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I would try to look for multiple mentors with online course experience that just want to help a startup and use the 14k for runway.

Try reaching out to founders of similar services who wouldn't be direct competitors but might be interested in providing advice and mentoring.

If you get to know a mentor that would be a good fit long term for ongoing advice and support I would think about offering them a share of the company for being an advisor/mentor.
Interesting. You could make a similar argument that companies embrace the latest, trendy software framework to weed out older experienced developers.
So this is where all come from.
I can't belive I'm using 1973 commands.
Back in the day you wrote your program on paper and sent it to the punch operators
Usually I just smash the zero key on my phone and 9/10 times I'm directly connected to a human. If that fails I swear obtusely and ask for a "fucking human." If THAT fails I give up. I have no patience for robots who don't listen to me.
I beg to differ: I did not vandalise another user’s comment. (But then again, I would say that, wouldn’t I, since I am arguing my case and I am inherently biased in my favour.) I will provide the facts so that you can assess the facts for yourself:

I didn’t just change his spelling. I edited his spelling, but I left the previous state (in another section), explained what I had done and why, provided sources and citations as to why my transliteration was preferable, and took clear ownership of what I had done and why I had done it.
Yes, obviously. Although those often are to some degree a result of corruption. But I am not claiming the government is universally worse at all things.
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Negative results are pretty useful. Eg the next time someone comes across a similar measurement, they can take that paper for some inspiration of a list of things to check.
My worry is MANY Facebook employees having access to key profile data and not all their data logs can be downloaded.

For example, I know that a current employee accessed data on profiles I had viewed and shared it with another friend. Unclear how they secure PII and how such abuse can be reported.
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Home Assistant on a raspberry pi gives you an open source home hub with a mobile app. It has built-in dyndns functionality from a variety of providers, using an open standard. It supports on-board ssl via letsencrypt, and provides easy instructions for forwarding the relevant ports on your router. I think the router forwarding step can be fixed with upnp? Then you've got a home hub that works from anywhere and doesn't require a specialized cloud discovery service.

I'd love to see someone provide a pre-packaged zwave/zigbee talking home assistant appliance with support for snips.ai voice control. Unfortunately, hardware-wise it would probably cost $250 to build out of off the shelf components, but perhaps at scale it could be affordable? Google and Amazon are selling their closed, cloud chained voice assistants for practically below cost, though, so I don't know how such a product could really compete.
So I did play such a free-to-play game where you could pay to level up, but you just battled the same level. I grinded my way up the level tree exploring the different systems that the game had and got my fun out of it. What was interesting was I realized you could craft a "team" that the system thought was a low level team, but what actually something no one would have at that level and was actually more powerful. Think Level 1 character, but somehow was equipped with a great fire sword of the deep and level 10 strength. This was a evening of fun building up such a wacky team that could defeat everyone the system put up against them. And then I realized I had beat the game and never played after that.
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It might be possible to find a ballpark estimate by the number of poor children.
It's perfectly possible to say "no" without being obnoxious. But some people revel in it.
Guys, they're talking about the debasement of "human learning"... Machine learning is another subject. :-)
And instead of fighting willing contributors the editors should have informed that

But for some pages it's a competition on who has the most free time and the most willingness to navigate the bureaucracy (and none of those items implies greater knowledge of the subject, quite the opposite)
Taxes. Every politician in the last 30 years got elected by promising lower taxes.
Literally nobody in the US has ever asked: if taxes are cut how will it impact the budget?

All people want is lower taxes.
And again, the big lie about Russia continues to propagate. It really is embarrassing.
Microsoft never stopped self-believing throughout the Ballmer era. Certainly not as a result of any EU ruling.

Break-up is a misguided approach. In the case of SO, it only served to make the consequently-more-highly-valued parts more acceptable to, and the whole more deeply integrated into society.

I think technology will again be the solution to today's evil-of-the-month. Which is not to belittle these real and important issues.
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I remain unable to access it ("The page you were trying to reach cannot be found.", Android, Chrome 59, multiple networks). Possibly a mobile-only issue?
Wikipedia is like a stereotypical corporation with a bloated layer of micromanaging and mediocre middle managers (accidentally alliterative). It doesn't mean that good work can't be done, but it is certainly a massive drag on productivity and effectiveness.
Wow, this is ridiculous. It's a bit more complex than the call routing one, but still not much more than a high-level feature specification.
Because nobody outside of parts of NYC give a shit about the subway.

The MTA is a public authority controlled by the governor. Control was kept away from the city due to the city’s fiscal and corruption problems and the machinations of Robert Moses. The subway and busses were ultimately bailed out by the bridges and tunnels, which print money.
It is interesting how people have the idea that react === Redux/flux.
Where in fact Redux is unopinionated and works with other libraries/frameworks just fine.
It's ridiculous to think that regulation is any sort of solution. It's even more ridiculous for somebody to suggest that in 2017 when we have such shining examples of altruistic heads of regulatory agencies. (Ajit Pai, Scott Pruitt, etc.)

Someone is always going to be thinking about the bottom line, but come on now. Facebook isn't the only internet business that the russians used to influence people. Have you looked at reddit over the last 3 years? Any and every site with influence is going to get gamed by every government who has the bandwidth to play ball. You can't regulate your way around that. Look at how the Trump administration is currently using Twitter. Is that proper? no, but it's great for Twitter. Should they refuse to service him?

Governments shouldn't be looked to for solutions. Government is TERRIBLE at solving any problems. If change is required or desired, you go about making change happen the good old fashioned way - by getting others to agree with you.
"Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something. Instead, please send it to hn@ycombinator.com." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

That said there's users submitting 10+ pages per day so I don't believe there's a fixed limit.
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Emergency care is around 2% of health care spending in the US so most healthcare decisions are not that time critical.
I don't think we can break up Google or Facebook like AT&T or Standard Oil. The data economy requires new antitrust tools, which the Economist wrote about recently:

"A break-up would be highly disruptive and slow down innovation. It is likely that a Googlet or a Babyface would quickly become dominant again."[1]

Federated social networks will never catch on if they require more work from the user for likely less utility.

Facebook is also nothing like MySpace. This comparison is tired: Facebook is orders of magnitude larger than MySpace ever was. It's not going to get squashed away by a competitor, especially given its ability (alongside Google, Amazon) to buy up would-be competitors while they're young.

I also quite dislike the idea of regulating Facebook as a utility, as I dislike the idea of that tight coupling with government. Facebook quickly becomes a tool for coercion, propaganda, and oppression.

There needs to be a new set of rules built around enforcing competition around the data economy. The real risk is that a couple small players completely shut the door to new competition (which leads to more improper use of data as a few players have all of it). Regulators need to get smarter about blocking mergers (like FB and WhatsApp). New rules, like enforcing data sharing, need to be explored (although this reveals a big risk for data privacy).

[1]: https://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21721634-how-it-shap...
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The missing part from my perspective is an information about what to expect on your site, e.g. "this site aggregates information for people with allergies and organizes it into the following categories:..."
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Most of these companies don't have any subscription fees. They just provide the "free" cloud service for as long as it takes to make a whole bunch of sales, then shut it down and suddenly all the devices stop working. if you're selling a $50 device that people have to wire into their home, with an expected lifetime in years or decades, it's pretty negligent to not provide for a sustainable service.
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Won't matter much in this case as it's heavily linked to by all kinds of news outlets.
This is cool. It would be nice if it live updated.
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Your argument would be in favour of a defensive spec, not in favour of a defensive implementation.

To explain: your spec will have a few hygiene clauses like 'no stack overflow' or 'no crashes' and some things about what useful things the program should actually do.

The latter is hard to formalise and deserve defense in depth. Lots of the former are easy to formalise and you can rely on the compiler to get it right.

And that's what we are doing already anyway: even in C we just trust that a loop will compile to the appropriate conditional jumps and don't add defensive measures to check that.
A citation would absolutely be appropriate. However, you have it the wrong way around.

This blog post was published Jun 17, 2016.

The Numberphile video was published Dec 7, 2016.
Solve the ethical dilemma/charged too much issue:

Cap the max expenditure in the real money shop. After that level, players can continue to purchase, but they won't actually be charged real money.

If desired, can also add a "donate" button for the hypothetical players who pay huge amounts to support the game/company.
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And why would you do anything like that? To pamper to American counterparts?
if you really are a Euro, you're brainwashed by American identity politics. Too bad they leak over the ocean.
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My thought exactly : if you really think civilization will end, you'd better be non electricity dependent.

In a true total collapse event, even gold won't feed you.
I told him the reason helicopters doesn't spin around the Earth is that they are within the atmosphere which spins with the Earth.

Isn't the actual reason simple inertia? They were already spinning with the Earth, unless there's a force canceling that, they'll just keep going.
>Perl 5 receives more frequent updates than C++,

But it's not just quantity of updates. It's perception of the updates and what new things they bring to the table. Surely you're aware that many Perl programmers abandoned the language in between Perl 5 and Perl 6 because they felt it was getting neglected. (There's also a long post from a ~20 year Perl veteran (forgot his name) of one of the famous libraries on HN explaining his reasons for leaving Perl before Perl 6 but I can't find it at the moment.) How do we reconcile why they thought Perl was stagnating even though it was getting frequent updates?

This was the opposite perception of C++11, C++14, C++17 where many programmers were complaining that it was getting too many features and getting too complicated.

>Perl wouldn't have been used even when it was the new hotness.[...], I'm just saying that the evidence you're offering for it isn't evidence.

Ok, I shouldn't have derailed the discussion by giving the impression that NVIDIA SDK could have been Perl. The main idea is that old languages other than Perl are getting in the news for new domains.

Let me be more generic: There is no new rejuvenation stories where <any_domain_where_Perl's_runtime_model_and_scripting_semantics_is_appropriate> was chosen by a new computing domain help keep it relevant and keep it from being "disliked" by programmers. Is that wording more acceptable and suitable evidence of Perl's decline?

I'd also still like to get your opinion of why Perl has declined in mindshare and is one of the most disliked languages in programmer's survey.
and military spending.
An accident with spent fuel rods / nuclear waste will happen in our lifetimes, and probably in the US; the US does not have proper nuclear waste disposal because nobody wants to host it. Earlier they'd just dump it in the ocean, but now, it's stashed in the nuclear plants' spent fuel rod basins, waiting (for decades now) for the country to build a proper disposal facility. IIRC the last one was a huge project inside a mountain somewhere.
...functionally you’re right, they’re dangerous, but if you can be mildly disciplined...

It's interesting that these schemes aren't viewed in the same light as e.g. credit card incentives. Getting 0% interest for the first 6 months is a deal good enough to put the credit card bank out of business, but somehow enough credit card borrowers are getting screwed to pay for the incentive overall. TANSTAAFL. Why is that harder to recognize in some circumstances? Is it a class thing? Anyone can get a credit card, while only high-quality people like ourselves can get a job at Acme Inc?

Anyway credit card companies might be evil, but they receive enough scrutiny to be extremely lawful in their evil. (If you actually pay off the debt they won't forget about your payment.) Can we really make the same statement about employers, in general? One might have a standing order to sell these shares at regular intervals, but one has seen enough HR shenanigans by this point to realize that they DGAF about employee interests... "Oh gosh we're sorry that got changed at the beginning of the year and we didn't tell you about it for 9 months while you lost all the money you've ever made in this program! Our recent stock slump has been difficult for everyone! There's nothing we can do about it now! I guess you should have been mildly disciplined..."
Not everywhere. Most places I've interviewed for had a recruiter and an actual team member; after the recruiter ticks their checkboxes for "moves Mt.Fuji" and "can tell a RB tree from a hole in the ground", someone who actually works with the code takes over with domain-specific questions. (Yes, I'm aware this wouldn't scale for an organization that hires by the thousands)
I'm sure there are, but the majority of Europeans would believe this is absurd and nonsense. You understood very well what I meant.
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Looks cool. Live updating would make it even better.

I've reported a very minor bug that I'm experiencing: https://github.com/bichenkk/coinmon/issues/1
> Is this a legitimate leadership technique?

By what measure? Linus seems to be getting away with it.

Whether it's because his other qualities (or just the other qualities of the Linux project) let him do that and this style is detrimental or whether the style actually helps, is a different question.
> BTW, I believe the parent comment that you're replying to is a lazy joke referencing an old '70s song, not a serious argument.

Or your belief is a lazy attempt at understanding it, and you missed the double entendre even though you agreed with the point...
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I feel like selling a hardware device that depends on a cloud service you're bundling for free is intentionally bricking the devices. They are refusing to accept returns, and they're refusing to open the API or provide a firmware update that disconnects them from the cloud.
Ask HN: Is anyone using rkt?
We have a need to start standalone containers without any additional ecosystem, and I recall rkt being able to do this.

But, the container world is moving fast and I’m wondering if there is a better option now.
You could use `watch -n 1 coinmon`.
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That's because there's no product.

There are two kinds of freelancers/consultants:

1. Successful ones - those that bill tens thousands of dollars a month/hundreds of thousands of dollars per year. This group knows how to open a bank account, how to invoice a customer, how to setup cron jobs for nagging a customer, how to setup per customer support phone numbers, how to talk to attorneys and accountants. For them there's nothing in your startup that they already do not know or dont have someone else do for them.

2. Everyone else. That group does not have the money to throw at your promise because every schmuck on facebook or linkedin is promising them something for $30/mo.
Indeed you were not. However, given that you generalized about the categories within which this paper presumably lies, I felt it amusing to point out that, using this paper as a start, one could generalize about any particular categories of papers.
That is interesting. As far as I know, all human-realistic CG actors are controlled by human actors, though. Kind of how an artist can take human voices and morph them into other voices for characters.
yeah I think both sides of the equation feed into each other to create some kind of Skinner box with mutually-dependent researcher and subject. It's not a pleasant formula and it's started to leak into paid AAA games too (for example, Battlefront II's loot-box controversy and Deus Ex's single player microtransactions).
While it might be possible to see some small improvements with digital literacy initiatives and "up-skilling", educators will tell you that there's a much deeper, larger problem that is the root cause of all of this.

Literacy is paramount, NOT digital literacy, I mean the ability to read, write, and perform basic mathematics. Public schools in America are floundering when it comes to basic education. Students leave school without the most fundamental skills required to do anything other than menial labor, let alone author insipid React components.

That's a giant scary problem that is accelerating, and there will be a very ugly comeuppance in the USA for neglecting education.
Blaze [Google's internal tool], gets it right. Available as open source at https://bazel.build, plus a clone at https://www.pantsbuild.org.
Moving jobs to the countryside does not sound like a bad idea TBF. I want to move to a small town and be able to take a bike to work (and I prefer a workplace, remote working doesn't work for me), but all of the employers are in the big city so I'm forced to sit in traffic for over an hour both ways every day.
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That's true (with `--color`). An alternative way would be to connect to one of the various websocket APIs that stream pricing data, might be a bit friendlier than constant polling... but that'd be quite a lot of work!
I'm not assuming, I read this kind of bullying from security peeps every day. You're going to have me write a blog post about the topic. (PS: I'm a security consultant.)
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Complicated reasons. Talk pages do get moderated in specific situations, and those do not require special permission. For example, anyone can and are encouraged to move old discussions into archives.

Additionally there is spam. Spam need to be detected and removed from the talk space and administrators can't be the only one with permission to do that.

That said, there is no excuse that the UI don't inform you about the current norms that exist.
That is simplistic and doesn't account for the ability to get loans (investing more money than you have), tax breaks, and the fact that you need to live somewhere in the first place. Buying a house with cash and not living in it is probably a very poor investment, but that isn't what you are comparing.
>Y Combinator was expected to "Apologize" for not firing someone for holding political beliefs that align them with 42%

Isn’t your percentage of those who bothered to vote?

40-50% (everywhere quotes different numbers) of eligible voters didn’t vote in 2016
I'm ruled out after one bad interview. Why should I extend a company any more courtesy than it extends me?
Probably the toxic behavior of the security community has gotten to some people, including Linus. That should be a lesson to anyone in the field that this is how you create monsters.
> Such as the six months spent (intermittently) on a bug reported only as "touchscreen sometimes stops responding".

Would definitely read. I've read stuff like that on retro computing forums or from malware analysts and there's probably nothing more intriguing about our trade of code-slinging than that.
He's posting an example. He mentioned multiple jobs.
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I would pay $40-60 for an AAA console or PC game, not for a random mobile game. For that, $10 is about right.
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As a German in Britain, lots of the politeness and round-about-ness I see here would be seen as wasting people's time back home, or even worse, been interpreted as implying a need for coddling.
From the WHO's "Guidelines for the treatment of malaria", third edition [1]:

"Radical cure. This term refers to both cure of blood-stage infection and prevention
of relapses by killing hypnozoites (in P. vivax and P. ovale infections only)." (p. 4)

"The objective of treating malaria caused by P. vivax and P. ovale is to cure both
blood-stage and liver-stage infections (called radical cure), thereby preventing
recrudescence and relapse, respectively." (p. 61)

"The recommended treatment for radical cure of P. ovale relapsing malaria is the same as that for P. vivax, i.e. ACT or chloroquine combined with primaquine (total dose, 3.5 mg base/kg bw). [...] P. malariae and P. knowlesi do not form hypnozoites and so do not require radical cure with primaquine." (p. 290)

There's nothing there about P. falciparum, the major malaria parasite, but my understanding is that that also doesn't have a hypnozoite stage.

A recent paper "Challenges for achieving safe and effective radical cure of Plasmodium vivax" [2] suggests that this approach is well-accepted, but not yet a slam-dunk in the field.

[1] http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/162441/1/9789241549...

[2] https://malariajournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s1...
Note that a hash is not enough, you need a password hash (or some people call that phash, whatever). Argon2 is currently the recommendation to do such things.