skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My understanding is that it was intended as a variation on "omit needless words," but that said, "prolixity" is technically the wrong word for that job (as prolixity is more concerned with total word count, and less with individual word choice). That said, I think both its message, and its wording, served to teach both lessons: one directly, and one indirectly.

Incidentally, the same class also served as the first of my many introductions to Strunk & White. We were way too young for their book, but it never hurts to start early.
1. You're absolutely right, it dosen't guarantee success. However, getting into Y Combinator would definitely help.

2. This is actually our pivot. We've been together as a team for a year. Also, the reason we haven't launched is because we've been waiting on the crowdfunding law to pass.

We've been working and are continuing to work on seedlauncher.com, applying to Y Combinator is a very small part of what we've been up to.
"Your search - :) - did not match any documents.
Suggestions:
Try different keywords."

Which is a pretty unsatisfactory result, really. If I came across :) and didn't know what it meant, Googling for just that is a natural action.
Thanks for this, it's a great article. I have this problem with my boss occasionally, which is funny because he's a programmer. "Oh, you just have to do this and this, shouldn't take you too long."

You're right, there's always those bottlenecks that crop up that you didn't expect. It's impossible to truly know all the limitations of the software you're working with. I work with Drupal, and it has A LOT of those problems. Sometimes I'll think something will be easy to do, only to find out that the popular modules I thought would work great don't cater to the specific use-case I'm working on. Then it's back to schlepping.
This is probably the best summary of Jobs's style and leadership I've read anywhere.

I find that too many people don't understand a key component of what Jobs and Apple do. Simplicity is not a goal. I see products all the time that their creators tout as "beautiful in its simplicity". Most of them are crap and don't do anything useful. Perfection, likewise, is not a goal. You do, eventually, have to ship. (Apple was the first place I heard the aphorism "shoot the engineers and ship the damn thing!")

Simplicity and perfection is the goal. It is simple because being perfect limits your scope. Your scope is limited, because you want to make the best thing (and it had better be useful!).

Often, when thinking about Apple, and Jobs's style running Apple, I'm reminded of the quote:

> "In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's there are few."

...not surprisingly, from the famous zen master Shunryu Suzuki.
Dear @hackernewsbot, why don't you link to the comments page also?
I'm not up on current Django tutorials (which may be more your style since you're already familiar with Python) but you are a great candidate for Michael Hartl's fantastic Rails tutorial: http://ruby.railstutorial.org/

You can buy the books and screencasts or read the whole thing online for free.
Request HN: Somebody please build a Twitter bootstrap for native mobile apps
I think it will be very useful for developers to get started with a beautiful template. Making it easier to build visually appealing apps.
Will you support DNSCurve? It would be nice to get more people on that particular bandwagon.

I set up a git/rake/djbdns/curvedns setup in an afternoon with a few VPS's, which has been quite solid for me.
A hundred HCI researchers are now excitedly writing NSF grant proposals and getting in touch with their PIs.
That graph looks like it was generated by rrdtool (http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/). If you are looking for monitoring of stats like system load, disk io, etc, check out cacti (http://www.cacti.net/). It has quite a few plugins to monitor other stuff as well. It also works for remote servers via snmp.
Baylor Law leaks names, addresses, race, GPAs, and LSAT of all admitted students
They were accidentally sent out as an attachment to every accepted applicant. No formal announcement yet.
Wasn't Notch's first game an MMO? Didn't he work on Wurm?
I think you are far over-estimating the size of the set of people who know the difference between ads and organic results on Google. I would also bet the percentage of people who can differentiate sites by URL is is very small. If the link text says "Honda", many (most?) will believe they are going to a Honda sanctioned site.

I would love to see real user research on this topic. Google showed pretty well there are a lot of people who are confused, to say the least[1].

1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4MwTvtyrUQ&sns=em
Ask HN: I hate school, and got offered employment after an internship.
Hey guys,

So, I'll try and keep this as short as I can while still getting my points across. My internship is coming to a "close". It was at an absolutely amazing company/startup (~150 employees, but still very startup-like culturally) that I've wanted to work at for a couple of years now. They're a fairly big company, and I literally landed in this internship. It's a highly sought-after company by both potentia employees and interns, and they draw people from all over, and happen to be located in my city.

There was no interview, I didn't formally apply, they didn't look at my grades (thank God!), and I didn't pull any sort of strings. I just sent an e-mail offering my (free) services for the experience, and they offered me a paid internship. This still blows my mind, as there's no reason I should have been picked out of the large pool of applicants they have.

Anyways, I'm only one year in to a three year program at a community college. I now have to decide what I'm going to do. I've been offered employment full time at this company, and they seem to genuinely love the work that I put out. I am willing to drop out of school for it, but I really just want advice. I really struggled through my first year of classes. I battle depression and hated every minute. I finished with a very low GPA and got put on "academic probation".

There were other causes of my depression besides school, but I do think it was a large factor and I've been significantly happier since doing this internship and not going to school. My depression was never bad enough that I genuinely wanted to commit suicide, but there were times that I thought "Well, I probably won't do it, but man, it sure would be nice to just have it over with." These feelings have almost completely subsided since the internship.

So, I guess (TL;DR) what I'm asking is... I hated school so much that I believe it contributed to problems with depression. I'm only 33% done, and offered employment in the position I've always wanted at the company I've always wanted. Is going back to school at a (frankly quite terrible) community college worth giving up this opportunity? I can expect to be making about $60,000/year if I take the job.

I really appreciate any advice you can offer.
> applications (in general) are a backup filtering mechanism for people who haven't figured out a more effective way to get what they want yet.

It blows me away how many people don't get this.
As bad as it is for non-technical managers to estimate, I've found that in some cases, programmer managers can be worse, especially if you're new on the team. Why? They already know the code, so often their estimates state how long they would take to implement the feature. They either forget or don't realize that you have to spend additional time to learn how the code works and how to best integrate your change. They don't realize that sometimes it's harder to modify software than it is to build anew.
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PSYOP WWII – Propagating Carrot Propaganda
“Carrots are divine... You get a dozen for a dime, It's maaaa-gic!” – Bugs Bunny

In classic Bugs Bunny form, moms and dads, and even the British government have touted the advantages of eating carrots. Beta-carotene, the substance in carrots that helps to provide its orange color, does indeed have healthy benefits. The night seeing claims, however, are (unfortunately) inaccurate.

The urban legend of carrots generating super-human sight dates back to the British propaganda machine and an age-old intelligence tradecraft tactic of disinformation to deceive Nazi Germany.

Following Italian air force theorist, General Giulio Douhet’s model of bombing “vital centers,” rather than strategic infrastructure or wartime elements like factories and supply depots, the Germans focused bombing runs on civilian population centers. In the Battle of Britain, the Luftwaffe, the German Air Force, carried out incessant nighttime bombing raids intended to break the will of the British populace.

Even under intense and logistical bombardment, the British Royal Air Force was not deterred and kept sending up fighter aircraft to intercept German bombers. RAF pilots were highly trained and skilled professionals, and eventually, with great success, were able to inflict great damage on the Luftwaffe.

The explanation for the almost sudden change in British dogfighting success was attributed to RAF pilots’ superior skill. While RAF pilots were experts at their craft, the explanation of suddenly overwhelming dogfighting skills mismatched the events taking place.

The RAF, in fact, had a tactical advantage which allowed RAF pilots to determine where inbound German aircraft were using a secrete defensive countermeasure – the Airborne Interception Radar.

This technological advancement was so sensitive that British Intelligence created a cover story to parlay German suspicion of a new radar system being deployed. In turn, British Intelligence decided to create a cover story and put out a disinformation campaign.

In one newspaper article, John “Cat's Eyes” Cunningham, Royal Air Force Officer, cited his love of carrots as the reason he was able to be so successful against the Germans. In fact, Cunningham claimed that eating carrots allowed him to see at night. New stories started to appear about RAF pilots and their carrot eating habits. The disinformation campaign and heroics of carrot-eating RAF pilots worked so well that ordinary Brits began to gobble up carrots.

And thus the legacy of carrots and its superhuman imparting qualities began.
can you guys do this?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3795607
B of A doesn't have analysts or associates?
I don't know what I'm more excited for: the possibility of a DCPU C compiler, or the first player to exploit the security holes in a program written for the DCPU C compiler.
Absolutely. Thinking of an idea and then coding to its realization is a classic method of learning to program. It sounds like you have a great system for learning. I'd only caution that even if you come up with a solution to a problem on your own: do the search engine/stack overflow research anyway to see alternative methods. If you don't find any: blog about it.
> Light-years beyond any menu system

Mac OS X introduced this type of uniform menu search and result navigation with Leopard in 2007.

Cmd-?

It's great. I use it all the time.
This is absolutely awesome - thanks!
One of my favorite quotes from G.E.D:

Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hofstadter%27s_law
"Give us a problem, a painpoint, anything that annoys you in day to day life, and we’ll hack it in 72 hours."

Perhaps one of their painpoints is people begging for acceptance with the argument "gosh, we really are worthy, honest!". Maybe they could solve that one by coming up with a way to demonstrate their value beyond a plea for compassion.
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Really interesting point here. Although I'd like to point out that I don't think it's necessarily being technical vs non-technical that makes it hard to estimate. There are probably non-technical people out there who have managed a lot of software projects and have developed solid intuition for how long projects will take.

The real divider is experienced vs. inexperienced. But that's just a guess - I've never been managed by someone non-technical.
> until it was added to most languages, the scaffolding held me in awe...

I'm not sure what you mean by "the scaffolding", could you please explain?
I found it strangely compelling - I don't even play Minecraft and I felt like playing.
Nonsense! Look at the code again. There are a lot of repeated motifs, like the things that fetch from memory and increment the program counter. It cries out to be partially automated. If nothing else, there has got to be a more human-readable equivalent to all that bit-masking and offset-adding.

Code generation doesn't need to be heavyweight.
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What stops Google from just pulling out of Australia stating Australian laws are anti-free speech and unworkable for American countries, and then blacklisting all .au TLDed sites from the index?
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Yup, here in Eastwood, workers with lanyards and badges all day and all night, streaming in and out by the thousands. It's quite a sight. Great, inquisitive people and always friendly.
for future reference, step 1 - gcc toolchain (https://github.com/kennethreitz/osx-gcc-installer or xcode), step 2 - rvm (http://beginrescueend.com/), step 3 - "rvm install 1.9.3 && rvm 1.9.3 --default && gem install rails" (homebrew will also probably be necessary for any dev work on osx, but not really needed to get rails going)
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Ah! Caught out as being geocentric. Didn't even occur to me to see where the OP was posting from. :)
Some of these might be useful http://cure.willsave.me/resources
Oh, I don't know. Having a team that can solve any arbitrary difficult problem in three days could be quite useful in a startup. The (technical) execution of a startup idea can be cast as a series of arbitrarily difficult problems, after all.
> Surely won't be long before there is a LISP for it.

I'd guess there probably would be a FORTH dialect first. It seems a lot more fitting with the context.
San Francisco, CA

Meraki - http://www.meraki.com

Meraki is the leader in cloud networking and we have over 18,000 customer networks around the world. You can see a sample of customers who rely on Meraki at: http://www.meraki.com/customers. We were funded by Sequoia and Google, and are based in the Mission district of San Francisco - yes, it's sunny here!

Our cloud infrastructure has been developed from the ground up, and we pride ourselves in its reliability, resilience, and performance (we have a 99.99% uptime SLA). Our wireless access points and routers make network management simple, and our relentless focus on user experience delights our customers.

We’re looking to hire in San Francisco and we have a few positions open in London as noted.

// Engineering

On the front-end, distributed web application lets network administrators quickly sift through historical data, perform diagnostics, and navigate a huge space of possible network configurations through an intuitive interface. Our multi-site, hosted backend system provides services thousands of networks and millions of client devices. Your work will be widely deployed and used by millions of people, and you’ll be able to collect an incredible amount of data about how your code is performing. Our team is small enough that you will work on problems core to our business.

* Front-end: sharp and creative UI engineers who love to work with Javascript, CSS, and Ruby on Rails.
http://www.meraki.com/company/jobs#frontendengineer

* Back-End Systems: familiarity with C++, Ruby or Python, an understanding of databases, and especially experience running a live service or building production systems.
http://www.meraki.com/company/jobs#backendsystemsengineer

* Firmware: fluent in C, some device driver experience, with a love for building new products and things like bringing up new platforms.
http://www.meraki.com/company/jobs#firmwareengineer

// Marketing

* Technical Marketing Manager: excellent analytical and communication skills, a solid technical background, and the skill to tackle a wide variety of activities, such as launching new products, providing technical education to customers and partners, building collateral and competitive positioning to assist Meraki's rapidly growing sales team, and more.
http://www.meraki.com/company/jobs#technicalmarketingmanager

* Frontend Developer: expert level command of HTML and CSS with strong Javascript skills, knowledge of a scripting language, familiarity with back-end application concepts and a strong design aesthetic. (B.S. degree in computer science or equivalent)
http://www.meraki.com/company/jobs#frontenddeveloper

// Support

* Technical Support Engineer: sharp, energetic, technical support engineer who can work closely with many groups within the company, including engineering, to diagnose and resolve critical escalated issues, identify, reproduce, and document bugs.
http://www.meraki.com/company/jobs#technicalsupportengineer

// Sales

We have many openings for sales positions, including inside sales, regional sales, sales engineers, and strategic sales.

Interested? Feel free to get in touch with me: pablo@meraki.com
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"What's changed in the last decade?"

Uh...the need for highly scalable web servers handling tens/hundreds of thousands of lightweight, I/O bound, concurrent requests?
For example: I’m in Firefox and I want to go the extensions page. I hit Alt (to open up the HUD) and type add.

That seems contrived. Will it work if you start typing out "extension"?
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I would add that Bluetooth Low Energy isn't totally free. Somewhere in your cost you have FCC/IC/CE testing, Bluetooth licensing/testing/certification, possible software stack cost and more expensive components (radio, antenna, etc). You also have a larger power requirement as low energy isn't as low as UART. I won't give specific numbers here as I cant't legally, but the cost difference is probably a wash. That's assuming your doing the radio layout and not using a module. Apple's move to wireless is definitely for their sake. I could also see an argument made that because of the possible extra costs for doing Blouetooth Low Energy (chips, testing, power, RF design, etc) you may see less accessories for a while.

In any case I think you're right that the tell tale signs are there.
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I don't mean to imply that that I agree with the author. I agree that it is an amazing thing that only a fraction of the population needs to work in order for us all to live. I also agree with you that society will continue to grow richer for the foreseeable future barring massive loss of human life.

At the same time, unless something changes rapidly, unemployment will rise as low skill jobs go away. If we keep our current societal structure, or continue to cut benefits for the unemployed, we will end up with a more divided society than ever before. A wealthy elite and a starving mass is, to put it mildly, unstable. It doesn't matter that even the poorest will still have an improving standard of living. The perceived gap will be a problem because while society as a whole is "getting richer and more productive," the majority of those gains are going to the top.
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That's why it's called 0x10^c. And the 16-bit CPU supports extended addition and multiplication via ADD/ADC and MUL, so it's easy.
For those that were asking about real systems built with Go.

Canonical used Go to build the backend for the Juju Charm Store: https://plus.google.com/107994348420168435683/posts/fdMcwvCq...
It's worth pointing out (for those who read the HN comments before going to the link) that this article is by Walter Isaacson, who recently wrote a rather popular biography of Mr Jobs. It reads a bit like an errata to the biography, or perhaps an introduction to the 2nd edition. At any rate, if you like Isaacson's style, it's a worthwhile read.

That said, it's full of the same anecdotes from the book, so a less charitable reader might construe it as a "buy my book!" pitch...
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I think he proved that with minecraft. I'd pay for 0x10c right now.
Funny to see this on the same front page as http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3795064.

"[Jobs] pushed Steve Wozniak to create a game called Breakout. Woz said it would take months, but Jobs stared at him and insisted he could do it in four days. Woz knew that was impossible, but he ended up doing it."
That means that a Go program is exactly as close to the metal as a C program, not closer (the C runtime and stdlib use syscalls directly, too - the C runtime is libc).
Since you already brought it up and probably piqued the curiosity of more than one reader (including mine), could you elaborate?
If you want to stick with a language you know, ASP.net MVC and Django are both great full stack frameworks for getting complex stuff done quickly and well.

If you want to go a bit more of a futureproof route, focus on learning something like backbone or ember, and treat your server as an api. In that case, what framework you choose doesn't matter so much, as long as it provides good json serialization and easy data access.
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If you took notes on your setup I'd be very interested.
It's a running joke, because he was voted President of the Internet in a TechRepublic poll a few years ago.
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Guy Kawasaki - The Art of the Start - http://www.amazon.com/The-Art-Start-Time-Tested-Battle-Harde...

Brad Feld - Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist - http://www.amazon.com/Venture-Deals-Smarter-Lawyer-Capitalis...

Dermot Berkery - Raising Venture Capital for the Serious Entrepreneur - http://www.amazon.com/Raising-Venture-Capital-Serious-Entrep...

Jeffrey Bussgang - Mastering the VC Game: A Venture Capital Insider Reveals How to Get from Start-up to IPO on Your Terms - http://www.amazon.com/Mastering-VC-Game-Venture-Start-up/dp/...

William Draper - The Startup Game: Inside the Partnership between Venture Capitalists and Entrepreneurs - http://www.amazon.com/The-Startup-Game-Partnership-Entrepren...
A space that IBM is hoping to own with it's "Watson for Healthcare" initiative:
http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/36989.wss
this is not even close. sounds like the experience will be prestigious enough to get you a much better chance of getting hired anyways vs finishing your school.

you can always go back to school (heh though few do). Opportunities like yours won't be waiting there for you as school will.

p.s) ohyeah if it also helps reverse depressive symptoms...um why are we still discussing this...
listen to your heart.
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