skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Will be interesting if this will be similar to linux with the possibility of community driven repositories alongside official repo's. Or if it's more of an admintool to do windows updates/windows store installs.

Edit: Apparently, it's also open source [1]

[1] https://github.com/OneGet/oneget
The suggested way of doing this is define a new component like so:

var BigButton = React.createClass({
render: function() {
return (
<Button
{...this.props}
className={'btn-large ' + this.props.className} />
);
}
});

(Before React 0.12 introduced the JSX spread syntax, this was handled by transferPropsTo.)
do the co-founders also get the email? I dont see one in my inbox yet..
Signups don't count as Show HNs: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html. There needs to be something for people to play with.
The best way to get into YC is to build a great business :)
As I've understood it, it means that the scale of your ambitions is right.

Consider a continuum of things that you can do, divided up by difficulty. For some part of it, you allways succeed, for some part of it, it's a mix of sucess and failure, and for some even more difficult part, you always fail.

Now in order to succeed at something consistently, you need to master it, which also means that the things you always succeed at are fully mastered. Any knowledge or skills to be gained in those areas are at best minuscule improvements.

Then there's the part where you succeed sometimes and fail sometimes. But each time you fail, you gain more data on how you failed, and you think about how you can fix those points. You're learning, and you're improving.

Now there are also tasks at which you'll consistently fail. Passing the BAR exam as a programmer with no preparation would be a good example. Since you have no sucesses to compare to in that area, you wouldn't learn a lot trying to retake the BAR exam, no matter how often you did it. You're lacking in knowledge and skills required, and trying to perform at that level doesn't do you any good.

Now the ratio of failures and sucesses is more of a rule of thumb, and not an ironclad model. If you do turn it into an ironclad model, tell me, because I'd love exact metrics to shoot for. The reason that the common adage is "If you're failing, you're doing something right", at least so I believe, is that "If you're failing some and succeeding some, you're closer to your optimum failure/success ratio for growth than if you are at either end of the extreme" simply doesn't roll off the tongue quite as nicely. You can't put that on the cover of a self-help book. And since almost everyone is inclined to default to the "sucess" side of the continuum (coloquially known as your comfort zone) instead of the "failure" side (excluding select masochists), it makes a lot more sense to tell someone to fail more often. It's not a curse, it's a call for more ambitious projects. In this specific case, it's a comforting call to the fact that they're trying hard enough to fail at something. And I think that is commendable.
And you can use cloudflare or some other CDN very easily. See: https://meteorhacks.com/cloudflare-meets-meteor.html
That test is pretty neat. I already knew I am colour blind from the Ishihara test at the eye doctor, but its cool seeing the break down.

I scored 56% on protanomaly, and 78% on deuteranomaly - 18/31 and 18/23 respectively
Why is that? Doesn't it make more sense to have a deadline of, say, 10 seconds after which the stat/read/etc will simply fail? I remember trying to fix this for broken NFS mounts and not succeeding.
Similar situation here. We mitigated their primary concerns from our last interview, but didn't get the interview this time.
"Next time, be so good they can't ignore you, simple as that."

Exactly right!
My Girlfriend is a Lush and I Have the Data to Prove It :)
Even if I had a full scale performance in a cell phone with great docking capabilities, I probably would rather have a separate desktop computer for working. Just being able to compartmentalize "social stuff" on my phone, and "work stuff" on a desktop tends to vastly improve my performance.
My smartphone has 2 Gigs of RAM and most of it is wasted. Games on phones aren't even interesting because my fingers slide right off the screen when the action gets fast. Give me a PC with 2 Gigs of RAM and I can do amazing things with it, a mouse and a keyboard. Every single phone app I use is an exercise in futility or it feels that way. Touch is a terrible HID. Smart phones are handy when you don't have anything else but man I really prefer anything else, I'm considering buying a Chrome laptop or Surface if I can wipe them and install Ubuntu on them and can plug in a SIM card; not a bigger phone, a real computer.
Fusion is cool, but fission is easy and if used on Thorium in LFTRs[1], would provide us with virtually unlimited, passively safe energy that leaves extremely little waste.

Unfortunately it falls under the 'nuclear' umbrella and thus carries with it all of the baggage associated with that.

5 minute elevator pitch for the LFTR: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK367T7h6ZY

Failing that, I don't understand why we can't just connect a pipe (like we do with oil) from one of our water rich states to CA.

But for whatever reason the state doesn't seem to be even considering any engineering solutions to the problem.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_fluoride_thorium_reactor
Of course we should note that WhatsApp (and Facebook!) is piggy-backing on the work of the many thousands of telecom engineers who have over the years built and maintained the infrastructure that both Facebook and WhatsApp require to survive.
Sure. That particular setup has pretty low overhead and hence also low granularity; it's not measuring intensive or not but just how long a script has been running when a timer on a background thread fires. So your script could be eating up all the CPU but just returning to the event loop every few seconds and the hung script dialog would never notice.
I'm disappointed that JSX is now so coupled to React. I was looking forward to JSX being used by many different JavaScript frameworks[1], but this change reveals the devs are not interested in moving that direction.

[1] Example: https://github.com/mrsweaters/mithril-rails
If they are making money? Venture funds are generally structured using the 2 and 20 model. The first 2 refers to an annual fee of 2% of committed capital for the life of the fund. Venture funds typically have a life of 10 years.

I believe Bessemer's last fund was $1.6 billion, so assuming a typical 2 and 20 structure, that would be $32 million/year, or $320 million over a 10 year fund's life, guaranteed.
Just remember: "YC is an option. Not a barrier."

Real entrepreneurs might WANT to get into YC, but do not NEED to get into YC.

If you really "need" YC then I think you're doing it wrong. Usually the types of people who are devastated by their YC rejection (like me my first time) are the kind that have everything riding on YC. As if it's the only way to get anything built or started. It's a terrible mindset to have. Once I opened up my options and had a plan B, C, D, etc... my business improved, my startup ideas changed and got better, I built more things and got more experience.
Oh, you are right about the URL and thanks for the link.Glad to hear it's coming back.
The 6 Stages of a Startup Lifecycle
I think it's important to realize that this is a NASA contractor, not NASA itself. Furthermore, Congress & the President have forced NASA into purchasing these transport contracts by killing off the Space Shuttle.
Before William Mulholland and the draining of the Owen Valley basin, LA was a desert. Without millions of gallons of water piped it from hundreds of miles away at great expense and energy use, LA would still be a largely uninhabitable, and would certainly not be a city of millions with lawns and golf courses.
> all of them are mutually incompatible in most situations.

I haven't compiled against every implementation, but I did just recently rerun a report I create 4 years ago under a different engine. I spent about 20 minutes addressing the new complaints, when I finished that the generated pdf looked exactly the same as the old one - but with up to date data. Try that with html :) Heck, I've had the exact same experience switching C compilers. I do agree with you about the crappy error reporting. There is a reason why the Library of Congress is bundling data with binaries now, this is a very common problem - but in my experience Latex has fared much better than most formats.
FlikNote for iOS: an app that recreates the passing notes in class experience. Quite simply the most fun and creative messaging app. Multiple photos, colored text and website links, and self-drawing received doodles! FlikNote is The Social Notework®

http://fliknote.com/
This is an interesting point on the timeline for YC in that their apps increased 40%!

PG says they now have 3 silos, like 3 mini YC's reviewing. But if you have 1400 alums reviewing apps, by definition you are going to have scoring that is biased against finding black swans, regardless of how many silos you create.

As you say, the problem is too many apps and not enough time for a smaller amount of alums to review the apps.

One answer might be going to a rolling application process to avoid the washout that happens with a wave 40% bigger than you anticipated. And/or opening other offices, which is most likely in the works.
Yes, thanks for the reply.I'm an idiot.
I don't believe Meteor has two-way data binding. You have to update the model manually using events[0].

0: https://docs.meteor.com/#/full/eventmaps
Precisely. Comcast sells me X megabits per second and then, if it's to Netflix, refuses to deliver it. Anywhere else? Sure, no problem! But Netflix? 2-3Mbps tops. And I'm paying for 50Mbps. And if I VPN to ANYWHERE, magically I can get full speed, full quality Netflix without any problem.

What Comcast is (and other ISPs are) doing is intentionally not spending the $10k-$50k that it would take to upgrade the peering with Cogent or Level3 so that they can deliver to me the bandwidth that they ostensibly have promised but which they are contractually not obliged to provide. And people think that's shitty, because it sure seems like a monopolist abusing their position of power. Perhaps because it is.
Absolutely necessary, I agree.
You know that California already drains water from the entire Colorado river basin, the Owen Valley, and numerous other sources. No way a state is going to just let California's appetite for clean water drain yet more rivers.
do the co-founders also get the email?
We do actually want JSX to be flexible and usable for not just React, which is why we're trying to write a formal specification of the syntax with multiple parser implementations:

http://facebook.github.io/jsx/

We intentionally don't specify semantics to give different transpilers the flexibility to compile the JSX into whatever's appropriate for the library you're using.
>> Well, smartphones simply enable you to do things that you can't otherwise do.

No, that's not true at all. They are more compact and with the touch HID more frustrating but certainly far from better.
Persistence isn't always a virtue. If you've been rejected 7 times, please stop expending your time and emotional energy on YC.

Redirect that energy to building your business. Build your product and get customers/users, which is the real endgame, not getting into YC or getting a check from a fancy Sandhill VC.
And he was wrong. They had 4 successful launches since then. Plus it seems unprofessional to be bad mouthing a competitor like that in public.
Sorry I see the 98.5 for the year end 2013 but I don't see how your getting to 206.5 from there? Their total costs are only 148m on the statement of operations. Also presumably some of that stock based compensation is in lieu of paying cash. I'm not sure its fair to discount it entirely.

edit: I sleuthed out what TC means. Tech Crunch are referencing first half of 2014 this article is year end 2013.
The unfortunate truth is that we actually need to use that water. Roughly 80% of California's water consumption goes to agriculture. [1] I can't speak to whether that water is allocated or used as effectively as it could be, because I'm not familiar with the agriculture industry. [2] That said, I do know that California is a major food producer for the rest of the country. Assuming agricultural water use is as efficient as can be expected (i.e. not blatantly squandered), the only answers are to reduce food production (to the detriment of California food producers and anyone who buys our food) or maintain/increase the water supply. Limiting residential and non-agricultural water usage will slow the bleeding, but not enough to solve our water problems.

1. http://www.environment.ucla.edu/reportcard/article4870.html

2. I suspect that we would see improvements in the situation if water were priced appropriately, which to my casual knowledge is not the case, especially for our farmers. I believe right now our government picks the "winners and losers" of water allocation, which upsets the losers, and doesn't encourage the winners to explore less water-intensive farming methods. But again, I could be drastically oversimplifying a situation I am not well educated on.
Spacex had an engine explosion during a flight, yet their primary mission was successful. This is the benefit of modern rocket technology.
Wow, I've somehow lived through 40 years of math/science/space-geekdom without learning that the pointy thing on top of the Saturn V is a part of an escape system.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launch_escape_system

But don't worry, future-people-I-will-argue-with-on-the-Internet, I'm sure that's the final gap in my knowledge base.
If it's any consolation, I like your site.

Crypto-finance aside, I've only seen one financial technology company advertise for jobs on YC. On the surface, it just looks like YC doesn't have that much of a FinTech presence. (Outside of payments, anyway.)

Since they had that "RFS" for financial services, I'm curious to see what they present from this space on demo day.
What exactly was he wrong about?
I never got into Y Combinator (I think I applied 4 times but I'm not sure) but I'm now the CEO of a rapidly growing, well funded startup that actually SERVES an increasing number of YC companies. The way I always thought about YC was that it is ALWAYS worth applying because the exercise is good and the upside is high (and the downside minimal) but getting into YC should never be "part of your plan" - there are too many other great applicants, plain and simple.

It's the same as how no student should ever PLAN to get into Harvard, and Harvard even has SATs and GPAs to rely on (fairly objective stats around which you can make a guess about your odds) while YC has only heuristics based on experience and founder reputation. Never judge yourself based on something that has an open application process - it doesn't define you, it defines them. No reason not to apply, but take it as a bonus if you get in, don't take it personally if you get rejected.
Reading those letters would have killed some postal workers instead of the intended targets.
From one of the slides: Email is for grandparents

I think this varies. I'm not a grandparent, but am close to 50 years old and have been working in computer technology my entire adult life. I have an Android smartphone (got my first one this year) but have not installed any apps on it. Email, web browser, text messages, calendar, contacts, and maps are all there and I can't really think of anything else useful I'd want it to do.

My mother-in-law on the other hand IS a grandmother and she's constantly using Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and half a dozen other things on her phone. I don't see the point in any of it and don't use any of those things.

Not sure who is the outlier.
Slow to load. Too slow.
This is quite surprising to me. I know that Pete Hunt -- one of the authors of ReactJS -- and one of the main proponents of using it in conjunction with Flux, gave a talk at Meteor Devshop 11 earlier this year (http://youtu.be/Lqcs6hPOcFw?t=48m7s), and didn't say a word about the problems associated with two-way data binding. To me that would seem to be the elephant in the room. Is that because he treats Meteor as a framework for prototyping and smaller scale apps?
Uber CEO Travis Kalanick has said that human drivers are only a stopgap and will be replaced by driverless cars in the future.
Which is now good for an 80% success rate. And from the video it certainly seems like an engine failure is the most likely scenario. I think if anything Musk is looking pretty vindicated now.

No comment on the unprofessionalism bit. I don't disagree, but then it's hardly uncommon in high tech either.
Wow. I'm honestly surprised. If I had been a YC guy, I'd have wanted to at least speak with you.

On the surface, I think you guys look awesome. We should network somehow.
For what it's worth, this mission had a manual destruct command sent at T+20s.

EDIT: According to the press conference.
Thanks for the feedback byoung2. We are leaning in the same direction you note. Is your suggestion coming from having experience in online or offline sales?
I said this was my ideal, not that it was a practical way forward for our current software stack.

In my ideal world, your app registers that it needs a “pick weapon #2” button, and a “walk backward” button. Then I can configure my keyboard firmware and/or the low levels of my operating system keyboard handling code to map whatever button I want to those semantic actions.

The problem with the scheme where the application is programmed to directly look for the “2” key and then pick which semantic meaning to assign based on context, is that there is at that point no way to intercept and disambiguate “put a 2 character in the text box” from “pick weapon #2”.

This isn’t the biggest problem for games, but it’s a huge pain in the ass when, for example, all kinds of desktop applications intercept my standard text-editing shortcuts (either system defaults or ones I have defined myself) and clobbers them with its own new commands (for example many applications overwrite command+arrows or option+arrows or similar to mean “switch tab”, but in a text box context I am instead trying to say “move to the beginning of the line” or “move left by one word”), often leaving me no way to separate the semantic intentions into separate keystrokes.

The problem is that there is no level at which I can direct a particular button on my keyboard to always mean “move left by one word”... the way things are set up now, I have literally no way to firmly bind a key to that precise semantic meaning, but instead I need to bind the key to some ambiguous keystroke which only sometimes has that meaning, but sometimes might mean something else instead.
Lean design
According to the press conference just now, the range safety officer apparently did send a destruct signal. The signal probably would have been sent very close to the time the rocket hit the ground. In my relatively ignorant opinion, it was going to blow up one way or another. We'll probably get more details later.
If they're investing in research & development - they're likely not looking at is as a loss - rather a business expense.
I think in 5 years 19B will look cheap to own messaging in a substantial portion of the world.
Holy wow. My household of 2 adults and 2 kids (3 & 5yo ... they usually bathe together), we use between 80-100 gallons per day, which includes daily use of a high efficiency clothes washer and a reasonably efficient dishwasher. If I workout in the morning I often shower twice those days, at least during hot weather (because another of our conservation actions is keeping the thermostat at 80F during the day).

Here are the water utility rates in the Raleigh area. Notice that non-residential rates are almost as low as Tier 1 but irrigation rates are the same as Tier 3.

Residential Water Rates:

Tier 1 = 0-4 CCF billed at $2.28
Tier 2 = 5-10 CCF billed at $3.80
Tier 3 = 11+ CCF billed at $5.07
Non-Residential Water Rate: $2.95

Irrigation Rate: $5.07

1 CCF = 748 gallons
I'm curious to how many founders in this batch are...

- Over 35

- Female

- African American

Edit: My post here is to gauge if the needle of progress in our industry is moving forward in the terms of race, age and sex.
Not refuting your point, but it's not quite that simple. Current desalination techniques are very energy costly, and the state has actually decreased its energy capacity in the past few years. For example, the San Onofre nuclear station went offline permanently in 2012 because of a botched repair job by, a little ironically, the Japanese (Mitsubishi). Neither ConEd or the state have announced any plans to replace the lost capacity (~10% of the state's total energy capacity) = higher energy costs.

San Diego county is currently building a billion dollar desal facility off the coast of Carlsbad, but it hasn't been easy or cheap. And even with the state in dire conditions, this project has faced opposition for various reasons - e.g. environmental concerns about desal runoff (apparently the salt water byproduct is very bad for marine life and has to be treated before being released back into the ocean).

Even when it's completed and producing at full capacity of 50 million gallons per day, this will be a literal drop in the bucket compared to the 38 billion galls of water per day that are used by the state overall (2010 USGS estimate). With population projections having the state grow 40% by 2060, things are not looking good and nobody seems to be addressing the longer-term impacts.
Well, I'd say you completely missed by a light year the whole point of the presentation. The reality is that the impact of mobile on the planet probably remains understated. There will continue to be an explosion of mobile devices, not even accounting for wearables, sensors, etc. While the desktop remains relatively unchanged for a decode or two.
The NK-33/AJ-26 is no longer manufactured, and most of the stockpile is owned by Aerojet-Rocketdyne or Orbital (something like 50 engines). Considering that those engines have already been bought and paid for, there's no real benefit either way to them failing just a downside to Aerojet-Rocketdyne and OSC.
> A prosecutor, however, is restricted by an evidentiary framework that allows certain facts to only be proved by certain sources, and allows juries to make only certain inferences.

Look - Im not a lawyer - nor would I ever want to be - but what I do know is we saw the greatest transfer of wealth in the history of the world take place between 2007-2010 and no one has gone to jail for it.

You can say that "A prosecutor, however, is restricted by an evidentiary framework" but that doesnt change the fact that we live in a world where rich powerful people and corporations commit serious crimes and dont go to jail for them.
Yea, note that mithril is on that list. The syntax was where people unified. There wasn't agreement on semantics and this is moving closer to that.

It's possible that this will eventually unify again. E.g. around a replacement for an object literal. E.g. a standard record type.
Seems really hard to just reject all the new features because you don't like the window chrome.

Unlike the author, I have no issues running Yosemite on an i7 macbook pro retina with a 27' inch thunderbolt external display.
Cool.

Will you eventually create an app for this? I have intimate knowledge on this subject because I was personally involved in such venture.

I will say this tho... this is such a problem - tons of waste and used goods and people keep on buying. Whoever finds the holy grail to solve this has huge to gain.
I'm surprised that the title of the article hasn't been fixed yet since everyone seem to agree that it isn't comprehensive.
Seconded, some metrics on this yearly would be great if at all possible. To give the applicants some sort of perspective.

In terms of the companies that make it, previous years the amount that make it in range up to 80 but they reduced it to 50 last year. 500 or so total YC companies since inception (2005).