skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The SEC only has authority to levy civil fines. They issue a fine, and then hand the case over to the US Attorney's Office (and often state attorney generals' offices), which then build a criminal case.

Stay tuned. This may not be over yet.

(A good comparison is the Fyre Festival, which led to both civil and criminal charges: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fyre-festival-founder-billy-mcf... . )

Edit: Theranos was another where the SEC acted first, then the criminal case came next. https://www.vox.com/2018/6/15/17469332/theranos-elizabeth-ho...
You appeat to suffer from some sort of horror vacui: Why must we attempt to infer something from what-is-basically-nothing? Isn't it more honest to just stick with "we don't know" in the face of so little evidence?
Am I the only one who finds this ironic coming from the top tech incubator in the world?
To quote a prior Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle on the floor of the Senate:

"How long would it be before you saw traders investing in a way that would bring about the desired result?"

As in, if one found a way to bet against your car remaining in tact and realized sabotaging your car was cost effective to manipulate their bet, then they reap the market pay out. Is this good?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Awareness_Office#F...
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Your second sentence is inappropriate — as an outsider to Debian and its legal evaluations, you have no standing to make a statement on behalf of Debian based solely on Intel’s public comment on Twitter.

If and when Debian Legal concurs with the interpretation Intel asserts, then it is fine to say it is “addressed”. Until then, it is not okay for you to cite a statement from Intel as relevant in any way whatsoever to Debian and their position. That’s for Debian to judge and provide.
I got an email 2 hours ago saying that I didn't get in, then just one one a few minutes ago saying that I was in the advisor track? Sounds great... but is the system sending correct emails for round 2?

Don't want to get my hopes up.
Threadripper2 build box performance looks promising
The emotional roller coaster ended at confusion & frustration at reading “accepted to audit”, is this a joke?! What’s there to be accepted to audit?!
How to Encrypt Your Texts, Calls, Emails, and Data
And the “accepted to audit” stings super hard. We were accepted and then rejected. I’m a stoic person but this really hurts. We were on a pathway to earning success with help and now we’re off again on our own in the wilderness.
you probably did okay with it, but the better metric is to think of all those hours wasted struggling with financials and compare it to the cost of a bookkeeper. (Speaking here from the same experience, btw)
Yes. Startups are an emotional rollercoaster, but YC is supposed to help with that, not make it worse. We're so sorry that we did the wrong thing today.
Skype's End-To-End Encryption Goes Live
A lot of the clever tricks employed to get effects like reflections, ambient occlusion, soft shadows and GI effects using rasterization are 'hacks' with a lot of edge cases and artifacts. They're not terribly robust. Ray tracing let's you get better quality with fewer artifacts because there's less
'cheating' going on. You can get better quality in more situations with less manual tweaking, if you can afford the performance cost.

Artifacts around the contact points of shadows and reflections and artifacts for reflections and ambient occlusion of off screen objects are places where ray tracing can give much better visual results.
Dang, can we lose the ?amp=1 from the URL please?
> Almost any linux machine's `/etc/nsswitch.conf` will contain features that the go resolver doesn't implement.

Do you know of a short list of top features missing? I would kinda hope that modern and generally useful features would be in netgo. And old rotted code, security risks and anachronisms would be abandoned. But from your tone, I gather that this is more than a "people only use 10%, but never the same 10%" type of thing?
submissions automatically get docked when the number of comments exceeds the number of votes after a certain number.
Yeah, different strains is the most common explanation i've heard. But in my own self experimentation I notice relatively little difference between Sativa and Indica.
If you're going to do this, maybe do it for everyone and not buried in a comment.
Whelp, what a mess. Every time I tell my self not to apply to these things but then it's like Godfather 3. But wait, this time it was different!! Oh, wait. Nope. Same result. Only this time it feels much much worse. FUBAR.
Anjuna Security is hiring systems software engineers
Anjuna is on a mission to provide the security and simplicity required to deploy and run any application in any environment. We create a software perimeter around applications that provides hardware-grade protection using secure enclaves like Intel SGX, that eliminates the need to worry about infrastructure security, such as a potentially compromised host, hypervisor or kernel.
We are looking for strong systems engineers, that are comfortable with anything from assembly, to kernel programming, to high-performance user-mode programming. Solid knowledge of C/C++ is a must, Rust is a big plus.

Experience:
• Solid experience with C/C++
• Rust knowledge is an advantage
• In-depth knowledge of OS principles and internals
• Experience with debugging and profiling tools (gdb, valgrind, gprof)
• Experience with x86/x64 assembly
• Solid experience with Linux and kernel development
• Knowledge of cryptography principles and standards a plus
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This sounds exactly like Factorio's pollution dynamic. It's a good system actually. Makes you balance production in your factories vs enemies coming and attacking you.
That's completely fair - and we're so sorry that our mistake left you feeling that way.
Accepted.

Told my team.

We celebrated.

Then received apology/rejection.

Honestly, while it would be a low probability of us getting into the YC Batch, we thought we were high probability of getting into online startup school.

We have an active MVP for 2 months, a Fortune 500 enterprise customer, and a solid market opportunity using previously validated use cases.

We thought we were a really good fit for this program.

I’m tempted to email to ask them to check again.

One error could be two?

Sigh.
At this point I'm pretty sure that Bloomberg just writes articles about Apple because they want the ad revenue and page clicks. They've been way way off the mark plenty of times. Same with the WSJ.

These are pretty vague rumors, only slightly different than what we've seen on other Mac sites for a while now. As with anything Apple, I don't believe it until Tim Cook says it.
So iCloud Backup is not encrypted then?
Definitely not. It was being downgraded a bit by software for reasons unrelated to the topic, but I just turned that off.
Don't worry about it man, everyone fucks up.

I'm on startup #8 and I've learned something at all the prior jobs and startups to do and not to do.

Experience is sometimes learned the hard way, being a hardheaded person myself, this is my preferred course :-)
Worse! Community college has acceptance criteria, auditing has none.
Docker cannot be downloaded without logging into Docker Store
Given the sheer volume of applications, my guess is they rely heavily on your LinkedIn profile to pattern match based on their profile of a successful YC candidate.

So yeah just because you don't look like what they want you to look like (school, history, network, etc), that's no judgement on you. Keep on keeping on.
Forge mods don't generally play nice with Spigot/Bukkit plugins. Different ecosystems.
Current planning assumes a lot of parking is required. Streets allow parking on the sides, access routes are optimized for cars, every business wants to be as close as possible to street, etc.

I also think the shifts coming in transportation will be a lot more than an "automated uber". There will likely be a lot of automated carpooling and carpool discovery along the line of ad-hoc ride-sharing discovery. Bottom-line, I assume there will be a lot less parked hunks of metal in city centers, which will itself alter what an efficient layout entails.

The entire US is designed around personal automobile ownership to an incredible degree. Anything that affects that one way or another drastically changes optimal design layout for both residential and commercial planning.

As a simple example of this, if you've ever driven down a corridor of highway or an arterial route that is one strip mall after another behind parking lots, imagine how that changes is a large chunk of people are no longer driving their own cars leisurely, but instead hiring transport to a specific point. Road visibility is much less important. Parking lots in front are mostly superfluous. Basically, walk-able downtown areas and enclosed malls may see (and I think already are seeing) a resurgence.
If the wife inherits the properties of the defunct husband... isn’t that what is expected thing from Apple? Same as any other inherited property
Acknowledge the effort you're taking to correct this snafu.
I'm willing to bet everyone that applied got the email.
Yes - we're replying to all the twitter threads right now.
If educating oneself was as easy as you say, there wouldn't be a poverty / education crisis.
They seemed like clowns to me (including calling to ask us to come pitch, setting up a time, and then forgetting about it when we showed up). Seeing them at industry events they didn't seem like they knew what they were doing. So how did they get LPs?
#startupschool

Let me guess. That would be a hack to engage a list of post-rejection uninterested users.
And I'm running NixOS on P71. More possibilities as a developer than a Mac.
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That's a fair point and I agree. It's just sometimes difficult to beat automated exploration; as a standard company you probably don't have access to top-end researchers/practitioners, just average ones, and those might get a significant boost by trading smartness for brute force and run many models in parallel in evolutionary fashion.

When you e.g. look at how Google's internal system constructs loss functions and how many combinations do they try, one has to have an unexpected idea to beat their results, and that idea can be usually quickly incorporated into their platform, raising the bar for individual researchers. At Facebook they basically press a few buttons and select a few checkboxes, then wait until best model is selected, leading to frustration among researchers.
Many states have deposits for cans and bottles and it works pretty well. It should be expanded to more containers.
You're right. We're going to have to work extremely hard to regain people's confidence.
Common Lisp doesn't have first-class maps (although lispm is right that you can think of lists as a thin abstraction around all kinds of data structures). But Clojure does have first class maps complete with their own syntax:

{:key1 "Value 1"
:key2 "Value 2"}

as well as sets, and a few other native types.
The new products are launching at the same price point similarly specced parts from the previous generation have been selling at. "Low volume" doesn't really play when you're talking silicon manufacturing, when you spend millions of dollars to make a mask you want to get ROI on it quickly - the GTX 1070 sold at over $200 less than the GTX 980 Ti, for example, at launch.

When you sell a product that actually has less compute performance (the RTX 2080) at the same price point as the higher-end part from the last generation (GTX 1080 Ti) something has gone horribly wrong. A lot of this is likely due to the Tensor/RTX units on the new GPU's taking up die space and there hasn't been an appropriate process shrink to make up for it, but it's all the more reason these are REALLY unappealing options for anyone outside the top-end enthusiast segment (the GTX 1070 is the most popular enthusiast card this generation, because even enthusiasts have budgets - which is usually the $400-500 range for GPUs).

tl;dr; Prices here make no sense, cards with similar or less performance selling at the same price point you could get from the previous gen - just with raytracing support added on top (so it won't net you WORSE performance with this new functionality utilized). I don't know who Nvidia thinks is going to buy these from a gaming perspective.
Hey I was like really cool there for an hour or two :)
It took us a little while to realize what we had done. Once we did, we sent out the correction email as soon as we could. That's not an excuse, but I don't want it to feel like we were intentionally leaving people in the dark.

Sending the follow-up from a do-not-reply was also our mistake. Our default outbound address is do-not-reply, and we forgot to change it as we were drafting the correction. Please follow up to startupschool@ycombinator.com. :(
Hi Fedor,

We are deeply sorry, but an error occurred in the software that triggers acceptance emails and you were actually supposed to receive the email below accepting you into the Startup School Advisor Track.
Thank you for applying to Startup School Online. Your application looked promising and we would like to invite you to the Advisor track!

As part of the Advisor track, you will be a member of a group of about 25 companies with an expert advisor with whom you will meet regularly during the course. You will have access to the software to:
Tolerance is a large component that never gets mentioned, also the strength of pot these days means new users very easily surpass their own comfort levels. Smoking a whole joint of premo shit with someone brand new wouldn't be far off from filling a glass full of hard liquor for someone that has never drank before. Some people also seem to have a hyper-sensitivity to it too which makes it far more unpleasant or intense than for others.
Right. The accepted to audit should have just said "you didn't get in" accepted to audit made it briefly seem like we were still accepted to something.
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I appreciate the initiative, very nice way to apologize. Thanks
It's not either / or. A given artist can get better results with less manual effort with path tracing. That's the main reason almost all offline rendering has moved to path tracing despite it being much more computationally intensive. Artist time is more valuable to them than CPU time.

Pixar thinks its artists have better ways to spend their time than placing lots of fake bounce lights to approximate true GI. It's not that they couldn't get some very good results given enough time and effort, it's that they can get better results leaving that stuff to the renderer and using their time elsewhere.
For an interesting/insane/revolutionary application of this technology, check out Robin Hanson's futarchy[1], a theoretical governance structure which would use prediction markets to make decisions.

[1] http://mason.gmu.edu/~rhanson/futarchy.html
That's fair enough, it sounds like as with any other big cultural shift (I see some parallels with remote working), there must be processes and other safeguards in place to make sure it runs smoothly.
vice versa, I first got You fail letter, and now - Your Company was ACCEPTED: Startup School Advisor Track
Nothing 4-8 laser towers with walls around them can't handle though :)
Rider makes .NET Core amazing on Linux. Well worth the price.
Peter Norvig has too much time on his hands!

Although the following is sadly too personally familiar

"The original proposal had several of the classic grant application mistakes. It was too ambitious, the investigators had few recent papers, they needed a more senior collaborator, and there was no preliminary data to demonstrate feasibility. In addition, it is well known that one does not simply walk into Mordor."
As with any other big cultural shift (I see some parallels with remote working), it looks like there must be processes and other practices/support systems/safeguards in place to make sure it runs smoothly.
A small number of countries are responsible for the majority of plastic in the ocean. China is far and away the worst offender:

https://infographic.statista.com/normal/chartoftheday_12211_...

https://www.iswa.org/fileadmin/user_upload/Calendar_2011_03_...
Startup School 2018 Sends Acceptance Emails to All Applicants by Mistake
Is the subset of people interested _at all_ in homebuying growing, stagnant, or shrinking?

I assert that homebuyers in the newest growth segment that can produce homebuyers (born in 1990 or later) are a steadily decreasing population, something Zillow fails at all to consider as a possible cause, even as NYT and WaPo publish articles showing that same generation as destitute compared to their parents at that age.

(FHA loans require two yesrs of continuous employment and of average wage earned throughout that time. Working for Instacart and Uber, as many of them do, will not likely qualify as either employment or sufficient average wage.)
Got in shared the news with everyone, Got out waiting hoping the second email is an error, before letting the team know.
I'm more embarrassed than anything. I put it on Twitter/Facebook.
I’m not upset with YC.

The program is free after all.

So I’m not a paying customer.

And I am incredibly grateful to YC for everything they do for the startup community.

But it is absolutely gutting to get the thumbs up, tell the team, and then get the thumbs down.

I can handle it, but my team is demoralised.

Time to find something to boost them up.
> We now practically insist that Web pages load in a quarter of a second, when we had no problem with two seconds in 2009 and four seconds in 2006.

Actually, this is false. Anything less than 250ms has always led to fewer conversions, less engagement, etc.

Companies only tolerate this recently because, if they don't, they can't monetize with ads which take the lifetime of the universe to load.
As someone who is running a cannabis company [1], this is concerning, but it ignores the fact that a majority of the members we service (we operate like Costco with a membership model) are in severe chronic pain. They use it as an alternative to opioids and that cannot be overlooked. Having lost multiple people close to me due to opioids, that needs to be dealt with first before we roll back the progress we've made with cannabis.

That's not to say we should be aware of the potential downsides, but there seems to be plenty of higher priorities that we should be focusing efforts first.

https://flowercompany.com
The second email is the correct one - if you're unsure, email startupschool@ycombinator.com
I've been developing on my Mini 2012 for five years: native iOS and macOS, Unity3d, Xamarin.
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No inheritance doesn't compel Apple to unlock that inherited property. Imagine it like a safe. You might inherit a safe but there is no obligation on the manufacturer to help you unlock it.
"Rothenberg also agreed to be barred from the brokerage and investment advisory business with a right to reapply after five years. An SEC order imposing the bar will be instituted following court approval of the settlement."

How much does that cost?
Will “Leaky” Machine Learning Usher in a New Wave of Lawsuits?
Pretty certain I incorrectly received the "Ooops, you didn't actually email"

Please confirm this bug. My company is basically a unicorn.
First email, "you are in! ",second email "ups, actually, you are not". Crushing...
Is education edition open source at least?. Because I don't think teaching proprietary software to kids is a good idea.
Yeah, this should be an actual initiative. Work overtime if you have to, at least give us a bit of the mentorship that everybody here wanted.
I can totally understand why. It was yet another mistake - we rushed to get the email out and didn't realize it was sent from a no-reply address. You can reach us at startupschool@ycombinator.com and you are absolutely welcome to do so.
Check your inbox once again, looks like we were accepted finally
I think you left out this one:

If you make invoices that say you've ordered soda for the programmers, but there are no deliveries of soda because the money for sodas went to your overseas numbered account, that's illegal.
Judging by similar forum threads elsewhere, it looks like some who were accepted were initially rejected and many who were rejected were initially accepted.
That sounds like my cat indeed
It makes perfect sense if the reason it depressed his work ethic was that he was demotivated by the fact that everyone else wasn't slaving away 5+ days a week.
Yes. However, it is still difficult to discern what is verbal flourish and what is a step along the way to dystopia.

By difficult, I mean impossible, and there's a large number of commenters talking past eachother about this issue.
Is this personality / propensity towards addiction well studied enough that you can test for it, or are you just relying on your previous experiences? Previous experiences would suggest that I have this but I’d be interested in a test or DSM-like diagnostic assessment
I will never believe this. It is not by mistake.
If it is, Apple has the key.
Getting "accepted" and then rejected made me finally realize how badly I want to try my hand at creating my product idea and starting a start up. So thanks YC for the bug, see you at YC W19 applications.
Imagine public schools buying minecraft licenses just so kids can observe that "when you use the furnace too much, the world becomes more like hell."

I think kids play minecraft too much already. I would much prefer it if we gave students shovels and let them dig up an empty plot of land in _real life_.
Org charts for major tech companies
Startup school emails are confusing.

First I received a rejection email than acceptance email - I would have rejoiced - but the 'Get Started' Link goes to 'We will let you know by August 20th' page.
And then governments will make so much money off of plastax (ha!) that they'll never ban it.
Could you keep some running score of the entire carbon footprint of the current chunk? Then if the player moved into a new chunk, you would use the old chunk's last score as having some effect on the current chunk?

I guess that wouldn't account for continued tree growth or burning in the chunk you just left though...
Not adding eternally polluting particles to the environment seems like it must have smaller footprint
Mind suggesting the economists to read, rather than just suggesting he is reading the wrong economists?

I'm admittedly naive in this subject, but the name calling doesn't help.

On the second point - there is solid evidence that, yes there are ways to pick stock besides JUST analyzing the company - see Momentum investing https://www.aqr.com/Insights/Research/Journal-Article/Fact-F...

I've seen plenty of critics of the efficient market hypothesis, and Fama himself has said that the market is not efficient.
There are some extremely opinionated assumptions underlying your question. VS isn't really bloated, given what it's trying to do- and in recent years it's been rock-solid stable. Visual Studio for Mac exists (old Xamarin Studio) and is coming along. And the engineering team has made its point on 64 bit clear that they don't believe it will bring the performance people like to say it will.

But more importantly VS and VS Code are two different approaches- IDE vs TextEditor. The vast majority people would say C#, as a compiled language, is best in an IDE. Either way, I'm pretty confident in predicting that there is no way Visual Studio gets "dropped."