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> If anyone hasn't figured it out already, YC is becoming the first 21st century university

This is a ridiculous statement, it is nothing like a university.
Before-the-fact EV is what the entire question of bias is about. In the case of investments, your minimum outcome is that you shut down the company. Comparing this for male/female sets is useless. Also, looking at other aspects of the distribution (e.g. how many $10M exits, $100M exits) isn't useful because for investing, you want to maximize mean return, and it's not like looking at 20-80%tile outcomes numerically tells you much about that -- are these people saving dead companies or are they derisking $10B companies?

With students there is more of a connection between before-the-fact EV and outcomes, and much more information exposed (grades and course registrations on a semester-by-semester basis). Without that information (if you just looked at who graduated, who didn't) you can't really say as much. (You could run a Netflix-like competition to see who has the best graduation prediction engine and use its estimates as your definitive answer to what an unbiased EV predictor would say about college applicants.) With GPA information, let's say you look at the 10th percentile GPA's in each set and below, for boys it's 0.1-1.1 and for girls it's 0.1-1.5. What does that tell you about before-the-fact EV cutoffs? It doesn't tell you much, because one set of students, when they fail, could be more likely to fail harder than the other. It takes a lot more work than just that.
Doubt it. Their T&C probably protects them from that kind of thing, but I can't even find it on their site right now.
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Why is the page still up with the spamming accusations on it? If you're a co-founder, please take care of it ASAP instead of wasting drakonka's time 'contacting' them.
I'm in your boat. I wish more people were in that boat.
How about we keep standard time all year long, and you just leave work an hour earlier?
Google wants you to do special things for them. Have you gone to https://postmaster.google.com and set up your domain there?
Uh, Amtrak wasn't founded until 1970. It was reversed, and then reversed again.
This is the known effect on primates, first amnesia, then unconsciousness that can last for many hours, and finally death (in higher doses).

Herbivores just have learned to avoid it. Even goats that try to eat anything in sight and munch happily cardboard boxes if they can, do not dare to touch this plants. An herbivore unable to wake up and run is quickly spotted by predators.
CSS selectors always select "down the tree". Or, read in reverse (from right to left), evaluating them only requires information from further up the tree. In HTML, "further up the tree" corresponds exactly to "earlier in the text stream". This means that as soon as an element finishes parsing, we can find all the selectors that apply to it immediately, enabling better incremental display.

Of course, that's no longer always true today. In particular, selectors like :nth-last-child() depend on information from later siblings. Defining a combinator or equivalent mechanism that allows direct selection based on later siblings is thus not out of the realm of possibility. And selecting a parent vs an earlier sibling is almost identical - the parent's start tag is immediately prior to the first sibling (or text), so the distance between "thing you're selecting" and "thing it needs to know about to evaluate the selector" is only incrementally larger. So a way of selecting a parent based on children is probably fine too.

There are a few issues that have prevented us from doing so today. For one, it's slow. Using a single one of the "backwards" sibling pseudo-classes can kick your entire page into slow-selector mode, because it breaks optimizations. The same would be true of parent selectors, probably. For two, we have to prevent nesting - siblings usually aren't too far from each other, but the root can be very far from a descendant. (Also, siblings are usually walkable by traversing an array, while parent/descendant relationships are typically pointer-based and slower to traverse.) This makes it a bit clumsy to specify.

That all said, it's on the roadmap. I plan for it show up in Selectors 5.

(Oh, and note, the "cascade" in "Cascading Style Sheets" isn't about what you're referring to. It's about a "cascade" of values for a given property colliding on a single element, and figuring out which one "wins". Thus the Cascade module <https://drafts.csswg.org/css-cascade/>. It's not the best name, but we're stuck with it. ^_^)
Usually you'll have a bot gather the channel's history that you can ping and most IRC clients collect the history locally. In the use cases that -most- people use Slack for, it's identical to IRC.

I don't use IRC anymore, I use Slack but only because it's convenient. IRC is all over the place like the majority open source projects. Slack is clearly inspired by IRC, but it's in a pretty package and works OOB. Not sure why people are shitting on Slack or IRC here.
I think that zones are the problem. There should not be residential zones. There should not be commercial zones. There should just be the city.

Or else you should be ready for consequences: shortages of one thing after another, people turning sour, inadequate pricing.

1) I don't see why one would at the same time expect to live in a heart of dynamic, rich and important city and be shielded from reality. Yes, if you live in a shared building you may find a brothel, drug pusher store, or AirBNB rental next door. Call the police if they behave. Cope otherwise, or move to suburbs.

This may sound unfair if you expect otherwise, but those expectations are unrealistic.

2) But they don't talk about tax, they talk about banning. Taxing is a thing they can do. Just write a law clear enough that it would explicitly cover AirBNB, with clear understanding how this tax should work. Then force it out of AirBNB, suing if needed. Of course, some of individual lenders will go grey (for example, exchanging money outside of AirBNB's sight), but so can do hotels.

3) I don't see why short term rented flat would need more safety protections than regular flat.

Pass adequate laws. Don't ever start talking about banning something. That is what you should do.
This reminds me, perhaps unfairly, of the the "cost of living as businessman" things that used to be published every year or so, that showed that Oslo, Stockholm and Copenhagen were so and so many times more expensive that the average city. Not just per cent, times.

The major factor behind that was child care: Hiring a full-time nanny for your children is awfully expensive in Oslo, therefore being a businessman is awfully expensive.

Now, Oslo is expensive. No question. But noone needs a full-time nanny there, even if they might in Mumbai.

Perhaps the mental association is unfair. Perhaps the OECD data it's based on includes a comprehensive model of such things. Sweden and Germany have efficient health, childcare and education funding, the US does worse, all of that could be factored into such a comparison and perhaps they are factored into this one.
I'm not at work, so I can't see the relevant articles, but I notice the linked study uses satellite altimetry. I'd be interested in the numbers for complementary techniques, in particular, gravitational mass anomalies from GRACE. Here's a link to an older comparative study: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/igsoc/jog/2010/0000005...

My understanding is that GRACE still was seeing Antarctic mass losses, but perhaps that has changed.
You describe patronage, sponsored content, product placement.

Hey, this gpu shootout brought to you by Nvidia, and ASUS!
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Yeah, setting an explicit aspect-ratio is on the roadmap. The relevant people (me and fantasai) have too many other layout-related things on our plate atm to deal with it, but it'll show up in the next year or two.
That's awesome! I hope to go through that course soon. I just finished 2nd week assignments of Algorithms- Design and Analysis on Coursera - https://www.coursera.org/course/algo
It does look like a unity interface, so yes I think so. But why would this surprise you? The guy is a software engineer after all...
> I am thinking about working on a competing project, since I have many ideas on how this can be done better.

This, kids, is the biggest problem we face today. Whenever someone needs something out of something that doesn't offer it, a competing product is created.

Even if your product truly is better, a compromise is born. People who use your product will miss the community and content of Medium, and people who use Medium will miss the benefits of your product. Even if 50% of Medium users switch to your new product, you're both losers. The Medium community won't be as good as it used to, and your community won't be as good as Medium's used to be.

Until we move away from the application/website/service paradigm, this problem will remain. Fragmentation will continue to hurt everyone.

What we need is a decentralized and extensible platform that can be improved without introducing competition that leads to fragmentation. Too bad people don't know they want this yet.
Now that ARIN's run dry, it's gotten more difficult to start a proper ISP. Does their network support IPv6?
Maybe only partially related, but one of the things that surprised me the most when moving to the US from Germany, was seeing the large Mercedes star on one of the buildings while driving through Sunnyvale [0].

A few days later, I found myself at a BBQ filled with other fellow German ex-pats and basically all of them were working for Mercedes [1], VW, Bosch [3] ...
As it turns out, all of the big German car companies are conducting research out here.

It seems like a lot of the interesting UI and Autonomous Vehicle research is being done out here. From what I gather, they seem to think that the mechanical engineering going into these cars can be done in Germany at a level that they are happy with, but anything to do with the UI/UX and Software that controls the vehicle would be a better fit over here.

I am originally from Stuttgart, which is where Bosch, Porsche and Mercedes were founded and have their headquarters and I tend to agree. Germany is a great place to optimize an existing technology or come up with interesting mechanical changes, but dealing with something as fluent and user-centric like on-screen interfaces or the Software running e.g. the Navigation, doesn't particularly play to the slow moving German company mindset. I think that as long as there's a problem that can be measured exactly (torque, gas milage, ability to withstand mechanical pressure, ...) a German company will do a great job. For the "softer" qualities, I can see a good symbiosis with the culture out here in the valley.

That being said, meeting all of these people and seeing the companies within a 20 minute drive was an entertaining turn of events.

[0] https://www.google.com/maps/@37.3866231,-122.0357596,3a,15y,...

[1] http://www.mbrdna.com/

[2] http://www.vwerl.com/

[3] http://www.bosch.us/content/language1/html/rtc.htm
I would hope that both of those examples would be prohibited by the terms of their employment.
Their new Creative branch might cover more branches of coding.
Rocket.chat has web, iOS, Android, Windows, Mac, and Linux clients, with push notifications.
Clojure! And I'm absolutely loving it so far. =)

I've been working through the HackerRank Functional Programming challenges lately and have found it to be a great resource for getting accustomed to solving problems in a functional mindset. I suspect it'd be just as useful for any other functional language that they support.

https://www.hackerrank.com/domains/fp/intro

Next step is to actually build something with it. I have a rough idea for my next project but before starting on that I should probably release my current project and get a job...
Omni is hiring founding engineers
There are a few important processes that cause observed sea level rise. In order, with IPCC estimates on the magnitude:

- The ocean expands as it warms, which is the single largest contributor right now (1.1 mm/yr).

- Mountain glaciers are next, as they are very rapidly melting (0.76 mm/yr, with large uncertainties).

- Then Greenland, as mentioned by another poster (0.43 mm/yr).
What you've wrote is almost a perfect example of the Nirvana fallacy.

Yes, the current ad system is inefficient, regularly disruptive and even occasionally destructive. But it's here and it's redistributing, while the proponents of alternatives don't even mention that aspect, let alone have a working solution.

And it might be a "distance third-order effect" to you, but as someone who lives in a country where credit cards are rare and the average wage is under $15k/y, it's not as abstract to me.
Get yourself a copy writer. Look for someone who is a native speaker of English who writes proper UK English. Look for someone who knows how to write about clothes for a high end market in specific.

Instead of calling it "niche", you might try describing your business as a boutique. Boutique is the correct word (at least in the U.S.) for signaling that you are a small but upscale business. Most of the time, when someone is describing a business as "niche", they are basically dismissing it as small and irrelevant. There are exceptions, but those exceptions do not appear to apply to your business model.

Here is one of those exceptions and their business history is a good read:
kitchen.johnnycupcakes.com/story/

I would describe Johnny Cupcakes as a niche business because of the limited scope of their products. They are very focused on one thing, they do that one thing and they do it well: They mostly produce limited run t-shirts with their unique set of themes. IIRC, it started as just t-shirts. They appear to have expanded their product line to other items, but it still all follows their weird little theme. From what I gather, they are quite successful.

Best of luck.
Good point, and you have chosen a perfect example to define the logic. To apply that logic to OSes, well, look around you. Do you see linux on every laptop?

Now, I'm not saying Windows is the best or anything. I'm just saying that without solving much of the "approachability" problem, you can't expect people to just take up arcane technologies.

On the other hand, if by "we all", you mean programmers/HN-readers, I assume you might not be the "average" public.
I would take this a step further. I perceive the effects of advertising in most cases to be toxic and nefarious. Trying to convince me to buy or do something that I didn't already want or need is an unfortunate byproduct of capitalism. I avoid ads because I absolutely do not want their influence looming over me.

We -- the technologists behind it -- should be anxious to help humanity get past this embarrassing chapter in our development and find another way to make the economic wheels turn.
I've enjoyed using Airbnb, and I think the same about myself, but it's hard to rent a place and only get considerate guests.
IMHO all the regulation to be done against multi-property landlords should be created at the state-level, I mean, decoupled from any Airbnb-like infrastructure ("don't shoot the messenger!").

That is, the state has ultimately all the information regarding real-estate ownership. Creating laws that tax adequately the companies/individuals that own more than 1 property should be easy, and irrespective to how/if they monetize them.

Doing a regulation against AirBNB is ultimately going to hurt the real regular people that is being helped by this "sharing-economy", such as the ones that just rent their unique property (either because they have an extra bedroom or because their job required them to move to a different city where they bought their house, and therefore use their AirBNB income to pay the rent of a different apartment).
Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't companies usually get a quarter billion dollars AFTER they have shown traction?
Which bodes well for Airbnb, since the modern business environment is pretty much based on socializing negative externalities while providing value to direct customers. Besides cars, there's also oil, coal, mining, plastics, advertising, agriculture, water rights, and housing development.
The software folks (Google, Apple) are going to figure out how to build great cars much faster than the car folks are going to learn how to build great software.

Car companies are incentivized through their engineering know-how, massive supply chains and complex dealership relations to keep optimizing complex gas engines that require significant maintenance. The software folks, having no burden of legacy on the other hand are incentivized to make the engine and car platform as simple as possible, basically an electric motor (or 2, or 4...) with virtually no serviceable parts. The cost and profit structures of the two sides will look very different, and that is going to make the customer experience much better on the "innovative" side (no more haggling the price of a car for example, 1st party servicing, etc).

Forget the Palm quote. Look at Nokia in 2007, when the iPhone was introduced: 50%+ marketshare, 100,000+ employees, 100 million+ devices/year, they already had "advanced" features like app stores and web browsers. But they were fundamentally a hardware company and supply chain oriented, optimizing the bill of materials and crippling their products to death, and could not make the transition. Not even 10 years later, they are extinct! That is what BMW and friends should be worried about.
As of last week they expanded the definition of what they allow, explicitly mentioning coding

http://help.twitch.tv/customer/portal/articles/2176641-creat...
Q. What if my creative broadcast is gaming-related art, game development, programming, or involves creation of music?
A. You are free to choose whatever you think is the most appropriate category for your creative broadcast, so long as you adhere to the Rules of Conduct for the category when doing so.

Q. Does all Creative category content have to be gaming related?
A. No, you’re free to broadcast your creative process for any genre!
Basic blocks with arguments seems similar to the scheme (hah!) used in the Twobit compiler: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=156786&dl=ACM&coll=DL&CFID....
This has been the case for some time now, but the ecosystem of large-ish companies was diverse enough as to avoid appearing dominated by this or that player. The fall of Novell and Nokia, coupled with Ubuntu's various pivots and IBM's troubles, left Red Hat as the lone real force with the capability to steer the most significant projects.

This is nobody's fault, but it's not healthy in the long run.
It's exactly this kind of attitude that is going to lead to paywalls for virtually every type of content on the Internet.

If paywalls actually worked then we'd already see them everywhere. Why don't we? Because people don't want to pay.
The plan for marketing it is:

* Ensure there are glossy Matrix-native clients out there with a Slack-equivalent level of good UI and UX (e.g. http://vector.im/beta)

* Build bridges to federate together as many different protocols as possible. This includes IRC, Slack, XMPP, SIP, Lync, Verto, Respoke etc. We're trying to make this as easy as possible by providing some high level building blocks like http://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-bridge. This hopefully will make it easy for others to bridge themselves into Matrix once we have critical mass.

* Release a stable version of actual Matrix standard itself, keeping it as simple but capable as possible. (Right now it's not frozen, and it's still in beta)

* Provide a really capable reference server implementation. (The current one, synapse, is a good starting point and works well for experimenting with Matrix, but we still have work to do on performance and scalability).

* Run around the world encourage existing projects/networks/solutions/developers to get involved and defragment their comms - a bit like the early internet guys had to do with defragmenting email.

It's obviously hugely ambitious, but we actually have some good traction already (despite still being in beta). Hopefully the trend will continue!

[Disclaimer: i work on it]
I use an adblocker, but only with a blacklist. So far only one site has made it on that blacklist. A certain financial blog that is just too obnoxious to read without. The whitelisting approach suggests that 'the first one is always free' for the consumer but I agree with you that the average user has no feeling for the economics underlying the websites they visit and the content they consume. Adblockers run with a whole lot of blocking by default. That gives them the most market value (remember, there is a market for adblocking).

People suggest that they would happily pay a 1st world sum of money but do they think about what that price tag looks like for people with less money to spend? My 'eyeballs' might be worth more than most, or not, to the ad networks. I'm happily trying to subsidize this whole web thing.
Changing the world is not cheap
Also Swede here ... I don't agree with the OP on his judgement of the article which is in my opinion pretty much spot on.
Can someone shed some light on how much it actually costs to run your own infrastructure? Say that I use 5 large instances of RDS database and then around 100 large EC2 instances along with ELB's. This will roughly cost around $1M a year with AWS. Will running your own infrastructure be costlier than this?
I don't think exclusive access would be legal, and if access isn't exclusive, the value of the information would drop, as it's only valuable to the extent that it's not known by others.

Also, simply being aware that such a service exists and can release information at certain times would let uninformed traders exit the market during releases. Right now insider traders can arrive randomly at any time.
If Adobe Flash was a failure, I only hope I can fail as well and as strongly in my life...
I hope your cat gets better soon!
> the thing that you find from a hotel is completely lacking with AirBnB: Consistency

AirBnB isn't an alternative to a hotel, it's an alternative to a booking agency. That's like calling Booking.com inconsistent because you can rent a room at varying levels of hotels.

There are good hotels and bad hotels, and you cannot always know what you're going to get when booking a hotel room sight unseen, either.
Ignoring the page view time bit, couldn't this (theoretically, I have a hard time imagining it practically) just be handled invisibly by the ISP that already knows every request you make?
Dark lives of China's 'black children'
Did anyone else see "Eli the Computer Guy" slamming YC on his channel about an email exchange he had with the founder of Livecoding: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h66PNIUtaaE

I found it to be fairly entertaining...
Well, since air temperatures are still rising, basically you're increasing, dramatically, the wet-bulb temperature of the atmosphere.

You can survive 100-degree dry-bulb temperatures without problem, which is the reason why so many places of the world have a temperature above human core body temperature yet are still quite survivable. Now with wet bulb? Literally all these places can become literally unlivable for humans.
This is pretty awesome, but I wonder if it could have been done had there not been a network guy in the group? I've done a lot of network code/config over the years, and I wouldn't say it was particularly easy. The guy seems to say it was easy.

Unbelievably fiddly is more like it. Just the nature of it makes it annoying: before you have a connection through, you have a chain of links that doesn't work. You have to fix every single link before Eureka.
> Now that ARIN's run dry, it's gotten more difficult to start a proper ISP.

Only if you want static IPv4 addresses. And even then, they aren't impossible to come by.
Grand Theft Auto V first person (Fair game hunting mission)