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Tell HN: We're bringing back the “Work at a Startup” event on Saturday July 28
Back in 2010 and in 2012, YC organized a "Work at a Startup" event,
for founders of YC companies and prospective hires to meet each other
in person. It got great feedback and we wanted to keep doing it, but
we got stretched too thin for a while. This year, a bunch of us
revived the project. Our goal is to fundamentally improve the
experience both of joining a YC startup and of being an early employee
in general. You may have seen some of the recent discussions about
this, including a big discussion last week about concrete ways to
improve things for early startup employees (see links below). As part
of this, we've decided to bring back an expanded version of the
original "Work at a Startup" event. That's what we're announcing today.

On Saturday July 28, we'll host our third Work at a Startup Expo:
https://workatastartup.com/expo. We'll begin with a talk answering the
most common questions about working at a startup. Then we'll have a
series of rapid-fire presentations by 35 YC companies currently hiring
engineers. After the event, we'll have an open house where you can
talk one-on-one with the founders of any company that interested you.

New this time: we'll have a hardware demo area where companies
building physical products can show them off. YC has more hardware
companies than ever now, building everything from satellites to
industrial robots.

For those not in the Bay Area, we will live stream all the videos, and
if people are interested we can have an ongoing HN thread to discuss
them as well.

If you're interested in attending, please apply at
https://workatastartup.com/expo. Any questions or ideas, please comment below!

Links to previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17286939

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15916350

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3676578

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1346103

p.s. That recent thread about the pros and cons of working at a startup
was one of the best discussions I've ever seen on Hacker News. I went
through it carefully, tried to make sure that every comment got
attention, and compiled a list of the main points, which got a thorough
discussion at the last YC partner meeting. We're going to develop some
substantive programs in response. It will take some time to responsibly make
changes that affect the whole ecosystem, but we're going to work hard
on it; it's an opportunity to make things better for everyone. Please
stay tuned!
>The prerequisites for using [Privoxy & Greasemonkey] range from full-blown programming skill...

Neither Privoxy nor GreaseMonkey require actual programming knowledge. I do not program, and I use Greasemonkey with some regularity - I use a combination of userscripts.org scripts and my own. They require a basic knowledge of specific scripting language implementations. Besides, Greasemonkey & uBlock/uMatrix both have a right-click menu entry that amounts to "hide anything like this".

You're saying that 99% of the Internet's users can't handle being required to interact with the most basic front-end technologies which power the network they use every day, and which they willingly give up their private information to - thus having no ability to provide evidence for their trust or any expectation of their privacy. Frankly speaking, my mindset is that if it's not viable for them to understand it, it shouldn't be viable for them to use it. Uneducated users lead to nothing but trouble; and sure, I'll grant that I'm suggesting educating them the hard way, but I think the Web as a whole would be better off in the long run from smarter users and dumber clients. Heck, I think the whole world would be better off with smarter users and dumber clients/terminals/systems.

Also, please, don't even begin to suggest that uneducated users should be directed to Gopher holes. You know as well as I do that if there's enough people going back to it, some yutz is gonna start trying to figure out how to add streaming this and scripted that to Gopher, and then Gopherspace will be ruined. And sure, on a technical level it would be a neat project to look at. But to reference Jurassic Park, a lot of very smart people have been so amazed at what they could do with the Web and the Internet as a whole, that they never really stopped to ask if they should do it.
what do you think about this idea ? :

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17367669
Likewise. And it's the only way to get decent typesetting on complex equations for one - though it might be a mistake to include those on many posters.
Hamster + Hamsterball + Caffine.
> I'm sorry, but while the argument that Linus makes excessive use of ad hominem and is disrespectul is a valid one, and he could/should temper that, this example is a failure to demonstrate how it would improve things. The final email draft in the blog post is milquetoast; I would forget it within minutes if I were on that list.

You'd really forget an email from the head of the project (the "CEO," to use another user's example on here) telling you you've messed up, just because the language was neutral?

I'm not sure I understand that. I don't think most people need yelling and raving in order to know something is important or understand what needs to get done.

Even so, I'm sure better versions exist. Do you have an idea of a polite-but-forceful rewrite of this email that'd be more effective?
As the author of our internal pricing simulators, I can tell you we strive to be cheaper than Amazon DynamoDB for most workloads, while offering capabilities more like Google Spanner.

If the price for our managed cloud isn't working for a customer, FaunaDB also runs great anyplace you can run a JVM, so there is the option to scale workloads on machines of your choice.
People commonly take acyclovir for simplex 1 & 2. Does that suppress this virus? Can any of these common drugs pass the blood-brain barrier?

Might other herpes strains be involved? Zoster (chicken pox)? Epstein-Barr (mono)? Kaposi's Sarcoma/HHV8?
No one seems to allow that anymore and that's a big problem.
Well if I adhere to what I just said, then I can't really speak to what people should be doing. I'm only describing my personal philosophy.

Do I completely tolerate, with no misgivings, every action taken by another human being, or every circumstance the world places me in? Not exactly. Somewhere there is a clash between abstract intellectual ideals and the reality of flesh and bones and animal brains. But, going back to your original question, I do think this line of thinking has had a real and practical impact on my daily life and the way I view things and interact with people.
Yet another tenuous stretching of nexus by lawyers who have little interest in how technology works, but do have every incentive to justify increasing their own scope. This is the equivalent of telling New Hampshire stores that they're responsible for collecting Massachusetts sales tax for people coming over the border to shop.

A business collecting taxes for the state they are in, even for orders shipped out of state, would make sense. But the individual states seem unwilling to do this, as it would decrease their own businesses' advantage. And that's the whole point - we should welcome competition in tax rates, wherever it can possibly even be found.

Referencing New England was not arbitrary, as the ability to drive two states over to simply have dinner is a condition that holds the state governments to a modicum of honesty.
The issue of Sony disallowing cross-play is not the reason for controversy in this case.

It's actually because logging in to a Fortnite account on PS4 irreversibly locks that account to Sony's walled garden.

I created my Fortnite account on PC and played there. Then I logged in on PS4, and played there. Now when I try to log in on Switch, I'm not able to. Here's the actual error message given:

"This Fortnite account is associated with a platform which does not allow it to operate on Switch. Neither the Fortnite website nor Epic Customer Service are able to change this. To play Fortnite on Switch, please create a new account."

The problem is that even disassociating the account from Sony won't then allow me to use my Fortnite account outside of Sony's walled garden. The account is permanently tainted by PlayStation.

Most importantly, the irreversibility of Sony's taint upon your account isn't disclosed until after the fact. It's a classic anti-user misdeed.

Anyway, Hacker News seems like the right place to ponder SaaSS user account foibles.
Yep. The most annoying part is that tax jurisdictions don't correspond to ZIP codes. If they did, this would be so much easier.
Why do you have to insult people on a personal level to drive points home?
Just saw this, may be relevant:

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/20/diabetes-defeated-by-diet-ne...
Long list of Breaking changes, some fixes, did I miss the features section or are they inspired by angular.XX?
Hey, if I lived in the city centre and worked a few blocks a way, I too would probably want to hate on the car. Same people get families, move out of the centre, get car, regret they voted for politicians who put in place huge tolls on roads.
> The reason for the Gigafactory is to compress supply chains, but more importantly because there isn't enough global demand/supply for batteries to support the volumes Tesla wants.

It is mitigation for a early-adopter business risk that their competitors don't have.

In any sane pricing of their stock, that risk would have lowered its value, and mitigating it would have brought it up to that of an auto manufacturer with similar volumes and margins and growth potential.

For some reason, though, people think that mitigating a risk that their competitors don't have warrants a premium.
Regarding pressure/road damage: Polish roads in particular are marked with grooves created by heavy trucks. And we know for sure that it's because of trucks because it only happens on the rightmost lane, where they typically drive.

Yes, trucks have more wheels and therefore bigger contact surface, but it only partialy compensates bigger mass. Pressure on road is still few times bigger than of typical car.

Buses however, are big but not that heavy, so they are not as bad as trucks.
You're right but without more information we shouldn't really take what's printed in the newspaper at face value. Was it really a punctured _cell_ as you and I understand it, or was it a punctured _assembly_? A battery pack has a lot of sheet metal and supporting materials etc.
Why not mention the state?

You should contact your state representative (not member of Congress) and state senator (not US Senator) and let them know that you were denied a well-paying job because of the onerous standards your state has for remote work. They might be inclined to change it.
"An ugly, unappealing shaped car that people make fun of."

Teslas aren't that bad.
But Herpes in the brain isn't common in the human population.
Its also company policy that you should be fired on the spot for sleeping at your desk -- some kind of hold over from manufacturing that makes no sense for most office positions.

Risk exposure to lawsuit is incomparable to the relationship case but it was consensual.
Republicans are currently playing the role of "ideological big tent" party with a mix of libertarians, religious conservatives, and blue-collar workers. There's a lot of disagreement within the party and between its newcomers, but they are banding together because they are led by an unapologetic fighter who is completely unlike their previous leadership.

FDR once played that role forming a "big tent" for the Democrats under similar political circumstances.
Part of it could be hardware related, we may need special chips just geared for this, with special coded sensors.

Also, not everything we do is in our brain -- there's also muscle memory, and even tissue inside the gut stores some memories and 'knowledge'. Technically every cell in our body has some purpose/goal and can contribute to our entire being/feeling/mood/etc.

There's a lot we don't know about conscience that makes developing an artificial one, very tough. That's why it's not estimated to happen till after 2050. I don't doubt it will happen, I don't doubt deep learning as is will be crucial to the discovery, I just think there's possibilities that undiscovered and better/alternate techniques might be discovered that could potentially trump dl as we now know it.

There's a lot of things we do not know to get us to general ai, and to get there we may need to jump outside some 'boxes' that ai researches have put themselves into.
That really sucks. It is a reality I see some of my clients facing too.

I've wondered what would happen if you offered to work as a self-employed 1099 employee, or if you opened your own LLC.

Does that employer offer health insurance? That's pretty much the only reason why someone would demand being a W2 employee in my mind. And there's lots of ways to get health insurance in this country.
They tried that for 10 years and it didn't work. Very few people pay use tax like they should. But it wasn't cost effective to enforce every individual offender. So now they're trying something different.
One game among 1165 available titles.

Khronos keeps trying to advocate game developers to adopt Vulkan.

Meanwhile everyone already added DX12, Metal, NVN and LibCGNM to their engines.

Here for your education about game developer culture, Unreal demo at WWDC 2018, and the community live stream done afterwards.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S48T-cOG0ks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdhzavPtUms
> How can you confidently say that?

All of the studies on poor/insufficient teacher pay, the funneling of money away from public K-12 schools, the personal experiences of many around me, some from California public schools, broken incentives from pushes for standardized testing from administrations the past two decades. The list goes on. And now you're going to say that immigration is anything significant compared to all of that?

> All the evidence points to it being a key problem.

All the evidence I have been asking for and you have not given?

> You seem to be using your feelings as the barometer. Reality is not so simple.

I'm sorry but having empathy for others is not judging severity on feelings.

> We know that a poor education significantly increases the likelihood you will get involved in crime, go to prison, live in poverty, etc.

Yes, having non-native English speakers in your school will cause your life to be ruined. Of course. Again, we're going to have to disagree on the effects here. This isn't going anywhere. The retreat to "you're bringing feelings into this" says a lot.
Helen Keller was able to communicate directly with people without a specific facilitator, eventually by learning to speak, to write, to read braille, to understand sign language by touch, and to lip read by touch. She was best with her first teacher, Anne Sullivan, but she could communicate directly with other people in many ways without facilitation.

This definitely does have implication on treatment of people with disabilities; the same kind of pseudoscience was once popular with non-verbal autistic children, called "facilitated communication." However, some fairly basic blinded testing, showing the facilitator one picture and the subject another (possibly the same, possibly different), demonstrated that it was entirely the thoughts of the facilitator being communicated. Many of the facilitators didn't even realize this; they didn't realize they were subconsciously prompting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facilitated_communication

I recommend the PBS documentary "Prisoners of Silence" on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sO9LyXuOQY

So yes, there are implications, and those implications are that it is important to be thorough in demonstrating that some kind of facilitator in any communication is actually accurately representing communication from the subject, as opposed to themselves.
it really is sad,

but a petition is always an option?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17367669
He got red-pilled after having been blue pilled for a while. I guess he's purple now.
I'm not sure what exactly your question is, sorry. Can you clarify? My only point was that lower Manhattan 30-40 years ago was a vastly more affordable and artistically-inclined place. Just read the Greenwich Village Wikipedia page for an example:

In the 20th century, Greenwich Village was known as an artists' haven, the Bohemian capital, the cradle of the modern LGBT movement, and the East Coast birthplace of both the Beat and '60s counterculture movements.

Greenwich Village has undergone extensive gentrification and commercialization;[9] the four ZIP codes that constitute the Village – 10011, 10012, 10003, and 10014 – were all ranked among the ten most expensive in the United States by median housing price in 2014, according to Forbes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich_Village

While there still may be a lot of arts and culture going on in Lower Manhattan, it is unquestionably a pale shadow of its former self. Don't take my word for it:

David Byrne (of Talking Heads): https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/07/new-yo...

Moby: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/03/leave-...
Almost every link in the article is a referral or affiliate link.
Checked to see how the lineup compares to the hulu live streaming (which is admittedly twice the the price), and don't see any reason to switch for me personally.

Main reasons being:
1. No FX or FXX (Fargo, Legion, Always Sunny)
2. No USA (Mr Robot)

I actually don't care about sports, but being able to watch the east coast stream of Mr Robot live was actually the reason I signed up for that Hulu live stream in the first place. Kept it because sometimes CNN or HGTV are decent background noise.
I don't think there is any majority thinking that streaming games is a thing now that VR's around. Game streaming was struggling against the speed of light to get a modest/responsive game experience. Even then on the low end there's plenty of games that'll work on intel embedded just fine so it just becomes a who does it actually serve kind of question to me.
“Distributes representation... there is no answer. It's certainly a trait of the sentence“

Thanks for this. Came here to post a comment and saw this Very similar view, with a different term.

Another way to define this is:

1. The higher level object/thing has traits/properties that the parts do not have

2. Understanding each part does not necessarily = understanding these traits

3. The parts are interdependent

4. The traits/properties of the higher level is determined by the interaction of the parts

... which is the definition of a system.
I'm not familiar with the Web Audio APIs, was the Edge bug effectively interpreting the stream of bytes from the cross origin request as an 'audio stream', and then the OP just wrote a thing to convert it back so it could be converted into a string?
OP said there is a dearth of cultural and artistic activity in Manhattan. I was countering that with examples of numerous quality venues within walking distance of my lowish-key neighbourhood.

It does not follow that it is easy to get booked here. Of course it will be more competitive to be staged in New York than in Baltimore. But the pay-offs are higher. So you see quality concentrate with the ranks of the expelled replaced by ambitious newcomers.
How many of the 3000[0] "terrorists" that Obama ordered blown up (accruing about 400 civilian casualties in the process) had actual plans and setups in place to make the trip to America and kill someone?

My right wing uncle with his gun collection is a bigger threat to the American people. Why did those 400 innocent people die?

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2016/01/12/reflecting-...
I run a little side project that sells a small software tool for $12/customer (forever, not recurring). It generates about $1200/month.

Should I care about this? I use Stripe to collect payments, if it matters.
Read the article. The rewritten email was focused on the work. But Linus's email was mostly focused on humiliating a contributor.

So it is Linus who is not being an adult.
You're using a really weak definition of compulsion.

One might feel a desire to have a few after work on Friday, and it might even be a weekly habit. But if you can just as soon not to, then you don't have a compulsion.
The left invented fake news
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17292797
IANAP, but as far as I know, it's both.

There are filters that throw away most (nearly all) of the data generated by the LHC as soon as it's acquired. Some experiments require adapting those filters to gather different data. But most of the time the filters in place do collect the relevant data, and experimental analysis consists on walking through tons of already collected data.
> But is Dershowitz really a turncoat?

The question of what 'happened' to Dershowitz answers itself: the left considers him a traitor if he dares agree with Trump on anything, no matter whether Trump has legal standing or not.
Trinet [+] is the usual go-to for US-based fully remote organizations so they don't need to maintain business registrations in each state their employees reside in.

Disclaimer: Was employed through Trinet at a fully remote org.

[+] https://www.trinet.com/
People don't like it in the US, because it's overwhelmingly a shit experience. Are there any other countries in the world with the vastness of the US, that have awesome public transit? Everyone here is waaaaay more spread out. No excuse for cities, but most of us don't live in giant cities. It's just easier to take your car.
Sony happily permits crossplay with those mustachio-curling memory-patching dreaded PC players. Fortnite does allow crossplay between PC and PS4 and Mac and mobile. PC/PS4 crossplay is also available in Rocket League and some other games. The only gate is between PS4/Xbox and PS4/Switch--and both platforms seem very much on par with the PS4 in terms of anticheat protection.

There is no real argument to this except "Sony can be a dick, so Sony will be a dick." You can take off your cape now.
"Correlation's not causation"

Is not some magical incantation

With just a word or two of proof

We all get closer to the truth

- mfringel the rhetorical safety officer
How Can I Tell Whether a Copyright Was Renewed?
> devirtualization

Hmm, shouldn't it be possible to do that in some other way? After all, a virtual function is something different than a function pointer (the vtable holding a function pointer is only an implementation detail, isn't it?).

Anyway, I'd rather not have that optimization. When we don't want to pay a small performance hit, we shouldn't make a virtual function in the first place. It's good to see how advanced optimization tricks can combine in dangerous ways with complicated language features!

> distinguish it from non-silly examples?

Yes, probably not possible. There is a real risk, but non-silly examples are less likely than constructed ones.

> all hidden by some #ifdef

If you do it with the preprocessor, there is no need for function pointers in the first place. Just make a #define instead of a variable.

Thanks again for the example, very interesting!
For those not previously familiar with the concept:
https://principlesofchaos.org/
While that may be true, it's meaningless. As a tourist, you are also subject to tax that was enacted by representatives you didn't elect. You can choose not to go there, just like a business can choose not to sell to someone who lives there. In California, every city has it's own sales tax, so every city I go to is taxing me without representation.

There are many many cases in the US where you are taxed without a choice of the representatives. You have a choice not to be taxed though, by not going there or doing business there.