skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sorry butI just have to call BS. First of all, CS degrees are not only attainable by those that learned CS at a young age. OK, whatever. Then we dismiss compilers, algorithms, etc as useless optimization ... Right, because the only practical things in this world are more useless blog engines written in RoR? Come on.

Secondly, we're treated to this business how all these RoR bootcamp grads are making $79K or something, OK great ... If you keep pumping out people that simply reach the bar of "can build a Web app from following tutorials on RoR" at such a rate, how do you think that's going affect this salary? You're going to flood the market with people that don't know very much, to just be honest about it and without sugar coating.

Then we get this to "full stack" stuff about how you should want to learn as much as possible .. well except for that nasty CS stuff, yuck! Make sure you only focus Web MV* framework du jour ... Seriously?
How climate change got caught in the culture wars
What are you comparing to? Windows 95 was a lot better than Windows 3.1 (or 3.11 for Workgroups), and 100% compatible with 16 bit apps as well as 32 bit apps.

98 was a refinement, but also introduced FAT32. 98SE was rock solid refinement on that. (FAT32 technically came in an OEM release of Windows 95 but wasn't available to most users.)

NT 3.1 isn't on your list but it wasn't particularly good because it was really a 1.0 release. NT 3.51 was excellent.

Windows 2000 was rock solid. You could do suspend & hibernate reliably.

XP is notable because it was effectively a merge of the compatibility of the Windows 9x line, with the kernel of the Windows NT/2K line. The UI changes were not widely lauded, but were only superficial and easy to turn off.

Vista had many good technical changes under the hood especially in the kernel. Up to that point things had been engineered for being severely resource constrained. For example the default disk cache size in XP is 10MB! Networking was redone etc. It did finally take advantage of "excess" hardware. There were also UI changes that were pervasive, but still very rough, so you had to use them.

Windows 7 was a refinement of Vista, getting rid of remaining baggage and with the polishing the UI changes feels more usable.

Windows 8 has core architectural changes that don't matter to x86 users (support for ARM), and has structural UI changes to support a different application architecture (apps that will run on x86 and ARM and desktop and tablet). There is no one today who has apps they need to run on x86/ARM/desktop/tablet, but if Microsoft didn't put this support in then the apps would never exist - they had to start first to solve the chicken and egg problems. And it turns out that Microsoft would like its own apps to run across the x86/ARM/desktop/tablet range (think Office, Outlook etc). Anything they did would be problematic. If they let you run in pure "desktop" mode only, then all system apps have to be implemented twice - once for desktop and once for tablet. So you end up with a chimera of desktop and tablet, but every user will have a learning curve. However once over that learning curve they will be productive on other Microsoft properties such as the phones.

There is no easy way to do what Microsoft is doing which is a major overhaul of application architecture with all eyes on the future, not the past. Everyone else who has ever done it has had massive complaints too - MacOS X wasn't well received, neither was Gnome 3 or KDE 4. The developers all kept at and several point releases later it becomes the new norm.
There are a number of reasons, the dominant one being, sharing my outlines with other non-emacs users, especially non programmers.
It seems that people would like to think that cathedral > bazzar is like waterfall > agile, but I'd also posit that it can mean walled garden > OSS... the iphone is a beautiful object, I am also post 90's so I've never been involved with a cathedral project, but I see his point.

On the other hand, why can't I watch a flash movie on my iphone? Sometimes it'd be convenient to do that. I think it's funny that there is no engineering restriction on being able to do that, it's simply an effect of cathedral vs. bazaar culture at apple. In fact people forget that the true cathedral would be an iphone without the app store, as Jobs had originally envisioned.

I definitely don't agree with the assumption that the cathedral is always better and preferable.
Here are my unimportant wishlist items:

* a stand alone app that syncs with either your service and/or remember the milk.
* optional mark up
* an option for a more keyboard-driven flow.

Even without those features, I think it's a fun app and I enjoyed how hassle free using this was.
I understand what you mean. My mom has been running Ubuntu for 4 years now and loves it. She handled the Unity transition well too. Last year however, her hard drive died and my cousin let her borrow a windows machine. She hated that thing. I didn't hear the end of how unfriendly and how annoying everything is. I was laughing because that is exactly what I was hearing from ex-Windows users trying to use a Linux desktop.
Whether you think it's a good reason is up to you, but the reason the system clock isn't on screen persistently (it appears if you move into the corner) while a Metro app is active is because of the core design principle that says apps get 100% of the screen and system chrome gets 0%. Of course apps are free to incorporate their own clocks :)
This article made me think of profitable Internet companies in two categories: 1) content monetizers / producers 2)software projects making apps

I think engineers admire apps more than content. But money and fame can be made with either.
"Within a week, trees were in short supply."

If you're implying minecraft in general, then yes. Otherwise in this particular case, resources seemed to be all finite.
YC gave money to 9GAG, nope.gif
I mentored a couple of the students at DevBootcamp in the last class, and I have to say that I've never seen people completely throw themselves into something as much as these guys did. They really jumped head first into it, with a passion.
Also depends on which company, and who you are. There are companies that go into accelerators after raising money, with great traction, etc. If you're just out of school or bigco and NOT a potential founder right now, doing 50/1 for 2 years to build great experience might be worthwhile, although pushing for higher cash comp once the company raises >$1mm or so might be reasonable.

From what I've seen of YC W12 and S12 companies, there are >10 where I would have done $50-70k + 1% to work there for 2-4y, back when I was 25, and absolutely after leaving school.
bird researcher ... who would question the cavalier application of the word 'consciousness' to more-or-less arbitrary bird behaviors

Yeah, despite all your defensive text, you haven't actually been tracking recent research if you come up with a statement like this.

Ironically, you call as your line of authority some of the kinds of professions who signed the declaration you later denigrate. I guess you could go 'No True Scotsman' on them and say that they're not real neurobiologists...

In the "best" case you will choose some behavior (such as preening in a mirror) and flatly assert that it is consciousness

Seriously, you're simply strawmanning something you don't like. 'Flatly assert'? Utter strawman.
Most of this boils down to "It's shit". Have you used it?
Ask HN: Looking for an apartment in San Fran. Can anyone help?
I live in Australia but, will be relocating to San Fran in two weeks. I have been trying to find an apartment online. Unfortunately, there are way too many scams out there and it is very hard trying to filter down between real & fake postings.

I have tried looking through many different listing sites (including the usuals such as cl etc..).

I don't know anybody in San Fran so, need to find and lock in something before I get there.

I am looking to be around SOMA, Rincon Hill, Downtown etc...

Can anybody recommend any real estate agents, apartments or legit websites that I can use?

Thanks,
I would say advertising on previous apps, creating a facebook page and supporting users, strategic naming/branding, are all part of marketing, but still a good story. Maybe you meant to say outsourced paid marketing?
A facebook copy-cat does come out in weird fashion, fascinating :-)
There's not an "old school mode" in that the Start screen will always replace the Start menu and there's no way to reverse that without installing third-party software for it. You can choose to only run desktop apps (and set the file associations to desktop apps) and the experience will be 95% the same, though.
Cool. Do you think the intro I added resolves the confusion?

"Hi, I’m Michelle. I recently left my job as a technical consulting manager and joined my best friends and my fiancé, Kyle, at Keen.io (I wrote about that here <link>). This is the story of how I negotiated my compensation."
A spokesperson for AWS confirmed this for me for an article [1] I wrote for Wired: "For a single request the billable peak rate is the size of the archive, divided by four hours, minus the pro-rated 5% free tier."

[1] http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/08/glacier/
> A few other things. The price is $19 not $25.

The OP has been changing the pricing around, it was $25 earlier :)
I sometimes get the same ones at work! It's the crawler from the Baidu-search-engine checking if the printer is a web-server.

I contacted ITS about it (obviously, you shouldn't be able to print from outside the university) but they haven't really given it any work. It surely is a security hole, and a minor waste of ink & paper.
Nice. It would be nice if there were more key bindings. For example, up/down (or j/k) to move up and down the list. Spacebar could mark an item as done. Etc. I like the simplicity. Also ? should display key bindings.
A couple of things come immediately to mind...

There has to be a way to weed out the mediocre. Some companies choose to do it in this manner.

Some companies choose this path to reduce employee cost by sorting the salary sheet by salary descending and chopping off the top.
There goes my 50$, hope to see this through :-)
Fair enough, as long as you're going into this with open eyes. It's not like most risks that startups take; inherently, most people wildly underestimate the risk that a personal relationship will go sour down the road. (If we didn't, a lot fewer people would get married.) I'm pretty sure if you ask most folks getting married what they estimate their chance of staying together is, they'll pick a number higher than ~50%.

Even if she's reporting directly to the CEO now, that raises its own questions, in particular for other employees. If I'm at her same level, do I feel like I'm going to get a fair shake if she and I are gunning for the same promotion? Down the road, as the organization grows, is she forever tied to reporting to the CEO? How do you ensure there's never a quid pro quo exchange that opens you to a lawsuit?

It's those kinds of questions that scare most organizations away from having direct reports romantically involved. It's especially fraught in a relatively unstructured organization like a startup where things like promotions and org changes can be fairly sudden and subjective.
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Yeah, I suppose the story should have said "no PR or advertising". We definitely got some serious success using these techniques, but we didn't pay for ads, or do any traditional marketing.

On a related note - I wish there was an ad network that would let you target by operating system (as analytics do). Then makers of native apps for Mac, Windows, etc. could actually purchase advertising! Anything like that exist?
It does have a few export options but I can understand your point.
The following things are "infinite" if you forbid exploration into new areas:

* Water

* Lava Flows (Sources are finite)

* Wood/charcoal: if you have enough saplings and dirt.

* Cobblestone: if you have lava and water in the correct arraignment

* Wheat: if you have enough seeds and dirt

* Fish: if you have water

* Neutral-Monster items: for those monsters you can breed if you maintain the habitat

* Aggro-monster items

I believe that's it
I have no problems with Windows 8. Yes the start button is now full-screen, yet I hardly have to use it -- but I actually find it useful so I do. I am not confused in the slightest by Metro, just as I'm not confused by OS X's gestures, launchpads dashboards and mission controls.

With every Windows release these rants come, yet with actual real world use I find all of the problems have easy workarounds so what's left is a faster, leaner, smarter operating system.
That's wrong. The crowdfunding exemption of the JOBS Act is precisely an exemption to the rules that restrict investment in start-ups (really in any company not registered with the SEC) to accredited investors. There will still be restrictions—for example, only companies raising $1MM or less qualify, and nobody can invest more than a certain fraction of their annual income. See Title III, Sec. 302 of the act [0] for details.

0. http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112hr3606enr/pdf/BILLS-11... [PDF]
In summary, use cherry-pick to apply specific commit diff's (by hash) to a new branch. Makes perfect sense. I also use this technique all the time with github projects where I just want a bug fix or two from someone else's fork.
"The Metro interface is Windows 8. The desktop that you’re used to is also there, but it’s built as a separate app. Think of it this way: Metro is the shell. The desktop is an app within that shell. If you want to start Steam, you’ll want to launch the Desktop app, and then launch Steam.

This is insanity. This is Windows 8."

He then goes on to mention how the desktop is a second-class citizen, most programs default to the metro version, and core OS features are metro-only.
Alternatively, you could look at the state of Zynga/social games as analogous to the video game crash of 1983, which was largely caused by a deluge of poor quality products from hastily financed startups.

From the standpoint of the core gaming demographic, the free to play browser based gaming space looks wide open (see Riot Games/League of Legends, Kixeye, wargaming.net, bigpoint).
It's different in SF than NYC: we have a totally dysfunctional transit system AND shitty traffic (on purpose, due to "transit first"; they just forgot to actually use the pressure against cars to build a transit system people who can afford cars otherwise would want to use).

Facebook did the $500/mo rent subsidy in downtown PA thing for a while (2008?), but this just had the effect of raising all rents in downtown SF (within a 1 mile radius) $500. Which I hated, since I didn't work for FB.

I think it's reasonable to encourage people to have a short commute. It helps the company -- people are more likely to put in longer hours, or irregular hours, if they don't have an hour long commute through traffic to look forward to every time (my current commute takes between 40 minutes and 2h, depending on exactly when I leave. A 0900 VC meeting on sand hill basically means I need to wake up at 0500, whereas an 1100 meeting means I could theoretically sleep until 0930.)

The difference was FB was paying market+ salary, so the housing subsidy was an extra perk. In the case of offering $70k salary + $12k, I'd really just do $82k; $70k is enough below market that you don't get considered by some people.

For really early stage companies, I do like the rent house and live/work there, for 6mo. That's one of the things I regret about current startup, not doing that. (we actually live in oakland, sf, and south san jose, with an office in mountain view; it means driving 40k miles/yr each, which is stupid.)
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Care to elaborate on what it is? At work we looked at Yammer, some people use it and others don't. However, my impression awhile back was "great another facebook but for work". (I mean no offense to it, I am honestly interested in how you view yammer.)
I'm almost afraid to tell you this given how important the title "programmer" seems to be to you... but the barrier to a stable, enjoyable, productive and well-paid career as a programmer is very, very, very low. Much lower than any other science or engineering field that I can think of.
Luckily, HN comment sections are not the alpha and the omega.

A lot of people merely clicked the "up" arrow and refrained from comment, and so far about 3000 of the post's readers have clicked through to our main site ;)
Services shared via Back to My Mac aren't directly accessible from the internet at large. Services shared using Wide-Area Bonjour are publicly exposed.
Fraud in Film - Oxymoron Entertainment, Christopher Mallick and Epassporte.
Did you just rip off appcubby's website? http://appcubby.com
I agree. The problem is that the things I would pay for -- no one else would. I'm the type of person who would rather pay extra for television with no commercials at all. (I actually don't watch TV, but that's just an example).

One thing I'm wondering is: what if Instagram had charged $0.99 for their app? Would it be where it is now? I would certainly pay, but I'm not sure everyone else would. Or even Youtube. Would Youtube have succeeded if they charged for access?
I think DBC is great because of the mindset that it fosters in its students - that you don't need to go through the standard CS program in order to hack, and that anyone with passion for making "cool shit" can do it.

I believe that not having a degree shouldn't deter anyone from going into a programming career. However, it's inaccurate to say that going through DBC will make you successful in the industry. Even with the wide range of topics covered in DBC, in ten weeks there's no way you can acquire the depth or span of knowledge that people have coming out of a 4-year CS program.

Personally I'm having a hard time forming an opinion - DBC motivates you to learn interesting and practical things outside of a CS degree, yet doesn't that defeat the purpose of doing it on your own? Also what constitutes interesting/practical? Some might say compilers, algorithms, and optimizations. DBC trains you for a specific area but that is really a small subset of the whole.

Also, from knowing someone at DBC I'm pretty sure that they did ajax calls with jQuery, not actually creating the XMLHttpRequest object.
Afford a 10Gbps connection? You can buy 1Gbps transit for under $1/Mbps, and much less at 10Gbps. So, with a monthly bill of, say, $5K, for the 10Gbps IP, $22k is not quite "chump change".
I wonder if anyone on Hacker News has a contact at Apple that could help with the mountain lion upgrade issue?
We had this problem when I was still at high school. It worked for the most part, but when us photography students started printing to the photo printer all hell broke loose. Things would frequently take 30+ minutes to go through the Pharos print server. At the time they had just hired a new IT guy so we asked him if he could set the printer up on our personal laptops (we only had 3 workstations in the room). After much frustration he managed to get it running, except he accidentally set them up to print directly to the printer, not via the print server. Magically things started popping out after a minute or two, which got the teacher inquisitive. Eventually they realised that we weren't being charged for printing anymore when the print information had our personal computer usernames rather than ID numbers but couldn't blame us as they had set it up themselves. After being told not to do that anymore, we all just set up secondary users with our ID numbers so it all looked legit.
Yeah but also how do you find the specific commits once they have been squashed. They are in the .git/logs/HEAD file.
I had a very similar idea a few weeks ago, since I usually track to-do lists in a text editor anyway. But my idea (and what I would recommend) is no modes. There's no reason you can't have the normal UI act like a giant textarea. The really important part is supporting tab/shift-tab while doing this.
org-mode has a number of export options, including html (C-c C-e)
I'm not talking load so much as network traffic. Companies like Amazon and Google have huge peak hour outbound traffic during US waking hours, and then a huge dip during off hours. If they can push more of the traffic into those off hours they can make the marginal cost of the bandwidth basically zero.

So if you make a request at peak hours (say 12 noon ET), they just make you wait until 11 PM ET to start downloading, shifting all that bandwidth off their peak.

Even if you're just "flattening" the peak, when it comes to both CPU and bandwidth, that's a major cost reduction since their cost is driven by peak usage and not average usage in most cases.
Well, I reckon it's pretty good.
Pro tips to alleviate some of the gripes I see here:

Shift-click a pinned icon to start a new instance.

Use the Windows key on your keyboard. Start typing to find an app.

Press the Windows key again to toggle back to whatever was just open.

Winkey+F to find files instead of apps.

Winkey+D for desktop, always.

Winkey+L to login/lock screen, where you can shut down.

Get rid of the mandatory password/pin by not signing in to your Windows Live account. Better yet, never sign into it in the first place.

Don't use Metro IE, Mail or Messages if you want to use desktop apps for those. If you want to use mostly desktop, don't try to mix in Metro apps.
Actually, it's somebody searching for an open proxy, note the inclusion of http and hostname in the GET. The baidu crawler wouldn't be so ridiculous as to request its own homepage from your server. Somebody is testing to see if they can get your server to proxy to baidu for them.
Great advice referencing Padmapper and Lovely, along with essential rental tips: http://jasonevanish.com/2012/05/20/sf-startup-survival-guide...
A look at which sub-Reddits have the most active users over a 24-hour period
Interesting that most of this boils down to 'its different'

I'm not sure that's fair. I'm reading three types of complaint that aren't simply "it's different":

1. It takes more steps to do things. That's not just different; it makes the UX for those tasks objectively worse, at least for a person who already knew how to do them.

2. The UI is designed for touch and is inefficient with a mouse.

3. Useful functionality, such as being able to have certain types of applications side by side or run multiple instances has been removed.
Absolutely true. The other big reason to charge is you'll get dramatically more honest feedback from users about what to improve. Feedback on a free SaaS: "oh, that's nice". Feedback on a site costing $20/month: "I won't buy till you fix X,Y,Z".
That's not actually true BTW - desktop apps like Steam or whatever get pinned to the Start screen just like other apps, so you can just click on their tiles to open them directly.
Did you read the quote I replied to? Underscored for clarity:

> - Start menu gone, wtf? _____Yes I do use it, and yes I do still click on it with my mouse to find certain things_____.
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Even though it is a non-profit, I _think_ the donation is not considered a tax write-off because the donor is receiving something in return: a photo, a sticker, a T-shirt, advertising (blog post).