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The right thing to do here would have been to award the fellowship to the voting winners and then amend your rules to exclude "applicants about whom we have bad vibes" going forward.

Retroactively doing so, sure, is your right but it's fairly underhanded.
I was informed at some point recently that a lot of the reselling is in fact done by the theatre. This allows them to make more money on crowded showtimes without looking like the bad guy.
I vouched for this because, barring any other knowledge of your account(s) prior to the comments made on this account, I have not seen anything that, to me, merits the suppression.
Wouldn't it have been a great experiment to see if a company Kevin didn't like did well in the batch?

If the point was to experiment I think YC missed out on a big opportunity.
That's like saying it's just as easy to call a taxi company than use Uber. (It's about the ux).
Hopefully they'll stop focusing on converstional UI, as it's wildly innefficient. I'd much rather interact visually and spatially.

I'll give these guys the benefit of the doubt, but it seems like all of these businesses miss the big picture and try to emulate the way humans communicate. In trying to deal with the UI fragmentation problem, they're greatly decreasing the user experience. We don't need a chat bot, we need an app that does everything, where the GUI is the language.

I don't want to describe a location verbally, I want to point to it in a map. Most of the time, I don't know what I precisely want, and prefer to browse options rather than have a tedious conversation.

There is no doubt in my mind that the UI of the future will be more like Akinator/Tinder (Yes/Maybe/No) than English.

All the pieces already exist. All we need is some interface over a knowledge graph. Why don't people see this?
Capt. Sullenberger has given interviews and presentations on this very subject. His work on flight safety started 30 years before US Airways Flight 1549 made him famous.

I know a few pilot-physicians who treat the NATOPS-style [0] procedures for medicine and surgery as rules to live by.

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NATOPS is a positive approach toward improving combat readiness and achieving a substantial reduction in the aircraft accident rate. Standardization, based on professional knowledge and experience, provides the basis for development of an efficient and sound operational procedure. The standardization program is not planned to stifle individual initiative, but rather to aid the commanding officer in increasing the unit’s combat potential without reducing command prestige or responsibility. -- OPNAV Instruction 3710.7U

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATOPS
Scalpers provide this value from buying up many more tickets than an individual would, and individuals who cannot go will still sell their tickets, which is usually for a more reasonable price since they want to get rid of them.
Thank you for pointing this out. I wrote this late at night and forgot about regional differences in degree duration. I've corrected this.
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Good point: if charisma won elections, our actors would be our politicians.
If this had been "YC is giving away money! Pick someone you think YC should give $20k to!" then I would absolutely have voted for Pinboard. And I would have submitted Tarsnap, too.

But they were looking for more than that, so I voted based on the question they asked -- who should they fund, not simply who should they give money to.
Theres a push in the bioinformatics world to try to use these (WDL in particular). The main use-case is to write complex data analysis pipelines in WDL so they can be shared and executed on different environments (local machines, cloud VMs, etc...).

Think of it more like an "execution engine" rather than a workflow engine. You define multiple jobs, their resources, and how they interact. The engine executes each step.

Unfortunately though, to me, it seems clunky to use. It's not something that I'd like to write by hand. It is logically very similar to defining Java builds with Ant XML files, if that helps. You can get the job done, but if you want to have any sort of complexity or logic, it's not going to be easy. Any XML/JSON/YAML format is going to have this issue.

I think the jury is still out though as to how much it gets used outside of a few large academic centers. I see it as mainly helpful for large-scale analysis projects where you have to manage cloud resources. Not many people have that problem. I'm personally only planning on using it as an output for my own language (which is basically a Make-like format that submits dynamic jobs to HPC clusters). I have yet to see how WDL can work with dynamic workflows (where you might have more than one path to an output or change the workflow based on a command like argument). It might catch on, but I've seen this show before.
I'm not sure on usage of WDL, but the motivating use case make sense to me. Currently there are several ways of creating a 'workflow' (Makefiles, Airflow, Luigi) for things that need to be run over and over again many of those workflows are stored in a database a plain text representation of a workflow is something that could be easily versioned or perhaps even generated by a language of your choice.

A "workflow engine" could encompass the definition of a graph of tasks that need to be run, the monitoring of those tasks, retry logic for failures, alerting for monitoring and some form of UI for viewing progress.
I think the biggest problem with voice commands is that if the command doesn't work the first time, it would have been faster to simply input the command yourself. I'm not confident that "get me directions to <place>" will actually get me those directions. Because of that, I also use Siri exclusively to set alarms (which does work every time).
Carter beat Ford because he was charismatic

Actually Ford looked clumsy because he fell down a lot...president clumsy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlz0he9rtKw
Yeah, I could get a solid four to five hours of sleep if I took public transit to work since it would take so long. And then the bus system in my area is shut down by the time I get out of work...

This is exactly what makes autonomous vehicles so great - they eliminate the public transportation problem.
No, it's pretty clear

> Did he want the YCF spot, or the $20k? I don't know him, but the fact that his immediate response was "I want my twenty grand" reinforces my belief that Kevin made the right decision here.

I agree, Kevin made the right decision as well.
And yet I bet you voted with the expectation that winners would be chosen based on the criteria laid out in the original ApplyHN post.
Not hard to grow fast when you're starting small. If I launched a new chat service later tonight, it'd be the fastest-growing communication technology in the world tomorrow, since it'd be going from one to two or three or possibly even four users. Slack would kill for a 300% daily growth rate!
Perhaps that's because it's the most trivial of ideas and every single person in history has had that thought at some point in life?
When people withdraw money from an index fund -- say, to put a downpayment on a house or move it into a fixed income fund for retirement -- they are effectively placing a sell order on every stock in the index.

And if they put money in from their monthly paycheck, they're placing a buy order.

As long there is a reasonably good balance of buyers and sellers of mutual funds, the underlying securities will find equilibrium.
To make it even more complicated, most companies might not even know what they need. The classic example is algorithms: many companies will say they care about algorithms, but few of them actually need those skills.
I'll take back my previous comment. I just now attempted to customize the two font settings in IntelliJ and wow... it looks absolutely amazing. I changed the editor font to Consolas and increased the size a tad.

When I first got my SB I remember attempting this but I encountered odd glitches like fonts overlapping in the Project view.
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I think this means building things on top of block chain technology, not specifically the bitcoin block chain.
Apparently Twitter can't find good engineering talent. I hope it considers hiring this developer.
I am sceptical that robots will lead to mass unemployment.

We have heard this luddite fear repeatedly since the start of the industrial revolution. There used to be 90% of people employed in agriculture but today we are down to something like 10% in the UK. Do we now have 80% unemployment?

A hundred years ago the UK had mass employment in heavy industries such as ship building. They have long gone and the UK is now a services based economy. Do we now have 80% unemployment?

There is no limit, so far, to human wants and needs and so releasing people from some industries will allow them to move to others or create entirely new ones.
> I discovered that the vote totals were being inadvertently leaked earlier today

How were the totals being leaked?
That's by design.
It's true but I'm in same boat as parent: I only downvote on spam, hate comments, etc. Downvoting can make comments disappear and sort of censor aspects of a discussion. Even bad claims are often misconceptions worth addressing with comments and evidence instead of downvoting for other readers' benefit. So, I almost never downvote.

I'm sure there's others given I know specific people's position on comments I made that they could've downvoted. So, parent's claim stands but we can't know how much. Maybe worth considering modifying downvote concept to deal with this somehow in another forum as an experiment.
>The Broadway hit “Hamilton” is making millions. It could be making millions more if not for scalpers snapping up seats and hawking them for $2,000 a piece or more.

That makes absolutely no sense.
He's formulating a null hypothesis - a (perhaps rejectable) alternative to the unspoken assumption in most of this thread, which is that Reddit, or perhaps comment threads in general, are disproportionately likely to include a mention of Nazis as they grow.
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I wouldn't be surprised if a significant proportion of their business was executive gifts and company bennies, where the whole point was to hand the ticket to someone else.
You're missing the point. The goal is to maximize a small set of metrics. Engagement, New User Experience, etc.

They make these changes and roll them out. They look at the numbers. They see that 5% of their users (those on older hardware) spend 20% less time on the site. They see that 20% of their users are spending 50% more time on the site. They file a ticket about the drop in engagement for older devices. It goes into the backlog. Next sprint/quarter rolls around, they see a couple of options. One is to speed up the site on old devices another is to add a new feature that they estimate will increase engagement by another 20%. The second option seems to increase their bottom line more, so it gets funded and the old device support stays on the backlog. Repeat cycle.

I can guarantee that at any sufficiently high traffic site they don't use developer hardware as a benchmark. They see the numbers, they know its slow for you and they make a conscious decision that you aren't worth the opportunity cost of new features.
> I'm sure that most people who voted for pinboard did not do so because they thought it would be a good investment.

No, of course not: after all, it's only been a profitable business for years which just needs a bit of cash to fund expansion plans with a lot of potential (aka acquiring delicious.com).

Why would anyone invest in that, when they can fund a backyard-sized aquaponics systems for the residential market which will mostly be applied to recreational crops deemed illegal all over the world?
> Does that account for the rental income they pay to landlords that in turn pay property taxes? How about sales taxes? Or taxes paid using fake or shared social security numbers?

Yes. Total federal receipts, including income, social security, and employer taxes total 9 billion. State and local taxes, including property and sales taxes total 4 billion.

http://www.fairus.org/publications/the-fiscal-burden-of-ille...

By the way, the implication that I am simply prejudiced against the immigrants is not well received. There is a measurable economic burden, on the order of $1,000 per American household. Please do not make such accusations.
You're right, I thought that Dan would make the final call rather than Kevin.

But I never thought that votes alone would decide anything; the original post explicitly ruled out that possibility.
There were at least some previously abandoned phones that got fixes for Stagefright. I know the S3 had some releases, although it may differ by carrier.
Try Kickstarter. Seriously.
I'm building a fun little service based on storing the hash of a document created by user input. I think it can be very useful and even fun if presented the right way.
Sounds to me like they were generous, with their time. Kevin called him and they had a conversation... that's more than any other VC will do.
What I find disappointing about the conversation here is that, in typical HN fashion, many people just assumed that this experiment was like one of those contests where you sign the legal "terms and conditions." As if the process was simply mechanistic.

As I understand, this could not be further from how this works. It was always obvious to me that votes would only be one objective factor among many subjective factors.

The discussion around Pinboard was somewhat polarized and tended to focus on the wrong aspects. I was partly guilty in that, but it's not great when the question mark is over whether or not you're serious, rather than over your business (having a question mark over your business is totally fine! that's the right kind of risk). And it was always obvious to me that the YC partners would do a final pass on selection.
It's like gluing a phone running iMessage to your computer screen. Useful for quick collaboration where emails can be clunky, interrupt flow, and inhibit dialogue. There's room for both tools depending on the needed communication medium.

Is it useful? Yes. Is it necessary? No. Could it replace email? No. What is the service worth? A lot, according to starving investors.
It's absolutely a misuse and causes all kinds of assumptions which the RFCs make about how people write their software to become invalid.

It's also a simple and state-free way of influencing other devices on the network. Arbor is an interesting example - when doing DDoS mitigation, an approach which doesn't require a lot of resources or statefulness is extremely useful.

On one hand, I want to agree with you: this is terrible and makes everyone else's life harder.

On the other hand, maybe its TCP's resource requirements that are at fault.
I'll let Dan answer that if he wishes to do so.
I did. And now I have to write all this shit about Antarctica.
I'm in the same situation; I lurk HN daily, and voted for Pinboard only.

I hope single-votes are not being called out as part of some 'vote brigading' conspiracy :\
Sold out because they purchased all the tickets before you could buy one.
Index funds were scorned for many years. The first index fund was started by John Bogle in 1976, but he had a difficult time attracting investors. They didn't really become popular until the nineties.

This Planet Money episode talks about it in detail.

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/03/04/469247400/episo...
All of those are good points. But a surprising number of people can't get to the starting point 2^(32-23)=512. I usually subtract 2 and say 510. No IPs are reserved for multicast. Maybe you meant broadcast?
There is absolutely nothing wrong with this.

That you feel any conflict at all about being a mother is a testament to how sick our society has become.
I'm trying to figure out a way to articulate why "I still want my $20K" seems to me.

The way this whole thing was handled stinks, and I'm sorry you got screwed by a poorly thought-out "contest." But it seems like the YCF deal isn't solely about the money -- they're trying to find companies to work with. Honestly, did you... want that? Or just the $20,000 that keeps getting mentioned?
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"The process did not actually offer any way to determine the HN community's overall view, only that were was a large subset that wanted to fund Pinboard. That subset might be greater that the subset that specifically didn't want to fund Pinboard, but there's no evidence available to determine that."

This might be worth dang and others factoring into the next iteration of this stuff. Some way for people to express agreement without being mean. Might be one post saying "Disagree or voting against" that they can upvote if they want opposition to be tallied. Maybe even make it stay in one spot on page so it doesn't get in way of rest of discussion.

What yall think?
I don't care about the decision. I care about how it was communicated.
No, I don't think that for a minute.

I'm confused by your second paragraph—I just don't get it—but if there's a way to make the FAQ clearer I'd like to. There's no question that I have trouble seeing this stuff from an outside viewpoint. I'm too immersed in it.

By the way, I didn't reply to the bit about the voting rules because I think it's the only important point in your post; it isn't. It's just something that I knew how to respond to. I'm trying to write something in response to the larger substance, but am having trouble because my feelings (bad, and sad) have the better of me right now. I'll get there.
Very crass.
>Their argument typically looks like this: Choosing a candidate pool that is 80+% men (>X years experience as a developer) is inherently sexist.

I'm not saying this wasn't said, but I've literally never encountered this before today. Perhaps your company is approaching diversity the wrong way for the wrong reasons.

To the point about the rankings of the colleges, it may matter less than you think. If you look at salary numbers over the lifetime of graduates, the ranking of their undergraduate has only a small effect for STEM majors. If you consider salary to be at least somewhat tethered to performance, this suggests that in the long run, the institution doesn't matter as much as the individual. There's some research around this, but I don't recall the authors at the moment. And, perhaps I'm wrong. I can imagine the differences are greater for recent grads.

Again, if they're all "actual suggestions," that seem strange to me. I never see or hear those suggestions, and they seem to run counter to the way people who are writing thoughtfully about tech diversity approach the issue.
So instead of a wall that will cost billions to build and billions more to maintain, we use that money to invest in education, decrease taxes and raise the minimum wage.
This ideal world where the everyman can buy a ticket for a low cost doesn't exist, though. The scalpers buy up a huge chunk of the tickets, which takes away a large number of tickets that could have been bought by "real people". The reason the show is booked until 2017 is not because people have bought all the tickets, it's because the scalpers have.
Can't wait to see what you come up with. I encourage you to apply to YC ... But make sure you are able to communicate what you are doing ;)
>The amazing thing is that the state of Louisiana has a $500k limit on malpractice!

This is what politicians are referring to when they talk about "tort reform" (rather then the egregious legal nonsense they decry when trying to get it passed).
I can't tell if this is too harsh, but it seems like you're praising the contest that was advertised, not the one we got. They didn't fund companies "based purely on a pseudonymous-community of 'up' votes." When they realized the community wanted something too risky for them, they bailed, and picked the "winners" themselves.
> [4] I'd be interested to know if any of the three had applied to YC via the normal route: Did HN identify good startups which YC missed, or would YC have funded these three anyway?

During my phone call with Kevin this was one of the questions that came up, and the answer is yes, Feynman Nano applied to F3 through the traditional route. But we got buried under a lot of other applications.

As appreciative as I am to Kevin for selecting us, I'm even more appreciative of the HN community for giving us an opportunity.
Or they just need to build the process of changing what subreddits end up on the front page to account for shifts in quality.
>Doctors have too many patients and too little time.

Thanks in part to artificial caps by the AMA.
How different is this from pinboard.in - why should I migrate to this?
Hes not arguing managed makes more money, just that within hedge funds there is variation, where there is no variation within index. The both have the same avg, but wildly different max/min/etc
(Toil contributor here)

Workflow systems are generally used to orchestrate parallel batch jobs on a cluster, which may have hundreds or thousands of individual tasks. So the emphasis is on defining what units of work are independent that can run on separate nodes without needing to communicate with other tasks, and how outputs of one task feed into the inputs of another.
DRM the tickets and turn away innocent people who got conned and, refuse them entry to an theatre with empty seats.
Oh that's no problem: they were still being published by the API. Perils of having two systems where there should be just one. We plan to fix that (hopefully this year) by making a new API that will also be much more usable.
Damn. That's good counterpoints. Forgot about that. I shouldn't given I have to counter it all the time in risk management. Yeah, example might not work.
It is likely the same reasoning behind why doctors for ages refused to wash their hands...arrogance.
"Pay the man his money"

Is what I would say.
My point was that being on the front page causes a shift in quality. The challenge is to drive people to high-quality communities without ruining those communities.
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Well, it's not like they were organizing for a living wage and then decided, "Heck, let's burn the Reichstag and kill us some rootless cosmopolitans!" The rise of the Nazi party is basically intertwined with the right-wing militia politics of the mercenary freikorps that dominated the Weimar era. They started as a one of many bands of violent, murderous thugs and ended as the biggest, baddest band of violent, murderous thugs.
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You disagree with what? You wanted a way to stop scalpers and he gave it to you. Artists might prefer to reward luck over purchasing power but so what? In a situation where multiple people have competing interests, I hardly think it's obvious that we should just be going with "it's a problem that artists don't get everything they want."
Perhaps most venue owners have enough power to ignore performers' desire to prevent scalping.
Kevin's explanation was the one that was basically "I didn't like the cut of his jib", right? That Maciej is Not Our Sort, Dear?
So, on the bright side, you're getting some nice publicity right now. I did not quite know of Pinboard (it's like.. del.ico.us? but with attitude?), I knew about you only a little bit. Now I do sorta know Pinboard and a little more about you... and I've decided I'll pay for pinboard.
Not if the "handling charges" is big enough. They could end up making more money if they can sell the ticket multiple times.