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An unusual aspect of being on the YC software team is that you'll get full access to the YC program, founders and partners - from our dinner talks to demo day. You'll learn the ins and outs of how YC works, and you'll get to know and learn from hundreds of companies. If you want to start a startup someday, working at YC would be an excellent jumping off point.

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Unions were great at stifling innovation and destroying some of our former industries such as Steel and Automotive - see what's left of former very wealthy Detroit. The classic example is the unions not allowing the Toyota Lean Production system in, as then you would need fewer workers. So in not allowing innovation, the unions were key factors in destroying entire industries which have now been built elsewhere.

If this were to happen to software etc, it will just destroy innovation here and the other freer parts of the world will take the work.
AFAIK sovereign wealth fund can't be used in Norway as per law.
How so? Anyone can burn through VC funds, how does that ability measure "corporate performance?" Even if you aren't VC funded, you can burn through all your profit easily overpaying your employees and go into debt, but that means just the opposite, in that case you have poor corporate performance and the business isn't sustainable.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=462156#c141: "This bug has lasted this long because there is no reproducible test case, so thus no way for an engineer to diagnose the problem and test a patch."

I sympathize, but I'm not sure what you expect the team to do. The bug seems highly intermittent even when it does occur and there doesn't seem to be anything in common between the systems that are affected.
Very nice. What is your tech stack? Is this on github? Have you thought of adding some mapping to this, maybe suggesting locations where these dishes can be found? I might could help you out with that if you had any interest. Good Job.
The article's idea of a "elite" is a person who relies on a car to get around. I find it unintentionally funny, as people who rely on transit in the US are either big city urban elites, or the poor stuck in crappy burbs with shitty mobility. Thus, "more transit" is itself the elite projection, as it supposes that what's good for the urban elite, must be good for everyone else.

It would help if you thought of transit as a continuum:

- the private single-occupancy car

- shared car

- shared mini bus

- bus

- tram (ie, n linked busses)

- subway (ie n linked trams, underground)

This is hard to see today, but autonomous cars will essentially bring this about. Everybody will be riding in autonomous vehicles. If you're well-off, you'll pay for more privacy and space and time (vehicle comes to you, goes to your destination), if you're not so well off, you'll share the vehicle with other people and will have to spend more time as the vehicles makes more stops (and each stop will be further from your desired source/destination). Busses as we know them today will become obsolete, as they are functionally equivalent to a heterogenous mix of autonomous vehicles driving in the same direction. Trams will become obsolete, as they are functionally equivalent to the heterogeneous-autonomous-vehicle-chain paying a premium to use a dedicated lane.

Basically, everything should be a battery skateboard riding on asphalt by way of rubber. The more you pay, the more privacy you have, the more the mobile battery goes towards your personal destinations.
Because he was writing for a specific class of predetermined parsers, rather than an arbitrary one which was optimized for his proof.
I think one can experience something related in either writing or even just playing with puppets.
J.K. Rowling had to 'program' the rules of her wizarding world, in a way. As a kid, I used to play some kind of civilization and empire game with K'nex pieces that I used as little puppets, without knowing that computers existed.
Part of it is certainly the joy of building a dynamic model of a virtual world.
Hackers are taking over Chromecasts to promote PewDiePie’s channel
> Now you can easily save your sessions...

True.

> ...using stuff like DynamoDb..

Well, yeah, if you want to be tied to AWS and use a difficult to manage technology which is only useful in a few niche cases, DynamoDB is absolutely the right choice </sarcasm>. Otherwise Redis, Memcache or even Postgres would be a better choice. After all, session management is only a (small) part of data persistence problem.
Hey Adam, do you have any experience with sensor fusion algorithms using IMU/positioning systems?
This excellent article reviews the 5 types of open source business models. Maybe it can help you choose.

https://sfosc.org/business-models/
There was an article here a little while ago about the 1980's at Apple (can't seem to find it right now, sorry) where someone said they didn't go with x86 because someone (Motorola?) convinced them it could only scale up to some pretty unimpressive speeds (sub-100 MHz?).

It turns out, if you try hard enough, any CPU architecture can have lots of room to grow. The Intel 8008 wasn't an "evolutionary dead end", so I don't see any reason the 6502 was, except the decision to let it be.
Speeding Up Simulated Episodic Memory Playback
They did. Right before they didn't.

It's a shame grassroots attempts to address exploitation usually turn into another form of exploitation if not out and out gangsterism.

See: the communist revolution, the origins of the Italian Mafia, some cartels in Mexico.

In the US unions did much good for society in general. But now we are saddled with things like public sector unions which do very much the opposite.
The title "Unions Did Great Things for the American Working Class" does the topic a great injustice, obfuscating the origins of many modern labor unions (including the AFL-CIO) as functional white supremacist organizations.

If you were Chinese or Indian, unions were directly responsible for your deportation. If you were Japanese, unions were directly responsible for your family's forced internment. If you were Puerto Rican, unions were responsible for the genocide that was committed against your mother, wife, and daughter. The AFL wan't shy in the least about its intentions. If you read the contemporary writings of its leaders, as well as the mass media that they produced (flyers, pamphlets, etc.), they were very blatant about their desire to protect jobs for white members by stripping naturalized Americans of Asian descent of their citizenship and deporting them. The language that was used to describe Chinese workers mirrors the exact same dehumanizing comparisons to animals that were later used by the Nazis[0].

If you dislike the current US visa system, with its draconian system of per-country quotas, you have labor unions from the 1950s to thank for that as well.

It's highly unpopular to talk about this, and so I fully expect to take a hit for bringing this up, but it needs to be said.

[0] They even published a pamphlet which referred to the Chinese as a "race question" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_question)
How come multicast, bonjour etc doesn't work on enterprise networks? I've always wondered this because it would've been helpful several times.
In almost a decade of owning a 1/2 ton pickup, only twice did I pull a load over that rating. No need to optimize for rare workloads. If I need to haul more than 2500 lbs, I’m renting a truck for the job.

The underlying issue is a lot of pickups are road queens and entirely unnecessary for their daily workloads, existing as status symbols first and a mode of transportation second.
Agreed. I used Mailpile for a while, a lot of interesting ideas there.

As for PGP Thunderbird could use one nice idea that the browser extension Mailvelope uses: have bundled OpenPGP implementation in JavaScript (OpenPGP.js) for most users (guarantees easy setup) and a bridge to call GnuPG for experts.
Is wage stagnation an actual problem? Here’s a view challenging that premise: https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/myths-of-inequality-and-s...
That must be a typo for 1987(?).
I just switched away from Thunderbird after I found out about a long standing bug where the search index may not be updated sometimes, resulting in some emails not being discoverable with search.

Not able to find emails in my email client is a 100% deal breaker.

Back to Outlook I go. It's search isn't perfect, but at least emails show up eventually.
Hey, do you have any experience with sensor fusion algorithms using IMU/positioning systems?
Knowledge about this type of attack dates back to the 90s (possibly earlier), but it isn't entirely clear whether the engineers who developed the "protection check after [speculative] load" were aware of that. I would argue though that "check after load" should have smelled bad to people intimiately familiar with CPU design.

It should be noted though that at the time neither sharing processors with strangers / across trust boundaries nor executing arbitrary crap in a VM were common activities. Memory protection and such were mostly viewed as a technique to increase reliability, not to provide actual security.
https://oeis.org/A023106
Comparing Open Source Business Models
My apologies for Norway’s public policy stance on the situation (I’m in the US). I’m permitted to add a hitch, and my large national insurer has confirmed in writing I’m covered up to my policy limits with the vehicle modification.
Interesting idea to incentivize startups to invite the union in. I wouldn't be against joining a union (and paying reasonable dues) if it means that I also have healthcare.

Does that mean if I decide to start a venture, my venture will have healthcare from day 0? If so, that's a pretty neat idea.

EDIT: I just also thought that the interests of a union of startup developers and union of enterprise/large-co developers are quite different. Does this mean there are two different unions?
Will most likely lead to Nintendo Switch style situations where the physical port is USB-C but in actuality it uses a proprietary charger. Now they can lock out third party docks/chargers.

Not a great situation.
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Totally agree. In fact, the BART board recently rejected an extension into Livermore, which would have brought down a lot of car trips from the East Bay Area into San Francisco. And a BART train through the South Bay would be great, as would extension to Santa Cruz, Marin, and Napa.
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He did it on the Joe Rogan podcast.
It SEEMS like a pointless metric, yes. But many studies have been done to prove that one minute of screenplay text tends to produce one minute of a motion picture.

It’s not like people randomly decided that a page of text probably equals a minute of screen time — rather, they realized that a page of text tends to equal one minute of screen time AFTER doing enough script->movie translations that they were able to discern that roughly 1:1 ratio.
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The stores act as advertisements, and as a medium to convey their ethos and culture. I personally have been using Warby Parker glasses for the last 3 years, and always go to the store that is around 10 miles away. The in-store experience is very nice, and worth the trip for me to get assistance and try on all available styles. I think I might not have been a customer without the brick and mortar stores, but I might be a minority.
Some of those guilds set minimums in part to provide barriers to entry.

What you call a "barrier to entry", others might call "certification of some base level of quality". Yeah, if you sling spaghetti Javascript, we're not letting you in, or summat. I'm not saying it always does, or even will, work out that way, but it is one option.
Infinitely scary.
Instead of at the consumer level, I can see this being viable at a commercial level. Robot vacuums and floor cleaners that clean office and retail building surfaces controlled by those who are not physically able to do so.
A lot of union agreements have clauses that don't allow workers to strike. It's a bullshit practice and needs to end.
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It’s funny that you consider China freer than America. It shows that what you mean by freedom isn’t really freedom.
Who either has "making such things work" in their job description and thus is the right address, or says "not a school-owned device, not my responsibility, please go through the process next time". If it truly works without connection to the internet (and you thus can ignore a lot of the security etc concerns), providing an unconnected AP with a flat network shouldn't be a big issue for most sysadmins. (And yes, I know what first-level support for random non-technical users is like). Yes, they'd prefer if it just worked in whatever environment, but I don't think it's that out of order that it doesn't, especially without knowing the tradeoffs involved in the design.

I agree with the article on "they should specify what they need exactly" though, for those orgs that want to explicitly allow it in their main infrastructure instead of providing a workaround.
There are unions in tech in some European countries, for example IG Metal in Germany.

I really appreciate the benefits I could enjoy thanks to their work.

Additionally in countries where being an Informatics Engineer is a proper certified title, the college also helps in some negotiations.
I think that was the way it worked at my university too, at least officially. Unofficially, very few teachers actually graded that way, and when I saw it happen, people complained about it a lot.

Then again, the teachers that did it seemed like they were doing it punitively (e.g. subtracting the exact amount of points they were forced to add.)
Disclaimer: I work for an automaker with union representation. These are solely my own opinions.

Yes, Unions did great things in the past, but I have the feeling that what got you here won't get you there. There's a whole heap of politics in this subject, but besides that, there just aren't a lot of clear cut wins anymore.

I can think of a lot of things that would make things better for somebody, but they are things that would span multiple employers, something that current unions do not really address.
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There are natural longitudinal experiments in the form of twin studies. They show pretty conclusively that the largest systematic influence of intelligence is DNA at about 50%. Almost everything else about intelligence is due to random variation in the environment (and not due to all of the things you would think make a difference, like parenting, schooling, class size, economic status, etc.).

The person I was responding to could also just go talk to a bunch of teachers.
On the other hand Toyota Japan has been union since the 50s
TBH, anyone I interact with who is tech savvy doesn't use email, so I really don't need those features.
Was this applied in a later software update? I distinctly recall using my Thinkpad's charger with my Switch, prior to giving it to a friend.

edit:
Keep in mind that a charger meant for a phone is unlikely to provide anywhere enough power for the Switch. You likely need a charger that implements at least USB-C PD.
>I'd think a CEO showing off by downing a couple of shots on a comedian's podcast was a bit of a liability.

You need to lighten up. Musk doesn't owe anything to anyone, if anything he garnered interest for selling more cars to the 18 million people that watched that podcast. If the CEO of <any fortune 500 company> was on the same podcast, do you think it would have been anywhere close to as entertaining?
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In the 1980s custom ASICs were not expensive at all. Apple was able to reduce the cost of Apple ][s and Macs by replacing a bunch of off-the-shelf chips with a single custom ASIC.

If I had to guess, the Mac was more expensive than a PC simply because it did more (e.g. graphics and sound).
Why not both? There is always the potential that there is an actual reason to upgrade - and borked motherboards where any such modules are damaged as a potential reason.
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To the extent that guilds are active in ensuring a base level of quality, you're absolutely correct! Certainly I am not interested in writing - or hiring people who write - truly terrible code.

It's just perhaps possible that not every currently existing and active guild that enforces minimum rates is also ensuring a minimum level of quality. This suggests that, in some times and some places, there can be a gap between what's possible and what's realized.

You're completely right. Guilds can ensure quality!
Information density is an interesting thing to expect from an entertainment show. Not even a regular news show is informationally dense.
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Yeah, guilds for other creative industries seem like a better model for any tech unionization.
True some of the best cars ever made.
Yes, I agree that there is likely to be not much action. I'm interested in the political predictions as well, although I really don't find the arguments about what is going to come out of the Mueller investigation to be very compelling; I just don't think either R's or D's have enough political will to stop going along to get along. It's not that I don't think President 45 has committed many, many white-collar crimes; I just don't think anyone is going to hold him accountable, and I don't believe Mueller will actually indict the president.
2016 article that has been posted to HN 8 times:

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Saying "all security software has flaws" advantages the software with the most flaws and disadvantages the software with the fewest number of flaws. There are many, many better solutions for the problem JWT solves, there are not many better solutions for X509, which is why people keep using X509.

It is significantly more difficult to misuse e.g. golang.org/x/crypto/nacl/secretbox than JWT.