was already there and ready for people with disabilities. When they updated the Apple TV to use a version of iOS it got lots of the accessibility features as well.
(I'm a US immigrant, generalisations have issues) One thing I've noticed is that culture in the US seems to focus more on the getting caught side of things, versus the wrong doing in the first place.

The classic case is tax returns, where you tell the government how much you made, what you deduct, and hence how much you owe. Because a proportion of the information is self reported, it is (especially in the past) possible to cheat. Anecdata is that cheating, and getting away with it is somewhat common, and not frowned on by society.

Another is speeding on the roads, where ire is directed at the process of catching speeders versus the reason for the limits and their levels.
You do a great disservice to the people overdosing with such a middling dismissal. This is not a 'moral panic' this is a medical disaster unfolding in slow motion.

The combination of the technology to synthesize these drugs from unconstrained pre-cursors, the intensity of their effect, the lack of education on the part of consumers, and a tracking/enforcement system which responds more slowly than conditions change is leading to a situation where tens of thousands of people are going to die essentially at their own hand.

It is not a question of 'people like to get high' it is that 'people getting high on arbitrary things will kill themselves'.

I understand that you're approaching this from a legalization standpoint, and on that we agree. But the overdose rate is "actually" sweeping the country now and that is born out by the available reports of emergency rooms around the country. And between your "regulated and safe" future and now, there is a large pile of unnecessarily dead people.
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Kevin Mitnick

Barry Minkow (except he couldn't seem to give up his old ways and is in prison again)
yet many businesses happily create such situations and expect us to suck it up.

In the long run, such businesses tend to reap what they sow.

http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/2017/02/i-met-one-of...
Agree with renaming the article (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13846741) - but I'm glad Blank posted this rather than not posting for fear of HN attacks for not wording things perfectly.

> There is a conscientiousness that comes from being an owner of a company.

The examples Blank uses in his article is VP-level (highly paid, large equity grants, etc). I think a lot of people are interpreting his advice in the context of someone who isn't managing people.

> It's rare to have an employee who maintains the same level of attention as an "owner."

Agree. But if you are a manager, you are the "owner" (and responsible) for the work of your direct reports.
Ultimately it depends on the individual's scenario. Both sides are extremely challenging. Without more info, it's up to them to decide which best suits their situation. They're already thinking of going the consulting route, so I'm providing an argument for a different way so they can fully weigh as many possibilities as possible

So, the downside of consulting for one is that he's just going back to freelancing, just now with his buddy. But more importantly, the downside is simply that projects are always under-estimated, you'll grow your business ponzi-scheme style (new projects paying for old), eventually have more engineers, and be responsible for them, etc. Typical scene. They will have severely complicated their lives, whereas what a startup/product needs is simplicity and space to focus (i.e. not a plethora of projects distracting you and occupying more time than hoped). So it may very well be a long while before they truly create the space to do their own product whole-heartedly. I'm not saying it can't be done. They need to weigh whether they want to go through all that.

VERSUS:

a year from now (presumably after demanding a raise) taking 6-12 months off to work on their own product, and if it fails, simply going and getting another job (they'll be better engineers, and it will therefore be easier to get jobs).

At the end of the day, the biggest--and perhaps hidden--factor is whether you have kids. If you don't have kids (or people other than yourself to take care of), and you can't create this environment for yourself, you have other problems. But more than likely while at this stage of your life, you have options. So the trick is not to get yourself into trouble with large under-estimated projects for other people, and to do whatever it takes to create time for yourself and your own projects. That's the name of the game. That's what it's all about. I.e. keeping it simple. Don't get yourself into trouble with too many projects, projects that are too big, working for too much potential that doesn't pan out. Get short low responsibility projects, and make your #1 focus creating time for your own projects.
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Or you can start building with the framework like studiopress.
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With airlines pissing so many people off you'd think the trains would be catering to customers.

Instead, they are just using the excuse to be frustrating and expensive. Take Amtrak from NYC (Penn Station) to D.C. and you'll understand the lost opportunity.

It's only a tiny bit better, and a tiny bit cheaper.

(I commute from CT to NYC on Metro-North and have the same
problem with them. In 5 years, my Metro-North monthly has gone up $200 and ride times are 50% longer.)
Talking about smalltime saas where the TAM is 10M annually.

My biggest competitors founder just quit his own SaaS because he thinks his cofounder is not that smart and I'm running a testimonial with his face on it saying "This is the product I actually wanted to build when I started [other company]"

So yea. Why not :P
Does it? Maybe it's a huge false flag campaign.

You should always operate under the assumption that "they" can see everything they want to see on your internet connected device if they deem you important enough.

For example, what's with that one news story about government agencies being unable to break TrueCrypt. How did that get out? Sounds like a huge bullshit campaign to me, aimed at creating trust in TrueCrypt! (Yes thank you very much I know about VeraCrypt)
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My interpretation is he's simply advocating that if someone is aware of an issue that will set a project deadline back, don't keep it a secret and surprise everyone when the deadline isn't met.

If this is his point, he's a lousy writer.
If front-end UI components for enterprise apps are your "niche", then I'd suggest a 2-pronged approach:

1) Publish a library of pre-built, generic UI components suited to a particular domain. Use a license like Creative Commons to charge for commercial use, but make the library available for free trials.

2) Offer hourly consulting services to enhance/adapt the components to specific needs.
This is one of the grey areas of the US criminal justice system that deeply worries me. By his own account, he willingly participated in a huge accounting fraud, in fact, he seems to have originated some of the most ingenious schemes to turn a regular crooked small private company, into a public one, defrauding many "small" investors along the way. And yet, he was let go (although at least he IS a convicted felon).

All this while thousands of Americans languish in jail/prison for nonviolent drug charges.
I would not say so. In agile, individual developer does not have personal responsibility for anything. In this system, individual person had own task and was accountable for that task completion. It also sounds like they were working independently and wouldn't get help unless they asked for it.

"I will fire you if deadline is suddenly not met and no one else is there find out before if you don't say so" is on the opposite extreme from agile "everything is collective task, we check up on you every four hours and you are neither autonomous nor responsible".
No, and in fact I've used PIA and been very happy with them before. I'm just saying that when you consider your options, and your risk profile, keep all factors in mind.
I had similar feelings, although I wouldn't use the word nasty. I found it to be an intolerant attitude.

I also was uncomfortable that the author felt that she should have pushed women's or gay people's issues? Why should she? I actually spend a lot of my time challenging people who push these barrows (eg. Domestic violence is not gendered, people who pretend it is are sexist. This sexism stems from people who want to segregate the community and who have no respect for truth).

I don't find this article insightful. That doesn't mean it can't be posted. However, it feels out of place. I like articles that expand understanding in meaningful ways by providing additional meaningful knowledge or by challenging our views and beliefs. This article did neither for me.
It is as if running a company was a new thing and people have to figure it out in 2017 without any kind of reference point.
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I remember in one Plato dialogue a reference to the dream in a dream in a .. concept. I m sure it goes back to earlier religious thoughts too especially Asian ones.
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Great advice. I'd only add that the OP seems like he's from a foreign country and doesn't have English fluency.

When you can't speak English fluently your shop's greatest strength will be technical prowess. Soft skills take a backseat until OP learns English fluently.
I feel the need to temper all the praise Helpscout is getting in this thread.

While Helpscout is good, it's very far from perfect.
I commend your ambition. Reach for the stars my friend.

It sounds like you are serious about staring a new business and certainly have a working knowledge of your industry. Do you want to become a real business or do work as independent contractors. If you want to become a real business you would need to establish licensing and tax obligations.

Many entrepreneurs have experience and really good ideas of what kind of business they see themselves succeeding in but do not have an understanding of how to actually establish a legal business. Most people understand that they might need a business license from the city, but don't think or know that they need anything further. Searching the internet to find information about starting a business is possible, but there is so much information that it becomes frustrating and time consuming.

If you are serious about starting a real business then I know how valuable your time can be I would recommend using a service such as Simple Licenses. The real value comes from having the peace of mind to knowing that experts have done the necessary work of finding all the licensing and permit applications from each different branch of government. Every business is required to be licensed at the Federal, State & Local levels. Simple Licenses create a custom business licensing report that gives detailed descriptions, fees & contact info, and easy to understand directions on how to apply for each license and with each branch of government. This report gives you, the entrepreneur, a meaningful and tangible way to open and operate a new business.

Check out the website here https://simplelicenses.com

Hopefully that helps forward you down the path of starting a new business!
I worked a contract at a company. Met my cofounder there. My contract ended. We began working on a thing.
There's also a blind Android accessibility engineer at Google.

The differences probably come more from the splintered android landscape and Apple's stricter review process.

Source: met him
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I'm with you. I couldn't believe that "I let the fish go" was the example of 'not going anywhere'. She spends the first half of the poem dissecting it with her eyes and the second half writing its biography -- if this isn't a journey I don't know what is.

If you haven't heard her reading it the audio is here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJsFCI9_BeA.
This is a good question, and I would like to know the answers as well. Although, seeing that the credit rating agencies that enabled the Great Recession are still in business...it seems unlikely that they have changed anything.

The only instance I've heard of an accounting company truly blowing up is probably Arthur Anderson after the Enron scandal.
The man who just "carried the message to Garcia" actually had autonomy and trust. When the President heard of the delivery, he didn't ask if Rowan followed the previously established ruleset for message delivery.

Petulant, undetermined people do exist in subordinate roles. However, oftentimes managers put up barriers but then weep and moan into their hands - why oh why can't my job be to sit and ask for things to be completed?