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> How much did you eat/smoke? Maybe you're especially sensitive to cannabis? (Genuinely curious here, not trying to discredit your story).

Yeah of course, no worries.

It wasn't with edibles, it was smoking. I was doing a form of inhaling that I've never done before, where I exhale very deeply until my lungs are completely empty, and then do a deep inhale. I repeated that many times.

This was about the third time I smoked, and I was doing that because I hadn't really felt much of an effect the first two times, so I was trying to correct that. I guess I overcompensated.

It was absolutely horrific. One thing I remember is I started having really intense auditory pseudohallucinations that kept repeating themselves over and over again. And I kept compulsively repeating them myself in my head over and over again. And I couldn't make either of those things stop no matter how hard I tried. They weren't words, they were just a bunch of different noises stacked on top of each other, like how playing 10 songs at the same time it just gets very noisy, and you can listen to 1 of the songs but only if you focus on it and ignore the other 9. But I wasn't hearing songs, just stacked noises like a glass breaking or a videogame sound or a car horn or a chair sliding etc.

Ten of those sounds all stacked on top of each other, rhythmically like a beat, while feeling an unwavering compulsion to reproduce the sound with my voice in my own head, over and over again for hours, wanting to stop and sleep the entire time and being completely unable to.

I felt like I was descending into psychosis or becoming schizophrenic like Howard Hughes.

And yeah I do tend to be more sensitive to alcohol/drugs than others. My doctors have said so with prescription doses, and I always feel tipsy halfway through my first drink.

I've used it a little bit since and not had the same problem (though at much lower doses of course). Mostly though I don't do anything, other than maybe one drink if I'm around other people who happen to be drinking.

And yeah I imagine bad trips on psychedelics have much more potential to be horrible. I've never done one though.
Has this thread been manually deleted from the HN front page?
You're right - it was a huge lesson for us that we need to have way better protections in place to prevent something like this from happening.
I think lack of sleep got the better of me there, sorry :\ but I still don't see what the issue with caching search engine results is. Why shouldn't result pages be cached? I would totally want to cache them locally when on such a high-latency connection, especially when I can expect similar queries (like in a classroom).
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YC started in Cambridge. This was never aimed at some Average Joe on the street.
Heck, as far as I can tell, even now, a lot of people who live within a few miles of the place don't really know it was there.

I don't know that it's quite accurate to say that it wasn't recognized as a major site for centuries. European settlers pretty much immediately recognized the area as evidence of a large civilization. They just didn't believe anyone related to Plains Indians were capable of monumental architecture, so they instead cooked up legends about the "mound builders" that typically insinuated that they were built by a European culture - one of the lost tribes of Israel is a popular suspect - that had since disappeared.
This is incredibly cool and makes me want to play minecraft again.
I went to Founders Field day in 2016, and I have to say from the vibe of that event this doesn't surprise me at all. It was literally like being in an episode of Silicon Valley.

I do worry what this means for their incubator program though. They've been one of the few funds willing to throw a lot of dumb money at VR projects that just sound cool, and I'm all for that.
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I sent a pretty snarky email. Glad it didn't go through.
Sorry, misread your reply. Yes, they do an internal baseline/control, but don't have a control arm (either placebo or active comparator) in the trial.

That was the focus of the JAMA article.
This is not true. Under no case can Apple unlock an iPhone's passcode protection with the iCloud account, unless Apple is hiding something major. More likely, the iPhone was backed up to iCloud, and Apple granted access to the iCloud backup, which would probably be essentially identical to the contents of the iPhone itself.
The metaphorical pie doesn't size itself by its own accord or by some nebulous, external, godlike forces. Oddly enough, it grows when we don't let ourselves be ruled by people who act competently on the (mistaken) belief that wealth is inherently zero-sum. Sean Malone explains this here: https://youtube.com/watch?v=iV18Xx5EkaE&t=5m19s
I was accepted first and then received another email saying the previous email was wrong ....
Exactly! I replied to the 'apologies' email and only to find out it also came from a no-reply address. Fine.
That's outdated info.
If you're in charge of the company, you can authorize expenditures for anything that reasonably relates to the company's business, including attracting investors, retaining employees, or incenting them to succeed. It's reckless to spend all your money on parties, but not illegal.

But if you authorize the company to spend money on something which is in itself illegal (cocaine or weed for the parties, hookers instead of strippers), that's illegal. And if you effectively direct the money to your own benefit (pay for your house's landscaping, new pool, pet grooming bill) that's not legal (among other things, it counts as taxable income and I bet you forget to pay on that).
Unless that is you suddenly found a way to read the decrypted microcode - perhaps out of the cache after a decode??
I'm happy to do that. Email us at startupschool@ycombinator.com with your name so we can do that.
I'm curious to know:

- Does the firm and/or the individual have enough money? i.e. will the settlement, once paid, make investors whole?

- Why does stealing $7 three times get someone a life sentence, but stealing $7MM once get zero jail time?
Thanks so much for the empathetic and kind comments. And I'm so happy to hear I played a small part in your business! I'd love to hear more.

For those that don't know, as a first time founder and CEO I made a large number of mistakes I wish I hadn't. In retrospect, they seem bone headed but none of it was clear at the time. I wrote about those mistakes so others might avoid making them [1]. Unfortunately that blog post has been turned into a couple takedown pieces at my expense. Such is life.

1: http://sethbannon.com/mistakes-you-should-never-make
Google webcache text only works:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:eaNgmTP...
It was a magical time. I wish I'd taken more pictures. I had no idea that these guys would go on to create Android and kinda change the world.

At the time, I honestly thought it was all a bit silly TBH! "Why would I want to take a picture with my phone when I have a perfectly good camera?"

"Why does Paris Hilton have her pictures stored on OUR servers, doesn't she know that's a security risk?"

Fun fact - all those pics, from all the customers, were stored completely unencrypted. They were uuencoded for some reason, but if someone wanted to, they could've hoovered up every last file.

I was working the day that Paris Hilton had her account hacked, that was not a fun day. It was looking like some heads would roll, and then it turned out the hackers exploited her account by simply guessing her password. The initial fear was that someone had penetrated the network.
It looks like Augur has no way to validate the "REP holders" though?

This means a sybil attack can be launched by anyone behind the Augur project (assuming they set aside large reserves of REP for themselves, how would anyone know?), or anyone who acquired thousands of ETH in the presale for $0.50USD, or anyone with excessive capital can attack any Augur "prediction" and manipulate the outcome in their favor.

Augur essentially gives total power to manipulate "truth" though tokens / capital.

(edit, downvoting to suppress information? please explain why this post is wrong)
Except they started the practice in response to an academic researcher publishing, while simultaneously trying to get the researcher fired.

https://danluu.com/anon-benchmark/
As someone who has never smoked, I feel like this is the argument I always had with my friends who all have/do. Ultimately, their argument for smoking basically boiled down to the lack of scientific evidence that there are lasting consequences and that it was nowhere near as bad as alcohol. My argument was that there was a lack in scientific evidence, and that comparing the utility to alcohol was stupid.
If I recall you cannot, I think Apple has the keys to your iCloud account so its always available for unlock (iCloud not the phone itself) this is how they provide access to authorities when they have a warrant. This was the case a few years ago, it might have changed since.
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I agree - not only should we have not made the error but we should have caught it and fixed it faster. My apologies.
Yeah me too
It is no coincidence that all the old decayed manufacturing and mining towns are chock full of opioid and meth addicts.
I was able to get a Ricoh 250SF (all-in-one color laser with fax) for under $200 last year. It is an overbuilt and heavy tank with slight driver unfriendliness but I have no complaints with its superb print quality, ability to scan to a USB drive/Samba share/email, and good support on Win 7/8/10 and OSX.
Not surprised considering Best Buy just recently decided to discontinue their Gamers' Club Unlocked program which offered a 20% discount on games:

http://forums.bestbuy.com/t5/Gamers-Club/Gamers-Club-Unlocke...
I'm here because of the same reason -- looks like I'm not alone. I've had a YC advisor for about 1.5 hours, shared good news with people around, and now I'm going to tell everyone it was a fake news. How many people received this email? IMO all the people who got the 1st acceptance e-mail should get in. If not now, then in the next cohort.
Debian is a great OS. Kudos to all those involved in making the project a tremendous success.
Sorry for the late reply - they're contracted, and primarily native speakers from North America :)
I appreciate the polite response very much. The issue isn't this discussion or any one discussion, it's the pattern of using HN primarily for political arguments. The test here is
that word 'primarily'. This is the only way we've found to draw a line that fairly balances the concerns: that on the one hand many on-topic stories have political aspects, but on the other hand political flamewars will burn everything up if you let them... so we can't let them.

I've posted other explanations of our thinking about this, in case it's of interest: https://hn.algolia.com/?amp;sort=byDate&amp;dateRange=all&am....
I suspect that Apple sent them the iCloud backup contents, not the iPhone contents, and that this article reports this story poorly.
> What about a market about the winner of the next US presidential election?

IIRC, those exist, were the focus of attention a few cycles back (because cherry picked just right they were arguably better than polling in the cycle preceding the attention), but as soon as media started paying attention to them, people started diverting money to them to manipulate the results, because there are plenty of people that care more about influencing the result of that question (and it's one where perceived likelihood influences the actual behavior that controls the result) more than predicting it.

That kind of thing is actually a significant problem in many of the areas where prediction markets have been hyped.
From believing we got the first break we’ve had in years of struggle to being crushed.

Will it stop us from keeping going? It shouldn’t but it might be enough of a blow to slow us down and depress our chances.

I already told people. I scheduled PTO at work to focus. I was on cloud nine and now in the deep dumps.
I don't get it, is this some sort of parody / satire?
So the first step in reducing co2 is to cut down all the trees?

I understand the why, but limiting it to new growth breaks from reality. Co2 reduction farms will be barren fields of saplings, atop mob grinders to create feralizer.
So basically we've just been told that we got accepted into Community College.
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That really stung to get the "Your in" then "Sorry, Out" emails, but mistakes happen and appreciate the apology here.

Did the "Your in" emails go to everyone who applied, or was it a subset of applications?
I believe the California community college system is better than most states. Let me elaborate.

In the summer before my freshman year, I didn't really have much to do, and so I decided to take up a course. My options were to either take it at the UC where I'd attend, or to take an equivalent offering at a local CC. When I looked at the price, there was a 10-fold difference, $2000 against $200.

It was a no brainer to enroll at the CC: transferring credits was easy because the UC system and the CC system already have an agreement [1]. This is in addition to the transfer agreement between the two institutions, where CC students are guaranteed admission to some of the UCs if they fulfill the requirements [2].

Before the first day, I recall having low expectations; I had bought into the mindset that a smaller tuition meant a shabbier campus and a worse experience. I was dreadfully wrong: the place was modern, and my class size numbered around 15 people.

More over, its population was diverse. I didn't see only college students; there were middle schoolers, high schoolers, international students, and even parents dragging their children to camps. In general, the place had people serious enough about their education that they would spend a nice summer doing so.

Here, it seemed was a greater emphasis on the community side of college. I want to mention that this is in contrast to what I've previous seen. I came from a high school which didn't focus on getting people ahead, but on only keeping them from following behind; that was the primarily the idea of summer school. I've also heard of high school students paying for private SAT/ACT tutoring, and for online AP courses. In hindsight, CCCs act as equalizers in the field of education -- I would even say they are the modern day equivalent of churches in our state.

[1] http://www.assist.org/web-assist/welcome.html

[2] http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/transfer/guarant...
Interesting but how do we know the examples are not cherry-picked?
Wow, I can't believe you got rejected. Email and ask for feedback on your application as mentioned above.
The 'apologies' email was another bulk no-reply message. Maybe they misapologised, too.
What are your thoughts on the prosecution of Eric McCarty?
Software engineering. You can learn data science pretty easily.
My cofounder who led the application will be doing so in a moment! Thanks.
Too true. Honestly at this point I wish there was a labelling requirement of the environmental and sustainability consequences of everything. Or that it was priced in to everything somehow. It's far too easy to make a very bad choice with the best of intentions.
First one would be because they had an error...

"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."

A lot of disappointed folks right now.
There are externalities to the switch to glass. For example, what about the extra carbon emissions from the extra diesel burn by the trucks shipping the ingredients for the glass to the glass factory, the raw glass to the bottling plants, and the bottled beverages to the supermarkets?

The extra weight of glass over plastic is significant. It's not an easy problem to solve. Hopefully truly compostable plastics will come along to save us, although they themselves emit gases when they decompose, and the additives may have food health risks.
ADP has been around since 1949 [1] and handles even single-employee businesses. It's far more of a value when you scale to 10+ as I recall, but even their one person pricing is far cheaper than this IRS debacle here. Don't forget that if you're a California-based startup, you likely have to file with the state agencies, too -- and that system is so byzantine it'll make you relish the time spent with the IRS forms.

Better still would be to call up any random bookkeeper from the local area. Payroll is ridiculously easy for those who know how to do it and is well within the competency of even a bad bookkeeper.

Just remember to always sign all the checks, no matter how small, and look at the bank statements every month. It'll take maybe 20 minutes a week and saves so much hassle and money later.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Data_Processing
It's confusing wording but I think the person he was responding to was saying that he had a harder time comprehending while sober, whereas he has a harder time comprehending while high.
Would anyone be interested in starting a group for rejected apps? I think we could all use this mishap as a motivational boost.
Actually my X1 has a pretty great HDR 500 nits screen. Sure it's WQHD but for a 14" screen that's good enough.
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blowing investors' money on lavish staff events, which is a dick move but not necessarily illegal

I'm not an expert on this topic, but if a limited partner agrees to something like "2 and 20" fees doesn't that imply that the other 98% of the money is to be invested and not used for expenses? 2% management fee on $64M assets is only $1.2M which is pretty small considering the size of staff they had.

It's less bad if the investors agreed to high fees, but it could still be embezzlement if the money was spent on personal stuff.
Personal anecdote; just got back from a trip to Hawaii. Many of the beaches there had significant deposits of pebble sized and smaller visible plastic particles. Presumably there’s exponentially more smaller ones that I couldn’t as easily see. Some of the beaches had plastic floating in the water. Locals said it wasn’t island dumped garbage, it was brought in from currents from the ocean. Horrific to see.
No. It's alive and particularly pragmatic in dynamic languages. The type of sigil, @ or $ or I or Array(space) are all equal to the interpreter. The difference is how offended you might be that type annotations are semantically identical.
I really feel terrible about that part in particular.
> The most hilarious part was when OpenAI paused the game, then resumed it. This illustrates that there is still some unexplainable randomness.

This was done by the game coordinator -- the humans' machines DC'ed during the game. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17700233
The ecology of this issue seems more complicated than prevailing ideas about it, eg:

Study finds fungi responsible for most carbon sequestration in northern forests. [1]

"... they found that 47 percent of soil carbon found on large island samples came about due to fungi, as did a whopping 70 percent of carbon in small island soil samples. Thus far, the team is only able to guess why there are such differences in the soils, but theorize it's likely due to differences in decomposition rates.

The amount of carbon stored in northern forests and how, is important because such trees cover approximately 11 percent of the Earth's surface and recent research has calculated that they hold approximately 16 percent of all worldwide sequestered carbon. "

[1] https://phys.org/news/2013-03-fungi-responsible-carbon-seque...
Well, no. I thought about editing this after the fact, but couldn't come up with a succinct summary of what neurons do on a high level. So I let this first impulse stand.
I'm in the same boat. I wonder what some of the people who apply for the hell of it could do if they were joined together to make a company. There are a ton of really talented people on here.
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And like many social science "theories" it's entirely incongruous with reality. One counter-example suffices to disprove a universal claim.

The United States is that exception, because our constitution explicitly recognizes, not grants, our right to arm ourselves independently of the State (or States really), only with some regulation permitted.

The actual definition of State can easily be found in the dictionary: "a nation or territory considered as an organized political community under one government."
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If Google webcache expires, there's archive.org:
http://web.archive.org/web/20170509120239/https://www.bloomb...
Hey, please, in the good name of YC, explain this on twitter. Some people are kinda lost over there. I got an invite as participant and got a reply saying I am not an advisor (but nothing about participating)
My team and family were already celebrating. It was humiliating to have to email my wife and tell her about the denial email.
Freedom of speech, sure. I don't know about privacy, though. Anything you post on your blog, or in the comments section of someone else's, will also end up getting scraped by robots and then aggregated and fed into the great Moloch idol of surveillance capitalism.

Savvy individuals could manage it themselves, by creating their own servers and encrypting the traffic and only granting access to trusted individuals. Most people, though, would have a hard time navigating that. A centralized (or perhaps semi-centralized, a la Mastodon) could help a lot on that front.

Perhaps something comparable to Google+'s Circles concept. I always thought that was a great idea which was unfortunately rendered completely unworkable by the unfortunate accident that it was implemented by Google.
Ta for the link. That is quite a discussion. The first thread is priceless (it turns out that grauenwolf isn't quite as authoritative as they first appear - fancy!)

Never underestimate how keen people can become about something they have paid £1,000s for. How on earth could a DBMS like MySQL/MariaDB or PostgreSQL possibly compare to the mighty Oracle money generator or MSSQL ... errrr ... money generator.

Just in case you wonder whether open source DBMSs should be taken seriously, try reading this: https://postgresweekly.com/ and this: https://mariadb.com/resources/blog
I think you might be conflating macOS and iOS. When you enable FileVault (macOS full-disk encryption), you are given the option to upload a recovery key to Apple tied to your iCloud account. To my knowledge this is not offered with iOS.
Accepted, then rejected but “accepted into Audit course”, is this a joke?!
I wish we could do that but we simply don't have the advisor capacity. If it has been a smaller number, we would certainly have done that.
> GPU progress is astonishing, at least when compared with CPU progress.

I have a dual xeon rig with sixteen cores that I used to use for video transcoding. It could transcode a movie in about 12 hours.

I read that a cheap Nvidia GPU could do the job in less than 30 minutes. It seemed way too good to be true, but I figured I'd spend $120 to find out.

It turned out the hype was wrong; it didn't take 30 minutes to do what sixteen Xeons spent 12 hours doing, it took fifteen minutes.

Unreal.