skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep... Just got ours. Time to get back to work.
I don't think that's just officialese. They are going to be under enormous pressure to find out what went wrong as quickly as possible. Orbital Science's future may be significantly affected by how well (and quickly) they deal with the aftermath.
Cross social network analysis for building quality data sets
The think the abrasiveness thing is a separate issue from the black-and-white opinions thing.

For the most part he is extremely knowledgeable within his field and has a pragmatic outlook that I like a lot.

At the same time, anyone who presents incredibly complicated topics as black and white rarely has their facts straight. That by itself is a huge red flag. They're either misinformed at best or lying to you at worst.

In Linus' case, I usually give him the benefit of the doubt and assume that his stated black-and-white opinion is a vastly simplified version of his much more nuanced and informed opinion that he keeps to himself. Sometimes he makes me think I'm giving him too much credit though. Abrasiveness always makes me question someone's credibility when used in defense of a binary opinion on a complicated topic (this applies to anyone, not just Linus).
Was this the precursor to the reason why TCP/IP included the TTL field?
Facebook has 7,185 employees as of June 30th, 2014. Assuming the average salary is $100,000 (They aren't all developers). It means that facebook makes enough money to pay all it's employees for the year in 22 and a half days.
Including my mom in the last 10 years I've lost 4 female members of family to cancer. This product is revolutionary no doubt and I am very excited about it. I believe Google will face an uphill task as there are lots of things to explain to the consumer before taking this full stream.

1. Will these nano particles stay in my blood stream forever or do I have to inject them in my body periodically. What are its side effects?

2. The wristband on my hand communicating with these nano particles in someway connects back to the Google's network and now along with my emails and pics Google is tracking my health and my DNA. I mean I can turn off my phone and not use my email but I can't turn off my body. When combined with the DNA this project has the potential to provide an RFID to each and every human being.

Ignore my ignorance I am not the expert here just curious about all these possibilities.
This is what I want to know. I'm not an expert with ChromeTools, but I was able to determine the following:

1. Viewing the page source showed that only maybe a few dozen lines of html were being retrieved. Stopped somewhere in the million scripts in the <head>.

2. More interestingly, the Network pane showed 200s across the board... no resource was being requested that wasn't being served.

So, the servers were simply serving up a tenth of the web page? Is that it? It seems as though some internal generation of the html pooped out before finishing. No HTTP errors because nothing in the html that we received requested anything that wasn't already there.
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Not down in UK.
If you read http://ycombinator.com/whynot/ it says that sheer volume is the issue.
another social network.... like no other network use mathematical model lol

how will you solve chicken\egg problem, hah? lol
Is there a collection of transcripts for these videos?
Isn't it impossible to prove if something is NP-hard, since we don't know if p=np
Launching to space is very prone to failures and (almost) everyone got one.

Though NASA seems to be paying for Orbital launches more than SpaceX (even considering the difference in payload):
http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/153960-private-spacefligh...
Bit of luck necessary then eh.
Btw, I haven't gotten a rejection email. I just know they sent out to they guys they accepted. I guess our application really sucked lol.
Maybe tetrachromats think us mere trichromats are the ones missing out.

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140905-the-women-with-supe...
Thank you! I received the invitation! :)
I've been wanting to read an English translation of Luca Pacioli's seminal work on accounting/double entry bookkeeping. Although that barely qualifies as Medieval.
The failure rate in manned space missions is approximately 1/50 ("failure" as in "it explodes and everybody dies"). (For example, the Space Shuttle had 2/135 failures.)

The unmanned missions have a higher failure rate, IIRC ~10%, but that number probably includes prototype and old models.

So a 2/80 failures is not so bad. It sucks when it explodes, but going to space is difficult.
If you want to understand the drought conditions better, I implore you to watch this Ted talk by environment scientist David Keith:

http://www.ted.com/talks/david_keith_s_surprising_ideas_on_c...

To sum it up, governments are engaged in cloud seeding to fight climate change, and they're staying silent on the issue because informing the public is a moral hazard.

As a side effect of cloud seeding, certain areas are bound to develop less rain clouds. This causes drought conditions.

Spraying chemical compounds over populated areas also has environmental impacts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4WhYKP83zo

"On July 15th, 2014, citizens from Northern California rallied to create the largest attendance ever at the Shasta County Supervisors chambers (400+, chairman Les Baugh confirmed this attendance record at the start of the meeting). The primary purpose of this meeting was to present information that proves there is a very dire heavy metal contamination and UV radiation issue across the Shasta County region (and the world). A list of 10 experts presented data to the board to confirm the legitimacy of the concerns being addressed. At the end of the presentation, the board voted unanimously to investigate the heavy metal contamination and passed resolutions accordingly."
"Whether Alt+char is succesfully picked up by your terminal application is dependent on the quality of your connection."

This! The most annoying behavior in my daily terminal usage. Whenever I encounter this problem, I feel like "gosh, someone must reinvent the entire stack."

But I didn't know that mosh is able to process the sequence correctly. What a good boy. But doesn't this mean the official OpenSSH client is also capable of fixing the problem?
The CRS contract includes development costs, though. The marginal cost of one mission isn't anywhere near 1.9B/8.
Splore - P2P forum that emphasizes users' interests and locations. On the front of Facebook's Rooms or Reddit.

Sploreapp.com

Beta should be out Late 2014/Early 2015
Requires Silverlight. :(
Thank you! I received it!
The earlier you apply the better.
"I stopped watering my lawn the day I bought the house"

In some cities, not watering your lawn may get you a fine too: http://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-brown-lawns-...
Hmm, Good Information ...
I'm pretty sure each lecture has a transcript. You can view the full collection here: http://startupclass.samaltman.com/lists/readings/

The transcripts are not always posted immediately but there is a placeholder when a transcript is to be expected but not ready yet.
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You can continuously fail while acting irrationally/irresponsibly. You can also fail despite having done everything right.

Platitudes like this don't help anything, they just detract from actual discussion of reality, which is vastly more complex.
Obligatory and insightful XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1410/
California Droughts
Facebook's prized acquisition WhatsApp lost $140M last year
I remember Apple's transition from PPC to x86. The software certainly became much faster, but debugging became more difficult. For example, on PPC, all instructions were 4-byte aligned, so if you saw a PC that wasn't a multiple of 4, you knew right away that something had gone off the rails. Or if you wanted to disassemble around an address, it was easy to know where to start. Not so with x86 on either count.

Another example is that developers liked to use -fomit-frame-pointer to get an extra register. This means that arguments were at some varying offset from the the stack address that only the compiler could keep track of. You'd have to hunt for them on the stack. With PPC, they'd generally be in registers, and it was often easy to trace their movement through the function since they'd be kept in registers.

Lastly, the way that x86 stores the return address on the stack makes exploiting buffer overflows especially easy. PPC has a dedicated register for the return address, which by no means gives immunity, but at least doesn't hand the attacker the keys on a silver platter.

Linus may or may not be right about the performance issues, but I am certain that x86's "charming oddities" made low-level debugging slower and thereby contributed to buggier software.
Why don't you tell us your result and whether you got application messages, and may be we'll have a better idea?
(I'll re-link to
sebmarkbage's answer here in case people see this post and get confused: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8523876)

In short, this is somewhat of a transition step for the (imo) even better way of specifying your render with pure vanilla js collections. This goes in the opposite direction of what you're worried about. You can view `createElement/Factory` as the stepping stone, with the _additional_ benefit of allowing you to use es6 classes very soon. Smaller API surface and + using more js features rather than library-specific ones; what's not to like? =)

As for your worries about JSX: yes, it does come from React since the beginning. But we've taken an extra step of making it clear that this doesn't have to be React-specific: http://facebook.github.io/jsx/. You can plug this in CoffeeScript. If not, see my previous point.
Assuming company B is a subsidiary of company A, there is nothing to worry about for you.
Oh sure, sorry I meant to imply that effectively those external ips they will be exposing to outside services will be banned fairly soon by a lot of things and marked as a vpn/proxy service.

On second reading I realize that I basically in no way say that.

Agreed with everything you said though, it's not legit.
Also 26 satellites from Planet Labs

https://www.planet.com/pulse/space-is-hard/
Some Japanese dude overclocked a P4 to 5GHz in 2004, and there are reports of people getting a P4 to 8GHz in 2007. There's also this cooler that Intel made in 2006, though I'm not sure of it's success: http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2006/03/08/intel_liqui...
IMAPd 0.2.0 released
How does YC W15 Rejection email look like
I think they're sent out in chunks. I sometimes get mine several hours later than what others report.
the link underneath directs you to the "before".
If you got rejected, mind sharing what you're working on? Reply below!
Scanning to see cancers earlier and prevent heart attacks is not going to add 20 years to your life anyway. You can have organ failure even without cancer, and you can die of many other conditions as well. It's not a silver bullet.
Rest assured, see sebmarkbage's and my reply here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8523732

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8524465
Transaction chains: low-latency serializability in distributed storage systems [pdf]
Maybe third time is the charm... and a successful kickstarter
On a related note, this seems really interesting too:

"DanKam: Augmented Reality For Color Blindness"

http://dankaminsky.com/2010/12/15/dankam/
Getting into YC is not the goal of a startup. The goal is to make something people want. YC certainly helps you achieve that goal, but it is by no means the only way!
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I got my rejection letter! It's a template.
I'm guessing that the almond farmers know what they're doing.

Maybe dead trees encourage diseases that attack live trees.
Right now you will have a lower credit rating with 0 credit cards than with a small number that you do not maintain a balance on. I know several people that don't use credit cards out of privacy concerns.
https://joinpod.com

Pod's a group organization tool -- we're like a more functional Facebook Groups. Users organize teams around Pods and people can create tasks, schedule meetings or events, or post in forums.

Demo http://youtube.com/watch?v=LY2DzXf8WwI
"Human nature" is neither an explanation nor a motive; it's a punt. I am also human, but I did not do this. I have been a dick now and then, but I never stole a rare water lily. These pseudo-pithy explanations are about as useful as answering the question "What causes things to fall when you drop them?" with "TLDR: It's natural that when you drop things, they fall. Nothing new to report."

We all know that humans do lousy things, but there are usually specific reasons beyond "human nature" why they do them.
A website to compare and buy annuities. Don't have it up yet, any suggestions appreciated.
Back to work :)
Well by the math applying and getting accepted is a long shot. If they review thousands of applications (say 5000), and they hope to have a class of 80, then they probably have to interview a few hundred. So if they want to get 500 to 1000 into an interview out of 5000, they're turning away 80 to 90%.

I'm just curious to know whether we were number 501 on the list when they accepted 500, or if we were the last one on the list of 5000.
'68k is easier to write a compiler for' and 'writing a good compiler for x86 is very hard, but if you have one, x86 is faster' need not rule out each other. Maybe, both are true.

Maybe, the denser x86 instruction set helps more than the its complex instruction decoder hurts. Now that CPUs with a billion transistors are 'small', that decoder doesn't look that large anymore.
Glad to hear that. Yea, it's a bit of a gut shot - some pain, then anger, then acceptance, and then, as someone else said, back to work; The 7 minute YC rejection workout.
Sort of. COTS was supposed to be the development costs, CRS was supposed to be the launches. Orbital got $288 Million for development of Antares/Cygnus from COTS.

From wikipedia:

> "COTS is related but separate from the Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) program.[3] COTS relates to the development of the vehicles, CRS to the actual deliveries. COTS involves a number of Space Act Agreements, with NASA providing milestone-based payments. COTS does not involve binding contracts. CRS on the other hand does involve legally binding contracts, which means the suppliers would be liable if they failed to perform. Commercial Crew Development (CCDev) is a related program, aimed specifically at developing crew rotation services. It is similar to COTS-D. All three programs are managed by NASA's Commercial Crew and Cargo Program Office (C3PO)."

Personally, I am worried about Orbital's ability to complete the remaining flights for CRS. This is a very unfortunate setback for them.
Ask HN: Secure Cloud Storage for Sensitive Customer Data
Any experience on storing data via the cloud for sensitive customer information? We are exploring if we can (from a legal stand point) keep this data in the cloud, but if so we'd like a service that (in this order of importance):

- Is the most secure (difficult to judge, but maybe by looking at history of vulnerabilities, encryption practices etc...)
- Is shareable with-in company users but logs user access data (e.g. when data was access, what data was accessed, etc...)
- Limit's the storing entity's liability in case of a hack/vulnerability (not sure anyone does this)
- Has admin support to turn control access (e.g. no one can access files between midnight and 5am).
- Has excellent uptime and support.

Does not need to be PCI compliant, but more along the lines of HIPPA. I see Box is compliant, any other major players? Any personal experience?
Wonder if the boat didn't stray into the restricted area yesterday, things would have been different?

I know we might never know but I did wonder if the draining and refueling the fuel caused an anomaly somewhere and lead to this?

Such a big loss for us.
Bulk responses using templates.
I'm confused why WHATWG is concerned about W3C plagiarizing their work on an HTML5 spec, when the alternative is competing specs which drift further apart. Surely interoperability is key here?
Rejected. Sucks. The idea was very solid and the team was solid (between the 3 of us we have 2 artists, 2 computer science degrees, 2 computer engineering degrees, and an established viral content marketer). The only two issues were that

a) We are planning to build a hardware product and are at the mock-ups/renderings stage so we do not have a prototype, and
b) One of the team members hasn't physically met the other two (although we've worked on projects before and have a ~4 year friendship).

I had some correspondence with some of the partners about the second point-- PG told me it would be a problem, but Garry Tan said its not really a deal breaker. So I'll put it off to the lack of prototype which is what killed us.
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Please. This is not relevant almost 12 years later!

Moore's law is saturating. Benchmarks numbers are more and more a function of core-count not GHz-count. It's time to embrace the RISC-y tiny speed-demon cores (so you can have them by the dozens) over complex brainiac ones (too much space). It's been almost 9 years Intel introduced dual cores and the mainstream is still quad-core (with 6 and 8 on the fringes) while GHz is less that what P4 had more than 10 years ago! What is going on? If Moore's law still holds, in 9 years since 2005 Intel should be at 24/32/48 core ballpark, something that is clearly not the case.

In that vein I would also state that linux needs a major overhaul, i.e., to shift itself from a single core kernel to one that leverages n-cores.

good read: http://www.lighterra.com/papers/modernmicroprocessors/
What was your product? Link? Demo?
"Apparently, "to kick against the goads" was a common expression found in both Greek and Latin literature—a rural image, which rose from the practice of farmers goading their oxen in the fields. Though unfamiliar to us, everyone in that day understood its meaning.
Goads were typically made from slender pieces of timber, blunt on one end and pointed on the other. Farmers used the pointed end to urge a stubborn ox into motion. Occasionally, the beast would kick at the goad. The more the ox kicked, the more likely the goad would stab into the flesh of its leg, causing greater pain."

Src: http://www.jesus.org/early-church-history/the-apostle-paul/h...
I'm more worried about intelligent humans
I think the mindset to have here is that YC is so popular and the number of YC partners are so small, that you have a very small chance to get in the first place.

I wouldn't burn too many candles hoping to get in or trying to figure out a reason why you did not. There is a benefit to applying in that it makes your commitment to your startup even stronger.

Focus on what is important and that is your business. I truly believe building something sustainable is better for YOU, than trying to make the next Dropbox, Facebook etc. But if you already gaining Facebook like traction I am sure YC will already have heard of you.

Worry about your startup and just focus on making it sustainable. Becoming popular with customers and maintaining that relationship. has more benefits for more people than getting into YC. Focus on what is important.
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Can you share how many applications there were for this batch?

Might make some of us feel like all these years grinding on startups isn't for nothing and is just a simple matter of volume.
There's another video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPHkDc-CwoQ
It took forever just to get the Instant Video app on Android and still with a very clumsy installation process. But it did make it eventually. So, I don't think the evidence supports that assertion.
food industry should be partly subsidized by government, otherwise country could end up in trouble when people don't get enough neccessary basic food and stuff
If the idea is solid, why are you letting YC's rejection get in the way of pursuing it?

Determination matters most.
Actually there are alternatives to thinking of them as complex numbers, specifically geometric algebra. Depending on who you believe, GA may be a better "design" of math for geometric calculations.
http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/~clifford/introduction/intro/intro...
Are we not able to desalinate water? No doubt some special interests are preventing us from solving this problem. Access to plentiful, cheap water has not been a first world problem in a very long time. Just authorize the building permits and a contract to buy water sufficient to make it profitable, and this problem will be solved quickly.
but it did cost millions to insurance company
In many environments, expectations don't have to adjust. With corporate clients, expectations were never reasonable in the first place, and many common requirements that have been around for decades still aren't reasonable.

Clients often demand idiocy like "pixel perfection," specific fonts, custom scaling behavior for size (including application-controlled zooming), and other things that simply aren't part of the paradigm for accessing websites through web browsers.

Between that and the fact that going "beyond the basics of CSS" is a pretty common thing, browser interfailure is still a real problem. It's not as bad as it used to be, but the problem is still there, and many of us are still dealing with it regularly.
Didn't get in, no worries though. Good team, great product moving forward. It would have removed some obstacles, that's all.

Good luck to everyone, and keep at it; we are.
i am shocked that a bunch of dorks with something to prove have used this post as an opportunity to start droning on about strength training, intervals. it's almost like correlation/causation or dunning kruger

p.s the average man in a gym can't bench 100kg. maybe a rep or two with some generous spotting
The western world right now is in a bit of a defeatist mood and pessimism reigns supreme. And while I can't deny that all things end and in some sense civilization is scheduled for some receding, I find myself wondering what impact this sort of technology will have on that process. Technology is speeding everything up so much and so fast... what if technology speeds up our next "dark age" from centuries to decades... or decade... or mere years? What if we're even already halfway through the decline?

We know technology is a big game changer. Sometimes we overestimate that impact, but sometimes we underestimate it too. What will it do for everyone to have a smartphone? Heck if I know! But perhaps it's reason for at least a smidge of hope.
The object literal syntax also sucks :(

https://gist.github.com/deadlyicon/79c09610cac5a67f4a5d
Google, MS, Apple, Facebook and Twitter operate out a foreign county for most of us. At most they "tell" by way of click through agreements wherein you sign away your firstborn and then some, otherweise you are without smartphones and social media.
> To everybody: failures suck, but big spectacular failure is directly correlated to the difficulty of what you're trying to do. If you're failing, you're doing something right.

This tech-scene cliché annoys me to no end. Challenger and Columbia were both spectacular failures, and both were the result of dysfunctional corporate culture at NASA. Asiana 214, the MV Sewol, and the Costa Concordia can all be chalked up basically to incompetence. If you are failing you are doing something wrong, that is the definition of failure.
My team and I got rejected in 2010. We're still working together and we're generating mid 8 figure revenues now. So it's definitely not the end of the world and the silicon valley network is so vast these days that no one should let a YC rejection stop them from doing amazing things.

Keep on truckin!