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Yep, same guy (my first time posting to Ycombinator - smiles to all!).

To my amazement, people still want Klein bottles (in 1995, my wife told me that nobody would buy these things) For the past five or ten years, I update m'website mainly to add content.

Someday I'll drag its code into the 21st century - remove the old cruft and maybe even use css. But flash just tires my eyes.

As my friends (online and off) can attest, I make Klein bottles mainly for fun. It's a zero-volume home business, small enough to be run from one room; the warehouse occupies the crawlspace under our house.

Of course, the best part of Acme Klein Bottles is meeting people: via email, occasional visits, talks at schools & math colloquia, and chattering about physics & LTE & coding with friends at my day-job (Hi Newfield People!). Which is to say, it'll be a while before I recast my kleinbottle website - I'm having too much fun doing other things.
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It cost much more than $100,000 to treat my son. Would have better if they could stop the process of the cancer spreading.

I lost my son at 12.5 years old in April to bone cancer (no change in over 25 years in survival rates). To bad the math doesn't add up to saving 20 patients with the money. I also lost my 15 year old sister to brain tumor in 1996. Both not genetic.

a) 20 adult patients (sure) 20 patients who are 65 years old gain 10-15 years (maybe)
b) Save a 5 year old gain 70-75 years of a life.

Also the c) comment is very belittling and unbecoming.

By the way I have two family members who work in Africa helping these kids. I give money to help kids in India monthly. Do you give money to any of these thousands of starving kids?
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Yep, you can do a lot evenings and weekends, much better than nothing. And to be honest, it's not hard to save up a bit and live more cheaply in another country every few years.
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Wow, thanks for pointing out that paper.

> We think that everyone might benefit if the most radical protagonists of evidence based medicine organised and participated in a double blind, randomised, placebo controlled, crossover trial of the parachute.
The system would have to be more deeply integrated, once the report is made there is a response( police/ambulance ) and then they report back whether it was real. This would be made automatic via reports which already exist. The problem is how to integrate all these different systems together.
Congratulations on your wife's success, but how does that paragraph serve your point?

I'm willing to bet she's made more money from her bonuses than 90% of the
aspirational startup founders on HN. Her peers in finance are >60% women,
and they are all extremely smart and well compensated as well.

That's finance, not the startup world, and you even make the comparison yourself!
Sounds like finance companies are a much more meritocratic based on your
anecdote.
>> ...using logic of the form "if you don't have a master's degree you likely can't be an expert in this field."

Which in this case, is a bit like discrediting Einstein for not having studied relativity in school.
It's about taking traits that occur more frequently in men (whether they're due to nature or nurture is irrelevant) and then using them as the scales on which to evaluate entrepreneurs. There's no reason why entrepreneurs shouldn't be described as caring, holistic, fair, benevolent, cooperative.

A good example of these kinds of hidden biases is that I've found that women tend to prefer presenting their business in a calm narrative that allows them to connect emotionally with the audience.

Most startup pitches however are designed for a rapid-fire, fast one-minute, high-energy, show-time kind of 'pitch,' which to a large degree is a display of masculinity and thus a playing field where women are at a disadvantage because they either need to bend the rules to fit their natural presentation style or imitate an unnatural presentation style; both of which are disadvantageous to them.

I still remember being at this accelerator pitch where we saw tons of decidedly mediocre companies pitch and then there was this one women who had such a powerful presence and decided to bend the rules. She extended her time from one to two minutes on the spot and convinced the event organizers to go along with that in such a beautiful display of female dominance and went on to deliver a great story that emotionally connected with almost everyone in the audience.

In the end she didn't go on to the next round of course because well ... she broke the rules ...
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The same arguments would prove that math isn't a meritocracy. Which it presumably isn't, entirely, but only because nothing is entirely. And if SV is only as much of a meritocracy as math, that's pretty good. Indeed, that's what the word means in ordinary usage.
Nobody said anything about a cure until you brought up apricot pits as being analogous.
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Your verdict of reasonableness depends on the idea that physicians are not going to be able to properly advise patients who they think might have gotten a false positive result.

Considering that over half of American adults believe Elvis is alive, I think the small percentage who may slightly overreact to the kind of presentation that 23andme gives of these kinds of results is a complete non-issue.
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I like this a lot. Here's clickable link to the github repo:
https://github.com/jbail/lumberjack
I think the definition of Framework needs to be defined.

Everyone seems to think that packaging up a bunch of tools is a framework. I would contest that that is wrong.

A framework has certain policies and flows that must be followed to allow the program to work. If you bundle up a set of tools, then you have a toolbox.

A framework might have a set of tools, but it also has a methodology behind it. If you don't subscribe to that methodology, then that framework isn't for you.

I am saying this, coming from the background of not using frameworks because of the bloat and because most of my applications weren't that large. I have used backbone and several other backend frameworks (python and PHP type) and found that they are restricting.

For me, programming, coding, hacking, whatever you want to call it is about the freedom to be able to do whatever you want, how ever you want. Yes, I know there are best practices, and there are certain things you aren't supposed to do, but a framework forces you think in a certain pattern, to follow certain rules. Yes, you may be able to develop faster (if your application fits in the scope of the framework) but you have lost much of the freedom that code gives you.

I understand people using frameworks. I sit right next to someone who enjoys them very much. But for others (including myself), they are not the next greatest thing to sliced bread because maybe I don't want my bread sliced, but instead, I want it some other way.
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I'll generally get more done in 2 hours working from my home office than I would in 4 hours in an office, let alone if there's a meeting as well.
What about convolutional neural nets? They weren't mentioned, but that's really what most of the deep learning approaches use...
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Typically nothing, one client wanted Gravity Forms so I purchased that for his site recently. Maybe a few WooCommerce plugin extensions, but that's about it.
And when the word "help" means "instead of", I'll think you might have a point... but it doesn't so you don't.
The lottery analogy made me think of this: Even if most startups fail, is the expected value nonetheless positive?
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Not sure if it's working properly on mobile. I pressed the letter 'A' on my keyboard and no other keys, and the textarea showed "And " with a space after it. Is that right? It didn't feel right.
He is too impatient to toil slowly through the years for the things he wants. Too uncompromising to succeed in the way of the popular men who know how to get along with those in power. Too intolerant to “get along” with anybody. Too passionate not to burn with disgust for life as he sees it and with humiliation at not being above the mob, crushing it under his feet, giving it orders instead of trying to satisfy it, of crawling before it for its good graces. He is unable to understand how he can act and live as an equal with those he knows to be inferior to him, those he despises and had a right to despise.
Yes, but the whole debate was how to it automatically. Once you have someone physically intervening, your solution fails to meet the problem criteria.
There are amazingly few first-hand accounts in this thread, and far too many "I do/do not think it should, because I imagine blah...".
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That's fascinating. The Wikipedia links cover the landmark nature of how liability was distributed, but I'm as curious about how liability was established. I don't know much about tort law, but is it essentially automatic that a manufacturer would be liable for a product that caused such damage, no matter how difficult it would have been for them to have been aware of that potential?
The war on the word "meritocracy" is just weird. You can just watch it bubble up through twitter to large blogs, to wired.

The weird thing about it is the people who hate the word are arguing not against the actual usage -- "people who demonstrate their merit get ahead" -- but against the illiberal definition they've assigned to it: "people who have inherent merit get ahead".

Disclaimer: I'm not familiar with the valley, and if there really are a bunch of young white males with the right "pedigree" who are getting money thrown at them without having demonstrated any real merit, then I withdraw my objection. However, if they're getting money for things that you don't think have merit, like the Nth photo sharing app, then I think it stands.
MongoDB does this too. I personally think its not too bad - its free for whoever wants to use it, but if you want to modify and use it commercially, you do have to pay.
They're discussed later in the book. The first chapter is an introduction, and I didn't want to introduce convolutional nets before (for example) fundamental techniques such as stochastic gradient descent and backpropagation.
Uhhh let me get this right:

$10,000,000 spent to secure a bitcoin exchange to within 99.999% secure via "automation"

$100,000 spent to secure a bitcoin exchange to within 99.999% secure via physical air gap...

which makes more sense
It seems to me that it's the link between those two parts that is problematic! If someone sold genetic tests that just output a list of markers, and the clients consulted publicly available literature to discern the meaning of those results, then no one would have taken the responsibility of giving advice to a client. By packaging a specific, curated set of information with the test results, 23andme has crossed over from offering tools to offering expertise - and has therefor taken on responsibilities.
> FDA interest in 23andme is driven solely by rent-seeking incumbents trying to keep 23andme out of the game.

No, FDA interest in 23andMe is driven by:
1) The fact that 23andMe's product is within the clear scope of what FDA is tasked to regulate under the FD&C Act, and
2) The fact that, having initiated the process of seeking regulatory clearance for their product as required, 23andMe abandoned that process and continued marketing the product.

> Every single concern mentioned in that letter is clearly and obviously addressed by the site as part of its core functionality.

Really? The lack of studies supplied by 23andMe establishing the validity of their process in delivering the outputs it gives is "addressed by the site as part of its core functionality"? How?
Look around for hackerspaces or co-working spaces. They are generally inexpensive, and put you in working proximity with local talent and like-minded road warriors.
If successful startups are just lucky, then getting an A on your project/exams in school was all luck. Can someone show us someone making money with shitty products today? Yeah, it's possible to get popular with an incomplete buggy product, but if it's filling a need, it's better than nothing. You will still have to work hard and improve to maintain your position.

Say what you might about how facebooks earlier/current code was/is horrible and in PHP, Facebook has done amazing things to be able to handle a billion users every second/every day. Say what you might about how simple instagram or snapshot is, they filled a need and grew. Their products doesn't "suck", sure they might be valued ridiculously by some groups of investors, but don't discount their work.

Successful startups are not JUST lucky. There is always an element of lucky, but there is also the hardwork. One mistake a lot of "failed" startups make is thinking and believing that they failed. If your goal is to create an application that solves a certain problem and you do so. You have succeeded. A lot of startups have this goal, they don't really have a goal of making money. After they achieve a goal of building their app, then they want to make money and when they fail on that end, they consider everything a failure. The truth is that making money is not just about your apps or how smart you are or hard you worked to designed.

It takes a very different set of skills to market, hustle, and sell. A lot of programmers don't have those business skills, and they whine and cry when the world don't rush to their door for the better mouse trap. Don't cry, the world didn't know because you failed to market or they have heavily vested in another one because you started late.

If you want to really realize that startups are not just lucky, find the other group we don't talk about on HN that make money off the internet. The hustlers, these are guys with little to zero tech knowledge. They do whatever they can, outsource via internet, basic wordpress sites, they sell actually products, their business is rarely based on ads, their business is physical products, software as a service or ebooks etc. Technology is usually a small part of their game, maybe 10%, the other 90% is pure sweat and hustling. We don't hear for them, but there are many of them out there, making very good money.

Successful starts are not lucky, they out hustled the rest and that's just what it is. So if you wish to make money, don't just stay a hacker, become a hacker and a hustler.
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I can't tell if you're serious, but Jeremy Lin isn't that good of a player.... He had an amazing run, but over time fell back to earth.
Probably not - the West used to have much more of a salaryman culture with lifelong employment, but the trend is going in the other direction.
That's the point, no? "male or female, you will only succeed if you can act in these typically male ways, regardless of how good your idea and execution are." Therefore, the tech scene is clearly not judging you solely on your idea and execution as they believe they are.
> "without additional information, most people would assume these words refer to a male rather than a female"

Surely that is the problem. The problem isn't that those traits are seen as desirable or common for entrepreneurs. The problem is the people think those traits can only be found in men.

Particularly the idea that "self-reliance" is a male trait is a classic example of something that feminists have been successfully refuting for decades. It should be very clear that the notion that women cannot be self-reliant is very old fashioned; if that attitude is still present in the bay area, then it needs to be stomped out.
Dn! There goes the chance to sell my site to NSFWCORP.
So much potential for IAP
I used to think I was really smart and that my intelligence would carry me when I finally set out to start a company.

Wrong, while I still consider myself to be smart, I don't think I'm savvy enough to rely upon good decisions to carry me. There are plenty of people smarter than me that have failed in their ventures. So, I've reverted to a brute force strategy coupled with an unrelenting resolve to see projects to completion.

Just lucky? Not just. When you build your companies with a willingness to change, frequently self re-evaluating, you will amaze yourself with how much you grow as an entrepreneur. It is ridiculous what I know today when compared against my assumptions 2 years ago.

When the author was talking about the failed MMO, I took him at his word when he said his team created an amazing game. So the point of failure is obviously marketing. Who knows what could have been if those game developers had a comparable marketing team in their corner. What if they launched a beta 1 year into development to help develop a core user group as well as aid in gamer feedback which could then be redigested by the marketing team to help them create buzz.

I love this rumored quote assumedly from Jack Dorsey "It only took 10 years for me to become an overnight success." The entrepreneur that doesn't die is hardened and polished in failure over a number of years. When luck finally strikes, he will have the tools, experience, insight, vision to take full advantage.

I'm 2 years into this journey, hopefully I'll find luck in year 3, and hopefully I will have grown enough to take full advantage of it.
here is the problem with the concept of "meritocracy". What constitutes "merit"? And if you have two orthogonal, meritorious qualities, which is more deserving of advancement, one who is 100%A, 0%B? Or another who is 0%A, 100%B? Who gets to decide?
Hi, gopalv. What samspenc said. My understanding of the AGPL is that only the modifications made to the source code itself of the covered project would need to be opened up (or have a commercial license). Meaning that merely using InfiniSQL won't require you to open source your app. MongoDB has the same license BTW, and lots of people use it without being forced to open their code.
And, yes, I want to get paid somehow--but the AGPL won't stop anybody from using my work how they see fit. But if they modify it and distribute it, then they'll have to comply with the license (or contact me directly for an alternate arrangement).
No link, but I'll clean it up and email you a copy.

Its hideous, the gif's animation continues to repeat itself because the steps to play a gif once in VB is way too complicated. However, we built an onscreen gamepad so clicking left and right moved the character. It uses 3 BG stages and 3 characters (Ryu, Guile, and Chun-Li). I'll also include a link to where I got the gif's and sound effects.
Way to miss the point and exemplify it in the same breath.

The article is about how SV thinks it's more meritocratic than it actually is and how this false pride is a problem in and of it's own.

P.S. P.G. When this thread started I was almost tempted to make a snide comment saying "3.. 2.. 1.. Flagged off the front page."

It actually took a bit over an hour but it's now indeed been flagged off of the front page despite getting a significant number of upvotes while it was there.

Is that not just another example of allowing a vocal minority (flag-wise) to silence a majority who are apparently interested in discussions like these?
I really, really hope this was intended as parody.
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I intentionally mentioned the charge as a discount, for the purpose of not charging immediately. After the report is investigated and settled the caller either be charged or not. The point is the call could always be made and would be free, only in case of abuse of the number the number would be charged via telephone company. So anyone in danger could call and be sure that he wouldn't pay. The only problem I see here is prepaid phones which could be discarded after use.
OR just make calls free and hire more operators and provide training.
The face recognition thing actually makes sense since the camera quality isn't that great and it's fixed focus. You'd have to get unreasonably close to someone to actually get it to work. I've tried, it just needs time for the privacy/UX issues to be resolved.
So your position is that the FDA should not have the power to regulate diagnostic tests. I think I understand now.
> Thanks Google! What a fun way to say, “I hope we can squeeze every dime possible out of your tiny little life. “

Google should be ashamed for trying to pay for their millions of dollars of infrastructure?
I would like to see a blog post describing how it has worked for the company, with a link to the CEO page.

But this seems like a great idea!
Heh, I hear that off and on and I'm curious where that comes from. Is it just something that people repeat because it sounds good, or is there solid evidence for it?
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I know for about 6 months when switch to 3.1 I kept trying to pull down the lo res screen to get to the high res screen.
Thanks, edited. It was silly of me not to check when I linked to it.
I imagine she's not your average finance person. His whole point was that she worked hard, excelled and was recognized for that. It's probably a fairly rare occurrence. Like anything else, bonuses are top-loaded, so if she's near the top of the pile, she'll do very well.

Look around the country and I'm sure you'll find $100k bonuses in a lot of fields. It's not commonplace though.
Why can't you come to terms with the obvious difference between those kinds of property? For some reasons it's basically impossible to get a straight answer from a property advocate on this.

It's not the same in any moral sense. That you seem to find it rational for one person to own vast amounts of land is what I would see as a pathological frame of mind. It's just aint just. I can't see how it's in any way morally more natural to uphold that persons property rights rather than abolishing such a concept and letting those who use the land own what they use.

"Treat others as you'd like them to treat you" for me is for example to not claim private-property rights of things that can be used to exploit others. You can't do that with your car, thus a possession. But in the case of land ownership you obviously can, thus property.
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All successful startups are lucky, but they're never just lucky. If they were, we could save ourselves a lot of work reading applications and doing interviews. We could just pick randomly instead. If we did that for one batch, you'd really be able to tell the difference, believe me.
You seem to believe the average doctor is well-versed in the mechanics of genetic testing, or (perhaps equivalently) that the average doctor isn't wholly dependent on the mechanisms of FDA approval for product selection.
They should figure out how to do it without tricking people into joining things they don't want to join.
there is definitely an element of "luck" (timing, what other actors in the relevant space are doing, etc.)

but the way you hedge against that is by exposing yourself to lots of things with a potential net upside. both in parallel and serially. you might have bad luck with one thing, then good luck with another thing. just like the reasoning behind YC-style investment bets, it only takes one of your little bets to pay off huge in order to more than make up for all the other little failures. which leads to the other complimentary tactic: minimize your spend (money,time,energy) you're willing to risk on any given thing before you see an ROI from it. Also, you never have to completely give up on a thing --- in the software/digital world especially you don't have to destroy/delete/throwaway things, you simply passivate them (put on the backburner), press Pause, etc.