skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just because there are people willing to risk more doesn't change the fact that you can do almost the same thing today and risk less. All most westerners would need is a few thousand dollars, a passport, and a few weeks time and they can make it to almost any land in the world. There might not be any free land to claim and start your own country, but even in the US there are still large swaths of ungoverned land that an off the grid type could set up to live their life in peace with little interference from civilization.
Thanks jrm5100 for the link. I see the variants under the "DGV Structural Variants" track. Really appreciate your explaining what CNVs are and also following up on my questions/confusions!
I haven't heard of them. Looks pretty cool, thanks for sharing.
> Both PHP and Javascript are much more complex from a language design standpoint

Complex in the sense that they were originally thrown together and the results of the program might best be described as "stochastic output", yeah I can agree with that.

> A good engineer can write high quality code in "almost" any programming language. It's the coder, not the language, that determines engineering quality.

Sure, but it sure seems funny that "high quality code" is nearly non-existent in PHP and javascript world ...
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>We don't progress the species with digging up more rocks, building more stuff, selling more stuff, or dare I say it, finding a new way to get a cab.

I think you are assuming that being wealthy is just a state someone gets into magically.

While the things you mention aren't on their own crazy species changing ideas, the selling stuff, the getting a cab is what allowed some folks to become wealthy and go after crazy things. So don't discount the process of acquiring resources.
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State run media is actually very good at solving the problems you find aggravating.

99% of useful news has nothing to do with the things you imagine state run news will be bad at informing you about. It is a world without sensational click bait. The 1% of the time some journalist goes missing, well thats what WeChat is for.
The most part of cons is criticising JavaScript and NOT React Native. I know how JS works, and I LOVE IT. The only part of the post that I liked is when he talks about the license, all the rest is just bullshit from a person who don't like JS.
From the last section of the article, some are

- Improvements to electron.atom.io/docs/

- A TypeScript definition file for more streamlined Electron development in projects using TypeScript.

- Searchable offline documentation for tools like Dash.app and devdocs.io
Do you think we'll be seeing more and more XaaS-like businesses growing ? Or do you think we'll move away from selling APIs ?
On a related note, you might find this story about a frozen guru who is still "meditating" after several years of attempting to withstand the cold...

http://loweringthebar.net/2016/09/frozen-guru-update-iii.htm...
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The backend of sites like weebly or Shopify are kinda limited....and peeps who earn a ton of money on those sites have all sorts of ideas on how they could make more(usually need some extended back end work or at least buying a pricey add-on).

Let's seperate tech companies with an e-commerce side and straight up traditional vendors leveraging the internet to increase sales. Backend engineers are critical in the former and very useful mainly to those who have specific needs in ecommerce(many vendors don't even have a clue where to even start). Usually they just outsource the whole project to a third party web dev/design firm or some I.T. guy in-house.

It's worth noting, many older business folks are truly clueless about ecommerce....I tell every client to start with ebay or amazon or etsy but they insist a pot of gold awaits when their website goes live. THey'll need some type of web related worker(design, developer, etc.).
No, I was saying "German->English with PBMT is so bad, even +60% better is still not nearly good enough".
Does the likelihood of getting into YC increases after you have been rejected five times consecutively?

serious question
Python is way easier to understand than JavaScript IMHO.
Source on that speed claim, please.
Part of the reason gets() has been such a disaster is that people use it.
Improving the automation experience was a core goal of our new CLI effort.

If you (or anyone else) has any feedback on places we can improve, we are happy to hear it (azfeedback [at] microsoft.com]).

Jason - Microsoft Azure CLI
So you're saying bower is cancer? Webpack is cancer? Babel is cancer ? JavaScript module system made popular by nodejs is cancer? I largely prefer Python as a language but Nodejs is the best thing that happened to web development in years/ever
Where I am the water is very soft, and only lightly chlorinated, so I do not filter. (I do add minerals to improve the mash efficiency and yeast health though). If your water has lots of Chlorine (not Chloramine) then the boil will drive this off, but you might be better off starting with Reverse Osmosis water to get a clean slate, and then adding all the minerals you need.

Another important reason for the boil is driving off DMS (which causes a cooked corn off-flavour).

The paper covers both of these, I think:

"Due to the strong liquid degassing properties as a result of hydrodynamic
cavitation processes (Clark, Dewhurst, Payne, & Ellwood, 2001; Gogate & Pandit,
2011; Iben, Wolf, Freudigmann, Fröhlich, & Heller, 2015; Senthil Kumar, Siva Kumar,
& Pandit, 2000), undesired volatile aromatic compounds are safely expelled after few
minutes of cavitation"

Sounds like this would apply to the volatile chlorine as well, but I'm not certain about that.

Also sounds like this should be more rigorously tested, as I don't see anything by way of data to back up this claim; perhaps the cited papers explain more.
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It may be a difference between contractors and perms, but it seems not many actually have a github or similar portfolio. We're more interested in their previous experience and if it is relevant (fintech specifically) though.

We probably should check it out for those that have one to be fair. But I'd rather it didn't factor in as a implicit negative for those who are too busy to work on projects outside of the office.
He doesn't.

But that doesn't mean that I'm comfortable with potential dictatorships like that.
It would be good to have when the article was written/updated on the page. I found Sep 22, 2016 in the changelog (link at the bottom) for first commit.
Python is outstanding for nearly every purpose I've thrown at it, and I was a strong Java developer. Now if anyone asks me if they should learn R/Matlab/Java/C, I say "Sure, but learn Python first."
Pointing fingers all the wrong directions. Hope it feels good to get it off your chest at least.

A more productive discussion is methods for capital formation and how some methods can reduce inequality better than others. Judging from what you wrote, it doesn't seem like a search query you would ever have run yourself. There are some interesting things going on around the world on this issue.
Back in the days when CPU speed was measured in single digit MHZ (e.g. Amiga 68000 at 7mhz, ZX Spectrum at 6Mhz?), I had a hard time hearing anything other than CPU noise on standard FM radios. You could indeed hear algorithms running very clearly, it's something I considered to be useful during a time when I was learning about CPUs and computer programming.
The ironic thing is that it actually sounds better than the cello patches of some synthesizers from several decades later.
It's really starting to feel like we "live in the future" more and more everyday. The stuff we used to dream about as kids is becoming reality. Amid all the doom and gloom that seems to pervade the news cycle, stories like this are so refreshing. Simply amazing.

It seems like in the longer term, it would be more efficient to take a shuttle to orbit, and then dock with at a space station to get on the interplanetary ship. Cruise ships and military ships use this method in places where docking is infeasible. It would be a much higher initial cost, however.

Six months on ship isn't so bad. Six months is the length of a WESTPAC, though you get to leave the ship periodically. I think the longest we went without docking was a month, and the guys in the submarines often go for even longer stretches.
I don't see "spotify of media" really solving the problem with low-quality mass media.

A subscription with pay-per-view revenue share cuts out advertisers as the money middle man, but it still rewards clickbait headlines and easy to consume top lists over deep investigative journalism.

The core problem (or "problem"?) of journalism today is that what people actually want to read is very different from what is "good for the society" for people to write and read. You can't fix it with technology that optimises based on market economics.

Some of the ways newspapers financed deep journalism in the past were classified ads (now split into separate businesses like craigslist) and the inability to track the readership of individual articles. Now that each click is tracked, it is obvious that a Top 10 List article costs $10 to write while bringing in more revenue than a $10000 months-long investigation.

So to "fix" it, you first have to decide that you are going to deliver people journalism that is "good for them" rather than what they want, and then find a way to subsidise producing that content above its natural market value. I think that a "rich billionaire owner" willing to lose money to earn reputation as an owner of a serious newspaper is actually a more promising funding model than spotify for media.
Heck, Sci-Fi in general. Star Trek being the most well know. The Honor Harrington books probably have the page count won in book form with the main baddy being designer babies for conquest and profit. Cauldron of Ghosts has the longest section with the explanation of the Final War.
That alone makes it a non-starter
I could beat it by using a different browser (e.g. chrome vs firefox) on my machine.
> my biggest takeaway was the more abstract parts of his post, such as patents and uncertain roadmap. These are very REAL problems.

I would say the patent issue is more FUD than a real issue; he praises Swift but Swift has a very similar patent grant and termination clause. The key difference is that the Swift grant terminates if you end up in a patent dispute with Apple over something related to Swift; the React grant terminates if you end up in any patent dispute with Facebook.

So the whole issue boils down to "what if you get into a patent dispute with Facebook over a patent that doesn't relate to their core web UI tech". Which...I dunno, is that a real concern?

> “nice quantum physics technology you have here, would be a shame if something bad were to happen to your app”

Yeah, okay. But if my core business is making apps, then every patent I might have is likely to be covered by both patent grant termination clauses. So the issue is...?

(Also, the author is conflating the license to use React with the license to use any patents, if any, which cover React. If, as is entirely possible, no Facebook patent covers any React technology, then having the patent grant terminate would not concern you.)
What if Reddit is around for 50 years, paying dozens of employees the whole time while never making a net profit. Would that not be a successful company to essentially everyone? (except the investors)
After playing around with a bunch of different websites, I've concluded I can't tell that much difference between low and high bitrate mp3 audio. The difference between good and bad headphones is obvious to me, but bitrate is not.
No, they are (well developed) bandaids to help deal with the cancer of javascript!
"as an alternative to C++ and Perl"

Do you have a citation for that? My understanding of the timeline and Guido's writings on the subject make it seem very unlikely that C++ or Perl had any significant impact on the decision to create Python or the design of Python. Python would very likely still exist in a world without C++ or Perl, as far as I can tell.

Python isn't even in the same lineage as either of those languages, though it shares a lot of features and patterns with Perl (as there has been some cross-pollination between the communities over the years). And, Python (started in 1989) is only a couple years newer than Perl (1987) and Perl was tiny enough to likely not really even be on Guido's radar at the time.

There may be a bunch of developers who think in terms of their own evolution as coders, and when they discovered various things, and your history may have Python coming well after Perl (I know I only started using Python professionally six or seven years after I first used Perl). But, I think you're overlaying your own perception onto events and it's distorting the actual history.
`youtube-dl` is a national treasure. No other tool (except maybe MPV) has made it's way into my day to day usage in years.
I think it's a really nice way to make an app :)
I'd consider programming to be a specialized topic, as it has domain issues and limitations. As an example, think of things like integer datatypes. Is it really important that we teach people that there's several "flavors" of integers based on how much memory they consume, which is directly related to how many distinct values they can represent? Obviously that's important to programmers, but I think the general populous is safe throughout their life without that information.

Also, the assignment test is interesting, even with your rewording. The barrier is in the sequential part of the topic. In something like proofs, which is the closest I remember getting in high school to logic, those statements are simply invalid together, because there is no time domain. If `a` is 10, it is 10 throughout the entire construct. Seeing `a` is `b` means that an impossible conclusion has been reached.

Finally, the last point is, well, curious. How many people decide to go into aerospace engineering without ever having engineered an airframe? I'd guess the vast majority. Requiring prior exposure to succeed in a degree is an oddity, so what is is about CS education that causes this?
So much more likely to succeed and so much less likely to make $100M. Definitely the surest path to $5-10M near the end of your career. If you only want <$5M perhaps being a corporate VP would be more optimal risk adjusted. This is my strong preference, I just wish there were more of a culture of that here. It could be the fact that this is a start-up forum but sustainable B2B niche business is really interesting and provides good opportunities to create wealth and do impactful work. It is merely less interesting to investors with large overhead and expectations. So it makes sense investors go big.
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Why? (Honest question.)
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well this is built on the Ethereum network, according to a tweet I saw in this thread, and would therefore be a private contract. So the private data is settled on a blockchain that is secured by proof of work now, and proof of stake later.
Python is the language that, once you know it, you'll never go back. It's gotten to the point where I use it to run an entire backend as well as simple terminal scripts. It's faster to write a Python script to "switch the first and third columns in a file", rather than Googling for an appropriate awk command (or spending the time to come up with one myself).
I don't think it increases or decreases. We've had companies get in after 5 rejections and sometimes do badly and sometimes do really well.

The negative signal for us is you apply 5 times in a row without anything improving or changing.
I wonder if this is a general problem, where property owners in an area have both the power to influence the local government's land use policy and an incentive to limit new construction in order to create artificial scarcity and drive up the prices of their own property. Is this guaranteed to exacerbate any housing shortage anywhere'
The guy who identified himself as the "local idiot" was Zach Anner, who has cerebral palsy. He definitely wasn't drunk, palsy makes him sound like that.

Not your fault, they didn't show him on the stream.
React "componentization" is nice. For me there are two things that makes it a non-starter: 1. That legal clause mentioned in the article and 2. The complexity of learning this platform is the same as learning the native without the same benefits on the control over the hardware (actually with added complexity potential lack of control)
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Good luck finding them - most of us go to inland state schools and fly under the prestige of the likes of Stanford and UC Berkeley.

EDIT - For clarity, I'm a veteran graduate of a state school.
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It might be "successful" (however you define that), but $8.3M in Revenue in 2014 (and an estimated $10M in 2015) on $50M in investment (not including Conde Naste's investment) in a 10 year period for a company valued at $500M and the 25th most visited site, seems like it's under-performing.
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Your comment was about nodejs not JavaScript. Also give es6 js a try. It looks and feels like coding in Python (almost).
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The only two alternatives to not filtering candidates are to hire every candidate or not hire anyone. How could these possibly be better?
https://www.pwnyoutube.com/watch?v=[link]

also works
How well suited is YC for a company that only expect to have YC itself as investor?

i.e. might have no interest in presenting at demo day or pursue any further fundraising, but instead look for profitability and self-investment as the path to growth.
Why do they launch the passengers first? Passengers eat and shit and breathe while they wait. They're also liable to be more upset if their mission is aborted, due to a failed tanker launch, while they're in orbit.
It's human nature to attacks a reality-distortion field.

If he would have said "You know guys. We're going to Mars. But right now, we're working on making rockets that go up, on time, in one piece.

When we finish with that, we'll show how to go. It'll be hard. Here are the technical and sociological issues involved. When we're getting close to being ready to go, we'll get working on them."
I think this trend is likely to continue for a very long time.
While I agree with the sentiment, I do still love the concise format of awk commands. Although arguably, they can get rather confusing when trying to do complex stuff.
WebOS as well!
We care that a company might eventually be huge. Usually that requires raising more money, but if it doesn't, that would be ok with us.
LA is cheap

Come to the SF Bay area...
Well the person I responded to said we should offer rewards for murdering poachers. So the incentive would be to go out and murder people and plant chainsaws/rifles on them.

You wouldn't really even have to "go out in the bush" to kill them. You could kill someone and claim they were out there poaching.
ActiveX?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActiveX
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Which makes me think that the military must be very interested in electric jets, given how stealthy they could be.
What if that gravity well has the resources you need to get out of it?

The moon also has a small gravity well, but no real resources to help you escape it. Mars has a bit of a gravity well, but has many more resources to help you escape that gravity well.
You (and by extension YC) always seem to mostly focus on the success stories of the alumni/group. Have you or will you consider talking about the failures? If you can't do it, is there a reason why?
I would argue that solving the problem of contract enforcement is beyond the scope of any entrepreneur.

However I do see your point and appreciate its merit. By the same token, if YC was unduly worried about that, they would never be able to fund (tech) companies that operate principally outside the west because the problem you allude to has never really been solved satisfactorily.

But here's my point: as YC becomes larger and looks for growth outside its traditional areas, its model must evolve.

Right now it does seem a bit scattershot. Is it a VC or an Angel? What is the place and relationship of charity and the entrepreneurs it sponsors? It claims to invest in founders predominantly over their ideas, but everyone I know who applies, does so with the thought at the back of their minds, that the de-facto situation is one in which an idea which cannot be a billion dollar company is best left at home. Whats wrong with funding a company that has the potential to reach 100M?

I guess what I mean to say is: for the larger mission YC espouses, the funding model is broken; indeed the mission itself is unclear. For those like me who aspire to be funded this creates much frustration
Every time I hear him talk about Mars (placing it before curing cancer), I think "if only he had grown up wanting to eradicate poverty." Still...rather than think ill of his idea - and work - we should celebrate his innovation and the way he will inspire others.

As I thought about how he is perfecting rocket technology, I wandered off on a tangential rocket technology (thought) that would tract nuclear rockets launched from the earth's surface and curry them off into space... and return home.Is it a good idea? It is if it works. Do I plan on working on it? I don't know shit about rockets, so probably not. The point it, we need more "Mars Men" in order to discover the ideas that will change things here on earth. Maybe Musk won't cure cancer or end wars but maybe someone inspired by him will.
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Let's not pretend because SF has problems that nobody else's problems are any big deal.
I'd extend hypothesis #2. We might not have a sufficiently high-quality theory, but we might also not know how to integrate the benefits of the theory we have with the benefits of data-driven approaches to NLP like those described in this paper.

It's clear to me that data-driven techniques are an essential part of the answer to the problem of language understanding. It's infeasible to design a complete set of rules for understanding natural language with all its exceptions and fuzzy relationships. I'd point to Wittgenstein for a stronger philosophical argument on this.

That's not to say that theory has no place in language understanding, but it's not immediately obvious how to combine rule-oriented theory with data-driven ML.

There has been work in this area though, and actually several important, state-of-the-art-moving contributions have been inspired by linguistics. My favorite are recursive neural nets, which benefit from the linguistic insight that language has recursive structure. This paper[1], for example, describes a system that combines a dependency parser with a recurrent neural net (gross oversimplification) to yield a state-of-the-art sentence understanding model.

[1] - http://arxiv.org/abs/1603.06021