skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They have ads with hipsters wearing a thick frame eyeglass, so apparently it's hip or something.
> It would be great to break through the "if you have nothing to hide" line and push that responsible citizenry need security (and cryptography) as well.

Who (of any relevance) on the NSA or DoJ side is saying people don't need crypto or security though? I've seen a Congressman use the 'nothing to hide' line but haven't seen it much elsewhere even among NSA's defenders.

The government does seem to be saying that if you're only concerned about the government possibly seeing your stuff, that you don't have anything to worry about (as long as you're not recruiting for AQ or something) as the NSA doesn't have time to care about you anyways, but that's not quite the same concept.

Plus even that has an adequate justification if we assume there is some bizarro universe where the NSA might actually only be doing their job (as everyone "needlessly" using crypto to hide their innocous emails simply helps The Bad Guys to blend in even more effectively).

If you don't believe there could be a 'needless' reason to hide emails from any possible government collection, or that there's no such thing as Bad Guys (or both) then you would probably conclude we don't actually live in that bizarro universe.

But not everyone would come to the same answers for both and they have logical reasons too.
I've worked in the hedge fund business for 5 years. My single best piece of advice if you are serious about investing and willing to spend a decent amount of time learning how to do it properly is to apply for membership to the Value Investors Club website (http://www.valueinvestorsclub.com/). This is a free website that requires you to submit a compelling write-up describing an actionable investment opportunity on the long or short side. It was founded years ago by a hedge fund legend (Joel Greenblatt) and is populated by some of the most sophisticated investors in the world. You can still read all the write-ups without being a member, but there is a significant time delay if you are a guest. The message boards on the site are also at an extremely high level, and people spouting nonsense are challenged pretty quickly. Best of all, if the site admins pick your idea as the best of the month, you get a $5,000 check! (I've won two of them in the past year, so I can vouch that it's real). In any case, stick to uncontroversial ideas (i.e., don't short TSLA) that have a high rating on the site and that have a reasonably active message board, and you will generally do very well. You can even go back and look at all of the submitter's past ideas and see how well they would have worked out if you want to be more careful.
Without hard numbers I of course have to make some assumptions on the situation. I don't mean for it to apply to any one specific person. We are talking, after all, on general trends on the nation-wide scale.

I submit that it's uncommon for both parents have free time during school hours, and also have free time at home in the evening to help with studies. When do the parents work?
The nut of why they're doing it (and relevant to sites like HN as well):

[C]licking on stories merely to discover what they're about is a frustrating chore. Unlike most other news sites, we'd rather save our readers clicks than force them through a maze of pages to catch up on news. Techmeme therefore values headlines rich on specifics: headlines with names, numbers, and active verbs. Headlines that function as abstracts.

Unfortunately for us, publishers understandably write headlines suiting their own needs, and not necessarily ours. The reasons for this are numerous, and varied:

[…useful list of original-headline problems elided…]

As a result, Techmeme is often forced either to post a story with a nebulous headline, wait for a publication that rewrites the news with a clear headline (leading many publishers to wonder why) or pass on stories altogether. Since all of these choices are far from ideal, we've now resolved to produce Techmeme-optimized titles "in-house".

I'd love to see an HN/Reddit-like site that, just as it has a never-ending tournament for story ranking, has a mini-tournament on each story for the most informative headline.
There might be a lot of capable founders, such as older people with a lot of experience in other industries, who are filtered out by that. You might be a 50 year old guy who doesn't get computers but are a killer sales guy, making it easier to select an idea and proceed might be a good bet for YC. Maybe even match up that killer sales guy with a young programmer type.
"You're changing the words that publishers use, and that's wrong." It's adding to the words publishers use, and it's long been an accepted practice on aggregation sites like Drudge Report, Arts & Letters Daily, and many more.

It should be noted that this appears to be the opposite philosophy of Hacker News's headline rewrites, which focus more on minimalism and succinctness, for better or for worse.
> That's because Hindi is no-one's native language, it's an artificial language that was invented by a committee.

More accurately, Modern Standard Hindi (like Modern Standard Urdu) is a committee-standardized register of the Hindustani (also known as "Hindi-Urdu") language. (prior to standardization, "Hindi", "Urdu", and "Hindustani" all referred to the same language, apparently.)

> Mandarin is almost the same situation, except that it is very very close to the native language of Beijing and Northeast China.

Hindustani has 240 million native speakers.
We were wondering the same thing.

A YC partner wrote on Quora that it's best to wait until later in the application process rather than describing a half-imagined idea.
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"You could replace intrusive SatNav arrows with highlighting the actual driving line required as you look out at the road ahead"

There's a company already doing this, the Pioneer HUD is kind of a rip of their concept:

http://mvs.net/index.html
The thing is, hyperbole is more likely to provoke reactions than a seemingly "objective" and rational utterance. Hyperbole might annoy you or you might agree and find it funny, either way, it is more likely to touch you in some way.

Hyperbole enables both people who agree and who disagree to more pointedly argue their particular side. If you think funnels are good, then seeing them compared to a meat grinder will probably annoy you enough to take to the comments and voice your concern or dissent. At the same time, if you find funnels not quite as good, you are equally stimulated to comment based on the apt description of your feelings.

Either way, hyperbole is a way to facilitate communication, especially in cases where the subject itself might not be the most enticing.
this is really awsome!! I am thinking of making a locker monitor/controller with this
One of our clients had an issue with lighttpd and OpenSSL, but that was on Debian. Turns out it was a known issue: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=622733

You may have seen the same or related problem, since it takes a bit while for packages to come to OpenBSD. But either way, you ended up with something that worked well :)
> "I wonder: what if a substantial number of Americans started using strong crypto on a routine basis?"

That may happen anyway, in time, if this situation is not fixed, but it could happen so much faster if companies like Google, Microsoft and Facebook (ok, I know I'm really pushing with this one) who have services used by over a billion people would offer very secure end-to-end communications platform, by default, and in a very transparent way (being able to check for sneaky backdoors pre-encryption, or anything like that).

They don't even have to do it for everything, especially the parts which are meant to be more public anyway, but there's absolutely no reason why IM's couldn't be completely private - from everyone and anyone, including the companies themselves.

So what are you waiting for Google, Microsoft and Facebook (and others, too)?
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Both Mandarin and Wu (or to be specific, many variations of Wu Chinese) are often heard in Shanghai. Mandarin is used as the common language for people who come from all over China.
Actually, there is something special about Vastrm.

There are plenty of companies that do made to measure clothing online, but they require you to do a lot of measuring (either having someone measure your body, or taking a shirt that fits you well and measuring it). This is a somewhat involved and error prone process. What Vastrm is doing is letting you get some shirts in different sizes and fits, and then returning the ones that don't fit you well. That's very different than what the other companies MTM online sites offer. They generally have very restrictive return policies since the shirts were made custom for you.

As for Warby Parker, I've bought two pairs of eyeglasses and a pair of sunglasses from them, so I have a little more experience here. Buying glasses online was a bit of a crap shoot previously. You look at some frames online (the sites are pretty crappy) and find something you think might look good, and then order your glasses and have them shipped. Not ideal. What Warby Parker offers is for you to choose 5 frames, have them shipped to you, and then you get to try them on and figure out what works best. They also encourage you to share the photos on social media to get input from your friends. Clever marketing, but also pretty effective. As for the quality, in my experience their frames are of a higher quality than the much more expensive frames that I've been buying from my local optometrist. All this to say: Warby Parker combines great designs, an easy process, and high quality to make for a much better experience than exists today.
LOL, I'll bite.

The second sentence is a fallacy: it's NOT like a Britisher or American not being able to speak English. It's like a Spaniard not being able to speak Italian. Before unification each part of India was its own political entity.

Also read up on the debates in the constituent assembly. There were heated debates on the topic of Hindi as "national language", "only language" etc.

Also, I am pretty sure you are not aware of this, but the national education/language policy of the 1960s said that Hindi speaking areas will learn a non-Hindi language in school in addition to English. The so-called three-language formula of 1968.

It might be worth reflecting on why the three-language formula is not being adhered to.
pnathan is not beating the market return and he is not aiming to. One buys ETFs to try and match the market. And any decent ETF will get very close to the ETF's benchmark. This tells us that the markets he is following must not have raised 40%. Which is good because it means he is diversified.

As for randomness, ETFs provide exposure to thousands of stocks which better than anything else averages the randomness.
I deduced a long time ago that the "Wall Street + Washington DC + Big Media" combined entity/ecosystem is rife with front-running tailored to the Big Money players.
Ask HN: What are the data points for a Root Cause Analysis of a downtime?
In a complex Service Oriented Architecture, how do you find the culprit service that disrupted the system? What are the data points that you gather to come to a conclusion? And most importantly, how do you find causation? In my experience, if services fall like dominoes, it's really difficult to pinpoint the first one to go. Especially in scenarios such as: Service1, Service2 and DB got huge spikes (I/O or network or req per sec), now if S1, S2 and DB are all jumbled up as far as dependencies go, how do you pinpoint the culprit? What logs/data-points/tools do you use? Sorry if the question sounds a bit vague and general, I don't have any specific instance for which I'm seeking advice.

Co-incidentally, why are there no blogs for when things go wrong? There's a surprising lack of resources available for RCAs and Post mortems.
Yeah, we wound up adding similar functionality to Testify (https://github.com/Yelp/Testify) before I left Yelp.
There are many startups like this: SpotHero (Chicago), ParkWhiz (NYC). I wonder if they are facing a similar fate, or what is different about them.
This makes a nice demo and highlights that in some ways, iOS 7 is easier to reproduce using web technology than iOS 6 was.

> There’s been a lot of controversy recently on whether Javascript could compete with native or not, both in terms of performance and of look’n’feel.

On the other hand, the controversially difficult to reproduce parts of iOS 7 aren't part of this demo. The real-time blur, the zooming "z-axis" navigation, the 3D animations, and the 60fps scrubbable gestures for going back in the navigation stack aren't here.

While those are all "bonus effects," they're also a lot of what makes iOS 7 delightful to use.
One thing to note is that the application deadline is 2 days -after- Startup School.

I went to Startup School last year, and it was an amazing experience.

It can be a great place to meet people, tell them about your startup, and get real, honest, brutal feedback about what you're doing right or wrong.

If you're on the fence about applying to YC, go to Startup School, and you'll be convinced and inspired.

If you're already planning on applying, go to Startup School and meet some other founders- You'll get experience talking to brilliantly smart people who are great at seeing through marketing speak and BS. Practice explaining to as many people as you can - It's a great way to make new friends, and will be good practice for your YC interviews.
I really appreciate Clojure's syntactic heaviness when compared to other LISPs. Just by using braces for associative data structures, and brackets for array's makes scanning through Clojure code much nicer because of the added visual cues.
"Penny auction" sites work on that model. You buy a pack of individual bids from the company which increment the price of some widget by .01, which extends the end time of the auction every time someone does it.

They market themselves on the occasional good deals you get on this model.
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I think Martin Fowler has written one of the better arguments that appeal to the "I have nothing to hide" crowd, in "Privacy protects bothersome people"[0]. It's worth sharing with anyone who thinks that just because they have nothing to hide, it doesn't mean that they are not beneficiaries of those that do have something to hide. Privacy is one of the few things that protect those that protect us from the transgressions of our government.

[0] http://martinfowler.com/articles/bothersome-privacy.html
I think that is the hard part in a startup "doing what makes sense for your customers". Many times, its difficult to find what customers want. Some times, even customers might not know they would need it until you actually have the product ready to use.
Something just came into clear focus for me: the NSA really screwed the pooch here. They had a situation where they had access to anything they wanted, but because they insisted on not getting warrants for access, they pissed off Snowden, and now people are going to punish the NSA by becoming more security savvy and using systems that are impenetrable, even with a warrant.

Smooth move, NSAssholes.
You could turn that comment into something constructive by proposing some particular kinds of nonprofits you think we should fund but might not have thought of.
I would expect you to be downvoted for your middlebrow dismissal of Warby Parker.

If an excellent web site, free try-at-home-program, low-prices, and social responsibility is what passes for "just slick marketing" I hope that more companies go for "just slick marketing".
Yeah I think that's a fair point. Though then is the goal of a post just to incite conversation as opposed to articulating a well considered opinion?
"No, their official response is to suggest that encrypting your communications makes you indistinguishable (at their end) from those who encrypt for criminal activity."

However, it is not within the NSA's authority to pursue criminal activity within the U.S. — they're only mandated to spy on communications between the U.S. and a foreign country, or entirely outside the U.S. If I'm in the U.S. and send an encrypted message to somebody else in the U.S. (like my friend or my bank), they have no legal excuse to spy on me. If I'm under criminal suspicion for a crime committed in the U.S., the FBI or local law enforcement agencies need to get a warrant to intercept my communications. But, as the article states:

In fact, the NSA's "minimization" techniques — touted as methods for restricting spying to foreign terrorists instead of U.S. citizens — are often transparently and insultingly ridiculous.
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I'd prefer the day off, since I usually travel on my birthday (my birthday and wedding anniversary are 3 days apart, so it's a reason to take a big trip), so it would effectively give me an extra vacation day. Just give them the day off and have cake when they come back.
1) "Google [...] doesn't give that data to those companies". What about selling that data? That's in line with what you call "being a middle man" I think.

2) "[they] have no incentive to do so". They have no incentive in trumpeting that they are doing it. But without having read their ToS, I'm sure they got that covered.

Of course this is pure speculation and I have exactly zero proof that this is the case. I would actually never have believed those claims 6 months ago, but today, I wouldn't be surprised.
This is great. I'm a huge fan of J Hilburn, but what I'm learning is, it's not binary. I also want sportswear, i want polos that fit, etc. The whole market for custom shirts is just opening up and my sense is that you'll get a ton of folks who have tried others and therefore are open to Vastrm.
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Jerry Pournelle once suggested that while there is no place to "go" in space, that "doing things" in space was always entertaining in its own right. And by "doing things" he strongly hinted that he felt that "doing it" would be the strongest driver.

I expect he is correct, and don't doubt for a minute that if the Bigelow Space guys figure out how to deploy a hotel in space, an entrepreneur will deploy a bordello.
I was forced to do this to run mod_spdy. Now the webserver can serve all of the script/css files from the front page simultaneously, which is a huge win for load times.
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We've introduced the temporary storage because it's exactly what our customers asked for: in most cases they don't want us to store the messages, but instead need a temporary storage so they can pull fully parsed messages when it's more convenient. However if there's a lot of demand for the persistent storage, we'd definitely consider adding it.
> They generally have very restrictive return policies since the shirts were made custom for you.

The two I've used, Black Lapel and Indo Chino, both allow you to return anything for any reason.
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The Moto X (and it's Verizon brethren) are selling pretty well so far, and they are US only at the moment. They also have dual-core CPUs and relatively modest specs by modern standards. No OS magic is required to make this run acceptably, Android does just fine on its own (as it does on my 2 year old Tegra 2 tablet running 4.3).

There is a meme floating around that only Samsung makes money on Android, and that only high-end devices are profitable. Neither aspect of this has much evidence behind it.
No IMs definitely can't be kept private from the companies themselves because those companies make their money by knowing what it's users talk about.

This is part of why I never trusted GMail from the beginning. (But I'm still stuck with it.)
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I think it comes down to safety. Supposedly the hybrid is a safer rocket motor than a conventional liquid engine. I understand their concern. They already have 600 tickets sold at $250k a piece and if on launch number 40 the rocket goes BOOM, which liquid rockets are prone to do, it could be a disaster. I think eventually it's a given that one of the rocket motors will explode. Hopefully when the hybrid one goes, say from a air pocket in the solid fuel, it won't be a fatal disaster.

That all being said - space is dangerous. I hope people are prepared for all that entails.
You also need a third option - a no-op for people who like to not make a big deal about their birthdays.
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One argument for the surveillence was from some right-wing military person "Sweden needs a bargaining chip in the international scene".

Ok then, he needs to look at the map http://www.sitesatlas.com/Maps/Maps/502.gif and then http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finlandization

Russsia isn't going anywhere, anytime soon.
I've had several colleagues get jobs through LinkedIn, or find connections that led to interviews. YMMV.
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And that's the core of the issue for me. I don't have any problem with the NSA working with and studying encryption and methods to break encryption.

What I have a problem with is invading my privacy and gathering my communications and information without a warrant. My 4th amendment rights have been completely violated.
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It's not similar at all. Your body already has several pounds worth of bacteria in it. Hopefully, your body has zero tapeworms.

This is talking about bacteria already in a healthy person's body.
Ok, fair enough if that's the market you're going for, but I don't consider it to be the same market as Warby Parker and equivalents as they emphasise the price as being an important factor.
By claiming you are The Other, that clearly places you in the category of domestic terrorism. You are no longer The Other.
You understand that any platform offered by any company with substantial presence in the US would have full access to any data provided to NSA and law enforcement agencies, in most cases under gag order preventing them from disclosing that fact? It can not be any other way - US government has full jurisdiction in the US, and if US law says US citizens can not have privacy from the government and have their data not be accessible by the government - and that is what current interpretation of the law seems to be - then any provider on the US soil, including Google, Microsoft and Facebook - has no other option but to comply with the law?
Yes the delta-v needed to get to an altitude of 100km is about half of what one needs for LEO as far as I know.

So it's probably about ~3-4km/s for SpaceShip One. I'd have to calculate it from 50k feet using some specs to find out for sure.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta-v_budget