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I mean, was giving $5 million to every startup that had “blockchain” in the pitch going to help much anyway? Look at San Francisco and tell me with a straight face that things weren’t already incredibly bad.
That is exactly his point actually. It's an example of why the model breaks down in reality despite the math working in theory. That's why it's called gambling whether it's a casino or a startup.
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When I was in high school, we had an elderly man in the neighborhood. I don't even remember how, but my family befriended him, and before long me and my brother were going over to do yard chores for him, and listen to him talk about his time as a Jazz musician.

He was unfortunately estranged from his ex-wife and kids ... so as he approached his last days, my dad helped him with more and more things, including medical visits, etc. When he passed, he left him his car in his will. I still think about the guy from time to time.
> we picked up pubic lice from gorillas after we "lost" most of our body hair

Can we, uhh, not mention this to any alien species we may encounter in the future?
Thanks for posting my article! I hope it is of use to the HN community.
This is great progress, but there are still some significant low hanging fruit to consider. For example, the power it takes to display the all white background of the search and other top Google pages is significant. Changing that to black or partly black or some darker color could save amounts of energy that are hard to calculate and represent draw from all over the network.
Thanks !

And why do they sell at loss the energy ? Does this mean that they just exchange the energy they buy for grid energy to power their datacenter, and that the energy they get is cheaper than the one they're buying?
Don't Americans mostly have no choice, because most aren't bilingual? If an immigrant from China speaks poor English, it's not like the average American has the option of just switching to Mandarin instead, so the conversation stays in English just due to the lack of any other option, not because the patient American has restrained themselves from switching to Mandarin. (And those few who do speak fluent Mandarin often will switch.) In Denmark most people speak both English and Danish fluently, and most foreigners speak better English than they speak Danish, so English is usually the most mutually comprehended language. I think if you really spoke no English and poor Danish was the only common language for a conversation, people would be more patient in that case; it's only in the case of "why didn't you just use English, which you obviously speak better?" that people get annoyed.
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Seems like lego would be a great material to build lego storage with.
I just wanted to say you’re doing an awesome job by making them feel included as family, and that you’re a good person for making the effort. To those reading this, make the time and effort now. Life is a long time to have regrets about what you wish you had done.

My grandmother lives in a retirement community and 9 times out of 10, families never come to visit the people she knows in her circles.

The photos are perfect for non tech literate elders, and while I haven’t checked out your product while mobile, looking forward to checking it out this evening!
How much of the early investment done in startups is motivated by QSBS (pre-$50M)? Maybe the virtuous cycle has stalled as participants haven't reproduced.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15594177

I doubt it has a major impact, but it may be a small part.
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is this the real investigation moving forward or people being burned to let it die?
Yes, but doesn't the genetic control here also control for that?

They compared first children of refugees to their first-cousins born to non-refugees, and found a difference in frequency. So presumably a change would still be detected if sons of refugees were less likely than daughters to be hospitalized.

(I can think of some other ways gender could mess this up, I guess. For instance: schizophrenia is more common in men, heavily genetic, and probably not affected by refugee status - which could create a "base load" of male hospitalizations that pushes any change among men below significance.)

Also striking, though: "was not true for male offspring or the descendents of men." The headline misses it, but this result was only for daughters of mothers; even daughters of fathers (i.e. people with female hospitalization rates) weren't affected.

That's the part that screams 'epigenetics' to me.
I think it might come back to haunt the butterfly generation, where it's fun to fly off round the world. But then you rarely create connections that are deep enough to stay with you til your death bed.
I have a harder time (at least as a beginner) with Russian than I do with Mandarin, because of the multiple cases and verb forms. In Mandarin I learn one word and can use it. In Russian that word has 10-20+ different forms. (This is about speaking, not writing.) Maybe it clicks at some point. I never got past the beginner stage.
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Japan's elderly population (25%) is much higher than any other OCDE country (14.5% for the US). Investment in robot assistants for the elderly hasn't been particularly fruitful, therefore Japan is slowly turning to immigration to take care of them.

https://data.oecd.org/pop/elderly-population.htm#indicator-c...

http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/03/01/japan-prefers-robot-bear...

https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/its-population-ages-...
You are what's wrong with the US.
Why do they sell at loss? Is the energy they buy from the grid cheaper than the energy they buy from renewable sources?

And do they just make an exchange with the grid for the same amount of energy?
I liked the way you described displaying enthusiasm as a form of vulnerability. I never thought of it that way, but it's very true. It takes courage to openly display enthusiasm, and it's so easy to deflate it by making snarky comments or stonewalling.
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Yes. So many articles about funding and startups live in this small little bubble of thinking that all startups make a silly little app and that their trajectory will be that of the social mobile craze a few years ago (get users, retain, monetize).

I run a hardware startup and this is really obvious as most funds simply can't understand how you can make a thing, sell it, and grow the business to a large size, as if selling atoms instead of electrons is so weird. Even when that hardware has its core value in software.

We are lucky enough that we already make money and don't need VC. From the meetings that I have been asked to, I get this sense that many VCs won't seriously look at businesses that do anything substantial in the seed to A funding stages. There is no shortage of ppl that will write a 5M check with a couple other similar sized checks, but few will write a check for 500k/1M.

The classic descriptions I have always heard are seed = build and find product market fit. A = with that fit, do your first bit of aggressive growth.

But when you talk to folks right now, their requirements for an A seem to be that you have already grown a lot. And if you're a cashflow business like ours, it leaves me scratching my head, as at that point I dont need their money and def won't take their 'raise another seed' type offers.

The number of times I have gone into meetings, been told that they werent sure if it was a 1B business is my favorite. These guys dont want to buy shares but they and their buddies buy the product! lol

I think early VC is scared. They have no idea what makes sense and what doesnt. They have all these rules of thumb that apply to a narrow type of company and now that the barriers to entry on those are so low, the noise is overtaking the signal.
Good ol' shill gambit.
Not sure what “campaign” you are referring to, but patents rights are still strong and there is nothing to stop someone from applying for them.

Filing patent applications isn’t all that cheap and can easily cost 10k per application in legal fees. Not sure that is the best use of resources for a pre-series A company. These early stage startups usually die off from not getting customers/users. I imagine seed investors are more worried about their companies not getting traction. By the time they have enough users that facebook and google start to notice, they can raise a series A and file for patents.

Also, let’s say Facebook does copy a seed startups patent protected product. What are the company going to do, sue them? Seed funding might be able to pay lawyers for like a week. Patents are a big company’s game.

TLDR: no, patents have absolutely nothing to do with the decrease in seed funding.
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This is definitely not true! Bitdefender probably detects this because the application contains multiple references to crypto coin exchanges etc.
No, the issue is with the very premise, then.

It is not clear that consciousness necessarily only emerges from a neurochemical process.

What was basically said was "We do not know for certain that it is this neurochemical process that accounts for consciousness. Isn't it reasonable to suppose that we might encounter things that actually are conscious, but whose consciousness is not accounted for by the same property (neruochemical) of the underlying process."

I'm not sure that stated premise is very useful, since it borders on the tautological.

The dog (or even a human doing some task) is akin to an intricate state machine whose next state depends on the current state and its environment. Just like the spinning top. For each of those we modify the lower level mechanisms to effect a different high level behavior. Changing the thing in the former case (Cocaine/neurosurgery) or its environment (steal the bone). Changing the thing in the latter case (cutting out part of the spinning-top) or its environment (carving the surface it spins on).

The difference in the two cases being the number of intermediate steps (or abstraction layers if you will) between the high level behavior and the low level mechanisms from which it emerges, and the complexity of the emergent behvaior.

Illusion: the low level mechanisms (biochemical or otherwise) that, using the current state and the environment, transition to the next state, and in the process "present" an experience that we interpret as ourselves thinking, making decisions, taking skillful actions and so on.

If we observe the target phenomenon "skillful action" we discover that all known occurrences are biological. This doesn't really preclude the possibility of other mechanisms producing it.

To modify the behavior of a machine, you cannot use cocaine. That's because the machine has no receptors for the comprising molecules - not because it has no thoughts. You could instead modify the logic gates it possesses instead by applying a certain pattern of electromagnetic radiation which would cause interference, just like the cocaine interferes with the normal workings of the brain.
"State IDS don't prove citizenship."

Nope. Back in the 1970s when I had medium-long hair (cut every four or five months) a bored INS guy in Detroit passed a couple of minutes asking me to establish my right to enter the US. The driver's license didn't prove anything, nor in his opinion did the draft card. At that point I just shrugged and he waved me through.
Webpages don't store money in the form of digital tokens that move in accordance to the webpage's logic.
No, the Fourth Amendment applies to non-citizens, even those who are in the US illegally.

> The court ruled in Almeida-Sanchez v. United States (1973) that all criminal charge-related elements of the Constitution's amendments (the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and the 14th) such as search and seizure, self-incrimination, trial by jury and due process, protect non-citizens, legally or illegally present.

http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/immigration/255281-yes...

(I am not an expert and would appreciate a better source or explanation.)
My first thought - I don't get it. I send 1-5 emails for scheduling? Of what?

Then later I got it. Do you differ from doodle in any way?
> (since they just blatantly ignore the law instead)

This is not true for all markets in which Uber operates - in NYC for example, uber cars are all registered with the TLC.
Why is this down-voted? This is a legitimate response to the topic and clearly a hearfelt one.
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I found it really well written. To answer your question though, the birth rate in Germany is even lower than Japan's, though I think Japan has been low longer.
Assembly language instruction mnemonic for "no operation", traditionally capitalized.

See also NOOP, NOPR, etc.
From an objective perspective, user's behavioral data on an electronic device would be a far stronger indicator of a potential attack than the purchase of firearms. I'm sure you're not saying that the government should have full access to behavioral data from every device/ISP.

A cowardly mass attack devoid of value for human life can occur using nearly anything (pressure cookers, fertilizer, vehicles, chemicals under your sink, etc, etc, etc). While certain individuals certainly should not be allowed to possess firearms (those with mental or criminal behavioral events/patterns - there is already a federal background check that occurs in obtaining firearms) it is near impossible to prevent someone from obtaining something they are dead set on obtaining unless you lock them up until their death.

Let's not forget that the only time the US has been invaded (technically not yet the US, I know) was when armed private civilians rose together and defeated the preeminent military power in the world. Had those people not been armed the US would not exist. Think how many potential conflicts on US soil the armed population may have deterred since then when you compare it's history with nearly any other country in the world over the last 250 years.
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Missing from the headline: this is only daughters of female refugees. Sons of refugees had unchanged mental illness rates, but so did daughters of male refugees.

That's pretty surprising, and while it doesn't rule out a gender-roles explanation (maybe male refugees didn't describe their experiences as often?), it does gesture pointedly at epigenetic causes.

Also notable: the study had a clever control (non-refugee first cousins of refugee children) which seems to account for both population genetics and gender distinctions in hospitalization.
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/330/6004/686

It's paywalled. There's an informative article on Wiki about scientific paywalls [1].

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub
Consensus analysis seems to be that biting the bullet on a narrowly tailored charge of lying means he's likely cooperating in a materially relevant way. The charge seems to be about items he (allegedly as of this comment) deliberately falsely represented which may have been caught on surveillance that the guy himself would have overseen or known about as NSA.

Also tons of speculation that he did it to keep his son in minimal trouble.

Regardless... popcorn
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I'm glad people are coming forward about this. Predatory men contribute to the culture of toxicity and hostility towards women in tech, and we need to toss the bums out of our industry.
You might want to check out "Don't Do This" [0], which is basically a Python version of this article.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2yfXnUb1S4
(In Chinese they are called Hanzi.)

It wasn't very hard for me to learn to read and to type with a Pinyin input method by simply writing office email. It's much easier to recognize characters (e.g. by picking them from a Pinyin conversion, or by reading them), when the context is known.

You don't need to know how to use a pen to learn how to speak Mandarin.
I feel that the quantity of these reports has been increasing since the whole Weinstein incident.

I wonder if it is because there's more comfort in finally sharing or because reporters are looking for scoops more.

Either way, it's good I think.
Yeah, that was the suggestion I saw people make when Marco Arment mentioned [1] that the popup was bad too. As you say, it’s not great but it seems better than nixing the popup entirely.

1: https://twitter.com/marcoarment/status/841359803192561665
This is all well and good, high-profile folks getting repercussions for their abusive behavior. But how does this help the folks down behind the counter at KFC, or on the factory floor, or at the dry-cleaners? I hope some cultural change comes of all this, else its just more celebrity gossip.
I do functional training and use any chance I get to do sports with friends (dirty races, soccer games, whatever). Just move as much as you can, as often as you can with as much variety as possible.
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Does anyone know of a tool like jrnl.sh that integrates with GPG for encryption?
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Yeah, IMO GraphQL is not at all hard to grok, and its benefits to an API consumer are pretty obvious. But I have no idea, as a developer, how I'm supposed to implement a GraphQL interface to my non-graphical database(s) in a secure, performant, and repeatable way.
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So, how much more "Accusations" will arise, that are acted upon with firings, and no criminal anything results?

I'm getting rather fed up with "Sexual * accusation leads to firing" again and again and again. How about proof/courtcase/dismissal if guilty? What about the rights of the accused, or are we going to stand for "Social Media Courtroom" slamming out guilty verdicts?

Edit: I'm trying to open up a dialog about the rights of accusers AND accused. The ramifications here are "Loss of income, loss of house, approaching poverty and destitution". The current trend is using "Virtual Mob Justice" - whom here agrees with this approach? I sure don't. I've seen what Mobs will get you, and it ain't pretty.
All the men accused of sexual misconduct share the same trait: they are all rich!
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My original comment about collecting a paycheck without working is about the contrast between the alledged dignity of union workers versus their intended goal.

jackvalentine said that the intended goal is shared by everyone. And then I agreed.

There is nothing immoral in living without needing to work. ITs sometimes the opposite: should mentally deranged people or children be forced to work or live free? Those leeches.
In the future its possible nobody will need to work. Thats just not the world we live in today.
Not on an LCD. The backlight is always on, even if the screen is black.

I wonder how much power the 50 pounds of JS on Youtube costs.
If the top people at a company can be publicly named and shamed, then that hopefully conveys the idea that this behavior won't be tolerated on any level.
Saw title... was "Why silicon? I mean that's a hard substance... maybe they mean because it has electronics?"

Read article... they mean silicone. Very different substance!

Silicone is reasonable well tolerated... though apparently they have a lot solve in regards to durability before such a thing is remotely viable.
A fact that is regularly ignored when this discussion comes up again and again on HN.
I think the people telling you that you're being selfish are wrong.

However I don't think we can call having children a selfish act, it's pretty hard wired in us to do it. It's at least no more selfish than your average human.
I'm not buying that. The reality is early stage companies dont bother with patents as mich because of money and time constraints. Really well funded compa oes sure, but the reality is patents are a tool for the big guys, if you have to do battle with google, your startup is probably screwed either way.
The verb-order inversion is usually not the hardest part of German -- in fact, it's one of the trivial things to get used to.

My trouble with German are that the same endings are overloaded and reused in different cases (I have no trouble with cases: English has cases too, and retains the nominative and genitive).

German is mostly consistent, but the endings to me are like operator overloading gone wild. The endungen like -e, -en, etc. overlap in so many cases. For instance -en is plural definite in all cases, but also also in dative/genitive definite cases, and indefinite masculine accusative, indefinite plural dative, and indefinite masc/neut genitive.

If you aren't fluent in German, it takes a bit of effort to disambiguate the endings, and to me it seems needlessly difficult. If only different endings were created to disambiguate.... (e.g. -et, -ew, -ep, etc.)
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Well that's not true, it's just the men you hear about in the news.

It's not a national story to learn that a middle manager at a department store harassed employees for years. It's depressing for sure, but not exactly news.
Is this really unique to capitalism?
Thank you for the clarification.

This is still limited to people on us soil :/
Don't give up, you're actually pretty close. Yes, it can be spent in a way that reduces value. And it can literally be destroyed (as I noted several times above). In the latter case, we agree it's been lost. But in the case where it's used to destroy value, the money itself still remains in the system, and might very well be used to create greater value than what was destroyed. For instance, a kid might buy a cherry bomb from another friend and destroy a mailbox. But the kid he gave the money to uses that money to start a business. The net value of the money's path through the cherry bomb to the business could be greater than if the first kid had donated it to a charity instead. My point is that while we can make a value judgment on the kid's spending, we can't say with certainty what the broader economic effect is. Even if he's spending all his money on sex workers, cocaine, and cherry bombs.
This is a really astute observation. My only thought is that by showing that powerful people aren't impervious, there's inspiration and motivation for that harassed employee to get up and do something about it.
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That was my thought as well. This is a minor charge compared to what he was facing, so maybe he had a good insurance policy.
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The poor have less chance of being famous, and hence of being in the spotlight for such accusations.
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Yet Hillary gets nothing despite much worse.
Nearly all of the people tossed out of their jobs for these claims fessed up to being creeps.

A company doesn't need to win a court case to fire someone. You're not entitled to a job. This is America.

No one is locking these people up without a trial. However, being shunned by most of society does not require a court case.