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I like Larry Lessig but this is being more than a bit dissembling. He is quoted as saying he would pass one law and then quit.[1] And there are two huge problems with that, first Presidents in the US don't "pass laws" they sign (or veto) the laws that Congress passes. And generally if you're going to invest time and effort at becoming president and your just focussed on getting on law passed, how can we imagine you will do any of the other things you have to do as President (like stare down Vladimir Putin, or open up relations with Cuba)?

If Larry really wanted to change the world he would not be making some non-serious PR campaign like attempt at running, he would actually try to make change. And to do that he needs 51 Senators and probably 300 representatives on his side. And to do that he either has to convince incumbents to sign on to his plan or help get people elected who believe in what he is trying to do. And yes that is a MUCH harder road than just throwing up a few ads and claiming you want to be elected to the highest office of the land, but it is the difference between a mission and a stunt. He is very much in stunt category here and so the rank and file democrats don't take him seriously.

Donald Trump, for all is belligerence, has shown that you can get on to the political stage even when your nominal party hates you. The difference is that Trump can influence millions of people.

So if Lessig continues to out raise other members of the party, and can influence his followers to get his message out, and convert more to that way of thinking. Sure, he will get on stage. But I do not believe for a second that he believes "running for President of the US" is as simple or as straight forward as running for student body president. It has never been so and will never be so. I think Larry knows this, but I could be wrong.

[1] http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/view_from_ch...
My response to Hawking would be a question: Who or what is smart enough to decide how much wealth each person should have and design a efficient system to distribute it and what evidence do you have that the outcome would be better than a free market?
Perhaps by continuing to ignore it. Hawking has some weird (if somewhat common) opinions about AI, aliens, and I guess capitalism too. He should stick to black holes.

What annoys me is he often has the basic facts right. For example, fully general AI is dangerous (but not really because of Terminator-like scenarios); if there are intelligent aliens we should not expect them to be nice any more than mean, and there are good arguments to expect mean, and so we should be careful (but not because of the very unlikely scenario outlined in Signs); and in this case he's right that further automation of the economy will produce greater economic inequality, but economic inequality is a good thing, it's absolute wealth and poverty that's the real problem, and I'd bet on the trend of the poor not in fact getting poorer, on an absolute scale, continuing. See http://paulgraham.com/inequality.html
Been using it for years on multiple machines and iOS devices. Works great, and I happily pay for it every once in a while. I'd rather support a small company dedicated to this, than get a cheap product from a corporation with unclear goals.
> We also eat very healthy in general as a family. Lots of pasta with clam sauce, red sauce, alfredo sauce. Lots of vegetables. Avocados. Clementines.

I'd urge you to change your frame of reference from "certain foods are healthy or not" to "certain foods are optimal for certain scenarios." Pasta in clam sauce is a pretty calorically dense food, and while there is nothing toxic about it, it's difficult to argue that many people need another calorically dense food, especially one that is low in protein.

This is not to say carbs and fat are bad, but that for the vast majority of Americans they need to reduce carbs and fat and increase protein to move towards a healthy diet.

Relevant the op, and your point about milk being high protein, milk could be a way for this to happen.
Now that I've used the SP4 for a good 30 minutes, I've changed my opinion. The new SP4 type cover is vastly improved over the old one. I could use it as my primary input device.

In fact, I think it's actually a problem for MS! :) The reason why the Surface Book was so appealing was partly because the keyboard/trackpad just wasn't that great with the SP3. Now that they've improved the type cover so much, the SB seems less necessary.
It's called "Social Democracy", and yes, that really is quite a different thing.
It allows for a great deal of discrimination, both explicit where the inspector deliberately chooses to not help and implicit where the inspector isn't even aware they are discriminating.
If it's for an organization you should probably use KeePass, as all the data is kept locally by the organization.

Allowing any third party access to sensitive passwords sounds like a bad idea.
In 3 years I will move to US and apply to YC, but that's forever away. I want to start doing now.

Is there a checklist, or a blueprint, or a list of topics, or a list of books that you can recommend that will cover the most important/basic/low-level aspects of building a company? What should I be thinking about?

I'm looking for the backbone; I can work on figuring out the proper shape of what I'm building along the way.
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What do you think about a startup that builds its own hedge fund to finance itself through its own machine learning and AI algos?
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It's hard to envision how money in general would work post-scarcity.
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It's so hard to answer this generally. It really depends on the situation of each particular startup. We have funded many startups from Paris specifically with teams there; I'd reach out to some of them and see how it worked.
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Some people also convert a spare bedroom into an office and when they leave "work", they leave the office and close the door. The "fun" computer lives somewhere else.
>So electronic trading is what?

That great innovation where you no longer have to shout in a pit to get your trade executed because, you know, computers.

Virtually all trading these days is electronic.

>And HFT is

Algorithmic trading by computers that's "fast" (usually regarded as sub-second trading, although definitions vary a little).

The more you know...
> I fundamentally don't understand how capitalism will work in a society where scarcity is essentially nil. It doesn't make sense.

"A society where scarcity is essentially nil" is the part that doesn't make sense.

Particularly given the degree to which human experience of utility/disutility is demonstrated to be strongly influenced by relative rather than absolute conditions.

Relative abundance doesn't really substantially change the degree to which capitalism does or does not work.
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The biggest correlation is that teams that met recently fall apart much more often.

The shared history seems to be valuable for keeping teams together through the very though times of a startup.
An untitled URL (i.e., just a filename) is not easily found in my browser history and searches tend to find web pages, which is what most people read and link to.

I just did a quick search to find a NASA webpage with a link to this document, and it didn't appear among the top results AFAICT. I didn't spend much time on it, but that's part of my point: It's not easy to find.
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I've always found this logic quite flawed: we have capitalism, and we have wealth inequality, therefore capitalism causes wealth inequality.

As far as I am aware, every single economical system in history has produced wealth inequality, so replacing it with something else wouldn't really change much. It's been tried numerous times, and none of those experiments managed to solve the issue of wealth inequality in a sustainable way.

Capitalism is far from being an ideal system, but it works, and replacing it can cause only more pain for everyone. I can see the appeal of blaming it for everything; it's a handy scapegoat, "the devil we know" -- but I haven't seen many realistic proposals what should replace it.
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Here too.

I love Mailbox on my Android device, but it isn't stable on my mac. Even before El Capitan, with every update there was a bug - Once it was fixed some other bug popped up. Now, I can't even search through the emails.

Other than that, it keeps crashing.

Anyway, how do these companies take big reports? email?
I'm curious why YC chose to include a video in the application. Have you done any tests regarding bias towards people that present themselves well or are simply attractive? Or would such a bias be intentional since other people (i.e. investors) are going to be biased the same way?
> And what does a transition look like?

That's the crux of the matter, isn't it?
Your talks and latest actions suggest that YC is now more dedicated to making a better future, rather than helping individuals succeed. (thank you for that)

Our startup is a for-profit company. However, as a part of our strategy we are making a lot of medical data open sourced. Even if we completely fail, we will move the leave an extremely positive footprint on traditional Chinese medicine industry.
Q:
1. How would you suggest balancing good intensions for the industry with making money?
2. Should we reflect this in the application and how?

Thank you!
Nice idea, I like the clean design it has.

Would Android be supported soon?
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fwiw, this post has a good list of all the binaries included in the systemd project, and their reliance on PID1 or the systemd (systemd-init) binary (as they use the API).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9517040
Well no, I've never written a central architectural critique of systemd, only scattered criticisms across comments. I will nonetheless be remedying that soon.
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Got it. Thank you for the reply. We both work in technology, so we do know people but were honestly hoping YC could help us with a sort of road map. The idea is worth what we may have to overcome.
What is the difference between the USDS and 18F, it seems like a blurred line.
I am pretty sure if you have the tech to stuff, you have the same tech to see your own stuff coming back in a few ms...
Vancouver might be better. It has less of a tech sector, but frankly nowhere in Canada has enough of a tech sector to matter much; however Vancouver has the important advantages of being much closer to the bay area (2.5 hours flying time to SFO, 7 flights/day each way), being large enough to have a tech boom without completely unbalancing its economy, and actually being somewhere people want to live.
We're getting off track. The point is that the value of HFT is disputed. You claimed HFT reduced buy/sell spreads by a factor of 10, which is obviously false once one distinguishes HFT and Electronic Trading in general. If you're unwilling to do anything but deny the difference between HFT and Electronic Trading there's no point in having a discussion about HFT's benefits.
Well you did break them in and they are super comfy.
I think there is a great startup waiting to be started to figure out a new way for people to live in cities.
HFT on average narrows the bid offer. Retail (i.e. small) investors benefit. Human market makers lose out. Without HFT your little old lady retirement angel would be paying much more to a rapacious human market maker.

The point is that it is not the end users who are getting hurt. It's the old monopoly - the human market makers.

DISCLAIMER: I (was) a HUMAN market maker.
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The encryption happens in a browser extension or mobile app, or in client-side Javascript in the case of accessing it directly through their website.
Sorry, but it's pretty unlikely this is true. The biggest TDEE difference seen in studies is about a 300 calorie difference for people of the same weight (so not enough to have 150lbs people recklessly eating thousands of calories and not gaining weight). It's very likely you have members of your family who don't eat a lot day to day and eat a ton at family gatherings etc.

If I'm wrong here I have a lot of scientists who would like to examine your family.
My takeaway is that the galaxy is a much flatter disk than we think based on classic pictures of the milky way. The clouds that make it seem fat are just nearby rubbish, and the other wavelengths reveal there's nothing really there.

Can someone explain the dark streaks in the x-ray spectrum? (Edit: question is answered below -- they are gaps in observation, not actual dark streaks.)
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Thanks for the feedback. I think my product is an idea that sounds bad or confusing but is really solid or has the capability of transforming into something really brilliant. I just need to focus in. Ive shown large groups of people the product and they immediately understand it and always have one or two use cases for the product.
Unfortunately we can't do fine grained permissions like that on any common smart phone OS. You'll have to either take their word for it, or decompile the app and make sure they are telling the truth.
I took a stab at this here: http://startupclass.samaltman.com

I'm working on a sort of startup playbook. It's long but will hopefully be helpful.
So your personal, cultural instilled, biased intuitions is what drives you? And you think this is more reliably than science? A methodology designed to control for such things, that has brought us antibiotics, vaccines, pretty much all of modern medicine. You know what else feels good? Cocaine, but that doesn't mean it's good for me. The dangers of tanning isn't something invented by colluding scientists and Hawaiian tropic made up to push more sun tan lotion. It's testable and repeatable scientific fact that the sun emits harmful UV radiation that can cause premature aging, cancer etc etc.
This is my reaction whenever I hear someone suggest that "we should be rioting in the streets." I have daily personal struggles and work that I'm trying to pin down every day with all my energy. And my remaining time/energy go into finding a mate if I even have any at all.
If that were so, dark pools would have been around for as long as we've had public exchanges. Yet they only appeared on the scene after HFT did.
Why does the Apple one get special kudos? They just say they "don't allow government access to their SERVERS" - they never say anything about the data.
Because we moved away from manual memory management.

Why we'd we introduce even more basic manual variable change propagation?
Hillary will come down on the part of the market that hasn't contributed to her campaigns. Structurally, this means she will make it good for GS who will help write the legislation but bad for anyone else that doesn't belong to the financial hegemony.

Politicians say they're protecting the innocent, but really they're just tipping the scales for whoever is backing them. This is how they do.
I switched everyone from Lastpass to Dashlane some time ago. From my perspective it works better everywhere except Linux (where it doesn't exist). We currently use it across Windows/OSX/IOS.

It is more expensive than Lastpass, but this news suggests Lastpass was underpriced for a long time.
For YCR, have you considered grants from other foundations?

For instance, the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation is basically just looking for opportunities to have the biggest possible impact.

I think a lot of your future goals may line up: clean energy, global healthcare, etc.
I have been lazy about this recently. A buddy of mine who works on flash storage told me to do the same with any on disk data structures.

This post has pushed me to finally getting checksums in.
The model for how Japanese Manga or High Fashion is sold may have some input on this. Basically, the what people pay for is design time and marketing not production costs. So, artificial scarcity is often used to drives up prices. AKA normal is X, but limited edition red version is 10X.

The important thing to remember is I might place zero value on something, but as long as you can find a buyer then stuff has value.
I support their refusal to pay in this case. Its impossible for a policy to cover events that happened in the past. A policy covers an individual against specific events that may occur for a fixed duration based on how much they pay. The house was already damaged, likely decades ago. The house was inspected by a licensed home inspector before sale. Due diligence was attempted. Insurance isn't a product that allows you to buy damaged goods and have them repaired. It allows you to preserve the utility and value of existing goods.
I had a similar experience. My girlfriend watches a lot of Netflix. She was listening to Gotham when she asked me to look up the name of one of the actors on IMDB.

I fired up Chrome on my already opened MBP, typed IMDB in the search bar and the first result was IMDB Gotham.

I'm not going to speculate, but the coincidence was indeed surprising.
That is my home town! What do you guys do? I currently live in Campinas but would love to know Startups in SJC!
You've made it very clear how important it is to you that we call benign electronic trading --- and, I infer, electronic market making --- something other than "HFT".

What you haven't made clear is why you believe you're actually arguing with anyone here. I am 100% certain, because I've had the conversation with him multiple times, that 'kasey_junk agrees with you that there is such a thing as malignant electronic trading.

Exactly what is the controversy here? The people who are talking about HFT reducing spreads are talking about benign electronic trading, and none of them appear to be denying that there are other kinds of electronic trading.
They are all capitalist economies, like it or not, that is where the money comes from. If Europeans think that their particular country is not capitalist they are confused.
The detail you are missing is that there is a huge element of classicism. I walk everywhere. The people stopping me to chat me up are people who drive everywhere. They assume I am poor, which happens to be accurate at the moment but it is not why I walk. They recognize me. I do not recognise them. This creates a power imbalance.

I walk everywhere because of my medical condition. Your advice to not be different if I want to not stand out is one I am, in some sense, fundamentally incapable of complying with.

I am not actually antisocial. But I do see something incredibly problematic in the assumption, that you apparently agree with, that if I do not comply with the car owning cultural standard, other people have some right to butt into my life on grounds that I deserve it for the crime of being weird. I don't agree with you. Furthermore, given the default assumption that no car = must be poor, it is an abusive exercise of power to grill me and expect me to answer your questions.

Speaking to people does not by default have to involve butting into their lives in an offensive and fundamentally disrespectful fashion. Real friends do not start the relationship by pissing all over you.
Nope - no Linux client. Lot's of customers asking for one, too. There's a javascript client you can use on Linux, but a nice native Linux client would be ideal.
Sure, that's what I said. :)
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This link may help clear up the confusion between KeePass 1 and 2. (http://keepass.info/compare.html). As for the KeePassX, this was a port from the Windows KeePass 2 to mac OS X. But has now become its own program. I do not know if YubiKeys will work with it.
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To the upper right of that, another notable radio source is Centaurus A, the spiral-looking blob at roughly -50°, 20°.

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> it might make more sense to do something outside the US next

I hope it's not UK. Both UK and France, as well as a few Nordic countries are starting to become very anti-privacy/anti-security. I don't think it would be "safe" to start there in the long term.

Go Switzerland or Germany.
In the very early days of Loopt, I sat down with @kogir and Alok and said "ok, who is going to do what?" I was definitely not the best coder for large projects on the team, although I can crush either of them in topcoder competitions 10 times out of 10 :D, and I seemed the best at the 'business' stuff, so I focused on that.
Angular - Hello World is super easy but as you go deeper in Angular you become overhelmed by its complexity (mostly accidental) and limited by it. You will constantly think "how do I do this in Angular way" and after searching Stack Overflow you often end up doing some creative hacks to overcome Angular limitations. And debugging in Angular is hard, even error messages are super cryptic.

React - Hello World is also super easy but it's good to know about ES6, Gulp/Grunt and Babel (it's not necessary though. You will have just more syntax sugar). As you go deeper in React you’ll have to get familiar with recommended architecture and principles for React (flux architecture, unidirectional data flow, immutability etc.) and because React is only view/rendering part, you probably will be wiring React with something else (e.g. Redux or other library for keeping state and dispatch actions).

In other words: using Angular you'll have to deal with complexity of framework API but app architecture will be determined and forced by Angular. So probably you don't have to be good at programming to do Angular.

Using React you’ll have to understand its architecture and functional(immutable/without side effects) programming, but API itself is super simple. And there are super helpful error messages if you mess up something.
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I prefer KeePassX instead, so keep it in mind as well. While I wish there was an official version for mobile and it integrated into the browser, I almost like the separation as I've gotten used to it.
Sam, in regards to the YC research, do you actively go out to recruit scientists or do they have to come to YC to apply? Can you give a little bit more details on the recruitment process?

I have a friend who's a physicist working on graphene and he would really like to apply.
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> I click on the link and it opens in the browser like any other content

That's one thing I'm not doing. IME Firefox's PDF rendering is worse than external applications; it has trouble rendering many more files and the rendering is much harder to read.
Hi Sam, I am from India, do you accept Indian startups? If so do you have the rule of minimum two founders? Do you need the startup to have a product first? Also what do you recommend for a person wanting to start a company, I have an idea which seems good, but right now I do a job and can't sort of jump to YC, I'd like to do it sometime later though. Any thoughts?
Parent is probably referring to the secondary mortgage market (mortgage-backed securities), of which F&F now control more like 90%.
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