skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They'd need both, the human saying "I took this here at this time," and the EXIF data. Just because the camera says the photo was taken at 3:15pm doesn't meant the photo was taken at 3:15pm.

Although they could probably substitute some human-in-the-loop with analysis (or verify a human time/place statement), comparing non-time-and-place-established photos with more reliably known-data photos.
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Pity the poor reporters
The mechanism by which you construct that paradox would still be a mechanism that can fail, just (presumably) not a mechanical one.
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Oscar of Rejected wasn't exactly on my list of life goals. But I'll take it.
Do we know if this is in test or prod?
“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Free market: we can buy what we want! Its only Intel that is screwed.
Brown PLT is jokingly said to do every programming language research unrelated to the type theory (not saying the type theory is unimportant of course). I hope to see more researches and directions like that.
Reframing the problems with “Freemium” by charging the marketing department
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I think it's a bit silly to try to infer things about the computer that could be simulating our universe based on things internal to the simulation. Many of our fictions don't have the same laws of physics as we do.
Although I'm sure it will be implemented sooner rather than later for the purpose of surveillance and intelligence.
If the universe was a computer program, it would have crashed by now.
Are they using a pseudo-random number generator with a set seed, or is there a better source of randomness? ;)

I treat free will as an assumption:

- If we are, in fact, predestined, assuming I have free will doesn't hurt or matter.

- If we do have free will, I'm applying that free will to make decisions based on a correct assumption

- If we do have free will and I had assumed we were predestined, this could have worse results. At the very least, it is unlikely to improve outcomes
Even worse, he then goes on to contrast it with the idea that "politicians and voters act in what they perceive to be the general interest, not narrow self interest" which Caplan actually harped on in his book, since if you're going to vote selfishly the effort involved isn't worth getting out of bed. It's only if you care about the influence of your vote across the country that the tiny amount your vote effects the outcome becomes worth while.

Generally speaking Caplan's book[1] actually ended up increasing my faith in democracy, despite reminding me of some of it's significant limitations.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Myth_of_the_Rational_Voter
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It seems YC's scalability issue is their pain point. If anyone of you can apply with a startup to solve this pain point, you will be THE startup to rule them all!
For starters I'd re-classify The Matrix as a documentary.
I went to 5 different high schools before college.

Here are some tricks I found
1) Join or walk into clubs randomly(It's fun) If you feel particularly crazy change your name each time.

It will probably be easiest to walk into
1) book club 2) anime or 3) math/science club 4) syfy club Most of the time these clubs have very simple(or atleast straightforward) agendas and will contain lots of introverts.

If you see someone passionate about something ask about their opinion.

For example "What is your opinion about the most release book, science, topic, etc?"

In college I have had some of the coolest discusses in my Speech class. Some schools combine it with English, but if you can take a Speech class try to. Now it depends on what you find interesting, but it has brought up a lot of fun discussions.

Find a Linux/Hackers group. If you don't have one at your current school, check at the website for a close Community Colleges. If you are lucky they will sometimes have some pretty cool veterans heading the group that remember the good ol' days.
Does Medium do something to make scrolling on iOS smoother than usual?
It seems to be super fluid
Context: We sent an application in for S12 and S13.

Interesting that you mentioned "serious." Looking back I don't think I was a whole lot "serious" the last time I applied, but I think my application might have been better (see my comment below - got more video views last year, but that could have been an anomaly).

In any case, I wonder if being in school this time hurts our chances. Most of our founders are graduating, and the rest have signed on to jobs. But we are more serious about it this time around - hacking away on public transit, on campus and pulling all-nighters to get features out.
Still nothing. Does anybody know at all if they send out the rejections in waves or all at once? Any YC Alum help here would be greatly appreciated. Also, do they lump late applications in with the rest of the group or am I going to be sick to my stomach until we hear back?!
Thank god I didn't get accepted into "Glass Explorers"
Prescient article: http://www.technologyreview.com/view/513391/why-a-botched-it...
Of course Intel is larger - QCOM was founded in 1985 - but Qualcomm is making more money per dollar of sales they take in - 50% more in fact - and they're growing radically faster than Intel.

And it's not chump change either, it's $6.6 billion in profit, which makes them one of the most profitable tech companies on the planet. So it's not like we're comparing $11b in profit versus $300m (ARM Holdings).

Their market cap is already larger than Intel's, and that's not going backwards given QCOM's growth rate compared to Intel's contracting business.

Within three or four years at the current rate, Qualcom will be making more money than Intel. That's dramatic to say the least.

The comparison is perfect. With $13 billion in cash now, and no real debt, Qualcomm has begun talking about building their own fabs in the future. Which is exactly what they will do by necessity. They already make more money than TSMC. The notion of relying on TSMC long term would be absurd as Qualcomm grows so much bigger than them. Given the numerous problems QCOM has already had with TSMC, they have every incentive to soon abandon the fabless approach.
I guess I don't really know what family friendly means. This whole area is muti bedroom houses with yards. There are parks scattered around. The one question, which I acknowledge knowing nothing about, is schools.

What does "family friendly" mean?

I shudder to think that it has to be your typical suburbia. There's so much more to offer than a sheltered back yard where your shuttled from strip mall to strip mall to practice field in a car.
People should learn economics, not prance around saying things they think an economist would say. This blog post constructs a straw man of the latter and than attacks it, paradoxically, as the latter.
>Their latest Atom processors are already better than Arms.

Source? Every review I've seen says they still struggle to beat ARM on power/performance/price.

I've absolutely not heard that their mobile chips are "better" by any margin.
> I guess the issue is whether or not the people that he's spoken to are biased against wanting to believe that the ship is sinking.

And whether Gruber himself is biased against wanting to believe that the ship is sinking.
If someone is running our universe as a simulation they still don't necessarily know of our existence. I have a hard time figuring out how you'd detect intelligent life or its byproducts in your simulation. Even if you do detect something alive, how do you interact with it in a non-destructive way? Also not trivial at all :) That "long-distance phone call" might be far less likely than us ever figuring out if we're indeed a simulation.
It's apparently a good time to link to a writing entitled "Creating Infinite Suffering":

http://www.utilitarian-essays.com/lab-universes.html

"Abstract. I think there's a small but non-negligible probability that humans or their descendants will create infinitely many new universes in a laboratory. Under weak assumptions, this would entail the creation of infinitely many sentient organisms. Many of those organisms would be small and short-lived, and their lives in the wild would often involve far more pain than happiness. Given the seriousness of suffering, I conclude that creating infinitely many universes would be infinitely bad."
Or Pulitzer winners. One of the three for sure!
This thing will open in two days.
I've always been interested by this sort of stuff (as I'm sure several people are -- especially the HN audience). It always brings up a bunch of interesting questions:

- If we're self aware of the simulation, would we be able (or ever want to) reverse engineer the fabric of which makes up our sim?

- Would there be infinite simulations? How far _up_ does the rabbit hole go?

- Another idea, and this is reaching, would be to consider the motivation behind running simulations like these. Are the "controllers" running simulations to try and find solutions to problems they are facing? Of course, this is the stuff right out of Scifi movies.
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There is a Star Trek Voyager episode where three humanoids on a planet survived a natural disaster that destroyed their planet by going into stasis and having their brains stimulated by a computer simulation for over 19 years. In that time, the adaptive computer responded to their worst fears by turning the "fun" model world full of clowns and dancers into a circus nightmare. The virtual characters created to entertain the survivors turned into sinister clowns. The head clown, and the manifestation of fear itself, has full access to their brains and would adapt to circumvent any attempts by them to leave his world or terminate the stasis.
Yep! The Chrome debugger for js, and pry-debugger for ruby.
I agree, impressive landing page. Every application round I see someone as polished as this, and then realize to not take rejection to heart. Rejections, even at YC, will have their fair share of false positives.
I overlooked that minor requirement. Sorry.
Full text reads:

This thing will open in two days.
Which means it isn't open right
now. Sorry, it just isn't.
The problem with this theory (the universe is a simulation) is that it's a tautology. You cannot prove or disprove it, and for practical reasons it changes nothing if you assert it's true.

What is really being researched is whether the universe is computable, because that's something you can prove.
oh man, this reminds my childhood. I used to play every qbasic games.
Any rejectees in Toronto want to meet up for a mind meld this weekend?
We've offered this before, and are doing so again, because startups are hard and a YC rejection is but one roadblock you will face (among many).

So, Tinfoil Security is offering our $59 Basic plan free for life, and 50% off all other plans. Happy to keep startups secure :) Email your YC rejection letter to founders@tinfoilsecurity.com and we'll hook you up.
You guys really need to move on
Applied as a single founder with http://www.class-central.com . Still looking for a co-founder, mail me if interested :)
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I guess no matter how you look at it, they are taking a totally wrong-headed approach to their mistakes.
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It's actually more complex than that. You can use val and def in the same places. The difference is when it is evaluated. val has the right hand side evaluated immediately (such as, if it's a class member, it will be evaluated when the class is constructed). def has the right hand side evaluated every time it is referenced. So, val x = 5+5 would evaluate 5+5 and assign to x. def x = 5+5 would set x to a function that takes no parameters and returns an int, but if you had, say x + x, that function would be called twice, resulting in a value of 20.

This difference is stark when you look at what it's doing, but allows for some interesting uses when combined with lazy vals. We use it pretty extensively in our configuration loader (using twitter-eval) that allows us to do per-value overrides of configuration files by using lazy vals assigned to defs and then using the defs in the application (of all the performance bottlenecks we have, the possibly optimized out function call generated for the defs is negligible). The end result is that you can derive values from configuration settings prior to the configuration finishing being loaded. This means we don't have to care what order the configuration files are loaded in (they're separated by what they're configuring, with many shared between applications).
And that's just at the Kickstarter price. GPUs have had decades of competition to squeeze the extra costs out and build up economies of scale.
Thank you! It's too bad that you aren't in our target market. :-)

Our progress so far is a huge testament to the skill, execution and resolve of our team (http://bodybossfitness.com/about).
While I have no idea why M4v3R made that comment, as it's utterly irrelevant what Stanford teaches in their iPhone app class, it's also evident that you don't even know what M4v3R is referencing. He's referring to a class Stanford teaches on making iPhone apps, which has nothing to do with any sort of academic guidelines. The professor chose to use Storyboards, and that's that.
Then where are they?
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Probably relevant for those interested:

In 1969, Zuse suggested the concept of a computation-based universe in his book Rechnender Raum (Calculating Space).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Zuse
I wonder if we could devise an experiment to see if the world containing the computer was, itself, a simulation -ad infinitum.
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Because all of us dumb PC users measure performance in terms of "horse-power". :-)
by what measure?
If they can prove the universe is computable and that we would (given the resources) create a simulation of our own, wouldn't that lend credence to the idea that we would be in a simulation as well?

I see what you mean though, it would be impossible (with our current understanding of ... everything) to actually determine is we're in a sim or not.
On the plus side, programming is about to become much more interesting for you!
That mostly just shifts the frame without answering the core question. Why can't the chinese design a decent laptop?
Only seeing "Public Print Queue SPOOL/PRESENTLY	2013-04-16T23:04Z" right now.
I've always thought that quantum theory provided some decent evidence for this. Instead of always computing every value for every result, the universe does so only when things are "observed", saving on computation.
I think the issue (or at least my issue as a card-carrying member of The Left) was that (a) at the time, we had a very different economic situation, and (b) objections to what the money was spent on. A lot of that debt came about because of things like not negotiating prescription drug prices in Medicare D and spending hundreds of billions and trillions in Iraq and cutting taxes in a way that disproportionately benefitted the well-off. If we were in a deep situation like we're in now or Bush was proposing spending that money differently, I think there would have been fewer Democratic comments about the debt.

>Maybe 90% Debt:GDP won't hurt too badly, but sooner or later as it rises, it will crater even our economy.

Nobody's suggesting that an infinitely high Debt:GDP is a good thing, but a lot of people were using R-R to argue that we had to prioritize debt reduction now as an emergency even at the expense of stimulating the economy or else we'd wind up as some sort of hybrid Greece/Zimbabwe mess within 5 years.

>It's about our Government's complete inability to get it under control.

I don't really know that that's clear. We've had a period of time where the budget deficits were run up to pay for a major (Cold) war and the tax reforms, and then we ran very low deficits and surpluses in the 1990s. We were basically set such that we'd run a surplus during strong economic years (as the Tech Bubble was) and a slight deficit in weaker ones. We made a series of policy decisions that harmed the budget balance (Iraq, tax cuts, bad policy in Medicare D) but even then, our deficits were still in the neighborhood of nominal GDP growth. So we're actually doing kinda OK, though obviously not great. Then we have the mini-depression, which (a) reduced GDP well below potential, (b) reduced tax revenues due to people making less money, and (c) caused automatic stabilizer payouts (food stamps, unemployment, disability) to rise. It's not like we've been pushing through un-offset new annual spending this last half-decade, beyond the original TARP and ARRA. So if the economy recovers, we'll probably start to level off back into 2005-era deficits, where the deficit/GDP < nominal GDP growth, causing the debt/GDP to shrink.
I take the existence of the interlink as evidence that it lowers prices (this seems like a reasonable definition of profit here). Maybe it only works due to the regulatory situation in California. It would take some more information to decide how much of the price difference is due to the interlink.

I don't particularly think intercontinental systems are in the near future, but I don't think "a little pessimistic" was outlandish. What if ABB can push their tech 50% further?
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I would have thought dealing with the consequences of speeding in their jobs (notifying families of the death of loved ones, seeing the terrible injuries caused) would have stopped them. I know a few people who work in that area and that stuff stays with them. For example - they've assured me I should never buy a motor bike.
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Anyone in Bay area want to build a tDCS brain stimulator?
It's shown a bunch of interesting cognitive effects in scientific studies, and it's pretty easy to build. Contact me with your skillset (looking for everything from hardware hackers to willing guinea pigs!)
I have an "ultrabook" and I love it. Except for the lack of F{n}, Home, End, and Insert keys, and the 4 GB RAM. The 13" 1080p screen is about as retinarrific as I can stand.

I'm not sure if I'm being ironic or not.
bugs? i'd imagine disease and war are pretty useful for the purpose of a simulation.
He is running on a much stronger system (with respect to syscalls and hardware support), but it's basically the same language.
Hi.

That is not possible to link tasks (unless you just copy and paste their URL).

That's a very good and important question.
For now, I think the only thing that differentiates us is that we are even simpler than Basecamp.

I haven't found a killer feature yet, though.

Thanks for your help!
I was enjoying this viewpoint until all the f bombs. I'm just as guilty in day to day conversation but this opinion would be way stronger if it dropped the arbitrary tone. Just a thought. I hadn't thought of the marketplace effects of no fees. They're kinda stunting the growth.
Yikes, yes.
> we should be more worried about car accidents than terrorism.

And we should be more worried about the "watchers" than the "watched".
Bostrom's postulates are exceedingly bad. His assumptions rely to much on the isotropy of properties of the one "real" existence and the simulated ones. I would expect, statistically, that there would be far more universes simulated that have properties that are nothing like the "real" one as technology progresses, i.e. there are more instances of "sonic the hedgehogs" and "super mario brothers 1" over the more "realistic" call of duty. It follows that if our universe is one of the more probable universes that our laws of logic and probability estimates are not calculated from probable postulates, thus our assumptions leading to any conclusion are probably in error.
"If we are, in fact, predestined, assuming I have free will doesn't hurt or matter."

Not to mention you were predestined to assume so.
As soon as Qualcom starts fabbing, their margins will go down; that's just the nature of the hardware game. Microsoft, for example, was always very profitable BECAUSE they stayed out of hardware. But its really a false distinction: someone has to make hardware, and if you can do that profitably, why not?

But you are right: QCOM is doing very well, they should eventually overtake Intel in profits. They were very lucky to be in the cellphone business early on. I'm not sure if their tablet business is very profitable though. Its not like their are many successful tablets with snapdragons inside them.
It really doesn't surprise me. When I was hiring folks from Apple I was always surprised to learn 1) just how poorly paid rank and file employees are there for a bigco, and 2) how poorly almost all of these stars were treated there. Almost 100% of them talked about being screamed at, jerked around, or otherwise abused in some way or another by management.

I think the poor pay and beat down management are coming home to roost.
The odds are statistically equal that we're the first civilization and that we're the 5 millionth (in this iteration of the universe).
> And, machines tend to have no discretion.

This a feature, that protects and racism and classism.
It's going to get harder and harder to get into YC (as has been the trend) which means getting rejected is going to mean less and less. It used to be an "oh we make mistakes, but mostly we find the right founders" and now it's "we find a lot of great founders, but we miss several successful ones each batch."

Don't think it means nothing, it means something about where you are in your life as a founder and how well you can communicate that (and that matters), but not anything more than that.

- 5x rejectee and pretty successful dude