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Hey guys, non-profit applicant too. Yh i wonder what share of applications were the non-profit ones but imagine there'll be a quota for this (?). But great addition to Y comb - the third sector generally suffers from IT retardedness i think
Thanks for the feedback! I can only use one dyno on Heroku with Meteor, because it needs session affinity. Maybe that's also why it is slow?
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The problem with current analytic tools is that they are good for site with huge number of visitors. I can not get anything from few number of visitors.

With real eye tracking i can even know why people left my page in first 10 seconds. Where they looks in first 10 seconds.
This is obviously a Google's version of Mechanical Turk
Yep. :) I was trying to use similar colors as on my frontpage: http://userium.com/ but went a bit overboard. I will later fix the contrast.
It was not an open standard, but it was nonetheless rigorously documented. If you wanted to modify a PDF (as I did in 2006) it was fairly simple to create an editor in the language of your choice, using only those documents as a guide.
> Couldn't disagree more! We shouldn't try to provide poverty-level income. We should ensure that people can live with dignity.

That's a nice goal, but its probably not practical on basic income given current technology and means of production; the more automation advances, the more basic income can be (and, arguably, the more it needs to be) but if you aim to high you end up driving down production and driving up prices uncontrollably.
Really a shame it didn't have an Under Construction[1] gif.

[1] http://www.animatedgif.net/underconstruction/caution1_e0.gif
> games don't necessarily have the same impact on people's lives as other, more "important" work

This is honestly more for lack of trying than because it just doesn't. Some people are trying, but game development has the disadvantage of coming into its own after the ascent of capitalism and thus most people have been introduced to it as a cash cow rather than as an artistic medium.
As a small aside about Adobe security practices, I needed customer support from them the other year (its own horror story). As part of this, customer support insisted on setting up an Adobe account, although I'd purchased the product through a third party vendor and not directly from Adobe (as it turns out, thank goodness!).

When looking up that account information, I saw the note I made as to the original password they gave that account that they set up: "123456". I had changed it away from that; I suspect a significant number of their users might not have.

Glad that account contained only a name and ZIP code / town.

AND the serial number. If someone consumed a spare slot on the serial number, I shudder to think of how many hours on the phone with Adobe support it might take to get that slot freed up.
I would just like to say that the Internet Archive is a pretty small bunch of people and they have a lot of never ending work to do on a somewhat tight budget.

I would assume it's mostly that. They seem very accepting and willing to do a lot of things.

That's why I'm a "donation subscriber". If you'd like to know more about it, please visit: http://archive.org/donate/ - a subscription helps extra much, because it's a constant flow of cash. But one-time donations are of course of help as well.
To be pedantic, they aren't lost. They are just unavailable until the robots.txt goes away. I'm fairly sure the Internet Archive aren't too keen on deleting things (unless you absolutely super duperly wants it gone and you're the author/owner of the data).
Agreed. In my experience doctors are fixated on symptoms and seem to be saying "if you have no symtoms you're wasting my time". I would say they're right. There are enough sick people to keep them busy, why would they spend time with healthy people?

If you're healthy (as in, no symptoms) then managing your lifestyle should be your business, not your doctor's, and most advice is obvious anyway (don't eat or drink too much, avoid processed food and all manners of sodas whenever possible, sleep well, exercise).

Regarding lifestyle choices, I also think doctors have seen many people getting sick that seemed to be doing everything right, they're not sure what's best. It's very possible stress is a main contributor to poor health, and just worrying too much about it is bad in itself.
Are you thinking of Aardvark? I think Google bought that a while back and then discontinued it.
I'll try to get the valgrind-freebsd updated some time this week. So it's coming.
tambrahmrage (well, India's oatmeal) covers mangalyaan

http://tambrahmrage.tumblr.com/post/66074106804/mangalyaan
There is no listed position for B2B marketer on the website. Are you guys open to H1B?
Fortunately it's been rare that someone has condescended to me that games are pointless, cruel, evil or mere diversions in general. Games bring joy. Although the same could probably be said of pornography, and yet porno isn't getting any more mainstream of an art form…

Just being entertaining, I think, doesn't legitimize games.

Surely earning lots of money has something to do with gaming as a legitimate full-time culture-making pursuit. A coworker taught a General Assembly class whose attention immediately rose when he pointed out that Clash of Clans earns more than $1 million a day selling virtual goods. But I don't think the creative folks behind that game are necessarily proud of its making money—I know I'm not exactly proud of making a slots game. And I don't think casinos—the highest revenue game in town—are all that respected.

Being a growth industry probably doesn't legitimize games either, it seems.

The challenge though: that's why I make games. I think it's bigger than breadth & depth of computer science. In one scientist's words, a game developer rewires people's brains without reading any scientific literature. Little could be as thrilling. And I know I look at guys like Brian Reynolds and Will Wright as inspiration—smart cultural observers whose technical wizardry turned into real social commentary.
Because we don't have the social infrastructure -- starting with an effective world government -- to do it.
You can't make history something it's not. You might or might not remember visiting the web soon after javascript was released. It involved a lot of broken code, and a lot of error pop ups. Javascript was, historically, a dumb easy scripting language for simple interactive effects on the web.

When we're talking about a script that is downloaded from a server, and runs in a browser, that is a much different kind of situation than a programming language usually encounters. It is in the browser maker's interest to be liberal about what it accepts. this is the core reason for the success of html, and the failure of xhtml.

as much as the makers of javascript would like to remove certain problematic features, they cannot without breaking old existing content.

Now if you want a strict language in the browser that disallows that sort of nonsense, it's easy. Just run JSLINT on your code before deploying it. JSLint considers as an error, pretty much all of your complaints here. If you don't like some aspect of javascript, you can simply not use it. If there's something jslint doesn't catch, I suppose you could always add stuff to jslint. JSLINT is your static compiler.

There are solutions to your pain and suffering. you don't have to endure it.
Good luck to all!

To those accepted to interviews: congrats!

To those that didn't make it to interviews, I wanted to share a great thought from Dustin Curtis (YC W13):

"Tomorrow. After my promotion. When I raise money. When the time is right. After I settle things up. When I’m done learning. These phrases appear to be valid reasons for waiting, but they are usually just excuses used to rationalize an easier choice."

YC or no YC, go do your idea if you're passionate about it.
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No, I'm not trolling. I don't know what pdfTex is either. Why on earth are you telling me what a project does in terms of another project I'm not familiar with?!

Edit: that's what I meant by "none of their links", the pdfTex page doesn't say what it does either!
Judging from their latest ThinkPad designs, I wouldn't say very much at all. A Lenovo buyout would be the death knell for RI- er, I mean BBRY. The phones would turn into iPhone clones. It would be a disaster.
FWIW, I think there's a disconnect between what people expect/need from their email hosting provider and the "obvious" security solutions. Especially these days with many many people relying on IMAP to provide server-side search when using mobile devices.

If you need the server to be able to text search through your mail archive (and I do that a _lot_ on my phone), you need to "trust" the server with your clear text.

If you don't want to run and secure your own server - you need to choose what level of compromise you're prepared to accept.

My current project is a mail server on a RaspberryPi, hidden behind my home NAT gateway and firewall, that opens reverse ssh tunnels for ports 25 and 465 to inexpensive VPSes configured to not log anything - with IMAP (and webmail) access limited to my local network (and to my phone and iPad via vpn). It uses Vagrant and Ansible to provision and configure VPSes on the fly, and DNS hosting with APIs that Ansible can update MX records for as my receiving mail server moves around different VPS vendors in different jurisdictions.
Yes, thank you! That's exactly it.
I could not agree more. My only complaint about valgrind was that I was not smart enough to figure out how to use it on a FUSE filesystem.
India is making baby but firm steps in space exploration. wishing that ISRO has a success with this mission.
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Vaguely related - super conduction at warm temperatures (haha, it's still pretty chilly around those windings but liquid nitrogen isn't too expensive) isn't too far off according to MRI manufactures and the various articles I have seen here in recent times. At $100k ish per quench, the service contracts sure looks like a good option when you have 3 or 4 of them in a year!
One would imagine that scientists believe less in rituals. ISRO scientists pray at the Thirupathi temple before every mission.
Is this some way of popularizing hangouts?
Agreed. It may be useful but I don't see how it fits Google's overall mission; Google Answers were more relevant and they killed it (a long time ago).

Maybe the strategy is to eventually make sessions public? which would actually add value for the community.

Or it's a cheap ploy to get people to use Google+ (and if so, good luck with that).
The articles conclusions seem rather devoid of reasoning. Why would an F22 be the only way to access hostile airspace? The F22 is extremely expensive and carries a crew onboard.

Remotely piloted drones can be used in a semi-disposable manner to access hostile airspace. Manned aircraft are going the way of horse cavalry. We have a lot of romantic attachment to fighter jocks, so we can't accept that they are no longer relevant.

Missiles and drones. Face it people.
See neya's comment here, who believes his credit card was taken from there amd he claims to have recently purchase something.

My theory is Adobe didn't use SHA2 even recently, it's probably something that they only started to develop.

And SHA2 is still wrong, BTW. See other comments here.
You're pretty dismissive, but I've read some pretty credible sources saying that exercise was quite the upset. You cannot possibly expect enemies to "follow rules" either. In a real war Blizzard wouldn't be able to "reset".

Intuitively speaking, too, I have great difficulty understanding how carriers could possibly repel massed attacks of low value craft/missiles. And that's not even counting the Dong Fengs, etc. I have a romantic nostalgia for carriers as much as anyone but I can't see how they are anything other than gigantic sitting ducks in the microchip era.
Finally wrapping my head around eshell (the emacs shell)
The problem is that it isn't clear that the F-22's biggest advantage will actually work in the real world. Radar cross-section is highly frequency dependent, (guess how they shot down an F-117 in Bosnia, a plane, which made even more sacrifices in the name of stealth) and there is little evidence that the F-22 is any less observable in a multi-static radar environment (which, oh, by the way, China has been developing). This problem is only going to get worse as time goes on and DSPs get more powerful.

So, given that stealth is the F-22's entire reason for being, I'd categorically state that canceling the boondoggle was one of the smartest things our government has done in quite a while.
I feel like you are not reading the news. Apple was suing every Android maker to prevent touchscreen phone competition.
FWIW, I suspect Phil Zimmermann from Silent Circle is one of the very few people in the world for whom that reservation probably isn't automatically correct…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Zimmermann

For the rest of us - HELL YEAH! Do not develop your own crypto!
My thought exactly... I did not choose to do so =P
It's almost as if Google answers has been somewhat resurrected. Definitely keeping an eye on this.
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agreed. Fun Fact: Just received email from my mum (she is 69 & not up w/ all things tech): - "Was today the big day to hear from dominator…" ;) obvious next steps = YC rebranding as "Y Dominator" + getting theme song in the tune of John Oliver's "Danger" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmWDm2Yw9dk
It's now fixed.
India's mars orbiter mission launches today
Skype used to have something like this in 2006-ish...
I am assuming that the DB server cannot decrypt. If the DB server has decryption permissions, and it is compromised, then there's little need in encrypting the passwords anyway as an attacker will simply decrypt them by hand. (They may not get all of them before being detected, but they'd still get some or most --- and they might look for high-value targets!)

Unlike ECB mode, you can't just encrypt the same password again and check to see if the ciphertexts are the same --- the IVs will be different (hopefully!). So, can you somehow check two ciphertexts with different IVs to see if they represent the same plaintext? Nope, probably not: if you could, then the scheme would no longer have indistinguishable encryptions under a chosen-plaintext attack [1]. Briefly, this ability to test if two ciphertexts represent the same plaintext would allow the adversary in the IND-CPA game to simply encrypt both of the plaintexts and test them against the challenge ciphertext. (See the [1] reference for more info on this.)

In fact, this is exactly the property you don't want. You don't want to be able to determine if two users have the same password. If the DB server were able to test ciphertext equality, then it could pairwise-test each pair of users (or again only hunt for high-value targets).

If you were really adamant on encrypting passwords, I'd also suggest that we'd need to pad the password out to the max password length to prevent the revelation of password length. But of course, I very strongly suggest against password encryption. Still: that's another thing to consider in this hypothetical scenario.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciphertext_indistinguishability
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Here's a nice FAQ by Emily Lakdawalla of The Planetary Society:

http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2013/1031123...
Since sarcasm was invented.
> This is the dumbest socialist propaganda I've read in quite some time. The end result of such an intervention is inflation, not poverty cuts.

Presumably, redistribution increases inflationary pressure in some sectors and reduces it in others, but it only increases them across the board if it results in more money being spent, e.g., by increasing the domestic velocity of money, total economic activity, and aggregate demand. But that's not a bad thing, and the danger of high inflation can be managed by monetary policy -- tightening monetary policy in response to expansionary conditions that would otherwise produce inflation is pretty much monetary policy 101.

> Because the money will be going out faster than it is collected

Obviously, its trivial to aggregate benefit to a dedicated revenue source so that its money is going out no faster than it is collected.

> There is a famous event of this happening in the old west, large portions of land was just handed out in a state lottery.

Presumably, this is a somewhat confused reference to the Homestead Act, which had a pretty significant impact on building the American middle class.

But, even so, a continuous redistribution through basic income is different than a one-time distribution of land.
I see what you are saying however clearly these traditional "new" fighters aren't good enough either. I think everyone agrees that drones are the future so why not dump the $$$ into development?
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My kneejerk reaction is to wonder when this will go the way of Google Wave and Google Reader.
If PS (or other system) makes your machine need a reboot, the problem isn't Photoshop

The reason Photoshop consolidated itself: first mover advantage. Everybody else is playing catch

Now, in the "the company is paying" field, yes, standards are rock-bottom, or even lower. But I don't think PS gets so low.
Joel Fuhrman http://www.drfuhrman.com/ is one of a number of medical doctors who promote a coordinated attack on the causes of bad health like heart disease, rather than relying on reducing one or two indicators. Neal Barnard is another such doctor http://www.nealbarnard.org/

In North America, both of these doctors have shows on PBS a couple of times a year, in the weekday evenings and they generally run as part of a series of similar shows by other medical doctors.

The two named above have done a significant amount of research into the programs that they suggest, and they publish widely and openly and tell you what research they are looking at and why they recommend certain actions.
not just isro scientists. even when our aircraft carrier INS Vikrant was launched, we had an elaborate pooja
just got my rejection letter :-(
Very Inspiring thanks
So a murder is rated the same as stealing a penny candy?
In the future, Man in Business Suit Levitating will be the only form of communication.
i just got my rejection letter :-(
He does have a point - but only if you want to do something more complex. If you need a JSON store that you can easily edit, I don't see a real advantage over Firebase - but once you want to incorporate, say Twitter login or some form of user authentication for your visitors, you're better off with Firebase, I would say.
Letter's are coming out - just got my rejection letter. Grrr.. back to work.
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Wait...
So I would have to purchase a $99 "eye tracker" just so that some random website can follow my eye movement?

Seriously?
I understand the concept, but if it relies on 3rd party software/hardware for the user that has a camera to watch the user, it would never work.

Good concept, but bad implementation.
Strange. It looks like noone even clicked on the video or demo link in our application. Does this happen a lot?
So this is a solution to the "problem" of people looking up how to do something on youtube, now you can ask an expert and get detailed two-way feedback.
"Google Answers were more relevant and they killed it (a long time ago)."

Oh I had quite forgotten about that! Good point.

See how things used to look :)

http://answers.google.com/answers/

At least with Google Answers the information was public.
Huge fan of Khan Academy. Any openings related to Digital Marketing or Product Growth? Do you support H1B?
Exactly.

Mine was, "Cool; how long's this one gonna last?" It seems like a neat idea, but I bet the novelty is going to wear off pretty quickly.
Do not follow quack recommendations like this. pw is not a medical doctor and is not licenced to practice medecine. That makes pw a quack.

Instead, seek out professionals who don't just say everything is OK, but who tell you what specific things to do and tell you why you should do those things backed up by research. A competent MD will not be afraid to refer you to the research that they are using to make their recommendations. A real MD does not say (I'm and expert, trust me) but they are willing to point to the studies and the opinions of other experts. Experts will not all agree but usually, when something really works, there will be a majority who do prescribe that course of action.
I noticed this today. Googling "united check in" and clicking the link "check" gave me a link that told me the confirmation number that I entered was invalid though I never entered one.
Yes, that's the tradition :)

Former Isro chairman G Madhavan Nair on Monday said, “This has been a tradition. I had also gone to Tirupati before the Chandrayaan mission.”

But more than religious beliefs, he said these temple visits helped des-stress the mind and offer clarity.

But beyond this, do superstitions and other beliefs have a hold on the scientists?

“Not really,” said Mylswamy Annadurai, the project director of moon missions Chandrayaan 1 and Chandrayaan 2. “I read a page of Bhagawad Gita daily and will do so on Tuesday.”

He added, “But yes I have just got a jar of peanuts and a good luck card from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory-Nasa. This is a very nice gesture. I will distribute these peanuts in my office on Tuesday morning.”

Scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) consider circulation of peanuts auspicious.

http://www.hindustantimes.com/news-feed/science/ahead-of-mar...
Thanks JD. Good coverage on Mangalyan.
For many Indians who are criticizing this Mission saying that the money would be better spent on toilets or teachers, this is an eye opener: Why Explore space http://launiusr.wordpress.com/2012/02/08/why-explore-space-a...
My 4 yr old has access to my phone and hopefully it was not him who watched me pitch 5 times
Rejection letter arrived when I was writing a letter to a customer and when the first actual transaction took place on this 3 weeks old platform. Ugh. Honestly the latter didn't make me feel better, though I didn't quite expect a miracle, because expecting a miracle often indicates the short of preparation. This is be a 4-star strenuous hiking trail, we are a beginner level; next time we'll be real fit. Congratulations to all got the interview and good luck! Virtual toast to everybody who received the same letter, c u soon again on HN.
There are other services like that. I think JustAnswer is one of them.
My initial reaction is "cool, but I won't use it as it'll be shutdown soon enough". I wonder if enough people avoid new Google products due to shutdown fears so it leads to a product ultimately being shutdown due to neglect.

A bit of a vicious cycle.
Don't you think Win9x would _scream_ on your GS3 though? ;-)
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