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A lot of us make the mistake of waiting for the “right” idea until we decide to pursue something. Huge mistake.

Joe Gebbia put it nicely by making an analogy to the “gym of entrepreneurship.” Building a startup is one of those things that you need to work to get better at over time. Not many founders have many regrets but when they do express regrets it’s usually them wishing they had started earlier. Here’s Joes quote from his interview with Tim Ferris.

“People think we woke up and Airbnb was just created out of thin air. That couldn’t be further from the truth. I hope if there’s any takeaway from the stories that we’ve talked about today, it’s that there’s a long lineage of trying things, bumping into walls, getting rejected, failing, reframing that failure into learning, and trying to continue forward.

And so, by the time Airbnb came around, it was like I’d been in the gym of entrepreneurship for many years. So, it’s like you don’t wake up and just run a marathon all of a sudden. Nobody does that. You train for it. So, by the time it’s ready for race day, your body is conditioned for it. Your muscles and your system – everything is ready for you to go run 26+ miles.

I think entrepreneurship is the exact same way. I think it’s a misconception when people look at the magazine covers and they read the stories of a successful company and they think, “Wow, the people who started that, they built it and everybody came.” That couldn’t be further from the truth. I think “Field of Dreams” is probably the worst movie to ever happen to entrepreneurship. It created this idea, like, “Oh, wow, if you build it, they will come.” I can tell you, if you build it, they don’t come.

It takes this incredible perseverance and sometimes irrational belief in yourself to bring something to life in the face of lot of adversity and a lot of people saying it can’t happen. So, I hope if there’s any takeaway from the stories that I shared today, it’s that the simple act of spotting an opportunity, coming up with original solution and then taking that third, hardest step of putting something into the world, of trying something, putting your idea into practice – it doesn’t have to be the big idea.

It’s just about being in the gym and doing a rep, the gym of entrepreneurship, doing curls or something. It’s just getting in the habit of those three things. You spot an opportunity, you come up with an original solution, and you put your idea into the world. And the more you can do that, the better you are at spotting the next opportunity. Airbnb just happened to be a part of the lineage of all the things I’ve told you that happened before it.”
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Yep! And with these guessing speeds, the amazing device can wipe an entire iPhone in less than a second!
> Masculinity is a need for survival in difficult conditions.

Yes, but it is a problem in good conditions, because it takes precedence over traits like empathy, prudence, and thoughtfulness.

Anecdote: I have been in professional settings where I saw a problem, but nobody would listen and my arguments were countered with aggression and ad-hominem. When the projects finally imploded, I was told I should have made my point more strongly.

However, aggression and thoughtfulness are like the end-points of a slider: the more you have of one, the less you have of the other. If I had focused on being aggressive, I would not have had the resources to locate said problems.

If competence and critical thinking actually had any value, we would have solved longevity and faster-than-light long ago, but we prefer to pound our chests like gorillas in suits.
So no one is protecting your rights and property? There are no emergency service, firefighters and other public services that you directly benefit from?
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Did you drive with such a system? If you did, you would know there’s a HUGE difference between having to manage minutae (just keeping yourself in a lane is surprising amount of work) and being free to pay attention to your surroundings.

Your cognitive load is lowered by Autopilot enormously. You can pay better attention to what’s going on around you and anticipate issues (say, a car that drivers weirdly in front of you) because you’re not busy with the low-level driving.

Part of that is that you see a difficult road stretch coming up and disengage the assist IN ADVANCE - becuase you’re not a complete moron, know the lane assist is for driving in highway lanes and the thing you’re approaching is decisively not one.
Typical crowdfunder sites, e.g. Kickstarter, charge 8% + 20p per contribution. With the blockchain you can almost entirely eliminate this down to just raw transaction fees + cost to write the smart contract.

Kickstarter brings some value (e.g. neat landing page, network effects etc.), but 8% is a lot to leave on the table.
Some questions I'd ask, off the top of my head:

Have you ever tried a touchscreen computer?
Was it better than when you use a mouse?
Why?
Which interface do you prefer - your computer or your phone?
Why?
Show me how you would go to www.altavista.com on your PDA.
It looked like it was hard to find the browser - is it often hard to find the right application on your PDA?
When you bought this PDA, were there cheaper PDAs you could have bought?
How much more did you spend on this PDA because it was better?

Do you have lots of VHS videos at home?
When did you last watch one?
Do you have a lot of DVDs?
How are they stored?
Is it a problem that you have them? Would you rather not have to store them, and why?
Have you ever watched a YouTube video?
Is it easier to find something on YouTube or to watch a DVD?
The problem is that if the accident was anything like this video[1] then the driver barely had any time to actively correct the problem, a problem that a well-worn and understood system with driver training would have prepared the driver for.

Also, note that the beep is the driver taking over from autopilot.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/8a0jfh/autopil...
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No, what would be really sleazy is if he deliberately planted a bug in a hard to find place in order to quit and start his own business.
It seems crazy that apple wouldn't have some kind of iron clad confidentiality agreement for any developers that work in security.

Obviously, you can't prohibit ex employees from getting a job elsewhere, you surely can stop them from peddling company secrets to the highest bidder.

That being said, the only way I can imagine that apple isn't already prepping a massive lawsuit is that the method they are using did not necessarily require insider knowledge.
A number of societies I am a member of depend on journal revenue for a substantial portion of their activities.
The law is not defined in a "technical" way. It's definitely not about renaming users or deleting their postings. GDPR is declarative: can you identify someone through the records in your possession, whether database or not, and connect that to any protected information? (their political views, sexual preferences, name and location, economic status, health issues…).

The law is quite broad and fuzzy, which is what makes technical people uneasy:

‘personal data’ means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an
identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an
identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors
specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person;

It is entirely possible that in your message board example, you've deleted the user, you've deleted their postings, and are still in violation. For one, the person requesting deletion doesn't even have to be your user. Someone else may have posted such information about them on your board.

People misconstrue GDPR to be only about databases and unlinking users' records from tables (mainly because it's the easiest thing to do). But it really is about all and any personal and sensitive information of natural people, full stop.
That was the data as of 2009.

Helicopters do crash more frequently than airplanes (on the order of 30% more crashes per flight hour). Part of that is due to how and when helicopters are used. Flying next to 500,000 Volt power lines is dangerous. When the coast gaurd is plucking someone out of the ocean, they use a helicopter, not an airplane. And people don't fall off boats when the weather is nice.

There are no helicopters comparable to a 747 as far as passenger count goes. So from that perspective you're right. But a 747 is also crazy safe and barely contributes to the average accident rate. The small 2-10 seat airplanes are the ones that crash a lot, like 10x more than the average of all aircraft (including helicopters). you're more likely to survive a helicopter crash than a Cessna crash.
I'm Brazilian, and I was curious. So I just did the placement test (in English), completed all the questions correctly and was placed at level 11, with a few gray bubbles at the end of the tree.

I got all the questions correctly, but:

- Given capitalization I was forced to use word order that didn't come naturally. Mind you, what the app requested isn't _wrong_ but it's certainly not the only way to do it. If they were enforcing a rigid wrong order they were incorrectly marking as failures usage that I would argue is more natural, at least given my particular background (Southern). I went with it, but I was adjusting to the app.

- They repeated the sentences and some vocabulary a lot, so if you had any gaps or couldn't remember one particular word you might get three questions wrong, which would have a large impact on your placement.

- There's something inherently weird about the vocabulary, Duolingo-style. This doesn't go well with the previous point.

Overall it felt rigid and random. In any case Duolingo does not correlate at all with fluency. Duolingo correlates well with being trained in Duolingo.
Maybe reminding people that Hubble is still alive, and still doing science.
I'm not sure you're familiar with the history of SpaceX :)
It's the first time the experiment can fail without consequence and the team can just move on to the next experiment
Possibly tangential:
Assuming one is sticking to AWS as cloud provider, wouldn't it be cost-effective and less devops to use AppSync, Lambda, Cognito instead of Elixir?

I ask because I am debating whether or not I should invest any time in Elixir, if many of the benefits of learning it are easily and cost-effectively available through AWS.
Can a malicious actor put PII (or copyrighted/otherwise illegal works) onto a blockchain to "kill" it?
robot dexterity and cognition are both very very hard problems. Once we solve that, we just don't get human hand equivalents. We can make very tiny hands that can manipulate cells and perform intricate surgeries, or huge hands, that can move boulders and build a house in a day, or hands with 100s of snake like fingers manipulating 100s of things simultaneously and running a click farm.

Once we can build artificial brains more powerful than humans, and artificial muscles more dexterous than humans, almost every profession is at risk. In addition if machines are not made in a factory, but replicated organically like seeds because we figured out the magic DNA, then we've essentially created von-neumann probes and can conquer the rest of the galaxy.
True.

It is still a 24h block (let's use the default) where the device is vulnerable. In many countries there are no protections against pressing your finger on the phone, or worse yet, turning it to face you.
Is there a web-based WYSIWYG editor?
I built Instapainting.com to serve customers and have not personally had a reason to use the service myself. Essentially I have to do more guesswork and testing, but it can be done. Not all services have to be built to satisfy your own needs, and arguably at some point all services must grow to beyond one’s own needs. So it’s a necessary skill to develop and required at some point to grow and serve new niches or new use cases or markets.
Which risk. No actor has any way to verify that. It's incredibly complicated software, lost in the forest of their billions lines of code and thousand of servers.

Even if any actor had the will, the mean and the skills to check it out, and I doubt we had even two of that, the task is immense and the ability to hide high.

Add on top of that the power of a company that has the budget of a small country...

There is no important risk.

Now even if there were like 0.00001% of chance they get caught. So what ? What are the consequences ?

Bad PR ? Who cares, customers will forget in 3 months.

A fine ? Who cares, they can buy pay 10 times that before diner.

Prison ? Scape goats and lawyer will make sure it's not a problem.
If you are able to stand through the (subjectively) most obnoxious host in the history of TV shows, then you might like http://www.imdb.com/title/tt7804132/ this.
In my opinion, Duolingo tries to teach language by forcing familiarity. I for one, just cannot learn a language using that method. I like to learn starting with fundamentals - alphabet, grammar, words, sentences and so on.

Are there any recommended books/material to learn Spanish that way? Everyone says spanish is easy to learn, but all apps kinda try to teach you by repetitive methods with no insights in to the structure of the language.
And in aviation you have the added advantage that you don't just smash into a divider on 35'000 feet with one second notice.
The way it diverted from the trajectory you would take. It got off the expected path, or drivers a few km/h faster in a road arc that you would, that sort of thing raises alarm in the driver right away.

A funny feeling like that, I’m ready to disengage immediately and then 1s is plenty of time. But I wouldn’t use Autopilot near an obstacle like that to begin with - anticipate, take over for the weird stretches.
Thank you for mentioning speechling. I'm going to give it a try.
Can you expand on this a little bit? Billionaires wouldn't necessarily unload their properties when the market took a dump. If anyone, billionaires would be the most likely to be capable of weathering the storm (depending how leveraged they were) and hold on to the property until present day where property values are generally back to where they were circa 2008 housing bust.
That was my reading too.

It's still a machine, so treat it like any other machine and hold the designers liable.

The cynic in me says that this is what happens when the principles used in idealised software environments, where failure has limited consequences, meet the physical world. A better model would be that used in embedded software, an area where software has a long history of interacting with the physical world and the aim is intrinsic safety.

If a designer wants to use a pseudo-random AI system, then it should be encased in a deterministic wrapper which keeps it within a safe envelope.
Huh, that makes sense. I have been thinking along the line of humans really needing each other to think better, like we are inherently some kind of "distributed intelligence", and that like concurrency and parallelisation over multiple CPU cores, you can't apply it to every problem, and that some problems are more embarrassingly parallel than others.

Another analogy that has been on my mind the blind men and the elephant parable, where no single blind man can have a full picture of what the elephant is.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_men_and_an_elephant
I thought the iphone has a delay after a few attempts at the secure enclave level?

I wonder if this is doing some sort of timing or voltage related validation of the code without needing to actually submit it. Ie the equivalent of 1234,backspace,5,backspace,6 etc without sending whatever is the equivalent of 'submit'
Yes, I see the trouble. The team "strongly arguing" that they have found the source of the signal while not sharing their raw data.

Evidence for dark matter is a big deal so who wants to give away credit for that? Or, who wants to share inconsistent data when the results are literally earth shattering? Visible matter interacting with some invisible forces only at certain conditions! Sensational!

Perhaps the Aether Hypothesis is true after all?
From your example you came across a nested problem with the safety regulations. What about building something trying to ease the pain and streamline getting the required permits to cook domestically?
Buzzfeed isn’t comparable to Breitbart at all. Buzzfeed does real journalism these days.
Are you camping out at the datacenter again?
Looking at the charts, there doesn't seem to be a lot of noise in the data. 80-ish launches a year among all providers isn't that small of a sample size.
Google has many thousands of employees that don't live in America.

And of those that do live in America, is it that hard to understand that some of them don't want to work for a defence contractor?
And couldn't Apple defend against this by using an exponentially increasing wait period between guesses? Probably after some number of guesses with no delay, say 10 guesses.
Contain form within a bootstrap popover?
Oh, well then they can do all the things contractors can right?

No?
Even if that doesn't pan out, SpaceX has a profitable business on its hands.
Onion links are in general not very stable, and the other option is basically running your own cache/proxy. But if you just want access, http://paperdownloader.cf works.
That is what using IPFS means.
Been eyeing this for a while now. Just the push I needed to add it to my list. Thanks.
postgraphile# is a good solution, even more this project allow u to write ur custom adapters for each db
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I for one am glad I started using 25 character passwords 3-4 years ago. I just wonder how long it will be before that is not good enough either. Surely in my life time. And what's next? 50 character passwords? One hundred characters? 10-factor authentication?
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It's kinda sad that social media and advertising is the most lucrative businesses and so many bright minds work on that instead of for example ...
Because people here enjoy all kinds of design and engineering not just those that pertain to computers
There's apparently all sorts of illegal stuff embedded in bitcoin metadata
Most common phones like Samsungs are though.
Growth companies don't pay dividends. Google still thinks they're growing, I guess. Or can grow by acquisition
Indeed. Downvoting simply shouldn't exist. It lets users feel like "mini-censors" and it turns out people really like censoring views they don't agree with or that make them uncomfortable.

It's not just downvoting, though. Reddit also lets the moderators act like real censors and they are completely unaccountable. There is no way to visit a subreddit and know whether the discussion there is censored or not. So you have to assume it is.
Reddit has its issues (brigading, trolling, execssive politics, 12-year old level "memes" on serious discussions), but it was a site you could visit without regret, and get lost in for hours.

With the new redesign, it is Facebook - people share a link, you click the comments section, it shows you the top comments, you upvote the top comments (or the ones that agree with your view), and rinse and repeat till infinity, because you have infinite scroll. Which is not how I want the future Reddit to look like.

Yes, it is good for advertisers. Yes, it is good for the the new wave of people who will arrive from Facebook.

But it is utterly disheartening for Reddit to stray so far from what I viewed its core emphasis as - comments.
It certainly isn't natural by any sense of the word.
Have you met our national leadership lately? America is undemocratic.
You mean like they tried in the Jurassic Park movies?

An AI could learn to operate without this component as this becomes necessary to escape the system.
It came to mind but it's reversed versus the process exposed in PowerHammer
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Not necessaarily, I have a similar mindset to the parent poster and for me it's largely about keeping the business simple and manageable.

To give an example I sell my software through Avangate, this results in a single invoice and payment each month. I know if I switched to Stripe it would save my a couple of percentage points on each sale but then I'd need to maintain systems that handled EU VAT laws, issue license codes and import a lot of data into my accounting system, in fact I'd need to upgrade my accounting system which is fine with a few transactions each month but would be stretched at fifty or more.

This has been my experience with most of these services, great if you want to grow a large business because you are effectively outsourcing some of your work but it does tend to complicate things. Personally I like my work to be small and simple.
It works fine for every day use, and if I ever find myself in a situation where I could conceive a higher than normal risk of getting arrested, I would reboot the device so the password is required to unlock it. This can be done with one hand in the pocket in a matter of seconds.
The partitive here is to express that the speaker is not specifying in what form or shape the beer in the fridge should appear. For a native speaker it sounds like you are talking about some quantity of beer but omitted the quantity so it's literally just some unspecified quantity of beer.
In absolute figures, perhaps. Relatively, Falcon One was by far the biggest risk.
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I have no knowledge in this area. What can contractors do (that employees can't)? I'm trying to come up with things, but my list starts and ends with "work for competitors".
This is well articulated. I once had an unnecessarily heated argument with a BIL who didn't see the difference between what I called an "entrepreneur" (what you call a shovel maker) and a "trader" (the middle man).

My problem was my nomenclature - they are both entrepreneurs (one builds, they other connects built stuff). You've done what I wanted to do so elegantly!

Thank you.
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The capabilities you have with automation in modern planes is amazing.

I once had the privilege to sit in the cockpit during an entire flight. That was in the late nineties and probably would be completely out of the question nowadays.

The weather and visibility were shitty and what was really interesting was that they initiated the landing automatically, but when the runway become visible (about 400 meters) the first officer took over and landed the plane manually.

Two other things I learned is the amount of manuals they have available in that very cramped space (maybe maintained electronically nowadays) and that when you think that they just key in a couple sequences into the flight management system to then play solitaire you would be very wrong.

Both pilots where permanently active and on high alert during the entire one hour flight. That may be a bit more relaxed on long distance flights, but people who believe it's like driving a bus are really, really wrong.

it was an amazing and very interesting experience.