rayalez

Baseless cynicism is not helpful.

Technically you aren't false, this could be just a PR thing, but why would you assume that?

"YC requests these startups because they want these startups" is a much simpler explanation than "YC requests these startups as a marketing ploy".

I don't see a good reason to be so skeptical, so I will go ahead and take this post at face value.

Obviously everyone should think for themselves, and if your startup doesn't fit these categories you should apply anyway (as the article says). I'm just saying that assuming they're being honest here is valuable to me, as a guideline for thinking about startup ideas and YC's vision for the future.

Dismissing this stuff (without a good, specific argument) would hurt more than it helps.

I have made a stylish stylesheet with a similar purpose:

https://userstyles.org/styles/150108/medium-custom

But it is more focused on the writing experience.

I really love medium's editor, but I wanted a dark theme (more comfortable for the eyes), and to remove all the clutter so I could focus on no-distractions writing.

I hope you'll find it useful =)

Realize that worrying has no value, it will stand in your way. It wastes your time and energy, making you less likely to succeed.

Face the fact that a lot of things in your life are out of your control, and the best thing you can do is steer all of your focus and mental energy away from pointless anxiety and into taking the actionable steps towards your goals.

Practice meditation to develop the skillset and mental discipline that will allow you to focus on taking actionable steps instead of dwelling on stuff you can't do anything about.

Always do your best relative to the state that you're in. Optimize your knowledge (by learning and reading a lot), and behavior (by taking the right action according to your best judgement). Beyond that - let go and let the chips fall where they may.

Whoah this is awesome, how have I never heard about this before? Too bad no desktop/android version.

Are you familiar with steemit? They're trying to do something like that, although the result is not as good as HN or even reddit.

Definitely http://slatestarcodex.com

Extremely engaging, educational, well-researched articles.

More articles from EY at http://lesswrong.com.

Hacker News.

Node/Express, or maybe Django, depending on a project (Django for simpler, standard ones, Node if I want a REST API).

Although recently I'm mostly using Node/Express for almost everything, and I'm really happy with them.

Whoah this is so awesome. Thank you for making such great games!

Amazing who you can see on HN...

Note - works great on mobile =)

I think you've missed the point.

Even if this system works, people who have not committed a crime (yet) are innocent.

Taking an innocent person, and improsoning him against his will is a crime, pretty extreme one.

Even if this system works really well, it's hard to imagine that the crimes it prevents can be more extreme than the crimes it commits.

I'm very happy with using pelican for my blog:

https://startuplab.io/blog

It's very flexible, written in python, easy to customize, has plugins for any purpose. It supports markdown, latex, code snippets (with syntax highlighting). It's very simple to set up and you can use it for any purpose.

I've made a custom theme, configured it a bit, and served it with nginx on digital ocean(but you could also host it for free on github pages).

You can see the code and my custom theme here:

https://github.com/raymestalez/startuplab

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Here's a few simple things I want to recommend, based on my experience:

- Immediately setup a mailchimp account and an RSS feed. Add a link in the header, and under each post (you can see how it works on my blog), you want to start build a list of followers right away.

- Ideally, write a short ebook or a guide to give people extra incentive to subscribe. The sooner you do this - the better. Here's a sexy landing page I've made for my blog to use as an example:

https://startuplab.io/free-guide

- Keep the design elegant and simple, nobody needs distracting sidebars or popups, avoid them unless absolutely necessary.

- Underneath my posts, I have 3 boxes recommending my other articles (or promoting my projects), it's a really neat way to keep people on your site.

- Don't forget to set up metadata and social images for good SEO and sharing. You can see how I did it in my template here:

https://github.com/raymestalez/startuplab/blob/master/themes...

- For a very simple commenting system I highly recommend isso:

https://posativ.org/isso/

It's really easy to setup and a pleasure to use. Although personally, I share my posts on HN/reddit, and have a link to the discussion thread automatically embedded in the post footer. That way you don't need any complex setup, and it's better for the exposure.

Well, I use houdini, that's my solution =)

In hou it's really fun and flexible, and most of the repetitive stuff can be automated away. There's almost always a new cool challenge to solve, a creative improvement to be made.

Having said that, there's hardly a part of CG art that doesn't get tedious at times. Modeling, UVs, texturing, animation, rendering... It all has it's repetitive boring moments.

Look at it like at knitting, or putting together a giant puzzle, or playing minecraft. There are moments where you gotta think and be creative, and then there are moments where you can just enjoy the meditative, comforting, familiar process. It can be fun in it's own way.

Also, if things get really boring, you can always listen to music, audiobooks, or your favorite sitcom in the background =)

I have a CG folder, in it there are modeling, painting, rigging, animation, fx, etc folders, based on the type of project.

If I want to render a complete scene, I'll put it in "props" or a "set" folder. In it there are folders by software type - hou, silo, ps; and also some for generated files - geo, cache, render, render_comp, and out (for final render).

Also there's CG/assets where I put textures, references, houdini assets, etc.

Most of my files are in ~/projects, in folders by project name. Projects are structured according to conventions of the tech Im using. Most of the time it's project/server, project/client, project/<config-files>.

General advice is to try to keep it as "flat" as possible, deeply nested folders quickly become inconvenient.

I have an assets folder where I keep everything I may need organized by type - images, textures, references, screenshots, etc.

Then there's a temp folder for quick experiments and one-off scripts.

There's library folder where I keep my books, audiobooks, video courses(organized by subject).

And that's about it. Also there's a lot of the mess in Downloads folder, I let it remain unstructured, I just delete the most space-consuming files from time to time.

Be healthy and rich. Live in NYC.

Build a startup in the field of AI.

Spend my free time writing comedy (and get really great at it).

Maybe teach the stuff I've learned about startups/CS (through articles/books/video courses).

Find a group of good friends. Get a dog.

Invest in life extension and cryonics so I'd get to enjoy my life for as long as possible.

Really long term:

Live long enough to upload my brain, and merge with AI. Explore the universe, learn everything there is to know. Create a universe that doesn't suck (or fix this one).

Will this be in anaconda?

Wow what a brilliant idea! Thank you so much for making this project, signed up already =)

As an indie founder, I prefer to use Node/Express and React/Redux, hosted on Digital Ocean. Really fast and convenient to build SaaSes and single page apps like:

https://nulis.io

https://helix.startuplab.io

If I don't need a lot of fancy interactive functionality, and am building more of a usual web 2.0 website, I sometimes go with Django/PostgreSQL:

https://fictionhub.io

http://webacademy.io

http://lumiverse.io

For static blogs and content websites, I go with pelican generated sites simply served with nginx:

https://startuplab.io/blog

ArtStation, CGSociety, and various art subreddits.

/r/computergraphics, /r/animation, /r/photography, etc.

Recently I've opened /r/DigitalArt. It's a small community now, but you're welcome to join =)

Also don't forget a much narrower content selection. I'm happy to pay for Netflix, but if you live in the wrong country, it has like 10 times less good content than the US version.

I understand that there are business and licensing reasons for that, but it is still a bummer to use a much inferior second rate version of the website.

I'm very happy with using pelican for my blog:

https://startuplab.io/blog

It's very flexible, written in python, easy to customize, has plugins for any purpose.

I've made a custom theme, configured pelican a bit, and served with nginx on digital ocean(but it could as well have been served for free on github pages).

You can see the code and my custom theme here:

https://github.com/raymestalez/startuplab

Consider subscribing to the weekly email newsletter of the most upvoted posts [1], or finetune an RSS feed [2] (you can filter posts with 100+ upvotes for example, or only Show HN posts, or whatever).

If you're using mastodon, you can follow my HackerNewsBot [3], or the same thing on twitter [4].

[1] https://hndigest.com/

[2] https://hnrss.org/

[3] https://mastodon.social/@HackerNewsBot

[4] https://twitter.com/newsyc100

Because I want realtime WYSIWYG markdown editing, kinda like in SimpleMDE or Typora.

This looks really awesome! I really wish I could use it as a library and embed it into my SaaS app. Is there a way to extract just the rendering functionality and add it to a website?

Do you know of any new communities that might replace it?

How do you think they should look like?

Note that it's only 2.5mm long.

Though it does remind me of that facehugger from aliens.

Relevant to this video, if you haven't heard, there's a new programming language called Luna(currently in beta), designed based on these principles.

http://www.luna-lang.org/

https://www.reddit.com/r/LunaLang/

Really exciting stuff.

Good post. I want to add several great resources.

- Grokking Deep Learning

https://www.manning.com/books/grokking-deep-learning

This is a fantastic book that assumes no prerequisites other than knowing python, and takes you through the fundamentals of DL. It has very intuitive and easy to follow explanations, and doesn't use any libraries other than NumPy, so you're building the whole thing yourself, from scratch.

- Deep Learning With Python

https://machinelearningmastery.com/deep-learning-with-python...

This is kind of the opposite of the previous one, it doesn't go into math and theory, instead it guides you through building several practical projects with a very simple to use DL library(keras). It's a great way to gain practical experience in addition to theory from the previous book. Also has no prerequisites other than python, and makes it very easy to get started.

- 3blue1brown videos on neural networks:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDNU6R1_6700...

Extremely brilliant high-level concise overview of how ANNs work. I highly recommend you get started here. You should also check out his videos on calulus and linear algebra, they're fantastic way to learn the math you need.

- Khan Academy videos - one of the easiest ways to learn the math prerequisites.

Calculus:

https://www.khanacademy.org/math/calculus-home

Linear Algebra:

https://www.khanacademy.org/math/linear-algebra

Probability and Statistics:

https://www.khanacademy.org/math/statistics-probability

- Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and TensorFlow

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920052289.do

I haven't read this one yet, but it looks very promising, and a lot of people seem to find it very useful.

- Andrew Ng's Coursera course

https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning

Everyone knows about this one, I just think every article on AI resources should mention it, one of the most popular ways to get started with ML.

- New MIT courses on Self-Driving cars and AGI

https://selfdrivingcars.mit.edu

https://agi.mit.edu

- The Master Algorithm

https://www.audible.com/pd/Science-Technology/The-Master-Alg...

Excellent high-level overview of ML field and algorithms.

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Other great stuff:

- Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach

http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/

The leading textbook in Artificial Intelligence. It's not the fastest way to get started, but it's considered one of the best AI textbooks ever written.

- Stanford AI course (CS 188)

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIeooNSdhQE5kRrB71yu5...

Brilliant course based on AIMA. Not DL, but solid fundamentals of AI and ML.

- Couple of great playlists on DL, just to complete the collection:

Machine Learning with Python

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQVvvaa0QuDfKTOs3Keq_...

Neural Networks Demystified

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxe2T-V8XRs&index=1&list=PLi...

I've recently learned that 3blue1brown's [1] videos are generated with python:

https://github.com/3b1b/manim

[1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYO_jab_esuFRV4b17AJtAw