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In Europe, compared to US, 'racism' can have a bit different meaning. (Not that its nuances aren't debated inside US as well.)
Why shouldn't the largest economy in the world be able to produce high tech microprocessors?

The suggestion that they'd be banning the export of Intel processors is dumb.

The "Hilarious" is just icing. To me the whole comment smacks of racism. What would you call it? I knew I'd get down-voted for saying it, and I've held my tongue in the past. But it's nearly every article about China now. These sardonic off-the-cuff remarks. It's so accepted here, and it shouldn't be. So I'm calling it out.
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I had a friend when I was a kid with a IIgs. They were such cool computers.

I dont understand this though.. this is seriously a new release of the OS? That is awesome!
> There are many inventions that aren't CRISPR where TLO is happy to have the student who invented it run with it.

And my original point was that Paul Buchheit's request that "If you know great scientists solving important problems, please encourage them to apply" was unrealistic. YC isn't going to get the crème de la crème of scientists or scientific innovations - they're getting what's discarded by the TTOs.

To be more precise, nobody's going to get the top scientists (they're going to go right back to their labs) and the biotech VCs are going to get the top innovations (for which they often have an informal licensing option with the inventing professor before the academic research even begins). There's a record amount of funding in biotech right now, but why spread it evenly? Might as well just run dozens of trials in parallel for therapies derived from a single technology.
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For my site www.raptorsrepublic.com, I'm getting this error for the last month every time a link to the domain is posted.

We are blocked across Facebook with no links being allowed.

I've contacted Facebook a number of times to get more info on this, but no response at all. I only get an automated message saying:

"We received your report and appreciate your patience as we work to fix technical problems on Facebook. Though we can't update everyone who submits a report, we're using your feedback to improve the Facebook experience for everyone."

Obviously, this doesn't help or give an explanation. I'm dying to talk to a human being at Facebook, does anyone here know how to resolve this, or even have an idea of what my options here are?

Thank you.
True. But I do fear that wealth inequality will go exponential with automation. At least slaves are needed.
More Range in Chevy's Volt Means You Hardly Ever Need Gas
> Wonder what chunk of Google's ad revenue comes from movies.

The more interesting question is what chunk of movie revenue comes from Google.
OK, I'll bite. How is that racism in Europe?
Paychecks are for chumps when you're pulling in returns on a large stock portfolio.
> I'm getting sick of the this sort of sardonic racism on HN, and it never gets called out.

So am I, but your parent is not being sardonically racist at all.
Good. Every $1 paid to an Indian worker instead of an American one reduces global income equality and goes a much longer way there (3x or so, according to most PPP measures of India vs US).
Maybe that's because best !== popular, or best !== publicity? At least you are seeing the best stuff, even if its on the second page. Which is pretty good considering in the past you'd need to convince a journalist to write an article about you (very hard as an early stage startup).
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That doesn't answer my question.
Just to be factual, China outside of Taiwan still lacks the ability/technology to fab a modern microprocessor using a competitive process. Fab technology is incredibly restricted, not just by governments but the companies themselves.

China doesn't export CPU processors, they import from Intel like everyone else. I believe there is a fab in Singapore, but I'm not sure what generation they are at. There is a testing facility in chengdu, at least.
The risks that one is supposed to tolerate have changed. As opposed to starvation and destitution (1855), an employee of a failed startup can just find work at a medium/large-sized company.
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Just to be clear, I didn't read that as a statement of abstract capability but of fact. China (still the second largest economy in the world by a large margin, btw) is not, in fact, capable of manufacturing leading edge microprocessors. They just don't have the fabs, nor industrial knowledge to build them.

So if they want a supercomputer right now (or frankly at any point in the coming decade or so), they need to do it with chips fabbed in the west. So restricting "export" of that technology back to the west does seem kinda funny to me. No?
Because it is unfair -- we require companies to treat their workers like human beings and ban certain forms of exploitation, abuse, etc. Facing reality and accepting that if workers can be abused, they will be abused so we might as well be the abusers is one way to deal with this fact. Another would be, for example, to ban all imports made under conditions which don't meet U.S. human rights standards and remove the economic inventive, but instead we go the opposite direction, the direction of "free trade" which is great for people who can afford to spend capital and move operations to countries where they can abuse workers, but not so great for American workers -- we aren't even allowed the opportunity to be abused and exploited.
I think it is as simple as... we used to make stuff & the economy was great. Then the rest of the world made stuff. And there are way more of them living with way less money. So the balance shifted & now they make stuff. We don't make anything. Which was nice for a while, but after a while, if you aren't making stuff then you aren't getting paid.
You do seem to have it all figured out. I'm glad YC is running the experiment, guess we will need to see how it plays out.
Wouldn't your suggestion as well as parent suggestion border on monopolistic abuse?

Wouldn't this be akin to MS telling Dell it's going to yank windows licensing in retaliation for selling red hat.
The observation that China needs to qualify for tech credibility is just stupid, not racist.
I was wrong. My initial approach appears to be the ninja approach like sampo said above. I got 50% -_-

import numpy as np
import random as rnd
import math as m

chords = []
samp = 10000
for c in range(samp):
#random point on infinite plane is described by a single coordinate
dist = rnd.uniform(1., 1000.)
#DO NOT KNOW HOW TO DO INTERNAL SLICES

#ignore all possible lines that do not intesect circle
xsec_half = m.atan(1./dist)
angle = rnd.uniform(-xsec_half, xsec_half)

#make 2 points on the randomly chosen line
x1, y1 = -dist, 0
x2, y2 = dist, 2*dist*m.tan(angle)

#copy and paste some shit from wolfram alpha
dx = x2-x1
dy = y2-y1
dr = (dx**2 + dy**2)**0.5
D = x1*y2 - x2*y1

sqr = (dr**2 - D**2)**0.5

xa = (D*dy + np.sign(dy)*dx*sqr) / (dr**2)
xb = (D*dy - np.sign(dy)*dx*sqr) / (dr**2)

ya = (-D*dx + np.abs(dy)*sqr) / (dr**2)
yb = (-D*dx - np.abs(dy)*sqr) / (dr**2)

chords.append(((xa-xb)**2 + (ya-yb)**2)**0.5)

print len([a for a in chords if a > 3**0.5])/float(samp)

Basically make the unit circle at 0,0. Pick any radius up to infinity (infinite plane). By symmetry, we don't need 2 coordinates, just a distance from the circle.

Choose any angle from that point which will draw a vector that intersects the circle (to not waste CPU). Calculate the length of the intersecting chord.

I was really surprised by the distribution of chord lengths, it peaks at chord lengths of 2.0, which is the maximum chord length, and falls exponentially with smaller chord lengths. I don't know what I expected, but not that.
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I've considered it before but wasn't sure anyone would care. Now as I'm seeing more of these archiving efforts discussed, I'll consider it. :)

For the most interesting thing, I'll share two answers:

- First, there were the truly historic pieces of media. Things like Thomas Edison's first motion pictures and reporters' wire spool recordings of D-Day hours after the invasion "ended" were always the most amazing. You read about this stuff, but hearing it is something else entirely.

- On the other end of the spectrum, you have to remember that everything that has a registered copyright has been sent to the Library of Congress. That includes porn. My group didn't archive it but the group down the hall had to catalogue it. No, they didn't have private offices. ;)
It's an older work worth reading. Other methods have appeared since. BASS and TxBox were interesting. Most have potential issues, though, as there's too much risk in the mechanism. The strongest method is still to run the untrusted code in a partition in a separation kernel with comms between trusted and untrusted component using carefully-validated, easily-parsed messages. Compromise gets the attacker stuck in the partition trying to feed attacks to other components via malicious messages that good validation will catch. And might be detected depending on how it's setup.

Open-source attempts for these constructions include KeyKOS, EROS, OKL4, Fiasco.OC, seL4, JX w/ type safety, INTEGRITY-178B, and recently Muen sep kernel. The model, implementation, and middleware levels vary with OKL4 having a decent component framework. In case anyone asks, the advantage of these over some extremely-clever, hypervisor stuff is (a) you don't need hypervisor capabilities and (b) more clever = more problems found over time in most cases.

Mikro-SINA VPN is nice, detailed example
http://genode-labs.com/publications/mikro-sina-2005.pdf
Why are modern game engines missing decent level design tools?
Google's customers want those movies, and likely wouldn't appreciate Google cutting them off to make a point. And when attorneys general are involved, it's hardly a good time to start resorting to exactly the sort of tactics that would get them accused of abusing a monopoly. At least, not in the one country (the US) that actually has relevant jurisdiction over them. Google needs to be completely above reproach here.

(Notice that I'm not saying it'd be wrong to do so.)

Now, what Google could do without (additional) reprisal would be to have a front-page link to a page raising awareness of this issue. Run their own ads on YouTube and other Google sites. Spell it out in terms everyone can understand, with direct quotes from the most incriminating of documents about the smear campaign. Provide people with an easy way to complain to their congresscritters. See how fast the issue disappears and a new case pops up against the originators of the smear campaign.
Does this version support a better debug view of Immutable.js props/state?
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I suspect that's one of the differences between the CS world and life science world (again broadly speaking). In CS, there tends to be a pretty large gap between academic projects and commercial software projects both in terms of the expected output and the goals. For the life sciences that's not the case. Even in commercial companies you end up doing a lot of fundamental research or you acquire it via partnerships or IP acquisition.

There are some aspects of biology that likely translate better to the tech model. But for most aspects, especially anything to do with therapeutics, it is essentially impossible to avoid the hard slog. No software is going to change how you study efficacy and toxicity in animal models and human testing. With more targeted therapies the complexity only goes up.

I think YC should invest in the life sciences, but it should be a different model, perhaps an innovation on the existing tech transfer model, perhaps building an incubator that ends up being an IP funnel for pharma, or to provide some competition in an underserved area, but the software mindset is generally going to fail.
Prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9995303
Working remote is especially hard for small startups to do because it limits speed, adds overhead, and most importantly excludes an early member from adding directly to the culture. The startups I know either do not allow remote work at all, or have almost an entirely remote team / culture (> 50%).
I think the language is slightly archaic, but with patience we adapt quickly. Also, perhaps it was written with a more literate audience in mind than the average modern newspaper which targets a modest reading skill level (http://www.impact-information.com/impactinfo/literacy.htm).

Factoid I learned from article: in 1899 beer was already carried in "growlers", so named for the noise made when it's carbonation was disturbed (http://www.beeradvocate.com/articles/384/).
If I was in your position I would save like mad for the first couple years to get a down payment and then buy a modest 2-3 bedroom house and rent out the spare rooms it's a great way to get financial independence early on if you have the discipline to make it work.
That may be true in the short run, but it's a more complex question in the long run. What if uncapped arbitrage has an adverse effect on the American economy? Then there won't be as much money left to export to India.
The FDA has approved the first drug made by a 3D printer
I think they're both very interesting in this context. ;)
If that were true then you'd expect GDP to lag as well, which it isn't. It's not that more wealth isn't being created by the nation, it's that the wealth that is being created is mostly being hoarded by capitalists.
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So despite the article talking about DJI heavily, none of DJI's products will be impacted.
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No, it committed numerous cardinal errors.

#nymwars, noisy content (with poor controls), confusing UI, and intent that was expressly counter to users' interests really didn't help.

See Tim O'Reilly's Aug 23, 2011 post requesting topics for conversation with Bradley Horowitz:

https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/A1qHbykj...

As I commented recently on a private re-share:

What's telling to me are:

1. How many times Real Names / Nymwars came up.

2. The alienation issue: how Google were (and frankly, have) demolished goodwill with their core tech evangelist community (I used to be one, I no longer am).

3. How lacking Google's first instance of G+ was: no search. For reals.

4. Requests that remain unanswered. Especially subscribable circles / feeds, RSS, and tags.

5. How many names I recognize here. Many are in my Circles. A few are long gone.
The surprising thing here is that the NYTimes left out a graph and a direct link to source data in this article.
I enjoyed this video in which Yanis Varoufakis explains some geopolitical macro economics during the post WWII and cold war era, why the crash/recovery of 2008 is mutating into different forms.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEUWxNifJJ8

The U.S. had to be very creative in order maintain power when they no longer had any economic surpluses (surpluses which greatly diminished from wars like Vietnam).
More attention to production and productive activity rather than consumption would help. Industry and thrift is what lifts people's fortunes. Not consumption and debt.

The U.S. has many factors contributing to economic competitiveness but also some serious drags: difficulty accumulating capital savings among the middle and lower classes, inefficient cities and suburbs, housing that is too extravagant and expensive for people of modest means, mortgages still underwater, high cost education and a very expensive health care system riddled with fraud. Most of these are due to unwise policies anchored on the public and private accumulation of debt. All of them are solvable with a proper understanding of the issues.

The complaints about the 1% or 0.1 or 0.01% largely can be traced to the architecture of this system which is anything but a free market. It guarantees large cash flows for favored groups who naturally support it.

Refactoring all this will require a great deal of capital spending, internal migration and a shift in incomes away from sectors that have been supported by policy such as finance, gov, education, entitlements, war, retail and healthcare in favor of redesigning the American lifestyle along leaner, more competitive lines. Think smaller homes closer to work and more sharing. Yes it will look more like other more competitive parts of the world do today. It may be called a depression 20-30 years from now but it's better to think of it as cleanup and refactoring-- a clearing out and reckoning of all the bad decisions and policy driven malinvestments of decades.

The biggest thing many people really have control over is their own lifestyle expectations and location. Naturally young people sense this and are cutting back accordingly. Not sure how many are willing to relocate for opportunity.

For average joes in the U.S. the high water mark was probably the 70s and 80s. The stuff that led to America #1 occurred between 1870 and 1960. We've been coasting for a while pretending we still have a beast under the hood and gas in the tank. It's just now becoming ever more difficult to paper over the situation with more debt.

The U.S. still has amazing positive attributes and strengths. Labor force mobility, the most efficient system for consumer goods distribution in the world, generally high quality building and housing stock (albeit inefficiently spread out), generally high knowledge and expectations of service and quality, etc. The list is actually long and the cultures ability to adapt and reinvent itself is a strong reason not to bet against the U.S.

We could opt for a basic income but not at anywhere near the levels of currently expected individual prosperity. We'd have to redefine poverty to something more along the lines of what the rest of the world considers poverty and say, we can help you avoid that. America is not presently designed to support a "middle class" life at $10-20 a day. Some other counties are.
It's a toy with a large price tag.
As the parent, yeah pretty much. :-) It's not necessarily a proper response, but one in line with the thread's OP.

I'd also argue that it's not technically monopolistic, but would certainly have negative consequences to the ??AA "partners" as well as chilling effects on others. But if Google wanted to take a nuclear approach, that'd certainly be one tack.
I use rescuetime to track browser page titles. I use wakatime for tracking too.
I've long preferred that my own actions _aren't_ visible to others. HN or Reddit style. On Reddit, votes in aggregate are visible, on HN not even that, other than to the author.

But no "pohl up-triangled your HN comment".
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Oh there's a ton of legal risk all around. I'd suggest they have their lawyers and many available brains to consider how best use their position as leverage. Personally, I'd be looking into ways to use the leaked documents against Hood and preferably in a way that sets a precedent that's pro-Google. Not just griping but a full on attack on his career or image. It's what he was about to do to them after all.
Yep, you are right. If the crypto/label API didn't force a
fixed-length blob (which may be hard to do), it would certainly be
leaking some information.
Despite a tighter labor market

Laughable. Any reasonably intelligent person who makes this claim is either willfully ignorant or dissembling for political reasons. The population employment ratio is below 60%:

http://data.bls.gov/generated_files/graphics/latest_numbers_...

The labor market is not tight and hasn't been this over-supplied since the early 80s.
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I don't get your point. Why is this important?

And, BTW, there's a HUGE difference between RC planes and multicopters (what people generally mean when drones are brought up). One of those differences is that one of the two is a flying brick.

Still, I am not sure what you mean by "there's zero difference between drones and RC planes". If that were true, what's your point?

The other question is: What, exactly, bothers you about what I said?

I'd like to know so we can discuss. Insulting me might feel good but does nothing to solve the problem.
One thing Google is in a strong position to do is to provide content filters: spam, abuse, clickbait, and the rest of it. They've the technical chops and semantic processing background. Combine that with some appropriate personalisation and metrics and they might have something.