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There's the Geneva Convention. Not all countries have signed on, and the countries that have don't necessarily follow them all the time or when they think no one is looking, but that doesn't mean that there aren't mostly-agreed-on standards for what is or is not a war crime.

If universal adherence were a necessary characteristic of ethical standards, we wouldn't have many that pass that test.
No offense, but how could you avoid addressing the elephant in the room?

"Will my salary be COL adjusted?"
unless you have evidence that this accelerator committed fraud, I'd probably hold off on directly accusing them of scamming. I'm not a lawyer, but that seems like dangerous legal territory.
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Just speculating. It could be a leverage thing. They created it, and MS gave them free usage of exFAT or anything of the sort (in return for not pushing it further). Could be just usual mismanagement too.
Honestly a bit disturbing to see people coming out of the wood works to defend palantir.

They've assisted NSA, and now they're using some skills to help agents look up info on undocumented immigrants.

Sure, we should be tackling the source of the problem, but enablers such as palantir should be taken to task too.

It should be considered how active a role Thiel took in getting this to happen as a Trump ally, which this in turn benefits his company.
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That's absolutely correct, and I added a "/s" to clarify that. I should never forget Poe's Law after all.

Thanks for giving me the benefit of the doubt.
Thanks- ideally the auditing would be done regularly, and require a reason to be entered for any access the first time a new provider accesses your information. Even better each patient would have a USB stick with a One Time Token generator that would 1) hold basic emergency information on the USB drive) 2) Generate One Time Keys to grant access to new providers. Of course, in an emergency situation where a provider has an ID but can't find your USB key, they could enter an over-ride with a reason- which would be strictly audited. Also, patients should have a list of who has accessed their information and why- and even be able to sign up for alerts anytime someone new accesses it.
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> Message board nerds may not care much about intent, but intent is most of what the law cares about.

More accurately, mental state (of which intent is but one aspect) is a substantial part of the definition of most crimes.
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> this whole celebration of reducing chronic homelessness is more likely just a PR piece.

No... that's not a fair comment.

We are measuring it. People are constantly going through rough patches and become homeless. In some cases, most cases, they get help "soon" and get into a home. In other cases, they don't. This article is about the latter cases.

Your statement suggests that the efforts to reduce chronic homelessness compete with efforts to help the temporarily homeless. The article doesn't suggest that is the case.
> It can't be his libertarian philosophy that supports individual self-determination.

Why not? Complete self-determination is essentially "Fuck off" to everybody else at best and wholesale exploitation at worst.
Beyond Compare

https://www.scootersoftware.com/

Especially with integrated source control and remote sessions to manage source on multiple server types and platforms. Very customizable rules for compares and folder structure / filename case etc.

I used to use Araxis Merge, but Beyond Compare, with a tiny bit of customization, is in my opinion a far superior tool.
Everyone loves Bernie Sanders. Except, it seems, the Democratic party
For those who may be wondering, the image they display in the article is the location of modern Kyrgyzstan. The large basin in the left image is the Fergana Valley; that of the lower left, the Tarim Basin in modern Xinjiang, China; and the north is the Kazakh steppe.

Historically, the Silk Road (in this region) ran from Kashgar in the Tarim Basin to Osh in the Fergana Valley, although I'm not exactly sure which passes were taken. It always struck me as odd that the Silk Road didn't pass through the Kyzyl-Suu river valley, which is the only road link you can see today on Google Maps. On the other hand, this visualization does seem to reinforce the idea that natural trading paths did not cross the mountain ranges in ways that would reinforce that link but rather focused on a more circuitous route via the bulk of Kyrgyzstan.
Is my Samsung Smart TV vulnerable to the “weeping angel” attack?
Yup, it was quite a bit better on the upper end especially. Looking at the snoops on the bus using PAPI RaftLib does a better job at keeping the cache lines from bouncing.

The benchmarked version also has a dynamically resizing FIFO which uses utilization of the queue itself to guide the sizing. This means that the FIFO can better adapt to dynamic behavior found in most applications run on top of an operating system (most all these days outside of HPC). Looking at load stalls, the RaftLib version has fewer, but not quite enough to account for the results.

If you look at the single worker thread case, then jump to two threads..you can see a fairly big jump. RaftLib by definition is a pipelined programming system. The read file and compress are done perfectly in parallel. The bzip2 code doesn't quite pull it off in a perfectly pipelined fashion. It's close, but not quite. This results in less overlap of execution and communication. If I'd run on Linux (thread affinity on OS X is well, fun last time I checked..if not impossible to do manually), I'd also add thread affinity to the list which most people don't bother to optimize. Hot caches and synergistic cache accesses are quite beneficial.
13% of startups in this batch have either a black or latinx founder and 22% have a female founder.
What mass deportation?
thanks!, and meh.
This is true for any airline, but there is something (like the story in this case) called "CAT" or Clear Air Turbulence.
Claiming those to be equivalent to default mobile f2p business strategies of "selling rounds of play like in arcade machines, but hiding it" is either highly ignorant of the gaming market at large, or malicious. Which do you want it to be?
> Like, if I'm severely allergic to peanuts, then I take reasonable steps to avoid them, such as not patronizing a restaurant that uses peanuts in its food.

What if someone made you a sandwich and didn't tell you there were peanuts in it with the intent of causing a reaction? Eating the sandwich could have been avoided, but you wouldn't know that until you took a bite.
These recently declassified nuclear test videos are utterly mesmerizing
Several universities and corporations have QC R&D projects (eg. Alibaba, Google, IBM, Microsoft); none of these corporations have customers for their QCs.
That doesn't follow.

If one's allergic they should avoid allergens. If one's known to be prone to seizures, they'd better avoid the cause. This doesn't mean its their fault, neither it implies that others are completely free to exploit this weakness. Yet, it still makes sense to take precautions.
I happen to be in the Netherlands today and have had no problem using Google on OS X & Chrome
The first automated fast food sales outlets ("automats") appeared in the 1890s in Germany. They became very popular for a while. In the US the last ones (Horn and Hardart) went into a deep decline in the 60s and had mostly disappeared by the 1970s.
From Paul Graham's tweets (https://twitter.com/paulg/status/322219801525223424), it appears that YC ranks startups when they are accepted into YC.

Do you really do this for every startup in YC?

If so, are your internal rankings accurate predictors of startup success?
I, for one, am astounded at the responses in this thread of discussion.

> why shouldn't my financial system be as open as bash?

Oh my lord...
Napkin . I use it every day many times a day to make screen shots with quick annotations

http://aged-and-distilled.com/
Well, the article points out that the law specifically exempted this sort of work, except perhaps for the missing comma. I am a big fan of the Oxford comma, but in this instance saying that its absence means they are entitled to the overtime pay seems somewhat disingenuous, when the thing is taken in context. Truck driving (even those hourly jobs, as opposed to the much more common piece work jobs paid by the mile) is well-known for not paying overtime unless it is for a union shop and has been negotiated.
You said

>I might be misplacing my trust and share things with people who end up sharing it with third parties, violating my trust

I take that as

"If I send an email to someone and they share it with third parties, they are violating my trust...Google/gmail is one such third party."
No, it's not. For one, other people having things worse off does not mean that certain people should not be trying to better themselves. For two, if that were true, then the heavy equipment operators should be asking for raises, as they now have the leverage to go to a less demanding job for more pay.
I don't work in the recommendations side of the house, but the way I understand things is that nowadays your star ratings (and now up/down ratings) are primarily to learn about you, what you liked and didn't like and therefore what you might like to see in the future. They're not really about creating a Rotten Tomatoes or IMDB style database of trying to rank all movies on some sort of objective "regardless of what you like, this is a high quality movie" sort of scale.
Thunderbird downloads everything to the client too.
How much of your body is your own?
Sons honor their father by opensourcing his RFID (“Activewave”) solution
I'm not fan of the current immigration system, but it seems like "looking up info on undocumented immigrants" is no better or worse than any other criminal database use. Being here illegally is, well, ya know, illegal. We can discuss whether or not that should be illegal or not, but it currently is. Let's not act like it isn't.
They tell you so in TFA.

> Users would rate documentaries with 5 stars, and silly movies with just 3 stars, but still watch silly movies more often than those high-rated documentaries.
The horizontal stabilizer of most aircraft has a negative angle of attack and produces downforce, not lift in straight and level flight. This allows the center of gravity to be forward of the wing's center of lift by moving the overall center of lift forward. The result is a tendency to pitch down if airspeed decreases without other control inputs, countering the reduced airspeed.

Flying inverted in a relatively stable aircraft requires a lot of forward pressure because for the inverted aircraft's wing to have a positive angle of attack, the horizontal stabilizer has an even larger positive angle of attack. The pilot must counter this with the elevator to establish a stable ratio of lift to downforce.
How technically difficult would it be to make a browser extension that detects and pauses videos and gifs that might cause a seizure? Are the conditions that cause seizures pretty well known so that something specific can be detected?
Eichenwald has made many enemies and intentionally became part of his own reporting. He is his own victim. That a reporter like that would challenge the first amendment with a naive emotionally charged approach should give anyone pause.

http://nymag.com/guides/money/2007/39957/
I think both - we always want to accept early stage companies to YC. Also I think the MOOC will be a great way for any company to get value out of YC.
What's the argument?

It can be one of the greatest games ever made by subjective and objective measures and suffer performance issues.

The only way BotW does not have performance issues is if you consider sub-30 fps acceptable.
No it isn't. This is complete hyperbole.
Right, because exceeding sales expectations and apparently having a hit on their hands means they've failed at hardware and need to move on.

It's funny. For as many fanboys as Nintendo has, they also have an apparent equal number of detractors who have a conniption if a game drops to 28 FPS and feel the need to obsess about it.

You love PC gaming. We get it.
I agree that the first amendment doesn't apply in this case, but the "fire in a crowded theater" analogy is only used by people who aren't aware of its origin. The phrase was coined by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes in WWI, in a SCOTUS decision to imprison socialists for leafleting against the draft.[1]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schenck_v._United_States
> Doesn't Home cost money though?

The hardware costs money, just as a radio does. The service is free, just as radio stations are.
While comparing Frugal Engineering vs Art. Cost does not seem like the valid factor to compare. Also, Wages in India are paltry compared to the USA.
This isn't even close to a gray area! The analogy would be finding out that your target is in a given theater, where you then yell "fire!". This was targeted and pre-meditated; the result and the intent were one and the same.

Your argument rests on something very different.
I was thinking that OP is wrong and ignoring the existence of multiple types of gamers, but your analysis is much better thought-out and very insightful.

It can sometimes be difficult to remind that the games market is still strongly growing and that it'll be a generation or two more until it settles into more clear shape.
That's precisely what NACo — the National Association of (US) Counties — does. They have initiatives on both data driven justice[1] and housing[2].

1. http://www.naco.org/resources/programs-and-services/data-dri...

2. http://www.naco.org/news/roof-of-their-own
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Two basic modes, Fortress and Adventure.

Fortress is a base management sim, you don't directly control anything, you issue orders and then drwarves take those orders and do them in their own time.

Adventure mode is a rougelike with in a deep world.
Great comments and links! Pretty sure Google wrote chubby before raft existed.

Chubby paper: 2006
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1298487

Raft paper: 2014
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2643666

If you've got something battletested, there isn't a lot of value to rip it all up if it works within the given business requirements. Also they figured out how to implement Multi-Paxos, which is known for being difficult.
You should read the Paul Graham essay on wealth, specifically the "Pie Fallacy" paragraph. Hopefully it'll be insightful. :)

http://paulgraham.com/wealth.html
I don't mean to set that tone - I think international founders disproportionately believe that YC is only focused on the US so that is why we talk about it a bit more. YC has always accepted large numbers of international founders.
Is it possible to participate in YC without selling equity?
This should clearly be a criminal offense. I do not think someone should be held responsible if they post seizure inducing GIFs with no ill intent, but this guy @ replied the journalist so it showed up on his Twitter feed, with a message accompanying the gif saying that he deserved a seizure.
Thanks for letting me know. I have only tried ff and chrome on desktop and chrome android so far.
ios app is on the way.
A while back New Zealand ran a successful advertising campaign which invited people to dob in tax dodgers, and told people how.

http://i.stuff.co.nz/business/money/64437383/ird-collects-40...
Thanks for the source!
I believe you could drop the "of" in this case and it would make more sense. The final section could read "packing for shipment or distributing:", which clearly shows the separation of the activities.
Hi Michael,

As international founders (Egypt), our team is a bit worried about the whole visa situation. I heard the interviews are generally held 2 weeks after the invitation. Do you help with obtaining a visa for the interview and is 2 weeks enough time to go through the whole visa process?

Thanks!
Don't you think the web is maturing and consolidating quickly and there will be fewer and fewer opportunities for a guy with a camera to build a billion dollar business?
At what stage have solo founders generally hired their first employees? I imagine a solo-founder startup would probably require the same amount of manpower, but the leadership structure would just be a little less flat.
> Honestly a bit disturbing to see people coming out of the wood works to defend palantir.

> They've assisted NSA, and now they're using some skills to help agents look up info on undocumented immigrants.

I'm supposed to be outraged that a company is supplying software to help a government employee do their job in an efficient manner?
we (RedCarpetUp) were accepted to YC with extremely minimal levels of early funding.

Feel free to reach out to me if you have India/YC questions.
It's easier to declare packages recipes using guile than a mix of xml/bash/config files that other distro use.
I just started using Google Postgres and, as of today, there is no way to easily get your PG data into BigQuery via any Google cloud service. You have to create your own CSV from your PG data, then upload that into BigQuery. I imagine (hope) this will change with additions to the Export options of PG instances.
> It's justified by logical argument, but not by empirical evidence.

On the contrary, falsifiability's merits can be tested and potentially falsified. Science produces more useful results -- a better depiction of reality -- than other pursuits that don't require falsifiability. That is a merit-test (a falsifiable one) for falsifiability.

The issue is not whether falsifiability exists, the issue is whether it has greater merit than other ways of evaluating ideas.

> ... because things like "theories" and "truth" are not physical.

Neither are ideas, but we grant ideas the status of tangible things, to the degree that we assign ownership to some of them (with mixed results). Scientific theories have validity solely to the degree to which we can correlate them with aspects of reality. This gives scientific theories a special status not shared by all ideas.

> ... then I don't see how you can state that most philosophy is not falsifiable and remain consistent.

It would be easy for a philosopher to refute such a claim -- by producing a philosophical theory that has the property of falsifiability by empirical evidence. But if that were done, the submitted theory would fail the litmus test of philosophical ideas in modern times (that they be ideas apart from empirically testable ones). This is the property that distinguishes philosophy from science. So it seems the distinction is to some extent self-referential.
Yes, if US politicians weren't beholden to pharmaceutical and insurance companies, it would already be a reality. It makes sense from either side of the aisle. It just doesn't make sense for the few people who stand to lose billions.
That's a pretty interesting idea. It would indicate a sort of apathy rating. Not that a product or service with a high apathy rating is bad - might actually be good for certain things.
So if you take all of those precautions, and then I send you a letter coated with (for example) peanut extract... you what... shouldn't get mail? Should you have seen my assault coming?
I want to be a farmer. I want to treat the farm like a startup. At which point in the application process can I try to convince you that you need a farmer in your portfolio? Also, when and where can I go into details to describe how it would be different from today's conventional operations?
>Unfortunately you'll find a good portion being spent on 20th century drugs, which suck immensely.

There's the hardest part about UBI. Its the same thing that makes our welfare systems so awful right now as well.

The terrible fear that if we give people money... they might spend it on stuff we don't think they should.
You might try Rim World--- it's the sci-fi spiritual sibling of DF, and it has a similar "task" system. It's been awhile since I've played DF, and I only have about 40 hours in it, so some of this description might be off. :)

The idea is that you do specify where dwarves will build items (like beds, tables, workstations) and you also specify zones (stockpile food here, grow mushrooms here) and provide orders (chop all trees in this area). But _then_ you tell the dwarves what kind jobs you want them to do. You tell the cook dwarf that they're allowed to cook, haul, and maybe they're allowed to farm too. The cooking stove will have a job order that says: "make X meals" or "make meals until you have X many" You tell the mining dwarf that he's allowed to mine and haul iron ore only. You tell the construction dwarf to build stuff. And then the dwarves manage their own days. They "work" 10ish hours a day based off of what tasks are available, and they eat/drink/hangout the rest of the time. You never actually have to micro manage them, you just set up rough guidelines.
You're gonna have to let the Debian people know about that. They've been calling themselves an Operating System for as long as I can remember. :-)
I was thinking exactly the same. This post just reminds me how easy it is with Mathematica
I'm also curious about this.
I'm (obviously) not Michael, but this blog post from about a week ago might be relevant to your question: https://blog.ycombinator.com/us-visas/
Hello maker here : Just saw this im_dario posted , I have made this precisely for the same issue ( google and other big companies controlling data ) . I can assure from my side I will give a delete button to remove all user data when they want to move on and monthly fees is the only source of income .
Another reason to make the website was to make it very simple to use without too much baggage .
you will never get an answer to "what do YC partners look for". And we as alums dont really know - we have some ideas, but I'm pretty sure they are not accurate.
I hope this picture becomes a symbol of inspiration to all girls worldwide that they are equals when it comes to excelling at STEM. We all need to actively promote the right kind of imagery and narrative around us to build a world where women are empowered are to go after STEM careers, and never ever feel that they won't be able to do better than men.
Probably preaching to the choir, but Carlin's WW1 series is fantastic. Easily the best history of the era I've listened to or read.
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Do you mean comparing a Hollywood movie to a Mars rocket is an apples to apples comparison ? Movie budget is dependent on actors, CGI and marketing. I'm sure if they had hired Matt Damon to ride their rocket to Mars, it might have doubled the costs of their mission.
Many americans affectionately call their friend assholes.It was a huge culture shock for me initially.
Even taking into consideration cost of labour, it seems like US manufacturing and infrastructure costs are excessively bloated. Is there any way to reduce it while still maintaining an acceptable level of risk?
I don't know, which was Valve in those cases? Besides, you're the one arbitrarily deciding that f2p = pay for rounds only.
for me I use a quote by Derek Sivers

"You have to meet inspiration half way"

What that means is just sit down and start doing something. After about 30 minutes you get in the flow and it carries you the rest of the way.
That's not correct, as both "mother" and "Ayn Rand" are items in a list and need to be separated by a comma.
There is https://github.com/livingbio/syntaxnet_wrapper that does the job fairly well (I also spent days trying to be able to pass to SyntaxNet different textes without having to reload the model). Warning: installation is a bit difficult.