skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Intensity matters. Improvement is gained via progressive overload. Showing up but half-assing it is a great way to not make progress and inevitably come to resent the activity (minimal benefits for the time & work involved), thus perpetuating a vicious cycle.
hex wargames are:
1) not so small of a niche
2) a great marketing decision - just like space sim, this genre has amazing potential revenue per customer. That's proven empirically, as for a reason - I would hypothesize that main market for that sort of thing are nostalgic middle-aged tech specialists, which is a market with amazing "size * disposable_income" potential.
That doesn't only make the whole pie larger, but also drives AAC (allowable acquisition cost) up, which makes marketing so much easier.
Of course you are correct (not sure why my comment was downvoted) but in the context of having a unique enough hash TAKEN QUICKLY 99.999% of time in set of millions of files its good enough, if one needs better hashing they can hash the whole file but this is quite heavy on large files and pointless if there is no need for it by the application
Would have been great if some pictures were shared. Mere numbers do not tell full story that gets shown in actual pictures.
Saying “Hacker/Startup culture” is a little like saying “C/C++” – they are not the same and should not be conflated. Actually, it’s more like saying “Lisp/Java” – many people are enamored by the latter and thinks that the former is very similar, but it is in fact only similar in some superficial ways, and completely different in design, values, and style.
If that's the plan... why even get out of bed in a morning. It's depressing? Stop giving these people money people.
I, for one, am glad MeFi is full of "social justice warriors" and the "trigger warning crowd". It gives the community standards, makes discussion far less aggressive, and allows marginalized groups to really open up. It's one of the few places online where you can get truly life-changing threads like this one[1]. This is by far the better side to err on.

And actually, I've noticed the same thing happening in female-majority subreddits as well. (/r/askwomen)

[1]: http://www.metafilter.com/85667/Hi-Whatcha-reading#2777344
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http://xkcd.com/984/
EA are basically the comedy supervillain of gaming.
I am no formal logician but I guess your argument implies that one assumes Zermelo-Frankel's set theory (otherwise one can devise a finite collection of "sets" and "functions" for which your "axiom" does not hold). Now, if you are in ZF, then you have infinite sets and as far as I know, your argument is true only if you accept the axiom of choice (which you may or may not but is not a "trivial" thing).

Also notice that the mathematical world is not exactly the same as the "real" world...

Let us imagine there are parts of the Universe which are farther than any possible interaction with them. Are they reduced to a single point? Why not?

Would really like to receive an answer.
I've always enjoyed this sort of Digg-style community site that's run by this weird, famous, early-stage VC firm...the name is escaping me at the moment though...

But seriously, if you like Nautilus, I think you'll probably like aeon.co. MIT's Technology Review occasionally puts out interesting stuff (but caveat emptor, I'm starting to develop some doubts over their journalistic skills).
>(Less than 1 on BMI? 2kg of weight? I fluctuate more than that on a weekly basis...)

If you weigh yourself at a controlled stage/time in your daily routine and fluctuate 2kg or more on a weekly basis, maybe you're doing something wrong.

Anecdata: I took up weight-lifting and running together and changed my diet. Presto changeo, over the past couple of years of doing this consistently I've lost about 12kg (EDIT: actually, no, that was in the single last February-February alone) while gaining lean muscle mass and gaining a few centimeters of height (that last part was sheer luck, of course). Oh, and my mood improved quite consistently, too.

Turned out being fat was mostly bad habits, with the problem being that I didn't think of them as alterable habits because I hadn't conceived of alternatives.
What is perf3?

Also, which specific interpreters/AOT compilers/JIT compilers are being used for each language being measured?
Google Tests First Error Correction in Quantum Computing
it's not so much about Unity or other beginner-friendly engines, it's much more about Kickstarter, Greenlight and Early Access (and probably Patreon a bit later down the line, don't see devs using it right now, although some modders do). All of those delegate the task of sifting through piles of crap to end users, whereas before publishers used to take those risks. Yeah, publishers - they actually did serve a function.
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Pfft, no love for "The Lean Startup" by Eric Ries yet? Love that book.
I look forward to your enlightening anecdote based debunking of other sayings, such as that time you made a great broth despite too many cooks, or that time a gathering didn't get merrier with more people.
Note that this is by the excellent Evan Phoenix, creator of Rubinius, the Puma concurrent web server for Ruby and tons of other awesome projects.
Even if thinking does somehow depend on quantum effects, it seems hugely unlikely that it would depend on the specific quantum state of individual atoms.

If it does, you don't need a spec of that state, since we know that it can emerge from something simpler (humans start out as a single cell, after all, and so in fact did all of humanity). You don't need the whole system, just the right initial conditions.

At that point you're growing a brain rather than engineering one, and maybe it takes you no closer to understanding the mechanics. But the point stands that it must be possible to construct a brain in principle, because it's already happened so many times before.
Artists pay for their supplies.
And this seems to be a fair deal - if you're not paying them, you should at least give them some publicity.
If it helps it doesn't happen only to Rust but to all languages.

There is this misunderstanding between implementations and languages where people equate whatever they have installed on their computer with all implementations of the said language.

Also not knowing about profilers and optimization flags.

So yeah, it is sad.
Guys,
I just wanted to describe my experience, I really didn't want to criticize YC or the interview process. YC was our first pitch and we were surely not prepared enough. As I clearly wrote in my post I started with the wrong assumption that our product and our technology could make the difference. I was wrong.

Website is more a landing page that a real site. Product is not yet released to the general public. We plan to launch a public beta and a brand new website with more useful information in about a month.
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I really liked The Lean Startup by Eric Ries - it's very opinionated (in a good way) about what a startup is and how they are rather different from "normal" companies.

All I need to do now is invent a time machine to send it to myself 20 years ago... :-)

It's also very prescriptive about the activities a startup management team should be focusing on which I suspect is a great place to start if you are coming into a new team in a leadership role.
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All serial communication depends on timing.
STL is not a problem in C land and fishy macros don't make it past code review in my book :-).

I don't disagree on the usefulness of teasing your brain with these things once in a while. However, I think the best way to ensure you don't hit bugs caused by such things is to avoid the situation altogether.
I don't see the problem. Most companies exist to increase the wealth of the shareholders. Startups can make the first employees sharehoulders. Everyboy's happy.
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To be fair, I'm always very wary of claims going in the direction "programming for non-programmers". We've lived through enough workflow-oriented tools who promised a lot in that direction and delivered very little (I'm looking at you, SAS - can't go around two consecutive corners without having to write a lot of code).

Aside from that, good luck with your efforts from a fellow Italian :-)
As they say themselves (http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=INTERNETARCHIVE.BAK/t...), that would be 42k * 500 Gb. Can you imagine a torrent with a single chunk of 500Gb ?
Beautiful article about responsive design and technological impositions on designers and people in general. Loved how beautiful and to the point the web design and illustrations were. No scrolling hacks here.
Not knowing much about him, let's throw a bunch of things at the wall and see what sticks:

- https://model-view-culture.myshopify.com/products/your-start...

- https://modelviewculture.com/

- Something by Don Reinertsen, maybe The Principles of Product Development Flow, maybe something else.

- Valve Employee Handbook http://www.valvesoftware.com/company/Valve_Handbook_LowRes.p...

- http://thinkrelevance.com/how-we-work

- Ries, The Lean Startup

All of these sources hide lots of dysfunction, so as always take them with a grain of salt. Take Ricardo Semler's fun books. In one of his Harvard Business School lectures, he mentioned how his books are artificially optimistic, because publishers want to sell more books.
But isn't it a rather frustrating experience "I should remember this. WHY don't I remember this?!?!"
You seem to think that fast product iteration and testing with customers is the only way to go. It isn’t. The most ambitious projects sometimes need bold commitment. For instance if you want to create a space travel company, you will need funding way before you've finished your proof of concept.
Now, maybe Y Combinator is simply not their market.
> Spore was a disappointment

Spore was a textbook example of bad management. They spent 80% of time, money and effort on creature designer - a feature that did not make up even 20% of game, closer to 5%. Game had complex and massive functionality for libraries, various downloadable creatures, even tunes for cities, outfits for citizens - all things that were not just unnecessary, but one might say even made game less attractive (because usually you end up not being such great designer and all cities look equally generically bad). Essential features, such as autosave, were lacking. It is hard to fathom how detached from reality the managers were.
It is socially acceptable to mock fat people. Not in all contexts, sure, but it happens and is a frequent subject of 'jokes'. Fat people face constant harassment over their body image (no wonder they're depressed).
This is a great story, but perhaps not for the reasons intended by the author.

I applied once to YC. As I recall, my solo founder video included a puppet, so fair warning: I'm an idiot when it comes to startups. I only repeat what I've heard and read.

When they asked you guys all those questions, the proper answer wasn't to reply technically, it was to reply with something akin to "social proof"

So, for instance, when they asked "Why are you spending so much time developing this application?"

One good answer might be something like "Because we've talked to 50 people, and 10 of them tell us that if we can finish in the next six months, they want to use it. In fact, here's the money they deposited so they would be first in line"

The takeaway that YC is only interested in money may be at the same time true and misleading. As I understand those guys, they simply want proof from other humans that you are capable of doing something folks will like. Either you already have those humans and proof -- or they believe that you're the kind of guys that can go get them and then they'll take a flier on your ability. In either case, to say it's money is missing the point.

A lot of technical folks confuse the kinds of questions they are getting. When the question is along the lines of "Why don't I do X?", they're not asking you to argue that X is better than all other choices. Hell, X may be worse. They're asking you to explain to them how by talking to other people, you've learned that a significant percentage of them like X better, even if it sounds stupid. (In fact, if it sounds stupid and looks like something other people would not do, yet real people want it? That's a plus!)

I liked this. Thank you for posting. Sorry about the negative feedback.

ADD: There's nothing wrong with building something complex with a grand vision that might take months to put together. The trick is to do it in smaller chunks that get customer validation each step of the way. [Insert long discussion here about how it's easy to get emotionally attached to a codebase and solution that nobody else in the world would ever want]
Your language is highly critical. There's some wiggle room for English not being your first language but you did not have kind words to say about pretty much anyone from YC, and you look really bad because of it.
Well, that kind of is the definition of a learning agent. Any learning system would be "learning from its' own mistakes and becoming increasingly proficient" and any agent would, by definition, be "manipulating its environment to achieve its goals".
I wonder if they have joined as part of some sort of reddit brigade.
Perfectly valid comment, but you've put it in the wrong place. My comment is about voting for one's representative, who then goes on to debate and shape future laws. This is key to representative democracy and has nothing to do with scarcity, mobility, or voting with one's feet/skill/labour.

If I don't like the policies of the guy I voted for last time, I won't vote for him next time. If lots of people in my region do the same thing, then he either has to shift policy or be replaced by someone who will. Are you suggesting I move if I don't like his policies? That is not how democracy works, and isn't even close to what I'm suggesting. Nor am I suggesting (anywhere) that if I hold a minority position that I move, or change my vote.

I sincerely think you read something into my comment that I didn't say, and I'm trying really hard not to use the phrase "straw man" in regards to your comment, because I actually agree with you, but you're arguing against a point I didn't make.
I don't see a copy of the TPP, so it looks like I'm only looking at marketing for the trade agreement.

Also, regarding "There’d be no enforceable rules ensuring countries set a minimum wage", having a minimum wage is a pointless goal. Denmark, for example, has no minimum wage set by the country. We also know that the US minimum wage has been trending downwards since the 1960s, and is not a livable wage.
Google drive would solve drunk driving problem but a drunk driver deactivation system could be developed immediately. (I'm sure there would be legal issues to implement it!. And tech issues: ie if passenger drunk dont deactivate)
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No. It's one of the core beliefs of Behavioral Science
As I read the title I started thinking, what's "news" about Ethiopians having Jawbone Ups...
I think you hit the nail on the head here. That's one of the most interesting parts of thinking about GAI for me. Which parts will end up being top-down and which parts will end up being bottom-up? And even if we have evidence that a certain part is TD or BU in humans, do we even want machine intelligence to work the same way?

The article says something to the effect of "no matter how much you advance this strategy, you never get a toddler out of it." And that makes sense because, presumably, certain parts of the human brain exercise some sort of top-down control over the sensory-data-processing and other parts.

For example, it seems like the human mind is built to see things as things. Does the human mind reallY start off seeing "pixels" and then learn by itself to think of the word as solid, whole objects instead of collections of similarly-colored photons/pixels or atoms? It seems like this is a universal use-case and it would make sense if our tendency to see the world in terms of "things" instead of patches of color is built-in (gestalt psychology seems to suggest this as well).

It sounds like the AI in the article starts off from pixels and then builds up some sort of model of blocks, the ball, paddle, game physics, etc, (but then again, maybe it doesn't have those models at all and is just doing statistical analysis on patterns of pixels). Either way, it likely doesn't have any higher, context-independent model of objects/things like humans do. I suspect this may be one of the hurdles in transfer learning. Humans think of objects as having certain properties. When other objects in other contexts appear to have similar properties, we guess that they may have other properties in common which gives at least a rough model of the new object.

So I guess what I'm trying to say is: Humans have hierarchical models of the world that let us think separately about patterns of light, atoms/molecules, whole physical objects/things, systems, etc. They are all first-class citizens and we ascribe properties to each of them. We already have a rough-model of anything at the same level, but a different context, and with similar-enough properties to something we already know. It seems to me like this is fundamentally connected to humans' ability to do transfer-learning. Could this effect be achieved through bottom-up algorithms, or are we going to have to figure out some top-down way of developing transferrable, generalizable, hierarchical models?
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My fantasy is to build a city with lots of roads, but put them underground. Street level can be solely for pedestrians, bikes, and vehicles delivering things on that block (although most buildings would have underground road access).
In addition to the issues others have pointed out, I think there was a bit of a language and culture barrier. The author says, "We entered the room and facing us there were 3 young boys in their early twenties." I get the impression he felt insulted, but it's not like the interviewers can choose their age. The statement is also odd because I don't think any YC partners are that young. Maybe his estimate was thrown off by their casual attire and demeanor.

The author was annoyed by interviewers asking questions answered in their application. That's a natural reaction, but there are good reasons for this practice. Maybe some of your answers have changed since you applied. Maybe the interviewers want to get an idea of how much thought you've put into these questions. Maybe they're not satisfied with some of the answers in the application, and want you to flesh them out in person. My point is: the interviewers aren't trying to annoy you or waste your time. They want to understand you and your idea. Responding to their questioning with annoyance won't help them.

I found it very unusual that the author ignored the post-interview e-mail. Those e-mails typically contain tailored advice, or at least reasons why the partners passed. That information is extremely valuable. YC's reason for passing will probably be similar to many other potential investors. Even if you don't think it's a good reason, it's worth crafting a solid response to.

One more thing: If you have a demo, show it as early as possible! A demo can obviate the need for many "What are you making?" questions, since it shows the answer. That leaves more time to discuss your product or idea, instead of trying to explain it to the interviewers.

With that feedback out of the way: I wish Creo success and I'm glad they plan to apply again. Good luck!
Ask HN: What questions did you have while starting up?
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But what do you think were you questions then and even now and whose answer will help young and first time entrepreneurs

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Just became a customer. So far so GREAT. I could really use some kind of keyboard binding and this will become a part of every day of my life.
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Exactly. I'd happy to see ant level AI first.
> is this really more profitable than actually making good games?

I know I'm going to sound like a terrible elitist snob, but the target audience for today's mainstream video games are not exactly the top layer of humanity. It's pretty much a tale of milking the stupid, i'm afraid.
Thank you for the great explenation; I read the article,a nd if it only had taken it out of the pure abstract and given the int example; it would have been 100% more relatable. I always get the feeling that they fear that giving an actual example would hurt the article and that the pure abstract is to be preferred.
right now, I'm hearing 'Okay, enough Hacker News, you've got a meeting to get to in 30 mins and you are already late.'

Can you actually hear it? Is it an actual voice, and the only way you know it isn't someone standing next to you is because there isn't someone standing next to you, and you can't seem to get any bearing on the direction it's coming from?

It's like that. It's not an internal monologue, it's not just thinking, it's a voice. It's the same perception as hearing. It feels exactly the same as when someone next to you says something (without the spatial aspect); it just didn't originate as a pressure wave hitting the ear.