skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"targeted" seems to be exactly the wrong word to use here, and "going after" decidedly not what is happening which is precisely the problem here - porn companies (or their representatives) are just indiscriminately firing off DMCA take-down requests any time they get spooked about infringers, without regard for where their "bullets" are going.
Somewhat related: http://seatylock.com
Im sure there's no problem to distribute it in binary form, the problem would be in the source code distribution, giving you add the dependency on the GHC compiler for everybody/dev that need to build the program.

Im working on something that can have a lot of dependencies in thirdparty libs, so i need to minimize the dependency side-effects.. so despite the fact i like this more than protobuf, i'll have to stick with it (cap'n proto had to rewrite from haskell to c++ because of this).

PS: Oh no, The haskell inquisition downvotes (as expected)
Yeah, the most effective control for me has been consistent workouts. I've interestingly found that cardio seems to be best at keeping my symptoms at bay. My hypothesis there is that it's actually the extra sweat over strength training, and shedding of electrolytes thus lowering of my water retention that may lower pressure in the middle ear, keeping the membrane from rupturing. This is also anecdotal -- I'm not super keen on deliberately allowing the symptoms to return in order to experiment, and I don't exactly have a control group.

I'll have to try increasing my water intake as well and see how much that helps. Thanks for the advice, and best of luck to you as well :-)
The article makes it clear that the YC interview selection process is deeply flawed. Leaving out the idea that they were selected because they told a story about the sound of biting a bottle, surely at the interview stage, if the entrepreneurs do not know what the company is making, or the business looks weak the interviewer should just say no. It's not enough to say "here are two bright people that can pivot". Bright people are everywhere, good business ideas are rare. All this does is cause the stress that the author has gone through as he and his partner have to desperately search for a business idea that may not come. This kind of stress, based on unrealistic expectations, can lead people to kill themselves, and seems to me to be borderline unethical.

Meanwhile there are literally hundreds of other companies and thousands of smart people with great ideas that would gladly take their place and succeed, including many of the readers here.
In other words, this card is cryptographically nonsense.

On the other hand, nearly every attack against passwords is non-targeted, software trolling for matches with word lists and such. A user of qwertycard is paradoxically safe, especially as single password (from for instance hacked database) does not contain telltales of being generated by substitution cipher.

In order to be in danger someone would have to either do some mathematical analysis, someone should have already tools looking for substitution ciphers, or someone should set up some application (scripts, whatever) to look for substition ciphers and break them.

Now the crucial part: No one bothers. Typically almost 9/10 of the targets use the same "catdog123" password on every site. They will be used because it is less work.

Unless you are in a risk of targeted attacks, these cards actually can improve your overall security, even despite the flaw in logic. (Which could be mitigated by the way, there are several ways to that.) In other words, non-geeks can benefit from this. My mom could.
On the contrary, actually. Celebrities giving free advertising for corporate products and luring people there is not really the same as educating people about what online mail and chat are, or rather a very specific biased kind of.

I mean I have family member who have been using computers online for years and still struggle to grasp basic online concept such a web browser, a search engine or email though they use it daily.

Replacing random people on the street who actually are somewhat random actual people going around their day by twitter accounts who represent a small subset of online personas registered to a corporate web service which can be people or not is a frightening trend.
>I know we are in another bubble.

No, we aren't. The conditions of the original tech bubble and today's conditions differed greatly, and several prominent investors have answered that it definitely isn't a bubble when questioned as such. People just use "bubble" to refer to any market that seems dubious in their likely uninformed opinion. Please stop saying this and fearmongering.
Now that there's an API, I've been looking for someone to implement "subcombinators". Could be as simple as string search on title, like if I do

ycombinator.com/y/rust

it should pull up the top 10 recent Rust articles (bonus for publishing a feed).
Powerful and well written.

"The scale, intensity, and manner of the solidarity that we are seeing for the victims of the Paris killings, encouraging as it may be, indicates how easy it is in Western societies to focus on radical Islamism as the real, or the only, enemy. This focus is part of the consensus about mournable bodies, and it often keeps us from paying proper attention to other, ongoing, instances of horrific carnage around the world: abductions and killings in Mexico, hundreds of children (and more than a dozen journalists) killed in Gaza by Israel last year, internecine massacres in the Central African Republic, and so on."

I can do one better. American-born Abraham extremist terrorist Baruch Goldstein [1] massacred 29 unmournable Muslim bodies. Christian extremist terrorist Anders Breivik[2] slaughtered over 70 innocent Muslim people, most of them children. We will call these a tragedy but there was no Western solidarity; we will not dim the lights of a tower for Christian terror victims, as though one religious radicalism and terrorism were preferable to another.

Breivik's actions did not invite peace or fairly parsel human rights - nor did the Hebdo killers. But neither do our drones, the Mahmudiyah Killings (and cover up), the Baghdad Nisoor Square Massacre, the Haditha killings, the Ishaqi incident, the Mukaradeeb wedding party massacre, the Deh Bala wedding strike, or any human rights violations associated with Western leviathan force.

This article gives us a good moment for pause to think about what real solidarity means. Real solidarity means standing for the rights of innocent well meaning people to live lives uninterrupted by violence, oppression, or other harm without first applying a filter. Selective solidarity is not solidarity but a disguised and mistaken costume for identity politics.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baruch_Goldstein

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Behring_Breivik
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First of all you have to prove that a computer program is capable of verifying all unknown theorems correctly. This may be tricky.
What prevents me from using this type of strategy is the inconsistent adoption of password requirements.

For example, some of the websites I use require passwords to contain at least one capital letter, or a digit, or a punctuation mark (e.g. ! ? #, etc.). But other Website do not allow punctuation marks or digits.

Some require a password of a minimum length, but a dwindling few can only accept fairly short maximum length password.
Very interesting and a topic I have been very interested in (see e.g. N-Body on iOS or nbodyphysics.com).

Is there some minimal stability criteria for a curve to considered a choreography or is it enough that the path is an extrema of the action? Will e.g. the bodies make even one traversal of the path before going "off into the wild"?

I'd love a feature to extract positions and velocities for further study.

Awesome site.
> try to build something that solves a problem you're having

Why not try to build something that solves a problem somebody else is having? They could be your first customer!
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Those seem like things that you'd like to make. Some might even be interesting to look at, but What problems do they solve? Why would OTHER people want them? Go to each one and write what it does for people rather than what it is.
Or Spotify, in the beginning
If by seconds you mean milliseconds ;)
The textmate editor executes a small python script when you select the 'reformat Javascript' menu item.

https://github.com/beautify-web/js-beautify

test only http://jsbeautifier.org/
I suppose teaching techies business is easier than teaching business folks tech (or maybe quicker?). Still, I continue to be perplexed at the absence of "business" in startups. I'm not convinced that injecting "business" into a startup is an option for a later date.
This sort of objection is raised whenever basically any mechanism for remembering strong passwords is presented. Much like many results in computational complexity, worst-case results are not necessarily indicative of real-world utility. To wit, in the scenario you outlined the attacker must a) know beforehand that the target was using this device; b) know beforehand that the inserted middle portion was vulnerable to a dictionary attack; c) have compromised at least one and more likely several websites; and d) obtained the cleartext password from each of said websites. This seems an almost comically unrealistic chain of events for the average case. Yes, a determined and sophisticated attacker could probably pull this off, but if you have enemies who are willing to go to such lengths you probably are aware of it and would not be using a silly little crutch in the first place. For the rest of us, this seems like a potentially useful alternative to using 'c@td0g11!' for everything.
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I had a similar reaction. Maybe because I've been reading for 35+ years and read stuff which is prob much better than The Martian. I see its attractions and his skill, no doubt, but felt lately there's a bit of a hype train going on where the actual material is nowhere near as good as the hype.

Its not as bad as the hype-to-reality gap for Fifty Shades though: that's a book where I couldn't go more than a page or so, every time I've sampled it (partly out of curiousity, partly to study its secrets), without groaning or laughing aloud at how bad it is.

The Martian is much much better than that, but his formula shows its bones quickly.
I raced Cat 2 for many years with a carbon fiber Specialized Epic Allez with all Dura Ace & Campy C-record components back in the early 90's while going to university. The bike cost roughly $2,700 & I used it nearly every day to commute. Not once did I ever lock it up anywhere. When I'd get to class or wherever I was going I would remove both the wheels & lock them to the rack. This whole process took seconds for removal & assembly with the quick releases. I'd then cary the frame like a bag. At a bit over 14 pounds it wasn't an issue to just take it with me. At one point I even had a clip to attach it to my backpack. It sat quite nicely next to me at my desk, even in lecture halls & was never really a problem. Only once in four years did a university security guard ask me to take it outside and lock it up. I asked why and he said: "university policy doesn't allow bikes in the building." I responded that it wasn't a bike. It was a frame and would only be a bike when assembled with wheels which it wasn't when in the building. He of course thought I was being a smart ass and escalated the situation to a supervisor who told him to back off. I honestly had more run-ins with business owners who didn't like the fact I was wearing cleated shoes on their polished floors.

At the end of the day, I'd like to understand, I really would. Why do people lock bikes they care about on the street? Is it simply a function of not knowing how to use quick releases to pop the wheels off? Is it a space issue? I lived in some pretty tiny places but there was always wall space & toothpaste was always perfect for covering the holes for the bike wall rack when I moved out. Never once did I loose a security deposit.
Poland - normal result page without link which you describe.
Thanks for sharing this story. I know it was a tough decision to leave the company. If you were in a situation that causes you a lot of stress and unhappiness, there's no shame in leaving.

There are a lot of people being critical here. It's easy to look at the situation from the outside and feel entitled to make comments. I bet if some of the commenters here were in you're situation they'd feel differently.
Having been in an accelerator before, I definitely related to their sense of dread that they might mess up this opportunity and never be successful again because of it. Watching peers strike it big must have been super hard.

I quickly realized after that most "success" is exaggerated in the media, etc. and true success takes a lot longer than we expect. Raising $1M isn't success. Hell, raising $5-30M in today's climate isn't success. "Success" is such a vague concept that it's best to just focus on being happy and building cool shit and growing it year after year. It takes time.
So what this site is essentially selling is a single run of a random number generator printed on a piece of plastic and a 3-step process?
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Another Meniere's sufferer here. Triggers for me are the typical ones: alcohol, caffeine, high stress, sleep dep. Dietary salt doesn't seem to be a big one for me. I had steroids after my first attack, and have also tried various prescription diuretics and low-sodium diets, all to little effect. Learning about and avoiding my triggers (and, like the GP, getting regular exercise) has been the best bet for me.

I had a breakthrough a couple years ago when I was prescribed diazepam (Valium) to deal with acute attacks. Apart from its anxiolytic effects, it's a powerful vestibular suppressant, and works far better than anything I'd tried before (e.g. anticholinergics) to control vertigo and tinnitus.

In fact, since I usually get a 'prodrome' (symptoms build over a few days before a full-blown attack), I can get on the diazepam right away, and head off the attack before it gets out of hand (starting at 5mg/day, fairly low dose). This seems to also prevent the prolonged temporary hearing loss phase of a couple months after each attack.

Thanks for the link to the water cure, that's a new one, and pretty interesting. Best of luck to you!
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I've been really getting into the Discworld novels.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discworld
Honest question: What are the main selling points of Io ? If I wanted to compare its strengths and weaknesses against Go, Rust or even a less popular language like Nim, where could I find that out ?
The actual discussion of fallacies starts on pdf page 11 / paper page 51.

I found the discussion of Bayesianism before that to be confusing and long-winded, and I am a Bayesian.
A friend of mine used a good U-lock and still had his bike stolen. The thief used a portable plasma cutter in broad daylight. This was in SF.
In addition, it's not like leaving a PhD funded by an NSF GRFP leaves zero net positive impact. Funding research leads to papers (hopefully with valuable insights) and to knowledge and training passed down to other researchers. I don't think it's a very good analogy to startup funding in that sense. (Although I suppose one could make the argument that alums of failed companies have hard-earned experience so some of the value is still there, diffused out to wherever they go next.)
Research or products? I've got one of the CREE [1] LEDs and its pretty good. (my application is building a light tent for macro photography vs a projector though) Philips has some high CRI lights as well which are a bit earlier than the CREE one. Most of the research these days seems focused on more lumens per watt, once the CRI got above 90 most people moved on to the efficiency question.

[1] http://www.cree.com/News-and-Events/Cree-News/Press-Releases...
A project that I've been working on for the past couple of weeks to learn some javascript.

Tell me what you think!
Apple should grab that opportunity. They probably have enough power to pressurize Intel into allowing this (at least on their computers).

Imagine an apple-manufactured external graphics card that you can carry around and plug into your MacBook Air/Pro.

It could boost sales pretty significantly. I know quite a few people who did not buy a MacBook just because games don't run well enough, and went for another brand that fits their needs in this area (the bigger MacBooks are more expensive, and their advantage to competitors disappears).
Arrow's impossibility theorem is not applicable and your bringing it up is meaningless nerdery. Providing value to society is not the same problem as selecting a single candidate from a set of candidates using a series of ranked preferences. For starters, value could be a function mapping preferences to a real number or random variable, called "utility," as opposed to individual ranked preferences.

(Also, even if it were relevant in any sense to talk about ranked preferences, they could still be consistently aggregable into a group preference -- Arrow's Impossibility Theorem merely says they might not be. It depends on what people's rankings are. Also, even if you replace the continuous set of options on how to provide value to society with a finite, discrete set of options, and then if you talk about a marginal penny of spending instead of spending at large, so that you can finally get people talking about a set of ranked preferences, you'll find that as you iterate elections of how to spend the marginal penny on a penny by penny basis, people's preferences change from election to election as laws of diminishing returns set in. For example, if you had five discrete option on how to spend money and assuming any reasonable degree of smoothness, such a series of elections would result in a spending distribution such that no simple majority thinks that the next marginal penny should be spent on a given option. )

I really can't understand how you could possibly bring up Arrow's impossibility theorem unless you're just trying to "win" an argument by bringing up some obscure mathematical reference that nobody wants to bother understanding so that they can respond to you. Because bring Arrow's theorem into a question like this is just flagrantly pure unadulterated bullshit.
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I think this is both an indictment of "squirrel" syndrome (the dog from Up), and YC not choosing well in the first place. maybe that's the environment there, but I would guess if you brought in a new team with an idea, gave them money for that idea and then they went and dumped the idea right off and went to something new and shinier, they shouldn't have been funded in the first place?

And with two previously abandoned businesses in his past, someone should have asked about commitment to the idea. Sure you can work on something you don't love, but then its a job not a career or a self focused business, not something worth others investing in without a really clear business plan and exit strategy.
Except it's not going to work, because of the bank who doesn't allow '(' as a special character, or the ticket website that requires at least 3 digits, or the financial firm who only allows 8 character passwords. As soon as you have a few sites with 'rogue' password policies, the system breaks down.
Hey everyone! Author here.

First off, thanks for reading! To be honest, I really didn't expect to get this much attention. This is a story that I've wanted to share with friends and family for a long time, and was thoroughly surprised when it was picked up by Backchannel (and then posted here).

Regarding some of the points made here, I (mostly) agree. Getting into YC or raising money is not success. Changing your idea completely isn't really a "pivot" (but I don't know if the industry has as concise of a term for throwing everything out and starting over). In my mind, the real failure was squandering the opportunity of YC, an opportunity I know many people would kill to have. Clearly we should have stuck it out with our idea, but we were 21 years old, stressed out, and foolish.

I also want to note (in case anyone was wondering) that my experience hasn't diminished my opinion of YC at all. PG's advice was spot on, and YC remains an amazing program for founders. We simply didn't make the best use of our time in it.

Hopefully reading about my experience is helpful in some way. If not, sorry about that. Give it a downvote and send it on its merry way.
>>"Success" is such a vague concept

Actually its not in terms of business.

Success = Profit + Long term sustainability in doing so.
"For the first time in my life, I had impostor syndrome: I convinced myself that I did not deserve the success I had achieved."

This particularly struck me as ironic. Maybe he felt like an imposter because the other people had an actual plan and he didn't.
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you're telling me that you can't imagine any sort of situation where locking your bike would be necessary?

"Only once in four years did a university security guard ask me to take it outside and lock it up. I asked why and he said: "university policy doesn't allow bikes in the building." I responded that it wasn't a bike. It was a frame and would only be a bike when assembled with wheels which it wasn't when in the building."

wow.
Cashless societies like credit cards and mobile payments

Not cashless societies like Star Trek
Clearly centralized since MicroSoft bought it and started making changes.
I'm doing something similar at work. I'd be happy to chat about it if you drop me a line sometime.
This is one of the languages covered in the excellent Prag Prog book "7 Languages in 7 Weeks" (https://pragprog.com/book/btlang/seven-languages-in-seven-we...).

It wasn't until I went through that books section on io and how prototypal inheritance works that I felt like I really started to get a handle on JavaScript.
Full article:

http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/18/y-combinator-backed-fanhero...
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Hmmm, I did write "better" and after looking at my CREE bulb specs I realize that 93 is not '99' :-) so they are still a bit worse. In my opinion they are good enough to be equivalent but concede the point that spec wise they are inferior.
on the same week that its usefulness was shinning all over by displaying abusive take down notices on github[1]? The MAFIAA lawyers are a quick and smart bunch, i will give them that.

[1] https://gist.github.com/Psycojoker/69c00d0d11f26a46ac93
Big bold teaser text: "alive forever for $9.99"

vs.

Small grey text: "for 365 days at a cost of $9.99"
This was a bit of a surprise for me when I moved to Ireland and later the UK two years ago.

In Sweden I wouldn't use bills and coins sometimes for months. Suddenly I have had to get used to carrying these around again, and having to pay fees when you pay with cards etc.

I'm looking forward for the world to go cashless, and think this will happen very fast.
The rest of us could also make up our own password generating techniques as well, and have c@td0g11!el8oo8, c@td0g11!no5@m@ etc.
el8oo8 is google backwards - but coming up with a word scrambling technique isn't hard, as many conspiracy theorists ought to know better.

This wouldn't provide cipher encoding, but someone already mentioned https://www.passwordcard.org/, and as you said, this is for the rest of us.
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I would hope people do status checks more than once per hour on their web apps.