skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great post Jesse, As someone who has been both accepted and rejected by YC I can say this is absolutely the truth, I made it to YC in one batch but I've been rejected both before that and since, I was always under the impression past founders had better chances of making it when applying again but that certainly isn't the case with me.

That said, I'm an entrepreneur, its what I do and if a YC rejection letter stopped me I would've probably quit before I ever got started multiple times.

I'm not a hugely successful guy, but I've had a seven figure exit without taking outside funding and I'm raising capital now for a new startup without the YC name behind it and that's going just fine.

The most important thing you have in your startup is DRIVE. If you believe you know where you're headed its not a matter of IF you can convince someone else to join you(this goes for VC's or employees) its WHEN you convince them to join you.

At my first company I sold cars on the weekends to make payroll, and if I had to do that again tomorrow to keep this new company running I would.

Not everyone succeeds because they're the best at something, a lot of people make it because they're the most stubborn at it.
SAC Capital to pay $1.8bn bill in largest fine for insider trading
Skitch is bulky. Dropbox/Cloud.app are great, but too simple.

There's definitely middle ground for quick annotation, without going crazzzyyyy. If you can screenshot, annotate, and upload in 5-8 seconds, you've got my $$.
Finland’s half-baked dream to take back Nokia from Microsoft
Nexus 5 proves easy to repair, says iFixit
Sorry for my late response.

3DES has a block size of 64 bits, or 8 bytes. Unlike a hash function where the whole input affects the whole output (the strong avalanche criterion and whatnot), in ECB mode encryption, data is only changed on 8-byte block boundaries.

So, for example, suppose the user's username was 8 characters, their email was 16 characters, and their password was some more characters. Then if you use

3DES-ECB(uname || email || passwd)

where || denotes concatenation, then uname and email will take up 3 blocks and the password will be the rest... this is essentially the same scenario as the Adobe leak, except that the attacker now has to worry about how the password falls across the block boundaries. In this contrived scenario, the password starts a new block of its own, so the addition of the uname/email adds no security here.

Since the uname/email lengths are public, you still might be able to cross-reference sections of identical passwords with other users, depending on how the blocks line up. In any case, this scheme still doesn't offer the unconditional security level you'd like.

I'd recommend the Matasano crypto challenge [1]. It covers some material similar to this pretty early on, so you get your feet wet here.

[1] http://www.matasano.com/articles/crypto-challenges/
Have you actually used it?

Yes. I use it daily, and so does my team, some of whom have also used it in other places as part of other teams. None of us knows a simple, effective, reliable way to set up a centralised server without going via one of the web server routes.

Literally all you have to read is:

No, it isn't. If you're going to be patronising, please at least have the courtesy to read your own links before posting. There is exactly one place in that document that refers to using direct SSH access, and as I've noted elsewhere in this thread, it doesn't work out of the box if you're using a Windows client rather than say Linux, a fact I have just personally confirmed before posting here.
Indeed. I was the first person to report this situation in English in 2007, so I know this topic well.
So you are saying any software cannot be an achievement if it has bugs and UX issues? Or does it have to have a tumblr?
Soluto’s acquisition, thoughts, and where I am today
Hah! Real time strategy. Try playing Dead Space without stressing out. Constant deficit of ammo and horrifying monsters ready to jump out at you when you think it's safe.
MVC PubSub & Chaining explained in 20 lines of JS
The book isn't an auto-biography, so she could just be upset that some writer went and misrepresented her & her husband's lives.
WebView-based Android apps may experience touch issues migrating to KitKat
yeah the build is staled on readthedocs ... trying to see how to fix that. They will eventually show up sorry. You can find them in the docs/ directory in the repo
Nexus 5 Teardown
I'm saying that your classification of multiple tiers as having the 'same' reward is misleading, because those tiers have no reward.

I can't answer your question because I've only paid attention to a handful of kickstarters, and they were product-selling rather than goal-fundraising.
"Money Laundering" is an oxymoron. The whole concept of money requires that one unit is an equal store of value no matter who possesses it or how it was obtained. Adding conditions on exchanging destroys independent/classless power by making the value of one's liquid assets dependent on their political connections.

FWIW this is something Bitcoin didn't bother to get right, and will be its downfall, starting as soon as brick and mortar businesses are required to register their wallet identities.

Liberty Reserve isn't the first competitor to USD that USG has shut down, and it won't be the last. It's unfortunate that when economics finally prevails against these goons, the market correction will probably cause the collapse of the USA.
Modding HL was how I got my first real introduction to C/C++; I follow a bunch of tutorials off of Wavelength/Radium (I think?) and managed to change a few things.

It seems like the mod scene for a lot of games has kind of died out, at least for shooters.
Any plans to change the intent to include non-work related meetups? Ex, I want to learn a particular language, I can therefore connect to someone who also wants to learn it (and is near me) so we can study together or perhaps someone who already knows it and wants to learn my language.

Far from the intended goal of your biz, I know, but thought I'd ask.
Any real economist? Then surely they are unified on this position, and there isn't any debate at all because its just so sparkingly obvious (again, this isn't true, there are plenty of theories out there).

Free market monopolies are only allowed to last a decade or less BECAUSE of government intervention; otherwise they would last much longer. Your 100 year time line horizon corresponds to about the time when governments began regulating and dismantling monopolies.
I ran into a security error 18 with Safari after pasting the image from clipboard and running the data through Canvas .getDataURL(). Perhaps Safari devs could make an exception for clipboard images?
So if I'm say, a top-tier nuclear physicist, the doc should come to me? Who makes the determination?
I just submitted the actual teardown instead, probably of more interest: http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Nexus+5+Teardown/19016
The first two for sure, the last bit maybe.
Check out all these old trials:

http://www.microsoft.com/games/trial_versions.htm
In Firefox 25 on Linux, Array Join Nocopy seems to perform the fastest.
Wow this is awesome, it answers so many questions.

I'm actually surprised that Mozilla didn't sue the other browser for using its name in their User-agent browser. This may have secured Mozilla's place as #1.
Very positive. Until somebody is incapable of managing themselves for a variety of reasons - not just mental health or drug addiction, but lack of education or self-control.

Its galling to hand out money and have it gambled away or spend on cigarettes and whiskey. Don't laugh - a generation of women had to scrape by during the depression because the paltry paycheck went into a bottle. That's why we have food stamps etc - they can't be spent on anything but food.
Same for Safari v 6.1.
I wonder, on my macbook I always did cmd+shift+3 or cmd+shift+4 without hitting ctrl.

I am not sure if there is a difference, if not maybe you can simplify the message :)
There's one or two listed here: http://www.seed-db.com/accelerators
That was my thought, too. I handled Hackaday using a PIII laptop, running Plan 9, over a residential cable link.

It's just not that challenging.
Great work! It might be helpful to show images of common keyboards to show where the print screen button is. For example, on my keyboard it's labeled PrtScn. I've had to explain hundreds of times where the print screen key is. https://www.google.com/search?q=keyboard+images&oq=keyboard+...

To make it even more dead simple, you may even want to show a video. I'm not kidding.
You may therefore be intereseted in following https://github.com/landscapeio/prospector, which is the 'command line' version of Landscape. If you already have pylint setup and configured, then it's probably not useful to you, but for people who are starting out, it aims to be helpful straight away and to have sensible defaults rather than the onslaught that you usually receive the first time you run Pylint.
Why it isn’t ‘wrong’ to eat meat
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This really echoes with me - I see too many startups focusing on the wrong things or more importantly forgetting that they need to do everything...

1) You still have to do the things that you're bad at

You're a developer/designer/architect/[insert profession] so that's what you do. You build great apps or you design beautiful pixels. That's probably what people have paid you to do and that's also what you're good at. It's also highly likely that you enjoy it. The problem is that you focus too hard on what you can do and not on things you can't do. This means that you launch products that are half-baked. Most people launch without focus on customers or marketing but sometimes it's a lack of focus on design or user interaction. The point here is that you need to start looking at things that you don't enjoy because that's probably the area that needs the most attention. Now, this doesn't mean you have to learn how to be something you're not. You can outsource it, hire someone, partner with someone... but you do need to do it if you want to be successful.

2) Do the unscalable things

This is of course copied from pg's essay [1] but it is so relevant to startups. Early in the life of a startup, you need to make sure you have excellent customer service and a thirst for growth. 'Moving the needle' is what counts - you need to do it quickly. When you're bootstrapping this can often mean cold calling or 'shoe leather'. Many first-timers brush this aside as 'old marketing' and 'it'll never work'. It does work. However, it's hard work. Focus on the things that move the needle early on, however troublesome and manual, because you then you will learn what's important enough to build. You can then automate much of what you already know and move on to the next challenge.

[1] http://paulgraham.com/ds.html
We really like that. I think the biggest pain point for people, at least when it comes to giving them reason to reach out to strangers, is usually work related. But there's definitely something there. The goal is to facilitate conversations that are mutually beneficial.
http://coffeeme.in is Tinder for startup people. I've personally used it to meet like 50 people in the past 30 days. Obviously you don't have to meet so many if you don't want :)

Disclosure: It's my startup.
I wouldn't consider it this risky. Twitter is the second largest social network and in fact very different from competition. Facebook showed there are enormous amounts of money to be made from social, it just takes some time to figure it out and I'm sure Twitter can.
Anything you like. I'm not a coffee person, so I usually get a soda and a snack, something to fiddle with like stirring a coffee.
Has there been any kind of official response from Bittorrent about this?

Are they planning on open sourcing the code at a later date or have they simply kept quiet this whole time, hoping the issue will go away?
My college-age daughter LOVES to cook and finds it relaxing. I call her my "personal chef" and have basically turned over all household food stuff to her, freeing my time for other things.
Win9x is not a portable OS. Because of its DOS and Windows heritage, the underpinnings are very much tied to x86 and would be difficult to port to ARM. (Although not as difficult as OS/2, which uses the dreaded ring 1.)

Whereas Windows NT has always been portable. Except that Microsoft has already ported NT to ARM.
Higher stakes? Challenge accepted, says Microsoft
Single founder applications are probably a red flag that the founder isn't good at networking, and YC is all about networking. They probably fear you'd be reclusive at YC.
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If anyone else has the same question, their FAQ says they use Prospector to generate the metrics. Prospector in turn appears to mainly use pylint.
Fantastic. Tighten up the user interface and this should gain traction. Checking out the Github repo now.
> Also Linode is a security nightmare

To be fair, Rackspace could also be a security nightmare just waiting to be discovered. For example, as of about a year ago, the way Rackspace generated the initial root passwords for cloud instances was by taking the hostname and appending a bunch of random characters to it. Unfortunately, they put a DES hash in /etc/shadow, so only the first 8 characters mattered, most or all of which were taken up by the predictable hostname. And yes, root logins over ssh were on by default. When this was reported to them, they initially denied it, and only acknowledged and fixed it after much wrangling and, in my opinion, an excessive amount of time.
Maybe it's not what you intended, but to me you seem to be proud of your ignorance about a piece of software that's part of computer science history. Instead of writing that comment, you could have learned something by reading about TeX on Wikipedia.
You might want to do some moderation on tags. Looking up "Android" brings up "Android", "Android Development", and "Android App Development". Looking up "Golang" returns "golang" and "Golang".

I wonder how much people are going to miss out on connections if they pick one of three terms for what's probably the same idea.
even if there is a load of JavaScript, it should still be grand... the JS is run on the client, not the server...
Agreed. Just taking a look at their hardware:
"Intel(R) Xeon(R) E5-2670 2.60GHz based systems (up to 32 vCPUs!)"

That's clearly the v1 (Sandy Bridge) E5 2670 that came out in March 2012, with 8 cores per CPU, 16 cores per machine, and 32 logical threads.

The v2 (Ivy Bridge) E5 2670v2 came out back in September with 10x 2.5GHz cores per CPU, or 20 cores per machine, and 40 logical threads. As well as having slightly improved performance/clock due to the new architecture.

Not that it should really matter; once you get up to the prices of the Performance 1 4GB or 8GB, bare metal makes more sense. An E3 1240v3 has 74% the performance of an E5 2670v1, and would obviously run circles around a 12.5% or 25% share of the E5, without even taking the I/O hit of running virtualization into account.
Without ctrl, the print screen is saved on your Desktop as a PNG. With ctrl, the screenshot is copied to the clipboard.
Show HN: Tinder for Startup People
I saw a couple posts about meeting people for coffee today. Thought I'd throw this one out there.

Disclosure: It's my startup.
Yes, we definitely need to clean those tags up. Thanks for pointing it out.
Skynet (beta): The rise of the Beam robot
I believe you mean a tiny grain of salt, as such news articles have so little meat to consume.
Working on it! New interface should be out in the next few weeks. Check out the "frontend-makeover" branch if you are interested.
Tea. Decaf/herbal as desired.
Think of circus as a more modern and intelligent version of xinetd. It binds to the socket and then hands off requests to the workers. Here is why this is awesome...

So we use circus to maintain about a dozen apps and a few of them are django apps running under Mozilla's chaussette wsgi server. When we do an autodeploy via jenkins, jenkins will run circusctl to stop that worker, replace the code, futz a symlink, and then start the worker again. We front the apps with apache 2.4 (because it is as fast as nginx) + mod_proxy. That gives us ldap access control through apache and shiney LTSV formatted logs that tools like logstash or splunk can easily consume. We then front apache with a virtual ip provided by a tool such as keepalived for moar web scales.

For all in-flight requests, they will just hang as circus proper will hold onto the connection keeping the socket open. It will pass the socket to the first worker started once it is restarted. So during a deploy, a request might hang for a few milliseconds, but it never blows up. It is awesome in that it allows you 0 downtime deploys (at least for our django web stack it does).

Circus is a super elegant piece of software. Kudos to Mozilla for finally making a release. I'd been bugging them for awhile: https://github.com/mozilla-services/circus/issues/561

Edit:

Example of a 0 downtime restart config using uwsgi (instead of chaussette):
https://github.com/scottkmaxwell/circus/commit/ef0000fe4ef3c...
To be honest I don't care too much about the default desktop, but I think this commit message is particularly well-written and leaves little room for the (inevitable?) flame-wars about the topic. The closing sentence got me laughing.
When I used the word reward I used it in the context of Kickstarter. That's the terminology they use: http://www.kickstarter.com/help/faq/backer%20questions

Whether a project creator chooses to provide an actual reward in the sense that most people use the word is up to him or her. I'd wager that electing not to do so is strongly correlated with a project not reaching its funding goal.
Can I add this as a quote to my email signature? :)
Such a thing was created many years ago:

http://www.adamlock.com/mozilla/plugin.htm

One could guess that it was never included by default because Mozilla did not want to encourage the use of ActiveX controls.
I really suggest you give some warning that this saves to a public site, I hit save and had my email in the background, thankfully there was no private information on screen.

This gave me quite a panic, please fix it or else someone else will make a bigger mistake.
Sounds great. I'd love to contribute to something like this.
An easy jdbc framework to be an alternative to ibatis/mybatis
one single goal: focus on pure sql and provide an easy api to access database.
When was the last time you looked at Mercurial? Recently the community put a lot of effort into performance and it should be very close to git's performance. On the flexibility site, Mercurial has the histedit extension as well as rebase which should give you most flexibility. The bare Mercurial is intended to not do much, but you have to enable a few of the shipped extensions in order to get all the functionality.
If you invested $1,000 in Amazon in 1997, you'd be $239,045 richer by now
This is a pretty neat hack and I can certainly see the fun in setting up something like this.

However, I am amused that the load balancer is a fairly powerful PC[1] that could probably serve the web site just as effectively as the whole cluster of 8 RPis and then some. On the other hand, the PC probably uses a lot more power...

1: http://raspberrywebserver.com/raspberrypicluster/raspberry-p...
Personally I really love this idea, but isn't anyone else seriously concerned that Google is taking over the whole `World's Information Economy`?

I think BuyOuts should be regulated, this could help the whole industry and econmy.
Google should probably be fined with multi billion penalties for using their monopoly power.

• ISP's with Google Fiber
• PayPal and Banking Industry → Google Wallet + Google Checkout
• Automobile Industry → Google Car
• TelCo's → Android+Nexus (a google plan soon?)
• Small Businesses in "successfull niche sectors" → BuyOuts
• RIAA, Music and Video Industry → Google Play
• Energy Industry → "Energy startup" BuyOuts
• Spy Agencies → =sumOf(Google Products)
• …And even more that I've not listed, or that is to come…

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

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IMHO:
(Services stealing the market of businesses, who lost their job or company should be paid their loss. Services not focusing on their main product should be forced to get closed, or get opened up to the public. I know this is very harsh and I don't think that all of this is necessary or should really be done, but someone has to stop Google from acting so dominantly and strategically. They're aiming for world leadership, nothing less and are killing every enemy sector, one by one. This is not a paranoid act of me to boycott Google. I use their services every day. But I don't want them to kill every other sector, just because they're not innovating as fast as Google can (by forcing innovators to a BuyOut with millon/billion dollor offers).)
REM0TE possible for the "right" candidate from Europe?
> Then people can move elsewhere. People won't tolerate it forever.

Are you referring to emigration? Ya, that happens for particularly bad governments, who don't have a monopoly on power in the world. Of course, moving can be tough, you might have to slug it out in a boat to reach Australia.

> While this is possible in theory, it hasn't happened in a free market.

Of course it has. Pre-sherman anti-trust act it happened all the time.

> I live in a country where people will travel 4000 KM for a job. People will move if they perceive economic conditions to be unfavourable. If enough people do this, the mine owner will be forced to raise wages or face a shortage of labour.

I live in a communist country where people will do the same. They might even move out of country.

> Only Americans would make an accusation of political bias in a discussion such as this, using such terms (libertarian). Fact is, the study of economics is the same whether you're in a market economy or a controlled economy (and likewise whether you vote right, left, or centre). And most economies are mixed BTW.

Your opinions do not match the universal truths of an economist, of which I know many (of different nationalities). Libercrazians like to pretend that they are supported by economists, most of whom (barring the Austrians) think they are whackos.
You mean besides the business it would get?
aaand... it doesn't work :)
OK that launcher idea sounds useful.

Another interesting failure mode is some mod authors stop development or apparently disappear. Everything I've read implies Thermal Expansion simply stopped in 1.5.x and its still not compatible with 1.6.x or later. Of course that may be out of date or inaccurate information.

One general startup concept to think about is minecraft mods are another example of an ecosystem built on another companies playing field; much like the companies that write facebook games.
It prompts you if you try to send an email to someone without using their public key. I dig it.

Edit: Also links you to xkcd if you pick a crappy password: http://i.imgur.com/TJ3QPP7.png
Addressing the Threat of Silent Data Corruption
In Sweden we added legislation to allow the Swedish FCC to evaluate and approve digital signature systems (by evaluating the security level of the technical system and the of the certificate authority). The law doesn't mandate any specific technical system. Approved systems are legally just as valid as a pen-and-paper signature.

It's worked extremely well. There are a couple competing systems. Some use smartchip ID cards, some use smartphone two factor auth, and others use a certificate file on the computer. The most popular system is run by a consortium of banks and uses a certificate file, and supports Windows, Mac and Ubuntu Linux through a browser plugin. Most government services like filing taxes, address change, student loans, etc support 3-4 different systems.