skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Walmart was bootstrapped, starting with a single five-and-dime store. It went public, but to the best of my knowledge, never took on institutional investment prior to that. Say what you will about the company and its business practices today, but the founder's accomplishment was remarkable.
we have a couple around here near campus. The problem is shockingly few people know how to behave in a traffic circle.
Help Wit.AI (YC W14) choose a logo
Well, this is (has always been) the standard in Germany and it works pretty well. We even have one of those great German words for it: Reißverschlussverfahren (= zipper procedure).

Concerning people not letting you in: In case of ending lanes (except ramps) you are obliged to let people in. There is always the occasional douchebag that doesnt but it almost never happend to me. At worst you have to wait for one car to pass.
Yes.

I think voronoi diagrams are more predictable.
I was left wondering the same thing. The author did not present evidence that global warming is the cause, and from the Palmer Drought Index data, the current drought appears no more severe than those of the 30s and 50s.
A configuration for cheap VPS providers who provide a limited range of ports on one IPv4 address (plus one or more IPv6 addresses) would be great.

See:

http://lowendspirit.com/

https://definedcodehosting.com/
"Eli the Computer guy" does some pretty interesting video tutorials on YouTube. He tends to go on and on a bit, but overall he does a nice job of explaining networking basics, how to run cables, use RJ45 connectors - this is very important if you run your own wire - and setting up routers/switches.

Edit: Here's the full playlist of his networking videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rL8RSFQG8do&list=PLF360ED108...
There is a noticeable trend in business for "risky" jobs to be taken by female and BME candidates.
In Germany we've been doing this for decades. Welcome to the future.
I really like the interview process, and I feel like the questions are smart and relevant, while not repeating the same boring questions every mortgage calculator has. Very well done.

Why Hippo?
Interesting that only Toronto and Vancouver are present for Canada.
These results aren't actually that different when you include all the other browsers. In fact when you look at Chrome 38 (Canary) the results are exactly the same for both versions of the benchmark.

As a general rule the optimizations in transit-js take all browsers into consideration - not any particular one.
Someone should really make an 'Airbnb' for High Speed Internet Connections around the world. Hotels, universities, internet cafes, business centres - a lot of businesses would pay to find high speed internet locations around the world for business trips
Oddly enough, the mailing-list hasn't received a single email since May. Did it move somewhere else?

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/dotty-internals
Many startups don't become long-term businesses.

However, the startup that (wins a big contract with a big promise && delivers on its promise) certainly has a larger chance to become a long-term business than the ones that short circuit themselves out by not winning contracts.
But now it becomes a "public performance" and that gets tangly real fast.
Gosu, like Scala, Kotlin and Ceylon, was built to be statically typed from the ground up and thoroughly tested and documented by many developers, with dynamic typing added to some of them as an afterthought, like the Dynamic type in Scala.

Groovy, like Clojure, Beanshell, Jython, JRuby, Rhino and Nashorn, was built to be dynamically typed from the ground up, with static typing added opportunistically in version 2.0 by a single developer and requiring klunky annotation syntax.
Why not? Well actually it started because hippoteca in spanish / latin means mortgage and we were building this for the spanish speaking market at first (and called Hippoteq). We pivoted to the broader market but the hippo remains.
Your pedophile / homosexual comparison seems to imply there's such a thing as consensual sex with a child??

A pedophile is much more likely to molest a child, because that's the only way their desires can be realized in the physical world. A homosexual could, I dunno, go have consensual gay sex? That's why people find this comparison offensive.
We've been struggling for a long time about our logo, any vote and/or opinion/suggestion is more than welcome!

Wit.AI [1] is an API that makes it easy for developers to create apps that users can talk to.

[1] https://wit.ai
Assuming this is all true (the article is sourced poorly): Justin and team very much congratulated, that was a long road from justin.tv to twitch.tv and now an exit of this magnitude.

Hard-won, very much deserved, also a case study for a successful pivot.

" We do know that Twitch investors who participated in past rounds are pleased that they will be getting significant returns that are multiple times the amount they originally invested. "

Suggests that it was one of the investors that leaked the story to venturebeat, pretty classless, and really not-done in those circles.
If I experience trouble with WiFi during my stay at a hotel then I just connect to internet using hotspot created from my android phone. I understand not everyone have android phone.

Anyway, we are in a hotel for couple hours only. Rest of time either we are sleeping or we are outside either working or enjoying our vacation.
This problem was solved well over a decade ago by PCMCIA Ethernet adapters, but the pop-out slim RJ-45 connector is probably too fragile to be put into an Apple laptop.
I borrowed a Lumina 920 for about a week and really liked it. Well built, cool UI. I especially liked the calender. The lack of native google apps didn't bother me too much. I've got waze to replace gmaps, the lack of a non-sketchy looking gchat app was annoying but that was about it. I can use the services I care through the browser and my email and contacts synced just fine.

The real killer for me was the lack of a keepass app that supports 1.x DBs. If any of y'all are looking for a project, do that! You would have earned my $1!
Searching for a Mobile Miyamoto
Making your website into a lead production machine
Yep, hauling buckets of fuel up the skyscaper stairs during Sandy https://twitter.com/spolsky/status/263460486203465728
Looking at http://jsperf.com/json-vs-transit/2 ...

Why does Transit performance take such a hit in Mobile Safari? (In desktop Safari on my Mac, performance seems to be about the same between JSON+hydrate vs. Transit. But the charts below show that especially on later versions of mobile Safari Transit is quite a bit slower.)
I had to:

sudo pip install markupsafe

in a fresh ubuntu to get it going for DO
Fine; you think I'm off base, but that's not my problem. :)

Contrast your emphasis on a couple statements for PUBLIC consumption, vs. the article's claim: "One of the big values of Y Combinator was that we were able to hear strictly off-the-record stories of many successful startups' WFIO [‘We’re Fucked, It’s Over’] moments."

In any case, many of us have been inside corporations, and observed the clear dynamics.
> It's mind blowing that investors can be so careless with their cash. I wonder if it's a common occurrence or if this is an outlier situation.

There is way too much capital chasing too few opportunities today. The bar for who and what gets funded at seed stage is extremely low. Social proof and accelerator cred clearly often substitute for due diligence.

Exacerbating this is the prevalence of party rounds in which lots of investors put in relatively small chunks of capital. For obvious reasons, if you're raising a $6 million Series A from two or three name firms on Sand Hill Road, you're probably going to be subjected to a lot more scrutiny than if you're raising a $3 million round from a group that consists of upwards of 10 angels and/or super angel funds. In the latter scenario, the amount invested per investor tends to be so small that none of the participants have a real incentive to perform rigorous due diligence, which costs money and takes time.

According to CB, 15 investors participated in Amicus' $3.2 million round in 2012.
4CHAN App chanu goes open source
Okay here it is:

https://github.com/grzegorznittner/chanu

It's released under the GPL v3. You should be able to build from the
instructions.
Libswarm demo – logging
> I'm surprised this is written like zipper merging is some kind of recently discovered secret.

Yeah, it's funny :) In U.S. they have the same with road circles/roundabout. Some time ago I watched TED talk where the speaker was talking about this like it was some amazing innovation :)
Hey guys, CTO of https://mashape.com here, the company behind publicapis.com - if you have any feedback will be happy to help
They should better support their customers on Windows Phone and Windows 8. On the other hand there are proxy wars all over the place between the tech giants. This is one. Another one is Microsoft being dicks and extracting Android licensing fees.
It would be awesome if you could target something like a Synology or QNAP -- they're basically Atom or i3 boxes with good ram and cpu, running Linux, and an existing App market. Stuff like crashplan pro/e exists on it already.
We also need good alternatives. If you just leave disturbed earth or stop watering you wend up with nap weed and other noxious, not native weeds that contribute to desertification.

Developing a mature, drought tolerant landscape is difficult though there are some really interesting techniques used by permaculturists and others.
Locally (metro NYC), I've heard this referred to as "alternate merge" and it's usually mentioned in the context of someone saying something along the lines of "there was a traffic jam due to an accident and then when it was MY TURN to go, the person in the other lane didn't let me in". Usually there's a comment about how the plates were from out of state, too.

This is not to be confused with, e.g., a road that splits and the left lane split it moving fine and the right lane is backed up and a driver in the left lane waits until the last possible second to move over, often times coming to a complete stop, thus backing up what should be a free-flowing lane. No, in that case you didn't move over in time, you don't get to slow down traffic, you take the lane you're in and keep going, you'll have to take the next exit.
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Esri is completely bootstrapped, not in a tech hub, and doing north of $1B / year in revs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esri
> "The tone of Seth's post suggest that YC has supported Seth in all of his recent actions. That is not true -- YC supports its companies through good times and bad, but we do not support illegality."

That's interesting to know. So when a founder makes a mistake that unintentionally breaks a law, YC ceases their support.
There is commitcoffee.com, which goes a tiny step towards that for coffee shops
The city of Long Beach will pay you to replace your grass. http://www.lblawntogarden.com/
What's funny is that I have a Motorola Droid from 2009, the same time at which I could have gotten an iPhone 3GS, and the YouTube App is no longer supported on my Droid. I have my mom's old 3GS and the app runs perfectly.
>having taken something that isn't yours from someone

I agree that this is likely what he meant. It's a much easier way to get children, who likely are too young to have a complex moral framework, not to steal or even come close to it.

However, we're also talking about adapting that lesson to adults, who should have that moral framework. By maintaining the black and white view, you're depriving yourself of the full use of your rights, or potentially contributing to the denial of someone else's.

Children actually innately understand some of this; if you're not using your blocks, why can't I use them? In a more adult sense, if you're not using your land, can I use it?

It's a bit of a tangent, but I think it might be just as important to impart the lesson that you should use and maintain the things you own or claim, or potentially be subject to their loss. There are significant advantages to understanding the communal claim on many types of property, and they don't just apply to individuals but the community as a whole.

(edited for clarity)
No it is wrong, the actual human performance on full images is close to 99%. [1] Ctrl+F human

The performance of human it reports is on cropped images shown to human, which is not a fair comparison.

[1] http://vis-www.cs.umass.edu/lfw/results.html
The Xposed framework adds a wrapper around every process, and it can overload method calls on a per-process basis.

basically, you can ship a getEncryptionStatus_fake() that returns always active. and tell Xposed to replace getEncryptionStatus() with getEncryptionStatus_fake() ONLY for the mail application.

much safer. And it already have community modules that does that and more (e.g. telling mail.app that you already have the remote administrator it wants, or that you are using the idiotic PIN lock screen that your administrator wants, even though you have a 20 char password instead)
Check out the code on that page. class="whaaatthefuckisthis"
There's the competitive aspect in economies where street-food is the norm but then keep in mind that it's dirt cheap to deliver there. In Thailand a delivery worker earns 220 USD a month.
Can you really deliver by September? If it's October, I wouldn't be able to buy.
The world famous statusrobot
Hey, there is more of us...
A Sublime-like code minimap for Vim
> “They’re not really thinking about defending against these kinds of attacks.”

What should we do then?

I am not familiar with bitcoin so I can't say exactly how to defend it other than just say block certain tools at least.

Any site providing service to run user code is always vulnerable to code execution abuse, and this is where sandbox and strict job execution policy (job timeout, system call prohibitions, whitelist approach etc) are required. But that will degrade the service's usefulness. Obviously reading /etc/passwd should return permission denied or at least returns nothing and any file creation is restricted to local sandbox.

I'd like to ask people from codeacademy and coursera to reveal a bit more about their security policy. You can build your own rainbow table if they allow you to use the hash library, http request and sends request to remote service (with a digitalocean account you can pay $5 for 20GB SSD storage).
I have a few of those WFIO stories myself and I would not air them because there is no use crying over spilt milk and I like to protect the reputations of my co-founders and employees alike.

That's perfectly ok. You're not required to spill the beans or air your dirty laundry in situations like this.

In fact, the whole thread here is because the OP decided to come clean (for some value of 'clean') about all this, and as with any communication of this nature it has multiple components: communicating the state of affairs, trying to control the narrative and performing a service for other entrepreneurs in terms of warning them for pitfalls they might not be aware of.

It should not be lost on you that you are using that as a way to discount the rest, but you have no insight there at all so you're not in a position to draw such conclusions.

If you have information that is not currently public and that corroborates your view then more power to you but all I see is a huge assumption. You are extrapolating from the companies that you know to a company that you apparently do not know. Just like people companies should be evaluated on a case-by-case basis, generalizations are usually pointless.
Your system doesn't seem to take into account the different "high cost area" definition of "jumbo loan"...
That drought is spreading across the western US. Not sure how that's difficult to discern.
But not an irrelevant one, in this discussion, surely. Which is the point the comment parent was attempting to make, and you, probably because you dislike Christopher Hitchens (which I do as well, but anyway) you refused to acknowledge.

I've heard of Florence Nightengale. But I've also heard of Mother Teresa. My knowing even good things about a person doesn't necessarily impact how good of a person they actually were. I remember reading books as a kid with Mother Teresa in them as a totally sanctified figure, but what Christopher Hitchens says about her is probably true, and so she's not worth the respect that I gained for her and carried with me for so long.

I think it is an astute observation. For all I really know, Florence Nightengale was just an unskilled doctor-wannabe who ran around Crimea amputating people without cause. People that I think of as good aren't necessarily so. We have to remain skeptical.
I believe Mark Shuttleworth owned 100% of his company Thawte when he sold it for $575M to Verisign in 2000. In today's dollars it would be near 1B.
I'd also add that firmware folk tend to be pretty conservative about updates and it's an area of machines that's not used to being hardened. you only need to own it once and you can lie forever about the attempts to reflash it with a legit firmware.
I don't think he did all that badly. Just that he gave up. Maybe people weren't using it for what it was intended for--that's fine. You learn and pivot. Maybe you're not getting enough conversion. Adapt!
GitHub's valuation 2 years ago was $750mm. I'd be shocked if they hadn't cracked the $1bb marker yet.

http://allthingsd.com/20120709/github-valued-at-750m-with-fi...
>The (forced) merge of my YouTube account with Google account was one of the most painful experiences I've had to undergo and I still suffer from issues and annoyances that has brought about.

I know people bitch(ed) about that but come on, it makes a ton of sense from both Google's and end-user's perspective to standardize all Google services under one account. Anybody (here or elsewhere) would have made the same decision.. Their fault is that they waited as long as they did.

Google+ also makes some sense because it does tie services like GDrive, blogs, photos, docs, videos (youtube), and chat together. The problem there was that they got spooked by Facebook and tried to copy it exactly (e.g. the real name policy, which was always stupid but they did it because facebook did it). It was a typical Microsoft thing to do; look where the puck is, and not where it's going.
My wife checked us into the Sheraton in Tulsa (or was it Oklahoma City?) on the return leg of our wide circle trip out west and she turned to me and asked if I wanted to pay $10 for internet access. I almost exploded. One of the managers tried to tell me the reason they charged for it was to be up front about the costs of services they provided cause they were a "full service hotel". If I wasn't so tired, I would have asked if they also charged for soap.

The managers in the morning just stared at me blankly when I went off on them in the morning. "Why do they charge for internet but not phone service?", I asked.
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You don't even need to go incognito.

There are extensions available for every major browser that will let you set detailed cookie policies, such as wiping per-domain cookies once every x hours or x days.

This can be set up once, and then be completely transparent to the user afterwards.
I just checked on my iPhone 5S running iOS 7.1.2 & Mobile Safari 7.0 - the transit-js results look good and now are reflected in the benchmarks. I have no idea what's up with the browsers showing up as Mobile Safari 7.1 & 7.2 (which are dev releases as far as I know).
Awesome! Thanks! Might be great to kick off the readme with some anticipated use-cases, just so people can understand right away who the target audience is without reading through all the features. I mean, if I'm from a place being censored, all the bullet points will probably scream at me, but if I'm not, it takes a bit to determine that this product isn't particularly meant for me :)
That's a great idea. Ansible doesn't natively support those providers through an official API yet, but I don't think it would be difficult to do. I will look into it!

For now, Streisand can execute on any standard Debian 7 server and configure it appropriately. It only needs an open SSH port and an account on the system with root permissions. AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, and Rackspace are the options it supports for creating a brand new server from scratch as well.
Don't know why you're being downvoted; I've had too many people deliberately block my merge when I merge late, to ever try it at full speed in the UK :(
I just bought a home a few months ago, so I went through your process to see what results I got. It offered a 30-year loan at 4.0%. Is that really possible? It also quoted me $2900 in closing costs. I think my actual closing costs were more like $10k! If so, I wish your app had been around 6 months ago. But I'm skeptical you could actually deliver on that.

Also, as a self-employed freelancer, the paperwork to qualify for a loan was immense. If you can reduce that, that'd be awesome too.
I will add this to the README. Thanks!
Good to see YC step forward on this. I'm not a HN regular, but I've been following this thread all day because I have a friend who worked at Amicus, and several others who have worked with their software. I know there are always many sides to any story. I wasn't there, just like most of you weren't there, but all I can say is Seth's version of this story does NOT fit with what I've heard, and everything I've heard has been from honest, cool people who - unlike Seth - don't have a history of lying about really important shit.

Seth absolutely deserves to have a forum to tell his version of the story, but I find it more than a little annoying that after everything he's done, he's still able to leverage his position as a YC Founder to ensure that his version of the story gets more attention than anyone else's.

Based on everything I've heard, I'd say this post is essentially about admitting to lesser crimes so the world forgives him before we even know what he really did or did not do.

I'd urge the media powers that be to try and get some former employees, investors,customers, etc., on the record. And if they don't, then all of us should probably just move along and forget about this guy. Sounds like he already duped a lot of people into believing in him - I for one don't intend to be his next victim.
Thanks for your comment. We're in the process of adjusting jumbo loan limits for different regions.
I greatly appreciate that you let me go through the whole interview without giving any personal information other than property address. It would be even nicer if I didn't have to give that. Would a zip code be sufficient?
Alternatively... Since the government forces me to bring my vehicle to one of their locations every other year for emissions testing, have them install a speed control unit with a beacon to communicate with other cars. (Yes it will be harder to install on some cars than others -- even just the beacon would be valuable.) Over the course of five years, retrofit every vehicle with a beacon and have it already installed on new cars, have severe penalties for vehicles caught driving around not broadcasting their signal, and now everyone can have a bit more automation in their automobiles since the systems will enforce safe merge gaps and other nice things like computer-enforced speed limits. Plus it prepares everyone for a fully automated experience that can come sometime in the 2020s.

I can dream right?