skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think some of those points, if serious enough, might break the overall experience.
There are countries outside the US where the province may be required for proper routing of mail.

I'm still working on my address support. It's hard, considering there are more de facto countries than are legally recognized by any international body, and most of them are one-offs in terms of address formatting.
They are metrics of performance, yes. But they are not the type of performance that the shoe manufacturer generally tries hard to market.
you missed my point. "less space than a nomad" was precisely a "techie" criticism of the iPod. That the Nomad had a 6GB capacity and the iPod 5GB was irrelevant to most people.

Conversely, not being able to type comfortably or hold the device for more than 10 minutes without getting cramps--these are major usability issues that will affect everyone. iPad proponents seem to think people won't need to type on these things. Aren't they for casual web use? How do you write emails, blog posts, comments, usernames and passwords, URIs, google queries, tweets, IMs, etc. without typing? These tasks are trivial on regular keyboards, I'm not sure that will be the case on the iPad (I know it's not the case on my iPhone).
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If it's a joke - I don't actually get it. I get what backpedaling is and it's funny when politicians do it - but your description on the homepage is confusing (at least to me).
How do you show that those that have you on the top of their priority list that you are on their priority list as well. It gets to a point where it's tough to keep up with various people each with a unique personal approach. I really want to get better at that.
With software like basecamp, the feature-rich vs easy is especially pronounced.

A project management system 9/10 of people are actually using but doesn't have feature X is more useful than a project management system that 8/10 people are using but does have it, often.
Ask HN: Client Management
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1232489 got me thinking:

What do you use or do (tools, routines, etc.) to manage a personal relationship with clients and associates?
Stupid e-mails and comments used to bother me too, but I run some crazy statistics on it now: At least 1% of people are incurable, malicious idiots who have nothing better to do but spit bile all over the place. If I happen to encounter them frequently it only proves I have reach and what do you do with incurable idiots? Ignore 'em - they're the minority.
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Good points. The predictive text on the iPhone is excellent. It definitely requires a lot of trust from the user, and I think it takes a while to build up that trust. Even after a couple years, I find that I still need to make a conscious effort to let the iPhone handle my mistakes.
make me a sandwich

and

sudo make me a sandwich

both work
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I've gone ahead and built one.

Try it:

http://www.tokyomuslim.com/2010/04/php-class-to-run-pdfcrowd...

I don't blame anyone for not wanting to use PHP's poorly documented CURL classes.
Agreed. This is the first April Fool's Day "feature" on the web I've seen that's actually a feature.
I live in one of those countries and I think people are over-analysing the problem. I think you're perfectly safe with:

Addr 1 (req)
Addr 2 (optional)
State (req but including "Outside US")
Country (req)
Post/Zip Code (optional outside US)

When I order stuff from the US I just put my city and state in the Addr 2 line.

In the end this is a classic example of the "perfect being the enemy of the good". Look at where your sales are going and allocate validation efforts accordingly. A lot of sites include Canadian provinces in the "state" field for example.
Take a look at their portfolio: http://www.kpcb.com/portfolio/

See any names you recognize? Care to readjust your opinion of their credibility?
Bad news: One of our quotes was mis-interpreted in the original version of this and we had to take down the original archive link.

To see Help a Startup Out though go here: http://eepurl.com/nrRD
I'd actually suggest being picky about the first job. Reason for that is that once you're younger, companies are investing in you. Once you're older, they expect a return on that investment.

However, I'd suggest being picky not about the language used, but about the difficulty/challenge/"hard-core" feeling of the position. Pick the company that had the toughest interview questions (don't even consider one that doesn't ask you to write code on the whiteboard!), uses technology that is the most challenging (rather than simply complex), solves the most difficult problems and is willing to let you work on a team solving those problems (rather than assigning you to e.g., QA).

It's always harder to go "easy->tough" than "tough->easy". I'd hire a systems programmer to write web applications (if that's indeed what he wanted to do), but I'd be hard pressed to hire a web developer to do systems programming (unless he had open source work to show for it).

Additionally, right or wrong certain large companies prefer work this way: they hire new grads from the outside for junior positions and then hire internally (i.e., promote) for core senior positions. They will, occasionally hire someone with experience from a comparable large company for a senior position (after a difficult interview), but they won't hire someone coming from a start-up for a senior and core (i.e., software engineer vs. QA) position. The argument is that large companies have certain processes and challenges which are unique to them and don't occur in start-ups.

They also won't hire an experienced person for a junior position, knowing they (statistically speaking) won't be motivated enough while earning lower pay to advance through the ranks to fill a senior role.

So if you'd like to work in certain places (e.g., you want to be at IBM Research) it's much easier to get your foot in the door as a new graduate.

I would say, there's may be a period of 2-4 years from "get your last degree" to "seen as damaged goods by big corp". In practice this means, you can try a particularly interesting start-up right out of college or (if you feel your career is going nowhere), go back for a Masters and make yourself a "college hire" again.

It's not fair and there are exceptions (I'd imagine Google generally ignores various big-company anti-patterns in hiring, although they're still seen as "favouring new grads" by ignoring experience), but it's a possible consequence of choices one makes.
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find kitten
Thanks for the link. When I clicked the submission the first hit on the google search was, um, this page on HN.
Cool! It should probably work in non-free Wi-Fi zones.
That sounds like a really awesome bit of code to look at. Can you share it?
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Yeah, you know, readability is not a feature. Gotta focus on features ;)
I ran the source through jsbeautifier.org yielding this: http://gist.github.com/351418

Some fun stuff:

* there is a MUD

* find kitten launches a mini-game

* apt-get moo

* i read the source code
"cat"
"look"
"man"
"go"
"light"
"light lamp"
"reddit"
all work
Prototype did.
Theres an adventure mode. Try "look" and "go"
USA are a bit strange with regards to their "democracy". Check out the wiki link for an explanation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_the_United_States
You know... if they were pushing out 10k units a week, the damn things might actually be cheap enough that people would be willing to buy one.
It took me nearly to the end to figure out that this was a joke. This idea just seemed like a logical next step to writig web apps with Objective-C syntax.
AT&T doesn't actually stand for anything

Too bad they dropped the name completely; they could have just changed "telegraph" to "[wire]tap" and they would have been totally up to date.
I usually append an extra character to the To: email address so it bounces in case I accidentally send it
Ask HN: What to do after college? Master's degree?
I'm a business/computer science major. I may get an MBA eventually - though I'm not too sure about that. But, for right after graduating from college, what are your opinions on getting a Master's in Computer Science (hopefully from a top tier school)?

Would the degree be valuable and in demand for the next few years (or decades)? Would the cost of the degree outweigh its benefits? Would I be wasting my time, or using it productively? And so on.
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don't go south!
http://wtng.info/ would be a good place to start. It's a lot of work to do right. You have to support full international numbers as short as 7 digits (Tokelau has +690 XXXX) and as long as 15 digits (in Germany the telco basically gives subscribers a subnet-like functionality, as extra dialled digits are passed along during call origination).

Ideally you'd be able to parse it into a punctuation format based on local practice, but just about everyone punts on that.
ColdFusion was the big one, I hate the language with a white hot passion now, no job is ever worth the abomination of learning that steaming pile of garbage.

To a lesser extent, C# I ended up learning only because a side project was in desperate need of more coders. I didn't like it much but nowhere near as bad as CF.

And lesser still, Java proper the language rather than the environment. I don't much like it but I totally forgive it because of the JVM and all the excellent other languages that run on top of it.
If I'm going to write in a Javascript-using language, it's going to be Coffee Script. That's like Ruby and Python had a baby. A lovely, wonderful baby.
Well, when you talk about working on projects that are not your "run-of-the-mill php web page" then the rates completely change. Again, that's just been my experience, so its not necessarily universal.(or I just might have been lucky)

So for example projects that deal with video streaming and its intricacies, scaling or optimization, or my personal favourite, maintaining or porting legacy or broken systems done by programmers that are worth $5/hr.(sorry, i don't mean to be harsh, but we've all been there)

Typically those kinds of projects are not easy to come by and are not that many to begin with. They also tend to be awarded to people you've already worked with or know, not auctioned off on sites like elance.

I've once worked on a video streaming solution that used elements from Red5 and it was known that good Red5 consultants won't talk to you for less than $100/hr. I was not making anywhere near that of course, but I use it as an example.
Ask HN: Is a website & blog combo the way to go?
I've noticed that many startups have their main website and also a blog on the side, usually under the name of the startup founder (e.g. webwidgets.com as the company website and bobmarcus.com as the blog)

Is this the preferred/recommended method these days, for getting your website noticed? You write a bunch on content on the blog, it gets noticed by people and by search engines and it all links back to your main website?

Are there any numbers on how common this is and how much it helps promote the main website?
Re: Most Indians don't speak English. The college educated – a tiny minority – do.

The question isn't about no. of Indians speaking English. The question is: do Indian programmers (and professionals) speak English?

Answer: 99% do.
Pogue claims there will be 1,000 apps in the iPad app store on day one. If Apple will hurry up and finish reviewing my game, mine will be one of them.

If that number is true -- only a measly thousand -- then I'm pretty excited. Based on the buzz I've heard in the blogosphere, and the chatter on Apple's own dev forums, I would have guessed more like ten thousand. At that number, competition for eyeballs is pretty fierce. But if it's really only a thousand, then I stand a real chance of making some money.
Looks like the fill characters spell out "LOL" a good chunk of the time [1]. Awesome.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_xVXQCrPxQ&feature=featu...
haha. awesome to see it after hearing about it for so long :o) way to go leo!
A good prank in itself.
I highly doubt that.

I think Wolfram and the folks at WRI were just off their rockers when they made that price hoping that they could get some sales at that price and then depending on the reception go from there.

That or Wolfram was kidding himself into believing that people considered a WolframAlpha app was that much of a value to them rather than using the site in Safari.

Since everyone balked they just reacted.
.. and now the second link is a reddit page. Since I wasn't able to use the original link (xkcd.com), I used a google search. I probably should have used the google search with the query "q=xkcd" instead. Unfortunately, I can't change the link target.
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Awesome! Today's date is March 32nd.

guest@xkcd:/$ date

March 32nd
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Yes, communicate what you're doing and why. It will help others understand and also help you solidify your plans as you write.
Just make sure it's not a dot: http://www.dns-sd.org/TrailingDotsInDomainNames.html
I've liked all languages I've learnt but the first language that I loved was perl.
Explain or link, please?
YouTube is saving bandwidth with ASCII videos and logo.
My guess is that they were trying to skim off as much revenue from the potential customer pool as possible. If you charge $49 and only get 100 takers, you still make more than if you had 1000 paying $1.99. I know there's different thresholds to consider, but this is a fairly common pricing strategy. Remember Apple's original $599 iPhone?
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I just noticed: Web Results 1 - 10 of about 157 for unixkcd. (0.04 nanocenturies) I didn't know google showed nanocenturies!

EDIT: Apparently google is just having fun as when I refresh I also see:

Web Results 1 - 10 of about 190 for unixkcd. (1.21 gigawatts)

Web Results 1 - 10 of about 190 for unixkcd. (11.90 parsecs)

Web Results 1 - 10 of about 198 for unixkcd. (0.02 femtogalactic years)

Web Results 1 - 10 of about 198 for unixkcd. (0.09 microfortnights)

Web Results 1 - 10 of about 190 for unixkcd. (0.12 centibeats)

All interesting units of time. :)
My husband would agree with you that happiness doesn't need to always be the end goal. I must have been raised with a Disney reality. Though I've realized I do need the sad; it's what helps me to think in a more complete way.
Was looking through my history and found this: http://i18napis.appspot.com/address

It's not clear who owns it, though, so don't just go and use it. My point is that it's worth spending the time (and maybe money) to find one of these databases to make your international customers happy.
"man cat" also works :)
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Exactly. If a user is being led to believe that their location is supported, support it. Otherwise make it explicit that it isn't.

You are supporting international orders? Spend a few hours making a comprehensive address verification system and reuse it everywhere. Over time the effort expended on this task will hopefully become negligible. Maybe that'll happen after you get your first international order.

It's not as if the data aren't freely available. This is the internet, after all (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_(geography)#Mailing_add...).
I've recently started using Readability. Works great!

http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/
It's very important for startups (and everybody else, for that matter) to learn from Facebook here. Straight to the point and I don't get the spammy(?) feeling I get from a lot of the other services I use. Great emails. (And I actually think I also have a 100% CTR on email from Facebook.)
People should just post the google search for NYT and WSJ locked articles and be done with it.
As the saying goes, "Simpsons did it" (and quite a long while ago, too): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brother,_Can_You_Spare_Two_Dime...
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Just out of interest, does anyone have any numbers on whether or not the problems with gzip are more i/o bound or cpu bound? I would've thought with gzip i/o would've been a bigger factor, but am happy to be proven wrong.
This is great, but I wish it supported "find"
Very nice one, Google. I especially found the Remark Annotations funny. Would be cool to have a .NET port of GAG. I surely would use it somewhere in the depths of code, just for fun :)
I love how you have your logo incorporated in the 2d barcode.

It is interesting that you use bit.ly to shorten the lengths of the urls to tickets, I had assumed that all generated shortened urls in bit.ly were searchable by a random user but that doesn't seem to be the case.
This is still $1.99 too expensive if the goal is uptake.
"A comprehensive address verification system" does not take a few hours to make. In another comment on this thread I posted a link to an amazingly detailed address format database and I'm quite sure it took longer than that to make.

I think this would be an awesome open source project!
Smart move, if the government makes startup immigration easy and invests in colleges and network infrastructure. Perhaps New Zealand might become a haven for Open development and innovation?
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make me a sandwich
and
sudo !!
don't, though.
(Shrug) The company doesn't write it that way, so neither should the New York Times.
My startup uses a wordpress-based website - since last September - which looks more like a blog than a startup home page (which has been ok so far since we started out small - bootstrapping and later getting getting some revenue and funding).

In order to get startup web site visibility tech-related blog posts (in average 2-3 postings a month) have been the main source (with del.icio.us, twitter, reddit, hacker news and google as the main traffic drivers).

We will probably eventually change to a more business like website, but blog-like will do for now.

Conclusion: unless you have extremely viral services, your startup blog is likely to drive (much) more traffic than the rest of your startup website.
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Google's started offering a physical objects storage service
I gotta say this sounds like a huge timesaver. I waste so much time cleaning my apartment. I can't wait till I can just have google organize my stuff.
I don't think this has anything to do with Facebook or the email. It has everything to do with people being interested in photos of themselves and items connected to them.
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Light your lamp before going south and you'll be fine.
But the audio RSS feed stopped working :( I've just noticed that I've lost like a week and a half of great interviews.
I assume you're talking about the backlight.

I don't have hard numbers, but my experience says yes. However, it's not really in the same category. Developer's can't directly control the screen brightness, and the device is essentially unusable when the screen is off (except for the case of playing music).
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I have the latest Chrome&Flash and it's not working for me.
This has got to be the coolest website for geeks. props.
"hello joshua" is my favorite though.
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I got: Results 1 - 10 of about 297 for unixkcd. (2.00 shakes of a lamb's tail)
Here's a video from Apple with a fantastic overview of the new tech:

http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/overlays/battery-video.html#...
One story is not every story.
Writer know only know one story about Romanian, India etc.
Most of the 'engineering' colleges in chennai are geared towards churning out Outsourcing/BPO fodder. Technically minded folks would have a hard time there.
Seems healthy to me, and accurate: "most likely".
Why prototype?
That's an unsound strategy—what if the perfect guy comes along moments after you make arrangements to see someone else for the week? You just delete the message without reading it?

The better strategy is to always read the messages, filtering some out as irrelevant to your interests, and then putting the rest into a priority queue based on appeal. That way, a better guy will jump to the head of the queue, and be contacted the next week.

Come to think of it, is there a dating site that automates this? "Getting Things Dated?"
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A Masters degree can mean concentration and specific skills. It's not the only way to obtain that, but it certainly pays off. It's not really the degree itself, it's specialization. I'd also suggest specializing in something technical (what is that you're passionate about?) rather than generic "software engineering" (i.e., UML diagrams) or management (what are you going to manager). These sorts of "professional" engineering masters degrees mean more if you've already been in the industry (much like an MBA) and want to move to people or project management.

You can also work in the industry for a few years and then go for a masters. That has the advantage of showing you what you'd want to focus on and letting you take risks with your career prior to a masters (additional degree lets you reset a career). The disadvantage is that going back (especially if you are happy with your career) is hard. It's also easy to build up an industry arrogance (I found it in myself) and gloss over lectures when the way things are done in industry is different -- only to realize in a few years (when someone else builds a real-world system on an "academic" concept) that someone in academia had an answer to a problem you're only realized you're having now 30 years ago, but you dismissed as theoretical and impractical.

You can also do what I did: work full time and do your masters. Just be prepared to have a limited social life and less sleep for the next 3 years (you won't be able to take a full time academic load at all times while working). Not only does this mean you don't have to go into debt (and/or voluntary poverty) to get through graduate school, in many cases your employer can pay for part of this (although this limits you to companies big enough to provide tuition reimbursement).
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Extra Internet bonus points for nailing 2 April Fools jokes with 1 HN post!
Google is always on their A-game when it comes to April Fools :)