skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good idea for patients, terrible awful business model.
If this information is provided and accurate, this is awesome. I love it. :)

Too much time is taken while care providers ask each other vague questions about "do you know what he/she has?" when in my head I'm thinking "You should KNOW this. Or have it readily available!"
empty input gets empty output, solved
"Normal people"? "Fucking techies" while she knows you're one? Dude she seems nice.
I'm surprised they didn't roll out some kind of loyalty program to go along with this. I spend $30k/year with SPG (employer covers it) and using the SPG Amex and other bonuses I estimate about 20% of that amount comes back into my pocket. It's hard to pass up a $6k/year tax free bonus.
I've been there too and my wife (who is also the first college graduate in her family) has it worse than me. The fact that you know it isn't a "technical glitch" but might be the "human glitch" of not having the money in your account is the big difference I think. It is embarrassing to go and pay for gas or groceries and have it be declined because you can't pay for it at that moment for whatever reason. (I think that with the advent of mobile banking this isn't as much of an issue, because you can check your live balance before you go shopping.)

I know plenty of friends who can't (for one reason or another) imagine what life would be like where their credit card is declined due to a "human error." Maybe they haven't had to live paycheck to paycheck or maybe their brains aren't wired that way. I'm inclined to lean to the former but I'm sure for some it is the latter.
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1) Definitely not -- they're separate programs

2) It's still going to be pretty competitive, but it's primarily for earlier stage teams (idea and prototype). YC is for companies of all stages (idea to fast growth).
When staying on location for extended periods we would (the group I travelled with) get an apartment to rent out. Typically this was done when travelling outside the US because it was so cheap, but sometimes in the US we did this also. It helps too if your employer gives you the option to collect housing per diem in lieu of booking a hotel for us. We could then pool together and pocket the extra per diem money if the apartment was cheap enough.
Deletion is the big difference, but even without that I think there can be other significant differences as well. For any given number of items, it can be pretty unclear which one will give better performance (including the cost of false positives) for bounded size, or better space efficiency for bounded performance. Usually you'll need at least an accurate model for both, if not an actual implementation.
It's an experiment we're eager to try with this. We'll have to see how it goes!
A couple of items I'd like to add: (I'm Founder/CEO of a busy infosec biz)

While infosec is currently a smaller sector in startups than say social, casual gaming, apps, etc, it's growing furiously and Wassenaar and individual country regs will be top-of-mind for much of the YC community in the years to follow because many of you will be in this space.

I'd like to emphasize one of Google's points: "Global companies should be able to share information globally." With existing laws we are already running into limits on where we can hire and what our own internal staff can send us. So it really is critical for any small or large global org that internal comms are not squashed by this.

BIS's comment period ends today, so if you want to take action, now is the time. As in, before COB today.

One last thing: The Hacking Team compromise and stolen data (including the zero-days they were hoarding) couldn't come at a worse time. It is fuel for the argument that zero-days, vulnerabilities, vectors etc should be tightly regulated and it's really thrown some weight behind the argument to close borders (WRT info exchange) rather than open them. So your help is really needed on this if you think you should be able to have open conversations about technical infosec issues with your colleagues in other countries.

~mark
This is a great idea. I would apply, as I'm actually planning on launching in the coming weeks, but I'm a solo guy. I'm also going back to college next month; which necessarily isn't a bad thing, as my startup is aimed towards college kids.
I love Cialdini, thanks for linking. I recommend his book on Influence to everyone.

I did think about this reciprocity initially when I heard no equity involved, however I don't think YC & Co's problem is getting startups to agree take their money after mentoring? Their issue is likely getting enough investment opportunities to put cash into as fast as they can raise it. ( ie-pretty fast ). For that they need a bigger opportunity pipeline.

So, i basically agree that they are getting first dibs, but due little to Cialdini's rule on reciprocity. I'd point more towards 'Liking' (ie building the trust early) or 'Authority' since they are getting in the door first with founders and are likely the initial startup mentor.

What I see, is that this program is just a simple (relative) way to ignite some ideas that are on the cusp of being implemented, remove some of the founding barriers, and start a conversation with their team earlier on in the process (no one wants to be the third on the list to call to invest in a great co.). The standard YC class schedule and size limitations are likely the gating factors to their growth, especially when interest in 'startup investing' isn't declining, and YC has already made moves to make it easier for non-accredited investors to invest.

Maybe this is in line with what you were referring to.
Ask HN: What are the most promising cyber-security startups?
If you wanted, you could still do it remotely!
A Tiny NTP client
Not to pay rent, and I spend very little on anything else.
We may try something in a future iteration to help people meet cofounders. In the mean time, working a large tech company is a good strategy.
Should have specified we're B2B. But that's great to hear. Thanks.
I've been a business traveler (1-2 weeks/month) for a number of years and recently began shuffling in stints of airbnb.

I must admit Airbnb cannot beat the convenience and mental simplicity of business hotels. Flight cancelled, check-in at midnight, parking, need an ironing board, want to be left alone - no problem.

I typically Airbnb on travel where I expect the workload to be light or operating on reasonable hours (not coming in at 1am every night). It's really an experience thing for me (akin to going backpacking/camping) which often turn into great dinner conversation with customers - they're always amused. I've met a number of great people (I think most people can be, and Airbnb provides the venue) and I highly recommend it - just be prepared to deal with sometimes awkward/interesting situations, but such is life!
The specs aren’t listed on the FDK site but the safety
data sheet shows it is a 3V battery although amperage is
unclear.

All lithium-ion batteries have a nominal voltage of 3.7V, like how all alkaline batteries have a nominal voltage of 1.5V. It's just how the chemistry works.

(Actual voltage can vary quite a bit, depending on where you are in the discharge curve: http://i.stack.imgur.com/UkodS.gif)

And to be somewhat needlessly pedantic: you want "amp-hours" there, not "amperage". Amp-hours is the unit of capacity, amps is how much current is being drawn at that very moment. In the automotive metaphor, amp-hours (or watt-hours) is how big the gas tank is, while amperage is engine horsepower.
Maker Studios Is Shutting Down Blip Next Month
Thoughts on Conduits
I really like auto-tune the news, but HN isn't really the venue for it.
> Sniffing User-Agent has been poor practice since 2011

I'm old enough to remember it was much earlier than that. In the early '00s there were already calls to do feature detection; jQuery was released in 2006 and it basically did it for you. In 2015, there is no excuse to do UA sniffing -- if anything, because we now have 20 years of case-history showing people will trivially spoof it.
agreed, don't forget the other salaries and expenses involved with running the class twice a year. Possibly another 100k per company cost to YC.
"The SpaceX explosion on June 28th was caused by a failed strut in the rocket's upper stage liquid oxygen tank, SpaceX chief executive officer Elon Musk said today. The strut was one of several hundred used to hold together the helium pressure vessels in the tank......"

Goes from saying Oxygen tank to helium tank... wait what? is the helium tank inside the oxygen tank?
The name should be Picasa. I always loved Picasa. The new interface looks similar to https://bundleapp.co/
I question the success of this from a loyalty/perks perspective. Not for the business traveller, but for the employer. Most people don't realize this, but when your company signs deals with airlines and hotels, they get big perks in return for pledging dollars to those businesses. You get to designate X number of people for platinum status, even if they only fly or stay a few times a year. Those perks translate into huge upside for the occasional business exec who has to pay for a business class ticket, but be at the top of the list for a free first upgrade.

It might sound trivial to most people here, but it's a big part of the sales pitch when you're managing a large corporate travel department.
If you are interested in 'pre-team' you should check out EF in London (joinef.com). They are all about helping technical co-founders meet. Some of the companies have raised amongst the largest seed rounds in Europe.

Full disclosure: I have worked with them
Automated Analysis and Synthesis of Authenticated Encryption Schemes [pdf]
But there was a Mozilla engine, which is what Navigator had in its UA and Explorer spoofed.
Are you saying that the Cuban people will be better off if the sanctions stay forever?
This character is "OGHAM SPACE MARK"[1], which is a space character. So the code is equivalent to alert(2+ 40). From what I know, any unicode character in the Zs class is a white space character in JS[2], but there don't seem to be that many[3]. However, JS also allows unicode characters in identifiers[4], which lets you use interesting variable names like ಠ_ಠ

[1]: https://codepoints.net/U+1680

[2]: https://www.ecma-international.org/ecma-262/6.0/#sec-white-s....

[3]: https://codepoints.net/search?q=&na=&int=&gc[]=Zs&Bidi_M=&Bi....

[4]: https://mathiasbynens.be/notes/javascript-identifiers-es6
If you have steady business spending (eg you travel and are reimbursed for your expenses) with flexibility to make some of your own decisions (hotel, flight, etc etc), then I think that's the lowest barrier of entry.

Play by the same rules as the stock market: it's not about picking winners a low percent of the time but rather avoiding losing anything and running a reasonable risk profile.

If you've got a bit of business spend you can allocate, then you get to play without risking anything. At worst (if some bonus doesn't come through because you missed fine print), you're right where you started (not earning extra rewards).

Disclaimer: Assume it's implied, but no points are worth souring a business relation over. Don't chase points too far.

If you need to play solely with your own money, it gets a little dicier. For example, that $450 annual fee (not waived) card that results in $1,500 worth of travel points w/ $5k spend in 3 months? You'd better be sure you know all the rules.

I'd recommend (as someone else did), trying a few of the smaller card offers. Chase Freedom is a good small starter. They run decent cash bonuses with low spend, no annual fee, and it can ultimately pair with CSP.

Basically, approach it the same way you'd approach a casino. They're trying to attract your business. You're trying to game the system. They're constantly tweaking their rules to mitigate the impact of incentives on their bottom line. Learn the basics and then decide how far you want to go.
I preferred yours, but I'm not sure what you had for dinner on your last birthday.
It seems that there is a class of consultants that are essentially gurus. Their advice doesn't come out of fresh primary research on the client situation and current market dynamics. Instead they speak from ongoing expertise and keeping their finger on the pulse of a particular market. I know that I used "Research-based Consulting" phrase sometimes to set apart my methodology - that is the client is paying for fresh research customized to their unique situation with a consultative type interpretation and advice to tie it all together at the end. But as I was saying even that phrase doesn't really capture stuff like text analysis, web scraping, web development and operations analysis - some of these are very much development and systems oriented.

Data science isn't a perfect label but it seems to be currently defined in a way that fits pretty well with the mix of things that I do - so I am willing to use it.
I do allow zoom when it's appropriate: usually when I'm either targeting desktop users and don't plan (or don't have budget) to specifically target mobile users with their own experience, or when user scaling of the viewport makes sense to the project.

It's FAR better to pan and zoom around a working desktop layout than to have a broken responsive layout, so I only disable user-scaling on sites with a specifically targeted mobile experience where I can deliver a better experience by disabling user scaling than leaving it on.

Here's an example where disabling user zoom vastly improves user experience: a tool I built for myself with the purpose of allowing me to test other websites responsively at different widths while using a device with a fixed-width screen.

I.E. this tool lets me test websites at different browser widths while on a phone with a fixed-width.

http://staticresource.com/speedtest.php

Now, if I were to have had user scaling enabled do you think the experience on that site would be better?

Clearly not! But on the other hand, here's a chart with all of the values in hexadecimal plotted in a grid so I can understand and visualize the relationships between values in hexadecimal colour notation (like #1166aa). This page is an illustration, and though I do have some crude responsive styles to help it fit on narrower screens, I intentionally left user-scaling on to make a better user-experience, until/unless I decide to go in and give it a better mobile-specific experience:

http://staticresource.com/misc/grid.html

Now, if I were to have had user scaling enabled do you think the experience on that site would be better?

Clearly not! There's no right or wrong answer for every. single. website. You have to look at how it will be used, who will use it, on which hardware, and what will provide the most value to them. That decision happens case-by-case and there's always a trade-off happening.

I wonder if the group of people that can't manage to browse with user-scaling turned off on their modern, high-end mobile phones are the same who can't seem to load any website posted to HN that uses JavaScript because not everybody uses a browser with JS enabled…
It's a liquid oxygen tank with a helium pressure vessel in the liquid oxygen tank. Nowhere does it say helium tank.
Homeland Security Leaders Bent Rules on Private E-Mail
For video, meaning shows and movies, content is king.

For music and writing, distribution is king.
Is there any value in a blockchain without a cryptocurrency?
At Newzbin we used them for reducing load on MySQL during Usenet header fetching - each new header would have the Message-ID put through a filtering service to check if it had already been inserted.

The service kept an array of 7 filters, rotated daily - the oldest would be cleared and reused for new items, giving us 6-7 days of history. Each individual header was low-value, and a few false positives every week wasn't a big deal - Usenet servers lost a lot more during their normal course of operation.
I seem to have missed something, in that I don't get one moment of the story; given:

in April 2011, he received a certified letter from United, cheerily informing him that because he had taken advantage of the system his frequent-flyer account was permanently suspended. He was banned from flying, he recalls the letter saying, unless he paid the company $4,755 — the amount it claimed as losses through Schlappig's techniques. [...] Schlappig has repeatedly offered to send United a check but has gotten no response.

-- so, how he continued the Hobby afterwards? Did he switch to a different airline? Can anybody help me understand?
Very clean and appetizing design!

What will happen once each API key has reached one thousand requests in a day?
I used to go to four stars hotels in London at my previous job for business trips, costing like 100-200 pounds a night, and really I didn't like it so much. The rooms had a TV with some light on it that was disturbing my sleep, sometimes I could hear the ventilation noise, etc. Many small details that were making it, IMO, a not too good experience, and many times I was happy I was not paying for this expensive accommodation with my own money.
That's really interesting to know the reason effecting size of tunnels.

And for those who don't know TBM - tunnel boring machine
AirBnB can start a loyalty program with appropriate partnerships. The problem with typical loyalty programs is that you don't get points if you book through a discount travel agency like Travelocity, so you are essentially paying dollars for points. AirBnB doesn't have that problem (at least assuming that property owners aren't also listing outside of AirBnB). AirBnB also theoretically has a greater selection, which makes a loyalty program more compelling.

The other objections regarding amenities aren't too worrying, because 40% of AirBnB stays are through commercial operators that presumably are able to offer hotel-comparable amenities.
I have quite an interest in this area too. Here are a few things that may help:

1) Commercial Penetration Testing Software is already controlled. Here's a self-post to reddit on how these controls work and apply today:

https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/36obxt/what_i_know_...

If you choose to comment; it's helpful to understand the current law and how it works. This way it's easier to know what to ask for.

2) If you use software that may be controlled (for example: pen testing software); this issue affects you. Here are a few suggestions of things you could put in your comment:

https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/3dusae/the_public_c...

3) As of last night, there were 101 public comments posted. Most were far below the quality you would hope for a good discussion on HN, let alone a note to a policy maker to request a change. If you have an interest in this area and have something constructive to suggest--the public comment process is your opportunity to do it.

http://www.regulations.gov/#!docketBrowser;rpp=25;so=DESC;sb...
Your doctor is a gatekeeper to 911, so you have an additional gatekeeper. I think you will find that anyone in the general public experiencing an emergency is going to call 911, not your service.

Your service might be useful in non-emergencies. It's basically like a family doctor visit on Skype. There are a number of companies offering this, but it's not clear how this helps with outcomes. (For example, http://nyti.ms/1fyWXeK)

For healthcare facilities, like nursing homes, you are basically providing a doctor on call via telemedicine. That is already heavily used. Many hospitals employ radiologists, neurologists, etc who can view diagnostic images and data remotely and provide consultation to the medical staff on site.

What I think is dishonest (and could cost lives) is advertising your service to the general public as an alternative to 911, and especially claiming that it is faster than 911.
Are these governments completely insane? Not allowing security research or even reporting bugs without getting a license is the stupidest thing I've heard in my lifetime. The internet cannot be regulated in this fashion without destroying it completely. The world is not a collection of islands we are all in this together and letting any government stand in the way of safety and security is insane.
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I think I was quite clear as to why a marital relationship is a private matter.

I think we can agree that in society there are many different moral systems. Now I will use the words "good" and "bad" with the stipulation that these words have no inherent meaning, but instead only have the meaning that we apply to them from within our own personal moral system. You can compare another moral system to your own, and decide that it is "better" or "worse" but you cannot make an objective determination. Now, you can decide that your morality where adultery should be prohibited/prevented/punished is better for your purposes than mine where adultery is none of the government's business, but that is just your personal preference. The problem is that this may never end and there is always another fellow who is more moral than you or I or both of us, and whose morality tells him that shoes are immoral or that red-haired people are witches or something like that; and this fellow wants the government to segregate the witches for the protection of the good moral folks, and also prevent everyone from wearing shoes, even firemen. So, we have to compromise on our morality and find a set of common rules upon which most of us can agree and which will protect people from serious harm even if it allows for some behavior that makes some of us uncomfortable.

Why do you think that two other peoples' marriage is some concern to you, or to society at large? And please, no references to vague concepts that we have no real definition of such as 'making the world a darker place'

>For me, that would be very nice indeed! Convincing moral arguments are very rare!

That's because morals are very personal, arbitrary, and often irrational.
The rhetoric of "not allowing a safe space for terrorists to communicate" is complete bullshit.

Terrorists can communicate using a book cipher or pick from any of a huge number of other options. The kind of terrorists we should actually be concerned about (competent ones) will already use extra measures such as this in conjunction with strong encryption.

This is totalitarianism.

"For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens: as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone." - David Cameron.
I did not say it is categorically unfair. However, the conditions required for this are far, far removed from the conventional reality of the vast majority of people. For those of us who come from families who have had an ongoing involvement in ther child's education, especially in science, it's hard to grasp just how describing that as a career path might as well be speaking Mandarin to most children from the 70% lower social stratum.

I've had TAs go to high schools for very affluent children of a developed country (not a first-world country but there was true wealth here), with a lot of advanced courses in computer science, where 90% of the kids didn't even know that computer science research was actually a thing that existed. Never mind the entire notion of a circle of people who do computer-related entrepreneurship.
Pretty much nobody accepts signature-only cards in UK, it's all chip and pin now. I am sure US will follow suit soon.