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Mentorship and advice for first time entrepreneur
Are there incubators or people who specialise in providing mentorship and advice to first time entrepreneurs? If there are any, what would be the best way to get in touch with them?

I am aware of i/o ventures but do not know how to go about contacting them.

Any advice would be super heplful! Thanks!!
"Application is trying to access feature. Do you want to allow it?" Yes / No.

User testing revealed that most users clicked the little cross in the top corner.
An aging population is a huge problem, but not necessarily an unsurmountable one. Most of the gains in productivity since the industrial revolution have been due to working smarter, not throwing more laborers at the problem. Pension funds can continue seeing positive returns generated by general economic growth driven by technology and streamlined business processes.
Of course. I know even more who whitelist sites with ads that aren't overbearing.
> (who have to create perks)

Do they? I've seen pages getting a solid amount of money without having any perks.
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>"Gambling" has connotations of immoral behaviour, especially in zero-sum or always-lose scenarios like poker and casinos. I don't think it's fair to describe educated and informed investment or buy-ins with words like that. I think "risky venture" is a less loaded, more neutral, term to describe it instead.

This is not a repeat from every bubble ever. This time it's different!
One more reason to add to the innumerable list of why not to use windows.
It's not possible to install drivers that are not signed, on Windows.
I wouldn't be surprised if this guy Ryan Felton was being paid to write negative pieces against Tesla and Uber. Go look through his articles and you'll see nothing but doom and gloom about electric cars, autonomous cars, uber, etc.

Most of his claims are backed up by "anonymous former employees" or "unnamed people familiar with the matter"

Tesla will be just fine.
Nope, I really don't get the appeal.
The discussion is about benefits of exercise being replaced by a pill.

Whether the mood/psychological benefits come (or don't) with the pill as opposed to exercise, I think is germane to the discussion.
This is retaliation for the staff unionizing. The wiping is a petty final insult to try to deprive them of even their body of work.
Doing this right after your employees unionize makes you an asshole. Especially if you're a billionaire. Especially if you delete the archives.

But.

He's a Trump supporter. So he's probably firmly of the belief that the little people are trying to steal too much out of the pockets of the wealthy.

(I'm also curious exactly what "good journalism" means to him, because a lot of "good journalism" coming from that side of the fence isn't "good jounrnalism" in the traditional sense of the phrase.)

I hope the journalists involved can build themselves something new.

And I hope this doesn't cool future attempts to unionize.
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Redundant affordances are needed:

Controls that are active should be illuminated in a particular color, say red.

Controls that are disabled should be extinguished, physically-locked or track active controls, and sound a warning when manipulated.
>the writers rely on those clips to show new employers to get hired.

The writers will have their own copies of their clips. Nobody in their right mind would rely on a (potentially ex-) employer as a perpetual source of their material.

Radio reporters save MP3's. TV reporters save DVDs (and sometimes mp4s). Newspaper reporters save PDFs. These journalists should have done the same.
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> returns to early investors are generated by contributions from new investors.

This is literally true about Apple stock. If I bought $10 of Apple stock 10 years ago I sell it for $84 today, my $74 return is generated by the contributions of new investors.

Yes, I would also have $104 of dividends paid out, but literally 40% of my "profit" comes from contributions of new investors. So does that make Apple stock a pyramid scheme? NO!
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Thanks. But they still need to be able to use the black box a brute force number of times on shady inputs and get detailed outputs during their gradient descent. Not going to be allowed on a check reader or anything sensitive.
Yes, why not?

Unfortunately all "secure" or "trusted" computing efforts seems to be focused on depriving the owner of permissions and command over the computer, and instead transfer that to large copyright holders.

But I suppose the Android security model would make sense, which seems to be based on a traditional unix security model combined with that each program will run as a separate user and having it's own set of group memberships.

As long as I don't need to install a rootkit on my own computer.
This is very disappointing. DNAinfo Chicago was the best source for neighborhood coverage.

I'm sad and more than a little bit outraged on behalf of the staff and reporters. Sorry all :(
I meant it as a rhetorical question, so the idea is entirely yours. But I like it, kind of like a collective of coders investing their time in startups. Even if individual bets don't pan out all the collective bets might/could pay quite handsomely.
Hi, it's Trent here, CTO of BigchainDB.

The word "blockchain" is much misunderstood. There is a ton of argument over what it actually is. Just a linked list of hashes? Bitcoin and nothing else? I could go on and on.

To me, that debate is less interesting than building systems that actually work. For this, it's useful to think about compute stacks in the past, from mainframe to desktop, from web to cloud to mobile. In each, there are core building blocks that each have their own way of instantiating the elements of computing (storage, processing, communications). Yes, let's go back to first principles:)

Take cloud, on say AWS. Here are some blocks:

* Storage:blob storage -- S3

* Storage:database -- DynamoDB

* Processing -- EC2

* And so on.

The emerging decentralized stack [1] is no different. There is no single monolithic block called "blockchain" that magically does everything, though much of the rhetoric would have you believe that. Rather, there are emerging building blocks.

* Storage:blob storage -- IPFS + FileCoin (and more)

* Storage:database -- BigchainDB

* Storage:pure-play-token -- Bitcoin (this is specific to decentralized space)

* Processing:business logic (aka "smart contracts) -- Ethereum (and more)

"Blockchain" is best treated as a label for the space of decentralization. Side by side with other fields like "artificial intelligence" or "cloud computing".

I think we can all agree that DynamoDB is not "a cloud". It's just an implementation of the "database" building block for the "cloud computing" field. Similarly, BigchainDB is not "a blockchain". It's just an implementation of the "database" building block for the "blockchain" field.

[1] https://blog.bigchaindb.com/blockchain-infrastructure-landsc...
That is super dumb and dangerous. They should just flip the inputs on one end.

EDIT (since some people obviously don’t understand the problem): ... so that each set of controls is always correct for the respective side on which it is located. No switch is necessary.
Netflix is no different to any other company. Your happiness depends on your boss. And even single teams go through bad patches.

Some background. I wrote Netflix's recommendation system. Netflix later went on to take part in fraud against USPTO which now led to Netflix with no ownership of it's "most important technology". Xavier Amatrain https://www.linkedin.com/in/xamatriain/ was my boss. Xavier went on to hire lots of staff to try and replace my system and was unable to do so. In the end he started claiming credit for systems I had written without understanding the technology. He still presents his incorrect knowledge in public conferences. The result is that for 5 years Netflix has been running my alpha system without improving the technology (various techniques that Xavier tried and k-means, LDA and deep-learning). Netflix never did push a version I had written with 40% greater "click-through" rate, 3 times greater speed and order of magnitude less memory.

One example conversation I had with Xavier after he left Netflix (para-phrasing of course):
Me: How is my system doing?
Xavier: We don't use it anymore. We stopped using your system 1 week after you left.
Me: Really what do you use?
Xavier: I cannot tell you it is secret.
Me: Who wrote it?
Xavier: You don't know him. We hired him after you and he wrote and pushed the new algorithm.
Me: So that new person, wrote a new recommendation system; pushed it into A/B test; got test results and then pushed it into production in 1 week.
Xavier: Yes - he is better than you.
All was this is a lie (and not out of character), because I have been in touch with other engineers post-Netflix and in fact I've talked with Justin on a number of occasions on the phone about how to keep my system running.
Later Xavier invited me to work for him at Quora. He offered in his own words "an unbelievable salary". I of course refused. I met Xavier sometime later and tried to talk to him about a particular bad presentation of his. He got upset and shouted "Fuck Off, I'm not interested in listening to anything you have to say" multiple times. We were on the Facebook campus at the time. He left at that point.

This is just the tip of the iceberg. Always remember https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/65213-briefly-stated-the-ge...
Maybe. Or perhaps the potential unionization was the straw that broke the camel's back at an operation that was already hemorrhaging money.

I can see someone running some projections in a spreadsheet of how much unionization would cost the company, which was already losing money, and someone else deciding it's just not worth it anymore.
Fortunately, the Internet Archive seems to have collected most of the Gothamists articles (eg https://web.archive.org/web/20170902102617/http://gothamist....)

It was such a great resource when I lived in NYC, it will be missed.
I was part of the group that thought it would be impossible to go above flat or even decrease a bit. I don't dream at Apple, but it's still impressive.
> William Patrick Corgan?

Billy Corgan was the lead singer of Smashing Pumpkins. also has a lot of solo stuff.

seeing the full names rather than stage names of artists can be weird.
Aside from the lack of clarity about which station has control over what, which should be made really obvious, with additional warnings when someone sets a control input on an inactive station, this seems bizarre to me:

While the Ship's Control Console has a wheel for manual steering, both steering and throttle can be controlled with trackballs, with the adjustments showing up on the screens for each station.

I've never been on the bridge of a ship, but I've operated a lot of vehicles including boats, ATVs, snowmobiles, cars, bulldozers and once, an army Blackhawk helicopter simulator. These very disparate vehicles had one thing in common: there's a relationship between the position of any movement-related control and the movement commanded, and there are stops at the limits of control input.

Trackballs do not have either property, and I'm having trouble thinking of advantages they might offer in this application.
Where the hell do we get local NYC news from now?
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It's not a non-story, in the context of the general population. It's part of that population learning that "social media lie" -- even when, perhaps even especially when, the lie is one of omission.

And as to whether comments on a commercial site constitute "social media"? Again, average users don't make that distinction. And the major "social" media" sites are all commercial sites, even if their business model is somewhat different.
I just switched to an iphone and swore off google. Feels good to contribute.
My Twitter feed, which has in the past hour seen a few examples of writers lamenting the fact they don't have clips to show new employers, seems to contradict this point.
> after he originally sought to prevent [Trump's] nomination during the primaries. Trump targeted Ricketts on Twitter before Ricketts offered his support.

Probably not an enthusiastic supporter.
I mean problems that come from working as a developers in the real world.
How NYC is making use of open data: useful apps
I believe that if I had a self-driving car, the more likely scenario I would encounter is one where I'd have to send my kid to go pick up my self-driving car (and bring it back manually.)

Perhaps when the technology has really proven itself over millions and millions of trips, I'd consider your scenario.
Amphetamines and heavy metal music will work.
malware is certainly a strong term, and generally the definition seems to include computer code, which would exclude installing a certificate.

However, once you have installed your own root CA certificate on a computer means you can read all HTTPS traffic originating from that computer, and fake responses. Likely, thanks to having installed that certificate you can read someone's emails, move money out their bank account, and view any files they have stored online.

The effect of installing a certificate is broadly similar to the effect of installing a keylogger, and in neither case have you been given a right to do so. In both cases you have altered someone's computer in such a way that you are able to read their encrypted communications, which is certainly in the spirit of what malware means to me.

I'm sure that the intent in this case was not malicious, but we would not accept software installing a keylogger because they wish to measure your typing speed, and we should not accept this.
>Yet when the entire primary source is published the only bias is between your own ears.

This is only true if there is never any editorialization with regard to which primary sources are published.
Hillary (allegedly) said of Julian: "Can't we just drone this guy?".

Can you blame the guy for being a little sore about it? I might hold a grudge, too.
There was always a lot of high quality content on the web, created and shared not with the intent of making money. This still exists but is crowded out by people incentivized to make content to monetize it ie the old publishing model.

This now makes up the bulk of 'content' and is heavily monetized and driven by monetization where the 'content creators' have a more intimate relationship with advertisers and platforms to essentially sell out their audience ie back to the old media model of 'influencers'.

The content is also derivative and repetitive but easier to access and consume. Thanks to the monetization the presentation and production values are higher. There is definitely some decent content produced by this model but it becomes harder and harder to find.

There is a certain desperation to capitalism that infects everything. Sell, sell, sell, make money, forget everything else unless it affects your ability to make money, and it becomes the primary driver.
I didn't really like Ruby until I had to teach someone new to programming.

I explained what we were doing, then wrote it out in English, and besides the line breaks, he was so surprised that he had already written his first function.

It's hard to remember what a barrier to entry a few extra semi-colons can be for a brand new programmer.
"If I say no, will my app work? Because I'm installing this app so I want it to work. I'll probably just say "yes" because why would it ask me if it didn't need it?"
Are you sure that you actually installed mysql? A apt-get install mysql would install mariadb.

It could be pretty difficult to get and install mysql. I recall times where you needed to go to the Oracle website and check some EULA manually before you could get a temporary download link. Quite a stand against automation.
http://archive.is/IAsol

Archive.is link above. Thoughts on striking profits vs compromising morals and ethics. The ovation for the dictatorship/communist/Orwellian speech was very disheartening
Once Bonin told them he had been holding the stick back the entire time, they immediately began a proper recovery, it was just far too late. This might have happened much, much earlier if the other pilot at the controls had been able to feel this.
I'm sure we've all read "The Inmates are Running the Asylum" by Alan Cooper.
Why use Python rather than a statically-typed language? This thing looks like it will become a resource gobbling beast that runs very slowly
so I could not get access to content if my battery is low and I cannot mine cc ? or would I get access with "credit" so I would need to return "load" later?
Agreed. You have to choose between "large scale removal of features from the language" vs "30+ years of back-compat". You can't have both. A huge strength of C++ is it's legacy and the maintainers would be foolish to throw that away in a C++ 2.0 movement.

Instead, they add new features that lets new code be written in new ways without requiring you to toss out your old code. Your old C code is full of mallocs and frees. Your old code still works when you partially update it using the newest features. But, once C++ added new and delete, you rarely ever needed to type malloc or free any more unless you were overloading new and delete. Your old C++ code is full of news and deletes, but new language features added in C++11 made unique_ptr and shared_ptr possible. And, now you rarely need to type new or delete unless you are making your own unique_ptr/shared_ptr variant.
The issue with Razr appears to be inconsistent quality, not consistently bad quality. The definition of poor QC, really. It's also a reputation they've had for a long time, which I'm sure has a confirmation bias impact.
The path to a disaster has been compared to a tunnel [0]. You can escape from the tunnel at many points, but you may not realize it.

Trying to find the 'real cause' is a fool's errand, because there are many places and ways to avoid the outcome.

I do take your meaning, reducing speed and following well established rules would have almost certainly have saved them.

0. PDF: http://www.leonardo-in-flight.nl/PDF/FieldGuide%20to%20Human...

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Field-Guide-Understanding-Human-Error...
I suppose some of us don't have to be enthusiastic to donate a million dollars...?
I knew what it was, but looking it up helped ensure my argument was complete. I know what a Volvo P1800 is, but if I saw one on the street, I'd still compare it to a picture on my phone to be certain.

> And you glossed right over this: the necessity of a purposefully fraudulent bad actor to redistribute the new investors' "investments" to old investors.

I did not, but here:

Any person who currently own BTC, and publicly state that it will continue to rise in price indefinitely are bad actors intent on defrauding the public. This applies doubly to individuals with technical or financial backgrounds that claim their are an authority on the subject.

There. You may not agree, but you can't continue to argue that I'm ignoring this point.

> in a pyramid scheme new members are promised a share of the money taken from every additional member that they recruit. "Evangelizing" by itself is not proof of a pyramid scheme.

When evangelizing crosses into market manipulation, then it is.

I feel that people are making claims about the price of BTC can rise, for the purpose of attracting more investors and increasing the price. Thus, attempting to profit from each member they recruit. The margin can be small per recruit, as the audience is literally worldwide.

I do feel that there are evangelists that are primarily motivated by political principals. But I also think nearly every investor is motivated, in some part, by greed.
The situation with GW was really interesting, the study had incredibly high doses, but I don't doubt that they had reasons for pulling the drug, although I'm sure WADA pressure didn't help.
so why bother with additional steps (and cryptocurrency) instead of just pay with real money from the beginning? you are suggesting to introduce just additional unnecessary steps.
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I used Gratipay for a while, and I even contributed with one or two commits, I was also hanging around the IRC chatroom.

I am so incredibly envious of the passion, work-morale and ambitions that I saw in Chad Whitacre, what a great guy. I am sad that Gratipay shut down, and I am sad for all the roadblocks the project have had, I used it to donate to a few projects and it was great for that.

I hope Chad will find something worthwhile to do after Gratipay.
But if you use it as a currency you exchange money for bitcoin as soon as possible and use it when required. Money is always increasing so you try to earn more.
It's Mac revenues. Average selling price hasn't changed much.
It doesn't really support the theory that billionaires create jobs...

On a more serious note, this was clearly anti-union. But there is some truth to the claims about profitability. I don't know if DNAinfo was profitable or not, but I'm not surprised their margins were thin. There are huge differences in tech adoption in publishing. A site like the Washington Post with a strong tech influence (i.e. bezos money) has an incredibly advanced ad tech stack and optimize the programmatic advertising market. They probably have complex models that price their ads based on historical data and user information, and they've begun to productize their CMS. Whereas publishers that rely on direct sales with brands struggle to stay afloat and without a decent-sized dev team, profitability can be a distant dream.
This comment could be used to support everything from the geocentric model to the four humors.
It's a driver associated with some open source Android stuff. Driver signing certificate are $100+/year.
I’ve seen hundreds of millions (!!) wasted at a university on a program of software projects that failed miserably.

Having too much money allows for unproven, complicated or arbitrarily selected solutions and more bureaucracy that introduces Tragedy of the Commons mediocrity and diffusion of responsbility to address higher-level risks.
And why didn't they figure it out...?