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The second reason: Traction.
As you may understand from the above timeline, we have not yet launched. Or, we have launched something, but we didn't validate what we should have validated. In other words, we have no traction that shows 1) that we can grow a business, or 2) that our hypothesis is correct about the users and market.

The final nail in the coffin: Timing.
Our venture is in Travel Tech, which is not the most promising industry to be in 2020. We believe that this represents an opportunity, but others may disagree. And I believe, from the viewpoint of YC, that with 2 red flags already identified, the 3rd one can only be identified as a negative too.

Now I ask myself, as a serial failed entrepreneur, with some OK experiences under his belt, and a serious imposter complex: "Will I ever be accepted?" Should I perhaps hang up the hat and try with another project? Or try to correct the above errs and try again? I can fix the 2 issue, and I am trying to fix that now. But I doubt I can fix the 1st, and biggest issue. Should I then just hope that me, and my passion will shine through? Or should I apply with another startup? Another idea, which I might be less passionate about, but that might have a bigger chance, because of Team, Traction and Timing?
And I continue thinking: "Does it even matter if I ever get accepted into YC?" Should it matter? Is it the recognition I am looking for? The applause? The validation? Or perhaps it is a Napoleon complex which is driving me towards YC...
Anyways, I am left with mildly damaged self-esteem, but I'll continue doing the only thing I think I can do at this time, keep moving forward...

Thank you for reading, any feedback will be appreciated
Except when it's stolen, lost, burned, easily read, and outrageously inconvenient for long complex passwords.
NYT wrote an article to clarify: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/21/world/europe/pope-francis...

The Pope promoted the separation of church and state.
Why does For have to be used to access HTTP services? The web is crap for privacy already.
O(whatever) refers to the asymptotic behavior as n gets arbitrarily large. If n is bounded, big O notation doesn’t really mean anything because everything is O(1).
StandardJS v15.0.0 Released
Seems like it would be better to directly use the heat i.e. for desalination vs. trying to turn it into electricity.

i.e. build a nuclear power plant near the coast, use piped in sea water to cool it, use hot sea water to desalinate with heat gradient
And I’m quite sure you don’t understand mine.
A Brief Introduction to Complex Event Processing
- Supporting ES 2021 and ES 2020

- logical assignment operator

- numeric separators

- optional chaining

- nullish coalescing operator

- import.meta

- New rules

- ESLint 7
It's strange that a comment that paraphrased the words of the subject of the OP article is being downvoted.
Both of those are insanely expensive to create (movies, tv, and commercial music) and bandwidth intensive.

1pw can count the average users bandwidth in kilobytes per month. And while the software is refined, it’s about 1/1000th the complexity and infrastructure of Netflix or Spotify.
Correction: YAML is a superset of JSON
GP is saying that hyper-specialization is intrinsically fragile.
As a motorbike rider, having Tesla's with "Full Self Driving" capability becoming common scares me.

Standard (human) car drivers are bad enough. Adding drivers that are less capable... ugh. :( :( :(

Hopefully the roll out turns out ok and I'm worrying unnecessarily. :)
To be fair, it isn't required. The actual consequences of Facebook having your information has thus far been a benign experience for the vast majority of its subscribers.
Bitcoin not accepted by mainstream institutions - “It will never work! Visa does a billion transactions a second!”

Bitcoin now accepted by mainstream institutions - “Wow what a joke! They subverted the point of bitcoin! What a stupid thing!”

Can’t bitcoin be accepted by everyone, decentralized or centralized mainstream players?
The US is bigger, which explains why we don’t have good cross-country high speed rail, but there’s no excuse for the population centers on the coasts. No matter what you want to focus on, size, density, or geography, there’s another country out there with a worse situation and a better functioning high speed rail system.
OOP and FP are really not all that different anymore. I joke it's become like risc/cisc: OOPLs (including python) these days have lambdas, map, and reduce... Elixir has inheritance (behaviours) and polymorphism (protocols).

What elixir doesn't have is pass-by-reference. Which, imho, is a huge win, unless you are going matrix math.
Reminds me of Juicero. I’ve always wondered how VCs dice our millions without doing their dilligence whether an idea is validated or not.

At what point does a VC that randomly bets on prospects beat the average?
What if someone whispers something in your ear?
afaik by the numbers you should actually be more scared of human drivers...
About a decade ago companies were promoting virtual colonoscopy. This converted a cat scan into a tube video using advanced computer graphics. You still had to do the bowel-prep agony for a clear view.

If the virtual kind saw a problem, it would be followed by the regular camera kind.

They were cheaper than a gastroentreologist. But for some reason they never caught on with doctors or insurance companies.
While we're talking about Twitter, here's the slightly unconventional way I use it: A few months ago I wrote a little tool to query and delete tweets and likes older than a specified amount of days from my account[1]. I deleted my account with ~14k tweets (because the tool couldn't handle that) and now I trim my new account every few weeks. I barely use the timeline anymore but I do have some mutual followers that I check in on every once in a while which is kinda relaxing.

Fun fact: deleting and re-creating your account is the recommended way to bulk-delete all of your tweets in the Twitter manual[2].

[1] https://github.com/T0astBread/untweet
[2] https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/delete-tweets
> I don't think there is any precedent for impenetrable private communication legally or culturally.

Two people can communicate fairly trivially in person with a reasonable level of certainty that their conversation remains privy to only them and the most a 3rd actor might glean is that the conversation took place; not it's contents.

What you might be confusing is that historically there are inherent weaknesses in using a physical or radio or electronic medium to transfer information from one mind to another and that those have always been exploitable. That exploitation usually comes by "force", for some definition of force depending of the value systems held by the parties involved.
I've been working in this area for many years and I've never heard of Instrumental, they seem to be focused on AOI in PCB manufacturing.

Apple, Amazon, Intel, etc. use Cognex Vision Pro for general manufacturing inspection needs [1] and they acquired a Swiss company called "ViDi" for deep learning capabilities a few years ago. Cognex has a market cap of $11 billion and they're by far the biggest vertically integrated industrial vision hardware and software company in the world.

[1] https://www.cognex.com/products/deep-learning/visionpro-deep...
A fair toll road system would basically ban semi trucks, since they’re the ones that do the overwhelming majority of the damage.
The bandwidth and infrastructure is not where the costs are.
Sednoids: Trans-neptunian objects beyond the Kuiper cliff
To be fair, I wouldn't be surprised if a large % of TikTok users watch are on the app for durations equivalent to full length content. I see two, three, even four hours/day spent in the app surprisingly frequently. It's built to be addictive and keep you scrolling.
FOMO. It’s all FOMO.

It seems seems like some combination of Netflix, YouTube, Snapchat stories,
and TikTok that you could throw on a pitch deck and promise investors will be the next version of TV for millennials.

Starting with 100% original programming makes no sense to me. You have 2 billion dollars, license some mega hits to at least bring people in.
I downloaded the app and saw exactly what I was expecting - “Create account” or “Sign in”, no way to play anything or see any previews. People aren’t going to try so hard to seek out these shows they haven’t seen or heard of before.
Covid will be in our rear view mirror before a vaccine is safe, ready, mass produced and easily distributed. Herd immunity is not terribly far away in most countries and by the spring the threshold should be reached nearly everywhere. A vaccine won't be necessary and even if available isn't likely to be taken by most people, as covid has lower IFR than the flu for people under 50 (and magnitudes lower under 20).
this is obviously a multifaceted/multiparametric issue. I'll touch only one - nationalism. Marie Antoinette was perceived (whether it was real or not) as siding with Austria and against France through her years in France. That is not a way to gain a public support/love to say the least. Compare that with the contemporary Russian Empress Catherine the Great who also came to her future motherland as a foreign (German) teenager girl to marry the future Emperor. Russian history has her as "Great" and her rule as "Golden Age" even though, among the other things, she did put violently down a large peasant revolt and was overall a tough absolute ruler over highly unequal society - very poor and powerless majority of population under highly privileged aristocracy. Yet her policies and actions were notably pro-Russian and directed to, and very successfully at that, - using the language of today - making Russia great (especially for the most nationalism related definition of "great" like huge expansion of the Empire in all 4 directions mostly as result of successful application of military power or threat of it). Thus she is a great/popular Russian Empress despite her lifetime German accent (which she had despite her eager learning of Russian upon arrival), her famous promiscuity (be it true or not), "accidental" death of her husband Russian Emperor Peter III during her power taking coupe, etc. - i.e. it would be possible to find a lot of reasons for the hate if it were needed. The nationalism is kind of very primal overpowering force, which can bring extremes of popular love or hate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_the_Great
After destroying $1.8 billion investor dollars together with Jeffrey Katzenberg I have to wonder if that reputation will endure.
Thinking is essential to software and any kind of mental tasks in general. This used to be a problem in office environments before the pandemic, since it doesn't look like work to bosses who understand work as either sitting in meetings or sitting at a desk and typing.

https://dilbert.com/strip/2016-01-13
Evidence from Europe and Asia shows that this is probably wrong. People in those areas strongly prefer high speed rail for trips that are less than 3-4 hours long, and begin to switch over to airplanes beyond that.
Jeff Katzenberg, the co-founder, has been 'making content and selling to kids' for 40 years to the tune of literally Billions. Star Trek films, The Little Mermaid, The Lion King, Shrek, How to Train your Dragon etc. etc. - just huge, monster titles.

Whitman was the 'Business Person'.

That said, the content format is really quite different, and it's hard to predict how '5 minute bits' would work, and they spent possibly way too much money on it, it would have been better to 'start small', to find the format that works, and then spend a fortune - which is probably something that Meg should have understood given her background in the Valley.
TAKE MY MONEY!

humor aside, that looks like an absolute game changer of a tool.

great work. I look forward to playing with this
They own the Northeast corridor.
ΠΑΟΚ – Ομόνοια, επιστροφή στις επιτυχίες
I think it’s a pretty reasonable metric for a business whose stated goal is to be profitable. I don’t know what that has to do with your kid, but I’m glad you love her.
If you only look at the energy cost of running the servers where the banks store their databases, sure. But what about the energy cost of powering air-conditioned and brightly lit office buildings all around the world, thousands of branches and ATMs, security systems such as secure vaults and armored trucks, and the millions of employees commuting every day (or in 2020, Zooming into meetings all day)? It adds up real quick.

The difference is that the Bitcoin network is completely transparent and auditable, and we can accurately estimate the total energy used to secure it; whereas the banking network is opaque and we can only guesstimate how much energy they really consume
Page load literally crashes safari on iPad Pro running iOS 13.5. I don’t even get to see it so I can complain how slow and janky it is.
I think it’s worth $70, maybe $100. But I want to own my software, not rent it.
You are clearly more confused, and entrenched in the status quo, than the comment I was originally responding to.

I'm not sure why the "air quotes" around the word "freedom", but it reeks of mockery. And therein lies the philosophical divide that clearly separates us: free association and trade between free individuals is the moral ideal of any economic system (yes, also the freedom to speculate and to get scammed); by contrast a system of power management and control for the sake of "preventing fraud and crime" (by the way, you might want to do some research about the efficacy of prevention of the systemic tools you exalt) is a system of masters and slaves. Bitcoin is foundation for the clearest example of the former in existence, and its properties resist influences pushing toward the latter.

https://medium.com/@breedlove22/masters-and-slaves-of-money-...
Is there a chance we could get an invite to experiment?
technically true, but she was showing off her 2 industrial fridges with probably $200 worth of ice cream. quite garish, really, at a time when the working and middle classes were thrown into chaos due to the pandemic and lockdowns
That is quite nice! http://amzn.github.io/ion-docs
LPeg also has what it calls match-time captures (http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/lpeg/#matchtime), which can be used to parse non-context free grammars like common TLV (tag, length, value) formats. For example, I've written a pure LPeg parser for parsing PKIX objects like X.509 certificates. Example edited code snippets with some high-level and low-level bits:

-- returns DER object pattern that captures inner value
local function Cobject(identifier, patt)
local match

if lpeg.type(patt) then
match = function (s)
return lpeg.match(patt * -P(1), s)
end
elseif type(patt) == "function" then
match = patt
elseif patt == nil then
match = function (s)
return s
end
else
error(sformat("expected function, pattern or nil, got %s", type(patt)), 2)
end

return Cmt(identifier, function (s, pos)
local n, pos = assert(unpacklength(s, pos))
local s1 = s:sub(pos, pos + n - 1)
pos = pos + n

return (function (pos, v, ...)
if v then
return pos, v, ...
else
return false
end
end)(pos, match(s1))
end)
end

local BIT_STRING = Cobject(P"\x03", function (s)
local pad = s:byte(1) -- first octet is number of padding bits
assert(pad == 0, "BIT STRING not octet aligned") -- we only support DER
return s:sub(2)
end)

local IA5String = Cobject(P"\x16")

local OID = function (oid)
if oid then
local s = packoid(pkix.txt2oid(oid))
return P(sformat("\x06%s%s", packlength(#s), s)) * Cc(oid)
else
return Cobject(P"\x06", function (s)
return assert(unpackoid(s))
end)
end
end

local SEQUENCE = function (patt)
return Cobject(P"\x30", patt)
end

local TBSCertificate = SEQUENCE(Ct(
Cg(Version, "version") *
Cg(CertificateSerialNumber, "serialNumber") *
Cg(AlgorithmIdentifier, "signature") *
Cg(Name, "issuer") *
Cg(Validity, "validity") *
Cg(Name, "subject") *
Cg(SubjectPublicKeyInfo, "subjectPublicKeyInfo") *
Cg(UniqueIdentifier(1), "issuerUniqueID")^-1 *
Cg(UniqueIdentifier(2), "subjectUniqueID")^-1 *
Cg(Extensions, "extensions")^-1 *
Cg(P(1)^1, "trash")^-1
))

local Signature = BIT_STRING

local Certificate = SEQUENCE(Ct(
Cg(TBSCertificate, "tbsCertificate") *
Cg(AlgorithmIdentifier, "signatureAlgorithm") *
Cg(Signature, "signature")
))
This is great, I have been using firefox forever never knew this. Thanks for posting!
>Microsoft historically works closely with law enforcement.

Wait, what? You’re talking about the same MS that sued the US government to protect user data?

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-microsoft-privacy-idUSKCN...
Where did I say that it was necessary? In the US there are lots of major ports all along the coast, which is where most of the population is. For the Pacific:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Panamax_ports#Pacific_...

And from any of those it's probably not that far to any major population centre.

Compare to Switzerland, which has precisely zero ports, and so of course needs rail (and trucks) to get things delivered.
It really depends on the use-case. What would be the easiest/simplest thing for the users to do given their current mental models and workflow? It might be easier to script and/or UI something than sell and support git :)
There are some passwords that I do not save anywhere, not even in a password manager:

- Email provider's (it's not Google)

- Domain registrar's

- 3 of my main bank account passwords

- Password of my password manager and KeePass db

- Cryptomator volume's password (I keep that Volume in Dropbox)

- Password of my laptop and phone (both 12-20 char long alphanumeric ones)

- PIN of my 2FA app

(I keep practising entering these passwords on my phone/laptop regularly)

Everything else are randomly generated strings by BitWarden and saved there.

Sometimes I have some hints that only I can make sense of and save it in KeepPass database.
Hint to Brad Smith: getting rid of Windows will halt most cyber attacks
You already know the answer: MS and/or others cannot pay the same amount of money because Google makes more money from search than they do. This is exactly the point of anti-trust legislation: to avoid that dominant businesses use their position to make anti-competitive arrangements to maintain their monopoly.

The point of anti-trust is not to look at a single legal transaction and criminalize it, but to see the pattern of anti-competitive behavior and stop it.

> what kind of court-imposed solution do you think will come out of this lawsuit?

Like in other anti-trust cases, the obvious solution should be to break up the company so that it cannot control the search market as it does today. I think this should be a great solution for consumers and even for Google shareholders.
This may have been true in 2016, but since then, I’ve seen CEOs raising multimillion dollar rounds using Google Sheets, financial modeling software, and Excel alike.

There’s certainly still some preference towards Excel in 2020, but in no way using sheets will mean that you’re not “financially savvy.”
> And the founder came from Hollywood, neither of them had real founder experience.

Quibi was a disaster and Whitman was probably the wrong person to lead it — and Katzenberg the wrong person to lead the creative — but to suggest Jeffrey Katzenberg doesn’t have real founder experience is just wrong. He was a founder of what was then known as DreamWorks SKG (he’s the K) and its DreamWorks Animation division. DreamWorks was the most audacious studio since United Artists, and although DreamWorks Pictures ultimately failed, DreamWorks Animation lives on even now. But regardless, to say that he doesn’t have founded experience is flat wrong. He co-founded one of the most high-profile media companies of the last thirty years.

Quibi was a disaster and we can all have a good laugh at how much it missed the mark but Katzenberg is a founder — and I would argue a damn good one — and one of the most successful producers in Hollywood history.
You have to understand, this is hackernews. Money is considered an evil thing here, so long as it’s in other people’s pockets.
The easy solution is:
1) double-verify the identity of the credit card holder using MFA or another way
2) don't allow refunds or chargebacks on cryptocurrency transactions.

Not every PayPal transaction is refundable.

I've bought Bitcoin using PayPal before.
I don't know if other people feel the same way, but I definitely feel a downside whenever I get invested in something (even a small bite of something) and then have to pause halfway through and resume at a later date/time. Tension drops, references to earlier things lose some meaning, you're completely pulled out of whatever you were watching and it starts feeling more like a disjointed effort to watch instead of a singular experience to enjoy.
Does FF send DNS requests via the proxy? Depending on the personal threat model and the ISP, that might matter.
TikTok isn’t $4.99 a month. Now, I would argue that even if it were, it would be more successful than Quibi, but free versus subscription (and the subscription still included ads) are very different things.
Final report (2012, released 2016) of the STEPS project, which has some more info, but sadly no reference to the source code... http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2012001_steps.pdf

Did some digging and found this site with some code, but I haven't looked closely enough to determine what it is specifically for... http://tinlizzie.org/dbjr/ And it is not exhaustive of what the PDF describes. Maybe someone is able to contact one of the original group working on this?
Glad you're doing well man, and thanks for sharing your experience with us. As someone who has never liked anyone near his butt -- I feel like I should get over it and get tested on a regular basis -- and will remember to take book. Also will make sure it's real god damn book -- I mean how bad ass is that, reading about the exploits of the world's most famous samuarai while waiting for surgery. Wishing you good health!
Every Appearance of the Techno Viking
Agreed, my opinion of them (which admittedly doesn't matter) dropped dramatically after reading some of the alleged behavior of the partner.
Bitwarden works in private mode.

Right Click on the field > Bitwarden > Autofill
No mention of the role Taiwan played in preserving the best of the Eurasian Chinese historical artifacts from the scourges of the Four Olds campaign during the Cultural Revolution in the late 1960s.

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

In fact, in the 1960s, my impression at the time was the only place in the world the average citizen was effectively banned from reading Classical Chinese poetry was in “Mainland China”. Correct me if I’m wrong. Ponder that for a moment. Classical Chinese poetry is one of the treasures of world literature...

If Taiwan was the vanguard of preserving the world treasure of Classical Chinese culture, then haven’t they earned the right to be China?

But where does that put the Han empire that controls such a large chunk of Eurasia? Is it fair to call a government that destroys the best part of your past a China? Even Japan and the European colonialists didn’t try to rip out China’s artistic and religious heart.

Say you have a house with two brothers. They inherited some fine porcelain plates, cups, etc.. But one brother, within living memory, became a raving drunk for a decade and broke a lot of the pieces. Fortunately, the best pieces were hidden away in a separate closet the other brother kept that the drunken brother couldn’t get at. Maybe it is good to keep that good china in that separate drawer in case your brother decides to go on another drunken rampage and break everything...
RIP you magnificent human. I am not an atheist but I loved Randi for exposing the charlatans.