skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not true at all. A user's grant of permission applies to a particular site, and HTTPS ensures that nobody can spoof that site. If the user visits an HTTP page and an MITM attack redirects that to some HTTPS page elsewhere, that page will still have to ask the user for permission. But if HTTP pages can ask for permission to access those same features, then an MITM attacker can redirect to a spoofed version of a popular HTTP site that asks for that permission.

Concrete example: geolocation permission. You visit some popular mapping site that uses HTTP, and grant it persistent permission to use your location. Later, you browse something else via HTTP over a Tor connection. In that browsing session, if you saw any permission prompt for geolocation, you'd reject it. However, a malicious exit node could MITM you and use that to determine your location by pretending to be the mapping site, without a permission prompt.

Ditto for getUserMedia (webcam/audio), fullscreen, and any other permission a user can grant or deny on a site-by-site basis.

So, browsers want to drop the possibility to use those features from HTTP, not just to push sites to HTTPS but because the entire concept of granting permission only to a specific site doesn't doesn't work with HTTP.
I'm not very familiar with the history of this area, but I've heard repeatedly that Wolfram has a pattern of implicitly or explicitly taking credit for results he wasn't the first person to discover. Can anyone comment on his claim that he found "the provably very simplest axiom system for logic?"
> Instead of taking our equity up front, we’re going to be issuing a convertible security that only converts into shares when the company 1) goes IPO or 2) has a funding event or acquisition that values the company at $100M or higher. [...] it’s both founder friendly [...]

Is it (founder friendly)? It places YC (even more) firmly on the VC side of the classic VC/founder conflict: VCs want founders to go big or go home, or as pg puts it "VCs want to blow you up, in one sense of the phrase or the other." [1] Not that I don't think YC can handle it, but still.

1. http://paulgraham.com/aord.html
That's basically what WebP is.
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The median income per household member in the US was $23,535 in 2004[1]. Unfortunately I can't find a more recent census value for that. In the case of a household with two partners and at least one child, such as we're discussing here, I would think that more than ~$24,000 would be necessary.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_income_per_household_me...
I found his note at the end most interesting and mirrors my observations since. Governmental standards are making our children math-illiterate. There should be a myriad of different schools with different specialties. There should be schools for the learning impaired as well as the gifted. If every school was private it would allow experimentation with every form of teaching and promote innovation and effective methods to be discovered and thrive. One size fits all education works as well for education as it does for clothes.
Here's a counterexample:

https://pigeon.ly

They're focused on making it easier and cheaper to communicate with inmates, who often suffer from ridiculous price gouging for things like phone calls.

It's pretty small potatoes compared to private prisons, but it's something.
It's definitely not perfect, but it's much better than any alternatives I have seen. Would love to take a look if there are any good proposals based on S-Expressions or other computer-era notations.
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This is exactly why I dismantle and inspect all 'unimaginably cheap' pieces of tech before using them for their intended purpose. That, and curiosity. There are many clever cost-cutting hacks to be learned that way.
As a frustrated parent, Minecraft itself isn't compatible with it's own mods. The whole ecosystem is a frustrating mess, or at least my having to perform tech support for my 7 year old.
I feel the same way. Which is odd considering how many people suggested it on /r/audiobooks. But I found the nostalgia pandering to be a bit much.
Can anyone recommend a good Amiga emulator? I would love to play Faery Tale Adventure again.
"Symbol and definition lookup is another great feature of WebStorm. "

Webstorm does a great job here. But unfortunately like any "intelligent" tool, when there is a bug in the system you end up with a very frustrating tool. Right now there is a bug that causes properties defined on objects to be available in the global scope. I filed this bug some time ago, wish it would get some attention:

https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/WEB-19183
Not sure why the posted link went to that page instead of the overview (with separate pictures).

Here: http://www.markuskayser.com/work/solarsinter/
> By Fabrice Bellard

nough said, I'm sold!
How is it possible for the US to collect estate tax on a non-US citizen? Doesn't that go against international law? Once you are no longer a citizen that country has zero right to ask for anything.
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Why elephant again? Don't we have too many elephants in logos already in popular OSS projects? Hadoop, PostgreSQL and now Ceylon...
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BPG has a lossless mode.
The biggest thing I can think of that MS research delivered in the last few years is the kinect. They hinged a lot upon that being the next thing in gaming, but what is it now really? Their competitors aren't exactly in a rush to copy it... because once again, its a gimmick for a niche market.

Now just look at VR on the other hand... there's many big companies investing in that and there's a lot of hype around it. Heck even Facebook is on board and Microsoft is nowhere to be seen. There's yet another technological revolution that they're missing out on.
This is fantastic! In particular I think the remote aspect is one of it's greatest selling points. While I agree there's a certain upside to being based close to your investors, the upside of reduced living/travel costs makes this greatly accessible. The equity structure also seems greatly in line with some of the inherently low cost startups that this will bring to the table.

I'm excited to see what comes out of these early batches.
They already had a C++ port for the mobile version which is now becoming the main branch.
I found it fun to listen to, but the author had this weird habit of foreshadowing everything as if there was always some huge earth-shattering reveal around the corner.

"And this wouldn't be their last obstacle moving in to the lake house … [Next chapter]: Also, John stubbed his toe on a door."

Between that and Wil's enthusiastic reading — buying in to each and every one of those sure-to-be-disappointing wind-ups — it was kind of exasperating. But I'd say it's worth it, regardless. I'd agree it's probably way better as an eBook. There was lots of interesting stuff, and some glorious nostalgia :)
Awesome, looming forward to it!
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The canonical way to do concurrency these days is with a monadic library like Lwt or Async, which is a mechanism akin to promises/deferreds. They have their own implementations of channels/events/streams/what-call-you-it.

There is some interesting work being done on an effects system [1] which would be another option for type-safe concurrency, hopefully it will land soon alongside the multicore work.

There is also the old fashioned way with the stdlib's Event module[2] (in conjunction with Thread), but that's not used as often, mostly because Lwt/Async offer richer, safer abstractions.

[1] http://kcsrk.info/ocaml/multicore/2015/05/20/effects-multico...

[2] http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-ocaml/libref/Event.html
GIF has already been replaced by better formats. The one exception to this is short, looping videos, where GIF still enjoys enormous popularity.

So yeah, GIF wasn't intended for this use case. But that's the use case it has right now.

Go back 20 years, and "GIF" means a 256-color losslessly compressed image, occasionally animated. Today, "GIF" nearly always means a short looping video with horrible compression.

Practically speaking, today, "GIF replacement" means doing a better job for short, looping videos, because that's all GIF has left at this point.
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I wonder if YC will see accept any companies/ideas that have a low probability of of reaching IPO / acquisition at >= $100M. Plenty of good companies aren't going to reach this scale but could certainly use their expertise and cash.
Basically fat becomes CO2 and Water. You lose fat breathing and sweating.
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This is interesting, but people shouldn't be misled. Counting calories _always_ works for weight loss. If you simply eat fewer calories than your body needs each day, you will lose weight.

There was a very highly cited paper in the NEJM where they studied a group of people who believed they were "diet resistant" using a new technique--doubly labeled water--to determine how much they were really eating and exercising.

Every single person in the study--every last one of them--lied to the doctors about how many calories he or she was eating.

http://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJM199212313272701

The last paragraph says:

"In conclusion, all the obese subjects we studied who had a history of self-reported diet resistance had appropriate energy expenditure, but they misreported their actual food intake and physical activity."

In other words: "Fatties gonna fat."
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It is really exciting to see AMD opening up, especially in GPU driver area - arguably the weakest point for the free software. I hope this will go further than "1 step forward, 2 steps backward" approach same AMD showed with libreboot involvement:

https://libreboot.org/faq/#amdbastards

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10895021
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It's Microsoft - it is entirely against their culture and history as a business to allow anything they control to be cross platform. This is just the usual embrace-and-extend crap. Promise faster Minecraft now, and never get around to building the Linux and Mac versions. I suspect that "always get updates" promise I paid for years ago will be ignored.

> good sense to build in a good API for mods

LOL. That API already exists - it's called Forge. We gave up caring about an official "mod API" many years ago.

"Where's The Modding API?" - Yogscast, Dec 20, 2013

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-zthYFjk6s
I made it up completely as an example.

I used to exercise 3-4 days a week. Lifting weights, cardio, and yoga. I wasn't losing weight. I started gradually counting and cutting calories and when it didn't help I cut more. The only way I was at a good weight was on 1400 calories/day. This made me completely miserable and anti social (I wouldn't eat outside my house). This may be sustainable for some, but it wasn't for me, eventually I just had to eat more. I kept it up for a couple years though. I didn't have a body image problem either, my weight was a couple pounds below "overweight" BMI.

On the other hand a decade before that I ate junk food every single day and was very thin. Something seems to have changed in my body, but I don't know what. When I was thin my diet was truly horrible!

Even when I was a kid - Every single Halloween I would eat an entire pillow case worth of candy over the course of around 3 weeks, but I never gained a pound.

There is SO MUCH we don't know on this topic!

Yes, one can cut back on food, but willpower and the ability to control are limited to some degree.
The money is effectively free for founders unless their company does incredibly well.

Also, at 1.5% equity and no effective shares till that valuation threshold, we don't have enough equity to force companies to do anything they don't want. That's also part of our philosophy anyway.
Likely we would still ask the team if they're interested in doing Fellowship -- it would definitely be better if they indicated it upfront though; there's no cost to applying to both.
Are those videos that much better than, say, a Youtube video of the Ronde van Vlaanderen or something?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pmo7Z38fYEA

I have a hamster wheel (err...indoor trainer) arriving tomorrow, and am hoping to get the most out of it by not getting completely and totally bored out of my skull with it. Zwift sounds like one option. Don't want to spend a ton, though...
I probably would have pre-ordered the new Oculus if it wasn't now owned by Facebook. Now I will wait to see if any Facebook login is required, and how Facebook treats the Oculus ecosystem.
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How would this work for people considering non-profits?
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Probably the same reason: (lack of) performance.
How large is the issue? I don't know. There don't seem to be much in the way of good crime stats. A quick google search suggests rape has risen 15x in Sweden since they started letting in large numbers of immigrants. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3317978/Torn-apart-o...

The issue is being lied about because rather than giving out stats to answer the question of how much of that 15x is due to immigrants, the Swedish authorities decided to stop tracking ethnicity of perpetrators instead. Similarly, witness the attempts by the mayor of Cologne to blame the victims and avoid disclosing the identity of the attackers. (A quick google search suggests similar incidents happened in a Stockholm music festival and other places.)

The fact is that left wing Euro politicians control access to the data and are locking it down. They also make claims like "overestimate the actual magnitude of the threat" - but if the data supported that claim, wouldn't they release it rather than hide it?

I'm not proposing any solutions. I'm not even claiming to have a solid grasp of the statistics (unlike, say, a similar discussion of US crime). If I'm wrong and Muslim immigrants to Europe actually commit crimes at the base rate, by all means post stats proving me wrong. I'm only saying that it looks like there is a real problem, and it looks like it's being hidden from us.

Under such circumstances, people turning to the racist right is a pretty natural thing to do. At least these guys aren't liars, and see our problems, right?

(Again, that last sentence is not my view. A quick search of my comment history will suggest that I'm pluralistic to a degree that only an extreme capitalist can be.)
Playing devils advocate - how is this program supposed to be considered in context of "don't join an accelerator to get into YC"? From 1000 feet away it reads as "don't join another accelerator except for YC".
At 1.5% ownership, YC has no say over the direction of the company (other than through the influence they have from being well-known and respected in the startup space). The conflict arises when your VCs sit on, or even control, your board. Then you, as the Founder/CEO, can be forced by your board in directions that you don't want to go. That situation simply does not exist here, with YC taking such a low ownership stake. Nor does it exist in the normal YC program, since again, they do not take board seats with their 7% stake.
Is that because that's just the primary association you still have for him, or because that's just what came to mind? I'm wondering because Wil Wheaton has had quite a bit of positive exposure over the last decade, enough so that even while I don't really follow the stuff he does all that closely (or at all), I still hear about it enough that my primary association for him is no longer the ST:TNG character
I feel like this needs to be an xkcd
C# is _much more performant_ than Java.
Like the core program we don't really have targets. We're still playing it by ear.
I'd love to see a comparison with recent Rust. Looking at that graph with 2013 results, I'm surprise how much slower Rust was compared Haskell and OCaml.
To be fair, you should compare corporal punishment against imprisonment, not against nothing.

Corporal punishments has long lasting consequences, but so does imprisonment.
This is pretty much what happens in Scandinavian countries. E.g. in Sweden, parents each get three months of paternal leave. An additional part of the paternal leave can be divided between parents as they see fit. https://sweden.se/society/gender-equality-in-sweden/
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It's not definitively decided, but the third batch will probably start in July.
The thing is, there is not really a "completed" mod in Minecraft, precisely because there is no standardized API. When you are patching bytecode, any change to the underlying copy means you need to at least review for conflicts. Modding right now is terrible, with basically unofficial APIs provided by groups like Minecraft Forge.
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Implementing an image format via JS is cool, but I'm not sure what the use-case is for this format that isn't already covered (and supported in browsers) by other formats.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APNG should be a better alternative for GIF-like images (including transparency and low bit depth), and MP4 + H.265 should be the alternative for movie-like content. For most platforms, you might even get decoding support in hardware, so performance and battery life shouldn't be anything but better vs this.
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They could create a probe that attaches via a lightning adapter for the stool sampling part.

You sound like a great candidate to be the team lead on that project.
I didn't say they weren't losing weight on 1300 calories a day.
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> has a funding event or acquisition that values the company at $100M or higher.

Would be interested to see how this is written into the contract - implied valuation of $100m through funding could be squirrely.
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The point of that piece was that joining another accelerator isn't a pre-requisite to applying to yc.
> As far as I can tell, FB has treated the Oculus project with incredible respect, and not a single fear has come true.

They haven't even released a consumer product yet. It's awfully early to say that it's being handled either well or poorly.
I think the term the title was looking for is "Kafkaesque" :)
This is not something we actively try to predict, even with the Core program. Airbnb, for instance, would have been missed if we thought like this. As ever, we primarily optimize for funding great founders.
Judging the results of the studies by the genders of the people who have done the study is pretty basic case of discrimination. And I am certain that you are that kind of people who think that you can not discriminate against men, white people, etc.
If Carmack only made Minecraft 20x faster, that would be extremely disappointing. That's just the low-hanging fruit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whipcracking

"The crack a whip makes is produced when a section of the whip moves faster than the speed of sound creating a small sonic boom."

(I agree that is a strangely satisfying thing. It does make hanging the wash up for drying slightly less tedious...)
I feel like MS will probably do well on this, it's essentially a developer tool (for all ages), and MS makes plenty of those just fine. They clearly have good people involved and are using C++ so you know it's a performance oriented mindset (since Java vs C# is certainly close enough to make a C# version passable).

I wouldn't be surprised if this is a success.
> Likely we would still ask the team if they're interested in doing Fellowship

Good to know. I'd hate for someone to miss out because they hit the wrong option in the drop down (though I certainly agree you might as well apply to both).
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I regularly use another OCaml program: Unison, the file syncer. It's sort of like a bidirectional rsync. It's a fantastic tool but nearly abandonware. My suspicion has always been the open source project languishes because so few people know OCaml to work on it.
It's the 'Mysterious Optimizer' Perk. In Fallout4 there is a perk you can unlock called: Mysterious Stranger. When you're stuck in a gunfight, this stranger has some probability of showing and assisting you.
John Carmack to help me optimize my code ... awesome!
It's been a while, but I believe the fix is in this thread:

https://github.com/boot2docker/boot2docker/issues/628
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Sounds cool, it would be good to make the paper free as well, if the code is open source. Actually it would be even better to update the Zerocash paper so that people can understand the current zcash implementation. The source code maybe open, but the documentation seems far behind the source code. I'm sure that the protocol is sound, and you put lots of effort in it, but it's hard to understand for me, unlike the original Bitcoin.
I loved reading BitcoinJ source code, as it is well documented and it's an easy to understand way to see that at least the BitcoinJ based wallets really do the same thing than what was present in the Bitcoin Whitepaper. Still, I guess I'm the minority, and many people will just trust the developers and use the system as long as it works. Anyways good luck, and I hope we will have fungibility in Bitcoin itself in the next few years.
Fair enough, perhaps I should have asked for an order of magnitude ... is it still ~ 30 startups ? 100 ? 300 ?
>Counting calories _always_ works for weight loss. If you simply eat fewer calories than your body needs each day, you will lose weight.

Funny you should say that when this was just published today: http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/01/why-the-calorie-is-br...
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There was a similar situation in Argentina in 2001. It was possible to convert 1 peso to 1 dollar automatically. Formally they were two different currencies, but in practice they were equivalent, until ...

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I think that falls under retribution.
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Not exactly. More like knowing about potential conflicts when its easiest to avoid them or deal with them more easily.
The mapping is metaphoric.
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> It's Microsoft - it is entirely against their culture and history as a business to allow anything they control to be cross platform. This is just the usual embrace-and-extend crap.

This is such an antiquated view at this point in time. This is the same Microsoft that is taking .NET open-source and cross-platform, including ASP.Next. This is the same Microsoft that just open-sourced their JavaScript engine and integrated it with Node.js. This is the same Microsoft developing the open-source and cross-platform Visual Studio Code. This is the same Microsoft that writes more apps with better user experiences for iOS and Android than it does for Windows Mobile 8 and so far 10.
Link please.
How do mods work on the console versions?