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I would like to think my argument is far more nuanced than you're giving it credit. This isn't an appeal to tradition; I'm making an argument that explains why traditionally math has stayed with the "cryptic" notation rather than descriptive variable names.

You're completely ignoring the working memory argument I'm making. A large part of math is pattern matching: recognizing a common relationship between variables (a common pattern or "theme") and investigating that relationship further. This ability is critical to mathematical ability. Visual compactness is crucial here. Using descriptive names will completely bog down your visual system with reading words rather than identifying patterns.

Pattern matching is a critical skill when one becomes an expert in any field; in math its of utmost importance. Math is optimized for reading by other experts who have those same visual patterns committed to memory. This is the optimal approach for the work's target audience. Yes, it makes advanced math largely inaccessible to outsiders, but that's a part of the trade off.
Studies about ketamine have been rolling in over the past few years. Some important notes:

1. Almost all of these are looking at IV ketamine at very low doses (lower than anestheic or "recreational" dosing).

2. Like most of these trials, this is also a small trial (18 patients).

3. This was an adjunctive therapy, for patients who were on stable dosing of lithium or valproic acid which are first line for bipolar disorder.

Cool stuff, but preliminary at this point. Hopefully it will lead to options that are safer, more convenient, and with less abuse potential but maintain the rapid response that appears to be related to glutamatergic activity.
How many have you passed on?

Have you tried to characterize how likely it is that your filter is actually good enough that 10% of the companies that pass it are successful?

Just seems to me that 10% could be something of an overestimation and needs some validation.
$10 billion? I don't think so.

VISA: $3.36 billion profit | DFS: $2.2 billion profit | AXP: $4.9 billion profit | MA: $1.9 billion profit

That's Visa, Discover, American Express, and MasterCard.

That's a $12.4 billion profit, if you take every aspect of all their businesses away from them across the board and basically acquire a complete monopoly in transactions. Their businesses go far beyond processing of course, so you'd really need to not only take over all transaction processing but then double the business.

Facebook processing payments is maybe a billion profit opportunity for them. Not chump change, but very far away from $10 billion.
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If you want to prevent individuals who are e.g. predisposed to certain disorders from being born, I don't see how money as criteria can help.
These bonds work only in one direction.

Coming to giving a 3 month notice before firing some one, firstly when they ask you to leave they may not necessarily tell you that they are firing you for some socially acceptable reason like cost cutting. Instead they will give you two options, get fired for some fictional violation of company code or you can put in your resignation.

The choice is obvious, the person resigns, while he is actually fired. The quarterly results project this as attrition.

Having said this, the last I have heard about this bonds is that they are not valid in the court of law.
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Note that they mean most powerful rocket compared to those currently in service, with the ability to put 117000 pounds (53000 kg) to low earth orbit, and 26000 pounds (12000 kg) to geosynchronous orbit.

Impressive by today's standards, but way behind what was in service 45 years ago. The Saturn V could put 262000 pounds (119000 kg) to low earth orbit, and 100000 pounds (45000 kg) to lunar orbit.
Yes, it definitely needs citations, otherwise it's just heresay. Very cool idea, just a slightly immature implementation thus far.
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That's patently untrue. Micropayments haven't taken off because it's impossible to make money on transactions less than about fifty cents.
As we're on the topic of the Soviet space program, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunokhod_1 is worth a read - they were driving rovers around on the moon in 1970
I'll stand by my statement - smarts and experience are two different things, and some jobs require both.

When I need an iPhone or C++ expert, and Android guy who read a book or two will not fit the bill. I need someone with the fine-detail, nitty-gritty knowledge that only comes from working with a platform over time.
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Right, I wouldn't expect the law not to be influenced by people. I don't think any of this is a new way of thinking, though. We have the right to trial by jury because of this, which sure isn't perfect, but there is no way for a perfect world.

I'm not saying that there aren't valid points brought up by Libertarians, just that most of the theories are not feasible in the real world. Education, for instance, if there is no state-sponsored alternative (it is an alternative, we have private and home schooling in every state as far as I know), the people who have to work for a living often do not educate their children (my wife has an aunt who cannot read or write because her parents worked and she was put to work at an early age, so that's what has always happened in history). Yes, that's their choice, but not always the choice of the children, and uneducated masses are not likely to be able to live and make rational decisions in a society.

The law is imperfect, but throughout history civilization has been in a struggle to reduce oppression. Based on history I can't really see how removing laws would do anything but allow some 'bad actors' to acquire more power for oppression.

Anyways, based on the ability reason about things, maybe you aren't a libertarian, maybe you're a liberal and just don't know it ;)

Thanks for being civil, though, I don't mind having to read a bit (although that was just too many pages for me), and I've surely picked up some bit of knowledge.
One problem, though, is that banks and merchants tend to flag the credit-card field as "Never autocomplete, even if the user has explicitly requested otherwise."

Any tool that actually solves the problem, at least from my perspective, is going to have to give me the option to ignore whatever security conventions are built into the standard(s).
What the front page of the internet looks like today:

* Image with overlayed snarky text
* Another image
* Another image...
* The Daily Show clip
* Another image
* Another image
* News article about Julian Assange
* Another image
* News article about guy doing something strange (which is actually really old)
* Reddit question thread about Tarantino films
* Youtube clip
* "Ask Me Anything" request thread
* Story on mobile technology
* Reddit question thread about 'fan theories'
* Article about astronomy
* Youtube clip
* Reddit 'arbitrary gift day' thread
* Another image
* Another image
* Another image
* Another image
* Story about finding genetic defects
* News article about political race
* Another image
* Another image

Personally, I think there's something wrong with you if you don't find that list at least a little depressing.
I can't help but wonder whether leaving money on the table and leaving complexity on the table are correlated to such a severe degree at every price higher than $150.

Big customers are dangerous, and I've seen businesses where I have worked (ad agencies) operate completely out of fear of losing the big accounts.

But is there no middle ground between $150/mo and thousands/mo? What about $250/mo or $500/mo? Would tiers like these necessarily add complexity?

Obviously, it depends on the data. Speculation: a handful of customers paying $250/mo might not justify the dev time needed to implement the new plan or the risk introduced by pricing changes.
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Looks like this is the tool that shopify uses. See the comment from the CEO.
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Well keep in mind that the above quote was made about twelve years ago. The problem that we had was that the people who would take up languages like PHP were what we'd call "script kiddies" who would copy and paste code and call themselves coders. Keep in mind that this was right before the bubble burst so there was a ton of BS going around too. Of course since that era I've seen programming languages mature -- and I've also seen the industry mature as well. Although i still see a great deal of BS... : D
You can log in and customize it. The default set of subreddits is bound to be low-quality.
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Even if every current vehicle was replaced by one of these I don't see how it helps congestion. Sure cars can drive slightly closer together but not enough to make a big difference. And unless every road has lane width reduced and new lanes created we won't get more cars abreast either.

The only things that will help is fewer journeys at peak times, and some sort of inter-car communication system that manages traffic flow far better than our slow awkward human brains.
Even for people tired of 37s, this is a great quote:

"We're probably leaving money on the table. But we're also leaving complexity on the table."
I can't but help agreeing with this. However, I think NoSQL is an important tool when dealing with 'big' data (billions of records). NoSQL is also awesome for 'accelerating'/caching standard SQL (memcache to cache sql results, etc).

At the end of the day, both have important roles to play and, in many respects, compliment each other.
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Modular, open-source robotics running on ROS is clearly the way to go vs. the expensive 'black box' proprietary platform / software. From the conversations I've had with people in the industry, it certainly feels like robotics is approaching a paradigm shift thanks to ROS / modular / open-source approaches.

For any robotics hackers out there, check out Clearpath Robotics' Turtlebot - http://clearpathrobotics.com/turtlebot. I know the Clearpath guys, definitely good people / good products / closely aligned to the open-source / ROS movement.
I'd suggest the road least travelled is probably the best choice.
I agree completely but unfortunately I doubt people will do them right until they stop attracting eyeballs. To the well informed, bad info graphics are a plague on the web. To my sister's teenage friends and my mother's circle of friends they're "oh cool, I don't have to read!". Self respecting graphic designers won't create these awful "info graphics" but anyone who's looking to attract some eyeballs in the hopes of getting an ad or two clicked or a new rss subscriber will keep polluting the web with them until we stop looking.
And another 5 years for the even-remotely-production-usable 2.0 release.
For actual depth and substance regarding information visualization, you should just read Tufte, since much of this article is obviously informed by it: http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_vdqi
At least in the US, every major credit card has rules against minimum transactions. Reporting a minimum transaction requirement will cause the CC company to investigate the retailer and possibly punish them.

Many small businesses still do it, of course. What keeps people from reporting them is a mixture of not knowing the regulations and wanting the small business to stay afloat. But regardless, minimum payments actually are put in place by the business.
The idea that the default is supposed to be low-quality is depressing.
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Revenue is multiples of those numbers though. Because Visa manages to have insanely bloated overhead doesn't mean Facebook would.
The potential for business is great. But I agree with you regarding pathetic state of startups.

Two of colleagues came in from a famous start up. And I have heard the kind of horror stories, similar to what I faced in large companies.

Start ups are really minified versions of Big Corps. Same linguistic and regional politics, stories of nepotism and making employees slog their bones to dust for paltry monthly pay and not much stocks in return.

In other words, unless its your own start up or you are a co founder. It makes 0 sense to spend the best years of your life working for somebody else's dreams for peanuts in pay and stock.
I am not forgetting that it is adaptive. I'm pointing out that the new information that is added will cause it to mis-adapt for a surprisingly long time. Adding in a diminishing return is possible. But by what factor do we diminish? We could easily get a disturbing amount of customization required.
Well said.

I contribute to a site that does a lot of interactive visualizations and works with artists that do more static infographics.

Because we display them time to time we get massive amounts of email from companies that paid to have an infographic made (usual on a subject not related to their biz) and slap ads on the bottom. I've never posted one and can't for the life of me figure out why any legit business (maybe that's my answer) would do that.

The data part seems to be the biggest thing people fail to understand. If you don't have compelling data or the graphic doesn't lend itself to understanding the data... then what's it for?
I really wish he (Ian Lurie) spend more time giving examples of great information (/data) graphics and what strategies to take when designing such graphics. To me, this comes off as a mere complain.

Lurie links to Mark (Mapstone?) who, also, complains about infographics. I'd like to take a shot at how they could make better infographics. Especially a graphic by Mashable Infographics about the 1.8 zettabytes of data produced every year.

The "1.8 zettabyte"-graphic from Mashable shows a lot of (meaningless) comparison, but absolutely no causality. Imagine if they instead talked about all the different sources of information, adding up to the enormous quantity of 1.8 zettabytes. Like the amount of video uploaded to YouTube everyday, the number of Tweets and there size in gigabytes per day, the increasing number of cameras being bought, growth on Wikipedia and probably many more.
This makes very good sense to me: CC payments are expensive (up to several percent), merchant accounts are difficult to come by, accepting international cards is annoying.

This is partly because of the fraud risk, partly because of VISA and MasterCard's duopoly. Facebook is pretty well situated to deal with both IMO.

And it's not just online payments: The current state-of-the-art in mobile-phone POS payments ("It's exactly like a credit-card! Except it's in your phone!") seems like a dead-end to me. Facebook is in a unique position to move into this area.
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That because you can't buy inexpensive stuff on the internet. Because of minimum card charges.

Now you know what we're all talking about and can start giving a flying fuck!
+1 million. That book changed my life, at least as far as information presentation is concerned. It's that good. If you ever make a chart or a graph, you owe it to yourself and your viewers to read that book.
My guesses are Israel, the US, Russia & China, in descending order.
As one data point, the average valuation of a YCombinator company for the last batch was $10M:
http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/22/ycombinator-80-strong/

And that's the average; many were higher. There are probably amazing startups out there that raise at a $2M valuation, but it's definitely at the low end of the range in the current funding climate. If you're looking to join a startup, I wouldn't fixate too much on valuations, but I do think it helps to be aware of what the current market is like.

(Note that it varies by region. Silicon Valley and NYC are probably comparable, but other regions have less investment and so have lower valuations on average.)
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Yep, fell for this too. Joined as their second hire, working under a senior developer... who promptly left. I assumed his role (and responsibilities), but not his pay. Not to worry I thought, stock options are coming. 11 months later I got papers for less than 1/4 percent with no vesting schedule (must stay until exit). Handed in my notice soon after.

That said, the experience I gained in the year helped me land better paid contracting gigs after, so... swings and roundabouts.
Hmm, apparently I haven't been upgraded to Google Drive. All my links still say Docs, as well as the URL. Although I do now see this message:

"Google Docs will soon be upgraded to Google Drive"
Does it suffer from the same disadvantages as other bandit optimization approaches?

Yes.

That said, the people there are very smart and are doing something good. But I would be very cautious about time-dependent automatic optimization on a website that is undergoing rapid improvement at the same time.
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Heroin also improves depression within minutes. Ketamine is even more dangerous, and may cause severe cognitive difficulties with long-term use like other NMDA antagonists like ethanol and the benzodiazapenes (which, it should be noted, actually worsen depression in the long run).
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Tying this too to current wealth will easily be seen as locking-in and amplifying possibly unfair advantages in the pre-existing system. Why bother intertwining that negative stigma at the foundation of this idea that is supposed to make us a better species? All this centrally mandated, negative-penalty thinking just puts us at each others throats. The world needs better, imho.

Why not have the eugenics institute(s) find people of merit on whatever sets of measures they want and pay those they choose to have kids or to supply sperm/eggs/parenting (whichever they think important for the traits)? Maybe also give subsidized child-care to their progeny. This would allow for competition of metrics between and inside such organizations.

Sure only using positive feedback might be a bit slower than also availing ourselves of negative ones. But negative ones seem more tricky to implement, and we don't actually know what the species will need in the future, i.e. if we even have a single goal in this search space. Ethically less complicated to nurture the flowers you want to see blooming than to have a hand in cutting off others.
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A GA is a zeroth order optimization method. A Bandit is a type of decision problem. So, bandit is a single state RL problem were one is trying to make decisions in an environment in order to min regret. GA is a general optimization approach when there is no gradient or second order info about the problem to use.
Take a look at XCS classifiers for an approach that can solve bandit type problems, but uses GAs to estimate the mailings between features and rewards.
This is true. On the other hand, online banking security starts from "the client computer is compromised", and a new service that says "you're fully liable if your machine is hacked" will have... problems getting traction.
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In seriousness, though, that crowding may not be bad. Competing currencies tend to drive the total value of the "winning" ones up. And I know a lot of people (myself sometimes included) that would like non-US currencies to use on a daily basis, simply for ethical or political reasons.

Plus, I played a lot of fallout and I like the idea of paying for things in caps!
Well, at least know its name if you're going to be depressed by it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeons_Law
I improved the post intro, it did get posted to lifehacker, and it was even introduced very well with "Joe Golton set out with $600-$700 to see if an ordinary person with no technical know-how can buy an off-the-shelf system that's also very quiet. Here's what he learned."

And yet dozens of people still felt compelled to point out how it is possible to do better with custom builds. I'm astonished at how out of touch the typical geek is with:

1) what a mainstream person is willing to do to purchase a PC.

2)There's a cost to all this geekery. You can buy a Lenovo e420s or a Mac Mini in a couple of minutes. Or you can spend a number of hours (5? 10? 20?) educating yourself on everything you need to know to build the absolute perfect custom PC for you.
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1. Split it between you guys, and handle investors later. When a new shareholder (investor or employee) comes in, all existing shareholders dilute equally.

2. Yes. 4-year vesting with a 1-year cliff is typical. Sometimes single- or double-trigger acceleration.

3. 60/25/15 seems really unbalanced. Is the product built and launched yet? Do you have users? If you haven't launched yet, I'd do 33/33/33 or close to it, since most of the work is ahead of you. If the other guys have raised money beyond techstars, launched, or gotten traction, then you can do a less even split. In general, just having the idea isn't worth anything on its own. The hard work is to build the product and get people to use it.
1. The easiest and most common thing is to split all the equity now and figure out how much to fundraise later.

2. Yes. Standard is over four years, the first quarter of the equity cliffs at one year.

3. Most common is splitting equally. But this is really up to you. If you think the business guy is a really impressive person, worth four times what you are, then go for it. But this could be years of your life you're talking about. It's reasonable to say that you're only interested if it's an equal equity split - most of the work is still ahead of you.
Can anyone explain to me how authentication works with JS-based storage client like this?

It scares me to think a user might have the ability to store anything via the web on my dime. I feel like I'm missing something.
What - you aren't blown away by the philanthropic moves of "Bread Pig?" There's some interesting geeky stuff there, but the "make the world suck less" mission is perhaps overstating things a bit.
How Sillytrader.com works:

1. Seller (you put a service or a product on a sillytrader with a discount) value 200$, price 100$, discount 50%

2. Reseller (you put a product or a servis of a seller to your blog, website, network...) you sell for 100$ and get 20% of the price.

3. Buyer ( you can buy directly from sillytrader or from a reseller) you get 70% of the price.

4. Sillytrade.com get's 10% of every deal
I commented on another submission that was similar to this. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4040519
Clustrix relies on an Infiniband cluster interconnect, so the latency is several orders of magnitude smaller. This makes distributed transactions across shards much quicker at the cost of requiring more expensive hardware.

Cassandra's query language, CQL, is not really comparable since it only supports such a small subset of SQL. Also, Cassandra uses eventual consistency in place of doing distributed transactions.
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