skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Designing and Building Stockfighter, Our Programming Game – Kalzumeus Software
1st article relies entirely on startup accelerators for stats, which means 92% of companies that enter startup accelerators fail, which is a totally different statistic.

2nd article just links to other articles on fortune which don't have anything to back them up.

So I'd be dubious of those figures.
You always pay for it. The US does have a lower tax rate, for example… but then you pay for health insurance, schooling, etc. etc. that in other places are handled through the higher tax rate.
If they considered that, they'd also have to consider whether the ridiculously high-intensity pace during their incubator directly contributes to that post-YC slump.

There's no reason why Y Combinator can't simultaneously be great for the businesses of those capable of working sixteen-hour days indefinitely, and toxic for the businesses of everyone else.
In addition to this, for every "capable of working more than 40 hours" worker, there's another "incapable of being productive more than 40 hours" worker. That's the joy with averages.

So look around you - of the 20 people who are working late hours with you and believe they are still productive, 10 of them are wildly unproductive, quite possibly to the point of contributing disproportionally negative productivity due to writing bugs.

Is the additional 400 man-hours of productive work worth those 400-800 man-hours spent debugging problems which could have been avoided?
The vacancy rate in NYC is a lie – and we can double it overnight
That overlays is probably part of the FT's paywall, and their paywall is quite strict. I'd say FT links aren't ideal for HN, since many (most?) HN readers are unlikely to have FT subscriptions. (They do allow ~10 articles a month if you register). Another workaround is to click through a Google News link, especially in Incognito Mode.
Yes. Next question?

More seriously, if you're taking a company through the investment/VC pseudo-Ponzi pipeline, you have to grow. Otherwise, early investors don't get an exit.
Japanese Police: Mt. Gox CEO Bought Himself a $48,000 Bed
What browser?
By "conservative rhetoric" I assume you mean the only scientifically provable stance that there is on the issue.
Maybe people don't find your personal taste relevant.
Google displays their own Answer box over Wikipedia, they display their own reviews instead of Yelp, they display their own maps over anyone else's directions.

Is anyone else getting the feeling that Google is becoming a hostile platform for other businesses?
Whether you call the way of paying a "claw-back", "flat-tax", or just straight up higher marginal rates, you need to pay for it somehow. In the end someone is getting less of each additional dollar they earn. All these need to add up to BI * the population.
Yeah, your comment about weather is an FAQ. I started a little blog FAQ a few weeks ago so I wouldn't have to repeatedly answer the same questions.

https://2cco2.wordpress.com/2015/08/04/the-difference-betwee...
This is very, very similar to DXT encoding that all GPUs use (and is also how the ZX Spectrum's hardware worked).
The Real Security Rules That Applied to Hillary Clinton's Email Server
"A little sliver" indeed!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:All_palaeotemps.png
Even if you don't accept that humans are a major cause of climate change, but you do accept that it is happening, will have disastrous consequences for human survival, and can be mitigated through human action, the equation becomes simple. The "can be mitigated through human action" seems to get tied up in, "humans are a major cause", but they aren't actually the same thing. Instead of the backwards-looking "you did this" slap on the wrist, we should be selling the aspirational "you can help solve this" call to action.
There's a ton of information about the available science, from high-level overviews all the way down to nitty-gritty technical details, in the periodic reports from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. They're published every several years, and the most recent one is from 2014.

A good place to start is the so-called synthesis report, which covers a mixture of physical science, human impact and public policy. Page 6 of the "summary for policymakers" includes a graph showing that although the error bars are still pretty big, the observed warming is consistent with estimates of human-caused effects, and vastly larger than can be explained by the "natural cycles" we know about.

https://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar5/syr/AR5_SYR_FI...
It's all linked together, and while that statement had nothing to do with temperature, the same can be said in my area with regard to that.

Also, if a meteorologist can't get the current state of the weather correct, why on earth would I trust his statement of what the temperature is going to be like? At that point I'm just going to consider it a guess.
Nest could be seen in this light. In general: Better use of information to lower energy consumption.
PhantomJS for headless testing? http://phantomjs.org/
It would be great to get a big list of growth stories, each in 255 characters or less. e.g. Went viral with free web widget, made zero money, realized growth without revenue sucks, pivoted.
Lantern 2.0 – Open Internet for Everyone
I'm open to a debate on this. What's the failure rate only of startups that go through YC?

"Y-Combinator’s success is undeniable: the program has produced 37 start-ups worth over $40 million each in the past five years. In its first six years, 72 percent of Y.C.’s 249 start-ups raised money after Demo Day, and today, the average value of a Y.C.-financed start-up is $22.4 million. However, these statistics also reveal a grimmer reality: 93 percent of the 511 companies accepted by Y-Combinator have failed. Even more alarming, only 3 to 5 percent of the companies that apply to Y-Combinator are even accepted, meaning that only one in every 200 companies that applies to Y.C. eventually succeeds."

Emphasis mine.

[+] http://koltai.co/notebook/the-risky-business-of-entrepreneur...

EDIT: Please disregard this post. Left for historical purposes. sama notes that the stats are inaccurate.

EDIT 2: The citations in that link I mention above are from nytimes and business insider. They might be accurate, if a bit old, but require verification. Treat them appropriately.
No, what I am saying is that there are people out there working on technology on their own because they are interested in it and love doing it and if given the chance some of those people would drop everything to work on that technology.

Not that they would or should work for free, but that there are, as I said, intangible reasons that people join projects and work 80 hour weeks that aren't just compensation.
What Is Even Happening with Bitcoin Right Now
This is a great write-up of a tough technical problem, and I definitely agree with their conclusion that "it's worth taking the time to understand your stack." I especially liked that it wasn't preachy. It just explained their problem and how they solved it. (It seems a lot of write-ups end up offering very specific technical advice that grossly overgeneralizes from their experience.)

My only question is how they got to haproxy as the root cause so quickly. In my experience, comparing what's different between production and staging is a long shot because there's so much that's different. Obviously workload can matter a lot, and so can uptime and time since upgrade. So I'm curious if haproxy was the first thing they saw that was different or if they just didn't write about the dead ends.
Rb: A Redis parallelization toolkit for Python
Or maybe SV types can't handle real beer.
It's fine to include meritocracy in #4, but why free trade? I know that free trade is often a fiscally conservative issue, but it simply helps all of us by removing barriers to trade. The wealth of the world increases from it.

///edit: And actually, I want to continue and make a claim.

Barriers to free trade _are_ an act of Kicking Out the Ladder. If we look at import taxes, they're just national protectionism. Which is possibly understandable if we're protecting a vital-to-war industry. But the U.S. has sugar import tariffs and makes our sugar ~40% more expensive than the rest of the world. http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2014/06/us-trade-po... (I know heritage is a conservative thinktank, just using it for the graph.) Our sugar tariffs just protects a small handful of cane sugar farmers/refiners in the US, at the cost to everyone, and with lost business to poor countries in the caribbean, who could probably use some more sugar sales. We're helping people with this tariff, but they're well-off americans we're helping. We could be help caribbean economies!!

And if we actually did want to protect vital resources, then why don't we ban hard-drive imports? You saw how Thailand's flooding knocked over hard drive production. What if a hostile government took over Thailand's hard drive production?

And furthermore, most of the government's foray's into regulating the economy are, or eventually become, acts of Kicking out the Ladder. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture By even giving this kind of power to the government, you're asking for it to be abused.
...why? At least a paragraph would be needed to have some substance and accuracy.
There is a TED talk by one of the founders with a little bit more detail on what makes their printer different.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihR9SX7dgRo
The New Must Have DevOps Skill
Thank you for sharing. It looks like the project hasn't seen much activity since the expiration of the DARPA funds and the last commits to the open source project.

Do you know why the activity has slowed down?
That HR barrier is really difficult to understand. There are so many libraries and frameworks these days, and companies are looking for a person with particular experience in a particular combination of things. It doesn't seem to matter if you know similar tech and are willing to switch over.

I wonder how much good talent is never even looked at because of this.
They're not the first to get hacked, but covering it up is definitely concerning.
When was the last "coldest month on record"? Let's look at some actual statements about an actual occurrence of it and see if your characterization is correct.

Edit: answering my own question with this data set:

https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cag/time-series/global/globe/land_...

It appears the coldest month on record for this time period is January 1893. I think that the answer to why that extreme wasn't blamed on climate change might be related to an inability to correlate worldwide temperature data at the time, and the fact that nobody knew about climate change at the time.
This sounds really fun but that is one long post/email. Almost 8000 words! Will read it later though.

Looks like the schedule has already slipped. The email said "2~3 weeks of today" but the blog post says "3 weeks of today"! :P
Well, if the intensity of light in your locale is double what you need, couldn't you diffuse it with a lens/prism system accordingly?

Eg, if you're growing a mild-sunlight plant in high-sunlight climes like arizona, you could have a collection grid half the size of the delivery grid.
In some sense, it's a mark of success for an AI system to fail in the same way that humans do. "The old man the boat" is a terrible sentence, essentially ungrammatical.
In which table does it empirically address this question?
13 years later, Google could say that about The New York Times.
Regardless of what Google is doing, it seems like just another sign that the internet is becoming more and more a new generation of cable TV than a platform for universal knowledge. And it's becoming it with thunderous applause...
Here: https://github.com/sass/libsass#contribution-agreement

I think it's unfortunate. While I'm comfortable with assigning copyright to nonprofit organizations with a commitment to keep code free and enforce the license, I'm not comfortable assigning copyright to individual people.
The author would be the first to agree that there are questions raised by drug prohibition that we don't have enough data to answer. You should give the paper a close read. It's hard to come away from it thinking that he's blasé about prohibition.
My usual perusal through political talk hasn't shown that. I still see several references claiming that global warming isn't real. There still seems to be quite a few variations of talking points on both sides of the equation.
My (now) ex-wife was a law student graduating in 2002. IIRC, that year had far more students than jobs, and the rumors from 2003 (from other friends in the school) were even worse, so I think the job situation predates the 2008 wall street issues.

I've often wondered about the disconnect: How do we have too many lawyers, and yet legal services are still too expensive? To a degree, there IS a correction underway - prepaid legal services are far more common than they were. In another way, the burden new grads face (massive debt, limited job market, basically no employment during law school) means that many people choose NOT to pursue employment as actual lawyers, so the supply of law school students !== supply of lawyers.
Four People and a Donut
Do all non YC accepted startups fail?
Thanks.

1. I linked the prize back to the Web Summit - Alpha page. I will consider moving the prize above the fold.

2. As a beta the pricing is experimental and will adjust based on feedback. Mind me asking what you might pay, if anything, for user testing/feedback? Finally, what you might pay for the same service if the feedback was not via mechanical turk, but judges from the tech community (startup founders, VCs, experts, etc...)?
I've worked jobs that have challenged and fulfilled me without "nearly breaking" me.
Imagine that! An ambitious development project with a constantly slipping schedule! Maybe we're the Duke Nuke'Em Forever of CTFs! :)
I don't know where that statistic came from but it's nowhere close to accurate. Less than half of the startups we funded in the first 5 years of YC have died.

Also, he average valuation of all YC startups through w2014 (i.e. with enough time to have raised a first round) is now over $100MM.
Can you name the those compilers?
A professor at Harvard, Ben Edelman, has been all over this for several years. He catalogues the anticompetitive practices of Google and other tech companies.

http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=417579
I would think at this stage it is all about growing. In fact, even well established companies like Facebook are still trying to grow. I can't imagine Zuckerberg's Internet.org movement was created for the sole purpose of bringing internet to underprivileged areas of the world; he wants to spread Facebook's influence to those regions as well. And at the very end all investors want to see is growth and a high ROI.
Antibiotic-resistant 'superbug' found at California hospital
Nah. The essence of most growth stories can be described in less than 255 chars. I just described one of mine above.
Ad Block Software to Cost Online Advertisers $22B in 2015
Sure--the vast majority of ideas just can't support a multi-billion dollar business.

But a lot can, and poor execution is why they don't.
> I feel like the lower alcohol content session beers are working against you. More time drinking, more raw volume, and more time spent going to the bathroom.

I won't speak to the other two points, but "more time drinking" in conjunction with less time actually being drunk (which honestly sucks) is what many people are optimizing for, because going out drinking is about the socializing far more than the drinking, but it isn't "cool" to participate without an alcoholic beverage in hand.
Pawn Storm’s Domestic Spying Campaign Revealed; Ukraine and US Top Global Targets
One common theme from the YC CEOs I've talked with (maybe 8-10 - small sample size, etc.) is that post-YC they don't know the basics of sales (what a purchase order is, etc.). It would not surprise me if this was part of the reason.
Deconcentration of Attention: Addressing the Complexity of Software Engineering
What were the causes of failures for those YC alums that did fail? (Again, not trying to be combative whatsoever. I'm genuinely curious, if you're able to provide the data without compromising YC from a business perspective).
I would be nice if this worked at all on earlier versions of Firefox.
what's the actual error bound on both forecasts and aftcasts?

The article this discussion is linked to is claiming "1.46°F (0.81°C)" variance over recorded history. Recorded meaning they know what actually happened.

But I cannot believe that 2-3 day forecasts are accurate to within 2 degrees. Even the services linked by other commenters criticizing my original point claimed only 77% accuracy in the best case,
Living in Scandinavia (Norway), once thing that's become clear to me is that the welfare system really requires you to work to capture most of the benefits. You won't get normal disability pay, unemployment payments, and maternity/paternity leave if you haven't been working and paying into the system.

If you're income and asset poor, you'll get some minimal benefits, even housing. But these benefits are heavily means tested and much less generous than the regular system.

Scandinavian countries have some of the highest workforce participation rates in the world, so I think they've structured the incentives right. They need to, to make they generous systems possible. It would be interesting to see Finland take a different path.
Nice job, Bootstrap saved me so much time already. It really helps by getting the job done! However, in most of my projects I just used the grid.
I can't reply to sama's comment below, for some reason, but I would be interested to hear the median valuation of all YC backed startups. My hypothesis is that number tells a very different story.
How I broke the Internet without even trying
The previous HN discussion has some nice links to published articles on the tech, and good discussion about the advantages of their approach over traditional layer-based stereolithography (including e.g. Form Labs).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9215890
Google is testing promoted video ads in search results
It appears, from data, that a majority of them do.
Sponsored content. Sponsor-free internet.
>But here, too, the right approach is to be cautiously liberal: the burden is on society to justify when and why it is wrong to edit the genome.

I think this sentiment hits the right note. I am wholly unpersuaded by moral arguments about "playing God". We've been doing that for our entire existence. Quite successfully, thank you very much.

But tinkering with our genome and that of our children does present ethical quandaries that need to be discussed and resolved. By allowing by default except where there is a compelling objection, we can both avoid the majority of the negative consequences while embracing the real positives that gene modification will bring.
If the pace isn't sustainable for a given person, that person probably shouldn't be trying to do a startup. This might seem a bit blunt, but I think it's probably true. There are many other options to bring the same financial and "impact" success that a startup provides and the expected value of these options is probably higher than creating a startup given an aversion to the high-intensity pace.
String literals are frozen (immutable) by default in Ruby 3.0
Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Its mission is not to funnel traffic to intermediaries who can serve ads and skim a penny off the world's hunger for information. If the question gets answered without clicking through to wikipedia, that's better for everybody, including Wikimedia who don't have to pay to serve the query.
The EU!
An Introduction to Sine-Wave Speech (2007)
Rule 1) Don't obscure your product with user tools.
Warren Buffet's Utility Will Make Nevadan's Pay More
Ashley Madison Revealed
> At the end of a YC batch, the general consensus among the partners is that about 25% of the companies are on a trajectory that could lead to a multi-billion dollar company. Of course, only a handful of them do. Most go on to be decent or bad.

Pure hubris.

> The main problem is that companies stop doing what they were doing during YC—instead of relentlessly focusing on building a great product and growing, they focus on everything else. They also work less hard and less effectively—the peer pressure during YC is a powerful force.

No, the problem is that it's difficult to build a large company. High growth is easy in the beginning when you're going from 0 to $100,000, but try going from $100,000 to $100,000,000. "Fake work" isn't what prevents the vast majority of companies from doing this.
The idea that limiting human behavior is a scary concept makes no sense to me. We limit human behavior all the time because resources are finite and because the immediate interests of the individual may be detrimental to wider society. It's called rule of law.
I know how it is. At least you didn't compare it to Daikatana. :)
PayPal Partners with Vancouver's Control to Develop a Merchant Analytics App
Yes, the "with a part-time job and being frugal" was a critical part of my post that @adventured clearly missed. Thank you for highlighting it.
> Let me guess: you didn't move to the UK? Generalising about Europe is difficult.

Half the time, the UK pretends it's not part of Europe, and the other half of the time, complains for not being included.

I think we both knew that GP meant "continental Europe". ;)
Another proof of concept: Opower (http://opower.com/careers) is a DC- and SF-based company. It uses behavioral science to drive increases in energy efficiency among consumers, a competency it sells to utilities who use it to meet government EE regulations.
Wikipedia doesn't show ads.
examples / links?
Personally, I'm less interested than the average valuation and more interested in their P&Ls. Of course, that's not the game YC is playing.
Yes, the question is would you rather put people in office who support those barriers and benefit the few, or people who represent the majority? I'm not surprised that corporations behave this way, and it's very important that it's publicized so the populace can defend it's own interests. Just because it's not surprising doesn't mean we shouldn't publicize it.
Yeah, it's obviously that and not anything to do with the attitude you project.
I just tried this on an iPhone, using Safari and Chrome, and it's always loading the 2500px images. Am I missing something?
Black+locust+herb+::+nature-pharmacy
Isn't a problem with these resin printers that the resin is quite toxic as well as the fumes? Also I think there needs to be some post chemical processing.
This sounds good in practice, but most web infrastructures don't pay per page-load. It's possible to do this to some extent, but typically, a number of servers sit un-utilized, but paid for nonetheless.

Also, Google displays their own ads in these results, so it's not like visitors who may go to a site with ads are somehow relieved of this annoyance by using Google.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10092867