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Ouch. Just received the following:

> We are deeply sorry to have to send this email, but unfortunately an error occurred in the software that triggers acceptance emails. The acceptance email was sent to you even though we are unfortunately not able to include you in the Startup School Advisor Track.

> Although you are not in the Advisor Track, you have, in fact, been accepted to audit Startup School and will have access to all of the content just as soon as it is made available.

> Again, we regret having made this error and raised your expectations unnecessarily. We hope you continue working on your startup and that Startup School is a huge help.

Makes me think someone saw this post and said "Hmm... maybe not."
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I think that based on the evidence we have you are right about the relative risks. However I 1) think that if we had a do-over, we should outlaw tobacco but keep nicotine legal and 2), based on anecdotal experience I think we will end up finding in 30-40 years the true health/mental health outcomes of cannabis since it will be more easily studied 3) my big worry is less the legalization and more of the perverse incentives companies will have to promote its use through industry funded health studies, advertisements, etc...
I appreciate you getting back to me!
For about 2 years and then it'll abandon it again.

Witness:
- mac mini (for most of it's life)
- mac pro (G5, dustbin variant)
- both low and high end laptops at different times

Basically you can't buy Apple and expect to stay up to date by the looks of things.
Collectively neurons moderate their individual binary responses and together respond with more nuance to outside stimuli. Maybe that's the parallel she/he is trying to present?
And read the history of the Thalidomide disaster avoided in the USA by a FDA scientist Frances Oldham Kelsey
It's in Kansas, not Arkansas.

Tradition says the English and French pronounced the same Native tribe differently. Through Wichita, the river is the "ar-Kansas River," but through Little Rock, it's the "Arkansaw." (I see some others say there are potentially two Sioux words at issue)

https://www.businessinsider.com/why-we-pronounce-kansas-and-...
I knew it was a little premature to spend the $10k
Guys - we are deeply sorry for this screw-up. I know we got people's hopes up only to let you down, and I feel terrible about it.

While it doesn't excuse our mistake, for what it's worth, Startup School makes the classes and all the materials available online to everyone. So even if you didn't get accepted to the advisor track, we hope you will follow along, watch the videos, and find the material useful.

My apologies on behalf of everyone at YC for letting you down. We're still trying to figure out exactly what happened, and make sure nothing like it happens again.
I really like this. I've wanted climate effects in MC for a long time.

I'd like to see mod support. Different machines should have different CO2 output (eg coal coke oven, coal generators). It would change the incentives of switching to green energy production, like electric machines with solar panels.
I got the "Apologies - Startup School Acceptance Error" email too.

Not even a little sad, I am now just waiting for the "Apologies Again - Startup School Acceptance Error Error: You're in actually" email.
I think a lot of people get too heavy into cannabis when they first start. I did. It took me a while of over indulging to look at my life and realize that there are lot's of things I wanted to be doing and accomplishing that I wasnt because I was spending too much time high on my sofa watching TV. I'm sure there are people who can be productive on weed but I am certainly not one of them.

I still use cannabis but I treat it like alcohol and only indulge once or twice a week. It's really helped a lot with my motivation and getting rid of the, "mental fog" that I felt.
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Once again I just wanted to say we are really sorry for this error. This is not the standard we hold ourselves to at YC. I personally apologize to the companies that were both rejected and accepted. Trust that this provides us with even more motivation to make sure that Startup School is great for all participants.
This.

We’re building a massively ambitious banking alternative. Principal engineer ex JP Morgan Chase Senior Dev. Angel investment from the founder of a hugely disruptive British Unicorn. Support from a number of other important sources.

Not to criticize the decision making process, historical precedent speaks for itself. We thought we fit the mould but apparently not.

Back to implementing.
Often, the drama involves unauthorized testing of websites. Hard to test those on your own computer.
I mean, that's a decent point, but for the sake of my argument: let's pretend we're talking about a nuclear missile silo instead of a bank.

The point is just that collateral damage can happen when people run their mouths about important/sensitive info. Sometimes, not always or even often: just sometimes, that's not cool & should maybe be prevented if possible. Should American citizens all be given access to the launch-codes because we pay taxes?

This is a gray issue. I love the EFF but this article misses important nuance.
I wonder if this precocious racket will pay out over Rothenberg's lifetime vs. just banking his pedigree and network on some boring low risk career track. He's currently ahead a few million but his reputation is toast.
> bigots and intolerant people weren’t as much of a problem when there was less diversity.

Generations of abused minorities and women might beg to differ, from slavery to lynchings to internment camps to mass oppression, abused people from Germany (yes, you read that correctly), Italy, Ireland, China, Japan ... people who were Jewish, Catholic, Latino, African-American (of course), etc etc. etc. would all say otherwise. Assuming you are talking about the U.S., until 1920, women couldn't even vote. Until the approximately the generation who came of age in the 1980s, they didn't have access to most of the labor market - unless their husband gave permission (maybe that ended around the 1950s and 1960s) - and in most fields they still are excluded from the top positions and in many fields are still excluded from most positions except HR, receptionist, and organizing the office party.

EDIT: Some updates
I just want to say we are really sorry for this error. This is not the standard we hold ourselves to at YC. I personally apologize to the companies that were both rejected and accepted. Trust that this provides us with even more motivation to make sure that Startup School is great for all participants.
Sorry, I don't understand what you're trying to say.
Using the farmed wood instead of fossil fuels decreases the _net_ introduction of CO2 into the atmosphere.
Seems like you know quite a lot about this topic. Do you have any projects of your own that I can see?

Or do you only work for your employer or something?
The companies I worked with primarily developed on the systems customers used. You really want to see the issues on your tier1 platform as you develop. Linux was not tier1 at that time.

This meant that code written on Sun that performed well performed poorly on HP-UX occasionally -- not because HP-UX was a worse platform, but because corner cases in architecture could bite you. On your tier1 development platform you tend to weed those issues out early.
People here are quite harsh on Seth Bannon.

He is a prolific poster on HN, whose comments and articles often have pretty good insights.

Yet every time I read about his history, I just ask, why? So many of his choices and risks seem so reckless. Is he truly foolish? Or are we the beneficiaries of hindsight, of stress free decision making, ungrounded in the day-to-day reality of running Amicus?

I think the latter is closer to the truth. Meeting him in real life, I realized he was just as sharp in person as on paper. (Also very good at Catan. Damn you Seth.)

And talking with Seth was one of the conversations that helped me to get started on my business, which should break $200K in sales this year.

From what I know about his current startup investments, I think the headlines will be a lot kinder to him in the years to come.

Seth has ample ambition, and when someone with ambition finds an opportunity they want, but lack the credentials for, they'll fight for it regardless. Seth's mistake was thinking others were the same.
Very upsetting. :(
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if getting funded on demo day is like getting drafted to the NBA, applying to startup school was like trying out for JV team.

is being told we got accepted to audit something like being invited to watch the game from outside the stadium using binoculars as long as we promise to keep the cheering to a quiet roar?
And then spreads to eat all the plastic food containers in my kitchen.
That's my understanding too
You're right - it was extremely not cool. We're very sorry.
Seems like gaming has long since hit an "eternal September" as producers are spewing out ever more impressive tech demos.

I have long since taken to killing every graphical effect game devs can think of throwing into a game (if they supplied a toggle for it) simply so i can tell where the enemy is without wearing sunglasses indoors in a dark room.
I actually chose Thailand for my vacation because I wanted to get authentic Thai food. Worked on me!
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The stock market is already a prediction market. Using a prediction market to predict a prediction market is a silly idea. But that doesn't make prediction markets bad at other things, like predicting the weather.
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Mistakes happen, but it should not have taken them over two hours to contact people who'd been celebrating their acceptance.

We got the "you're in!" email, and the whole team was pumped. Having to go back to them hours later to let them down was really hard to do.

The fact that Ycombinator sent the "oops, sorry!" email from a do-not-reply address and basically did nothing to make up for it showed a real lack of respect for the companies that were affected.

Will it make a difference in the long run? Probably not, no one wants to shoot themselves in the foot over what is basically just a disappointment. But it really does lower Ycombinator's brand for a lot of people. Not a great example to set.
Agree on the incompetence piece, but not because cause it's easy. The incompetence lies in the CEO not delegating that to a bookkeeper and/accountant. They're not even that expensive.

I'm one to talk because I made the same mistake, thinking I could do it all with quickbooks. Three anxiety filled years later I wised up and got a bookkeeper (in addition to my accountant) .
Ha such a roller coaster of emotions for us over at https://vrooms.tv

Excited, confused, super let down, then came here to see we weren't alone.
And we are like everyone else, not really accepted. Bummer.
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I look at it as motivation to succeed with or without them, so I can give them all the finger and big hearty (but good-natured) "Fuck You" in a couple of years. shrug
what setting is that under?
Disappointed... Are all the emails signed by the same people (Geoff and Adora) or does it depend on the cohort you were (incorrectly) assigned to?
That's interesting I can still remember the moment and the place when reading just sort of clicked for me in my first year of primary school.
And worst part is had shared with family and friends .. such a let down ..
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Definitely, I figure the mucus issue had less to do with cannabis itself and more to do with smoking/inhaling/etc and the throat lining itself in a defensive response to the heat.

My personal issue w/ edibles is that I was unable to control dosage, timing, level of my high as well as w/ smoking in my experience. To get to a level of satisfactory stoned, I would have to ingest 75-100mg of THC at one time, but then that is lasting several hours, coming in waves, etc.
Mistakes happen. Waiting two hours to tell people, then doing so from a do-not-reply address, however, is a poor way to handle them.

If we make a mistake like this as a company, we at least try to make up for it in some way, and make our users feel valued.
Your message did seem off-putting at first, but I appreciate the clarification.

> If you haven't smoked from dawn till dusk day in day out

There have been several times in my life where this was exactly my behavior, and truthfully, they weren't my best times. In fact I'm not at all proposing that endless and mindless medication, or even limited and conscious medication doesn't have adverse side-effects. That would be a foolish thing to assert.

But then again, I think the point you're trying to address is somewhat absurd. If you take anything (booze, food, sun exposure) to the extreme level of "dusk till Dawn, day in day out", you'll be facing some serious changes to your life. But I know where you're coming from, and I would generally agree.

There's definitely a moment when you start realizing that you're sobering up (long term quitting), and it feels very much like a fog is lifting, and thinking and emotions become easier to direct. Calling it blissful isn't even much of a stretch, unlike relating it to the effects of psychedelics.

> And slowly but surely it all fades away, if you go back to regular smoking

This however I can't agree with. The bliss of sobering up might be real, but it doesn't even come close to the bliss of jumping back into the rabbit hole (true about any drug). That said, this is why I choose marijuana rather than say cigarettes, or booze, or pills, or junk food. Maybe someday I can learn to cut back and be a casual user, instead of the chronic user I am today.
But again - that has to do with how somebody acquires energy or materials (burning wood vs oil or building wood vs plastic furniture) - not necessarily (directly) with having a tree farm. The tree farm is a small part of possible carbon sequestration avenues - and without all the pieces, it is just carbon neutral.
You can slow any hardware with sufficiently inefficient program (or sufficiently detailed scene, if we're talking about GPUs). You can easily make any videocard work at 0.001 FPS if your scene is heavy enough. So it only depends on game developers, it's unfair to blame Nvidia for that. GPU progress is astonishing, at least when compared with CPU progress.
Simple. Raise the tax to a point that glass bottles, perhaps with deposit-return schemes, or cotton clothing is cheaper for the consumer than the synthetic equivalents

But first, make sure you understand all of the environmental costs of alternatives to be sure you're not forcing people into an environmentally worse choice. Farming is not exactly a clean industry.
It's nice but I wonder why there's still nobody that tried to create a spatially coherent 3D space from the input before re-synthesizing the output. It's definitely possible and lots of work on this was done in late 2017. There should be more papers on creating and rendering 3D representations by now.
Ah, I see. Thanks for clarifying. In that case I agree.
How about making this up to those of us who got false-acceptance emails by providing some feedback on our applications?
Ditto, I need to make sure it’s off...
Yes, and in that same microeconomics textbook, it will introduce you to monopoly and oligopoly models that show that markets where there are relatively few parties in one side of a bargain generally have more pricing power (and it's rational for them to use it).

Consumers generally have less pricing power than the relatively fewer producers.

Also, in truly commoditized markets where there's a lot of competition, producers aren't making large profits either, a tax increase in the raw materials must eventually be passed on to the consumer, since producers that fail to raise prices will lose money and be forced to exit the market.

So no matter how you slice it, 'not passing on the cost increase' is just not very likely with clothing, it's mostly a question of how long the price adjustment will take since there is some stickiness in consumer preference.
The "do not reply" was particularly upsetting.
Whoa, did not expect this. Has Apple faltered in its no-compromises approach to privacy?
One can satisfy I-9 compliance easily as long as e-verify is not used. I-9 paper verification is all good faith effort on the part of the employer.
https://www.uscis.gov/system/files_force/files/form/i-9-pape...
There was a thread a couple months back from a story where a tech reporter went out of his way to find (and solicit) stories of legal threats to vulnerability researchers. He ran his best examples in the story, and they were all flimsy. Here's a comment I wrote for the thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16642155

(This is about the Zack Whittaker story referenced on the thread, not about Dropbox's VDP, which is the ostensible subject of the thread).

Again: these are the good examples.

In the 5 months since, I haven't see more legal drama for vuln research (again, despite multiple huge conferences with people dropping zero-day on litigious vendors on stage). Where is the evidence that this is a real problem?
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Thank you for the apology. I think all of us in tech know how these things can happen and so I personally appreciate it. If YC wasn't so cool, we wouldn't be so bummed. :)

Thanks again and good luck with everything!
What does "dick move" mean to you, in this context?
What CPU do you have? My 1070 plays doom at 4k no problem.
I wouldn't worry at this stage. History isn't destiny and if you try something you don't enjoy, you've learned from the experience.
Well here's the fantastic thing about newspapers and newspaper websites - you have the option of not buying them, and not visiting them. It's much nicer for the rest of us if you exercise those rights rather than complaining.
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I think if you steal millions of dollars you should go to prison. And a fraud like this should have the same type of punishment as other types of theft.
Any idea how to disable this?

Edit: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204306:

> Unless you made a backup before you forgot your passcode, there isn't a way to save your device's data. You'll need to erase your device, which deletes all of your data and settings.

Looks like the deceased had an iCloud backup of his iPhone, potentially unencrypted (i.e. without a password - Apple obviously encrypts this on their end). More in the iCloud security model: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303

Edit 2: You can turn off iCloud backup altogether to avoid this (on an iPhone: Apple ID -> iCloud -> iCloud Backup -> Off).
You're right - it took us a while to realize we had made the mistake, and then we responded as fast as we could.
I got it too. Went for a nice long walk and made great plans about taking over the world! Came back and saw the "sorry" email. Crushing!

But what to do. That's life! We all can use this as motivation!

And let's stop with the blame/reputation stuff - it was a mistake and they apologized. Not like YOU never made any mistakes!
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Does anyone know a good way to find out why you got rejected from startup school? I know there are several factors and it would be nice to know if it’s because you are part time or bc your idea is crap... lol
It's ok, we forgive you. Oh wait, due to an error we meant to say actually we don't forgive you.
Unfortunately it seems their security certificate also lapsed 8 days ago - https://amicushq.com/ ?
State ownership of some essential utilities and public services are a feature of social democracy, not democratic socialism. It should also be noted that the examples you mentioned were privatized decades ago (except Purolator, which remains owned by Canada Post).
Given that GPUs already have full MMUs without going all the way to virtualization, I guess I don't see what virtualization is doing here intrinsically with the nested MMU context. Particularly for open source drivers like Intel's that they're using, we should just fix the bugs that are allowing you to map other process's vram. Virtualization still needs to communicate to the compositor overt IPC, so you end up with the same attack surface either way. It's like fixing Win95's half assed process isolation with virtualization rather than just having a cleaner process model.

Like, I'm sure they fixed the bugs they were looking at, but virtualization isn't magical security juice you can sprinkle over stuff. In fact it increases your attack surface in a lot of ways.
Or when you're at a club that's hosting two or three DJs, and they all sound so similar, if you closed your eyes you wouldn't even know that a different DJ just took the stage
Grrr.. rejection email after 2 hrs! Wish I got the email before I let my husband know.
Unfortunately the planet Earth is not a laboratory, and correlation is not causation. If a tax is added to cigarettes, and the tax is passed by elected officials, and the elected officials are responding to the attitude of the populace, how do we know it was the tax, and not _the attitude of the populace_ that lead to lower cigarette usage?
A classic example of this is the Civil Rights Act. Did racism become abhorrent due to the signing of a bill, or was racism _becoming viewed as abhorrent_, and the bill codified the new cultural attitude? Keep in mind, I am of course not saying this means "no need for laws!", that would be insane - but there is no causal link and there cannot be a causal link, because one cannot do experiments with the human race. This line of thinking splits economics apart into different schools - with my conclusion being economics must be built from pure logic, upon a priori fact, rather that be gleaned by viewing society from afar. "Human Action" by Ludwig von Mises explores this in detail (https://mises.org/sites/default/files/Human%20Action_3.pdf)
> Augur will probably be used for betting but really it's a prediction market.

A prediction market is an attempt to leverage a hypothesized predictive power of aggregated
betting, so being used for being is essential to being prediction market.

> 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 skimmed through it and I like the approach. I had, as an undergrad, a course on the theory of networking, summing up the OSI Layer, but practical experimentations could really help understanding more.
Or maybe the backup was in the same conduit and they both suffered backhoe fade - diverse routing is your friend.