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Ask HN: How did Y Combinator become so successful?
Fellow Hackers,

I am interested in the history of YC and started to look around for more stories and insights about how YC started and became what it is today.

There are some resources on the web [1,2] but I couldn't find too much.

As there are some alumni and employees from YC lurking around here, I just thought to ask you to share your stories!

1: https://web.archive.org/web/20140824071024/http://old.ycombinator.com/start.html
2: https://www.ycombinator.com/principles/
Sure, I've never heard it described that way. That makes it sound like the point of asking to be served is to punish and frustrate the bakery. I've never heard civil rights protests called the "serve my lunch racist!" debate.

The sentiment behind the phrase "bake my cake bigot!" seems to trivialize the issue of being discriminated against by a public business and incorrectly attributes malice to the person being discriminated against.

I'm not attributing any ill-intent to you but wanted to give feedback on that terminology which is why I asked the question. Thanks for your response.
Well no, gov spending is not more appropriate than gdp for exactly the reason you mention.

If taxes are lower and hence less money is spent on social support, that has nothing to do with the military.

Still I don’t think that applies much to the USA - I think the total tax burden is comparable in many states. Medica* and SS are also huge parts of the budget.
It seems unlikely that someone would even be tested after being hit by a truck, or that a doctor would choose to list it as a cause of death.
If I understand the article correctly, the conjecture in fact holds for all of the kinds of infinite matrices we know about and had tested it with. So either the example in the article is not one of the known examples of the conjecture working (which is not likely, given that the article says we are yet to find the matrices for which this doesn't work), or there is something else going on with the terms used.
DLL hijacking vulnerabilities in Nirsoft tools
Not really, Zoom has gotten to where they are by focusing on what they're world class at, which is reliable connectivity. I don't see them changing focus on anything but keeping the lead they have that made them so successful. This DNA has always been the core of Zoom since Eric branched out of Cisco.
It would not be the first time a company cuts off parts of their app ecosystem. Strava has done so for example.

https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2019/07/strava-relive-cc-app-pla...
That's just one of many. Another good one is the violent failure mode. We had a RAID 6 go bad because a head crashed hard, hard enough that two other disks in the array also head crashed. Since the enclosure puts them pretty much lines them up, this is kinda inevitable.
The SEP article is an excellent introduction to the philosophy of mathematics:

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/philosophy-mathematics/
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The general public may have had little to no access to testing back then, but the military certainly did. They may choose not to release numbers from back then, but the limited testing capacity existed is, IMO, quite justifiably used on people in the military. There’s plenty to criticize about the country’s response but lack of testing in the military isn’t one Of them, at least not relative to the broader (lack of) availability of testing to the wider public .
It's the other way around. Tencent puts some overt propaganda in their titles for the domestic market to appease the censors, but they'd prefer to just make as much money as possible. (E.g. they released a game that had a backstory all about patriotically defending the Chinese homeland, but the heroes on the cover were predominantly Western-looking, because that's what players have come to expect.)
With luck, we'll find more Viking artifacts:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Greenland#Norse_set...
It’s called user-defined literal suffix in C++11.
https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/user_literal The “s” suffix come with C++14 https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/chrono/operator%22%22s
I would agree mostly with the analysis apart from the public sentiment toward China, and the latent nationalism existing in China itself. There are stress line that are coming to the front between EU/US and China partnership due to the political handling of covid-19. I wouldn't be surprised if there was a significant turn to protectionist measures on both side of the Atlantic coming, and specifically targeted at China.
Oh good catch! That works out to 185 days so it won't change anything, my pc will last a lot longer than that.

But then again, even a much lower cost wouldn't change things for me. For one I completely own my pc and can do anything I want on it, second I know it's secure & private and my data won't be used in ways i might not know about, and third there's no internet latency on input/output which is nice for gaming etc. I could go on but yeah I feel like it's clear owning is generally better than renting for many reasons
Does your circle of friends exactly match the general population demographics? No? You're a racist!

See how absurd your expectations are?
This is really well written and I learned a bunch. I wonder how much money vendors make by selling hardware RAID when customers could get away with kernel RAID. Also, thank you for this bit! "All tests performed here are random access, because nearly any real-world storage workload is random access."

Question for you smart people... is there a reason to use such an old Linux kernel version? They're testing on 4.15, which was released over 20 months ago. Would there be any appreciable difference on 5.6.4 or something in the 5.x range? Perhaps not since hard drives can't really improve much, but I'm curious.
As far as i know it doesn't work this way (session restoration) as of now. Something could be done but requires a lot of effort
This is conspiracy theory logic. You could literally use this same line of argument to blame anything bad on a vague "explosion of javascript", fact free. Not very impressive either since it relies on smearing people's competence and professionalism based on handwaving instead of any kind of serious engagement with the facts of the situation. Moving on.
Me neither! Crank-y ranting that hijacked my back button, far as I could make out in a couple of minutes. Avoid.
Brainfuck is better than any other programming language.
It has only 8 different commands to use ( instead of the much more verbose GO programming language ) and those commands are simple, one character long terms.
From now on every code will be simpler and shorter. The benefits are multiple fold - more speed, easier compile optimalizations and for humans this is definetly the easiest language to grasp.
Well, I offer dwarf fortress as a potential model. When you start a new world in dwarf fortress it will automatically generate a history for that world. There are a lot of games that pretend to be multiplayer but in reality are just filled with bots. Maybe our world is like that and everyone gets their own world.
You are wrong.
Patients have died waiting in hallways for a bed.

Read this first-hand account from a doctor in NYC: https://dnyuz.com/2020/04/14/im-an-e-r-doctor-in-new-york-no...

"Some others wait days in the E.R. for an inpatient bed, languishing in hallways. Their fates remain unknown. I pass by them when I first arrive at the E.R. and when I leave at the end of the day. Sometimes they are still there the next day. If they are awake, I’m hesitant to make eye contact. I’m too ashamed that after nearly 15 years as a doctor, I can’t do much more for them except put an oxygen mask over their nose and mouth."
SoundCloud said the same and they turned their back on the developer community.

It probably happened to many other platforms too
I consider that the concept of hardware RAID became obsolete around 2004 when I switched to zfs.
Did you just copy pdonis' answer in this same thread word-for-word?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22894412
So, US people will not allow EU citizens onto their websites because cookie/GDPR pain, and EU websites will ban US citizens because we want small companies to still be able to build platforms without enough knowledge about building an AI police. The internet started out nice a long long time ago ;)
> _One final warning about hardware RAID controllers: It's difficult to predict whether a hardware RAID array created under one controller will import successfully to a different model of controller later._

> _We find that with hardware RAID, it's frequently difficult to tell whether you're nuking your array or importing it safely. So in the event of a controller failure and replacement, you may end up sweating bullets, YOLOing, and hoping._

This was the main reason I decided to switch to Linux software RAID from a 3ware card years ago.

A thunderstorm caused a power trip and after powering the system back on, the 3ware controller lost its EEPROM contents that held the PCI vid/pid. Fortunately, it was just a RAID 1 mirror. We used dd to cut past the metadata header and managed to mount the ext2 filesystem.

Using software RAID, I’m confident that we can take the drives to another machine in a pinch and still be able to mount it without much hassle.
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Check out odata, I had the same POV, but odata is more linq/lambda whise.

https://www.odata.org/getting-started/basic-tutorial/
Some of the public information is summarized and sourced in Wikipedia:

> Ethos Capital was founded by Erik Brooks. Brooks is a former Managing Partner of another private equity firm Abry Partners. During his tenure at Abry, in September 2018, the company acquired Donuts, a domain name registrar with a wide portfolio of new gTLDs. In October 2018 former ICANN President of Global Domains Akram Atallah joined Donuts as CEO, while in December 2018 Donuts co-founder Jon Nevett joined Public Interest Registry as CEO.

> Other former ICANN staff members are involved in Ethos Capital itself. Former CEO Fadi Chehadé serves as an advisor, and former Senior Vice President, Development and Public Responsibility Programs Nora Abusitta-Ouri serves as Chief Purpose Officer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethos_Capital

But the whole deal is designed to be as opaque as possible – as explained in TFA we have no idea who will really control the .org when it's done. What we do know is that ICANN management desperately wants those specific people to be in control of and profit from .org for some reason, otherwise they would have gone about this deal very differently. You know, like at least having a bidding process.
According to Collins the (British) English equivalent is simply 'wersh'¹. Still a Scottish loanword though.

1: https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/wair...
> Applying intuitionist mathematics to physics we can come to the conclusion that time flows

Can you expound on this a little more? I'm completely new to the idea of intuitionistic mathematics and much more so to its applications in physics; the constructive approach to thinking about objects and properties is very refreshing and I'd like to hear how you've related those principles with the paradox of time in the context of classical physics.
From the wikipedia source:
In the philosophy of mathematics, intuitionism, or neointuitionism (opposed to preintuitionism), is an approach where mathematics is considered to be purely the result of the constructive mental activity of humans rather than the discovery of fundamental principles claimed to exist in an objective reality. That is, logic and mathematics are not considered analytic activities wherein deep properties of objective reality are revealed and applied but are instead considered the application of internally consistent methods used to realize more complex mental constructs, regardless of their possible independent existence in an objective reality.

And Im wodering why Im not looking more into the philosophy of math, i find this interesting because I am mainly an intuition driven person. Any ideas for courses online?
Am I the only one who believes .tld model is broken? ICANN and IANA overseeing all .tld creation, the current pollution with thousands of .ltds, being just two problems.

Maybe even the .tld model is too old to help identify hosts. In the beginning of Internet com, edu, gov, mil, org were enough to group hosts. But now, that we have zillions of hosts, .tld might not be enough.

If IPv6 is a response to IPv4 limits, maybe we need something better than .tld, too.
No, because people die every day and no tests are run if they had the virus.
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> If LP's are willing to fund automatic pro-rata it's pretty clearly in YC's interests to take them up on it.

This assumes that automatic pro-rata is a winning investment strategy. YC's goal ultimately is to turn money into more money, or at least that's (almost certainly) the most significant metric of success for them.
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This is awesome and has a lot of potential to be a platform for fitness instructors to use to deploy their classes and do online training. I have had online coaches for a while and there isn't a great solution that is formatted for this use case. If a trainer can do a live class, with 20+ students who are paying, and have them be able to check everyone's form i a simple view, you are going to go very far.
Recently I watched Sixty Symbols video on why light is slower in glass and there are multiple explanations on it.

What struck me was what prof. Michael Merrifield said at the end of his explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiHN0ZWE5bk

On the question about what is the reality, what explanation is the true one, Merrifield said that the Math works on all of the explanations and what those explanations do is simply to model the behaviour of nature and not necessarily reflect the reality.

That's how Newtonian physics and relativistic physics are both correct models, tools to model nature and simply can be used to whenever suitable.

Wouldn't that mean that mathematics is just an invented tool to reason about physical models?
It was a gaffe from the PM and quickly retracted, see for example: https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2020/03/mps-back-ministers-on-...
wow. this is a hell of a thing. what the hell could you possibly even say? all i know is that whoever wrote this is my kind of crazy. considering the amount of caffeine i will need coursing through my veins to have any hope of _read_ reading this, i shudder to contemplate the mental energy required to create it.

as a total aside, it would appear that this site is a tiddlywiki (https://tiddlywiki.com/), if anyone was curious. which, like, of course it is haha.
Using this type of method to check form makes a lot of sense. There were manny Kinect apps that did this.
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It sounds to me like I did a good job of phrasing it then, because I do believe that the baker was treated maliciously. One has to be careful with the public accommodation argument - which is why the SC took the easy way out on this one. One wrong step and we get "wax my balls biggot!"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Columbia_Human_Rights_...
Hi HN, author here!

We use deemon in VS Code to improve development and minimize downtime. As developers we like to run our build from within VS Code in order to get tasks support and get semantic errors in the Problems view. But since we often need to reload VS Code, this would kill the build task and we would need to start the build all over again which takes roughly 2-3 minutes to warm up. With deemon we are able to run the build from inside VS Code as a build task and later reattach to the same `yarn watch` process, even if we quit VS Code or reload it.

Deemon works similarly to running your build tasks inside tmux, detaching from it and later reattaching, but with a simpler interface. Instead of `yarn watch`, one runs instead `deemon yarn watch`.

Adopting it to the VS Code repo was as simple as adding a dev dependency to `deemon` and adding a new `watchd` script: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/4e8408d4c4dafae88f7....

You can try it out right now using `npx`: simply run `npx deemon BUILD COMMAND` (eg. `npx deemon yarn watch`). `Ctrl-C` will detach from the background process. Run the exact same command to reattach. `Ctrl-D` will terminate the background process.

Glad to answer any questions!
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yeah it looks like some tiddlywiki plugin the author is using fucked it up somehow...
Yup, you nailed it.

Our transcription will naturally get better over time but it doesn't have to be perfect b/c it's a means to an end in Grain. (creating/trimming video clips)

Even perfect transcripts are still terrible to read most of the time b/c the dynamic nature of spoken dialogue just doesn't translate well across mediums.

Google "Media Richness Theory" if you want to go down the rabbit hole on this.
Press ups. Yoga. Moving about.
iOs warns if the battery is at 20% and at 10% with a button to enable low power mode.
Hi folks,

When our classes went remote, I struggled to stay motivated; the tools we used didn't not play nice with one another. It was lonely.

So I built Barbra to give students all the tools needed to study together in one place. I wanted to get the best parts of Anki, Notion, and Duolingo and just make them work for all learners.

The tool is free. And you can find it at https://barbra.io
At Barbra, students have their notes and flashcards together. They can also set a daily studying goal, and hold each other accountable to it by competing for streaks.

The tool is pretty bare-bone and doesn't work so well on mobile, but I would love to hear your feedback. What do you think?
Too US centric for my liking. Where are the like of Die Welt, Frankfurter Allgemein Zeitung, El Pais, le Monde, or even just Al Jazeera?

There are great articles in the US press, but if you do speak multiple languages and want a more nuanced point of view, you will find yourself turning to foreign press get those.
I don’t see why that doesn’t add up. It looks plausible to me.

Note that often this low price for internet companies is 0 and many users will not put up with any price increase, so the VC backed company will fail once their monetisation strategy ( usually it’s “something something advertisers”) doesn’t pan out.

A small profitable business is harmed by the unsustainable competition at steps 1-2 and may struggle to hold out until step 3 (which likely won’t happen; going bust/being acquired and shuttered seem more likely to me) or 6
- Learning how to learn (Barbara Oakley).
- Keeping track of my reading
- Journaling
- Jim Rohn's philosophy (any book, or 7 Strategies For Wealth)
- Osho's philosophy (any book)
It reads to me like "thanks, but fuck off."
> YC was mostly seen as a place anyone could get funding and build a great company whether or not they had a great network.

that's likely because before the success, there was no way anyone with the network would come to YC as a first port of call. And with technical partners able to judge the incoming seed company on the merits the founders themselves, YC managed to pick the successful ones (mostly - obviously there are failures).

When the success of YC's model became so prominent that it is a culture all on its own, the technical partners no longer work the same way as the old way. I don't think it's possible. So network, and human capital is used as a filter, rather than deal with the massive amounts of no-name people.
I believe some of the MacBook Pros ship with chargers that cannot power them when running at full tilt. (Interestingly, I believe the original iPad Pro did as well.)
Pika is just some website serving js.
deno is including a bundle command that will create a single script that contains all your deps that can be version controlled and/or distributed.
also, even without bundling deno doesn't download imports every time it is run. It downloads imports when you first run it or when you ask it to --reload. Seems quite similar to npm in that regard, except for the lockfile perhaps.

They are also working to support importmaps which could become part of this story.

In any case, competent and smart people are working to make it usable. It is still a work in progress but I love the direction they are taking. It will be great to be able to run safe javascript where I provide it with the permissions it gets.
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Ask HN: How do you use iTerm2? Its best features?
I recently started using iTerm2 on a mac, it seemed so cool. But I quickly got sick of it being so slow to startup, sometimes 10 or 20 seconds, and even sometimes slows/freezes the machine with a few windows open. Seems very bloated. So I stopped using it before I got to know its best features. (I had the daily tips appear daily, but never learnt anything from that.)

What are the things people use it for that good ol' Terminal bash can't do? The features that make it worth using. Thanks!
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He is on Twitter: https://twitter.com/pud
Of course..we invented the ‘language of mathematics’.

I am on a Penrose kick right now. Just downloaded The Emperor’s New Mind Audiobook.
This is not sentiment towards. It is a statement of fact.

Don't get it wrong. Chinese people are not free. However, Chinese government knows what it wants and is effective in its actions.

If you love freedom, turning away from factual reports and downvoting unpalatable opinions isn't going to help.
The analogy holds. For a 2x2 matrix the error bound is obviously quite large, but you still know it exists. Physics do not allow you to simply modify the temperature of a point. Thermodynamics prevent that.

Now the interesting question is, does the conjecture follow from the model itself? Apparently not. But I do neither understand the model nor the proof.
There's the great open source project "Datenklaus" that uses an app to teach children about data literacy and privacy, sadly it's only available in German: https://datenklaus.org/

It's completely open-source though, maybe you can help to translate it to English?
Put me into the 'discovered' camp.
There's a difference between thinking you are good, and being able to argue the case.
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One other important thing to learn about Scots English - calling a woman a "cow" is a lot worse North of the Border.
That number only includes deaths in hospital of confirmed cases, a lot of people are dying at home particularly of heart attacks induced by oxygen starvation. The data from New York looking at excess deaths compared to the same period last year indicates that the actual number of Covid-19 related deaths is probably around double that.
That's too bad. I'm glad I've called out the drive-by homophobia in your post to make it clear to others it is not acceptable.
Used to do this for embedding stuff into homebrew GBA roms! :)
"Much of the $1 billion (USD) we spend on security each year goes toward Azure. Even if you believe that Amazon may have started as the front runner, it’s clear our team worked hard to catch up and surpass them by investing in our technology and listening to the DoD." How much does Amazon spend as a company on "security" and how much of it goes to AWS, specifically? Interesting talking point, but worthless without a real comparison.

Also, "we delivered new innovations including native edge devices that can withstand the challenging environments in which the DoD operates." What the heck is a "native edge device"? Is it a server hosted on the back of a drone? Is it fortified compute hosted in a storage container in a forward operating base? Is it just Azure Stack HCI on a warship? Really interested in that one.