skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because you cannot trust the 5-to-6 translators yet, so you have to test the translated perl6 code in perl6.
It's a completely new VM, with new syntax, compiler and run-time.

Even with Inline::Perl5 you need to test the implicit 5<->6 casts with the perl6 vm (which might be rakudo or some other engine).

Moose contains only a small subset of the Perl6 OO, and has also different syntax. E.g. in perl6 types lead to optimizations, in Moose to pessimizations.
Rewriting in Perl6 is always preferred, as Perl6 is a much nicer language.
You are making a wrong correlation. Putting more money won't necessarily drive research forward. Most breakthrough researches and inventions were done with little money.
Sure, you can avoid the hate-specific subreddits. The problem is that this kind of behaviour is mostly everywhere in reddit.
React is really 2 things. One is an implementation of web components which makes it a competitor to Polymer and is is useful on almost any project. Secondly, React is an implementation of the Flux architecture (one-way data binding) which is most useful for SPAs, but doesn't disrupt a static site as much as Angular does.
I like this idea; it's pretty novel. Since there is just one group starting this off, which makes a ton of sense from a funding perspective, is this an MVP or a long term bet with regards to this specific group? Meaning if this group has trouble getting their idea off the ground in the next 1-2 months, do they get scrapped or are they going to have years to conduct their research?

An idea for future research may be to do almost like a round of start-ups where a bunch of groups come to SF for 3 months but unlike start-ups you find the promising ones and keep them all and drop any that do not look promising. Basically thinking of ways to not put all your eggs in one basic. Naturally this becomes quite problematic if you're researching something highly complex that won't show signs of promise for a decade!
ejabberd met their needs, they just gradually rewrote 90% of it. :)
Nuclear would also make sense? AI might make more sense becaues nuclear seems like a hard place to do "heretical" research, but what do I know
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Way to put your money where your mouth is! Kudos to Sam. You are a good man. Hope this delivers amazing results.
I'd like to affirm your claim that Pivot Tables and Excel can match pretty much any BI related inquiry where data is available. Caveat - the data will fit in Excel

Source: Experience in Wall Street, Fortune 500 risk management, and dumping stuff from SalesForce to make it useable beyond what our implementation would report (or what leadership could get it to do).
He's also chairman of the board for two nuclear power companies. And YC itself has been branching into biotech and hardware and other science-y companies. Anything seems possible to me.
Yes. This bugs me out. It's already so popular and a lot of people use this in production and rely on that.

I really hope they do what NodeJS/IO did and figure out that it's far away from any "pre-release" state to keep the version number after two 0s.
I came in here to comment on this. React sounds exciting from what I've read about it, but I didn't realize it was pre-1.0.

To teams who are using it in production, did you talk about this? What are arguments for using it despite it not being 1.0?
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He strikes me as someone that had a couple brilliant fundamental insights, which compose the core of the business. But if one starts thinking everything one shits out is gold on the basis of such insights, one ends up with the Fire phone. However, that sort of thing is not likely to be a true problem for the business for quite a while. They can waste a lot of money and time before it ever becomes a problem.
Just replace "flux" with "flow" and you get the picture. If you're at YC you (presumably) encounter lots of different problems in lots of different contexts, which is often a good environment to foster creativity and inventiveness.
I don't have a problem with advertising and info gathering in general as long as you can opt out when you want to be private. When I search for something unpopular or controversial or personal I want to know that I have privacy. Just as when I change clothes, I want to have reason to believe that no one is watching me. When I clear my cookies I want to the tracking to be gone. I want fresh searches after I clear my cookies.

I know all of this has been said over and over but I'll say it again and I know I will say it again over and over.
Pretty much. Perl 5 and Perl 6 have different maintainers and will continue on separately for the foreseeable future. Some in the Perl 5 community wouldn't mind a name change just so the Perl 5 v.s 6 naming scheme isn't an issue but it's not likely to happen.
I was thinking of it as a play on the word "free" in french before the word Stock...

Gratis - Free as in Beer
Libre - Free as in Speech
React is the view layer only so it's not all-or-nothing. That means it can be implemented in a traditional PHP website that's been sitting around for 10 years. And it's not overkill at all, it brings sanity to code and makes it more maintainable. You'll be able to do more with less.

React is perfect for replacing turning your cooked spaghetti into dry pasta. Entropy for the win!
There's also the non-profit-driven evil you need to worry about:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_syphilis_experiment
Yes! Check out http://duckduckhack.com/ -- it is our open source instant answer platform, which is becoming more and more of DuckDuckGo. The whole platform is open source itself (in addition to the answers).
I'm fairly new to react, and have wondered if I was using it correctly (as intended). Almost always I have a root component that manages state, passing it to children via props. All changes to state go through that root component, either by callback (also passed as prop) or some external event.

Is this update in a sense validation of that approach?
I literally couldn't find a better name that wasn't taken or meaningless, open to suggestions
Great job w/ DDG and thanks for sharing this encouraging thread.
It takes a special person to donate $10 million to a new project. You don't get enough credit Sam Altman. Good job and a very good idea.

EDIT: Why am getting down votes for this comment? You must know that in this world not everyone is willing to part with their money and are not that giving. So relax before you down vote me promptly:)
How liquid YC equity is?

I assume that by getting google stock, someone can sell them easily in the public market. But how does it work with YC equity?
It is not significant, though we'd love it to be.
You have no right to be protected from getting sick... One's personal liberties should generally extend just shy of infringing on an other's rights.. That should be the default.

That said I'm not an anti-vaxxer, but I'm medically unable to take most of them now as they would dramatically increase the chance of a deadly side effect. Once in my life was enough (and the 6-figure hospital bill after insurance cap), and a 5% chance of reoccurrence is bad enough without tempting fate to make that risk much higher.
Seems like an effective system-level path around tech-transfer and licensing headaches. Open inventions feed innovative companies and back into research. Well done.
I'd pay that for a smartphone that was pure phone + Google Maps. Google Maps is the only reason I refuse to drop down to a dumbphone.
Shouldn't existing autonomous vehicles already be tested that way? Aren't they?

Why do we need a new corporation-town?
CSP already has a mechanism for hash-based whitelisting - if this is the only limitation, it'd be just as easy to allow cache-sharing whenever CSP is absent and/or the specific hash is explicitly white-listed.
You could drop the equity and just locate somewhere with a lower cost of living as incentive. I vote for Detroit area ;-)
"Maxim was later knighted by Queen Victoria for his services to humanity -- it was thought that the machine gun would make wars shorter, hence more humane." Spencer C. Tucker _A Global Chronology of Conflict: From the Ancient World to the Modern Middle East vol 6 1st ed_ pg 1198

https://medium.com/war-is-boring/maxims-machine-gun-slaughte...

"Not even the evidence of the 1904 Russo-Japanese War, with its long sieges and trench warfare—an eerie predictor of World War I’s horrors to come—could persuade military observers of the Maxim gun’s lethality on the modern battlefield."
If I lost 50TB of data and could fix it for $1500 I would consider myself the luckiest person on Earth.
You can torture my words rhetorically to score emotional points, but I don't know what you think you prove by it.

If you find my jocular expression of my very real experiences with Perl to be condescension, I'm going to have to let you know that I don't believe Perl to be all that worried about it, incapable as it is of having an emotional state.
Problem flux means the rate of new problems that need solving.

Theoretical breakthroughs are often inspired by real problems. For instance, information theory arose from practical problems of wartime communications. YCR will be in close proximity (geographic, organization, and intellectual) to lots of startups with interesting and worthwhile problems to solve.
Will this be structured in a way where there are groups headed by "PIs" that set the research agenda, and researchers working under them, or will you be pursuing a different model?
There are a few YC technical founders who were fired by their non-tech co-founders for rather flimsy culture reasons. So far YC was pretty hands-off. What makes YC think it can be effective at managing researchers? Wouldn't that be much more a function of the YC director(s) of research than the program?
Yup and Connectivity in Burbank, Rubicon in Playa del Rey, and a few others in Thousand Oaks that run ad networks.

TicketMaster used to have a Perl codebase but I think the murmurings I've heard point to them having switched everything to Java.
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25 years is a reasonable number for how long it took deep learning research to begin getting traction. I would think AI would be a strange choice since it seems like there are a lot of research opportunities in academia and industry for this topic, but for the same reason I would say AI research is ripe for disruption.
Probably somewhat less liquid with far greater alpha.
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We'll have more info on this in a month or so!
> This article says it's not e-ink but just a Kindle strapped to the side.

Guess what a Kindle's display is?
Laws / moral codes are always abstractions. They have to be. It's useless to create a new rule that says "Hammurabi wasn't allowed to murder Gilgamesh last Tuesday."

But there has always been a tension between the utilitarian criteria you're using, and the absolutist* criteria that others use when evaluating the morality of a decision. In practice, the most effective systems seem to strike a balance. Something like: "First, do no harm. Everything else is details. And the details matter, and the details need to be regularly debated, and the debate itself is an important part of the process."

Abstract examples like the trolley problem don't teach us things that we can't conceive of. They can help us boil down and isolate specific aspects of absolutist thinking and determine if we're better off with the statistical approach to deciding if an action is good or bad.

* Technically referred to as deontological ethics, but dang, software engineers ain't got nothing on philosophers when it comes to oblique terminology.
Was this book updated for the Oct 2015 release? Or is this more or less the same as the book you asked when you originally solicited feedback?
Now if that "AI" were to be changed to "machine learning" that would indeed make me perk up.
Can't view the ycr.org site. Flagged as malware by OpenDNS. https://malware.opendns.com/controller.php?url=ycr.org&serve...
Definitely still a work in a progress on how we'll measure it.
Very interesting! But exactly how fundamental is this research meant to be? Will there be any mathematicians working on projects not at all related to cryptography or physicists working on projects entirely unrelated to fusion?

As an astrophysicist in the thick of applications for jobs in both industry and academia, I strongly identify with the points raised in the article. While I consider my research slightly heretical with the potential to solve many big problems in astrophysics, I don't have any illusions that it will really lead to any practical developments. So is this initiative meant to keep scientists like me working on the problems we're working on, or is it meant to prevent computer scientists working on a new way for cars to drive themselves from jumping ship and joining Google or Uber?
React works great in existing websites! Last time I checked, React is about the same size as jQuery minified and gzipped.

There are many benefits to using React in an existing website: a great developer experience, performance, avoiding jQuery spaghetti, ease-of-use, etc. It might be overkill to use React for just a few components, but if you want to move to React, then you can incrementally implement components using React and then switch over fully.

> Is it only for SPAs?

In my opinion, React is like the declarative jQuery. It works just as well for SPAs as it does for traditional websites.
> EMPs make robot war between states of similar capability pretty unlikely

Hmm, they can just shield the control modules (cpu and memory). And use optical storage or similar for large amounts of data and basic programming.

Also, EMPs usually last only a couple of seconds and can only be effective in a small area. Maybe the robots can just reboot and wait for a valid command a few seconds later by some flying drone.
React is cool. Switching to React helped me do :

1. Get rid of any jquery-like library.

2. Get rid of my HTML/Handlebars files :)

3. Generate dynamic CSS classNames for my components allowed me to get rid of stylesheets naming conventions / strategies ( BEM, etc. )

4. With the help of Flux ( yahoo's implementation ) I got rid of writing two code-bases ( front-end / back-end ). Now I'm putting everything in one place, this is awesome! ( I did it with server-side rendering, so I didn't loose anything at all )
Regarding layout-thrashing: if only there were a way to hint the dimensions of each element.
You're very welcome!
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> Broken install = it didn't install.

Ah, that wasn't clear.

I have to say though:

> I had no idea why. ... Sorry I sounded cranky, truthfully I'm probbly just unfamiliar.

Yes. CPAN does a lot to help the user and gives a lot of information, but all that information truly does contain 99% of what you need.

It progresses in phases (prep, make, test, install) just like most other make-based software (99% of the stuff installed on your linux boxes) and after each phase it will say "<phase> OK"/"<phase> NOT OK", so you only have to read for that, then scan upwards to see what errors you got from gcc or whatever. In other words, and i'm not trying to be mean, but: You only have to read what is on your screen.

As for "Gems, composer, npm, rpm", i know that the three non-npm ones don't run tests on install (npm probably doesn't either), so you might be conflating "flawless and easily" with "system incompatibilities are found at runtime, instead of install time". I.e. it's highly likely that what you like of them isn't that they've progressed beyond CPAN.pm, but that they've yet to catch up to it.
This article seems to have relevance. The Recurse Center is a YC company that recently began pursuing programming language research. https://www.recurse.com/blog/83-michael-nielsen-joins-the-re...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_explosion
"YCR could be the next Bell Labs"

Eh. That a pretty huge jump. Look, most new "tech" companies research is mostly PR, internal and external. If you're doing something you have little experience in and therefor can't evaluate, which success you aren't dependent on or necessarily benefit from and everyone will say how cool it is regardless then it's extremely hard to not cut corners and achieve real success.

Still exciting, but I wouldn't underestimate the challenge.
Thank you for the reply, but I already knew about duckduckhack - I made a small contribution to it in 2013. What I meant however is the core search engine, that is currently closed source.
Since flights generally take you to places with diseases your immune system isn't familiar with, I doubt you could use this to conclude anything interesting about the planes themselves.
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We are extremely hands-off with the companies we fund.

These people will actually be part of the YC organization.
I'd like to wish you the best in your project, and mention that as a huge fan of modern drum & bass and other EDM forms, plus as a longtime guitar player, I believe you're actually working in a space that lacks such a tool. The video makes me smile. That's a nifty pocket resource to me!

Just going to spit-ball a couple thoughts based on my experiences and your write-up!

I've been using Blend.io to share my Ableton Live projects with others online (via Dropbox). This is helpful because settings are exported - do you think that in time you might have a mechanism in the program to list & chart out the settings for a synth, say like Massive? Could be a whole can of worms, but important stuff to recall going forward when taking notes.

As for guitar solos, I think you could use one of the blues Kings for material in testing, either B.B. King or Freddie King, depending on how much pitch bending or note rapidity you'd be interested in. If you want to get extreme, Dimebag Darrell of Pantera had some crazy harmonic & Floyd Rose "dive-bomb" tricks he'd use that might test capability!
Ask HN: Do you use WAF? If yes, do you run it in alert only or block mode?
In the light of recent AWS WAF announcement, I am wondering if WAF technology has matured enough to be run in block mode.
I am a professional scientist and I have to disagree. 10 million is just seed cash that I'm sure will be magnified. But do not underestimate the cost of research. While a particular project that pays off seems (and is) a great return, salaries, equipment and conference travel consume a lot of money.
then unsubscribe from /r/videos and /r/worldnews.

problem solved and done so in a way that you have complete control over and doesn't impose yourself on others.
Same company, different drug, same story:

http://www.amazon.com/Blood-Medicine-Blowing-Deadliest-Presc...

This book is totally gripping and it also sheds light on the EPO scandal of the cycling world. I do not recommend books lightly but this book is a must read and also a literary 'secret' that is going to be made into a film. Add it to your Christmas list.

I read it a while ago with my Dad reading it too. It was the best thing we read that year - happy times, a book club of our own. Needless to say I have sent this article on to him for his enjoyment.
Is it a semver project? Doesn't seem like one, the whole idea is to raise major version when you break compatibility.
> The default should not be for the state to force someone to inject a substance into their body, and if they refuse or raise concern, that it is then on them to explain/justify why NOT.

Even most "mandatory" vaccination regimes don't generally do this.

They require people to vaccinate themselves (or, most often, their children) if they are medically able to be vaccinated as a precondition of use of certain public accommodations, as a means of protecting the health of other users of the same accommodation, including especially, but not exclusively, those medically unable to be vaccinated.
I'm sure Condé Nast has been asking themselves that question a lot lately.
Good point. My use of the word "strongest" was definitely misleading, but I am not convinced it is always the case that there isn't a relatively low dimensional definition of "strong" in this sense.
EMPs burn out circuits, so equipment can't just be turned back on. Also, not an electrical engineer, but my understanding is that shielding involves grounding, which is relatively difficult for things that fly.
It's an idea for organizing the components of user interfaces, regardless of the platform.
> We’re not doing this with the goal of helping YC’s startups succeed or adding to our bottom line.

Helping YC startups succeed might not be the primary goal, but it's silly to say the project isn't also aimed to help YC startups. Having access to a top quality research team can absolutely help startups succeed, so this is either disingenuous or surprisingly unimaginative.
Ideas: Free Global Health Care, Free Global Education, Government Management Software (A to Z), or Private Secondary Government.
"On Lichess, as far as I can tell, I have to scan the list of games, compare them to my rating (which I can't even see on the main screen, and don't trust at all since it swung +150 points on my first game..), and then pick from the list."

Or you can just host a game and wait for someone to find you?
>While I use New Relic's real user monitoring (RUM) to get a general idea of how my end-users are experiencing page load times, Chrome Timeline gives you a millisecond-by-millisecond breakdown of exactly what happens during any given web interaction.

New Relic does, too! Its a Pro feature called Session Traces.
Will scientists at YC Research continue the common pattern of academic research/publications? Or are there some grander plans to disrupt traditional research?
We're migrating from Backbone to React, and it's been lovely. Our main argument is essentially what the grandparent said: based on the policies React has been following, it basically behaves like a 1.0 release. There's clear deprecation warnings and announcements, and those are caught by our test suite. The only backwards-incompatible changes that have happened since we started using it earlier this year have been mostly painless Ctrl+F fixes, and even the bigger ones (ReactDOM, etc.) have not been too much of a problem. And from a logical perspective, if it's stable enough for Facebook (Alexa #2) to use for production, it's stable enough for a smallish HR software company.
Major update, though the overall messaging is the same. It is a much more high-quality book. The first one was self-published and this one is published by Penguin Random House. So the first thing is it re-edited all the way through. We ended up cutting out about 50 pages, even though we added a couple of sections.

Second, the sections we added were a preface about my struggles with getting traction and a testing addendum giving 1-3 suggestions of how to test each of the nineteen channels (something people continually requested).

Third and finally, I really focused on rewriting the five introductory chapters to focus on things I saw readers of the first edition struggle with. We simplified the framework from 5 to 3 steps, and tried to shed light on the more non-intuitive aspects (like don't prematurely optimize marketing tests, etc.).
Gabriel, do you plan to implement time-bound search filters on DDG? I'm probably not alone in finding it very usefull and would gladly avoid jumping back and forth between DDG and Google. Anyway, kudos for all you've done.
My question is how does SPICE differ from BigQuery? I can connect to BigQuery from Tableau, BIME, Chartio, etc.
1. SF for now.

2. Yes, eventually we'd like to have multiple groups in the same space just for this reason--I always think the interdisciplinary stuff is underrated.

3. Some of both, probably, but mostly we want to support people that the existing system does not support (e.g. people that are not yet famous)