skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks! It makes such a difference speaking to someone who's actually done it. Not theoretical.

I guess you must have been relatively near civilization - at least a town. Can I ask how much money it took... and how much you think it would take today?

I think it depends a lot on the land, which seems relatively expensive here in Australia; if you want water, electricity and sewage utilities. I get the impression there's very cheap land in some places in the States.
"If you’re aren’t getting rejected on a daily basis, your goals aren’t ambitious enough."

Does that include getting downvotes on HN? ;)
> Sadly this kind of spatial organization ability is mostly lacking in computer interfaces,

Siracusa’s writing on that is worth a read (relevant bits start at page 2):

http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2003/04/finder.ars
I feel a little proud when I can _remove_ code. Does that count?
Except that you can physically segregate it from the public network... or even the majority of your internal LAN/WAN.

Private clouds will only continue to gain momentum in the enterprise, especially as they become easier to deploy & manage.
Has Yahoo’s CEO Wrecked the Valley’s Most Valuable Chinese Relationship?
Yeah it is
Another angle is to try living this ideal life for a month or so. It might be difficult to pretend, because you can't 100% relax into it, but it might alert you to things you need you hadn't realized (eg. social); or, contrariness, give you a boost of motivation to do whatever it takes to secure it (eg work to save a little more money; research etc.)

It's just that idea of starting small, as a way to get started and get more information, more confidence (from having some progress), and get the blood flowing through acting on your vision.

BTW: lutsp is in the thread, who's actually done this (see his link to his shack.)
The most common complaints I've seen are that Gimp isn't Photoshop - meaning PS users who move to it dislike it due to the multi-window UI, 'wrong' key combinations.

I actually used Gimp before PS and from my perspective the only things it really misses are layer groups and layer styles. For PS users there is Gimp Shop[1] which attempts to "deweirdify" the UI to something more reminiscent of PS.

[1]: http://gimpshop.com
The reason this period was so useful was that it helped me develop a really thick skin.

Another reason is that a high volume of rejections is just another form of stepwise refinement. OP may not have realized it, but he probably got much better over time. It's a good idea to not personalize rejections. It's a better idea to use them as data in order to improve.
The first meetings about Chrome were held in 2006.

The entire project is based on Apple's WebKit, which was a cross-platform, arguably best-of-breed browser toolkit on the day they started.

Lars Bak, the architect of V8, has been working on language technologies since the early 90s, including Smalltalk.

A key Chrome team member, Ben Goodger, had already been working on browsers since the Netscape era, and was an early participant in Firefox.

There really are no miracles in software. People used to talk about "Netscape time" or marvel at how Google seemed to come out of nowhere. But even in those cases you can see how prior to those projects becoming household words, they had a long gestation period, during which time they were protected from competition. Netscape included a lot of people from the earlier NCSA Mosaic effort. Google was an academic project that, as an economic entity, grew up in the sheltering shadow of Yahoo.

I'm not saying these people didn't work hard, or aren't brilliant, or don't deserve their success. It's just that whenever you see someone moving much faster than is normally considered possible, don't assume that it's only due to skill. It's far more likely that they had some history of working on the problem, for far longer than you think.
That's the right general direction. You need to deal with the transition though, jumping straight from all A to an average of A and B will cause artefacts.
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Yes, why not. My point is that Chrome has no clear cut "starting date". It's the culmination of multiple teams over multiple time periods.

To compare its progress with IE's over the last two years is a little dishonest, as many of the things that IE is doing now were implemented in WebKit before Chrome's release. It's essentially writing off a huge stretch of time in Chrome's code's history.
this is amazing, the best search tool for HN. Very helpful.
You have to ask yourself, what would Warren Buffet do? If you look at Demand Media not as an IPO to speculate on, but as something to own because you understand how they profit and you believe in what they do, then all I see is a big red stop sign.
http://github.com/mitsuhiko/flask
http://flask.pocoo.org/

and explore:
http://github.com/repositories
This is exactly the same issue I had with the article about Foxconn, specifically the OP extracting a single sentence from a multi-page article and pasting it here without a shred of commentary. I can't stand copy-paste without any additional information or opinion being shared. It defeats the purpose of a forum.

p.s. I was downmodded at least -9 when I posted a similar reply to yours.
I couldn't read it in its current form. Readability redux really does a good job making it easier to read.
Instead of IPOs, startups look to be acquired
Depending on context, specificity (some students may not be student developers) or nothing. In this particular context, likely nothing. At the time I posted, the only options were "[Business|Tech] Founder" and "VC/Investor." I have only ever encountered one student who was also a founder.
awesome! I liked the nice and clean UI. Even if the coder himself says it is ugly in his about page :)
Jane Fonda: 'Do You Know Who I Am?'

http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_fonda_restaurant.ht...
Misleading abridged title.

The second sentence of the original advice was, "If something gets in your way, turn." Removing it from the title turns good advice into wrong advice.

Something will always get in your way, no matter how fast you go. So the faster you go the more important Sentence 2 becomes.

Like your race car, when your business doesn't have a steering wheel, things can't turn out well.
The problem with this attitude:

> So if something gets in our way while doing that, well, we're not gonna fight you. We'll just turn. And keep going forward, really fast. Which is why those clones better move quick if they want to keep up with.

Is that you can gloss over really valuable opportunities because you perceive them as being hard.

Startups get so hung up on releasing features ("we deploy thrice a day!!") for the sake of features, that they forget to ask if they're valuable (and to whom.)

Going for "low hanging fruit" of features works insanely well, but I think eventually you need to stretch your arms else you'll start using the wrong metrics for your company (eg: version numbers as opposed to engagement.)

I see startups all the time not want to compete with better funded / larger companies / better branded companies and shift to do something else, for reasons that can only be explained as lack of confidence / fear of failing at it. a) product markets are rarely winner takes all (Stack Exchange platform is not a winner take all service), b) winners don't win forever (eg: eBay?), c) if someone is that entrenched and you're terrified of attacking them - no one else will dare, so they won't expect it.

Failing (iterating) fast is a great attitude, but only when you change for the right reason. My concern with always changing away from barriers is that eventually you end up with a really dumb proposition, and when you question why it's because you iterated so fast without stopping and thinking "is this good?"
Not against a capable attacker (who prevents your laptop from getting on the internet).
New Yorker - Dangerous Minds: Criminal profiling made easy
Galaxy Tab (not quite production) review
Interestingly, Heinlein addressed this issue in his 1940 short story "Let There Be Light": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_There_Be_Light_%28short_sto...

However, 10ren's comment is much more likely to be apropos to your situation. Also check out the works of Clayton Christensen if you aren't already intimately familiar with them (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clayton_M._Christensen).
This comment is pretty much what I was going to say, but let me drive it home:

For someone like you, you will not learn anything in fluffy courses. Your goal in college should be to become "certified impressive" and the way you do that is by taking on a major well known to be hard. Generally that means hard science, physics is a good choice.

Once you are certified impressive in a difficult subject, you will have maximized the credentialing value of college, while dodging a lot of the fluffy bullshit other, less rigorous departments would put you through.
Rather than wiping the results and re-inserting the new ones after each character is added it would look better if individual results were pulled out and inserted in the correct location. Some times the results don't change between key presses yet there is still a momentary flash where they're removed and re-added.

It would also be nice if it degraded gracefully for non-js browsers. Like Google search does.
If you cannot see that interacting with CBP officers is "social interaction", then I don't see where we can ever come to any agreement. And if you were not there and if there is also no videotape of the interaction, I don't see how you can assert with any certainty that he was not being rude at all. As I stated above, the vast majority of such things is conveyed not by words but by voice tone, body language, facial expression and so on. As far as I know, the only account of the incident is from his point of view. Perhaps the CBP officers have gotten together and written their own account, but so far I have seen no mention of it (and I consider that unlikely as it could potentially cost them their jobs -- security jobs typically require you to generally keep your mouth shut). His writing tone and his framing of things (that these people are "thugs" who deserve to be treated a certain way by him for, apparently, not simply up and quitting their jobs as proof that they don't agree with ...whatever he is taking issue with) doesn't give me much confidence that he wasn't rude in some way.

For that matter: Most people cannot up and quit their jobs. Having a job is not strong evidence that someone wholeheartedly supports and believes in all policies and practices of their place of employment. In many cases, it is only evidence that they prefer putting up with the crap at work to putting up with the alternatives (such as homelessness). Even in cases where someone does strongly disagree with what goes on at work, most people cannot afford to simply up and quit and there may be little they can do to change it while they are there. If they really feel strongly about it, they typically begin job hunting and leave as soon as is practicable without cutting their own throats. Additionally, if they have any sense, afterwards they tend to keep their mouths shut about the things they did not approve of. Talking trash about a former employer can be a good way to ensure that other people will be reluctant to hire you.

He makes snide remarks about the "low pay" of these people in a way which strikes me as classist and then makes even uglier remarks about how they deserve his treatment for not up and quitting which he claims they can do "at any time". He damns them coming and going, which does nothing to convince me he was even civil. Everything he wrote paints a picture of an individual with a chip on their shoulder who is actively looking to create such a confrontation. In his own words: "But that’s a small price to pay to remind these thugs that their powers are limited and restricted." So his stated goal was not to simply exercise his rights. His stated goal was to "teach them a lesson", in essence. That kind of goal is generally rife with unstated hostility.
I keep my /home partition encrypted with LUKS, which is where all my source, binaries I have had to compile myself, and even virtual machines live. I have found the overhead to be negligible for the most part and have only really noticed kcryptd using lots of cycles when doing extremely intensive operations on files. Even moving files between one encrypted volume to another over a LAN has not been cumbersome.
Also, you should try to force the browser vertical scroll bar to be on permanently. When typing using Firefox just now the scrollbar kept appearing and disappearing which made the position of various on screen elements jump from side to side as the viewport size changed.
I think this is partially right. The assumption that if dozens of VCs are rejecting you it's because "you aren't ambitious enough" is probably a great blog post title but poor advice for a startups execution ...

In reality it's because you don't check a checkbox, and the value for you is to: a) develop resilience to rejection (always great) and b) ascertain what you didn't articulate that meant that you didn't check the appropriate checkbox. Finding out how is quite hard, but insanely valuable. (eg: we once got rejected by an investor for reasons of our market being perceived as too small, after hearing this it was obvious there was confusion in our story, we iterated on our story a few times and that concern was removed)

The kind of rejection that'll make you give up is when users reject your product, I'm blown away this isn't discussed ever here.
Camille Paglia on Revalorizing the Trades
I don't like how the results are refreshed ... it should load the results in a hidden div or something, then swap, and it should put a delta between refreshes ... I would have a second elapsed between 2 result sets displayed.

The indexer doesn't do a very good job, e.g. I searched for "mono" and only 4 results have been shown. Here's the Google index: http://www.google.ro/search?q=mono+site:news.ycombinator.com

Also, the address bar should be refreshed with the query searched because the URI has to be a permalink.

Otherwise, it's awesome.
Nice.
But, check that some results are repeated. For example, when searching for "android ", http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1506909 and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1332153 are listed twice.
Founders are pretty determined, I'm pretty sure if an IPO was their metric of success, you'd see a lot more IPOs.
why bother? because google, for example, will use some of the annotations:

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answe...
Yep. Your code ends up looking like the output of a continuation-passing transform, with every kind of sequential composition involving nested callbacks. It feels quite low-level and clunky and is one of the things I like least about writing Javascript on the browser.

Another thing is, when you go async, you're essentially giving up on using the language runtime's stack for most purposes. With that, you lose some useful functionality (useful stack traces, exceptions bubbling up).
I see it as a kind of Switzerland that will draw from all camps in a way that other languages/frameworks haven't.
What worries me about it is simply the fact that just a few single-bit errors can make the entire disk unusable. Backup, backup, backup!
He should have mentioned Lisp, along with some other languages. However, I don't know how intentional that was, but he only mentioned languages used by the first kind of snobs -- those who are not familiar with great number of tools. Of course, I'm oversimplifying, but I'm sure that average Lisp, Smalltalk or Haskell programmer have used more languages than average C++, Java or PHP.
Two images with different exposures will have higher dynamic range than can be represented on a (normal) computer screen. To "correct" the over/underexposed bits would require a different colorspace. It looks like the idea in the article is to reduce the dynamic range until it fits the "standard" sRGB colorspace. But once you have the two images, there are many ways to re-combine them. Some are more "realistic", others are garish. The process is called tone mapping. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tone_mapping
I get only 4 results for node.js
When integrating with the Twitter API, which do you prefer? JSON or XML?
The whole post went off track, and fast, when Jeff had to trollishly add in the Android bit near the end--

"The Google Android project is another example. Android doesn't have to be better than the iPhone (and it most definitely isn't; it's been mediocre at best until recent versions). They just need to be faster at improving. Google is pushing out Froyos and Gingerbreads and Honeycombs with incredible, breakneck speed. Yes, Apple has indisputably better taste -- and an impeccably controlled experience."

Jeff's judgment on Android versus iPhone is utterly and absolutely irrelevant, and strongly diminishes his post.

Of course the entire post was utterly vacuous (really, top of HN? "Evolve" is now a comment of such insight that it teaches HN something?), so the Android troll was just par for the course.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1677334
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It's true that choosing some other words besides "none of your business" would probably have helped him a little.

Your point is that being perhaps even particularly polite in situations like this would reduce the potential for trouble for yourself, but the author's aim was just to make a stand. It's actually a pretty noble goal, to do that on behalf of pretty much everyone else, who would just meekly comply.

I think something like "Good afternoon officer, how are you?" is even a bit excessive, although maybe it's become more like necessary when traveling in the US, which seems to be quite a police state nowadays.

What was it like at airports before 9/11? Exactly what benefit does the TSA actually provide? Why can't I bring a freaking bottle of water with me at pretty much any airport in the world anymore? -Why doesn't it matter if I volunteer to take a sip of my explosive liquids in front of the guards?
Ask HN: Evening and weekend startups - how confident were you?
I have been working for a few months of evenings and weekends on a web app. The app first and foremost scratches my own itch - but I know for sure that it fixes problems with pre-existing competition, so I know there is a potential market for it as many of the pre-existing competition are freemium products (my intention also).

For further validation, the company I work for between 9am and 5pm uses their own in-house version of my product, which is also flawed in ways which mean it is not used properly. This results is lots of confusion (resulting confusion is the cause of a team meeting last week and an upcoming team meeting next month) no doubt resulting in financial loss in terms of wasted work hours.

For these reasons I am happy that my product has a place and is worth money; but for those of you who have been in my position and done it - how confident were you in your product before you went live?

My ultimate aim financially is to make enough money to reduce my reliance on my salary for those luxury purchases that I don't make at the moment. Is there a way to know if I'm wasting my time, or does this just come with time and experience?

Thanks guys, I'd appreciate any insight!
However, our ability to fight cancer is also getting better and better, and likely will not be a serious issue in the long term.

I, for one, would be happy to trade longer life for a higher risk of cancer. As a reasonably healthy person today, I'm pretty sure that by the time cancer as a result of longer life became an issue (say, around the year 2040-50 in my case), the cancer itself would be easily treatable by other means.
The whole paragraph is a meaningless orthogonal assertion. Jeff wanted to say "look at how Android has progressed", but somehow go waylaid into defending his historic strong iPhone bias, destroying whatever example he might be making.

However, to your point, discarding "tastefulness" as meaningless subjectivity, yes of course you can iterate towards a better, more attractive, more usable user experience.

Anyone who has lived with Android through 1.x on to 2.x and finally to 2.2 would say that many elements have absolutely improved dramatically -- constant usage provides feedback that refines design, while simply having time and resources provides the avenue to implement more advanced UI elements.

And during that time Google has added a number of UI and design experts to the team (again, time and focus: It actually matters now, whereas before they got the core product it didn't). It does seem to be paying off.
That's definitely true. The grandparent poster was referring to Patrick's top-ranked comment on http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1599181 , which dealt mainly with how amortization of Demand Media's acquisitions requires them to amortize each acquisition's costs as a quarterly charge over the next ten years. A similar point is made by John Batelle in the Wired article, and is another reason why non-GAAP measures like EBITDA that exclude amortization are widely used.

This doesn't say very much about whether Demand Media is profitable once you exclude amortization, but it is an important thing to consider.
Pretty good these, the same people also do this series:
http://sixtysymbols.com/

I studied Physics @ Nottingham so pretty cool to see my lecturers getting involved!
Having only 1 point annotated means that you can't tell the scale of the graph. Are those little tiny changes over time, or extremely massive ones?

I can't imagine anything I would find this useful for, and if I tried to use it for something for management, they'd ask the scale as their first question.
It doesn't have predictions.
Is Jeff actually using the version numbers of Chrome as evidence of how fast they move?

They release often yes but the Chrome team recently announced they'll be bumping the major version number for every release now. The version number isn't that significant, its arbitrary.
Ask HN: Advantages of using dropbox over google apps?
Considering I can edit multiple file types in google apps and access them from anywhere and share them with anyone, what are the advantages of using dropbox over google apps?
followup: there's a great expression "throw it over the fence", for how IBM researchers used to commercialize their research. Here's some tech, whatever, seeya. (the fabled PARC labs seemed and microsoft research seems to be similar). An example of what happened is relational databases: invented at IBM, but commercialized by Oracle. You might say that Oracle is the baddie in this, but commercializing it here only made them money because they turned the tech into something people wanted. So, as far as benefiting the world goes, what they did was crucial. [according to Larry Ellison, the thing they did was make the nice theoretical idea fast enough, which nobody believed was possible - but what founders say is invariably - necessarily - part-PR, so I always take it with a grain of salt. I like a good story though.]

This interview (transcript) gives an idea of the process of adaption (for Enterprise software) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1671852

BTW if all this seems overwhelming, you only have to do one step at a time, then you have some feedback to give you 1. information, 2. confidence and 3. energy for the next step. Activity in itself - even if it fails - gets your blood moving, and that's helpful.
> mention that you're not able to paste the exact code because of confidentiality with the previous employer

as an interviewer I'd be skeptical if the interviewee not only was secretive about his/her code, but had no pet projects or toy scripts lying about.

I think it's a great question because not only do you get a quick sense for how people code, but the response choice itself gives you some insight in to how people think and what gets them excited about hacking.
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