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Sorry if this sounds harsh but who gives a flying F. If you're a startup founder you not only need to have this mentality but truly believe it.

You need to re-ground yourself and come to terms that if you're running a company you're going to punched in the face, a lot. You're going to get rejected, a lot. This will happen again and again and again and then once you think it won't happen anymore, bam - it'll happen again.

The fact of the matter is this - the only thing, and I mean the only thing that matters in terms of acceptance is what the market thinks of your product. Who cares if an accelerator said you weren't good enough? Who cares what your friends say (good or bad) or other founders say (good or bad) about your startup - it doesn't matter. My last company, my mom loved it, raved about it! But it failed because the market thought it was crap.

The only thing that matters is if the market wants your product. Startups have become obsessed with acceptance into an accelerator or raising money as an indication of success. It is not an indication of success and if you mistake it for this, you're not thinking straight. Build a business.

To me it sounds like you're looking for validation that you're good enough and you were hoping to get that from YC and they told you that you aren't. You applied to Harvard and they said no and now you're sitting there wondering if you're smart enough.

Look at it the other way. Per what you said you have an amazing startup and now you won't need to give away 7.5% of your company. Don't get me wrong, YC from what I have heard is amazing but if you think YC is what is going to make or break your company - boy, I'd be worried.
Exactly, I remember when the main complaint was "there's too much irrelevant spam on my timeline". Now I only hear the opposite "I missed this and this important announcement"
The most disappointing part of all of this is that in the JS environment no build step is required, but it is often there anyways...
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> Per vehicle mile traveled, motorcyclists' risk of a fatal crash is 35 times greater than a passenger car.

Wow, that's even worse than I expected, relative to a baseline that isn't very safe to begin with. It's unconscionable to keep these on the road.
> I feel like you should post some links to all that evidence.

This is pretty standard anthropological knowledge. A quick google search returned this Time article that lays it out nicely: http://time.com/4252373/meat-eating-veganism-evolution/

> As far as I'm aware, we've been eating plants a lot longer than we've eaten animals

Of course we started off eating plants, and we still do to this day. But the evolution of humans really kicked off when we started consuming meat, and even more so when we were able to start leveraging fire to make accessing those calories and nutrients even easier.

> Humans don't have an instinct for eating animals like carnivores do.

If you're under no selection pressure, that becomes the case--especially when you have Oreos (which are vegan, of course) conveniently available at a super market.

But when you're a hunter gatherer, or simply starving, you fathom ways to get energy. Hunting has the highest ROI, and you can find endless examples of this in the form of modern day tribes.

Hunting is ritual. It's not instinct, but it's part of what humans are.

You can choose to not partake in meat, and that's purely your choice, but to damn it as something that unnatural is purely, scientifically wrong.
>There are a dozen examples of similar incidents in this thread alone

By anonymous posters, most likely who have never actually worked a union job and are just repeating something they've read in threads like these.

Yes, unions have dumb rules. Do you think those rules were developed before or after corporations dictated onerous policy? So who are the good guys?
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Trump to order wholesale H-1B reform
So there's a chance someone could snoop on me using X11, but there's a 100% chance of it on Windows because of all the data they're collecting in the background (including being able to get a copy of a file that triggered a crash).

I'll take Linux, thanks.
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This is how Google handles disputes (give everyone what they want) http://slightlywarped.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/google-...
They will, but not with the data of the currently running process.
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I don't think the formula makes sense with "A" you have to include the Wikipedia link to. The point of "the uber for y" or "the apple of x" is that it plays off of our deep seated awareness of uber and Apple. Do I want to be a yad? I don't know.
I know. It was on a computer that burned down in a fire. So, it's very much gone.

Both that and the message archives from the bbs itself would have been a treasure trove of nostalgia.
I'll throw my potatoes into the pot:

I don't know of any serious active effort to kill the H1B. I think that would be a disaster for the tech industry as large companies like the ones you mentioned rely on foreign talent.

The only effort I'm aware of is to raise the minimum salary to qualify for an H1B. Right now, the minimum is $60k, which, in the US, is very low for a legitimate programming job. I'm certain that H1B workers at Boeing or Amazon are getting paid more than the minimum right now. However, there do exist shops out there who exploit H1B visas for cheap labor; I've experienced them firsthand. They aren't as uncommon as you might think.

There is talk of raising the minimum to something like $120k. Surely, a PhD trained researcher at Boeing or Amazon is worth at least that. They are probably already getting paid the prevailing wage for their labor, which is a legal requirement of an H1B. In these cases, raising the minimum will not affect them at all.

Recall that the original purpose of the H1B was to fill a demand for high tech, specialist roles. Is there any high tech, specialist role that is only worth $60k these days? I don't think so.
There was a game like that available on MS/DOS (and apparently other systems) in that era called DND.
https://www.classicdosgames.com/game/DND.html

My thanks to the grown ups in the local college's IT department who gave me the shareware version.
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> No comments needed

Except that, you know, not sure how impartial the World Socialist Web Site is likely to be!!
How is it that they make an announcement like this without any actual code in it?
Boom! Nailed it.
> Why does that make it a bad idea?

I'm not saying it does - I'm saying that if the working class have rejected it then clearly they do not see it is in their benefit. The idea of "raising class consciousness" seems like a fancy way of saying "the working class are too stupid to know what's good for them".

> I propose that private property (i.e property used for social commodity reproduction) be taken over by workers

Such as what? Workers already own property. Most people have a TV, a house (that they own fully after their mortgage matures), a car and so on. Should we steal all of that stuff too? Or just the lambourghinis and yachts of the wealthy? Sounds like "lets just steal stuff we want from other people" to me.

> Decentralised government is also possible.

Sounds like an interesting idea, but I'm not sure what form of government you're referring to.

> Have you read The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell?[0] He himself was a working class man making the case for Socialism, and why capitalism, a system which is designed to keep one class below the other, is not favourable.

I haven't, I'll add it to my reading list. I doubt I'll be convinced though. The idea that capitalism exists to keep classes separate is one I disagree with - my understanding is that capitalism exists to allow people to compete to be the best at providing services people want. Naturally, people who are better at this will rise to the top. It's a form of talent sifting. I'd rather have competent people do things they're competent at or we'll end up with more Lysenkoism and bread lines.

> Capitalism has nothing to do with government, the idea that only 'corporatism' is bad is equivocation. The class structure still exists without a government, surplus labour is still extracted without a government, private property is still defended without a government.

Defense of private property makes sense though. If I own a car I like, I'm not going to just let you come and steal it from me. The idea that a community can own property that is shared seems bogus when you extend the argument to things that are scarce. Marx himself posited socialism and communism as being a state that requires a post-scarcity and automated society, which we do not have. Not even close.

> The workers are raised up by ideals looking out for their interests rather than those ideals looking out for the interests of the bourgeoisie. The class system prevents realisation of a meritocracy in which each person is rewarded exactly according to his labour rather than paid by the hour.

You can't calculate the value of a thing based on the labour required to create it. Otherwise what stops me spending years on some piece of junk and then demanding a reward? Value of a thing is determined by what it's worth to the person who wants to use it, i.e. utility pricing.
If his I-140 is approved, make sure he wont lose his line in the long long queue for the greencard. ( 10 years ). Switching H1B is not that easy as it sounds. It comes with its own set of complications depending on what stage you are in for the process of greencard.

heck ! ask him to apply Canada express entry and forget H1B. There are good IT in Canada too if he is skilled enough.
Well, now's the time to leave equities or go active. I've never heard of anyone getting rich by following the herd.
I often wonder what the comments on various sites looked like the day before the 2008 crash. Or the dot com bust. It seems for every highly voted analysis of how vulnerable we are there's a highly voted comment pooh-poohing it.
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Is that true? I mean the utility of the computer was instantly recognized and brought into offices as soon as practically possible. We've way deep into 'practical' territory for VR and it really hasn't done anything but appeal to some limited industries and a tiny slice of gamers.

You can't just hand-wave the "Google Glasses" part of VR away. There are concrete barriers to entry here. Grandma is not going to like strapping a huge screen to her face, even if it can be made a few ounces lighter, for example. People don't like to be 'locked into' interfaces. Nausea is an unsolved problem. Video card power is significant for non-trivial displays.

There's a lot of cons here for the very few pros.
This may be too late for you to notice it, hopefully not. Something useful for me was not learning any particular algorithm or data structure in depth, but learning the "shapes" of algorithms and data structures.

When starting out you'll be learning, for example, the different sorting algorithms in great detail. This isn't terribly useful later on (the level of detail at least). What is useful is that they each have a shape, a style of functioning. Merge sort as one of the quintessential divide-and-conquer algorithms provides an excellent template for other algorithms with the same shape, but meant to compute something different. While bubble sort is a terrible sort algorithm, the pattern of bubble sort for computation is present in numerous algorithms. Same with insertion sort and shell sort and the rest.

It's like language acquisition, or at least like language acquisition is for me. When learning Spanish, I learned a lot of specific instances (hablo, hablas, habla, hablamos, hablan as 5 distinct things). Then I learned the pattern (grammar rules, -ar verbs generally drop the -ar and -o means I <verb>, -as means you <verb>, etc.), then I focused on root words in vocabulary (hablar means to speak) rather than memorizing every conjugated form of a verb.

Same as physics and calculus. Learn specific cases at the start, then you learn the rules, then you apply the rules to new forms to construct novel (to you) solutions.

And as others said, code. My algorithms class didn't require much programming, technically, it was rather high level. But I coded everything I could to try things out and understand them. Sitting down with pencil and paper to understand it was sometimes helpful, but the act of coding was more effective.

EDIT: High level in that it was focused a lot on the maths of algorithm analysis. I had one earlier in college that was more practically focused, on implementing algorithms, but the one that really stuck with me was the later one.
I can sell my services as a freelance developer very well, but I've never tried selling a product.
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Looks great, but one thing I’d love to see would be if the system could calculate the nutritional information for a recipe.

This would make meal planning a balanced diet that much easier.
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Yup and it can mirror Bitbucket which is also free. So you can just create it in Bitbucket and get free backups via Google.
Knucklehead author here -- happy to see all the smart discussion on this thread here. Your point here is indeed one of the main takeaways. For all practical purposes the sum of active manager performance = the index. But given the probability that the active manager you pick won't beat the index (in large part determined by skewness, the academics cited would argue), is indeed the risk you introduce by taking this route.

Thanks to all for reading and arguing.

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Never heard this one before. Also, there's no "current definition" - people of different ages, countries and backgrounds all use different definitions.

There's no international and commonly accepted authority defining the one true standard.
Any sufficiently large jQuery webapp has a strong tendency to become indistinguishable from a plate of spaghetti, without strong efforts to keep things sane. Angular, once we got over the learning curve and converted over the old functionality, made it a lot easier to make changes and add features.
Maybe run a Linux VM in 'the cloud' and use its desktop email client?
> genuine traction in SaaS is hard won, but then it's really (really) obvious

Can you give an example? :-)
> It's not immediately obvious to me why a histone would have such antibacterial properties.

> I'm not sure it is an 'of course' here - rather it might actually be a lucky find while playing with the truly cool sounding 'dragon's blood'.

It's most likely a result of the method used to pick peptides out of the blood samples [0]. Histone peptides have lots of K/Rs, and the bait used to trap the peptides is tuned to pull out small peptides with >5+ (? IIRC) net positive charge. So, pretty sure it's a lucky find while sifting through lots of histone peptides, where something inhibits/degrades biofilm formation and helps wounds close.

[0] http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....
probably just a mistake.
Very neat! I can't wait to take a look at this and give it a shot. The author mentioned it would be better to offload the screen capture to the GPU, would this be achieved through something like CUDA?
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Business likes anything that helps profits, and hates anything that hurts profits.

The threat of communist takeover permeated most of the 20th century as the ultimate threat for private enterprise, but the military-industrial-complex had a wonderful time.
Yeah bro, that's right, it's not so exciting for me at all at first, but actually I have to accept all those stuff in my life anyway, I am glad that I finally reach here. Thanks!
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Wow, hello hacker news! I haven't seen pythonprogramming.net load this slow in a ... ever.

Thanks for sharing my silly project!

Any ideas, pull requests, or critiques are welcome. (https://github.com/sentdex/pygta5/)

I'm currently working on PID control, and also contemplating switching the model to a DQN, with a reward for speed (whether this is perceived, or read from the game directly) IF we're on a paved surface. If you know about either, don't be shy.

If you hate long loading, you can watch just the videos on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQVvvaa0QuDeETZEOy4Vd...

edit: added link to github, as well as links to just the videos since pythonprogramming.net is going slow from traffic.
I built this long ago:

https://clustercompute.com/images/image4.jpg

Which was a lot of fun.

Do you have all the GPUs internal to the T630?

Any chance of a picture (of the guts)?

I'm seriously thinking of duplicating your effort.
What do you mean? Are you referring to gulp and other similar tools?
I'm not anti police or law but some chilling recent events worry me.

A similar thing happened in Quebec, Canada.

http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/montreal/quebec-journalis...

And in Newfoundland a man who made comments on Twitter criticizing the police was tracked down then hauled off to a psychiatric hospital. He was admitted against his will and using suspicious methods.

http://www.nationalpost.com/m/wp/news/canada/blog.html?b=new...
One thing I've seen is that a weighted LRU is usually slightly better for unpredictable workloads. i.e. it will never evict high use cache data when there's a flurry of one-off traffic that would normally start evicting a normal LRU cache, and even a 2 random LRU scheme.

This is particularly relevant for databases and keeping rows in memory.

The algorithm is something like "add two weight when an item is used, and decay one from every item every second, evict items under pressure from the lowest weight to the highest."
Better hurry up and fire all of them from their work and open source projects! /s
> the less active money there is around, the less accurate our concept of a correct value can be

The problem is deeper than that. Active shareholders actually give a shit about corporate governance. Collectively, they put honorable and competent people on the board of directors, and make sensible decisions when other issues are put to shareholder votes. Vanguard and other indexing funds could barely care. Their incentive to care is so small, we may as well call it nothing. Whereas the employees who control these voting blocks at Vanguard can easily make decisions that cause 10,000x more financial impact than their total compensation. And whenever someone is endowed with such power, human behavior throughout our existence has shown most people will be corrupted by it (e.g. see government employees).
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getting 3 solid hours of working on your brand a day is much better than 7 bad ones late at night. Wake up earlier, work at lunch, work immediately when you get home. Late nights are not always necessary.
If your goal is to get rich, sure. But going with the herd isn't necessarily unsafe. The goal of "getting rich" is generally incongruous with passive investing either way.

The risk/reward profile of active investing and index fund investing are completely different, so that will be more than a decision of upside you want to pursue.
can't be sure about the wonderful part, but otherwise, yes, there are plenty of investment opportunities available to the "wealthy" that others are generally not allowed:

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/accreditedinvestor.asp
Dumb question, what is "2-random"?
Take this as a prime example of the corruption that has become the defacto behavior of a small but very influential group of Bitcoin developers.

Greg has been promoting Monero since it's inception, a cryptocurrency advertised as being unlinkable.

T addresses in ZEC were NEVER STATED TO BE PRIVATE.

The argument that Monero transactions being found to be linkable at a wide range of mixins, as demonstrated by the paper and the search facility on http://monerolink.com, is somehow comparable to ZCash NON PRIVATE transactions between T addresses, is essentially academic fraud, which is in many ways the norm for people so jaded by the pursuit of profit - Yes, Greg is a Monero holder.

Greg, as you continue to flap around this issue presenting such fallacious arguments to essentially cover your own incompetence, and an incompetence that potentially could have cost many people their own privacy and security by promoting such a defunct privacy system, please understand that most people are not this easily fooled and your own credibility is permanently tainted in this regard, as it very well should be.

I would add that the additional argument being floated on this issue, that this major flaw is fixed now and doesn't matter, is another case of academic fraud; Any system that has is misrepresented for so long (May 2014- Jan 2017) at the cost of user's privacy and once a "fix" such as CT is applied to then say this system is sound is another pathetic attempt by dishonest academics to cover the incompetence and protect their reputations and personal financial interests.

Bitcoin was intended to fight corruption and the influence of corrupt "officials".

It is time for change.
Block is a vague word, and I'm sorry for having used it given the number of replies that seem to think I condone censorship.

To be clear: any sort of physical violence, threats, or anything like that are not acceptable responses to speech. (I agree with everything you said after the first paragraph).

Nonviolent means of blocking, though — boycotting, (peaceful) protesting, writing letters, making calls — are totally legitimate means to block people from speaking at a certain venue.

Freedom of speech means that the government can't try to prevent you from saying anything. It doesn't grant you a time, place or means to say anything. Richard Spencer will find a place to speak. But it's in our best collective interest to all push him as far away from our own venues as we can.
Not the author, but usually when writing step-by-step stuff like this I alternate between short bursts of messing around and then going back to write down what I just learned.

So I'll fiddle for 10-15 minutes, occasionally pausing to write small notes and important details down (like the CLI commands I used to achieve some particular result), but only after I achieve some significant amount of progress will I go back and write about what I just did in more verbose language.
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>to make sure the populace really meant it

Bizarre comment. Do you really think the election has a credible chance of overturning the result of the referendum? Or that this is the reason it's being held?

Every time an elected government does something random poster on HN or elsewhere doesn't like, it's the end of democracy and a conspiracy of the elite.

I voted Remain and still believe leaving the EU will harm Britain and the electorate was mislead and conned. But you know what? The electorate are all grown-ups that had access to the same information that I do. We hold regular elections to allow the electorate to change their mind if they are conned. But if they obstinately and persistently refuse to see things my way, well that's fine. Well it isn't, but I'm not going to throw all my toys out of the pram and start crying about it. Politics is messy and imperfect mainly because it's a reflection of us, the voters. Uncomfortable, but true.