skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's hard to compress so much advice into one blog post and let is sound reasonable if context is missing.

However, I agree with all points except this one:

> In general, avoid the kind of stuff that might be in a movie about running a startup—meeting with lawyers and accountants, going to lots of conferences, grabbing coffee with people, sitting in lots of meetings

In general a successful CEO is 30% of his time networking and 70% working on hiring and leading the team and working on the product the product. Looking out for peers and spending time with them is important because...

- It changes your mindset, from being an employee to a real founder, this takes quite some time and your old employed friends are not the right peers anymore

- You learn a lot, small information exchanged on a conference can help you with fund raising; usually every meeting with a new person has some value, in particular at the beginning of your journey

- Especially lawyers—the good ones—are extremely well connected and sometimes help you with the first introductions

There are some CEOs who are real networking animals and do 100% networking and 0% working on their product, that's for sure not the way and I guess Sam referred to them.
In the world where the February 21st deal to keep Yanukovych in power until end of term [1] was reneged on with support by Voice of America and funding and training to Euromaiden groups from the West, prior US knowledge of the ouster and discussions about a suitable replacement [2], and a world where US policy makers suggest covert arming of the Ukraine [3]. It's also important to keep the broader context - that the nine former Warsaw Pact nations have in the past decade joined the EU of NATO and that the very aggressive terms and a near NATO deal with the Ukraine caused the original crisis that led up to the Feb deal. That the West and US armed other conflicts in the region (Moldova and Georgia). That US anti-ballistic missile battery systems have been installed along the Baltic that denies Russia it's anti-nuclear interception capabilities and directly violates Cold War treaties. Russia, too, plays dirty. But we can't pretend the West doesn't.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/21/agreement-on-th...

[2] http://www.democracynow.org/2014/2/20/a_new_cold_war_ukraine... (25:00)

[3] http://csis.org/files/publication/150129_Mankoff_RussiaUkrai...
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> But an organize "we'll spy on yours if you spy on ours" arrangement, particularly with a "don't ask for it, we'll just give it to you" understanding. That's violating the intent of legal and constitutional protections every which way.

That is exactly my point. And it's horrible, it's the government thuggishly wiping its ass with the Constitution. East Germany would have swooned in ecstasy at all the intelligence porn collected by the NSA.
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Kingsman the Secret Service Flick with a New Controversy
Automatic - Wordpress.com has one.

https://wordpress.com/wp-login.php?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2...
Probably the best practical SFX I've ever seen would have to be John Carpenter's The Thing. The way the monsters worked--goddamn, shivers up my spine. Also, one of the tightest and suspenseful movies there is, even after the first viewing.
To make better sense of what was going on I gave it a go myself:
http://stewd.io/airborne

I left a lot of code commentary for anyone else trying to wrap their heads around this stuff:
https://github.com/stewdio/airborne
Definitely a straight-to-Readability experience for me.
I define science as Popper did. And based on my understanding of Gödel's and Kuhn's work, I distrust mathematical physics and cosmology. Developing clever hypotheses is a great thing, but data rules.
Same here, and sorry if that seemed hyperbolic. It's just extremely frustrating to me as someone who sees (most of) the ACLU's work as extremely important, and who has donated to them in the past.
The key part is that it has different refraction for specific wavelengths. This implies that you will still need filters to restrict the light to those wavelengths or you will still have chromatic aberration. Projecting light through such a lens wouldn't have quite the same problem as the source light could already be tuned.

In short, good for projection, but maybe still bad for capture.
I agree with you, I don't think this graphic (or at least the underlying data) is very useful as an indicator of international military relationships. Of course it doesn't claim to be either.

As a single example, I recently decided that I don't know enough about US-Israel relations and started reading more on the topic. A report[1] I found linked from Wikipedia states that the US has provided Israel with $121 billion dollars (non-inflation-adjusted) since WWII, almost all of it military aid. The graphic shows $35 million in exports to Israel for 2013, the report lists $2.9 billion dollars in military aid in 2013.

If those figures didn't make it onto the graphic, there are probably many others which also don't.

[1] http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/mideast/RL33222.pdf
> Just because LINE might be gone 5 years from now, does not mean all cultural change it might have brought around will just revert.

But it has to cause cultural change first. What's the cultural change? How is this different from "Hello Kitty"?

Breakdown of numbers:
https://www.techinasia.com/line-releases-regional-breakdowns...

Only profitable market looks to be Japan. 90% of its users are in non-profitable markets.

Good marketing on their part though.
Oh if that's what he meant then I read it the wrong way.
this show how computer manufacturers are out of touch with reality.

laptop keyboard are crappy to compensate for the machine bulky.

now that the machine is as light as paper and we have enough room to add a decent keyboard, they practically attach a desk to a laptop.

just make a thin tablet with a mechanical keyboard "cover" and you will be king among the cafe-dwellers-workers of San Francisco.
My post wasn't an ad hominem. You don't know what ad hominem means. And no, it isn't just me, I can see there are many others you add to "your list" and incorrectly call out as being fallacious.

Once again, here is your (incorrect) logical fallacy naming game.
Vogue - a fashion magazine, not Vice - a propaganda front.
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Well, that's nice, but apparently Microsoft already pushed a Windows Update that deletes Superfish and its stupid cert, so...

Go Microsoft!

... That was weird.
Nope, without flash you still get the chat sound messages. I've no flash on my system and the only thing that's different on facebook is that I can't watch user-uploaded videos. Only their mobile site supports HTML5 last I checked.
> All of my arms are made in Russia or USA, if that means anything.

As an Australian, I found this statement difficult to parse. The idea of owning a gun is so foreign to me, let alone multiple.
I don't know how much a few anecdotes matter, but to answer your question, no. My MacBook from 2009 is running perfectly fine today. I used it quite heavily throughout college and always keep it on sleep mode so it's been running pretty much continuously for years. I did replace the hard-drive with an SSD, but I still use the original as a small portable drive.

After giving that MacBook to my dad, I upgraded to a 13" Retina MacBook Pro, which is amazing. I used it for a few months before selling it to my brother and switching to the late 2013 15" one. Both laptops are running great and there are no screen issues.

And for what it's worth, I had a positive experience when I needed to bring the 15" into the Apple store. I had stupidly used a cheap wireless mouse with a plastic USB connector and a piece of plastic got stuck in the USB port. Apple removed it free of charge.
Thanks for the advice!

I agree on the math part (which is the biggest problem for me, since I do not exactly have a strong math background). Haskell requires one to think in very different ways from C or similar languages (compared to the difference to Haskell, the structured (C) vs. OO (say, Python or Ruby) difference seems negligible. If one already knows C++, learning the basics of Java is trivial (the main problem becomes learning about the standard library plus third party libraries). If one knows C/C++ and a Unix shell, learning Perl is at least manageable (is that how you spell that word?).

Lisp fans like to refer to their language of choice as something akin to Alien technology, but again, compared to Haskell, Lisp feels much more "terrestrial" (Common Lisp and Emacs Lisp, at least, my knowledge of Scheme is rather limited).

Now that I think about it, the real problem for me seems to be monads. Without having /some/ kind of side effects, you cannot write an even remotely useful program, and I never really got them. I once had the feeling I was really close, but then the toy program I was working on blew up in my face, thereby telling me I had probably not been as close as I had thought.

Another thing about Haskell (and - as far as I can tell, OCaml) that is /very/ different from the mainstream crowd of languages is the type system. I have a feeling that an idiomatic Haskell program would make far heavier use of the type system to model your problem than even extreme examples of object-oriented design (and without becoming as confusing as the more class-hierarchy-happy OO programs I have seen).
(Let me stress that I really adore Haskell's type system. If there was a conventional structured programming language with a type system like Haskell's, I would probably be all over it, as would many other programmers, I guess. I have wondered on occasion if you could have one without the other (immutability and such).)

Maybe I'll retcon learning Haskell on my list of New Year's resolutions. In all fairness, understanding Lisp took me about three to four years of looking at it once or twice a year, and understanding how pointers work in C also took me a lot longer than I am comfortable admitting. ;-) I can be very persistent if I really want to know something.
I am not sure if this applies, but in my experience, presenting a dry, more or less theoretical subject matter in a humorous way makes it substantially easier for me to stay focused.

Also, as somebody else already said, if you are designing languages professionally, you probably get to appreciate puns on a whole new level.
It's true that no hypothesis can ever be confirmed or disproved. At best, we can estimate the probability that some hypothesis is wrong aka inconsistent with our observations.
Indeed. I'm trying to work out if the correct response to that is to mention The Chewbacca Defense, or to ask if Josh Earnest has stopped beating his wife yet?
You can't retro fit responsiveness. Or at least you can, but it's such a bad idea that no one should try it. It's the quickest route to legacy CSS that no one will every want to touch again.

It means starting again, from design and UX all the way up to build. So for the entity that owns the website/web app it's going to be painful, but for every new website/web app, it's the norm and is pretty easy.
Not all browsers have good support for flexbox. For example, firefox is very slow with them.
same here. every time a website wants me to install an app that would not benefit significantly from being native, i think "great, what permissions is this shit gonna need?". invariably it's a slew of ones i dont ever want to give it.
Please educate me why. I'm not being funny, I truly don't understand.

I understand some cases:
* Need for offline;
* Need to work like an IM (instant updates pushed from a server, like a telephone / IM / email service);
* Need to avoid latency in user experience (a native game, vs a web-based flash-style game).

But I don't understand any others, and really would like to know.
Antifragile - To help keep civilization from needing to rebuild itself a 3rd time.
http://www.amazon.com/Antifragile-Things-That-Disorder-Incer...
I definitely believe there are more cynical motives in SV than many wish to believe. There's a reason VCs and incubators overwhelmingly target naive college kids. Most of their programs are structured such that any participation by less-naive persons is impractical.

The VC line on this is simply that "college kids are just super innovative, pure, unadultered". Ignoring the fact that this is basically an optimistic list of synonyms for "naive", if you believe that line of horse hockey you are likely one of the naive college kids being taken advantage of (or wish you were).

It's a real shame because startups could benefit greatly from the mature leadership available out in big bad "corporate America". Not talking multi-million dollar CEOs here, just regular experienced folks who have mortgages and families to support because they're older than 20 and would like at least a market-competitive salary.

Instead, VC firms hoard this maturity and experience for themselves, and leave their founders locked in apartments, surviving off a stipend that has room only for ramen to the exclusion of both fair treatment and personal dignity.

There is undoubtedly an insidious element in this. There's no way experienced investors are looking at these companies and sincerely saying "Oh yeah, those two 23-year-olds definitely have a handle on this."

The simple truth is that for many investors, it's an entertaining, [relatively] cheap, and profitable lottery. And they want to keep it cheap.
Remember when they shut down all domestic airliner manufacture after those private sector company's products were misused back on 9/11?

Oh, that's right, politicians and government bureaucrats care about being able to fly easily - it's just _your_ privacy they don't give a damn about.
Don't say the names of those two programs in the same sentence.

Marco Polo made me fear for Netflix's future more than anything I've seen in a long time.
Microsoft has updated Windows Defender to root out the Superfish adware
Regarding hotel portals, this is relevant: https://securelist.com/blog/research/66779/the-darkhotel-apt...
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I'm okay with most of this as they are solely products of a specific time. Most of these will disappear with time, anyway, even if civilization doesn't collapse. How many people have the ability to read Shakespeare let alone the Magna Carta? And, even if you gave someone the Magna Carta or the US Constitution, their value is in more how we don't obey the letter of those documents.

What needs to be preserved are the fundamentals. The world has order and obeys rules even if you don't understand them right now. The world is made up of very small things that give the world it's order. Noise that comes out of your mouth can be copied to rock/clay/papyrus and given to other people over long distances. The nature of a hypothesis and a test is vitally important for moving forward instead of in circles.
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Can a mod replace this with a less spammy URL like http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/02/fda-allows-23andme-to... or http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2015/02/20/what-23... or whatever?
Hehe, I just took a look and found this very encouraging statement: "Slow learners are often the most thorough learners, this is something to celebrate!"

That's it, I'm going to give Haskell another try!
Maybe it's just about who it's obvious to. YC is run by technical people, and most VC firms aren't. When PG got into the game and started making good picks because he actually knew what he was talking about and had direct experience, unlike the finance guys dicking around with macro-scale projections pulled out of thin air, he wrote down the obvious from his perspective and was immediately copied (poorly, in general) by the people that saw the success knowing what you're talking about can bring.
Postal delivery of physical goods is problematic, and anonymous payment is pointless. But that's not an issue for software licenses, ebooks, server and VPS rental, VPN subscriptions, consulting services, and so on.
> I think we can distinguish ourselves from spies because we only collect open source intelligence - meaning publicly available records.

No, it's what use you put those records to that is the definition.

I can collect the license plate numbers of every car that goes down my street in the morning. It's when I use that to figure out which house to break into that I cross the line.

The problem is that there is no distinguishing those cases until something bad happens, and by then it's too late.
Interesting you mention the squid, things aren't what they used to be. Don't get me wrong, it's a good place if you are rich and well-connected already, and if you join the front office, you will probably fit right in. But if you are a programmer, well, they are building the biggest single office in India of any American company with space for 9,000 people. Your job will probably be next.
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Aren't the browser vendors better placed to fix these issues? Why can't they implement a virtual DOM with super cool DOM diffing? Of course they can, and of course they will.
The more I thought about this, the more bothering it potentially seems. Their Twitter feed chats with a religious group, which may appear biased. Does the company press for reform laws?

How would such a company be treated if it was looking for drug buyers and sellers? Especially if such a company didn't encourage legalization but appeared to stand with Christian groups? What steps are they taking to ensure innocent people are not being prosecuted with their tools? Going by current laws is no moral compass.

Finally, if they or the anti trafficking groups want to be taken seriously, provide real stats. This is from their Twitter account:

"39,000 escort ads were posted on the #Louisiana Backpage since July. How many are sex trafficking victims?"

Well, I don't know, why don't you tell us? They've got big data and LE, but they post leading questions like that with apparently no followup.

It's like saying X number of people OD on heroin. For any X we should figure out A: if current legislation is helping or hurting that number, B: is infringing on the rights and potentially destroying people's lives worth the cost? I'm sure it feels great to save 100 people from OD'ing. Does that mean it's OK to imprison millions?

I know this probably comes off making me look terrible. And I don't know anything except this article and reading the company's Twitter account. But it feels slightly off, as if I'm being convinced of a problem without seeing all the numbers. Where're the calls for legalization and regulation? Maybe I'm just too cynical.
There are still pioneering achievements in modern aviation. The 787, for its carbon fiber fuselage and advanced computing system, and the A380, for its sheer size, come to mind. If a measure of the import of new technology in aviation is whether it's replicated across future designs, then the 787 definitely qualifies. Both its carbon fiber technology and computing technology are in the process of being adapted to new (future) applications as we speak.
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love love the intiative. this is what I believe our internet will become, a giant decentralized p2p, immune to the forces that is aimed to destroy content (either copyright, censorship , anti-anonymity).

I believe that this distributed p2p internet will the ultimate threat to internet companies. Imagine we no longer need to trust a corporation with all of our data, imagine we no longer need to be victims of attention theft while using services that is entirely powered by nodes of the network.

This is of course very far off and not at all the perfect utopia I am describing but this is definitely the right way to go and eventually the future.

Not sure if ipfs.io will take off, unless it offers something that regular internet does not, the name could also be changed to something more catchy.
I think he's saying that for some people, entrepreneurship is more about indulgence than discipline, and that discipline is pre-requisite for something to qualify as "actual work".

In the terms of your definition, he's referring to entrepreneurs that are not directing their effort to "achieve a purpose or result" in a disciplined, effective manner. On paper, of course, they all have a purpose or result, but that doesn't mean the entrepreneur is actually working toward it, at least not very hard.

He seems to be expressing the sentiment that many entrepreneurs are of this slacker variety and use entrepreneurship to escape the demands placed on other, "normal" people for their maintenance, not to drive new results or purposes.
I can see this NOT being an option for a lot of users—"Mom and Dad" types, people who travel, etc. Many would prefer nothing is done if it's an option between "full reinstall" and "live with the cert".

In this case Windows Defender and Lenovo's own tool remove the app + certificate. I think that's certainly "enough" as we're not dealing with malware which has trashed the system in other ways. Heck, they have to pay for a fresh copy of Windows first too.

TL;DR: "Clean install from a standard image" sounds like great advice on paper but it's not practicable for normal users.
Form Field PDF's, when made available, are pretty slick.

http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1040ez.pdf
This whole story is pitched in the most dialectic terms - you're either with us, or against us.

But this fails to indicate there is a third way - we can use technology to make peace far more readily and easily than we use it to make war. I've got more Syrian, Iranian, and Libyan friends than ever before - and it would not be possible without technology being used to overcome cultural barriers to understanding.

Yet the hatred and vitriol still flows. We are expected to be nationalist/patriot members of society, but when we personally make the decision to extend that society beyond the artificial borders constructed by the state to which we grant sovereign control, obviously someone is going to lose out. In the case of technology being used peacefully, its those who profit from war machines - military-industrial producers of hate and violence - who we must stand up to. Until such a time as the Western public is dissolved of its subservience to thugs and criminals - those who run the military-industrial establishment which corrupts all of humankind - we will continue to be oppressed between two forks of the same argument.
No, these cases only include instances where an adult is involved who is forced, defrauded, or coerced into the commercial sex trade, or a child is involved in a commercial sex act. It does not include prostitution prosecutions.
Why Do People Try So Hard to Avoid Paying Taxes?
I know this is a bit OT, but the startup world has a fairly strong libertarian ethos, so I'm particularity interested in getting your feedback. Why do most Americans hate paying their taxes and go to such extreme measures to minimize the amount of tax they pay?