skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Embarrassing and silly personal story that demonstrates how entertainment/media can influence kids.

When I was a little kid, Saved by the Bell was a really funny show. I loved watching it. I read books that had the same characters as well. In one of the books, one of the girls was saying she couldn't date a certain guy. Her friend asked her why not. She said it was because they were already friends, so it would be too strange to date.

For years after that, I thought it was a stupid idea to date friends. I thought I should only try to date strangers or acquaintances, which was hard because I was timid about that kind of stuff. My parents didn't even get involved because they didn't think it was important, and that I'd figure it out. So my dating record during high school was zero, and even during university, it wasn't going anywhere until very late in the game. During this time, I passed up on the opportunity to date many wonderful girls who were high in character, very attractive, etc, just because we were already friends. No, I had to find someone to date who was not yet a friend, except I couldn't get date-comfortable with girls without becoming friends first. What a stupid infinite loop.

It's a stupid and embarrassing story, but it did indeed happen. And as dumb as it is, I've only in the last few years overcome that completely illogical obstruction in my mind. Parents, talk to your kids about what they watch on TV, play on their PS3, and read in books. Ethics may or may not be impacted, but if behaviour can be impacted, I bet you ethics could be as well.
When I was at Yahoo years ago, and we handled billing for premium servies, we'd explicitly store the version of the TOS the user had indicated express consent to as an extra precaution (express consent in this case meant the user had ticket a checkbox to confirm they agreed and then submitted the form).
How many startups can actually reach stable revenue? I don't mean you need to take down Facebook or Google. But there are way too many startups. Sometimes I start to think: how many customers do they get? Ten? Twenty? Thirty? How long? A year?

But on the other hand, startup is great for fresh out graduates. They learn better and quicker in theory - they are forced to adapt to the change of specs and environment. It's a great place to test your ability as an engineer and a team person. It's a challenge.
The law itself has been around for eight years, according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Online_Privacy_Prote..., and involves information that "includes first and last names, a street address, an email address, a telephone number, a social security number, or various other data which allows the tracking of a user. Personally identifiable information can include date of birth, height, weight, etc, when this information is recorded and stored online by the operator in combination with one of the above identifiers. "

All that the AG is asking is that there be a clear link to a privacy policy for those apps that collect this type of information detailing how they collect and handle this personal data. Seems reasonable to me.
Just bought it. I figured for 1.99 it's worth a gamble. I can say it's quite useful for a lot of little words and error messages that you use repeatedly. It also oddly contains music genres such as Acid Jazz.

In some ways I think I'd prefer a bunch of json or csv files that I could programmatically access. But I'd say it's worth $1.99.

For a not quite as complete, yet good repo checkout theRails I18N repo which contains them all in yaml

https://github.com/svenfuchs/rails-i18n

See Danish translation for example https://github.com/svenfuchs/rails-i18n/blob/master/rails/lo...
Hopefully this is related: can anyone give some advice or input on dropping out to work in silicon valley in general? I'm not close to done (first semester freshman), but I have an internship at a certain large SV company this summer. If you were in my position, and that company offered a job, would you take it?
This is why I tell people that my (pretty large) Nikon D7000 is unobtrusive. Though it may be physically large, it doesn't get in the way of whatever I'm actually doing.

I can put it up to my face (it's already on, because I can leave it on for days), frame, focus, and take a picture in less time than most phones can even turn on. That and, just as important, it never lights up or beeps at all (except for the memory card write LED).
It is already illegal for insurance companies to base coverage decisions on genomic information under the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act, which became law in 2008.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_Information_Nondiscrimi...
There are various 'tells' in the user documentation that indicates a lack of flexibility in the product and its authors. That aside, it is a very fast server and if you write your servlets in C, those too will be quite speedy.

These are some of the points in the documentation that give some discomfort. There are legitimate reasons to have additional flexibility and I really don't care to have language rants in otherwise objective and factual user documentation.

- Log files are set to a fixed naming convention

- Log files are rotated at midnight - it appears there is no method of adjusting this time period

- On mime-types "As this list is hard-coded you cannot add MIME types in G-WAN but we will add any type that
makes sense if users ask for it."

- "How many languages do you need to learn if one of them works better than all? C made Unix, Windows, games, PDF viewers, Web browsers. C servlets will be limited by your sole imagination. C survived 40 years for a reason: it fits the task."

- "And take Javascript's optional semicolon to end statements (that was the case in some pointlessly complex parts of the JS code of the demo: a JS function defining a nested function as a parameter...). When a carriage-return replaces a semicolon then G-WAN's JS minifying (also used with HTML embedding JS) breaks the code by removing carriage-returns that 40-year-old C can safely ditch (not the more 'modern' Javascript which is far more commonly reformated to lower network latency). The mark of pure genius at work: creating problems that have no reason to exist."
The reason the iPad2 continued to sell even after the introduction of the iPad3 is because
1) most people can't tell the difference between retina and non-retina displays

2) the battery life and recharge time were worse on the 3, leaving many people (including myself) recommending that people by the 2.
Bought. Totally worth $10 imho.
A lot of the benefits he's talking about appear to assume that you're being supported financially during tertiary education (college/university) so the advice is like "if you find yourself in a situation where you are completely financially supported with a lot of free time, don't stop being financially supported in order to start a company". Which is pretty obvious advice.
Why do you think Disney has access to high quality admins? Do you know high quality sysadmins who want to work for Disney, or companies like it?

Just because a company is a big name doesn't mean it attracts big talent. Disney is still fishing from the same ocean where all the best engineers went to sexier places.
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> It also oddly contains music genres such as Acid Jazz.

Likely comes from iTunes.
As an alternative, check out http://open-mesh.com.

The only good thing about Meraki is that their immoral (and potentially illegal acts) led to the open mesh firmware of B.A.T.M.A.N. and RO.B.IN.

A company that started in an open source MIT project, that initially encouraged hacking their firmware, transformed to retroactively changing their EULA on hardware already bought, making it illegal to run any custom firmware and then they aggressively increased their service fees.

From "happy hacking" to "screw you" - the story of Meraki
http://www.virishi.net/from-happy-hacking-screw-you-story-me...
The compulsion to be a tourist is ever-present in our lives. Social networks just move the reward of validation for tourism up to the near-instant. One of my favorite books has a significant character plot that explores the (sometimes ridiculous) role of being a tourist.

"Twoflower stared raptly at the display overhead. He probably had the best view of anyone on the Disc. Then a terrible thought occurred to him. 'Where's the picture box?' he asked urgently. 'What?' said Rincewind, eyes fixed on the sky. 'The picture box,' said Twoflower. 'I must get a picture of this!'" (Color of Magic, 1983)
When I was carrying buckets of diesel up the stairs, I did notice that it was a lot lighter than water. Still not great after 17 flights, but a lot lighter than a bucket full of water.
Getting into YC isn't really a competition, at least according to what pg has said publicly many times. They'd be happy to take as many qualified companies as they can, and the real problem is that sometimes qualified companies are masked by incompetence at presenting themselves in the written app and the interview. Which is why it's so awesome that Gleb and others have put together guides to the process.
The description isn't very detailed, but where do these strings come from, and what's the licence for using them?
1:Face Watch - Power to feed a child, quench a thirst, find a cure, and so on
In this case, I think you are correct. Need lots of exhaust so have to be on the roof. One police plaza just tore the side of their building off to make room for generator exhaust. It's a warzone in lower manhattan right now.
Stop thinking of your ideas. Just pick a niche industry, and see what problems THEY are having. Only start building the solution when you see a convergence of the same problems.
I'm honestly terrible with photoshop so I don't really know how to make icons (or what they should look like). I thought about text but I think it wouldnt look right with the text right under it. I highly recommend rubymotion, it's absolutely awesome.
It is about communicating features and benefits but not in bullet form. Apple does this very well. The early ipod silhouette ads communicated tons of stuff with a a silhouette dancing to music while using an ipod. I could make a list of the features that were communicated in thirty seconds but I suspect almost anyone who saw the ads could.

I think that the key here is to communicate the RIGHT features and benefits. That's why I am so down on the Surface ad I saw. I truly thought it was moronic. What the hell were they communicating? I asked my non-tech (Doctor) wife if she wanted one and the answer was: "it's just an iPad with that stand thing".

Which makes my case. All MS managed to communicate to my wife was that they have an iPad with a built-in stand "thing" that she couldn't care less about.
And the price, US$399.
I don't know the answer, but I am reminded of John Markoff's 2006 book What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry[1].

If you've forgotten what the dormouse said, listen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WANNqr-vcx0

[1]http://www.amazon.com/What-Dormouse-Said-Counterculture-Pers...
Doug Engelbart took LSD. Probably other prominent hackers around there/then, but I don't remember. (From Markoff, What the Dormouse Said.)

I can't answer about helping with coding.
Why Hackathons Suck (and don’t have to)
Stop thinking about "doing a startup" and start thinking about "starting a business".
In the Bing It On Challenge from Bing I picked Google 5 out of 5. Then I posted that on Facebook/Google+ as well, and more and more friends started posting telling me that they felt the exact same way AND that they too were getting better results from Google then Bing.

Yes, it is not a scientific study, but Bing's marketing isn't entire scientific in what "nearly 2 to 1" means either. Nearly 2 can be 1.5. Hell, ceil(1.1) is 2.

Google's search results have been improving more and more over time, for my technical searches (specifically related to programming) no other search engine even comes close in getting me the results I want. I do have Google's Web History turned on, which most likely allows Google to improve their search results better to what I will most likely want.
I think that's a great way to think of it!

(I'm a founder of Webscript.)
It was approved on Saturday and as of today I've sold 8 copies. I wasn't really expecting to sell many as I put the price high and this was more of a simple project to dig into rubymotion. Thanks for the comment
Wikipedia links are nofollow to discourage people from spamming it, not because they are worried about losing link juice.
1. If you use a Retina display for even a week, the non-Retina display will look considerably worse when you switch back; you can't tell the difference until you actually use the device for an extended period.

2. I've heard from a few people that this is the case, but also that the iPad 4 charges faster, actually delivers on the 10-hour battery life claims and runs noticeably cooler.

Unrelated: I hate Gruber's pedantic style when it comes to Apple product names. Seriously, just write it the way Apple markets it.
Thanks for the comment. I've added a list of languages and some sample localizations in the app description.
Did you use it with a headset or via device microphone?

The noise-correction on the older device microphones aren't as good as the newer ones (ie, anything that's Siri compatible has at least 2 microphones for noise-reduction).

So perhaps Apple does have a legitimate (although self-serving) reason not to deploy Siri on older tech - it may suck if you have lots of ambient noise or distortion.
I'd be curious to see if there's any update to FBOD architecture. The idea of using self-hosted servers running SQL Server and IIS already sounded eccentric 5 years ago, but given the number of options today, it'd be hard to still justify such a monolithic solution.

In all fairness, Joel recognized in the article that the initial decision was based on their previous experience with Microsoft -- and AWS was still incipient in 2007 -- so it made sense at the time. I doubt this is still the case. Even less if you consider the costs of Sandy - duplicated servers, migration, hours lost, unhappy clients, etc.
Ask HN: What's an app you'd pay $5/month for?
I'm looking to build apps and learn as much as I can about programming, rails, APIs etc.

HMers, what's something that's been bugging you?

I'd love to make something here, for All HN to see.

Why $5?

Anytime someone is willing to pay any sort of money, it becomes a clearer problem :P. Plus it's a lot more motivating to make money + program

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Edit : There seem to be some really good ideas here! it might just make a nice resource that new hackers can use to start and Show HN
Better way of looking at it is:

gmail is for person-to-person communication.
facebook is more of a person-to-restricted-group communication.
twitter is person-to-public communication.

Each one has its own positive and negative points. Whatever it is, it's not your life and don't treat it as such.
I find (1) hard to swallow.
Growth hacking: leading indicators of engaged users
It is only for Series-A funded companies. Wish TC had put this earlier in the article.
wow I am getting downvoted by haters because I am telling the truth.
E-Ink, Largely Limited to E-Readers, Appears in a Chinese Smartphone
Not to discourage you, but your education will likely benefit you far longer than most SV companies will be around. The benefits of education also brought, in my life, career choices that would not have been available without it. Choice is liberating. Who knows though, the world does seem to be changing.
Might be but still we cannot undermine their efforts. They deserve a congratulation too, I guess.
The Tech Behind Apple’s Impossibly Thin New iMacs
My father used to say that the road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Well, I am not the entire team. There was great disagreement amongst the co-founders, in fact I lost friendships as a result and (now) have left the company entirely.

I was on the side of keeping everyone and involving them in coming up with a new idea. But that, my co-founders convinced me, and I actually now believe to be true, would be the worse ethical decision than simply being honest about the situation and helping the interns move on to opportunities where they could actually help build something and feel good about their summer.

No, it wouldn't be ethical if we abandoned them, but that was far from the case. We made personal phone calls, emails and used our own networks to ensure everyone was taken care of with a better opportunity than we could offer at the time. During the transition of 2 weeks or so, all the interns continued to stay in our house, and a few stayed for free the whole summer. It was my pleasure to host the ones that stayed, and (they are well aware of this) when the day comes for them to do their own startup I will be the first person to offer social, emotional and (if capable) financial support form them to take their own risks and start their own adventures.

For you to consider someone like Patrick, a brilliant kid in one of the most prestigious undergraduate programs in this country, to be incapable of making his own decisions is the real unethical position here. It's patronizing, it's demeaning.. and you ought to really think about what message you are sending. If the brightest kids (legally adults actually) in this country are not encouraged to look at the options that are available to them... to take risks because you really only get one chance at youth and at life.. that would be a real tragedy.
I distinctly remember Google talking about them having achieved client-side voice recognition at the last I/O, but I can't find anything about it now.
This article addresses a simple fact of life, where there is energy, people will try to create something there. Lots of people are making things for the internet.

"The horrible future of social" isn't bad. It means the internet is so great that we have all kinds of people making all kinds of things.

If it truly has no value, people won't use it.

This is the reason McDonald's exists, it isn't new or unique to social.
This comes to my mind: http://www.flickr.com/photos/22926987@N00/2198300/
My eyesight isn't that great. My contacts don't completely fix my astigmatism. I can't tell the difference between the displays, just that the colors seem a bit brighter on one than the other. A retina display seems like a waste for me. I suspect a lot of people with poor eyesight feel the same way too.
The real explanation is that some people think that iPad 2 is the next version of 'the new iPad'. I'm kidding of course.

iPad 4 is now called 'iPad with Retina display' which makes me believe that Apple might even continue upgrading iPad 2 with iPad name, similar to the other product lines with/without Retina.
UFC: Dana White Hires Two New Asian Ring-Card Girls
A fart app.
Interesting to see "Zapier" calling them "dudes". A few days back when we raised a point to change the name of "developerAuction" to "GrabDudes" , a guy raised a concern that "no one would strive to be called as dude". !!

http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/26/developer-auction-racks-up-...
Weird, I can reproduce it now. It seems to be something with clicking around to various different ones. I'll report it to the author and see if we can get it fixed. Thanks for giving more information.

https://github.com/jschr/bootstrap-modal/issues/8
Nitpicking, but on my Safari 6 this page doesn't render properly because I have 'Default' encoding selected. The page is authored as UTF-8 but doesn't declare that in the content-type header, doctype, or a meta tag.
V was a remake from the TV mini-series from 1983 which was itself an allegory about xenophobia and Nazism.
Lead gen in general is an internet history lesson. The focus on local/reviews over the last few years was intended to be the fix for the trash lead gen created. The fact is, the vast majority of businesses like this are very small (even the franchises) and there is no corporate structure. They only make a profit if the come every week and they need to set limit on the kinds of things they do. For most of these, Google does a good job of putting the customer and service together even if reviews are another waste land. The missing questions are: is this service what I want and is it worth paying for?
Why Forstall to Ive is a bigger change than Jobs to Cook
As another datapoint, I have been using a crappy old Linksys WRT54GL plus another $20 router to do every single thing you mention (except for handling large numbers of clients - although I would guess it would handle at least 20+ no sweat).

It's all thanks to Toastman's[1] version of the Tomato firmware. I wrote up a nice article[2] about my experience with the whole deal!

[1]: http://toastmanfirmware.yolasite.com/
[2]: http://www.verdantrefuge.com/writing/2012/toastman-tomato-fi...
http://art.teleportacia.org/observation/vernacular/
Here are the 8 startups graduating from Chinaccelerator’s third class
I wish there was a subheading that read "...and that's OK."

Some will see my attitude as cavalier but a little bit of downtime because of an event such as this isn't the worst thing in the world. After all, the financial markets were closed today weren't they?

I read about the folks at the Trello datacentre hauling 175 kilo barrels of diesel up 17 stories by hand thinking "I hope nobody gets hurt lifting barrels for something as crass as uptime".
Google is gamed like crazy. Especially by sites like Tripadvisor, Skyscanner, etc. Whenever I make a search for something like 'flights from la paz to new york' - all I get is some landing pages.

Tripadvisors gaming is even worse. When I search for 'restaurants in place_x' I get results from every tripadvisor site, like tripadvisor.com, tripadvisor.es, tripadvisor.in and more.. the results are duplicates!

The quality of google results in certain niches is very very poor. I haven't found that bing is better though. =/ It's just amazing that they haven't been able to make considerable improvements to this with the amount of money they have. I guess that's the problem with lack of competition.
Thanks, always forget about this one. Fixed.
Ask HN: why is it so hard to find dedicated programmers?
I am building a tech startup which I have program a website on my own and have finish it and now in the process of launching it soon and start rolling. I have found a couple of programmers to join me on this adventure. But it seems things get in their way. And they lose focus on the startup. Why is this task do hard? And does a startup really need co-founders?
Yes, we understand what he means to say, but his words say the opposite.

He meant to say: "As effort increases, simplicity increases."

He instead said: "As effort increases, simplicity decreases."
I recently (2 months ago) dropped out to join Pinterest full-time, and I am extremely happy with my decision.

I was in a similar situation as you, except the opportunity came to me as a sophomore, instead of a freshmen. Let me preface by stating that I think college is an extremely invaluable resource to grow up and learn outside of the classroom. I did, and love it.

If I were you, assuming you do get an offer, I'd register it as a co-op with your college. I did that last year with Lift (http://lift.do), and think it was the best way to go about the situation. Here's why: it's still a full-time job, you're still technically a student, and you don't pay any tuition. If you like it, great — stay out there. If not, no harm-no foul, and go back to school.

Happy to chat over email with you, if you'd like. Look in my profile for contact info. Good luck!
Showdown. Teardown. Throwdown.

I like Showdown. :-)
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Nothing. That's the problem, really. :) I did get a little bit of interest among friends, even had one get a seed story started.

I have other projects[0] keeping me busy these days. Maybe some day I'll revive that dream.

[0] http://robotrising.org/2012/09/operation-stratosphere-overvi...
Avoid dropping out of Uni at all costs