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by jdoliner 10y ago
Similar things weren't really said about Go or Chess. Both are perfect information games so, by definition, they can't involve deceit There's no need to try to detect subtle patterns in your opponents behavior because you hav
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by jdoliner 10y ago
System76 might be what you're looking for here.
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by jdoliner 10y ago
I think it's a lot more reasonable to think of algorithms like this as new media for artists rather than a replacement for them. Obviously the choice of subject matter is important for art, but the subject matter in these examples was
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by jdoliner 10y ago
This is a pretty good analogy for containers but there's an unfortunate conflation of terms. There's actually a distinction with computing containers between the thing that you ship code around as and the thing that you run code i
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by jdoliner 10y ago
If you schedule it on Kubernetes as a pet set you could give each container a consistent virtual disk from your cloud provider. Of course... your cloud provider also has SQL as a service, so that's probably a cheaper option.
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by jdoliner 10y ago
I too found it a bit strange that the list didn't include software, or at least some specific types of software. I can assure you though that YC does invest in this and doesn't exclusively look for software that can be built in a
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Pachyderm 1.2 is released(medium.com)
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That would make sense but I don't think it's true based on the last paragraph: > Whatever the case, Google is probably right that sealing the transcript faster would have stopped the news story from ever breaking. But the cat’s
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by jdoliner 10y ago
Based on the stat in the article about it resulting in 60% to 80% difference in total viewing time, I think they were probably reporting total views including views under 3 seconds and reporting avg view length discounting views under 3 sec
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by jdoliner 10y ago
> I receive stock in compensation. I have elected to auto-sell it - this works even during trade window freezes. I don't think this works for employees who were already granted a huge chunk of stock pre IPO.
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by jdoliner 10y ago
The standard operating practice for Silicon Valley startups now is to put of IPOing as long as possible. Facebook actually got several exceptions from the SEC so that they didn't have to go public. Going public entails a ton of hassle,
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by jdoliner 10y ago
I mean sure. Apple - my mom never made me any electronics equipment Tesla - my mom never made me a car You can find many more by googling things like: Silicon Valley enterprise companies Silicon Valley hardware companies Silicon Valley med
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by jdoliner 10y ago
> Most startups seem to target either frivolous stuff, stuff useful for businesses or stuff appealing to the middle class and up. This is drifting pretty far from the article in my opinion which focussed almost entirely on frivolous stuf
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by jdoliner 10y ago
There are plenty of companies who raise money to solve problems for the poor. Although if you want to be cynical you could dismiss it as them just trying to make money off the poor, they are businesses after all. Lendup is a good example of
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by jdoliner 10y ago
I find articles like this pretty frustrating. There's tons of companies in Silicon Valley that are trying to do audacious things that people's mothers never did for them. They don't get much press coverage and that's fin
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by jdoliner 10y ago
Unfortunately many only prolong their dying, not avoid it.
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by jdoliner 10y ago
When I think about my college networking course I can almost see the words "Beej's Guide to Network Programming" at the top of that page. I must have spent 30% of my time in that class just reading that site. Not sure if I re
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by jdoliner 10y ago
Probably my fault for the confusion initially. I read it in the context of the article but still got confused about which the reversal of supply and demand.
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by jdoliner 10y ago
From my reading it seems like the crux of the argument is this: > We’ve presupposed a scenario in which there really is a massive oversupply of PhDs, and thus PhD students must be irrational for treading into an oversupplied labor market
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by jdoliner 10y ago
> This assumes that (a) they need the money and/or (b) they could even do something they want to do with the money that they aren't already doing. edit: I realized my response references a different comment I made. Sorry about
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by jdoliner 10y ago
Absolutely, it of course depends on the terms. But in my experience investments for that amount never involve a board seat and normally involve a smallish amount of equity so investors have no means to pressure companies into taking an A la
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by jdoliner 10y ago
> There are never no strings attached. At the very least there are social expectations. Some people feel expectations very acutely and try hard not to set expectations they aren't sure they can fulfill. Starting a company is filled
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by jdoliner 10y ago
It's pretty common for products like this to first make your implementation work correctly on a single node then scale it out to correctness on several nodes. Sounds from the blog post like they're midway through that process. It&
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by jdoliner 10y ago
I think you missed the articles main point about how VCs use the information and experiences that they have. It's not just that they're better at picking good investments, they are somewhat better but as you correctly point out in
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by jdoliner 10y ago
I think this is true in a world without self driving cars but I'm not so sure about a world with them. The key thing that roads give you over railways is flexibility. Roads require comparatively less planning and allow goods to be ship
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by jdoliner 10y ago
Sounds like that would greatly decrease the demand for drivers. Since they're now not needed for 99% of the trip. And also greatly increase the supply of labor. Since trucking no longer entails travel and people can live close to their
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by jdoliner 10y ago
I'd love the hear their justification for why this is going to lead to truckers getting paid more...
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by jdoliner 10y ago
And even if the driver is totally alert. It's unclear to me why a human would be able to handle the situation that the machine couldn't. The only way I could see this making sense is if there were just certain conditions the car c
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by jdoliner 10y ago
I spent plenty of time considering it the GP, my point lines up with it insomuch as I agree that open-source isn't perfect and can / is being improved. That's really quite a platitude though and on the important pieces we do
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by jdoliner 10y ago
You're always going to end up with shitty solutions to some problems. Making open-source projects good requires several people to devote their lives to it. Very few projects achieve critical mass and all the other ones languish in obsc

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