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In terms of ecosystem maturity Rust is far behind Python, but ignoring that and performance, it still has some merits:

- static analysis helps you avoid numerous issues that plague Python. Runtime errors are far less likely and you are forced to greater discipline when coding

- it is modern language. After using algebraic data types, pattern matching and traits it is hard to go back to old style OOP.

- You can extend existing types with your own traits, and so can library authors, so you have plenty of extremely useful extensions. Just add use clause referencing some library, and everything gets more useful methods, without any magic or monkeypatching, so it causes no issues as it could in some dynamic languages.

I'd say it is massive gain in terms of quality and maintainability, but at the cost of upfront investment. Rust isn't a language I'd expect people to write prototypes in, but with few crates it can be as expressive as Python in many cases.
So this technique is basically... DDoSing mosquitoes? I also like the codename Debug.
I agree with you that putting people on the lists, especially because it is hidden and you don't know criteria can be problematic. That is, in theory the only thing against this.

In practice, everything about this initiative is good.
The username you're replying to is "KekDemaga".

You're being had.
A key element not included in the title is that the reception expenses came out of her own pocket.
Read the sentences around that one:

> I think a high barrier for becoming a lawyer is a good thing. But the bar exam is the wrong time to make the cut. The person already spent 3 years and maybe hundreds of thousand of dollars.

> If California wants to make sure their lawyers are smart, they should just require an LSAT score of 155+ to get barred.

To rephrase: we can predict a person's bar exam score with very high accuracy from their LSAT score. (This is an example of the general principle "all IQ tests are closely related to each other".) It's a stupid idea to have them spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on an education they're doomed to fail when we could tell them in advance that they shouldn't bother.

The fact that this process is incredibly wasteful seems relevant to the argument, no? If you took the bar exam after spending twenty minutes and fifty bucks, it wouldn't really matter that it didn't provide any more information on the testees than their LSAT scores had already provided.
WikiLeaks itself was verified, and Assange has complained publicly about not being verified himself.
eBay bought a former employee's stock from him; it wasn't an investment. Craigslist later bought back the stock (https://web.archive.org/web/20040813165340/http://www.cnewma...).
no, if you go to the first tweet in the series there's a link to the contest
Additionally, the Machine Learning Crash Course Series from Berkeley is a good overall explainer of the concepts.

https://ml.berkeley.edu/blog/2016/11/06/tutorial-1/

I've had luck with a mixture of online courses like Datacamp (https://www.datacamp.com/) and finding projects to try on sites like Kaggle.
that we know of Natural systems are like huge codebases built by novices. That variable you are changing shouldn't cause the whole system to collapse, but... see cases like the Cane Toad in Australia.
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I think cure was a poor word choice for the title; vaccine or immunity-booster is a better analogy.
Certainly not before IPv6 is widely adopted.

IPv4 address space is so small, any hashing can reversed with brute force.
Well that was embarrassing. Thanks for the corrections!

There's a Wikipedia line that could use your input (unless I'm missing why this would still be accurate).

> Key stretching functions, such as PBKDF2, Bcrypt or Scrypt, typically use repeated invocations of a cryptographic hash to increase the time required to perform brute force attacks on stored password digests.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographic_hash_function#Pa...
> "In 2016, CMAD and MosquitoMate piloted the first-ever U.S. release of male Aedes aegypti mosquitoes with Wolbachia in Fresno County. Our 2017 collaboration represents a more than 25x increase in the release efforts, with a total of one million non-biting sterile male mosquitoes released weekly, made possible by the automated mass rearing and sex-sorting processes developed at Verily. Additionally, our software algorithms and on-the-ground release devices will allow us to distribute the sterile male mosquitoes in an even and targeted way throughout Fresno’s mosquito season. We believe that these advancements could have a meaningful impact on what is traditionally a very labor-intensive process and could reduce the number of biting Aedes aegypti in Fresno County."

So the improvements are a mass-production technique that produces sterile mosquitos in large enough quantities to wipe out the wild ones, and software to determine where to release them for best effect.
Releasing them is one thing. Documenting them is another. This holds many of us back from releasing our work.
Well given the fact that many of those skilled blue collar jobs have either been outsourced or supplanted by illegal immigrants, and given the fact that their wages have either been stagnant or on the decline since the 70's, it makes sense that the schools would push the kids into careers resistant to those forces.
That's probably true. And should also be part of the "smart" thermostat's design.
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According to this, I'm a rogue employee. But instead of sneaking around to steal from the company, I'm trying to get another job. I guess I'll really be rogue then...
Thanks for clarifying. I don't know anyone who uses Greenberg in the SF area, and I'm shocked that they would be pricier than Cravath. I can believe that Latham NY might be less than Wilson, just because Latham is more commoditized than Wilson in terms of branding.

There may also be swings in "rack rate" because (1) the partner you are talking to at one firm is hungry and therefore will discount; or (2) some firms discount up front but then hold fast, whereas other firms are more receptive to discounting the bill at the end of the day.
Given their recent history of phony-account fraud, perhaps "growth in users" is not in itself a useful metric for them.
erlexec (or its elixir wrapper) might be worth a try: https://github.com/saleyn/erlexec
Don't you "accuse" a restaurant of having subpar food or service when reviewing on Yelp? When I read restaurant reviews I take certain ones with a grain of salt, unless I hear the same problems coming up in multiple different reviews. These accusations can have a material impact on the restaurant, similar to the impact it might have on a VC. Hopefully, no person will take one review as a final judgment on a VC, but if a pattern emerges people should proceed with caution.
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Can they do something similar for ticks. Ticks seem to be picking up steam as a disease vector spreading more than just Lime disease, as if that were not enough.
Any reason not to prefer AMD CPUs for VR applications, given the price difference?
I agree, though according to Wikipedia 12 people started the company together and contributed the initial sum of money
You misunderstand. if you are operating only under the assumption that your voting power should be proportional to the time you have left to live, then there's a pretty clear age-power relationship.

If you add an assumption about life experience though, You're going to have to be a lot more specific to explain how these two functions interact. why is the optimum in the middle? Why isn't it bumpy?

As soon as you start adding other factors into your weighting function, I don't know how you can be confident in the shape of your graph without being precise with your functions.

To be fair though, I think that there's a pretty good argument for inverse age weighting. If you're 20, you will eventually have to be 35, so it wouldn't make any sense for you to screw over 35 year olds. If you're 35 though, you'll never be 20 again. There is no incentive for you to not screw over 20 year olds. (unless you have kids, but at that point, everyone has equal investment in society and the premise falls apart).
Can someone with knowledge of this particular experiment explain how they've overcome the regulations that have stopped Oxitec / Intrexon with their aedes aegypti solution? They key regulatory factors cited against Oxitec, especially in their Florida Keys trials in the past year, were centered around controlling for the release of only males (which do not bite humans), thus avoiding transmission of any kind from the genetically modified varieties, or bacterially modified varieties in this case.

Oxitec has worked for years to filter their mosquitoes so only ~0.2% of the released mosquitoes are female[1]. They then had to demonstrate that and more in many trials before being allowed to release their mosquitoes in the wild in Panama and Florida.

Otherwise, it's great that Google can overstep the other factors that would stop this solution like NIMBYism and working with county / municipal boards. These solutions are great.

[1]:http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/11/florida-voters-weigh-...
Just wanted to thank you for adding the term "bikeshedder" to my vocabulary.
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Maybe they have to pay somebody a lot to spam HN?

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=formcarry.com
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Really? That's less than the cost for opening most franchises.
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I don't know if these are available for boilers, but many natural-gas-fired water heater controllers are powered by a peltier device, which is heated by a small pilot flame.
I mean, it's probably a Chinese escalator. We didn't get the term "Shenzhen Quality" out of thin air.
Just sayin', if I were building an escalator I would definitely use a wormdrive (or similar) gearbox, which physically cannot be backdriven.
And that in and of itself is part of the problem of why these lists are hard to create and maintain.

The problem here has less to do about YC maintaining a list and more to do about the people reporting incidents to YC. Sorry, but people are ruthless, and I can see this being abused by founders who may feel vengeful they didn't get funded.

If the list was based on convicted sexual harassers, then so be it, but if it's based on feedback reviews, it'll be ripe for abuse. This is going to have tricky sociological impacts in the VC community that won't actually solve the problem.
Stoicism unites key principles of early Christian thinking, Buddhist thinking, and modern humanist techniques for transcending mental illness (CBT/DBT.) It filters down from here through almost every bit of psychological self help you can find. (See Scott Alexander's "CBT is in the water supply") - and through it, stoic principles.

The modern world confronts us with a planet of people who are better than us at one thing or another and a planet of risks we have no ability to confront. We might work five years on a project that never ships without ever experiencing the gratification of chopping wood to burn that night. I would bet there's a genetic correlation between programmer / good at tech and overthinking / predisposition to anxiety; even if not, humans placed in an environment which causes our brains to run wild will look for some sort of peace. We find this from many sources - especially through addictions (legal, illegal, television, refreshing HN) - prescription medications (different from addictions? sometimes!) - but the idea of being able to train ourselves out of our internal agony is quite appealing.

Stoic philosophy itself is the foundation of the ideas which come to us through every part of culture, so people who are into tracing the source are liable to find it sooner or later.
Power corrupts, but it isn't instantaneous and it isn't as if there aren't good people who can resist that tendency. Y Combinator represents an aggregation of power, and so it's likely that someone, somewhere will be tempted to abuse such power. The "lowest cost" and most likely form of this would be through a false accusation of someone who only has marginal standing.

You can say this for just about any organization which has power. This is why transparency is often a good check for power. In cases where transparency isn't practical, then there is the larger granularity of the market. Where this breaks down is in very acute concentrations of power. The realist view acknowledges that power is contextual, and that contextual abuses will happen. Sometimes the world is imperfect and you're going to have to leave for more peaceful pastures.

Throughout all of the above, you can recognize "the good" in their magnanimity and their protection of the dignity and rights of individuals -- even extending this to the accused. I forget who said it, but the true test of character is not in how someone treats those they need, it's how they treat those they don't need.
It will probably work very well for YC. Corporations started the trend of multiculturalism despite the fact that it clashed with the widespread "melting pot" approach to different cultures at the time. Even though multiculturalism has hurt our society and led to a disdain of American culture, it helps corporations by increasing the labor pool, and thus will remain in effect.

The same forces that have made multiculturalism the norm will make "multigenderalism" a norm: Money. Tech workers are some of the highest paid workers in America right now. With such a pushback against outsourcing(and with as much outsourced already as they can get away with), YC and lots of other big names are trying their darndest to increase the labor pool in some other way.
It's interesting that Google is doing this rather than some government organization. What's Google's motivation? Is it purely altruistic, a PR move, an experiment, or does it have some direct benefit to them?
PlentyOfFish? That was pretty much a one-man operation for most of its history, they got bought for a billion IIRC.
Mostly ;)

Marc Andreessen wrote a good article on the layers of risks that VCs are looking into [1].
Most of them want to maximize the upside while minimizing the downside..

[1] http://pmarchive.com/guide_to_startups_part2.html
... or not. The "or not" is the real downside, and its what you're gonna get (see smart TVs, etc)
>In the 1990s alone, there were at least eight wars an order of magnitude bigger than that (Congo, Sierra Leone, Chechnya, Yugoslavia, Algeria, Burundi, Rawanda)...

This might be the worst possible way to think about the present security situation. In aggregate numbers are there less lives being destroyed today than in the 1990s? Maybe. But what does that have to do with total risk of all out war? You're measuring everything by casualty numbers, and not the actual potential for catastrophe, to say nothing of the risk of actual civil war in Europe precipitated by rapid demographic changeover. Scoff at that all you like, but you'll struggle to find a time in history where they was such a significant culture clash that didn't result in violence.

>You could argue that, but you would be hampered by the fact that casualty numbers in those countries are minuscule by the standards of actual wars.
>Terror is Europe is up a bit but still far from the highs it was hitting in the 1970s.

That argument is so, so tired. What level of casualties would make you actually take this serious? Do Jihadists need to be killing people monthly? Weekly? Do we need to have a major 9/11-like incident or more Nice style attacks?

>Many of the people saying "the west is declining" are in fact just baby boomers who are declining who can't accept that they are not equal to "the west".

In my experience boomers are the ones acting like everything is just fine and it's actually folks who are a bit younger and look at history on a munch longer timeline than just the last ~200 years who think we're in for some rough times ahead.
MIT creates an AI to predict urban decay
Adobe users like to whine but ultimately they're more likely to give up their firstborn child than switch products they're so attached to the Adobe tools and ecosystem. And I'm not sure the upper tier of users who are kind of setting the standard is all that price sensitive to begin with. I'm sure they lose hobbyists. But I don't think there are enough defectors to change the bottom line of their de-facto monopoly on raster/vector graphics software.
If magazine is also there:

https://archive.org/details/ifmagazine
In addition, the use of "nc" to ping google is bad. This causes the scripts to break in all places that use an http proxy. You already have wget/curl which honors the HTTP_PROXY environment variable. Just use that ...
Try that today. Businesses stay alive on margins.

Sure, 50 years ago if you were a white business owner and you took a black guys money, you might be ostracized by your community.

Racism in an economic sense today only hurts the racist. Do you think banks are going to turn down the profit of a black mortgage if it is profitable? Do you think this lady on the mountain is just going to turn down money because the renter is Asian?

I'm just saying it's not the norm. Do people have stereotypes about cultures? Of course. Would someone rather have someone of the same ethnic or cultural background stay in their house? Probably, and I don't think thats entirely unreasonable. But it's not a acceptable in our society and I think that's a good thing. In order to bridge the gap there are certain conditions, protocols and expectations that are followed.

In this case there are two people of different cultures (and culture may not have had anything to do with it, all cultures have ass's), one is bending over backwards for the other, who seems to have very little respect for the rules that are in place to bridge the divide between people and create a fair, equitable and nondiscriminutory enviroment.

Rules are in place to set a standard that otherwise might not exist across cultures.

Break the rules, then complain that you have been stereotyped by acting out the exact stereotype? Seems a touch hypocritical.
it's not about decision making, it's about incentives. No one is arguing for a performance based voting algorithm. A young person will eventually have to be an old person, so they must balance the interests of both. An old person will never have to be a young person again though, so they only vote in the interest of themselves.
> the grammar (and thus the meaning) is sometimes driven by the meter

What do you mean by this? The closest I can come to making sense of it is that some Latin words obligatorily appear as the second word in the sentence, but it seems like you must mean something different?
I mean, in the context of 'discussion of small entrepreneurs who have started internet companies from scratch'.

You're right that it's a relatively small amount to start any kind of business.

I do think someone mid-career who's something of a subject expert spending $150k teaches us meaningfully different lessons than an inexperienced person whose $150 side project is now a billion company. Not less valuable, just different.
Every incubator maintains a list of who they prefer to work with. This really should not be news.
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As an exercise of the limits of this advice, how does this apply to designing elevators, short of "never design elevators"?
Bye bye Common Stock options.
Processors are cheaper than ever, and there are multi-core multi-gigahertz processors with multiple gigabytes of RAM scattered throughout most homes but yes, as you point out, nobody wants to use them, they want to ship them up to "the cloud" or as we used to call it, "some servers on the Internet".

A charitable soul might say that by keeping local software simple, the end-user's devices don't need to be updated as often, while the software running on the cloud systems can be continually enhanced. A cynic like myself would say they prefer to use the cloud:

1) because it's easier to gather serious data about the users for later use/sale

2) because by tying users to an online service, they have something valuable ("2 million active users!") to offer when the startup inevitably gets bought out

3) because you can get away with less efficient code if you're running on a big timeshared server vs. on a small battery-powered device

4) because "the cloud!" is still an effective marketing gimmick
Pre deep learning -- using facial feature geometry?
There's a Reddit AMA happening right now with a current batch founder and they said, "There's an... internal investor database with founder grading and info-passing," so I wonder if that's where the blacklisting is happening.

AMA link for those interested: https://www.reddit.com/r/startups/comments/6najyy/im_a_found...
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Though this is a real problem to solve, what about false accusations? If all it takes is an accusation (or two) to destroy someone's career then I see a huge problem with this.
And most databases can't tell you who put that bad data into the database.

Nearly every place I've worked at we've had to try to create our own version history and audit information. This one of the examples I use when people start talking about how we have a shortage of engineers.

No, we have a shortage of good tools. Nobody should have been writing their own data versioning code in 2007, let alone 2017.
As you might have guessed, my password hash is password.
You chose the wrong definition of slave to make your argument...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master/slave_(technology)

In the computing world, this is what master/slave means. And has for 40 years. It doesn't matter what the words can also mean, just like it doesn't matter that the word whip can mean a kind of desert, or to stir.

You need a dictionary.
> To rephrase: we can predict a person's bar exam score with very high accuracy from their LSAT score. (This is an example of the general principle "all IQ tests are closely related to each other".) It's a stupid idea to have them spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on an education they're doomed to fail when we could tell them in advance that they shouldn't bother.

That seems like an argument for not having the bar exam, which is (at least in my state of ignorance about the subject) a reasonable thing to argue. However, that does not seem to be the position of the sentence you quoted, immediately before the one I quoted:

> But the bar exam is the wrong time to make the cut.

If there is a bar exam, then when it is taken is, I think, exactly the right time to make the cut.

Even with those sentences quoted as context, I still think that the time and money spent in the study of law is irrelevant to whether someone should be accredited, by whatever process. (That doesn't mean that I think that it is irrelevant full stop; I agree that it is deeply relevant to the student, and probably to society as a whole.) Nonetheless, I meant in my original post to argue literally only with the one sentence that I quoted, which is why I did not give the context, and not to argue with the rest of the post, which seemed eminently sound and which I agree should probably be interpreted as you have done.
I think it also requires a mindset that a lot of young engineers don't have IMHO. Very few of them will ever ship code that will run 24/7 without patching, and be stable out of the box.
> Benchmark is trying to cut their losses

Didn't Benchmark get in very early? If they got in Series A or B..there are no losses for them. They probably have at least a 10-20x payout already.
personally I think Andrew Torba acted like a Cyberbully, the ban was well deserved.
In this case, the particular species that carries Zika (aedes aegypti) does not pollinate any plant species in any meaningful way.