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People said this 20 years ago about Microsoft.

They were king of the PC, imposing a Windows (and Office-) tax on every other business. They were trying to extend that dominance to the internet: Internet Explorer, CitySearch, Expedia, MSN portal, MSN Shows, MSN Messenger, you name it. They were building interactive TV, software for cars, and a mobile phone platform. For a while they were building a bill presentation and payment service. They had an e-reader platform and tried to sign up publishers for it.

You name, if it had software in it, Microsoft was trying to dominate it. They knew they were the new IBM and that IBM had stumbled, and they were paranoid about that happening to them. And here we are.
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Statehood won by the terms of the 2012 referendum and the 2017 do-over the federal government asked for rather than honoring the 2012 result.
It's a great idea, seriously. As demonstrated by the details in this article.

_But_ non-technical users do not understand how it works, which means that they were _very_ surprised to find state other than the obviously visible stuff being saved along with documents, and thus sent accidentally to recipients.

If you're going to make use of this sort of clever optimization, you owe it to your users to at least document the consequences, if not the specific implementation.

Edited: I think you read more criticism into my post than was intended on my part.
Any legit international source of news would give an idea of the magnitude of the issue. Sadly Spanish news outlets are in the hands or PP government big time.
I think there's already too much filtering.

People need to make up their own minds regarding what is true and what isn't, what's worth their time and what's bullshit, which links to click on and which to avoid. If people can't handle this then we need to spend more money on education, or just accept that some people disagree with us.

I don't think aggressively filtering "untrustworthy" content will lead to a net benefit.
In my experience the difference between 5.2 and 5.3 was more towards "negligible" than you're making out. While the functional difference may have been major, most programs in my experience operate exactly as you would expect them. For the majority of programs I doubt that they were even felt, aside from a few minor changes like "unpack" -> "table.unpack"
When they mention companies using DynamoDB, at least one of those actually uses their own implementation of Dynamo that they wrote to work around cost and performance limitations.

The main problems faced are not the ability to scale or reach performance benchmarks or keep data safe. They are operational, and primarily problems of infrastructure complexity and management. Oh, and having developers architect and manage the operations of a really freaking huge service is a bad idea. (No offense intended - those developers don't want to be woken up in the middle of the night either)
That's what I said.

Although it runs into the problem that Virginia and Maryland don't want it.
Your argument overlooks all of the negative externalities associated with a single large player that dominates all of these disparate industries. When smaller businesses can’t compete, there are hundreds of downstream effects. Businesses close. Real estate values fall. People lose a connection to the places they actually live in. The money we spend is funneled somewhere else. Our choices of employers become more and more limited. Wages fall, as do the prospects for anyone who wants something other than a future working as an undervalued cog in a big tech machine.
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same problem on ios 10's safari
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While there is a political element to the opposition for D.C. Statehood, there is also a non-partisan one.

D.C. was created as a compromise, deliberately set aside as a federal region, so no state would have control over the capital. It seems a reasonable thing to keep it as such.
These kinds of statements seem deep and meaingful, but ultimately they are vaccuous.

The only reason any market entity exists is because people buy things from them, its the buyers fault.

The only reason corrupt governments exist is because the people elect them, or at the very least don't overthrow them, its the governed's fault.

Its a stupid oversimplication that places all the blame on the giant, vauge, and futile "everyone", while ignoring incentive structures and pretty much every ounce of nuance and sublty.

Not to mention that it totally ignores how entities like the aformentioned, and amagoosoftbook shape our preferences, both actively, and unitentionally.

Its a hopeless putdown of basicly any ability for anything to change, ever.
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I agree. The graph of static checking vs. lines of code should really be factored into static checking vs. amount of annotations to achieve that level, amount of annotations to write vs. how much that slows you down, and amount of annotations that are already written (in your own code or libraries you use) vs. how much that speeds you up. And those will vary wildly depending both on the language and the programmer.
That seems to be a rather baseless claim. I have seen no evidence to support that assumption, and you have not given any.
Yield is a real mass production problem, not an imaginary one. You can verify it with your local manufacturer. For new products, new facilities, and new production methods scaling up the production often requires engineering breakthroughs.
Well I didn't look at the data and i'm sure theres some error in the results. But even if they are off by 20-30% thats still A LOT of people who dont know about PR status, etc.

Anecdotally (i know thats not a good example) most people I speak to always ask if needed a visa to more to one of the 50 states, they ask if you need a passport to visit and they ask if you can drive to PR.
You can find that Puerto Rican politicians already also have registrations/affiliations with the mainland political parties as well.

Besides that, it's really hard to believe that even Puerto Ricans with conservative views are going to break in significant numbers for a party that seems to be so hostile to them.
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The power of convenience.[1] It doesn't really work for me personally with music. I already had a big collection of music ripped, digitally purchased, etc. before streaming got big. And I have limited interest in discovering a lot of new music. But if you grow up in a world of subscription services where at least enough stuff is just available in the ether...

Of course, one of the big questions is how the dollars work out for everyone. But the overall trend seems to be toward convenient non-ownership.

[1] http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2012/12/19/convenience/
You don't need a degree to be a real scientist. You just need to follow the process. If anything, I think the discouragement of the citizen scientist is a bad thing. I think more people should try.
If they are sovereign and cannot be sued, I'd imagine there should be a border and customs union controls, and complex and details trade agreements?
Prime video UI is really good on iPads and iPhones. And it has a much better video selection for kids. I wish they release an Apple TV app finally too.
Both my co-founder and I have kids. I would have given up 15% to do YC if I had to. The money is beside the point, but it’s enough, even in the Bay Area.

It was, hands down, the best and most important thing our company has done.

And we were profitable before YC began, so we didn’t need it.
PTO payout is state by state and I’d bet pretty unusual, but California and Massachusetts have it.
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Would there be so many “temporarily embarrassed monopolists” if people had an easier time imagining a world in which they didn’t have to be the end all be all winner in order to build and be proud of something sustainable?
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You are right about the use case. "I need to go to work, I'll request the audio version…"

I'd assume there might be a gap between the time you request and actually hit the road.
Apple isn't as awesome as they may once have been. They have made some controversial moves lately (headphone jack, MBPro keyboards, touchbar, The Notch, keeping an iPhone design that's going on 4 years, etc.). Also, the quality of iOS and MacOS has suffered a bit the past couple iterations. Way too buggy out of the gate!

I still believe they make great products, just not as great as they have been.
We understand this concern which is why we build the vast majority of content.

We also work with component manufacturers to help them create or translate their content to various formats. Here's an example:
https://www.snapeda.com/parts/4N32-X001/Vishay/view-part/.

User-generated content is supported due to popular demand, but we deprioritize it in favor of semiconductor-generated, or SnapEDA-generated content. We also have an automated verification checker that exposes the quality of UGC on each part page.
>Quantum tunneling will become relevant in 2016-2017 and has to be taken into account from there on. New materials and "insulated" circuits are required to make everything work from here on.

He wrote this in 2015. Was he correct? I don't really know where to start researching something like this; is there anyone here familiar with the field who could comment on it?
For my own toy compilers/interpreters, I basically always hand-roll my parsers. The only exception to that is when the purpose of building the compiler in the first place is to use a library like Parsec or FParsec.

That said - many languages I dabble in are variants on Forths or Lisps where parsing is easy comparatively.
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https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)...

According to these sources it also beats South Korea, New Zealand, and Israel, which frankly surprised me a bit.
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the _best case scenario_ for this economic model leads to a terrible status quo

Terrible status quo? You realize that competitive pressure is what drives progress right?
Two things that come to mind are speed and energy. I can imagine perfect-but-slow, perfect-but-expensive, or perfect-but-exhausting healing being selected against and good-enough-for-reproductive-business-and-fast-and-restful being selected for.
The typical complication in related therapies almost always seems to include the potential for uncontrolled proliferation of the cells, either at the site, or as metastatic cancer.
That makes sense, and thanks for taking the time to write that out. What still bothers me is the inevitability of some easily available software providing end-to-end encryption. Terrorists with an ounce of dedication will still figure out ways to subvert these policies.
Right, but why wouldn't they just use Cloudflare or some other CDN partner?
Fuck that company. Employees are entitled to their pay and vacation as stated in their employment contract (or whatever the laws are in the jurisdiction in which they're working), in return, all they owe is to do work as stated in their contract. A year of work has definitely earned 2 weeks of vacation...
I wonder what must it be like for the streaming generation to not have the concept of an "Album".

I used to love buying albums and going through the artwork, reading footnotes, the familiar smell etc.

I get that we still have vinyl but for most streamers that's not a thing.
A lot of generated code could be done with reflection or meta-object protocols.

There's a good reason people generate code instead (in statically and dynamically typed languages!): performance.
How about Bragi...
"And since the only way to be consistently benevolent is to actually be a good person, YC’s employees must be."

YC has been involved in controversy regarding the political stance of its employees.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12726970

I'm not here to make a judgment about that situation (we've heard enough already), just to say that there are times when the vague "good person" principle has been disputed in the past.
I feel precisely this way, but my taste in music has always been odd. I would imagine that for the middle of the preference bell curve, streaming is ideal. Of course that still leaves a significant market at the margins.
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There probably is no god
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This is so obviously not going to fly unless they either start bundling with Xeons, or offer something Xilinx can’t do. Cloud providers aren’t stupid, and there are enough eggs in the Intel basket already.
Static checking doesn't make a "static language".

A "static language" occurs when we have a model of program execution that involves erasing all of the type info before run-time. Or most of it. (Some static languages support OOP, and so stuff some minimal type info into objects for dispatch.)

Note how above, my expression executes anyway; the checks produce only warnings. The warning for the lack of a binding for the a variable is confirmed upon execution; the non-existence of the slot isn't since evaluation doesn't get that far.

If we retain the type info, we have dynamic typing. There is no limit to how much checking we can do in a dynamic setting. The checking can be incomplete, and it can be placed in an advisory role: we are informed about interesting facts that we can act on if we want, yet we can run the program anyway as-is.
"Are all startups like this?"

Small startups are gangs of young people trying to do something.

They vary as much as the social nuance among groups of friends at University.

Although the statement is unprofessional, it's mild on the scale of 'things that go on'.

Founders and employees are under an incredible amount of pressure - 'early employees' are not just 'employees' - there's a sense of commitment beyond that, and usually people have a lot of identity derived from their endeavour as well, so it's 'human' that someone might take it all personally.

Bill Gates used to scream and yell at his team regularly, and there are a ton of stories about the 'old Jobs'. I'm not validating their behaviour, rather, just pointing out that it's all a little spurious.
If small businesses can’t compete, it’s time for them to get creative and adjust their business models to become relevant again. There are all sorts of negative externalities involved in everyone just doing business as usual. No business has the right to stand still in the face of technological innovation and increased efficiency. For all the damage Amazon might do, they’re also forcing their competition to get better and know their customers.
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The US can't "annex" Puerto Rico, that has long been done; Puerto Rico has been American territory since 1899.

For how it got that way, Spain agreed to succeeded it to end of the Spanish-American war.
If they ever release it in the first place (or if they ever let it get past a point where you need to specifically contract with intel to get access to it).
My first was a homebrew of my own design hand wire-wrapped on perfboard. Components were a Signetics 2650A CPU, 6KB of 2114 (1024x4bit) static ram, and a handful of 7400L series TTL glue logic. I got most of the parts from salvage or donations.

Someone burned me a 2KB eprom copy of the Signetics rom monitor and into memory assembler. As that did not include documentation I wrote a disassembler in FORTRAN using works Univac 1108.

The first time I hooked it up it did nothing, but replacing the RC oscillator with a proper crystal for the clock fixed it. Serial IO was bit banged in software at 110 baud to a Teletype ASR 33. The RC clock was not good enough to sync the serial rate. Programs could be typed directly into memory a line at a time or read/punched from/to paper tape.

It took months, but I was poor and a pre-built computer would have cost thousands. I never really used it for much, but I did learn a bunch about digital logic, assembler programming, hardware and software debugging etc. Probably the most educational thing I ever did.

I remember many evenings sitting up in bed wire-wrapping, quite content except that my girl friend complained about the tiny itchy bits of insulation stripped from the wire ends getting into the sheets.
> Anything that can go to dynamo, can go to s3, especially at that volume.

Please think very carefully before architecting your app with S3 as a makeshift-database. S3 would be a valid option if you don't care about millisecond latency; don't require safe updates; never expect your application to scale past 100 requests per second; and don't have multiple query patterns for the same data (unless you're okay with several redundant copies of the same dataset). Consider just about any other database solution if this does not hold true.
Apparently Amazon is only able to do this because Sears left a void in the market 50 years ago.

Sears ditched their convenient mail system, a differentiator at the time, for brick and mortar stores, the big box carcasses of suburbia we all loath yet yearn for.

If this was the end game of capitalism, sears would have done it 100 years ago, while Standard Oil was masquerading as the end game of capitalism.

Yes, but this time its different. Not to trivialize the threat, just to point out the irony. The capitalist pressures are such that Amazon may drop some less profitable lines, eventually, and others get to fill the void, again.
When you pay a streaming service, you get access to full albums, and thus can listen to them, beginning to end if you like. I often do...
Science doesn't really have a place for participation trophies. That and it's pretty natural to judge based on results. When handing out recognition and fame, the results are probably the best criteria - though that should include those who helped and that each stood on the shoulders of giants. That information should be included in the papers for those who are curious.
Can you provide some explanation of why a supercompany is repugnant to the ideals of a free market? It seems to me free markets favor supercompanies. That's why we have anti-trust laws.
> The vast majority of people do not have the skills to use the internet as a source for good knowledge.

I’m no expert, but I see this too often. People who truly believe fake news and bot comments on Facebook. Other clicking on adds because can’t differentiate them from real Google search results. Many that doesn’t have the patience to even think about verifying the information. Humans are going to do human things, and these companies know that very well.
So why is the YC/120K the most important thing your company has done even though you don't need it financially, YC somehow helps you to expand quickly?
I don't know about spending more on education, but Americans were astoundingly unprepared to even make basic differentiation between the parties, let alone sort through "bullshit".
Seriously with the downvotes? Dynamic languages are obviously slower than static languages in general. Some special cases aside.

Performance is a concern for some projects - you wouldn't write an OS, database kernel, or mainstream game engine in a dynamic language.

How is that not a valid concern in the dynamic vs static typing argument? The parent comment has a legitimate point.
This is extremely misleading. The pro-status quo party boycotted the referendum. I'm relatively ignorant of the political situation in PR but it's obvious that this isn't a situation with near-universal consensus.
It's rather bold for the Atlantic to complain about low quality news when they have clickbait garbage at the bottom of every article.
The answer is Xi Jinping although the article doesn't mention China at all.
Hell sounds like the only sensible solution is removing them and then burning the city down, if it "wasn't supposed to be" like this.
This is basically why erlang's hot code reloading would be impossible as a general solution in a statically typed language
Nope. Pensions (technically, retired pay and retainer pay) come out of the MILPERS budget. Military retirees are still military personnel, and generally exist within one of three statuses within the reserve component of the last armed service in which they served. For Navy personnel, for example, they are on the Retired List, the Retired Reserve, or the Fleet Reserve.
This project may have a value as interpreter/vm implementation, not as substitution of any sort. Table iterators and weak references are also missing. Name choice seems pretty arbitrary, so author surely could just mention that this vm was inspired by Lua and not name it alike.

The statement that he could easily implement coroutines via go seems like oversimplification or lack of problem domain understanding.
Maybe they could offer a good (maybe open?) toolchain, online partial reprogramming?
Thank you for the background. I guess I should have written DC has no representation in the House then. Regardless of how it was originally setup, I don't see any reason why people paying federal taxes shouldn't have voting rights, at least in the House. Here's a good legal argument for it too:

https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/migrated/poladv/...
If it's not more, how come there is anything to copy from?
Likely MZ.
Amazon won (thus far) due to low-cost capital and tax avoidance.

Yayaya, Bezos is smart, hired smart people, has many accomplishments, etc.

But what makes Bezos unique, his primary innovation, was convincing Wall St that marketshare was more important than quarterly results.
Is there a portfolio of all the entities YC founded so far? to have a big picture on what fits the best there.