skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This would make sense, society tends to disfavor the different, as the tendency to "do what others do" is so deeply ingrained that anyone different in a less than obviously beneficial way is outcasted.

If you're talking about the "mad genius" types, who struggle to cope with internal conflict, I'd agree as well. Ultimately, the requirement in this context for an "idea coming to fruition" would simply require that the person cares about everyone hearing their theory, or the benefit to the world that might result.
I thought about this a while a back, and as ridiculous as their TV ads are, I do believe they serve a purpose: getting members of the general public to start with go daddy when they want to create a website. I’d wager a significant portion of their revenue isn’t from domain registration, and instead from all the extra services they offer, and first-timers are likely the main customers of these services. As ridiculous as the commercials are, they do get the general public's attention and drive first-timers to go daddy’s services.
Correlation does not strictly mean causation. Our statistics professor brought this example once, he explained it that people who don't drink (in a western society) have often problems with their health or are taking medication. Statistics could be often misleading.

Another example was that people with bigger feet were more likely to be earn more money. Guess why?
Chrome was built for Windows. Mac OS X was not supported until Version 5. Why use Chrome on Mac OS X when there's another good Webkit browser there by default?
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I like the app - seems pretty cool.

But what's the business here if all the storage is handled by Google?
I didn't go.

My decision was in some sense made for me, in that I didn't have the grades to go anywhere attractive to me.

Here's my scattershot take on this:

(a) 15 years later, I feel pretty lucky about this set of circumstances. The four years I would have lost to school were really good years to be in the industry.

(b) There are jobs that will care that you don't have a degree. But they are, by and large, jobs you don't want. This is especially true 5 years into your career, when most of the reasonable companies will open those roles up based on your experience.

(c) I coded when I was a teenager, but I had absolutely no appreciation for computer science. I was profoundly fortunate to have been drawn into a field that requires CS (software security); it forced me to pick up compiler theory, computer architecture, and distributed systems, and made me a systems programmer, which forced me to pick up data structures. My point here is, skipping school puts you at extreme risk of being a lifelong PHP or game dev, and you should be at pains to find roles that will keep that from happening.

(d) Almost everything I've managed to achieve has been a result of the people I've managed to work with. Words like "badass" and "awesome" are not conducive to learning from people who are smarter than you, which is basically the path you're choosing.

(e) You're not old enough to know that you'll want to be in startups your whole life. Realize that while you have a ~5-6 year window within which you can opt back in to college, you will hit a point in your late 20's where that becomes much harder. You will inevitably regret opting out. That doesn't mean you shouldn't do it, but if you can't foresee that regret, you should at least respect how little insight you have right now and factor that in.

PS: If you don't have the self-discipline to craft a tolerable role at a "big corporation", you're probably not ready to make decisions like this on your own. There's a lot of negative things to be said about BigCo work, but entrepreneurial work is harder. This is a genuinely terrible reason not to get an engineering degree.
How does it handle complexly formatted documents? That's one of my main complaints of Google Docs (and main reason why I still use Office 2007 for all of my "serious" word processing needs).
exactly. You just need to change getaway time from 5 seconds to 20 and the thief looks for an easier target. Like running from the bear a little faster than your fellow campers.
Keep in mind one thing. College isn't valuable for the collection of facts that you accumulate in the same way that armed forces basic training isn't just to teach people who will be running through tires and climbing ropes.

"Getting through it", "finishing stuff" and learning how to teach yourself are what makes college worthwhile. If you're using a different scorecard, you may be overlooking value.
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Dropbox killer is a bit dramatic. This seems to focus on syncing with Google Docs and desktop apps, Dropbox's aim is much more broad. I would venture to guess Dropbox already has something like this in the works as a feature.
The Google Docs folder is the only part where storage is handled by Google. Folders outside of that can be shared and/or synced and their storage is handled by Insync.
How is it a slam on the U.S. when corporations are playing on a global field (i.e. it's cheaper to produce in another country) and the workers cannot (i.e. no equivalent freedom of movement or, in many places, freedom of unionizing). While some of this is about automation, more of it is about cheap labor and a lack of regulations provided by other countries.
Can I ask where did You get information on all HN submissions? Did You just scrape the web site for all IDs from 0 to 1683584 or so?
I have to say - I don't particularly like Google docs - I'd really like to, but I find the document editing clumsy enough to put me off.

DropBox works pretty well - I like the fact it syncs files on all of the machines I have it set up for rather than storing stuff purely in the cloud and downloading it when I want to look at it (although that is what their iPhone app does, and I can see why).

The DropBox model of sync'ed local files and local apps just seems to work better for me than keeping everything (files and apps) in the cloud - YMMV.
This is for when you work with people who use MS Office.

"hey bro, install Insynchq"

That's it; you can stay in Google Docs, and they can stay in MS Office. Look ma, no manual document re-uploading needed!
It is ironic that the Indian Tablet would run an OS that does not support it's languages (Devanagari, Tamil, Telugu, Gurumukhi, Bengali, the list goes on). Perhaps they should take on Microsoft's offer of running CE on it for free.
The FBI and NSA are two very, very different organizations. NSA is a feeder for software security talent in private industry. I have never even heard of someone coming out of the FBI knowing how to break into a computer. NSA people want to leave the agency to write a string of journal articles or to make a couple million bucks. FBI people want to leave the bureau to become Assistant District Attorneys. Infosec literacy in the FBI boils down to knowing how to use EnCase.

I responded to this same comment with more details that I won't repeat, but, with respect, I'd suggest not taking seriously the crypto insights of someone who equates these two agencies.

The fact that only one organization in the US Government is likely to be able to break your disk encryption isn't a moot point, because that one organization is extremely unlikely to harass a US citizen; forget the law, the simple incentives are all wrong.
The Google Docs sync is one of our features. There's a list on our homepage with screenshots – http://insynchq.com
For starters, it's not business yet - there's no money coming in, except funding. Second, they will do very well as long as Google tolerate them messing with GMail UI. So, it's a feature - yes, a clever hack - yes, but not really a sustainable business.
I would say that one of the biggest challenges is going to be maintaining a healthy body in a zero gravity environment. Not sure how long the longest stay at the Space Station has been, but does it even come close to 500 days?
Yes go. I wish people would please stop posting this exact same question every 30 days on HN.
I use dropbox for a full autobackup and sync, with no thought beyond initial 30 sec configuration, across all 6 of the machines I use regularly. The advantage is that I don't have to think about it-at setup or at use time.

I also find it indispensable as a coder, sure I use version control and save regularly, but I do make mistakes. Just recently I had worked an hour or so on a new class for a recent iPhone app, saving and committing merrily along the way, when I made a mistake and deleted the .m/.h files. Turns out I missed adding it to the repo. I fired up dropbox and got the backup within seconds. Other times I've used it to revert back to previous versions of documents not traditionally kept under version control.

I haven't used Google Apps in the same sense, although I do use Google Docs for collaborative realtime editing and easy form creation.
What's with the downvoting?
Funny, but calling something a "DropBox Killer" can easily backfire. It just reinforces Dropbox's position as the leader.

Someone who doesn't understand all the technology might not be able to distinguish features and prefer to go with the established entrenched leader (as confirmed by you!) over something 5% better that might not be here 6 months from now. Just a thought.
This article, similar to "The Web Is Dead", is about nothing more than link baiting. Wired has been going down hill as of late.
Anything done on paper/email could be the work of someone else. The first thing we then do in interview is give the person a disk-less, internet-less machine and get them to write FizzBuzz. As they do it we get them to talk about their usual dev environment.

Once they've done that we move on to discussing the code they sent.

All these things are purely to weed out the complete time-wasters. From the remainder, we then try to find someone who can design, code, document and collaborate.
My biggest gripe with FileVault is that it doesn't fully support Time Machine backups. Online backups (hourly) are completely disabled. To perform a backup you need to shutdown/restart, and then sit waiting for it to finish. Annoying if you're a laptop user ready to travel elsewhere with your laptop.

Also it breaks the Time Machine browser. If you want to do a restore, you must mount the data backup manually and find the file(s) you want to restore through Finder. Definately not elegant or very user friendly.

Some apps do have minor glitches with FileVault. IIRC, Firefox wouldn't remember certain settings if you used it with a FileVault-enabled account (not sure if this has changed in recent versions).
Do you really want to give yourselves the same name as a boy band from 10 years ago?
Sure but that's just because of faster, in order CPU's and faster execution time due to JIT. Still a "brute force" solution.
You've clearly never had cancer. I too considered myself a "reasonably healthy person" and was surprised to get diagnosed at 32 with stage 4 lymphoma. I've had it and done the chemo and come out the other side (for now). My cancer is one of the more treatable ones (>80% survival over 5 years), the chemo one of the lesser ones (R-CHOP). Even so it was one of the most difficult experiences in my life.

Trading a probability of longer life for a higher probability of cancer is just stupid. Most cancer treatments have the potential to (dramatically) shorten your life -- i.e. the combined probabilities probably don't work out in your favor.

Make the time you have count.
How is this fundamentally different then SugarSync, or SpiderOak? There are at least 50 cloud storage apps all vying for the same market - why is this any better?
Go.

You will learn more than you think. I started programming at 7 and still learned a great deal in some of my CS classes. College will round you out as an individual. Sure, some classes will feel like a monumental waste of time, but just interpret that as part of the character building process.

A college degree is the basis of any career and really is the high school diploma of the 21st century. You will meet people, open up networks, and learn about things you never knew you were interested in.

I experienced a lot of frustration in college because I felt a lot of classes were remedial and unchallenging and many of my professors were terrible educators, but, as a whole, it was a very rewarding experience.
Pretty shocking. What sites don't verify emails in 2020?
Regarding the FBI, "almost certainly yes"

You need to add "assuming you are willing to go to jail" because a warrant can compel you to disclose your password, and if you refuse you'll be jailed for contempt of court.
Really? Maybe I missed the train but I wouldn't produce something that needs serious formatting in Office. I would imagine a language like LaTeX or even Markdown would be a better choice for seamless sharing between applications and the web?
Yeah. Knowing you have the option of getting out - and that earth is just a few metres away - must have a huge impact on the state of mind of the participants. It cannot compare to the feeling of isolation knowing that you are in a tiny tin can separated from home by 50 million miles of howling void and many months or even years of travel time. I'd be very interested to know how they controlled for this in their studies, if at all.

A better simulation would be to dump them on some remote artic ice sheet where they actually can't get back. Or on the moon :)

Edit: in terms of psychological data, I'd imagine that the long flights of some cosmonauts on Mir were a better case study.
Since I've taken up light drinking almost entirely for the health benefits, and since I don't drink socially, I hope this hypothesis isn't really the answer. The other day when a co-worker was trying to get me to go to a scotch tasting, he said, "What, do you only drink at home, alone, in the dark?!" I replied that it wasn't usually dark... :)
It's funny that this shares the HN front page with this Wired piece today, proving many of the Times' points: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1683618

Despite the ridiculous punctuation and formatting, and Indianized English, its really refreshing to get a different perspective. Just pinch and zoom;)
People don't seem to care for the tagline: "a Dropbox Killer"
I am a beta user and a die-hard Google Docs user. I found Insynchq immensily useful when working with MS Office shops; you just tell them to install the client and they will never have to email you a document again. Edits, deletions, etc. everything is kept track of without you having to move from version to version.
Dropbox is good if you want to have local copies of files (perhaps because you go offline once in a while), or if you want these files to be synced in different computers, or if those files need to be edited/viewed with software that does not live in the cloud or if you want to automatically keep the different versions of files (a new version stored every time you save the file)

Google Docs is great if you need to synchronously edit documents with other people. You can upload and download files to Google Apps but as far as I know there is no cross-platform file syncing client that does what Dropbox does.
Not just phones, there's plenty of Apple laptops for example that don't use the H.264 acceleration built in to their GPU.

It's also a fact of life for many using Linux.
Some Artic expeditions in the 19th century were stuck in the ice for years at a time when trying to find the North West Passage. One of the expeditions led by John Ross was stuck for four years:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ross_%28Arctic_explorer%29

An excellent book about this is: "Barrow's Boys: A Stirring Story of Daring, Fortitude, and Outright Lunacy"

http://www.amazon.com/Barrows-Boys-Stirring-Fortitude-Outrig...
Ask HN: Startup Salaries in different cities?
Hey so I work for a startup in Durham, NC and make a good living for this area, however the salary I make here would be breaking me if it was the same in New York.

Are salaries for startups are more inelastic than those of other companies, when it comes to location? Would the same job at similar startups get paid more in New York than in North Carolina?
It's basically the equivalent of Python, Perl, Ruby, etc. It completely fits into that same niche as an interpreted dynamic language with OO capabilities. It's nowhere near as elegant as Ruby or Python, but similar concepts can be expressed with +-35% lines of code. So no, it's not actually low level at all. You don't have to do memory management. You don't have to declare variables. Arrays are not fixed sizes. It is compiled to intermediate bytecode... etc.
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Here is the URL.

https://www.insynchq.com/

InsyncHQ (as in head quarters)
just having fun...
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If the attack vector is petty theft the following would be more than sufficient:

* Encrypt the user data portion of the hd.

* Password protect the bios, hard drive (if it has that capability in the bios.), and the OS accounts.

* Keep account passwords and account information in an additional password protected store (such as 1password).

* Don't save sensitive data in web browsers or other autocomplete programs.

Encrypting the whole hard drive, in my experience, is a huge pain in the ass; particularly for disaster recovery. For non-IT department systems it's not worth it.
google "remote pair programming tools" and "online whiteboard". Also look at the things people are using zeroMQ, AMQP/rabbitMQ, node.js for

examples for whiteboard:

http://www.smashingapps.com/2010/01/05/11-amazing-free-web-a...

http://vis.renci.org/jeff/2009/08/26/open-sourcing-the-big-b...

http://lifehacker.com/5503537/woobius-eye-makes-online-commu...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=951621
Complete abstinence from alcohol is also correlated with lower education level and poverty. People with less certainty and control over their lives are more likely to distrust alcohol, justifiably -- the risk that comes with it is more serious for them.
In both of these cases, you're in there with hundreds of others. You can decide you're mad at dozens of them, and still find new people to talk to. When it's for a crew of six, you're pretty much dependent on staying on good terms with everybody.
Noah has a way with words :)

We love Dropbox and I actually met Drew in Startup School last year. Funny story but at that time, we were just beginning to reverse engineer Finder on SL and Drew basically said (paraphrasing) "It's a bitch." We found out that he was right.

Anyways, we think that it's a pretty big market.

Edit: Thanks Noah for changing the title.
more popular than i thought i was.
I have one question:

Can I get a beta invite?
Establishing your reputation before you launch
oh, and just for completeness, the quotation in its original form:

« Il semble que la perfection soit atteinte non quand il n’y a plus rien à ajouter, mais quand il n’y a plus rien à retrancher. Au terme de son évolution, la machine se dissimule. »

or in the not-quite-literal translation by Galantière:

“In anything at all, perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness”
I suppose, if you want to be disqualified for plagiarism. No different than handing in someone else's work for college.
Not me but deserves attention: http://www.wings3d.com/

"Wings 3D is a subdivision modeller with an user interface that is easy to use for both beginners and advanced users"
A bit off-topic: that page looks awful.
I'm a bit confused by the concept. Why would I want my documents to sync to gDocs – when I already have gDocs that handles all the syncing? Sell me!

* I don't even worry about offline access anymore, since I'm basically never offline.

* I can share a document in real-time over gDocs.

* The only reason I have now to keep a document out of gDocs is formatting issues. Since these documents are synced to gDocs, I'll likely loose all the formatting.
Thanks Mahmud for not just posting the link but helping us review our backend gratis! Cool guy!
I'd love that. They'd need to significantly speed Search YC up for that to work though. A search that doesn't require hitting enter but takes 5 seconds to give results isn't very satisfying.

I really love Search YC, but it's so slow. I wonder if we could do some kind of kickstarter campaign to get them better infrastructure (assuming better infrastructure would fix it without significant code optimizations). Or maybe someone could donate servers? Maybe lsc, since he runs a hosting company, though his margins are probably fairly low even without giving away hosting.

And even if it needs optimizations, if they OSSed it, I bet HN users could make that happen too.
I've seen this on some job descriptions/applications. Yes, it was from a company that has problems with clarity of though, originality, and generally everything.

Most likely linking to a web site about a project you participated in of which you are proud would be more thorough.
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Oops, not sure how I missed that.
Just one simple comment: the app name and URL do not match which can be an issue for adoption. I would consider an app name where you can match the two. Tricky to do these days but worth it IMO.
In which part of the world is it correlated?
It doesn't just breaks GMail UI, but it hides the precious ADS panel.

Unfortunately I (and everyone concerned about privacy) won't let anyone beyond google "reading" my inbox.
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Windows phone 7 seems super smooth and has a gc. But Microsoft has modified to gc behavior to limit interruptions. There is no reason the gc needs to be firing during ui scrolls. Google should be able to do the same. From http://blogs.msdn.com/b/abhinaba/archive/2010/07/29/windows-... :

1. GC is not run on some timer. So if a process is not allocating any memory and there is no low-memory situation then GC will never be fired irrespective of how long the application is running

2. The phone is never woken up by the CLR to run GC. GC is always in response to an active request OR allocation failure OR low memory notification.

3. In the same lines there is no GC thread or background GC on WP7
Insynchq has desktop clients for Windows, Mac and iPhone, and a client API. It can be used for document synching for things other than Google Docs, you can use it for asset management if you're a graphics designer, iterating through versions and allowing a client to see changes immediately. You can use it for synching and sharing any other documents as well.

How is that a mere hack?
rsync + fuse + s3 is a dropbox killer. If you don't care about web and fancy iphone apps.
Hmm, I'm quite surprised. For sure, high levels of alcoholism are correlated with poverty and lack of education. Random study:

"In the weighted model, a one-unit increase in neighborhood poverty at the prior examination was associated with a 86% increase in the odds of binging"

http://journals.lww.com/epidem/Abstract/2010/07000/The_Relat...

Anecdotally, all the cases of alcohol abuse I hear about tend to be in disadvantaged homes.
I guess you're right, but they look like uzis enough for me, and is otherwise a compact submachine gun.

What I'm referring to specifically is this, I believe: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heckler_%26_Koch_MP5
Umm 2020?

Interesting story though, and one more thing that would make me concerned about having a FB account.
It depends on your use case. Personally, I use Google Docs and Office.

But beyond that, it handles syncing and sharing outside of the GDocs folder. The feature set is actually quite broad.
Didn't realize the account was made only a few hours ago, so I guess that's not a great sign. I was giving him the benefit of the doubt that he was asking for non-confidential examples of the work out of genuine interest, but maybe that's a little naive on my part.