skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A credit card transaction is a promise to pay, not a payment. That promise is what you sign when you sign a receipt in a store. The merchant and its credit card processor need to identify someone who can be legally compelled to make good on that promise in order for the system to work. This is not a corporate conspiracy, just the nature of credit. Increased risk of fraud calls for more reliable identification; DigitalOcean is asking for a second factor to confirm that you actually own that CC. (Otherwise, they are at risk of eating the loss in case of a chargeback. An ID document, like a signature, gives them something to show in court to hold you responsible for the payment even if you chargeback.)

It is the nature of the credit card payment system that legitimate transactions are never anonymous. In any situation where you keep your identity private from your creditor, then either your creditor is brain-dead or you are committing fraud.

If you wish to purchase VPS hosting without revealing your identity to the seller, use (tumbled) BitCoin.

If your concern is for the security of your ID document (rather than the fact that DigitalOcean will know your identity) then insist on using email encryption or send via snail-mail.
We are a commercial nonprofit, and we do intend to sell to schools. We're a nonprofit because we're looking to build a sustainable revenue, but we are not looking for an exit. Our main focus is on collaboratively building educational resources, and being a nonprofit encourages people to volunteer their time to contribute.

We're open source, and if you're interested, you can pull out code here - https://github.com/empirical-org/quill
Linear A at least has many artifacts.

In Unicode 5.1, a script with a single artifact had the character set from its short inscription included:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaistos_Disc#Unicode

Perhaps your font supports it:

𐇑𐇛𐇜𐇐𐇡𐇽 | 𐇧𐇷𐇛 | 𐇬𐇼𐇖𐇽 | 𐇬𐇬𐇱 | 𐇑𐇛𐇓𐇷𐇰 | 𐇪𐇼𐇖𐇛 | 𐇪𐇻𐇗 | 𐇑𐇛𐇕𐇡[.] | 𐇮𐇩𐇲 | 𐇑𐇛𐇸𐇢𐇲 | 𐇐𐇸𐇷𐇖 | 𐇑𐇛𐇯𐇦𐇵𐇽 | 𐇶𐇚 | 𐇑𐇪𐇨𐇙𐇦𐇡 | 𐇫𐇐𐇽 | 𐇑𐇛𐇮𐇩𐇽 | 𐇑𐇛𐇪𐇪𐇲𐇴𐇤 | 𐇰𐇦 | 𐇑𐇛𐇮𐇩𐇽 | 𐇑𐇪𐇨𐇙𐇦𐇡 | 𐇫𐇐𐇽 | 𐇑𐇛𐇮𐇩𐇽 | 𐇑𐇛𐇪𐇝𐇯𐇡𐇪 | 𐇕𐇡𐇠𐇢 | 𐇮𐇩𐇛 | 𐇑𐇛𐇜𐇐 | 𐇦𐇢𐇲𐇽 | 𐇙𐇒𐇵 | 𐇑𐇛𐇪𐇪𐇲𐇴𐇤 | 𐇜𐇐 | 𐇙𐇒𐇵 |
Agree with most of what you say. But before jumping into portraying a shoe string salary take into account the "corruption adjusted benefits" that Google and other companes could not offer [http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/editorial/behind-the-sband-s...]
Don't take his use of the word "retarded" so literally. People might take offense to the word but understand that he doesn't mean it as an actual slight toward people with real mental disabilities.
Google memory problems statins.

FDA published a warning a month or two ago.

By anecdotal information, don't believe the memory problems will necessarily go away...
https://www.userapp.io - Cloud-based user management for web apps.

Got rejected :( But otherwise it has been really successful so far :)
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To be frank, nobody is really complaining in the comments. Btw on twitter three trends are for this mission: MissionMars, SriHariKota and ISRO.
A more likely explanation is that the author frankly doesn't give a damn about such restriction.
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Is like that apocryphal story of Hitler saying that if the allies would win it will be a victory for all because they would have made a better and bigger war machine.
Thanks - we're open source, and we'd love to work with other developers interested in contributing.
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Show HN: Musicness - connecting artists with fans
Mattermark will probably do that soon, should be interesting.
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Mars mission - The Times of India
What Is A Startup?
I watched the lift off

Good launch and good start. All 3 stages complete. It's in space in a matter of seconds. Need another 45 mins to declare launch success and 10 months to reach mars!
Maybe, just maybe, the British should not have colonized and looted India and parts of Asia and Africa for 300 years?
Nice! But I didn't get that information by looking at your site (as apparently parent didn't either), so you might want to look into that. And while you are at it, where do I find more information about the process, about the company behind it, the provisions,...? Other than that, nice concept.

US only I guess?
almost time for desertbus again. hilarious way to support childs play: desertbus.org
He mentions both in the youtube pitch.
It would be good to note that this implementation doesn't actually support de-compression (as is also noted in the to-do list).

It is able to read headers and other metadata, as well as unpack files, but only if they're stored without compression: https://github.com/43081j/rar.js/blob/master/dist/rar.js#L54...

If I understand RAR, it actually uses a embedded virtual machine to specify the compression algorithm. That would have been the fun part.
How would an Isro engineer get access to bribes and stuff? All that is for people dealing with large public funds and services.
> get some contractual guarantees and be confident that they fill be fulfilled.

In that case, no services that Google offers should be used. They don’t give any guarantees, not even to their paying customers.
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Imagine a photo-sharing webapp that allowed users to drag a rar file in and then pick which images to upload.

I'm sure there are other use cases, but that one immediately comes to mind.
Nice of you to share your whole application. How much time did you take to prepare it, by the way ?
Yes, I ended up using App Engine's memcache on top, much faster.
Don't get me wrong, I understand what you're saying. The point I was trying to make is that this opens up new potential.

Years ago, before there were power tools, all furniture was crafted by hand. Painstakingly. It would take a craftsman years to develop his craft. Eventually though, power tools lifted a lot of the learning curve. It became easier and faster to create furniture. Eventually a lot of those power tools were replaced with automated CNC machines. With these machines you can pretty much throw anyone from the street who can read on the machine. Productivity has increased so much that you can pretty much buy furniture these days for not that much more than the cost of materials alone! It really is an incredible statement.

Now not to take the metaphor to far. I realize you can't turn science into an industrial process... it is a creative process as much as anything. The main point is that as you lower the learning curve, you enable a few more people to gain the new skills required.

Again, i'm not suggesting this was ACTUALLY the point which motivated him to come up with the concept. But to me, this is the really cool potential outcome.
What is wrong with IE11?
Definitely keep a screenshot of this for a final slide in your IPO roadshow deck 2 years from now
>They don't have the world's best food

Strongly disagree. We really do. But yeah I generally agree with your post.
Their service was terrible? Maybe you just had some rather unlucky experience. We've been using RackSpace (I'm based in the UK) for almost 2 years now and their service has really been fantastic. To give you one example, I had an almost 2 hour phone call (no charge by the way) trying to track down an issue with our LAMP stack.
I agree, and I see a big market especially in academic publishing. A lot of course book text is written in a collaborative fashion with word docs emailed back and forth. Penflip could be to collaborative writing what Dropbox is to team file sharing.

Being a single cofounder might have been a negative factor, in your rejection.
We scale based on load, so rather then having dedicated boxes being unused during quiet times we can scale our infrastructure down and then up when we need to. Going to a hybrid platform maybe in the future
> Docker works fine with rackspace, doesn't it?

I'm assuming what he meant is support for deploying Docker containers directly rather than renting a server and installing Docker on it and running your containers in that.
According to this article http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/15/a-global-shift-in-... foreign aid to India from UK amounts only to 280 million GBP; and something the Indian government is not at all keen in receiving in the first place!
I have been enjoying HackerNews before I even learnt much about YC. I am currently working for Google and I've worked for a YC company before, so I am pretty interested in this space. 700 days is slightly less than 2 years, it really is a very short amount of time in the grand scheme of things.

Also, most people create account on HN for the ability to comment on things, this is a fun site that's popular for way more than just YC related things.
I imagine it would be even easier with a conditional comment.

But... why is something so childish on the homepage of HN?
Show HN: Mobile XKCD in less than 25 lines of code
Its also parental and social pressure. All the best trying to explain the people around you, that you are joining ISRO and not some company like Wipro, TCS or Infosys. You will receive a nice lecture and may be have a angry fight session with your dad. In overall's you yourself will be tired after a few days when you watch some one doing far less meaningful, important or difficult work taking back big pay checks, driving a luxury car, and living in a >1cr flat. And then of course your marriage, wife, kids and expectations from them and all that.

Its truly sad that these people are paid so badly. Infrastructure and entire thing is so dismal, my heart aches that things of this importance are treated this way in our country.

I'm sure every Indian teenager wanting to do some meaningful job has faced this situation. I had a tough time convincing my parents I was about to leave a call center job in a big MNC to write embedded software at a small unknown firm. The situation deteriorated so badly my parents threatened they would fall very seriously ill if I didn't do as they say. Finally I had to relent to working at a big software giant.

People say fight the society. But you can only fight a few battles in life. Career is already a tough battle, fighting society to achieve to work something meaningful is waste of time and energy.

We still haven't changed. There are people who even have doubt's if projects like these are necessary. A safe job, a good pension to take care of, male children, jewellery, good deal of real estate and social pride is all we value in our society.

Mars project? Well who cares about that?
github repo here: https://github.com/enahs/xkcdmobile
I'm sort of a C++/Stroustrup fan I guess, but this confused me:

> C isn’t simpler for C-style programming than C++ is [...]

Is Stroustrup really arguing that C is not simpler than C++? How can it not be simpler? C++ is essentially C with a ton of features added on top.
Kind of offtopic, but it really grinds my gears when a site is perfectly functional without javascript, but then it has a noscript element blocking you from reading it. I know how to hide the noscript element. Even if it's not a noscript element, I know how to delete it from the DOM tree. Why would a site writer purposefully block people with js disabled from viewing their site? It's not like you can accidentally disable js in a browser, if it's off, it's off because I went out of my way to turn it off. And I can hide your opaque fullpage div just fine.
Remittances are money that Indians working abroad sent back to India. Is that aid??? And the quote again talks about "foreign direct investments". FDI. Does that read aid?

Where are you quoting that from? It is not good form to give a quote without a link. And you make a quote and come to a conclusion about aid. Btw, the UK aid to India is £280m.

Edit - Probably this one - http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/feb/18/uk-aid-india

Read the article again properly.
It's an overall strong application, but it's missing a few key components - namely, you're a single founder, and you're a bit early in terms of product and traction. That might've been enough to get in a few years ago, but competition and standards have gone up with each new batch (the single founder thing might've still held you back).

You'll probably have a better chance getting in the next batch, if your product continues to mature and you have more traction by then. If you're interested, I wrote about my experiences reviewing about 300 applications for a different accelerator, 500startups - might be useful http://www.techfounder.net/2013/08/22/after-reviewing-300-st...
Worked on the bulk of it over the course of a day, on and off. Thought about it for a while before that though (when I was unsure if I was going to apply). This was my third time applying[1], so I basically have the questions memorized at this point.

Oh, and I've been recording every thought and idea for the past three months (some of my lists: http://grab.by/rKOY), so filling out the application was mostly compiling those thoughts into readable form.

[1] Different ideas each time, spanning 3 or 4 years. Funny enough, last year I got an interview. By that measure, this is a regression :)
> Why do you think there was no YC interview? Any retrospection? Was it due to you being the only founder?

I would guess that was a major factor. YC's view on the size of the founding team is that one is too few, four is too many. pg told Drew Houston to find a co-founder and I know of a four-man team that were turned down two years ago despite having two engineering PhD coders on the team and a product that was already being used by thousands of people.
Jia Jiang's 100 Days of Rejection
Ie 11 is sweet. I would switch full time but my extensions are on chrome.

The pop up blocker is the best. Nothing gets past it.

Controls in ie are stuck in 1995.
Extensions in ie are fucking hard to delete or sometimes undeletable.

Apart from this, ie's aite.
For anyone interested in a tech specific version of this there is a site http://anyfu.com/ (I'm a fan but not associated).

I believe this model for connecting people for very brief engagements over the internet is an interesting one. With the educational model being pushed by companies like Coursera I could see something like this becoming popular for access to tutors or even peers studying the same subject. For quick help solving a problem there is obviously a problem of getting to sufficient scale in a 2-sided market place. Perhaps google will achieve that. I suppose the risk is becoming the yahoo answers or the expersexchange of the space.
That's just stupid. Welcome to the 90s. http://www.anybrowser.org/campaign/
I don't get the difference between 'seeing' my hand, and looking in the direction of where I know my hand to be.
>> is that space programs everywhere have good luck superstitions, many of them making less sense than a religious ritual.

Why so ? How does a religious ritual makes more sense than good luck superstitions ?
Said doctor should come to you, as is customary in many countries. Instead, in the US you have to drag your sick self in to see a physician. And pay a boatload for a 5 minute consult; ridiculous.
So do multiple things to make it harder for the naughty people, i.e. hash and then encrypt the result.

Hashing or Encrypting?

1) If you have to choose one or the other then obviously hashing (with a random salt and a relatively expensive algorithm, e.g. bcrypt et al with suitable work factor) is generally the way to go.

But it is still possible to brute force many of the easy passwords from a DB leak of bcrypt() hashes, it just takes a bit of time. From there you get to know that email address X uses password Y, which may open the door for hacking into other accounts where they've used the same passwords.

The people that get fucked over first from a DB leak of hashed passwords are those with weak passwords. A poor hashing algorithm (unsalted MD5, etc) may even expose seemingly "unguessable/random" passwords thanks to rainbow tables.

Even with bcrypt() hashed passwords you should be able to work through a huge portion of the top 100 passwords for all 130M accounts and come out with a huge number of email/password pairs.

Increasing the work factor of the hashing algorithm is a trade off, too high and you'll soon need extra servers just to cope with the extra CPU load of people logging in and having to check their passwords, too low and the hashes are easier to crack.

2) But, why not use bcrypt() to hash the passwords, and then some encryption algorithm to encrypt the resulting hashes?

Before anyone jumps in with it, doing this is not "security by obscurity" because you're not relying on the encryption key remaining secret alone to protect the password.

What it does protect you from is a basic leak/dump of the DB being open access for those who want to try cracking the bcrypt() hashes.

They're left with an initial problem of finding the encryption key before they can even start on the bcrypt() dictionary attack.

Sure it just takes someone to grab a copy of the login code (or wherever the encryption key is being stored) but you've protected yourself from a basic SQL injection attack that could be used to just dump the DB without access to the server to compromise the login code.

Also, hints:-

Why weren't the hints encrypted? (Including having a random n character 'salt' that is prefixed to them before encryption to prevent the same hints encrypting to the same string).

If the hints were encrypted you couldn't use them to help guess passwords.

Even if the passwords were hashed rather than encrypted, the unencrypted treasure trove of password hints would make the job of cracking the passwords much much easier.

Why were the hints even stored in the same table (or even on the same server) as the passwords? (Maybe they weren't and the hackers got both and combined the two datastores.)

Again, if the server was compromised enough that the source for the login code was obtained then the hints would effectively be in plaintext, but you've still protected the hint data from a simple DB dump hack.
Just had a thought - Outsourcing Space Exploration - makes sense?
I really don't get why Dropbox has acquired during the past two years Snapjoy, Mailbox, Endorse and Sold. Their product didn't change at all...
C is not simpler as C++ as you can program( with a few minor differences ) in C++ using C style. In that case both are equally complex.
So how much will performance servers cost? Why isn't DO a competitor in terms of pricing? I remember when I built on Rackspace's old API it was like 10 or 11 bucks a month for the cheapest server. Then the cheapest 2nd gen is like $16. So I am guessing this is less than $16 per month?
I see game developers, especially those one-man indie efforts, to be modern reincarnations of renaissance artist-cum-technologists. At their core is the artist that longs to explore unknown world through manipulation of certain mediums that may or may not lead to useful applications. I see the author as somebody that takes pride in seeing his work affect people's daily lives. An artist might not even care if anybody understands his work or if anybody cares about it at all.
He's just saying that if you write C in C++ it's as 'simple' as C itself.
> C++ is essentially C with a ton of features added on top.
You would just not use those 'ton of features on top'
Hey, that's an awesome idea! Really really awesome.

A bit of unsolicited feedback: It would be great if you could start offering whole "cataloges" of websites (e.g. [1] ) in some way. I hope you guys are thinking about my need for discount quality whisky!

[1] http://www.http://danmurphys.com.au/
Please send you Mac my way! Because there is also no good development environment outside OSX. But we've had this discussion...
Turn your iPhone into a head up Display with The Hudway App
It was just this July that we heard about Garmin’s HUD. It’s a portable device that sits on the dashboard of the user’s car, working with their smartphone to project a head-up display (HUD) onto the inside of their windshield. Russian startup Hudway has taken that same basic approach with its self-named free app, except that it utilizes just the phone – no projector is required.
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BTW: I really like the clean design.
Why go through all that when you could use the username or email together with the password to encrypt it with 3DES ECB mode? Those would be unique and users who have same passwords would still have different ciphertexts.
They accept donations, and they even take Bitcoin: https://archive.org/donate/index.php

Be sure to send them some!
The complexity of feature set of a language does not translate to complexity of programming in the given language. That's because if the problem is complex, then it might be easier to learn the more complex language features than solving the problem with simple language features.
> You can't really on the one hand claim your country is terribly poor, and needs handouts from other nations, and on the other play at being spacemen.

... and you can't really post on HN without showing some basic common sense.

FYI: "International remittances" is NOT foreign aid. It is money sent to India by Indians working abroad.

Foreign direct investment is NOT foreign aid. It is non-Indians buying Indian stocks.

Please read up on these before you criticize. Your bigotry is too obvious.

BTW: India has asked UK to stop the aid. Plus, any aid that UK does send should be considered a payment for all the stuff they looted from India (and the Indian lives lost fighting for UK in WW2).
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Actually, if you want to interpret robots.txt that way, it raises the problem of "how long can I consider a robots.txt valid for?"
From what I recall, Sold wasn't aimed at professional sellers - it was a middleman mostly targetted at people who just wanted to get rid of their stuff without having to deal with eBay directly, even if that meant getting less money for it.
Its okay, I upvoted it back for you.