benmathes

huh, couldn't see it. sorry.

Would love to upload/import KML, as I have a bunch of detailed climbing/hiking maps in google that I don't have time to recreate.

It does seem attractive, all the empty land out there.

But the point of cities is to be near lots of other people all the time. There's a tipping point of human flourishing from the intermingling.

Great cities outlasted empires. Interaction density is the important thing, and it grows combinatorially with human density. There's no way you're going to get rural logistics to that level.

With some pretty strong selection bias which will likely make generalizations difficult.

Found a mistake in the docs:

http://tensorflow.org/get_started/basic_usage.md

In the "Variables" example, looks like a variable name got changed but not updated everywhere:

    # at the start:
    var = tf.Variable(0, name="counter")

    # then:
    one = tf.constant(1)
    new_value = tf.add(state, one)
    update = tf.assign(state, new_value)    
    

The variable "state" should be the variable "var", or vice-versa.

From a tech standpoint, yes. There are some pretty powerful interests that don't want to see the open web on mobile. Google and Apple get handsome cuts of all the revenue on their semi-closed platforms. Consumer demand may shift that, but I'm not holding my breath. The open web was an historical anomaly: historically the large information infrastructures have been nearly monopolized (telegraph, phone lines, cable/broadcast).

Don't be fooled by randomness and survivorship bias. Those aren't the same funds each year. Thousands of funds trying to beat the market at a seemingly-random game? A small few will get lucky.

There's a government survey that gets at this right here:

http://www.integration.samhsa.gov/images/res/PHQ%20-%20Quest...

(a little google goes a long way)

Big platforms tend to be different things to different people. Might help to have a different "what is docker?" page for the various roles you encounter.

  For CIOs: click here
  For developers: click here
  For sysadmins/devops: click here
  For platform providers (e.g. heroku): click here.

Tweets are threaded now. Conversations work, though can break down if people compose new tweets with an @mention instead of the reply button.

Can break down with sub-conversation trees a little, but that's hardly only twitter's problem. I'd be more than happy with reddit-style @reply threads.

He's termed out in 2016. May try to run for state office again like he did in 2014.

http://www.sfbarf.org/front.html

(could really use a site update, but they're doing the right work)

yeah... if I could vote for a candidate that would do anything _remotely_ like this, I would. But the primary filtering is how much money the candidate can raise. The candidates might not be corrupt, but the electoral system is corrupted.

We'll probably have to go through a bunch of pain for this new working class until it gets so bad that the "union for mobile" is figured out and used to counterbalance the centralized power of the on-demand labor companies.

paid advertising turns into far better organic growth by a very large margin.

Needs more angellist API integration. Who do I know at the companies? Who are their current investors? Prominent advisors? etc. etc.

FYI: the visualization doesn't load if you're using adblock or uBlock.

It should come as no surprise that Mr. Park is on board; He built two public healthcare IT companies (ATHN, CSLT). He can definitely recruit good tech talent.

The question is: Can he convince others in government that, as another post on the HN front page says right now, we should replace middle management with APIs?

aristocracy != monarchy.

A) I use $modern_editor_b because emacs/vim doesn't have this one feature.

B) emacs/vim does have that feature! just download this package manager and then use the package manager to install this addon if you're using python, this addon if you're using c, etc. etc.

A) That's too hard! I just want to get to work!

B) You're lazy and dumb! Type uphill both ways!

though, it seems, that employee was incorreclty shitting all over reddit. The situation appears far grayer than "CEO shits on employee"

Yes, similar to shelter, food, and energy in that they are fundamental infrastructure.

I'm sorry I wasn't more clear. You are right: the analogy breaks down on the level of mechanism of preservation.

I attempted to be more general. Specifically: Journalism is a check on public and private coercion, but the mechanism is free speech. Common Carrier regulation is a check on (largely) private coercion. The mechanism is monopoly prevention (originally monopoly rejection, via AT&T breakup).

Short Answer: Communications industries are different, and too important. The information they carry is, like journalism, a 4th estate to democracy. An econ101 approach to that industry breeds consolidated information empires that influence policy, society, and public discourse to the point of control.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/12/books/review/Leonhardt-t.h...

At least constitutionally, the 4th amendment (unlawful search) and "innocent until proven guilty" would mean blocking if _known_ illegal traffic.

Yes, granted, those rights are often infringed upon, especially in tech.

You're right that it's partially true. Why the idealistic spin from @sama? Consider the incentives. One of YC's macro strengths is a silicon valley onramp.

Easier to just recognize the questions you want to answer as opposed to having to come up with them yourself?

Yeah, I don't know the right breakdown. I just know that your run-of-the-mill founding teams (not founders, the teams) are relatively shafted.

"But most of the value in this company came from two things: Richard Garfield creating Magic: The Gathering, and the employees. Not investors. It’s only appropriate that the distribution from the sale reflects that."

Hear hear. Investors say that founders and employees are what make startups. I wish the cap tables reflected that.

likely some kind of cryptocurrency. Given YC's involvement in Stripe, nonzero chance it will be done with Stellar.

preferred vs common, participating preferred vs common (i.e. liquidation preference), possible pro-rata rights (thought at this stage further financings are probably unlikely)

disclaimer: I work at greylock, who was an earlier investor, though have _zero_ inside knowledge of the deal as I work on unrelated stuff.

I suspect there is just a semantic difference. Women are certainly competitive. The framing of the competition matters, though. Broadly speaking, based on the tactics of professional coaches of women and psychological studies, competing for your teammates vs competing against your enemies motivates women more than men, respectively.