skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Haha. I thought to my uninitiated mind: "What's the difference between categories and sets?" and found this: Some attempts have been made by category theory to usurp the foundations of mathematics from set theory. That is, rather than taking sets as the most fundamental building block of the mathematical world, give that role to categories. Sets themselves form a category.
http://www.connections.xamuel.com/Category+Theory-vs-Set+The...

Sounds to me as an uninitiated programmer like set theory had issues when wielded in the nether regions of modern mathematical theory, and category theory is the kludge that followed.

Maybe I should have done maths; yet when most fascinated by its theories under the influence of a three letter traditional psychoactive, a former IBM employee and multi-decade pure mathematics researcher literally begged me not to, declaring it an enending path that wastes decades of people's lives. Ho hum.
See, even more wordplay. You're picking the definitions of my words that make it easiest to argue with them, then knocking down the straw man you've constructed. That in any given response only a fraction of my statements are cited supports this.

Hurray, you've successfully countered an argument I wasn't making! I suppose congratulations are in order, though I'm at a loss as to why.
Triage - First aid for your inbox
Space: A whitespace alternative to JSON
For sake of argument, would you sue AA if just one flight was delayed 3 hours?
> Further, it shocks me at how bad the graphics are at some of these games after looking at them again after decades.

I played MI 1 and 2 in the early 1990s and after revisiting them after 15 years or so, my impression was exactly the opposite: "Look how well the graphics has aged!". Yes, pixels are there, but the aesthetic value of locations, landscapes etc. is relatively unaffected, it's still pleasing to watch (esp. in MI2). I think this says something about the quality of graphic design in those games.
still waiting here too
I seriously doubt you've made a complex app if you're recommending Auto Layout.
Yep. Just got the rejection email.
Are you interested in meeting up in the bay area this summer? We will be there anyway too.
Tell HN: YC rejection emails have started going out
Via email:

We're sorry to say we couldn't accept your proposal for funding.
Please don't take it personally. The applications we receive get
better every funding cycle, and since there's a limit on the number
of startups we can interview in person, we had to turn away a lot
of genuinely promising groups.

Unfortunately we can't give you individual feedback about your
application. This page explains why:

http://ycombinator.com/whynot.html

Another reason you shouldn't take this personally is that we know
we make lots of mistakes. It's alarming how often the last group
to make it over the threshold for interviews ends up being one that
we fund. That means there are surely other good groups that fall
just below the threshold and that we miss even interviewing.

We're trying to get better at this, but the hard limit on the number
of interviews means it's practically certain that groups we rejected
will go on to create successful startups. If you do, we'd appreciate
it if you'd send us an email telling us about it; we want to learn
from our mistakes.

Y Combinator Team
As of 6pm PST, nothing.
> if a government debt-spends on something, some of the effects will be able to continue on their own power and contribute to economic growth after the government spending stops

That's what investing capital is supposed to do, only it should be done with private funds and private risk. If the growth were likely to continue, capital would seek out those enterprises without debt-spending.
emails are coming through guys! Sadly Sorted didn't get through this time! Good luck to everybody else, have a great time!
How to build a file upload form using DropzoneJs and PHP
Just started going out: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5561937
In most jobs where you drive for a living maintaining a clean or at least insurable DMV record both on and off the job is required.
Just got the e-mail, didn't make it through (didn't have high hopes anyway). Congrats to the teams that got the interview!
In social science experiments, it's not unusual to have undergrads or grad students classify the raw data for certain characteristics (a process generally referred to as coding). If we produce (the crowd) a large amount of data, do you really think they'll reject classification information? If someone walked into their office and said "Look at this picture I took of a guy putting something in a trashcan", I suspect that person would get pretty immediate attention.

These agencies often appear to be slow because they've got political bureaucracies as well as defined processes (chain of custody in evidence is pretty important), but it's a mistake to conflate their slower speed with a lack of intelligence.
> he can't possibly have a abused power before taking power

He came into office in '70, and the coup was in '73. From the very link you posted: "29th President of Chile In office 4 November 1970 – 11 September 1973." What CIA planned doesn't take precedence over what actually happened.
creating a special language is not hard, but it's really hard to make ppl feel exciting to use it.
Intel Profits Fall as PC Slump Cuts Demand for Chips
I can't imagine making a dating site these days: "I'm (name text field), a (sexual identity text field) interested in meeting (sexual identity text field) for the purpose of (dating/friendship/sex/swinging/whatever text field)." Good luck with that business logic. Maybe we do need intelligent agents for this stuff.
The speeding data, yes. I don't know where I'd get access to the 21 killed or maimed though beyond the story. But sure, I probably don't have a good reason to believe the numbers are inaccurate.
@trunab I watched this great video and made a transcript of it: http://urbien.com/v/Blog/32272?-ref=Urbien%2F32034
Keep in mind this is my personal take, not the exact words of the presenters. I was mostly interested in understanding how we can improve http://github.com/urbien/urbini Our target audience is geeks who can't code. So it is upon us to make their HTML5 mobile apps perform.

@trunalb, am I right that this was you on stage in the video's first part, and then answering questions? Is it possible to share the code that avoids highlighting list items during scrolling? We have this exact problem.
Nearly every programming language follows those same indentation rules. And it's pretty common for languages not to have line termination characters too. What you're describing is pretty normal rather than a delightful coincidence.
See mkleczynski's comment at http://www.reddit.com/r/computertechs/comments/1cgk82/malwar...
Allende wildly overstepped his constitutional boundaries.

But if he were really being removed merely because of those actions and not because of policy, it's certainly fairly odd that they immediately rounded up thousands of unionists, leftists, and other political undesirables and started putting bullets through the back of their skulls.

Which you might also call abusing power.
There is a "Submit to Ladder" link under the title of your species. From what I can tell, after clicking that link, the ladder takes over and sets up matches automatically.
They're crowdsourcing the evidence, not crowdsourcing the processing of the evidence.
What website will be used to do this crowdsourcing?
I really want to use this.

Particularly like the idea of always-on for remote workers.. and the click-to-talk idea.
I kinda wish there was a dedicated forum/community of some sort for this.
thank you. our current plan is to go the kick starter route. Thereby also validating the interest in an ergo smart chair.
We have a prototype unit built to test our hypothesis and have got favorable interest by ergo experts. Yes we are too early to plan to scale ... but just delivering locally in the bay area can be a good start.
Sure. My thoughts don't apply to everyone here, and I certainly can't claim to be unbiased since I like DO so much.

According to DigitalOcean, they stated that this impacts 3% of all machines, only the largest and most expensive servers. None of the smaller plans were leaking data.

I don't know how many credit card numbers were leaked from linode, but I'd guess more than 3%.

Second, if security is important to you, you can use 'dd' to clear the machine yourself before shutting it off. (In fact, good data destruction policies mandate the use of 'shred' et al anyway). On Linode, affected users don't even have a workaround (like this) to avoid information compromise.
English object-noun adjectival order (left to right): Quantity > Quality > Size > Measure > Shape > Age > Color > Origin > Material > Purpose.

Easy to remember because the stronger an adjective is tied to what the noun is, the closer it is to the noun. This is why, for example Age is closer than Shape.
"Claim Your Place in Space" - Interactive KLM campaign
Intel says quarterly profits fell 25 percent as PC industry reels
I wish the ladder and replays were available publicly, I have a few friends that are interested but are put off from the signup form. I think if I could send them a link to a replay without signing in, they would get a kick out of it and potentially join in on the fun.
Just received it too... I will be curious to know how many applications were submitted for this batch.
I just noticed people starting to get emails. I'll note it down here for future that emails start going out around 6pm PST.
When I was a child, nibbles was my favorite: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZF6tnrfAX0
Great answer (but if the computers are down, can he buy a ticket?).
Rejected for being too old (I'm guessing) ;) 5 video views.

We're getting tons of downloads + press, so no sweat. Check out Arro, http://arroapp.com. Shows you which product to get by analyzing millions of ratings online.
There certainly are those who are self-interested, but there are many more who really do care about the public good. You hear about the ones doing backdoor deals and shady stuff like that on the news because it makes a more interesting story than someone who goes to work each day trying to make their city a little nicer, or pay teachers a bit more, or cut down on crime, etc.
Staying safe: how can we find and defend against explosives?
Some historical notes:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:USDebt.png

The US national debt during WWII was around 120% of GDP. In the years that followed, that ratio fell to below 40%. However, we didn't appreciably pay off our debts, the real dollar amount stayed a little over $2 trillion. We accomplished this feat, of course, by substantially increasing the GDP. It is easy to realize that it is fine for debt to continuously grow, so long as the GDP grows faster.

Also, the only president to entirely pay off the national debt, Andrew Jackson, triggered one of the deepest depressions in US history.
Terse comments aren't hard, just bash the OP without offering constructive criticism.

The next programming language to become popular is going to provide some substantial gain in either productivity or performance. It'd be nice to see an argument for or against Virgil on that front.
How Does Hitbliss Know You're Running Their Desktop Client?
Over the period of 2004-2011. So divide by 7.

You should also try to find the vehicular death per 100k statistic.
Yes received mine a few minutes ago (rejection)... Curious to know how many applications were submitted and how many are invited for interviews. Good luck to the ones that got the invitation !
No, willingness to pay debt was never at issue. That was a red herring put out by the Administration and lapped up by an unquestioning media. We take in more than enough on a monthly basis to service our debt. Willingness to increase the debt ceiling to pay for government programs that we haven't actually borrowed the money for yet was the issue.

Interest rates are down worldwide and has more to do with inflation and "the savings glut". They say nothing particularly positive about the US Government's credit worthiness.
It was our first time applying and we were rejected. Oh well, back to work!
> The reporters found nearly 800 officers who reached speeds of 90-130 mph, many of them while off duty.

Well, driving above the speed limit while on duty is required. Why would that be included in the statistic? And driving 90 is hardly out of the ordinary where I'm from. That being said, driving 120 or 130 while off duty is clearly a bad idea.
I think that idea is that driving at 125mph is less risky at 4am because there are fewer obstacles around. Attempting to drive 125mph at, say, 4pm would be a lot more risky/dangerous.

That said, I don't think that actions outside of work necessarily should mean someone is fired. Using your badge to attempt to get out of trouble, or stating that you feel that speeding is your 'right' (on-duty or off-duty) just because you are a cop, on the other hand...
>Everything seems like small incremental updates when you are too close to it.

Not really. The jump from "computers are for banks" to "everyone has one" and from "no internet" to "full world wide web" seemed like full-blown updates to me, and I was close to both. The same can be said the jump from EGA 1988 IBM PC to 2000 full blown multimedia PC.

The jump from PC to tablet? Not so much. The jump from 2000 PC to 2013 PC? Not so much either. Heck, a huge percentage of people still use XP, which was out in 2001.
Got my mail, the "bad one". But at all rejected: stop at nothing!
CLOS goes back to 1986 :-)

http://common-lisp.net/
> "800 officers who reached speeds of 90-130 mph"

Technically, couldn't this be 799 guys who meant to go 85 but drifted up to 90 and one jerk who went 130?
You need to learn AutoLayout putting the blame on it won't help you.
What makes me happy about this is that it's an example living in the information age. Every day people are gaining more and more tools that can be used to, in a way, force transparency. I think the situation from that standpoint will only get better as stories like this unfold. I really like this one because it's a demonstration that given the right tools, some folks can cut through and make their own transparency.

I'm not saying it's a panacea, but I do think that we live in pretty interesting times for this kind of thing.

Here's hoping it continues in that direction.
rejected and dejected
I personally was trying to play it cool
I personally learned a lot from the overall process. Being rejected would only mean learning more and trying harder. Same thing goes for being accepted. YC is not the ultimate goal, but perhaps the most powerful motivation that would help you get there. Also a first time applicant here.
Didn't make the cut. The process has thought one thing or two about how to pitch our project better... Hopefully to catch you, and the rest, on a different occasion.
Good luck to you all.
A more Python-similar Haskell FizzBuzz is at http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Fizzbuzz

I think that's the cleanest method.
It stars well, then gets weird.

"Is there some level of carbon tax at which we would forego every lake on earth rather than apply it?"

Obviously, there isn't (+infinity), because of diminishing marginal returns. Everything is a tradeoff.

That's basic economic theory, so yes it applies to the environment. And if you want to figure out how much people care about lakes and nature, you can use existing data about cities adding or removing parks - you'll see people like nature, but not so much as to pay +infinity tax.

Because, you know, diminishing marginal returns - again.
To be honest, it really isn't much of a vulnerability either. Without this attack, the speed would be 800 Khash/sec. It just speeds it up by a factor of four. If your passphrase is sufficiently good, you're safe.
Went to the site, was annoyed by the sign-in requirements, and left.

Came here to write a comment, then decided to go back to the site. It accepts joe@example.com as a valid email. Typed throwaway password.
Frustrating? Yes. Shocking? No.

Did anyone really believe that taking a job as a police officer somehow suppressed these people's natural desire to drive fast? Hell, that's probably what make them join the force in the first place. Sure, it's irresponsible and illegal for off-duty officers to speed, but it's also irresponsible and illegal for regular citizens to speed, and yet that doesn't seem to stop them from doing it. Why would you expect the cops to be any different? Do you hold them to a higher level of moral responsibility during their off time because of what they do for a living?

Being a police officer is a job. Unless you wanna have robots do it instead, people are going to do what people are going to do.
That doesn't make it good. Maybe you're arguing that the target market won't care?
Looks great.
Let me know when available for Android shai@scoutti.com
Good luck
Did a little bit of Googling about the person behind the Kickstarter and came across this: http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/2010/06/08/gravity-shmavity...

Considering he couldn't (or wouldn't) even publish his results to arXiv makes me very sceptical about the merits behind his theory.
True, but the site accepts foo@example.com ... so ...
Just got it too for Swagmate (http://swagmate.startupthreads.com). Would love to find out about the other projects you all are working on!
My default is generally "whatever takes about half a second on an average machine".
I don't get why. If you keep stripping away the abstractions, that is where you end up.
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Yeah, that's better. You at least need to offer something before asking me to trust you.
Thanks for all the responses everyone! But, isn't the point of BKDF2-HMAC-SHA1 in 1Password that it's a 320 bit key, that he reduced down to only 160 bits? Unless I'm totally missing something here, it doesn't much matter if the password you are attacking is 6, or 7, or 8 or 50 characters long, you'll still need to attack all 160 bits, right? (Ignoring rainbow tables, or hashing on password dictionaries, etc., in other words, just brute force cracking). Am I being stupid?
I just want to say that e-mail looks very well-written and comforting for a rejection e-mail. I wish companies sent similar rejection e-mails to job applicants.

Keep your spirits up, rejectees, this is not the end of the world. Continue doing your thing. :)
Ask HN:Meet up During YC Interview?
We will be in Sunnyvale from April 26th to 28th. Is anybody interested in meeting and showing products or prototypes to each other? Tell us when you are available.

We are rejected, so do not hesitate to join if you are rejected too:)
We received our second YC rejection for Splash (http://splash.io). Back to work indeed!
I often wonder if it was the theory that was broken or the implementation? I doubt anyone will tread that way for quite a while due to the wreckage.
To all the rejected
Stop at nothing.

Nobody needs a permission to start or continue his dreams and his passion.

Keep on doing what you're great at!
Just curiously - how many video views did everybody get? We had 5 views for a total of ~4 minutes.
Probably simplicity and control.
Not necessarily. The closer the relation, the greater the probability of bad genes pairing up, but it is, in fact, a probability.

Your fourth cousin might have a copy of the same bad gene as you while your first cousin doesn't.
And to all the people who like to bash Chile and the Chicago School, there are other good things in Chile besides the startup program, just take a second to look at the GDP per capita growth :

http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&#...

It started lower and below average, it's now at the #1 spot. [because it is well know Argentina is lying on its number since ~2008]

On other development rankings, Chile also is in the top scores - like fighting against corruption.

Maybe, just maybe, some good things were done, or it wouldn't work as well. Just saying that as someone who seriously consider Chile (along with India).
I always thought that DarkDreads Mysterious Song was the most impressive QBasic game, http://darkdreams.rpgdx.net/downloads.html

This looks like it might take the title though.
It is based upon the idea that there is waste and waste and waste everywhere

I don't know how educated people concerned about politics and the economic health of this country could not read these kinds of stories that come over the wire and know that there's an extraordinary amount of waste in the Federal government that could easily be cut.

http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2011-02-19/news/fl-federal-...

Unfortunately, so many voters have their heads in the sand and don't know what's going on - or worse yet, they're doing like you are here and propagating misinformation.
Just keep going, building, and keep applying. Don't stop for anything or anyone.
Possibly one of the coolest/most nostalgic things I've seen in some time. Badass indeed.
And this does what exactly?
1 view, 30 seconds. They didn't even get to the actual proposal.
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is there anyone who hasn't received anything?
Education is more accessible to the wealthy, so while education meaning more voting influence sounds good at first, it could just lead to even less representation of the lower class.
"as of late"? Feels like the lack of checks and balances on the police has been going on for a while.

It's only when something major happens that people take notice, like someone putting together this report, now all of a sudden it's a new trend that's way to prevalent as of late. :P
completely agreed. just keep working and apply again next time around.
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I like Balsamiq because it's easy to work with and the jagged edges boldly state "I am a prototype, not the final product"
If her startup gets bought out, she ends up with millions of dollars of capital gains, which isn't salary.
I wish girls would do the same thing. Imagine how nice the world would be if everyone wrote their rejections this way!
Um, yep. If the average "PC" turns from a $500-750 laptop to a $200-500 tablet, Intel's going to lose a lot of business. It can't afford to live on Atom chip margins.
And you're intentionally keeping your arguments vague, which makes it impossible for me attack them, then refusing to clarify in your response. "Exploit" and "unrelated" are very common words, and the definitions I took were the most common ones. If you're going to use obscure definitions to prove your point, the onus is on you to clarify. Until you do, the fact the remains that PG was not "exploiting" the event, nor was his recommendation "unrelated", and you have no justifiable reason for taking offense.
Declined! We'll work harder and prove them wrong. Come check out our application at http://parlayz.com/ . Hope to see you guys soon in the bay area.
The author also posted a bunch of information about Black Annex on /r/IndieGaming:

http://www.reddit.com/r/IndieGaming/comments/1bqegf/i_put_my...
Ask HN: If HN hired you as a  growth hacker, what would you do?
Goals:

1) Grow total users

2) Increase portion of users that visit at least once per week

(suggest other goals if you feel they would be more beneficial)
I lived in Portland before coming down to startup-land, and yeah - Portland has a huge number of underemployed, talented programmers. They're a little more risk-averse than their San Francisco counterparts, but they've got stronger social fabric - so if you manage to convince one that you've got a good thing going, you can pull in ten or fifteen of their friends without much trouble.
Do you hold them to a higher level of moral responsibility during their off time because of what they do for a living?

Yes! Of course! Being an officer may be 'just a job', but in practice the hat doesn't come off. Which is the entire point - police officers occupy a particular position in society regardless of whether or not they're wearing a badge at the moment.

That's not the same thing as saying that I'm surprised that they're still human, though.