skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Shuttleworth Foundation does this. They provide fellowships that are the size of an angel or seed round. Primarily for non-profit projects but they do for-profit as well (in my case).

An amazing group/experience is a big understatement.

http://shuttleworthfoundation.org/

Disclaimer: I'm a 2nd year fellow.
I think that he's actually joking. Because I'm not seeing that vastrm sells any hoodies.
vastrm makes me think of "rm *", actually. Which would be an awesome name for a document retention/destruction company.
A New York VC Spotlight: Josh Kopelman
Our customers aren't buying an off the rack shirt here. We are sending sizing templates for people to try on. They then go back to our site to determine any adjustments to their sizing profile (adding length to shirt or shortening a sleeve, or tapering the waist, etc). We then go ahead and make a one of kind size and fit for that customer based on their unique body type.
>The people in your group are what matter most to us. We look for brains, motivation, and a sense of design.

Is that last bit new, pg? And what do you mean by it?
The Revolution Will Have An Accent
I have found myself holding my cell phone up in front of me while driving in order to read text messages. I had someone honk at me in that case, but I am sure that was safer than looking down and hiding the phone in my lap or something, because I was able to see the road behind the phone at the same time (not very well though and of course it was dangerous anyway).

I think a HUD may become standard in most cars within a few years because its just much safer to have information or controls projected in your field of view than to have to look down or away from the road. And so many people have long commutes with emails or instant messages coming in that they would like to be able to monitor without taking their eyes off of the road. Even if you are changing your focus or attention slightly, the time to refocus on objects that are still in your field of vision or only a few degrees away is much less than what might be required to switch away from viewing a phone in your hand.
Clever advertising. I wouldn't count on blacklisting by McAfee and programs like that for a thing like this. I'd like to just scan for issues rather than to trust on secondary reporting.

The fact that google lists a much lower number is a telltale here, google is doing a pretty good job of staying current in this respect and with McAfee and other companies that trade lists they pride themselves on size of the list which skews them towards fast addition but slow removal.
From Thomas Pynchon, a novel of the dot-com era and the end of history
Pinterest And Path To Battle Over Letter “P” Logo Trademark
Uhmmm, your live demo just selfdestructed when I clicked on it. Any chance it doesn't work in firefox?
Maybe you could drop them a hint about partnering with YC for this? That would be something to watch.
That would be a good idea for an android app. I thorough list of hundreds or thousands of ideas we'd like to fund. Aspiring startups can go through the list, select which ones they like, max of 5, and submit an application to YC right then and there. I wonder if PG's thought of doing that.

edit: what's with the downvotes? that's puzzling
Because Assange is not charged with anything they can nail him for in the UK. The fact the UK government is nonetheless spending 8 million annually just policing the embassy suggests they hold a rational belief they can get their way with him in Sweden, possibly before he is even charged with anything.

Seriously... has the government ever spent even 1/2 that amount in a situation where someone is wanted for extradition but has yet to be charged for a non-crime? How about 1/10th or 1/100th of that amount? If Assange really had nothing to fear in Sweden the rational act for the UK government would be giving him passage to Ecuador, saving millions in useless spending, and cashing in the whole thing a favor to the OAS.
apologies for this. We will fix this. We just started shipping to Australia, UK, Canada, France, Germany and Japan. More countries to come as we set up logistics in those countries.
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Artificial language? :) it is not a language cooked in someone's kitchen :-) it was widely spoken before independence - though Sanskrit would have become more acceptable ...
I think maybe part of what he was saying is that the session gets abused -- devs sometimes put things in there which are not actually unique to the user, because it's easy to do. And that's not even really an option here, unless it's a string.
I think you're right. But once you discuss evasion methods on hn, doesn't it flag you, me and other participants automatically? Or have you been smart enough to buy anonimous sim card (in a country where it is still possible) and to use it to register anonymous email, then access hn via anonymous cell line through anonymizing vpn or tor? And how often can you throw away sims/cells...
Sorry, I don't have any links to share off hand. But I do have some comments:

Of course we all have to deal with state, otherwise our programs are essentially useless.

As a casual FP practitioner, I try to make web-based design decisions that minimize the number of places where I handle state. The majority of the functions that I write just take values and return some referentially transparent transformation of their inputs.

So for me it's really more about black-boxing and forgetting (once it's thoroughly tested) about 90% of my code, thus hopefully limiting the scope of my state related wtf moments to the other 10%.

There was a time in my life where I thought that this sort of design was obvious and everybody was doing it. I've since learned, through lots of painful maintenance and debugging, that this is not at all the case :/
An Indie Perspective: Launching a Free 2 play game
Somewhat, but our customers aren't buying an off the rack shirt here. We are sending sizing templates for people to try on. They then go back to our site to determine any adjustments to their sizing profile (adding length to shirt or shortening a sleeve, or tapering the waist, etc). They send the try on shirts back to us and we then go ahead and make a one of kind size and fit for that customer based on their unique body type. make sense?
Why is it necessary to exercise (to lose weight) though? Why isn't it just a matter of consuming the right number of calories to go with whatever amount of activity your day involves? I mean obviously prolonged exercise burns off fat quickly, but it's also sort of like a shock to the system which might make you overcompensate afterwards by eating even more. I know people who train for marathon running but still seem to get heavier.
No, that's been there for years, maybe since the beginning. We're looking for people who are not merely good at building things, but who can decide what to build.
Made in NY – Gabriel Miller, General Manager and Partner at AMMIRATI
GitHub. Just make a GitHub repo.
> Because Assange is not charged with anything they can nail him for in the UK.

He's not charged by the U.S. for anything that they can nail him for in either Sweden or the U.K.

If that changes U.K. law is unlikely to be significantly more flexible for Assange on national security concerns than Swedish law.

What Assange is charged with under Swedish law is also a crime in the U.K. by the way, as ruled by the U.K. High Court itself.

One big part of "due process" that progressives push for is that you should not get special treatment just because you are famous (or infamous, for that matter).
Didn't realize you were the founder.

In addition to my comments on your company name you should consider including a label of sorts somewhere on your shirt as a branding element (needs to be visible even if it hangs from the front or the tail). It doesn't have to be ala Polo or Tommy (over the chest) but there should be something to let people know that the product is yours.

Also I'm sure you have researched this but my gut says $100 is not the same as $98 in terms of consumer perception.
It involves more than linguistic characteristics to distinguish language from dialect. One can argue for both cases.

I personally prefer to think of Chinese as a language family. It would be a much larger, and very interesting, topic. For the discussion on this thread, I use "dialect" other than "separate languages", since Cantonese, We Chinese, etc. are described as dialects in most materials I read.
I find it a little suspicious that a browser that purports to be private gives a unique fingerprint on panopticlick...

https://panopticlick.eff.org
Huh, so it is. That's really surprising to me, but I guess those standard library folks are smart fellas. =)
Major VBulletin based websites are vulnerable to Hackers
I used to work at CERN, what are you intending to prove with posting links about Oracle at CERN without explaining them?
I almost wonder if Scheneier is pushing for the job of special prosecutor.

He certainly would be quite effective in that role, although I guess he's not a lawyer. Having him or one of the EFF lawyers as a special prosecutor is pretty much the only way I'd trust the NSA's "reforms".
...No it isn't. It might be 'simple' for you, and it might be readily configurable once you know how to do it, but that doesn't make it easy.

I really can't tell if you're being deliberately obtuse about this. Don't you see all the people going "Yeah, it was faster to do this with nginx than it was with Apache"?

Are you the sort of person that's surprised PHP got so popular?
Gale–Shapley algorithm (for the stable marriages problem) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stable_marriage_problem

It's a beautifully simple algorithm with uses in almost every field.

Here's a more informative link http://cse331.wordpress.com/2009/09/11/lect-4-gale-shapley-a...
Great suggestion - thanks! Meant to put that in the faq that all code and changes would be available soon. Will do that very very soon! We haven't slept much the past week so give us a bit of time!!
I've chatted with Chase from Watsi. I'd love to get something more fomalized...
If you find one in Chromium PLEASE let us know!!!
1950s robot smashes auction estimate
wouldn't it be logical for them to use ciphers that they do not know how to compromise yet?
Not only that but it made me think of "vasectomy" oddly enough.

Document destruction/retention: "rm"

but document retention "mv".

That's a great business by the way (destruction and document scanning). Destruction much easier though.
It doesn't help the author's case that he castigates Yahoo for creating the logo in an "unprofessional" short period of time, but then also sneers at them for their month long process of unveiling it and for polling their employees on their views about values to reflect in future Yahoo logos.

You can't win, except perhaps by a marketing agency run by a guy who can see "purpose" in the ugliness of the very expensive London Olympics logo but not in the cheap publicity of Yahoo's "30 days of change"...
I heard a rumor once, and I have no idea how true it may be. But the rumor goes something like this: parking lots, beyond being ridiculously lucrative and turn-key businesses, are also fantastic money-laundering or tax-dodging opportunities. And so many of them are owned by shady characters, or shady companies. These types don't necessarily want to deal with things like processing credit cards, or getting into paper trails (although some modern parking lots are using credit card readers, for convenience's sake).

This sounds pretty fanciful, but it doesn't seem entirely implausible.

Occam's Razor says that the garage managers weren't interested because they're doing just fine, and your service wasn't solving a greater problem than the inconvenience of manually dealing with bids would cause. But I wonder if there's another factor at play here. :)

Anyhow, this is a great recap of your approach, and I'm sure it's been a fantastic learning experience for you both. Thanks for writing this, and for sharing it! On another level, it frustrates me to read your story: it seems like you guys had identified a real problem with users ready to try it out, and the other side of the market just didn't have the same degree of need. That sucks.
TiddlyWiki is pretty near: http://tiddlywiki.com.

(the IPython Notebook is utterly, utterly wonderful. It's the first digital lab notebook worth a damn for data scientists.)
Rambling On Internals
Essential for today's globally competitive workplace --finding the balance and equilibrium between brilliant collaborative innovation and individual productivity.
The thing that would concern me is that once the novelty wears off, and there's no place in particular to "go" in space, a healthy revenue source might be difficult.
It was pointless snark on my part.
I am present and public on most social networks and my name is still not in this data set.
And then there are CEOs who trust their team to make things and don't micromanage every aspect.
To incentivise such behaviour?
Introduction to Percona XtraBackup 2.1 (MySQL webinar & more)
IIRC Clojure itself is a library.
Good thought -- thanks!! Will work on a changelog and making all code available very very soon! In terms of other issues, we and everyone rely on the whole open source community to be watchful over chromium and report any possible "backdoors"! It's a massive codebase and we're still a small team!!
To quote Wikipedia:

"a public good is a good that is both non-excludable and non-rivalrous"

"a good or service is called excludable if it is possible to prevent people (consumers) who have not paid for it from having access to it."

If the Michigan Survey were non-excludable, we wouldn't be having this exchange. While you might argue that upon general availability through the media it is non-excludable, the excludability of the timely access is at the very heart of the issue.

The argument that the University of Michigan is a public institution has some merit, however the onus is on you to suggest a legal argument for the Federal Government to compel the regents and trustees to behave in a manner contrary to what they would have done otherwise.
"The numbers reported above include all types of government data requests such as criminal law enforcement requests and those under U.S. national security authorities, including the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) and National Security Letters (NSLs), if any were received.

The U.S. Government does not permit us to disclose additional details regarding the number of requests, if any, under national security authorities at this time, or even to separate them in aggregate from other requests. Additionally, the government would not authorize us to separate NSLs from other government data requests or to express the NSLs that we have received, if any, as a range from 0 to 1,000—even though the government allowed other providers to do so in the past. We strenuously disagree with the government's position and will continue to advocate for greater transparency regarding requests made under national security authorities. If we succeed in persuading the U.S. Government to allow greater transparency, we will disclose additional details in future reports, and we will also update this report with more details related to national security requests as permitted."

Range from 0 to 1,000 a hint?
Great points here. Thanks for your insight. We will continue to learn from all these comments. re: men not caring about fitted polo shirts: we think the market here is fairly large. Mass merchandised clothing today only comes in 4 - 5 sizes (S, M, L, XL,etc...) but our bodies are all different shapes and sizes. So that size M that Jcrew or Ralph Lauren sells will only fit a sub-segment of the population. Everyone else is compromising on fit. If you want a better fitting shirt, come to us. If your willing to shop around for brands that fit your body type or if you don't care about fit, that is fine too. We are here to simply offer more choice for consumers.
People in the western world have been able to talk to each other culturally, economically, etc. without necessarily speaking English.

But the Communist Party might have a better time influencing culture/economy/policy/ideology across all of China with more people speaking the official language.
Baby rented out into the begging trade.
Because it just had to do a set of things functionally right.

Whereas branding is more important in an industry where products are similar to one another in function, like consumer goods.
Toshiba invents quantum cryptography network… and the NSA can’t hack it
(1) Social engineering is a key component of several high profile intrusions that happen today. The best way to help an organization understand their ability to detect, mitigate, and/or contain this type of attack is to do it.

https://www.google.com/#q=phishing&tbm=nws

(1a) Statements, such as "it requires social engineering" [it's not a valid vector] represent a dated understanding of hacker tactics and part of my work is to help folks with your view move their understanding forward. Usually the conversation is not a response to an adversarial comment like yours.

Here are a few talks/papers that I recommend:

http://blog.strategiccyber.com/2012/12/19/hacking-like-apt/

(2) Cobalt Strike builds on something called the Metasploit Framework. The Metasploit Framework is the largest open source collection of safe exploits. My product addresses gaps in this kit for executing attacks that mimic those high profile intrusions mentioned a moment ago. A successful operation requires more than an email with something bad attached.

http://blog.strategiccyber.com/2013/01/14/tactics-to-hack-an...

(2a) Cobalt Strike's open source little sister is Armitage. A popular user interface and collaboration tool for the aforementioned "better and powerful and safer open source alternative to run exploits". I'm the developer of Armitage as well.

http://www.fastandeasyhacking.com/
Sony Opened Up Its Camera Software
When you are driving you should be focused on what's happening outside of the car. Need to read a text message? - get off the road. 'Safer' doesn't mean safe.
This is a wonderful initiative.

I'm someone who's generally very skeptical about the VC ways of doing things (difficult to really describe my feelings here, let's just say some just seem a bit too unapologetically mercenary in my eyes), so this move really sets apart YC from all the other startup-incubators/VCs.

Watsi is fantastic in every way I can think of. I hope more people are encouraged to create nonprofit companies to solve some real problems (read: non-first-world-problems) in a true hackerly fashion.
Yes you're right spell check surely can be! We'll work on it. Chromium is difficult to work with as something like spell check will be built to be supported as a web service so migrating it to a local service takes a bit of time. Great idea though and something we will work on!
iOS7 Design Cheat Sheet
It's really interesting that the OP came back 2 years later to analyze why they failed. I think it takes a lot of time to discover the root causes of a failure (or a success) as opposed to what you think are causes, but are actually symptoms.
I've bought made to measure shirts from vendors like MyTailor.com. I'm an advocate, but I don't know many people who buy their shirts MTM on the internet (yet). Most men still by off the rack and the quality and fit is crappy and the price high.

Some of my colleagues do get MTM suiting made in places like Hong Kong and Thailand.

The apparel market is massive I think there is room for innovation.
Dilbert has had several comics regarding the NSA since the story broke.

As is to be expected, all of them were negative.
We have been testing out hoodies as a follow on product through our retail channels as well as through a few crowd funding sites.
YC is really demonstrating thought leadership here.

It would be super exciting if we started to see overlap between Y Combinator and the effective altruism movement (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective_altruism), which is people who are trying to make the world a better place in the most effective way.

(I do for-profit startups but am also involved in the EA movement. Please contact me if this is interesting to you.)
If you are actively aiding one side or the other (or both), I don't think that counts as being neutral (if it does, it is certainly a very weak form of neutrality). Which is exactly what Sweden has done and is doing, dating back to at least WW2.
Rejoiner - Solving One of the Biggest Problems in E-Commerce
Mitro team password manager
A million websites is a lot. I'd be more worried if 10% of the top 100 were unsafe.
So proud of YC for doing this. There are so many lessons the nonprofit world can learn from the world of startups. If YC can help great causes scale faster, the world will be better for it.
this is absolutely awesome to hear and can not wait to see how things progress. a truly great initiative!
Considering that such an approach would be a lot cheaper than nearly any other, I'd say of course it's happening. Imagine offering someone the Google salary that Google will pay plus pay from NSA and all the pension benefits, etc.
Does Democracy inevitably lead to Socialism? (VIDEO)
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Thanks larrys. Greatly appreciate your thoughts and insights!
When market participation (here, trying to speculate on news) is optional, an unknown information disadvantage is far more pathological than a known information disadvantage.
can you apply to both the categories..?
No, he reported a billing mistake. There's no evidence anyone exploited his account.
Office Policy: Paid-day off on birthday vs Work-on-birthday + cash bonus?
I have a policy of giving paid day off during my employees' birthday. However, I'm having a second thought about this.

My team is relatively small < 10. I'm naturally not a people-person so I feel awkward about party or any sort of celebration.

However, for the sake team building, wouldn't it be better for my employees to come to work during their birthday but he/she will receive a cash bonus of the equivalent of a pay-day-off ?

Here are the benefits:

1. Team building so co-workers can bond by celebrating each others birthday.

2. Due to psychology, people might feel better when they receive a birthday cash bonus vs just a paid-day-off.

What do you guys think?
0 A.D. is in development, if memory serves well, since at least 10 years ago. Maybe more. I doubt it will ever be completed.
Prior art: Phosphorus
that is easy. just pay attention to what you and people do and how they do it. if you find a way to simlify that, you got an idea.
Where possible, avoid creating a two-sided market unless there is asubstantial want or need on both ends.

This seems like an over-generalization.

I think the idea was a good one - more plausible than many others, and with an actual revenue model. I suspect that someone with better luck and/or execution will pull it off.

Interesting and insightful story - thanks.
Support for L3Cs or B-Companies would be great...but investors don't like them too much.
Finding a financial advisor you can trust is about as hard as doing the portfolio research yourself. It always helps to have more and more sources of data about opportunities. Even if many are outdated, too new or outright scams, it's better to know about them rather than "ignore everything in this thread".
There are individual password managers our there (PassPack, LastPass, 1Password, ...) but they don't work very well with teams. I feel like sharing passwords by group is a better solution (which Mitro does). Obviously the real solution is to have SSO on all the services but it's not always possible.

EDIT: That being said, I would rather have access to the source and host the service myself. You can't get much more sensible than having all your company passwords stored in a third-party.