skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Emphasis mine:

> But when you choose to use language like that, live up to it.

You've probably never built a product before. It's not that Wakemate is "not living up to it", it's that they're thinking, "My God, this was supposed to be out two months ago. Okay, what's the worst case scenario? Four months? No way it can take more than four months. Okay, let's tell people four months and plan to get it out in two months."

All kinds of shit goes wrong when you're building a new product. Now, if you'd said "be more realistic" or "be more pessimistic" or "get better at estimating", I guess I'd agree with you sort of. But one thing they can't do is "live up to it" by willpower - these are young entrepreneurs trying to get their product out and it's a parade of trivial things are stopping them from doing so. At least, that's what I'm guessing, having built stuff before. I promise, they're trying and feeling about 10,000 times more neurotic and disappointed than any cool exterior would show.
I dont know about weak...but def the tired
How about just giving badges to those folks who want them?

That would provide a useful social signal.

Oh, so you want badges to distinguish you from other folks? Fine - each interested person gets to define one or more badges and pass them out as she sees fit. Your badges will be recognized as marks of quality and good breeding while "those badges" will be seen as, well, best to not say.

I'm reminded of Jerry Rice. When he scored a touchdown, he calmly threw the ball to the ref.

When you've really made it, you act like you belong and don't need some token.
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Watching the tutorial video on their website, the only word that comes to mind is "incredible" ITA really has created an amazing piece of software here.
There's a weird convergence going on here. I'm an old fogey now (34) and it seems that everyone younger than me has little to no respect for intellectual property rights. From their perspective, downloading a movie using Bittorrent is not ethically any different than renting it from Blockbuster.

At the same time, so many good things are either free or bundled with the hardware so you don't feel the marginal cost of them. You don't "need" to pirate MS Office to have a usable computer, OO and Google Docs are pretty damn good these days.

A lot of gaming has moved to consoles (much harder to pirate) or online subscriptions like WOW or Steam, which also make piracy more difficult.

And yes, when I say I don't pirate software, I include fonts in that list. There are plenty of good free fonts, and many great fonts are pretty affordable.
It was the venue I was referring to. Itt appears several streets away from the actual address.
Selfishness would be not sharing knowledge of this with others, since keeping silent would make people less altruistic (humans being strong pack animals who tend to avoid doing things others are not also doing.)
I think it benefits these companies for students to train in Maya/3D Studio
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Or you could just throw them both into a startup and let them have it out cage match style
Ah, I am building a different product but would like to chat. What's your email?
Why did you pick Django as a framework?
The problem we have here is that new technologies generally reach an equilibrium at some point. The fallacy is to assume that present technology trends always continue.

In the 50s they thought the future would be nuclear everything.

In the 30s they thought the future would be flying everything.

At the turn of the century they thought the future would be electric everything.

During the industrial revolution they thought the future would be steam everything.

Only this time we think the future will be information everything.
The new JAPH signature? I don't know really. I just write, and sometimes weird stuff ends up on the screen. Sorry!

Let me remind you that it was just six (unimpressive) reasons Camping is better than you would imagine, not six reasons Camping is a better fit for your project. All I'm saying is that Camping gets so many things right. Not necessarily in very few lines of code or very fast, but nonetheless: I look at Camping code and nod to myself: "Yeah, this is probably the correct way to do it".

Of course, this doesn't matter at all! If we cared about correctness, we would program in Haskell, not some language where monkey patching is acceptable in production code. As long as you're comfortable in Sinatra, you should continue doing that. It's that simply.

Interestingly, camping.rb on the other hand is not very pretty or correct: http://github.com/camping/camping/blob/master/lib/camping.rb, and that's also what makes it so beautiful in my opinion.

Oh well, let me finish with a little quote from _why:

On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 02:47:39PM +0200, zimbatm wrote:
> This is not that hard to do. Maybe I should add some shortening tricks
> document. I propose platterizing to be done only before release.

No, let's not have rules. I don't feel comfortable with having
coding standards or any protocol on Camping. The point of Camping
is to have very ugly, tricky code that goes against all the rules that
people make for "beautiful" code these days. To show that ugly code
can do beautiful things, maybe.

I don't want to demonize anyone here, I just want to express the
ideas that make Camping different. Camping's personality is 80x50.
It is like the little gears of a watch that are all meshed together
into a tight little mind-bending machine. The challenge of Camping
isn't to figure out how to automate obfuscation. The challenge is
to bring new tricks into the code that push Ruby's parser and make
everyone look twice.

Not all code needs to be a factory, some of it can just be origami.

_why
I'd like to pitch a follow-up question to everyone answering "I used to, but now I use linux" or just "I use linux so no":

If you were to move back to Windows/Mac OR if you faced the same questions within a Linux environment, would you then pirate software?
I like the idea, but you can't even insert a link with the editor. I assume it is just an oversight because it would make perfect sense to have an insert link button right next to the insert table button. Kind of a large omission though, especially if you are claiming HTML WYSIWYG. (And what about images?)
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I _think_ the article is trying to convey that asking those questions about an existing business is not helpful. I first read it as 'These are all bad questions that are never useful,' which is obviously false. But in the situation where there is an existing in depth knowledge base, they are better replaced with more topical questions.

I baulked at 'What is our goal?" since that is the first question I ask after someone requests help. But if I am expected to already be acquainted with the situation, I wouldn't ask.
I don't really do video editing myself, but depending on what level of complexity you need, some of my friends/acquaintances use one or more of: PiTiVi, Kdenlive, LiVES, and Cinerella. Of those, Cinerella is probably the most 'serious' (and also has the highest learning curve).
On the insert tab, all I see is Table, but I can't seem to find inserting images, editing hyperlinks, bullet points.

Also, Firefox keeps asking me if I want to kill an unresponsive script, so wondering what that is...

And what is the aGPL? If I include a link to the js file on my webapp, do I have to open source all my code? I really don't get what all these different licenses mean.
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I know a few friends who use it, and since I am a bit dependent upon the help I can find...made sense to me. What would you recommend?
Less Talk. More Work.
Wasn't that true in 1990 also? Lots of hackers worked for or owned software companies, yet lots swapped disks or downloaded from BBSs as well.
Looks great, but freezes Safari if I scroll down too fast. Probably since it's trying to load and display too many thumbs at once.

It's a good direction but the details don't seem right yet. Increasing the image by 10% on hover doesn't add much detail so I'd remove that. I'd just fade in a white box with the details below the image, instead of having the resize/dropshadow effect.

Since basically the whole page has a mouse effect, it makes me very aware of how I move the mouse and where I rest the cursor.

They could also remove the "Page" index, since that's not useful anymore, but I guess that happens once this rolls out to everybody.
Another thing I've noticed is that asking the "big questions" (e.g. "Who is our customer? What will make me happy?) sometimes becomes a way to avoid acknowledging the answer. The purpose of the question is to bury you in the process of finding an answer, while simultaneously obscuring the answer itself. If you're a business, you probably already know who your customers are. If you're an individual, you probably already know what makes you happy. Attaching momentous formalism to the question only serves to emphasize process over result.
I heard of cryptographic protocols that can achieve what you ask for here.

(I just have to dig up where I read about it.)
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I don't think the data exists. In several images, I was supposed to identify a blank wall or a random object as a friend. Pretty sure they use this to tweak their face detection algorithms.
I don't think that I can actively hack on the JVM, but I can tell you that XPerf is a great way to determine where you're spending your time. http://www.microsoftpdc.com/2009/CL16 is a really good intro video on the topic, it's a very powerful tool (though doesn't provide as much analysis as Instruments for example)
Ask HN: Did you buy a .co domain name?
I know there has been some discussion on this in the duck.co post, but i was just curious what the HN crowd thought of the .co domain rush.

Did you buy one/multiple domains ?
Actually, electric everything has arrived.
For anyone considering this, it's already been exploited by people running it across 1000s of vms/processors causing massive rate fluctuations.

One to skip imho.
I can think of an iPhone immediately (cringe) and how you can make an emergency call when the phone is locked.

Have it just display something like "Emergency contact" who you can dial without displaying any more information on the person, not even the phone number when it dials.

Having this person know personal information about you (blood type, etc) would then still be relatively secure versus openly available, and the person would have little risk of getting prank called if your phone is stolen outside of an emergency situation.
There are people who make a professional game out of extracting as much money from CSRs as possible. You go broke if you try to appease these people. The dirty little secret of every "we provide exceptional customer service" companies is they all have exception clauses for these types of people.

From the scant information provided in the article, this seems like it could be one of those people.
See my reply to another comment - the data doesn't exist. In some images I was supposed to identify random objects or blanks walls as my friends. So they do use this to train their algorithm and/or complete their database.
Interesting... but not all that amazing, really. There's a rather glaring error, repeated many times, which many engines suffer from. Twitchy, spontaneous motion:

1) at ~23 seconds, look at the top-1/3, left-1/4 location. Chunks of particles literally spontaneously accelerate towards each other. Towards the top-most corner of the top platform, there's even a little snake-like thing that starts inch-worming around for no apparent reason, and a blob that leaps into the air at far higher velocity than it is made of.

2) with the 8-second cloth clip, note the twitching as the cloths try to find a stable resting point. Remind you of stacked objects in the Source engine[1], perhaps? Jump on top of them and it's like walking on an earthquake.

3) note how long the left block at ~2:40 takes to settle (almost, it doesn't actually), and the weird thrown-on-top chunk that twitches up and down a couple times, and then gets a burst of energy right when it starts fading out, moving up, and faster than the pieces it's touching, and without any visible ripple which could account for it.

If it's done by one person (Thiago Costa?), yes, very impressive job, that's a lot of work. But overall... more of the same.

---

[1]: chosen only because it's a relatively modern engine, and one many are familiar with.
Emphasis mine:

> But when you choose to use language like that, live up to it.

Nobody stood over them and forced them to make strongly-worded promises about firm shipping dates. They chose to use those words.

They had missed multiple ship dates in the past; they were certainly well aware of the gravity and customer backlash of making promises they couldn't keep. They were also certainly aware that this would take an order of magnitude longer than they thought. Instead of saying "We're sorry, we have no idea when we will ship these", they decided to make an announcement that they would absolutely positively ship me my product by that date, if not sooner.
The site is indeed real and has been for a couple of years. Don't want to show it right now (or want the site's users find this post), sorry.
Over the past few years, I've tentatively decided to not play any game that has achievements. I used to scour regular games thoroughly, but have found that games with achievements tend to become endless grinding slogs for no satisfying reward.

It's hard to quit, though.
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I've seen the bunny and the happy buddha the most often.
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There are games like the new Settlers which have crazy DRM that has to be connected to the internet 24/7, even in single player mode, and there are games like Starcraft II which compel you to play online because the multiplayer experience is so good.

One of these will probably be the biggest selling PC game of the next 3 years.
It's quite possible that the downvoting is for the actual content of the comment too, you know.
See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1520431.
Nice amount. But I'd like it to be the full $31337(why shorten), although I don't plan to find any bugs in Chromium.
fyi - it seems like they are back up...for now.
For the past four or five years I've been using Linux and FOSS, and I've really had no motivation to download or use unauthorized copies of anything since the free software is in virtually all cases better than the proprietary options.
I don't know what other people would get, but I'm pretty sure I would get nauseated by the whole thing.
Facebook hated as much as airlines, cable companies
I think one factor is that the piracy scene isn't as closely connected to the hacker/maker scene as it used to be. In the 70s/80s, copy-protection cracking attracted a lot of curious hacker types as a sort of challenge problem, and lots of hackers got their start in low-level programming by stepping through a game or an app in a debugger. I think at one point all the best freely available x86 asm tutorials were written by cracking groups, so even people not really into that sort of thing would come across it as just part of the culture; it wasn't at all unusual for even legit educational textfiles to be signed with a fancy ASCII signature and 'greetz' to various handles and groups.

The demoscene came from there as well: demos were originally graphical eyecandy inserted into cracked software, and for years, cracking groups and demo groups were either the same, or had huge overlap in membership. So if you were to hang out at a HackerNews BBS in 1980 or 1990, I think there'd be a lot more rubbing shoulders with people who spent their free time cracking software and operating pirate BBSs, because they were the same people building cool things and writing the BBS equivalent of tech blog posts.
Correct. If it's really true that 75% of the dev time has gone into the Apple chip (i.e., iPhone compatibility if I understand it correctly), they could've shipped... what, in March? Screw iPhone then for the first version.
And if they're there only because of "Section 8" funding you get to revel in the knowledge that it's your tax dollars "at work" subsidizing the mayhem next door! [BTDT] Hey, another bureaucracy at work!
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Yes, but it works as a standalone installation, you don't need to have 10.5 installed.
heh, nothing is ever efficient enough, everything can be improved :)
Not nearly as pretty, but my CS department has had a good experience using Xymon for monitoring:

http://www.xymon.com/
FWIW, this is the same guy who wrote the gervais principle series of posts. http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-o...
I would agree that there are few people with even minimal conversational skills. It is fantastic though when you run in to someone who really knows how to have a good conversation! I've only run in to one or two of these conversation super stars in my lifetime though.

I'd be really interested in a book that outlines the rules for a relationship... It would be nice to have something authoritative to point to when disagreements crop up.
If WakeMate is any good, it will end up being mission-critical for me. I've lost control of my sleep schedule and I can't move it backward because I just end up wasting a day due to tiredness and unable to keep it from slipping forward again.
Hey guys, main developer behind Stashboard here. Just wanted to say thanks for all the feedback. If you have any questions, feel free to ask away :)
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The typical example given is that someone, in their sleep-deprived haze, forgets to take the sleeping infant to their daycare before going to work.

I go the other extreme, every time I'm in the car by myself I have a few "Oh no! Where's the baby!" moments.
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> Interestingly, camping.rb on the other hand is not very pretty or correct: http://github.com/camping/camping/blob/master/lib/camping.rb, and that's also what makes it so beautiful in my opinion.

I saw a very interesting comparison between Ruby and Python that sounds like this. Basically, it went like this: "Python's core language is very simple and pretty, and Ruby's is very complex and ugly. Yet, the very ugliness that Ruby allows and Python disallows means that the libraries that are created with the languages that are the exact opposite: RSpec is a thing of beauty, and something similar in Python isn't even really possible at the same level. So I actually like _using_ Ruby, even if I like the Python language more."

Like you said in both your email and here, it's all about what's best for _you_, not what's best 'in absolute.'
The original article is a great read: http://blog.ninapaley.com/2009/12/28/the-cult-of-originality...
I like the article but the link highlights have to go.
"You are making presumptions again here. I've tried Linux, I prefer OS X is all. As I've said already, OS X seems to be the best environment for Rails development. If I sell my startup for millions, Apple wins big through additional sales."

How will they get additional sales if you "sell your startup for millions"?

"I'm going to bow gracefully out of this thread now, as I've said my piece. I'll leave you with a few words of wisdom from a guy a little bit richer and more successful than either of us:"

Are you from China? If not, you don't really have a point beyond that you like to use commercial software, not pay for it, and make excuses that one day when you make it big (which statistically speaking won't happen), you will decide to pay for them.

I wish I could use the same excuses about my credit card bills and business loans.
Changing the design to accommodate a new flash chip is a pretty big spanner thrown into their works by an outside requirement.

Also, that authentication chip was probably a major headache.

Imho, they have some pretty good reasons for the delay. They don't have the manpower that a large company has to put onto sudden disasters like this.
I'm not as worried about the UI as much as I am worried about '404' errors, which are pretty common.
I wonder how hot Google would be for access logs and a hidden iframe to a Google domain to potentially get the Gmail address of glassdoor.com users. Furthermore, what would the bias be? Users are self-starting enough to look for help, but is this 'cheating'?

Paranoia, but an interesting thought experiment, and utterly doable.
I have a similar project of self-improvement going on, but I find the problem much subtler than what you describe.

First off, yeah, with the people I most value, I talk too much and don't listen enough. Mea culpa, must improve.

On the other hand, perhaps I just need to level up my skill at asking guiding questions, and perhaps I just need to widen my interests, but I frequently have trouble being interested in what people want to talk about. In particular, I often find people want to tell stories about a particular experience they have, for the purpose of complaining about other people, refusing to generalize the experience, and refusing empathize with the person they're complaining about. That's boring!

Perhaps relatedly, I've recently been thinking that maybe I should put a little more work into consciously deciding if a conversant is interesting to me, and then choosing to pursue a boorish strategy or a collaborative strategy appropriately (perhaps erring on the side of collaborative). I've definitely had some totally boring people recently exclaim how fun I am to talk to and how much they'd like to hang out more in the future. Oops. It's probably imprudent, though, to attempt this strategy in groups with more than one other person present.
Reminds me of my pokemon card days in elementary school. I started with ~5 cards a friend gave me and somehow traded up to a deck of 400-500 with a decent amount of holographics too.

The only time I ever bought cards were a couple booster packs, but that was after I already had 200 some.

Good times.

The art of trading comes from knowing that value is relative, you just need to find the people who want what you have more than others.
Wow. All of these features are auctually pretty neat. Now let me "save" comments and block/hide certain users. Good work, can't wait to see how this works out.
Congratulations WakeMate on making it this far. I fully understand how very hard it is to create a hardware product, it takes much longer than you expect to get to the great quality level that hardware requires.
I love that the cadence of "DuckDotCo" is the same as for "DuckDuckGo."
[From OP:] Thanks for the feedback. I definitely understand your point of view when it comes to dense text.

I just edited the blog posting to specify that a reader can use Adobe Reader's two-up page display so as to see two pages at once.
Then none of it is true altruism.

I'm not saying it's a bad thing; however, as a technicality, altruism isn't the correct word.