skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I too used webmon until recently, but got tired of monitoring the monitoring tool on my desktop. Now I use ChangeDetect - http://www.changedetect.com/ Despite what is said on the homepage, it is NOT free. Good luck...
| If you're failing, you're doing something right.
Wrong. This only goes on to emphasize the stigma associated with failures. This sentence is a cover up for the fact that someone did something wrong, or at the very least, things did not go as planned. Failures are bad and heartbreaking, and we should accept it in its entirety.

| Don't fret the failures.
Right. Instead of focusing on getting stressed and fretting, the right thing to do is fix whatever it was that resulted in failure. And when you redo it and its a success, that means you did something right.
http://bleepmic.com
A social voice network. Gives people the ability to literally talk to each other in a townhall-like manner. Didn't get the interview but will have app out in 2 weeks. Looking forward to everyone's feedback!
If you wrap the class in createFactory() then you break instanceof; how is this fine?
See my link on sebmarkbage's reply. It's not just for Jest.
Manuel Noriega can’t sue ‘Call of Duty’ gamemaker, Los Angeles judge rules
Apparently there is going to be a press conference [1] starting at around 9:00pm EDT. Not too many details yet, hopefully we'll hear more soon.

[1] http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html
or too many people even when each uses a reasonable amount of water
I live in a small liberalish college town and I've never seen this type of behavior before (here). It must be incredibly difficult to deal with that on a daily basis and attempt to feel safe at all.
Rejected.
Will launch soon.
"In this cycle we saw a +40% increase in the number of companies applying" — roughly how many applications were there? 1000? 10,000?

Also, how many teams make it to the interview stage?
Ask HN: Does anyone have a Soylent subscription?
I've got to get my tonsils taken out soon, and won't be able to eat solid food...

If you feel like selling some, I'll buy however much you feel like parting with!
On more than a few occasions, he has appeared abrasive when he was trying to be funny and make fun of someone.

If you can laugh at yourself, it is less abrasive than it seems. If you can't it's infuriating.
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We're not. It slows us down considerably, but we're still pursuing it.
This is a huge problem for the overall strength of the open web and Mozilla unfortunately is no less guilty of this. Many of the tools developed for FxOS are targeted for Gecko and wont run on other rendering engines. More and more it seems the only people actually building libs for the open web are independent developers and small shops. :(
Have you heard of mytag? Many start-ups are one form of craigslist or another with some flaws fixed. How is hubify different?
Perhaps unrelated but if you enjoy older books, you might like this blog:

http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/

It has beautiful and esotiric prints and images from old books. Look in the archives. That blog has been actively updated for many years. There is some really cool stuff in the history.

I keep it in my bookmarks and just look at it every month or so. Some things are bizare and strange, some are mundane like "patterns of wallpaper for your 1800's mansion" and so on.
If you look at the biomechanics, it does seem like a keyboard + mouse + >=20" screen is the optimal setup for doing actual work. A keyboard is simply the most efficient way to get information into a computer (the exception is that some graphics editors work might work better with a multitouch screen, it will be interesting to see if someone builds a touch-first photoshop killer). That said, there might be a convergence where mobile devices learn to run desktop software, and can be docked to a mouse/keyboard/monitor. But we are still a long ways from that point, and there is no great incentive to build office suites for mobile devices that are efficient for power/work users.

Mobile is great for 1) consuming content 2) interacting with your extended environment when you are not grounded to a computer (summoning an Uber, paying with an app, etc.) The money in content consumption will go to either the content creators or the digital sharecroppers (Facebook).

So the question is, are there large untapped areas where a phone could be used to interact with ones environment? What kind of day-to-day things could be enhanced with internet connected software?
Streamlined URL shortener UI
code here: https://github.com/hvm2hvm/urldable
blog post: http://blog.voicuhodrea.com/?p=64
Definitely worth a chat. Email me, ydschwartz at gmail
Does this include late apps? Curious about the decisions on apps that came in hours or days after the 8p deadline.
Easyballot 1.0 (check how worthy is your senator/rep)
code here: https://github.com/hvm2hvm/urldable
blog post: http://blog.voicuhodrea.com/?p=64
This is a misconception.

You are flat put wrong, and spreading misinformation about it doesnt help anyone.

If you use any rust, and that includes dependencies and the standard library with unsafe code, bugs in the unsafe code can and do cause segmentation faults.

Its easy to say, 'well, thats a bug in the library, not a problem with rust', but thats the same as with C++ isnt it? If you can assert any code is 100% bug free then why do we care about the nice safety features in rust?

What is true is that any 'safe' code path that never enters an unsafe block in rust proveably cannot result in certain types of failures.

BUT every rust program uses unsafe code. In the standard library. In c bindings. In 'safe' pure rust dependencies (with hidden unsafe blocks). In loading dynamic libraries.

Its completely unavoidable.

What are going to do? Vet every line of every part of every dependency in the code you use? Dont be ridiculous.

Do you use rust?

..because practically speaking it does crash. Not often, sure. ...but this falacy that rust is 'provably safe' is absolutely false. Its provably false.

Thats why people saying it is unfortunate; it makes the rust community look like a bunch of clueless fanboys.

Please stick to reality. Rust has a zero cost memory management strategy and a smart compiler that helps to prevent certain types of common errors.

We dont need to step into magical fairy land to convince people rust is good. It stands on its own merit easily enough.
The start-ups that are of the most interest
are necessarily exceptional and significantly
different from start-ups in the past,
successful or not. Thus, evaluating start-ups when
looking for the ones of most interest
is challenging, and evaluations
via simple, empirical patterns from the past
promise to select a lot of straw and miss
some golden needles.

Really the challenge here is common, nearly
standard, and a very old story that goes back
to nothing less than the Mother Goose
children's story "The Little Red Hen":
What the hen was doing was unusual and, therefore,
not in the experience of others. Thus,
no one would help her. But when she had
hot, fragrant loaves of bread freshly out of
her oven and eager, hungry, paying customers
lined up to buy, lots of people were ready to
help. But in the interim she had to work alone
with just her own evaluation, creativity, and determination. No doubt that story is in
Mother Goose because the situation
was both common and ancient.

What is needed are better means of evaluating
projects. For a special, relatively small,
collection of projects, there are such means,
highly polished, e.g., for grant applications
to NSF, NIH, and DARPA, similarly for
Ph.D. dissertation proposals, and also
for a huge range of US DoD projects, e.g.,
the SR-71, the F-117, GPS. Generally
these projects and their evaluations have
much better batting average than Silicon
Valley equity funded information technology
start-up projects.

Maybe what Silicon Valley is doing is making money,
and the YC $30+ billion is astoundingly impressive, but
one major success can be worth $300 billion, 10
times as much, so that we have to suspect that
better evaluations could lead to better returns.
Absolutely. If you don't like AT&T, don't buy their services. If you don't like Verizon, don't buy theirs. I have a smart phone on no contract and pay $10/month for service. I only get data via WI-FI but it's unlimited and that's good enough for me. There are alternatives. Everything is a tradeoff. AT&T either provides enough value that it's worth the cost or it doesn't. This is a decision that each customer makes.
I'm reminded a bit of http://www.bvp.com/portfolio/antiportfolio, a collection of companies that applied to Bessemer Venture Partners for VC funds, were denied, and went on to make it big.
>if you have no bad outcomes, you may be taking a suboptimal amount of risk

That is not the same as what blhack wrote, "If you're failing, you're doing something right."

you: zero failures = doing something wrong

blhack: any failure = doing something right

blhack's statement is clearly ridiculous.
> Don’t let funding take your eye off the goal: making something people want. Everything else, including going through Y Combinator, is there to support that goal but is not the goal itself.

It would be interesting to see a chart plotting over time the number of applicants in each batch who have applied to YC multiple times. Based on the number of folks here on HN who have apparently applied multiple times, and for different concepts no less, it seems plausible that a not insignificant percentage of the applicant pool now consists of folks who, contrary to YC's own advice, are more focused on getting accepted into YC than building a real business.
So how would YC classify passing over interviewing former United Nations staff working on reducing the turnaround time and effort it takes aid groups to raise funds to develop, launch and sustain operations responding to the worst humanitarian crises the world has seen in an era? Does this fit in the mistake category or the we’re just naively stupid and don’t have the time to bother spending 5 minutes hearing about your project category?

Aid groups are choking on sheltering and feeding millions of refugees streaming out of Syria and Iraq but who gives a fuck?
According to the article, LA received about 4 inches of water a year over the past 3 years, which is 2 inches per year less than average. Wouldn't that mean LA is in perpetual drought?

When I last visited (4 years ago), I was struck by how much everything was watered there. I'd never keep plants that need that much tending. Water must be way too cheap there.
You can reach me via email if you wish :)

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The Man Who Writes His Dissenting Opinion in All Caps
So that's less than 1% of their worth ($19B sale). Does that seem like such a huge number now?
MP4 video support is completely absent on Mac. And MP3 audio is also not supported.
Strava is pretty awesome. I'm contemplating premium but probably won't splurge until I have a mount for my phone and/or a heart rate monitor.

I do wish I could hide segments though, it's annoying how everyone makes their favorite 0.2 miles their own sprint.
Thieves Tunnel into Indian Bank Vault From Across the Street
True. But I can't come up with an example where I'd use instanceof on react components, can you give me one?
Agreed, never going back to french press.
One of the things that I've found so challenging about applying for accelerators is that it's difficult to find examples of companies that got in or that didn't get in, and what they did for their applications. Every time I have come across one, I've learned a bit - like "that didn't work" or "that was a great idea" - around how they apply, pitch themselves or their product, etc.

Anyone who was rejected want to share any of their application info, like team or product demo videos, or their website and a one line pitch? I know you might not want to for competitive reasons, and I understand.

But there's always things we can learn from each other, so if you want to share I'm sure I'm not the only one who would appreciate seeing what didn't work. :-)
Moore's Law is only about transistor density. Any relationship to clock speed or core count is merely because of how transistor density can enable those.

If you look at transistor density, Moore's Law has held up fine so far. There's no "if," it has held.
That means future cost of buying similar insurance will rise.
would like to know more! @pageman on Twitter
Truly unfortunate that it failed. Here's Elon Musk's comment about the Antares rock two years ago:

Musk: The results are pretty crazy. One of our competitors, Orbital Sciences, has a contract to resupply the International Space Station, and their rocket honestly sounds like the punch line to a joke. It uses Russian rocket engines that were made in the ’60s. I don’t mean their design is from the ’60s—I mean they start with engines that were literally made in the ’60s and, like, packed away in Siberia somewhere.

http://www.wired.com/2012/10/ff-elon-musk-qa/all/
And yet, instead of raising prices, polls show we are looking to pass Prop 1, a terrible omnibus pork-barrel bill as our "solution" instead of just raising prices on water as should be happening. http://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_1,_Water_Bond_...
Just for the record, the (ε, δ)-definition of limit is later mentioned as one way of formally defining limit after the analogies.
> My choice was the regular Rockstar energy drink[...] fatty liver

Should've gone with the Rockstar Recovery. It's got milk thistle :)

Not to mention no sugar, which I suspect is the worst thing most people can get out of just grabbing a standard energy drink.
It annoys me when the internet and the www so obviously get conflated. The internet is pretty much built on open standards, and open TCP/IP implementation exist for the most obscure of hardware, while HTML and JS are what I'd like to call de facto non-standard.
Sproute: a platform for crowd-sourcing travel recommendations. First core functionality allows users to create trips and share them with friends to get input on their itinerary. So I'd send you a link like this http://sprouteit.herokuapp.com/trips/545035162f65db0800bd28a... and you can tell me where I should go. No interview, but would love to hear any feedback.
Calfornia's energy shortage is a classic market failure.

If markets were capable of intelligent long-term strategy, California wouldn't have an energy shortage in the first place.

Fusion isn't required to solve a problem that could have been solved by much simpler means.
where's the fork me?
That's the problem you're trying to solve. There are many possibilities for why that didn't result in a successful application. For instance:

1) your solution might not seem viable

2) your solution might seem viable but you don't seem like you can pull it off

3) your solution might be great and you might have a great team, but there were stronger teams in the round
They've got much more interest than they can deal with, such that even very good teams can be passed over. Just try again next time, and try not to take it personally. And in the meantime, keep on working on it.
$206.5 million of that loss was for share-based compensation expenses and issuance of common stock below fair value -TC

This is a poor headline.
So, people optimize the application process to get in. That decrease the SNR for Y Combinator, which mean they have to work hard to separate the posers from the real thing.
The main part that is open source is this:

https://github.com/duckduckgo/duckduckgo

"This repository contains the core code responsible for triggering and handling the DuckDuckHack instant answers. It is the base of the DuckDuckHack Instant Answer infrastructure."

I bet some people will critique the extent to which this is open source. Still, I it is a very cool platform, and I think it will only help to democratize access to different websites and sources of data.

Some people will probably not want to work on this for free (for a for-profit company), but I'm sure some people will do it purely from the desire to improve their search results.
Chaucer and Dante certainly make any greatest hits list -- definitely worth reading.
Please, don't take this as an offense. I didn't mean to. This was an attempt of a joke, but it clearly didn't come out the way I wanted.

I love React, I love you guys for making React and I'm sorry for this comment.
Travel Hacking (does it count?)
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This is particularly challenging, since, given the amount of effort it takes to make an application, if you apply to multiple accelerators during "application season" it's easy for it to be a full time job.

It's very easy to believe "if only we just got in... we'd have the money to do X".
YCombinator isn't the only way to start a business. Don't let bitterness cloud your goal.
As always with things like YC, it isn't black and white. Sometimes the rejection is not because they didn't like you or think the idea isn't important, but rather someone else was better in their opinion. And as the title of the post says, they understand their opinion can be wrong.
Did he mean because C++ compilers usually include C compilers as well? C++ compilers will reject a lot of good C code, mostly because it disallows implicit casts from void *.
Okay, except for JSX I agree that the change towards native classes is for the better.

But the change in JSX seems to be just for Jest. JSX could still compile to function calls and stay completely decoupled from React. A new function `createFactory` would be introduced that takes a class argument and produces a factory, making ES6, CS and TS users pleased. No backward-compatibility breakage would be introduced.

edit: removed a non-constructive paragraph. Will play around with the new version more before commenting further. Hopefully I'll understand why JSX is a lot more complicated than it used to be :/
I'll share a bit. I'm a solo, international founder. I applied with a barely usable, very limited prototype, of a technically challenging project (involving A.I and machine learning). My video was viewed twice, and my demo was viewed, but no other action was taken within it. I was rejected.

I expected that, given that my prototype was pretty bad, and I have a lot going against me. It definitely lit a fire under me just to apply though - and the questions that the application asks, are things you really need to think about. I definitely don't regret applying. And the fact that my demo & video were viewed - makes me think that perhaps my idea is somewhat promising.

I plan on improving my product a lot and re-applying next batch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12DAjoONx9E&t=35s
Data-collection command line tools (lyrics, twitter timeline, music tags)
> In what other business can you sell your client service and then fail to deliver and just blame your supplier for not giving you a cheap deal.

Isn't this exactly what the problem ISPs are demanding, which is what we're up in arms about? They're trying to double dip by getting their customers to pay and trying to extort Netflix and Level3 as well.

At least we can both agree that this is wrong.
Almost certainly. The solid fuel would be bonded to the casing of the stage, so little fragments of burning fuel and casing would likely result in generation of thrust, which could causing spiraling fragments.
But for a lot of use cases small touch screen devices are simply inadequate.

That's a bit of a red herring. One of my colleagues uses a Surface; the first thing she does on arriving at the office is plug two cables to work with a proper screen and keyboard. Then when she has a meeting, she simply unplugs and uses it as a tablet, which is useful for passing it around, etc.

People that need to edit complex spreadsheets, compose scores for films, analyze genomes, and render 3d effects need real computers. As a developer this kind of customer is in many ways a better customer to serve than a teen snapping selfies on a phone.

But in between those sits 90% of the market, which is everyone who works all day with not-that-complex Office documents (certainly stuff that can be handled by a quadcore, 2GB machine) and web apps which offload most work to the servers (third-party or internal).

I may be biased because we provide solutions on top of a web-based, Free Software platform (https://www.odoo.com/), but I believe most of our clients' workers could replace their laptops with tablets + stand without any loss of functionality.
Since this is an unmanned operation, the calculation is fairly straightforward, balancing:

1. the cost of failure
2. the probability of failure
3. the cost of reducing the probability of failure

If these can be accurately calculated, then a certain failure rate can be quite acceptable. Of course, it's still worthwhile to determine the cause of any failures, and hence the cost of eliminating that cause and a reevaluation of points 1..3.
The students from Houston and New Jersey must have been so disappointed. I really hope that they get another chance to send their projects to space before they graduate, and that some of them will eventually take up a career in rocket science despite this minor setback.
I wasn't thinking about gaming the system so much as... well... how to best bring clarity to the subject.

It's not just the quality of the idea, team and product, but the quality of the presentation -- and that's always a challenge when you're in the early stages and not necessarily fully certain about, say, the product's nature.

And by presentation I don't mean how slick it is, but how effective it is at conveying what you're trying to convey (which can be undermined by slickness.)

Anyway I was asking for the ones that failed, not the ones that were successful (as I assume they would want to keep things under wraps until demo day.)
Space is hard: Antares rocket failure
Actually, I think this is the most important part of the process. When you're small you have the luxury of making mistakes and no one cares. When you wield some power/prestige and your actions affect other peoples' lives, people start coming to you with grievances. The worst part is that often those grievances are "deserved" --- I guarantee that some startup w/o an interview request will make it big, and one that gets accepted will slink off and die. That doesn't mean that YC is failing, just that the problem is really hard.
Well, smartphones simply enable you to do things that you can't otherwise do. I don't think they'll have much of an effect on how long our next Dark Ages lasts. The dark ages were primarily due to culture, not ability. Smartphones enable culture to morph in interesting ways, but they don't override it. People will still be people.
As a first time applicant, is there a declination notification or is lack of response the indicator of being passed over? Also, it seems there is an advantage in submitting late as you may avoid applicant fatigue. True?
Did anyone else stop using WhatsApp after acquisition due to Facebook's privacy policies?
"Research and development at the start-up, which employed just 55 people at the time it was sold, totaled $77 million"

I'm super-confused by this, can anyone explain what sorts of expenses would be this high and labeled as R&D costs for a company like WhatsApp?