skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
42 * $40M * 6% (average stake YC gets in company) = $100M

According to http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/25/y-combinator-13-7b-valuatio...:
- YC company valuations total $13.7 Billion
- 511 companies total

$11,000 + $3000 * # of founders = total investment in YC companies (let's just go with 17k for 2 founders on average) = $17K

$17000 * 511 = $8.7M

$100M - $8.7M = $91.3M

Clearly a pretty good investment =P
If you take a screenshot of an image with a Fourier Watermark does it retain the watermark?

If it does it's a better solution than using a metadata watermark.
This makes you a part of the problem. The government can only take away our freedoms if no one stands up when they try.
Startup Advisor Alice Zhang on SF Homeless: "Put them all in labor camps"
Trying to open this up on Chrome to see whether it works, it can't download files, because the S3 bucket doesn't give an Access-Control-Allow-Origin header.

Can they put a CORS configuration up? http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/cors.html#how... and http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/UG/EditingBucketP...
thepiratebay.sx seems down at the moment.

Edit: moved to thepiratebay.pe
GEORGE: When you look annoyed all the time, people think that you're busy...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yd9ma2UVLHM&t=17s
Generally if you are suspected of comitting a sufficiently serious crime -- where the prison term would be 18 months and above -- you can be remanded if there's a suspicion you are going to interfere with the investigation or flee.

The prosecutor requests the remandment, and a judge has to approve within a short period after the arrest (or release the suspect).

Isolation here can be requested if there's a suspicion the alleged criminal can interfere with the investigation, warn others, destroy evidence etc. by communicating.

You can try Google translate on http://www.themis.dk/searchinclude/Lovsamling/Retsplejeloven... if you want to know more.

This can in theory go on for 6 months, if the alleged crime would be penalized with less than 6 years in prison, or a 1 year if 6 or more, if the court approves the increase every 4 weeks.
I know Matz doing nothing at Heroku as he said in one of his talk. He focus fulltime into Ruby development.
Not sure why your "work mailing list" needs open tracking. Unless by "work mailing list" you mean "spam".
Somebody, fix "OFY" in graph header.
"I would say that Google Shopping is definitely not one of them. It's a terrible experience and nobody I know uses it intentionally."

UI/UX aside - it and Amazon are the largest online sources for product promotion, information and purchasing (when Google finally launches their marketplace). Google Shopping is heavily used.
If you have space for a pond but no reliable flowing stream, you can use the pond as the battery for your solar panels. Each kWh of storage in a 2m deep pond will take about 100 m^2 of area. A typical American house would use 6 kWh or so per night, but probably someone building a system like this would use less.

Calculations: https://www.google.com/search?q=12+kWh&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=...
More likely in a back-end database.
Generally, the imperative code isn't as flexible in different environments. For instance, if you look at the Gradle file for Gradle you'll find tons of stuff very specific to their actual computers they use to do the build. That is the opposite of what I want in a build file intended for third parties or even for medium teams.
It has nothing to do with TPB. He is accused of braking into the danish police systems, including out driver license database that holds our Civil Registration System number witch can easily be used to identity fraud. And this is just one of the accusations.
How I introduced a 27-year-old computer to the Web
If the coin is used by female Doges, does that make it a Bitchcoin? ducks
The answer is yes. All travelers arriving on international flights are screened by CBP, regardless of whether they are transit passengers. Before you go through CBP, you must collect your checked bags, which means after CBP, you must be dumped into the insecure area of the airport, rather than the sterile area. From there, you will need to clear TSA security to make your connection.
Note to dmor: I wouldnt put that copyright on the image. The data is shared by pg, not you. The image itself without the data has little value. Therefore, that copyright seems greedy and portrays a bad image to me. All in all, not a big deal, but someone can take a detail like that a turn it into a PR nightmere.
Is it bleeding etch or bleeding edge? I cant keep up with stuff anymore.
public function getYourPitchforks($year, $money, $housing, $safety, $politics, $scapegoat) {
if($politics[$year]['money'] > $politics[$year-1]['money']){
unset($scapegoat[$politics['id']]);
ksort($scapegoat['money']);
$scapegoat[0]['money']--;
$scapegoat[0]['housing']--;
$scapegoat[0]['safety']--;
}
$year++;
$money--;
$housing--;
$safety--;
if(count($scapegoat)){
$this->getYourPitchforks($year, $money, $housing, $safety, $politics, $scapegoat);
} else {
return array('money'=>$money,'housing'=>$housing,'safety'=>$safety);
}
}
This is why there is no shortage of angry young men for terrorist organizations to recruit.
Universe is a hologram
domain seized...moved to thepiratebay.pe
I feel the same way. I often wonder with all the bright minds and current innovations in tech, why we still continually try to come up with novel ways to send cat pictures over the internet. Surely there are more interesting uses for the vast technological resources available to this generation.
You are NOT a Software Gardener
It has nothing to do with this. He is not arrested in Denmark because of TPB.
All of us (considering we have families).

I personally don't mind doing a small task for free for a close family-member or friend if it doesn't turn into a running thing, and it improves their life somewhat. I have a decent quality-of-life so I guess it's only fair.
Photosynth 2.0 Preview [WebGL]
Preview of next gen photo-stitching from Microsoft
Five Ways to Manage Front-End Assets in Rails
If you haven't already, you should consult an accountant ASAP to check whether you need to pay estimated taxes before year-end to avoid a penalty.
Top 5 Awesome Ways To Save Money Through Energy Efficiency - Top 5 Awesome
TellApart Hits $100 Million Revenue Run Rate
As an interesting aside, it appears GCHQ had public key encryption almost a decade earlier (although not published until recently, of course).
I don't worry about technology creating unemployment. The vast majority of unemployment is created by government interfering with the price of labor.

If left to their own devices, people will trade with each other. They always have, regardless of what people they are not trading with are doing.
This is a really good point, I just copy/pasted the format for some old slides. I'll update it, definitely not the intent
Contextual Lockscreen Cover Hits Google Play w/ Less Battery Drain
I think I figured it out. Someone with moderator rights must have read the summary, not read the documentation in detail, and decided that I had only implemented regular old promises/futures and was calling this "time travel". They probably missed the point of promise pipelining -- which is something that no mainstream RPC system implements to my knowledge, only research systems like CapTP. So they demoted it for making what they assumed to be a ridiculous claim about a mundane piece of software.

Sigh.
Yes. One by one, I have been encountering issues with projects I've done in Node that are more easily fixed by rewriting in Python than by researching replacements for abandoned libraries that are breaking or dependencies that are not updated with the APIs they were written to interface with.

It's still handy for Grunt and Bower though!
that's so cool! btw, you can link to your equation here

http://vicapow.github.io/equation-plot-webgl/index.html#0.5%2Bsqrt(0.2-((x-0.5)%5E2%2B(y-0.5)%5E2))

edit: but HN seems to be messing up the urls :(
I have bad elbow issues and ergo keyboards help somewhat.
hey amiga fans - - - i have exactly one Amiga disk left that boots into an amazing cracktro with music that I have wanted to record.... I can't find the song on youtube anywhere...

but my A500 as a broken floppy drive. Are there any fanatics anywhere near Boston within 100 miles who would be willing to let me boot this disk on their machine and record the song?
Damn that was a nice system. Besides cygnus ed, that was some of the best money I ever spent.
Then they switch to two-pixel transparent GIFs as a workaround.
I don't think this is exactly the same as the proposed problem. What it's giving you is the expected value. This includes in its calculation the lower probability cases and the higher probability cases. For instance, there's a slim change of this happening when the number of employees is 365. It's been a while since I took probability, but I think the expected value is going to be larger than the minimum value needed to achieve a .5 probability if the probability graph is skewed, which in this case it is.
Funnily enough, I have two bosses – one has a PhD in computer science and one in geology. The latter one usually is much easier to deal with and understands more of what's going on.

This might in part be because the geologist (a) is in our office and doesn't just burst in every two weeks and (b) does at least a little scripting from time to time, while the other one didn't write a line of code in years.
So all authorities have to do to extinguish any "copyright freedom fighter" is to invent charges against them. Then apparently everyone will be A-OK with throwing them in solitary.

I think it's unlikely. But I also think authorities are sometimes corrupt. The only reason we know anything about this case is because they told us things. We're quick to believe them. Why?
I agree that electronic babysitters aren't the optimal way to raise a child, should one have a choice. Leaving your kid in front of a screen all day is certainly a bad idea.

What makes me incandescently angry are the people who think my friend and others like her should not be allowed to own this product, without offering any sort of alternative.
Email open stats have been bogus since most email clients switched to not loading external images by default.
Third it. The movie starts out looking like it's going to be pretty cheesy, but stick with it. This is a unique film.
Won't that just lead to people making machines with giant racks of RAM, causing the exact same difficulty race as we're seeing with the giant racks of ASCIs in Bitcoin?

And even if that's not the optimization (I'm not an expert on ProtoShares or memory-constrained algorithms), I am highly skeptical of anyone claiming a computation problem is optimally solved by a laptop, and cannot be optimized with custom engineering.
The Post Office Has Turned Amazon Into The Worlds Worst Brick and Mortar Retail
".. with as much money as the city spends on programs to help them.." - that's pretty much the answer right there.
Now you can live stream on YouTube
Yes, and as a consumer, I couldn't be happier. All that shit is customer-hostile privacy-invading bullshit and I'm ecstatic that Google is making a move that kills it. I vigorously object to things like tracking bugs that leak information about me without my consent, so I'm in favor of measures like Google's that get us further towards people being unable to go on data fishing expeditions such as were possible with inserting arbitrary tracking bugs in emails. HTML email is a giant attack surface not just for Outlook Express-style remote code execution, but for invasions of privacy. If a marketer can't do their job without invading my privacy, I have no sympathy for them and I hope that this technical change stabs their business model in the belly.
I'm not yet seeing this option available in my account. :(
I looked over the paper pretty quickly, but on a quick read it looks really nice. The data are really impressive, and they seemed to have pulled out really interesting trends for how transcription factors are affecting coding sequence. Furthermore, they map how variants found across the various cell lines they used (81!) to show that these variants actually are causal for transcription factor binding changes. For those saying this is not a big deal, or is obvious; it is, and is not (respectively).

It's been pretty clear for some time that codon choice is not random (hence codon optimization is useful when taking a gene from one organism to another), and over the last few years it's also been clear that codon bias can be evolutionarily constrained. For a while, it mostly thought to be based on tRNA levels (basically anticodons). However, it's been increasingly clear that there are other constraints to protein coding sequences than just the decoded protein sequence (aka the genetic code).

For example, we published a paper a few weeks back [1] showing that in bacteria (and probably higher organisms), the N-terminus of genes has a lot of rare codons and this is due to other constraints such as relieving mRNA structure to allow better translation of proteins. I think in the coming years, we will find that other regulatory elements also shape this code, including sequences that control splicing, small RNAs, mRNA degradation and transport, et cetera

Anyways, it's a pretty fun time in biology. The tools we have now make studies that were ridiculously impossible just a few years ago, a reality for an individual lab. I can't wait to see what the next few years bring.

[1] http://arep.med.harvard.edu/pdf/Goodman_Sci_13.pdf\

EDIT: Since my comment has hijacked the most useful comment linking to the original study, I'll link to the comment here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6897122
unless they are implementing this for fake email addresses, this is TERRIBLE!

it makes it super simple to enumerate valid email addresses.

patch it to fetch the images on valid+invalid email addresses, then we'll talk
Why can't they just build ffmpeg (with only h.264 enabled), instead of their own implementation of h.264?
I dont think that is true, YC seems to be progressively accepting later and later companies. the 2005 batch was a bunch of kids in college. 2013 is seasoned engineers working on it for a year already with massive traction.
You think the charges are invented? Why?
The current graphs don't say much. How about average/median/top valued company by year funded 2 years after funding?

Say in 2005 company X got funded, then its value from 2007 should be used.

Of course 2013 and 2012 cannot be included then, but it's obvious that older companies had a much longer period to build up value and thus the current graphs don't say all that much.
AOL Tightens CrunchBase’s Licensing to Block Competitors
> Everything about your post is correct except the "No,"

My first thought when reading this was that I would have nodded in agreement 90% of the time no matter what the remaining content of the parent had been.
Supercharge your Workflow in Sketch
Having to have signed one such waiver, it's treated much like a standard 'oh sign this so they'll get moving on your paper'. Again, because it's only for the 'nicer' journals, the 5% number is a bit misleading - only to the best research would this apply. And that's the unfortunate fact - it is too often the good stuff that bypasses the policy.

On the flip side, it is a point of friction, if small. It did give me a very specific moment for my complaint to be registered (even if overridden).
>How long before this discovery can be used in mainstream medicine?

Almost immediately. While it won't have therapeutic applications for some time, the first benefit will be helping scientists better understand the cause of certain diseases.

>ground-braking

That's like aerobraking, right? ;)
I really wish iOS enabled WebGL in Safari. Not sure why they don't, because it's available in web views on their iAd web view, and thus technically possible.
That's (very very roughly) 30% IRR which sounds kind of nuts to me.
account /2 for average probable dilution.
Why would they bother? Doesn't look like either party has different feelings/actions towards them. They seem to be doing fine with whoever is in charge.
Most people don't bother with them, it's like juggling namespaces, mainly a complete waste of keystrokes.

There's little to no chance of collisions but you have to use them constantly, which is annoying. Few benefits, lots of downsides.
> So shouldn't you instead be asking, "does the fact that most startups fail limit your use of startups?"

Valid point. I think there is something more frustrating to "We were bought, so our customers need to go away" vs "We tried but it did not work out."
If they had to spend money building in the back door, that would imply it didn't exist already.
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* Due to the nature of patents, “patent-free” tech does not exist.

* At scale H.264 is crazy cheap. It costs $6.5 million for YouTube to serve 72 billion hours of video. Still, it is infinitely more expensive than free.
Beneath Yellowstone, a volcano that could wipe out U.S.
All blogs show their Alexa ranking which is calculated by how many unique visitors per day the blog receives combined with how many page views it gets. For example, an Alexa ranking of #1 means it's the most popular site on the Internet where an Alexa ranking of #1,000,000 might mean the blog gets about 200 unique visitors per day with about 1,000 page views.

Therefore, by looking at the Alexa ranking, you can get a really good idea as to how much traffic you'll get. The price per article will be a function of a blog's Alexa ranking.
>Constrained Baseline Profile up to Level 5.2 (4096x2304)

Well, I wasn't expecting miracles from this, but constrained baseline profile only? That's very disappointing. Not only will this be unable to decode most of the H.264 content out there (web and otherwise), you could very likely get better results with VP8.

If only they'd have endorsed something like libavcodec instead...
Insane parenthetic style for javascript
Keygen
The analysis of a simple CRC32 key generator.
For the same reason that sending me a postcard doesn't entitle you to enter my house and take an inventory of my fridge. To get that information about a user, you should need informed consent, not just a marketer's wistful greed. That same "why not?" attitude is exactly the same bullshit user-contemptuous line of thinking that the NSA and the FBI use with their "intercept it all and let God sort it out" eavesdropping schemes.
You can easily try it yourself.

python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8080

creates a webserver serving the current directory, you can then create an email linking to a file in that directory and observe when it gets queried.
This. There are other forms of altruism than charity. Being born to privilege is a pretty large subsidy towards sufficiency. Caring for your own children is a form of altruism.

The poster seems to express an affinity towards Objectivist thinking based on some other comments (I wouldn't assume an ideology they haven't overtly claimed.), but has a very narrow definition of what altruism is. I would argue that this is a problem, because objectivism and its usefulness to society depends almost entirely on how you think of altruism.

Proponents of the viewpoint in general are very dismissive of things like paying for the care of the diseased, even when there's a strong and perfectly reasonable objectivist argument that you should do so purely out of self-interest because of how diseases live and are spread.
Yeah, I'm going to start working on that today. I think bloggers will be very interested considering that it's a great way to monetize their blog as well as receive awesome articles to provide to their reader base.
That's already the case; they see who posted the image first and it scores "SEO points" for that.
Thank you. This is what I was getting at. I hope we get closer to this with https://www.mailpile.is/
Or we could turn this around: all a criminal has to do to win support from the technorati is to help people pirate movies before committing a different crime. Then apparently everyone will find them to be terribly persecuted.
The end of prefabrication
Duh. Good point.
It's horrid if you use it to judge or justify, it's actually not so bad if it's something you use to record and analyze without judgment.

That's to say if you do it personally for the purpose of self-improvement, it's fine, when there's a social aspect of trying to determine who is pulling their weight it's going to more dishonest.
Has he been proven guilty?
Thanks for the idea. I just wrote a similar thing, based on this. Credited you in the header. :)
Mobile Phones and Privacy
Ah, I've always used snippets more for personal use, so when the time comes to evaluate yourself you have a record. Yes, they are public, but they've always felt more informational than a mandatory log of what you've done.
I see what you're saying and I used to think like this. But you can't think about what you have to lose now, you have to think about you could lose in the future.

For example, I'm reincorporating my company and talked to a startup lawyer this week. Did you know that if you incorporate in this calendar year, if you hold on to your stock in your company for 5+ years, you pay no capital gains taxes up to $10 million. Basically, if you ever sell your company many years from now, you have some big upside. It's not guaranteed that Congress will grandfather in 2014 for this rule. Once again, I am not a lawyer and only paraphrasing.

It's this example and dozens of other things you might not know and could potentially hurt you in the future. But glad you're getting it taken care of.
Is there a similar breakdown of companies YC lost money on?
Sounds like a perfect opportunity to shop locally! Check it out, http://localfirstaz.com/studies/index.php.
for comparison, here's a version in SVG: http://vicapow.github.io/dz/example/equation-plot.html
This is making us all look bad. People are lumping us all together. Us being "techies", whatever the hell that's supposed to mean.
Except that is usually during nights and weekends. It doesn't require a ton of expensive equipment and doesn't stop you doing your paid job.
You might be a data scientist if...
What a pathetic load of shit. Shades of CDDB[1] back in the day...

"Let's just crowdsource the collection of a huge and valuable database, and then - after the community has gifted us the database - turn around and screw the community."

Great job, AOL. Fuck you.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDDB
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It shouldn't matter whether these specific charges are made-up or not. At this point they're unproven allegations, and it's up to a court to decide whether they're valid or not.

It's important to realize that anytime you give the police power over people still facing trial, you give them that same power over anyone they can fabricate spurious charges against. That's why it's important to have things like warrants and pre-trial court orders, so that there's some accountability when the police detain someone over unproven allegations.
The "no" was directed at this statement, which I believe to be not very accurate:

> Google tried to avoid this scenario with 'snippets'

My point is that OKRs are meant to be used for tracking performance (such as what the article was talking about) and snippets are more for personal use or casually for information among teammates or other curious people who want to know what you work on.
Well, that logic works for any group of people and any possible crime. "All authorities have to do to extinguish 'pro life groups' is invent mail fraud charges against them".
Damn, I didn't think about that...
Have you looked at fibers? We've had a very good experience with them at https://starthq.com

Here's a talk my co-founder Alex gave on it: http://youtu.be/pmyDJnEza6A
Right, I live in SF and moved for tech but really embrace the city, get involved with my community and try to be neighborly. I only want what's best for all of the residents.