skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So, what are the YC people investing in? Two guys who seem pretty smart?

In a lot of talks by VCs, Seed funds and incubators posted on YT, they have said that they invest in people. It's been said that people with entrepreneurial spirit will keep coming with ideas & executions and the said VCs/Seed Funds/Incubators want to build relationships that span across these ventures.
Honda's self-driving technology will play a big role in the future
you can even move the ball.
That article's reasoning is just all over the place. Conflating a satirical magazine with Pvt Manning, who knowingly and flagrantly broke the UCMJ? Come on. That guy knew he could have been put before a firing squad as a spy--he wasn't drawing pictures of fairy tale characters sodomizing each other.

And this howler:

and these ideas extended into American history as well and took on American modes, from the breaking of slaves to the censuring of critics of Operation Iraqi Freedom

...wait a minute. What's wrong with censuring whoever the hell I want? Oh, you assumed your readers would read that as "censoring", which never actually happened. Well, even if it had, I'm not sure if the "breaking of slaves" is comparable.

And then it talks about Gaza and Nigeria and Yemen and Mexico as if the world is ignoring them. Actually, New Yorker, the world isn't ignoring them. The difference is, see, the recent French attacks were "terrorism" which is specifically designed to attract attention--it's violent propaganda. The trick there is to ignore it, not to attempt to spread our attention evenly on every act of violence in the world.

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xnull2guest commented:

Breivik[2] slaughtered over 70 innocent Muslim people

They were Muslims? Where did you get that information from?
I'd like to hear more about it, if you're willing to share.
Hmmm.. I don't buy bikes anymore.

Bought two in Tel Aviv (after the one I brought from DE was stolen...). The first one was stolen, secured with a 'secure' Kryptonite U-Lock in my backyard. Brought the second back to Germany, after carrying it into my 2nd story flat in TLV every single day and only using it during the day, keeping it in sight.

Stored it in the (shared between 6 tenants) private garage/car park back in Germany, locked with a U-Lock from Kryptonite. Gone one day.

Got a (crap!) bike as a present from my parents. Kept it in the (2 party, single car) garage of my current plage, with a U-Lock from Kryptonite. Gone.

If you cannot/won't carry it in your apartment, don't bother. That's the lesson I learned at least. That also means that you cannot use a bike as a means of transportation if you want to go to a bar, watch a movie or something.

It's hyperbole, but I sometimes think that the 'Wild West' way of treating horse thieves could and should be adopted...
Not removed from all search engines. Just Google. Bing works just fine. So do the little guys, like DuckDuckGo. "robots.txt":

User-agent: Google-Legal-Removals
Disallow:

User-agent: Googlebot
Noindex: /
Allow: /pages

User-agent: *
Disallow: /
Allow: /pages
Taxes such as the ones on CO2 emissions are made to influence people's behaviour. That's why I think strict regulations are sometime better than taxes because they don't really influence people, or at least not in a sneaky way like taxes do.
Not so smart: getting busted for plagiarism: http://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/jan/20/johann-hari-qui...
Is it coincidence that Microsoft called a similar thing Volta [1] a couple of years ago? Or is there some kind of pun or whatever that I am missing?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Live_Labs_Volta
Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7264103

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2884141
In the US, Square [1] seems very popular among small stores, like coffee shops and, yes, candy stores. Seems like it's great for low-volume stuff. A few days ago I was buying a piece of vintage furniture from a private seller via Krrb.com, and when I showed up, she said I could pay with either PayPal, Square or Venmo.

[1] https://squareup.com
I can only compare this to my coffee habit. I have to have it. No project, especially a physical one, can start
without it.

But, gotta be careful with stuff like this. It sounds great, but is it really gonna be you who controls the drug ?

Maybe, but it might not always work out that way...
I wonder how this will fare against the tide of anti-GMO silliness that seems to be prevalent these days. Even something unquestionably useful like golden rice has been met with fear mongering and paranoia.
> unfortunately the name 'io' is unsearchable

As with Go, appending 'lang' gives more luck: https://google.com/search?&q=iolang. (I still didn't find a reference for the speed, though.)
Interestingly the lock they recommend seems to have some pretty bad reviews on Amazon, with diagrams showing how the thieves defeated it:
http://www.amazon.com/Kryptonite-Kryptolok-Standard-Bicycle-...
https://biomickwatson.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/nbt-2706-f...
I'm from Norway and I had the same experience when visiting Berlin last year - having to take out euro-bills from the ATM.
Here in Norway I never carry any actual money - I only ever take out money to pay my foreign hair-dresser which cuts my hair for a low rate. I suspect he does not have a credit-card machine so he can avoid some taxes. I even pay for coffey and other cheap stuff with my card. They say we will go completely cash-less by 2020 - can't wait.
It appears to work on the top but not on the sides
By using a garbage collector, Go must compete with python, ruby, haskell, clojure, java, scala, c#, etc. Maybe Go is nice for some things, but it seems like an incremental improvement over the next best alternative.

Rust only needs to compete against c, c++, Ada, etc. In that class of languages, safety is a major feature.
I've had tinnitus since my early 20s and it is annoying but not such that I can't live my life (I've read of people who suffer from apparent 90 decibel buzzing). I have high frequency hearing loss and continuous buzzing, particularly in my left ear. Even though it's not debilitating, I'm happy to read that someday there may be treatment options.
Who has access to the "random" info on those cards? How randomly are they generated? If you bought a few of them, could you work backwards to the generation algorithm?
You're being downvoted because your point is nonsensical. First, GHC is not the same as requiring Java, since you don't need it to run the code. If you replaced Java with C++ your first comment would be more accurate. Second, complaining you need a compiler for Haskell to compile the source code version...you might as well complain you need a C++ compiler to compile your code. I know I don't have a C++ compiler installed, so how is installing GHC any more onerous than installing G++?
Or the kryptonite locks have some easy flaws.
"I could use Rust, but a glance at the concurrency documentation looks like I’ll be spending a lot of my time doing exactly the kind of thread management reference counting minutiae that Go does for me by providing channels."

Actually, rust does provide very similar concurrency primatives. T̶h̶i̶s̶ ̶i̶s̶ ̶a̶ ̶s̶h̶o̶r̶t̶ ̶i̶n̶t̶r̶o̶d̶u̶c̶t̶i̶o̶n̶,̶ ̶a̶l̶t̶h̶o̶u̶g̶h̶ ̶I̶ ̶d̶o̶n̶'̶t̶ ̶t̶h̶i̶n̶k̶ ̶i̶t̶ ̶w̶i̶l̶l̶ ̶c̶o̶m̶p̶i̶l̶e̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶a̶l̶p̶h̶a̶ ̶d̶u̶e̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶u̶s̶e̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶p̶r̶o̶c̶:̶ ̶h̶t̶t̶p̶:̶/̶/̶w̶w̶w̶.̶r̶u̶s̶t̶f̶o̶r̶r̶u̶b̶y̶i̶s̶t̶s̶.̶c̶o̶m̶/̶b̶o̶o̶k̶/̶c̶h̶a̶p̶t̶e̶r̶-̶0̶6̶.̶h̶t̶m̶l̶. See Steve's awesome documentation posted below!

Currently you need to type a bit more, but the compiler is able to make some channel usage errors uncompilable. I can see myself doing napkin prototyping in Go (as I already do) and writing the real version in Rust for better performance and safety in many cases.
As it is discussed elsewhere here, challenging yourself technically to build a portfolio may also lead you to making money, e.g., from consulting. I'm offering this service for free at http://ai-maker.com/ as long as problems are openly discussed in the blog. For private consulting, a budget.
The U.S. gives it to fighter jet pilots often, to make sure they stay awake.
A combination of education and (mostly) ignoring them, I would hope. Such screaming comes from people who expect to have food available for their next meal, and tends to evaporate when hungry.
I do take your point. In fact I'm in the process of writing a small update with In App Purchases. With this update, it'll be free.
I think SJS has only resulted from modafinil use fewer than ten times in total. It's a rare enough response that it's difficult to figure out the actual risks, and I can't find info on the actual rates of modafinil usage. But it seems like something that's probably on the order of a 1/100,000 chance.
As someone with allergies, I can tell you that it doesn't really aggravate any of my symptoms. Its pro-histamine effects are mostly observed in the CNS, and not in the rest of the body.
I use the Kryptolock Series 2 to lock up my cyclocross bike (CrossRip) on campus, but the cable is annoying to carry around so I end up exposing the back wheel more so to theft.

Thicker locks only increase the time it takes for a thief to cut through, so I bring my bike inside if I don't plan on riding for a few days.
There are certainly risks, but these are to vendors I consider to be reliable, e.g. doctors ... and they're really expecting checks (many more "vendors" directly draw from one of my checking accounts). I also have more trust in my banks than Knuth seems to have ... and I indeed keep a fairly low amount of cash in those checking accounts.
Surprisingly, this demo works great on my iPad 4.
Everyone has a comfort zone
Wait really? It feels like almost every time I make a new account somewhere and drop in the 200 character high-entropy password that LastPass generated, I get a silent failure or misleading error message about "your username was not recognized." Then I try guessing which feature of my candidate password is pissing off the site: Is it the whitespaces? Special characters? Length?

This is particularly maddening because there are plenty of ways to accept arbitrary passphrases from users.
The sides seem to be a cut-away view, not a surface...
It's apparently also been shown to have positive effect on depression, when taken with anti-depressants[1]. That alone makes it very attractive to me. Who knows, maybe I'll try it some day if it gets proven safe but I can't bring my self too at the moment.

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17729016
I tried Provigil two years ago and it came in powder format and I had to mix it. It tasted bitter and had no pronounced effect me. I had better response to coffee but then again they say placebo is hell of a drug.
This can be done in Clojure with core.async [1] and transducers [2]

[1] http://clojure.com/blog/2013/06/28/clojure-core-async-channe...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mTbuzafcII
I would be very cautious about using shuf for password generation, since it doesn't use a cryptographically-secure random number generator (I just checked the source).

Edit: I see that shuf permits the use of custom seeds, so you can do the following, and it will be secure:

shuf -n 5 --random-source=/dev/urandom /usr/share/dict/words
Getting better at something is always good. Like The Joker said at the return of the dark knight: if you're good at something never do it for free. So there's always an avenue to make money.
Thanks for writing the article. One thing have bothered me for a long time is why tech startups think TechCrunch or any other high-speed news website writing about them is an indication of early success. It may help you get early customers via the write up if your customers are actually those clicking through these clickbaity links. But this probably doesn't apply in all cases. A lot of the times those reading such viral stories more often than not are on the lookout for the next big big idea to copy. So why bother? May be I don't get as it is some sort of a Valley thing.
The Feds Got the Sony Hack Right, but the Way They’re Framing It Is Dangerous
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Sounds like you might actually be thinking of Piracetam (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piracetam)
I think the article resonates more with the goals of freenetproject.org, but for some reason has this fixation with the blockchain.
Convenient timing, I just started working on a project to pull my Io DSLs and convenience protos into something more cohesive. So, plug: https://github.com/smosher/IoSetting

Included are DSLs for List and Map construction, homoiconic pretty-printers for List and Map and a few other things. I plan to do a lot of work to make List nicer to use, plus some experimental constructs for... experimental things.

I was going to wait until this got a little more mature before mentioning it anywhere, but I figure I should mention it in this thread.
Here in New Zealand over 60% of retail payments are done using cards, especially as the local EFTPOS system is very low fee compared to credit card. I can't recall the last time I had to use cash. There's still a few small cash-only vendors, but mostly those without a fixed location as mobile EFTPOS terminals cost more to run.

It's very convenient, there's no need to keep receipts to record my spending. No cheques means no chequebook to balance. Of course it does make spending more traceable but given the police need a court order to get banking records I'm not too worried currently. Vendors can track you using the number if their POS records it, but it's hard to get a POS approved so most people use a sealed terminal with a serial interface to connect to the POS.

Cash isn't going away any time soon, but it's just a pain to carry around.
> Then again, when a password fails, then all you'd have to do is retry with a safer version

And after three or five failed login attempts you get locked out and have to call the bank for a password reset, and throw away the damn card in frustration.

> (and maybe only have two password kinds, for convenience - full-blown char support, and minimalistic lowercase-letters only, so you'd only have to retry a single time after the first failed login).

If you're authenticating with more than HN and Reddit, you'll encounter much more than two mutually exclusive password policies.
Aside from some other great comments here (some of it which really nail it) I'd like to point out that the greatest difficulty of the author seems to be being in charge of things.

Throughout the entire story he is denying control.

Being accepted into Y Combinator? Pure luck.
Most critical interview factor? Sound of biting a plastic bottle. It doesn't surprise me a tiny bit that he thought he had impostor syndrome since he probably felt he is getting rewarded for something that is seemingly totally out of his control.

Then all the "pivots". Again feeling that startup success is something that will magically come just by "waiting a bit longer" or "having a slightly better idea" (i.e. being largely out of one's control), of course you re-set the course right away if the odds seem against you. Even if it's just some objections by interviewers who know you for about 10 minutes. Because they surely know better, right? No way to to prove these guys wrong, right? Probably much better to try something different...

The author ends by saying he wants to get back into startups once he's found a suitable problem to work on. That's cool. Even better would be to find a problem he knows he can solve, by being in charge.
That's beautiful. I used to write physics engines back when we had 100 MIPS, and could only dream about doing stuff like that in real time.

A nice use for this would be to emulate a ripple tank, as used in high school physics labs.
That doesn't sound like modafinil at all. I've never heard of it being sold outside of pill form. Typical dosage is 75-150mg, making a powder easy to mis-dose. Although overdosing on modafinil isn't possible, too much would result in unpleasant side-effects: stomach pains, headache, nausea, insomnia, etc.

Also, the effects of modafinil are obvious. In addition to being coffee++, the metabolites make your urine and sweat smell weird. If someone says modafinil didn't work on them, it's probably because they ordered it illicitly and got counterfeit drugs.

Are you perhaps thinking of a different nootropic? From your description, piracetam seems much more likely. It typically comes in powder form, and its effects can be charitably described as subtle.

Side note: If you're interested in nootropics and modafinil, I highly recommend gwern's articles on the subjects[1][2].

1. http://www.gwern.net/Modafinil

2. http://www.gwern.net/Nootropics
Monkeys seem to recognize their reflections
Just because you could self publish doesn't mean that you want: it is a lot of work, and the money is not that great as some people want you to believe.
You know what the worst thing is? I'm depressed, on antidepressants, can't sleep, can't concentrate, always tired, unproductive, unfocused. I fall asleep in meetings. I am not quite the target audience for this drug (I'm not actually narcoleptic) but I'm pretty darn close.

And, as far as I can tell, it doesn't work on me. Ordered some from an online pharmacy, took it for ten days straight... no detectable change.

:(
This was found as a part of an ADHD study of close to a thousand young children, in which one kid may have had SJS, and another kid had a non-serious suspicious rash, and that was enough to kill the whole study with no such repeat studies being done since.

So yeah, 1/1000 chance going by that study alone, which doesn't say much since the drug has been prescribed millions of times in the US and abroad with no significant mention of SJS outside of the study. In short, it's just ass-covering medical paranoia.

What has been shown is that modifinil can mess with liver enzymes over time, and that should be scary enough to tell people not to use the drug long-term.

My own experience with the drug is pretty similar to the article's, but without the strange addition-like component this guy seemed to have. I was able to quit cold turkey after a month without so much as an after thought, and I still use it from time to time when my autoimmune disorder flairs up and causes fatigue and brain fog that not even ten cups of coffee can cut through.
I am in Denmark, and pay 0 fees for my debit card.

Seeing as I am a Masters student, so living on the student payments we get here, and my partner is unemployed, if I had fees, I would not use it.
When I was in school ~ 5 years ago, handing in anything not produced in LaTeX was an automatic fail for the assignment. This was a department rule. I majored in physics though. Never paid a dollar for Office nor Windows (since I don't use them), and I don't ever plan to.
This article reminds me of the time I went for a ride with a friend down by the coast. I hadn't bothered to bring my lock - I hadn't planned on stopping - and he wanted to grab chips.

He offered his lock for both our bikes and pulled out his "decent lock" he got for £8. Needless to say I volunteered to wait outside and guard the bikes.
This is so much more important than people are generally aware of. We are leaving the point in time that writing highly bug-prone C or C++ is justifiable due to performance concerns. The justifiability of these up until now is a huge reason why governments and organized crime have been able to buy the keys to our servers and personal machines. We are going to be able to replace ubiquitous, critical, buggy code with something that will significantly increase the costs of finding and exploiting RCE vulnerabilities. This is so huge.
One simple move that can dramatically reduce the risk of identity theft
> What’s a concrete problem Rust could solve for me? How about first class support for writing a GUI application?

Though I don't think GUIs need to be a primary focus, there are some useful projects already. The rgtk library [1] is the best so far. It is the first Rust project I contributed to. It is currently broken due to the changes in the language, but that should be fixed relatively soon. GTK is more natural to interface with than Qt or WxWidgets because it is written in C.

[1] https://github.com/jeremyletang/rgtk
I tried Modafinil (provigil). Its effect was mild at best, and it was hard to determine whether this was a placebo effect or not. Ritalin, on the other hand, was very effective, but it gives a bit of a cocaine-like high, which scared me enough not to use it for more than a week. Luckily that was enough to get me through that seemingly insurmountable pile of work I had to do.
not that many spywares survive a reformatting.
>except that most people from the academic side don't consider them to be scientists at all.

Are they publishing their work in a way that other people can use? Or are they grinding out the meat of patents and trade secrecy?
JavaScript uneval()
> To be fair, the first use was a link to the wikipedia article, the style just doesn't give you any indication of that.

Huh? it's a different color.
Modafinil and Startups (Daniel Tenner): http://swombat.com/2012/2/27/modafinil-and-startups

Here is the conclusion:

"I will come strongly on the side of saying that anyone who wants to build a startup should stay away from any regular or semi-regular Modafinil use, as it will impair their judgement enough to make up for any apparent gain in productivity, and I would further posit that any founder who takes Modafinil regularly has a habit (as I did) of taking on potentially large, unknown long-term liabilities for small short-term gains, which is not a good thing."
1) Well, its in vogue http://www.vogue.com/946795/provigil-adderall-silicon-valley...

2) Arrington also has an article on it http://techcrunch.com/2008/07/15/how-many-of-our-startup-exe...
On Android Firefox:

Error: Rendering to floating-point textures is required but not supported.
And comments both above and below state that they pay 0 annual fees or fees per transaction (i.e., whilst the merchant may have a Dankort fee, and passes it on to ALL consumers, the number that I pay at the checkout is the same whether I pay cash, debit or credit card)
thanx! apparently bug in telescope i am using =) will investigate anr probably file a bug
Bingo. Though I have Danish friends (at DTU) who are not any worse off. Friends in the UK and France get less during their PhDs, but the engineering salaries before/after seem to be on par with what I said.
Many assembly.com products are just launching now so it's early but a few products are passively paying upwards of $1,200+ to members each month for their previous contributions.
Rigging slot machines (over the years)
Thus the circle continues.
L-theanine is #1 recommended by http://www.reddit.com/r/nootropics/faq
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It's a confidence actually, I hadn't heard of Volta until just now. I originally was going to name it AmpFramework, but that turned out to be a thing also :-)
I've been taking 200mg of Modafinil probably on average of 3 times a week for the best part of 4 years now and it has certainly changed my life for the better. It is very effective at raising my mood and motivation. I disagree that it doesn't have a stimulant-like effect though. Before taking Modafinil, I had a very high caffeine tolerance (I could drink as many cokes or coffees as I liked and not even notice the effect). I usually have to limit the amount of caffeine I drink to one coffee these days, or my heart rate goes through the roof. It also makes my jaw tense (a common side-effect of stimulants, apparently). I am quite a clumsy person at the best of times, but I've also noticed that my co-ordination seems to be adversely effected (poor judgement of space, etc) although my reaction times do seem to improve (I've surprised myself sometimes catching falling objects that I'm sure I'd never catch if I hadn't taken Modafinil). I haven't seen this effect documented anywhere though.