skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's jargon, but people definitely are like that. There are a horde of people who just want to do Bitcoin or VR or video games, for example. They're less concerned with the specific company than something about the tech, the users, or the market.
Apple actually does have exactly this refund program. They will refund you an AppleCare that hasn't been activated. Unfortunately, they're not going to do that if you choose to buy it from a third-party. They're not going to refund you for a purchase that wasn't made from them. If you buy AppleCare from an Apple Store, they'll offer to register it for you right away.
I can send you the Twitter link too :)
"When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact." -- Warren Buffett.

Why not get out now, lay low for a bit, take a job, learn another industry, and then save up to try again another day?
Altwork Station (reclining workstation)
Agreed, I think it would be better to be frank and honest in this situation. Just trying to provide some kind of rationale for why he responded in such a business-like manner.
I sympathise. I think the best way is to ask lots of questions in your interview. Developers are in demand, so asking some probing questions about the process is not going to hurt your chances at all. If anything it'll improve your standing.

Ask about the development process, what documentation gets produced, and what tools they use. Then listen carefully to the answer.

Ignore the buzz words, and focus on actual tangible artifacts. Saying "we're agile" or drawing a flow chart on the white board doesn't mean anything. Can they show you the scope of the current sprint? A Kanban board? A burndown chart? Some wireframe drawings?

If they can't show you anything tangible, that's a warning sign.
Beads?
I've applied 20 minutes before deadline, if I remember correctly. I guess the quality of the application reflects this fact :-)
I'm 46, single founder, scratching my own itch, so the expectations were low, in fact I even forgot about 28th until the day before yesterday.
More importantly, this rejection is a dead end. You've got rejected now what? What rational outcome you can extract from this simple fact? I think none, there's no feedback. It just says that somehow you do not fit YC profile.

Rejection from the potential customer is infinitely more valuable, because even if they don't give you any feedback (though they usually do) it means that your mental picture of your market is slightly wrong. Every piece of feedback moves the needle. Rejection from YC doesn't move anything anywhere. Or does it? (may be I'm just over rationalizing, I have such bad habit).

For example a strangely large portion of my early kicking-tires-users are either from government or some security/military/intelligence related fields. Like some company that says "if you're not from the law enforcement - move on, nothing for you here" on the front page of their website (they're doing some telecom stuff).
Why? I'm doing some stupid boring datacenter inventory management! No idea whatsoever. But for me it's a question of the universe and everything.

So, folks, move on and get some customers.
(yeah, go ahead, I'm just finishing one more feature, will follow shortly.... :-)
https://www.rackmaze.com
IPFSBin, store temporary code examples in IPFS
Except this isn't nearly enough. Email is quickly becoming like the SEO industry. It's not just enough to "have great content" to ensure you're ranked highly.

You have to manipulate it at the whims of the search engine / email provider.
I noticed the dropdown on the create page doesn't display the list correctly (chrome, Win7):

http://i.imgur.com/QfuWYS5.png
I believe Chrome uses the underlying system trust store but also has its own list that it uses where Google wants to be stricter/do its own thing.
I hope later posts in this series explore Linux perf_events or flame graphs, which is the origin of the (unattributed) background image (http://www.brendangregg.com/FlameGraphs/cpuflamegraphs.html). :)
What isn't clear is why he needs to part with his machine for 3 days.

Why can't they schedule they swap, and have him come in and wait?
Very close to this definition, but probably in the middle, think about Map/Reduce, think about parallel computing models, think about indexing, searching and many other things which are related to architecting, designing and optimizing how things work
Yes, but they're not talking about the 1 year warranty. They're talking about the AppleCare extended warranty that the author of the article purchased from a third-party and never registered with Apple. There was no way for Apple to know that this person had purchased the extended warranty but yet he expected them to.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_News
Yeah, you don't need to be a lawyer to implement PCI-DSS. You are entirely missing the following dot point:

"Processes for secure deletion of data when no longer needed"

Those dot points aren't using a disjunction, they must ALL be followed. The standard is very, very clear on that point: once you don't need the data, you securely delete it.

That makes sense, incidentally. If you no longer have the data anywhere, then nobody can get to it even if they compromise your systems and gain access to your credit card lists.

If your company winds down and you no longer bill your customers, you are absolutely required by PCI-DSS (and good security practice!) to delete that data.

As for HomeJoy being the same legal entity, that's not the way that the email sent from HomeJoy reads. It says that Fly Maids is their partner, not the same organisation.

That HomeJoy hasn't done this says to me they are cavalier with their customers data at best. I would not trust them with my credit card details, nor would I be happy letting them into my home.
hmm... There were some previous threads about Zenefits where pretty much everyone (customer base mostly) that came in contact with Zenefits was unhappy for one reason for other. This seems to be a bit of a trend for them. The fact a VC is happy with the company simply shows the difference in incentives between investors in a company vs outsiders.
I was too cheap to use them when I was in the UK, as they cost a bit more, but the other guys I worked with rated them really highly. I would pay the extra for them these days.
The definition I like is that it's when the size of the data becomes a significant challenge to solving your problem.

For example 1TB of data won't fit in memory, but if all you need to do is a sequential read in under a day then it's not a problem.
Oh, I understand being passionate about video games, or VR, or Bitcoin, or even, maybe, although it's a stretch, helping people keep their houses clean. And wanting to work in that area.

When you say you're passionate about a "space" though, I think you reveal that all you're really saying is you think you can make a lot of money in that "space". Which isn't passion at all. Well, maybe passionate about making money. Which is more like at best ambition or at worst greed, not actually passion.
An Economic Analysis of the Market for Scientists and Engineers (1959) [pdf]
Google distributes Chrome, and it is 100% their choice to determine what certificates they want to trust and how they will do so. Just as its Microsoft's decision to do the same for Windows.
It's time to lawyer up and not talk at all.
Interesting. So the Navy did pay attention to Millenium Challenge, or at least to the Iranians paying attention to it...

For those not current on it: Millenium Challenge was a Pentagon wargame played in 2000, brought to the world's attention by the War Nerd and Malcolm Gladwell, in which the OPFOR general, playing (approximately) Iran, sank a US carrier fleet by swarming it with small speedboats armed with anti-shipping missiles (among other acts that were, similarly, equal parts "brilliant military innovation" and "indefensible munchkin-ing"). The Iranian Navy took note of this, and started fielding speedboats armed with anti-shipping missiles for real; these boats are evidently the US's response to that.
and umm... the OP was able to access their account details, including CC data over a plain HTTP connection.
For user's to automatically log in, it appears that you didn't move data to FlyMainds as much as FlyMaids is the new face to the old HomeJoy site and database.
> He graduated from MIT in 2009 ... he may not have the slightest idea what else he could possibly do instead.

There's endless ways we could speculate about why he's doing what he's doing, but is being six years out of school one of them?

He spent "his entire professional career" (5 years!!!) in home cleaning. And before that it looks like he spent four years at MIT majoring in chemical engineering.
Absolute nonsense.

- Developing for the web is not 'probably easiest one' – it's equivalent in complexity to any other part of the software stack. The fact that there are lots of generic CRUD apps that are being developed does nothing to change that – the majority of applications are boring LOB apps, the majority of hardware drivers are barely functional repackaging of reference implementations, and so on.

- There aren't really any 'rockstars' in development. I'm sure there are some knobs out there who call themselves that; I've never met or heard from one, despite a decade in the web development industry.

You've clearly got a stick up your arse about something; I suggest you'd be better served spending your time learning more about how the industry actually works, and less time writing this sort of dreck.
If an alternative, such as Convergence, was perfect, it would have taken off.
Everything you did is 100% wrong and makes you look like a Grade A sleezeball.
Certificate Transparency, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_Transparency
Aaron Cheung Brings Homejoy Customers to Fly Maids
Life-long spontaneous exercise does not prolong lifespan but improves health span in mice
http://www.longevityandhealthspan.com/content/2/1/14

Dose of Jogging and Long-Term Mortality : The Copenhagen City Heart Study
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2014.11.023

Working up a sweat -- it could save your life
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-04/jcu-wua040215...

Lack of exercise kills roughly as many as smoking, study says
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/world_now/2012/07/lack-of-ex...

Every Minute Of Exercise Could Lengthen Your Life Seven Minutes
http://commonhealth.wbur.org/2013/03/minutes-exercise-longer...

And so on. There's a lot more out there on exercise and mortality risk as determined from large epidemiological data sets in humans or cause-and-effect animal studies if you care to go look around. One present focus is trying to pin down the dose-response curve, for example.

Telomere length, as measured in the study linked here, isn't worth paying much attention to. There are many, many problems with linking average telomere length in white blood cells to specific outcomes in aging. In many ways it is even more of a fuzzy number than, say, BMI or exercise level.
some good reporting here with some new details
I think I (and those who agreed with me) failed to convey the subtext of our objection, which is:

We don't care about illegality per se. We care about "not making the bad thing happen". If illegality accomplishes that, great! But if it doesn't, then it is non-responsive to our concerns to remind us that it does. It's like if you're going to friends talking about problems you encounter, and all they ever tell you is, "Well that's not supposed to happen".

The process of enforcing the illegality puts a lot of burden on the customer, and your response recognizes that it requires people going far out of their way.

In practice, a system that requires most individuals to make heroic sacrifices is the same as a system that just doesn't work.
Hmm, searched a bit and it seems only on Linux Chrome doesn't respect the system certificates but relies on Mozilla's NSS store. Still, extremely annoying since NSS isn't where system certificates are stored on Linux.
If so this information should be deleted. If I were effected I would be pissed.

I hope someone at Stripe responds because this is a personal data issue.
The almighty "you're an idiot here's a wikipedia link learn to google reply." Still don't know what this place is all about
It's not about the money. It's the access to some of the smartest people on the planet. I think (from what I can tell) that YC is invaluable to any stage startup.
Of course, citing someone to say that their results are completely wrong still increases their citation count...
100 billion records, 6TB max RAM for http://www8.hp.com/uk/en/products/proliant-servers/product-d... => 54 bytes per record.

BTW, some previous HN discussions along these lines:

"Don't use Hadoop - your data isn't that big " - https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2013/hadoop_hatred.html and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6398650

"Your data fits in RAM " - http://yourdatafitsinram.com/ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9581862
Not the entire card, just the last four digits and expiration date. Is there anything that says that's not allowed? The PCI is about storage of the data.

It's bonkers to display it over an insecure connection, but I don't think that it's disallowed.
Book looks interesting - anyone else think it's worthwhile?
Do you need to be "accelerated" when you already have all of the above? It could be a lazy way to move forward. Which costs you %7 of the company. I believe you can do it yourself if you made it that far already.
Good point - can't believe I didn't pick that up! That's an even more obvious violation of PCI-DSS (and even the most basic security imaginable!).
Null in Ceylon is just another type, and nullable-X is just another union type, so you can use them sensibly with generics. With Kotlin if you want to write a generic method like "add two values" and have it handle nullness polymorphically then you have to think about it.
Liability Hammer Comes Down on Google, but Hits Users
> I've implemented this system already in code

It doesn't look like you have. I watched the demo video "GUN Survives a Primary Fault" and the conflicting updates were resolved with a LWW semantic, which is non-deterministic.

(EDIT: I read some docs, and it looks conflicts are resolved by choosing the highest lexical order of the value. So, apologies for the assumption. I assumed LWW because the BBBBBB update was seen last after the fault was resolved. Nonetheless, I think it is interesting you're treating the browser as a peer in the system, and not simply a client)

> this is now available to developers - with or without the academic side.

I don't understand this attitude. Working closely with academics ought to be what industry strives for. They take the time to research, formalize theorems and write proofs to advance the current state of the art in Computer Science. This research helps move industry forward. A tight relationship between industry and academia is mutually beneficial, for what should be obvious reasons.
I would happily pay money for this app, a true shame that it has been rejected. This story makes me wish that there were easy to use sideloading opportunities for app developers within iOS.
Why does your blog post say you're backed by YC if you're bootstrapped?
"doing absolutely nothing" isn't only wrong, it's deeply offensive.

Good recordings take an investment of time and money: time to develop the performance ability, time to develop the production skill, time to develop the composition behind the recording itself. By the time you hear it, there's already plenty of stuff that was far from "doing absolutely nothing" that's gone into it, and chances are that even successful recordings won't earn back the time involved in all of it at an above-average wage.

Sure, it's possible to make money off of performances, but touring is capital intensive (particularly for any kind of large band production), risky, and as we like to say here, doesn't scale well.

"Merchandising" is just another way of saying you think artists should have another job besides making music, because that's what it is.

Finally, would you say this?

"The antiquated idea is that an author should be getting money for doing absolutely nothing because they once wrote a book months or years ago...."

Because it's pretty much the same thing.

Though I'm actually waiting for people to suggest authors should make money off of merchandising and live appearances and "creative business models" and "innovation", given the way culture seems to be going.
You really need to read the PCI-DSS standard before you make comments like that.

Rather than me point out exactly why what you just said was completely wrong, I suggest you download it from here:

https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/documents/PCI_DSS_v3-1....

At the very least, read requirement 4. The simple fact is that they were allowing customers to enter their credit card details and submit that data over HTTP.
Some people like whisky, some people don't. If they were first introduced to Teachers, it might take them a while to find something that's a little easier to drink neat.
Hey pippy thanks for notifying me. This is a weird error which happened to one of my friends on Windows and Chrome as well. Will look into it.
That seems an awful lot like an opinion rather than an objective assessment. Yes, if it's plugged in, it can boot. If it gets unplugged, though, as laptops are wont to do, it can't. Ensuring that a laptop is, at a minimum, usable without power before allowing a boot seems like an excellent design.
At this point I have been hearing this sorry excuse for twenty years. At least it once had the value of novelty.

Spam is illegal, so that's one good sign it might be unethical. About 90% of email is spam [1]; the reason you aren't spending all day "deleting with the click of a button" is that a lot of smart people and a lot of computing power are devoted to keeping most of that spam out of your inbox.

You should be thankful for the people who get offended about this stuff, because its only their reactions and their hard work that have kept email a usable medium.

[1] https://www.m3aawg.org/sites/default/files/document/M3AAWG_2...
Haven't artists always been starving? Art isn't something that guarantees a paycheck.
Weird... I'd never considered that an AI might be like a genie or a deal with the devil... Be careful what you wish for or you might be surprised by what you get.
My guess is that Apple didn't want their customers ruining their phone screens by putting heavy objects on it.

By accepting the app, Apple is implicitly allowing the use case of using the phone as a scale.
the difference in quality would be only the music itself, and nothing to do with lyrics/literature, about which I'd bet you are correct (I wouldn't know). Cole was a great jazz pianist that was raised and trained and in the African American Jazz tradition before he 'crossed over', much like George Benson did decades later. It would be a mistake to think either were limited to 'light' entertainment.

So while Cole may or not have played with Mingus or Billy Holiday, he certainly could have. Not so with Dylan.

Even the most seemingly inane songs from that era were more sophisticated - musically - than anything from Dylan, et al. I think this applies : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9394176

p.s. sorry, don't mean to rip on Dylan. If you like it, enjoy!
There were reasons Quora did it very late in their life. So, probably, at least for some companies, yes.
YouTube Red Day One: Why It Will Eventually Be Bad for Creators
Open Discovery – suite for docking chemical compounds against a receptor protein
Could costs be reduced by using hydrogen?
In another time and place, and if Google wasn't involved, I doubt this would even hit the front page of HN. People have been embedding tons of state into URLs for years without obfuscating/encrypting them. Web apps should be idempotent with respect to URLs, and bookmarking any screen you're looking at should allow you, the user, to return to that state.

Maybe there should be a fix for this, at least to encrypt the old query, but realistically, this behavior is widespread in web apps, and it's only newsworthy because Google.
For free?
In this case, the animal was in Siberia, not in the Americas. Same theory may apply, though.
You assume that JVM is slow, yes? That's not always the case. Interestingly, there's cases where JVM applications run just as fast as if not faster than native code. This blows my mind, as a C++ programmer myself.

http://codexpi.com/java-vs-cpp-performance-comparison-jit-co...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5641356/why-is-it-that-by...

http://beautynbits.blogspot.com/2013/01/performance-java-vs-...
Maybe he just doesn't like his data being stolen regardless of its content
Aw, come on, those aren't real lions :)
Exactly this.

"Oh, let's see how accurately it weighs 50lbs!"

Anyone remember the "waterproof" troll? Apple is protecting some of their users from their own stupidity.
The article says you can continue using the computer without harm if you keep it plugged in. Surely you can work on your computer while it's plugged in while you look for a spare laptop?
But those aren't lies, just a mixture of omission and clever wording to reframe the facts. They're used in unidirectional communication (a sign at the airport, a television broadcast), but don't hold up well when there are follow-up questions.
It's simple: Since you're not in the US, US law doesn't apply to you.
Bitcoin [mtgox] CEO spent embezzled funds on prostitutes
Why Every Big Player in Silicon Valley Goes to This Chinese Restaurant
Sorry if you saw it like that, but I really didn't mean it, I just thought it was a really good article on what HN generally is.

I've even upvoted your question.
Machine learning is still missing a key ingredient
Hm, I thought it was going to be talking about leaking information from your app, not browser cache.

Putting the database row ID in urls, which is the Rails default, basically lets a competitor plot your growth with a simple script.
I have one i tested too: 0x06183b08067874c411e1fe0dd7d1b14bd357506e
The US Navy already had the ability to deal with swarms by using cluster bombs[1] dropped by airplane. Since the Millennium Challenge, the Navy's CIWS (Close-In Weapons System) has been upgraded to deal with small vessels[2].

The real lesson is that the US responds poorly to violence. Avoiding direct violence has worked well for Iran for nearly 20 years.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Praying_Mantis#Battl...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phalanx_CIWS#Upgrades
This is not going to end well for Aaron. Did they return some of the $40 million raised for homejoy?
Significant variables aren’t automatically good predictors
I'm not entirely missing the point, but I don't know enough about the PCI-DSS to be too much of a contrarian here :)

Processes for secure deletion of data when no longer needed

Is "needed" defined anywhere?

As far as I can tell this requires companies to create a plan – that plan could be very different between companies.

I highly doubt Homejoy/Fly Maids is maintaining the data themselves, it's probably stored in Stripe, so unless they are actually storing credit card data in a non PCI compliant way, they are probably fine, right?

Let me restate what I think you're saying though:
When they shut down Homejoy, they should have immediately deleted all the data they had stored in Stripe (or what ever payment system they use)?

"That HomeJoy hasn't done this says to me they are cavalier with their customers data at best. I would not trust them with my credit card details, nor would I be happy letting them into my home."

Totally agree, maybe let's leave it at that :)
Aww I love this app except their ads. I'm not sure what IBM's plans for this is.
I expect the consumers to do adequate research before plunking down over a grand on a new laptop.
This reminds me of https://www.agwa.name/blog/post/how_to_responsibly_misissue_...
Got it, thanks for the link.