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by ryporter 11y ago
These are possibly real, though recycled from Homejoy (not that that would make it any better).
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by ryporter 11y ago
So, is this Fly Maids, as previously discussed here[1]? I'm very confused. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10466888
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by ryporter 11y ago
Issues closer to YC's core competence, such as innovation and productivity. There's lots of advice out there about how to be innovative and productive, but I think it's fair to say that we don't really understand these
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That's purely static analysis [1], a well-developed field with many existing tools across many languages. [2] One company, Coverity was purchased for $350 million. [3] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static_prog
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by ryporter 11y ago
That's what I thought, too, but it's apparently an urband legend. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_by_coconut
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by ryporter 11y ago
The full paper can be found on Martin Rinard's website [1]. [1] http://people.csail.mit.edu/rinard/paper/
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by ryporter 11y ago
This is undoubtedly cool research, but how useful is the automatic generation of a fix? In practice, finding the bug is by far the most important step. Once you've identified the problematic code, it's normally trivial to fix it
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I agree that invalidating the patent is a strong motivation, but I imagine that another major motivation is in establishing their reputation. Future putative litigants will think twice about getting dragged into a legal battle with a compa
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by ryporter 11y ago
Delightful, indeed. You don't often get to hear one company publicly tell another that it "sucks." It certainly does sound like this is personal for Cheng, who said, "Minero’s case does not have merit, and its patent i
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by ryporter 11y ago
It is also just 1.5%. I doubt companies will try to game it, since the payoff simply wouldn't be great enough to warrant altering your fundraising schedule (not to mention the reputation risk).
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by ryporter 11y ago
I disagree agree with many of Obama's policies, but I think this response is overly cynical (especially the intimation that he might be disingenuous). Even absent any authority at all to act on a particular issue, it can still be prod
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by ryporter 11y ago
This is an ignorant and hyperbolic characterization of recent developments in neural networks. In no way did most AI researchers think that it was "nuts" to learn using neural nets. Instead, neural networks was an approach that
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by ryporter 11y ago
I don't understand why Orloff is so excited about giving customers the ability to easily lock and unlock their credit card. As a customer, that's really not very valuable to me. I'd rarely use the feature, and it likely wou
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by ryporter 11y ago
Pairing up with a more experienced investor is a great idea. The easiest way for an outsider to do this is to join an angel group. When I first started angel investing, I joined the Seattle Angel Conference [1], and I learned a lot from t
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by ryporter 11y ago
Like many others, I think that tech valuations are quite frothy, but this article is hyperbolic. "Selling and buying stock with foreknowledge, manipulating the company valuation at will, or simply witholding information from others.&qu
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by ryporter 11y ago
His influence extended well beyond music. He was the first to make use of Celebrity Bonds. [1] While it's true that Bowie Bonds didn't ending doing very well for investors, the principle behind them is sound. By bringing in inv
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by ryporter 11y ago
Yes, of they have a responsibility to study the legality (and morality) of what they are investing in. However, I'd withhold judgement on the investors until we have reason to believe that they knew they were investing in this. Their
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by ryporter 11y ago
A/B Testing is a way to conduct an experiment. Instrumentation and talking to users is another good way to gain insights, but it not an experiment. They are two different (and often complementary) activities. Many, many people have s
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by ryporter 11y ago
Somewhat similarly, I encountered a possible bug in Google Docs many years back. I was reorganizing my documents, and I temporarily changed one of the names to "delete". Poof -- I could not longer find it anywhere (or even searc
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by ryporter 11y ago
My advice is to try your best to deliver by the deadline. You want to be able to tell future employers (and yourself!) that you did what you could, and that you didn't bail during a final push. After that, leave. You evidently have t
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by ryporter 11y ago
The author makes an interesting point about equity as lottery tickets. "They call stock options a lottery ticket. I call it insurance. It sucks to have worked at a startup which did make it big and to not have made anything off it. In
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I think that this trader's recovery had a lot more to do with skill than others are giving him credit for. His key insight was the following: "It occurred to me that Mexico might be willing to restructure its deal—selling us bac
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by ryporter 11y ago
In the same way that a non-dividend paying stock (such as BRK) is a Ponzi Scheme. Furthermore, there is an active secondary market for shares in Palantir. It's obviously far less liquid than the stock of other similarly sized public
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by ryporter 11y ago
That induction does not hold. Karp hasn't been keen on an IPO for the same reasons why many other private companies have been of late -- because it's easier to focus on growing the company without the ever-increasing overhead of
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by ryporter 11y ago
So, are these shares massively overvalued or massively undervalued? It seems like the anti-equity crowd here will never be happy. They want cash when the company offers equity, and equity when the company arranges for an offer of cash.
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According to the article, employees had the opportunity to sell their "worthless" shares for $3/share.
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by ryporter 11y ago
If $750K of lobbying makes them shady, what do you think of millions of dollars spent on lobbying per-quarter by the likes of Google, Amazon, and Apple? [1] Their VC firm was not the CIA. It was In-Q-Tel, which was founded by the CIA (yes,
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by ryporter 11y ago
This is an admirable mea culpa by the author. Sure, he is certainly casting blame on Theranos. However, he also issues an unqualified apology at the end of the article, stating "So I blew it. And I should have included all these coll
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by ryporter 11y ago
You make a great point about the success of AI-lawyer pairing. We need to avoid the Lump of Labor Fallacy[1], in which automation only replaces lower-level work. Advanced tools will allow less experienced (but, let's not forget, int
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I view some of these math researchers like startup founders who are absolutely brilliant technically, but who lack almost all ability to interact with customers, investors, etc. As a solo founder, they will fail. However, if they attract

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