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I think its a red herring. KSP (and unity games in general) ship as either x86 or x86 and x64. Full output for ldd of both of them is here http://pastebin.com/KAYF4TFw
So he wrote some software that more or less copied extant software, which was well used. That's undergraduate thesis level stuff. Has he done much on the theoretical (CS/Math) side to justify an advanced degree? I'd argue not
Why not go through the interview process (perhaps as practice for companies you actually care about) and then if you get to an offer stage, politely decline then cite the reasons. Your decline should be much more visible as many more people past the initial recruiter will have met with you, etc. Might make more of a difference.
Depreciating functionality doesn't mean the functionality goes away immediately, it just means it's not recommended to use.

Mozilla isn't stopping people from using XUL by depreciating it, they're suggesting that developers should avoid it, as it'll eventually be taken away. The two extension systems will both be available until a sufficient portion of Firefox extensions have been migrated over to the new APIs.

Or to put it in another way, good news, they're doing what you said!
As a german, don't even know enough about Walmart to tell if they are in the same game or not. There are two mutually exclusive ways of doing cheap: you either take pride in being cheap our you try to hide it in everything but the price tag, aping pricier retailers in all other aspects (something Aldi or Lidl would never do, minimalistic presentation is the core of their brand identity).

The pretend-premium version of cheap simply would not work in Germany, because kills trust in the value of the actual products sold. Over decades, the (maybe at most semi-true) idea that products bought at Aldi or Lidl will provide high value despite their low price because all the saving comes only from cheap presentation has taken deep roots in the public consciousness. And this is where cultural differences really put Walmart in a pinch: even if they are firmly in the proud-cheap camp (which neither I not the general public would know), transplanting American service ideas like excessive greeting or the whole bag-packing thing (even just getting a bag for free is considered borderline wasteful) would give the exact opposite impression. Premium presentation, that combines with cheaply sourced goods into a very toxic "faux-quality" image.
how good or bad are those numbers? only 8/970 companies are worth > 1b and 40 are worth over 100M.

I assume YC is doing great for themselves, so I'm wondering, what is the rule of thumb to say an investment was successful? (for YC, knowing they invest cheap and early.)

Is it once a company reaches 10M? 1M? Where there is an exit?

It would be interesting to know how many companies YC says the investment was a success (either made money or will if no exit yet).
Number of companies we offered to fund yesterday for the first YC Fellowship: 32

That's a figure I was looking for (took the interview yesterday, didn't get in).
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Sorry!

From some blog post of yours, I took the impression that you invested in it, too. On re-reading http://blog.samaltman.com/energy I see my mistake.

I'm correcting my comment.
DC Metro is still crushed under the weight of their (~10,000 person strong) staff.

DC Metro, while having an annual total ridership of 115 million less than the Philadelphia system (330.1 million vs. 215.3 million trips), has a personnel cost ($1.3 Billion of their $1.8b total operating cost) greater than the total cost of the Philly system (with 9,000 person staff).

You're missing the point if you're only looking at the specifics of ticketing kiosks.
Are they comparable? I thought UE was geared towards FPS while Unity was more generalist.
Thanks! We have considered using HLL, and it's a pretty cool algorithm.

For us, however, it's important to get the set members at the end of the day. Amplitude is unique from other analytics products in that we put a lot of emphasis on the actual users that correspond to a data point on a graph -- one of our key features, Microscope, is the ability to view those users, see more context around the events they are performing, and potentially create a dynamic cohort out of them. As such, approximations that don't allow us to get the set members don't quite satisfy our use case.
A few clarifications:

- When you say "you don't do anything other than send in a form", I presume you mean the form applying to graduate 'in absentia'. That's a common, but optional, route. You can also choose to attend a real graduation ceremony.

- The basic university education at Oxford (and Cambridge and Dublin) always culminated with the award of a Master's degree. The age of entry and the number of years of study/residence changed.

The most coherent explanation I've seen for this is from Jonathan Jones: http://urchin.earth.li/oxnet/FAQs/ox.FAQ.html#33

- The Bachelor's/Master's (or baccalaureate/magister) distinction as it exists today is a relatively modern invention, according to Wikipedia[0].

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_of_Arts_(Oxbridge_and_D...
great to see YC growing, congrats to qasar younis. this quote in particular is interesting: "If anything, we wanted to be more of a distributed version of Google one day and wanted to be able to allow innovation to happen without it being under one particular company.”
We're getting into the nitty-gritty of he said-she said, leaks, etc. Maybe after a secret proposal is rejected, Israelis can not admit having proposed those things (since in the next round of negotiations, that will be the starting position that must be improved on).

The point is that there are proposals put on the table regularly. They probably do not include all things Palestinians want (Jerusalem, right of return) - but they never will. So all they have is sitting with nothing in relative squalor while waiting for a city upon a hill.

Parent comment asked me what I would do in their shoes - I'd say 'Ok, fuck this, I'll take what I can and build a life out of it - because otherwise my grandchildren will live in the same conditions'.
I like the appearance of prompts like this, and I've tried them a few times, but I always find myself turning them back off the first time I cd into a large git repository and have to wait a full second or two for the prompt to return. git is fast, but the prompt needs to show up instantly, and git isn't instantaneous on repositories the size of Linux or Chrome.
Patents are awful because even when they are valid, they are terrible at providing social benefits and are much more effective at securing wealth for the upper classes. This is why they have been around so long, and why those upper classes are fighting so hard to strengthen their reach (TPP, etc). Patents are not the most effective way to encourage technology development, and they should certainly not be allowed to devolve into corporate property that is used to flog money from the rest of us.
Have you tried "Verbatim" mode? It's available from any Google results page as Search Tools -> All Results -> Verbatim.
> Number of companies in the last batch: 107

Wow.

Just wow.
Sounds like the bad publicity did help, but as the problems moved, the publicity didn't follow. It also sounds like local governments were more than complicit in allowing these new problems to fester.
I don't condone this hack, but morals/ethics aside for a moment:

The one positive thing this hack has done is really give serious ammo to the battle for online privacy, because the demographic hit by this hack is the most politically & economically powerful demographic in the world....
Even so, Angry Birds 2 has a level of polish that makes the original look like some indie side project. If there's such thing as a AAA casual game, this is it.

This is absolutely true, but for me it just drives home the message that indie gaming is far more interesting than the latest AAA titles. The sequel is just the same game without any of the originality of the first one, and it was that originality, that joy you get from finding something new and exciting, that made the first game worth playing.
Sanders and Clinton are competing for the chance to run as the Democratic candidate. Similarly Cruz, Trump and 10 others are running for the chance to run as the Republican candidate. Its customary that the losing candidates will get behind the winner and endorse them, uniting their party behind a single person after a divisive primary campaign.

However, Trump doesn't see it that way. He feels that if he doesn't get the nomination, he will run as an Independent candidate. He doesn't stand any actual chance of winning but he would claim some of the Republican votes (say 5-10%) on election day, making it a cake-walk for the Democratic candidate.

Why would he do this? Its blackmail. There's a good chance the heads of the Republican party would sabotage his campaign because of how unsuitable he is. This threat keeps them from doing that, because they would bury their party's chances in 2016.
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They have paternity leave, too. You're making a claim that can actually be verified so if you have any information to put forward, please do.
> ::shudders:: Tri Alpha is not backed by me.

Why the shudder?
I remember when "Breaking Bad" started airing in Europe, people were calling the premise of the plot "unrealistic" and the media had to explain how health care (didn't) work in the US and how people who get cancer can basically fuck their whole family financially.
Interesting way to bury the lede that 32 companies received a Fellowship offer. The estimate was 20. (http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/20/y-combinator-just-introduce...)
Fusion is one of those areas that would benefit greatly from Public R&D. It's really sad that we've spent almost nothing on fusion research for the purposes of producing affordable electricity in the last 20 years.[1][2][3]

1. The NIF is and always has been a sideshow for the Nuclear Weapons development research that goes on there.

2. US last serious investment was the TFTR back in the 90s. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/20/fusion-energy-react...

3. IMO ITER is a joke, too large scale.
They won't pay you for it.

Remember, states like England passed laws expropriating land titles from yeomen in order to put it into the hands of bourgeois property holders.

If they could take your labor, they would and if they could take it without paying you, they would. They have. They will.
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One positive thing this hack has done is really give serious ammo to the battle for online privacy

How?
Many countries or cities have policies that make giving away plastic bags expensive or even against the law (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-out_of_lightweight_pla..., http://www.eupackaginglaw.com/packaging-and-recycling/free-p...)
What. My ballpark would have been five or less + maybe 200 support people to handle all the issues with having that many customers.

It is a relatively simple website that allows you to search apartment listings - essentially a very pretty CRUD app.

What are the rest doing?
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That's because the US has turned into a defacto buyer-coalition system where you have to pay to join a club (health insurance provider) which negotiates rates with health care providers. If you don't join such a club, you get charged rates that can be significantly higher (read 2x or more).
I'm in Northern California. My lawn is dead. I can get over it. Run the purple pipe into the aquifer already like Santa Ana does.

"When you flush in Santa Ana, the waste makes its way to the sewage-treatment plant nearby in Fountain Valley, then sluices not to the ocean but to a plant that superfilters the liquid until it is cleaner than rainwater. The “new” water is then pumped 13 miles north and discharged into a small lake, where it percolates into the earth. Local utilities pump water from this aquifer and deliver it to the sinks and showers of 2.3 million customers. It is now drinking water. If you like the idea, you call it indirect potable reuse. If the idea revolts you, you call it toilet to tap."

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/10/magazine/10wastewater-t.ht...
Patents lower the playing field. Without them even if you develop an amazing product a big manufacturer can rip off your design and sell it cheaper than you can.

The biggest problem with the patent system is trolling. Which is actually a wealth transfer downwards. Smalltime inventors and lawyers extort F500 companies.
RTEMS certainly is a real time operating system. It was initially used in missiles and the original meaning is Real Time Executive for Missile Systems. Later adopted for generic military, scientific and space use.

I think it is a great open source RTOS. FreeRTOS and Contiki are good but not really comparable. Their focus is on smaller more memory constrained systems.
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From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10124308:

Number of companies we offered to fund yesterday for the first YC Fellowship: 32

That's a pretty steep cut-off from the number of interviews (~120).
Yeah, makes sense. Strategically, I would plan for more and more cores like the author suggests, though.
Functional consistency is easier on your visitors, while visual differentiation (the actual pictures you select, mostly) helps identification of your site.

I wouldn't call it "conformity" at all.
"more about elbow-grease than intellect, but Stallman has that in spades"

Technically a lot of it is sebum.
The dominant issue in the campaigns right now is illegal immigration.

That's right: probably the hardest working people in the country, doing the jobs nobody else particularly wants with a smile on their face, saving money too, with research proving they have lower crime rates than citizens.

This is what the "electorate" is most focused on.
valid points but to be fair this thread is referring to google not amazon.
So from what I can tell this is not in any way a security issue or anything new. If you can LD_PRELOAD a library when running a system executable, then you can backdoor it trivially since LD_PRELOAD is designed to allow you to substitute existing symbols with your own symbols. The use of go here matters not at all, and this is not an attack against system executables that use go.

Of course, you can't, as an ordinary user, start system executables with elevated privileges and set LD_PRELOAD.
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That is the ultimate truth. If Bezos really stands by what he says then he's got to root out and cut out the [managerial] cancer is his company.
My first thoughts were indeed of the Unity desktop. Then as I read the article, the confusion and realization set in.
Just to elaborate - this has been a popular joke among physicists for some 50 years as fusion power was promised already back then.
There's a difference between allowing people to take parental leave (eg their legal requirement) and actually supporting it.

If they only pay lip service to the letter of the law and you return to find your job effectively gone, then that's still crap treatment that will disproportionately affect one gender, given the usual length of maternity leave compared to paternity
It's the exact opposite of what Nintendo does with Mario. Mario is used to brand a wide variety of different games. If Nintendo isn't sure whether a game will be successful, they slap Mario and his friend on it and call it a Mario game. Golf, racing, party games, pinball, platformers, EVERYTHING has had the mario label used to pull in potential audience.

Rovio has done precisely the opposite, and tried to rebrand the same game with different themes, like Star Wars. There's nothing new under the aesthetic changes.
Probably :) I played on quite a few muds back then. Lost Realms and Moment in Tyme were the biggest and then I played on some WoD MUSHes. I recall WoTmud. I sometimes go back to my old haunts and see what's up.
I've been through this multiple times. We had one employee who has had three kids over the last five years, and each time has taken 3-6 months maternity leave. We have bent over backwards to ensure that she is not denied any opportunities and that we cover for her. She's great, and the last thing we want to do is lose her because she feels she has to make the choice between the company and her family.
I'd argue that for public APIs (defined as API users don't site next to/are the same as the API devs) this concern with "getting out of date" is moot compared to the benefit of detailed docs.

If anything, it's the API signatures that get out of sync with the user's needs. And as anyone who's ever tried to deprecate public APIs will know, it's a real pain, frustrating to users and devs alike.
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And has some neat CCL-specific features like the process window, etc. I'm not knocking it. :)

Still a bit of a shot from the "Haskell for Mac" type environment I'm interested in developing.
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It's true the weight and shape of the bob will have an effect on the air friction applied to the system, but for a pendulum of this scale, the effect of adding a coin or two will be a negligible change in drag compared to the relatively significant change in the pendulum's center of mass.
This seems awfully meta - as the AM hack revealed 30m people to have lost any real privacy in the digital age, the person seemingly / likely / possibly responsible is hunted down and much of his life laid out like a private investigators report through his digital trail.

It's curious - we are all being affected by the new digital pollution
It's literally the next phrase in the sentence:

> because the demographic hit by this hack is the most politically & economically powerful demographic in the world....

They're saying that because those affected have the ability to actualize change, it's more likely that some action will be taken to further online privacy.
Honestly if we were prepared to take 320 that would have been good. The quality was outstanding.
>It is nothing more than modern-day slavery

Only if you believe you owe nothing to your country, and you have some god-given right to roam carefree and enjoy what others have helped build.

Coming from a country with actual experience of having to live under foreign occupation, you come to see things differently.

Of course if you're country is unchallenged and mostly occupies or bullies other countries itself, then that's another thing. But in actual historical real life, and for most countries who are not the US (e.g. who had suffered wars and invasions instead of creating them), you get to live in a free country only if you defend it.

>with a nice topping of state-sanctioned gender discrimination (considering that most countries with this system require only men to enlist).

That was actually meant with the exact opposite intention, so that women won't get involved in the mess that is war. The same way on a sinking boat it was "women and children first". Only over-exposure to PC BS would make people see that, women not getting machine gunned in some barracks for example, as "gender discrimination"....

(Not to mention the second complaint contradicts the first, like in the famous joke: "― The food in this restaurant was terrible", "― Yeah, and so small portions").
Seems to me that the bubble bursting has nothing to do with it. No matter what your valuation, sooner or later you have to show profitability. Those that aren't going to make it if the bubble bursts probably aren't going to make it anyway. The bubble bursting may make it faster, but it won't change the final outcome.
Ah, another internet witch hunt. Good thing this account seems to be taking credit for it. Otherwise this could've been ugly.
You'd think the 1986 law that allows any entity in the government can read anyone's email is bigger ammo

It's the ultimate hack, because it's in plain sight and somehow no-one cares.

But run your own private email server in your home to prevent warrantless abuse and everyone loses their damn minds.
The question is not just when we will have the tech, though. It is also when the tech will have an impact. A perfect Rust compiler only improves the safety of new (or rewritten) code.
Any proprietary software maker will need to train its employees on their software as there is no existing knowledge pool to hire from.
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Also, suing your previous employer ends your career. Prospective employers will see you as a troublemaker and no one will hire you after that, even in a different field.
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Another solution is labor union.
If you look at the list of the top ten wealthiest IT companies, other than the US you are talking about Taiwan, South Korea and Japan, all of which manage to have social provision for such luxuries, as you put it.
Does it use inline PGP or PGP/MIME?

(On an unrelated note, I wonder if there's anything on mobile that supports PGP/MIME. K-9 Mail only knows about inline.)
This is going to have some long-lasting repercussions on the industry. I fully expect there to be a push in the legislature to require PCI-like compliance from anyone who takes "sensitive data". That would have very serious effects for the startup community.
What does it mean by saying "got their start with us"? I believe many companies have been around for awhile before YC. Many already with revenue, traction and funds raised (although this might be the exception to the rule?).
Is it fantasy that the payday would be significant enough that a decent lawyer would take the case on commission? Seems to me that a lawyer who had the resources to go the distance could totally make this an easy and profitable win for a client who's getting on with her life in the meantime.

Amazon's lawyers are probably expensive right? They also have to risk setting precedents and future cases not being so easily intimidated. Seems like they would have a lot to lose letting this go to court, even if they intend to drag it out.
You have a fantastic mindset in that you can call multiple billions of dollars "almost nothing"

Presumably, the operative fact here is that it would mostly be other people's money, and no one minds spending that wildly
To dissent with the others, I suggest that it stands for "pretext instead-of payment" rather than "performance improvement plan".

If you are ever given a PIP, polish up your resume and look for a new job, immediately. Your company is trying to fire you without giving you either the grounds to sue them or compensatory payment. You will also need to record and regularly back up all interactions with your superiors until you leave. There is no meaningful way to recover from a PIP without a judge or union rep on your side. Your career with that company is over.
It's basically the strategy John Oliver used to raise awareness about government surveillance. Most people don't care about privacy until it gets sexual.

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Since applications are opening tomorrow, it would be interesting to have a breakdown of interviews/acceptances based on various criteria: sole founder, has revenue, has user, etc...

It would allow prospective applicants to think about whether to apply, and hopefully keep the pile a manageable size for the people reading it.
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Can you write a blog post on your experience? I'd be interested to see how closely it resembles YC.
Why can't both be bad and unacceptable?

Playing the shades of grey game is a great wait to force dissent in an area that should incite cooperation.