skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course it looks thinner if you take care to only photograph it from angles where the hump isn't visible. It's also interesting that the cover glass was a challenge, since monitors don't need cover glass; it's purely an aesthetic addition.
Part of the allure of YC for me is the promise of being able to work on my company full time. I don't currently have any other means to do so.

I am going to build my company no matter what, but YC would offer means to drastically speed it along.
Hey, look! Someone holding people responsible for their actions/products! Now how controversial is that?!
Buddhist monk's brain produces highest reported level of gamma waves
Looks like you're right. From http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4627.txt:

"A JSON text is a serialized object or array."

Now I don't know why I thought this wasn't allowed.
Can someone give me a hint as to why: send people who might give you a birthday present a wishlist, is on this list? it seems completely opposed to the idea of minimalism and also seems like a generally kind of obnoxious thing to do.
I'm no longer with the company, so I may be out of date, but the consensus was that it was just too expensive to support licensed products if it weren't necessary. The thing that people don't take into account is that there are an endless number of server configurations that can screw up the application, and for a small company, dealing with each one of those is quite expensive.

So what's the alternative? Keep it hosted-only. The downside is that, yes, outages like this happen. But I would argue that, on the whole, the overall Trello downtime has been far less than the cumulative downtime of people trying to run it themselves. Moreover, this was an extremely unusual storm. Buoys reported waves 5 times higher than anything on record. My guess is, the cost-benefit analysis is still solidly in on the side of having a hosted product in an easily accessible data center.
Customizing Sublime Text 2's Multi Pane Workflow
Is this article only important because it was posted by a student at MIT? Frankly, this is a description of any person with self esteem problems, being at MIT doesn't make it any more 'interesting' or 'deep'.
Did you even bother to follow the link? Here, I extracted the reference for you [1].

"Chinese and Japanese populations typically lose between 80 and 90 percent of their ability to digest lactose within three to four years of weaning." (Swagerty et al, 2002)

Ergo, lactose intolerance is a factor in children in some genetic groups. Your citation (sourced from the same wikipedia page) does not refute that.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lactose_intoleranc...
Hurricane Sandy Eats
I built this website, so that people who are on the East Coast can figure out which restaurants are open near them as things slowly open back up after the Hurricane.

So far it's mostly focused around midtown Manhattan but feel free to add additional openings in other affected areas.
I also have a very poor experience with my Nexus S when using Google Now and voice search. Unfortunately, I don't believe that the Nexus S was speced to be able to run 4.x. I get the impression 4.x was designed for newer devices.
Apple wins patent on iOS maps integration
Not everyone has the same experience as you, jackass.
The idea is that if you get something you wanted, you won't get something that will soon turn into clutter like 1000 other gag gifts. There is some logic to it but I agree that it's more obnoxious than it's worth.
If anyone finds this tool useful, please consider donating a small amount to the American Red Cross to help the victims of Hurricane Sandy. I've included a link on the site, but you can also go directly to the Red Cross website.
I'm a designer and I have to say that this article is dead on: It's about the right approach for your budget.

I think people tend to get into problems when their level of expectations don't match their budget. So if you have less than $500 don't expect a real designer to treat you better than a full service agency. Also don't hire an agency unless you have someone on your staff who's a real point person and actually knows something about the project domain.
$10000+ is the "domain of big-budget agencies"? What exact kind of work are we talking about here? Certainly not websites...that are any good... :)

Maybe that's the problem I had with this post--no project parameters are visible. Because it's not like you can walk into a big-budget agency and they say, "for $10,000 we can build you either a logo or an app. But not both."

When you walk into a big-budget agency, you will be lucky if you can get penciled onto their calendar in about a month.

When you walk into a small agency, they'll meet with you right there for a few minutes, then probably never call you back because demand is too high and you sound like a cheap client, asking where your $10,000 will get you. Now, for low-end small agencies, the reverse is true. They will never call you back because they can't figure out why someone would pay $10K for design, and it scares them. I have seen that happen.

When you chat up a highly-skilled individual freelancer, he/she will immediately try to figure out which you value more: Good design or budget integrity. High-value freelancers, working as individuals, are known to take on projects of $50K and higher. They have a great reputation and are hired by people who are good delegators with a need to solve a distant problem effectively.

Demand for high-value, professional design services is extremely high. Here at HN the startup culture is always squawking about the cost of design, but the demand really is there. For every "I am willing to pay you $XXXX for a website" phone call I get, I can invent 2-3 opportunities of my own to contact existing clients and sell them on an idea that will cost them $XX,XXX. This is not some secret where I am keeping them from discovering cheap designers. It's how professional design works. I know their business. I pitch an idea that makes them stand out. They go after it.

Anyway, telling people that they can (or should) hire a big-budget agency with their $10K is pretty misleading.
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So, you agree that no one expected Manhattan to lose power. No one expected that in 2003 during the blackouts, either. And in that case, Peer1 was able to keep the servers running without disruption.

This was a monster of a storm, with unprecedented water levels. Buoys around New York reported waves 5 times higher than anything on record.

So consider it this way: would you rather the services be significantly more expensive (remember, doubling the hardware is the cheap part of it) or have the possibility of a few hours of downtime in a once in 100 years event?
When your C code has to do all the stuff that Erlang already does, it would also be suitably slow.
This information is from earlier today, so I don't know how accurate it is, but:

- They burn 44 gallons per hour
- The tank adjacent to the generator holds ~400 gallons
- Gas is currently VERY expensive, but I don't have a real number for you at
the moment.
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>90% of my tablet usage seems to be landscape.

The narrower bezels, the ones on top and bottom when it is held in landscape, make the mini hard to hold (or prop on your stomach when reclining) in landscape.
It's good advertising/branding. Form over function.
makes sense. might as well go all the way and ask them to donate to charity instead though.
How to build a web app from scratch
How to build a web app from scratch with CoffeeScript, Jquery, Underscore, Backbone, Handlebars, Less and Wordpress
> Speaking on behalf of student body of India - we would have loved to have tests like that.

Do note, as far as standardized tests go - the SATs were fun - I personally loved taking them and practicing them. They weren't compulsory either. And if you didn't take them, well you weren't going to be a loser in life. There were other things you could do.

Please understand, that without NCLB you could have all those "IFs". With NCLB the dynamic has changed very drastically, and those conditional flags are set.

SATs are very different from NCLB mandated tests to measure student performance mate. They are compulsory and everyone gets graded. (Remember the last time someone ran an experiment where they gave some kids fake good grades and some kids fake bad grades?)

Test structure and test making knowledge isn't static either - it evolves. One of the first thing it starts becoming aware of is people gaming the system - cheating, memmorizing and so on. It tries to adapt to this by making the test more complex or variable. But then to standardize it has to create a (publicly available) rubric for graders to follow. So the process just renews.

You've started down an evolutionary path. Your tests are moving down a particular road. What you see today isn't what you are going to have.

Further I don't need colleges to have a single do-or-die test.
- I just need parents to start privileging the test.
IT doesn't matter what colleges do unless they work actively against the test. All that matters is that parents start pushing their kids to do well in it. This is one of the engines of the self fulfilling prophecy.

Standardized tests aren't being misused. They are achieving the kind of goals they usually achieve.
Ask HN: Suggestions on a place to stay while in the Bay area?
Hey guys, I will be in flying in to San Francisco over my winter break from university (Dec 15 - end of January). I am a first year computer science student from the midwest and I am considering transferring to a public uni. in Cali. I'm still looking for a place to stay as of right now, and I am not really familiar with the area. I am really learning about any new technology and start up culture, though I have been focusing mainly on web development(namely: Python+Django, HTML5, javascript). If you guys have any suggestions on places that would be hacker friendly (e: close to hot tech meet up location or something) I would appreciating hearing your opinion. I am mainly looking to network on this venture, but I will also be exploring the city to see if transferring out there will be my next move or not. Any suggestions (whether location or places/events I should go to) would be wonderful. Thanks!
Just for clarity, the equipment that's being offered here isn't even mesh. Meraki has moved almost totally away from mesh (which doesn't surprise me since the people who are interested in mesh generally have no money).
Haven't yet tried on iOS, but on Android I was pretty amazed when I realized their voice search actually recognized some pretty complex words spoken in Finnish. And the market share or our language is pretty small (around ~6M speakers).

I believe Google must be doing something right on the voice frontier when they can accomplish things like this. They must have some pretty efficient methods for teaching the system new languages.
Spiders not programmers, but definitely a graphic indication of ability to create - or not - detailed patterns while on various drugs http://www.trinity.edu/jdunn/spiderdrugs.htm
Windows vs Unix system count.
Windows vs Unix system count.
Just got in debate that around the world including PCs and Servers which operating system used most.
Any ideas?? Any links??
So, the simplicity of "minimalism" is still focused on interior decoration and inbox management. How about going beyond this and actually going on to deal with the things that matter more?

The way of minimalism: stuff doesn't matter, so here's my blog about different interesting ways to organize your stuff and pictures of beautiful bourgeois furniture.
I suspect developers also tend to be familiar with productivity software; Most everyone has used an issue tracker of some kind while writing software, so we think we can do better. You end up stuck in the workflow-software quagmire, though: everyone works slightly differently, so to support everyone you need to get so abstract that it's not useful.
Yeah it's hard to migrate email given the anti-spam measures ISPs use like IP reputation.

Good luck. Maybe a quick migration to Sendgrid for that system? (Edit: or Amazon SES, of course)
Whose morals? Kant's Duty Ethics?

You are making subjective judgments. This is fine. But don't confuse your opinions on "fairness" with an objective reality.
What do you mean by "things get in their way"? Are you paying them?
You are spouting nonsense sprinkled with vague half-truths. You have a distorted view of what one part of Google might have been like for the short time you were there.

There is no forced curve. One of your "Perfolympics" is actually optional. Perf is technically a permanent record, but promotion committees will rarely look back beyond one or two cycles (e.g. up to a year). Five years is nonsense.
Inside the Titan Supercomputer: 299K AMD x86 Cores and 18.6K Nvidia  GPU Cores
Came here to comments to post about saltstack. Couldn't agree more. So blindingly fast. I think people who comment that puppet isn't slow just don't know how fast salt is. Tens of thousands of clients polled in just seconds is something puppet just can't approach. I also found not having to learn yet _another_ DSL refreshing.
I know this is just a scratchpad of takeaways from a more in-depth piece of writing, but the generalizations on nearly every point make it hard to apply to my own life. Some possessions are necessary, some experiences aren't worth paying for, unused doesn't mean useless (emergency supplies, diverse clothing for diverse weather conditions), watch less TV than what? How are birthday wishlists related to minimalism (I can guess, but it should have more detail), who says my subscriptions are mostly liabilities? Why does inbox zero have to be used by everyone? And why is the meaning of life described as a certainty?

"There are more you should value more than possessions –God"

Hard to keep reading after that line. First, telling me things I should value, and secondly being something I don't take value out of anymore.
Have you read about goings on in the UK print media over the last few months? There is a consistent pattern of behavior in Murdoch's empire within the UK.
I'm surprised at the swooning over the form factor, not just from Gruber but the rest of the press, including big-fingered die-hards like Darymple.

We've been deploying tablets in the field since the Panasonic days. iPad replaced them, but not before we tried every alternative as they've arrived. When IPad hit we went 100% web-based.

(bit of background: after getting on the tablet train, we buy anything requested, support it 100%, and let users decide what works. ≈93% iPad, 7% trying out Nexus 7 today, 5 requests for Nexus 10 FWIW)

Playbook, Xoom, TouchPad, Nexus 7 and more were duds. Big complaint was "too small", browser performance (and bugs) came next. Build quality was so bad pretty much all were far more expensive than IPads anyway. I've got 3 dead Nexus 7s on my desk and it seems like they just came out.

If they've built a "perfect size" tablet with a good browser and pro-sumer build quality, well, 20% lower acquisition cost would make me happy. But happy folks in the field is better, and that's where we stand to see a shift.

Edit: Surprised everyone is so ready to ditch the 10" for 8"
Diesel, on-highway in New England, is averaging $4.205/gal[1] (probably more in the city, especially more in a disaster situation). Applying your information to the above question and assuming they can get just shy of five gallons per bucket, it's probably a fair estimate that each bucket carries more than $20 of diesel fuel and accounts for seven minutes of generator time. So, about $3 per minute or 5.1 cents every second.

Really puts things in perspective.

[1]: http://www.eia.gov/petroleum/gasdiesel/
I'm not entirely sure what your point is. If it's that $10000 is too low to hire an agency maybe you're right.

But in my experience it's the upper bound of most initial design budgets on Folyo, that's why I picked that number.
No, it's a fine name:

cargo cult skepticism is to skepticism like cargo cult science is to science. (Which is to say: it isn't)
Can that voice changer be tuned to do a Bane voice?
>Fact of the matter is that I realized the things I genuinely enjoyed hacking (compilers, operating systems) had all been done in the 1980's

FYI, this is false
I like tabs, but thats because most window managers do a piss-poor job of actually managing windows. I can get a nice row of 20 or so tabs across the top of chrome and it's pretty easy to keep track of them all still. 20 windows on the windows task at will have you pulling your hair out. Mac OS and Ubuntu unity are pretty much useless with more than 5-6 windows. Maybe some obscure window managers have a more tab-like interface that can handle a lot of windows, but I'd say tabs are better not because we need two layers of window management, but because tabs are just better.
great answer gexla, sort of confirming how I'm starting to feel
Steve's Void
I agree. When I started working on the idea that would become my company, I never intended to try to raise capital, etc.

I ended up applying to YC because I saw value in those three months that I'm not receiving in my current situation.

It matters not if I get in (besides maybe a slight ego bruise if I don't.) because I'm going to keep going anyway. Also, I tell people that I'm working full time on the idea, even though I'm not currently making any revenue. People always react weirdly when that (monetary) information comes out, so I typically don't bring it up.
Tony Blair is the godparent of one of Mirdoch's children. Those two deserve each other with their insidious and seedy behavior. Profit may be a motivation for them both, however Murdoch is far more clever and manipulative than Blair and his agenda would hardly be hurt by having the PM as a godparent to his kid.
Preface: I have no personal experience with Y combinator. I've never applied, I've never interviewed, I don't know anything about it, etc.

However, I'm guessing that this discussion and this article in general are giving way too little credit to the interviewers at Y combinator. I think this is a classic survivorship bias here, where the people who "hack" the application and get in are probably the loudest people proclaiming what they did, so people assume that their "hacking" of the application is what got them in. I suspect however, that their "hacking" was a useful data point, but it was just part of the whole picture that resulted in the decision made by the people at Y combinator. The partners at Y combinator weren't born yesterday and I have no doubt see right through any transparent attempts to curry their favor.

However, I agree with the conclusion of the article. You don't need to be in Y combinator to have a successful business. Just focus on doing what you do and don't worry about other people.
Good point. Their tool is obviously useful, even though something like this might not be the best use case for it.

The HUD thing - it looks like they screwed up the post-processing effects somehow. As far as I remember, the original game did apply post-processing effects to the HUD. Probably something to do with OpenGL not getting a decent way to do render-to-texture until 2005, so they'd have had to use the previous frame's render buffer. It wasn't that noticeable in the original though.
Because it looks great.

I really don’t understand why some people are completely mystified how that could be an argument. So you don’t care about looks? Fine. Others do. And computers are a part of the furniture.

Some people buy those really nice looking but functionally identical faucets that cost three time as much, some don’t. That’s all.

There is nothing ridiculous about that, it’s just a difference in taste.
What do most banks consider "a long time" to be? I have a number of cards that I rotate usage on. I may go as long as 3 months before charging something on it.
When I see dismissals I look for a particular kind of fallacy, which this is an example of: Reasoning backwards to support the opinion. "This tool is unknown to me and their claimed improvements are dramatic" - "I would not trust an unknown tool and I do not trust their marketing efforts" - "Here's some mix of facts and expert's assumptions that supports the idea that you can't trust it."

When you're reasoning backwards you're on thin ice because it's easier to let a logical fallacy through as you start assembling your "facts and assumptions" in the rush to make your point known. You can "win the battle" (by being quick) but "lose the war" (by being wrong), and when I catch myself doing it I have to either cancel the post or put extra effort into it to make sure I have a valid argument(and often, after doing enough research, I don't, or I have gone too far outside my domain to know for sure).

Forward reasoning usually results in very straightforward critiques like "I used this but it was not appropriate for these situations..." or "it completely failed in this case..." or "it turned out to be unnecessary for the project I was on." Kevin's posts(both the initial one and follow-ups) get muddled because he has to weave together several minor points; as each successive rebuttal comes forward, so does his target, so that the final opinion remains the same, even though by the end he's reduced to "they're lying."

(A good example of a game developer who has put some serious effort and notetaking into finding ROI on a new tool is John Carmack and his forays into static analysis.)
Do you have access to a review unit?

I ask because I find that unlikely with a smart cover. I use one with my iPad 3 and, with the smart cover rolled up, propping it up requires little more than my finger tips supporting the back edge.
Stopped reading at "There are more you should value more than possessions –God..."
I don't blame the web for advancing, when I see a reason for sites not to work I use an alternative browser. We're talking about a fucking blog here, not advanced data visualisation, if you just have to shit over the very core of the web for a blog, I can't bring myself to care about what you have to say: it won't matter that much anyway.
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IE 10: New HTML 5 Features and there polyfills
Just picking from the 3 easiest shots would take care of most of it.
I didn't at all mean to say the interviewers aren't able to see through it. They're all incredibly smart people, and after reading 1000's of applications I'm sure they can tell who is trying to game it and who isn't. As for the rest of the post I agree with what you're saying.
Care to elaborate? :)

Thanks everyone for the replies. My logic is:
I learned everything I know about programming on my own (specifically, almost exclusively from the internet), and I am dying to get to SV, get some industry experience, and hopefully soon start my own company (me and my brother hope to eventually apply to YC together, he's got big ideas too). I spend my spare time working on those "undergraduate hacker projects" pg mentions, but I would be regardless (possibly more so if I wasn't in college)

I'm loading up on CS theory classes this semester in and the next semester, because I do appreciate the importance of them, so if I do drop out I'll have that mostly covered. I really feel like 3 more years of mostly fulfilling degree requirements will only delay me, I'm not learning anything from the applied CS courses I take.

The internship is at Facebook, if that matters.
I'm sure they're thanking you for that feedback. Do you mind reopening that tab and giving it another shot? I'm sure they didn't purposely try to piss you off. It's a new product.
Could you transfer to a college in Silicon Valley instead?
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Hello, I am the reader and actually this is exactly what the author has written. I quoted directly from him and I also took this idea from the book.

You better not read PG's essays, because he also uses the word "God". https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q... It is quite interesting to see you are irritated of something I believe and understand from the book.