skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm glad someone has finally went out of their way to point this out. Props to Pando Daily.

I too have noticed that TechCrunch will publish anything with YC's name on it - even from the outside, you can tell that the two parties have a really curious direct relationship. Despite this odd arrangement, TechCrunch writers still do not disclose it on their individual profiles (even though they may go as far as disclosing who they are dating and what loose connection that personal relationship might have to their excuse of "reporting"). By having a strong hold on TC, Ycombinator can distort the public opinion around it even if it has wronged someone.

Journalism should be free-thinking and not just morph into whatever opinion YC likes best and that suits them. I wonder how many journalists Ycombinator has strong armed into publishing stuff they like by denying them access to demo day or "exclusives" on their companies.

It also frustrates me because I have friends who aren't in YC but constantly grinding it out and working on their startups - how come they can't easily get on TC as well? How many real, actual stories have we missed out on just because a new YC company is entering the scene and feels compelled to occupy the very self-entitled YC showcase that is TechCrunch?
Whats the back story behind this?

Does pando have a reputation for being disruptive?

Is y combinator demo day invite only?

I ask because I don't know.
Sex is a private matter by definition, between two or (ahem) more people. What you or other people think about it is mostly irrelevant, as long as the people engaged in the sex act are not doing something outrageously against social conventions, such as having sex right in front of you in a public space.

> Perhaps you think it should be a private matter, but someone else may think it shouldn't be, and thus the morality of something like cheating may be to them much worse than it is to you, thus morally justifying more extreme actions to be taken to expose cheating.

Sorry, I find this position totally unacceptable. Yes, we were always talking about people's moral opinions, which are subjective by definition, and everyone has one. People who are morally outraged about what other consenting adults do with their private lives are despicable (way more despicable to me than cheaters that keep their opinions to themselves) and they have no right to harm other people because of their own morals. Exactly how some religious fundamentalists have no right to publicly shame gay people, or some other religious people think it's their right to stone adulterous women to death.

This argument that some people care so deeply about what strangers do with their private lives that they are entitled to take "extreme actions" just doesn't fly.

PS: in which country is lying about a vasectomy exactly the same as rape then?
It's at best a complement to Netflix, not a competition.

I routinely buy access to TV Shows that are not on Netflix yet on Amazon Instant Video. That and iTunes existed long enough that if it was a competition to Netflix, it would have actually competed. Given that Netflix still grows like crazy, there's no evidence for that. And I pay for Netflix anyway, because it does have lots of stuff. A monthly netflix subscriptions costs ~3 TV episodes on Amazon Instant Video (and less than even 1 decent movie).
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I don't think the problem is piracy. I think the "problem" stems from the huge amount of good quality cheap content we have available.

I have around 1 hour of free time each weekday to spend on entertainment.

I have so many cheap sources of content, costing well under $1/hr, vying for my time. All available on demand.

Content decays very slowly. A good show from the 90's is still worth watching today. Good music from the 80's and 90's is still worth listening to today.

I just spent the last 3 months of my small amount of free time re-watching Friends. For the 2 months before that it was playing dota and watching starcraft2 videos on youtube.
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I interpreded this article as a sign of YC decline. I wish there was a mechanism to short private stock ;)
This is nothing more than a SPAMMY Amazon Affiliate site.

Flag this down.
Australia seems like a place that pumps out a lot of researchers but doesn't have the global service export economy to build off of, like other nations sometimes do. Props to IBM for taking advantage of it.
Is this a joke? Some of these are so stereotypical, and there isn't much context in this article at all to actually support them.
YC is not a public entity; they don't owe you a seat. Just because you don't get one doesn't mean they're in the wrong.

Besides, if this is the standard of investigative journalism ("waaah, I couldn't get in! let's cast aspersions!"), I think that any group would be in the right to reject the author on journalistic merit.
We do expect insiders to improve those systems. Why would outsiders know what needs done?
This isn't directly about hiring, however (as a white person) it shifted my perceptions significantly:

https://www.reddit.com/comments/3du1qm/

In a few years, I want Jopwell to not exist anymore. Not that I'm rooting for them to fail, but rather that I hope every job site is equally diverse. But for now, we need to be intentional about this.

Most companies hire from within their networks. So, this problem will solve itself eventually, as minorities start bringing their networks of potential hires to companies and the companies start naturally hiring from that new pool. However, it's a chicken-and-egg problem that needs a kick start.
I hope so. The world is a very different place than it was 20 years ago, with enormous progress in technology and medicine, which are the applied arm of science.
How? It's only two letters, so it would be like YCombinator making a trademark claim on yc

I agree on not asking for money directly though
There's no real alternative to flash at the moment for live video. Youtube only recently switched from flash for live video for chromo/safari and still uses flash on Firefox.
And maybe a sign of warning to China: today Trenton is a polluted, rusted out husk of its former self.
You can find more here: https://www.exploit-db.com/google-hacking-database/ These are called "Google Dorks" for some reason, even though there's nothing dorky about them. Some of these are honeypots / tarpits monitoring inbound traffic, others are actual servers which are running old versions of PHP. Frankly though if it's public like that it often is a red flag that the webmaster has made other bad choices with their servers...
> Hardware was the clear cut theme of Day 1...

> L. Condoms — “Condoms That Women Want”...

Do the condoms count as hardware, or software? Or perhaps both, depending on how long they are worn.
Also since packs are not used (the design document says it stores all objects as loose objects) there is no delta compression. This won't be usable for large repos with lots of history.
IMHO, the process is misrepresented >and< the process is broken. I think the article does a good job of explaining many (but not all) of the reasons I think it is broken.
YC's stated before that numerically, there's at most one startup in any given batch that has any worthwhile effect on their returns. The rest are just a cost of doing business.

http://www.paulgraham.com/swan.html

Personally, my bet is that Nebia is that startup this batch, and the vast majority of the other ones fail.
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We would like them to, but it's reasonable not to expect them to.
I don't work there -- I meant that I've sent messages to specific people there via Google Plus. The UI problems are a constant frustration for me.
Think about all of the special events that go on every weekend. Yeah, Joe's Sandwiches isn't going to replace employees with a sandwich machine, but something like the local Rotary Club would buy and/or rent one to help supplement their food stand. A cafe cart likewise is something that's useful in getting great spots for special events where it used to be a pain in the butt to lug all the food prep equipment to and from. Sometimes, you want to change the world, others, you just want a sandwich.
I love having streams of coding open while working. It makes me type faster (I think). Sound is off though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y71lli8MS8s
Maybe all they do is make a couple people a few million dollars. Other people see them get rich then they start hardware companies. Other companies spring up to support these new hardware startups...

You get the idea, right?
It's top rated stuff on Amazon, what did you expect? What does it matter if it has affiliate links anyway?
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The (paywalled) article states that they attempted to get press passes but were denied, so they snuck in. Perhaps the size of the event meant that YC wanted to limit the number of press? I don't know if they have a reputation for being disruptive, I just found the whole article petty.
From the article:

The closest I got to an on-the-record comment confirming that
press access was based on favor, not fire code, was when a YC
registration official rejected my request for a badge, for
the final time: “It’s an invite-only event for investors, and
only a few select press are invited.”
bare git on dropbox is not dangerous in a multi user setup. I tested it a few years ago, the conflicts are minor annoyances but never destructive nor silent.

http://edinburghhacklab.com/2012/11/when-git-on-dropbox-conf...
God damn it, at least giev some stream url for my phone to take a crack at... Flash should be fallback, not an requirement.
> People who actually care about music and can do something unique with it are currently taking advantage of the internet's costless promotional channels, getting famous, and making a perfectly good living off of youtube views if nothing else.

Hogwash. Every heard of Mike Keneally? Exactly. He fits your description to a T.

Except that you have heard of him. He plays for this guy: http://www.satriani.com/splash/

Oh, and he happens to play guitar in this band:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dethklok

Now, if that guy can't make it work, I doubt anybody can.
Whether you ask for money or not is up to you, but as a matter of protocol, your github account is your property as much as the shoes you're wearing.

If someone else wants it, you're not at all obligated to give it to them.

If you do entertain the idea of giving it to them, you're very much entitled to compensation.
I read your comment and immediately thought of the Asian market. I've never been to Asia but when friends post pictures they always include vending machines, robot restaurants, food on conveyor belts etc. I could see these being popular in Asia.
Not totally relevant to the article, but:

> Modha said his team’s goal is to build a “brain in a shoebox,” with over 10 billion synapses, consuming less than 1 kilowatt hour of power—the minuscule amount of power the human brain requires to work.

Can anyone even guess what information they're trying to convey here? On the face of it, it makes no sense - it's like saying the brain consumes 90000 kcal, but over what period? A day? A month? A lifetime?

But I can't even figure what they're trying to say. The human brain consumes about 20W (certainly not 1 kW!), so it would take about two days to use up 1 kWh of energy. I don't think that's what they're going for, but I can't think of any other reading of it that doesn't amount to basically a guess.
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Depends what you mean by "illegal", there are over two dozen main kinds of illegal. As a massive simplification anything not found in the "criminal law" or "employment law" books your employer covers while you're working (and in some states while you're doing things you're only doing because you work, e.g. drive to work).

So, very generally speaking, anything you can't get arrested for is covered by your employer.
Trespassing is not the same as going somewhere you weren't invited. It is always wrong for journalists to trespass (i.e. on private propery), but it's not wrong for them to show up uninvited.
I'm curios to know what doesn't work in rtl? Does bootstrap uses `margin-left` and stuff like that? It should be simple to fix it

.some-class {
margin-left: 1em;
&[dir="rtl"] { margin-right: 1em; }
}
The dislike for Bootstrap isn't a hate for the framework and its components. It's the fact that most people do not customize it, and so nearly all Bootstrap sites _look_ like Bootstrap. Cartoonish and bulky rounded buttons, overly large menus, etc. The default theme feels equivalent to using Comic Sans MS. It's too Web 2.0 and not very professional looking.

Properly theming (at least in 3.x) took a lot of effort. Just try to make a theme whereby at first glance, you can't tell that Bootstrap was used. It's not that it's not possible to do, it just took a lot of time and effort to nitpick over every detail.

In professional environments (ie: real flesh and blood companies), developers cannot say "we're using Bootstrap's default theme". The business has designers, the designers come up with a design, and unless the developer can customize Bootstrap to accommodate the requirements, in a reasonable amount of time to meet deadlines, Bootstrap is simply not an option outside of using the grid system.
Interesting articles, though I'm not sure the critique applies here. It seems rather, ST2 ships with a separate and incomplete python environment. I don't think it 'embeds' python, does it?
I had that impression too, but they are turning around. They are ramping up their cloud solutions, doing AI research with Watson and other cool stuff. It is a big 100+ year old company, it won't turn on a dime to change directions, but it is turning in the right direction (and I think rather quickly for such a large company).

I think we'll see good things coming out of it in the future. Certainly seems like I've heard more interesting news items from it than in the past years:

Just in the last month or remember a few cool IBM news item -- Linux only mainframe, switching to using Apple Macbooks internally (they are buying something like 200K units, it used to be a Thinkpad+Windows country only), acquired some cool cloud companies, maybe another one I forgot.
I have no problem in removing emails, but if I make it for free my inbox will be full and I appreciate my time and my inbox too.
I assume the pitch wasn't "we're going to make a sandwich-making machine," but rather "we're going to automate food production and revolutionize the world economy." If I understand correctly, the intended path of many of these companies is to use some narrow case as proof-of-concept. Start with helping conference attendees share air mattresses, then build towards replacing the hospitality industry. You can't judge these companies by the scope of the MVPs.
Sure, in selling a dollar for 90 cents,
lose 10 cents.

But, but, but, they plan to make it
up on the volume!
I have to agree. Immorality is simply the wrong word to use here.

Pando is within their rights to attempt to attend a day meant to promote startups, and YC is within their rights to escort them out.

There's nothing "immoral" going on here. Way, way over the top.
I think it's mostly not dangerous. The object store shouldn't be dangerous at all. Updating refs concurrently however... I think it is dangerous.
Modern humans have not demonstrated either particularly good foresight or an ability to correct the things we've set in motion. Case in point is nuclear arms.

If antibiotics had always been regulated as tightly as pain pills are today, resistant bacterial strains would never have proliferated.

Malaria carrying mosquitoes in Africa were not overwhelmingly resistant to pesticides before Jane Fonda's emotional pleas swayed the public to call for the end to DEET spraying.

Crop monocultures not bred for disease resistance led to the loss and destruction of entire cultivars at enormous cost. Insects and other vermin that have coevolved with humans have entire industries dedicated to and required for their control.

Granted neither mice, mosquitoes, nor bacteria are as intelligent as humans, and certainly none of them are actively trying to enslave humanity, but intelligence isn't what makes these things dangerous- they're mindlessly disruptive, and even worse at foresight than we are.

We shouldn't foster a culture of lax attitudes toward security or an IoT primordial soup for AIs that lasts into a different century where the conditions might make it impossible to contain or eradicate. The flags need to be waved now not just so that when something unexpected happens someone can smugly say they told us so, but so that the future is designed in such a way that the worst case can't occur.
88KB? Pure CSS framework (http://purecss.io) is only 16.8KB!
I couldn't find much data on the Curie module, but it looks like the only pins required are power and slow io, so I can't imagine it's a super dense bga or anything. Even on the high end Intel socs with over 1k balls a good designer can escape all the signals without microvias.
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IMO it would really inspire confidence to see one of these chips beat traditional neural networks at something...

Speech recognition, image recognition, tumor detection, whatever. I don't care, but something...

Right now it seems like a cheese shop that doesn't actually have any cheese. If this is such a superior super mega fantastic processor, one would think it could at least run AlexNet* or some sort of superior variant, no?

*http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~fritz/absps/imagenet.pdf
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Any advise on some good tutorials? Heroku makes it easy for me to get going.
We were excited enough we pivoted glide, the package manager, to directly support this new vendor setup.

Anyone interested can learn more at https://github.com/Masterminds/glide or where I posted about it at http://engineeredweb.com/blog/2015/glide-0.5-go-vendor-suppo....

I'm hopeful for this brave new vendor world.
What can I say? I respect a shipping product and nothing short of it. He entered the conversation pitting his powerpoint processor against shipping hardware.

Have we not tired of all the broken promises of Kickstarter and IndieGogo yet?
"Their claimed profit margin is 94%"

So they're totally ripping the consumer off then...
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Because no one prevents the sender to keep a copy of that wallet. Wallets are nothing but list of your private keys. Suppose I gave my private keys to you, what prevents me to not use them before you use those keys?
AfroStream? You gotta be fucking kidding me.
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> Really sickening how they throw in a jibe about the lack of women, just so they can sound self righteous

The writer does nothing but note that no investors or women are in sight. What you choose to read into that is your own business.
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Just removed the payment part. I hope I don't get too much emails
Yes, you're right, there is no garbage collection on the remote. (I should probably add that to the design doc.)

I don't know a way of doing it client side that is concurrency-safe. Perhaps I'll write a separate script that will do remote GC, but will require that you manually ensure that nobody is modifying the repository concurrently.
> There's an author I know who does "live writes", which are essentially the same as this but for drafts of prose (she does them via shared Google Docs).

Who knew that Monty Python would so accurately predict the future? Their Novel Writing skit is exactly this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogPZ5CY9KoM
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I agree, and I'm surprised. It sounds like the stuff that Quirky does.
I think it's weird that's not on the home anymore - 110 points in 6 hours as for now.
Yep, no packing and no delta compression. I haven't yet thought of a good way of doing that entirely client side. (If you can think of anything, please let me know!)

The target use case is small personal and group projects.

With the current design, it won't scale that well to large repos with lots of history. The initial clone will take a while. However, individual fetches or pushes after that shouldn't take that long unless there is a ton that changes.
> From a quick look, it still looks bloated for people who don't want to design with mobile in mind

Why would anyone not be designing for mobile in 2015? I question why you would even bother using BS if you're building something non-responsive. Might as well just revert back to 960gs... haha
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Here is a twitchtv of Notch coding Ludum Dare 28, a complete WebGL and Typescript engine and the final game - he made it seem easy - Notch is a great teacher.

http://www.twitch.tv/notch/b/487318324

http://game.notch.net/christmaschopping/
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This project is actually an example of how they are slow-moving and lumbering. If they implemented state-of-the-art learning algorithms in silicon it would be amazing and potentially revolutionary and they'd have tons of customers. That would be deep convolutional neural nets. Instead they've gone with spiking neural nets, which have approximately nothing to do with the current state of the art in artificial neural networks.

Furthermore, you might be misled by their PR storm. In fact this chip doesn't implement learning at all. The learning is the important part! This chip is merely an accelerator for running pre-trained neural networks, and because of the spiking architecture those neural networks are doomed to perform poorly.
Yeah, this is what I'm doing. Using Heroku for their Postgres offering and AWS with convox.io (part of the current ycombinator batch) for deploying web services to AWS.
> And before China, it was Designed in California, Manufactured in Japan.

Was it? I wasn't around for that time, but I was under the impression that in the pre-glory days of "Made in Japan" it was still designed in Japan by Japanese companies (which is how Sony, Toshiba, Panasonic got their starts). They didn't have the global manufacturing outsourcing we have today with "Made in China".

Whereas these days, any startup Chinese brands have to compete with international brands who can still enjoy the same cost of Chinese manufacturing
I can understand rem units in font-size, but why use rem in media queries instead of px?

The same with margins - when I get the PSD file from the designer, I will have to convert all margins from px to rem.
I stopped reading TC in 2010 and haven't looked at it since. I read the comments here when linked to TC without ever bothering to click through. I am not sure why you seem angry that YC would cultivate a relationship with a "tech" blog? Does that really make sense?
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There are many 2 letter trademarks.

It's not 100%, just a possible risk to be aware of.