skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nope, we didn't take a dime of funding (but our business isn't compatible with funding).

The exit analysis is the first thing I think of when I think of Techstars, too. Ostensibly, the reason to sign on with an "incubator" is that the connection you get would enable you to obtain rapid growth. But I can't think of good examples of companies where that's happened.
A way to mark certain root ports as trusted could potentially work. This would allow you to have keyboards and mice physically plugged in to a trusted USB port while all other devices are plugged into untrusted ports.
Don't know enough about Techstars to comment, but the location (1871) is a problem. It's incredibly noisy and crowded. I personally can't get anything done there, so it's quick meetings and I'm out, working at home in peace. One upside however is that there is a good food court at the merchandise mart and I love those habanero burritos.

Lots of co-working spaces are popping up all over Chicago, if you're in the market for space... pick a quiet one.
Dumb question: is there an insurance service to ensure a company against errors made by their own software developers?
Silk Road Lawyers Poke Holes in FBI’s Story
The amount of private data about individuals that JP Morgan has makes it a very attractive target to attackers despite any difficulty (perceived or real) it takes to get the data.

Extending that logic, it means the NSA is an even more worthwhile target for attackers, because they have far more private financial data about individuals in the USA and people abroad. But you can bet that when (not if) a breach of the NSA happens, it will never be reported to the public.

The only solution here is to do away with these centralized stores of all our private and financial information, so the incentive for these attacks no longer exist. There's no amount of technological hardening that will prevent a determined attacker (state sponsored or otherwise) to give up, when the reward for a successful attack is so high. Until then, reports of massive data breaches are going to be more and more common.
I don't think I've ever installed Synergy by downloading it from their website, so this won't affect me. I use a package manager to install nearly all the software I use.
@seanflyon

I don't think we're in agreement. You can't be bored and be in pain at the same time. You're either bored, or you're in pain, you can't be bored while getting punched in the face or running 100 miles.
I stopped using Macports for two reasons. First, it was taking a long time for some of the ports to get up to date. That doesn't seem to be a problem now, but it was. The second reason is that it insists on using its own versions of tools that OS X already has. I'd prefer not to install new versions if I don't have to. I understand their reasoning, but that's why I don't use Macports.
Here's a link to the script that we use.

https://github.com/cloudability/valet
So it's traditionally been a very high-touch service with the need for retail overhead. Most frame shops carry way too many supplies/options, and outsource a portion of the work (which accounts for the delay). They are also geographically limited in terms of the business they can do, and get most of it on the weekends when people have time to stop by. So there's a lot of margin in the price above the cost of the components. Having said that, custom framers can do amazing things, and the word "racket" was used mainly for the headlines. The fit for Levle is creating a super high-quality and great looking frame for that $20-$60 print or poster that doesn't need the expertise of a master framer.
Prezi Blasts Past 1M Users in Australia and New Zealand
Beat that: I scored 86 points in Grumpy Beaks
Do you have any evidence to support that claim?

I doubt that a space lab as functional as the ISS could exist without international funding.
Chase has a "feature" where their passwords don't allow special characters and ignore upper/lowercase, at least on their mobile app. I'm not surprised other things are amiss.
Streak (YC S11) is hiring engineers who love JavaScript
We're looking for people that love Javascript - ugly warts and all. We want people that care about Single-Page App architecture, writing clean reusable code, and spend more hours than is reasonable looking at Dev Tool's CPU profiler.
At Streak we have an incredibly sophisticated SPA that is built on top of another incredibly sophisticated SPA (Gmail), all while never compromising performance. This is extremely challenging technically, and you'll be sure your skills will be pushed to the limits and beyond.

Requirements:

- have worked on a javascript application with more than 10KLOC (app code, not external library code)

- you love working hard, not just for financial rewards, but for the opportunity to grow personally

- you live (or want to move) to SF and are authorized to work here

Obviously:

- Great compensation and real ownership (both equity and over the product)

- We’ll make your life easier. Our benefits package is amazing

- We’re well funded by great silicon valley investors and are profitable

We’d love to hear from you at javascript@streak.com, please send us some information about yourself and samples of anything you’ve built.

Read more about Streak at http://www.streak.com
Would it work out for you if you just had to install one app for all of those uses - e.g. one generic "physical web" app?
Yes - check out https://www.fsisac.com/
When a Simple Rule of Thumb Beats a Fancy Algorithm
This will simply force the US towards more European style chip & pin style cards. But it will also massively accelerate the adoption of things like Apple Pay where the vendors never get access to your credit information or personal information at all.

Not that it helps a bit if they are hacking banks however.
My understanding is that Techstars is a "franchise model" of sorts. So Techstars Chicago, as described in the post, could be quite different from another city's Techstars?

If anyone on HN have been through any Techstars programme and are prepared to comment on the experience that'll be super valuable.
After 31 years, Lotus-1-2-3 spreadsheet support has ended
I've certainly been both bored and in pain before (especially when sick). Are you saying that's not possible?
This in the latest of a long string of security breaches makes me very happy that Apple is moving forward on tokenized payment systems and hopefully dragging many other companies along with it.
I've built a less "hacker" way to automate the install of a bunch of common apps at http://getmacapps.com

Aiming for something you can easily use quickly, or send to less techy friends or parents to run.
I sort of buried the lede in my comment... My main point was that while all abstractions are leaky, it's reasonable to judge them on the relative extent of their leakiness.
Now i have to :)
No, "sites" would imply "web sites that you could just as easily open in Safari", which is not what they're talking about here. They're talking about implementing an app in Javascript stored locally (still accessible when you have no connectivity), and then being able to download updates to that code directly from the developer rather than through the app store. A lot of people (including myself) legitimately wondered if Apple permits this, since it bypasses Apple's normal review process for apps. Many of us (especially people like me who aren't regular iOS devs and have only anecdotal knowledge of their rules) didn't realize that Apple has an explicit and intentional exception for Javascript run via webview that applies to more than just web pages.
We'll soon be able to print and frame your photos - and thinking about making them available (opt-in of course) for other people to purchase. Would love to know if that interests you (or anyone else here). Also feel free to sign up for the newsletter on the site (the bottom button in the footer at www.levleframes.com) to stay posted. And hanks for sharing that experience!
Stand-Alone Smartwatches
If reminding customers that they are actually making recurring payments to a company causes that company to go out of business, I don't think we need to shed any tears.
Here's an fork that works for OS X. https://github.com/chowyuncat/cool-retro-term/tree/osx-hacks
Swordfish's osx branch is broken.
Or you can update your bash from Apple's Support Site,

http://support.apple.com/downloads/

I don't know if it fixes the more recently found bash vulnerabilities, but I know it fixes the first one that was reported.

You can find versions for Lion and Mountain Lion if you search.
There is a third option. Domestic hackers who route all their attacks through places like Russia or China for the ease of deflecting suspicion/blame.
Hate how Google's blog engine does this too
Orleans – Distributed Virtual Actors for Programmability and Scalability
Yes, that's accurate. Techstars Chicago is an incubator called Excelerate that joined the "network". I think they're all run similarly, but Excelerate didn't magically become a premium accelerator by slapping the Techstars label on.
Just noticed the account had been removed.

The comments:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/qy3o7nf1422iocc/2014-10-...

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/0cpkav56yq3c3xq/2014-10-...

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/0xqd96jvqhudn0i/2014-10-...
No long distance runner I have ever met has described running as "total pain".

Several look brighter and clearly feel happier after running 2-4 miles. It's nearly rejuvenating for them.

Unless they are quite literally masochists, I don't think they spend those 2-4 miles in pure misery.
>> Our policies are improved when we appreciate that a hundred deaths are worse than one

> Who are we to make such decisions?

We are human beings who have free will. Do you suggest we allow both the hundred and the one to die, given that we lack the resources to save both?
CoreOS eliminates downtime from server OS patching
I think he meant that a sudden huge drop in recurring revenue out the blue can sink a small business while it's getting established.

I could see that.
Write a piece of software that you already use. For example, Hacker News.
How to Draw Fibonacci Retracements with RSI Indicators (for Bitcoin and Forex)
I've never understood how biologists could argue non-selfish evolution couldn't be a thing. If you look at groups of organisms as systems, and you pit the systems against each other, surely eventually the system that evolved to be superior would win in the end, regardless of whether that means any subspecies in that group of organisms would evolve to not reproduce?

Is it not just a question of whether evolution could produce specialized one-offs that don't reproduce but do serve a purpose? Wouldn't the significant population of homosexuals be a sign of this? Perhaps a biologist could give some info on why many biologists think this is unlikely?
Anyone know any good places to meet people who are interested in startups but who aren't from technical backgrounds?

There must be people out there who have identified problems that software can solve, but who can't build the solutions themselves. Lawyers who know what law firms need or plumbers who know what general contractors need, and such.
You're right poor choice of words I'm just trying to emphasize that there's enough misery to prevent you from being bored.
That's what I meant (see the second sentence). The first sentence of my post was, however, originally missing a "not" (now added), so I see the confusion.
EDIT: I think this might be wrong, FYI.

Sure, you never hand the card over when you pay with NFC, but that card number is being sent through computer systems that current events prove are very vulnerable.

NFC and Chip-and-PIN protect the merchant from fraud, not the user. A malicious customer can't use a stolen card at a merchant that only accepts Chip-and-PIN payments.

EMVCo tokenization generates a token that can only be used with one-time cryptograms generated with a secret key that never leaves the device. If someone hacks a merchant you pay via Apple Pay and tries to use your token as a card number online, it will be rejected even though it looks like a card number.

EMVCo tokenization is a new thing. It is better than what came before it because it was designed with that goal in mind. People are reluctant to believe this for some reason.
The Quiet Zone: No wifi or cell phone service for 13,000 sq. miles
This is interesting given that OS X is anything but a hacker's paradise. The platform is very locked down, discourages tinkering and customization, and given how expensive Apple hardware is, this is the least accessible and most exclusive out of the three main players. Even worse is when developers make it the leading platform for their software, like in the case of Atom, where the Windows support is awful given that they started out focusing on OS X.

I'm guessing it takes a lot of work to create and maintain things like homebrew in order to make the OS X experience more palatable, but why not just use your Linux flavor of choice and cut to the chase? I used to use OS X and I loved homebrew, but it feels like it's cut off from the rest of the operation system, which has often caused me a lot of headaches in the past.
Synergy has been a bit odd in recent years. It doesn't seem like a particularly large or complex piece of software, and many projects that seem to be of similar scope are things maintained in the spare time of a few developers. It has long been stable, and it isn't clear that drastic improvements in it have been made, or even need to be made.

Yet Synergy appears to have a corporation behind it (Synergy Si) that only appears to work on Synergy. They have an office, and apparently provide free meals, Google-style 20% projects, and a variety of other perks. They're apparently hiring. They even offer stock options, despite my being rather bewildered at where the opportunity for growth is.

I donated years ago, and found myself occasionally receiving emails that just didn't make sense, making the whole operation sound giant. If they were working on other projects, too, but it seems like all they do is work on Synergy.
And another article styled by people who need to read and comprehend this: http://contrastrebellion.com/
That's why I use Ubuntu's default Unity on desktop and OSX Macbook these days. For me it just works.

Ubuntu has even more powerful window managing key bindings by default (on OSX I need Spectacle).

For all other things I just don't care.
Probably because it would look odd if Meteor's own web site wasn't build on their own framework.

Plus if they fix a typo the page updates in your browser without reloading. Which is at least kind of neat. :)
It seems odd to quantify this by "households". Is this normal? Per Wikipedia there are only 117m households in the US. So they are basically saying close enough to everybody. But then I am surprised that JP Morgan even has that percentage of US households as customers in the first place!
Being uncomfortable/sick is not pain. I'm saying you can't be bored and at the same time, have your heart racing at 200 bpm or gasping for air like you're drowning.

It depends how sick you were but for me running a marathon is pain, getting a fever is just being uncomfortable.
There are approximately 115M households in the US [1], so does this mean that two of every three households is affected by this data breach? If so, why isn't there more panic?

[1]: http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/00000.html
Unfortunately, it has terrible filesystem support. How do I read/write ext4 volumes!?
I liked her point of repetition being the main problem. It makes sense as we strengthen the new synopsis that are made. Josh Foer author of moonwalking with Einstein proposed an interesting theory that, essentially fucked up imagery of any kind helps increase and strength synaptic connections.

Interesting watch (first 5mins gives good context)
http://books.google.com/books/about/Moonwalking_with_Einstei...
And: The handful of owners of the monopolistic media and entertainment industry have managed to make about 50% of US citizens believe that Snowden is a traitor, not a hero.

This means you should not expect any pressure to come from the US public/voters and therefor there is no change to expect from the US as a nation.
If you try to work out much when tired and stressed you're just going to increase the odds of getting sick. The article makes the mistake of suggesting exercise when already stressed. I think the point here is that fitness is protective. It's too late if you're already feeling a bit burned out. The thing to do in that case is restful relaxation.
Optimizing the restaurant sales receipt for maximum tips
I meant what noir_lord said. Ira Glass' monthly donation to NPR got cancelled when Target breached, for example. You can probably back date such things, but a lot of people don't.
I hope they post a follow-up in a couple months. I would find the numbers interesting.
Well can't argue with that. I get it. But in general, if you train to run, Zone 4 is where people should be training.
Yep, British slang for vagina.

Edit: just found this http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/f.htm
Fever is not usually pain. Headache is pain. Fever ties more into the boredom.

But heart racing and gasping for air sounds more like discomfort to me...

Actually I have better example. I've had highly painful things done to my teeth while very much being bored. And while relatively comfortable outside of the pain.
I worked out of 1871 and was seriously helpful in connecting with some good people. That said - there's a ton of open environment space where it's easy to get distracted and pulled into conversations if you don't have noise canceling headphones and your "don't bother me face" on.

That said - I think Excellerate Labs (before Techstars bought them) had a serious hand in getting several startups off the ground. The tech scene in Chicago specifically is newer (so companies are younger) which means less exits, but I think if you watch the Chicago scene for a bit - that's going to change very soon.

That said - good analysis here. Good to see a founder not just jumping at the opportunity for funding "just because it could."
In 20+ years with advent of decentralised banking (btc, etc) such stories will be impossible. Decentralised banking will not only affect security but overall money distribution in the world.
Simon Singh's The Code Book[1] is excellent, if around 10 years old:

The Code Book covers diverse historical topics including the Man in the Iron Mask, Arabic cryptography, Charles Babbage, the mechanisation of cryptography, the Enigma machine, and the decryption of Linear B and other ancient writing systems.

Later sections cover the development of public-key cryptography. Some of this material is based on interviews with participants, including persons who worked in secret at GCHQ.[2]

[1] http://simonsingh.net/books/the-code-book/

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Code_Book
Skylab was cheap(er) because it was launched in one single stage (IIRC it literally was a Saturn V cargo bay).

The ISS was designed to be built up over several years, over several launches, with each launch costing much less than Skylab but obviously more overall. It was a design decision that favoured amortizing costs for an age that couldn't afford another Skylab.
If what you're saying is true, then it is (dis)provable. There must be ample evidence of what you're talking about, as the votes themselves are public, and resource allocation by geography is (probably) also public information.

I would argue that if you cannot prove it, then you should consider whether or not the assertion is coming more from a negative, cynical sentiment than from any real fact.
Excellerate was close to #3 or #4 incubator (depending on how you count) in the country before joining the TechStars crew.
Nonsense - parallel construction (and any other widespread use of the capabilities the NSA/etc is providing to other "their customers" (DEA/FBI/various-local-PD)) is likely the primary reason for this attack on Apple and encryption on the iPhone. The data covered by that kind of encryption would likely be of very limited use for national security; the NSA gets most of the data at the backbone switches anyway, and encryption doesn't do anything to prevent relationship mapping from logs of routing metadata. Also, any kind of targeted investigation could simply bypass encryption by installing custom firmware. Several of the tools in the TAO catalog were based on that style of attack.

What would be lost with local iPhone encryption keys is the ability to gather large amounts of data by strong-arming Apple (Prism, possibly). Note that most of the people freaking out over Apple's changes are not NSA. It is law enforcement who is fearing losing their access; the same law enforcement that would be using parallel construction to actually use the data that logically they didn't have a warrant to search and seize. (if they did have a warrant, they can bypass the encryption with various other ways, which apparently includes compelling passwords)

As for the Reuters article, I linked to a specific document that was a follow-up to that Reuters article, which had very little to do with foreign governments, and a lot to do with protecting access to the surveillance infrastructure. If you want the TL;DR version (understandable; it's 300 pages of slides and forms), [1] is a decent overview though it lacks some of the relevant details.

[1] https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140203/11143926078/paral...
Evernote launches web beta
Is that what it says? It seemed to suggest that young eggs could be contaminated by a sperm long before they are eventually fertilized.

It's unclear to me what 'contaminated' means here, but I'm not a biologist.
The central area is - but the TechStars companies do get semi-private work spaces (which is much better than the loud open-space most people see.
If all the facts are on their side, why do you continue to claim it's worse?
The blog post is a little too corporate to my taste.

tl;dr: Log in and experience a new UI.
This is important. It's all too easy to route and obfuscate your trafic so that it appears to come from anywhere in the world you want. Given that, for example, the US already officially declared that they will respond militarily to a sufficiently annoying cyberattack, and that is rumoured[0] to include going (literally) nuclear, people in power should really remember that just because a cyberattack seems to originate from country X, doesn't mean country X is in any way involved.

[0] - I think I saw something implying this in official statements, though I can't find any good source that would confirm it right now; however the idea was discussed in media.
Yes, we don't have good ways to unify the flipping between GF32 and GF2 beyond down-converting to GF2 (which yields a massive increase in clause-complexity).

GF32 addition in GF2 basically looks like a giant ripple-carry-adder.
Fucking depressing.
In the last three weeks my shortest daily run was six miles. Even on long/fast runs I don't _usually_ feel pain and I absolutely disagree with your sentiment here.

If you run regularly it is no longer painful by any definition of the word. Quite literally I feel no pain from a run, unless I'm pushing myself harder than usual. Running ten miles at an ~eight minute pace would definitely leave me winded, and could strain my legs. Running six miles at ~eight thirty literally does not hurt.

The worst part, from where I'm standing, is the time consuming and boring nature of the task. I've rationalized it away as necessary, but it doesn't get any less repetitive and the time doesn't go by any faster.
I've downvoted you as well, but mostly because you're framing your comment as fact, which, according to all these replies, is not the case.

I run regularly up and down steep hills and go cycling ~15 miles at least once a week. I also do bodyweight workouts and do bodyline drills which can consist of keeping a position for 60+ seconds each time.

Out of all of those in the list, running bores me the most. If I'm running just for the cardio, it's boring.