nyrulez

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by nyrulez 8y ago
I am not sure I completely agree. If I know how my adversary detects and studies stealth code, I may be able to design better stealth code that is better at evading their methods of detection. I mean the evolution of stealth tech in milita
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by nyrulez 8y ago
You mean there is nothing new here? Then why is this news? I am not wondering about the concept of reverse engineering but the specific (and hopefully novel) feature set that this may enable.
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by nyrulez 8y ago
I am going to sound pessimistic here, but isn't there a real danger of having this technology available to bad actors and is there any value to keeping such things confidential if it plays a role in national security? If someone was re
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by nyrulez 8y ago
That's pretty astute. I would say VCs do hedge their risk by allocating in many options, sometimes by investing in multiple startups in the same domain or even different/opposite approaches to the same goal. But that could be clas
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by nyrulez 8y ago
It won't be a $100B+ company. And that's important to them.
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by nyrulez 8y ago
That's fascinating for me. It certainly comes across like "best for all parties" kind of advice, but only magnifies the need for clear separation of business advice that is fully aligned towards founders.
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by nyrulez 8y ago
Are you saying the question doesn't apply to individuals? IMO it should probably even more so. I guess you have to be insanely rich to not actually care about a $xxM investment and related diligence. And maybe it highlights an interes
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by nyrulez 8y ago
This entire story makes me much more curious about the enablers of this kind of behavior i.e. the investors and not Holmes herself. Are the big investors really that incomplete or "naive" in their diligence if pumping a big sum li
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by nyrulez 8y ago
I recently started out on this road as a solo founder [0], and out of all the given pieces of advice that YC gives, two things are the most conflicting for me: - This pressure to have a co-founder. I see that quoted as a major reasons for w
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by nyrulez 8y ago
Yes that's a good point. Getting 5-10x gains there are hard to come by though :) You can sell options - they are like selling insurance for market crashes. That gives infinite return in practice since you get money for free. The downsi
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by nyrulez 8y ago
Are you talking about not having free time or not knowing what to do with your free time ? These two are very different issues. For the latter, it's mind blowing to ask this question in this day and age. There are so many interesting t
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by nyrulez 8y ago
Most answers you're getting here are on the responsible side i.e. Bogleheads-like. Your question makes it feel like you're ready for some extra risk and I am assuming these 5k aren't your entire savings. - Wefunder allows you
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by nyrulez 8y ago
I have hired from Upwork and Reddit at both low and high prices. Giving a view from the other side, I think one can command high prices as long as they also do the work upfront to show that they can deliver. As someone trying to get my work
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by nyrulez 8y ago
- The costs become uncapped and always end up more, with no accountability. After a certain while, sunk cost factor kicks in and it's too late to back out when you realize this developer is slow or not so great. Good confident develope
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by nyrulez 8y ago
I didn't mean your situation but was mostly referring to the profit/loss chart :-) I am sure you're having a grand adventure, and I hope to have the same. And I didn't realize you are constraining your work hours, which
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by nyrulez 8y ago
Not the author but I have been on a similar journey after leaving my job at Google 4 months ago. I have successfully used Reddit /forhire and Upwork to find decent people to work with and help code up parts of my new project ( https:&#
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by nyrulez 8y ago
Completely agreed - I am on a similar path as the author and have been sticking with the above. Outsource only when the pain becomes real. I also believe that having done some of the work before hand helps you manage the other person better
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by nyrulez 8y ago
I also quit my job at Google New York 4 months ago to pursue my own entrepreneurial path [0]. This post is a bit scary for me. I admire author's transparency, but if I am being honest, I don't want to be at the same place after 1
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by nyrulez 8y ago
I like what I see, but they do a poor job of explaining the use cases, which is a common issue for most technical projects. Is this for: - learning? - developing personal projects? - developing business projects? - can be deployed to deskto
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by nyrulez 8y ago
You don't think it will pass the bullshit test if someone claims this computer is more intelligent than humans, and vastly more so ? How is that not measurable or easily taken down? If we can't do that, I would argue that the comp
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by nyrulez 8y ago
Marvin Minsky ("Father" of AI at MIT) made the bold claim in 70s that we will be marrying robots by 2000. After it didn't come to fruition, it led most AI researchers to take stock of the situation and realize these goals are
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by nyrulez 8y ago
Despite the cynicism and his black and white predictions, I think his rhetoric still has valuable contributions. It forces others to take a true account of what intelligence is and what kind of intelligence is AI capable of in the medium te
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by nyrulez 8y ago
Motivation is a personal topic but there seem to be certain themes. I can share mine. I have been a solo founder for a few months and this is something I am also facing every single day. - Have something to be excited about. There is the ra
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by nyrulez 8y ago
I am not sure I understand. Isn't critical thinking about sensitive topics allowed anymore? You're clearly implying I am challenging the notion of being offended by this but I am not. I'm curious to know how you think about
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by nyrulez 8y ago
I have a hard time understanding how to distinguish between things that are universally "bad" by some moral standard or if they are offensive to a particular group. It seems lately that the latter seems to be pushing to qualify ev
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by nyrulez 8y ago
Some one else mentioned 9 months above. I am amazed at these "10,000 hours" type of rules for doing a project or startup.
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by nyrulez 8y ago
I am in the same situation as you and while I don't have success yet (I just started three months ago), I have made many mistakes and have learned a lot. Here are a few tips: - As an engineer, I got into a building frenzy in the beginn
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by nyrulez 8y ago
I agree with all of this. But the question I asked remains :)
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by nyrulez 8y ago
I'll bite. Are you suggesting that the domain of my venture is not well thought out or are you suggesting that without working for a startup (and not a big company), it's useless to do a startup?

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