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Ask HN: What about entrepreneurs would you have a researcher study?
Imagine you had at your disposal resources to finance a social science researcher who would investigate any research question(s), about entrepreneurship and entrepreneurs, of your choosing.

These questions could be anything from the evolutionary psychology of entrepreneurs to economic analysis of entrepreneurs risk profiles in offering early stage equity.

Given the nature of the subject, the method of research could be either qualitative or quantitative, e.g.

Qualitative: interviews with entrepreneurs to assess characteristics of entrepreneurial personalities, with implications of how to foment entrepreneurial attitudes

Quantitative: analyzing a record of angel and seed financing rounds to understand and categorize the risk profiles of entrepreneurs and self valuation

I'm interested to know what you, brilliant hacker newa folks, would want a scholar to study about entrepreneurship.

If possible, please respond with:

Current job title
Research question(s)
Methodology

Thank you!
I think a hybrid solution makes the most sense.

Each voting machine tallies votes and prints out a filled-in paper ballot. Then you get quick electronic counting but with an auditable trail.
What would a less misleading headline be? "High concentration of plastic found in ocean area bigger than Mexico"?

It seems like this is still a pretty significant phenomenon, even if it's not visible to the naked eye.
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> I don't actually accept "the current state of affairs is bad" as a justification for new regulations.

And I don't accept "a previous regulation turned out to be pointless and annoying" as an argument against trying new regulations to fix "the current bad state of affairs." I don't think there's some magical third way to resolve issues with the failure of self-policing that doesn't involve regulation. Such arguments tend to have little positive outcome and usually just serve to discourage any attempts to actually fix problems.

Law, regulation, and enforcement are the solutions to reconciling the mismatch between selfish bad behavior and the public good. However, these regulations will undoubtedly have to be iterated on until a workable and effective solution is found.
Correlation is not causation sure. But "spent" nuclear fuel has plenty of energy left in it that a breeder can extract.
The main efficiency comes from simplifying the route. Routing to the exact final destination takes too much time.

People seem to think algorithms and computers will change this fact, but this hasn't appeared yet and is unlikely to.
Why do you need a transitional solution? Why not Manhattan-Project the heck out of a purely renewable replacement? Coal is, for a variety of reasons, a terrible stopgap. And nuclear buildout is too slow and expensive.

For the cost of building significant new nuclear, we could build the new storage mechanisms, and all the solar/wind needed. Faster.
Yes, is exactly as simple as you imagined. I'm working on multilayer + backprop, while re-studying theory XD I used som and gsom in recent years. I think the idea of an ML library in Go is a good idea: I shared my repo just to, you know...share the idea, find co-workers, open to some source in Go. I'm honest, I'm really happy in finding such an interest from web... and other coders ^^
Did CP/M sell for $180 because DR priced it that way, or because IBM priced it that way?
It's very far from a proprietary format. Qt itself is available under GPL/LGPL and a special commercial closed license for those wishing to write proprietary programs, QML is not patent protected and KDE has a special deal in place to ensure Qt won't ever be made unfree: https://www.kde.org/community/whatiskde/kdefreeqtfoundation....
I completely agree with this, but if a determined company is scraping the data, they can do various things to make the traffic blend in, it's not always possible for technical means to detect scraping. To which I say "oh well, deal with it or put it behind authentication", but some may disagree.
"It will look and behave identically on all platforms and devices."

I'm not sure if that's a particularly good feature to have. At the very least, the ideal UI for a desktop application will usually be different from that of a mobile application.

By all means make it cross-platform, but there really ought to be mechanisms for adapting to different platforms. HTML+CSS does a reasonably good job of this nowadays.
the distinction seems to be that you believe that Thiel's presence surrenders some sort of imaginary moral high ground that leaves Gawker in the clear despite reprehensible behavior. this is relatively senseless when examined flatly
Actually the automobile and aviation sectors are under more strict regulation than Healthcare because the ECU software and aviation software running, when making a mistake, does not only influence one life but many. So whilst being added more and more in cars and planes, you will see AI faster in Healthcare than in cars or planes. I've been in a shared European subsidiary project recently (http://www.emc2-project.eu/) and these sectors were always laughing when I complained about FDA. I wouldn't want to work a single day in their sectors. They had to disable the second core on a dual core fpga because it was not allowed. Meanwhile, I was happily running my data science in a cloud network.

Regarding design, design is a peculiar thing potentially much more difficult to automate than a medical diagnosis because there is only emotion attached. For medical diagnosis for a lot of cases it is just comparing to others and spotting the differences in the images as early as possible. Before even a human eye can spot them. And not with one dimension but hundreds. Many algorithms do not give the actual diagnosis, they let the doctor know this scan deviates from the default in marked places so a doctor can assess quickly without searching.
Yes but it's not like you would notice it unless you filter the water.

It's bad but if you would be sailing through that patch you wouldn't notice a damn thing.

If you are a fish on the other hand you would probably not like it very much.
> ...I've always wanted to write straight SQL with compiler guarantees...

SQL Server Data Tools does this exceedingly well. It's a Microsoft-built addon to Visual Studio.

Catching errors during compilation of SQL files is certainly very helpful! They also provide a very nice diff tool where you can diff between your project SQL files and a given server/database or between 2 different projects or 2 different databases... It also has a nice data-diff tool. (All for SQL Server only of course.)

This tool helped me very much to replace heavy ORMs (such as EntityFramework and so on) with just Dapper and a bunch of query procedures that are kept in the database itself (known as Stored Procedures in SQL Server). More detail on my setup in this comment - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14852425
I used to manage with VMs on 8gb, 16 should be enough for most people using containers. Believe the laptop in this review can be upgraded to 32 for the heavy-hitters.
I mean, it's not like the DOM does anything useful, like let blind people navigate a website.
Also good luck selling a new design to the hive mind.
I love seeing SQL being "abused" in this manner.

It's almost as crazy as the Excel spreadsheet I found to simulate a neural network.

I've always loved seeing how far you could push SQL and databases to do things that (on the surface) would seem extremely difficult or impossible.

What it usually turns out to be is possible - but in the long-term unmaintainable. This FSM is not that - not yet (if it gained even more states, it could get there). But I have seen (and I have unfortunately written) queries in SQL that could make your hair stand up. Insane extreme monstrosities that I am both proud and ashamed of (fortunately, I don't work for that company any longer).

On a different but related note, I do recall one query that a friend of mine wrote to allow the querying of a zip code database (which had lat/lon columns for each zip code), to be able to calculate distances from a given address - using SQL. It was a simple form of geo lookup he had to do for a particular project. I later used the same code as a part of a lookup process for placing markers on a google map (markers would indicate whatever was needed for "show me locations near my address within N miles"). It was a pretty interesting piece of SQL for the reason of doing the specialized distance calculation (can't remember which calc, but one of the simplest ones that didn't take into account certain things about the earth's "roundness" to make things super-accurate - that wasn't needed for short distances and purpose).
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That seems pretty evil, especially given the justification:

> DNT is a nice idea, but without buy-in from the entire ecosystem, its impact is limited. In place of DNT, we're adding in new, more granular privacy controls that give you control over how Reddit uses any data we collect about you.

What does it hurt to keep supporting it? It's actually pretty ironic: "DNT doesn't have total support across ecosystems, so we stopped supporting it".
The fact that a reactor may be failing after decades of use does not make it a poor design.

One optimizes for longevity during design, as well as other factors which cost money. It may have, for example, been cheaper to construct, with a strict lifetime after which it would be taken down."Good design" is almost always subjective.

That politics drive nuclear operators to maintain plants past their lifetimes does not indicate poor engineering.
I like the second part of your comment better.

> if it were going to happen, it would have happened already

Backward compatibility allows another technology to be used side by side with existing one ( WebAssembly ? ).
I would second this, that sand you mentioned is perfect, plus I'm taller and have more weight so anything softer than asphalt is a plus.
It's not a third party app. It's the thing that Windows uses to install things.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Installer

They're right though. It doesn't run in safe mode and it's a fucking pain in the ass. Makes fixing issues harder when you can't uninstall shit in safemode. Drivers especially.
Reddit does make money though - Gold sales alone started paying for the servers after the admins added a meter to the side of the homepage that showed a daily "goal" to pay for server time. At the time, it was posited as an opportunity for the community to fund their own party. Of course, the monetization train just kept rolling from there - starting with AMAs, now (according to some) with sponsored content embedded organically. Presumably this redesign will only accommodate the trend further.
After a shared restaurant bill yesterday evening, one friend suggested to another paying her back by making some sort of Chase-based electronic payment. The other friend hadn't tried it but was willing to give it a go.

The one is already a Chase account holder, and I think/suspect the other may be.

Like it or not (and I'm no fan of Chase and the BigBank quasi-oligopoly), this is going to be the future of payments. Unless someone significantly lowers the bar to alternatives.

Sure, they might have any number of other apps on their smart phones and accounts to choose from. But, banking ends up being the entre to having the/a service on their phone, tied to their individual financial services and resources.

"Everyone" does banking. This is the point/vehicle of mass adoption.
Agreed. But that doesn't justify making it sound like there's a Mexico garbage barge out there.
Are you simultaneously acknowledging sexism and dismissing the author in the same sentence? Wow.

The linked article doesn't blame "all men" for anything. It does talk about systemic problems that need addressing. E.g., there are unfair advantages that men have just from growing up in society, that need to be rectified, even though it's not their fault they have those advantages.
I think the goal is to allow people to develop webapps with models built using neural network libraries like keras and tensorflow. This would greatly improve the distribution of applications that are powered by deep learning because you wont have to install a bunch of dependencies in order to use the app.
Then we'll promptly forget about a11y.

There are many shortcomings to HTML, yes. "Just replace it" is not the right answer. It has never been, for the same reasons that you don't "just rewrite" an old code base. There's more value than the naked eye can see.

(Oddly, the web has just the example for that - Netscape 6.0. That was a from-scratch-rewrite, and oh my, was it painful)
Shapeways offers several different processes. The lost-wax stuff is for jewelry, so you can make hollow objects in expensive metals. Laser sintering is used for working parts. There's also MarkForged [1], which has their own process for 3D printing carbon fiber and metal with a sub $100K machine. It's kind of slow, but they're selling it to make dies for injection molding.

[1] https://markforged.com/
Here's reality: kowtowing to leftist media pressure in the name of making a company more 'sensitive and diverse' (i.e., hiring people for any reason other than their competence, such as their addition to 'diversity'), will kill it. Full stop. Ridesharing is quickly turning into a low margin, commodified business, and the more time Uber wastes with this nonsense, the more of an edge its competitors will gain on it.
Not quite. Training is not really supported in WebGL. For running a trained model this is cutting edge, and still has varying browser quirks.
$SNAP is down nearly 50% from its IPO. We'll see where its valuation really settles.
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There should be a browser that explicitly attempts to present the blandest, most common profile to websites to foil tracking.
Yet not a peep about spez surreptitiously editing user comments.
You get a hive mind or you get regression to the mean, by which I mean you either aggressively filter for people with specific qualities, which is apparently a hive mind scenario, or you end up with the same kind of commentators you find on every other let-everyone-in platform.
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plenty of solo founders with no family, no peer group, no mastermind group, and no support system?

Could you name one for me please?
Well's there's always the smoking hole in the ground known as Digg. They royally screwed that site up and crashed and burned hard with their redesign. That's how Reddit rose to prominence in the first place.
And then we'll reimplement it.

Poorly.
I won't argue that, but I think the trend data makes a convincing case that Reddit's rise and Digg's demise were inevitable, regardless of Digg's redesign failure.
Scala. The project I wrote (Python) sends data to a Scala backend the CTO wrote, so I need to pick up Scala to gradually take it from him.

The rest of the team has been writing Scala for other projects (and Python for the ones I'm working on).

By the way, if anyone here is in Algiers, Algeria.. Get in touch, we're hiring (mostly ML but we're open to technically and humanly interesting people).
a11y?
Awesome! This deserves to be on the front page
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Ask HN: Some sort of personal CRM?
I have horrible memory problems and some sort of personal CRM may be able to help.

I have Google Contacts and the like but I'm more looking for a system where I can look up a name and see how I met them, other info I know about them, etc.

Something private would be best - maybe even self hosted.

A tag system would help I think.

Any ideas?
Why not leave the polls open for multiple days then?
I can build a house today in the Northeastern US that's completely solar powered and off-grid. It adds about 15% to the cost to build. (2500 square foot home, 68k for panels, 18k for batteries, an extra 5k for a heat pump instead of a gas or propane heater.) The price of the panels and batteries is only going to drop.

For on-grid solar, the panels are already the cheapest form of energy available, when paired with a heat pump instead of natural gas. (When paired with using a giant resistor they cost equivalent to natural gas.)
That's a perfectly valid and logical conclusion, and indeed there are many big companies you've heard of (including Waymo, Tesla, Uber, and many conventional auto manufacturers) who are working on precisely that.

Nuclear can similarly be phased out like human-driven vehicles will be.
> I don't think it's so much overrun as that the only people there are the ones with radical opinions.

This is the issue with a lot of pro free speech websites, or a a lot of 'alternatives' to popular platforms in general.

Unless the more popular site completely jumps the shark, only the more extreme users (read, those angry with the old service) move over. So the site gets more extreme due to them being the only ones represented, and hence attracts more extreme users as a result. Repeat ad infinitum, until the new site is filled with people who are so far to one extreme of the political spectrum that it actively puts off a lot of more moderate potential users.

The only way Voat can get out of this is if it can draw in people who aren't interested in Trump, GamerGate or fringe politics.
If you cared about dimensional tolerance, you'd hire a machinist.
Don't forget Gilgamesh, possibly the oldest work of fiction in existence, has a living forever theme.
"'How far can you go with MySQL or MariaDB?'

"No."

I mean, that's not entirely wrong. You'd go much farther with PostgreSQL. ;)
That has nothing to do with the nonsense that we should avoid using something powerful or dangerous simply because our human senses are not equipped to detect it. You are literally surrounded by toxicity in modern materials, power transmission, and machinery. 110 volts is enough to arc and create ozone. Basements can accumulate radon. Cooking can release toxic gasses. These are not reasons alone to avoid modern conveniences.
Well done! Also important to note this project is one of the 10 recipients of the Spring 2017 AI Grants[1].

[1] https://aigrant.org/#finalists
I would suggest occasionally actually informing yourself of the wider world.

Your very example of Google Maps in Germany - well, turns out Google had to give people the option to opt out: https://europe.googleblog.com/2010/10/how-many-german-househ...

Same goes for web sites - robots.txt exists for a reason. If your crawler ignores that, well, I'd suggest talking to a lawyer.
And what relevance would have such a metric?
We already have the reverse and it works better. You fill out a paper ballot. You feed the ballot into an optical tallying machine. The tallying machine is just an efficiency measure. The paper ballot is the record of the vote. It can be audited statistically and/or manually.
Exactly right. People like different interface styles; a big chunk of the current audience likes the current style. OK, they want to expand to people like me who prefer different styles, good call; but they shouldn't hang people who like what they have out to dry! Yeah, it's more work to come up wiht an interface that's flexible enough to support the different styles ... but they just raised $200M so can presumably afford it.
> This page is using an unminified build of React.

> The React build on this page appears to be unminified. This makes its size larger, and causes React to run slower.

ಠ_ಠ
> "How far can you go with MySQL or MariaDB?"

> No.

Seems to me like a clear, coherent and realist answer.
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It won't sell gaming cards yet. My argument was that comparing underutilised hardware to that with fundamental unresolvable physical bottlenecks seemed to be a little premature.

The next generation of games could potentially utilise compute functionality, especially if Microsoft and Sony get off their arses and push the capability on consoles.

(That said, porting such software to a PC environment would not be withouut significant difficulty, given the vastly different memory configuration.)

I'll be hugely disappointed in the industry if we don't see some decent Vulcan based game engines in the next few years.
Yes, and the <bgsound> tag as well. What's your point? We're talking about a tiny part of the spec, vs. introducing something like QML to the ecosystem.
How to simply use object detection for complex image classification scenarios
It´s just a demo of an upcoming open source API that allows running deep neural network models on the browser.

Steps (disclaimer: I´m not related to the creators, so this is just what I understand it does)

1.- You upload your image

2.- Select an image to be the origin of the style

3.- Downloading Model: downloads a trained (on style
transfering) deep neural net

4.- Colorful artifacts: the model is applied to your image. Probably the artifacts are a visualization of the network weights being transformed to WebGL shaders, or just a simple visualization of the internal hidden steps of the transformation

5.- You get your image with the style applied
>It instead had the effect of demonstrating that it can be dangerous to write negative things about entertainment celebrities with deep pockets.

From what I understand, Gawker's two big follies lead to their downfall was:

1. Outing Peter Thiel as gay. Sleazy IMO.

2. Publishing a HH sex tape that was stolen and recorded without HH's permission. (according to HH).

They didn't get in trouble for #1, though it's pretty damn sleazy. They did get in trouble for #2, which they absolutely should have. I would think if some publication published the stolen JLaw pics, they would get sued out of existence too.

They didn't get in trouble for writing negative things about entertainment celebrities. They got in trouble for publishing stolen porn. Also, they would have gotten away with it because HH was running out of money for the lawsuit. That's where Thiel came in. What we almost got was a news publication being able to publish stolen porn because they have deep pockets.

FWIW, the Fairness Doctrine repeal in the 80s is what lead to all these airbags spewing anger for ad revenue. That's an actual free speech issue.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_Doctrine
Yeah borders being 0 is weird, but it's not material to the question, and for some reason someone once thought this was how it was supposed to work - I never cared about details like that.
Pandora comes out with a surprisingly positive Q2 after months of chaos
Can anybody name a successful ground-up redesign of a popular website? Or a successful from-scratch rewrite of a heavily used codebase?
Failed when I uploaded an image

>> framebuffer configuration not supported, status = undefined
If I have Prime, do I automatically have access to Amazon Fresh, or is Fresh a completely separate subscription service?
you are the man. great work.
> Cool! Does it enforce third-party libraries as well?

Yes, as long as you lint those libraries, too.

> A thing that typescript and/or flow doesn't support, is JSON. What if a JSON object doesn't match the type?

That's why you do runtime validations of your incoming JSON if you feel like you can't trust the data (and if it's an external API, you probably can't). How is this different from Elm?

> But I've been bitten several times by the fact that typescript isn't as strict as Elm forces things to be

In my experience with Flow, between the Flow analyzer and accompanying linter, you can make it just about as strict as you want with respect to types. The main thing you'll miss (as discussed elsewhere) is that unlike Elm, there's no way to guarantee referential transparency with JS and Flow.