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YC has proven that it is capable of returning results that beat the market. Few other incubators are able to replicate the success of YC. As an incubator, it is an outlier. Is an outlier a good "control" sample to prove that this reform works?

Startup visa reform is a necessity, clearly. Founders have the opportunity to make a strong positive impact on jobs, etc. I'd love for YC to be able to work with additional talented founders. No question, I am all for giving YC access to founder visas.

Question: Would a successful beta program at YC prove that the program works? Or would it prove that YC works? If the latter, is there an alternative "beta" program that would be more representative necessary for large scale reform?
Wow, I didn't know that was released yet. The new version of office for mac cant be too far away.
> I'd assume you do agree that excessive speeding constitutes a crime as a it raises the chances of inflicting injury on others.

That is a poor assumption. The government is incompetent (and corrupt) to choose what course of action best manages risk.

The better answer is to make people (and their insurance carriers) liable for the damage they actually cause. If you drive too fast and kill someone, you should be liable for a Very Large sum of money. If you drive 90MPH and cause no damage, you should be left to your devices. If driving fast has a high correlation to causing damage then insurance companies will figure out a way to charge higher premiums to people who take more risks (with risks defined scientifically by statisticians rather than corruptly by politicians), and the higher premiums will either deter the risky behavior to the extent that the damage caused by the risk is in excess of the value of getting there faster to the driver, or alternatively cause the driver to pay money in the amount necessary to compensate for the risk being imposed on others.

There is no need for criminal penalties, which do nothing but create animosity between the police and the population, encourage lawbreaking, encourage the police to issue unwarranted citations (and set inappropriate speed limits or unsafely short yellow lights) in order to generate revenue, etc.

The same applies to illicit drug use. If there are negative externalities then require purchasers to carry insurance, or impose a tax, and use the money to mitigate or compensate for the damage actually caused.
Awesome prizes again this year. Hope I can make it!
I'm no fan of the move-fast-and-break-stuff philosophy of software development either, for what it's worth. I think system software, and other "platform" products like browsers, benefit from long term stability a lot more than they benefit from mixing up bug fixes, security patches, minor adjustments, API breaking changes, and any other stuff they feel like putting in this time, all without any grown-up version control or offering any sort of reliable foundation on which other things can be built.

I think it is deeply regrettable that certain parts of the industry have moved in that direction, and Android is a fine example (as is almost anything else Google makes). That said, it's still preferable to Apple, who move fast, break stuff, and then won't even let you fix it by moving back again.
I don't think so. From 8 CFR 204.6

Capital means cash, equipment, inventory, other tangible property, cash equivalents and indebtedness secured by assets owned by the alien entrepreneur, provided that the alien entrepreneur is personally and primarily liable and that the assets of the new commercial enterprise upon which the petition is based are not used to secure any of the indebtedness.

For that to work, I think the VC would have to unconditionally give the founder the $1M which is obviously not going to happen.
“The few who understand the system will either be so interested in its profits or be so dependent upon its favours that there will be no opposition from that class, while on the other hand, the great body of people, mentally incapable of comprehending the tremendous advantage that capital derives from the system, will bear its burdens without complaint, and perhaps without even suspecting that the system is inimical to their interests” .- Self
That was my immediate thought, irregardless of the gender argument. I work with plenty of non-technical ops people, ALL of them REGARDLESS of intelligence, can not code out of a wet paper bag. I have at various points shown them all how to use basic excel formulas and they still use calculators that would not look out of place in a grade school.

Are they good at what they do? Yes.
Does what they do require that type of abstract thinking and computer skills? Not that I have seen, they seem effective at what they do, the lights are on, the place runs smoothly.
If you have a phone and a tablet, install Google Authenticator and Authy on each, and scan the QR code with each app (a total of 4 times). As long as the clocks are in sync it will work fine, and protects access in case of:

- loss of 1 device, and
- one of the apps not being available (e.g. during a stuck iOS app update)
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Anyone know of any good UX examples for an API Explorer
working on designing some UX/UI for an API Explorer. I'm not the core user persona, so looking for some good examples for reference. Anyone know of any? I don't mind google's but looking for a simpler solution that happens on one page.
Everybody is fighting the last war. The CIA is trying to box thoughts with Jedi mind tricks.

God chose me. The only reason it matters is God.

God says...
ahh Yawn thats_right Yes_you_are you_don't_say Angel let_me_count_the_ways
spoiled_brat geek furious endeavor I_got_your_back dignity
what_a_mess climate

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Mine is divine intellect. It will last longer than Windows or Linux.

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It's done.

When a product is done the customer checks-off.

I have written games that show it is done. It successfully meets the design spec.
Thanks for the post. I made a short video demoing some of the features here, like zooming/responsiveness/snapping: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tq1go7Ld1Q4
AHHHHH MY BRAIN IS FULL OF FOUR DIMENSIONAL CLUSTERFUCK
Um, eek?

You can't safely use SHA256 in that construction. The hash is simply the value of the SHA256 internal state after the last block. An attacker can take that hash and resume "hashing" from that point, adding additional data to the original data.

That attack is called "length extension", and it's the reason we have the HMAC construction. Here, I think you want the HMAC-SHA256 of the filter and user ID, with the API key as the HMAC key.
A little tongue-in-cheek, but to co-opt some general immigration/visa catch phrases:

1. Why do we need to bring in immigrants to found companies? Do we have a shortage of Americans already here who also want to start companies?

2. Or, is Start-up Founder one of those jobs, like picking cabbage, that Americans "just won't do"?

3. Or, is it that American founders are demanding too much compensation?
it'd be cool if you made it so I could customize the characters eyes ... then I could make my guy look like a jawa.
To be fair, it isn't at all clear if Occam's Razer doesn't point to a hijacking.

I think that the lack of clear & sufficient information makes Occam's Razer hard to apply.
Thanks! I'd spend more time polishing this but I wanted to release early and at least pretend not to waste the entire evening (elapsed time from initial thought to release: ~3 hours).
This is a really important operational point that deserves highlighting -- make SSL checks part of your monitoring!!!
All of those things (except the online part) existed 30 years ago when the sector in question represented a much smaller part of the overall economy. Many of those services have gotten much worse for the consumer at the same time as costs for providing have gone down.

Remember when we were supposed to appreciate having a "personal banker"?
The Canadian one seems like a case of starting with decent intent but ending up with a system that pretty clearly had the details written in a way that's mostly looking out for the interests of a few big finance-side players. The requirement that it has to be Canadian VCs and angels, and Canadian VCs and angels on a specific list no less, makes it look like the category is really about maximizing deal flow to a few Canadian investment firms.
That brush is so broad it's blocking out the sun.
And this is why "comprehensive immigration reform" needs to be dumped. Visa and legalization are different issues and need to be considered on their own merits.
Because I care about formatting? Anyway, documents I haven't touched decades and decades from now, I probably won't care about.

I'm just not especially concerned. It's not like I get better life out of my paper documents, as I don't worry about the whole acid-free paper in an hermetic container deal.
Fake, according to http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Conspiracy.
Banks bear risk.

when you want to borrow, they lend. when companies raise capital, they put the issuance on their balance sheets first. when banks make markets, they hold inventory with no ready buyer/seller.

we pay them so that we avoid having to take on that risk.

in your scenario, what if Dave is buying the house to move to a new city to take a job paying twice what he was making before? if the bank never stepped in, he could never have realized that opportunity. the bank is, of course, indifferent to Dave's motivations. For all we know Dave could really be an idiot. the bank simply bears the risk of Dave defaulting and as a consequence makes money from doing so.
Didn't think there would be pics of anything sexual.
What is unjust or inefficient about your example with purchasing the house?

Should Dave not be allowed to borrow money to own a house? Should only the wealthy, with sufficient cash reserves, be permitted to buy a house, without financing?

If you don't value the house as much as Dave -- on a net present value of the future payments you have to make to own it -- why should you have it, instead of Dave?

Should real estate prices be capped, by a central planning board, so that Dave cannot borrow too much to own it? If so how does the seller choose who to sell to, between you and Dave? Who says the house is worth X, and not Y, when Dave is happy to pay Y?

Or is it unjust that Dave likes the house enough to commit much of his future income to it?

Why is Dave a moron? Because he disagrees with you on what to use his future income for? Should you be able to tell Dave what to spend money on, and what not, out of your view of what is socially efficient?

Perhaps not just you; you could get a few of your neighbors together and call a vote on what Dave can spend his money on. Based on social utility, of course.

But to go back to your example. Suppose you choose not to outbid Dave, because you are smarter, and instead opt to rent an efficiency studio and save up over your life and build a sizable amount of investment assets (because you did not spend frivolously on a large house). As you age, you look for your savings to work for you, because you were smart enough to defer consumption and now you feel you should be rewarded.

Where to put your assets? There are many choices. Should one of them not be the option to lend Dave's son, Dave Jr., money for his own house, in return for a level of interest to compensate you for use of your capital? But that's a pain to find the borrower and vet him, and risky if it's just relying on Dave Jr (who may be a moron like his father).

What if there was an agent you could pay, who would originate the loan, check that the title was valid, check Dave Jr.'s credit, author the loan documents, and then provide it to investors like you -- or even bundle them together, so that you could spread risk of default over a few different mortgages, instead of just one?

That would be great -- you could earn a return on your saved capital, and Dave Jr. would get what he wants too (even if you disagree with what he should want)!

Ah, but of course, agents like that are just parasites. So instead of reinvesting your saved capital with someone willing to borrow the money, you stuff it in your mattress.

To make society more efficient.
CAcert with high user gain and new server
"Disbelieving"? Or "unaware"? Disbelieving has intent. Unaware is simply not thinking about it. Would you say it is ok to not think about something due to unawareness? Or would you say that was being sexist?
I didn't really understand applicative functors until I was playing with Elm. Working with Signals was pretty fun, and when I found out they were applicative functors, it was like a light bulb going off above my head.

Elm is a really fun way to start exploring purely functional programming.
Well, AirBnB allows listings that are illegal in the listing's jurisdiction, so their culpability not a cut-and-dried case.

https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/1854409?checkin=03%2F26%2F2014&...

If I had a website that openly facilitated illegal transactions (say, of cell phone jammers), and someone caused damages with an item they bought there, I couldn't throw up my hands and say it's not my problem.
> Why do you care about those people?

Powerful words.

I disagree with the parent comment even though I share a lot of the same thoughts, feelings and desires. Vengeance would surely be great, for a moment. But your words say it well. Who cares what people think? Your point on ego is spot on.

FWIW, OP focuses a little too much on "finding a connection" and consistently saying, "that's what life is about." IMO, life isn't about anything. Calm down. Relax. Everything is arbitrary. While I think it's great OP has found meaningful activities, the things he finds enjoyable sound dreadful to me.

But we're all different :)
I actually ran the idea by a few other firms and they didn't seem quite as interested in international founders as we are.

We're willing to do the work on this. If others are, that'd be fine with us too. We just don't want to wait 5 more years for anything to happen.
Microeconomics 101.

Better enforcement leads to higher prices leads to a more profitable black market profits leads to more criminal behavior.

BTW when people say "foo 101" they usually mean "it is basic". But this time that really was the course where I learned this. (Black markets are an elementary application of supply/demand curves.)
Really? I saw a Vice (American organisation) video from not too long ago (a week ago or less)...
Supporting other platforms before Windows
This nytimes article mentions that a satellite picked up four or five signals from the airliner, about one per hour, after it left the range of military radar. The only information which can be deduced from those signals is the angle of the plane to the satellite. From the last transmission 7.5 hours after take off they were able to draw an arc on the map which corresponds to the deduced angle(see article). If we draw an arc for each of the last five transmission, and if we assume an average speed of the plane wouldn't their pattern suggest a certain direction of flight?
If your computer freezes, it's a crash, regardless of the underlying reason. The computer is no longer responding properly. Something has broken. It might be reasonable that it has broken, like an aged drive that needs replacing, but it's still broken/crashed/whathaveyou.

Disk being nearly full choking any machine? No. Stopping some things from working properly if they want to write new files maybe, but it shouldn't make your operating system unresponsive. If a writable drive was required to run a responsive OS, you wouldn't be able to do neat tricks like read-only mounted linux desktops.
SoundFocus (YC S13) is hiring a Senior Mobile Engineer (employee #4)
5 Sigma – What’s That?
That's nice. What type system is that? Does it support eg parametricity?
I ran into this issue with a Visual Fox Pro database setup used by FERC.

In 2013, documents are STILL being produced into a proprietary format that nothing open source can read (directly) a decade later.

This is why I love Python and Perl for data munging.
> Say I walk down the street firing a gun randomly, but I don't strike anyone with a bullet. Civil remedies only?

Why not? If you are in actual fact endangering people then you are risking the severe criminal penalties that would be imposed if you hit someone. That is enough to deter anyone acting rationally. On the other hand, if you are not deterred because you have somehow ensured that your actions will cause no damage, why should your actions be prohibited?
I.e. whether we treat kids hacking into AT&T's network just for shits and giggles the same as their breaking into AT&T's corporate offices with no particular malintent in mind.

It seems to me that, right now, we treat the digital equivalent far more harshly.
Predicting The Next IPO Wave: The Era Of The Enterprise
‘XXX Freak Fest’ Orgy After Renting NYC Apartment on Airbnb
LOVE this post. thank you. All these so called "analytic" minds making leaps of faith that make religion look well thought out. There is data that says the less you believe you are likely to be wrong, the more likely you are to be wrong.

Same goes for so much that passes as argument on Hacker News, especially on topics about which participants are largely ignorant.
The _abuse_ of anything is bad. Alcohol is still a societal danger. If you really want to protect people you should make it illegal.

But I bet you like a drink now and then, so you're willing to let other people die so you can get a buzz on.

Edit: can't reply to your reply so I'm appending here:

Your non reply confirms my guess. Because you like your drug of choice you are ok with it being legal, but other people can get fucked. Do you really think people are protected from drugs by making them illegal?

Have you ever given a moments thought to the death and destruction that comes from the War on Drugs itself? Do you have any notion of what a powerful weapon it has become in the war on humanity?

Or are you just a sanctimonious narcissistic nanny-stater? This madness continues because of support from people like you, you twit.
There's about one thread per day or at least one at a time, a megathread would be exactly that.
Ah, would have loved to have seen that in the post. With that information, your post is a totally different read. Apologies.
I fully appreciate the "reasonableness" of reducing the scope of what you're asking for, but (as I'm sure you're aware) the US Government is much more likely to grant 10,000 Startup Visas than to go through the process of granting 100 to 1 group. That's like, the opposite of how they work - it shows favoritism, it takes a lot of process for what seems like insignificant results (whether the USG produces significant results or not, their numbers are never in the hundreds of anything), etc.

I suggest continuing to pool resources and lobby for 10,000 - that is much more likely to yield results.
Just to make sure—this is only for guitar, right?
Your comment is very difficult to read.

>this is hardly state "tacitly":

>>"I am no longer involved in that and I cannot discuss it," he says, dismissing all further queries with a swat of his left hand. "It's been turned over to other people. They are in charge of it now. I no longer have any connection."

>>-Dorian S. Nakamoto
or 4)They weren't patents on math.
Airbnb and Dropbox will tell you that YC was instrumental in their success.* And, indeed, that the YC equity stake is worth it. So I think the thrust of your argument is off-base -- there's some plausible justification for it.

But to your broader point -- conferring immigration status upon acceptance by an arbitrarily-designated institution makes me uncomfortable too. However, it's a ship that sailed a long time ago. (Colleges, for e.g.) Given that we effectively permit universities to pick hundreds of thousands of visa recipients every year, experimenting with 100 for entrepreneurship seems not insane.

* (So will Stripe!)
fair point.. although I personally lump accountants in with lawyers as something you can't live without but hopefully don't need full time. Hiring is much easier when you're remote for the reasons already mentioned in the book and for many organizations it's something a small team of developers can handle themselves.
This whole affair is taking such a conspiracy laden turn that it makes me miss Tom Clancy.

Russians building up rhetoric and pushing tensions to a high not seen since the cold war? An airliner that mysteriously disappears with some evidence pointing toward an elaborate hijacking scheme? Tell me that doesn't sound like an outline for one of his books.

I'm not trying to be flippant with the fact that hundreds of people lost their lives or that friends and families are being crushed by the uncertainty. It's just a thought that springs to mind.
Dropbox Acquires Zulip, A Stealthy Workplace Chat Solution Still In Private Beta
> I'd use Java if I had a team of 500 engineers working on an enterprise app.

If possible, fire 490 of them, and switch to a saner language. Quintuple the salary of the remaining ten, and pocket the difference.
Well, that settles it. Clearly, they have not.
My dad was a cop in Oakland ca, during the 70s... I would not agree with your statement until i have videos proving otherwise.
I appreciated the criticism of the article but it largely depends on the company i guess. I know that as a technical person having worked in large companies and startups the office managers were perceived as magicians. They also seem to hold a privileged status in many cases. For one, execs depend on them heavily so they wield influence. In some cases, with startups, they appear to advise the CEO.
What if somebody has compromised your email account and want's to take over your bank account. They do a password reset and the 2F is sent to the same address that is compromised. Not very safe.

Same thing can happen with a phone but, usually, when someone has their phone stolen, it gets quickly reported and disabled. When your email is compromised, you may not know about it and even if you do, how long will it take to disable the account or recover it?
To be fair, the actions of many (not all) of the rich in this country have brought it on themselves. When the middle class is stagnant or declining, and the wealthy keep getting richer and richer, then the populist rhetoric will take root.

And who can blame them exactly? When wages are stagnant, income inequality is rising, most companies have little-to-no loyalty to their employees and discard them at will, and many of the rich and comfortable push relentlessly towards eliminating the safety net, then those at the bottom are going to feel more than a little resentful. They feel ignored and powerless, which is a correct assessment of their position.

While not all the rich are bad, it's very hard in the current climate to have the slightest bit of sympathy for them. They, as a class, have the power to change things and avoid the coming storms, but, they've already shown they're not the least bit interested in addressing the immense financial inequalities and the problems to an ordered society caused by such divisions.
Here is why pattern matching is bullshit:

https://medium.com/best-thing-i-found-online-today/8178b2794...

Here, I'll even save you the trouble of clicking:

To be direct: Pattern recognition is bullshit voodoo pseudo-science masquerading as objectivity and meritocracy. It’s sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and xenophobia dressed up as science. It sickens me.