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The real value of the lectures, especially in higher level classes, is the color that the professor adds based on past experiences that normally doesn't come out in a text book.

Whether that's worth four years and a couple hundred thousand dollars...
Expanding, what do you think about team that are working part-time while working to develop MRR that would make them ramen profitable? How negative of a signal is that?
By that logic, mounted police and a handful of tourist taxi services are evidence that the automobile haven't replaced horses yet.
This is an interesting and broad analogy which I hadn't heard of before.

The military, at the end of the day, is a tool (famously, another tool of diplomacy). Either it's useful or not. Likewise finance is a tool (fundamentally a service industry like gardening or medicine). We support it because it helps finance business, helps people manage their pensions etc. Sometimes sidelines are useful too (DARPA, gun hobbyists, weird financial instruments that increase liquidity for everyone).

Yet lately the ends have been forgotten and the means elevated. The recent US proposed budget suggests increasing expenditures but there is no discussion as to whether that would be useful or not (and thus whether the increase is unnecessary, too big to even too small). The same problem has emerged in Finance: the point of an financial instrument is the instrument itself. HFT that skims a bit out of the transaction (thus is worse for the fundamental buyer and seller) is considered good. etc.
It's not exactly punished, but the FTC can order you to stop running misleading ads, and in egregious cases order you to run new ads correcting the lie.
> Are they converting ratings to thumbs up/down? What does a three-star rating convert to?

It would convert to no rating.
It is absolutely English—stylistic English—and while you may not appreciate the choice of style, it is just that—a choice—which may be made or not made without need of accusations that the result you don't prefer is "not English".
The reason it's seen as depressing is that game addicts are usually celibate
It's the use of GPS followed by a fleet of dozers that's unique, as far as I can tell.
But the initial outlay of Fiber won't be recouped in a short period of time regardless, and a government backed coop will have that paid via tax dollars regardless... If they're laying fiber via taxes, they're laying fiber, that is a fixed expense. And frankly as part of what I consider as essential infrastructure (communications), I'm mostly okay with that expense being from tax funding at a local level.

So, the coop actually has a pretty unfair advantage, but as long as it's local communities, I'm mostly okay with it. And as to local communities, larger cities are more disconnected than smaller towns. So there's some difference there. The coop doesn't have to be setup to recover initial outlay... it depends on the structure and how it's setup with the local municipality. As to the incumbents, they were also largely funded via tax dollars for initial outlay, and instead of planning for reinvestment/growth, they've chosen not to do so, and deserve to see upstarts encroaching on them.
If you enjoy Anime or Asian drama (asian drama being live action, not animated) Crunchyroll has a huge catalog. It fills the void that Netflix has between two big Netflix Originals.

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War has ethics? That's new to me.

The fact that some "rules" are set so idiots follow them doesn't mean everybody does, specially when they are not seen. Abu ghraib anyone?

Wall street has a very clear ethics set on stone, profits no matter the loss.
Considering the current evolution of automation and the global forecast of high unemployment rates, that will be a problem for the whole economy (with Bill Gates suggesting a tax on robots), what are your thoughts about education? We currently educate kids based on a system that assumes the current jobs are going to be there in 15-20 years and for the rest of their lifes. Can startups and technology help in improving education considering the future world considering the current pace of automation in most fields?
Do you think that YC, startups, and VCs should seek viable models to support wildlife and animals?
NetHack is a kind of famous example where the Dev Team doesn't use a public version control repository, traditionally didn't use a public bugtracker, doesn't use a public mailing list or IRC channel, and traditionally has made releases less than once a year. They also didn't promise to respond to proposed patches or feature requests, though they often acted on them if they thought they were useful or thematic.

Some aspects of this have been controversial and there's certainly the idea that it's let NetHack improvements be much too slow, but it's existed for many years this way, and it's completely open source.

Also the Free Software Foundation's own in-house parts of GNU were largely this way especially in previous decades. There was an official maintainer who would make periodic releases. If you had an idea for the maintainer, you could e-mail and propose it. The maintainer might say "Thanks" and then put your code in a future release, or not. It was relatively hierarchical and secretive in terms of the actual development process, without a particular emphasis on being collaborative. In this case I've generally thought it was because FSF's philosophy didn't emphasize collaborative development methodology, as opposed to people's right to change their individual copies of software, and people's right to fork projects. We often associate free and open source software with collaborative and transparent development, but there are occasional cases where it's definitely not that.
By the same token, moving to an area with a high CoL could be restricting if you lost your employment and had to scramble to find a new job.

It cuts both ways.
I was looking for references like these, thank you.

> Pai is proposing an ambitious program whereby the FCC could expand corporate subsidies for building networks while scaling back regulations...

Doesn't inspire a lot of confidence.
Would that it would be possible for the reverse to happen. Never will left-wing politicians lower tax rates.
> macroscopic tissue structure of tuna

I think the problem is to get the exact distribution of the fat through the tuna, but I'm not sure. I mean, you can just sort of slather on lard to regular tuna, but it's the texture and marbling that people are going for not just pure fat content.

>The dry vs wet aged ribeye is a little off to me too

Well, in this case, dry aging really allows the enzymes present in the meat to start breaking down the meat. When you're engineering a steak, I think you're just engineering mostly the macros and structure of the meat.
I quoted it because, for example, within a small group, I would be the go-to person for "I need software that does X" or "I hate Y, what can I use instead?". I'm by no means an expert in, say, matplotlib, but I have local influence by means of my relative, perceived expertise.

You make a great point. The only thing that I'd add is that a lot of the Fortran code that I'd rely on (large venerable linear algebra and ODE packages) were written a long time ago, when it would have been somewhat less unfashionable.
Sure, but Metroid Prime is a GC series that they haven't updated :-( To play it these days you're actually just better off playing it in Dolphin, which I recently did. It looks great you can even get texture packs to upgrade it.
You have it all backwards.

If the money that changes hands doesn't influence the search result, then the money won't change hands. An advertisement customer won't pay in order to not influence what the audience gets to see.

Also, the theoretical possibility that money doesn't necessarily influence decisions is not exactly a good reason to accept the risk that it does after all. If that were a sensible argument, you could just throw out all anti-corruption legislation, because it is very much theoretically possible for a bribed person to still make a decision that's not influenced by the bribery.
Last time I was in Salt Lake, there were a bunch of homeless people camped out all over the place. It was really odd, I noticed some of them were just casually smoking weed. Still not as bad as it is here in the Southern California area.
The RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: January 2017 – Tecosystems
Are the RBAC rules stored in Cassandra or in the application..?
Not recorded lectures, but the 'best' book I've found lately for a good intro is [1]"Basic Concepts in Data Structures" by Shmuel Tomi Klein. It uses pseudocode so can be done in any language. Look at the preview table of contents. There's a cheaper paperback and Amazon has used copies.

Another good book is CMU's parallel data structures and algorithms course http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~15210/schedule.html which uses this [2]free book

[1]http://www.cambridge.org/ca/academic/subjects/computer-scien...

[2]http://www.parallel-algorithms-book.com/
So, you can build laser guns as long as you make sure they are lethal? Sounds like a regulation against low-quality laser guns.
I'm still not fully clear with #1. If your device only supports WebGL1, but the site uses getContext('webgl2'), you'd get an error right?

So if your application can work with WebGL1, you should use that if you want to reach maximal audience?

Also, is it all or nothing? Could certain parts of WebGL2 work and others not be supported? Could you get away with using webgl2 if you don't use certain advanced features?
I would suggest just dropping Kolmogorov in general, and just referencing the human idea that shorter is generally going to be simpler. I wouldn't have a problem sticking with you through that. Sure, I can feed that to my pedant mill as with anything else, but since it's not really the core idea I'll roll with you on it.
CS 61B UC Berkeley. I don't know if it's the best but it's the only series on the topic I've ever watched all the way through: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMV45tHCYNI&list=PL4BBB74C7D...
In Poland, one small city was recently called out on the radio for having the worst air quality in the whole voivodeship. The mayor got pissed off about this and solved the air quality problem quickly and efficiently, by removing the measurement station.
You make it seem like that's a bad thing? It's a trade-off. You're getting location flexibility at the cost of employment mobility. For some this will be a fine trade-off.
Whereas I'd suggest it's all worthwhile, even with THAT ending :)

Certainly, I still go back and watch the first two episode pilot at least once a year. So. Damned. Good.
If you want to learn more recipes, simply read people's diaries when you go into their homes. Like in Hateno village, one of the first houses, you can break in and learn a pumpkin stew recipe by reading those diaries.
Ctop: concise commandline monitoring for containers
Is this really less ambiguous?

"To God, Ayn Rand, and my mother."
Also in Seattle - housing prices have exploded to the point where many 100k+ engineers would struggle to get a 30yr mortgage on a 1 bedroom. 400k+ for a nice 1bd here (within 10 miles), not yet Silicon Valley but still quite bad.
This was my exact experience during my first two years in undergrad. It was especially frustrating because my grade was varying from an A to a C based on what felt like dice rolls. I normally ended up just thinking "oh I had bad luck on that one."

It took me until my junior year to actually figure out what it took to succeed in college after breezing through high school. Since the number of exams your grade is based on is small (normally 1 to 3), I feel there is still a luck component, but you can really tilt the odds in your favor through good prep work.
> The answer is that you more than likely have no protection at
> all (likely not even in workplace law). Even if you suspected
> someone had inappropriately accessed your personal details,
> the company almost certainly has an IT policy saying that you
> shouldn't be using your computer for personal use.

The answer is to stop ignoring the policy. Reserve the corporate device for work activities. Use personal devices for personal things and consider the corporate network to be hostile -- use a VPN.
What percentage of YC companies are founded by solo founders? And what observations do you have of such companies viz-a-viz companies with founding teams?

Would you advise someone against being a solo founder? If not, is it much harder for a solo founder to fundraise?
Sure, the burden is on them to make this real, but not for them to prove it to _you_.

If they want to prove to the chronically homeless that they can get a home, they only need to follow through with the home.

Or perhaps they want to prove to their constituents that the number of chronically homeless has diminished. Easy enough: tell their constituents where to go to count homeless people. Again, it's not incumbent upon them to count, or even to provide easy access to the location. Just give verifiable steps and expect your constituents to do some legwork. (Most won't, but maybe a news crew will.)
I can't agree more. Is there room to create a new industry based on privacy? Almost like a shadow on all existing products (including networks)? I will gladly pay to keep my data (which makes up my identity) safe or at least less exploited.
I'm in the US here, so I'm not sure where out options differ. For me, I do (as a poster below noted) like anime so Crunchyroll is a good choice. Hulu is good for seasonal TV stuff, and then I actually use a smartDNS to get access to UK channels. It's probably a matter of taste though... I don't like most movies, and prefer longer-forms for telling stories.
What do you look for when considering a solo-founder ?
What do you think is the best way for a non-profit to get funding 1) to prove market fit, and 2) ongoing funding to sustain the organization?
I recommend checking out the owners personal site. I really liked the animations on it.
Totally this - I read once that is costs around £16000 a year per rough sleeper in central London, through policing, clean up, emergency care, and other costs. And that at the end of the year (if the person hadn't died) they were no less likely to be a rough sleeper than at the start.

It just seems crazy that we can't better funnel that money to intervene and support people, to plan on removing that cost over the long term.
I planned on building something just like this for my current project, UI wise something like the Delve blog editor but for Markdown with Hugo shortcode support
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13833591
Did you even bother to look at Wii sales numbers? They did nothing like that.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wii_sales
The invention of 'heterosexuality'
Canadian conservatives are roughly in line with Democrats in the US. At worst they are slightly to the right of Dems but not by very much.
For me I'd consider paying for such a service if it could also help me achieve career goals as well as get stuff off my chest.

The getting stuff of chest angle is interesting because it's rarely possible at work, due to needing to keep a professional facade.
FBI Arrests Man For Allegedly Sending Journalist Seizure-Causing GIF
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13883064
They're really both the same - and there's a LOT of annoying FUD regarding this.

It's triggered by the phrase "Good Morning" or other phrases that launch into the "what is going on today" prompt.

* The weather is currently blahblahblah
* Your commute will be x minutes
* Beauty and the Beast came out in theaters today
* [the rest of your news]
True, as long as you're using the same versions of the tools... I find that even after a year, if I'm boilerplating something out, even if similar, it's still about a week. The tools change, and APIs between versions break. I had to deal with a react-router change between the last beta and the final 4.0.0 just yesterday (this.context.router.push vs this.context.router.history.push). I tend to mostly lock down my versioning on things to a large extent as a project matures... but even keeping up is more organic.

Starting something new in a year, or 18 months can be dramatically different than the previous start.
That sounds like bullshit. Can a patriot missile even hit a 25cm wide target? Why would such a quadcopter even represent a serious threat?

Sounds like this "General" was making an embellished hypothetical example of why this laser system is useful.
Seeing some of the recent startups that have come out of YC and learning about what they're working on; I can't imagine how they'd scale to a billion dollar business. Question: Is this a signal that YC is now investing in companies that don't have such lucrative paths? If so, how does YC justify such a decision to their partners.
For global SaaS companies applying from out of US, is sitting outside of the core market, Bay Area etc, a red flag?
> The original salary must have been low, no hate.

My new salary is just much higher, I've had several major steps up. I've found salaries in major metro areas to be pretty much the same as a competitive offer in the Bay Area.

> Different strokes for different folks. If you're working at a company that already pays well and you're not in the Bay Area, then your options for switching are either exciting but very risky startups (< $1 billion) or small satellite offices of big corps that have limited team options and little political influence (bad for advancement in senior positions). These would typically be lateral movements at best.

The Bay Area isn't the only place with a tech sector, and there are plenty of companies whose main offices aren't in the Bay Area. Washington DC, Chicago, Austin, Denver, all have tremendous tech industries. I've even had job offers at great places that are further out there.

My "one that got away" was a job offer in Portland I still think about. It was a great opportunity and a fantastic city, but I ultimately went elsewhere primarily based on the desire to bring some of my projects with me.
I can only wonder why. 5 stars is the normal rating system for movies, and there's a huge difference between each star, at least for me.

I basically rate like this: unbearable-cannot-finish (1), bad (2), okay-for-background-noise (3), what-I-expect (4), awesome (5).

Of course, some movies are somewhat between 3 and 4 or somewhat between 4 or 5. But if you just give me thumbs up or down there are like 80% of movies I cannot rate at all, because they are neither.
Could it make the reactive armour explode?
You can do that... if you want to handle all the routes, just make your 404 handler on the server return your base html then.
I think that may be true and is worth consideration when making any career or geographical move. In central Missouri - you certainly won't find $2400 studio apartments either!

To be honest - I wish more companies were remote welcome. It is just better in so many ways.
How important it is generating revenue before applying to YC ?
I wonder how one could say this stuff with a straight face after witnessing the credit crisis of 2007, and the not only lack of consequences for the highly unethical and very likely illegal activities that lead to it, but also the subsequent largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich that ever took place in human history.

Bankers were literally rewarded by the system for being evil.

Many lives and families across the globe were destroyed by their actions -- be it by evictions, loss of pensions and savings that took a lifetime to build and related suicides.

Let us not whitewash all of this stuff.
More like this, please, from everyone. God bless you for doing this.
Everything carries a risk, my point was that off-piste skiing doesn't have to be too much more dangerous than more mundane stuff, like driving a car.
Hi Michael, thanks for the AMA. When you evaluate an early stage biotech startup, what would you say is the most important thing that you look for? - clinically validated products, or a solid long term business model?

With Trump picking Scott Gottlieb to be the next FDA commissioner, the FDA approval process is expected to get more lenient. Would you say that YC (or investors in general) would be open to take more risks with high tech startups that do not have a clinically validated product as of now?

One more question - Given that the FDA process takes a lot of time, quite a few biotech companies often get acquired or merged with bigger companies that can afford to do so, without ever having actually gotten their product out on the market. Would you say that you look at the company's potential return in that sense when you evaluate startups? I'm not entirely sure if this question makes sense, so let me know if you want me to clarify!
This article isn't very clear in my opinion, but the gist of what it is saying is that while OSS is good and fostering an environment for alternatives, it has gone too far in some cases (like JS) and has given us WAY too many options with everything thinking that they can/should spin up their own option and ship it for all to use. When instead, A PR on an existing project would be 1) better and 2) more inline with the idea of OSS.

And I agree. JS has something like 7 different OMG-must-use-if-relevant frameworks these days. And thousands upon thousands of smaller plugins and libraries that have insane amounts of overlap.

And while I don't think we should switch to monolithic standardized frameworks. We also need to be mindful of the fact that there are already 4 different ways to solve our problem, or that something is 1-2 PRs from being useful.

In summation, I think the CTA should be, "Let's improve the existing OSS rather than creating new OSS". Which the article /kinda/ says, but is not very clear about.
Having Winter weather that will kill people sure makes not counting seasonal homeless a great way to say you don't have any homeless problems.
In my experience, if you want to go back, job opportunities for senior people come with pretty cushy relocation packages, so, no: not really.
Even in a monsoon I imagine a powerful enough laser should have no problem, no? Relative to the light of the laser, the rain drops are stationary. But maybe the power required to 'burn' through all that rain is higher than the discussed class of laser weapons.
> after running YC for 10+ years they deserve a little break no?

With all due respect what is so special about running YC that means you deserve a sabbatical?

They are taking a sabbatical not because they deserve it but because they can afford to do so financially and have left their organization in what they feel are very capable hands.

It is actually atypical in most professions in the US (at least outside of teaching or academics) to be able to step away other than for a somewhat short vacation. And business? It moves to fast and the competition is most likely hard at work step away and someone else is there to take your place.

Hats off to them for creating an organization where they can do this but most people who are in either traditional businesses or professions (medicine, law as only two examples) can't do something like this.

Edit: Predictable downvotes. Everyone looks at this through a lens that says the commenter surely is showing disrespect or lack of knowledge for how special YC is.

Edit2: Noting that it has been edited for tone so...