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The top 5 things I look for in an application are (in no particular order):
1) Can the team clearly communicate what they are working on?
2) Does the team have the technical talent to build and grow the v1 of their product?
3) Is the team moving quickly or are they waiting for approval from YC?
4) Did the founders have a personal or professional relationship before deciding to start the company together?
5) Does the team understand something about their space that is controversial or non-obvious?
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That isn't really true. Not only has it been happening, but we've gotten more ambitious and broadened the definition. Now, we aren't only saying machines will take over labour, but that we'll be able to do even less with automation.

The fact of the matter is, however, that we (humans) do a lot of different things, so we need a multitude of specialized machines and automation. That takes time, and we had to pick and choose where we started. Farming is one of those that is ahead of the curve, fast food is mid-way as it is just now becoming cost-effective. Health care, not so much right now. Those are more difficult machines.
They wouldn't be the first ISP to break the law, and they most certainly wouldn't be the last.
The protocol only prohibits the use of weapons whose intended purpose is to blind people. If a laser is meant to be lethal and happens to blind you, that wouldn't violate the protocol.
What happens when a photon interacts with something that has mass?
> both of which are nearly impossible to learn proficiently as a second language.

Citation needed.
In modern Fortran, there is only really one big headache (coming from e.g. Python), and that's how hard string processing is, and how there are no generic lists. E.g. something as simple as cpnverting an integer to a string (or vice versa) actually uses I/O and writes/reads from the int to the string. (I have written Fortran code that outputs data both in JSON, CSV, proprietary binary formats and as XML at various points in time. It's not generally pleasant.)

If a hypothetical Fortran 201x added Python-esque generic lists and list/array comprehensions that played well with strings, and promoted strings to a "first class" type, I'd have a lot less reason for pulling in Python for scientific applications not involving web/graphics.
Same here - thanks for the question :)
The hardest I've wiped out on a bike was where a bike trail intersected a road. Everything was super wet and slick from rain. Despite bikes having right of way and my bright bike light being on, a truck with no headlights barreled across it without stopping.

Once I saw it, I had to slam on the brakes so hard my rear brake cable popped out of the handlebar, disabling the rear brake completely and I was putting full pressure on the front brake. I didn't have time to react and avoid going over the handlebars, and I hit my helmet on the pavement. (Thankfully, I did stop in time to avoid the truck hitting me).

Was I doing something seriously wrong? Yes -- I was riding a bike without a properly adjusted rear brake cable. However, this sort of mechanical issue (and any number of others) could happen to any riders who aren't much more hyper-diligent about maintenance than average.

Who knows if we'd even be having this conversation had I not been wearing a helmet that night.

From a public health perspective, evidence suggests making helmets mandatory is counter-productive, and so I don't support those laws. However, I still maintain that anyone who cycles without a helmet is fucking stupid.
I wish there is something we can do in New York City. In the last two years, I saw a significant increase in the number of homeless people in New York City. They have no home and take refuge in subways and the bathrooms at Penn Station.
Probable historical reason: the industry had money and therefore political power, and its workers were poor immigrants therefore without political power.
We haven't fleshed out all the nitty gritty details - but no - we wouldn't prefer Pittsburgh to Moab.
Yes thank you, the article does contain a lot more info than just the headline. Homelessness is a more complex issue than it appears at the surface. There a many stages of homelessness and different demographics of it.

A shelter I contribute to here in Portland focuses specifically on homeless families who have recently fell on hard times and tries to address getting them back on their feet and into sustainable jobs before they enter a vicious circle and are unable to get back into the system at all. I don't believe those families would have counted toward the chronic homeless number.
It's also a question of volume: if you can shoot down 15 missiles, then can I get 20 in flight?

There are also things like rail guns, which might be harder to intercept with a laser.
DC, Chicago, Austin, and Denver absolutely have booming tech industries. And rising costs of living to match.

It should not surprise anyone that wages in other top-tier cities match the Bay Area.
I think if we got a post to the top of HN we could get 20+ devs who all want this and could either make an OSS project or a competitive startup... Maybe I'm delusional though :)
Google patent suggests phone packaging that doubles as a VR headset
What postmodernist works have you read?
Yeah I wanted exactly this, The Matrix and Zion was another layer, and Neo was only one who could penetrate the final layer.

Hence he could affect stuff in the "real world" as it was still in a machine and was still running through another algorithm, and to balance the equation was for that particular version of it.

I wanted to call the final film Matrix : Revelations.

Where the final layer was the whole world used VR under one Skynet/i, robot style thing maybe, and one day it went rogue but couldn't kill per se, and if anyone ever managed to get out of the VR world, they'd realise it had gone rogue and turn it off, so it had to keep inventing new layers and things to keep people connected and stop them wanting to figuring out how to wake up.

I feel that'd be a nice ending, can mix in Skynet, Inception, Matrix, Surrogates and fixes a lot of issues I had with the trilogy and could still have Keanu,and could even have different Matrices distributed throughout the world, managing to hack into the other ones to get a decent ending.
Have a start up called Mixtape Madness which operates as niche urban UK platform with the aim of providing artists with alternative avenues of monetizing off there craft. What advice would you give in accomplishing his goal?
Yeah, I am aware that I might be misplacing my trust and share things with people who end up sharing it with third parties, violating my trust ... your point being?
How does YC look at companies solving sizable problems but not necessarily tech focussed ?
How much do you value the idea v.s. the person(s)? I.e., do you evaluate more on the idea or the people behind the idea?
How does the $120k get allocated to the startup? Can cofounders take a tiny piece as a monthly income?
Adverse weather could be a problem, but these weapons are intended to fight against things that would also be hampered by the weather.
I don't know what you're saying here. The definition of "chronically homeless" is perfectly clear; it's just that you can't look at someone and say "yep, that person fits the definition."
> The stars are not about "enjoyment" factor, they are about perceived quality.

For you. But are you representative of the whole or even a majority? I personally use it to reflect whether I enjoyed it or considered it a waste of time.

I give some of my favorites - like Hackers - 5 stars but would never consider it a "quality" movie. It's awful and silly but that's the fun of it.
> Pai is proposing an ambitious program whereby the FCC could expand corporate subsidies for building networks while scaling back regulations that, he said, deter private investment.

Given the history of the players involved (e.g. Verizon and AT&T pocketing billions in subsidies to extend service, then paying those billions out in dividends and doing no upgrades at all), this is clearly a case of "fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice shame on me."

Or is this simply purchasing a nice post-government job with the taxpayer's money?

Either way it isn't plan worth supporting, no matter how important broadband expansion is. Or rather, "especially because broadband expansion is important".
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Just about everywhere else I've lived is culturally richer, DC, Chicago, Miami, London, Houston, all had better cultural and art scenes.

I'm big in theater, ballet, and art. San Francisco is way too expensive for artists to live in anymore and the art scene there is very limited, inorganic, and a bit stale. Further the distance to San Francisco means it's a chore (and a drive) to get there from the South Bay where all the jobs are.

Now I can take public transit to cultural institutions, and walk to a lot too. We have organic arts districts with real artists in residency, regular gallery showings and art walks, and some amazing local musicians.

You might get that in Oakland these days, but even Oakland is getting prohibitively expensive.
Agreed. Why not call it "python-bitcoin"?

pip install python-bitcoin

and

import bitcoin

would be great. Otherwise the name "Bit" makes me think it's some kind of bit manipulation tools library.
We're considering other places with outrageous cost of living as well - but as an experiment - we wanted to start with the Bay Area only.
> So I don't see why Haskell's additional allocations should cause GC to be any more of an overhead.

In this kind of garbage collector, time of an individual garbage collection should not depend on the amount of garbage that has been generated. However, producing more garbage should mean more frequent collections, and so more time spent in GC overall.
If you release software to the public, you run the risk of other people wanting you to use it.
There are also a lot of people who've never located to the Bay Area for lifestyle reasons and may be interested.
By contrast, Vancouver, BC's idea of clearing one inch of snow is to dump two inches of river sand on it that will still be there in July, destroying your bicycle's drive system.
No, but they might be able to crank out expansion packs twice a year, to add some more depth. Anyway, I'm not suggesting that everything will move to that type of game. Just that "complex simulation" doesn't have to map to "complicated to play".
you jelly?
I don't think the article or raftlib take super computers into account.

The article even points out that raftlib must be statically linked which forces a few kb to be used when the binary is loaded. In a super computer you would have a cluster of many machines and would need to load even dynamic libraries at least once per machine.

Then looking at the raftlib site [1] and their wiki on github [2] it is clear that they have no way to scale to super computers, yet. They do use the terms, like "execution kernels" and talk about abstracting where the execution happens, but the focus seems to be on syntax (which is a thing I suppose).

Looking at the TBB developer guide[3] it seems clear that either would take some custom coding to get working across multiple machines.

It seems clear to me that Raftlib and TBB exist in the same space, targeting the typical app or system coder wanting threads. A much better point to raise if you want to support raftlib would be its focus on syntax, which is often ugly with many threading libraries. But the the raftlib guy thinks his looks good. I won't comment on something so subjective.

[1] http://www.raftlib.io/
[2] https://github.com/RaftLib/RaftLib/wiki/Execution-Model
[3] https://software.intel.com/en-us/node/506045
Sure but you have to normalize it somehow. Americans drive way more than they bike. I imagine if you calculated this per-time or per-distance, driving would still come out much safer for the brain than cycling without a helmet.
I find your post difficult to take seriously. Nintendo was aware of the hardness of their screen throughout the design and when they shipped. The joy-con problems are unfortunate, but seem like the kind of glitches discovered on wide release. I'm not sure how fixable they are either (no amount of technical rejiggering will make bluetooth transmit through the human body better).

I don't know that I would have made the same trade-offs, but Nintendo was clearly aware of the trade-offs they were making. A recall seems really unlikely and a class action seems very difficult (how much can you get in damages for an occasional technical glitch in some configurations?).
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Congrats!

My genuine feeling - I'm not helping children in Africa, because that would mean I'm not helping rebuild Nepal earthquake.

Instead I'm focusing on healing the planet - global warming - leading to famine, migration to cities, civil warfare, refugee crisis etc...

Oxford, UK - come to North Wales - https://astralship.org - read more about our MISSION + FLOW + VOYAGES... Because our chapel is located in the secluded nature we plan intense voyages - total immersion, no distractions, peak performance, flow state.

Looking forward to hearing from you.
Namaste.
Being built "today" doesn't have anything to do with it.

Although they have better UI/aesthetics, from a UX perspective, Google and Amazon famously hew pretty closely to their original product design.

What matters to these companies - and, more importantly, their customers - is delivering the content that the customer wants, at the fastest possible speed.
I think human interaction is over-rated. I have to check the receipt every time I order food to make sure what I ordered was communicated by me, and correctly interpreted and inputted by the worker. Instead, if I just entered what I want into the system, then it is transcribed and I have a record and they have a record and there is less chance of mistake. If there is a mistake, there is no "he said she said" finger pointing.
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As someone who has been playing BotW on a WiiU I was very jealous of the guy in the row in front of me on the plane last night playing on the Switch. It made me briefly consider getting one.
At the very least, with Nintendo it pays to wait and see, and with their mobile line (which this is probably a part of in a sense) there is always a "DS" and "DSL" edition to come out.

You rarely are burned by waiting and seeing with gaming these days... the games stick around, they come down in price, and their content expands.
Clearly they don't need to do that if the switch is exceeding their expectations.

I'd rather have their stuff than crappy pseudo-PCs.
IANAL, but if this verdict were based on equity it would have helped out everybody on cannery row, not just the drivers.
Erlang/OTP 19.3 has been released
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=most+difficult+languages+to+learn
Yes that's true if all the communication between agents goes through the database then the Monotonic Reads consistency level is equivalent to linearizability.

In case there are off the database communications then this level of consistency isn't enough.
I would say figure out what milestone in your business would convince you to go all in and strive for it. Your goal shouldn't be external validation. I know of no investor who is smart enough to tell with 100% accuracy whether you are working on a great idea or not.
Propensity to/rate at which they are becoming technical?
The smaller and​ greater than signs in figure 4 are really confusing me.
Anyone who claims the minimum wage level is absurd has clearly never tried to live on it.
Wait, what? "Regards to criteria you just listed"? His criteria was "dialog quality, voice acting, characters, breadth of content, quests, etc.". And you cite something completely different (skill progression, character customization)?!
Hungarian, Finnish, and Estonian are Finno-Ugric languages, part of the Uralic language family.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finno-Ugric_languages
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uralic_languages
> Does the team have the technical talent to build and grow the v1 of their product?

This means they can join YC without a v1? But I guess you should have validated your hypothesis in any other way, right?
I don't work for a distributed company. I'm in R&D these days and head up the main science section of my company. I used my network to find jobs, applied for every opportunity and stayed on the ball.

Earlier in my career I'd send 150+ applications. The last move I only looked at three positions and got offers from all three.
Apples, oranges, and grapes have deep biological differences. Do not trust those who classify all of those as the same kind of fruit.
I think that if you are bootstrapping cause you need to in order to pay the bills then that is totally fine. If you can work full-time on your startup and your are aren't - you should ask yourself why.
Yes, but that's because the author's are interested in it directly. I don't think measuring how many hours people play these games necessarily directly affects the developers' motivation to keep making them.
> There are plenty of non-Bay Area markets that have thriving software scenes and even places that offer you more disposable income once housing costs are factored in.

This is technically true but elides tons of context. "Thriving software scene" does not touch on the quality of the "scene" in question. Places that have software industries with similar perks (e.g. flex time, flexible or absent dress standards, etc.) generally have the same housing and CoL issues that the Bay Area has, relative to the salaries they pay. Places without these perks also have a much higher ratio of employers who tend to offer significantly lower salaries and benefits and have jobs that are of a poorer quality (job titles like "programmer/analyst"). They also generally don't have a sufficiently large employer base to allow the movement we see in SF, Chicago, Austin, etc. Job security in these places is a thing and almost always not in the employees' favor.
currently thriving in the UK urban scene with our platform and we want to introduce products that help artists generate revenue. What advice would you have for niche in accomplishing this?
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Why on earth not to use programming language like constructs to write legal documents.

No compiler or anyone who can read code ever had any ambiguity reading simple code.

let overtime_allowed = true unless (action in [canning, processing, preserving, freezing, drying, marketing, storing, packing_for (shipment or distribution)] of [Agricultural produce, Meat and fish products, Perishable foods])
It is primarily through deterrence. Anyone allowed to use an EMR must go through training about HIPAA rules. A waiver is sometimes required that Epic asks you to print out and sign and put in the patient's chart (although they obviously can't prove you did this, it would be an issue if there was a problem later and it turns out you didn't do this, i.e. You would be liable for whatever penalties/prosecution). Furthermore, all usage is recorded and occasionally audited in my system. I'm not 100% sure the auditing is a requirement and true everywhere (definitely with any hospital or large clinic it will be).
The C++ memory model is not cache coherent
Surely he just means a break from YC. And running YC was a job that required always being "on-call" in the early days.
Obama lowered taxes, in fact no Democratic president has raised taxes during my lifetime (I'm 25). It's pretty strange people always claim this is a thing when it's just flat false.
Hi Michael!

What advice do you have for technical solo founders who have also been doing user acquisition at a reasonable high conversion rate, applying to YC S2017? (besides go find a co-founder)
I'm now living in a much smaller city, and the salaries here are even higher.

Good tech companies know they have to make nationally competitive offers.
When you're used to them laying right next to you, with no walls between, then adding walls is going to be more isolating.
Which I think is fine, imo salary is most of cost of living adjustments.
I'm not sure that's true. In a big open world, each "expansion pack" that comes out could be a new storyline that lives in the same world.
> I wonder if it's an NYC thing.

I think it's a US thing.

I remember that when I was younger I would get asked those questions every time, but not any more.

In the past few years (decade?) there has been a lot of push back against upselling fast food due to obesity concerns. If I had to guess I would say it probably started around when the movie "Super Size Me" was released (2004).

Now, if I order a meal, I might get asked "what size" without any suggestion. Or if I order a sandwich by name, I usually get asked to clarify if I want "the meal or just the sandwich." But I can't remember the last time they actually tried to upsell me.

It wouldn't surprise me in the least if upselling still happened outside of the US.
Hi Michael,

What advice do you have for some who is happy with their current trajectory, but might want to start their own business in say 10 years?

Thanks!
>use a smartDNS

At that point, isn't just plain old piracy more convenient ?
I've never been in a Max Burger place that didn't have humans also taking orders.
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financial processing is typically sequential - can't calculate some metric until some other thing was calculated (or pulled data for)... not well parallelizable in other words. or so it is with some systems I deal with.
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I assume they just breathe their own exhaust and so that statement was heartfelt. You can imagine that especially non-technical people can believe that "advertising is annoying and intrusive but we have deep learning and so much knowledge of the user that the users will be delighted when we add to their experience. We'll just keep out the annoying stuff."

And really are we any different? Any YC entrepreneur should know how to cold call, and the only way to bring yourself to do it is to believe in your heart that the person you're calling really will be happier with the information you provide, delighted that you called, so you aren't interrupting them at all.
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. Written by a senior researcher at MIRI, it distills all the cogsci and pop psychology books you can think of (Kahneman, Freakonomics, Gladwell) into a smart, funny, engaging, book-length book-quality fanfic. Plus it's available freely online. Seeing these methods applied by a protagonist helped me internalize them far more than any number of rereads of other books could have.

If that's too frivolous for you, Rationality: From AI to Zombies is the textbook format of all this information, from the same author.
Its actually even better than that. Because the tourist season in Salt Lake City is winter, there are no homeless when the tourists are there.
But that's just grammatically wrong, in English.

Appositive clauses require a comma. Forgetting God, you can just look at the sentence "To my mother, Ayn Rand." We put a comma there because the object of the sentence is "mother," and then we're clarifying who "mother" is. We'd only omit the comma if "Mother Ayn Rand" were a noun phrase all by itself, like "Father John."

Similarly: "This is to my arch-nemesis, Ayn Rand, who always doubted me." The commas are necessary there for the same reason.

(How did Ayn Rand enter this discussion..?)
I have an analytics background and have been applying for multiple CRO jobs. It's very frustrating the breadth of skills that people want the inhouse CRO guy to have (i.e I've had interview questions on JS frameworks, very advanced stats, non-trivial SQL, CMS systems, photoshop, SEO, paid search, Salesforce ...) especially when I know a lot of whole agencies couldn't tick all those boxes.

Would love to start freelancing this stuff but it seems like it needs so much personal branding