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People don't like change.

Wealthy liberals in coastal communities are NIMBYs. The only time you get change is when the number of renters (and voters) greatly outnumbers the home owners.

Wealthy conservatives do not want regulations because changing the rules force them to reconsider their business.
And it is. How is it in the interest of TPTB to have weed legalized? Yet it is happening.
What do you recommend founders with families do when moving to the SV area for the duration of a YC batch? Take their families with them, or just move by themselves?
Yes.

What I would often do is over extend the binding and tear the book. If you take a minute or two and over flex the binding, you can get it to stand up with the pages spread out. Put other bits around the book, and the whole thing burns fairly well. Sure, some poking about might be needed well into the burn, but it's not all that much.

It's true, just full on burning the book never works. But sections of it work just fine. Burn a few calories prepping the thing, and it's possible to get a reasonable burn.

Frankly, I wasn't too worried about it being 100 percent complete. A few unburnt bits were no big deal. And it was nice ambiance.
Hey Sam! A question about your career path. Can you think of a specific point in time when you made the decision to focus more on the business side of things and less on writing code? If so, can you describe why you made that decision?
They seem to get trained well to think of new ideas. They also get a very solid engineering education.
Would you consider funding a Public Benefit Corporation?
Crypto is all or nothing. You can't have "backdoors" into crypto algorithms that are secret only to the government. It is literally impossible. Someone will find those backdoors, and now all information that has been encrypted is wide open. So you are either advocating for the complete destruction of ecommerce and online privacy, or you are advocating for unfettered access to cryptography software. Which do you choose?
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I saw the other reply but - specifically in regards to the Application :

What tips do you have for a solo founder to make his application most useful to you?

What information would you like to see to give you some confidence in the solo founder to move past this disadvantage?
Thank you Sam! Follow-up question: would you be interested in helping me start something similar in Canada, or know people who would? :)
I think he is not referring to the interview process, but rather to the "skimming through the application" process.
Anyone here use NetBSD? If so, what are your thoughts? Lack of USB 3.0 support is a turn-off for me... Will probably go with OpenBSD instead.
I am so excited! I have been waiting to have an excuse to spend some time with BSD, Lua kernel scripting is definitely going to be something I mess with this weekend.

Awesome!
I thought he just deployed his golden parachute before the shit hit the fan?
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Carlos, how good is the internet in Cuba? if you were going to develop a web app, do cuban developers have better access to it now?
Which further begs the question: if I could dig this up with literally 60 seconds of Googling form vaguely recalling having heard something like this before, how come this hasn't been brought up by any of the 'journalists' on the case?
You've mentioned that co-founder fallouts are one of the most biggest problems facing companies at YC stage.

Do you see any useful correlates to this problem? What types of teams tend to have infighting vs. those that don't?
We've funded a number of startups working on this and I expect we'll fund more.
I'm in violent agreement with you. I'm running Richmond later this year. Which marathon are you runnning? (And good luck!)
Ahem, buried in the middle of the article (I wonder why) "Navinder Sarao is accused of spoofing in the S&P 500 futures market, entering and cancelling lots of orders to create an illusion of demand, in suspicious proximity to the flash crash of 2010."

This happens a lot more than you might think. There is always a temptation to stuff the order book to keep it going in a direction profitable for you (ie, fake volatility).

This is the #1 reason why canceled ordered from HFT are suspect. It's too easy to stuff the order book and cheat a little. You really need highly credible market makers who have proven not to do this sort of thing. Even then, such folks are very rare and hard to appreciate. Your algorithms get so complex and obfuscated it's hard to tell what's stuffing the order book and what's simple market making.

The fact is, everyone is stuffing the order book. Sarao is more a patsy than anything else. His biggest crime wasn't belonging to a Goldman Sachs paying bribes to political entities.
Given that there are regions in my country which have no good local events calendar yet but it would be easy to implement such an aggregator: would you recommend me to found a company for such a product? (Let's call it "WhatHappensInHannover.net" so we both know what is intended.)
What about it do you find scary?
Anytime you are questioning privacy, you can simply make it about clothing to immediately show how ridiculous anti-privacy statements really sound.

>I get that most people have uninteresting genitals but don't want it seen anyway, but what happens if it is? (Because it is right now). What is it doing to them today? More targeted ads? More spam? More...? That's what I'd like to know.

>What exactly is the big aversion to nudity? The vast majority has shown (via actions, not internet noise) that they don't care so what exactly is the big downside?
Not arguing for/against, just want to know reasons beyond "i just dont like it".

I'm not saying you're taking a stance against privacy by any means, but changing only a single word in your statements makes them laughable. Would you tell someone embarassed about a wardrobe malfunction in public that you just couldn't understand why they would feel uncomfortable?
How about someone who is the victim of identity theft?
Now extend that to someone who's entire internet browsing history was made available to corporate and governmental institutions.

I don't want my privacy violated because it makes me feel violated - why should anyone need a better reason than that?

lastly, think about what we would classify as 'creepy facebook stalking' by a person - why should corporations and governemntal institutions be immune to that creepy classification?
I used to be a free user of LastPass and wanted a vault on-the-go. With LastPass the only option was an annual subscription, for an app that I didn't find particularly impressive.

Switching to 1Password was extremely easy. It offered simple instructions on how to import from LastPass and the pricing model (pay once for the piece of software) was a lot more compelling to me. As an added bonus, the app is super well developed and designed. It _just_ works, and works the way you expect it to. 100% satisfied.
Minor nit on #3: Doesn't the new YC stock agreement come with pro rata rights...? Doesn't that mean it's not really common stock? (In the sense that those rights aren't explicitly given to employees and founders.)
Check out Dropbox's statement:

"Governments should never install backdoors into online services or compromise infrastructure to obtain user data."

In essence we want companies to state the following:

1) They won't cooperate with governments (or other third parties) and have never cooperated in adding backdoors.

2) They won't create, and have never created their own backdoors. They will not hold keys so that they can't be forced to surrender customer data.

3) They will not grant and have never granted access to their servers.

Even Apple's statements allow for past or pre-existing back doors or cooperation. Given a company may willingly or have been forced to cooperate in the past, or may have had backdoors in the past, it should own up (either specifically or as much as legally possible) and state that this has stopped.
By asking which alternative model you propose.
The stark reminder that your password manager can change hands is probably the most bothersome part of this.

Overall it's probably a good thing that the product is transferring to a more financially stable company with healthy enterprise sales. I'd rather it head in that direction than struggle for a long period of time and put my data at risk. The worst thing that could have happened with this product would have been a spiral of neglect
http://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/adult.html

"Non-Hispanic blacks have the highest age-adjusted rates of obesity (47.8%) followed by Hispanics (42.5%), non-Hispanic whites (32.6%), and non-Hispanic Asians (10.8%)"
I think words are not meaningful for this issue; the measure is the actions they take to promote legislation securing private data. Consider:

1) A 'backdoor' is only one of an infinite variety of exploits. Forswearing backdoors doesn't mean they don't help government access data otherwise.

2) The companies themselves collect and utilize private data on a massive scale. For most people, they are a much greater risk than government.

3) No matter what they say all of them will help government if the stakes are high enough. Imagine another major war like WWII, with America's future on the line and tens of millions of lives at risk and the whole country behind the war effort. These companies would do whatever they could to support the effort (and probably that would be the right thing to do). That's an extreme example, but my point is that blanket assurances are not meaningful; what matters is how they balance various priorities and respond to pressure.

Finally, talk is cheap; it costs them nothing and they do nothing. Let's see them invest their resources and reputations in standards and legislation protecting private data from everyone, government and business.
You have summarized it perfectly.
Using open source and not having to trust someone would be nice, but at a certain point I would rather not be running my own security-critical infrastructure for personal stuff (if I can avoid it). I only have so much time.
Socialism as practiced by many european countries seems to work fine. No big Googles happening over here, but generally people seem to be happier and less worried about their futures.
I have never experienced anything like this from exercise. Neither from the pain of a 5K, nor the discomfort of a marathon, nor the intensity of a crossfit workout. I'm a little jealous!
I was aware it was potentially a joke. HN is mostly not very welcoming of jokes and that sort of joke, where the point is to irritate someone expressing their frustration, is a type that I think is mostly not nice and generally does not work well on a large forum. It can be an okay thing in a small group of trusted friends. Even in small groups, the odds are high that it amounts to just assholery and disrespect. It gets worse the larger the group.

So, I think it still merely proves the point being made above it, regardless of its supposed intent to be funny at someone's expense.
Maybe or maybe not. Open source still lags far behind when it comes to "hard" algorithms that require domain expertise to design: OCR, handwriting recognition, voice recognition, etc.
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> You suggest elsewhere there is revenue sharing involved, but that is not true.

It's the data sharing which is worrying. Exactly which entities have access to what data gathered by `ampproject.org`?
Technically, "commercial scale" can mean anything from "someone somehow made money while doing it" (e.g. from ads to pay for hosting) all the way to "how someone doing it for money might do it" (e.g. using a proxy or fake contact details). It's intentionally vague.
My startup is based in Paris, and it would be logistically tedious to move to SF (remote management, current customers ...)

YC and the Bay area would be an immense deal to us :

=> Regardless of the product I'm building : Are the advantages of moving to SF enough to balance the immediate difficulties of leaving ?

PS: We are building an AI (currently for students) that plugs into messaging apps. 150k messages exchanged already.
What (or who) are you currently reading?
Eh, I'm not sure I totally agree with what you are saying:

a) As you mentioned, smoking is a huge confounder in your example

b) A lot of congenital heart disease is not preventable via dietary intervention. For people who do require dietary intervention it's going to depend on the disease. For a small portion of people, for instance, eating low cholesterol is important, but the vast majority it makes no difference. For these people eating low cholesterol is the biggest difference, not a generally balanced diet.

c) There is a ton of science showing massive improvements in heart disease outcomes from losing weight.

I'm not saying eating a balanced diet doesn't matter, but for most people actually being a healthy weight is the most important thing, and for many others the dietary intervention is pretty specific, ie: not low cholesterol not "eat a balanced diet."
I fundamentally don't understand how capitalism will work in a society where scarcity is essentially nil. It doesn't make sense. Maybe someone could explain it to me?
Android has a few hundred unmodified OpenBSD files.
Hey,
I know it is recommended that you move to the bay area during the 3 months, but what happens to the companies which target local markets? Is it possible to gather knowledge about the local market and also the product while staying away from your core user base, and also, how do the partners take care of different kinds of market the startups target?

Example, Indian market/users/plans are considered to be a lot different than other countries.

Thanks :)
I live in Redmond, and "the outdoors" is literally a block down the street, starting at the local trail. Take the dog on a run two miles down that trail, and we're in a wooded park with trails. Two more miles and we're in the Redmond Watershed park with I-don't-know-how-many miles of wooded trails. And that's "outdoors lite". A 30 minute drive gives me a choice three mountains with (if I had to guess) at least 100 miles of trails, some of which you probably won't see another person. I once did a 24 mile run on Cougar Mountain, and never hit the same trail twice (though I did pretty much exhaust the trail system after 24 miles).

Drive a little more, an you get skiing, snowshoeing, forest roads galore for your dual sport motorcycle. Hell, go dog sledding if that floats your boat, I've seen 'em out there.

If you have 6 months saved up, you should have no problem finding a job. Yeah, you'll get rejected at a lot of jobs not because you suck but because tech hiring sux balls. But I'd bet you'll find something. If you get out here, hit me up if you like; email in profile.
From the section you referenced:

"He [the President] shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur;"

I think that your claim that the only role of the Senate is that it "must be notified in the event the President has made a sole-executive agreement" is a misrepresentation. In fact, the Senate must vote to approve every potential treaty before it becomes valid.
That's an explanation for one single feature. They never mention if other code in the app has the ability to snoop on conversations.
Retirement savers are losing a cut of every paycheck to HFT when they go and add to their account. Likely multiple cuts if they've diversified. It's basically a tax you pay for not having the best access to the fastest server closest to the database.
Then it's filed under "objectivism".
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If you have people willing to pay for your product and a clear go to market strategy then why do you particularly need YC?
Could you give advice on how to find like-minded co-founders? And what do you think makes someone "good co-founder material"?
He's right, but I am hungry for alternatives.

And what does a transition look like?

When I see this kind of thing, I think "of course!", but then I don't know what to advocate for, and what that might look like and how people will manage through the change.
All treaties have to be approved by the Senate. They just voted this time to approve a special "fast track" for TPP, which gives it a strict up or down vote in the Senate while waiving their right to amend the treaty or add attachments.
Global desktop PC shipments in 2015: ~136mm (http://www.statista.com/topics/1070/pcs/)

Linux desktop penetration: ~1.33% (http://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share....)

1.3% * 136mm = 1.77mm

Let's ignore Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and so on, each of whom are by themselves rumored or reported to have over a million computers in their DCs. Let's further ignore the long tail of the second tier of providers, who are thousands in number and have merely hundreds of thousands of computers each in their DCs. Let's go on to ignore all of the self serve corporations in the hundreds of thousands of data centers across the world, running Linux or a derivative on thousands to hundreds of computers each.

Let's also ignore all the routers, switches, file servers, and miscellaneous other networking equipment running Linux or a derivative.

Let's further ignore all of the televisions, media players, microwaves, appliances, and other consumer goods running Linux or a derivative.

Let's look only at Android phones, which run an embedded derivative of Linux. The phone market shipped 341.5 million year over year in 2015 Q2 (http://www.idc.com/prodserv/smartphone-os-market-share.jsp). Android had an 82.8% marketshare, so that's 282.77mm.

The number of linux computers that have the ability to boot "a live cd" is 6 thousandths (.6%) of one segment of one part of the linux embedded and server market.

Linux on the desktop has not only been dead for the last 18 years, it's barely a rounding error on a single segment of a single part of the embedded and server market.

By the way, "the complexity of the default" has been fine for over 30 years, and it's still fine. Just because you don't understand it, doesn't mean it's not the right answer.
I'd say: first throw out the ability for NSA to spy without letting the persons concerned speak about it. Then we can talk about 'warrants in the case of probable cause'. US as a country has lost a lot of goodwill and trust.

And don't forget:

- number of deaths from acts of domestic terrorism: 36

- number of deaths–homicide, suicide, and accidental–caused by firearms: 316,545

(in a decade, link: http://magazine.good.is/articles/president-obama-gun-deaths-...)

It's hilarious how some people forget what really counts (as in pain and sorrow) and where the priorities should be.
Hi Sam. There's a million questions and I have not read them all; so if you have answered this question already, please feel free to ignore it.

It seems that much of what YC funds these days lies in combinations of software with other disciplines such as biology, law, hardware, energy, and so forth. Is there any room for the pure-software/sales startup anymore, or does the future lie in interdisciplinary startups?
How has facebook not changed the nature of friendship?

Are you saying that the nature of friendship some sort of absolute that is unaffected by changes in the structure of peoples' day? Like email, facebook is a new medium for friendship, with a multitude of new methods of communication. For example, the like button is a new way to acknowledge in a highly neutral manner. I "like" the cat picture, I also "like" how someone said that they have cancer. Mechanisms like "like" are fundamentally changing the nature of the relationships established and maintained, and it is having an effect outside of that new medium.

Success and power have also changed. Before twitter and facebook in the late 90s and early 00s, do you think that the centralized mass media or the widespread use of email made people successful or famous in the same way? The brain structures are the same, but the culture has changed along with the environment.

Perhaps she wants us to understand that because the same can be said for architecture. The effect of architecture on daily life is far greater IMO. Modernist and international style buildings completely changed what happened at the street level and wiped out entire societies that existed. Only now are mixed use buildings attempting to restore street-level normalcy, except that it will be different. This is because, like facebook that improves upon email, the medium is different than it was in traditional pre-modernist architecture.
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No, I don't do this all the time. I didn't even make this throwaway account in an obfuscated way.

This procedure will only be used for things that I really don't want traced back to me. I'm not a blackhat or drug dealer, but I'd still prefer these activities not be associated with me.

The only tedious bits are preparing the burner laptop's OS for compartmentalization and encrypted/anonymous internet connection (both, not one or the other). Once the machine is set up and I have a suitable amount of bitcoin and the VPN set up I don't need to repeat those processes for months or a year.

However, I really like the idea of getting prepaid data with cash and exclusively using a mobile hotspot. I also like the idea of simply building a computer for this purpose and buying all the components separately.
Once you go outside of the US, it makes sense to go to the country with easiest immigration policy, so that you can work with all the smart people who can't get to the US.
Right. The usual counter is the following: "This was predicted every time we had technological upheavals, and it never happened. Therefore it won't happen this time either."

Although there is some truth to this, the past tends to be only a limited predictor for the future ("It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future." -- Yogi Berra ), and of course logically this stance cannot be supported.

Also, there is some grounds to believe that this time actually is different: whereas production and consumption used to expand to soak up new found productivity, we're reaching both resource limits in terms of what can be produced, and at least in the west saturation in terms of consumption. We already consume way more than we really want/need, and more and more people are realizing that their stuff is not liberating them, but rather taking them hostage.

Furthermore, there also is evidence that this is already happening. Blue collar wages are stagnating or in decline, same though to a lesser extent for the middle class. Debt has soared as people try to maintain their standard of living.

Robots have the capacity to help us bring about the 15 hour work week Keynes predicted, or maybe even the 4 hour work week, but we probably will have to restructure our wealth distribution mechanisms somewhat to achieve it.
You're quoting a post which is 5 years old and comparing it with one that's two years old.
Where do people get this idea that HN is full of libertarians? If you hang around you will see most people's reactions are far to the left and libertarian answers get consistently downvoted.
Hi Sam! Nice to connect with you here. I am an Indian woman. I am a Biotechnology and Management graduate with around 5 years of managerial experience. How can I break into tech industry with no background in computer science?
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