skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really found this eulogy quite moving and beautiful and gave me an appreciation for a Steve Jobs that has not been captured by any of the other things I've read about him since his passing.

But the part about going through 67 nurses did give me a little chill. My heart goes out to those poor 64 people who tried and failed to care for him up to the level of his demanding standards.
I just got a iPhone 4S on Sprint.

They are the only carrier to offer deep Google Voice integration.

Unfortunately and not surprising there are many issues with Sprint's GV on iPhone. If you want to use Siri to send text messages you have to use iMessage and there is now way to get your Google Voice text messages integrated with iMessage. Many Sprint iPhone GV users have noted the call quality is lacking, as there is a delay. Also, when you go to a Sprint store (since it's a new thing) they have no information. One rep advised that I port my Google Voice # out, in which I did and after doing so realized that was mis-information (lost my GV #).

I will miss GV, especially the SMS service in the cloud. Though I am curious to hear other readers experience. Are you using Google Voice on Sprint with your iPhone? How is it working out for you?
Words of Wisdom
Do you have a link to the original speech? I'd be interested to see it.
Turbo Pascal totally rocked. I remember thinking "I can totally dump MASM and Visual C now!"
Do Not Start A Startup: Or, What I Learned At Startup School 2011
The Possible Penalties In San Diego DUI Laws
YouTube is dreadful with the ads these days, both inside the videos themselves and all over the rest of the page. It reached a point sometime in the past year where I actively avoid going to YouTube (even when just following a link in directly to a video) because of the ad noise.

Other sites are quite bad too (and getting worse). I've gone this long without running any ad blockers, but we're almost to the point where I'm losing the battle and can almost rationalize doing it for many sites.
A language's grammar wouldn't necessarily be a good indicator of implementation size, would it?
How would you know how much of the fiction was "convincingly fake" and how much was "blatantly fake" until they decided to come after you?
You might like Steve Hanov's qb.js, complete with Nibbles pre-loaded!

http://stevehanov.ca/blog/index.php?id=92
Tv(with no Nielsen surveys/monitoring), phone(with no dinner marketing calls) and mail(with no catalogs or AOL cds) works wonderfully. Let me pay for my services and be a hermit. I understand not everyone wants to pay for services and having that choice is great. Not everything has to be social.
Interesting if brutal way of looking at things. However, when you can't trust the Police, protection is something of a wooly construct.
Where are these two billion API calls to Klout's servers coming from? Are CRM systems really doing a lookup on people's Klout score when triaging a call?

"we served more than two billion API calls in the month of June."

http://corp.klout.com/blog/2011/07/two-billion-is-cool/
The Nobel Committee is indeed one of the people who is destroying the meaning of important words, in this case "Peace".

As I said, I do agree that transparency is most often on the side of right, but I believe that making statements like the one I replied to is the reason why being among the cynics seems to me to be a lesser evil than being a part of the problem.

Sometimes here on Hacker News people get lambasted for excessive pedantry, but I think in this case, being pedantic about what we allow to be said unchallenged is crucial to having any claim to being a place of nuanced ideas and thoughtful solutions.
Scan someone's brain and know what they are thinking
I don't like Klout either. I have found no way to "un-signup" for it, after sending a while looking at their web site after logging in.

Best I could do was to turn off Klout access for my Twitter and Facebook accounts.

I have never found any benefit from Klout. Other social apps like G+, Twitter, and Facebook actually provide me with some value in exchange for information on what I am doing.

The positive side of social networks is spending time creating content for people who you like to read and read things written by people you know (or at least know about and want to follow them). I don't see what Klout brings to this party.
This is similar to the complaint 37 Signals had with Get Satisfaction: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1650-get-satisfaction-or-else
You're right. I almost regret this submission. But without your comment, I would have stopped exploring this.

What would you add? What did I miss?

I didn't really think through submitting this to HN. I certainly haven't had the luxury of studying Pixar's process in depth. I guess the title gives off the wrong impression.

I quickly made these slides to try to extract some concrete lessons from Ed's article in HBR. As I grapple with creative autonomy in my own startup, these slides were a way for me to start to think about introducing ideas to the co-founders.
The Process Of Prospecting
Because, I think, Twitter provides a lot of value to me. What does Klout give us? Nothing?
Not necessarily. Some grammars can be parsed with simpler code than others, but optimizations can make a compiler larger. Also of note is that Turbo Pascal was written by hand in assembly language, and the executable wasn't likely to have been linked with any libraries.
It's true that demand for college degrees has risen, but something needs to be said of government intervention in higher education costs.

The labor market in Western Europe is very similar to the one in the United States. As you would expect, you need a college degree and technical skills to get a good job here.

Yet, here in Belgium, I am paying less than 1,000 USD per year (tuition + books) to get a full degree at Ghent University, which is the largest university in Belgium. Foreign students from the US/UK pay more in some cases, but it's still a maximum of about 2500 EUR per year for them.

We have no one else but our government to thank for our cheap college education (even though Belgium technically does not have a government).

It's simply unthinkable here for someone to take out huge student loans and start their life indebted heavily.
I agree with the politics ban, but the big problem is always going to be that, well, politics and life are technically inseparable. We must try to factor them into separate buckets, but it's not going to be possible in the general case.

Consider, for example, the terrible problem of The Virtual Currency That Shall Not Be Named, which until recently was like a plague here on HN. It's hard to argue that it was off topic for hackers: It was a system built by a hacker and employing fun cryptographic hacks. But it was also a sort of terrible wedge by which absolute torrents of drivel arrived on the site.

IMHO the way to handle politics is to empower certain individuals to delete political threads. Then the definition of politics will be subjective. That's fine. There is no other way. And an advantage of the subjective boundary is that it will be naturally fuzzy, which is good. An absolute ban on submissions about The Currency That Shall Not Be Named would be too extreme. What we need is an occasional foray into that world, followed by corrective action if the experiment starts going wrong.

In the meantime I flag things that I think go over the edge, as tptacek does.
You should also keep in mind that Zuckerburg is originally from the east coast so he may be biased against SV.

What I find mildly offensive is that he's generalizing everybody in the valley as go-getters with short attention spans and no interest in long term value. I guess I've never been anywhere else, but the majority of the people I meet out here have a passion for creating things of value.
that was an incredibly moving eulogy. I just so happen to be about a quarter the way through his biography, and its an interesting contrast to read about "young" ambitious steve vs steve in the sunset of his life. Mona really hit on something when she said we die in the middle of many stories. Im interested to read some of her work now.
Ask HN: Startup Marketing
A lot of startups have the chicken and egg problem that PG describes. For example, a dating site is not great unless you have a lot of people registered as the point is to have many people there.

My startup, Grosper.com suffers from the same problem. We do group buying for real estate in the Middle East and the as the description suggests, we need a lot of early users so that deals go through. If deals don't go through early on, more members won't come - a vicious cycle.

This post is about asking for help to market my startup. Any comments about marketing ideas on a shoestring budget or resources such as great books by great mentors (More 37 Signals, less College Professor) would be appreciated.
Many people will know about this projection (and first have heard about different projections in general) from The West Wing episode Somebody’s Going to Emergency, Somebody’s Going to Jail (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somebody%27s_Going_to_Emergency...).
I don't think bettering yourself necessarily means getting into a career with code. Not sure if that's how you meant it, but I think the idea is to continually develop and learn and if you aren't happy, do something about it.

That's why I am learning to code. Not to be an engineer or to code day to day, but to open more opportunities to work with people and to be able to hang with the brogrammers. Current iteration is recruiter, who knows where I will end up, but I sure as hell am going to keep improving myself and keep looking until I find it!
Pascal's grammar is so simple by design that it can be parsed and codegenned in a single recursive descent pass. Not many languages are like that, especially these days.
What Steve Jobs Learned From Edwin Land of Polaroid
Awesome Halloween costume using 2 iPads and Facetime
I'd ignore all the complaints here about the Bottom Line message. People will bash you for making an "absolute truth", take it or leave statement - but people will also bash you for trying to appeal to everyone with an obvious generalization. You can't please everyone so at least pick a voice and stick to it.

I enjoyed the post, even if some of the points are contentious and make me, personally, feel uncomfortable. There is value in being uncomfortable and reading someone point out flaws that I might (ok...that I do) have. It feels bad initially, but sometimes you need that slap in the face to get out of a rut or spark a change in your life.
Happy Birthday, Bill Gates You Made Steve Jobs Possible
I think this was derived from Ed Catmull's talk at Stanford.

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2h2lvhzMDc
A phrase that I read here a while ago has stuck with me: "There's no way for you to opt-out of people talking about you on the Internet".

Klout is just a (lame) algorithm talking about you on the Internet.
Jake, thanks a ton for your comment. I absolutely love that Hacker News is a place where users and engineers can talk openly and comfortably.

It's been a while but if I remember correctly, there was a slider on the top right with a play button. It allowed me to scroll through the history of the doc akin to Time Machine. That visual playful approach is much more engaging than a drop down list of versions. Titles and dates really tell you nothing about the nature of the document.

Watching an essay evolve with a click of a button was awesome and uniquely informative. A killer feature that should not be sacrificed. It was certainly a feature that could help Google Docs position itself above native applications.
Google is a private company that controls your site's reputation via PageRank -- assuming most of us have a personal site/blog, how is this that much different?
You aren't a golfer are you?

Seriously, programmers always abbreviate. Get used to it! :)
Church of England Threatens ISPs Over Porn
Technically, you are paying for your college your entire tax paying life. It just means college is in the same bucket as K-12 is in the US. There is no free or cheap with government, just a different distribution of payers.
Yep, just like the best way to learn carpentry is "Hammer".

Languages are tools, people learn differently, there is no best way.

If there was though, it'd be Ruby. ;)
It's obvious that his sister shares his genius. I'm so grateful she shared this intensely private experience with the world.

I have a half brother, ten years older. We didn't grow up together. Mona's story gives me hope that there are relationships we seek out later in life that are just as fulfilling, if not more so, than those we are given as children and take for granted.
Ask HN: What kind of CS related jobs need the least daily use of computer?
I am CS major graduate student. But I feel that the less time I sit in front of a monitor, the better I feel everyday.
So for my career plan, I would like to find a kind of job/field (of course, related to computer science/engineering) that does not require much daily use of computer, but, for example, reading or writing.

One typical field comes to my mind is algorithm design, most of which can be done by scratching on papers. If I am wrong, please correct me.
I'm guilty of paying taxes to support this attention-grabbing nutcase.

Yes he indulges your paranoid fantasies, which probably makes you feel all warm and giddy inside. Let's treat him like we treat all such things : smoke 'em and throw them away.
Airdrie Real Estate agents
Interestingly, my i52400 only manages 25 fps (average over 1 minute). Hmmm. Ahhh, it's only single-threaded.

Is that intentional, or a problem with Nightly?
Libya's NTC chief says nuclear weapons located
Libya’s prime minister confirms presence of chemical weapons
I feel that the Ubuntu project is really stretching it's resources trying to be on so many different type of devices. I get that focusing on the desktop is probably not a good long term strategy but I really don't feel the work their is anywhere near good enough to shift to mobile/touch development.

Also, I really don't get how they will penetrate this market considering Android is pretty well suited for this and I don't know of many good native Linux applications out there built for touch that can compete with what is in the Android realm (I guess they could try to have dalvik run and emulate the APIs for more low level stuff). How will us users get Ubuntu mobile? We can't really get a touch device today that is as easy as a desktop to switch to Ubuntu.
I wholeheartedly second this. Another forum I follow has this feature, and it really adds to the conversation.
#1. Fix the fucking website. Seriously, what kind of half-assed aggregator gives a 9 in 10 change of getting 'missing or unknown link' when clicking to the next page?
Thanks for the advice. I've come to realize that posting anything on HN will always amount to some bit of criticism.

Also, I agree that you're spot on with your idea that there is value in being uncomfortable. I agree so much, in fact, that I wrote a blog article about how being uncomfortable is a great motivator.

It's called, "Please, Make Yourself Uncomfortable."

Here it is:
http://bufr.tumblr.com/post/6768971854/please-make-yourself-...
Don't call yourself a brogrammer, it's bad for your career.

Maybe software brogineer or something
YC Winter 2012 Applicants Live Web Chat
Its announce day again. Last round, we had great conversations talking about our applications. It would be great to do the same thing again - meet other applicants and chat about your ideas.

This is not official and I'm not associated with YC.

The room is at http://wompt.com/chat/yc/
Grouponomics : Groupon, A smashing success or poised to fail?
No need to lift and put back every 2 minutes! TouchFire remains attached but can fold out of the way very quickly when you want to use the whole screen, and unfolds back when you want to use it again. See the Kickstarter video for a demo of this, about 1/3 of the way through...
Bootstrap (http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/) is really helpful. I am already using it in 3-4 of my projects and my friends are starting using it too.
In the US, go to a lower cost, accredited community college for your first two years then transfer to a 4 year. Some community colleges have extension programs / video links that allow taking of higher level courses often at the cc price.

My brother got his 2 year at a cc and did the rest of his degree in a working adults program. Worked as a tech at Best Buy throughout the working adults program. Pretty sure his total cost was less than 10k and he got the same degree as people who went full time to the college.
I cut my teeth with two programming languages, Smalltalk and Delphi (basically Turbo Pascal for Windows), and was actually just screwing around with Free Pascal (http://freepascal.org/) on a nostalgia kick.

I ended up learning Delphi mostly by happenstance--I ended up getting gifted a free copy of Delphi 3, whereas VisualBasic and Visual C++ were comparatively expensive at the time--but I am incredibly, incredibly glad that I learned that first. Where C++'s grammar is convoluted, confusing, and contradictory, Turbo Pascal's and Delphi's manage to be very simple and straightforward with comparable power. I spent a lot less time coming to terms with syntax, and a lot more time familiarizing myself with machine code, calling conventions, and libraries.

Having a straightforward grammar doesn't just help the compiler use less space. It helps your brain use less space on raw syntax.
I think it's Python not Lisp. This is my opinion.
Teaching?
Hi Christina! I'll be in Seattle in January. Let's meet for a coffee and show me around town!

Also, I didn't mean to imply that engineers are the only people doing anything. Continuous improvement was the point, and your friends can help you get there as long as you pick your friends right.
The video on Chron.com is in spanish. Here's a translated version:

http://neglectedwar.com/blog/archives/8590
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qS7nqwGt4-I
Anybody here loved http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_Vision back in the day ? ;-)
self improvement is masturbation. now, self destruction...
Samsung 300V5A : Core i7
Maybe that was harsh. I think Klout is fine as long as we don't take it too seriously. I believe they're dedicated to perfecting what they do, and that in a couple of years we'll see a much more interesting and useful product.

For now, I would suggest you calm down and quit whining about your privacy when you continue to publicly post hundreds/thousands of thoughts a month on the internet. Klout doesn't come in your home and watch you argue with your wife and see how persuasive you are, it looks at your freakin' tweets.
The Yahoo Maps for China don't look very transformed.

http://maps.yahoo.com/#lat=39.8908713496569&lon=116.4246...

(This isn't a vote for Yahoo Maps, just an observation)
I submitted this to ask the Hacker News community one thing: Does ANYONE happen to know what's wrong with the author of it?

I can ignore how pro-Gates the article is (in the end this is a subjective topic of discussion). But, man, why try make someone that died from cancer a couple of days ago look that useless?

How would Jobs' children feel if they ever read this? Can't we all just respect our kind?
If you don't want people talking about you on the internet, don't get on the internet and do things that are publicly connected to your name.

This isn't specific to the internet. This is how the meat world works.
Apple granted 'slide to unlock' patent
I used to be a huge fan of Google Voice, but I'm not so hot on it anymore. I started using it because I didn't have good at&t reception at my house. It was a godsend at first, I could actually get text messages without having my phone in a very specific place.

But as I continued to use the service...

- Not having MMS shouldn't be a big deal, and it isn't. Until someone wants to send you one. "Oh no, send it to my other number, sorry about that. Which number? Oh, you told me not to text there, so I deleted it." But then people start sending everything to that number, and you have to tell them which number to use for what thing. People hate this, and I don't blame them--it gets confusing.

- GV is seen as a landline, goodbye all of those cheap m2m minutes, you're now costing your friends part of their anytime minutes even though you're actually talking to them on your cell phone. This isn't a huge deal, except for those people that don't have many anytime minutes--because they mostly only call cell phones. I'd love to know whether this is a problem when you port your GV number to Sprint, but I have no idea.

- GV will sometimes drop SMS forwarding. I miss around 1 message a week (call it 1 in 1000), it'll show up on google.com/voice, but it never makes it to my phone.

- For several years, all the Google forwarding numbers (the numbers that you will get an SMS from, a unique number per contact that is generated the first time they send you a message) were in the 406 area code. This made it pretty easy to always be sure of which number you were sending to. Last year, they started assigning numbers based on any area code. This means you must be very rigid in how you add phone numbers to your contacts. It gets confusing when you have a contact with two SMS-capable numbers, now you have 4 numbers (Home, Work, Pager, Home Fax?). This is a big problem if you sync with Exchange, less so if you can assign custom number labels (Home GV, Work GV, etc.).

- Sometimes messages are delayed. Perhaps once a month I'll start getting messages delayed by an hour or so. This happens with cell carriers too (although I rarely see it on that side), so not as big of a deal as dropped messages.

- I won't even get into the lack of an API and the frustration that causes for those that choose to write apps that utilize or extend GV.

After years using GV, I now have a MicroCell at home, and I've switched everyone back to my at&t number. It's just less confusing. I've wanted to love GV so badly, but it just isn't the silver bullet that it is advertised as.

Maybe Google will fix Google Voice, but I'm not as optimistic as I used to be. :(
Balance in Entrepreneurship
Google does collect data directly, too. If you're a business owner, you can upload your business location and data here:

http://www.google.com/local/add/g?hl=en-US&gl=US#phonelo...
The current button doesn't really resemble a tab, so it could be hard to guess. Something like IE's approach seems more intuitive. Still, a blank button seems like an analogy, not a direct message. A plus sign at the end of a tab row definitely means that by clicking it, you are adding something to it. And what else could it be, if there are only tabs in that row?
I do think the article make a good point, CL is hard to outgrow. You can learn almost any type of programming out there in CL. Python doesn't have that level of flexibility as far as programming paradigms as CL in my opinion.
Yes, I was. I still open it up to compile and play around with some old things I made.
Hardly. If you publish a book and someone publishes figures on how many books have been sold, or how many people have mentioned your book in reviews - that's not personal information. I don't see Klout as being any different. (mind you I agree that Klout metrics are completely meaningless - but that's a separate point)
Google cannt count search results
just type in google's image search a simple search.
for example "anti gravity"

then the page reads
Search About 5,960,000 results (0.32 seconds)

but devided over 37 sections of each about 35 pictures makes around 1295 results. Their main product providing search results
Its just full of thin air !!

Or does big brother hide around 5.958.705 results ?
While it's true that Google is in a sense a gatekeeper to people's personal sites, it doesn't claim to be an arbiter of your page's (or your) reputation. Rather, it only claims to be a judge of a page's relevance to the terms a user searches on.