skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a pretty clear way of looking it.

The problem I have is that these attitudes are fragile. If you have a monarch, for example, with complete control over a country and who has tons of money and doesn't need to ask for permission, he can build a great nation of he's a good person.

When he dies and his son, who's an asshole but equally determined and powerful, takes over, now you have a bad situation.

Fortunately Steve Jobs wasn't in such control. But the point is that, yeah, if someone that determined and set in their ways and they're right...awesome!

But when people are like that and they're wrong, which happens a lot...god damn it's not good.

So I guess the question is whether this sort of "riskiness" is good? Like, when you win a horse race it's badass. The other 9 times out of 10 when you lose it sucks. Is that the human behavior we should model ourselves after? Interesting...
What does that have to do with Apple?
> "Adjusting round corners for a button in photoshop is easier then[sic] adjusting border-radius in css"

Yes, I got to that, and gave up. Anyone who can write that seriously is clearly at best a beginner skill level in both Photoshop and modern CSS. Anyone who can advocate a waterfall model is, as you say, severely out of date in their understanding of effective development processes (or building the software for very specific types of project where it actually works, but real web development projects are unlikely to ever be among them). And in particular, anyone who advocates mocking everything up in detail in Photoshop before writing any HTML/CSS if you need to produce fluid/responsive designs is simply having a laugh.
I honestly believe YC is different. It's not just about "People" or their ideas, but in their execution.

Throwing money blindly and seeing what sticks doesn't seem to be the YC modus operandi. It is interesting to see the number of YC alumni who join other YC startups, or do a second start-up, with similar teams and a new idea.

I would hope to measure up to the YC standard, and get myself and my ideas accepted, when the timing is right.
It's also possible that the spam email came from a computer infected with malware, making the target of this "attack" an innocent bystander.

Whether this was the case, in this instance, is insignificant, it's just one of those things that the author didn't think of, it shows the author did not think very deeply about the situation, and simply wanted to flex his technical jock.
Neat. My name (Tristan) went from #451 in 1994 to #121 in 1995. Maybe because Brad Pitt played a character named Tristan in Legends of the Fall in 1994?
I did some work with flex/mxml stuff about a year and a half ago, and frankly, it ranks as the worst software development environment I have had the displeasure to use. This includes the 8086 chip with 1 LED for debugging.
It's a costly path only few can afford to take, funded by the other few who believe that big bangs can happen overnight.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn

920,000+ employees, "almost a dozen" suicides

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_ra..., China 13.85 per 100,000.

Foxconn should have 127.42 suicides per year. "Almost a dozen" means they have one tenth the per-capita suicide rate of the rest of the country.
I agree, and it's unfortunate that the web hasn't actually caught up yet. Uploading files via the browser, working with sockets, and consistent video / audio playback are still seriously crippled in the current browser landscape. I hope that these features may finally improve across all browsers now that our universal crutch has begun throwing in the towel. I still think it's a bit too soon.
On Firefox 7.0.1 on Windows 7, the bid overlay automatically comes up and blocks the leaderboard with no way of dimissing it. Works on Chrome 15.0.874.120, though ;)
Steve Jobs aside, that's a pretty weak argument. I never knew Idi Amin or Moa Tse Tung personally (I'm not comparing them to Steve Jobs), and while they made some contributions, it's no reason not to make criticisms of them.
Oh gawd, please remove yourself from the Internet. You're disqualified.
The battery status API could make an interesting side project.
So he is missing a Wozniak, I guess.
You're deliberately and hyperbolically misreading her statement. She isn't "concerned" about the concept of risk; she is saying, "we are paying extra attention to vehicles where there is significant risk of normal people losing significant money".
Yep, is on SVG on my browser too (Chrome).

And i think they made a zombie as an excuse for their bad implementation of a walking cicle.
> Devoid of any kind of feelings towards anyone else, he shouts, screams, cries and sulks his way through his petulant life

Sounds like full-on Narcissistic Personality Disorder.

Various people who knew Steve have also said that he must have had this.

As far as I can see, it's probably true.

I don't think it's right to attribute malice to the man if it's the case. Neither is it right to insist that someone be prevented from being successful in business because they have something wrong with their brain.
I love the idea :) some of the comments from 'haterz' kind of make sense, let richest person leave a message
Different reasons for different people. I really like Fog Creek's take: they hire interns because they believe, for a certain caliber of employee, the internship is likely to be their last exposure to the open hiring market. It is the not-so-secret-secret-sauce for how they identify and attract very talented developers.

http://www.inc.com/magazine/20070501/column-guest.html (This is a reprisal of an old JoS post that I can't seem to Google at the moment.)
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Before you ever decide to hack someone's computer I suggest you consult a lawyer.
> But I'm glad to see someone holding him accountable for his life and the consequences of his actions.

Have you been on the internet for the past month? There are at least 5 highly upvoted threads on Reddit per day calling him an asshole.
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GraphViz http://www.graphviz.org/ is what you want.

It's the standard graph visualization tool for computer scientists, and you can make it do all sorts of tricks from fancy colored graphs with typeset labels to automatically generated call graphs of very large systems with thousands of functions.

It's free and cross-platform. And it uses a simple declarative language to generate graphs, that's easy to create automatically.
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The real richest on the web is you from this. Reminds me of Million Dollar Homepage. Great idea :)
I think a better one would be, if you could only choose one device primarily for consumption (and stuff like commenting/ basic writing/ taking notes). Would it be the ipad/ iphone or a laptop?
To do the work that no one else wants to do.
Thunderbolt doesn't "obviate" the need for slots. Do you have 10k plus invested in pro audio or video gear that requires pci-e? All those guys are going to switch to Windows...
I doubt many will try to emulate his sociopathic behavior unless they themselves are sociopaths.

Hopefully all entreprenuers will try to emulate his focus on product and his refusal to accept anything other than the best work that the company can do.
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Thousands of popular tv cartoons shows are made using flash only; competing head-to-head with Toon Boom Studio.
Not just raising money, but attracting smart people and getting takeover offers from APPL, AMZN, GOOG, MSFT, etc., apparently. The bubble in this market already convinced the investors that trading start-ups can work without users. The other delusional money is waiting to take their shares at x5 price anyway.
I can't remember the name of the book, but I remember reading that people name babies both after celebrities and after names of the higher class people around them (with the goal of their children appearing higher class than they actually are). The latter case is interesting, because it goes in a cycle - the higher class folks pick unique names for their children, the lower class folks copy them in the next generation so those names become common, and the higher class folks pick new names in the next cycle.

So if the data was there, it'd be interesting to show these graphs both alongside celebrity popularity over time and also to divide the graphs based on socio-economic lines, to see if that is still happening.
I can't tell if you're joking or serious; I hope it's the former. As an intern, my experience has been exactly the opposite--the first place I worked, I got a very interesting project with almost complete autonomy; the company where I work now I have been able to work on what I'm interested in as well.

One of the good things about working at a startup--even for an intern--is that there is always enough interesting work to go around.
Life note for HNers: Like almost any other market failure, this is profitably exploitable.
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But there was nothing in the article that gives me the feeling he is anything like Steve Jobs. He's just phenomenal at the flip, and that says a lot about what the Silicon Valley VC's that invested in Color are after.
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Everyone seems to be preferring HTML5 over Flash. It is a good idea for most of the things. But then what about the games? If the source code is loaded in the browser we could easily manipulate it and change the gaming experience.

I am the highest scorer on many HTML5 games without even playing the game.

How can we add security to HTML5 games so that no one can actually manipulate the gameplay ?
When I see this report about the popularity of jQuery, I have to think a bunch of it is related to growth of WordPress as well. Without WordPress jQuery wouldn't be used on nearly that many sites.
My name (Tikhon) didn't even get a graph :( Probably because it's an exceptionally uncommon name (but not uncommon enough for me to get it as a username).

In the list of names on the graph, could you make the "X" look a little bit more like a UI element? The first time I saw it, I thought it was just a letter. I think even just aligning the X's along the right side of the rectangles would help.
Just a joke, but I'm probably going to get down-voted a million points. Oh well..
Sorry to be a downer, but Wolfram Alpha has beaten you to the punch:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Andrew
...good point, the point I was trying to make was not so much the discoverability of the FEATURE (I do agree with your points there)...but of discoverability of the SHORTCUT to the feature, which is what you referred to as efficiency.

the fact that I (and apparently many others) learned about some OS X keyboard shortcuts through reading this thread indicates that there is still a problem with "discoverability"
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First thing that came to my mind. Really gimmicky idea that could see the creator make a pretty penny if it catches on.
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This is an embarrassing low point for Hacker News. Trolling, exaggerated headline on the front page. It takes almost no effort to make a reasonable counterargument, so I sense that's not the point of the submission.
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Flex is basically, a command-line toolkit to build SWF, while Flash is a GUI-based tool. Flex has the builder based on Eclipse and borrowed lots of conventions from the standard web technologies.
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Here's a website I made a few years ago:
http://www.babynameclusters.com/name/Tristan/Male

That's a good guess regarding the Brad Pitt character. I should add movie character names - those might be more influential than famous people in wikipedia.
Grr, WolframAlpha also fails to acknowledge my name. What a difficult life I lead...
Stackoverflow.com is a better site for questions like this.
Exactly. I mean I'm not bidding on it. But I wasn't one of the people who helped milliondollarhomepage.com reach its goal and then some either :) I'm just calling it like it is, a really good idea worth trying :)
What exactly does "viable" mean in this context? Because the husband and wife team behind NameVoyager have had the baby name trend visualization market cornered for years now.

http://www.babynamewizard.com/voyager#

They aren't just using it to drive ad traffic and promote the book, but are now (since I last looked) actually charging for the visualizations themselves. And presumably people are paying, but who knows...

On the plus side, this means there's a market, but you've got a long way to go to catch them, both in regards to the visualizations and the breadth of the name database. It's a good start, though.
I think interns in other fields actually do get to do things that nobody else wants to, which is why it could be unclear. I'm very happy that this is not how it works in software development.
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That is what I meant to say in my second paragraph, but I wasn't very clear. Basically, the startup in question is different from the normal Bay Area/Hacker News fare, but still close enough that I could imagine working for them if I got bored of what I'm doing now.

I would have been much less excited to read about a company that did not have any software at all.
Yeah, point taken. Or maybe each one as a graduate seminar or something. That said it seemed to me a number of topics in the UVA course descriptions were just as specific. Anyway, these were just titles I pulled out of the air, to get in the ballpark of issues closer to my philosophical bent.

The real problem is that there aren't any core texts for Philosophy of Computers, so just about anything you put together is going to end up looking like research.

I think though for a curriculum I would like to see more basic Philosophy of Technology and applied philosophical principles, particularly the ontological status of code and programs, and how we might relate Aristotelian notions of form to things like object hierarchies.
>>The "bad" qualities are what made them effective. If they didn't have them, you would never have heard of them.<<

Please justify the above statement. How could you possibly know that? What is to say that these people would not have gone to achieve even greater heights if it had not been for their bad qualities? There is something incredibly depressing about this attitude that pretty much states that it's okay to be a complete and utter jerk if you have achieved some level of success. Maybe it's cool to say that because it's counter-cultural thing or maybe we as a society have reached a state where people have a knee jerk tendency to apotheosize those who are successful and explain away their flaws as somehow critical to their success (also read the Mark Pincus stuff to further observe this phenomenon). Either way it's depressing.
I wouldn't be surprised if the mail files were 'in use' due to Spotlight indexing.

The workaround for that would probably be to tell Spotlight to not index mail.

Or else, perhaps, to delete them from within Mail.app?
Planning is a wasteful byproduct of being a poor developer. A good developer will write code once, get it right the first time, without any planning, and have it do exactly what it needs to do. Everything else slapped on top of that to get from A to B is a waste of time. That includes planning. Writing tests. Coordinating meetings. Documentation. Commuting. Sleeping. Unfortunately, people have come up with things like "planning" and "QA" because they hire incompetent developers - and instead of properly getting rid of them, they hire people to fill in the gaps and flaws.

Just kidding, sort of.
The main thing I learned from the book (having read a lot about Jobs in the past), is that he actually seems like a good father, especially to his son Reed, toward the end; after being horrible to Lisa early on.
>Your expectations don't make it broken.

It's not 1990 anymore. All operating systems manufacturers need to understand that the vast majority of users have used Windows and are used to Windows' UI conventions. At the very least, one should offer a way for the Windows user to discover what the new conventions are, rather than having to Google and find websites that other people have made when they made the same transition.

What makes this worse is that every windowing system appears to use different terminology for its UI widgets and behaviors. Sticking to a standard terminology (even if it's Windows' terminology) would make things much easier for a convert to figure out how make their machine do what they need it to do.
I think the track record component more than anything else nails it, that's why he got funded and for very little besides that.

Having a $850M exit on your resume makes you look pretty good when you're pitching an otherwise crazy idea.
I spent the last 3 years developing complex data visualization apps. We had strict constraints as to what kind of browsers we could expect(think government agencies) hence our use of Flash/Flex to build the rich apps our customers required. Flex helped us build some really cool stuff quickly, and had a rich ecosystem of tools, resources, and examples to draw upon. I'm really disappointed that Adobe didn't even provide some sort of gradual migration strategy. They basically took the only parachute in the airplane and jumped, yelling, "We are going to make it open source!" on the way out.

I have a difficult conversation waiting for me on Monday with my boss when I explain that our significant code base is now part of a legacy platform that the vendor has jettisoned. The software industry has an interesting gambling component: you bet on which language/technology/platform is going to be popular and hope for the best. Looks like I rolled snake-eyes.
It's very disturbing that a dollar auction on absolutely nothing isn't even the most unethical tactic I've seen … this week.
I think I missed something. How did he hack the other guy's computer? He based his analysis on email headers received in his own computer, and used Google, whois, fb, etc. after that. Right?
The internal politics are pretty bad, from what Google employees have reported. For an organization originally without politics, in the mid-2000s there was a whole mess of PMs and managers.
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He didn't hack this guys computer but he pretty much documents for the world to see that he's hacked other computers.

There's stupid and then there is this article.
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" In fact, many of the engineers and product managers who worked on Flex SDK will be moving to work on our HTML efforts."

Hell yes.
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I see your concern, but we haven't done this yet - we have no reason to. There is no actual reward for being the "richest", we could care less as to who claims the title.

If we ever auto-outbid people, they would find out right away, and wouldn't return to the site.
Ok, I'll try!
The 'internet' is an interconnected network of computers. A cloud is a bit of weather phenomena.

I don't like trying to re-purpose the word cloud, because isn't all that descriptive. Do you have high-availability provided by distributed, load-balanced servers? Maybe. Local mirrors? Maybe. A machine in your basement you rent VM images on to suckers? Maybe.
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The email was coming from his email address, using his business’s name, and advertising his business
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I would say a more accurate name would be the "fit window to content" button, as that is what it does.

If you're looking at a document in Pages, clicking that button will fit the window to the document, not wasting any screen space with blank unused area, but also not obscuring any of the document (screen space permitting).

The problem is that some third party applications ignore this and just implement Windows-style "maximise" behaviour. In addition, for some applications the 'content' area is likely to be larger than the screen (see Logic and Final Cut), so maximising actually makes sense.

What I imagine Apple's designers were considering is whether "maximise" behaviour actually makes sense. What are you gaining when you maximise a window? For applications such as Word, you're just filling the screen up with empty grey space on either side of the document. For most web pages, the content will appear within ~1000 pixels of horizontal space, with any additional space being wasted (or worse, the page has liquid resizing text, resulting in hard-to-read loooooooooooong lines when the window is maximised).

One argument may be that maximising a window blocks out distractions, but surely something like a full screen specific mode would be more appropriate for such a situation.

Ultimately I think that the problem is that users already have an expectation of what that button does; it is another casualty of the thoughtless interaction design that Windows has normalised to the general computer-using public.
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we could care less as to who claims the title

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auction#Chandelier_bidding

Also, how would people find out? You just need to "be smart" about it. Don't always use the same username, change how long you wait.
I'd suggest putting focus in the 'Add another name' text box after every reload. If I want to add multiple names, it's irritating to have to reach for the mouse to put the focus back in the textbox for each one.
Ex. 1: People would go the length of the world making sure that they accomplished every minute detail of what he had asked to perfection. Had he not been such a hardass and callous type person, I highly doubt things would have been done in the time frames and to the scope that he required. It's the tragedy of success in his circumstance. Take the bad with the good.
Believe it or not a recruiter can do a very good job filling technical positions without a strong understanding of the technology. All you need to know to get started is how to spot a qualified person, and the hiring manager can help with that.
How is this an argument? If users expect a button to do a certain thing then that is what the button should do. Where the behavior was learned is irrelevant.
Small hack: Instead of using "X" for the delete icon, use "&times;". It looks more like a delete/close button and still avoid the trouble to create an image.
whois ricardo.cc

ring me up :)

I'm not worried about my address, phone, name or email. You can get those from the doormen, co-workers, friends, google and hundreds of documents scattered around the world (bills, contracts, registers, etc).

The best you can and should do is protect your personal life. I recently switched my FB account to "friends only" - that should be the default for everybody.
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