skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like HTTP 1.2?

Since Google servers and Chrome already support it, the chicken-egg problem might be solved. Firefox has an incentive to implement it to make Google search faster and other web service should implement this to provide a smoother user experience.
YC doesn't have the time and resources to help every startup.
https://sites.google.com/site/pfcmanning/

An open letter to President Obama on retaliation against whistleblowers.
I use the same scheme with minor variations. The most annoying thing is "secure password requirements" ("your password must have digits", and it happened that generated one didn't have a single digit) or limits (I'm fine with encoding-agnostic 7-bit-ASCII-only, but "8 chars max" or "may only contain alphanumerics" frustrate me) on some sites, which force me to step away from this scheme.

In fact, there are way too many exceptions out there in the wild. One still needs a notebook of some sort for such cases.

Also, the last time I've logged into Bitbucket (I [almost] don't use it, but I have the account) I forgot that I logged there using OpenID instead of login-password pair. :)
I doubt it's "as powerful as a PS3", but it shows the console-killer potential of phone+HDMI. A PS3 has 8 (faster) cores, so Moore says wait 4.5 years.

Of course, it's the games that count; and of course sony/ms/nintendo saw this threat long ago, and have their own phone-consoles plans (IHMO).
How do you compare to John D. Rockefeller?
Be interesting to see how fast other browsers/servers start supporting this. I'd love to see Google add it to App Engine sites, for one thing.
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Once again I ask: if Google fails to understand "social" the same way Microsoft in the '90s failed to understand the internet, what will Facebook fail to understand?
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A few decades ago, most of what you needed to learn to be productive in society was best learned at a university. Today, most of the what you need to learn to be productive in society is best learned on your own, online, for free. There are exceptions but 99% of human knowledge is no longer locked up within a university.

This knowledge hasn't been locked up for decades, though. It's been possible since at least the mid-20th-century to self-teach yourself the standard material in any major field, at least at an undergraduate level, by going to a library and reading, from the introductory textbooks up through the advanced ones. There are some things that might be hard to replicate (e.g. getting hands-on chemistry lab experience), but you could certainly self-teach the equivalent of a 4-year program in mathematics or history or theoretical physics.

A few people even did. In mathematics it's not that uncommon to find self-taught people, though it still isn't the norm. But overall not many people do it. Why will people do so now? Just because the material can be accessed without going to a library? Given that it takes some effort to work your way through a 4-year physics program, was the effort of going to the library to pick up Griffiths/Feynman/Landau really the main bottleneck?

I can definitely buy some change on the margins and in poorer countries (people who had no access to a library), but I'm confused why the internet will mean that people who for decades have not been teaching themselves physics, despite the books being available, will now do so.
It would change my career and retirement planning quite a bit. I'd retire early. I would forget having kids, since I wouldn't be around to support them after their mid-teens.

Think about it from the flip side: If you knew you were going to live to age 200 in good health, wouldn't you retire later? Maybe you'd spend more time gallivanting around the world like a recent college grad. Maybe you would wait longer to settle down and have children. Any deviation from the current typical life-span should definitely change your behavior.
The data peak that causes excitement
I was going to try something similar a while back. Perhaps a different persons perspective on a similar idea will stimulate your mind: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=925134
The money is only a small part of it. It's really there to make sure you can focus on your project and not worry about putting food on your plate or making rent. The money was put on the table, but I'd like to get feedback to know if it's something that interested teams would want in exchange for equity.
About time! SPDY's been out for a while!
It has some nice UI ideas - I particularly like the idea of calculator-like editor.

Environments with limited text input ability get significant advantage from staticaly (or at least strong) typed languages - code autocomplete is really killer weapon when editing text.

As a sidenote something similar can be achieved on Android phones using Touchqode [1] and Scripting Layer For Android [2]. It does not have specific language but you can use any of its supported languages - Python, Ruby, BeanShell (Java), Rhino (JavaScript)

Disclaimer: I work on touchqode

[1] http://www.touchqode.com
[2] http://code.google.com/p/android-scripting/
At this point though, if we're taking PG & co's rankings of applications, the top 10% of YC applicants are still in the interview phase - if I were the OP I would want to wait until after the class gets announced, right?
There is no bar to apply to YC. You fill out a form on the YC home page; costs nothing but an hour or two of your time. It would be pointless to find out if a team applied or not. There are hundreds or, more likely, thousands of applications each batch (I don't know the exact number, as it hasn't been public in a few years, but I know what the curve looked like back then); there's plenty of rejects for YC Reject to reject. And then they can found YC Reject Reject, and create more exciting investment opportunities for angel investors.
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The UK's Business Link provides sample documents for terms of use, privacy policy, disclaimer etc. I generally make a few edits and then use them as soon as a site goes live.

http://www.businesslink.gov.uk/bdotg/action/detail?itemId=10...
Ask HN/PG: Video stream weekly YC speakers?
I have noticed that YC is very generous with its advice, which includes advice to all (even non-YC) founders through HN and PG's essays, and with it's open application process/criterion that allows other accelerator programs to copy it openly. I was wondering if this generocity could be extended to the weekly talks that speakers give during YC sessions for all to watch and learn from?
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I don't have a problem with it at all, it is interesting and unusual

He put so much effort and determination into this 'not-YC' that he probably would have been funded anyway

Being rejected from YC will probably end up being the best thing that has ever happen to him
Here is a list of companies that didn't go through YCombinator and did pretty well: Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Cisco, Amazon.

So I think the 'sans professors' thing is a bit unfair.
Maybe I'm wrong about this, but I would imagine that the the average quality of startups that applied to YC and didn't get accepted is higher than the average quality of startups that didn't apply to YC, but do apply to a YC rejects group now there is a possibility of funding.

Obviously, depending on how well the YC Reject guys filter the applicants, it may not matter who applies, if they select the best, and are proven to be good at the selection process.
Hacked sites suck, especially because the hackers can target so many pages at once. Please keep your web servers patched and up-to-date.
I wonder if another aacs controversy is going to rise.
Actually, I'm an amateur photographer, and Flickr is pretty sweet for me.

First of all, they are doing rating, though it may not be obvious how -- which I think is better than some dumb rating widget that can be abused -- and if Facebook would be able to show you pictures by rating, all you'd ever see are pictures of teenage girls in tight miniskirts, which get dozens of times better ratings then the pictures uploaded by my artistic-friends ;)

Here's what Flickr does: http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/

Then, there is no cheaper alternative for keeping a backup in the cloud. A Pro account is $2 per month, with unlimited uploads. I know people that have over 50000 pictures uploaded using the original size (that's over 150 GB of data btw). And I actually wanted to upload my photos to S3 or to Google's Blogstore or to Dropbox, but it's gets much more expensive for such a volume (and currently I'm uploading 2 GB / month -- my baby boy is growing up :)).

Also, on Flickr you can access the EXIF headers of a picture -- and if you type your camera's model in their search box, you get thousands of photos for which you can access details like exposure, aperture and focal length, thus you can get better by examining the work of other people.

Also, it does feature a "share on facebook" button, with which you can publish a link + a thumbnail on Facebook.

Yes it sucks, but it is better than any alternative I ever tried. Pretty tired of hearing "if Facebook does this or that" too -- I'll be happy if they do, but they haven't and they aren't interested in art -- they are more interested in tight miniskirts of teenagers that get massive upvotes ;)
"We're like YC but better!" has "sour grapes" written all over it. If it's that much better, why did you bother applying to YC in the first place?

Also, on a lighter note, will there now be a ycrejectrejects project/site?
No, that is not possible as that is not my intention.
Dave, this post was in response to many other articles that have framed iOS vs Android as the 2 dominant smartphone platforms and made a parallel comparison to the Mac/Windows discussions of old.

I do like Windows Phone 7 a lot. I think the UI is fantastic. I do not think that its current app situation is fantastic, and it is starting with a serious deficit versus competitors. I will not dismiss it at all, but think to discuss it in the frame of this article would be distracting.

I have previously discussed Blackberry as well, but think they have a lot of work to do to be compared vs Android and iOS right now.

Here's a post that had iOS vs Android vs BlackBerry from May of last year: http://blog.louisgray.com/2010/05/in-todays-world-of-mobile-... where I said those who are centered on email are still in a great place with Blackberry.
The rate synchronization code is interesting. Is that what you were referring to?
That won't work for a number of reasons that are both technical and legal.

I have a possible solution. I'll publish a paper on the topic in the near future for the benefit of everyone that has to deal with this kind of nonsense.
The problem with credentials you get from some universities (even elite ones) is that they are of much less value than you paid for it. It like buying house in San Francisco Sunset district ("elite" town) for 2M and saying it is a great deal. No. It is great deal for 500K but not for 2M since max rent was is 4K.
In Germany, the number of Abiturients, those who go to college prep schools has been going up for decades. They have also relatively recently opened pure universities up to certain relatively narrow classes of non-Abiturients.

Given that the number of people with college degrees has been increasing steadily by age group in Germany, and that someone is paying for it, i.e. the state, i.e. the taxpayer, I don't see that "bubble" is an inappropriate word.

Germany probably has less of a higher education bubble than any other Western country though, because they have the best apprenticeship and vocational training system in the world. I believe this is only stable because Germany is enormously class and status conscious, and as a result has early streaming. I don't doubt that some potential is wasted, but probably the fact that Hauptschüler are not hindering the eductaion of Realschüler and Gymnasien would justify the system by itself.
Cool project!
This is what I was searching for just yesterday!
It is one of the goals and I'd love to see your evidence to the contrary.
Jquery.easie.js
Css3-like easings for jQuery animations.
Brilliant and thought provoking, heretical words. Exclusionary access, prohibitive cost, insular culture, overgrown complexity concealing fundamental ideas...

“It’s something about the scarcity and the status. In education your value depends on other people failing. Whenever Darwinism is invoked it’s usually a justification for doing something mean. It’s a way to ignore that people are falling through the cracks, because you pretend that if they could just go to Harvard, they’d be fine."
I am visual programming skeptic (or better said pragmatic). I've seen quite a few visual environments where at the end of the day (once you've learned the language) it was faster to switch to text mode. Visual programming was great for learning the language though.

The main problem visual programming encounters is the sheer number of options you have when you are entering code in text form.

Just consider that on almost any new line in code you can type in control structure, variable declaration, assignment, function/method call etc. And it is almost always faster to type "if" or "for" than to click through some decision tree to get to your required command.

In touchqode we try to overcome this limitation using prefix tree when showing code suggestions - e.g. when you have methods showTime(), showDate() and showLocation() you can type "s", press "tab" and you see longest common prefixes of methods starting "s" - so you would see "show". Then you can click it and see the actual method names.

Needless to say - templates for structured commands (e.g. "if") are probably necessary for programming on mobile devices.

I have few experimental features for touch programming in my mind, so I hope I'll get to implementing them sooner than later. If anyone has interesting ideas I'll be glad to discuss them.
Jobs' autobiography (Stanford commencement address)
I think the difference between the best SEO agencies and the majority is that the best continually run experiments to try and understand what Google is doing. This takes no little skill and a lot of time and effort.

The rest just read and regurgitate the results of those experiments when the experimenter decides to release those results (ie when it's not too much of a competitive advantage).
I hope you know India is not a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_democracy
And people do not elect a Chief Minister in India.
Jobs wouldn't even endorse "iWoz" (probably because of the story of him conning Woz out of a fair share, long ago).

"iCon" is the most perfect title I've ever seen - obviously the lowercase 'i' and Jobs' reality distortion field; but also the desktop metaphor featuring icons; and that Jobs is definitely an icon himself.

Note we already have a brief Jobs autobiography, in his Stanford commencement address: text http://news.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html; video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd_ptbiPoXM
If you look at the CPU info it also shows it supports a range of frequencies from 200Mhz to 800Mhz and that the current running speed is ~280Mhz.

So presumably the CPU scales between 200 and 800Mhz based on demand to improve battery life and the bogomips score was produced at a lower clock speed.
This is fairly simply explained:
* There is one unit of measurement, SAR
* There are two maximum permissible values; one for the US, one for the EU
* Apple has chosen the higher of the two so they can make a better phone (more power)
* They get away with going over the US legal limit by recommending you hold it further away than normal

It should be noted that not only are the max SAR values different for the EU and US but they are measured differently so can't really be compared directly.
It's not only been done, "master password with a salted hash" is broken. If I can convince you to log in to face.com ("Tubby loves taco's!face"), I can find the hash of "Tubby loves taco's!facebook". This is because SHA1("Tubby loves taco's!facebook") is just SHA1-sub(SHA1("Tubby loves taco's!face"), "book"). See "length extension attack" for more details.

More generally, hash functions are collision-resistant, but the output is not (pseudo)random.
Hey, Look At That -- We Pay More Taxes Than GE*
I don't disagree but I think the quality of free education has dramatically increased with the rise of the Web. You can now consume the audio and video from the top professors around the country for free. You can work through amazing screencasts from anyone ranging from Sal Khan to some of the best Rails engineers in the world. The examples are endless.

So I definitely think the ability to self-educate has been there for a long time (you could make the case that dates all the way back to the advent of the printing press) but I think it's only in the last decade or so that we've had an explosion in the amount of high-quality, free and widely accesible educational material that is available.
From the Wikipedia article [1]:
"each gram of the offending zoanthid contained enough venom to kill at least 125 grown men"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoantharia
Fabulous, as a tea drinker to the nth degree, I'm always looking for dorky tea apps and things.
It is something I know for a fact since I worked at 23andMe for 4+ years. Looks like the first responder already found the relevant section and posted it. It's not an ironclad assurance, and there are a few caveats, but these provisions, together with any scrutiny an attempted acquisition would bring (the database is big and well-known enough where it's virtually guaranteed), can provide peace of mind for some. There are certainly risks and I don't advocate that everyone gets tested without considering them, but "insurance company buys 23andMe, gets all the data, and starts discriminating based on it", is a very low-probability event based on what I know.
Feedback please for YC rejects
I appreciate that YC get a lot of applicants and that personalised feedback might seem like a daunting task with the number of applications you get but, as you recognise for yourself in your rejection letter by asking us for it when we succeed with our companies, it's very important and highly desired.

Generic feedback is what everyone gives (conferences, job applications, accelerators etc) and is pretty disappointing for applicants as we put so much work up front. If the numbers of applications rumoured are right and you got about 1800, and each form takes on average 2 people-days to complete then as a community we put in 10 years effort just to apply. That's 10 years that for the majority of us could've been put to better use into our companies/ideas instead so it would be nice if we could just get a little back in return to help us be better next time round.

If you really want to differentiate yourself from the pack (and I think you probably do) then do something that no-one else does. Give feedback. For the sake of a few people days extra effort your end it would come back to you a hundred times over in other ways.

I'm sure you have a process for sorting the wheat from the chaff but here's what I would do if I were wearing your shoes:

1. First pass have two buckets - MAYBEs and NOs. For all the NOs have someone writing down one sentence of why they're a no and include in their rejection letter (via a mail merge off a CSV)
2. Second pass go through the MAYBEs. For all the NOs this time round answer two questions:
1. What went well (with their application)?
2. Even better if (their application had/said/was/included ...)?

Two/three bullet points for each question would be amazing for us and you'd probably find yourself repeating. You will also probably find it will help generate content for your general feedback document and guides.

Hope my feedback is seen as just that rather than criticism. I love you guys but feedback is an essential part of the learning process and one that I just can't help asking for whenever I see an opportunity!
Were they not both calling the normal double-precision log function in libm?

Sure, the linked article scans all the single-precision floats in a certain range to do the test, but the function eventually called (using that list of floats) is log in libm.

In any event, no discrepancy is noted, so what was the point?

Additionally, TFA does not make clear that there should be no errors in the computed function affecting more than the least sig bit. It uses absolute errors (up to 50 e-17) rather than looking at the relative error (or ULP, in the jargon). It seems like a mess.

Here's a link with much more useful information:

http://www.gnu.org/s/libc/manual/html_node/Errors-in-Math-Fu...
If you have an iPhone 3G then your hardware is over two years old, and your iOS version, if updated, is still feature limited. Maybe that's why it feels so stagnant?
I'm not sure it does "blank out the tablet and force the use of a mouse".

If you've got your video going to an external display then that is where you're going to be looking.

It's not possible to interact using the touch panel if you aren't looking at the touch panel itself. So either plug in a mouse or keep glancing back and forth between the TV and the device.

* Making the entire devices touch screen a big trackpad during HDMI output would probably be nice though!
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2420201
I don't have any evidence to back this up but my sense is that the cost of textbooks is actually falling, not rising. Companies like Chegg and Bookrenter have made it cheaper for students and digital textbooks will likely help to accelerate this trend. The major increase in costs have been due to tuition and that shows no signs of abating.
Just told someone to order, i think the service is worth every penny, i hope doctors find this research valid enough to base some of their work on it(i'm public insured in germany).

My only fear at this point is them turning people over to evil scientists after finding out about their superpowers.
I know that - I did just that in 2005 and it still runs, albeit with a tiny (~200) community.

What I meant was a game with fancy pixel graphics.
Ask HN: Suggest a 2D only alternative for blender
I want to design a speedometer and then animate it. This is an hardware in loop thing so I dont want to use Flash. I will prefer and open-source alternative.

Please help.
That's certainly true right now, but the information in the health reports gets updated all the time based on new studies, so it will continue to get better.
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I quite agree. I just don't have any easy way to calculate it.
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