skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This question was on HN, 319 days ago[1] where I mentioned that I didn't think PG would answer the question because of his answer on Askolo[1] and because they consider applications to be confidential which, is very similar to the answer he has replied (above)[2].

I'm pretty sure my answer from 319 days ago[3] is still similar to a 'current' list as it's too early to tell from other batches etc how successful the 'rejected' startups are.

Anyway here are some of the startups that are known to have been rejected and have gone onto raise funding etc:

- SendGrid - http://www.sendgrid.com/ (went through TechStars and have raised a series B)

- CouchOne - http://www.couchbase.com/

- AfterTheDeadline - Acquired By Automattic

- Light Sail Energy - http://www.lightsailenergy.com/ - Raised money from Khosla Ventures

- SignPost - https://www.signpost.com/ - Raised $1M off Google Ventures

- MyFit - http://www.myfit.com/ - Raised $1M

- Storenvy - http://www.storenvy.com - although they were kicked out of YC[4] but have recently raised $5M[5]

- Mark Zuckerberg's Sister Was Also Rejected By YC[6] (although just because your brother is Mark Zuckerberg, it doesn't make you Mark Zuckerberg. I highlighted it because, it was covered by the Tech Press)

Hope it helps.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3936639

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5419609

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3936857

[4] http://joncrawford.com/post/20378314843/how-i-got-kicked-out...

[5] http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/12/storenvy-goes-from-getting-...

[6] http://www.businessinsider.com/y-combinator-arielle-zuckerbe...
"What he did was certainly wrong" - why, exactly? Telling a joke to your friend is certainly wrong?
I don't care that the founder is spamming social media to get this bumped up. I care about them taking an equity stake in your company.

I would give a warning to anybody who reads this thread in the future and is seriously considering giving these guys shares. In a word: don't.

Their team has no history of successful exits and no members with technical talent that can be taken seriously; they are not going to help you build a company. Their "connections" are limited to the B-list of Silicon Valley. It's not clear that their founder can even write code.

Contrast this with the team at Y-Combinator.

Quality of accelerators are a power law that skews so far in the direction of YC that even attending the incubator in second place is a signal that you didn't get YC; Peter Thiel mentioned this in one of his lectures. It's not to say that you won't be successful if you don't do YC, it's to say that it's difficult to the value added by their "Accelerator" is greater than what you give up in exchange.

Once again, make your own decision by talking to them. They may change in the future, but you may also find them equally unimpressive.
the old one, for anyone who never saw it, was made to look like a reel-to-reel magnetic tape player.
First of all, I want to say that in absolutely no way are the rape/death threats in any way acceptable or excusable. There are lots of ways to criticize someone without threatening physical violence. Shame on anyone who chooses that route.

That said, I don't think that Adria is making off worse here because she's a woman, or because of inherent sexism in the community - she's making off worse because she was the aggressor, and because she decided to pick a fight and decided to go all-in on it. She's a bully, and if there's anything that the nerdosphere hates with a burning passion, it's a bully.

The guy she photographed privately apologized and then publicly published an apology defending Adria. He's done his make-good on this. Adria, on the other hand, has apparently determined she's going down with this ship, and is riding it all the way to the bottom. If she's not willing to compromise and is instead determined to be a martyr, it's difficult to dredge up sympathy that she's getting a harder bargain than the guy she decided to pick on.
With certain people, it's not just about crude jokes. I think Lyndsy Simon summed it up pretty well in his comment on Avdi Grimm's G+ post [1]. It's not possible to link to a comment, so I'll reproduce it here:

I was at a sprint on Monday, speaking to a female developer. She was discussing a project she'd worked on, and a coworker's method for solving a tricky problem. I said something along the lines of "So, which path did he take?". Her reply "She decided to..."

Oh, crap.

I honestly didn't mean to offend anyone, and I could tell she took issue with my presumption. Her tone was enough to call me out, and that was all that was said. About an hour later, I spoke with her away from everyone else and apologized. She said she didn't even notice, but I'm fairly sure she was sparing my feelings.

Now, think about that - my own inadvertent actions were approximately on par with the "jokes" that this is all about. That could be me be lambasted around the world.

I get that others feel excluded on a regular basis from things where I assume inclusion. I'm sorry, I do everything I can to make sure that's not the case when I'm involved - but the fact that someone who's "on their side" is concerned that their feet will be held to this fire is evidence that there is a lack of empathy from all sides of the debate, and that's a bad thing.﻿

[1]: https://plus.google.com/104757475552569715504/posts/N81SaYUT...
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Hehe. I'm in a similar position. My dream machine would be something like a Lenovo T431 with official support for OS X. Apple hardware is built to make you look like pro, Thinkpads are built for real pros.

I have a MacBook Air and a Thinkpad (running Linux) as my work setup.
they weren't on the stage
I don't think so. Many CEOs are irrational dunces and would react negatively if you admitted any flaws in the product or in yourself or anything of that nature. However, I don't think that as such makes it unprofessional. I think it's just common sense (which I'm aware is not so common).
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Diversity News Publications Sheds Light On Questionable Foundations
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Normally, you need to preserve arguments for appeal if they are related to evidence.
It's unclear which, if any, arguments have not been preserved.
However, at the same time in federal court, appeals courts generally have broad discretion to consider legal arguments not raised below, particularly if they are just about the law, not about some particular piece of evidence.

All this said, Kerr is only consulting/helping out AFAIK. He is not the arguing attorney (I hope). He's not really a litigator (he has about 3 years of experience in it, most of it from very early days of his career).

I am doubtful that his expertise would have really mattered at the trial stage.
You can either convince a judge of something, or you can't.
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I agree, you can't put South Park there, makes me think all the satirical points just went above your head. Have you actually seen an episode and get the point of the episode it makes (usually at the end by either Stanley or Kyle)

But then again I'd even go so far and put Abercrombie under racism. You seen their Singaporean ads?
Ask HN: Do Zuckerberg, Page, Musk, etc, etc post here in HN?
Has any of those successful founders posted here, using fake name or not? If not, why don't we invite them to sign up and start a thread?
It's quite radical old-school feminism, a style I myself consider no longer deem called for that often, but it is feminism and I therefore would consider it a women's right issue.
I'd like to see a controlled experiment verifying the existence of such a zone. I'm skeptical.
I was wondering aswell - around 2:00, there is a joke about dongle.

I guess the interesting bit the parent wanted to highlight is that a similar joke to the one that offended Adria, was showed on public television.
One in the same for her...
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Do you really think he is going to respond to a female in light of what happened? Especially to a female named ADRIAnne?

:) Just a little immature humor there. :)
That's exactly what I said idiot.
I was not prompted to update my password (and had long ago set up security questions), and was able to set up 2-factor immediately.
Bad analogy. A door is an access control mechanism. A Uniform Resource Locator is not.

A more apt analogy would claiming that having your phone number not published in the phone book constitutes a legally enforceable boundary against being contacted by phone.
I'm disappointed that you seemed to have skipped over half my post, where I tried to reason why I think Bitcoin might have some value besides a shared delusion.
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The only problem with this reasoning is it seems dangerously close to the "they were asking for it" argument. If you are raising concern for something, the entire history of your life does not automatically come into question; this is just an unfortunate side effect of the record-everything technological society we now live in. Corollary to the upcoming ubiquity of Google Goggles, what if the recordings of one's personal home life was scrutinized because they were harassed at work?

And quite often, we find that something that wasn't offensive yesterday can very well be offensive today.
Apologies to all teenagers, I know you're tired of being used to epitomize offenders all the time. I told you you'd regret that whole lawn incident.

Because the two offenses aren't separate in the other direction.

Teenager [commits offense], vigilante witness shoots offender in the head.

Where [offense] is

A. shoplifts stereo, vs

B. shooting store employees and preparing to shoot innocent bystanders.

If (A) the vigilante is a murderer, if (B) he's a hero.

So the ethics of the teenager's action (A or B) can be evaluated on its own, but the REaction of the vigilante can only be judged in the context of the teenager's action. The two actions are not mutually independent. One action is independent, but the other is dependent.
You can't seriously suggest that she deserved the misogynistic abuse heaped on after the fact, can you?
How I made my first app in 3 weeks for $250 with no coding skills
Thanks for clearing some of this up.
arbitrary and irrelevant. even if she made the joke in the privacy of her own home, and not on Twitter, it would still be a laughable contradiction.

penis jokes on twitter = OK

penis jokes behind me in public = BAD
Right because of all the tech companies in the world, Microsoft is the one with the history of unique innovation that is forgotten and ignored.

I'm not saying Apple is either but come on, dude.
"The big question is if our government is supposed to be 'of, by, and for the people', then how did it manage to become this separate entity--with a life and agenda of its own--that has now turned against 'the people'?

"The people" can turn it around anytime they want. When enough voters shout "frog", Congress jumps. But getting that many people to shout at the holes we have seen shot in our Constitution is not so easy.

You asked why? Okay, first reason is that there are problems, and conceptually the easiest solution is for Congress to pass a law and the executive branch to set up a program. So, DC gets bigger, richer, and more powerful.

Second reason is that our gumment is heavily for sale at prices that are not high enough. So, lots of 'special interests' quietly get what they want, and gumment gets bigger.

So, gumment gets big and powerful, and then lots of people want to be part of this power and work to keep gumment big and powerful.

Third, out in voter land, there is not much in good information and a lot of confusion. Mostly people are fed, by the media joined at the hip with the politicians and other special interests, a lot of emotional nonsense that keeps up the divisions and, thus, forestalls a clear consensus on curing the problems.

My favorite example in the last election cycle was abortion. Take whatever view on abortion you want, there remains a rock solid fact: Roe v Wade was 40 years ago, and the chances of changing it are from zip and zilch down to zero. So, talking about abortion is essentially just a waste of time. Still there was a lot of such talking. Lots of people got concerned. Lots of women got scared. And the holes we were shooting in our Constitution were ignored. And the media was filled with stories about Brit and Lohan.

I hate that media nonsense. So, I stay informed as best I can from a few Internet sources and nearly totally ignore the MSM. E.g., I haven't touched a print news publication in likely over 10 years. I have TV only because for one year it's a little cheaper to have it, but I have no TV set connected to the settop box and don't watch TV. I'm doing a startup, and in part I hope it does something about this mess and results in better informed voters and better gumment.
Using NLTK+NetworkX to visualise #pydata #pycon conference tweets
And that matters how? They were in the middle of the audience, where the people around them couldn't help but to hear them, and they were violating the code of conduct at the event.
It's interesting reading this story, if I were in the author's place, I would have felt embarrassed to admit this point. Like our company isn't technically adept enough to implement a recommender.
Wow that's out of touch with reality in a major way. It's not like her twitter feed was private. She's a public "evangelist." I suppose you think the inane tweets from republicans like Michelle Bachman or Sarah Palin are irrelevant to them or their party's message as well. Her twitter account was used as part of her job. As well, you're idea that the only people that see her tweet are those that have explicitly chosen to do so .... REALLLY?? Most of us are not her subscribers and we have seen it ... huh? I'm flummoxed.
Anyone have any others to add to the list?
The founder of AngelHack can't code. Technical founders should avoid AngelHack on this basis alone.
Consistent UI on iOS isn't about all apps looking identical, they don't and never have.

It's about functionality being consistent, and for the most part it is. Certainly more so than Android. Whether that's something you care about or not is up to you.
The problem is, you'll end up porting those language's Garbage Collectors as well. I don't think it's that practical to compile GC'ed languages to asm.js until GC support is added. The GCs that are in Firefox and Chrome are very efficient low pause collectors, and IMHO, you really don't want to reimplement collector in JS, especially since you can't take advantage of OS/MMU features, and can't do multithreaded collection, etc.

Also, if you consider something like the Java Virtual Machine, it's practical to make it work on NaCL, but JS doesn't support blocking/synchronous calls, and how earth would you make all of those synchronous APIs, and multithreaded APIs work in that context?

asm.js is not isomorphic to NaCL in terms of feature set, but asm.js + something like OpenCL could probably work well for games.
I'm black and I have no idea what you, or her, are talking about. I don't see how you can say the tweet is misrepresented when you have the weirdest explaination of it.
The point I find interesting is that FundHer.com (the mother's company/cause) is the website on the campaign and not one specifically for Mackenzie's project.

I looked at the website and the about page has the following, "Pioneering entrepreneur scholarships, FundHer is raising $1 million via crowdfunding."

> http://www.fundher.com/#!about/aboutPage
"Black people CANNOT be racist against White people." Sounds a lot like a free pass to me. If she is using the sociological definition to racism she is taking a narrow-minded approach to a very broad issue to suit her ideals. Claiming this statement as a truth based on one of the many different definitions of racism is naive.
Yes.
In fact, her personal twitter stream is worse, IMHO.
Her personal twitter stream has a larger audience than the audience of your "professional event".

It's nice that all of the sudden "pycon" is a "professional event" as if people are all walking around in suits and ties and monocoles.

Plenty of people go to conferences with friends as social events.
Pycon is definitely like that for a lot of folks.
That's why it's billed as an "annual gathering for the community".

Talking privately in hushed tones at a conference you treat as a social event is, IMHO, much better than blaring it out publicly to 11,210 followers.
Why would you need to subject a stranger to your sex jokes or your proclamations about the existence/non-existence of God?

Seriously, you should get to know somebody a little bit before you discuss that stuff. Or simply wait for some kind of indication they actually want to talk about it with you.

Sure, it's true that literally anything you might offend somebody and that you can never totally avoid that. I'm sure there's a person somewhere in the world who has a panic attack every time they see somebody wearing a green sweater. Should we have to somehow anticipate this and avoid wearing green sweaters? No.

Sexual jokes from strange men aren't like that, though. That's not some fringe thing; that's something that actually makes a significant amount of women uncomfortable.

You can respect their wishes or not respect their wishes. Personally, I'm immature enough to enjoy penis jokes, but mature enough to respect that not every woman wants to hear one from men she doesn't know.
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...And so continues the chain of overreactions...

The emotional development of all involved, including these shallow protests, have the funk of adolescence and immaturity. I keep waiting for the principal to walk down the hall and break up the tantrum and shouting match.

Erik, grow up. Adira, grow up. Guys in the back, grow up.

Let me continue the High School metaphor for a moment:

Guys in the back, you are two man-boys who never matured or learned any etiquette,
and your dick joke was (unfortunately) overheard by the wrong person.

Adira, you are the nosy busy-body that would rat out anyone who you perceive to
break the rules.

Erik your symbolic protest reminds me of the permanently "friend-zoned" guy who
tries to show that not all men are pigs.

That is the level of drama here. Its playing out like a lost episode of Saved by the Bell. I keep waiting for Screech to bring some levity to the situation. Because that is not going to happen, I will leave you with this:

Q. How many feminists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
A. One. AND THAT IS NOT FUNNY!

Edit: better word choice
I'm with you there, was sorta dronish.
Actually it does they just can't say it ;-)

Don't like someone's race -- nod-nod-wink-wink => "restructuring"

Don't like their sexual orientation -- nod-nod-wink-wink =>
"tough economic times"

Don't like the color of their shoes -- nod-nod-wink-wink => "pivoting"

And so on. It can just never be in writing or said explicitly. As long as there is a non-verbal or codified protocol between the owners (managers).

To prove anything is an uphill battle -- have to really establish a pattern, as in "20 people were laid off, last year, 25 were hired, all those laid off were of this race". Stuff like that.
> When she says "black people can't be racist towards white people" she is saying "the oppressed cannot, themselves, oppress their oppressors". That's why they're called "the oppressed".

Then why didn't she just say it like that?

Because that re-definition is always used to attempt to silence or de-rail whoever points out that racism is not exclusive to the white race.

The word racism is already clearly defined. There is no need to enhance it, or re-target it. Use another word, or just state the concept/idea you have.

And on your logic -

Can women be sexist towards men? By your train-of-thought, since men have had that power traditionally, then absolutly the answer is - no. Which is absurd.
Why does use of an API matter one way or another?
Ceramic materials like glass have high bulk modulus and hardness. The forces at the tip of a crack are much higher in these high-hardness materials so despite being harder to bend they have poor toughness [1]. That is cracks propagate much more easily. The likelihood of your glass breaking when you drop it is almost entirely governed by the small scratches existing before you drop it - if they are bigger then there will be more stress concentrated and one or more will propagate catastrophically across the glass. New glass is substantially tougher than old glass.

In comparison, metals can absorb the energy in cracks through several mechanisms ranging from the movement and formation of defects in the atomic arrangement in the metal crystals to large scale plastic flow.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fracture_toughness
It's pretty standard Marxist race theory. It's sadly mainstream. You'll find it well-represented on HN.
Appeals courts can determine whether a law is constitutional. However, all courts strongly prefer not to if they can.
Interstate markets always existed, despite being less convenient and less popular. If you chose to buy from a local vendor, you were implicitly choosing not to buy from an interstate vendor, which means you were having the indirect effect on interstate commerce that Wickard v. Filburn relies on.
Mark might have. I'm pretty sure neither Elon Musk nor Larry Page has.
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No, Twitter isn't private, but neither is it forcing anyone to read it. Those two guys forced the people around them to listen to a lewd joke, whether or not they intended to.

There's also a matter of context. A personal twitter stream is a very different context than a professional event. If I'm friends with my coworkers, I may hang out with them after work, and a dirty joke then is perfectly acceptable. But with the exact same people, at the workplace, a dirty joke is inappropriate. Exact same people. The difference is context.
That's even worse logic. So if a political candidate posts on their personal public twitter, hateful messages against the US, no one should even worry about that because they are on a personal twitter?

Do you know what a developer evangelist is or even what is expected of someone taking a representative role at a company? I don't know what this has to do with sending two letters from gmail. Sounds like argument from irrationality or grotesquely inappropriate analogy.
Here's a better analogy: you work at a clothing store; you're standing at the door and shout "hey niggers, what you looking at? dirty motherf*ers. come get me" at some passers-by. They proceed to tear down the store with the help of an angry mob. Should the store not hold you accountable and only "blame the people actually engaged in criminal activity"?
Ask HN: Stealth media startup seeks early-stage advisor who has media experience
I'm a startup founder looking for a media or music business professional who can provide a visionary media
startup with early-stage assistance as concerns networking and marketing.

The startup is in stealth-mode (because I don't find current music business efforts very exciting), and I'm not sure how to - discreetly - find advisors who can help the startup in its early-stage efforts.

If you're a media or music professional without startup experience - I'd like to hear from you, too.
You can send an email to me at vossjens1@gmail.com - the startup's codename has a domain; however, I don't want to
advertise it shamelessly on HN.