skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> so there’s no longer a really viable technical reason to stick with compressed audio

That's a pretty big stretch. Lossless is great for people who care about it, but I don't think it needs to be the standard. Quite a lot of people to this day have pretty terrible network connections, even in the US.
So many big companies with tons of lawyers use React... surely if they do it it's fine.
> This population has to navigate a world with substandard services, low quality housing, overcrowded schools, and crime in their neighborhoods. They are often unbanked and living paycheck to paycheck.

Tiny houses, tiny schools, tiny cops and tiny banks can solve their problems, but there are legal hurdles.
How, exactly? My company doesn't have any patents; what legal leverage does Facebook have over us? (Trick question, the answer is "zero".)
You presume no malice.

I can easily write a bunch of code you can't readily predict the outcome to but I can predict with 100% certainty. The easiest way is to cheat and inject code you don't readily see: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?TheKenThompsonHack
They're both sequential by default and lack threading, and that's hard to mess up. They're both great languages for easy projects.

PHP code is a breeze to work with using composer, and most packages use namespaces and have great intellisense. But good luck doing anything concurrently.

NodeJS is fast, and boy can it handle a lot of tasks at once using the event loop! But I can't for the life of me figure out modules or get good intellisense.

There's plenty of high quality code in each. I'd just never write a complex app in either.
Some people can't afford public utilities either.
Feel free to disagree with any of what I've said. I think my suggestion for YC is far bigger than anything else being suggested. It may be controversial to say they're doing a bad job right now but that's what I think the truth is.

YC is in the unique position of being able to fund thousands of poor people and yet they choose not to. Why? They don't believe poor people can be successful? They don't want to help poor people? What is it?

Almost every poor person who got rich had some rich person's help. This is a fact of history going back thousands of years. There are very few exceptions.

Trump had his father's help.

Steve Jobs had Mark Markkula's help.

Paul Graham had a rich lawyer's help.

Sam Altman had Paul Graham's help.

So what do poor people need to lift themselves and their families out of poverty? Help.
I'm not saying there's any specific party you have to vote for. But if you don't vote against, they won't learn. "I hate that thing you did, but I'm voting for you anyway" translates to a politician as "You don't need to do anything to earn my vote and can betray me as often as you want."
As I read the grandparent, his argument is that YC's business is teaching you how to start a company, not operate one. Thus, it's relevant to prospective customers whether its leaders have experience starting successful companies, not just starting unsuccessful ones or operating successful ones. Eric Schmidt may be one of the best CEOs ever, but if your goal is to start the next Google, you're probably a lot more interested in what Larry Page has to say.

Not saying I agree, BTW - I think that binary startup success has a large skill factor, but the magnitude of that success is largely luck, and that good luck can mask bad practices to a large extent. So in my view, people with relatively minor startup successes like Sam Altman, Paul Buchheit, or Michael Siebel might actually be better coaches than knock-it-out-of-the-park successes like Larry Page, Mark Cuban, or Notch. But don't misrepresent the argument: operational experience running an existing business is very different from experience founding one.
I was joking, I think it wasn't included accidentally.
Also, if you want PyPy you are using Python2.
OMG!

Does this mean my website/apps can look as bad as Google's?
I'd love to see a How to Build the Future episode about this and how Chad got his start!
Very convincing.
Now I really want to use react native!Thanks.
The author points to lots of benefits and advantages in using react native, then shows some legal stuff you might or might not worry about (with a tinfoil hat example), then complains A LOT about javascript, making it very clear he doesn't really get it and can't understand how its ecosystem currently works.
> So many big companies with tons of lawyers use React... surely if they do it it's fine.

At best, that demonstrates that its fine...if you have lots of lawyers.
I know plenty of intelligent and accomplished programmers who use and like JavaScript. I like poking fun at it every now and then, but come on.
Microsoft is killing Yammer Enterprise plan in January 2017
I’ve been collecting all chats’ contents I’m in, all webpages I browse, where I am, and when, etc in a database.

Basically, I started with building bad, hacky clones of Google’s services for myself.

But the resulting set of data is so huge and powerful.

Not only can I find out just from my data where my friends were, and when, also with whom they talked, and when, with whom they’re interacting, etc.

And that’s just for my own data, if I had that set of data about every human... I don’t even want to imagine what’d be possible.
Seems like a local governance 'problem'. Are homeowners more likely to vote than renters? Or do homeowners and landlords outnumber renters and get the rational outcomes they want?
My partner and I think search engines will look and feel completely different in the future, thus we're working on this next generation.

Do you agree with this? How do see these evolving?
Buffet does give great advice for running well-established companies, but to my knowledge he doesn't say anything about entrepreneurship.

Starting a company requires a very different set of skills than running one. That's why a lot of founders either step down or get ousted after their companies mature.
Thanks! Just saw the RFS list changed, but we match another category.
SpaceX is not going to first enter Mars orbit, looks like they're landing the whole craft on the surface.

For example, Mars Science Laboratory did the same, and it didn't need to spend fuel trying to enter orbit.

http://mars.nasa.gov/msl/mission/timeline/approach/

The closing velocity of spacecraft and Mars is nowhere near 25 km/s.

As another example, Apollo did a direct entry to Earth as well.

Even when entering orbit, you can sometimes use aerobraking or aerocapture, though it's either limited in delta vee or dangerous if you go lower.
Agree Python is easier to learn than JS (at least the basics) but IMO JS has a much nicer environment(the browser) for teaching programming.

Reminds me of these post: http://prog21.dadgum.com/203.html
Nobody's perfect :)

I'm preparing him for Minetest, though, if that makes you feel better!
Hackaday comments have never not been salty, and I say that as someone who's followed that site since before the pictures were in color. I'm not sure there is a useful comparison to be drawn.
Cracking the coding interview trains you for one interview type. Many places do multiple interview types:

1. Coding challenge <- Your interview was mostly this.

- Make an object

- Make a mini-app

- Fix this code

- Refactor this thing

2. Design a program on a whiteboard

3. Algorithmic & Data Structures <- Cracking the coding interview helps here, and is the type many engineers struggle with.

4. Hiring manager interview <- the most subjective

People also will bring up if you're an asshole in any of the above interviews.
Try Minnesota. We're not dicks!
Reasons why I am a React-Native developer:

- It works, really well.

- Iteration speed alone has helped us retain at an extremely high DAU/MAU ratio compared to years past.

- Both my apps have near 5 star rating across the board, probably the highest rated in the Sports category since we released, and none of our users notice that it is a RN app, which is really surprising b/c RN on Android is not up to par with iOS.

React-Native is not for every scenario, but I disagree with the author's final conclusion, that "the pros do not outweigh the cons". It's really quite the opposite in our case. The pros (OTA and productivity) heavily outweigh the cons.

Would love to see something better come out, but the recommended alternatives by the author wouldn't make the cut for us.
IDK, I'm calling horse on that.

I'm a self taught developer who have roughly 1 year exp. and moved to Tennessee(40th poorest state in the union, ultra low cost of living) for a software gig last year. I'm black, 30 year old male, and have a resume with more job/career hopping than a con-artist.

I'm not really that great at programming(got fired after 6 months!).....first offer(I took it) was low ball....at 55k!! Next job I took over paid me and offered $92k with zero negotiation to lower it: All within one year.

I've worked prior tech jobs offering $25k-40k and they were usually some unholy mash up of lite programming and I.T. help desk/system admin roles.

From talking to companies, the non-sexy locations have to pay up the ass and fly in talent for open source. The .Net guys around me make bank too.

If you have several years of programming experience and can only get $75k, I wonder if you program in VB or some obscure academic language....I usually have to argue with recruiters to lower their pay requests per hour...in the south.
Using an RTG producing electricity as a heat source in a Brayton-cycle engine was on my Jet-Pro final exam in college.
An idea for mixing AI with healthcare, using Tensor Flow with a huge image database of skin conditions so the user takes a pic on a phone and it determines the illness and the cure.
I started cringing and stopped watching as soon as the guy started talking about himself at burning man, like Elon Musk gives a shit.
You could try Europe, where people have figured out that it's possible to live with lots of other people and still be pretty happy.

This "OMG! Other people! The horror!" mentality is part of the reason why places like LA (and Boulder, in Colorado) get so expensive in the first place. If you do density right, it keeps prices down, and requires less driving because you can put a lot of smaller businesses in the middle of dense areas and have them be successful, and also walk/bike to them. It requires a substantial rethink of our zoning though.
> I think I'd have a harder time spotting a mistake in the algebra. Do other people really find it easier to find a mistake in a dozen lines of algebra than in a diagram?

You're asking about two different issues as if they were one. It is intuitively "easier" to examine the visual presentation. Nevertheless, it is technically much easier to find a mistake in a dozen, or a hundred, lines of algebra because there is a definite, known method of verifying the algebra. With the visual presentation, you're just staring at it and hoping you notice the mistake.

Analogously, it's much easier for people to produce an exhaustive list of things that occur in a known fixed order (say, the 50 US states in alphabetical order) than to produce an exhaustive list of unordered members of some category (say, the 50 states if you never learned them in any particular order). The algebraic proof is like the fixed-order recall; the structure it imposes is, to some extent, error-correcting.

So, visual proofs, which are inherently convincing, are a good tool for persuading someone of their own truth regardless of whether they're actually true or not, and also a good tool for getting people to remember a proof in the future, but they are a terrible tool for formally establishing results. They are best used for communicating results that you have other reasons for believing in, or as an aid to memory or investigation.
> My dream is still a statically-typed version of Erlang.

Your (our) dream is about to come true: https://github.com/j14159/mlfe
Someone could connect the two and simply be pro-murder.
I guess I'm not opposed, but I'm not sure we've done it before. Generally we don't like complexity though, so we'd want to be sure you're truly an independent subsidiary.
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You probably know more than me.

Here's what I could find on the wiki.

https://www.pyra-handheld.com/wiki/index.php?title=Modem

and

https://www.pyra-handheld.com/wiki/index.php?title=WiFi
The rich always had access to new technologies first, and there is nothing new here; eventually all technology becomes affordable for the masses.

What you 're more likely to have a is clash of generations where the brave new generation will consider their fathers (rich or not) as parasites.
Fair points.
Could FB plug the cord on React once it does no longer align with its core strategy? Sure, it did it with parse.com without the least concern for the community of users/clients. The apology was to leave behind a half-cooked open source version of parse server.

The exact same thing could happen to the React community. I'd say stick to true open source projects and descentralized communities.
Working remotely in parts of Portugal and Spain is a recipe for happiness and early retirement (speaking as a US citizen). I can't imagine wasting so much take home pay on CA living costs; you'll never be able to retire or own a home outright under those conditions.
Or it's worth recognizing that trying to deliver full OS experience with Web technology is a waste of time.
I think the parent raised a good (and fair) question and this is a good (and honest) answer. YC has done fantastically well under your leadership.
Someone raised a good point on Reddit: is there any point to the waiver to sue for death?

If you die it won't be you who is trying to sue over your death. It will be your relatives, most likely. They are not a party to your contract with Uber, and so aren't bound by its terms.
What matters here is what _you_ deem most important--don't live someone else's life.

But for fun, here is my list:

•AI

•Biotechnology, especially anti-ID and anti-aging.

•Energy

•Better governance

•Education
Does the YC Group provide any psychological counseling/guidance/referals for attendees? Does it feel any responsibility to?
Article feels clickbaity with some points that have been addressed and discussed thoroughly already. These are known cons of using a javascript framework that compiles to native.

If you just want something easily replaceable, use something like cordova.

If you want perfectly native and guaranteed support, use the native SDKs.

If you want simplicity with a javascript framework that compiles to native with the concerns of it being made by facebook then use react native.

React native solves a lot of peoples problems especially if they are starting an app from scratch.
I really like these, thank you.
There are other important reasons for this that don't make such a great subject for a public presentation, such as getting away from Earth's political and military sphere of influence and achieving greater redundancy in case a large asteroid impact event happens on the Earth/Moon system.
Thanks Sam.. I think I have an idea of what it'll look like
Safari stores your passwords in your login and/or iCloud keychains. So they are encrypted on disk, but the master key is kept in memory unless you change the setting to disallow that. (/Applications/Utilities/Keychain Access.app, right-click on login keychain, choose Change Settings for Keychain "login"; I don't know how to change this setting for the iCloud keychain)
Plenty of JS's own failings are enough of a reason to say it's objectively terrible.
Those are trustfund lawyers who plan to join the big boys in a few years or switch careers(like running dad's business).
One reason would be if they're built into the wing surfaces, as this article proposes. You probably don't want to jettison your wings.
It would be surprising if they don't change, but I haven't thought enough about it to have any strong belief about where they're going.
I was so inspired by Elon saying "people have this expectation that technology just continues to improve on it's own," before going on to talk about ancient civilizations reaching peak technology and backsliding hard.
What visa do international founders apply for when they are selected to join YC?
And those who decide to stay in the US and establish their startup here after the 3-month time period, what immigration options do they have?
React Native Core Contributors responding and agreeing with some of the points.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/reactnativeoss/permalink/159...
It sounds like he's using a different standard than is commonly used (i.e. 30% pretax is the often cited standard)
Things just took a few hours longer, making planning a party a thing of days or weeks.

With whatsapp, I can plan a birthday party in 20 minutes, on the same day as the birthday, while also ensuring everyone who couldn’t answer a call got the message.
For non-profits, we're looking for large impacts on the world. A lot of the evaluation criteria--how good the founders are, how good the idea is--are the same.
FWIW I tend to agree with you though I might phrase it differently. YC has done a great job so far and maybe we are expecting too much from what essentially is a venture capital(?) business.

But see my comments above
I'm not the parent post, but many, many of the interviews I've done, the candidate just says "I'd use a hashtable." Why? well, the honest answer was because the candidate had another interview, and the answer was a hashtable. Now he knows hashtables. Okay great, but I'm not interested in whether or not you know how to use a hash table. I'm asking if you know how to choose which data structures fit the question, ie, can you program. I expect its the same reason google asks (used to?) everyone about red/black and b trees. Same thing, just levelled up a level.

What's horrifying is there are now people (occasionally) on /r/learnprogramming where the person can wax on for ages about obscure data structures or algorithms, but you ask them something simple (What sorta unit tests would I write for this? What should I keep in mind before deploying this app?) and it falls apart, they don't know how to program, they've just been reading crack-the-interview type books. (though at least that shows a _lot_ of gumption, dedicate, intelligence)
"A true professional works with whatever language he needs to solve his/her problem, and shores up that language with the best tools available."

Right. And JavaScript is not that language, unless you are doing web stuff.
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These episodes could only happen in late-stage abortions which are very rare. You can call it murder but that doesn't inform the debate about abortion in general.
Yes, mostly via referrals, but some internally.
Sure except taxes aren't that high in California. 30-45% is a much more realistic range for income taxes (state + federal + payroll).
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Your point is well stated! I demured that my point would be pedantic since it was pointing out an inappropriate comparison with the Gaussian analogy.

All this said, I'm hugely and awesomely excited by the future prospects of becoming a multiplanet species.
Georgia welcomes you with open arms. I moved from the DC area where I was spending $1,800/mo for a 2 bed 2 bath 30 miles outside of DC. I came south and bought a 3,200 sq ft home, 12 miles from downtown Atlanta, for $200,000. I've got a nice backyard, two car garage, it's quiet, costs are low, and the weather is nice.
Hey Sam. I'm considering applying with my nonprofit edtech startup (a new crowdsourced education system that's peer-to-peer and mobile -- built around software, like Watsi). I'm a solo-founder still currently building the MVP.

Quick question 1: Is there a "Delaware C Corp" equivalent for the incorporation process/legal structures of nonprofits by state, or does it not matter?

Real question: Is there something to be said about founders waiting until they have users and initial growth to then use the YC opportunity to transition towards growing their company? In other words, if a startup is only getting one shot to go through YC, generally is finding initial product-market fit harder, or is growing the company?

Granted, the latter can't happen without the former happening first. But it would seem that for some founders that have genuine insights into real big problems, it would suck to waste the opportuniy of YC just "checking the boxes" of building their MVP, which they could know how to do already from PG's essays/YC's blog/Startup Class -- whereas they could be getting genuine advice on problems unique to their specific domain problem if they just waited and applied later.
MLFE: The New Elm-Like Language for the Erlang VM
I'm not convinced it's that they aren't just more layers of cruft piled on top of a shoddy foundation. One of these days the whole thing is going to subside into the morass, and maybe we'll get to start over on top of WebAssembly or whatever comes after that.

It's like the castle in the Holy Grail:

When I first came here, this was all swamp. Everyone said I was daft
to build a castle on a swamp, but I built in all the same, just to
show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. That
sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell
over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up.
And that's what you're going to get, Lad, the strongest castle in
all of England.
True, but no reason to let companies collect even more data than they need to perform the transaction.
Your argument goes a bit like "every lock can be picked, so why are you opposed to just keeping your door open?"
> It was certainly one of the first interesting location-based apps in the App Store, but soon was surrounded by other location-based apps and never really appeared to surface and gain traction.

I think you are selling the prescience of it short in this part. Loopt was out long before the App Store existed.
I think the argument is more that Facebook is a US company, Facebook isn’t bound by German law (unless they operate in Germany, which they do), and the 4th Amendment only applies to Americans.
Just bimodal?

I work for a large, well-known tech company and they just re-titled all of their front-end engineers to "Software Engineer" (probably to stop creating a pay divide between front-end and back-end engineers). If you have a "Software Engineer" doing basic wordpress stuff, another "Software Engineer" doing PHP/Zend framework stuff, another doing pure JS/React/Angular stuff, and another doing backend services (concurrency/spring boot/API, etc) - the pay scales of all these "Software Engineers" should be different.

I'm surprised it's not trimodal.
I still prefer algebraic proofs
Sam,

are the odds stacked against us if we have 5 founders?
(EE, ME, EE, SW, Sales/Business)

Also does a startup that can help reduce carbon emissions/move from something that generates lots of emission classify under the energy section of request for startup?
Was trying to go through all the components. But clicking on any of them closes the component box when the page for that component loads.
The "we have a plan to be a multi-billion dollar company if this works" stage.
I think might have been Google who said this, but you should design for 100x of your expected load and when you get within 10x you redesign and rewrite it.

It will make sure you don't try to design for a billion users when you have a thousand but still gives you decent room to handle spikes and more time to write a more lasting architecture.