skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd say there's probably not a place for Tarsnap at YC (though I'm not sama), there's simply not enough ambition, but I'd be surprised if there isn't a place for Colin Percival. There obviously already is at HN and I bet there's dozens of startups that could use your help or advice in some way.

You mentioned a lot of reasons why Tarsnap can't be in the YC community. Perhaps you could come up with some reasons why you would have a place? It's marketing man ;)
Pretty harsh statement for Musk to make, although I think he was trying to strike a bigger point: his company has put extreme effort and talent into building the best electric car ever, and it almost insulting that another company thinks it can just build one on the side. However, that other company also happens to be the largest market cap. company in the world, so I don't think it's anything to hand wave.

In the end, I think this statement was another way for Tesla to draw top talent. Musk statement boils down to, "If you are the best, come work for me, and if you're not the best, go somewhere else". Pretty effective marketing if you ask me.
http://weave.works/guides/service-discovery-with-weave-aws-e...
The ‘tech bubble’ is only a B2C problem
Thanks for the feedback! We just realized this document is actually out of date with our legal contracts.

I've opened up a PR with the change here (https://github.com/clef/handbook/pull/56), though it may be 10 years rather than 7, so I'm waiting for confirmation from our CEO before merging :)

EDIT: Our CEO's response was: "this is more complicated than just changing that number, give me some time to write the fully change up." Incoming!

EDIT #2: Updated with the 7 year number and a more depth explanation :) - thanks @brennenHN!
Google Drive for Business not working
for us at ziggeo.com - anybody else having issues?
This is great! Nice, fun interactive project. Worked really well for me (Haight Ashbury in San Francisco), guess it makes sense that it would work best in tourist areas

How was it integrating Google Maps and Instagram APIs? Haven't looked at Instagram's yet
The 311 phone service was actually pioneered by Baltimore, not NYC, starting back in 1996.
Instagram seems to be doing OK with python.
> You can try all you want, but there is absolutely no way to spin people rear-ending a stopped car as anything but human error.

That's true, as stated. But it also may be that a significant mix of driven and driverless cars increases the likelihood of human at fault accidents, because we have learned to anticipate how other humans drive. We are, after all, not robots.
Nah. For me it was this 70 MB photo of Pluto that convinced me that they're not hyping anything, but delivering actual results: http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/cro...

Think I spent half a day staring at that photo, just zooming and panning and wishing I had a bigger screen. Anyhow, they bring up this data bandwidth issue front and center in the PDF.

More to my point (if I had one), the probe was launched in 2006 and took 9 years to get there. The 70 MB photo was taken half a year ago and just now managed to get transmitted (surely they had other things queued up and so forth.) I don't think that I've done anything for 9 years, and I would never wait half a year for a page to load, so NASA's convinced me that they can do longevity.
Medium 2.0 launches with great features, and dreadful branding
This is interesting, specifically the outstanding convertible notes. If the six year vesting is meant to communicate their company priorities, the over 30% (minimum, based on Series A) of the company owned by investors does too.

> $175,000 was raised on notes with a cap of $5m
>
> $1,683,555 was raised on notes with a cap of $6m

For the first set of notes, that is a minimum of 3.5% of the company. For the second set of notes, that is a minimum of 28% of the company.

So for a pre-Series A company, you already have nearly a third of the company owned by investors. That percentage is only going to go higher in the future. If I'm an employee, I'd better hope my shares won't be diluted 30% in all future rounds.
I used to be a long distance bicyclist. I got my time in but nowhere near as much as you, but nobody there really experienced the high either.

What I actually experienced felt more like what we now call Flow, which is a pretty good experience by itself. Programmers seek it out almost habitually, like an addiction. I've also experienced the same thing once doing restorative Yoga (the teacher was experimenting at the end of a quarter, but I moved across town after), and maybe while doing meditation but it felt different.

I'm really curious if this is the high people mean, and those who rave about it just have a really hard time entering a flow state. If that's so then I pity them.

Thanksgiving before last this really gelled for me. I had potatoes cooling on the stove and the dog was begging for a walk so I went out with him at like 10:15 am. Runners. Everywhere runners. Then it hit me like a brick. They were all out meditating, trying to mentally prepare for the onslaught of relatives and poorly behaved nieces and nephews that were about to descend on them.
Elon Musk on the Apple Car
The world would be a better place if more people took career risks. The evidence is that the majority of interesting stuff was created by people taking big career risks, even though they're a minority of all researchers. So people who take career risks are more likely to create something great.

It sucks to lose at a career gamble but, at least in Silicon Valley, most people who fail but keep trying, end up doing pretty well.
That's ad-hominem.
\o/

You should definitely soak up some credit for having that term. :)
I concede but only upto a point. Do go to the thread read all the crazy coincidences :P . Their targeting is definitely improving.
I've played with Linux and never figured this out- What's the difference between Chrome and Chromium?

Nevermind, I remembered how to Google... http://www.howtogeek.com/202825/what’s-the-difference-betwee...
Later they mention "(We are currently in the process of getting our 409A Valuation)"

This might be fine if their compensation plan was formed in 2015.
Sure, you have to make a calculated decision of whether that's worth it. If you think you'd have a better expected return on staying in academia, you should just do so. I think there's plenty of talented folks who don't expect such a high return from academia for whom YCR provides a far better opportunity for success.
For me it really depends.

If I actually like a mainstream candidate I will vote for them. Personally if I was in a "swing state" I might be more inclined to vote for a mainstream candidate but I am in the kind of state Hillary Clinton would go to get herself a solidly democratic constituency so most of the time I vote for whoever I want.
The difference I see is that ordinary futbol ultras aren't backed by armies so there's a different limit on how far things can escalate in a club match. Serbia-Albania [1] created an international incident.

[1]: Editorial mistake by The New York Times as the tradition in football fixtures is to list home team first.
It's gotten a lot better, have you used the iOS9 app yet? Or I would imagine the Android app, their latest update on iOS is pretty good. While you are still using their app and spinning up a browser inside it, it doesn't feel that way anymore, and this is coming from someone suffering the pains of using this on an iPhone 4S.
I guess I meant, "that is not LastPass" lol
He wasn't exactly the most ethically-upright, sympathetic person before his imprisonment, either.

Before the whole hacking charges thing happened, he was mostly known for being a vocal misogynist and antisemite. He has a history of doxxing women, too (even to the point of posting Kathy Sierra's social security number online).
The Placebo Effect Is Getting Stronger – But Only in the U.S
WebDAV?
I'll be your Huckleberry. Why are we seeing advances in drug legalization and LGBT rights, but erosion in others?
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Business method patents are back. Software is clearly patentable.

Article QQ.E.1: {Patentable Subject matter}

1. Subject to paragraphs 3 and 4, each Party shall make patents available for any invention, whether a product or process, in all fields of technology, provided that the invention is new, involves an inventive step, and is capable of industrial application.
This is not a formal debate.
Segment (YC S11) Raises $27M for Its “One API to Rule Them All”
Show HN: Best YouTube GIF Maker and HTML5 Video Creator
>That's one big issue I have with the hacker ethos, where societal merit is based on quality of code and not quality of character. The real world does not work that way.

isn't the quality of character exactly at the issue here?

Btw, on quality of code as a proxy to mental capabilities vs. quality of character - people stupid enough to use their real names in such situations like AM obviously don't have enough mental capability to distinguish between what is good and what is bad and act accordingly, ie. they obviously don't have the capability to have quality of character.
Having issues as well with our apps domain
If you're looking to change your password manager, I've been using `pass` [0] for years now, and it's one of he best open source project I have ever used. Everything works, it uses git for remote storage and gpg for encryption.
There is no fancy browser plugin, but a command line to get the password is enough, since browsers cache the password afterwards and most sites use long lived sessions through cookies. And the android app works well.

Pass feels simple but it is actually elegant.

[0]: http://www.passwordstore.org/
Without pay wall: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...
Will YC invest in companies that never plan to go public or get acquired, but could pay dividends?
Yea regular google drive isn't working for me (Cambridge, MA).

Rather large spike in problem reports:
https://downdetector.com/status/google-drive
Oh, I agree that Weev is pure, unmitigated slime (hey, I'm a Jewish girl, so he already hates me on two accounts), but I think it's newsworthy that people are using the Ashley Madison data to harass law-enforcement officials they've run afoul of.
Is this Soylent advocacy just a running joke? I can't imagine eating all my meals via a plain, liquid, meal-replacement.
Yes. From the Foundation's perspective, it weakens opposition.
(Sorry, I meant to add an explanatory sentence and got distracted. One moment please.)

It's because this is a classic rage tangent, and those invariably reproduce the same result.

People exhume this quote at every opportunity as if it adds light to the topic at hand. But this is an optical illusion: it only appears to do so because it's the most cherry-picked detail ever. All it really adds to the discussion is a rage supplement, like one of those toxic fuel additives.

If you picked a bad thing I—or any of us—said, and brought it out at every apparently relevant moment, you could make me—or any of us—look just as bad. The only differences are that the horrible things I said at 19 have been forgotten (at least I hope they have) and I didn't turn into the CEO of Facebook or some other celebrity.

These single-purpose memes are a side-effect of how the Internet works (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9722096). They're reflexive, not reflective, so they don't belong in HN discussions.
Great site. A couple of questions:

1) What is the date range for the photos shown?

2) How large is the radius where you show photos once the location is received?
XML-RPC Used to Amplify WordPress Brute Force Attacks
The real solution, as you point out, is fixing the supply. The reason the rent is too damn high is that the market has insufficient supply. You can encourage buildings with more store frontage near the market level(s) and more housing above by offering economic incentives (possibly with conditions like rent control) until you reach a more desired outcome.

PS: While you're doing this please also include civic funding mandates. More transit, parking areas (maybe free parking transit PnRs at the edge?, better designed surface and skybridge interlinks. Parks (public and private, maybe roof top?) as well.
I believe "it" refers to the sort of failure case described in the OP.
Berkley Astronomer Geoff Marcy Violated Sexual Harassment Policies
There were 506 water main breaks that needed to be reported by citizens?
That's why we link to the original parent: so anyone who wants to see the original context can.
Others?
Can I ask why you're determined to be a part of YC?

Everyone on this board knows who you are, and you could probably get an audience with whoever you want if you asked for it.

Your personal brand and network is probably way stronger than you give it credit for.
but being a jerk is not, as yet, illegal. additionally its not as if quality of character is a factor in non hacker circles or society at large anyway. if it was perhaps we wouldnt see so many corrupt/immoral (usually by their own standards) politicians, judges, police etc
sigh indeed.. Thanks :)
We ended up using consul's K/V store for discovery.
Paying LP Enterprise user also. Totally agree. I spent 45 mins today just explaining to new employees how to get everything set up. The UX something that absolutely needs work

Then again, it's currently good enough that we are paying them a pretty large yearly sum, so perhaps there is no business case for spending the resources to improve it.
...and yet keep the app running, continue to use the website, surf while logged in to Facebook, etc., etc.
Hi cburgess,

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Sorry, I did not get what you are saying. How is this related to the Prisoner's Dilemma?

In an Islamic system, the rich would have an obligation toward the rest of society to lift it up, particularly in the case where there is a massive wealth gap, as we see today.

The poor are consistently getting penalized, whereas the rich just get richer. This article was posted here on HN not too long ago: http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21663262-why-low...
I always assumed it had some military symbolism. In the Army, all of the Special Forces jobs are 18 series (18A, 18B...).
Getting Answers
(disclaimer: I am a programmer who works for startups, but I've always admired scientists and researchers and have often contemplated a career switch to biotech.)

How can an entire discipline that is supposedly based on rational evidence-finding be such a cliquey clusterfuck? You're basically saying that if you don't follow the community rules, which more or less boil down to "hazing," you'll be excommunicated. Sounds like a cult, to me... as is any culture where "fear" is the primary motivator not to try something different.

Don't the laws of nature exist everywhere? Why can't anyone "do science," then?

I am glad I work in a meritocracy-based industry where anyone with any background can "ship" and succeed, and that has a low tolerance for bullshit.
The protection IS a state investment. It's just contributing the threat of resources rather than actual resources, which is even more efficient.
I meant in the article posted. If you eliminate one of the legs of the journey, I'm sure quite a lot of money can be saved.
Slightly off-topic, but the "Butt-to-Butt" browser extension makes this headline quite amusing.

[0] http://i.imgur.com/3q9Ujy0.png

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/butt-to-butt-plus/...
This is cool. As a heavy Instagram user and someone who's worked with their API before, I'm curious about how far back in time you're going with photos at a given location.

And a comment: many of the photos showing around me (Cincinnati, OH) seem to be misplaced, some a half mile or more from where their actual location is. I'm judging this based off knowing what store the photo is taken inside of.
Wouldn't a third alternative be to sell the options to someone who could afford to purchase the shares? Or are they non-transferrable?
Awesome, thank you.

And a startup playbook sounds amazing.
Great Falls, in Virginia (west of DC) is surprisingly obese, given it's an EXTREMELY wealthy area (avg home price is >$1 million) and also not racially diverse. Compare it with the nearby Herndon and Reston areas, both of which are very mixed, both economically and racially.

Interestingly, this pattern is the opposite of what you see when comparing NW DC with the rest of the city. NW DC is more white and wealthy, but slimmer. The rest of the city is relatively poorer and more diverse, and also more obese.
I'm still on v3. I have the family licence. I'd like to move to v4+ but I don't see a cost effective upgrade route, for windows, ios and android in my case.
I've historically run on Thinkpads.

I've had accelerated Intel integrated gfx, working wireless (Intel Centrino 4965/5000/1000, 1000/2000/6000, 7260/7265/3160), tuneable CPU frequency...

If you've got the luxury of some medium that you can do a test install on, just do it. The install is text-based and really simple, so you shouldn't get hung up there. I assume you'll want X11, so you'll run "X -configure" to generate an xorg.conf. Grab the pkgsrc[0] framework to build 3rd party apps from source, or, use pkg_add(1)[1] (I don't know what's currently available for NetBSD7 in terms of pre-built packages; quick check shows at least some packages are, and they're _probably_ the most popular ones)

#netbsd on freenode.net IRC is your friend, too.

Good luck!

[0] https://www.pkgsrc.org/

[1] http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/current/pkgsrc/README-all.h...
Not defending the OP's thesis but clarifying my tl;dr summary of it: Fetching instructions is not the main problem, it's the data that the instructions have to act upon (Hence the exception for the compute heavy, data-light applications.) And since most of the compute power in the world today is basically processing and moving massive amounts of data around, I can see how that thesis would make sense in the general case.
There will always be at least one third-party candidate on the ballot, even if they've got zero chance of winning. By voting for that candidate you signal that you're a voter who WILL go to the polls and whom candidates should put in some effort to court, while still indicating with your fringe candidate vote that you are unwilling to support either major party candidate.
Isn't raising money a form of validation of your product/idea
I just noticed the same (and made a similar comment in response elsewhere).
So the only thing you can think of to explain this is cultural factor?

You don't think genetics could be a factor here at all?
No, the purpose is to give everyone a fair playing field. If everyone did a linkbait title, HN would be unreadable.

See the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This is absolutely disgusting. I heard rumors about exactly this for years as a grad student, it's sickening that things are only being done about it now, and even then no repercussions of consequence will be visited on him. Does Berkeley really see the chance of an exoplanet Nobel prize to be more important than the safety of students and staff?
Up for me but a bit slow
Google Drive/Docs Down
Just to say this directly:
You guys laying this out transparent to your team (and policies in favor of your team) is an amazing and impressive thing.

Personally i also believe it's a huge marketing/hiring benefit.

Startups live of implicit trust of their employees (imo their core asset)

Larger companies require explicit agreements with them

Very often when startups become larger companies, this trust breaks.

Having those explicit agreements upfront & transparent (before even joining a company) increases this trust a lot.

Kudos for doing so
If I understand the rules correctly, an ISO that is exercised more than 90 days after leaving a job is treated as an NSO, which means that it will be taxed at regular income tax rates instead of having the ability to be taxed at long-term cap gains rate. (This could reduce their value by an additional 15%+.)

That said, it's irrelevant if you exercise and sell an ISO at the same time, because short-term cap gains are taxed as income tax, too.

The real interesting term is having the ability to early exercise your entire stock grant, before it vests and before there is a spread between its strike price and fair market value. (The company would have a repurchase right, to implement the vesting schedule.) That way the cost is very low, and there's no worry of having to exercise in the future when it could be taxed unfavorably, and the clock for long-term capital gains starts early.
I have to generally echo this sentiment. I'm at about 1,900 miles for the year and will end up with about 2,500 by New Year's (50 miles per week avg for the year). Most of the time my runs are enjoyable, except maybe the day after a hard workout. Sometimes I'll hit a stride and end up going much faster than intended and the miles click by and I'm amazed at my pace and what I've done by the end.

The closest I come to "runners high" is usually on those days where it's been a bit hot for long periods and then a cool front blows in. I'm practically giddy for the whole run and feel amazing. And I run races from 5k to 100 miles. I really, really enjoy racing, but I think it's the competitive aspect of it and not from some runners high.
you could probably get an audience with whoever you want if you asked for it.

Maybe, but I'd need to know who to ask. Being not part of the YC community, I don't know who is doing interesting things; nor do I know who to ask if I have a question about something.
Awesome! I've been wanting to see something like this for a while. Kudos to the creator. I love the interface as well.
You can, just click on the top right button :)