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One reason I can think of for using the imperative tense is to use commit messages to generate changelogs. AngularJS does it this way, wouldn't be surprised if there were others.
Wells Fargo destroyed sales peoples careers for calling attention to their (WF) illegal behavior. http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/10/28/499805238/episo...

If someone trains for 5-10 years in a career, and then a company retaliates by putting a hidden, un-removable "black mark" on their record preventing them from employment in said career is despicable. It's not a war crime, but it's pretty close.
Would you be OK with it if your local police force could access every bit of data the Feds have on you?
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So if you get hit by a bullet it's your fault that you're not wearing bulletproof clothes? Or is it the fault of the person who deliberately tried to cause harm to you?
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Without government intervention it would be harder for mega corporations to exist in the first place. The broadest example is how insane our patent and copyright laws are right now. I do support monopoly laws and think we don't drop that hammer nearly enough.
This is a great question. It seems like it'd be difficult for YC to be neutral on such topics, considering they are actively pursuing pilot projects on things that very left-wing, like a basic income.

From the perspective of a non-profit, it's probably less likely because the argument is probably less "invest and see what thrives [so we can make money off anything that makes money]" and more "help craft the world in our image". While YC is, in general, pretty good about staying above the partisan fray (even if they do clearly prefer left-wing policies), I think they'd have a harder time supporting a non-profit whose beliefs and/or values they didn't feel properly aligned with their own. I'm not sure what the value proposition in that would be for them.

Personally I'd be worried that YC would even accept a pro-Trump founder. It was nice that they didn't shun Thiel despite public pressure, but they did feel the need to write a blog post justifying his presence and disavowing his political beliefs. One has to wonder how far they'd be willing to go for a lowly founder whose tweets, Facebook posts, or HN comments didn't mesh with the party line.
Only read the title but I'm assuming the title is sensationalized, no one would say that, right?
They could support their team members by not continuing to make a circus out of them
Are they really needed? I think even mediocre engineers are probably so versed in tribal knowledge within they firms that if they say they're overworked they could be moved to other departments because losing an employee is often very expensive. Not only that, unlike other assets, engineers get better over time and become more valuable as they become more expensive. We can move firms, start firms, or move laterality to other industries where our technical skills are valued. A Union protects and supports a population with many more unproductive enginneers than a place without one. We are not like line workers at a steel plant as work is abundant and if a bit of effort is made a good work life balance can be had.
Well I mean, it seems pretty much case closed that they are criminals if they are undocumented immigrants. I'm not advocating that law enforcement should be exempt from due process, but if you're not a citizen I'm not sure what rights you're entitled to here? It's a bit messy, but it's very close to the bottom of the list of police actions I'm worried about. I'm way more concerned about things like the disproportionate amount of African Americans locked up than the due process of people who are here illegally.

Every country on the planet has borders that are enforced. Every country has immigration policies that just be followed. Every country that finds immigrants that are there undocumented (illegally) deports them and uses databases with public/private cooperation to do so.

There are ways to prove citizenship. Easily obtainable documents like a social security card, passport, birth certificate, etc... . There is no real issue with ICE deporting Americans. None whatsoever.
The fact that a reviewer uses 2 and 4 ratings might not be too meanngful. One reviewer might use 2s and 4s the way another uses 1s and 5s.

There may be reviewers who do not generally fit the bimodal distribution, but if they are the minority, why design your whole rating system around them? Better to optimize your system for the way most of your users behave.
Utah's success should be replicated where it makes sense. But just because Utah can reduce chronic homelessness 90% by adding 1,000 beds in a low land value, low labor cost state doesn't mean you can simply transfer the program to San Francisco or San Diego and achieve the same success.

One of the achievements of Utah is actually putting together decent living conditions in their homeless housing. I fear California's attempt to replicate at scale this would end up in some Cabrini–Green like nightmare.
That the "it's been covered extensively, see how these random internet people have written at length about the viewpoint I agree with" line of argument goes both ways, but more against you than in favor.

The only condescending statement here is the one you made: "This has been discussed, analyzed, and recorded to death. Breath of the Wild has framerate issues."
Hasn't that case (lone founder meeting with success despite no resources) always been an extreme outlier? For every success story you can point to, there are probably thousands of failure stories. So those opportunities becoming "fewer" would not even be noticeable.
That idea seems to be discredited:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ural%E2%80%93Altaic_languages

The remaining connections of Korean still fascinated me when I first heard about it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altaic_languages

> Various versions included the Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic and sometimes the Korean and￼￼ Japonic languages.

I was surprised of a kind of "UEH-ll" sound that you can hear in both modern turkish (their goodbye) and Korean language (don't have an example) and wondered if they had some kind of connection. Apparently they do!
No really banned, but any of his articles will magically be removed from the front page.
It it my somewhat anecdotal experience that, in spite of gender inequalities there are far more percentage of Indian women in tech than their western counterparts (particularly US).

I remember rubyconfindia 2010 - where 30-40% participants were women. Ola bini or one of the keynote speakers commented this is first rubyconf. where he has seen so many women and I could concur because I have been to many conferences here in US and there never were that many women.

Tech. meetups is another story though. Most meetups in India are organized on weekends and there are hardly any women.
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That used to be a big deal for me too. I had a little happy moment back when I rated my 1000th movie. Oh well.
Is your argument that ICE has data they're not supposed to have? Part of ICE's job is to enforce immigration rules. Let's work on your analogy here:

> Imagine if the local police were able to use CIA records, including phone and location data, to prosecute you for, say stealing a car.

Imagine if the local police were able to use their plate reader software to identify and prosecute people who had stolen cars?
Think about the evolution of various web technologies:

Chat & Direct Messaging: Unix Talk, IRC, SMS, Jabber, XMPP, Snap, slack, etc.

Message boards: Usenet, gopher, BBS, Wiki, Blogs, Myspace, Facebook, etc.

You can literally look at almost any web technology, and it seems to be constantly reinvented, improved, and updated. It seems likely that the tools of today will necessarily evolve, at the hand of new upstarts.
Personality type question. For a two founder (technical & business) startup it would be important for at least one of them to be conscientious and the other to be creative. For example you might have a genius but unruly technology lead, tempered by a focused product and business partner, or you might have a visionary and rule breaking CEO tempered by a hard working diligent technical workhorse. Both appear to be a successful combinations.

Which pairings of personality type and role works better in your experience for YC applications?
I'd have to look into this, but I'd imagine the fact that the best doctors preside a.) in the richest country in the world with b.) the most lucrative health industry has a lot to do with the former as well as the latter. Danny Williams also claimed he traveled to the US to see a specific specialist, not because no one in his own province could do the surgery, although we can't know for sure.

To make your arguments and not take all that into consideration also seems disingenuous.

(I also can't imagine that heart surgery would become drastically more dangerous in the US under universal healthcare, certainly not enough to offset it's unavailability. Where exactly are these amazing doctors going to go, anyway?)
Why? Because we have the highest quality healthcare in the world.

This is one of those statements that kind-of true, but not in the sense that people bringing it up mostly mean.

In fact "best in the world" care depends largely on disease, in many cases the best teams in the world are in the US, in others they are not. If you are (globally) rich, you go wherever the best care is. But that typically isn't "the US", that's far too broad. It is a particular team, at a particular hospital, in the US. Or maybe there are 3 to choose from.

So sure, if you are rich enough to go anywhere, and have enough social capital to get in, you can have amazing care for most conditions in the US. And in some cases you would go to France, say, instead - because they were better for what you have.

But that doesn't mean that the average person in the US in the average hospital, say, is getting the "best care". As far as we can see (and it's difficult) mostly what they are getting is roughly equivalent care for higher costs. It's a complicated issue as to why, of course. Particularly if you are looking at outcomes, rather than procedures. On top of that, access for 10's of millions of Americans is sub-par, in comparison to peer systems.
Wow thanks for sharing this. Read Viji's story. Truly inspiring that she was determined to fight cancer, finish her PhD, do great work, find a spouse who would marry her fully aware that cancer would consume her eventually, and support her research. What a great story!
But only one of those was founded by Peter Thiel!
Worrying about incentivizing people not to work is one thing, but i think a larger part of that concern is people worrying that somebody else is getting something for free when they have to pay for it.

Free-housing programs are seen as unfair by people who have to pay for their housing. If you take half the $16k that gets spent on policing and cleaning up after a homeless person and spend that on providing housing for them instead, somebody who works a minimum wage full time job and spends the same amount out of their own pocket on housing is going to be rightfully annoyed. Which inevitably brings us around to the basic income debate.
> Unfotunately we cannot flag individual comments

Sure you can. Click the anchor link to the individual comment.
Will YC start branches outside of Mountain View sometime? I know the Boston branch existed at the beginning and eventually was consolidated into MV. In particular, I'd love to see YC go out and tap the untapped talent markets in Middle America. This seems unlikely considering that even Boston was considered too detached. Remote classes are also an interesting prospect IMO.
>What's the argument?

If you can't see one, why assume one exists just out of sight?

>The only way BotW does not have performance issues is if you consider sub-30 fps acceptable.

The popularity of the game implies that most people do.
This is a real problem for Democratic Party leadership. Tthe people wanted a populist. So the people got a populist and he just happened to not be a Democrat.
> As far as I know, Cisco doesn't sell products like "gigabit mass-deporation cloud router 2239."

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/04/ciscos-latest-attempt-...
I don't know enough to have a well formed opinion. I don'y know any contractors personally, and haven't read up on it much. Sorry!
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How would yo go about looking for such things outside SV, LA, NY ie. major places?

I agree with you that there is a void in R&D stage VC funds.
What I think is particularly noteworthy is not that Gitlab recognized that anybody could have made that mistake, but rather how supportive Gitlab was about the whole thing.

When you make a big mistake, it is easy to place yourself in a mindset where you feel like a disaster even though everyone is accepting. I call it the "disappointing your parents" mindset, because it can feel a lot like people are just being supportive because they love you, and what you did was indeed inexcusable to a certain degree.

The feeling is made somewhat worse when you are an employee, because your livelihood and your future are dependent on how other people perceive you. To that point, I'm really impressed by the fact that Gitlab addressed the fact that this employee was still being promoted, and that the mistake hadn't affected that. In my mind that is as at least as important as all of the rah-rah stuff.
There are issues with CBP personnel harassing Americans. I have a constitutional right to freely travel around the country without fear of search or seizure if I'm not suspected of a crime. CBP personnel camp out in airplane jetways ambushing law-abiding American citizens who have no choice but to submit to an illegal and improper search of their personal papers to prove their citizenship. Any freedom loving citizen of the United States should resist this bullshit.
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> If they had had a compelling message for the working class they could easily have won this election.

So increasing minimum wage, make it easier to unionize, universal health care, protecting/expanding social security, and a bunch of other policies that would help the working class don't count?

The thing is policy doesn't matter. People want 140 characters that make them feel good even if it's bad policy.
The first part of the post were interesting and I guess funny, but creating and selling a T-Shirt with the accident and stuff? IMO this would have been a fun joke inside the company, but to outsiders, eh. I don't want to sound grumpy though :)
The really maddening part is that if a city or town decides to do their own network because the private companies has left them out they get sued or new laws are passed to kill the project.

A) They get money from the government

B) They sue local governments that try to do their own networks

C) Then FCC gives more money and profits with less competition and less free markets
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I don't know all the YC startups so this might have an obvious answer, but would YC consider a video game company for a batch, rather than software or tech?

Like a company trying to make something as disruptive as Pokemon Go, which required quick scale and reached a massive audience in a very short time.
Isn't that coupled to real estate costs, via salaries?
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You're absolutely right, but people are willing to consider CTF work as experience. If you can go into depth how you solved a problem, no one will question your conceptual understanding.

I think it's definitely easier if your interviewer actually knows what security ctf's are.
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The FCC defined Web browsing history and app usage history as sensitive information, along with other categories such as geo-location data, financial and health information, and the content of communications. If the rules are overturned, ISPs would be able to sell this kind of customer information to advertisers.

Don't Facebook, et. al. do this already? Don't most people spend most of their time on Facebook anyway? ISPs just want a cut of the action.
I generally like the openness, but, Gitlab marketing team, if you're listening: stop spamming social media content on your blog, it seems cheesy and lazy.

A few tweets or comments are more than enough to prove your point.

They did something similar with the storage post, which was full of Hackernews opinions.

So, this, or at least post my comment on your blog, too :D
No, that actually is a fact. With proof from multiple sources, and frame rate graphs. Until you show me otherwise, it's objectively factual. While on the other hand, game scores are ENTIRELY subjective. Of course, game scores have absolutely nothing to do with the performance issues, so I still don't understand your argument.

Next you'll tell me humans never landed on the moon. I'm done!
Assuming ICE is operating legally, what's the difference? Cisco assumes ICE is using their routers for legal purposes. Same with Oracle or SAP or IBM. At the point at which we're witch-hunting tech companies for their involvement it's already way too late.
Single-payer health care establishes a floor, not a ceiling of coverage. That in itself is a reason to do it, because it reduces overall costs due to the amortization effect of preventive medicine that people have a right to access.

Single-payer coverage doesn't necessarily dry up the market for private insurance, either. Citizens of Canada and other countries have access to additional coverage that covers faster access to medical care and more expensive procedures. So yes, you can have your cake and eat it, too, if you set things up right.
The headline is untrue: I do not like Bernie Sanders.
Dems need to eject their tammany-hall-esque party leadership. It was blatantly obvious the dem on the street wanted Bernie but Wasserman-Schultz ignored her constituents.
While there are much better sites than gogo for watching anime (Flash? ugh), I absolutely second the recommendation to check out Welcome to the NHK.
I read the headline and figured it was ambiguity in the law. I think the headline is fine.
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The main force at work in this and similar cases is intent. A rational person could assume that someone prone to seizures triggered by flashing lights probably does go out of their way to avoid them. But when you're deliberately sent something with the intent to do harm, that changes things.
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> Why? Because we have the highest quality healthcare in the world.

If we ignore the fact that the US is in the 10 OECD nations with lowest life expectancy.

There's a bunch of over-testing, over-diagnosis, and over-treatment in the US. These make customers feel like they're getting good service, even though they're being harmed by it.
(sarcasm) Yeah now my paycheck isn't going to welfare and Unions. The real enemy of the middle class /sarcasm
On the contrary, I think that superthumbs would be a brilliant name. If you introduce something as dry and complicated as a quota for strong upvotes, you'd better do anything possible to make it more playful. A certain dosage of silly naming might be a good start.
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Not as compelling when it's a candidate that has a history of being a war hawk and is in bed with Wallstreet vs. Sanders, perhaps.
To be honest, I have now more faith in their product after the incident :D
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> If it's based solely upon his support of Donald Trump, this is a ridiculous statement.

You're projecting. At least let him explain his reasoning. Creating your own fictional version which you can denounce prior that that explanation doesn't really help the conversation.
Coming from a country where Sanders' policies are frankly uncontroversial, I wonder if pundits are discounting the effect that Sanders vastly prolonging his campaign after he'd clearly lost has had on whether the DNC wants to give him the time of day. Truth is, guy doesn't seem like much of a team player. This he has in common with Trump, but Trump won. If Trump had lost in the primaries and then the RNC had lost the election, I seriously doubt the RNC would be turning to him right now.
Probably could've designed a good backup and restore strategy with the time that was invested in this piece. A combo of full backups with append-only storage of changes going a certain amount of time into the past. Worked for me for long, long time despite my many screwups. Even when I lost all my stuff to triple, storage failure I still recovered a tiny bit stored on my cheap, write-once solution: DVD-R's. There was some bit rot but better than bit loss. I imagine their solution would be better done with a filesystem or backup software.

Note: It was neat that much of the community was supportive. I see the article as really a thank you to them.
Never knew that. Thanks!
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I'm sorry to disappoint you, but finger pointing and blaming others for your inappropriate actions is also childish.
https://www.ycombinator.com/faq/#q8

Q: Will you fund multiple startups working on the same idea?

A: Yes. If you fund as many companies as we do it's unavoidable you'll end up with some overlap. Even if you tried not to accept competing companies, you'd still get overlap because startups' ideas morph so much. The way we deal with it is that when two startups are working on related stuff, we don't talk to one about what the other's doing.

In practice it has not turned out to be a problem, because most big markets have room for several slightly different solutions, and it's unlikely that two startups would do precisely the same thing.
I don't think that Clinton communicated any of these clearly.
Robots are not the maximizers. People are at this point still driving the demand side of the equation, that's true, but there's not reason why they can't be replaced as well on that end.

The economy is a self-maximizer, bootstrapped on human labour. As automation progresses, it will become self-hosted.
Being at the edge of your field seems important if you want to succeed at a startup. How much time spent developing skills should someone spend before starting a startup?
I meant in a general sense but practices like having other five eyes partners or a private company surveil US citizens to avoid a US agency doing anything illegal come to mind.

The only difference is in the intent of the author or when the law was written. The fourth amendment seems quite clear but we give that up at the border for some apparent reason.
They really had no choice. If they were jerks about it, they would have made an already completely ridiculous scenario ten times worse. Spinning this as some lighthearted commentary spam every week since then, is their PR move.
Jobs are only being created where human labor is still cheaper than robots. But the price of human labor keeps rising, so the factories continually keep moving to new countries with cheap labor. Meanwhile robots just keep getting cheaper. Inevitably there must come a point where there isn't anywhere to move the factories for cheap labor, as the whole world has come out of extreme poverty, while robots have gotten cheaper than what any human can offer their labor for.
>the most lucrative health industry

Yes, that's the whole point of my argument. We have the best because it's lucrative. The health care plans people tend to put forth to fix our system would make our healthcare system less lucrative.

>Danny Williams also claimed he traveled to the US to see a specific specialist, not because no one in his own province could do the surgery, although we can't know for sure.

Right, he went to where he believed the best specialist was. In the US.

> not take all that into consideration also seems disingenuous.

I didn't not take all that into consideration. In fact, it was the entirety of my consideration.