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Ask HN: Fundraising when you don't know anyone?
Scenario: you're not in the Valley, or if you are, you just don't know any investors, and neither do any of your immediate first connections on LinkedIn or FB or real life for that matter.

And you're raising a seed round, e.g. to bring a prototype to production, handle early sales, expand the team, etc.

What do you do? Apply for incubators and accelerators to build your network? Cold contact VC firms? Something else?

Curious to hear your thoughts, and experiences if you've been in this situation.
>being able to synthesize information from multiple sources, etc.

I think we can say that unsupervised language translation models do this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15610594

Edit: Not to suggest that they are on par with human performance at synthesis of data.
Would you have preferred they introduce it with the messaging "Here's a new certificate program, we have no idea if it has any value whatsoever."
Right, but if even 5% of car mechanics were making Youtube videos only a few would still be able to make a meaningful amount of money off of them. A car mechanic capable of adapting to a new technology early, and building an audience off of that is more than just a car mechanic.

If you benefit from a disruptive technology, you can't expect the "new normal" to persist indefinitely. The ride certainly may not be free or easy, but it would be abnormal for it not to change.

This whole thing seems very reminiscent of SEO about a decade ago. It was still fairly new and thousands of people built incomes and entire businesses with employees around it. In some cases a search algorithm update wiped out all of their audience. Of course, in nearly every case those impacted immediately blamed Google.

When something is fairly new, the first movers often get outsized benefits. You have less competition which makes the ability to both capture and monetize an audience easier. As the market matures more competitors appear. If the pie doesn't grow as fast as the new competitors arriving, all participants earn less profits.

The results of what Google/Youtube is doing now is just bringing the same effects early. The future of Youtube producers will consist of less search visibility combined with ad revenue divided more ways. 15+ years of double digit only advertising growth has gone a long way to mask the audience problem (and when it ends it is going to result in massive changes to Google.)
I just wonder what it'd be like to be unable to take your work home with you. Writing software allows me to do my job from wherever I want/need. Oftentimes that ends up being in my bed or at my desk late a night because I fucked around too much during the day.
FWIW, the lawyer did think the client was mentally incompetent
This is why one should not entrust their livelihood to any company. I'm a fan of the Patreon model. If I was starting a video publishing enterprise (say something like Primitive Technology or Computerphile or a music band channel) I'd definitely use all the most popular subscription services available, and a newsletter & blog with proper RSS. I'd upload to YouTube to drive viewers, than take them to my blog, show them where else I upload stuff and where to pay to take active part in the community, which allows for pre-releases or access to live programs after some videos where they can ask questions. I'd earn less than PewDiePie, but nobody would be able to challenge my enterprise. Though certainly to earn with such model, you need to be publishing high quality stuff (or of a quality too low for the decent peope), that is, high quality content.
On that note, do any of these courses take a deep dive on the deeper mathematics of neural nets?
American here. Ditto (source: kicked out of high school and college for violation of TOS^H^H^H Acceptable Use Policy)
Here's one.

This sentence from the linked paper is informative - "When data is exchanged between the CPU and the RAM, radio waves are emitted from the bus's long parallel circuits."

For some background:

Digital circuits like computer motherboards have components called oscillators that switch voltage on and off a number of times every second. This is what "clock speeds" refers to - 2.8 GHz CPU clock speed means voltage to CPU is being switched on and off 2.8x10^9 times per second.

All components like the processors, IO buses, RAM modules, etc. synchronize their actions to the rise and falls in these voltage levels. It's a way of synchronizing their actions.

One consequence of switching voltage on and off is that electrical fields build up and collapse (voltage is a measure of the electrical field), and cause magnetic fields to build up and collapse. We lay people call "oscillating electromagnetic fields" as "radio waves". This is the origin of radio waves from motherboards.

The missing link for transmission is that like any radio transmission, it requires an "antenna" - that is a conductor of some length. There are conductors on a circuit board in the form of copper traces through which current passes. These start acting like antennas.

In this case, the copper traces connecting CPU to RAM on that particular computer are emitting EM radiation at a frequency of 1580 kHz.

So far, all there is is some EM radiation with certain frequency and an antenna to transmit it. This is just the "carrier wave". But for transmitting useful information, some kind of modulation is necessary to encode data over that carrier wave. This project uses an SSE2 CPU instruction called MOVNTDQ or _mm_stream_si128 to write to memory, with the data to be transmitted encoded as sequences of 1s and 0s with certain frequency (rate) and for a certain time period. This act of at writing at a certain rate for some time period results in switching on and off of voltages on the traces between CPU and RAM which in turn creates modulated EM radiation.

TBH, I didn't understand the details of how this project modulates the binary data over a square wave and how it gets treated as amplitude modulation by a regular radio receiver, and I request another ELI5 from somebody else to explain it to me :)
No, but Boulder CO is still one of the few cities in the country growing economically(I assume that's where you are from your profile). There are many larger cities in the Midwest declining, and it's here that it's nearly impossible to get a low-paying "entry-level" position without a degree and several years of experience. And they certainly don't pay $50k.
This was linked on your site and IMO it's sped up about 5x faster than what I could possibly glean information from: https://vimeo.com/250844656

The real-time speed probably doesn't make for a nice animation but it would definitely be easier to follow.
IMO the reduction of workforce IT / Software related field is worldwide. Now place I work is hiring whole bunch of people but just on basis of that I wouldn't say in general is industry is creating whole lot of jobs.

I think going forward the hiring would be at best replacing people who joined in 80s in case those jobs are not totally automated away.
I think this is mostly right but it is worth noting that in some cases doctors are obligated to act. If I run into the ER with a serious issue and a doctor says "sorry, I can't treat you right now, it's my coffee break" that can be malpractice.
We might have a path to cheap fusion power. Advances in superconductors stemming from MRI research have really shrunk the minimum size of a fusion reactor and one group at least is trying to take advantage of that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARC_fusion_reactor
Good. There is already an unsustainable number of people on Earth, even though biology drives people to violently disagree.
He didn't delegate his strategy. He hired counsel and counsel went beyond counseling and took over decision making without the defendant's consent, which isn't obviously legal.
Thanks! I was trying to find some information on this, but didn't know the right search terms.
making lists and maps first class citizens would be neat. mosty for esthetics: var x=immutableList(1,2,3) meh!
I think this is contained within "do no harm". There is an inherent risk in all treatment, even if it's 0.01% or 99%. We can't force that risk on the patient, even if the odds and upsides are objectively great.

In the latter there's no clear upside other than "for fun", and definite harm.

The line is drawn between "do no harm" and "force good".
GraphQL is a single endpoint API
Wow, I've been shopping for WISPs in the South Bay and pricing seems to be an order of magnitude higher ($20/Mbps/month or higher). What your secret? Shorter links and higher density?
Disagree, but if you can’t take the heat get out of the SPA business.

*Ah, I see this was from 2013, makes sense. I wonder if they still hold the same opinion today?
Is $1 a day a good price?
As a smalll Youtuber, I am appalled and shocked. Google is shooting themselves in the foot with this. This is killing the small creators. Google is chasing short term profit over long term stability. I guarantee you, a smart startup will try to upset YouTube and succeed due to this new rule. Everyone started from the bottom. And now Google is sinking them.
The title is an obvious lie. The lawyer did not pleqd guilty.
In Ontario (Canada), Value Village[0] has been a staple of the working and lower-middle class for at least 15 to 20 years, and continues to be. I can afford new clothes more than I used to be able to, and I still choose to go there for some items. I regularly donate my old (still wearable) clothing to the CDA[1] or Value Village directly.

I wouldn't say no one.

[0] https://www.valuevillage.com/

[1] http://www.diabetes.ca/ - They're often responsible for the bin placement and even neighbourhood pickup of donated clothing and toys.
The cultural shift is happening but that doesn't mean the entirety of 4chan lingo is suddenly acceptable now. It merely means someone like Phillip De Franco can get away with opening every video by calling his viewers beautiful bastards.
As someone who's worked with the unreal 3 engine in a professional capacity I can tell you that there's a fair bit about those systems that are hard-coded.

They just look very nice from a 1000ft perspective. There are parts of UE(like the material editor) which are very modular but the networking stack is not one of them.

This is not a knock against UE3, more that things are more complex then they first look.
Thanks a lot for your feedback.

For FF it seems due to a service we are using (hotjar). We have pushed a new version that removes it. If you clear the cache and refresh the page it should work with FF.

We are investigating for IE and Edge. Could you please share the versions?
"I'm no security expert, but this article, and the FastCo article about NASA programmers suggest, at least to me, that computer security is a problem that emerges from incompetence in using tools and designing programs."

While true that accounts for a large amount of the problem, probably the clear majority, computer security would remain a problem even if developers were uniformly highly competent. Competent use of existing crypto systems, which are broken three or four years later, would still be a problem. Meltdown and spectre would still be a problem. Building a safe execution sandbox is legitimately difficult.

But it would be a qualitatively different world than the one we live in.

Certification solutions to the software problem generally face the problem that it is very difficult to imagine any scenario other than one in which people grotesquely incompetent to write the certification rules are the ones writing them. We do not, for instance, want our certification authority to sit there and mandate waterfall design processes, which I would consider at least a 25%-probable outcome, and that's awfully large for something as catastrophic as that would be.

"WRT the house analogy, it's easy to extend that to "intelligent" attackers: intruders of any kind, e.g. robbers, animals, etc."

No, houses are never under such intelligent attack. Even when attacked by humans, they are not attacked by ninja stealth thieves who go in, photocopy your SS card, and get out again without leaving a trace or something that sounds absurd to even use as an example. There's no physical equivalent to breaking into millions of houses at a time and making off with such data. They're attacked by people who smash through the physical security. Anybody can do it. "Anybody" is who does it... above-average IQ people are not generally breaking into houses. (Above-average IQ criminals find much more lucrative and safe criminal hobbies.) Not just anybody can put a tap on a fiber optic line, feed it to a high speed data center, and process it in real time to extract out terrorism threat info, or even just exploit an XSS vulnerability on a website.
For all the advances in AI (and in specialized AI we can do some incredible things, now) - when it comes to generalized AI, it seems that we're still, ultimately, playing the same game of feeding the machine as much information as possible and then waiting for "something" to happen.
There is no good reason DNSSEC shouldn't protect query privacy. It doesn't because the most important Internet users --- developers and operations engineers --- are letting them standardize it that way. If it annoys you that we have to resort to elaborate hacks to keep ISPs from monitoring our queries while at the same time undertaking huge projects to migrate to a new DNS protocol, you're not crazy, and you should make some noise. DNSSEC sees barely any use in the real world, and it is not too late to change it.
This completely depends on what you want out of your web backend!

Do you need some sort of rest-like HTTP API? Highly suggest Haskell and the Servant framework! It's amazing.
I think the doctor should always have the right to refuse an elective surgery. It's up to the patient to find a willing doctor.
I used to play BASIC games on my Dick Smith System 80 (a TRS-80 clone) with a radio next to it tuned to no station, for sound effects.
It also drives the price of BTC up if you use those imaginary USDT to wash trade BTC. This is beyond a shitshow.
Install BetterTouchTool and you can make it do pretty much whatever you want. I like the defaults for stuff like Final Cut Pro and Safari but if you don't use those then there will be limited utility for you outside of regular function keys or media controls.
Create a Cross-Platform Desktop DigiByte DGB Wallet with Angular and Electron
I meant aimed specifically at SPAs. Firebase is nice, but it doesn't really help reduce code bloat on the front end. E.g. if you're making a react app, your instinct is to reach for redux + reducers, even though that means dozens or hundreds of lines of boilerplate code.
Sounds like MeteorJS.
Yeah and an office like yours is still in the minority.
Sure you can, just move most of your computing resources to the cloud and let Amazon manage hardware maintenance.
It's also possible for two off by one errors to cancel out. The code is not correct as implemented, but you need to fix both locations to avoid noticeable bugs.
For me a small project would generally mean a clojure web app with a couple hundred users, a clojure admin webapp used only occasionally, and a back end cron job that runs every 5 minutes or so and does the back end work. Any rough guesses what we are looking at to run this monthly using the Solo topology on aws?
Do they? Specifically the graffiti style illusions that appear 3d to people. Those seem to work by specifically lining up the "pixels" you see.
Another straightforward way to handle this is to bury the lede a little bit, and begin by briefly describing the previous cache work. That saves you from having to make an elaborate explanation of your specific claim on the history here. "Show, don't tell".
It would be interesting to visualize and put some numbers to the "cloth cycle". Here in Vancouver, thrift stores are everywhere and quite busy, and it seems like the majority of our used clothes end up in donation bins for them. Some items end up in the garbage, and unknowingly, it seems some make their way to other parts of the world.
The BeyondCorp paper is public: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...
I wonder why they picked Coursera over Udacity or EdX.

EdX seems quite Microsoft heavy.

But Google has released a lot of material on Udacity, and they have other connections (Thrun).

Just curious.
Managecore selects Syslink to increase real-time SAP monitoring visibility
TBH, the arrogance is justified, since people consider them reputable.
I've heard that argument from various people but I don't understand it. If you don't need to produce clothes you have more energy and workforce available to produce other things, like infrastructure, and run schools, hospitals and build other industries. What is the value in having a textile industry for the sake of having it? I'd imagine that the best industry is the one that you don't even need...
Specifically I went through a rapid phase of personal development at the People's Action weeklong immersion training[1] (and am pursing becoming a trainer myself). Although of course this is non-tech related & there are likely other resources for this type of curriculum. Certainly worth seeking out.

[1]: https://peoplesaction.org/institute/
Is there a reason why YouTube can’t implement something similar to Twitch subscriptions and Patreon backing to YouTube? I see that an increasing number of smaller YouTubers are relying on Patreon to supplement their income because their YouTube revenue has been cut significant.

A smaller number of dedicated fans are willing to pay more money directly to the creators that they enjoy and connect with.

How does this affect their relationship with advertisers more than YouTube Red, if at all?
Both are likely to be equally worthless in getting an IT job, IT jobs require experience in the field and not just knowledge.
You need to understand the FCC have chosen to gather these comments instead of holding hearings. Then the NY AG have asked, repeatedly what's up with those using the stolen identities of NY residents. He also asked the FCC to postpone the ruling until his investigation into this is done. Once again, the emphasis was on identity theft not Net Neutrality. Schneiderman argued for Net Neutrality in interviews but not in legal documents (up until December, I haven't read the current suit yet). He knows what's he's doing. He doesn't have much of a standing Net Neutrality wise but he certainly does in identify theft and breaking the law describing the federal rulemaking process. Roughly it'll go down like this "Your Honor, this comment was submitted in the name of X.Y. who resides in New York and here's a sworn affidafit she didn't submit it. I have a few thousand more should you want to see them. The FCC was aware of these because I repeatedly drawn their attention to it. They had a duty to take public opinion into consideration and they couldn't because many of the comments were submitted under false identities..."

The FCC have ignored this -- as they ignored everyone else to serve their corporate buddies. They can do that but you need to be an idiot to completely stonewall a state AG. No wonder he came back with more than a few of his buddies. It's going to be oh so funny when this ruling will be thrown out not because Net Neutrality but because they rushed it...
22 State Attorney Generals File Lawsuit for Net Neutrality
I wish no business could be paid simply to create jobs. This is just distorting the economy. Arguably, the pressure to spend less on humans where possible drives technological advancement.
I'm afraid I don't follow your reasoning here. Can you explain what you mean by NPR showing bias in this article?
I wouldn't dive in to a full machine learning course as the first step.

1. Watch short tutorials about TensorFlow on Youtube

2. Look for lectures about specific topics that sound interesting.

3. Read NIPS papers that sound interesting

4. Check out the Deep Learning textbook, but maybe don't read the whole thing ( http://www.deeplearningbook.org/ )

5. By this point you should have a very rough idea about the current and past states of machine learning. You didn't have to spend any money or put in any exhaustive mental effort. If it still sounds interesting and you are motivated you can try a full online course or buy some paid books.
Initial designs as in going back to the late 80's included much larger net energy generation and a steam loop for actually generating power.

The ITER that was being conceived in 1988 was a much bigger machine than the one that is being built today and its nominal fusion power was expected at 1000 MW, as opposed to 500 today. https://www.iter.org/newsline/239/1328

The reason for this was you would then have a larger cushion if estimates for power generation where off and an actual test of extracting useful heat past the super conducting loops vs simply cooling the device.
It's really just an easy-to-understand symptom of the general problem: if you write/design software that is easy to misuse, that's really a faulty software. If you want a different example - I think Tony Hoare's "billion-dolar mistake" statement is an admission of the fact that 'null' can really be interpreted as a language design bug. Technically speaking, a language design can't be buggy if it's coherent - it just "is". But in practical, everyday terms - the fact that null leads to lots of problems, very often, could/should be considered a "language design bug".

That was kinda' my point. The article claims that "bug" is not just "coding errors", and I agree - and furthermore, I say that "design considerations are still bugs by that definition"
If I understand correctly, it's more a script that gets followed than a genuine inquiry https://www.popehat.com/2017/05/08/the-elaborate-pantomime-o...
Source? I would like to read more about this.
Leaving aside for a sec how capable and complex this is, an extra set of eyes seems like a useful thing for manufacturing businesses.
> That power didn't translate into sales.

Certainly, but I think there are a lot of factors at play for why the GCN didn't do well. For example, Nintendo tends to get its customer base wrong and often doesn't engage in the kind of hype that Sony and Microsoft do because Nintendo isn't trying to bleed people dry.

> Given the Wii's success it seems clear that they didn't need to compete on the hardware level to be successful

Again, several factors involved, even Nintendo was surprised by their success.

However, very few fans above 8 y.o. looked at their Wii and said, "Yes, I'm satisfied that this is 480p when literally everything else on the market is 1080p".

A lot of people had expectations going in that were not realized because they were just kind of expected as standard, and Nintendo failed to deliver. Resolution, performance, even DVD playback. They really skimped on the latter, even our toasters can play DVDs these days.

> It certainly seems like Nintendo's biggest success stories don't center around unparalleled technical specs.

So what do you believe can be attributed to their success?

And the answer isn't low-cost hardware. That only appealed to a certain casual market, and Nintendo suffered for it with the Wii U because that market had already been burned out on Wii gaming and most saw no reason to upgrade.
I’ll believe it when Google starts hiring grads of this programme, with no other qualifications or experience
Don't get hung up on the number. It's shorthand for lots of hours of the right kind of practice.
if google, facebook etc get disintermediated by blockchain than the stock is worthless too.

The value is in the network. Not the code. Should devs get paid? yes.

why should a dev get any premium over any other early adopter that contributed value to a network?

In my opinion the work(dev, qa, docs etc) of a network should be put out for bid with a minimal as possible funded by trx fees.

Bitcoin already served it's purpose to get money into the crypto ecosystem.