skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with geographical dispersion is exactly what YC worries about too. Initially YC was Boston + Silicon Valley and then became Silicon Valley only. If you were going to do a non-Silicon Valley YC then you'd need to put it somewhere where there was high connectivity between entrepreneurs, VCs, engineers, etc. etc. You really need the ecosystem.

In Europe there are probably only two places like that: London and Berlin. And I'd argue that Berlin is far behind London. You could include Tel Aviv as well at a pinch.
faisstsebastian
Great discussion with people who worked with Morris on Slashdot (5+ comments)
There's been a bit of backlash against that, though - while it does set an upper bound on the negotiation, it also couches the range of the whole negotiation (i.e. the other side is unlikely to make a significantly lower counter-offer, since their perception of a reasonable counter-offer is based on the initial offer).

Still, the typical advice is probably pretty solid for situations where you don't know where to start.
Facebook would do good releasing something similar.
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I find myself agreeing with his sentiment.

When the cost of doing business grows intolerably large, in this case the acquisition of talent, growth slows and reverses. This is one of the classical reasons for boom bust cycles.
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Circles are awesome. The implementation is fun and animated. I think it would be awesome if you could share them as well. Make them grow as groups.
What explains the proliferation of UK incubators, given the rather modest success achieved here with similar programs?
vjk.2005
Ah, thanks for posting about my Fexl language. Although I'm the author of it, and somewhat fond of it, I must emphasize this caveat: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2717560 .

Although lazy evaluation is quite amazing, in certain circumstances I find that it's kicking my ass. For example, consider a function that simply sums the numbers from 1 to N:

\sum == (\N
long_le N 0
0
(long_add N (sum (long_sub N 1)))
)

Or, more tersely, using the semicolon as a syntactic "pivot" to avoid right-nesting:

\sum == (\N long_le N 0 0; long_add N; sum; long_sub N 1)

The problem is that when you call (sum 100000) it builds up a giant chain of (long_add 100000; long_add 99999; long_add 99998; ...) and then evaluates that monstrosity recursively.

So I need to do some more work on forcing early evaluation. You can start by using the standard accumulator trick:

\sum == (\total\N
long_le N 0
total
(sum (long_add total N) (long_sub N 1))
)

\sum = (sum 0)

But even then you still have the massive recursion problem because you're not forcing the addition operation early.

I'm thinking I just need to allow basic types like "long" to be called as functions with no effect (i.e. equivalent to the identity function, so you can do things like this:

\sum == (\total\N
long_le N 0
total
(
\total = (long_add total N)
total; # force evaluation; result is I (identity function)
sum total (long_sub N 1)
)
)

However, even that doesn't always do the trick, particularly when you're dealing with higher-level values that aren't basic data types. The problem occurs generally when you build up a big "chain" of calculations with arbitrary values, and you have no simple way of forcing evaluation along the way.

This is, of course, the classic struggle between eager and lazy evaluation. But if I don't do the evaluation lazily, I can't define recursion in terms of the closed-form Y combinator, namely (Y F) = (F (Y F)). Instead I'd have to define it in terms of some kind of run-time "environment" using either key-value pairs or the de Bruijn positional technique -- something I've managed to avoid thanks to lazy evaluation in terms of pure combinators.

So I must say that although Fexl is an interesting pure-combinator lazy evaluation language, the jury is still out on its practical utility, in my humble opinion. I've used it in some projects as an embedded interpreter, but the application was quite constricted so you didn't encounter some of these larger issues.

That is why I emphasized this caveat earlier today: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2717560 .
You think the hypothesis is silly? Why?
Three I know of:

http://eu.techcrunch.com/2011/01/27/screenreach-raises-50000...

http://eu.techcrunch.com/2011/05/23/loveyourlarder-wants-to-...

http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/23/curated-by/

Not sure about Springboard, the programme is still going on.
.. oh yeah and of course. What about, intersection? Friends intersected with Work.
trikkia
Why did you expect anything else from either company?

Google makes it easier on all of their services to download your data. Including the phone numbers and emails of your own contacts.

Every company out there offering free services is
after your data

That quote is not in the context you're putting it -- the original comment meant that your profile belongs to Facebook and you can't move it easily.

I really hope that was a troll and not a Facebook employee.

it definitely belongs to them since they have the
context for it

No it doesn't. By law your data belongs to you and you're granting them the privilege of using it.
Unless the user is logging in 10000 times in a row, how do you plan to get enough data?
gorbach.alexey@... (need an invite)
"No, it seems to have gone fine."

You really think so? I find that statement sort of amazing. I guess ever the optimist, right?
That is a terrible article.
Makes me wonder why there are so many iterations

Why? Isn't iteration a good sign? The accelerators have only been going for the last couple of years so it's too soon to cite 'success' (unless you count fundraising as newsworthy)
what's broken? seems to work for me
I'm porting over my UI-heavy app from JS to CS this week. The problem with CS is that there's just not enough tutorials/documentation online yet so articles like this are quite welcome. Here's a list of random CS things that took me a little figuring out:

1. Every function returns the last operation. To not return anything, insert a blank 'return' at the end.

2. Descending ranges just work: [10..0]

3. You can use if(`regular JS between backticks`) / else

4. You don't need node.js to compile CS (or LessJS)*

5. Don't expect a 1-to-1 conversion between old JS and new CS. CS loops have lots of smart-things built-in and will look different but work just the same or better once you know what you're doing.

* CS and Less both have JS functions that accept a raw string and output compiled string. On OSX, you can use jsc + little bit of bash to compile CS and Less to JS and CSS respectively. It is such a pleasure to work in CS and Less, especially since I know the end result is clean, standard JS/CSS that works everywhere.
This is an interesting moral debate - LA Noire was both a critical and monetary success AFAIK. Was this worth it? If you produce great art, do you have to worry about the "how"?
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I found this linked on there...found it pretty interesting:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12830/most-elegant-amusin...
My take is that it seems like easy money for the people who create these incubators. They don't risk much cash and they hope that they'll find the next Zuck and make a packet. Given the strong FS sector in the UK it's not surprising that there's money chasing ideas.

If you look at the list of mentors etc. involved in these incubators they tend to be second-rate. I got invited to be a mentor in one of these programs and the participation required from me was really minimal yet my name would be all over the thing. I wasn't able to take part because of other commitments, but it strikes me that there's a real quantity over quality problem.

My (jaded) view is that it's a version of new adage: "those that can do, those that can't incubate". That may be unfair to these specific folks, but until we see some success from these incubators. Compare, for example, all the effort in branding/marketing these programs to the effort YC spends on the same. You do not need a slick web site and list of mentors to make this stuff work. Hello, you can even use HTML tables for layout and still get people who do cutting edge web work in your program. What you need are quality principals.

I'd be happy to work for a real YC-like in London (actually, it would probably have to be YC itself) because you'd be working in a really small team of really smart people. Not in some massive team of 'mentors' who aren't providing a great deal of value.
Rocky Heckman who is a security specialist as Microsoft http://blogs.msdn.com/b/rockyh/ summed it up in the best way I have heard so far.

"Don’t write your own Crypto algorithms unless you have a Doctorate in Cryptography."
Wouldn't say this is proliferation. Rather, a rebranding of a previous incarnation after it got more cash.
"If someone managed to break in to your website and get the password hashes, chances are they also have your "secret" salt."

I believe the GP was referring to the scheme where you don't store the salts at all (or only store some bits of each salt.) The verification needs to brute-force the salt (or the missing bits) each time it verifies the password.

The missing bits are quite similar to the bcrypt workfactor - the more you leave out the harder it is for both the attacker and the legitimate verification to verify passwords.
skanth
Don't attribute to malace what can be attributed to ignorance. What's more likely? High profile private organizations thinly veil their shoddy secruity measures hoping to never be exposed, or high profile private organizations erroneously believe their systems to be robustly secure?

I'll take the latter.
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Seek and source talent globally. Look outside your own borders. Just because the USA or UK is short of web skills, it doesn't mean the sky is falling down for the whole industry. China, India, Russia, E. Europe, SE Asia are some places to start looking. (it is getting harder in those places too but MUCH MUCH easier than the "western" countries.)
It's a fair point but ideally a presentation application should do everything it can to make you look good.

PowerPoint's issue is that it doesn't look great to start with which is one of the reasons people try to "sex up" their presentations which is where all the crap starts appearing.

If PowerPoint produced better looking presentations as standard (essentially had better templates which still, even in the latest versions it doesn't), people might have less reason to give free reign to their stupidity.
scottwhigham
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Sadly no it couldn't.

Office's dominance or otherwise isn't down to functionality, it's down to corporate habit, compatibility, user familiarity and a big ol' dose of FUD about using something different.

Until you find a way to deal with those for major corporate clients you could produce the best productivity suite in the whole world and you still wouldn't shift Office.
Congrats on the launch, Ilya. Never realized you were part of YC batch :)
Don't get me wrong, I am all in favour of the work they are doing. I was just wondering about what was and what was not working for them.

I guess it's easy to get used to YC companies bursting out of the gates and making an impact from the get go that I thought it strange I did not know any companies from those accelerators.
You can add the configurable slowness factor to any secure hash. Just use salts but leave out k bits from each when storing them. The more bits you leave out, the more work it takes to verify a password as the verification procedure needs to brute-force the missing k bits.
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You're right, I apologize for the inaccuracy. Here's Hertzfeld himself on the subject: https://plus.google.com/117840649766034848455/posts/FddaP6je...
gnanavel.s (got it, thanks Ilan!)
I wonder why Google didn't implement a delete option. Facebook has it.
nashio
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satansgeek An invite would be much appreciated. Thanks![EDIT:Thanks for the invite...will add others now]
They're called sectors, not pages.

You're describing worst-case fragmentation, which filesystems work very hard to prevent.

In general, the fastest thing to read off a disk is a single large file, assuming minimal fragmentation. Even SSDs have much better sequential read performance compared to random-access.
From the about page:
"The founders move to Newcastle..."

Closes tab
What would your JavaScript API be an API to? Or alternately what language would be calling the JavaScript API and why?
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I dont know. I see a lot of people trying to hire exactly the same people, a lack of willingness to invest in cross training or any training at all, as people just want so called rockstars. And a large number of people not building sustainable businesses that could support training and learning because they are just chasing a bubble.

The recruitment industry is also in the way of better solutions.
The problem with airport security in America is that they search for "Dangerous Items", not "Dangerous People". A dangerous person is allowed on an American flight if he/she doesn't have any dangerous items with him. In my opinion, a motivated group of guys could take a plane hostage with nothing but car keys, ju jitsu and some creative thinking.

I'm not saying searching for the dangerous person is superior to searching for the dangerous item. But I think TSA needs to be reminded that weapons don't kill people, its the people that do the killing.

Safe person + Dangerous Items = Safe.
Dangerous Person + Safe items = Unsafe.
You can also write a new cipher, discover a new key derivation function, and invent a new hash function. But that's not the point. Use bcrypt or scrypt.
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Too bad Google sucks. Otherwise their service might be considered.

As it is, I can't wait for it to die like Google Wave. More worthless web apps from Google will come to fill its place.
The reason the TSA is not reigned in is that only the little people are subject to search. If you fly on a private jet you and your luggage are whisked right to your plane with no inspection whatsoever.
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Accel, Eden, and others.

I agree, btw. Seedcamp (with all its pros) is not YC. If YC did decide to open an outpost here, they would certainly see a lot of interest - despite the weather.

In fact, YC already funds UK and European startups, so although this is a big step (splitting the nest), it would not be that different from what YC does already. A good smattering of tele-conferencing technologies could even help resolve the "pg is not ubiquitous" issue.
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Thanks for the mention! (I'm the webapp2 author).

A big advantage of webapp2 is that you can use existing (and probably future) SDK libraries without adaptation. Many App Engine services (blobstore, mail handler, deferred etc) use handlers made for webapp. With webapp2 you get all those handlers working out of the box with extra benefits: webapp2 is a lot easier to extend and includes the most glaring webapp missing features.

Also, you can use all the examples from the App Engine documentation with it, since it is made to be compatible with webapp. And later you learn the new, extended features.
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Strongly disagree here. Functionality wise, Office (read Excel and Word) murdered everything else in the early-mid 90s.

There are certainly other reasons that contributed greatly to Office's monopoly but I don't see FUD as one of any consequence.
I wouldn't downvote this. England is not like the US, where there are many "hub cities" which are all the centre of something. England has effectively got just one centre: London. And living in London is very, very different from living in any other place in England. For one, there are far fewer British people in London. It's a cosmopolitan, international metropolis, with all the benefits that brings.

Asking people to move to Newcastle would be a bit like asking people to move to, picking a random one, "Tulsa, Oklahoma". Sure, it's a city, and there are people there and all that, but... why the hell would you move your startup there?
Scientists have known since the mid-1930s that water wrinkles do not form if the nerves in a finger are severed, implying that they are controlled by the nervous system.

That is the amazing part, if it's not a merely mechanical process. A bit further down they mention poor circulation also impeding wrinkling, so it may have something to do with control of capillary blood vessels.
typjtk
The article mentions the Morris worm (NB: the quote from pg):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm

Edit: More context:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Tappan_Morris
Can't you just hold alt to get more precise placement?
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I think it is for serving ads - or describing multimedia ads. Not sure yet.

Could be called from a variety of environments.
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gcc has an -MD switch.

Say goodbye to makefiles (if you're writing in C), and hello to writing clump.ini.
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It does seem analogous to the record industry 20-40 years ago. You needed capital to record/produce/distribute. A record company had the capital, and the connections to market you to people who would buy the product, and had the marketing channels (radio, tv, print) in line to promote the product.

VC has the capital you need, access to a network of investors, and media connections to help promote.

This does seem like a model which will morph/fade, and possibly more quickly than we saw the record industry take its lumps. YC/Techstars/incubators and such seem to be proactively trying to change the rules of the traditional VC/investment game, but still keeping some of the better aspects.
The power to end the TSA lies with the public. The responsibility to end the TSA lies with the public. The public need to make enough fuss, so the media reports the fuss, so that more public become aware of the issue.

The key points to identify;

a) The TSA does not make flying safe. The FAA makes flying safe. The TSA allegedly keeps bombs off planes but going by their press releases they've never actually done this. It's always some kid with a pen-knife.

b) For years Customs have been attempting the opposite goal, detecting stuff coming off planes. They have a good success rate, but clearly plenty of stuff gets through. Is there any evidence that the TSA has a better success rate?

c) It's not hard to get forbidden items onto a plane. It just isn't. All the TSA does is make it harder to do it via the main entrance hall. Given the amount of merchandise, and number of people who work on the "other side" of the security barrier, does anyone think it's hard? For example it's easy to take liquids on a plane, just buy them in the departure hall. [edit - It's also not hard to get a job as a TSA agent. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?]

d) Given that the TSA doesn't make us any _safer_, it's hard to find a reason for it to exist. But large govt. departments do not go softly into the night.

It takes sustained, broad-based pressure to make this sufficiently important for politicians to get involved. Until that happens _nothing_ will change. No, I lie, until that happens the TSA will spend more money, and intrude on our lives more, but won't actually provide any benefit.
mikhailkru, no invite yet although :(
It's a fact of life that describing someone as a 'serial' anything rarely inspires confidence.