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1. I was missing important life events of close friends

Then maybe they weren't that "close."

2. I lost touch with many people. There are people I have so much in common. We used to talk and hang out often, but all our online discussion was based on Facebook. I realized I didn’t have their phone number, nor email. Facebook was the only channel to talk to them.

There's a pretty simple cure for this, actually: "I'm actually not on FB / I'm on it but I don't really use it that often. How about I just email you?"

3. Facebook has the best news stream. Period.

I give up. This one's just too weird.
I've seen this before ...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12603901
Does that work? Can't the evil maid install a malicious hypervisor to dump interesting pieces of memory every few minutes?
Yeah, they did that using a very aggressive Google-provided tool called SafetyNet designed exactly for that purpose, which downloads a program from Google's servers and runs it with system-level privileges to do the checks.
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Who said anything about protein style? 40g of carbs is 40g of carbs, which is a totally healthy amount for a meal.

Anyways, the point was that a hamburger can totally be a part of a healthy diet and it's the fries/soda/shake that get you.

Edit: ah I see, I misread the chart. Still, a quick burger is a convenient option even if you're watching calorie intake.
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted into oblivion; you are completely correct. Yes, to address the other points raised, it's difficult to predict how popular something unreleased will be. But this is Pokemon. Their last game release, which is limited to the niche Nintendo 3DS console, sold over 3 million copies in just 3 days. And this was the Omega / Alpha games which were essentially just remakes of older games.

A mobile game, available to be downloaded onto hundreds of millions of phones, that is also FREE? I feel like they broke 100 million in the first day at the latest (counting totals from each region's first day). It wouldn't surprise me if it's significantly higher than that.

Media, users; everyone has been BEGGING Nintendo to release IP to mobile devices but they have kept it locked up in their own hardware. If no one had even a rough idea of the possible popularity they most certainly had a very, very wrong methodology.
Of course, it depends. How well can you market/sell it? How much is winning this prize worth to you in future job earnings?
But without actually imaging stars, how do you know that two galaxies have similar stellar densities? The OP was about low-star/high-darkmatter galaxies. I guess you would have to hope that the entire thing was rotating, and at an angle, that doppler effects could determine the size/mass.
"Hard tech startups

Some people think YC only funds software startups."

Kinda strange that software is not seen by YC as "hard tech".

I think there's lots of hard tech in software but the way venture capitalists/angel investors tell it, you should only ever build software that can be made in a weekend and then iterated upon.

The outcome of this is the X thousandth dog walking social network for uber drivers staying at AirBNB - i.e. stuff that you can build in a weekend and iterate on. And this is why demo days are full of such lightweight software applications - people are actively discouraged from taking the time to build something large scale and, well, "hard".

Sometimes it makes sense to make a big bet on building some complex software that might take months or years to build, with lots of moving parts, but once complete solves a big problem. That is software that is "hard tech".
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Lower in this context does not mean 'weaker'. An ORM maps between the lower level relational semantics and higher level object semantics.
Well yeah, but this assumes I don't know the fact the physical access had place and proceed to enter the passphrase revealing the key unawaringly afterwards. If this is what "having physical access" means - then yes, I agree, game over, and ORWL solves it.

But if I know the attack took place (FBI broke into my house, the computer is locked in a safe etc.) - the data should be secure.
> Not everything was smooth sailing at launch! When issues emerged around the game’s stability, Niantic and Google engineers braved each problem in sequence, working quickly to create and deploy solutions. Google CRE worked hand-in-hand with Niantic to review every part of their architecture, tapping the expertise of core Google Cloud engineers and product managers — all against a backdrop of millions of new players pouring into the game.

IMO This is the most valuable thing in this article. It essentially says what others are pointing out. You can't just press a button and have scale. It's not that easy. You have to tackle many layers. Considering they 50x'd their worst case scenario it would have only taken a few bad queries to fuck shit up.
Probably the spreadsheet they used for the demo when this software was presented on April 1st, 2016 is still calculating...
Yes, in your case you did the right thing.
I'm assuming the Y-axis is to scale. Assuming it isn't, the numbers they give imply what actually happened is 10x worse than their worse case. Unless Niantic defines "worst case" as "1 in 10 chance of happening", being an entire factor off in a worst case prediction is really bad.

For example, one of the highest estimates of daily US users I saw was 25 million. That's way more than I would have guessed off the top of my head, but it's no where near 10 times what I would have guessed the "worst case" scenario would have been. Pokemon Red and Blue sold 9.85 million copies on gameboy alone. My worst case scenario would assume that literally everyone who played the game as a kid would want to check out the game as an adult. Our worse case is massively more accurate than theirs just using the Gameboy numbers alone, with the assumption that each cart sold was only played by one person.

The assumption that people who have never played mobile games before wouldn't be interested in Pokemon is kind of crazy as well. I can't think of another mobile game that has as much name recognition before it released as Pokemon go. It's a beloved franchise, whose popularity spans generations. On top of that, cellphones are far more ubiquitous than the gameboy ever was. There are people who are playing Pokemon go who have never been in to mobile gaming, but I doubt the number of people playing Pokemon Go who have never played another video game in their life is much, much, much smaller.

We had our team building event for my company at an barcade last year. Every single high score was set by someone older than 50. Literally every single person at the company had played Ms. Pac Man before, including some people who literally have never owned a cell phone. The people who don't own a cellphone are obviously not playing Pokemon Go, but video games are not niche, and have not been niche for a long time now.

I will give Niantic massive credit for recognizing how much of a problem this was going to be immediately. I'm sure I would have under-allocated resources on launch day too, and I don't see myself handling that issue as well. Still, there's no way in hell what actually happened would be 10x worse than my actual worse case.
I'm speaking of fairness in opportunity. Someone in the Gabon should not be at a disadvantage just because they can't simply cross the border. We should set a quota, 1M, 2M, whatever, and distribute that fairly among all wanting to immigrate.

We set the rules. We have not achieved WH Bushes thousand points of light new world order single government. We look out for ourselves just as China, Mexico, Singapore do.
To be fair -- Twitter is a much harder architectural problem (significant fan-out and fan-in problems to solve).

Pokemon Go is less complicated in terms of the conceptual model. There are only a few pretty simple ways that different players can interact (gyms, lures on pokestops, that's about it).
TL;DR "Give a single machine root access across your entire enterprise so you don't have to manually check each machine for security updates in the vendor-supplied packages"

Instead of dealing with this thing, I suggest looking at some existing system management tools like Landscape for Ubuntu or Spacewalk for CentOS/RHEL to handle managed updates... or learning how to set up a cron job to email you when security updates are available.
Are you implying that the Russian government isn't competent at computer network exploitation as your beloved American NSA is? Are you one of those "American exceptionalists" I keep hearing about?
Wow that's really sad that they have refuesed to use the OpenAi operating syestem which shows exactly how much the really care about there jobs reflections
Some of the authentication apps I use like this require that I register the serial number of the app (I guess that is like the public key of the app, except it's really short) with the backend of the app. So I'd open the authentication app, call an IT help desk, tell them who I am, tell them my app number, then I can 2FA with the app.

Isn't this process vulnerable to social manipulation? Someone could feasibly impersonate me over the phone and register their own app serial number instead of mine? This seems to be a common weakness in many authentication schemes (2FA or not).
Ticket money should go to a charity of the ticketers choice and be tax deductible.
Can you give us a hint as to where this place is? I believe that you believe this, and it may be true, but the rest of us are having a hard time figuring out where this place is that the upper class is half a billion dollars, and tens of millions only makes you middle class. Again, within a city or perhaps some particularly small but remarkably wealthy country, maybe. But which one?
> Even if the court cannot figure out exactly who owns the money, it can determine by a preponderance of the evidence that nobody has a legitimate property interest in it because it's more likely than not the proceeds of a crime. Same thing if the property is contraband (drugs, automatic firearms, child porn etc.).

That really shouldn't be the standard of proof. After all, if the property does belong to someone, then to keep it would amount to a hefty fine — to impose it a criminal standard of proof should be required.

If the property itself is contraband and thus inherently illegal, then merely finding that it is itself contraband (to a criminal standard, of course) should be sufficient for the State to keep or destroy it.

If the property is legitimate (e.g. money), though, the State should only be permitted to retain it a) if the owner does not claim it or b) if it can be taken from the owner in a criminal proceeding.
that is assuming that there is no better quantum algorithm for aes specifically. grover's algorithm is only optimal if brute force search is the only possible approach and there are no other exploitable properties.

considering that there already theoretical attacks that (marginally) faster than brute force on classic computers who knows how much more one could squeeze out with quantum algorithms.

Of course those are fairly speculative concerns.
Either of your scenarios sound like anxiety to me. To me, not being anxious means 1. being aware that the chances of something going bad are very small, and 2. recognizing that worrying about it is usually not productive at best, harmful at worst. In short I think you should aim to go from constantly developing and updating a plan as to what to do if stranger attacks you, to trusting yourself to be able to develop and execute a plan should the need arise, and not spending time and energy worrying about it before then.

I think the non-anxious thing is to lazily initialize your defense mechanisms / responses to most would-be threats.

I didn't realize the extent of my anxiety until a bunch of months ago, when I had a small dose of lorazepam. Suddenly, the inner voice in my head that when riding in a car would usually be worrying "what if we crash or are pulled over right now" for the duration of the ride was replaced with "ah, there's a chance we might crash or be pulled over, but that chance is small, and worrying about it now isn't going to impact it, so instead I'll let my mind work on imagining what I could do with my free time tomorrow." It was quite the difference.

Benzos are super addictive drugs and I wouldn't want to develop a habit (or encourage their use lest others develop a habit), but seeing the contrast motivated me to work on mindfulness and exercise to decrease my anxiety levels.
Since the monitor is external, I wonder if they've considered monitors as attack surface: https://github.com/RedBalloonShenanigans/MonitorDarkly
I never suggested storing your savings in bitcoin. I'm saying the future of storing value is in commodities and equities represented on a blockchain - along with a real time settlement layer allowing people to charge and pay in any denomination of their hearts desire. Heck, you could even pay in certificates of USD represented on the Blockchain if you like.
Ah, you may be right! I have not used heroku. I'd hope they'd make some of the metrics available somewhere.
>He says he does not know who they are, but that they are certainly not the Russian security agencies.

How that can be possible?
>Paradoxically, if you know you have more than one shot, you're more likely to succeed on your first try.

True and I'll give an example of a technique I use (which is somewhat common) when recording vocalists in the studio.

The singer will get in the booth and I'll ask them to sing a run-through. Even say "we're not recording this one." But of course we are recording. And many times it's this rehearsal take that ends up being the best one.
Facebook has the best news stream. Period.

This is delusional and a little spooky.

I deleted my facebook account around the same time my Aunts began creating accounts. I have never looked back. It is repulsive how superficial and political the social network has become. A tool as powerful as a social network connecting the globe should not be publicly owned on the stock market. It shouldn't even be profit driven.

I still get laid, and stay in close contact with good friends from school and university. But I suspect my relationships now are more meaningful and genuine. I would rather get 1 written birthday card, than 50 chintzy public and identical birthday wishes written on my "wall".
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The more often you interact with an app the more likely it is to be viral and engaging.

You can overcome it some if there is a large transaction that you can recover money from.

Travel apps are hard because people only use them about once a year.

If you targeted business travelers some how though you might find a niche there.
I find the switching between units makes comparison of risks here confusing. For example, 1 in 2.2 million participants for Snowboarding, 1 in 1750 annually for Mountain Climbing, and 100 deaths in 1 million exposure days for Mountaineering in Mt. Mckinley National Park.
I bought a $1000 refractor telescope, then got a prime focus adapter for my camera. It's basically a big 1200mm zoom lens.
That's a fair opinion and maybe it's true, but it comes from the horse's mouth that they were afraid Mario and Pikachu wouldn't do well on a phone.
What makes you think anyone wants to eat that stuff? All these places listed already have things you can order that come in at far less than 2,000 calories. If people aren't already doing that, they're certainly not going to go eat some crappy little salad with no dressing at Panera.

Maybe people actually want to eat the giant burrito.
So basically you're anti-carb. You started with the claim that "the common denominator for all the worst foods there is refined wheat" and now you're dragging in potatoes and sugar. If you're anti-carb, that's fine I guess, but it's utterly irrelevant to why these meals are "bad". They're bad because they are too many calories.

Wheat is a minor component of almost all of them. There's nearly as many calories in the chips and guac from Chipotle as in the burrito. Even in the flour tortilla, nearly a third of the calories are actually from fat (and it's only 300 calories total). In the steak and martini from Ruth's Chris, there's no wheat, no sugar, no starch at all. It's still 2000 calories and a third of that from fat. In that absurd milkshake from Sonic, there's no wheat. More than half the calories are from the fat, which is pretty impressive considering how much sugar is in it. Even that pasta from the Cheesecake Factory has over a third of its calories from fat. I find it amazing that even the IHOP breakfast has more than half its calories from fat, considering it literally has a pile of wheat in the form of pancakes.

The idea that refined wheat could somehow be responsible for the caloric excess of most of these dishes is absurd. Most have little or no wheat. They all have too many calories.
> If I want to buy BTC from her (by physically handing over the cash), what service providers do we need to use?

This is the easiest to answer so I'll start here. You don't need any service providers beyond:

1) Any one of the many free bitcoin clients out there to

a) create a wallet for you, and

b) send the bitcoin to that wallet

In the article, the author wanted to trade stocks on TradeZero and he wanted to send TradeZero $5-6k to open a new account. TradeZero provided two options to send that cash:

1) Wire it from the bank

2) Convert your dollars to bitcoin, send that bitcoin to BitPay, which will send it to WB1, which will send it to TradeZero. Oh, and everyone will take a fee out in the process.

My suggested alternative, is that if the author already has bitcoin, is to find a stock-trading company that will just let him fund the account with bitcoin. Then the options would be:

1) Wire cash from the bank

2) Send some bitcoin to the company's bitcoin wallet

In that case, the fees incurred from 1 would be $25-50, and the fees incurred from 2 would be approximately 5 cents.

Given all that, I have no idea if there exists even a single stock brokerage that just accepts bitcoin directly, so that likely isn't a real option.
Please don't comment like this. This site is here for us to learn and to gratify our intellectual curiosity, not to trap fellow users or engage in flamewars.
You're behind the times. "Russian hacker" is depracated for the meaning you cite; all users should migrate to saying "400 pound man on his bed" going forward
Edit: I'm awful at this reading thing. Please see the replies to this comment for a correct definition of "hard tech". My original comment follows.

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I think "hard tech" in this instance means "technology in the form of hardware" or "technology that is physically manifest" and not "technology that is difficult."
Some more:

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Would be really interesting to read up on some of the bottlenecks they had identified and how they optimized them away. I know at some point they had to turn off the "location where a pokemon was caught" map and the radar to keep the thing responsive :)
I use VIM. I will not be upgrading to the newest apple products. I think I'll phase them out instead.
Hobbes made the case that a totalitarian dictator was the least likely to perpetrate mass murder; according to his ideas, the democracies would be more violent.
FYI the first wheels were wooden, it is common misconception that the wheel was invented in the stone age. Human civilization invented farming and pottery many centuries before the invention of the wheel
Do they actually have call centers? I always assumed it was just one or two people trying to sound like they were in a call center.
Of course. I never saw the exact Cruise acquisition price, just "north of $1 billion", and you can see 6–7 on that list worth about a billion or more.

In fact, in her How to Build the Future talk [1], Jessica Livingston said that most unicorns have come out of YC.

[1]: https://www.ycombinator.com/future/jessica/
Even if the court cannot figure out exactly who owns the money, it can determine by a preponderance of the evidence that nobody has a legitimate property interest

Proving a negative? I think the crux of this is why an asset's existence creates a property interest of the state. I'm not sure "finders keepers" is a good trait to have in a bureaucracy.
The up and down keys are half-height without a spacer between them. Together they take up the same space as one letter key. That's the way it has been on Macbooks for a while.

The change on that keyboard is that the left and right keys are now full height; they used to be half-height with a half-space above.
Of course it doesn't mean they're legitimate, but it's also not even a hint that they're dodgy. Likewise a lot of tax havens treat companies that trade locally differently, which is why many refuse to do business with citizens of their domicile. So once again, they may be dodgy but this isn't any indication about that.
I've worked across a wide range of quantitative science fields and one thing I've noticed is that while the bulk of the funding goes to massive facilities, often a bit of clever engineering and $100K can make a huge difference. This is true in computing; one of the things that's interesting about computer science is that it can turn a complicated physics equation that is O(n4) or worse into an O(nlogn) approximation that is "good enough" to justify not using brute force.
Loudoun county, which is ranked as the highest income county in the US.
I thought he implied that blaming Russia for leaking data was in his opinion irrelevant when the leaked data implied that someone at home did something nasty.

I did not feel that he disrespected the ability of the KGB alumni running Russia to do the kinds of things which they were originally trained and paid to do.
Can't I pay to just use a custom domain in a regular Google account? All I want is to use it for my Gmail. I don't have any use for the "G Suite" features and I know that some features are not available there, especially newer ones.

I'm probably leaving for another provider because of this. I'm more and more concerned about the @gmail.com lock-in. I don't even send any media attachments (audio, video) or store anything in my Drive since I know of several people getting banned and not even receiving a justification (anecdotal, but it's enough to make me nervous about it). I'm not saying that was the cause, but I can't know for sure, so...
I think the latter is the intended meaning actually. AI/machine learning seem to be thrown into the "hard tech" bucket in VC jargon.
I have a hunch it is because many people, myself included, see a lot of software development getting replaced by generalized AI in the next 10 years.
There's a definition from Sam in the footnote:

> [1] I use 'hard tech' to mean a startup is whether there is doubt that the technology can be built at all.

Edit: I'm glad he defined it for this post. In general though, there's definitely ambiguity around the term.
https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/pull/2857

This will be nice. I couldn't possibly sell rust to my employers if we had to go to an outside source for packages like [EDIT: rust/crate currently does, with crates.io]. Being able to host our own mirrors (for CM purposes, if nothing else) is essential.
No. From the footnote: " I use ‘hard tech’ to mean a startup where there is doubt that the technology can be built at all."
From the footnote in the original post:

[1] I use ‘hard tech’ to mean a startup where there is doubt that the technology can be built at all.
That's like being found with a bloody knife and they arrest you and you say you're "guilty until proven innocent". In reality the standard is preponderance of evidence and you are ignoring the fact that courts have ruled that being found with large volumes of cash is itself suspicious.
Apple could easily persist an ESC virtual button in the same spot. Or provide a user setting to do so.