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Biometric Auth. My first job out of university in 2003 was with a biometric security company. even back then the technology was shockingly mature. But yet getting deployed was so difficult. I also remember in 2004 going to my favorite waterslide park and being able to use my fingerprint to get in and out of my locker - rather than an awkward key or combo. But a year later those lockers were replaced by clunky combo ones.

Interesting. I've yet to hear a Moores law is dead argument, so perhaps I should watch the video before commenting further. But the fact that most of the chip is turned off, doesn't falsify the fact that most of it still exists. Cooling it properly is a separate problem independent of computation no?

Agree generally. Except being unimpressed unless performance is achieved on sub Google scale hardware. Today's Google supermachine is tomorrow's raspberry pie. No need to artificially constrain our bounds. There is, after all, the inevitability of Moores law.

Good question. Just one anecdotal data point here ... So take it for what it's worth. I'm a grad student focusing on reinforcement learning but have a lot of interaction with many deep learning folk. I'd have to say that they seem mostly motivated to learn how to make deep learning even more powerful and how to apply it. Not so much solving what's going on inside the box.

Yes. Furthermore, neural nets are just one small part of the solution to [edit] general intelligence. A truly scalable intelligence that learns on its own, and doesn't rely on "the right answers" through training data by human experts. Without this training data, neural nets can't do much ...

80 years is very conservative. Rich Sutton has a very well articulated argument for achieving human level hardware (using Moores law, and an estimate of the computational power of the brain derived from measurable computations in the eye (retina?).

But as you said, it's the algorithms that are by far the long pole. Current supervised learning is much akin to simple rote learning. This is the promise of reinforcement learning - and the ability to truly learn on your own through experience. That's scalable. *that said ... I'm biased being one of Rich's students :(

Yes. Be wary. I lived in Vancouver for 3 years, 2012-2015. Those mountains sucked. As did the ocean. And the ability to walk everywhere downtown. Total pain being able to walk to work, shop, dine, etc. kidding aside ... Yes ... I earned less $ ... But was ok with it.

Entrepreneurship is mastering - if anything - "operating" in extremely uncertain and risky conditions. There's no tangible hard skill you're mastering. It's fulfilling - but personally completely void of the feeling I've had truly "mastering" a sport. (I'll use "mastery" loosely here - I wasn't nearly good enough to play pro. It's a completely different feeling than "mastering" a subject such as physics or calculus (again using "mastery" loosely). Perhaps mastery of soft skills leaves me a bit void and its the hard skills that entrepreneurship lacks.

Fair enough. There are real and powerful emotions at play.

But it's a bit of a stretch to suggest an employee at a company founded 5 years ago has "poured their life into."

Personally, I'll reserve evocative language of loss for things beyond a strategic shift at the office - but I shouldn't judge others who view things differently.

Fair enough. I missed the part where this is an employees perspective. WRT being selfish. It's often the last thing a founder wants. Boards, family members, and even sometimes employees - often pressure a founder into an acquisition the founder themselves isn't as keen on.

"Surviving," "Trauma," "Shock","Dismay" ?

I've founded a company through an acquisition and led mobile for another. Life was definitely much much better before the acquisitions. But the perception that it's anything but a first world first world problem ... is a bit misleading and entitled.

This is awesome. Well done. Wondering if there was any real time speech to text that could be trained. Seems like these commentators all have their canned lines when the team scores. "He scores", "Goal", etc. etc. Seems like you might be able to fairly accurately capture that and add the sentence as an attribute? Well done. My Oilers need something like this for every time we win the Draft Lottery! McDavid!!!!!!

There's a perception that raising money is "easy" in the current climate. The reality though is that it's simply not that easy and that there most certainly isn't many founders coasting on beaches. I know a lot of entrepreneurs and founders here in SF/Bay, and every one of them is working much more than 9-5 5 days a week. And none of them got a "free ride" from an investor - but rather went through the slog of building product / traction to raise every penny. Sure, there's more capital floating around - but there's a lot more competition too.

If you're a startup CEO and you fail, employees find other jobs. If you're a physician and you fail, people die.

Totally agree. I think we're saying the same thing (that was my intent anyways :|

I'm a big fan of the "don't worry about your competitor" mantra. But at the same time, it'd be silly not to pay attention and to learn from your competitors failures/successes. Doing so, IMO is quite productive.

I'd love HN feedback on the deck as well - the good - the bad - for others to learn from.

There's various degrees of mixing family/money or in other words "doing business with family. Quitting your jobs, and taking out a loan to open a Tim Hortons (showing my Canadianism here) franchise together is a lot different than a retired mother doing some accounting for her son to make a bit of extra money. The latter seems fairly low risk.

Cue (shutdown), Don.na (pivoted), Tempo, Sunrise, Google Now, others. Fascinating space with a lot of competition. But has any of these products gotten close to a revenue model?

cool. The rest of the system is Django so that'd be ideal. I'm not against a polyglot ... but prefer not having that level of complexity.

I guess that's my point though. That "throwing it away" makes you completely unencumbered. There's value in that. Anything else comes with strings that make it really hard to move on ... even if that's emotionally.

I buy it. It's never that clean.

I'd frame this as: "You get to choose 3 between: work, spending time with your children, exercising regularly, maintaining a house, domestic duties, having a social life."

And I'd totally agree ...

I choose work, children and exercise ... but am lucky enough to be able to offload these other tasks

Am I the only dad out there that constantly takes my daughter to the park / science center / library alone ... and doesn't feel the least bit weird about it? In 3 years I've received nothing but smiles and conversation for doing this. Maybe it's a Canadian thing ...

Good points, thanks for this!

Good points. I should rephrase the question and probably re-post later. I'm most interested in knowing what percent of the working day a technical cofounder spends coding.

The problem with raw hours is that it's less meaningful without the total hours. Ultimately I'm trying to understand how these people balance their days. Coding vs. non coding

70-80%

From what I understand, google is even going further. They're ranking based on the usage of installed apps. ie. an app installed and never used is ranked much lower than one that's installed and used daily.

Hahah. classic. Let the comments slamming the guy that comments on negative HN comments begin. I've had a few posts on the front page and have been lambasted each time.

Under that definition ... there's hardly anyone working on "real" problems. Even Nasa.