skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll throw in another datapoint in here. I've lived in NYC for the last 2 months and have taken NYC taxis only five or six times since mostly everywhere I go is on the same subway line. I used Uber last weekend to get a ride to JFK last minute from Brooklyn and it was a fantastic experience. The price was similar to that of a taxi and I ended up paying much less because it was my first ride and I had both a $20 off first ride coupon (Add it! It's YelpSF, it worked for me in NYC) and I had $15 coupon from something else I don't remember, so I ended up paying barely $30 for a quick cab ride from Brooklyn to JFK.

The driver was extremely friendly, but he wasn't a regular taxi driver, he had a day-time job and did Uber on the weekends and nights only when he needed the money. I thought it was a bit weird since I've read articles on here about NYC's weird medallion deals, but it seemed great for both sides.

Oh, and I forgot: The driver was so god damn friendly it was a weird experience, we had a conversation the entire time to the airport versus being in regular taxis where the driver is on his cellphone talking to someone the entire time.
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and you slept at a Holiday Inn last night?

[edit] I meant Holiday Inn Express
There are people working on those sorts of improvements, but it's not that straightforward so it takes time to get it right.

The reason that it's not that straightforward is that lots of operations change state in your account, so you need proper ordering of requests for everything that comes in if you want to ensure consistency. Furthermore when you do a UI operation you want it to happen now, and anything longer than that is frustrating. But if there is a large IMAP operation in the background, we can't just pre-empt that and re-start it because it might have already modified some state, not all changes are idempotent. So you have to wait, and you experience slowness.

Add in message delivery, various background operations for different features, android sync, different third-party add-ons that hit via IMAP or other sync protocols, and a stack that is more than a few layers deep and it gets very complex, very fast.

Hope that helps,

-Andrew
It makes sense if the point of greenlight is not to discover unknowns, but for Valve to crowdsource researching if a good number of people already want a game to be on Steam without them having to manually research the communities of every game submission they get.
The curator always has a bias, usually a strong bias. At least when it's labeled as an Ad, you know the bias exists and can account for it by visiting multiple sites. The only way to solve bias issues is to get many contrasting viewpoints so you can decide for yourself what the reality is.

I usually have both the query and query + [reviews] open in separate tabs. Either that, or just the reviews query, because that usually surfaces enough ads that I can click through all the major players myself.

I'm rarely looking for a search result that takes me to a place to spend money either, but when I'm not I usually don't get ads either. Check out [jquery touch] or [haskell ffi] or even [gabby douglas] and [us open]. No ads on any of them.
This post exhibits everything that is wrong with standards bodies.
I think different colors/shades for different types and highlighting profiling data for functions could be useful also.
A couple. I can't name names though because I feel like we're obliged to keep applications confidential.

When we miss a good startup, we always go back and figure out what went wrong and try to fix it. One advantage of all the other incubators that have arisen is that when we miss a good company, we at least find out about it. We've changed our application process several times in response to misses.

(Strangely enough, it might actually be net beneficial to YC to have so many competitors, because they're training our filter.)
I just bought the book and the preview chapter is what convinced me that the book was worth owning. The content was new to me and it was obvious you've put in a lot of effort. I'm just at the beginning stages of iOS development and I thought reading your book now will be a good start to get me thinking differently about app development.
Email lists are very, very important. I was also able to market my freelancing book to 2,000+ freelancers on my Planscope list.

I'll second this (along with the scores of people I've discussed this topic with) because I accidentally turned this into my full-time business!

I started my Ruby Weekly newsletter merely with the goal of promoting books and screencasts I wanted to make but it has gone a bit too well and now I have 75k subscribers to speak with. Sadly still no books.. but the training and screencasts have gone well.
As a former magazine editor of 20+ years, I think the idea shows great promise. I agree with your statement in the comments that it might be better used as Expandable Blogging. But try stuff out--see what the market likes!
In a perfect world, you don't even want page 1 -- why show ten results when you really only want one?

And behold, that perfect world exists now: "I'm Feeling Lucky".
Resources like Coursera and Udacity are fantastic. They are how I got started on the path to becoming a professional software developer. They truly do a great job of democratizing education (at least to those with the resources to access the Internet).

I've mainly thought of free online education as impacting the lives of the thousands of students who yearn to learn, but do not have the opportunity to do so.

It's great to see that it's a two way street in terms of impact. Hopefully feedback from students who aren't traditional college students will help humanity broaden its understanding of the world and help us identify biases our academic disciplines may have. And we can all come out better for it.
I'm sorry that trick isn't working for you. As you mention LKML causes slowdown, it's possible that you're getting an inordinate amount of mail. It's also possible you've got an agressive IMAP client that isn't using one of those auth tokens (another common slowdown cause).

As I mentioned in a comment below* if this persists please to post on the help forums. There are people dedicated to helping there, and if it's a legitimate bug the backend team investigates and we fix the issues.

Hope that helps,

-Andrew

* http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4478100
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The CRT I threw out years ago was 1280x1024. It wasn't big then, and a smaller screen isn't big now.

Even if you're on something like an iPad you still have 1024 vertical and end up with plenty of content. Only netbooks and/or low-quality screens have this issue.
Funny you should mention profiling; I was just reading http://blog.golang.org/2011/06/profiling-go-programs.html today. The Go profiler seems extremely impressive.
More useful than LinkedIn?
Nice...I'm still hoping to reach that level.
Surely they wish they were able to allow the n+1'th team to join a given class, but they're busy enough with the n they do select that I'm sure they dont give it a lot of thought. Certainly not regret.

YC's investment is primarily about time and effort, not money anyway.
How do you decide/realize you "missed a good startup"? Profits? Traction?
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The general idea ("bugs found later tend to cost more to correct") is uncontroversial.

It's also accepted that this is a very difficult thing to study. There are so many subjective factors involved that's it's really hard to quantify the data or the results. But it seems to me that if Software Engineering as a wants to make progress methodically, it needs to throw out the old unsubstantiated assumptions in order to make room for new conclusions with a solid basis.
I had to disable ad block to see the same screen and wow what a difference. No wonder Google still looks clean to me - I'm not even seeing their ads.
> Six of those versions are written in assembler specifically for a particular hardware platform. One is a generic C version. Furthermore, as an example, the amd64 version of memcmp alone has optimisations for at least 14 different cases. Everything from 3DNow! optimisations to optimisations based on data size and alignment.

None of those optimizations matter in this case because the average query string parameter name is only a few characters in length and an inlined naive loop with compiler optimizations will be faster.
The wait sounds like a far worse problem than the payment in that case. Steam is flat-out not a good distribution platform for people that are really struggling, and greenlight isn't changing that.
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Yes, you are missing Symbian developers ;-)
You're not getting any of those Steam services for $100. All you get is a Greenlight page. Apple and MS don't charge you a per-game fee, it's for a developer account. That is a significant difference because many developers have a back catalog of multiple games, all with followings potentially large enough to justify a release.

Getting any of the perks Valve offers as part of a Steam release would come later, once you sign a deal, and would probably involve you giving up other things, like a cut of your revenues or paying them up front fees for whatever cert they do. Hard to know since their terms are very secret.
Wow, thanks for that tip. I don't even use my gmail THAT often, but removing the connected apps I don't use has basically made opening my GMail instant (it would take a few seconds on the 'loading' bar previously)
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He's Japanese. When I visited Japan a few years ago, it looked like cartoon-land to me.
You can never find out a private company's revenues, so the best we can do is to go by approximations like how frequently we hear about them, later funding rounds, etc.
This is awesome! This truly is the way forward with technical education. I feel exactly the same way as Neal did.

I'm enrolled at the debut semester of The Flatiron School, a similar program based in New York, and I'm super excited to improve my coding skills.
I do not install ad-blockers. Tried out Ad-Block Plus, but disabled it after a week. Your claim about "most people" installing ad-blockers as soon as they can is completely unsubstantiated.

I don't do that because if a website or web service doesn't respect me as a customer, pushing annoying ads down my throat, I would rather stop reading/using it, which is a form of voting with your wallet. Instead I prefer to reward loyalty to websites that are tasteful and put users interests first. As an example, such a website would be Reddit.

Installing ad-blockers has the reverse effect of what most users want. Ads will become more and more intrusive and difficult to block. And by visiting such a website, you're still giving that website eyeballs, you're still passing links around to your friends, you're still rewarding them for their behavior. It's like hiding the cookie jar from a fat kid, then congratulating him for being fat.

Installing ad-blockers is also immoral, just as software piracy is. I've seen arguments of people that don't think so, but it's hard to justify the piracy of Photoshop when there are free or cheaper alternatives available, it's hard to justify the piracy of MS Office when LibreOffice is available and it's hard to justify using Google Search with ad-blockers when there are alternatives like DDG.

If you don't like the ads served, just don't freaking use the service/website in question. It's amazing how self-entitled some people are.
>But the more important fact is that investors, who are the lifeblood of this entire market, got fleeced, and that's long-term bad.

Bullshit. FB/Zuckerberg didn't lie in the prospectus. It was all laid out there and the writing was on the wall.

I also own shares (at a slight loss / breakeven). It wasn't fleecing in the least.

Same with GroupOn. Anyone who feels "fleeced" there is an idiot.

Any "damage" done to the tech sector by Facebook's IPO is probably a net positive for Facebook if it increases barriers to entry. So, they win there, too.
Yeah was surprised a few of these names hadn't come out yet.
Your sense of security is somewhat unfounded. In the US if someone breaks into your online bank account and steals all your money, legally you're on the hook for the loss unless you can prove the breach occurred on the bank's side.
44.8 gig mail history. No speed issues, whatsoever.
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I prefer doing some backups manually and automating others. I usually manually backup my projects/files on a flash stick/external hdd/NAS/dropbox. I don't have anything against CVS - I regularly use git and svn. Given git's snapshot based model, I think if it's on git it's probably not neccessary to create snapshots and storing them (rar/tarballs etc.).

In terms of environment, I prefer to create a folder and store installers and patches (ex. environment/dev, environment/install) - specifically the most recent ones.

A lot of devs I know prefer to doing their development on virtual machines and backing up the entire VM (think isolated dev environment). I personally, find it too slow. I prefer having everything I need available in order to do a fresh install if required (some other OSes tend to optimize for current hardware during installation).
Crazy idea: what if you could also pay with time? I'm imagining a screen that the user has to interact with, in some boring way, for some amount of time. You'd need something to discourage cheating of course.
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I believe the appropriate phrase is "Shine on, you crazy diamond."

I'm impressed by the amount of work he's put into his software and depressed by his condition. I hope that I could be as prolific under similar circumstances. :)
Why not use temporary short-lived MACs, in a way somehow like IPv6 temporary addresses?
Excerpt:

"...Established companies in an industry are naturally resistant to disruptive innovation, which threatens their existing capabilities and cannibalises their existing products. A collection of all the businesses which might be transformed by disruptive innovation might at first sight appear to be a means of assembling the capabilities needed to manage change. In practice, it is a means of gathering together everyone who has an incentive to resist change.

"The executives of music companies, film studios and book publishers did not rush to embrace the opportunities offered by new channels of distribution. They saw these technological developments as threats to well established business models in which they had large personal and corporate investments. And they were right to think this. So convergence was accomplished by groups such as Apple and Amazon, which had no similar vested interests to oppose change, These companies succeeded precisely because they were outsiders.

"Economic growth is held back by industries where established interests are so powerful that disruptive innovation can be staved off for ever. Financial services is probably one. And education another. I think often of the contrast between the power of information technology to transform the process of learning, and the little progress that has been made towards actually doing so."
lol

(and yeah, I know this is probably going to hammer my HN karma all the way to the bottom but...lol man)
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Is there anybody know where to find events like this startup school(except by reading post of HN)?
is there a link to previous years' video?
FBI having a data dump of an iOS app's users isn't an extraordinary claim.
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It is against policy:

http://support.google.com/adsense/bin/answer.py?hl=en&an...

I'll ping folks internally. If you look at the button with Developer Tools, it's one single giant image that's an ad for Download Manager. The advertiser stuck a Download button on it and is presumably running ads on sites where you download things.
Yes! I would like to know a bit more about the tools used to create the ebook too.
I use Dropbox, I'll tell you why:

- It integrates nicely with Ubuntu's unity UI. You get a nice tray icon that shows when files are being uploaded / downloaded, what % the transactions are at, how fast they're going, ETA, etc.

- It never ever fails to work.

- It begins uploading files as soon as they're added to a Dropbox folder.

- It allows you to restore deleted files via the web interface.

- You can easily share files by right clicking folders in Nautilus.

- It syncs across as many devices you want (multiple laptops, desktops, etc.).

I've tried many options:

- Manual backups via rsync, tarballs, etc. This is generally a bad idea as they take work to setup each time you format your system or get onto a new box, and that's just one more chance for error.

- Ubuntu One. This is essentially a ubuntu sponsored Dropbox. In my experience it is VERY buggy. If you have more than 100 or so files backed up it will act oddly: won't immediately backup files, will download only some of your files, crashes often and stops uploading / downloading backups silently (without any messages).
Conferences are a way for BigCo employees to get a few days off work on the company dime. You can have a lot more fun (even productive/educational fun) with $3k if you get to choose how to spend it.

BigCo employees are restricted to wasting money on conferences because it seems like a legit use of funds.
I would never attribute 'sexy' to a website.

Stylish and functional, I'd suggest you take a look at lifehacker.com . Functionality wise, it depends on what's appropiate for the type of website. There's a reason why portal websites are rarely being used (except on say, company intranets). Stylish I would attribute to a lot of things including layout, conciseness, typography, certain interactivity, considerate and a few others including things like support for graceful degradation where appropiate.

A website in my eyes is something someone visits with predetermined intentions looking to satisfy themselves within a specific niche. This described behavior doesn't differ from real world examples such as when you go to a supermarket to buy food.
And because you're dishing out a weekly email, you're keeping the list healthy and motivated.

I've made the mistake (and I know a lot of other's have too) of: build email list, silence, silence, silence, SELL SELL SELL. ...And then Mailchimp contacts you about your unsubscribe rate being too high :-)
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There are many ways, but you could also do something like this:

<script>
$(document).on("click", "p", function(event){
if($(this).hasClass("expanded"){
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else{
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<p class = 'expanded'>
<div class = "big">click to collapse this</div>
<div class = "small">click to expand this</div>
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<p class = 'collapsed'>
<div class = "big">click to collapse me</div>
<div class = "small">click to expand me</div>
</p>
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Joeycfan, buddy, you've been hellbanned for almost 1,000 days ever since your comment here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1000770

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It's not written in stone that you need 2 QA analysts, a project manager, a developer, and a build master to fix a bug.

Well - that depends. For plenty of large software engineering projects (think aerospace) it's a given that you'll have that organization many times over.

On the other hand, a web startup may produce a high-quality shipping product with just two or three devops. The number of "lines of code" may even end up being similar between the two deliverables.

The code that gets burned into an ASIC requires a completely different set of development considerations than a non-critical "make deploy_production" web service.

But how do you quantify all these confounding factors?
But they too were once uncool, and it's hard to turn down exclusivity when it's offered.
I think XC is a shared-nothing but globally consistent system. This lets you get some scaling up to a handful of nodes (maybe, charitably, a dozen...or two or three dozen), but as something that gives you ACID it is bound to have contention on the transaction coordinator at some point.

I'd say it is closer to Oracle RAC in the space of use cases, without some of the nutty (but very impressive, and expensive) engineering to get this "shared-something" tradeoff RAC has.
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I really, really like this. I've been a fan of Twilight/ir-black style themes for a while, but could never find one with the perfect ratio of contrast to visual noise -- especially for console Vims. Now I have.
I don't get it. Are you arguing that one should not be able to adjust their respect for a person based on that person's political leanings and/or lack of literary taste?
A few days too late, sigh. If I had time then, I would have written this...

I really think the hypothesis "We hate everything the US do and all their close friends" fits better as an explanation for the left's double standards. (Even without considering the venom against equally uneducated right wing extremist idiots.)

Disclaimer -- I only know Sweden well, but similar positions are seen also in English.

Here the media are very left leaning and tend to straight out censor pro-Israeli news and negative information about Palestinians.

Swedish media never mentioned e.g. Pallywood and the same goes for news about torture between Palestinian groups. UN's Ban's recent Iran criticism in Teheran was mangled in the translation(!) -- that is quite typical.

And so on.

It is just hard to not see my local left wingers as propagandists in this question. Often even filled with hate.

(Swedish media is why I follow this subject, I grew up believing them -- and I'm totally disgusted by now. The Mid East is a good test of Swedish media.)

>>I think the left would object to the notion that the justice system should have anything to do with punishment; its goals should be the prevention of crime, which is served a little bit by deterrence, and much more by reform.

I know all about this -- Sweden. These are the questions that are never answered:

The left seriously argue against both the existence of game theory and the existence of uncurable psychopaths?

Is the left really aware of that many crime victims gets their lives destroyed?
By the same standard you wouldn't pay much attention to Freeman Dyson - http://www.sns.ias.edu/~dyson/ - or John Nash - http://web.math.princeton.edu/jfnj/ - either.

I have noticed that many of the best academics seem to like having horrendously appalling websites that look like they were built for NCSA Mosaic. I suspect that there is an in-joke I am missing. They probably have a contest to see who can construct the worst one.
I'm not sure where I saw it, but I once saw a blog post that just had the main line of each paragraph bolded, and at the top said "For the TL;DR read the bold bits"... as much as random bolded sentences through an article can be kind of annoying, in some circumstances it works quite well.

Also easier than clicking each paragraph to see the point.
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