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>We made the decision to call all the startups we’d consider taking on through Apply HN and make a decision on fit. […] Unfortunately, I couldn’t find a good rapport with Maciej. Regardless of the vote situation, I’d make the same decision.

1. As other posters have said, "we couldn't find rapport" is a warning sign of unconscious bias. And, as you said, the rules were constructed "on purpose: we don't want to bias it along the lines of how YC already operates."

2. It's pretty clear that "we decided to privately call all the startups rather than do everything in public" only happened because of Pinboard's success.

3. You guys dropped the ball on this one, big time. DQ-ing Pinboard isn't the real problem. If you think the Pinboard business is no good, or the founder would squander the money, whatever, that's your call. But it should have happened far earlier in the process. Waiting to drop Pinboard until after after two rounds of votes were tabulated is ridiculous.
You're the one who introduced the concept of settings, above.

If you think it's not fair that China and India have to deal with climate change, I agree with you. But life is not fair. As you point out above, there's no greater purpose to the universe, it just is.

If China and India don't want massive civil unrest, they better work on the problem. If you think moving billions of people away from the coast is easier than reducing fossil fuel emissions, fine, we can examine that idea with data. But political control is not a useful yardstick. Government is an important tool no matter what the plan is.
Even on tilt the way you are right now, you know this isn't true, and that this was a very slimy comment to have written. I'm surprised.
Nope just going off what I've talked to OBGYNs about, personal experiences and statistical data I've read from studies. I'm not sure exactly what you're specifically pointing out but that's a bit concerning regardless.
There's a good chance you'll end up on a list if you're an exit node, but if you're just using Tor I think you should be good.
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These apps can use it anyway.

It is for carriers to be able to deploy IPv6 only networks. If your service is hosted on IPv4-only host, from the perspective of the device, you will be behind NAT64.

If your service is on IPv6-reachable host, you will get the bonus in the form of a direct connection.
I mean, that's going to vary person-to-person.

When I query my emotional sense of Clinton, I get back stuff like: liar, unhealthy, bloodthirsty, fake, robotic.

Admittedly, probably 100% of these words have been "Incepted" into me, but that doesn't stop them from being there.

In contrast, my Trump emotional reactions go more like: winner, famous, gold, smiling, dominant.

Again, I'm not proud of it, but that's the kind of pre-rational slant I have to essentially fight against when trying to evaluate the candidates logically.
Hitler's encryption machine and the Bletchley Park devices which cracked the code
"- You end up testing which kids have peaceful homes, and parents who care. Some kids just can't do any homework with the home environment they're given. School should be such that it doesn't matter if your parents are drunks or academics."

Profound.
Yes, I understand that triggers will save every data mutation, but no matter what you do second replica is not going to see them synchronously. It's always behind and inconsistent, if first one dies - you lose some data.

EDIT: Maybe you should rename it to something like "trigger-based asynchronous replication", so people would get the right idea about the guarantees it provides.
Thats not a good example for Big O because number of operations computes exactly to logN in worst case.

Try with mergesort and see how it ends being nlogn
syncing is supposed to leave at least two copies which is clearly not the case here. have you read the article?
There's one key difference: iOS doesn't automatically reboot itself at seemingly random times. If you choose "install later," it will make sure you aren't on the phone when it starts the process.

That Windows loves to do it with no warning _while you are actively using the computer_ is what makes it annoying.
I've been telling people for a long time to avoid Apple because it's an organisation which has demonstrated a pattern of contempt - to its customers, to its competitors, to the developers who use its app store and to the courts. The replies I get are so depressingly apathetic: "but the iPhone is nice"; "I like how simple it is to use"; "the design is so pretty". How can people be so easily charmed into bending over for out-of-control megalomaniacs? Maybe the secret to Hitler's popularity was the uniforms, which were admittedly really snazzy (Godwin's law, I know, I know...)
"Most" requires some hard data; and whether the fraction is higher or lower than the neighboring areas. Prop 13 is California-wide, so it's not specific to Cupertino.
Can someone please explain how Gavin can still think he is Satoshi? I am very confused.
Sure, but in the case of presidential elections you have both Man A and Man B walking into a bar and telling different jokes, with roughly half the people laughing at each joke.

Why did some people laugh at Man A's joke more? Was it an objectively better joke? Was it the delivery? Did they already know Man A from before, and thus were more likely do laugh at his jokes?

We're talking marginal degrees of charisma here, not giant leaps. Hence the debate in this thread.
> Does using Tor puts you on some kind of list? It would be tragic if someone used Tor to read a scientific article but then got charged with aiding terrorism or looking for child pornography.

If it does, it becomes an ethical maxim to use Tor. If it doesn't, then you can simply use Tor. So by case analysis you should use Tor.
I don't give a damn whenever someone stole what was originally mine. I just sit down and pray that it would turn out to be better than I am. It's just us against Damn, Let jesUS deal with them.
Well, I would say that you didn't make yourself particularly clear, then :-)

Yes, you did list the possibility that that quote might just be random nonsense, but that doesn't necessarily mean that that is what you think is the case. In particular given that you also wrote this:

> The (Christian) bible says there is NOTHING secret that shall not be made manifest. So anything that is a FACT (actually happened), however irrational-seeming or paradoxical, will be revealed in all its causes. This is a deeply profound statement.

I don't see how there is anything profound about this. It's just a baseless assertion, as far as I can tell. So, while it's a step beyond just random gibberish, in that there is some semantic meaning to this, it's still just a deepity ( http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Deepity ).
This reporter is credulous, because the Guardian is just awful.

"Barry Chang barely made it into the lobby when Apple’s security team surrounded and escorted him off the property.

“They said ‘you cannot come in, you’re not invited’. After that I left and have not gone back,” said an exasperated Chang."

Uh huh. Yeah I bet it happened just like that.

What buffoon of a reporter prints a politician's self-serving and incredible story as plain fact? If you buy this story, I've got a pile of Trump steaks and a bottle of hot sauce from Hillary's purse to sell you. So, Barry takes a couple steps into the lobby, and the security just leaps out from behind a plant and says, "Whoever you are, you're not invited. You cannot come in." Sure. Was it the main public entrance lobby or like did he walk in behind someone else into an office building? If he wanted to talk to a higher-up, had he made an appointment? Is it that crazy that local politicians can't just walk into corporations without making an appointment and say, "I want to talk to the man in charge! Several thousand people voted for me!" Did a whole "team" really "surround" him? He makes it sound like it was a hostage situation.
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The article neglects to mention that the Congressional Act which forces (?) the FDA's hand, was one that Phillip Morris sponsored and lobbied for. I think this is key to understanding why the FDA is acting like this, seemingly against public health, while benefiting incumbent cigarette makers.

Passage, if it comes, may be politically impossible without
the negotiated support of Philip Morris, whose Marlboro
brand helps make it the American tobacco industry’s biggest
player.

The company’s central role, in fact, is a reason that some
antismoking activists worry that the bill is a deal with the
devil. Philip Morris’s support is also why other major
tobacco companies — none of which back the legislation — see
a cunning ploy by Marlboro’s maker to seal the company’s
dominant position.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/01/business/01tobacco.html
Don't many companies install their own certificate on company-owned machines so they can MITM secure traffic too?
I would update the title to your suggestion, as I agree with you — but I want to be true to The Verge — I imagine it's classic PR spin on their part...
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I was once tangentially involved in the preparation of a journal. All those things you listed were done for free by professors and grad students.
You changed the rules to keep Pinboard out of the program. Even Kevin Hale admits that. You weren't turning the knobs to see what would change. The outcome was clear, you didn't like it, and so you prevented it from happening.

I think, at this point, the issue is that it's clear to most of us what happened, but YC is still trying to put a gloss on it.

The more you and Kevin Hale try to mitigate this, the more polarized it gets, and the meaner some commenters get about Maciej, who didn't do anything wrong. You don't have to accept Pinboard into YCF, but you have a responsibility not to let him take any of the blame for this.
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My first attempt at syncing an old iPod to a new machine saw a similar outcome. Aside from the slow and unsuccessful "auto-transfer" attempt between the devices, iTunes promptly decided to rearrange and relabel everything I had.

For a live music fan, that's a disaster. Many thousands of live performances pulled out of their identifying folders because they had similar metadata. A significant number of labelled, sorted tracks pushed to "unknown artist". Random, inaccurate assignments of album covers.

Suffice to say, it was easier to uninstall iTunes and restore from a hard backup. One of the perks of smartphones is that I can get music onto my device without even considering iTunes, and I can't imagine giving it another shot.
That's a fair question. A massively successful technology company can locate itself just about anywhere it wants to. In fact, there are plenty of places that will offer very compelling incentives to a company like Apple to move into their locality. Why would they do that if it's of no benefit to the people? I guess you could argue that corrupt politicians will offer those incentives to secure bribes, etc., but here you have the mayor of Cupertino complaining.
I suggested this from the start. A simple transaction from Satoshi's account to an agreed upon 3rd party is all that would have been needed to prove his claims. Claiming to not have the "courage" to perform this simple verification is just ridiculous.
True, but being pressured by your parents isn't as bad as having a tarnished academic record from not doing homework.
his excellent "track record" is what, two elections? let's add this one and make it three. how's he doing?
I think your problem is avoiding AP classes. They claim to be college prep, but from my experience (no citation, sorry) they're more the level that the entire education system should be working on. I do not remember learning a single thing from my honors/traditional classes (other than ohm's law in Electronic Tech, which is no longer available), however I can confidently say I did learn and still remember what I've learned in my AP and IB classes.

Unfortunately that is due more to excessive memorization and general work required than anything else, but I still find it better than the alternative, which is learn nothing at all.
or that Craig Wright is the real Satoshi, and want to establish to everyone that he's not to keep the huge btc stash from the Ozzie taxman...
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Yes, LA is definitely worth relearning. I had a great time writing it since it was a chance for me to review a lot of material. Even more fun was writing about the numerous applications, in the end about 1/3 of the book is on applications[0].

Before you commit to reading 500 pages of intense math, you could probably get a lot of reviewing done with the short tutorial on LA[1].

[0] https://minireference.com/blog/linear-algebra-book-alpha-rel...
[1] http://minireference.com/static/tutorials/linear_algebra_in_...
> It would take less than 5 minutes

I wouldn't keep the keys to US$ 500 million on my laptop's hard drive.
Can you blame him? There's nothing sleazier than municipal governments, at least once they reach a certain size. They all see the business class as a gravy train to ride instead of finding ways to do a better job with the already large budgets they have.

Chicago doesn't have a Jobs to control it, so its endless tax raises to pay for sweetheart public union pension deals and other backroom corruption. I think the internet-friendly narrative of government being bullied by evil corporations is a fairly unrealistic. Its usually the other way around.

I find it amusing that so many have an undying love for Jobs' judgement in business, technology, etc but his political dealings give them pause because it goes against the left's idea of how the world works. Jobs didn't act like this to be difficult, he said and did these things because its one of the more effective ways to control a city government that can hurt or even destroy your business trivially.
Isn't O(log n) just an upper bound limit ? So isn't it more correct to say, that in worst case the number of steps are < O(log n) ?
Your prejudice against "Bitcoin community" is quite telling, given the fact that it took the Bitcoin community less than 2 hours to disprove the supposed proof and very few in the "Bitcoin community" would consider Wright one of their own.
It's not "terrible evidence"

It was lengthy, time-consuming, very clearly fabricated evidence.

He claimed he had private keys tied to Satoshi, but refused to sign anything with it (which would have taken 30 seconds).
They don't mention Researcher Allegiance Effect. Therefore I suspect they did nothing about it. Given the nature of the study, I feel comfortable ignoring the results on that alone, without bothering to find specific methodological flaws.
Bookmarking to me implies a sort of persistence that one can go back to. Reddit is an ever changing stream with the page changing at each refresh.

That's like calling a raging river a Boat Parking Lot.
The problem with that is that there's very little incremental improvement over existing experiences, especially with UHD around.

You can already look at a tomb in ancient Egypt on your computer, for example. Plus, you don't have to have your entire peripheral vision blocked off.

This is why the VR user experience is a terrible idea.
I'm sorry, but only the people that feel the need to follow something as some kind of religion or philosophy really need to attribute the adjectives "hatred" or "love" to some kind of technology.

The rest of the world at large (EDIT: that knows about bitcoin as sub intended by the rest of the sentence) that is not part of the bitcoin cult, looks at the thing for its technological prowess - or lack of it - and mostly sees it as a cryptographic experiment gone right and a financial experiment gone very wrong.
IIRC this timing was announced a couple years back at Apple's Dev conference.

Networks will still be expected to have 6-to-4 routing to get to hosting providers that don't support v6, but those will still appear to be v6 addresses to apps from the app store. Basically the commitment is "you must not write apps that assume that they can store or use only v4 addresses", and this should not be a shock to app developers.

As for when devices will see "IPv6" only networks ("runtime"), that isn't up to Apple, it's up to the cell carriers, and some cell carriers are already there and only allowing IPv6 traffic. IIRC, T-Mobile in the US is IPv6 only already.
People still use Windows phone?
And let us not forget that the doctorate degree that he's bragging about so much that he put it in his domain is completely made up, as discovered by Forbes when they asked the college about it.

(Warning: Adblock dection) http://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2015/12/11/bitcoi...
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The Galaxy S4 had something like this, except no one (other than the Samsung apps) implemented the functionality to make use of it.

In the end, all I can remember of it was that you could wave over the top of the screen to change home screens, and see a little light ball would move around on the lock screen when you moved your finger over it.
Offering up UI controls near an available finger seems like a great idea. If you're selecting a file at the bottom of the screen then you might want to have the controls at the top of the screen. If the phone can sense that that is what you're trying to do, this could be a great UI.
Concurrent discussion of news: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11635867
As I said on the other related thread[1]:
Given his history as a prolific liar, I find his post to be utter bullshit. Note how he's still lying about things he was caught at: "When the rumours began, my qualifications and character were attacked. When those allegations were proven false". NO - it was established (with confirmation from the schools in question) that he lied about having a PhD from Charles Stuart U. and he definitely does not possess 8 masters degrees. Not to mention other lies about having super computers and partnership with SGI to build more with fake reference letter (all clarified by company as false), etc.

Now, because he knows he can't successfully claim Satoshi's identity and in light of possible charges based on ongoing police investigation (fraudulent use of tax credits), he wants to dramatically disappear. I hope the authorities have his passport(s). His thirst for fame is unreal.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11635471
NAT64/DNS64, presumably run by any ISPs who desire to provide only IPv6 addresses to their clients, would allow those clients to connect to IPv4 backends by dynamically responding to DNS queries for IPv6 addresses with a requisitioned mapping address. Apple explains it well in the link in the OP:

https://developer.apple.com/library/tvos/documentation/Netwo...

Sadly, it seems this breaks WebSockets in certain cases. Most WebSocket apps have fallbacks, BUT sometimes these long-polling fallbacks are unreliable on PaaS systems that timeout HTTP(S) connections, such as Heroku. I think that Heroku keeps connections alive if there's a heartbeat, so Meteor apps on Heroku will likely still work. But there are definitely apps out there that roll their own WebSocket connections without well-designed fallbacks, and it's likely they will no longer be accepted.
That's an excellent point——can you imagine if the government of Cupertino bought AAPL shares in the 1980s? They sure wouldn't be complaining about tax revenues today!
We were doing lots of other things :-)
His true aim of writing an auto-biography titled "I am Satoshi" will have to be renamed to "How I fooled nobody that I am Satoshi"
that would be tha bomb. a satoshi signed message in the jpg
>It's impossible for journalists to be unbiased or to be right all the time.

Of course, the thing is Silver is 100% wrong in all his predictions regarding Trump.

You can't take him seriously when he talks about him.
I've often wondered - I know there are requirements for them to "post" those openings before they get the visa - if there is a way for "concerned citizens" to challenge them through the department of labor or something... we could make a website that would let professional engineers volunteer their spare time go down the list of WiPro's (or whatever the big offender companies are) visa requests and call BS on them.
Has it ever worked? I shipped my app Combo three years ago, and App Store search still can't find it.
It's kind of sad that the only answer to this type of thing we have seen in (relatively) recent times is Reagans disastrous deregulation, nothing like Northern Securities Co. v. United States or the Sherman Anti-trust act in over 100 years (unless you count NIRA or the Robinson-Patman Act), which I don't. The FTC just approves mergers, that's the only change, one more step.
It's not just apple, it is every company that dodges taxes. Making an example of apple is not fair - everyone should pay their taxes... who knows how the systems we have in place would actually work if people used it the way it is designed (instead of finding loopholes for their own benefit).
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MediaMonkey and Fidelia are the two products that seem to be tossed around most frequently as iTunes alternatives, and which seem to be reasonably close to feature-parity (at least, as music players; they obviously don't do all the garbage that Apple has stuffed into iTunes related to the iPhone). If you want to basically get back to what iTunes was originally ("rip, mix, burn" plus a good music player and organizer), those are probably the best bets.

Personally, I've been slowly moving to having my main music collection on a home server, and then distributing it out to clients via Plex. I'm not 100% pleased with the web interface compared to iTunes' thick-client interface, but as iTunes' UI has gotten worse over time and Plex's has gotten better, they're starting to approach each other in terms of usability.

The main complaint I have with Plex right now is that there's not an option to specify the quality of the streamed music. It will do realtime transcoding (so you can store lossless CD rips on the server), but the destination format is hardcoded based on the client (I think web clients get 256 kb/s MP3, Android gets something else, etc.). There's an open feature request to let the user select it as a preference, and allow different codec/bitrate combinations based on whether the client is on the LAN, on WAN, or on mobile.

Plex is, IMO, the best game in town for approximating the functionality of a proprietary ecosystem (play all your stuff on all your devices anywhere) but without the lock-in. You do need to be a reasonably intelligent person to set it up, though.

EDIT: It's been brought to my attention that MediaMonkey no longer works on recent versions of Mac OS X, but that Swinsian (http://swinsian.com/) is the new hotness anyway. Can't vouch for it, but it looks good.
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It's not sad it represents the political reality of employment in the US. It basically shows that these people don't spent any or enough money lobbying the government and is a wake up call for them to become more politically involved.
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