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Reddit has suffered from Eternal September for quite some time.

There's a really good article on this subject that I can't seem to locate. But, if you put Reddit into the Wayback Machine, you'll see the frontpage transform over time, from something like Slashdot in 2009, to a meme image board in 2012, to a cleaned-up, marketing-friendly, image board in 2014, to the Facebook-feed-like mess that you see today.

When I first joined, the default frontpage was fine. But after time, I had to edit out default subreddits from the main feed. The final straw, in around 2013, was not being able to escape trolls and punsters, anywhere on the site.

These days, if I browse Reddit, I restrict myself to heavily moderated subs, like /r/askhistorians and /r/askscience, and subs with less than a thousand subscribers. Anywhere else on the site is like visiting the Facebook page of a 14-year-old Nazi womanizer with a Trump infatuation.

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Here's some great feedback: how about we let the winners win and the losers lose?
PG has already addressed that: http://paulgraham.com/recharisma.html
How many points did Pinboard get?
Are prices really that high for all the shows?

I bought tickets from Stubhub 2 months ago on the very low end of that range. And they were very good seats for a Saturday night show that I bought day of. I would have assumed that less good seats on other nights of the week would be much cheaper?

Or maybe prices have risen significantly in the last two months?
This also makes the tickets less valuable to begin with: more risk involved. I'm not going to buy tickets on a whim if I can't resell them if my schedule changes.
There's no real way to measure hardware as it pertains to power and speed. The best thing we have is browser and OS detection. If there was a way to determine hardware that'd be pretty useful.
Seconding this. I voted for Pinboard because A) I use and genuinely love the service, and I was excited to see what Maciej could do with the money and B) because Maciej's statement of semi-purpose:

> I am hoping to attract a certain protest vote of the silent majority who enjoy this community, but are uneasy about the values of its founders and more broadly, Silicon Valley.

accurately reflects my feelings towards HN/SV, and I think having a dose of skepticism in the fold would be good for YC.
The article misses some key things I would throw out there, here's to hoping they come to value with you.

1. Bake rules into your workflow. For instance, enforce daily or semi-daily standups. Make git commits a portion of things in those - so everybody has to say what they've done in git commits (obviously, this isn't 100% of things). Other coders on the team will be annoyed by the person who isn't committing code daily, so this will mean that coder is admitting not to you, but to them, they're playing by different rules.

2. Force them to write design docs for implementing new technologies, before they're implemented. Then write a retrospective about how things went over, a week or two after the project is launched (things that were unexpected?). This can serve as documentation, but adds a bit more clarity to the overhead that comes with these changes, which is easy to miss when you're in the thick of things. Perhaps it's all they need to understand what kind of complexity they're adding (or what kind of simplicity you're not giving them credit for).
Vote totals are live again on the runoff thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11615639
If those accident categories are the ones that don't include fatalities or even injures (which is likely) then it's a win. Computers and computer vision systems are probably less likely to fail on a highway, than a human is. Computers can also integrate road data in ways that humans can't. To be honest, I think the argument you're offering is just the reason why we'll start seeing automation of route-following vehicles first.

Trucks, buses, and taxis going to airports and hotels, don't necessarily have hard route-finding problems. You also say things like "Can't build a secure internet" as though that's ever been tried, or necessary in this case.
Ah, let me rephrase variance.
I took 6.001 in the late nineties and hated it/did very poorly. I found it waaaaaay too difficult as a freshman. Oddly, doing a bunch of C++ and Java in high school made it even more difficult. Biggest problems:

1. the programming environment (an emacs clone in scheme) had an extraordinarily steep learning curve
2. S-expresssions were hugely difficult to visually parse and edit vs. languages with more familiar syntax.
3. very little exposure to practical projects in the class - felt like constantly working on toy projects or impractical abstract constructions

I got a lot more out of 6.170 (software engineering lab) and the other computer science classes.

I have a much greater appreciation for the class now after 15+ years and recently worked through SICP again. It's much easier with more programming experience, not to mention Emacs paredit mode.

I always thought 6.001 should have been a 2nd or 3rd year course. I would have gotten a lot more out of it.
Why would I assume an that AI is robo zombie and wants to kill me?
Clearly tablet sales performed better than critics expected, but they never matched the phone because owning a phone significantly diminishes the value proposition of a tablet. Sales may get better as manufacturers figure out new ways to add value for the consumer or to successfully absorb the PC market.
Tiny difference in the count, really.
If I recall correctly, I was asked to implement a solution to a combinatorial problem within 1 hour.
I literally had to hold my breath till your story unfolded. Congratulations on winning your fight!
If you're 'sad' and 'really wanted it to work,' well, why isn't it happening? Do you have the power to make it happen? The voters apparently didn't.
Make it easy to get a refund. Or allow them to be resold directly or indirectly via an exchange you host.
Tried signing up for Signal using a RingCentral number. The callback verification triggers way too quickly for a VoIP call to propagate, answer and verify.

Gave up. =(
Just allow the buyers to return the tickets to the venue for a refund, minus a processing fee. Then the venue can sell any refunded tickets at the box office on the day of the show
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>This may change if charisma starts to be perceived as the key to winning.

So, in other words, this submission is a survey of the people who don't want Trump to win?
I think, in the spirit of the community, you should provide some argument for why you think that, rather than just state your judgement.

From a fairly outsider perspective, Maciej/idlewords seems to dislike SV & VC culture (for lots of reasonable reasons) and YC by extension, and is trying to joke/troll here as a form of protest or publicity; OK.

On the other side, the YC/HN guys are actually trying to do something innovative, with YC fellows which is more accessible than vanilla YC (can do remotely), and now with a community choice, which is a step in a more innovative/accessible direction again.

Surely this is a step in the right direction? If not, could someone explain why? If they are trying to make good faith steps in the right direction, and someone is trolling them (by which I mean for humor/protest, not bad intentions), isn't it fair enough to exclude that application?
I didn't know they bought the property. I too thought that they were still leasing it from Sega or something like that.

Didn't Macromedia used to live in the same building?
The example of the pizza ordering is technologically impressive, yes... But from an end-user perspective it is at best "as hard" as calling the pizza place and talking to a human taking your order.

There are many use cases where it could actually provide value, but I found it funny that they chose to demonstrate one to the press that really afforded end-users no advantage.
This is where I feel like the title "project manager" ought to be reconsidered, perhaps to "project secretary." That way, it's a bit more clear there's less of a hierarchy and more of a duty.
This "vote brigading" thing is ridiculous. Are we to believe that no one else involved tweeted or otherwise publicized their candidacy?
How is this any different in principle than $.get("page", function(result){document.body = result;}); ?

If the attacker can run the javascript you mentioned, they've already run.
I have the top comment on the runoff thread, and I was against Pinboard (due to doubts about whether Pinboard would do YCF in good faith - similar to what dang is saying here). So while I did notice a lot of people were in favor, it can hardly be called overwhelming.
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I have been teaching myself programming and feel front end is really the only way in without formal schooling or extensive self study. "Full stack" was the most popular in the survery and I feel most code camps teach "full stack light"; enough to put up a site using RoR or Node back end/JS front end framework.

I would love to get a job doing backend development and have worked through some CS moocs and I just feel like there are so many things I don't sufficiently understand to even be considered for a backend position. I could probably handle a "full stack light" position, but get overwhelmed when I try to really understand everything going on instead of just accepting "use this gem".
I own a Google Nexus 5X and I want yearly Android releases.

Seriously, this whole problem is caused by manufacturers and carriers installing their bloatware (which is what people really don't want). Without said bloatware (goodbye TouchWizz) there is no barrier to users updating when a new release is pushed by Google, because carriers won't need to lock versions to ensure new versions of Android don't break their bloatware.

So if you don't like it, stop being part of the problem. Stop buying anything non-Nexus (particularly Samsung), they are detrimental to the Android ecosystem.
If they did so publicly, you can tell dang about it...
What's the score on that comment?
It's not any harder to imagine the opposite IMO. I'd argue Trump is charismatic to many and Hilary really isn't.

https://www.quora.com/Is-Donald-Trump-charismatic
Even though Krewe wasn't chosen, I'm grateful for the opportunity to participate in this.

I really wish I had the opportunity to "re-pitch" Krewe. I was one of the first to apply, and I don't think I did it in the right way. It was clear from the comments that people had a really poor idea of what it is. So my suggestion for next time: have founders fill out a form so everything gets formatted correctly.
>What specifically makes you perceive that?

The rates for long-run capital returns and dividends are such that they are very beneficial to owners of capital, and they like to keep it that way. The upper-middle class folks who are working have their labor and ordinary income taxed at increasingly higher marginal rates. The rich often fund demagogues who talk about handouts for the poor while ensuring that "progressive" tax rates remain high on their potential rivals who pay high labor taxes.

>1. What is your working definition of liberal(positive vs. Negative freedoms)?

Today, I think the word "liberal" means "someone who thinks that the poor should benefit at the expense of the rich, through government coercion"

>2. Income tax taxes... Income. Not labour. Ideally not discriminating between capital and labour income

Why tax income? Why not your bodyweight? Or height? Why not tax consumption? If the answer is "to punish those with high _incomes_" you are in violent agreement with the ultra-rich.
There are two sides to an investor/mentoring/incubating relationship.
Did Kevin Hale have special phone conversations with the other three founders to ensure that they would be able to work together with YC?

Meanwhile, look at the the post Kevin Hale just wrote. It says, "We ran a poll for the top applications and the voting was so close that we decided to fund one extra startup. Here are the winners." But that's not true at all. The fact that Pinboard took more than 3x the number of votes as the 2nd place vote-getter is mentioned nowhere in Hale's message.
This is not a very informative article. It doesn't explain how the attack works (e.g. what is the window.opener object? how can an attacking page modify it? what's the trick and why is it important?).
So, if they have "funds to fall back under" isn't that a risk?
Well, the terms section is certainly misleading. I prefer to see data where the plural is grouped with the singular. Looking at the chart, VR ranks above drone(s). VR has no commonly used plural, so without combining singular and plural terms, and without the raw numbers displayed, it's not a useful chart.
Reddit was a social bookmarking site

I'm trying to wrap my head around that. How has Reddit ever been anything more than a link aggregator?
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Right about what exactly? The deal was not "we'll give $20k to whoever gets the most upvotes." It was about participating in a YC program, which this person doesn't seem to have any interest in, or at least wants to feign complete disinterest. I'm glad a spot was not wasted on him based on his attitude alone.
Wheels are Python packages, not unlike Ruby gems. They can optionally include shared libraries which extend Python with native code. This appears to be an attempt to standardize how such libraries are compiled for Linux.
Then the scammer can use let's encrypt. The solution should be that window.opener shouldn't work cross-domain.
Copying and pasting from SO is perfectly acceptable as long as you know what the code is doing.

When I paste code, I include a comment with the link back to SO. I see it as the standard way of declaring a precedent in programming, where upvotes signal strength.
I wonder about it though.

The valley seems to be touting it as "The King of Enterprise tools" yet from my experience virtually no enterprise would actually use it.

It's a tool for small and medium businesses.
> why are commercial airplanes so safe?

Because the planes fly themselves. The pilots are only there for the occasional emergency (where they often screw up because they're not used to actually having to fly the plane).
Slime molds also use statistics to calculate confidence, make decisions:

http://phys.org/news/2014-01-slime-molds.html

"Looking toward the future, Adamatzky is designing a hybrid device that combines a slime mold with conventional electronic computers. A year ago he received a $2.1 million GBP by the European Commission to build such a computer. Now with funding from the EU Unconventional Computation program, he is building a slime mold computer named PhyChip (http://www.phychip.eu/)"
The problem is that they aren't keeping prices low. They are setting an artificially low face value, and then letting scalpers capture all the excess value. The real cost to see Hamilton right now is $1000+, not whatever (lower) number is on the ticket.

By not allowing incredibly devoted fans to participate in an auction for tickets, they are actually making shows less accessible for the people who want it most. It's unfair that you can get to see a performance for $50 because you happened to get a ticket, but I am unable to even if I'm willing to pay $500.
That's awesome! He's real mad scientist! Super cool.
I have no bone in this fight, since I did not apply nor would we apply for YCF (I think it's a great idea, but my company doesn't fit the criteria). And, if it matters, I do not use Pinboard and have never spoken a word to 'idlewords.

I respect 'dang and 'kevin both, a ton. Have always had nothing but pleasant interactions with them, and the amount of care they put towards managing this community is seemingly boundless.

With all of that said, 'idlewords is absolutely right here. The HN mods and/or YCF made a choice here not to fund Pinboard, regardless of whether HN wanted to or not. It's not really OK to say that it's an experiment where HN gets to make choices and then not support them, unless there were explicitly some bad blood or trolling occurring. Based on everything 'idlewords has posted, it would appear that he is not trolling. Sure, perhaps he has a bit of a 'let's watch the world burn' attitude, but it's not entirely clear to the rest of us that that isn't just a persona.

If I had applied for the "Apply HN" experiment, there is no way in hell I wouldn't have tweeted or asked customers to upvote - of course you would! Sure, perhaps this doesn't reflect the true nature of HN's vote, since these may or may not be regular HN users, but unless you only count users that have some age or karma, you can't prevent that. Alternatively, you can make it a stated rule that this isn't a popularity contest and thus you should not ask for votes elsewhere. That was not made clear at all - it was implied, or at least I perceived, that this was intended to be 'an experiment in democracy,' for better or worse.

I do think, if 'idlewords is truly interested in the fellowship and all of the requirements therein (Skype meetings or whatever else), that it would be good to stand by the original rules. With that said, these are investment decisions and aren't intended to be taken lightly, and obviously you guys have the final decision anyway (this was always true, no matter what HN said - you're the ones putting up the money and time).

I just think it's more 'right' if you follow along with the original plan of the experiment. Hell, maybe 'idlewords ends up getting so much value out of YCF that he becomes even more serious about Pinboard and it's the next Pinterest (no pun intended). If nothing else, YC/HN may learn something from it.
This is chock full of platitudes and obfuscation. Pinboard appears to have participated in good faith, as you admitted yourself. It seems rather like HN/YC had never intended to allow Pinboard to win, even before any votes had been cast.

If your aim with this contest was to pilot something new and unique that might further distinguish YC, I suppose you've done just that, even if in the opposite direction. Sometimes karma is more than just a column in your database.

(Disclaimer: I did not vote.)
No, there's a fundamental difference. I'm not talking about running closed source software. Windows will happily execute any general purpose program you care to throw at it. And how could it not, given the principal of Turing equivalence?

DRM is different because it's a deliberate attempt to make a non-general computer. One that refuses to execute certain perfectly valid programs.

Window and OSX will happily grant the owner the highest level of privileges and let you read or flip any bit in the system. DRM is about creating a privilege level that the owner cannot access.
I have to say as technical person, it goes the other way around as well. We, the technical people, earn a good business side co founder, as it can make or break the business.
> like a teenage girl
> any other grown man would have been embarrassed to act like that.

Can you stop with the gendered insults? Insulting someone by saying they're "like a girl" is misogyny. You could have said "like a teenager", or anything else.
Let's be clear; this wasn't just somebody tweeting about their Apply HN. It was explicit and repeated requests to vote specifically for him, going to a couple of orders of magnitude more followers than a normal person would have. What would be ridiculous is for the results to be determined by who has the biggest social networking presence.
I truly don't understand the hype around Slack. I work at an EMS provider, and we got a couple of our business facing teams to use it last fall. Maybe 2 people are actively using it now, the rest moved back to only email or never actually used Slack in the first place.
How costly is it to train a pilot? How costly is it to train an anesthesiologist? How costly is it to hire a pilot? How costly is it to hire an anesthesiologist?
Most likely definitions from the context: "correct" means producing optimal outcomes, or producing beliefs most closely aligned with objective reality. "Rational" means obtained from available data using a rational process, whether or not the data is good.

So someone with bad priors can come to bad conclusions through entirely "rational" means.
haha, well, it's a very cool project and I'm going through your github repo right now. just an unfortunate name collision.
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That's not really relevant; I don't think it's our job, or anyone else's, to police the internet for 'vote brigading.' In this case, it was never against the stated rules.
I'm really curious as to what you're saying here:

"The stupidity tech has reached the level of being a moral hazard, where it really just incentivizes everyone else to be bad at their jobs."

I honestly don't know how Slack incentivizes somebody to be bad at their job.

In regards to the first sentence I assume you mean the venture capital industry? I'm not in that industry but I have to imagine that Slack is not more popular than email or close to overtaking email. I do imagine that it is growing faster than email as more internal communications move to that medium.
Congratulations to the winners!
People go on power trips regardless of title.

It's a mentality. You just need to hire people who are both smart and able to do the job, and can also see that all people are equals.
Can you elaborate on this "Unlike languages like C, Oberon is designed to be easy to compile?" I thought that was one of the reasons that C looks the way it does was to be easier to compile
Current OSes don't include the buzzword "Elixir" so they aren't relevant to Hackers.
> Human beings are also tribal

And who's usually the most powerful in a tribe? The most charismatic.

Many voters will change positions, so if you're looking to apply tribal theory upon voter preference, that just takes into account the people who already had their minds mostly made up.

The swing votes is the deciding factor, and what are some attributes of swing voters? If they aren't die-hard republicans/democrats, they might be ambivalent or outright disinterested in politics. Who do you think would sway them? The fact-listing robot or the guy who says he's gonna change the world?

Was Bernie just saying what people want as well? Yes and no. Do you think a robot would win that listed off everything that the electorate "wants to hear"? Maybe. It depends on how much you trust the robot to get the job done, doesn't it? Well, the human is also trying to evaluate this potential leader and besides already being charmed by the charisma, the human also views charisma as an attribute of the strong and capable.
This is best read as a way to stand out from the crowd and avoid overhyped and tiresome areas.
Could you be a little bit more careful in minting new truths about people's psychology, especially if you don't know those people, to score points in Internet arguments? The Maciej I know was definitely not disinterested in winning that YCF spot.
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