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I have often wondered the same thing when similarly successful people raise money for startups. With $X00 million in the bank, it would be better to self-finance for $10.5MM that if they truly believe in the business. However, if they believe that the probability of success is very low, I suppose it would make sense for them to use their name to get others to take the financial risk for them. For this reason, as an investor, I would shy away from stratospherically wealthy entrepreneurs looking for money, but SV VC's seem quite willing to give money to people that don't need it.
Bonobos is super expensive. I don't know how folks can afford to shop there. It would kill me to spend $300 on 3 dress shirts when I can get the Kirkland Brand for a fraction of the price. Even their sweat shorts are $80 and the Nikes I have were $15 on sale. The cheapest you can get a pair of jeans for is $100, Eddie Bauer has really nice jeans for half of that when they are on sale.

I get the feeling Walmart is desperate to compete and will buy anything these days when all they really need to do is build a Web site that is easily navigable and works. You think a company with their resources could afford the talent required to build a site like AMZN has.
Bonobos actually sells Gant shirts :) I usually go for those during the sales
In-store Wi-Fi is very common here (UK), and sometimes the only way to get a data connection because mobile signals can't penetrate the building. Only way around it at that point is a to use a VPN over their Wi-Fi if you can.
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That's a really condescending post.

I camp, I hike in the woods daily, and I've been to some pretty remote places. I still feel the pull of Mars. It's not just the remoteness of it for me - it's the idea of influencing a new society from the ground up, of doing something unprecedented.
Wow. All the chefs that worked with him now have more than 70 Michelin stars together.
We went from startup school, to participating in techcrunch battlefield NY 2017.[1]

We were clueless to what to expect or how all this works, but through the guidance and many one on ones with our instructor we were able to manage it.

The course prepared us for meeting with investors, helped us with how to deal with the first rounds of investments (first money can be overwhelming) and how to do the non scalable things early on. It was definitely a useful course.

Also, being on a video call every week, listening to 20+ plus other people's business can be very valuable. Problems that seemed unique to us and unsolvable were solved with a quick chat with someone who already went through it.

Any way, i'll write a post about it eventually. In the meanwhile here is our presentation for Renly:
https://www.startupschool.org/presentations/435

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/16/renly-launches-studio-book...
If you want an airtight defense against libel, it's probably the right position to assume.
> With destination shopping, e.g. to buy a new sofa or bicycle, customers have invariably been online already and chose the store that way.

Not necessarily. For $100-$1000 items I'll walk into a store without an intent to buy that day to price shop and if I'm tempted to buy I'll quickly check online and see if the store will price match. In the bay area I've actually had the store price match their own online store even though in store price had a '20% off sale'.

Seems pretty common for bay area stores to sell above their online prices and price match if you ask.
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I don't know about that. A good part of Amazon's initial advantage was in their goodwill. Their reviews were (for a long time) pretty fair and would mark bad products as bad. Their customer service was always quite attentive.

I think in growth industries, the potential future of goodwill outweighs the value of expending that goodwill right now. Unless you've already lost the market -- but I don't think that'll be to prices as much as competitors offering more/better products.
Thanks for the tips. I'm trying OfflineIMAP now (it's syncing... there's few gigs of e-mail to sync...).

I'll definitely consider your trick for sending e-mail - I definitely value both Emacs not hanging and also having the ability to send e-mails off-line.
The interview process in our field is indeed humiliating, and it infuriates me when people refer to this mythical "shortage" of developers. The interview process centered around competitive coding and academic trivia questions is proof that there is no shortage.

The problem isn't merely lack of feedback, a lot of the time they won't even contact you to inform you that they're not interested even after multiple rounds of interviews. We need to start outing companies who refuse to give feedback.
>If you are standoffish and unwilling to participate that is quite telling of how you will be when you are given tasks that aren't fun.

No, what you're doing is filtering out people who are bad at public speaking or have performance anxiety.

If you want someone who can deliver a lecture, put that in the job description.
Good as cry-proof mascara remover tho. Just saying.
1. Use VPN
2. Regardless of free Wi-Fi, it's illegal in many countries to tamper with traffic. Net neutrality anyone?
3. Kudos to WaPo's editorial integrity. Despite being a Jeff Bezos entity, it isn't afraid to publish items Amazon doesn't want you to know about
But aren't there thousands of those instructions?
There's no "rational" or "irrational" in wanting things, only in how you go about getting what you want.
OS complexity is because they choose to keep and value that backwards compatibility, just like x86 values backwards compatibility.

Linux could eliminate all that complexity tomorrow by just bulk removing x86 support and only running x86-64. All OS complexity eliminated. All context switching complexity eliminated.
It's not eternal. People still die, and always will. They are unlikely to continue using smartphones thereafter.
I actually looked at that, and thought it didn't solve my problem, but I skipped this part: "and even sets of Droplets by using Tags.".
Please refrain from Ad hominems like this. Depending on where you are from, I can probably find a similarly unpleasant public health characteristic, but does it really get anywhere in the argument?

Besides, they actually don't. Its one of the most progressive states in India with 100% literacy etc.
Bonobos started out selling decent-looking business-casual type pants for "normal-sized" guys, i.e. those of us who would not fit in the skinny pants that were becoming the rage.

They had show- and fitting-rooms, but you had to then order the stuff (could be done in the showroom) and wait for delivery... in the US only. They said they were barred from shipping to the EU because someone else had the trademark there.

Not sure what became of their quality but I bought two pair about five years ago, loved one and the other was meh... and then they discontinued the style of the one I liked before I could order another pair. :-(

Walmart was definitely not the image they were going for originally, IIRC the founders were Stanford kids.
I don't doubt we'd have hope, but it would definitely kill off plenty of us. :)

Also not saying going to Mars is necessary, just pointing out that it seems that's Musk's thoughts on the matter.
Aren't they known more for their pants? Their athletic fits are perfect for me.
Hypothetically, could they be even more sinister and modify competitor's prices to appear higher, so that you never even notice what they're doing?
Coconut oil is one of the more stable fats at high temperatures - which is a health benefit.

Or rather, it's less of a health detriment.
Wild speculation is wild.
It would be even easier from Earth's moon though.
It's not great but OK for short things. If the interviewer is asking you to write something lengthy and/or getting annoyed about semicolons, brackets and capitalisation though then that's stupid.
I guess they mean that the sensor looks like a regular key...
Sure, but you're taking off in a rocket from a balloon.
Have you thought about moving into architecture?

Your posts could be my friend; 40s, 20+ years in tech from junior positions up to CIO. He failed a few whiteboard interviews for dev positions and called me asked for help getting him a gig.

I took his resume, tailored it to highlight his high level work, stripped out dev grunt work references, and started targeted applying as him to several companies. It worked.
Unexpected is putting it mildly. And rather at odds with the claim that they are so careful.
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What a pessimistic outlook. People climb Everest for the challenge, not because its most convenient mountain. People sky dive, ski, mountain bike, and rock climb for the thrill of it. The men that crossed the Atlantic into the unknown in the face of near certain death are evangelized and their names taught to children in history books (there’s even a holiday for it!).

I think it’s a good thing that not all humans optimize for the most practical routes in life. It makes us more diverse and greater as a species, and pushes us to accomplish amazing feats that seem impractical on the surface. If everyone was optimizing for the lowest hanging fruits, who would invest in constructing the really tall ladders that future generations could build off of?

“We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.”

Embrace your inner childhood sense of adventure and wonder!
I love how his various ventures all seems to be pointing to this one goal. The Boring Company? Makes sense that he would want to get experience with tunnel boring considering no one is living on the surface of mars for very long without exposing themselves to considerable radiation and near certain death. A tunnel can be sealed and regulated. The first few generations of Martians are going to be mole people.
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You should read the Kim Stanley Robinson books on Mars. They're really good.

With less gravity, you'll see native be considerably taller. Hopefully their retinas won't detach, as tends to happen in zero-G.

Make no mistake, the first colonists to Mars will NEVER return to Earth. They will die there. Will they be able to propagate? We have a LONG way to go. Biosphere II is an amazing project that shows many of the problems we'd face trying to create a new contained eco-system. They're incredibly complex.

We need advances in automatic-machine-fabrication (we literally need to be able to drop factory robots that can both dig and make buildings), advances in radiation shielding (you can only come above ground in a fully shielded suit), advances in CO2/O2 recycling, advances in food production and self contained eco-systems.

It's not impossible, but I'd say it's a good 90 ~ 100 years out minimum. All of these needs to be in place and highly advances and reliable, with test units dropped to Mars, before the first colonists go there .. and eventually die there.
"Walmart is the closest thing to "discount, no-frills" in the US, however it's 100% a facade. Their prices are realistically no better than chain grocery stores like Kroger, yet they do a very good job convincing poorer people that they are."

I don't have a Kroger nearby, but WM is far cheaper than any other grocery chain in my area. I go to WM for all nonperishable items and then a more expensive store for fruits/veggies/meats.
I buy the Bonobos pants on eBay from time to time, when I can find my size available. The pants are really nice, but not worth retail price.
> Love, in many ways, is completely irrational

At least I know what love is. So when someone does something foolish for love, I understand.

But when someone tells me he wants to spend billions to live in a small box on a cold, airless desert planet constantly bombarded by lethal radiations, and when he justifies that by "that's mars, and that's the only justification I need", I tend to think that's quite an other level of irrationality.
Is this a good outcome for those involved? or was it a mercy deal a la modcloth?

I know long haul for everybody, esp Andy. Looks like money raised is less than purchase price, so is there some meat on the bone in this acquisition?
This ... is truly a bizarre revelation. I had no idea people actually got such physical pleasure and stimulation from smoking. [1]

I guess it's one of those things that's so obvious no one actually says it. If you think about it, that benefit is never mentioned in debates about smoking and the appropriate government response. I know because I aggressively scour for such upsides, being the "hipster contrarian". Had I known about the pleasure and stimulation of smoking[3], you can bet I would bring it up every time!

Reminds me of "What Universal Human Experiences Are You Missing Without Realizing It?" [2]

Now you might ask, "Did it never seem strange to you that people would suck this disgusting tar into their lungs if it didn't at least feel good or something?"

Well, no. IME, people indulge in a lot of BS without obvious explanation. For example, people claim to like the taste of alcohol[ic drinks], and that is outright ridiculous -- or so I thought, but it was another case of [2]. Also, modern art.

My model of smokers was roughly that, they start doing it to look cool, and then get hooked, so that they have to smoke to fend off the pain of withdrawal. I didn't think the act could feel good itself!

Now that I think about it, people don't mention the good feeling of other drugs in debates about them either. For alcohol, I had a good explanation: those benefits are taboo, and people use the purported taste and refinement of their "fave bev" as "intellectual covering fire" for what they really want, the alcohol high.

In conclusion, the phenomenon in [2] is serious business!

[1] See, for example, the responses to this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14569775

[2] http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/03/17/what-universal-human-ex...

[3] Incidentally, I read Bostrom's Superintelligence, where he mentions writing the book while being powered by caffeine and nicotine, but I wrote that off (like most purported benefits of smoking) as psychosomatic.
As opposed to sheer arrogance that was OP's post?

Escaping all the problems of Earth to try and rebuild a society from first principles?

You can pretend I was condescending and downvote all you like, but it doesn't change the facts that I stated. It's extremely naive and arrogant to spend the resources to colonize Mars than try and make more places habitable on Earth.

It's even more arrogant to believe that a Mars society will be any different or better than the society on Earth.
Pretty much everything mentioned in this post is standard fare among the major self-service BI vendors now - and if they don't have it it's on their roadmap.

I would say the big advantages of Power BI are
1) Cost: In some cases it's an almost 5:1 cost advantage
2) User Community: Far more important than costs. There's a ton of third-party resources (books, blogs, forums, etc) on how to get the most out of Power BI's underlying technologies: DAX and M. I think you're going to be more likely to find a Power BI meetup in your city than one for another BI vendor.
This really looks amazing! That is all -- I have nothing negative to say -- you guys are killing it with this project :)

Curious, who is the founder of this project? Interested to hear more about it's background and the team behind getting this off the ground.
"Who told you you might meddle with such hifalut'n foolishness, hey?" [1]

Liberated? That ephemera might actually be integral to the story and you are NOT the arbiters of intent. Please keep your modernizing out of my lit'ratur.

[1]Pap, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
This assumes you believe that investors can't help you succeed in your business. I believe our investors can help us a lot.
We already spend significant amounts of taxpayer money sending random probes to other planets. What makes you think it'd be a bad idea to divert some of that money to sending humans instead? Especially if there are people who want to go and SpaceX manages to make it cheap enough for that to be viable.
It's really a shame that all you intend to bring to the table is negativity and doubt. Most of your post history seems to hum the same tune.

The only absurd thing here is that you seemingly enjoy informing people on facts about themselves despite knowing nothing about them.
> makes everything taste like coconut

I'd say this is a feature :).
The population of the US is 100x more than Iceland. There are a lot of well run small cities in the US. Iceland's policies would never scale up.
Is it reasonable to entertain the hypothesis that perhaps the focus on addressing word choice and speech patterns drains energy from combatting real abuses from the legal system?

Wouldn't most minorities prefer to live in a world where people often say insensitive or prejudiced things, but the legal system does not enact violence against them based on their minority status?

Have we conclusively proved that altering speech patterns and day to day expressions of opinion changes the likelihood of state violence against a particular group?

I intuitively feel that a tremendous amount of consciousness raising has happened during my lifetime, but the vicious prison sentences haven't changed much. The massive inequity in legal outcomes continues to be a topic of discussion in the press, and I know people who work for The Innocence Project who feel things are better, but not nearly better enough.

I am concerned that we might be engaged in placebo-like or symptom treating behavior, while the underlying disease goes unaddressed.
Considering that I am currently procrastinating on HN, this is probably the last thing I need to read right now.
No need for a VPN. Maybe using HTTPS wouldn't aloud them to see the data? Hope no MITM. But, you can always change DNS server (or use DNSCrypt).
Great joke. I chuckled
> When you're talking about India, 34 million people is a rounding error.

I don't understand your point. Sure its a rounding error when compared to the rest of India. But for the purposes of observing the effects of a certain foodstuff, that is certainly a large enough sample size of humans.

> It's also a country with unusually high population diversity which means that genetically speaking you could be talking about a group of people that are naturally immune to the effects of whatever they're consuming. You'd have to take a broader sample to find out.

This is highly unlikely. If there was such a genetic trait, I think it would be very apparent (e.g. we know certain populations in Africa are prone to sickle cell disease). Besides, its not just Kerala: most coastal regions in India have many many (delicious) coconut based cuisine which have been regularly consumed for generations.
This comment adds no value and doesn't drive interesting discussion forward.

Reddit norms don't apply here. If you have a low effort comment, just keep it in your head.
This comment adds no value and doesn't drive interesting discussion forward.

Reddit norms don't apply here. If you have a low effort comment, just keep it in your head.

Also the original post your were replying to was a recycled tweet anyway.
Could you clarify? Several of the examples are Python projects (with and without Tensorflow), and others are apps consuming models that probably came from Tensorflow.
Perfect: the next fad superfood.
> I get the feeling Walmart is desperate to compete and will buy anything these days when all they really need to do is build a Web site that is easily navigable and works. You think a company with their resources could afford the talent required to build a site like AMZN has.

They have Walmart Labs [1], which to your point, doesn't seem to have the ability for whatever reason (don't discount the talent, its entirely possible that the bureaucracy in Bentonville, AR is holding them back).

[1] http://www.walmartlabs.com/
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Which also has a reputation of excellent treatment of employees
A sine sweep is still a very narrow and incomplete way to measure frequency response.

> it's obvious that this is NOT about being a proxy for quality

"Interestingly, sound quality does not seem to be a major attribute for purchase decisions."

"Root-mean square errors (RMSEs) were calculated across frequency for each headphone with respect to an assumed target curve to assess an objective quality metric."

"assuming that the perceived audio quality is largely determined by the spectral magnitude response of headphones"

Are you sure?
Same with Trader Joe's, thankfully
How much have they paid in dividends since they cost $20bn?
Amazon makes a bid to buy Whole Foods
Oh well, you know a dozen people working at Whole Foods that have good careers, guess the literal thousands of people working in the stores, filling the shelves, being cashiers, etc., usually being the first ones to be thrown away, overworked and overpressured don't exist then. Only white collar jobs matter after all.

Enjoying your ivory tower I hope?
If the company/interviewer cannot tolerant small typos, wrong standard library function signatures, or similar small "bugs" on whiteboard coding, that's their problem.

If they are OK with things like "I cannot remember if the second parameter of Java's String.substring is end index or length, let's just assume it's length here", I don't see how inefficient whiteboard coding is (besides typing on the keyboard is usually faster than writing on the whiteboard).
Well, hidden to the child I used to be. But you're right of course.
For $20 bucks you can get an nice dress shirt from Costco.

Does anyone really think anyone else gives a shit how much someone spent on a shirt? or what their pants cost. Zuck shows up in sweat pants and t-shirt to work. He probably has never spent $100 on a dress shirt in his life.
Yep, a lot of places in the US have their own Wi-Fi, especially in malls.
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I never see it in Canada, we only have it commonly in restaurants & malls. But not box or grocery stores.
Had a lovely time participating! Here's our presentation: Helping people in big organizations get help
https://www.startupschool.org/presentations/611

Please see this as an open invitation to ask question or give comments about our product :)
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For many of the teams, english is a second or third language, and they came from areas where startups/tech are in it's infancy, so access to decent hardware is tough.

With that said, we only spent a week working on videos and it's more our fault than theirs that we chose to focus on building product rather than pitching, as many companies were very early.
From this point, yes. During the campaign, it appeared that Republican leadership were acquiescing to most of his demands. It's clear now that he has little political support for most of his policies. The Republicans are using him as a vehicle to sign bills into law and little else.

The things he wanted to do during his campaign that may have seemed credible: 1) Muslim ban, 2) Libel law strengthening, 3) Increased law enforcement action, "stop and frisk" policies. None of these lead to an authoritarian state, they just erode the Democratic norms of the Republic.
Calibre feels like a set of tools which can be accessed by a UI, its not really intuitively organized. There's not much of a sense of a hierarchy of concerns for instance. Still, credit to the maintainer, it's an amazing piece of work.
If we are capable to live on mars, we can live on Earth no matter what could plausibly happen to it.

Mars as a contingency plan is a weird idea. Whatever you plan on doing on mars to save mankind, you can do it much easier and for less money on Earth.
Could you elaborate how getting cancer goes on both lists?