skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I think they would need to block those as well in order to be effective.

Frankly I don't see how they could possibly get away with it. Businesses of any size can't run without encrypted channels. Proceeding with this seems sure way to smother any economic development and relegate the country to third-world backwater status for the foreseeable future. And is any world leader crazy enough to do that besides Kim Jong-il?
CFML has great frameworks as well. One of many ... https://github.com/seancorfield/fw1/wiki
Well, to be honest, no we don't know if it'll be profitable yet. Mostly because we just launched and don't have enough data. We very well may introduce a monthly fee that allows nonprofits to only pay the percentag (3.5%) transaction costs that WePay charges. We're certainly not into taking advantage of nonprofits. Most nonprofits have under $25,000/year in revenue. If you make $12,000/year in revenue, it's hard to even justify paying $15 or $30 per month for something that you don't know if it works. We think with this model it will hopefully reduce the barriers to entry for small nonprofits so that they can get online quickly and easily and actually accept online donations. The majority of nonprofit websites don't even have an online giving option.

Also, if we do get a sizable number of nonprofits on the system, there are other services that we'd like to offer to them down the road for an affordable price (like $5 - $15/month). That may be a donor management database that's easy to use and stripped down for small nonprofits, a stripped down email marketing service, etc.

We looked into referral fees from WePay but they don't offer that for apps that use their API. That's really fine for us though. We kind of like the fact that we aren't telling nonprofits to use WePay with an ulterior motive of us making a little extra money. We use WePay because it is bar none the best marketplace payment processor that we know of... and that's with them having just released their marketplace API about a month ago.
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I was actually confused by this: it wasn't obvious to me that I had to sign in with Facebook to use this site. I actually tried clicking off it and using the cursor keys to move... something, anything, before I decided that signing in with Facebook must be a requirement. I am not used to sites that require me to sign in to Facebook to use them.
Do many users sign up for MailChimp accounts? I thought they were a mass mailer/newsletter company.
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So no SSH and no accessing git servers. In other words goodbye to any software development industry in PK
Thanks Dan! And good luck with KajaSoft!
Is this still using the EBS RAID that you guys mentioned in a blog post a while ago? If so, how do you avoid any slow I/O requests (which plague EBS) stalling all I/O to the volume?
It's really sad that this is the case, but in the lab I worked for at a UC many of our costs were complete BS made up so that we could use up the full amount of our grant. The system encourages this behavior. The logic is completely flawed: If you don't use the money, then you obviously don't need it. Next time you won't receive the full amount from your grant. When your grant is millions of dollars over a few years, you end up having a lot of very nice dinners paid for with money that was meant to be used for research and education.
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They're playing to their audience. This is a way to get a nice little schadenfreude fire burning in the hearts of all their readers who think their MBAs actually contribute in some essential way to their business acumen.
Yeah, sounds like we are in complete agreement on this.
They are asking companies and banks etc. to register their VPN's with the govt.

Basically, if you're a multinational or a large local corporation you get to use VPN's. Private citizens need not apply.
Is there a steganography package as easy to use as https or ssh?
Not using source control.
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Love the beer cups in HN orange.
There is, businesses can 'register' their vpn's and continue using them.
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Sorry, I thought you wanted to know why we chose Postgres over MySQL.

Those are the specific features I think that make Postgres a better choice for both use as my day-to-day database and why we chose Postgres over MySQL for building a database service.

Certainly you could build a similar service on top of, say, RDS, but without the features listed above, I think it would take a lot more work and not come out as well.

Hope that helps.
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This is amazing. I also believe that YC should have own it's own story with pictures like this, for every batch.
Maybe we should reword that.

The thinking behind that is that the really small nonprofits that we work with are generally relieved to find out that they can still use their domain name on their business cards and brochures and email and just forward the domain to their Bellstrike subdomain.

As a general rule most small nonprofits aren't techies, don't know the difference between hosting and a domain name and don't know what a 301 redirect is or that it's even possible. That being said, we'll certainly talk about rewording that so that it's clearer for the tech oriented audience and doesn't seem misleading. That's a pretty easy change :)

We do plan on offering a domain masking service like Flavors.me, Carbonmade, etc. where they won't have the need to do a 301 redirect.

Thanks for the feedback. We just launched today so we're glad to hear your thoughts so we can make corrections.
This has been forwarded before and I agree with detractors to this kind of thinking.

First, HP is a big company that has much better ways to turn money into more money than making something people are unwilling to buy at a reasonable price.

Second, growing the webOS ecosystem in this way founds it on false principles. Everything that seems to work when you're selling for a loss, might not work at all when you're selling for a profit. Just imagine if HP started off selling a $99 TouchPad, blowing out the doors, piling up billions in debt, and then found out everyone wanted an iPad when the price went up to $500. Oops.

The best modern example of this I think is Groupon. Groupon has been growing like crazy by taking a huge loss. For every dollar it takes, two dollars go out the door in the form of advertising and client acquisition.

Groupon is already of questionable value to some businesses. When the time comes for Groupon to fix its profitability the value proposition may be lost entirely.
I'm on Chrome 14.0.835.109 beta-m and clicking doesn't do anything. Sounds cool, though.
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"It will never work" is such a killer name for a possible cult classic on Investing and Entrepreneurship.
They don't need to do what Iran did. What Iran did was get a cert that was automatically trusted by nearly every web browser in the world because the issuer was a trusted CA by default. You only need a trusted cert if you don't want users to get a warning. Iran was trying to be sneaky. Pakistan is up front about wanting to monitor traffic. They can use any cert they want. They could use a self signed cert to proxy SSL. Sure, the browser will complain that it's not a trusted cert, but the government is already saying they are going to monitor everything. If users add the cert to the "trusted" list they won't get the warning anymore.
Sorta similar to an experiment I made a while ago [1]. I do think there's something to spatially-oriented chat, but it doesn't seem to get much traction

[1] http://openforum.samwarmuth.com/n/newmap -- You're a dot. Move using the arrow keys, type+enter to talk. You can click on stuff to build walls. (N.B. doesn't work on firefox)
Besides censorship, another reason is the local telephone monopoly, PTCL is trying to shut off all voice gateways into Pakistan, which are causing it to lose money and are hard to tap into as they are routed over VPN's to a local gateway connected to a bunch of landlines or cellphones which connects the local call.

Though of course they could just tap into the local last mile...
You're probably right that there's a good value add to come from journals. However the internet works well, and that's a pile of individual pages/web sites, so I think it'll all work out.
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The illegality (or quazi-illegality in the case of the links from the edu sites) of the mirrors is what's keeping them from being hosted permanently on a free site.

If the copyrights were clear, there would be repositories like arxiv.org that would ensure high-availability free access. The paper isn't on arxiv.org currently because Nature uses its copyright to ensure that it's not.
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can't believe this was about 6 years ago. congrats on all the success!
I love the 12-inch Powerbook G4s.
I know that I hardly have time for one of them, but greedily want to try all three. I wonder if there is an expectation for the course to be available again, or at least provide the full materials afterwards. And if there is a penalty for failing/dropping out of them due to time constraints.
Ugly on any non-Windows platform, too complicated for simple use (e.g. enter a query here and show me a result or show me a schema), etc. Well, just compare Sequel Pro screenshot with pgAdmin3 :)

Disclaimer: I actually like pgAdmin3, especially the visualized explain page.
> And I could often use an option to randomly choose between a few options that sound appealing.

Really, though? The choice is so difficult that you need a battery powered LCD display tablet to do "rand()" for you?
Stego is detectable.

Only in the sense that "Crypto is breakable."

The entire point of steganography is that it isn't detectable. If it can be detected, you need a better algorithm.
Ouch, that was a bad typo. I meant "discovered" not "discovering" and it's too late to edit.
Everyone who has this problem will be glad to hear you were not able to reproduce it.
There is nothing being 'returned' to YC. The value of the investment has gone up but that has little to do with an exit.
While I find this fascinating, I'm sure this is old news to people in the business, like the people that run the grocery/chain store savings programs.

What I'd be really interested to see is why this works, and what it tells us about distribution of population by zip code. I'd imagine the places where this doesn't work as well, are the most densely populated zip codes, where the likely hood of duplicates on the given key increases, but I would never have guessed that the accuracy would be anywhere near 87%. (maybe there's alot more zipcodes than what I thought? maybe they used zip+4?)
Unless you have a boss telling you to support IE6, you don't. People need to stop using this prehistoric excuse for a browser.
Being able to sell a $500 product for $200 says nothing about whether anyone would buy version 2 or 3 when the price goes back up to $500.
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Not that I know of.

What I know is that, as https is so easy to use, there are plans to make it serve covert traffic. So you would make a request to https://www.friendlyproxy.com with an extra header somewhat like What-I-Want: http://www.bannedsite.com and have "friendlyproxy.com" serve you the document you originally wanted.

I forgot the name of the project, though. I believe it was from an American university

Besides, with this new wave of government carrying MITM attacks, I don't know how useful this techniques will be.

EDIT: I was able to find a link explaining the Telex project from University of Michigan:
http://ns.umich.edu/htdocs/releases/story.php?id=8505
These maps are usually on microfiche.

Freedom of Information is a good idea, however the orignals are out of copyright (being 150+ years old). Just scanning a page of a book isn't a creative work, and hence you technically can't claim copyright on it again. Some mapping agencies like the Ordnance Survey of Ireland who have copies, scan and then join images up together, and rectify them so they work on google maps. This 'stitching & rectifiying' is a creative act, and hence they can (and do!) claim copyright on the new item. So this map from 1833 is Copyright 2008 OSi. :(

However a lot of libraries claim copyright on just a straight scan, even though they can't really. A FoI would get you the map, but probably something with a copyright symbol on the corner. If you want to use them (for OpenStreetMap tracing) the onus is now on you to prove you can. In short, they don't want to share them out to everyone. :(
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Amazing to see this, thanks for posting. Exciting to see how much they've grown through hard work and to see how much their vision expanded.

YC is now regarded as the harvard of tech startups. It's great that YC's original vision to put founders first is still instilled in YC today, even further than then as they have more resources and alumni.
I've never understood people's obsession with vim. I used it for a few months, then timed myself doing the same tasks with vim and gedit. Gedit was faster by a significant margin.
Wow. It seems like so long ago yet I remember every moment of these photos. Especially the one taken the night we decided to start YC (we actually didn't come up with the name till later on). I think that was a tear of joy/excitement in my eye.
Seems like a risky move for a startup to associate itself with Groupon founders. It would be like pushing a 401k fund managed by Bernie Madoff's son.
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Serious question, not meant to infer anything --

but if you used a centralized server for your blog, wouldn't the date/time stamp of that server provide the same information as a mail server would?

In other words: wouldn't that file/database entry timestamp (ie: wordpress' time -- just an example/name of a blog not necessarily available at that time) serve the same purpose?
It's pretty clear to me that they underpriced it.

They should lower the price to the point where the clear out inventory. But not lower.

Considering how much unmet demand there is at 99$ it's obvious that have not even come close to optimizing the price/demand curve.
> Yes, true, but you still belong to 1 tribe.

Reread the parent - he led with "no enemies or competitors". It's unclear whether the tribe thing was separate or it caused "no enemies".

My point is that no enemies is clearly false in "the good old days" (when life expectancy was roughly 30). Tribes had enemies and there were enemies within tribes.

> Nowadays we're lucky to have anyone besides family, or a S.O. who we consider a tribe.

Speak for yourself. I'm reasonably anti-social yet belong to a couple of tribes.
I have considered the same thing, and it's true for me too. Take your office, for instance: I don't use folders, everything is on the computer. Same for photos and albums, I don't need to store those, or CDs, LPs and the like. I have lots of shelf space and closet space to spare.

It took me some time to "back port" the concepts I know to the situation my colleagues grew up in: they got memo's in in- and outboxes, they read, copied and replied to stuff that went in folders on a shelf, and projects contained physical snipplets from newspapers, photograps and typed files to review. (Thank Mad Men for my insight here.) These went into filing cabinets alfabetized.

I can hardly imagine the inefficiency!
YC is incredible. If you're on the fence about applying - do it! The worst thing that can happen is that you'll go through an incredibly exciting process of applying, get a polite rejection, and reapply the next time around. The best thing that can happen is that it will change your perspective and your life in a very fundamental way. If you look at it that way, you have nothing to lose and everything to gain.
The moment my eyes fell on the title of this article, my face cracked into a wry grin. Here we go...
encouraging and well thought out points.
I might note that Microsoft lost money on every XBox initially. But gaming was a different business.
Not a founder myself, but the people I've been scheming with are either college friends or co-workers from other startups. IMO, working at a startup great potential source of future teammates (but I rarely see that mentioned around here).
Oh, _are_ you? That's really interesting!
Gitorious.org on the other hand is an Open Source startup.
Lasers aren't magic. They take time to cut through things, unless you have a massively, massively powerful beam.
Forget about HP for a minute. Are there any devs out there that are considering creating a WebOS app because of this new influx of users? I'm genuinely interested...perhaps it would be worth it.
I'd love to see someone with a large dataset containing those variables to see what % of their set overlaps on those.
This mirrors a lot of my own feelings (being a single founder myself). I originally applied for YC for the W11 round, and I rushed to find a cofounder before applying (even wrote this for HN: http://www.limedaring.com/technical-co-founder-wanted-for-di...)

I spent a few weeks "interviewing" cofounders and working with a few, before choosing one and starting to build a product and applied (and scored an interview) for YC. But during that time I realized that this person was not the person I wanted to start a startup with. Thankfully we didn't get in, and parted ways. Since then, I've decided that having a partner would be awesome but I'm not wasting time looking for someone (especially with the very small pool of people that want to work on wedding startups)... instead focusing on building as fast as possible on my own (product: http://weddinglovely.com, launched and making small bits of revenue).

I'm applying again for YC this round as a single founder, and I would encourage people not to rush out and find last minute cofounders just to apply. Spend time now finding a cofounder, then apply for S12 after a good few months of working together — and if you can't find the right cofounder, then start building yourself (especially if you're not technical).
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Why does this require students to submit a birthday? This seems like an unnecessary disclosure of personal information.
There may not be a "proper" way to use a search engine, but there are certainly effective and ineffective ways of using a search engine, with "effective" being defined as finding a relevant, factual answer to the question you were trying to answer.

And search engines are already designed based on these people's behavior: since many people tend to click on the first link, search engines put sponsored links at the top. Note, however, that this design is meant to optimize the revenue of the search engine company, not to help the users (who are not paying customers).
I think they're doing a bit better these days. They were able to get some lottery money to renovate the mansion, and Google has made a few prominent donations this year.

The main problem is that the site is so large and most of the buildings are just cheap, unmaintained concrete shells that weren't intended to outlast the war. They might have been better off demolishing some of the less important buildings so that they could focus on the remaining structures of historical significance.
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i personally met my co-founders through super smash brothers: melee and during college (separate occasions). we've been good friends for over 4 years, most likely due to our similar interests.

i agree with your post that you should not rush or force yourself to find a co-founder. for those sole founders, i recommend attending mixers to meet people with similar interests and approaching people without the intent of finding a co-founder. make true friendships instead; your co-founders/life partners will follow.
Here's some backstory, from the 1990s when the Massachusetts' Group Insurance Commission released "anonymized" health data:

''At the time GIC released the data, William Weld, then Governor of Massachusetts, assured the public that GIC had protected patient privacy by deleting identifiers. In response, then-graduate student Sweeney started hunting for the Governor’s hospital records in the GIC data. She knew that Governor Weld resided in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a city of 54,000 residents and seven ZIP codes. For twenty dollars, she purchased the complete voter rolls from the city of Cambridge, a database containing, among other things, the name, address, ZIP code, birth date, and sex of every voter. By combining this data with the GIC records, Sweeney found Governor Weld with ease. Only six people in Cambridge shared his birth date, only three of them men, and of them, only he lived in his ZIP code. In a theatrical flourish, Dr. Sweeney sent the Governor’s health records (which included diagnoses and prescriptions) to his office.''

Source: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/09/your-secrets...
I am neither surprised nor offended. Atmel makes their money on hardware (have you noticed how expensive AVR's are compared to most other chips?). Microchip instead sells cheap hardware and licenses software. They explore limited free software to lower the barrier to entry, but they have to keep the secret sauce. That's just their business model.
And a counter argument could be that given time, HP could have done something productive with WebOS -- the TouchPad, Pre, etc.

WebOS was/is thought by many to be the best mobile OS without a company big enough to push it. HP could have been that company. Especially with the PC business providing some buffer for profit loss while issues with the other hardware were worked out.
Birth date is pretty granular as well. A quick trip to the interwebs gives about 11k-12k people born each day, or 6k of each gender. There are 100k possible ZIP codes. The birth dates aren't evenly distributed, but they're reasonably close. The ZIP codes probably have a lot of clumping, but in dense urban areas they usually start cutting the areas into smaller pieces. The long tail of ZIP codes is probably well-populated. Out of 6k boys and 6k girls that share a birth date, expecting 5k of each to happen to land a unique ZIP out of 100k sounds reasonable to me.
I don't see how evolution has anything to do with your theory.

Furthermore I doubt that the motivation behind arguing about 'pointless' topics is to sway the population to your side so that you can benefit.

Unfortunately, however, I do not have an explanation as to why people may argue over such topics though I suspect that it may be related/due to cognitive dissonance. There is a conflict between what they have concluded and what someone else has concluded. This could be for many different reasons such as different needs, different preferences, or different skills, but on the surface someone else has made a different choice for what seems like a similar task.
This is really awesome! A couple questions though:

* What do I do if I need to tune/configure Postgres for my workload.

* How is the performance of transferring all of the queries and responses across the internet?

Keep in mind I've never used postgres before so these may be moot points.
It sounds like their solution is set up that way.

From https://postgres.heroku.com/#protect :
"Every change to your data is written to write-ahead logs, which are shipped to multi-datacenter, high-durability storage. In the unlikely event of unrecoverable hardware failure, these logs can be automatically 'replayed' to recover the database to within seconds of its last known state."
Yeah. This article has the weird feeling of being some sort of hit piece on Page and/or Google. It seems to willfully ignore the successes coming out of Page's tenure (G+ being, if perhaps too early to call, very promising). And it overemphasizes factors largely attributable to market forces, or at least to forces not entirely within Page's direct control.