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> My motivation levels are also pretty low after so many
> repeated failures.

Several startups? Or failures in a single startup? Have you sat down and spent some time evaluating the failure? What did you not know that you would have liked to have known? What skills worked? Which didn't? Etc.

Many people I've known have gone to work for a larger, more stable, company to build up a reserve before putting their hat back in the ring. Sometimes they will take a different job (like working in product management instead of engineering) to round out their skill sets based on what they felt good at, or weak at, during their startup experience. Others have gone back to school to get additional training that way.

Much of it depends on your resources and what your mental state. I find it to write down in a journal as many things I can think of from the previous experience and what strategies would have either made them more impactfull or mitigate their damage. If nothing else it meant I was unlikely to repeat previous mistakes.
That clickbait title though. Of course an orca is not a person; an orca is not human, which is most peoples' understanding of "person".

I understand if articles might have clickbait titles, but can we give a more reasonable title on HN? Even the second part of the article title, "The more we learn about orcas, the more our assumption of innate superiority looks like a presumption" would've been more effective.
> but most readers don't care

Most readers don't know the extend Amazon is tracking what they read, and often believe the relationship ended after the exchange of money and ebook. The tech industry's presumption that people don't care or are ok with stuff like Amazon knowing what page you're on is a projection of what they want popular opinion to be. In fact, a common reaction to learning how these surveillance-as-a-business-model ;goods and services actually work is that people tend to care very strongly about this kind of violation of their privacy, but feel powerless and trapped with non alternative. Very few people I have met see trading privacy for something as a good thing. Instead, what I often hear are regular complaints about companies asking for more and more information.

I do agree there the distance of personal association affect this, where it is often easier to allow a distant 3rd party to know important private information, probably due to not having to interact with the them afterwords. (i.e. someone may not care if some random stranger they are unlikely to interact with in the future knows their sexual orientation, but friends or family you are going to interact with regularly finding out could have consequences.
> I am slowly working people back to my handset number on project Fi phone for texting because it works in my primary Gmail account and I can continue to match my text messages on the desktop with the Chrome extension.

Does this mean that GV will be using your old phone number that you posted over from a carrier? And that us Android folk can have iMessage-like functionality finally?
This is an article about cola. :) It's a comparison for fun.
The power of forgiveness – a lesson for Germany
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I am working on Wealth.ai (https://www.wealth.ai/) -- a virtual financial assistant that consumers communicate with using natural language.

I have a technical background and am working with an excellent designer who has experience in an adjacent space. We're in NYC and SF, respectively.

We're looking for people on two fronts: marketing and technical (especially NLP and machine learning for technical folks). We've been operating with the plan of not bringing anyone else on, and have an excellent product nearing initial release, but would love to bring on someone with complimentary skills if there were a great match.

I'm also just happy to chat if you'd like. My email is in my profile.
> How do they pay their costs with exposure?

With their existing subscriber base. Paywalls do not incentive reader to get a subscription; they just annoy those that don't have one.
I got a Fi invite a few weeks ago, but right now the main reason why I don't use it is that the Nexus 6 appears to be too big (I still have a Nexus 5 and the size is perfect). Probably going to wait for this year's Nexus refresh before I make the switch.
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I think a better title would be "Should we grant human rights to killer whales?" Still interesting, still thought provoking, but without the obvious absurdity.
I think you can have Google Voice email your texts to you, so you might be able to setup an autoresponder that way.
Thanks for the reality check :-)

It's really funny, because all throughout reading that article I was thinking "this thing never had a chance". A custom architecture based on principles that are notoriously difficult to write tools for (VLIW), probably adding 50% to the BOM of very price sensitive consumer electronics, and an attempt to create a gaming platform by a company with no capability of producing first party titles and no commitments from credible publishers to do third party games either. How could that not fail?

But then the article ends with all of these people believing - even with 15 years of hindsight - that they genuinely were just on the verge of breaking through. Their technology was just too far ahead of its time and people didn't yet understand it!
The solution is better analytics. Any market player who can tell the difference between real and fake clicks will be better off than anyone depending on the market to somehow magically save them from increasing fake clicks by decreasing CPC and CPM.
>. I'm guessing the latter as kids apps seem to be the highest offender for mobile display.

My son clicks ads and whines about it nonstop when I let him play iPad in his games.
Not sure what you mean specifically, but here's some of my thoughts (note that these do not represent those of the product team)...

* Technical reasons. All calls to Android Maps API happen via an IPC (inter-process, not intra-process, actually), so they are generally slow. That could be bad for things that should be fast to compute like everything in SphericalUtil and PolyUtil.

* It's hard to design a nice API for Clustering. Having it open-source means Google doesn't have to guarantee support for that API according to the ToS (iirc, >1 year)

* Open source library code demonstrates use of the API. You could think of it as additional sample code.

* There's some value in having open source code, generally. A lot of the stuff could be useful in other settings - for example, you could port a lot of the math code to other languages.
I want to give a signal boost to this Coursera. I didn't know Singer was going to be teaching this class, and it's going to be great.

https://www.coursera.org/learn/altruism
Ok. Funny :-)
Gotcha. Bummer.
> We run both nginx and unicorn through daemontools. Both have options to prevent daemonization.

How are you able to do hot-reloads without daemonizing the master process? Or have you simply chosen to sacrifice this feature?
I turned down an offer to work at the Googleplex last year because there was a very creepy groupthink/hivemind atmosphere when I did my round of 6+ interviews there. Also combined with my favorite question to ask interviewers: "If you could make one change and it wouldn't be vetoed, what change would you make?" And every one of my interviewers said some variation of "I wish my work challenged me" with one guy very poignantly saying it as "All the low-hanging fruit has been solved, and only certain engineers get to work on the really tough problems" and then I couldn't wait to get the fuck outta there.
it actually looks like a pretty nice graphically updated version of tempest (my favorite arcade game probably) in general, and pretty similar to Tempest 2000 (I vaguely remember buying it on PC way back when).

I wonder what kind of controls it had, might have been interesting if any DVD player had a jogwheel with which to simulate the original spinner control...
I think what Marcus is referring to is that the "startup community" in Perth may not have heard of this prior to the whole world hearing about it. Given what a significant and huge undertaking this project is I can understand his surprise.

I've decided to read the local news more often, so by chance I did come across this the other day.In general I suspect there are many more world class projects coming out of the unis, research institutes, mining engineering firms and just smart people working away within their own circle of interest. Many of which will never be heard from either within the startup community or general public.
Almost nobody pays for impressions? Do you know how much money is spent on display ads on a CPM basis? Billions.
Talking about non-human persons is standard philosophical terminology, e.g

Personhood. What is it to be a person? What is necessary, and what suffices, for something to count as a person, as opposed to a non-person? What have people got that non-people haven't got? This amounts more or less to asking for the definition of the word person. An answer would take the form “Necessarily, x is a person if and only if … x …”, with the blanks appropriately filled in. More specifically, we can ask at what point in one's development from a fertilized egg there comes to be a person, or what it would take for a chimpanzee or a Martian or an electronic computer to be a person, if they could ever be. (See e.g. Chisholm 1976: 136f., Baker 2000: ch. 3.)

(from http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/identity-personal/)
Spent some time a few years back working in web analytics and my experience was similar to what ChuckMcM describes above - advertisers were relatively sophisticated in general and wanted to pay for performance rather than impression. There are certainly agencies/networks that will waste you're money in advertising if you're not paying attention in digital or traditional media but controlling fraud wasn't terribly difficult. Lots of advertisers would run their own beacons to check and make sure they were getting the audience they were sold. The thing that made them the most nervous was when they couldn't audit their campaigns and the person measuring the audience was the same one selling it.
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Why not let them fold and rebuild? I'm sure it's going to be tough but I see it more like the band-aid choice: it's better to pull it off fast than to try and remove slowly. A little simplified but there is a strong history of a 'creative destruction' theory that I feel would serve Greece well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_destruction

In regards to military intervention, I would never support this. Where do you draw the line when a nation invades because we believe we can run the country better, largely in a world where everyone think they are correct in their thinking.
I'm not talking about software builds, I'm talking about data. You tell the build system all the steps involved in turning your input data into your output data. You don't need extra commands to run things in parallel because any good build system can already run things in parallel.

This isn't "poor man's MapReduce" anymore than a car is a poor man's space shuttle. A space shuttle is a difficult and expensive way to get around if you don't need to leave the surface of the Earth. A MapReduce framework is a computationally expensive way to get data around if it doesn't need to leave your computer.

Look at Ninja sometime. It's not a hack.
https://cs.illinois.edu/about-us/awards/distinguished-alumni...

From an award he got in 2012. However, if you have been involved in the TCP/IP community for any length of time you probably crossed paths with him at one point or another. He was a frequent attendee of the IETF meetings and often a voice of reason and objective analysis amongst more partisan voices.
> How do they pay their costs with exposure?

Off course with ads. That's why adblockers are evil.
Cool product, but how big is the market?
I genuinely enjoy this. I haven't had to 'race' against simple math like that since I did my times tables in late elementary/middle school, so this was a lot of fun. Still got it apparently!
As the tables in the article show, but the text does not, energy cost is a small fraction of manufacturing cost. It's only significant for certain kinds of heavy manufacturing; if you run a steel mill or aluminum smelter, it matters a lot. If you make smart watches, it's insignificant. Also, oil prices are worldwide, not local. (Natural gas is more local.)

Labor costs matter far more. As a rule of thumb, it takes a 4x labor cost advantage to justify outsourcing to China by a US company. (For a China company to sell into the US requires less of a labor cost differential.)
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They are going a bit over the top with empathy claims for orcas:
"Monterey – In what is probably the first time such an event has been witnessed and recorded, humpback whales appeared to try to intervene when a pod of killer whales attacked a baby gray whale." [1]

Though different whale and dolphin species have exhibited what one could call empathy, theirs is a completely different world from ours and we shouldn't apply our values to them.

[1] http://blog.seattlepi.com/candacewhiting/2014/12/01/humpback...
An innovation does not have to be a business idea, remember that. Supporting yourself can be incredibly cheap without a 9-5. Joining a team at a real office can develop your skills in ways you'd never imagine - but it's not right for everyone. It's not 'giving up' either - it can open up new opportunities, but make sure you still work towards total independence if you do that - and consider working for someone else's startup that might have more traction.

2 years is a long time - I've been in situations similar. I don't let projects last that long anymore. Motivation is an extremely important thing. You need to find what you love so you can enjoy working on it without the only carrot being a big payoff. NEVER force yourself to work on projects you don't enjoy. In life we have to do things we don't enjoy like paying taxes, apologizing, going to the DMV - but when it comes to your projects you cannot expect yourself to excel in something you don't absolutely love. You can always do 'ok' in those things but it's debilitating after a while.

Take a month, if you can afford it, to hone your skills - watch youtube videos, read a book (Meditations by Marcus Aurelius is what was once recommended to me and I recommend it to pepole all the time in these situations).

Be strong. Let the thing go, don't look back, don't jump into the next thing so fast - make sure you're taking your life in the direction you want it to go. Take a minute to pause, meditate - most people experience 'failures' because they only ever work on a business venture where success is binary - either you're profitable or you're not after x time. If, however, your goal is to better yourself, to build things that you can use and you want, to explore - to not worry about trying to make money with every concept you work on, but to be open to the possibility of it.

You can do amazing things - just admit to yourself what your shortcomings are personally, what your failures were in your last venture - and how to set up your life so that no matter what happens, it will be impossible to 'fail' because you no longer look at things as such a strict dichotomy.
Interestingly the converse (game consoles that also play DVDs) were much more successful. Not sure how much that feature was really used, and today it's pretty much moot because online streaming has supplanted physical media for most people.
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Generally you do a Root Cause Analysis post-event, not a Fault Tree Analysis.

Fault Trees are typically used to determine the probability of a bad thing (fault) occurring. This probability is used to populate a Risk Matrix (Probability vs Consequence). The Risk Matrix is used to decide whether the risk is low enough vs the consequence within a design. It the risk is too high, then more redundancy or layers of protection are likely to be needed.

Root Cause Analysis builds a tree of possible causes that will look much like the Fault Tree diagram but may include more human factors (was the part inspected before use, was the equipment maintained etc).

There is a lot of overlap of techniques within the Risk Engineering discipline. Fault Trees can be mapped to Reliability Block Diagrams (AND gates are equivalent to Parallel pathways, OR gates are equivalent to Series pathways for example).

The mention of Fault Tree Analysis being required post event seems a bit odd. It may just have been a confusion of terms in the heat of the moment.
It's not at all obvious that advertisers are going to pay for performance, where I assume you mean buy ads on a cpa basis.

There's risk, and someone will bear, and get paid to bear, that risk. If advertisers buy on a cpa basis, they pay more for the privilege.

And frankly (imo) that's all for small to medium advertisers anyway. Bigger advertisers buy 3 month ios and, if you don't perform, don't reup. My experience at a large DSP is this: no-one comes in as a big account; they're all grown. You get $50k for 3 months and told to demonstrate performance. If you do, your account managers call up and demand 3-5x the money. Wash rinse repeat. You do get $3-$5mm/year accounts, but they all started under $100k/3 months. And in any case, all DSPs / ad networks will be measured on a cpa basis. Don't perform, and next quarters ios don't materialize. They're just not sold cpa.

If you aren't aware, btw, there are huge fights about attribution - last view is ridiculous but what most people use, leading to all sorts of gaming behavior particularly in light of cookie churn.
Although if you have limited anti-poaching resources, knowing the area to concentrate in can have an outsized effect on your ability to catch poachers. Elephants have a tremendous range and it is impossible to monitor all of it.
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Try a Google search?
I did my startup for almost 4 years.
It was this:

https://github.com/scalien/scaliendb

After the startup, I was "unemployed" for about 1-2 month. Then I took a chance and went to work for Prezi as an engineer. It was a really good choice. During the startup it was 2 of us coding along, not much social interaction. At Prezi there's tons of people, diversity, it was a nice break. Also, good challenges, lots of learnings. I'm approaching the end of my 3rd year here, I hope to also do a 4th. Right now I'm a "Director", which is like a engineering manager. So I'm also learning about how to manage people. After Prezi I don't know what I will do, doing another startup is at the top of the list, but we'll see...
It's also much less risky to extend such terms to a customer in the same nation. It's harder for a Chinese factory to sue a recalcitrant customer in the US.
#3 has been the key to my happiness ... and by the way I love to collaborate on awesome experiments - down any time.
That was quite interesting to read through. What with the hype about all things deep learning at the moment, it's good to see alternate approaches like this as well.
60fps also in my phone, a OnePlus One with Firefox and Android 5.0
I realize this doesn't help you now, but when I switched carriers a few years ago I decided to port my primary number to google voice (for a one-time $20 fee) and then got a new carrier number that I have never shared with anyone.

Not needing to port numbers since then has been really nice. I'm now on the company cell phone plan and I didn't have to port my number into their plan and put it into their control.

Another advantage is that when my phone got soaked while on vacation I was able to log into my google voice account on my wife's phone and not have any interruption of service.

Here is an article on how to set up an autoresponder with a new google account using google voice and gmail: http://www.zdnet.com/pictures/how-to-build-an-sms-text-auto-...

Google will send you an email for each SMS if you set it up that way. You can have that email be forwarded to your primary gmail account in addition to setting up the autoresponder.
This was worse than that: her parent's weren't particularly rich, but she wasn't available for any FAFSA aid, since her parents refused to sign the disclosure forms.
No, the short-term end goal is large-scale manufacturing of FDA-approved drugs. The long-term goal is to corner the manufacturing market.
Under United States law companies are persons as well, so these definitions are a bit out of date.

It's perfectly reasonable to expand the term "person" to apply to non humans, companies and orcas alike.
The term person has established precedent, both for humans and non-humans. For humans, the legality of abortion is often thought of in terms of the humanity of the embyro. However, the actual legal issue is whether the law extends to the embyro the right of personhood.

Peter Singer has advocated both for the personhood of certain animals and the non-personhood of certain humans (including live infants below certain cognitive thresholds) for some time.
Also I may get some hate for this but adderall (amphetamine salts) can potentially help some people in your situation - it's not something to get hooked on though - talk to a doctor, never get it illegally.
Good. Every dollar that buys an ad shown to a robot is not buying an ad shown to a human.
Nice exception to Betteridge's law of headlines, IMO.
One of my brother's good childhood friends was 18, his girlfriend 16. Both parents approved of the relationship. She stayed out too late one night (with her friends, not the boyfriend), and her parents called the police. Police track her down, but learn of the relationship with the 18-year-old. This was Kansas so it was then out of the parents' hands. He was was convicted of statutory rape, and still to this day (~20 years later) has to inform his neighbors whenever he moves.

(wait for it)

He is married to that same person, and they have three kids together. Registered sex offender for life.
I hated it then, and don't like it any better now.

But that aside, this is nicely done.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personhood
It appears that the linked page went up a while back with an automated countdown clock, so at some point "Our team is here to help assist you throughout the next 1 day" presumably said "the next 30 days" or something.

It's extremely unclear from the actual link, so I can't blame you for misunderstanding.
> This will work if you're paid in the stock of a big company

If by "this will work" you mean you will likely have the SEC, IRS, the company's own litigation department, and perhaps the FBI filing various civl and criminal charges against you, then yes it will work.

As "prostoalex" stated earlier, this is insider trading. Even if the person doing it thinks it isn't, it will be up to them and their lawyer to prove otherwise (a.k.a. "the defendant"). And that kind of proof don't come cheap (think $200,000+ USD depending on how pissed off the employer is).
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Is anyone else getting tired of the "build something unsustainable but popular so we can gather enough rep to sell to a megacorp, take a big payday, and shitcan the product and our customers" model for startups?
I'm down to chat with anyone who's extremely motivated int heir field - I will make a point to email you this week.