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Re:Signal and Giphy on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @10:31AM (#12855084)
Ah!

But this will correlate one file to that person and will not be able to correlate multiple file requests that they all belong to the exact same person.

Re:Signal and Giphy on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @09:48AM (#12854613)
Which unique id? I thought the point of sending it via Signal was to not include any user id or any other id.
Re:Signal and Giphy on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @08:34AM (#12854015)
We do not always search for exact phrase so the text might not convey the emotion..
Re:Signal and Giphy on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @08:32AM (#12853998)
> The GIPHY service could use subtleties like TLS session resume or cache hits to try to correlate multiple requests as having come from the same client, even if they don't know the origin.

How would a cache hit mean same user tried to search? TLS session resume, I can understand but cache hit only means same resource was accessed not same user tried to access.

Re:Last minute tips for YC Interviewees on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @04:25PM (#12849727)
What I meant was Drew had applied with dropbox saying he would exit if someone paid 10M. But current YC seems to be to big for that kind of exit target.

> You've always got to put your best foot forward.

early stage startups can be very delusional about how big they can become on either side of the scale (drew quoting very less and some other startup quoting billion dollars). So, its not really up to the startup to predict how big they can become, it all depends on the interviewer. Nothing to do here for the startup i guess.

Re:Last minute tips for YC Interviewees on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @03:03PM (#12849091)
> What makes people get out the checkbook is how big you can become.

Drew said 1M. So, its not that necessary to over sell than what you believe, is it? Maybe now it is as YC has become a giant corp?

Where is the YC of 2007 which created more value per startup than current YC (maybe i am wrong about the value per startup part but it doesn't look like, also it makes sense for YC to care about overall value than per startup value to create more impact just like big companies.. maybe ripe for disruption in few years)

Re:Show HN: Anonymous messaging with a 1km radius on Thursday October 27, 2016 @09:02AM (#12804733)
Like Powow http://powow.info/ (also based in Netherlands)?
Re:Supercharging Style Transfer on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @02:05PM (#12798878)
There is a Twitter Bot[1] which does this too: https://twitter.com/neuralpainter

You need to tweet a photo to this handle and it replies with painting.

1. He's a friend, also a SaaS: http://neuralpainting.co/

Re:Sign Up for Summer YC Open Office Hours on Thursday May 26, 2016 @02:55PM (#11780553)
Unrelated, the event ids are simple numbers, the one which invites for demo day is: https://apply.ycombinator.com/events/49
Re:How to Build Your Own Rogue GSM BTS for Fun and Profit on Sunday April 03, 2016 @10:01AM (#11416121)
> costumers

interesting, never saw this kind of typo before, since those two letters are quite far off..

Re:Hash_salt= on Thursday March 31, 2016 @03:31PM (#11399904)
I don't know what the trigger was but I was thinking of posting something on this line couple of hours back before this whole thing started. Weird coincidence but I can show you history of my github searches for 1-2 hours back.
Maybe they publish the report as early as possible and the "fix" is not in place yet?
Re:Uber ruled illegal in Taiwan on Sunday February 21, 2016 @11:09AM (#11145001)
> The Business Insider reports, some countries and regions have completely banned the service, finding it illegal under national or state laws. These places include Japan, Thailand, Nevada in the United States and Karnataka in India.

Not in Karnataka, India - I and everyone uses it everyday.

Re:More on India’s $4 Phone on Friday February 19, 2016 @12:23PM (#11134847)
OS is supposed to be android and the browser is like safari? What!
There was an article some time back saying CEOs are basically psychopaths, then this software should not work that well.
Re:Ask HN: No HTTPS – Why do you trust an app? on Thursday February 04, 2016 @12:55PM (#11035749)
Yes but how would general public know about it? Its strange that whole of the web has moved so far with the https and yet apps have no such way of knowing.
Re:Yahoo to cut 15 percent jobs, close several units on Monday February 01, 2016 @02:29PM (#11014647)
Everyone uses Yahoo finance and watches yahoo stock go down, what irony.
Re:Yahoo to cut 15 percent jobs, close several units on Monday February 01, 2016 @02:26PM (#11014613)
It was a friday, so a joke!
Re:Introducing the new Google+ on Wednesday November 18, 2015 @04:19AM (#10586750)
Pinterest?

Design is only a part of the experience, most of the value comes from usefulness.

Re:Classic Nintendo Games Are NP-Hard (2012) on Monday November 16, 2015 @12:16PM (#10575618)
Why is this even a surprise, people have been participating in AI challenges for long time (like these : http://ants.aichallenge.org/ ) and are well aware that those are hard problems, they develop heuristics since its not computationally possible to obtain perfect solution.

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