skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is in line with the philosophy espoused in Donald Norman's book, "The Design of Everyday Things". Mr. Norman phrases it as, "a product ought to afford being used correctly", that is, one cannot help but use it without being confused or reaching a stopping point, simply due to the nature of its design. His prototypical counter-example is the lovingly-named "Norman door", which is any "PUSH" door having a handle, or any "PULL" door having a push-plate. "PUSH" and "PULL" signs are essentially FAQs that make up for the "poor design" of a door that does not afford being used correctly.
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This is why you always publish code separately from blog posts and the like, when you're talking about reversing. As long as all you're doing is talking about it (and showing things like protocol structures, dumps, etc), there's nothing they can do. Back in ~2005, I took to writing blog posts that gave you everything you'd need to know to, say, implement Apple's Fairplay DRM. Because there was no code, they couldn't take it down, and it was able to propagate trivially -- in effect, a specification in narrative form.
They're just doucheoisie.

As to "We love all kinds of music, tv, movies, and books", they likely don't.
Ask HN: How to answer this incubator application question?
The question is: "What do you see as being the major challenges during the duration of the Accelerator?"

The correct approach is probably to suggest a possible challenge, then talk about how my team would deal with and overcome said challenge.

But what is the best challenge to talk about?
Corporations cannot lie, they can just exaggerate ;)
Just out of curiosity, why is it technically illegal for drivers to make a profit on the ride? What's the law and why does it exist?
Down with Knee-Jerk Downsizing
Why so serious?

Companies put little jokes and pokes in their job searches all the time. Do you think the company is really going to turn down applicants because they're not "brogrammers". It's certainly silly to assume so.

Did you even read the full post? Here is what it says verbatim:

* You are a fan (or future fan) of Brogramming on Facebook. (Non-Bros are still welcome to apply)

That in no certain terms has anything to do with gender. I'm a male and would not be considered a "brogrammer". What if they said they were looking for the King of all Rubyists? Does that mean they would hire a female because by technicality she couldn't be a king?

Sorry I just think this thread is ridiculous.
The point I was trying to make is when editors have to make choices between areas to cover. As you may be aware, most traditional media outlets are becoming smaller in terms of news gathering employees. So now they sometimes need to make decisions about what areas they should be covering.

If less folks search and clicks on ads for "Cleveland education news" rather than "Cleveland crime news," one could attempt to use that data in making their decision if you had to choose between those two topics to cover. You're serving your readers and getting them information they want, rather than spending time covering a topic that won't be read by your readers. I think this would be a bad financial decision and a bad allocation of resources.

I guess I didn't make this point clearly in my quick blog post, but I'm not advocating for doing a Demand Media-style operation. What I'm advocating for is using more analytics to make your decisions in allocating diminishing resources. I think you should do that rather than just going by your gut.

As a person who's worked in the news industry for all of my short career, its tendency has been to make decisions not necessarily based on data. I'd like to change that.
This is epic! And the end of Flash?
I work in the scientific satellite industry, and as far as I know, nothing is encrypted (possibly not true for military satellites). Sounds crazy, but I think people are more worried about reliability than security. Pretty much an accident waiting to happen.

Edit: It's more of a security through obscurity setup. The command codes aren't published (plus, they're protected under ITAR), and probably vary quite a bit per satellite. I think they are just hoping nobody takes the time to figure out what bits to send.
On the other hand I don't understand, why, most of you, as males are really getting mad about this?

So you think that I, as a whitey, shouldn't be offended by racism? And that I, as an atheist, shouldn't find religious persecution offensive?
All this talk about the world's top music player not supporting ... kind of blows my mind. I mean, after all, Steve Jobs did make the decision that the iOS platform would not allow 3rd party apps, right? ^_'

Do you'all SERIOUSLY use your iPhones with this crappy annoying built-in player that blocks you from adding any new songs if you are traveling and didn't throw your desktop in the trunk? (Let's say you just have your netbook)??? I use Capriccio. Flick of a switch and any new stuff I bought on the netbook can be ftped into the phone over the lan (or httpd). . . Mostly FLAC but occasionally some new Mp3's from emusic.com.
This guy is going to have some problems attracting partners going forward. Who wants to take the risk that he'll assassinate their characters publicly like this?
I'm your target market (single founder), and I'm interested in the idea, but not sure about signing up based on the (sparse) information provided.

Can you give us more of a hint about how it works?
People do care which is why there is an entire free software movement that shares my concerns.
It's clear that very small market share is not sustainable, but the market is so large that I think iOS will be fine even if it levels off at ~30% share.
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There are lots of little things you can do to avoid liabilities, and it looks like they're putting a lot of thought into that.

I see this as potentially kind of the airbnb of transportation. I'm going to try it out.
This would be fantastic in an environment where you have a consumer base - but we're still trying to solve the problem where we have a huge amount of technical information for our professional customers and it's difficult to find - even for our support staff as some issues only come up rarely and we forget where we put the solution.

We're actively looking for this solution if anyone has something that would fit this need.
> Track how many times each user flags any article, let's call this any_flagged

This is a pretty fatal flaw in your plan. Not everyone can flag and it seems if you flag too much you loose the ability to flag. This restriction would have to be relaxed before your plan could be tested.
It seems to me that instead of worrying about fancy ways to enforce the guidelines, perhaps the guidelines should be rewritten to be more explicit about what is and isn't on-topic.

This:

Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon... If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

is pretty vague.

The worst threads are the ones straddling the line between "politics" and "economics", where a lot of people with bees in their bonnet get a chance to wheel out their favourite hobby horses (with apologies for mixing equine and apiaristic metaphors). These are the stories I'd like to see squashed, somehow.
Should turn-profit translated to non-Wallstreet speak = Will not make a profit because something unforeseen will happen.
My understanding (from discussions with some Fog Creek devs who've done the mono dance for FogBugz) is that ASP.NET on mono is an awful lot of trouble, and doesn't run under IIS.

http://www.mono-project.com/FAQ:_ASP.NET

Seems to validate the IIS bit.
What about an initial burden-to-entry, of the sort of peer review that journals do (I.e review of links from the community before being up for voting). We ve been testing it on http://textchannels.com/
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You probably are then classified as a taxi and need to be licensed...?
You want your car, dishwater, fridge, etc to _just work_ in the exact way in which unregulated corporate tyrannies say.
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I say get a job at a startup if you want to be eventually your own founder. There are a ton of really interesting startups hiring technical folks so you would have choice.
I feel that rushing into a grad degree isn't necessarily going to benefit you and you'd be saddled with extra debt.
You can always go back for a Masters anytime, and the work experience would serve you well.
Good luck!!
> receive your 1 years 10% off gift.

Does this mean you will be charging for it? Don't get me wrong, it may be a good idea to pursue this but perhaps you never considered that people who procrastinate are likely to be too lazy to sign up, and start using this - let alone pay for it. "Oh, it's 10 bucks..I'll get my card and do it later"

Maybe I'm confusing procrastination with laziness, but I just don't think this is something neither type of person would pay for.

Regardless, best of luck!
The problem with moving to explicitly tablets is that the feel of different papers/pens is radically different than any electronic technology can provide.

There are smartpens now, but there's still a loss of texture when storing images, and displaying them on a backlit screen alters them as well.

That aside, a tablet completely wrecks the point of getting away from all the distractions that come with your computer.
What does the last part of the URL

http://www.aarongreenspan.com/writing/essay.html?id=70?rel=repost-with-hn-relevant-headline

mean?

Anyway, his writing has an...interesting tone. He calls Ben Mezrich "a terrible writer (who also can't spell)," he has put a lot of effort into his About page (which reads like a autobiographical FAQ), and he tries to advertise his book on the front page of his startup. [0]

I respect the battle he's going through with the state of California over FaceCash, but there's zero reason to be so mean-spirited.

[0] https://www.facecash.com/index.html?source=thinklink.com
There's always a point where we all feel bored about a job - even if we love the job. I think the challenge is trying to find things that you love within your current job and it helps guide towards something you feel more passionate about. Bad job or good job - I think there's always something you can learn about yourself. A job is just something that you do that helps you figure out yourself.
I very much think this is a question of personality and not a question of which one is better.

Personally, I'm like you -- if there's something really interesting to work on, I like to dive in and really attack it until I'm done. Even if that means 14 hour days for a stretch.

But other people I've worked with work differently -- they like routines. Go to work, have 5 things to accomplish that day, accomplish them, then go home. Then it's time for the daily walk in the park, or maybe on Tuesdays it's time to mow the front lawn, or whatever other things they slot into their time that make up their lives. Lots of people love having a life like this. And it doesn't mean they don't care about their jobs or take pride in their work the way people like us do, it just means they're different.
Why I don’t believe Google’s cloud strategy?
Yeah, some people do care but they don’t buy an iPhone. I’m talking about those people who actually do buy one.
I like this idea, but the price would have to be quite low for me to consider paying for it. It seems like you want people to pay to be apart of this. Not sure that's the way to build a strong, useful community.

I would think about starting with a free version, and if the community grows strong enough, people will be begging to get in. Charge them then if you want.
Devil's advocate here.
I agree it is sexist and unprofessional and not how I would word a recruitment post.

That said, it seems to be a reference to an internet meme.

http://www.facebook.com/getwiththebrogram

They also say pretty clearly that non-bros are welcome to apply (I'm male and I consider myself a non-bro). It also does not say that being a Brogrammer actually entails that you be male. (Admittedly, it could be interpreted that way). They are trying to show a work-hard/play-hard mentality, and maybe a little playful immaturity.

All of this said, I think if they are willing to accept responsibility for the repercussions of the job posting, there is no reason to abridge their free speech. Whether this particular posting is a good idea for them as a company (w/r/t investors, image, actually recruiting the best people rather than people who are 'fun') is another matter.
The intro made me snort...

"I’ve just canceled my membership with Spotify and my narccicism makes me want to tell you all why."
Well, you said it was only bad if it is actually against the law.

Which is a strange moral compass, because lots of bad things are not against the law (and with good reason).
>I want them to _just work_, and I want to know who to call when they break.

And in what way, shape or form does this require the device to be locked down to hell and back? That argument is a fallacy - correlation does not imply causation. The two things are completely unrelated to each other, yet people continue to assert that from one follows the other (locked -> just works), and that the opposite is also True (free -> doesn't just work).

It's bullshit, and I'm sick and tired of hearing it. There's absolutely no reason for locking down a device besides wanting to restrict the user's freedom. This isn't about "just working", it isn't about better support, it's about unjustified control over the user's actions.
Quite obviously outside of Rothschilds and Russians noone owned anything without even knowing it.
If Spotify had Grooveshark's interface I would buy a premium account in a heartbeat. When I first opened Spotify's desktop client I was baffled by how clunky it felt.
ideas.txt and dropbox is my primary system.

I've also played around with Simplenote on iOS plus the mac software Notational Velocity. They sync nicely.
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Deuterium is pretty much everywhere. They generally concentrate it in water for most uses if memory serves.
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But – so what? That’s the point. So you don’t own the phone. Is that a bad thing? Why?

That’s the point of disagreement. I don’t understand what’s so bad about it.
"Willpower" book notes
Customers don't read the 40-page FAQ that starts off with "What is a Computer?"

Customers do look at search results, especially if they are written by people with good writing skills.
Some peers will check every week that you made your self-committed work. And vice-versa. You will build your reputation putting your face in public. If you want, your relatives and/or (ex) colleagues/friends will be notified via email about your behaviour. You'll be ranked as worker and ranked as advisor. You'll establish a small (let's say 10 people) group of advisors. And really much more. And all this through a simple and effective web interface. All this highly configurable to push you where your psychological limit is. And much more. Really. Thank you for your interest :)
Professors don't count. This post would have more validity if it came from someone working at Wall Street, or a huge consulting firm, or even a lawyer
> it seems to be a reference to an internet meme.

it is. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi_AAqi0RZM
I'm skeptical. Apple doesn't usually sell things for a loss hoping to make it back in future sales. Do you have a source that the Apple TV costs Apple more than $100 to build? iSuppli estimates that the Apple TV cost Apple $64 to build a year ago (http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9189541/_Margin_chall...) and I'm guessing it's come down a bit since then. That would indicate that it is definitely possible to build such a media player for even $100 and make a profit.

The Apple TV has a 1GHz ARM processor with decent graphics capabilities. John Carmack has said that the iPhone 4 (same processor as the Apple TV) has better graphics capabilities than an XBox or Playstation 2.
My G&L Tele is out of its case leaning against the wall most all the time for this very reason. 5-10 minutes of working on my Knopfler bends and I'm good. Time well spent.
Whitman: “We don’t know what kind of company HP is”
I read Willpower (http://www.amazon.com/Willpower-Rediscovering-Greatest-Human...) recently and took extensive book notes. A few of my friends enjoyed the notes and thought they might be of interest to the HN crowd.
facebook doesn't offer rss
So... can Google TV finally catalog what I have on my HD and stream it to my TV?
Templating sucks, here's how to fix it.
Gaining traction.
Making money.

Perhaps, even solving a significant technological challenge and how it will result in the aforementioned challenges being solved.

This answer is not based on experience, but rather my best educated guess.
I am not asserting that the market is full of completely rational agents. I am asserting that voluntarily excluding yourself from a resource pool or limiting your access to a resource pool will decrease your likelihood of success.

To give an analogy, if you have access to all the food you want, but you voluntarily limit yourself to kumquats and bananas for arbitrary, irrational reasons, in the long run you will develop health problems.

Likewise, a business that irrationally limits itself to a subset of all available talent will, in aggregate, lose out to those who are not thus limited.

I admit to not having citations of statistical evidence at hand, although I have seen many publications in the past that indicate diversity of employee populations is correlated with innovation and success. I did not provide evidence because I believe as a Gedankenexperiment, the conclusion is self-evident.
spotify is generally non hardware/os/file dependant. iTunes is not any of these things. this is why I'm staying. sure you have to compromise a little on selection, but to me at least the previous benefits greatly out weigh this deficiency.
Toyota launches smartphone mirroring tech in EU
Really? The smartphone bill of sales comes out to about $200 per device. After you take out the battery, baseband, transceiver, GPS, gyroscope, display, and touch-screen components, that price gets slashed in half to around $100. Granted there are a lot of other costs to associate with it, such as additional output and input controllers, marketing, distribution, and profit margin. But still, it's not out of the realm of possibilities to see the new models go for $150-$200.
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selling out the inventory is not that hard when the volume is this low + the price is pretty low to make it affordable to a lot more people than the roadster
Is it normal to work in a culture of conflict?
I've worked for the same company for 4 years (online media - UK), started as a junior developer & now lead a development team of 4. When I started I love the job, we where doing things "right", focused on engineering & building stuff our users really appreciated.

However over the last two years, most of the staff have left, been let go or been replaced, the company has been sold 3 times. The people working there now come from backgrounds completely unrelated to what they do & don't really understand our products or users - the result of this is that our competitors have not all overtaken us, the company is in bad shape financially & everyone is panicking, literally any idea that someone suggests - no matter how ill thought out & negatively it impacts our users workflow within our products, I'm told it needs to be made live yesterday.

The IT people are hopeless, they are not qualified for their jobs - cannot setup backups, cron jobs or install updates / patches to our servers, yet have egos the size of the arctic circle - even the most simple request is met with cynicism & emails to the boss detailing why we don't need it done, they only keep their jobs by being master actors - always appearing super busy.

The business people who "run" the software team have no technical background or understanding of what it takes to build software, worse they regularly admit they don't want to know either. As a result they create ideas & project plans in closed rooms and then tell us that we have to implement their crazy ideas within even crazier timeframes e.g. build an entire image hosting website with payments & social media integration in 4 days with just 2 developers and if their are major bugs upon go live - someone will be fired.

I've been repeatedly told to work weekends & longer hours, even though I'm already working 12 hours a day, 6 days a week. If I need any tools to do my job I've been told I have to buy them on my own dime.

We are forced to do major feature changes just hours before major releases & when stuff inevitably goes wrong - its always my fault. Using any sort of automated testing, version control or taking time to think about how best to implement something is seen as time wasted, that could be used to build the lastest crazy idea from marketing.

Any attempt to put "structure" or a controlled process in place by the dev team immediately results in more cynicism & questions why we are not doing "real work", told we are risking our jobs.

Because I've been here so long I'm wondering if I'm just whining or this is normal?
Great example of why entrepreneurs don't need an MBA:)
The problem with that (from Apple's perspective) is that the number of users who are going to somehow get tricked into toggling the 'allow from unknown sources' switch and get their phones messed with is almost certainly larger than the number of people who would legitimately be happy from having the capability.
Because of decennia of price drops of electronics, they get rarer, but there still are mechanical clocks and egg timers without an IC in it. These used to be screwed closed, but nowadays, the housing typically cannot be opened.

So, a proponent of that claim should even it to some things without an IC.
I have to say that to me (a non-native speaker, a youngling, a geek) there's nothing offensive about "who's going to take care of the kids". If I had kids and a working wife, then got asked that question in an interview -- I better know how to answer it, if only for the sake of my kids, no?

I'm also now scared that you get offended while I really don't want you to; that's not why I asked. I might be missing some connotations, or the specific tone that goes with that phrase.
What gives Codecademy a competitive advantage over competitors, and anyone that could put up the same type of site in a month?
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I agree. It's interesting info to know, but not something to get worked up about. MG Siegler seems to take pride in Apple making a lot of money, for example. I'm really unclear why I should get excited if Apple make $30B this year or $25B unless I'm a shareholder.
4G now counted among ‘ideal phone features’ by 75% of consumers, survey finds