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Y Combinator to set up China arm with former Baidu executive Qi Lu as chief
American start-up incubator Y Combinator is setting up shop in China, with a new unit to be led by former Baidu chief operating officer Qi Lu.
Sam Altman, Y Combinator's president, said in a company announcement Wednesday that China had been "an important missing piece of our puzzle" when it came to sourcing new start-ups to take under its wing.
"We think that a significant percentage of the largest technology companies that are founded in the next decade — companies at the scale of Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, and Facebook — will be based in the U.S. and China," Altman said. "YC's greatest strength is our founder community and with the launch of YC China we believe we have a special opportunity to include many more Chinese founders in our global community."
Google's back in China. Now it's time to do a search for entrepreneurs.
Also at CNN.
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(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 17 2018, @07:53PM (19 children)
Their leftist, censorial forum will be quite at home under the thumb of the PRC.
Maybe now when participants fail to toe the social agenda, they can quietly disappear them in meatspace, too.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 17 2018, @08:12PM (8 children)
lawl, I've seen plenty of right wing opinions on HN, perhaps your problem is how you present yourself. They are definitely not tolerant of trolling, ranting, or bullshit. This disqualifies a lot of users that post here on SN.
The anarchy enabled by anonymous internet posting is actually a rather new phenomenon. All previous public forums would generally enforce rules for civility.
I think the solution is transparency, sites should make censored comments available if you click through to read and thus everyone can judge whether the censorship is good or bad.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 17 2018, @08:33PM (5 children)
Indeed, what happens when facts become offensive?
You are begging the question; you are engaging in circular logic.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 17 2018, @08:46PM (4 children)
Lol YOU are begging the question and I had no circular logic. I pointed out that most of the censoring I've seen has been for shitty posting behavior, and then I recommended that sites make the censored comment available if a user wants to see it.
You are a projecting simpleton, go dig up some examples and we can have an actual discussion.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 17 2018, @09:01PM (3 children)
Well, I like the irony, anyway.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 17 2018, @09:54PM (2 children)
Hey this isn't HN, I don't have to coddle your feelings or promote civil behavior. You started with false accusations, ignoring my points, and bringing up a hypothetical that requires proof. Go suck an egg Douchey McDouchebaggins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 17 2018, @10:00PM (1 child)
OK.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 17 2018, @10:31PM
Must be violently imposed monopoly guy at it again. Did capitalism not factor into your HN angst?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 17 2018, @10:27PM (1 child)
WTF is "HN"?
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 18 2018, @09:45AM
Hacker News [ycombinator.com] - the civilized-people counterpart of S/N.
More technically informative, they never let eth ruin their party.
(Score: 2) by acid andy on Friday August 17 2018, @09:35PM (9 children)
I've never understood that forum. Someone posts a statement. Someone else disagrees with it or asks a question. Then the original poster never seems to respond, but there seem to be so many posters on there that someone new jumps in instead to answer. Then yet another person replies. It's kind of jarring because you never know what the original poster would have said on the issue. Are they all just too incredibly busy to follow up on their comments? Or do they all have short attention spans?
Master of the science of the art of the science of art.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 17 2018, @09:51PM (2 children)
Maybe one person has more than one account, so these aren't new people?
Actually, I think HN probably became the current top tech news aggregation site after the collapse of that other site that spawned soylent. Am I missing out on another site?
(Score: 2) by acid andy on Friday August 17 2018, @10:15PM (1 child)
That sort of fakery would suggest someone's trying to make up the numbers to make the site look more popular or to influence opinion. I suppose it's possible. The commenters often sound sort of stressed or overworked though so maybe they really don't have enough time on their hands -- compared to somewhere like soylent.
I remember a few people praising it as the place to go when Fuck Beta hit. I don't spend a lot of time there, partly for the reason I gave and they seem to take themselves (and others) a bit too seriously for me.
Pipedot? It's a shame that hasn't really taken off. You'd think there'd be enough hardcore nerds online to fill lots of these places. So, yeah, where are they?
Master of the science of the art of the science of art.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 17 2018, @10:59PM
You should post in HN and link to anything in jwz.org (Netscape guy).
In the past it you always got a redirect to http://i.imgur.com/32R3qLv.png [imgur.com]
Oh, it still does:
His opinion hasn't changed.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by fyngyrz on Friday August 17 2018, @10:04PM (5 children)
It's interesting because this is both common behavior for trolls / site shills, and people who are sure that what they posted was accurate and/or factual (and may well be correct in that assessment.)
For myself, I know that many times that what I post will trigger various categories of the fact-deprived, and I'm usually not really interested in answering posts from such as those... typically, they can't learn for whatever reason, or they'd already know better. People who have non-fact-based beliefs and broader belief systems have to fix themselves. It isn't even worth the time to try, IMHO.
It's not that they're (necessarily) stupid; it's that they are invested with various forms of confirmation bias, endowment effect, divestiture aversion, politician's fallacy... or just ashamed of a huge dose of buyer's remorse.
(Score: 2) by acid andy on Friday August 17 2018, @10:28PM (3 children)
Good point. Most of these posts don't seem trollish, at least superficially (the modding's much too harsh for that on HN and they tend not to get replies) but shilling is certainly possible. I do wonder whether it's just a psychological artifact of the site having a larger base of commenters (if indeed it does?) than sites like Soylent or The Other Site -- I mean, if two or more people jump in and answer a question for you, would you bother to reply yourself? I think I probably still would but then I'm quite stubborn in that regard (A stubborn Soylentil -- surely not! Fuck Beta!), so maybe it's just a different sort of attitude on that site.
Master of the science of the art of the science of art.
(Score: 2) by fyngyrz on Friday August 17 2018, @10:30PM (1 child)
I actually did LOL. :)
(Score: 2) by acid andy on Friday August 17 2018, @11:42PM
Well if I get one laugh a year by the time I'm 80 I might have enough for a brief standup act. If I live that long. Think of it as an insurance policy.
Master of the science of the art of the science of art.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday August 17 2018, @10:35PM
Shilling? On HN [wikipedia.org]?
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(Score: 4, Interesting) by LoRdTAW on Friday August 17 2018, @11:29PM
Agreed. The sight is summed up in a meme about it consisting primarily of finance obsessed man children and brogrammers. Everyone wants to play big salary super engineer so their rebuttal to anything ain't gonna change because they'll be god damned if proven wrong. Though not all of the sight is like that. You just have you heavily opinionated know it all dick weeds who either get called out and won't stop defending themselves or they just disappear. A few will sometimes humbly admit defeat.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 17 2018, @11:13PM
No investments in companies with African American CEOs and majority African American employee numbers.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 18 2018, @03:28AM (1 child)
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz........
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Saturday August 18 2018, @09:48AM
This will be here for eternity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 19 2018, @01:53AM
Like all your silly valley compatriots who have ventured to the Middle Kingdom.
Btw Soylentnews is blocked in China, not by China but by Soylentnews itself who firewalls most traffic from Asian countries.