skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good article. A few additional things to note:

1. Most founders don't have to think about hedge funds as a funding source. They're not doing seed/early stage deals. There are 300-600 private companies that hedge funds track and care about. It's later stage, pre-IPO companies.

2. GGV Capital (article author) is a late stage investor so they may compete with hedge funds, but more often than not, hedge funds are providing capital that VCs cannot. Hedge funds are a much much larger asset class than VCs and VC has been contracting. So when a VC-backed company needs big $$, VCs need to syndicate and corporates and hedge funds are often jumping into these deals.

3. This trend is going to increase. As private companies stay private longer, hedge funds and public market investors in general are taking more interest in the private company universe. And they look at private compnaies as investment targets and as potential disruptors of their public company holdings.

4. Hedge funds are a great deal more data-driven and analytical than their VC cousins. VC is still very artisinal and instinct driven. It will be interesting to see how their behavior and approaches influences VCs, if at all, over time. (We sell data to hedge funds investing in private companies and so see how they use data)

Notes:

1. Hedge and mutual funds put $2.45 billion into private companies last year - http://www.cbinsights.com/blog/trends/hedge-mutualfund-tech-...

2. Corporates part of 4 of 10 largest tech financings - http://www.cbinsights.com/blog/trends/tech-corporate-venture...
Because it is often really convenient, particularly with a simple macro preprocessor like cpp but in other circumstances too. I like gcc's approach of forcing you (if you have the right warning enabled) to put an extra pair of unnecessary parentheses around assignments in expressions.
I did - mediocre. Neither excellent nor terrible.
I would guess this batch (Summer 2014). They said next batch and it was announced prior to the opening of the summer batch.

"become president of Y Combinator starting next batch"
pg, it seems like switching from non-profit to for-profit doesn't work.
How to Explore Cause and Effect Like a Data Scientist
Can someone point me to some relevant information on this kind of problems? Like unofficial clients and their legality and pitfalls.
because, for example in C, such a incompatible change would alienate most developers used to the very ideomatic

if((val = function(args)) != expected)
return val;
Ostensibly they did, but early on they had so many coupon codes and promotions that I never once actually paid for it. And then it went free for a year after the Google acquisition.
Real-Time Mobile Analytics Platform Amplitude Takes On Flurry and Mixpanel
Sorry, but the question was quite disrespectful. We are presenting a high-security solution to an important problem and the ignorant observer proposes to use something extremely unsafe and insecure as an alternative without even trying to understand the problem.

Here's the motivation, right on the first page:

"This can be viewed as an ultimate solution for secure storage of bitcoins as no individual computer system can be fully trusted (e.g. even RNG may leak information about private keys through ECDSA signatures [5]). By spreading the trust between several independently operating computers the risk is significantly reduced. The attacker not only has to compromise several computers instead of just one, but beforehand they must find out which computers are involved (which is made much harder when blind signatures are being exchanged). Therefore the scheme enables safer Bitcoin storage on conventional personal computers and smartphones without need for specialized hardware or compromising privacy."

To my excuse, I only allowed myself to be a bit arrogant while providing a respectful answer anyway. This both answers the question and signals that something can be improved in the discussion.
OSX 10.8.5 here, Safari not vulnerable according to the site
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I didn't say shit never happens. Of course, take time off, work shifted hours, do what you need to do. But don't check in shit code and then make excuses. Crappy code is worse than no code at all.
There are questions worth asking that can't be answered (for now or forever) by science. Your comment betrays a kind of narcissistic empiricism the devalues anything outside it's own power.
How MasterCard and Visa Just Made Banks the Next Big Players in Mobile Payments
Built an art porn site in a drunken stupor
Drinking with buddies at a tech accelerator and felt that there needed to be a site just for art porn (it had been an idea I had for a few months). Everyone said they'd use it so I figured I could crank it out real quick.<p>At 2am, www.faprt.com was born. It weighed 60 videos scrapped from 5 popular tube sites. It pulls in new ones every 24 hours.<p>I'm using CasperJS to scrape the sites.<p>Let me know what you think: http://www.faprt.com
Wow, it wasn't long before Facebook shut them down. ;-)
Sanders, that is quite an inspiring story. I wonder if all your six tries are for the same startup, or do you actually changed your ideas during these six times.
Ubuntu is a Free Software project and there is a small group of volunteer testers before every release. In fact you can be one of them, right now, for the upcoming 14.04 release: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/

> Really, I like what they're trying to do with Unity. But if your goal is to improve the user experience, you don't ship wacky, half finished stuff to a shit-ton of users.

Amen to this.
I hope the someone fixes a patch for jailbreak'ed devices.
For better or worse, these figures aren't quite as significant as they seem, because a lot of alumns restrict what their donations can be used for. E.g. the Widener one for Harvard's main library, which was fantastically restrictive even for that, and also required a swimming test since a son died in the Titanic disaster (not that being able to swim would have made much difference in water that cold).

So, yeah, the interest could pay for all the tuition, except X of it is restricted to the law school, Y to the med school, Z to arts and sciences but not in any way that it can contribute to tuition, etc.

Ah, and tuition money is particularly valued, because it's unrestricted....
Bah, I loved the menus being in the global bar. Made so much more sense, and makes the screen feel larger.
I'm in total agreement, but that doesn't change the reality of hiring practices.
"Are there any ways by which I could motivate myself to study more?"

You told us, the answer is no.

You already dedicate your time to programming, because you need it. I also needed it when I was your age.

In my case I started programming while also studying engineering in Europe. I made a company with the code I accumulated over this time, with the knowledge of programming being really useful to manage other people(and identifying who is really good or not at it and so on).

People consider me rich now(there is always someone else with more money, but I have more than what my family needs), but I went through very hard times before it(my family wanted me to get a good job instead of risking so much).

If you force yourself to study more, you will regret it.

My advice:

Focus on learning to study more efficiently, the idea is to use the time you already use to study faster and get better grades while also giving time to programming.

Learn from the masters, read the Audiobook "The Now habit", learn aabout mindmaps and mnemonics, and always go for the best.

Use software for remembering stuff.
I suppose you would say splitting your C++ into separate source files is a "workaround" for slow compilation times, too? It could be, but both are probably good practice anyway.
Buying a lottery ticket is no more irrational than buying a movie ticket. It buys you a little thrill -- the possibility that you may become rich.
Not just PowerPC, they've declared IA-32 dead as well, moving to x86-64.

Keep in mind Safari is not a critical part of OS X and can be deleted without affecting anything.
Microsoft = Horse and Buggy company

Windows = Windows

Google = Railroad company

Chromebooks = Trains

He is saying Microsoft is trying to complete with something that is leaps and bounds better than what they have to sell. I'm not saying I agree with the that statement but that is what he is saying.
Ford seen ditching Microsoft for Blackberry in future cars
>> Is there a case where the compiler won't short-circuit the || statement on the first failure?

Left-to-right, short-circuit evaluation of the logical operators is so deeply rooted in C idiom that a mainstream compiler that doesn't respect it would be practically unusable. But perhaps it wouldn't work in a hobbyist compiler, or a non-standard dialect of C.
Haptic Knob
facebook (could be replaced with youtube, or twitter) make their money from (or, at least,convince investors they will at some point make money from) user generated content, as it is user generated content which draws in the eyes which the advertisers pay for.

This manifesto of sorts pushes this argument forwards to assert that all activity on social media should be considered 'work' and therefore should receive a wage.

Theie argument is a bit like the traditional marxist (often trotskyist) notion of the transitional demand (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transitional_demand), in that it makes a demand which can be argued for rationaly, but that capitalism/the borgeouise state cannot meet, thereby creating a kind of intellectual crisis for the ruling order.
Ah, but note my comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7283752 on how much of endowments are restricted by the donor. And how tuition is entirely unrestricted....

Now would also seem to be a bad time, certainly MIT and Harvard are really hurting for operating and capital funding. Brand new Olin College (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_W._Olin_College_of_En...) had to drop their full tuition offering to all students in 2009.
Well, except for the whole distribution wars thing where there's this antiquated and unnecessary system of middle men that you must use by law and are used to keep the big players big and lock out the newcomers.
> This discovery excites me because the person also mentions that it has Caucasian characters in the manuscript.

That actually, to my mind, increases the probability that it is nothing serious. When Westerners 'discovered' the Caucasian alphabets there was a brief mania for them among the small number of people who got excited by that kind of thing. One result was the 'Theban alphabet':

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

Which looks semi-profound and a little like Georgian, but is only just a bog-simple glyph cipher on top of the Latin alphabet, based partly on the recent publication of Georgian grammar in Latin.

Voynich's Caucasian characters may have just been following the latest trend in cryptography/occultism.
> I do write single statement conditionals without braces, but I write them on one line

That's fine until you write

if (something) do_something(); do_something();

or worse:

if (something); do_something();

I've actually seen something very similar to that one.

You haven't really changed the dimensions of the problem by putting it all one one line. Only the whitespace is different. Sure it looks wrong to you; but so does the incorrect code from apple.

I don't understand the need to omit braces; it doesn't make the compiled program any smaller. And denser source code is not always more readable, or we'd prefer "? :" to "if" every time.
Everything other than the education component seems inherently wasteful to me. Is there a way to see that these funds are reallocated going forward?

Edit: public health could be alright, but there's no way to tell at this level of specification. It would be great to see some improvement in mental health services, for instance.
Attach the fish to a Roomba! There goes the rest of my weekend...
Show HN: online service to automatically create passport photos
I agree that they should. This is one of the types of errors that lint was traditionally used to find.
Shocking opulence revealed as Ukraine leader flees home
Looks like they're taking Telegram down with them.

It seems to me that the already massive rate at which WhatsApp users were fleeing to Telegram has accelerated to the point Telegram can't handle it anymore either.
They successfully migrated their operations on Facebook's data centers.
> That is disputed and there is much talk of rigged elections, but I don't know enough about the elections to have an opinion.

The presidential elections were "certified" by international observers. So I think it's fair to say that they were fair.

However, after becoming president, Yanukovich had the Constitutional Court change the Constitution and make Ukraine a presidential republic, consolidating in his hands a lot of power presidents in Ukraine were not supposed to have. He reportedly used that power to rig the parliamentary elections and gain complete control of the Parliament.
Impossible to delete account with Talenthouse
The rep says "Unfortunately there is no way for you to delete your current profile at the moment due to the structure of our cloud computing system".

How could this possibly be the case?
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3 Good Karma - democratizing corporate philanthropy

2 Backspac.es - mobile photo storytelling

1 Beacon - fund a writer, read everything on the platform
What about Microtik's gear?
This might seem crazy to those on HN. But Ford has had a lot of problems with the MS software and it has hurt them.

What you might not know is that Detroit is one of the few remaining beachheads for Blackberry in the US. Detroit is one of the last two cities in the USA to have Blackberry retail stores. So the company brand isn't as tainted here as it might be elsewhere even though I realize this isn't the phone OS.

Perhaps this is how Blackberry makes their comeback - as a car OS?
Exactly! So strange apple didnt have a testcase for this.
#1: Spend more money on experiences and less on things.

#2: Don't dread potentially poor outcomes because they are never as bad as they seem.

#3: Competence, confidence, and efficiency go a long way.
Sometimes the best thing you can do is inspire people to do great things and with people like this in our community it's hard not to be inspired.

Although I haven't made it into YC yet I would definitely love to help anyone out even if it just means sharing my thoughts about your idea/startup :)

Shoot me an email @ tony@tonyrice.me or tony@automate.ly
Since the discussion about the flawed security protocol emerged here, I follow Telegram.

Assuming that this is mainly caused by the Whatsapp takeover I am really fascinated how many people (and how fast) are changing, especially in an area - non tech-savvy consumers - where I would have expected the usual 'I don't care' attitude...

The future will tell, but it seems that for many people this announcement resulted in more privacy awareness then the uncoverings of Edward Snowden.. Somehow sad..
The comments here blow anymore. Good thing I'm hell banned.
Yet another it-must-be-the-NSA comment.
I don't know if the rest is fiction, but it didn't cause the crash. Some traders I know have told me that many knew they were wiped out before futures/markets opened.

These can help:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Monday_(1987)#Timeline

"In 1986, the United States economy began shifting from a rapidly growing recovery to a slower growing expansion, which resulted in a "soft landing" as the economy slowed and inflation dropped. The stock market advanced significantly, with the Dow peaking in August 1987 at 2722 points, or 44% over the previous year's closing of 1895 points.
On October 14, the DJIA dropped 95.46 points (a then record) to 2412.70, and fell another 58 points the next day, down over 12% from the August 25 all-time high.
On Thursday, October 15, 1987, Iran hit the American-owned supertanker, the Sungari, with a Silkworm missile off Kuwait's main Mina Al Ahmadi oil port. The next morning, Iran hit another ship, the U.S. flagged MV Sea Isle City, with another Silkworm missile.
On Friday, October 16, when all the markets in London were unexpectedly closed due to the Great Storm of 1987, the DJIA closed down another 108.35 points to close at 2246.74 on record volume. American Treasury Secretary James Baker stated concerns about the falling prices.
The crash began in Far Eastern markets the morning of October 19. Later that morning, two U.S. warships shelled an Iranian oil platform in the Persian Gulf in response to Iran's Silkworm missile attack on the Sea Isle City.[8] [9]"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3ABlack_Monday_(1987)

"The link at the end, which leads to a story about a VAX machine getting into trouble, might be erroneous. I suggest this because I've seen the story before without the line at the very end linking it to Black Monday (in fact, I always thought the event took place significantly prior to 1987). While it's possible that somebody might add this last line to add dramatic emphasis to the story, it's unlikely that it would be cut out by somebody - it's forms a punchline to the story. Therefore I think the link between this VAX story and Black Monday is probably incorrect.
Note: the joke link in question (*Alleged computer mishap) was removed 2005-11-05 RaulMiller 00:20, 22 November 2005 (UTC)"
It seems that people are running towards Telegram: "This is crazy. We'are getting 100 new registrations every second. Trying hard to prevent connection issues in Europe."
https://twitter.com/telegram/status/437313902058426368

UPDATE: Telegram is already facing connection issues in Europe caused by the "avalanche" of new users.
https://twitter.com/telegram/status/437335049923727360
Agreed, but legal cartels are (marginally) better in that they are forced to operate under the "light of day".

Plus, they have much less need to kill people and that.
A-Maze-Ing!
Now I want an extension to integrate the media keys for firefox, like this extension for chrome:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/swayfm-unified-mus...

Notifications would be nice too.
ART+COM sues Google
Get a shit job. Get shot at by a thug. Clean up other peoples shit and piss all day for minimum wage. That's what worked for me.
I am now for informational purposes linking to the OS X patch released by i0n1c.

http://www.sektioneins.de/en/blog/14-02-22-Apple-SSL-BUG.htm...
I think it's time for a Gubunto that uses GNOME instead of Unity. :-)
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I reached out to Adrian right after he posted and he's already helped me with CameraLends.com. I'd recommend the rest of you reach out to him!
Exercise. Lots of it.
This bug was introduced in Mavericks.
Adopt continous improvement for everything you do. This makes a game where you can improve your thinking, skills, and processes.

It won't be boring because you can always do it better.
Monitors are almost always wider than they are tall... using horizontal space makes a ton more sense. If such a small thing turns off a user, they're not seriously considering a different OS anyway.
I'd suggest Stephen Levine and Ram Dass as well as the Death With Dignity movement.

[Edit: had the wrong author]
You mean hyperlinks to data: URLs? At least that's not a problem here, as HN doesn't linkify them anyway, so you'll already have to open the URL manually.
Don't forget that edibles are very popular too.
Next up:

Lowest paid employees promptly fired. Those next in line will take up the responsibilities of fired ones.
In Memory of Jim Weirich [video]
In case you're wondering: "Blue Sky" appears to be an alias used by LIMMT, a Chinese company that did business in the US while supplying the Iranian military with weapons material.

OFAC publishes the contents of the SDN and updates to it.

(This comment is descriptive, not normative).
That is really weird. For me evince has no gear icon and has its menus in the global menu like every other GTK application.
Why we abandoned server generated web pages
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you.
On the one hand, I wanted to encourage you with my reply, but on the other hand, I wanted to tell you all the reasons why nothing you just presented is special or novel and why it isn't going to work.

I don't think it is a good idea because you haven't thought it through or you don't have enough experience. There is nothing in your post that hasn't been thought about by 1000s of poli sci students already.

In startup-Steve-Blank-terms, you haven't done nearly enough customer development interviews. How much time have you spent—be honest here—in the trenches on political campaigns at the county, state, or otherwise level?
Thanks for partially decoding - what is the sliderule then?

Also other than saying 'ChromeOS is the future, windows is outdated' does this analogy offer any insight?
How do you know they hadn't already seen it exploited in the wild?
Being 16-18 and studying for your A-levels can be a horrible time - it was for me. Relationships with your friends start to change as you grow up at different rates (I don't know whether this applies to you), interests change, and you have so little energy it feels like an effort to get out of bed before noon. Some things that worked for me were hanging out with some different, more studious people, and learning the course material from books in the order I chose rather than following the course (I missed a lot of classes, but I would't recommend that). Make a game out of getting the grades that will be your ticket out of there! On a serious note, if you think you might be depressed, talk to someone (a doctor or counsellor) about it.
Exactly how relevant is Fitt's law? Perhaps it made sense when nobody knew how to use a mouse. My screen is littered with click-able elements (hello Hypertext) and I have no problem hitting any of them. The menu in this window isn't even the most important or used element on my screen right now.
As somebody half way around the world in the US, is there anything I can do to support the protesters in Ukraine? Would calling my Congress-people be worth anything? The State Department?
They must be upgrading their servers to show ads and forward messages to facebook servers.
"In conclusion, I love my country and like our lawyers and hate our bank, like all good Americans." Oh my sides.

I get the dim sense, knowing nothing about this stuff, that the job of that office is one of the more headache-inducing ones in administrative government. Preventing people to sending money to (or receiving money from) a list of bad actors is a horridly difficult thing to begin with, but then when they screw up (either like this or in the more common case of money getting through), placing the blame is easy.

On another note, I haven't the faintest idea what the meaning of "blue sky" is, and I can't find anything by searching. Anybody know?
Old enough for your kid, maybe :D Not old enough for mine, in my state, to not be legally responsible for them, as far as I know (I suppose I could be mistaken, though).

I can agree that distance creates perspective. All I am saying is that if my 16 year old daughter told me she was going to set out for some random spot for a month, I'd probably nix the idea and not feel like I was being unreasonable.
Microsoft tries to jumpstart cheap Windows devices with license price cut
Inside the presidental residence of Viktor Yanukovych, the president of Ukraine.
Not crazy at all. We all had a fair share of problems with Microsoft software during all these years.
Wasn't Taniyawa-Shimura proven true?
Or just contract the work out.
> Want to be a rock star? Spend years learning to play an instrument, playing in dive bars and making demo tapes. Get a break then play the same 4 hit songs for 20 years.

Wait, what? Is this supposed to be inspirational? Suffering for "success" to find yourself "playing the same 4 hit songs for 20 years"? It feels like this actually undermines the rest of your argument, so I'm kind of confused what you were going for here.