skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The question then becomes how much is it actually worth?"

The correct answer is 'what someone will pay for it.' But I recognize that answer is unsatisfactory. Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe you are asking "What line of reasoning about Snapchat results in the highest valuation?" Or to put it differently, how does someone convince themselves that Snapchat could be worth billions rather than a few million at most.

I suspect the answer goes something like this;

1.) 13 - 24 year olds spend a big chunk of money (http://www.bls.gov/cex/2012/combined/age.pdf)

2.) They compose a cohort of approximately 50M individuals. (http://www.census.gov/popest/data/national/asrh/2012/index.h...)

3.) Smartphone ownership in this market is high, and skewed to the high income members (http://www.nielsen.com/us/en/newswire/2012/survey-new-u-s-sm...)

4.) At an estimate of 305MM 'snaps' per day, assuming multiple snaps per user. We can estimate that Snapchat has something north of 70% of the high income youth smart phones captured.

What is that worth? Can you entice them buy 1 thing? What is the biggest expense of any transient product? Customer acquisition. What would you pay to say something to nearly every customer in your market?

Well we know from the SuperBowl that 30 seconds of your time, once a year, might be worth $4M (http://variety.com/2013/tv/news/super-bowl-ads-fox-seeks-4m-...).

My guess is that if your in a product space that depends on consumers in this demographic, then being able to talk to them through SnapChat would be as valuable as a SuperBowl advertisement to you. And if you are an investor, owning a piece of that channel might appear to be a very good bet.
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The home button on the new iPhone 5s and the lens that was introduced with the iPhone 5.
Any other non-profit applicants out there? Would love to connect with other non-profit tech folks regardless of YC outcomes :)
Air superiority is prerequisite to relentlessly bombing your opponent into submission. Fighter aircraft were very important in the second world war. The Syrian rebels have suffered mightily from air attacks.

Most American experience with war in recent decades has come against technically unmatched opponents. If the US were to go to war against a better-equipped and better-trained foe, the ease with which the primary military campaigns succeeded would be blunted considerably.
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I lived in a building where the landlord stopped renting out apartments normally and started instead putting them on Airbnb. He charged ~30% for doing it via Airbnb than the normal rents would have been. Then they raised rents more on apartments in the building. When I left ~4 out of 50 or so units were on Airbnb. Apartment next to me was a continuous ramble of people who left trash around and threw late parties(more than the normal residents).

I'm all for the idea of Airbnb, but there needs to be something in place that prevents this type of thing. Finding an apartment in NYC is rough enough, but artificially reducing supply via this type of thing causes the rent increases even more.

Taxing it seems like the only way to put the reverse pressure on landlords doing this, but I'm doubtful it will do enough.
This isn't terribly uncommon. You should ask if you can redact certain information from the ID. They probably don't do this often and when they do it's because there is some significant signal that means that the cost of asking you for this generally excessive information, outweighs possibly losing you as a customer because of some inherent risk they see on their side.

If you trust them with your credit card number, then I don't see why you shouldn't trust them with your identification as long as you are sure this is not a phishing scam of some sort. All the same, I'd still see if they would let you redact anything you are uncomfortable sharing (like the license # or address) Chances are that they just want to make sure you are definitely who you say you are, which a solid, scanned ID will help to confirm.

As a slightly unrelated aside: bartenders ask for your ID, so do some vendors when using a debit/credit card, so this is not completely crazy, obviously they don't explicitly store it in digital form, which is probably where your concern comes from.
HTML was never intended to let you draw with that level of precision. It should still do something more sensible than arbitrary scaling if every link in the chain implements things as intended.
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Don't you feel a bit dirty coming up with those ideas?
Most of the countries the US is dealing with right now don't have any kind of modern air-defense network, or really even any air force. So US aviation can make use of the skies over the battlefield uncontested. A battle against an adversary who has those things (like Russia or China) would be different; the US would need to be able to seize control of the air, and hold it.

Small fighters would indeed play a key role in that process, because they would be the ones who would have to sweep the skies clean of enemy fighters so that other aircraft (bombers, transports, etc.) could travel through them safely. If the battle zone is inside the adversary's air defense network, that would mean they'd have to be able to survive traveling through that network as well.

I would bet money that within thirty years this mission will be entirely handed over to UAVs/drones, since they're cheaper to operate and actually have some advantages over manned fighters -- a drone can turn harder than a manned plane can, for instance, because it doesn't have to worry about the G-forces killing the pilot. But technology is not quite there yet today.
and no fancy parallax, lightbox, autoscoll, or swipe to load.
The gist I gather is Don't Mix Talent, where if talents are mixed these Sins will become more probable, with varying degrees of manifestation. Why do I say this? – There is collaborative sinning; and sometimes we nurture the sins of our peers.

Hiring is a gamble, and we all play the cards we're dealt.

The rub is that with highly heterogeneous teams, players' sins will be traded quid pro quo under what the management knows (they're non-technical, right?) and under the radar generally.

A doomed team is one that lacks the wisdom to recognize that sinning is essential, one that lacks the flexibility to allow it, and one that lacks the awareness to judiciously calculate it. A team that leaves its sins untrained misses the opportunity to nurture it.
strangely, I've seen all sorts of diagrams illustrating sorting algorithms in action, but apparently interpretive dance is the best way to visualize it. Who knew?
The Australians picked the F111 for its range. There is a good discussion of the politicking that lead to the selection on the "Replacing the Canberra" section of this wiki page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Dynamics_F-111C

Apparently the criterion for range was the ability to bomb Jakarta. Sounds arbitrary but I have no idea.
Probably not.

I don't think there is an inarguable answer to my rhetorical question. People's intents and wishes do matter.

But there also is an idea from antiquity about the public good and the commons. I guess at some point my personal wishes get trumped by this overarching principle.

The whole point of the question was that someone would say "You may not read my love letters" and then society said "Too bad, we're doing it anyway. And reprinting it in highschool text books."

Is that ok? I don't think there's a clear line and I do think there are probably moral boundaries.

I'm by no means Lawrence Lessig and this type of discourse I'm really not experienced at. I do think there are many important questions here that we may need to rethink our thoughts on.
With a combat radius of under 600 nautical miles, quite a lot of mainland Australia would be outside useful range of existing airbases and supply lines. 600nm circles drawn around Darwin and Perth leave a fair bit of resource rich WA coastline uncovered…
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One of the biggest advantages for the F-22 is stealth. Conventional air defence systems like the S300 are phenomenally effective against non-stealth aircraft.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-300_%28missile%29

Air superiority is pretty much mandatory for any US ground movement - they wouldn't step into any hostile territory unless they clear the air.
> Here are the mock ups: https://people.mozilla.org/~shorlander/mockups/devTools/ux-r...

Regarding theming, here is a bug that can be followed for updates: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=916766.
That's sort of the definition of abandonware - the publisher has apparently given up trying to make money off the thing but also not explicitly released it for free either.
The economics of manufacturing in the US make sense when the product is mostly made by automated machines. Glass is like that.
The 516m (1,720 ft) Mega-Tsunami in Lituya Bay, Alaska. (1958)
The F-22 isn't a ground attack fighter, though.
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> Would range really be a problem for Australia's defensive needs?

Yes.

Leaving to one side that Australia is in itself very large, we rely almost entirely on 3 lanes of approach for all our trade. Those lanes extend thousands of kilometres to the west, the north (which includes -- whisper it quietly because we are good friends and neighbours -- Indonesia) and the east.

To win a genuine shooting war, or merely to stalemate, we would need to be able to control those lanes. One critical element of controlling sea lanes is to control the air over those lanes. Since we don't have aircraft carriers, we need aircraft that can fly a long way, penetrate naval air defences and shoot at enemy planes and ships.

It also matters in case of a straight up land invasion. Australia's best defence in such a case is Australia. The sheer bulk of the landmass makes an invasion from any direction a long slow slog to occupy the rest of the country. Especially if that country possesses aircraft capable of very long flights from bases dispersed around the whole perimeter.

So in actual fact, aircraft range is worthy of consideration. Air tankers help, but while they multiply force, they also multiply vulnerability.
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OCRemix - http://ocremix.org (there are also a ton of community created albums that are great)

OCRemix Radio - http://rainwave.cc

When I'm bored and going through the motions working on something that doesn't need great thought I listen to podcasts or put Netflix on in the background for background noise.
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Lavabit had the capability and will to share information with law enforcement in the past; it was only in Snowden's case that Levison refused.

> Levison isn’t an privacy absolutist. He has cooperated in the past with government investigations. He says he’s received “two dozen” requests over the last ten years, and in cases where he had information, he would turn over what he had.

> “I’m not trying to protect people from law enforcement,” he said. “If information is unencrypted and law enforcement has a court order, I hand it over.”

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2013/08/09/lavabits-...
It does have ground attack capability and given its stealth capabilities, is probably a good fit for the role and maybe even a better fit than other ground-attack aircraft in the US arsenal.
Still getting used to it. So glad the top bar's gone, it was really starting to affect my web browsing: pages would load faster than the bar, bumping content down when it arrived after I'd started reading, etc. Glad to see fewer um, 2006 design elements. :)
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I just reread what I wrote. Yikes! Please excuse all the auto-correct typos. Is this a "new" startup or is it part of your previously funded searchles company?

I completely understand that a redesign is only a piece of the puzzle but when dealing with visual site... design can be a huge piece of puzzle. It can also make a big difference in revenue.

I dig your passion.
I think the edge case scenario is Australia vs Indonesia. Fighters need to be capable of making a bombing run from the north of Australia.
Good luck, everyone! Remember me when you're rich beyond your wildest dreams!
This is mostly true. Sometimes it's worth it to continue playing on the original slot machine if it has some sort of progressive feature like a jackpot that isn't shared with other machines of the same type.
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At theneeds we do use PHP (website+api) and Python (backend tasks, crawling, ranking, learning...). Check it out and, if interested, drop me a line.
Australia is huge. So range is important even if all you're planning on doing is defending the Australian mainland.

Any conflict they would be engaged in would also have a significant naval component, so range is valuable there as well -- it allows land-based planes to join battles far out at sea, so you can meet the enemy away from civilian population centers instead of right over them. The alternative is to use naval aviation (i.e. aircraft carriers) instead of land-based planes, but carriers are hugely expensive so the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) doesn't operate any.
Really, to then assemble them in China? Well, maybe. But don't ruin my fun! :)
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tl;dr: We've finally succeeded at protecting retirement - and now the OP wants to dismantle that and go back to - what? Destitute elderly? Uncertain retirement?

And how they'll accomplish it - by reneging on Social Security Insurance. Somebody paid 40 years into an insurance policy, and now this guy finds it inconvenient to pay it off as promised. I thought insurance was sacred and personal - witness the hyperbole surrounding ObamaCare. But not SS - that's apparently completely different.

That article is embarrassing and mean-spirited. Essentially it says "we're all going to grow old, but I'm going to blame those currently elderly for all our problems".
Ah yes, the dreaded S3 Verge
Sure, can you drop a link please? I am thinking its http://www.theneeds.com/
Edit* Yes that's the one. I am interested in what you guys are doing, how should I contact you?
Free date for rejects! If you can't get YC .. at least you can find love.

http://thedatingring.com/join - we're only in NY now but if you're not NYC, send in your info now and when we expand to SF / wherever you live, you'll set you up with a free date if you remind us.
I don't believe his actions are wrong. I do believe they piss people off.

You (and everyone else on this thread) can be pissed off. That doesn't change the fact that one lucky rich kid is going to learn quite a bit for an evening, or that a couple of lucky poor kids are going to be able to attend an elite pre-school that they wouldn't otherwise be able to go to. Just because you (well, "we", I ain't going either) aren't that lucky kid doesn't mean it's not a good thing.

It's quite possible for an act to be the right thing to do and still hated.
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What they should do is throw 'P' and Leslie in jail for six months or a year. It'll make the next people think twice before breaking the law.

Prison shouldn't just be for poor people. This is much more likely to harm me than some guy selling pot.
Tables are honestly just more convenient than CSS hacks sometimes. In this case, by hacks I mean when the feeling becomes clear that you're spending more time bending CSS to do what you wanted to do with a table than the time it would've taken to maintain a table.
But you see, once you get the point where no one can draw pretty pictures about what you are working on requires your mind to be trained in this cognitive shit work (imagination?). So we'll develop a generation of people who never really learn to think creatively. Everything is just handed to you in a pretty little interactive diagram.

Learning is hard, but that is a good thing. It's like exercise. The more you work at it, the easier it becomes.
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Prevalence of Earth-size planets orbiting Sun-like stars
Condolences.

But didn't you pick up on the brewing "smell" when Jim became CEO? I think you were very naive to believe either Bob or Jim with their reassurances. This is exactly what the Jims and Bobs of the world are like. Full of it!

In startup-land your story is just one of hundreds. Of course, you could get a lawyer but it is going to cost you lots of money and massive amounts of stress on your part. Even if the judgement (years later) goes your way, you are unlikely to even recover your legal expenses, yet alone be compensated for your losses.

It was an interesting learning experience! Just make sure you don't fall for a variant of this drama again. Good Luck!
Agreed. I share the concerns that the author expressed, but I thought the seven sins angle was distracting because they are poor descriptions of what was being articulated.
He had the keys and encrypted messages on the server. Everything but passwords (to unlock the private key), which he received from users and chose not to store. There is no way for users to audit that the passwords are not stored or intercepted (with or without Ladar's consent). He took a commendable stand, but had he built the technology differently, he never would have been in a position of having to choose and users would not have to trust his integrity and endpoint security.

The technical challenge is in designing a system in which the server does not have to be trusted, but that integrates well with existing protocols. I'm not aware of a proposal that offers the desired level of security while transparently integrating with SMTP, but perhaps Moxie has ideas.

One can get part way if the users generate their own key pair and only provide the server the public key, then either use a PGP-capable mail client or perhaps run a local (open source and audited) IMAP proxy to decrypt. You'd still have to trust the server not to store a clear copy of incoming mail, but once it is encrypted, only the client would be able to decrypt.
"Why can't NYC come up with some common-sense regulation, like everyone is allowed to rent their apartment to up to 8 separate groups of people, for not more than 6 mos out of the year total, or something? And that landlords are not allowed to interfere?"

If someone's renting an apartment, it's by definition not "their" apartment but the landlord's apartment. The landlord decides to rent to a particular tenant based on things like background checks, references, interviews, etc. These kind of assurances are not available for random people that the tenant rents to. Unless the tenant bears complete legal and financial liability for anything bad his subtenant does, it's asking the landlord to take on a significant risk.

Also, if each tenant in a large building could rent their apartment to up to 8 separate groups of people, you would have a constant flow of strangers through the building. Since the short-term renters don't have any stake in keeping the building clean or safe or quiet, this could pose problems for the other tenants. I've lived in apartments where even the long-term tenants left garbage in the halls and played loud music at 2am. I can imagine that someone who is staying in the building for a weekend might be even more anti-social, since there would be no personal consequences to their bad behavior.
Despite outsourcing, the U.S. is still the world's second largest manufacturer.
HTML+CSS is designed to make things as device-independent as possible. If the definition of "width: 100px" were to be vastly different on different devices this goal would be unobtainable. As long as the definition of px is some integer multiple of device pixels I think it's a useful compromise. If you really need precision at the level of device pixels you should be writing a native app.
Note: This was about 2 months ago.
I guess you could say they were...

(puts on sunglasses)

Sold?
This.

Nobody's grandmother uses or avoids Gmail because of any connotations of "Simple Mail Transport Protocol", because they never hear about it. Only the most crazy religious people (or the least imaginative trolls) ever get upset by "mailer daemon"

This, if successful, will be marketed as "Gmail's new secure mail feature" or "SparrowSecure Mail.app" or "$ISP's privacy-enhanced mail option", not as "dark mail, the replacement for your smtp imap and pop3 service".
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It seems that reducing dietary carbohydrates should be the primary treatment of most diabetics. Eating too many carbohydrates seems to be the cause for most people.

The conversation with the doctor/nurse should go something like:

You have diabetes.
Your body has become insulin resistant because you ate too much sugary/starchy stuff.
Eat less of it and you will get better.
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As far as I understand from this article (page 5), it's not always made in US:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/business/apple-america-and...

“Our customers are in Taiwan, Korea, Japan and China,” said James B. Flaws, Corning’s vice chairman and chief financial officer. “We could make the glass here, and then ship it by boat, but that takes 35 days. Or, we could ship it by air, but that’s 10 times as expensive. So we build our glass factories next door to assembly factories, and those are overseas.”
Where is the page on payment terms? Is there one? Unless you have it buried in the Terms.
Yeah it's really fragile, please be nice.
https://github.com/arpith/constellational

The plan is to eventually use websockets ("magic") instead of foolishly POSTing, but is it possible that watching 'input' is the real mistake here? Perhaps I should just save every two seconds (or half second, as you suggest).

What would you suggest about saving urls? I couldn't think of anything easier than just bookmarking.
Most of these incentives cost more than the jobs they provide, they do not encourage businesses to make decisions they wouldn't already have made, and any promises in exchange for tax benefits are rarely even followed up on.

Read http://www.amazon.com/The-Great-American-Jobs-Scam/dp/157675... if you want to boil your blood about this topic.
That's not exactly disproving his point.
This isn't really a problem with startups but people in general. The average person just isn't very empathetic, and especially so when you you're focused and stressed out working around the clock during a startups early stages of life. Also: if you were a CEO or manager what incentive is there to try and dig deeper into why someone is unhappy with their job? Most of the time, its not fixable, and interviews are there to help filter out individuals who aren't a good fit both on a technical and personal scale. Now, if all of your employees are unhappy thats a different problem.
I'm a bit dubious of that scale. Like what can you buy in a shop for gold or silver bullion? I know friends that trade in silver coins, but I don't see them walking into a store to buy things with such coinage.
Planning to manage one's own health is probably best.

I would love to be a customer of a competent company that managed body scans and the process of looking for deltas using humans assisted by software every N years.

Why?

Common medical wisdom now is that doing proactive body scans (usually just the trunk), even just MRI (so no radiation) is bad because it drives the expense and uncertainty of investigating every bump and shadow. And many of the tests will come back inconclusive. I understand that argument but it seems the way to deal with that is to focus not as much on scan #1 but scan deltas.

My anecodtal (IANAD) evidence is that in more than 5 cases of cancer in friends and families, a cancer diagnosis was delayed for many months from onset of symptoms and a few Oncologists have told me that they agree that for most of those cancers, that latency could have been improved if a baseline scan had been available of the organs/bones/nodes in question.

Not every patient would be a good candidate for such a service but the same is true for 23andme.