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I think you're right and that there should be some pain. My version of this is taking a full list of transactions and tagging them individually from electronic exports. This way any expense isn't reconciled until it's tagged. This can be done mostly automatically but some are unrecognized/unique expenses. The unrecognized are the ones that probably matter the most in terms of managing my finances, dinning out, random items from amazon, etc. I have to review and recognize everything which makes me monitor the most important aspects where I might have spent my money poorly.
> Thanks to Paul Buchheit, Erica Carpenter, Brian Chesky, Adam D’Angelo, Drew Houston, Justin Kan, Matt Krisiloff, Aaron Levie, Gabriel Leydon, Jessica Livingston, Dustin Moskovitz, David Rusenko and Colleen Taylor for contributing thoughts to this.

^ this group + @sama... wow. Terrific advice from an amazing list of credible people.
That's what made me not do it. To be fair, I wrote a Github app once where I wanted read access to public and private repos, and I couldn't find anything in the Github API to give me specifically that. I had to request read+write for public+private, which is horribly permissive and gave me access to a bunch of stuff my app didn't need.
This has nothing to do with what I said.
This is the best egg toaster, I have this and love it:

http://www.amazon.com/West-Bend-TEM500W-Muffin-Toaster/dp/B0...
When teenagers here drink cheap liquor, they might drink 'bourbon' or a 'bourbon and coke' - anything they can get for less than $20. Accordingly, there are a number of brands targeted at that market, and I would not be surprised if some of them have nothing do with the US original.
Very true. No definition is perfect and is going to handle every edge case. But, it's the BLS's attempt to group different job types and provide the data around it.
The government is currently trying to push the boundaries and is waiting to see what happens.
Great question! The app asks you for thickness, so you say "I'm cooking a 1-inch thick ribeye steak", and the rest is pretty much math :) (And a lot of trial runs in our test kitchen to get everything working perfectly!)

The steak software also asks you for desired doneness. Then it adjusts the cooking time on-the-fly based on the real data coming back from the pan, so it knows that if the temperature is X degrees too low, it's going to extend the time a little bit to compensate. But that's all done behind-the-scenes in software.
Hell, the investor themselves can demand this service. Call it empathy building, and remember, if you don't work 80 hours this week you get to go join the salt mine devs!
> It makes me wish I was interesting enough to be snooped on.

Oh, but you are. Having access to VMs on other networks makes you a sysadmin, which automatically raises flags[0] within NSHQ.

I've used DNScrypt[1] for some time now, which tunnels all DNS requests to a remote site over SSL. Coupled with a local DNS server[2] to cache lookups, this works amazingly well.

It will be interesting to see how this "snoopers charter" will be implemented, if at all. I get the impression it's mostly to legitimize (and scale out) what GCHQ and MI5 have been doing for a long time already, while adding some form and structure to it.

0: https://theintercept.com/2014/03/20/inside-nsa-secret-effort...

1: https://dnscrypt.org/

2: https://unbound.net/
Yeah, that would be an important article to write. I think the compromise where everyone "wins" with the open office is more inter-team communication.
You brought this one on yourself: can you explain for me briefly what "intersectionality" means?
> Who is the most competent to make this decision? The medical professional. Of course government (advised by medical professionals) will set the policy which will constrain the possible decisions.

This has gone poorly quite often throughout history, which is why it's a tough question. Homosexually was officially considered a mental illness in America until 1974.
Neat, I missed that! Thanks for the heads up.
Other than international treaties, it's a threat to stability. Not only in the middle east, but in Turkey, Greece, the Balkans, Europe as whole and the European Union as an entity. History doesn't really care what you think you owe or don't owe anyone. The question is what you can afford, especially with the change in geopolitics like the rise of China. On the other hand considering the quality of your other comments on HN I'm not even sure why I'm writing this.
If anyone would like a brief tour through Hell, I suggest visiting an open office call center.

I'd just like to interview whichever genius thought it would help anyone to have your reps struggling to hear their own call over the sounds of everyone around them and their calls.
China is pretty interesting in this regard. While they really do burn incredible amounts of coal, they are also worlds biggest producers of photovoltaic and wind energy and strife for a renewable share of 16% by 2020. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_policy_of_China#Renewab...
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I'm talking evaporation because evaporation is first and foremost what matters in aging. Great whiskey is thick whiskey.

Why would you throw around NDP like that's a bad thing? NDPs are no better or worse. Pappy, if you're talking Stitzel-Weller Pappy, is one of the best Bourbons you can/could buy, period.

Yes, Weller 12 is great (like Pappy 12). It's not syrupy enough, but that aside, it's a quality Bourbon at a competitive price. Is it as good as a 23 year SW Pappy? You're kidding yourself -- they're in completely different leagues.

What's more, with a Weller 12 you're still looking at 42% angel-share. Considerably higher than anything you'll see out of Scotland.

I'm sorry my peat comment upset you. Maybe it's a regional thing, by and large when we say Scotch we mean Islay or High-land. Either way, it's a lot of watery garbage, peat or no.
I dont really see a good reason to ban private cars. People are going to want to own cars so they have the freedom to go wherever they want. It shouldnt be hard to have a large fleet of public driverless cars that operate alongside personal ones
Its not even just passion that should drive a startup/business. Success it not just a matter of gaining X amount of emails and signups on your site. Its also not all about trying to think of the next thing to keep people on.

I think to really succeed at a startup is to make a product that is needed and that can be sustained throughout the years. To do so, you have to think long term.

Its ok to add the "new hotness" to your business as well, but it shouldn't be what the core business is about.

Facebook's success was not because they added photos, IM, pokes, likes, it was because there was a solid platform to find people. Sure those other features helped promote and enhance the product, but without the focus on the #1 goal (making it easier to connect the world) that platform could have easily gone by the wayside.
We're using ets for our PubSub layer (which sits under channels). I'm not familiar with the Disruptor patterns, but we've been extremely happy with ets. The latest optimizations to come out of our benchmarks have us sharding pusbsub subscriber by Pid into ets tables managed by pooled pubsub servers. Our PubSub layer also is distributed out of the box. So the flow is ets tables for "local" subscribers on each node, then we use a pg2 group to bridge the broadcasts across the cluster. The pg2 bridge is our next area for stress testing.
As long as vendors aren't separating security/bug fixes from features and attempts to push services then even the man on the street should have absolute control.
Awesome ;) Sign me up!
Cool, I feel important. Mood: lulz
Does it still only support OS X for building apps?
Put the camera on a dolly or other moving platform. We've been doing that with movie cameras for quite awhile. Now add remote control, which is probably also common in the film industry, for example to control those swooping crane shots.
I guess I was not clear, the first amendment is not for individual companies. If a company tells me that I cannot talk about for internal technology that is used (NDA) then I better won't because no first amendment will protect me.

What I mean is that by telling me that my vote or contribution toward specific cause is not aligned with company's goals essentially forces me to vote in a specific way which does affect my freedom of speech.

If Mozilla would be an LGBT organization and I joined and was told that my contribution don't agree with company's values. Then I'm totally at fault and should look for job somewhere else if this matter to me, but company like Mozilla has no obvious political affiliations and in fact they should not have any.
yikes dude. go to bed, have a good rest, and i hope that you wake up in a better mood tomorrow.
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To be honest, I don't think I know a single one of them. Who are they and how can I learn more about what they do and how they formulate such great content?
This! I used to have a coworker that said I scratched my back too much. I wanted to tell her she breathed too much.

I think the worst part was they said I used the bathroom too much. It was like being back in high school. I drink a lot of water. Geesh!
I'm just curious. Does the playbook have any game-changing ideas from what was told at the Startup Class videos?

And BTW, thanks for all the info YC has been putting out there for free.
> Startups are the point in your life when tricks stop working.

Awesome thesis, hidden in the middle of the text. In some ways, this is a great single sentence answer to the question, "What is a startup, really?"
Package signing is relatively useless. All it tells you is that a given person signed a binary, but it does nothing to tell you whether the contents of that binary match the source code (and currently, no such tooling exists to perform this verification.)

Nix and Guix on the other hand, are primarily source code based. Packages are given an identity which is a secure hash of their source code and complete build instructions. This makes it infeasible to make any modifications to the source code, as intentionally malicious modifications would result in a different hash, and source code changes are detectable in commit logs.

While binary versions of these packages are available via Hydra, one can always use the source code versions if they're worried about security. Long term goals for Nix and Guix are to have completely reproducible binary packages, whereby we can assert that given a package definition, the resulting binaries will be bit identical when compiled from different machines. Instead of relying on a hash of the source code, we'll have a hash of binaries matching a package definition.

And when we get to this stage, we can completely stop worrying about who packaged a piece of software, because the result should be the same regardless. Instead, we can start looking at an alternative model of distribution where several independant parties, chosen by the user, reach a consensus on the binary hash which corresponds to a given package definition, and have that package retreivable through a distributed network (a DHT).
"General Russian mentality is a prime example of one f*ed up beyond repair"

What do you mean?
There is no biotech scene, there is simply what the Cuban government allows its scientists to study. There are no private biotech companies competing with each other and no market to serve.
> As an OWNER of the system I should have complete control over what updates I do and don't receive

I understand (and share) this sentiment, but you have to understand that it's a sentiment that's held by a very very very small number of people. Most people see micromanaging updates as an unwelcome burden and simply don't want to deal with it. So if the only options you present them are "micromanage updates" and "install no updates," they will just choose "install no updates" and roll merrily along with their increasingly insecure systems.

They just don't care, and no amount of nagging from well-meaning nerds like you and I ever going to make them care. For a lot of them, not even getting hacked will make them care. So the only way to protect these people from the consequences of their apathy is to just install the updates for them. This annoys people like us who actually care about this stuff, but since there are so many who don't it's the only responsible approach.
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>That's not true for most of these patents, they're patenting isolated organisms, compounds or genes. I.e. the end result, not the process.

Organisms and genes are machines. There's nothing new about patenting specific machines.

Could they really get a patent on "bacteria that secretes X" that would stop you from doing it in a completely different manner?

But if you insert the same gene into the same bacteria using different equipment, that's no better than making the same patented gear with a different manufacturing method.
Yep, exactly. Carbon fiber is great for aircraft, not so good for cars.

Boeing 787 Wind Failure Test: EDIT: Link removed due to comment advising there was malware. Google for "boeing wing stress test" to find a Youtube video
An individual has multiple identities. These identities shape how you interact with others and how others interact with you. That is the concept intersectionality captures.

Edit: I appreciate your asking. It's a valid question.
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Easy, match up light field cameras with light field displays. Think polarized 3D screens, except a billion times better - they can project the light as if the objects literally are just behind the screen.

Add eye tracking and put the screens across every surface and you can make the views follow your field of vision.

Or you use AR glasses that essentially project images in front of you.
I think if you Google many of those names, the first thing that will come up is a Wikipedia article about them.
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Americans simply use too much paper...
I seldomly see paper wrapped straws or more than one roll of toilet paper per cell in any other countries I've been to. Even mcdonald in other country don't use that much paper as we do here.
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Are disabled people subhuman, because they don't have free mobility? Never said anything like that - only that your illness affects the reasoning, i.e. the will as well. It doesn't have to be all the time as there are different mental conditions affecting people differently at different times.
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Yeah, I wish there were more fine-grained controls for permissions, i.e. just let me access meta-data like stats for repos (because that's all this app really needs).
But that doesn't sound as good as a dystopian science fiction story :)
I propose the following addition:

1 (b) Seeing as consumer welfare is not limited to cross-border scenarios, the Parties shall also promote fair and reasonable telecom pricing and access in their home territories. The standard for pricing and access shall be calculated by the Parties using the following 'Lossless Commute' formula:

AvgDailyCommuteTimeInMinutes * 11MB * 30DAYS * PerMBCost = .05 * AnnualFederalPovertyLevel / 12

This would allow people in the United States, with average commute times, the ability to obtain the bandwidth necessary for streaming CD Quality Music during their commute for $45 per month. The .05 of the Monthly Federal Poverty Level is set based on the current mandate requiring employers to offer healthcare with the employee contribution not exceeding .095 of the Monthly Federal Poverty Level. In 2015, if it is reasonable to believe that an individual can obtain quality health insurance coverage for ~$93 per month, it is very reasonable to believe an individual can receive 18GB of bandwidth for half of that.
weird. i am pretty sure that was denied for me. but either way, the criminal is receiving the money via paypal, famous for withholding funds for the most banal of reasons. why in those cases it allow money to be drawn with no records that law enforcement can use?
Are there any risks or downsides to going through a distributor?
I think this really depends on the type of work you do, what kind of personality you have and how exactly your open office is set up.

Sometimes, I just need quiet to get a lot of work done. For these days, I might work at home so people don't stop by my office. Even with an office, people stop by all the time to tell me little things. That can make concentrating on programming, design or other stuff really difficult. Each interruption can knock me out of focus for 15 minutes. There is also the non-stop ringing of my office phone.

On the other hand, when we are close to shipping something or in the earlier conceptual stages, it's nice to have a bunch of product people together without any walls. We might sit around a table with laptops and punch list and QA the rest of the product before we get ready to ship it.
This reminds me a lot of the idea strategies that James Altucher promotes and uses. They are mostly related to business ideas rather than OSS, but the concept remains similar.

You can see some of his posts on it here:

http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2014/05/the-ultimate-guide-for-...

http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2012/04/how-to-have-great-ideas...

http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2015/07/the-magic-of-idea-math/
This is the tldr of the whole thing
You get to vote on condoms in porn (really) [2012]
Analysis is custom if you are doing genomics right at this time. Either you are doing something pre-clinical, and you better understand what you are doing i.e. analysis in a black box is not ok. Or you are not dealing with human stuff at all and then there is no analysis in a box on the market.

There are tools with GUI's but they don't help that much if you don't understand the underlying systems.
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>Article 14.17: No Party shall require the transfer of, or access to, source code of software owned by a person of another Party, as a condition for the import, distribution, sale or use of such software, or of products containing such software, in its territory.

Does this make GPL unenforceable, or am I reading too much into this?
Can you support your claim that indian medicine cures were patented in the US?
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Sure, I wouldn't be surprised if they are using it as a brand.

But I'm pretty skeptical that those teenagers care that their cheap whiskey be called Bourbon.
What does that mean? If I have a child with part of that patented code, the "patent owner" could legally extract the DNA?
> These people don't have control over their mental faculties; they aren't competent enough to make a choice for what is best for them in the same way that minors aren't allowed to go truant or to consent to sex with an adult.

Which people? "Mentally ill" people aren't a homogenous group, and the fact that someone is mentally ill and living on the street does not imply that they are incompetent to make personal decisions due to their mental illness. The relation between mental illness, poverty, physical illness, etc. is complex.

There aren't simple answers, and this person isn't these people.

> If he was forcefully taken to the hospital, forcefully given medication, and recovered he would exclaim "Thank you for saving me! I had a disease in my brain that lead me to believe in crazy things: to be paranoid of police and even medical personnel. I spent 2 years on the streets suffering like this with no place I believed could help me, but you cured me."

Would he? He was medicated, functional from the point of view of the broader society, and living in an apartment and stopped taking his medication. Was it because the medication wasn't the best medical science could identify and he was still incompetent though he would be better off with other medication? Did he accidentally stop taking medication and start a downward spiral where he became out of control? Or was he, as he seemed, competent -- but voluntarily decided to discontinue the medication?

> If I had a mental disorder that made me go crazy--so crazy that it doesn't even enter my mind that I need help--I would hope that my government would restore my sanity (as I am unable to do so).

And that's great, but its a mistake to project what you think you would want onto other people as their preferences.
The advantage I see Mint has is they don't require OFX as they appear willing to scrape sites for content.
Strong disagree on pretty much all of this. The idea that US whiskey is more viscous than Scotch sounded so batty to me that I just checked, with a Willett, a TH Saz, and a GlenDronach 18; the Dronach is the leggiest of the three. (The Dronach is obviously not the best of those three whiskies.)

I think I don't believe you that viscosity is a simple function of evaporation.

Think about it: in both US and Scottish whiskey, the spirit going into the barrel is much higher proof than what's in the bottle, or what you should reasonably drink it at if you've got a cask-strength bottle. If "good whiskey" is "thick whiskey", where "thickness" is the amount of water the distillate had lost relative to alcohol, then we'd all just be buying the highest proof spirit; you could treat the ABV like a point score for quality. Both US and Scottish whiskey is diluted to a place the distiller wants it to be at.

We also wouldn't need tasting notes describing the legs, because if it's just about evaporation, then it's purely a function of ABV, and that's printed on the bottle!

Certainly the idea that one should evaluate a whiskey based solely on its legginess finds support in zero whiskey sources I can find.

I don't just think Pappy is overpriced Veblen whiskey that people overpay for because it's the only brand they've heard of --- although people absolutely do that, and secondary market prices, which are the only place you can reliably buy the stuff, make it one of the major rip-offs in all of spirits. I also think Pappy is inferior to Weller. Maybe I've just been given flawed bottles; the 20 literally tastes like grass clippings, and I'd take a FR SB over any of the other Pappies any day.

At any rate: Scotch is not "all about the peat". You have to not drink a lot of Scotch to think that. Which is fine! Just moderate your stridency a bit. :)
As a counterpoint, the founders of Thumbtack started a startup before they had an idea, picked a very "derivative idea" and still did (and are doing) pretty well. If I had to quantify the motivation of the early team, it was much more about the company being successful than everybody being super passionate about the idea. As long as you can out-execute your competitors and people want your product, it doesn't really matter what your motivation is.
There's a Men's-Rights Internet? What women do I sue for hiding it from me all these years?
Of course its a VCF file which we hope contains the variants ;( the tech is still fickle and so is some of the biology...

Soon we are going to go towards variant graphs and VCFs will disappear again, slowly (IMHO).
Has anyone had success with slow-cooking? I've heard people say they can cook meat at low temps for 8 hours and it tastes better than usual.
Here's an idea for a hybrid. Have a robotic X Y conveyor in the ceiling that will drop a soundproof box on top of a cubicle when the occupant needs silence, privacy, etc. The box will seal off air, so you only get about 10 minutes of the virtual private office.