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> What exactly does this mean? Are they evangelical baptists, libertarians, reactionaries, nationalist, homophobic, misogynist, racist,

Wonder if there is a nicer way to ask the person to clarify their point without listing all those things.

Or do you honestly think there is a large number Chinese evangelical baptists who come to SF and work in tech companies.
That’s true. I’m not sure being more open than China says much. Just because we have more open immigration than China doesn’t mean our immigration policies are fair,
compassionate, or in service of American ideals of freedom and opportunity.
Those ships are expensive because their ships. Complex redundant systems pieced together bit by bit by hand.

Throwing a hyperdrive on whatever mass you have handy is a whole different ball game. Unless the hyperdrive itself represents the dominant cost it should be at least two orders of magnitude cheaper going by the cost of ordnance vs the cost of a warship.

And even one order of magnitude would be enough. War is about economics as much as it is about winning battles. If you can force them to build ships that you can destroy at 1/10th the cost with no loss of life (people are a resource /Negan) you are doing good.

Ship to ship combat is not cheap or without risk either. Ships are damaged and lost and in a real war you can lose quite a few of them!
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That's because credit companies don't take 401k contributions into loan decisions.
> I am looking for any example where speculative execution or fetching of protected memory is ever not a 'bug' waiting to happen in a piece of code.

Um. Allocate a page of memory and then write to it (e.g. memset(mmap(NULL, PAGE_SIZE, PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED | MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0), -1, PAGE_SIZE). Each time the CPU hits the loop condition in memset it will speculate the loop to continue and write to the next byte of memory (or more if unrolled). When it hits the end of the page the speculative execution will attempt to write to an unmapped page (or worse), but that's fine because the loop condition is falsw and so the write isn't retired.

If you can't speculate that a loop that has run 4096 times will continue another iteration, what can you speculate?
The horror of no emacs key bindings.
https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/763063624579551232?lang...
In general, I use it to explain why I tend to listen to those who express doubt more than those who express certainty.

It is useful in pointing out why I prefer medical professionals who express doubt vs those who are super confident.

Case in point: Physical therapists and massage therapists. The farther you go from what your hospital provides, the greater the certainty and confidence signaling. Same with a lot of alternative medical practices. It is effective in explaining why so many people flock to such professionals - because they always diagnose you and tell you what your problem is. And then the patients turn around and say "These doctors are incompetent, and their methodology is a sham. They could not tell me what my problem was, with all their years of training, whereas the <insert alternative professional> figured it out in just one sitting. And it all made sense, too!"
Wow, I find Sia’s update way more user-friendly than Filecoins — no buzzwords, just clean comprehensive updates. Filecoin honestly seems to have an air of technical/academic pretentiousness to them.
As the value of the currency increases, doesn't that make actually using the service prohibitively expensive?

AFAIK this is an unsolved problem for all "app coins"/"utility tokens"/"fat protocols". The service could be dynamically repriced when the value of the currency changes, but that requires oracles and many cryptocurrency idealists are reluctant to admit that things should be priced in a stable currency.
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> I don't mean this from a US nationalist or political perspective - I'm merely speculating on the economics.

"I'm just asking questions"
My understanding is they try to mitigate this by having a minimum account balance to participate.
Hosts actually set their own prices, so as Siacoin increases, the price for storing data (denominated in Siacoin) decreases. Hosts compete with one another, so prices are driven down to their absolute lowest.

The recent issues have been on exchange wallets, which should be fixed very shortly on Bittrex and Shapeshift, as announced recently on Reddit and Twitter.
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Interesting. That quote from George Will seems pretty relevant to credit / debit cards too. However I suspect most of these people have and use a payment card, which if true, leads me to believe it's a quality and convenience issue. Make public transit far more convenient and reliable and people will no doubt give up some freedom for it.

Self-driving cars are eventually just another form of public transit anyways, so maybe that'll be the winning approach.

I don't really trust our government and loathe giving them more power. On the flip-side I hate the waste we produce in the name of freedom.
Whoa, awesome, well, thank you personally. I find it surprising the UI is pretty rudimentary taking into account how API is easy to work with.

I am looking to do something, not 100% what on Stellar Network, mostly due to the fact that I am familiar with it and I like api among other things.
Thank you. It's kind of maddening how many people get "title 2" and "net neutrality" confused.

Title 2 is a massive blob of legislation that, as one of its many provisions, ensured a kind of net neutrality, while still leaving the door open for other types of abuse.

Net neutrality is a concept that transcends law - kind of like how freedom of speech transcends the first amendment.

It is quite possible to, in good faith, be against Title 2 with its flaws while still supporting the concept of net neutrality.
Most ICOs are deeply unethical in the sense that they exist only to circumvent traditional funding regulations, and not because they actually utilize cypto-tokens for their business. If you feel that this describes the plan, I would absolutely back out. It may not currently be illegal, but chances are it will be. It certainly does not reflect well on the business.
> Is the clerk.house.gov link the right one? It has "BILL TITLE: Rapid DNA Act of 2017" on its header, doesn't sound like a surveillance law?

First, it sounds like a genetic information surveillance law to me, but lots of laws have things other than their main focus (including reauths of other laws) tucked in.

Second, lots of laws have misleading titles; do “USA PATRIOT Act” and “USA FREEDOM Act” sound (other than knowing the actual content put under those titles included) like surveillance laws?
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The Bitter Pill

The way I read it, they are saying "we know our resources are limited, and bio science is huge. And expensive. We don't presume to have all the answers. So we will focus on one small area at a time. First, we will achieve immortality. After all, all the breakthroughs in the next thousand years can't help your rotting bones. Barring violent accidemt (think nuclear explosion) there is no physical reason humans should have an end of life. Once we have achieved this, we will have a number of options about what to tackle next. We were frankly undecided between obesity and superintelligence. Solving one leaves you fit and attractive, after all, and AI will surpass human intelligence anyway. So why is our next bio focus after immortality on superintelligence, rather than obesity? Simple: having all the fitness answers in the world is no help if the subjects' dumb asses don't apply them. In fact, intelligence is more importance than fitness. If you're smart enough, you'll always apply the best techniques for fitness. On the other hand, if you're a dumbass, it doesn't matter how great the fitness solution is: you just won't apply it. So our focused, humble goals are, in order, immortality, superintelligence and making an adonis/aphrodite out of everyone." :D

Okay, now are you listening, founders? The above is actually not what I said it was about, but is actually what your game plan should be in the face of dumbass investors and a hostile world:

Step 1: become default-alive. Make your company immortal. Get a negative burn rate. Nobody can fail to roll sixes infinite times in a row. Even with loaded unfair dice. Become immortal. You are then guaranteed to win.

Step 2: become smarter. You will see your peers be dumbasses trying to focus on being attractive investment targets first. Ignore them. Investors aren't smart enough to invest in the most attractive business plans on the planet. So don't try to make an attractive business plan, instead, focus on a smarter product.

Step 3: when you have the smartest product and team in your industry, only then focus on being fit amd an attractive investment target.

Now you have all the tools you need to succeed. Good luck :)

p.s. sorry about hiding this bitter pill in what seemed like simple satire. My comment is totally off-topic and has nothing to do with YC Bio ;) It's pure 100% allegory all the way.
> There's work being done (which I personally believe is the right way to go) in using a leader election-based system that works like a lottery (Algorand[0] is an example).

Probably what you meant but I still wanted to mention it: Bitcoin (or most PoW schemes) work like a lottery. Think of each attempt at generating a nonce below the required difficulty as a lottery ticket. The more nonces you generate (the more hashes per second you compute) the higher your chance of winning. The system works because people who spent lots of money on lottery tickets in the past (and maybe won one or two times) are incentivized to keep the lottery running in an honest manner (so their prize keeps its value - if they haven't spent it).

> Along these lines one of the more intriguing projects is called RandHound[1]. It's a way of creating distributed randomness (according to the paper's title). I think chains secured via lottery leader selection protocol has more promise than PoS.

Another notable mention is dfinity (dfinity.org). They have a very interesting technology stack and I'm hoping for discussions about it in the future on HN.
I think it's interesting that many of those same criticisms can be leveled at China. If you're not Han Chinese you'll never get far in any Chinese company. You will get far helping someone else get rich. Getting permanent residency is similarly stressful. In many ways, China is even less open than Western societies and far less accepting of doing things a different way. Might be great for returning Chinese but I'm not entirely sure they will be able to attract a global talent pool like SV has done. Add in censorship and you've got a pretty toxic environment brewing.

My guess is they'll run into similar (or worse) issues with their own SV.

I don't think that means any of what SV is doing is okay, just interesting that other nationalities there will face the exact same issues that they faced here.
That’s a terrible idea. Just because you leave doesn’t mean the authorities won’t come after you got committing fraud!
I've worked at Microsoft, Adobe, and Twitter over the past few years. I've also received offers from (or interviewed with) Google, FB, Dropbox, Uber, etc. I would recommend:

https://www.pramp.com - 1 hr online interviews where you interview someone and they interview you back. Go through ~20 of these to get really comfortable solving problems while talking through them. They also give you the optimal solution at the end. This will prepare you really well for the initial technical phone screenings.

https://leetcode.com/ - collection of 700+ interview coding challenges. You should be able to solve any random medium difficulty question within 15 minutes if you want a shot at the companies you listed. Keep doing a couple of these per day till you get really good.

"Elements of Programming Interviews" or "Cracking the Coding Interview" - Read through either one of these to get an overview of the interview process and what companies expect.

Polish your resume - This is only important to get the interview. Once you are interviewing onsite the resume doesn't matter much. Here is mine to give you an example. http://joshcockrell.com/joshua_cockrell_resume.pdf Feel free to send me yours if you want some feedback.
https://blog.sia.tech/sia-triannual-update-september-decembe...
Don't prepare the hugest report. The board and investors probably won't take the time to read and understand it. Write a concise, non-technical report that will help business people and investors understand the potential consequence. And then include an appendix with more technical details.
Think they deserve to. But not just just vulnerabilities but they also discovered Broadpwn, Cloudbleed, Heartbleed and a bunch of other ones.

Sometimes do not think they get the credit they deserve.
Interesting to see this bubble up today. A great read.

I was an Audion customer back in the Napster days. (Not that I pirated music or anything, you know.) It was a pretty cool little program; really had no idea of the loops it was jumping through to get classic Mac OS to just play continuous music.

Since then I've picked up other Panic products; Coda is still an everyday tool for me.
I have opposite control. When I try to make a layup it won't go in, when I try to punch my arm feels heavy and slow. It's strange but predictable.
Hosts already set prices, in addition I have seen the Sia community occasionally discuss adding some further pricing tools on the reddit, see what features are being added on the roadmap:
https://trello.com/b/Io1dDyuI/sia-public-roadmap

I personally have not had issues moving siacoins, but a few exchanges have been slow to patch issues on their end in the last month: https://www.reddit.com/r/siacoin/comments/7pc5rv/brief_offic...
Color me skeptical. I have a form of cystic fibrosis. I have gotten myself mostly well when that is not supposed to be possible. I was a homemaker for a long time. Eating right and germ control are a very large part of what I do and it isn't rocket science, as they say.

I also can see no means to turn it into a business model or income stream, nor even get anyone interested in benefiting from what I know for free. It isn't the magic bullet people are looking for. A spartan life, eating better and lots of walking is not an answer people want. It also isn't an answer that investors will fund.

Meanwhile, hey, lung transplants and $300k/year new drugs for CF are all the rage. That makes headlines and apparently makes money.

A business model for healthcare seems to produce Frankensteinian outcomes. Things that are actually health promoting, like having a full-time parent to care for the kids and primary breadwinner, eating right, exercise etc are boring and don't make VCs rich. They are actually quite challenging to promote at all.

I wish I saw it differently.
I wrote a blog about this earlier in the week. The focus is on the opportunity in biopharma generally but i touch on some of the key technologies of the last 15 years or so

Short answer: there is a "perfect storm" of innovation right now in bio. Tech from the 2000s genomic bubble is entering the mature phase of the hype cycle and ushering in a new era of potential curative therapy (gene therapy, cell therapy, personalized medicine). Avexis, a company treating a devastating neurological disease affecting infants using gene therapy, is ky favorite example to this

There is also the more widely hyped tech, AI, wearables, synthetic bio, etc, with massive potential, but these techs haven't had much impact on patients yet

Post here: http://newbio.tech/blog.html
I would of said it this way, "No racial group is predicted to be over 50% of the overall population in 2044"
Links to high-quality reproducible research on "implicit bias"? Last I heard, it was more-or-less debunked.
> We only allow 65,000 people to work in large corporations

per year. There are many many more than that on H-1B. Plus you have OPT and L1.

The bigger issue is being on an H-1B kind of sucks. If you get fired you're screwed. It's hard to maximize value because switching employers is a pain. You have people who accuse you constantly of being a low paid scrub stealing american jobs. You have the risk that the US government might pull the rug out from under you somehow.

Chinese and Indian people have to put up with this for years. Decades in the case of Indians.

> US is incredibly unwelcoming to hard-working immigrants and provides no reliable path to citizenship or permanent residency besides fraudulent marriage.

From India and China (and a couple other places, to a lesser degree). If you were born in another country and get an H-1B (which is a pretty terrible system) you can get a green card in a couple years.
Is it a April's fool thingy?
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> men as a class tend to earn more money and die on the job more often than women

Are these correlated? My impression is that high-paying jobs tend to be low-physical-injury....

(Also, there are no shortage of barriers against women participating in high-mortality jobs - take the rules against women in combat for a particularly obvious example.)
Looking forward to hearing more about Kotlin/Native. We need a proper solution for this problem.
Yes, but the laws they're trying to pass will be neutered by successful court challenges, and what remains will boil down to restrictions on state spending. It's useless and a waste of time, primarily done so that their names can appear in articles like this one.
To sum up... AEI, an ideologically conservative, non-partisan think-tank is defending a Republican-sponsored policy by interpreting the Commerce Clause in a manner that is antithetical to conservative ideology.

Am I missing something?
Is your project based around financial/accounting technology?
This should just be a part of Windows like Reminders is for macOS... We already have Microsoft accounts; it seems a bit disconnected from users to not just include something like this.
Please for all that is holy, tell me they got hacked or something?
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> But immigration should be a two way street

Why?

> if people decide to stay in the US they should try to assimilate

oh I see.

Apparently hte people who come to the US for school and try to live and work here right alongside you and me (white guy) aren't trying hard enough to assimilate.

> BTW, I'm an Indian citizen on H1B and I'm saying this

So? You're criticizing chinese people pretty explicitly. Don't try to hide behind your race.
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Prices aren't fixed and prices will be adjusted accordingly, so the absolute token value doesn't matter at all. Every host decides the price individually. The buying power of tokens is relative to the total supply of storage. If you hold X% of the tokens, you can buy Y% of the storage supply. This is true now and in the future, which is the mechanism for the increasing value of the Siacoin tokens, because the total network get more valuable as it grows.
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d) YC is fantastic and produces results, but a startup accelerator probably doesn't have a viable pathway to reduce economic disparities. Those will probably need to be addressed through political means.
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Prepping for these interviews is much like studying for the SATs - it's not about measuring how smart / talented you are, but how good you are at taking these tests. I say this as a primer only because rejection sucks, but knowing that it's not a dig on you personally, that it's more of a numbers game, can help you stay positive through this whole process.

I've heard a lot of success with this method:

1. Start with https://www.firecode.io/ - it's a gentler intro than most of these resources.

2. Once you can manage FireCode, move onto LeetCode as others have suggested. More specifically, the ones that have been flagged as interview problems. If you can get through the Hard ones in 30-45 min, you're good.

3. Once you feel confident in steps 1 and 2, use https://interviewing.io to take a bunch of mock interviews. The interviewers are generally from these companies, so if you do well, you'll automatically skip the phone interview and land right in the main interview space. And if you don't, no worries, you're getting practice in an interview setting, and not just in answering problems.

3b. As a supplement to #3, Google and Facebook actually hold info sessions on their interview process. My friends used those and landed at both places, respectively. They both said the info sessions were pivotal for them.

The average time my friends spent on this process was roughly 90 hours total. So if you worked on this full time for 2+ weeks, you should be prepared, or 2-3 months if you did a little bit every night while working your current job.

Best of luck!
This is a thin layer over the much more detailed Bloomberg piece titled "Uber’s Secret Tool for Keeping the Cops in the Dark" - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-11/uber-s-se... .

HN guidelines recommend "If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter."
Actually it's pretty easily provable, you just need diversity numbers.

Doesn't explain the "why" though.
I think the issue may be that while a grocery store certainly has a payment processing fee to receive $20, they have fees on top of BitCoin. So BitCoin adds to these fees. And the existing fee is very small, between .25-5% for cash/cc while BitCoin is much higher.

There are no fees for me to pay my friend.

I don’t know if you remember the olden days when PayPal was mainly for paying your friend $20. It was slow and cost a lot so not very cool. There would be fees just to send your friend money. This was bad.

While “giving your mate some
BTC” is possible, the amount lost to fees is pretty lame.
> then many, many other coins (and companies, for that matter) are also fraudulent

Nearly all the Ethereum-derived ICOs are 100% fraudulent, and they're popularity does nothing whatsoever to mitigate this.

The SEC is fairly clear how they view this developing situation, and what will likely be done about it. https://www.sec.gov/news/public-statement/statement-clayton-...
You're right, it's not a good reason. I'm just skeptical how social sciences can come to fair conclusions when is almost no representation of the political right in their field. However you might be able to say the same about tech CEOs and underrepresented female gender, so I don't have a good argument here. As an aside I feel much less comfortable arguing this point after checking out your personal site and seeing that you write Debian packages. I really enjoy Debian, especially the reproducible builds work that's going on over there. I respect your opinions on this matter.
As a fellow midwesterner, I agree. It might make sense if the requirement was to move to a bio-rich region (such as San Diego or Boston), but the bay doesn't seem like the place to be for a lab.
How do you know the closed source app will show you all of the group members? Also anything to add about signal related to this paper?
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Which is something I find interesting since they are both Democrats from San Francisco - Pelosi(represents S.F, the 12th district) and Feinstein represents California but is born and bread S.F. and served as its' Mayor for a bit.