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+1. I could have written that exactly. I'm on track for 3,000 miles this year, ran 2,200+ last year. Have been doing 80+ miles/week recently with upcoming marathon. Ran a 50 mile ultra back in July. I've never had any "runner's high". It's not something that any of my running friends ever talk about; it's something non-runners talk about. Closest I get is also "feeling in a groove", which for me is mostly a feeling of ease I get when running a moderately fast even pace on flat route with no interruptions (like on a bike path). But it would be really stretching it to call that feeling a runner's high. There can also be a nice feeling _after_ certain runs, when they're over. This is also not a runner's high, just a pleasant feeling of being somewhat drained and relaxed, similar to the way you might feel after a massage, or after some non-running workouts. The whole "running high" terminology is geared towards making people think there's some kind of mystical thing. People like to believe things like that, but no.
The biggest problem is failing to make a product that some users love, but then thinking they will solve their problems by doing everything else well.

The second-biggest problem is probably cofounder fallouts.

Internal communication and management structure are always big problems for growing companies that I wish someone would solve.
Is there any intention of adding a new type of incubator that isnt so location specific?

For instance, I would love to be in YC- But just like many older (30+) folks, I have a family and simply cannot move to SF. The 'move to SF' restriction is the one thing I hate about YC- Its also why I think some competing incubators are picking up steam, who focus on global teams.

This may be disagreed upon- But I truly feel the 'move to SF' restriction is almost prejudicial against older folks. I get there is immense value in being in the valley (I just moved from SF), but I just dont think thats a reason not to find a way the system couldn't work either remotely or satellite based.
Get a Nemo or Sailfish device. http://enwp.org/File:Mer_and_mobile_operating_systems.svg

Public build service is https://openrepos.net/ and it already has lots of packages that you know from a normal Linux desktop and you can also host your custom stuff there. High-level package manager is packagekit or zypper.

Having a private repo is easy, too. Package format is RPM, repo format is http://createrepo.baseurl.org/
> Swiping on a resistive screen is a frustration as well

Not on a ancient N900. I can't imagine that this is an area in which technology flows backwards.
Shouldn't there be a measure of error to decide that it is not any of of them?
@sama If you had yourself and your startup Loopt apply now for YC, would it win?
I've been watching the SF startup scene from afar. In the midwest (Cincinnati, OH) we have growing scenes, but my biggest problem is finding true senior engineers and real technical mentorship. Do you think this is something one needs to be in SF to attain or are there other ways?
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> The thing to remember about the markets is that each individual trade is always zero sum

That's simply not true; your premise is flawed.
The YouTube counter has never seemed to work well with our reviewing software, so I'd ignore that.

That said we do get to spend more time on applications that get submitted early (as we've always said) so there is a slight advantage to submitting early.
It is easy to forget that in 2009 even MapReduce was still considered exotic. Particularly back then, this was far in front of what most people were thinking about.

The only people at the time that immediately grokked the broad implications and had a deep interest in the theory behind it were computer science researchers at certain government agencies. Hence why so much of the early computer science was verified on supercomputers instead of commodity clusters. Unlike today, you could not rent a cluster for this type of thing back then.

None of the early research produced public results.
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Yep. I have both an Android and iOS client that I use.
Try trading in a market with low liquidity and no HFT. It's a nightmare.

Anyhow, HFT affects execution, 'electronic trading' affects how you put in orders, both make the process of buying/selling securities cheaper.
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Err no. There were specific campaigns that said tans were unhealthy. You still seem to believe this and think that tanned skin only seems attractive due to cultural factors. Are you also going to say that big boobs are only attractive because of cultural factors?
The only thing I can think of is vestigial cultural rules being a determining factor; what you eat, when, how much - what your hobbies tend to be, how much you move in life.

Every individual of course sets his or her own path, but populations taken as a whole seem to exhibit dominant patterns.
And I think at some point the customers are going to figure out that the startup merry-go-round is and never was intended for their benefit. Over time it's going to get harder for new startups to attract customers because people will realize that flashy new product offerings aren't likely to stick around (in a form that we actually want) for long.
@sama What are some things that you have approached differently from PG?
This isn't really more "macroscopically quantum" than spectroscopy or the stability of matter. (Neither of those would be possible in a normal classical universe either.) You're just noticing indirect quantum effects on large scales, but there is no macroscopic coherence.

On the other hand, the interferometery experiments like MAQRO discussed in the article do actually exhibit long-range coherence of large amounts of matter.
You can use Linux's own cryptsetup to mount TrueCrypt volumes. No TrueCrypt needed. There's documentation on the ArchWiki. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/TrueCrypt
'The U.S. and Europe are in decline, by comparison'. No argument about this. Where are the passionate national debates about why this is so and what can be done about it? Or maybe they are going on and I'm not seeing them.
I, on the other hand, do care.

Our ads always specify something specific and relevant to put in your cover letter. (It's usually "in your cover letter, tell us about a problem that you are especially proud of solving".) We find out three things:

- Can you follow directions in an important context?

- Do you write English fluently?

- Can you write a problem report in a way that's interesting?

People who can do that well almost always get phone interviews.
What would be the right time for an idea that involves some technical depth to apply to YC?

In other words, hypothetically, if YC had existed during the 90s, at what stage should Google Guys have applied to YC (Between 1995-1998, A) when the idea struck (mid 1995) B) When it started crawling the web (around 1996), or C) when they bought the domain (1998). Thanks!
I tried with a picture of Aziz Ansari (https://thenypost.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/aziz_ansari.jp...) and it guessed Jim O'Heir, which I got a kick out of.
Not true. You can allow/disallow network access for each individual app, even system apps.
>Musk is apparently notorious for firing people over minor oversights, and for driving otherwise excellent people to quit because of his harsh criticism.

Sounds exactly like Steve Jobs really
Perhaps the original app was feature complete and not a lot of work needed to be done on it? It's based on a third party password management service that open sourced its code before shuttering, so this would naturally be step one in relaunching something based on that code.
I certainly don't think you need to be in SF for it, though it is easy to find here.

If I had no family ties and wanted to be in tech, I'd still move to the bay area even with the cost of living being what it is. But I don't think it's as critical as e.g. moving to LA to be in movies or moving to DC to be in politics.
The percentage difference is calculated using a very odd system which ignores all the actual differences.

For example if Humans and Bananas each have 5000 coding genes in common the difference will be measured only on those genes we actually share (out of 20-25K coding genes in humans, no clue how many coding genes do bananas have), so the difference is actually much greater than the 50%, 4%, 1% or what ever figure you get because the big differences are simply discarded.

These days there's a cartoon for everything :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbY122CSC5w

And this is without even going into gene expression and epigentics which play a role which some might even consider to be bigger than what actual genetic data you might happen to carry along with you.

Heck chickens still have the genes to grow teeth and feathered scales like the dinosaurs they've evolved from however these genes are not expressed anymore in nature.
Very broadly speaking, fundamental research can be divided into two categories: (1) developing techniques to accomplish some very difficult, but useful task; and (2) answering questions which are intrinsically interesting.* Research in fusion and developing self-driving cars are examples of the first category. Finding exoplanets and the Higgs boson are examples of the second. Will YC Research be funding research in both categories, or just the first?

* (I know some people like to call the second category "pure" research, but I think that betrays a bias against working on more practical problems.)
At that rate isn't superconductivity a "quantum effect"? If electron orbital transitions are governed by quantum effects, what common phenomenon isn't a quantum effect? I know of a biochemistry lab cohort which would be deeply offended if photosynthesis wasn't classified as a quantum effect.
The most compact representation is not always the most efficient. If two fields in the same struct variable are accessed by different goroutines, placing them far apart so that they reside in different cache lines may avoid a great deal of contention.
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Your argument justifies that it doesn't make sense for immoral Americans to oppose this treaty. Fortunately not all Americans are immoral.
I get that, but it is still a bit funky that it thinks that Morgan freeman is Alison Brie.
Whew, glad this happened sooner rather than later. My subscription was up for renewal in a month. At least it makes the renewal decision easy.
Hey Sam, what's the status of the YC Fellowship? Are you going to do another round?
Governance, Risk and Compliance. Even if the private sector does GRC better than the government, they (the gov't) at the very least have control. Not to mention their stack appears to be mostly open source (Docker, CF, etc). This makes total sense and is a "best of both worlds" approach.
Hey @sama. Are there any emerging technologies or research areas you think are in peril at this time, due to lack of funding, political climate, or diverted focus? How will YCResearch identify the fields to support basic research in?
Someone called my grandma when she was still alive and tried to convince her that I was in trouble with some bad people or in jail or something. They were really well researched and convincing. I wasn't in either of those situations. It's insane that people prey on the elderly since it's not like most of them work at all and need the money to live.
That may possibly be the most halfhearted effort at affiliate spamming I have ever seen.
What's the most important question on the application?
I appreciate the reply and why YC is structured as such! Thanks!
The thing is that the libraries are not shared, and every application has its own version of library in its application directory. So if you would want to update OpenSSL you would have to find openssl in every single application and update (or more likely wait for vendor to release new version with more recent openssl).

At that point the shared libraries are useless, they don't provide security (update in one place and have all aps using it patched), doesn't save RAM (each app loads their own version of library, instead of multiple apps sharing the same code), and you get worse performance (there's overhead for using shared libraries).

What lsaferite suggested makes sense, if the library is used only by given app, why not compile it statically? You have everything in a single file, and at least you're not losing performance by using shared objects.
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1. Great question, we've spent a lot of time cycling on this. There will be a "PI" for each group, but the sort of PIs we will bring on will be people who will give large amounts of autonomy to their teams--ie, each group will have a goal, and everyone in that group will be directed to work towards that goal in whatever way they see fit. But given the quality of the PIs we are planning to bring on, if they think a particular direction is really unfruitful, it is likely worth considering.

2. Not very unless asked.

3. Whatever the researchers want.
I suppose it's a different matter when you have asked for something specific in the cover letter, as in your case. You're absolutely right about the things you can find out by doing that, too.
Some idea that is (a) technically complex enough to baffle most PhDs but (b) practical enough to constitute the core of an amazing demo.

An idea with technical depth, plus practical feasibility does provides an all-important barrier to entry, a shield against execution
The more I am observing the government I wonder if it will ever be possible for the the 18F treatment to hit the more old traditional Federal Government agencies like CMS. Talk about byzantine regulations.
So electronic trading is what? Slow computers? And HFT is faster ones?
I would guess that their stance is "If you care about that, do it yourself"

IMO, that is the right attitude, given that moving fields around may interfere with how parts of large structures map to cache lines, and that may have huge performance impacts, if some parts of a structure are rarely accessed.

Yes, the compiler could try to optimize that, too, but saying that is a hard problem is an understatement, and it needs statistics that the compiler doesn't have available. So, it definitely is unsuitable for go's goal of fast compilation.
> How? It seems like this should not be that hard to explain.

Decreased spreads; trading is much cheaper now than it was before HFT.
A chunk of 18F are consultants to other government agencies and provide their services to government for a 100% cost-reimbursable fee for specific projects, much like a private consulting firm.
https://18f.gsa.gov/consulting/
https://pages.18f.gov/joining-18f/who-we-are-hiring/position...
sigh. I wish YC could become an umbrella company who can accept immigrants working on their startups on h1b under the name of YC employee.
moringa school, awesome place to learn code :-)
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Honestly it will mostly be category 1 to start, but there is at least one category 2 project we want to pursue.
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Hi Sam, thanks for doing this!

Say you are working on a project that is really similar to another product that has been validated and successful in another part of the world. Would you see it as a good indicator, or does it mean nothing given the culture differences? What would be the best way to take advantage of that intel?

Thanks and have a good day!
I guess I should have clarified that by ML I really meant DL, as this is the most important area of ML currently. Is there anyone writing large CNNs or RNNs using Java or Scala or Clojure? Are there any widely used DL libraries based on those languages?
But if an attacker steals your Keepass file and acquires your password you won't notice.

Lastpass can detect logins from new IP adresses and throttle requests, send warning mails etc.

But sure, once their servers are cracked and their plugin is infected with master-password-stealing code it's all game over.
Mostly the algorithm was to ask very smart people "who are the top 3 smartest people you know in area X" and then go after the people whose names kept coming up.
The scheme that Canonical seems to be playing with is that larger projects (DEs, central libs) are put into what they call frameworks.

These are packages that other packages can refer to rather than massively duplicating the content within themselves.

These frameworks will in turn be versioned, so that if package X wants framework Z, while Y wants Z+1 they can both be happy without descending into dependency hell.

Note that Gobolinux gets around this to a degree by using age old soname and symlinks. This in that ld and similar is pointed at a directory containing symlinks.

libxyz.so.1 will be pointing to whatever is the active version of libxyz, while something like libxyz.so.1.1 will be pointing to that specific lib version.

Disabling a specific lib version is done by removing the relevant symlinks.

Gobolinux provides tools for doing this, but they are basically shell scripts. And so in a pinch someone can do all that manually.
Very likely yes.
Most startups have a good mix of technical co-founders and sometimes a non-technical, business athlete. What are some of roles and responsibilities YC has advised the non-technical founder hone on during their time at YC?
I dont think you could have explained that any better. I usually hit around 1200-1300 miles per year and the closest I have ever come to a "runners high" is what you explained towards the end of your comment.
Those "separate applications" are still tightly coupled to the main, and therefore they share the complexity/attack surface concerns.

If your system gets pwned, does it matter to the user if it was via the "systemd" binary itself or by one of the official "systemd-somethingd" binaries (that have no other purpose other than interoperation with the main app, developed by the same people) that come with every OS using it? Had the distro maintainers not shoveled an extra ~670,000LoC down their throat, they wouldn't have been pwned.

If systemd wants to replace my freaking cron, DNS, ntp, and logging daemons, and the majority of in-production deployments use the application like that, I will be evaluating the application's complexity against how it's used in the real world.

sysvinit doesn't attempt to replace resolvconf, ntpd, crond, and syslog-ng. systemd does.
One time purchase until the next major upgrade, then you need to pay more to stay up-to-date.
Hope it will be! We are trying to do something similar with all of the Business of Software Conference talks. The conference is not cheap to attend (but is run in a nice hotel with great food, talks and people. It is unsponsored and space is restricted, so not everyone can attend).

The Hangouts are free to join and give people a chance to watch the talks and follow up with the speakers with Q&A.
The burden of proof to show us you can handle starting a startup is higher. So some evidence that you can execute by yourself (i.e. progress) goes a long way.
Not for English, but for Japanese and Chinese it is fairly common to have predictive elements.

Even the standard IME in at least OSX has predictive elements.
How will success be measured in YCR? Given that you mentioned decades-long efforts being acceptable, how will you differentiate between fruitful and fruitless research? Finally, are there any technologies you're particularly interested in and into which you're hoping to fund research?
The price has to go up anyway, that's what happens when demand increases, it's nothing to do with HFT. Large block trades like this will often be arrange over the counter (OTC) or on dark pools, so the fund purchasing the shares will get a fixed price and it's up to the market maker to deal with the execution risk in the open market.

Edit: As Harryh said, large mutual fund managers believe that HFT allows them to get better prices for their customers:
http://www.cnbc.com/2014/04/25/vanguard-chief-defends-high-f...
Hi Sam,

We're a startup in a non-technical industry. We are high-growth minded, with a growing platform of users and plans to create connected hardware devices. What metrics would you need to see from a company like ours to make it into YC?
I'm not sure how this will expedite the ATO process as it uses technology that has not been STIG'd yet and may not have a "by the book" way to sign off (Docker, for instance, can be painful to ATO).

EDIT: After viewing Noah's FISMA guidance vid (nice work) there is definitely possibility to expedite but to really grease things you'd want to create a certification arm within GSA that can sign off the risk or perform a "certified" risk assessment on behalf of the customer agency so you could do things your way while still allowing them to sleep at night. Once you get into sensitive data loads and non-public stuff people start to get even more risk averse. / End Edit

That said, I'm hopeful that it does pave the way for change because this kind of platform is critical to reducing the barriers to experimentation in government. Perhaps because 18F is committing to supporting / upgrading the platform it will allow Federal CIOs and CISOs to shift some of the risk to 18F and sign the paperwork more quickly.
I don't think a solution is a longer phone number. A solution is a better system that provides more security. So you can call someone by their name or other information and that person can simply block everything except for trusted friends and family. Or better yet have government run whitelists so you subscribe to it and if that business does too many shitty things they get axed from the whitelist that is instantly updated to everyone across the country.

What I suggested has many flaws I just don't think extending a current, shitty system is all that useful especially since the majority of these phone numbers are purchased anyway (almost no one dials random numbers to figure out if someone is there, who they are, etc).
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Is it reasonable to view YC as a startup whose goal is to become a monopoly? If so, what competition is most worrying to you?
There is 1Password Windows Modern Alpha[1] which so far looks very promising. It's still not very suitable for a day to day use though. (Screenshot: click "Getting started" in the forum, then "Windows 10 Store")

[1]: https://discussions.agilebits.com/categories/windows-modern-...
It could be worse: China's citizenship scoring and the new totalitarianism
I think that technology increases wealth but also concentrates it. We are all better off, but the inequality is likely to get worse over time. This has been going to some degree since the first tools were developed.

I'm not ready to talk in much detail yet, but I do think YC/SV/me personally can and should help address this.
Hi Sam,

the YC Research announcement got me very excited, particularly as someone who experiences the pain points you described first hand on a daily basis.

First question, would YC Research be limited to the US or would you consider other countries (e.g. Canada in my case)?

Also, would you ever consider partnering with existing Public/Government institutions? There are lots of very good people already working on some really interesting projects (yes, even in the public sector :) ), and I believe they need support and direction (and some actual business sense). So to re-phrase my question, would YC Research ever consider some sort of support/consulting platform for existing (possibly public) organizations?

Thank you very much for taking the time!
Good for you setting up separate AWS accounts. Companies that do this avoid many problems! Companies that assume their code will arbitrate the separation intrinsically often go oooooops!
I'm considering applying for YC but I think my idea (a fairly simple time management app for smartwatches) might be a bit too modest. How small of an idea is too small?