skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sadly - but it just tells you that he is acutely aware of the public opinion aspect of his vision. Nuclear - especially a firm grasp and experience in Thorium reactors - would be a perfect energy solution for all industrial processes on Mars.
One can only hope that a massive project as the one he is proposing here will lead to a renaissance in thinking big - colonial in its ambition - and with it in challenging the Unenlightened modern anti-nuclear phobia.
> Many many people ship USB3, many of them being fairly low cost wifi routers

That's fine, but most embedded things can't even do USB high speed. So why incur the cost of USB 3.0 when they can't even use USB 2.0 to the fullest?
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I'm not saying I deserve a meeting, I'm saying the process doesn't work for me.

I don't agree with your simply conclusion. People didn't know what Twitter was for. And Gordon Moore didn't know why someone would want a home computer just to keep recipes. But those that understood it knew what the possibilities were.
It probably was, plus Ask HNs get a penalty. I just turned that off. Sorry! Was off gallivanting.
Primarily because it's hard to pivot in a small market.

When you are in a massive market there are lots of adjacent places to pivot. When you're in a small market, if you miss on the first try, you probably miss completely.
Mandatory vasectomies?
Yeah, we (FarmLogs) did YC in Mountain View and realized that needing to get on a plane every time we wanted to visit a customer was just not worth it. We picked up and moved back to the Midwest after YC to be near our customers.

You can either commit to getting on an airplane often, or find ways to test in simulated environments instead. My guess is you will need some combination of both.
I know. But that's really where I, personally, make the decision to not care. Group chat with two dozen mates equals stupid banter, exchange of memes, lately some pictures of the young ones everyone seems to suddenly have, recaps of school day mischief. I don't say anything there I wouldn't say in a crowded room and neither does anyone else.

For something as deviously criminal as 'you got pot man?', the private chat function is alright.

Obviously the 'nothing to hide' fallacy is nonsense, but so is pretending every communication warrants the highest security parameters at our disposal.

Signal is a nice app, have it installed among pretty much every other messenger. But none of my friends, colleagues and coworkers use it. I have one contact out of almost a thousand on there. The desktop client only runs in a browser, Telegram can be open on all kinds of devices and synch up (ncTelegram on a VPS where pretty much all my communication is relayed, in my case)...

I know all the criticism, from the question of why they had to cook up their own crypto and nonfree server to the Russians behind it. It's still the best app I could sell to a lot of people who're not even close to tech literate.
If you want a neat / more advanced version of that technique, check out an old game by looking glass software called terra nova, it uses a skeletal animation system but with sprites for each bone in the skeleton.
Apparently I've been mistaking profit percentage for profit margin all along.

Thanks for setting me straight.
Do you really think that financially incentivizing voting will create good downstream effects? Almost all ideas of civic duty are historically drawn from non-financial incentives and the idea of attaching some financial incentive to them potentially seems to further exacerbate a "pay to play" atmosphere that is one of the reasons people (like myself) don't find it particularly stimulating to participate in the present political climate.
Yeah, I should have been clearer - the assumption is that it would have self sustaining revenue at some point (I can't imagine many investors would keep putting $ into it after 50 years). It would just be a break even business.

That's why I would say it's a success to everyone but the investors who never got their payday.
Dissembling won't get you far in court.
Here's a more accurate title: "People who can’t otherwise afford Teslas are using car-sharing networks to pay for them"
Hmm, I've never heard this. All the coverage a few years back was that they use air for everything, so they can scale their production operations in near-real-time as demand fluctuates. That was supposed to be Tim Cook's whole crowning achievement when he was COO. Do you have a source that shows this has changed?
Author of leaflet works on Mapbox GL, so that makes sense.
Maybe they were seeing how you reacted to being pushed.

So -- do people "push" each other around a lot, in your environment? Just to, you know, see how they react?
Check all of Herb Sutter's CppCon videos from 2015-2016, especially this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfmTagWcqoE

He does a great job of walking through the thought process of deciding which of the options makes sense in different situations.
The patent has been granted? What's the patent number? It would be public record. Eyeballs on the idea can only increase support if you already have the patent!
Is it possible to invest in YC itself?
There's a difference between saying "You're fat, so we won't operate on you." versus "The pain that you hope to fix will become worse if we perform surgery on you." Surgeries that involve weight-bearing joints and bones are particularly sensitive to the mass of the patient (like the hip and knee surgeons surveyed). For heavier patients, the healing time is longer and the risk of additional pain after surgery is much much higher.
How do you evaluate more technical startups like the one you mentioned: Rigetti Quantum Computing. I assume one needs some theoretical quantum physics knowledge to evaluate it.
> Does anyone have any ideas on how to solve these kinds of problems?

Redistribute advantages, using that term in a broad way. That's what the underprivileged actually need. The US government will likely never solve it, so the best I can imagine is a platform that connects the poor with successful, wealthy people who meet with them semi-regularly and actually give them money upon completing plans that they design together. If a successful person was willing to enter your life and give you money if you worked with them to achieve some goals, you would be in a significantly better position. At scale it would change society.
Nah, Uber in Manhattan is useful. There's a reason there are 12,000 cabs. Sure, if i'm near the proper subway line to get me somewhere quickly it's great. However, there are plenty of times the subway isn't the best choice.
They've just been reading crack-the-interview type books.

Exactly as the standard modern interview culture incentives them to do.
Look into Sawtooth Lake by Intel. It uses PoET (proof of elapsed time). https://www.google.com/amp/www.nasdaq.com/article/intel-deve...
I've been running an east-coast-but-middle-of-nowhere startup, primarily implemented by myself, and self-funded, with the occasional with help of random one-off contractors in the hospitality/IoT space for two years now. Basically during off-hours from a (pretty successful) day job in a non-tech company I started years ago.

My choke point has always been finding another technical-minded parter that gets the industry. Every time I've seen the YC application season roll around, I've thought it'd be a perfect fit for applying to YC, with the connections and clout that come with it. What's stopped me, even at my half-assed pace, was the chance of the huge ego/momentum hit of getting rejected, considering it's still a labor of love (although profitable).

I have a handful of customers that are already paying monthly for "The Vision Lite" at discounted prices: just enough for me to continue development. But larger competitors are sure to move more aggressively into the area over the next year or so, before my current trajectory can deliver on the "this is Star Trek-level shit" experience I've got planned. I'm sure I can grow my customer base at a moderate rate, but I'm not sure I can keep up once the field gets serious against better-funded competitors.

Where do you think the tipping point is between the Basecamp-style "Just get profitable, stay profitable, and move forward" model vs. "Take VC money and turn a two-year schedule into a six months, and get entrenched while you can?" (Fred Brooks notwithstanding)
Here are a pair of links that you may have missed under the "Don’t use systemd (read more about why it sucks)" line item.

http://suckless.org/sucks/systemd

http://uselessd.darknedgy.net/ProSystemdAntiSystemd/

The first link reads like a sort of 99 Theses, while the second is a dissertation on why people will never get along on the subject of systemd.
If the patent is actually issued then it is only benefit in the form of legal protection.
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I'd like to know about this too.

With all the startups you see, what are the common patterns to failing? A missing skill, lack of belief, timing, weak message etc?

If appropriate, how to recognise the warning signs to correct and avoid being the next failure.
It is something we want to do but right now we are just focused on mobile. Would love to learn more about what you might like in a web framework: af@realm.io
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Lol - me too, that's when I thought of Marscoin.org
Did anyone else notice the title of the presentation PDF [0]? It is:

NINA_5_ FINAL_draft_MarsTalkRevised_v4_17_nm_112716 copy 12

I just thought that was an interesting bit of meta information. Looks like they're not using VCS for it, hehe.

http://www.spacex.com/sites/spacex/files/mars_presentation.p...
Sucks less until it starts to suck more. It's religion not science. Classic NIH.
I understand that this is an economics problem; the ($5b?) market exists because there is significantly more demand than supply and ticket prices are not adjusted to accommodate this imbalance. Why that's the case I'm not sure. Perhaps that's another avenue to investigate for solving the problem but not what I had in mind (partly because I like affordable tickets).

Seeing scalpers as harmful is definitely an emotional response. Popular events go on sale at a set time and set price, with "equal" opportunity for any fan to get a ticket. Scalpers claim significant amounts of the tickets and resell them at 200-1000% of the face value. My friends and I often miss out on tickets only to see hundreds available on third party resale sites. It also enables ticket scammers which are a huge problem as well. Many music artists and sports teams are very outspoken about their disappointment with the industry, die hard fans waiting at the gate miss out while the person with the most cash gets in. While I can appreciate the scalpers are taking advantage of an economic opportunity, I can't help but view them as the scum of the earth and would have no issue with eliminating their practice.
It's more about model building than out & out coding. Papers are algebra and describe clever heuristics. The main issue seems to be marrying the theory and practice.

I am building direct industry experience rather than filling GitHub.
Still an upward trend of medium strength.

I do know more people working remotely now than ever.

And I see more employers and clients voluntarily stating that remote is OK for new positions.

Then again, I still know some people that would prefer to go to an office to keep the separation of work and home.

I think remote works great for the majority of development jobs. You get a larger talent pool regardless of location, you can pay less for office space, the developers tend to be more self-managing, and everyone is forced to communicate openly in public forums (Slack, project tools, etc).
Have you ever invested in a band or music production company or considered doing that?
Here in Australia we get a fine if we don’t turn up at the polling place and have our name crossed off the list on election day. Of course this creates a pool of voters (5-10%) who really don’t want to participate (these people typically spoil their ballot by doing things like drawing a penis on the ballot), but what this does do is keep a much larger section of the population engaged in the political process.

What happens is that many people who don’t really care about politics most of the time take notice in the last few weeks of an election campaign because they know they will be voting. While not perfect, I think the good of “compulsory voting” outweighs the negative.
Even better, usually, is the second/third-time founder actually operating differently after making those mistakes the first time around. That way it's less "here's how I messed up" and more "here's how I messed up, and I know because what I'm doing now is working a lot better."
Too risky for the rich en masse at first. If they do go will be like the blandest suburb.
It's kind of a common misconception that farming in its current state is working. Farmers who run a factory model basically live on government subsidies. The ecological destruction that accompanies this model is also entirely unsustainable. Soil dies, water is polluted, species go extinct, crops and animals are highly vulnerable to pathogens (which leads to antibiotic resistance), greenhouse gas emissions are through the roof, etc. Also, it encourages a horrible diet of cheap grains and meat. Diet-related disease is the number one cause of human death; where we simultaneously have obesity and starvation. And flavor sucks.

So I imagine YC's goal in adding this to the RFS is to promote companies exploring sustainability, quality, and fairness in food. Btw, this is the focus for my application.
This is an interesting subject.

Not to interject politics into it, but during the debate last night one of the candidates said that they wanted to raise the minimum wage (to 15 an hour I believe), while simultaneously adding more good paying jobs to the economy.

Those are fundamentally opposite goals - at least, the government isn't going to be able to do it in any meaningful way.

With a 15 dollar minimum wage, fast food restaurants are rolling out kiosk technology, that allows you to order without an employee present. Even Applebee's and TGI Friday's is experimenting with software + an iPad to allow you to order directly from your table.

Those jobs aren't coming back. Not ever. Kiosks don't complain, they don't screw up orders, they don't have sick days, and they work for free. Once the initial capital investment is over, it's pure profit, and for those who say that you can have more jobs repairing and servicing the kiosks, I say that if the price to repair and service kiosks goes higher than the wage for employees, the kiosks will go the way of the dodo.

Take a look at Eatsa. http://insidescoopsf.sfgate.com/blog/2015/08/31/fast-food-re....

They have 5-6 back of the house employees. The cashier jobs are not coming back.
It's definitely fixed now.
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Yes it would be possible to support. This version doesn't expose adjusting Realm permissions such that multiple users can have read/write permissions to the same Realm. This will be coming during the beta and exposed as client APIs for users to manage permissions to Realms under their control.
It's 100% efficient at worsening climate change due to subsidized Chinese coal electricity in order to further a Ponzi scheme.
As of right now, the top comment is complaining about the negative comments, the next 75% of the comments or so are positive comments (even calling Musk a hero and saying that this is a historical moment), and there's about 25% or so that are skeptical (many of those offering valid criticisms and not simply complaining about it).

Yes, excessive negativity can be a bad thing. But when a small minority of the comments being critical (comments mostly downvoted to the bottom) is considered too negative (to the point where people are advocating scripts that remove or auto-downvote comments deemed negative), it suggests that there's a danger of people being overly sanguine and reflexively hostile to any criticism.

I'm not sure how something as massive as this could ever be accomplished without taking it seriously. And I don't think it can be taken seriously without taking a good, hard look at the numerous challenges that face it. Mindless hype doesn't really get us anywhere.
Yes, I understand Mars is a placeholder. But I life in a new planet that must be terraformed is even worse and more hostile to human life than, say, colonizing a new continent. Or building undersea colonies, like someone else said. Even the colonization of an Earth-like planet would be almost impossible, and we aren't aware of any nearby.

We would be going to a less inhabitable place, while taking all the problems of mankind with us. I must echo the grandparent post: Earth is not the problem -- we are.
Wtf hoe was it on any way intuitive?!
> The actual installation steps of the doco are "TODO".

Building a kernel and such can be done like this:

http://sta.li/build

I assume that's how that part of installation works. They could have documented that more nicely, though...

(Also, I use dwm. It works out of the box, using it on a stock Arch system is as simple as compiling, installing, and adding it to .xinitrc. And configuration has been made extremely simple also. It's not obvious at all, but it works for the particular niche I fit into.)
> You don't know that.

Sure we know what McCarthy developed Lisp for: as a tool for AI research. It's already mentioned in the very first paragraph of the 1960 paper on Lisp.

Sure there are several Lisp dialects and a bunch of derived languages, like Scheme.

> Or put more tersely, I don't car.

Yes, sure. car and cdr.
hopefully you can be honest about it -- if you are discriminated against because of this then that company is not a good fit for you anyway.

I personally would be honest about why you took the break including calling it what it is but framing it as managing stress and looking after yourself, and move on to how that terrible and isolating experience for you might actually increase your value as a co-worker. Eg, perhaps you now have better skills for managing stress, know exactly how much overtime you can handle, have a better idea of what sustainable pace you can work at, be willing to stand up against ridiculous deadlines that you know can't be met even if just for self preservation, will be more caring and compassionate and tolerant to co workers and perhaps recognise symptoms of burnout/depression in them before they do.

Best of luck, look after yourself!
I'm not sure if he has, but why would he ever do that? Unless it was not only production but also engineering/innovating in some sense.
It should be though -- flavor is a signal for nutrition, it almost always signals ecological health in it system of origin, and it makes life more interesting. We already produce 50% more food than gets eaten and huge portions go to livestock. We don't have a yield problem.
FWIW, you could totally accomplish that with javascript & WebGL.
Can you make the application autosave?
Do you think the penalty works better than a positive incentive? i.e. if you got $5 to vote or a 1 in 100 chance of $1000? Also, was the penalty introduced in order to increase turnout? Is there any data on how it affected it, including among which demographics?
Take any estimate from Musk with a pound of salt, but his ideal estimate was 2023.
Alibaba's Weex is better than React Native.
This article is primarily about the audio engine on the desktop version of the OS, within the context of music production and live performance.
The scheme I described above leads to affordable tickets, it's basically a way of enforcing nontransferability.

But at its core, disgust with scalpers implies preference for a non Kaldor Hicks optimal world.

If someone is willing to pay $X for a ticket, and you're only willing to pay $Y<$X, it is non optimal for you to get a ticket if you'd sell your ticket for less than $X.

There's no way around that fundamental fact. At some point, if there are more people who want tickets than tickets, some process needs to determine who gets them, and wishful thinking doesn't help anyone.
If you need a piece of paper to remind you to be a parent, you are not a good parent to begin with. And a piece of paper is not going to save child from such parent.
A homejoy post mortem would be a good place to start given it was used a positive case study in a bunch of talks etc
What, NYC vs Rockland county? That wouldn't be a genocide, it would be a zoning argument. Same as Miami vs Georgia.

If waves lap up against my place in Queens, I'm not going to start killing my neighbors. I'm going to move to a Minnesota with better weather.
Most recent startups from India backed by YC seem to be solving problems within the country. Examples - Razorpay - Stripe for India, Kisan Network - Online Agriculture marketplace in India, Innov8 - Co-working spaces for Indian startups. Is that relevant when YC looks at an application that comes from an Indian startup / co-founders? We could generalise the question by replacing India with developing economies with good infrastructural problems to solve.

How would an Indian startup trying to build a global product primarily for the U.S / Europe market fit into the scheme of things?
Yep, well that would be interesting in the sense of how you could disrupt the music business by "manufacturing" beats. We've seen some similar progress around machine generated art (e.g. deep dreaming and the like).
> One of my earliest strong memories was the last moon landing.

One of my earliest memories was the challenger explosion. I've basically missed out on any of the truly revolutionary space accomplishments.
We applied many times in the last 5 years, since launching our company (Qbix). Every time we go through the application process, it seems we've grown. Our main app is now about to break 4 million downloads and we've tripled our revenue this year and talking to VCs.

Does it make sense to keep applying to YC, given our size now? From what I understand, we got rejected every time because our equity split is around 80-20, which makes us more like a single-founder company. We would have liked to be part of YC but if YC strongly prefers not to consider single-founder companies then we would save time and not apply.
Behind OldSpace? Im sorry that is an absurd claim.

OldSpace has not devloped a new rocket or rocket engine or rocket in a while. OldSpace has almost completely been pushed out of the international launch market. OldSpace launches cost at least 2x more, and for a number of missions more like 4x more. SpaceX is flying a young rocket that is seeing huge amounts of improvement still, while Old Space is flying Old Rockets that don't really improve all that much.

They are not just 'launching rockets'. SpaceX is flying an active Space ship, Dragon 1, and are working on another one. OldSpace company Boing is for 4.2 Billion for the Commercial Crew contract, SpaceX only 2.3 Billion. For that money SpaceX will have to perform extremely complex tests, that the Boing craft will not even be capable of. Plus, Boing has actually tried to get around even the more basic tests. Additionally to that Boing is already far behind on their schedule, even thought they were specifically picked over SNC Dreamchaser because 'they are the most likely to finish development in time'.
there is this project:

https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go

Azure is mostly a lot of REST apis.
Well, I'm a Christian, so that probably answers your question. If you want to talk more specifically, I'd be happy to.

But while I'm sure I don't agree with everything the SA does or all of its methods (keeping in mind that it's a huge organization, spread around the world, with many different chapters, people, etc--so it's not like a monolithic organization where everyone walks and talks the same), I certainly recognize the enormous good they have done throughout their history.

For you to say that their work is a net-negative is quite shameful.
Poor slaves of the previous century .... they all were denied their basic human rights.