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Knowing all the people mentioned in this post, I don't doubt a single one of these stories. Every one of those people is selfless and eager to help.

Jessica has done an amazing job of instilling a culture at YC that selects for people who are friendly and eager to help others.
I think this project could be used to secure against evil admins. Especially if you make CouchDB-style apps (communicate directly with the DB from the browser or desktop/mobile app)
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Fishing and internet spaceships.
"NSA Data Collection has no impact on terrorism" : http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-01-13/nsa-data-h...
Such a cool idea, and I enjoyed Microcorruption, but ended up getting stuck in the second or third level and couldn't even figure out the right questions to ask to get help. (I stepped into the irc channel at some point and asked some simple question, but got an answer that I couldn't even parse. So I realized I was out of my league and needed to learn more basics first.)

My one concern is about something that was mentioned during the announcement a little while back. The post mentioned something like "employers will be able to see exactly what you did when you had to create a REST service" (or something like that). Maybe I'm just learning this concept, maybe I'm only playing around! Will I have to have one "play" account, and one "real" account? If I knew that I'd be judged by not only whether I complete a level, but every single thing I tried.... Yeah, no thanks.
Bone to pick with the CTE that archives users. I'd rather see it insert them into the archive table first, then delete them. Not much of a difference, but my instinct is to cover all possible failures, and be especially careful around deleting rows.

It also means that god forbid it did die halfway through, and PG isn't smart enough to pick up where it left off safely, you won't lose any data, and at worst would end up with a duplicate archived row (easy enough to catch with some maintenance scripts and origin ids)
Kind of interesting but I would like to see an explanation of the idea and how it works. The demo video doesn't seem to show any sign of encryption.
App to schedule emails via an API as well as via a GUI?
Any one aware of an app where one could schedule emails via an API as well as via a GUI?
Turns out for most people stability and cost are much more important than having something incrementally better

Or, rather, people have different definitions of better. For many people, cost and stability are huge components of their personal calculation. I think it would be more appropriate for you to say:

having something incrementally NEWER
Those are theories. But time and time again, researchers have sought to trace where the evolution path branches off. So far: no dice. And that means a theory of humans coming from another evolutionary path not found on earth still may hold merit. Because it has not been disproven yet.
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I don't think revolt is an inevitable outcome for a number of reasons. I actually think it's very unlikely.

First, the warfare would be very asymmetric, with much of the war fighting capability automated through the very robotics that empower the capital class economically. Go ahead and ask the Taliban / ISIS what happens when you try to fight a modern military force in 2015 with weapons from 1970. If you don't have the money, you can't afford the newest weapons. If you don't have the newest weapons, you'll be fighting an asymmetric war from the weak position.

Second, it is in the best interests of the capital class to keep the underclasses happy. You see this tactic in a lot of developing countries like Mexico or India - the government subsidizes energy, food, etc. for the poor; meanwhile the rich run roughshod over the economy. So while people may dislike the lack of upward mobility, they are also dependent on the system (which is largely funded by the capital class), so there's very little will to change. If you give people just enough that they fear losing it, they will continue to vote for you.
It was much less not too long ago, as well.
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Yes, I've built an SPA using backbone + marionette before, but on top of that I needed something for UI, at the time I used JQMobile (huge mistake).

I really would like to avoid JQuery, and any other "big" framework like Angular. React, only gives me a render engine, so I need third party libraries for everything else, so, not an option.

I'm just interest in the frontend, I have clear the backend part.
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What on earth are you doing that you pay a 40% effective tax rate and spend a few hundred hours doing your tax return?
I see far more similarities between Tufte and Lupi's work than differences (and works/talks by both of them are among the biggest influences on my approach to visualization and things I want to work on).

Both have as driving principles that people are curious and intelligent, and that visualizations should cater to that. Tufte certainly preaches "avoid unnecessary ornamentation". But he also preaches "show the data". In particular, showing individual data points, rather than aggregations, and that the purpose of a visualization is as much to provoke questions as to answer them.
Ehhhh... Aren't there syndicates standing ready with millions for every YC startup on Demo Day? I think YC acceptance is worth at least 10 million in funding.
> HN is a community, not a marketing channel

I wish the YC people saw it like that.
tl;dr - Current & next-gen wireless APs saturate 1GbE... 2.5 & 5 Gbps BASE-T (UTP) Ethernet will be the next step.

Hopefully by the time APs reach 10Gbps (at least 3+ yrs?) 10GBASE-T will be more affordable.
I do not understand what is the mechanism that equates "more people voting" with "less money influence". You have done little to explain it, only using an argument from authority ("An important man said it, therefore it's true").

"Big money" isn't directly buying votes. Increasing the number of votes doesn't make an election "more expensive" to buy. If you have only three candidates, to buy out their loyalty you need the same amount of money, regardless if you have one million of people voting for them or ten.

Direct democracy renders the process even worse. People cannot be fully informed about all topics at all times - I hope you realize how uncontroversial this opinion is. So they'll just find the information that is easiest to find and digest and be influenced by it. If you have enough money, you can be the easiest source of information in the topic you care.
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I wonder if instead of letting the second stage burn up, they could dock them in space somewhere to serve as material and fluid storage. They might not work for long term cryogenic storage, but a ton of pure aluminum has to be worth something up there.
I'd be willing to bet they discovered during polling just how much people love Tesla and their hand was forced.
Wait, so you "sign" the version of code you're okay with using, and if you haven't "signed" the new version off, you're actually served by the old version of the code (the "newest" version you've "signed")?

Wicked. :)
Then they will complain about "lack of skilled people to fill jobs"...
I imagine the car salesmen also think of buying a car as a "process that can't be navigated with blog posts and product pages alone". Probably your business has a more valid claim to that.
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Anyone have done something on Riot.js? Is it performant on mobile?
Even if you do pay the sticker price, you might also be trading your car in, in which case you still have to negotiate how much they will pay you for your car.

Not only that but the sticker prices are usually artificially high since they are expecting negotiation with high prices for random add-ons like paint protection or other things nobody asked for.
No; each data producer (customer/person/identity) has their own serialized (as in ordered) queue of events.

Since the system is fully immutable each update would also include the state of the system it is an update to (which can be outdated.)

Essentially you're modelling human communication with each event being equivalent to a human speech act.

For most cases that would offer sufficient conflict resolution and more expensive commit strategies could be used only where more needed; much like how lattice/CALM-based programming languages such as Bloom deal with distribution.
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In my experience the biggest hurdles to implementing SSL are: advertising networks, dependencies (such as internal systems or APIs) that are incompatible, policy of providers (such as Akamai implementing fees far above the actual cost of SSL), or performance issues.

Cost does not seem to be a major issue for most organizations (or even independent websites). Sure, Symantec and other high profile CAs charge an arm and a leg, but thats all marketing. There are affordable and trusted certs out there for <$10 if you just need a single domain cert, and <$100 for Wildcard and Multidomains.
I've been thinking more and more about "super tools". Not so much humans and machines working together to build things, like cars or highways. More like one person orchestrating an array of automation to solve a specific problem.

A tool is so much more versatile than a die press stamping out the same object over and over. Tools imply flexibility and adaptability to different circumstances.

I think automation will happen from the bottom up. Some plumbers use cameras and nitrogen gas to detect leaks. Soon, they'll use robots to detect and repair leaks. They'll get better and faster, requiring less and less oversight. The natural consequence of that, the guy with the good tools can fix more stuff in a day.
"Use it for 21.95 EUR (5.95 EUR) per year" does not accurately state the price. Elsewhere this is clarified to mean "21.95 EUR after the first year" and the 5.95 seems to be linked with a sale which is not active.

"Refund policy...We have no refund policy." just state 'we do not offer refunds' or similar, as that is the policy that you have attempted to state.

The example CV is quite poor IMO.

- "gooogle" is misspelled

- no tooltips on the UI with vague icons

- "I am an engineer ..." is not a good placeholder

- the "vis"ual arts education section is cut off and it does not expand when hovered over or clicked

- mostly empty drop downs when I click on on code types

- pretty much useless code examples on others

- all sorts of self proclaimed experience in languages with pretty much nothing to back it up

perhaps having a link to a blog where you did something novel with a language in that dropdown?
It could just be theatre (just like Apple complaining about NSA and Xcode ..).
How good were Bill Gates and the late Steve Jobs at programming?
I would suspect that this is non-obvious to people who view YC as a structured, semi-guaranteed route to success, the way many people view a degree from a prestigious university. I know many people who are 'interested' in startups and crave some kind of validation that they are a real entrepreneur before sinking their teeth in. My university even offers a 1 year diploma in entrepreneurship. Madness! As though formal training will help you make the hard decisions you face as a founder.
I agree this is a possibility, but I don't think it was the case for Erik. I think he viewed electronic communication as a different form of communication that had different rules.

I also think he fell into a trap of bad behavior and he wasn't able to disconnect from it. Years before he died he disconnected from comp.lang.lisp. That seemed to be the only way he could change, and it meant not participating in conversations there.
> This, however, is totally and completely unfair. People stick with MSBuild because there's no other option that works with Visual Studio.

This is only true for .csproj and .sln files, which are managed by the Visual Studio GUI, and which I've said are a fair and appropriate use for MSBuild.

It is not true for more general-purpose build scripts, which in addition to building the solution also do things such as run tests, prepare reports, hack configuration files, create zip bundles, deploy upgrades, stop and start servers, and so on. For .proj files, all you get from Visual Studio is the XML editor. In theory, you also get IntelliSense; in practice, IntelliSense for MSBuild files is something of an afterthought, and nowhere near enough to make up for the horrible lack of readability and maintainability.

In any case, in most projects that I've worked on, the .proj files were not included in the solution itself and had to be edited separately. On at least one project I was ordered to rewrite perfectly good and easy to read Python build scripts in MSBuild gibberish for no reason other than "that is how Microsoft wants you to do things."
Very cool of Yvonne to share about her pivot, not many founders (yc or not) are open about that.

The core message is so true. YC partners (and the founder community) is incredibly genuine, very eager to help out. This scales past being a "small company" as well -- the Collisons are some of the most approachable founders ever.
But why would anyone go through all this trouble just to impersonate an Uber driver and assault a passenger?
Not really commenting on the idea, but the consistency in the design is slightly annoying. Take your example, for example (https://sendflare.co/l/alice-s-adventures-in-wonderland):

- the fonts change constantly
- the buttons differ
- you have breaks in one tweet box, then no break in the other
- the very top download link doesn't work & also doesn't have the correct cursor

The homepage seems to be unnecessarily loading despite the fact I could briefly see the page before the "loader" appeared
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You could convince me that your server has a checked-out copy of a given body of code by a) giving me push access to a single 'throwaway' file in your repository b) generating a fingerprint of the codebase and serve it. You can't then just return a hardcoded fingerprint, but this doesn't guarantee that you aren't running other things in addition to that code.
The original question, "how would sexprs make a better markup language", was in a vacuum. At least that's how I took it, and for good reason. A discussion whose pivotal argument is "well, that's how we do things now" is neither interesting nor (after the first few times your idealism is stomped on) is it illuminating.
"I don't think revolt is an inevitable outcome for a number of reasons."

Sorry, I wasn't clear. My comment was a reply, and was taking the parent as a given. If a very small cabal of capital owners tries to enslave the whole of humanity, then it won't be stable because humanity will revolt. And it is unlikely to come to that, for the reasons you state.

Interestingly, "large swathes of humanity enslaved" is actually a thing that has happened in the past, but in the past, the slaves were what we'd consider radically poor, and the enslaving states were not high-skill affairs.

I also disagree that merely keeping people happy-ish will suffice. We do have, as someone else says, "bread and circuses" today, but there's still a lot of people bitching about "income inequality", pushing for ever more wealth transfers to them, and hinting at if not outright threatening violence any time there's any suggestion that those will be taken away. I see no evidence there's a level of wealth that satisfies people in the longterm, and the capital owners can never be wealthy enough to satisfy humanity in the long term. You'd have to re-engineer humanity to have some concept of "enough" built into them. Eventually the capital owners will be forced to reckon with something.

If nothing else, eventually the remaining people who are still doing some sort of work are simply going to go on strike. Humans are rarely happy with the amount of wealth they have, and historically speaking, it seems giving them more makes that problem worse, not better.
> They told us they would stop notifying us of plots and other intelligence matters

What does "other intelligence matters" mean ? Also historically, what are the cases where this intelligence was useful ? Being more specific would probably help determine if it's even useful.
Yes that will track that a package arrived but it doesn't track that it had money in it or its location within the receivers infrastructure.

I get that you're a huge fan of bitcoin but your instance to dismiss the possibility that companies can make mistakes in processing orders or managing orders or shipping is really weird. Even after I've showed you examples of it happening. Even in large 'trustworthy' companies.

I've said it repeatedly during our discussions. Not all problems that require a chargeback are fraud. Just let that sink in for a bit then go back and read our last conversation with that statement in mind and look at the points where you repeatedly accuse me to saying a company was willfully fraudulent immediately after I said the above.

I think from this point I'm just going to stop responding as honestly I don't feel like wasting time in another back and forth over whether or not companies are able to make mistakes.
It was even worse. Occupy did never chant slogans in favour of banks. The Berlin pirate party had influential members that did advocate Internet censorship. (For non culture sensitive stuff)
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Actually, libressl is practical drop-in replacement of openssl if you use only sane parts of openssl's functionality.

Biggest problem now is some upstream softwares still depends on insanity Openbsd devs nuked away, like RAND_egd() or won't admit that libressl actually exist :)

(https://devsonacid.wordpress.com/2014/07/12/how-compatible-i..., https://blog.hboeck.de/archives/851-LibreSSL-on-Gentoo.html)

But situation is changing as more and more upstream developers abandon those APIs : https://github.com/gentoo/libressl/blob/master/README.md

And I guess this is cool thing about libressl: even if it fails to replace openssl for real good, it is still forcing others to advance toward right direction (remember the linux fork fuss last year? You can disagree with me but I myself consider it linux's 'fault' not to have consistent mechanism of extracting entropy....it doesn't have to be arc4random but it could have been better in the first place if this IMO)
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Thanks; that's very informative.

> we get requests nearly every day to release more information, which we can't do, due to the real possibility of re-identification.

Is there a legal liability for re-identification? Either way, it's good to know that you are being careful and thinking through the risks.
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I have some experience writing software, so I don't have a problem learning something new quite fast. If no documentation I read the code, that's no the problem.

Polymer looks good, but I'm not sure yet. I haven't seen nothing serious done with it.
An infamous German journalist had something to say about all this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lm4OUcfiM-8
I do not understand all the hype over the Tesla S. Yes it's gorgeous, yet it is radically different. Yes, Musk is a Jobs-level genius, aiming much, much higher. But still.

This article explains why the Tesla S is preposterous. They have to "route long trips with superchargers in mind". When you get to one, it takes "as little as 20 minutes" to charge, according to Tesla. Come on, people, this is a commuter car. Until there is a fundamental breakthrough in battery technology, it is not suitable for long trips. And for a commuter car, the expense is just insane.
The United States is an impediment to the projected unified world government. Rest assured influential Americans are very much on board with this program and this vilification is par per course. After all, we see more than the old glory hoisted up in foreign nations subjected to the "international community" dictates.
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I'm not sure I understand the purpose of the loop in the last example. AFAIK top-level plpgsql statements (including DO blocks run in psql) execute in a single transaction, so it seems like you end up slowly locking the entire table, as the transaction won't commit until the loop completes. (I learned this the hard way by trying to "batch"-update a table with tens of millions of rows in production.)

The normal way to handle batch updates is to perform the loop outside of postgresql, so that each batch is in its own transaction.
In addition to the compelling arguments made here, I would argue wargaming should also be introduced at the very lowest levels as well. Many of us joined the service loving strategy games like Risk, Axis and Allies, Settlers, etc. Bring that to a Secret-level, tactical wargame, and all of a sudden you get innovative tactics from those unburdened by institutionalized doctrine. Our adversaries are wily - we must be doubly so. The only way to test is to play.
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There's also just a lot of green space here. The city's got parks all over, in a bunch of different sizes. If you're downtown you have to trek a bit to get to a nice quiet park, but it's generally pretty easy to find somewhere you can just sit in a patch of dandelions and contemplate the ineffable.
If you are trading in a car, it adds quite a bit to the complexity. It adds another level of where they can move numbers around to make it look like you're getting a better deal than you are. It goes from being just about the cost of the car and APR, to also including the amount you are getting for your trade-in. It's very easy for them to lower some portions of the equation while making up for it in other places, and they are well versed in how to do this as they do it every day.

Recently I've had both an extremely bad and an okay experience at car dealerships. In one case, the salesman was so pushy as to repeatedly argue with my as to my decision to not buy a car that day, even when I was up front in my first contact with him saying I was looking that day, not buying, and would be back in a day or two after I'd done my own research on what they presented to me. I left not just angry, but infuriated. A few weeks later I bought a different make of car at a different dealership, and the experience was fairly smooth. Even so, there's a lingering feeling that I may not have paid enough attention and they may have changed the deal slightly on one portion of the deal while I was busy focusing on another part. I have so little trust of that industry at this point that I find it nearly impossible to trust any good experience.

I understand that there shouldn't be an expectation that I will automatically get the best deal just by showing up, but there's so much purposeful obfuscation and complexity in the process that it's hard not to walk away confused and angry (even if it takes a while to settle in).
Also about Quid from CNBC: The quiet start-up inking million-dollar deals
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I believe they've said that the second stage is about 25% of the total cost. Not cheap by any means, but just being able to reuse the first stage will be a huge boon. Even more so for Falcon Heavy, which still has a regular second stage, but has three first stage cores.
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