skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>(A cynical person would say that this philosophy is merely to incentivize companies to apply to only YC. I don't think that's the case and take Sam at his word.)

I wish more people would apply this type of skepticism to tech investment in general. I think there's a lot of shady stuff going on that doesn't really get discussed -- imo, there are significant problems with the conventional startup investment model.

That said, in this case, I think it makes sense to say "Why wasn't that help sufficient? Were they really bad accelerators or are you just wasting money?" I also think it's important to recognize that a lot of small local accelerators are just bad accelerators. Since the most competent people are often the most keenly aware of their inadequacies, it makes sense that some really good companies would go through a local "starter" accelerator program, feeling unworthy for YC out of the gate.
FYI, that's nothing to do with Cycle, that's just hyperscript. Works great with React if you feel the urge: https://github.com/mlmorg/react-hyperscript

The syntax is slightly different though:

h('ul', [
h('li', 'Foo'),
h('li', 'Bar'),
])

Otherwise the same advantages as the author listed when using Cycle, eg, props and children are both optional, etc.
C++ templates are Turing-complete ;)
This shows a severe lack of imagination with regard to this. You heard testimony about the bullet, but there's not guarantee you heard all the testimony. There could have been followup testimony about how some previously unopened item, was opened or was jostled. Whether or not it would change your opinion is not the point, the point is if there was testimony to that effect, it wasn't presented, and at this time I don't trust the documentary enough to think they would present it if it was present. That leaves me unsure of how much to trust what I did hear, since it was out of context at best, and in a constructed or fictional context at worst. If your only source of information is the documentary, then I consider your information and opinions as likely to misinformed as informed, just as I would consider that of myself at this point.
Rescuing REST from the API Winter
*dioramas
Fair point. That is of course probably the bit I want most. Massive mass production to the point where it competes with the current integrated (throwaway) market.
Ask HN: Open source machine learning for genomics applications
I've been collecting a list of open source machine learning projects for genomics and more general biology applications, and I'd like to grow it. Does anyone here know of some good projects?
Well, that's sort of the difference between composing libraries to build applications and using a framework like Angular. Angular abstracts away a lot of things. This is good and bad. It's easier to get into Angular and get started sooner. But ask an Angular dev to explain the digest cycle to you, or transclusion or when and why to do one-way or two-way binding, and the relative merits of calling $parent or using controllerAs syntax. It's a really confusing mess. And folks use it without understanding how it works.

With react, I can explain, quite simply, that it's simply a function: (state, props) => HTML . That is elegant as fuck. There no dirty checking, no two way binding or unintended side effects by cross-referenced observables.

React-Router is only necessary if you want to build a SPA. Then you learn how it works, or you use some other router (like Redux-Router). It's great. You actually understand how your code works.

It's a steeper learning curve up front, but you learn and you become a better developer as a result.
So now poor students cannot attend top end schools, or expensive courses (law, medicine, engineering, etc), but richer ones can.

I completely agree that something has to be done to limit the rise in tuition costs; I personally think greater transparency requirements (e.g. the student has to know how much study will cost before they can be accepted, a system that compares all US colleges for a specific course, etc).

I don't honestly think students REALLY grasp how much college is going to be costing them and what the payback period. How can someone spending $40K on an English Lit major really think it is going to pay for itself? They must not have looked at the specifics or figured out the repay period.
React doesn't have to be O(N). You can short circuit rendering with shouldComponentUpdate checks.
Here's the current list:

https://github.com/dhbradshaw/ml-for-genomics/blob/master/RE...
I think this sounds great in a hand wavy way but most folks don't have unlimited time and funds to do this and need to raise money in order to build their business So worrying about YC / other accelerator /angel funding is not mutually exclusive of "building your business"
This article should be resubmitting when it becomes freely available on 1/28.

I'm surprised LWN had that many subscribers, or are people just upvoting based on a headline?
Not all evidence is in for a 9th planet
FireEye Acquires iSIGHT Partners in $275M Deal
If true, voyager hasn't left the solar system yet.
> In 2011/12 BBC R&D’s budget was approximately £14 million

Page 32:

http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/insidethebbc/howwewor...
There are people living there now, why not ask them? haha
Discovering Planet Nine
People's Bank of China to Issue Digital Currency, Looking at Blockchain
We're also on the verge of eradicating both polio and guinea worm.
Sell Bitcoin for Bitcoin?
This game lets you sell your bitcoins for bitcoin...

Cool concept.. www.Gamerholic.com

Say you are selling 0.05 BTC
The game requires 6 players to start

The game allows a max of 25 players

Each player gets 15 free grabs

Lets say that .05 btc is $25, you are taking the risk that x number of players will SPEND enough grabs, slaps and grabbit holes to make you a profit.

If 10 players each spend 10 slaps, 5 grabbit holes and 5 grabs (not including free grabs), that's a total of 200 tools used.

Each tool costs $0.25. 200 x 0.25 = 50. This means you sold $25 in bitcoin for $50, minus 5% service fee

Service fee is applied only to positive games.
Very interest way to sell, let us know what you think
Same experience I made. On the other hand I always think that making equally complex web apps with other popular frameworks is more difficult. At least if high performance and sustainable maintainability should be there.

Therefore for me the most important metrics for a web framework are popularity and ability to deal with complexity.
Hoping though that I get enlightened by another framework one day...
Once you need to send a truck to someone's house, have someone get out and drop off one letter then adding a second letter has a tiny extra marginal cost. Further, there are some fuel savings from sending an air craft 1/4 full vs. 3/4 full but again there minimal in comparison to keeping the aircraft flying in the first place.

Thus, from the post offices perspective they are much better off with a steady stream of traffic than random spikes. Which is a large part of why the post office is willing to deliver spam aka junk mail so cheaply.
Curious if there are other signals you can talk about?
Working on the business part-time only because of job?
having a young family?
Age? Most of SV seems to feel if your over 40 and aren't at least VP of something your mediocre.
ambitiousness of the idea versus being able to show progress?
How about paying a contractor to do some sales versus finding a co-founder? in this case I'm technical but have a full-time job so don't have the time to talk to customers.
How Sandstorm Works: Containerize data, not services
An increase in shadow-banning would be very effective, but there's a lot of push-back against that form of penalty.
What if the investors were also mentors that helped guide the startup to a particular potentially-successful pivot?
> unprompted

That's the problem.

> They ignore your pitch

Of course they do. An unprompted pitch is at best an annoyance and at worst some kind of scam. Why would you expect it to be well received after you wasted their time and energy?

> You never reach the state where there are "properly informed" people deciding not to buy your product.

Sure you do. It's why people pay for things like Consumer Reports - so they can get the information they need to decide if they should buy something. This isn't true in all cases, of course, but most people make informed purchasing decisions regularly.

Just note that they may disagree with you, even when you have the same facts. Situations and opinions are highly variable.
I think this is great thing, it is right thing, that is coming from trustworthy person/company.

Now, time will tell how things will play out, but I believe I can count on Brendan to make the right choices when it comes to features, compromises.
We've already taken investment pre-pivot from angels, screwing investors over to be a 'fresh startup' seems to be a type of fraud.

It's different pitch, but a natural and logical progression. Most of the time ideas need refining, especially with user feedback. It doesn't make sense to start with a new company since the technology that powers is still the same.
Are you trying to make the case that ruby is type-safe?
I thought the mystery was that China Post created something called "ePacket" to subsidize post to international destinations for online only shipments.

Amazon does not like this at all and are currently lobbying the US Govt to stop it.
I heard over 30 and you are out.
The US also has a similar service, Clearxchange.
>We now have enough data to know that the track record of companies that go through multiple accelerators is much worse than companies that just do YC.

Unfair or not, their job is to choose companies that will benefit YC. If the data shows that companies with property X do worse, asking them to lose money because they want to be "fair" is not a reasonable request.

Of course, individual cases might be an exception. And YC does accept, but with higher expectations/requirements.
Oh my god, searching for medical information. It's so bad. I just wanted to find out some stuff about strep throat a few weeks ago, and everything aside from Wikipedia was at best a short bit of information on ~20-30% of the page with navigation and ads taking up the rest. None of it was better than Wikipedia despite being on medicine-related domain names, a couple of which used to be semi-reputable.

An excess of ad money is ruining the Web.
Survey for planning the future of programming languages
Glancing at the documentation, it seems to be essentially an implementation of the Memento Pattern, as described in the Gang of Four's book. I have to agree, it's fairly straightforward.
How to CHOOSE THE RIGHT WINDSHIELD WIPERS FOR Your CAR
Not just those passengers, the whole system has to stop if there is only one tube because nothing else can pass.

Meanwhile airplanes can just pass each other and route elsewhere.

This almost looks like a half-way solution looking for a problem.
It does feel vague, I'd love to see examples of how the paradigm helps you 'focus on features'. The examples given in the blog seem mostly about syntax/verbosity in nature which is not as interesting as evolving clarity of thought and mental overhead.

I haven't explored Cycle.js or Elm, but a few comments on the React/Redux side as I've recently adopted it at work and have found it to be a huge pleasure to work with. There does tend to be a lot of syntactic boilerplate/wiring up of things in Redux which is definitely a bit of a drag, but the most important thing that Redux has done for me is make data flow very clear and easy to trace and understand. Even with Facebook's impls of Flux, and Backbone before that, data flow was very tricky and cloudy at best.

As for the criticism that setup has a lot of moving pieces, I sort of agree, but I found myself up and running in a few hours after reading the (incredibly well written) documentation and within a few days I was already more productive than I was previously without Redux.

Elm also gets out your way by having immutable types built-in, signals built-in, “dispatcher” (Mailbox) built-in, and ADTs for action types built-in. The experience is great for a developer and the initial setup is quicker.

Built-ins are a tradeoff just like anything else. Redux gives you enough to get going, and has a strong ecosystem and community of libs that most people will use (react-redux, thunk middleware). Built-ins might help you get started faster, but maybe that doesn't fly for a company of 100 engineers where use cases vary and customization is important.

Lastly, the author claims Cycle.js lets you 'focus on features'. From past experience, this makes it sound like there's just a lot of magic and it's easy to get lost in it all (see Rails). This may or may not be the case with Cycle.js, but that is immediately my gut reaction. I feel Redux gives a pretty powerful philosophy and clear way to handle front-end apps that can scale well to larger apps. If there are some things Cycle.js is doing well over Redux, I want to hear more about those! The arguments against Redux without that context feel pretty weak.
By that logic, homeopathy must also be legit.
For items you can't afford to lose it might be worth checking if there's an Amazon Locker near your home or office. They're very easy and you don't have to deal with USPS.
I need my eyes checked
>...certainly is one way to neatly sidestep the modern manipulation of ads.

Things may be more insidious than that though. You may not drink Coke or Pepsi, but maybe you have friends or family members that do? I've certainly known people who didn't like to go to certain restaurants because they didn't serve Coke. Maybe you've also gone along with this at sometime in the past. Or maybe you've had to buy gifts for friends of your children, and they've had pressure procure name-brand items?
If this is interesting to you, then check out this frankly astonishing series of lectures from Jordan Peterson at the university of toronto. It's a psychology 40something course, and it covers the bible, ancient egypt, mesopotamia, jung, freud, piaget, skinner, dostoevsky, nietzsche, hitler, lots of evolutionary biology, lots of neurology, etc. etc. All tied up with the question of how to act in ones life. It's a truly amazing synthesis.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tQOlQRp3gQ&list=PL22J3VaeAB...

That's the playlist for last year's course. The 2016 course has just started, with a better camera this time. The first lecture is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjnvtRgpg6g
IAB dis-invites Adblock, disses compromise and buries dissent
Japanese band uses Google Street View to create music video
Aight, I thought target meant clicking regularly or at least thinking about the product or brand shown.
Yep, that checks out :)

Just a thought. Would sharing the files via Dropbox (shudder) or similar (rsync/syncthing) work on your devices?

That would then rely on a local text editor to edit or just the built-in web-browser if you automated a regular :TOhtml export from vim. Suppose that starts to get a little cumbersome for some use cases. Admittedly I don't have to check my calendar that often. My to-do list, perhaps though.
It's more of a natural evolution. We had one idea on how to use the technology, but the user feedback preferred a smaller aspect that we overlooked. So we narrowed down and turned that one small aspect into the company focus instead. The technology that powers it all, is still the same

I guess you can call it baggage, but nothing works right out of the box. Youtube was a dating site before it became a video site, but they didn't start fresh/reincorporate. They just grew from what their users wanted.
A better solution which only uses local connections between adjacent cells is Odd-Even Transposition Sort.

When the cells are arranged in a 2D grid, Shearsort sorts all the values in snake-like order in O(sqrt(n) log(n)). A slightly more complicated algorithm based on Shearsort is that of Schnorr and Shamir, which runs in O(sqrt(n)).
"Elephant hunters in Africa, for example, often target the base of the trunk to cut arteries, causing the animal to bleed to death. The mammoth also had injuries to its jaw that suggest the tongue was cut out."

As a way to bleed it out.
How Cigarettes Tax the Poor
Ember.js

It's not perfect, it feels a bit big sometimes, but everything I need something to build a feature quickly it's there in the framework or the build tool, and that's good enough for me.
Data hub for all the world's airports
Apple’s AirPods
Jeff Bezos isn't going to come to your house and find the duplicate item, you have to send it back to Amazon (they'll give you a label and you already have the packaging it came in).
I just started working with Redux fairly recently, and I definitely felt that handling async effects in Redux wasn't as elegant as most other parts of the Redux architecture. Glad to find out that Dan feels the same way, according to the tweets linked to in this article [1].

Has there been any efforts to make use of js-csp [2] to handle async operations in Redux, like how ClojureScript apps make use of core.async channels?

Cycle.js definitely looks promising, but I have a vague suspicion that its approach of handling effects strictly through the output of the main function, although elegant, might make interop with the rest of the JS ecosystem a lot more painful, since many JS libraries don't have such clean separation of concerns. I believe JS interop is also one of the most commonly cited pain points for working with Elm as well, which uses a similar approach.

[1] https://twitter.com/dan_abramov/status/689639582120415232

[2] https://github.com/ubolonton/js-csp
Good to hear. Most data resides in RDBs. If Meteor can't access that data.... Meteor limits itself.
The bulk of his argument seemed to focus on how he really prefers hyperscript to JSX, which is fair enough I guess...but no, really not a "different paradigm".

Especially since he talks a lot about how much he loves Elm, and Redux went out of their way to copy Elm. The Elm/Redux distinction is basically syntax.
4 Tricks to Balance Software Management with “Real Work”
What's in a tool? A case for Made in USA
But this moves the goal posts from your initial claim, which was "I adblock because I do not want to be manipulated into buying things I do not need."

Choosing one brand over another when you want to buy beer is not nearly the same thing as being manipulated into buying beer when you don't actually want to.
A Brief Intro to the Sh Package (Python)
Fellow innocent bystander here: I agree.
gafta
Year 2038 Problem
I tend to agree with you but I also think that the IAB is recognizing the unique threat that ABP specifically (as opposed to adblocking generally) poses to the industry. I'll explain what I mean.

ABP has a mafia-style business model based on extorting advertisers for inclusion on an acceptable ads list. Whether you agree with the concept of acceptable ads or not, it's pretty clear that ABP's narrative is hollow and their implementation is focused on their own bottom line: nearly every programmatic ad exchange who is willing to pay money is whitelisted as ''acceptable''.

It's a client-side tollbooth erected between users and the sites they visit, extracting money from the ecosystem for little value in return. At some point it isn't even ''adblock'' any more because so many ads are whitelisted, and (as a former user) I think ABP clearly passed that point awhile back. Their brand, momentum, and marketing allow them to keep users captive. There's probably opportunity in creating new adblock clients with no whitelist, growing the userbase, and then selling out to someone with an acceptable ads list, as there should be slow but eventual migration (which uBlock's growth points to).

At the point that the acceptable ads business model becomes normalized, it's fair to ask, where does it end? You will see every company with client software rolling out adblocking features (with tollbooth, of course). It's senseless, inefficient, and doesn't reward good actors (actually, likely rewards bad actors). I'm not saying that web publishers and their ad tech minions didn't bring this sandstorm upon themselves (I believe they did, and shed no tears for them), but even so, the future of the web is not dueling mobs of client-side adblocking thugs with variable rate cards for ad networks to bypass their intended functionality. At least I hope it's not.

I'm no fan of the IAB but I can at least admit to being impressed that someone there had the insight to take this stand, if that's indeed what it is.
Can you share why and how these Cycle.js users were burned by the framework? I've been considering it for a project and would love to hear about how it's gone wrong for others.
The article mentions that generally, but not speaking to this particular kill, these big game animals were hunted as sources of raw materials for manufacturing (hunting) weapons, clothing, tools as well as for food.
I quite appreciated it too. Just got back to work after a long vacation and I've been doing some deep working, more or less, although not in a tower out in the forest. But I like the audacity of the book, or something like that: like it encourages me to really try for serious sustained effort. Reminds me a little of that talk "You and your research".
Show HN: Camden Bee (Indie Game for iOS and Android - Ad Supported)
Amazon still pretty much never uses USPS to me in Wisconsin, unless you count SmartPost and the like if I select no hassle shipping.

I celebrate when Amazon misses its Prime 2-day shipping guarantees. That means I can complain and they promptly give me extra free months of Prime as compensation. Not sure why you don't get the same. They always offer it in my experience.

I always order stuff with at least a couple of extra days before I need the item so if you can't do that I could see why missing the 2 day target is bad.
I'm referring to Google's Spanner database, which relies heavily on time (and thus GPS calibrated atomic clocks) for consistency across DCs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanner_(database)
I live in a dense part of NYC with no shortage of retail. If I am going to go to a separate building and deal with getting and carrying back the package I am just going to go to the store that sells the thing I want and buy it. The whole allure of Amazon is that I don't have to.
What Is Epic in Agile Methodology (Definition and Template of Epic)
Facebook 360 Video
If the IP is the same, it makes sense to continue with the existing company. The IP belongs to the company, which belongs to the shareholders.

If you're changing everything, then it makes sense to just start a new company.
Because to a modern, american reader it might be not normal to assume that the tongue is eaten?
Interestingly, you've basically described compulsory licensing under Doha.
RC Start: Free one-on-one mentorship for new programmers
I really like the people and format of HN. Unfortunately these kinds of posts (random gifs, memes, video links) really detract from it. Luckily they only come up sporadically and when they do they're quickly gone.
I'd like for the observable community to finally settle on a minimal common interface (like Promises/A+ and later ES6 promises did) for observables. Maybe https://github.com/zenparsing/es-observable

Then maybe cycle.js could come with a more minimal implementation rather than having to bring in a library with a gigantic footprint and 100+ operators (https://github.com/Reactive-Extensions/RxJS/blob/master/doc/...)
I think the problem originates in people using the system to solve their actual problems. Most problems aren't simple, and therefore demand non-simple answers. (Tangent: this is also why todo list examples for frameworks are so damn silly.)
Another interesting case is when you select the slowest shipping option and it shows up in 24-48 hours anyway. Happens all the time.