skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We will be adding that as part of the product demo page but at the moment it just shows what your customers will experience. So currently, we receive those videos ourselves.

In the actual product, the end users don't receive a copy of the videos.
First of all, we still don't know the whole text of the treaty, actually being treated as a trade promotion authority, so how can you at all make that statement without further knowledge of what the treaty contains?

Second, there are plenty of reasons to oppose this treaty that have nothing to do with this particular IP chapter, but even if we are judging the treaty based of this single chapter it would still be enough to oppose it due to the unaccountability it implements and the restriction of electronic freedom it pushes. The DMCA was bad enough, but to make it worse and then push it on other countries under the false premise that it would push up those countries is ridiculous. If anything, our broken IP system has hindered our growth, not helped it.
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God, so complicated. Just say weed makes you paranoid. No need to anthropomorphize our thoughts.
> For the secure storage of hundreds of passwords that sit in front of insane amounts of personal information, with support for auto-filling on desktop and mobile, easy syncing, archive sharing, and more...

I have all those features plus a proper web extension for $12/year.
Good to know, though they could be better marked so as to less obviously mistaken for dark areas.
"Persuade."

How can we know that NSL's aren't being used right now to "persuade" or coerce companies to cooperate? Who needs legislation when you effectively don't have to reveal anything?
People do, however, like (and rely on) its enormous suite of optimizations.
You're arguing against a command economy, but there are multitudes of options when it comes to creating a more equitable society than micromanaging wealth.
I showed this to my boss who likes to talk about DEC, and how the PDP-10 was his "first computer in college". First he smiled then "said ohhhh what a useless exercise" then launched into a half hour of stories about programming the thing.
What is a better editor VIM or emacs? Why?
How do I access this from my phone? Same with other open source solutions... the only way to open it on my phone is to trust an unknown app developer to open it for me.

I trust GNU zip, but can I trust MiniKeePass? Can I trust iZip?
Commerce happens on all scales, therefore "commercial scale" could apply at all scales.
Why should anyone care what some physicist (even a very smart one) thinks about politics? Same deal with Noam Chomsky. Just because they're accomplished in one branch of science doesn't make them an authority on social issues.
What's the future of YCF?
I currently have no 'unicorn'-ideas. Applying doesn't seem useful at this moment. Is there a list of startups that need help? If so, why did they get funded when the team isn't right yet?
I like how it takes a well known figure to state the obvious and get people to actually talk about the basic flaws of a system...
I wonder how things might be handled differently depending on whether public interests (NASA) or private interests (SpaceX) colonize first.
Blur from abine.com.
You said before co-hosting an Obama fundraiser that you would ask him about surveillance issues[0]. Did you get a chance to do this? Were you able to give input on any other issues?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7612471
It's probably a bad idea to pass policy against passing future policy... That applies both to 'informal deals' and leaving the door open for future legislation.

Really the only reason to pass policy against policy in this case is to score political points with the Hacker News interest group, which is a pretty niche constituency...
That's actually still pretty creepy.
It is maddening trend, how a few seconds of video is often clipped out of a larger video and inserted, on infinite loop, in another document with no direct reference or explanation.
Well that's what the app is logging. Full stack traces. ;) I can think of lots of apps that do just that. If a formatted stack trace is truly what you need to ingest, maybe I should look into contributing a "Raven" for generic systems that log stack traces.
Cook all of your own meals. Don't buy drinks at the bars if you go out. Don't buy expensive shit, you don't need the newest iphone every year or name brand designer stuff. Get a roommate. Not rocket sciene
Why's the Windows version "lacklustre" compared to the Mac version? I thought 1Password 4 for Windows is at feature-parity with the Mac version, they even have sync over wifi which was missing in 1Password 3.x for Windows.
Please don't post dismissive comments to HN.

The OP may not answer every question but this is obviously serious work, so it deserves a fair treatment, not a glib dismissal—especially since the people working on it are here answering questions. This is deeply interesting stuff and there's no excuse for unsubstantive discussion.
What are your thoughts are on the whole concept of living on Mars? How feasible is it; how important is the fact of sustainable life on another planet; how would you approach such a problem?

Thank you!
Yeah, that's unfortunate. I clicked Reply when there were no replies, but by the time I composed my reply there were several others.
The very basic thing is : gun is not allowed anywhere in china except military and special forces. This comes down to one thing , it is hard to start violation here. And chinese here is controlling 1.5 billion people. Do not talk about the things that you dont know shit about it. You tell me i like more of china than america but here is the truth i havent seen any gun violence in china thus i havent seen gangs or mafia here. Dont believe in the tales of triad or other stuff. They stayed in past and china is one of the safest countries in the world. I suggest you to watch less fox and cnn. In china you can freely walk around drunk around 4 or 5 am without worry.
Are you saying that all women want to talk about is bland socially-approved topics, or that everything other than engineering and video games is bland and socially-approved? I like talking about work and videogames sometimes but if that's all you can talk about without getting bored, it's pretty bad.
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Weird, I use 1Password on Windows and iOS and it works great.
Unless we find a way to create energy, black hole orbiting real estate will one day be very valuable...
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It will be interesting indeed but also worrisome.

China also has plans for Mars and it has no collaborative efforts with the ISS.
How much land will it claim?

And how many colonies will demand secession?

edited: typo :)
I think this is the core of the discussion to be had, not just about this treaty but other treaties/TPA's and the general direction of the geostrategic goals of the United States. It's all about national sovereignty, and while I understand the arguments for a reduction of it and an increase in globalism (teetering towards world government), my main issue is that I don't understand how people who have sworn an oath to protect and the defend the constitution can turn around and undermine it, especially without having first had the discussion with the American public about their reasons for such pushes.

I suspect the reason they don't bring these issues into the public light is because they rightly predict that the American people would quickly reject the level of blatant globalism that has pervaded the corridors of power in Wall Street, K Street, and DC.
It would be nice if the elephant in the room were addressed: We are Not in a capitalist society. We are in a corporatist society.

It took a joint collaboration between corporations and government to blow up the economy with the 2008 financial crisis. And then the government bailed out the financial elites. In a capitalist society, those who failed would go under. In fact, we probably wouldn't have reached that crisis point, because the Fed would not exist (and would not be manipulating interest rates), there would be no revolving door between corporations and government (Former Goldman Sachs CEO becomes Treasury Secretary, promptly gives trillions of dollars to Wall St; Former senior executive for Monsanto becomes head of FDA).

Granted, pure capitalism is not exactly possible given the flawed existence of humans and our fragile societies. But let's at least call our current system what it is: corporatism. Maybe even with a dash of nepotism, militarism and fascism.
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Why or why not?
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What are you looking for in block chain / bitcoin applications?
>human drivers’ tendency to take risks and cut corners, and well, that, in itself, might indicate driverless cars’ risk aversion is an accident waiting to happen (at least when human drivers are also in the mix).

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.
As a distributed platform, the internet has failed. The solution is to rebuild the OS and network from the ground up: http//www.urbit.org

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Hi Sam,

Any tips on balancing uni, research there (pre-doc) and a startup (co-founder, CTO)?

Do you think it is necessary to give up one for another?
SCOTUS struck down patents on naturally occurring gene sequences themselves and decided that the "mere isolation" thereof cannot be patented:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ass%27n_for_Molecular_Patholog...

However, "artificial" sequences can be. I'm not aware of any test cases that establish boundaries on the difference though. It would be logical to assume you'd have to alter the nucleotide sequence to the extent that the resulting peptide or protein is not naturally occurring (e.g. changing a TTT codon to TTC wouldn't suffice, since both will ultimately be translated into phenylalanine).

Contrary to this reasoning, complementary DNA is patentable in the US on the grounds that it's "not naturally occurring". So, if you take the mRNA corresponding to an un-patentable DNA sequence and mix it with a few enzymes and nucleotides that react in a deterministic fashion, you can then patent the sequence of the final product:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complementary_DNA

In a gross oversimplification, it's almost as if the court said: "you can't patent natural English words, but you can patent the ROT13 versions of them".

But regarding methods, the majority opinion clearly said they're fair game (just as you can't patent gold, but you could patent a novel approach to mining or extracting it) and there are several valid examples in the US today:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_patents_in_the_Unit...
So the tools, infrastructure and contacts are all there for police to hit a button / make a phone call and get your private data.

Why bother getting a warrant if you can open your laptop and have your suspicions validated in five minutes?

Access shouldn't be in the hands of local departments with little to no accountability. I'd go as far to say that access shouldn't be made available at all, but it's almost 2016 and that isn't changing.

http://theantimedia.org/local-sheriffs-dept-used-stingray-su...

http://www.wired.com/2015/04/ny-cops-used-stingray-spy-tool-...
Use an intermediary to buy the laptop for you in cash.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10361203 and marked it off-topic.
I beg to differ. On the issue of tech sector, U Waterloo obviously puts out many great students. UBC isn't really known for it's tech streams. In addition, there's likely many smart tech people from RIM looking for jobs in the KW area.

As for the issue of where people want to live. Vancouver is likely even more costly to live than SV. KW (and southern Ontario in general) is a great place with warm weather 6 months per year and access to the 3rd largest city in North America.

In my opinion, KW would make a better YC V2 location.
Some time ago LastPass automatically DELETED my five-year old account on Mendeley.

The "AutoFill" option of LastPass was turned on. I was browsing my profile settings on Mendeley. Somehow LastPass automatically commenced the account removal action, filled in my password, and confirmed the prompt. My account was gone.

I did NOT EVEN NOTICE when it happened. The only reason I know it now is because I managed to reproduce this behavior with a new account. I reproduced it one month later, after exchanging multiple nervous emails with Mendeley Support.

The potential for abuse of LastPass is huge. The hope is that LastPass will get better after this acquisition.
Look at what the big corporations around us are doing. Capitalism is about maximizing profit, with seemingly no regard for ethics or morals. Things like opening slave shops in China for cheap manufacturing, with horrible working conditions? That would be banned Islamically, because humans have the right to work in safe places, and in decent conditions.

HFT and whatever Wall street is up to? Same thing. It's all exploitative and benefits only a few, while harming most.

Edit: sharing risk on certain transactions, and paying taxes are two different things.

Edit: another example: what about mind numbing advertisements? What about ads for prescription only medication? Purely a product of capitalism. Sexist car advertisements with naked women in them? Yep.

Edit: isn't tax evasion by inversion (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_inversion) also a product of capitalism?
Well, that's fucked up about academia. All the more reason to create alternatives. Do you really want to be part of a system that does not allow for failure?

At a minimum, I expect YCR researchers to be turning down job offers from YC companies all the time.
>although I can crush either of them in topcoder competitions 10 times out of 10 :D

Them's fightin' words.
How is this stereotype-laden rant the top comment? Your racist assertions addresses nothing to do with the article, and only sate the wishful thinking of those insecure about this piece of news.
History has shown that treaties are broken by parties whose interests are disserviced by them.

They are there to maintain the status quo.
Learning from Ambiguity (1998) [pdf]
Solution:

1)Pen & Paper

2)Protected word doc saved in dropbox under an unassuming title like "Low fat, low calorie, totally un-appetizing vegan meals"
Ideas do not start out as unicorn ideas. They start small and morph into something bigger.
sama: Jacqueline Novogratz (CEO of Acumen) once said that a major challenge of building modern finance in developing nations is that developing communities often have lots of trust (within themselves) but not much accountability.

In your position at YC, founders and investors alike trust you with lots of information. You have a unique view of where money is flowing and how equipped companies are to compete with each other. I'm sure you'd have amazing answers for Peter Thiel's "tell me something you believe is true but nobody else agrees with" and you'd probably be right on a lot of the points due to information available uniquely to you.

As YC grows, what actions do you plan on taking to ensure its accountability? In particular, how do you plan to help founders who for whatever reason don't directly participate in YC?
Hey Sam! What are you (and YC) doing to enable more founder diversity? Any initiatives to reach out to black/latino founders to invite them to apply?
I wonder if the AirBnB team thought they were a unicorn when they started? Likely not.
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That's 54 things fixed per day, that's quite a lot. Props to Detroit on making their data so explorable[1], according to the data[2] it looks like the app is working.

Also this heatmap[3] absolutely destroys my Firefox.

1. https://data.detroitmi.gov/Government/Improve-Detroit-Submit...

2. https://data.detroitmi.gov/resource/fwz3-w3yn.json?$select=i...

2. https://data.detroitmi.gov/Government/Improve-Detroit-Submit...

Edit: That's embarrassing, I originally said 5.4 things fixed a day (which is not that good)
I'm a beginning runner, so what you said piques my curiosity, because a question that's been on my mind is whether a slow runner can ever get fast. I remember seeing Malcolm Gladwell (he happens also to be an amateur runner who can do a 4:54 mile) quoting someone saying "I’ve never seen a boy who was slow become fast", then express his agreement sprinting is indeed an exception to the 10,000-hour rule. [1] (To be clear, he is talking about, sprinting, but I think he would agree the logic extends to running.) You mentioned your 5K went from 22:09 to 17:21 your first year running. Were you simply a good runner to begin with? My personal experience is that I'm also in my first year of running, and my 5K PR is 26:50, so I'm wondering whether I can ever get it down to 22:09.

[1] http://www.newyorker.com/news/sporting-scene/complexity-and-...
Surprising amount of C/Unix influence in lexical conventions, for 1979. For instance note the character escapes in string literals: \n newline, \177 octal (7.5, p. 25). The text formatter program in the example appendix (IV.2, p. 140) is a miniature troff.
The bandaid is we increase the amount of money we give to teams.

We do have some longer-term thoughts if the area can't get its act together and fix the problem.
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In your interview with Kara Swisher on Decode, you talked about how investing in the stage of companies that YC invests in requires a very different skillset and a lot more hands-on work than traditional later-stage VC funds are willing to do.

How did YC gain such a huge advantage in doing this over the other incubator/accelerators?
I don't understand why respect would be part of this, or loyalty, patriotism, or whatever. Do you really think the best strategy to defend against an adversary is to shame them into behaving?

This is about what's cryptographically possible and what isn't. I don't frankly care if anyone respects my privacy, what I want is the ability to shut adversaries out, period, using math.

This decision means companies can say 'no'. That's a win, because it lets the math be possible in the first place.
The article goes on to say

>However the difficulties caused by the co-mingling of human and robot driving styles is also in ample evidence.

Which is not true at all based on the three examples they choose to highlight (all three state that the autonomous car was appropriately stopped).
Direct link to petition: https://savecrypto.org/?r=eff
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We do a lot of different outreach, but to your specific question, we recently did this: http://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-open-office-hours-for-black-a...
Well, except in the industry, front-running has a precise regulatory definition.

It doesn't help the conversation to start using the name of a crime to describe something that's legal but you don't like (even if you think it should be illegal, but agree it doesn't fit the legal definition of the named crime).

I don't like that back when rape and pillage on the high seas was a large threat, some copyright holders were able to convince people to start calling copyright infringement "piracy". I don't like our current tendency to over-label things as terrorism or exaggerate the role of narcotics smuggling in financing Islamic terrorism. I also don't like labeling reacting quickly to public information and reacting to expected orders as front-running. I think it's a cheap trick that harms the quality of the dialogue.
Call me naive, but I created a change.org petition to try and make the voice of concerned users heard:
https://www.change.org/p/lastpass-leadership-lastpass-stay-i...
Im always surprised by what people take issue with.
>Currently, robots/ai are like the gun issues of today. Guns don't kill people. People do and legislating gun control is sticky (so is regulating ai).

I think there's a big difference between gun regulation and drone/ai regulation. If in 20 years we have drones that could patrol a location and can use some sort of force on targets it deems a threat, this technology that you own and are responsible for could kill people while you sleep. With guns, you hold it and you pull the trigger. With automated drones, you could be out of the way of danger entirely and making decisions based on the drone's camera output, or even have the drone make these sorts of decisions while you are away.

Of course, this is all hypothetical and we've never accurately predicted the future of most technologies, but the issues of drones and ai being used for lethal purposes already have the potential to be larger issues than guns. You wouldn't need to mobilize an army if you could buy as many "troops" as you could afford.
I don't think you can do all 3 well at the same time, nor should you try.

Pick what you most want to excel at for now and focus on that.
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Hi Sama, I'm the founder of nanowe. We're launching an IoT product this year and have a great team working all days and nights on it.

I get the feeling our startup can't be that bad not to be a part of YC as we have everything in place but need a great platform & community to showcase what we're building. Hardware is tough and takes more money and we're about to raise a convertible note using YC SAFE docs. Does this make our case weaker to be accepted into YC?
I wish that NASA's plan were wise and thoughtful... but it isn't.

NASA has created a plan which supports the continuation of all projects currently running and in development as part of the 'path to Mars'. While this may be a good jobs or aerospace stimulus spending program, these projects are not critical to getting to Mars. If NASA were serious about going to Mars as soon as possible, they would cancel the Space Launch System (SLS), and spend the money on in-orbit low-gravity research, ion thruster research, and SpaceX/Blue Origin/Orbital Sciences/ULA super-heavy lift capabilities. If they did this, NASA could send astronauts to Mars in 2024. As things stand, SLS is too expensive and slow a program to survive changes of administrations (i.e. presidential elections), like its predecessors, SLS and its descendants will go into cost/scope death spirals and get cancelled/restarted.

In short, if NASA really wanted to go to Mars, they'd focus on going to Mars. If you're interested in the subject, I suggest you watch "The Mars Underground", as it is a good primer on the recent history of Mars exploration ideas/initiatives.[1]

[1] http://documentarystorm.com/the-mars-underground/
This is a game changer, especially for people who are new/inexperienced in the Startup Compensation Lotto.

I wish more companies would approach this subject so transparently!
Yes, and? Does that give an excuse to exploit most of them (which is what usury, interest, insurance, etc. are), only to have a few benefit?

As I pointed out, Islamically, the rich people of the community would be responsible to aid the society. A tremendous amount of wealth is in the hands of a tiny, tiny minority of the population. They can put their money in interest bearing accounts and bonds, and live purely off of interest. This is exploitative, and not fair, and makes the problem worse.
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Definitely not--we certainly understand that some startups need to raise more money than others.