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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 d…

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'…

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 artificia…

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 …

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…

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 …

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 …

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 w…

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 person…

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." Persona…

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 empl…

"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. Bu…

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 score…

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 coa…

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

My sense is the jury's still out on which platform hardware companies are using for crowdfunding - kickstarter, indiegogo, selfstarter, etc. Is this the case? What are the decision…

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. Doi…

Probably a noob question. But whats the best practice for Facebook, and others like JibJab for streaming dynamic videos based off templates? Is each view dynamically created? Is a …

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 Canadianis…