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His premise that switching isn't seamless is based on his use of manual switching codes (something that Google advises against).
Nice story.

Reminds me: on a project I was on, we created some tests where we manually pulled the network cable out of some PCs (on a client-server LAN app), to check whether the app at least gave a reasonably appropriate error message instead of just hanging. Fun times.
I too would prefer that, but games like that just don't sell. Selling mobile games are hard enough in the first place (unless you can get into the top 10) because you are forced to sell at 0.99, which barely covers your expenses, but you also have to fight all the free games out there (only so much attention is available).

Essentially this is the only way to have a shot at making money in the mobile games market.
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Usually radio stuff happens on a dedicated processor which has limited communication with the application processor that runs Linux/Android/Java/Userland. (think like a modem, in some cases they are literally controlled with serial links and AT like text commands).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseband_processor

I believe that profile swaps would be sticky, but actual processing on the SIM is going to be extremely limited and active management of the radios most likely will take place in baseband firmware.

Android talks its baseband processors by interfacing with a daemon called rild (Radio Interface Layer (Library?) daemon) which loads a binary blob library which actually does the talking to the baseband chip.
I've taken them a couple of times, an overall positive experience.

Definitely go see a doctor, just getting a pamphlet that totally described what I was feeling made me feel better, as it became obvious that it's a normal human thing.

I'd recommend exercise, sleep, spending time with friends/family and CBT as good general solutions, I also like propanalol for dealing with anxiety.

As far as I could tell, the science is ambivalent on SSRIs, but I liked the way they made me feel, and the daily pill was a reminder to myself to go easy on myself as I was I'll.
Others are dumping Chrome for similar reasons:
http://www.extremetech.com/computing/210576-why-im-dumping-g...
14 million I believe.
For a period, a few people thought that twitter had enough sway to be that new "messaging search" engine. I've used it in such a way when I wanted to find hyper localized information.
By that reckoning, the police should be pulling everyone over and demanding that they show papers proving they're legally allowed to drive. After all, how do the police know that any driver has a license and registration?

No. The police officer had no reason to pull the driver over, and no reason to suspect she wasn't driving legally, so he should not have stopped her.
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That was a hack to work around not having IAP.

The problem with strategy is that your whales only pay once, even if they would be happy by paying thousands of times.
Ah, but you can vote it out.
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What exactly does your post mean? Links would be great as well.
And after a liquidity event, the money is really just a bunch of electrons in a computer or magnetic domains on a disk somewhere...
In this experiment, hooked user-space application needs to execute strrchr function at least once. Otherwise, it won't work.
Ooh, I really like that "go backdoor()" works here and it can be injected into a non-Go process.

Looks like you can somewhat generically write C-ABI shared libraries in C:
https://blog.filippo.io/building-python-modules-with-go-1-5/

This has been one of the reasons I've been writing/learning Rust instead of Go, and I'm glad to see competition :)
Hmm, lets see I would guess they at the very minimum have a:
-Web team
-Mobile team
-Data team
-Infrastructure team
-Tools team

So assuming at least 5 people per team thats already 25 people ... why is it so hard to understand that building anything at scale involves lots of man power?
Good answer. Thanks.
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You might get shot.
Reminds me of one of my favorite things to do in Rome: track down high water marks: http://www3.iath.virginia.edu/waters/flood_markers.html
tldr: The money was wasted.

Did we really expect any different?
True, but I believe such stops have to be for every car passing through a checkpoint or some other non-discriminatory 'random' way (every 4th car, for example).

The stop in question here was clearly unconstitutional, as the appellate court held in their decision for the defendant. Other non-DUI style checkpoint stops without reasonable suspicion of a crime would similarly be unconstitutional.
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I would also just add that you should still feel welcome to apply to YC's normal program if you're still in the idea or prototype stage.

Like kevin said elsewhere in the thread, it's about finding the amazing founders in the margins -- we want to see everything, and YC can still be a good fit for everyone.
That's not a joke, that's a legitimate solution.
I don't understand why if a financier or businessman says they're gonna "pull their business" if higher taxes or minimum wage is enacted, this is seen as a very important thing to take into account.

Meanwhile, if a teacher or a nurse says the same thing, you get:

> The union boss, Joe Del Grosso, demanded a ransom of $31 million to compensate for what he felt members should have received in previous years — before agreeing to discuss any labor reforms.

Why isn't this "ransom" language used when businesspeople threaten to move their business elsewhere, fire people, etc.?
What does that even mean? How can using people to do things supercharge article intelligence?
Then the state will start profiteering, as they do where I live. Here the government decided to just double the speeding fines, and they still pretend they do it for "traffic safety". It's a farce.
I think there's a distinction being missed. There are two "creative" fusion ideas with real potential: reciprocal magnetodynamic-electrostatic confinement (polywell) and ultradense plasma (aka pinch/focus fusion). Dr. Bussard, Convergent Scientific Inc, the Iranians, and a few small universities are responsible for most polywell research. Most commercial startups, including Tri Alpha, are pursuing ultradense plasma. It's not surprising: ultradense plasma devices are smaller, thus cheaper to experiment with, but also more speculative/dependent on poorly-understood physics, making them a better fit for the private sector. Polywells on the other hand have some decent theoretical backing and the main trouble is trying to build one large enough -- IIRC, Bussard obtained some results which, if extrapolated, imply net power in a $100M device.
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I can imagine two separate motives for this hack:

(1) The hackers dislike the idea of adultery and wanted to harm the site & punish its users;

(2) The hackers wanted to blackmail the site and its users by threatening to expose them if they did not pay hush money or perform other services (e.g. reveal secrets).

It seems that motive (1) has some acceptance (people are cheering the hackers), but I think (2) seems more plausible. These guys aren't heroes: they found a vulnerable target and went after it.
Also, one of the first things you learn in design classes is, that you don't have to do it all at once.

You can differentiate your styling with colors, contrast, sizes, fonts, etc. but you shouldn't use ALL of it to stand out.

Design isn't Art. It should make the entity of its focus more understandable.
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One of the two netto chains is Danish. It's only active in some parts of Germany though.
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AirBnB, Dropbox, Stripe, Twitch, Zenefits, Instacart, Docker, Machine Zone. Not sure about the last one. Quora? Mixpanel?

Edit: oops, that's 8 without Quora & Mixpanel. Machine Zone was surprising. Hadn't even heard of it.
Sorry for your wife bad experiences. Who are "they" trying to get rid of her? Did she escalate?

I'm low-mid level Eng working for Google for a lot of years, your story is quite surprise to me.

I had a new born a couple of months ago. Every time I want x weeks leave, I simply spend 1 - 2 minutes filling a form online and will receive a call shortly to confirm the leave. Then all set.

During 1:1s, my manager always asks me to inform him in any case I have to work after hours. I really appreciate his consideration on my life. (Of course, each manager could be different).
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Fair point, but worth noting that compared to the migration plan discussed at ng-conf in March, this is now an improved plan. For example, from the post just published:

Wasn't the original upgrade plan to use the new Component Router?

The upgrade plan that we announced at ng-conf 2015 was based on upgrading a whole view at a time and having the Component Router handle communication between the two versions of Angular.

The feedback we received was that while yes, this was incremental, it wasn't incremental enough. We went back and redesigned for the plan as described above.
Many, many people do stupid things they'll regret when they're angry. This isn't "internet badass" bluster, it's a simple assessment of your own likely reactions.

It's been more than ten years since I've been provoked to physical violence, but I do worry about being caught in certain situations.
How do you decide what sets of users you pre aggregate?

It seems like without some limits in place you could end up with huge number of sets, especially if you are calculating these based on event properties.
Wow - honestly surprised by this as I am a Google employee and so is my wife. Last year before she went on maternity leave she was placed on a pip as well and remained on a PIP status until two weeks she returned from ML, 5 months later. A PIP is intimidating, yes, but they are structured to identify where you need immediate improvement. I know she didn't feel any pressure to leave or animosity towards her and granted her case is totally different, the working culture here has a big emphasis on retaining as many Google employees as possible and helping them grow, whether that's through uplifting or criticism. My suggestion would be to escalate it. I know personally that that type of behavior or even intentions are rare and extremely frowned upon. Our benefits teams did a great job making sure she was set up for maternity leave and even personally delivered our baby bonus to us while still at the hospital. (which isn't typical, I had some issues with her identity being stolen) Hell, one of our company motos is simply "Don't be evil".

P.S after my wife's PIP, it was determined that her skills could be be utilized on a different team, so she was given an opportunity that she continues to excel in today. Cheers!
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The key there is that every car that passed through that part of town during that hour or so did the same.

You can set up checkpoints as per Federal law (though your state may vary--some states have provisions against it, in which case your recourse is to state, not Federal law). However, these checkpoints must be indiscriminate: they have to stop everybody that passes them while they're active.

A cop cannot just pull a single car over to see what's going on. He has to have reason.
I really don't see the similarity here. Threatening to leave a locale is completely different from asking for a specific amount of money up front.
Except they didn't do #2 and instead just released it. That kind of kills the blackmail value, doesn't it?
The part I find most interesting here is I'm working on something mildly similar in my spare time. Though it'll certainly be more limited than something a big company like Facebook can come up with but I'm tired to sending all my data every time I want to do something so I'm trying to squeeze this into a phone without the need for the internet to, at least, process commands. Oh and extending it will only require a little bit of JavaScript.

But I'm far away from launching it and it's only a side project. But it's cool to see so many in the space doing something I also want / wanted to do.
My wife found my email in the Ashley Madison database
If the accelerator business on the whole is terrible, what sets Y Combinator apart and makes it a good company in a bad market - earning at 10% annual returns, 30% IRR as noted further up in the thread?

Is it YC's human resources, position in the market, branding, some combination?
The PA does not work for you, it works for FB. It has only FB's interest's in mind. You are not it's employer as you do not pay for it.

It's not in FB's interest to make honest recommendations. If Bob's Burgers is paying $1000/mo in FB ads, but Karen's Burgers keeps being recommended as the "good burger joint", how long before Bob stops buying ads? And why would Karen start buying FB ads since she's getting exposure for free?
In the grand scheme, it's not nothing at all, and treating it as such is how these "nothings" get so damned big in the first place.

But again, it's super easy to spend money that isn't yours, to fix problems you don't really understand. It's just not very often useful.
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There's a 10,000 year clock meant to get people to think long term. Presumably, GP is saying they consider the tsunami stones a source of inspiration.

The website for the clock itself has been on HN before. It can be found here: http://longnow.org/clock/
Dumb question but since they are still only working on how to contain the reaction, how exactly do you extract power from fusion?
Florida's Sunshine Laws [1] do provide a very high amount of transparency, and are a model that should be replicated across the US.

[1] http://myfloridalegal.com/pages.nsf/Main/DC0B20B7DC22B741852...
Top accelerator in the world. Even so I find sama's comment further up about not encouraging people to start an accelerator quite funny.
Great infographic, but unfortunately it misses my favorite juxtaposition of temperatures:

Surface temperature of a red dwarf star (e.g. Wolf 359) 2500 C

Melting point of tungsten: 3400 C

I find the idea of making balloon-like objects out of tungsten and gas, with a density less than that of the star's photosphere, and floating them around on the surface of a star to be intriguing. It would be a great location to put a heat engine. A totally sci-fi idea, I know, but still interesting to think about.
I recall reading interviews of some top mathematicians (probably at the end of the Princeton guide to Mathematics), who stated that they couldn't work on their problems deeply more than a few hours a day. The rest of the day would then be spent attending seminars, reading papers or typing.
So yes, it is perfectly normal to be "mentally exhausted" after uninterrupted hours on a mentally challenging task, albeit you could probably spend 9 hours straight on some routine programming without problem, except perhaps boredom.
I was on WotMud for years! Small world.
What are you on about? More like "the dangers of compiling random, in-development software". The same will happen with non-funded open-source projects or proprietary software (except that with the latter you can't do it as an outsider)
....no, not really.

"If you do not do X, I will do Y" is very much the ransom formula regardless.
>Job hopping only became normal as a side effect of massive layoffs, union busting, and other anti-employee tactics.

Wrong. I've done it because it's the easiest way to actually get paid what you're worth.
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This seems a bit analogous to people winning the lottery. In other words, a one time windfall without structures in place to handle it isn't likely to make a lasting difference.
For those who don't care to click links to see what they're about:

Face detection for cats in JavaScript (github.com)
80 points by stevewilhelm 1062 days ago | flag | 36 comments
That's exactly my problem, I can't work for more than 5-6 hours because of exhaustion. But in my case, I'm still in school and work full time, so that may be part of the problem.
(3) They're in it for the lulz, and realized that going after an unsavory company with unsavory clients they'd create a Schadenfreude-fueled media sensation they'd have extra lulz.
Money is irrelevant to the problems of Newark schools. The problem that plagues Newark's schools is old-fashioned segregation [1]. The whole district is segregated, but individual schools are worse. Here's a school I literally just randomly chose: it's 2% non-Hispanic white [2]. If Brown v. Board disappeared tomorrow, no one in Newark would notice.

[1] http://www.nps.k12.nj.us/district/info/
[2] http://www.zillow.com/newark-nj/schools/louise-a-spencer-ele...
Any news on his second donation to Bay Area schools? Was anything learned or just another well-intentioned boon for useless consultants?
Legacy codebases like that tend to run on outdated operating systems, so addressing issues with buffer overflows in the software would probably do little to improve the security of the systems as a whole.
Of course they are both "bad" - it is a matter of degrees.

One is a lazy, immoral company started on a whim that took off and "surprise" they ran their business in a lazy immoral way.

The other is government sanctioned, taxpayer funded, broadly used abuse of police powers without oversight, based on a law that is 30 years old.
You're a grade A anti-pedant. Please hang out on HN more.
I, personally, am completely willing to see dairy farmers go out of business because they can't compete with imports.
You're basically saying "don't support Linux unless you're prepared to spend 50% of your support budget on 5% of your customer base."

And then people wonder why so few devs support Linux.
Thanks for publishing these! They're pretty interesting and they certainly paint YCombinator in a really positive light. It would be pretty awesome to see a roll up regarding the failed companies and aggregated reasons why they failed.

At a certain point you can only learn so much from other's failures but it would be interesting non-the-less.
They don't treat Woodsworth voters like that.
I remember the hype around this announcement, and yes, everyone expected it to turn out differently.
Reading through this article I am unclear on why anti-virus is now supposedly dead.

It reads as though anti-virus is being shifted to the endpoints. That is, viruses are detected right on the network rather than on end-user machines. Is this accurate?

It's really unclear to me what anti-virus is being replaced with exactly.
I've been on several SSRI/SRNIs. These shitty drugs made everything only worse to me (Paroxetine, Venlafaxine, Escital, etc.)

From top of my head:
- Constant diarrhea
- Heightened anxiety
- Trembling hands
- Gastrointestinal problems
- Inability to concentrate
- Anorgasmia

I quit this junk at some point. I also quit my corporate job and forgot about doctors. Exercise, cutting down stress, drinking tea and enjoying simple things now. I feel like I'm living again. I spent whole day sitting at park with book today, watching my daughter play and I'm very content.

It might sound like cliché, but that's how it works for me now.

Honestly, I regret that I've ever touched these silly pills.

From my current seasoned POV: depression is just a symptom that tells you that you aren't doing something right in your personal life.
In Germany, Lidl and Aldi do attract higher income brackets as well. It's not considered a freak accident to see a Mercedes/BMW/Maserati/Audi/Tesla parked in front of them. Also small-family diner owners buying there as well, as Aldi/Lidl often beat wholesale prices (Metro Group).

Of course, if you visit one in the red light district it's going to be a different experience.
In retrospect, what would have been the best way for Mark Zuckerberg's donation to have a meaningful impact on the Newark Schools?
...which is a link to

M, a personal digital assistant inside Facebook Messenger (wired.com)
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The "semi-true" was aimed as much at the explanation (cheap presentation, which can't be the sole reason, otherwise it would be too easy to successfully imitate) as at the quality of goods (which is often high, but not always).

Edeka and Rewe are already out of the cheap range. Mainstream with cheap options very chose to the discounters and very far from the prices in the tiny organic/luxury segment, but still clearly distinguishable from the strictly cheap places.
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You could remove all perverse incentives by putting all fines, fees, etc into a state fund that is paid back annually to citizens via a rebate of some sort.

All funding of government would come only from taxes. This would eliminate any financial benefit to the government from fines, fees, and asset forfeiture.
"I'm sure Larry and Jeff had good intentions when they started their companies but now that it's in the hands of middle management it's no different than any other big corp."

In russian, we have a common saying "царь-батюшка хороший - это бояре у него плохие". Loosely translated in english as "The King is kind, it's his the nobles that are bad." It is meant to be used as sarcasm.

Perhaps it is obvious, but in case it isn't: the meaning is that the person in charge of things is ultimately responsible and sets the tone for the rest of the organization, either by action or inaction.
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There is a great two-part story from This American Life [1] about this type of thing - it's a problem much bigger than Newark.

[1] http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/562/t...
In theory, some of the money could have been used for desegregation. It really is a tragedy that there was no big purpose to which this money was put.
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Consider how much healthcare costs Americans now.

Now consider how much cheaper healthcare would be without health insurance companies.

If you get the health service you have now, but without the insurance companies taking their cut, there's no reason it can't be cheaper than what you have now.

I was surprised when I learned that ObamaCare still included insurance companies in the loop, but I see now that it was a concession to get some political support behind universal healthcare, a stepping stone towards the healthcare system that Sanders is promoting.

I don't know of a single country that regrets having a universal public healthcare system. Perhaps there's a good reason that they're so popular, a reason that goes beyond the pure economics of paying for treatment.

When you're ill you want to focus on getting better, you don't want to focus on the financial burden you're placing on your family by being ill. It seems obvious for someone who's had it all their life, but perhaps it's one of those things you have to experience the difference to really understand what you're missing out on (or conversely how lucky you are).

My only experience of the other side was when I ended up getting pneumonia on a trip to NYC. Whilst there were elements of the care that were good, and I had travel insurance which covered most of the initial cost, I can say for certain that dealing with the financial side of the treatment was not something I particularly wanted to think about in my weakened state. It put me off wanting to live there, I feel sorry for those who have to put up with it year in year out.
The most surprising part of that story to me is that AC/DC is Australian. I had no idea. I always assumed they were Brits.