skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> When thinking of colonizing a new planet, is there any information about who will control the resources of the colony? Will the USA control Martian resources if we get there first or will it be a collaborative effort like the Space Station?

Once they're self-sustaining, I'd say the Martians will control Martian resources. Good freaking luck trying to exert power over people several light-minutes away.
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This is good advice! First came my love for sushi, then the condo, then the BMW, and now I can't live poor anymore.
Makes sense - for something like changing a light bulb, it could easily take a crew equally as long to drive to the location from wherever they are as it does to actually make the fix. Having the crew (or someone in general) going up and down every road every night looking for bulbs to replace would be horribly inefficient.
Is there a place for Tarsnap at YC?

Applying for YC funding doesn't make sense for several reasons:

1. I want to be king, not rich; everything I hear tells me that YC pushes companies to grow fast and increase their valuations, and that's something I fundamentally don't care about. I know that I'm stubborn enough that this would just result in a lot of frustration on both sides.

2. Tarsnap doesn't need the money. It's solidly profitable, and I honestly have no idea what I would do with investment money.

3. I don't want to live in the bay area -- not even for 3 months. Granted, this seems like it may be less of an issue now that it's possible for people with pre-existing conditions to get medical insurance; but the bay area is fundamentally not somewhere I can ever imagine myself wanting to live.

4. Converting Tarsnap into a US corporation would eat a lot of time and money. I completely understand why it's necessary for companies YC is going to invest in; but it's another reason why having YC invest in Tarsnap doesn't make sense.

I think YC and its portfolio companies are doing great and interesting things, and I'd like to be part of the community... but as explained above, taking funding doesn't make sense; when I applied for the YC fellowship (I know it was a stretch) you told me to apply for funding instead; and you haven't asked me to be part of YCR.

Is there some other option here?
How did you come about being President of YC (post your own startup)?
> The interference patterns can be washed out by decoherence: They vanish as the researchers admit gas into the apparatus, increasing the interactions of the molecules with their environment.

I know that this has been know for a long time, but it is nice to see a clear experiment that shows that decoherence has nothing to do with 'measurement' or 'looking' like most stories about quantum phenomenon try to imply. Nice to see this particular abuse of the anthropic principle laid to rest.
What is YCs (and your) opinion on the casual gaming startups? Has YC received many applicants in the past of that nature and if any at all, what were the things that concerned you and what did you wish you saw more of?
When looking at founder groups, do you shy away from or gravitate towards founders who were friends before the company/idea?
If done right can really be awesome , set up stack using hasicorp's consul(consul.io) and theres the option to change the TTLs and cache limits.If using the DNS interface the updates are relatively painless and nodes are almost instantly available when provisioned.
I think we're pretty accountable--if for example we started misusing information that would quickly become known and founders would stop applying to YC.

I think most things we do to help YC startups help the community in general. Think how much better the ecosystem for founders is now than 10 years ago! We take our responsibility as a sort of flag-bearer for the startup movement seriously.
A closer look at the man wrongfully accused of being the Boston bomber
Great! I'll submit the application asap.
Hi Sam. One of the questions in the application says: "If you have an online demo, what's the url?"

Do you expect a video walkthrough like what Drew Houston from Dropbox did in his 2007 application or do you expect a link to a live demo that you can click through?
You're the only voice of reason on this thread.

What we should be really scared of is a population whose majority clamors for democracy yet prefers to trust government over holding representatives accountable.

The problem is the people have been rendered powerless through mis-education to the point they've forgotten their non-interventionist history. Keeping guns is necessary but not sufficient for the government to fear its people.

People have also been convinced the only way to get educated is to go into debt, since independent thought is ridiculed on mainstream entertainment venues. That gives governments an opportunity to control what people learn.

It goes on and on but it all starts with what you rightfully noted, that this is no Capitalism, but Corporatism. I wouldn't expect a university professor (even an economist) to understand this finer point as I know first-hand those people either have approved opinions or they don't have a job in academia.

For those who only dabble in economics (and here I include up to Ph.Ds in Economics) here's a hint: if your economy only has one money, and its price is centrally controlled, as interest rates are by the Fed in the U.S., what you have is not Capitalism, because no saving of capital is taking place.
Hi danieldk,
My name is Eva Schweber and I work for AgileBits, the makers of 1Password. I just wanted to thank you for sharing your love of 1Password with the other folks on this thread!
I may be missing something, but I think the person you responded to was expressing that they fear you are setting up that exact situation: that there is no room for failure.
Nuclear energy faces a challenging PR environment.

Letting the public perception get so bad should be considered one of the costliest PR mistakes in recent history in terms of human and environmental cost. The problem is highlighted by the fact that many will disagree with this statement.

How do you see the way out of this?
Ok sure that sounds fun, could you email my office (SArouter@ycombinator.com)?
Good for beginners:

https://www.learnelixir.tv/

Similar to Destroy All Software:

http://elixirsips.com/

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Books:

https://www.manning.com/books/elixir-in-action

https://pragprog.com/book/elixir/programming-elixir

https://pragprog.com/book/phoenix/programming-phoenix
> 1Password stores its encrypted data 'offline', so 2FA does not make sense for their product.

Why doesn't makes sense in a mobile device?

> Even with LastPass offering 2FA, its just that, authentication,

Like Touchid
> They are all capitalist economies

They're all (as is the United States, for that matter) modern mixed economies; capitalism as a dominant economic system proper has been largely abandoned in the developed world in favor of systems which, compared to the then-dominant system named "capitalism" by its critics, systems with comparatively strong redistributive and central regulatory systems, and often a wide array of directly-provided State services, all reforms directed at mitigating the problems for which the critics that named "capitalism" were criticizing it.

Capitalism remains a significant ideology (particularly, surprisingly enough, among the capital-holding class and those who aspirationally associate with that class), and adherents to that ideology often misattribute the success of modern mixed economies compared to other alternatives to capitalism as a success of "capitalism".

Really, the difference between the US and European Social Democracies is between fairly small variations in the details of the structure of a mixed economy -- variations which can have a big practical effect, and are worth discussing, to be sure.
> 1. Aren't government positions notoriously underpaid compared to their private-sector counterparts?

Direct Federal hires could be underpaid compared to the private sector, yes. The government uses the General Schedule (GS) scale, which tops out at ~$160K after adjusting for cost of living (there's a base salary and a CoL adjustment). There are rules over who can go in what grade and what step which would likely preclude most SE folks from being compensated appropriately. Those with PhDs and masters degrees would find it easier to get into the appropriate pay band.

Contractors can make good money, and, accounting for not having the middlemen, the Feds should be capable of paying higher salaries for technical fields and still save money. If we're already magically reforming the government by bringing stuff in house (taking an act of Congress in many places; lots of agencies have caps on the number of employees, forcing contractor usage), then we should be able to also reform the pay scale.

>2. Doesn't that mean that "government software" would end up being written by below-average developers and be significantly worse than private-sector software?

Sadly, that's exactly what's in place now. The developers in general are already worse than in the private sector. It's not because of money, it's because of incentives. The Feds aren't good at killing bad projects or disciplining companies they hire.

What you'll see on your typical Booz Allen, Leidos, SAIC, Lockheed, etc. team is a lot of highly educated and experienced people--the government highly incentivizes both education and experience in bidding processes--that are useless. The process beats them down. It's not that they're dumb; they're usually not.

It's difficult to get through the government processes, especially when getting into cleared work. The hiring processes tend to highly favor previous government work, so you end up with the same pool of people. You can't easily hire new people, so you stick with what you've got.
I fully agree with your analysis of the shortcomings of the academic system, but that's really a lame response and suggests that you didn't think this through. We're not talking about people in their early twenties who can invest some years in crazy experiments without fearing the consequences. Researchers at that stage have invested a substantial chunk of their lives in their careers and many of them have families to support. It would be foolish of them to take such a risk. If your attitude is, fuck them, it was their mistake to take up a career in academia, you will not attract the best people.
For now we are recruiting them.

Someday we'd like to have a way for them to apply.
With all due respect to Sam Altman and everything he's accomplished, this is a pretty snarky comment that does not spend the time to thoughtfully answer the very real concern that OP presented. It's a huge risk to leave academia to participate in the possibly career-destroying alternative that currently exists. Academia isn't perfect with respect to career opportunities, but it does produce results.

There are many industries out there for which failure is hard - one of them is being an athlete in pro sports. If you aren't at the top, you won't make it to the pros. Not to say that a system that allows for failure is bad or good, but that I think it requires more thought than a simple response.
If you can get very efficient at it or you find the activity a source of leisure, then cooking your own food is a great cost savings. However, for someone in the tech industry the opportunity cost of not investing in themselves (i.e. coding, reading about code, meeting people, etc) for the same amount of time they are cooking (grocery shopping, food prep, cooking, cleaning, etc) usually isn't worth it.

To me cooking your own food seems like a penny-wise, pound foolish thing. Of course eating out healthily multiple times a day gets insanely expensive, so that's not really an option either. That's why I'm a big advocate of soylent.
Myth 1: they claim to not store audio or recordings. They could easily store keywords it detects from the mic.

Myth 2: they don't address what happens when you don't turn on the feature.

Edit to add: Overall they might not "listen to the mic" but they might be detecting words based audio data. It's all of matter of how you define things. Maybe to them, listening to the mic means playing an audio feed of the mic to a human being at Facebook, or software analyzing the full audio stream instead of a transformed/condensed view of the audio.
I also remember when LogMeIn changed the number of users allowed in the free tier of Hamachi (a P2P VPN) -- it went from 10 to 5 with no notice, just randomly disconnecting half of the peers.
I'm interested in your opinion on the potential for the disruption of the academic publishing system, and what role YCR can play in that. For example, making it easy for 3rd parties to reanalyze data generated/published by another group, then make that available so that others can easily compare different analyses of the same data. This is already happening to some degree, but getting raw data can still be quite difficult.

Will YCR researchers' publications be required to be open access?

Should it be possible for the peer-review process to happen in a more open forum than the judgment of a couple of handpicked reviewers? Some fields (such as mathematics) have seen this happen already, but it's not very common in other fields, such as the life sciences.
Kudos to NASA for improving their communications with the general public. This is exactly the kind of document I want to see-- broad yet appropriately detailed and decorated with wonderful art.

I am excited for a future where Mars plays a similar role in science as Antarctica. I hope that my two young daughters have the opportunity to do research on another planet if that's what they want to do.
You're missing the point.

The answer to number 2 is to be more than your job. To leave work /at work/.
Hi Sam, I am a recent transplant from FL to seattle to work for a tech company - it was a big move but I feel like it was worth it. Currently I work in more of a technical position but eventually I want to move to more of a leadership position as I see myself interested in driving business and solving logistical and business type issues. My questions in, what can you recommend for someone who wants to transition from a technical background to that sort of area? Thanks!
The link on your front page pointing at https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/Ahmedabad... returns a TLS error due to an akamai misconfiguration.

All the press releases in https://www.nanowe.com/newsroom/press-releases/ just show headlines, no content.

From your website, I'm having a hard time figuring out what your company actually does.
What is the "success ratio" about YC graduates?
Aka the "yelling 'Fire!' in a crowded movie theater is not free speech" exception. It's good for the guy who wants to yell "Fire", but is it good for the majority?

If you patch routers and 1% get bricked by some fluke, is that not a win for society?

Also, to rebut the "How dare you change the firmware on my router without my consent?!" point, let's not forget these were essentially unprotected routers at this point in the applied_patch vs known_vulnerability cycle. If you don't want anyone patching your router without your permission... SECURE YOUR OWN PROPERTY.

If I leave something on the sidewalk, I don't get angry when people cart it off / step on it. I especially don't get angry when they glue the broken bits back together and leave it on my doorstep with a note saying "We noticed this was broken. Superglue works wonders! Here's the number for a hardware store where you can buy it."
My name is Eva Schweber and I work for AgileBits, the company that makes 1Password.

I would just like to clarify that AgileBits never gets access to your data or your Master Password. It is either stored locally on the user's machine or network or in his/her own Dropbox or iCloud account.
https://endless-sphere.com/forums/ - Enthusiasts forum for all electrical vehicles and technologies.

I ride my electric bike to work everyday in Silicon Valley consistently beating google driving estimates by 10 minutes as I get to use the underused existing bike lanes while moving at around 30mph/50kph.
How is it off-topic? The comment Zikes was originally replying to is about users' trust in Facebook, and Zikes' comment is a notable (albeit long ago) quote from the founder of Facebook about users' trust in Facebook.
Improvements to the Energy Efficiency of Big Intel Cores [pdf]
Here's a poorly made video of the incident:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4s3qWYEm1o
I'm "more than my work". But that doesn't mean my work isn't a major part of me.
None so far, at least that I've seen.

I saw the slides and everything when they were first discussing this, but I havent seen any docs for actually using it yet.

Good things take time, though.

You might also try the irc, I'm away or I'd go ask 'em for ya.
Does it work with Linux, Windows or Android?
Or the Netherlands?
No matter what url I try to visit at https://segment.com I get an ssl encryption error.

I'm on android 5.0.1 in chrome
Yes.

I used to be an organizer for the Green Party so I am capable of very cynical views of the electoral system but also going door to door to get signatures, running candidates, etc.

In local races, even up to the state legislature level, I often know the people involved personally. I've had friends and acquaintances run for local offices as Greens, Democrats and Republicans. I even meet a congressional candidate from time to time.

For the presidential election next year the immediate thing on my mind is that I don't want to see a Hillary Clinton - Jeb Bush matchup because as much as the "Anderson-Horowitz politics" people on HN would find that easy to swallow, it would set a very bad precedent for our country.
Actually, in my experience the private-sector developers doing government contracts are well paid but are sub par skill wise. The software you work with, the slow procedures and the negativity surrounding failing projects ensure only the mediocre stay, which in turn results in longer and more failing projects. The good developers leave for startups etc.
TandemLaunch (www.tandemlaunch.com) is a close proxy, though still oriented to ultimately build technology companies (but still very deep tech focused). We are obviously not in the same scale league as yc, but we are in Canada :).
Some newspapers go further. The San Francisco Chronicle and the Houston Chronicle, among others, outsource their "fluff" sections to Demand Media. Demand Media is a company which has low-paid people writing content for click-troll sites. ("10 ways to ..." - that's them.)
Hi Sam,

Non-YC question here. I remember years ago at some of apples events loopt was featured on stage by Jobs (I think?) How did you manage to get that kind of promotion?

Thanks
Aaron
In New Zealand, http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/72854916/sky-tv-i...

"Internet users and Sky Television want to know if it will become a criminal offence to get around blocks on overseas online television services ... not sure whether that meant criminal penalties for people who used Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) to disguise their location and access online services that were supposed to be "geo-blocked" in New Zealand, such as the US version of Netflix.

Legal experts have said it is a grey area whether the use of anti-geo-blocking services to access overseas TV services currently breached civil law. Sources said the answer to that question could determine whether the Government might be empowered to make an exemption relating to VPNs, or whether their use to access overseas online television services would now need to become a criminal offence."
It's not a tax, it's the price of immediacy. You can either work your orders yourself (which doesn't in the least require speed), or you can pay a concession. It has always been this way and always will. HFT has made that concession the lowest it has ever been for the vast majority of market participants.
Hi themartorana,

My name is Eva Schweber and I work for AgileBits, the makers of 1Password. I just wanted to thank you for sharing your love of 1Password! We love our customers and with folks like you, is it any wonder why?
You probably want to add a description of your library to the title.
How does that compare with the expected binomial distribution?
True, but from what I know, it's much more of an old-boys network rather than any kind of stranger to stranger demo based conversion. People trying to make it that way tend to flop here, as there aren't many venues.
I think the most important thing is to keep learning. Expand your skills, try/work on a lot of different projects (because bigger companies usually have dozens or hundreds of different products, teams, and roles), which means you can probably find an interesting problem and learn new things.
Pick the brains of the more experienced engineers. Be curious. Don't really know how something works? Ask and learn! Meeting people and network. Who knows, maybe they'll be a cofounder with you or be apart of your team at your startup in the future.
Work on side projects and expand your interests! You usually have the time to work on side projects or explore interesting problems. I think it's important to do them, experiment with different ideas. Don't have ideas? Keep a notepad with the problems you face everyday. Discuss your side projects and ideas with your peers/coworkers. Most startups usually come from a side project
> They still don't have access to my raw passwords.
> They however do control access to the account.

From point 2, point 1 is trivial to change. All they would need to do is update the extension or add some javascript (for the web login) to grab your master password in the clear.

Sure, a local password manager like Keepass could provide a new version that posted my p/w, key file, and DB up to a server somewhere, but I would have to manually install it, and it would have to get around a local program executable-firewall. No such challenges with auto-updating extensions and/or JS served from their server (or MITM.)

I don't know if the acquisition makes them more secure or less, but having worked at large companies, I tend to agree with:

> I must admit I felt a bit safer when I thought it was a smaller, purpose-built company managing things.
OP updated this to specify that they saw cockroaches and immediately after saw the ads without searching at all.

The coincidence is certainly odd, but not entirely out of the realm of possibility, especially if this isn't the first time they've had cockroaches (ie. they might be in a demographic/audience segment likely to have these issues and be frequently targeted).

I would also add that FBX partners can leverage a massive amount of 3rd party data, such as search retargeting vendors that can serve ads as quickly as seconds after you've searched for something on one of the data sources they partner with (engines, toolbars, etc.).
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Admittedly, it's not the fault of the operator: it sounds like the entire arena was full of equally dishonorable people ready to start a fight. ;)

That sounds like a much bigger problem to me.
Are they different ? Is a construct that is built up and acquires a direction and momentum that grows beyond human reins and sense any different than a robot ?

They're both machines, which makes them distinct from humans and human decisions and human reasoning. We should neither be on guard against "robots" or capitalism[1] - rather, we should be on guard against machines in all their forms as they tend to affect humans without the safeguard of human reasoning.

I paraphrase Herbert:

Thou shalt not suffer a machine to rule over you.

[1] ... or democracy or catholicism ...
1Password is the only password manager that has been polished, feature complete, and low-impact enough to get me to actually use it. I gladly paid for it. If only all mobile browsers has easy ways for 1Password to integrate...
So... you're talking about self-driving RV's right?