skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"More specifically, empathy for the user.

This empathy is demonstrated in a variety of ways. Many have been extensively discussed: the natural syntax, ... "

I guess the author means "empathy for the user of Ruby"?
|I don't even make half that and I have six figures in savings. A $250k/year DINK couple should most definitely have very much to their name.

Well if you make close to half of that, then you basically make that as single income... The parent comment assumed bother parters were engineers making roughly the same amount.

Bottom line, is the difference between upper and middle class is where the money comes from. Doctors are upper-middle class until they have enough wealth (not income) to live of their investments alone. That is, they have similar money worries to other middle class people. Not necessarily stuff like "can I afford rent" (which would be lower class), but rather "what happens if I get injured and can no longer work?"
It's basically demo day for browser (and other software) vulnerabilities. Hackers show off their exploits and vendors pay them cash for disclosing them at Pwn2Own instead of selling them on the blackmarket.
Founding a real startup with real products also leads to failure most of the time. We just hear about the successes more often on HN.
Yeah it's all about managing cashflow. That's how the entire thing works. Affiliates float money hoping the network pays. The network floats money hoping the advertiser pays. When the advertiser can't pay a lot of people disappear.
Certainly personal wealth wasn't a motivating factor for him, but that doesn't disqualify him as the perfect poster child for my point. The point at hand is the general character of executives: they inspire fear (check), they are power-hungry (check), they are abusive (check).
Buy a macbook. If (for whatever reason) you don't like the OSX you can install Linux in less than 2 hours.
Only video game to have made me feel ill - happy times!
That's sufficiently vague to be useless. Would you care to elaborate?
As far as I remember, GMail's proxying solution also hides your User-Agent. It sends a fake one in its place which is the same for everyone.
And more money.
It's why they are created as firms instead of philanthropies.

A false dichotomy.
Looks awesome!

If the Healthcare provider EHR is already compatible with FHIR. What incentive do I have to use your API? Are you also hosting the Healthcare and patient data?
The real title hear is ""teams coordinate simultaneous disclosure of vulns targeting all major browsers".
I thought this was yet another snakeoil article posted on hackernews. Too many of them around these days. (Markov chains for stock market profit?? Parsing stuff and oh-check out-my-awesome-SaaS?? Installing stuff and oh-click-my-DO-affiliate-link??)

Turned out to be a humblebrag with no new insights into the affiliate networks. I think it basically states that the train has left and you are 10 years late.
Yes, but if you're doing a true "SPA" then "progressive enhancement" really does just mean having two versions of everything.
I never looked at it like this but now that you pointed it out I tend to agree.
The page says the game will be $50. I wouldn't expect a full-price single-player game to require in-game purchases in order to beat the game.
If you opt to remove the SPECKS, you would have to change some law of nature or some property of matter, which will have other consequences for the amount of suffering in this world. As you cannot reliably predict or calculate those consequences, you cannot solve this problem.
Speaking as someone who often uses text-mode browsers on the web, I wish this would actually happen.
Thank you. I'll read it, of course, but later tonight. What I had in mind was something more specific to the WTC pieces. I've heard them, and I like them. But I want to learn a greater degree of appreciation for each of the pieces. Have you come across something that would help?
While this is something to this, you also can't separate cost of living from salary comparisons. People making a lot, but having to spend a lot, working in the Bay area, NYC, DC, LA, etc. etc., don't have the options of keeping their salary and moving to a Cleveland suburb for the lower cost of living.

Even if there were enough jobs for people do it, they wouldn't pay enough.

They are essentially getting a premium salary because they have to pay a premium COL. It's not really a choice because the premium salary only comes if you work on the premium area.

So it's not really accurate to call a developer who make 130k in Palo Alto "upper class" and call a developer who makes 70k in Arlington Heights, IL middle class. They probably lead similar lifestyles.
The US -- have worked at a couple of banks so far, and M for thousand and MM for million have been constants.
No, it is not utter failure but we can't know for sure how much did he really make after expenses and taxes i.e. net profits.
Any insights into how researchers find these bugs? I'm particularly interested in the kernel timing bug - how did the researcher know that he would find the kind of exploit he needed? It seems like he's a fast learner, going from no native client code to a big exploit...
Good summary. You might want to change the part about the search, as https://hn.algolia.com/ is now the engine that the search box at the bottom of the page.
I personally wouldn't take someone to court over this, a slap in the face is sufficient. But if I were to, my understanding is that it's copyright infringment:

http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2008/10/breach-conditions-...
I'm all for release notes being written. Just not changelogs.
Magic Leap Teases Augmented Reality Game in New Video
Genius! Finally, I have a place for my secret files!
Interesting. It is more a design pattern rather than a language thing. But it is always good to design a consistent API across similar but not related classes.
What Drew is talking about is the syntax is natural in its representation. Things that we think of as keywords in most languages, ie `def`, `if`, `unless`, `defmodule`, etc are all just macros in Elixir which accept arguments. The syntax is incredibly natural when you see how Elixir is represented internally and built up using macros from a tiny base. This is what Drew is talking about, not some Ruby similarities.
I Am Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator.  AMA
YC applications for the Summer 2015 batch are due in a week, so I thought I'd do an AMA to answer questions about applying to YC, how the program works, or anything else.

EDIT: 12:55 PM. This has been a really fun three hours, but now I have back to back meetings for the rest of the day. Sorry I couldn't answer everything--I typed as fast as I can :)

Special thanks to the YC software team for fixing an issue very quickly in the middle of this!
Both examples are systemic of a couple of sociological concepts that continue to be very popular in the American sociopolitical venue.

1) Moral Entrepreneurs - People (like politicians) that build their reputations by clearly defining an enemy (i.e. drugs, sexual "deviants", etc) and then work against the defined problem as their heroic stance for good in the face of the Evil that has been created. And their primary tool:

2) Moral Panics - Created by those who fear or stand to benefit from what they consider deviant or wrong, these are campaigns to alert and threaten the public with an apparently deviant behavior and popularize sentiment against those who practice it.

>a thing we wrongly criminalize that won't immediately turn the majority of the population against you

20 years ago talking about drugs in a favorable light would have turned the majority of the population against you because the moral panic was still in effect. There are currently minors being charged with manufacturing and distributing child pornography for taking a picture of themselves and MMS'ing it to their girl/boyfriend and being labelled as pedophiles. In another 15 years it will probably be understood that sexual preferences do not necessarily dictate sexual abuse and that many people labeled as pedophiles have been wrongly labeled in largely the same way as the guy who was found to be in possession of less than a gram of weed while walking past a school and hit with charges as a drug dealer with intent to distribute to minors or the gay man charged with sodomy 50 years ago. It's all a matter of the time and context of issues.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_panic
That was my initial thought. Also you can basically declare any custom tags ( with dash in the name [1] ). Which with some good javascript could accomplish easily ( and I would say in more clean way ) what it's being offered by the OP.

If he likes this kind of writing his AJAX implementation he can easily do so by doing his own framework.

I think HTML5 is doing pretty, pretty good and it's underestimated in what it can be achieved.

[1] http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/webcomponents/custome...
I think before someone goes putting JSON in even more places we should agree on a format for serializing dates, personally.
I'd prefer a new Descent Freespace. The story line and gameplay in that game were fantastic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law_of_triviality

Please continue writing solid technical posts.
> Lee wasn’t done and went on to bolster his daily total to $225,000 later in the day

Hooooly shit. That's insane, and if that's what you get from the company, I can't even imagine the price of those exploits on the black market...
Great article. I myself make a full time living online and have dealt with every single point that was made.

The main thing is on you great months you have at act as if you're still "broke" just because you have a great month doesn't mean the next one will be.

A few months ago I made a large sum but have only made chump change sense. If I had spent it all the day I got it, I'd be fked.
How has the relationship between mentors/companies changed since the batches have grown? Are there still ample opportunities for office hours, etc?
NASA Surveyed the Future of California, and the Result Could Be Catastrophic
But there are millions of pages that will never be updated and if a browser can't render them people are going to blame the browser, not the use of deprecated HTML elements (an issue they won't even have awareness of).
That's because they decided to drop their efforts in 2013, because RubySpec broke their build.

Sure, it's a political debate, but just saying they don't run it also isn't honest.
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Usefull Information. I am searching about [dead] and I have found on it. Thanks.
Having slow organic growth for our startup reduce our chances of an interview? What is the average growth week-over-week YC looks at?
Saying that all browsers fall in less than 2 days at Pwn2Own is like saying a mathematician proves a long standing theorem in 2 days of a conference.
Their service isn't free, they charge an administration fee of 3-7% (depending upon the organization we are talking about). It just comes out before you get your check.

They are 'non-profits' but so is the NFL.
In your opinion do you see anything coming along that can become an alternative to the current status of the "internet"?
It's not necessarily that, but do not get me wrong for a lot of people it is. Depending on who you are with, sometimes it is more about the fun. IMO it really depends on the person/crowd.

I own an automotive business and it is amazing how much networking goes on at SEMA after parties every year in Vegas. It's really truly depends on the person and who you are with.
PoC||GTFO 0x07 [pdf]
What are the hardest lessons for founders to learn during YC?
Gregory,

I just signed up for readme.io last night and it is an incredible product. The attention to detail is astounding. I've just become a big fan of yours. Never wait again. Your execution is too good.

Good luck,

Austen
Would love to know more about what the use cases for this are currently? Who are your current users? What kind of data sets are they using this for and at what kind of scale? I think it sounds like a really promising idea and the proliferation of software-as-a-service products with an "export to csv" button is really crazy.
From the article: the difficulties in funding generally caused the HippyVM project to come to a stall.

Even the mother-project PyPy is struggling with finances. It's this weird thing that most of the Python world thinks is great, but doesn't quite understand...

There are quite a lot of other language implementations in RPython, since it is relatively easy to get off the ground. Use a comparatively high-level language to write the byte-code-interpreting loop and you get a JIT more or less for free (Seriously, if that kind of thing is interesting to anyone reading this, try it)
NoSQL market frames larger debate: Can open source be profitable?
The 1950s aren't so far back in time that people can't rely more on their family's and other families' experience of what it was like in the 50s. Or are we really more informed by TV shows and sitcoms than we are by actual experiences?
Wow! Thank you, what a great project!
> Using an out-of-bounds read/write vulnerability he claims he found through static analysis, ilxu1a’s attack led to medium-integrity code execution in what ZDI called “sub-seconds,” earning $15,000.

Looks like some code analysis tools helped for one researcher.
Sam,

What would you say is the average amount of times a company applies before a. getting an interview at YC and b. actually getting in?
Dear Dr. Stallman: An Open Letter
Unlike most other programs, YC does not have mentors--just partners that spend all their time advising startups (and some part-time partners).

This is really important--most people give terrible startup advice, and people that do nothing but select and advise startups all day are probably the best source of good startup advice.

We split into 4 groups, and each company gets 2-3 "group partners" as their main points of contact. We encourage you to talk to these partners at least once a week, and then other partners whenever you need their specific expertise.
Agree. I like most parametric polymorphism too. The drawbacks are:

1. In C++, the compile error messages with templates are so hard to navigate.
2. In OCaml, sometimes we need pay attentions on the performance.
I would imagine that online 'get rich quick schemes' have an even higher rate of failure than most startups. Perhaps 99.99% versus 90-95%?
Have you guys followed the alternative lending IPOs recently? (Lending Club and OnDeck in December, both with billion dollar valuations). What does YC think of the industry?
How often do you fund people on their secondary ideas compared to the main idea people apply with?
What percent of YC founders decide against relocating to Silicon Valley after demo day and any correlation between future success and being in Silicon Valley after coming out of YC?
Very interesting. Who woulda thought!
I understand your aversion to ads. When I tried affiliate marketing, it made me sick just learning of the products shady companies were trying to trick consumers with. I quickly moved toward creating websites to offer useful content and including ads or affiliate links. Most of them failed to earn anything substantial.

I don't think you're wrong, but many great websites that provide content people really want rely on Adsense-type earnings to sustain themselves and afford the content creators the income necessary to continue producing it. It's unfortunate that the financial fate of some really great contributors is so closely tied to that of others who seem to produce little or no value. I wonder how those who offer high quality content via their own free website will continue to thrive.
There are plenty of legitimate products out there to promote, but those Acai Berry/Weight loss rebill offers were really shady and one had to have absolutely no moral compass to promote those. Even newbies knew that they were flat-out scams(for the customer).

You would see marketers justifying these products by saying that the customers were suckers for not reading the TOS or that nothing was wrong with rebilling(citing Netflix,which is totally different; people knew it was a subscription unlike with these shady stuff) and stuff like that. It was amazing the lengths people went to fool themselves into thinking they weren't ripping people off.
I'm quite happy to see that every week one or two quality OCaml articles are posted on HN and lobste.rs. OCaml doesn't have the general appeal of JavaScript, the innovation factor of Rust, the get-shit-done reputation of Go, but it deserves to be more widely known.
Can I start a company that simplifies the use of TaskPipes and other SaaSaaS tools?
Humblebrag? Maybe. But was there a promise of new insights into affiliate networks? He simply described his experience with online income, but he never claimed to provide fresh insight into the business.
Elixir creator here.

As part of my "job", I end-up playing, using and reading a lot about functional programming languages and I like F# a lot. It feels like the team behind F# put a lot of effort in transmitting the concepts in an accessible and clear way (F# Workflow in my opinion are one of such examples). It is not surprise given Microsoft has been introducing functional concepts into languages like C# and VB for a long while.

For Elixir, I have put extra attention into how you to get started with the language because it is not only about learning a functional language (and thinking in terms of recursion, immutability, etc) but also about concurrency and building fault tolerant applications. So help and guidance on every step really matters.

Documentation is extremely important and must be easily accessible. The language should be easy to explore, in your editor or terminal. Error messages should be clear: if you read an error and you don't know what to do next, it is a compiler bug.

I hope I have answered your question. I also would like to say it is not about finding the most empathetic language. They will all have pros and cons, many times even depending on the developer previous experience.
How many companies/startups will actually be chosen to enter the batch?
Is there a better way? How do we decide what to read and what not to read? Also, how do we decide what to do with the information that we already have in our heads?
I still have snow outside my window!
It is often on the first time. The 7th time is the highest count I know of. It's common for it to be on the second or third time.

If we reject a company at interviews, we'll say what our objection is. If you reapply and that isn't fixed, you're unlikely to get in.

More generally, fast progress is something we really look for when deciding to fund startups.
Uber cars outnumber yellow taxis in New York City
What is the #1 cause of failure of YC startups and how long does it usually take to materialise?
I am searching too about [dead] flag.
> Strictness accomplishes nothing whatsoever.

Sure it does, it means it is impossible to mix logic or styling into your HTML inline. That makes HTML more maintainable and teaching it easier (less is always easier to teach than more).

What semantic elements are you worried about them abusing? I cannot think of a semantic element which replaces defunct presentational elements without any CSS (which would makes the entire argument redundant).
Ever wondered how device drivers are reverse engineered?
Was similarly curious. Reading the rules here: http://zerodayinitiative.com/Pwn2Own2015Rules.html

Major points:

- You register for which browser + os combination[0]. Then they randomly order the contestants.

- When you are called, you have 30 minutes.

- The user browses to a particular piece of content that you specify. Then no further user interaction is allowed (like clicking a dialog, downloading a file). [1][2]

- The prize money goes to the first successful exploit. Money differs by browser.

[0] Chrome, Firefox, IE, Adobe Reader in IE, Adobe Flash in IE. Safari on OSX. Fully patched OS.

[1] How does one get to specify the content? What if I have a http header that downloads a file?

[2] I remember back in the day, they used to have a fully no interactive version? Like the user was just on the same wireless network?
I don't think the scenarios are all that similar.

The first is about taking a precise and full replica of a copyrighted work and putting it on a file sharing system.

The second is about borrowing, perhaps heavily, from a copyrighted work to create a derivative work.

I don't think it's necessarily inconsistent to consider the first infringement and the second fair use.
Personally, I think it's super interesting. LendUp is a company we funded a few years ago, and we've done more recently.
Are you going to do another semester of "How to start a startup" classes at Stanford?
What are your thoughts on teams applying pre-product (but in development) with an experienced/diverse team compared to teams with product/initial traction? Do you weigh them differently during application reviews?
Card counting was hardly top secret until MIT revealed it. Edward Thorpe's "Beat The Dealer" was published in 1962. It did enter a wider phase of popularity in the 80s, especially as easier to follow tactics were worked out.
Once we submit our application, does making edits to our application affect anything?
It's the wrong level: the RPython toolchain has no notion of PHP-level types, they're entirely implemented by the interpreter. Besides, optional static types are nearly useless (performance-wise) when you have a JIT.
Where do you see YC 10 years from now?
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What's your thoughts on teams that are applying from London?
Yeah. Some people I know got caught up by this, and an app would make it too easy. http://gawker.com/5992924/lamestain-boston-cops-google-punk-...
We never set this ahead of time--it really depends on how many companies apply that we want to fund, subject to the constraints of how hard the parters can work.

I'd guess in the range of 100-130, based on current application volume. We had a big spike in growth last batch (I think because of the startup class).
I dunno, both aspirin and vitamins seem like technologies to me. Try pain relief and a healthy body.
Feedbunch currently uses the default Bootstrap tipography, so I'm a bit surprised that it gives you trouble. However a couple of you have mentioned it so I'll definitely look into it.

What do the rest of you think about the tipography? Too small, hard to read, good the way it is?
> Lee was able to take down both stable and beta versions of Chrome by exploiting a buffer overflow race condition in the browser. He then used an info leak and race condition in two Windows kernel drivers to secure SYSTEM access.

I'm trying to fully understand. Does this mean that by maliciously crafting a website, someone can get SYSTEM access on a windows machine just by getting someone to visit that site in Chrome?

And what does SYSTEM access mean? Is that user-level privileges or admin privileges?
Besides applicants ignoring feedback, do prior failed applications influence your decision at all?
And leaving the exploits in the wild for weeks/months beforehand.
Would you rather fund one horse-sized duck or 100 duck-sized horses?
Hi Sam,

Not a YC-specific question, but I was wondering what advice you have for someone who lives outside of a major technology center and doesn't have the ability to move? I'm eager to get something started here in the next year but I'm pretty much on my own, thanks!
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I suspect Heroku is far too technical for most of the customer base of most of the shared PHP hosters.
What is the most common mode of failure in the interview stage?
Which is why "working class" is preferred by some. But "middle class" in the modern vernacular seems to be more about living standards than means-of-income... and the middle class seemed to be doing good in the latter half of the 20th century, while now terms like "working class" seems to become more apt to describe the haves and the have not so much.