skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't get what this problem is that people have with Facebook (privacy issues aside). Just discipline yourself to check it once or twice a day and not during work.

You don't need to put it in a pedestal and make it this giant issue or demon that controls your life. A little self discipline, like with anything else, goes a long way.

Now if you hate FB because of their privacy issues, well that's another thing altogether but don't mix your addiction to it, which, is probably a different problem by the way, with your issues about privacy.
Really the most annoying conclusion possible in the article: "The free market wins again."

The free market gets to win after sufficient government handouts gets something up and running. Then private businesses can swoop in and take the networks (or in this case, the concept) and claim that they won.

If your mother gives you a lollipop, you didn't win an epic battle for the lollipop. Just saying...
> Any time I tell people about this project I get 'hur hur is it made of people?'

Just say, "only certain people," then start looking them up and down thoughtfully then hold and examine their wrist.
This article has more hand waving than an orchestral conductor.
YC Application Advice From a 6x Reject
The hard truth: You're not going to get into YC. You're not going to get an interview and your application isn't going to be read in full by anyone who doesn't love you.

You will be rejected.

That might sound harsh, but it's the likely outcome for the vast majority of applicants.

But don't let it phase you. Buckle down, find people that you can rely on, work hard, and you're going to do fine.

Remember, rejection from society is what created the X-Men. (http://pretendmoney.s3.amazonaws.com/x-men.jpg)
UK cyber defence unit 'may include convicted hackers'
"convenience of getting a well balanced diet served in one small dose"

Drinking a whole 2 liter pitcher of soylent is not easy. Really, go read the day by day reviews from Ars.

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/08/ars-does-soylent-day-...

I'm not sure I'd use the word convenient either. Your protypical cheap bachelor microwave meal of pizza, burritos or pot pies beats soylent on both prep and cleanup. It also tastes better and is cheaper. A bowl of cereal or oatmeal ties on cleanup and price but wins on prep and taste. Energy bars for a lunch snack win on all counts.
Have you tried float a = 1, b = 7; auto c = a / b? It should give you 8 (I don't have clang here). Note that in the example you constructed you have practically a constant which doesn't lose precision by staying as 32 bits?

Have you also checked compiler options that affect the computations? The proper numerics is sometimes (often!) not default, but C and C++ compilers are not "one size fits all."
> DDoS often uses DNS Reflection to amplify the bandwidth of the attack. The source of the attack will be a) distributed b) not the actual attackers.

This is true, but DNS reflection is dependent on aloof admins running open DNS resolvers. To say they're "not the actual attackers" when they're enabling the attack is not entirely accurate.

At the very least the target of the attacks, which is obviously not obscured, is meaningful information.

EDIT, disclosure: Arbor Networks (one of the partners here) is my employer. I am not a PR guy, my opinions are my own, yadda yadda etc.
> No, from what I see they are not. CRUD relates to "Create, Remove, Update, Delete"

Minor correction: create, READ, update, delete
He could easily take over a user's Facebook account if he so choose, considering that "breaking" the account is using a random string that you're supposed to forget, which he then returns to you in plain text...

That alone would probably warrant a close look at the site, notwithstanding the name issues.
I'd like one of these beginner tutorials to have a chapter named, "learning cabal and using a library". That was a pain point for me (especially developing on windows). Well, not so much a pain point as a mortal wound.
Well if it's DIY then it's taking all the time to get the ingredients and put it in a blender. I can make a DIY meal replacement now -- I was just talking in context of Soylent's merits. However, if Soylent can be cheap enough to help solve some issues in terms of world hunger, then I'm all for it.
I think the premise is that consultants often bill by the hour and don't include bathroom breaks, screwing around, etc... as billable hours.
A toy food would be something that tastes excellent or fun to consume but no real health benefit, e.g., you could run a toy car in your basement but not use for commuting.

The worry with soylent or other food replacement is that it could outright harm you. Pfizer was developing Torcetrapib as a successor to multi-billion dollar Lipitor and it was on in Phase III that it was found to have adverse effect. It took 16 years of development, and close to $1B expense before the side-effects were discovered.

The soylent effort is great but if there are any health issues, they may come to the surface much later.
Not entirely fair. French citizens should still hold their own government accountable for caving to US demands.
That seems to be about as useful as they are so far as I can determine. And I've talked to a member of their team.
There's Snowden flapping his lips, yes. No argument there. The problem is he's wrong and has presented no compelling evidence at all.

The other problem is your worldview is not falsifiable. Everything Snowden says is true to you and everything Google says is false because Snowden said they would lie about it.
I forgot who wrote it. I've been using it since 2004 at least.
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"white-collar criminals, such as tax dodgers."

The number of folks I know that are poor and being raked over the coals by the IRS is far less than the number of white-collar folks; and the worst crooks (the ones responsible, for example, for the housing bubble) largely go unmolested.

Funny how even though these advances let us catch the worst of the worst, our .gov focuses on the smallest and weakest (the easiest ones to build a career on!).
It is almost always true that consultants work out cheaper than full-time employees. However, full-time employees can spend time in your business domain for a while and develop a product. The examples given like "wire this up to elastic transcoder" are discrete tasks that someone with very little business domain knowledge can do. So yes if you happen to book an AWS guru consultant to do a discrete task like that one given it makes sense, but there is a lot more to developing products. Also when that AWS transcoder has a problem, it is good to have someone on hand that can fix it and is familiar with the workings.
Fascinating essay and references. I wonder about the ramifications of how the Internet makes it possible for people to associate with others of similar interests around the world, rather than just similar interests in a local geography, or of varied interested in a local geography. This is a good discussion of at least one answer to that.
Meal replacement is almost always marketed as missing an occasional meal or up to 1 or (max) 2 meals in a day for up to a few consecutive days. Soylent is marketing 14-21 meals/week for several/many/all? months.
If they can hire someone locally, why would they want to deal with hassles to hire someone from outside of the country? Unless of course you may offer something (talent, skills) that they cannot find locally.

If they want to outsource - they'd go to Elance where $100 goes very long way.
I use f.lux too. I actually like off-white backgrounds too. It's the gray on gray that gets to me.
That is an extremely long post that says "hire the rock stars". Except, of course, we all cannot only hire the very best, transformative people (like Jeff Dean at Google). And, he has no way to actually identify them, except "ask around".

It's entirely unrealistic as a business strategy. It sure is nice if you luck into it.
The giant rotating ring of magnets is about 8 inches in front of your face when you're getting a head MRI so there isn't much room to get things focused properly.
The University is a tax-exempt institution under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.

https://ogc.stanford.edu/stanford-legal-facts#q1

A 501(c) organization, also known colloquially as a... "nonprofit", is an American tax-exempt nonprofit organization.
I doubt anyone opting for a meal replacement drink is expecting it to taste great day-in day-out. It serves a (utilitarian) purpose, that's all. Enjoyment's barely a concern, it's liquid food.
It takes a lot for itemizing to work out. You either have to give more than ten percent to charity, or have other sources of itemizable expenses.
Tried that, also in -std=c++11 mode, still 4…

Edit: By default clang++ has FLT_EVAL_METHOD set to 0 (i.e. Rust's behavior). When I tried with -mno-sse FLT_EVAL_METHOD was set to 2 (long double promotion), but the sizeof was still 4.
Honestly, I thought I was going to see an article arguing for the opposite.

In my experience, management doesn't need convincing when it comes to replacing employees with consultants, despite higher hourly rates. In management's quest to shrink SG&A costs, good full time jobs have been being replaced by long-term consultants who would be placed at the client's location for years.

And if you're talking about short-term specialist consultants, then you need even less convincing, because management is already under the impression that it's often more cost effective to hire a specialist at $200/hour for 3-6 month gig, rather than to hire someone full time or train existing staff.
as one of the students at this company:

1) we all got our undergraduate degrees. we dropped out of our graduate programs.

2) we were never encouraged by a faculty member to drop out. we were encouraged by the strength of the company and product. most all of us never talked with our university-affiliated investors about the company until after we dropped out, and after they invested (yes, basically all of them invested after we all dropped out. that's how we had a product to demo them with...)
My understanding is that (a)(4) would require Wikipedia's computers to be the ones engaging in interstate commerce or communications, under the definition of "protected computer."
How would you prove the company paid for the services? How would you stop other companies form paying people to get the tag on competing companies pages?
> If you just want to save time but the Soylent thing creeps you out, try this: stop eating as often.

Apparently real american cowboys do just this. During the busy season, some ranch-hands end up eating just one huge meal a day.
We have some excellent consultants. They bill in 15min increments. So I assume we don't pay them for dicking around if they do partake (and they do, as they're human). They're still 100% utilization.
Not sure I understand your comment. Neither Blackberry nor Apple developed a cross platform technology meant to run different hardware/software configurations. So of course they did not demonstrate how a platform runs on such configurations.
"There are 9 bank holidays a year
You offer 20 vacation days a year (we do, and you should, too)
They take an average of 8.5 sick days a year (it happens)"

Those numbers are incredibly overly ambitious.
Very few non-governmental jobs have all 9 bank holidays off.
Not many Americans have 20 days of vacation. Just because "you do" does not make it the norm.
Many companies nowadays have PTO, which mean sick days simply come out of your vacation day allocation.
And that Lori Drew was acquitted of?
I've heard about it plenty before. But never that the machines and basic service was free!
Non-Americans shouldn't assume that the US is the only country that feels justified in spying on them or that necessarily their country only cooperates with the US because of fear or extortion.

It's also likely every nation shares the motive, but it just happens that the US provides the means.
Snowden leaks: France summons US envoy over NSA surveillance claims
Putting some facts in a special banner doesn't strike me as neutral. Sounds more like special treatment.
you're correct-- we were in no sense "asked" to drop out. see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6588385 :)
g++ seems to duplicate your clang results, for the record (as more or less expected).
I guess that helped with the smog forecast withdrawal.
We interview people this way where I currently work. I'm always surprised at the people who send stuff in that flat out doesn't work. There is no time limit, and the task isn't very hard. I actually consider it a type of fizzbuzz.
Was about to post the same remark.

OP is whining that he received a C&D for using `facebook` in his domain name. Well... Duh. Cry. Me. A. River.

Had he called it breakyourfbfeed.com, he'd have never gotten that letter. Perhaps FB would have gotten in touch for violating their AUP or something -- and gotten a shitstorm for doing so. But not for trademark.
He should not have to drop his domain. Trademark law states that you can not use someone else's trademark if it would cause consumers to confuse your business for the trademark holder's business. I doubt FB would be able to prove in court that any consumer would go to breakmyfaceboom.com and think that it's the real FB page operated by FB.

It's probably not worth fighting over, but if I were google, I would offer to indemnify this guy and pay for an attorney, just to fuck with FB.
I think that indeed is the case if you use them for an hour or two. If you have them hanging around full time at the office, I doubt they would pause it for a 5-10 min bathroom break.
What do people think about a similar service for HackerNews/Twitter/Facebook? You need a way to be able to send the person a private message (to receive the first claim URL). But other than it is pretty simple to set up.

It uses our Token api call https://coinbase.com/api/doc/1.0/tokens.html and a browser extension. Here is the one we wrote for reddit https://github.com/coinbase/bittip
Another advice: do not apply two weeks before deadline (like me) because all posts with advices about YC applications are published in the last week.
At least for one, it is so much easier to break the placebo.
I smiled when I saw this question. It's a question that heavily favors people starting a company in a field they work in and whose problems they're already intimately familiar with. While this might seem unfair to some, it's probably an extremely good indicator for investment quality.
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People who actually read a lot. The ability to absorb information-dense content like this is a skill that comes with practice, just like math, programming, music, or anything else. The more you do it, the better you get at it.

Learning some speed-reading a few years ago really helped me personally too, the drills they provide help improve concentration and focus. I'm not an expert, but Evelyn Wood's books are a good start imho.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_reading
When to give up
it arrived too late all over the world. teletexto... and some other names i forgot, around where i grew up.

But by the 90's BBS were already dominant. And several people already had much more capable PCs to be satisfied with monochromatic text. I remember the most popular BBS all had clients that showed client side graphics for the menu text received. and that was 1993 or so. People already laughed when i told about 2400baud modems anecdotes then.
It's a pet peeve ;-)

Good luck with the product though!
Bruce Schneier: Why the NSA's Defense of Mass Data Collection Makes No Sense
Assumptions... Most consultants charge for total time on-site. Not just at their desk working on your project. I think you're confusing consultants with Freelancers.
BitLocker is basically its own concept[1], separate from something like Filevault or Truecrypt, and it requires Secure Boot to really do what it does.

BitLocker, although it can be used to encrypt external/data volumes, is primarily a technology for encrypting the boot volume and then storing the encryption key in the TPM chip. That encryption key can itself be encrypted using some combination of a passphrase, a biometric signature, and a smart card, which must be presented at startup.

In the TPM chip, along with the boot-volume encryption key, there is stored a manifest of SHA signatures for important OS files (specifically, the kernel and drivers required to bring up policy-based security like ACLs and domain authentication.) This manifest is signed by that same encryption key. Thus, the bootstrap loader, having retrieved the credentials necessary to make use of the TPM, can then verify the manifest with the key, and then use the manifest to verify that the OS it's going to boot into can be trusted, and will continue to protect the security of the files stored on the drive when control is passed to it.

This whole setup basically means that there's no way to get data off a BitLocker+Secure Boot computer without it allowing it (or, in limited cases, doing tricks with sticking RAM chips in liquid nitrogen.) If you didn't have BitLocker, you could just read the data "at rest"; if you didn't have Secure Boot, you could just install a rootkit and grab the data "in motion."

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[1] Really, I think the only reason the two technologies (BitLocker and Secure Boot) ended up with different names is that they were supposed to be two subfeatures of one initiative -- Microsoft Palladium or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next-Generation_Secure_Computin... -- but that initiative was shelved (likely due to the huge public backlash), leaving just these few practical remnants behind. (It's pretty obvious that the BitLocker Settings panel was originally the Palladium Settings panel; it's where you go to reset TPM keys et al.)
If you're a non-US company with US customers, I don't think you're technically exporting anything (unless it's code that was written in the US and then moved out of the country).

(I'm also not a lawyer)
So, ICANN or its subsidiaries take money for registering domain names without due diligence on ® — fair enough. Next, another branch of the State accepts lawsuits against people for having paid for something that couldn’t legally be sold/leased? When a private person would do that, he’s probably liable of fraud or fencing. No doubt the Pharisees in the justice department can explain such legal BS — it still is a rip-off by the State.
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This reads like a how-to for killing your business...

Consultant <embezzles $3M/Murders all office workers/Disappears without a trace> leaving MoronCorp in bankruptcy with no one to continue developing their software.

A balance is necessary. You need (at least a few) motivated employees with skin in the game.

You need, at a minimum, a relationship with 1 consulting firm so you have somewhere to get overflow work done.

You need a competent manager to oversee all this crap. <--- Most important part.

Just 10 minutes to think about this shit shoots down the original article...

PS: The business owners also have to understand the meaning of competent. Your brother's uncle-in-law's grandson is not necessarily your perfect developer because you can get him for $13 an hour.

wuliwong++.
Except you are 'hiring' a person you do not get to interview. Most consultant's I've worked with come with a less than desirable level of expertise. In which case you burn several weeks finding suitable replacements to do the work.
Online dating has just started going mainstream in America.
The Minitel might explain a cultural difference or two between
the French and the rest of the world...

Ironically, in my experience online dating carries much less stigma in the US than in France. I'm not sure I agree with the implications of the article on the impact of the Minitel in France as a whole either, but then I'm too young to have witnessed it firsthand (I always saw one sitting in a corner at my grand parents', but that's about it).
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Thanks for pointing this out. We wanted to do one that was (1) easier to understand for users new to bitcoin and (2) used the free micro-transactions feature on Coinbase that you mentioned. Number 1 in particular I think is really important, but it is still a work in progress, so if you have any ideas let us know!
Because SAT scores are a very very terrible indicator of if you have 1) the ability and 2) the work ethic to build a site.

And how old are you? SAT scores? I'm only in my 30s and I don't remember my what my SAT scores were or remember if they were "good" or "bad" I only know that they changed the SATs after I took them because my youngest sibling took a different one than I did, with some crazy scoring. I wouldn't be able to find my SAT scores even if I wanted to.
Maybe I'm too cynical, but I call your bluff on both of those.

At this point, it appears that our elected representatives all have the same means in mind, regardless of the ends they seek (I would also argue that the sought-ends are the same, too, but I get into a tin-foil hatty area with that). That is across all nations and all parties. Whether it is a domestic or foreign outfit, the means are the same, and I would argue that fact outweighs whatever the theoretical end would be.

Also, with the military might of modern 1st world countries, I don't really believe that it matters if you have to cross an ocean first if you are going to literally storm the Bastille; and with the internet age, the distance doesn't really matter for a figurative storm, either.
Not necessarily; an encyclopedia isn't just an unconnected catalogue of facts--at least, it's not supposed to be. An encyclopedia article about a given subject is supposed to show the subject as a connected whole; it will contain facts, but will also contain important relationships between the facts, general principles, theories that explain the facts, etc. If you have that kind of knowledge of a subject, you don't have to memorize all its facts, because you can easily get to them from the facts you do have memorized via one of many interconnections.
Fairly certain that my communications with WP's servers cross state lines. I can't recall any cases where the defense hinged on determining the target computer was not "protected".
In Australia we have Sustagen. They also make a medically approved "Sustagen Hospital Formula" which is used by hospitals as a full meal replacement for extended periods (I've lived of it for multiple multi-month periods due to health issues). It is available in all supermarkets, and most corner stores and convenience stores.

As someone with serious medical issues who depends on meal replacements regularly, and through that experience has learned how important the right mixes are, I wouldn't touch Soylent with a ten foot pole. I'm really really worried (and convinced) people are going to end up with pretty serious health issues from Soylent but the fanboyistic reception it gets saps my energy to bother arguing with people about it.
You and your xkcd subculture
I've known small but growing businesses who have missed out on serious M&A deals because they'd outsourced so much for so long. The arrangement might have worked well for all concerned, with solid, long-term partnerships between the key organisations. However, when it came to the commercial crunch, the incoming suits didn't see effective partnerships, they saw uncontrollable (in the way they wanted to work) dependencies on key suppliers. It was absurdly short-sighted in each and every case I'm familiar with, but unfortunately being the guy who gets a vote on the acquisition and being smart don't seem to be particularly well correlated.
You can always edit your application and resubmit until the application deadline
it is worthwhile to note OpenBSD got rid of /dev/random and replaced it with /dev/urandom several years ago in response to the issues surrounding it.