skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for your candor.

I spent the last week in Ann Arbor (Boulder native + 17 years in CA, 2 in Seattle, +2 in the "silicon slopes." It's quiet here.

The youngs don't seem to know yet that they can create (ridiculous) value on their own.

If I'm missing something, e.g. if there is a strong angel group in A2 or Detroit, please drop me a note, I'm moving here and I'd love to join. (Yes I've seen the umich entrepreneurship efforts; winning school purses does not count)

I'm bringing with me some anti-Incubator technology from out west. As in, I offer no money, I take no equity, and after 15 weeks of weekly 7am CEO meetings, you'll be convinced of 5 things:

(1) No old (or "successful" entrepreneur) can solve your problems for you

(2) Your peers are an amazing resource

(3) You are the greatest impediment to your progress

(4) You already know everything you need to know to start creating value, and you don't need a check to get started (unless you're curing cancer or doing similarly real science)

(5) Andy Groves and Larry Ellison (v1) knew a thing or two about management

I'll be launching an A2 cohort (unaffiliated with umich), an East Lansing cohort (possibly in conjunction with MSU), and potentially a Detroit cohort this Fall. If this sounds at all interesting, please drop me a note, I'd love to chat and I'd be happy to share metrics from earlier cohorts...Time to test out the model on Michigan--or vice-versa!
Southeast Michigan (where I have lived and worked for many years) has some good tech opportunities and some pleasant and affordable places to live, just not in Detroit proper. I won't work in downtown Detroit, if I have a choice, because the commute in and out is a traffic jam through a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Some gentrified communities among the blight are livable, if you don't have kids. Detroit public schools are a disgrace that no child should be allowed to attend.

Dan Gilbert bought up a bunch of Detroit at fire sale prices and uses PR like this so he can flip them to make a quick profit.
The US invades and bombs other countries to kill persons of interest and the Chinese aren't even allowed to kill spies in their own country? Give me a break, this double standard is sickening.
This is a false equivalency.

Odd couple of very anti-American commenters in this thread already.
I applaud this spirit, but can every city turn itself around by becoming a version of SV?

Possible responses:

1. Yes

2. No, but that is not what this is

3. No, but this once can

4. No, this will fail or succeed for different reasons
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14381818
Implementing a reliable messaging system
> If I charge 30% to host foodcarts at my concert event, cart owners will agree only if it's a good deal.

They agree because it's the best deal. In your hypothetical and the case of IAPs, it's the best deal because it's the only deal. When the options are make no money and make a little money, you're going to take what little you can get. That by no means makes it good.

Devs have no choice. Users are caught in an Apple/Google duopoly and both app stores charge 30%. Devs can either pay their 30% or give up on IAP revenue as a whole.
Nope because using Civilians as "Point-Making' Intentional Victims (not Collateral Damage engaging Combatant targets, e.g. human shields) out of combat sectors is simply fighting dirty (YMMV in 2000s), because those 9/11 hijackers had bankroll and were intent not on collecting information but inflicting damage. There is a significant difference between being an "observer" and an "assassin" if you want to get down to it. Spying is akin to foreshadowing, to have knowledge before action.

If you don't understand the difference between inserting Assets for Information Gathering versus Mass Murder then we probably won't be able to communicate very well. There are nuances. Your conclusion is a false premise.
Juicero juicer teardown
Civ2 at least had a tutorial game (explained in the paper manual!) and auto "help" ("this looks like a good place to build a city"). The game is pretty hard until you get the hang of it, especially in the version where the AI hates humans.
It feels like putting inertia control options in a browser was a big mistake in first place.
For entrepreneurship, I would recommend: (a) Technology Entrepreneurship, and (b) Venture Deals with Brad Feld -- both are team and project-based experiential courses offered via novoed.

Technology Entrepreneurship is focused on the lean startup. The next session is expected around June.

Venture Deals is sponsored by Kauffman Fellows Academy and TechStars and is all about funding. A new offering just started and you can still join at https://app.novoed.com/kfa-venture-deals-spring17/
Ah, good to know the names for these. I'm very skeptical of the acoustics of the Vineyard style, having experienced the "incredible" acoustics of Walt Disney Hall personally on stage, and from the audience.

However, I'll do some more reading on it. Sadly, it seems there's a lot of political pandering and lack of critical hearing (reviewers don't know what to listen for), so it can be hard to find reliable or useful reviews. Nothing can substitute attending a hall and listening in person.
Yes - you can run unit tests? Still not the best, and compile-time would be better, but I'm not sure that's achievable in golang.
Do ad blockers really solve the problems that this article criticizes AMP for? You've closed one bag of worms and opened another one. How can independent publishers live in an all adblock world? State publishers like criticized in the article might survive. You're again centralizing journalism, this time into the few organizations that can get their readers to pay a subscription.
I suspect that ship has long sailed.

The net today has become what the cable box with a modem tried to be, a way to make TV shop a one button interaction.

While the net was all about files/documents the idea may still have had a chance. But with the dot-coms came the money, and with the money came the crooks.

These days even FOSS projects operate with a sharp delineation between user and programmer. And don't use the term power-user within earshot of them...
lived in Detroit burbs and went to school in AA. Yeah there are always worse places in the country.. but blah.. compared to the tech hubs out west, SE MI is such a boring place to live. it's all relative though of course
They are spies right? It is an essential part of the professional risk.
Bullshit. We are built by evolution to live in this particular physical environment and had no trouble living there for last few millions of years or so.

What we are not evolved to do is to live in an overpopulated urban areas, forced to wage slavery and to constantly compete for everything, even a place in a subway, while being awashed with emotionally charged verbal and visual bullshit 24h, hipsterism and other forms of idiotic cosplay of unearned success and presumably high social status by each and every one passed by, while being over-regulated by stupid laws imposed on us by a bloated self-serving "government" so even a straight look of contempt at a tasteless, fat woman in some stupid yoga pants would lead to trouble.

the Moment has nothing to do with this. It is so called "human society".
Ad blockers serve minified JS and CSS through a CDN?
Spying is gaining access to information that someone doesn't want you to have access to. It's not necessarily a precursor to violence even if it is often used to gain a military advantage.
As noted in the first sentence, this story is based on the NY Times report. The Times article is more comprehensive:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14385359

As per HN Guidelines, "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter."
Question - wouldn't it be feasible to write a worm that uses the vulnerability to deliver a patch for the vulnerability... and then maybe deactivate itself after several days (the worm / spreading portion)?

Or is there something I'm missing?
I do myself. It is good to see that it is still being developed, but I wish the dev would do a paid update with new features so I would worry less about it's future.
I wasn't 'built' to type letters.
But Obama was so kewl!
Misleading. The agency is promoting AMP instead of a normal website as the world fastest. We could have the world fastest website with Svelte.js or other smaller libraries.
Original story
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/20/world/asia/china-cia-spie...
Well, you could and I know someone who did just that in the NT 4.0 days, but you are taking one hell of risk. It is still illegal even if your intentions are good and you could truly f'up the machine you are patching. The road to hell is paved with good intentions after all.
What are you talking about? Who is Gruber? And there is nothing in the article about scrolling.
Do you even understand what you're trying to say? Do you even know why you're saying it?
This is a decent article but I strongly dislike the title. The phrasing "we aren't built for" is so pessimistic, as if being mindful (living in the moment) is hopeless or unachievable, or even undesirable or harmful.

Thousands of years of meditation practices have proven that living in the moment is very possible. Yes our brains are constantly planning and scheming and trying to derail us, but this can be addressed with a modest amount of deliberate practice.

Perhaps imagining the future is emblematic of humans, and maybe that has developed over the last 2 million years, but animals have been around 300 million years, and they are (presumably) quite adept at living in the moment. We can be as well. Striving towards that goal is very beneficial and rewarding.

One entry point to meditation is Sam Harris's book Waking Up which I describe here: http://www.kmeme.com/2016/07/waking-up.html
So if a job takes 24 hours a day to do, every day, and the employee can't physically or psychologically do that then they're not doing their job?

No. I don't buy that. You have to draw the line somewhere, and I thought the war for this line was won long ago in favor of a 40 hour work week. But I guess not all workers have won this right yet.
It isn't? I'm pretty sure that's exactly how the new iPad Pro with keyboard is marketed.
How about you read TFA before sounding off with your jingoistic nonsense.

The particular spies weren't preparing for some kind of invasion or attack. They were also Chinese themselves and not given a trial. One of them was even gunned down.
Hot air is also completely viable and in many ways simpler to work with, though you need very high temperature or the volume gets extreme. However the most reasonable option is probably multiple layers with hydrogen inside a nitrogen envelope which makes small leaks a non issue.
Philly isn't in the Midwest, hell, it's almost in the Atlantic!
You could probably say Generics instead of Parametric polymorphism, while far less formal a lot more people will grok what you're getting at.

I guess it's not so clear for algebraic data types, but I'd probably refer to swift enums or unions in elm as an example.

Last time I suggested this, someone likened it to intellectualism, lol. I see it more as a communication, a thing that the typed functional community seems to struggle with
Is there good Sino-Western spy fiction?
"combatant targets" are humans too, sometimes conscripted involuntarily. Killing them is also murder. You seem to be carefully defining what's right so that it allows the type of murder the US army does but not the type that other groups/countries do to the US. Really, I think the US is a danger to Chinese people and is at risk of killing them. It surely will use its intelligence to help it do that. These spies might have had some other purpose but they surely weren't purely peaceful ones.

Perhaps I should use a less sensitive example of Chinese industrial spies stealing trade secrets from American companies or stealing military secrets from the government. Do you support them too? It's not as risky and not for killing but is still spying.
Absolutely.

What makes this newsworthy, though, isn't that the spies are dead-- it's that twelve died in a ~year. Something happened that the CIA wasn't ready for. Take this as a sign of a few possible things-- A) The US may have had a mole, B) China's security apparatus got much much better very quickly, C) The US is complacent in foreign human intelligence, D) Hacking may have killed more people. We're not sure of which one, or if it's any of those things, which leaves us the article-- 12 spies are dead.
That could not be more false. First of all Ted works for Techstars which has no connection I know of to Dan Gilbert, though they did receive funding I believe from Ford.

Dan Gilbert has funded a lot of startups, but no where near all of the ones in Detroit. The majority of those startups are not connected to Quicken Loans except through their funding.

Now it is true Dan Gilbert has a major PR machine but Ted's story isn't part of it. In 2008 when Gilbert began purchasing Detroit skyscrapers there wasn't a single VC in the city and few startups. Now there's VC's, offices from Twitter, Amazon, Google and an entire neighborhood of startups. It's rumored that Microsoft and HP are seeking downtown campuses.

But Gilbert got the startup flywheel started in Detroit and we're feeling the effects a good ninety miles away here in East Lansing.
You don't think there's any irony in the fact that Google noticed that Safari was behaving badly sometimes, and asked Apple to fix it, and Apple said "wow thanks for pointing that out, we're going to make it much more extreme". Google asked for one thing, and because of that was given the exact opposite. That's pretty much the definition of irony.

>a state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often amusing as a result.
Vectorized Bloom Filters for Advanced SIMD Processors (2014) [pdf]
Volvo's Self-Driving Garbage Truck Wants Your Trash
The link was originally https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/20/gilbertson-amp which complains about scrolling.
Great. Thank you for submitting the WebKit patch, and sorry for heaping the blame on you guys. Looking forward to the update.
I feel like this comment belongs in a YouTube chat...
>I've gone through my Freeciv spurts over the years

Is it still really, really hard unless you use the "one true strategy"?
The Chinese government, killing Chinese citizens, is obviously Obama's fault to a certain group of people.
From my readings of CIA memoirs and spy novels, CIA Agents (aka sources or informants) are really foreign people reporting information to the CIA Officers which are US Government employees.

If these were US government workers reporting secrets to the Chinese I would expect imprisonment, etc. I guess it isn't too shocking they would do the same, albeit more cruelly, to their own traitors.

There was a post recently about how easy it was for foreign governments, in the 1970's, to track the actual CIA Officers on station at an embassy. TL;DR: Reading job titles and observing who they hung out with was one way. Also mentioned was that CIA officers rarely intermingled with actual Diplomats and support staff often knew who was who because of secret areas of the embassy that were off limits.

The article mentions a potential hack into the systems but it could have been good old spy-craft by following people and noticing patterns to find the sources.
What this PR piece doesn't talk about is the huge oil and gas growth in eastern Ohio/western PA which is probably massaging these numbers quite well. Pretty much all of Ohio outside the major cities in this area is fracking country.
In defense of the “God Object” pattern
I agree 100%, although I've always been surprised that a game like Freeciv wasn't vector-graphics based, because it seems to fit so well. Maybe not Freeciv per se, but something similar. I haven't checked in awhile, though, so maybe they introduced something.
Well, I believe in freedom of speech so I don't see why it can't be in HN and YouTube.

But you like to put things in boxes dontcha.
In my experience (from an end-user standpoint; I don't have much experience on the programming side of this particular front), C# w/ Mono is far less painful than that other "compile-once-run-everywhere" C-resembling VM-driven language.

No idea how C# + .NET Core fits into this equation of pain.
My professor suggested to use either Amaya or Adobe Fireworks in a web programming class. I tried to use Amaya at first because it's free and open source but I ended up using Fireworks...It's a bit shame that this kind of project is abandoned.
Perhaps pointing out that if the same happened during the first months of the Trump admin, the NYT would surely repeatedly emphasize Trump?
FTA (explaining how it really happened): "About 1.7 billion years ago, a series of volcanoes crashed into what would become the continent of North America and created mountains taller than the Himalayas today."

If you are going to contradict young earth creationists (and hey, who doesn't want to do that?) and you write about science for a major publication, you really should get your terminology straight. Or your editor should. Or preferably both.
I bought 2 stars, mostly because of my Fear Of Missing Out. My understanding of urbit is very superficial.
The former PM of Kosovo, Ramush Haradinaj, had 9 witnesses against him killed while he was on trial at the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia in the Hague.

It is a growing trend for extrajudicial killings to occur at the hands of the state (think Russia and journalists, Duerte and alleged druggies) for pretty much any reason.

What a sad and complex world we live in.
Yes, this technique is sometimes used by malicious software in patching the vulnerability that was used to gain control of the host. Security and software companies typically do not want to use benevolent worms to patch vulnerabilities, though. Autonomous code spreading itself and making changes to people's machines without permission is generally frowned upon.
You say "blabbers" like it's a bad thing. Spies are criminals and they should be caught. Killing isn't very good but at least they should be locked up to protect people from the harm they cause.
The Hillary servers were so woefully unprotected that we don't even know who/how many foreign actors pranced around her emails and had a hey-day. That's why CIA informants were killed. I would imagine.

Previous to Obama's "legacy" the US govt was strict about employing state-of-the-art security for the IT.

EDIT: hay-day is actually hey-day
There are no such controls. There are just different places where one can scroll. All other browsers (as far as I know, and this includes Safari on desktop) make all of these the same, but mobile Safari chose to make them different.
"Homo prospectus is too pragmatic to obsess on death for the same reason that he doesn’t dwell on the past: There’s nothing he can do about it."

Lots of things weren't possible, until they were. Focusing on paths towards a goal beats focusing on paths towards failure. Not focusing on death =/= not focusing on living.

Healthspan is one of the easiest things to increase, and has hundreds of millions of people doing it whether they're aware of it or not, anyone that eats well or exercises is pro-longevity whether they realize it or not :) That could be considered anti-death behavior, without any need to focus on death at all.
>But the C.I.A.’s top spy hunter, Mark Kelton, resisted the mole theory, at least initially, former officials say. Mr. Kelton had been close friends with Brian J. Kelley, a C.I.A. officer who in the 1990s was wrongly suspected by the F.B.I. of being a Russian spy. The real traitor, it turned out, was Mr. Hanssen. Mr. Kelton often mentioned Mr. Kelley’s mistreatment in meetings during the China episode, former colleagues say, and said he would not accuse someone without ironclad evidence.

You would think that a counter-espionage chief would be much more "paranoid". I would guess that in the world of intelligence, getting "ironclad evidence" of something is probably the exception and not the rule.
It's very much relevant if you're aware what kind of thought control comes out of liberal colleges. The person in question is here only to spread its agenda, nothing else. I have no respect for that kind of people and I encourage others to step up and finally show that you have some balls left.
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Even then you can only hope that it has not infected your BIOS/Other HW firmware
Long time lurker here and 1st time participant.

>The most ambitious is to try to do it automatically: to write a compiler that will parallelize our code for us.

Does anyone know if this has been accomplished in any form or fashion by anyone/startup?

or is there anyone doing the below part atleast?

>An optimization marketplace would be a way to generate the sufficiently smart compiler piecemeal

I am very interested in finding a solution to these problems.
No, I imagine that the biggest fear a CIA counterintelligence chief has is of becoming the next Angleton.
But you don't actually expend the helium. You lose a tiny bit through leakage. In airship companies today, the helium is the least of the problems.
Hate it or love it if you are a content producer and want to compete in SEO you have to AMP.
A little bit before 2017-05-21T00:52Z [1], moderator sctb updated [2] the submission's URL from the original blog post by John Gruber [3], to that of an article in The Register penned by Scott Gilbertson. Gruber's post quotes Gilbertson, and supports its main premise, but offers its own perspective.

Changing the submission URL is unfortunate, because a lot of the discussion in this thread prior to 2017-05-21T00:52Z pertains as much to Gruber's material as the Register article. Now a lot of this discussion, as you seem to have noticed, appears out of context.

[1] https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/14385185.json?pri...
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14385185
[3] https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/20/gilbertson-amp
It this implying that America's informants in Russia are all being killed right now, or am I reading too much into it?
A farmer understands a tractor, but most business people don't understand software development.