skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disk space doesn't matter. That's going to be mostly extra headers and formatting and attachments. I can't find many sources for the number of words in an email, but what I did find suggests about 50. Let's assume that's an entire order of magnitude off, and you have 500 words * 5800 emails. That's 17MB. A laptop or a phone can easily cache that much data and search it in a tenth of a second. All you have to do is filter out the junk beforehand instead of repeating the work every time you search.
I don't know about an executive email bomb, but I requested a refund and was basically told I was free to cancel at any time, but they'd bill me a fat cancellation fee equal to a month of rent. I complained the first night I was here and I spoke to a bunch of residents who also complained. I heard an AirBNB representative was supposed to come check out the place due to the number of complaints, but from what I gathered he never showed up. Also this is in California, not NY.
First, Sweet moustache.

Second, If one rejection letter is all it takes to derail you, you probably should not be in the biz.

YC is not the arbiter of success, you are, and getting rejected probably just means that you need to polish things up and spend more time on the product. I'm glad you didn't stop, looks like you guys are doing just fine.
The sell of founding a startup is that, yes, most fail, but your backers make sure you fail up (as long as you didn't break the law in some horrendous way). If your startup tanks or your investors replace you, they make sure you get a 250k+ position in a venture fund (if that relaxed job is what you want, after the 90-hour weeks of founding a startup) or an executive position in an existing software company. That's the implicit promise that's made to founders, but I don't know how often it's delivered.

I have no idea what the data say. It'd be interesting to see where people end up 15 years after failing out of a funded startup. The GovWorks guys did well, though. It's engineers that seem to eat the pain when startups fail.
Hah, that's a fun one:

double array[SIZE][SIZE] = {
#include "float_values.txt"
}

Been there done that.
I like that he references Huff's "How to lie with statistics" in the first sentence of the intro. That was the book that came to mind when I saw the subject. Also reminds me of the Twain quote, "There are three types of lies: Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics."

But despite this, statistics done well are very powerful.
You can't just verify the static asset files, because that's not all the browser looks at when it builds up the Javascript runtime state.
That makes sense. All the best. I will be keeping out on your site let my school contacts know
You don't need to replicate all of the functionality that activex has. You just need to emulate the behaviour from the banks point of view of whatever their particular activex does. Maybe the ActiveX rewrites a bunch of files with admin privileges "for security", and then negotiates some sort of key exchange... in that case just write JS that says it did the shit that requires admin privileges, then negotiates the key exchange).

So the question is, if you are willing to ignore their activex and run your own custom JS instead, could these websites be made to work?
Wow. That means that people aren't even bothering to close their browsers any more. Can't imagine what their memory usage is like.
Bitcoin is over $240
Incidentally, Preet Bharara is also in charge of the Ross Ulbricht trial (the NYC one). So LR is wrapping up just in time to focus on SR.
I thought the main problem with Rockefeller and Carnegie was corruption, not capitalism. They used their political power to override the democratic process, such that most people had no say in their government anymore.
Not sure if OP is joking, but I knew a guy in grad school who did underwater ancient archeology. He spent every summer scuba diving in the Black Sea pulling up old pots. Sounds like nice work!
Not bad. However, any decent front-end guy will likely hack his way directly in the browser to see how things would actually look like. Build an extension that allow them to snapshot their CSS/DOM hack on actual code (I believe there are already a few doing similar things) and send that back to users instead of a simple document. Probably more actionable for the potential customers.
Going away for a week long residential course felt like a very long time to be away from my 3 year old. Can't imagine doing that every week. I feel bad about her being at nursery for 10 hours a day (8am to 6pm) whilst I'm at work; luckily that's only 3 days a week as my wife and I only work 4 days each.
SO WHAT? This is absolutely the most aggravating thing about JS crypto advocates: they truly believe that bad engineering can be turned into good engineering by sheer wishfulness. It's important, they say, for people who can't install new software to have encrypted messaging; therefore, browser javascript cryptography has to work. No.
How come investors give money to startup founders but not state lottery ticket buyers? Isn't their entire job to professionally evaluate these expected values?

Being accepted to YC actually means being funded. With YCVC it's ~$100k.
Super! Saves so much time looking through all those folders.
>>> Even the Nobel laureate scientist C.V Raman opposed space explorations in his time, saying that they are meddling with Gods.

Could you provide some citation here? As far as CV Raman's religious inclinations were concerned, my understanding is that he was an agnostic [1].

Being a scientist himself, I don't think it would have been in his nature to stifle the spirit of scientific inquiry in the name of religion.

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._V._Raman
I'd be very annoyed if my compiler didn't turn the latter into the former on platforms where it was more efficient.
Cool, this was the architecture I sketched in my head for a user-friendly PGP app, although I would have offered to sync the private keys between device clients, rather than doing it all in browser (that way, someone can opt out and keep a key just on their phone or whatever.)

I had a damn good name, too, but good job someone else did it so I don't have to! :)
As a graduate student in the life sciences, I was required to take a course on ethical conduct of science. This gave me the tools to find ethical solutions to complex issues like advisor relations, plagiarism, authorship, etc. We were also taught to keep good notes and use ethical data management practices - don't throw out data, use the proper tests, etc. Unfortunately, we weren't really taught how to do statistics "the right way." It seems like this is equally important to ethical conduct of science. Ignorance is no excuse for using bad statistical practices - it's still unethical. By the way, this is at (what is considered to be) one of the best academic institutions in the world.
My apologies, I've added it to the save button now.
Swap to the IAD region - I just pushed notes on rollout and availability to the post.
Mystery grows about Google barges moored off US coast
Maybe he means ajax?
There's a pretty big difference though - YC isn't going to make any meaningful money off you unless you succeed as well.
I think excerpts from the book, focusing on finding Bezos's biological father, were posted to HN previously.
OP here. The background video is supposed to get pulled if it doesn't start playing right away (which is what happens in browsers that don't allow autoplay, like iOS. Not sure why that feature detection didn't work in your case.

It's definitely intended as a "background" - not supposed to detract from the site if it doesn't work.
Github was the only reason I switched to Git from Mercurial.
For the life of me, I don't understand why the biggest investors and executives, who are rich because "with great risk of captial comes great opportunity for success". So they get the 99% of the profit, they get the big paychecks, because they took the big risk in the beginning.

But on the flip side, they don't accept the risk for the behavior of their company.

I don't understand how the system operates whereby they accept all the profit from their risk, but successfully mitigate almost all of the negatives of their risk, reducing jail time and criminal penalties to fines and loss of investment.

If a man earns profit from an investment in his control, to me, he also is responsible for the legality and behavior of that investment.

This seems obvious: Take down the executives. And keep on doing it, keep throwing them in jail until banks hire executives who don't let this bullshit happens. How many millionaires in jail would it take to change the culture? I'm betting not many.
> due to reasons of law, not due to Microsoft's own market clout.

I'm quite sure Microsoft had something to do with the experts that consulted for the South Korean government when they arrived to this brilliant solution.
And then mobile happened, and everything was fucked forever.

:(
Thanks! I'll add more tools this weekend and polish it up a bit. How much would one be willing to pay for something like?
If your browser supports WebM, that version of the file is only 6.5MB. I include the MP4 as a backup.
What else does it look at?

I don't see what else would affect it besides things that you could also verify in theory.
So nobody else is allowed to write about it ever again?
You only need Shift + Command + 3 (no need for Control) to screenshot. Makes it much easier!
British Army CIO - What it's like to be IT chief on the front line
Albumatic Becomes Koa.la, Aims To Build Hit Apps For Kik And Other Messengers
But they play nothing alike. The mechanics aside from the representation of the world are incredibly different.
Technical Debt – What it is and what to do about it
If you want to weaken Facebook, here's an idea. Get a dot-com and put it on a business card with your email address and/or phone number. When you meet people, give them that card. That's what I do. I keep them in my wallet. So much easier (less awkward) than exchanging phone numbers. I'm not even that extroverted and I'm surprised how many cards I give out. I always get a positive reaction to the card and never once had someone look at the card and say anything about Facebook. It's also revealing to see how different people react to the card. If more people did this, I think it would cut Facebook out of more social interactions.
TL;DR - don't give up
I'm still trying to shake off their influence. :P
That sounds completely insecure.
> but Zuckerberg's success is as likely as winning the state lottery.

I'd say it's even less likely than that. How many state lottery winners have we seen since Facebook went huge? How many grand slam successes have we seen?
JSON - A Tale of 3 Standards Organizations
That's my point entirely. Capitalism does not breed competition, it breeds success for the private investor. Which in their case, they used government to kill competition and increase profit and personal outcomes, not increase competition and increase outcomes for all.

The idea that we can't blame Capitalism for its corruption is laughable. The greed motivation of Capitalism is WHY that corruption exists! Because they want personal success MORE than they want success for all, so they make a decision that benefits themselves/their investment at the cost of society.

The outcome of Capitalism without strong regulation in that era was a corruption of weak regulators, corruption of government, and a destruction of competition.

I guess you could argue "but what about Capitalism in absence of government entirely" but that sounds too much like the Communists and their "but but TRUE communism, without a state, would TOTALLY work, I SWEAR!"
" Everything I've read implies Thermal Expansion simply stopped in 1.5.x and its still not compatible with 1.6.x or later. "

They decided to attempt a complete rewrite of the mod. It's about half-done. Yes, stupid decision, seeing as a 1.6.x port can be done in a weekend for any mod.

I wish I could make a startup, but I'm only 16... although I do have the AsieLauncher - which makes launcher creation and mod cataloguing easy, I also have contacts within the modding group with people willing to join such kind of project... But I can't take any money for it, which kind of misses the point.

An easy way to charge for Minecraft mods would be to create a Flattr-esque system for server owners: you pay a flat fee for servers, set based on server size, and the fee is proportionally distributed between mod authors, who in exchange ensure that the mod versions in the database are okay and that the configuration is in a specific format that makes it easy for the launcher to generate a server- and client-side config that just works (though "ID hell" will be gone with 1.8, when they fully make a move to referring to blocks by names and not IDs).

AsieLauncher Wiki URL: https://github.com/asiekierka/asielauncher/wiki

EDIT: We also have a serverlist! http://servers.asie.pl - and our mod database is viewable at http://servers.asie.pl/mods (I apologize for the Bootstrap)

EDIT2: Meet me @ #AsieLauncher on irc.freenode.net
Cool tricks!

About the debugging macros: printf prints messages to stdout, not stderr. You want to use fprintf instead:

fprintf(stderr ,"error message");

This has the advantage of being unbuffered, and still printing to the console even if stdout has been directed to a file.
We plan to add functionality soon! As well as exporting your public/private key.
The Next Major Media Company Will Be a Technology Platform
Why don't you start building out the answer to that question yourself?
Thumbs up for the self powered system, I'd like to try it.
Just curious : what does a non-programmer come to HN for? Everything seems fairly programming centric to me here...
Oh $BABY_DEITY no! That's not what I was suggesting! Activex in FF? Scared the hell out of me...

What I meant is either reverse-engineering the algorithm and reimplementing it in FF chrome in clean JS like jlgreco mentioned below, or including just the kernel of the important logic, the way ndiswrapper uses windows driver for communicating to the network cards without actually implementing whole windows kernel.
The best open source alternative I've heard of so far is clearskies (https://github.com/jewel/clearskies). The implementation isn't complete yet, but it started right with a clear, open protocol definition based on standard technologies.

I've been waiting for some free time to write a client myself - go circuit looks very interesting for that!
A few thousand people bought the game in the first 6 months. Removing Swedish taxes, that was about $20k. That's not a bad motivator, you know.
Zero truthiness in Javascript
In my experience what drives great entrepreneurs is not a desire for wealth, power, or fame; it's a burning desire to make a small change in the world, usually in the form of bringing their product to market.

This is silly. Entrepreneurs are no more (and not necessarily any less) virtuous than anyone else who works. People have the whole gamut of motivations. In general, humans need something to do-- to keep fed, and to keep their spirits high.

There are plenty of entrepreneurs (even many quite good ones, in terms of effectiveness and moral character) who have the same pedestrian motivations as average people going to work: wealth, security, esteem, et al. Don't put them on a pedestal.
I like this idea*

It does make me wonder though... what does the "typical" startup person do to network in SF? It seems like a lot of people locate there (and accept the high cost of living) in order to cross-pollinate ideas and meet other cool people.

But how do you find those people? Are there popular hangouts or events? If so, how do the organizers stop them from sliding into the usual pool of desperate wannabe's pestering the popular people [pretend I insert a dating anecdote here]

My guess is that you hit up hackathons, [linux|ruby|whatever] User Groups, or meetup groups for whatever interests you (with the hope that you'll find others with the same vienn overlaps as you with one of the circles being "tehnology|startup|programming|business")

* How much advance notice do you need tg3? There's a good chance I'll be passing through SFO tomorrow (Wed Nov 6) or maybe Thu. I'd love to reciprocate coffees with you if you are located within reasonable distance to the airport (I'll need a cab or transit) and it fits your schedule. :)
Will post to your form when I finalize my plans.
Because when the JS files are updated the browser extension will have to fetch a new hash from the server, but how can that hash be trusted? The usual mechanism would be to RSA or DSA sign the JS files and have the extension validate the signature against a public key. However, we're still choosing to trust the server and hope that it's key is not compromised.
Why Do Poor People 'Waste' Money On Luxury Goods?
There are indeed very few in this day and age. However markets free from government intervention do exist; open air markets in 3rd world economies would be an example. All markets follow the same principles.
I remember an interesting tidbit that I heard from the YC ambassador at a Commonwealth Club event. He said most companies in the history of the world never went though YC. I look at YC like college; It's an opportunity, not a guarantee.
If you'd read the article you'd note that he barely addresses her or her status, and primarily responds to her review and elucidates his reporting process.

I quoted that line because I think it usefully reframes the conversation. Journalists certainly can be biased, but the good ones try very hard not to be. Spouses by definition are biased.
Using Sass with Compass and a large development team
Relevant:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XOR_swap_algorithm#Reasons_for_...
* The state of accessability support, particularly for the blind.

it's kind of sad, Gnome was reputed for it's accessibility support
So according to the terms you're unable to resell the service... so does that mean you can't build a paid SaaS service which uses this as a distribution mechanism for files?
Cisco Sees Massive Spike in Suspicious TCP Source Port Zero Traffic
Does changing/spoofing the user agent not work?
Their whole business model revolves around data mining. You can't really mine encrypted mail. If you can then the encryption is worthless.
glass and LCD are fused to the display frame. Fixing broken glass will be either expensive or very difficult
Very interesting. Thanks for relaying that.
I've been using XFCE on debian for ages. I just ran installs of two other Linuxes with Gnome 3 and KDE 4, just to check...and to be honest, I'm happy with XFCE.
Forgive my naivete, but what is the point you are trying to make here? Or is this an attempt at creating some kind of fallacy?
Not again. Their ability to create good-looking software makes me quite jealous.
You can purchase one, and help us!, at http://bit.ly/Driblet
further validate ideas found while talking to business owners in my niche, also setup a time to talk to a competitor in my niche that offered to share pains and problems common in my niche that he's found over the years. Lastly, respond to emails from several business owners in my niche who were willing to talk about their pains and problems...and where I can provide a software solution to them. Notice there is no wireframing, code writing, blog posts, etc etc in my todo list. Until I have 5-10 prepaid customers...I'm not touching my code editor.
>Your company will never ever ever ever be successful. Never Ever.

You've got some broken links in this one, such as http://jessepollak.me/if-you-got-rejected-from-yc-your-life-...
Correction: Monopolies require corrupt government policies to establish them, perpetuate them, and protect them.
Nobody is banning money transfer, just regulating it.

And coming back to trucks, we do require trucks to be registered, drivers to have identification that can be checked by police officers and the ability for border police to examine your cargo when you cross an international border.
Sell HN: Itemwoo - Structured information about consumer products
I will probably download the tarball to check, but it would be swell if that "check your email address" form allowed pattern matching, so I could just grep for a substring instead of typing in my whole address.

Edit: just for laughs:
warnock@adobe.com was found. You need to change your passwords now

I wonder what his password is. I guess we'll find out eventually.
I'm having trouble with one point of your argument. You seem to be arguing that people who are not capitalists are not greedy or corrupt?
Exactly. I rarely build up an array within a loop and then join it. That kind of thing just seems dirty - use a buffer!

It's usually, e.g.,

['some string ', someVar, ' some rest of string'].join('');
I'm not complaining about terminology. Okay let me put this another way. Let's pretend they had a $20 tier where you get nothing, plus the $5000 and $10000 early access tiers. If someone donates $20, they get nothing. If someone donates $437, they get nothing. Does it actually hurt the project to create a $400 nothing-tier in addition to the $20 nothing-tier? I am skeptical of this. But that's what you called out as a negative in your original post, having multiple tiers that are the same.
Because American companies can trust the NSA
If you actually look at the history of Standard Oil (including the exposé by Ida Tarbell which arguably depicts the strongest case for the existence of a monopoly), you will notice that Standard Oil's market share was already on the decline by the time that the US Supreme Court ruled that Standard Oil had to be broken up. The break up wasn't even very effective in Standard Oil's case; the modern ExxonMobil is the result of mergers of some of the largest of the daughter companies.
8 out of 10 repairability
Think about it this way: if you already had a guaranteed-secure method for delivering a hash... then you don't need a hash, you could just use this magical secure delivery mechanism to deliver all the code directly -- or even your whole email message!
If you're running an instance for yourself, or only a few users, SQLite would seem like the obvious choice. That avoids the hassle of running a separate database server.
That's actually not the big reason.
Would it be feasible to fall back to an animated gif, or even just a static image? It took so long to load that I was done reading the page, and was looking at the fine print when it started playing, and that was a little bit jarring. Moreover, the placeholder image you had already looked really good.

(The video _was_ pretty cool, though.)
> When I read campaign stances on this site last year I was really surprised how socially moderate their campaign was.

If you were surprised by Dole/Kemp from 1996, you should look at when Bob Dole ran for Vice President -- Ford/Dole in 1976.

The 1976 Republican platform [1] featured: Environmental protection, willingness to "negotiate differences" with foreign countries, "vigorous" antitrust enforcement, federally-funded child nutrition programs, support for the Equal Rights Amendment, better access for the disabled, urban development, railroad electrification, recycling, increased funding for the arts and humanities.

On the other hand, "The Republican Party opposes compulsory national health insurance." So that part isn't new. Also, the usual Republican stuff -- lower taxes, bigger military, opposition to abortion, etc.

[1] http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=25843
After being a consultant for 6 years, I’m calling it quits.
They would find the illusion of security useful?
Something I learned over the years... if your code quality is too high, it means you're sacrificing productivity.
Nope, because non-IE browsers won't run ActiveX controls no matter what the user-agent string is.
I doubt actually posting is the bulk of the time you spend on HN, though. Paying someone to filter a bit could make sense. Possibly.
If your motivation is wealth, by far the easiest way is to work in finance.
It's a bright night sky: http://dcposch.github.io/scramble/img/night_sky_bright.jpg
Tech people tends to be close minded.