skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A competing hypothesis is that YC's success is tied to a geographical location.

If PG and Jessica were the "key" you could send them to Pittsburgh, Berlin, or Dakar and they could do the the same.

For a long time communities around the world have been asking YC to expand their business to new geographies. Except for China it has always been "talking to the hand". China didn't turn out well.

YC can't have it both ways: "we can only function in one place" and "we have some value apart from being in that one sacred place". COVID-19 may be changing this, but the contradiction is one for YC to resolve. The rest of us have to recognize a gap between what they have done (beliefs that seem to be implicit in their behavior) and what they say ("the secret to our success is...")
If you create an app in a closed ecosystem knowing full well that this is Apple's world and they can do as they please, you shouldn't be surprised when they do as they please.

This whole issue is children screaming because they broke the rules and Mommy and Daddy have put their foot down.
Sure, and when the entire business has the lease terminated because they failed to deal with this, they can all claim that society failed them.
I hadn't heard of either of these. Very clever. The closest one I know is the word WOW, which when done in front of your eyes with both hands (actually spelling WOWOW fairly quickly and then holding the final W for the best effect), looks like astonished blinking.
The courts ruled it a crime, they did not rule it to be theft. Presenting it as such is a politically motivated distortion of the the facts.
It's never the method's fault, it's always the implementation details.
Maybe not...
I believe that my love relationship with Love makes me very special, and so do most people I meet. May I not be happy with my lot? Is my Happiness in my beautiful Friend so fragile?
Everything on Earth is illusory, and the only lasting truth is that there is only ONE. Shall such understanding be its own undoing?
I find my Friend in your eyes; in helping you I help Her - I do her work.
Spiritual life is not really founded on brain-twisting mysteries at all. It unfolds bit by bit OK? Hre is encouraging news: Happiness is the reward of those who do the work of Love, and those who partake of the Happiness of Love also partake of Love's Beauty.
Skype for Business is just Lync [used to be Office Communicator, maybe?] renamed/reskinned, right?

I think that product is cursed. It was always a dumpster fire, like IBM's Lotus Notes. It's there so you their clients don't accidentally try Slack or any of the sane alternatives.

All products of MS, Apple, Google are in a constant churn mode. New design. New integrations with whatever platform changes happened in the back, new features to match the competitors, new trends, new mobile apps, new browser features, new framework.

Those are the products that are not the real products and not real money cows, so they get very limited attention.

I agree all of these are horrible. GMail is still a slow piece of shit. I recently tried Thunderbird, and .. it slowed down too. Wtf. Slack is slow too. Typing has become slow for some reason in a lot of "apps", maybe too fancy fonts?

Anyway, these companies have huge opportunity costs. Just look at Google. They try whatever crosses their mind and nothing is good enough compared to "ads". And so they shut them down because opportunity costs. (Not because upkeep, but because then your attention is not on the next big thing, whatever that will be.)
Maybe you should be checking your emotional state and ask yourself if you're really the person who should be hiring based on your perception of an interviewee's mental health.
I was thrown by this, too, hoping to read about rasterization.
Covid-19 drives surge in support for unionisation, say games industry activists
Strictly speaking, 20 seconds of content would only require 9 minutes and 40 seconds of useless padding in order to propitiate The Algorithm.
Collective punishment based on age can never be morally justified regardless of the results.
Sure there are things that don’t work, but it’s not nearly comparable. In my life I’ve never had a problem with a refrigerator, had maybe two problems with washer/dryer, my closet Just Works, books Just Work (with an ink smudge maybe every 50-100 reading hours) etc. I can expect each of those things to last decades. Looking at the goods I’ve bought on Amazon recently, digital electronics/software as a category doesn’t hold a candle to everything else I buy in terms of reliability.
“Overseeing elections” doesn’t really sound like something I want Facebook to do.
Isn’t “in line with other nations” the obvious standard one should be aspiring for when they have a world leading system?

/s
It's nice to see some actual good news involving Firefox. With all of the leadership and financial struggles lately, it's made me worry that the browser I've been using for the last 17 years doesn't have long to live. Hopefully that is not the case.
This is blatantly false. Wikileaks released personally identifiable information for numerous at-risk groups around the country.

To this day, those files are still available.

https://apnews.com/article/b70da83fd111496dbdf015acbb7987fb

>In the past year alone, the radical transparency group has published medical files belonging to scores of ordinary citizens while many hundreds more have had sensitive family, financial or identity records posted to the web. In two particularly egregious cases, WikiLeaks named teenage rape victims. In a third case, the site published the name of a Saudi citizen arrested for being gay, an extraordinary move given that homosexuality can lead to social ostracism, a prison sentence or even death in the ultraconservative Muslim kingdom.

>The AP independently found three dozen records pertaining to family issues in the cables — including messages about marriages, divorces, missing children, elopements and custody battles. Many are very personal, like the marital certificates that reveal whether the bride was a virgin. Others deal with Saudis who are deeply in debt, including one man who says his wife stole his money. One divorce document details a male partner’s infertility. Others identify the partners of women suffering from sexually transmitted diseases including HIV and Hepatitis C.
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More than 50% of the Nike Training Club app users started a workout in Q1 2020
> Your basic contention is that nobody ever buys any product because it's something they want need or like.

No this is the question you asked which they answered affirmatively:

> Do you believe people routinely buy things that don't matter to them? Do you buy things that don't matter to you?

Routinely != Exclusively

EDIT: I can see how the "does not have any connection with" could sound like that, but as someone says below their argument is just "Buy does not imply need/like"
This is so incredibly out of touch, which admittedly I expect from Silicon Valley folk.

I work at a FAANG making an amount of money per year that I didn't even think was attainable for "normal" people, but my parents were dirt poor and I grew up on food stamps. To just say "Oh the solution is as simple as moving into your parents investment properties!" is just a huge slap in the face.

Get a grip on reality and realize your situation is incredibly privileged and not the norm.
Maybe this is a software localization?

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2015/09/why-drivers-in-c...
Social deduction games and bluffing games are some of my favorites and usually crowd pleasers - Mafia, all of the versions of Warewolf, all of the versions of Resistance, the list goes on. I've never tried the online versions... guess I'll have to give it a spin.

If you haven't tried "offline" versions of these games they're a blast.
One Top Taxpayer Moved, and New Jersey Shuddered(2016)
this is going to be great for wine support! cant wait to play postal 2 flawlessly on debian!
Regarding the issue of a special command prompt.. I haven't touched it in years and probably not up to date with the latest vs, but I had a small project that would scan the registry for VS installs and try to find cl.exe.

https://github.com/asveikau/clwrapper

It is a hackish solution and I would be weary deploying it to customers. New versions of VS would break it. It was good enough for my own use on 1-person projects though.
After using hiDPI monitors for years (Mac, Windows, Android, iOS) both examples look horrible to me.
Easy.

A) When we came up with rules for car manufacturers, why should any single one of them get preferential treatment?

B) Do people need third party car parts that car manufacturers originally wouldn't let anybody else manufacture? Maybe not, but we still have laws protecting those third party manufacturers to allow them to sell.

C) There is no reason to treat bicycles (consoles) the same as cars (smart phones) because smart phones are so much more important to society than consoles.

As a matter of fact - we have laws that inhibit car manufacturers from selling directly to customers. There's absolutely no reason why we can't have the same things for smart phone manufacturers.

I say take their "company stores" away altogether [0]. I'm confident that it's going to happen eventually - if not from this lawsuit then from another.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_store
Pret is also in the US, have been before and didn’t notice anything that remarkable
A state actor with billions of dollars to invest would just use a regular missile. But not against another state actor with billions of dollars to invest into anti-air defense. The only reason why these are used in places like Syria or Yemen is because there's nobody there with the capacity to reliably shoot down drones and/or warplanes.
You know magic isn't real, right?
Yeah, but those times might just be exceptions to the natural order of things.

Naturally, it's always easier to get others to understand problems and viewpoints when matters are simple. When things are more complex, it's more difficult to get others to come to a common agreement or understanding. As so, the reason the world might seem more polarized today, (or why principled people always seem to be short in supply), might simply be due to the sheer complexity of the world which acts to divide everyone. And it's likely getting worse as the modern world becomes more complex. Such people who prevailed and brought upon prior golden ages, likely did so against the odds, as otherwise golden ages would be norm.
Generally I agree with you, but I think it's useful and important to keep highlighting there's no such single unit as "the elites", so that people might take that into account when applying their skeptical thinking.

There is no need for people to keep track of "all this" in detail with individuals and so forth.

It's already a big skeptical improvement just to take on board the idea that vaguely labelled groups are a misleading simplification, and to think in terms of the interplay of very different individuals as taking place.

For a start, that results in applauding good works (for whatever you consider good) when you see them, rather than applauding which party a person is aligned with. The result would be more sensible politics, imho.

Another thing which comes from that, is you then don't blame person A for person B's misdeeds just because A and B are both inside some labelled group you have defined by convenience. That way lies blaming all "X people" for some "X people"'s behaviour, and that's not as effective as focusing on the actual bad behaviour, as well as being arguably unjust.

I personally don't blame "stupid people" or call people that often, mainly because I think a lot of people who are not stupid still commit the cardinal error of hashing things out in public with vague group labels. Sometimes people could never agree on which actual people are part of those vague groups, but gloss over that as though it's irrelevant, and still reason about the vague group itself as if it's an object in the world with a coordinated intention. Sometimes it is, often it isn't.

I do slightly blame some aspects of "the internet" a bit these days, because, like a lot of people, I'm seeing indications that the social media process appears to be amplifying a polarisation feedback process that is independent of the actual issues, and might be becoming more powerful than our evolved human instincts for a healthy balance of group harmony vs conflict. As an internet idealist from the old days, though, I'd rather we study that and learn ways to improve on it.
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will take a look, thanks
Jeez man, what kind of torchlight did you buy?!
Nice! There's still cool cpp stuff going on in Firefox. This is one example.

https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/js/src/jit/Warp...
For those of you that are seasoned, whether you're deeply-familiar with C or not, I'd recommend Antirez's walk-throughs of Redis (of which the linked video is the first).

Watching highly-effective programmers navigate, explain, and modify code can be a career-changing experience.

If you're not working in a place where these kinds of programmers accrue, you might never get the experience.

If you're reading this, antirez: thank you for making these, they're really special.
The drug used in this study, Bexarotene, is already approved for cancer treatment and available in the United States and Europe.

Using Bexarotene in cancer patients makes sense because the side effects are more tolerable than dying from cancer.

Using Bexarotene in Multiple Sclerosis patients doesn’t make sense if the net effect is a worsened quality of life (significant thyroid disease) and a shortened lifespan due to accelerated heart disease (hyperlipidaemia and hypercholesterolaemia).
Extrajudicial targeted assassinations are pretty far on the bad side, no matter how few other people get killed in the process.

Sure, if you are doing it, killing fewer bystanders is preferable on the surface. But if individual assassinations are less likely to cause an international outcry since fewer people died that likely leads to more assassinations.
It is my expectation that Apple verifies the identity of developers submitting to the AppStore. It is my expectation that if the initial review doesn't catch the abuse, and my contacts list is scraped and sold that Apple will eventually find out and ban the app from the store.

It is also my expectation that Apple will file a suit for damages, and help a legal firm file a class action suit against the developer on behalf of the victims.

If you are right and this isn't happening yet, I hope Apple starts doing it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiTribune https://www.wikitribune.com/

It failed. Only large one I am familiar with.

I agree with you. It needs to be centralized because it has to be authoritative.
Doesn't that line of reasoning presuppose you need to be firing missiles into crowded areas?

Rather than develop those missiles, what could be achieved by investing those millions into developing economies and relationships abroad?
That's kind of a weird take. The vast majority of startup funding happens in the SF bay area. It is true that YC wouldn't have worked in another city (they did move it from Boston after all), but that's unrelated to PG and Jessica's efforts.

If what you're doing is giving people credibility in an _existing_ investor ecosystem, you can't just ... create a new investor ecosystem somewhere else.
I have experienced this several times in people first hand. I had a colleague who we would say sprinkled fairy dust over the customer and us. But once he left the room nobody else could maintain the magic for long. He couldn’t teach me directly, but hanging around him, a lot, helped. My own experience tells me that it takes a deep understanding of the area you work in, often intuitive understanding mixed with facts, to get to this point. You also need to be able to communicate easily with people. I am nowhere as good as some, and the little I have took years and years of practice, hard work and immersion in a subject area to achieve.

Then, as you say, comes the hard part. How do you embed the magic so well in the organisation that those that follow can keep it up and improve on it, or at least not wreck it straight away.

I have tried things like: make sure open source is part of the culture, start a foundation not a company, hire carefully, teach good practice in execution, only work on things that you and other are passionate about and that makes a real difference.

Edit: add some hard part
There's also a little bit of the "DARPA effect" where several key things align perfectly in time to create such an outcome i.e. The Economist did a study on numerous attempts to create another "DARPA" that would lead to break through innovations of the kind DARPA did. Not one has succeeded.

From what I've heard, In YC's case:

+ Paul was a successful technical founder with the money and reputation. He could rally the troops with "suits and MBAs don't matter, hackers rule the world" rhetoric.

+ Paul had a giant megaphone with his blog (not initially done to market YC)

+ He had a partner who was good at reading and sizing up people, crucial in picking the first batches whose success was crucial to the whole thing working.

+ The cost of doing a start-up had fallen dramatically

+ and so on. I am sure there a few others.

Similarly, everyone has tried to replicate the Kenya's mPesa, the world's most successful mobile money system. No one has succeeded because there hasn't been the same confluence of factors that led to mpesa's success:
You just criminalized Whistelblowers.
If it's a crime to make a crime public, than the definition of crime is all wrong.
YouTube started as a place for anyone to post videos. But it quickly became a place for people to build a business posting videos.

The algorithm makes it hard to find the videos without the cruft but I imagine they are uploaded by the millions.
if ISIS get stronger they'll carry out more terrorist attcks over, ratcheting up the lethality

why not take them out overseas first? they've declared war so are lawful combatants
While we can debate the level to which America needs to get involved, are you forgetting 911 or any of the other terrorist attacks? It honestly feels downright insulting to the victims of terrorism that you would imply these extremist groups do not threaten your freedom.

The article specifically references that these devices used on members of aal-Qaida; the group responsible for 911.
Hardcore Year: from 0 to $100k ARR
(Googler, opinion is my own, I know nothing about this specific outage).

Google has LOTS of internal routing systems. BGP is about anouncing what IPs a given network can handle, which is not the case here.

Before hitting application level routing, I believe you hit the Maglev[0]. Seems unlikely this was the cause, as it would likely take down all services.

One of the first application layers balancers you hit that is well known is the GFE[1][2]. This is similar to an HTTP reverse proxy, but Google made. I could definitely see this as the cause.

[0] https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...

[1] https://cloud.google.com/security/infrastructure/design#goog...

[2] https://landing.google.com/sre/workbook/chapters/managing-lo...
Not to mention, all of the so-called stay-at-home orders were totally half-assed and unenforced. They might as well have been called "stay-at-home suggestions". If this one in Boulder is enforced like the rest of the country's "orders" it will be treated as a joke.
Thanks for the context.

In response to Wilson, I’d argue that Marx’s work provides a better analytical framework for understanding government than Darwin though.

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It does for non technical users or someone who wants to do a one off transcode job. Most people wouldn't be comfortable using FFmpeg in the command line.

And for the people who are comfortable with that, this provide some convenience in not having to look up command(something I always do) but its never meant to be a replacement for hardcore FFmpeg users
5-15% on web content is significantly faster to me. Also, like many people, I mainly use my browser for visiting websites instead of running things like Octane, but obviously it would be nicer if Octane were faster too.
They don't threaten your freedom, but they threaten the freedom of the people who live in the Middle East
One feature of YC that rarely gets mentioned is adequate capitalization. That's the whole basis of YC's bets on individuals rather than companies.

But it's also the way YC itself was founded. YC didn't need to extract capital from founders by charging rent for offices, taking advising fees, etc. It is the reason YC has been able to "leave money on the table" when it comes to later stage deal making.

Adequate capitalization is the reason YC was able to take a longer term approach. Most businesses are not adequately capitalized. This means there is always pressure to cut corners. Always the need to try to "sell broke." Always the allure of coming up with an angle.
Hope you're feeling better now!
Wikipedia mirror on Skynet (Kiwix-based)
It's interesting that this drug is a Vitamin A derivative.

The structure is very close to another popular drug, Isotretinoin (Accutane), with similar side effects.

I imagine Accutane probably doesn't have this effect or we'd have caught it, but how wild would it have been if acne medication also ended up being the cure to MS.
I come from both. I find that learning a new language is much less difficult than learning the new ecosystem. If I'm going to write front-end code, learning the front-end idioms is more effort than the differences between Java and Javascript. If I want to use somebody's widget from NPM I'm going to have to learn Javascript anyway.

That said, the best reason to continue to write Java is that I can share business objects between front and back end. That fact is what led to node.js, which is an abomination upon the earth. It's the worst of both worlds and yet its existence is inevitable. Similarly, I've been writing Javascript lambdas because that's what Netlify supports easily, and the horror overwhelms me.

I am so sorry Java didn't win on the browser side. In a slightly different world the JVM accessed the DOM natively, but in the end Javascript felt like "native" webapps to users where Swing and AWT didn't. In the end, that's what I wish to produce: apps that the users feel comfortable with, no matter what terrible language I have to do it in.
Some interesting books...

1. What would Machiavelli do

2. The Tao of Pooh

3. The Conquest of Bread

On programming or engineering?

1. Pragmatic Programmer

2. Mr. Neighborlys Humble Little Ruby Book

3. Programming in Lua

I feel put on the spot. I thought there would be more but I can't think of any at the moment.

If you ever make a post asking for YouTube video suggestions, I'll definitely be able to comment on that much better. There's some really helpful videos out there, featuring Alan Watts and George Thompson that have helped me tremendously when dealing with the day to day engineering stress.

I find that I'm learning less about programming lately and more about dealing with the anxiety. That has always been the biggest road blocker for me, anyways. It's easy to find the motivation to sit down and read a book or write a piece of code... It's hard to always enjoy doing it.
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