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I think the thing is that he knows this is the beginning of many more seizures for him. Much like Lehman failing triggered a huge chain of events (to take the guy's own analogies).

So for him, he's looking to save his business. Doesn't mean we should bail the guy out, but the situation might be much graver than that 87 number might imply.
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Dint receive anything here. Still refreshing my inbox :|
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I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt, but this comment looks like it came from a sock puppet.
A bit far-fetched perhaps, but could it be that this attack on Github's front-end was a mere feint for a separate attack on their back-end?

If there's a repo hosted there that someone in China wanted to modify, perhaps they would use DOS as cover for a surreptitious maneuver which might otherwise get noticed.

This is likely just showing my ignorance of Git, but could an attacker having sufficient compute resources to arrange a Git hash collision and having back-end access to Github, modify sources without it being noticed by the repo owner?
I don't see that at all. The government is the authority behind real estate ownership, yet they have very limited responsibility toward existing owners if they make changes to, for example, zoning restrictions.
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> Can you point to some?

Altarock, Zeep, Achates, Biofuelbox, yada yada ...

There are like ... a lot. What is your particular interest?

> I'd love to help them in some way.

What type of thing can you contribute? I may or may not be able to provide an intro to something you are interested in. Unfortunately, the ones where I have any direct contribution are (oddly) both stealth-ey and large-ish and off to the races already. That said, depending on what you are into, I'd be happy to put you in contact with them, if there appears to be a fit.
I'm too waiting to know the same. Haven't received any communication yet.
We (ZeroDB) were rejected: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ELBI4Du45jpLxoqzQAhf0h8n...
Here is the list of subjects once you enroll (2 images):

https://imgur.com/mU22za9,LzGtJUa#1

https://imgur.com/mU22za9,LzGtJUa#2
Reminds me of Bastiat's 1845 satirical essay styled as a petition from candlemakers to the French Parliament to force people to close their windows so they buy more candles. They need help competing against the sun.

http://bastiat.org/en/petition.html
I'm not a lawyer, but this seems different.

This isn't using a single mark to refer to a product for criticism and commentary; this is using an unlimited number of marks for promotion of the registrar's sites. (In addition to using the mark in the ways you mentioned.)

That is, the registrar's goal isn't to refer to PayPal, but to use the domain PayPal.sucks (and potentially every protected mark plus ".sucks") to draw traffic.

I guess the legality of this use will need to be decided by the courts.
God bless the New York Times for scare-quoting "stakeholders".
This article has two problems:

a) password managers don't have to be terrible third party solutions. Safari has an amazing password manager with strong random suggestions, and it's just enabled out of the box for millions and millions of iOS and Mac users.

b) this is ridiculously insecure - as soon as anyone breaches your email account they have access to any other service using this scheme, without any way to know (i.e no password reset by the attacker)

a) is proof that this can be "solved" by browser vendors.
b) is the reason this should be solved by browser vendors.
I am still waiting!
Evgeny Freidman's PR man, Ronn Torossian, is also quite a character.

http://gawker.com/tag/ronn-torossian
Just a little background on medallion finance:

A few summers ago, I worked in commercial credit and we did a financing for a "taxi mogul." He was replacing several cars in his fleet, and wanted to take out term loans for the full purchase price of the cars (approx. $30k each, IIRC).

The loans would be secured by cash flow, but the business also posted medallions as collateral. Each loan was attributed to the vehicle purchased with the proceeds and secured by that vehicle's medallion.

It's hard to value something like a taxi medallion. Medallions aren't liquid -- they are usually sold in very low volumes at auctions controlled by the TLC (in NYC). Additionally, the TLC limits the number of outstanding medallions. In practice, most of the medallions are concentrated in the hands of "taxi moguls" who started taxi businesses in the early 20th century when medallions were cheap (think $30k). The best approximation for value we had was the prices commanded by medallions at auction. When I was doing diligence on this deal a few years ago (before Uber), prices were accepted as $1.1mm per medallion. (In reality, that was at best the value of the "marginal" medallion sold; i.e. you could probably not put 10 medallions up for auction at $11mm.)

That means that a $30k term loan would have a loan-to-value of about 3% -- a dream for a bank, assuming the medallions can be seized and sold at market value upon default. That also meant that the loans would be approved almost regardless of the integrity of cash flow. Those characteristics allowed the more cunning taxi moguls to borrow a lot of money against their medallions, securing low rates due to the strength of their collateral posting, and lend the money out at higher rates to earn arbitrage.

There was a good amount of discussion about the medallion bubble -- all it would take is a significant increase in the number of medallions authorized by the TLC or a few failed auctions, and a medallion sold at a large haircut, for the value of all medallions to plummet. Granted, the drop in value might not trip loan covenants, but it would significantly erode the balance sheets of these businesses. At the time, we didn't expect that there would be an external force that would hurt medallion values.

Honestly, skyrocketing medallion prices made it clear that additional ride capacity was needed/demanded. The interesting fact is that the medallion market wasn't disrupted by the issuance of additional medallions, but rather a drop in the demand for yellow cab rides -- a scenario that taxi moguls likely hadn't planned for.

All in all, an interesting asset class that most people aren't aware of -- those 4-letter signs on taxis hold no meaning to riders, and almost nobody on the street would guess that they represent assets worth over one million dollars.
I think this is very similar to arguments about gov't regulated minimum speed broadband. Especially considering airports and the like are usually built with massive gov't support.

And free market arguments do not really apply here I think.If I need to get from NY to Paris in less than 2 weeks, I have no choice but to get onto a plane.

I think standard minimums make absolute sense, because there's not a free market, since people are basically forced to travel by plane (at least for international flights). That or getting rid of reclining seats...
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Yep. I suspect he is way over-leveraged, and losing the income stream from those 87 medallions will prevent him from servicing the debt on his other medallion loans. Could set off a chain reaction that wipes out everything he has (not that this means we should bail him out).
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look up the translation, when you have some time.
Don't see anything yet :( How'd it go?
on the inverse, why are there any TLD restrictions at all? Why can't google get google.chrome? It's just a text field, after all

This is a serious question, because I know a lot of people are against the expansion of TLDs (now I wouldn't have put .sucks on the top of my list for expansion, but...) and I haven't seen a real argument against it.
The scenario I'm worried about may still be a valid concern under the new license.

Here is the scenario:

1. Google decides to buy my company in 2016.

2. They ask me to purge my codebase of React, so I switch to Angular.

3. Some years later, Google decides to sue Facebook over a blimp route optimization algorithm.

4. Facebook responds: "Well Google, one of your subsidiaries used React back in 2015 before you bought them, and now that you're suing us, that grant is no longer valid, so you're now liable for infringements on our React patents."

So with that scenario in mind, Google chooses to pass on buying my company, leaving some smaller acquirers, and maybe Facebook as possible buyers.

Please tell me this is not how it works. I would love to use React, but I can't bet the farm on this without more assurance.
And that correlation does not imply causation.
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It's all financed. If $5 billion out of $6 billion of equity vanishes overnight, that could be a problem. The first-generation immigrants splitting a medallion and a million dollar loan will lose their life savings, but the bank is losing whatever's left. And if they leveraged it more...

It's definitely just someone trying to get free money, but they may also have a point on accident.
Nobody else anywhere is claiming they got it. Possible troll
Rejection just came in.... onto HAXLR8R then! :)
I continue to be surprised that the Web standards folk and browser vendors haven't (AFAIK) pursued a standard for content addressable resources backed by a common DHT. There's Magnet, but it doesn't have much traction outside of the usual P2P clients.
got it, lost it. Will try again next time with more progress.
My point was: tools that prevent you from doing things should not do that without explicit permission. Because thinking is hard and any interruption by a tool or a compiler will impose unnecessary cognitive load and will make it even harder, which may lead to a logical mistake. It is much better to deal with the compiler after all the thinking is done, not during.
If, for instance, they wanted to flood your land for the greater good, they would have to buy it back at "market rate", see TVA. I know it goes against the SV mentality, but apparently these opinions aren't popular here so I'll restrain myself going forward.
I think it's worth clarifying that Rust's `unsafe` doesn't opt-out of the core type system per se, it allows the use of a few additional features that the compiler doesn't/can't check. I think this distinction is important because, as you say, `unsafe` isn't very uncommon and so it is nice that one still benefits from the main guarantees of Rust by default inside `unsafe`. :)
Dint receive yet
Yes. rejected. We forge on.
At this point I'm just going to pause my inbox with http://inboxpause.com/ and open it in the morning, see everyone on the other side.
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Nope. We got an email already
>(i.e no password reset by the attacker)

Login link = reset link. it's not different from classic scheme. Equally insecure.

"What if" doesn't work, it's 2015 and the problem is still huge. "Use password manager" doesn't work anymore, unless you offer something dead simple as my idea.
We just found out we got an interview. Email went out about 7PT. I post that just to let others know timing. Also, we live in Bay Area, ~10 min away from YC, so if people need help with travel logistics and what not, please feel free to PM me.
DNS is hierarchical. You know those dots? They actually mean something. Each name is a separate layer you have to query. Each one means more work for people who maintain infrastructure like the public suffix list[1]. Sure, each one might not count for much, but a world with thousands of TLDs isn't better for anyone.

Besides: TLDs function as a lexical tagging mechanism. When you see a string of letters like "foo.com", you recognize the word as a domain name because it's tagged with ".com". If we have thousands of TLDs, it's harder to recognize domain names as domain names.

I don't think any of these concerns will stop our descent to the world of unstructured AOL-keywords-as-DNS, though, and that's a shame.

[1] https://publicsuffix.org/list/effective_tld_names.dat
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> However, if there was an easy mnemonic like "just add .sucks to the end of a name" to find the bad things about $NAME then the game would change. It'd be easier for people to organize and oppose companies than anything else imaginable.

That sounds far fetched. There would be no consistency in the kind of sites you'd get, no way for this to develop into a mnemonic. It would never become such a 'thing' that it could compete with the status quo – that you can just google for negative stuff about any company or person and get multiple, relevant results (instead of just the ravings of one particular random person who had a grievance).
Thanks for introducing me to HN :)
> What type of thing can you contribute?

I do statistics and HPC (C/C++/Fortran), and know some good CFD people. If that matters, let's talk off-forum. HN apparently doesn't do that, but I can set up the email if you want.
email + text or just email?
Here is a link that might be a good companion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3099527
I know those feels, all the more reasons to work harder. Someone is getting some help you aren't gotta make up for it.
Why can't we build something that's as sensitive as a dog's sense of smell?

[Update]

Guess they're working on it: https://vimeo.com/53900492
Why are all the kids girls?
What do I do if I need to get to the moon?

Less sarcastically, there are billions of people that are forced to forgo flying completely, because they can't afford it at any price.

I think there are probably reasons for the government to subsidize airports and air travel. I'm a lot more skeptical about controlling the price of tickets.
You can swipe from several punctuation keys to the spacebar...
No, they are not the same at all. HFT requires automation, but you can (and should, IMO) have automation without HFT.
nothing yet for us.
I got our rejection email a few minutes ago. A couple things to remember for those in the same boat:

1. YC is just a means to an end. It's cliche but getting rejected to YC should not deter your startups path. If it does, it's a bad sign.

2. My team and I were excited about the opportunity as usual but we made sure we kept our expectations realistic and didn't get our hopes up. There are too many ups and downs in a startup to let this have a big impact on you. We didn't get in last time either, but I'm actually thankful because we wouldn't have been ready and it would've been a wasted opportunity.

Focus on growth and executing toward your goal above all else, that's the tl;dr of the YC experience anyway. Keep fighting the good fight.
Well, yeah, I never even asked (intentionally) for this photo to be sent to Google in the first place. Like you say, I don't store this stuff on "the cloud". So Windows Phone holds the blame for that.
FWIW, transitively-safe Rust is quite uninteresting as an actual programming language, since you can essentially only use some arithmetic and simple user-defined data types. There's no IO and no core data structures like Vec: `unsafe` is designed to be used as a building block to create safe interfaces and the distinction between safe things implemented in the language itself and safe things implemented in libraries (especially the standard library) is fuzzy... and even then, the compiler can be regarded as one huge `unsafe` block.

Of course, what you say is perfectly true, the Rust language itself has no threads or concurrency, and hence is automatically dead-lock free.
See: Google Wave. It's still in the Apache Incubator and doesn't look much different.

https://incubator.apache.org/wave/
Did not get an interview either
congrats! :)
That requires seeing everything as a matter of money. Not everything in life can be measured in dollars and cents.

We are all poorer--as a society--when some people profit at others' suffering.

You are demonstrating precisely the problem mentality that I am pointing out. Please wake up.
I received our rejection email a few minutes ago. For those in the same situation you can read my thoughts in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9358124.
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we did not get an invite.
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(We just ended up getting the rejection email, although it doesn't change anything)
No, there are currently 13,347 regular medallions [0] (I believe handicapped and hybrid are treated separately). At their peak price of $1.2 M each, the value was $16 B.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxicabs_of_New_York_City#Meda...
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Why not just use the ASF 2.0?

https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

It comes with a patent grant.
I'm stuck on the pancake problem. I can't find the error in my output.

Input: http://paste.ofcode.org/VQvSyq2bF8SCxxRu2uSjgu

Output: http://paste.ofcode.org/LKpMbPCd4S7wGfDRzugg6n

Can anybody please run it through your solution and tell me where my output is wrong?
No one gives million dollar loans to "first-generation immigrants".

Rich people buy the medallions and lease them out to poor people (i.e. taxi drivers). This presents a cash flow issue: they have to pay for a medallion up-front but it only repays itself over many years.

Rich people are smart and understand leverage. If the income from leasing medallions produces a better ROI than a cost of the loan, they can get a loan and get more medallions than they otherwise could and become richer even faster.

However, a bank only gives loans if you're already rich.

My point is that this tugging on emotional strings by invoking "first-generation immigrants loosing their life savings" doesn't reflect the reality of situation. You just can't get a million dollar loan if you're poor.

Also, the only thing that vanishes is resell value.

This guy is making money by leasing the medallion to drivers. The price he paid affects how long it will take for this investment to pay for itself until he actually starts to make money.

Unless he did something stupid (like paying so much that leasing revenues wouldn't repay the cost in his lifetime), he'll keep making lots of money from the medallions that he didn't foreclose on.
So they should also offer a .rocks, so people can say good things about your company and/or product.

I can't understand how offering .sucks is positive for anyone, .reviews maybe.
Good for them. The new TLDs are really worthless in my opinion. For instance they already have .net and added .network.

The majority of people will recognize .com and maybe .net. Beyond that it's a stretch in my opinion and you're only going to get visitors via searches or links. I can't imagine anyone is going to think "oh I wonder what microsoft's latest press releases are; I'll just go to microsoft.press". No, they're going to search for it.

In all honesty domains in general are not very user friendly. I wouldn't be surprised if they are eventually replaced for a system that's more of a search than anything. I mean just look at all of the domain names being squatted on and for what? Half the times you can pick a different domain name, still name your product what you want and people will still find you due to search.
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It's not that different from trusting an Uber driver/passenger, or Handy handyman/customer, or Airbnb host/guest.

The strategies are traditional business practices like guarantees, insurance, and dispute resolution combined with technology to lower costs.

In this case, perhaps an app in which both the owner and renter agree when the item is loaned and returned, which reminds the renter to return the item, automatically tracks charges on overdue rentals, and allows some automated dispute resolution like: "I'm at the owner's address (GPS confirms it) and the owner isn't available."
Engineers are actually pretty good at making new blueprints.

In fact, they already did it once. Coal-fired steam engines powered civilization once, and could easily do it again. Probably better, using modern techniques such as fluidized beds, pelletizing, etc.

There's this perception that oil will some day "run out" suddenly, like the last sip at the bottom of a milkshake.

It doesn't work that way. If it happens, oil will gradually become more expensive, until the point where it becomes more economic to use coal (or fission, or fusion, or whatever). At that point, the amount of oil remaining becomes moot.
Yes, it's somewhat banally true, but it's an important subset of the language because the guarantees of transitively-safe Rust represent a baseline for what you can ultimately guarantee in the language. Work like Patina (ftp://ftp.cs.washington.edu/tr/2015/03/UW-CSE-15-03-02.pdf) is useful for that reason. Transitively-safe Rust may also independently fulfill a useful role in the language; e.g., it is a candidate for the subset acceptable in constant expressions.
Also note that the medallion system should never have been created in the first place. If, instead, the city could auction off 13,347 medallions good for a year, all the price appreciation would have gone to the taxpayers of New York instead of characters like Mr. Friedman.

Issuing medallions as a property right was a ludicrously short-sighted move (or more likely, a corrupt one).
No, a reset link is not the same as a login link.
If an attacker gets access to my email and resets the password, I know as soon as I try to use the service (because my password won't work)

With your scheme all they have to do is delete the login email and I have no idea they've breached my account.

Also, there is no what if. Safari's password management is absolute real world proof that a good solution is possible.
"Neo 80s" has been a popular aesthetic for the past few years, so I wouldn't fault Microsoft too much for using bright neon colors.
why does your company do?
Hard to beat Org though.
Domain names aren't as important as they used to be. As long as you rank #1 in Google for "name of your business", that's good enough.

Someone who googles easydns will find the official easydns website. easydns.sucks will rank lower, if at all.
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We just got an answer from YC and we are not selected. :( I guess we will try next year!
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My opinions on the matter:

- It is dirt cheap to bid on paid search brand terms for "brand sucks." Be smart in where you take people and you manage against concerns.

- Having an exact match domain is not anywhere near as useful as it used to be per Matt Cutts[1]. Someone would have to also manage to rank for your brand terms consistently for it to be of any note. I would laugh so hard if this went the route of .info and became recognized as a poor quality TLD that didn't rank worth a hoot.

- There is no avoiding the vocal minority of upset customers. If you have an awesome product/service, you have nothing to worry about. Focus your energy and budgets on positive things and don't look back.

[1] http://moz.com/blog/googles-emd-algo-update-early-data
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And that is one of the reasons it would be a good idea for the US and other Western countries to dial down some of their more aggressive actions: those actions set precedence that encourage other countries like China to match the escalation.
Anyone who dint receive an email yet?