skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's pretty easy to coach someone to be successful the big problem is whether or not they really want to be successful. Most people have a list of excuses a mile long as to why they aren't successful. People have little desire to be successful for the most part they strive towards mediocrity. Being able to express yourself clearly and concisely is essential for success.

Even in myself I recognize a bunch of traits that are holding me back, and every week I evaluate how I'm progressing on those issues.

I'm not trying to be a sophist, however, the impression you leave on people is who you are. For the most part the makeup is the model. By the time you've coached someone enough to get them into YC they will be perfectly positioned to be successful.
Well, we pay for looks.
What else do you have passion for? Art? History? Math? Study what you love. If there's nothing in college that you have passion for then dropping out makes sense. Don't study stuff for your profession. There's nothing in college that is likely to prepare you for your job better than just getting a book a month before you need to know something.
Hi Mike, excellent article! One question about sharding, do you find that it reduces High Availability overall, as your uptime depends on the vagaries of additional database servers??
Kickstarter actually has 2 of its own very specific patents. So this article is a bit mis-leading. Kickstarter is in a much better position than this article or the behavior of ArtistShare would seem to indicate. Bottom line ArtistShare. Stop wasting everyone's time and get back to building a great business.
However, the author of the article mentioned that Google is saying Google+ is THE future of the company. In that case, everyone should be using it. It's not "just another" product.
OK, so then the article is inaccurate, correct? I am commenting on the claims made in the article, which if true, are disturbing. If they are not true, then there's nothing to see here and all is fine.
Yet another "yet another 'xxx' is dead post" comment.
The coastal parts of China are first world economies, but parts of China are still effectively 3rd world. It's silly to claim that Chinese workers make "cheap plastic shit". They make high-end electronics, they make industrial equipment, they build ships, they make aerospace components, they even build orbital launch vehicles, communications satellites, and manned spacecraft. There are plenty of sound, factual criticisms of the Chinese government, economy, industry, culture, etc. without having to make things up.
The Emergence of New Parking Software
It's completely fair. It's one thing to simply not use a product (Google+), it's entirely different to actively use a competitors product (Blackberry). I bet there would be hell to pay if Apple execs were walking around using Blackberries and Win Phone 7's.
What’s wrong with Microsoft?
Show HN: Site Face-Off, a "hot or not" for web design
How many applicants were invited for an interview in the last batch?
Ask PG: What happened with the acceptance letters for Startup School?
Were they sent out, and I just didn't receive one, or did you guys not finish looking over the hundreds of applications?

I tried doing some searches regarding it, but there seems to be no buzz regarding it, so I actually even made sure that I had the date right so I wouldn't make a fool of myself by posting this.

Edit: rewording.
Why does someone need to propose an effective solution to policing immorality in order to state that he believes something to be immoral? Simply conveying a story intended to create empathy for hard working individuals making a contribution to society is hazardous? Get off your high horse.

Saying that you believe people have rights that should not be infringed does not mean you haphazardly support the enforcement of those rights in ways that cause more harm than good. I did not recommend that anyone be sued, that anyone be monitored, that anyone be spied upon or any other counter measure. Speaking out against injustice does not always require that you have a well-articulated plan for the foolproof solution to that injustice. The fact that you believe these people have no rights and that defending them is harmful is hazardous.

The simple fact is, for as long as there have been civilizations and law, most have said it is illegal to take something of value from someone else. You say it pertains only to physical goods, a cop out designed to suit your self serving needs.

There are two important facts to remember. The first is that, while taking a copy of something from someone is not theft according to Merriam Webster, if their product is valued and people will pay for it, but you take a copy under false pretenses and make it available for nothing at all, you dilute the value of their property and have stolen value from them. Imagine your investors diluting you down to nothing. They haven't technically taken your shares, but I suspect you don't like too much the results.

Further, while the flow of information and ideas should be free, nobody is infringing on your right to remember a song, take thoughts of it with you, tell other people about it, or even hum that song while you troll the forums. But when you require a physical copy of that song, bits stored on a device, in order to actually remember that "idea", your whole concept of the "flow of information" goes out the window.

You want to spread the idea of a song? Tell someone what it's about. You want a copy of a song for yourself, pay for it. It's as simple as that. I don't need to be a policy maker to voice that this is a principle I value among those people who have the integrity to honor it.
Good point. Should've put "Server-Side JS code" maybe?
I have passion for programming.
Yeah, not your fault. TechCrunch jumped the gun on this story. There was a blip when they updated the servers, but Siri has been working fine since then. However, it is true that if you did not get Siri BEFORE today's announcement, you have to wait for the 4S, because they have pulled Siri from the App Store, which makes sense.

Here's the update that TechCrunch posted recently:

Update: After a brief downtime, the servers came back up.. with a message of their impending demise: “I’ve been replaced! The new Siri is even smarter and better looking than me, and waiting for you on the iPhone 4S. I’ll be leaving for home Oct 15th. Until then…how can I help you?”
Exceptional Ruby
I am also eagerly waiting for the response.
$136M is a really good deal for a distributed file system that actually works and is used by many thousands of companies.
Has there been any point in history with more or less war?
PHP runs a close second
The law is not yet passed, however if it will happen that would be for a little timespan, that would be a good thing to awaken italian people about what the hell is happening in their country :)
Red Hat acquires Gluster for $136M
Wow, someone's been sipping hateorate.
Media bullshit
WebGL Endless Forest
thanks pal...
Smart move, red hat. Gluster is very cool.
Unitasking
Every once in a while I find really intriguing questions on Quora. The last one I found was about Batman...
Hey, curious how you integrate with gmail. Is there an API for that? What lessons learned can you share?
Real iPhone 5 will most likely arrive in early Q3 2012
I actually found the Start menu incredibly useful in Windows 7. Admittedly it was a usage pattern they indicated: I would pin commonly used apps to the Start Menu and would rarely if ever open up beyond that.

I would also use the auto-complete to find things as a second (distant) use case.

One thing that always annoyed me about the Start Menu was how companies would use it. For example, shortcuts notwithstanding I would have to go:

Start > Programs > Firaxis > Civilization IV > Civilization IV Beyond the Sword

The part that really annoyed me was putting the company name in there. I don't care. In fact it may not even be obvious who the company is that makes something you want to use.

I actually bought a copy of Windows 7 retail version for the explicit purpose of using it from computer to computer for years to come, probably in XP-like time frames (ie 5-10 years).

Microsoft needs to realize that these infrequent expensive upgrades (largely for features nobody cares about) are a decade out of date.

Honestly, there's still nothing wrong with XP. Microsoft just went out of their way to kill it by deliberately not supporting it with things they definitely could've. One of the great things about XP was the low resource requirements (minimum 128M of RAM). IIRC 64-bit Windows 7 is at 2GB minimum now. For what exactly?
The Apple Social Network
As a startup, we love how easy MailSlayer makes it to keep track of our customers and conversations.. Love it!
unless Siri has undergone a lot of changes since the last time I looked at it, there is a sharp line between speech recognition and determining user intent/question answering; it was founded as CALO (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CALO), a program which didn't even do speech recognition.

speech recognition maps a space of waveforms onto a space of utterances in a language. determining user intent maps that utterance onto the space of actions.

Siri has done great things in the field of the latter; they license their technology for doing the former from another company.
Anybody that works with Photoshop Layer Styles heavily is going to be pissed off at how inaccurate that is.
Having unprotected sex is a choice.
Not taking birth control is a choice.
Not getting an abortion is a choice.
Making the decision to not have a kid until they are ready is one that anyone can make. Saying that it is a 'luxury' to decide to not have unprotected sex and take birth control is beyond ridiculous.
Does this game remind anyone else of "The Oregon Trail" game from way back? Though I'm sure it was a little harder for the settlers back then.
That would be almost $10k a year. I work for a large manufacturing company and I pay $40/month. You have got to have messed something up there.
To be honest, I'm not sure that surrendering my bottle of water at airports has impacted my confidence that much. It's not like the experience of passing through airports was an effortless pleasure before. A couple of days ago I spent an hour waiting in line whilst a couple of hundred passengers, some of them possessing five or more suitcases, put every item of their baggage through a single X-ray machine, whilst other security operatives hand-searched the entire contents of selected suitcases. I'm pretty sure the reason Quito doesn't have a green zone in customs has nothing to do with al-Qaeda setting up bases in the Andes though.

As for other measures like the Patriot Act, I'm not sure that security theatre was the prime motivation for their introduction.
InfoQ: Multi-Platform Messaging with RabbitMQ
From Wikipedia:

A turbocharger may also be used to increase fuel efficiency without any attempt to increase power. It does this by recovering waste energy in the exhaust and feeding it back into the engine intake. By using this otherwise wasted energy to increase the mass of air, it becomes easier to ensure that all fuel is burned before being vented at the start of the exhaust stage. The increased temperature from the higher pressure gives a higher Carnot efficiency.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbocharger

You're probably right that most cars aren't tuned to do that, though.
Who pitches in? Friends? Family? How do they pitch in?
Saying you have a passion for programming is analogous to saying you have a passion for hammers. Programming is just a means to an end, and not an end in itself. By and large, people who get paid to program are getting paid to solve problems with computers and not for the code itself.

Thus, we're back at square one. What problems would you like to see solved? What are you interested in? What sort of programs do you want to write? The answer to that ? will determine whether you should major in CS.
I think it would be great to read a couple of the ones that didn't get interviews. It's helpful to also learn from those that get rejected.
If it's anything like universities are in the US, you don't get to the exciting CS topics until your second year when it stops being generic programming and specializes in algorithms, computer learning, and other more interesting topics. I'd recommend sticking to it.
Wouldn't it be the iPhone 6?
"maren" here on HN founded http://zirtual.com/ , so you can get a real human assistant while we wait for the future :)
Ask HN: My free iPhone app gets 1k downloads per day. What should I do next?
I have a free iPhone app (let's call it App 1) that has been getting 1k downloads per day for the last 7 days. These are organic downloads, that is to say that people just find the app by themselves, I do not pay for clicks from ads.

This is pure luck, and I'd like to use this chance before it vanishes to start an "app network" (or whatever you call it), that is to say a ring of 10-15 apps that support one another with in-app marketing (I have read this and found it very inspiring: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2710240)

So I need advice as to what to do next. My main idea is to create two very simple 2d puzzle games (App 2 and App 3) within the next 10-15 days, make them free, and put a link to them in an alert box when the user opens App 1. Then, in App 2, I will link to App 3, and in App 3 I will link to App 2. If I get enough downloads for App 2 and App 3, that can start a chain reaction and I can make more apps, App 4 to App N (with N <= 15), which would be apps of higher quality. At the same time, I would run one press release per week for 4 to 6 weeks, and pay for clicks with AdMod or iAd to attract more people and try to get more downloads (I was thinking of $50 per week).

So here are my question:

1. Are 1k daily downloads worldwide (with more than half in the Russian store) enough to get traction to launch other apps, or would I be wasting my time trying?

2. If 1k is enough, does the plan I exposed above make sense or should I do something else instead?
I own this (now) $6.50 leather cover, which looks decent and cost me only $15 a few months ago.

http://www.amazon.com/CE-Compass-Cover-Kindle-Black/dp/B004A...
Thiel ignores---perhaps deliberately, given his political leanings---the most obvious explanation for the paradox of technological progress without economic growth: that a rising economic tide doesn't necessarily lift all boats. He acknowledges 'a trend towards greater inequality' but doesn't pause to consider whether the fruits of economic progress are being sucked up by the wealthiest 1%, and that is why the rest see economic stagnation while (as he also acknowledges) corporate profits rose as a percent of GDP.
If the rest of society is ready to make sure nobody faces the consequences of their actions I see no incentive for anyone to care about the consequences of the choices they make. "Why should I care about whether I make the right decision or not when everyone is ready to bail me out?" Maybe people should stop making excuses for themselves and take responsibility for what they choose to do everyday.
The correct title should have been: "Google's Management Doesn't Use Google+ For Public Posts". But not so good for pageviews, is it?

"Management caring deeply about their company’s products and using them every day is almost always a prerequisite of making great products."

From my time on Google+, the Google+ team seems to be highly visible and doing a terrific job interacting on the site. It seems like a useful update is announced by the team - not management - almost weekly.

"Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg really does use Facebook all day."

Of course, quite obvious from the sheer volume of daily public posts Zuckerberg makes on Facebook.

It seems pointless to continue to dissect this post any further.
I'm not. The boiling frog principle still applies. The revolutions you're talking about require people to get together and foment them, and I don't think it will happen at sufficient scale for FB to care, or to prevent them from having a very large negative effect on society.
Inside US or outside?
It is still a premium price, and the people are willing to pay this because it is a status symbol.

The huge profits come from a overpriced product, Coke makes his profits from a clearly distinctive product in huge amounts.
You have to explain a customer why it is worth to pay a huge bonus for a similar product. Coke lost this status symbol and is now cheap since Red Bull became the next cool thing.

Apple is incredibly good in sustaining a premium image with new versions etc. That is what the high profit margins come from today, i just don't believe that this holds on forever.

Apple wants you to believe that they are the "best" not good, everything they do is dependent on that promise. When the regular people don't believe that any more they have a problem.
So I guess you're not that fascinated any more, Ian? Maybe now you understand my cynical reactions to your original post :-P
The big clue I got to this not being a successor to the iPhone 4 was when they continued to call it an iPhone 4.

Just buy the new i4S. The i4 is a great, great device.
LinkedIn:  Have you added applications to your profile yet?
Big web pages, big projects, big/challenging/complex software which could be useful to humans.
not if there isnt an iPhone 5...on another note I wonder how this will affect those that upgrade now and then want to upgrade to the iphone 5... the $199 price point may not be available.
Learn Go from your web browser
I know it doesn't ruin a brain for other work. I'm a technical person who later in life learned some business and social skills.

But you know what? I'd be a better technical person today if I took the effort I put into business and social skills and instead put that effort into becoming a better technical person. And I'm never going to be as good of a social person as someone with similar innate ability who started seriously practicing at an earlier age.

If you can win in competition within your organization through putting down other people, your organization has bigger problems. I suggest finding a new job, or, as the article says, starting your own company.
> Remind me to call my wife before I leave work

Might be implemented as:

while (get_location() == work) {
sleep(1min);
}

go_back_in_time(10min);

trigger_reminder();
It looks like this is legit...I did not apply last year (or any year), but I did this year, and now it says I'm in.

I created a test account to test it out and it says that test account is not in. So it seems valid :)
Let Brian Camelio, the CEO of ArtistShare know how you feel:

Brian@artistshare.com
Anyone can pitch in. When you checkout it creates your funding page and people visit that page to pitch in.
I'm a bit scared and annoyed of this new interface. I use the start menu such an incredible amount that having it bring up an entire new screen would undoubtedly interrupt a lot of the workflows I'm used to.

It seems everyone is converging on mobile, as if it's going to replace the desktop. It's not. Desktop will always be here, and to pretend it's going away and force tablet interfaces down everyone's throat is a pretty bold/stupid move in my opinion. Then again, I'm biased because I'm not a complete moron when it comes to computers. Maybe 99% of the market will LOVE not having a start menu.

Is my monitor a touch screen? No. So let's not pretend it is. I don't care about pretty interfaces or big video buttons that play when I hover over them. I want something I can launch programs with. Is it really hard to do something like

if(is_computer) { show_useful_start_menu(); }
else if (is_tablet) { show_retarded_start_menu(); }

I understand I'm the minority, but if they do away with the start menu, I'll probably stay on windows 7 forever.
Soory, it's in html
Can you send me to a sample funding page? What happens to the money if you get your item partially but never fully funded?
Interesting article and I wanted to comment on the bit on outsourcing.
Our project needed an extra hand and that's where we turned to oDesk and some good old word of mouth.
Very quickly we found some coders but we stayed only with one group.
The relationship moved from outsourcing to co-founderness with Tomas after a few months.
He's Slovakian and studies in Poland and needed a way to get some income during his last year at university.

We've been working together for more than a year, and he's used this project to write his thesis and make some money.
It raises an interesting point, as finding founders is sometime a question of good luck and great people.
Regardless of where you look, its all a question of feeling, mutual trust and being open minded.
Black-decker-lawn-mower-reviews
Turns out that the cooler, evidence-based heads are in no danger of prevailing.

For now, we're stuck with the mindless fundamentalists who view the number of patents issued each year as a clear measure of progress. In a earlier age, these would be the guys congratulating themselves for burning the most witches ever.
Remember that Larry re-org'd Google into product groups, and the SVP of Social is Vic Gundorota. My understanding is that these groups are supposed to work in a more autonomous fashion, with Larry more of a Jobsian gatekeeper and guiding hand.

If you are to make some sort of conclusion based on whether the boss is using it or not, you need to actually choose the boss. Vic is the boss of Google+, and he's made 150+ posts. Seems pretty good to me.
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First Official Statement from Occupy Wall Street Organizers
That's silly. They wouldn't name it iPhone 5 when it wouldn't actually be the 5th iPhone, but the 6th one. It's either iPhone 6 and the one in 2013 will be iPhone 6S, or the one in 2012 will have a whole other name. But it will most likely be called iPhone 6.
If this law goes into effect, site owners will be required to either remove or post corrections to previously posted informations within 48 hours of receiving a request by an allegedly defamed person or company. Corrections will have to be posted with the same visibility as the offending text, no commentary whatsoever and no regard as to whether the corrected information, or the correction, is true or not.

And without a court order.

Under penalty of a fine of up to € 12000.

Not sure how this will affect WP given that it's all hosted in the U.S. including the italian one (right?), but I believe the italian editors might fear to be held responsible individually.

However it does certanly makes scary running a blog, not to mention an online newspaper, as an italian citizen.
Not true at all. I've been using Siri since June or so, on my iPhone 4. It's been on the App Store at least that long. If you are really an early adopter and really wanted this app so badly, you could have downloaded it, and could be using it right now.
Schools do not prevent students from seeking other educators.

Being a farmer now, I feel I missed out on a lot of education because of school. Planting and harvest season in my part of the world is May and September/October. Having grown up on a farm, there were lots of opportunities to learn, and I took in what I could, but many years of learning were wasted because of the requirement I be in the classroom during these key times of year.

On the other hand, I spent my summers and weekends learning about technology, how to program, etc. It didn't come with the same timeframe limitations so I was able come away with a much greater understanding. With that, you are right that you can always seek education, but sometimes school gets in the way. That is a problem.
No, Siri not working on my 3Gs -- "Siri cannot connect to a server.".
That message sounds to me like the servers will be taken down on October 15 (not just the app, but the actual service). Am I misreading it?
Summary: "People want silent updates for Firefox; we're working on it."