skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be honest - it was impossible early on to see how Justin.tv (a guy wearing a camera on his head 24/7) or Airbnb (airbed rental) could turn into billion dollar companies. Often times we invest in great teams and just see what they can do. Remember hindsight is 20-20.
I'm not sure if it's on by default, but the "OK Google" feature presumably requires an always-listening microphone on your phone.
Could we not crowd source the captioning? I know I would help.
Mostly, thermal energy
Hi Michael, how do you guys do your financial analyses / reporting? Any pain there?

Just asking cause you may be interested in my product, (or in accepting me in your summer session haha).

Seriously though, startup accelerators never talk about their internal tools, any insight?
I very much agree with all of these points, which is why, as I told my HR rep, I won't use any personal websites on the work network at all since the HTTPS interception was turned on. It's been a gigantic pain in the ass doing things like checking my bank statements or whatever on my phone only, but I live with it. The only non strictly work related site I go to is this one, with this throwaway account/random password.

On the topic of liability and owning up to a potential hack, I think my company would be transparent about it, based on a history of being transparent about many atypical things in the past. We're not public, never received any VC funding, and nobody has any equity stake in the company except for the owner, who himself goes over the entire company's income statement in front of all the employees once per year to let us know where all the money's coming from/going to. I do believe he would do whatever he could to make it right, because the buck stops with him and him alone.

Clearly that's only a small comfort if our personal information is leaked, but I don't think in my case it would be covered up. I could certainly see that being the case in most corporate structures, though.
Well done. I'm just wondering why React "without Redux!". Is it one of those bits which did not appeal to you on a personal level?
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> Its cars are blindingly fast, but as a company, Tesla appears to be utterly indifferent to racing.

because the cars aren't really that fast. They are geared to do 0-60 in insane times. That's great but it's not fast in the racing sense. They are still heavy, and the acceleration beyond 60 isn't nearly as good.

> The cars get some aerodynamic add-ons and have been on a diet, shedding 1,100lb (500kg) despite the addition of a roll cage

That should help.

> Perhaps the biggest problem the racing Teslas are going to have to deal with is overheating. Keeping the battery cool enough was a real challenge for Blake Fuller's Tesla at Pikes Peak last year, and overheating issues are usually the fly in the ointment that prevents Tesla owners from having fun at track days.

Yeah, that too. Has the model S been able to get around the nurburgring without going into low power mode?
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Hasn't worked for single payer healthcare yet. Nobody brings up that almost every other country's government pays less than the US.
Policy is very regularly unrelated to ideology. I consider myself conservative in ideology, but very rarely agree with the policies of US conservatives, and relatively often agree with policies of US liberals, but I almost never agree on the principal arguments liberals might put forth to justify the policy. For example, I advocate for freedom of immigration and emigration as a matter of freedom of trade. I advocate for a solid (but not lavish) welfare state as a matter of fiscal policy (It's a lot cheaper than prisons). I advocate for a single payer health care system because it reduces regulatory capture and rent seeking.

Politics, however, has far more to do with identity than ideology or policy. Finding common ground on contentious issues does not raise money or secure votes. Demonizing and opposing those that don't look, live, or act like you does.
Is it allocated on day one? Full amount? Or gradually throughout the 3 month batch?
Hetzner will rent you 24 cores (48 'cloud' cores), 1024GB RAM, and 4TB SSD for less than $499/month.
Definitely a legitimate question - we often see people moving from various locations (I think like 60% of Zapiens have moved during their tenure, or something like that).

As an experiment, we wanted to start with the obvious high cost of living center - the Bay Area. In the future, we may open it up to more cities, maybe even a blanket package as you describe.
Uhh, when they're property of the company and not actually considered people?

I'm pretty sure you have to be considered a person in order to qualify for food stamps, Medicaid, and Section 8 housing vouchers. I mean, idk because all of those things came about after slavery.
Fellow Indian Founder here. PG once said (I think to AirBnB) go where your users are.
I haven't worked on the idea/MVP I applied with last time, instead working on scaling my existing business. Last time I didn't get an interview.

Is there a point in applying again with the same idea? The only thing that would have changed is that my other business, listed as an accomplishment, is now 5 times as successful. (In the 350k range vs 70k.)

I was also thinking of applying with that business, but it's not really a YC kind of company. Would YC fund an e-commerce company with no particularly unique approach, just selling on 3P marketplaces, and ambitions of growing to maybe pharmapacks level (100 million in yearly revenue, around the biggest such company)?
Pretty sure some of us still have WeeZeel t-shirts around!
Is applying to YC for the third time a bad indicator/sign?
I setup winscp to automatically sync a directory from a coworkers laptop to a webserver so he can edit his html documents in Microsoft Frontpage locally and have it sync with the remote server.
Ivan Ristic's "Bulletproof SSL and TLS"[0]

[0] https://www.feistyduck.com/books/bulletproof-ssl-and-tls/rev...
That's only true if you ignore the ACA taxes.[1]

[1]http://www.atr.org/full-list-ACA-tax-hikes-a6996
The US refused to sign any no-spy deal with Germany and did not rule out spying on the German government in the future. They may or may not be doing it currently, but they certainly still consider it legitimate. It also seems unlikely that Germany was an exceptional case, it seems more likely that the US is spying on all governments of interest, it just did not become public. This makes me also quite wary with respect to the UK. They may have special enough relations to get a different treatment but I don't think that the UK should feel too comfortable even with such agreements in place.

If nobody finds out, you always get away with it, no matter how much or little power you have. The interesting case is if someone finds out, how well do you survive the ensuing fallout? In this case more power may of course be helpful.
The Local Ladder Effect
Also, in reply to who is accessing your records you don't know. I suppose you could ask for records of who had accessed it by a certain date, but once your records are in there they will likely be accessed by your insurance company for billing purposes.

You can add an additional layer of warning in Epic. I see this most often with psych records or pts who want an extra layer, such as if they work in the same hospital. All this entails though is an extra prompt warning requiring you to put in a reason why you are accessing the records, and put in your usr/pwd again and warns you it is being recorded, etc...
FBI arrests alleged attacker who tweeted seizure-inducing strobe at Eichenwald
Did you read the original article? http://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/3/16/14948696/go...

Disney have a new movie out, "Promotional content" doesn't have to explictly say "but tickets here" to be effectively an advert, and I'd be seriously surprised if Disney didn't pay Google for that placement.
SNAP falling 10% from the first trading day
probably expecting a lot from username "douche"
Beware Kodi Box Users You Can Be Jailed for 10 Years
Thank you thank you Ivan Bogatyy for fixing the docker run instructions. I think it was missing the docker image name before! :)
If you look at federal budgets over the past 40 years [1] (select Presidents Trump through Carter) the only years with a budget surplus were budgets from Bill Clinton. Each year of his term the deficits got smaller, until they became surpluses in the last three years. George W had a (smaller) surplus his first year, but then went back into deficit spending to fund the wars in the Middle East. I'm not sure how the timing works, but that first year surplus might have been due to Clinton too.

As I recall, Clinton cooperated with a fiscally-conservative Republican Congress to get the budget in line. Rapid growth in the IT industry helped raise revenues as well. Unfortunately the Republicans turned against him at the end, and completely lost their fiscally-conservative policy standpoint. Deficit spending has just been getting worse and worse since then, regardless of who's been in power.

http://federal-budget.insidegov.com/ [1]
I fully believe that, much like persons registering as sex offenders are not allowed to go certain places, persons found to be involved in wage theft should be banned from running a business or being in any kind of managerial position whatsoever.
YC sends out emails to previous applicants who were in some percentile but weren't accepted to encourage them to apply again.

Are their chances any better? What could've happened since the last application that would make their current application worse?
Literally none of this has been our experience.
At what point exactly does YC transfer funds? Upon acceptance or at the start of the program?
> Who said anything about tabs?

If all your tabs run in the same process, any vulnerability triggered by malicious content in one tab has access to all the content in any other tab. Sandboxing the brower process makes it more difficult for that to result in taking over your entire system, but in this case merely taking over the browser is sufficient.

So no, OS-level sandboxing isn't sufficient. And if you don't understand that, you should not be making assertions about security.
It's not so much the slaveholder as an individual, but the slaveholding society. You end up with large numbers of free men who aren't invested in the society because their labor is effectively worthless. They may revolt, or it may just be when there's a threat to the society (invasion, most commonly, or a big natural disaster) they aren't willing to make any sacrifices to save it. And you certainly can't rely on your slaves to fight off an invader.
Austin still beats everything else for salary proportional to cost of living.

https://hired.com/blog/candidates/where-engineer-salaries-pa...
What Netflix needs to do is improve their content, not screw around with ratings. The quality of the content has definitely deteriorated over the last few years. It is almost impossible to find good material to watch. I have found myself wanting to watch a good movie only to give up after searching for half an hour.

Amazingly enough non-premium TV channels have better movies than Netflix, so we record them and skip the commercials.

Frankly, the only reason we keep Netflix is because there are a couple of kids TV series our kids like. We are using them to improve their Spanish language skills. If it weren't for that we would have cancelled a long time ago.
There isn't a higher bar for international founders or companies working on a non-US market. The number one reason why companies don't apply to YC is cause they don't think they can get in. I think this applies double for international founders and is why we have increased our international outreach. My best guess is that you are seeing more post launch international companies in YC cause they are more confident in applying.
There's an argument to be made that it already is. It's called lawyerese (or just L), its programmers are highly regulated and highly paid.

What happened here is what happens when someone with insufficient skill tries to write an L program. The language has no such thing as linting or syntax checking, so while a faulty program will always run, it will return with unexpected or absurd results. L failures tend to make C's nasal demons look positively friendly by comparison.

There's no formal spec, it's literally centuries of ad-hoc patches and fixes and revisions piled onto one another.
From what I've seen over the years (~9 yrs, to be specific), it is actually encouraged. however, they will look for progress over the course of your applications.
True, but this fatalistic view alone isn't an argument to stop trying to maintain ethical behavior even when when waging war.
We applied for Y Combinator Winter 2017. We were not selected for the in-person interview.
The company has faced lots of restructuring after that. Some founders left and new people came. Product changed but the vision is still the same.
Do you think it will have the negative effect on our application ?
What do you look for when considering a solo-founder? Given that the bar is higher.
I haven't heard of neural network approaches, but people are using and working on improving automated comparisons to detect relationships. A recent article discusses its application to word lists: The Potential of Automatic Word Comparison for Historical Linguistics http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....
Adding annotations to charts is critical for most of the stakeholders I've had and is extremely manual and a nightmare on dashboards - I don't think any tool solves this out of the box excellently. (i.e. allow users to easily annotate features of a chart)
I wouldn't have moved to the Bay Area if there weren't as many jobs as there are. If you have the choice to relocate, you might as well go where the jobs are, right?
You can certainly get into YC pre-launch!
You'd be right. It would need to dwell for considerable time on the same part of the tank's armor to have any meaningful effect, and even that would rely on slow, inefficient heating as a mechanism. (Assuming a rather improbable 100% kinetic energy transfer from a 60kW beam, that equates to about three .50 BMG rounds per second from contact range. That's a big round, but not big enough to have a significant effect on tank armor.)

To address another commenter's point, it would not set off explosive reactive armor (ERA). While I don't have detailed information on the ERA compositions in common use, the constraints at hand effectively necessitate the use of relatively insensitive plastic explosives, broadly similar in characteristics to the well-understood C4. Such explosives require a shock wave, provided by a special device or (in the case of ERA) by the impact of a shaped charge, to detonate; heat and fire will not set them off. (Vietnam-era American soldiers burned pieces of C4 from Claymore mine charges as cooking fuel. The smoke was toxic, but that was the only danger.)

You need a composition like this for ERA because it is not an actively controlled system. It's not as though there is a computer in the tank which detects an impact and detonates the corresponding ERA segments; the physical processes of such impacts play out far too quickly for such active control to work. ERA therefore has to work on a purely physical basis if it's going to work at all, and that means you need to use an explosive susceptible to detonation on impact. But you don't want an explosive that's very sensitive to impact, or to heat or fire, because you don't want to waste ERA or unnecessarily endanger infantry operating near the tank. (ERA's dangerous enough already that way without giving it a hair trigger!)

So it's already not all that plausible that a beam like this might transfer enough energy, even on direct impact with a mass of such explosive, to set it off. But the impact won't be direct, because ERA isn't constructed of bare explosive blocks; there's always going to be a layer of metal, not armor but still relatively thick, between the explosive and the outside environment. This structure would intervene between the explosive and the beam, and would dissipate the transfer energy as heat. That might eventually set the underlying explosive on fire, but, for the reasons we've already covered, it would not cause a detonation.
Yeah, on a landing craft, expect some form of ablative armor. (How friggin' Star Trek is that?!)
Glad you brought up winglets. My favorite example are those on the new 737 MAX. Boeing's page[1] about them is top-notch.

[1] http://www.boeing.com/commercial/737max/737-max-winglets/
Absolutely not!
UBI is being pushed by a subset of the wealthy primarily because it will be a juicy source of rent, in both the economic and colloquial senses.

Every cent of UBI will be absorbed by housing costs absent the sort of regulation that would itself make UBI politically untenable (i.e. because it would not benefit the wealthy.)
Correct I see how I didn't explain well the point I was trying to make. Its always been the same, but it's a tad shady on what they actually count as unemployed. For instance they do not count discouraged workers and involuntary part-timers, or people who stopped looking because they simply cannot find work.

The unemployment percent in the US is largely a political talking point/fodder wherein the government doesn't do much to change it.
Agreed. The section basically boils down to "despite maybe looking simpler, Single-Decree Paxos is still tricky." I don't think something particular and formal like Kolmogorov complexity even fits the tone there.
The politicians likely remember the scandal from the 1980s of Regular Joes being torn apart by aggressive IRS agents. Saying "hiring more IRS agents brings in more money than they cost" is incredibly gauche to anyone who remembers it.
I have pretty much the exact same experience with Dota. I think there's one thing it teaches better than any other game that's exemplified in your post. If you want to get good at Dota, you have to accept responsibility for yourself and the decisions you've made to get you to where you're at. At first in the small setting of the game, but as this gets drilled in over and over through all the hours of play, the habit grows outside the game.

It's proven a surprisingly good barometer for me on how I'm doing in my life. When I'm taking care of myself and actually growing elsewhere, even losses are fun. But when I'm running from something, the wins feel empty. I also notice that when I meet a 5k+ mmr player in real life, we're immediate friends, simply because they've accepted responsibility for themselves and have interesting theories on the world as a result.
Perhaps programmers are the equivalent in this new revolution?

It's ironic that the robot owners don't make, program, direct or have much to do with the specifics of implementing. If you're dependent on a robot army to keep your serfs in line, then the people programming that robot army have some interesting opportunities open to them. I imagine the code reviews will be pretty stringent.

Would a technocracy be better or worse than a plutocracy?
I'm not saying the risk is particularly large, at least in a large aircraft. However, the inconvenience of buckling your seat belt is practically nil, so the value proposition is pretty clear to me.
Specially related to insider trading, the enforcement of the rules you mention is made more complicated by the fact that there are actually no laws (rules) on the books that make insider trading illegal (as well as there being no SEC rule against insider trading). When people get in trouble for insider trading, they normally point to it being securities fraud. That leaves the interpretation of what is insider trading up to the courts. I agree there are plenty of people in Wall Street that would do just about anything (including breaking a black and white rule of law) to make a buck, but there is also a pretty significant grey area for what constitutes insider trading. If you are interested, just google "Matt Levine insider trading" and a number of his daily columns with updates on various cases (and his much better explanations of the nuances of insider trading) will come up.
But Netflix doesn't care about the quality of a movie. They care about whether you would watch it or not.
In today's economy it's usually easier to find a new job in a high CoL area.
Not official YC advice. But I believe I read somewhere Avg. YC company gets rejected twice before being accepted. What matters is are you making progress in the direction of your vision.
> Karl Popper didn't invent falsifiability, he discovered it.

Yes, and he discovered it using non-scientific techniques developed in the field of philosophy. There is a philosophical term for the concept that ideas exist "out there" waiting to be discovered, but I don't imagine you'd be interested in the long history of that debate.

> All ideas are constructed on a foundation of sand and no particular idea has more persuasiveness

I didn't say that. I implied that in this instance your thinking is based on a foundation of sand and isn't persuasive. Others have done better.

I haven't much else substantive to say, except that you seem to have a chip on your shoulder about philosophy, which you construe as the works of a small group of French intellectuals from the middle of the Twentieth century. You're also not averse to making assumptions about the beliefs of the people you're talking to based on no evidence but your own prejudices and limited understanding. That isn't conducive to fruitful conversations.
Hi Michael,
Is YC actively looking for partners with hardware startup experience? Correct me if I am wrong currently YC doesn't have any.

The only one I recall is Luke Iseman (great guy) that left this year (currently a YC alumni).

thanks for taking the time to reply.
I like giving weight to my vote.

3 stars = "not a bad movie, but wouldn't recommend"

4 starts = "decent movie, would recommend"

5 stars = "great movie, would definitely recommend"

A binary choice doesn't have any weight to it.
On the flip side, it seems that mirroring the surface of a missile or UAV would make it easier to detect, and therefore easier to target with "legacy" systems. I imagine both legacy and laser-based systems would be used in conjunction with each other.
Sorry. But that is precisely the point of opportunity costs.

Building that reactor isn't just a job. That kind of a job generally has a future/career. You would learn so many things on the way you will likely land a better job sooner or later.

One of things that I keep saying to my younger cousins that pretty much everything I built at the start of my career in programming doesn't exist now.

All that remains is me, and along the way I've gathered skills.

Video games don't give you this.