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Hey, thanks for your comment. I totally understand what you said about creating your FlockMetrics project inspired by solving a real personal necessity.

Actually I built (http://www.transparentstartups.com/) because I couldn't find a place where look for startups and founders that are sharing their experiences with real numbers in a transparent and authentic way.

I feel very happy every time a developer, entrepreneur or "wantrepreneur" sends me a message about how he loves the project and how much he managed to learn from the startups and the information he found on the site. I believe that's more valuable than anything else.

It seems to me I need to find out the way to ensure this reaches to more people with the same interests and I can keep providing them a constant flow of value.
Ask HN: Is flagging down YC/Thiel/Trump stories on HN a form of censorship?
In the past days, after the news of Thiel's donation to the Trump campaign, many related stories - the original announcement, the response from Pao's company, marco's shame post - have been submitted (as well as an annoying number of duplicates). Many made it to the front page quickly, then got flagged down, then got resubmitted, then flagged down, etc. A couple of times, the mod intervened to remove the flag filter, but because of algorithmic weights given to flags, the stories were removed from the front page quickly anyway.

The main reason suggested for flagging was the off-topic HN guidelines (though HN obviously does not require anybody to justify their flagging, so this is pure speculation) while many people would argue that given the relevance of these stories to YC and HN, these are very valid (and important) topics to debate here.

In a more worrisome twist, my previous Ask HN asking questions about why that was happening (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12716662) also quickly got promoted to the front page but got flagged down as well.

When a topic that a majority wants to debate but a vocal minority - whose motivation is unclear, are they Trump supporters? are they rule zealots? are they tired of political subjects? - manages to shut down (as well as shut down any discussion about that flagging down) one may wonder if it doesn't amount to some form of censorship. What do you think?

And please, don't flag this one down, this isn't about politics, it's about HN!
With search, we already approaching that point.

No other search engine comes close to the quality of Google, at least for certain topics.

Outside of Russia, China, Japan and some other countries Google is the dominant search with a big lead.

And that is troubling indeed! Competition is good. And necessary for a healthy market.

It also means that Google has a huge amount of control over what information can be discovered.

What if MS decides Bing isn't worth their while anymore in 5 years? Yahoo will have dwindled away by then, leaving only Google. In Europe, Google has +90% everywhere (except Russia).
Only a meta interp - the tone is literary virtue signalling.

It seems to be oblique PR for people who want other people to know they read a lot.

Honestly, I couldn't find any non-trite content among all the references and allusions.

There's certainly a lot that could be said about families, but nothing of life-changing interest or value is being said here.
My problem is that its either Docker or Vmware Workstation - i kind of need both and I don't want to have to reboot everytime. But it looks interesting.
Dunno - I never met a person like that in real life either. Maybe I'm lucky to only deal with reasonable balanced people at conferences.
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I am not sure why endorsement of a political candidate is sometimes equated with 100% parity on every single belief of that particular candidate.

It is entirely possibly that some people support Trump because of his crass and divisive rhetoric, and it's also entirely possible that some people support Trump because of his stance on trade. Is it really anyone's place to demand that another voter change the list of priorities that determine their choice of candidate? Does that not fundamentally alter the intended functioning of the way voting in a democracy ought to work?

I am all for constructive debate on why the policies and character of one candidate makes them more suitable for holding a particular government post, but to suggest that one ought to resort to intimidation, ostracism, marginalizing and other such methods because of an individual's personal choice to prioritize a candidate's agreeable stance on one issue, over a disagreeable stance of another, seems very dangerous to me.

During his campaign, President Obama famously claimed that he felt marriage was a union that ought to be between a man and a woman. Most would consider this to be a highly regressive view, yet voted for him because he was their preferred choice on a whole lot of issues. Campaign officials like David Axelrod later revealed that he took this position publicly for political expediency. Regardless of whether this is true, if one were to suggest marginalizing Obama voters in the way that is being suggested here, I am confident that there would be very little semblance of a community left.
It's heavier than Vim and a fair bit of Emacsy stuff leaks through. It's a great project, but I prefer Vims way of doing things. Also I have a bunch of custom Vim functions for doing stuff like invoice generation and I didn't want to reimplement them in Lisp.
Only content owner should decide what ad will be shown. Offending this rule means breaking deals with advertisers, it's reputation losses.
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Thank you for sharing this story. Always fascinating to learn more about computer pioneers.
There are some large orgs listed as having implemented this, but whenever I read language that sounds all 90's tech revolutionary I get really skeptical.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12726970 (431 points, 16 hours ago, 369 comments)
Perhaps you could try a multi-resolution chunk system - LoD for chunks.

For large scale features like rivers, generate those at coarse resolution on very large chunks. When generating the detailed chunks, take input from the coarser resolution levels which overlap the same spatial region, and add fine scale detail.

A couple of levels of detail might suffice in practice, but if you want to go crazy you can more or less make as many as you like: As long as each level is downscaled by at least some constant factor of the more detailed level below it, you'll only have O(log(N)) overhead for O(N) chunks which is small even for very large N.

Compare mipmapping, which is more or less the opposite of this process.
All I hear is a challenge. I'm not a big data engineer, but I would be interested in seeing others take it as a challenge to develop a unique, effective, and open platform that rivals the Google monopoly.
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In truth political opponents have been attacking Thiel because they didn't like his political positions or ideas for years.
The average person likely doesn't have the time, energy or interest to go beyond the absolute basics of investing which is why simplified advice such as that on Bogleheads is popular.

For those wanting to go a step beyond but still lacking time to go deep, where would you recommend starting education wise? Any links or a syllabus with links would be super useful.
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They don't feel entitled, they just don't care. Just like they don't care with all illegal content on Youtube. They didn't care when they started hotlinking images in Image Search.

Just like Facebook doesn't care about ripped video's on their platform. They know that publishers won't bite the hand that feeds them. They know that they can use their power as the defacto gateway to the internet as there is no competition and noone powerful enough to stand up to landgrabs like this.

Maybe it's even worse. They don't stop and think about the power and influence they have, because over the years it has become entirely natural to them to just take whatever they want, repackage it and call it their own.
Yes. Square mm of silicon, number of transistors, words of memory -- they're all equivalent asymptotically.
The ISS is largely where it is due to a set of messy technical and political compromises: it needed to be in an orbit that both Soyuz and the Space Shuttle could reach. Because they both launched from places that aren't on the equator, all orbits reachable by them would be inclined, so there's only a limited set that both can get to. (Without doing a ruinously expensive plane change manoeuvre.) And of course the higher the orbit, the more fuel you need, which means less payload, so it ended up in quite a low orbit.

Now the shuttle's gone, there's no realistic proposal for delivering heavy components to the station, so it could be reboosted into a higher orbit. You'd end up spending less fuel on stationkeeping, but more fuel on routine deliveries and crew transfers.

I really have no idea whether this would be worthwhile. Anyone?
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Your model expects your child not to be attacked.

The child was attacked.

You suddenly have the energy for resynchronization so that your model can persist despite this exception.
The specification of an algorithm is the code. Other ways of defining an algorithm is simply a useful but leaky abstraction.

Once you understand that code is the (highly detailed)design, a lot of the reasons why software is so hard to do well makes a lot more sense. Compiling the code or running in a vm is the construction.

It explains why estimates are hard, and why software is not something pump out like manufacturing line easily.
Offtopic.

Milagro means miracle in Spanish. Not sure if that's an appropriate name for a security product.

"Es un milagro que funcione" (literally, "It's a miracle that it works") is a very common phrase that captures the somehow pejorative sense of the word "milagro" when used to describe or qualify human creations, more so technology creations.
> I think the problem with making so much procedural is that it misses the point that the game should be fun to play. What's the game-play difference in having random trees or dependent on sunlight and rain? In the end, they are just a bunch of trees :-P

Because when things "make sense," players pick up on it and use it to their advantage (and feel very clever). Given a procgen survival game where you are in a desert, trees might only grow near water, so if you are thirsty, you might look for vegetation.
I really doubt that that factor has any real influence on ranking. In my niche there are notoriously slow websites at the top that aren't even responsive in some cases.

Just like the promised benefits of HTTPS. I have yet to hear about a case where search traffic increased after switching to HTTPS.
> It still bugs me that I don't have anymore access to this kind of fearless, joyfull learning today.

What do you mean by this? Would something like Arduino not fall under that category in your view?
No OpenDNS. No ISP DNS that redirects to a search page. Use non-captive DNS servers.

I wonder why they're not running a local full DNS resolver if they're worried about bad DNS servers?
"Siri, set an alarm for 8am Wednesday."

"I can't set an alarm for more than one day ahead. How about a reminder instead?"

"Siri, close Google Maps."

"As much as I would like to, I can't close apps."
If your threat model is that you assume your OS vendor is part of the attack then you can't use a proprietary OS.

There's probably no free OS either that can give you the confidence level you'd want, because you probably would want to have reproducible builds, a trustworthy update process (preferably with some kind of transparency log), a wide array of exploit mitigations (aslr/pie/pic, grsec kernel, maybe CFI). There's currently no free OS offering all of those.
Here come the torches!

https://vimeo.com/28437700 (complete with scientific innovation)
I recommend getting the fundamentals down with Rob Walling's book: http://www.startupbook.net
You'll be walked through the marketing process by a seasoned pro, and you won't have to pay hundreds of dollars either.
Many good points in the article. However, anger suppression is not always rational. If others are aware they can treat you badly and you'll smile and carry on, there is little incentive for them to treat you well. If they are aware you have a self-destructive policy that will also impose costs on them, they may modify their behaviour.

More on game theory, anger and the ultimatum game: http://paulwgoldberg.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/game-theory-and-...
Why is it important that the code fit in 100 tweets?
So Trump has a lot of problems, but it looks like he is not corrupt. Hillary, on the other hand, is fully with corruption. I really don't like/agree with YC priorities (I'm not an American, which is even more disturbing to see someone that laughs about killing others country president been endorsed/elected)
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Ah, okay. Was just surprised because of the French origins of this distribution (AFAIK home schooling isn't an issue in highly secular France).
If you are on Windows 10, the Home edition doesn't come with BitLocker - so your choice is to upgrade to Pro or use something else, such as VeraCrypt.

I think it's probable that both can be broken/bypassed by state actors - I'd be happy to use either as a defence against everyone else though.
What are you interested in learning? Or do you mean learning how to learn?

If you're asking specifically about development, this thread was posted just the other day and has tons of great youtube options: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12702651
ISPs that block DNS to other servers in the name of "security".
And the system is rigged. It's rigged towards the two main parties. It's rigged towards re-electing the same people. Smaller parties get no representation, and have no chance in any meaningful election. The influence of the Democrats and Republicans over the election system is enormous.

But between the Dems and the Reps? Those two are fairly balanced. There is some rigging in some states through gerrymandering and making it harder for some groups to vote, but it's on a very different scale than the rigging towards the two-party establishment.
I think they only appear if you're using Google Search from Mobile.
Kaspersky has served my family very well. It's not free, but it's effective (usually one of the top three in all the rankings I've seen) and it stays out of the way. Good UI, too.
Is "wearing down the flash" really still an issue? Hard drives these days are flash-based - surely the read/write cycles modern flash memory can withstand are high enough to manage a few breakpoints?
There's a bunch of ways. Some are obvious (like a call to IsDebuggerPresent()) and some not so much (like tripping some exception that only gets thrown when a process is not being debugged). Youtuber MalwareAnalysisForHedgehogs[0] has some interesting videos about this and anti-reversing tricks in general.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVFXrUwuWxNlm6UNZtBLJ-A
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This is worse than censorship, is brainwash.
So Trump has a lot of problems, but it looks like he is not corrupt. Hillary, on the other hand, is fully with corruption. I really don't like/agree with YC priorities (I'm not an American, which is even more disturbing to see someone that laughs about killing others country president been endorsed/elected)
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I can buy the argument that services like AirBnB and Uber are growing the market instead of soley stealing customers from other companies. I've only used Uber twice, but in both cases, my alternative was asking a friend for a ride (even though taxis were available). The low price of a Uber ride didn't entice me away from taking a traditional taxi, but instead it was low enough that I'd rather just pay it instead of asking someone else to go out of their way.
Do you know anybody involved in charity work? I personally only give to charities that I have personal connections to. (Although I have plenty of those connections, so there's no shortage to choose from ;-) )
I don't agree. Clinton is the other choice. What people are doing is weighing up the negatives and positives of each candidate and decide who to support.
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Ask HN: Will YC discriminate against founders who support Trump?
While Sam Altman has said that he will not cut ties to his grandma and Peter Thiel for supporting Donald Trump, one surely must wonder if the situation would be different if Thiel were not a billionaire, already part of YC, and have a profile that would mean his disavowal could cause negative headlines. Also, while Sam has made his views clear, it is not clear whether Sam's stance is held by everyone at Y Combinator, especially those involved in selecting companies to join YC. Can we have a definitive statement from YC that anyone who applies will not be discriminated against based on their political opinions?

Note: Submitted anonymously for fear of discrimination.
It's interesting to read this blog post from Eduardo Machon (Panoramio co-founder) about the day they said no to google - 1 year before they bought Panoramio.

(In Spanish)
https://eduardomanchon.com/el-d%C3%ADa-que-rechazamos-una-of...
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"Numbers sheet busting figures we all expect from the 10th Anniversary model of the world's most successful product in history.", did we forget the lightbulb?
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Way too late for that.
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It is worth pointing out that the Bayeux Tapestry (strictly, an embroidery) was actually created by the English - England at that time was the richest and most advanced nation in Western Europe which is what made it such a great prize.
There are many different techniques that you can find in this paper (wich, I think, is a reference on the subject):

http://pferrie.host22.com/papers/antidebug.pdf

For a fresh compilation (which includes the previous paper) you can check this article:

http://antukh.com/blog/2015/01/19/malware-techniques-cheat-s...
I had to tell my son something similar as he was terrified of getting detention at school. I told him if he got detention, I'd get him whatever toy he wanted.
Ask HN: Why Americans dislike Trump?
He seems so American to me (I'm brazillian). I'd say that he even has some great qualities that would only appear in US. But his moral issues also come from the same culture.
No, he is talking about GSM being a pan-european standard made companies and carriers compete on features and services rather than lock-in. Especially as GSM enforced the use of SIM cards that made it easy to move phones between carrier, or buy a phone outside of carrier offerings.

Observe in contrast how Verizon is massive in USA thanks to being one of two (Sprint being the other) CDMA carrier. I keep seeing Americans lament that they want to pick up some new phone, but can't because they are grandfathered into some Verizon contract or other.
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Thought experiment: Would it be any different if we replaced Donald Trump with Hitler?

Should a company dissociate with a business partner/board member/investor because he supported an extremist's political campaign?
I've mostly heard this from people who don't use/know Python in the last ~2 years. Imho this has been a trope for some time:

PHP is such a bad language hue hue
Java. AbstractCommentPostingRequestSerializerInterface hue hue
Python. You know Python 3 right? hue hue hue
command.exe windows suxxx hue hue
... countless others with varying stupidity
I doubt hosting costs are even that high, perhaps even ~1k.
Google seems to have some serious AI built in the UI to help with booking the cheapest flight. I wonder how complex this will be in practice.
According to https://justice4assange.com Sweden regularly questions people within the EU yet they have refused to question Julian Assange even though they are free to interrogate him inside the embassy whenever they want.

Sweden refuses to interview him there even though in the 4 years that he's been holed up in the embassy Swedish authorities have interviewed 44 other people in the UK. They also refused to promise to not extradite him to the USA where he would most likely be convicted of espionage and possibly executed.

If you were in his shoes do you think you would step outside given the circumstances? The UK has also stated that even if the Swedish investigation was closed they would still arrest Assange the minute he steps outside. Why wouldn't the UK extradite Assange to the USA if given the opportunity?
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It's also worth considering how Obama has given up any shred of integrity and bent over to the will of his party / Hillary. Prosecuting her could be seen as a waste of resources since a presidential pardon would likely follow. If you're a federal agency there is virtually nothing to win and everything to lose by going against Clinton at this particular point in time.
Thanks. I wasn't aware of the web links.

That's good to know.
You could try using the Firefox browser. I haven't seen any AMP pages since I moved to it.
For some reason Dogecoin, Litecoin, and all the other scrypt-based cryptocurrencies use extremely low N and r parameters, such that computing a hash only needs 128K of memory.
Some particular beliefs are critical. If a candidate is perfect and a genius, but for example is against (for example) women voting, this is critical for endorsement, even though he may be perfect in every other sense.

Likewise, if your friend is from a different party than you, you may still be friends, but if he is a member of the KKK I guess that draws the line. Tolerance is not supposed to be infinite.

What people are finding out is that the line is different for everyone.
And of course, its the election for President. Everything gets blown out of proportion.
I agree authenticity is valuable, but the "innocent bystander" doesn't have the context to even know that "angry-person-on-the-phone" is having a rough day.

Normally functioning adults do have some control over their emotions. If one is red-hot angry, they can take a deep breath, count to ten, put the situation into perspective, and reflect on the feelings of others. It is not an accident that this is what we tell children to do when they're having a fit-- it fucking works! This is not "hiding" anger, it is recognizing and dealing with anger.
That's the sad thing of the cloud. Back in the old days, you could just run applications for as long as you wanted. I'm wondering how long it will take until everybody sees this.
You can show anger yet still be rational. Anger does not mean out of control.

Also, yes I do believe that someone in the presence of someone else being angry should not automatically assume it is about them.
wow ..never heard of the "Alladin" supercomputer https://youtu.be/zFtsrjlsclQ?t=1h12m4s
Sometimes when you take a photo on Android, there's a (kind of creepy, honestly) notification from the Google Maps app asking to submit it to there. So I presume not.