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Well, his argument is very logical and grounded in evidence. Hypothetically, robots could cause a problem but capitalism is currently tearing the fabric of society apart due to wealth inequality.

When I first saw this article, I said this to myself, "But robots...but matrix...but terminator" a few hours later, I realized the grounded logic he is conveying.

Currently, robots/ai are like the gun issues of today. Guns don't kill people. People do and legislating gun control is sticky (so is regulating ai).
The word 'colonize' evokes thoughts of British, Dutch, Portuguese, etc colonization ~500-200 years ago.

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?
SpaceX is a great example of the Google/Facebook situation. When you sell a service, and not a product people can take apart and reverse-engineer, you've got built-in protection from copying.

Pervasive Internet and the move to putting logic on the server definitely outmodes many uses for patents, though. Take Siri. SRI invented the technology, spun off a company with the IP, which was purchased by Apple. I don't think that transaction would've happened without patent protection. But today you have an alternative model. Instead of licensing voice recognition technology for integration into products, you can provide the algorithm as a service. Now, the source code stays safely on the server side where nobody can decompile it to figure out how it works.
Isn't a situation like this exactly the reason why one would have insurance in the first place? What other options does a homeowner have? Is there some second insurance policy they can buy to cover the numerous holes in the first?
"Angular will give you (...) likely faster dev cycles."

Faster dev cycles than React? Why do you think so?

Maintaining/developing every application can be pain in the ass because of its complexity. Speed of development cycles depend not only on technology stack, but also on good architecture, quality of code, inter-team communication and even a proper build scripts.

Off course framework also plays it part, but I don't know if Angular really is better to develop in. Actually I think that developing in Angular 1.* is pretty cumbersome and there is constant need of creation creative hacks.
Beetailer and Bitnami went through Y Combinator. They are both companies with Spanish founders.
As everyone is suggesting alternatives here, one more vote for KeePass with Dropbox (giving you use 2-factor authentication with Dropbox), KeeFox + KeePass2Android. Lovely, free, relatively secure.
> The President of the United States is the only person in the U.S. government that can sign and negotiate treaties.

So far so good.

> Congress has no role in the treaty process except that the Senate must be notified in the event the President has made a sole-executive agreement.

Quite wrong. Go reread article II: the President's treaty-making power is subject to the "advice and consent" of the Senate. What that means is that the President can negotiate and sign all the treaties he wants, but none of them have force of law until the Senate gives its consent, expressed through a supermajority approval.

Sole executive agreements -- which are not exercises of the treaty power -- are limited in scope to things the President would be, with or without dealing with another state, empowered to do through executive action.

Of course, just because something is negotiated like a treaty doesn't mean it is a treaty. It can instead be, in effect, a sole executive agreement to seek a particular change in domestic law, which is then effectuated through a normal law, rather than treaty ratification. Which is, actually, how many trade agreements, including TPP (and, earlier, among others, NAFTA) work. Its why "Fast track" authority is a big deal, because it effects the rules in Congress for considering laws which are implementations of such trade deals.
Or a mainstream sci-fi fan. That's pretty much one of the major themes of the well-known Mars trilogy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_trilogy
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I had been a software engineer for 2 years when my friend and I got a year's worth of money to build a startup for an idea I had. The timing ended up not being right due to family reasons, so we ended up not doing it. It was really disappointing, but I knew it was the right thing for my family.

Four years later, I'm incredibly glad I didn't do it. I'm convinced I would have made bad technical decisions and doomed the company. I'm not a perfect software engineer now, but I'm worlds better than I was. Writing and deploying software on someone else's dime has given me invaluable experience, and I'm certain it's prepared me to be successful in my own company some day soon.

While at a big company, I'd still encourage you to work on side projects and see where they go. Doing that will give you even more experience in building an MVP.
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LastPass works really good on Linux.
> The democratic process is working, you are just misinformed. The only person you should be blaming is the President.

That's a little too quick.

1. You're overlooking the Senate's constitutional "advise and consent" role in the formal treaty-making process. (Art II, s. 2, para. 2) This is typically understood to require the Senate to adopt a resolution of ratification with a two-thirds majority. Even for a executive agreement which require acts beyond the president's legal competence, the Senate is required to enact implementing legislation.

2. Just because the process is Constitutional doesn't mean it is democratic. It is at least possible (and certainly not impossible by definition!) that the U.S. has some lawmaking processes that are not democratic.
From a quick reading it looks like homogenization may make fatty acids more accessible to lipase (greater accessible surface area, maybe also charge interactions?). Of course enzyme activity is also a function of pH and temperature. If it was a chilled storage tank, perhaps the taste was different because lipase had not yet had a chance to work--if homogenization happens before pastuerization, it could cause some breakdown after storage but before heat-moderated lipase inactivation.

I have some formal training in biology, but I'm certainly no expert and may be incorrect. What I do know is that dairy systems are complicated.
Yes, I think we will have to do something here. I keep hoping the local governments will fix this and keep being disappointed.

I was really excited by Campus, and hope we see a lot more startups with similar ideas.
An application preceded by what you just wrote is DOA
It's 2015 and you've never heard of Social Engineering?

It takes a small attack surface and multiplies it exponentially, making you more vulnerable to any criminal out there.

Is not wanting your identity stolen enough of a reason?
I think you'll enjoy this then: http://www.mobstr.org/

My favorite: http://www.mobstr.org/red/

(Click next in the bottom right corner, some people miss it! This is the exact "non-stop battle" sort of thing you're talking about.)
Is there anything you think we (hackers/techies living in SF) can (or should) be doing to make housing in San Francisco more affordable, apart from voting no on Prop F and Prop I?
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Find something you can offer then and help them with... And be a hustler.
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Retirement savers are not churning their portfolios and are thus not paying anything to HFT. Not a strong argument.

Making money making markets takes risk capital. i.e. Money. The money makes more money. Fact. I agree. But don't blame HFT. Blame finance. That is how finance works. I see a completely legitimate case for being anti-finance. I don't see a legitimate case for being anti-HFT only. Indeed, the opposite, if HFT reduces the bid/offer paid by the average retail investor. Which it does. Fact.

Do you know who hates HFT even more than the general public? Human market makers. I think that says more than any of my arguments.
I agree. I've always thought of HFT as a way to let liquidity flow between exchanges, with a payoff equal to the degree to which the inter-exchange spread has been decreased. If the inter-exchange spread is wide, there is some value to be extracted from that spread, and HFT provides the (in my opinion) valuable service of extracting that value, making the market more efficient as a whole. The more people that are competing in that market, the smaller the value the HFTs can extract, until the actual market participants on the exchanges are only paying fractions of a penny for the privilege of buying shares "originating" from another market that has higher liquidity. I can't really see how this could be a bad thing (given enough competition).
It might be better to look at rkt with a kvm backend if you want/need real isolation and resource limits. Maybe docker will provide isolation/security at some point, but the core differentiating thing about Docker vs OpenVZ etc is ease of use -- explicitly forgoing much of the security and isolation possible in the underlying technology.

From what I've seen, trying to bolt security and isolation back onto Docker is generally a bad idea.

That said, when people have done the work to make microservices deployable under Docker, they have in general laid the groundwork needed to run these services in a truly isolated environment. So in that respect Docker is great; the effort to run something that works in a minimal Docker container in a jail/chroot/vm should be much less than starting from scratch; a lot of the assumptions about resources/dependencies should already be fixed.
Honestly yes, that's a negative. It'd be possible to overcome with a really good answer on how you will get the technology built, but it's harder than ever to be an entirely non-technical team--recruiting engineers is just so difficult and expensive.
I'm in the same awkward position. I've been a LastPass evangelist for years now. How can I abruptly switch to 1Password or whatever's most comparable to LastPass? The selling point I would make of, "Hey, this company exists solely to provide security to the world. They're passionate about using strong passwords and do everything in their power to ensure their service is both friendly and secure." wasn't just a talking point, but one of the primary reasons I ever used them in the first place.

I'm happy for the LastPass team that they were able to profit off their hard work, but I'm leery of what this means, not only for the hundreds of my passwords and notes LastPass has in its vault, but what sorts of "features" LogMeIn will want to forcibly integrate into the product--and then charge 50x my lowly $1 a month contribution.
I completely agree that liquidity is first and foremost, and that in today's market structure HFT drives a lot of it. Retail enjoys a lot of the benefit, because trades in the $1,000s - $100,000s range probably aren't enough to slip the market. But is ultra-low-latency the ONLY way to bring about that liquidity? I have yet to come across any economic or technical reason why that has to be the case.

Also, slowing down trading doesn't mean eliminating HFT, it's a matter of what constitutes "high" frequency... I'd argue we're well past the point where incremental increases in speed result in equal gains in liquidity. And those increments now cost more than ever before.
1/With the rise of nuclear energy and space startups, What will become the dominate source of energy: nuclear, rare elements in space (Helium 3)or a combination of both depending on the use cases?
2/How will this affect the global energy industry?
He's right of course. It's essentially the "billionaires in gated communities guarded by robot drones" argument.

http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-robot-lords-a...

It's amazing how many things look like a tragedy of the commons (rather than a wonderful efficient market) when you hit boundary conditions.
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Because breaking encryption breaks it for everyone. If the cops can get your data, so can a hacker. There is simply no way to compromise. You either are encrypted, in which case nobody but you can decrypt your data, or you're not encrypted at all.

Remember the "TSA locks" we're all required to use on our luggage at the airport? Nobody but the government was supposed to be able to unlock them. But now anyone who wants to ruffle through your luggage can get universal keys for all TSA locks. What happens when that same scenario plays out with your bank account, your company emails, or any online store you've made purchases from?
I know YC was actively exploring a set-up in India sometime early this year. Not sure what the current status is.
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How much love from the programmer for their language and stack do you recommend for a software-heavy product ? I mean should one launch a v1 ASAP in language X even though this clearly isn't a language they love or should they spend more time looking for something they want to work with in the long run because the product will require a lot of work.

Thank you for spending time on HN on a regular basis! Would love other partners to do the same.
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This is very true. At the same time though, through the commidification of computing resources, as well as tooling continuing to advance, open source alternatives are reaching parity.

Humor me. When Gmail first came out, it was revolutionary. Now, you could host your own clone for $10-20/month using containerized Elastic Search indexing all of your email, with a small virtual machine ingesting your email from the internet, and providing it to you over JSON to your local mail client or through a web interface.

Voice recognition could follow the same trajectory. Computing power will increase, storage costs will continue to plummet (I've mentioned this multiple times on HN, but Samsung is predicting 128TB SSD drives in 3 years).

You don't need patents anymore, as you mentioned, because you can provide the service, not the underlying source code. But you still need to monetize quickly (if that's your goal), because the rising tide of technology can quickly supplant your lead with other competitors or open source options.
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If we're going to arbitrarily redefine terms, why not go with carpet-bagging? Or baby-mulching? Think how many more people would join you in opposition to "baby-mulching HFT".
You would express it civilly by making your comment be about the subject, not the person you're talking to. It's fine to say "I don't think it's right to do X", and explain why. It's not fine to say "Shame on you for X". That's an attempt to punish somebody. Shame is a social truncheon, and in civil discussion we don't pull weapons on one another.
> a bound on the information content of your CPU

Sure, though I'd have said "RAM". When you have a bound on information density, you naturally get a bound on worst-case memory latency provided you obey a fixed speed of light.
Any advice on differentiating such idea in the YC application, from the herd, building services (an app/website where good design, paired with user traction stands out)?

Shall we focus on?
A. Research side (the actual research ideas, tough to explain in 300 words, can be discussed in brainstorming session)
B. The product it will enable. (UI based concept demo, with product/market fit that will it will enable)
Hi Sam! Random question but I've read in a couple articles that your mom said by about 10, she would have been comfortable dropping you off alone in NYC.

As a new parent, I'm intrigued by this. What kinds of things did your parents do with/for you to foster this level of independence? What had the biggest effect on you, personally?
The boilerplate on there is only a start. Any time you read or write a Unicode string, or do any manipulation of the string, you need to consider possible edge cases, and they can be nightmarish.

Consider something as simple as outputting zero padded numbers (so they form a nice column in the output), except that the numbers might not be Arabic, zero might not be 0, they might not be written in the direction you expect, and padding might not even make sense. This is how you go crazy.
> evolutionary advantage

Language doesn't follow the same rules as biological evolution. For instance, prestige dialects often cause people to opt to use a less useful language for social status reasons. Pidgins can create amalgamated languages with essentially random features of the parent languages. Many language changes really confer no "benefit" at all, like a change from agglutination to strict word order (and back again).
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This was a bit disheartening to read. I didn't see a any problem proper versioning couldn't address. Breaking backward compatibility shouldn't be an issue as long as you generally don't break forward compatibility. I was under the impression this was what the POSIX_C_SOURCE macro was meant for.
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>You are ignoring the context of the article

The discussion went off course way before I dived in.

>Comes now 'cdroconnor. You're playing a semantic game. You're defining "HFT" as "bad HFT", and everything else as simple "electronic trading". FINE. Nobody disagrees with you, except on the very boring point of what labels to attach to things.

There is a very substantial non-semantic difference between robot-executed sub-millisecond trades (HFT) and trades which are are just executed electronically.

In every discussion about HFT the probability of someone falsely attributing the decreased transaction costs of "not shouting in a pit" to algorithms that execute sub-millisecond transactions approaches 1.

>But your argument here doesn't make any sense for the thread, because the good simple electronic trading you're condoning is also targeted by the cancellation regulation Clinton proposed

I'm no particular fan of that either. I'd prefer Italian style micro-transaction tax. That wipes out nearly all of the sub-millisecond trading and leaves the rest intact, including market making.
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Hi Sam, I am applying to the winter 2016 batch and I would like to ask you this:

- what is the exact purpose of the company description in the application, is it a mission statement?

- do you have examples of "something surprising or amusing that one of you has discovered"

- is it important for the evaluation process if another company has already succeeded in another market but with a similar approach as the one we propose? Should we talk about it in the application?

Thank you for your help
SpaceX isn't a charity. It exists to profit, even if it is funded by investors who are willing to accept not profiting in the short term to build the business to the point where it can operate profitably.

Now, in order to profit, it has to differentiate itself from incumbents somehow, and the opportunity it is built around to do that is regarding efficiencies that allow it to offer launch services at lower costs. But, it is competing directly with ULA for business, as a simple matter of concrete fact.
My thoughts mirror @wfo's, but more simplistically. It is a negotiation tactic. When seller A wants to sell something for $20, it is initially offered for $30. When buyer B's $25 counter offer is accepted, B is pleased with the result because they've purchased the item under asking price, while A is pleased for having sold at a premium.
They can hide profits from taxes but they still create jobs and spend money here.
This seems intriguing.
Sure, but there are many avenues of investigation that were previously available to law enforcement and still are. The question in my mind is does having effectively unbreakable ways to store data do more harm than good? I think it does more good. There are still tons of options available to law enforcement that worked in the past to catch criminals. The sheer quantity of data that is stored about each one of us opens up a lot of potential for harm (which has been massively abused). What we're talking about is simply a return to the state where if you want to gather data about a person you have to mostly start at the point when they become a real suspect not before.

You also can't get a warrant to peer into the other unbreakable data store - a suspect's mind. If there were such a technology would it be ok for it to be warrantable or should some things just actually be private?
Marketing is about figuring out what channel best works for your business and then scaling it up (what Dan said). Unfortunately, you cannot outsource this, until you have figured the channels out and chosen a few to focus on. Once done, you can then get someone who has experience in optimizing that channel and scaling the campaign up efficiently.

Adwords is amazing for validating your idea, but with the increased competition, it is becoming too costly if your LTV is not very high.

SEO takes a very long time (three years) as your domain needs to build authority. I would not bother about it at all, till I achieve product-market fit.

Look for other channels that your competitors are ignoring - channels like forums, or facebook ads, cross-promoting with a complementary product. Spend a fixed amount on each channel - say $500. You can then figure out which channel works best for your business.

As an example, for my self funded business, I did all the marketing and dev work for a year and a half. I tried adwords, facebook & twitter ads, buying banners on various relevant websites and forum postings. Once I had figured out the channel that converted the best (in my case forum sales threads), I hired someone for doing all the work in that channel.

If you want some suggestions on channels which might work, don't be afraid to mention your business here.
Do you think charging on day 1 is typically the smarter route (e.g. to better validate the product, prove the unit economics, etc.)?

We've been struggling with the question of when to monetize since there are also some strong points in favor of waiting. Some of those include avoiding a local maximum by way of pigeonholing yourself early, making it easier to reach scale and get feedback from a broader market, etc.

We'd love to hear your thoughts on this.

edit: To clarify, we have two monetization strategies that we think are especially viable—the question is when should a startup pull the trigger on their monetization strategy.
Facebook's explanation:

>Myth: The feature listens to and stores your conversations.

>Fact: Nope, no matter how interesting your conversation, this feature does not store sound or recordings. Facebook isn’t listening to or storing your conversations.

>Here’s how it works: if you choose to turn the feature on, when you write a status update, the app converts any sound into an audio fingerprint on your phone. This fingerprint is sent to our servers to try and match it against our database of audio and TV fingerprints. By design, we do not store fingerprints from your device for any amount of time. And in any event, the fingerprints can’t be reversed into the original audio because they don’t contain enough information.

>Myth: Facebook is always listening using your microphone.

>Fact: Nope, if you choose to turn this feature on, it will only use your microphone (for 15 seconds) when you’re actually writing a status update to try and match music and TV.

http://newsroom.fb.com/news/2014/05/a-new-optional-way-to-sh... (via http://www.computerworld.com/article/2490090/social-media/ba...)
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