skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I sure hope that they come out with a hardware revision, fast. I expect there to be a class-action suit regarding the left Joy-Con issues and the screen scratching issue, barring a recall.
And they're now building a new shelter:

http://www.sltrib.com/home/4979717-155/live-state-leaders-di...
So its like the US unemployment rate?
Media24 buys 10% of NicheStreem
That definition of slavery is debated - the phrase "wage slavery" being key.
That takes time, effort, skill, and dedication to craft. You do get games like that... Witcher 3 springs to mind in fact. It's not something EA or Ubisoft can crank out twice a year and monetize to the tune of $120-$200 per unit.
If by that you mean you will be more easily manipulated, then yes.

I do not want somebody else to choose what is relevant for me.
What about their music? I wonder if any common history, as Goergian music is quite unique.

https://stallman.org/RMSGeorgianMusicWUOG.ogg
I don't think that current laser systems are anywhere near powerful enough to destroy a landing craft. I think that reason why lasers are potentially effective against aircraft and missiles is that they are intrinsically fragile and rely on speed to avoid getting hit. But a landing craft can afford to have some armor, and I don't think it takes much armor to stop a laser.
The most recent answer I could find re YC funding multiple competing companies is Harj's from 2010. What's YC's stance now?
Microsoft is still doing bad things like suing companies making android devices.

Microsoft wants tech professionals to pay attention to one and not the other. Both exist and if someone does something good it does not make up for the bad. Only stopping the bad stops Microsoft from being bad.
What things will we take for granted in 10 or 20 years that we don't have now?
>A similar approach was first tried in Los Angeles in the late 1980s and New York City in the early 1990s.

Does anyone have a reference for this? I did some searching, but didn't find anything. If anything, the articles I found just said that homelessness in LA was a continuing problem throughout the 80s until today.
What other services do you use? I paid for prime, so i've watched some stuff on prime video, but there's really not much on there. Netflix is pretty much my only option for most TV shows. Worth noting I'm in Canada.
Sounds horrifying.
Ask HN: Gang downvotes?
It seems a common tactic lately for people who disagree on a certain topic to go ahead and downvote indiscriminately all other posts by the disliked user as far back as they are able.

I don't really give a shit, given that these are just Internet points, but it seems against the spirit of HN as I know it. I would happily downvote people saying dumb shit, while simultaneously upvoting their relevant posts
Are you looking at total hours or per-player hours? Competitive games like DOTA, LoL, et-al tend to attract players who sink a lot of time into mastery.

Hours are also not a good metric for estimating the health and trends of the industry. I spend thousands of dollars a year for both AAA and indie games, and at most I game ~10 hours a week. The most time I've sunk into any single game this year is 80 hours and the average is closer to 10.
Perhaps they should adopt programming language like syntax for laws. eg You will be jailed for [kill, hurt, steal].
Basically, yes.

Back in the stone age disks were "fast" in random access but they couldn't hold as much as tape could. So to get the storage you had a mix of disk and tape. That started as you had a command you would send to the operator (another historical concept) which was the person who was responsible for 'operating' the computer. That would print a message on a hard copy terminal that would say "Load Tape XYZ on Drive 2" or something similar, the Operator would go to the shelf of tapes, pull out the one that was labeled XYZ and put it on drive 2, "mount it" (which would, on vacuum readers, suck in and tension the tape and read the first block (the label)) and make it available to the operator who could verify it was XYZ and then send pack (again on the console) "tape loaded." Then your batch program would start and you'd get the classic video of a computer with the tape being read in bits and bursts and often another tape being written in bits and bursts.

Computers got bigger (able to process more data) and tape libraries got bigger, one of Sun's big customers was Fingerhut (mail order catalog) in Minnesota and they had a room where there were lots of 'tape operators' and when a customer was on the phone and the operator said "let me bring up your account" it lit a sign in the tape room with the needed tape, someone would jump up and grab it and put it on the nearest tape drive and 'tag' (there was a clock showing time from request to mount) and the tape would identify itself and send the customer record to a disk so that they were "online" and the operator's screen would light up with all the customer details.

IBM and StorageTek made robotic libraries that did the same thing, but without the human in the loop.

Then in the early 2000's NetApp and other storage vendors started offering ATA disk drives (dense, cheap) as storage offerings and slowly, eventually the tape libraries were crushed because this dense storage was more cost effective.

Primary disk storage has now gone over to solid state disks. They have even better random access and generally and do reads at the limits of the interface they are attached to.

But there is still a market for dense, cheap, read mostly data stores. That which used to be tapes, then tape libraries, and now spinning rust in a bath of helium. A typical SATA drive can really only do about 110 "IOPS" per second, in a large part because the mechanics of moving things around is inviolate.

So the use for dense data stores behind a small i/o pipe is read mostly archival and reference data. Oil & Gas sonar dumps, credit card sales transactions, backups of data which is 'live' elsewhere, etc. The role that Tape used to play but no longer does very well.
To some extent, yes. But DF and ADOM are direct counterexamples to this. They have been developed for decades certainly far beyond the point where the marginal value of a dev-hour has ceased to be worthwhile. Yet development continues.

On top of that, there are quite a lot of very detailed community mods for games that are developed for free. The thing about games that causes them to diverge from regular economics is that it only costs time and expertise to enhance them. And obviously there are lots of people quite willing to donate that.
What happened to pg, is he still involved in YC day to day operation or the application process?
You want to know more? Here:
https://www.amazon.com/Black-Edge-Inside-Information-Wanted/...
Where do you see the trend of companies being politically active and taking a side in the debates happening in society going in the next 5-10 years?
China's LeEco to sell Silicon Valley site amid cash crunch
> There are plenty of non-Bay Area markets that have thriving software scenes

This is true, there are other tech hubs in the United States, but they are facing many of the problems that the Bay Area is facing now, with a tightening housing market, increasing cost of living, and long commutes. Places outside of those tech hubs generally have a terrible IT industry, and generally only accept people with a bachelor's degree plus 2+ years experience to get into even a junior role.
Wouldn't work if you're using a bike share.

It's actually the reason why I don't use the bike share program, even though I have a station right next to my apartment building. I could ride it to/from the train station or the grocery store, but I'm paranoid about not wearing a helmet, and hauling the bulky thing around all day is a massive inconvenience.
31, but 32 in a few months, yeah. I'm single and unaffiliated at the moment, but hoping to be married in the next couple of years. Feels like the time is right to start that stage of life.
Oh boy, I can't wait to read the n-gate summary of all the wannabe fluid-dynamicists arguing about displacement vs. Bernoulli lift...
I'm not that familiar with the North American legal system..
Is 'misleading advertising' something punished in the US?
Are there any types of companies or areas of interest that you are focusing on in this batch? And if so, would you please elaborate on it.
i know you've funded a handful of single founders but what is the current outlook on them?

also, how developed must a startup be to apply. should the product already be developed?
I considered making an app for this when my first daughter was born. Especially after she had a few words, it was hard to remember which were new or which she had spoken before.

Enter a word, and a date, which defaults to current date. App will let you know if it's a dupe, and produce plots like the article.

Of course, the idea never progressed beyond my to-do list.
How important is the video?
People do care, it's just that when it comes to Nintendo, it's apparently expected. Other native Zelda games on the previous consoles, ran poorly as well. Nintendo needs to be a triple A third party developer for other consoles, and give it up with their gimmicky hardware.
What do you think the most over-saturated space is right now? What are the biggest unaddressed opportunities that you have seen?
I also enjoyed the serial killer quest line in Novigrad.
I want to buy it and I plan to once the virtual console is available and it can run apps like Netflix.

Otherwise, the only incentive I have to getting one is Zelda, and I already have a Wii U to play that on.

And this was before the discovered flaws on launch: (Left joy con and scratching issue).
Managing – Not Just Maintaining – A Product Backlog
I got to interview the team about this decision, so here are more details if you're curious: http://www.inc.com/sonya-mann/zapier-remote-work-de-location...
What's an upcoming changes to YC you're excited for?
Nim Language Draws from Best of Python, Rust, Go, and Lisp …
Thank you for taking the time today. It's neat and rare to have a somewhat direct line to someone in your position.

What's the "big thing" 10 years from now? Ie Are smartphones still the rage and hottest "endpoint"? Did security wind up being the highest demand/pay IT career path? Etc
An AI algorithm to fight the new ‘hate codes’ of the alt-right
> 2.5 is average movie

That's the other problem: since the breakdowns of ratings are skewed, the average movie (the arithmetic mean) tends to have a rating of ~4 stars. Another reason to get rid of the system.
Oh, I thought the only exemption was for the usual adminstrative/white collar type work:

https://www.dol.gov/whd/overtime/final2016/SmallBusinessGuid...
> Is better TLS interception actually possible? Is it just that it's usually badly implemented, or is it a fundamental weakening?

In theory, yes, apart from the obvious "more attack surface" problem. They could check for HPKP, CRLset, CT. They could even do more. (CT checking is very basic in Chrome and nonexistent in other browsers.)

However in reality? No. In the real world Bluecoat manages to break TLS 1.3 deployment, although its designers tried everything to avoid that and they have been asked by Google to test that.
Ok, great. Then post facts instead of "My family overheard..." I shouldn't have to call out hear-say to get more substantial data.
One could argue that all advertising is misleading :)
Where do you see e-sports in 5-10 years and what role do platforms like Twitch play?
Pole here, can confirm "robotnik" is worker and "robota" is work.
Hell, at this point, I would be happy if they succeeded purely based on the future influence they may have on how cars are sold. Buying a new car at a dealership is a horrible experience, only made worse the more I know about it and the practices they use to hide the details of the transaction, and how little that helped me deal with them the last time I was in there.

That whole part of the system is a rent seeking protection racket.
Kolmogorov complexity is not computable in general, but it is decidable for a substantial subset of programs.
I wonder what a 60kW laser would do to a tank? Not very much I'd have thought.
Please tell us more! What city did you end up in?
Therefore, any movie you've watched more than once becomes pure gold for Netflix! Spread that across several million subscribers and get enough data to be useful.
(edited for tone) PG and Jessica are currently on sabbatical in the UK - after running YC for 10+ years they are taking a little break spend more time with their kids
Looking at https://www.grc.nasa.gov/www/k-12/airplane/wrong2.html it doesn't look like it's true that it's air being deflected that causes lift. There was a recent submission on HN explaining the theories of lift in sails: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13829625. AFAIU air is not dense enough to make this deflection account for the magnitude of lift forces actually observed.
I think you need to read your own article. Its conclusion states, "Utah experienced a less dramatic, but still impressive 71 percent decrease in chronic homelessness since 2005." Are the numbers slightly inflated? Sure. Is it better than anything the west coast is doing? Absolutely.
Good to hear it's gotten better!
With the continued concentration of many tech positions to a handful of tech hubs in the country, are you doing anything to improve the economic conditions of the Midwest US? Or are you primarily investing in the coastal areas alone?

edit: I find your lack of response to this question telling.
> Bernstein told the author not to mention their prior conversation in his complaint.

No, he wanted to the author to restate his complete complaint, rather than merely reference previous confidential statements.
> So why would I want to use a relatively unknown library still in alpha instead of Intel TBB, which also supports dataflow graphs?

Not you specifically because you probably don't run applications on super computers with millions or even just hundreds of processors, but for those interested in scaling above multi threaded programs with Intel Threading Building Blocks, it could be an interesting library.
it's interesting because the more someone uses netflix, the less money netflix makes.
Does YC have any evolving thesis as it comes to particular technologies, such as Blockchain or Quantum technologies? For example, are there attempts to achieve internal consensus on the use of Ethereum?

(Full disclosure: I applied with an Ethereum wallet one year ago and got an interview but was told that the path to market wasn't clear enough. The project was ultimately absorbed into a different incubator. )
i would recommend FMovies.se or 123movies.gs
I really love this idea! There are so many great places to live, if only you could find a good programming job there. I left Seattle for St. Louis to be close to family, and it was the best decision I ever made. Glad to see that Zapier is willing to try to innovate in this area! I hope it will spread.
it's not the Bernoulli effect, but it is a pressure difference (from the 3rd law, as you say)
What are key things international (UK) applicants should be aware of?
A Slack bot that learns your team’s questions and answers them
As an American somewhat versed in British TV and movies, I always assumed wanker to be more equal to "asshole" or "son of a bitch", something you call your friends when they've done something bone-headed or mean-spirited. Definitely below "cock-sucker" in severity and far, far below "motherfucker".
If you're 65 and have no savings or income you really lived your life wrong.

I mean, even if you bought a house at 35 and just made minimum payments, at least that would be paid off. And I'm sure taxes could be paid by renting out one room..
JS “fatigue” is coming back to bite us
Ask HN: Truly good file recovery tool for windows?
I have in the family another trouble with deleted files.

I try with Ontrack, DataResque, Recuva, WonderShare to recover the files, with not luck.

So, I wonder what are the options here? Exist a truly good software or is more a process?

P.D: The drive was in use for some time before to note the data loss. Not sure how many.
"There's no room to grow."

"Productivity, respect and growth are. Are we having any all
across post-development countries?"

Have any of you ever taken a basic Econ course?

'No room for growth'?

THE ECONOMY HAS BEEN GROWING EVERY YEAR.

Do you realize that 'feature phones' to 'cell phones' is economic growth?

Do you realize that '2G to 4G' is economic growth?

Do you realize that more people going to college than ever before is good?

There are new medicine trials every day - gene therapy. Jesus H Christ you can now chose the gender and eye colour of your offspring. That's how advanced we are.

100 years ago - there was no 'medicine'. 95% of all operations were basically amputations with crossed fingers of no infection.

Do you realize that the amount of air travel in the world has doubled in the last little while?

That you have access to 100000x more information that people just 20 years ago, before the internet?

You do realize that the iPhone/Android/Facebook are only 10 years old?

That 20 years ago there was no YCombinator?

I'm just going to assume that most of you are too young to have any perspective, because I just can't understand the commentary here.

When you hit your 30's, you can look back and your own life can be a literal testament to the change.

Yes, some things stay the same, but at least in terms of material productivity, things are better.
Maybe Five Eyes members give each other a special treatment, maybe they share enough information that additional spying isn't worth it. With Germany there is at least one example that I am aware of where the US spied on a close ally and as far as I can tell did so without permission.

But that is actually somewhat besides the point. I don't know whether the UK spies on the US in ways unknown to the US, I am not even sure whether or not it is likely that the UK wiretapped Trump even give the GCHQ statement. My point was merely that it would not be too surprising or outrageous if they did.
> My salary is 2.7x higher

The original salary must have been low, no hate.

Different strokes for different folks. If you're working at a company that already pays well and you're not in the Bay Area, then your options for switching are either exciting but very risky startups (< $1 billion) or small satellite offices of big corps that have limited team options and little political influence (bad for advancement in senior positions). These would typically be lateral movements at best.
Who was talking about Alien 3?
Its worth pointing out that this doesn't help you much. I have 3-4 email addresses, from @gmail to @myuniversity to @mywebsite. I send and receive all of my mail from a Inbox though.
A parking space in ofek's city though. Feel free to call your project bit too.
I initially guessed it was a tax law that got them. Never occurred to me that it might be something that the company did - typically they have lawyers who comb extra well for that kind of detail, even in a $1200/month lease. Lord knows what they do for multi-million contracts...
Hey Michael, thanks for doing this. Can you comment on the responsibility of companies like Y Combinator (or more generally, Google, Apple, etc) to be involved in causes for social change? How does a company like yours draw the line on profitability vs activism, and how do you choose which causes to stand behind?
I agree that with the current library of games on the Switch it functions more as a single-use device which does make it vastly more wasteful. But the expectation is that new software will be developed for it going forward.

Plus the more modular nature of the components/accessories means that it is possible (though unlikely) that upgrades for different components may be made on a module-by-module basis. Which translates to less waste overall.

In terms of computers/consoles made 10+ years ago I think the same comparisons still apply. There are plenty of old consoles still in use today. Though old consoles were certainly less modular than old PCs.
LinkedIn open sources Flashback, a tool for mocking internet traffic
Why are there no serious competitors to Google Apps? It isn't that difficult to create a software platform that one can select be cloud-hosted for you, or can be self-deployed. This should include DNS management, like Google Apps includes. Please create this and take my money!
While we prefer that a team have co-founders we regularly fund single founders. Also, we fund a wide range of companies from those who are just starting to those who are post-launch and have raised seed funding (and everything in between).
There are myths related to low pressure (such as the infamous "equal transit time" theory), but low pressure generating lift is not one of them.

The pressure explanations and the Newton's Third Law explanations are not different theories of lift. They are just different ways of looking at the same thing underlying thing.

The motion of a wing through a fluid has to conserve mass, energy, and momentum. If you analyze lift by focusing on conservation of momentum, you get the Newton's Third viewpoint. If you analyze by focusing on conservation of energy, you get a pressure viewpoint.

See: https://www.grc.nasa.gov/www/K-12/airplane/bernnew.html
Out of all the companies that YC has funded, which one do you consider to be the best? How about the second best?

By best I mean one which has had the most positive impact on people's life, where positive impact is some function of just two variables - the number of people affected and the intensity of that affect.

Also of these two variables which one do you weigh more and why?
The last video, the DR400 vs the Antonov, is an excellent demonstration.
They used to have more. As they've built up their own programming they've been losing a lot more of the other content, but like I said, I think they're doing it out of necessity.
Mostly total hours, but both. Per-player hours also follow a scale-free distribution within any given game. You are right that some games encourage more time spent than others (I don't know about whether they "attract" a certain type of player). I mean, to even do half the quests in Skyrim would take many hundreds of hours. Another example of a noncompetitive game with high per-player and high total hours is KSP. Also RimWorld and Factorio to a lesser extent.

I still think it is a meaningful observation if we see an increasing "centralization" in total hours in a few games. I'm not commenting on whether that's a good or bad thing. If we wanted to measure whether certain games attracted "obsessive" gamers, I guess we would want to look at hours/player/week or something, which I know nothing about.

> Hours are also not a good metric for estimating the health and trends of the industry.

That is quite true insofar as a player who spends an extra hour without paying extra is not contributing to the economics of the industry. If the gaming industry had their way, I'm sure they would prefer very low per-player-per-game hours, which would encourage more sales. You seem like an ideal customer from their perspective :)

But my primary focus is the trends in gamer behavior, not the industry per se, although they drive each other.
The hex is just the way that the editor chose to display it. I think it's just random-seeming binary data.
Hey Michael, Thanks for the AMA.
How do you approach an application when you have no domain knowledge of the field in which the startup is working in?
You should give it a shot beyond the first couple bosses (first hour of play?). They kind of make you fight the same boss 3 times back to back, which is kind of a big barrier to entry if you're not into that mechanic. There's a lot more exploration and barely any stand and spray besides much more spread out boss fights after that.
Isn't it almost always easier to mirror the outer surface of a missile than to deliver enough additional photons to burn through a mirrored surface?
What skills / traits are you looking for in nontechnical founders?