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True, and a fine line which is hard to judge from the seats we sit in. But I agree that a US company cannot be associated with the Kremlin or Beijing or Riad in 2017 without consequences. Maybe in 2023.

I just don't want to see a McCarthy witch hunt when a lot of the money floating in Wallstreet and the Valley is of dubious origin.

I would equally oppose taking money from one of the CIA VC firms, even that one where Dan Geer works. And I kinda have this idea that by now enough money is floating around valley from the money made in the valley that it should be possible to use that "pre-laundered" (if we may call it that) capital.

That said, I have no idea how a startup would vet the VC's capital backers, or what they should do when they find out some of it came from beijing, moscow, tel aviv, and you want to give it back to disassociate your startup.
I'm sure that electing a regressive corporatist was a wonderful improvement.
Ok, so either way my point stands. There is no evidence whatsoever that something illegal is taking place ?
The op posted this article

http://www.nytimes.com/1995/12/07/business/40-wall-street-is...

So apparently he bought it roughly for market price ?
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Fun fact : entropy really is a fundamental unit, as mentioned in the video.

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

Entropy and temperature are linked together by an energy term. If you like, you can choose Entropy instead of Temperature as one of the fundamental physical dimension
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Ok. I'll bite. Where, in the linked NYT article, is evidence that Kremlin gave orders to do X and not Y (rather than just cash) to Milner?
Another day, another mainstream media publication shilling hysterical articles about Russia. My pet theory is that it's a big collective act of psychological sublimation to compensate for the shock of Hillary losing.

I also find it ironic that the Chinese Communist Party, an institution which is at least on par with Russia in terms of shadiness and social repression, receives barely an iota of the flak that Russia receives in the American media.
They are currently doing $200k in sales but "Since he started selling on Amazon, Grant says the business is on track to top $8 million in total sales by the end of this year."

$8 million is sales since starting.
Yes, I said unlikely and I meant it?
So here's the basic problem with your attitude: it proceeds from comprehending only your half of a fundamental equation. You feel no responsibility toward those less fortunate than yourself, but at the same time you expect them to feel a general responsibility to respect your property rights. Why should they? Because it's in the Bible or written in law books? In the wild there are no property rights, no individual freedoms. What keeps the poor from your door when they realize that the responsibility is one-sided?
You didn't answer my question. Anything of the form "Apple is doing it for <x,y,z> reasons" or "Apple is not doing it as documented at <x,y,z>" is acceptable.

"but muh hackernews rules" is not an answer.

Also, it's a pretty specific tangent that coincides with the original submission about people hiding and hoarding wealth.

So, again, try answering the question instead of downvoting and invoking rules that (frankly) don't show what you think they show here.
> The world is not designed with you in mind

So what. Humans can be incredibly creative. There are problems everywhere that people overcome every day.

For a brief look into the incredible ways people adapt to disabilities, I recommend watching this[1] Smarter Every Day video.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CtnrK3qx_Y
SMS isn't perfect, but it isn't really comparable to Facebook's chains.
"suffering", "agony". It's not like we're talking about people being tortured.
Oh spare me your pseudo-moralism. If you don't think leaving people to starve to death or (insert obvious consequences of rampant inequality here) are a form of structural violence then you're just being a giant hypocrite. Private violence is a thing and you know it. Until you're willing to acknowledge that truth I'm not willing to waste any more time on your sophistry.
Ask HN: Growth metrics for YC hardware startups
YC has startups focus on weekly growth on e.g. revenue or users from what I understand.

How do hardware startups, that may not be in the market yet, fit into this? What do/should they be focusing on week by week?
Math and science does run the world, but the mathematician and scientist does not. I believe this is more accurate.
So, either they put in a bunch of work to make the house more attractive or the overall market price rose 40%. In either case you just want to exclude the house because you don't want someone to make a profit?
Shark fin soup has been a highly prized delicacy in Chinese cuisine. I'm sure many Chinese people (who could afford it) found the experience profoundly enjoyable.

Many environmentalists, including the basketball celebrity Yao Ming, campaigned against it, highlighting how the world's shark population is collapsing.

Shark fin sales dropped by 70% in China.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/chinas-choice/2014/a...
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You can’t dismiss it doesn’t mean it’s ready for prime time, FWIW.
The fundamental problem here isn't the relicense, the problem it's that it's being incorrectly called an "open source model".

This is not an open source software license, so it's not an "open source model". It's not a Free software license either, as defined by the Free Software Definition. Instead, it's a proprietary license. It's not a new software license model, either; historically this has been called a "gated community license" or "open box license". Here's article from 2000 about gated community license models: http://archive.oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/articles/gated.... They've never caught on, in over 20 years of trying, but perhaps this project's experience will be different.

We've had, for decades, a widely-accepted definition for what the term "open source software" means. If someone actually means "open source software" per that widely-accepted definition, then by all means, that person should use the term. Since this project don't actually mean "open source software", then they should not use the term - please call it something else. The world is confusing enough.
I follow this company and guy... they have a bunch of partnerships with distributors and manufacturers directly which result in higher margins. Saying they buy at Walmart and sell on Amazon is only part of the business.
Peter Thiel alone has outspent all of those Russians we've been hearing so much about.
This article is making it's rounds. It implies that Hillary had control of the DNC and "bailed it out": https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/02/clinton-b...
your whataboutism is a classic kremlin maneuver. What about this and what about that ? The fact that I defended Facebook's handling of Russian ads in an unrelated online discussion has nothing to do with the fact that your specific argument about details of a specific deal is bullshit.

You said he bought it for 1 million and he bought it for 8. Apparently the same price as previous buyer paid ? So we can dispense with this line of reasoning ?
> another mainstream media publication shilling hysterical articles about Russia

Imagine if Germany found out that Rocket Internet, a large European venture capital firm, was actually CIA backed. It would be a scandal and a lot of people would need to, rightly, question whether they had been compromised.

The problem isn't solely the identity of the backer. It's the surreptitious deployment of state power deep into another country.

Disclaimer: Hypotheticals are hypothetical. I am not a lawyer. None of this is legal advice.
Its worth discussing it - rather than dismissing it as hysteria.
The math still doesn't work. He's been at it 4 years, and he notes that it wasn't huge the first year.
This may be an unpopular opinion, but new medications for difficult to treat diseases do raise the quality of life for those populations, despite being incredibly expensive. I'm certainly not saying they shouldn't be less expensive, mind you. :)
The paper clarifies a lot, and makes me think you meant something like "generative model" instead of "generative intelligence"

The problem with using the later is that it only rarely (maybe a couple dozen over the last few years) appears in conjunction with ML in rigorous research publications. When it does, it is used with extremely precise and well-defined parameters (see GPRS from M.Golumbic) or used in reference to the traditional "home" of generative intelligence at the cross roads of cognitive science and pedagogical theory & methods. There, it is a close cousin and necessary component of "general intelligence."

That's why its use here set off alarm bells of "Alert! Marketing speak at work! Gross overstatement of capabilities have been detected!" Because it doesn't fall much short of claiming "general intelligence" as a practical result of & use for Pyro.
If they committed crime, they should be in prison, regardless of how numerous they are.
For example, you've almost certainly been manipulated into feeling mildly inferior because you aren't young and taking joyrides with friends in your convertible on winding roads by the sea. Or if you're not that kind of person, you might be feeling mildly inferior that you haven't yet built a hobby project that would take the world by storm.

In other words, most people spend their lives being unhappy about status of some kind. It's partly an innate need, but mostly manufactured by overexposure to images of abnormally high status people. Reducing such exposure (remember that Israeli law that said models should have realistic body weight?) would help reduce misery.

As to who gets to decide? We come up with guidelines and make them law. It's not harder than other stuff regulated by law. Anyone can tell when an ad shows an alluring life instead of selling the product on merit.
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Ethereum doesn't control the rainforest. Pure information can't
Is there any other form of communism than dictatorial?

Dictate number 0 of communism is: you cannot leave. Cause of you could, all productive people would flee instantly.

That, in my book, makes is a dictatorship.
His high salary was $150k. You can still make millions without taking it out in the form of a salary. If he owns the company and the value of his equity increases into the millions, then he’s making millions. It sounded like he was reinvesting the money back into the business too. It’s probably a smarter use of profits if he has predictable margins that scale.
I don't appreciate or value art at all.
He's doing $200k in sales per month now.... Black Friday and Christmas are just around the corner and are probably 80% of their business (just my guess). Either way retail sales are not linear.
Point me to an experiment that could falsify a mathematical theory. :-)
>The real goal of capitalism is to increase the amount of capital available. This fundamentally is not possible via exploitation alone.

This is a common view, however it was also a common view of the political economists before Marx published his critique of the field, Capital. It was his thesis that through the cycle of circulation, M-C-M' is observed, that is, the capitalist manages to leave with more money than what he started with at the beginning of the exchange. He turned what you have just said upon its head - one of the sources of profit is actually via exploitation alone, that is, the purchasing and usage of labour-power whose use-value takes the form of labour which is applied to the final products. It is value-adding. This is the contradiction that Marx aimed to solve, that is, if values are traded for values, how is it that the capitalist is able to make profit? Ending up with more money at the end, barring any kind of trickery or scamming, barring the fact that the economy does not solely run on collection of rent and interest, how can a profit be made?

It's probably false to describe it as a zero-sum game, but that's only because both the worker and the capitalist benefit from the trade of labour-power for wage (assuming equal values are traded for equal values, the contradiction of labour and capital in incessant dialectical movement). It is clear however that the benefit of the capitalist is indeed greater and sustained by the fact that most workers must sell their labour-power to survive.

This kind of analysis is extremely unsettling to capitalists, as value is not merely an outward appearance of a thing, but rather it is an essential quality, it is hidden away but works "behind the backs" of both the capitalist and the worker. In this sense, Marx notes that "they have acted without thinking first". One contributor to ignorance of capital and money is commodity fetishism, a term Marx borrowed from social anthropology, in which people are merely representatives of commodities rather than alienated people trying to survive on the "free market".
Does it add any value? Seems like pure middleman profiteering without positive output.
There are 95 news organizations sharing the 13.4 million documents so it would be hard for anyone to hide it now.
Is Donna Brazile a Republican, RU operative, or both?
I think that not everyone can be a large-scale architect, but those numbers can be increased.

People can be taught to at least think like architects in order to make better choices in life and understand when and how they are being manipulated by malevolent architects.

Also, one doesn't need to build million-user products to architect small changes in local communities.

An analogy: not everyone can be a good philosopher, but they should at least read philosophical ideas and be aware of them as they make decisions in life. Collective intelligence/wisdom can increased, even if most individuals are not professional philosophers.
must be a typo. i dont believe he spent $800,000. Thats a lot of money in rupees
It's very shady looking into anyone's comment history and bring up other supposed dirt and use it like that.

Smear tactic. Now you don't look so good either.
There's just no point getting fancy for MNIST. Using nothing but fully-connected layers and rmsprop, I got good results in less than one minute. https://imgur.com/a/7xzmQ

Hidden units for discriminator layers - 100, 40, 2.

Generator layers - 40, 100, 768, then "reshape" into 28x28x1.
If you truly understand communism you see that is can only be implemented as an autocracy...
Taxes are the rent you pay to live in the society you live in.
> In the wild there are no property rights

In the wild there is ownership (or possession), and animals defend it with brute force. Property rights regulate this and tend to enforce the concept of ownership in a civilized way.

Without property rights, we'd be back to defending ownership with violence, even on the individual level. Few people want that, and I'm not one of them.
No, not in this case. It’s very deliberate that companies pay tax on profit, not revenue; it’s not really a loophole. This gives the company an incentive to put the money into growth rather than taking profit and paying dividends, especially when it’s smallish.

You could theoretically have a system where companies pay tax on revenue, but realistically it’d cause massive upheaval and greatly disincentivise starting new businesses and growing current ones.
The Readme doesn't tell me anything. What does "max7221 ds1307" (the whole content of the file) mean?
To be clear, would you morally condemn someone for stealing if they would otherwise starve?

It seems like you think the right to "property" is somehow above the right to life. In most of the world BOTH of those are guaranteed by the same laws and the same social contract.
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"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them." - Thoreau

Best of luck!
Who would you trust with control over that potential weapon?
This is why I really love initiatives such as https://neocities.org/ :). I don't have a use for it myself as I have my own servers, but I'm glad this kind of service exists!
I would say it's not shady, it's just kinda dumb because it's irrelevant
Nationalization would be required because once the plan was announced, the price of Uranium would go through the roof - and then bidding/speculation would start and Uranium would be coming up all over the place. Specifically: Russia.

Australia, Russia and Canada have most of the known deposits.

If the market price of Uranium is literally $0, well, Russians get nothing directly out of digging it up.

The grand concern would be, once something like this got going, there would be copycat entites in places that are not ready for it, i.e. China, Russia, Iran. Maybe China is today, but they are always teetering on revolution, or some kind of massive upheaval. There's no place like Canada for a vast expanse of boring, stable, calm, political stability and basic (but never exceptional) operational effectiveness.
The thing we should really be asking: Why is startup investment by the US Govt so inept & ineffectual by comparison? What options do startups have to get government funding... the broken SBIR process?
"generates millions" would have been better wording in the headline
Can someone explain slides 54-58, about how it takes many minutes to lowercase strings?

slide 55 reads: "each string operation takes 21 seconds" (an amount of time which I translate conservatively into tens of billions of operations or gigabytes of in-memory lookups).

How can performance be that bad - I would think it's trivial? Like, I'm not getting what lowercasing can possibly be doing that is so resource intensive. Any ideas?
This did not work out well in France in 1793.

Or Russia in 1917.

Things were close in the US in 1932 - hence the new deal.

Poverty isn't an excuse for a crime, but people with children to feed can be used as a tool by revolutionaries very easily. One revolution often leads to another (France and Russia also Germany saw this) as the faction in power loses it's grievance and acquires shiny things.

The problem is that this precipitates economic collapse and therefore more poor people.

"Managing" the problems isn't cheap either; thugs, cameras, guns, torture, prisons and PR are not free. There are a variety of costs, including the personal ones when the children of the rich discover that Daddy or Mummy spends half their weeks chainsawing people's arms off.

And Jesus, what's the point? I mean, isn't it just better to have a world where you can go out for a latte or buy a pair of pants in a store without being afraid ?

Technically we can say that equilibrium is that the rich support a welfare state and the poor do not use the rich to decorate lamp posts. Some players have forgotten this, they are irrational, but that doesn't change the game and in future iterations it will return to it's balanced state.
> evidence that Kremlin gave orders to do X and not Y

Again, you're moving the goalposts.

Others [1][2][3] have directly responded to you on this point. Arguing that there is no need for alarm until some undefined threshold of red-handed evidence is attained is silly.

If a state-backed investor invests in your company, and you don't know about it, that's cause for alarm in itself. It means you need to review, very carefully, what you told whom, when, and what actions you took at their behest. From a corporate level, it's similar to what e.g. SpaceX would be expected to do if it discovered Lockheed Martin invested in it through a front. At a national level, state involvement adds extra dimensions.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15631661

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15631645

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15631654
So "28-year-old runs a small business that makes millions selling on amazon" would be more accurate than the actual title. But they probably get more clicks phrasing it more like a pyramid scheme ad ("Make 6 figures from home selling ____!")
I ran into that bug too. It's the first bug that I've encountered with Leiningen after using it for more than five years. Sorry that that was your first experience with the toolset, but it's far from the normal experience.

Also, if you're happy using an editor other than Emacs, then go for it. I use it but only because I've been using it for quite some time, and other than the fact that I like the way emacs indents Clojure source there's nothing special about it in the way that I use it. Visual Code has nice support for the language so that's a good option if it's more up your alley.

One area where I see Lightmod being really helpful is setting up the initial project. Learning what's going on w/cljsbuild, figwheel and then how to combine that with Clojure in the same project file isn't the simplest thing in the world to say the least.
She won due to superdelegates and DNC corruption as well as media capture. The fact that Bernie did as well as he did in the face of this is a testament to how bad of a candidate she was.
Tiny note:

it's been many decades of the same issue, people work, people share, things go weird, they get angry (and rightly so).

let me blame the victims slightly (barely at all, it's mental exercise). Isn't the problem in the tax -> action function ? it's a big black box. That's always the case when people get angry about anything, it's because they have to deal with an unpredictable and costly black box.

Solution: no more big, no more black. We need a more tractable and open system that can be more efficient.

More questions: should people be able to see all what their money does ? or would it backfire into micromanagement and critics ?
Working remotely doesn't mean someone is unambitious or antisocial. The ability to focus without interruptions while still communicating/documenting clearly is easier done with remote work (in my experience).

I think you touched on a sad aspect of tech. For anyone to be "ambitious" or to "move above an intermediate level" they essentially have to become managers, which means less technical work. The likelihood of you joining the VP/higher ranks and still working on low level issues, as a respected technical fellow, are low to nill (Google, FB, MS have some positions but otherwise you're filtered into a manager to "move up.").

Your comment about "striving for more" is disrespectful to most developers/engineers.

How are people who spend their entire work days talking to others, but not actually working, "doing more?" I've seen more talkative/social people not getting work done than
"antisocial" workers being "unambitious" or stagnant.
>I suggest that a society only interested in the workings of machines rather than the workings of people will soon treat people as mere machines. Let the nightmare begin.

So far the society that treats people as mere machines is constantly mouthing platitudes about the humanities to itself, chanting, "Think about people! Think about philosophy!" as though this will actually alter the balance of class power.

USAians already take more humanities courses in a STEM degree than almost anyone else in the world. It doesn't seem to accomplish much to turn everyone into fluent humanists.
This is pretty harsh critique. I first got on the web in 1992 and what we have now is a paradise compared to what we had then. Sure, you may have to look with intent for what you want, but freely coasting around the web has always carried liabilities. It used to be "you'll find lots of junk" and the junk has simply diversified since then.

I also noticed the author doesn't even use a single hyperlink in his own article. Be the change you want to see.

I was just checking out Project Rho. Before that I was building a link page of my own because I'm getting into ham radio. The old web we love is still here and it'll always be around in some form.