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let's pretend it's a TV show.
Y Combinator is Blues Clues. pg was Steve. we're currently in the first part of the Joe Era. Joe was actually better than Steve in many ways[1], but he just isn't Steve, and everyone, including the audience, is trying not to notice, because yay, new Blue's Clues.

Now, when it fully pivots into Blue's Room, run.

[1] ways that don't include Steven Drozd.
Why is it not a reasonable assumption that the NSA (and possibly other actors with the means) are doing so? / Why wouldn't you do it in their position?
Thanks for the tip--the server supports that cipher though, it was just an issue with my client.
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So... Pitbull Studio (Epic UK) for something using Unreal Engine 4?

We don't have an international union, so I don't exactly have any leverage here, but I want you to be paid more. Do you seriously think that you are so far below the median level of skill for a C++ programmer with a degree and two years of experience, that you should be paid so little?

Go. Look for another job, and find out just what they would be willing to pay you. With an offer in hand that you could accept on its own merits, go to your current employer and, without mentioning anything about your other offer, ask that your pay rate be reevaluated, to match your skills in the current market. If you don't get a significant payrise, then at that point, you can decide whether it is worth more to have extra cash in your hand, or to keep a job that you know you like, but pays peanuts--stale peanuts at that. Remember, you don't have to accept any offer you don't like.

For now, you seem to have decided that you like your current job £15-20k/year more than anything else you think you could possibly get.
Epiphany. Thank you.
I hit my burnout point about 10 years into work. I had flunked out of college, so I was about 30. I was in banking, doing risk analysis. I had a manager who would give us arbitrary, ridiculously short deadlines, then expect us to work all hours to meet them. I was listening to suicide-y music. The breaking point was when I got my bonus; it was less than half of what I had been promised.

When I hit that burnout point, I took 2 weeks off and went to a remote place with no internet. I drank heavily the first couple of days (I think of it as a mental-reset). And then I started analyzing what made me burn out. I realized that for me it was a combination of two things: Time, and Talent. I was spending too much time at work, and I was working with supremely untalented people. I also realized that I had a good amount of experience under my belt, and that I was fairly desirable as an employee.

Armed with that knowledge I went back to work, and started saying "no". I also started interviewing (I'm not stupid).

> No, I'm not staying late tonight. No, I'm not staying late tomorrow night. I've got arrangements. What am I doing? That's personal.

I wasn't anti-social. When the team did things I hung out with them and was friendly. I just didn't work late.

> No, I'm not going to work with him on that project. In the past he has worked against me, even though I was the lead. I don't feel like the project can be a success if he's involved, and I don't want to be on a doomed project.

If any of my "no"s had been met with threats of being fired, I would have quit on the spot. I made it clear to my manager that I enjoyed what I was doing, but I had a handful of open offers at a higher rate. My manager backed down for a bit. We started a new project, it was done later than his demand, but before my estimate. And it was the most stable project we'd built. After that I never felt like he was judging me again.

Eventually I did move on, and at every job since then it's been about setting expectations on day one. I do not work evenings or weekends (unless it's something I'm genuinely excited about). I do not run errands for other people. I do not fix other people's bugs or document their code just because they think they're too important to (of course I work with other people's code, I'm just not their bug bitch).

It's been 9 years and I haven't felt burnout-y since. It didn't fix everything overnight, but actually enjoying my primary job helped the burnout feelings fade. I still get angry and frustrated, but they're usually short-term things that I can eventually work around or fix.
Not exactly. You just can't know the state of every register at once.
Probably of interest as well: a list from CocoaPods of the top SDKs sorted by number of unique apps that have installed them https://gist.github.com/orta/1c607a2c46545244ab16
"0 day" just means that the vulnerability was reported before it was fixed.
Does anyone know what the thermal stability system, which is more precise than the PID on the graph represents?
Probably not the go to explanation, but fun that there are weird things out there. On the plus side, if there is or was alien civilizations out there we will eventually spot an artifact of their existence. At which point it would behoove them to introduce themselves nicely.
They can't employ them to do illegal things. They'd have to have some sort of plausible deniability. If they did, the private contractor would be acting as an agent of the government. If they circumvented this by creating some cover story and payments from some other sources, then they might get it into courts, but if it came to light it'd be thrown out (and the agents/agency involved would likely end up in some degree of trouble).
> If that's the case, then wouldn't Google's work be considered derivative of the original content?

The ruling pretty much addressed this already:

"Plaintiffs’ contention that Google has usurped their opportunity to access paid and unpaid licensing markets for substantially the same functions that Google provides fails, in part because the licensing markets in fact involve very different functions than those that Google provides, and in part because an author’s derivative rights do not include an exclusive right to supply information (of the sort provided by Google) about her works."

If that's the opinion concerning providing search in the books, I think it's highly likely that the same logic would apply to improving search and even ads.
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I'd have thought the premise of the question was more along the lines of: YC's signalling value grew as a direct result of having great companies in its first few cohorts and supporting them well. And the ethos has been very much focused around building huge companies within VC fund time horizons. Yet the successes [seen so far] in those early cohorts chose to exit through private sales rather than push for the public markets. Is there a reason behind this?

Which is a valid question, even if the pool of potential candidates for IPOs by now really covers only the first seventy or so companies rather than the whole 940. The few companies that haven't privately exited or died in those first seventy or so companies does include Dropbox though...
> Oh good, the "you didn't think this was funny therefore your sense of humor sucks" logic.

That's taking it quite personally. We can agree that Mocko's sardonic style isn't everyone's cup of tea. If you don't like it, accept that others do and that he's really not going to change it for you. He makes it abundantly clear that he is in a position to ignore (at best) or belittle (at worst) people who disagree with him. So move on.
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As someone else noted, drip (brewed) coffee is a different beast than espresso. A blade grinder will probably do you just fine for that.

Espresso is brewed under pressure, if you don't have a consistently fine grind then the water will pass straight through without extracting any of the flavor. If your grind is too fine, then it will block the machine and you'll get a bitter extraction.

Again, this isn't a subtle thing. If you've had a real espresso machine (one that has a pump that applies the proper pressure) then it immediately becomes obvious that you need a consistent grind that you can adjust.

The variable you track is generally the length of the extraction, ie, how long it takes to get an ounce or an ounce and a half of espresso for a given amount of time. (aiming for 16-22 seconds or so) Too fine a grind and you'll block it up and you'll never get the oz, too coarse and it will all come out too quickly. You often need to adjust the grind minute amounts every day based on local temperature, humidity and the age of the beans.

This isn't audiophile stuff, it is obvious to anybody who makes espresso and actually wants it to taste good. (ie, isn't drowning it in milk, sugar and syrups)
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Just because it isn't happening now does not mean it won't happen in the future.
Adblock, Ghostery, and Disconnect have been around for so long. It's surprising the results that come from this article. Would be curious to see if someone could replicate the results.
The question at the end seems the most important part of this article. What is their diet? I'm willing to bet it doesn't include soda, energy drinks, and deep-fried foods.

"The hunter-gatherers are also much healthier. Not a single one is obese, and the mean BMIs among the tribes was between 18.3 and 26.2, which is considered quite slim. They also tend to have lower blood pressure, better heart conditions and higher levels of physical fitness.

Thus comes a critical question. If we can't blame the lack of sleep as causing our obesity, mood disorders and the like could it it be that the reason we feel so unrested is because of poor health?"
Here was a funny recent story regarding different iceberg photos with that effect: http://petapixel.com/2015/02/03/contest-copyright-controvers...
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Congress should account for the work of security researchers and auto makers should be forewarned by the computer makers experience – the only defense is software that can be easily and quickly updated remotely. As car computing and networking systems become more complex, more vulnerabilities will be identified. Without well designed software update systems, auto makers will suffer from frequent recalls.
I've also been following your work akkartik by the way :] Sneaking from time to time on the arc forum. Keep up the great work!
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Interesting, but very one-sided perspective and a single example should IMHO not be a reason to judge all of them. Even though 3 hours are especially short, I think a similar feeling is at the end of most hackathons.

Still, they offer a great venue to try something new, work with new people, experiment, do stuff you otherwise wouldn't (but maybe should), ... Not all bad ;)
If he's going to successfully re-enter society, one would imagine he would have to actually be ashamed of what he's done.
Is there any reason why in TLS the DH g^x the client sends is not encrypted with the server's RSA key?

That way, a DH compromise merely lose forward secrecy and the data would still be safe as long as the server private keys are not compromised.
You're telling me this idea is actually explored in Assasin Creed? :o. I guess I need to finally start playing it.
Ever since I got a job working remotely (sleeping 8-10 hours/day and working whenever I want/feel like it) and have eaten 100% clean (reddit.com/r/mealprepsunday has helped immensely with this) I've felt like a robot. Infinite energy. Infinite clarity.
Technically it isn't clear what visa foreign YC founders should use to stay in the US during the 3 months.

Visa waiver[0] only allows for meetings, attending a conference,
attend short-term unpaid training or negotiate a contract. Anything that really is 'working' - such as performing software engineering for a company (even your own) - is arguably outside of the visa waiver.

I'm assuming YC doesn't want founders to be outside of the law so I'm curious what their legal advisors have advised them.

[0]http://travel.state.gov/content/visas/en/visit/visa-waiver-p...
No, if someone is acting as an 'agent' of law enforcement, the evidence would be excluded via the exclusionary rule just the same as if the evidence was collected directly by the police themselves.
Download the apps normally, then jailbreak the phone. Now you can poke around all you want.
Not knowing what YC actually does, my first 2 thoughts were: O-1 and J-1 Visas (certainly there could be other solutions)

O-1: Typically I would think of athletes/entertainers, in the US for competition/show/tour/etc... It may not apply to some young founder getting into YC who has no other track record of success; however, YC/Tech are politically connected so the mere fact one is accepted into YC, it might = extraordinary ability (in the eyes of the Gov. anyway)

J-1= I personally have never gone down this path in my legal career, so I am not 100% sure, but it is possible YC is part of an exchange program...if not, they should set up their own business education exchange and consider this especially for their fellowship program...boom legal hack (and except the fact I just gave it away, I could have applied to YC with the idea of hacking the legal system to get more visas for foreign founders joining US incubators...YC application hack)
Orson Scott Card borrowed the name from Ursula K, LeGuin. You should check out The Dispossesed (about the inventor of the ansible). It's a great book.
> they serve at our pleasure

No it actually doesn't and shouldn't. It would create a tyranny of the majority.
My only fear with Fabric is how Twitter's layoffs affected them.
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Yeah, it's a bit dangerous, but it's one of the most beautiful cities I've been to. I guess it's easy to be scammed as a foreigner, but I've spent quite some time in Naples and I've never been bothered by anyone. On the other hand that's not something I can say of a supersafe place like Paris.
I agree. But note that TNG is also one of the best if not the best sci-fi series ever made, science-wise, and it's responsible for bringing up a generation of scientists and engineers. This reflects rather sadly on the general state of science-fiction in TV, though.

The demise of Iconians always felt far-fetched to me. They had a portal network spanning a galaxy that could even be used to stage invasions at unexpecting opponents, and yet the whole empire collapsed down after a single supernova?

A TNG spin-off about the Dyson sphere would be uber-cool. I'd love that.
I'm new to this, could someone give me a gist of why Servo is trending?
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Public shaming this isn't some naughty child in a cute 50's Norman Rockwell painting
I hear you but not really because you have to wrap everything in lambdas. Also, you didn't add a whole new variable in the workflow "it" but passed it as a function.

You're right that I could have used a better example, such as `when` or whatnot, but that's the first thing that came to me ;-)
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Right. That addresses the point about mangling YAML into something that looks like a language. It was this that made be curious: "It's that in general you don't want a Turing-complete language to do configuration management, because you want to be able to reason about things like rollbacks, dependencies and diffs."
I've been pondering this distinction lately. We recognize that doxxing, etc. are Definitely Bad Things but that's exactly what journalists have always done.

It's a matter of degree and intent, of course, but there's an awfully blurry line in-between.
Scanning books almost certainly is not copyright infringement.

At least in the US, you are overstating the certainty. While I agree with you that it should not be infringement, prior to this ruling, the legal status of scanning books you own for personal use was not clear.

The qualified expert opinion I got regarding personal scanning was from a law school professor specializing in copyright (and who actually participated this case), and was along the lines of "it's probably legal but there is not yet settled case law".

This ruling probably moves it closer to settled, but I'd be suggest against placing large bets unless your qualifications exceed hers.
Url changed from http://fusion.net/story/215204/law-enforcement-agencies-are-..., which points to this. Edit: nope.
How? NoScript (which I use) stops random scripts from running. To watch flash videos (of any kind) one must allow the script to run. Once you've done this NoScript isn't providing any protection anymore.
Well is it really surprising that people were stealing food from the US army during WWII? I would have done it if I had trouble supporting my family.
enough of shit like this on HN, please.
Hi! Disclaimer, I wrote the piece for LM.

That's a graph from La Marzocco's internal documents and represents the total heat stability architecture of their machines, including boiler and grouphead design, preheating, tuned PIDs, etc.
Would you rather have tyranny left to the hands of a few?
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Good clarification.
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It's also lit from below, because you know, the ocean floor is bright and reflective.
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Lots of down votes, but very few arguments.

I'll put it another way:

Would you go to your co-worker and tell him/her/it, "Hey, I'm going to write the same software you did, but I'm going to write in a way that sucks less"? I wouldn't. But that's me.
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The Deep Sweep is an aerospace probe scanning the otherwise out-of-reach signal space between land and stratosphere, with special interest placed in UAV/drone to satellite communication.

Taking the form of a high-altitude weather balloon, tiny embedded computer and RF equipment, The Deep Sweep project is being developed to function as a low-cost, aerial signal-intelligence (SIGINT) platform. Intended for assembly and deployment by public, it enables surveying and studying the vast and often secretive world of signal in our skies.
I heard about a seed fund for foreign founders that will invest by hiring the founders and paying them salaries while sponsoring the founders' visa. So the salary is basically the seed fund. I can't remember their name so I'm not sure if they're still around or if it's even legal but I thought the idea was cool. Maybe YC can look into something like that?

EDIT: found it. https://angel.co/unshackled
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(And of course it looks like that because it's an above water shot, flipped.)

Doh. I was imagining him actually flipping an iceberg upside-down for some reason.
I'd imagine transferring H1B to your own company will have the same issues that applying H1B for your own company will.
What about the Museo Nazionale Romano? The Museo di Capodimonte? Castel nuovo? Gothic and Baroque churches? Art nouveau architecture? Ischia and Procida?

You clearly haven't spent nearly enough time exploring, probably because of your preconceptions.
Agree 100%
? Those pages are identical.

[EDIT] Anyway, aside from your suggestion of "if false", yes writing code to make diffs smaller or cleaner is good in my opinion. On this specific point, why not just start with "if check 1"?
If you follow the link to the Kagins website, it says "Kevin Costner will narrate and produce the two-hour documentary for National Geographic Channel, covering Western Americana enthusiast Randy Guijarro’s odyssey to authenticate this unique photograph".

So details of the verification process are being withheld in order the make the documentary more appealing.
Maybe a relevant read: http://lesswrong.com/lw/k9/the_logical_fallacy_of_generaliza...

Yudkowsky's post doesn't support your argument, but I think you've identified one weakness of his argument - by being influential fiction can be its own self-fulfilling prophecy.
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To say electricity is roughly the flow of charge looks perfectly fine to me. Opening statement of the wikipedia article on electricity:

> Electricity is the set of physical phenomena associated with the presence and flow of electric charge.

I doubt the article will steer people wrong. The gravity/e-field analogy is accurate, and they're clear to state that Bohr model of the atom is a useful model while providing a link to more info so interested readers could dig in there if they wanted.

> Electricity is the force not the flow...."Electricity"...is always the EMF

Speaking of details the Electromotive Force isn't a force because it doesn't have Newtons for units. EMF times charge does give a force but EMF alone is just Volts. In circuits we may think of it as if it's a force, and it has force in the name, but it's just a potential difference.
If you can afford it EB-5 is probably the most straightforward one, but it still takes forever. If you started the process now you probably won't have your visa for 2 years.
I don't have a problem with your trying to draw attention to this story, but the lack of any substantive reporting on the case is puzzling and makes discussion difficult.
Powering a relatively low impedance device like headphones at relatively high powers with an unbuffered op-amp causes distortion. The CMoy is a classic example of "bad" electronics design.
More than likely it's pour encourager les autres.

After all, they messed with his family by sending the flower arrangement to his door. A public warning not to mess with him would seem to be appropriate.
I knew temperature was a factor. I have severe difficulty falling asleep unless I'm slightly chilly, preferably with a fan blowing on me. So probably around 60-65 degrees Fahrenheit. Anything more than 70 degrees and I start to have problems.

78 degrees or higher and I will probably be jumping in the shower, applying wet towels to my legs, maybe bring a cold pack out of the freezer, sit in front of the open refrigerator door for several minutes, anything to try to cool me off, and it will take a couple hours to fall asleep, unless I'm already super exhausted.