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Saris AI | Full-Stack + ML Engineers | Full-Time | Onsite / Remote | Montreal, Canada Hi HN, we are an YC alum founding team rethinking back-office workflows for banks and credit u…

IMO this diagnosis is still one level away from a more fundamental truism, which is that people don't want to pay anything for digital goods. Running servers can and has been massi…

Ready Education (YC S16) | Full Stack, Integration, Director | REMOTE | Fulltime | https://www.readyeducation.com We are an education technology company, providing the leading mobi…

Ready Education (YC S16) | Implementation Engineer (Java) | Montreal, QC | Fulltime, Onsite | https://www.readyeducation.com We are an education technology company, providing a mob…

Forget a horse, the same argument can be made on a person's own self. Our conscious mental efforts cannot even "total takeover" our own bodies.

- This particular problem was artificially constructed with the specific goal of demonstrating quantum supremacy. It has little to none practical use. Essentially they looked what …

Ready Education (YC S16) | Implementation Engineer (Java) | Montreal, QC | Fulltime, Onsite | https://www.readyeducation.com We are an education technology company, providing a mob…

More generally speaking, when you optimize on a particular set of metrics to the extreme (when it comes to social issues this is what utopias try to do), you will inevitably cause …

There is a video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4zfmcTC5bM ) from the PBS Infinite Series that covered this topic as well, for people that what a visual version of the explanat…

Regardless of other reasons for this observation, I think sampling bias, or the inspection paradox probably contributes to it. Assuming that you are: - equally likely to have the d…

Last I heard, the original Big K, along with (some of) the secondary copies, will not be sold. Instead, they will be observed/studied in an on-going basis, in order to better under…

I'm not sure that I understand what you are asking, since "prove that they have the insurance" seems to me to be equivalent to "telling the prospective employee". Conceptually, I f…

Hi Scott, This may be an ill-formed question, but it's something I've been thinking about for a long time: Do you think the human mind is equivalent to Turing machines, or somehow …

The San Bernardino case involved an older device though, the 5C (which came out in 2013), which did not have the dedicated security module (Secure Enclave) at all. As far as I know…

Isn't this just that colleges are paying the market rate for good executives because they want to get talented and experienced people to run them well? Colleges are very complex an…

SIDH ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supersingular_isogeny_key_exch... ) is one of the few popular post-quantum variants of DH key exchange, and it supports forward secrecy as well…

Thanks for the info!

Did you guys write your own implementation or use an existing server?

This post comes at an interesting timing for us. Our product has a real time chat component, and currently is done over XMPP. We implemented using custom components on top of Tigas…

OOHLALA Mobile (YC S16) | DevOps, Infrastructure Engineer | Montreal | https://oohlalamobile.com/ We build a mobile student engagement platform for universities and colleges. More …