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Normally people give a higher weight to a loss than the equivalent positive gain so I think fines should work better than a cash payment.

We have had the fine system since the 1920s so it is really hard to know how it affects the political process. One thing it does do is get the turn out to >95% (we also get a fine if we don’t register too).

One of the big positives is it takes away the decision of voting or not - it is just one of those things like paying your taxes that you have to do.
“For the cases where computers are not well protected in the hands of end-users who are not IT professionals, and who do not have any recourse to IT professional help, we need to design systems that proactively protect them”, Konstantin Ryabitsev of the Linux Foundation

Is this the same Linux Foundation that gave Microsoft Keynote Position at the last LinuxCon?
For Underserved Communities, there are social aspects that also need to be tackled.

Many many many many organisations target these kinds of communities to try and help them. People are often suspicious of the help, because there are also many many many organisations that try to exploit them! Misleading terms, much higher hidden fees, etc, etc. Many have almost no access to high-quality services, just misleading ones.

Tackling this trust issue is essential to any success. In particular, I think that a 1099-style service like Uber is a bad fit for building trust. Though there are other ways to help someone apart from 'make them your employees'.
What is your opinion today on cryptocurrencies and how big was the decline in Bitcoin/Ethereum startup applications?

Do you feel the YC partners are mainly bullish or bearish irt cryptocurrencies?
Hasn't stali been around for at least a little while now? I don't think "brand new" is quite right :)

Looks like a neat distro, though. It's been on my bucket list to try.
What about drugs in general, not just performance enhancing drugs? I meant, everyone want to participate in modern medical treatment, right?
Or aliens could land and take over the planet, rendering the entire thing moot. Of course any situation can go sideways, we're talking about which option is best.
I think most of them are probably trolling, can be 1 or 2 who tried for real.

On a side note, there is no speaker just a plastic thing behind the left speaker holes in the actual iphone 7, so I can see why it can make sense somehow for certain people.
It's an interview, the point is to discover the extent and the limits of your knowledge. You should expect to be "pushed" on the solutions you offer.
Downvote for what? Anonymous coward please stand up.
What companies have you seen/interacted with lately that have a good chance of taking IoT to mass adoption that are worth watching for?
Lifelogging camera company Narrative shuts down
Is there an intermediate representation or is it a big matrix of pairwise language translations? If it's the former we could just start speaking that
Your answer isn't even consistent with itself.

> Sustainable investigative journalism is most likely going to solve itself

This sounds like your saying the business model for investigative journalism is obvious and easy.

> People in general don't pay for investigative journalism and so it's never going to be a business category in itself

This shows that you actually don't think it's solvable / there is no business model. If it's being done as charity or thankless hard work then I don't think that's solved.
After all that it takes at least a few months of settling in to see how they actually perform.

It does? I find incompetent people are generally easy to spot. As in, almost instantaneously (or at most, within a few hours). It's almost as if they want to show you how incompetent they are.

But the "long-term" bad kind? Generally that's not incompetence, per se, but personality issues ("I only wanna do it this way", "I don't want to learn / won't work with people who use X or even don't look down on it like I do", "I just don't give a fuck this company or any of youse", etc). Which by nature are of course much more difficult to spot.

And which are a completely different (orthogonal) set of issues than those addressed... "this idiot didn't immediately see the dynamic programming approach which I knew about already because, of course, I picked the problem. Even when I stared at him impatiently and distracted him with hints" style of filtering which seems to be the goal of the modern hiring process.
Would you consider negotiating the equity percentage for startups that stand out in terms of team/traction? If not, why not?
As a software engineer, voxel engine development has unique appeals to me over traditional 3D game engines. It's something about the power you have to define the entire game environment so simply but precisely I guess. Shameless plug - I released a game called Voxelvoid last year which uses a voxel engine (Voxatron was a significant inspiration). I've been developing the engine a lot since then, maybe I'll blog about it at some point. It's still a side project for now though.
Even if 1 or 2 tried for real, it's still an indication of...something. The amount of logic thought that needed to NOT occur for thinking this makes sense is staggering.
Way more vacation as well I would presume.
Too many little JavaScript boxes
Wells Fargo CEO forfeits $41M, skips pay; another exec out
The sun adds 1000 watts per square meter, and black body radiation is the fourth power of temperature difference. If you're heating the skin say 5000 watts per square meter due to friction or compression, then the 1000 watts from the sun isn't bad. But if it's only say 500 watts, well, then the sun dominates. They operated at different speeds and altitudes so it's not entirely surprising to me that they had different strategies.
> That's a completely self-imposed cost. A company with a process like that has no business whining about the cost of bad hires.

That's the consequence of deep pockets, unfortunately. If you're a young startup without much in the way of assets you certain can hire quickly and fire quickly. You don't have any asserts to sue for.

However, if you're a Google or Facebook, suddenly the stakes rise. They can always find a way to make the firing seem unjustified if they're fired on short notice, from ethnicity, gender, "culture fit" (I didn't want to go out for drinks with them), or age.

And it only has to work once for the disgruntled employee, and then they don't have to work for a while. And you better believe that a lawyer will take the chance to sue a large tech company on a contingency basis.
This mantra was also the reason why MagicaVoxel, the "voxel" editor mentioned in the article was received relatively poorly on HN about a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10953918

Yes, so technically we should probably call the modern rendering technique of pixels and voxels block-based rendering. I would say though it's fair game to call the underlying data "pixels" and "voxels" - in most retro-style games these assets are indeed stored internally at that level of abstraction. The issue now becomes how to render that data on the screen, and blocks are still a way to make this data look good.

While the block is not a pixel or voxel in the strictest sense, I do think it's a reasonable linguistic shortcut to use that word in this context, and it's not unprecedented to use the description of an abstract thing interchangeably for its more concrete representation.

In my opinion, there is nothing to freak out about, and I don't see why this article specifically prompts such a needlessly absolutist response.
You can't cure cancer because that would kill the whole "find cure" industry /s

Anyway success of people as species is through specialisation. Side effect is that we also have specialist naysayers
There is this radical idea in software development that sometimes you use the language that is best for the job -- not just the one you are already using!
What are your guesses about this?
Did science and medicine get to this state without any mistake?
There were many stories about islands or land to the west.

Saint Brendan’s Isle would have been on many maps in Columbus's time, with Irish legends about it. Some of the other phantom islands from that era include Hy-Brasil, the Isle of Mam, Royllo, Satanazes, and Antillia.

While there may have been some influence from the Norse sagas, I think Antillia played a much larger role in his decision making. Quoting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antillia#Medieval_beliefs_and_... :

> under the Spanish flag of Ferdinand and Isabella, Christopher Columbus set out on his historic journey to Asia, citing the island as the perfect halfway house by the authority of Paul Toscanelli.[45] Columbus had supposedly gained charts and descriptions from a Spanish navigator, who had "sojourned... and died also" at Columbus's home in Madeira, after having made landfall on Antillia.[46]

I am not saying that there could not have been influence from the Norse sagas, only that other (incorrect) geographical descriptions appear to have had a stronger and more documented influence on his decision.
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How should developers accomplish simple things like responsive design without knowing the screen size?
That attitude is an enormous part of why we won't be fine, and haven't been for a while
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I had posted about GoogleCL (Python) a while ago, and some other related tools:

http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2013/01/some-google-command-line-t...

My IBM developerWorks tutorial on writing command line utilities (C) is not at that IBM link in post now (archived after 10 years), but can be found here:

http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2014/09/my-ibm-developerworks-arti...
Attitudes are cheap and easy, if you want to celebrate a positive attitude pick a religion.
Because people like to complain more than they like to actually build a usable alternative.

Edit: here's a great example from one of the links in the other comment:

suckless complaining about "sysv removed" in systemd. Link takes you to this changelog entry:

"The support for SysV and LSB init scripts has been removed
from the systemd daemon itself. Instead, it is now
implemented as a generator that creates native systemd units
from these scripts when needed. This enables us to remove a
substantial amount of legacy code from PID 1, following the
fact that many distributions only ship a very small number
of LSB/SysV init scripts nowadays."

So, code was removed from the init daemon itself and moved into a standalone utility that does one specific job.

Systemd is now both being blamed for bloating init, and for splitting functionality out into a separate tool that does one thing.
Just stop with the status symbol crap. I didn't buy a mac to be like everyone else. I bought it because the hardware is solid. For example the keyboard doesn't flex a half inch like nearly every plastic piece of crap windows laptop out there.
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a question about anything else:

what's you opinion on product managers and when/do you think a startup should hire one?
Right...but it still wasn't built for people who do not know how to program very well. It was written for JavaScript programmers. Nothing else really needs to be said other than that.
Might also be 0.
I believe I fix it figured out that inside the case there was a little chamber and baffle(?) that helps make the atmospheric pressure sensor more reliable.
I know where you're coming from, but really this perspective mostly applies when you're rasterising some underlying ideal. When art is composed out of the rendered elements directly, we still need a word for the square thing we see on screen. Pixel is the chosen word. This means it has two meanings, despite your reference.
can someone explain to me what is interesting about this?
If his name wasn't part of this story, would it still be?
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> But the science does raise ethical questions, including how any child from the technique might feel about having DNA from three people.

That's not an ethical problem. Also, not a problem since, it's not any kind of problem to consider how kids might like PB&J sandwiches either.
Yes, they were.

And this is insensitive to say, but at least it was just the enslaved minority denied basic rights, rather than every single human on the face of the earth.
You just have to love that classic approach to web development, right?

JavaScript is great for improving the user experience, but it's often vastly overused and just makes me scream for simpler times such as the classic web app.
What do you think about bootstrapped startups like Basecamp, Wildbit and Campaign Monitor?
On Safari on iOS 9, iPhone 6s, the buttons along the bottom of your date picker (e.g. Close) are very difficult to click because touching that area brings up safari's bottom menu bar.
Well, that's another person with their own ideas that have nothing at all to do with mine. Bounty programs on human lives is a terrible idea. Still, the fact that you've now decided to respond, not to me, but someone else by way of me tells me that you've run out of sensible objections and are grasping at straws.

I also think you're underestimating just how far out in the middle of nowhere we're talking about here, and how rough the area is. If you want to kill someone and get away with it, there are much much easier ways to make that happen in rural Africa.
I've seen you try to use the markdown list syntax enough times on HN now that you might consider patching it in.
Can you expand more on what it is to be "careful"? What can I do to reduce the data usage when attempting to view a long video?
New VR Dev Kit from Occipital Turns iPhone into Room-Scale VR
Wonder if a nuclear bomb "The Core"-style would work? (Yes, I realize this is a shittt sci-fi movie, but if you are taking about smashing a dwarf planet into mars to generate a huge explosion it doesn't sound too out of the realm of workable.)
Well, there are a couple engineers currently working on things which are not sustainability/stability engineering.
Wow most excellent comment.

Yes, RICH Bill Gates had his father most powerful lawyer in Seattle. Larry Ellison had the CIA/NSA's full backing.

If you want to be over $100M company, U must be involved with the GOV ( real secret shadow gov, not the public circus )

...

Helping poor people to be entrepreneurs is not what they really want, I think they have other priorities.

If U study 'richest man in babylon' you can see that in all human history it's 2-3% of all men who always get all the money, its just human nature, a 'real' entrepreneur first and foremost must be a member of that genetic 3%.

...

YC is a VC firm, their job is to get 100X return for their, and their clients ROI, that means they must find good investments and convince young-in's to sign over all their rights to the lawyers.

I'm a firm believer in boot-strap startup, so that when the game is over, U own it all, 100%, otherwise you just waste your life for other people.
...by posting a link to a paywall.
What do you think of South America?
> it's a quirky language

From the blog post:

> JavaScript’s deficiencies seem to impress everyone except JavaScript developers, for whom the aspects of JavaScript that I outlined above are not awful warts, they’re “quirks” or “gotchas” that you, not your language, have to be on the lookout for.

I think his point is that calling JS "quirky" makes it sound benign, or even cute. However, JS's quirks are actually serious shortcomings compared to other languages.

For native iOS and Android developers React Native has a huge intrinsic appeal, for all the reasons he outlined at the start of the post. It's really tempting. Plus, the enthusiasm and scale of the JS community can sometimes ovrshadow concerns non-JS devs have about the language.

To me the post seems helpful. From my experience React Native will certainly not be all puppies and roses for people coming from Java, Swift or Obj-C.
> you can write assertions on a type in a dynamic language

You can, but you can't get any guarantee that said assertion will never fail.
Can you be too far along? We already raised from billionaires Tim Draper and Marc Benioff of Salesforce. Is this still okay to apply? And how much does being a solo founder reduce chances of getting in?
True. I wouldn't put my money on it though. People who have actually done it (and failed) may be embarrassed enough to not advertise it.
Access to computers and the internet is not quite as permanent as genetics.

Were they bestowed at birth by your parents and could be acquired no other way, then you may have a case.
The US is suing Palantir for discriminating against Asians
No they're not, those have people in the driver's seat. Completely different ball game.
I'm really happy to see YC putting attention toward the (increasing) market failure around media quality. It's a serious problem, with IMHO imperils governance and stability worldwide.

I'm exploring a way to improve this dramatically, and fairly rapidly; essentially creating a stronger market for trust & quality, with resulting ranking rewards from FB, Google et al. If you are interested in learning more and perhaps being involved, let me know (yc@aviv.me). Experience with news organizations, partnerships, platform companies, moderation systems, or machine learning are all especially helpful.
Why is that? If a majority of businesses fail, then finding new ways to minimize that risk should be the priority.

In the context of a side project, can go both ways. The founder is minimizing their monetary/opportunity risks by maintaining their current job. YC should be minimizing their investment and/or offering the basics (the network, office hours, and invites to guest speaker engagements).
Landing on the moon is just as difficult as la to mars. Operating on the moon is much much harder. Getting back is hard because there is no easy ISRU way to do it. Nobody will go to the moon to test stuff.

Getting water on the moon is a completely different problem then getting water on mars. Testing these things on the moon is totally insane anyway.The moon has some water, we don't know how much, and not exactly were it is. Mining it would be extremely difficult, specially without a nuclear reactor.

As for recycling systems, we are already good at them. We can and do test them on earth. We do test them on ISS. There is no need to go to mars, to these systems.

On Mars the most important resources for ISRU is easily and everywhere available, on the moon that is not the case.

The Science on Mars could answer fundamental questions about live, that is almost impossible on mars. Mars is clearly far more interesting from a scientific perspective. That is not even a point worth debating.

I am all for going back to the moon eventually, but mars is far more important. If you want to go to mars, go to mars.
We have a demo video field. You should make a demo video and include the link in that field in the application.
Glad to see Leaflet is still being developed. AFAICT, the main developer was MapBox, who's now using a WebGL based stack instead of Leaflet [1].

1: https://www.mapbox.com/gallery/
A little off-topic but in 2011 I had an Asus Eee PC with a super slow processor and like 2GB of RAM (later 4). While the tiny screen sucked, I used to chat on Facebook, watch YouTube, post on Tumblr, etc with no problem.

Now plenty of websites make my Macbook's fans start.
If the comment split here goes 75% positive / 25% not, I think that's a healthy split. Even if it had been 50/50 I'd still consider that good.

A caveat: particularly in the case of someone like Musk who already has, conservatively speaking, some very decent stuff under his belt, if someone wants to post something against an idea they themselves have the responsibility, to make sure it is indeed well thought out, and not just knee-jerk negativity, pessimism or cynicism.

Likewise, people need to realize that excessive fanboyism really needs to be tempered and can really turn others off from supporting some of the truly great innovators of our time whomever they might be. No matter how stunning a person might be, they still gotta take a shit like anyone else, and you bet that shit's gonna stink too.
Raising money? Just equip the colony with Go Pro's and stream the content back to Earth as a reality TV show.
Agreed - working out how to build Leaflet controls was really tricky, and I still didn't advance much past buttons and popups.
This brings up a good reason why voxels often look so blocky and unappealing - 'square' pixels are fairly reasonable approximations to the underlying image, plus your pixel resolution can match exactly to the display, so this makes rasterization a no-op (and you don't even see the squares).

But once you're in 3 dimensions, triangles do a much better job of approximating arbitrary shapes (also, hardware deals with triangles), plus the voxel dimensions have no relationship to your display. You're essentially picking a very clunky filter that obscures what you're trying to represent, out of some misguided analogy to 2D pixels.

Just to be clear, cubic voxels can be great as a stylistic choice, but are inferior to triangles as a general way to describe 3D scenes.
This. I too go back to Usenet and Compuserve. I'm really close to giving up on Slashdot altogether. I've only recently come across HN and love it. Vast majority of discussions are polite, thoughtful, considered and interesting. There are almost zero personal attacks and very few content-free comments. It reminds me SO much of the early days of the net.
My greatest fear is that HN too shall fall to the trolls and numbskulls.

Reading this whole thread I'm reminded of something from my childhood that greatly impressed me. My mother emigrated in the sixties from a country which had undergone a communist-fomented civil war in which her father, a policeman, was killed (when she was four). When she arrived here she know no one other than my father. One of her first and greatest friends here was a woman that along with her husband was a card carrying member of the communist party. When I was old enough to understand these things I was pretty stunned that two people who by rights should probably hate each other, could get along and be so friendly. That has stayed with me to this day. We can seek consensus and argue positions and come together or stay in our corners. But the ability to do it without being dicks is very special.
But you can also discover that (and much more) without pushing. Or at least not by "pushing for the sake pushing".

By like, you know, having a normal conversation. "I'm curious about this project this little repo of yours. Is there some particular reason you chose to use to use / not-use X", for example, where you're asking because you're genuinely curious, as if they actually had something to teach you, perhaps.

If they're legit you'll get a solid answer right away. And if they're not legit... you'll find that out just as fast. But the whole idea is to maintain flow and authenticity. And keep it framed as if you're learning from them, not sitting back and grading everything they say and do on some unseen scale.

And if you're not learning anything? If there's no flow, authenticity? That's when you know it's not going to work out.
I don't understand how your suggestion enforces non-transferability. If the scalper pay $100 for a ticket and the ticket holder receives a $50 rebate at the event, the scalper just adds $50 to the price they resell at.

Like I said, I understand the problem exists because of the economics. But there's nothing to stop us from building a system that enforces non-transferability (through identification), and preventing resale of tickets at increased prices by third parties. It just doesn't add any value for event organisers to use this new system.