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I applied for Upcoming YC batch as a startup from India. I've been into startup ecosystem since last 2 years and typically a hardware based.
My startup application was unfortunately not selected and we totally acknowledge your team's decision.
But we have a query here, I have already gone through the FAQs section and i totally understand "Why don't you invite groups for the personal Interview". But this one is slightly different and is more of a general question.
I thoroughly walked your FAQ sections and somewhere in between the FAQs, i found a section that said "Request For startups/Hardware". Now though i'm running a hardware based startup in India, i read the section and i found a line that said, "We help hardware companies quickly create prototypes, test with potential customers, iterate their product, launch in a way that maximizes the likelihood of success, and scale production in response to demand."
I even walked through the alumini section and found that most of the startups are directly/indirectly related to mobile applications/web based/IT based. Even though the startups are categorized as Hardware startups, more or less i can see a mobile application/any other web based stuff involvement in them.
Moreover, when a user browse through your webpage, the homepage clearly shows couple of startups (whom YC funded and supported) and 90% (or more) are the ones who are developing Mobile applications or are into web based applications (Ex - Payment services, Cloud services, Foodtech, etc).
It's a clear thing that a user like me perceives this as the very first thing when i open up your webpage. Being a hardware guy, i need to exclusively search for options in order to find out some Hardware startups to whom i could relate myself.
And the very first thing that motivated me to apply for YC are the following points:
Versatility
Pool of talented people
Clear support for a startup like mine (Hardware based)
and most importantly, the statement, "We help hardware companies quickly create prototypes, test with potential customers, iterate their product, launch in a way that maximizes the likelihood of success, and scale production in response to demand."
This actually excited me about the fact that we already have a MVP ready with us and YC can help us reach greater heights with the help of their pool of talented people.
Those emails were actually written by Clinton and Co. So the accusation is the Russians told Americans the truth?
This is a very small detail in that post but it captures quite well what officialdom is to me, what separates GSA and 18F from other digital efforts: the inclusion of the “tribal” scale in the list of levels of authority. 18F makes things so that many people can use the Internet including, explicitly, the administration of First Nations.

I’ve complained a lot about how US-based company do not thing about non-US users enough (that common rant is obviously not applicable to GSA, although American abroad, immigrants and foreign visitors probably quality) but in that rant, I have forgotten the original Americans. Shame on me.
I have never heard of any start-up asking “What about First Nations? Do we support Cherokee alphabet? Is there a Sioux exception for the law that we are enforcing in that form?”
Ask HN: Career and Academic advice
Dear HN,

I’m a long time lurker and really quite enjoy the helpful community here. I was hoping that I’d be able to get some feedback on my current career/educational experience and if my future plans would be realistic to landing a development position.

My academic background is in International Relations for undergrad and I’ve about 6 years of IT experience ranging from Help Desk to Sys Admin type positions. Currently I find myself as a tester for a system like SAP. I’ve gone ahead and began doing some Java programming classes through a local online university and plan to take the second level next semester, which is equivalent to Oracle’s Java Junior Associate certification (based on the curriculum from this community college). The reason for taking these two classes is that it’d be enough for the pre-requisites for a Master of Science in Information Technology [1]. I feel at this point in time (late 20’s) that it’d be wise to move forward with a Masters instead of attempting a second Bachelor in computer science. I’ve also explored attempting to do substantially more pre-requisite classes for a Master in Computer Science at the same university, but the math looks to be quite a challenge (CALC 1/2 + Discrete Math). My rationale for going back to school is that many dev positions require a STEM type degree to even be considered.

Financially I have no debts, 60k in savings and in state tuition would be very low at 7k a year. I’ve been familiarizing myself with SQL, Java, Powershell to the point of being able to complete assigned low complexity tasks and delivering them quickly with good feedback. This current job just doesn’t have any dev positions I could expect to move into unfortunately. Any advice or clarification needed on my part would be very helpful.

Thanks HN!

[1] http://catalog.utsa.edu/graduate/business/informationsystemscybersecurity/#msit
[2] http://www.cs.utsa.edu/graduate/ms#admission
yeah, I use ide's (Xcode/Appcode/VS/Delphi) for all my work so not really an issue. I can see if you're stuck with command line compilers though it would be annoying. I would hate to go back to make files and command lines ugh!
Related to unemployment is economic growth and global security:

The Electoral College has failed for the second time with disastrous results, it must be abolished (it may be too late):

0) Gore won the popular vote but W/Cheney destabilized the Middle East killing millions at the cost of trillions.

1) Clinton won the popular vote but Trump will go full throttle to hasten the Holocene extinction.

What is it they say about repeating something and expecting a different result? Plus, notice any parallels to "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire?"
Maybe they've been asking since 2010 and, not having received a satisfactory solution from the experts in the field, have stripped all the projects of CQRS/ES and gone back to what works well. There comes a point in time where you stop asking and move on, and expecting them to re-ask on HN is a poor presumption on your part, leading to an uninformed judgment.
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What is really galling about the whole saga is that this will end up costing lives and pain.

1. Some people might have gotten incorrect blood work results as a consequence of hyped-but-BS techniques like the nano-tainers. Some portion of these will result in unnecessary treatments/pain/suffering.

2. Any future player in the same space must now work triple hard to bring real changes to healthcare stuff - this means delays and lives lost that would have been otherwise saved.

Elizabeth Holmes belongs in prison - plain and simple. There is blood on her hands.
You can probably get pretty far with the package written by Russ Cox:

https://github.com/rsc/letsencrypt
I think it's hubris to suggest that just because something is surprising to us that we explain it based on our experience with our own limited technology.
Hey... I think it's really interesting what you did, but I couldn't get it to work.
This does a much better job of explaining than I could:

https://www.analyticsvidhya.com/blog/2015/07/difference-mach...

TL;DR: Just because you used a servo from a robot kit doesn't mean you built a robot (not meant in a harsh way, just using an analogy).
I created a subreddit [1], and I just submit every post to it. In my scripts to generate HTML from markdown, I add a footer with the comment URL.

It's not very active, but it's only been alive for one week. It's an experiment, as I mentioned.

It could be improved by showing the comments inline using Reddit's API [2], which seems pretty good (although I haven't used it). And I could probably automate the subsmission too.

But I'm trying to keep it simple for now, until there's evidence that a lot of people want to comment!

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/oilshell/

[2] https://www.reddit.com/dev/api/
I keep reading that the launch codes were set to zeroes in news articles but every technical document I read says the code was only used in Permissive Action Link devices. As I understand it, these PALs were mechanisms that prevented the nuclear weapon from arming so even if the code was accidentally put into the weapon it wouldn't actually detonate until the ICBM launch sequence was initiated (by a separate process) and the warhead detonation mechanism fired. They are a safety feature that was added on to nuclear weapons starting in the late 50's, not some sort of detonation or launch control system.

That said, the PALs weren't fitted to the entire US arsenal until the late 80's so lots of nukes had mechanical keys for decades. Hopefully they took the rehearsal part more seriously than the security of the arsenal...
If you have four large files open in Vim tabs, it can be quite slow.

If you print out a large text file or script output with cat or less, it can be slow as well. This is on a 1.8ghz i5 machine running Linux.

I can already notice the speed of Alacritty. We'll see how it performs in the next few months for me.
All it takes is a coup of a nuclear-armed nation, and the barrier to entry on that project keeps dropping as states with a recent history of fanatic-deposes-weaker-fanatic coups join the club.
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I totally agree the overhead of learning Emacs is orthogonal from learning Lisp. IMO, it's a shame that there is such a strong association between that tooling ecosystem and Lisp languages. I think it pushes a lot of newcomers away from the learning process.

One of the design goals of Parinfer[1] is to help reduce the cognitive load of Lisp syntax for newcomers. Hopefully more introductory texts adopt it as part of their environment setup.

[1]:https://shaunlebron.github.io/parinfer/
It also seems just as good an argument for the athropic principle.
>Risky move, IMO. If it fails, it has the potential to take the entire android ecosystem away from Google.

I couldn't help but laugh at this. Google is the Android ecosystem.
I have slowly, over the course of 20 years moved to holding down movement keys to trying (and not always succeeding) to remember to use forward and backward search to jump around to the string I am moving to.

I think it's the "right thing to do" but it's hard to not just hold down 'k' ...
What does Google's proprietary software have to do with Android being open?
No lag, just seems like an unnecessary flourish. The page feels like it is is loading very fast, so I'd rather it be readable immediately.
The appearance that quantum effects might be attributed to 'hacks' probably has more to do with the hackish nature of the Copenhagen interpretation. For instance, there is no stated physical explanation for the collapse of a wavefunction--it is only an extremely convenient way of explaining many experiments. A crude analogy--you can describe the flipping of coins with simple probability, but this is a non-physical yet very convenient explanation.
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I looked at the screenshots, and I am not sure what's more modern about it than VLC. Only thing attracting in the screens is the video being played.
You're not alone.

I work at an AEC firm. We give money and some privilege to 2-3 people at work to experiment with VR. It's interesting to some degree but, beyond being a marketing tool, I don't really see it being useful as a professional tool any time soon.

These things are hard to call though, like anything in future tech (or the future in general). They consider it revolutionary new tech whereas I'm on the side of "shiny new toy" and "wait and see" but the powers that be have no issue spending the money on it while I see some of core competencies and actual training for the future being ignored (transitions to BIM and training in better 3D modeling programs).

Not my company or money though.
> More was expected of the audience back then.

The following year Star Wars was released, so I guess 1976 was the last year of movies with complex dialogue. :)

Or maybe, instead, there has always been a wide range of dialogue complexity in films.
Maybe they should instead consider accepting credit cards, and otherwise being a less customer-hostile venue.
Exactly; it's the measurement of change. As long as things are changing, time exists. (The fact that this discussion is taking place proves it's existence!)
There's no good solution to this

Yes there is, and it is already in place. There has been bipartisan oversight of intelligence from Congress for decades. A subset of the people's representatives with the necessary security clearances make sure that there are no Deep State shenanigans. Yes, it failed in the run up to the Iraq invasion, but it worked for decades before, during the Cold War.
1. As it's only the electric cars that receive your incentives, it's a very worthwhile push to clean energy. Also the first generation of these cars will make it to the 2nd hand market about now, further increasing the penetration. Number of new cars might have been lower without, but the percentage of electric cars would have been a mere fraction. (Edit: And filthy diesel cars would likely be the ersatz).

2. Oh, right, 12 months - me bad. Yep that is pretty awful. I'm coming up on 24 months on my own but could really stretch it longer with my S6 Edge being a great phone.

(As a PS my Rotel / Infinity hi-fi system is 21 years old now, and going strong.)
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I have. cold emailing, voice mails, and texts (not all at once) haven't been very effective. It's lead to one in-person conversation so far.

I'm also working through my network for direct introductions (those work well). Those efforts just aren't scaling well and I need to get this role filled quickly.
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>Time exists. It's the observed difference between two states.

For something to be said to exist, must it not be immediately observable in the present?

Since state is perpetually changing, isn't "the observed difference between two states" always an observation of the past and never the present?

Perhaps it is more precise to say that change exists rather than time because "the observed difference between two states" can never include the present state.
One of the potential applications here could be security, however that might prove to generate a wide breadth of false-positive results..
Post with more details on the financial situation: https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2016/12/19.html

It's quite candid and interesting to read. For those of you that don't know jwz, you may know:

- He was one of the first employees at Netscape and came up with the name Mozilla

- He maintains XScreenSaver

- jwz's law: Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.

- Originally maintained XEmacs.
If the two companies (Theranos and Yahoo) are in the same category, it's not because their descents have anything in common--it's just morbid curiosity around the mechanisms by which they descended. There's a bit of mystery that people want to examine if only to learn to pick up warning signs in other companies, employers, or investments.

With Yahoo, it seems like it's simple mismanagement and lack of strategy/vision after concrete success. There doesn't seem to be much mystery there other than speculation on what a leader can do to prevent a fall.

With Theranos, there's a little more mystery: from the dramatic standpoint, it's already gone from being a "Silicon Valley" spoof ("Pricks"[1]), to an upcoming JLaw screenplay[2] and now seems to be entering tragic opera territory. Is it fraud? Or is it "Moby Dick" set to music?

[1] http://www.pricks.com/

[2] http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/06/jennifer-lawrence-wil...
This is silly, Google is clearly a search company.
I use tmux a lot, but I don't use it for every session. To me, forcing me to use tmux to get scrollback is precisely violating the idea of 'one tool doing one thing'. You're forcing me to compose a Swiss army knife (tmux) into situations where all I need is a knife (a terminal that works well with the idioms of my environment).

I don't need tabs (I use i3wm), I don't need splits or session management (when I need that I use tmux). But I do often need to scroll back on a temporary session when I didn't plan for it in advance. I open a lot of terminals. They're never all going to be tmuxed.
I don't have the time or energy to list all of my issues with WooCommerce, but as a PHP contractor that has worked on a handful of client projects utilizing it... I could never recommend it to people trying to run a real business.

The fact that it will turn off webhook delivery after 5 un-expected responses, without sending notifications of any sort, is mind boggling.
Regulation didn't create Linux or Firefox. Neither did it create Macbook Pro or Android.
The report and its unredacted sources will be subject to Congressional oversight from a Republican dominated congress. So far they have been supportive of its contents.
Scroll back is the only feature missing that would block me, assuming you permit changing the colour mappings.

I generally run five or six desktop terminals, only one of which is running screen locally. I more normally run something like screen to get persistence across suspends on an SSH connection. I usually don't do much side by side stuff in terminal so tmux isn't a big win for me. Also tmux didn't run on cygwin for the longest time, and I expect the same experience on all my platforms.

However the big tmux users in my life would still use it as is.
> Apple and Google are far, far worse

Worse in which regard?

> You can't do shit these days without having to deal with Apple's ridiculously selfish and tyrannical business model

Actually I do shit every day these days without coming into contact with Apple's selfish and tyrannical business model. So do millions of other people. iOS developer is a choice, not a sentence. If you don't like it, don't do it. There are tons of other things to do.
You want believe me but it was fixed even in 9550 model after one of firmware updates. And now I don't hear anything.
Keepass follows best practices more than 1Password.

http://mostvulnerable.com/
That wouldn't do anything if there was no viable alternative. And didn't, until viable alternative did show up.
I recently used LZ4 compression to save RAM used by infrequency accessed data in my app.

LZ4 is 1.5 times faster than Snappy, the compression however is better:

https://www.percona.com/blog/2016/04/13/evaluating-database-...
Not surprising. I stopped by one evening to see what it was "wow, THE DNA lounge, started by that guy!" When I showed up the place was empty, looked like the music part of building hadn't been used in a while, and some stoned employees making pizza. Pizza was okay, but worth keeping around? meh.
You don't lose hot reloading. Use figwheel.
Or that there really is only one unchanging state, and what you perceive to be the passage of time is really just a very particular configuration of your 'memory' through which you 'remember' a different state, and that hasn't really changed at all.
> Urgh. It has been several years now since I last had to deal with Magento, and nothing I've seen over the years suggests it has got any better.

One of their biggest vendors, WebShopApps, happened to write a pretty scathing open letter to Magento yesterday if you're interested:

http://webshopapps.com/blog/2017/01/what-magento-should-spen...

This is a company that just a year ago was making almost all of its revenue off of the Magento platform, and they are one of the most-respected brands in that community. Not a good sign for Magento.
My tablet doesn't have USB-C, along with that not every phone does yet either. And neither does my laptop. So I end up needing an adapter somewhere. Right now NFC makes things a lot more convenient compared to USB-C everywhere. That'll get there eventually but it's not ready yet.
I like it!

I've seen just about every terminal implement its own version of tiling, and I just have to ask: Why? Doesn't this just increase the line count and surface area without offering anything that doesn't already work just fine as a tool maintained by someone else?
I strongly disagree. There is HUGE value in VCs. The top ones are worth it. This is not serious. You can't have random people as shareholders. You'd be inundated with calls constantly from people who invested 500 dollars and now feel like they want to tell you what to do. No way.
One thing I like about rsc (and Austin) is that they have these well explained commit logs that let's people follow along at home. The changes seem like they are well justified and made for posterity. This change in particular is a story more than it is a 3 LOC fix.
I think, as proven by Glass, that the public seems to view Google as nice but creepy. Whereas Amazon is usually tops in customer brand/satisfaction type of scores. My guess is that this is why even though Google definitely has a technologically superior product (better understanding, better inference, etc) they seem to be losing the "hearts and minds" of consumers to Amazon's more bare MVP technology.
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>Pixel owners are probably early adopters who will tolerate hiccups the wider market won't.

I think you're confusing the Nexus with Pixel.The Pixel is targeted to consumers that buy flagship phones and do not tolerate being beta testers. The Nexus was more of a compromised reference phone to showcase the best of Android.
Not sure why they rebuilt a clipboard library when "clipboard" exists (I think it might even be used within Servo, not sure): https://crates.io/crates/clipboard
And while people update certain things about their cars are that many people really messing around with the embedded electronics that run their Camry?

Well, I doubt the majority of people do that. But there's definitely a real market for after-market mods of that nature. But I don't know that anybody markets a car specifically on the basis of its "tinkerability". Historically cars were fairly open to modding by default. It's only been recently, with DMCA shit, etc. that cars have really started getting locked down.

This leads to the second point: smartphones are already modular in a sense, just at a different level. There are a zillion cases you can buy, third party chargers, battery packs, camera lenses, a whole array of bluetooth widgets and of course all those apps and cloud services.

Fair enough. That may actually be the more salient point.

I guess my thinking is this: a "modular" phone probably wouldn't ever be the "iPhone killer", but if it's done right, I would expect there would be enough people who would want it, to make it a profitable niche item. At least, that would be my naive assessment. Obviously phones are a complicated market due to carrier subsidies and exclusive offers, etc., etc.
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Laws created by people who have 0 skin in the game. Completely arbitrary and nonsensical.
No worries; one of the reasons I stepped up in was to shake the tree a bit and see what people are using instead, considering how "lousy" the built-in solution performs. I also think there's room for a couple of steps in between; and a notable difference is that the implementation I posted prefers in place updates, functional use requires cloning.
That can be a useful perspective as long as you don't let it slide into inconsequentialism.