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You should give it another shot, second book is pretty good, third one is great.

It's not Quantum Thief, but it ain't have bad either :D
my favorite detail is the evaporating (almost explosively converted into plasma by the sheer intensity of the energy being radiated) tower that the weapon was placed on top of and the cables which were keeping the tower vertical - the 5 spikes at the belly of the fireball

https://youtu.be/woR7j72zE0U?t=9
Ah, the good old days - when I had DSL with 1.1 Mbps up AND down, guaranteed. My ISP didn't even have a policy against resale so I shared with 15 units in 6 different buildings - all wired. I was always amazed how much better my dedicated 1.1 felt compared other plans boasting up to 5.
"Feel free to buy lottery tickets or gamble, just don't let us catch you investing in a startup seed round."

People keep spouting that argument, and I'm utterly unconvinced of its relevance. Namely because you're arguing against the very things that would compel disclosure of the information required to make an informed decision. The other two things you mentioned have that information provided.
Yes! If everyone knew it was a popular election, the results would be drastically different. Candidates would actually campaign and get out the vote in states they never even think about now, and voters in states that are not swing states would be more motivated to vote.

Saying Clinton won the popular vote is just wishful thinking.
There’s so much awesome SF out there... it depends what you like!

Personally, in very different styles, I found pretty much everything written by Iain M Banks excellent (start with Excession or Player of Games), I enjoy John Scalzi’s humourous sci fi space operas a fair bit too, Peter F Hamilton’s Reality Dysfunction trilogy was pretty decent... I’ve loved most of what I’ve read from Charles Stross but particularly Accelerando, Greg Egan’s Diaspora was awesome, like a modern day Childhood’s End (read that too if you haven’t, though it’s aged badly). Cloud Atlas is sorta science fiction and amazing. I’ve yet to not enjoy any book by Cory Doctorow - start with Pirate Cinema. The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi was excellent.

This should be enough to get you started!
Not using Facebook is definitely the "I don't even own a TV" of Hacker News recently.
Washington State exchange is notoriously terrible in terms of downtime, availability, and customer service. I won't go into what I dealt with for six months using their service vs. my previous low-cost insurer that left the market due to regulations, but it was an absolute nightmare for me and my family. Small business owners got absolutely screwed in our state.
An $846,000 Inheritance Got Lost in Transit. That Was in February
>This is to script spreadsheets, not build the next Netflix

With some of the spreadsheets I've seen, the next Netflix might just come out of it.

Just kidding, but only a bit. I've been at factories where if VBA stopped working, I literally don't know if we could have produced product that day.
Outrageous? Seriously? Hyperbole much?

I doubt that you did, if I understand you. Because it sounds like you're saying that overall 3 pointed stories took the most amount of time, and 13 (or whatever your max) took the least.

But let's say it did. I'd look to see why your estimates fluctuated all over the place. Or whether stories were being closed when they were actually finished (i.e., being accurately reported). Did you have deadlines? Did you have delivery pressures? Because that right there is a good reason; as you near a deadline you start padding estimates more. Did you keep having things come up that broke the sprint? Etc. All manner of things can cause estimates to be wrong. But not negatively correlated, -especially- with velocities constantly in flux (and I mean seriously in flux; you take an average because it can and will vary, especially if there's unexpected stuff, like someone getting sick, that you didn't account for when planning); that to me, yes, definitely sounds like you were doing something very, very wrong.
I am still playing :D
Limiting this to Founder-CEOs may limit their ability to solve some of the problems at hand. Many of these companies post series A may be seeing stagnated growth (This is a 'growth' program).

Many companies in this boat may have already gone through founder/CEO/organizational changes that really don't fit this bill.

I would just be worried that they are narrowing their pool too much.

-Mostly YC Companies

-Post Series-A

-50-100 Employees

-Founder-CEO with 3-4 hours a week that can attend

-Company who identifies this as a need for their company (or a board that dictates it)
This is already a thing in several states and the general consensus is that it saves citizens money.
https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora
The author originally came up with the CAP theorem and Spanner is a CP system. It doesn't change consistency settings, it just relies on Google's private networking to maintain a very high level of network reliability, so they're claiming "CA" by saying P almost never happens.
The biggest NVME drive I can find is 2TB. Apple might be offering a 4TB option, but isn't that less good? You lose all your data at once instead vs losing half.

I doubt they are hurting for real estate with that screen size, it might just be better to add another M.2 spot on the board. Then they wouldn't have to push manufacturing limits to source a 4TB drive and can get higher yield 2TB drives.
I completely disagree with you, but all that aside, why didn't Comcast stop sending these messages after the customer contacted them to tell them he had seen and received their message? Continuing to contact and message someone who specifically tells you to stop is the definition of harassment. Perhaps those people being harassed by Comcast should start sending all forms of messages to Comcast executives and board members, until they got the message.
According to this our app would be $44k in lambda and $2k in EC2.

I suspect we’re paying a great deal more than that for EC2 but I don’t see those bills.
Do the characters get a bit more complex than “humans killed ppl I loved so now I’m going to plot to end all human life”? Because it was really hard to suspend my disbelief on that one. People just don’t behave in unidimensional ways like that. And they forget trauma, fall in love, gain contrary motivations. Humans are complex creatures.
<blink> has never been in any HTML specification since time began.
I'm already blowing over my data allowance each month thanks to things like facebook, I don't see this helping me. I'd say "well, it's time to get off Facebook then!" like so many people say, except the actual execution of that plan is what seems to fail me.
I don't think it's meaningful to say the two groups "live in separated regions". I live in the capital of NY, and when I hit the road to go on vacation a week ago, the first pickup truck I saw with a Confederate flag was less than 30 minutes outside of town. Thinking of things in terms of "red" and "blue" states can lead you to an incorrect way of looking at things. At a more granular level, the country is all red over most of the land area, with blue clusters and tendrils around population centers, like neurons. Both "red" and "blue" states look like this.
I do quite a bit of VBA, but not much other programming. Could you clarify what you mean by localized?

Just that the cell formulas cannot be (elegantly) accessed from VBA?
I don't think that's fixed, because it's not what I assert.

Any job that is predictable, can be done faster and cheaper with some C (or Go) and ad-hoc delegation to load balanced VMs. Spark is difficult to optimize for consistent processes, poor on resource usage, and requires specialized knowledge. Just pay for someone who has done a little embedded programming and stop creating buzzword jobs because a prototype went to production without comparison.
I didn't see the previous title, so apologies.
How many employees are you? What are your plans for them?
You're right, but I'm tempted to do it anyway! Who's with me? Anyone? Guess it's just me!

Seriously though, I know monetisation is tricky, but there must be a better alternative to ads. I'm thinking something which can perhaps enrich the quality of a user's experience for a fee, rather than earning via ads while annoying the user.
To really sort of grok the context here, it's helpful to compare not RSA but "conventional" DH in Z/pZ --- so the fundamental key exchange algorithm is the same, and what you're doing is swapping in a different group.

Where this starts to get tricky is in understanding how dlog algorithms that are effective on multiplicative group Diffie Hellman --- notably index calculus --- are ineffective on elliptic curves.

We are way off the edge of my understanding of the theory here but the point I'd make is that the distinction between the two groups --- Z/pZ and a curve --- involves domain knowledge that you wouldn't get in a first course on abstract algebra.
> If you're a startup who wants to minimize capex and quickly spin up a reliable, secure infra to host your app on to get it out of the door ASAP, you would go with cloud.

Why on earth would a startup waste money like that? Just rent a few servers, most places will have it up in a few minutes, guaranteed, any large provider have automated that long ago. Much, much cheaper than the cloud. It seems, even in this thread, that there are two choices: cloud or colo. Hell no to either. Rent dedicated -- yes.

The only reason one would go with the cloud is if you plan to use their services ie not EC2 but the many others. However, those can have a runaway cost too and it's not clear whether a new startup should take on handcuffs like that -- once you decided you are depending on SQS etc it'll be hard to move to elsewhere.
pt is for print and does not translate to the web. There are articles about this, specifically from the W3C https://www.w3.org/Style/Examples/007/units.en.html
Oh, whoops. I wasn't joking. I never realized that there's actually a definition of 3G/4G/5G that isn't just made up marketing lingo. Thanks for the link.
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To this book's credit, it covers a LOT more material than Axler's book. And it's more heavily focused on optimization methods for which the details of tabular representations of matrices takes center stage.
I would love this, but for a unique use case: we generate _a lot_ of workbooks using Python. Some of them have hundreds of thousands of automatically generated formulas. We also have to write tests for workbooks. If we could embed Python, which all of our developers know, into Excel, it would make testing our formulas a bliss, rather than the burden it is today.
And yet it can be supported just fine.
It's not "public ground". Electric companies and utilities acquire a mixture of easements, most of which are actually private, and listed on a property title.
Wonder who knows more about us at this point, FB or Google?
ISPs were Title II until 2005 when Michael Powell, the Republican FCC chairman who was appointed by George Bush, reclassified the ISPs as Title 1 as part of the Republican plan to spur internet growth in the US via deregulation. (What we now call) Net neutrality violations followed soon after, but weren't widely reported until 2007 at which point people belatedly realized that Comcast had been violating net neutrality since 2005.
What if it were hypothesized on the basis of some controversial observations say in optics, not proven mind you, but supposed based on related work, that we might be able to hit melanin molecules with certain types of radiation to allow people to change their skin color to those indistinguishable from another racial group? Would physicists be allowed to discuss and publish proposals for this? I'm not even talking IRB issues of human experimentation, just pursuing the work in vitro.
He sounds soo important!
That's just the business cycle: early-stage investment is drying up as interest rates go up and it becomes clear who the winners of the last "Cambrian explosion" were. Probably we'll have a recession soon and early-stage investment will pick up again towards the tail end of it.
Thank you Zapper! Very much appreciated!

No matter how much we read.. no matter how much we all take in.. there are ALWAYS things that we should've done and could've done.. or done them better. It is a learning experience. Honestly, I had no desire to build an email list at the time, as my whole focus was on writing quality content, but those people that have done so... and acquired something like 30,000+ subscribers have to market less, whereas I have to try and find those people with a subscriber list and either ask them to mention my products, or pay them to do it.

Or... as I'm doing now for marketing... I'm just writing about the topic and topics surrounding my products.
I’d suggest listening to the Sex Pistols and Operation Ivy.

Yes that’s punk music. I think the cusltures are similar and have similar ideological roots.

Maybe you’re asking about hacker skills. Of course punk music won’t teach you hacking skills.
It seems perfectly plausible to me that it's biological. E.g. identical twins have similar personality measures. But it does it matter? Even if it is cultural, it still disputes the feminist argument that the disparity is due to sexism in tech. Or the effectiveness of Google's diversity programs that Damore was arguing against.
The best single-web-page treatment I've read is AGL's:

https://www.imperialviolet.org/2010/12/04/ecc.html

It describes the group mechanics but only briefly and then moves on to how, once you stipulate the group exists and has the operations you expect, you'd actually use it.

Another way to frame the critique above is: the tutorial here has pretty basic coverage of the group mechanics and almost no coverage at all of how signing schemes with curves work --- and curve signing is actually pretty interesting! So: you'd kind of want the tutorial to pick one of those things --- the fundamental mechanism of elliptic curves as an abstract algebra concept, or curve crypto signing --- and do a better job on just that thing.

For signing, the best I've read on a single page is DJB's:

https://blog.cr.yp.to/20140323-ecdsa.html

Someone could probably do some good fleshing out each of these sections for laypersons.

(I'm spitballing).
Congratulations! I love these stories.
HNRSS not updating
Anyone else use hnrss.org for Hacker News RSS feeds? It doesn't seem to getting any updates as of today.
Haven't seen that error message before but I highly encourage you to use our GitHub builds where we've fixed a ton of issues related to path parsing and VT100/ANSI compatibility.

Those builds will also be showing up in Insider builds over the next few weeks (if they haven't already).
Republicans don't support deregulation per se. That's just the cover story. Republicans just support big business, that's it. If regulations make businesses better? Why the hell not?
DHS proposes to repeal Work Authorization to Spouses(H4) of H1B visa holders
https://github.com/whatwg/url/issues/118 is the curl issue, I believe. As I love curl more than any browser I personally side with it. It has support for ldap urls; curl wins. :)
one strategy you can try is to develop a better filter when evaluating companies to meet with.

What what cultural cues do you get from the product / service offerings?

Google stalk the employees in the company. What can you learn about them? For example, I imagine that Uber is no longer attracting the best and brightest in light of their recent scandals.

Putting in the time to really dig into the human sides of potential employers is important.

Reach out to former employees of said companies. See if you can get an opinion on things. I'm often surprised at how candid people will be, even over Skype.

Then, at the end of it all, you should listen to your gut feeling.
Interesting information on reasons for choosing a 1GB hash size, thanks.

> A0 should have let Stockfish use its opening book though.

Has it been confirmed that it didn't? As far as I can tell, DeepMind never said that Stockfish didn't use an opening book or endgame tablebase, only that AlphaZero didn't: https://twitter.com/demishassabis/status/938347604462542849

The only time opening books are mentioned in the arxiv paper is when they are described as standard components of chess engines; while it doesn't explicitly state whether Stockfish was allowed to use them in the tests, I would think it likely: https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.01815

The rumor that Stockfish didn't have an opening book seems widespread but unsourced.
It's that "temporarily embarrassed millionaires" cultural attitude.

Everyone loves the stories about how Zuckerberg and Bill Gates dropped out of college, but conveniently forget that they dropped out of Harvard, not some random community college.

I think it's also a similar effect to Australia and New Zealand's Tall Poppy Syndrome, or Scandinavia's Law of Jante, where people try and take down those better than them. People who didn't go to college want to tell people who did "it doesn't matter anyway, the richest man in the world is a dropout".
As part of the beta, we only support crypto algorithms that ship as part of OpenSSH itself, as opposed to algorithms that ship in OpenSSL/LibreSSL. Hence, we only support ed25519 in Fall Creators Update.

If you grab our GitHub bits, we compile against LibreSSL there, and you should see LibreSSL showing up in future Insider builds of Windows. That brings support for all the other crypto algorithms you'd expect (RSA, DSA, etc.)
From Nike Sponsored Runner to VC Investor at Accomplice
Show HN: Ask the Caterpillar: A chatbot that gives you accurate info about drugs
I wasn't the original poster you corrected. I wanted to express that I would prefer to be corrected the way you did it.
Between Sinew and Spirit: Are You a Body with a Mind or a Mind with a Body?
How Star Wars was saved in the edit [video]
What is Ripple?
Facebook is trash who gives a shit
Again, not my backlog personally, but I'd wager that the VT100 work that they've been doing in the console host is going to do a lot more for the ecosystem (WSL/"Bash on Windows" included) than tabs.

That being said, yeah, I also want tabs. In the meantime, I switch back and forth between conhost and Cmder. :shrug:
If they need a new cofounder after 3.5 years, then to me is sounds like they failed and need to start over. If so, then aren’t you really on the same footing as the original cofounders and deserve the be on par with them? If not, are you really a cofounder or just a valuable hire.

I understand the there has already been dilution so you’re not starting from a clean slate. But there is nothing preventing them from reassigning some of their stock to you.
First of all, removing Soviet regime was not bloodless, that's a bullshit. Second - Soviet communist regime did not evaporate, these people were still ruling Russia and still are.
- Mostly YC Companies

That makes good sense from YCs perspective.

- Post Series-A

This kind of effort would be wasted earlier on, the number of entrants would be too large for that kind of attention to detail and effort required.

- 50-100 Employees

A growth program needs a set of skills and a certain organizational structure already in place to be effective.

- Founder-CEO with 3-4 hours a week that can attend

How else would you do this? A video course?

- Company who identifies this as a need for their company (or a board that dictates it)

Just like YC applications are initiated by the company and start-up school applicants are not conscripted it makes no sense to force this on a party that is not ready to receive the input.
A carved goat skull
Recent commits with profanity: http://www.commitlogsfromlastnight.com/

Wall of shame? :-)
We can build our own ISPs. I've read many good posts today that dispute your statement. Here's one,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15926261
Seriously, silicon valley playing the role of "poor ole me" content provider that's "with the people" trying to defeat the big bad telecoms was completely absurd. I mean good lord, I am supposed to believe GOOG and APPL and FB and AMZN couldn't match lobbying efforts? Please.

The other absurd thing is people worried about Netflix, which as far back as I could remember is a big reason why this whole debate started in the first place. How about, if you want to watch TV, get TV. Leave the internet to information that doesn't have an alternative.

They were fine with Uber operating in an unregulated manner while dominating highly regulated competition. Soon I wont be able to hail a cab in Manhattan and we will all be crying about muh monopolies again.

All you needed to know about GOOG was the fact that it ever crossed their minds to make their motto "Don't be evil."

Hopefully there is opportunity to return to decentralization with the blockchain and projects like Substratum.
That's why taxes are typically progressive instead of flat. Progressive taxes only significantly impact your purchasing power for luxuries while minimally curtailing your budget for essentials and regular goods.
Right - just not nec in the interest of the Russian people. A tough one.
"Interactivity" can mean anything including hypertext itself.

And what sort of interactivity? Does backend logic count, or only logic in the browser? If only the latter - why does that matter, but not the former? Does any site that uses javascript qualify, regardless of how little?

Hacker News uses javascript, so is it a "web app" and not a "web site?" Would it suddenly become a webapp if the mods hit their heads and decided in a fever delirium to turn the whole thing into a SPA, despite it having the exact same functionality?

In this model, would YC have to publish the static pages of HN on the "static" web but the forum on the "dynamic" web? But what if they cache the threads? Now they're static as well. And having every web developer divide their attention and work between two platforms based on which part of it is "static" and which part is "dynamic" seems needlessly complex and confusing.

I sympathize with the idea - HTML and javascript are terrible for building applications, but if you want the web to only be static HTML files then your "new" platform is going to contain almost every website in existence, including most of the brochure sites, articles and "legacy stuff." Most web apps are also documents, few are strictly one or the other.

It would make more sense to bifurcate the web along WASM, because that will lead to the distinction between HTML and compiled binaries (which, I know, we've already been there with Flash and Java) both in the browser. But even then, WASM is intended to work within the context of javascript and HTML, not necessarily to stand alone.
Can you give example of those violations? (And possibly what resulted of them)

Honestly asking, my memory of new events from that era is somewhat hazy.
Almost all copper/fiber/etc pass through public roads at some point (or beneath them to be more exact), so yes they are using public grounds for their infrastructure.

Same with your gas/electric/water line

While "Wireless" provides are given PUBLIC spectrum to use for their business (they pay for it, but that's besides the point).

So yes, 99% of internet out there uses some public areas at some point.
Anyone know how to block a particular website like FB on Android without being rooted or signing up for a subscription to some security or parental-control app? A google search just turns up a million people recommending editing the host file with ES File Explorer (which doesn't work unless you're rooted) or using the TrendMicro Mobile Security app (which requires a subscription).

Why in the hell is this so hard?
> works on every device

Doesn't work on my windows phone, but I didn't expect it to. Looking forward to trying it out tomorrow on the laptop, I literally just spent an hour downloading a trial of PhotoShop elements 2018 just to splice two photos. I would much rather use a browser and not have 5gb (!) of Adobe bloat on my SSD
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Computer Error Song (2009)