skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By the 80's, Service Merchandize had green screen "Silent Sam" terminals in all their stores you could walk up to, order what you wanted, pay right there, then walk to the back of the store and pick it up from a conveyer belt from the warehouse area, a bit like picking up your luggage.

Imagine if this kind of system went through a dial-up and the items were simply shipped to you. We would have had mass e-commerce in 1985. The French did actually have something like this via their minitel system, fwiw.

In the end, open-ish standards and SSL won the race, which is probably a good thing. I'd rather be stuck with a broken-ish web than locked into these various proprietary designs controlled by one corporation. Even if Sears/Prodigy would have delivered these services, they would have been crushed by the web.
My brother and I were talking last night. We talked about mechanics, operations, for a VC fundable startup:

Delaware C vs LLC
IP assignment
83b election
Xero
Opening a Silicon Valley Bank account
Capital One credit card vs SVB

I don’t understand why YC or freaking Haas never walks people through startup best practices, especially in an ‘Essential’ guide.
To quote Alec Baldwin's character, Ellerby, from The Departed:

"Marriage is an important part of getting ahead; lets people know you're not a homo. Married guy seems more stable. People see the ring, they think 'at least somebody can stand the son of a bitch'. Ladies see the ring, they know immediately you must have some cash or your cock must work."

A touch on the homophobic and misogynistic side, but it seems relevant.
Not exactly from the past, but how do you feel about this scene from Minority Report? https://youtu.be/7bXJ_obaiYQ
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AssertJS conference distances itself from Isaac Schlueter's statements
I wonder if this is also due to the high cost of the actual marriage ceremony. A (cheap) engagement ring can cost over $1000, and can easily jump to $5-10K. Then a traditional ceremony can easily be over $10K, with no upper bound on how expensive it is. This was the cause of me no longer being with an ex, they were already in debt $80k from school, but still wanted a ceremony that could have easily cost $40K. I had no debt, and was unwilling go into that sort of debt for a ceremony.

I think a lot of people see that as well, and realize they simply cannot go into that sort of debt for a wedding ceremony.

EDIT: My point was more if that is expected of someone from their family/significant other, that would certainly be major factor in not wanting to get married. Wedding ceremonies can certainly be done affordably, and I think it is smart to do that.
https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!forum/business-bootstrap...

I mostly post links to seemingly pertinent things from HN, but the intent is along the lines of what you describe.
These are called hyper parameters (filters, filter sizes, stride length, pooling function, activation function, and a whole host of others not mentioned in this article). They are chosen "randomly" in the sense that it isn't an exact science, ie there is no "right" answer. However, intuition and experience are used as a guide to select reasonable values.

The values in the filter matrices and the weights and biases of the fully connected layers are truly random though. They are often initialized with Gaussian random values. Sometimes they are just initialized as all 1's, or 0's. Again, there's no "right" answer (there is probably research out there that recommends one initialization approach over another). These are the values that are trained using gradient descent.
Sounds like you are endorsing the idea that laws and regulations just get in the way of business, while ignoring the purpose behind laws and regulations to begin with.
Well of course they did. We live in an industrialized society and they had an industrial offering of products. Actually, we live in a digitized society now and that's where Amazon stepped in. General stores existed in an era before branding, before supermarkets, before everything was made in a factories halfway across the planet.
Ssssshhhh, we celebrate diversity these days, nobody is supposed to point out that the poly crowd are usually a little ... odd.
The amount of money spent on American elections is incredible.

In the 2012 US Presidential election (seems the data is not yet available for 2016), an estimated $7B was spent in total by all candidates and private groups. This is about $21.54 per person.

For comparison, in the last Canadian federal election, the top 5 parties combined received $127M in funding (public + private contributions). This amounts to about $3.60 per person, about one sixth as much on a per capita basis.
I still think jQuery/UI, libs maintained by a group that has a vision, organization, etc. Is a better solution than pulling in a ton of shitty half hearted components, functions, what have you from a bunch of random developers and repos scattered across the internet. Bootstrap works because it is built by a team, solves a specific problem and solves it well. jQuery is the same thing.

I grant that the things linked from this site are useful and novel, but I don't want to build a project sourcing things from 16 different developers when I could just bring in one library that does all of them, and might weigh a little more over the net.
Are Martial Arts Practical in Self Defence
Works great for you. Not so much for people who bike around you.
Ah, that's very interesting - thanks for the explanation. I see what you mean about the fragmentation. When the cached blocks drop out they may not be necessarily be usefully re-used, so you end up with memory looking like Swiss cheese again. Thanks also for the reference - I will go check that out now - this whole question of memory management on consoles sounds like it could be a fascinating area for me to read up on! Cheers!
A good video series on the topic:

http://skillcult.com/biochar-and-charcoal/
Sleep is More Important than Food (2013)
Wondering about privacy issues though, seeing as google collects "location information", isn't this just another step to surveillance, etc.

I'm kind of more interested in clothing that doesn't collect my data.
Check out the Indie Hackers podcast (and website). It's made for exactly what you're looking for. Courtland Allen interviews founders who are excited about making $20k a month in MRR, and they don't necessarily need to become a $1 billion company. Most of the people featured are bootstrapped or had only a little bit of funding.
> about 1 error per 2-GByte of memory per hour

Wow! So that means a 16GB laptop will on average experience 8 memory errors per hour under moderate load? I had no idea it was that high.

This likely explains why my Mac crashes randomly but incredibly rarely. It's like once every few months. I guess a bit flip happens at the wrong place about that often?
Muji in Japan does this. I would not be surprised if there's at least one 6-pager in Day One on housing in some shape or form.
I've never thought about it this way. I was wanting to transition to using all Google products and services from Apple but might just further invest in Apple and start using their cloud service as opposed to Google's.
> Damn you malnourished SF hipsters

San Francisco is actually pretty lite on the hipsters compared to, say, Bushwick or Portland.

> Why is this only in skinny

Skinny seems to be the default jean size, these days. Walk into a Uniqlo or something and the main thing you see is skinny.
Lots of people do it at City Hall and it usually costs about $50. Throw a nice dinner in for a few of your closest friends / family and you're talking about a decent wedding for a few hundred bucks. No need to go crazy.
A close related subject is the technological singularity because it would mean we would more or less melt together with technology. People like Ray Kurzweil and the writer Vernor Vinge are famous for this.

What broadcasting company is this? VPRO?
What's ethical about Uber deciding for a city which laws and regulations are worth following?
VanillaJS has a huge support community, it's even taught in universities.
Why not try rolling your own?

* http://projects.jga.me/jquery-builder/

* https://www.ericponto.com/blog/2014/10/05/es6-dom-library/
Yeah, I was really interested in the pyramids when I was a kid, I remember there was a general consensus that the blocks were shipped via water.
The real mystery was how were the blocks lifted and stacked.
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One of my friends runs a few small SaaS businesses in parallel. He really likes a conference called MicroConf (http://www.microconf.com/) which focuses on bootstrapped businesses. That might be something to check out if you can make it.

One book that's great, regardless of what scale of company you're trying to build, is Traction by Weinberg and Mares. It talks about how to pick marketing channels for getting traction + includes an introductory section on each of two dozen popular marketing channels. Very useful if you're trying to get traction for your product and not sure where to start.

Finally, a lot of startup advice should apply to companies more broadly: focus on building something people want; it's better to have 100 customers that love you than to have 10k customers that like you; do things that don't scale at the beginning; etc.
I see, why would you split a library accross many Jars though? What's the advantages? Isn't it again IOT, so that if you only use part of a jar, you don't need to have the full thing loaded?
Yeah. Courtland was also on the YC podcast recently - http://blog.ycombinator.com/your-whole-goal-is-to-not-quit-c...
They weren't hemorrhaging money at the time. Sears was profitable from 1980 to 1990, including fiscal 1990.

1990 is approximately the year when their earnings started to plunge toward losses. Earnings nearly got cut in half from 1989 vs 1990. At the time Walmart was still the #2 retailer, having just passed Kmart (for the curious, Walmart went from $32b in sales for 1990 to $485b by 2015; now Walmart is in a position where their earnings are falling and sales growth has been flat for years as Amazon starts to eat into them).

This NY Times article from January 1991, describes the atmosphere well:

http://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/28/business/big-change-is-exp...
As a fairly recent author in the genre, look at Dennis E. Taylor and the "We Are Bob" trilogy revolving around brain scanning and self-replicating von Neumann probes. I thought it was a great series.
If anyone else doesn't want to investigate, this article puts it at 25%. [1] Some may consider that a high percentage. If this is a major concern though, my advice is to marry someone who you trust to not be horrible in the case of a divorce. It won't always work out that way, but at least you can have some confidence that they won't try to ruin your life just for fun.

1. https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/heart-the-matter/201704...
When you can't tell the difference between a joke and reality it can't be good.

In this case, I guess this is a real thing, but reading the website it seems like it could just as easily be a joke.

Kinda like the Antifa spoof pages on Facebook, which were hilarious if you knew what they were spoofs.
I'm not sure we need screens on our jackets, we just need two-way communication. Right now, Jacquard only allows one-way communication (human -> device), but perhaps there could be a touch-sensitive way for the device to communicate as well.

This would be huge for things like heart monitors and emergency phone calls. A lot of room for "cool social apps for teens", and almost definitely for gaming/VR.
Second this. Can anyone reference a guide that works through the logistics of actually starting up?
Personally, any figure over 10% is high to me.
My recommendation is to get a broker. FE International is particularly good: https://feinternational.com/

A good broker should be able to tell you if an offer is fair, and also protect you from the risk of them just doing due diligence to steal your secrets.
I’m 32, spent $200k on biohacking. Became calmer, thinner, extroverted, happier
Per CDC (2014), the marriage rate in the United States is 6.9/1000 people while the divorce rate is 3.2/1000 people. [1] I'd say that's very high.

1: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/marriage-divorce.htm
Hey HackerNews,

I'm a tech CEO/ YC alum. For the last 4-5 years, in my spare time I have been doing a lot of biohacking. Spent ~$200k, did thousands of tests, ate tens of thousands of pills and dozens of prescription drugs, and it made me calmer, fit, extroverted, focused, healthier and happier. I may be wrong but I suspect there are fewer than 1000 people in the world who went this deep into personalized health.

I wrote a couple very detailed posts with a ton of very private things about my medical tests, sex, drugs, psychotherapy etc.

Pls give feedback, repost, and let me know if there are journalists or communities interested in talking about this. This feels like an important issue because people who will do this stuff will gain a massive advantage in society. People talk about human enhancement as if it is the future, but it is already here.

Thank you!
I love that they don't (appear to) use X11 on macOS anymore. What a pain in the butt it was to setup for a while there.
I don't think this method has anything to do with Markov Chains. The spatial structure isn't explicitly used at all, and the interpolation/regression is quite a vanilla nearest neighbor with some performance tricks.

Well, of course almost anything can be interpreted as a Markov process, but I don't think it's a very useful abstraction here.
This is incredibly useful, regardless of the veracity of its "computer vision."

A technique that seems to work well for it with simple drawing style icons is to thicken and simplify as the image gets smaller, so it seems like the stroke of the drawing is consistent across sizes.
Solve a problem that you or people around you have.

I know It's frustrating to hear that over and over again, but you have to actively keep your eyes open to the inefficiencies around you ("live in the future") and eventually you'll discover a problem that needs solving.

PG's essay on this is a good one that helped me choose what to work on: http://www.paulgraham.com/startupideas.html
The canals have been well understood, and known, for quite a while now. They shipped the larger stones down during the flood season. They quarried with dolomite (spelling) pounding stones, loaded them up on reed boats, and shipped when the flood waters were high and they had a surplus of labor.

It's probably a good idea to remember how many times they have 'known' how this was done. We have 'known' how it was done a number of different times - and ways. I remain skeptical until I've seen more about it and the idea has withstood scrutiny.

As for the construction, that's still a mystery. One of the more interesting theories is from a French architect. He supposes that there was actually a ramp, but that it was built inside the pyramid. He hasn't had much luck, as far as I know, investigating this. They did climb up the side and found a previously unknown chamber behind an area exposed by a missing stone. I'm unqualified to opine about the viability.

Err... I watch documentaries, to the exclusion of almost everything else. There are a whole lot of documentaries about egyptology.
I completely agree. My point was more if that is expected of someone from their family/significant other, that would certainly be major factor in not wanting to get married.
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I've limited it to that one for now so the server doesn't fall over, there are a few others that I'll add as I warm the cache
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The rise of robots in the German labour market
Does YC have enough time perspective to be truly convinced these principles actually hold?

The only example in article is Airbnb, which is obviously an outlier.

How well has this doctrine been working?
Its 40-50% marriages. However people who get remarried or married a second time are significantly more likely to get a divorce. Pretty damn high. Flip a coin. Whats really interesting is the number of sexual partners and how that relates to divorce rates.

http://www.apa.org/topics/divorce/
Way to many pop culture references for my taste. There are a few plot holes, especially in the first book.

Still worth reading.
like, everyone.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divorce_in_the_United_States#R...

The rates are high, and it's worth considering how many marriages should be divorced but instead forcibly stay unhappy for things like traditional or religious reasons.
What a depressingly cynical outlook.

>find yourself working your entire life to support your wife

You do know that lots of women have careers now right? You can arguably do quite well as a team pooling financial resources and saving for retirement. It also makes you more resilient to changes in employment.

>If you do not wand children there is no point in getting married.

What if you just want to engage in a mutually meaningful tradition?
First, no matter what the statistics look like, it doesn't excuse Uber's failure to report sexual assault and protect the people who have placed their trust in Uber.

Second, the statistics do not support Uber being any safer:

"A search query for “sexual assault” within Uber’s customer support ticketing system yielded 6,160 results, or 6,160 cases, for the period between December 2012 and August 2015. Plugging in the search term “rape” resulted in 5,827 tickets, while “assault” revealed 3,524 and “sexually assaulted” yielded 382. In the same report, BuzzFeed obtained data from the company indicating that it had received “fewer than” 170 sexual assault claims and five claims of rape over the same time span.

In a response to the BuzzFeed article, Uber’s heads of communications, safety and global support attributed the thousands of results to misspellings of the word “rate,” words and names that contain the word “rape” and discussions of the issue by passengers who were not personally facing assault.

A January 2015 report by the libertarian Cato Institute found ride-sharing services provided by Uber and its main competitor, Lyft Inc., to be about as safe as taking a cab, which, for drivers, was not exactly reassuring."

http://www.ibtimes.com/uber-sexual-assault-statistics-ride-s...
Why on earth would should I dedicate my life to some loser that wants to marry me? I probably make more than him anyway so unless he's 6'2'' athletic and makes enough for me to stop working there's no point.
Genuinely useful, and easy to use. Thanks for sharing this!
A part is removable, the rest you can hide. The ones you cannot remove are usually the ones the iOS SDK's are built on top of like Map Views or Web Views.
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This post reeks of red pill nonsense.
That would entail them permanently storing the images, which they probably don't want to do.
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Dead code elimination (i.e. UglifyJS) should do away with most unused code from a library - so with a proper build system this shouldn't be a big concern...
"Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, we will definitively prove that the black smudge captured on camera was in fact a gun"

Already being done today with DNA.
On the opposite spectrum I was surprised that there wasn't any advice regarding ideation.
First question: The network is trained to recognize a fixed set of outputs. That's what makes it a classifier -- it classifies an input into a single output. It does this by giving each output possibility a score, and the highest score is its guess for what the original image is. So if I have a network that I train to recognize cats, dogs, and cars, and I get an output like {cat: .13, dog: .85, car: .02} Then the input was most likely a dog. The network calculates all of those values simultaneously.

You can, of course, tell the network to output whatever you want: all of the guesses, best guess, top five guesses, all guesses over a threshold, etc.

Note, this is a gross oversimplification, but it gets the general concept across.
> rather than waiting for the Metropolitan Police to write
> to them expressing concern that Uber's policies of refusing
> to report crimes and obstructionist approach towards
> police investigations may have lead directly to people
> being sexually assaulted

Uber responded by saying that they have a "dedicated unit [...] tackling any incidents [...] run by former Met officers". [0]

This easily verifiable so I think it is extremely dishonest to say that they have a "policy of refusing to report crimes" or 'obstructionism'. This would only be the case if Uber was in some way incentivizing this team to fudge numbers.

I also know many people that feel much safer knowing that their friends and family are able to see where they are on a trip, and like the fact that they can retroactively determine the name and number plate of a driver the next day.

If you are assaulted by a black cab driver and they speed off, you have no way of gathering information about your driver. This lack of transparency makes being driven in a black cab much more dangerous.

> The ten times Uber got the green light [...]
> evidence in support of arguments that the regulators
> have been extraordinarily flexible and tolerant
> towards Uber

If Uber was not given the green light then you see it as proof that they are not playing by regulations, but if they are given the green light you see it as proof that they received tolerance and flexibility yet were not following regulations. What information would change your mind?

[0] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/08/13/uber-sex-scandal-...
It would work fine, but compile times are obvious slower than a desktop with a better CPU. High Sierra adds official support for external GPUs on thunderbolt and you'll definitely need one.

Apple sells an enclosure (Sonnet's) with an RX 580. I thought this also came with a $100 Vive discount, but that promo must have ended.

https://developer.apple.com/development-kit/external-graphic...
Are you suggesting that stopping terrorism is as easy as regulating mini-cab licenses, or that we should stop all legislation efforts until all terrorist attacks cease worldwide?
> You won't be able to connect to a shared drive using AFP anymore, if you get the new file system APFS when you upgrade

Not quite. You can't share your drive over AFP if you've formatted it as APFS. Connecting to a remote AFP share is unchanged.
It works well enough if the numbers are large enough from an investors point of view. It may very well be sub-optimal when looked at from the position of an individual company.

This is un-avoidable, any kind of start-up advice will always be a distillate from experience across a portfolio and hence will maximize the chances for the holders of portfolios, not for the holders of stock in a single company.
Get married is cheap. Getting a divorce is expensive.
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> just because Justin Wolfers and Betsey Stevenson aren't married it doesn't mean they aren't committed to each other and their children.

From the article:

"The decline in marriage was not offset by more couples living together."
There will be none.

Deloitte is so entrenched politically (both figuratively within large companies' C suite as well as literally with state and federal governments) this will barely register for any of their RFP or RFQ responses. Nobody signing the checks will care about this, if they even hear about it.
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