skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wrote a lengthy blog post in response to this post in hopes that it will help aspiring founders avoid a similar fate if their startup gets accepted into Y Combinator.

http://mortdeus.blogspot.com/2015/01/y-combinator.html
It can be done, at least if you're allowed to flip one of the 'L' pieces into a 'J'.

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It's a question of timing and targets, not quantity.

This is one reason my question about farming background is relevant, from what you've been saying you clearly don't have this background, let alone have ever used (generic) Roundup yourself.

I've helped my father do so, in general weed killing applications, and he knows farmers who use the stuff for real, and just asked one, who said:

You never let Roundup touch the plants you're growing---it only works when a plant is growing, BTW, in a "plantostatic" way, like bacteriostatic, it inhibits the synthesis of some critical amino acids. If you don't have Roundup Ready seeds, you spray before planting or after harvest, or you make sure the spray hits weeds, not your plants.

That's because it's such a general killer of plants (assuming it can get inside, but that has no bearing on this discussion of genetics). And why it's so safe, animals cannot synthesize these amino acids (well, not without using one of the others as a precursor): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aromatic_amino_acids

So, no selection pressure on the crops themselves, unless you really screw up.
To be fair, nuclear technology was still new and fresh.
The most expensive statistical mistake in history
Not that I've seen, but they are wrapped in scarves etc today (source: photos) so will have warned the air before inhaling. Also, much drier air than we would find inside a house.
I've been doing some heavy investigation to how (and where) I should start my career in terms of maximizing learning. I have friends who will be working at Microsoft, and other friends who criticize said 'Microsoft' friends, saying that they won't learn much. Others say you learn the [most] at big companies, and a small minority say that start-ups are the way to go when you're early in your career.

I wonder what advice Jessica (and the HN community) would have for people like me, as I imagine there are a lot of people like me visiting HN.
When a panel fuse on a car has actually gone out, it's an indication that Something's Gone Terribly Wrong and simply pushing a button on a popup isn't the right move. Tow it to the shop.

I say "actually" because I presume it's possible to have a false failure now and again - there may be a nonzero number of times in which the fuse just pops, that fuses just wear out.
There are so many inter-related factors involved with changing a system of this complexity. My fear is the creation of half living zombies that don't die, but who's brains have long since moved on. Zombies, who not incidentally, keep title to accumulated resources for very long periods of time and presumably hold office and vote.

This might sound bad... but as it sits right now, many people in their late 80's - 90's (not all I grant, but in my experience...) don't seem to be fully alive right now. They are often kind of half in and out of reality, and not at all the people they once were. They can't really contribute much (don't bother posting a link about a 90 year old who did such-and-such... it's a very glaring exception and we both know this). They take a lot of care. And, I can't imagine this is very pleasant state to be in either.

If the state of aging progresses, but somehow death is forestalled, I don't see this being any advance at all, but rather one of the nastiest things that could be done for the human race, both old and young. It seems like forestalling death without solving the problem of aging (likely a much harder problem) might be very doable soon. And it is not a good idea. There are many evolutionary reasons for death. It's not altogether a bad thing.
Errr - can you explain. I would like to increase my revenue by 20% if you have a simple solution I'm all ears!
The problem is that the only way to win against non-free software is to provide viable free-software alternatives. Free software cannot win on ideology alone, it _has_ to provide the features users need.
and they wont be recruiting eng lit grads in the main
The risk of a startup has moved from investors to founders and now from founders to employees.

Investors diversify their investments to minimize the risk. They don't really care if a particular startup they invested in will fail. They have tons of other investments...

Now with this new generation of "entrepreneurs" who start five startup at a time, they are not too afraid of startup failure either. They did diversify their risk too!

The only one who really loses when a startup fails is the employee who bought promises of "learning a lot" or "probably getting rich" and compromised his/her income and lifestyle.

It's very hard to find a startup that is like early Google where everyone is firmly believing they are doing something huge and everybody is all-in the company.
Tend read more Sci-fi/fantasy. Some good ones this year:
Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss http://amzn.com/B0010SKUYM
Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch http://amzn.com/B000JMKNJ2
The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson http://amzn.com/B003P2WO5E
Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson http://amzn.com/B002GYI9C4
The above four are the first book in their respective series. I've also enjoyed the sequels to all of them. Several of the series are not yet finished.

Several of the books are on this list from several years ago by NPR: http://www.npr.org/2011/08/11/139085843/your-picks-top-100-s...
flowchart of the NPR list: http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2011/09/flowchart_for_navig...

Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
In the movie, In Time, the 25-year old non-aging humans receive a starting "bank balance" of credits shown on their smartwatch. When their credits drop to zero, they die. Life for most people consists of working or stealing to top-up. They mostly group by geographical free-trade zones sorted by bank balances of "time credits", separated by borders and armed checkpoints.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/in_time/reviews/
We suck at error reporting to the user. One of the legacy curses of UNIX is trying to encode all error info in "errno". Then came HTTP, which most languages try to treat as something like a file access. When there's some complex problem at the remote end, the error presented to the user has often been hammered down to some errno value that's vaguely appropriate.

This came up recently on HN in connection with GoGo WiFi on airliners, using satellite links. GoGo doesn't have the satellite bandwidth to let users view streaming video, so they block YouTube and some other sites. The problem is telling the user what's going on. They used an awful hack involving a self-signed fake SSL certificate for YouTube to try to get a coherent message to the user.

According to the IP standard, they should send back an ICMP Destination Unreachable message with a code 13, "Communication administratively prohibited". Most IP/TCP/HTTP/browser stacks won't get that info all the way up to the end user, especially the "Communication administratively prohibited" part. Even if the error code made it to the user, many customers would not interpret "Communication administratively prohibited" as "No, you can't watch Youtube because you're on an airplane and we don't have the bandwidth for that".
Looks like you need an id card, and it looks like this is something issued to Estonians. If the question is whether anyone (not just Estonians) can easily and quickly setup a company there, the answer looks to be no.
Individual financial planning is one thing, and then just think of pensions, or Social Security.

Blow up the actuarial tables by tacking so much onto the average lifespan and you'd really see some underfunded plans.
The power goes into the bottom piece so that gravity ensures good electrical connection between the pieces. I imagine here may still be a solution but your 4444 piece needs to be the base.

(on second thoughts, you could probably get away with rotating your solution if you're willing to forfeit the '4 width' condition)
Were we contacted by aliens
Theorem: No.

Proof: Any rectangle made of Tetris pieces must have an even number of squares (in fact, a multiple of 4) and hence the same number of black/white squares. Every Tetris piece except the T has the same number of black/white squares, hence the T cannot be used in any arrangement of a subset of Tetris pieces into a rectangle.
Well, it was implied that everyone would be eligible for these grants, but, yeah, in reality, only a few would be allowed to program, and one reason RMS probably didn't think about it is that he's a good enough programmer that he'd qualify.

Except, of course, the process would be very political, and he doesn't play that game at all well.
She says:

"There are a lot more startups today, and you can in effect become an early investor in one by going to work for it."

It's important to remember that she means this for one very particular industry, and she is talking about a very particular kind of startup. Overall, there has been a steady decline in the number of startups during the last 30 years:

https://www.fedinprint.org/items/fednsr/707.html

"The first observation is the steady decline in the firm entry rate over the last thirty years, and the second is the gradual shift of employment from younger to older firms over the same period. Both observations hold across industries and geographies."

The great era of starting a new business in the USA was several decades ago. It is much more difficult to do so now, and that is perhaps part of the reason why there are less entrepreneurs now, and less new companies being founded.
Other comments have covered the advantages. Disadvantage is that they have to face occasionally falling ice.

I haven't seen them mention the size of fragments they're facing, but they aren't wearing helmets. Either not large enough to be dangerous, or a helmet would make a finicky climb difficult and distracting.
The advice that I got was to join mid size startup (Think of google 2004, FB 2007, or uber/ airbnb/ dropbox right now). The company has been mostly de-risked, and there is still newer parts of the organization where you get to do interesting things.
> I would rather live 60 years in a 30 year old body/mind than 120 years in an 80 year old body/mind.

As someone who's lost both parents and all four grandparents before I turned 31, I take the experience of my grandfather in his late 80's to mind. He was often told that the surgeries that he could have done to relieve the pain of a body that was breaking down weren't worth it because he wouldn't likely live long enough to really benefit. I imagine that if, at age 90, you had another 20-30 years, science could do some amazing things to your body to keep you moving forward.
I read lots of books in 2014, but I don't think any were better than the Martian, which you have already mentioned.
Currently you can only use Twitter to sign-up. It's a pretty easy process.

1- You sign in with Twitter.
2- Pick 5 accounts to get notifications.
3- You leave your e-mail address.

Then we start sending you e-mails according to your preferences.
So, what levels do you need to track at?

Let's say I am selling a saas service, Facebook for dogs.
I advertise on keywords like "share my puppy pics". Each keyword hits a different landing page. I track users with a cookie

Is there any more or less to do?
This reminds me of the reality of 'criminal convenience.' A criminal isn't going to plan the perfect attack so that they don't get caught; they'll just smash and grab. Firstly, 'doing it right' is expensive. Secondly, there is enough uncertainty in the world and the bottlenecks of human concern are so over-saturated with confusion that nobody will likely catch you anyway.

>...so the best guarantee of freedom is a perpetual world-wide cyberwar intense enough to guarantee anyone's secrets and private information always have a certain risk of getting exposed [...]

I feel like this would just entrench cynicism as a way of life. Kind of like it already is: everyone expects bad things to happen and they feel they are inevitable. It doesn't improve anything because so few people believe real improvement is possible. Admittedly, I think that things are getting better.
Sadly no: one of the primary (if not the primary) goal of Go's developers is compilation speed, and with Go being intrinsically slower than C the post-rewrite available budget for possible optimisations (whatever the acceptance threshold they define) will be lower rather than higher.
> And for much of my 20s, I worked long hours anyway—but others benefited financially from whatever I did, not me.

This is not true, unless Livingston was not paid. An accurate statement would have been "I worked long hours anyway—but others benefited more financially from whatever I did."

But guess what? This is true when you're an employee at a startup too. Founders, executives and investors will almost always have significantly more to gain than you, and their relationships with the company are going to be structured more favorably than yours is. So going to work at a startup is hardly a panacea for folks who can't live with the fact that somebody else is profiting from their labor.

> And remember, working isn’t just about making money. It’s also a form of education. And at a startup, you learn a lot faster about how companies work and how to make a great product than at a big company.

This isn't necessarily true. Lots of startups are chaotic and highly dysfunctional. And many don't produce great products. Depending on the type of startup you go to work for, you may exit the experience with a whole lot less in the way of transferable skills than you expect.

> ...having to explain to crackpots why their mutual fund account went down that day.

Tangent: I'm really surprised at what's coming out in some of the recent writings of people associated with YC. It's unfortunate that some folks who have money in mutual funds don't understand how they work, but the use of the word "crackpot" here is as unjustifiably contemptuous as claiming that "most people are very lazy"[1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8858942
Indeed, RMS circa the early-mid '80s---like, when we were roommates precisely when he started the GNU project in September 1983---would have been entirely happy to have proprietary software banned. I doubt his position has changed since then. He was a big fan of Hugo Chávez....

He was also, a while after the start (like 1985), very harsh with "Software Hoarders" like myself who then worked on non-copyleft software.
Might not light up anymore, yeah. Maybe with some rewiring.
Valproate is used as an anti-epileptic and as a mood stabiliser. There are some risks of PCOS for women, but those risks have never been explained properly to me.
This is a repost of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8835531 with an incredibly linkbaity title ("PSA: Your deleted Hacker News comments are readable")
Impostor syndrome is also frequently abused by successful people who want a socially acceptable way of denying that much of their success actually was due to luck and timing.
Verona is one of the nicest towns in northern Italy to visit: you have a bit of everything, historically, from the Arena onwards, plus the nice hills to the north, plus the lake to the west.
Teensy Z80 Part 1 – Intro, Memory, Serial I/O and Display
Data Exfiltration using XSS
And good like trying to deal with image size and resolution...
We mock MBAs because they think there is a skill called "business administration" which can be applied to any industry. The truth is "data science" is something that you do not are. Domain knowledge trumps all.
The article links to it in the first sentence also: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lychee-Tetris-Constructible-Three-di...
Maybe, TBH I've never tried using their services in any other way.
And, not one mention of the fact that a huge portion of current commercial AI research is going into figuring out how to get people to click more ads or buy more things. "Deep learning" research at Google, Amazon, Netflix, Microsoft, and many others, is centered on advertising and commerce. They aren't calling it AI, but they're hiring AI people to do it and they're working with AI techniques and tools.

I consider this dangerous, in a way that I can't really put my finger on. Is it merely that some of the best minds in the field are being distracted by selling more crap that people don't need? Or is it that AI will have at its developmental core a model of inducing consumption as its prime directive? Or, am I just an asshole that doesn't like too many things?
Sure, but it is not "flow-based programming" (which is what this article is about) because there are no named output ports.
I've used it, but doesn't seem like it's being maintained. Another option seems to be to start chrome with --proxy-server="socks5://127.0.0.1:2001" --host-resolver-rules="MAP * 0.0.0.0 , EXCLUDE 127.0.0.1", then run a SSH tunnel with -D 2001 to some SSH host you control.
Well that is the default case in jurisdictions based on anglo saxon common law - but if I had come out and said that I would have got down voted.

All Work "related" to your day I should have said.
+1 for exposing the fake writer profiles. Very amusing!
Would this change if they started running ads on it?

I guess the question is, is the lack of investment because it's a cost-centre, or for some other reason?
But this website isn’t (“Error establishing a database connection”): http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Awww.f...
As a protocol, it works perfectly well for transporting hypertext, what's the problem?
Or straight, depending on where you started.

But much of this thread is assuming "in love" (in the sense this practice purportedly produces) is a state that is inherently linked to sexuality. I'm not sure whether or not that's the case.
That's a regression from 4 years ago. You can get the response body in any status code in JavaScript.
I was specifically referring to the OP's awed overtones of 10,000 x 1 mhz, resulting in 58 years. Which I found really funny.

The idea of 2^64 being inherently a large number... when a single graphics card costing a couple of hundred incidentally goes through 2^64 flop's all by itself every few weeks.

There's nothing expensive about 2^64 as such. I mean it's expensive in the sense of, we're talking dozens of dollars here :)
I kinda wish self-submissions were more frowned upon. Oh well. Link 500s to a "Database Error."
Until...
The swi-prolog website (http://www.swi-prolog.org/) is written in prolog. People can hack a web server in anything.
Yeah. You bring up an excellent point. Smoke and mirrors. It won't be molecular...not with semiconductors anyway. Maybe when quantum holographic systems are operating our transporters it will be possible :D.

UNTIL THEN, All it has to do is get granular enough to fill the resolution of the current generation of monitor technology. Just like how ray tracing really only requires enough granularity to appear seamless at the current resolution.
5xx - try again later, if applicable.
All of the commonly used libraries have support for any type of status codes; however, in JS world, you need to have two functions to handle a response, one is for success and one is for error. The developers you have worked with either didn't know that, or was lazy.
How an Indie Developer Makes Five Figures a Month on the App Store
I had instances of webGL crashing OSX, and this was independent of browser. It crashes whethers it Safari or Chrome.
> I suspect the parent comment meant "of all things, an Intelligence Explosion by general purpose AI", which to be fair even the group set up here to study do not seriously believe in.

The question of whether there it will end up actually happening is unclear, but my understanding is that FLI takes the possibility of intelligence explosion pretty seriously.

This is a difficult question to meaningfully engage with, without a lot of background research. Nick Bostrom's book "Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies" is a good entry point into the subject.
I joined a startup as the first employee shortly out of college and I've been here for almost two years. I would say I've probably learned more here than I would've elsewhere because I jump up and down so much of our stack. I've gone deep on a few technologies (Akka, ElasticSearch, CoreOS/Docker) while gaining breadth in a number of others (Neo4j, Rails, AWS).

I don't think I would've gained the responsibilities I have here as quickly as at larger companies.
I haven't followed much what's been happening in mobile CPUs lately, but I remember reading at least a couple of years ago that they were already making multi-core CPUs set up to run a single core at low-speed, sometimes a specifically-designed low-power core, for routine sync tasks, and only fire up more CPUs and up-clock the running ones when required. I'm sure they're either doing it already, or have stopped for good reason.

Another thing that I believe Android has built into Lollipop is trying to coalesce app syncs - instead of letting each app sync whenever it feels like it, group them all together to run at once, so you only fire up the CPU and radios once.

I also wonder now how those pagers worked. Seems kinda impractical to listen continuously at those power levels. I wonder if the device polled the tower periodically, or only listened at some interval?
One you hit the submit button, a copy of your comment can end stored in the https://archive.org/ , https://google.com/ , https://bing.com/ , ... and a very long list of sites. They craw at a low frequency, so if you are lucky many of them will miss the comment.

Also, I agree that the tile is too linkbaity.
I agree that it's hard to take seriously because it sounds like science-fiction. I mean, right now that's what it is. And I'm sure many people who read HN have managed to learn how to catch themselves working on an interesting problem instead of one that needs to be fixed. And this sure sounds interesting.

But the problem with AI is that it's unlike anything we've ever faced before and that once it becomes clear that it can actually overshadow environmental and political problems, it'll already be too late. Imagine the Manhattan project people finding out that there's a high probability of a single nuclear bomb actually taking out the entire planet.

But that's not all... suppose the entire world already depends on nuclear power, the basic tools to build that bomb already exist everywhere and the first test might be around 1-3 decades in the future.

I'm all for AI researchers allocating some of their time to preventing that sort of thing. If that's even possible.
Profitability and return on investment are related concepts but are not the same thing.

Instagram, among many others, most certainly generated ample return on its initial invested resources without ever generating profits.
Startup employees have a lot of advantages to mitigate this risk though:

- They can be much more selective of only joining startups that already has good traction

- They generally can command a higher salary than founders pay themselves

- If things go south they can jump ship much sooner

There are certainly disadvantages, but it is a free market. If you choose to go the startup employee route, then use all the advantages you've got available to you. Depending on a your goals being a startup employee might not be the right thing, but they can mitigate their risk just like everybody else.
There has been several commercial ventures more recently building something along the lines of Ori (i.e. decentralized and secure dropbox alternatives). For companies and people's sensitive documents this can be big deal.

I agree use ability could be improved and I would really like getting more developers involved so we can finish a Windows port, iOS app, and a graphical interface to help make the whole system easier.

~ Ali