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Unpopular opinion here.

The value of startupschool (as a previous graduate) is the individual attention we got from a hand selected instructor.

I know yc screwed up with the emails, and their response was to please those that they have misled, accidentally of course. But I think they also devalued the class. It's gonna be much harder to offer the quality attention of the past.

I think the right thing they should have done, which is harder, was for yc to apologize for their mistake and move on. I know it sucked for those who were selected then deselected, but if you are a startup owner you need to be prepared to be rejected, cause someone will reject you.

I don't know what criteria startupschool goes through to select a company, but I think they must have seen something unique in those four thousands.

I do congratulate them for this decision still because obviously the influx of students is gonna be a great challenge to surmount.
you could just stop using gapps in your phone like i do with Lineage OS
I'd rather have more drugs in the country than people being invaded and subjected to these sorts of indignities out of hand.
Apparently, Israel is part of the EU and so, I cannot access this moronic website.
Stuff like this is why mirrors are a thing.
Well there IS a human intent via the input.

This could fall under process, or generative art.

On a side not; A vast portion of art has been purposefully void of meaning for hundreds of years. "l'art pour l'art"
Raytracing API is coming to Vulkan too. See here:

http://on-demand.gputechconf.com/gtc/2018/presentation/s8521...
> They probably "employ" another 70,000 contract workers, many of which are also on visas, but since they're not on the "official" payroll they don't show up.

Used to work there. I was always surprised at the volume of contractors and contracting companies were embedded within the ranks.
If we gave immigrants more job mobility (notably not attaching the people to the company they work with or making the process so complicated that you need corporate sponsors to go through) then wages would basically be the same as for locals.

Software engineering has the lowest unemployment of any major job category in the world. Beyond it being the right thing to do, making it easier for people abroad to work in the US with the same level of freedoms granted to citizens (including the “right” to get poached at a higher salary) would only help the industry and those within it

Another thing: if software engineers weren’t afraid of unionizing, then companies would have a hell of a lot harder time slowly replacing you with cheaper counterparts. Demanding equal pay for equal work, no matter where your coworkers came from, attacks the core of the problem
The GDPR notices are supposed to make it as easy to opt out as to opt in, so they shouldn't really be warnings.

The problem is websites have apparently decided it's safe not to comply with that portion, presumably knowing everyone would opt out.
> Because that is a race to the bottom for Americans. Americans enjoy a very high standard of living, and having to normalize your wage expectation with people from countries with significantly lower standards of living would destroy that.

Malthus pokes its head.

The workers get paid a fraction of what they produce. Thus the whole society is richer the more workers you have.

Do you really believe americans would be richer if 90% of its population were to be decimated, leaving the survivors with the highest paying jobs?
We are making an app where you can instantly book experiential homestays for travellers.
Joel on Software - I learn new things every time I read it, but the best part is how insanely funny Joel is when he tells stories about working on the early microsoft products.

Stardust - My favorite last page of all time, but it only works if you read the whole thing. Which is fine, since it's a seriously fun story that's short one, and can be taken in over a long afternoon.

Antifragile - Simply amazing, and I learn a whole batch of new things every time I read it.
It's not categorically okay just because others have done it.
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The game itself is really fun and griefers are much rarer than you might imagine from reading the forums. But yeah.... It's absolutely nuts there sometimes. The developer is a massive free speech advocate and doesn't mind hosting this horrible crap. But what's insane is that he gives moderator ability to some of the worst offenders. So I just don't know what's going on in his head sometimes.

There used to be a list of alternative servers, but seems to be gone now :-( Possibly nobody is hosting one any more. I'm tempted to do it myself, but I'm in Japan so the lag would be unacceptable anyway (I'd be playing by myself, which I do anyway...) But it's an option. If you can find a group of people to play with, it can be quite fun just to run on your own server. It takes very little CPU from my experience.
Many funds have "chargeable" expenses like research and travel. These come directly out of the fund and not the management fee.

Source: former hedge fund trader
The issue is the law requires no tracking by default, and that it be as easy to opt out as to opt in.

Unfortunately sites have decided not to comply with this portion.
If anybody has contact information for the principal researchers I would be very happy to donate some more processing power.
> Here is the thing, at least in the case of database software, the people that are competent to set up a benchmark correctly are fairly rare. The people that have the budget for the hardware are even more rare. The last thing the world needs is for the web to be polluted by so many incompetent "benchmarks" performed by the clueless that you can't find the authoritative information that you need to do your job.

If these apparently incompetent people running the benchmarks are also the incompetent people creating the schema's and queries out in the wild then the benchmarks are still worthwhile.

I want to know what performance I can expect, not what I can expect when the environment is highly tuned by rare experts that will never touch any of the systems I have to deal with.
It's the startup rollercoaster!
Mobility is the number one reason. The second one is legal expenses: the employee does not pay them directly, but does so indirectly. A visa application can cost up to 10k, and also you have a 40% chance it doesnt go through, which means its way more expensive.

Also, what is market value and fair? Does the immigrant have a thick accent? A slighlty incompatible culture? A lower quality education?
I think your assessment is correct on certain level. But the problem is, American companies, especially, IT companies, are making money, big money across the GLOBE. They are literally monopolies in many European countries and contribute neither local employment and tax. Make no mistake, they are THE biggest beneficiaries of globalism. Their product, internet service, is dumping to the whole world, probably except China, without any check and balance. It should not happen, let alone last to date.

In that way, if globalism is to be fixed, internet companies need to be both held accountable in and outside of US. If they pay fair share to hire local people and pay taxes in the country they operate, I believe US won't have this ridiculously high salary for tech workers. In short, tech salary being so abnormally high and jobs concentrated in US is the symptom of globalism. Once fixed, the tech workers salary will be more evenly distributed across the countries, immigration problem will be fixed as a result of that.

As internet industry is plateauing, the technology is becoming ever more commoditized everyday, and the policy makers are finally doing the job to act on it, I am staying optimistic that the redistribution of tech workforce from US to the world will finally happen.

The internet has no boundary, that is just a globalist fantasy. It definitely should have boundary, as the tax and economic activities created alike. GDPR is a very welcome move, and it is taking effects, I would expect more systematic approach coming after it.
National security. As it always is.
It is for the benefits of americans as a whole to get workers that produce more than what they cost.
Good point, but I'd add that not only when charging money, but any operation that can have side effects if executed more than once (emails, external calls, etc.).

Having idempotent queue consumers/listeners can help with overall systems resilience (someone already mentioned this below). It helps as much as you don't have to worry when restarting a queue broker and/or apps with consumers.

It adds complexity, but I think it pays off in the long run.
I received a rejection mail at 02:15am IST and then an acceptance mail (saying I should've received it in the first place) around 2 hours later for the 'advisor track'.

Making me wonder how many tracks are there? And what's the difference between them? There seems to be no mention about the track in this blog post.
Those who have power will always subjugate those who don't.

I'm not defending it, not at all. But mankind has been beating on his fellow man since the dawn of time. We truly are a horrific species.
And all websites from outside the us shoudl be blocked. The US can build its own websites, and not give any revenue or attention to any outside website. And we should build a firewall, the best you have ever seen!
I've never really worked at such a fine level. I'd love to hear more about how you measured and benchmarked things and were able to draw conclusions from them.

When benchmarking, I usually have a larger workload in mind. I'm usually working on and deciding between two significant algorithmic changes and I'm looking at differences in 100-1000ms and I still find the standard deviations unsettling.
Critical thinking was never common. Smartphones might exacerbate the issues but the core problem exists independent of smartphones and social media.

We don't have a culture of teaching and promoting critical thinking, and I don't think we've ever had that.
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Why do you need major performance increases for old looking games that are already maxing out your monitor's refresh rate? Next you're gonna say programmable shaders are overkill.
Is "Crays and weather prediction" really a part of everyday compute?
I heard a story once that in acity with rat infestations, the government proposed a bounty for each rat-tail that could be shown as evidence of having killed a rat. Promptly the rat population increased exponentially.

If you made the race to salary, you can remove health benefits, PTO, stock, restricted bonuses, etc etc to artificially increase the number which would in the end harm the worker as well, since he will pay a higher tax rate for the shenanigan.
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Usually it's temporary to a users first few times. Very common. Keep taking a few hits on different occasions. If you don't feel anything past the 8th attempt I would be very surprised.
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You make a good point about withstanding rejection. But from the discussions that I overheard this afternoon, part of the motivation is that it's what the YC partners wanted to do anyway. That is, it's not only about making people feel better (though we certainly do want that), but also about realizing the original vision. I think Adora is planning to write a blog post about this.

If it works out, then the mistake will turn out to have been more of a catalyst than a mistake, which would be a good outcome. Hopefully people will feel that way in the end.
That doesn't really mean anything.
We have a slack group of people who previously didn't get in but are now in, feel free to join: https://join.slack.com/t/startupschool-rejects/shared_invite...
They wouldnt pay the fair share. They would hire less people and spend a total amount on salaries that is lower than it is now.
This is ridiculous. A door is either locked or it isn't. The word makes no claim about how secure the lock is. No matter how you try to twist this topic to suit your views.

In the same way a file can be encrypted, yet be insecure because somebody untrustworthy has the key to decrypt it. Doesn't change the fact that on a technical level, it's encrypted.
I personally think that they've rectified this in a smart way by introducing 2 tracks: the advisor track and a normal one (this is just a guess since I received mail saying I've been accepted to the 'advisor track').

So YC is giving forum access to all the companies that applied but advisor access only to a subset of all the companies that applied. Is that correct?
Those just repeat the original source, which (uncontroversially) says they lose money in the aggregate. Total operating costs minus total revenues is positive.

None of them claim, as you did, and as I asked for, that each ride loses them money. The closest they Come is saying that some rides can lose money because of the formula.

Do you understand the difference between “lose money on each ride” and “lose money overall”? All of your links only speak to the latter, not the former, and the former is what I was objecting to.
It's Oracle. Safra is super close to the administration [1]. The only reason this contract is out of the hands of Booz Allen et al is Oracle. This might be the worst-kept tech secret in D.C.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-12/trump-tea...
End result can be very different. I feel many more people have bad experiences with edibles. Recommend smoking or vaping
If software engineers unionized, say goodbye to foreign software engineers.
tl;dr

Rewrote an #AWS APIGateway & #lambda service that was costing us about $16000 / month in #elixir. Its running in 3 nodes that cost us about $150 / month.

12 million requests / hour with sub-second latency, ~300GB of throughput / day.

If they continued to stay serverless, it would've cost 30K USD per month for API gateway alone.

$3.50/ 1 million requests @ 12 million / hour

$3.5x12x24x30 = $30k

https://twitter.com/coryodaniel/status/1029414668681469952
Cuz it's not like they're claiming to cure cancer. It's just an ad. Most people don't care.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Blodget would seem to indicate it doesn't necessarily cost at all.
Many companies are still on the advisor track and get that advisor. If you don't find any value without an instructor, then you don't need to participate, but the course material is still there if you want it. Seems like a no-lose to me.
...and yet people give me a hard time for using python dict/array literals for config.
> > Some economists hope that we could use prediction markets to make difficult political decisions.

> Political decisions aren't verfiable fact questions, so they aren't really subject to prediction markets. You could use them as a tool to get possible answers to fact questions supporting policy decisions, but there is no real compelling case for them being better than the best available other methods in most domains for that, and in any case getting answers on fact questions related to policy decisions isn't even the hard part of getting good policy decisions.

i wish this comment/POV had gotten more traction in this thread. i am increasingly of the opinion that building consensus on values and goals is more of a problem in politics than is building consensus on facts.
How is it unsubstantive ? Chiropractors are quacks, and being treated by one can be very dangerous.
Yeah, this made sense to me. It took me a minute but I got there. The general strategy is "binary search" which doesn't make for a good article :p. Also, the details of actually implementing the strategy are difficult so an example was useful for me (not that I will ever play this game, but hypothetically...)
Not sure if the researchers' contact information is listed, but the director's email is at the bottom of the page.
I wish I applied :(, any chance for me to get all the course materials?
Something I haven't seen mentioned yet, but did you try to simple get in contact with them to discuss the issue?

Since your website is free, it might be worth combining forces to serve your users better. I know it's hard to swallow, but in the hand what matters is that what you do is useful to people isn't it? And if your users are moving away it probably is because `some` of the things they do is right?
I wouldn't consider it cheating. It's refusing to play against good players.

It doesn't sound like they'll cancel a bet that you make because it's good. It sounds like they'll see you make a good bet, then ban you any future bets, while still fulfilling that good bet.
Good. Maybe we can get back to writing software, rather than spending our time on pointless deployment scripting, tools, and reiventing wheels. Or have developers interested in containers spend their efforts on standardized rather than Linux-only solutions. Docker has IMHO never made any sense for the use cases people seem to have in mind, as it really doesn't isolate you from anything (neither from the host O/S nor Docker itself). Docker, Inc. touting the security aspect doesn't hold merit given Docker must be run as root, and containers can't use host system permissions etc.
> Insulin resistance is related to inadequate muscle mass/protein.

Source? Insulin resistance is literally a drop in insulin sensitivity caused by intramyocellular lipid, which is the build-up of fat inside muscle cells.

> Research has linked diabetes to inflammation, which may be related to body chemistry or infection or both.

Not as one being the cause of the other. If I'm not mistaken, they are both symptoms caused by for example saturated fat and (possibly) increased BPA consumption, not caused by one another.
ReCaptcha and the original two-word based one are just Google using your visitors as 'mechanical turks' - by solving ReCaptcha et al, they are actually helping Google apply identification tags to images in streetview, and previously the Google books collection.

An afternoons coding would get you an independent self-hosted Captcha system that would be just as effective (if not more so, as it's proprietary) and probably less annoying to your visitors.
Antifragile is a great one

For fiction necromancer and snow crash are great
Schools can both allow some educational gaming and real-world digging, it doesn't have to be one or the other.
Researchers getting sued: a little less rare (still pretty rare).

A quick intuitive verification for this claim: when you buy an E&O insurance as a technologist they'll ask a lot of stupid questions (in the sense that you'll be offended they have to even ask) but they don't ask "Do you do security research?" because the underwriters believe the risk and hazard to be actuarially immaterial.
The approximate Giga Rays for the 1080TI was given in the presentation somewhere around 1 giga ray. :)
Thanos.sh: if you are Thanos, this command could delete half your files randomly
> the standard Linux version of Docker isn't mentioned at all in the "getting started" section of the site.
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It still starts it's effects within an hour, and this slower "start up" time gives it less of a "rush" that people like about xanax for example.

The longer lasting part is IMO better too, I have bad anxiety (and potentially on the spectrum), and knowing that I can take .25 or .5 (I'm prescribed .5) and get through the stress of something new or any other activity without a full on panic attack helps me out a lot. Just as an example, the idea of going shopping at the mall with a new friend (I'm in college btw) is already making me anxious as I write this(And this is just an example!).

Xanax seems like it'd be less helpful if I'm going to be hanging out for a while.
Stats that matter for deep learning: 616 GB/s Memory Bandwidth, 11GB memory. About 27% improvement over 1080Ti, assuming mem b/w is bottleneck. 11GB is too low - business decision to segment gaming and deep learning markets.
Cause they are paid actors/models.

There job is to put on a show and do their part, not think about the grander things like deception.

Most claim they just show up for the part.
Isn't "multilateral organisation" that you "control" an oxymoron?
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Not MicroPython.

If you're interested in IoT (or embedded s/w in general), get away from MicroPython.

The primary characteristic of most embedded products is to be low-cost. When you're selling millions of products, cost counts. You can't waste cycles or resources on Python.

MicroPython is a toy for the 'makers'. Similarly the JS equivalents. No real high volume product would use those technologies.
Maybe I'm misreading you, but why do they have to move to the US at all? I had a few foreign coworkers that were being paid very competitive salaries while working remotely from Europe and Asia. They came to visit a couple times a year, for a few weeks at a time, and that was it.

I'm happy to work with people all over the world, I don't need to see you face-to-face every day. I really enjoy seeing people a few times a year, but that's only because I genuinely like them and I enjoy spending time in meatspace with them. But I never felt like my job was impaired by having people at different time zones. If anything, it was awesome! I'd put up a PR before going to sleep and by the time I went in to work the next day it would be ready to merge. If any serious discussion had to happen, we'd just use video chat to resolve big issues.

What benefits would unionizing provide? I'm not actively against it, but I don't see any clear reasons to be in favor of it either.
I work in software, and I definitely can't spend that much on a GPU, a normal 2080 is more than my monthly rent. The prices are nuts.
They are all commenters on hacker news.
probably not. in my experience those fields tend to attract people who either a) only care about money, or b) get a kick out of manipulating people.
Looks like xiaomi is adding some pressure on the low end market, where people are a little more feature conscious.

The p20 lite was brilliant my mother owns one and for what it cost it’s a great little device, but the tech content pales compared to the last xiaomi round
Wikipedia has an ok starting list of artists: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Italo_disco_artists_... YouTube is the best for finding their work. Spotify mostly has remixes and compilations

For an example of the lyrics, check out “Hey Hey Guy” by the amazing Ken Laszlo: http://lyrics.wikia.com/wiki/Ken_Laszlo:Hey_Hey_Guy
> The Netflix/Qwikster you’re paying less but more debacle

What did I miss?
"It is the position of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics that appropriately planned vegetarian, including vegan, diets are healthful, nutritionally adequate, and may provide health benefits for the prevention and treatment of certain diseases. These diets are appropriate for all stages of the life cycle, including pregnancy, lactation, infancy, childhood, adolescence, older adulthood, and for athletes. Plant-based diets are more environmentally sustainable than diets rich in animal products because they use fewer natural resources and are associated with much less environmental damage. Vegetarians and vegans are at reduced risk of certain health conditions, including ischemic heart disease, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, certain types of cancer, and obesity. Low intake of saturated fat and high intakes of vegetables, fruits, whole grains, legumes, soy products, nuts, and seeds (all rich in fiber and phytochemicals) are characteristics of vegetarian and vegan diets that produce lower total and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels and better serum glucose control. These factors contribute to reduction of chronic disease. Vegans need reliable sources of vitamin B-12, such as fortified foods or supplements."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27886704
Your number is off by tens of thousands. Your number was already off by tens of thousands like 8 years ago. Closer to $180 than $120 now.