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by pg 7y ago
The code I wrote to generate and test the Bel source is written in Arc, and Bel copies some things from Arc. Otherwise they're separate.
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by pg 7y ago
It's used to implement a generalization of assignment. If you have a special form that can tell you where something is stored, you can make macros to set it. E.g. > (set x '(a b c)) (a b c) > (set (2 x) 'z) z
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Show HN: Bel(paulgraham.com)
1288 points by pg 7y ago|456 comments
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by pg 11y ago
It's true that this test assumes groups of applicants are roughly equal in (distribution of) ability. That is the default assumption in most conversations I've been involved in about bias, and particularly the example I used, bu
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by pg 12y ago
They were making fun of me for talking so much about how he looked like Zuck, not him because the startup did badly. It was arguably not his fault the company did badly; it fell apart due to a cofounder dispute. I added more detail to that
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by pg 13y ago
Is there a forum that doesn't ban people?
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by pg 13y ago
I know almost nothing about Clojure. I saw some example code around 7 years ago, but I don't remember it well.
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by pg 13y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7484304
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by pg 13y ago
Actually we're pretty sure there is less of that now than a couple years ago, because Daniel has written some amazingly effective software for detecting it.
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by pg 13y ago
It's ok to ask something of general interest. The point is that HN is not YC customer support.
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by pg 13y ago
I'm going to keep writing essays. I don't usually decide what to write very far in advance though. Yes, I'll be working on Arc again. (I've been working in Arc regularly, since HN is written in it, but I haven't
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by pg 13y ago
YC doesn't have budgets.
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by pg 13y ago
What I was doing before I started YC: writing and programming.
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by pg 13y ago
Good point; added them.
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Meet the People Taking over Hacker News(blog.ycombinator.com)
614 points by pg 13y ago|286 comments
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by pg 13y ago
Seems unlikely. YC doesn't need the money, so it would just be a distraction.
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by pg 13y ago
It depends on what the company is building. Some things take a long time to launch. With others it's a bad sign if the company takes more than a month or two to launch.
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by pg 13y ago
I mentioned those because they have the highest valuations. It usually takes several years to reach that sort of valuation, so the most highly valued companies are never the recent ones.
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by pg 13y ago
Oops, I get it now. It should decrease the sort of comment people attack HN for, but that wasn't the purpose of it. Those comments are just a subset of the more general problem of users saying mean and/or stupid things about any
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by pg 13y ago
If our goal were to decrease criticism of YC, this wouldn't work. In fact, it wouldn't work as a way to eliminate any specific type of critical comment, because all it takes to make a comment visible is a small number of the many
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by pg 13y ago
That's a variable the moderator can tune as well. We actually ended up setting the limit at 5 when we launched, which I don't think inconvenienced anyone.
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by pg 13y ago
Good catch. But strictly speaking that wasn't doing development in the repl, but repairing data. The live server is the only place you can repair data on the live server.
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by pg 13y ago
The moderator is concerned about that too. But if it did start to happen it would be pretty obvious. So it seems worth trying to see if pending comments can be tuned to cut obvious crap without eliminating stuff that's merely controv
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by pg 13y ago
If we didn't have prior restraints on people speaking about places where you could buy cheap Ugg boots, HN would be so overrun with spam that it would be unusable.
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by pg 13y ago
Given that endorsement is a mechanism which can only reduce the quantity of discussion on HN That seems a mistaken assumption. The presence of existing comments often causes me to refrain from posting comments. Often I've been abo
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by pg 13y ago
The cars are too clean. The pictures would look even more realistic if he sprayed them with dust.
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by pg 13y ago
The sort of incivility we're worried about is the more explicit type where someone replies to a comment with "You are an idiot. Don't you realize that x y z?" when they could have simply said "x y z." I'm
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by pg 13y ago
The solution may be to have pending comments only enforced on recent threads. That would be about 30 characters of additional code.
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by pg 13y ago
Don't worry, the moderator is very sensitive to this issue. There are going to be fairly explicit standards about what should be endorsed and what shouldn't. Roughly things shouldn't be endorsed if they are gratuitously unc
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by pg 13y ago
The main reason not to is that comments sitewide come too fast for a human to watch what's happening in real time.

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