skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's an argument to be made that longer runways don't help.

YC arguably made a mistake for many companies by going from 20k to 20+150k, because with 170k you can waste a lot of time and also there's a lot left to fight over if it fails early. This is mostly why YC went to 20+80k now.

I think the right thing is probably 50-100k plus a low-hassle way to get another 250-300k, and then 1-2mm. So, something like YC plus non-stupid early investors and something like a raise shortly after Demo Day. (If I had a 10-20mm fund, I'd love to fill in the 250-300k gap)
Some day I will buy it :) but I must know that when I bought it I would have all that I need %)
This is exactly the sort of thing developers who care about privacy can avoid doing, and oppose when someone else does it.

See the following[1] article and thread for a discussion of why such opposition is necessary (if it isn't obvious to you already).

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5386249
I don't think it's rigged as much as human nature. From what I've heard the "admins" (unamed) control what hits the front page and how long it stays there to a certain extent. As such (also from what I've heard) if those admins are YC alumn they would tend to favor YC companies or might even know those people running those YC funded companies.
>Is anyone using it fulltime now and happy with it?

Yes. I exclusively use it. The Messaging (SMS) app is disabled on my phone, I don't pay for SMS service and my friends and family only know my Google Voice number.

The only usability issue I've had wasn't even a problem for me. My Mom's RAZR was slow to receive messages through her Google Voice number. Amazingly that went away when it got updated to ICS/JB.

Taking calls through Gmail (I have a bluetooth headset I use anyway, I get lazy from holding up my phone) and sending/receiving SMSs from any browser is great too.
I’ve found it useful for a catch-all incoming number (e.g. my wife has a studio/storefront with a Google Voice number so when anyone calls it rings her cellphone with the Shop name in it). We use it exclusively for business-related things.
That code implies that two computers using the same browser from the same IP will share sessions, or I'm reading it wrong?
True, but at least BEAST is probably not that much of a concern[1], not sure about the state of Lucky 13 in the grand scheme of things.

[1] http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/17080/is-there-a...
Currency depreciation by increasing the supply is not the same as losing value relative to other currencies, which was what happened to BItcoins (since the supply is constant).

And while both depreciations lead to price inflation, an loss of X% in the latter doesn't lead to an increase of the same amount in price inflation, because not all products completely depend on imports from other economic zones.
Oh man! I can't wait to read this on every single HN post for the next three weeks.
Programming Pearls is my all time favorite programming book. All his examples are similar to the one given, real world stuff that programmers know happen all the time though it's like fishing stories, some bugs are so ridiculous and they kick your ass for so many hours, you're ashamed of letting others know or they'll think you're making it up!
Do you really want to steal the money from people who saved money all life

You seem to be arguing they should not have taken any money at all, which I of course agree with.

My point was that if they take money (which they did) then they should at least have spared the <100k accounts. I was trying to give the simple answer to the rhetorical question "what's the alternative?".

They overstepped two red lines here. Applying a sudden-tax to their citizens is the first, and taking it from the people who can least spare it is the second. My response was only concerned with the second line, because that is the really explosive one (civil unrest, bank run).
Depositor insurance is not about legal seniority in debt, it is about an insurance scheme that is made available (usually funded by a levy on banks). Covered bonds own a specific pool of assets. But the issue now is that there is legal restructuring, or taxes like this, without any bankruptcy, so it is a bit random what happens...
I've half a blog post written about this that I'll probably never finish.

Given how much memory, disk space, etc. we have these days it's getting to the point that we should really have the ability to dump a program's state and all actions from starting the program to finishing it and then fast forward/rewind the actions of the user. Inspect all the locals, see what's actually happening. Set a loop over 30 seconds. Bugs would be a lot easier to find and recreate.

A bit like lightbox, but for debuggers!

It's just that no-one's done it yet and no programming language is really written to do it.
I will be glad %)
>> You can build a search engine yourself but your pagerank algorithm will not be the same
> You can base yours on the published paper. I suppose it would be as good as Bing.

Again out of context. The point of the criticism was: if the page rank is running on a machine where you have the control you can reverse engineer it.

If in 20 years Google decide that driverless cars with ads are the future and their search engine must be closed you loose your good search results (like we lost Google Reader BTW). In the Microsoft case I can always run Windows 3.1. My company even helped virtualize Internet Explorer 6 on Microsoft Windows 7 natively!

ps1: answering your reply, I just realized why Google is building driverless cars!

ps2: I am not a Microsoft fan.
First of all why would you want to end up debugging on one language and writing on another?
This is why I specifically mentioned 'new developers'. But I also mean developers who know basic JavaScript and jump on the CoffeeScript hype wagon because its there and its hip.
How many times do you have to click "Later" before it becomes "continued use?"

"Sublime Text may be downloaded and evaluated for free, however a license must be purchased for continued use."

http://www.sublimetext.com/buy

You could of course argue the finer points, but you know if you've passed the "evaluation stage."
> I also feel your semantic example is overly obtuse.

Exactly what I think of if ... then ... else

IMHO, your plus sign is "pointlessly terse and cryptic". See what I did there? Now seriously, why func? I prefer Coffee's (arg1, arg2, ...) -> syntax for functions. What strikes me as odd is the fact that such a slim language gets verbose in such aspects.

Of course my example is overly obtuse: it's just an hyperbole!

But anyways, I suspect the if ... then ... else syntax is just a side-effect of ? being used as an existential operator in CoffeeScript.
> Even if you don't work on the game physics team, even if the company is already committed to using a third party physics engine, they may argue that your engine belongs to them.

Because it's trivial to argue that the ambient knowledge and literal intellectual property that went into developing such an engine were as a direct result of your employment. The conversation at the water cooler. The knowledge that Employee X is having a frustrating time with verlet integration and collision detection. The knowledge you built-up working with great people over the last 3-4 years etc.
There's a difference between monetary runway and time runway. YC solved the money problem but didn't solve the time problem with throwing more money.

To put it different, you can throw billions of dollars at a company, but they'll still operate in stress mode if you tell them a demo is due in a few months.

What they should have done is extended the program length while giving more money.
"Perhaps its me, but I just don't get why I'd want to write in one language in order to get code in another. Why not just learn the target language?"

I bet someone has uttered nearly these exact words when debating assembly versus C/Fortran/etc.
Can you really think rationally?
MS research probably comes closest.
Ever since I started taking online courses(edX,coursera,udacity) my knowledge improved immensely. I am excited to get home from work and watch the classes and try the homeworks.

I think this may be the most revolutionary technology to come out of the USA since computers themselves: extremely high quality distance learning.

Educating the masses is the most difficult mission in history and these courses do the job. I guarantee you that if you take Coursera, edX and Udacity courses you will see the world differently.
Yes, that was the idea. I don't think it would be confusing to the parser.
The fact that bitcoin is even more volatile would stop me. If you are going to do that, why not just buy gold or silver?
image capture on mac should be able to do it. requires to be plugged in via usb.
I wanna call shenanigans but it goes to paypal...
Also 10 euro to search the database and 1000 to remove someone?
This is possibly the best blackmail scam ever, even better is to post a friend's number to a porn site with some deliciously scandalous line and hope they find it.
Techcrunch pump'n'dump: Ryan Lawler from Techcrunch reacts
I got my GV number back in 2008-2009ish.. Not 100% sure on the exact date, but I've had it for a while.

I didn't start using it full-time at first, since I had an old flip-phone and there really wasn't much value added by having another number to make calls from.

Once I got an Android Phone, I started trying to use it a bit more. Started out really... "raw" would be a good word. The GV app on Android was pretty poor at first. Push notifications wouldn't go down half the time, and you wouldn't know you got a text until several hours later.

Today though - it's my full-time number, and none of my friends have my carrier-assigned cell phone number. Everything is through Google Voice. The app has greatly improved.

I also have a problem with my phone being dead half the time. If I have my GMail open though - calls get redirected to there, and I can answer from my computer.

There is also an extension for Chrome that'll "ding" when you get a text or missed call. Makes for really quick and easy replies to text messages.
As a CoffeeScript convert the ternary operator is one of the few things I prefer about JavaScript.

There are better examples of "everything is an expression", like "for" loops and multi line "if then" blocks.
Isn't this direct blackmailing?
You have nothing useful to say yet feel compelled to attack what I am saying. Why?

It has been proven that roulette can be beaten through predictive methods. This is nothing new. Not sure I get your angle when all you do is shoot the messenger.
Cool, I'll keep an eye open for the link. Even 6,000 objects would be fine, especially if they're cuboids. There are demos with 120,000 cubes running at 40fps+, or even 500,000 cubes if you want to use fancy buffer geometry techniques.
This is bad advice. Bitcoin isn't stable enough yet to put my life savings into it.
Zelda Starring Zelda: The Story
That would certainly be kinda cool. My recent background is in HTML5 games (I used to work at Mozilla) and I'd love take what we've done so far with ViziCities and see how a game would look.
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Yes, they will share their cookies. So if you use these "Good Cookies" (sic) to store your session key you will have some huge troubles with corporate proxies and also 3G connections since a lot of mobile ISP transparently proxy HTTP and that a lot of people use the same mobile browsers.
Ignore my prying if this is too personal, but for someone in your situation your English is incredible. How did you get it? Do you have native speakers in your family, or have you spent much time in an Anglo country?

Here's why I'm curious. If Vietnam's education system is producing students with such mastery of so foreign a language, that says something impressive about Vietnam's education system and, by extension, about Vietnam. In a roundabout way, it adds credibility to the OP as well.
Seriously, add a donate button to that page! I'm almost paying you through gittip, but I prefer if you have a default option to it.
The whole Catalyst driver update process is really shitty, anyway. Several steps for what should essentially be automatic.
Cyprus didn't lie about their fiscal situation; Greece did. Don't get your shit all mixed up.
True, but it would still be debatable to what extend the service would be as useful as the USPS if it was "economical". Today, though, it is more likely to be somewhat decent, so that is debatable as well, but not so when the postal system was first put in place.

And by the way: My perspective is that of living in Germany and having actually worked for two years as a postman for Deutsche Post after it was privatized and the monopoly was abandoned. I think it is highly debatable whether we're better off with the "free market" (also a debatable term in this case) solution right now. I was employed as a help because they needed more capacity to deliver advertising, which is - by volume - what they mostly deliver these days.
Thanks! Real-time air traffic (inc. landing and taking off) is something that we're looking into.
Let's hope so! I've applied for a dev kit so hoping I get accepted.
I use it full time but the inability to handle MMS is a real pain point. I maintain separate phone numbers just so people can group message me.
It’s time to tax financial transactions
As I predicted and mentioned in my original comment - That argument does not hold. Its not the same thing. Assembly is hard. There's no way to look at it and say its a straight forward easy language (without sacrificing 100% of your social life that is). You need to understand the hardware you're writing to. You need to be intimate with it. Be on first name basis with all the registers.
JavaScript is a simple language with modern syntax. Its not assembly. Anyone who looks at JavaScript and things "Oh, Assembly" needs a change of careers or a new pair of spectacles. Yes it got quirks, like anything else, but you can learn them and write your own JavaScript.
I believe that this blog post is absurd, disrespectful and insults the entire Dropbox and Orchestra/Mailbox teams as well as, those at Aol/Techcrunch and Crunchfund.
Dropbox did not buy Mailbox based on a couple of Techcrunch posts, and they obviously will have done their due diligence before purchasing the company.

Dropbox bought Mailbox because, it wants to be more than a storage company and they are looking at diversifying their income streams with the rise of rivals encroaching their territory as well as, ensuring that people stay with Dropbox rather than go to other rivals. Acquisitions of Audiogalaxy, Cove, Snapjoy etc highlight that this is Dropbox’s plans going forward.

More often than not, Techcrunch states a disclosure of a Crunchfund investment within the posts that they are writing and although, they may have not followed through with this properly with Mailbox – you can clearly see on the Company Bio linking to Crunchbase that Crunchfund are/were an investor too[1].

Let’s not forget Mailbox is from Orchestra[2], a company which already had hundreds of thousands of users and is a company which won Apple’s Productivity App of 2011[3].

[1] http://www.crunchbase.com/company/orchestra

[2] http://www.orchestra.com

[3] http://blog.orchestra.com/orchestra-is-productivity-app-of-2...
Thanks! It's definitely easier when you're standing on the backs of free software (like PostGIS and Three.js) but the 3D aspect has certainly been tricky.
The only limitation that annoys me is the lack of MMS support, but my GV number is still the only number anybody has for me.
Yeah, we saw that after we finally figured out what the problem was.
> I am quite sure no politician here in America would have the guts to pull this

I'm European and just after this was announced I was thinking what would happen if something similar would be enforced in the States. My conclusion was that that this would be one of the few acts by the US Government that would cause civil unrest.
I think there are probably two distinct types of company. One where you do a 1 month dev, 1 month launch, and can have traction; another where having a year helps (hardware, or some enterprisey stuff, or some platforms).

There is a strong bias toward "having launched at Demo Day". If I had two things to work on, and got into YC, I'd absolutely pick the one I could get launched before Demo Day.

There are some companies which think they're type 2 but really have elements of type 1, and should do those elements first. (which is kind of what my company did; we wanted to do generalized secure/trustworthy cloud computing, and should have focused on specific applications of that technology, which is what we're doing now)

It's probably a net win for society and for an accelerator if they push some of the "fake type 2" into type 1 even at the cost of excluding some genuine type 2.

An easy hack for YC would be to have companies accepted into YC but let them choose to defer until the following Demo Day. You do need the initial 20-50k ASAP to get corp formation and other things done on a good foundation, but most of the "genuine type 2" companies are founded by people who can float their own living expenses for a year or two (or do very low time commitment consulting to do so), so it doesn't need to be more money.
I'm actually getting a bit tired of having to evangelize google reader and RSS in general. I personally don't believe that this is the end of the world, and I believe that the most harm was actually done by Google when they neglected reader for years so that it couldn't grow along with the internet.

That being said, I'm getting the feeling that these bloggers don't understand how these social sites, and the internet actually work. There is a point in time before your story is on reddit or HN where it will eventually get most of it's eyeballs. At this point your content still needs to be discovered. You have only a few options:

1.) I check my RSS feeds and read your story (not necessarily skim - unless it sucks)

2.) You post a headline on twitter (definitely skimming here) AND I happen to be watching the stream the moment you post.

3.) You get lucky and facebook doesn't hide your hard work from me, or you pay facebook to distribute it.

4.) I happen to see the post during my bi-annual checking G+.

From a user perspective, RSS is hands down the most reliable way to keep up with sources that I really care about. Everything else causes me to miss articles from sources that I love all together.
Betteridge's law of headlines told us this without reading the article.
And your comment mirrors my experience with reading this writeup.
I'm not saying buying Bitcoins is a good move; I myself own none. I'm saying the two situations aren't similar.
Adam Langley is more concerned about mitigating the CBC mode attacks in TLS than he is about the RC4 attack. I'm going to take his word for that.
Show HN: Transition, an app concept for showcasing UI animation
> Okay, I'll cut the crap. This is paranoid, fear-mongering drivel. Give me facts, not opinions and emotion. This does not belong on HN.

Excellent example of irony. Thank you.
Interesting! 1.5 years is quite long, I appreciate your tenacity.
The GV Android app still feel slow even on my N4 and haven't seen new feature added for couple years. MMS missing and still lacks Chinese language support.
Look at the table. Find two numbers too bet on.

Now find those numbers on the wheel.

If I drop the ball directly on one of your numbers from, say, 1 inch above the number. Wheel not spinning. How far would the ball have to bounce for you to loose?

Bet on the dozens, columns, rows, black/red and other common ( and convenient) bets. Repeat the exercise.
I think you underestimate the amount of information google learns from your email.

What you bought, where you bought it, how much you paid, which emails result in a sale conversion, who you talk to, services you subscribe to, political affiliation, job status, career field, charitable giving, hobbies, and vices.

By using a Gmail account you willingly tell others to send information about you to Google.
Seems so. (this is not a service of mine, I've found it on the Internet)
Makes one heck of a screen saver
It's the newcomers' faults, clearly.
Exactly, and the article's example is spot on for how these expectations get violated by CS's behavior. In CS, the assumption is that aside from minor (and easy to detect) performance penalties, returning a nonsensical value from a function is harmless.

But libraries like jQuery actually give meaning to "no return" in some callbacks. They cleverly let that be the most common behavior, and then let return values specify less common behavior. An example of this in jQuery that creates even more aggravating bugs is event handling. Here's a simple example: http://jsfiddle.net/63fUY/ .

The expectation is that each time you click either button, the total count will increase. But because of the implicit return on line 13, preventDefault gets called half the time. That's an incredibly easy mistake to make, a huge pain to hunt down, and awkward to write a test for. And it would be so easy to avoid if the language had a syntax for "default to no return" which we could just use on all event handlers.
The best/worst part about this is that spending 1000 euros doesn't remove the comment from the internet, it just removes it from the little private list they have. But that's not publicly visible because they're charging 10 euros to check if your number is in this list, so paying 1000 euros essentially gets you nothing. As poor of a "scam" as this is, I'd bet somebody out there has already paid 1000 to remove it from their list.

Despite what all of those reputation management services promise you, I don't think that you can remove stuff from online like this. Between normal social networks where people post private information unaware of what they are doing, things like http://www.dirtyphonebook.com that are designed to destroy privacy, and Google caching everything and making it permanently available for anybody in search, you really have to be smart about what you put online before you put it online. Personally I'd recommend giving up on social networks altogether and just using throwaway accounts and pseudonames, but thats just my personal thing.
Node.js error logging
Personal ;-)
> Depositor insurance is not about legal seniority in debt

It absolutely is. When a bank fails, the regulating institution steps in and performs the capital restructuring. The statement of depositor insurance is that they are to be made whole, even if the regulatory institution must dip into the depositor insurance fund.

The EU restructured the Cyprus banks, but they did not haircut the bondholders for the difference, as has been done in every other bank failure since the Great Depression.
This is amazing! It was cool to see the process of turning data points into a 3d city.. Combine this with the Occulus Rift and the Singularity won't be that far away :)
Cyprus' public debt took off after they were downgraded by Moody's and friends last year (meaning they were no longer able to borrow). This happened because the EU--in their infinite wisdom--wrote off a €4b loan (in bonds) Greece owed to Laiki (a Cypriot bank). So that's €4b the government lost overnight, and round about €10b it's "lost" since 'cos they can't trade.

Public debt for 2011 was 71.1 of the country's GDP.[1]

[1] http://www.centralbank.gov.cy/media/pdf/AnnualEconomicIndica...
And the rest of us will start setting up to sue the first person to use this and simply hand off my cookie to the other person sitting at the same coffee shop as me.
My god, that is amazing and wonderful.

You should be hired by the uk.gov team to work on this full-time.

This, combined with various statistical information (crime, traffic, other stuff from the ONS) would be a huge boon to anyone using it and the interface makes it beginner friendly.
Always nice to know that the drivers that already render my $200 graphics card completely useless also come neatly packaged with a venerability.