skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We got into YC before we had any customer, so it is possible. But personally, I would recommend that you wait until you have your MVP first. You don't want to spend half of YC building you MVP, since partners can't really help you defining your vision. What they are really good at is helping you optimize it.
That seems like the best plan. Get a regular job for a year or two and save up $100k, and work on the startup on the side.
Why germ.io not about tasks, projects, agile or social collab
"...or super-powers in a sic[sic]-fi series that you're watching late at night..."
Point of order: negligence alone routinely "pierces the veil", doesn't it? It's a tort.
I think it's important to note I have two things that keep me sane during the months I don't want to take time off and those are friends and hobbies. Having friends to see once in awhile is a very good thing. I also train two martial arts and so that's two - three nights a week I have something to dedicate myself too, it's better to go train or hit the gym exhausted versus going home exhausted and doing nothing.

As for vacations I'm fairly boring, a family trip away usually around a week in length once every other year or, depending on costs/destination, every year. Other then that maybe a concert here or there during the year. I'm actually not sure how I'm going to use most of my PTO this year. I have plans to roll a week forward and maybe use a week on small things but I am going to end up with a solid week of no idea and have to use so I'm sure I'll think of something.

I pay my house off aggressively because I want it paid off by 30-32, but by no means do I live for work and I would never recommend living for work not even for a few years, it's just damaging on the health.
Well, that's a bit like saying "the world's software developers, many of whom still use proprietary frameworks." Branding agencies use proprietary type families when they're the most appropriate for the job, just like developers use commercial software when it fits a need that the open source community hasn't filled to their liking. Open-source typography is flourishing, but that doesn't mean commercial typography is dead.
plenty of options to take BTC without the need for a 3rd party payment processor, that will ultimately require honest traders to report accurately, not much difference to how a cash business works now e.g pub, restaurant, builder etc.
would LOVE to have a developer API to skybox. The things one could do!
Facebook data scientist talk on how information spreads on Facebook
Funny - I'm in the same domain and I have found that product images are generally high quality and somewhat uniform. You can usually find the product placed front and centre and with few distractions (Most images have either white or light grey background).
Would love to hear the answer to this as well. For the types of thing C is used for, I do not know of another language that can _practically_ be used for the same thing, while maintaining the same level of performance. Rust looks promising but is not mature yet.
No, that is not the bug.
Poll: Git users, do you use git bisect?
Git bisect is a powerful tool. Do you use it?

If so, please let us know in the comments what you've used it for, e.g. to track down a tricky bug. If not, well, why not?
I use git bisect often
I use it, but only every now and then
I have not used it, but plan on it
I do not use git bisect
I bought the same book metaphorically.
In LA at least, smog goes to about 5000ft to the inversion layer. Looking vertically through that distance you get much better visibility vs looking horizontally through miles of smog. You can notice the effect looking out a plane window at cruise altitude compared to landing and takeoff.
yes that's what my professor/mentor told me. It was just hard to turn this one down since the university did not usually offer scholarships (nyu)
English is not my native language, but using "was" sounds pretty weird to me. In latin languages, when a sentence starts with "if" and the verb is in a past tense form, it must be the subjunctive form of the past tense. I remember in primary school they teach the past of the subjunctive with "if" before all the pronouns. Don't know how they teach the past of the subjunctive in English though.
The security promise is simply "this is better than plaintext email, which is what you'd use otherwise."

I'd rather have as much of my communication as possible protected from mass collection by my own government regardless of it's sensitivity.

Edit: Misunderstood your phrasing a little. Yes, ideally we would provide non-savvy users with trivially easy to use encryption strong enough to defeat hostile governments. I haven't seen it yet. I make no pretense of overpromising - I'd certainly expect a service such as I'm describing to prominently note that it shouldn't be used for material above a certain sensitivity and link to info on better options.
Go ahead and keep your heads up in the clouds like a ten square mile area is "the real America" so the rest if us can wallow in shame at the money we wasted on our educations, you braggarts. In the real America, like say Ohio, that is the salary of almost three developers.
To an extent I agree with you, in terms of the cause (I often compare paedophilia to being gay, or indeed to being straight - I'm gay and I'm fine with that comparison), and also in that we need much better treatment for it, not just punishment for illegally acting on it.

That said, there's a huge difference. With social acceptance, gay people can live their desires without hurting anyone. Paedophiles can't do that. They can either resist their urges (ideally with help), or they can act on them which is something neither you or I want to see made legal.

Unlike with homosexuality, I don't think big legal changes are required - sure, there's a lot of related laws that could do with tweaking (for example I read once - though unsure how accurate it is, believe it was a Reddit AMA with a paedophile - that here in the UK you can't get help for paedophilia unless you show it's become a problem, and if you do that you can also be prosecuted for it), but the solution isn't to make sex with children legal.

So yeah, similar situation to homosexuality, but needs completely different solutions.

Edit: just to add another thought on the comparison.. I've never hidden my sexuality, and I've never had a single problem because of it, not even verbal abuse, even at school. (I guess I'm one of the world's luckier gays.) I can imagine how horrible my life would be if I had to pretend to be straight and could never sleep with, or have a relationship with, another man. It would be horrific. But if it was paedophilia, rather than homosexuality, then on top of that you also have knowing that doing what you want would hurt an innocent child, knowing that it could put you in prison, knowing that even wanting to do it without ever doing anything illegal would make a lot of people in your life hate you... I can't imagine how bad it would be to be a paedophile.
I have no idea what was going on inside his head but he just couldn't figure out things like making change for a dollar. He and my roommate were doing their calculus homework shortly before he left and he just couldn't do simple problems. He went from just getting math to being mistified by it.
I'm not a native speaker, but I had the impression this shift to "were" happens less in the UK than in the US. Is that so?
you can click in the scroll bar. It is fast enough. Better than holding the right button.
Regardless of whether or not most people spend money to breathe oxygen, any approximation that loses a 9.5 billion dollar industry to rounding errors is a poor approximation.

And while most people don't pay for their use of atmospheric gasses, those who do are paying for something mission critical. You might as well say there is no value to sunlight because I can go lay on my roof deck.
These are the same areas that unfortunately still have honor killings. Regardless, cultural judgements are not an absolute truth, and so other ways, no matter how extreme or foreign, can be tolerated. The frontier that can be helped is hygiene and self-sufficiency. If can start a sexual equality revolution in India, build a bazillion of these machines. A 3d printer as it were.
Film preservation 2.0
Bandwidth issues are alleviated by directional antennae, right?
A unique fingerprint is issued to each individual.
Funny enough, this is kinda how accelerators/incubators used to be before YC. They took bigger portions and were more involved. PG said this was the anti-model for YC.

Source PG @ Launch Festival: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rVpAKziQJA&feature=share&t=1...
Why Google Fiber will never come to Seattle
It's kind of like saying free libraries lead to a utopia without any extra social programs.
As someone who was obsessed with Lemmings back in the day, this is the best thing I've seen on HN in weeks :) It brings back fond memories.
The paradoxical thing about LSD is that you simply cannot understand its effects until you've already tried it.
Here you go:

$("*[alt='lemming tombant']").trigger("mouseover");
Mildly amusing. Nicely done.
You mean that one? (second video into the article, first of the second block)

http://www.joystiq.com/2012/06/08/unreal-engine-4-demo-decon...
What a pointless and content-less rebuttal.

I mean shit, I don't need to be an aeronautical engineer or work in the FAA to say that several people investigating an airliner crash will be more effective than one single dude sifting through a literal field of debris.

ESR's quote isn't wrong (perhaps hyperbolic, but in spirit it isn't wrong). It's just an uninteresting observation. What do you do when something has you stumped at work? You ask the guy across the hall to look over your shoulder for a second... It's just common sense.

People simultaneously revere and hate the quote only because ESR said it. If Joe Shmoe had said it all those years ago, it would have just been met with "no shit" and never given second thought.
As seen before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5105166
Coinbase will, I believe.
The flip side is that by lowering the cognitive burden it breaks the feedback loop nudging programmers to create simple/elegant apis. I suspect we would be seeing fewer complex api's if there was less of a reliance on IDE's.
Everything I can quickly think of in OpenCV would tend to include too much background without user interaction unless similar transformations were performed anyway, so I assume if they had thought of it, that's why they ignored OpenCV.
To be clear, which Capital C Church? There was more than one religious flock within Christianity.
This 'Back to the Future' hover board [hoax] will blow your mind
I suppose both? I think it's pretty reasonable to expect a business dealing with storing sensitive data to not look at that data, regardless of it is email or logs.
Check http://falkvinge.net/2012/09/07/three-reasons-child-porn-mus... to think a bit more about the other side of the matter.
I think the author almost needs to include a similar function for end users.

There's so much emptiness, it's only natural to eventually crave all the content. (Fits the writing too)

Once you scroll for a sufficient period, maybe a little button with the spoilers? :)
You're going to get raked over the coals if this is your first time and you have absolutely nothing built yet. Ideas are pretty cheap in the grand scheme of things. If you can manage it, you should turn your idea into some kind of a product and try to get it out there. Win some awards, get some press. With nothing, you're in a position where you can't negotiate anything right now, but you can change that.
Just for a little context, fewer than half of Americans even have access to a 401(k) (or 403(b) or similar) retirement plan, and its disproportionately the wealthy that can afford to take advantage of such plans: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/study-401k-retirement-plans-fail...

Look, I get where you're coming from, in that you don't feel rich, especially in the context of San Francisco, but seriously...

"The median household income in the United States today is $50,000. Half of all households make more than this. Half of all households make less. The big expenses in the Xxxxxxxxx family budget--their $60,000 a year in contributions to tax-favored retirement savings vehicles, their $25,000 a year savings building home equity, their $55,000 for housing, their $60,000 in private school costs, even their $10,000 a year for new cars--are simply out of reach for the overwhelming majority of Americans."

http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2010/09/in-which-mr-deling-res...
Paul Buchheit, Gmail Creator, Will Donate If You Tweet About This Cause
The Dating Ring Is Raising Money To Fly Women From NYC To SF
It also supports direct messaging apparently. Click on buddies and then the user.
It's a very hard problem to solve. I've been working in social networks for many years at this point and there is no silver bullets when opening a nonexclusive one to many relationship.

Things that seem to prevent abuse like this is linking the user to their comments publicly. Removing the level of anonymity makes them accountable and far less likely to tarnish their own reputation for the sake of slandering another persons, the more removal of anonymity the more this becomes true. People are far more likely to make a harsh comment on a personally unidentifiable reddit username than say facebook or a verified twitter account (e.g. throwaways are popular in subs with less popular social stances... gonewild, cringe, etc).

Searching for negative words is much harder than you're assuming. Even using a phonetic library (like soundex) will produce tons of false positives. On top of that there is no library for assessing context in conversation or the underlying relationship of the user.

"I love how you always handle Dick at family reunions, it means a lot to all of us."

That sentence is VERY wtf out of context. So is that an insult insinuating the user gives hand jobs to their family members? Is it a personal attack because they're sexually promiscuous? Is Dick the rowdy family Drunk who this user often keeps in check when they're about cross the line after a few drinks?

To further that idea the underlying relationship between User A and User B doesn't translate without previous knowledge of their past. I for example am generally a nice person and friendly, but I've friends from many years and walks of life at this point. For people I kinda sorta know, I'm polite and kind, I know the limits of our friendship and expected behavior. For very close friends and such communication is usually peppered with light jabs and inside jokes... think "tough love".

"10/10 looks great half naked and covered in mud, could fuck up a mothers love."

Seems mean, to the person getting that message it likely relates back to a past shared experience that will bring a smile to their face upon reading it and in the context of the relationship is par for the course. Coming from a co-worker in reference to a botched project in regards to installing hardware in a remote location... not so much.

There is even more to this problem that I won't go into, but by now you should get the drift, and you can't account for or detect these subtleties in human to human relationships (if you find a way you'll be a very rich person), especially coming in blind on an semi-anonymous platform.

This is why places like /b/ are simultaneously some of the best and worst places on the net.
Aereo doesn't post-process. It just forwards the content of a miniature antenna to your device over IP. There's a one-to-one mapping between viewer and antenna.

Cable companies, by contrast, currently tap the main feeds at one point, rebroadcast the content to their subscribers, and pay retransmission fees to the broadcasters.

(Aereo also operate a DVR service, but the big fight is over the retransmission fees they're not paying)
> What's necessary is to get at least two experienced cryptographers thinking about every piece of security-critical code

Both of the recent bugs do not require a cryptographer to find. They are just logic bugs that any reasonable unit test would find.
The information given regarding TN status isn't entirely accurate. I transitioned from a TN to a Greencard directly. There were several conditions that my immigration lawyer prepared me for so I wasn't violating dual-intent and there was a period of several months when I was unable to leave the US while I waited for my "Advance parole" travel documentation.
Probably more accurate to say the company was named after the RSA algorithm that was named after its inventors.
Why Investors Often Suspend Innovation
Most investors are very predictable: They look at companies who wrote success stories in the past to determine future successes of emerging companies. This attitude is exactly the same as looking through a rear-view mirror while driving into a new country or having sex with your girlfriend while looking at a picture of your ex...
Thank you for using "begs the question" correctly. It is far too rare to see that on the web. </tangent>
Unit tests may be written before or after the production code in question has been written. They provide no guarantee of the correctness of the final code, but they may find small things. Corrective unit tests as you've described them will not help you find this bug.

But finding bugs like the above is TDD's bread and butter. TDD dictates specifically that the test must be written first, that it must be isolated to a particular spot as much as possible, and the dumbest piece of code possible must be written in order to allow the author to move on to writing the next test. Someone TDDing this method would stub out any required external state in order to focus only on the piece of code in front of them.

The final system may not be correct––you must still perform high-level testing as you always would, and you must understand the rules of the system you're building. But you're apt to avoid the simple stuff.
Nice read, pretty entertaining round up. I like the use case lists (I think they added most of my entertainment), and overall tone of the article.
The link between sharp vision and the brain's processing speed
Thanks - that's actually the post I was thinking of. Considering on most modern machines scrypt will likely tune itself to use 512MB, a 1MB buffer's pretty small, but it would be interesting to know where the cutoff for significantly-better-than-bcrypt might be. I expect most sites could throw 16MB at logins without much difficulty (as suggested further in that thread).
Finding Good API Developer Talent Is Hard
>blatant persecution of gay people //

There is an active agenda attempting to legally force people to alter their actions to match others beliefs, "persecution" you might call it. Except it's not against those who have sex outside marriage it's against Christians - people who claim to uphold liberty of conscience simply will not allow Christians to express their views on marriage.

Marriage, in Christian terms and historically, is about creating community cohesion in order to provide a firm foundation on which to support the upbringing of children.

No matter how you legally alter the definition of marriage homosexual sexual union doesn't produce children.

All sexual activity outside of marriage is considered sinful within orthodox Christianity based on New Testament exegesis.

Christianity [generally] thus considers that homosexual sex is sinful in the same way as adultery or other pre- or extra-marital sexual activity.

Because you disagree with this analysis and it's foundational axioms doesn't mean you're being persecuted - whether you're an adulterer, a sexual idolater or whatever. It is sinful, you may peacefully respond to that however you like.

FWIW purity laws, ritual uncleanliness, sacrifices and such all ended with the New Covenant. It's a corollary to the very fundamentals of Christian theology; if you don't understand it then you probably have never read the NT and probably have no idea what Christianity is about.
If I may ask, what other languages do you have experience with and what are your opinions of them?
+1

and also it's less frightening for a young girl (say, 12 or 13) to purchase from an older woman than an older man. In straight marketing terms, it's great for creating rapport and point of reference.
That's kind of unique to your situation though, isn't it?

That rule is in place to prevent employers from gaming the system - i.e. hiring someone as a scientist to get through approvals, then firing and rehiring them as a low-wage janitor.
> If I were on the other end of the transaction, I wouldn't know when nature would be calling. Making it hard to figure out in advance where I need to "rent" a toilet.

I think the idea is that the app allows you to find a toilet immediately in your immediate area -- not that you reserve, for example, a toilet for 5 minutes at 10:30 PM on Sunday three weeks in advance.
Is it just me or can the page detect cheating? I can't seem to save all 404.
We're still flying U-2s, which, along with certain drones, are far better observation platforms for real-time needs.
This is an amazing story!
And this is why I always find font debates useless. I, personally, found the font very legible. In fact, legibility seems like a pretty low bar, so I can't even imagine how one legible font could not come close to the legibility of another font. What makes you say that?
Oculus, your Step 2 is not quite correct. According to the lawsuit text, said companies have to foot the bill to any facilities or equipment, or systems modifications, and may only bill for operational expenses.

So not only is the gov forcing these data breaches, they are also forcing the companies to foot most of the bill.
And I think that's where the confusion is. CarPlay doesn't "run on" QNX in the sense that QNX is the platform Apple chose to implement CarPlay. It's accurate to say iCloud "runs on" Azure, as the iCloud platform, at least partially, runs on Microsoft's Azure services. The QNX OS implements the car portion of the CarPlay protocol. Other OSes can also implement the car portion. CarPlay is a protocol, not software that runs on anything.
Start the waiver process now. It is multi-staged, and takes several months if everything goes smoothly. You'll need a no-objection letter from the embassy of your home country. This is usually the most tricky part. Once the US Department of State gets this, you can track your status online. Start now so you are done with it by the time you finish your postdoc.

Re the O1, read up on the requirements, and work on publishing more during your postdoc.
These kinds of articles willful schadenfreude. From the bottom of the article:

The study involved 2,392 men and women 18 years of age or older. The participants were not told that the study was specifically looking into their knowledge of tech terms. They were presented with both tech and non-tech terms and were asked to choose from three possible definitions.

So in reality, 10% thought that "sexually transmitted disease" was a better option than the other two presented (presumably one was actually correct).

Many conclusions made were based on answers that were deceptively close to being right. I.e.

23% thought an "MP3" was a "Star Wars" robot. It is actually an audio file. (i.e. c-3po)

18% identified "Blu-ray" as a marine animal. It is a disc format typically used to store high-definition videos. (manta rays are marine animals, and are blue)

In addition, one might easily say this is evidence of the average American's intelligence in outsourcing things they don't need to know to Google and the web.
I think that most common infantry bullets in allied side were .30in (7.62mm) and .45in (11.43mm) and to some degree 9mm. So yes, to some extent you are right, but note that caliber is inch based
Show HN: let's put together a set of security guidelines for Bitcoin