skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If they haven't done it already, I expect a Wordpress style "plugin" system could cater for all this if.... it were an open source (or even self hosted) app. Except, it ain't and I can only see "enterprise" customers finding this app any way attractive.
"we’ve learned if yr talking 2 bunch startup founders & can’t tell who leader is, that means there isn’t one."

Is this damning?
I'd rather sue the banks for the lack of security when it comes to losing billions by a so called "financial crunch".

26k is peanuts.

That's always the case though, shoplifters get prison sentences or they get downright killed like at Walmart but the big fish are untouchable.
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apparently CouchDB, too.
I'll take a guess and say easy access to credit for creditless students. Plus universities have big 5 year plans with that money; money allocated before the recession. So most of the capital improvement projects were started when students, parents, and gov't were looser with the purse strings.

And universities somehow never follow the rules of economics. Scales of economy fail to kick in when they should. Large schools get larger and the price per student creeps up, never down. And the building projects get more extravagant and expensive.
At my alma mater you see where the money is going. Old buildings were built like a brick shithouse. Strong and cheap with a fallout shelter. The new ones look like the set designer of MTVs Real World was given the comission. Instead of 2 per room. One student a room for a spacious 4 room suite. Instead of brick and stone we've got glass and steel. This wouldn't be bad if alumni paid for them, but when they are named "New student residence 2008" it means they are waiting for a large donation for a building thats already built and paid for by students.
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I feel like this question is irrelevant. If YC looks at 1000 ideas, and thinks 100 are good - they still can't take all 100 (because they don't have the space/funding).

Therefore a company being rejected from YC may have nothing to do with whether or not YC wanted them. Sometimes its just about logistics.

Alas, I'm sure YC has rejected companies it knew would be successful, but accepted companies which were either more innovative/bigger market opportunity, or which they hoped would become even more successful.
See Jimmy Moore: http://livinlavidalowcarb.com/blog/?page_id=2464 and there are a lot more examples. Myself, I have gone down from 290 pounds to 225 low-carbing, and I am still losing weight.

Also, Atkins is just one type of low-carb diet, and a rather strict one at that. It is because of how strict it is that people tend to fail a little ways in
I'll admit, this got me to do a quick sweep of my dozen or so WP blogs and make sure they were all updated. That said, I think its likely we're seeing TechCrunch Journalism (TM) in action.

Wordpress security is a pain in the keister, though. You can reduce your risk by:

1) Making regular backups (I like automysqlbackup.sh.) Comprehensive compromise of a Wordpress installation is only really recoverable by wiping and starting over, unless you want to find that your forgotten posts from 3 years ago are linking to viagra pharmacies.

2) Putting every Wordpress installation in its own DB with its own DB user. Don't use root. I have a script which installs WP for me and creates the new DB, creates the new user, and gives the user an insanely difficult password because it will never actually be typed by a human.

3) Making sure the Wordpress directories can't get written to by the server. I go as far as blocking the uploads, which means I have to do some chmod magic when uploading things.

4) If you can put up with the nuisance, protect the wp-admin directory at the web server level, for example by denying all IPs but your own, or by putting it under HTTP Basic authentication. That will cut down drastically on the number of automated probes that hit you. You don't have to run faster than the tiger, you just have to run faster than the other guy the tiger is chasing...
The article doesn't seem to consider practice effects (a common effect on most mental tests) in any systematic way. Not a scientific way to look at the issue.

http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html
But if a proportion of the other 900 companies are more successful that the 100 accepted companies, it provides some insight into the ability of YC to pick 'winners'. Particularly if a company that is turned down out perfoms a YC company in the same space/field.
Good idea but it was executed a few times already prior to this.

See:

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/01/motorolas_bike.php

http://gizmodo.com/231766/motos-bike+powered-phone-charger

http://fablab.waag.org/content/usb-bike-charger

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8166196.stm

http://www.mobileapptitude.com/?p=747
At the end of his article he says he hopes he is proved wrong. I hope he is wrong too, having Asian-Americans in my own immediate family. Part of the possibility of that madness happening comes from idiotic governmental policies that tend to divide the country into factions

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalist_No._10

instead of promoting national unity in regard to common humanity of all inhabitants of the country.
Ironically, TechCrunch itself appears to be running WordPress 2.7.1 instead of the latest 2.8.
I think people would assume that it was things like Limewire, Azureus, Napster, etc., ie bittorrent[-like] clients - interpreting broadly would encompass things like email clients, browsers, ftp clients, etc..

I've used several torrent applications .. for downloading linux distros. So hopefully the question was not just about file-sharing but actually about sharing music files that the owner didn't have rights to use.

Like you say, this is problematic, it requires the respondent to make a legal decision on an issue which may not be determined yet in caselaw and so may be an open question : can I dl music files that I've bought already on CD for example. The /a priori/ answer is no; but it's not at all cut-and-dried.
A great theory for understanding how innovation affects users and who will adopt your new innovative product.
The editor/author created the title to be sensationlist on purpose. HN is, I hope, not here to offer sensational headlines merely to grab extra viewers but as a way to share knowledge, information and wisdom. We should have higher standards for titles here IMO.

What I'd like to see is a subtitle (or tagging) system with a descriptive subtitle that can't be applied by the poster only by someone else. Poor subtitles would be downmodded too.
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Being accepted or not by YC has very little bearing on whether a startup can be successful or not, I do not expect there to be any significant correlation between YC rejected companies and accepted ones (in terms of success).

They simply have a limited amount of time.

What I do think you will find is that those that are bitter about a rejection tend to cluster around the failure point, mostly because they will be looking to externalize their reason for failure. That may come in many different guises, such as 'we would have succeeded if we had been accepted' or 'we will prove they should have accepted us'.

Just take it as an opportunity to accelerate do not worry too much about who gets accepted and who does not.

YC likely got it wrong a number of times, as long as they use objective criteria (only known to themselves) and gut calls on who they choose to work with (which can just be a personal feelings issue) they are totally free to make their decisions.

It's their time and money after all.
Regarding your point #4, it's also worth securing the admin area to only be accessible over HTTPS. I also prefer HTTP Digest authentication to Basic.
All GREAT ideas are born on the eve of a recession...
This is something that enables me to wake up in the morning with more drive then when I went to sleep the night before. The reason that I am making this statement is that we are currently experiencing a prolonged recession that has lasted for far more than ONE eve, and instead will continue for a couple of years. Does this mean that you should bunker down, retreat back to "comfort", and curl up in a ball? ABSOLUTELY NOT, because Procter & Gamble was born during the panic of 1837; IBM was founded during the Depression of 1873-1896; and FEDEX became a reality during the Oil Crisis of 1973. Therefore, what great ideas will be born during the recession of 2008 - TBD?
I'd be willing to bet the most important metric is the startup's response to yc rejection. Is it, "Oh well, back to the drawing board." or "They're wrong and we'll show them."?
> I know lots of great programmers real life. Not a single one of them knows Lisp.

That's a good way to know they're not actually great programmer. Good maybe, but not great.

Any great programmer will have at least a basic ability to read (if not use) lisps, because he'll have looked at a few dialects to know what it was about.
Isn't low-carb just a mechnism for creating a low-calorie diet though?
The actual link to Yoono is
http://yoono.com/

Or did you really mean the the Yoono Twitter tool?
The top components of this index [1] are dominated by queries related to Jaycee Dugard [2]. A plot of these queries shows a jump from obscurity to popular starting on the 26th [3]. Why these are part of the advertising and marketing index is unknown.

[1: http://www.google.com/insights/search/#cat=25&geo=US&... ]

[2: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaycee_Dugard ]

[3: http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=jaycee%2Cjaycee%20d... ]
I have a friend who was a Windows 2000/2003 sysadmin who, after a career of consulting and training in that enviro, went to get his MBA. They hired him straight out of the MBA program and he is now the manager of a training team there.
If you look at the rising searches term on this page it looks like it was all because of some coke rewards program:

http://www.google.com/insights/search/#cat=25&geo=US&...

lower right hand side.
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someone kill this please... flagged 3 hours ago.
Mmmmmm...deliciously nerdy.
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Paranoid survivor
That writing out of numbers is extremely annoying. I can understand when writers do it with numbers that are unexpected, or very important. But here it is done almost consistently with every number. It makes me feel offended that the writer does not trust me enough to read numbers.
Install this simple plugin on any version of WordPress to block bad queries like that:

http://pastebin.com/f6697b79

It could easily be expanded to also look at $_POST data which is another form of attack you'll never see in your logs.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=803680
Keeping Pirates at Bay
Perl has all these same libraries and more. We were talking about code in the actual language.
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Because they have to compete for goods and services with the government, which can and does print the money. This means their costs reflect real inflation a few months ahead of other products.
There has to be a business model for passing these savings on to US consumers. It's much like the dilemma big publishers are facing: If you sell through the internet from a country like India, shipping the drugs in anonymous packages, how is US law enforcement going to stop you without substantially infringing on other people's liberty?
Manufacturing Authority And Trust
MIT Media labs' quickies
I can think of no better way to convince drug companies to stop making treatments for the world's poor, and start pouring even more of their research into lifestyle drugs for the world's rich (cholesterol medication, anti-depressants, anti-allergy medications, Viagra, etc etc), then stealing their stuff and calling them mass murderers for having the gall to make it.

See: malaria. The existing, cheap, mostly efficacious, patent-unencumbered drugs face permanent lack of supply. Last time I checked exactly one company bothers to make them -- there just isn't any money in it. [Edit: A quick Google suggests my memory is failing me.] Drug-resistant malaria is on the rise, and the drug companies pretty much won't touch malaria drugs with a 30 foot pole. If they make something that works, it will be promptly stolen under the color of law.

Or they could pump a few hundred million into another promising drug which will be overprescribed to rich Americans, and make billions. Hmm. Decisions, decisions.
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That's why I play Dual-N Back as well. It is an exercise meant to train direct recall, very short-time and short-time memory.
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I have a friend who died of cancer on August 10. Late to him, I meant.
That one has been killed, apparently.
The most effective way to share files is to buy a 1 Terabyte harddrive and become part of a sneakernet swapping ring.

Who cares about downloading individual files when you can get whole libraries for the cost of a harddrive, storage is now so cheap that you can get a library of 300K mp3s or 1300 movies for around $100.

The RIAA/MPAA are going to have to search peoples bags on the street in order to stop that one from taking off.

USB sticks will eventually even make that look like childs play, but they are still a bit expensive (64G for $150 or so).
This reminds me of a guy I knew who spent all the time working on his car. All day long, and all night, he'd be outside underneath banging away at something.

I asked him once, "say, you must really like your car"

He said, "Hell no! This POS! Can't stand it. It's a wonder it even runs for one day without my having to tinker with it"

You have to really love something a lot to have an entire series of articles about how bad it is.

And as far as the specifics of this article, it's only so much noise. C++ lets me shoot myself in the foot because different operating systems have different stack sizes and nobody told me about it.

Okay -- welcome to the big leagues, kid, where we play without nets.
Hacker ...
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The "savings" are the difference between the cost of manufacturing drugs (negligible) versus amortizing the development and approval cost (enormous). Very smart people are already spending a lot of money and effort to reduce drug development cost. Reform the FDA to reduce approval cost.

Mandate lower drug prices in some other way and say goodbye to future new drugs.
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Didn't the article just explain that?

I use PHP every day, but have grown a bit tired of the lack of sophistication inherent in the language. The huge flat namespace, the inconsistent design of the standard library, the absence of advanced language features (functions aren't even a first class data member), and so on.
he's prolly a spammer (check age of account)
stop spamming already...
Invent an even better one!
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It's not just the articles on his blog; yosefk is also the author of the C++ FQA Lite: http://yosefk.com/c++fqa/

He probably hates C++ more than anyone in the universe. (And probably knows more about it than anyone except veteran C++ implementers and committee members.)
BASIC was never a 'fad' - it was frequently all you had (other than machine code). Remember, no internet, no CDs, even no modems for the vast unwashed such as myself - just a tape deck, 16K ROM and a TV.

The first language where I got to choose it was Lisp for the Sinclair QL, ~ 1985.
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We really need a lag between account creation and posting.
Brad Pitt is both rich and famous. I'm not sure he does much to make your point.

At 46 years old, Brad Pitt is also about twice the age of the women who get the most attention from men. In order to make a fairer comparison, imagine a man who's very handsome, but whose career and overall signals of success are on par with the physical attractiveness of "the donald".
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Yeah. That's pathetic. You should erase any signs of the WP version you actually use as this is an open invitation for hackers.

Check out:
http://designblurb.com/remove-wordpress-generator-meta-tag-h...
What will you do differently after reading this?
Any word on how the debian package fares? It is stuck at version 2.5.1, but hopefully they provide extra patches?
This is a validation of quantum computing as normally conceived. Photons are just as valid a quantum particle as anything else -- most importantly they can exhibit entanglement, which classical "light waves" can't.
Patents are a trade-off. In return for exclusively selling something for ten years, I spend a lot of time and money inventing something lots of people want to pay for.

Seems to me like a fair deal -- if the time limit is truly ten years, if the people who are the market are the same people who will benefit at the end of the period, and if patents are not overly-broad.

That's a lot of ifs, but it works in the U.S. The problem is that the market in the U.S. is nowhere indicative of the market in the third world, yet the drug companies want the same trade-off to apply everywhere. To this author's point, that doesn't seem to work so well.

Having said that, the answer isn't so easy either. Once you start using government force (or ignoring compliance) to appropriate other people's IP, the incentive goes away.

Of course you can argue that there are other incentives: altruism, government mandates, public-funded research. But all of those things haven't proven to be very effective, no matter how much hand-waving or yelling the supporters do.

This is not an easy problem.
Are there special parenting awards for mistakenly raising another man's kids?
Minor correction. The removal of the GIL is not disallowed by fiat.

To piggyback: don't forget that CPython ≠ Python. The GIL is an implementation detail of CPython, not a feature of the language. Other Pythons -- Jython, for one -- have no GIL.
Yes I thought this author was a rerun -- I remember his FQA being posted here a year or so ago.

The opposite of love is not hate; it's ambivalence. So he must really still carry a torch for the old girl.
My business became profitable this month, but it's not the same as the idea I applied to YC with. Not sure whether that counts or not, since apparently half of YC folks change their idea anyway. To be fair though I don't think I could have done it without going through Seth's MBA program, which was a lot more hands on than YC. (In terms of more contact hours, more formal instruction, more varied curriculum, more opportunity to find a diverse set of mentors, etc.) Also not the same co-founder, but the co-founder I applied with wasn't the problem.
i've had to build a custom auth system because i needed to support existing username/passwords that didn't fit the django mold
Ask HN: Seeding a new site with data from sites you don't own?
I've been developing a stackoverflow-like site for a niche market. The challenge with question and answer sites like these is that you really have to build up a critical mass of existing answers to attract any attention (or search engine, for that matter).

So, I've been thinking about "borrowing" existing questions/answers from similar sites. However, I'm concerned with whether I might get into legal hot water?

I recall that there was a bit of an outcry when it was revealed that www.thedailyplate.com was scraping data from existing sites, but now they're a very popular site with a deal with Lance Armstrong and livestrong.com, so I guess it worked out for them.

What does HN think? Yes, I'd feel a little slimey doing it, but is it a legal thing to do?
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I've written low-level C++ calling functions from Fortran and doing all sorts of magic to do out-of-core matrix calculations.

I've written high-level C++. Generic code with all my objects cleaning up after themselves.

So my experience is that C++ is a large language that allows programming in many niches.
But he still had a background in tech (being a sysadmin). Anyone knows of someone without a tech background getting into Google?
The WordPress core team don't, to the best of my knowledge. The Debian maintainers may.
From a different post: "...because that would offend C++, The Hate Of My Life, who does have an ANSI standard. Relax, darling. It’s you, and only you, that I truly hate. The others mean nothing to me."

http://www.yosefk.com/blog/python-teaching-kids-and-biting-b...
He may be using the wrong debugger. When I recreate and run his project in Visual Studio, I get this error:

Unhandled exception at 0x00b31747 in Bogus.exe: 0xC00000FD: Stack overflow.

The debugger points you to the offending line in a well-commented assembly routine described as ";_chkstk - check stack upon procedure entry".

It's immediately obvious this is a stack overflow, which takes you past the first half of his long article. However the second part of the article is still valid -- you still have to track down which of your objects is the big one.
>"I think that for the majority, living with parents when you are adult is a huge psychological burden."

I don't think it's universal at all. I grew up in the US with grandparents and uncle and even great-grand parents at home, and it was great.

Here in Taiwan, tons of people live in extended family homes, too. For the most part, it seems good for everyone involved. Grandma and grandpa can help watch the kids until the parents get home, so the parents don't feel so overwhelmed, the grandparents feel useful and get to enjoy family life, and the kids get more support... especially if there's also a younger auntie or uncle (with or without a live-in gf) there, too.

It's a good system.
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WordPress is probably the most heavily attacked web apps ever designed. If your serious about security then don't use Wordpress or always keep up with releases.
I think it's less a case of the complaining hobbyist and more a case of Stockholm Syndrome in a guy who debugs other people's C++ for a living because the people who write the code are smart enough not to learn how to debug it. See: http://www.yosefk.com/blog/the-cardinal-programming-jokes.ht... wherein plumber jokes involving copious amounts of excrement are made.
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The map is incorrect for the Netherlands, because it simply looks at surface height. Large parts of the Netherlands are already below sea level and have been for hundreds of years.

Dutch water defense planning has already considered rising sea levels and increased the "Delta height" for dikes. They're made to resist 1 in 4000-10,000 year floods, depending on the value of the area they protect.