skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's more likely to be effective than blind networking. Building an early team just a fundamentally hard problem with no single / quick solution. FWIW I've met very helpful (non-cofounder) people through the site. In it's capacity to be a more startup-specific linkedin, it's interesting.
Super secure!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I've never seen the fairness of after hours trading. The majority of people don't have access to it (that I've spoken to), yet that is when you see some major moves (up or down) in a stock.

Congrats to Tesla for turning their first profit!
She ended The Hundred Years war. She stopped a great many other people from suffering and dying. Her fame does not make her suffering "worse" than what she stopped. France was an occupied land. It was an ugly era that she put an end to.
It doesn't work for spear phishing, but for wide-ranging hits the broken english is often on purpose: http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/167719/whyfromnigeria.pdf :: http://www.onthemedia.org/2012/aug/31/why-nigerian-email-sca...

tldr: you have a lower number of leads but a higher conversion rate from those that do respond.
It would have stopped someone from using a phished GApps credential from logging in to Google using it, though.

It sounds like one prong of the attack was to gain access to one employee's email, then use that account to send phishing emails to other employees. 2FA would have stopped that.
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I'm interested here, maybe I'm wrong.

My impression is that when I buy glasses at lenscrafters, they're grinding lenses there, in house.

Are you saying that they're couriered around my city when I order them or something?
There were complaints/questions about Richard Garriott's project, but none as high-profile as this current criticism of Zach Braff.
> Facebook is more accountable that the government is.

How do you figure that?

> To be fair, there are bad actors in all places, but the FBI/US Attorney General has more incentive to pull people into court, and send them to jail than Facebook employees do.

The difference is that only a small fraction of people do things that causes the federal government to become interested in putting them in jail. Most people do things that arise the interest of private industry. See, e.g., the credit ratings agency mafia. Those companies would have a field day if they had access to Facebook's information. See also, all the hiring managers that would have to have access to peoples' social networking information in order to blacklist them for jobs. Or insurance companies looking for any reason to drop people from healthcare plans, etc.

How much you worry about something is generally proportional to the product of how likely that something is to happen and how bad that thing would be if it did happen. It's exceedingly unlikely that you'll be at the receiving end of a federal prosecution, even if that would be a really bad thing. But having trouble with your credit, having trouble getting a job, being dropped from your health insurance--all of these things are much more likely, and they can be pretty bad in and of themselves. Yeah, sure, the government can bankrupt me defending a prosecution, but then again so can my HMO dropping me from my health plan if I get sick.

As I said, I imagine this is a matter of outlook. I don't see myself as a revolutionary who might get railroaded by the government for fighting for a just cause. I do see myself as a guy with a wife and a kid looking to buy a house some day, worrying about health care costs for my aging parents, etc. Given that, the ways private industry can screw me over are a lot more real to me.
From Wikipedia:

Trading outside these regular hours is not a new phenomenon but previously was limited to high net-worth investors and institutional investors like mutual funds.[2] The emergence of private trading systems, known as electronic communication networks or ECNs, has allowed individual investors to participate in after-hours trading.

In other words, nothing unfair about it.
Even though I'm not a huge Greenspan fan (are there any?), I find this money transmitter stuff incredibly fascinating. I haven't reviewed the relevant legal code, but I strongly suspect that Greenspan is right in that:

(1) there are lots of little annoying laws related to money transmitters that makes it very difficult to get new payment stuff off the ground

(2) If you have deep pockets and good lawyers you can pretty much ignore these laws

I strongly suspect that the correct solution is to change the laws, but that this is also an even greater pain in the ass than protecting yourself with highly paid lawyers, esp. since relevant laws vary significantly from state to state. What exactly Greenspan is attempting to prove here is beyond me, but I'm still quite curious as to the results.
Is it odd that I find the exercise to prevent the spam far more interesting than the product itself (not a criticism)? No traditional captchas, no oauth tie-ins... just good-old-fashion machine learning, graph analysis, hellbanning, negative captchas, etc
It seems strange to file one suit against a ton of defendants, making it more likely that they will pool resources for defense. Or is that not possible in this context because of the nature of the complaint?
The thing I hate most about LinkedIn right now (apart from spamming me) is their new system of friends endorsing your skills. I just got an email this morning saying a friend endorsed my skills in Python. This guy played water polo with me in college, why would he be in any position to endorse my programming skills, and why was he asked to endorse me?
It was previously a New York based startup that is now fully based in Singapore.

My english is fluent and compare to Singaporean english it was
excellent, considering that majority of their employees are
Singaporeans, they might have preferred Singlish speaking
candidates.
addendum:

http://colorschemedesigner.com/

http://code.google.com/p/gpick/
>Laptops from 1998 running IE5 //

Nope but laptops from '98 running FF20 (and probably other modern browsers) are a possibility.
I don't have time to read much of the lawsuit, but is Think Computer suing for some sort of injunction to require all the companies listed to use Face Cash as only it has a California Money Transfer Act license?

And for those double taking at the name, Aaron Greenspan is the CEO of Think Computer.

http://www.thinkcomputer.com/
LoseThos/TempleOS: The most odd troll yet
The humanitarian power of big data
Yeah, looks like a good technique for programmers to gain some experience : build a hacking magnet and defend it
I wouldn't consider capitalism an economic system. It is more of a description of the behavior of organisms. Free markets naturally produce monopolies just like humans have monopolized Earth. Once the monopoly is achieved, the motivation to innovate diminishes along with the entity's competitiveness. Eventually, someone will challenge the monopoly-holding alpha entity and the cycle continues. It happens in economies, societies, ecosystems, and any domain where evolution takes place.
Well I would agree if we are talking about very demanding current gen style games (which id software indeed typically produce) but if we look at indie-style games then having garbage collection doesn't preclude a language from being used in games development, or having steady frame rates.

There's no technical reason I can think of why Go wouldn't work just as well as C# (XNA/XBLA/MonoTouch/Android) or Java (Minecraft etc) for game development.

Garbage Collector sweeps can indeed be a performance problem but there are obvious ways of minimizing it's impact during gameplay.

Overall I think (read guess) that unless you are doing some sort of physics simulation, typical game logic requires relatively little cpu power and for the graphics there is hardware acceleration doing the heavy lifting.
Can you explain? I use 2FA and tell it to remember me on this device, right?

If a Syrian hacker phished my password, he wouldn't be able to login on his system, would he?
The majority of investors can easily get access to after hours trading these days. A simple Scottrade account comes with the ability to trade after hours.
I would like to see if there is a relationship between anti-authoritarian and entrepreneurship.
No no no, I don't like automation; I like automating things :)
Catastrophic success
Methinks it needs a captcha...
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An interesting story.

> The email addresses for your twitter accounts should be on a system that is isolated from your organization’s normal email. This will make your Twitter accounts virtually invulnerable to phishing (providing that you’re using unique, strong passwords for every account).

That doesn't make a lot of sense. Sure, now your twitter account is somewhat protected against phishing (I think 'invulernable' is a bit too confident, even with 'virtually' added as qualifier).

But what about any other possible account? So now you say every single other possible account related to your business should be associated with an email address isolated from normal email, to protect them from phishing. Right?

Okay, so what makes is the 'normal email' again? You've just decided to split all your email amongst as many disparate systems as possible, to protect against phishing... which I guess it sort of does, but at cost of so much confusion that you've probably opened yourself up to something else.

Unless twitter alone is so high value to protect in this way?

Or am I missing something?
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Libertarians bring it up all the time. Here's a quick google search of a libertarian web site for "liquor laws"

https://www.google.com/search?q=liquor+site%3Areason.com&...
Why not just use a simple csrf stored in a session? You already have an "authenticiy_token" in the request data, why not use it, or add another value for csrf?
I agree with this point. I retype my user information, even while logged in, at least a few times a week.
Sorry for being irritatingly SNOOT[1]ish but it's an _a_ (not an _an_) that you'll be needing there before that USB thingy because the U in USB is actually a y sound and you put an a before a y sound; viz. a yellow USB cable. Pauses, takes breath, exhales.

[1] http://harpers.org/wp-content/uploads/HarpersMagazine-2001-0...
Couldnt agree more, this is the current biggest pain of linkedin...

...or perhaps the recruiters sending email such as "I see you have worked with purely with linux and mysql, how about you applying for this 100% microsoft-stack company as a sharepoint/exchange professional." That might not be linkedins fault the recruiters seems stupid, but it should be in linkedins interest to not annoy me with such crap.
Yeah I was thinking the exact same thing the other day. The churn rate on my app is so low that it would be pretty accurate. I'll try and build a ruby script this weekend.
You're right and everything is going to change. On the other hand it isn't technically completely true.

Advertising and sales, are product info and persuasive information.

Product info is relatively straightforward I think. Persuasive information is credible information about the buyer that explains why the product is needed. The reviews on Amazon serve this need. The websites of camping enthusiasts or cooking enthusiasts etc etc serve this need in Google.

They aren't going away, the work is being done by entities other than the manufacturer. They're being outsourced to amazon or the buyers peers, but the work still needs to get done.
Some context:

(1) Think Computer Corporation built FaceCash (https://www.facecash.com/) a mobile payment solution

(2) Aaron Greenspan is Think's President and CEO

Maybe he's trying to get these companies to lobby against "money transmitter" regulation.
What really bugs me about Mars how much of a political opportunity it is for a president to reverse the economic and scientific atrophy that plauges the US. One of the big factors in economic recovery is morale - if people don't have faith in their country, government, or monetary system; how can you expect them to be productive members of society?

If you were to ask any person what they thought US's most notable achievement was - it's not unlikely they'll mention the moon landing. The moon landing was such a milestone, such a landmark achievement - it sent nationalism through the roof. That kind of pride and fervor would be extremely over the next few years, not only in economic recovery, but in growth and expansion of tech related fields.

All it would take is one very good speech I think, to inspire the nation and light the fire under US's latent tech reserves. Something kinda like Reagan's speeches - which felt like pep talks more than presidential speeches, linking the economic, political, and cultural muscle of America's yesterday to the moon landing. There's a lot of people out there who feel like America's golden days have passed, so I don't think it would be horribly difficult to link those prosperous times with the moon landing. At the end they could sign off with something like what Aldrin mentioned in his article; “I believe this nation should commit itself, within two decades, to commencing American permanence on the planet Mars.”

The only difference between Kennedy's speech and the Mars speech would be that Kennedy's was used to win the cold war, and the mars speech would be used to fix internal economic strife.
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sounds like tailors want wang. Get on it, YC.
This isn't just a glasses phenomenon. I see it (or used to before I started buying only from Amazon) from all sorts of sellers. If I choose 1 or 2 day shipping, it should be going out the next day at the latest (if UPS already showed up today). The no questions asked return policy from Amazon is why I know buy shoes and clothing from them also.
From reading the complaint, it seems more likely that the expected result here is something like:

* State is forced to fairly enforce the rules that caused Think Computer so much trouble (re money transmitter regulations)

* Fairly enforcing the rules causes incredible amounts of grief & overhead for companies large enough to comply, and drives smaller companies out of business

* The grief drives those larger companies (and investors into the smaller companies) to push for these laws to actually get fixed

I could see there also being an interest here in having investors be penalized for knowingly investing in companies that were violating the law (having a board seat seems like it would give you enough access to realize that a portfolio company is a money transmitter and be able to ask them whether they're licensed).
Giving Something Back + Media Temple = Awesome
Now with Media Temple and Daniel Tomlinson on board donating their services, I'm determined to give something back to a charity or non-profit in the way of a website or mobile application.

Check the blog post out here: http://blog.psdesignuk.com/posts/giving-something-back
It is well known that lower response times increase conversions and reduce abandonment on any website. There is absolutely no reason for a website to cross the 1-2mb threshold unless it's a huge web application, a game or image-based app, or is serving you hi-res photos.

And, obviously, websites are accessed from all kinds of connections. Not everyone has a generous 3G plan, and even the US doesn't rank that well in average broadband speeds.
I will add that the author addressed most of the complains - you can write, encrypt and decrypt mails in a window completely separate from the window, that appears with a click in the webmail window.

It is protected from clickjacking by secret token that the user can set up in settings that will appear in the new window. See http://www.mailvelope.com/help#security
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On the plus side, my wife has a high-paying IT job as well, so we won't starve immediately. And I'm kind of boggled at how much I've managed to build, effectively solo (legal help only), in the past six months. But I have another six before it's really money-ready, I think.
Can someone please translate this lawsuit into common language. It looks pretty interesting, but I'm not familiar with the laws on money transmission. Thanks!
3G isn't nearly fast enough to make megabytes irrelevant.
A couple of interesting statistics about stocks that are easily available are related to how many people are shorting it (ie, someone borrows a share, sells it, and makes a profit if they can re-buy it at a later date to close the short position).

In the case of TSLA the stock, as of Apr 15, almost 31 million shares were lent out to short sellers ("sold short"). That is out of 72 million shares on the market ("float"). At an average volume of 3 million shares traded per day (trailing 3 month average) it would take more that 10 trading days of nothing but short sellers buying shares on the open market to return to the people they borrowed them from ("cover").

Short trading unhedged is regarded as dangerous for this reason. If you buy a stock in the traditional way, if it goes to zero you only lose your investment. If you sell a share short, your losses (amount you have to re-buy it for minus the price you sold it for) is unbounded. Typically, this isn't collateralized by cash, but in money that brokers loan to traders ("margin"). If a broker sees that I have a really, really big loss on a short position, they might make me repay that money ("issue a margin call")... and depending on the situation, that might force a trader to cover their short position.

Anyway, point is that this can lead to a bunch of short sellers driving up the price of a heavily short stock all at once because they've either decided to cut their losses or because of margin calls, called a "short squeeze". This usually isn't sustainable because it's a temporary supply/demand imbalance. Could be an tough day for a lot of people investing against Tesla tomorrow, but I wouldn't bet on the gains in TSLA the stock tomorrow/in after-hours trading lasting for a long time.
>Most people who are anti-gun, such as yourself due to your "BS amendment" comment, are usually very ignorant or fearful of guns.

I actually went through a compulsory one year long army training (and got to be a sergeant) but nice try anyway.

>As a very middle of the road type of guy, I joined NRA and 2nd Amendment Foundation for the first time a few months ago because of too many people like you who are too easily influenced by the media in the past 6 months.

I'm from another country, I don't even read your media that much.

I just feel that selling guns to anybody in a society with so many wackos (with the highest gun crime rates in the western world, the highest incarceration rate in the world, and the highest number of nutjob serial killers) is wrong.

And I'm also against the "protecting my private property means I have the right to kill any trespasser" cowboy logic.

I prefer to be robbed and let the police handle it, than kill people.
He's suing them for "unfair competition", because none of them have an MTA license, yet are still operating. As far as I can tell!

http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=bpc...
> it is probably much more common that some kinds of mentally ill individuals happen to be anti-authoritarian.

I think thats a hard judgement to make, but its a tragedy that any kids who simply disagree with authority figures they don't see as valid are medicated and diagnosed with ODD.
This is the first of many profitable quarters for Tesla. The Model S is a better car in every single regard (except for range), than any other car on the market. It is safer, faster, roomier, more fun to drive, has more storage, quieter, more convenient, and less polluting.

Electric vehicles will displace combustion vehicles. Everything that makes a car, the electric car does better.

Right now the electric vehicle market is small, but soon (one decade?) it will eclipse the combustion market. Tesla is ahead of ALL other vehicle manufacturers, and that lead will translate into significant market share. As the electric vehicle market grows, so will Tesla's value.
That's odd because I never do. I'm using two-factor and I only have to retype login information when that expires (approximately 30 days I believe.) Also, someone did phish my Google cookies and Google immediately shutdown my account and made me type in something from a text to reactivate my account. Overall I'm pretty happy with both of those circumstances.
In practice, SQL access control is pretty simple-minded compared to relational algebra, and a server may not notice that your DELETE and INSERT are equivalent to an UPDATE which only modifies columns you're authorized to.
A good article to help understand the massive afterhours movement: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/08/autos-tesla-idUSL2...

High-Level Summary:

There was a ton of short-selling interest on TSLA (due to expectations of a big earnings miss). Almost 27% of the 115mm shares outstanding are currently being borrowed by short sellers. TSLA has more short interest by percentage than 98% of US stocks. Everyone was really expecting the price to go down.

Tesla reported earnings today at $.12/share, and upped their forward guidance. The consensus earnings estimates were $.04/share, so TSLA greatly surpassed expectations.

To short a stock, you have to borrow a share from someone else, and then return that stock to them at a later date. Returning the stock is called 'Covering a short'. All those people who were betting against TSLA are now forced to pile back into the market to cover, but since so many shares were short to begin with, the number of people who have stock to sell is much lower than typical.

This results in a 'short covering rally' where there is a lot of demand to buy shares and a small supply. Econ. 101 takes over and you see a big spike in the price.
Nice. Not an American, so not familiar with this case.

Which reinforces my point: no damn reason to keep the constitution, the founding fathers and 200 year old amendments as "holy scripture". You can fuck "the right to bear arms" and change the laws.
I like the takeaway that the only slide that matters is traction.

Looking at the Team slide, they have a decent amount of social validation from their advisors & previous investors. I'm guessing this was critical for getting the intro's to ~200 prospective investors.
lol

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Defendant Yishan Wong, in response to an article authored by Plaintiff on the website Quora, wrote the following comments (among others) indicating his knowledge of payments-related laws and regulations on June 15, 2011:

“Yeah, I am constantly amazed at how people haven’t yet learned that the paymentsindustry is really hard to get into. It was okay for first-wave companies like PayPal to besurprised by it, but anyone who does their due diligence before starting a paymentsstartup should know everyone – literally everyone, including regulators and thegovernment – is going to be working against you. If you can’t take the heat, get out of the kitchen and go start a photosharing startup.”

“Payment startups face a far more adversarial environment, including utter and totalhostility. It was okay for PayPal to whine about this (though they didn’t), because itwasn't known. But now it’s known. If you run a payments startup, you are fightingagainst thugs, actual criminals – both real ones and government ones. It is not normalbusiness. It is like trying to start a business in an actual warzone. Complaining aboutthis is just whining. There is no actual solution than to win. Anything else is, in fact, justwhining.”

Presumably with the hope of “winning,” Defendant Wong proceeded to invest his own personalfunds in Unlicensed MSB Defendant Balanced (part of a $3.4 million seed financing round)