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Awesome news. It's interesting to see new ways to fund research.

BTW the "Read more" at https://ycr.org/ point to the Y Combinator blog not to the post permalink. It will became confusing once you write a new post.
The first group will be in SF. TBD on other groups. But unlike startups we fund, these people work for a YC organization, so we will provide space etc.
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I like the idea of YC funding research. Bias free and politics free research can go a long way. A couple of questions though for @sama:

1. Where will the research be based? Is YC providing space to setup lab?

2. One of the problems I see with this is lack of fellow researches present on site making casual collaboration harder (compared to a research university campus). Have you thought of that?

3. Are you planning on funding researches with track records or people with high risk/high reward ideas that are relatively new?
You can rent $10,000+ of cameras/lenses on your credit card through camera rentals places, though they will take a deposit on your card. Perhaps after Amazon is burned a few times, they'll require a deposit.

http://www.borrowlenses.com/product/Canon-EOS-C300-Mark-II-E...
Interesting. I am curious though, as to why YCR researchers will also receive equity in Y Combinator as part of their compensation? Especially given that both are organized separately and YCR discoveries won't be funneled through or used in YC. I am also assuming that YCR will pay market rate salaries.
This was a refreshing article to read.

Regarding Fallacy #5: "The database is the wrong place for business logic". Ummm...people actually think business logic does not belong in a database? If you have a payroll app, and you have 26 pay periods per year...where (other than a database) would you store that? In a config file? (LOL) As a constant in the source code? (YIKES).
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As a heavy reddit user for the past 5 or 6 years I'd say the issue of intolerance on reddit is not entirely the fact that there are subreddits for racist or sexist ideals. What bothers me most is the way racism and sexism has seeped into the general site culture. The large subreddits which appear on an unregistered user's frontpage are full of comments and submissions whose magnitude of upvotes paint a picture of a casually intolerant status quo.

Using your analogy, I'm not upset because I can walk into a hall called "coontown" and see racism; I'm upset because I walk into a hall called "videos" or "worldnews" and see people throwing around stereotypes of women and minorities with great prejudice behind their words. Since I've been using reddit for some time now there has been a very noticeable shift in the status quo when it comes to the level of discourse and the amount of hate speech that shows up, and I'm really not happy with it.
It may also be interesting to add levers for duration of time between financial events. Then we can look at the exit analysis from an investor's point of view and understand a little bit more about investing at different stages... then you could add levers for success rates at each stage (Dave McClure tweeted a visualization of this recently)!
"Likely due to" seems like an overstatement. That is, the implied claim:

"WPV1 would be likely be eradicated right now if not for the hunt for Osama Bin Laden"

does not ring true.
Exactly! The WEB! Not yet another format that a small percentage of people will ever use but that everybody else will have to deal with for centuries.
Yes, but we're coming in on the very high end of the comp scale. We're also considering doing things like YC guaranteeing 100% mortgages for the researchers--housing prices in the bay area are a joke.

We're starting relatively small (on the order of 10) and grow from there at a reasonable rate.
Microsoft Research is also an excellent organization for CS related research.
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you could allow free use of patents under a license that requires the entity doing so to also allow free use of their patents. If you believed the patent system is largely counter productive (as I do), this would be an awesome way of trying to address this a constructive way.
I agree, but the problem is that it is never 'just a day.' Developer comes and needs a couple hours to clean up some code. Cool, the a couple hours turns into a day, then a week, then no new features are being shipped. It is very easy to get into a constant refactoring perfectionist state to the point where nothing ships. It is so common in fact that we have memes about 'real engineers ship'.
I'm not sure if you realize, but reddit has actually banned this speech. Not doing that would not force the listeners to "be required to remain silent", they could

1. Not go to the subs that have such speech, and only frequent subs that have enforced rules against such speech (of which there are many, and people are free to create their own)

2. If they feel a burning need to go to a sub that has speech they don't like, they're free to respond to that speech (unless that subs bans opposing speech, which is rare), vote on it, etc.
Please see also cperl, a perl11 (=5+6), which is an extended perl5 variant with many perl6 features and syntax extensions.
Only the perl6 syntax which violates perl5 cannot be supported.

http://perl11.org/cperl/STATUS.html
I'm a big fan of IRC, but there are two main reasons this argument doesn't work:

* IRC doesn't easily meet their extensibility requirements. Adding a new field to an existing IRC message just isn't doable.

* IRC has no concept of contacts. Their are bots on some servers and some clients will whois a set list of nicks on join to emulate this feature, but having contacts as a real concept is obviously preferable for Riot's use case.

* XMPP is also a standard protocol. If ejabberd didn't meet their needs, it's hard to see any standard ircd meeting them either.
From the project scope, it's even more specialized than a normal town, with lab areas for things like aging infrastructure and green energy. Plus operations/campus facilities for monitoring/flight control and planning of tests inside the facility.

Conversely I doubt every building will be fully fitted/furnished from the get go. Most likely certain areas will have more filled in detail, depending on what scenarios they are supporting.
You are right - one bad decision can destroy a project/product.

But the opposite is not necessarily true.
To ship insanely great things, you need a lot of factors to come together, not just one person's decision (although it helps).

Steve Jobs kept using ideas from the people who worked from him (presenting them later as his ideas). Yes, he had great intuition and good taste to choose the better ideas, but without the people who generated these ideas, he would have been yet another arrogant, loudmouth suit.
Well, everyone would be able to use YC Research's public outputs defensively as prior art.
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Above market salaries and also equity.

We want to get the best people in the world, and I think YC equity is a pretty compelling thing to get. We're competing against e.g. Google, and Google stock is also a pretty compelling thing to get!
Glad to hear that! Some of his thoughts really resonated with me although they run counter to the current corporate research culture.

I think Google managed to recreate something similar with their 20% projects
Okay never mind. I just showed you the Standards for All Early Education in the States by NAECY. In the back is all the resources used for the Standard.

I even listed out the standard. You want a control group of Children for coloring vs non-coloring? Well than go ahead and get that fundedm because no one is going to do that and get paid. This is research in Education which is not a hard science therefore it is Philosophy based and research based, BUT the research is on bigger issues than coloring vs non-coloring.

This is how research is conducted for Recess: http://www.centerforpubliceducation.org/Main-Menu/Organizing...

The research your looking for will be in a higher level of education and developmental psychology. The most concrete thing you will see is pieces like this and you still won't like it. http://www.earlychildhoodnews.com/earlychildhood/article_vie...

You are asking a philosophy question on a specific issue. It is deemed inappropriate due to the need for creative and intellectually stimulating. Guess you could fund a study for that since so many Day Cares give worksheets and coloring pages to children contrary to Best Practice. Soft science is just that soft science.
Between multiple opposed parties attempting to resolve conflict, war is a meta-mechanism that solves the decision making problem vacuously, by removing all but one participant. Until a permanently disabling threshold other than death is found [0], there will exist a price at which it is profitable to undermine any abstraction layer of polite competition. Automated militaries lower the price point at which death, whose limit is genocide, is an economic alternative.

[0] Perhaps through cryptographically one-way neurolinguistic re-programming. Even Japan's conditioning by the American occupation (one of the most brutal cultural reorganizes absent enforced diaspora) seems to be waning after 70 years.
There are also a lot of rather large subs like /r/shit____says that serve as downvote brigades to harass people over their opinion. It's online-bullying at its worst.
School project? The website certainly looks like one. Who wrote those headlines for them? Did they outsource it to a school for the differently mentally-abled?
> YC has a very high problem flux at this point

What does this phrase mean in English?
I can't/shouldn't take the flu vaccine... it will drastically the risk (around 5% without flu shot) that I'll have Guillain-Barre again. I'm almost done paying the hospital bills from 5 years ago, when it happened... insanely expensive treatment, even if you have insurance that caps at half a million.
Have you ever wondered why it's called a dashboard ?

Of course it's proper name now is "instrument panel". But a dash board is what was put in front of the vehicle to protect the driver and passengers from the debris from horses hooves when dashing, as in : through the snow, in a one horse open sleigh.
One comment. With bacteria, resistance is to specific (or multiple) antibiotics. This doesn't mean necessarily that the strongest bacteria in general terms get selected. For example MRSA tends to affect people who for some reason have weakened immune systems because healthy people do a decent job of fighting it off.
@sama is this targeted towards pre-PhDs who are deciding between pursuing their PhD or working in industry, as well as post-PhDs who are full-time researchers?
(I put together https://ycr.org.)

Yep, I'm planning on swapping in the permalink in a day or two, but just want to avoid making changes during this launch.
It's not just about inserting data fast enough, you could save the data in-memory and batch-insert them for max performance to a text file.
But time-series databases often come for certain needs, most commonly aggregation operations over time windows.
> I have a feeling it's too late to change them now, so it may just have to live on as a quirk of the language.

I can see that, and I don't think its all that bad, just suboptimal, and confusing based on more than just expectations shaped by other languages.
Sam has expressed his desired to get really good AI to become a thing. Since YC does a ton of tech I'd bet $10 it's AI.

But of course this is just my useless speculation :)
That already happens with inflation. Additionally, "stimulating the economy" is one of the main reason for it that people will accept.

So, putting a negative interest rate would simply add to the rate of inflation.
I love this idea.

Not sure if this is driving your thinking but this would open a desperately needed alternative to Academia if you can scale this idea as successfully as you've scaled startups.

I've watched my genius brother-in-law (PhD Materials Science & Chemistry / Biomimicry) be consumed by a very broken UC system over the past decade.

Started with an exceptionally bright, curious, and inventive man who created breakthrough science in self-healing materials for the "benefit of the world"

10 years of grant fights, personnel struggles, under-served licensing resources, conflicting lab-vs-student priorities, etc has put him out the other end hopeless and disenfranchised.

The world will probably lose one of their best "public" researchers to the bowels of commercial science as a result.

Go for it Sam, good luck and excited to see what your first projects are.
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Their percentage stake is how much they put in relative to the pre-money valuation.

Directly above this statement is a bar graph that says "investment 20% equity", while this statement led me to expect it to say "25%". (20% makes more sense to me, but that would mean s/pre/post/)
No, the listeners are very welcome to express themselves, but I still see no possibility of the emotional state of the listener being the responsibility of the speaker.
That is great news Sam! This is really exciting to see an incubator starting it's own research lab and on top of that, keeping it totally in the open source. I'm fascinated by Research work folks have done at Parc and Disney, you should have a look here and perhaps speak with someone at Disney as well: http://www.disneyresearch.com
It's exactly what I've wanted ever since I tried to use Finale notepad so many years ago.
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>perfectly

That would kill any targeting, thus destroying conversion rates on cpc ads and diminishing the value of display ads. This perfect system would lead to more spammy ads, not less. Content creators aren't going to jump on that.

And do exchanges actually let publishers dynamically serve ad content from server-side? Wouldn't they be able to fake impressions?
I have a bit of experience with transcription/engraving software. I completely agree that the process tends to be slow and frustrating, but I'm not sure if this really solves the problems. This looks like it could be nice for rapid prototyping, but I suspect it would be at least as equally frustrating if you're trying to get a professional end result where you have absolute control over everything.

My favorite engraving software is LilyPond, which is similar to LaTeX in that it's just a plain text language that gets rendered. There is no GUI, although there are several "IDEs" that I have tried (they seem to be mostly useless beyond syntax highlighting, templates, and a live preview). And like LaTeX, it is often extremely frustrating, and the learning curve is extremely steep. But I think I prefer it because, once you get some experience using it, it is (mostly) very predictable and gives very fine-grained control.

http://www.lilypond.org/
It can be rolled into nice wads and used as props in ganster movie

Apparently Escobar kept most of his money in cash. He had warehouses of cash (!!!!) and was spending a few thousand dollars on rubber bands a week to wrap the cash. Plus he was writing off 10% a year because "rats ate them".

Criminals lead very interesting lives :p

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Escobar#Criminal_career
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> I've heard both sides of the vaccine argument and they both have points.

Would you expand on this?
The enthusiasm around React is infectious and I'm thinking about integrating it into one of my projects but I can't quite tell what exactly it's supposed to be used for. Is it only for SPAs or is it reasonable to consider react when you just want to add some interactions and dynamism to a page that was rendered server side?

React seems kind of like an all-or-nothing approach. It seems like overkill if you just want to provide a little more structure to jQuery spaghetti code.

Can React be a competitor to, say, Knockout? React seems more in the realm of angular or ember to me.
It has a kindle attached to it. Every kindle has a built in cell phone transceiver. I would not be surprised if they use that to send periodic location data.
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> "To start off, I’m going to personally donate $10 million..."

Holy cow. That's real money. Sincerely very impressed by the commitment.
@sama: how are you thinking about evaluating progress of the groups? it seems all the bureaucracy in the current research ecosystem derives from the fact that it is really hard to evaluate progress in research/science. So you form a committee of experts to evaluate if a given researcher is doing well, and that eventually leads to politics and bureucracy. what are you thoughts on evaluation?
One thing that struck me in the Netherlands is the difference in turbine placement between there and the UK.

In the UK a turbine must be at least 110% of it's height away from a property boundary.

Contrast that with this scene at Rotterdam Container Terminal :

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.9204045,4.1774598,3a,75y,3...
My grandpa's cousin had polio. If not for a bizarre accident, she'd probably still be alive today.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10347821
”Punkt” means ”point”, as in ”that’s it”. The prices certainly puts everything into question.
TIL that Sam Altman has considerably more personal wealth than I would have guessed, if I'd ever been inclined to guess.

Anyway, this is very cool. Exactly the sort of thing that needs to happen to push the world forward in deeper ways. I'll be very curious to see what sort of teams they put together and just how fundamental and long term and heretical they go with their research.
> The idea of giving special consideration to "stateless" UI components in this sense seems ill-conceived, because adding or removing UI-related state should not have any extra implications.

But… it doesn't? 0.14 just provides a simpler way to define stateless components. For a component user, there should be no difference between a "functional" stateless component and am "object" stateless component which defines a whole class with only a render method.
Nice, good luck! Good funding :)
I understand we are not discussing the mathematical formalism, but that doesn't answer my question.

Logical thinking is reasoning; just doing something because it feels obvious doesn't sound like application of reasoning. Many obvious things are reveled to be inadvisable when carefully considered.

Also, I don't believe that taking care of yourself is obvious if you remove emotions. Self-preservation is an emotional instinct, not some logical axiom.
Sweet! We'll need more things like this if we want to see our share of societal progress. I have faith that more programs like this will blossom in the coming years.

@sama -is this only for severely resource intense research projects? And do you envision this turning into an alternative to graduate school too?
They got that way through creativity AND ability to embody that creativity in digital or physical goods/services that can be sold. Very little of it had to do with luck, although successful people often talk about "luck" to minimize the effect of their success and appear more humble.
EMPs make robot war between states of similar capability pretty unlikely. Robots are only particularly interesting against enemies who can't wield meaningful electronic countermeasures, like protesters and other domestic uprisings.

We often mark the fall of a regime at the point where its army and secret police take off their uniforms, climb down from the guard towers, and join the protest crowd (or go home). Robots can remain loyal to the central command structure to the very end.

Human police forces are liable to defect if not paid, likely to refuse suicidal engagements, and may even refuse immoral engagements. With good enough engineering, a regime's drones will remain ruthlessly efficient even when it runs out of money, is obviously on the wrong side of history, and is obviously going to lose.

I'm not sure whether the final outcomes of revolutions would change, but their endings will certainly be longer and more painful. A Berlin Wall capable of defending itself indefinitely without human intervention would not have fallen so easily.
Well I always wanted to be in Y funded startup. Now my dreams become bigger - now I want get to YCR.

Congrats Y team! I'm can't wait to see what you come up for next announcement!
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Gotcha. So this is more about getting brilliant minds in media res, as opposed to discovering fledgling great researchers of tomorrow. Good lure; YC equity is probably increasingly more compelling than Google's!
This whole project is impressive! Programming, community managing, marketing, etc, it seems this guy is working full time on that site. But what is the business plan?
They weren't fake AFAIK. They just happened to be searching for Bin Laden's family's blood while they were at it.
I think there is real value in consumers being able to glean value they want from their own data, would you or have you ever considered a program that allowed users to share data with you in exchange for services, ads or other products they continually found relevant?
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Do they have similar policies with regards to openness as YC's research lab?
If you don't mind sharing, how much do you get through those affiliate programs compared to advertising?

Also, would you consider providing some kind of paid model in addition to ads? I use DDG dozens of times per day as my primary search engine; I would happily pay for it. I realize that model doesn't scale to the entire world, as only a fraction of people will pay, but do you have some way for people who like what you're doing to pay you a modest amount, with as little friction as Patreon and similar?
At least Drupal 8 is much better about this, by default it doesn't load any JS unless there is actually anything on the page that requires it. And scripts are added below the main content and not in head. Caching also got much better in Drupal 8 and is enabled by default, which makes a huge difference in speed.

You always have to be careful with a CMS, it's very easy to load a lot of unnecessary stuff, but you can still build very fast and lean sites with Drupal with only a bit of knowledge.
> What if that patch attempt to a vehicle fails, leaving it unable to turn on?

If a router ships with a brickable vulnerability, the warranty SHOULD cover it. I don't know if it WOULD.
I would much rather people just removed bloat from their websites.

Most newspapers are crammed with crud that provides zero value to me.
> Is it reasonable to consider react when you just want to add some interactions and dynamism to a page that was rendered server side?

Not if you want to reuse the server-generated markup. You can use it for little pieces in an otherwise static page, but it needs to own rendering of those pieces.
Off Topic: I see in your profile, PavlovsCat, a link to the RetroShare Sourceforge page. Are you a contributor to the project? I see that they now have an active GitHub repository [0], when I had thought progress had slowed or ceased.

[0] https://github.com/RetroShare/RetroShare