skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So your all individualy developing locally on your machine instead of on a server that you all use? - I think that's your problem right there
The failure rate is probably skewed low by YCs growth rate. For example, 1/9 of the companies were in their most recent batch, and it's unlikely that any of them have gone out of business yet.

Still impressive though. Any success rate over say 10-20% seems really impressive for an incubator.
This is basically what a number of episodic games do - for example, the Ace Attorney iOS ports and the iOS versions of the assorted Telltale Games series. You can download the app for free and access the first 1/5th or so of the game, and an in-app purchase unlocks the rest of the content.
My point, in case it's not obvious enough, is that GDP is not a good definition of richness in the context of a discussion about how can these things happen "in the richest country in the world".
Wait, wait, I can make it work. starts whittling the wooden end into a screwdriver
I wonder if it would be useful to call 911 in that situation. Even though the authorities are involved, getting some more people aware of what's going on might put a stop to the nonsense.
Ask HN: Which would you prefer for ML: Torch or Julia?
I know Torch is generally preferred for Deep Learning-type research (awesome nn library) but I'm wondering how the two compare in other ML areas (like more standard data science / data-wrangling).
Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1217/
Blogged 30+ times 1 week into launch. Power of visually appealing hardware
This is fantastic, straight from cyberpunk stories! Thanks for a reason to look into ethereum.
It's generally not a good idea to assault a person with a gun.
If caught, what types of legal liability might the AM hacker face??
Reuters Employees Bombarded with Reply-All Email Catastrophe
This works on OSX:

while :; do clear; git status --short; git --no-pager diff --shortstat; sleep 2; done
Implying that Facebook built this in response to a service that had a weekend+ of buzz?
1920x1080, not sure about the fps, certainly over 30, possibly 60. No crazy texture packs or anything, but it runs well. Can also run games like Civ 5, Trine 2, and Valve games quite well - albeit not with maxed out graphics. KSP has some issues (probably a Unity thing), but runs good on lower settings.
Glad to answer questions if anyone is interested in further details on how we did this.

coverage: bit.ly/1Je2ejx
I think the idea is not to publicize the salt. The proof still works (after both user name and salt are publicly known), but a dictionary attack with all twitter handles won't work.
Money != wealth, but I like the flat tax credit idea--unless they do something shady like raise taxes because of the additional credit.
That actually kinda makes me more worried. As a passenger, removing the crazies sounds great, but in this scenario someone who's going through a hard time and makes a couple of bad decisions can get permanently banned from their only means of getting to work (assuming Uber succeeds in completely privatizing public transit). It's basically a No-Fly List on the ground.

("Get a bike" is not a universal solution; bikes cost money, and the kind of winter wear you need to ride across town in a cold climate without getting frostbite costs more money, and a lot of people don't get paid enough to have that much squirreled away even before their life went to shit.)
1.) They could be lying.

2.) My read is that, instead of no security, (or else AM would be have been compromised instantly by script kiddies) they used manufacturer default passwords on internal firewall appliances.
NIST random beacon is government. It's better. It's free. It's every minute.
"Solving Problem X" is not an exciting headline if the community is aware that Problem X has already been solved. The point is that the community may not be aware that tool/approach Y can solve problem X, and might want to see how it is done, to learn about Y, and consider how Y is better/worse than existing tools/approaches.
I assumed it was about Yahoo's product.
As a counterargument, I can strongly recommend reading Peter Watts' talk on The Scorched Earth Society:

http://www.rifters.com/real/shorts/TheScorchedEarthSociety-t...

(Sorry, PDF.) (Also, for the record, I agree with neither Watts nor Brin.)
I'm curious what you mean by this; ClearSky Data has only existed for two years and has always been in the enterprise storage industry.
Or it could mean your brain gets leashed in such a way that you're not aware of your servitude all the while you don't get paid a dime for said servitude.
This sounds like a great idea! It could potentially remove the massive conflict of interest drug companies are soaked in.
I think I down voted this by mistake - sorry! Myra looks really cool :)
I try to make bloviating a part of every day.
>That's a big honkin' if. Here in New York, you can get an unlimited metrocard for $116 a month; that's probably a week's worth of Uber rides

Sure, if she just got a regular UberX ride, but that's not responding to the GP's point or the article, which discuss the possibility of Uber setting up its own transit lines, somewhere in between UberPool/Lyft lines and a municipal bus line, in which they could get fares down closer to bus rates with more direct routes.

You're right that it's a big "if", but it's not responsive to compare a monthly pass to the current non-bus-ified Uber rates.
Knowing that Lyft (or whoever) may quickly replace them if they turn expensive/unreliable will keep Uber on their toes. This is not the case with the government - you can't just start using another government service if the current one sucks.
7 Security Measures to Protect Your Servers
Once this service is released to the public, you should definitely ask it that second question and see how it responds.
Not for long.

More like "until the next big framework becomes popular."
Nope. The Clinton Foundation is a "Federally Recognized not-for-profit." Could you imagine the stratospheric levels of corruption of non profits start to demand law enforcement revenues.

The money should go to the general revenue fund but as an offset against tax income. More fines: lower taxes (which essentially means that the fines are distributed to the taxpayers, which is completely fair since the crime is against "the people."

Law enforcement should never get fine money. That's a huge conflict of interest. It would be like a foreign government donating to the non profit of a sitting Secretary of State.
You're in the right general direction. The replies to you are misleading and show the common problem of INFOSEC people having no knowledge of what was achieved in the past or present for immunizing systems. Systems far back as 1961 were immune to this with that one using 3 bits to do it [plus code/data separation]. CPU cost when done in parallel is almost zero. See my main comment.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10125348
How Scammers Are Preying on Ashley Madison File Seekers
Relevant skit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4WrPkKc2Wg
Right and wrong is great -- but so is paying the bills. "Startups" the don't care about money are a fools game.
While one could be wrong about the basics of physics and math, you can encrypt things, cheaply and quickly, that would take a computer made of all the matter and all the energy in the universe to break in more time than the universe has existed.

You have to take some care. But an NSA magic code breaking machine is in the same category as flying saucers at Area 51. Exceedingly unlikely.

That's about as good a guarantee as nature can offer.
There actually is a system like this in place in Germany. Not for traffic fines, but if you get a fine in criminal court (technically your case is suspended conditionally on paying X€) it will go to a local charity.

Caused quite a bit of drama a few months ago when the "Kinderschutzbund" refused the payment in a widely publicized child pornography case (the defendant was a member of the federal parliament at the time of the crime) despite accepting it before in similar cases.
Ongoing discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10124152
founder's itch. we are all confronted with insurmountable opportunity.
Perhaps a stupid question, but why does the plasma need to stay confined for long periods of time? If you can devise a process that performs a full power-generating cycle, then no matter how long (or short) that cycle takes, you will get net power out of it.
The Holy Grail of Software Delivery: Continuous Delivery with a Real CD Platform
Ask HN: Putting up the Ashley Madison data ramifications?
Intrigued by the data, I built a site that lets users search the data in many ways. What are the ramifications of putting this up?
Come back tomorrow and you can experience it again!
Secure Azure Blob Storage
Does anyone have a link to the Twitter lawsuit mentioned in the slides and talk?

edit: found it (I think) http://www.theverge.com/2015/3/21/8270585/twitter-gender-dis...
Because we average citizens have no voice in public policy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tu32CCA_Ig
The AM hack is similar in tenor to the Sony hack. Nothing about the hack has the feel of a lone wolf or black hat operation. I have no doubt someone will get pinned for the hack, but I also think if it wasn't an inside job it was state-sponsored.
The debate may be old, fair enough, but the past three or so months, gasoline was poured on the fire and I'm not sure why.
I'm not saying that total GDP is necessarily the best metric for "richness" of a place, but it is a commonly used one.

I think per-capita GDP is clearly a better metric, putting the US around 10th, but total GDP isn't an awful one for broad strokes.
The Joy of Weekend Hacking
Is it just me or does this article read as a thinly veiled sales pitch to anyone else?
When set to xenakis_chrom, "D1 E1 B0 C1 D1 C1 B0 C1 B0 A0 B0 C0" on that piano ends up sounding very familiar :)

Very interesting little library. I'll definitely have to take a look at it.
lame. All serious, no fun allowed.
yes they are. which is the improperly managed company that dealt with them as a single thing?
Smart thinking. It was already done in a dozen different ways. Two cited in my comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10125348

Also see capability-based computer systems by levy. Free book. Pointer protection by itself can give all kinds of benefits. Modern version of that is Cambridge's CHERI processor which is open-source and already runs FreeBSD. :)

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/ctsrd/cheri/
YC has said that Airbnb would have failed without their help. How could they not update their thinking? Being determined to succeed is necessary but insufficient. Every successful startup received a big helping hand early in its life. YC's business is to provide that opportunity to founders that otherwise wouldn't have it, such as Airbnb, which no other investor would back.
Canopy Innovations Is Hiring a Sales Associate
Join Canopy’s mission of improving healthcare for millions of underserved patients – many of whom lack a voice because they do not speak English – through the use of innovative technologies.

We are looking for an experienced sales person to help drive customer adoption of our products, by identifying and reaching out to decision-makers at hospitals, clinics, and medical schools.
Duties include:
-Identifying new customer leads
-Emailing and calling new leads to ramp up BD pipeline, pitch & close deals
-Automating systems to follow up with leads
-Working with the CEO and senior execs on setting and executing sales plans

To apply, please send application to jobs@t19s.com with the heading "Sales Associate - Canopy Apps."

About Canopy:

Canopy's technology helps doctors and nurses to communicate with their patients in any language. We are creating the most comprehensive language access platform, including the world’s largest and most accurate database of multilingual medical content. Canopy's mobile apps, e-learning courses and other products are funded by the NIH, and are used in clinical settings to improve healthcare for 30 million+ people in the US who do not speak English.

PRODUCT

Canopy's technology helps healthcare providers and patients communicate across language barriers.
For Patients: Better understanding of care
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Canopy is the winner of innovation awards from the National Institutes of Health, and is a winner of the 2014 PILOT Health Tech NYC award. Our products are used by 100,000+ doctors, nurses and other clinicians across the country.
Visit us at www.canopyapps.com

WHY US?
We're a small tight knit team located in the heart of NYC, working to eliminate the language barrier in healthcare and improve the lives of millions.
> if you want to decode n bits you need at least O(n) time

This is hardware. There aren't branches, there are wires. Decoding those n bits can be constant time at the cost of quadratic "space" usage.
How many national anthems are plagiarised?
"from a privacy perspective, I trust Google more than T-Mobile or Sprint"

From a privacy perspective, I would not trust an advertising company (Google) more than a telecom. Google is perhaps better about disclosure to a Government entity, but they would be worse about exploiting your data for their own ends.
Does it matter, when there is so much prior art that is more relevant?

The first time I saw it was on the Neonode phone, several years prior to Apple's patent. They were Windows CE based if I remembers correctly, and very proud of their UI. You can probably still find movies on Youtube.
You won't need CCTV. Many already carry around always-connected surveillance devices. Those devices will only grow in number and their capabilities increase.
The odd thing about the example of Messenger is that as two separate apps they seem highly coupled. AFAIK you need to sign in with a valid Facebook account to use Messenger, so you're already very likely to have the normal app at that point as I can't imagine anyone who would trust FB for messaging but not everything else. On the flip side, barring a few possible holdouts of people worried about app permissions, I don't know anyone who actively have FB accounts but don't use their messaging service.
Ask HN: How many hours do you work?
I joined Facebook as an engineer straight out of college a little less than a year ago. During my time here I've constantly felt like I'm not working hard enough. I spend around 9 hours a day at the office, but not all of that time is spent working.

To get a better idea of how much time I actually work I started using the pomodoro technique a few weeks ago. I've noticed I do around 12 pomodoros (about 6 hours) of solid work before calling it a day. Usually by the end I'm mentally exhausted (is this normal?) and want to go home.

I'm really curious to know if six hours of work a day is normal. How much time do people spend actually working at the office? A lot of people at Facebook put in long hours, but I feel like that may be because they spend some time browsing reddit, reading hacker news, etc., rather than working.

So far after compiling feedback I've received from my manager and peers I'd say I'm performing above average but not exceptionally.

I hear about people working 60 hours a week and I wonder how they do it. Do you compromise on productivity? How do you stay focused for so long?

How many hours do you put in at the office? How many of those are spent doing productive work?
Call up the local high end madam and ask for a "date".
A list of mediums startups can hire from
I'd even say that the 'picture' is a sort of homeomorphism: it preserves the important structure while inevitably changing incident details.
The aspect that a company who's business model resolves around people breaking contracts (marriage contracts) finding itself on the downside of what could of been an employee who broke their employment contract is something ironic.

Maybe we should not be calling those a hack and more a data-affair.

Still one can only hope that we gain some better protection and rights regarding how companies handle data and more so in the area of authority auditing that those rules and standards are maintained.
To be fair, how should the officer have known that the license and registration are valid?
Canopy Innovations Is Hiring a Mobile Product Manager
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Canopy (www.canopyapps.com) is a growing health technology startup that is the winner of funding from the NIH. Our mobile applications allow healthcare providers to communicate instantly and accurately with patients across different languages to improve quality of care for patients, and bottom lines for health systems.
Help create an accurate Google Translate for medicine.

Qualifications:
-	You’re a people person and a strong leader that is ready to hit the ground running with a team of mobile developers
-	You’re a healthcare guru with confidence in your health tech experience.
-	You’re flexible – you’re able to both manage the team during sprints and get involved in the nitty-gritty details of UX design. You’re not afraid to get involved in all aspects of Canopy’s portfolio.
-	You’re able to look at the big picture: we need someone to help us scale our medical content and help us create dashboards to analyze and make the most of Canopy’s data.
-	Most importantly: you’re have team spirit and are passionate about the work that you do.

To apply, send all applications to jobs@t19s.com with the subject "Mobile Product Manager - Canopy Apps"

About Canopy:

Canopy's technology helps doctors and nurses to communicate with their patients in any language. We are creating the most comprehensive language access platform, including the world’s largest and most accurate database of multilingual medical content. Canopy's mobile apps, e-learning courses and other products are funded by the NIH, and are used in clinical settings to improve healthcare for 30 million+ people in the US who do not speak English.

Visit us at www.canopyapps.com

WHY US?
We're a small tight knit team located in the heart of NYC, working to eliminate the language barrier in healthcare and improve the lives of millions.
Yay. Nore more having to run it in Wine :)
So why was this made? Can anyone tell me how this will in any form replace or even compete with TwitchTv, HitBox, and other streaming sites?
From what I've seen, interest in the Ashley Madison leaks has been almost entirely prurient ("OMG look at this guy!"), which is a common human foible, but not something that's generally considered good to encourage. Many people also reacted positively to the theft of compromising photos from dozens of celebrities last year, for very similar reasons.
Passing a Parameter into Laravel Form::open
Right and wrong is also a subject of opinion. Even the story in the OP is based on some real lawbreaking. We might all agree that these traffic stops go way to far, but they often do start with legitimate infractions (no insurance etc). Perhaps the better answer is to change these petty laws, or amalgamate them into something less difficult to obey. Frankly, the american approach of license+registration+insurance on three separate plans with three separate expiry dates is a minefield.
Show HN: Create Custom Views of Your Product Strategy
Interesting question. I don't have the answer but it could be because it's costly to get the whole thing running. Once it's up, you want to keep it up to avoid all sorts of problems/costs. And that's not considering how long it takes to generate said power from the plasma.

Might be like an MRI machine. You could quench the magnet every other month, but at what cost and benefit?
The title of the article could be confusing for non-lawyers, the woman was not fighting a traffic stop for 6 years (i.e. not a defendant in traffic court), she spent 6 years suing/proving that there was a violation of her Constitutional Rights (i.e. Plaintiff in a civil suit).

The traffic defense portion/aspect of the case is one of many reasons I have co-founded www.tickettitan.com . With proper representation at that level, this likely would never have escalated to 25 days in jail. That said rural Louisiana is not alone, Florida has many "speed trap cities" and in fact Waldo, Florida was so bad the Chief of police was suspended and then the entire police department was disbanded.

While Larvadain is referencing the Civil side, it is possible though difficult to obtain a pro bono lawyer, but I would have reasonable expectation most lawyers would accept this on contingency so there would be no out of pocket legal fees (hourly billable cases almost never make sense against the Gov. because of statutory caps on damages).
You can use otool to see what libraries a program uses:

$ otool -L /Applications/Utilities/Activity\ Monitor.app/Contents/MacOS/Activity\ Monitor
/Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor.app/Contents/MacOS/Activity Monitor:
/System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/ApplicationServices (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 48.0.0)
/System/Library/Frameworks/Foundation.framework/Versions/C/Foundation (compatibility version 300.0.0, current version 1153.20.0)
/System/Library/Frameworks/AppKit.framework/Versions/C/AppKit (compatibility version 45.0.0, current version 1348.13.0)
/System/Library/Frameworks/Security.framework/Versions/A/Security (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 57031.30.5)
/System/Library/Frameworks/IOKit.framework/Versions/A/IOKit (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 275.0.0)
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/GraphKit.framework/Versions/A/GraphKit (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 25.0.0)
/System/Library/Frameworks/SecurityFoundation.framework/Versions/A/SecurityFoundation (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 55126.0.0)
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CrashReporterSupport.framework/Versions/A/CrashReporterSupport (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 631.0.0)
/usr/lib/libsysmon.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.0.0)
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/NetworkStatistics.framework/Versions/A/NetworkStatistics (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.0.0)
/usr/lib/libobjc.A.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 228.0.0)
/usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1213.0.0)
/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreFoundation.framework/Versions/A/CoreFoundation (compatibility version 150.0.0, current version 1153.18.0)
/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreGraphics.framework/Versions/A/CoreGraphics (compatibility version 64.0.0, current version 600.0.0)
/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/CoreServices (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 62.0.0)

And for top:

$ otool -L $(which top)
/usr/bin/top:
/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreFoundation.framework/Versions/A/CoreFoundation (compatibility version 150.0.0, current version 1151.14.0)
/System/Library/Frameworks/IOKit.framework/Versions/A/IOKit (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 275.0.0)
/usr/lib/libncurses.5.4.dylib (compatibility version 5.4.0, current version 5.4.0)
/usr/lib/libpanel.5.4.dylib (compatibility version 5.4.0, current version 5.4.0)
/usr/lib/libutil.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.0.0)
/usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1213.0.0)
I don't think it's fair to accuse Glassdoor of corruption.

Even it makes it clear that Amazon is a much worse employer than other tech firms, with an average rating of 3.0 vs >4 for Google, Facebook, etc. [0]

[0] http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Amazon-com-Reviews-E6036.ht...