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[1] I'm not saying that the big winners are all that matters, just that they're all that matters financially for investors. Since we're not doing YC mainly for financial reasons, the big winners aren't all that matters to us. We're delighted to have funded Reddit, for example. Even though we made comparatively little from it, Reddit has had a big effect on the world, and it introduced us to Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian, both of whom have become good friends.

Nor do we push founders to try to become one of the big winners if they don't want to. We didn't "swing for the fences" in our own startup (Viaweb, which was acquired for $50 million), and it would feel pretty bogus to press founders to do something we didn't do. Our rule is that it's up to the founders. Some want to take over the world, and some just want that first few million. But we invest in so many companies that we don't have to sweat any one outcome. In fact, we don't have to sweat whether startups have exits at all. The biggest exits are the only ones that matter financially, and those are guaranteed in the sense that if a company becomes big enough, a market for its shares will inevitably arise. Since the remaining outcomes don't have a significant effect on returns, it's cool with us if the founders want to sell early for a small amount, or grow slowly and never sell (i.e. become a so-called lifestyle business), or even shut the company down. We're sometimes disappointed when a startup we had high hopes for doesn't do well, but this disappointment is mostly the ordinary variety that anyone feels when that happens.
Do a one-off -- if expensive -- engineering project, vs get everyone in the world to change their energy infrastructure given the huge incentives to cheat.
You and the Atomic Bomb (1945)
>you are throwing away the very foundation of democracy and equality amongst citizens when it comes to being represented.

There is no such foundation. You're lying to yourself. At the very least, the owners of media outlets have far more influence than other citizens due to their ability to set the conversation. There is literally nothing you can do to achieve your ridiculous ideal of equality, or to even come anywhere close to it. All you can do is change what rich people have to do to get what they want, and maybe make it more expensive. And by the way, making it more expensive just means the richest get even more of a say.

>money can fuck right off.

So I can't pay someone to build a website that (directly or indirectly) promotes a candidate?
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Maybe they are coming from another angle, can it generate money?
This actually seems to be more aimed at hurting the ipad for business than hurting intel. You can write your business apps in .Net and roll them out to users who are currently using ios and save pain and cost from using tools like Xamarin to try to use your .Net team to write ios apps with c#.
Yep, that's the key. Mass Transit is really a new experience and a lot of refinement, plus the price is low (~$13). They had a big sale right before the DLC that discounted a lot of their older stuff at 50% - 70%.
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What are you saying? I saw Tank Man live on TV as it was happening. If there really was no tank man, you have a lot of explaining to do.
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I found JavaScript: The Good Parts useful. It's very short and gets right to the point. The author focuses on the parts of the language people tend to use every day and highlights some gotchas and common mistakes that you might not expect (like == vs ===) if you're coming in from other languages.
Great advice:

"If you’ve been working on your startup for two years and have nothing to show, that’s a pretty bad sign."

"Just get started and deliver now. You should have a long term vision but must also act right now, have near term deliverables and be in contact with the customer."
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> As far as I can tell such a thing can not exist, random means not a function of the current state, a function of the current state means not random, there is no room for a third option.

That's an very good and intuitive point, thanks. Winner in the "shut down the old, silly, unproductive discussion in the least amount of sentences" category.
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Black holes move in the same way as any other object of the same mass, for example a star.

When they merge they are typically orbiting each other already in a similar way to binary stars. When they orbit the system will lose energy to gravitational radiation causing the black holes to spiral inwards. (This happens for all orbits, including the Earth's). Eventually they merge sending out a tremendous amount of gravitational radiation.

The gravitional pull of a black hole is just as strong as another object of the same mass. The difference is that the mass is concentrated to a point in the center. This is what makes them impossible to escape from.

It was believed the the whole universe could maybe collapse back into one point (like a black hole). Now it is believed that the universe will keep expanding forever. Actually the universe seems to be expanding ever quicker due to dark energy. But no one knows what dark energy is.
I can't speak for anyone else, but for me personally, the deep integration with Google is a feature for me. Almost everything I do is on Google (email, domains, drive, Cell Carrier), so having the deep integration with Google on Chrome makes my life that much more convenient.

I got into chrome as a teenager, though, when my dad switched from firefox to chrome due to Chrome being apparently faster than firefox at its debut.
And the worst part about having to move out of country to find out things that were censored/hidden? You'll be inclined to believe foreign nations have a negative bias towards China.

At least, that's China's (and Russia's) narrative.
Can you convince management that development in this situation is horrible and expensive and that there are better architectures?
> Except, of course, that Perl is awesome at regular expressions, an advantage that most languages must have caught up on, no?

If you mean at "parsing text", for which regexes are a tool, I don't think many other languages have caught up with Perl, which had (with Perl 6) gone beyond regexes to grammars.

But, even ignoring that, I think plenty of languages have regex engines less powerful than Perl's, and poorer ergonomics for using regexes in the language independent of regex engine quality so even on regexes as such Perl has an advantage.
Cython is a very nice way to transition hot python paths into a C extension. The best part is that it's a python superset, so it should provide some speed up without any typing information (and can be very fast once the hot paths are all in cdef'd functions).
I no longer associate this with Bill O'Reilly, and I even forgot that it was something he said. It just feels like a very common expression now.
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So were the initial Syrian protests. The problem is, as a head of state, you're responsible for the whole populace. You don't know where it will end. It could literally end in the breakup and destruction of your country, never mind something as trivial as regime change.

EDIT> Or are you saying that peaceful protest could be met with some perhaps token concessions. Then if the protesters get violent, the state is justified in using violence?
Correct & important to grow awareness about! Sadly many so-called private email or other services claim just encrypting your content brings you privacy...while ignoring/failing to discuss the metadata.
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Do you have a link to the interview? And how is the YouTube experience worse on Firefox? I didn't know of Google's practices except for the banner in other browsers.
Which could work out to be rather cheap PR. Just imagine how much press they'd get for that.
Yes, and that's the reason why it's important to choose a tool that gets Unicode correctly. Perl is an example of such a tool.
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> My favorite anti-portfolio example is Airbnb. Michael Siebel (Y Combinator Core CEO) emailed me their deck before they joined Y Combinator and I couldn’t help but think “Wow, air mattress rental? That’s a terrible idea!”

I've heard this sentiment repeated a lot ("Everyone thought AirBnB was a horrible idea"), but I honestly can't imagine why, and it makes me think AirBnB must have just had a bad initial pitch deck. At the time AirBnB was founded, Couchsurfing was already really popular, and HomeAway had received some gargantuan investment rounds. Is it really that much of a stretch to say people would want a safe, secure way to rent out private accommodations?
Wouldn't the "Red Guard kids" in the 1960s and the "older Chinese people" at Tiananmen have a large overlap?
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This is a great idea and an exciting feature, but I wish it came to a better product. I've run into endless bugs with Chromecast streaming and library management with Plex.

When I google solutions to these problems, I find threads up to two years old and end with Plex staff 1) not responding, or 2) saying, "We'll fix it eventually." And after two years they haven't!

That's not even counting how buggy or nonfunctional most channels are.

So glad I never bought the Plex Pass- wouldn't be right to give these people any more money when their product is so unreliable.
> But, for every rule, regulation, or law, you have an opportunity for a lawsuit

What? Two women suing McDonalds because they got fat from eating too many cheeseburgers is not a regulatory issue. A canoe company being sued for not having lifeguards posted every mile of the river they serve is not a regulatory issue. Parents suing a city because their idiot kid fell off a slide is not a regulatory issue.

America is lawsuit-crazy. Anybody can sue anybody for anything, regardless of whether regulation surrounds the issue or not. If anything, regulation acts as a legal protection against lawsuits, and many regulations are enacted in response to frivolous lawsuits from assholes who think the world owes them something because they can't take personal responsibility.
I see this as an attack on ipad for business. I worked for a company that had to support ipads for business, we were using Xamarin and it was a slow and painful, expensive process but the systems were easy to manage, although using an onscreen keyboard was limiting. Imagine the same benefits of ipad for business without having to license a private app store from Apple. Imagine the cost per unit is lower and you can use .Net without the pain of Xamarin involved to roll out software as regular win32 binaries instead of jumping through hoops to produce an ios app in a .Net based business.
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Scala backend developer, quite a bit of experience with distributed systems, looking to move into data-intensive area e.g. machine learning.
What you're saying is that it is better for people to live under authoritarian governments of dictatorships than die fighting for their freedom. It's not a despicable position but it's incredibly short-sighted.
Finally, Keras support!
> Perl is still the only language I've seen that has a dedicated syntax for regular expressions.

So, you've never seen Ruby?
See https://accounts.firefox.com/legal/privacy which links to https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/

But in practical terms, I am not aware of any uses of the sync data apart from actually syncing it. That is, no mining of that data, etc.
> they did not seem to share any of the lore he created in real life. She was not an intellectual and was not interested

Seems odd he was enamoured of her. They were of different religions, she didn't like C.S. Lewis, and didn't fit in with his work buddies wives. Maybe she was hot.
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So the west is superior because their citizens, although having access to damning documents of the actions of their nation, both domestic and abroad, choose not to care?
Big if there.

The Seattle Times article says that the Vulcan rocket will have a mass of 375 tons. (Probably US tons?) Assume it's got the same payload fraction as a Soyuz, about 2.5%, which means it can put 9.4 tons into orbit. (A Falcon 9 can put 22 metric tons into orbit)

According to some comment on stack exchange, the world collectively orbited 255 tons of stuff in 2007. Assuming every payload can be launched on a Vulcan rocket, (Which they can't) and assuming a generous turnaround time of one week, (Allen says it should be faster than that) then it would take only a single plane 27 weeks to satisfy the launch needs of the entire world. You could double the amount of stuff launched, and still only need one plane.

There's probably not going to be a lot of airframes to spread development costs across.
Well if it is even remotely possible, you can probably find someone at XDA already working on it.
Could you elaborate on how you're using WASM in your full-time job?
Aren't "pet peeves" kind of silly by definition? if it weren't silly, it would be a legitimate concern rather than a pet peeve.

I did find this really interesting though. Sort of a window into a world i'd never otherwise think about.
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Plex DVR supports the HDHomeRun Prime, which is a Cablecard tuner.
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I've been sort of sketching out a system for this in my spare time.

Something like a portable container that you can host anywhere and keeps syncing easy. What kinds of other features would you want?
Yes (well, for MRI at least; I'm not sure other implemebtations use the same regex engine) and it used a different regex engine before Oniguruma. But engines and syntax are unrelated; Ruby has a dedicated regex literal syntax which was directly inspired by Perl.
I remember discussions about how it seemed congruent to the "do no evil" unofficial motto.
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It's odd that there's no pushback on that statement versus reality. Does he really think that some of these developer tools startups, sous vide cookers, or glass of wine in the mail every month type companies are headed to eleven figure valuations?
Not exactly, 'protected' channels are only supported by Windows Media Center, TiVo and SiliconDust's DVR right now. But majority of the channels on cable networks aren't protected, as long as you're not with TWC or Cox anyways..
When it comes to social networks, I believe the network affect generally leads to a winner takes all (or most). Certainly tech and usability is a determining factor, but another company would have nailed those and dominated the market anyway.
Really what needs to happen is a sensible way to buy shows a la carte, and move away from networks as a whole. I want to watch a single show on a single network (for example, The Walking Dead on AMC). Beyond that one show, everything else is filler to me, designed to justify the price of the network (even within a cable bundle).

Shows can be purchased a la carte currently, but the price is still out of whack ($30 for a season on iTunes) for what customers expect.
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Can we add a new category for REMOTE? It would be awesome to add "GLOBAL REMOTE" so I don't spend too much time looking in "REMOTE" post that only applies in the same country.
It would be potentially suitable for a larger payload akin to the X-37B. This would be handy if the intent isn't destruction, but rather interference or even retrieval. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-37
>As it stands now, some unforeseen circumstance in the field will necessitate a minor modification to the design. The contractor knows perfectly well what needs to be done, but instead of simply doing it, they will ask the designers to tell them to do it, so they aren't the ones responsible for it.

You always want peer review, even for a minor modifications. We have a similar process called code review.
"Numerous theories have sprung up as to the man's identity and current whereabouts." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_Man
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I use KeePass2Android and merging works very well with it. It just automatically reads from my Dropbox file and merges any changes.
Including failing?
Thanks for the term. I can now compress a nebula of irritation into two words.
There’re no fundamental concepts.

If you’ll start with C, there’s assembler and machine code underneath.

Underneath there’s memory hierarchy, CPU microarchitecture, buses, and other things like USB protocol stack.

Underneath there’re logic gates, comparators, summators.

Underneath there’s physics, quantum mechanics, electrodynamics.

Each of these abstraction levels is fundamental relative to the upper one.

The level of abstraction that you declare fundamental is arbitrary. You can define your “fundamental level” threshold much higher, e.g. JVM or S-Expressions, and start bottom up from that arbitrary level.

The level a median developer believes is fundamental drifts upwards over time.

70 years ago it was impossible to be a programmer without knowing about logic gates. The majority of modern software developers can’t design stuff from logic gates, they don’t even know much higher-level USB protocol stack, and yet they are able to do their jobs just fine.