skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just check out `:help index` when you get bored, scroll some random amount down, and use a new thing or two that day.
As someone who graduated from the last class (S12) I definitely take issue with the "too much polish" on slides comment. PG tells us many times to NOT spend weeks making a pitch deck because it will likely change dramatically during practice. Sure, we are coached and our pitches evolve, but this happens over the course of a few days and we still keep our slides extremely simple because we have 2:15 to speak.
Zynga experimented with that by having a gaming portal that bypassed FB entirely. It seems to be attract almost no traffic.
passion?
> advances others (the turn-by-turn experience)

I hope you're not talking about the "fly around" view when turning a corner, because that is the most useless feature I've ever heard of for turn-by-turn navigation. NO ONE should be looking at their phone while making a turn.
What the fuck kind of retarded vertical resolution is 1136?!
My entire beginning programming class had to install Ubuntu and no one even complained about it, with all the various computers in the homes of 60 novice students. Some installed it on their laptops, no connectivity problem. We did a lot of stuff on it, including surfing, coding and watching movies. No software issues whatsoever.

Look, sometimes people have a lot of issues with Windows too. No OS is perfect. But those are not very common instances. I think you are just not lucky.
They're non-fiction?
Totally fine with the feedback. Thanks for checking us out! To address your point though, we've actually found that we have a pretty awesome mix of users that consists of both early adopters and more "normal" people. For example, my dad loves movies and gadgets but never reads any tech blogs or hears about this stuff normally. He likes using our site because he can hear about things he is interested in but normally never wouldn't have been exposed to. But again, thanks for the feedback; user acquisition is obviously always an issue.
I'm Maria Popova, and This Is How I Work (and produce BrainPickings)
I used to like watching the keynotes. Mr. Jobs is gone. Without, his salesmanship, the keynotes are not as interesting. That might not be the right word. I actually can not put my finger on it.
sarcasm requires an explicit markup on the internet.
I believe they get their updates from TomTom. The routing around traffic was actually a bit better than Google's in San Francisco the few times I used it side-by-side.
"It this something that would have happened with Steve at the helm?"

Do you think Apple hasn't been working in this direction since before Steve left the helm?

Placebase acquisition: Jul 2009

Poly 9 acquisition: Jul 2010

C3 acquisition: Aug 2011
http://www.teeth2white.com/
Yes, you've hit the nail on the head, my reactions to NFC before it became good is the same reaction I had to touchscreens before they became good.

The reason why the iPhone was revolutionary wasn't because it had a touch screen it was because it didn't suck. When NFC stops sucking I'll stop saying it sucks.

I thought bump was awesome too, then I realized how inconvenient it was. I could hand you a business card, or I could fiddle with my phone, show you how to download the app, etc. NFC is bump with out the bumping. It's still too fiddly.

The iPaq, Newtown, Palm Pilot, and the Android G1 were solutions in search of a problem just like the current incantation of NFC is.
Radically simplified the parse result handling in Fexl.
iTunes may have become a bloated mess, but it's one of the key reasons for the success of the iPod and by extension the iPhone.
I don't identify with your problem, but I totally believe that it's a problem. I was at Disrupt and saw a lot of really cool companies solving real problems. That said, I also saw a lot of sexy apps and sites that really aren't addressing problems at all. They do cool things, look nice, and work well, but they really aren't addressing problems. Thoughts?
Well... yeah! if you get some other core parts of scrum right then nobody should be burning out. Time boxing and point estimation are about figuring out what your team's sustainable pace is and using that to avoid burnout. Scrum isn't about developing faster its about working toward more sustainable and predictable development. If your management doesn't understand that and respect it no methodology will fix your problem.

I admit as someone else mentioned that sprint was a poor choice of words. So say iteration instead. Problem solved.
We have that: http://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/user-scr.... See @match.

Not enough users read or care about fine-grained capabilities.
While the potential is really exciting, there isn't much of a story here. I'm sure someone will eventually write a blog post showcasing whole classes of errors detected by the new checker -- I'll upvote that.
What's not meaningful about it?

Some of those crappy Asian handset makers make very good phones - the Chinese Android phones from ZTE, Meizu and Huawei are competitive with mid range phones from HTC, Samsung etc. Some are even in the same class as the S3 - eg, look at the benchmarks in the Meizu MX-4 review[1] (unfortunate iOS-like skin notwithstanding).

Even the low end phones give people who never had a computing device access to communications and the internet. How you claim that isn't meaningful?

[1]http://www.engadget.com/2012/08/01/meizu-mx-4-core-review/
Exactly. We can all find the patterns of personality disorders in ourselves, but diagnostic criteria require WAY more than "you act this way" - your actions actually have to be severely detrimental.

Personally I'd say that if your particular behavioral patterns lead to costumed vigilante crime fighting you probably meet criteria C.
The only reason nobody uses NFC is because the iPhone doesn't have it. Seriously the entire payments industry is ready to deploy something but they are all holding back waiting to see what Apple will do in case they zig and Apple zags. I guarantee that if Apple had announced NFC today the entire payments industry would be different in 12 months time. As it is, the internecine warfare in the payments industry will just continue.
You can run gcc with the -S flag, which will dump the assembler output (so you dont have to go through gdb)

You can also use `objdump` from binutils
PG the first Tuesday in January 2013 happens to be New Years Day, 1-Jan-2013
> if an overwhelming number of reasonable people agree with something you can comfortably assert it

So you're saying even if the majority is wrong, they're always right?
Static Asset Compilation
> When NFC stops sucking I'll stop saying it sucks.

Have you used a mainstream credit card NFC payment system such as Paypass or Paywave? What did you think sucked about it?

Have you used a mobile device NFC payment system such as Google Wallet? What did you think sucked about it?
It seems a little weird that someone who loves movies doesn't hear about them through any other sources. While I wanted to sign up for some of the movies, I knew I'd see ads for them on TV, or at bus stops when they launched. I've literally never missed the launch of something that I cared a lot about, because by definition I'd be the kind of person they'd be trying to reach. But the proof is in the data - if you're getting active users, then that's all that matters. Congrats :)
And NFC/wireless charging automatically makes them better than the iPhone 5?
huh. Cool. I was born in Missouri[1] - I didn't stick around too long, though, and don't really remember what it's like. Ticks and hippies, I remember. oh man. or are they chiggers? either way, they creep me out. burrowing insects. guh.

But yeah, the dot-com bubble had a tremendous effect on my life; if I waited four years to get a job, degree or no, it would have been many years before I would have been able to find proper employment. I was incredibly lucky in that I came of age just in time to leverage the low standards of the height of the dot-com boom. (I was then able to gain enough knowledge, experience and connections that I was able to continue working through the crash. I think I can take credit for making good use of the opportunity; but I wouldn't have had the opportunity if I tried to start doing the same thing in 2001 or 2002.)

California really is all about the boom and the bust. But this part of California, specifically, is interesting in it's cultural makeup. I can go to parties where I know one person, and I'll meet three customers. I sell a product targeting highly technical users, and I feel that it's reasonable to advertise in the local Safeway. (I'm not the only one that feels this way; recurrent, a company that refurbishes old Ciscos and other 'enterprise' kit advertises in another local Safeway. I don't know if they started doing it after I did it, or if I just didn't notice them until after I started doing it, but either way, it's not a crazy idea like it would be in Sacramento.)

There certainly are good technical people elsewhere in the world; I didn't mean to say that there aren't, though I can see how my comments could be read that way, but the density is tremendous here, and the expectations really are higher. (note, when you say "a player" it's like saying 'C-level" - you sound like a suit.) From what I've seen, people in the midwest that are really, really good? they can telecommute to here. The standards, from what I've seen, for the telecommute jobs are even higher (well, that or the pay is lower. Sometimes both! companies recognize and exploit the fact that many people would much rather work from home and would much rather live in a place with a lower cost of living.) I'm just saying, the kid who wasn't quite good enough to get a job here? is probably good enough to get a job just about anywhere else. (of course, what you really want are the people that don't get the job, not because they aren't technically good, but because they don't have the social bullshit down or something like that.)

[1]http://eastwind.org/ moving back there would be, perhaps,
How the Bystander Effect is Ruining Your Code
I was reminded of the advice to not polish the UI of a prototype too much lest it create inflated expectations (http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2006/1...). Balsamiq's mockups dramatically use this idea.
From the context I understand, it was 90% of iPad iOS apps are downloaded every month. There are far fewer iPad specific apps than overall.
stop using what you can't use.
PayPal Rewards Some Users by Promising It Won't Hold Their Funds
yet the dpi on iPhone gets touted like its the greatest one made ever!
> I actually can not put my finger on it.

I think it's exactly that reason that made him such an interesting person
> SpiderMonkey wins on some computation workloads

If the difference is huge then it'll be appreciated if you take those workloads and file bugs based on them.
I believe I did mention this in the article, but I agree that it's vitally important to understand that the one or two times I used those terms I was knowingly using the popular definitions, not the clinical definitions. Good catch!
For some reason I see this as a more interesting criticism than simply seeing the pitches as too polished.

As a young company I would guess that it's difficult to compare an investor offering a lot of money and an investor offering incredible resources and guidance — especially if the latter is offering you less money.

Because of the attention that YC companies attract and the amount of energy that goes in to preening their pitches I would wager that YC companies are often faced with this tough decision.
Does YC fund companies outside US ?

I am from Brazil and I would love to apply, but there is no mention about US ousiders.

Thanks
Foreigner-run Tokyo-based indie game studio opens game-themed cafe
Foreigner-run Tokyo-based indie game studio http://www.lexaloffle.com has created a game themed cafe in Kichijoji.
http://www.picopicocafe.com
As someone who writes the occasional userscript in a github gist, I find this to be really annoying. I understand the security perspective, but I think it should be a bit easier to install your own scripts when you know what you're doing.
No. A Windows Phone site choosing a Windows Phone over a phone that not Windows Phone. I'm shocked I say shocked.

O great bird of the galaxy I wish I had 1 downvote for this numskull.
Rounded rectangles are totally functional if you consider that you're going for the most minimalist interface compatible with the human visual cortex. Sharp corners can cause all kinds of ringing artifacts in certain situations:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_grid_illusion
The angry mob analogy seems most appropriate to me:

- you have people who feel invincible because they are part of a crowd, so they strike out harder than they might if they were personally 100% accountable for what they did

- you have positive feedback loops where the crowd builds its momentum up in a way that would not happen with a small group

A similar trend is definitely taking place in file sharing. Mob action gives people permission (or at least a feeling of power), surveillance is deemed necessary by the aggrieved parties (and their government allies), and then eventually there's a "shock and awe" action to make an example of a big target, such as the takedown of Megaupload. (The distinction here is that unauthorized copying of movies or music is arguably less destructive than 4chan's focused viciousness.)
That's a poor metaphor.
The end is to keep the population alive.
Solving food shortage is (one) means. Failing to mass murder them is another.
As an end user, I set my font to what it is for a reason. Please don't mess with my settings.
Here's a dump of links on the subject that should keep you busy for a while. :-)

http://www.ezfarmsandfish.com

http://aquaponicscommunity.com/

http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Herring-Gut-studen...

http://www.herringgut.org/newsletters/2009_3.pdf

http://www.growingpower.org/

http://www.sweetwater-organic.com/

http://www.plantchicago.com/?tag=aquaponics

https://www.aquaponics.com/about/press.php?q=4&full=yes

http://santacruzaquaponics.com/Site_3/welcome.html

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/03/21/...
A Chinese Surveillance Camera Caught a Real-life Superhero
Number of rotations will probably be clustered. (degrees rotated mod 360)/4, not so much.
So he's complaining that YC startups won't get the guidance they need from VCs, and hence won't be successful. But isn't that part of the model? That they now have access to a YC network that could give them guidance and insight? Possibly in place of VC?
I make about 5 angel investments per year, several of which are YC companies. When I'm pitched by entrepreneurs, it's because they want my help, not my money.

Khosla may have a point. The last few deals I did were five-figure investments at eight-figure valuations. Statistically (my small number of investments) and mathematically (my small piece of large valuations), I'm not going to get rich off the investments. I just do it for fun.

But there may be other folks out there like me, who feel they can help -- but who also like the idea of making money. They might be more active if valuations were smaller, as they were in the olden days.

This is hypothetical. But as an entrepreneur & small angel investor who isn't backed by $1B LPs, it's hard to justify my investments from a financial perspective. I just find 'em fun and like helping when called on. I also find blackjack fun. (I don't really find blackjack fun, but illustrating a point. maybe poker is a better example since there's some skill involved).

That said, PG (and team, and YC alumni) seem to do a fine job of investing early, at low valuations, and mentoring. In other words, PG, Vinod is worried that YC is disrupting the angel investor business. Which is kind of bad-ass.
>>Do you have any idea how hard it is to waterproof electronics?

It is hard, but Apple has $117 billion in cash. They could make an elegant and waterproof smartphone if they wanted.
Definitely an interative / evolutionary improvement - but I think they've done a substantial number of things across the board that make it a significant upgrade. I think it's a hard sell though because they have no new "headline" feature to talk about and most of the new things are already in competing forms in other phones, in many cases arguably better. With the 4s they had Siri, past generations had things like Facetime, etc. With this they've got to convince people to get excited about what looks like an incremental improvement, and worse, they have to start doing what they hate - talking about tech specs - the processor is "twice as fast", the phone is thinner, etc. Apple hates competing on tech specs because they know it just sets a bar for all the OEMs to jump over and commoditize the feature. But that is what they have to do with this phone.
say what you will with iTunes but I don't really find it so bad as all the hate being written about it would seem to suggest. yeah it could be slimmer but it runs well and relatively flawlessly, and does a decent job of organizing. and I have to spend less time configuring it than foobar.

iPhoto however, I think, could use some rethinking...
I'll add myself as a second data point. Understanding the stoics has helped me as well.

The ancient stoics seem to have stumbled upon important insights into our nature and how to be happy. A good introductory book to stoicism is William Irvine's "A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy".

Interestingly the founder of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, Albert Ellis, "credited Epictetus with providing a foundation for his system of psychotherapy".
That's actually a good insight, but I doubt it's what they were going for with that tagline as it's just not obvious.
Going to a conference and then publicly ripping the participants (while being or not being a hypocrite about it) is just about as trendy as starting a startup. I bet there will be 199 more posts strewn about HN just like this by the time the conference is done.

Edit: I want to add that everyone loves to repeat all the smart things they read on other blogs on their own blogs in some vain attempt to seem wise but how many people actually get it or even follow their own advice? Saying something isn't the same as doing it.
A waterproof iPhone is definitely the equivalent of a unicorn that shits Skittles.

If you seriously thought that was even a miniscule possibility with the iPhone 5, then you are in for a lot of disappointment.
Anybody know how I can watch it from Linux (Mint - Cinnamon)?
I'm reading "Founders at work" by Jessica Linvingston and can highly recommend it.
Judge Issues Permanent Injunction Against Indefinite Detention Law
youtube app just came out, and g+ has been pretty spiffy..
You should just share it.
iOS and Android app-buying behaviour seems to be converging.

In 2011, 39% of iOS users had more than 20 paid apps. In 2012 that has dropped to 26%, while Android has climbed to 19%[1].

Additionally, "When it comes to paid-app refusers Android and Apple are now almost identical, with 6% of iPhone users and 7% of Android users having never spent money on an app."

[1] http://www.swiftkey.net/android-catching-up-with-iphone-on-p...
The Soda Tax Gamble
The Turk In The Wake Of Zuckerberg
Holding a 12cm phone 30cm from my eyes sounds like an awful cinematic experience. On a plane. Holding a device up. Focusing your eyes on this little thing right in front of you. None of this sounds like the way to watch a movie.

But maybe I just put too much value in the experience of watching a movie. I love live concerts, but I don't refuse to listen to pre-recorded albums so maybe I'm just being absurd about demanding to watch a movie under certain conditions.
Labview beats the snot out of anything else for building, say, custom spectrometer control and data acquisition systems. I know, because I had to do this. I’ve seen mooks try to do the same thing in C++ or whatever, and laugh scornfully at the result

What's so great about LabVIEW for spetroscopy? I ask because, as part of my MS thesis, I built a fourier transform spectrometer. After messing around for a few days with some LabVIEW code someone else had written for a similar task, I wrote the control code in C in a couple of hours, including the time it took to learn the (deprecated) LabWindows C API. I have no doubt that LabVIEW has improved since I did my thesis (almost ten years ago), but it's not obvious, a priori, that graphical programming should be better for controls.
i might be behind the times, but it was easier to use kickmap if I had subway questions...
I never said it was the only threat we face, but lobbyists, as far as I'm aware, don't blow people up for saying things they don't like. It's a fundamentally different degree of danger.
Quicktime eh? not this man.
I've played around with all of those levels at various points in school and my career. My knowledge of solid state physics mostly goes unused, mostly, but every other level is something I've had in mind at various points. I'd file them all under "good to know".

Sure, you can generally get by without low level knowledge, but it's nice knowing why certain design decisions were made. And as far as C goes, I think it's extremely useful to be familiar with how it translates to assembly, at least in general. It is knowledge that you will use regularly if you're programming in C in any significant capacity.

For example, reasoning about ABIs is something you'll have to do if you ever write a stable library interface. Reasoning about ABIs requires you to know the asm-level calling convention for the platform you're coding on.
Re-reading Catch 22. I just finished The Geography of Bliss which was pretty interesting and a very fun read. I like to keep a list of books I enjoyed too (http://kevinohashi.com/books if you're curious)
Interesting series http://autoref.com/blog/2012/09/07/the-tech-behind-autoref-p...

Full disclosure (bizdev at AutoRef)
Twitter Logo Usage Guidelines
I've read somewhere that Dev Bootcamp applications for future sessions is now 1000+ for future cohorts. Does everyone have a chance at an interview, or are there specific qualities you look for in an application before giving the interview 'greenlight'?
Why is the Venezuelan gov installing a Twitter proxy just before the elections?
During past presidential elections the Venezuelan government filtered TV, Radio and shut down some SMS networks and most Venezuelan ISPs had a DNS glitches. At the same time many opposition websites that were informing about irregularities suffer DDoS attacks.<p>This year with the penetration of social networks the Venezuelan government seem to be preparing for a new attack, the target this time are the social networks.
mattt is a legitimate github superstar, huh? I always see great projects from him (at an alarmingly high rate...)

On topic: this looks really nice, I'll definitely be using it to learn some more Rails
I think you're being a bit generous. The consultants who sell "Agile" to dysfunctional organizations are the same ones who sold every fad methodology that preceded it to those same dysfunctional organizations.
I don't think that is true. If you're writing C, it's probably because you want to be close to the metal and want many of the guarantees that such proximity provides. If you're focused on that sort of thing, then it's definitely useful to understand what your compiler is actually outputting so you can react accordingly.

(I'm a C programmer, I don't look at assembly that often at all, but it's certainly helpful to be able to do so and my knowledge of the x86 ISA, calling conventions, etc has informed many decisions I've made in the past, especially re: performance)
I don't understand your 'focusing their efforts first' comment. I implemented all the things I mentioned in that comment.
If this is Tim Cook doubling down on secrecy then I'll be damned
except when they do! http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/?nodeId=...