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Have you ever gone as frugal as this to speak about it? And what would you suggest the "generation of fools" do otherwise? Get a 50k job at a big company and live happily ever after? Too much hate in that comment. (edit for grammar/typo)
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Heh .. and I thought I was the only one. I'm 38 (a research scientist) and lived in so many different cities! Because of the PhD and post-doc, the house purchase was delayed. We had a baby recently and I really feel like I need to give her stability.

Where we are, house prices have doubled since 2008. We are also trying to think out of the box in terms of where to live. Cheers!
I'm actually more of a fan of https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html - it gives you a whole lot more information (although does take longer).
http://instafamenow.net/ offers twitter followers packages as well, you can check them out.
The small cities in the Bay Area actually work against each other for a worse outcome for the whole.

See Kim-Mai Cutler's brilliant article. https://techcrunch.com/2014/04/14/sf-housing/
this must be really useful when developing your own browser
No Terms of Service, nearly no information about who made it, no privacy policy, but wants people to include its JS on their site?
Last week I made a comparison matrix against Badssl.com for different Crypto libs on OS X: https://gist.github.com/kissgyorgy/54601c883891991f28e49ac1b...
Come with 3 months tourist visa after already arranging some job interviews online, then once there go to as many as you can & once you get an offer apply for the work visa.
You know, that sounds amazing and I would totally enjoy watching that!
Wow I'm from Bulgaria and didn't know this existed. Disinformation accomplished.
And in the absence of evidence not yet collected, place their trust in traditions as those still remain the outcome of thousands of years of natural selection of cultures, as opposed to ditching old ways of doing things for the sake of being old.
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I would add a picture of the team behind the software to this page. Makes it a bit more personal.
Also I would place the second paragraph at the beginning for the same reason.
Thank you. It seems to me like you'd need variation in your Terraform file to specify that. How do you do that? The DSL doesn't have control structures.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13884750
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This is big news.

But how did they "prove" gluten sensitivity in the first place?

Was this work not reproduced by other teams? How could science be erring for so long?
Thumbs up. If this is getting down voted, all bets are off.
https://www.debian.org/misc/laptops/

http://linux-on-laptops.com/
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I don't track the Seattle market closly but several people have mentioned this. Is this just the city core or all the suburbs too? How much does a 3 bedroom go for? 4 years ago, I heard it could be had for 500K. Has it doubled?
I'm not saying that pursuing a startup is always a bad idea. I'm saying that romanticizing living in somebody else's closet as part of the startup journey is wrong.

Building something that people what is what counts. Getting customers to pay you for it is what counts. Having profits is what counts.

Software (and startups in general) doesn't get created because you're eating beans and rice, heated off a hot-plate, in the closet of your friends apartment. It gets created when you sit down to do real work.

> But I was there. I saw it, I flew to SF and met a bunch of YC co's, I saw their optimism and courage, and you could not be more mistaken about the type of people they are.

There's nothing courageous about taking unnecessary risks. That's called being foolish.

Again, I'm not saying don't take risks. To win big you have to bet big. But it's not the risks or bets that matter, it's the pay off. That's what has to make sense.

> But I'm just happy that their community grows and grows and becomes stronger in spite of your negative voice, and all the negative voices across the internet.

Reality always has a negative tone to it. If it didn't, we wouldn't need idealists.

> It seems like proof that you have to not care what people think to get things done.

Well this I can agree on.
Sure , completely valid concern , let me update those .
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To preface, I'm currently learning several disciplines in tandem along a route suggested by the link, so kudos to them for putting together a solid list of resources.

Now, from the link: "Few universities offer an education that is on par with what you can find online these days. The people pioneering the field from industry and academia so openly and competently share their knowledge that the best curriculum is an open source one."

On the one hand, it is true there are a ton of resources where the largest cost is the time it takes to go through the learning process. And I'm awestruck that research papers are so openly available and practitioners are so willing to share their knowledge to others both in posting their books as PDFs/HTML files and creating online courses.

On the other hand, how feasible is it for an individual to work on notable AI companies/projects without a Masters or PhD in a related field? Can that gap be crossed merely by becoming fluent in the various disciplines involved in AI, before contributing non-formally academic research/experiments you've conducted on your own?
Just logged in to comment on this game which brings back so many memories: transporting materials and passengers, crafting a complex network of railroad while also purchasing long term investments like apartments etc. And it required you to be patient, but when that first road appears it's like magic!! :)

Loved that game, probably didn't understand everything as a teen playing this, but i loved it so much. Interestingly I never met anyone else who played that game! :)

Cheers!
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Every few years there is something. The sandbox, the VMs, Rust, etc.

Some things never change.
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Three years ago when I was learning web development, I noticed McDelivery in India stores the plaintext password for each user — and it's still the same .

I know this because you can recover your password from them in plaintext. I find it hard to believe.
An incredibly useful resource, well maintained by some of the best people in the PKI space, recently quoted by US-CERT [1] and so quick to use that I try it before starting to use any browser.

A year ago it made me find out that the most popular iOS Tor browser doesn't check certificates at all. [2] (Use OnionBrowser instead.)

[1] https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA17-075A
[2] https://twitter.com/FiloSottile/status/765230315132559360

For an easter egg, try to click on "Defunct"...
I don't believe Meier had any influence in it. Chris Sawyer built the entire game by himself in assembly language.
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> Have you ever gone as frugal as this to speak about it?

I've been living a relatively frugal lifestyle for my entire life. Getting smart about expenses and staying that way are the surest path to financial independence.

The best advice is to disconnect your expenses from your revenues. If you make $10K more per year, don't let your expenses creep up as well. Just sock it away for a rainy day. One day you'll look back and see that you've saved up enough to pursue whatever dreams you'd like.

> And what would you suggest the "generation of fools" do otherwise? Get a 50k job at a big company and live happily ever after? Too much hate in that comment. (edit for grammar/typo)

Most startups fail so my default advice is for people to get "normal" jobs and just save up money. It's not as sexy as starting your own company but it's a known plan that works. Along the way if you come up with something as a side project and it works out, great.

By all means pursue a start up full time if you think you've got a decent idea for one and the means to do so. But there's no reason you have to live in a closet.
Also worth bearing in mind given the number of Blank's stories that start with 'I was once a VP of Marketing....'

Steve Blank was last a VP of Marketing in 1992. This should give anyone pause to think if the advice is relevant, if the story ever happened, or if Blank has another agenda in telling them.
> seeing cracks that allows a virtualised system to break out to the is scary

Hate to break this to you, but it's been shown time and time again that due to how caching and CPU pipelining works in modern processors, any "isolation" including full-on VM which is not "physical isolation" is leaky: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/e544/00824814fed2ef52bb8415... (overview of attacks)

Here is a particularly nice paper (proper methodology, well-explained intro, etc.) showing one example (a more or less regular cache timing attack, but with actual private info extraction from host, etc.): https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.08719 - these come up several times a year for various VMs, etc.
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Cool, some random lib can serve 200 OKs 100k times per second... Not really.. How is that even remotely useful with real life uses and compared to full featured frameworks/uses.
For those wondering, like me:

With "radicals" they mean normal software development, but with "radical simplicity".

However, this doesn't sound very radical to me. There are lots of simplification movements, and have ever been, in software development. Moreover, server-side static pages are already a modern trend, too.
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I'm not saying that pursuing a startup is always a bad idea. I'm saying that romanticizing living in somebody else's closet as part of the startup journey is wrong.

They are rational, intelligent adults, and they don't need or want anyone to be outraged on their behalf.
> Had a friend in Denmark employed as univerisy lecturer. His salary was very high, yet they were struggling with two kids and wife unemployed (due to language barrier).

This anecdote raises a few issues.

1. Not speaking Danish does not severely impact a job search in Denmark. Jobs from serving in a bar to working in an international company will be happy with an English speaker. There is a small language barrier but not anywhere near as big as e.g. Germany/Italy/France.

2. Denmark is definitely a country where two incomes are needed to live well.

3. The wage disparity between low and high status jobs is not that high. So if the second income is low status it will still make a big difference to household income.

4. Were your friends from outside the EU? There may have been a non language related reason for the wife to be unable to obtain work.

5. The Danish government provides free language lessons for foreigners living in Denmark - although the language is difficult.

6. Academic salaries cost of living adjusted are far better than in e.g. UK (but not as good as those for senior people in the USA).

7. At least your friend was a lecturer... In other countries their role could well have been filled by temporary staff. The Danish have rules preventing the eternal post doc situation that has developed in the UK and US.
I loved A-Train, it was a great alternative to SimCity and Settlers (two other of my favorites in the early 90s not to mention Civ)

I do seem to remember that it was relatively easy to make a killing in the stock market/real estate development on A-Train to finance the railroads.
Which is great and all but like the op said our files are actually jinja2 templates because HCL just doesn't cut it.
Good concept, but the usability is bad

If you see the dashboard things are clearer, but there's a mismatch between connected/not connected and what they were supposed to do.
Some on this thread have recommended Norvig's PAIP, but that's kind of an old school AI book in that it focuses on heuristic search and logic (implementing prolog in lisp at one point, very impressive stuff actually); but is lacking any coverage of statistical machine learning, which is the approach that underlies most of the cool stuff these days. It's still a great book, but I'd instead recommend a path that focuses on machine learning:

- The Master Algorithm: made for a general audience, gives you a lay of the land

- Python Machine Learning by Sebastian Raschka: gives you practical skills using python, scikit-learn, numpy, jupyter notebooks, pandas etc. From zero to kaggle in 4 chapters, goes deeper after that. Also goes into enough theory you aren't flying completely blind.

After that, I'm afraid I think you do need to go "academic", if by that you mean learning some of the underlying math to approach AI / ML from a more rigorous probabilistic perspective. I'd recommend studying probability theory and then working your way through Bishop's Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning. After that a lot more doors open up too more specialized topics like computer vision, reinforcement learning etc.

I've written up a lot more about this here:

http://karlrosaen.com/ml/
This is exactly correct. Whats good about a startup is not living in a closet or getting to talk about how cool you are for living in a closet. That is exactly what is bad about the experience. Pretending it is good is roughly denial or some other similarly named vice.
Both of those sites are for checking remote servers. BadSSL is for checking what your client browser behavior is.
Erm... It's the first time I see SIGINFO signal. I think you meant SIGUSR1.
I'm not sure where you got the impression he was outraged on their behalf. Clearly they were ok with it, but the person's point seems to be "don't get the wrong idea that living like this is good"
"So long"?

This was about four years from initial study to publication in popular press of the followup study. The polywater error was nearly a decade; it often takes quite a while to fund and perform followup studies.
Being part of a small startup is a bit like camping: there's a lot of small stuff you need to do, there's a lot of cooperation required, the price of failing is low, there are not many luxuries, but it sure feels like an adventure.
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I wonder if this was somehow funded by the bread industry. People will eat gluten again. Most of my friends are actively avoiding gluten, I am not.
I'm calling BS on this. Representing the interests of New York is _not_ what she was criticized for. It was for booking $600,000 "public" (ironic, it was private and secret) speaking events at Goldman Sachs, and such.
So how does this small sample study prove _anything_, apart from the conclusion that gluten intolerance cannot be self diagnosed?
On Linux at any rate dd responds to SIGUSR1 in a similar fashion.
It seems to prove the marketing power behind the word of a scientist

EDIT: at least in the food industry. I bet climate scientists are jealous of the clout
The images are hotlinked from http://canyouactually.com/100-years-ago-artists-were-asked-t... that is mostle a blogspam of http://www.collective-evolution.com/2015/09/30/how-french-ar... that is a rehash of the original article http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/france-in-the-year...
> They see people being sticklers for copyright about things that are completely unreasonable to be copyrighted

There's at least one good reason in this case - duplicating the wording exactly is likely to result in a Google Duplicate Content penalty for everyone involved, which defeats the purpose of trying to get a high ranking on that keyphrase.

I'm not sure the page is a good idea in general, the kind of people who look for cracks are probably not good customers (high support load, unwilling to spend money). I think I tried something similar years ago without success. But it's probably worth an experiment.
The punishment is that if he poisons another set of kids within a year, she gets a higher sentence. Also her job search will be complicated for a year.

Yeah. That'll show them.

The only solution is to make monitoring the responsibility of people who are impacted. Distribute water quality testing kits that, first, clearly and easily show their results, and can then be mailed to a federal agency. Good luck avoiding those results.
I'm interested to hear about people's opinion of Swagger (OpenAPI) or RAML or anything else with regards to doing API-first designs.

In a lot of cases I see Swagger.json files being generated by reflecting over the actual code, but I seldom hear from people manually writing specifications.

I believe this can be very interesting since it allows you to centralize documentation, generate protocol-agnostic clients to share with other teams in your organisation, etc.

RAML seems to have more support for extensibility (i.e. annotating API endpoints with custom parameters that are not in the official spec) though. Not sure if OpenAPI 3.0 has more support for that, too.
And even physical separation might not be enough due to EM radiation and power usage.
Inaccurate title. Should be non-celiac gluten sensitivity.
Whatever it is, something in gluten containing foods really messes up one side of my family (non Celiac). And they universally don't diet or care about eating healthy at all, so I'm inclined to believe them that it's not placebo.

The study suggests it may be another "FODMAP" in foods containing gluten causing the effects. So the practical impact on a diet for "gluten sensitive" people at the moment is the same, although hopefully this advances the science of treatment and more specifically targets research.

Then the article ignores that part about FODMAPs and suggests "go ahead, eat bread!". Great job, science writer.
you write like a professional writer. I mean that in the best of ways
Why tell anyone how they should be living? Or look down on them for it? Or advise people that they should keep their head down and not chase their dreams (as in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13900883)?

What exactly were you going to do with your youth that was so much more interesting that you'd do that instead of creating your own business while having the full force of YC alums pushing you on?

If you want to do something else, great. It's perfectly ok to spend your youth however you want. There's nothing wrong with choosing a safe path.

But if people want to chase their dreams in irrational ways, then cheer for them!
Think about the jobs you've quit because the culture / environment made it impossible for you to get the right things done.

Even really good employees need an aligned sense of mission.

Of all the other early CEO's I've talked to (and it's a lot), none of them have ever told me "I just hire awesome people and never talk to them about what we're trying to do but it works out great because they are awesome people." Nor has anyone ever conveyed that these types of communication exercises are micromanagy. Aligning mission and understanding how your outputs are other people's inputs seems to me to be the exact opposite of micromanagement.
About three years doesn't seem so long, reproducing and refining studies takes some time. As do securing funding and going through the acceptance process.
Hmm. I have a Framed<TcpStream,MyCodec>. I used to call into_inner() on this to get the stream when it came time to upgrading to a TlsStream<TcpStream>, but that function has gone with this upgrade. I don't see any equivalent function to do this either anymore. Any ideas?
I could be wrong, but I have friends who have been diagnosed to be "gluten sensitive" more than about five years ago. How would that be possible, given that it takes time for a study to enter clinical practice?
As someone who has Coeliac disease: shhhhhhh! /s

When I was first diagnosed, you couldn't buy groceries or eat out _anywhere_. Now, pretty much every restaurant has gluten free options marked on their menu; every supermarket has a wide range of bread, flour, cake mixes, biscuits, and so on; and manufacturers of packaged food are swapping out incidental gluten-free ingredients like wheat starch for gluten-free alternatives. You can bet that's because of people that think gluten-free food is "good for you", rather than the much smaller group of Coeliacs ourselves.
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I think the threat mentioned in the comments of Google algorithmically flagging your site as a warez/malware distribution site and downgrading the main page in search results could be a real one.

Of course the obvious solution to this is to go stick your "cracks are often malware or don't work, why not buy the real thing for only $xx" honeypot on a different domain, probably social media.
EPA 2016 budget: $8.16 billion

How many Flints were you planning to repair with the minuscule discretionary part of that?

The EPA has never had the budget required to build and rebuild hundreds of billions in infrastructure.

The "Flints" in the US will be better off when the US starts focusing on infrastructure as a critical spending necessity again.
"Python for Data Science For Dummies" by Luca Massaron & John Paul Mueller is a very practical book on machine learning. In a real world scenario your first obstacles will be learning how to use the programming language as well as preparing data. Both topics are well covered in this book. The "learning from data" chapter contains an introduction into basic machine learning algorithms as well as ensemble learning. The book contains minor inaccuracies but I think it's a good, practical start for a novice. It doesn't include anything on neural nets however.
AI: A Modern Approach (Russell, Norvig) and Deep Learning (Goodfellow, Bengio) have been mentioned already.

I'd also recommend:

Godel, Escher Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid

by Douglas Hofstadter. Might not be exactly what you're looking for (it's all over the place, touching music theory, math, art, philosophy...), but it's fun and enjoyable to read. Also very dense.
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Paradox games. They do exactly that with the Europa Universalis game series and many others as well.
The Google Brain Residency is a cool program for non-academics to get into deep learning research, and you can always get into AI on the applications side, but in both cases you're going to have to really try.
Is anyone using an under-sink water filtration system? If not, why?
For me main use case is to test browsers our employees use and to educate users on examples. Previously I've been using ssl quality labs test history to find some bad ssl examples, but this is much more convenient.
I am not sure I can say I have overcome it but I can say that my productivity has improved ever since I started doing little apps to help me be more productive, like custom todolists, custom kanban boards, etc. I've just finished an app to help me form habits ( https://everydaycheck.com )

I've realized that if I do something every day at some point I don't see it as a task anymore but as something I do without thinking, like brushing my teeth, so I have more time of the day allocated to useful/productive stuff and procrastinate much less.
I didn't say to not chase ones dreams. I said don't be a fool about it. There's no need to live like this to pursue a startup and I'll call out anyone I see romanticizing it as wrong 7 days a week.

> But if people want to chase their dreams in irrational ways, then cheer for them!

Everybody loves rooting for the crazy underdog but that doesn't mean we want people we care about to be in their situation. In a sibling comment someone referenced being an actor/waiter in Hollywood. I think it's a great non-tech example of reality vs romanticized "follow your dream" stories.
Founders are not "workers" for YC. They're trying to do something exceptional with extremely scarce resources.