skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My strategy is don't do idiot stuff like:

- Not keeping your OS and the software you use up to date

- Open/run files that you are not fully aware of where it came from or from an idiot/spammy person

With this strategy I never got any virus at all... Not even in Windows XP!
Short sweet tl;dr

Online publishing nonsensically adopts many of the practices of offline publishing.

It doesn't need to, and could benefit from adopting "Small issue sizes (3-7 articles / issue), Small file sizes, Digital-aware subscription prices, Fluid publishing schedule[s], Scroll [instead of pagination], Clear navigation, HTML(ish) [formatting], [and] Touching the open web [not just platforms]".
Slightly off topic, but the title intrigued me.

I love coding. For me, there is nothing more satisfying than sitting down with a project, identifying problems and trying to solve them, and emerging victorious some time later. It can be something as small as writing a parser for a fictive language (with the hopes of writing a compiler eventually): The rush when I can finally run "parse sampleProgram.prog" and I get the desired AST is amazing.

However, coding is something that takes considerable time, not to mention the large amounts of mental energy needed to work on even small projects, and sometimes I simply don't feel like I would be able to complete anything of significance. How many times haven't I sat in front of my computer at 10pm, knowing that I should head to bed in an hour or two, with plenty of coding projects I want to work on, but knowing that starting probably wouldn't lead very far, simply because of the investment of time and energy needed to produce anything.

Those are the times where I resort to games, movies, TV-shows, books or similar. Lately I've been trying to focus more on reading books, since they almost always leave me with a more lasting feeling of satisfaction, but in the past most of this time has been spent playing games.

I want to get better at coding and I want to work more on some of my projects (I am notoriously bad at finishing stuff, something else grabs me and I lose interest, or maybe it's because I get demotivated every time I encounter something hard), so I wish that I could get more stuff done in those late hours.

Have others experienced the same, and how have you dealt with it? I realize that sometimes your brain needs to unwind, but I feel like I'm not getting enough out of my evenings. Does anyone have any suggestions for cool programming projects or exercises that could be worked on when you're a little bit tired at the end of the day? How do you motivate yourself to work on those little pet projects when all you want is to kick back and watch a silly movie?
I think the assumption is that only the most colossal implosions happen in the first 6mo after YC. It's much easier for 2-3 people plus 1-2 hires to burn through most of $80k in 6mo after YC, vs. 150k. Figure founders consume $3-4k/mo each, and hires cost $10-15k, and you spend $20-30k on corp/legal/etc.
Do you see this new stack of technologies as a gradual evolution of our current stack, or do you feel the technologies are inherently broken and need to be replaced completely?
Here is what she said:

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I'll add to this list my all-time favorite writing companion: Virginia Tufte's "Grammar As Style". It's been out of print forever, which is tragic, and, when you can find it, it usually sells for over $100 - even in rough shape. "Artful Sentences" is meant to replace "Grammar As Style", but I prefer the original. If you want to tie all the rules together so you can understand why we even have grammar in the first place and how truly magical grammar can be to shaping a sentence or paragraph, track down this book.

Interesting: Virginia Tufte is the mother of data visualization guru Edward Tufte.

(Other good books for writers and writers-in-training: "Bird by Bird" by Anne Lamont, Stephen King's "On Writing" and a collection of letters on writing by F. Scott Fitzgerald, also called "On Writing". Oh, and please don't hate on White's "Elements of Style" --- it may be old, but it's foundational.)
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The big stuff? Sure.

Smaller stuff, from maybe 10kt up to 1Gt (Tunguska was ~15 Mt), though, we can reliably predict its course and evacuate the affected area.

To detect the small stuff at close range, of course, you need to be able to detect the big stuff a ways off. The problem is that massive star surveys are essentially a brand-new thing now that we have Big Data capabilities (we still get a substantial amount of info from scanner photographic plates of the last century). The astronomical community has mostly been focused on producing expensive 1-2 unit runs of a brand new design every decade, each much bigger and better than the last. Survey telescopy, however, is perfectly amenable to economies of scale in large numbers of small scopes, and to the data from a single-purpose survey being used for dozens of different scientific goals.

http://www.fallingstar.com/ , the ATLAS project, is a minimum viable project for this purpose, using small COTS telescopes & sensors to scan the sky rapidly & systematically for objects that have photometric characteristics of something that is headed our way, a few days or a few weeks from Earth.

I see no reason why we shouldn't build twenty of those, scattered around the world, just for immediate situational awareness. We could initiate the project and have it done in six months.

On a longer-term basis, I think rather than constructing things like LSST under the old paradigm, we should be focusing on smaller, 1-2m telescopes (like PAN-STARRS, albeit perhaps without the extraordinary sensors) in very large, economical quantities. Mechanizing the production line is something that's only really been done for much smaller telescopes.

When you have a large, distributed array of automated telescopes, you can sweep the sky quickly and resiliently to weather conditions, or you can turn a portion on a single target that needs a higher signal to noise ratio, for confirming observations, and perform like a much larger telescope's light-gathering ability.

Lastly, there are projects like the Gaia mission that are doing space photometry. While extremely data-starved (better space communications via radio relays & lasers really needs to get here), Gaia would be in an ideal position to detect all the Earth-crossing NEOs that we can't realistically see from the ground due to the sun's glare... if it was at Venus L2 rather than Earth L2, and ideally if there were half a dozen of them instead of one.

The longer out we see it, the better we can deflect it - and our predictive abilities are in the hundreds of years range if we actually bother to spend the money on detection as if it were as important as space toilets on the ISS. The tech is here.
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I've tried using your app in Chromium (on Ubuntu 12.10), but the the flash permission doesn't show up (http://imgur.com/VD25h). It seems to be working in Google Chrome, though.
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a bunch of nerds in a flying billboard
Yep. Apparently a fix is on the way.

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=157613
Haha, true... sorry to be one of those harping on you to get this done... I could create a throwaway account but I'd rather use a 'real account' for something like this that I'm actually really interested in.

Looks great, everyone here appreciates your hardwork!
The way I've seen it done usually is that the mail server tacks on the confidentiality notice after the user sends the message. So they would see it on a reply, but never on the initial message.

Maybe other companies show it to you on compose, I'm not sure.
nelsonweiss does a good job up above.
Wilde : iOS Typesetting (AttributedString) helper class
Sweet, going flat will reduce the gradient bloat that's currently in the default Bootstrap css.
It seems it "slipped" through the cracks, although it was discovered before they released version 23 for Mac.

They are working on a fix, but in the meantime, lots of people are inconvenienced using tools dealing with mic access.
Like the oft-parodied old ads would say: volume, volume, volume!
I don't intend to downplay the importance of Go (it's definitely helped people realize how nice fast compiles can be when you don't have to fight the language to get it), but Clang (whose leaders are making the proposal here) has had an explicit focus on fast compile times since the very beginning:

http://clang.llvm.org/features.html#performance

Note that "Fast compiles and Low Memory Use" is listed more prominently than any other feature (in primary position, with more text and pretty graphics).
Pretty good long term goal, but I think it's awesome you're basically helping spread stuff to a wider audience.
You just gave a great explanation how Chinese medicine has no underlying understanding: It has techniques for mending a broken arm, but not the scientific underpinnings to explain why it works. Traditional Chinese medicine does not have an understanding of bone knitting, nor does it identify what infection really is. Without a scientific framework, it's all cargo-cult medicine, doing things that sort of work (sometimes) without really knowing why.
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I'm not sure what we said that made you think we believe differently. In fact we were arguing over whether or not it is better to have fast & agile combined with competence or incompetence, so we clearly know they aren't mutually exclusive.
I don't think that taking this money precludes founders from raising more money if they need it, as they would have needed to do two years ago before the Start Fund.
Not sure what they achieved. Tomorrow the same people will register another 132 domain names and continue operating as usual.
You can meet all the requirements and still fail
"The number of recent internet services that have grown from nothing to hundreds of millions of users is frankly rather astonishing – Pinterest, Instagram, Groupon, Zynga"

Ok.. and... who else? I wouldn't call a few handful or even 20-30 astonishing.

"Almost every possible internet distribution channel has MORE users than ever before – whether it be search, social, mobile, video, local, SMS, email, chat, etc."

And every channel has also been saturated with tons of competition. Search = millions of pages indexed everyday, and tons of old brands ranking before you. Social? Good luck getting your new content noticed when you have 0 followers.

"it’s certainly MUCH cheaper & faster to build product than ever before"

Cheaper and faster? When you have to build multiple products for iPhone, Android, Windows, and for: search, social, mobile, video, local, SMS, email, chat...

"that just means less competition for those of us ready to really dig in and invest at scale in all the millions of new “small” businesses that will emerge and dominate the globe in coming years."

It's not small vs. big. It's enterprise vs consumer internet. There are tons of small enterprise companies out there.
It's worth noting that in the original story of The Ugly Duckling, the "ugly duckling" is actually a cygnet (baby swan) that looks out of place next to the ducklings it grows up with, and that no one respects until it grows into a beautiful swan. So an ugly duckling would be an idea that will turn out very well even if it looks a little dubious at the beginning.
Working for me. However I've noticed in the past month or so youtube is either not loading the videos at all sometimes, and I have to refresh the page, or when I try to skip parts of the videos, I have to hold on the pointer for a few seconds for it to jump over there, instead of being instantaneous (at least in terms of keeping the point there and not sending it back where it was last time).
It's been a rough ride for us regarding browser compatibility. In the beginning we wanted to support them all, but then quickly boiled it down to just Chrome. It's a really good browser for prototyping. At first we wanted to use native controls for audio recording, but quickly realized that it won't go, because it's still very beta. We decided to use Flash for voice recording, but a week ago Google surprised us with a broken release. We're sure they'll fix it soon. In the future we'll be more careful and will consider Firefox and others also.
Yeah. Getting early revenue or at least commits is key for anyone.

That said, I think I'd still want to have a bigger bank doing hardware. If you kickstart or take pre-delivery payment for something at ~cost, and you need to respin a few times, you may become the next Wakemake. Being able to just take your $50k reserve fund and buy all new parts or pay for an expedited mold or something could make a big difference early on.

I wish I had enough silicon-valley-version-of-Wasta to raise a $2-5mm microfund. Being able to finance hardware projects or other obviously capital-intensive YC projects on START terms with an extra $100-200k early on would be a pretty decent investment. It would still be a much more algorithmic decision than "which teams do I think will win", which probably wouldn't work as well. The ideal LP for this would be Jeff Bezos and maybe a few other guys who made bank off hardware or retail.

You'd almost be a bank, vs. an investor -- you would be investing based on a specific credible expenditure. Do it as debt + warrant coverage, or secure against revenue. Just be easy about it -- it should take 5 minutes to make a decision, and you should be adding hardware/distribution/retail/logistics clue to the process to help the founders.

YC hardware companies (and, honestly, all startup hardware companies) kind of sucked before the $150k START in W11.
This makes sense if and only if those 10 games were produced by the same kickstarter creators.
It seems people here don't travel much. If you travel a lot for work, the hell you manage to wake up at 5 am and go running.

Just saying, not everybody stays in the same place long enough to build those habits.
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We certainly didn't kick SV Angel out. They're among our favorite investors in fact. It just didn't make sense with their fund size to keep doing these investments. Unlike the other investors, they are what's now called a "super angel" fund, and those are much smaller.
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That's the main reason I quit facebook. It made me think badly of people that I had fond memories of.
New device hides, on cue, from infrared cameras
Thanks for the post. Learned a few things that I was not aware of.
This is very good. I used to have a doctor who worked "cash-only" with her patients. Eventually she had to change over to billing insurance, and then had to hire people just to manage insurance billing.

She quit general practice, and became a cosmetic surgeon, with a cool-ass laser. Insurance doesn't cover cosmetic procedures, so she doesn't have to deal with them any more.

The world lost a fantastic Family Doctor because of how insurance handles billing and payment.
This thing is amazing. Helping ordanary people spread good video content to a wider audience is great, and just think of all the Ted talks that could be dubbed like this. Sadly I know planty of people who just don't get to enjoy all the stuff out there because the language barrier.

ps: listening to Jobs in german made me giggle.
I'd rather let my doctor make the money.
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Bank of America Telephone Access Security Hole
Why the special grid/row/cell tags and special data inpits? Why not just use a vanilla HTML table, then you would at least have graceful degradation?
It is worth noting, it that even if your Family Doctor works this way, most people want insurance against medical catastrophes, not just well care.
They must've been a target stock in a pump-n-dump scam.
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Someone Invented A $400m Google Deal — And May Have Made Millions
Is this in addition to the $12k-20k invested by YC itself, for a total of $92k-100k?
From Techcrunch (http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/26/y-combinator-debuts-yc-vc-t...):

"Notably missing from the investor group: Ron Conway’s SV Angel. Y Combinator founder Paul Graham said in an interview that this new format didn’t make sense for Conway and David Lee’s fund size."
It is also worth noting that is some states, doctors who switch to a monthly fee billing have been sued for illegally operating an unlicensed insurance company.
Sad thing one that google part, but I hope you'll be able to move away from flash soon.
Intel takes out the socket in Broadwell
Then I should scratch the CMS, github, and only contact him by phone for typographical and content issues.

I see now. Thank you. With luck, these experiences will be very much transferrable to other projects.
The problem is raising money during the 3mo YC program is difficult and discouraged. YC founders have said they are discouraged from raising money until Demo Day or beyond, so they can focus on building stuff.

In very few cases will $80k vs. $150k make a difference before Demo Day, except for (IMO) hardware, certain other businesses with specific prepayments (maybe a licensing deal like "exclusive 12mo license for Kinect tech for pharmaceutical industry"), etc. But really hardware is the only obvious case.
What about those folks who bought from these sites in the preceding days and weeks before this action was taken? Shouldn't sites be taken down as found, instead of waiting for a "special" day, if they allegedly violate laws.
With "the equivalent" I wasn't thinking about creating entirely new ecosystems; I was thinking of tweaking the existing ecosystem to favor one's own tool chain.

The moment somebody writes the first module, the world sees the first 'best compiled with clang' code. Once that code uses #import to improve compilation speed, that could become 'must be compiled with clang'. That, IMO, is similar to adding an extra tag to your browser's HTML dialect and then promoting its use.

I expect Apple is aware of the risk and wants to to prevent this (the fact that they plan a 100% compatible middle step is an indication of that), but the risk is there.

Also, people have argued that the effort spent on Native Client should be spent on improving JavaScript performance because of the fragmentation issue. Responding to another comment: people also have complained about the gcc-isms present in lots of open source libraries.
It's good but It doesn't look like Metro. Infact, it looks similar to Google's Web apps UI (Gmail, Gcal, etc).
Germany benefits from its apprentices
Guardian.co.uk launches a responsive mobile site
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For the XML format? Good point that would be better.
"Estimates of divorce are around 45%. When you throw in a few percent of couples who separate but never get around to divorcing, the figure of 50% is close," Paul Amato, a professor of family sociology and demography at Pennsylvania State University, wrote in an e-mail. "The probability of divorce is unlikely to rise further. In anything, it appears to be going down slightly."

"I think there is some truth to the fact that half of marriages end in divorce," Casey Copen, an associate service fellow with the National Survey of Family Growth, said. But, she said, "it’s just so dependent on the population you’re looking at."

For example, studies show couples with higher levels of education are less likely to divorce.

Burzumato put the likelihood of marriages now ending in divorce slightly lower, between 35 percent and 45 percent, but said "it might be in the 50s, it’s hard to tell."

"What we have found is that divorce rates are coming down," he said. "Cohabitation is on the rise. So those who do select marriage tend to be more committed."

The U.S. Census Bureau reported similar findings.

"As marriage rates have decreased and cohabitation has become more common, marriage has become more selective of adults who are better off socioeconomically and have more education, and divorce rates have leveled," a May 2011 report said.
That's what the previous best practices (impl pointers and such) did with C++ before; the goal of some of those practices was to minimize the constant factors. I may be misreading how "modules" work, but they seem to accept that sprawling dependencies will get pulled in (if only once).
Shoot me an email--I'd love to chat about this topic.
Current front page discussion of same article:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4831566

(It helps to submit articles with the canonical URL, without extra referrer codes on the end of the URL.)
Not to be snarky, but that's like saying 'Javascript is just a Lisp except without the only characteristic that defines a Lisp'.

All the dialects of Lisp differ except in their homoiconicity, which is the one thing that gives Lisps their incredible expressive power.

I get frustrated when I hear people refer to languages with first-class functions as Lisp-like, because lots of languages have first-class functions, but that doesn't give them the power of Lisp - Lisp draws its power from homoiconic structure, which almost no other languages have (certainly not Javascript).
The 10000x is unfair because it is based on the assumption that cost of service is a multiple of bandwidth, which is completely untrue. The article's entire premise is fiction.

If you want to make a simple linear model of data costs, at least remember that linear means y = mx + b. The article left out b, which is a heck of a lot bigger than mx for phones and typical household consumption.
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Correctomundo: 200M shares * 400 microdollars = $80K, and there were several periods at 200M.

Someone needs to kill OTC/pink sheets. The NYSE/Nasdaq is close-enough to a scam, god knows that the non-listed guys aren't helping.
Object Pascal did the exact same thing 20 years ago, and it was a language much more influential than Go at its time. So, I don't think Apple programmers had even to look at Go to design this feature.
Interesting article. Mainly on the timing aspect though. tl;dr version here http://tldr.io/tldrs/50b375dd52b89ec3440000df
Our in house council told us that the sad things about email disclaimers is that while they are useless in the sense that if you send it to someone by accident people can't be held accountable to what you put in it, they do have value.

Unfortunately due to the proliferation of these notices, if you don't include one then someone may have more legal leeway to do what they want with the email.

So its a sort of it's useless but if you don't put it in then it can hurt you a little more than if you don't, so let's just include it anyway.
As a corollary, I've found that having a long term promise to make choices helps in the moment.

'Should I eat this chocolate bar, even though I want to eat healthier?'
'Should I eat this chocolate bar even though I said I would only eat junk food one day of the week'

For me, it's much easier to say no to the second question.
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The companies get into a habit of spending more than required on everything.
Have you ever worked at a company that develops compilers? Do you know anyone on the clang team at Apple? Do you know Douglas Gregor?

dgregor is clearly heavily involved and the likely the principle architect of this proposal, but he did it on Apple's behalf to solve their problems, by one of their employees, with clear input for a number of Apple's internal stakeholders. Yes, he is the chair of study group, but is participation in WG21 is funded by and at the behest of Apple.

The germ of every idea starts with one person, but many (most?) ideas require the involvement of many people to make them happen. Where credit lies is complicated, but I think it is completely accurate to refer to this as either Doug's proposal or Apple's proposal.