skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This question comes up often, the answer should probably be in the FAQ. Here are some links with lists of YC funded companies:

* An old version of the Wikipedia entry contained a list of YC funded companies. It was removed. It should probably be setup as a separate article (that would require finding some HNers who have some of the elusive wikipedia-power):

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Y_Combinator&o...

* CrunchBase lists some of the investments on the YC page. It would be a good idea for those who have been funded to add themselves to this list and to fill their profiles in:

http://www.crunchbase.com/company/y-combinator

* There used to be a list on the about page, which you can see if you go to the Wayback Machine on archive.org:

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://ycombinator.com/faq.html

for eg.

http://web.archive.org/web/20070116090613/http://www.ycombin...

http://web.archive.org/web/20080415144853/http://ycombinator...

* This blog post contains a list plus stats, up to '09. He used the archive.org pages to extract a list of companies from each class:

http://blog.awesomezombie.com/2009/12/analyzing-y-combinator...

* This spreadsheet seems to be the most exhaustive list, and it also contains Techstars, fbFund etc.

https://spreadsheets1.google.com/ccc?key=t_toYuVyy6fci0MAiIa...
My project: Mr Gaol -- parole reminders by email, SMS and uniform
Because all three are still very buggy on Wine/WineBottler, and there's no way to tell the difference between Wine/WineBottler/IE issues and bugs in your application.
If you start with puppet you should definitely have a look at the type documentation http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/stable/type.html It helps a lot to see and understand the already integrated types for puppet.

For monit i am using the monit pattern from[1]. Quite simple but IWFM. Nagios is a little bit more complicated. If you have any questions i added my mailaddresse to my profile.

You need to use exported resources for the nagios part. Therefore you have to enable Stored Configurations on the puppet server [2]. For the server part i use:

package { nagios3: ensure => present }
service{nagios3:
ensure => running,
enable => true,
require => Package[nagios3],
}
exec { "chmod_nagios":
command => "/bin/chmod 644 /etc/nagios3/conf.d/*",
refreshonly => true,
notify => Service["nagios3"]
}
file { "/etc/nagios3/conf.d": ensure => directory }

Nagios_host <<||>> { notify => Exec["chmod_nagios"] }
Nagios_service <<||>> { notify => Exec["chmod_nagios"] }

The client setup is quite easy, im using nagios-nrpe for the check. You have to deploy your own configuration files, i omit them here.

package { nagios-nrpe-server: ensure => installed }

service { nagios-nrpe-server:
ensure => running,
require => Package[nagios-nrpe-server],
pattern => "/usr/sbin/nrpe"
}
@@nagios_host { "host_$hostname":
ensure => present,
address => $ipaddress,
host_name => $hostname,
use => "generic-host",
target => "/etc/nagios3/conf.d/host-$hostname.cfg",
}
@@nagios_service { "apt-${hostname}":
ensure => present,
use => "generic-service",
host_name => $hostname,
service_description => "apt check",
target => "/etc/nagios3/conf.d/apt.cfg",
check_command => "check_nrpe_1arg!check_apt"
}

[1] http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Monit_Pattern...

[2] http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/puppet/wiki/Using_St... You should not use sqlite, use mysql if you want to use the dashboard

[puppetmasterd]
storeconfigs = true
dbadapter = sqlite3
dblocation = /var/lib/puppet/storeconfigs.sqlite
The story behind a formula for Pi
> Also, having separate warnings for your username and password matches is a bad security practice. Best to just say "username/password combination not found" instead of letting a potential hacker know he's stumbled upon a valid username.

I don't see why that's generally going to be a security flaw; most services already indicate if a username is taken when signing up so a hacker can poll for random names there instead.
Well, you're not always guaranteed to get what you want; a loss for your preferred candidate or ballot issue doesn't equate to threats of violence, in my view.
In the morning I usually have AeroPressed coffee, sometimes with milk, sometimes not. And then during the day I just drink water or teas (green, white, black). I tend to forget juices in the fridge so I rarely get any.

As for alcoholic beverages, I discovered a cucumber variant of the Moscow Mule to be my absolute favorite drink. Smash 2-3 slices of cucumber in a glass, add 3 parts ginger ale/beer (beer is better, but hard to get), 1 part good vodka and a little lime juice, decorate with some more cucumber. The cucumber adds a fantastic fresh taste to the cocktail and makes the ginger ale sparkle even more.
BVP Anti-Portfolio
Water. I quit drinking coffee three years ago and never looked back.
So if this research is not false (unlikely according to the author) then mankind would be moving backwards, unless non scientific reasoning compensates for the failure of science. Medical treatment would get constantly worse, people would be misdiagnosed and mistreated more than ever, death rates after cancer and cardiac events would rise.
1) Nielsen's First Law of Web Usability: People spend most of their time on _other_ people's websites. This wouldn't save anybody any amount of time at all.

2) This is virtually impossible to implement, input textboxes are very not hack-friendly.

A password input box without a border, really? Surely you wouldn't have the username be an ugly fixed-width font, so how do you know how wide the username is?

Have fun detecting when the cursor has reached the left most edge of the password box, and focus should be transferred back to the username box and the cursor set to the rightmost edge of the username box, and vice versa. When someone tries to select text from both username and password boxes, seeing as they appear to be one contiguous textbox, there's no way to avoid somehow violating user expectations.
There is a difference between usability and simplicity. While there are generally not mutually exclusive, neither are the mutually inclusive in contrast. You can sell better usability and more simplicity, but you can't sell either by itself. It's more like an addendum than a feature itself. You don't sell simple or usable, you sell features, benefits, and economics, with simplicity and usability as an added bonus.

A customer will choose the company with the feature set he/she needs/wants over the company without those features but with a better usability. Likewise, a customer will choose a company over another because of better usability and more simplicity provided that the features on both products are equal.

Simplicity and usability is a bonus, not a selling point. Make sure your product is actually better than the rest before trying to sell simple.

PD: If a product is over featured then it's equivalent to a simpler product with less feature and is a loser to a less featured project that has the correct features but better usability (Zendesk is a great example of this characteristic). Ipods needed to first be the best mp3 players in the market(feature wise, and design wise) and only then be the mp3 player with the best usability.
Develop with http://qt.nokia.com/products/appdev/developer-tools/develope...
Youth is simply one form of power that can be exercised to get publicity, guidance from older mentors, etc. There is nothing inherently wrong with that. Entrepreneurship and engineering are both about using what you have to build what you want.
Tea, then a large cup of coffee, then water in the afternoon. If I take coffee after 16:00, I'm awake till 2:00 in the morning, so I stick to water.
Tap water, Gerolsteiner mineral water, Bell's beer, loads of coffee, orange juice.
Does everyone agree about that last point? That having a single error message that says "username/password combo not found" is more secure? I have always thought that the username was not secret and to treat it as part of the secret is almost like saying there is no username just a big password that you enter in two distinct boxes. I understand that hackers do like ways to validate that they have an actual username and aren't just guessing ... it is like having the first half of the 'big secret password' cracked.

I am throwing this out there because I think it is important to know which pieces of your security model are 'load bearing' so to speak. I'm not really comfortable with this quasi secret status that the username enjoys. I think it is either a secret or it is public info.
Tropicana fruit juice at home - best juices I've ever tasted, by miles. I'm also getting into Fentiman's Ginger Beer.

Water at my day job, which I've always found really refreshing.
However, any attempt to get the password masking to work on the desktop would involve a script that almost surely will break on mobile.
i used to play all the time. now i only play maybe one or two games a year. never been much good at it though :(
Spend money on experiences, not possessions (2009)
Scotch. Macallan 12 or 18, occasionally Glenlivet, and on special occasions Johnny Walker Blue. mmmmm so good.

And coffee, but no soda. Stopped drinking soda many years ago.
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STAR (Beer) - When I am in Nigeria.

Budweiser (Beer) - When I am in the UK.

Ginger Beer - When I am Bored.

Water - When I have to.

Apple Juice - When I have spare pennies.

Plain Tea - When I want to feel like a Geek.

Milk - When I feel I should add some muscle.

Sprite - When.. When.. Whenever.

Coffee - Never again. Except I want an upset stomach.

etc - When I feel like being random.

At the moment, Water.
21st Amendment Back in Black IPA.
Similarly, I only read his article to check whether he chose the title as posted on HN. Sure enough, he did.

All the credit to him for knowing how to play his audience. That showed a tremendous amount of perspicacity.
I gave up coffee a year and a half ago. My current daily drink pattern:

* 8-13:30 - lots of water

* 13:30-19:30 - steamed milk

* 19:30-22:00 - water

* 22:00 - 1:00 - wine (usually italian red)
It might be the whiskey talking but I think this is a great idea! It would really clean up those embedded login forms placed in the header & body of web pages. Think about how clunky text site searches would look and feel if the majority of them included 2 - 4 form fields.

That being said, the biggest problem I see is that there is no visual separation of the two fields, and the fact that the user has to read a sentence to figure out how to log in. A nice soft divider like a pipe bar or forward slash between the text "username" and "password" would help with this visual problem. More white space would help a lot too. I think you could make up for the remaining confusion with the following:

(I am assuming there are two form fields that are only visually changed to look like one form field)

1) When the user first sets focus to the username field, do not remove the "Username" text, but simply highlight it, which will give the field visual boundaries. Once the user begins typing replace "Username" with the input text. (Repeat for password field)

2) Key capture "tab" and either " | " or " / " (whichever you are using as the field separator). When they fire this key press, set focus to the "Password" field.

3) If the user hits the "Sign In" button with empty string in either the Username field or the Password field, set focus to the empty field and show tool tip.

4) If both fields lose focus while one has empty string as a value, show tool tip.

Using bold to convey focus is a nice touch by the way.

The sad thing is there will be a lot of users that do not like this, a lot. If they frequent the site enough, it will not be that big of a deal, they will learn quick enough. But like some previous posters said, if there is a large user base logging in through this form, you will get quite a bit of backlash. I created a js driven date form field that works just like the calendar field you see in both Mac OSX and Windows Vista. Even though every user has seen it, I got a lot of complaints the first week that it was included in our application. It was worth though, it rocks!

I really do like this single field login form, I'll be using it in my pet project.
I met someone who says, Every time people ask me for career advice, I tell them they shouldn't ask me. I had the opportunity to be in the first 5 employees at both Yahoo and Google, and finished my PhD instead of doing either.
Why do you care to judge an abstraction of another abstraction? How about judging the idea itself?
Hadn't heard of any of those. They all look strong. Thanks for sharing. Nuru reminds me of Acumen Fund; I could see them partnering well together.
21st Amendment Monk's Blood.
Nice, I think I might have played in the same provincial tournament (Ontario). Tied for 2nd in the Intermediate devision when I was in highschool. That particular tournament took place in Trent University.

(I'm shazow on Chess With Friends!)
I've played tournament chess on and off since the mid-70's and as was pointed out elsewhere, to get good you need to devote a substantial amount of time to the game. Not that this is a bad thing, but you do have to ask yourself just how much time you have to devote to just how many things? I've managed to make a decent living from time to time as a chess programmer--- don't do the engines, but did do the interfaces. Starting with John Stanback and Hal Bogner working on Zarkov, and then later working with Electronic Arts for real money! I always got a kick out of the fact that I was the lowest rated player in the project including the manager! The last interface I worked on was for ICC another interesting project...
Pay him more. But don't hire him. It'll spoil his instincts.
Lots of water. I have two containers of lemonade mix that I never use because I'm usually too lazy to mix it up. Water is cheap and I'm on a budget!

As for alcohol, I usually have rum with coke, or scotch if I'm not paying. Beer and wine are both awful. But I rarely ever drink as I'm the driver 99% of the time I might otherwise have the opportunity. I don't mess around with that.
I was pretty much addicted to Mountain Dew for the better part of 12 years. In early 2009 I finally switched to Diet Dew and then late 2009 I switched over to Diet Coke. Not sure if that's any better for me than Diet Dew, probably not. I try to incorporate water as much as I can and Iced Tea as well. I tend to drink Chocolate Milk in spurts as well, such as getting it 3 or 4 times a week in the mornings for a couple months and then not getting it again for another couple months. I just get tired of it after a while because it's so heavy?
You're absolutely right. I just wasn't sure how else to distinguish between Chinese (citizens of the PRC), and diaspora Chinese (people of Chinese origin that are not PRC citizens)

Ok, added qualifiers.
for yc funded startups: http://yclist.com/
Club-Mate, Milk (3.8%)
I've been a happy user of Python's multiprocessing package, for the following reasons:

* It's really natural if you work on an OS that has fork() (i.e., not Windows), you just need to create a Pool after you've initialized everything and can use Pool.imap (in much the same way as itertools.imap) after that.
* Distributing data for initialization (which is ~100-200MB in my case) would add another level of complexity if I wanted to distribute tasks among several computers automatically.

At the granularity I'm working (most single tasks use >10ms, many >100ms), a simple worker pool works just as fine as the ForkJoin model that Clojure parallel is based on.

OpenMP and OpenMPI are for a very different use case where you know (pretty much) exactly how long the different parts of an operation will take, so you can make different processors (or different nodes) take different, determined-in-advance, chunks of the problem. Usually, the "parallel map" abstraction implemented by Python's multiprocessing, Java's ForkJoin, or Hadoop/Disco is much more useful as a quick fix to parallelize something than if you start out with channels and try to build something on top of that.

TL/DR: It depends on your workload what multiprocessing workload is right for you. For most bread-and-butter workload where you can use a parallel map function, multiprocessing/ForkJoin is just fine; OpenMP is great if you have a very predictable split between processors and are willing to jump through additional hoops to squeeze out the additional 5-10% of performance. Don't use queues etc. unless you know you need them. Multi-node solutions (MPI, map/reduce) usually add another layer of complexity because you need to ship the initialization data to each node (if you need, e.g. a statistical tagging or parsing model).
I keep Shredder on the iPhone and usually play with that. I go through phases of playing it whenever I have a couple minutes free. I like it because you can keep a game around for a while, only needing to play when you're in the mood.
Gambit Scheme: Inside out
Man those are the Scotches I don't drink. JWB is good but too damn expensive, I'll take a Laphroaigh or Lagavulin any day.

Or JW Green...
In order of quantity:

-Water

-Whole milk

-Straight gin/whiskey

-Lemonade

I'm beginning to integrate coffee into my beverage intake, it falls between water and milk.

Sorry for the not-so-interesting tastes :)
In order of frequency from most to least
Water
Coke
Cabernet or Malbec
Laphroaigh or Johnny Walker Green
I prepared this morning two liters of fruit and vegetable juice. It is made of (in descending order) Carrots, Apples, Fennel and Cabbage. It took me a little more than half an hour to prepare. I drank one glass right out of the juicer and took the rest to work in some reused water bottles. (reuse is much better than recycle)
I also took with me three large ripe bananas - ones with spots on their peel.
I don't do this every day, but sometimes I summon enough will power to do it.
I once managed to drink vegetable and fruit juice for 10 days straight, maybe I will do a 90 day juice feast someday.
It doesn't if I don't give it permission to, but if you're concerned about it encrypt /tmp also or symlink it to ~/tmp (provided you're the only user).

Nevertheless, I do understand that you have different requirements, but in the case someone really values the option of having his entire boot volume encrypted, the one time only price tag of PGP is a moot point and shouldn't be a deterrent. In fact, I'm now tempted to buy PGP's whole disk encryption thank you very much. In any case, I think it's generally overkill, but if you really needed, who am I to stand in your way! :)

http://www.pgp.com/products/wholediskencryption/index.html
Coffee: Stumptown (recently moved to SF from Portland)

Tea: Peet's Assam Extra Fancy
Ask HN: is it about the product or the founders?
I saw one of paul grahams videos and he says the most important thing in a startup is the product, but on the application and the essays it claims that the founders are the most important thing, so which one is it when applying for YC?
Not yet, since my MacBook is still relatively new. But the last few MacBooks I bought where already deliberately on the low end, so yeah, my next main machine is likely to be an Air.

It kind of depends on my working environment at any given time (lots of time on the go or sitting behind a desk with an external screen), but power will definitely not be an issue.
Water

Lemonade/Lemon juice

Mountain Dew - I like it, but I could live without it; in fact I haven't been drinking it for a long time now.

Tried coffe for a while; the taste is just horrible, although it does help wake up your brain.

Chocolate - although not exactly a drink, but sometimes I 'consume' it in liquid form.
They do in Java. It's called FrameworkFramework.

Unfortunately you have to get them from a FactoryFactory.
I had a similar experience. I was a strong contender for the US West amateur championship for a few years. But once I got good enough to spend most of my thinking time on positional concerns things stopped being a game and started being a huge database to memorize. I would spend my free time analyzing my games for weaknesses in my strategy, and practiced speed problem solving using giant books of tactical problems. Everybody serious about chess hits the point of diminishing returns per unit of studying, and I believe that the "good" players are the people who can ignore the impossibility of their task and keep studying anyway. There are probably better solutions to the problem of diminishing returns than quitting cold turkey, (the solution I chose) but I'm convinced my experiences with chess have made me a much better programmer. Looking ahead at the consequences of my actions, being able to look for oddball solutions to impossible situations, never giving up, and occasionally memorizing established solutions are all things I'm appreciative to chess for teaching me.
As I posted on the article:

To me it feels a little like you're trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist. Just about everyone is familiar with the username/password paradigm, and honestly I've never seen anyone have a problem with it.

Usernames (or email addresses, as is common) and passwords are two distinct pieces of data, they are not one, so why should they be presented as one? Basically, the only advantage here is that you can hit space instead of tab as far as I can see it… and the time needed to read the helper text above the input field far outweighs the time novice users who click in each field will take to do so. This seems to me like a net loss, and source of "WTFery" for everyone. Separating username and password is not some senseless convention or relic from the past, it's the logical visual result of this authentication model.

(I disagree with those saying that OpenID is a great login experience; for me, it's by far the worst login experience I've seen. The example given [StackOverflow] caters to a very technical audience anyway, so it's a non-issue there, but for Joe Public it's just a constant source of confusion. This has been debated to death elsewhere, though.)
This whole question of dealing with learning something surprising about a person you know and like is the subject of my favorite movie of all time: The Third Man. I highly recommend it.
Chinese puerh tea
Nasa.gov: Evidence of Climate Change
That's a lot of assumptions for 2 sentences.
It's sort of linkbait title with a weak conclusion...
I have been really playing alot for past 2 months.

First studying alot, basic openings, midgames, endgames, simple tactics. But what got me really hooked was Stockfish (on iOS and Android), http://www.stockfishchess.com ... it is a pretty amazing open source chess engine. By far the best learning has been through http://www.jrobichess.com. His video analysis is great. In general I still lose alot more than I win but the studies are great and there is alot to learn.

Also great documentaries to watch ...

Game Over : Kasparov and the Machine : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLhqmqwy2gw

Susan Polgar : Brilliant Brain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WREgHsTr5yE

Also watching the current games of Magnus Carlsen, Judit Polgar, and Alexandra Kosteniuk are great.
For what it's worth, holding down Option/Alt will empty the Trash without confirmation.

Also, from the menu you can select:

Finder > Secure Empty Trash

You can even give it a keyboard shortcut, if you like. Or, as you mentioned, there's an option to always securely empty the Trash in the Finder Preferences.
* Coffee - short Italian espresso (always when out) or Turkish

* Red Bull - too much, a lot less than previously

* Beers - again a lot less alcohol than previously, because I prefer being in a productive mode, but Guinness, London Pride and English Ale (Rose n' Crown in Palo Alto, 21st amendment & Gordon Biersch in SF, The Porterhouse in Covent Garden, London & The Dove in Fulham)

* Scotch - as many different types as I can. Usually a compulsory purchase when going through duty-free at airpots. Macallan, JW, Famous Grouse