skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The ability to ssh to another system, launch a GUI app, and have it display on the system you're SSHing from has always set Unix+X apart from Windows and Mac OS."

I agree wholeheartedly.

"I can't believe this is being tossed aside so you can have cross-fades and rotating cubes when switching between sessions."

I think you're ignoring most of the motives for Wayland development.

"It's true that network transparency will be possible with Wayland, but it will be some sort of VNC-like pixel scraping approach, which has never worked as well as native X forwarding."

I disagree. For example, xpra (http://xpra.org/) ships images across the wire and works much better for me than X11 forwarding over both local and remote links.

"Network transparency will be a second-class citizen in Wayland."

Just because it's not a part of the core protocol doesn't mean it won't be developed and work well. As the phoronix article says, it is under development right now.

"See [snip] for some more disturbing problems with Wayland."

That looks like trolling. A better link might be http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Wayland-Beyond-X-14320...
Duh. Make that "explanation and address".
nothing like DropBox or AirBnB as yet, however hopefully a few Herokus on the way;)

looking good so far: Twilio, SendGrid (TechStars), Wildfire (fbFund), MakerBot, TaskRabbit (fbFund), Smule/Khush, Viki, Medialets, Zozi, ElaCarte (YC), 9Gag (500), ReadyForZero (YC), several others @ Series A/B/C doing pretty solid.

smaller but growing well: MindSnacks (DreamIt), 955 Dreams (500), PicCollage (500), Kiwi Crate, Visually (500), AppStack, MyGengo, Erply (SeedCamp), GinzaMetrics (YC), Farmeron (SeedCamp), ZenCoder (YC), Fitocracy (500), StyleSeat.

10+ modest early exits to Google, Twitter, LinkedIn (x3), Amazon, Groupon, Cisco, Facebook, ReturnPath, DemandForce, etc.

(apologies to any juggernauts or others i left out!)

DMC
Which login systems do you prefer?
There's the "popular" choices, for sure, but which login accounts you prefer to use, and prefer to have supported when you're a user of a service?:

Choices are (choose as many as are relevant for you):

a. Facebook

b. Google

c. Twitter

d. GitHub

e. StackOverflow/StackExchange

f. custom username/password for the site in question

g. [fill in your own]
At least The Verge et al. credit bloggers.
LOL.

500 Bazillion Startups, yo.
"Not giving credit" is not strong enough. That's the term you use when you pull a quote or a fact without attribution.

This is plagiarism. Or it was. Now it's just lazy writing.
Interesting. As a former desktop OpenGL developer I would also care about vertex texture fetch support and mipmap generation.
There's a distinction between having something taken and giving it freely. Facebook haters have the cognitive ability to make this distinction, but lack the integrity to do so.
Why do you get to say that what he does is contrived? What makes your usage patterns any less "contrived" than his?
My understanding is that they hired a mix of people who were involved in the challenge, not just the winners.

Part of the Stanley team is there, some of the Red team, and I believe even the guy who attempted to make an autonomous motorcycle is working there.
About the "haiku" at the end of the piece...

From wikipedia: "The essence of haiku is "cutting" (kiru).[1] This is often represented by the juxtaposition of two images or ideas[2] and a kireji ("cutting word") between them, a kind of verbal punctuation mark which signals the moment of separation and colours the manner in which the juxtaposed elements are related." Haiku is not three-line bromides with a syllable count.
Easy being defined as "usable by easily confused programmers who don't understand it or the trade offs."

Nice one. That's a deep concept. Programmers and projects generally get themselves into trouble because of a misunderstanding of the trade-offs.

It's rookie programmers who are enamored with a new bit of tech, but don't understand the downsides. It's managers who have an inaccurate estimation of risks and so lack the confidence to make decisive moves.

This is why experience can be so valuable in the programming field. This is the only way to learn about the cost/benefit trade offs.

Maybe "facile" is a better term than "easy" for this, though.
Looks like you just answered your own question.

Do you prefer stronger CS, better weather, and better tech ties or diverse education and non-CS science fields?

I'd say Stanford is much better for CS than Harvard though, right after MIT.
Nope. Still Bing has a more detailed layout.
> But they suck at thinking for themselves.

Maybe they just enjoy the outdoors. Maybe they really get a kick out of building fires and singing songs and making crafts. What on earth does any of that have to do with herd behavior or independent thinking?
There is one part of Lisp which is not transported by looking at code. Lisp makes code data and allows code to transform other code. So what you see might either be the process of some transformation or it might be transformed before it is run. What you see is not necessarily what executes. Also the interactive process during development, its tools, its working with code is not easy to understand by 'looking' at code.
Come on, isn't it nice to see a Rosetta Stone for something that isn't math-oriented?

I think one of Notch's goals with DCPU-16 was bringing back the feeling of programming for computers with very limited specs and little complexity. I think this is proof that his plan is working.
Actually, at present, backing up your own DVD is exempted.
I think you're being hypersensitive. I never said you were messed up for liking facebook, choosing to live in a fishbowl and not attaching any value to your own privacy. You're putting words in my mouth.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3417033
I was going to reply the same exact thing. There are probably 17 dipshits in the world who are "brogrammers" and now the rest of us have to hear about them all the time like it's an epidemic. Dumb.
Louis CK was quite transparent with the results of releasing his standup for $5. Has Aziz provided any insight into his results?
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I've never understood how AdSense produces any revenue at all and I suspect it's some sort of ponzi scheme. When I look at a web page, the AdSense adds are invisible to me and I bet to a large portion of the internet population.
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Are you planning on interning while in school? That would probably be significantly easier (especially at a startup that possibly can't afford to pay as much) if you were in SV.

Not that there aren't internship opportunities at Harvard, but I believe there are more near Stanford (with no evidence to support it, so feel free to ignore me).
Companies in other countries are free to pick a different default; I just happen to primarily deal with US companies who themselves market to a US customer base.

#1 rule for dropdowns should be to pick a sensible default. If I'm buying a plane ticket from JFK to SFO, and Afghanistan is your best guess for my billing address, you absolutely suck at guessing.
This nicely correlated to their Project Glass demo where the guy asks for directions 'inside' the book store. To turn that into a reality, Google will certainly have to crowdsource this info.
They're loud as hell

I work in a semi-open plan office. I was concerned about this last year when I got my Unicomp keyboard.

I've been assured by my peers that the sound is noticeable, but not loud.
On the other hand, there's "coders-wasting-time" culture that's much uglier than "coders coding" culture.
Most likely. As another poster pointed out, what this shows is that our reason--given time to work--can override more instinctual desires to cheat. Part of rationalizing is considering situations, real and unreal, that may influence the outcome. E.g. I may be being observed and if they think I am cheating they may discard me from the pay group.

Without that time you wouldn't consider that "chosen at random" may be a lie. So, to the automatic mind your odds of getting paid are the same whether you pick 3 or 6 but the reward for lying is significantly higher.
A simple heuristic the automatic mind may use would be (roll)x(payout):
6 x 10 = 60 vs 3 x 10 = 30

I'd be interested if the money incentive might have influence lying in the other direction, however. E.g. I did roll a 6, but if I say the maximum number they may not pay me; if I say a lower number they may be more likely pay me.
This could lead to a new rational heuristic including a chance of being paid:
6 x 10 x 0.10 = 6 vs 3 x 10 x 0.50 = 15
The belief that contrarianism is required as proof of "thinking for themselves" is a common logical fallacy. It is logical and valid to consider that someone may think for themselves and, after due diligence of doing so, make a decision which happens to coincide with that of many others.
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Your complaint b) seems to apply to everything recommended by the uxmovement.com site. This is interesting to me because of things like the infamous '41 shades of blue' at Google: http://stopdesign.com/archive/2009/03/20/goodbye-google.html
Decided to wait for next round a few days ago, reading this makes me feel a little better :)
I've never been involved in hiring at a startup, but for 8 years I was involved in hiring as a prof in academia.

In that context, there is a peculiar and consistent gap between the best hiring strategy and the strategies institutions actually use.

For hiring faculty whose main focus is research, the best strategy is targeted attempts to hire superstars -- the research equivalent of a Guido van Rossum, say, or a Linus Torvalds, or someone near that level -- or early-career people where you have very good reason to be confident they will be future superstars.

It sounds obvious to say "go after superstars". But what's strange is that in any given field only a very short list of institutions actually do it. At most academic institutions it's surprisingly difficult to convince the institution to go after superstars.

I think the reason for this aversion is instinctive. If you're hiring it's much more comfortable to go the conventional route, advertising a position, interviewing a short-list and so on. This produces a situation where most of the interviewees want the job pretty badly. This gives the hiring committee a lot of power, which is a comfortable position to be in.

Unfortunately, it also produces lower-quality candidates than identifying the best people and going after them directly. A superstar will be interviewing you more than you are interviewing them. You'll need to get creative in convincing them that you have something to offer, something they can't find anywhere else. This is much less comfortable.

A useful heuristic: if most of your job offers are being accepted, your standards are way too low.
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email is not a private company looking for using you as their product.
I am on Facebook and I don't get Facebook emails. You make a lot of assumptions about the platform you are not using.
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Unlikely the default lint options are going to suit all teams anyway. JSLint/JSHint can, and should be configured for your team's style.
due diligence is much better in the rear-view mirror, IMHO.

our 2nd check is a great confirmation of whether we were right or not... happens ~20-30% of time after 1st check.

"500 due diligence = mentor filters + quick 1st check, followed by thoughtful 2nd check based on metrics"
I'm thinking in terms of having a few small, moving objects on the screen with physically accurate shadows.
I'd like to see an implementation in OrgASM, but it's hard to type with just one hand.
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Well given the way that many US companies seem to have got drug testing for jobs that do not in a million years need it by stealth - maybe kicking up a fuss early makes sense.
... with a discrete link at the end of their rewrite of that article that conveniently includes the punchline and any images or videos they felt would enable them to better hijack your work.
If the freedom you are most concerned about losing is the freedom to lead other people into believing they are your friends when you really don't care about them, you might be a sociopath.
That creates a new session, it doesn't connect you to an existing one, or let you share that session with others.
The point is to reduce noise. JavaScript already has a lot of cruft going on with all its anonymous functions, parens and curlies… anything to reduce the signal to noise ratio is a step in the right direction.
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Sticked to his principles to remain a beacon that reminds us why the foundation he built those 25-30 years ago is still worth fighting for.
Having a Facebook account doesn't force you to either give up your privacy (you don't need to post anything if you don't want to) or to waste your time (you don't need to read anything if you don't want to).

I've got a Facebook account, and I check it every now and then - it's quite a nice way to keep vaguely up to date with what's happening in the lives of people I've been to school with/worked with over the years. I also post occasionally - 90% of my posts are when I'm away on holiday as sort of cheap, mass-circulation postcards. But I've never found myself spending hours at a time on there - a quick skim every now and then when I'm bored is more than enough.

I agree with you that it's a matter of personal choice - I'm not saying that you should have to have a Facebook account but for me, deleting your account rather than simply using it less seems to be a rather sledgehammer way of dealing with it.
So what are your thoughts on the "signaling" issue if you only follow on in 20-30%? What do you recommend the other 70-80% tell investors?
No. There are ways to do indoor positioning indoors: WiFi fingerprinting and supersonic marks.

Triangulation (trilateration) the way it's used in GPS will not work indoors because it's impossible to build accurate signal propagation model – model would be extremely complicated.

On the other hand signal propagation model can be learned via sampling actual signals in different spots on site. There are two ways to sample signals: 1) direct 2) indirect (via statistical models like SLAM)

Positioning can be done by comparing signal strengths from model and actual device and feeding them to some statistical positioning algorithm like particle filter or LSE. These algorithms use not only signal strengths but accelerometer, gyro and magnetic sensors for movement model. Fingerprinting techniques can provide up to 30 cm accuracy.

Huge win of WiFi fingerprinting is that it works on existing consumer-level hardware. But the downside is that you cannot scan WiFi in iOS public API.

There is less accurate way to position user indoors using supersonic marks – and it works on any existing phone.

Companies who do indoor positioning: WiFiSlam, Qubulus, WalkBase, Google, Nokia and we (applying to yc :). Some provide APIs, some are in stealth mode and Google has indoor positioning in some US and Japanese malls and airports.

Personally I think that there is huge opportunity for location-aware apps for malls, airports, parking lots, hospitals, etc and it has not been tackled much by anyone yet.
Was that part of Steve's recruiting schtick? IIRC, that was just internal company culture and not something that Apple HR (or Steve if he was interviewing) would have mentioned.

I do believe he used words like "changing the world", etc. These are more about results than ego. Huge difference.
For instance:

http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/mobile/05/12/google.maps.androi...

Or:

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

> It is annoying because it is incorrect

Maybe some English professor, technical writer, or journalist reading this can chime in and explain how so. It seems to be the standard practice and I intend to use the best grammar and construction that I am capable of, as bad as that may be. This isn't Twitter.
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In my own experience, Facebook is a phonebook of people I am acquaintances with, which offers me a mutual/consensual access into their personal life. It's a communication medium, a social contract, and a social square between other acquaintances. Living in different countries especially (but also with nearby friends), it's an incredibly efficient publication tool for life updates, and an efficient way to stay up-to-date with the lives of many people that you care about (at least a little bit!) and don't have the time to ping all those people for.

It's also a second meeting place. I'll meet someone once or a few times IRL, share an interest or a mutual friend, and connect with them on Facebook. Their profile helps me discover more about them (and vice-versa), and having their updates mixed in with the updates of my other friends lets me learn more about them over time and interact with them if something interesting or important comes up.

To many people, the idea of having nearly one thousand "friends" is baffling and stupid. Yes, it breaks the traditional model of what a friendship actually means, but your interaction in the system enforces the idea of who really matters to you. Because it's a communication platform, you tend to interact the most with the people you care most about.

Has Facebook warped my perspective of privacy? Yes. But I have experienced a lot of value from it, in terms of experiences and interactions that I wouldn't have had if I didn't put out that information about me or provided a medium to interact with 'my life story'.

The default privacy settings are horrifying. But as an individual, there is enough customization so that I can target my content at specific groups of people.
I was just going to say this... the biggest problem with this was the whole reddit/engadget/wired blowup, which led to more mainstream media blow up, and the whole thing avalanched out of control. It's very unfortunate. After a few years this will go the way of the SSC and leave the public conscious but it will still haunt physicists similarly.

The problem with the media blow up is that the public sees this as a public failure by the physicists, when it shouldn't have been. A problem was found in the experiment, and that's what was supposed to happen. It's a testament to the complexity of modern day experiments more than anything.
I do not know much about your summer camps, but I liked camping (as in: sleeping in a small tent) when I was a child with a group called "Naturfreundejugend Deutschlands" which is still organizing vacations for children (ages 7 to 18) without their parents. And I assure you, it has nothing to do with being a "poster children for human herd behavior" or "excellent prison guards". I am all in for thinking for myself.
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I've never heard of these "brogrammers". Perhaps I'm not reading the right blogs so as to be whipped into a proper frenzy.
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Hey now! It's hard enough work putting food on your family without having to promote the people who are doing it for you.
Religion is vaguely similar... but the entirety of my argument is based on the literal social network and the strong ties and attributes that it carries. The value of individual social ties in a larger network.

I don't think that pot is related to this in any way.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3784025
That code was a strange mix of 1/2 Python and 1/2 Javascript.

The Python document points out that input() is the same as eval(raw_input()) but you have to know from something other than the library reference that 'eval()' is a potentially dangerous function.

Python 3.x's has only "input", which is the same as Python 2.x's "raw_input". See http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3111/ .
Different business model? Google caters to highest-bidder advertisers. PointInside works more directly with building owners, like retailers:

http://www.pointinside.com/blog/2011/12/what-google-indoor-m...
Just because things are (or have been) a certain way, doesn't mean they should be that way. We all get a choice.

I do believe though that most social norms are good, not because they're social norms, but because they actually serve people and as such became social norms. But some social norms (as history has shown: slavery, etc.) are accepted by a lot of people not because they make sense, but simply because they are social norms. It's up to each of us to challenge social norms, the right ones will stand up to the challenge, the wrong one's wont.
Oh -- hey. Just to clarify, I found a girlfriend at camp, led my crew of 11 year old boys on panty raids, and became wildly popular after stealing our counselor's beer. My older brother had gotten thrown out for punching one of the administrators. I wasn't unpopular. I just hated every waking minute of it. I just wanted to go home.

You don't have to suck at facebook, or camp - or be unpopular or "no fun", to hate it. I bet some of the kids you looked up to at camp felt the way I did. What I really hate is the feeling that I have to waste my energy putting a good face on something I don't like, and having to act like I'm friends with a bunch of people I don't want to spend time with. When I was 11 years old, that kind of thing was just unavoidable. Now that I'm older, I don't feel like pretending anymore.
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I don't think so. I haven't used them much yet, but everything I recall hearing about them has been good so far.
I'd definitely like to intern - my plan is to do 1 internship at a big company (Google, FB, etc, which would be doable from Harvard or Stanford) and then at a small company (which would be easier from Stanford) and finally at a finance firm (which would be easier at Harvard for Wall Street-esque, and probably a wash for VC-esque).

But then again, Boston has a pretty good startup culture - what I think is interesting is the ratio of prospective startups to prospective funders in each city. Thanks!
It's incorrect for the same reason Apple LLVM or Juniper FreeBSD is incorrect, and it's bullshit because in a thread about Go, people know what Go refers to.

FWIW, the Windows, Plan 9, OpenBSD and NetBSD ports were done entirely by the community.

AT&T C? That's even less specific than Go. What about gccgo? Google/GNU Go? What about the commercial implementations?
It's unnecessary because apps continue to work with little to no modification without semis, it's paranoid because all of the reasons people come up with for why semicolons are important (lint tools? minifiers? bugs?), are all non-problems if you spend a few minutes changing your habits.
But by stopping what you were doing to click that link, didn't you kind of prove his point? That it's more than the application, it's about getting noticed.
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It's only admirable if you agree with those convictions. Otherwise you have to end up admiring people like the Westboro Baptists and the KKK.
Thanks for your help - it's definitely a tough question to answer. While I love CS and I'm sure I'll do something CS-related, I'm concerned that tech firms will look down on a Harvard CS degree as compared to a Stanford CS degree.

I already have strong research and a few good publications in CS-related fields, so I'm not sure if I want to continue the same vein of research or branch out in college.