skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Heh, this is actually a predictable path. He has a BS in industrial engineering, and typically that means you do work in plants in the middle of nowhere where labor is cheap.
Excellent reply. I actually track my time on Personal R&D. Even on HackerNews. It's nice to have an employer that facilitates a continuous learning environment.
Wow, this reporter was horrible. He reminds me of those clients who when you show them the early stages of their site after a few weeks of work, point out everything that doesn't work as a huge the-sky-is-falling catastrophic event that is proof of the project's eventual demise. This reporter got to sit in a car that is doing things that a few years ago still seemed like science fiction and yet he had these niggling complaints:

For now, at least, the car only drives routes it's been trained to drive.

Google is pretty good at mapping things.

Since the Google car only just got its learner's permit, it drives accordingly

I think this is meant as a literal statement. The car is able to drive of its own accord, but needs an adult present who can take over if needed. But did you just say that the GOOGLE CAR HAS A LEARNER'S PERMIT?? That's amazing!

Then there was the jerking halt on a side street caused by a car that stopped a little abruptly almost two car lengths ahead.

If you don't think the software is going to err on the side of caution for YEARS after widespread usage, you are mistaken. Eventually we will be so used to trusting these cars that we will probably be napping on the way to work, so who cares that the car hits the brakes a few more times than it should?

And eventually I'm sure these cars will be a model of efficiency, with fast moving currents of cars zipping here and there. One step at a time.

Surprisingly, one thing the car can't do all on its own is use the turn signals.

Hey, how come when I click this button on my site does nothing happen??? THIS PROJECT IS A COMPLETE FAILURE!!!

If Google can get there before a major automaker beats them to it, I'll be really impressed.

The most preposterous statement of all. Please get the reporter on the line and let me place a bet of Google vs all the automakers combined on who will release this technology is first. Assuming that Google hasn't locked up all of the pertinent technologies, this wouldn't be a fair fight.
If the ads on facebook took over your screen for 5 minutes and forced you to watch them then, yes, it'd be more like traditional media ads. But people have gotten pretty good at just ignoring their sidebars.
Dear Einstein, Do scientists pray?
Is not a matter of high or low horses, but a matter of choices.

"She's crazier than a bucket of ferrets on meth"... love it.

"how much do you think Candice will read?" A bucket of ferrets on meth... none. But that was not the only place the he found the photo.

"and it's going to take a while to teach them about copyright. This is part of the education process."... teaching, that is something that I can agree with. On the other side, in principle I cannot agree with Goya's picture "La letra con sangre entra" (Teaching by punishment, or spare the rod and spoil the child) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:La_letra_con_sangre_e...

If I am in a high horse, then then that kind of "teaching" is egocentric and self entitlement.
There is no mention of the cost per MB. There is however a statement that the process is patented by Seagate which has me thinking the price per unit of storage will be high. Hopefully, assuming the claims made are accurate, Seagate will license the technology at a reasonable cost.
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Try to be productive with the information you've consumed at work. If you read an article about a technology then go home and try to scrape the surface of the technology and write couple of paragraphs about it in your blog/journal. From my experience, you should not be consuming any new information once you get home (maybe in my case I consume a lot at work already). You might not be able to consume as much with this practice, however, you'll put to practice (understand) whatever you consume.
Remember, learning the word doesn't matter, understanding the definition does.
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Here's a tip: don't try to be productive all the time. This leads to mediocre performance, which is generally a bad thing. Instead, give your 100% in everything you do, then when you're tired, RELAX! No articles. No small stuff for work. Don't do any of that. Instead, recharge your batteries for, say, tweny minutes, even taking a quick nap if you want to. Once you're feeling rested, again give it your 100%.

Wash, rinse and repeat, and suddenly you're two times as productive. :)
Anyone buying Facebook at the IPO value are sheep and gamblers.
Nobody's made the obvious point yet:

It depends on what kind of business you're running.

Some businesses benefit from lots of publicity and buzz, and have real barriers to entry. These are generally companies with teams, bigger than a one-man shop (though not always). If it takes months to clone your product and build the right expertise, you can be comfortable telling everyone about how well you're doing.

Some businesses have very low barriers to entry, and the publicity they get in places like HN won't help them significantly grow their business. These businesses should STFU and crank.

Then there are a bunch of businesses in the middle, where there's no right answer and the people leading the company have to make a gut call on the benefits of publicity vs. the risk of getting ripped off. It's business, it's not black and white, and you have to make decisions like this all the time.
I'm sure I'm just telling you things you already know, but I think it's worth reminding. When you want to try to understand the thought process behind someone's actions, put yourself in their shoes.

Okay. So now you're an employee who has been asked by his employer what he needs. Maybe you'd like higher pay/greater compensation. Do you have the bargaining power for greater pay? Would asking for greater pay indicate dissatisfaction to your employer? Maybe you don't want to communicate dissatisfaction. So maybe it's best to just say that everything is fine and keep working until you find a better position.

So maybe now you've found another position with more compensation. Do you hold a proverbial gun to your employer's head and say "greater compensation or I leave"? Is there any acceptable way of asking for more with no real way of promising anything in return?

I appreciate your efforts in trying to keep the lines of communication open, but maybe if you want information, you should give some in return. Something like "we still have $100k left to spend in employee benefits. How would you like this allocated? Pay? Insurance plan? Company party?" Or maybe you can offer choices. "Would you rather we increase 401k matching by 3%? Increase pay by 1%? etc" And obviously give them time to respond (so that they can consider things, discuss things, etc) It might be a pain, but if that's still not acceptable, and you still want more data, I doubt you'll get data asking directly from your employees what amounts to "do you want more stuff?" and "what more stuff do you want?".

If you find success with something though, whether it was something I suggested or not, please let us know!
Yes.

https://developers.google.com/web-search/
What is the best way to contact my elected government representatives to support a change in this area? I am not familiar enough with the laws in this area and don't really have the background knowledge to speak intelligently enough about it to be convincing. I'd really like to do my part on this but am not sure how to be effective.
I didn't say it was malicious, I said that it's misleading. And I suspect that their claims about the percentage of "successful" projects are misleading to many of the contributors. You can imagine some class action lawyer gleefully waiting for the right moment to strike.

I point this out because I want Kickstarter to succeed in the long term. If they don't create a way to discourage projects that ultimately fail, adverse selection could become a real problem.
Why exactly would Kickstarter make unsuccessful projects easily found? Nothing can be done with a project that has been unsuccessful, so Kickstarter is actually providing a better experience to it's users who are looking to fund projects that still can be successful.

The reason eBay might keep already sold, or not sold items indexable is because they just might not care if users find those items. eBay also deals with 'commerce' on a completely different scale than Kickstarter. They sell millions of items, daily I would think. One unsold copy of a book doesn't tarnish the service. As for Amazon, if an item is sold out it doesn't mean the item won't become available at a later point. The shopper can probably add the item to a wish list, find a used version or be notified when the item is available again. You can still perform an action on the item, unlike Kickstarter where there is nothing that can be done with the unsuccessful project.
The Portable MBA in Entrepreneurship is the best reference book for starting a business. Everything you would learn from an MBA condensed for entrepreneurs. I know most people here would say that all the old rules don't apply but taking the unconventional route isn't the best choice in every situation.
I would add this one:

Decision Points - George W. Bush

http://www.amazon.com/Decision-Points-George-W-Bush/dp/03075...
"Christianity" and "Islam" are historical clades of theological doctrine

What's wrong with historical clades of doctrine? How is that different from "Enlightenment values?" (Other than one having a theological origin.)

An example of thinking about causality would be the French decision to cede Saint-Domingue its independence. Critics (inherently conservative) of this decision would postulate one kind of future for the new Haiti; proponents (inherently revolutionary) would postulate quite another. Of course, at the time this or any similar such decision had large numbers of very eloquent critics and proponents; so their arguments are easily discovered, if not obvious already.

So their arguments establishing a causal chain back to a certain system of values is too long to summarize here? I think you'd be able to explain, or I've caught you out with a fallacious tactic for winning forum arguments by tarring opponents with Cabrini Green.

So as far as I can tell, you claim to determined that either revolutionaries or conservatives are simply bad news and you're promulgating a historical science that shows this. I'm still not clear on where the causal chain is established in all this back to a certain set of values.

It's a shame most people don't decide what historical ideologies are "discredited" by a rigorous and objective standard such as this.

I still don't see what's rigorous and objective yet. There's almost always a significant difference between people's stated values and their practiced values. This has often been noted by anthropologists.

Instead, the standard is the inevitable one: the winner is always right. This is the simple, yet remarkably practical, basis on which our supposedly rational faith in the Enlightenment rests.

Why is the standard the inevitable one? I think it's partly because it's all a chaotic mishmash. Almost no one lives up to their stated values, especially those who govern, and most of the evil that happens is rooted in great part in basic human nature.
I like it. I would be interested in seeing if this works for them.
Assuming that this readme is included with torrents of the music being downloaded, then it would be accurate.
I gave up television except for two nights a week. Doing that gave me the time and motivation to work on online classes and to work on side projects.
As a consumer of Kickstarter projects, I don't see why I care that they hide their unfunded (I wouldn't call them 'failed') projects. I can't contribute to them AND those projects don't hurt me anyway: if they don't get funding, I don't lose money.

I much rather wish there were a way to know what percentage of funded projects fail to deliver their product. Are some categories more risky than others? Would there be a class action if, say, the Pebble folks just walk away with their 10 million dollars?
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I wonder if the Patils, Hammerbachers and Rogatis of the world donate sometime for medical research or other social good. How much help it would be.
My premise is that once Facebook's assessment of the net present value of exclusive use of its data is less than a willing buyer's assessment, the likelihood of a sale is significant (it is also a premise that this also holds for Google).

A second premise is that companies which own data may have that data acquired through dissolution, merger, or acquisition; and that in such circumstances the asset may be monetized differently than it is currently.

This may be pessimistic, but betting on the benevolence of corporations is not supported by history.
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The lack of turn signals makes me highly suspicious. There is more to this omission than meets the eye, I am quite sure of it. As you say, adding turn signals in should be straightforward. The computer presumably has its turns planned far enough in advance. So why doesn't it?

I am actually even less inclined to trust these so-called "self"-driving cars now. Not like I even trust the human-driven variety all that much...
Ah I suppose I'm guilty of romanticizing it a bit -- I rather imagined him to be working on an assembly line.
Wake up a bit earlier and do your reading then.

I find it easier to be "productive" after work if what I'm doing is very different to the coding I do at work. I find it very difficult to sit down in front of an editor on weekday evenings, but writing music (or poking at a breadboard, etc) is easy, because it's a refreshing contrast to work. I mostly do my recreational hacking at weekends.

Of course if your heart is set on programming for 18 hours of every day then this doesn't apply.
> what is this "refreshing the page" business all about?

Look at a calender and note the year. Now realize that NSCA Mosaic was released in 1993. Eternal September was in 1993 as well. That is almost 20 years ago. Do you really think that 'refreshing the page' is beyond 99% of peoples knowledge?

That error message does need cleaning up but your target audience are most likely not fetuses, so don't treat them like they wouldn't be able to put their pants on in the morning if you didn't tell them how to in excruciating detail, despite doing it every day, when they visit your site.

Oh excuse me, a 'website' or a 'site' is a virtual location accessed through a 'web browser'. A 'web browser' is a program that is used to access 'web sites' over an interconnected series of networks called 'the Internet'. I know you said you're a developer and may be able to figure this out for yourself but as you said 99.9% of people wouldn't, I wasn't going to take that chance. Was it too advanced for you?

Also depending on the issue 'might be logged out' may be completely correct. Obviously something has occurred that is making part of the webapp believe something has gone wrong, but it probably still has "Welcome [username]" or "Logged In" at the top of the page. Reloading the page is really the only way to verify something really bad is going to happen.
Agreed (I'm the OP). I consider HD3000 to be minimum acceptable graphics. Ivy Bridge has HD2500 in the desktop CPUs which is also (probably) acceptable and I could have stated that exception - but I was trying to keep the post simple for the mainstream audience for whom it was intended.
This seems like a pretty good list of failed Kickstarters:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/katienotopoulos/37-saddest-failed-ki...
Yes, but we're still talking cars that measure metres by metres, and streets with lots of extra room. As you mention, the scene may have changed - so trying to preplan the whole route to the inch will only hurt you. What is needed is basic data above GPS, and I think the Street View lasers can be that.
OK, call me weird but I didn't like these digs. How to articulate what I find wrong with them ... they look banker-y, MBA-y, wanna-be-the-only-way-is-up-lets-meet-after-work-in-a-sports-bar-y.

I like spaces with a lived-in feeling, you should be able to change the places of chairs, tables etc. and not totally screw up the feng shui aesthetic chic of the environment. Also, I hate those cool chairs with flimsy legs, for some reason I tend to break those legs when I fidget on them.

If I ever have a chance to lead a company, I would give a fixed (small) amount of money (e.g. $500) for furniture (except chair, that costs too much) to each new hire, show them an empty space and let them design it. I think a good programmer/hacker would do a great job with this.
"Apple under Tim Cook will embrace efficiency to an even greater degree" - I've never seen a company that starts adding project managers to a process that is deemed "inefficient" but profitable that has led to a long-term improvement. In the short-term things look better with all the new "documentation" of process, but it devolves into managers meeting for the meetings themselves, and the HiPPO syndrome (Highest Paid Person's Opinion).
Might want to add 'Show HN:' to your title to garner a little more attention. From previous experience, 'Show HN' articles get more attention.
So many of the comments here are pointing out the flaws in the reporter's account and, quite rightly, scoffing at their ignorance.

But there's a lesson to learn: he's an ordinary person, and this is what he thinks about the demo!

So don't just dismiss it as completely missing the point. Learn and understand that this is how the normals think. This is an important lesson for we who write code.

This really is how the normals think.

Dismiss and ignore it at your peril and loss.
You don't even need to log in – just visiting a URL sends it to google. I'm not sure if you can even disable that despite all the predictive/protective/suggestive checkboxes in config – I couldn't figure out how to stop my dev domains from being leaked to google until I moved to chromium.
>>> First, failed projects aren’t actionable. No one can back a project that’s already missed its funding goal.

Right. This is common-sense UI design. Why would it be better to see a lot of information that no one can do anything with?

The successful projects also aren't actionable, those probably get displayed for purely marketing purposes. That seems like a pretty normal sales tactic (like testimonials on an infomercial).
The inevitable xkcd link: http://xkcd.com/538/
'Pirate' though, that one sounds cool so we'll accept it. Seriously? They are implying by that greeting that it is not them who would label you as such a thing. Moreover it sounds like they've had it up to here with the major labels and distribution outlets who would call you an actual criminal and mean it.

Also, don't kid yourself. It is a crime (morally wrong, if not outright encoded in law) to download someone else's work for free so that you can enjoy it without paying a dime to anyone (even the artist), unless they're giving it away. You don't even see that page unless you tried to acquire their artists' work for free.
Kickstarter lets you test your idea and get better (accurate) interest metrics. Kickstarter let's innovators set the terms of engagement and not have to chase after some angel investor. In some fields, it is not necessary, but in hardware production, it is costly as hell to start even if you have a good designer, developer and businessman.

The most valuable service kickstarter provides is in gauging real-world interest in your product.

BTW, I am not affiliated with kickstarter, but I did interview with them and we discussed the creation of a job 'open hardware consultant' that would have me try to ensure the success of any open hardware project on kickstarter. From design & development, supply chain, marketing, that job would be a resource much like meetup's constant helpful aides for ensuring successful events. Question their motivations, but they are trying to help 'the little guy' because its in their best interests to.
Where did dogs come from? It turns out we don’t really know
The Art and Science of Cause and Effect - Judea Pearl (1996)
perhaps you can use spec# to specify contracts for methods be even more "checked"
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/specsharp/
Actually I think it's a reference to the traditional mainstream accusation that pirates are all these degenerate criminals lurking to steal your laptop to feed their mp3 addiction.
In 2011, Kickstarter reported its overall project success rate as 44%: http://www.kickstarter.com/blog/shortening-the-maximum-proje...
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Ask HN: Tips and ideas for a new office 
The company I'm working for is moving to a new location up here in Helsinki, Finland. It would be nice to get some general tips on everything that has to do with setting up the new office at the new location including thoughts on:

* Work environment, we are thinking of rooms with 3 - 4 people in each room with the rooms divided by glass walls. We have open hands on how we want to split the big open office. We are in total 23 persons with seven developers. At least us developers want to have static desks.

* The kitchen, the new location has a separate lunch restaurant but we have a small kitchen as well. Currently we have a rotating list who's responsible for keeping the kitchen clean every day (the housekeeper only drops by twice a week) but it just doesn't work that well as people don't prioritize it or are away from the office at a customer.

* Rules on how and when you can disturb someone. Currently it feels like there's a lack of respect in walking in and asking questions or for help. Some companies have "quiet working hours" when you're not allowed to disturb anyone, does it work or not?
That doesn't work. Inventors on Kickstarter need that initial money to create their first product. If we say "no money 'til we have the product," then the inventors will have to go somewhere else to get that seed funding. And then we're back to square one.
I'm kind of glad you did because I realize the intro could be improved to make the scope and audience of the post clear (and acknowledge what else exists but is outside the scope of the post).

I'll improve the intro tomorrow.

EDIT: Added last sentence.
Minecraft is technically beyond most copycats and Balsamiq is in a completely different category.

Actually, there are probably a dozen serious Minecraft clones, some of which arguably have better execution than Minecraft (at least on the technical level), and some of which have realized pretty good sales (FortressCraft sold almost a million copies, from what I remember).

Minecraft does have something that those copycats lack, but it's not just the technology.
I don't understand what a 'anti-habit' is. It sounds like the author is just creating new habits to replace the old ones. Am I missing something?
Guess humor/sarcasm doesn't always come across when written. I lived in downtown Cleveland for a year or two and while Oakland has worse crime statistics it's probably not too much worse. There was someone murdered on my doorstep when I lived there, but I still generally felt safe. It is something to be cognizant of. Even in the good parts of town, I'd hesitate to be outside alone at night, which isn't a concern I have where I live now. And there are parts of town that I wouldn't venture into at all much like anywhere.
I stumbled upon this pdf through one of those random walks through cyberspace. After page 1, I was completely hooked. One of the more interesting things I've ever read, and wanted to share with the HN community. Would love to debate some of the ideas presented here.