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It's interesting to see the trajectory of Lua adoption. The determining factor of the popularity of most languages was at the fate of large companies, (AT&T/C, Netscape/JavaScript, Microsoft/C++, Google/Python). On the flip side, Lua seems to slowly gain more and more popularity over the years. It's more "organic", for lack of a better term.

I really hope a big company doesn't pick Lua up, because I think the fact that it hasn't reached "Eternal September" yet is what makes it such a good language. It has room to breathe.

(The fact that it's beginner friendly, has an ANSI C89 implementation, and has the best/fastest JIT/FFI doesn't hurt either though :P)
As someone who uses a different component-based js framework, can you not just put a breakpoint in the chrome dev tools on the renderComponent method for that component?
Apple needs to be very careful, by effectively abandoning the pro creatives market, their products start to look more and more like expensive toys and convenience products. Supporting pro-level consumers, they made their offerings indispensable at work and thus more convenient for users at home.
Musk defiantly knows about the Mars Direct and he has ideas from it in his presentation.

Mars Direct did not do any refiling in orbit, but rather does multible direct launches. That allows them to use smaller rockets. Zubrin worked under the assumption that the best he could get was a modified version of Shuttle (pretty similar to SLS actually).

Mars Direct assumed a rocket with a normal upper stage that then deployed its payload to mars.SpaceX makes the spaceship itself the 2nd stage.

Mars direct leaves large the hab behind and does a direct fly back with the MAV. In the SpaceX plan you fly back with the hole ship, this gives you the same comforts in both directions.

Mars Direct assumes continually new HABs, MAVs and rockets to be built to keep up the exploration or base building. Its a very good plan if you have a space agency that has a budget every years and wants to continue doing what they are doing.

The SpaceX plan want to massively decrease price and thus makes more extrem choices such as re-usability to not waste anything.

Basically, SpaceX makes a spacetruck that can transport a lot for cheap. Mars Direct aims to deliver what you need for long exploration in the simplest way.

Both are great plans.
One of the most important life skills is to get good at taking rejection and failure and then picking yourself back up and continuing.

If you are going to run a big company, far, far worse things will come your way than a YC rejection. Try again. And again. And again.

Giving up too early is one of the biggest causes of failure I know.

In terms of the two models--it really depends on your company and market, and what you want to do.
What are the best ways for hardware startups to show traction pre-launch? We feel like we have a compelling prototype, but are worried that a lack of pre-sales/press/etc. will be a red flag.
This effort to harden the Linux kernel is not new. Kees made a very similar presentation at the Kernel Summit last year[1] and it was quite well received. After his presentation, the kernel-hardening mailing list was revived, and new features to add additional hardening to the kernel has been rolling into Linux for the last couple of releases.

There are engineers from multiple vendors collaborating on this project, and they have been using the kernel-hardening list for traffic control and for an initial review of the patches before asking that they be pulled. The progress section of this LWN article[3] shows that they've been quite successful so far --- or perhaps, it would be more accurate to say they've made a good start.

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/662219/
[2] http://www.openwall.com/lists/kernel-hardening/
[3] https://lwn.net/Articles/698827/
I like compulsory voting. It means candidates don't need to run to the left/right extremes to 'energise' the base or encourage those voters to show up. Instead they can focus time and airtime on more reasonable policies for the centre majority in the knowledge that those on the periphery will have to show up anyway.
Great post! Clear, thorough explanation and fun read.
Hey, Fire Engineer turned Software Engineer here, check this out. https://pages.nist.gov/fds-smv/

FDS and SmokeView, are the defacto fire simulator tools used by fire protection researchers/engineers around the world. Not only can you manipulate the fuel sources, you can manipulate the environments and rooms and watch the fluid and thermodynamics dynamics happen. Radiation, convection, conduction, flow gradiants, for you to see and play around with.

http://www.thunderheadeng.com/pyrosim/

Is a nice gui layer for FDS allowing you to import CAD files for your simulations and
gives you some visual control rather than programming in Fortan for FDS.
Hi, Sam, how do you think about the opportunity of technology in China, do you think China a good place for investing and developing? What the difference between the China market and USA market?
The first thing I look at for people reapplying is still the video, but the second is what has changed since the last application.

Alumni recommendations are useful if they're strong, but neutral or slightly negative if they're weak. If someone isn't excited enough to give you an independent recommendation with you asking, it's probably not worth requesting.
there's more nuance to it - see this comment thread
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12589647
How important do you think blog posts/videos/other forms of content are for startups coming out of YC?
Without mentioning what was actually discussed, do you think the Bilderberg conference results in significant actions/effects in the real world?
One increasingly-popular point of view is that console-game pixel art was intended to look like it does when sent through an analogue (e.g. composite) video cable to the average CRT television screen; and that artists relied on various "blending"-like effects that were inherent in this process, making the art assets look "off" when displayed crisply on an LCD. See http://www.tested.com/tech/gaming/2982-a-link-to-the-past-ho... for examples.
The decline has been pretty precipitous.

I'm still fairly bullish myself and hold a lot of bitcoin. I think this is a far, far better time to go long bitcoin or start a bitcoin company than 2014, for many reasons including that the hype is gone.
Disclaimer: I'm just a random person.

Rigetti computing was accepted with no traction but the founder had significant market expertise.

That said, keen to hear what kind of milestones are expected of early stage hardware startups.
The East Coast is not the first place I'd go to find more people who want to focus on solving larger problems. If anything, I think I'd probably go further west...
* Jeff Gannon, the fake journalist at press briefings during the Bush Administation

* the Psyops Units at PBS/CNN and the new buildings next to Google HQ

* the relationship between State Department propaganda and SONY as leaked by the disclosures a few years ago,

* the "War of Ideas" program, the Overt Peacetime Psyops Program (OP3) out of the DoD,

* the NSA task to use global surveillance to measure in real time the effects of US propaganda programming,

* Judith Miller and others who worked with the state to sell the war,

* the weaponization of information in the press (the "echo chamber" Josh Earnest bragged about creating for the Obama Administration),

* war censorship and media embedding laws that removes the possibility of investigative reporting on US war operations,

* the FBI hacking of the Associated Press,

* the censorship of public records in the State Department Press Briefiengs,

* the censorship of media coverage in Ferguson via the FAA,

* the engineered content in public school education textbooks and standards,

* the censorship of public records (such as over 80% of the Torture Program Reports),

* the partnership with media companies on narrative that led to both the censorship of surveillance reporting during the Bush Administration and the ouster of Snowden Document content from US media firms including social media sites like Facebook,

* the coercive leverage in the relationship with media companies (e.g. the bankruptcy of QWest in retaliation for refusing national security backdoors),

* operations like Earnest Voice to arm our military with astroturfing and persona management technology,

* the flood of military users and narrative into social media sites like reddit,

* the huge cashflows of taxpayer money into PR firms to manage public perception of the state and the police,

* operations like Zunzuneo focused on destabilizing countries overseas, etc.
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Hacker News aught to auto-mod stories with "ESR" or "Eric S Raymond" down. His ntpsec project is an insecure joke and half his blog posts are unintelligible racist, sexist rants. Don't give him more air time.
This is contradicted by the fact that it isn't legally possible to do any sort of VR work using Apple's lineup of computers.

But you may have hit upon the real disconnect. Apple is waiting for new shiny features, while Pros simply want things that make it easier (and in the case of VR, possible) to do their jobs.

Edit: I meant VR, not 3D.
I honestly don't know what's happening with Tizen these days -- Samsung has invested money into it, but it has (IMO) very little to show. Again, my bias is showing, but I think Jolla (SailfishOS) and Canonical (Ubuntu Touch) have achieved infinitely more with smaller teams and less capital.
We'd be delighted to fund an Indian company trying to build something for the entire world.

My general criticism of non-US startups (this is very general and there are important exceptions) is that too many are building the <<US Company>> for <<home country>>.

I think it's more exciting to build something brand new that someone in the US will copy.
A delegation from YC was recently in Lagos, Nigeria. What data and/or considerations did you take into account that kindled your interest in Africa (instead of say, Brazil ?)

Do you have any particular industries in mind to invest in? where do you see the most potential?
>AT&T/C, Netscape/JavaScript, Microsoft/C++, Google/Python

I wonder if you can provide more background on that, particularly those last 2. And by AT&T, you mean Unix, right? :p
Links:

- http://www.helionenergy.com/

- http://oklo.com/

- http://rigetti.com/

- https://openai.com

- http://www.ginkgobioworks.com/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taligent
I generally have very broad but very shallow knowledge. It's helpful because I can screen a lot of different kinds of companies very quickly. If I feel out of my depth I usually know a smart person I can ask to go deep.

But one of the advantages of our model is mistakes of inclusion are cheap.
I can find so many wwe videos on YouTube. Who cares if it is from an official channel or not?
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It's 100% efficient at turning greed into security for the blockchain.
So, you think it's a good thing (for Lua) that Netscape made JS instead of just using Lua?
Yes. Far better. Usually it seems to by mostly journalists.

This is conference everybody can go to, and it seems the people who really wanted to ask questions were not the space nerds.

To compensate he made a Q&A with journalist right after, he answered some great questions that the community was already wildly speculating about, I don't have a very good link, see: https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/54j2y4/rspacex_offi...
I think China is probably the second most interesting startup market to me in the world right now (after Silicon Valley).
As far as we're aware of, the crust of Mars is even more sterile.

I'm pretty sure humanity currently possesses the knowledge and resources to build multiple underground shelters around the Earth (as seen in Hollywood movies) that can sustain a population of at least one million indefinitely. Food can be grown with artificial lighting. Air and water can be brought in from outside, purified and recycled. If you need anything else, send robots (or people in protective suits) to scavenge the surface. The only thing we lack is political will.
Those "packs" are batteries. The thing that he did not design are electrochemical cells. The term battery pack is a misnomer invented by people who do not understand the difference between a battery and an electrochemical cell.
Awesome, thanks so much for the response. It's clearer now the behind the scenes on what you're doing so appreciate you sharing. You're effectively providing a much needed and critical clinical tool for making more informed decisions on a patient diagnosis - something desperately needed.

I can sympathize with many of the regulatory and cost hurdles, especially for dealing with humans. We're in the purchasing process for a MiSeqDX and starting out specifically only on bacterial and viral sequences with an eventual path towards humans once we accomplish CLIA compliance. Long and costly effort...

Agree on the "$1000 genome" comment. Our average prep kit is ~$700 and, like you mentioned, once you factor in time, labor, computing costs, etc. the cost is well into the thousands.

I've had 4 relatives pass from various cancers which is what got me interested in the field to begin with. Truly hoping we can make some breakthroughs and it is encouraging to see startups such as yours pushing to make that happen. Best of luck!
Sorry if I was not clear enough in the question: Do you mean you would completely not do anything social / consumer related and build a b2b/enterprise product, or just pick a tangental/related market in consumer apps?
In the past, it was done by independent parties that everyone had to go through plus the NSA's IAD. These days just evaluation labs but it's more politics these days. The best way left would be to pick people with known skill and unlikely to lie about quality. Especially where reputation is on the line.

I also can't overemphasize having clear standards to evaluate against. Then, you can have it done in a jurisdiction with strong contract law where they legally have to check it against the evidence. Make sure they publish a statement to the effect of what criteria it met to what degree. Potential to use lawsuits against them.
It's possible, but as the whole Samsung recall debacle showed, Apple is still heads and shoulders ahead of their competitors in serving the consumer market.

The entire consumer Eco system, including support, 3rd party integration, 3rd party apps, first party apps, and hardware, just seems significantly ahead of any competitor. I find it hard to see how a loss of the pro market will affect their ability to sell hundreds of billions of dollars of iOS devices every year.

Which, of course, worries me even more about the future of Apple in the professional space.
A scientist is trying to cure his own cancer using a custom-made vaccine
Um... Sounds too much like Stalin?
I think it's a consequence of technology but a real challenge for society. I think the right goal is probably to eliminate poverty--conceptually, I like the idea of a guaranteed floor but no ceiling.

I'm very interested in basic income and we're running a large experiment on it. If that doesn't work we have some other ideas.
Think of the noise a vacuum cleaner makes :-(
Is the premise of this article really based on the author believing people are telling the truth in the comments section of YouTube?
how many cycles can this material handle before failure? Typical "muscle-wire" shape memory alloys fail with only a few million cycles.
Have you seen a startup team that is "overweight" non-tech actually be successful?

eg. 3 sales and business, one tech/developer
One obvious example is the development of semiconductors and the subsequent technologies.
Ever get the feeling that these "People Are ___ing!" stories are either lies, or cases of HUGE TREND (teeny weeny sample size). I can't say this story breaks the mold. A believable headline would be "One Person recently drilled a hole in his iPhone... allegedly"
As a reminder, ESR thinks that women shouldn't be allowed around software engineers because they're part of a complex conspiracy to file false rape claims against them (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/11/06/linus_torvalds_targe...).
We do this in exceptional circumstances, but maybe only once per batch (as far as I know, we didn't do it at all last batch).

I think YC adds far more than 7% of value to companies we fund. And I hate negotiating/conflict.
Nope, I meant what I said. The moon was impossible in 1950. Actually impossible, not just expensive like getting someone to Mars in the very near future. The tech didn't exist.

> We haven't kept someone in space long enough to reach mars nor have we developed a sustainable model that's extraterrestrially tested

SpaceX claims to be able to do it in as little as 90 days. You can go a lot faster with more free fuel. We've kept someone in space for 4 times that.

> Mars has more problems than a moon base, not significantly less

What are you referring to? Mars has available gasses, water, and more easily accessible useful solids than the moon. It will be easier to get radiation shielding on Mars, as the surface is more amenable to building underground structures.

> Except that we have no demonstrable way to do it

You are aware that we have sent probes to Mars, yes? The only difference between that and the human is how much money you're willing to spend to increase the chances of the journey being survivable.
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> We haven't kept someone in space long enough to reach mars

A quick google search says a trip to mars varies between 150-300 days. The longest human spaceflight exceeds that at 438 days aboard the Mir space station [1] from 1994-1995.

1. http://www.space.com/11337-human-spaceflight-records-50th-an...
I don't want to sound too arrogant but why should I apply if I think I can succeed on my own?
Thanks Sama.

PS: if it's helpful to know. The diversity office hours convinced us to apply last time. I hope you continue to do more!
This is definitely a specialist feeling the discomfort of not yet becoming a polyglot. Had a CTO like that once.
What situation do you have in mind? git bisect is a pretty simple idea in general. You hold the first and second reference and then update one of them to the new "middle" after testing it. The completely generalised implementation is trivial, so it's hard to tell what you intend to do.
I'll say it, sure.

Apollo was dangerous, expensive, and didn't accomplish anything that couldn't have been done more safely and cheaply with probes. It was cool as shit too, but I'm not going to pretend that 'cool' is a real basis for public policy.

Mr Musk is welcome to spend his money as he wants, of course.
Anyone know where I can source the m68k with required support equipment in eastern US? Thanks.
Damn i played a demo of that game to death back in the day. Was never able to get a copy of the full game.

The control scheme was a weird mix of simulator and shooter.
I'm in India. I searched "wwe". Tons of videos. No evidence of region blocking or as another person said "premium content". Have a look: http://imgur.com/8xgmnDq

Maybe they are premium content in US but free here.
I think the deal is that Linux is notoriously open sourced, such that it is somewhat difficult to think of the one without the other. Those bearing a kind of grudge may be tempted or inclined to derive a certain pleasure from the intellectual satisfaction that might come from ascertaining some personal (read: idiosyncratic) knowledge of how to entertain the 'open-sourcedness' of that mindset to an extrema.

If that is so, then the vulnerability described is likely to be an issue, perhaps later, perhaps sooner, but within some given time frame during which the ubiquity of the 'net will be ever expanding.

Perhaps the solution is to guide the users in some very 'user' friendly adaptation of a 'man. page' that describes with elegant confidence the methodologies germane to creating a keycode that would allow for said 'users' to give themselves the safety from the perchance nefariously driven 'code poets' who would otherwise be able to derive social insecurity from whatever access might be available to them.

Long winded reply to say we need to not think about stoppping using Linux, but instead use a nice little intro for those who don't know enough (or even very little) regarding how to code a patch in their own kernel.

Given that the tech will be integrating NLP more and more, I could even imagine a 'talk through' with some 'Ask Jeeves'-esque personal assistant.

The whole thing is essentially a trust issue. Who's writing the code and who's debugging it to give all of the nUbs (yes, I use the old abbrev.) enough insight to give a little polish and shine to their appliances and machines.

Whew, lotta writing there :d
I'm (very obviously) not Sam, but I recall him having praise for Waterloo a couple years back.
I tend to agree. The UK has had big drops in turnout recently, due to inscreasing distrust of politics, and the most recent government was elected by less than a quarter of the electorate.

It's led to some claims that our democracy is becoming dysfunctional and growing calls for PR or electoral reform.

At least with compulsion you have to be positive in your apathy!
I think the answer is pretty obvious - the advice that successful people give is almost universally useless. The more down to earth less egotistical ones accept this, and don't give out specific advice (eg Warren Buffet, or Bill Gates). But others can't help it. Your premise that we should listen to only the very successful is not well based in that regard.

From first principles, if you were looking for someone to give startup advice, then you want someone who has: been through the process; doesn't suffer from survival bias which just elevates all the random things they did and weird habits they have to some kind of mystical formula; has seen many other people go through the process from the very early to late stages. That's why you should listen to Sam Altman. If you want to worship mega-entrepeneurs then there are many other avenues for that activity.
Uh no. Your application can be completely shut down and push notifications will still arrive on the phone for Android, iOS, and Windows Phone. Once the app is open, you load the new bits of the conversation.

Stuff in the background would be like video/audio calls, playing music, actively monitoring motion/gps (MapMyRun/Ride/Swim/etc), and a few other things that escape me at the moment.
And inbox is the slowest and most non intuitive interface of all.
It's a good question, and really, the crux of the whole issue. I don't have evidence, just belief... The value of incremental knowledge, and of lives lived without scarcity consciousness, when measured across large enough time-scale, could have exponential impact on humanity (snowball effect). Whereas the cost of UBI, while large, is relatively linear.

Hopefully, some of the experiments on UBI can start to provide the evidence.
In the context of GP's article, it's fun reading through the comments on the page:

I actually prefer the crisp pixels
of emulated 8 and 16 bit games,
I have no desire to emulate
the crappy monitors we used to use
to play said games. - lordofultima

I actually enjoy gigantic, crystal clear pixels.
- rateoforange

You'd have to imagine that actual graphics artists during the 8-bit era viewed low resolution as a limitation to overcome, not a purposeful feature of their artwork.
"Javascript’s inadequacy" is but a section. The author addresses many other concerns in the text. Also, the Flow thing is specifically addressed.
Think deeper. You can categorize proofs in to two sets, one is safe in visual and one is not.