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_piuson Ross Ulbricht Convicted of Running Silk Road as Dread Pirate Roberts

And probably the silk road decreased by some degree gang violence.

Sure, so did Walter White.

_piuson Ask HN: How to approach making a 3D Game Engine?

Have you used other game engines? If not, I'd suggest you start by building games in a few different game engines so that you can develop good taste.

_piuson What Doesn't Seem Like Work?

I'm just talking about using the concept of limits as a teaching tool, not assuming a particular limit exists.

_piuson What Doesn't Seem Like Work?

"well, this term is basically zero, so we'll just remove it" and then she'd pull her hair in frustration, like "how can you just do that? how is it still valid?"

I've tried to teach friends with that hangup and found it difficult. Those people weren't good at math, though. I feel like with mathematicians, you should just be able to explain with limits.

_piuson YC Demographics

This is not an affirmative action program. YC is an accelerator, not a charity.

Let's not inject FUD about affirmative action into this conversation.

MIT, for instance, has a robust affirmative action program and I can assure you the Institute isn't in the business of picking unqualified applicants. One of the most famous (and successful) affirmative action programs in the world is implemented by the NFL — hardly a charity.

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

Institutions that implement affirmative action do so selfishly to ensure that they're fielding the best proverbial team possible.

_piuson YC Demographics

Great to see this data, thanks for releasing it.

_piuson The Rise and Fall of the Lone Game Developer

But I am pretty sure that there is always room for the brilliant idea that no one can grasp when you pitch it.

You're right, but I don't think the author would claim otherwise.

The article is not about the possibility of breakout success, but about lone, reasonably skilled game developers being able to make a consistent living. Not the same thing.

_piuson For my final project I built a sous-vide immersion cooker

I don't know, unfortunately.

_piuson For my final project I built a sous-vide immersion cooker

I own the Sansaire, but right now I'd recommend the new Anova one that comes with an app and is well-reviewed by Serious Eats.

http://anovaculinary.com/products/anova-precision-cooker

http://www.seriouseats.com/2014/05/new-anova-precision-cooke...

_piuson ASMR: The videos which claim to make their viewers 'tingle'

I wonder if you were experiencing the related, but different phenomenon of frisson.

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

_piuson Nigerian Billionaire Commits $100M for African Entrepreneurs

My intent was not to marginalize anyone .... Read my comment minus the joke.

If that's true, how about you simply make your comment minus the joke?

Also worth noting that those scams mostly come from the United States now, not Nigeria.

http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/U-S-Internet-fraud-at-al...

_piuson Ezra Zygmuntowicz has died

This is terribly sad. Profound loss for the Ruby community, among many others.

_piuson New Search Strategy for Firefox

Note that Mozilla is making Yahoo reinstate support for Do-Not-Track, which it had dropped earlier this year.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2150981/yahoo-drops-do-not-tr...

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Is Y Combinator a slave trade?

No.

Don't trivialize the slave trade so you can make a weak rhetorical critique of YC.

_piuson We Landed An Interview At Y Combinator But Decided Not To Go — Here’s Why

So why am I writing about this? Because I know a lot of people want to get into Y Combinator and I know a lot of people just got rejected.

A completely pointless humblebrag of a post.

_piuson How to Start a Startup, Lecture 7: How to Build Products Users Love, Part I

Many gems in this talk. Loved the mindset of not only recognizing the value of first impressions, but recognizing that opportunities for first impressions are everywhere.

_piuson This is startup I'm going to apply for Y Combinator

It's not a real time editor. It's animated publishing platform.

To most people reading, that is a distinction without a difference.

You really want to focus on what problem you're solving here. Can you say in a sentence why this is a better publishing platform for writers than any other?

_piuson Yahoo Nears Investment in Snapchat

Just a reminder: $10 billion is 10,000 $1 millions. Yahoo could give each of their employees a ~$1 million bonus instead.

Yahoo's isn't investing $10bn; they're investing some amount of money at a $10bn valuation.

_piuson Show HN: JuliusJS – Speech recognition in JavaScript

Strictly speaking, Annyang wraps the HTML5 speech recognition API, not Google's specifically.

_piuson Lecture 1 – How to Start a Startup [video]

it really bores me to death that he is reading the whole thing like a robot

Give the guy a break. It's Lecture 1, I'd imagine he was nervous.

_piuson A de-centralised network, with chosen usernames. Is it possible?

DNS

_piuson Amazon’s Twitch Acquisition Is Official

$40/mo or $400/year seems like a lot of money... any indication that they break news before any other site?

The value prop isn't just breaking stories quicker than the next outlet, but we do happen to break a fair amount of news. For instance, we broke a story [1] last week that moved eBay's share price up by 4-6%. [2]

[1] https://www.theinformation.com/PayPal-s-Future-Still-in-Play

[2] http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=EBAY+Interactive#symbol=E...

_piuson Judge Sentenced to 28 Years for Selling Kids to the Prison System (2013)

Should have been life.

_piuson Diversity and Startups

do you really think we are trying to "score points for 'addressing diversity'"?

That's the net effect; it's not my place to impute a motive.

All I'm saying is that you wrote a piece about sexism and titled it as if it were about a broader topic. And I know that you're usually a sharp, precise writer.

I do recognize that none of this is easy and I think it's admirable that you've addressed this (very thorny) topic. You've said that you plan to address the other aspects of diversity as it relates to YC and I'm looking forward to reading about it.

_piuson Diversity and Startups

it's really hard to address everything in one post, and i think the issues around gender and race in tech are pretty different.

Sure, but you clearly didn't call the piece "Gender and Startups" or "Sexism and Startups." Presumably the broader title was chosen deliberately.

For instance, I'd push back on an essay called "YC and Startups" if it only mentioned one company in one batch, but with a quick token sentence about other batches.

i don't think we're playing this on "easy mode", but i'm sorry you feel that way.

What can I say? It's a piece that scores points for "addressing diversity" but only substantively discusses the less controversial, more tractable subtopic of sexism.

Excited to read the upcoming, more inclusive posts though.

_piuson Diversity and Startups

Glad the issue's being addressed, but sad that it dodges race almost completely.

Making diversity all about gender is effectively playing the topic on "easy mode." Kinda lame, honestly.

_piuson Ask HN: How to split equity?

Joel Spolsky has weighed in on this: https://gist.github.com/isaacsanders/1653078

_piuson Ask HN: Looking for advice – Failed startup, long term relationship at same time

I wouldn't assume that, you should reach out to him.

_piuson Cayley – An open-source graph database

What kind of usage is this seeing inside Google?