skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember a bunch of Word Macro viruses on pre OS X systems. But I was in high school so I could be mistaken.
Ask PG and YC Founders: Feedback from YC if Not Accepted?
This is my first time applying to YC. For startups that don't make the cut, do they get any kind of feedback from PG/YC, written or otherwise, on what they could do better?
I don't think it has much to do with Self.

It looks more like the structure editors of the 1970s adapted for a tablet. Mid/end 70s several structure editors were written in Lisp, for example DEdit for Interlisp-D.

See chapter 11.3, Using The Lisp Structure Editor
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/xerox/interlisp/3102300_interlD...

and especially

Chapter 16. List Structure Editor
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/xerox/interlisp/3101273_Interli...

There were also others which worked over textual terminals.
Why don't they just create a new bitcoin blockchain and have every new 'goldbit' bitcoin backed by a physical gold coin? Someone should do this. So somewhere is vault filled with gold coins that people have used to buy their goldbits.
Wow, did someone just reinvent browsing history?
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Hate to be that guy, but this isn't actually less than 200 lines... perhaps "about 200 lines" would have been a better title?
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HN has always been a great place to get news not being reported elsewhere

I'll let other users here check my user profile, including its extensive list of submissions, and then let me know how I fit into the community here by how I submit articles. On my part, I agree that HN has long been a place where one can find stories that aren't reported elsewhere, and that can be both a feature and a bug. HN is an especially good place to find breaking news on its core topics (?) of start-up business and new applications of software technology. It is also a good place to find thoughtful discussion on stories from a variety of sources about the impact of technology on society, education policy in light of technological changes (what drew me here), and the personal development of hackers (what keeps me here, as the parent of four children who may all become hackers). I love the thoughtful comments here, even on metadiscussion topics like the issue of "What's on topic on HN?"

That said, I don't find it bad to find story sources here that are "mainstream," or sources one could find elsewhere. We still won't see the same kinds of comments on those stories elsewhere that we can find here on HN. Indeed, compared to many of the blogs that are submitted as sources on HN, I would MUCH rather see more stories from the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, National Public Radio, Time magazine, and The Atlantic, simply because those are all professionally edited sources that often (not always, but often) do a good job of checking facts and establishing context before publishing a story. I especially don't like submissions of stories here from linkspam blogs that quote a paragraph or two of a professionally reported and edited story, add a more eye-catching headline, and do nothing to add value to the story. If there is some breaking news that is first reported by the mainstream media and on-topic for HN, link to the mainstream source. Don't reward lazy bloggers with eyeballs.

As examples of sources that are not mainstream, so far not frequently posted to HN by anyone other than me (usually), and well worth reading when they have articles on-topic for HN, I suggest

http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/

for breaking news in biology,

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/

also for breaking news in biology, with especially good reviews of gee-whiz stories that make it onto HN from worse sources,

http://www.skepticblog.org/

for general overviews of scientific reasoning,

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/

for reviews of new developments in medicine and biomedical research,

http://educationnext.org/

for reporting on education policy, especially science and mathematics education,

and

http://gowers.wordpress.com/

and

http://terrytao.wordpress.com/

for interesting news about mathematical research.
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Alcohol is not the main problem. The lack of professionalism that the attendees have is. You can have a drink or two and still have meaningful conversations, but getting sloshed is just stupid. If you want to get trashed, why waste the money on a conference ticket?
In theory, a mathematical formula is not patentable. In theory, a patent that precludes every practical use of a mathematical formula is invalid. In theory, a patent is required to be specific enough that a person of ordinary skill in the field could use it to reduce the invention to practice (a requirement that no homomorphic encryption patent could possibly meet.)

By "theory" I mean statute and Supreme Court precedent. These are just theory, not law. Law is not what the legislature says or what the Supreme Court says. Law is what happens to you in court.
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At the beginning:

" The long, filament-like feathers preserved with three relatively complete skeletons of the newly described species provide direct evidence of extensively feathered gigantic dinosaurs. The discovery is controversial—and in some scientific circles, largely unexpected. "

and at the end:

" Because many species of small-bodied theropods unearthed since the 1990s had been feathered, many researchers suggested that larger species of tyrannosaurs and their close kin could have feathers, as well, he notes. "We've just never had any positive information one way or the other before." "

The hook should be supported by the evidence. Otherwise, find a new hook.

More direct relevance: check your public-facing materials. Don't make a claim you can't support. When it all gets revised, re-check for consistency. Your message won't be heard if your audience is laughing at your screw-up.
is the 200 lines a brag? It is in fact longer than the C++ version posted earlier.
> The advantage this system has over debit is that the terminal does not need to have a network connection.

In a couple of years even your underwear is going to be online, so this is really a non-feature.
If you're interested in Murphy bed-style furniture, these guys make some amazing looking stuff.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAa6bOWB8qY

I'm much more interested in buying/engineering something like this, instead of raising my floor and getting motorized.
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If you remove empty lines, the code will be under 200 lines, so I think it's kind of fair to say it has less than 200 lines.
> I'm all for disclosure of a newly found exploit because by doing so you are informing every one who might have the problem and that allows them to take action

You also assume that it is the company that will suffer and they are the ones that have to take action. A lot of companies are public facing companies that store and maintain sensitive customer information. I thought the main reason to disclose the research is not to help the company not lose millions at the end of the quarter but to warn their customers that this company can potentially leak your information.

> Its like publishing a list of buildings that don't have good door locks or something.

It is like publishing a list of buildings that store others belongings (like a bank) that doesn't have locks on them. You want to disclose that fact because chances are someone else found the vulnerability and is exploiting it. It would actually seem very irresponsible to not disclose it in that case (after say it turns out many people's stuff goes missing).
That's actually an incorrect way to think about it. Actually, Dropbox is paying for the free accounts, in an attempt to convert people to paying accounts.

Dropbox is simply offering a product which is priced around where supply and demand meet. I'm sure if Dropbox believed that they could make more money by increasing or lowering the price, they would. By paying for Dropbox, you're not paying for the free tier, you're paying the price that you think Dropbox is worth. It just so happens that Dropbox can make a good profit at that price point, even with the cost of the free accounts.
In the Bilski case, the Supreme Court reminded us that Benson, Flook and Diehr are still good precedent. So patenting the idea of running the algorithm on a computer is also not upheld by current precedent.

Oh, they also said to ignore State Street, the precedent that upholds software patents. But they're just the Supreme Court. Nobody listens to them in this area anyway. I know I sound sarcastic, but I'm serious.
"Which will then inevitably lose you the full value."

Not even close. Insurance will reimburse you for the loss (minus a deductable).
I don't agree entirely with OP, but there is truth in what he says.

> The more ugly blue links you serve up, the more time users have to click on ads. Serve up bad results and the user must search again and this doubles the number of sponsored links you get paid for. Why be part of the solution when being part of the problem pays so damn well?

One thing that to me seems like a no brainer is for google to have user-configurable catalogs, or groups of websites. So, if I am logged in, I should be able to make a group called "Poker" and add the 10 websites that I know have good content to that group. So then when I am doing a search on that topic, I can choose my "Poker" catalog and results will only be returned from sites within that catalog.

This is just one extremely simple idea that would be immensely valuable and greatly improve search productivity, there are many others. That google hasn't thought of this idea, or has thought of it but decided it wouldn't be beneficial to users, seems very hard to believe. They have a vested interest in search being good (better than everyone else), but not great.
I actually have an idea for an alternative that I'm building for my website (artjutsu.com). I've been using it for about 3 months now and I still have a ways to go to make it more useful. I believe it may be something that you're interested in.

I don't want to spill the beans though, so if you want to know more (or help me test/build it) please email me.

Yes, search is basically a grab bag, and browser history is decent but get's convoluted the more you use it. There are ways to make this easier, but why reinvent the wheel when you already own the wheel, right? Changing search will change major search engines business model, and share holders hate radical changes. Especially when you're raking in major dough.
> If that decision is to remain vulnerable, as long as it does not affect users directly, why bother?

Because if that company is storing sensitive information belonging to others (emails, credit cards, etc), it would be irresponsible to not disclose it. Chances are someone else found out and has been actively exploiting that vulnerability.
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By the way, if anyone has good links, particularly on the topics where I've admitted ignorance, please email me. My info is in my profile.
Exactly. If Google wasn't on a path to disappoint everyone, they would make claims about their new product, and then release the damn thing a month or so later so consumers could actually experience it (like any Apple release). Instead, Google pre-hypes this thing with no announced plans to release it. I think we can all assume that either the technology isn't quite as good (yet) as it seemed in the video.
What irks me is the painfully studied hipness of the video.

Indy bookstore? Check.

Ukulele reference? Check.

Food truck? Check.

Brooklyn location? Check.

Late 20-something SWPL protagonists in man-boy phase of life? Check.

Ugh.
Windows is now better? What the fuck. You do realize this is Java exploit, and that recent versions of OS X don't even ship with Java. And on top of that this "malware" asks user for their admin password to install itself. And on top of that if you have dev tools or any of the popular system monitoring utilities it gives up!

Contrast that with typical Windows situation where no user cooperation is required to get infected.
My grandparents have a Murphy bed in their apartment. Their reason for buying it at the time was they also used the flat as a small doctor's office and the bedroom was the waiting room during day.

It has a wooden back plate on the underside so that it looks like a large black wall closet when hidden.

I think one advantage of this system over the one from the article is that it requires less vertical space.
What's the hype about this DCPU16 thing? The game hasn't been released yet and people starting to write assemblers. Are you totally bored out of your life?
Does anyone who's bought it have a sense of how saving files works? Is it easy to get them off of the iPad, or are they stuck there? There was no mention of that on the app store page.
I felt it was relevant because I have noticed it is how a large majority of Americans view Denmark.

Of course the question is how long this can continue now even mario dragi (head of the European Central Bank) stated the Welfare State Model is dead: ""the old welfare state is dead, because it could not survive without debts"

http://www.agi.it/latest-news/news/201203221050-epp-rt10068-...
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Everything takes time and money. It may get fixed, eventually. What does 'refusal' amount to?
Do app ports from iOS guarantee Android's future in second place?
I was a little worried when I first thought about it but the more I think about it they will sink or swim based on how well they can build their businesses.

Just like anyone of us.

Obviously they'll have a leg up on attaining funding for things but one thing thats interesting about our industry is that a fair amount of our best and brightest aren't primarily motivated by money.

They want to work on hard/interesting/big/(pick your own adjective) problems. Preferably with other people who are just as sharp.
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True, but let's say the implementation Lang in question has optional types. Consider the unfilled type information to be technical debt. If the tracing information can be exploited to automatically fill in the type info, then this is technical debt that magically repays itself. That's something startups should be interested in.
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> didn't try to take legal action against me

But that is an interesting attitude. Instead of being indignant that they didn't offer to pay you for doing their security research for them ( or at least publicly thanking you) you just seem glad that they didn't sue you.

It is like volunteering to help someone and then just being glad they didn't beat you up in the end.

So it seems like there is not much benefit to doing this (there is a benefit if you prevent other people information from being stolen) but immediately there is no upside. You either get ignored or you get sued. If anyone gets sued by a company who has a full department of lawyers on retainer, it is guaranteed they'll pretty much have a bad time.
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"When the fox cannot reach the grapes he says they are not ripe" A Greek proverb which matches perfect this guys post.
I had forgotten about Bilski. Still, if the courts don't listen to a precedent, is it really a precedent?
"Have you looked up what a typical after-tax income is in Denmark?"

Your higher income doesn't matter if everything else is many more times expensive to buy.

If the US raises the minimum wage, those people that got that minimum wage most likely will have the same buying power because the raise in costs will be pushed through by companies (rightfully so) to the consumer (their costs will have increased).

It also has to do with the perceived value of a dollar and it's less when everyone has more of them.

The other thing is that Danish citizens have no choice. You don't have a choice to opt-out of all of these government-run programs. When it's described above, it reminds me of organized crime tactics. They give you something for free, but everything comes at a price.

You can keep telling us that Denmark's situation is great, but one thing is obvious: Startups and business owners avoid it like the plague. Great government benefits don't really help you in the long-run when you end up giving 60%+ of your profits to the government. This doesn't even include the strict rules about hiring and firing people. The Danish government doesn't like businesses. It's because they would rather have all the control.

I remember there was an article about how great Sweden was for startups last year (a country very similar to Denmark). Almost everyone in the article mentioned how they wanted to get out of the country.

With rules like these, it really only gives you two choices: work for the government or a large corporation. I don't ever want to do either..no mater how much free sub-par education and medical care you throw at me.
I've had my first Android for the better part of a year now (after two years with an iPhone 3G) and I have to agree with you. I was pretty excited to get into the "open" ecosystem but my ATT-locked Atrix is really not taking advantage of Android's supposed strengths. I'd probably like it more if I were developing mobile apps.

Right now the only thing I'd really miss if I went back to an iPhone is the navigation. The GMail integration is pretty sweet on the Android too, but maybe that's improved on iOS since I jumped ship last year.
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Yes, 7 years ago, before they were well known. It seems a bit disingenuous to not give Google credit for Android as a success. They didn't initially create it, but they did shape it into a success.
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I've had "Surely You're Joking" on my Kindle for almost a year now and have never read it, but every time I see anything written about Feynman I realize that I'm almost certainly missing out. He sounds like the most interesting man.
But it doesn't look like it's a new product at all; it's just a prototype they want to test in public.
3000 applications this time?!

If acceptance still hovers around 3% that implies next class should have around 90 startups. Wow.
Ryan,

You make a good point, but as others have noted, it's not right to single out programmers. You are falling victim to a logical fallacy for lack of sufficient data.

Casual, uninformed attitudes towards over-drinking, and over-indulgence in general, are a problem for society and individuals, but it's a subtle problem. One which, I'm afraid, your blunt instrument will not help much in addressing. I fear you've only succeeded in alienating a lot of people who will not be able to apply the proper filters to your arguments, or your approach.

Cultural and social behaviors are complex. Take the human brain, already astoundlingly sophisticated, and then mix it up with 10^(3|6|9)'s of others in a multi-dimensional loosely coupled, feedback-rich system. How do you influence such a system? Short answer: you don't, at least not unilaterally or deterministically.

A better approach to condemning something you don't like is to offer an alternative that you do, and attract like-minded people. This is how the world changes. Leave others to continue their destructive and habitual behaviors; it's their right/privilege.

I guarantee that their are thousands of of programmers who would happily take a break from inebriated venting sessions to participate in something more productive or inspirational. But on the other hand, most good programmers already spend all day doing that.

The challenge is to combine mental stimulation with something non-intellectual, something which creates a relaxing, atmospher, as opposed to something tense and stressful. Generally, alcohol or other depressants are the most time-efficient technique for relaxing, hence it's popularity. But also, booze is designed to be tasty, and bars are designed to be relaxing and fun. The fact that people over-indulge is just a classic example of another logical phallacy: if A is good, more of A is always better. But the concept of proper proportions is abstract and subtle

Most young men under twenty-five have incompletely developed brains. Since they drive the industry in many ways, they simply can't act on the insights you're trying to share, even if they understand them abstractly. The power of socialization instincts and hormones are too powerful.

So my advice to you is to find a select group of more astute and self-aware programmers who know what you're about, and go drinking with them, since they will be more restrained and more interested in intellectual exploration, and less in trying to prove their ability to hold their liquor.
Cmon, this story is almost 20 years old.
I saw way crazier feats of room engineering at GaTech fraternities.

I even remember a funnel like apparatus to a toliet so that people in the loft did not have to climb down to take a leak.

It was rather gross.
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Dude, you need to update your mental threat model. These days, there's no such thing as "safe habits" - you're up against drive-by downloads that exploit browser or plugin vulnerabilities and are delivered by all kinds of perfectly normal websites that just happen to be vulnerable to SQL injection.
Perhaps we'd be better off with different products for different types of searches. If I need a specific tool or utility, I search the App Store. If I need a review, Yelp. If I need to compare prices, ShopZilla. What I'd love to see if a search engine that only returns authority websites, sort of what Blekko was doing.
You can distribute interpreters. However restrictions remain:

1. You cannot distribute an interpreter that can be used for running program code downloaded from the internet. So, for example, your user can save their script and use it themselves but they cannot give it to others (except perhaps through the app store bundled as an app itself).

2. Your interpreter cannot dynamically generate binary code so JIT compilers that generate binary code on-the-fly are not allowed.

edit: For example, LuaJIT cannot do JIT compilation on iOS but it can do JIT compilation for higher performance on Android.
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