skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hope your corpus includes all the metadata.

These will be a lot easier to detect by who is upvoting/downvoting rather than by looking at the text, of course. I mention this because the term "corpus" usually refers to a body of text, whereas the metadata here is the gold.
the game to get into that seat is not exactly set in favor of the magnanimous nice guys.
A lot of people about the top care more about their position and the power it represents rather than what it actually means for the company. Yeah, they are egomaniac children, most of the time.
I know of at least one team that would appreciate this.
The National Institutes of Health, which is serious about deadlines in grant applications, gives applicants extra days when they are affected by a natural disaster. One day per day their institution was closed. It seems like it would be sensible to pick an institution (like the New York Stock Exchange) and allow extra days via a similar policy.

http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-13-00...
Not Your Father’s Transaction Processing
This is a culture difference. I as a Brit absolutely detest when sales staff are pushy and forcing their way into your purchase decisions. This is generally highly frowned upon in UK culture and is not something the majority like.

I do however agree on some of your other points, such as poor selection and useless staff.
Yes, the purpose of all education is indoctrination to a set of ideas. Home schooling is also an exercise in indoctrination to a set of ideas. Critical thinking is an idea, egalitarianism is an idea, individuality is an idea, problem solving is an idea.

Education is a way of ensuring a more advanced and productive society through imparting certain knowledge and ideas to its children. The best metric for measuring the performance of an education system is rates of criminality. If a society has high crime rates then its education system is failing to produce productive members.
Power struggle. It'll be interesting to see where he goes next.
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Are they unable to bypass the destroyed pumps and take fuel to the generators via 55-gallon drums? If so, why not?
I regret that I have but one vote to give this analysis. Spot on.
They're not really server colos (except for some wall street stuff, but even that is in Northern NJ now). The Manhattan facilities are mainly carrier interconnects between carriers and for equipment to provide leased circuits to businesses, a lot of which serve customers in Manhattan or grew up around telephone infrastructure to serve offices in Manhattan.

Big scale server colos are usually in WA/OR (cheap power), SFBA (fiber, tech companies), TX (cheap land, sort of cheap power, or at least available power), or DC metro (sort of cheap power, cheap land in some areas, lots of government users).
If you have time, it'd be nice to read a "what we got out of YC, and how it's shaped our path going forward." This would be interesting independent of whether you are still working on the startup you did with YC.
Interview with Tom Conrad, CTO of Pandora on simplicity and evolution
Force majeure is typically a good reason to push back a deadline.

[edit: Originally said "deus ex machina". My mistake, thanks Falling3]
I played around a bit with Scriptogr.am (http://scriptogr.am/), it's basically a static blog generator that runs on their server. All you have to do is add markdown files to a folder in your Dropbox.
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-new-york-stock-exchange-f...

NYSE not flooded...
I wish browsers had 3 suggestions for which folder to put the bookmark into - that would save me time scrolling through my bookmarks.
to the OP: can we get a real example of a sales proposal you've written recently that was effective and fits into what you're ...erm, proposing?
There is a difference between accepting responsibility for the actions of your subordinates/ your own actions and accepting blame for the failures of one of your superiors who stepped out of his area of responsibility and into yours just to override you on something that he had no business doing. If your leader sets you up for failure, the same logic you are using to assign the blame to yourself assigns the blame to him.

There is an even larger difference between being a person who is capable of recognizing when their employer is wrongfully blaming something on them and the person who constantly blames things on other people.

I don't know if applies in this situation or not. For all I know this guy could have personally written bad code for maps. The point is, universal statements such as "there is never it's not my fault at the executive level" are just plain false. It is an executive's fault if his subordinates do shitty work, but if the executive's boss ordered something that was impossible to accomplish with a given set of time, manpower, and resources then there is a good possibility that it isn't his fault. He might have to take the fall for it, but at the end of the day if that's what happened, then he knows he did the best he could and therefore shouldn't give a shit what anyone else thinks.

I love my job, I also loved having the opportunity to provide leadership and guidance for others. It is because of the love I had for my job that I would accept responsibility only for the things that are actually my fault(which includes the actions of my subordinates.) I understand that as a supervisor there's always the chance that I would get fired, demoted, or otherwise punished for a superior's mistakes, but that doesn't make it my fault or responsibility unless I actually made a mistake.

Steve Jobs can say "there is no it's not my fault" because at Apple, the buck stopped with him. I don't recall hearing anyone ever telling Steve Jobs that he couldn't do something, or overriding his design decisions. For lower levels of leadership, such as I experienced, there were about 50 different people who would constantly tell me what to do, even though only one person was actually tasked with doing so. Sometimes, my orders were poorly thought out. Sometimes they even contradicted orders given by other people. In situations like these, as I stated before, only a coward would accept the blame without evaluating the specific situation beforehand.
YC changed a lot for us and we're still going strong on the startup we did with YC. Perhaps that'll be next week's blog post :)

EDIT: And it'll be full of more silly things we did that probably didn't matter and that you should also not do.
We are complimenting companies for not having redundant setups but telling us about it, when they have been claiming all along, that they have redundant setups?
You can extend the deadline by n number of days and perhaps give extra credit to those who still submit by the original deadline.
Intents/services and lock screen widgets.

Home screen and notification center widgets don't interest me. But if you could put something like widgets/live tiles/google now-ish space on the lock screen? Particularly with the increased vertical space? That'd be slick.

And intents/services are overdue. Particularly now that they're basically "in" with twitter/Facebook integration. I'm all for having more app store approval scrutiny for third party "services" submissions. But it needs to be in.

while we're asking, it wouldn't hurt to add the "taller"/redesigned task switcher UI that made the rounds recently.

I'd call that all a decent update.
> This seems to be based on the idea that learning a language is mostly about learning words. That has not been my experience as a language learner.

My experience, as a native English speaker who has learned German as an adult, is that different stages in language learning benefit from different kinds of study. There have been times where memorizing grammar rules have been enormously helpful to me, others where reading a lot is what I needed, and still others where holes in my vocabulary were holding me back. After a certain level of proficiency, the only new thing you encounter in the language is unknown words and phrases, so it makes sense to focus on learning them.

> Words in one language do not have a one-to-one mapping with words in any other language.

As you have mainly studied non-European languages, this might be more true in your experience than for those who are focusing on European languages. There are certainly many words that map one-to-one between German and English, especially in common usage.

What I like about the author's technique is that it seems like a smart way of priming the pump for real and detailed learning: when he encounters a new word in the text, he has a general idea of what it means from the definition, but he can sharpen that meaning with the particulars of the context where he finds it. Otherwise, he might get only the vaguest sense of what a word means from context, or have no clue at all.
We're planning on doing this soon!
I actually see this rather as evidence of a strong corporate culture which recognizes the need for execs to take responsibility for mistakes, as the chapter from the Lashinsky book on Apple management famously quoted about the rubric being crossed when VP's are promoted:
http://www.businessinsider.com/steve-jobs-on-the-difference-...

(Kinda wish a few more companies made this expectation clear... too much deadwood at the VP level in many IT companies I deal with...)
I agree, too many people are blaming Scott. Most manager know when their product is not for primetime but get pushed to ship and then end up having to take the blame for quality issues.
If you want to see pattern-matching taken to its logical extreme, check out bondi[1]. This is a rather researchy language based entirely around pattern matching; the core idea is to use pattern matching as "a new foundation for computation".

[1]: http://bondi.it.uts.edu.au/

Patterns are extended in several important ways. In total, this lets patterns be extremely generic; you can write code that is polymorphic over virtually any data you care to throw at it.

The language is heavily influenced by OCaml and supports both functional and OO-style code. It has static typing, which I think is very nice.

As a disclaimer, I've never used the language itself. I did read a book[2] about its design and played around with some variations on the lambda calculus leading up to the language itself. I also completely skipped over the OO sections of the book because I am a little tired of OO these days :P.

[2]: http://www.springer.com/computer/theoretical+computer+scienc...
It is nice that they talk about this - however these are not Rackspace standards but standard industrywide, some of which have been in place since the 1960s, when ATT revised their plans for central office facilities in the wake of riots in some American cities.
Most of the objections I heard were about putting that public money towards religious schooling (the interaction of government and religion being a fairly well-established as a partisan issue).
Giving nir the benefit of the doubt, I read his comment as a pretty clear reference:

> "Kremlinology is the study and analysis of Soviet (and today, Russian) politics and policies based on efforts to understand the inner workings of an opaque central government"

[...]

> "During the Cold War, lack of reliable information about the country forced Western analysts to "read between the lines" and to use the tiniest tidbits, such as the removal of portraits, the rearranging of chairs, positions at the reviewing stand for parades in Red Square, the choice of capital or small initial letters in phrases such as "First Secretary", the arrangement of articles on the pages of the party newspaper "Pravda" and other indirect signs to try to understand what was happening in internal Soviet politics. In the German language, such attempts acquired the somewhat derisive name "Kreml-Astrologie" (Kremlin Astrology), hinting at the fact that its results were often vague and inconclusive, if not outright wrong."

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

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If you read it this way too, and responded how you have making the same assumptions I did... then I suppose you are just a more civil-minded person than I am. I thought it was a worthwhile contribution, and as much as I love to keep HN's signal:noise high, I have a soft spot for this kind of sardonicism. And I think it was an important reminder amidst this highly speculative discussion, that I don't see any other comment making as tersely.
I think almost anything is better than a giant defense contractor. I had a friend who worked at the place she called "the bomb factory" (in a completely innocuous IT role) and her stories were universally depressing.
My immediate advice would be to get rid of that little google ad bar that looks like a navigation. It's both confusing and sneaky, even if (maybe?) that was not your intent.

Other than that, I was completely confused as to what I was looking at until I read your description here in the comments. Sounds like an interesting biz, though I don't know anything about that to comment one way or another!
Just an fyi, you link to app.jetdeck.co, which is a lot more confusing when you're not first given the information at jetdeck.co.
F*$cked

Ironic they tweeted this re AWS 12h ago:
Internap ‏@Internap
Could 'Frankenstorm' Lead To Another AWS #Outage? http://onforb.es/Vtr45J
Ask HN: Have any of you with startups ran into someone trademarking your name 
What i mean is they trademarked your name after you've already launched.I know that a lot of startups don't take the time to do the legal stuff right away or some just want to test out an MVP first and only register a domain name and begin with a website. Is this common? what should you do if you start getting traction and get put into this predicament?
Re: rdl's comment, I'm not sure. I'm not experienced with YCombinator process or startups, but can't the founders explain their application was sent as of the submission date (weeks or days before), and then explain during the interview about the important changes? I mean, Parkinson's Law is in play with entrepreneurship big time.
Difference between a socket and a port
I seem to recall even Gruber himself has drawn the comparison between Kremlinology and reading Apple PR between the lines.

I read it as a satirical joke. A little "on the nose", perhaps. But just a joke.

(Edit: cleaned up repetition.)
Good comment. One thing seems to be clear: This article (and others) is a strategic part (pawn) of a pre-meditated PR strategy. The optics look like a purge; at the 1 yr mark of a new CEO this is quite typical. Some may be given the kiss of death, others handed just enough rope to do themselves in. Etc. Like you say, the peanut gallery comprised of us outside the situation know less than many much closer, who themselves likely know next to nothing at this stage.
> Do you know that they didn't?

I know that they either didn't tell him, or didn't tell him in a manner that he listened.

It's really not rocket science: An organization is not fixed by chopping only one head.
Before you need to, set your DNS TTL as low as you can.
Charles C. Mann: Does success spell doom for Homo sapiens?
Skeuomorphic implies that a design feature is no longer necessary or useful. That's not the case here - you still need visual indicators of the extents of a window, and of what's manipulable versus what's static content, and of what's the currently active or selected object. Apple's current set of visual indicators are obviously not the only option, but if they went to a UI as flat as a typical minimalist web design, usability would suffer.
yeah, good point. that was a rookie mistake
I don't think pushing the deadline back by one day is a good idea. The people who are not affected by the storm don't need the extra day; the people who are affected by the storm will probably need considerably more than a day.

Given that YC already has a policy of considering late applications, I would opt for keeping the deadline where it is but loudly announcing "if you couldn't get your application in by the deadline because of the hurricane, please submit a late application". And possibly add a "I'm applying late because of the hurricane" checkbox to the form.
I'm saying that if you added the staff of Encyclopedia Britannica to Wikipedia you wouldn't make a dent in Wikipedia. Britannica is about 40 million words. Wikipedia is 2 billion words, or 50 times larger. 2% is a blip.
Perhaps it should be read as "visual design and [visual] interaction."
I'd like to see someone like John Ivy (or someone from hardware and iOS) move over to Samsung or Google. There is so much potential in Android and it has some great hardware too.
The building is being evacuated.
I feel pretty sure there was a "visual" in there you're ignoring.
For what it's worth, the basic reasons I use some form of bookmarks are:

1. I want to go back to a website for new content; or

2. I want to store content to read/view later; or

3. I want to share something with someone else who is not sitting next to me.

So for 1, I really want a link, for 2 I really want a local copy (in case the page moves or is removed), and for 3 I'd like to send someone (or a group of people) a copy (for the same reason as 2, but usually the time interval is shorter so it's less likely that the page will vanish, so a link is more acceptable). Sync across machines is also great for 1 and 2, not so much for 3.

I really haven't found a browser-based tool that I like for any of these. I mostly use email for 2 and 3 because I can copy and paste text or attach a file to store a copy of the content. For 1 I usually type in the URL because it works with any browser, but I do keep some bookmarks for sites I rarely visit.

A dedicated tool could do a lot better than my email client, though. Even though I want the original content, I'd usually like to know if it's been updated or changed since I last looked at it (imagine storing a copy of this comment thread, for example), which would be easy to do within firefox but is impossible as I have it set up.

Edit: I forgot to mention the other nice feature of email: most clients can easily handle thousands of emails easily -- they do it by: search; folders/tagging; threading; sorting by different columns; and I'm sure I'm missing others. So those might be other organization schemes to consider; I don't think that organizing the bookmarks into piles is going to scale well.
I'd like to see sources for the candidate's opinions. For example, I don't think Romney denies that global warming is real. http://cleantechnica.com/2012/09/07/romney-admits-global-war...
Ironically, the people who need this extension the most can't actually vote at the moment. So I would consider some multiplier to the number of Yes votes to account for them.
great points.

We're definitely not going to sacrifice usability for the beer money from adsense. Thanks
Makes sense - assuming supply lines are cut then you'll need to get in before the thundering herd clobbers access to fuel and jacks the price up to uneconomic short term levels. I'm surprised they don't keep large strategic oil reserves on site like the military does.
Well sure if you believe that's how it happened.

Or, he was against releasing, but was overridden (by Cook perhaps), then refused to apologise because it wasn't his mistake...

The reality is, we don't, and probably won't know. Seems strange though, that Forestall did exceptionally good releases [1] up until iOS 6 and then all of a sudden he just dropped the ball with maps...

[1] Excluding the fact that new iOSes generally suck for older iPhones, and force a hardware upgrade.
iOS only seems stagnant because they don't have to trumpet every year about how they've finally gotten rid of ui lag..

You might not notice it, but, there is an eighth-of-a-second-ish delay between when you tap on most buttons and when the action occurs. An obvious (to me) example is when you tap on the back button on a navigation controller, and it takes a split second before anything happens..

It isn't much, but it is consistent across the OS, and it drives me crazy.
Yes, these types　of displays are generally fabricated in large sheets, out of which screens if the size needed are cut.
A lot of people didn't know about this until recently though, like me. I'm not in any danger from Sandy right now, though and still want them to be able to submit. Obviously a deadline extension would be positive for me, but I was prepared to submit tomorrow regardless of seeing this post.

Edit: Maybe you filter by location? But why make it complex?
Most importantly, 75 Broad just flooded

The report I heard (at about 11PM EDT) was that the basement was flooded and the building was being evacuated, but servers would keep running for 5-7 hours until the back-up generators ran out of fuel.
Comparing two things is different from equating them. It's not offensive to compare Stalin to anything, including those things you hold sacred. It doesn't imply they are equal in all respects, and any inference to that effect on your part is in error.
> Forstall has been depicted as "the bad guy" for a long time.

> personality conflicts with others:

The same things have been said about Steve Jobs over and over.
No one uses it, that's why.

Meanwhile, I saw a Microsoft Surface demo at the mall yesterday and their approach to photo sharing via "SkyDrive" is FAR simpler and easier to use than Apple's. You know you're in trouble when MS has better usability than you. Not a good sign.
Considering that Ron Johnson's stint at JCPenney hasn't been going so well, wonder if he'll end up back at Apple.
Why aren't there more data centers in the solid craton part of the content far from these inevitable coastal problems? Genuinely curious as to why Minnesota or something is the datacenter capital of the US.
They are setup to make use of cheap/peering bandwidth.
It is not included. Optional accessory.
When he talks about about functional vs. OO-programming, it reminds me of why I like Drupal.
AMD to complement x86 offerings with ARM-based Opteron chips
I should add, I like the site and the concept, but it'd be interesting to be able to apply some weight or scale to the opinions. Perhaps I don't think healthcare should be universal but I would never vote for someone who would ban same sex marriages.
ZTE just announced a phone with a retail price of 999 yuan ($160). If they can eek out a profit margin, makes you wonder what the real manufacturing cost is for the big players.

"ZTE U950 smartphone packs a 1.3GHz Tegra 3 chip, 1GB of RAM, 4GB of internal storage and a 2,000mAh battery beneath the 4.3-inch display."

http://www.engadget.com/2012/10/29/ztes-u950-tegra-3-phone/
PDF here: https://s3.amazonaws.com/mgwu/YC+GM.pdf

What is interesting to us (discovered as we just re-read it), our slight pivot mid YC was to another idea we listed on our application.
That's interesting that you mention Realm of the Mad God. My understanding was that it was pretty standard App Engine. I just checked the traffic with Wireshark, and it's still hosted on App Engine. This job posting for developing the server codebase doesn't mention Erlang, either. http://www.gamejobhunter.com/job/2021/software-engineer-c-ka...

Not to take away from your larger point. I also enthusiastically embraced Erlang and then grew annoyed with its shortcomings. Tsung is a great load testing tool, but it appears that only myself and Yoda have the patience to actually set it up.
The 10" would be far better with the studded back texture of the 7"