skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The difference between the first round and future rounds can be significant. Sometimes there's no company, and since there's no company, a company isn't raising money. Often the prospective founders don't start working on their product until they raise, even making it contingent on raising money, which means up until Demo Day the founders haven't tried to build their product and raise money at the same time. Finally, most aren't raising based on market traction – at YC stage it's valid not to have any market traction (though having traction at that stage is also valid).
You can cash out with no problems
It's quite obvious it's happening, they take your ID, and put it in a fairly conspicuous machine.

I think it's fair to assume that anywhere that is recording video is running facial scanning, as they have the capability to. If it's not a legal requirement where you live for businesses (and government) to put signage where security cameras are in operation, that's a concern.
Ubisoft releases open-source code for World in Conflict servers
Another comment in this thread makes a very compelling point: perhaps there is some wisdom to using a language that can be initially dynamically typed, and moved over to static typing later on.

I don't know. I suspect being half-pregnant is a far bigger issue than the technical debt of dynamic typing, whether it stems from being slower to implement new features, spending time choosing the "correct" tech stacks, or spending more time/money hiring qualified engineers.

There's something to be said for the fact that many of the most successful startups in the world are saturated partly or fully with Python and PHP: getting features and new hires off the ground in as little time and money possible is worth its weight in gold.

I've always been very much of the opinion that the smartest way to go is making good use of FFI where it counts, and doing everything else in whatever gets code out the door most effectively. This TypeScript/Hack/MonkeyType trend just seems like a very welcome extension of that.
> Finally, perhaps he feels that by others putting money into what YC might consider a lost cause those others will eventually realize what YC realized?

It's hard for 3rd parties to discern this, when YC has given the very companies being criticized seed money. Pair that with the competitiveness between angels and VCs, plus FOMO; and it gets even harder.
I received this as a gift this year and love it! It’s a dev-ops flavor of the popular game cards against humanity.

The only downside is that you likely can’t play it with your mother.
Thanks for the question but I haven't tried it myself (yet).

With Clojure(Script) whole categories of complexities tend to disappear, so I'd expect that to be the case in this scenario too.
No vehicle in that video was shown turning left.
That just means they need to do some "hall of fame" actions in Wild to balance which could have backlash (ppl expect Standard to rotate/change, but Wild is Wild!) - any changes they do to cards in Wild may have impacts to Standard (i.e., if it's a Standard card that's reacting to Wild cards)

But this is Blizzard, and they released balance updates to Starcraft for years. Just takes focus.
Is that really all they are used for? I'd be shocked if they weren't also used to identify VIPs and big spenders to do things that would generate additional revenue. Or do things like track the gender and age ratios to let the bouncer's know how many people of which types to let in.
Past bubbles didn't involve an economic paradigm shift
It is just one of the many defenses they use.

For example, when a player makes an in-game screenshot [in WoW], this contains a watermark with the account number of that player. So if someone posts a screenshot how they cleverly exploited in the game, and remove their character name, Blizzard can still easily find out their PII because they have the info linked to the account number which is hidden in the screenshot. And its even hidden in partial screenshots.
I agree, Russia has invested the most capital toward this tactic, and it has paid off. It also has had more historical success with this “sowing discord” tactic than the US, which preferred to spend money on puppet revolutionaries and coups during the cold war.

I would rather that instead of the US government responding in kind with sockpuppets, it would do the much harder work of coming up with an enormous transparency initiative that would nullify the effectiveness of foreign and domestic attempts at sowing discord and propagating falsehoods.

The best Soviet propaganda successes used instances that were genuine weaknesses for the US, such as civil rights and suspicion over US intelligence agencies’ abuses.
Yes. Malcolm Gladwell loves to write about his own brilliantly uncovered anecdotes...

Peak loses a lot of that, and is co-authored by a psychologist who is behind a lot of more scientific work in the area of expertise (his work is also referenced in Outliers).

In general, I recommend people skip Outliers (really just skip Gladwell entirely) and read Peak instead.
Regardless of legality have fun explaining it to the Secret Service.
Motivational Health Messaging LLC Gets a Patent on Sending Uplifting Texts
Haha this is fun! I want more! I guess I could find set up an emulator...

but seriously, good fun. Keep it up.
I built a complete mobile app using jQuery mobile and it was a total disaster as well. I had so many ugly hacks in place just to achieve what any decent SPA framework does out of the box nowadays. To this day I have no idea what the actual purpose of jQuery mobile was, it sucked for single page apps and felt more like a quick way to make HTML pages responsive. Which can of course be achieved with a bit of CSS or one of the many responsive CSS frameworks.

Thankfully the app never made it to production, for various non-technical reasons.
Same with buffet
The downside to using a certain tech stack is technical debt, not a health risk. Technical debt seems like a wise acquisition in moderation, especially for a startup that wants pictures and buttons on screens ASAP, and even more especially when everyone is realizing that it can rather easily be undone when/where it matters with type checker addons and FFI.
Will this automatically center and apply perspective transforms to pictures taken with phone cameras?
If the camera is doing the same thing as a human then use humans. Call it a jobs program. If the camera does something else then your argument is invalid. Since they are using the cameras and not more people when I think it is clear we are not talking about the same thing.
Such drama for something people are doing for years
>The real problem is that players are getting tricked into installing a "free" game but later sucked into gambling once they're invested and addicted.

The real problem is that hardly anyone wants to pay for anything upfront.

Developers much prefer to make traditional games with no tricks in them to hook free customers. But take those systems out and charge $1 upfront on the App Store and watch your number of installs fall by orders of magnitude.

The market spoke, and freemium games is what they got.
For the longest time they have encouraged people to use Geforce cards for doing machine learning. Now they are changing the licensing and making it not okay for data centers is not gonna sit well with people. Especially with the carveout for Bitcoin miners. The number of customers who are impacted like the article points out will be mainly universities. This is bad move overall and isn't gonna gain them any good will with the community. Like seriously how many companies are out there are putting out Geforce cards into data centers? The big data centers from cloud computing platforms all use Tesla cards.
In good news, this may finally force a court case around EULA's, which basically everyone have known for a decade as bullshit.

Having to agree to draconian terms to use something you own is ridiculous. If EULA's become enforceable there's nothing preventing a toaster maker from banning you from toasting bagels in your machine and countless other absurd usurious machinations. EULA 'shrinkwrap' license agreements are a scourge on the free market and should be banned unilaterally
And you don't have a problem with everyone at an airport being photographed for an undisclosed purpose?

Also, the photo is being analyzed. As in, the photo doesn't just exist, your identity is tied to it. It's not just the same thing as taking a photo.
Except clients don't need a third party to store their Bitcoin, unlike gold. Additionally, the blockchain is a public ledger -- anyone can audit it.
> the approximately 1,000 people who hold an estimated 40 percent of all bitcoin, or an average of around $350 million each.

I've seen this statement over and over again for the last few months in various news outlets and blogs, but I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around this statement.

I understand these 1000 people are what are popularly known as the "Bitcoin Whales" but how did most of them come in possession of a vast majority of bitcoins?

Traditional FIAT currency, like USD for example first comes into circulation when the US Government prints it, and then slowly makes it was into the hands of individuals via contract payments, salary payments etc etc.

With Bitcoin, who was/is that central entity that distributed the original coins? And in exchange for what? How much does this anonymous 'Satoshi' individual own? Did he only write the specs and the blockchain stuff for bitcoins, or did he also create said bitcoins and then grant himself a bulk of the coins like how Charles Lee did with Litecoins?

I couldn't find an explanation for this -- i.e. how did the BitCoin Whales come to posses 40% of the Bitcoins between themselves - anywhere, no matter how much I google it. Anyone?
Yes, this forum. This forum makes it marginally easier for their companies to get recognition and hire employees. Additionally, if you look at the really successful companies that have come out of the program, they were all funded by YC when they took on far less companies.
http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/281/1778/2013...

Some evidence seems to indicate you did the right thing. Anecdote: I do the same thing now (embrace the fever); I let my body overheat; I’m convinced it shortens the total suffering
Red herring. It doesnt cost arms and legs to maintain what we have, and last I checked, infrastructure is a small fraction of our federal/state budget.

We get crappy subway and infrastructure b/c of the efficient public sector workers and unions.
The market is more free and open with Bitcoin than our own stock markets. Bitfinex and Coinbase are just two of hundreds of exchanges. There's even localbitcoins, which allows you to trade directly with the other party. The ecosystem has come a very long ways and is the freest market in the world.
Interesting. Obama could be a good bet if he would take the job.

(Perhaps the departure was predicated on Obama agreeing in advance)
Martin Kleppmann's "Designing Data-Intensive Applications" is one of the best books in computing I've read in a very long time (and thus the best book of 2017).
At least in this case you and I can have access to the same APIs that GSCO gets access too unlike the stock market.
In http://alternativlos.org/41/ they say that GS got big on front running and how all the old tricks work on this new, unregulated market.
"Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds", published 1841.
By this logic, YC is investing even before the point that others shouldn't be investing, which would make even less sense.
I'd consider those languages optionally typed, rather than gradually typed, as they don't insert run-time type checks. Regardless, I still think it's all interesting and valuable work.
You are not alone.

* http://jdebp.eu./FGA/4xxx-hacker.html
What if you write your own block chain where the POW is "do a deep learning task"?
I was a big fan of World in Conflict back when it came out. Great take on the RTS genre! Between this and Freedom Fighters we had a fun look at ‘what if’ the Cold War heated up.

I’ve never played The Division as I’ve not much interest in (or time for) MMO style games. I presume this trend of connected gaming and associated increased monetisation is going to continue as development costs increase at the expense of the single player experiences of yore.
I don't know about checks (we don't really use them here in Germany) but I see many 100k bank transfers and that's an absolutely routine thing to do, even across national borders (but you might need to file some anti-money-laundering and statistical documentation).

I would be really surprised if you couldn't transfer 100k (or 1M or 100M) anywhere. Sure, the recipient might need to pay taxes on that.
I ended up reinventing most of jQuery: https://umbrellajs.com/

But it was fun and I learned a lot, so there is that.
If you want a case study of how the Republican party has sunk to extreme dunk-on-ability, read the Twitter feeds of David Frum, Bill Kristol, and Rick Wilson: three stalwart Republicans.
A few things - the citation is quite irrelevant when the information is true, so it's not a point worth raising. In a way - and if the Post is the only place that reported on this, then your adding credence to my argument that the media is biased. Thanks.

>Then, you take fault with the author expressing their opinion that the festival had "an overwhelming show of force.

No, I take issue with the authors insinuation that it wasn't warranted, hence:

"overwhelming show of force in response to a comparatively small number of bad actors."

>Is that all the author complained about in this respect?

Have you actually read the article? It's probably one silliest pieces of journalism I've ever read. Just read something of quotes:

>“The gentrifiers are not wanting to share—they’re wanting to take over.” One of the tools they can use to take over public spaces, he argues, is law enforcement.

Yes, law enforcement is a tool of the "gentrifiers" to move poor people out. This is ridiculous.

It's not the crimes that are the problem (homicides, assaults, drug dealing, public intoxication), but rather the "criminalization" of the criminals.

I guess the solution is just stop calling the cops?

>If this is the awful, biased "liberal" media you're worried about, you should probably stick to the Post. That way all of your existing biases can be reinforced.

Okay.
But YC is already making the claim that every company in the program is ready for investment. It's doing so by investing in them.
I write them in restructuredText, then I run them through pandoc and can take several routes from there to PDF.

My standard resume gets me calls, but if I feel the need to personalize it, I will probably do it with Sphinx.
Eric Schmidt is stepping down from Alphabet
This VR app is like Google Earth VR with 360 videos
Though ie11 doesn't have Array.from()
Some are miners. The others are early investors. All bitcoins were mined at some point, so they bought them from miners who cached out, or other investors who bought them from miners, etc. I don't think a significant number of them sold goods in exchange for their bitcoins.
The first folks who were mining bitcoin back in the day when mining for coins was not resource intense at all.
Young people generally don't resist change because change benefits them. People who have invested 5 years into an obsolete skillset are most resistant to change.
That is fascinating. I’m the author of a static analysis tool for PHP that can generate types, but clearly not at the same level as runtime analysis. I’ll use it on my company’s codebase and report back.
Most of us Bitcoiners are skeptical of modern monetary policy and want a risk-free store of value for our wealth. Today Bitcoin is very risky, however, we believe its fundamental properties will ultimately lead to a stable place to put our savings. Sure, it won't gain interest or dividends but it also won't be subject to inflation or central banker manipulation.

The above is purely my opinion and is frequently the subject of disagreement. It is, however, why I got into bitcoin.
Isn't that basically what Google Groups is?
I am interested in trying some version of this! Have been thinking about all the edge cases.
This was already pissing me off for real life TCG..

I stopped playing them because of that.

The synergy between cards is interesting but I don't have the patience or want to invest the money into getting card x or y.
Not to mention that I don't want 'whether you can spend 500$ on cards' to be a deciding factor in a match..

I find this even more ridiculous in a video game (and even predatory).
The current state in Go is the state of the board, the current state of poker includes some historical data. This difference is only significant to humans because we have quite poor memories.

An AI has perfect recall, and the fact that a variable is temporal really doesn't make a difference to the theory.

(Coincidental aside, this is an issue in Go as well due to the ko rule; but it isn't a major part of the game such as in poker.)
All bitcoins are created from mining rewards. As the number of coins has increased (and more people started mining), the difficulty goes up and less coins are produced.

These 'whale' entities either ran mining operations early enough, or (more likely) took a huge bet on the direction this was going and decided to accumulate - like the Winklevoss twins did - by buying as many as they could from miners.
Avatar comes to mind, as do all of those depressing post-Vietnam movies.
Could have been, injectables are frequently sold as reconstitutable powders where refrigeration isn't reliable. It's easy enough to just measure an oral dose from that in pinch
Can someone please explain the psychology behind liking this kinda stuff? I've probably watched that Austrian Kowloon documentary a handful of times.
I have trouble biting my tongue about the games mentioned so I will just say: Ethically, those games are, arguably, predatory shit. They use psychology to vampire money out of you via your dopamine receptors and they bring shame to all gaming by even being termed “games.” (And don’t get me started on the casino industry rebranding gambling as “gaming.”)

As soon as any game I ever come into contact with starts to “well, you can wait an hour OR have it get finished right now with 1 doohickey!”, immediate delete.

What is frustrating is that this toxic mechanic has been applied to franchises I have previously loved such as Simpsons and Star Trek.
After thinking over this, I realized I was in the wrong and I agree with you 100%. This was completely a knee jerk reaction to a coincidence I found, and I apologize for accusing stervy for copying my post on the basis of a mere pattern. I guess I still have more to learn.

I wish I could take back my baseless accusation, but the internet is forever :-/
I am also thinking about building a cryptocurrency trading desk inside my company, any thoughts about how to recruit in this field? I am mainly finding it difficult to get the right personality traits since there are a lot of shady and non-professional people.
Do you know what's going to happen to the rest of World in Conflict's code ? Shelved forever on a couple hard drives, then forgotten and lost ? Or is there any hope of seeing more of it ?
I've got great memories of playing multiplayer with friends, and it would be really cool to dive into it again, but with more knowledge of the source and gameplay. I'd love to be able to mod it :)
In the beginning, you could mine tons of Bitcoins on your laptop. They were also close to worthless, so you could buy very many for very cheap.

Satoshi did not pre-mine, I believe. So, if you read his announcement, and started mining right away, you'd be as rich as him.
Since i got offline questions:

NBB is "national best bid" and NBA is "national best ask"
The mining difficulty was much lower at the beginning. Satoshi, the creator, has about 1 million bitcoins from this early mining. [0]

[0] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satoshi_Nakamoto
Neither does this one.
So, it's just of matter of reverse engineering the driver?
YC participation is a stamp of approval. Unless YC intends to take on responsibility for follow on funding in some kind of exclusivity - which on the record from a partner at YC is definitely not in the plan [1] - then Sam will just have to live with that. After all, companies are - for now - still free to try to raise funding from outsiders once YC has made their bet.

On another note, it's those investors money to waste, if they want to burn it on companies that don't make it then in the long term this will self-correct because there will be less money available from such investors.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15928335
That's exactly what was claimed about the Internet bubble, over and over and over again in every bubble touting story about how it was "the new economy" and "different this time."

Besides the Internet did in fact involve a once in a generation economic paradigm shift. Just ask China, $6+ trillion in annual online payment processing / exchange flow. Their entire economic output was $800 billion circa 1998. Entire vast industries have been and are being reshaped by the Internet. Crypto-currencies can never reach the paradigm shift scale of the Internet, they're sub to it.

There are in fact lots of other examples. The automobile didn't generate an economic paradigm shift? It sure did, massively; amounting to reshaping the entire way people live, travel, and how and where things are built, how commerce is transported & transacted, how food is distributed, and so on. Was there a huge automobile bubble? There sure was.

Paradigm shifts do not banish economic fundamentals / realities, they're ultimately beholden to them, which is what inevitably destroys the bubbles.
I once found a page that was falsely representing the FBI and they refused to take it down...
The TARP money was just a small fraction of the actual bailout. The Federal Reserve also drove the interest rate on your savings account below the rate of inflation (robbing you of your wealth). Artificially suppressing interest rates also propped up asset prices -- assets such as houses which all the banks own. TARP was the tip of the iceberg.
World In Conflict was a near perfect game!
Multiplayer made for fast casual games, that you could leave anytime and another player would replace you. So it didn't interfere with real life.
Always wish a sequel had come out.
Let's assume vendor A decides to donate their server code to public domain, or better yet a fully functional VM/container/... that can be booted up to host their old title(s). The question that comes to my mind is that who is now going to maintain the code (and OS) on the server so that it is current with the latest security updates (thinking of 3rd party or home grown components providing http, tls/ssl, image/audio/video/xml/... decocoding/encoding,...)?

I am all for making and keeping old games available and playable. But I see this as a big differentiator in making pre-internet era games available vs. games requiring access to an on-line server [that some one should probably be continuously maintaining from security standpoint].
Ibuprofen has been shown to inhibit antibody production, and I believe similar research showed something similar for paracetamol. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2693360/

That said, the discomfort of a 10+ day flu vs slightly reduced immune response, I'd take the medicine any day.
Russian propaganda offices have been documented to be doing this for years as well. We know they've "weaponized" Facebook per the recent US presidential election.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/magazine/the-agency.html

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/05/europe-vladimi...

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/10/rus...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/paulroderickgregory/2014/05/11/i...