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Yes they are the iconic "spy attaches" from TV and movies.
They are also very iconic of the luxury early trans atlantic and early jet age era of air travel.

Halliburton used to make some really good luggage today I don't really know, I'm all for buying good luggage it's one of the reasons that I buy samsonite they last for years and even decades but 1200$ on a suitcase is beyond what I would ever be willing to spend especially considering that there are better and cheaper options out there.
I think this is to be welcomed but I would also be interested if YC published a study on the tax arrangements used by its companies. Inequality is heavily linked to reduced government big budgets caused the culture and abuse of offshore trusts, the double Irish etc etc. Minimum income is important for the future but governments have to be actually able to collect the revenue in the first place...
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I'm just hoping someone wins a $1 bet - the usual amount - at the end of this experiment.
Oh dear! Too focused on the LSBs. Thanks
What best advice would you give to an early-stage French data visualization startup willing to candidate for W17?
> Britain will refuse to invoke article 50 without a deal. And the EU will refuse to negotiate before Britain invokes article 50.

Article 50 invocation marks the start of formal negotiations. They can negotiate behind the scenes for as long as they can before political pressure compels them to pull the trigger.
I don't understand how the math on basic income is supposed to work. If we gave this amount of money to every person in the US it would cost $7.2 Trillion dollars, roughly double the entire US federal budget. How is this supposed to work? Do only certain people qualify for basic income?
> "do you think it costs $30 to maintain a consulate?"

I'll answer your question by quoting you: "Duh, no."

That's the cost spread across all the citizens with a passport for the extra citizen services which aren't included in the normal fees. There are 15M passports issued every year, so that's $750M each year. How much money do you think is needed?

I say "extra services" because there's no reason a passport fee should include the business promotion services of an embassy. There's no reason a passport fee should include the cost of the treaty negotiations and government-to-government liaison. There's no reason it should include the fees already captured elsewhere, like visa application fees or passport renewal fees. Nor is there a reason that a passport fee should include for paying for espionage done by the embassy.

It's amusing that you attempt to respond to my criticism by not understanding it.

I may be a whiner, but you are a liar if you call me a criminal. I pay $600/year in accounting fees to provide the necessary paperwork to the US to prove I owe them nothing. In addition to the taxes I pay the Swedish government.

Moreover, because I live in Sweden, my income and taxes is public information, so you can verify it for yourself if you think I'm lying.
Do you believe that there are any illegal tax arragements used by YC's companies? Because I have to say that if there is not, the problem is on the governments side - not theirs, and trying to have the business side of things solve that kind of problem seems really strange.
Last I heard, service centers have to request these files from Apple on a case-by-case basis, so that only a small number of people need the ability to generate them. All of the complexity (writing a nonce to flash when the firmware password is changed, etc.) exists to make it easy for a service provider to apply an unlock when authorized.

I’d make a large bet that the same is true for removing Apple ID activation locks from devices.
On the other hand, the EU does not need free trade with Norway as much as it does with the UK.
As Sturgeon rightly pointed out, the situation has materially changed as a large part of the Scottish independence remain campaign was that the UK needed the Scottish support to stop it happening.

The UK leaving the EU would most likely make a second Scottish independence vote succeed, which would make me sad.
I'm afraid to say, that your impressions are incorrect.

Northern Ireland will not be joining Southern Ireland. They still see themselves as British first. Go over there, like I have and you'll see British Flags everywhere.

Also, have you see the situation in Spain lately? Gibraltar is staying put.

I do love hearing these fantasists hoping that the UK crumbles because it left the UK.

You do realise there are whispers within the STRONGER countries in the EU who are now thinking of having their own referendums?

The EU better be be careful as otherwise it's just France, Germany and a whole lot of smaller poorer southern countries and Germany goes bankrupt trying to bail them out!

Lets see what happens when Greece finally explodes!
The UK has granted independence to more countries than any other, they know how to do it well, and how to have a good relation with the new nation.
> That we're moving closer to embracing freedom of self on such a fundamental level is one of the truly encouraging things about this time.

This has been done and done again for as long as there have been societies. The surveillance state will seal this freedom away for good. Then we will have order and we will "like" it.
To further amaze you, look at the Intel i960 (esp manual in "external links"):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_i960

It was intended to replace 286/386 and mainframes. I know: talk about shooting for the stars. Yet, manual shows it to be a brilliant design [vs i432 APX] that was basically an object-oriented, efficient RISC with error recovery, concurrency, and lock-step added. Just a few, small modifications to make this into a highly-secure, three-or-four-9's CPU. Might be Intel's best work in terms of engineering tradeoffs. Worth somebody imitating imho far as hobbyist clones or RISC-V projects go.
even ignoring the grind that is an awful job: Community College is cheap and has all sorts of vocational training... if you can take Monday Wednesday Friday off between 9:30 and 10:15 then again between 1:00 and 1:45.

The intersection of Jobs-That-Can-Work-With-That-Schedule and Jobs-That-Can-Pay-Enough-For-CC-AND-Food-AND-Shelter is tiny and flooded with existing students.
How long has the UK been around vs how long the EU has existed?
You can emulate an enclave, but, if you do, the emulated enclave doesn't get access to its seal key, etc. The idea is that you provision secrets accessible only with access to the key and then write an enclave to access those secrets.

An enclave can verify itself to another enclave on the same machine, and Intel supplies a mechanism by which licencees (sigh) can verify their enclaves remotely.
Putting it that way it means that Berlin is a cheap city to rent an apartment. You are totally right about that.

What is more interesting is that around EU prices of cars / consumer electronics, etc is relatively the same [1]. Not to mention airplane tickets, holidays which also cost the same in London and Berlin, but guys from London can spend on these more.

As a summary IMHO, having a small rent doesn't mean that competition rules shouldn't apply for Berlin and it's talent pool. From my perspective it looks like they don't. Founders put average salaries for their teams in their projection plans and in the end have their hands tied, because "no budget for 80k+ developer". It's a bit sad. Kudos to your companies ( exclude Zalando - sorry ) for putting more money for employees, nevertheless I consider them settled companies already, since they are huge.

[1] : http://www.iclarified.com/55272/iphone-6-prices-around-the-w...
Dublin ?

It's right there, many big companies already have their offices there, English is the official spoken language, it is basically a far as uk to reach from the point of view of any European citizen, and it is cheaper (I guess).

Taxation is lower BUT actually enforced: there is no such thing as City of London corporation, isle of man or crap like that.

I guess it is less "developed" than London, but becoming the next European tech hub might be a great drive for development.
> Worth seeing which countries will remain in the EU by the time UK finalises the exit

All of them? The only ones asking a referendum are two far right parties in Holland and France
Can you live off of 2k in San Fran?
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But the EU can simply refuse to negotiate.

I think the EU does want to give the voters what they asked for. And that is Brexit. Out is out. Not EEA.
It can be used as a programmable secure element. Think disk encryption (with protection against brute forcing), storage of SSH and TLS keys, credit card authentication, etc.
Are you including voice in that? I'm still on the original promo plan (gotten when I didn't even have an iPhone, since it didn't do tethering yet and my Moto RAZR2 did), and it's $30/mo for the data alone.
52% bigots?

What an astute grasp of politics..
Scotland leaving the UK was a reasonably foreseeable result of Brexit, so voters in England and Wales should have asked themselves question 2 when they voted on Thursday.

Britain, as a whole, voting for leaving the EU wasn't foreseen at the time of the Scottish independence referendum, so voters in that wouldn't have asked themselves question 1.

So the Scottish government should at this stage try to negotiate a Danish-style deal (Scotland stays in EU and UK). If they are successful, there would be no immediate need for another independence referendum. Otherwise, they should get the best EU membership terms they can for Scotland, and hold another independence referendum.
I haven't removed an EFI password but I've removed an Apple ID from 2 devices and it was done in <30min at the Apple Store in Westfield (SB) London.

While It's likely that Apple has probably has some audit trail on these requests just the sheer amount of devices that are likely to need to undergo such procedure make it unlikely that there is some room in Apple HQ where 5 highly trusted engineers issue those files.

Even if you don't count all the end users that lock their devices and can't unlock them all the devices that are returned to apple, go in for a hardware replacement/fix or recycling need to undergo a similar procedure.
So If I would be asked to wager on how this process is done it would be that it's an automated process with an audit trail just like what many organizations use to reset account details, passwords and other things.
"the z80 is the one that still has the most actual commercial applications, and is the one that is easiest to source"

Wise that you considered this. Any IT work, even hobby projects, can have long-term consequences for the person or the work itself. I often advise people to consider what it might turn into down the road, not to worry per se, but to notice if any tiny choices or efforts now might lead to a payoff later. Hypothetical example, you choosing z80 for software might lead you to reverse engineering, imitating, or porting amazing code onto your very own z80. That experience might get you in embedded work, demoscene, or even improving compiler efficiency. Kind of a variant of network effects maybe except for learning opportunities rather than ecosystem take-up. Hmm, first I thought about it like that. Maybe worth more thought?

Regardless, good luck on your project. I'm sure you'll enjoy it. My own forays into hardware for high-assurance security... despite working at a high-level... have been beyond enlightening. More people play with hardware, higher odds an OSS revolution for HW will show up outside academic teams doing RISC-V, etc. Cheap, FGPA boards & software are already there to enable it. Just need motivated people.
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I am not familiar with YC project, but many similar discussions in Europe focus around the "guaranteed minimum income", which basically means that you give money only to people that don't have an income. You need to decide a good threshold for that, as you don't want to promote unemployment.
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Because If someone contracted them to make these assets they would have charged that person $2500. But here they sell it to you much cheaper in hopes That enough people will buy the book thus making more that the 2500 they could have made.
The EU is not based on pure direct economical interest, it's also based on a dream. That dream really helped Germany during the reunification, helped some small countries in the east, and that dream did not really help Greece. But it's more than a pure cold economic union.
I'm currently working on 3 different projects, and have several projects that are on maintenance mode, that I return to fix bugs here and there.

Docker makes this workflow a lot easier than multiple VMs. I'm running ubuntu with vagrant on macOS, and each project has a docker-compose file that spins up all the services. Stopping everything for one project and getting another one up is just one command, and takes a few seconds at most. With docker's layered fs, there is almost no space overhead.

Even if you don't use docker for deployment, you can just use a container as a psuedo-VM to use this workflow.
Europe has been unable to recreate Silicon Valley for a large number of reasons none of which have anything to do with why they can't move their financial center to Frankfurt.

Just a couple of them:

- no single language market of 300M people

- different attitude towards investment

- different attitude towards entrepreneurship

- no reason to cluster that much in such a small space

In fact, the US has been unable to 'recreate Silicon Valley', it's a world-wide accidental one-off and drawing parallels between its one-off-existence, lack of being replicated anywhere at all and the fact that London was a banking capital before the EU existed does nothing to guarantee Londons continued existence as a banking capital outside an otherwise unified EU once a large number of very relevant parties pulls out and is drawing very strange conclusions out of unrelated data.

The biggest hits from the brexit will be felt in London and it is already happening.

http://fortune.com/2016/06/24/london-brexit-jobs/
Around 100MB of physical RAM, to be shared among all enclaves active at a given time in the platform. Enclaves can be swapped out (if the OS/VMM is sophisticated enough), so in principle memory can be overbooked.
Probably you are right, I don't know too much about the situation, as lots of important facts are always missing from news reports
Thanks for replying!

And my view is that having a smaller stdlib and pushing all the responsibility to crates means that the language isn't actually usefully stable, since it means downstream still can't depend on not having breaking changes of its dependencies. The URL library can make breaking changes and have a major version bump; but that means everybody ever that used a URL will need to deal with it, which can be annoying if you happen to be using a crate that does so half a dozen layers in. Saying that a library is broken because its dependencies changed shifts the blame but that doesn't actually help the end developer. I totally understand though; that's more of an artifact of having a young language. I just still find it frustrating.

As for unstable compiler plugins: sure, it's looking at dirty compiler internals and whatnot. But that means people are using non-release compilers, and makes it more likely to start using the same in their code. The same could have been achieved by having a compiler version (completely separate from the language version, sort of like how GCC version numbers are decoupled from the C language); instead, we've got instructions lying around encouraging people to use unreleased toolchains.

I guess I really just want a stable, battery-included thing to build on top of, but while Rust is exciting it isn't quite there yet. Really thankful for the Rust team (and friends) for working on all this and letting us have a look, though, and looking forward to the day the ecosystem gets there :)
Where I live there's a huge number of apartment blocks, most of them built in 60s and onwards, and the apartments are the sole place to live and the prime asset for most people.

They'll definitely start crumbling in a few decades and not many people will be able to afford a new home as well as deprecation of their main asset. Have no idea how this might ever resolve, frankly.
This isn't actually an academic experiment. It's a group of very rich people using lesser off people as entertainment.

Not too terribly far off from this:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenn_treasure
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How is that even relevant to anything? The relative costs and benefits to the UK (or any nation that might think to follow it out of the EU) of staying in vs. leaving the EU is not measured by how long the UK had been around vs. how long the EU has been around.
That's one problem with government regulations. Even when they're actually well designed and impartial, they don't get updated when technology changes.

After a few decades, the once great regulations are often way out of date.
The sad thing about Germany is their loathe for the English language: you basically cannot expect to fully live there without learning German. ATMs and self-dispensers (example: bus/subway ticket machines) are poorly translated to English, for example.

For example, bus/subway stops are only announced in German, not in English.

In Milan, Italy, bus and subway stops are announced in both Italian and English, public transport works very well in my opinion.

It's a pity that doing business in Italy is basically a rat race, taxation is ridiculously high (compared to the services and services level you get) and there is a crazy bureaucracy, otherwise Milan would be an awesome place for a tech hub.
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YC's attempt at delaying the coming proletariat uprising.
"But, as with all such judgement-activities, experts can disagree, often by several decades, even a century or so, and sometimes even more."

That sure escalated in a hurry! Decades... Century... More than a Century. Still, I get it, when the next best tool (radiocarbon dating) deals in millennia.
I've always marveled at the exponential function.

Here's a 3D visualization of z=x^y that supports the 0^0 is undefined camp:

https://s32.postimg.org/v9t4stdl1/x_y.gif

(Made with Grapher.app and Gimp)

You can clearly see that the surface is tangent to the z (vertical) axis, which suggests that any z>=0 satisfies z=0^0, hence 0^0 is undefined.

Edit: here's a picture that highlights two important rules:

https://s31.postimg.org/4kozbjqbf/x_y_lines.png

The red line is the rule 0^y=0 for all y; the purple line is x^0=1 for all x. It's clear why these two lines would not meet at 0^0. Some will define 0^0=0, others 0^0=1. But the 3D surface shows that it's really a vertical line.
That's the hardcore way. Brinch Hansen used to program constrained hardware in a high-level, type-safe language with hand-coded, equivalent assembly side-by-side. It was a debated approach then but claimed some benefits of both. Recent work uses dependent types, theorem provers, and so on to do low-level stuff with tooling catching assembly-level errors and/or synthesizing it directly from specs without compilers. Also stuff like ATS lang and Ocaml subsets being used on 8-bitters. So, days of hardcore methods like yours are over and unnecessary outside an existential experience reliving history. :)

Or certain subversion-resistant schemes. That's out of scope here, though.
> Other countries look at the UK precedent,

If it is positive, thing that it is highly dubious
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they're most likely allowing stolen computers to be used

Also those which have been recycled, or which someone has locked out accidentally, or deliberately to scam someone ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7993435 ), etc. Used computers from companies often have BIOS passwords that no one bothered to clear before sending them off. Not every computer with a password its current owner doesn't know is a stolen one. That's why I think this is a good thing --- I believe in the fact that if you physically own something, regardless of how you came to own it, you should truly "own" it.
Lets interpret the claim charitably - people on welfare have reduced work effort, increased fertility, and increased drug consumption. Do you assert that any of those claims are false?
I think the assumption is that once UK leaves the EU, Gibraltar will no longer be EU and Spain may try to exercise more muscle by making border crossing more painful and try to use that to pressure Gibraltar. I imagine they import a lot of food from Spain.
My weekend plans have changed... I'm making these fries! I really enjoyed the article. Quite technical, with a bit of plant biology thrown in. When the fries are frozen, it changes the cell structure internally and when deep dried the second time makes the inside fluffy. As the article mentions, freezing causes the moisture inside the potatoes to form sharp and jagged crystals, damaging the internal cell structure of the potato, thereinby releasing moisture when heated up again.
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Since the hardware is under control of the provider, there isn't any practical way to really ensure anything.
Imagine that the money comes from no where. We have capabilities to offer people some things that they probably aren't capable of buying. Like say better food, more electronics, better homes, etc., Instead of expecting everyone to work to "earn" their living, we can instead guarantee some basic standards of living by giving everyone money that comes from no where. It just requires us to rethink productivity and economics. If a robot works instead of human, it is still productive and contributing to economy. If it were human, the work itself will have some value and so does the output of that work. With robots, we are only counting the output and not the work itself. What if we were to incorporate that into finances and pay that as basic income? It doesn't matter that the money is essentially created from nowhere, as long as there is some productive work taking place to account for that.
The rendering was beautiful, and you could tell instantly that it was above and beyond anything seen before. A sweet story without dialogue that tugged at my heart as well!
The cost of the skimmer is insignificant, but the labor to replace it adds friction and is going to reduce the number of active skimmers. To replace the removed skimmer will also expose the criminal to more risk of getting caught, especially if the police are aware of the removal and can set up a sting or something.

So while the economic ROI is so high the behavior will continue, it does slow them down.

Not a complete fix by any means, but adding friction to their criminal behavior.
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Yes, it's harder to iterate on API design once it's in the stable API. But that's the point, basically; it's harder to keep code working if the thing you're using keeps iterating.

And yeah, cargo is really nice. I just think the part where you have to go to it for all the things, with no direction on which alternative is (API- / crash-) stable, maintained, etc. is frustrating. That's the thing a standard library gives me - curation.
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